Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-04-26
KNOX.

The Washington Congregational church
nave voted to place repairs upon that build
ing to the amount of $1,000
Fish Commissioner Counce last week for
oade the shipping of smets by the Knox &
Lincoln railroad and Supt. White ordered the
station agent at Thomaston not to receive
them. AT the same time, however. the ex
press company took the smelts and forwarded
them TO their destination. W. W. Barlow.
one of the smelt shippers here, made COM
plant to +. X. O'Brien of the action of Supt.
Whlte, and Mr.. O'Brien, as one of the direc.
tors OF the X. & l. road, wrote to Mr. White
that he thought he had exceed, d his authori-
ty in prohibiting the shipment of smelts. as
'here was no authority in law to prevent the
railroad from receiving them as freight
Roekiand Courte, Gazette.
FRANKLIN.
At a school meeting at New VINEYARD. the
district voted to raise $3.50 to put another
story on the school house, saws the Farming.
ton Chronicle
The sugar making season has been the best
known for several years. Several of the or
chards in Industry have produced 100 gallons
and upwards.
LINCOLN.
Mrs. Mason, arrested on the charge of kill
ing her son n-law. ID. c. Parker, at Rutland.
VT, was born in Wiscasset. and is 80 wears
old. Her husband, Henry T.. Mason. was A
years old when he died four wears ago. They
formerly lived at Gorham, N. H., where her
husband was locomotive engineer on the
Grand Trunk
deep religious interest prevails at Ando-
yer. Union meetings have been held with
the Methodist and Congregational churches.
from four to seven evenings a week since the
week of PRAYER.
A complimentary reception, concert and
ball will be rendered Governor Robie and
| staff, by the Norway Light Infantry, NAV llth
terrible accident occurred at Hanover,
Tuesday child of c. c. Billings, about
two and half years old, got too near an OK
team that Mr.. Billings was using. One of
the oxen knocked the child back towards the
wheel and jumped, making the wheel pass
over the child's stomach, causing injuries
from which it died in half an hour, saws the
Norway Advertiser.
PENoBscoT.
Tuesday, a litle son Of Solomon Millett.
of Lincoln, met his death in a singular way
by falling into a hole whence a large rock
had been removed. The hole filled with
"dtei, anu tHouRn IL WAS Uy no means deep
the little fellow drowned
PIsCATAoUIs.
Saturday, rock weighing POO pounds,
thrown by blast, went through the roof of
the kineo blacksmith shop and the floor into
the cellar. The blacksmith, mad Just stepped
from the forge to the iron rack to get a piece
of iron. otherwise the rock would have killed
him. A number of others were in the room,
but escaped, reports the Monson slate.
SAGADAHoC.
The Free Baptist church of Topsham,
through the active exertions of Rev. Mr..
Drew, pastor, has purchased the Humphrey
Mallett estate, next north of MIR. w. ID. Pur-
ington's house, for parsonage for that So
ciety. Rev. Mr.. Drew has been three wears
at Topsham and had already occupied four
different houses, according to the Brunswick
Telegraph.
A wooden abutment to one of the main
bridges in Fairfield is soon to be replaced by
stone structure at a cost of $1,000.
AT LARGE.
?. A. Freeman. jeweler, Biddeford, has
failed, with liabilities of about $1,000. He
offers his creditors 25 cents on dollar. A.
NJ. Fogg & Co. dealers in groceries, etc,
Hebron. have failed. They owe about $1,000.
w. H. Mcdonald, hotel keeper, Portland has
gone into insolvency. Boston Herald.