Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-30

SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

III iHSboli, PORTUGAL.
The schooner Estelle Capt. f. G.
hutchinson, sailed from Curacao, Thurs
day, with a general cargo. including
spruce oars, the first ever shipped from
that port to the West Indies. Cant.
hutchinson will be accompanied on the
trip by his daughter and Miss Lillian
dean, and the party will be absent from
the city three months.
The Masonic bodies of Maine will meet
III Portland beginning Tuesday. May 4,
ana continuing through Thursday May
b. The programme will be as follows:
tuesday. meeting of the grand lodge in
the morning and of the grand chanter in
the evening: Wednesday. meeting of the
grand council. The Maine council of De-
liberation. Scottish rite, will meet in the
afternoon; Thursday. meeting of the
grand commandery.
The lease of Portland's new theatre,
for which there have been numerous APP
plications, was signed. Thursday The
lesses are Fay Bros. X Hosford Lowell
Mass, who run the new theatre in that
city, and are in close touch with the
FrohmanS and owners of other leading
attractions. A. j. Fay will move his fam
lily to Portland and personally manage
the business opening the theatre with q
big attraction early in September The
lease is for five years at $1,000 per year
BY the collision with another engine
and buggy at Portland. Thursday
iii'i iiitiS-r ip'llJtillIli Jbllstu an tilSli
wiper, was instantly killed. The accident
took place in the Boston & Maine freight
yard, near the foot of Clark street on
Commercial. Jonah was Il years of age
He was from tlillsbury, n. b. He had
wife and two children. Fireman Geo
Whittletield of the shifter had one leg in
jured. Coroner Perry is investiga ting the
case and will hold an inquest, Saturday.
There seems to be a diversity of opin-
ion regarding the city councils instruct
ing the board of assessors to put Il valu-
alton on the plant Of the Saco and Bid
deford Water Co The members of the
board will probably comply with the re-
quest of the city fathers, although legal
complications are likely to follow. Alder
man Murphy, who has been looking into
the matter, is confident that the city can
not tax the property of the Water Co,
as the Legislature of 1889 authorized an
exemption for 80 years.
\ lodge of the American Benefit Soci-
ETY. was instituted in Winthrop, Wednes-
day night, by S c. C.. Ward of Augusta,
supreme chaplain of the order. Twenty
three charter members We're admitted.
1t was voted to call the lodge Annabes-
sacook No. 90. The following officers
We're elected and installed by the supreme
chaplain: Senior past president, a. IL.
Bailey; junior past president III. +. Fos-
ter; vice president, Frank b. Fairbanks;
orator NJ NJ Woodman; secretary and
o. y. Gordon; chaplain, Oscar T. Briggs;
warden. Mrs. Della Il. Merrill; sentry,
Frank Corthell
Gen. Josua L. Chamberlain of Bruins
wick, was at Saeo. Wednesday. the guest
of William Grant Brooks. a young Saco
musician, who has acquired considerable
fame as "A composer of songs and
marches. Sousas Band gave a concert
in Saco City hall in the afternoon and
played the .'Diriso March, written by
MIR. Brooks and dedicated to Gen
Chamberlain. Gen. Chamberlain was in
New York and went to Saco especially to
hear this march. Mr. Brooks was highly
complmented after the matinee Gen.
Chamberlain was given an ovation when
he entered the hall. Before the concert
he was rendered a reception in the par
lors of the Saco house, where he was
met by many prominent citizens
DR. Aurelia Springer of Lewiston. has
just completed a new N-ray couch IT is
an original thing. being a folding bed
with sliding panels under It. ana having
Il box for the %-raY bulb under the
whole thing. A patient with some heart
trouble or with a bullet in the lungs is
placed upon the table and the N-raY cur
rent turned on under the bed. Then the
physician takes the horoscope and looks
through the body. pulling out one after
another of the sliding bottoms of the
couch to let the penetrating light through
better MANY patients have a supersti-
ana by us peing concealeI utlqen ne ne, nv'
1eel much safer WINE uIueI5olhS tiie -
ANIMATION. ne ptd II d Eteat NoIt-
ana the inventor mas peeil coih-
plimcnted hlGniN upon us aPp:dt,'i me-
ana erect. II Is instantly turned lh'o al
operating table IT desired.
The Wednesday afternoon train brought
Il large number of stockholders and in
terosted parties to Albion to attend the
St-icf..,ceat &. Quebec Railroad mass meet
40. mich ma bean advertised bv fam
. Us - ,fitar 80. a ia,,ra attend
iuE poStei9' 80 w., i''t r,,..,,l'st n
itllct dt tn' ,r,,t,--iorht
tefeSt was ma iill"Stcu' WcIi'9 N'7'
persons Slghlled tuelf Wins iio99 ~
pledge themselves LOT various dlilouii'f
under the new $33.0C0 plan General
Manager Fogg was the chief speaker OF
the evening and outlined to those pres
ont what the management hoped to do
The nreseut call for cash is for the cX-
,,licit ntIrrose Of co,r1pletjns the road to
where II yin connect with the
l'ri u ~ f ~. NTaina Central The
lllal maui mn 1I,ia,, a., it,,,,nlm is srraded
.5ao I'm i.d,.ti, IA al h,.idprs and
tilH iiD - 80 80 80 -, nneiti0,, The
cuiNerts save on ait ~ r Usittoi ana
o'fi VIII pc SulIicient 70 Nii.lat Go
lay the ralls and puiid tne reiialnlnb
bridge and station. TINS aoallioiai piece
of road is expected to greatly increase
the earnings of the company. General
AIana,ra, F'oa~ is working busily to per-
f.t 5rrarorcpaent. for his departure to