Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-07-06
State News.
CUMBERLAND.
business.


of Latin in Bowdoin College for the ensuing
year have elected Mr.. Ernest NJ. Pease, A.
NJ. Mr.. Pease is a graduate of the Universi
ty of Colorado.
Commencement exercises at Bridgton Aca-
deny will occur Thursday, July 8th. Rev.
Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, a late missionary. and
founder of Robert College at Constantine
pie, will be present at the meeting of the
alumni association.
Frederick s. Allen of Portland whose ar
rest has been announced was arraigned in
the police court in New York, Saturday, on a
charge of swindllng preferred by c. III. Rob-
inson & Co of Portland In view of the ac-
ton of Judge Barrett in the johnson Schock
case and his severe remarks regarding arrests
of alleged criminals bv the police on tee-
graphic dispatches alone, the police magls-
trate discharged Allen.
HANcocK
Sch. Snowsquall, Capt. Cushing has arrived
at Bucksport with scuppers loaded TO the
water with fish. She lost her foremost head
below the eyes of the rigging, about month
ago, a d also a man, Morris McInnis is miss
ing, lost in the fog while out in dory.
Mclnnis is supposed to be all right as Nova
Scotia vessel is reported to have picked up a
man at that time answering to the descrip-
ton of Mclnnis The same day or the next,
Capt. Gushing picked up Nova Scotia man,
also lost in a dory, and shipped him in place
of McInnis and brought HIM home in the
vessel
Benjamin +. Palmer of Thomaston. a
quarryman. was blown up Friday by pre-
mature discharge of blast and it is feared is
fatally injured.
The dwellings on Squirrel Island are fast
filling mp.
The Southport Soldiers Monument is in
position, and was dedicated Saturday after
noon. Interesting exercises were held includ-
ing an address by Frank Miller, ESQ of
Waldoboro.
The mail over the new route from Damar-
iscotts to So Bristol commenced July LIST.
1t connects at Wslpole with the Round Pond
stage, morning and evening.
The suit of the town of Nobeboro against
Wiscasset. known as the Barter case has
been finally disposed of by the Law Court.
overruling the exceptions of the plaintiff
town, and sustaining the verdict which was
rendered at the last October term in favor of
the town of Wiscasset.
GENOBSCOT.
A house in Brewer burned Friday night.
1t was owned by Mr.. Gilbert and occupied
by Mr. Blair, known as the Bernard Place. -
Insured for 5000.
Friday noon, Mr.. Joel Merrill Of Edding-
ton. over seventy years of age, started on a
fishing trip and, to the alarm of his friends,
did not return at night. Saturday morning a
large company of men started in search of
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accident.
Between twelve and one o'clock Saturday
morning a barn situated on Essex ST., in
Bangor, and owned BY Charles Clark, was
burned. 1t contained 20 tons or more of hav
and all was quickly consumed, The loss is
about 81 200 and there is no insurance 1t
was probably the work of an inceudiary.
The fellow who broke into +. w. Perigo's
store at Milo junction. short time since and
was committed to the Jail in Bangor until the
criminal term of court next fall in Piscata-
quis county, attempted an escape Saturday
by slidiug from one of the upper stories of
the workshop down through long, narrow
shoot used to dispose of refuse matter. He
landed in the fire room of the shop and took
to his heels, but in spite of his efforts was
recsptured near Morses mills.
SAGADAHoc.
The Richmond Bee says: A good story is
told of chap who voted against every meas
ure proposed at the water meeting of last
Monday, under the impression that the town
was about to appropriate two thousand dol
lars year for fireworks.
SOMERSET.
j. S. Martin, single manufacturer, st.
Adams, Me-, has failed Boston Herald.
A correspondent of the Pittsfeld Advertis-
er thinks larger number of tons of hay are
cut in the thirty miles on the Sebasticook
river between Newport and its mouth al old
Fort Halifax on the Kennebec than can be