Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-12-02
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES

VIII soon be running.
General Manager F. N. Cram left.
Monday evening, for his annual fall
inspection of the Bangor & Aroostook
| Railroad, to occupy a week or more.
Mrs. Cram and his stenographer ac-
lcompanied him.
For the first time in the history of
the Catholic diocese of Maine a young
man VIII be ordained to the priesthood
in Bangor, next Sunday. The candi-
date for the priestly office is. Timothy
Michael Hurley of Bangor.
The foot ball team of Thornton
| Academy met at Saco Monday, and
elected Ernest Dow the captain of the
eleven to succeed Lee Cole. who leaves
school next season. Young Dow is one
of the best players in the State.
Morgan J. Flaherty has severed his
connection with the Bar Harbor Rec
ord He is said to have been offered
the position of managing editor of the
Lewiston sun and he viii go TO Lewis
ton this week to look over the field.
The four masted schooner Mary f.
H. G. Dow of Bath. was towed from
Eockland to East Boston. Monday. for
repairs where the 2T00 barrels which
| were placed in her hold to give her
buoyancy, will be discharged and by
| Wednesday It is expected that the YES
sci viii be hauled out. where the ex-
tensive repairs necessary viii com
mence.
Sawyer Jones. a ship carpenter who
has been living alone on Cummings
let At D.,
home, Tuesday noon. He was last seen
alive, Sunday morning. neighbor
who had not seen him since notified
Marshal kittridge who broke in the
house. finding the man in bed He had
been dead for several hours. He was
81 years old.
The Bangor city council. Monday
night voted to pay si3,a52 to Bearce
& Clifford. contractors in Lewiston. in
full for their work up to date. on city
improvements. This is in settlement
of the extensive Improvements on the
water works of Bangor undertaken
under the direction of Mayor Beal and
which was afterward stopped by the
city council because the city had ex-
ceeded the debt limit allowed by law
A young man who claimed to tie An
drew ]. Reagan attempted to pass
check for s45 at the First National
Bank. Portland. Tuesday. The check
bore the forged Endorsement of Joseph
w Peters superintendent of the Port
land & Rochester Railroad. The check
was not honored. but Reagan had time
to light out before the discovery that
| il was a forgery was made. Tuesday
morning a message was received from
| Somersworth, n. H., that an attempt
| was made to pass the same check there.
An insurance case is on trial before
Judge Bonney and a jury in the Cum
bfrland superior court at Portland.
Mrs. Budget Kimmond, widow of
George I. Kimmond of Westbrook, sues
to recover $4,000 insurance on her hus
bands life The defendant is the
| United order of the Golden Cross who
declaims liability on the ground that
| the insured was addicted to the use of
intoxicating liquors and that at one
| time while a member cf the order kept
| a saloon at Bath. both of which acts
are in direct violation of the bylaws of
the order. Mrs. kimmond denies the
| company's allegations, and declares
that her husband never used liquors
| except as a medicine, though he did
| sometimes overestimate the dose and
! become under the influence of liquor.
| She further claims that two assess
ments received after his death We're
paid and the money never refunded.
William II. Looney and NJ. p. Frank
| are counsel for the plaintiff, Judge
| Savage of Auburn for the defence.
| 1t is feared that drowning accident
has happened in the vicinity of Hur
ricane whereby Benjamin Curry has
lost his life. Curry is lobster fisher
man and recently has been camping
| out at the White Islands near Hurri-
cane Last week a boat was picked
up at Black Ledge to the south of
| Hurricane. A few Holsters We're found
in the boat. Finally the thought oc-
CURED to some people that the boat
| belonged to Curry and parties visited
White Islands but found that the man
vas not there. While some of his
| friends have hope that he is all right
yet the general idea is that by some
means while pursuing his avocation he
| fell overheard and was drowned. 1t
is stated that Curry has sister resid-
ing in Rockland. Curry came to that
vicinity a few years ago from the
bananas Wnefe ne made a llNlnE by
sponge diving. He has since passed
the most of his time in Rockland. and
at Hurricane. He is about 80 or 40
years of age and unmarried
Although all the sardine factories
about PASSPORT will have to close,
Tuesday. Dec. 10. yet in Eastport some
of the manufacturers who hove been
idle for a few weeks past for different
reasons will open again. this week, and
sardines will be canned up to the end
of the season. These packers have on
hand several hundred cases of tin cans
which in few days will be filled with
the small herring ready for the con-
sumner as American sardines. Since
the recent question of wages between
employer and employe has been set
tied for this year. and a large number
are at work at the reduction, the pack
ers can afford to keep open for the
next two weeks at a profit. Again the
years pack is much lighter than ex-
pected or in the past two years and
sardines will. perhaps, be worth much J
more later in the winter The past |
week was in few of the factories the |