Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-06
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

At the Eastern State Normal school the
prizes for reading were awarded to Leila
Glidden of North jefferson. Lizzie NJ
Young of Bar Harbor and Nettie l..
Friend of Friendship.
Pres. Chris Toole of the Orono driving
park, has arranged another race meet fol-
Friday, June 21. There will be three
classes. $50, 2.35 and free-for all, and the
purse in each will be $780,
Rev. Thomas ]. Campbell pastor of
the church of Emanuel, Portland, who
rendered his resignation last Sunday, has
been asked to withdraw it, and he has the
matter under consideration
The fish and game commissioners have
| put 200, 600 sea salmon fry into tributaries
| on the Penobscot river, completing the
| work this week. These fish are about two
| months old, two inches in length, and
are just beginning to feed.
A big citisens' meeting was held at
Westbrook, Wednesday evening, to com
plete plans for Fourth of July celebra-
ton. \ committee was appointed to
complete arrangements. Over $1,000 has
been pledged by the citizens
The Rockland school board has voted
| against granting diplomas to the sus-
pended members of last years high school
graduating class. Mayor Lovejoy and
Charles f. Weeks were the members vot-
ing in favor of granting them.
Belfast has agreed to pay $40 for base
ball ground for the school boys. The con-
tract is for but one year. however The
grounds are in the rear of Congress street,
and a sufficient sum of money has been
raised to pay for fitting them up.
Peter Schneider, the 3-years- son of
Jacob Schneider, living at North Ply
mouth, was drowned, Tuesday. in pond
near Woods block. Seaside The child
was playing on flume, and fell off, and
before he could be rescued was drowned
Josiah +. Prescott, leading lumber
man and millman and large owner Of
lumber lands in Franklin county, died at
Pennington, Wednesday, of acute pneu-
monia, having been sick only two days.
He was rs years old. His wife survives
him.
Rev. c. S. Frost, who has resigned the
passionate of the Essex street Free Baptist
church, Bangor, proposes to become
uHdACietl CNduEOtiopt do lt UCIIllS IL.
He is to hold himself in readiness to
respond to calls from pastors of all denomi-
nations to assist in lifting the debt upon
churches.
The board of Franklin county COM
missioners were in session at Farming
ton Tuesday, and appointed the following
tax collectors for the organized planta-
tions within the limits of the county;
Rangeley, Emery Moore; Greenvale. Jerry
Lowell; Lang, Floyd Taylor; Letter f,
John L. Melcher; Dallas George X
Peary; Coplin. X. II. Grose; Perkins,
Charles Newell. .
The ordination of Rev. F. p Estabrooll
as pastor Of the Pavilion church, Bid
deford, occurred Wednesday. The par
ticipating clergymcn were Revs. IT, A
Frye of Biddeford George Lewis of South
Berwick, George A. Lockwood of Kenne-
bunk, r. c. Driscoll of Alfred,P H. Moore
of Saco. and Edward Chase of Hallowell.
The ordination sermon was preached by
Prof. j. w. Churchill of Andovcr.
Frank Hutchinson of Starks, died
Tuesday, in the Central Maine General
hospital, Lewiston, from the effects of
wounds received near Oakland, where he
fell under train, Tuesday morning. He
and his brother were travelling about look
ing for work, and it was supposed that
they were stealing ride on the train
One leg was broken at the thigh and the
other below the knee. One arm was
broken and the head brushed.
One evening recently as ElwOod Cliff
ford, West Bath young man, was re-
turning from Small Point he was some
what surprised when near Princes Corner
to see two men leap from the roadside and
attempt to stop his horse. He struck the
animal with the whip and being some
what spirited horse, the animal dashed by
the men. Young Clifford had revolver
and drawing it, fired several shots at the
would-be highwaymen, who took to the
woods and disappeared.
W +. Loensaler of Waldoboro has con-
structed an immense lobster pound at
Long Island, which is an object of interest
to fishermen along the coast. On the west
side of the island, where the pound is
located, there is an inlet of six and one
half acres which Mr.. Loensaler has in
closed. Its capacity is 1926, 900 Holsters.
and the owner has already stored Is, 900,
making additions constantly. There is
prospects of a similar pound being con-
structed on Petit Manan.
Jere Shannon the veteran and popular
hotel keeper of Bath, seems to be playing
in hard luck. A year ago last January
he was burned out of the Sagadahoek
house, of which he was the proprietor
He then rcopened the old Shannon house
that was once the home of William King,
the first Governor of Maine and a few
months later that was nearly destroyed
by fire He had it rebuilt and. Tuesday,
a fire caught in the ell and had 1t not
been discovered until few minutes later
it would have gone again. AS it was it
was extinguished by the prompt service
of the fire department before much
damage was done.
In the United States district court at
Bangor, Webb, J.,presiding, the following
grand jurors were in attendance Samuel |
G. Pennell Brunswick, foreman: George |
A. Savage and Andrew Kelley, Tr., Ban
gor; William H. Foye and Charles Hodg- |
kins, Bath; Amos +. Varney. Brunswick
Augustus Whitcomb and n W. Fish. Dex- |
ter; Thomas III. Parker and George l. |
Lakin, Phillips; Leonard II. Herrick and |
Virgil p. Waterhouse, Poland; Edward Il |
Dyer, Portland; Thomas J. Townsend and
Fred J. Brown, Readfield Charles G War.
rem and Arson G.. Holway, st. AIbans. AL