The Portland daily press., 1886-07-16
THE STATE.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.


Geo. E. Dame, Esq, of Boston, superin-
tendent of the railway mail service, New
England division, and his chief clerk, Mr.. j.
f. Jefferds, of Portland, were in Presque
Isle Tuesday evening, to investigate the
claim made for railway postal service on the
junction.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
Lewiston is to vote on July Goth on the
question of closing the city liquor agency.
The issuance of warrant for special
meeting has been ordered by the city govern
ment.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The Hancock County Medical Association
held its first annual session at Bar Harbor
Tuesday. DR.. L. w. Hodgkins of Ellsworth
was elected president for the ensuing year,
DR.. Patten vice president, DR.. G. A. Phillips
secretary, and DR.. A. G. King treasurer.
KNOX COUNTY.
Last Tuesday, as the afternoon train from
Rockland reached the bridge over Mill Greek
at ThOmaston, great shock was felt by all
ON board, and it was discovered that the
train had struck an obstruction in the shape
of an iron rail which had been placed on the
track. If the train had been derailed it
must have gone down an embankment 80 to
40 feet high, with the river at the bottom.
A similar attempt was made recently in the
same place. ssAlA
OXFORD COUNTY. as
Hon. James w. Bradbury of Augusta has
made handsome present to the library of
Parsonsfeld, his native town, of one hun
bred and two volumes of books, such as cy-
clopedias, histories, etc., suitable for all
classes.
Reports from Oxford county state that
there was widespread frost on low ground
Tuesday morning, which damaged crops con-
siderably.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The Somerset Reporter says that the re-
moval of Postmaster Pease Of North Arson
and the appointment of Mr.: Steward, who
was candidate for the position when Mr.
Pease was appointed, is a poser to some of
the Democrats in North Arson. They saw
it is exceedingly difficult to get a Republican
official removed, but the administration
gives good Democrat hardly time to get his
seat warmed before he is ousted.
Thomas f. French of Hartland had his
leg cut completely off just above the ankle
bya moving machine, Monday last. While
driving the machine he stepped off, and
through miscalculations did not get outside
the range of the cutter bar. 1t struck him
when the team was going very rapidly.
The drives in the Kennebec are getting
are some 100 men employed, the larger part
Of them on the rear, which is not far from
Scion. The others are scattered along the
river. The lifting of the gates at the Lake
each day gives rise of water daily along
the river 1t reaches Skowhegan in the
night or very early in the morning. This
requires the drivers there to get at work
about o'clock in the morning on the
Bloomfield Grayels" three miles below the
bridge.
Diphtheria is abating at East Madison.
The disease has ragged in that village for
lbout two months.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The circumstances attending the death of
Conductor Burpee's little child at Vancebo-
%, last week, were unusually painful The
title one bled to death as result of the
opening Of small boil by the attending doc |
or, who cut small artery in the operation |
authorities decide that the sore did not need |
ancing and it appears to be a case of STUPID |
1t seems that after the wound had |