Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-26
SPARKS FROM MAIZE WIRES.

Tie Thi.d party al Bangor Tuesday
night nom.natd Lewis Robinson Tor
mayor.
RINGS Heothers splendid new hotel a.
the corner cf Congress and Green streets
Portland, has been leased % George v
Strarns n Bangor, and named this Con
gross Square hotel. I'd VIII be opened,
Nav L.
The management Of the turf event. e
the New England fair which is to be held
IN Portland. next August. have arranged
Ter - trotiine events with $1,000 purses
csch and six pacing events also with 800
purse,
Patents have been granted Walter l.
FiAeld Of Augusta, on drilling spparu-
tus Frank b Bigelow, Auburn. Their
mostat actuatcd alarm; John H. Parker.
Portland window, William + Whitman.
Auburn. wecder
Considerable excitement was caused
Tuesday afternoon, before the Lewiston
board Of registration over report that a
man had been knocked down 1t ap-
peard that he was making disturbance
and when the officers attempted to ro-
'Ai' q AA4tAif 4AN itAt ~ % II tl& mag DSftB
subject to such attacks.
stephen r. Burt an employee OF the
Continental mill, Lewiston. was knock Il
down and seriously injured by passing
team Oh Mill street, late Monday lis was
taken to his room in Crafts boardir
house, On Oxford street, and two doctors
summoned, who announced that be was
seriously hurt. Several ribs were broken
and one of them pierced lung So that his
breathing was seriously intcrfarel with.
All night he suffered severely and ut moor.
Tuesday, 1t was considered that he Wa
past recovery. He Is - years old ana
was familiar figure on Lewiston streets
The citizens of Gorham will offer a re.
ward of $500 for the arrest and conviction
of the murderer of Byron G. Coburn. who
was killed, Dec. -, 1894. James Lev is
vas convicted Of this crime In January
1875. and his case was mol pressed by the
state after a new trial was granted him
by tie higher courts in Portland. Ii Is
believed that when the reward Is offered.
he will give enough evidence to cause the
arrest Of the old man murderer. Lewis
refuses to be interviewed. but says That
when the State is ready to proceed he will
have something to say about the murder.
The fcUr-masted schooner William II.
Palmer, which will be launched at Bath.
rext saturday, from the shipvard If
Nathaniel / Palmer at Bath. was meas
ured, Tuesday by custom house officials
and was found TO To larger than any
schooner previously built on the Atlantic
c1ast. exceeding the tonnage Of the Waldo
b1ro-built Schooner. Governor Amcs, BIZ
2 tons The Dimensions of the Bath
ieviathan Of schooners are Length. POI
feet; breadth, y feet depth, 20 feet gross
tonnage 1906. -. The lower lnasts Of tho
william B Palmer are each Ii feet long.
one foot longer than those of the Governor
Amcs.
young man who gave his name rs
Jack Tracy. and who claims to belong in
Boston was arrested, Tuesday. in the act
Of selling $40 worth Of , cent postage
stamps in Portland pawn shop for S.
He he'd made n similar sale in another
pawn sh0p He ciaimed that he received |
me stamps in q letter from Bert Pool a |
South Btaiutree friend, I'D payment for n .
gun and % prove this statement he OK. /
1lbited letter bearing the signature men !
-lonea. II was dated at South RraiDtrc.,
5ut was mailed in Boston, Feb. %. The
police believe ho Is either a post Office
burglar OF burglars fence. and thev
are submitting him 60 a tiE.d examine /
non. Word has been tclcgraphed to Bos (
.on regarding him. in his posi- ,eion was
found another letter, dated at Mattipla
Mass, and addressed to himself at An
)urn. 10 also contained stamps Tbn
signature in that letter was George y
fhc police are inclined to believe that he
wrote the letters.
i. A. Shorcy, who went to Old Town
rom Ellsworth, last June. and who has
'een employed by George Lockwood as y
iafncss maker has suddenly disappeared
md as Miss Clark, an employee of the
voolon mill, TO whom :Shorey has recently
hown marked attentions is also missing
Is supposed that thy have eloped 10
either. ShnFey left wife ANA family in
Ellsworth, but told his Old Town friends
hat he was unmarried. Miss Clark <
mother wrote to Ellsworth and received a
ronpt and fiery letter from Shorcy's WIFI
Who soon appeared in Old Town. Shor.v
roduced disoics papers which seem
% ~ever, to haze boon granted him trnn
former wife, the marriage to the Ells.
FORTH woman being his second rxnari-
nsnt in the iiell If rnalfimony. Mrs
'horey has only a box Of tools worth Sin
nd five children TO console her lar tho
light Of her husband. Miss Clark is Is