Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-09-15
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Patents have been granted to Will
liam F. Draper and J. H. Northrop
Hopedale, on loom; Charles Clifford
Gardiner, on combined mop tub and
mop wringer.
Upon the recommendation Of Third
Assistant Postmaster General Merritt.
the postmaster general has awarded
the contract for supplying postal cards
for the four years beginning December
l, next, to Albert Daggett of Washing
ton.
The house of Judson Pratt on Gen.
Turner hill was burned, Monday night,
at Turner. Mr.. Pratt had gone on a
coon hunt. They found no coons. but
returned early and discovered the
house on fire. The fire had made such
progress that little was saved from
the house. There was no Insurance..
Mrs. Pratt was away on a visit.
A short, thick-set man. claiming to be
the captain of Il lately arrived vessel,
called at the livery stable of A. N. Farms
worth of Millbridge. Friday. and hired a
team to go to Cherryfield on business and
return the same day paying for the team
in advance. Neither man nor team has
since been heard from. The authorities
have been notified. The outfit consisted
of a sorrel mare and Il top buggy. 1t is
not known whether the man went east or
west
John Nelson of Lewiston. was arrested
Tuesday by Deputy Sheriff Huskins of
Lisbon Falls. on n capias writ issued by
|. w. Hanson. clerk of the supreme court
in Auburn. The complaint TO the writ
charges Nelson with IL felOnious assault
on Victoria Leblanc. The attachment of
property is for $4,000. Nelson was taken
direct to the county jail in Auburn. Nc
Gillicuddy a. Morey are the legal repre-
sentatives of the complainant. who is a
woman grown. A second warrant was
sworn out against John Nelson in the Au-
burn police court Tuesday, but the ca
pias was first served.
The Journal is happy to. state. by au-
thority of Treasurer A. NJ. Pulsifer of the
Little Androscoggin Water Power Co.,
that the Golfer dam will be completed
within day or two and that the Barker
mill will be started up forthwith. "Just
as quick as we get the Golfer dam in"
remarked Mr.. Pulsifer.i Tuesday. I'VE can
start the mill. We shall certainly be run
ming the mill on Monday next, and we
hope to get in two or three days this
week" The work on the Golfer dam has
been rushed along as fast as possible.
Everybody will be glad to know it is so
nearly completed d.-Lewiston Journal.
In the Suffolk supreme court at Bos-
ton, Tuesday, Judge Knowlton granted
decree in the case of Walter H.
Edgerly, administrator of the estate of
Frank r. Hadley VS.. Arthur J. Sell
fridge, declaring void an assignment
of all his property which Hadley made
to the defendant. Hadley was treas
urer of the Bennett Manufacturing Co..
and the Columbia Spinning Co. of New
Bedford, and he made this assignment,
eight days before he died.
News has been received in Bangor
from Cripple Creek. Col. to the effect
that Tom Collins. formerly of Bangor.
has again struck it rich in the gold
mines. The last assay obtained by
Collins from his lease on the Conun-
drum, one of the Anchoria-Leland
on Gold hill, is $2124 to the
ton. He has had pay ore on this prop
erty for several days. The present
strike was made in 15-foot, drift run
a foot wide and the lessees think they
have bonanza.
Col. Gustav Pabst. son of the Mil
millionaire brewer, in the Bible
Christian church, Ventor, Isle of Wight,
Tuesday, was married to Miss Hilda
Lemp, daughter Of the millionaire
brewer of st. Louis. Rev. J. c. Pye
officiated. There were a number of
American guests at the wedding and
after a dinner at the Royal Marine
hotel the couple started for the CONT
nent. The bridegroom was previously
married to Margaret Mather, the ac-
tress, from whom he was recently d.
Col. Pabst's brother Frederick
recently married Miss Uhlein, daughter
of the head of the Schlitz brewery.
On opening the store of I. B. Gardner
& Sons of Patten, Monday morning, it
vas discovered that the store had been
Sunday night. through a win
low in the ell, evidently by cutting
away the casing, prying off the stops
and lowering the top sash, over which |
the entering parties had climbed. n |
pick-axe. railway spike and a piece
of fiat iron were left by the burglars
fhe pick-axe has been identified as be- |
onging to the Patten & Sherman r.. r |
20. and was taken from their coal shed. |
Parties in town are suspected. Two
'eyofvers, some money, clothing, hats |
and shoes to the amount of $45 are /
About two weeks ago the |
store of G. T. Morrill, was entered and |
money and clothing taken.
Joseph NJ. Hardy and Henry G, Blake. |