Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-10

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The Levissos Journal, in its reference 10
the suicide II sse lookup last Suadxy morn
ing. says. Kate Hodges. whose rarne vas
% the record books Of macy rumpHs in
rhis city, has found the end Of ilie in the
strings of her spro5. and vss discovered
hanging to the bars Of cell in the Water
vile city prison Sunday morning. stone
dead. Nobody. familiar With the ways Of
the courts in Lewiston could veil have been
unfamiliar With the face and presence Of
Kate IL 5sges uho Afterwards msrris,; Mike
Msbaney. After years of resii.ei es in tie
bse. ~ places of Blesehery Hill, she re-
moved to Water street In Le~js;on. ard
betrsen search and seizures and local dis
tusbances she became no less oeiru-
sive IS the years went by. In her eslner
mamehts and ~hen quite herself she vas
agreeable. or ierly. kindly ard. as she used
to express IL decent woman" She once
uled .aicide by drowning and once BY
throwing herself in from; of the wheels of
train. She left Lewiston with her husband
once or twice and returned. Her last de-
psr.ure was for Augusta and subsequently,
TO wa,efville." We are told by City Mar
shall Bunker that Kate vas not in 4 cell at
the time she took her life. and that one of
the policemen Was 1t the lookup only
short time before she was found dead. He
says it is the practice when there is any lone
in the lookup, for some of the officers to
visit the place as often As once each hour.
We quote herewith some of the interest
ing if not altogether satisfactory figures
which Mr.. Carver, of the Board Of Ednea-
ton, submitted to the members of
the City Government at their meet
Jog Monday afternoon, ard which
we're taken from the school census recently
completed. There are now 2606 scholars
within the city limits, that is to say, persons
between the ages, of 4 and 81 years,
who are entitled to the privi-
leges of our public schools. The total
number that have attended the public
schools during the past year for period
of two weeks Or more, 10 1909, but of this
number 22i have not attended the l6 weeks
prescribed by law. During the year 1883
pupils have been in the public ard private
schools Of the city. There are
1920 scholars between the ages of
and Is years, and the number between
these ages in the public schools is $40.
The whole number of pupils in the paro-
chal school is 40 So little arithmeticsl
work shows that there are AGO scholars
in the city between the ages of 4 and 10
years, who have not attended school any
where during the past year. And between
the ages of 6 and l6, there are at least 259
that have not attended school during the
year, which is in direct violation of the
statute. As soon as the new school
house is completed. so that there shall be
room for all the scholars. we shall look for
most thorough and persistent enforcement
Of the trusnt law, and an impartial prose-
cution of all parties to its violation. Water
vile cannot afford to fall behind any of her
neighbors in the matter Of efficiency in her
public school system, and we predict that
in five years the public school statistics of
this city can be pointed to with pride by the
people. a state of things which cannot
truthfully be said to prevail at the present
time.
The wind blew furiously here Tuesday
night between the hours of six and seven.
One of the biggest elms on Elm street,
split down. and several trees were blown
over on lower Silver street and branches so
scattered that it WAS found necessary to call
out the street commissioner to clear away
the obstruction. The town of Winslow,
just across the river, seemed TO catch the
fury of the blast full more than other places
in this vicinity. A barn owned by
Mr.. George Paine, and standing by itself in
a field at the top of the hill containing sew
being carried twenty rods or more, striking
the ground in such a manner as TO make a
trench foot or foot and half in depth.
Joe Mayo who occupies small house in
the vicinity, says he saw it coming through
the air about twenty feet from the ground,
as he stood in his back door. He
lodged into the house. and when he
thought it would be safe, went out to re-
connoitre. He found the wind had taken
an old hen from her chickens and carried
her several rods out into the field, while ono
Of his buildings, small but useful, had been
carried some distance from its original site.
At Mr.. John W. Drummond's just across
the road, q large oak tree was broken off at
the roots, ~hile several of his apple
trees were badly demolished. Sev
eral birds were killed here, and
their bodies were found scattered
about. Two large trees near the stand
owned by Mr.. Ambrose Dunbar, of this
city and occupied by Messrs. WIN. Rey-
nolds and II. A. Libby were blown down
and about a mile out on the North Vassal
boro road, Mr.. Warren Withee had stable
up and boarded, with the roof partly
shingled; this was moved off its foundations
and 80 lurched over that it will have
to be rebuilt. Close by, in the
same neishborhood. three large birch
trees, more than foot in diam
eter, were blown over. Down the river
road from the bridge, large elm, close to
the house Of Geo. Micue, was broken short
off about ten feet from the ground, and
completely blocking up the highway.
This tree was not far from 10 inches
through where it was broken, and sound as
a nut. Below Micue's the road along the
river was literally strewn with branches,
and at the house of Michael IIesley, father
of Tom and Mike Healey, the we'll
known Maine Central Conductors.
two magnificent elms were split down, and
a part of one of them struck upon the
house, ipjuring one corner of it somevhr
Mr., Hesley feels badly about the trees,
and says he would not have had them in
jured as they are for 5000. He says that
the gale hurt his crops a good deal, also.
Directly across the road from Mr.. Hesiey e