Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-09
ALL OVER THE STATE.

The Orono shoe factory is obliged to run
evenings to keep up with its orders. and con-
tinues to do very large business.
An Odtown man has great curiosity in
the shape of two fresh-water Holsters taken
from Chamberlain Lake.
The Portland Company has nearly com
pleted the ten large steel tanks for the Cum
berland Mills Pulp Company. Each tank
is eight by twenty feet square and will hold
10 900 gallons of liquor used for the pulp.
Obed Emery, prominent citizen of Bid
deford died suddenly of heart disease last
night, aged 81 years. He was a constable
for several years and had served in the CITY
government. He leaves a widow and one
daughter.
Application to the Legislature will be made
this winter for an amendment to the act in
cooperating the Northern Maine Railroad Co.
allowing the company to issue bonds, the
clause giving this privilege being omitted
from the act
The first engine that ever crossed the Pen
obscot river above Oldtown passed safely
over the Canadian Pacific Railway bridge at
Mattawamkeag, last Friday afternoon.
Quite a number of people assembled to wit
ness that important event. This completes
and Mattawamkeag.
The Northern Maine railroad surveying
party under Chief Engineer Danforth will,
if the weather permits, reach Houlton, and
commence on the line between that town and
Pressure Isle this week. After completing
the survey to that place, the engineer will
survey another line from Houlton 10 Ban
croft.
Over $4,000 has been paid to the en-
ployes at the Penobscot Boom during the
summer They have been kept busy during
the season handling the great quantity of logs
which has come into the boom. The crews
have been large and have found plenty to do.
The cut of logs was an unusually large one
this season.
The farm buildings in Freeman, owned
and occupied by G.. V. Starbird, were burned
Saturday morning, together with hay, farm
ing tools and hundred bushels of oats.
Part of the contents of the house was saved.
| The cause of the fire was not learned.
| Loss about 81 500; insured for 500
The Franklin Canning Company of Port
| land have Just finished the erection of a
large canning establishment in Strong. The
main factory is l50x30 feet, and is conven
iently located alongside the railroad track
The building containing the cut room, boiler
house and bath rooms occupy another build
ing l40 feet long,
Following is a statement of the earning:
of the Knox & Lincoln railroad fer th'
months of June and July of this year The
| gross earnings of the road for June were
Sl2 80. 46 against SIP, $685. for June o.
1887; for July sl4 ,3l4.97 against SlS,5I6.0'
for the corresponding month of last year
The gross earnings for the ten months of
1855 show an increase of S2,s96.63 over the
corresponding ten months of 1887.
The Indians of the Penobscot tribe elected
their Governor, Lieutenant Governor ans
Representative to the Legislature last Tues
day. They have two parties which agree t
alternate each year, called the old and new
party. This year the old party held position
and elected for Governor Saul Neptune; TO
Lieutenant Governor, Sebattis Dana; 70
Repres entative to Legislature, Joseph Nee
la, who ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS votes, his oppoo
nent, Joe NJ. Sockalexis, receiving eighteen
The Maine and New Hampshire Grant,
Companv have contracted to furnish tn
stone for three stories of the new twelv
story building to be erected at Minneapolis
Mimi. by the Northwestern Guarantee Loa
and Trust Company. The Granite will b
, | cut and carved at the quarry at hattteshak
Mountain in North Conway, n. II. Tn
: contract is large amounting to over Sl50,0ot
and is to be completed before August lsss
This company will furnish the pedestal o
the soldiers monument, Portland.
President Fernald of the Maine Stat
4 College. who, for twenty years has mad
1 regular meteorological observations at Orr
: no, says that the rainfall during August an
September just passed has been II SO inche'
of which 4.59 inches fell in the forms
month aud 697 in the latter. The averas
rain fall for twenty years has been $50 il
! ches in August and ~ inches IN Septen
It Der. The range for August has been fro
a SO inches in 1882 to 7.36 in 1855. and fl
=, September from So inches in 1857 to 6.9I
1855. The heaviest rainfall in any sing
month in two decades the president has MAJ
l. observations was October, 1868. when ~
inches fell.