The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-03-27
MAY GET FIFTEEN PER CENT.
What There Is Left to Maine Shareholders
of Granite State Provident.

What There Is Left to Maine Shareholders
of Granite State Proyident.
Augusta, March 26.-State Bank Ex-
busy with the affairs of the Granite State
Provident Association. There are numer-
GUS applications for the reoeivership as it
will be very renumerative position. 1t
is a question whether it will be better to
hold on to what assets there are in Maine
and distribute them among creditors in
the state. OF pool in with the other
twenty nine states. In any case the fund,
S67, 1877, in the state treasury can be kept
in the staue.
The association has in Maine bout
3, 464 shareholders, about Is, 921 shares of
the common stock of that association and
they have a standing to their credit on
the books of the association as capital
dues, $780, 900. Tt is estimated that the
shareholders in Maine have paid the asso-
citation at least 5000, 600, the $500, 600 that
has not appeared in previous statements
VI ulC dihOdbU ouo 0uOloCIS Ill A16luO,
being the portion of their payments that
has been taken for expenses.
= The number of loans within the state,
made by the association is Sol, and the
amount of the same S314, 200, of which
STA, 100 has been sold to third parties and
are first loan upon the property mort
gagged, and IN ust be paid in full to the
holders. This leaves about $40, OO0 due
the association on loans to Maine share
holders from which must be deducted
such payments as they made to the asso-
citation on their stock.
1t does not look, taking the expenses of
receiyership into account, as if the
creditors would get but a less than IS per
cent of their assets.
FIRE FiEND IN BlDDEFORD.
Attempt Made to Burn a Wooden Building
in That City.
Biddeford, March 2e.-An attempt
was made last night to set fire to the
wooden block on Main street. owned by
the Biddeford Savings bank The fire
started in the club room over the Don
nell Clothing Company's store. A box of
excelsior and two bottles of kerosene were
used. The fire was discovered in the nick
of time and extinguished without giving
an alarm. The matter will be investi-
gated.
A Mystery Explained.
RapO0r March 96 -T,ect
George Orr of Saltwater, who was about
seventeen years of age, suddenly disap-
peared and, notwithstanding thorough
search was made, no trace of him could
be found. His mother said he had left
heme before, and no doubt had gone into
the woods.
Tuesday John Mcnamara and jesse
Oliver of Orono, were at work on the
Saltwater river, when they noticed some
thing which looked like garment on the
head pier. AT night they told Charles
Buzzell, David Mudgett and others what
they had seen.
The next day Buzzen and Mudgett
went to the place with an axe, cut out
the garment and found it to be a boys
coat. In one pocket was pipe In the
other pocket was a note, which read as
follows:
'sG eo.-There are two loads of wood
here. Will you come over and throw them
in out of the rain.-Mrs. Reed"
MI. Buzzell knew at once that the gar
ment must belong to George Orr, as he
very often handled wood for Mrs Otis
Reed, at Saltwater. He recalled also that
at the time the young man left home the
section hands on the Saltwater branch
were said to have seen him last, near
Wyman's brook.
Mr.. Buzzell took the overcoat home,
and sent it up to Mrs. Orr Thursday
morning he received a postal from Miss
Mabel Jordan, Mr.. Buzzeli's niece, say
ing:
Dear Uncle The coat you found be-
longed to George Orr, as you supposed. -
Mabel
Queer Accident in Rockland.
Rockland, March 26-The front car OF
a loaded train Oh the LIMERICK railroad
left the iron this afternoon. and protrud-
ing three feet over the trestlowork, struck
an unocoupied building on Main street
owned by the Pressey heirs. The build
ing was broken in two and thrown bout
fifteen feet. The total damage is esti
mated at $1,000.
Eliot Town Meeting.
Portsmouth, March s6.-At the ad
jou1ned town meeting held yesterday at
Eliot Me-, it was voted to aDproDrjata