The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-21

for that work too. The OK was on the
niah side and had on harness similar
to the horse. They were driven with
reins and seemed to whoa haw-gee with
unity of action as we'll as though they
and been two of q kind. They did not
by the,novelty OF the situation,
He. Fuller of Portland is to be manager
| of the new felt mill at Rumford Falls.
He was there last week on pre-
liminary arrangements. Mr.. Fuller has
been a manufacturer of felt all his life,
| as was his father before him. The COM
pany which is to build and operate a
two-set mill there. will organize in Port
land.
H.C. Chapman & Son of the Bangor
| House will put an addition of sixty feet
| on the rear of the hotel, to contain nu-
merous rooms that are needed and an
| elevator. The dining room will be en-
larged and the kitchen will be on the
| same floor as the dining ROOM
A Rockport book keeper tore his hair
| last week trying to solve the following
| problems. He had written to some ship
| pers in Boston making inquiries why
it was that certain bill of goods from
the West had not arrived. He received
notice from them that the goods were in
the warehouse, and that he must send
on the bill of lading before they could
| be shipped. Now the bill of.lading was
in the hands of the cashier of, the bank
with draft attached, and he had been
instructed to hold the draft unit. the
goods reached their destination. To
sum it all up, the wielder Of the pen
could not read the bill of lading until
| the goods arrived, and the shippers could
not ship them until they had received
| the bill of lading. So. what was be to
| do.
| The removal of The stove polish works
| of J. L. Prescott & Co. of North Berwick
to New York is serious blow to that
employ lis hands. They had contem-
| plated an extensive addition to their
plant this sum sr, and the foundation
had already been laid for another large
building.
| Two special freight trains were sent
out from the Watsrville station Saturday
| last. Some of the men who suffered
from the ten per cent. cut down last fall
had shown their sense of humor by in
scribing in heavy chalk lines on the
sides Of one or two of the cars the words
Hard Times.n
A Freeport lady was startled the other
day by seeing meal bag start up and
walk down the street. She rubbed her
eyes in horror, but the meal bag went
on. 1t didn't take long, however, to dis
cover that there was very much alive
pig in that bag having sack race all
to himself. The farmer who had dropped
him drove two miles and put up his
team before he discovered his loss.
Speaking of cold weather, Mr.. S. D.
Sayward informs the Somerset Reporter
that thirty-two years ago the 18th day
of May about a foot Of snow fell. In the
afternoon it turned to rain, and the next
morning it was all gone, causing some
thing of rise in the river.
Ludaer Blanchette, aged 81, employed
in brickyard in Saco, got foot caught
in a clay crusher Friday night. He man
aged to extricate himself, but his foot
was torn off in doing so. He died Satur-
day morning.
The mill of GA. Greenwood & Co.,
manufacturers of repellant and shoddy,
in Winslow. was burned Friday night.
The cause of the fire,9is unknown. The
mill had been running night and day.
No insurance.
The town meeting at Windsor Friday,
defeated town aid to the Wiscasset &
Quebec railroad, but the citizens have
subscribed double the towns quota to
the stock.
The York county grand jury, which
Saturday afternoon. Twenty-three in
dictments were reported. The most i'm
portant were those of the four young
Biddeford thieves, Adelard Roussin,
William Siddell, Sidney Riley. ana Ed
ward Durant, against whom indictments
for compound larceny were found for
burglariously entering the store of A.
F. Went worth of Saco. Indictments were
also found against Stephen Deshon of
Kennebunkport, George Littlefield and
CharlessL ittefeld of Shapleigh. Arthur
Cole Fred Trembly and Joseph Vashon
of Biddeford, all larceny; Henry Smith
of WATERFORD, and James Eastman of
Dover, N. H., assisting in escape.
At an early hour Saturday morning,
crew of eight men Of the street depart
ment, with a posse of police as protec-
tion, and under the personal direction
of Mayor Wakefield and Baths street
commissioner took down the frame of
a building going up as an extension to a
house on Front street, owned by Mrs.
E. W. Rouse. The removal of the struc-
turewas by order OF the mayor and board
of aldermen, on the ground that it
W as being erected in violation of an or
dinance regulating the erecting of build
ings in the fire limit of the city. The
owner of the building may bring suit
for damages.
There is considerable excitement in
the town of Eddington ON account of a
shooting ARRAY which occurred there
few days ago. Last winter a man
| named Watson died, leaving a widow,
and since Watson's death man named
Perkins has lived with the widow. On
| Thursday, May 10, they both came to
Bangor, and while there INDUCED in
i HI,