The Portland daily press., 1899-06-07
MAINE NEWS NOTES.

Or. G. f. Swetti of Auburn,7 who has
worn his hair long for many. years, has
had 1t out.
Lieut. Gen. j. NJ. Schofeld and family
have arrived at Bar Harbor for the sea
son, ms huve also Charles Carroll jackson
and family of New York. who came direc
from European trip.
The funeral of Simeon Merrill Of Fair
field Will be held this afternoon at 9
O'Clock at his late home and will be at
tended in body by St. Omer Comman-
derry, X. t.. OF waterville.
DIR. W. X. Cakes of Auburn is reported
to have prospect of recovery from the
blood poisoning which has afflicted him
for some time. Dr. Weeks of Portland,
saw him Monday.
| Rev. DIR. Martyr Summerbell of New
York. formerly pastor of the Main street
Free Baptist church In Lewiston is visit
ing his family, which still remains there,
| several of his children being students at
Bates college.
Philip Sewa,l Crockett. the 4.year old
son of Capt. George W. Crockett of the
tst Maine battery, died Saturday after
noon ut Lewiston. This is the second
child lost by Capt. Crockett in less than
two weeks. Pneumonia was the cause.
| 1t is rumored that son of the late
Eben Jordan Of Jordan, Marsh g. Co,
Boston, is to purchase the White Oak
farms on White Oak Hill in Poland, form
erly owned by N. Q. Pope, and restore
| them. to their ancient glory.
| Az tho animal r,aat;nc - A. K.z~a.ta
Savings bank. Saturday, the old board
of directors were reelected. The bank
has made gain in deposits the last one
of S4000-with gain of 10 derositors.
In the fire at Topsham Monday How
lands saw mill was burned, and other
buildings, and lumber were destroyed.
The losses were, Davis Maxwell, $1,000;
James NJ. Rowland. $500; Edgcomb Il
Jack, $1,000. There was no insurance.
One Of the bridge men from PennsyI-
vania while at work setting the steel
bridge at Bunker Brook on the b. g. A.,
between Blanchard and Shirley, slipped
in some way and fell the distance of
"A feet, striking ON his feet. He was
taken ON board the afternoon train that
leaves Grsenvilse at $40 for Bangor, but
died before reaching Guilford.
William Rowland of Iopsham, who was
taken In charge by Chief of Police Isaiah
Morrill, on Thursday, on suspicion Of in
sanity, and who was examined on Fri
day afternoon by DR.. Sanborn and local
physicians, has been released. after hav
ing been put under 500 to keep the
peace. Mr.. Rowland has been annoying
a well-known young woman in town
with his attentions, claiming that the
Lord has directed him to wed her.
The Main street Free Baptist society at
Lweiston has extended a call to Rev. A.
I. Salley Of Hillsdale. Mich, to become
its pastor. Rev. Mr.. Salley was graduate
ed at Bates college IL 1875 and from Cobb
divinity school In 1879. He was for four
years pastor of the Roger Williams Free
Baptist church of Providence, and then
went to Hillsdale as professor of sacred
literature in Hillsdale Free Baptist
Church.
Miss Elizabeth A. Holt whose suicide
caused so much interest in New York,
was born in Ccrrinn0, Me-, and lived Ia
Dexter. She was buried at Forest Hills,
in Boston, on Monday. The grief of the
family is shared by the whole community
in West Somerville, where several rela-
tives of the woman reside, and where
during the past winter Miss Holt lived
with her brother. She had been in poor
health for more than two years before she
went there, and was slowly but steadily
failing through all that time. Only a
few weeks ago she went to Dexter, Me-,
to 1.-Two with relatives, in the hope that a
change of air and surroundings would
benefit her. A short time there and the
relative died, and Miss Holt was to have
returned to West Somerville. But the
progress of the disease had been such that
the mind could not stand the added
burdens. and, unknown to all her friends,
she took passage to New York, and there
in hotel she took poison.