Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-05-13
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One Weeks Winnowings Of News,
Novelty and Nonsense.

The ice in Moosehead lake broke UP
Saturday.
A patent has been granted to w. II.
Chapman, OF Portland, for all electric
motor controller.
The annual conference of the Unitarian
churches OF Maine will be held at Bangor
June Is, 16 and l..
The body OF Ralph d. Jenkins. who was
drowned in the Sebasticook river April
10, was recovered Sunday, three quarters
OF mile below where the accident
occurred.
Maud Stanley, an eight years old girl
while fishing for suckers off the wharf
near the ice house in Halowell, the other
day, caught trout weighing two pounds
and half on a bent pin tied to piece OF
twine, with a decrepit bean pole for
rod.
William +. Poole, OF Dover, a promi-
nent figure in church and society circles,
committed suicide by hanging, last FRI
day. Poole had been Respondent for
some time. He was rty-eight years OF
dren.
The steamer "Jesnette," used in the
passenger service between Calais and
Eastport, was burned last Wednesday.
The jeanette" was about seventy feet
long and could accommodate $50 passen-
gers. This makes the fifth boat owned by
this company to be destroyed by fire.
The house OF Mrs. Hattie Fozer, OF
Neazie, was ransacked by burglars Sstur-
day night. The house was unoccupied,
Mrs. Fozer living next door with her son.
The thieves secured $3.50 in cash, gold
watch and chain, two silk dresses, five
Turkish rugs, a crayon portrait and some
silverware.
Several years ago, a rose bush WAS found
in garden at Cherry field, which became
the property OF Miss Ellen c. Holway, OF
Machias. Quite recently Miss Holway
gave slip to friend in Boston. a florist
in hat city seeing the slip wanted it, but
rs it was not for sale he found out where
it came from, and sent to Miss Holway
for three slips, for which he paid 81.
by HE Boston florist to be the only one
of the kind in existence.
The New England live stock insurance
company OF Boston, which was admitted
in 1891, by a special charter OF the legis-
Iature, to do business in Maine, has had its
charter revoked by the insurance com
missioner for compliance with the
provisions. 1t was required that a GER
tain amount OF money be placed on de-
posit in Maine, which requirements were
Hot complied with. The commissioner
called the company's attention to this
With no satisfactory results, and, accord
iugly, itFlieense has been revoked.
The report of Lieut. Col. Damrell on
several projects for the Improvement of
Maine rivers and harbors, just transmitted
to Congress, recommends the post pone-
ment OF further work on the fiarraseekit
river at Freeport until there shall seem to
be more neeu OF it; thinks the eXpendi-
ture OF -, 100 to deepen Royal river below
Yarmouth would not be Justified by the
small amount OF commerce on hat river;
recommends the establishment OF wharf
line around Boothbay Harbor and the
dredging OF the area included to the
depth OF fifteen feet, the whole to cost
not over $4,000; favors the removal of the
wreck OF the old schooner "Sawn" sunk
in the Marsh river fifty years ago; favors
survey OF Chambers river, which
empties into Englishman bay about
thirty miles west OF the st. Croix, and
recommends the dredging OF channel
ninety feet wide and two feet deep at ex-
treme low tide in Kenduskeag river from
its mouth up to kenduskeag bridge, and
deepening the harbor of Bangor in front
OF the Boston Il Bangor steamb boat wharf
to eleven feet from the harbor line out,
the same to cost omething over S2S 900.
As to opening 125 wide and seven feet
deep channel at Machias harbor at a cost OF
so, 900, Colonel Damrell is OF the opinion
that the river is worthy of Improvement,
hut it is reported that the mill-waste is
still going into the river in such Quanti-
ties as to fill up any improvements which
might be made.