Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-12

Miss Ida Burnham. ~17-year-old
daughter of Henry Durham of North
Jay, committed suicide by hanging in
that town, Wednesday afternoon.
Cause unknown. -. -,t
Forty thousand young trout have
been turned out from the hatchery at
Enfield into waters at Bar Harbor.
Sorrento. Machias and Cold Stream:
21S, 900 Atlantic salmon have been put
into the St. Croix and Penobscot
waters.
Miss Annie King of Brunswick. a
| grand daughter of the first governor of
| Maine, will soon sail for Paris in COM
| pany with her aunt. Mrs. Jennie Forbes
| of Boston. In Paris Miss King is to
become the wife of the foreign cores
| pendent of the Bon Marche."
The war veteran, Luther Trip, is
dangerously sick in Lewiston. Burn
side Post of Auburn, is caring for him.
His father was in the war of 1872 and
his grandfather was in the Revolu-
tionary war, 1916. Luther says: IF
my boys wouldn't enlist in case of an
other war Id be ashamed of them
Peculiar marriage relations exist, or
will exist, in a Belfast family. About
one year ago q young couple were
married. Now a brother of the first
named groom is to marry the mother
Of his brothers. wife. Two brothers to
marry mother and daughter. By this
arrangement one brother becomes the
father-in-laW of the other.
1t is very likely that the improve
ments in Bangor's water system this
year will include the erection of a
s%tandpipe of 1900. 900 gallons capacity
on Thomas hill. the most available
elevation in the city. Recently some
negotiations have been in progress for
the purchase by the city of a tract of
land on the hill, and the site for the
standpipe will soon be secured, prob
ably.
There is a man in BoWdoinham who
occasionally gets enough to eat. A
II A. NJ, one day last week the boys
on the street treated him to what he
could eat, as follows: n large 0 a
of bread. two loaves of cake, one
pound of pickles. one pound of cheese.
two dozen d%oughnuts and a GOLDFISH
AT noon he went to a ne~ighborine
house II dtc what lC CtIio "a oiNoAN
meal, which is no small allowance,
and drank two quarts of buttermilk
Just to wash it down.
Coach Horne of Bowdoin, who is
training the Bangor high school boys
to condition for the interscholastlc
meet at Augusta next Saturday, has
begun his labors with the school team
and has hopes of good work from some
O, them on the day of the contest.
Mr.. Horne says that he thinks Jordan,
Connors, Hunt and snow are the men
to be depended upon and that they will
90 to Waterville prepared to do great
things for school. The boys are work
ing on the park track when outdoor
work is possible and in the Y. M. c.
A. gymnasium in rainy weather.
Tn an interesting little war between
the ice trust and the Maine vessel
owners combine, the trust appears to
have the upper hand at present. The
vessel owners combine to raise carry
ing rates to southern ports was hardly
n unanimous affair. several large snip
| owners refusing to join. Owing to
the backward summer the demand for
ice has been far from brisk and so far
the trust has had no trouble in trans
porting all it's ice by non-combine
vessels. Later on, however, when the
season warns up, the cOmbin will be
in n position to ask n receive their
schedule rates for he trust must
satisfy the demand at any cost. Z
The recent report of the life saving
service gives a list of places on the
coast of Maine where vessels have
stranded during the last ten years.
| This list covers four pages of print.
md the totals show 319 such localities.
almost twice as many as on he coast
of n other New England state. In