Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-04-26
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

| Arrangements have been made for
eunboat Newport 10 make her official
| trial trip. Saturday. on the mile course
off Southport
| Fish Commissioner l.. T. Carleton. who
/ has taken a lively interest in stocking
Lake Maranacook with trout. is rapidly
| increasing the popularity of this we'll
| known resort. W. G. Bailey. guide for
! that vicinity. reports FIVE trout, weighing
| lG pounds, as caught. Saturday.
Mrs Ellen Fl. Roak, widow of J. H.
| Roak. for many years a prominent
business man in Auburn. died, Satur-
day. Of the grip, from which she suf-
/ fered about two months. She is sur
vlvcd by four children. Her age was
SO years.
Manager James d. Clark of the Bath
! High school track team has received
word from A. II. Merrill of Portland. to
| the effect that our High school athletes
/ have been admitted to the Maine Inter
| scholastic Athletic Association. The
| boys will begin at once to get ready for
| June, when athletes from various High
schools in the State will be present.-Bath
| Times.
| VIM A Duke was before Judge Fogg
Mt Bath, Saturday. for selling paper
and envelopes around town without q
State or local license. He plead
| guilty" and told the court that the
only way he had of obtaining a living
on account of his condition was either
| by selling paper from house to house
or speculating. The court imposed a
fine Of $40 and costs, amounting to
S1412.
State Detective Ira True of HalioweI
| has been in Lewiston for several days
| looking for train robbers. II seems that
| seals on some of the freight cars of the
| night train that goes through Lewiston
| on the upper road have been broken. and
the contents of the cars stolen in some
| mysterious way, Detective True has
| been looking for evidence, and has been
| up the line once or twice on the train
| getting off at Waterville and returning
| to Lewiston the next day. Detective Cd
| lin and two other men have assisted him
| some of the time during the present
| week.--Lewiston Journal.
| Calais special to the Bangor News
| its doors early in the week and the af-
| fairs of Manager Foster are said to be
| in rather a complicated state. A bank
animation the financial condition TO be
| such as to warrant him in closing up the
institution. in order to have a strict in
vestigation. The amount involved is said
to be about S12, 200 which sum includes the
savings of a great many of the residents
of the town. and the blow falls heavily
on many who are not in position to
meet with a loss of this kind. The pros
poets of any satisfactory settlement are
not very encouraging at present, al
though hopes are entertained that the
difficulties may be Strengthened out sat
sfactorily to all concerned. The failure
of the bank caused Il considerable stir
about town, as 1t was somewhat uneX-
pected.
Two serious accidents occurred at Ban
gor. Saturday in which excited horses
| ,t,,A,,
probably the worst, occurred in Main
stret, at its junction. with West Market
square. horse driven by Frank r.
Gibbs, a well-known horseman of Ban
gor. became frightened at a passing troll
ley car and jumped, striking Mrs. Doro-
thy Lord and crushing her beneath his
feet. Mrs. Lord was taken to the Ban
gor hospital, where she is now in a crit
zeal condition. although the physicians
have great hopes of her recovery. She
has fractures of several ribs. and is
| otherwise injured. She is 70 years old.
| The other accident occurred in Oak street
when Peter Robinson, elevator boy at the
| Bangor house. while riding bicycle. ran
| against horse and was trampled upon
| by the animal. He is Is years of age
| and will recover.
The Portland correspondent of the
Sunday Globe says: THE Portland
military men are not very well pleased
Win tht ttSult ti lHtlI tioItS W at
| tend the Grant memorial celebration
| in New York as the representatives of
the State militia. According to those
who had the matter in charge. two
companies from this city and one from
! Eastport had made arrangements and
raised money enough to go to New York
without its costing the State q cent,
when the powers that be sat down IN
the plan, and refused the companies
the necessary permission to leave the
State dnder arms This affair has
stirred up great deal of feeling in
military circles in this city, and the eni
of the affair is not yet.