Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-07-26
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Inc boarding. mouse OF Joseph Mishone,
at Lincoln, was burned Thursday. Loss
5000.
Patent has been granted to Arthur r.
Rogers, Of Jonesport, for fish handling
apparatus.
The farm buildings OF d. e. Cain, at
Clinton, were burned Saturday. Loss,
1850; insurance, q 800.
Mrs. Luke Normand, OF Lewiston, aged
thirty-two years, was burned to death by
the explosion OF an oil stove last Wednes-
day. 81
The government ngs begun condemna-
tion proceedings TO secure land at Calais
on which a new custom house and post
Office will be erected.
The farm buildings OF willard e. Little
field, OF Auburn, were burned Sunday
morning with contents, including five
horses and COW. Loss, 81 1000.
Edward Moore, aged sixty-seven years,
a prominent business man of Calais, drop
ped dead at Grand Manan, Monday, July
II. He had been for forty years part
ner in the dry goods firm OF William
Woods 4 Co., Calais.
At Littlehelds mills, near Alfred,
Tuesday OF last week, fire destroyed the
outbuildings of Alonzo Henderson, and
the dwellings OF John w. Kicker, Mrs.
Elizabeth Dunbar and A. w. johnson,
and the barn OF Mrs. Jesse Hanscomb.
Loss, $500.
Fire Sunday morning at Skowhegan
destroyed the carriage repositories of l..
w. Chase and F. r. Moore, with large part
of contents, the blacksmith shop OF John
Delano, two stables and shed, and badly
damaged a four-story brick block owned
by r. w. Brown. Total loss, s17,s75;
insurance, s11, 400.
The First Maine heavy artillery associ-
alton will hold its twenty reunion
at HRmpden ON Thursday, August "a.
The fare on the Maine Central and Wash
ington County railroads will be ~, cents
per mile in each direction to Bangor and
return; and on the Bangor s. Aroostook
railroad the rate will be one full fare for
the round trip.
The entire plant of the Eagle Lake Mills
Co. at Eagle Lake, ON the line OF the Ban
gor & Aroostook railroad, was burned
Friday. The loss was total, together with
1900 feet Of long lumber, 10000 shin
giles, lot Of clapboards and thirteen cars
that were loading at the mill. The plant
consisted of the main mill about 201x60
feet, and the shingle mill about 50x25 feet.
The mill had a capacity OF about $1,000
long lumber, 100000 shingles, 5000 laths
per day. The loss is estimated at near
100000 The plant was well insured.
At Kittery navy yard by the slight
movement of an electric switch Sa turday
afternoon, spark was generated which
successfully discharged forty-tive tons OF
dynamite and destroyed three-acre
ledge that had menaced navigation in the
| Piscataqua river. The setting-off Of this
enormous amount of explosive, said to
have been the greatest ever handled at one
time in this country, II not in the world,
was attended by no accident. II was de-
clared a "complete success" both by the
contractors who had carried ON the under
taking and by United States officials who
| have supervised the work. The event was
the climax of three years work which in
volved the expenditure OF nearly three
quarters OF million dollars, and as a re-
suit of it the new government dry dock at
the navy yard is given an approach of
sufficient width and depth to permit the
safe passage of the largest vessel afioat.
A conference was held last week at the
State department of agriculture between
Commissioner Gilman and Hon. f. Il.
Ring, commissioner of forestry, upon
the matter of the brown-tail moth. 1t
was decided that Mr.. Ring and Mr.
Hutchings should go to Boston to study
the habits of the moths and what they
are doing in Massachusetts,, in order that on
their return they may be able to warn the
people of Maine and tell how best to fight
the pest. Mr.. Hutchings, who was APP
pointed by the State to act under Mr..
Gilman, the commissioner of agriculture,
in the work of DISCRIMINATING the brown
tail moth, has been in Portland recently.
He found very few brown-tail moths, but
did find many tussock moths now in the
caterpillar stage. These moths have been
increasing at rapid rate during the last
few years, and are nearly as destructive to
shade and fruit trees as are the brown
tail variety.
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