Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-04
BITS OF MAINE NEWS.

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| PASSPORT have been broken into. but
| as yet no clue as to the identity of the
| thieves has been discovered.
Lew Hathorn, the we'll known res
taufant keeper, in Haymarket square,
has gone into insolvency. His liabil-
| tiles are $4,000 assets, none.-Bangor
| Commercial.
| There is quite colony of Liverpool
and London apple buyers located now
| in Portland for the season They saw
| that Maine apples are the best keepers
this year. but prices must rule very
low.
X. L. Dunn of Thomaston, while
digging in his garden, recently, found
a Spanish silver coin about the size Of
Z. S. quarter, bearing date of 1873.
1t had apparently been but little used
| and was in excellent condition
d. w. Billings, secretary of the
Twenty Sixth Maine Regiment Asso-
citation, is sending out blanks to the
survivors of that regiment, and to rel
ativeS of deceased members, with a
view to compiling a complete history
| of the regiment.
w VI ~ VII Tie bltthNdltI dI bar f1df-
Dor has been finished for the year. the
$4,000 appropriation made by the last
Congress. having been expended. The
breakwater which protects the ship
ping in the harbor runs from Bold
Porcupine island to within 1000 feet Of
the cove opposite Point D'Acadie, the
home of George w. Vanderbilt
Sorrento in a month will have one
Of the finest wharves in that part of
the coast. Improvements now in pro-
sress show an extension of the wharf
40 feet into Frenchmans Bay and 40
feet to the eastward. When COM
pleted three or four steamers can tie
up there with ease. A short distance
away marine railways have been built
S. Newton of Jackman, who has
charge of the numbering operations of
the Bradstreets on the west branch
of the Penobscot. states that the firm
will cut about 1000 900 the present
winter if everything proves favora bic
They have about 140 men in their en-
pioy. at their various camps and their
winters cut will be hauled over the
divide into Moosehead lake, another
spring.
prominent groceryman of Belfast
had a singular mishap recently. He
went TO the roof of his house to clean
out chimney. using a long pole and
swab made of burap sacks. When
the swab was well down the chimney
the pole broke just beyond his reach,
leaving the chimney plugged with the
burlap. He took the obstruction out by
saving the pole into short pieces. work.
ing through a chimney hole
One day recently young girl en-
tered the store of Frank Gibbs. Bridg-
ton, as she stated to warm herself. At
ter an hours visit she made her de-
parture and shortly afterward several
articles were missing. Sheriff Webb
and a clerk were sent in pursuit of the
girl. who when found. seeing the folly
of resisting an officer readily yielded
up the goods. among the same being
two feather hoas. She was brought be-
fore Judge Corlss Saturday. and SEN
fenced to 30 days and costs.
Tuesday afternoon, City Marshal |
Holmes of Ellsworth was notified that |
a child had been stolen at Bar Harbor |
and that the abductors had left it in |
a team. presumably for Ellsworth.
The child is Wallace Mills. the TO- |
years-old son of Herbert Mills of Bar
Harbor, and while on the street, il is |
said, he was coaXed into a team con- !
tanning q man and a woman. and |
taken away. 1t is said that the |
woman was the boys mother, and that |
the parents are not living together.
The child lived With his father.
O. II. Fall of Newburg, reports a |
singular experience in raising pota
toes. His neighbors We're losing their
potatoes by rot, and his own on high
land were SO bad that he abandoned |
most of them without digging. He also
had potatoes planted on a piece of low,
wet land. These he felt sure We're
spoiled and paid no attention to them.
One day in going across the lot he dug
into a hill and found the tubers all
good. He dug the potatoes on the lot
and found the good potatoes to bear
almost a Bryan proportion to the poor
ones-there We're Is bushels of good
ones to / bushel of rotten.
Herbert Erskine of Orrington, sled
tender employed at one of T. J. Stewart
& Cos. camps near Ingalls, Siding on
the B. & A.. was terribly and, it is
feared, fatally. injured on Tuesday.
Having to wait a long time between
loads, Erskine borrowed an axe and
began chopping at a tree in order to
keep warm. This tree. heavy BIRCH
had fallen and lodged in the top of an
other tree that had been cut into be-
fore and thus weakened so that. when
Erskine had struck a few blows with
his axe. it fell, both trunks coming
down together. Erskine tried to get
out of the way, but the trunk of the big
birch struck him, fracturing his skull
and badly SCATTERING his right leg, so
that the bones protruded from the flesh.
The injured man was carried on a
over two miles to the rail-
road station by Charles Seavey and