The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-01-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

H>s MATTERS. Assistant Adjutant
Mailer of Waldoboro was in Lewis
week, making arrangements for
3mpment of Names Grand Army
Republic, which will convene there,
- > and l6. Hotel Atwood will be
adguarters during the two days
-.a and 40 rooms have been secured
commander Carver and staff will
-aled there. City hall, Lewiston.
The place of the convention and
uuful building will be covered
Nd Glory during the stay of the
H-...-. The Bowdoin Alumni Asso-
Portland will hold their annual
.-. ,Ie Congress Square hotel Jan
- The poem will be delivered by
a-J,,us f, Moulton and the Grafton
iohn Marshall Brown. Con
lmes Mitchell has cheerful re-
to an early construction of the
Inc railroad. He says it is his
to put a large force of men at
Grading early in the spring at ELS
and will push the work as rapidly
--ibie....Dr Arthur 5. Chilcott' 5
'aud was So severely injured. about
A. Thursday at Bangor, by the ex-
II "A vulcanizing apparatus, thar
Jared he viii lose the hand. His
It's }iso considerably burned. Will
Blake, OF the firm Of w L. Blake
resented TO the new st. Lawrence
1I,i e
largest weighing :, 800 pounds
smallest 2Q0.......The Deering
u Friday night passed an order
4ug the mayor TO make lease OF
II the building to be erected by
Fellows Hall Association for City
aMent quarters, at 81, 800 per year,
t4r sons and Daughters of Maine
mldwinter meeting and banquet
-ulsday evening at the Hotel Thorn
SuSton. Melville c. Bedle presided.
Tan Fish acted as secretary. Forty
J-Is were present. The guests were
". Biddle of Brookline and VIM.
president of the Brighton club.....
harrington is loading two cars at
ePOt at Bath with the frame and
pf the steamer which he is going to
tit Moosehead lake. After it arrives
lake, it has to be hauled 20 miles
lie ice. Mr.. Harrington will not
the work OF construction until next
.rL..... Prentss D. Fiske died at his
, in the Windsor hotel, Bangor,
~day morning at ) o clock, after two
> illness. The deceased was one
we'll known residents of Bangor and
many friends who will regret to hear
demise. The deceased is survived
rs wife,. Judge Webb, in the United
teS district court at Portland, Satur-
"renoon, ordered judgment for John
ens and others in their libel against
schooner Waterloo. The schooner
" be sold at Boothbay Harbor.
Ire case brought against DR.. l. w.
'gafts of Stetson for the abandon
Of Of the infant of Catherine B. Ellis
newport, heard last summer in the
+Eor municipal court, and which was
lel on appeal from that court to the
ietne court, has been settled. .... Frank
shaw. principal of Shaw's business
-fle, Portland, has recently purchased
t't Norris farm. comprising 100 acres,
tt"t between Moosehead and Chesun-
h 5kes, and will remodel the buildings
.' camp. Albro Z. Chase, principal
Portland high school, has recently
camp near smyrna Mills on the line
4e b. d A.. Frank J. Palmer of West
'nshed, aged 16 years. pleaded
ID the supreme court at Saco mon
FORENOON, to the charge of the muir
"t Mrs. BetSey r. Hobbs Of West
d.-field on December 9th, last. Charles
9Nage, Jr., OF Effingham, \. H., aged
ans pleaded guilty to being an acccs-
a1ter the fact. Palmer was sentenc-
'' State prison for life and Savage for
seaIs. Both boys appeared calm
+.A arraigned. The citizens of Gardi-
Lave raised S25, 600 the last few days
ard erecting the shoe factory in that
n which the Commonwealth Shoe
.nd Leather Company, of Whitman,
'aNS, will do business. Work on the
'iueture will begin at once and will be
'mpleted by June 1st.
II BRIEF. A despatch from Hong Kong
'ay> the American Methodist mission
ioont so miles from Fuchau, province of
dAkie, was burned by mob. In the
curse of the attack a number of shots
we're fired, but none of the inmates of the
alton were injured. The local officials
,efended the mission. In New York
'tn l3, for the loss of his wife's affection,
Iedfck l.. Colwell received verdict of
wv 900 in a suit against DR.. Charles A.
mixer, prominent Harlem physician.
'ome months ago Colwell, who is known
Il wall street, obtained a decree for alb