Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-07-01
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/ Seven Lewiston youngsters we're locked
1 mp Wednesday on suspicion of having stolen
. watch They were kept in durance vile for
some hours and then the watch was found
and all we're released.
AROOsrooK.
The Unitarian society at Presque Isle have
voted to erect new house of worship At once.
The Bangor Wing il informed thar there is
considerable talk ia Hoalton in regard to or
ganizing large cavalry company, and 1t is
thought that the project will be carried
through.
Hon. W. W. Thomas of Portland arrived
home from Europe. Saturday. While in
Sweden his majesty King Oscar accorded a
special audience to Mr.. Thomas and his SOD,
the ex-minister. st the royal palace. The
King at the close of the audience presented
handsome photograph of himself clad in
naval uniform to Mr.. Thomas the elder, as a
souvenir of his visit.
FRANKLIN.
The Franklin Journal saws there has been
more grain sown in Eustis and adjoining
Plantations, than for wears before; many of
the farmers sowing from fifty to one hundred
bushels of oats each; and j. X viles of Lang
Plantation has sowed two hundred and TWEEN
ty-fve bushels.
OXFORD.
The work OF LAYING the water pipes in Nor
way village, is progressing rapidly. Consid-
merry. The Italian workmen are very quiet
and orderly, and excellent workers.
PESoBscor.
Diphtheria has been proving quite fatal in
Dixmont.
Onions all the way from Egypt are luxuries
| of the Bangor market.
Miss Marcia Bliss of Bangor, daughter of
Chas. Z. Bliss, manager of the Western I'm
ion Telegraph office, aud herself for the past
eight years cashier OF the Office, will leave 10
October next to become u missionary in jap
an, under the auspices of the American
Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions.
PIscArAoUIs.
The Bangor Commercial gives the follow
ing account of now the lightning treated peo-
erday, the Goth. picnic party were in a
grove, and Ms the shower approached large
numbers went to the adjoining farm houses
for shelter, but one hundred went under the
| tent The thunder and lightning was most
| terrific. One bolt struck ledge some thirty
feet from the tent. On top of the ledge was
| a thin coating of soil, 10 which the lightning
ploughed burrows in six or seven different d.
| rections. 1t killed horse belonging to S A.
Skillins, of Willimantic, that was hitched
to tree some six feet from where the
| lightning struck the ledge, and stunned
all in the tent 1t knocked down,
and rendered insensible Mrs Moses Fair
brother and C. F. Howard, both of Guilford.
They were near the center of the tent, sitting
near each other. Mrs. Fsirbrother revived
in short time but continued to suffer from
| pain in the heart and back of the neck. Mr.
Howard remained unconscious for about one
hour. The lightning also struck the house
of j. F. Hiscock, mile distant from the
grove. 1t seemed to go into every room in
the house and badly wrecked each apartment
| 1t set the house on fire, but the blaze was ex
tinguished by neighbors. Mr.. Hiscock and
his family were ali away at the grove. Light
ming also struck the barn of Eugene Me-
Cusick, near by, on the place known as the
| San5orn farm.
| SOMERSET.
| CANAAN.-Our correspondent writes, June
80: r. B. Barrett took from his garden
strawberry vines this week, a strawberry
weighing trife over three fourths of an
ounce (avoirdupois) aud measuring one and
three tourths inches in diameter one way and
one and one half inches the other way and
| five and five eighths inches in circumference.
The plum is now on exhibition Sheriff
| pbp tbo Opr1 mat farto afr
Foster Nelson of Clinton to arrest him on y
charge of assault and battery on Grin A.
Bunker of Canaan He found Foster at work
with his father in the woods peeling bark, but
| Foster found out he was wanted in season to
effect his escape. The officer again went for
him in the hours of the night Monday morn.
ing last. taking with him three men as aids
from Skowhegan, and with five more found
in the neighborhood, he surrounded the Nell
son buildings and made a thorough search.
but not finding oster, the officer inquired at
a neighbors and learned that the culprit had
made away toward Clinton depot with two
women. He followed in pursuit and learned
at Hunters Mills that the refugees were at
Waterville, and soon had them arrested there
| by tslegraphng TO officer Hill A trial before
Alonzo Richardson, Esq resulted 10 Nelson's
paying $50 fine and costs. and giving bonds
to keep the peace one year.
WASHINGTON.
| The residence of Capt. Alden Smith of
Millbridge was destroyed by fire, Sunday
| night. June 20, reports the Machias Republi-
can. The family barely escaped with their
| lives. When the older members were res
cued. it was discovered that the youngest
child was still missing. Mr.. Louis Brown
rushed mi again and found the little one
asleep on the bed while the room and the
bedding were even then burning.