Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-30
BITS OF MAINE NEWS.

ana severely injured. His lower 5a'
was badly crushed.
An Armenian peddler, named Ma
Davidson, was arrested at South Brew
or, Tuesday, for peddling without
license. and paid fine Of $40 and costs
Miss Ellie Polk. an employee In the OF
Iown WOODEN mill, Monday, got her LEI
hand caught In the machinery and sus
tanned injuries requiring her two middl
fingers to be amputated.
The steamer Salacia took on big re
frigerator at Boothbay Harbor Monday
to bring to Portland The refrigerato
was loaded In such way that while tn
steamer was rolling about in the embrac
OF the ocean 1t took a turn off the decl
ana plunged into the water. 1t was i'm
possible to recover it.
The work of completing the cold stor
/ age building at White Head, Crane
Menan, is being pushed along rapid,
and the mammoth structure which i.
to be used by the Quoddy Fish Com
pany will be ready for business by Nov
l.
The schooner Mary Dow still lies OF
the ledge near Rockland where sh'
struck. Five hundred tons OF coal have
been taken out, but 400 yet remain t.
be removed before the vessel can float
The windlass and machinery hav. beer
! takan out.
| Frank Wh!teomb. an employe Of the
| Belfast shoe factory, while at work,
| Wednesday, at a leveling machine, the
pressure Of which is nearly two tons,
got his right hand caught in the ma
| chine, mangling it fearfully 1t was
| found necessary to amputate the hand
at the wrist.
| A two story frame dwelling house
owned by Mrs Nancy r. Ingalls, OF
Goose Cove fremont, was burned
Monday evening. Only few pieces
| Of furniture and the stable located a
short distance away were saved. 1t is
supposed that defective chimney was
the cause OF the fire. Loss estimated
at $500. Insurance $1,000.
Hiram Turner. an aged and respected
citizen Of Millbridge. died suddenly Of
heart disease. Monday evening. He
was sitting in his home with his fam
lily and playing with his grandchild
when he fell dead upon the floor. He
vas about town. Monday, attending to
his business. apparently in good health.
The deceased WAS ~ years old.
John Brennan OF Brooklyn. \. y.
who was dicharged from Jail Wednes-
day morning. having served a 3o-days'
sentence. WAS badly injured at 1.45 +.
NJ. the same day. by falling from the
tin bridge. over which he was passing
on his way out of town. He was re-
moved to the hospital where 1t was
found that several of his ribs We're
fractured
In the libel suit against the schooner
Grace Webster of Portland. in the L. S.
district court, Monday.the plaintiffs be-
Ing seamen whose wages were not paid,
the owners Of the schooner did not ap-
pear and were not represented by coun-
ell hence the case was declared de-
faulted and Judge Webb ordered the
sale of The schooner to satisfy the claim
against her.
ROBBIE Young. a Newport lad about
II years of age accidentally shot him
self through the left leg. Tuesday fore
noon. while cunning on the shores Of
lake Sebastioook, inhicting very
painful and dangerous wound. the
charge of shot tearing away the flesh
and muscles and going entirely through
tiit Iit hltii1dSSt w iftttii n llpuSt
not far distant. where help was sum
moned.
Sheriff Norton of Belfast, was noti-
fled by Two young Bangor travelling
men that they had lost their team. 1t
seemed that they had hitched the
horse at Swanville Tuesday while they
entered store on business. When
they came out the team had disappear
ed. Deputy Sheriff Ordway was sent
in search of the team and soon found it
in barn not a quarter of a mile from
where the animal had been hitched.
The halter had been slipped and the
horse had wandered away
Leroy Mcfarland. proprietor of the Old
Town lunch room. was refiling q gasoline
stove. Monday night, and by accident. in
stead of screwing up and shutting of the
faucet as he supposed he was doing, he
urscrewed 1t until the valve dropped from
the can. Before he could replace it sew
eral quarts of the gasoline spilled on the
floor and over MIR. Netherlands feet. The
gas which Immediately formed ignited
from Kerosene stove. and in q moment
the room was filled with smoke and flame.
while Mr.. McFarland's feet were quite
severely burned. Help from the neigh
boring stores rushed into the building and
succeeded in eXtinguish!ng the blaze be-
fore any great damage was done.
The suit of an employee against the
Bates Mill Co. in Lewiston. last week.
involved the construction of the regula-
tons of the company. which provide for
| the forfeiture of one weeks wages in case
| any operative quits the employ Of the COM
| pany without giving and working one
week notice. The case arose at the
! time of the cutdown in wages in May last.
at which time large number of opera,
| tives struck and left the mill. Most OF
| these soon returned. but some 10 or d
dozen remained out. and the suit was
| brought to test the right of the company
| to claim a forfeiture of their wages I'M
| der the regulation in question. In sub
! stance the plaintiff claimed that the COM
pany gave no sufficient notice of the cut
down and that the cutdown was jl.sti-
| hcaton for her leaving without giving
| and working the notice. Many other
| questions of law were involved in the
case. The finding of the court sustalns
| the position taken by the company on al
| the points involved.
| The butcher murder case came VI
| for trial again on Saturday last al
Moncton, and was again postponed
after one or two more new witnesses
had been heard. No new developments
were brought forward The prisone,
was as self-possessed as usual and dis
! played no uneakiness as to his fate
Sullivan looked well and evidently die
not suffer much from his recent illness
Two of the new witnesses testified t
having seen the prisoner wear stripped
gray trousers. A sad part of the