The Portland daily press., 1889-06-24
No One to Blame.

No One to Blame.
WATERvILLE, June 22.-The hearing be-
fore Coroner Carver and his jury upon the
Crowell brook accident was continued Fri
day. The jury visited the scene of the
wreck and made as thorough an examination
as possible of the culvert. The conclusion
reached was that the accident was caused by
the incapacity of the culvert to discharge the
water, which fell in so great quantities in
the space of an hour as to destroy the cul-
vert and undermine the bank and wash
away the bridge There was no evidence to
show that anyone was to blame for the dis
aster.
Drowned While Bathing.
LEWISTON, June pa son of Charles
Libby of South Auburn, aged 12 years, was
drowned in the river this afternoon, while
bathing.
Extinguished Forever.
CALAIS, June 22.-Mr. Henry Todd has
lost bis valuable colt, Luminary, by Lumps
This colt was bred in choice lines and was
valued at $4,000.
Fire at Union Mills.
CALAIS, June 22.-At nine o'clock Friday
night, the house of Albert French at Union
Mills caught fire and was destroyed. Loss
$1,000; insured.
Visited the Old Man.
CHERRYFIELD, June 23.-Schooner Walter
II. Hall of Jonesport, Woodward, Machias
for Boston with lumber. was towed into
Millbrldge, yesterday, full OF water. having
struck on the Old Man ledge off Prospect
Harbor. She will discharge and repair.
Sister to the Winthrop.
BATH, June %. There is much specula.
tion by shipmasters regarding the merits of
tine handsome steamer being built by the
New England Company for the Portland &
New York line, and the swift Winthrop
which was built here few years since for
the same line. Both vessels were designed
by William Potter. Baths veteran marine
architect, who is without rival in Maine.
and their machinery came from the same
shops. The Winthrop has established her
reputation as remarkably fast and able
boat, but there are some changes In the lines
OF the new craft which are expected TO give
her some advantage. Her bow is not quite
so full. while her run is very clean and easy.
Hence the speculation, but in any event 1t Is
safe to predict that good boat will. be
forthcoming: That it pays to do good work
was strikingly illustrated in the placing of
this steamers contract, for, though other
firms contested for the ship the Company
realized that it was dangerous to change
from the known to the unknown and the
boat came here.
A Detectives Methods. q
CALAIS, June 22.-Young Harry McIntee
and another boy were strongly suspected of
setting the st. Croix cotton mill on fire not
long ago, and were taken to the Office for ex-
animation, but nothing concerning the fire
could be ELECTED. There had been, previous
TO that time, several fires in proximity to the
mill, in buildings owned by the corporation.
For this reason, Mr. Dexter secured the ser
vi ces of Boston detective company to seek
out the incendiaries. The detectives meth
DDS are thus described by Midtown cores
pondent Of the Calais, Times, who says that
the man of law bribed young McIntee to at
tempt to fire the mills in order to secure his
arrest. The scheme worked we'll, and Me-
lntee was arrested as has been already re-
ported.
In Memory of Bowdoin's Brave.
BRUNSWICK, June 22.-During commence
ment exercises at Bowdoin College In the
Memorial Hall, there will be unveiled very
unique memorial which has been presented
by Gen. Thomas Hamlin Howard, A. NJ,
class of 1857, at present prominent lawyer
in New York, of the firm of Butler, Stillman
& Hubbard. He was native of Hallowell,
Me-, and went out as adjutant of the 25th
Maine Volunteers in 1862. The memorial
consists of series of brass tablets, nine in
number, mounted upon pevelled slabs of
native marble and surrounded by an open
tracery of metal work, through the inter-
stices of which can be seen other marble
upon plane parallel to, but farther back