Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-11-11
KIIrTERY TO CARIBOU.
One Weeks Winnowings of News,
Novelty and Nonsense.

Novelty and Nonsense.
The auditorium built nj Bangor for the
music festival, will he used during the
winter rs a bicycle riding academy.
Fire in the hardware store OF Patterson
& Porter, Bangor, Frtd,y, caused loss of
between g, 600 aud 1900 Fully insured.
Next year the Maine Central railroad
company will make extensive improve
ments at Bangor, including the erection
OF new round house.
Invita- ions are oct for the marriage of
Miss Elizabeth Hodsdon Boutelle, daugh-
ter OF Congressman Bouteile, to Will
liam Walter Palmer, on Monday,
Nov. -, at $50 O'Clock in the BouteIle
home, Bangor.
Ehphas G Bean, of East Bethel, who at
tempted suicide by cutting his throat
with a razor, died Wednesday. Mr.. Bean
was once member OF he state Legislature
He was eighty four years old. He had been
suffering from dependency.
A new grand stand will be built at Ma
plewood in the spring to take the place OF
the one recently burned. The new stand
will be located nearer to the track, and,
while but one story high, will be SO long
that 1t will accommodate more people
than the old stand.
Capt. Robert II. Coombs, one OF Bel
fasts oldtime sea captains, dropped dead
ON the street Sunday. Years ago he COM
manded some OF the best vessels IN the
a a .k.l..
voyages. He was In the alive Oak,
which was taken from him by the Span
sh and afterwards wrecked. Secretary OF
State Blaine was pushing his claim for
damages at the time OF / he former death.
Capt. Coombs retired from the sea fifteen
years ago.
Patents have recently been granted to-
Maine inventors as follows: W. Bar
bour, Bur Iarbor, electrical insulator;
{. +. Seaman, Deering, machine for
forming and coiling match spIints; l.. p.
Sherman, Biddeford machine for draw
ing in warp threads; Chaplin {. Brooks,
Wayne, knife; Frank Carson and W.
Glenn, Houlton, game counter; Charles
ID. Cuts, Fort Fairfield, drill; William
A. G. Gowen, Portland. skewer machine;
franklin c. Robinson, Brunswick, for
maldehyde generator.
The efficiency OF sturdy lfe-savers who
patrol the coast OF Maine is shown by the
report, now i'll the hands OF the printer.
There are nine ife-saving stations on the
rugged coast OF the Pine Tree State, ex-
tending from Quoddy's Head to Fletch,r's
Neck. The amount OF property lost WIS
4.755, but property to the value of
Sl99 205 WAS saved. Three shipwrecks d
persons were succored at stations, but no
one was lost from total OF 1873 persons
involved. Fhe number of disasters on
The coast for the past year was forty, the
value OF the vessels involved, s242 go, and
the value Of cargoes, l,720.
PittsfieId is worried aud apparently
with reason. 1t looks very much AS
though the Wiscasset and Quebec rail-
road would go to Waterville from Weeks
Mills, and not to Pittstield al all. Water
vile is making strong bid for it, and it
is thought this terminus would give
vastly more business. 1t seems that
while men have been hired and the con-
tract let to responsible parties for the
Burn ham Pittsteld extension, this trans
action was done with the understanding
that the moneyed men Of Pittstield would
subscribe some 5000 to pay the land
damages entailed. The committee failed
to secure but 81 $50.