Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-04-15
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One Weeks Winuowings of News,
Novelty and Nonsense.

One Weeks Winmowimgs of News,
Novelty and Nonsense.
A patent has been granted to p. w.
An effort is being made to secure cap
ital for an electric road from Lewiston to
Mechanic Falls and Oxford.
The Bran trial will cost the United
grapher alone is 1920. The Lizzie
Borden trial cost the state of Massachu
sets about $4,000.
There is trouble between the Maine
State and the Eastern Maine State fair
associations. Both want to hold their
fairs the same week, and neither at
present seems inclined to give IN. Tn
less an agreement is reached. he profits
of each fair will be materially lessened.
The St. Croix Exchange, at Calais,
was burned last Wednesday. There were
several very narrow escapes; most of the
boarders lost their personal effects. The
building was owned by the estate of w.
H. Young. The loss is $4,000; insurance
Is, 600. The furniture was owned by
Charles w. King whose loss is 5000; no
insurance
During the past year Machias did more
building than any other town in Wash
ington county, having erected more than
twenty new dwelling houses, four large
business blocks, new church, a new
opera house, besides having a number of
old buildings remodeled. Now t he spring
Of 'e7 opens with the prospect OF two
more new business blocks, new hotel
I'D ',-.i - IL ba.,
1t WAS at the public library that
woman who, from her dress and APP
pearance, the clerks thought might be
literary, wrote on one of the cards
request for The Autocrat of the Break
fast Table" "Holmes' Autocrat do you
want?o politely asked the clerk. son,
| don't care whose it isl was the re-
Spouse. 81 only wanted to find out if it
is proper to use toothpicks at the break
fast table" And this was in Portland!
The pulp mill at Gilbertville burned
last week, was one OF the first ever built
in Maine. When Denison & Co. COM
menced manufacturing paper at Me-
chanic Fails, some thirty-tive or forty
years ago, they found in the course of
fifteen years that they were using up the
available supply of paper stock all too
rapidly. For time they made use of
straw, bat when the feasibility OF using
wood pulp was established, the Denisons
We're among the first to make use of the
idea
Alex Mcintosh, an employee in the
mill OF the Penobscot Chemica Fibre Co.
at Great Works, met a horrible death
Thursday afternoon. There was some
thing the matter with one of the water
wheels, and Mcintosh was sent down
into the wheel pit to fix it; the water
was shut off and the cover was taken
from the top of the wheel. Mcintosh
stood ON the face Of the wheel and sup
posed that he was safe from any injury.
The WI, Has supposed ~ be shat
entirely off. The pinions in the wheel
were loose, and while the man was stand
ing on the face of the wheel, it started.
Before he could save himself, he was
caught in the cogs of the wheel and in
stantly killed. One arm and leg were
ground to pieces and the head were
crushed. Mcintosh was sixty-five years
of age.
Some interesting "reminiscences OF
coasting were told the other day in Ban
gor. Capt. A. p. Veazie referred to man
who had made 4S7 trips to Boston from
Winterport and along the coast OF Maine.
He is Capt. George Crockett OF the good
schooner Emma w. Day.. Capt. Crock
EFT is one OF the oldest mariners on the
Penobscot river. He formerly ran on the
packet line between Winterport and Bos-
ton. For the past few years he has been
carrying grain between Portland and
Winterport and Boston. The Emma w.
Day" is considered to be one of he fastest
sailing vessels that comes into the Penob-
scot bay. j. b. Hathorn, proprietor Of
Hathorn's ship-yard, said that when he
was nineteen years of age he sailed from
Bangor to Boston on schooner "South
Shore" and returned in five days, and
went through he three bridges in Boston
harbor. He said t hat he also made trip
from Boston to Bangor with Capt. Charles
Lansl in the schooner "Aurora" in nine
teen hours.