Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-09
SPARKS FROM MIME WIRES.

their fare up the line.
A deer with three young ones were
seen. Friday afternoon by Mrs. II. E.
Houdlette in her garden at West Dres-
den. They turned around and walked
very deliberately towards d. S. Reeds
woods.
Mr.. Elliott Dyer dropped dead in his
field at Bowery Beach, Cape Elizabeth,
Tuesday. He and his son We're at
work when the elder man dropped to
the ground suddenly. His son ran to
him but when he reached him he was
dead. The cause of death was apo
plexy. Mr.. Dyer was So years of age
The trustees of the Eastern Maine
General hospital held a meeting, Tues
day afternoon, at the office of the Sec
rotary, Charles H. Bartlett, Esq, and
as a result of the action taken by them
work will at once be commenced upon
the addition to the new hospital build
ing in this city which has been agitated
for some time and which has been bad
ly needed. For several years this pro-
ject has been in view and for a long
time money has been put aside for the
addition.-Bangor Wing.
The great wooden trestle Of the Maine
Central at Pennington, narrowly es-
capped destruction by fire Monday
night About 1890 o'clock it was dis
covered to be on fire just this side OF
the Sandy River Railroad bridge The
alarm was given and the department
promptly responded with the chemical
engine, assisted by pail brigade. In
short time the fire was under con-
troll Traffic was not interfered with
The fire is supposed to have caught
| from spark of the late freight loco
| motive.
William Lewis, aged q, of New
! Brunswick, who is learning the duties
of a brakeman, received a rather pain
| full lesson, Tuesday forenoon, at Ola
mon. While coupling cars his right
hand was badly crushed, and upon ex-
animation at the office of DR.. F. A.
Hanson of Olamon. it was found neces-
| sary to amputate the middle finger and
somewhat repair the others. After the
| operation Lewis was sent back to Mat
| tawamkeag. which is his temporary
home. Frank Holmes. Jr.. assisted
Drs f. A and Christine Hanson in the
| surgical work.
nobscot river with the Quintet. or Cali
forna salmon, will be thoroughly tried,
and if it is not success it will not be
the fault of the United States fish COM
mission. Last spring over 100000 of
the fry were distributed all along the
Penobscot above the dam by car of
the commission sent expressly for that
| purpose. These fry were Matched from
| a large lot of eggs sent from California
to the East Orland hatchery. Such of
! the fish as We're not distributed have
been growing since then at the hatch
| cry and are now five and half months
| old and about two inches or more in
| length. Last week $4,000 of these diff
erent points in the cove from Marsh
bay to the Bangor The fish were trans
ported in tanks on the steamer Agnes
and one lot was put overheard within a
few hundred feet Of the dam.
The Italian, Santa De. Pasqueal,
alias Gieusippi Artista. who was cap
| tured in Portland Saturday, was
| brought to Livermore Falls and Mon
day afternoon was arraigned before
Trial Justice G. A. Gordon, charged
with assault with intent to KILL on two
complaints, and was ordered to recos-
nize to the supreme judicial court in
| the sum of $500 on each complaint,
and failing to furnish sureties he was
committed to Jail by Deputy Sheriff
| Dwelley Tuesday. 1t will be remem-
| bered that Posquoal alias Artista
knocked John Kuich of Lewiston down
with a club just as the bullet from
Campbell's revolver pierced the air
where he had stood and that for him
Kuich would now be a seriously
wounded or dead man for Campbell
| stood so near when he fired that he
could not have possibly missed his
mark.
E. p. Coffin, Esq, of Skowhegan.
secretary of the Independent Order of
! Foresters, has issued a letter to the
various courts in Maine relative to the
arrangements for the meeting of the
| high court, which will be held in Con-
gress hall, Portland, Sept. 8 and 10.
The opening session will be at o'clock
on the afternoon of Sept. 8, and SEES
sions will be held the same evening and
on the morning of the 10th, if found
necessary, continuing until the business
of the high court is disposed Of On
| lIlc dllCIIlOOu VI oCPt ~, tHCiC " IA w
| an excursion by steamboat to Long
Island, where a clambake will be
served. A first-class band will accom-
pany the excursion. Returning from
| the excursion there will be a public
meeting at p. M. at Congress hall. to
be addressed by Oronhyatekha, su-
preme chief ranger and other promin-
ent Foresters. The headquarters of the
high court will be at the Preble House
The various railroads in the State will
sell tickets for this OCCASION for one faro
for the round trip. The hotels have
agreed to make special rates for the
visiting Foresters.
| On Tuesday the county commission
ers heard a petition from the inhabi-
tants of Kingman for assistance in pay
ing for a bridge which it is proposed to
build over the Mattawamkeag river In
that town. Last winter the Legisla-
ture appropriated $4,000 for the bridge
with the understanding that the town
and the county would pay the balance
At that time it was thought that
good bridge could be built for about