Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-10-24
KITTERY TO CARIBOU.

those along the coast west of Bddeford,
experienced slight earthquake shocks Fri
day night.
Rt. Rev. Louis $. Walsh was on Thurs
day of last week at Portland duly conse-
Grated bishop OF Maine to succeed Bishop
! O'Connel.
Patents have been granted to Maine
| inventors as follows: Amos f. Gerald,
Fairfield, brick; Willard S. McKusick,
Denmark, sled-knee.
Milton Strout, thirty years old, of West
Harrington, was probably fatally injured
Monday by being shot in the head by
Arthur Coffin, Of Harrington, who mis-
took strout for deer.
George Ruff, aged nineteen, clerk at the
Bryant's pond hotel, fell upon a circular
saw at the Andrews mills in that town
last Wednesday and was instantly killed.
His body was nearly cut in two.
Benjamin F. McDole, aged thirty-five,
was mistaken for deer by William Fow-
Ter, aged eighteen, Monday, while hunt
ing near Island Falls, and instantly killed
by rifle bullet which passed through his
neck.
Matthew Kane, aged ten years, son of
Michael A. Kane, of the Hotel Willows,
Old Town, was instantly killed by the ac
cidentsl discharge of a shot gun while
hunting on the Pushaw road Sunday az
ternoon.
Albert Haskell, aged eighteen, and
Walter Yelland, aged twenty-five, were
! tipped out of a canoe and drowned in
Lake Mattanawock, near Lincoln Sunday.
Yelland leaves a wife and infant child.
Haskell was unmarried.
Fire in the Maine Central freight house
at Milford Friday night caused an esti-
mated loss of s. 500. The freight shed was
destroyed as was also 900 tons of ice be-
longing to the Mcnamara Ice Co., OF Old
Town, and about thousand dollars worth
OF lumber belonging to the Jordan Lum
Der Co., of Old Town.
The annual meetings of the stockhold-
ers OF the Maine Central and Washington
County railroads were held in Portland last
week. The directors and officers were re-
elected without change. The officers of
both companies are: Lucius futile, of
Boston, president; George F. Evans, of
Portland, vice president and general man
ager; and Henry B. Cleaves, OF Portland,
| clerk.
Edgar Dickerson, farmer and guide,
aged about forty-five years, living at
Smyrna Mills, was shot through the head
and instantly killed, while sitting in his
/ kitchen about 1 O'Clock Thursday morn
ing, after building the fire. The impression
prevails that he was murdered, and sus
picion points to "Jack" Roberts, half
| bred Mexican with whom Dickerson
had had trouble over alleged atten-
tions to his daughter, and who had made
threats against him. Roberts is now I'M
der arrest.
In the Bangor municipal court Satur-
day, c. II. Mcknight, of Springfield,
Mass, was fined 900 and costs amounting
in all to s3l4.20 for killing moose in close
time. He paid. Last week registered
guides reported that a moose had been
killed in township 7, range 8, Penobscot
county, in close time. The case was in
vestigated, and the body of moose was
found where it had been buried. Nc
Knight and his indian guide, Peter Rance,
were the only hunters in the vicinity, and
admitted killing the moose.
Article OF association have been filed
for a new railroad to be known as the Pc
nobscot Bay railroad TO run from a point
OF connection with the Maine Central in
Rockland to a point of connection with
the Maine Central and the Northern
Maine Seaport railroad in Belfast. The
length of the proposed road is thirty
miles, and the places through which it
will be run are Rockland, Rockport, Cam
den, Lincolnville, Northport and Belfast.
The amount of capital stock is $4,000 di-
vided into 1900 shares of 800 each.
"Uncle Nathan" Moore, the famous
guide and hunter OF Somerset county, is
dead at his home in Moscow, at the age of
lightweight. There is little question that
Mr.. Moore was the oldest hunter in the
State, and that ne had more game to his
credit than has any other man who ever
hunted in our woods. For more than
seventy years Mr.. Moore had tramped
through the great northern wilderness,
hunting all the big game animals which
have inhabited these woods. In the
seventy odd years that Mr.. Moore had
hunted he had killed 276 moose, over 200
caribou, over 100 bears and unnumbered
deer and other smaller animals.
At the annual meeting of the grand
lodge of Odd Fellows in Portland last
week, officers were elected as follows:
Grand master, Charles III. Morrill,, New
port; deputy grand master, James r.
Townsend, Augusta; grand warden, Ira G.
Jersey, Houlton; grand secretary, Russell
G. Dyer, Portland; grand treasurer, VIM.
E. Plummer, Portland; representative to
the sovereign lodge, AlbertlF. Smith, Ban
gor. The following officers were ap-
pointed: Grand marshal, Jefferson w.
Hawthorne, Newport; grand conductor,
George A. Palmer, Munroe; grand chap
lain, Rev. Lewis l.. Harris, Waldoboro;