The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1895-10-10
NEWS OF THE wEEk.

County Commissioners any part of which
is raised to pay interest or principal to
buy stock in the Shore Railroad. A de-
cision was made recently in similar case
by the Circuit Court Of the United States.
49,. The annual encampment of the State
College Cadets will be held in Presque Isle
during the week of Oct. Ali. The battalion
will be made up of four companies, band
and signal corps, and will number about
24O men. Capt. Edgerly, the new mill
tary instructor, is exacting very strict dis
cipline in drill, but is proving to be popu-
lar among the students. 80. The annual
meeting of the Maine Federation of
Women's Clubs will be held in Augusta
Oct. 9, 10, II, by invitation Of Current
Events and Unity Clubs. Each club is en-
titled to representation by two delegates,
its President and one other. Names
should be sent to Mrs Frank r. Partridge,
112 State street, Augusta, as early as pos
sible, and the address Of place Of enter
tainment will be sent to each delegate.
All club members are cordially invited.
Half fare on railroads. y. The official trial
trip of the Ammen Ram katahdin, set for
Oct. 5, will be postponed two weeks, ow-
ing to an accident. 1t was discovered
when she was placed on the dock that her
propeller blades were bent and new ones
will have to be substituted. BiddefOrd
and Saco are in state Of excitement over
40 cases of typhoid fever in the two cities,
due to impure water and milk from farm
where there were two cases. The river
from which the water supply is secured is
the lowest for years. Among those
stricken with fever is ex-Mayor S. F.
Parcher.. Edgar Scott, the Philadelphia
millionaire. has bought eleven acres Of the
most costly land in Bar Harbor, on the
shore adjoining the Markoe property, and
will build a summer palace next year......
Patents have been granted Thomas Ii. 3.
Pierce Of Dexter, for game board, and
Silas w. Melden Of Rockland on a lime
kiln. ;. Sheriff William F. Reed Of Ban
gor died Sept. 27th after long and very
severe illness from liberation of the stom-
ach. aged A years. He was serving his
third term as sheriff. He leaves widow
and one SON. IF. 0. Reed of Bangor and
Mack Guilette of Presque Isle We're each
fined $50 in the United States Court at
Portland Sept. 9th for violating the in
ternational revenue laws. State Bank
Examiner Timberlake was in Boston
last week, as the representative OF Maine,
in conference with commissioners from
New York, Vermont, Connecticut, New
Hampshire and Rhode Island, regarding
the affairs of the Granite State Provident
Association and their methods Of doing
business. -. The Boston Athletic Associa-
ton has cancelled its date with Bowdoin
for game at Boston on November 9th. in
order to play the University of Pennsyl-
vania at Manhattan field, New York, on
team will play Colby at Orono on Satur-
RI nnf Z ic acti, tod hot
some 10. 900, 600 or $4,000, 600 feet, or at
least 100, 900 logs, have been transported
over the Bradstreet carry from the waters
of the Penobscot river into Moosehead
lake, and thence down tine kennebec. 1t
is said that driving is more expensive in
the Penobscot waters than on the kenne-
bee: but the Manufacturer Gazette says
that the one important reason, however,
why large amount of PenObscot logs are
now diverted to the kennebec waters is
the unsatisfactory methods of scaling logs
which prevails at Bangor. The season
has now advanced to a stage where it is
possible to correctly predict the smallest
crop OF apples for some years in the
western kennebec valley. Of Baldwins
there is hardly marker for a crop. OF
Ben Davis there won't be half crop.
Greetings are bearing fairly well, as are
also Russets, Spies and fall fruit. Taken
as a whole, however, the orchards about
Monmouth have not more than one tenth
their usual crop.....Seven crates of Oil
paintings, belonging to lady artist
named Mary A. Beckett, were attached in
Rockland recently on their arrival by
steamer Mt. Desert, in response to dis
patch from a Bar Harbor lawyer, who
said the artist was leaving an unpaid
board bill amounting to over 500 behind
her,. Mrs. James Z. Devine, wife Of
prominent Augusta merchant, committed
suicide Sept. 2sth by cutting her throat
with knife in a tit of temporary insanity.
The victim was "A years old and is surviv-
ed by her husband and two daughters.....
1t is estimated that only one-h half the ice
stored on the Kennebec river last winter
will have been shipped at the close of the
season.. In 1870 Bar Harbor was assess
ed for s196. 400; 1880, 1922, 9O1; 1890,
So, o., 95S. This is the brief real estate
story of that famous summer resort for 20
years. eat a meeting Of the trustees Of
Colby University, Sept. 30, Prof. Nathan
unanimously chosen president Of Colhy....
Mrs. Ella Jordan Mason Of Biddeford has
been elected national installing officer of
the Woman's Relief Corps. Mrs. Mason
is one Of the most prominent members of
that organization in the country. She
has held the various offices in Grant Re
lief Corps Of Biddeford, was for two years
president of the State Relief Corps, and
was instrumental in the recent founding
Of the home for aged veterans and their
dependents at Newport, Me. She was the
first woman in New England to deliver a
Memorial Day Grafton, which was given
in Bangor.
In BRIEF. DIR. Talmage's formal &C
ceptance OF the call rendered by the first
Presbyterian church of Washington, D.
c., has been received. He will preach
his first sermon as CO. pastor Sunday even
ing, Oct. 27.....I 1t has been found that un-
der Tammany the New York police bureau
paid 40 per cent. more for supplies than
they could be purchased for in the open
market. .. The apple crop in Kentucky
was never SO great as this year. In some
of the mountain counties they are being
retailed at from two to ten cents a bushel.
In consequence of this abundance, apple
brandy distilleries are springing up like
mushrooms throughout that section of
the State. There are now nearly 800 Of
these plants in operation in the eighth
internal revenue district. ...... The State
department was advised of the pay
ment in London, Sept. 9th. of the Span
iSh draft for the Mora claim and the de-