Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21
Aprons
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

In the Cumberland supreme judicial
court, Tuesday, William H. Ingraham
and Charles E. Perkins were admitted
to practice in all the courts of this
commonwealth.
Frank Carpenter, formerly station
agent at South Orrington, has been
transferred to Greene Lake. ]. d.
Kinds is acting as agent at the former
station for the present.
The ice crop of 1867 is nearly all gone
from the houses on the Penobscot, only
about 10000 tons remaining, of which the
bulk is held by the Stems Lumber Co.
and E. & J. F. Webster. Several large
vessels are now at Bangor to load, and
over $500 tons left that port, Tuesday.
John F. Hartley, ex-assistant secretary
of the United States treasury died at his
home in SacO, Wednesday, aged So years
He was born in Saco and graduated from
the old Saco Academy and from BOwdoin
College. He read law with John and
Ether Shepley of SacO, and then moved
to Portland and practiced. In 1888 he was
appointed clerk in the United States
treasury department. In 1863 he was pro-
NOTED to chief clerk under Secretary Sal
mon P. Chase. During President John
sons administration he was appointed as
sistant secretary of the treasury! holding
that Office till 1875. when he resigned and
permanently located in Saco. He had a
large estate. Two sons survive him. DR.
Frank Hartley and Attorney Edward
Hartley, both of New York.
In the Penobscot supreme judicial
court, Foster, j., presiding, Tuesday.
Ada F. Fleming VS.. Katahdin Pulp and
Paper Co.; an action in which plaintiff
sues to recover for 5000 pieces of spruce
logs, of the value of s24G0, and the
plaintiff alleges that at Lincoln, in this
county, on March /, 1897, she was pos
sessed of the above 5000 pieces OF
spruce pulp wood, and on that day lost
the same which came into the hands
and possession of the defendants by
finding; that defendant well knowing
said spruce logs to belong to her, con-
verified them to their use, which is to
her damage, as she says, the sum of
| $4,000. The case was sent to the law
court on report. If the action is main
tainable, it will come back for trial;
otherwise entered plaintiff non-suit."
One of the Rockland Star reporters
had talk with Mrs. Quinlan, Tuesday.
in regard to the schooner Silver cells
of which her husband is captain. The
vessel has been reported to have left
New York for Cuba with filibustering
party. Mrs. Quinlan is very indignant
at the thought of her husband entering
into any such business and is sure that
there is a mistake somewhere. She had
letter last week from Captain Quin-
Ian stating that the vessel had. dis
charged her cargo at New York and
was loading general merchandise at
that place for Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Quin-
Ian said that her husband was always
very much opposed to that kind Of
business and she is positive that he
would not do anything of the kind
without letting her know something
about it,
There was a lively mill in lower
Lisbon street store at Lewiston, Tues
day afternoon, when Constables Dionne
and Crafts made the 18th raid there. It
was a store formerly occupied by Pat
Doyle, and the officers on learning that
he was there proceeded to raid the
place. They had been calling there
regularly every day for long time in