The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-08-31
Tho Ten Hour System Adopted at
Sanford

Inc len nour SySteHn AooPteu at
Sanford.
Especial to the PREss.]
SANFORD, Aug. 30.-The Sanford mills,
the largest manufacturers of car plush and
carriage robes in the Unitedi States adopted
the ten hour system today.
Suit Against the Keene Brothers.
SKowHEGAN, Aug 3O.-Keens Brothers
have been sued, and their property at this
place has been attached Fourteen distinct
suits have been commenced by the discharg-
ed workmen, who claim that they were en-
gagged for year.
Charged with Poisoning a Well.
SKowHEGAN, Aug. 30.-A we'll poisoning
is alleged on the premises of Abel Homestead
Of Skowhegan, whose barns were burned
Saturday. DIR. S. A. Patten has examined
the contents and sent samples of some of the
water to the State College at Orono for
analysis.
The Explosion at Monson.
MoNsoN, Aug. 30.-In the opinion of a
Now os.isert e--ris9:e.-s, 'y--'S---i'e
was used in the recent explosion in DIR.
Halls office at Monson. This was placed in
the centre of the floor and discharged by the
use of fuse and exploded as no traces of car
fridge shells could be found. The centre of
the floor was blown downwards, the walls
outward and the ceiling had disappeared en-
tirely. An alarm of fire brought out the In
habitants when it was discovered that the
CARPET in the office had caught fire. DIR. Hall
was in Boston at the time. Those who
heard it thought it was a land slide in He
bron Pond quarry. A safe in the office was
untouched, and, as robbery was not the
motive, the people there are at loss to
know what induced the person or persons to
perform the dastardly act.
Fire in Madison.
MADISON, Aug. 30.-Sunday morning at
about half past ten o'clock, fire was discov-
cred in the cellar beneath the store of b. z.
J, Weston in Madison. Fortunately the
hose from the wooden factory would reach
the building, and in few msments a stream
fron three inch hose was playing upon the
fire. Nearly all the goods in the main build
ing occupied by Weston & Emery and by IL.
f. Elder, were removed before it was known
that the fire could be put out. The posts,
timbers and floors in part of the cellar were
badly charred; and many of the goods dam
aged to an extent which cannot be computed,
as it is not known how much the smoke pen
etrated into the flour, salt, etc., with which
the cellar was filled. The cause of the fire is
unknown.
Damage to Maine Vessels.
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, Aug. 30.-The
schooner Lottie of Thomaston, Me-, Crelgh-
ton, Elizabethport, for Newburyport while
anchored in the harbor yesterday, dragged
afoul of schooner Victory of Ellsworth, Me-,
| MiIiken, from Perth Amboy for Boston and
broke the latter's jibbeom. The Lottie had
her mainsail slightly torn. Schooner Maria
of Eastport at this port had her cutwater
and foretepmast carried away and jibboom
broken while hove to on Nantucket Shoals
during heavy northeast gale the 25th inst.
The Alleged Cases of Diphtheria at
Brunswick.
BRUNSWICK, Aug. 30-As there has been
more or less published in the papers relative
to the condition of the affairs at the Cabot
company's tenement block, it was felt in
iustice TO both the Cabot company and the
town to have thorough examination made
by the resident physicians which was done
Saturday with the following result:
peniamin NJ. Green. agent of the Cabot com.
pany n to visit and examine various alleged
Of dphthera in the ats Of ssa
Cabot company we examined ,oaDeted nse edSGS, by
| all that we discovered or were presented ny
| DR.. Pare, the attending physician. In one Of
these we found the case so far conyalesiGseln'
| that a positive opinion seemed Impossible
1t bore evidence Of having been either diIph-
| liberia in mild form of follicular tonsllltls
in scrofous child The second case was was
pronounced follicular tonsilitis. Inc thlro
case gave no local evidence of diphtheria
In tho fourth case no evidence of diphthh.e
rietic character were discovered. me nIt1 n,
occupied such position that we couiu .;iit;, nG
positively pronounce it follicular, ton sllltl' s
or mild diphtheria. These were all the cases Sc
of sickness that were presented to us as eX
isting in the Cabot area.
(Signed) ALFRED MITCHELL, NJ. u
n. T. PALMER, M. d.
M V. ADAMS, M. ID.