Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-12
AxpRoscosc1y.

AxDRoscosGIs.
The Mayor and Aldermen of Lewiston.
have decided to accept the challenge OF the
Mayor and Aldermen If Auburn. to PLAY q
game of base bali for the benefit of the Bar
tholdi pedestal fund. With the provision, how
ever, that the Mayor of each city snail pitch
on his nine
CUMBERLAND.
Two Peaks Islanders are on the war path.
a resident of the avenue has lost an out
building. and accuses his next door neishhor
of having stolen and dumped it into the sea !;
still more conspicuous building il at once
to b. erected on the old ate, that the neigh
boris view. as of yore, may be one Of beauty
it not Of jey.
While Mr.. John c. Stevens was riding
rapidly in Cape FL zahe h. Tuesday, his
bicycle struck some obstacle and he wa.
thrown with great violence. A bad cash was
inflicted over the eye and another upon the
under lip. and he was otherwise badly bruised
and shaken up. He was unconscious for
about two hours after the aecident
A young msn about 90 years old. intoxica
ted, and unconscious of his situation, was
foun lying across the railroad track at Deer
ing, just before freight train lassed. one
day this week.
Portland barber who has q room in the
United States Hotel building has let his room
to the hotel people for $3.50 for the week
the Grand Army meet in the city. He will
remove the furniture and go on vacation
Grand Army week.
The new ferry boat ran into the steamer
Gordon at Custom House wharf. Portland
Wednesday afternoon doing but slight dam
oO0 p,eh Dc IS h. Ia.
and when the engineer got the signal to back
he forgot which end was serving a. bow at
that particular time and went the wrong way
with the above results.
The Portland city authorities have secured
the services of several Boston police officers
to assist in keeping order during Encamp-
ment week.
Priscilla Secret, the ex-member Of the Sal
walton Army who WAS arrested in Portland
for stealing parasOl from the City Hot4l,
said that the reason she deserted the ARMY
was because she did not "enjoy salvation
Five hundred crates of strawbe rries were
received in Portland, Wednesday.
The State inspectors of steamboats, visited
Sebago Lake and vicinity last week, and iu-
spected the new steamer Lucille, of Standish
At Harrison they inspected The steamer Sc
bag, of Bridgton, and found there a steamer
two years old without name, that had BEEN
evading the law BY carrying passengers with
out having been inspected or having licensed
officers This may prove expensive business
for the owners.-Bangor Wing
The rumsellers' league. OF Portland, had a
meeting few evenings since. and decided to
take measures tor mutual aid and protection
large number were present. fund is to
be raised to paw fines and expenses of prose-
cution. Hot times may be expected if they
attempt to carry their plan into execution.
PENnBscoT.
One of the arrivals on the steamer Cam
bridge, Tuesday afternoon, in Bangor, was
little girl, aged nine years, who had trav-
eled alone from Colorado to the East.
boy about seven years of age. named
Johnny Hill. feil backwards into the hold
of vessel lying near the ferry slip, Bangor,
Tuesday night, striking on his head and
shoulders and severely iniuring him.
SAGADAHoc.
The following schooners are booked for re-
pairs at the New England Shipbnilding Com.
paws railway at Bath: George l.. Drake,
James T. Morse, Carrie Bailey, Charles
Moody, Andrew Nevins; also the steamer
Islander The schooner CITY of Philadelphia
will be launched in a few DAYS. She is 1915
tops, and is to be rugged on the stocks.
An fort is being made to publish a week
lv paper at Winreganc.. to be called the
Phipsburg Journal
YORK.
About one year ago it will be remembered
a BURGLARY was c0mnitted at Eliakim Rich
small b'ys. One of them. Oliver Gartin,
tra ankn :. 81 L..
served out his sentence. His two compan-
ions, Victor Paul and Louis Mart:ile. es-
capped and have been at large ever since.
Yesterday afternoon Officer Romeo arrested
Paul on the Main street b iiee, and learning
that Msrtille WAS working in No weave
room in the Lac ma mills, he went there,
arrested bin, and took them both to the DO
lice station
A Long Lost Badge.-In 1864, Samuel o
Br, ant. now first pilot of the steamer Rich
mond, lost badge of the Sixth Army Corps
male from silver quarter of a dollar and
lost the same year This snring Eben Hay-
wood of Wesl v, Me-, advertised in snme of
the Maine papers that he had taken q Sixth
Army Corps badge bv way Of change as a
gus rter OF dollar and that the letters rs. o.
b., were engraved upon ii. This advertise
ment was seen by Wr. Bryant who wrote 10
Mr.. Haywood, and at once received his long
los; badge.
About two o'clock Wednesday morning a
police officer of Biddeford, vas accosted in
the street by young man by the name of
Frederick Tuffe, who was apparently tempo-
rarity deranged. and was in search of lodg-
ings. The officer took him to the station
house. As they were passing through the
corridor, Tufts attacked the officer. vio-
lent scuffle followed, in which Tufts was
thrown to the ground, and his head badly rut
In the scuffie lamp was overturned, which
came verv near resulting in confederation.
John E Trayner works in one of the mills
on the Laconia, at Biddeford, and is the pos
SCISSOR of silver watch. One dav recently,
when he went to work, Traynor hung his
vest containing the watch on peg in the
mill, and upon going for the garment later in
the day missed the time-piece. few DAYS
after this he say his watch in the jewelry
store connected with Nadeau's shoe store on
Main street, where it had been left for repairs
The Jeweler said it had been left there BY q
young man named Napoleon Letendre. and
the latter was arrested. In Judge Hamilton's
court Wednesday morning, Letendre said he
found the watcn in a pile of waste in the
mill. but enough evidence was introduced to
establish his probable guilt, and the Judge
gave him the alternative of paying costs,
amounting to about Eve dollars, or going to
the reform school. Letendre's parents will
probably pay the money.