The Republican journal., 1903-12-24
MAINE NEWS 1TEns.

A. D. McFaul's book, Ike Glidden of
Maine, is being dramatized by profess
sional playwright for a New York theatre
cal manager.
Through the generosity of Hon. j. P.
Bass, Bangor is likely to have one OF the
largest and finest parks in Maine. He has
offered to give Maplewood Park to the city.
Gov Hill, as the head of the national
guard of the State, has received an invita-
tiOn to the annual convention OF the Inter
state National Guard Association in st. Au-
gustine, Fla, Jan. 23d.
The Governor and Council Dec. 16 heard
two petitions for pardon and refused both !;
that of Mrs. Clara E. Getchell of Sidney.
convicted of the murder of her husband
and hat of John Miller, Jr., Of Calais for
rum selling.
The smelt fishermen are on the ice at
Surry, and although the season has not yet
begun, 800 and 400 bushels are being taken
and shipped to Ellsworth each day by the
stage, and to the West. The outlook for
the smelling business this year is greater
than ever before.
The Great Northern Paper Company, it Is
reported, will put out nearly $2,O0O,OO next
season in building dams to hold back the
| waters of the west branch of the PenObscOt,
| so as to have continuous driving from the
froStS arrive in the autumn.
Speaker Cannon made three changes in
committee assignments for Maine members.
Representatives Allen and Powers each get
one new place, Reform in Civil Service,
and Banking and Currency, respectively.
Littlefield is transferred from Elections
committee to Revision of the Laws.
| The Cony House, Augusta, has been sold
| to l. E. Carnage of south Bristol, the for
mer proprietor, W. W. Tibbets, going to
Portland, where he has purchased an m
tereSt in Il restaurant. The hotel winthrop
on State street, which was also conducted
by Mr.. Tibbets, has been given up by him,
and Percy Hill, owner of the property, has
engaged F. A. Pierce, clerk at the house, to
carry it Oh.
The White Granite Company of Bluehill
, has recently received a four months con-
! tract for cutting stone for the WomanS hos
pital in Philadelphia. This. with other
| work Oh hand, makes it possible to run all
winter. The quarry has started up under
| the direction OF }. Ii. johnson as superln-
| tendent. The cutters who are out of town
are returning and in a short time 90 or 90
! men will be at work for the winter.
Statistics compiled at Augusta during the
| big game season in Maine, which closed
| Dec l4th for the year, show that there was
but one fatal accident on account OF being
mistaken for deer during the season.
That affair happened in Piscataquis coun-
ty, where one guide shot another by acc-
dent, killing him. A Maine guide was kill
ed being mistaken for deer on the Cana
dian side, several miles from Vanceboro.
During the season there were nine fatal ac-
cidentS and seven serious ones.
The full bench has granted new tral to
jeremiah Dionne and Joseph Albert Le-
fave, who were jointly convicted at the
September term of the kennebec county
superior court of the larceny of money from
Michael Burns, an Augusta hotel-keeper:
The new trial was granted on the ground
that the presiding justice, Oliver Il. Han,
did not instruct the jury on a point maze
by the counsel for the defence, relating to
the confession of Lefave, duplicating d.
onne with the crime.
Alonzo r. Weed, formerly of Bangor, was
elected mayor of Newton, Mass, on the Re
publican ticket, Dec. 9th, his plurality being
1457 over ex-Alderman Henry Bailey, the
Citizens nominee Mr.. Weed was born IN
Bangor, Jan. 90, 1867. He graduated from
Harvard university in 1887 and from the
Boston University Law school in 1890. ne
practices law in Boston, being assoclated
with his brother, George NJ, under the hrm
name of Weed & Weed. He was elected an
alderman from Ward Z in 1899, and has
since been reelected each year, and for the
last two years has been president OF the
board.