Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-19

| boocdt HuHtiHS Is the tIlltI SDc!i
diversion in Rogue Bluffs at present
| Roy Dow of that town leads off with
three pets to his credit.
| a Lady Bountiful of Brewer, has
taken that much abused bird. the Eng
| lish sparrow, under her protection.
| The sparrows appear to know that she
| is their friend. fer every morning a
| great flock of them gathers at the rear
| door of her home TO get their break
| fast. The birds keep up a continuous
| chipping that can be heard over the
| whole neighborhood. 1t is an interest
| ing spectacle 10 see the SparrowS pa
! tiently waiting for the crumbs. and the
| eager rush they make when their bene-
| factress appears with breakfast for
| them.
| Names fire record for 1898 was the
| worst for several years, and 1899 is
| making a very bad beginning in this
| respect.
| An Aroostook household which feeds
| and shelters l. fun grown cats claims
| the championship in that line. And il
| is not recorded that these cats have
| any commercial value, either
| Here is a true cat story of another
| kind. a feline tragedy that makes orA
| shudder. An East Hebron citizen.
| who lives alone, went to Auburn one
| cold day and engaged young man ID
| step in and build a fire at a certain
| hour. When he returned there was an
| unusual odor in the room and upon
| opening his stove oven he found his
favorite cat baked to crisp. The sup
| position is the oven door was left ajar
| and the cat went in to get warm and
the young man shut the door, not
| knowing the cat was there.
a Bangor physician states that ne
made 30 calls in one day recently. Civ
ing an idea of the prevalence of grip
there. Another physician says he
made As calls between noon and mid
night recently. Another says he
makes calls from in the morning to
| midnight, and then has ITO stop as he
must have some rest.
Hon. Nelson Dingley was one of the
original members of the Maine Press
Association, which wars formed August
II. 1864, and which holds its 36th an
| nual meeting in Augusta, this week.
The remaining original members are
Theodore Cary, of Houlton. Joseph A.
Homan. Augusta, Hiram *. Morrell.
Gardiner Marshall N. Rich, Portland
Frank G. Rich. Bangor, Eliphalet
RoweIl. Hallowell. Brown Thurston,
Portland.
The matter of the Anglo American
commission assumes new Importance to
Maine with the demise of Mr.. Dinglcy.
Maine had vast interests at stake IN
the work of the commission and Maine
people were warranted i'm resting Sc
cure. while Mr.. Einglcy remained as
one of the American commissioners
He stood steadfastly for the States
interests and fought successfully
against any further reduction in the
duty on lumber. In the weeks just
preceding the holidays when the battle
for supremacy in the commission was
severest Mr.. Dingley became known as
the backbone of the American side.
washington correspondence of Ban
gor Commercial: at is notable that
death has within a little over year
taken three eminent men from Four
teenth street. one from each of three
blocks. First of the three was Repre-
sentative Seth l.. Millken, who died
in April. 1897. at a brick house on
the corner of l. and Fourteenth street
The writer Of these dispatches well re-
members seeing Representative and
Mrs. Dingley hurrying from their hotel
at the Hamilton. down past Franklin
park. to Mr.. Mil!iken's bedside, when