Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-08

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case Tuesday morning. While coming
| down Ash street from his house quite
early he ran across a pretty stiff drunk
who was badly Off. Mr.. Odlin took him
! in tow, and asked him where he was at
| He said he staid at certain hotel in
| Lewiston Monday night and had been
robbed. Mr. Odlin didn't believe that he
had been robbed there, asked him where
he had been before he went to the hotel.
He acknowledged having been in notori-
Gus hotel on Lisbon street, a well-known
saloon on Lisbon street and saloon on
Main street previous to going to the hotel,
and finally agreed that he might have
been robbed in either of these places. He
had Il big head and wanted a cure, but
Odlin couldn't quite see 1t. Mr.. Odln
took him to the station and locked him
up. He proved to be "A Brockton shoemaker
who had just been down to Monmouth
| burying his wife, and on the way back
stopped off at Lewiston and got hot. All
his money was gone except an English
shilling which he had in his pocket with
| a Murphy blue ribbon run through ii. H
| was kept in the station all day, but some
of hif friends got some money together
and sent him home to Broekton on the
l1.20 p. Nj. train.--Lewiston Sun.
A well appearing man called at the
residence of one of our well-known
| citizens. who is a leading philatelist,
| Tuesday, and told his wife that her
| tlQSDdIid lldu SSul Hill " Sct HIS Stamp
collection, as he was entertaining sew
| eral gentlemen who We're deeply inter-
ested in stamps and very DESTROYS Of
! seeing how extensive a variety he had
gathered The lady struck by the
plausible story of the man went to the
| library and got the large volume. in
which, on specially prepared slips, the
stamps were mounted, and handed il
| ~.
her husband returned she asked hirl
where his stamp book was as she did
not see him bring it in. He of course,
wanted to know what she meant.
| This led to an explanation and he said
he had never sent any one for the col
| lection. The collection is valued at tn
market price of the stamps, for about
$1,000. The police are looking for the
| thief.-Portland Press.
! An official of the Boston & Maine
| Railroad says that if he has any in
| lluence with the Master Car Builders
Association. that body at its next
meeting viii take up the question Of
advertising posters on cars, or rather
of the paste with which they are stuck
| on. He called the attention of the
| writer TO two cars standing in the
| freight yard which had the blackened
i ard dirt laden remains of somebody
hand bills posted on their sides. The
| poster had split off where the pieces Of
wood of which the car was made
Joined and the edges curled up. Whei
ever there was a curl, there was Q
portion of the paint from the car at
iached. The official pulled off seVera
pieces, and in each case the paint came
off with it. He says that there is one
kind of paste which beats an iron
sclaper for taking paint off. and it is
la great nuisance and cause of expense
to all the companies. The practice Of
FASTING posters on the sides of cars Is
looked upon with disfavor by railroad
officials anyway. 1t is just like fire.
passes, giving valuable advertising
privileges for nothing
Another cutdown of wages in two
sardne factories at PASSPORT. caused
4 large number of employees to leave
their work. The cut is caused by the
present low price that sardines are
selling for in the New York markets
and how long it will continue cannot !
be guessed, but as the men refuse to
work a the cut in these factories AMI !
lue Say LHey cannot al |
ford to pay the former price, it is a |
question of how long the men can hold |
out, if the packers are satisfied with !
their seasons pack, which must be !
small, as work began late. 1t is ex |
pected that other packers will cut |
later, if the present difficulty is not |
soon settled and the outlook for the |
working men, who live principally |
from the manufacture of sardines. is |
not very bright The merchants will |
also be the losers in the event of re- |
duction, and If the buildings close soon |
the loss will be felt in all parts of the |
city. There are few workmen who have !
made over 800 since the work began in |
July, and this is a small amount to |
live on. up to this time, besides keep |
ing them during the long winter |
months when there is scarcely any |
kind of work there. Many of the seal |
ers and can makers have left the city |
in search of work in other towns. 1t |
is generally known that little effort |
has been made by the working men to |
square their accounts about the city |
this fall, and it is also admitted that |
little credit will be given during the |
winter. as it is impossible under the |
conditions. The question of cut prices |
may be settled this week, but until it )