Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-26

A Brunswick man has gotten up nice
Mttle device to take the place OF castOrs.
1t is round ball sunk into ferule on q
pivot bearing. and will move In any fiirec-
ton. The Brunswick Machine Company
Is negotiating now to turn out very
large order of THESE affairs.
Just before the arrival Of the morning
excursion train at Locks Mills. Sunday.
the station agent by mere accident no.
sticed there was trouble with the switch
and found some miscreant had fOrcibly
torn off the lock and turned the switch
and left 1t IN "a condition that II II had
not been discovered In season would have
been the cause of serious accident II
not loss of life.
Rev. David r. r. Stevens. one OF Au-
burns oldest and most respected citi-
zens. died at his home Tuesday morn
ing The deceased was SO years al
age last April and has always been one
of the most prominent Unaversalist
clergymen in the State. He founded
the Elm street church in Auburn In
1885, He retired from active service
about 1880.
A week ago, Phillip Vailieu of Lewis
ton. % years of age, who has been III for
a long time, went out for walk and did
not return. The police were notified sew
eral days ago, and nave been searching
for him. Deputy Marshal Sands located
him Tuesday. at Livermore Falls, where
he is at work. Vallieu said that when he
went away from his home his intention
was to return that night. But as he
walked out of the city the impulse seized
him to keep on walking and he did, till
he reached Livermore Falls where he
found work.
Mrs. Frank Nash of Halldale, who
disappeared from her home on Friday
last, has been found. The searching
parties hunted in vain for nearly three
days. 1t had been supposed that the
missing woman had committed suicide
by drowning in Sandy pond, near her
home but the searchers were at las;
rewarded. Several who were in the
vicinity of Mrs. Nash's house heard
strange noises in the barn, and, upon
tracing them to their source and re-
moving several boards from the rear o.
the building, they found the woman Sc
GREETED in hay NOV. She was re-
moved to tine house and placed in bed,
and medical aid was procured.
Lockes Mills has had it's experience
with hotel thief. A man put at the
hotel. last Friday, saying he was to re-
main there several days on a vacation.
and was expecting on the next train
from the east some lady relatives to
meet him there. On this ruse he was
shown over the house In quest of rooms
suitable for his accommodation. by the
obliging chamber girl. Later he was
discovered by the girl coming out of
one of the chambers, and excused him.
self by saying he wanted to see the
rooms again. and did not wish to
trouble the girl in showing him around
After this he disappeared and showed
up at Bryant's pond in the same way.
did not get the opportunity of going
over the house. His stay here was
short. The last seen OF him was late
in the evning. walking towards West
Paris. When the boarders returned
home at night they noticed that the
drawers of the bureaus and the boxes
in their rooms had been tempered with.
and upon further examination it was
discovered that the rooms had been
visited by an expert thief. One board
er. and engineer, lost $50 in money and
other small amounts The man was
about so years of are, short, quite
stout. dark complexion. beard short
and somewhat gray He was well
dressed in black clothes. wore a derby
hat and carried an umbrella Detec-
tive Bassett at Norway or Sheriff Gar
land at South Paris would like any In
formation that would lead to the cap
ture of this thief.