Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-07-05
FROM KITTERY TO CARIBOU.
Items of Interest from all over the
Pine Tree State.

Pine Tree State.
The Woman's relief corps of Maine held
| its annual meeting at Foxcroft last week.
A Rockland milkman on Tuesday of
last week called out the fire departm ent,
surprised himself, and cost the city so.
He tried to post letter in fire alarm
box.
A farmer of Wesley, Washington county,
has discovered on his farm a deposit
which he calls silverine. 1t gives a fine
lustre to silver. brass or other metal, ex
ceeding in clearness any polish known to
be in use.
Francis A. Warehouse, head master of
the Boston English high school, died in
Paris last Saturday. He had been in poor
health for some time. Mr.. Waterhouse
was born in Scarboro. in 1895, and was
graduated from Bowdoin college in 1857.
According to satisfies of the agricultu-
raj depart ment, seventeen-year locusts
are due this year and may be looked for
in Maine early in July. The seventeen
year locusts are easily distinguished from
the yearly visitors. The eyes, legs and
wing veins are red, while the body is
black.
One of the largest shad ever captured in
Penobscot bay was recently taken at Cape
Jellison, stockton The fish measured
tWenty-six inches and weighed seven
pounds. II was deep sea shad. a stur
geon was caught at Gardiner last week
t., -.
weighing 5oopounds.
Col. Henry {. Parsons, native of
Maine, but since the war leading citizen
of Virginia. was shot and killed last Fri
day by conductor of the Chesapeake <
Ohio railroad. Col. Parsons WAS one OF
the most active men Of the New South.
and his death viii be severe blow to the
progressiveness OF the state.
Albert G. Tenney, for many years the
editor of the Brunswick photograph, =
and who only retired from the harness
few months ago. died a; his home Satur-
day. Mr. Tenney had been ffty-eiEht
years in the newspaper business and was
well known in western Maine as q man
of original ideas and the courage and in
eIination to express them vigorously
Ii viii be many a day before Maine pee
pie cease talking Of the terrible thunder
showers Of the first Of last week. The
stat ician OF the Pittstieid '.Adyes-
tiser@ finds three persons Killed, fourteen
houses and seventeen barns burned DOWN
sixteen horses and thirty-four cattle Kill
ed. and iBnumerahlc trees and fences
shattered, buildings struck and damaged.
smaller animals Killed. crops cut to pieces
by he hail or washed cut blythe torrents
Of rain, and many persons struck but sur
viving the shock, Is the record at latest
reports. Il Mas one OF the worst series of
electrical storms that Maine ever expert
enced, and hardly a town escaped.
Is was rude trick some of the railroad
boys in Lewiston played Oh the liquor
sheriff the Of her day. Two OF the officials
were seated in an empty ear ON "a side
track watching a carload of -four which
they suspected WAS Whiskey. Slowly.and
carefully, as II they only intended TO set
the freight ear over on another track, the
shifter was attached to the car in which
the officers were hiding. Easily and care
fully again the engine backed out on the
main line and then put on all speed and
in minute was tearing up:above he fair
grounds at sixty miles an hour, with the
deputy sheriffs in the box Gear behind I
After running hall way 10 Greene, they
backed the car to the siding at the fair !
grounds, from which place the officers |
walked down