Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-16
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

The ~crlains OF Isaac Cooper, q resi-
| dent OF Burnh2m, three miles from
PitI-fc!l. who had been missing since
| lart Thursday, We're discovered. Sun
| dGY night, by searching party not
veg far from his home. Cooper was
about a years old and unmarried.
| T,.ief of Police Newer of Old Or
char.l, believes that a deliberate at
| tempt was made to burn Windsor
| block on Railroad walk, Sunday night
TIE fire was cxtinguished before much
damage was done. Chief Newer says
an arrest may be made in a few days.
S.las II. Weatherbee of Norway, died
Tuesday MOI ming, aged 60 years.
| Death resulted after a two weeks ill
ness with pneumonia. He was one of
the Oldest travelling men in the State.
For the past Is years he had repre-
scented Charles Mclaughlin & Co. of
Portland.
Twenty-eight members Of the Bath
branch of the National Iron MOlders'
Union employed by the Hyde Windlass
Co. are out. They demand $3.50 per day
instead of the scale of $1.75 to S2.75,
as has been the custom. The strikers
believe all should be paid alike. There
are sin men left in the employ of the
company who are not members Of the
union. and it is thought they will re-
fuse to go out.
Monday evening, the farm buildings
of J. f. Wakefield OF Lewiston, on the
Danville road, were destroyed by fire
At about o'clock Mr.. Wakefield went
to the barn to do his usual evening
lantern either tipped over or exploded,
he could not tell which, and the whole
place was instantly ablaze. The fire
rapidly spread and the entire barn and
the house were soon wrapped in flames.
The buildings We're insured for $1,000.
The Maine Academy of Medicine and
Science held it's SD stated meeting at
Portland, Monday evening. The ses-
sion was under the direction of Sec
ton ". on Opthalmology, Otology,
Rhinology, Laryngology and Neurology
DR.. c. Z. Norton, president; DIR. I. L. |
Kimball, vice president. DR.. E. E. |
Goodrich of Waterville, was elected to |
membership. The papers We're by Drs. |
+. T.. Holt, J. +. Hill of Waterville, E. |
NJ. Fuller, Bath: H. T. Clough. Bangor; |
f. Z. Holt, Portland, C. f. Norton and |
DR.. J. F. Hill, Waterville.
At a conference of Mayor Engel of |
Bangor, and Mayor Higgins of Brewer,
Monday afternoon, the petition to the
chief justice of the Maine supreme |
court was drawn up, signed and fled. |
The petition in accordance with the |
provisions OF the Hutchings bill, prays
for the appointment of three disinter-
ested men for the purpose of appraising
the bridge property and appurtenances
of the Bangor toll bridge, sum which |
is eventually to be paid by the cities
of Bangor and Brewer and the county
of Penobscot and the bridge now owned |
by the Bangor Bridge Co, a private
corporation, will be made free.
The rooms of the Paper Makers Club
of Livermore Falls, were visited. Sat-I
urday, by Deputy Sheriff Dwelley and
Constable Tarr on a search and seizure
warrant sworn out by a representative
of the Civic League. There We're found
about 900 bottles of liquor of various
kinds. filling six bushel baskets. Wal
ter Chapman, who runs the club, was
arrested and trial will occur, Thursday
Mayor McGiilicuddy of Lewiston, de-
tends Chapman, and +. T.. Richards,
Esq, of Pennington, and II. c. White
more, Esq, of Livermore Falls. repre-
sent the Civic League. This Paper
Makers Club is said to have 12O mem
bers.