Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-17

large operation on the Spencer
Nye of Fairfield. will cut about 5oo 0ot
feet of good logs on the Basin. and I g,
Niles has an operation at work on Blanl,
Brook township. Besides these. there = re-
many other concerns at work which viii
bring the cut UP to the usual amount.
The arrest and release on bail of ~
Cashier Foster of the Lubec Savinys
Bank. has attracted widespread attentinn
owing to the high position that Mr.. Fost,e,
mas heiu for years, not only in business,
but in social and religious circles Mr.
Foster claims that he has on his bond the
autographs of six of the most prominent
men in town. Not one of these men ha s
any recollection of ever having signed
such a document The fact that II was
seven years ago that the bond was matra
out. makes it all the more difficult fo
prove whether such q. bond was ever mad,a
out. Mr.. Foster claims to have lost the
document The property of these men
Whom Mr.. Foster claims are his bonds
men mas been attached. and it remains TO
be seen what action the State can take
in the matter. The accused is over n
years OF age. very Geaf, and his health
has been failing for some time. Person.
ally great deal of sympathy is expressed
for the aged man, but everyone is d,asir-
Gus of seeing the mudG,e Strengthened ont
and to know what has become of the S23.-
GOO that has been invested by the depos-
itors. Many of these are widows and per-
sons who have put atl their earnings into
the bank, and who now are left penniles,s
Winter is near. but the trade of the
port of Bangor continues to boom. On
Monday, the steamship Arecuna sailed
for Manchester, Eng, with cargo of
ground wood pulp, shipped by r. j.
Stewart & Co. and the British bark
Montreal sailed on the same day for
Glasson Dock, which is the seaport of
Lancaster, Eng, with spool bars and
deals, shipped by the same firm. The
Italian bark Teresiana has sailed with
in few days for Messina and Castella-
mare, with a cargo of fruit box shocks.
and the Leone is there loading same
cargo for Italy. Tuesday the Italian
banks Fortunate and Emelia arrived to
load for Italian ports with box shocks
and two or three others are to follow
for the same voyage. The schooner
Rebecca F. Lamdin is here loading
with ice and general cargo for Nassau.
New Providence, and there are other
West India cargoes to go. The four
masted schooner Charles A. Campbell,
and the three masted schooner Maggie
S. Hart are loading ice, and they are
the last to take that cargo there, this
year. About 1900 tons will be carried
over. which is the smallest amount fer
years. Several schooners have arrived
with cargoes of fertilizer. to be used by
farmers of that section, next spring
and coal is still coming in.
According to Hon. l. c. Libby of Wa
terville. the season of 1898 will be the
greatest year in the history of Electric
railroads in Maine. The firm composed
of Messrs. Libby and Gerald, will build
so miles of road in Maine next season.
besides an extension to their Ports
mouth, kittery & York Road in New
Hampshire. The principal lines to be
built this year will be the Penobscot
Central and the consolidated of the
Bath. Brunswick and Lewiston Roads
In an interview with the Bangor News,
Mr.. Libby says: THE Lewiston, Bruins
wick 81 Bath Consolidated Electric
Railroad will he the crowning event in
my Electric railroad career. We have
already purchased, and which is in
shipment, 10000 steel rails from the
Carnegie Steel Company. These are to
be delivered and distributed along the
line this winter. We are also negotiat-
ing with parties east of Bangor for
2o0,00 cedar ties to be delivered this
winter. This great Electric railroad
enterprise will comprise IS miles of
road. including the three lines now in
operation, viz: the Lewiston & Au-
burn. the Brunswick & Topsham and
the Bath Street Railroad. To the
Lewiston & Auburn line we shall build
an extension to Turner which will be
a tv,,1-
will run from Turner, through Sabatis,
Lewiston and Auburn, Lisbon and Lis
bon Falls. Pejebscot, Topsham. Bruins
wick, Bath and to Harpswell Neck,
which will be the other terminus. This
road will accommodate 10000 people 1t
is our intention to buy all the material
during the winter and have it delivered
on the ground. and in the early spring
we shall begin work with a force of
1000 men, push the line through to COM
pletion and have it running in season
for the summer trade. When completed
this line will use 100 cars the year
round.
Capt. Jack" Hall of Rockland, Me. |
who will be one of the star witnesses
for the government in the hearing be-
ANAS 1iAS - iiitSu 81 Jui
Norfolk, Va. in the Olive Pecker case. |
was in Boston, Sunday. He left for |
the South, Monday. Capt Hall spent |
with his son, Walter Hail. who |
is resident of Boston. Capt. Hall |
was an intimate friend of Capt Whit |
man. knew his abilities and weakness |
es, his history as q man and master, |
and all his antecedents. The Olive |
Pecker was built by Capt. Hall. and ne
made the vessel the apple of his eye.
He commanded her for a number of |
years, and when it became expedient
fer him to give up following the sea,
he turned to Capt. Whitman as a man
whom he thought fit to command his.
vessel. Capt. Hall says ne knew of
none whom he would compare With
Whitman as sailor and master of a
vessel. Capt. Hall goes to Norfolk
ready to declare that he never saw any
of the traits of character in Capt
Whitman that the counsel for the de-
fence will doubtless try to prove in
court to show that he was hard on his
men to point that drove Anderson
to desperation. He cannot believe that