Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-23
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

1t is expected that the ice at Moose
head lake will be out before the last of
the present week. 1t is rotting fast and
in many places has entirely disappeared.
Bangor Commercial
About 40 O'Clock Sunday morning.
seven small houses at the Indian settle
ment on School street, Bar Harbor. were
destroyed by fire. Some of the building
were owned by white men but most OF
the owners Were indians.
The record at the office of the Amos
Abbott Co at Dexter, which is kept of
the height of the water in the lake.
shows that the water this spring was an
inch higher in the lake than ever before
since 1868, when the record was com
mcnccd.
The large two-story farm house and
barn adjoining known as the knight
house and situated on the road to High
land Lake in Westbrook were burned.
Monday. The owners had leased the
house for the winter to other occupants
and Monday, the tenants having moved
out, had returned to the house. The fire
caught from the chimney. Loss, about
5000.
At a special town meeting at Wiscasset
Monday, held to discuss the new school.
house question. after quibbling all day
and struggling with every phase of the
$4,000 problem and Mr.. Geofrey p. Far
leys generous offer of a 500 lot. the
town voted to appoint committees of l.
to report, May H. on the advisabiity OF
repairing the old and of building a new
schoolhouse in the village.
Three salmon were taken at the Bangor
pools, Monday. The lucky fishermen
Were Edward Mahancy, John Anderson
and Ira Peavey. The fish weighed about
20 pounds each. On Saturday, Assistant
Postmaster Pierce landed 25-pound fish
at the pools. a letter from Millinocke.
states that there is excellent fishing at
the pools at that place. On Friday Mr..
Morrison of Wisconsin, landed 1e-pounL
fish.
There is report at Norridgewock that
a syndicate has arranged for the building
of a spur track of the Somerset Railroad
beginning at q point near the bridge on
Railroad street to the Dodln Hill granite
quarries. 1t is also stated that the COM
pany has contract for Il large amount
of granite that VIII require three years
to quarry and that an additional 10l
men will be set at work on the ledge a.
once.
At an election in Co, 1st Infantry. a.
Portland, Monday night. Captain H. p
Parker presided and there We're Is mrm
bers of the company present. First Ser
geant l.. r. S. Syphers was Unanimously
chosen second lieutenant. He has a fiae
record in the National Guard For
eight years he has been in the company
and served as a sergeant In it when IL
was a part of the 1st Maine Volunteers
at Chickamauga.
Among the motions granted by Justice
Emery in the supreme court at Bangor,
Tuesday, was one in the case of Ralph
I. Plaisted trustee, VS. Alfred +. Jones.
The motion was one on the part of the
plaintiff for a rule on the defendant to
Plead on or before June Il, 1902 This &C
lion, which has already been up in the
supreme court once and withdrawn. in
wolves about $1,000. 1t is now expected
that it will come TO trial at the October
civil term.
Friday about noon. the farmhouse at
Trenton owned by George J. Stafford was
burned to the ground and the stable con-
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tearing down the shed. The house was
occupied by some men in the employ of
Alr. Stafford and the fire is supposed TO
have caught from fireplace. The new
stable owned by Nj. Stafford on the op-
posite side of the road was in danger a
number of times from sparks. but escap-
ed. There is no fire apparatus in Tren-
ton and the only means of fighting the
fire was by hand buckets.
Alexander Hutchins, who recently NOV
cd to Bangor to enter the service of the
Maine Central had his right foot cut off
in the Exchange street yard shortly after
10 o'clock, Tuesday morning. He made
jump for the brake beam of an approach
ing car In order to get q ride down the
yard. His right foot Slipped and al
though he chung to the grab-rail. saving
his body, his foot was clipped Off as
cleanly as though with an axe. He was
picked up after the car had been stopped.
unconscious. and was carried to the East
crn Maine General hospital. -
AT meeting Of the executive commit
tee of the University of Maine Athletic
Association. Monday evening, Ii vot-
ed to recommend TO the association that
the proposed constitution for the Maine
intercollegiate Athletic Association not
be adopted. The recommendation will
probably be accepted unanimously by the
members of the association. The article
is said to be quite incomplete. and In no
way covers the ground that is demanded
for the government of Maine athletics.
1t is not known AS yet as to what action
the other Maine colleges have taken on
the matter.
In the supreme cour. at Bangor Tues
day, several divorce cases were heard.
Mrs. Lydia A. Keyser of Bangors asked Z
that she be given u divorce from her hus-@
band Whitefed l.. Keyser. on tiicA
grounds of adultery and gross and CON
firmed habits of intoxication. The couple 81
were married on Sept u.s. 1873. IN StetsoN
and have one child. Is years OF age, Cruel
and abusive treatment was the reason
which Mrs. Augusta A. BumpuS Of New
port, gave for asking for divorces from
Fred A. Bumpus. The couple have. not
lived together since Feb. Is, 1900. They
were married in Waterville, Dec. 8. 1897.
Harry SWEET and Amy j. Harvey. both %
Bangor, were married in that city on May
6, 1896. On Aug. IS. 1897, she left him
without just cause, as Mr.. SWEET claims,
and he also asks divorce.
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