Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-04
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HicoLAks OF THE DROWNING AT MOOSE
HEAD.-NEws FROM ALL AROUND.
AKDRoscoGoIH.
The banks of Lewiston and Auburn have
been arranging and perfecting . clearing
house system for the exchange Of checks and
other paper. The place of exchange is es-
taoiished for q week At one Of the banks, and
u transferred for the following week to one
OF the other banks, each taking its turn in
rotation. By the use of the telephone and
messengers from the various banks. ex.
changes are made ut II o'clock daily,
There is . story. says the Journal, that two
Lewiston ladies' became such rivals over the
game OF cribbage that one Of them staked an
interest in lot of land against an ADEQUATE
amount of money, and lost it,
There was q small FIRE supposed incendiarv
IN an unoccupied house in Lewiston Tuesday
night.
A Woman's State Relief Corps was organ.
lied at Livermore Falls, on Wednesday af-
ternoon, Dec. I'd. with installation services
in the evening. Nearly 80 ladies signed the
petition for the meeting.
The Canton Telephone says Capt Stephen
Leavitt of Livermore, has received back pen-
sion amounting to $1,000.
ARoosrooK.
David Hisco, an employee in the mill At
Caribou. had $4,000 stolen from him last
Saturday, Nov. 80. The money was ip q
pocket book which was in a vest hanging up
IN his room in the boarding house.
A post office has been established at Bridge
water Center and Chas. P. Church appointed
postmaster.
FRANKLIN.
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little daughter, aged about three years, of
Sylvester Vaughan of Strong was playing at
a little camp her brothers had built for play
house. 1t appears she had procured some
matches and In undertaking to build fire as
she had seen her brothers do, her clothes took
fire, and she was so severely burned that she
died that evening.
HANCOCK.
At Bar Harbor the foundation is being laid
for brick block on Maine street nearly op-
posite the Rodick House. The high rates
charged for insurance on buildings in Bar
Harbor led to the determination to build this
one of fire proof material Several insur-
ance companies refuse to take risks on wood
en- buildings in and near Maine street, and
those that do charge from three to four per
cent yearly.
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Long Island, Bluehill Bay, and proposes to
open granite quarry there.
KNOX.
Rockland people want the signal station in
that city changed to a general station and the
chief signal officer is willing If the city will
purchase the temperature flags.
PENoBscor.
George Witham, Jr., of Burlington, who
has killed and received bounty on sixteen
bears the past season was stricken with a
paralytic shock Nov. %. He was improving
at last accounts.
Robbie C. Shorey. son of Thomas Shorey,
of Burlington, while at work for his father on
Brown Brook, struck the whole bit of his axe
in his foot
The Wing says a ''cranky" individual
rushed excitedly into the M. C. depot in
Bangor the other day and wanted to leave hi.
wallet and watch with the ticket seller. He
then fastened away and left his overcoat at
saloon. During the forenoon he came bach
and in the quietest manner claimed his prop
erty and went away.
PIsCATAoUIs.
| The Bangor Wing says of the Mr.. Thissell
who was drowned at Moosehead, Tuesday
night, that man fell from the plank into the
water while walking from the train to the
steamer, in the dark, and Mr.. Thissell also
got into the water in endeavoring to assis
/ him. They were both taken out and Mr.
Thissell went to the station house to warm
and dry himself. few minutes later
splash was heard at the wharf and cry OF
''man overheard" and the station agent and
assistant ran from the freight car with Ian
terms and looked down between the steamer
and wharf. They saw no disturbance of the
water, and some one in the crowd said there
was no one overheard. Nothing more was
done for about an hour, when the steamer
was loaded and ready to start, and Mr.. This.
sell could not then be found. Two mer
were positive they saw man fall from the
wharf Grapnells were procured and the
first attempt brought up the drowned man
The theory is that in attempting to go to the
steamer he mistook the light shining through
the window of the cook-room on the steamer
for the gsngway lamp, and, in going towsrd'
| it, walked of the edge of the wharf.
SAGApAHoC.
Rev. l.. Bracket of Lewiston and other,
are holding successful gospel meetings a
| Bowdoin Center.
SOMERSET.
The mail service between New VinevarC
and New Portland has been discontinued, thu
people of the latter town are indignant there.
ct.
A large bear weighing four hundred pound,
was shot in Cambridge last week, by F. Hub
bard snd John Merrill.
WALDO.
The Montvile postofice, which is soon tc
be removed, has been in the Mcfarland fam.
| ily forty-two years.
SAYS the Belfast Journal: Sept. ID, 8
party of fifteen persons we're at cottage on
Murphy's Point. in this city. 1t was suggested
that the name and address of each one be
written upon paper to be placed in bottle
and thrown into the sea, which was done
| The party represented Belfast, Portland
Boston and New York. The paper requested
the finder to forward information to any
member of the party. The bottle was picked
up Oct 81, of Smiths Island, bv Vinal
haven man and forwarded to a member Of
the party at Portland.
The Belfast Journal says that the wife Of
Everett Larrabee of Jackson died last Mon.
day under suspicious circumstances The
woman died after the birth of a child, and
testimony before coroner's jury disclosed
that her only attendant had been the mother
of her hush md, who was not on good terms
with her daughter-in law. The verdict was
that death resulted from wilful neglect on the
part of this Mrs. Larrabee.
WASHINGTON.