Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31

was broken INTO, Tuesday night and a
! small or money taken
| The third reunion of the Marion
| family will be held at Palermo Aup 3
at the home of Mrs. Henry Norton.
| MI. Henry Weissinger. the head of
the great tobacco firm at Louisville
| that so generously entertained the
Maine veterans at the national encaun-
ment While it was held in that CITY il
| visiting in Portland.
| girl who arrived few days ago on
| a visit to friends at South Portland
coming by steamer. died soon after her
arrival from diphtheria, and her phv-
sioian is convinced that she was free
from the disease when she left home
but contracted it en- route
John J, Mears, late in the employ of
Gately q OGorman of Portland. had n
hearing in that city. Wednesday, on a.
| charge of forgery. 1t was alleged that
he forged to bill of goods the name of
firm which had no existence After
d long hearing Judge Robinson decided
that the evidence against Mears was
insufficient and ordered him discharged
| In cemetery below Lewiston on
| the river road is the grave of a revo-
| lutionary soldier. A little distance
away is the grave of a soldier who
| fought to preserve the Union that the
| other one helped to make possible A
| flag floats on the grave of the soldier
! of 1861, but only the wild parsnip
waves in the breeze from the grave of
| l116
| One day recently a Lewiston man
| who belongs to an old family in this
| country met a French Canadian on
| Lincoln street, and strange enough.
| both bore the same na,ne--a French
name. The Lewiston man is an Amer
| ican--a Yankee in every characters
| tic. the other a French Canadian in
| every characteristic, and yet they
| found by comparing notes that the
| great great great grandfather of both
| men was the same man and lived in
| France. One of his sons came to Bos-
| ton and another to Montreal over 1870
| years ago.
| Rev. H. NJ. Eaton. who died, Tuesday,
at Middleboro, Mass, was born in
| Sedgwick, Me, and was a member of
the Maine Methodist Conference for
nearly 70 years, later joining the Chris
tan church, in which he was an active
preacher until four years ago. He had
| been pastor of churches in various
| towns in Maine. New Hampshire and
! Rhode Island. In 1856 he established
at kent's Hill the Eaton Family School,
which was afterward removed to Nor
| ridgeWock. where it was conducted
many years by his son. The school
| there now bears the name of the la
| ton School" He had held many posi-
tons of trust in the political and religi-
| Gus world. He was chaplain of the
| first Republican State convention in
Maine. which nominated Arson p.
| Morrill, for Governor
Charles Roberts of Boston, came out
| of the forest a. the house of Bowman
i Croker. in Greenfield. on Tuesday
| morning after being lost in the woods
| since the Friday before. He and a
party of several Boston men had been
| spending the summer vacation in the
| vicinity of Nitacous lake and all but
| Roberts returned home last Thursday
On Friday morning he started on a
| fishing trip up the stream Having
| fshed and walked until he was weary
he lay down in II sheltered spot ana
slept When he awoke Roberts was
completely turned around and could
not tell the direction back to his camp.
He wandered around day after day
and passed nights in the woods sleep
ing on boughs. on Tuesday morning
Roberts reached Sunkhaze stream
which he followed until he came out
at Crocker's house, many miles from
the place where he started. He was
very weak from the lack of food and |
he fell in faint from which he did not
recover so as to reach the house for |
some time. When he reached the |
house Roberts had just strength
enough to say I've had nothing to
eat for four days" and then he tainted !
again. For food he had eaten grass
and berries. During his wanderings |
he had worn his shoes completely out |
and his feet and hands We're badly |
blistered and lacerated