Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-06-28

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house.
| There is talk of having celebration
lat Kingfield. July ..
Five Rockland men unloaded DO
cords Of wood from a schooner in nine
hours.
Penobscot has lost it's oldest citizen
| Deacon Dudley Bridges. aged ninety
two years.
Franklin is enjoying building boom
! Five dwellings, and a schoolhouse are
now in course of erection.
An esrfmable lady, who resides with
in az miles OF Waldoboro village, went
there. last week. for the first time in ~
| years,
| The many friends OF Sidney J. Norris
of Dover. win be glad TO learn that ne
| thas won In the annual geometry prize
contest at Exeter.
West Trenton is building new
| schoolhouse The old school building
win be converted into hall by tn
Christian Enieavor society.
| The most important and most graft
flying news for the people OF Ellsworth
which The American gave hs readers
| last week was that OF the formation
| there Of a corporation Of young men.
who Will erect a factory and engage
in the manufacture of soap.
st. George is a very strongly Demo
cratic town and elected Il fun list or
Democratic town officers at the last
town meeting. but as bearing on the
questions of sound money and a pro-
tee;ive tariff. il Is worthy of notice that
the town gave a ajJrity of votes for
Mckinley. and today the people gener~
ally without regard for politics seem -
he looking and waiting for the passage
of the new tariff act as the harblnger
OF better times.
Game Warden Neal was in Plymouth.
Wednesday. and obtained sufficient evil
dence TO warrant the arrest of Bert
Malcolm OF that town for killing a deer
one day last week. 1t is said thai Mr
Neal found near the offal where the
deer was dressed the dead body of a
little fawu, which was too young 10
get its living after being deprived Of
the s,istenance furnished by its mother.
Thursday Mr.. Neal. accompanied by
Officer Corey of this place. went 10 Ply
mouth arrest Malcolm, who was, 1t
viii be remembered. one OF the prin-
cipals in the recent alleged assault in
Plymouth upon the Armenian peddler
from Bangor,
The 9th annual catalogue of the Hig
gins Classical Institute. Charleston,
Me-, has just been issued. The cata-
Icgue shows an attendance of So. a.
large number of whom are taking the
college preparatory course. Graduates
from the college preparatory course are
admitted on the principals certificate
to Colby, Bates, the University OF
Maine, and to other colleges which ad
nit students on certificate. Besides
the college preparatory course two
courses are offered the Latin. scientific
and the English scientific. The instr
tute is heavily endowed and conse
quently is enabled 10 offer superior adj
vantages at a very low expense.
Mr.. II. G.. Nichols of Detroit. reports
the appearance of rather strange act
ing man at his farm week ago.
About o'clock in the afternoon th@
man. apparently about So years of age,
with dark sandy moustache, freckled
and well dressed. suddenly entered Mr..
Nichols house, passed quietly through
without addressing any of the inmates
going out the hack door and into a
pasture where he silently dropped
good sized valise, walked around it
several times and disappeared across
the fields, calling at other houses on the
road. When last seen he was on the
road to Unity. The valise contained a
quantity of cast-off clothing. He did
not speak in any of the houses entered
and acted very mysterious indeed, Mr..
Nichols followed the man, and after
questioning him for some time managed
to elicit a few replies which seemed to
show that he was not wholly unfamil-
lar with the locality. He seemed to
be of a deranged mind. !
The hero of Long Pond is Master
William Scully. He set out with his
rifle a few days ago. to visit bear trap
which his father had set mile and a
half from home, on an old tote road.
His father instructed him that if there
was anything in the trap TO return
home and inform him. However. when
the young lad neared the vicinity of
the trap, he was surprised to behold
Mr. Bruin coming down the tote read
with the trap and clog attached to him.
On observing the boy, brun gave vent
to yell of defiance and started to-
wards THE boy. who lodged behind Il
tree in twinkling. He raised his
rifle, got sight on the bears head
and fired. and in less time than it takes
TO tell. the old duffer lay rolling and
struggling on the EARTH The boy
waited, trembling with excitement, un-
TIL the bear ceased his struggles. and
went up cautiously and examined him.
He proved to be quite large one. meas
uring six feet in length and weighing
in the vicinity of 400 pounds