The Portland daily press., 1894-07-31

This remarkable and highly interest
ing story is told by man who lives in
Aroostook county. A few days ago
Charles Dinsmore noticed that the swal
lows around his barn were fighting good
zeal among themselves, and subsequent
~ discovered one of them hanging by
the neck from the caves of his barn.
Taxing a ladder Mr.. Dinsmore went up
TO see what the trouble was, and found
that one of the birds had been executed
with apparently as much care and skill
as Is usually bestowed upon a human
criminal The means used to aeco mplish
Cnls purpose was a piece of horse hair
ABOUT foot in length, Ill one end of
TINS perfect knot had been tied. and
the other end run through it, making
loop we'll adapted to do the work for
which it was intended. This loop or
moose had been placed around the I'M
fortunate birds neck, and the other end
OF the hair fastened with mud to the
caves of the barn. The hair used was
an unusually large one, and had seeming
ly been selected with great care. A we'll
trained sailor or a sheriff who had ex-
perlence in the execution of criminals
could not have tied knot or made
moose that would have done it's work
better than this one
Moses Edgar Staples. young man of
Ogunquit, who has just finished his
treshma year in Harvard, was drowned
at logunquit Saturday noon. His body
was recovered soon after wards. Young
Staples went out for swim with Hart
ley Littlefield, friend. AS was their
custom, they rowed some distance from
shore in a dory, and dove off of the boat
They had done this frequently without
accident, but it is thought they rowed
the boat to The wrong place, and that
Staples struck his head on rock. He
did not come up, and when his body
was recovered he could not be resusci-
| tated. His nose was broken, and there
were several gashes across his face, III
dicating he must have struck 1ok.
Staples was the son of Capt. Moses l..
Staples, the proprietor of the Riverside
cottages. He fitted for college at Phil
ilps-Exeter Academy, and entered Har-
ward year ago. In college he was con-
scientious student. and made many
young Staples attained high rank of
scholarship and won number of priz-
es. At Harvard last year he won a prize
of $50 on preparation.
1T requires more than the cunning of a
fox to outwit the Houlton police. One
Reynard came in to reconnoiter the town
the other day, when a policeman cap
tured him and put him in the lookup.
Gardiner dosn't know whether to feel
pride or sorrow in the fact that the
city clerks books show no record during
July of deaths, births or marriage in
tentions
A correspondent OF the Bath Enter
prise, who visited Georgetown lately, be-
lleves ne has found the cause for the late
scarcity of shad in that region. While at
Indian Point he. saw five steamers sein-
ing pogies in the mouth of the kenne-
bee, and one day visited one of these and
| discovered that the hold of the vessel
was filled with not porgies but shad. AS
the hold was 30x15 feet, and the mass OF
shad was three feet deep, he says this
| would make in the one haul of the seine
that he witnessed, more shad than were
caught by all the fishermen about Mer-
rymeeting Bay in the whole of the last
fishing season. The captain of the steam
er told him that.two other steamers had
made hauls of shad. one 500 and the 9TH
er 600 barrels, each holding a hundred
or more fish. These three lots would be
double the whole catch of the Kennebec
this year.