Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-09-26
KlTTERY To CARIBOU.
One Weeks Winnowings Of News,
Novelty and Nonsense,

Novelty and Nonsense.
Patent has been granted TO W. W.
Brown, Wstervilie, for coal screen; 10 II.
S.Siauiding. Shswmut, for wrench.
Waterville Grand Army men have put
forward the name of Comrsde James l..
Merrick, of Waterville, for next depart
ment commander.
The thirty-third degree OF masonry
was conferrtd on TWO Maiue men In Bos.
ton last week-Frsnk E. Sleeper, of Sa-
battus, and Hugh II. Chaplin, o. Bangor.
AT the meeting OF the State board Of
trade at lewiston last week, Henry b.
Lord, OF Bangor, was reelected presi-
dent, NJ. N. Rich, OF Portland, secretary,
and G.. N. Weymouth, of Biddeiord,
treasurer.
g. IL. Milliken, for several years prom
inent merchant in Cornish, but for the
past year a resident OF Massac husetts,
committed suicide In the United States
hotel at Portland Thursday night. BUSH
ness reverses were the cause.
Harry Perry, aged nineteen, and his
half brother, Carroll Terrell, aged thir-
teen, at Dresden, Sunday, were playing
with a gun they thought was not loaded.
Perry pointed the gun at his brother aud
pulled the trigger. Terrel's head WAS
blown of.
William Reed, an employee in Thomas
Mcnamara stable in Lewiston, was killed
at the stable Friday by an electric shock.
l. a
bulb to turn on the light. The wire was
crossed with an arc-iight wire, and he
received a shock which killed him
instantly.
Hannibal +. Hamlin's portrait is To be
hung in the statenouse rotunda; the COM
mission for the work has been given AL
fred K. Smith, whose portraits excited
such favorable comment a short time ago
while On exhibition In the office Of the
president OF the senate, and who has
been commissioned to paint large num-
Der OF other portraits OF Maine men OF
prominence. The order was given by
General Charles Hamlin, OF Bangor.
Thursday. The portrait is to be done
before the legislature Is in session next
winter.
The schooner "Susan Stetson", Capt.
Perkins, bound from Jersey City for Ban
gor, with cement, arrived at Boothbay
Harbor Friday dismssted. Capt. Perkins
reports that Thursday night, thirty miles
southeast OF Seguin, he encountered "A
heavy southeast wind which carried away
the foremost and rigging, jibs and main
topmast. The mainsali was torn and
decks swept clean. The captain and crew
abandoned the vessel and were rescued by
the schooner "Florence", of Gloucester.
Capt. Shade, OF the "Fiorence", sent a
crew aboard the "Stetson" and towed her
to Boothbay Harbor.
Elias s. Kenney, OF Eastport, died last
week. For several years Mr.. kenney has
been In feeble health, and for more than a
year confined to his bed. For many
years he was a popular teacher in the
high school OF PASSPORT, but later pur-
chased the futile hotel on Washington
street, where the Quoddy now stands,
changing the name OF it to the Island
house. The hotel was destroyed In
the fire OF 'S6. Soon after the Quoddy
was built and Mr.. Kenney became the
senior proprietor with L. II. Buchanan, its
present proprietor and manager. he re-
tired from the business several years ago.
tie was seventy years OF age.
The schooner "Isaac Oberton'', of Ban
gor, Elisha NJ. Trim, master, was run
into by the schooner "Leora NJ. Thur
iow", of Bath, Alvin B. Hipson, master,
between Plum and Little Gull islands,
Long Island Sound, Thursday night, and
sunk in about ten minutes. The crew OF
the "Oberton" escaped in small boats.
The ''Thurlow" had her head gear car
ried away and was brought to New Lon
don and beached. The "Oberton" had 521
tons OF coal on board from Port Reading,
n. j., for Bangor. The "Thurlow" was
lumber laden, and on her way from the
kennebec river to Newark, N. j. The
sunken schooner lies in twenty-seven
1athoms of water.