Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-10-17
klTTERY TO CARIBOU.
One Weeks Winnowin2s Of News,
Novelty and Nonsense,

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Burglars entered the Canadian Pacific
rel road station at Houlton Sunday night,
blew open the safe, and secured about
600 in cash.
| e. II. Townsend, a member of the Saco
athletic football team, received injuries
in game with a Rochester, N. H.,
eleven, from which he died Sunday.
| While hunting in the woods i'm Perham
| 3 inday, Robert Green shot and killed his
cousin Percy Green, mistaking him for
deer on the move among the UNDER
| brush. The victim was nineteen years
Of age.
| Patents have recently been granted to
Maine inventors as follows: g. W. Hail,
Hermon, cIamping socket and support
for cameras; N. Cartier, Biddeford, warp
thread and selvage guide for looms; F. A.
Chellis, Portland, wrench.
A vessel will be built at Machias this
fall. The keel Is being laid by Alfred
Knowlton, Of Nova Scotia, who will be
master builder. Mr.. Knowlton says that
the frame will be up and planked in this
fall. The vessel will be three masted
schooner OF about 800 tons.
The apple crop this year in Maine is
very large; in fact, it is the largest crop
for many years, not only in this State,
but all over New England. The entire
apple crop Of this country Is estimated at
&c, 000, 600 barrels. In this State the yield
is placed by experienced dealers as high
as 10000 barrels.
Charles II. Dudley, a prominent lum-
herman, formerly OF Patten but for the
past three years resident of Old Town,
died Saturday. Mr.. Dudley was the
senior membe OF the hrm OF Dudley Il
| Mcleod, which conducted an extensive
numbering operation ,ast winter, and had
already begun on this years work.
| The steamer "Cametense" which arrived
at New York Sunday from Manaos and
Para. brought as passengers, Capt. Sproul
and seven shipwrecked seamen of the
schooner "Mary E. Lermond", OF Thomas-
| ton, which was abandoned at sea on Sept.
| II, while OH voyage from Fernandina to
Martinique. The "Mary E. Lermond"
was less than year old.
was found drowned near Lentield Satur-
day. She had brought her son to st.
| stephen with her team and WAS return
ing home. When found the horse WAS
standing In about two feet OF water.
Mrs. Deacon's feet were caught in the
| wagon gear and her head was in the
water. She was sixty five years Of age.
,y.-
Percy" was launched from the yard OF
Percy & Small, Bath, Wednesday. The
schooner will cost $4,000 when COM
pleted. She is owned in Bath, Boston
and New York, the builders being man
aging owners. The schooner will be com
manded by Capt. Lincoln w. Jewett, for
merly of the schooner .CharIes p. Not
man.. She will be ready for the sea
early in November. The dimensions are !:
Length over all, 34S feet length OF keel, 3Ol
feet TX inches, breadth of beam, SO feet !;
depth Of hold, "a feet 3 inches. The gross
tonnage will be about $500. The schooner
Is about foot shorter on the keel than
the six master George W. Wells' now
building at Camden, but is three feet
longer over all, one and one-half feet wider
and one foot three inches deeper.
Miss Annie Woods, of South Brewer,
was shot and fatally wounded last Thurs
day by Lester Savage, who then turned
the revolver on himself killing himself in
stantly. Miss Woods was sixteen years
old, petite and pretty, and very popular
with her associates. Savage, who was
twenty one years old, had wooed her per
sistently for long time, but the girl had
repeatedly rejected his attentions, and her
fat her had told him to leave the girl alone.
Recently Savage's mind seemed to have
been affected by his passion for the girl.
Thursday morning he borrowed revolver
and went to the girls home. She saw him
entering the door with the revolver in his
hand and ran to an adjoining room and
tried to hide in bed. Savage followed
and fired three shots at her, two OF which
took effect. He then killed himself
The girl died at the hospital Saturday
morning.
The State librarian recently happened
on piece OF information which will be-
new to most people. 1t was to the effect
that in the year 1888 the State of Maine
paid S76, 955 as bounty on wheat raised
1t was more profitable to some people
than bounty on bears to have this
money expended. Somerset raised more
than any other county, though Thomas
Hunter, of Pennington, was the largest
individual gamer. For the 5000 bushels
he raised he received over 1867 bounty
A man had to raise twenty bushels before
he got any, and for that amount the
State paid 81. As 1t was soon seen that
) the big farmers and spectators were
getting all the benefit the law was
amended and two years later repealed
There was, for awhile, bounty on
Indian corn which was tremendously
stimulating for year, and then it was
| abolished. The farmers finally concluded