Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-09-15
ANpROScOGGIN.

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An Auburn young man named George
Hodedon was shot through the knee by the
accidental discharge of a skeleton ritie, about
two weeks ago at Higgins Beach. The doc
tors probed for the ball but could not find il.
He is now at home in Auburn and is able TO
walk out.
CUMBERLAND.
A man giving his name as A. L. Gould and
styling himself general agent" Of the Maine
Mutual Accident Association, of Portland
has been vietinizing the people in the eastern
part OF the State from Foxcroft to Cslias He
would solicit insurance and give his personal
receipt for the fee paid, telling his victims
they would receive their policy bv mail in a
few days from the Portland ofice. When
they had waited for some time and had not
received their policies they wrote To the Gen.
eral Manager in Portland, c. n. Boothby,
making inquiries. Friday Mr.. Bpothby re-
ceived a telegram from Sheriff Bowker of
Washington county asking if Gould, who was
working the same scheme in Calais, was all
right. Mr.. Boothby telegrsphed for particu-
lars and an order for Gould's arrest. When
the officer went TO look for him he had skipped
over to St Stephen and got drunk and been
arrested for drunkenness. Gould is rank
fraud who has some hos got possession of
copies of the blanks of the company and
printed blanks OF his own from them. How
far his operations have extended is not
known, but it is probable that are quite ex-
tensive. Those who have paid him their
money are so much out. He charged various
premiums TO diHerent parties LOT the same
class of insurance.
Aoranam otering' tne hahager OF me "a
IL IL L
whom Iheatre al fesks Island anu ms son
ROBERT suoueniy disappeared Saturday night
STEERING lett a note win sooo saving that IL
was all the money ne had win whieh 10 pay
the company when mas oeen q, tne ,heatre
curing the week ihe.e Is Sifo sun que the
company ana the members are Indignant ~
,neir treatment iheV say 'ns' hau hr. o,er-
ing renamed ana explained matters they
~ouio nave ~aited ior 'heir pay
nruhs~iek people are annovsu 0! 'ne per
windows. Some think that the town ID
haunted.
Kew. MT DAVID, VINO mas Tor two years
past mlnistered so ably and faithfully to
small band OF Swedenoorgiads at Brideton
has closed his labors and LETT this week for
Boston he expects to go west.
Atlantic and Pacific wires from Roston n
Portland, are being removed and shipped to
Portland for service elsewhere, BY the pres
ent owners, Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany. The men receive twenty cents for
each pole delivered at the nearest station OF
the eastern division of the Boston & Maine
railroad. Contractors and teams are from
Portland
Frank II. Gushing, a carpenter, employed
on the elevator scale being erected by Sargent
Dennison & Co. of Portland. while walking
on a staging near the top of the structure,
Thursday afternoon, lost his bal
ance and fell to the wharf below
a distance of about fourteen feet, his head
striking the sill of the scale. Gushing was
taken to his house and attended by physi
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but no hone. were broken. and il ia though,
that there are no serious injuries.
OXFORD.
The estimated business of the firm of B
F. Spinney & Co , is set down as abou,
81 ,0OO, 900 per year, and the number OF
hands employed at about 300. The removal
to Norway will be one of marked importance
in the Lynn shoe trade.
ihNobsoor'
Inc man who tells plausible story
a. 60. So, COCO l,;l sc , ~
chine, and then induces them to sigr
some kind of a document. is around again
farmer in Dexter has been stuck to tn.
amount of 5000 bv one of these swindlers
The farmer found that the agreement. he
signed. was really an order for 30 winnowina
machines.
The dispute between the log runners ant
the mill men on the Penobscot. as TO water
rights at Milford has been temporarily set.
tied under protest by the payment of a sum
to the millmen by the log runners. the mat
ter to be referred to the law court for per.
manent adjustment.
oAGADAHoc.
Mr.. Isaac Small. an old resident of Rich
monl, fell from load of hay Friday and dis
located his shoulder and broke one of the
r. 80 y, W. n,
Infantry Friday evening a committee ron