The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-07-01

AEWAS1ONi June OLA boy named CnArle !.
Disjardnies, IL years old. was drowned Will
bathing in the river this evening. The body
was recovered.
BANGOR, June 31.-Charles Millett, q
Frenehman, was drowned a. Oldtown Sunday
while bathing.
More Forest Fires.
A heavy forest fire is burning in the woods
at Brownville along the line of the Katahdin
Iron Works railroad. The fire is in the woods
which we're blown down by the gale of last
fall and is spreading rapidly. Fires are also
reported at Forestville on the European diyi-
sion of the Maine Central.
A stave Mill Burned.
BANGOR, June 31.-The stave mill of 81. M.
& B. Hall, near Ellsworth, was burned this
afternoon. Loss $6,Cco to $4,000.
Arrested ON Suspicion.
FARMNGToN, June 30.-The farm bu ildings
of George Grover in Avon, together with all
the household goods, clothing, farm tools and
large quantity of fire wood were burned Sun
day forenoon. Supposed incendiary; no in
suraDce. Miss Mary Viola Bean, a pauper
boarding at Growers was arrested on Sunday
and arraigned Monday before j. W. Butter
field of Phillips. The evidence being so strong
enc was committed Dy 0l6rIn IUOthak6r TO
Pennington Jail this afternoon.
Serious Fire in Gardiner.
GARDINER. June 3O.-Shortly after O'Clock
this afternoon fire was discovered in black
smith shop near the Maine Central Railroad
station at South Gardiner. The flames spread
to boarding house near the property of the
Lawrence Bros, which was entirely consumed.
A pair of horses valued at $500 owned by the
cd tn dnofh
the builing $4,000; insured for $4,000. The
boarding house was owned sby Philip Ritual,
who suffers considerable loss on furniture.
No insurance.
AUGUSTA.
There will be a reunion of the class of 1885,
Colby University, at the residence of Rev DR..
Kicker of Augusta next Thursday. There are
ten OF the class now living, and DIR. Kicker
has issued an invitation to all of them to be
present at a class supper at his house on the
evening of the day In question. 1t is ex-
pected that about seven of the class will at
tend, among them being the venerable DR..
Caldwell, President of Vassar College and
Rev. DR.. Granger of Rhode Island.
Rev. Charles T. Penny of Augusta is at the
Maine General Hospital and successful sur
gical operation performed Thursday promises
to give permanent relief
ALFRED.
Thomas Casson had his thumb and portions
of the four fingers of the same hand, taken off
BY circular saw in Jordan's mill at Alfred
Saturday.
The Mayor of Bath has been notified by the
State Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals that action will be brought against
the city if there is creased pig exhibition in
the Bath 4th of July celebration.
MooRE's MILLS.
John Maxwell, aged 25, of Moores Mills,
was drowned in Cheputneticook Lake on
Wednesday of last week while iu swimming.
He was engaged as a cook Oh lumber drive,
oTIsFIELD.
The safety valve blew out of the large boiler
used IN stephen Jillson's steam saw mill in
what is called Pugneyville, in Otisfield, FRI
day. Several men were more or less scalded
by the escaping steam and hot water No one
was seriously injured. The mill was ready to
run again by Friday night
TooUs.
The Fourth OF July will be appropriately
celebrated at the Soldiers Home at Togus.
Twenty eight prizes are offered for target
practice, races, jumping, etc., the contestants
in each case to be residents of the Home.
Music will be furnished by the Home band,
and the day will conclude with brilliant dis
play Of fireworks in the evening.
YORK.
The Old Orchard Sea Shell will commence
its sixth season next Saturday. A. j. Small
of the Biddeford Daily Times will be editor
and proprietor, F. M. Fling OF Portland, Bow
dom class of '83 aud principal of the Bidde-
ford High School, and John e. Cummings,
class CT '84 Colby University, assistant editors.
IN GENERAL.
A letter from Hong Kong, China, dated May
9th, 1884, announces the death OF a young
man by the name of John Brown, who shipped
from Eastport as an emoloye of the q. S.
steamship Trenton, and fell overheard just
before arriving in port at Hong Kong. The
above named steamer sailed from New York
last December, and young Brown is thought
by some to have been q native of Pressure
Isle. Aroostook county, and to have enlisted in
the q. s. navy.
The students of the East Maine Conference
Seminary have published the first number of a
neat paper called the ARIEL of which two
numbers will be issued during each school
term.