Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-10
SPARKS rRoM MAINn WIRES

The steamer Castine went ashore near
Fort Point. Friday morning, in the fog.
The Rev. Eilery II. Peck, pastor of the
Universalist church in bangor, lies very i'll
from a complication Of diseases. His death
10 expected 1t any moment.
Mr.. A. T. Neal Of Lewiston, has recently
refused an offer of $1,000 for his splendid
young stallion, Rolfe NJ, brother to Nelson.
Rolfe N. is one Of the beat stallions in the
State.
The Methodist camp meeting at East
MAchiss, closed after SIX days services,
Saturday morning. Twenty clergymen and
three thousand people attended, AMI excellent
order prevailed. The weather has been
pleasant and the results satisfactory.
David Deering. the veteran shipbuilder.
died Sunday night, aged 81. He built ves-
sells at South Edsecomb. Boothbay and Bath
and worked In the shipyArdiuntil he was SO
He was an'eye witness Fl the battles be-
tween the Enterprise aa1 Boxer, of Monhe-
gan, in the war Of Z
Ey HMu5t1 1t1f0nRge McAllister.
emplGyed At the canning factory Of Jennings
Brss., North Wayne. were fearfully scslded
Friday afternoon, BY his falling into tank
Of boiling water. He was arranging pull
ley over the tank. when the board on which
he stood broke. letting him into the water.
A barn and grist mill and a house occu-
pied by John Keene in the village of Pope
vile, about mile from South Windhan,,
were burned Monday morning The loss
will be about S2500, \ part of which will be
covered by insurance. The FIRE probably
started from the chimney and burned some
time before being discovered.
The Hon. Shu Cheon Pom, the first secre-
tary of the Chinese legation at Washington,
who has been visiting at the residence of
Mr.. +. II. Parkhurst in Bangor, left on the
Sunday evening train for New York. where
he will be Joined by the Hon. Chang, the
Chinese minister, and in his company will
visit ex-Secretary Bsyard at his home at
Wilmington, Del.
NJ. p. Pendleton, the bright young editor
of the Belfast Age, 10 to be married. Tues
day, September 10th, to Miss Inez Matthews
one Of Bangor's most charming young ladies
| The wedding is to take place in Bangor. af
ter which they will 90 on an extended
carriage drive through the State. The jour
nalists throughout Maine, will no doubt ex
tend to him their congratulations.
| Sunday night, attached to the regular Pull
man, Was a :ommodious dining and sleeping
palace car, starting from Bangor to Muncie
of natural gas fame, Indiana. They go fol
investment The party consists Of twenty
Eve. About twenty Of these are Bangor
men, the rest Houlton. They represent
about S550, 900 in wealth. l.. A. Barker
ESQ.,, of Bangor, was in the party. They
will arrive at their destination Wednesday.
| Detective Allen Of Bangor, went to Blsn.
chard Saturday, by'request Of the Bango
& Piscataquis officials, to investigate the rob
berry Of freight car at that place August
20. He arrested Alton Perkins OF Blanch
ard, and Frazier g. Grant Of Wellington
section men, and Monday they were arraigpet
before the municipal court Of Dover. Boil
pleaded guilty and were held by Judge Brow
in $500 bonds for trial at a higher court
Perkins has been in the employ Of the com
pany for several years.
Great excitement is felt in Kennebunl
over the ghoulish actions Of some miscre
ants, who have been disturbing graves in tn
cemetery there. Some of the mounds ha
been only slightly dug into as If by SOM
wild animal in search Of buried prey, Will
oihers, particularly the grave of the wife o
Hon. Joseph Titcomb, was penetrated to tn
coffin. In many cases the ghastly content
Of the sepuIchres we're disclosed to the hor
rifed vision Of the hundreds Of people VII
thronged the cemetery all day Sunday. Tn
excavations were plainly accomplished with
out any tools except stick, and. extensiv
- they we're, they must have required con
siderable time. II is evident that these out
RACES were committed by human hands
Many are inclined to believe it the work o
some insane person.