The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-05-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

y tNE Vi ALTERS. Horace W OOuman,
nu-ut business man and inventor. of
trd. died at Saco. Thursday, aged
. su>. He was native of Hollis. and
aauv years owned a controlling inter
+ b. md was President of, the Saco and
=uHciord Gas Light Company. He was
BIZ n,ntpr OF several patents on cotton
.urry, from which he realized large
.- ue.,.... Governor Burleigh, in behalf
h ire Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial
4.,ui5tion, has requested Gen. Isaac
D ri Nkowhegan, department comman-
Z 4 the Maine G.. A. r., to invite the
rmwr> Of those Maine regiments that
paled in the struggle in the repulse
N-,treet' 5 charge at Gettysburg and
Interested veterans To Join the eX-
sou to Gettysburg. The excursion is
atd those who are invited an oppor-
u a attend the dedication on June
|. the monument erected near the
,ot trees on Cemetery Ridge, Gettys-
where Longstrect grand charge
l. -mlsed. The 81, 4th, 18th and 10Th
Mt are the ones included. with the 9th
}.,..., The report of the >uperin-
lt nf Schools for Maine shows 1
0ssS1e year with a greater average at
NEE, which is attributed to the free
book system. \ steady gain has
III manifested in the free high school
Enta, The whole number of scholars
|la- state is 2l0, 997; attending school,
t4s@. gain of l, 151 over the previous
|a The average length of school was
4 Tecks.....A first class trot will be held
Fairfield Park in June. Mr.. Gerald
n manage it himself and this means
f. horses, fair play. premiums paid and
1 u- IoWd... =. Augustus Welt, for many
5GS one of the most prominent business
r. )t Waldoboro, died Friday evening at
clock. aged 50 years. \. A. Genth-
| 3l evangelist who has for some time
sa9cd in evangelistic work in Portland
! Fd has been conducting a mission. was
1estei Friday for assault on Miss Ida
|IIhnson, a girl of Ii years. .. Auburn
/ has a dangerous tirebug. He made
attempt to set fire i'll the heart of the
NheSs part of the town. but the flame
1 [NQlScoNcred in time to prevent serious
| Aa-c,.... There was a -, 600 fire in
Iman, Haynes & CO.'S mill at Els
nh Falls, Saturday night. An engine
4 summoned from Bangor to save the
-e..... hudson NJ. kalloch, one of the
r educators i'll Knox County, died at
lmastpn Saturday morning, aged So
| als He had spent his whole adult life
aching and was very successful He
'S wife and two children.... Work
| be9in on the Bangor and Aroostook
fA4oad the last of this month. ..... The
| Mamie entral ferry steamer Hercules,
b 0n the kcnnebec at Bath. has gone
| "mnission. She is one Of the larg-
| iHNl boats in New England. is 2l2 feet
'"'h. SO foot beam over all: will carry
.hntytour foot cars or six Pullman
apt. Foster will be on duty days.
l lhaney, formerly of the knicker-
Ser Towage Co., nights. During the
season, a total of IS, 1866 barrels of
DO apples were shipped from Portland,
N',6}6 barrels of Canadian apples
We're 1000 barrels shipped from
i9n because the Portland ships could
axe them.... Mrs. Living Hill testiii-
The case against her husband in Saco
~. stating that he was cruel to her,
.I9i She was poisoned by the bacon
by him.. In its list of Maine mil
Nair> the New York Tribune enumer-
total ot sventeen The list em-
@N the following names, viz: Estate of
Allen, Elias Millikcn, Augusta; Ed
II Blake, Bangor; Arthur Sewall,
state of Ralph c. johnson, Belfast;
fh Il. Eaton, f. {. Gates, Calais;
thicker. Dcering: Chas. H. Bailey,
| Hannah Bailey, Winthrop: William
NJfeet, Nathaniel Whitmore, Gardiner;
i p NJ Brown, Phillip ii. Brown, estate
Ih W. Lane, Portland; estate OF Ed
Bncn, Thomaston; estate of Alb
-1baln, Skowhegan.... The samples
i7I, which the committee of the Bid
A Good Templars purchased at local
stores, have been stolen from the
@FA'e before the Grand Jury.... In the
municipal court Monday afternoon,
su@ents were made in the Saco
@"nng case. Living l.. Hill, who is
st0 with attempting to poison his
was bound over to the grand jury.
" Burbank placed the bail at 81, 600.
same parties who furnished bonds
ms arrest went his sureties 80. Mr..
heene of Kent's Hill was in Angus
aesday, and leased the base ball
n.y.. a''s in the Augusta Driving Park, for
s1 pafh game of base ball between the
Uolns and the Pine Trees of the
uV Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's Hill,
played on Saturday afternoon, May
D,RlEF. The Massachusetts House
@a@9ay refused, by vote of IS to 6S,
.l .hluerlng to third reading of the bill
a,,, 1 iorbids the sale of liquor except to