The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-06-19
A FEMININE FIRE EATER.
Has Propensity for RevoIvers-Threat-
ened to Shoot Her Landlord.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.l

Winthrop, June 1S.-Mrs Joanna P.
Haynes of Readfield was brought before
Trial Justice John Cover, Monday, on
the charge of threatening the life of Mr.
Hiram lockwood of this place-enforced
by displaying a loaded revolver
She was placed under $500 bonds to keep
the peace and in default of bail, she was
sent to the Augusta Jail
Mr.. lockwood went up to his farm in
East Readfeld upon which Mrs. HAYNES
is now living, to see about the grass
which she had begun to cut, and when
he demonstrated with her for cutting
grass on his land, she pulled revolver on
him, telling him that if he took step
upon that land be would do so at the
peril of his life
She is the same party who, at the death
OF her father, Elisha S. Case, accused two
OF Mlnthrop's most respected citizens
MI. Lockwood and his sister, Mrs. MI,
Robbins, of numbering Mr. Case. An
autopsy was held by eminent physicians
but no indications of poisoning could
be found, yet Mrs. Haynes appeared before
the grand jury and did all in her mower
to secure an Indictment against them.
Reports Being Ashore,
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.1
Port Clyde, June 1S-Schooner Levi
Hart, Capt. P. G. Pendleton, from New
York for this port, coal laden, arrived
at this port on the 10Th inst and reports
that she ran ashore on the shoals on the
Massachusetts coast on Friday, the 18th
inst and was towed off by steam tug
at cost Of $780,
Henry Rerry's Sudden Death.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.1
West Buxton, June 1S-Henry Berry
suddenly dropped dead today while at
work in the field.
County. Attorney Emmons Takes Excep-
tiOns.
Biddeford, June 1S.-The remains the
Gagne boy, kwho was run over by an
electric car last week were exhumed to-
day and coroners inquest begun by or
ders of County Attorney Emmons, who
takes exceptions to the claim that the
Legislatures abolishment of the office of
constable in Biddeford and Saco, hinders
the summoning of jurors for a coroner's
inquest
Frank Huff, aged twenty -one, while
getting logs at Walkers mill. Kenne-
bunk river, yesterday was drowned
Had No United States License.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss,1
Augusta, June 1S.-United States
Deputy Marshal Prescott passed through
the city tonight on the Pullman on his
way to Portland, having in custod v
Charles Brewer of Blaine, who is arrested
for selling liquor without a governments
license, and will be tried before tbe
United States court in Portland.
Fryeburg Academy's Commencement,
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.1
Fryeburg, June 1S The graduating ex-
ercises of the class of '95 of Fryeburg
Academy, were held in the Congrega-
tional church at o'clock last eyenin
The annual celebrations, when students
go tOut of School Life into Life's
School,, are always interesting occasj MS
and large audiences are always in at..n-
dance The floral decorations were aps
propriate to the fair month of June. Sur
rounding the platform was hedge of
graceful, dropping ferns, while here and
there, as in woodlawn dells, bright
blossom gave touch of color to the
scene The class only numbered four
members. All their parts were we'll writ
ten and we'll rendered. And, as the fu-
ture springs out of the past, so the in
spring achievements of later years are
often times only the development of these