The Republican journal., 1897-10-14
NEWS Or The EEK.

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we'll known farmer at the Highlands,
Rockland, committed suicide about s
O clock September Both by jumping
into the quarry on the Doe farm. This
| quarry has not been used for number of
| years and was filled with water. The
| town of Hampden has voted to exempt
| from taxation for a term of ten years the
plant of the Bangor, Hampden and Win
| terport electric railway, and has also APP
propriated the sum Of $500 to help the
road put the bridge over the Sowadabs-
cook stream in proper condition.. At
the firemen' S muster in Haverhill Oct. LIST
the kennebec Veterans of Brunswick
played 1S5 feet 3-4 inches, ranking
third. 49,. Theodore Goodrich, the man
who mistook sportsman for a deer in
Stratton, Sept. 30th, and shot him, has
been arrested and taken to Pennington,
but the grand jury refused to indict him.
.....T The Andrcscoggin grand jury has re-
ported 1855 indictments, one of the largest
lists on record. They are mostly liquor
cases. -. The Franklin grand jury has re-
turned nine indictments. They did not
lind bill against James Matthieson, the
Rangeley guide, for violation of the game
laws. Pennington gave reception, Oct.
LIST, afternoon and evening, in honor of
dent of the Woman's Relief Corps of
Maine, who practically began her work of
officially inspecting the 36th Corps of the
Maine Division by this visit to Appleton
Corps OF Pennington. Bangor people
are getting up memorial asking Cover
nor Powers to call a special session OF the
Legislature for the purpose of making an
appropriation for the completion of the
Eastern Maine hospital for the insane at
Bangor, which institution is now i'll
half finished state, or i'll some way pro
vlding for the proper care of those
patients for whom there is no room in
the Augusta asylum.....A special from
Coopers Mills to the Augusta Journal
says that Fred Glddens house in East
Jefferson was burned Sunday, Oct. 3D..
Ghdden's mother was removed i'll an in
sensible condition and his niece was quite
badly burned. Loss, -, 900; insurance,
500. Prescott Parker Holden, one of
the Oldest citizens of Bangor, died Oct. Sd
from the intirmities incident to old age,
aged 81 years. He was born in Deer Isle
and came to Bangor in 1881 His bust
ness was pump making. He leaves
widow, two sons and tN Q daughters. One
son is Edward E. Holden of Boston, a
well-known tenor singer and the other
has government position in Washington.
The end OF one of the most interesting
cases, and in some respects, the most
sensational in the annals of criminal cases
IN Cumberland county, came at O clock
Oct. I'd when the jury brought in a YER
dict of not guilty in the Waite arson case.
In BRIEF. Senator Edward O. VOL
colt of Colorado has arrived at London
from Paris. In answer to a question on
the subject, the monetary commissioner
said he was merely waiting for the answer
of the British government, which he hoped
would be favorable to the provisions of
the commission. ... Secretary Long, Sept.
Both, chose names for torpedo boats 10,
20 and II, selecting Stringham, Colds
borough and Bailey, the names of three
distinguished commanders in the naval
service during the late war;. John Wolfe
of Cripple Creek, Col, has had donated
to him by Joseph Ladue, half block of
ground in Dawson City, upon which he
intends to erect mammoth hotel. His |
partners in this enterprise are Is Chicago
business men,. Harvard university be-
gan it's 262d academic year, Sept 3Oth.
1t is not officially known how many stu
dents there are, but the freshmen class is
the largest in the history of the institu-
tion.....A special dispatch from Madrid !
says that rumor prevails there to the eff
feet that an important communication has
been received by the Spanish government
from the leaders of the Cuban insurgents,
suggesting the basis of possible settle
ment of the Cuban difficulties ~. The
New York Evening World says Grover
Cleveland is anxious to succeed Senator
Smith of New Jersey in the United States
Senate. The latter's term expires in
1899. ... The San Francisco Call says that
the appraisers of the late James g. Fairs
estate have completed their task and that
their report will show that the value of
the Fair estate has been very much over
rated. Instead of being valued at from
thirty to sixty millions, the appraisers say
the official figures will be about ST., 000,-
600 and certainly not more than SIS, O0G,-
OOO.. For the first time in the States
history Florida is shipping sponges to
Europe, and is receiving good returns on
all which reach the London market.....
The Pope's weakness is said to be in
creasing.. consequence of the
yellow fever quarantine in the Southern
States, the Southern Pacific Co. has de-