Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-22
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

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land. Tuesday, the first of the season from
| Liverpool.
| The postofIce at North Lincoln has been
dis continued, and mail for there will now
| be sent to Lincoln Centre.
| Little &c lie McKenna the boy who fell
out of tree and broke his back a few
weeks ago, at Lewiston, died at the hos
pital, Tuesday evening
Daniel H. Chandler, the famous band
leader, was stricken with paralysis in his
store on Congress street, Portland,
Wednesday noon. His condition is criti-
cal.
Susan Terry was arrested at Wiscasset,
on the charge of keeping a disorderly
house, and two dodgers at the house were
arrested for drunkenness, Tuesday. All
We're lodged in the county Jail.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Lewiston Mill Co., held Wednesday, at
| Leyistt n, the report was made that $3.50,
600 of the 5000, 900 required to reOrganize,
hal been secured. A committee was APP
pointed to confer with a committee of the
directors and creditors as to the plan of
operation.
TEc crcrccs are that the State will dc
nothinG this season at the hatchery.
| Tv cnty five fish were stripped of their
spawn, Monday, yielding more than so,
! 0U0 eggs. The fish are now seeking their
| spawning beds and are readily captured.
Ar effort will be made to get fish enough
to yield 100, 600 eggs.
Harry Goodwin of Burnham, brake
man on train No. 10, which runs between
Bangor and Watervillc, and who sleeps in
his car, was nearly asphyxiated, Tuesday
night, by coal gas. The car was moved
during the night and the stove damper be-
came closed. He was nearly lifeless
when discovered, but will recover.
Thomas Thorpe, an old boat builder OF
| Portland, is missing, and his wife has not
been seen for some days. Attachments
have been placed on boats he was build
ing There is good deal of mystery
about the case The old couple have lived
! for a long time on one of the wharves,
and of late had seemed to be well supplied
with money.
Schooner Northern Light, Capt. Robbins,
is ashore near Rockland harbOr, off the
red spar buoy, being on her way form
Rockland to Bangor. The Northern
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-, while from New York for Bangor,
loaded with phosphate, and knocked off
part of her keel and began leaking badly
She is in a very bad condition. A life
saving crew is on board working to save
her.
The citizens of Sabattus village, whose
territory is sandwiched in the towns OF
Webster, Lewiston and Greene, have al
most unanimously signed a petition to the
Legislature that that part of the village
in Lewiston and Greene be set off to Web
ster, in which the principal part of the
village now lies. There are about 35 volt
ers and $50, 600 valuation, in Lewiston.
The reason given for this movement is
that the present distribution of the village
in the three towns seriously interferes
with their school and other interests and
retards their prosperity.
A. c. p r. instruction car is now go
ing through Maine and the Provinces
This car is fully equipped with all the
latest improvements known to the West
ernhollse Manufacturing Company in the
way of breaks. signals. etc. One of the
most important of these is the Western
house quick action automatic break hav
ing Is freight cars and one passenger cal
and driver and tender break all repre-
sented All the valves in the working parts
arc shown in sections thus giving the
employees a better opportunity to under
stand the working of the machine. This
car is also equipped with compressed air
train signal This is used to signals tn,
engineer from any part of the train ant
is a great improvement over the old bell
cord A child can give the signal from
the seventh or eighth car much easier
than man can signal from the first cal
by bell rope. The c. p. r. Company's
cars are furnished with the compressed
air signals. In the instruction car is q
model of the conpany's car heating appa
ratus which is attached to all their cars
The steam is taken from the locomotive
and is carried along beneath the cars in q
pipe. 1t is arranged so that all the
coaches are heated uniformly. The C. p
r. have in their employ large corps OF
men whom they are instructing in the use
of these improvements free of cha rye
The car is kept going all the year
, Mayor Baxter had caller, Monday,
who came on IA rather unusual GRAND, al
though that is nothing new for the
mayor who is the target of every crank
. ana Dtiu tllstTdtltF III tflt Guy. MS caller
was no crank, however, but straightfor
ward man of business from over the Dor
der-Montreal. The proposition that he
brought with him was that Portland
should have a winter carnival in January
somewhat similar to the times they
have in Montreal and Quebec His propo
sition is to build an ice palace and to have
all of the other sports, sleighing carnivals
snowshoe races, tobogganing matches
etc, that our Canadian cousins revel in
every winter.-Right here it may be re-
marked that this gentleman did not bring
the cold wave that struck town yesterday
1t only happened So very OPPORTUNITY fol-
his scheme, as it set everyone thinking OF
the cold. cold winter soon to be here
The Montrealer has been around among
the railroad and steamboat men, and they
have all expressed themselves favorably a.
to his project. 1t is not understood thai
the city will be called upon to do anything
more than lend moral support to the en-
terprise but a subscription will be started
among railroads and steamboat lines and
business houses. 1t will take about $4,000
) to make the thing go off in first class
shape. If everything is done in good style
: SO that people shall come from a distance
, to see it, every cent expended will come
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