Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-11
State News.
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seizure of whiskey and ale va made
Saturday. BY Messrs. Hinkley and Premise.
at the hotel at Lisbon Falls. In the Lewis
ton Municipal Court, Monday, George Alb
bot. the proprietor, was fined 500 and cost,
for search and seizure. He appealed.
ARoosrooK.
Mr.. W. S. Barnes of Bangor has purchased
the Butter6elc mill, so called, situated in
Macwahoc Plantation. This is steam shin
gle mill and is located about FIVE miles from
the railroad in the midst of a good cedar
country. The shingles are all to be shipped
by rail. crew will be sent up this week TO
begin hauling cedar to the mill. which will
run all winter Wig.
CUMBERLAND.
Last week Mr.. George P. Reed, a Portland
BOY, picked up in the street, near the Canal
bank. an endorsed draft for s37. 500, the
property Of well known Commercial street
merchant
The Portland Widows Wood Society has
lately received $1,000 from F. R. Barrett,
Esq, executor of the will of the lale Horace
Harvey, ESQ.
The Mayor Of Portland has honorably dis
charged Policemen Burnham and Bell, they
having reached the age of sixty years, which
requires such action
Saturday night, says the Portland Press,
tnere was narrow escape from serious fire
in the Maine Central telegraph office in that
city. just as the operators were about clos
ing work for the night, stroug smell of
smoke was observed, but they failed to locate
1t until, all at once, the telephone burst into
flames. Investigation showed that an cleo
trio light wire had crossed and come in con-
tact with the telephone wire.
HANCOCK.
Bar Harbor is agitating the question of
what shall be done with the vast amount of
garbarge which daily accumulates there dur
ing the populous Season. This year il was
not adequately provided for. The stencil
arising from 1t was at times sckening to
people upon whom the changing winds waved
the disagreeable smell from the place where
it was habitually dumped and not properly
treated with disinfectants.
KNOX.
R. Bodwell of the Bodwell Granite Com
panv of Vinalhaven. and Francis Cobb of
| Rockland, have been in Washington to bid
for the stone work on the million dollar gov
eminent building at Pittsburg, Pa.
| Advices to the Associated Press from Yoka-
hama state that the suit of the owner of the
American ship Ciarissa B. Carver of Searsport
Maine, against the owner of the
British Glamorganshire for the loss of the
former by collision with the Glamorganshire
near Kobe several months ago, has been de-
cided by the English court at Yokohama in
favor of the plaintiff. Damages were assessed
at 100000.
PENoBsCor.
Edgar Bailey of Msttawamkeag. and John
Cromwell of Midway, shot a large caribou
few miles above the latter place, one day
last week, says the Commercial.
SAGApAHoC.
| The New England Ship-buildng Co. of
| Bath is to build two steamers this winter for
Philadelphia wooden firm, the largest to be
| $50 foot knell The hull and boilers will be
bnilt bv the New England Ship Building
Company, and are to be completed in April,
1886 The steamers are to run from Phila-
delphia to Venezuela.
SOMERSET.
| The w. c. T. U. of Skowhegan held an
| art exhibition last week in the Congregational
| vestry for their benefit. Among the things
to be seen was workstand $50 years old
| Australian birds, Fannie Coburn
oil paintings, Mrs. A. H. Weston,
Mrs. C.. D. Miller, Garry Philbrick
| and others. "A Cumberland county map by
| Philander Coburn.
| Smith and Mayo, of the Somerset Repor-
| ter, are doing a large business in the sale Of
F.; various kinds of letter paper, envelopes,
| blank books, etc.
Mrs. DR.. Fellows of Skowhegan, was
| thrown from her wagon on Saturday last, by
the breaking of the hind axle The horse did
not run, and she was not injured.
| The Electric Light Co., have got die work
of putting up their wires nearly completed,
and expect to light up the stores and streets
of Skowhegan this week.
| WALDO.
| A lodge of Good Templars, to be called
Lebanon, was instituted at Ellingwood's Cor
ner in Winterport, Nov 9Th. hall is soon
to be fitted up for their use, ane they start
with a good membership.