Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-03

| ACCIDENTALLY KILLxD.- SurCrDE.- SnUe
CLING SCHOONER CAPruKED LAUNCHED
| "A WILD Cow KILLED.
| ANDR0scOGGM.
A petition was circulated on the street Of
Lewiston, Friday, asking the mayor to forbid
the parade of the Salvation Army on Me.
moral Day, bot the Army paraded a. usual
| saturday forenoon, as large beam, with
Z truss rod attached was being carried through
the yard of the Lewiston Bleachery the truck
capsized and the beam fell on Horace Bletbep
OF Lisbon Falls. dislocating his collar-bo
breaking several ribs, and literally crushing
him to death. He leaves a wife and Eve
children.
As +. E. Bisby, superintendent of the fire
alarm IN Lewiston, was repairing q wire
near the Grand Trunk depot in that city,
Friday afternoon, he fell from the top of one
| OF the poles to the ground, breaking his
shoulder, and severely bruising other parts
of his body.
Saturday night. as Engineer Chas. NuttinQ
OF the Maine Central. was making up q train
at Lewiston, he espied an old man staggering
along on the track just ahead of the engine,
apparently unaware of the danger that
menaced him. 1t was too late to stop the
| train, which however was not run
ming at a very high rate of speed, and
so Mr.. Nutting jumped from the cab, ran
ahead OF the engine, and pulled the old man
from the track just as the engine went rolling
by. The man was evidently intoxicated.
Newall Goodrich. boy employed at Ara
Cushman Co.'S, Auburn, got caught in the
elevator Thursday and had an almost mirac-
| ulous escape from death. He escaped with
slight injuries, however.
ARoosrooK.
The Bangor Commercial reports the death
OF boy, fifteen years of age, in Orient, who
was the sole support of invalid parents, both
| of whom went into fits when he was diving
and have continued to have them and it is
feared that they will not live. The boy had
the diptheria in its worst form.
The question of associated dairying by the
cheese and butter factory method is being
earnestly discussed by the farmers, and it is
hoped that change for the better will sooL
be inaugurated in Aroostook agriculture.
CUMBERLAND.
boy named VIM. Kicker, l6 years of
age. of Portland. ran away from the Reform
| school, Friday, and had not been heard from
| at last accounts
Ordnance Sergeant James NJ. Brooks. u.
S. A., has been placed on the retired list at
his own request. Sergeant Brooks has been
stationed at Fort Preble many wears.
The laborers employed by the Baltimore
and Ohio Telegraph Co. began stringing
wires in Portland, Saturday. They expect
to have the line ready between Portland and
Boston in fortnight.
FRANKLIN.
Upon examination it was found that young
Richardson who committed suicide at Farming
ton Saturday died from dose of "Rough on
Rats He took two boxes to his room and
said to his landlady ''Be good if you never
see me alive again" She took him to be
fooling and thought no more about it until
she was CALLED to his room. Richardson was
| a Young man of good habits and liked BY all
who knew him. He had become detected on
account of sickness.
LINCOLN.
The newly appointed collector of customs
at Wiscasset, filed his bond Saturday for
O,OO0, but it was returned to him for cor
rection. 1t seems that one of his sureties is
| a woman, and either she must be replaced by
a man or she must file certificate of femme
sole IN order to qualify on the bond
The brigantine Ambrose Light of Philadel-
phia which was lately captured by the Amer
lean man -of-war Alliance, under circum-
stances which justified the suspicion that she
had been engaged in illegal business, was
built IN Waldoboro in 1857, by Alfred Storer,
says the Lincoln News.
SAGADAHoc.
Messrs. Deering & DOnnell, Thursday
afternoon launched from their yard at Bath,
the two-masted fishing schooner "Eliza A.
Thomas" which will be ready the latter part
of next week. She is $50 tons burthen, fitted
up in fine stvle and is owned by Chas. A.
Thomas of Portland As she was going on
| the ways she careered frst to one side and
then to the other, crushing out the ways
After going about ten feet she stopped, much
f, to the relief of the frightened party on her
deck. The accident resulted from the ways
not being properly braced.
WALDO.
Last week COW ran wild in the town OF
| Unity, and took to the woods. number OF
men searched several days for her, and at
last she was discovered in clearing. 1t was
impossible to capture the animal which was
perfectly wild, and only after seven shots
were fred into her did she give up the ghost.
After receiving shot through her lungs the
COW leaped five rail fence.
WASHINGTON.
The lobster factory at Cutler employs Is
hands about the premises, and for the past 10
days has been kept in operation night and
day, and during the time has canned about 5
tons of Holsters every "a hours, says the Ma
chias Republican.
On Saturday last, Mr.. A. Neill, caught
with his rod and fly line, at Union Mills, a
| fine % pound salmon, says the Calais Adver-
tiser.
1he PASSPORT Standard says: pig run
ming at large attacked child belonging to
Samuel Moore and bit him in the throat, and
would have killed him had not dog driven
the pig off. AS it was, the child escaped
with slight injuries.
After sweeping the floor one day last week
Mr.. Jacob Hinkley, janitor of Memorial
Hall at Eastport, put the sweepings, which
proved to contain Greek fire and powder
which the Peoples Theatre Company had
been using, into the stove and an explosion
occurred which knocked Mr.. Hinkley sense
less and burned him severely about the face
and neck. He remained unconscious nearly
an hour, but is now recovering.
YORK.
The new steamer built at Kennebunkport
by David Clark is completed and will be
towed to Portland Immediately, to receive
her boilers and machinery from the Portland
Company. She is a fine looking, thorough
built vessel of about 800 tons, owned mostly
h,, nf ~ H.