The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-11

Freeman .PugSley OF Cornish undertook
Wednesday to burn some pine tops and
underbrush in his wood lot, along by the
brook next to Shapleigh, when the fierce
wind got the best of the crew set to handle
it. and the flames rushed toward the resi-
dences of G. ii. Milliken and Willis Norton.
They lust escaped by the efforts OF the en-
tire neighborhood.
Principal White. of he Bangor High school
announced to the boys Wednesday morning
| that hereafter the Saturday drill would be
| compulsory. Heretofore it has been option
| al with the pupils whether they drilled or
| not.
| The prisoners at the county jail in Auburn
are enjoying vacation. Sheriff Hill de-
4 cided Monday that he would not let them
| do out any more heels or make any more
| boxes until the workshops and yards have
| been made more secure. Within a week
| two prisoners have escaped from the work
shop. The last to take leg bail was Asa
| Mason, who escaped from the box shop
| Tuesday.
During the past few months there have
been no less than fifteen robberies in
| Bucksport and reign Of terror, on a small
scale, has existed among the store keepers
there. The breakes have all been small
| ones and bore evidenceof being the work
| of an amateur.
A Boston dentist who has been pulling
| teeth in Washington county without Ii
oence say he wants to test the constitution
atty of the new dental law. He was indict-
ed and filed demurrer, but the judge found
the Indictment defective and the case was
| not pressed. 1t is reported that, new pro-
ceedings will be commenced before local
magistrate.
The Ellsworth American says: 1t is to be
| hoped that the rumor Of the organization
of another electric lighting company in
this city has no foundation in fact. As a
business venture it could not possibly pay;
| and what income it would receive would
be wholly at the expense of the existing
| company, which, even with monopoly of
the business, has never been able to declare
| dividend.
There have been shipped this season from
! Houlton, via the Canadian Pacific Railway,
1 oEu caflOaQS OF POTATOES.
Eight ladies from Danforth put their
heads. together and decided to attend the
Co. "L'' ball in Houlton last Friday even
| ing. They arrived in good season, and dur
ing their stay there We're the guests of
friends on North Street. When they
reached the halfway house between Dan
forth and Houlton the proprietor of the
| hotel, thinking they were having too good
time without the menfolks, concluded to
play little joke on them, and, possessing
himself of bill reading Men wanted for
| the bark woods,' he pasted the first two
words on the back of the vehicle, and sent
them on their way. Not until the team was
driven into the yard at their friends res
idence did they discover the joke. The
proprietor of the halfway house was doubt
| less absent from home when the ladies re-
| turned.
| us last year.
| York, as is appropriate for
| the next Oldest town in the state, has a
arge number of very aged citizens. Within
| q mile of York HarDOr the COuranJ nnuS
twenty-one men and women whose ages are
over seventy years and twenty more just
| under the three score and ten mark.
| A story that was started on the street in
Biddeford Wednesday to the effect that the
| Pepperen company had placed an order for
half million bricks to be delivered the
coming summer for new mill was incorrect.
| gang of hoodlums, masked and armed
| with rocks and clubs, attacked the watch
| man at the alewive fishery at Damariscotta
| one night last week, and after driving
| him off stole quantity of fish. They re-
newed their attack Friday night, but the
watch-man succeeded in unmasking some of
| them Williams and identifying them. Sew
| eral arrests were made.
At the meeting of the Governor and Coun-
| Gil on Wednesday petition was filed for
| the pardon of Geo. G. Littlefield, of Port
| land, convicted of larceny. An order
passed authorizing the Land Agents to sell
wild and unoccupied lands and buildings in
| Madawaska, Fort Kent, Frenchville and
| ,a+itionu fiJad for the annointment of snao