Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-08-11
State News.
MILLS STARTING uP.-PRoPERrY WAITING
FOR CLAIMANT.

ASpRoscoGGIS.
The worumbo WOODEN mills at Lisbon Fall,
started on extra rime, Wednesday, running
half the night and all day. II bids fair to b.
one of the best seasons ever known in this mill
1t 10 said that the orders are way ahead O,
them.
r. A. Morrow, of Pennington, gave an
exhibition of the working of patent car.
coupling of which he is the inventor and pa
tentee. at the Upper Maine Central station
Lewiston, Thursday forenoon.
CUMBERLAND.
John Mathews, employed At the Portland
Stove Foundry, while at work With . circular
left hand cut off,
Will Gribben, while Stacking cars in the
Maine Central yard in Portland, Thursday,
had foot badly jsmmed.
At the Westbrook Mills lot of pulp fell
Saturday,. throwing J. P. Libby against some
object, breaking his lower jaw and spraining
his knee, and Mary Kimball was injured by q
case of paper which fell from truck.
George w. Graves, q book agent of Litch-
field, SO years old. was treated at the Boston
City Hospital, Friday evening, for three
punctured wounds in the right foot and q
broken toe, caused by slipping from q horse
car on Broadway, between A and B streets,
the car running over the foot.
Friday. Mayor Deering, of Portland, re-
ceived letter from a lawyer at Annapolis,
Md, asking for information in regard to a
Miss Fanny Farrsgut Gardner. daughter of q
lady belonging to Portland family, whose
maiden name was Henrietta Page, stating
that property there was awaiting herself or
heirs. Upon examination of the indexed
marriages. it was ascertained that Henrietta
Page married Lieut.. ID. G. +. Gardner, in
Portland. Jan. 6, 1855. Mrs. Gardner, after
her husbands death, married Capt B. F.
Willard. and the Miss Fannie Gardner named
in the letter is the wife of Mr.. c. w. T.
Cooling. The value of the work in indexing
the births, deaths, and marriages, is seen
when it is known that 10 minutes gave all
the requisite information in the matter.
PENoBscor.
very sad accident which resulted fatally
occurred in Orono Sunday afternoon. Frank
Rowell, boy aged about fourteen years. had
a loaded revolver in his hands handling il
rather carelessly. Suddenly the weapon was
discharged and the ball struck him over one
of his eyes, penetrated the skull and entered
the brain. Strange to say the boy lived fully
three hours. He was, however, unconscious
all of that time
Shortly after ten Sunday evening a police
whistle WAS blown several times very loudly
on Kenduskeag Bridge in Bangor and a crowd
of men Immediately gathered about the spot.
The cause of the rommotioD was the flight OF
three men who hal stopped in front of q
boarding house on Haymarket Square, where
one OF them had struck a man who was seated
in front OF the house. They ran up the
Square, across Kenduskeag Bridge and down
on to the whsrves, but the police succeeded
in capturing the worst offender and lodging
him in the station house.
The house of Mrs DR. Bean, of Searsmont
occupied bv J c. Oakes, was struck by light
ming Friday afternoon, the building being
considerably injured, but the inmates escap-
ing with a severe shock for the time being.
The bolt struck the chimney, knocking the
top to pieces, and descended by rafter into
clothes press, and then went out, like a de-
cent person. through the front door. The
only trouble about this part of the perform
ance was that it took part of the door with
it, The damage to the house, besides the
chimney was the splitting of some of the
boards under the caves, shivering the ratter,
and breaking the screen door. Mrs. Cakes
who was sitting in the parlor was rendered
! insensible for few seconds, but soon fully
recovered.
WASHINGTON.
On Tuesday at Calais, Gordon Motifs lit.
tie twelve year old daughter fell off an edgnG
pile, striking a short stick, which penetrated
her abdomen, inf1cting serious wound. The
doctor who attended her says the cut is al
ugly one, and that the child's recovery is
doubtful
Friday last Robert Riley, who was working
on GARDENERS new hotel Calais, fell from q
staging and dislocated his shoulder. Two
| tendons of his ribs were also fractured. Mr.
Riiev, years ago, fell from masthead aud
sustained such terrible injuries that his re-
covery was regarded almost miraculous
| Waldo Cleland. of Mill Cove, Robbinston
lad of ten years, fell into Osborn's mil
pond at that place on Friday. and narrowly
escaped drowning. MIR Josiah Osborn wen
to the rescue, after the boy had disappeared
| for the last time. and brought him up from
the bottom of the pond. He was resuscitate(
| in a few minutes,
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