Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-05-26

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state nsws.
AMDRoscooeu.
A Lewiston man has claim on the govern
ment Of over twenty years' Standing. II i
ior valuable horse, saddle and harness LOS
y his father. Who vas = colonel in Maine
regiment in the war.
The Presque Isle Bridge Committee, have
let the contract to build the bridge to Franz
=. Smith and johnson & Phair, for 81 500
Ihe contractors agree to have the bridge il
condition to use, on or before September
10Th.
CUMBERLAND.
Last Saturday afternoon, Mrs n. C. Bart
lett, who, with her children 10 stopping in
bridgton, while bending over to pick up q
cur button for her child. burst blood yes
sci. whereupon the blood poured out of he,
mouth in such volume as to threaten death BY
strangulation as well as BY the loss of blood.
doctor was summoned who succeeded in
STAYING the effusion, reports the News.
wednesday night burglar entered the
house Of Richard Rowe at Nason's Corner,
and creeping into the bedroom where Mr.
and Mrs. Rowe were sleeping. took Mr.
kowe's pants into another room and wen,
through the pockets. There he found sc in
cash, good jack knife and plug of tobac-
co. There is no clue to the thief
FRANKLIN
Camp Meeting John Allen of FraminQton,
has been quite sick the past week. His
two daughters from Massachusetts, are with
him now, and he was improving at last &C.
counts.
HANCOCK.
A serious accident happened at Bucksport,
Thursday, while the Lucier Comedy Co.
we're giving q concert. A horse became
frightened at the music and ran away. The
vehicle to which he WAS attached struck an
old gentlemad named Joseph p. Ames aged
about 10 years, knocking him down, running
over him and injuring him severly. 1t is
thought that he was injured internally.
The Mount Desert Herald reports q vol
canic eruption. at Long Island one day re-
Gently. James Henderson and his son
Horstio at work under the shore, on Ions
leland, were startled by singular noise.
Upon looking in the direction from which i,
proceeded, they saw smoke ascending, and
rocks being thrown with considerable
violence into the air. The earth
and barrel-head which lay near
them was thrown some distance into the air.
After the movement had somewhat subsidized
they proceeded to the spot, and found an
aperture in the rock, seven or eight feet LONG
and nearly foot wide, and the earth still
quite warm. Some of the ROCKS that were
thrown were thought to have weighed from
ten to fifteen pounds.
KNOX.
remembrance against the establishment
of quarantine station at Widows Island,
has been circulated in North Haven and vi.
nalhaven, and signed by a large number OF
people. 1t will be forwarded to the Secreta.
~ of che Navy in few days, says the Rock.
land Opinion.
LINCOLN.
The barn of Donald Munro at Round Pond
was burned early Saturday morning, together
with his COW, calf and small quantity OF
hay, says the Lincoln News. The origin OF
the fire is q mystery. small insurance wa,
upon the building.
The lobster canning factory of Genera
North of Boothbay 10 in trouble. The game
and fish warden last week seized 1900 lob
sters, 400 of which were found to be under {
inches in length. the fine for the use of which
is one dollar apiece. At a hearing day OF
two since, the manager was found guilty Of
the illegal use of the Holsters, and fined &C
cordingly, but appealed.
PENoBscoT.
The Dexter Gazette reports that Wednes
day afternoon, between half past three ant
six o'clock, little two-year-old son OF c. D
Dodge was found drowned in the tannery
pond.
PIscArAoUIs.
The Abbot village station has been broker
into two or three times of late, and a small
amount of money taken each time. Thu
storehouse was also broken into and two bag
of corn taken. The entrance was affected BY
pryinz up plank in the foor. A reward o
$25 offered for the detection of the thief
says the observer.
SAGADAHoC.
The Lilliputian notes q remarkable instanc,
in Wiscasset-a family of Is children, al
living; the circle of brothers and sister
never having been broken by death, although
all have arrived to years Of maturity, thei
average age being over 30 years.
SOMERSET.
Sunday, Mrs. Cornelius Dunbar, of Fair
field. started to visit her aged father in Gin
ton. On the wav there she was stricken
with paralysis and lost the power of speech
She has partially recovered but her RICH
side is still paralyzed.
WASHINGTON.
A Game Warden of Wesley, opened hi
door the other morning and stepped into
trap which had been prepared for him b,
some malicious neighbor. The trap Is wha
is known as ''desd fall, and, when it fell
the man was knocked senseless. Last Marcl
the road from Wesley to Barring was LITERAL!
strewn with canine csrcasses, and it is sup
posed that some crank, conceiving this to b,
the work of the Warden, resorted to the fou
measure of setting dead fall for the pur
pose of retaliation. Times.