Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-04-06
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

The ice has all gone on. of the Andres
coggin as far as Liveimore Falls.
Eight salmon weighing anywhere from
20 TO % pounds have thus far been taken
at the pool, Bangor.
ThssSeus Perkins of South Biddeford,
died Wednesday from injuries received by
a recent fall from a wagon. He WAS war
veteran, aged &C, and leaves wife.
Miss Louise Lowell, who figured as
witness in the Pollard Breckenridge suit,
Tuesday, being the steDographer who wrote
letters to Miss Pollard at the congressman's
dictation, is Maine woman and has sew
eral relatives in Lewiston.
William Sawyer, prisoner bound to
Ellsworth from Bar Harbor, under charge
of Officer Clark, escaped aud jumped from
the passenger train while it was going at
full speed Wednesday night. He was thrown
q great distance, barely escaping death. lie
was recaptured by Deputy Sheriff Hooper,
Slss Brown was drowned at Harbor De-
Jude, Csmpobello, Wednesday. He was
about . Years old and leaves widow and
two children. The body has not yet been
recovered. The body of John N Collins,
dro ned in Dennys liver last January was
found wednesday.
A young man in Auburn has been buy Jog
goods on the instsliment plan and disposing
of them to other parties without paving for
them. An attempt was ade to have him
arrested but the co1rt decided he commit
ted no criminal cffense so long as the goods
we're entrusted TO him, and refused to grant
a warrant.
L. e Al
David by Sarah Wakefield to the trustees
of Bates college was recorded at the An
dros1oggin registry of deeds cffine in Au.
burn Tuesd-y. The condition is tina. an
astronomical observatory for Bates college
must be built within 10 years of the date of
the deed, which was drawn in 1891.
Portland is now in trouble as the result
of not exercising close enough suiveill .uce
over its Cinnamon. q class of citizens
which no city can afford to neglect. Char
lie Yiepg, Sam Sing and Chin Hi, running
q laundry on Casco street, are under arrest
on serious charge. Two girls, 16 years
old and the daughters of respectable pa
rents, assert that they were enticed into the
laundry and ruined. One of the giiIs is
shortly to become mother.
Sheriff Villas was at P,ttsfell. Tuesday,
and with Officer Nickersan and other aids
made a thorough search of the Llncey
house for intoxicating liquor. Nothing was
found, and Mrs. AbbIe Damon the proprie-
tor, claims that nothing of the kinl is sold
on the premises. There have been no in
dications that liquor was sold anywhere in
| town and the temperance people and bust
ness men ella i'm that no town in the State is
40 free from drunkenness and the sale of
inoxicants as Piitsfiell.
A report comes from Salem, Mass, that
John l.. Dalot and Capt. W. O. Sawyer If
M,ine, are at work on a propo 'ition to
form a corporation under the IIvs of
MAssachnsetis, under the name of the Sa-
lem Granite Company, for the purpose of
quarrying, working and dealing in granite,
With a capital stock of SIPS 900. The
works of the company sre TO b, located a,
Salem, at which place there is bonded land
| to the extent of about one are of solid
land and five scrcs of f4ta. II i, proposed
/ TO buy the q1arries and wo; ks of the Jones
| port Red Grati'e Company st Jonesport.
Msine, and also The Pleasant River Granite
Company's quarries q, Addison, Maine
\ stranger who said that he came from
Ne~ Hampshire went into the Lewiston
| police .tstion recent :, and male irquiries
about the death Of Walter A. Gray Who
hung himself in Auburn in August of 1893.
The man said that Walter Gray vas sus-
| ?sc.ed to be the same young man who RAJ
sway from his folks In Manchester. Nes
/ Hampshire. aoont IL yesrs ago and as
sanied another name. The csu.e Of his 60
iag away, was because his parents di.agre, d
Nth bin in points of religion and Insisted
his ,ing To their church when ha did n,
want to. The boy vas afterwards head oi
l by m saas of Young man nsmei Ws'te
rro- bridge Who WORK d At d ttcI Hill in
oxford c,anty. bui when his frien's cam
dom afier him he hal gone away sgain, ard
J nOILing had been heard Of him since.