Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-30

| George H. Bean of Springvale, was
arrested. Thursday, on charge of en-
bezzlement. The complaint was made
by Charles +. Tibbetts of Sanford, for
| whom Bean has been driving bakery
wagon. The warrant alleges that $500
was taken. The respondent pleaded
not guilty before Judge Hanson in the
municipal court and furnished sureties
of 5000 for his appearance.
Joseph Pauquette and Hector Gau-
dette were arraigned upon the charge
of common carrier in the Lewiston po-
lice court on Friday morning. They
waived the reading and appealed.
Bonds were fixed at $500 in each case
and they were allowed to go. The re-
spondents were caught by the four
deputies in the act of taking 10-gal-
lon key of whiskey from a covered
wagon at 3.d5 A. M. Friday morning
Lewiston Journal s...
Thursday afternoon, man called at
City Physician Goodrich's office at
Bangor for treatment. His condition
aroused the doctors suspicion as to
smallpox. The patient gave his name
as Frank Parent of Lewiston, and said
that he had recently come from camps
at Cooper Brook. He has been around
Old Town and Bangor for several days.
He was in a bad condition, eruption
having already commenced, and he was
taken to the pest house, where he can
be watched carefully.
Vice President J. B. Drake of the
Eastern Steamship Co. arrived home,
last evening, from Boston, where he
attended a meeting of the directors of
the company. The new steamer Ran
som B. Fuller will leave Bath, Saturday,
the 18th of next month, to commence
service on the schedule now being run
by the steamer Kennebec. The Ken
nebec will run opposite to her. This
will bring the Fuller on the Boston
end of the route every Sunday to make
the Sunday excursion trips out of Bos-
ton.-Bath Times
Mrs. A. A. Cowell of Saco, who is
stopping at Hotel Alberta at Old Or
chard. tainted away, early Thursday
morning. in her room and overturned
lighted lamp. The blazing oil set fire
to Mrs. Cowell's clothing. and had 1t
not been for the prompt and intelligent
work of those who rushed to her assist
ance she would have been terribly. IL
not fatally burned. AS 1t was, her head
and one side Of her face were badly
burned. The furnishings of the room
were ruined and several holes were
burned in the floor. In a few minutes
the flames would have been beyond
control. The loss will be about $50.
The United States fish commission
schooner Grampus, Captain E. E.
Hahn, as arrived in port again, after
a trip along the eastern coast of Maine.
Captain Hahn, this morning, shipped
from this port to the Gloucester, Mass,
hatchery 300 seed Holsters, meaning a
total of about 100000 eggs. The cap
tain reports that this season has been
an excellent one in many ways for
seed lobster gathering, and that instead
of each lobster averaging only $4,000
seeds, as they did last season, they are
averaging about 10000 each. The
Grampus will spend the holiday in port
and will not sail again until Monday
morning.-Portland Express, May 20.
Contractor Carlton has made a pro-
position to the towns of Wiscasset and
Boothbay in regard to the Wiscasset
bridge question as follows: He will
build a hemlock bridge similar in size
of timber to the present bridge only
four feet narrower Gas a 20-fOot bridge
is all that is required both for travel
and the Electric Road over the Sleeps
cot river, and the sum to be paid for
the bridge similar to the one there Is
now, $4,000. He will also build an oak
piling and hard pine top for $4,000. This
covers every item of expense excepting
the purchase of the old bridge. The
$4,000 appropriated by the State at
the last session of the Legislature is
not available unless the county votes
Yes" 1t is claimed that the cost of
new bridge to the several towns and in
dividual tax payers is too small to raise
a well-founded objection.