Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-05-04
State News.
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ANDRoscoGalx.
Fred G Jackson, Q laster in Cushman's
shoe shop in Auburn, was injured last week
by tack which, playfully thrown by . fell
low workman, struck him in the eyeball,
| costing him, without doubt, the eight of his
eye.
Daniel Dyer, James Hurley and Bert
White, Auburn men at work for that city
.'setting up the Broad street bridge, fell
from . staging into the river, Tuesday morn
ing They we're 1t work on the underneath
portion of the bridge on = plank suspended
from iron hangers about ten feet above the
water, when one of the hangers broke. The
three fell into the current beneath the bridge.
fortunately, prudent forethought on the
part of Alderman Jordan, who has charge of
the work, had placed q boat beneath the
bridge for just such contingencies. White
swan ashore. Dyer and Hurley were res
cued by Mr.. Jordan in the boat.
Thursday afternoon, C. j. Sargent, a one
armed soldier, was arrested at Lewiston, and
placed in the lookup. Shortly afterwards a
pistol shot was heard issuing from the cell.
On opening the door, the officers found Sar.
gent stretched out on the floor, apparently
dead. His forehead was covered with clottes
blood. A physician was sent for, and on his
arrival an examination of Ssrgent's head was
made, which disclosed the fact that the wound
was made by ragged tin dipper. and not by
the pistol, as at frs, supposed. He is men,
Der of the Salvation Army. He was arraigued
before the police court Friday and sentenced
to Jail for 80 days.
CUMBERLAND.
Bridgton hen laid queer egg last week.
1t was double-shell one, the outer shell soft,
and the inner quite hard, the white of the
egg being between the two.
The Oxford Bear association will hold
| their fourth annual reunion on Wednesday
evening. Nav 9th, at Portland. Ex-Gov-
ernor John ID. Long, of bingham, Mass,
has promised to be present.
HANCOCK.
The Maine Central has replaced the wood
en- bridge across the stream near the Gang
road, Dedham, with an iron one.
| The stable of Fl A. Dutton, Esq at Ellis.
worth, fell, last Monday morning. ami was
badly broken to pieces. The building rested
on posts and it is supposed that the action OF
the frost was the cause of the collapse.
| kENNEBEC.
Eleazer King, who recently escaped from
the House of Correction 10 Portland, has
posed of his house-boat and shipped as sea-
man in a schooner.
KNOX.
The schooner Helen Thompson, of Thorn
aston Me-, while going into Vinal Haven
Thursday evening, collidel with the schoon.
er Cora 5. Vangilder, of Philadelphia, carry.
ing away the latter's jibboom and cathead.
The Thompson had her mainboom broken
and mainsail split.
Bark Addie E. Sleeper, Capt. John w
Sleeper, went ashore at Antigua last week
and biged. She has been condemned, and
will probably be a total loss. The vessel
was from Montevideo, via Pernambuco and
Barbados. She was bark of about GOO
tons, built at Rockland in 1874, and wa,
mostly owned there
The Viualhaven Messenger says: "Nego
tiations are now going on between Mr.. White
agent of the Hurricane Co., and Mr.. George
Delano. concerning the lease of the shore O.
the land owned by the latter on Green's Is
land. 1t is the intention of Mr.. White, SHOULD
he secure the lease, to erect upon the land q
factory for trying the oil from whales cap
tured by the steamer Hurricane, now cruis
ing on this coast"
| LINCOLN
l. T. Hobson of Wiscasset, will build a
side-wheel steamer to run between Wiscasse
and Portland, as a freighter.
The following is copy of the alleged
slanderOus article, for the publication o.
which Mr.. Cox, editor Of the Boothbay Reg
lister, was publicly horsexhipped by Lewis
Best. The article was published August H.
1878, nearly seven years ago.
| The death of Mrs. Lewis Best at East
Boothbay, about which there has been so muct
controversy the past few weeks, we are as
sured on good authority, resulted from ner.
vous prostration, or in other words, from
broken heart"
| PENoBscor.
The buildings all except the barn, of Calet
Wentworth of South Exeter, were burned
! the 25th ult., together with about half the
| household furniture Insurance, 5000: los,
| $500 to $500
The afternoon train to Bangor on the Mt
Desert Branch of the Maine Central railroad
Saturday. ran over two cows, injuring then
so severely that they had to be killed.
SAGADAHoC.
Alpnzo A. Morse, while crossing one o.
the railroad tracks on the Maine Contra
wharf at Bath, Thursday afternoon, caugh
his foot in the track in such manner as to
throw him headlong, dislocsting his righ
shoulder.
A post of the Grand Army of the Republic
was organized in Richmond on last Frida,
evening, by c. Horace Holman, Chief Mus
tering officer. Lewiston, assisted by B, F
Beals, A. Q. NJ, Auburn, ten comrades from
Rideout Post. Bowdoinham. and two from
Hildreth Post, South Gardiner. The new
Post starts with nineteen members with i'm
mediate prospect of large additions.
| YORK.
Forty men employed in the department OF
construction and repair at the navy yard
Kittery, three ship-keepers, Is ship carpen
tiers and three hole borers were discharged
recently, leaving but six ship carpenters EN-
| ployed in the ward.