Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-29

on FIRE One side of her person was badly
burned, and she has since remained in an
unconscious condition.
Mr.. Lorenzo Brann. of Oakland. had q
narrow escape from serious and perhaps fatal
injuries few days since At the Dunn Edge
Tool Co.'S shops. While oiling the machine
~ his coat tail caught on the driving shaft of
his hammer and quickly wound up. Fortu-
nately the friction pulley vas partially raised.
the shaft stopped. and he escaped With few
bruises and the loss Of his coat.
KNOX.
Shipping master Frieze of Portland was in
Bocklsnd recently in search of four runaway
sailors who had shipped on board brig Maria
Norwood for South America, and had skipped
out with an advance of twenty dollars each
in their pockets. The shipping master sup
posed they came to Rockland in the schooner
Cora Eta, but the supposition was erroneous
says the Gazette.
SAaApAHoC.
The New England Ship Building company
of Bath have contracts to build three large
schooners, also four hundred ton mission
ary steamsr for q missionary society. All
business is transacted under the name of the
new firm. The engine for the steamer is to
be made at the Goss Iron Works.
Launched from the yard of I. NJ. Hsgan
& Co. at Bath, Wednesday, schooner Of the
following dimentions: Length, 7S.6, breadth,
2l.S, depth, IS; gross tonnage, 69,5S. She
has not yet been named, and was built for
the fishing business.
SOMERSET.
The Somerset Fibre Co. of Fairfield. are
building an addition to their works on the
island for the parpose of increasing the ca
pacity of their chemical department. The
new building will be located a short distance
from the main mill and power will be trans
mitted by wire rope.
WALDO.
woman recently exhibited in this city,
says the Belfast journal, a boy about -four
wears old who is said to have a skin like al
alligator.
William Brown of Islesboro attempted
suicide, Wednesday morning, by shooting
himself. He fired twice but neither wound
has yet proved fatal, although the doctor has
little hopes of his recovery. He has been
insane at times.
Wednesday morning the people living in
the vicinity of Searsmont village were sur
prised to learn that the door, sash and blind
factory of Dickey & Brown had been burned
during the night, not even the nearest neigh
Dor knowing of the fire until morning The
cause of the fire is unknown, but it was prob
ably incendiarv. There was very little, if
any, lumber or stock in the building, but the
machinery was of considerable value.
w. Ii. Hawes of Thorndike was arraigned
last week before a trial justice in Unity,
charged with selling cider. and was bound
over IN 5000 for appearance at court.
AT LARGE.
The poachers have raised the cry of wolves
in this State, as the result of protecting and
increasing the deer in the forests. evolves
always follow a plenty of deer" they say and
they are trying to alarm the farmers concern
ing the sheep-raising interest, hoping thus to
secure a repeal of the stringent deer law next
winter.
The Bath Times says: A Bath man on a
wager Sunday evening ate eighteen eggs, five
biscuits, one-half a mince pie and drank
three cups of tea. ''He said he could have
gone another half Dozen" said friend, the
informant. He ate good hearty supper that
night. This was just before he went to bed.
J. S. Hawes Of Kansas, shipped Tuesday,
car load of thoroughbred stock, purchased
IN Maine, for Kansas. The stock is mostly
Hereford, and was purchased of Parker &
Otis, Belfast, II. A. Higgins, Charleston. l..
Kershaw, King6eld, and E. l.. Holmes,
Oxford. The cattle were shipped in patent
cattle car, having provisions for feeding and
watering while on the route.