Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-11
State News.
Fatally ScALDEp-Row BErwEES RIVER
DRIVERS AND FKENcHMEN-NARRow Es-
CAPE FROM Observation-Disclosures on THE
FOURTH.
ANDROsCOGGIN.

CAPE FROM OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES on THE
| fourth.
ANpRoscoGGIN
| A ,hree-year old child, named Willie,
whose parents reside on Pierce street, Lewis
ton, was fatally burned. Wednesday. She
sat down 10 a kettle of malt that her mother
had just taken from the stove. The child
died at O'Clock, Thursday morning after
| great sufferings.
ARoosTooK.
/ The Rev. Father Plnesu. of North Caribou,
is making life miserable for the rumsellers,
in his town.
| boy about twelve years old, belonging in
! Houlton. and giving his name as Taggert.
entered house in Caribou during the tenn
porary absence of the family. and stole a
small sum of money from bureau drawer
! correspondent of the Madison Bulletin
SAYS that the night before the trouble between
the Bean gang and Frenchmen at the Forks
! plantation part of Longley's drivers attacked
party of Frenchmen at the same place and
got used worse than the Beans. They were
/ in the habit of meeting saucy yanks. One of
the drivers passed here Monday, being una
bic TO walk without two mems support. his
face ard body being nearly pounded to
to death and then thrown over the bank into
the river, a distance OF twenty feet, breaking
his shoulder. The Frenchmen got out re-
volvers and began firing. being unable to do
any damsg- on account Of the darkness The
remaining drivers took to their heels.
CUMBERLAND.
Two Young men from Deering were out
yachting Thursday, and were between Cow
3 Isl nd I i,,la
struck them and before they could furl their
sail squall struck and capsized their yacht
Capt. Long. of the steamer G ,rdnn, had wit
messed the catastrophe. and he ran the steam.
er up to and rescued the nearly exhausted
yacttsmen. The men were kindly cared for
by Capt. Long, who put them into his berth.
A house on High street, Portland. owned
by Chas Morrill,, and occupied BY him
and By Henry b Pencil, was destroyed bv
fire on Wednesday. MIR. Pencils loss was
about SIS; Mr.. Morrills about $500. Both
were insured.
Rev }. II. C Bowie, who appeared in
Portland some time ago as a temp. rance lee
turer, writes to the Boston Herald from ST
john that a lack of business tact forced him
to s~inding in order 20 get living. He
undertook s. hemes in which he lost all hi,
money. He says that when he arrived in
Portland he met people who knew him and
he had to lie, to keep from revealing his true
position. He saw Gen. Neal Dow and OBJ
tanned from him dollar and a letter to a
steamboat official asking him for pass to ST.
John. This appears TO be all he succeeded
in getting in Portland.
KENNEBEC.
Willie. son of Capt Ruel Cunningham,
of Litchfeld. was playing with piece of
old gnn-barrel, which went off prematurey
and filled his face and eyes with powder. He
has not yet been able to use his ewes, but ii
| is hoped they are not permanently injured
Samuel McCurdy, of No. Vassalboro. met
with an accident few days ago which came
near being accompanied by loss of life. While
out driving ne came to railroad crossing
when without any warning train was
| almost upon him. His horse suddenly jumped
backward, thus saving his life.
KNOX.
At the Meeting of the Knox county lime
associations held Tuesday it was agreed to
stop shipments of lime to New York for twn
weeks commencing on that day Lime still
holds the same, 81 tor common and 81 20 for
| lump. Manufacturers pay II cents for ca,k-
and an average price of SO % per cord for
wood.
CITY Constable Orne still wages war against
the Rockland liquor sellers. Thursday he
| was arrested for trespass on a civil suit in
stituted bv john Welsh, and placed under
bonds. Welsh's attorney will attempt to
prove that Orne was not legally elected.
claiming thar as the city charter saws the
constahles shall, be elected on the second
Monday in March or as soon thereafter as
convenient and As Orne was not elected un-
I'll Nav ! lth, the law was not complied with
also that the city clerk was illegally author
lied to cast the vote of the convention.
PENoBsCoT.
Mr. Jacob Tutte one of the victims of the
railway accident at East Newport. is reported
to be comfortable. Were it not for his ad-
vanded age his recovery might be confidently
predicted.
PISCATAQUIs.
A cow owned by d. r. Campbell was pois-
oned. last week, by eating paint which had
been left in the stable in open boxes
SAGADAHoC.
| Two large ships are nearing completion in
the New England Shipbuilding Co.'S yard in
Bath one of which is 2000-ton ship and al
ready timbered out. This ship will be com
manded by Capt. Stone of New Bedford. The
! other is a l200-to ship and is nearly planked
up.
The steamer and apparatus for raising the
steamer Mary Lee. which lies off Small Point,
has sailed from Boston for the scene of the
wreck They entertain the most sanguine
hopes in regard to raising the boat.
SOMERSET.
| Henry Romeo. of Fairfield, attempten to run
| in front of a cannon "a salute was being
| fired, the Fourth, got his face blown full
of powder.
| In the shower on Saturday of last week
the tightening struck the barns of David Saw
yer and Sheron Blanchard. at Madison Gem
tire, splntering rafters, posts, and stills, and
sending boards. shingles and clapboards in
all directions. Neither barn was set on FIRE
although the former was filled with smoke.
| 1t also struck the ground in the pasture near
the buildings Of W. ID. HAYDEN and set the
old rush stubble on fire. For thirty minutes
there was an explosion to every two minutes
that hit somewhere within radius of one
and one half miles.
Friday afternoon. "a Frank G1odspeed, Of
Madison, was experimenting with bottle of
powder, he managed TO explode it, burning
his face so badly that the skin fell of
Although the bottle was blown to atoms no
glass was found in either his hands or face.