Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-07-12
State News.
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ASDRoscoeGIS.
The herbarium Of the late President Chad.
bourne of williams College has been Sc.
cured BY Bate. Over 10000 different speci.
MEMS. besides hundreds of duplicates. are
nov owned by the college.
A fire has been raging on the Cofin bog,
Leeds, for several days. doing much damage
to woodland and has destroyed the cranberry
and blueberry crop on large territory, where
prob ,bly 100 bushels of cranberries would
have grown this year
CuxBERLAsD.
Ship Oakland. 1898 tons, of Portland. bull,
At Brunswick in 1866. and overloaded in
1884, has been purchased hy the Boston
Towing Co, and will be converted into $
barge.
Mr.. Samuel Day of Bridgton, ssys the
Press, was eating oysters in q Portland res
taurant Monday, and a man of plr asing ad-
dress, who sat opposite him at the table, &C.
cidentally split some vinegar on Mr. Days
vest. The stranger, with a polite apology,
Immediately applied a napkin and wiped il
of. be then speedily finished his repast, left
the table and disappeared When Mr.. Day
went TO settle for his oysters, his watch and
$40 in monev were gone from his vest, and a
cut in the cloth told Of the polite strangers
feat of legerdemain.
The body of sailor washed ashore at Mil
ford. Conn. four weeks ago has been identi-
fed that of Andrew Brenner of Port
Clyde, Maine. Bremen was drowned last
winter when the schooner Henry Gibbs went
down in a blizzard
At town meeting at Paris, July Sd, the
matter of new bridge near Tru-'s mill,
South Paris. was discussed. and the tow
voted to authorize the selectmen TO contr act
with some party to build an iron bridge, and
effect loan not exceeding $1,000, SAYS the
Oxford Democrat.
PENoBsCor.
large forest fire WAS burning in the di.
rection of Holden and beyond that town. Fri
dav and Saturday.
The Barron Memorial church at Dexter
was dedicated. Wednesday. Rev. Smith
Baker of Lowell, Mass preached the sermon.
Fire which caught from the explosion CT a
switch lamp in the oil room did S400 or $500
worth of damage to one of the old repair
shops in the Maine Central yard at Bangor
FRIDAY evening.
John Logan. who had been drinking, at
tempted suicide nv Jumping into the Kendus-
keag at Bangor Friday night
SAGADAHoc.
Wilmot Patten of Bath was arrested Fri.
day charged with having placed a bunch of
| fire crackers after having been lit. on the
front door step of the residence of Mrs. Cor
della Austin. Near the steps is considerable
combHstible material, such a. shavings and
pieces of small wood, which had been accu
mu latiny for soma time, This light material
was set on fire by the crakers and the house
was in danger when the incipient blaze was
discovered and extinguished. Mrs. Austin
entered complaint to the city authorities,
which resulted in the arrest. Patten, plead
MT guilty, but probable cause for holding
him was found and he was required to give
bonds in the sum of $500 for his appearance
before the Supreme Court at the August
term. The witnesses for the State were each
placed under 5000 bonds
The depot at Har ling Station. West Bath
was broken open Wednesday night Sixty
cents in money and some other valuables were
tlken.
SOMERSET.
A case of damages for personal Injuries
received by Mrs. Henry Hanson bv being
thrown from the Canaan stage in Canaan
village. a wear ago last March, was tried be.
fore Messrs. Abel Prescott, Sewall Brown
AMI II w. Gushing, last week. The plain
| tiff brought suit against Isaiah Crowell,
claiming that load of lumber left by him in
the street caused the stage horses to take
fright and she WAS thrown out and injured tn
the extent of So 600. The case was taken
from court and referred to the above referees
| An unusually large number of Canadians
are coming INTO Maine, in the neighborhood
| of
in the hay field
| The shank factory at North Arson has SUI
penied business this week. while new dam
| is made
Leonard Heath. Of Skowhegan. inform.
the Somerset Reporter that he has been pros
| pecting up the river, acting as guide fol
several Boston parties, and found in Carney.
stream, Moscow, $50 specimens of gold t
the value of about SIS. His largest specimen
is fine one, very pure and weighs 20 grains
WALDO.
| One of the heaviest losers in ready-madt
clothing by the steamboat disaster last winter
was Mr.. J. II. Gordon of Brooks, who lost
81 800 worth on the Katahdin and 50 500 OF
the Cambridge. The Boston firm for which
he does work voluntarily assumed the loss as
| being better able to bear it than Mr. Gordon
who strictly was liable.
The Searsport ship Frank Pendleton picked
up man at sea, several weeks ago, who
claimed to be the mate of the British bark
Arklow. Capt. Pve, from Montreal and who
said the Arklow sunk in a collision He
afterwards confessed that his story was false
and that he left the vessel a. sea for ''Drvate
reason" A Quebec dispatch of July 4ti re.
| ports the arrival at that port of the Arklow
from Manila. Capt. Pye says the mate de.
serted the vessel in the gig, and it is believed
he feared arrest in Canada for conduct while
master of bark owned in Z. E. Island
says the Belfast Journal.
| YORK.
Some boys took possession of the Second
| Parish church at Wells, M ndav morning
trying to see how long thew could keep the
bell ringing. One gang was inside the church
and the re-t outside. to show their independ
ence. pelted the stained glass windows with
stones, breaking several Of them.
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