Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-02-16
ANDROsCOGGIN.

ENOUGH TO SHOOT HER-FIRE IN STARKs
PROVED TO BE A FRAUD.
ANDRosCOGGN.
A kind act was noted in Lewiston, Friday
afternoon. An elderly lady was making her
way through the slippery walks without rub
bers and with only thin shoes, when she
slipped and fell. Two young girls just behind
assisted her to rise. and one of them took OF
her own rubbers and compelled the old lady
to wear them, having found out that she was
unable to buy pair for herself.
The palm belongs to the town of Livermore.
For seven years past the tax collector has
made his collections and squared up with :he
town treasurer before the town reports have
been made out for the printer. This year,
Livermore's town report 10 one of the first to
be issued.
Mr. James S. Sanborn. of Lewiston, has
bought the John r. Pulsifer farm in Poland.
He will stock it with Holstein cattle and will
run a stock and fruit farm on large scale.
Two Lewiston people, Arthur Anger and
his sister, came near adding another to the
list of fatal catastrophes from escaping coal
gas, the other evening. Mr.. Anger and his
sister were sleeping in different compart-
ments of room heated by coal stove, and
as the night was chilly the windows in both
compartments were closed. Mr.. Anger shut
the back damper before the gas from the
stove had escaped, and retiring, slept until
awakened towards morning by frightful
sense of suff0cation. He was unable to move,
but managed to awake his sister, by calling,
and she had just strength enough to open the
door of her room and admit some fresh air.
CUMBERLAND.
Mr. Joseph f. Gallagher. young married
man about "a years, was found dead at his
home on Madison street, Portland, Saturday
afternoon. having been suffocated by coal gas
during the night. His wife was unconscious
when discovered, but the services of physi-
clan she was resuscitated and she is now in
a fair way to recovery. Before retiring Fri
day night Gallagher put fresh coal on a stove
and closed the damper.
The total value of foreign exports from
Portland for last week was $4l0,5l9, and
1913. 1888 feet of lumber were exported.
Freight and wreckage from the Cambridge
is strewn along the coast westward "a far as
Harpswell. and some was even seen floating
off the Cape Elizabeth shore Saturday.
KNOX.
A telegram from Wilmington, N. c., has
been received, announcing the sudden death
of Capt. Theodore L. Gilchrest of the SCH,
Abbie Dunn of Thomaston, a resident of St.
George The vessel has just arrived from
the West Indies.
The Rockland Opinion says; Mr.. Avery
T. Webb of Wsldoboro lost a heifer, last fall
and this winter it was discovered dead on a
spruce tree, where it had jumped from high
ledge above.
Everett Larrabee, young man IS years of
age, employed as lime stevedore at Rock
land, committed suicide by hanging himself
on tree in the woods near his home at
Rockville, Thursday afternoon, says the
Rockland Opinion. He helped stow lime in
one of A. F. Crockett & Co.'s vessels in the
forenoon, and appeared in good spirits. He
rode home at noon, and after dinner, at two
O'Clock left the house. He did not take his
overcoat, and when he had been gone an hour
search was made and his body found as stated.
He had taken halter from the barn for his
purpose. He had never shown signs of in
sanity, and no cause for the act is known.
PENoBsCoT.
Ben Haskell, who fraudulentlv published
himself to Miss Bertha Hodgedon last fall,
has come home from the woods and threatens
to shoot her because she refuses to marry
him. She pays his threat no attention, and
goes quietly to her work If such lamenta-
oiS taScuy ldhc place, Tue lcllOW
ought to swing for it, after making such open
talk.-LoweA Correspondence of DEXTER
Gazette.
Oxley, who caught and pitched on the
Queen City nine of Bangor. last season, has
signed with the Atlantas of Atlanta, Ga, for
the coming season.
SOMERSET.
The house, ell and stable, with all their
contents, on the farm of the late Joseph
Witham in Starks, were destroyed by fire
which caught from defective chimney FRI
day night. The buildings were occupied by
Mr.. Laforest Witham, a son and his aged
grandmother, and they were unable to save
only the clothes on their backs. Loss and
insurance not known. barn containing the
hav, grain and stock was saved.
The Kennebec Framing Co. of Fairfield
shut down their mill last week, and will re-
main shut down for number of weeks while
repairing.
WALDO.
Mr.. Langley of Lynn, Mass, proprietor of
Franklin Trotting Park, was in Thorndike
last week to negotiate for Waldo's favorite
stallion, Black Rock. His offer, although
made in the four figures, was refused. Black
Rock is now six years old, jet black in color
l6 hands high. weighs 100, and for beauty,
style, action, is hard to equal.
WASHINGTON.
The story recently published of the proba
BILE fraud upon the widow in Dennysville,
who received a dispatch announcing the
death of her son at sea and asking money to
send home the remains, has been supplement-
ed by facts proving the dispatch to have been
fraud. 1t has been learned that chum of
the young man. who knew where his mother
lived perpetrated the cruel hoax for the sake
of the money.
News was received Sunday evening of
washout on the Vanceboro branch of the
Maine Central near Forest. special train
was sent from Bangor to the scene.
The train men reported the railroad under
water in several places between Lewiston and
Skowhegan, Saturday.
Friction has been epidemic in the Maine
schools this winter, instead of measles Re-
ports of trouble continue to pour in. A Lew
iston Journal correspondent in a central
Maine town, writes: ''In one of our districts
politics entered into the election of an agent.
The democrats succeeded in electing II cir
man last spring. their object being to prevent
the employment of two teachers against whom
they had a grudge. Thereupon one of these
teachers was engaged to teach the free high
school The result was that nearly all the