Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-06
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Operations at the FOXcroft corn can
ning shop were finished, Saturday
night. About $4,000 cans have been
packed this season.
The session of the Western Division
of the Bucksport Ministerial Associa-
ton at Eddington opened, Monday.
with good attendance.
The steamer Frank Jones which was re-
ported badly damaged by fire at Ma
chias Sunday night, arrived in Portland.
Tuesday. The officers say that the dam
age will not amount to ID cents.
George p. Billings farm buildings. on
the London road Saco, were burned,
early Monday. The fire started in the
barn, and is believed to have been set by
tramps. Loss. $500: insurance, $780,
The Pulitzers will remain at Chat
void, Bar Harbor, until November.
Their daughter. Miss Lucille, who has
been i'll with typhoid fever, is improv
ing rapidly. g~s
George Billings, contractor and
builder has taken the contract to build
a $40 600 stable for Joseph Pulitzer, at
Bar Harbor, the coming fall and win
ter. Work will soon begin.
a patent has been granted Frederick
s. Hodgdon of Rumford, on perpetual
calendar. A trade mark has been
granted the Mount Ziron Spring Com
pany of oxford county, on a certain
named spring water.
In recent trip upon the St. Johns
river. Deputy Sheriff King of Fort
Fairfield, seized about $1,000 worth of
various kinds of liquors. Mr.. King will
so over the same route again. this
week. to dispose of the liquor as the
Jaw requires.
The Acton fair opened. Tuesday. with
the usual attendance This fair is one of
the best known and best patronized in
western Maine and presents some of the
best trotting events. Fifty of the speedi-
est animals that have been in the lists of
the Maine and New Hampshire circuits
are entered for the races at Lake Shore
park, Wednesday and Thursday.
improvements at Verona park are to be
begun this week. A sea wall is to be built
along the entire water front. The large
building on the pier used for n boarding
house and restaurant will be removed to
a site on higher ground and completely
rcmodelled for use Il summer hotel.
The streets will be graded and filed
where needed. pavilion and open stand
repaired and many other improvements
made. ~
At Pennington, Tuesday. Chas. o.
Hewey, for assault to commit rape
upon Mrs. Drusilla M. Corbett of
Phillips, was found guilty and sem
fenced to eight years in the State
prison. Fred A. Brown of Brunswick.
indicted for breaking and entering and
larceny at Phillips, and retracted his
plea of not guilty, and entered plea
OF guilty. His counsel pied with the
court for clemency from the fact that
the man had not put the county to the
cost of trial. Judge Savage sentenced
Brown to two years in the State prison
on one indictment, and two years in
the State prison on the other indict-
ment, and he remarked that he had
taken off one year on account of the
prisoners not standing trial.
The following sentences We're meted out
to Cumberland county criminals in the
superior court at Portland Tuesday fore
noon: VIM. N. Guilford of South Port
land, a widower, As years of age. who had
pleaded guilty to felonious assault upon
his l-year-old niece, was questioned by
Judge Bonney, who declared that there
was not one redeeming feature in the
case. The testimony of the girl showed
that Guilford had invited her to the cem-
etery to place flowers on his wife's grave.
and there the assault took place. Gull
preston. He turned first pale. then a
rosy hue, while the judge was talking. He
was sentenced to eight years in the State
prison. State prison sentences were inn
posed on 10 prisoners. the whole aggre-
eating 80 years. They We're: Frank e.
Groves and Walker G. Ames of Bruns-
wick. breaking. entering and larceny,
three years each: Fred Hayslip. Davis
Lisk and Lewis Langley of Lynn, break
ing. entering and larceny, three years
EACH Charles S. Bragdon., Portland,
breaking, entering and larceny. three
years; James Wilmot ana Joseph A.
Cavanaugh of Portland, breaking and en-
tering. two years each: Herbert G. Adams
of Portland. adultery, two years. The
following parties were sentenced to the
county jail: Samuel w sl1eman. en-
mot, larceny. eight months; VIM. Clam
cey, Portland. larceny. six months: Kate
Mitchell, Portland. eight months: George
D. Knight, larceny, one month. Cumber-
land county has sent 81 men to State
prison this year.
''Burdock Blood Bitters entirely cured
me Of a terrible breaking out all over my