Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-18
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

These officers We're elected by mail iDal-
! IT of Maine Division. League of Ameri-
can Wheelmen: Chief consul. Abner W.
lowell, Portland vice consul, H. c.
CHAT. Rockland: secretary and treas
rer. Percy P. Richardson. Portland: rep
rasentatives, c. A, Ltchfeld. Lewiston.
contest was over the representatives.
there being three candidates. and the
division being entitled to but two repre-
o fs5 XSted
II. The candidates for other offices re-
ceiyed 1Se votes.
There has been more or less told OF
larry Wise, who has been in Old Town
fer year or more. Not long ago he
took over 800 from Mr.. Page, the bar
er. with whom he roomed. Page made
complaint to Deputy Sheriff Gould.and
the money was found hid in. an old
loot. after confession by Wise. Again
&c took a certain sum from a manufac-
turer of soda while the two We're TAX
ing nap. On complaint being made
10 City Marshal Davis. and suspicion
eing directed to Wise, the marshal
accused him of the theft, and he passed
ever the stolen money Since the last
fence Wise. with a cousin by the
. anne name, have been renting a house
in High street. and girl by the name
Adams has been keeping house for
hcm. On Saturday night. one Dubay
pent the night there. and when he
evoke found that his vest with S11
end two watches in it had gone. and
lie of the Wise cousins had departed.
y warrant was sworn out against
larry Wise. who was the one remain
Ing, as having been concerned in the
theft. The trial came up before Judge
Whiting. Monday afternoon. and Wise
vas bound over in the sum of $4,000 for
npearance at the supreme judicial
court. and was given "a hours to Sc
ure bonds. He is now in the lookup.
Waiting for some one to become his
1ondsman.-Bangor News.
They are making odd whispers about
1oWn concerning the death of Mr..
Daniel Donovan. whose body was found
ialf buried in the black mud of the
canal. Sunday forenoon. The men who
-now the most about such things are
saying that there are many strange
Kings about this particular case.
These cases are growing upon us.
aid local detective, Tuesday. and
{ we do not look out it will not be safe
0 walk about the streets here after
dark. BY the way. | have in mind a
Lewiston tough who was going about
ere the next week after Mr.. Donovan
disappeared. with big bruise on the
s!de of his head. He would not tell
ow he got it, and seemed scared when
questioned" If. as the family of Mr.
Donovan say, he had no reason to feel
Ike or discouraged. and to their best
:Aowledge did not feel so, it is passing
TRANCE that he should have committed
uicide. The belief today is growing
cry strong that he did not come to his
cath by his own volition, but that 1t
as either an accident or something
lse. There is no reason to think that
was accident if what the family says
: true and it undoubtedly is. Even
ONE Of the nighbors who We're willing
. talk on the first Monday morning
hen the news crept out and was gen
ally known, that he had disappeared.
aid that they did not-could not believe
hat the man had taken his own life.
'oroNer Vaughan says that he has ex-
,lnined the body very carefully and is
{ the opinion that the man did not
ommit STANDARDIZATION Journal
A New York evening paper says:
Advices received here, Tuesday, from
Wilmington, Del. are to the effect that
he annual meeting of the Bay State
las shareholders was held there. Tues
lay. and John r. Bartlett of New York
'ccted president of the company. Mr..
,artlett was instructed to meet all