Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-07
State News.
ANDRoscoGGs

Fre0ch Canadian in the employ of Ben;
fhorne of Lewiston. as farIu-bsnd ws.
leading out NJ. Thorne's two-year-old Jar.ax
DULL, Monday, by stick attached TO a r;po
IN the animals nose. when the bull maae
such violent push that the stick was pullea
from the mans hands He caught the bull'.
lowered horns as he came at him and thew
passed one either side of his body. pinionios
tie man against the side of the barn. Tbs
ouii then pushed the man fairly through the
side of the barn.
Two men we're arrested on suspicion of
breaking into Covell's harness shop. in Lew.
sIon, on the night of October 3 Eighteen
dollars we're taken from the safe.
All of the teachers of the ci,y schools nj
auburn have Joined the Chautauqua Teach.
ers Reading Union, department of the
Chautauqua University.
ARoosrooK.
Angus Campbell. aged so years. a native
OF Nova Scotia, was found dead. Sunday.
Oct. Sd, in barn. one mile east OF Houlton
village He had evidently been dead a week.
Inc coroner decided that an inquest was un-
necessary. He was buried at the expense of
the town.
CUMBERLAND.
The town of Cape Elizabeth has called in
all Its outstanding town orders. and will nav
them on presentation to the treasurer.
PENoBscor.
Higgins, the jockey who was 80 terribly
injured at the New England Fair during a
hurdle race, and who is now at the Bangor
aims house, may possibly recover his reason.
so the physicians state, but at present il is
rather doubtful He has lain in an uncon-
scious condition for over a month with little
Improvement. At times he can remember the
name of Mr.. Ware, the owner of the horses
which he rode, and is able quite often to dis
tlnguish his nurse from other persons in the
room He can remember nothing about his
riding however. His accident produced con-
cussion of the brain -Bangor Whiq.
Brakeman Frank B Peavy had his thumb
damned off while Stacking cars on the Still
water branch Tuesday.
The Boston Bangor Steamship Company
are erecting 1000 ton ce-house in Bangor.
Sept. 18th man from New Brunswick by
the name of John Mclaughlin, who worked
around the Midway House at Midway, fell
down stairs and received injuries from which
he died the Sd of October.
Inc house of James Twynham of Waltbam
was burned Oct 4th. The fire caught from
a lantern that exploded in the stable. Loss
1920; insurance 5000.
SAGADAHoC.
Some thirty first class Bath mechanics are
going to Detroit, Mich, to work in the shin
yard. The men will get 50 80 day and their
fare paid to Detroit.
WALDO
In opening the roof of a Belfast residence
for the purpose of re-shngling, a swarm of
bees was found inside
Some twenty rods of the road from Belfast
to Freedom, in the town of Montville, is in a
settling condition, having originally been
built across a bog.
BY the new departure in the route of the
Western Union, Searsport citizen, who
already has tive telegraph poles, together
with reservoir and lamp post. in his door
yard. will have the number of poles aug.
mented to four. He now only signs for a
guide board Belfast Press
The farmers of Montville are raising a
great many head of fine beef cattle for mar
ket.
LIBERTY. Our correspondent writes, Oct.
o: The citizens of this place met last evening
and chose the following officers of tempo
rary organization empowered to construct a
telegraph line from this village to Belfast :
President, j. j. Walker; Vice President f.
a oitSi oftTetdrN, geo. r. hunt; Treas
urer, l. c Morse; Superintendent, G. II.
Carglll; Building Committee, J. J. Walker,
6. H. Cargill. W. ii. Hunt, A. A Brown, l..
G. Morse. 1t is expected the line will be
open for business in the course of few
weeks.
WASHINGTON
A Machiasport man while out hunting dis
covered very large deer hung by the horns
to the limb of a tree the limb was too large
to be broken, and having no knife with him,
he found sharp stone and with it succeeded
in severing the limb from tbs tree, and set
the captive Tree.
YORK
The Biddeford Journal says: William
Greaves, the Englishman who met with an
accident on the Pepperell that deprived him
of his right arm several weeks ago, has so far
recovered from his injury as to be able to
start for his home in Oldham, Eng During
part of the time he was laid up he suffered
terribly from idiopathic lockjaw. His teeth
were pressed tightly together, and for four
weeks and three days he did not take parti-
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