Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-14
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Fred Mitchell of North Bath, while
delivering milk in Bath. was brutality
assaulted, Sunday, on Middle street by
a young man. and. but for the interven-
ton of a bystander. it is said Mitchell
would have been killed. His head was
terribly cut by heavy milk quart.
welded by the other. who took 1t away
from Mitchell during the alteration.
New York papers state that one
Henry Kendall of Belfast. Me-. has been
sentenced in the former city to Is years
in prison for robbery. 1t Is claimed
that the party is Henry Ward Beecher
Kendall. better known as Beecher Ken
DAN of Belfast.
In the Sagadahoc supreme judicial
court. at Bath. Saturday. James A
WinsloW VS.. Isaac Il. Reed; suit re-
garding the width of q private way in
Itath. adjoining which both own land.
This is the second trial of the case.
there having been one trial at the April
term last year. when Winslow, the
plaintiff, was non-suited. The case was
taken TO the law court, where the plain
tiff was granted new trial. Hon. F.
y. Noble of Lewiston was counsel for
tie defendent. Verdict for plaintiff. In
tie case of George Fright, who was
bound over to the April term of court,
the grand jury failed TO find bill.
Foster Lee Randall. a somewhat
noted character of Lewiston. is missing.
and some alarm.is felt by his friends as
to his whereabouts. He drove into the
city from his farm. two miles out of
town. last Monday morning with a boy
who worked for him. On reaching the
city he sent the boy back to the farm
with the horse and wagon, and gave
him instructions to tell his wife that he
should not be at home to dinner. He
has not been seen since Mr.. Randall
is - and is noted for his eccentricities.
His first wife died some six or eight
years ago. and in June. 1892, he decided
his farm. on which he was born and
always lived. to his son. Levi Randall.
taken in return mortgage of the farm
and bond maintenance.
Dennison Walker. who has done bust
ness al Pittsheld for years, formerly a
member of the firm of Robert Dobson
& Co. but for a number of years pro-
prietor of the Maple Grove wooden mill.
which he built and has operated. has
assigned to his brother. ]. H. Walker.
tional bank. but of late a book-keeper
in Maple Grove mill. One of the causes
OF Mr. Walkers financial troubles is
said to his purchase of a 9-set mill in
Westerly. r. l.. three or four years ago.
He was urable to pay in full for it at
time of purchase and it is understood
owes about $4,000 of the purchase
price at present. The extremely dull
has contributed much towards Mr.
Walkers embarrassment.
In Bath shipyards there is consider
able more activity than a year ago, and
shiphulders are hopeful that a much
larger amount of tonnage will. be built
this year than last. One of the busiest
shipyards in this city is that of Kelley
Spear 4 Co, where four large coal
barges are being built and the mater
ial has recently been ordered for a
large barge to be built the coming sum-
mer for Capt. William III. Besse of New
Bedford. The New England Company.
which has the largest shipbuilding
plant in New England. is putting up
two large schooners. At the yard of
Gardiner G.. Deering four masted
schooner of 1900 tons is being built
Percy & Small will have a four-masted
schooner of 1000 tons ready to launch
about the first of June. About the
middle of the summer the material will
arrive here from the South. for
schooner of about 1900 tons to be built
by Nathaniel 4. Palmer. 1t will be the
largest schooner ever built in the
United States. At the Bath Iron
Works keels We're laid this week for
the two composite gunboats to be built
for the United States navy. Those ves-
sells will be built on the same blocks as
the gunboats Machias and Castine.