Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-19

SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

burn Jail workshop.
| The Androscogein county Democratic
convention will be held in City hall, Lewis
ton, Saturday, July rs.
The annual reunion of the 3D. Maine In
fantry will be held in Auburn on the second
Wednesday in September.
Miss E. Msy Gay of Lewiston, who has
been taking the course at the Lewiston
training school. has been elected principal
of the upper primary school at Pennington.
| Prince Gregorie Galitzin has been in
Bangor for few days, his enjoy ment OF
stay being somewhat lessened by his failure
to find a hotel clerk who commanded
French and German.
A. E. Sager, director of the Bangor Y.
NJ. c. A. gymnasium, has resigned to study
medicine and take an advanced course In
physical culture. Mr.. Sager came from
| Rochester, N. Y, and is at present at the
summer assembly at Chautauqua.
The engagement of Mr.. Charles H. Stack
pole, formerly sub master in the Edward
Little high school, Lewiston, to Miss Maud
Rolfe, an assistant in the same school, is
announced. Miss Rolfe resigned her posi-
ton in the school at the end of the last
school year.
Deputy Fred A. Porter placed Alexander
NJ. Nickerson in Jail, at Norridgewock,
Monday. 1t is charged that Nickerson
forged a time check on the Rumford Falls
Flour Company and skipped to Chelsea,
Mass, where he was arrested after Is
months search.
The Lewiston school board has elected
- -; nosn of tho
Lewiston training school. Miss Finch is a.
graduate of the Oswego training school,
taught several years at Bay City. Mich,
and for the last three years has been teach
ing at Minneapolis.
Efforts to reform the general handling of
races on the Eastern Maine tracks ar lust
now engaging the Bangor horsemen. 1t is
said that complaints havo been made to the
headquarters of the National Trotting Asso-
citation on account of the recent Bangor
races, alleging suppression of time, etc.
People of the exclusive sort who wish to
travel in solitary grandeur must pay for it.
The Maine Central will not haul special
Pullman car unless Is full fares are paid.
Some railroads require even as high as %
fares. Therefore when Lord Randolph
Churchill and party of four went to Bar
Harbor, last week, he paid fares for Is
persons. There are many special cars dur
ing the summer and sometimes only two or
three persons travel in q car.
Another patent medicine company has
been organized in Belfast. 1t is called the
Nutriola Co. The following are the direc-
tors: Edgar F. Hanson. Robert F. Duntou,
VIM. A. Clark, F. H. Francis and T. r.
Wiggin. W. A. Clark was made presinent,
F. II. Francis, vice-president, and f. r.
Wiggin, clerk and treasurer. All the Off
GERS belong in Belfast. The capital stock is
fixed at Sl50000, with shares at 800 each.
The company will be Incorporated about
August l.. when the stock books will be
opened. The medicine will be placed upon
the market some time in September. The
medicine is wholly the work of Mr.. E. +.
Hanson, the gentleman who doomed the
ID ana Sarsaparilla Co.
| The Portland caulkers have decided to
reduce their wages as they believe the times
warrant them in placing their pay at price
by which the bosses can compete with work.
ers in this line at other ports. The caulk-
ers have heretofore received So so per day,
but the wages as now decided upon will be
SO .S3 to the bosses, and the vessel owners
being charged but SO a day, which leaves
small margin for the bosses. In Boston
the caulkers charge the bosses $3.50 per
day and the bosses add 10 per cent. thus
costing the vessel owners having work done
there 1896. The present wages of the
caulkers at Portland are the lowest of any
Of the ports along the Atlantic coast, and
ship owners can now have no reason for
sending their vessels elsewhere to be re-
paired.
The Boston Sunday Journal, having
failed to secure permission from the Herald
and Globe to be carried on their private
boat, and having decided that it would cost
too much to hire another one, as was done
by the Herald three years ago, determined
to smuggle passage on the other papers
steamer. So the bulk of the Journals for
the islands was locked in a trunk and a
Journal man claimed it as Ills baggage,
though it was tagged Boston journal"
and both the Globe and Herald local re-
representatives. discovered the nature of
the trick at once, though the tags were
ripped off as quickly as possible, and called
Mr.. Swanton's attention to this violation of
their rights-which was all theie instruc-
tons required them to do. When the
steamer reached Southport, the Journal
man, accompanied by Harry Weber, local
correspondent, took the trunk into the
steam launch Marion, took the papers from
the trunk and while the bulk of them were
sent across by carriage to Boothbay, so as
to precede the steamer, the remainder were
distributed from the boat.-Bath Times.
Aspecial meeting Of the Maine Game and
Protective Association was held at the Hotel
Rockingham. Lewiston, Tuesday. The
meeting was called to arrange methods for
raising funds to pay the debts of the asso-
citation incurred in obtaining birds for
breeding purposes, for building pens in
which to keep them and also for the care
that is being taken of them. There was
good attendance of sportsmen. among them
being members from Pennington, Bath,
Waterville and other parts Of the State.
The officers and members, together with
invited guests, took carriages and Wis
tied the yards. Here they inspected
the birds and studied thoroughly into
the conditions now surrounding them. At
2 o'clock the association was called to order
by President Gay, who made statement
to the members present of the financial
condition. After an informal discussion it
was decided that a committee should be ap-