The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-12-03
The Municipal Officers held an INQUEST

early to give report this week.
The Ethel Tucker company is playing g
weeks engagement at Belfast Opera House
before good sized audiences. The plays are
such as interest the general play-goers, and
are presented in the pleasing style which has
made Miss fuckers company popular here
and elsewhere.
RAILROAD SPARKS. The painting of thu
station buildings in this city makes great
Improvement not only in the appearance of
the place but in the light. The inside of the
shed over the passenger platform has been a
dark brown, and is now painted a bright
straw color with red trimmings, which adds
greatly 60 the lighting capacity of the lamps.
lone span of the new iron bridge at Burn
ham was finished last week.
POLICE COURT. Fred Baker was before the
Court Friday on charge of drunkenness sem
fenced to 80 days in Jail and mittimus sus-
pended There was a hearing Saturday fore
noon on the liquor seized in Searsport and
Frankfort recently The beer was ordered
destroyed and the hard liquors turned over
to the sheriff. Saturday afternoon John
Mellin was arraigned and pleaded guilty to
permitting gambling in his store on Main
Street. He was ordered to give bail in $500
for appearance at the January term of S. J.
Court, but failed to secure bonds and was
comnitted.... Ephraim Keen was before
the Police Court Monday on charge of drunk
enness and disturbance. He was found
guilty and sentenced to 80 days in jail, from
which he appealed.
FIRE. The ire alarm was sounded about
midnight Saturday night and the fire was
found to be in the clothing store of Charles
O'Connell on Main street. The fire was in
the rear of the store near the window, and
was burning briskly when it was discovered
by persons who had rooms near by in the
rear of Phoenix Row. When the depart
ment arrived the room was so full of smoke
that it was difficult to enter and water was
first played from the front door. The fire
was soon drowned out and the actual dam
age from fire was small, but that from smoke
and water was considerable. 1t will require
an account OF stock to determine the loss, as
some Of the goods are ruined while others,
especially such as We're out Of reach of the
water and We're enclosed in boxes, are hurt
but little, if any. The heat in the store
Vas intense, as the paint was blistered on
the front doors and window castings, and the
insulation of the electric wires the whole
length of the store was melted and ran
down in drops upon the floor and goods
ACCIDENTS. Miss Maud X. Russell met with
a severe accident last Sunday evening She
was returning from a visit to Mrs. John W
Sleeper, who was suffering from a burned
hand, and slipped from the walk near j. H.
CIark's residence. Both bonee of her right
leg We're broken near the knee. The acct
dent occurred late in the afternoon, but be-
fore the street lights We're turned on. Sid
ney McTaggart, brakeman on the freight
train had his right hand quite badly lacera-
ted Saturday, at Benton, by getting it
caught betN cen the couplers of two cars 49,.
Sears Braley slipped and fell on a sidewalk
on Primrose Hill Saturday and severely
sprained his left ankle. .....Alvin Doug
lass, aged about 80 years, of Unity, was
badly injured last Thursday by a pre-
mature blast. He had put large charge
of powder in seam and laid the fuse. When
he attempted to light the fuse it is thought
that ire flew from the match into the pow
der as it exploded immediately. His face
was badly burned and his legs We're terribly
multiated. His condition at last reports
was as favorable as could be expected.
Hazpl McKeen had his right leg badly
bruised Monday afternoon, While at work on
culvert on High street near Vine street
He attempted to assist one of his crew, who
was handling large flat stone, when the
supports slipped and the stone fell upon Mr.
McKeens leg. Tie limb is badly swollen,
but il is thought no bones are broken.
SHIPPING ITEMS Sch. Sarah L. Davis
arrived Saturday with oil on deck from
Boston for several Belfast merchants. Her
under-deck cargo was phosphate from
Boothbay Harbor for Bangor parties. She
sailed the same day for Bangor. Sch.
Charlotte T. Sibley was launched from the
marine railway Thursday and was lowed to
Bangor Saturday to load ice and lumber for
New York Sch. Harriet Rogers sailed
Nov. 18th with hay, etc, for Seal Harbor.
....A. M. Carter recently loaded sch. Laugh
ing Waters and sloop Passport with hay for
Eastern ports. Sch. Maria Webster sailed
Saturday for Mt. Desert with hay from F. G.
W hite's E. Sch. City of Augusta arrived
Saturday to load ice from the Belfast Ice Co.,
for Norfolk, and sch. Leander " Beebe is
chartered to take cargo to New York. The
City of Augusta will take about 800 tons. -.
Capt. Marcellus Veazie has sold his interest
in sch. Mary A. Hall to Capt. A. o. Gross
of Deer Isle, and is succeeded in the COM
mand of the vessel by Capt Haskell of Deer
Isle. Capt. Veazie is at home in Isles boro.
Sch. Sarah E. Palmer sailed from Port
land for Louisburg, c. B., loaded coal there
and was back at Portland again inside of
twelve days.....A Baltimore despatch of
Nov. oath says: "The large sch. VIM. b.
Palmer, registering 1926 tons, cleared yes
terday for Antwerp, and hauled out into the
stream. She has aboard about 80 900 bushels
of wheat and 1431 tons of lumber, and is
drawing 20 it. in. of water. She still has
plenty of freeboard, high enough to make
ladder necessary in going over her side.
Capt. Dyer will be accompanied by Mrs
Dyer" Captain Hand, who was at one
time first lieutenant of the revenue cutter
Dallas, has succeeded Captain Henrique in
command of the revenue cutter Wood bury.
Lieutenant Ainsworth has been succee led by
Lieut.. Brombent. The iron ship Tllle E.
Starbuck. 1881 tons, built in Chester Pa in
1883, has been sold in New York for local
account, on private terms. She has been