The Republican journal., 1901-07-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NNNE MATTERS. Monday, Sept I'd,
g,J. pe Labor day and for the first time
r wears il will be celebrated in Bangor
Aueauized bis labor. A movement is al
N,o. -oot in that city to have the day
.-, a,lde as a legal holiday after the
1tflpr in vogue in Massachusetts and
.-s,l states. So tar as is known the
uo7rment in Maine is confined to the
Bangor trades unions and nothing has
VI teen done in the other cities and
.aUrs of the State. The Labor day
.-eoration in Bangor will be under the
4lspces of the allied trades unionS.....
tgcuon Stubbs business man of
Portland, who mysteriously disappeared
nom LIS home July 10th, returned to
Portland, July 49, He says that on the
uy iisappeared there came upon him
l rreSlstible desire to go away. He
took the boat for Boston. Speaking of
,.e condition of the track, a well-known
Maine Central official stated last Thurs
a, that had the strike lasted 90 days
olse. and it proved impossible to re
p8ce strikers with new men the track
nogId have gone along all right. He
states that the condition of the roadbed
ueltvT now than at any time IN the
htu.y of the road, this condition being
.s rsult Of General Manager Evans
,.ay and the employment of 10 per
oa- more section men on the system
o we're formerly employed. ....H Hon.
fU, t. Oak has rendered his reSlgna-
.el ,o the governor as land agent, fish
Hru -dme commissioner, and forestry
missioner, to take effect Aug. l.....
" i'attangall. Esq, of Bangor, for
M- of Machias, has been appointed
le1rlel at the niversity of Maine law
v#uu. 1t is reported at Augusta that
AGr ten John 7. Richards will resign
, udre i'll the national guard to accept
M Wuuintment as superintendent of
obstruction of new national soldiers
UuO in enneSsee...T The latest report
condition of membership at the
National Home, Togus, is as follows:
>'l, 2o51; absent, 72S; total, 21S9.....
HNHg Boothby has received letter
W secretary of the Navy Long ac
g the invitation to come to Port
a i one day during the Old Home
Neo. yelebration and to make an ad-
l., Il don't know what day Secre-
.5 LHg Will come" said the Mayor
Olpuing but think that it will be
August .....Senator Matthew 5. Quay
W '-unSylvania, accompanied by a par
friends, passed through Portland
tGuF morning on the way to MaSar-
"s Mere he spends several weeks each
FslL They occupied the private Pull
m0 car Olivette, which was attached
.hc morning train from Boston. An
mer prominent visitor, who was in
ioll!and for few minutes between
HaGs, was Hon. A. S Hewe.t, former
aarur of New York city and leading
tofician in that State...... Mrs. John
IT, tbodfrey and Miss Ethel Godfrey of
."ugor will sail for Europe on Sept. 7,
in1n Portland, in the steamship Van
o11er of the Dominion line, as mem
.-rs of the Maine Central European
parity They will visit the Glasgow Ex-
POSITION. Edinburgh, London, York and
W.lel cathedral towns, after which they
6l 90 to the continent for prolonged
s'aY.......The heaviest thunder shower
~ tte season at Pittsfeld occurred July
>ib. preceded by violent wind. Sew
ea telegraph and telephone wires were
NoAen and many large limbs Of trees
"1fe broken off. The greatest damage
Was done to gardens and specially to
s'aia crops. The shower continued for
nearly two hours and the streets pre-
9rnted an appearance of running riv-
+iS The storm was general through
out the State. Fire, resulting from the
explosion of gasoline stovei in Crowley
a Nelson's laundry, Biddeford, Sat
4ru1y rnnrninn J,1u Doth 6act trnuod r uo
dwellings,, three-story building occu-
tdused a loss of $4,000. Before the
o'afe was under control the business
'tetlon of the city was so threatened
with destruction that after all the ap-
la@tus III Saco and Biddeford was
,oVght into use help was summoned
.ion Portland. There will be several
editions to the Bowdoin College facul-
{, next fall. Alfred l.. p Dennis has
9rrn chosen instructor in history in
pace of Professor Macdonald, whose
,yNgnation was accepted. Roscoe J.
nam has been chosen instructor in mod
t,u languages, and Miss Frances p.
Morse assistant registrar. One of the
MneS that was put down in Portland
larbor at the beginning Of the Spanish
NeI has been found floating around IN
the lower bay and removed to place
u satety...... The second annual reunion
OF the descendants of William and
agnes Lewis Simpson, who settled in
bl1nswick, Me-, about the year 1875,
wi!l be held in Merrymeeting park,
brunswick, Me-, on Wednesday, Aug
a 1901, to which all descendants and
tlelr families are cordially invited. OF
IShelr descendants two sons settled in
53funswick and four sons and two
qEaughters settled in Lincoln county,.
EEdward Silk of Bangor, and John
Nolan, alias. Grey, of Portsmouth, were
arrested at Bangor Saturday night for
ou,ntite @s regent t. burglary at Rocaport; a a
Places where they had pawned them......
Major Jas. M. Davis died at his home
n Bangor, Sunday. He was born in
ll.eVant, Oct. 7, 1845. He served through