Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-07-03

llo'clock- MRS Powers vas bora in Virgin
il in Jaruarv. ls4i- Her parents were New
Engianders but lived for n time in Virginia,
Afterwards returning 70 Maine. She mage
the acquaintance of Mr. Powers while he
was n teacher in the academy II Corinna, and
they we're married twenty-five years ago this
month. About four wears ago the health of
Mrs. Powers ke9Ae 10 fad
Thursday forenoon sparks from the smoke
stack of the wooleo mill az Houlton,ses Ore 20
the mill, reports the Pioneer. heavy wind
was blowing NJ the time. but by the prompt
application Of rarer the mill was saved
CUMBERLAND.
Annie Gilman, woman about Is years OF
age, living in a tenement in Portland. was
found Monday morning By the police in q
senseless condition 10 her house, hayiag been
seaten and choked so that her head was badly
bruised and her throat black and blue. II
was ascertained shat the trouble occurred
Fridsy night. A man named Hiram Reynolds
has been arrested. He denies all knowledge
of the affair, but does not tell straight story.
OXFORD.
Messrs. Prescott G Forbes OF Paris. have
leased the mill ana power at Snow's Falls
and have Introduced q new industry into this
from pulp, according 10 the Oxford Demo
craE The pover at Shows Falls 10 q safe
and reliable one, there being q direct fall OF
about 40 feet. Messrs. Prescott & Forbes
manufacture the pulp. which 10 converted
into bobbins and spool heads, from poplar.
On Thursday Of last week, o telegram wa.
received in Bethel, stating that Franz
Edwards, son Of Col. C. S. Edwards, va,
instantly killed on the railroad few day.
ago. Young Edwsrds wac about 81 years old
the Oldest Of seven brothers. He was a con
ductor on train that run from Sals Lake
City TO Ogden No particulars we're given
save that his body was so cut 20 pieces thA
HE remains could not b. taken home. reports
the Oxford democrat.
PEsoBscor.
A young man named William Genthener
"a years old Of Bangor. carpenter EN-
ployed in Pixies sash and blind factory il
Dover, N. H, walked into the Cocheco river
about one o'clock Wednesday, June 25th
and was drowned. He had been gloomy fol
several days, and on the day In question, a.,
ter dinner handed his watch and some keys
to his boarding mistress, told her he was 20.
ing to commit suicide. and went out of doors
Becoming alarmed she followed him but moi
In time to save him.
The Bangor Wing SAYS: hen belonging
to J. w. nonigan of Bangor, had been set,
ting on thirteen eggs Matched out Monday
twelve chickena, and. on breaking the re.
naming egg. it was found to contain a fully
developed chicken, but dead, which had two
distinct and separate pairs Of legs vnd laws.
The forward pair were set like those ordin.
arily, but the back pair set IN the opposite
direction. The feathers more resembled
coarse, black hair than ordinary pin-feathers.
SAGADAHoc
Charles Preble of Bath fell into the hold
Of q vessel Monday striking on the side Of the
hatch, then q ladder and thu keelson. He
fell distance Of nearly thirty feet. His face
and head were badly cut, left arm broken,
aud his hip badly hurt. besides severe shak
ing up all over. He was unconscious when
removed to his home.
WASHINGTON.
Cherryfeld will celebrate the Fourth OF
July. The Courier says q large programme
has been mapped out for the occasion. There
will be street parade Of horr;bles, boat race
tub race, log race, matched game of has,
ball, picnic dinner and a grand display O.
Ere works and ball In the evening. The
band will furnish music throughout the day
YORK.
Mrs. John Rogers of Biddeford awoks
from nap in season to find her two veal
old son in the act of drinking kerosene from
a tin can. Prompt remedies saved the child,
life.
Joseph Bolter of Kittery, has been mise
ing from his home since Wednesday night
being last seen on that evening by the bridge
Waterman, Mr.. Damon, on Mobiles ISLAND
bridge. Fears are entertained that he fell
into the the river and was drowned. Hi,
family have been searching for him, but car
get no clue to his whereabouts.
Ar LARGE.
Among the graduates from the Bridgewater
Mass. Normal School, Monday, in the two
years course, was Miss Alice Bessie Miller
Alfred. From the Salem, Mass. Norma
School were Misses II. Z. Durgin, Brown
field; Jennie A. Hatch, Dresden; Rose C.
Hersey, North Auburn. Miss DurgiG deliv.
cred an essay on Common Sense" and an
original song, Beauty fills the field and
meadow" written by Miss Hersey, was sung
Among the speakers for the Parker prize
Tuesday at Middiebury, VT, College, was
John Seelie, Bangor.
Under the present appointment Rumford
Byron. Andever, Roxbury, Mexico, Dixfield,
Peru and Franklin Plantation are classed to.
gether. Recently . convention of delegates
numbering "a, met at the Town House n,
Rumford Center for the purpose of deciding
how the candidates should be selected during
the eight years that intervene between now
and a new classification on the basis of the
census of 1890. Henry W. Park was chosen
chairman and VIM. Woodsum of Peru, sec.
Rotary of the convention. A strong effort