Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-06
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Court convened at Belfast, Tuesday.
Judge Emery of Ellsworth, presiding.
There are on the docket DDS old civil and
~ old criminal cases.
Robert Mayconnell died recently at
the home of his grandson in Bethel.
His age was 100 years. He was a
soldier in the late war;.
The difficulty that mast confront the
management of the Maine Festival is
promises to be very large. Can it be put
on the stage at City hall?' When here.
Mr. Chapman remarked that he thought
that the partitions between the stage
proper and the so-called banquet hall
could be taken down for this occasion.
A chorus of 500 is no small body to house
or handle in the hall, and an orchestra of
as 800 persons. 1t looks as if the parti-
tions must go. 1. e.. providing the build
ing experts say that it is safe to do this
p Under the rocf- :; ai and and with such
would you get when they were removed?
Lewiston Journal - -
Again Harvey Boulie has tried to COM
init suicide, at Houlton. He found an old
rusty R knife blade in the stone yard of the
After Boulie had been put into his cell
for the night. he ran the blade clear
through the muscle of his arm. making
q terrible cash from which blood flowed
freely. Jailer Kay, who has kept a strict
watch on Boulies movements, heard a
groan in his cell and rushed in. Boulie
saw him coming and made an attempt
to slash his own throat, but Kay seized
the would-be suicide and after a hard
tussle took the rusty blade from him.
Kay then rang for an assistant and sent
in Boulie's arm and the prisoner is now
resting as comfortably as possible.
Auburn is interested over the report
that wife has threatened to shoot
her husband at sight. According to
report the man has been away from
home some little time and the wife
has spent time and money looking for
him. There is a report that her hus-
band is insane and that he is cunning
for his wife with shot gun The
writer has interviewed relatives of the
man and they say that so far as they
know there is no truth in the reports.
They say that the man is in Portland.
He was in Auburn a few days ago and
appeared to be all right then.-Lewis-
ton Journal.
The annual meeting of the Cumber-
land County Agricultural Association
was held at Gorham, Tuesday forenoon.
A rumor of an attempt to renew the
controversy over the secretaryship,
which created so much feeling a year
ago, called out large attendance.
in the balloting for officers. These
We're chosen: President, Alonzo H.
Libby, Westbrook; secretary, C. H.
Leighton, Westbrook: treasurer, Fred
3. Scammon, Gorham: trustees, John
F. Head. Portland; Abbott F. Warren.
Levi d. Wescott, Westbrook; John w.
Nr,yn T .tl>
Deering: representative for three
years on the board of agriculture. John
j. Frye. Portland. The report of the
treasurer showed the total receipts
last year to have been s461S: total ex-
penses, 1920; present Indebtedness
above resources, $941.
The annual statement of the county
treasurer of Androscoggin county is
issued and shows that the years re-
ceipts We're $6l 0S6.25 and the expen-
ditures 1853. SS632. There was a balance
in the treasury December 81, 1895. of
S14,0l4.3O County taxes collected We're
s32. 1888 for SO and $94114 of '95 taxes.
The S. j. court expenses were $10425.O4.
municipal court expenses
were s6,1492S, and Auburn's $2,470.59.
jail expenses Wcrn ll,6lJ.42. The
liabilities are Sal ,4S4.55 and re-
sources $S.212.1O, leaving a balance
against it December 81 of So, 270. As.
The bonded Indebtedness is $40, 900. The
county has taken up $1,000 of the bonded
falling due in 1896 The
balance of the $4,000 bonded indebted
ness is in five per cent. bonds, $4,000 falls
due in 1897. The last of the entire issue
of bonds run out in 1908. In their
for 1878 the county
recommend a county tax
of $40000-an increase of $4,000 over
1856. Ten thousand dollars of this is
for the support of business. Then, too.
there is the little matter of $4,000 land
damages for widening Court street in
Auburn to be taken care of.