Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-09-04
State News.
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The date of holding the S. S. Convention
in Blaine has been changed from the 18th of
this month to the 10th.
Hon. Sidney Perham and A. L. Lumbert,
Esq, lectured at Blaine a short time ago
and were received with enthusiasm by the
people according to the Pioneer.
CUMBERLAND.
Late Monday afternoon while Thomas G.
Kingsley. a carpenter residing at Ferry vii
lage. in Portland, was at work on a stoop
over the front door. he burst a blood vessel,
and lying down on the ground hemmorage
set in so violently that he died in a few
minutes.
Tuesday morning as a Lewiston gentleman
was passing down Park street Portland. to
take the Maine Central train home, he fell
in with a stranger who was bound for the
same place. Thew had proceeded but short
distance when third party accosted the Lew
iston mans companion asking him if he was
ready to pay the balance of a bill he had
with him on an engine. The stranger took
! from his pocket note for $500 while the
balance owed was but $50 and as he did not
have that amount in small bills with him, he
asked the Lewiston man to lend him the sum
named and he would Join him a, the train.
The gentleman from Lewiston accommodated
the other and took seat in the car, but as
his companion did not appear when he reach
ed the Transfer station, he became alarmed and
returned to the city in search of him. The
holder of the $500 note was nowhere to be
found. An old gentleman en- route to St.
John. was relieved of twenty dollars in a SIM
liar way the day before.
Tuesday at the Eastern depot in Portland,
a gentleman foolishly advanced $50 to q
well-dressed scamp who claimed to be q
nephew of Mr.. Bailey of Winthrop. The
gentleman paid high for the lesson.
KENSEBEc.
A Readfeld correspondent says: Mr.
Thomas Anderson of Readfield, now nearly
"a years of age, and able to get out into hi.
garden occasionally, has voted for every
President of the United Staes but three.
His first presidential vote was cast for James
Madison. He is hoping to be able to get to
the polls this year, and vote for the great
statesman of Maine, Hon James G. Blaine.
OXFORD.
Hon. William Deering of Chicago, the
millionaire manufacturer of harvesting and
reaping machines. is in South Paris visiting
his father, Mr. James Deerimg reports the
Democrat. Mr.. Deering was Paris boy,
and his unexceptional record as self-made
Paris takes a just pride. Mr.. Deering was
the founder of the immense business of VIM
Deering & Co., which has grown from one
small workshop with one workman, in 1861
at Plano. ILL.,. so a business requiring offices,
workshops and lumber yards, covering
more than TWENTY-FIVE acres in the suburbs of
Chicago and giving employment to between
fourteen hundred and fifteen hundred men,
with over fifteen hundred agencies in the u
S. and foreign countries.
PESoBsCOT.
A new post-office has been established at
Eagle, Penobscut county. The post office is
four and one-half miles southeast of Charles
ton, and the mail will be sent in from Brad
ford.
PIsCATAQUIs.
w. H owen of Milo was drowned. Sun
day, in Pleasant River, while bathing. 1t is
posed that he had fit of cramps Mr. Owen
was prominent man in that sectian. He
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