Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-10-19
State News
Town SUED FOR DESTROYING AN Ice Priv
LEGE-kILLED BY FALL-Losr HIS
POCKET Book.
CUMBERLAND.

tripe and bone boiling esta blishment az Brigh
! ton Corner in Deering, passes the highws,
from the city to Ssccarappa. On account Of
complaints of offensive odors arising from tn,
large pool of stagnant waste water from tn,
factory that had accumulated BY the roadside
the selectmen of the town caused to be dug
ditch over two hundred feet long, thereb,
draining the roadside and Eat land between
the factory and road into the mill pond. Now
the citizens of the town are sued for SIS 900 fol-
destroying the ice cutting privilege of the ponC
II beng claimed that the town is responsible
In consequence of opening the ditch and
thereby furnishing an escape for the ofiensiv,
waste water
Gently broken into and a watch and gold dol
lar stolen.
KENNEREc.
Capt. Frank Whitmore of the ship Berlin
was in town yesterday. His ship is in Phil
adelphis loading a general cargo for Sar
Francisco. Captain Whitmore's health i.
poor, and for season he will remain at hi.
home in Gardiner. 1, is not vet decided who
will command the Berlin = Bath Times
H. II. Hooker is making a short visit il
Gardiner and this place. Harry is now fore
man in the stitching room of the c. F
Sampson Manufacturing Co. in NORTH
Adams, Mass.-Riehmond Bee.
LINCOLN.
Last Friday, Byron Shaw, who lives about
one mile from West Bethel, left about one
O'clock TO 90 to North Waterford to the fair
and left his mother and hired man at home
About an hour after he leIt the man who
was at work in the field not far from the
house. saw smoke issuing from the barn eel
lar and on going there found the haymow or
fire at the bottom, where it rested on III,
loose boards 10 the floor. The FIRE had got ,
good start and the destruction of one of tn,
incest sets of farm builders in Bethel seemed
almost certain, but with great presence o
mind and energy he raised an alarm anC
commenced to carry water from tub in III,
yard. He succeeded in keeping the fame'
in check till help arrived and the fire was ex
tingulshed, thus saving more than tire,
| thousand dollars worth of property. Tn,
cause of the fire is a mystery. The celia
was more than eight feet deep. There hsc
been no fire there; no fire about the premise
except a little in the kitchen stove.
VIM. Chapman, son of ID. n. Chapman
cashier of the First National Bank of New
castle, was probably fatally injured by falling
| from the roof of the new French Cathol
church at North Adams, Mass, Thursday
afternoon. He with two other men wer,
stating the Roof when the board on which
| they stood gave way. One of the men wal
killed Chapman had led rowing life TO
several years.
OXFORD.
The Norway Advertiser reports that A. F
Forbes is to purchase the Oxford Democrat
He is practical printer. graduate of St
Lawrence University. and is at present fore
man IN the Democrat office.
The Tibbetts Mfg Co at Locke's Mills
shut down their shop, SATURDAY last. to Civ,
the help an opportunity to have a squire
hunt. T. NJ Bean and Chas. Stowell wer,
the captains. with nine men on a side. Tn,
counts were %. 70 for Stowell. 9.25 for Bean
David Jordan and family. who have liveC
| in Norway village the wear past, and who's,
little daughter died last spring while all the
| family were so sick with the measles as to b,
unable to have funeral services at that time
went to Albany last Sunday, and had appro
pirate iunersi services NJ the grave Vi .nei
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| PENoBsCoT.
The Dexter Gazette understands that Bur
lington folks are losing their cattle mvsteri
ouslv. One calf belonging to C. Coffin wa
killed, skinned and the hind quarters carried
away. There are others reported to have
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