Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-04
SPARKS FROM mklNE WIRES.

patent has been granted to John j.
Flanders of Portland for pull screen and
another to Emery Andrews Of kennebunk
for travelling case for bicycle.
Corp. Clinton Il. Fuller of the Neatly
Rifles, Lev iston, has BE- en- promoted to ser
geant and color be arer III place of T.. A..
Wright, who has joined the regular srmy.
The tot,l amount of lumber surveyed at
the port of Bangor during the fret six
months of the present year was G,9Si ,33l
feet about s 900 900 more than in the cor
responding period last year. OF this
amount 39,979, 3I2 was spruce, i, 1872 ,235
hemlock and the rest pine.
The Knox Farmer exchange of Rock
land, large general grocery, run on the
co operative sy stem, aud largely patronzed
by farmers from the adjoining towns, made
an assignment, Monday. No definite fig
ures can be given. A Portland flour con-
Germ is the heaviest creditor.
A peculiar blight is reported to be affect
ing the apples at Hebron. The leaves turn
brown and curl and the apples wither and
drop off. Some of the farmers assert that
ne-hslf to three fourths of the crop has
been blighted. Hebron is one of the best
apple raising regions in Maine.
A beef famine is fairly inaugurated at
Portland, due to the strike in the West.
The oldest dealers say they never saw the
like before. All the dealers in the city had
only four cars on hand the first of the
week, but tive ears are on the wsy. Ii
takes generally Is to ID cars weekly TO sup
ply the market.
+. II. Wsterhouse has completed ar
ran sements for the reunion of the New
England postal clerks, which is to be held
at Lond Island, Portland hsrbor, July a..
The programme includes n sail down the
harbor, ball game, at which T.. J. Ryan,
superintendent of the railway mail service
is to act as umpire, a shore dinner, and =
good time generally. 1t is thought that
about 65 clerks will attend the convention.
After thinking it over, one day of the
opinion that he would have bis case fought
through the law court, and the next uncer-
tain and wavering, the convicted Cumber-
laad murderer, Matt M. Prawda, has at
last decided not to contend further with the
State, and so notified his attorney, Hon.
George M. Seiders, last Saturday. His
next and tiual appearance in court will be
in September, when he will be brought be-
fore Judge Bonney for sentence. What
little property Prawda had, and it was not
much, was used up at the time ot his long
trial before Judge Bonney, and he was ua-
wiling that MIR. Seiders and his associates
should lose at least $500, actual money paid
out, which they would have done had the
case been fought through the law court.
Had Prawda decided that the case should
be heard there, Mr.. Soldiers stood ready to
sssume the cost of further review of the
case.
The Chicago Grand Trunk, having be.
come involved in the great strike, it is now
question of some Importance whether it
will spread to the Grand Trunk system
proper. 1t is understood that while in
Canada the union is very strong, there are
but few ms mbers of it east of Montreal
and little danger of the spreading of the
strike unless the conductors and engineers
become involved, and q general strike is
ordered. The men on this division of the
Grand Trunk have 10 trouble with the
road. a railroad man who Is in a position
to know regarding the facts in tie case,
said that there are members of the union
among the employees of every road running
out of Portland, and that in case of a strike
East, the work of organization would be
pushed rapidly, but he old not anticipate
any trouble. 1.-The men don't like the
Pullmsas, but they won't strike on their
account" he said.-Portland Press.