Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-18
ALL OVER MAINE.
A Summary Of the Important Happen
ings of the Day.

Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Prescott of Au-
burn, celebrated their golden wedding
Anniversary Wednesday.
Portland observed the 5Gth anniversary
of their marriage, Wednesday.
A fire, which it is believed was
caused by spontaneous combustion
started in a work shop connected with
the residence Of M. c. Aver, Biddeford,
early Wednesday morning, and did
about $1,000 damage.
William Cash of South Portland, is
suffering from painful injuries. He
was backing a heavily loaded team,
when the wagon slipped and he was
janmed in with the shafts, and struck
50 forcibly as to break two of his ribs.
T.. Wade, the young man who stole
"a watch from an PASSPORT jeweler sew
eral weeks ago, was arrested. this week
in Houlton and taken to- Eastport for
trial. He pleaded guilty and was fined.
The watch was valued at about SIS
but its theft cost Wade about $50.
Albert Anderson who works at Mon
son slate quarry, while barring off
slate from the side of the pit. fell 40
feet. striking on his head and Shout
ders. He received serious injuries. but
il is believed he will recover in time
He is So years old. and unmarried.
Thomas Ellis, the insane paupcr
over whom there had been Il spirited
dispute as to whether Portland. Bddc-
ford or Gray should pay the bills for
his SllnnnJt 1inI 81 bn Ia nj al,
house. Tuesday At one time Ellis was
IA well known resident of Biddeford
and had "a number of relatives there.
The body of Private John p. Kelly,
late of Co. E., 9th y. S. Infantry, who
was killed i'll action at Samar in the
Philippines October 16. 1901. has ar
rived in Biddeford. having been sent
home ut the request of his sister, The
burial viii take place Sunday, when the
Spanish War Veterans and the mem
bers of Co. G. will give the remains a
military funeral.
lad aged 10. named Floyd Curtis,
belonging in Topsham, Maine. was ar
rested at the Boston boat, Portland,
Wednesday upon the complaint of the
boys father for running away from
home. Before leaving the lad took
q small sum of money belonging to
his brother and started for Portland.
He was turned over to his father who
came to the city for him.
For some time Mr.. McEdwards and
Mr. Sewall have been missing small
sums of money from the butter fac
tory at Livermore Falls. Recently
they watched at noon and caught boy
in the act Of stealing money from the
drawer. The boy was arrested and
tried before Judge Boothby. He i'm
Tlicated another boy but after sticking
firmly to his story, under rigid cross
examination confessed that the other
boy was innocent. He was sentenced
TO the reform school but allowed to go
at large so long as he behaves well.
William Cummings of Buckfield aged
about % years. was seriously and per-
haps fatally shot, Wednesday, by the
accidental discharge of a shot gun in
the hands of his brother Henry, while
the two We're hunting in the woods of
Sumner. AS they We're moving along
in single file the gun of Henry. who
vas in the rear. was discharged, the
shot entering the back of his brother.
who dropped to the ground. A doctor
was summoned who found the young
man seriously wounded, his spine be-
ing injured and one leg useless. He
was taken to the hospital at Lewiston
for treatment