The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-04-14

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at WatervilIe-ActiOn Taken by the tswn
Saturday.
Special to the Press)
VAUDEVILLE, April 12.-At an adjourned
town meeting'held to-day at the town hall, the
town voted to build an iron bridge in place OF
the wooden one connecting Watervlle and
WiDslow. 1t was alEJ voted to raise $25, 900
by loan to pay this towns share in the bridge,
bonds to be issued, $4,000 payable in 1891
and $4,000 each year after. $1,000 were also
raised to be expended in enlarging and repair
ing the town hall.
Delegates Selected.
CTo the Associated Press)
BELFAST, April 12.-At large Republican
caucus to-day to elect delegates to the Con-
gressional convention of the third district, a
delegation in favor of Hon, s. L. Milliken was
unanimously chosen.
PENNINGTON. April 12.-The Republican
delegates to the State convention at Bangor
and the district convention at Auburn are j.
G.. Hoyt, Rufus Brett, G. e. Wheeler, f. o.
Garcelon, Geo. Cover, M. G. Hobbs and An
drew Croswell. The caucus was large and
harmonious one.
city have selected the following delegates to
the District convention to be held in Portland
on the 10th inst: Seth Warren, Moses Haines,
James e. Hewey, j. o. Ross, Charles Ell.
Brackett Timothy Elliott, Slas P. Adams,
Leonard Andrews, e. e. Sawtelle, Samuel B.
Bracket, Frank Irish, Charles n. PRESCOTT,
Simon S. Andrews, Geo. W. Ward and Chas
Haines.
A Biddeford Woman Commits Suicide.
BDDEFoRD, April 49, This morning the
body OF Mrs. Joseph Guertin was found iu the
bay at the mouth of the Saco river. She was
about 40 years old and has been insane at times
1t is probably a case of suicide. From ap-
pearauce the body had been in the water about
"a hours.
Open 10 NaviSs alton.
RICHMOND, April 12.-The KeDnebec is open
70 navigation. The first vessel to arrive was
the schooner Frank Harrington.
AUGUSTA.
The Democratic State committee will hold a
meeting at Augusta on Wednesday next, for
the purpose of designating the time for holding
conventions in the several Congressional dis
tricis for the purpose of selecting district dele
gates to the Democratic National Convention.
There will be a special meeting of the
Governor and Council the 21st inst.
The Maine Central Railroad has discharged
the assistant train dispatcher who was giving
orders in the office at Portland when the colli-
sion occurred at FarmiDgdale.
CANAAN.
Mr. Stickney Holt of Canaan committed
suicide by hanging Thursday. He deliberate
ly fastened the rope about his neck. placed his
hands behind him in moose that he had pre-.
pared for them, and jumped from the scaffold
of the barn. The distance was SO great that
the fall broke the vertebrate.
DOVER.
The dwelling house on the farm of the late
Lyman Dow in East Dover, owned and occu-
pied by Pembroke s. Dow, WAS burned last
week. Insured.
second town meeting has been held in
Monroe TO reconsider the action of the first
town meeting in voting to tax dogs. There
was vigorous fight in behalf of the dog but
the action of the first meeting was allowed to
stand.
OXFORD.
The Oxford County Teachers Association
held convention at Oxford on Friday. Ow-
ing to bad roads the meeting was rather thinly
attended. Mr.. G. f. Whitman was chairman.
Papers were read by W. M. Brooks on "School
Tactics" by O. +. Whitman on "The duties of
school supervisors and committees" by Miss
NJ. e. Hersey on Successful teaching" All
the papers were discussed. State Superinten-
dent Luce spoke on the subject Of education in
Maine for thirty-fige minutes, giving some
valuable and interesting statistics on the sub
ject, and Hon. W. j. Corthell, principal of the
Gorham Normal School, delivered suggestive
address on "Mental training" The question
"How shall we cultivate a better taste for
e. cd reading" was discussed at length, and re-
marks on the subject were made by Messrs.
W. j. Corthell, A. A. Luce, w. W. Mayo, j.
A. Roberts, Miss Ell. e. Hersey, G. f. Whit
man and others.
For some time past the outbuildings of Mr..
Bowman Carr lof Pttsfied had been visited
| occasionally by some kind of q wild animal,
| aud at last Mr.. Carr set large trap in one of
| the sheds to catch the intruder Que night re,
Gently one of the hired men, hearing q disturb
| ance in the shed, got up to see il the trap was
sprung, and he found to his own satisfaction
| that the animal was in the trap
The animal fought so fercely that the
man concluded to let it alone. Later
Mr.. Carr was awakened by the animals cries
aud Rot knowing that the hired man preceded
| him, went out to investigate. He stepped in
| nto the shed baae-footed and IN the dark
| whereupon the wildcat,as it afterwards proved
to be, fastened bis teeth in one of the bare feet
| both parties under discussion being caught, as
| it were. The animal was eventually killed
Wubu IL was iOuuu budb buo lUut bo0tn III hdu
set into Mr. Caor's foot were fully one-hall
inch longJ
| IN GENERAL.
| Under the existing game laws, says the Gal,
ais Times, moose are rapidly increasing in thi'
| State. A few years ago, upon the passage Of
the present law, it was almost impossible K
find moose unless in the most extreme parts o.
| the forest. The law now provides that no per
son shall hunt moose with dogs under penalty
| of 800 for every moose so hunLad mr. killad
! and no person shall between the first day Of
January and the first day of October in eacf
year, in any manner, hunt, kill or destroy an!
moose, under the same penalty. 1t is now no
a rare thing to see them in droves about the
| great lakes in the western part of Maine.