The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-11-02
NEWS OF The WEEh.

MAINE MATTERS. The sixth annual
encampment of the Maine Union Veterans
Union was held with Custer command in
FoXcloft Oct. 18th. Every one of the six
teen commands of the department sent
delegates. The officers elected We're:
Commander, Rev. j. w. Webster, New
port; Chaplain, Virgil D. Sweetland, Pal
ny IA; first deputy, W. W. Warren, Fox
croft; second deputy, Lewis Selling, Au-
gusta; dJutant general, Sumner L. Stew
art, Newport; quartermaster general,
Charles o. Wordsworth, Gardiner. 1t
was voted to hold the next encampment
at Skowhegan. On account of the rain
the excursion to Sebec lake W as abandoned.
.... Charles Glllispie, well known sport
ing MAJ of Bangor, dropped dead on the
street Oct 20 about 8 o clock p. while
returning home from st. Johns church
where he had been attending service. He
was about - years old and for many
years had been subject to heart disease.
. Collector Wight of Rockland has APP
pointed Walter II. Mathews deputy at
Tenants Harbor to succeed Whitney
Long. Tie appointment has been APP
proved by the department, together with
that of Capt. +. 5. Farwell as deputy at
Rockiand. .....A petition has been filed
with the governor for the pardon OF Ash
ford +. Sampson. who is serving a six
years sentence in State prison for the
larceny of bicycle, imposed at the Sep
TENDER term of the kennebec county
superior court in 1S97..... Mis- Bertha
Bearce of Bristol, aged eighteen years,
committed suicide by drowning in Booth
bay Harbor October 10Th. She gave
note to little sister for her mother to be
delivered the next day, the contents OF
which are unknown. \ bull moose weigh
ing about 100 pounds was captured Oct.
2Oth at Alma by John Brown of that place.
MI. Brown was freed for two hours by
the animal after wounding him. This is
the first moose captured in kennebec
county for over - years. ... Bowdoin Col
lege is likely to become the beneficiary of
the GdIcelon will now that litigation over
it. after 10 years in the California courts,
is apparently at an end. The United
States Circuit Court decree against re-
viewing the case has been confirmed.
The college will receive about $3.50, 900.
.....John Dow OF Dover, the Oldest man in
that part of the State, is dead, aged "a
years. For many years he had been
prominent in business circles. 80. The
biggest shipment of game through Bangor
on a single day for many years was Oct.
10th There were 81 deer, all OF good
size; eight moose, every one of which
would tip the scales at over 800 pounds a
big bear and two sleek looking otter......
1t has been well understood that ex-
Governor Robe successor as department
commander Of the Maine g. A. r. is to be
Hon. Seth 7. Snipe of Bath, but a new
candidate now appears in Senior Vice
Commander Clayton of Bangor. The
report for the year ending June 80 of the
Wiscasset N Quebec railroad, which has
gone into the hands of the bondholders,
las been filed with the railroad commits
sionels 1t shows that the road failed to
pay operating expenses by -, 925. There
was total deficit June 80 of SIS, 100..."
Mrs. Abigail Libby of West Gardiner,
aged 90 years and eight months, died Oct
2lst. Her faculties were clear to the last
and heI memory the best,