Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-22
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Jesse Peterson OF Lockport; n. Y. and
u syndicate have purchased the big water
power at Great Falls on the Presumpscot
| IN Gorham, and proposes to heat. light
and furnish power to Portland at little
or no cost by means of electricity. which
is u miles from Portland A special com
ing the ACCESSIBILITY of entering into
contract with this syndicate.
lanes CavanauRh.. young Nova SEQ
drowning. Monday. at the Passadumkeag
boom on the Penobseot. Early in the day
e. l.. Mcdonald. with small crew of
the upper end of the boom. and after do
ing some work which occupied short
| time. the other men all went, down
| stream. leaving Cavanaugh to follow as
| soon as he attended TO some minor de-
| tails This was the last seen of him. He
was a steady. faithful workman and as
| is Al his boarding place, ii is not probable
| that he has gone away. vigorous
search n i being MADE u the stream n ann ana nc;
men for some trace of the young man.
but thus far it is unavailing.
F. Williams, brother of Miss Maude
the cellar torn from the cape worn by the
young girl who was forwarded from Port
land to Montreal. and while he does not
positively identify II as that once on the
cape worn by his sister. he is strongly OF
the opinion that il answers the descrip-
ton OF the trimmings of the cape as far
given the collar. and will take 1t with
him. He has seen and talked with most
of those who saw the young girl in Port
:and CT on the train, and viii go from
Portland TO Montreal He is not yet in a
position to express an opinion regarding
the identity of the girl with his sister. ex-
cept so far as the recollections of the
Portland people serve to cooperate the
positive identification of friend Of the
family who saw her on the train.
Judge Strout at Skowhegan, was
ri,
question OF frogs; not the croaking.
jumping kind. however, but substan-
tial. steel crossing frogs for railroads.
Ii appears that when the Waterville
Il Fairfield Railway and Light Co.
laid its track across that of the Maine
Central Railway Company at Fairfield.
the former company bore all the ex-
pense OF the crossing frogs. which
We're then laid. Subsequently. in 1890
a statute was passed giving the board
of railroad commissioners authority
to regulate the manner of crossings OF
all railways and determine how the
expense of construction and maintain
ing such crossings shall be borne. The
crossing frogs at the Fairfield crossing
in Fairfield having become worn and
dangerous to public travel, the rail-
way company, under the law of 1890.
applied To the railroad commissioners
to determine who should construct the
new crossing and how the expense
should be borne. claiming that pre-
yiCus to the statute of 1890 steam rail-
roads We're obliged to provide cross
inEs for the cars of an electric or horse
Railroad. the same as or any other
vehicle passing along the public high
way: but that the statute of 1890 gave
the board of railroad commissioners
authority to apportion the expense of
maintaining such crossings. The de-
cision of the railroad commissioners
was adverse to the railway company,
stating that in all instances where
steam railroads We're crossed by cleo
tric roads the board had determined
that the electric roads should bear the
expense of such crossings where the
electric road was the one last located
Their decision in this instance. there
fore. they say. is in line with all former
decisions of the board. The railroad
company appealed to the supreme ju-
dicial court and the question is now
under consideration by Judge Strout
AS the question is important. in its re-
lation to the increasing number of
similar instances. its outcome is
awaited with much interest. Hon.
WIN. T. Haines appears for the Wa
terville & Fairfield Railway and Street
Company and the Maine Central Rail-
road Co. is represented by Hon. T. F.
Webb.