Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-10-05
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.
smusgler causht-Italian's Camp Burn
ed Over Their asads-Other Happen.
ings About the State.

Wallace liodgdOn 10 contemplating starting
4 quarry at the Centre, fremont, this winter
The name of post office in Aroostool
county has been changed from Cary TO North
Amity.
The commissioners of Washington county
have recently been making tour of the
roads in unincorporated places.
Gov. Burleigh has appointed Llewellyn
Norton, Esq, of Industry, fish and game
warden. good appOintment.-Fa Farming
ton Chronicle.
Insurance men have been inspecting
Skowhegan's water works and there will be
a reduction in the rates of insurance from
to 20 per cent.
John Richardson gunsmith and lock-
smith in Skowhegan, dropped dead from
heart disease, Thursday, while sitting in
his shop near the Coburn House.
Howard & Greene of BluehiIl, have taken
the contract to furnish the stone trimmin q
for the Williams bridge gate house, New
York, and have about 20 men employed
The four DeLaittre brothers, sons of Mrs.
Sally DeLattre of Ellsworth. casually me,
in Minneapolis, the other day and dined to-
gether--the first meal they have eaten to-
Betner. Ior twenty years.
Ike Weir, the Belfast Spider" finds lei
sure to come to Biideford and spar before
Sl5 audiences and then refuses an offer OF
the California athletic club to engage in a
glove fight for $1,000 with Australian =
Murphy.
Rev. A. Dunn, ID. D., pastor of Free
St. Baptist church Portland has accepted the
position of secretary Of the Maine Baptist
convention. He will probably make his
home in Waterville although the headquar-
ters have always been at Augusta.
The mail wagon of Capt. Mark W. Hodg-
don and part Of his harness were taken from
his barn at the Center, fremont, one night
recently, and he has not been able to find
any clue to the perpetrators of the deed or
the whereabouts of his wagon.
Fred Bunker. a Franklin farmer, dug a
well under his farm IA feet deep and then
drove crowbar down 8 feet and force of
water came up which wore 4 hole as large as
a bucket in few hours and he now has about
feet of good ws,e. all the year, wet or dry
season.
1t 10 very likely that before another veal
Waterville will have another hotel. Parties
have offered to pay rental equal to six per
cent on $50. 900 for hotel on Main street
and the prcprietors of one piece Of real
estate are considering the question of laying
the foundation of block this fall that EN-
braces hotel in the three upper stories and
three stores on the ground floor.
The Brideton News says; Just now Aroos-
took is wonderfully "enthused" over two
topics Of very great interest-the Through
line" and the famous potato.digger, which,
costing but $25 enables one man with q pair
of horses to take from the ground and house
in the cellar, two hundred and fifty bushels
of potatoes in single day, and in a coun.
try where from four to Eve hundred bushel.
of potatoes to the acre il 10 not an uncom.
mon thing.
up to the Custom House in Calais. Thursday
and paid the duties on ten barrels of pota
toes and was about TO drive off when Custom
House Officer McNichol became suspicious
and decided to look into the barrels con
taining the potatoes and he found Iargs
crock Of butter. Officer McNichol imme
potatoes and butter and drove them all t.
NJ. Cones livery stable where the horse,
we're put up.
Three Italians who are employed by ths
contractors that are building the d. & P
railroad, have been occupying . camp nea
the Case place, says the Pisca'aquis Observer
They say men came to their camp recently
knocked at the door and demanded admit
tance. When asked what they wanted, the,
replied that they were after money, and if
was not forthcoming they would kill th
Italisns. The door vas not opened to them
and they fred two shots into the camp. aite
which they set FIRE to the roof. and then fire,
three more shots, after which they fed Tn
Italians say their clothes and everything ths
vas in the camp vas burned. and they them
selves narrowly escaped from the flames.