Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-02-01
ANDROsCoGGIN.

CANE OF CHECKERs-TRIED TO BURN OUT
A CARTRIDGE-SEvERE ACCIDENTS.
ANDRoscoGGIN.
The citizens committee who have been al
work in behalf of the Auburn schools report
much success Thursday they sent out by
each pupil. slips inquiring how much the pa
rents will give for the continuance of the
schools. The pupils returned 5000, Friday
Accordingly the primary schools, which
were to close on Friday, will start again
Monday.
ARoOsTooK.
| On Wednesday, Jan. goth, Mr.. Geo. C
Jameson of Letter B. plantation, while a
work in the woods, was struck by falling
tree, which caused his death on the Sunday
following. He never spoke after the accident
Thirty years ago Mr.. Jameson kept hote
in HouIton- He was 81 years of age.
HANCOCK.
petition is being widely circulated in
Maine, among people interested in shipping
general transportation and business, asking
the Government to establish light house a,
Crabtree's Neck, Frenchman's Bay. Since
the Maine Central Railroad has extended its
line to Hancock and diverted Bar Harbor
travel in that direc ion, light at tie point
mentioned has become especially necessary.
as half dozen steamers now ply in the vi
cinitv and thousands of people cross the bay
to Mt. Desert.
The Mt. Desert Herald says that silver
ware that proved to have been stolen over a
year ago from the Humbert family at Bal
Harbor was recently found hidden under a
tree in the Young district. 1t was restored
to its owners by Mr.. Geo B. Mitchell, whose
children discovered it.
In the Court of Insolvency, at East Cam
bridge, Mass, DR. Gilman Colby, who pub
lished paper (Tourist) at Bar Harbor, las,
summer, petitiOned to become insovent. The
first hearing of his creditors. who are numPr.
Gus, was given Thursday morning. The
amount of his liabilities is S2.754.54, and as
sets $3S 50.-Portland Argus.
LINCOLN.
Wednesday evening the store and cook
house in connection with MerrilPs ice privi.
lege at North Edgecomb, was destroyed by
fire. A great many stores, and clothing be-
longing to the workmen, were in the build
ing at the time. 1t is believed that an over
heated stove was the cause of the fire. II
had been left but short time when flames
were seen issuing from the roof, and before
it could be checked the building was wrapped
in flames. The building and contents are q
serious loss, says a special to the Portland
Press.
The Norway Advertiser says not a tene.
ment or suit of rooms can be obtained in Nor.
way village at any price. All the houses
now in process of erection were rented be.
fore the foundations were laid. number
will be built in the spring, but careful inquiry
shows them all rented.
Messrs. Thayer Brothers and A. T. Maxim
are arranging to hold horse breeders ex.
change, at South Paris. the first week in
March. Much interest has been aroused in
the matter, and sufficient number of horses
to secure the success of the enterprise en-
gagged. 1t is not intended as an auction sale
but simply means of bringing buyers and
sellers together.
PENOBsCOT.
snow slide which did much damage oc-
Cured at the First Baptist church in Bangor
in the late storm, where body of snow on
the roof of the adjoining chapel started and
went directly down through the church win.
dows into the audience room of the edfce
twenty lights of the handsome stained glass,
some of them being quite large, were broken,
| and 1t took over an hour to carry the snow
out of the church.
novel game Of checkers is to be played in
Bangor this (Monday) evening The board
will be eighteen feet square, and the checkers
will be represented by twelve young ladies
upon one side and twelve Young gentlemen
upon the other Whig.
PIsCATAoUIs.
Mr.. George Nj. Durham, one of the best
known and most respected citizens of Fox
craft, died very suddenly on the 27th inst. of
heart disease. He was one of the pioneer
settlers of this region. He was the father of
eight children, five of whom are now living.
He was in his Saith year. He had been in
poor health for the past month.
A young man by the name of Chas. Doug
lass. who is in the employ of Bailey & Parker
at their mill at Milo, met with a severe acct
dent on the night of January 24th, which
will render him unfit to labor for long time
to come. By some means, while at work
near saw in motion, his arm was thrown
upon it, the saw striking it lengthwise, cut
ting cash to the bone and about nine inches
in length.
SOMERSET
II. S. Wheeler of Canaan, CHANGED to find
cartridge shell in his shop, the other even
ing, says the Pitt,feld Advertiser, and wish
ing to use it, thinking it empty, held it over
an alcohol lamp to burn out the birthstone in
the shell. terrific explosion followed,
blowing the lamp into atoms, decorating Mr..
WIS face and hands, tearing the flesh off
freely.
WASHINGTON.
The sanitary station at Vanceboro was or
dered closed last Thursday.