The Republican journal., 1897-02-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


MAINE MATTERS. Aroostook county
has already netled twice as much from its
1896 potato crop as it did from the entire
crop of 1895, and has the remainder Of the
winter and the spring left for sales. The
prospects are good also for steadily adj
vancing market, 50 that there is better
feeling among the farmers Of the county.
AT the railroad stations potatoes for ship
ment are accommodating and the railway
companies are unable TO secure heater cars
with which to handle the crop property.
$50. Murderer Frank J. Palmer of Parsons
field, who was sentenced to State prison
for life in the supreme court at Saco, Jan.
18th, and Charles 3. Savage, Jr., for six
years, as being an accessory after the fact
in the Parsonsfield tragedy, have been
taken to Thomaston Young Savage
seemed quite jubilant to think that he had
escaped with SO short sentence. He
said that the story he told at the coroner S
inquest was true in every detail and he
had nothing more to say The pack Of
Maine corn is selling fast and it will not
be long before it is we'll nigh closed out.
This is very encouraging, for it is fact
that while all other corn packing States of
the Union put up less than usual last
year, Maine put up more and has sold it.
..... The will of the late ex- Governor Dan
iel F. Davis has been filed at the Probate
Court All the property, which consists
mostly of wild lands, is left to his wife
and children. His wife is appointed eX-
ecutlix and Hon. William Epgel and Mr..
Wilson Crosby, trustees. Rev. Charles
S. Fogg, a graduate of Bowdoin college
and the Bangor Theological Seminary in
1894, was ordained Jan. goth and INSTALL
OIL Of ba % ioDa1 ob1,rnl Of
Port Mills, Vt. ~. General Manager Evans,
of the Maine Central, has instructed all
heads Of departments to keep an account
of the service and department of each EN-
ploye, so that promotion of deserving men
can be made and all employees may be
stimulated to perfoI m their duties in the
best manner -. The order of August last
establishing a post Office at the State Col
lege, Orono, Penobscot county, is rescind-
ed.... The purchase of the Bangor, Orono
and Old Town electric railway is proposed
by several well known gentlemen of Ban
gor, who make a bid for majority OF the
stock, now held by |. c. Libby and A. f.
Gerald, who with f. 0. Beal Of Bangor,
were the projectors of the road. They
have the offer under advisement. 49,. The
New York court of appeals has SO decided
the Fayerweather will case that the 20
colleges contesting the decision of the eX-
ecutors to bar them will get their equal
share of the So, 600, 600 Bowdoin gets
/ 500, 900. ... Just 80, 421 barrels of apples
sailed away from Portland Jan. Goth, for
over the seas, and about b, 800 more Jan.
| list, and yet no scarcity of that fruit is
reported in a single one of Names 525
towns and plantations.... DR.. o. n. Brad
bury of Norway died Jan. list, aged 80
years. He has served in the Maine House
and Senate and was army surgeon at Au-
gusta, Me-, during the war. Recently he
gave up most of his large practice to his
son and devoted himself to literary pur-
suits. He was the author of NORWAY in
the Fortress etc. He leaves wife and
SON.. Samuel Trask, well known citi-
zen of Portland. Me-, died suddenly
while seated in a street car Jan. 24th. He
was born in Portland in 1922 and gradual
ed from Bowdoin in 1912.