Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-11-06
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

The town of Blaine voted as follows:
Rep, lol: Bryan and Sewall .; Pro, 6;
| Peoples, |.
Portland Republicans are arranging for
| an elaborate celebration on Saturday
night The affair will be under the au-
spices of the Lincoln Club and city com
| mttee
George Stone of Starks was before
Justice Withee of Madison. Wednes-
day, on the charge of assault against
a neighbor. and fined, the fine and costs
amounting to about $50.
A committee of the st. Joseph's Catho-
! lie church, Biddeford, went to Portland,
| Thursday afternoon, TO present to Bishop
! parish and the privilege of erecting or
| purchasing a new house OF worship.
| AS Walter Sterry and his mother
We're going to Starks from New Port
land. the other night. man leaped
! from the side of the road and made an
| unsuccessful effort to grab the horse
by the bits.
Mr. Reuel Small has been appointed by
Judge Putnam as his secretary to accom-
! pany him to Victoria. Vancouver Island.
! There are TO be two secretaries and two
stenogra piers. and Mr.. J. Cecil Clay Of
| Portland viii go as one of the latter.
! Judge Putnam and Messrs. Small and
1 Clay will leave. next Saturday. and Will
lie gone until about Jan. I.
| 1t is claimed that the Oldest station
agent in Maine if not in New England,
in point of years of continuous service. is
Ivory Littlefield. the Eastern division
ticket and station agent of kennebunk.
Mr. Littletield has filed his present posi-
tion 81 years. He was born in Lyman in
1875. He is over six feet in height and
timely proport oned. There are few men
, of Il who are active rs he.
! Yesterday. a man wrote to me. asking
if | could remember that he was In my
! company and that he was wounded at
Fay Ridge. said Il Lewiston veteran of
the Maine Volunteers. Il looked up his
record and found that he was in my. COM
pany but that he deserted at the battle
of the Wilderness. l wrote back that l
remembered him well. but did not remem-
her that he was wounded.-Iewiston
Journal.
Last week. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson and
, son of Camden. started for Texas, and
they didn't go on the cars either They
are making the trip in covered carryall
he two months in making the journey.
Mr.. Lawson took with him a double
barrel gun and a dog for hunting pur-
poses while on the way Mr.. Lawson has
been in Camden the past year ana claims
TO be Texan.
Coroner Rich of Portland: is of the opin-
ion that Alonzo G. Phillips of Boston
who killed his wife. Mrs. Hattie Philips,
L
first intend to kill his wife, but did con,
template committing suicide: He found
a letter on the body of Phillips. dated
Portland. Nov. 3 the Gay of the murder
and suicide. directed to Mrs. Phillips
which showed that at the time probably
only a short time before the deed he
thought of taking only his own life
|. W. Emerson. Esq. of Lewiston. may
election of Mckinley. Early in the cam
paign one of Mr.. Emerson's sons. who is
an attorney, at law in ohio. sent home a
few Mckinley buttons. They took so
well that Mr.. Emerson sent for more and
The son sent home 1900. Mr. Emerson dis
tributed 1000 in Lewiston and Auburn and
vicinity. and his son. r. w. Emerson.
gave away 1G00 among Bowdoin college
students and citizens of Brunswick.
Some % or more stone cutters arrived
at Calais on the noon train. Tuesday; to
Brunswick granite works. The boom in
business which was predicted after eiec-
tion seems to have started in one uay
ahead. w ork in this industry will be
, rushing during the winter months and
upwards of $50 people will be employed.
and with the shoe factory and cotton mill
running steadily the outlook for prosper
Gus times in the St. Croix valley is most
encouraging.
About 1870. last evening, a man was
brought into the station who had evi,,
IDENTIFY been celebrating the election and
who certainly came under the head of be-
ing drunk and disorderly, He had in his
possession two shirts which he stoutly
asserted belonged to him and said he had
just purchased. AS the shirts were quite
damp and bore every evidence of having
just come from a clothes line. Deputy
Sterling was Inclined to believe that the
prisoner had stolen them for the purpose
Of selling them for liQuor.-Portland Ar
gus.
The foreman of a Rockland quarry and
his wife arose the other morning before
daylight as is their custom at this season
80 . ,I-c. - nd l.,I f.,
the usual household duties. neither of
them CHANGING to look at the clock. The
wife felt bit sleepy and the husband
visible as he walked in the direction Of
the quarries. Not a soul was stirring
when he arrived at the quarry. and com
mencing to smell a mouse. he walked
back home and looked at the clock. The
hour hand pointed to ?. There have been
no midnight breakfasts in that house
since.
State Cattle Commissioner Bailey
and Deering ordered killed, Wednes
day. one COW from the herd of Mrs. j.
A. Jordan in Auburn and five cows
from the herd of William Woodbury.
at South Auburn. These cattle had
been examined with the tuberculin test
by DR.. Choate of Lewiston and ad-
Judged infected. DR.. Choate has also
examined CONS in the fine herd at
Lookoff Farm in Monmouth and has
found four of them diseased. and they
were killed, Thursday. by order of the
commission. Other herds in that vi
cinity are to be examined at once.
As G.n w. Spinney and his nephew,
Fred Spinney, We're returning to Starks
from North Anson the other night,
they met a team. containing two men
and woman. and as they We're pass
ing a gun was fired. the charge Of shot
striking G. W. Spinney's face and one