The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-01-06
MAINE.
Fatal Accident at orr,s lsIand.
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ORR's ISLAND. January 3.-Mr. Henry
Orr, while on hay NOW, accidentally
slipped and fell to the floor, about eight feet.
He was found unconscious and remained so
till within few hours before his death. He
died at 2 o'clock this morning. The funeral
will be held at p m. Sunday, Rev. B. M.
Edwards to officiate. Mr.. Orr was highly
respected wherever known and will be very
much missed by the people on this island.
y A Bath Schooner-Not a Steamer.
BATH, January Arthur Sewall re-
ceived dispatch Friday evening from San
Francisco, that the schooner Douglass
Dearborn of this city, Capt. Welch, had been
seen bottom up north of Columbia River
She was bound for Philadelphia from Port
Blakeley, with a cargo of boards She sailed
the 5th OF December.
Mr.. Arthur Sewall said he did not see how
she could have turned over, but thought it
looked bad. The Dearborn is owned by A.
Sewall & Co., and others of this city, was
brand new vessel, built in January, 1889;
and four-master of OFT tons net This was
the first cargo of boards ever shipped from
Port Blakely for Philadelphia by schoon-
er.
This is the vessel reported as a steamer in
the despatch from San Francisco, printed
Saturday morning.
Murder in Lewiston.
LEWISTON. January 4.-John McWilliams
residing on Lincoln street, Lewiston, who
has been sick several days. became insane
today. Officers attempted to arrest him, but
ha mad int fha md
an axe cut open the head Of his wife, killing
her instantly. She was % years old eand
leaves one child. McWiliams has been cap.
tured and a coroner's jury is examining
the case. McWilliams, when seen at the
station late this afternoon, appeared to be
in somewat dazed condition, but he talked
nationally enough. He admitted the killing
of his wife and said that the murder was
committed just before noon. He would give
no reason for the act, however.
York County offenders.
BIDDEFoRD. January 4.-The January
term of the Supreme Judicial Court which
opens in Saco Tuesday morning, promises
to be an unusual busy one, both ir the civil
| and criminal line.
The criminal docket contains So entries of
indictments continued from previous terms,
but less than half of them will be brought to
trial, for 81 of the parties whose names are
| mentioned in the list are either out of the
State or dead. Two over whose heads liq-
our indictments were hanging have died
since the May term of court.
Perhags the most important of the crimi-
nal cases on the continued docket is that of
| the State VS.. Boston & Maine railroad, for
| violation of the law prohibiting the trans
| portation Of cattle and calves in the same
undivided car.
Black Diphtheria at Leeds.
WINTHROP, January Another death
| from black diphtheria occurred in the Borne
man family at Leeds, making three deaths
this weeks. Two other children cannot pos
sibly recover There is great difficulty in
| procuring assistance to care for the sick and
bury the dead. The attending physician
states the disease was not brought by the
| child who died at Lawrence and was in
| TERED at Monmouth, but by household goods
and clothes brought from the home where
the child died. The authorities have been
| very negligent to prevent the spread of the
contagion, and no cases are reported yet out-
| side this family.
Need for Mo re Law.
FRIENDSHIP, January 4.-Henly s. Page
chairman of the local health board, has
issued the following statement relative to
the exposed case of barbarity at Edgecomb
| He says:
Diligent search has SO far failed to find any
law that VIII reach either man or his sons in q
criminal action One or two courses might have
been taken; the selectmen have a right to
| Ger, who would have power to call in the State
| BOARD Of Health This they positively refuse 10
do. saying they "are afraid, If they do the girl
| viii become town CHARGE"
EImbrook Owned by Syndicate.
BELFAST, January A syndicate has
been organized at Belfast and the stallion
Elmbrook purchased. He will be kept here
in the stud. There are nine shareholders,
16 shares, capital stock $4,000. The shares
| are all taken.
| Killed by a Failing Tree.
| MAcHIAs, January 4. Freeman Barry at
East Machias, Friday, cutting firewood, was
telling tree. His son Darrell, eight years
DID, came towards him and the tree fell on
the boy, killing him instantly.
Caught in the act.
| BIDDEFoRD, January 5.--0fficers at 2
o'clock this morning captured Henry Cou.
ture in the act of breaking into John b.
Hamelin's clothing store on Main street.
The prisoner is an old offender. He will be
tried tomorrow morning
Della Nash's Mysterious Death.
AUBURN, January 4.-OtiS Holt, father of
Della o. Nash of East Auburn, who died
four weeks ago, claims there is a mystery
about her death. The body is to be exhumed
and nm Investigation made