Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-23
State News.
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cumstance connected With the execution of
. will was discovered in Auburn recently. in
connection with the sad death of Mrs. Nc
henney, wife of VIM. A. McKenney of that
city. On the Saturday before her death she
summoned her lawyer and made arrange
ments for her will, although apparently in
the best of health. She requested the LAWYER
to return on Monday with the will, to have it
executed. He proposed bringing it that day.
out the lady thought the first of the week
would he soon enough. The will was never
executed. On the Monday morning Mrs.
Mckinney was seized with commissions, re-
naming insensible until her death.
HANCOCK.
| The Herald reports There were two
severe accidents lately at Green's Landing,
So. Deer Isle. A little son of Geo. Merri-
thew fell on some rocks and shattered an ell
DOW so badly that it is likely to be stiff; and
a son of Thomas Eaton, about twelve wears
Old, fell from an unfinished chamber to the
bottom OF the cellar, in his fathers house,
making cut in the scalp about seven inches
long and brusing him severely.
Ellsworth has purchased, for 81, 200, the
old county buildings. The largest is to be
ntted up as high school room. 1t is not de-
clded what will be done with the other; prob
ably it will be repaired and rented as a dwell
ling house.
Miss Ella Moody saws the Searsmont cor
respondent of the Camden Herald, Young
lady about twenty-one years old, has sudden
~ lost her sight She retired at night as we'll
as usual and in the morning was blind, paral-
ysls OF the optic nerve having taken place.
Camden has furnished San Francisco two
| m2VQrs Hon Lob
p. Dyer.
Saturday, Nov. 14th, Miss Alice Blake
took dose of laudanum at the house of Mr.
Curran on Erin street, Thomaston, with a
view OF committing suicide. She complained
that she had no home or any one to care for
her, and she had said frequently that she
would take her own life. Medical assistance
was summoned and she soon reco, cred.
LINCOLN.
Capt. Freeman Hodgdon. late master OF
the schooner Thomas w. Hyde, died in
Boothbay, Thursday, aged Sc years. Capt
Hodgdon was well known sea captain, hav
ing followed the sea as master 45 years. He
leaves a widow, three sons and three daugh.
tiers.
Mrs. Dexter Merry of Edgecomb has {
we'll preserved four dollar bill of Continental
money issued in l776.
, The Record SAYS that the Messrs. Wright
owners of Damariscove, propose to run
steamer from Boothbay or some other place
on the main land to their island.
Geo. Marston of North Newcastle met will
bad accident last week. He and his fathe
/ were taking down the staging on a barn
when the ladder slipped and knocked of tn,
brackets. He fell to the ground about q
feet striking on his face, breaking his nos,
in two places.
Harry BiggeRs narrowly escaped drownin!
at East Boothbay one day recently. He wa,
: playing upon the wharf and accidentally fel
between the wharf and a schooner lying b,
1t. Master Bennett, with much thoughtful
ness, at once lowered gatf, which the for
mer quickly seized and was thereby rescued
: Waldoboro has been so hard up for posta
cards that it was obliged to borrow a small
lot from neighboring postmaster.
PIsCATAQUIs.
Nine inches of snow fell at Greenvill,
Thursday, where heavy storm prevailed al
day. Three or four inches fell at Dover anC
Foxcroft.
1t is expected that the furnaces at thu
katahdin Iron Works will start up the firs
of this week and run full blast during the
coming winter.
| SAGADAHOC.
The Bath schooner George Moulton, Jr
Capt. Landerkin, made the passage from the
Capes of Delaware to anchorage in the Ken
nebec river in 60 hours recently,
SOMERSET.
Skowhegan, SAYS the Industrial Journal
may well be permitted to boast a little of be
ing lively town. 1t has large wooden mil
running until nine o'clock every night; a
shno faryprv hat 4
on full time; two sash and blind factories
edge-tool, oilcloth and stepladder manufacto
ries; machine shop and foundry, pulp mill
sawmlls, etc. Last year the citizens built a
hundred new houses and this year they are
building forty or more.
A musical convention will be held in Skow.
hogan, on the I'd, Sd and 4th of December,
under the direction of Mr.. A. r. Smiley.
Singers will be present and assist from
Athens, Harmony, Bingham, Scion, Arson,
Madison, Norridgewock and Fairfield, and
Others out of the county.
WALDO.
Extensive repairs have been made on the
lower bridge in Belfast, between 50, 900 and
"a, 900 having been expended. $50 feet OF
the bridge east of the draw and 1876 feet of
the vest end having been covered with cedar
and gravel. The planking will last seven
years, and the rest is good for % years.
WASHINGTON.
Capt. James Burgess, who has been in
command of the fishing schooner P. & B.
CrOwell, of Vinalhsven, during the past
season, was arrested at Machias, last Friday
evening, by Officer Finch, on a warrant
charging him with running of with said YES
sci and stealing and selling several articles,
including large new American flag. a large
anchor, two nets, trawl anchors. lines, blocks,
etc. Saturday morning Burgess was ar
raiened before Trial Justice R. B. Clark,
Esq, and plead guilty. He was ordered to
furnish bonds for his appearance at the jan
uary term of Court at Machias, and in de-
fault of same was committed to Machias Jail.
| YORK.
The small boy PLAYING with matches was
the cause of a fire in a Saco house, Friday.
A prompt alarm was given. and the fire sub
dued with slight loss.
The Biddetord Journal reports narrow
escape of George l.. Sands, an operative in
the dye house of the York corporation, q day
or two ago. He was riding upon an elevator
in the mill, and had nearly reached the story
upon which he desired to land, when the
main part of a large hook attached to the
elevator, which serves to hold it up, broke,
and the elevator suddenly dropped. Quick
1 aok Ne L. holl ~.