Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-14
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Marguerite, the 2-year-Old daughter o.
Mrs. Alice Abbott of North Arson, acct
dentally obtained package of morphine
Friday morning, and ate 10 or Is grains
The child died at noon.
Leslie l.. Mason of Bethel. has sold 500t
acres OF land In Newry to the Umbagog
of spruce and birch. 1t Is part of that
once owned by Ayers Mason and later by
o. ii. Mason.
The will of John b. Coyie. genera
manager of the Portland Steamship
Co. and the International Steamship
Co. was filed at Portland. Saturday. II
contains no public requests. The value
of the estate iSestimated at $780, 900.
An unusually interesting memento OF
the late conflict has been received al
Bowdoin College. 1t is a piece of one OF
the frames of the battleship Maine,
brought from Havana by the Mangrove
United States steamer Armenia, who IN
turn, presented II TO the college through
his daughter, Mrs. II. H. Chamberlin.
Friday nigh, would-be robbers entered
of Arthur SewaIl and his son. William u.
Sewall. At both places entphnce was
gained by forcing window and at
neither place was anything stolen. There
was plenty of silverware, but the burg
lars were apparently after money, as
they searched where one would most
likely find 1t.
AT Biddeford, Saturday, Martin Hector
and William Carey, charged with break
ing and entering a freight car, were dis
charged. Mrs. Emma DeMarse. employed
in the York Mills at Saco, was arrested,
Saturday, on the charge of taking %
yards of cloth from the mills. She plead
ed guilty and SAID she didn't suppose it
was any harm to take cloth from the
corporation. She paid fine of 81 and
costs.
1t now looks as though the Brick mill
at Dexter, the last of the mills that were
SO long idle is soon to be put in opera
ton. A new corpora ton was organized
in Dexter. few days ago, and its object
is understood to be the purchase and
poration is known as the Union Manu-
featuring Co. and it is capitalized at
s15,O 900. All the other mills in Dexter are
running at their full capacity.
A bold burglary took place in South
Paris, last week. when the house of Mr..
Wallace Ryerson, one of the wealthiest
citizens, was entered in the night by
burglars and $50 taken from his trous-
ers pocket. Some hoboes who had
been employed by a neighbor are sus-
pected. They are now in Jail in an
other >county for intoxication. Mr..
Ryerson has several clews which it is
thought will lead to the detection and
punishment of the thieves.
Captain Eben L. Higgins is the oldest
person in the town of Eden, being ia
his 91st year. Although he lies in bed
most of the time, his mental faculties
are good. He reads great deal, is in
terested in what is going on in the
world politically and religiously, and is
well informed on what is being done
for the benefit of mankind. He was a
sea captain for many years. and sailed
many voyages to foreign countries.
Notwithstanding his age he can tell
many good stories of what he has seen
in countries that he has visited.
The members of a prominent Port
land wholesale firm have been putting
in long and anxious hours looking over
the books, with view to ascertainfng
the exact shortage in the accounts of
one of their travelling statesmen. How
they happened to trap him is matter
that the general public knows very liz
tie about. The members of the firm
have been keeping their own council
and will not even state their approx
mate estimate of the loss. Rumor had
it that the shortage was something
over $4,000 but this one of the members
of the firm stoutly denied.-Portland
special to Lewiston Journal
Unloading and loading vessels is con-
sidered hazardous work yet Augustus
n. Morse. the veteran master stevedore
of Bath, who has been in that business
nearly half century. has not had any
serious accident happen to the men
employed by him in that time Mr..
Morse began stevedoring in 1859 He
has loaded ships for English ports.
California, West Indies, the latter 12S
vessels loaded at the old Treat & Lang
mill. and for many other ports abroad.
In the SOS he unloaded large number
of cargoes of sugar and molasses. He
has unloaded many salt laden ships.
some years as many as five. OF late
years the bulk of his work has been
ship timber, unloading hundreds of
cargoes.
Major Taylor, the colored cyclist. at
WOodSide mark PhiladelDhia SATURDAY