Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-09-19
klTrEKY 10 CARIBOU.
One Weeks WinnOwings Of News,
Novelty and Nonsense.

One Week's Winnowlngs Of News,
Novelty and Nonsense.
The State Congregational conference
will be held at Augusta Tuesday, Vice.
nesday and Thursday Of next week.
James Sullivan, OF Bath, was drowned
Saturday night, at Dicks island. In the
lower Kennebec. His body has not been
recovered.
Patents have been granted to l. l.. Ham
mond, Lewiston, for vaporizing attaci =
ment for burners; T. II. Brosnihan,
Livermore Falls, for wrench.
Elnat han Call, eighty years Of age, who
has been living alone III Pittston, was
found dead in his bed Saturday morning.
He had been missed for day or two.
The high school building at Oakland,
built two years ago at cost OF 1000,
was burned last Thursday night. There
was s., 900 insurance on the building.
Leonard E. Hansen, OF Bangor, fell from
the mast head Of the schooner "Carrie E.
Look" at Belfast Sunday, and died in half
an hour. He was twenty one years OF age.
Capt. Guilford Robinson, a lobster fish
erman. was drowned In the Harrington
river Thursday while pulling up his traps.
He WAS twenty-four years old. He leaves
a widow and one child.
Superintendent of Schools W. W. Stet-
son announces that the recent summer
schools at several points through Maine
were attended by LOO OF the State
teachers, and the best work in the history
of he institution was done.
News has been received in Augusta OF
the death In the Philippines, of William
L. Daley, OF that city. He was twenty
years OF age. He enlisted in Lewiston one
year ago for foreign service. He went to
he Philippines az a private in company
A Goth United States infantry.
Charter for an electric road from Bel
fast to Northport, which was granted
some time ago, has been turned over to a
man who will undertake to build a road
before next summer or return the charter.
Sufficient stock has already been taken to
insure he building of the road.
Henry Willer, aged twenty-eight, a
well-known Kineo guide, was drowned
Saturday night in Moose river. Willer
had been in Kineo during the evening,
with his father-in-iaw. Willer left his
companion at his farm at the mouth OF
the river and started up stream toward
his own home, mile from above. His
body was found Sunday morning in two
feet OF water. 1t is supposed that while
polling his canoe up stream he lost his
balance and fell, injuring himself so he
was unable to gain the shore or lift his
head above water. He leaves widow
and child.
The establishment OF hospital for
northern Maine, to be located at Presque
Isle, is being discussed by Aroostook
county people. Bishop Goldman, of the
Episcopal diocese of Maine, has gener-
ously offered the buildings formerly &C.
cupied by the st. Johns English and
class ical school, at Presaue Isle, for use as
q hospital, and ways and means for &C.
cepting this offer are now under consider
alton. For hospital purposes these build
ings would require steam heat, and also
some slight rearranging and general fit
ting up, which Is estimated would cost
Sc, 600. Bishop Goldman offers to UNDER
take the raising by subscription of por-
tion Of this sum, II others interested will
furnish the remainder.