Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-08
State News.


State News.
AxDRoscoGoIx.
A painful accident befel Mrs. Geor,e r
Libby Of Lewiston. Friday. She clipped /,
the dooryard Of her house and put out be,
hand to break the severity Of her fall. II
doing 20 she dislocated her arm 1t the elbow
pushing one joint BY the other. The pair
vas 20 great that she grasped the injured arm
ey the wrist and with quick pull showed the
joint back into place. She has suffered severe
pain, but escapes permanent injury.
Lewiston Officers raided q suspected LIQUOR
hole last Friday and found. in An unfurnished
upstairs room, "A quart bottles Of whiskey.
The proprietor was not At home. He 10 nov
under bonds for liquor selling. to the amour,
Of 5000.
ARoosrook
Mr.. Francis Barnes of Houlton. from the
Aroostook Agricultural Society, has been
elected . member of the State Board of Az.
riculture to succeed Mr.. Edward WieRin.
whose term expires With the present year.
Diphtheria is prevalent in Limestone.
CUMBERLAND.
A double team, with two ladies and two
gentlemen, drove across the Maine Central
Railroad track near the depot at Woodford's,
Thursday evening The horses became fright
ened by the freight train. and ran against the
gate, breaking one Of the long arms. The
pole yoke was broken and one of the horses
badly cut on the leg.
There is little miss in Portland, says the
Sunday Times, not yet four years old, who is
too bright for anything A short time ago
she went into q coal dealers Office, and told q
pltiful tale Of the sufferings of her family
The dealer Immediately sent some coal TO
her home and gentleman, who was in the
once at the time gave her some money. Her
parents, who are in good circumstances, were
OF course greatly surprised over the matter,
and were still more surprised at the precocity
OF their little daughter, but thought a lecture
to her would put an end to any more adven-
lures of the kind on her part. The other dav,
however, she made a still greater sensation.
1t appears that few articles of clothing be-
longing to the grandmother of the little one
were missing from the line in the morning.
At the breakfast table the matter was talked
over, but she did not appear to be listening.
A short time afterwards she put on her hat
and started out as if to play. She repaired
at once to the police station and made COM
plant that her grandmothers clothes had
been stolen. Officers went to investigate the
affair, to the astonishment of her mother.
The old burying ground in Standish on the
road to Bridgton, laid out over $50 years ago,
has lately been enlarged and improved.
The dry-goods stock of L. d. Strout, in
Portland. was damaged by fire early Monday
morning, to the extent of some $4,000. In.
surance $500.
The total value of foreign exports from
Portland last week was Sl67, l46 20, including
9l5, 1854 feet of lumber.
KNOX.
Mr. Thomas W Chsdhourne, a former
resident of Rockland, committed suicide
Tuesday, Dec. l, by hanging himself to q
beam in an upper room of a six story build
ing at Boston. His age was 20 years. He
was sheriff of Lincoln county, which theI
embraced Rockland in 1858, and was city
marshal here one year. Dependency ovel
business troubles is given as the cause of the
deed.
The sheriff's jury empanneled to inquire
into the origin of the fire by which the Knox
& Lincoln station building in Rockland was
destroyed, have rendered a verdict that the
fire was probably incendiary, but they were
unable from the testimony adduced to charge
the crime upon any particular person.
ington Corner was severely injured Tuesday
while working in the Bird quarry near there,
by the fall of a rock weighing forty pounds
which struck him in the back. and knocked
him headlong on pile of rocks. No bone,
were broken, but internal injuries are feared
as every movement causes excruclating pain
reports the Rockland Opinion.
Capt. John Bently. one of ThomastOn'
oldest shipmasters, died Saturday, aged SO.
PENoBsCor.
The jury fees at the term of court whicl
has just concluded in Bangor were 50 $50 an,
the whole expense of the term to the COUNT
were about $4,000 No term for many year
has been so long as this one, and an immens
amount of business was transacted, says tn
Wing.
Philip, aged about 8 years, a son of Fran
p. Brodeen of South Lincoln, was accident
ally run over by loaded team, very badly
breaking one arm above the elbow and on
| leg below the knee.
PIsCArAQUIs.
| Mr.. Ambrose Davis, of Willimantic, be
came blind when fifteen years of age. He i
now forty, and in the intervening years h
has not only supported himself but has &C
cumulated a comfortable property. his chic
occupation being farming and stock raising
He is said to be an unerring judge of horses
testing their qualities by his exquisite sens
of touch. Mr.. DAVIS frequently visits a sis
ter living in Guilford. walking the distance
FIVE miles alone. The way includes tw
bridges and several turnings, says the Mt
Desert Herald.
Charles E. Sawyer of Hermon, who was a
work in the woods at Shirley met with ba,
accident, Friday. He was standing near an
other man, who, in trying to cut a tree, lie
his axe slip, and it struck Sawyer's foot, cut
ting off a part of his heel.
The down freight on the Bangor { Piscat
quis Railroad met with an accident at Orne
vile, Saturday morning. Owing to q mis-
placed switch the locomotive ran of the tract
into the sand, but it was but back on the iro
again with very little difficulty and was no
greatly injured. The train was running yer,
slowly at the time.
SOMERSET.
The Kennebec Framing Co. have taken tn
contract to remodel the Coburn mansion a
Skowhegan for one Of the heirs OF the es
tate. When the work is completed it will b
the finest residence in Skowhegsn, says tn,
Fairfield Journal.