Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-10-11
KITTERY TO CARIBOU.
One Weeks Winnowings of News,
Novelty and Nonsense.

Patent has been granted to II. o. Brown
Bethel, for dustpan.
Trains will soon be running on the Ban
gor and Aroostook extension to New
Sweden.
| Lewis p. True, landlord OF the Saco
house, Saco for twenty-five years, died
Sunday. His age was sixtytwo.
The Lake house, at GreenviIle, was
burned Monday, with stable and furni-
ture. Loss SO 600; insurance, 5000.
Eleetus Dukes, of Sheridan plantation,
who shot down his son Oliver last mouth,
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree last Friday, and sentenced to life
imprisonment.
The Lake house aud adjoining stable,
together with building formerly
occupied as a printing office, at East
Jefferson, were. burned Tuesday. Loss
1000; insured for = 500.
freight train parted at Newport Friday
| evening, and the<ear section collided with
the forward. Four cars were wrecked.
| Conductor Michael TnlIy was severely in
| jured about the back and shoulders.
Maj, William Dickey, of Fort Kent is
! very Ill. No man in Maine has had a
longer service in the house of representa-
| tives than Mr.. Dickey and he is known
| from the eastern to the western boum-
| daries.
Mansfield Mclaughlin, of Hodgdon,
| aged eleven, went hunting with Corey
|
fathers gun without consent. Gerow fell,
| the gun was discharged, and the Me-
| Laughlin boy received wounds from
which he died a few hours later.
| Edward r. Jewett, prominent attor-
ney OF Chicago, died at Cherrytield Thurs
day, at the residence Of his father in law,
| q. X. Campbell. lie had been afflicted
| with heart disease for several years. He
WAS u graduate of Bowdoin college, class
OF 1852, and membe OF the Alpha Delta
| PIN fraternity.
The most unenlightened man in Maine
| has appeared in Calais. He came into a
grocery store shere the other day and sit
| ting down on cracker barrel, he became
| an interested listener of R discussion con-
corning the Dewey celebration W hich was
being held by some half dozen of he local
| talents. At the first lul in the CONVEX
sation he seized his opportunity. ''Who
| is this Dewey, anyway" he drawled
The mammoth steel ship edward
SeWau' was launched from Arthur
| SewaII K Co.'S yard at Bath last week
The vessel is the ninety-ejgh h one of lie
staunch fleet built on the banks of the
kcnnebec by the Sewails, and is the
fourth steel vessel constructed by the tirm
fhe edward Sewall'' is similar in design
to the ship "Arthur SewaIl", launched
last spring. Her length over all is $50
feet; beam, 45 feet, and depth, 81 feet
She is expected to carry near 5000 tons.
The lumber cut in the Dead River
region, this year, will be about 40 900 900
feet. This will tie about a third more
| than was cut last year. L. p. ViIes, one
OF the largest mberland owners, says he
increase is largely on account of the in
creased demand for lumber. A year ago
there WAS decided uncertainty in the
lumber market and prices were low. This
year there i decided increase In the
price, and with further prospect of an
increase.
Fifteen years ago Mrs. E. X. Rice, of
Pembroke, lost gold ring in the straw
with which the bed was illed; the follow
ing spring, as was usual, he bed tick was
emptled preparatory to retilIing and its
contents thrown into the norses stalls,
Int, Il !,