The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-05-04
MAINE.
TORN IN PIECES.

MAINE.
TORN IN PIECES.
A Shocking and Fatal Accident at Kings
Mills, Paris.
PARIS, May 2.-On Thursday Benjamin G.
Briggs of Paris, while at work in s. NJ. Kings
saw mill, fell ON to the board saw and was lit
orally torn in pieces He died Immediately.
Tussle with Thieves.
Special to the Press)
SAco, May b. This morning Deputy Sheriff
Small and the night operator at the Boston &
Maine station arrested Mike Scanlan and
Dave Morris while in the act of stealing bags
of meal from a freight car. The thieves fought
stubbornly to gain their liberty and it was only
by vigorous use OF the billy that they were
carried to the lookup. Scanlan was only re-
Gently released from Thomaston, where he had
served out a two years. sentence for breaking
and entering.
Fire in Bangor.
BANGOR, May 2.-The cooper shop of Hop
kins and Stanford was burned this morning.
Their loss is $500, which is partially insured.
Bath Reduces Hts Fire Department Ferce
-Es this EcOn0Rays
BATH, May 3.-At a meeting of the city gov.
ernment last night it was voted to reduce the
working force of the fire department by dis
charging one company and reducing the other
companies from 20 to II men each. Reduction
OF the city expenses and the small appropria-
tion for that branch of the service caused the
change.
Tannery Blown Up.
BANGOR, May g. The boiler in Ell. Poor s.
Sons tannery ct Winn blew up yesterday
morning, badly damaging the surrounding
buildings. Nobody was injured.
Rusl W. Kimban, prominent hardware
dealer OF this city, died suddenly this after
noon, aged AZ years.
Pastoral Call Accepted.
Rev. Theodore e. Busfield of New Haven,
Coun., has accepted call to the First Baptist
Church of Bangor, to take effect June 1st
The Haytien Republic.
Boston, May 3. The new steamer Haytien
Republic arrived at $50 p. m. from Balh, Me.
During the passage the steamer made the re-
markable run of "a miles in six hours.
ELLswoRTH.
Although the bogus character of the alleged
Lawrence -Townley estate in England has been
exposed, hope springs eternal in the human
breast at Gouldsboro. The Ellsworth Ameri.
can says there are eleven persons in that town
who count themselves as Lawrence-Townley
heirs.
Mrs. Colby. who recently applied to the Gov
ernor for an appointment as private detective,
is the divorced wife of Geo. Ell. Colby former
proprietor of the Fairfield Chronicle. 1t seems
from what information we can obtain that
Mrs. Colby desires to be appointed detective
to assist State Constable Luce in enforcing the
prohibitory law.
GARDINER.
One day last week the Oakland National
Bank received from Philadelphia a 81 bill Of
the old Oakland State Bank for redemption,
says the Gardiner Journal. The date of the
redemption expired over twenty years ago,
but q new dollar was sent in place of the old
one.
Lawrence Bros. did moro business at their
mill at South Gardiner last week than any
week since they have been in business. The
total shipments for the six days were about
,00G feet of lumber.
HARTFORD.
Mrs. Deborah Ames of Hartford, according
to the Oxford Advertiser, says that she broke
q u.
and few months afterwards it came out of
the end OF her tongue.
PENoBscoT.
A correspondent of the Belfast Jounal SAYS
that there is only one town which does more
knitting than the village of Penobscot, Waldo
county, which for half century has had an
eDviabie reputation as headquarters for knit
ting work. But the fondly remembered knit
ting needle OF the grandmothers is a thing of
the past. Machinery has crowded it out of the
chimney corner. One woman in Penobscot
luns twenty machines and employs 20 knitters,
of whom Miss Maria Bridges is the champion
knitter Of America, having knit in one day rs
pairs of mittens.
by, burned over part of Jameson Point ceme-
terry, Rockland last week. Many of the grave
stones were blackened by the flames.
SOUTH BERWICK.
Frank Pierre, keeper of notorious grog
shop, was arrested and his stock confiscated on
Saturday last, says the Biddeford Journal. He
had been up number of times before, but has
always been let off easily, and on this occasion
was tried only for the first offence and fined
$l0O and costs, and 1t is said Immediately re-
sumed his occupation, open and boldly.
Rev. Mr. Osgood was publicly installed pas
tor OF the Free Will Baptist church Tuesday
evening last.
VAssALBORo.
Nineteen sheep belonging to Mr.. Brain
bridge Brawn of North Vassalboro were killed
by dogs last Sunday, reports the Waterville
Mail.
Vassalboro ia quite remarkable in one re-
spect. 1t has seven post offices, thus leading
any town in New England If not in the United
States, in this respect.
Within radius OF half mile in East Vas
salboro village there are twelve persons whose
aggregate ages are 1912 years. The oldest be-
ing 81 and the youngest so years old. This is
no town for doctor to settle in.
wATERvILLE.
Mr.. Ell. A. Penney, for many years q faithful
| engineer on the M. @. r. r., has trouble in
| his throat similar to that of Gen. Grants. He
| was compelled to give up labor some time ago
| and has now come back from Skowhegan tc
his native home to spend his last days where
| he began life.
| IN GENERAL.
Among the bids opened at the Treasury De
| partment for the stone and brick wo-k on the
| Brooklyn post office are the following by
| Maine parties: Bodwell Granite Co, S94 100
| additional COST 58 cents; time, one year. q. s
White, Rockland, gray granite, $118 100; addi
| tional feet. 81 cents Hallowell Granite Co.
! Bedford, S39,S28; additional feet, 80 cents
time, one year.
| "A Burning Mime.
SCRANTON, Pa, May 3.-Fire broke out il
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