Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-17

The Davis Shoe Company, Biddeford
has been petitioned in insolvency by
creditors ant! the store closed.
| A Pine Point fisherman a few DAYS ago
caught in seine and killed il man en- ting
shark. 9ia feet long and capable of eating
| a man.
Rev V. d. Sweetland of Palmyra, has
been engaged to deliver the Memorial
address before the George Goodwin
| Post at St. Adams.
| The Tooth anniversary of the South
'homaston Baptist church will be held
IN the afternoon and evening of Oct
o. and if stormy that day the 22d
Frank CaNanaugh who escaped from
the insane asylum ut Augusta. Wednes-
day. was captured al Belfast Thursday
evening by Sheriff Norton. He was
iramping to his home in Calais.
Goternor-elect Powers started Thurs
day 10 fulhl his engagement with the ma
week In Michigan and one week in Mime
sofa before election. His assignments in
Aichigan are as follows. AT Flint. Oct,
~ Owasso. Oct. 70: Iona Oct. n: Allegan.
Oct. % Kalamazoo, oct. Is. Jackson. Oct.
Rev. s. A. Abraham. the young Ar
,lenian minister who has so acceptably
iA-h Niit Pbtt'it VI tiA' NpHcffkdtEtflai
church a. Green's Landing, is about to
leave the pulpit for the platform. and
hopes thereby to he of greater aid to
his suffering countrymen.
Mr.. A. F. Gerald. president OF the Ban
or. Drono ~ Old Town Electric railway,
faS broken the world $ record In the rapid
construction of the Brunswick electric
railroad which has been built. equipped
ana commenced operation in 20 days. The
road reaches through Brunswick and
Topsham. three and one-half miles. one
thousand passengers rode over this road
last Tuesday afternoon In the rain. one
month ago the steel rails We're undis-
lHrbcd ore in the Fennss lvania mines.
1t is said that merchant up in
Norridgewock who was in his store
very week day for over II years in all
hat period did not 90 ont Of the limits
# his town but once and that was Il
drive TO Srnithfield one Sunday with a
shing party for a days pleasure. He
had always kept team and drove
nearly every sunday hut never. except
IN The occasion above mentioned. did
'-c cross the town line.
Frank Cornish. the Boston and Maine
.Wltchman, whom the road holds re-
sponSihle for the accident in the West
rrn division yard. Wednesday. which
esulted in the big hog engine No. ISL
nlunging off the turn table and blowing
Is length in the soft earth beyond, has
been discharged from the company s
Employ and Merrill C. Simpson, a
CONDUCTOR on the Biddeford electric
coad, has been given his position
Frank Durgin of The Forks, had quite
81 fight with oupcerViers one day last
10 ale I.as "a
when he heard 4 snarling behind him
over a knoll some 20 rods back came q
pack of loupcerviers-two old ones and
i've nearly grown. The hunter was the
hunted now 1t was useless to run so he
stood his ground. His first shot was too
high. on they came. biting and snarling
at each other. eager to be first to pounce
upon him. Another shot-there was one
less brute. They were getting closer now.
lie worked the Winchester rapidly killing
we. one hmped away, and one turned
tail and lit out for cover. Durgn gath
cred up the five and went home without
tracking the deer further.
Complaint was made to Deputy Nichols
On Wednesday afternoon at 80 that Some
diamonds had been stolen from the Fox
croft Exchange There were three studs.
ralued at so each. and il pair OF link cufl
buttons. Nichols and G. NJ. Woods drove
10 Greeleys Landing with warrant
chartered steamer ana went to Wilt
mantle, where the Uncle Toms Cabin Go.
9howcd and attended the performance. AT
he close Nichols told Harry T. Howard.
n member of the company. he would like
20 speak to him Howard wished to get
his umbrella and turned around. He be-
gan to remove a stud from his shirt front,
ard Nichols caught him and took the
stud. Sheriff Nichols found two studs
md the cuff buttons. the latter being
.alued at $50 each.
The syndicate that is building the
monster lumber mill in Ashland has just
purchased in Boston and had shipped to
that town the heaviest consignment OF
machinery that has been made to Maine
for years 1t consisted of four horizontal
tubular boilers of $50 horse power each.
and one iron smokestaclS six feet in
diameter and 90 feet high. The shipping
weight was 10000 pounds. and eight cars
We're required to transfer it to the Ash
land Manufacturing company. The dam
across the AroostooK river at Ashland is
nearly completed and the frame for the
large mill will soon ne erected. A large
storehouse is being built by the side of
the railroad track and several dwelling
houses will be put up this fall. About l5O
men are at present employed in pushing
forward the work at this point.
During the present session of court the
topic of converse ton that is all-absorbing
TO the citizens of FoXcroft is What will
they do about the Hale notes?" Many of
the taxpayers think the better way
would be for the town to vote to pay %
per cent. Of the notes that are not out
lawed. writes the correspondent of the
Bangor News. There is no question but
t1at many OF the FoXcfoft holders OF the
notes would give them up at once and
we have heard it stated on good authority
that Hon J. b. Mayo has declared he
would give $4,000 towards liauidating the
debt If the town would offer percentage
Furthermore. he is reported to have said
he would guarantee that the mill former
~ owned by him would keep on doing as
much business as possible just the same
as though the tax was lighter. In the
next Iouf years the uncertainty of it will
in addition to the cost of defending. in
jure the town more than the amount OF
20 per cent. at least of the notes thus far
presented. 1t would help the credit of the
place to meet the question in this wav
There is d long time before the March
meeting for the citizens and taxpayers 10
think of this matter.
Apropos of the Federation of Wo-
mans clubs which meets here this
week, it is observed, singularly enough
that most of the women writer's OF
Maine who have won distinction with