Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-09
spslks FROM MAINE WIRES.

Joseph Mitchell , Of Patten. have filed
voluntary. petitions of insolvency.
WardeJs Neal captured two deer and
lot of deer hides. Tuesday. at Bangor.
Four bucks were also held on suspicion.
The drivers who worked on the mail
n CONS all the fall. at Portland. have
ought suits against Constable w.
II Mcclure for wages.
TThe Deering aldermen, WEDNESDAY
night. elected Hon. Myron f. Moore
as a member of the committee to ar
prange for the annexation of Deering
to Portland. The aldermen met for the
first time in their handsome and COM
Portable new quarters in the new Odd
Fellows brick block
: The appraisers of the estate of Warren
C. Bryant pf Biddeford, one OF the heirs
of L,ther Rryant have filed their inven-
estate foots up $5s.34, of which sum SAG
100 Covers his real estate. The principal
items are dne-half Of the WATERFORD blocl,
in tiddeford. $lo.Oolf one-half of the build
ing on Alfred sired occupied by the Bid
de$orl Fufsiiture o.. SO ooos His farm at
Blfdgton = rated at 5000. Srhe principal
i i. 3 M s, property I $1,000 city
Tho December stenp Of the United
States district court tEonyened at Port
land, Tuesday norm Is. and the grand
Jury ,o Was imna anr The personnel is
Rremans George B.f3rooke and Herbert
- Brunswick: Ch%les +. Farrar and
Albert b. Packard " Corinth: Lysander
Aecofnber of Dover; Edward l.. Allen
aid Seth T. Sprine of Hiram; James W.
Lord and Charles r. Stinson of Limerick;
volney Thompsok and Charles w. ,Tal-
bot of Montville:-Cyrus X. Bridges and
HoseasB. WardwgskoE Penobsc1t; Daniel
Carr and John 4:s1eefe Of Portland; Al.
M lysa i; Nssa as and Si
Erastps ~ Bates q esyaterfiiis. Russell
w. Eaton. tf BfulsMfck, wqf1 excused,
The jury retired and win sesslad
for several daSi =: -
The annual d eetfag OF IL csnnS)
Maine General Eess1tai CorpopfiSoi
was held al thf hospital at Lewiktdl,
Tuesday. T1e election '6 bffieers. re-
suited as follows: Hon. Seth NJ. Carter
of Auburn. president; d. j. Callahan
of Lewiston, secretary; John F. Cobb
of Auburn. II. r. Callahan Of Lewiston
and Seth D.. Wakefield of Lewiston,
directors for 8 vcars. The proposed
amendment to the bylaws to make the
president of the hospital staff a MEM
Der ex-ofIicio of the board of directors.
was indefinitely postponed. The re-
port of the treasurer showed receipts
Of $l0.S79.07 and expenditures Of $Se34 SO.
The expenditures for the year an the
new building were So. 323.0S.
Things of the death of Mr.. CharleseC
Wells were received in Portland. Menday s.
Dec. G. Mr.. Wells came of sturdy New
England stock. His father was the
youngest son of Judge Samuel Wells
Governor of Maine in 1856. and his mother
is the daughter of Hon. Bion Bradbury OF
Portland. Though attending school al
Waterville ana at Billerica. Mass. Mr.
Wells home was in Portland. where b.
his lovable nature and winning qualities
he won hosts OF friends. For some years
on account of delicate health he had
made his home in California. Four years
4gO he married Miss Marion. Fertig OF
Eennsy1vania, who survives him. His
early death falls with peculiar sorrow
upon his wife and mother-a grief which
will be shared by many friends, who re-
member his sunny disposition and mani,
and attractive traits of char;fkter. He
WIS most patient and COURAGEOUS through
o4M his illness and. rever lost his entlinsi
am Ind interest ii1rltfe. Z