Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-04-04
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One Weeks Winnowlngs OF News,
Novelty and Nonsense.

Lyman $. Abbott, for eighteen years
the agricultural editor of the Lewiston
Journal, died Saturday. He was trustee
of he State Pathological society.
The wool securing and carbonizing
room at the Indian Spring wooden mill
was swept by fire Friday. The total loss
is % 900, OF which sum $500 was on new
| belts.
The steamship Californian, of the
| Allan line, which has been aground on
Ram Island ledge, Portland harbor, for
| five weeks, was successfully floated Satur-
day morning.
| Thursday m,rning Fred Reynolds,
laborer, aged thirty-seven years, OF Red
Beach, murdered his wife and two boys,
aged six and three years, with an axe, and
then set fire to the house. Neig hbors
saved the bodies from the flames, but the
house was burned. Insanity was the
| cause.
Moses Stanley, superintendent OF a saw
mill at Gorham, was instantly killed
Thursday by falling on five-foot rotary
saw. His body was cut in two through
the chest, the heart being severed. Mr..
Stanley was sixty-fve years old and has
been employed about saw mills for thirty
Ave years.
| Joseph B. Parson Of North Newcastle,
| while moving log in his saw mill re-
Gently, accidentally moved lever which
brings a saw up through the floor and at
the same time slipped, sitting down on
the saw. A cash nine inches long and
four inches deep was sawed into the,fiesh,
which was dreadfuIly mangled. He will
recover.
A fire, caused probably by the explosion
OF naphtha In the laundry OF g. e. Eyes,
in a building owned by James Murchie &
Sons, of Calais, Saturday afternoon, result
ed in loss Of "a 900 to the building and
occupants. The building was damaged
1900, the laundry 81 500 and the store of
Henry Harrington, household goods, $500,
The losses are fully covered by insurance
with the exception OF that OF Mr.. Harrng-
ton, W no had no insurance.
Hon. George Pottle. OF the State board
OF assessors, speaking Of lthe taxation of
timberlands recently, said 1.-THE assessors,
this year, had not been able to determine
the advance in the value OF the lands.
One thing will be looked at more care
fully than before, and that is the value OF
the birch timberands. Formerly it was
thought, in certain sections, that when
the spruce was cut off, the land was value
less. The second growth after the spruce
| is cut Is birch, and now hat is becoming
of great value. On account of its increas-
ing worth the assessors llhave its value
one OF the points to consider this year.
A discussion has been going on In
various parts of he country as to who is
the oldest post master in the United States.
Though several states have brought forth
claimants for the distinction, Maine still
leads in his in many other respects.
Franklin Tourteliotte, of MaxGeld, Pc
nobscot county, was appointed post
master in 1919, under President L chary
Taylor, and has held his Office uuetec thiI :
teen presidents, republicans and demo-
Gratis. Msxfield is town of only $50
population. He has all his commissions
from the postmaster generals during the
term of thirteen presidents, and values t lie
collection mighty.
The !, 700-ton schooner "Malcolm Bax-
ter, ir.", was launched from the yarus of
IL. NJ. Bean at Camden Thursday. The
christening was performed by ten young
ladies' W no -trewed flowers about he yes
sell The "Baxter'' is PIG feet long on the
keel 226 over all, has so frames, all of oak,
is 40 feet wide and POS feet deep. Her
gross tonnage is 1,732, net, 1880. Her
lower masts are 10S feet long and her top
inasts, SO feet. Her rigging is of wire and
turn buckles have been used throug bout
instead OF eyes. Every particle OF iron
which appears above her deck has been
galvanized. She has four matches and
three decks. Her cabins elegantly
finished in oak and sycamore. The com
mander will be Capt. George Bailey, Of
| ManasquRn, n. j.