Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-17
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.
Accident to . vassalboro Lady. Barn
BuTned.-vesssl Lost--House Bur
glartzed.

The Lincoln County Fair will come the |
2, 3, aud Ith Of October.
Miss Mary Hayward, the capable assistant
a, the Presque Isle National Bank, has the
typhoid fever.
The latest reports concerning the corr
crop in Maine, show the factories to be clos
ing up because no stock can be obtained.
| The barn of Augustus Tate in Stroudwa
ter. was burned Sunday with its contents
| The loss is estimated at $1,000. Insured fol
$500.
The total number of scholars in Cape
| Elizabeth. April lst, WAS 1852, and the s,hoo
money, 81, s,6l9 IA has been apportioned BY
the school committee.
Mr.. j B. Longs handsome Clyde yearling
| colt weighing 1925 lbs. attracted much atten.
ton at the State Fair. BY mistake he wa.
| entered in the wrong class otherwise he
would have taken the premium. He is a
perfect beauty.
A reward Of $50, half for the arrest and
conviction of the thieves, and half for the
-eturn of the stolen proI erty, has been Of
fered by the trustees of the GOrham fair
grounds and the selectmen Of the town OF
Gorham, for the persons who broke into the
hall on the fair grounds recently.
Another Bath vessel is reported lost in the
recent gale. Saturday evening George W.
johnson, managing owner of the schooner
James s. Lowell. received a telegram from
Capt. Powers Of the bark Havana, at Lewes,
Delaware, stating that the Lowell was lost
and the captain and one man were drowned.
Mrs. Prince Hopkins, an aged widow lady
living in North Vassalboro, fell down the
cellar stairs in her residence in that village
last week and was so seriously injured tina,
it is feared she will not live. Her sons,
Charles Hopkins of San Francisco, and Geo.
Hopkins of Boston, have been sent for.
Saturday morning last, when Mr.. II. B.
Brown, the Portland artist. who has been
away all summer, entered his house in tha,
city, he saw that a pane of glass had been
broken in front window. On going W
stairs he found the beds pulled open and
ripped apart, trunks and bureaus emptied
and clothes torn and scattered about.
Mackerel fishing has been very poor tt
date. A few mackerel were caught recently
| in Massachusetts, Bay, and the prevailing
opinion is that the storm will start the fisf
from the bottom and that some good haul
may be made later on. But the season.
catch is still failure, and it is doubtful il
the seiners can hold their crews togethei
much longer.
| We wonder. says the Aroostook Herald, i
the State Pathological Society has Learned
| yet that Aroostook soil can raise apples. L
not, their officers should have been at th,
fair last week. J. W. Dudley of Castl,
Hill, had plate of six Alexander apples
| weighing six pounds, one ounce. while A
NJ. Dudley of the same place, had plate o
the same variety weighing six pounds, on
and half ounces. Who can beat it?
Mr. E. W. Walker of Boston, has beel
visiting his wooden mill in North Vassalbor
and has expressed his pleasure al the i'm
proved condition of things. The mill i
running eighteen sets of cards and will short
Iy add four more. Black and blue trcot
and cheviots are being manufactured. Tn,
weavers receive nine dollars q week. Their
are one hundred and seventy employees an
the monthly pay roll is over $1,000.
A young man named Bert Perkins, o
Burnham. son of Benjamin Perkins, be
came violently insane Friday, and havin,
loaded shot gun nearly to the muzzle witt
powder and old scrap iron, discharged
through the floor of his chamber. Tn,
charge went tearing into the room below. bu
fortunately none Of the family happened t.
be in a position to receive any part Of il
He has been removed 20 the Insane Hos
pital.
/ A few days sgo Jacob Syvolous of Por,
land, was arrested on charge that he wa
about to leave the State. made by his land
lord, to whom he owed s. for rent. Satur
day Mrs. Syvolous. accompanied by her tw
children, left her seat in the gallery a, th'
Jewish synagogue, took her place betwee
the ark and altar, and demanded justice
The rabbi asked for what. She stated tn
fact of the arrest and said she and her chill
dren were suffering for bread and she ba
none to give them. The creditor refused t
release the debtor, and the congregation
will take care Of the wife and children o
the imprisoned man. This is the first tim
in Maine that anyone ever had to deman
justice during church services.