Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-07-29
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One Weeks Winnowings OF News,
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nesday Aug. a. In Z.Zi CLASS the purse ~
ESQ; 2.21 class, purse 300.
Capt. George A. Nichols, OF Searsport
master OF the ship "a bner Coburno, died
at Anjier last Saturday. He was forty
eight years of age.
Thomas w. KimbalI, real estate dealer
and member OF the board OF education,
OF Waterville, died suddenly last Wed
nesday, of heart disease.
mont his there has been such an increase
in business that now the remaining 5 per
cent. has been restored. The order went
into effect on the first day Of July.
c. NJ. Bursley, late physical director at
the Y. NJ. c. A. gymnasium, Bangor, died
very suddenly in Portland last week.
Death followed an operation for tumor
He was thirtytwo years OF age.
The Maine State fair has offered liberal
premiums for exhibitions by amateur
photographers. One OF the best quar-
tettes in New England has been employed
to give concerts each evening OF the
fair. Aug. 80 to Sept 8.
The town OF Benedicta In the Aroos-
took woods, makes a claim that cannot
| be equalled by any other New England
town. Though settled for over sixty
years and containing about 500 souls
there is not a Protestant in the place.
During the year 1893 cut OF 10 per
cent. was made by the Maine Central
railroad in the wages OF train men and
section men. This rule was not, however
long in vogue, for only few months
afterwards, half OF the 10 per cent. cut
was restored. During the last several
From returns thus far made by local
assessors to the board OF State assessors,
it appears that the increase of the valua-
ton OF property in the State will prob
ably be about as much this year last
in the vicinity OF 1900, 900. The real
estate is holding up we'll and il there be
any shrinkage it is on the line of personal
property.
/ A new shoe manufacturing company, to
be known as the Boyd & Corey Shoe
company, has been organized in Augusta
The capltal stock is sf00, OG0 all paid in.
The company will build factory at once.
f The directors are S. {. Darling, Boston;
". H. Aidrich, Boston; p. o. NIekery, J.
II. Manley, Charles s. lIiciiborn, II. NJ.
Hent II and NJ. V. b. Chase, Augusta.
The Dirigo telephone company has au-
thorizcd the directors to extend the lines
and business of the company into every
principal city and town in the State.
Negotiations With strong capitalists to
carry ont an energetic business policy are
progressing. The charter rights of the
Dirlgo company are unique and sweep
ing, in fact it is the only corporation in
the State with such general privileges.
William Il. Shaw, the Bath bank de-
faulter, was discharged from the State
/ prison Friday. He was sentenced July l,
1898, to a term of ten years, for the en-
/ bezzlement OF 100000 from the Lincoln
national bank OF Bath. BY executive
| ciemency, his term was reduced, last De-
cember, to five years, and he gets year
off for good behavior.
In an exhaustive report Attorney
General w. T. Haines answers the gov
ernor and council upon the question
"whether the federal government has the
right to call on the Maine State liquor
comm issloner to pay tax. He states
that The State liquor agent is a State Of
cial, executing the policy power Of the
State, and that there is no warrant in the
constitution for the proposed tax.
Fourteen students and three teac hers in
camp near kineo have been arrested for
violation Of the game law. The party is
! al, - B., he
carcass OF which was sunk in the lake.
The penalty for killing COW moose out
OF season is four months imprisonment.
A Belfast woman few nights ago was
awakened by slight noise in the room
and saw rat escaping through the door
| with her false teeth, which she had left
on stand. She gave chase, but the rat
disappeared with his plunder. The rats
down there have been doing more execu-
! ton than ever since the theft.
Old fishermen say that mackerel are
acting just the same this year they did
/ in 1891, " hich was such a great year for
them off the Maine coast. That year
they struck in here about the 20t h OF
June anG held way into September. At
/ that time you had only to go out twenty
or thirty miles and find fleet of from
200 to 800 vessels "iigging' mackerel.
The year 1881 VAS really the best year
for the New England mackerel fishery,
the statistics showing that over 29a,ooo
barrels of number three maclerel were
/ caught; 1871 simply happened to be
Names best year. In 1892 there was a
I far run Of mackerel, but since then they
have been rare fish indeed along TIM, coast,
and it has come TO such pas. nowadays
that when mackerel is seen off Cape Cod
. he Is chased clear to Halifax.