The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-09-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

| MAINE MATTERS. A small grand stand
collapsed at the fair at Cherrytield Sept.
| 9th and 100 persons We're precipitated in a
mass, dozen receiving broken bones and
internal injuries. The fair ground was
the scene Of intense excitement over a re
port that many had been killed. The re-
port that Capt. John Leighton of Mil
| bridge died of fright during the excite
ment was a mistake. He had an attack
Of heart disease, to which he is subject,
and was carried home unconscious. but
! now has recovered his usual health.....
There are 2773 students at the State Col
/ lege, including l22 freshmen. The class
in modern languages is so large that Pres
/ ident Harris thinks it advisable to have
| another instructor and will call meeting
! of the trustees soon ....,1 ohm Ray of SkoW-
hogan, aged %, was completely buried in
a ditch sixteen feet deep while digging a
| sewer, the walls caviug. He was dead
when taken out. He left widow and
one child 80. In HouIton Just now potatoes
are selling at about 10 cents per barrel.
About 40 carloads have been shipped
from the Houlton station over the Is x A
railroad, this season..... The September
meeting at Rigby Park will be held Sep
TENDER 2lst to 10Th. There will be u
stakes, s., 600 each. and 30 eligible start
ers. Robert j., Joe Patchen, john r.
Gentry, Frank Agan, Star Pointer, Fan
tasy, BepcJher, kentucky Union. Wn.
Penn. Onoqua and Hulda will all try and
hreal, their records. Several OF them
mean to make the mile in , minutes. if
possible thing.....I c. Libby has decided
to construct a big poultry establishment
in his deer park at WateryiIle and has
several workmen already engaged on the
buildings. He is now constructing one
building with a nice brick basement,
which is to be 36 feet square Another
building is to be 80 feet wide and 400 feet
long and still another will be five feet
wide and 400 feet in length. These build
ings Will become the pleasant homes for
1000 hens, 1000 ducks and 1000 geese.
Two elk and a pair of peacocks are soon
to be added. go. William Henry Foster, a
Maine wal veteran, died Sept. 10th of heart
disease at Hyde Park, Mass. He was born
at Norway, Me, May IA, 1922. He ser-
ed four years in the army, enlsting in
1862. Five children and a widow survive.
.,..A brakeman by the name of Charles
Leavitt, employed on the work train of
the Portland and Rumford Falls railroad,
was run over and instantly killed at Sum
ner Sept. 10th. He was standing on a
step on the front end of the engine such
as is used on yard engines when in some
way he lost his balance or his foot slipped
and the engine ran over him. mangling
him terribly and severng his head from
his body..... The law court Sept. 18th
handed down decision in the Getchell
murder case, which was tried at Augusta
in 1894, and in which a motion was made
to set aside the verdict of guilty of muir
der in the first degree. The respondent,
Mrs. Clara Getchell of Sidney, was accus-
ed of causing her husbands death by adj
ministering to him strychnne, mixed
with some gin and sulphur that he was ac-
customed to drink before meals. The law
court dismisses the appeal, and denies the
motion for new trial. go. The Imperial
House al old Orchard, four story wood
Ell structure containing $50 rooms, owned
by syndicate of Sac0 men, and leased by
d. W. Swan, was destroyed by fire Sept.
18th. The loss is estimated at $50, 900.
There is insurance for SlJ, 600. The few
guests in the house escaped in their night
clothes. The fire is thought to have been
set by ali incendiary A part Of the fur
niture and all the silverware was saved.
The Imperial was built in 1873 by Ellison
Seavey at a cost of 500, 900. and was con-
sidered one OF the best hotels on the Maine
coast.