Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-17
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

The Castine State Normal school ha
It's students in attendance. with abou
l5 more to come. This is the larges
number in the history of the school
The entering class numbers 81.
United Press dispatch, Wednesday
Ger from Portland, Me-, is there ate
William Keene wanted for burglary b.
the Maine authorities. Marshal Tricke
says he has sent no officer after such
man and the dispatch is evidently II
error. 1t may refer to Portland, Ctr
Portland Advertiser.
Some of the last apple shipments tf
Europe have resulted in large loss. basec
as they were on the lowest prices ever
made East. The fruit does not keep Wen
decay beginning much sooner there
Good shipments of evaporated apples are
now being made to Europe, from Port
land and other Atlantic ports.
Burglars, Monday night, entered
through the front window of house al
Biddeford, but encountered stretchel
upon which a corps lay. The burglar:
were so badly scared that they made E
hurried retreat. Three ladies, occupy
ing a chamber, were awakened by th'
noise.
In the Knox supreme judicial court
Foster, j., presiding, Monday. these di'
yorces were decreed: Philena b. Perry
from Samuel Perry; Cora jackson IRON
Frank C. Jackson; Maggie Brown
from Joseph S. Brown; Charles M. But
Ter from winnie e. Butler: Cora Kirk
from Chester A. kirke.
q NJ cumston a well-known and kind
hearted farmer of Monmouth, has sent
20 barrels of apples to be distributed
among the inmates of the Maine Cen
hot 4
Female orphan asylums. Temporary
Home Home for Aged Men, Day Nursery
and School for the Deaf, Portland. The
Maine Central transported ana the Amer
lean Express delivered them without
expense.
James A. Garcelon, the 14-years- old
son of A. W. Garcelon of Lewiston,
shooter in the Maine militia. is likely
to become a marvel as a marksman-
Tuesday evening, for the first time IN
his life, he was in a shooting gallery,
and scored five bullseyes out of a pos
Sible six.
Harvey Bowley, serving short term
in the county Jail at Houlton was re-
Gently sent for pail of water. AS he
did not Immediately return, Jailer w.
A. Kay went after him and found him
five miles away on the Mattawamkeag
road and still travelling. Nine hours
from the time he left, Bowley was
back in jail.
1t is reported that some of the How
land Falls Pulp Co.'S paper went to
protest in Bangor banks, Tuesday, and
the feeling there is that the concern
will be forced into insolvency if it
does not speedily file voluntary petit
ton. 1t is said that a prominent Ban
gor firm is one of the heaviest credit
ors, and that it has made an impera-
tive demand for settlement of its bill.
The members of the two religious So
cieties, Kent's Hill, held their first bust
ness meeting at Kent's Hill, Monday
afternoon, and elected these officers:
Y. NJ. c. A.-President, A. D. Bachelor;
vice president, G. l.. Hopkins; secre-
tary, Felix Powell; treasurer, L. B.
Morse Christian Endeavor-President
Annie Lapham; president, Chris
tina Files; secretary, Mabel Smith;
treasurer, Byzantine Miller.
At the annual meeting of the Eas,-
ern Telegraph Co. at Portland,
Wednesday, the following officers were
elected: President. Frederick ROBBIE,
Gorham, Me-; treasurer, c. C. Bedlow,
Boston; clerk, c. d. LivermOre, Port
land; directors. Chas. A. Tinker. New
York; Thos. Roche. Boston; c. c.
Bedlow, Boston; Frederick ROBBIE, Cor
ham; c. d. Livermore, j. w. Plaisted,
John d. Williams. Portland.
1t will be remembered that public at
tention was several months ago attracted
to a boy named Fred Hearn who came
here from Houlton. He had relatives. who
could do nothing with him and refused
to keep him any longer. Then he was be-
friended by the ladies who have charge
of the Home for Friendless Boys. in
Deerng. They procured good home for
him with a Gorham farmer. but the boy
ran away. Since that. the boy has been
in the Portland almshouse. but has beer
ing to go to school and frequently playing
"a source of trouble to the Keeper, refus-
truant. Wednesday, Judge robinson
sent him to the Reform school during his
minority.-Portland Advertiser.
Cattle Commissioner John M. Deer
ing of Saco was in Minot, Monday, at
tending to a herd of IA cattle, owned
by Charles w. Wells. Last fall several
of these were tested and one was found
diseased and was killed. There We're
no indications that any of the Others
were affected then. One old COW, the
ancestor of the herd, is believed tc
have transmitted the germs of tuber-
culosis to all the rest. Ten of them
We're killed, Monday, and the Other
four will be killed at once. They were
appraised at $415, and the owner loses
half of this.
In the Sagadahoc supreme judica
court. Strout j., presiding, Wednesday
Frank G. Conner VS.. John T. Palmer
both of Richmond. The counsel for tn,
defence asked for a drawn jury, which
was granted. Conner seeks to recove
$50 for the sale of a mare last June t.
Palmer, whose defence is that of
warrant alleged to have been given b.
Conner. The grand jury. is it expected
will be ready to report Thursday
Wednesday forenoon witnesses wer
before the jury on the assault case witt
intent to kill of Asa p. Fowles who j
alleged to have stabbed Robert She;
in Bath last September The woun
was slight one in the region of tn
heart, and was, it is alleged, inflcte,