Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-02
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

John Leyenseller of Atkinson, aged q
years. who was indicted by the Crane
Jury at foxcroft, last September. for per
jury. was sentenced 10 ten months al
hard labor in the Penobscot county jail
at Bangor.
The Biddcford Republican city COM
mttec. Monday. substituted the name OF
Col. Lucius II. Kendall. as candidate FOR
mayor. 10 succeed Richmond II. Ingalls,
the rccuI;,r Republican nominee, who re-
signed on Saturday.
II is reported that the steamer Lewis
ton OF The Boston and Bangor line has
been purchased ny Captain Emerson.
formerly OF the Morrison Steamboat
er viii ply between Boston. the Isle OF
Shoals and other north shore resorts next
summer.
Fred knowlton. a Caribou six footer. in
top boots and ovoralls, pleaded guilty at
Portland. Monday. To selling liquor with
out paying the government tax. He said
ne had heart trouble. could not work and
sold n few bottles Of rum 10 get some
thing TO eat. His case WAS continued till
Saturday for sentence.
1t has Just come out that Freeman II.
Jackson. the insurance broker of Fox
croft who left FOR New York several
weeks AGO mas gone TO Cuba. Before he
leIt hc talked strongly of going as an Of
hcer OF an insurgent regiment He WAS
in Jacksonville. Fla. Friday. He is sup
posed 10 h:ive gone 10 Cuba taking with
him quantity of arms and ammunition.
According TO what was said Sunday. by
parties who are in a position to know
whereof they spoke. there will be much
larger tramp steamer business from this
port during the coming summer than has
been the case FOR some time past. The
spool wood shipments 10 Scotland will bt.
larger tfan wis the case i;lst year. The
manufacturers of spools lind that they
are getting; q fine quality OF spool Wood
from Portland. and the mills where the
wood Is got out are working with heavy
orders ahead. The wood will come here
over the Grand Trunk and viii he loaded
from the sheds on tramp steamers. Very
heavy shipments are predictcd.-Portland
Argus.
Chief Consul Abner w. Lowell of the
Maine division. League of American
Wheelmcn. is in correspondence with
parties in Lewiston relative to the hold
ing of the annual spring meet. May 30.
There is desire on the part of several
prominent Wheclmen of Lewiston. that
the meet be held here and Chief Consul
Lowell TO whom the matter of placing
the meet This year has been left is favor
able, says Mr.. Lowell, that Lewiston is
just the place for the wheelmen of the
division to assemble. Ii has been some
time since we met there, and Il league
aSsembage in that lively city would not
only be a pleasurable event but it would
tend to quicken wheeling interests in that
section of the State. The chief consul
Will visit Lewiston in Il few days to talk
the matter over with the projectors
Lewiston Sun.
Only three vessels were built In the dis
trict of Belfast during the year 1856. but
their total tonnage more than doubles
that of all the craft built in the Waldo
boro district. Two of these vessels were
the product of II. NJ. Beams yard in
Camden. the schooner Henry w. Cramp
of l4iS.l0 tons and the Elma f. A. Holmes
of 1o6l.sl tons. The third vessel was the
barkentine Josephine. built by Brown.
Mcdonald & Co.. of Belfast. and meas
uring S.0.ii tons. But for Camden there
would have been very little done in the
shape of shipbuilding along this part of
the Maine coast in 1896. The men who
formerly built ships and amassed snug
little fortune thereby are fast coming to
look upon the bright days of the SOS and
COS as Il dream, while those who had not
time to lay by fortune before the in
dustry ceased, look ruefully upon the sit
uation and wonder whittier we are tend
ing"