Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-03-05
State News.
ANDRoscoGGIr.

A prisoner named Blackman in i.i, fo,
four months from Lewiston for selling liouo,
has escaped from Jail. He possessed bimseli
IN some way of the key to the furnace room
got into the coal bin. pushed his way OUT Of
the coal hole. and thus to liberty.-yournal
| The exact foetings of the money expended
last year by Custer Post of Lewiston in 70.
Lief OF the deserving poor, was ss67.O5.
ARoosrooK.
On the Big Machias, Aroostook county
there are l4S horses and 4 oxen bu.v in ~.
woods, using up a ton of hay and i5O bush.
els OF oats daily. These teams will hanl
about ten million feet of logs.
CUMBERLAND.
The steamer City of Richmond, of the
Portland, Bangor. Mt. Desert and Machia,
line, will resume her trips between Portland
and Machiasport and intermediate landings,
March 18th. making one trip per week be.
tween those points until April I'd, when she
Will begin making two trips per week.
One of the incidents of the late storm wa,
that of the scholars of Cape Elizabeth High
School, located one and one-half miles from
Portland, together with their teachers and the
committee, getting snow bound for twenty-six
hours in the school building. The usual
variety of eatabes obtainable in village
grocery-crackers and cheese with a good
supply OF fruit-were provided.
John Foster of East Gray, dropped dead
Friday, while shovelling snow. He was ~
years old. The cause of hi. death is sup
posed to have been heart disease
Walter r. Little6eld, aged 70 years, was
found dead in his chair in his room at Port
land, Wednesday morning. 1t is supposed
that he died soon after returning home Tues
day night. He was leading temperance
advocate.
A fishing schooner which came in to Port
land, Saturday, reports that when on the fish
ing grounds Thursday a man left the vessel
in dory to pick up travis and the storm
coming on suddenly with gusts of snow blew
him to leeward, and the weather became 80
thick he could not fiad his way back to the
vessel. The schooner tackled and run back
and forth for two hours in endeavoring to
pick him up and finally discovered and took
him on board in an almost exhausted condi-
ton.
The schooner Emperor, of and from Port
land, bound for Boothbay, went ashore on
Heron Island Tuesday night. and is total
loss. The crew are safe, but badly frostbit-
ten. The vessel is 1912 tons, and was built
in Damariscotta in 1870.
Prof. j. B. Sewall, of Bowdon Chapter
Aloha Delta Phi, has been chosen vice presi-
dent of the New England Graduate Associa-
ton.
Mr.. Alfonso Wright. living in the south
part of Mt. Vernon, lost his house by fire
Thursday afternoon. Loss, 5000; insured
S240. The house was occupied by Mr.
Grant. but the family was away and had not
been in the house for two days Mr. Grant
lost all his furniture and household goods.
PENoBsCoT.
There was . narrow escape from another
fatal accident at the Maine Central depot,
Wednesday noon, says the Bangor Wing A
little Jew fruit vender, we'll known about the
city, in attempting to jump from a train fell
under car just behind the forward trucks.
The rear trucks came up in a second, but
fortunately the young fellow kicked when he
struck the track and happened to hit one of
the wheels and it forced him outside the rail
Men who saw the occurrence said that the
wheel passed within one-half inch of his
body.
PIsCATAQUIS.
The District Convention of Y NJ. C. As.
socations of the eastern part of Maine, which
was to have been held in Foxcroft on the 9Th
and 7th inst, has been postponed until the
Goth and 2lst of the month, owing to the eff
fects of the recent severe snow storm which
has blockaded the roads in that part of the
State.
SAGADAHOC.
The sad news was received in Bowdoin-
ham, recently, that Robert Butterfield for
merly of that place, had just died in Dover,
CAL, of consumption.