The Portland daily press., 1900-10-20
WESTBROOK.

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Pythias, has received notice Of an infor-
NAL Invitation to visit Peter Woodland
lodge of Lynn, Mass, some time uring
the middle OF November.
a quiet home wedding occurred last
Wednesday evening at the home Of the
brides parents on Main street. the con-
tracing parties being Mr.. OrringtOn
WinsloW Newhall Of Liberty and Miss
Harriet Antoinette Debeck of this city.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
@. F. Parsons, pastor OF the Methodist
church, OF which the bride is a prominent
member. Mr.. and Mrs. Newhall ara to
start today for Liberty, their future
home.
The annual meeting Of the Westbrook,
Windham and Naples Electrio Railway
company is to lie held at the rooms OF the
westbrook Trust company, Wednesday,
November Is, at 2. 80 o'clock
Insurance Commissioner S. ". Carr
Of Augusta, assisted by Major T E.
Hartnett of Portland and Chief Engineer
Howard Stevens of the Westbrook tire de-
partment, were IN the city Friday after
noon for the purpose of Investigating the
cause of Friday mornings fires. Mr.
Carr is satisfied that the fire in the black
smith shop of Splller & Define on Main
street was caused by the electric light
wires. As a matter of fact the power sup
plying the wires in the blacksmith shop,
WOOD working establishment, is shut
off at five O'Clock every day Sc that 1t
could not have been caused by chose wires
directly. Mr.. Carr is, however, of the
opinion that these wires must have come
in contact with line wires at some point
and thus became the msa Ms Of setting
fire to the shop. Both the proprietors of
the business closed the shop at five
O'Clock and started for Biddeford where
they spent the light. They were unable
to give any cause for the fire unless it
could have been caused as suggested
above. Neither of the partners had any
insurance on the building or tools. n
surance Commissioner Carr also visited
the scene of the second fire on Spring
street. Mr.. Carr was not prepared to
eXress an opinion as to the cause Of the
fire on Spring street until he had made
more thorough examination Of the
premises and talked with some of the
residents Of the locality where the fire
was. There Is some credence given to a
report that the fire might have been set
by tramp, as one was seen wandering
around the city during the evening and
as he did not apply for lodging at the
police station it>was though that he might
have gone to the barn and effected an
entrance, and by some careless action in
smoking a pipe set fire to the barn. Mr..
Frank M. PenneI, the owner of the
buildings. was insured for 500 and his
loss will be some over $1,000 Mr..
Charles D. Libby and family occupied the
PenneH tenement. Mr.. Ii bby had no
insurance.
The Libby child that was recovering
from the diphtheria and that was taken
from the burning building and left lying
on bed on a sWampy ground lot was
later in the night carried back to The
front room of the burned house, where
quarters were fitted up for the sick boy.
DIR. Horr, the attending physician, said
that he did not fear any serious results
because of the exposure of the sick child,
as the child was we'll wrapped up. The
child was doing very nicely yesterday.
A delegation of the members of S. u.
Warren council, o. U. A. NJ, OF Cumber-
land Mills, accompanied by members of
George Washington council from Port
land, went in a barge to Bar Mills last
evening where they paid fraternal visit
to the lodge at that place. During the
evening the eide degree 1.-THE Eagles
was conferred for the benefit of several
of the Bar Mills brothers. An enjoyable
evening was had by all,
A freight car of the Maine Central
railroad was derailed near the Main
street crossing of the Boston and Maine
railroad yesterday. The Maine Central
engine was shifting cars onto the Boston
and Maine tracks. One of the freight
cars jumped the rail- and as the engins
kept moving the car ploughed along on
the railroad ties. AS result of this
! humping over the ties the trucks on both
ends OF the car were twisted off and the
car lef6 standing almost on It's end.