Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-10-18
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Maurice M. Fuller, of Wilton, chairman
of the democratic town committee and a
prominent business man, died Thursday,
aged forty years.
Rev. Frank w. SANFORD, of Shiloh, was
sentenced in the supreme court Friday to
pay fine of 500 and costs on the charge
of cruelty to his son.
The farm buildings of Mrs. Amanda
Badershall, in Orrington, were burned
Sunday night. About forty hens were
burned. The loss is $1,000; no insurance.
The boat building establishment of
Davidson Brothers at Ferry Point, Calais,
was burned Thursday night, together
several racing shells and a number of I'M
finished boats. Many small racing yachts
and shells in New England waters were
built at Ferry Point.
The first railroad train over the North
ern Maine Seaport railroad, entered
Frankfort last Wednesday morning, and
was the occasion of a general celebration.
The railroad from Lagrange to Stockton is
now completed except two small gaps and
some ballasting. The road will be open
for business within few weeks.
Patents have been granted to Maine in
ventors as follows: Fred w. Adams, Au-
burn, extension stage bracket; Valentin
Chisholm, Rockland, signal system; Will
liam G. Edgecomb, Standish, wreck indi-
eating buoy; Benjamin F. Foss, Fairfield,
ball bearing hinge; George N. Head, Lew
iston, rope-fastener; Mark Fl. Silk, Bar
Harbor, dish drainer.
Miss Cornelia NJ. Dow, daughter OF the
late Neal Dow, and an active worker in
the fields OF charity, philanthropy and
reform, died at her home in Portland
Thursday, aged sixty-three years. She
had held various offices in the State and
national w. c. 7. U. and the Woman
Christian association as well as many pri-
vate charitable and reform associations.
The body of John A. Starrett, who has
been missing from his home in Bangor
since Monday of last week, was found
Saturday afternoon on the shore of the
Penobscot river near Hampden. Starrett
was employed by the Maine Central rail-
road as conductor, but few months ago
was obliged to ask for lay-off because of
ill health. Death is attributed to acct
dental drowning. Starrett was fifty-three
years old.
Joseph Denaco, of Brownville, was shot
last Thursday, the bullet passing through
his body. He died Saturday night. Re-
ports of the shooting are COLLECTING.
One report says he was mistaken for a
deer and shot, another that he was pass
ing along highway when struck by a
stray bullet, and still another is to the effect
that the shooting took place in an open
field, where Denaco saw the man raise his
rifle and shouted at him not to shoot.
The Maine conference of Unitarian
churches will be held with the Unitarian
society, Augusta, Thursday and Friday,
Oct. 10 and 20. On Thursday evening q
reception will be rendered to the delegates
at the church parlors. On Friday sessions
of the conference win be held, both fore
noon and afternoon, and on Friday even
ing the sermon will be given by Rev.
Samuel A. Eliot, ID. D., of Boston, presi
dent of the American Unitarian associa-
ton.
Thirty hours after young Benjamin
Kimball, a farm hand, had fallen uncon-
scious from his milk wagon Tuesday fore
noon, with a bullet through the head,
Henry Douglass, who had been discharged
from the farm, confessed to the officers
that he lay in wait for the boy and fired at
him through hole in the wall. He said
that he shot Kimball so that he might lay
him up for few weeks and get the job
at the farm. Douglass is held under
s, 900 bonds to await the outcome of Kim
balls injuries. The wounded boy is in a
critical condition.