Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-27
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.


These transfers of real estate in Waldo
county have been made: Julia A. Bean,
Belfast, to Frank r. Wiggin; Charles c.
Hamilton, Boston, to William r. Perkins;
Foss Hamilton, Searsport, to William r.
Perkins, Boston; Joseph S. Lane, Brooks,
to Isaiah Gould, Jr.; Wilder W. Perry,
Camden, to Fred A. Packard; (tbree
deeds) Charles Salvage, Searsport, to
Josephine 4. Weber; Marietta A. Savage,
Searsport, to Flora L. Tucknett, Syracuse,
N. Y; Allie L. Thayer. Belfast, to Jane
Thayer, Searsmont; William A. Yelling
ton, Liberty, to Orissa A. Wing, Freedom.
The Maine State college is to open
course in library economy, commencing
next term, which opens Wednesday, Sept
5. This is the first course of the kind to be
offered in New England outside of summer
special schools, and it will be under the i'm
mediate direction of Miss Harriet Converse
Fernald, who is the only woman member OF
a college faculty in Maine. Prof. Allen
E. Rogers will teach English literature.
and Prof. Horace M. Estabrooke, modern
languages. Considerable interest is felt
among Maine literary people in the success
of this course, which is the idea of Pres.
Harris, who is infusing so much new blood
into the college work.
A queer case of fraudulent scheme
that worked perfectly is reported at South
Portland. A young man, who gave the
name of James Pray, went around to the
houses in that place with a subscription pa
per, which, he claimed, was drawn up by
clergyman. The idea was to sell tickets at
so cents each for picnic. All that was
obtained above the cost of the picnic was to
go to a sick man in the place. The scheme
took and the tickets sold rapidly, and the
sum of shout $50 was paid to the young
man. The time for the picnic passed, but
the benevolently disposed young man did
not show up. The matter was Investigated
and it was found that the sick man had no
need of assistance and that the whole
scheme was a fraud.
The races at the West Waldo Agricul-
tural Fair Grounds, at Liberty, Maine, will
be held on Wednesday, Aug. 9Th. Entries
for purses will close at IL o'clock p. NJ.
Friday, Aug. 3. Entries mailed on day of
closing will be eligible. Races called at
1890. All entries must be made to VIM.
H. Moody, secretary, Liberty, Me. The
following purses have been offered: For
2 so class, $50; 2.40 class, 500; $50
class, $3.50. The above purses to be d.
vided as follows: so per cent. to first horse,
25 per cent. to second horse, Is per cent.
to third horse, 10 per cent to fourth horse.
Mile heats, best three in five to harness.
Distance waived, but weight exacted.
Purses guaranteed. Open to trotters and
PAGERS. If stormy, postponed to Thursday,
Aug. 8. The society is a member of the
Nationsl Association, and trotting will be
under National rules.
In February of this year the Thomaston
ship Alexander Gibson, Capt d. J. Hodg-
man, sailed from Philadelphia for Hiogo,
Japan. Late in March she was spoken
with her royal masts down. and this was
said to be on account of being "cranky,"
or, as seafaring men express it, "tender''
from insufficient ballast. On May 10 the
British ship Androsa passed in the
straits of Sunda by AMER and re-
ported having previously, in cross
ing the Indian ocean, encountered cyclone.
and at the same time saw large
quantity of wreckage. This news arrived
at London by mail about June %, and the
underwriters at Lloyd's having the cargo of
the Gibson at risk and being naturally ap-
prebensive of accident because of her con-
dition as previously reported, jumped at the
conclusion that this wreckage was from her
and paid so per cent. for reinsurance of her
cargo. Between July % and July / the
mail brought information that the Thomas
ton ship had also passed Aujer. News ha.
now been received of her safe arrival at
Hiogo.
The deck hands of the steamer Wiwurna
state that Hatch, who was drowned,
Wednesday, near Bath, was not knocked !
overheard by the force of the steamers
striking. On the contrary, it is claimed by |
them and others that Hatch, becoming |
frightened by, the escaping steam, delibe- |
rately jumped into the water. Capt Low |
has been running on the Bath and Boothbay |
route nearly 30 years, ami this is his first |
accident where a loss of life has taken place. |
Capt. Perkins of the tug Seguin, who is
criticised in the reports first sent out to |
the press, feels keenly what has been said.
He states he did all possible. When sig
nailed by the Wiwurna for assistance the
tug Seguin was towing two large schooners'
deeply loaded with ice. To drop the tow in
the swift tide current and near the lodges
would have been dangerous. As soon as
he got the two vessels to broad channel,
Capt. Perkins grounded to- his tow, to
drop it and 60 to the steamers aid. By
that time, however, the Wiwurna had made
a landing, after which Capt. Perkins re-
sumed his course and proceeded down the
river. The Wiwurna has been repaired and
i, ready for business.