Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-29
BITS OF MAINE NEWS.

Lewis Menard, Biddeford barber, who
has been missing for year, has finally
been located at Bay st. Louis, Miss.
The Bowdoin College team will open
the base ball season with the Portland
League team, Fast day, in Portland.
New Brunswick has a new game law,
by which cartridges cannot be shot for
three years. Hunters of deer and moose
must pay license fee of 50 to the county
warden.
Congressman Boutelle is to be guest
at the dinner of the Merchants Club of
Boston on April go, and on April 81 he
will be one of the speakers at the Grant
birthday banquets at Chicago
The Richardson Rangeley lakes are at
the lowest water mark since the dams at
the outlet were built, and the drouth is SO
severe that part Of the mills in northern
Oxford county have been stopped.
Among the candidates who passed sue
cessfuIly the examination for a cadetshir
at the West Point Military Academy, and
will enter the academy in June, was
W. S. Brown of North Bridgton, Me.
Bangor pays nearly half of the State
tax of the whole of Penobscot county.
Counting the taxpaying property owned
by her citizens elsewhere in the county
she pays more than half. Bangor will
pay 1873, DIG. 92 into the State treasury dur
ing 1895.
The contractors to build the Bangor,
Orono e. Old Town Electric Railroad are
confident they will have the road finished
from Bangor to the camps of the Maine
State college in season to accommodate
all visitors to the college on field day,
June II.
Rev. w. II. S. Burton, a young North
Saco pastor, who suddenly deserted his
parish, last summer, leaving many I'M
paid bills, has been heard from. He is
now confined in Virginia Jail on charge
of committing fraud in connection with a
horse trade.
Chadwick Manufacturing Co. has been
organized at Portland for the purpose of
manufacturing and finishing hides. skins
and leather and dealing in the same. with
500, 600 capital stock, of which $500 is
paid in. The officers are: President, A.
W. Pope of Brooklinc. Mass. treasurer,
A. W. Mckinney of Lynn, Mass. Ccrti-
flcate approved, March IS, 1895.
The Maine Central Railyoad Company
has voluntarily paid to Hon. George 8.
Woodman of Auburn, administrator Of
the estate Of Rufus Hackett of Auburn,
5000. Mr.. Hackett was killed by a Mair Q
Central train at the Parsons Mill cross
ing in Auburn last fall. Suit for damages
had not been announced, and nothing Of
the sort was anticipated by the heirs.
Tho now pulp mill at Orono which is
being built by the Webster & Ring Com
pany is making rapid progress and, in a
few days. will be so far out of the way of
high water as to ensure its early compile
ton. One span of the iron bridge, on
which the pulp will be taken over the
river to the Webster Paper Co., is up and
the other spans are expected to be in place
In few days.
Daniel Walt, claimed to be the eldest
veteran Of the war Of the Re bellion, died
at Waldoboro, Wednesday morning.
When he enlisted in 1862 for service in
the Goth Maine, it was necessary to dye
his hair and beard to enable him to pass
muster He must have been at least go
years of age at that time. He also served
in the 1st Maine Sbarpshooters. He was
a member Of Charles Keller Post, q.
A. r.
There was pathetic scene in the Port
land municipal court, Wednesday. Mary