The Portland daily press., 1892-07-18
STATE TOPICS oFINTEREsT.

STATE TOPICS oFINTEREsT.
Fire at Fort Fairfield Friday night de-
stroyed goods belonging to Jewel G.
Williams in building owned by j. B.
Trafton. Loss on goods, $4,000 OF more !;
on building, probably $3.50. Cause, up
setting of kerosene lamp.
Dexter is interested in the failure of
Mcconnell & Shaws, Boston, leather
dealers. The national bank is now said
to hold 800, 1000 Of the firms paper on a
part of which Hon. Charles Shaw is
holden. The latter has made an assign
ment of his property to Charles M. Saw
yer, cashier of the national bank, for the
benefit of creditors. The amount of the
firms paper which he has endorsed is re-
ported to be $75, 900. Some other Dexter
men are reported to be on the paper as
endorsers.
A Bar Harbor despatch to the Boston
Globe says that Eugene Ash, a clerk, has
long loved Bertha Murphy, who is en-
ployed at Hotel Sorrento. Bertha did
not care for him, and refused him. Fri
day night. Ash met Miss Murphy and in
duced her to go to ride with him. He
himself. This frightened Bertha, and
something frightened the horse. Bertha
jumped out, and the animal ran away.
He was stopped, however, and then Ash,
who had meanwhile lost his pistol, stab
bed himself, inficting dangerous
wound.
One of the quickest runs Of the season
was made by special engine that took
DR.. Fitzgerald from Bangor to Dover the
other day. Engineer Tim Ferry drove
the engine, and the Eastern Gazette tells
how it was done :-''He pulled the throt-
tle-the engine did the rest. At Hermon
they spent three minutes passing Owens
train. At Newport five minutes more
for orders and water, at Dexter another
three minutes and into Dover just fifty
minutes from the time they left Bangor,
fifty-seven miles away. Just think of
that! Running at the rate of seventy
five miles an hour around curves, over
crossings, buzzing across fields and howl
ing through woodlands"
The residence Of DR.. G. P. Sawyer on
Madison avenue, Skowhegan, was brok-
ware stolen from the sideboard in the
dining room, and money from the doc
tors poeketbook. The entrance was
made at the front door. 1t would seem
as though the parties were frightened
before finishing their work, as the doc
tors gold watch and chain was in his
vest on the chair from which his pocket
book was taken, and near at hand was
his shirt in which was valuable dia-
mond shirt stud, while on the shelf
above was Mrs. Sawyer's jewelry case
containing a lot of valuable jewelry, and
near it lay her diamond ring.
DR.. William Williams of Augusta was
arrested and taken to Skowhegan, Satur-
day, by Deputy Sheriff Mitchell, and az
raigned before Judge Priest, charged
with the larceny of horse from Mrs.
Hannah Sprague in North Anson, in
February, 1891. Mrs. Sprague was for
merly Williams's wife, and she claims
that before they separated she gave Will
liams money to buy horse to use in his
business. Williams claims the horse as
his own, and says Mrs. Sprague gave him
the money as present before they were
married. Judge Priest found probable
cause and bound Williams over to the
September term Of the Supreme Court.
Williams has married again and has a.
$500.
The Phillips Phonograph tells story
of the hard journey a guide had to get
medical relief Waldo Kennard, young
Boston sportsman, who went from Par
machenee to Rump Pond, near the Cana
dian border, the first of this month on
hunting expedition, and was there shot
in the thigh. A guide was at once
despatched for DIR. Palmer at Phillips,
sixty miles away. The guide started
about p. IN. He reached the Falls ON
Cupsuptic river at half past nine. There
was no boat there and he constructed
raft on which he hoped to reach Pleasant
island, but in the darkness he soon ran
upon a snag which precipitated him into
the river. He succeeded in getting safely
ashore and remained there during the
night. At daybreak he went ito the upper
landing and found boat which he
dragged around the Falls, a distance of
half mile. In this he reached Billy
Soule's camp, and he accompanied him
to Rangeley, where they summoned the
doctor by telephone. The doctor left
Phillips at quarter past ten a. m. by
special train. From Rangeley he went
by team to Haines' Landing, where a
steamer was in waiting to carry him to
the, Falls of the Cupsupic Above this
he was conveyed by a row boat for six
miles to camp Parmachenee. From that
point they proceeded on foot across the
''carry'' six and one-half miles to Par
machenee lake, and then two and one
half miles by boat to camp Caribou,
which was reached at eight p. m. The
young man was found with the bullet in
his thigh. The doctor removed it, and
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