Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-14
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

There are fears that the American ship
Norris, which cleared from Newport News,
Va, for Barcelona, Spain, on Oct. IL, has
been lost. Her captain is John A. Barstow
of Newcastle, Me.
Private Charles Small of Fort Preblc
Portland, is under arrest charged with
forging an officers name to orders for
goods, from which he realized nearly $500.
He will be tried by court martial.
Hotel Thatcher, Biddeford, has passed
into new management, William A. Roberts
having transferred his interest to the
Biddeford Hotel organized Saturday,
with capital of S25, 600. Mr.. Roberts
will be clerk.
Mary Bell, who was released from Ban
gor Jail, Thursday, where she had been
for killing her child, and who married
John Corson, was numerically beaten by
him, Friday, being knocked senseless.
John was arrested.
James Lewis was arraigncd in the
superior court mt Portland, Saturday, on
the charge of the murder of Byron G.
Coburn at Gorham. Lewis made a good
appearance when he pleaded not guilty.
His trial is expected to begin next week.
The Manhattan Ice Company at Phips-
burg Centre shipped the first cargoo of
ice for this season from the Kennebec,
last week. 1t was eleven and half
inches thick. 1t was good, clear ice,
shipped right out of the water and loaded
on barge Navesink. She carried 1000
tons.
Capt. Franklin Sayer and wife were
caught by the accidental closing of fold
ing bed at their home in Millbridge, Satur-
day morning. Mr.. Sawyer extricated
himself after considerable effort, but when
his wife was released it was found that
she had been caught in such way as to
injure her spine, causing paralysis. She
is not expected to live.
The Ammen ram now is pretty nearly
ready for removal to Charlestown. The
coming tower is up and the boat will
probably leave Bath, Jan. 20, for Boston
Quite crew of Bath men will go to
Charlestown to put on the finishing
touches when the Katahdin goes into
the dock. One of the Morse ocean tugs
will accompany the ram on her trip to
the Hub.
In the Washington county supreme
judicial court, Friday, Russell o. Smith,
who shot Juryman Burns, was sentenced
to four months in Jail for manslaughter
Phineas Liberman of Calais, convicted for
receiving stolen goods was sentenced to
three months in Jail. Court adjourned,
Friday, after busy term of nine days.
There were IL jury trials One case was
non suited, one reported to the law court
and 10 verdicts were reached.
Rev. d. G. Donnocker will be tried
again at Portland, next week. County
Attorney True is authority for the state
mcnt This means that Mr.. Donnocker
is to be called upon for the third time to
answer to the charge of adultery, and that
the Scarboro church sensation is to be
again in court. Mr.. Donnocker has for
some time been superintendent of schools
at Bourne, Mass. He is native of this
State, a graduate of Maine college, and
minister of the Baptist church. While
pastor of the church at Scaroboro he
boarded in the family of Mr.. Gilman, and
he is accused of having been intimate
with Ella Gilman, the daughter On
former trials the juries disagreed.
Jan 2, party of boys ranging in age
from 12 to II, started to skate from
Brunswick to Pejepscot, distance of five
miles up the Androscoggin river. On the
way one of the boys fell into hole and
soon disappeared under the ice. The
party returned home and the parents of
the missing boy asked what had become
of their son. They were told that he had
accepted a chance to work for a farmer.
Not hearing from him for week, his
father went into the surrounding country,
but could get no trace of him. On his
return he sharply questioned those who
were with him and they admitted that
the boy was drowned the day he left home,
that they did not dare to tell of the acct |
dent. His body has not been recovered. |
The coroncr's jury which has been hold |
ing an inquest in Bath, to learn the cause
of the death of Miss Katherine Fulton |
Patten, declares that she met her death |
carly on January by the hack in which
she was riding being struck by the Pull |
man train at the Centre street crossing, |
and says the collision was caused through |
the carelessness Of the hack driver, Lusa- |
phites McDougal, by the Maine Central |
Railroad Company, for running its trains |
at such rapid speed through the city and
for not having the crossings protected by |
gates and not maintaining gatcman for |
night as well as for day trains, and by the |
laxity of the city government in not caus- |
ing the railway company to properly pro- |
tect the crossings either by gates or hay
ing flagman for the night as well as the |