Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-08

The salary Of the principal OF the
Kindergarten school at Lewiston, has
been fixed at $3.50 year, and OF each
of the two assistants at $34o
Edward L. Dingley. representative to
| the Michigan Legislature from Kala-
maZoO. and son Of the late Congress-
man Dingley, is visiting his mother in
| Lewiston.
Mr. J. II. Peardon, a graduate of
Bangor Theological Seminary, has ac-
copied n call to the Union Evangelical
church, Greenville, and has commenced
his labOrs.
George Bernier. conductor on the
Lewiston, Brunswick & Bath Street
Railway. whose leg was amputated,
Wednesday. on account of injuries sus-
tanned by being caught between the
cars on the Fourth. is recovering
nicely.
Mrs. Mary Kilcallins of Mars Hill,
while distributing powder about her
turkeys nest as n preventative
against wild animals, was badly injur-
ed by the wind blowing a spark into
the powder. She will ultimately recov-
er her eyesight.
Some boys just finishing their Fourth
of July celebration, Wednesday night.
set fire To n shed on the Dudley lot in
Pressure Isle with firecrackers. The
loss is principally to articles stored
there. 1t was the fifth fire in the viii
lage in the past weeks.
Some day next week there is to be a
race at the Bath Driving park be-
tween Samuel s. Jordan's Emma Nell
son and William Plummer's Johnny
Lightfoot. These are the two fastest
horses in Bath, and 800 has been
wagered on the result OF the race.
There was launched from the yard Of
Kelley, Spear & Co. at Bath, Thurs
day, the barge Sunbury. for the Staples
Coal Co. of Taunton. Mass. She Is $50
feet long. 40 feet beam and 10 feet
deep. Her net tonnage is 1419. II. NJ.
Staples, ID. l.. Weeks and II. a. Dean
of Taunton, We're present at the
launching.
Rt. Rev. James Aug. Healy. ID. D.,
has returned to Portland having visit
ed VIM and Montague. At Winn on
July A. the bishop gave confirmation to
80 females and AZ males. Wednesday
he dedicated the new church at Mon
ta2ue under the name of St Matthew,
Evangelist and confirmed IS males and
20 females.
The Lewiston board of health has
voted to notify all householders OF the
city that all garbage must hereafter be
kept in sealed barrels. 1t has al
SO voted to pay the man who does the
fumigating after cases of scarlet fever
and other contagious diseases I regu-
lar salary instead of paying him by the
job as heretofore.
Portland was the hottest place on the
Atlantic coast, Monday, according to
the United States weather reports. The
record for A. NJ. was so degrees. just
the same as in the extreme southerly
part of Florida. Jacksonville. Fla,
was 10 degrees cooler than this. while
at Knoxville. Tenn, the mercury did
not rise above 6S At Boston the record
was "A.
On June g. Jonathan F.. Marshall was
killed in the Maine Central Railroad
yard in Bangor. Through her attor-
ney, John +. Robinson, Esq. his widow
has been appointed Administrative, a
satisfactory settlement has been made
with the Maine Central. and the whole
matter completely closed up, though it
is less than month since Mr.. Mar
shall was killed.
ArOostook county was visited by
terrific thunder shower. Thursday
morning about o'clock, and much
damage was done by the wind and
rain 1t rained torrents in the vicinity
of Caribou and Pressure Isle for an
hour or more. The b. 4 a. trainmen
who arrived in Bangor, Thursday noon.
said that no such storm had been eX-
perienced in ArooStook county for
many a day. Acres of potatoes We're
flooded and in some instances hun
dreds of bushels of young spuds We're
washed out. The lightning struck in
several places and did considerable
damage.-Bangor News.
Friends of Col. II. f. Hamlin of Ellis
worth, are cOngratulating him on his
very narrow escape from drowning.
Monday. Col. Hamlin. with party of
friends. went down the bay, Sunday.
for cruise in his yacht Thetis. They
made harbor at Newbury Neck, Sun
day night, and. Monday morning when
getting under way. Col. Hamlin
clambered out on the bobstay to per-
form one of the duties of sailor,
when the stay broke and he went over
board. Col. Hamlin is an expert swim
mer but hampered by his clothing it
was hard struggle for him to keep
afloat He went under once before his
friends on the yacht came to his as
sstance.-BangOr News.