The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-12-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

MAINE MATTERS. British Vice Con-
sui John b. Heating has been granted
a sum by the two governments to restore
the inscriptions Oh the stone over the
grave of Capt. Samuel Beyth, who
while commanding III. M. S. Brig Boxer
i'll the fight with the U. S. Brig Enter
prise on September s. 1913, was killed
and is buried in the Eastern cemetery.
Portland, Capt. Burrowes' tombstone
also needs to be re-inscribed and Mr..
Heating will by private subscription en-
deavor to obtain a sum large enough to
do it,. The new building of the Maine
Industrial School for Girls in Hallowell
is now SO far advanced that the plaster
ers are at work on the interior. Its COM
pletion is looked for by March 1st. the
contract date for finishing. The girls
ROW living in the old building number
private families. As soon as the build
ing is ready for occupancy the girls will
he returned to the school,. The Maine
central Railroad Company has paid in
taxes to the State treasury for the cur
rent year the sum of Sl45, 266.63. Last
year the company paid the sum of &c.,
H55,03. This increase comes from the
change in the tax rate and also from
The gain in the business of the road.
he price asked for Il teu-acre lot on
the Winthrop shore of Cobbossecontee
AXE is an example of the high figures
property owners are asking in that To-
cality. 1t contains only seven shore
lots. An Augusta citizen tried to buy
3 last week He offered $4,000, but was
Asked 81, 500, a price which he declined
TO pay. He will purchase elsewhere.
fhe Portland Central Labor Union has
adopted resolutions favoring the build
ug of the new warships in the ship
ards of the government, and asking
ongressman Allen to do his best to
ring about the desired change. The I'M
Ion believes this would help out the s.
bourday movement and be for the inter
st of organized labor. The largest list
# real estate of resident taxpayers ever
ldyertised for sale in Sanford for non
payment of taxes has been posted by
rhe collector There are 40 items, on
which the taxes amount to s2,427.59.
~lnce the notice was posted IS have
laid. On the remaining As Collector
Iogg Nov. DIST served notice of the
@ale, to take place the first Monday in
'ecember.....The lumber cut along the
~. CroiX river tins winter will be a big
ne. 1t is expected that more than 90
1000 feet, mostly spruce, will be cut
,u the Maine side Of the river. The
Iectors of the York Mfg. Co.. operat-
HL cotton mills at Saco announce that
dividend of S15 per share will be paid,
rec. -. Edward j. Taft and Donet J.
febvre of Manchester, n. H., who
ave distributed circulars in Maine
les advertising a New York whole
le liquor firm, were arraigned in the
lnicipal court at Saco Nov. 2lst.
ley pleaded guilty, and each paid a
te of $50 and costs. The men were
ed like amount earlier in the day
Portland. They were charged with
V5lating the law against printing or
>tributing circulars OF advertisements
teling liquor for SALE Dr.. Ebenezer
8 Johnson, aged 81, a prominent physi-
IAN and temperance worker of that
,ection, died suddenly at his home in
farmington Nov. 2lst, Death was
rlused by heart failure following a
arief illness with pneumonia. He is
survived by a wife and three children.