The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-08-11
PERSONAL.

w. Fl. Looney, Esq, spent part of last
week in Eastport. the guest of Father
O'Dowd.
Professor George L. Goodale of Harvard,
formerly of Bowdoin College, was in town
yesterday.
General Manager Payson Tucker of the
Maine Central is ON a tour of inspection
through the eastern part of the State.
Rev. Henry Fairbanks and family of St.
Johnsbury, VT, are now occupying their
cottage at Prout's Neck, one of the pleasant
est locations there.
The Rev. DR.. Chickering, formerly pastor
of High street church, addressed the Reform
School Monday afternoon, ON 'The Right
Care and Use of the Human Body"
Mr.. j. f. Leavitt, general passenger and
ticket agent of the New Brunswick railway,
formerly of this city, has been very sick
with pneumonia, but is now out of danger.
Rev. DIR. James McCosh went out fishing
last Thursday in the bay at Mount Desert.
He caught five pollock and squid. The
sauid is the first one known to have been
caught at Bar Harbor for several years.
Rev. Fathers J. Griffin and 7. Crowley,
two priests from Ireland, have been visiting
Rev. NJ. G. O'Brien in Bangor. They are in
America raising fund for the O'Connell
memorial church to be erected in Cahircireen,
Ireland.
Hon. John S. Wise and wife, of Rich
mond, Va, went to Bar Harbor Monday on
the Flying Yankee. Mr.. Wise was prom
inent Representative and one of the most
brilliant debaters in the Forty-eighth Con-
gress, and was the Republican candidate for
Governor of Virginia at the last election.
Prof. F. E. Burnet of Auburn, Me-, form
erly Superintendent of Schools, and grad
uate of Amherst College, has accepted the
principalship of the McGaw Institute at
Reeds Ferry, N. H., to succeed Prof. E.
Whipple. The latter goes to the University
of New Mexico, under the auspices of the
American Missionary Association, to take
charge of the department for Indian girls.
Rev. DR.. Stockbridge, formerly pastor of
the Free street church in this city, is spend
ing day or two in Portland DR.. S. has
been engaged, the year past, in the prepara-
tion of a catalogue of what is known as the
Harris Collection of American Poetry"
the gift of the late Senator Anthony to the
library of Brown University The collec-
ton contains not far from 5000 volumes, all
the productions of the pens of American
authors. A special feature of the catalogue
will be the biographical and photographed
notes prepared by the compiler, rendering
the volume most valuable and convenient
handbook for those who are interested in
the department of American literature of
which it treats Already large number of
copies of the work have been ordered for
public and private libraries in almost every
section Of the country. The work will be
published early in the fall.
Inquest on the Drowning Accident
The coroner's jury to investigate the cause
and circumstances of the recent accident in
the harbor by which seven persons lost their
lives, was called together yesterday morning
at o'clock, in the County Attorneys room
in City Building. Testimony was given by
Mr.. James r. Cleveland, father of the
Cleveland children, Mr.. James G. Written,
father of the Written children, and Master
James b. Written, the sole survivor of the
party. There was very little that was new
in the testimony given, the story being sub
stantially as reported in the PRESS. The
only new fact brought out was in the testi-
mony of Jimmie Cleveland, who said that
when the boat went down some one got on
his back and kept him under water, but he
threw him off and thus saved himself. Mr..
James r. Cleveland was much overcome
when giving his testimony and shed tears.
The jury retired, and after little time
agreed upon the following verdict:
That Wellington Masters of Portland, in the
county of Cumberland, Jane Masters. Maude
Written, Benjamin Written, Emma Cleveland,
Harry Cleveland and John Masters, came to their
deaths by drowning in Portland harbor, on the
dent by which a boat in charge of Wellington
Masters, in which they were sailing, was over
turned and that no blame is attached to anyone
in connection Herewith.
GEORGE w. PARKER,
GEORGE S. HAY,
Z. B. GUENTHNER,
L. E. ROLLINS,
f. o. Kicker,
A. p. WEIGH.