The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-01-03
SELECTED.
Maine Record for 1888

MAINE HeCOfu 1Of 1000
The following are among the principal
events that have taken place in Maine
during the year past
Jan. 9. Annual meeting of the Port
land Soldiers and Sailors Monument As
sociation. Costly fire in Rufus Durham )
block on Free street.
Jan. 10. Great excitement in Portland
and Western Maine over the Boston and
Maine accident at Bradford
Jan. II. Republican gubernatorial con-
test narrows down to three candidates
Edwin e. Burleigh, Henry b. Cleaves and
Sebastian S. Marble. State committee
decide to hold two conventions.
Jan -. Death OF Henry NJ Hart of
Deering, a victim of the Bradford acct
dent.
Jan. 81. Citizens Of Maine read of the
Billiards in the Northwest and South
west and feel satisfied with the Maine
winter.
Jan % Bangor banks agree to use
no more Canadian money
Jan. u. Frcnchman's hay frozen over
citizens Of Sullivan and Hancock take a
sleigh ride ON the ice.
Jan. p. Twenty-Gftl annu.l meeting
of the Maine Press Association
Jan. %. Maine gets Dakota blizzard.
Jan %. Edwin A. Wentworth killed
by his sou in a quarrel,
Feb. D. Winter meeting Of the Maine
Historical Society in Portland Opening
of the Grand Army eucampu ent in Port
land. Death of Colonel Thomas \ Rob
erte4
Fab. 10. Horace H. Burbank elected
commander of the Maine department Of
the Grand Army.
Feb Is. Mr.. Blaine's letter withdraw
ing himself from the Presidential race
creates excitement in the State. {. {.
Beal, OF Clinton poisoned by glass of
whisky containing strychnine,
Feb -. Bonds of the Saco Savings
Institution stolen by Frank MeNeally re
| turned.
Feb L. Two wooden mills and a GOV
cred bridge burned in South Windham.
Feb Is. Stain and Cromwell ind cted
by the Penobscot grand jury for murder
ing John Wilson Barron.
Feb. 20. The trial of Stain and Crom
well opened in Bangor
Feb. %. James A. Foster confesses to
robbng Peter Bennett of Newport.
Feb. "A. Clarence Whitney pleads
guilty to robhing Peter Bennett
Feb. IS. DR. George +. Weed of New
| port, arrested as one of the Bennett rob
| bers.
March 3. Stain and Cromwell found
guilty of numbering Barron.
March !. Mayor Chapman re elected
in Portland by over |, 900 majority. Fail
ure of the Winslow Packing company
| Republican mayor elected in Lewiston.
March Is. Camden has midnight fire
in the business part of the town, which
costs SGT, 900. Darius NJ. Warren of
Benton kills his children and himself.
March IL. Strike in the Bath ship
yards aycrtcd by an advance in wages.
March 10. Waterville's first city cleo
ton; Reuben Foster elected mayor by the
| Democrats.
March. Eldridge's sash and blind
factory burned in Dexter; loss SO 900.
April 2.-Strike of longshoremen in
Portland.
April 3. Final decision in the Coburn
viii case which ends all litigation.
April 6. Destructive fire among the
stores of Livermore Falls.
April 10. Costly fire in TarboX block,
Gardiner. Death of Hon. Jacob McLel-
Ian, of Portland.
April |. Conference Of Maine Meth
odlstS at Portland.
April Is. Charles l.. Beal convicted
of poisoning his father.
April 10 Fast Day in Maine: Edward
Chase murders Ida Stevens in Portland,
and attempts suicide. Business part OF
Monmouth in ashes.
April %. Congressman Milliken re-
nominated at Watervile
April 20. Republican State convention
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cago convention. denomination of Con
gresham Boutelle,
April 81 Congressman Dingley re-
nominated at Lewiston
May /. Arbor Day in the State. An
nual session of the Grand Lodge of Free
Masons at Portland
May 2. Congressman Reed nominated
at Portland.
May I. Strike in the Cabot mill at
Brunswick.
May 8. Bark S. C. Allen launched at
Bath.
MAY 9, Sixth annual encampment of
the Maine Sons of Veterans in Portland
William Remission murdered at North
Boothbay by Llewelln Quimby.
May IL. Death of Samuel ID. Warren,
owner of the Cumberland paper mills.
May ~. William Hopkins killed in
quarrel with James Getchell at Augusta.
May lG. Nolney b. Cushing nominated
for governor by the Prohbitionists at
Portland.
May 2l John A. Webster, SomcrSet's
oldest lawyer, killed by fall from a
bridge at South Norridgewock.
May %. William l.. Putnam nominated
for governor by the Democrats at Angus
Ia.
May %. Cumberland association of
Congregational ministers celebrates its
Tooth anniversary at Portland.
May 80. Memorial Day observed
throughout the State
June D. Death of Hon. A. p. Gould,
of Thomaston.
June 5. Annual convention of Maine
Episcopalians at Portland Maine Uni
yersalist convention at Lewiston.
June .. Jerry &. Sinclair killed in
mail car at Bangor.
June 10. -Four men drowned at Niual-
haven by the upsetting Of . boat.
June IL. Edwin c. Burleigh nomina-
ted for governor by the Republicans Al
Portland. Sixty-frst annual meeting of
the Maine Medical association.
June l3. State Unitarian conference
at Kennebunk.
June IA. Death of William NJ. Rust, of
Belfast.
June 81. Commencement at Orono.
June Is. Commencement at Bowdoin
and Bates. Centennial celebration at Or
rington.
July 3. Alexander NJ. Mckinney muir
dered at Elliotsylle.
July 10. Annual excursion of the
Maine commercial travellers.
July -, General George L. Beal ap-
pointed commissioner of the treasury
General Charles Hamlin appointed report
er Of. decisions. Portland and Ogdens-
burg railroad leased to the Maine Cent.
raj.
July II. Diphtheria breaks out at the
insane hospital.
July &c. Death of Hon. |. s. Kimball,
Nestor of the York bar.
July 81. Chautauqua assembly at Frye
burg,
Aug. l. Democratic barbecue at Ban
gor. Three shocks of earthquake felt at
Biddeford.
Aug. 4. John Lahey fatally stabbed in
Lewiston.
Aug. IA. Mr.. Blaine welcomed home
again; q large reception in his honor at
Augusta. Annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows at Portland. State
muster at Augusta.
Aug. 10, Mr.. Blaine opens the Maine
campaign at Portland.