Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-08-18

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The section of the Endowment rani
Knights of Pyrhias. stationed in Lewiston
has recently paid to the widow of VIM. Han
Ion, late of Lewiston, through its Treasurer
Samuel Black, the sum of 1000, a. her hus-
bands endowment Since the organization
of the endowm ent rank in Dec. 1877, 5000
in insurance has been paid in Lewiston.
$4,000 in insurance are now held in Lewis
ton and Auburn. The membership of the
rank throughout the country is rated at S26,.
~. 1t has had Hos deaths and has paid out
to the families of its members the sum OF
S1,734, $40.
CUMBERLAND.
Two weeks ago last Sunday good man in
Raymond lost hive of bees. The hive was
found later in the week hidden in a retired
spot, sans honey. sans bees. When the jani-
tor went into the Union Church on Saturday
to prepare the room for Sunday, he found
the pews sticky, the pulpit sticky and the
bees buzzing about his bonnet. The scape-
goats. obviously. had gone into the church
and eaten the sweets on Sunday night All
efforts to ferret out the affair having proved
unavaiing, Officer Laughton of Lewiston who
was in town was called in. Very soon be
settled on five young men who were particu-
larly indignant over the affair and soon had
them yarded. One of them is a student in a
Maine college. and offered the officer IS 10
aid IN discovering the thieves, being partieu-
larry severe on the decorators of the church.
That satisfied the officers that liberal educa-
ton was at the bottom of the affair. The
classical genileman's honey cost him about
81 pound. The entire cost of the racket
was 500.
PENoBscor.
The Wing says in the Superior Criminal
Court, Boston, on Tuesday last, George F.
Pearson and Nellie Shorten. alias Pearson,
having plead guilty of attempting to extort
money by blackmail. were sentenced to the
House of Correction the former for three
wears and the latter for two. The parties
will be remembered in Bangor where they
formally lived.
Very large ice shipments were made from
Bangor, Thursday.
Bangor is known as one of the great lum-
Der markets of the world. Before 1916 little
lumber had been cut on the Penobscot waters
Ia that wear 900 900 feet or Whereabouts
were cut. The grand total of the amount OF
long lumber manufactured and sold at the
port of Bangor from 1916 is approximately,
sop, 044 SIS feet.
SOMERSET.
At the adjourned meeting of the Madison
Wooden Manufacturing Co. it was unanimous
ly voted by the stockholders to increase the
capital stock SIS 900. making the amount of
capital 100000, and to give the present
stockholders the right TO take their prorata
of new stock for twenty days. This mill is
running all the machinery with good pros
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The holders of the mortgage bonds of the
Somerset r. Il Co. met at Oakland on
Wednesday, and organized a corporation
under the name of the Somerset Railway
The following persons were chosen directors :
r b. Dunn, and X. W. Dunn, Waterville:
John Aver, Oakland; S. %. Lindsay and
Edward Rowe. Norridgewock; S. s. Thomp-
son, Vermont; +. W. Hill. Exerter; WIN.
ii. Brown, North Arson, and Nathan Weston.
Madison. John Aver was elected President;
Edward Rowe. Clerk; A. X. Small, Treas
urer, and w. NJ. Aver. Supt. 1t was voted
to take possession of the road, under fore
closure Of the mortgage, on the first day of
September next, the stockholders direc-
tors having previously voted unanimously
to surrender the road at that time
The several equity and other suits
now pending in the courts will
piobdbiy De ainicdDiS Since u per-
feet understanding seems to exist between
the stockholders and the owners of the bonds
OF the $4,000 bonds, So, 900 were repre-.
scented at the meeting. The first annual
meeting # the new corporation will be held
the second Wednesday of October 'S4.
The AReporter says A French boy at
Skowhegan, named Thomas Vigue, aged l6
years, was taken ill last week, from going in
bathing when over heated and after an illness
of a few days died.
WASHINGTON.
The mortgage trustees of the Main Shore
Line railroad from Bangor to Sullivan.
Messrs. +. A. Wilson of Bangor, s. d.
Leavitt of Eastport and L. A. Emery of ELL
sworth, were in session at Bar Hnrber Fri
day to certify the bonds of the said road to
the amount of $3.50, 900.
The stockholders of the St. Croix cotton
mill held their annual meeting last week
They now employ 600 operatives and turn
out about 222,000 wards weekly A salts
factory return has been made on the bust
ness of the first year, just completed, and
the outlook for the future, the managers say
is promising. 1t is the purpose to run the
mill to its full capacity as soon as plans can
be perfected to that end. 1t was resolved to
increase the capital stock by $500. 900 max
ing the whole stock 5 900 900
The Eastport Sentinel says The mvsteri-
Gus wreck on Herring Cove Beach of which
many of our readers have heard and read has
again appeared in sight. 1t has been buried
beneath sands for a number of years and
washed out durinn one of the recent heavy
rains. No living person on the Island knows
how it came there, or What its mission was in
the waters of the Bay of Fundy. The wreck
Is known to have been there more than 100
years, and it was old then. Those who saw
it before it became buried in the sand say it
was of very ancient model and its strangest
feature was the entire absence of iron in its
fastenings. They were all of oak, and its
planking, ceiling and timbers were of the
same material. Some of the oldest inhabi-
tants think the vessel had on board party OF
French explorers, and that she was wrecked
there during a storm and all hands persisted.
Street Sensation.
CITY OF MExICo.-There is genuine SEN
sation on the streets of this city, from the sale
Of tod b,-a a, mr.