Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-16
State News.
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Burglars broke into Smart & Bros stable
IN Weston, Sunday night, Oct. 10th. and stols
morse. Then they went to Reed Plantation
and stald in the woods during the day, Mon.
DAY. Smart Brothers followed them as ia,
as Maewahoc, laid in wait for them. and
stopped them, but the thieves escaped leav.
Ing the wagon and a full set of burglars
tools.
CUMBERLAND.
lhe Portland club has voted to establish q
ciuo mouse In Portland. and decided to admi,
limited number of nonresident members.
Mrs Adelbert Baker of Portland fell dead
of heart disease during dance in Congress
rink, Monday night.
FRANKLIN.
The six year old daughter of Hannibal
Smith, of Phillips, ate quantity of stramo.
mum seeds few days since. and a fatal re-
suit would have followed had not ueigbbor
been promptly summoned. He took in the
situation and administered powerful emetics
HANCOCK.
Ernest d. Hutchings of Bucksport. a man
broken down in health in the railroad service
has received $500 from the Brotherhood o,
Locomotive Firemen.
The old storehouse at the Bar Harbor
steamboat wharf is being torn down prepare.
tory to the erection of a new one containing
tive stories.
The Mt Desert Herald understands that
there is some talk of utilizing the privilege
granted by the charter of the Green Noun
tain Railway and extending the same from
the present Base station to the edge of the
village of Bar Harbor.
KNOX.
Burgess, O'Brien & Co., are building an.
other lime kiln at Thomaston.
OXFORD.
Tine Norway Advertiser reports that a sum.
mer hotel is going up on Streaked Mountain
In Paris. DR.. Whitman of Buckfeld being the
prime mover. 1t is said that q carriage road
is being graded up the mountain on the
Buckield road
PENoBsCor.
The Bangor Wing is informed that Messrs.
Stems and Wheelden will erect large ice
house within the next few weeks. 1t will
have capacity of some IL, 900 tons. More
ice will be housed on the Penobscot next
year than ever before. The amount is est.
mated at about 250, COO tons.
SAGADAHoC.
The Bath Times says: gentleman OF
this city, who has been in the grocery bust.
ness at the south end some years has never
ridden in railroad car, and yet he travels
considerable.
The death of Frank, son of James Farm.
ham of Bath, at Seattle, Washington Ter. il
reported. He went to California about seven
years ago, where he has since been engineer
of steamer plying between San Francisco
and Seattle. His age is about 30.
WASHINGTON.
The trustees of the West Washington Agri.
cultural Association are pushing work on
their trotting park at Cherryfield. They ex-
pect to hold the fair there neat fall
A VancebOro Young man, while catching
up gun to shoot wild duck, discharged the
weapon so that the contents entered the mus
Giles of the arm, which, the doctors saw, will
have to be amputated.
AT LARGE.
Washington dispatch to the Portland
Advertiser says: The following pensions were
allowed Wednesday to people in Maine
Minors of M. Butterfield South Gardiner ;
Sarah Shaw, widow of w. II Shaw, Dennys-
vile; ID. r. Palmer. East Sumner; L. Flick
ct. Lubec. Pensions were increased to the
following: w. b Grant, Orland; E. Reed.
Togus; the widow of T. H. Cook. Monson.
IL is stated as fact, that the people of this
State held mortgages on outside property to
the amount of fifty millions of dollars OF
the thirty-fve millions deposited in our fifty
four banks, at least twenty five millions are
invested outside of Maine In York county,
says the Blddeford journal, there are now on
the bank books of depositors over four mil
lion dollars; two and halt millions of this
have been sent out of the State and one mil.
lion seven hundred thousand dollars have
gone out of New England to develop and
build up the west. The Lewiston Journal
thinks the same statement might be applied
to Androscoggin county.