Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-09-02
State News.
A LARGE LIQUOR SgIzURE.-THE Work oE
BURGLARS "A LONG BEER PIPE -HoRsE
THIEF ARRESTED.
ANDRosCOGGN.


Officers Prentiss and Hinkley made an ex-
teusive seizure of liquor At the drug store of
Chas. Walker, in Mechanic Falls, Saturday
afternoon at about $50 O'Clock. A half pint
of alcohol was taken from the hands of &
man 10 whom ii had just been delivered. The
seizure was az follows: One barrel contain
ing about so gallons of alcohol; one barrel
containing about 20 gallons of whiskev; one
keg containing about gallons of rum: one
keg containing about 10 gallons of whiskey
one keg containing ABOUT gallons whiskey !;
"a bottles of whiskev; one demuohn contain
ing gallons of rum; one jug containing 8
gallons of rum; one jug containing 9 gallons
Of rum one jug containing about . quarts
of rum; IL d zen bottles of lager beer; 6
dozen bottles of ale; one bottle containing .
quarts of rum; one bottle containing quarts
of rum; one one-half pint of alcohol.
An operation for hernia WAS successfully
performed on Young colt owned bv Charles
SWEET of Auburn, Friday. The colt was
etherzed during the operation. DR.. Bracket
was the operator.
Thirty-eight hundred tons of coal have
been received within the past few weeks in
cargo for the Bates, the Bleachery and the
Gaslight Co., Lewiston.
Lots of men are willinc TO serve in the in
terests of law and order. Col. Li,tefield OF
Lewiston has over 70 applications for posi-
tions on the State Fair police.
CUMBERLAND.
FRIDAY night, the room of Alexander Nc
Donald on York street Portland, was entered
and $40 taken from his trunk. The same
thief also took $40 in gold, gold ring and
a razor from Peter Stewart, who boards in the
same house.
Mr.. Fred King was walking on the top of a
freight train in the Grand Trunk ward at
Portland, SATURDAY., with Ratchet in one
hand, when in stepping from one car to
the sloping roof of another, he slipped and
fell between the cars to the ground. Fortu-
nately the train was stopped and Mr.. King
escaped with one badly sprained hand.
freeman Porter, youngest son of John
A. Porter, Freeport. aged about seventeen
years, left his home, Monday morning last,
with his fathers horse and wagon with cans
of milk, which he left at the Freeport sta
ton, came back to the village, fastened the
horse near the store of Daniel H Kilby.
since which time he has not been seen OF
heard from. His family are having much
anxiety about him as no cause can be assigned
for his absence.
Deputy Marshal Black and officers Hicks
and Newcomb, of Portland. unearlhed an in.
genious beer hole at 80 York street, Monday
afternoon. lead pipe was carried up a
chimney to the second story of the house. and
investigation showed that ii was carried be-
meath the ground across the yard to another
building fallv one hundred feet away. Here
beneath the floor in the second story were tw o
barrels of beer. the pipe running up the wall
to connect with them. This beer pipe was
one hundred and thirty-three feet in length,
composed of lead, with the exception of some
ten feet of rubber hose on one end.
PENoBsCoT
The Bangor Wing says: A barn near Che
mo. belonging to man named Bradman
Smith, was burned last Wednesday night
He lost his hay, farm implements and vehi
cles, hens and hogs. The total loss is not
known.
Mr.. Benjamin Dillingham;, one of Old
towns old and respected citizens, dropped
dead Friday, Aug. 2lst. lie went to arise
as usual in the morning when he died instant.
ly. His age was SO years. He has been
failing in health for the last year
WALDO.
Joseph Davis, belonging in Searsmont,
who lately stole horse and team from w
II. Lassell, of Searsmont, was arrested in
Methuen, Mass, Saturday afternoon. He
was but recently released from the State
Prison at Thomaston, and is wanted by
Maine officers for this and other offences
He is a notorious horse thief and desperate
character, who has several times escaped the
revOlvers of officers. He had disposed of
Lassell's team and gone to work at Methuen,
where Batchelder recognized him from the
description in Maine paper. Davis confess
SEES his identity. He is about five feet, 10
inches, of dark complexion and % years of
age. Maine officers went tor him on Mon
day.
Arthur Hersom Of Boston, who was acct
dentally, and it was feared fatally, shot at
East Lebanon short time ago. is rapidly re-
covering says the Springvale Advocate.
The Biddeford Journals Man About Town,
in his search for something interesting to
write about, has been studying up the pecul-
iarties of the women of that city. He has
found one woman in the full possession of all
her faculties who has not been inside of a
store for II years, and another, a Saco lady,
who having received real or fancied insult
in store on Factory Island, many years ago,
vowed never to place her foot upon the Island
again, which vow she has most religiously
kept. A II year old daughter of the first
mentioned lady never saw boat until the
other day. when she went over to Saco for
the first time in her life.