Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-18
State News.
ANDRoscoGeIy.


The proprietor of a wholesale bop.a :,
Lewiston, reports the Journal. has ls,eIy bssn
looking up the whereabouts If On. Of il.
travelling men. The young man came in
from business "trip, rendered his accounts
u tn "tfce aud when the book keeper sske3
MIN II ne had tn IN snry with him said that
he dldnt. He walked nut to the hack door
I" rftnrn, as the ,ok-keeprr supposed. in
very few inmates. He hasn't come h.ck
Vet. The amount Of his ,a.l.ection. !. nor
knnwn. Ii is suppps-d r. be several hunftrad
dollars He had been in the employ of the
concern only shor; time, comsars,iveiv
hr Is not native OF thi. section ana was
Father hard up when the kind 4srt.d Lewis.
t!n busI1ess mao picked him up and gave
MIN start again in business The tact.
see'h 10 sh'" oase ingratItute among other
things.
The corOners jury have rendered the YER
dlct III the case of Martin Murphy, killed AT
Lewiston l.. the runaway accident of We'd
nesdAy, that the horses were frightened bv
the Glowing off of steam from locomotive.
KENNEBEc.
Winthrop will have an immense apple
crop.
Mr. ) DAVIS whp runs The lake steam
ers curing The summer, Is nov dryotinp hi,
a hundred DAY. Both sides Of the stsye.
are planed, the hoops are fit. the head we'll
ntted, making very desirable barrel tor nice
fruit.
The winthrop house has been advertised
tor sale, and Saco man has been looking
over the prop .rt,.
The Name Central is building new side
track at lh- B lgradr station
lie the case of the Ramsdell girl poisoned
at bon Gently, the coroners iury have
Decided that she cam IN her death from pois-
on admlnist red by her own hand; and that
Danrl Fra-k and wife were guilty of gross
Negligence IN not summonirg medical aid on
the first appearance of the symptoms
PIscArAouIs.
MIR. Benz amin l.. Morrison, well-known
ward manufacturer OF Braintrre, Mass, died
Thursday in his SO III year. He vas native
Ut Ripley. Me. and went to Braintree when
IL years old. He was member of the Legis.
laturr in 1872.
Mr. o Getchell, of S. b c, SAYS he was
chased by panther, or Indian devil" the
other night. He think. his devilship was
not less than six feet long
A new street has been laid out in Foxcroft,
which runs by the mill recently built bv the
Messrs Dexter, and quite settlement is an.
''S'p'tNa il''Ic III near IuluTe.
lreson BrgGs. of P,rkman. grocer and
general store. has failed, with liabilities ex
ceeding thirty thousand dollars, and nominal
assets of something over twenty thousand
dollars. His creditors are principally in
ParkmaD, Portland, Auburn. Boston and
New York. II is the heaviest failure which
has occurred IN Pl>cataquis county for years.
SAGADAHoC.
H.
pumping station of the Bath Water Works
are nearly completed
AT the New Ergl, nd shipyarI launch will
occur about Saturday next. 1t is the new
schooner tor Emerson Rokes of Baltimore
SOMERSET.
Mr. r cker Of ST. Aibans caught badger
in his swamp the l2nst., which weighed %
pounds.
WASHINGTON.
The monument erected to the memory of
tn" soldiers and sailors of Machias in the
civil war was dedicated Thursday afternoon.
A large dtlegati n was present from Posts 1t
Calais. Eastpurt, Dennysville and CheIrytield.
An address was given by Judge Rounds OF
Calals. The monument is from the
HaIlo' ell Granite Company's works and cost
with the lot, $500.
YORK
The wooden mill on the Hollis side at West
Buxton, has been shut down for two weeks
for repairs
The old Ichabod Roberts house, in Water
hor", was burned week ago 1t is not
known Row 1t took fire. 1t was an old land
mark, and was first occupied as an office by
| DIR. Daniel Smith who WAS one of the first
practcing physIcisns of WATERFORD II was
afterwards fitted up a dwelling house.
AT LARGE.
The following pensions were allowed
Thursday tc Maine people. NJ. Goodrich,
Fort Fairfield; w. Frazier, Ellsworth ;
II. Avres. Kennehunk; s. A. Butler,
Franklin; N Gnrnev. Waldo: f. NJ. Hunt,
f Thorndike, r. Cain, Rockport Pensions
were increased to the following: f. G.
Frost Milo; o. c. Merrill, Upper Still
water; j. Cole, Dexter; Il B,t;le, North
Sedgwick; w w. Wsrren. Foxcrnft; S.
Choatr. Rockiand; Q 5. Anthony, Whitney
vile; c. A. Wood, Belfast; c. NJ. b ai-del
Franklin; T. Brigham. Buckfield; H B.
Carter, West Ellsworth; f Plummer, Wind