The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-10-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

4urN city building and the foundation
M.Hc same was commenced Monday.
CNa iirSt man shot in the Maine
woods lhiS season was mistaken for a
mu instead of a deer. Perhaps that
.O. Why he got off with his life and
ao ,hattered bones of the forearm;
Mo mo- doubt it hurts just as badly.
.u-and is to be quite garrison city
u.H Is nine companies of artillery
wNIsing about thousand men. But
4t> number of first class forts, and
stl nave men enough to care for them.
lhe disbursements at the Augusta
n4.s.ou agency for the past fiscal year
,relegated 81, $40, 497.... Ten Mormon
tj-rS with 80 converts to their faith,
uauy of them women, left Maine, last
rsk on their way to Utah. The con-
VET were from different parts of the
,-l-e md their conversion is the result
ID. rla labor which the missionaries
Ny 0een putting in since early last
Hl.. The annual report Of the direc-
-o,s of the Maine Central Railroad
umpany makes an excellent financial
.21tit of the past years business, the
-t ucome of the road showing an in
TtIse of S53, 901. 40 over the preceding
ltH shSetllglIllO WIG PlOPCiUy oIQ
eWnent ID of the road have been main
aimed in a high state of efficiency.
algr its able management Names
Wjug railroad system is in every way
Jcreiit to Maine, and its prosperity a
sure Indication of the general business
mlItion of the State. 1T is almost an
MHoSsibility at this time to obtain gen
ue spruce gum and the scarcity has
Ya,ed an advance in price to two dol
, @ pound and dealers who never
s4.1ed much of profit on it when
,0 at nominal prices, have now elm
ul.el it from their stock. This winter
're viii be a grand rush of gum hun
'4> 10 the Maine woods with the re-
,- that spring will find the market
Ne ourdened with it again and the
wie back to one dollar a pound. The
asr 4atherers to return from the woods
N reap a rich harvest...Alli lie Gerald,
-n- boy poacher, with whom Maine
Gu wardens have had much trouble,
his been convicted at Skowhegan, of
sgl,ly killing deer, and he was COM
rl.-d to jail in default of the pay
HUt of the fine. The granite business
>iouington has taken great boom.
5NeT York company, which recently
0aTed much property there, has a
Tor the immediate production of
"01o tons of granite, in addition to
't smaller jobs. A good estimate
-g. the August pay roll as in the
la-aborhood of $4,000, and this
count will be threbled in the next II
uUths, as the three principal com
Wlles now operating there will expend
100000 for equipment by August,
Probably for the first time in the
Glory of Maine logging woods, cleo
fly will be used this winter in trans
Ing cut logs from the woods to the
E'- andings. Last year steam trac-
'0u sngine was successfully operated,
proved very cumbersome, and
"s INVENTOR expects a great improve
ofM when the electric engine now be-
- rolstructed is put in operation.
I- eXperiment will be tried on tract
f mud in the Dead river region, the
amllug place being on Alder stream, a
,rUtary to Dead river.... Eugene Will
'ol aged y, of Jonesboro, while cram
.uting, Friday morning on 'Libby
Heath" near Jonesboro, was mistaken
-u lear and shot through the arm by
PANEL w. Tupper, aged 55, who was in
laj vicinity hunting. The Rickers of
Poland Springs Sept. 9th completed
lUe purchase of the Bay Point Hotel
lhperty, Rockland, by making a pay
me0t Of $4,000. The new proprietors
ae to expend $40. 900 in improving the
mdings and grounds and work has
been begun.....Th Maine Central rail
road management appreciates the good
work which has been done by the en-
loyes of the road during the past sea-
"u and it has advanced the pay in
,-yeral of the departments unsolicited.
I0r men are greatly pleased with this
9l' on the part of the management.
Ile Village of Weeks Mills in China
..5trowly escaped destruction by fire
lDNrsday night, Sept. Goth. Four build
Ass, including the only hotel in the
r..aee, we're destroyed and the loss
pi' reach $4,000. The fire started il
a1eWly erected trousers factory and as
brle was no fire apparatus the flames
adlA clean sweep down the mal1
street to the banks of the stream. A
7onnteer bucket brigade with wei
o1ukets confined the fire to the side OF
Vie street upon which it started. The
Wued buildings besides the hotel ant
Idciory are two general stores; botf
"ried large stocks.