Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-09
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

At Madison, Saturday, Madison defeated
Skowhegan. II to IL.
The 100000 steel yacht Eleanor, bull
at Bath Iron Works for w. A. Slater OF
NJrwiciI, CT was launched at Bath, Tues
day.
A banquet was rendered Charles Scho
field, at Bath, Tuesday evening, on his re-
tirement as super ntende mt of the Bath Iron
Works yard.
Gordon Brothers apple barrel mill a,
New Scaron was burned Monday night
The loss is estimated at $1,000; no Insult
ance.
Toe suit of John Butterfield, formerly OF
Boston, against Carrie Butterfield for
signe d for trial before the Oxford supreme
court, Wednesday.
Gov. Cleaves recently was called upon to
help clergyman, new man in Maine, out
of trouble, he having performed mar
riage ceremony without having been duly
qualified as the law directs. He was rather
frightened when he discovered his mis-
take.
The efficacy of the Knox county Jail stone
yard is shown by the report of the county
commissioners. For the year ending Ma,
8. 1898, the donates of the jail numbered
2s5; year ending May 7, 1894, the number
dropped to 60. The average cost of keep
ing each prisoner was Sl2.
The Central Club, a social orgsnizq zqtior
including the prominent business men OF
Rockland, met Tuesday night, elec'e'
officers and voted to build club house a,
cost of not over so, 1000. The money i
already subscribed and it is hoped to have
the building ready to occupy by October l.
At an athletic exhibition at Rockland,
Tuesday night, Roger Guthrie Of Bath, and
Phil Jason of Rockland, met in three
round contest The encounter was void OF
any par icular interest, h,ugh the two mel
nave be,n makiog considerable tilhtinp
ak of late. Billy Hennessy, lightweight
champion of the Northwest, spared a few
rGurds with Joe Donovan, niddleweight, of
Rockland.
The Maine and New Hampshire Grant.
Company has just secured the contract 70,
furnishing the granite and erec ing nine
tory building for the Fidelity Trust Com
,any of Philadelphi4. The building vii
ne located ut the co -ner of Broad snd Arci
street. and i'll he built of the red ston.
from the company's quarries at Redstone
The company had jnst finished larg
granite building for the Merchants Nationa
psnk at Baltimore, viii h is said to be on
# Bsltimore's tuest structures.
Important changes are announced from
Ne railway mail headquarters in the assign
meuts of railway mail clerks, hi n feet
he service rnnuing into Franklin county
This change is brJugh. about through tn,
ddition of the new daily mail to and from
Boston and Portland. and the new double
tally ser, ice between Lewiston and Rum,
ford Falls on the Portland 4 Rumford Fall,
Railroad. These have cessitated the
calling into service new men and tie pro-
notion of some of the ell p'stal sgent
Railway Postal Clerk S. +. Emmcns
f Lewiston has been transfrrre.
from the Ro akland and Portland route I,
the new Lewiston and Rumford Falls
route. Railway Postal Clerk NJ. II. Samp
son OF Portlsnd, who has been running a.
relief clerk on the Pennington and Port
land and Greenville and Bangor routes, has
been transferred to succeed Emm1ns on tn,
Rock land and Portland route, AMI II .ilwsy
Postal clerk f f. Wyman of Portland
sho has been running as a substitute l-rk
shenever one was needed, is given Samp-
sons position between Fs-mington anu
Portland and Greenville and Bangor.