Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-28
state News.
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Monday morning between sixty aud seventy
lasters at Ara Cushman & Co.'S shoe factory
1t Auburn left work The trouble is in re-
lation TO the reduction Of prices for making
the ''soft box toes" on mems work. Later
reports say that twenty lasters have come into
Ara Cushman & Co.'S factory to take the
place of those Who struck Monday morning
and there is prospect that the work viii go
on without very much interruption
Fish Commissioner STANLEY of Dixfeld, was
in Lewiston. Monday afternoon. He has
been logging in the heart of the partridge
country. Said he, Il never saw such hosts
of partridces They are budding in focks
on the trees" Partridges during this season
are too poor a game bird to tempt even the
partridge-hunter.
The fiscal year for the town of Turner,
ended Feb. 18th. 81. The report of the Sc
lectmen and supervisor of schools is now in
the hands of the printer The valuation of
the town April lst 1888, was $685.. 295. The
assessment for the year was: State tax. S.
0O2. OF; county tax. Sl0S1.2S; raised by the
town. ss,5l5: overlap. 500; highway def
eiencies. sos 81 total. committed to collec-
tor. sl4.377 o., highway tax committed to
surveyor. sl574: number of polls, 497; tax on
polls money. 81 90; highway 81 90; tax per
tcnt tuObcN- 10 DiSuhaNs Hills
The liabilities of Turner exceed its resources
s.. 069.06.
ARoosTooK.
Additional particulars have been received
of the Brideewater horror. Burns house
was occupied by himself, wife, daughter,
dsughter-in-law and two children and an
adopted child, Flora Weber. Mrs Burns
and daughter threw a feather bed out of the
chamber window and jumped on it. The old
gentleman, aged 50. persisted it is supposed
while trying to rescue the Weber girl. The
rest of the people escaped. Mrs. Burns and
daughter suffered terribly from smoke and
exposure. The latter will probably die.
CUMBERLAND.
1t is reported that the amount of green
corn to be packed next season by Portland
concerns will fall far below the usual guam
tity.
new Afternoon paper is to be started in
Portland. to be called the evening Journal
State Commissioners Gilbert Ferguson and
Bailey inspected the cattle afflicted with the
foot and mouth disesse in Deerng. Tuesday.
No new cases have been discovered, and all
thus far affected are convalescent.
The mate of the bark S. E. Spring, lying
at Deake's wharf Portland. attempted to
come ashore Tuesday night. when the plank
broke and he fell into the dock. He was
rescued, and was found to be considerably
| injured, especially about the back.
Tuesday forenoon. while Charles Fessen-
den. Esq. in the employ of Howes, Hilton 4
Co., Portland. was sssisting in unloading
-four from a freight car. . heavy jigger
slowed and damned him violently. At mid
night Mr.. Fessenden was understood to be
in critical condition, having suffered a
relapse, and his parents, who are in Wash
| irgton, were sent for.
Rev. C. H. Daniels of Portland, a candi
date for the school board, republican, has
declined to run on account of pressure OF
business.
| Bri mention was made in our columns
yesterday of practical joke played THURSDAY
night upon certain members of the Mechanic
Blues of Portland. The facts of the case,
officially stated, are as follows: Captain
c. w. Davis, commanding the company
did not receive the telegram. and knew
nothing of it until apprised by some of the
members who were made the victims OF
| the silly hoax. The dispatch was left lying
open upon a table in an snte-room at the
armory az though it had been carelessly
/ dropped after having been read by Captain
/ Davis, to whom it was addressed. right where
| 1t was certain to be seen by the new members
when they arrived in obedience to an urgent
summons. purperting to come from their
commanding officer. Captain Davis states
that the offenders are known and immediate
measures are to be taken to have them pun.
ished by dishouorable discharge.
KENNEBEc.
The ice harvest on the Kennebec has jus,
| closed, and an extra fine crop has been
gathered. The ice will average about IL
! inches in thickness, and is as clear as crys-
! tai. The crop has been rather an expensive
one on sccount of fine sand which sfted
/ in on the ice almost tine entire length of the
ice fields. thus causing much additional
labor in scrdpng. 1t is estimated that a
million tons of ice have been housed on the
river between Hallowell and Richmond this
sessan.
OXFORD.
Friday the 18th inst. Zackeriah Miller, a
middle aged man, living near the depot al
Brownfield hung himself in his barn, but was
found and cut down in time to save his life.
| He has shown indications of insanity fol-
some time past. After a day or two he
seemed as well as usual and his friends be.
gan to hope he would not try it again. but
! the temptation proved too strong for him. and
/ Thursday the 2lst inst. about noon, he stole
out unobserved, went to the barn again,
put chain around a beam and fidded it, q
comforter around his neck. and succeeded in
raising himself about four feet from the floor,
and he was about the same distance from the
beam. How he could manage to do it no one
can imagine. He was dead before they could
get him down. He leaves four children to
mourn his untimely end. His wife has been
dead a year or more.
PENoBsCoT.
! 1t is rumored that the heirs of Mr.. Good.
win and Mr.. Severance of OrringtOn, have
| laid claim to the title to 1000 acres of land
in the town Of Eden, near Bar Harbor. now
held by Messrs. Hale, Emery, Greeley Brown
and others. The claim will be hotly contested.
| E. W. Loveland has taken the driving
of the logs on the East branch of the Penob-
scot from the head of the Chamberlain