Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-05-02
State News.

State News.
ANDRoscoGoM.
VIM. Mccain. the Lewiston postmau Who
vas bitten By the vicious dog, Is doing WELL
although he has been q great sufferer,
The trustees OF the State fair held q meet
ing at Lewiston, Wednesday, and appointed
superintendents ~ follows: Rufus Prince,
general SUPERINTENDENT: Col Girard. ticket. !;
AlonzO Libby. stock; B. Hilton, hnrse.: N.
>. Allen. exhibition building and grounds.
An elevator will be put into the exhibition
building.
ARoosrooK.
little daughter of Levi GARY. Esq, of
Caribou, WAS choked to death Last Sunday
afternoon. The little one was playing with a
small screw which it put ii into 1t. mouth and
which slipped into the wind-pipe, causing
death in few moments
FRANKLIN.
Mr.. r C. Hewev of Rsnelev has received
from Commits .ioner Stanley So, 900 handbook
salmon eggs for the Stanley Ha,ching House
at the inlet of Rangeley Lake.
HANCOCK.
A Baltimore man met a New York widow
at Mt Desert last season. They were mar
ried in October. They had grand reception
at the home of the husband socn after. They
went to New Orleans in January. They
qnarrelled. He came home without her.
She followed alone, and now brings a suit
for divorce.
kENSEBEc.
DR.. Charles R. Crandall will deliver the
address in Gardiner on Memorial Day.
Knox.
The schooner Challenge of st. Jeorge,
Maine, light, went ashore Tuesday on Corn
ledge near Jonesport. She was bound to ST
John.
George Jameson and Roscoe Carter of
Union who have been at work tearing down
barn for Cyrus Packard, met with quite an
accident last week. Mr.. Jane. on was on the
roof tearing off the rafters when he slippsd
and fell to the ground fracturing several ribs
and jsmMing him badly. Carter then went
onto the roof and soon fell as his predecessor
had done, injuring his leg somewhat.
PENoBscoT.
The contract for dredging 10000 cubic
wards in the harbor of Bangor, was awarded
ny Col. Bluat, U. S. A Tuesday, to Moore
& Wright of Portland, for fcrty-fve cents per
yard.
Mr.. Holt, a carpenter of Dexter, met with
qnite an accident while about his work the
other dav. He was standing upon box,
which went from under him, ard he struck
upon his face. driving a nail into the flesh on
one side of his eve. lnfli"ting an ugly wound
AT 10 P. NJ. Of the 25th inst, as the fam
lily were retiring for the Night fire was dis
covered on the roof of the house occupied bv
C. and c, w. Wentworth of Exeter. No ef
forts could prevent the loss of the house. ell.
shed and stable. and nearly all the household
goods. 1t was only bv the utmost exertions
that the barn was saved. The loss is esti-
mated at Sl,l00 Insured for $780, Mrs
Wentw orth. who is great invalid, hav ing been
confined to the house and to her bed a greater
portion of the time for several years, was
with difficulty moved to the home OF G.. w.
Trickev, where she still remains in feeble
condition, though cared for very kindly.
SAGADAHoc.
All the skating Kinks have had to stand a
good deal of sulphur and brlms stone from dis
gusted parents and disappointed relatives ::
but the Richmond rink probably has caused
more unhappiness than any other in Maine.
1t not only has proved unsuccessful financial
ly, but has set the owners bv the ears and
brought on series of more or less dramatic
rows between T. j. Southland, the principal
owner and his partner, Pushor. The latest
development is a suit for libel brought against
Southland bv Pushor. The plaintiff sets his
damages at SIC, 000.-Riehmond Bee.
SOMERSET.
Young Noble. the Is year old horse-thief,
was taken to Thomastnn from Show hegan
Tuesday week, to serve a term of two years.
He has served four years in the Reform
school.
Mrs. Olive Morse of Skowhegan. tells of
what promises to be a most wonderful cure,
and which she ascribes to PRAYER. Her
daughter Lottie. now l6 years of age, mas
heen on her bed for the past i've years, with
disease of the spine She has twice been
to the Maine General Hospital, where her
case was pronounced hopeless. On Sunday
last, in answer to her own prayer, she accom-
plished what she had not been able to do for
FIVE years. She turned herself in bed, and
now expects to walk IN short time
WALDO.
Willie Higgins. a young man, the son of
A. S. Higgins of Thorndike was kicked in
the stomach by horse, April 18th He was
in the stable alone at the time it happened
and not feeling badly injured, did not tell his
folks until he began to vOmit blood. Monday
he was thought by the physician to be i'm
proving.
WASHINGTON
MIR. Jesse l.. Nash at Columbia. set a
double barreled gun in his pasture, Friday,
hoping to kill bear. Saturday morning he
found a 400 pound pound bruin, fat. and fur
black as a coal, says the Machias Union.
A collision occurred, Wednesdav, of Head
Harbor, between the schooner Peter B
smith and Mary and Annie. The former
lost her main boom and beat, stove her bull
warks and started her house.
A fishing schooner owned by Joseph Ferris
of Eastpart, came into collision with loaded
coaster in St. Andrews Bay one night last
week. One of the masts was broken and
considerable damage done to Mr. Ferris yes.
sci.
Messrs. Knights, Parker and Crowley, who
escaped from Machias Jail. lately. stole
small schooner from Campobello, Wednesday
and put to sea in her.
Ar LARGE
There was a washout yesterday on the Bel
fast branch of the Maine Central Railroad,
the bridge at Unity Pond being carried away.
1t will be necessary to transfer passengers
and freight for some days until the bridge