Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-07-29
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIREc

Il Is now an assured fact that 81
rangements have been perfectad tt Ar
tract has been signed and work ,,,s ,re.n- con-
gun. Monday. was BE-
Burglars entered the house ~ III.
howard, III Fruit street Bangor y.
Monday morning. and after .afl5
close inspection OF the premises VIII.
of with wallet containing * "aiAed
+. A. Whittier has just purchaser !,
Foxcror Exchange hotel nronDS,a, me
Foxcroft Of J. Willis Romeo ana y.ins e
possession at once. Mr.. Whittier MI .ase
some time past been the landlord ~ Iar
Dover House. VI tae
Webster Gage, a farmer livi,n
North BroWnyille, dropped dead az
day, just as he was climbing onto 9a.u'-
OF nay. Ills age was G6 years, Z rnon.tsi MI
II days. A widow. two sons and ,n
daughters survive him. tRe
The c9roners inquest on tho da..,
VIM. Y. Mills Of Winchester and f,sa.,e ei
w. Mills Of Reading. Mass. WHO sal ,.ilts
killed in the grade crossing accident MIS- MN
lS, was concluded Monday noon II 'eg esgs
Orchard. The verdict exonerates tba .e.q uq
road employees and the driver OF tbe asl aal
iic carriage in which the men met tbee- gae-
death et 'ieE
About 1890 Saturday night. as u.n
Little and Alfred Gardner were wanssN naeN
| home in Richmond. a man came m
them and, with the remark Il have J., y
you. Gardner" struck al him Win ~
knife. Little threw up his arm ana q
ceived the blow intend q FOR Gardner 'e
cash seven inches long in the fora.u-a :
was the result. Gardner sent the ofsa.al n
after Mel Blackburn. claiming he WAS ,h
man who did the cutting. and Rlactbnu.st, us,
is in the lookup. Little's wound 4 iruIia rni
dangerous. "V'
George Parker, senior member of Il.
| shoe manufacturing firm of Parker N :
Peakes of Bangor. was assaulted ars
beaten with club by an unknown mss
on Union street, Saturday night. HiS
cries brought several men TO the seen
and the assailant fled and has not ~,
been captured. Mr. Parkers injuries a.,
painful. but not serious. A strike il nor
in progress at Parker & Peakes' factoty
and it IS thought that the assailant mar
have been some discounted emDlove ii
though the police are inclined to beliey.
that robbery was tile motive.
Frank Morrill, of North Windham. wa.
arrested. Saturday, and lodged i'm fba
Nestbrook police station, charged with
an attempt to Gefraud Walter Pride
weli-known livery man. of the hire Of a
stable team. The team was hired by Nor.
rill on " ednesday, ne expecting 10 r.
turn it next day. The next time NJ
Pride saw it was Saturday. when na na.
| ticed man answering to the appearance
Of Morrill, get out oL the team and hand II
over to the charge of q small how rbs
team proved 10 be Mr.. Pride's But I'M
hoy knew Of no arrangement to settle for
the hire. Morrilfs arrest followed
Herbert Tanning, % years old, Of North
Berwick. son of Thomas Tanning N
Providence, r. l., jumped from train al
Blddeford, Saturday evening ana was
critically injured. He had come I'D from
Old Orchard. His companion iumpeI
from the train just before it reached tne
Smith street bridge. Tanning ATTEMPTED
10 follow his example. but the train was
then crossing the bridge. lie was thrown
against trestle, rebounded ana fei
across the ties near the rail The large
toe OF his right foot was cut off, his skull
was fractured and ne received seyeral
scalp wounds. lie was taken to the Tran
hospital. 1t is believed nc cannot recov.
or