The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-02-15
NEN 5 OF 1HE WEEK.

NEWS OF 1HE WEEK.
MATTERS The vessels OF war
yr been built and those which
mhlding at Bath would make
.-rectable squadron. The vessels
twelve in number. They are the
.u. Connecticut, Cleveland, Cas-
rhas, Nicksburg, Newport, Dahl
..I tsFen. Bagley, Barney and Biddle
.. rueIed vessels, one fine cruiser,
4nuoats and five torpedo craft of an
r II more than Il. GOO and carry
..i 20 guns. -. Mrs j. w. Martinez
who came to Rockland last fall
Wg steamer Eleanor on the way
m hunting caribou in New Found
icing pictured extensively in the
.ptrs now. While in New Found
Y. shot a very large bull caribou.
.- Her experience in New Found
has hunted elephants in Ceylon
rIs i'll Burmah. The steam yacht
3ge of Capt. Weed of Rockland.
ein0r Powers, with his executive
and staff, will attend the compli-
..I.. banquet rendered Landlord Ca
the Augusta House, Monday even
t ~, and his excelency will preside.
M : Choate of Augusta, one of the
.. .a-tmasters in the State, will attend
-. important duty. The following
county men are already in the
t membership of the governor
a Dr. Il. L. Grindle of Mt. Desert,
. my W. Sargent of Sargentville
.4 Judge E, L. Chase of Bluehill.. The
elect of Maine, Robert Goldman,
Boston, will be consecrated in st.
.-- Cathedral in Portland, Saturday,
ly 18th. There will be present at
service, which is most impressive
I -..eral bishops and larger part of
oi this diocese. go. Calais was the
Maine to adopt the curfew
l,c The movement was started by
.e~ ot the local W. c. I. U. in
md now il is vogue in half the Maine
The law court Of Maine has hand
$3.50 tle descript OF an opinion III the
Maine Water Company vs.. City Of
0..' e in which judgment is for the
r % 9g34.... Evangelist Sanford OF
S creating a sensation in Boston
Ue is holding services before start
}eruSalem. His headquarters in
Asetts Avenue he has named Elm.
e.. Mitchell. the Portland letter
Indicted for taking letters from
VAS sentenced Friday morning
II months imprisonment at hard
Portland jail Portland lays
Winston Churchill, the author OF
arvel, though 1t has been going
4us Of the magazines and papers
IS native OF St. Louis. The
-c,lt gives his line of ancestry, shows
~ grandfather was Mayor of Port
u -S4l. and even mentions the house
hA.A the famous author was born
-'y eight years ago.. The semi
meeting of the State Board of Trade
n- held in Biddeford the last week
March, A programme of more than
ATTY interest will be prepared, and 1t
rected that the meeting will call out
attendance. In the prohibition
nf Maine there were last year thirteen
ers tor every ten thousand of the
.etlon, and III Massachusetts, the best
e high license local-option States,
Rere thirty three prisoners for every
tousand population. 1t is said that
rwn Of Sidney yet has at least three
ads of prime Baldwin apples to sell,
l- paty having 100 barrels. ... The
lr9ul ot promise suit of Mrs. Ella G.
a-l ~ against Freedom W. Gould, both
Hh Leeds, was given to the jury in
a.Wrn at TO-. 80 O'clock Saturday morn
The jury considered the case until
d the afternoon, when it returned a
uct ior the plaintiff, assessing the dam
igl- at S25..., The Bath Times says: 0.
l.ing & Co. have plans for making
m'uds for a barrel machine for a Rock
and concern. 1t will be nine feet high
Iaa a wonderful machine, the result of
years' careful planning of Rockland
-Ius. The machine makes the slaves,
hem in position, places on the hoops
a- puts in the heads. In short, ordinary
"0d goes into the machine and comes
4 "A well made barrel. see. Charles S.
u.llborn of Augusta, one of the State
ommissioners of the Topographic survey,
10 ~aturday received map from Wash
agf,n of the work done last season in the
district east of Bangor. The greatest
rl-ydton found was in the Phillips lake
sy.'ion, where the hills and mountains are
Iom 100 to 1890 feet in height. Next sea
s1 the territory operated upon will be
lltl from Bangor, in the direction of
u>igan. The State appropriation is
80 pp annually, an equal amount being
naa3 by the United States. Mr.. Hich-
' lays the appropriation should be four
me, as large if much is to be accomplish
H during the life time of the present
saleration... Smith Randall, the we'll
,wn Augusta lumberman, received re-
is saturday from the lumber camps at
tt Aeadwaters of the kennebec. The
ultions tor numbering are perfect.
lleIe is three feet of snow and ice on the
eyel There have been several falls of
ram and sleet, which froze solidly, SO
that It is estimated that fully half of the
iFee feet is solid ice. Mr. Randall is
eeltain that this solid body of ice and
snow will be favorable for the drive in the
'Iring, as melting slowly it will furnish
d good pitch of water for long period.
. The Congregational church of Augusta
1as extended call to Rev. Norman Nc
Niunon, pastor of the Congregational
ehurch at Foxcroft. He was selected from
among many candidates This is one OF
'Ae most desirable pulpits of the denomina-
ION in the State. A special to the Ban
Sof Whig from Caribou says that an at
'enpted murder and suicide occurred,
'hree miles from that village, late Mon
Day afternoon. Norman Campbell shot a
Mrs. Whitehead in the face and back and
lien shot himself. He Immediately died.
At o clock in the evening, the woman
Vas still alive. Jealousy is the supposed
eause of the tragedy. Rev. N. M. Sim
onds of Merchantville, N. j., has accepted
the call to the pastorate of the Bates
Street Baptist church, lewiston. The