The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-02-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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was awarded Jan. 22nd to Maynard ;.
Bird, their premiums amounting to
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Ie1uhdln9 the last block OF Knox X
Lincoln railroad bonds, winch have been
Qid wing 70 per cent. mere were 10
oldQefn LOT Vht Issue, including sew
era Boston nrns.,...Mr and MIS-
fanhIln y. W llNon OF Bangor sailed
Jan. 10Th from New \ urk for Naples
Whtle they VIII be joined by their son,
Charles 4. Wilson, secretary of the
American legation at Athens. Mr.
and MIS-. Wilson viii be absent three
months, and VIII visit various parts of
the contlnent..... lie grand jury for the
January superior court at Augusta
reported Jan. oath 107 indictments, of
which lOb We're liquor cases. The other
case was for breaking, entering and
larcency....Ihe State board of health
has taken measures to prevent persons
living In Lynniield, \. B., from crossing
the line into Maine unless free from
smallpox contagion. The local boards
OF health are authorized to establish
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Walton of SkoWhegan is candidate
for executive councillor from Somerset
county. No opposition has so far ap-
peared against him....The governor and
council Jan. oath granted a pardon to
George II. Hudson. now serving 10
month sentence in Alfred jail for the
crime OF adultery. 1t was was shown by
statement from the jail physician that
Hudson is IN consumption. No hearing
was held on the application for pardon
OF Mrs. Mary f. Barrows, now serving
life sentence in State prison for muir
der of her husband. counsel for and
against the prisoner having asked for a
postponement until the next meeting
of the council.. The Secretary of the
Navy has ordered the acceptance of the
torpedo boat Biddle, built by the Bath
Iron Works.....A movement is on foot at
Washington for the establishment of
cod hatchery at Boothbay Harbor in
connection with the lobster hatchery,
and an additional $4,000 is asked
of Congress for this purpose The
Maine coast is the natural breeding
ground for the Goldfish and it would
seem feasible to establish such a hatch
cry somewhere in the Maine waters.....
ID. H. knowlton, secretary of the Maine
L
that the apple crop of the State for the
year 1901 was about 800 900 barrels.
at the present time only few thousand
barrels are held by the growers. The
material for the Rockland extension OF
the street railway is arriving at Thomas
ton ana Will be distributed along the pro-
poSed route at once. This extension and
the development OF a summer resort at
lakewood VIII mean an expenditure by
the corporation OF 100000 IN the next
SIX months. The largest private stable
IN Name IS that which is now being
pullt for Joseph Pulitzer of New 1ork,
publlsher OF the World, at ChatWold,
ms .palaual summer home at Bar Ear-
oor. The main building will, when
completed, be l4s feet by 1926 feet, and
VIII be the largest single building IN
bar Harbor with the exception OF The
immense Kodick House with its hun
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