Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-13

Inmates of Houlton Jail are clad In
stripes.
A Brunswick wheelman rode %
miles on his wheel Jan. 3.
Penobscot county, last year. jailed
1856 drunkards and six liquor sellers.
It is estimated that a milk inspector
saves the people of Lewiston $500
year.
Rangeley has bad diphtheria scare.
II is reported that Il cases exist in the
village.
The total number of persons COM
mitted to the Hancock county Jail dur
ing the years '95 and SO We're $50.
Not like other girls. A young girl
living not far from Portland recently
exchanged her bicycle for a sewing
machine.
1t is reported that one Auburn shoe
firm received IS car loads of leather
last week and shipped an average of
about 500 cases per day.
Some of Baths business men pro-
pose to construct a bathing house in
the early spring for use on the river
front during the warm week.
The two-year-old daughter of Arthur
Lemont of Brunswick, swallowed an
iron screw over an inch in length Sat
urday. The child received no serious
results.
Lewiston's business men want the
rules on high wooden buildings strictly
enforced. What are laws good for,
they ask, If the city officers don't en-
force them,
\ Brunswick man discovered. Satur-
day. a box of parlor matches on n
shelf in his store. which mouse had
completely gnaWed to pieces without
setting on fire.
1t is quite a disappointment to quite
a number of men and owners of horses
at Brewer that no ice is to be cut this
winter by F.. II. L. II. Rollins and the
Stetson concern.
MachiaS boasts of one of the oldest
operators in New England in point of
service, if. indeed. he is not the oldest.
F. j. Moore, has presided over the Of
flee there for Al consecutive years.
School Supervisor Marsh and j. N
Stowe of Old Town, have completed
census taking of the Penobscot tribe of
Indians. The result shows 391. This
is one more than the census returns of
last year.
Hundreds of barrels of CLAIMS have
been transported from Bath by steamer
for Boston and New York markets.
They are brought to town by fishermen
who make clam digging their business
during the winter.
VIM. Lapier of Cundy's Harbor. very
nearly lost his life last week by the
upsetting of his dory. He managed
to cling to her as she rode bottom up,
on the top of the heavy seas. He was
rescued after a half hours fight with
death in the chilly waters, much ex-
hauSted.
Joseph b. Holt, the child murderer,
who is confined in the insane asylum
for observation as to his sanity. was
seen by Mechanic Falls visitors to that
institution. Wednesday,. and seems to
be in perfect health. He is many
pounds heavier than ever before, but
the wound in his throat has not who'll
ly healed.
The news comes from the State pris-
on that Abner Thorne, the boy burglar
of Paris, is i'll with hip disease and
that the outlook for his recovery is
dubious. Some of the oxford people
were hoping that Abner might in time
be an object of executive clemency,
but the doctors say that a mightier
hand will free him.
Lettuce from T. f. Perkins farm
garden in West Bath is in the market
now, retailing at eight cents a head,
and pretty fine lettuce it is. too. Since
making the extensive addition to his
greenhouse. something more than a
year ago, he has been shipping lettuce