Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-12
SATURDAY EVENINGS NEWS
A Bald Knobber Found Guilty Wind
fall for Biddsfords Old Ladies' Home
Another Sensational Story of the
Dexter Bank Robbery:

/ Cardinal Gibbons visited Maiden. Mass.
! Saturday.
/ Another case of smuggling horses across
/ the line is reported at Houlton.
| Mr.. Fred G. Ellsworth, the eighth victim
of the Springfield fire died Saturday night.
| A Tuscan, Ari., despatch says that sever.
al American officials pursuing STEMS train
| robbers in Mexico were arrested and cast in
to prison.
| Five physicians have been working indus
triously since last Wednesday morning to
arouse F. W. Tibbs of Williamsburg n. Y,
from stupor or trance. All efforts to arouse
him have failed. He is sixty years old.
The New York Heralds special from
Washington says it is rumored that Blaine is
to run for governor of Maine, this summer.
and that the legislature will. after his cleo
tion choose him for Senator when Frye's
term expires in March, 1889.
The United States war ship Enterprise
mounting six guns, has arrived at Tangier
The captain demands the immediate release
of the Moor who is under American protec-
ton, aud demands satisfaction from the
Moorish government for the mans illegal
arrest.
Hon. Jonathan Sawyer, father of Gov,
Sawyer of New Hampshire, is dangerously
Ill of gastric fever. He became i'll Wednes-
day. His condition was most critical Sat
urday forenoon. He and his son are sole
owners of the Sawyer WOODEN mills.
The Old Ladies Home Association of Bid
dcford and Saco has just received from the
executors of the late Lylia A. Clapp of
Dorchester, Mass, $4,000, bequeathed by
her for the establishment of an old ladies
in Saco. \ public meeting has been called
for next TUESDAY. at which arrangements for
building will be made
The value of foreign exports from Port
land. for the week ending Saturday are: To
Buenos Ayres per brig Nellie Crosby, lum.
hcr, Sl4 ,27S; Cardenas per schooner Grace
Davis, hogsheads, 81, 1861 70; Liverpool,
per steamship Boston City, grain, flour, etc,
s33 ,o22 st. Louis, Africa, per brig Harry
stewart, miscellaneous cargo, $4,000.
Postmaster Pearson of New York has been
officially notified that AS a result of a
collision on the Union Pacific railroad at Col
ton, Nebraska an entire mail that was dis
patched from San Francisco for New York.
on the 2lst of February, was destroyed.
Many letters TO banks and bankers mailed on
that day and containing remit
tances in checks, drafts and coupons have
been reported missing.
The last Indictment found by the grand
jury of Franklin County, was made public
Saturday afternoon by the arraignment of
Mrs. Abbie }. llewey of Phillips, for the
crime of administering strychnine to her
husband, Charles Hewey, with intent to
kill She pleaded not guilty. The case is
assigned for trial next Friday.
The funeral services were held over the
remains of Emperor William in the mortuary
chamber in the palace, Friday evening. The
chamber was profusely decorated with flow
crs. The dowager Empress Augusta, Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden, the
Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden
and other royal personages attended the ser
vices.
Sheriff Mitchell arrived in Grcenville Sat
urday, and will go into the woods, towards
the keuncbec, to there attach the plant
of "A company of subcontractors, who have
not complied with the terms agreed upon be-
tween themselves and an Ottawa firm, in
the building of section of the Canadian Pa
ciiic road. The amount of property which
may be taken amounts to 1000, consist
ing of seventeen teams, rigging, tools, etc.
AT Springfield, Bill Walker, the chief of
'bald knobbers' gang, has been found gull
ty of murder in the first degree and sentenced
to be hanged for the crime of which he was
convicted. He was the murderer over
year ago, of Geo. Green and w. A. Edcns
two prominent farmers of Tanry county.
These men in some way had given offence
to the band of knobbers and Walker led an
assault on their houses. The crime was one
of the most blood thirsty that ever disgraced
the southwest.
There is much excitement on the St
Croix, owing to the report that the Canadian
Pacific will ask the next Legislature for
charter from Mattawamkeag to the shores of
the river with the view of making st. An
drews the sea terminus of the lines. There
is a sudden boom in real estate at St.Andrews
backed by a syndicate of Maine and Cana
dian capitalists, which would seem TO sub
stantiate the report.
The Boston Herald contained sensation
al article to the ctiecttha Cashier Barron
pre-arranged the Dexter Bank robbery and
had the assistance of Johnny Dobbs, and
Sam perris, Worcester Sam that the
p lrpose was to conceal his deficiencies and
embezzlements and that these men being
deceived AS to the amount of booty they were
to receive got angry, and Dobbs threw
Barron into the vault bound and gagged and
swung the doors to. The article also states
that young Stain gained his story from the
accounts of Jimmy Hopes trial at Bangor,
where he was tried and acquitted of the deed.