The Portland daily press., 1892-01-19
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.
A Young doctor in Caribou, Upham by
name. has discovered. SO he claims, a
specific for drunkenness. Applications
for treatment are pouring in upon him it
is said.
A. B. Neville, who has lately been fig
uring in the newspapers as Baron Bray
brook, was released from the Augusta
iail Thursday, where he had been con-
fined on a charge of stealing a ring and
watch when he was plain Mr.. Neville.
The truth appears to be that he borrowed
both of the articles without any inten-
ton of stealing them, but becoming harl
up he pawned them to raise money to
keep soul and body together. The man
to whom they belong agreedn not to prose-
cute il the articles We're returned, and on
their reception Neville was allowed to
CO.
Benjamin WILDER of Pembroke, and
John Wakefield of Machias, were out
cruising December 27 on Machias river,
when they came upon monster skeleton
neal Fifth Lake stream, and about a
the bones, which We're undisturbed, are
represented as resembling those of a fish
about Is feet in length. The ribs re-
manned in form, which indicated a body
about the size of a barrel. A rib was
taken from each side of the body and
carried to camp.
Last fall five young cattle strayed away
from the Lewiston city farm and were
chased into the town Of Wayne but never
caught. Two or three weeks ago
young animal was caught in Leeds sup
posed to have been one of these cattle.
1t was wild as a deer and when pursued
took to tile woods Now Mr.. Frank
Merrill of Greene has found three of the
cattle They are roaming about his farm
doing good deal of damage. They are
very wild, jump five foot fences with
ease and show a war like spirit when ap-
preached The Lewiston authorities
have advised Mr. Merrill to try his skill
with rifle.
The Waldo Trotting Horse Breeders
Association has fixed upon August "A
and 25 as the date of its fail meeting. A
special trot has been arranged for July 4.
John Hamilton, Jr., son of John Ham
ilton, proprietor of the American House,
Calais, recently received severe injuries
while driving into the stable on a coach.
The door being too low to admit him he
was caught between the door and coach
and badly jammed The doctors say he
| will be a cripple for life.
| The York Courant says q little son OF
MI. Jarvis of South Berwick, who was
| playing in the street near his fathers
meat shop, was horribly bitten by dogs
last week, four of the savage brutes at
tacking him at once and tearing his
clothes to shreds, and larcerating his
hands and limbs.
There have been lively times on the
water works dam at Foxcroft A little
over week ago the ice in the river be-
| low the dam broke up, foated down and
| iammed into the narrows at the island,
| about half mile below the dam. The
| massive ice cakes formed new dam,
and flowed the water back until the
water-works dam was nearly submerged.
Last Thursday the situation became
critical, the dam showing signs of giving
way at the bulk-head, and a crew of thir-
ty men under Elijah Norton set about
breaking the jam. Holes were chiseled
| in the ice, dynamite cartridges were in
serted and for hours a steady series of
| detonations awoke the echoes in Fox
| croft. Large masses of the ice were dis
| lodged, and channel party cleared, so
that at present the situation is a little
| more cheerful Nearly 1000 cartridges
were used, we understand, rendering the
| job a rather expensive one.
| Percy Howe, the Auburn dentist, and
| Charles Hilton of Gilead, invested S10,-
| 600 in the purchase of the birch on a strip
of heavily wooded land nine miles long
and four OF five wide, at Beams Pur-
| chase near Gilead.
! A cut down in the hand sewing de-
| partment of the Dearborn & Kendall,
| and Newcomb & Co. shoe factories,
Biddeford, takes effect this week.
c. A. Leonard, the Auburn grocer,
| lives in the south part of Auburn. Sat
/ urday evening as he was riding home he
was attacked with nervous prostration
and was rendered unconscious. Fortu-
nately he had a steady sort of a horse
| whick KEEP to the road and brought the
| insensible occupant of the sleigh to his
| home without accident. Medical aid was
summoned at once and Monday Mr..
| Leonard was reported as very much bet
| ter.
Last Saturday as Mrs. Charles Allen
and her sister, Miss May Tubbs, We're re-
! turning from Mechanic Falls to Hebron
with team, the horse became unman-
ageable and dashed on to the railroad
| track in front of an engine. The engine
struck them, throwing the horse and
Mrs. Allen about 20 feet The horses
| leg was broken and Mrs. Allen was badly
| bruised. Miss Tubbs was not thrown so
far, but the physician thinks her spine is
injured and it is feared she will not re-
| cover.
The Biddeford Journal says: ''The
Fiske divorce case, which is soon to be
tried in Saco, will, it is promised, fur
nish the sensation ofthis term of court.
| The libellant is C. H. Fiske, proprietor
of the Fisk House at Old Orchard, and
| it is understood that his wife intends to
contest the suit to the end. The libel
liant charges his wife with being lnfaith-
full to her marriage VOWS and will, it is
understood, furnish evidence of a decid-
edly sensational character. A private
detective who followed Mrs. -Fiske to
| SC. will tc.c+