The Republican journal., 1902-12-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

MAINE MATTERS Hon. E. E. Ring,
land agent, has transmitted to Hon.
Oramandel Smith, State treasurer, the
sum of $13. 076.66 on account of the sale
OF timber and grass on. the reserved
lots of the State for the year ending
Nov 30, 1902. The receipts from this
source in former years are as follows:
1897, $2,9S6, IS; 1898, IS, 754.01: 1899, S.
| 1912; 1900, $11, S3562; 1901, S13, 40S.0S.
IA record, nearly complete, of the
shooting accidents in the Maine woods
during the hunting season which has
| Just closed shows that three men, mis-
taken for deer, have been killed out
right this season, there having been
one less fatality than in 1901. A half
dozen others have been accidentally
killed from other causes, and nine have
been wounded, but not seriously. The
search for the body of Henry c. Brown,
the Maine Central section foreman
who was knocked from the bridge over
the Androscoggln river about three
weeks ago, has been given up, after
having been continued all this time by
the Odd Fellows, of which organization
he was member. Mrs. Brown has Of
fered reward of 800 to the person
who RECEIVERS the body before Jan. LIST.
THE idle granite quarries at Free
port, Maine, have been purchased by
New York and Massachusetts parties
and the citizens of the town are cheer
ed by the assurance that the property
is to be in operation on an extensive
scale in the early spring....A meeting
| OF the representatives of the different
unions of the Bricklayers and Masons
Unions of Maine was held in Waterville
| Dec 31 The nriDpjnal tonjr WAS that
of an eight hour day and II general
movement for the same was favored
There was talk of State organization.
....Ambrose II. FesSenden, a stamper
at the Portland post Office. was arrest
ed Dec. 3D. by |. ). Inspectors Nels
and Mcmillan for alleged tamperlng
with letters containing money They
mailed a decoy letter containing mark
ed money, and it was found in his pos
session after his arrest. Fessenden
took his arrest quietly, and claims that
he Shall be able to make d satisfactory
explanation. He has been employed i'll
the Portland post Office for many years.
Hon. Edward Hyde, Mayor of Bath,
and Miss Alice H. Morse, daughter OF
AlonZo A. Morse, were married al
Grace Episcopal church in Bath Dec
4tb..... Elliott Walker aged 50 years. who
was judge Of probate of Penobscot
county 1881 and prominent lawyer
is dead. He was a graduate of Colby
college. WaterVille, member of the
Legislature III 1872 and the first princi
pal of C0Tinna academy. He leaves {
son and daughter, DR.. W. f. Walker OF
Newport and Mrs. Horace \. Wood OF
Particulars Special elections We're held
i'll Wards ! and 6. Portland. Dee Sd
! |, oil 81
didates except for alderman in Ward 9
lacking 20 V0teS... Senator Hale teie
graphed Mayor Boothby of Portland
under date of Washington, d. G.. Dee
4th, as follows: The Maine delega
ton visited the secretary Of agriculture
this morning upon the question of eX-
tending the closing the New England
ports III case of diseased CATTLE The
quarantine has not been applied tC
Maine OF Portland and is not likely tC
be unless new conditions arise. No ac
count has yet been sent here of any
herds i'll Maine being infected and WE
hope none Will be found. .....At the an
nual business meeting of the Maine
Dairymens Association. held iii Water
vile Dec. 4th, officers were elected fol
the ensuing year as follows: President
Rutillus Alden of Winthrop: vice presi-
dent W. c. Whitman of Turner: secre-
tary, l.. W. Dyer of Cumberland: treas
urer. F. :. Adams of Bowdoin The
trustees of the Maine Central Institute
have received an unconditional gift Of
real estate in the business section of
the town, valued at $4,000 from J. c.
Common of Pittsiield and Hon. c. A.
Miiliken of Augusta. The building
will be put in thorough repair and be
| come a source of revenue to the school
.....A fire Dec. 18th destroyed Clifford S
principal business block, causing a
financial loss Of fully 80, 900 and left
five secret societies without meeting
place in this town. The burned build
ing was owned by Henry Douglass and
Good Cheer Lodge of odd Fellows.
The upper two stories were occupied
! by Good Cheer Lodge Moosehead En-
campment, Rebekah Golden Link
| Lodge, Mount Kineo Masonic Society,
Syracuse Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
and GuIiford Lodge, New England Or
der of Protection. The furnishings in
Knights of Pythias' hall, valued at
$1,000, were insured for $4,000. The
property of the other lodges were unin-
sured.... Former Conductor John Jew
EFT has Just been placed in charge Of the
new building for trainmen of the Bos-
ton Il Maine and Maine Central rail
roads, recently completed in Portland.
| Mr. JeWett is one Of the best known
railroad men in the State and has been
long in the employ of the Maine Cen
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