Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-08
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Tho four-masted steel schooner tn"
William 7. Frye. built by the SeWalls
Of Bath has arrived at Shanghai on
her trip after 4 fine passage Of 141 days.
she carries 1871, eco cases Of oil.
Judge Nathan Webb Of ihe United
States court is today, passing his ,7th
birthday He otiiciatcd in bankruptcy
matters in the early forenoon and has
heer passing tie remainder Of the day
1T home His health has greatly i'm
proved in the last few Wecks.-Port-
land Express, Nay !.
Thomas II. Brown, plaintiff in the
rcplevin suit against Chas. II. Elliott
to recover the horse Gold Dust which
was decided III favor Of the defendant
by Judge Hill at Portland Tuesday,
has appealed the case. 1t will be tried
before jury at the next October term
of the superior court.
In the municipal court at Portland,
Wednesday. three fines Of 800 and costs
each. We're paid in liquor cases that
have been pending several weeks.
Judge Bonney's action of Tuesday in
fining Eeeman, 4 former bar tender for
Frank Ford, seemed to have the effect
is an evident desire on their part to
clear up as many cases in the lower
court as is possible before they are ar
raigned in the superior court.
Authorities from Costigan were in
Old Town. early Wednesday morning
in search of Jerry Lenfest, who disap-
peared from his home in Costigan at
II O'Clock Tuesday night. Lenfest was
employed on the railroad and on last
Friday, he was injured in the back.
Since that time his brain seems to be
affected, and, Tuesday night, he rushed
from his home in shirt sleeves and has
not been heard from since. The police
in Old Town have been notified and are
on The watch for him.
At q meeting of the Bath city council
Wednesday evening, a contest over the
election of directors of the Peoples
Ferry co. closed by the reelection OF
G. A. Blair and selection of III. W.
Tucker as directors, for the city. Mayor
Hyde, who had advocated the election
of G.. 6. Deering for the place, an
noQnced that he had changed his mind
on making fun investigation. An ap-
preparation bill for the current year
carrying $4,000 was passed. George
w. Shea was re-appointed liquor agent,
pending the report Of n committee APP
pointed to inquire in the advisability
of maintaining a local agency.
The New York Suns New Haven CT, |
correspondent says: James s. Gray, |
aged II years. George Carding, Ii, and
John COrbett, IL, are somewhere in a |
14-foot, brOwn-painted sharpie, on the |
waters between their home port. Stony |
Creek, and the Maine coast. if they |
haven't been gobbled UP by the police |
or haven't gone to Davy Jones locker |
They had been stocking the sharpe for |
several days with food for a long
cruise. Then they sailed away in the I
dark, Saturday night. Each knows
something about handling sharpies.
They left word they would be gone
three months. An alarm has been sent
out to every port between here and Bar
Harder to hold the young tars.
The Boston Post says: 1T is ru-
mored along Atlantic avenue and in
local steamship circles that the Morse
Syndicate. which now controls the
various lines running to Maine ports
and st. John, N. B., is after the Plant
|
Island business, for which il is will
ing, it is said, to pay 100000. The
property consists of the steamer Hall
fax and the company's wharf premises
ut Charlottetown and Halifax. When
interviewed as to this runor, Calvin
Austin, vice president and general
of the Eastern Steamship Co,
denied that there was any
truth in it. In fact. Mr.. Austin de-
clared that he had talked with Mr..
Morse no later than last Friday about
the matter and the latter had asserted
that he had no designs on the Halifax ,
line. However. there are those who '
believe that the line will be absorbed ,
in short time and that Mr. Morse's /
ambition will not stop even there, but
that the Yarmouth Line will also pass
into his control. If these consolida-
tons come about, the Eastern Steam I
ship Co. Will entirely control the i
various ocean routes between this and
he Maine ports, as well as the provin- !
eial routes I