Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-06-10
STATE NEWS.
Gov. Hill has appointed John r. Melon
aid, OF Madison, steamboat inspector for
term OF five years.

O teIiu VI uN6 years.
George F. Evans, vice president and
general manager OF the Maine Central
railroad, returned from several weeks
abroad on the Dominion line steamer
New England" which arrived at Boston
last Friday. He was accompanied by
Mrs. Evans and Miss Evans.
Articles OF incorporation of the Stand
ard Ice Co. have been filed at the office of
the secretary of state at Augusta. The
capital stock is s10,O00,000. The incor-
porators were all Portland men, Willard
W. Baldwin, Walter A. Cashier, j. HI.
Strange, A. F. Conant aud Kearl Holman
This is the concern formed to fight the
American Ice Co., known as the trust.
J. e. Hill, aged forty years, was burned
to death in a fire which destroyed his
home attYork, early last Wednesday, and
his wife and two children barely escaped
a similar fate by rushing through the
smoke In their night clothing. Hill, 1t
seems, had been drinking heavily, and as
the fire started in his room on the first
floor 1t WAS supposed 1t originated from a
spark dropped from his pipe while smok-
ing in bed.
The James Murchie Sons Co. recently
organized under the Maine corporation
laws, is something unique In these days of
high capitalization in that of, its $500 900
capital stock, S459, 800 is paid in. The
incorporators are Charles F. Murchie, OF
New York city, John G. Murchie, the
estate of James Murchie, William A.
Murchie, James F. Murchie and Henry F.
Murchie, of Calais. The company is
organized for the purpose OF dealing in
lum Der.
The amateur gardeners have been guilty
of amusing breaks, says the Belfast Jour
nal. One attempted to put top dressing
OF phosphate on a nasturtium bed, but
used Portland cement instead. When
watered it made covering as hard as
rock but the coating could be removed
while the same amount OF phosphate
would have killed the seeds. The other
gardener watered a row of sweet peas
nearly two weeks, only to find that
nothing was planted where he had been
watering, the sweet peas coming up in
row about foot away.
The complimentary banquet rendered
Senator Frye last Thursday evening by
the Lewiston board OF trade was an un-
qualified success. Senator Frye paid
| fitting tribute to the boards of trade and
oranges in the State, saying that they
were the two agencies responsible for the
| raising OF the farmers to a higher plane
OF living and for the prosperity OF the
State. He spoke OF Names representa-
ton in the 56th Congress, of its industries
and growth. Ex-Mayor McGillicuddy
was the only other speaker. He was
called upon at the suggestion OF Senator
Frye. A ball was held after the banquet.
AL. league, OF Livermore Falls, shot
and killed his wife at the Blakesee lake
camps, fifteen miles into the woods
north of Eustis, last Monday. Jealousy
appears to have been the cause of the
trsgedy. league had forbidden his wife
| to go into the camps to work, but she
disobeyed, it is understood, and ran away
from home. league followed her into
the woods. He was suffering from cancer
of the stomach, and his death was only
question OF weeks. 1t Is said that he had
expressed a wish that his wife might not
outlive him. Their two children, six and
ten years old, were with Mrs. league, and
witnessed the shooting.
The annual campmeeting OF the Penob-
scot spiritual temple association will be
held this season during the entire month
OF August at Verona park. Among
the speakers will be Mrs. Katie M.
Ham, HaverhilI, Mass; James 8. Scar
lett, Cambridgeport, Mass; j. Frank
Baxter, Chelsea, Mass, and Edgar
w. Emerson, Manchester, N. H., who will
be heard in rotation upon the several
Sundays during the month. The instru-
mental music viii be furnished by Prof.
f. NJ. Davis and wife, of the Copley square
school OF music, Boston. The vocal
music will be directed by Miss Lewis, OF
known actor and vocalist, Marshall
Farnum.
The secretary OF the treasury has for
warded to Capt. w. ii. Plummer, now at
mHDrlQRe, ROlu llie-SdNlhS houai
awarded to him under act OF Congress in
recognition of his heroic conduct in
saving large number OF persons from
drowning during the memorable hurri-
cane of September s, 1900, at Galveston,
Texas. Plummer, it is stated, rescued
upwards of $50 men, women and chill
dren. In closing his letter which
accompanied the medal the secretary says:
at would be difficult to exaggerate the
merits OF your service. You acted entirely
OF your own volition, under no compul-
sion from any source except your own
commanding sense Of humanity, you neg
lected and lost all your own property and
gave up the work OF rescue only when
your boat was so disabled that you were
compelled to abandon it and swim to
place OF refuge. Your conduct was OF the
highest order and deserved the higher rec
ignition"