Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-26

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| Mechanic Falls has one Of those con-
demned cannon on her park.
| Calais resents all offers for her nistoT'c
old washington" hand engine.
The school land reserve at New Swe-
den will be opened for Swedish settiers'
Portland and Bangor bowlers Will com
lpete next week for the State cnamPioh-
ship.
| A man lost his team while trying 10
drive across Merrymeeting bay Oh the ioe
a few days ago.
The trustees Of the Brewer public Il
brary have decided to defer opening tue
library until next fall.
| Winslow Wiswell disappeared from
NobleborO the other day and at last ac-
count had not been heard from.
The new Harpswell line steamer VIII
be named Nolumbega, which Is an In
dian word signifying peace and still
waters
| A Norway man dropped his pocket
book containing 80 and valuapie papers
In the pig pen the other day ana the noes
ate 1t up.
The town OF Hartford has offered a re-
ward Of $500 for the detection ana con-
IvictiOn of the miscreant that nred the
buildings of Albert s. Sampson
w. r. Kinney Of Alfred who has been
principal of grammar school at Els
worth, has accepted the principalship OF
high school at North Hampton, Mass.
An East Harpswell Free Baptist, Mr..
Eliphalet Fales, died a short time ago,
aged S6 years. He had read his Bible
through So times since he was Is years
| old.
Several summer cottages at Pond Cove.
Inplr ROrtIan6. broken into rGcent-
| ly, and considerable clothing and many
small articles Of value stolen. The Of
tenders were evidently tramps.
Captain Augustine b. Littlejohn Of
Portland. retired ship captain aged 81
years. started for Gloucester soon after
Christmas In a small sloop. In company
with man whose name cannot be
learned. His intention was to sell the
sloop. AS nothing has been heard from
safety.
Those who have been back in the coun-
try on the banks of the Saco say that the
danger of that rivers escaping freshet
this year is not yet wholly over and that
two or three days of warm rain would
set things to moving In good shape.
torrent If 1t melted and 1t would take
very little to start Il.
One of the veterans of the Portland po-
lice force is Patrolman Frank Merrill.
officer Merrill has been on the force %
any cause. and for many years has had
time due him from the city: Mr.. Merrill
Is withal. an athlete and keeps up his
daily practice with the dumb bells. sand
bag and boxing gloves.
There is to be special town meeting
i'm Sanford to see II the town will vote
to help extend the Mousam River Rail-
road to the coast at Kittery. The article
shall take sl5.C00 In the preferred stock
of the road. This article is backed up
by a petition signed by J. d. Kicker and
voted down at the annual meeting but
it is claimed that this vote was not legal
ly taken.
A Calais man who married widow
got into the clutches of the law in St
Stephen for debt. He hadn't the money
and a constable started for the county
Jail with him where he would lay until
he had eaten enough of the peoples
grub to satisfy his creditor. On the
way down he is alleged to have bribed
the constable to let him go. giving him
gold watch belonging to his wife.
The constable kept the watch and re-
fused to give it up until the lady had a
warrant for his arrest issued, and he
was compelled to give up the ticker and
pay the costs of the warrant. The
watch was a present to the lady by her
first husband. and she didn't propose
to give it up without a struggle.
A suit brought by A. N. Watson, a
Portland man, against a trolley line
over there for $4,000 damages on ac-
count Of injuries is In some respects
interesting. and will establish an i'm
portant precedent Mr.. Watson, riding
into town on a trolley car, was on the
forward platform with several others
and when the switches at the power
house were reached the car suddenly
took the switch to go into the car
house. Mr.. Watson was switched off
and fell on his head on the pavement.
He was rendered insensible and did not
recover his senses until he was carried
to his house. Since that time he has
not been himself and seems to be per-
manently disabled. He cannot work |
not go where there is any noise, excite |
ment or other source of irritation. The
claim is that the car was crowded and |
that Mr.. Watson was obliged to stand !
on the platform. Also that the car was
not slowed down as it approached the
switch. the motorman apparently not
noticing that the switch was not right
for the main line, and that Mr.. Watson
did not have proper safeguard to
hold on by. The company's contention
is that Mr.. Watson was not obliged to |
remain where he was standing when he |
was snapped off by the turning of the |
car, that it was not running very fast
and that the accident might have been
prevented by Mr.. Watson exercising
greater care.