The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-06-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MAINE MATTERS. The lumber drives
Of the Penobscot are moving steadily
toward the mills and thus far no delays
OF consequence have occurred. Recent
estimates place the total cut on the
river at PIC, 900 600 feet. OF this amount
100, 900. 600 feet will be used by the pulp
mills. The remainder viii be sent by
rail for trans-shipment by the Ashland
Manufacturing Co. and will make about
$4,000, 600 feet of manufactured lum-
Der to be shipped out of Bangor this
summer. On the kennebec the drives
have reached the different mills along
the river.... Portland has given up the
idea of having the National Educatiou-
al Association meet there in 1908. 1t
would have meant the raising Of at
least $1,000 and finding quarters for
over 10000 visitors, and it concluded
that the cost was more than it was
Worth...ln the new app0rtionment
Warren. | Mon and Washington towns
have been placed i'll a class, and the
Democratic representative will be nom
mated from Warren this YEAR Two
years ago the class towns We're Apple
ton Hope and ashlngton....i'h he death
last week i'll California of Major Sew
ard l)itI removes, perhaps the last sur
vlvoI OF the famous convention at
Strong, in TINS state at which the Re
publican party was formed. Major OH
was one OF the prime movers IN the
new party, and all his life was devoted
to its principles He was Il man of
sterling character. and leaves behind a
record OF which his descendants may
well be proud From Ellsworth comes
the report that William II. Treworgy,
now confined in the jail of that city,
has retained the services of eX-Mayol
Charles J. Hutchings OF Brewer as as
socate council for him with Oscar f.
Fellows of Bucksport who was APP
pointed by the COURT. Mrs. James G
Blaine, who usually passes her summer
at Bar Harbor, will 90 to Hampton,
Long Island, this summer. The Blaine
cottage at Bar Harbor will be occupied
by others......T The special city election
held i'll RockIand recently to act upon
the offer of Andrew Carnegie to give
/ Rockland $40, 900 for a library. resulted
Ill majority in the affirmative. The
vote was 100 YES to 30 .....llarold l..
/ Hanson, a graduate of Colby college in
the class of '99, and this spring a mem
ber OF the graduating class al the New
/ ton Theological Seminary at West New
ton, Mass has been called to the Bap-
list church at kennehunk, and it is
stated that he Will accept the invitation.
.....A satisfactory adjustment las been
made between the owners of the Halo
/ we'll granite works and thei! employees.
/ ! he men wanted pay ion work at eight
hours according to the nine hour
straightforward Washington dispatch
says the President is arranging to
make one speech IN Maine during the
coming campaign, probably III Port
land. lie is comforting with the Maine
| delegation on the subject. lie
following Maine postmasters have
had their salaries increased under the
annual reimbursement. Camden from
s.. 800 to 81, 200, Castine from $1,000 to
-, 300, Cumberland Mills from 81 POO to
81 300. Fort Fairfield from 81 400 to
81, 300. Freeport from 81 300 to 81, 400.
....Prof. John $. SeWall, ID. d., for the
! past % years occupant of the chair OF
sacred rhetoric, homiletics, pastoral
theology and sociology in the Bangor
Theological Seminary, has handed his
resignation to the trustees to take eft
| feet year from this June. Prof. Sew
| all, who has long been considered one OF
| the strongest men in the seminary, pre-
| yious to his coming to Bangor was pro
fessor of literature and rhetoric al
Bowdoin College, prior to which he was
| a chaplain III the navy. Chairman
Hughes announces that the Hon. JOIN
b. Madigan of Houlton has been Sc
lected as the chairman Of the Demo
cratic State Convention, which is to bt
held at Bangor, June l7th.... According
to the Insurance Press Maine received
nearly two million in death benefits last
year. 9ls,042 was paid in Rockland
81, ST. in Thomaston, Sl4, 400 in Einal
! haven, Sl0,1SS in st. George, $4,000 il
| Rockport, 81, 2o3 in South Thomaston
$4,000 in Monhegan, and $4,000 il
rlendship... Everything indicates
that the Maine State Fair for the yeal
1902 will be a success" says Secretary
| Clarke. The fair will be held on Sep
TENDER lst, I'd, Sd and 4th The stake
events are as follows: $50 trot, $500
2.30 pace, 5000; 2.:555 trot, $500: $50 pace,
$500; 2.21 trot, $500: .25 pace, $500; trot
ting foals four years old and under
$500; pacing foals, four years old anC
under, $500. Colt must be eligible tC
2.4o class. The LIST District Prohibition
convention at Portland, May 22nd
nominated Franklin Skillings of Port
land, for representative to Congress-.
During a heavy thunder storm, May
24th, the Ellsworth Lumber Co. mil
was struck and burned. Some lum
Der was also burned. The loss is
about $4,000, with very small if any in
surance. Lightning also struck
stable on Main street belonging to DR.
A. G. Hagerthy, causing slight damage
| Leads Them All.
zone Minute Cough Cure beats all Othe
medicines ! ever tried for coughs, colds