Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1902-09-24
KITrERy TO CARIBOU.
One Weeks winnowings of News,
Novelty and Nonsense.


In cash.
Fred Mann. OF Bangor, a brakeman on
the b & A., was killed at Monson juno.
tion last Saturday. No one knows how
the accident happened.
Patrick Mcrigue, of Bangor, has snsti-
tuted a novel suit against Mnrty Hughes
publis carriage driver. McTigue claims
that Hughes has aIienated the affections
OF his son, and sues for s7b.
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Campbell, OF
Cherry fold, have sent out over 400 lnvi
tations to their many friends to the
celebration of the fiftieth anniversary Of
their wedding, Friday, Oct. 8.
The British three- masted topsaiI sehoon-
or "Gienrosa," Finley master, from
Psrrsboro. N. s., with $50 tons of soft
coal for Arm In Portland, went ashore
on Ram Island lodges at 100 Saturday
morning, and is likely to be a total loss.
Mrs. Ssbrina Watts Hail. OF Jonesboro,
celebrated her Dinety-eighth birthday en-
sspt. s. Although Mrs. Hall has nearly
rssched the century mark, she lie stiIl
b light and active, retaining her facult es
10 a remyrks bic degree.
Abel ~. Bowie, sevsnty-one. a retired
b acksmith; Rebeccs Bowie, sixty-four
sister OF Abel, and Addie NJ. Bowie, were
killed Friday at the West Pownal cross
ing Of the Grand Trunk by being struck
~ . train while crossing the track in a
chaise.
The printing plant of the four headed
nswspapers-The Auburn Adrocdte,
Webster Herald, Turner Enterprise and
Monmouth Herald-pobitshed at Auburn
for the past year by Grant Rogers and W.
b. Foster, has been sold to George Z.
Huff, OF Dexter.
Herbert e. Holbrook, who ia charged
with the murder of hts wife at Wilton
ist week. attempted to kill himself In
his cell in the jail at Pennington by
hanging. His struggles attracted tue at
tention Of fellow prisoner and he was
quickly released.
The libel suit for q, 900 damages brought
by Representative Miles ID. Cramer, Of
Washington, against James Sidlinger, OF
wsidoboro, charging the latter with a
statement that Crsmer was forger, aud
he could prove It, began In the supreme
iodieial court Thursday morning before
A 'soeiate Justice Powers.
Mrs. Mercy L. Day, OF Cooper, was In
Maehias one day recently, with a iosd OF
egg, utter and apples. Mrs. Day, who
will be eighty-tso years old In March,
arose at 3 O'Clock that morning to make
ready for her journey, forty-six miles
from her home to Mschies and return,
which she performed without rest.
Patents have recently been issued to Il Q
following Maine inventors: l.. X. Da-
mon, Dexter, sanitary commode; Z. e.
Edeeriy, Biddeford, game apparatus; NJ.
c. Goodwin, Portland, electric hose-coup-
ling; @. A. Joy, Bar Harbor, backing
box holder; T. L. scammon, Portland,
machine for drying toot h. picks.
A splendid portrait of the late Hon.
Charles A. Boutelle, Tor nearly twenty
years a member OF Congress from the
fourth district of Maine, has been re-
csived at the state house, Augusta, aud
hung In the rotunda near the pictures of
the late Gov. Piaisted and ex- Gov. Perhsm.
The portrait is gift from the three sur.
viving daughters OF the dead congress
man.
The University OF Maine at Orono
opened last Thursday. The entering class
is the largest ever recorded In the history
OF the institution, the number who have
registered up to date being 1886 Last
year the number registered up to the
opening DAY was III, thus this year
over last. A large hummer OF new stu
dents are yet to arrive.
An awful mistake wss made by j. l.
Burns, at Washington, Me last Thurs
dsy. He gave Warren Jackson, OF
Cambridge, Mass, dose OF aeonite in
stead OF rbubarb. Jackson drank the
poison, and asked II that was rhubarb.
Burns looked at the bottle, and To his
horror discovered that he had given the
man sconite. ply clan reached Jack
son within fifteen minutes, but too late to
save his life. He was fifty years old, and
leaves a wife and four children.
Death has already invaded the ranks OF
the members-elect OF the Maine Senate
Hon Nathan w. Harris, of Auburn, died
on Tuesday Of last week after an illness Of
some weeks. MIR. Harris was a leading
citizen OF Androscoggin county, able,
honest, dignifisd aud courteous. He was
born in 1853, and was graduated from
Bates in 1873. He did newspaper work
in Portland for year. aud then studied
Law. He was register OF probate for An
droscoggiu county for eight years, aud
mayor of Auburn for three years. He
leaves an aged mother and three mother.
less children.
The directory of insurance companies,
agents and brokers, recently revised and
corrected BY Insurance Commissioner Carr,
contains much valuable information con-
corning insurance matters. There are
forty-six Maine mutual Dire companies
and two stock IRE companies doing bust