Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-07-17
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Patents have been granted to Maine in
ventors as follows: Harry E. Bacon,
Meadowview, tack handling implement;
Woodbury. X. Dana, Westbro picker
nozzle for pneumatic cotton picking ma
chimes.
Sixteen deputy enforcement commits
sioners are at work throughout the State
under the Sturgis law. These deputies
have thus far made raids in four counties
-Androscoggin, Sagadahoc, Knox and
Somerset.
Samuel H. Powell. for about thirty years
principal of the Orono high school, died
suddenly Of heart disease Saturday even
ing. Mr.. Powell resigned as principal Of
the school five years ago on account OF
poor health.
The Boothbay fishing schooner Nathalie
B. Nckerson was run down and sunk by
the ocean steamship Romaine in fog of
Nantucket lightship last Friday morning.
Three Of the schooner's crew OF eighteen
were drowned. They were William Win
chester, Digby, N. s.; Everett Greenleaf
and Elwell Greenleaf, both OF Boothbay
Harbor.
Frank A. Adams, city clerk OF Bangor,
was found dead in his office in the city
hall Friday morning. Death is supposed
to have been due to the bursting OF q
blood vessel in the brain. At Ito q. M,
Mrs. Adams telephoned to city hall, ask
ing for her husband, saying that he had
not returned home, and that she was wor-
ried about him. The Waterman went to
the Office, and found Mr.. Adams dead.
Mr.. Adams was about forty-three years
old. He leaves wife and one son. He
was clerk of the Bangor municipal court
fourteen years.
| Elmer E. Libbey, OF Charleston, q
farmer, was knocked down and rendered
insensible in his own barn about o'clock
| Thursday morning and robbed OF 500.
His assailant escaped. Mr.. Libbey was
attracted to his barn by a noise, and went
out to investigate. As he stepped from
the stable into the barn, he was struck
over the head with a baseball bat and rem
dered unconscious, remaining so until
O'Clock when he was found by the hired
woman. The money, which he had placed
in his trousers pocket, was gone. The
baseball bat was found some distance from
the barn in the field near some tracks
leading away from the barn.
The work Of preserving the regimental
rolls at the state-house is now about half
done. These old Civil war rolls were not
| rolls at all, but were folded sheets of paper
on which the records OF the men were
! written, on both sides. Much handling
has caused most OF them to break, and a
large number are in bad condition. The
rolls are pasted with q transparent force
| OF architects tracing cloth, SO that one
side is read direct, and the other through
| the tracing cloth. In all instances the
| tracing paper is found sufficiently trans
parent for the purposes OF reading the roll.
They are bound into immense books and
kept fiat in cabinet built for the purpose.
The new union station at Bangor will lie
formally opened July %. Plans have
been formulated for a reception and ban
| quet to be held by the board of trade in
the new building on the night of the open
ing. The new station is complete and has
| been occupied for some time as way sta
ton in place Of the old Exchange street
depot which was removed to make way
for improvements, but the completion of
the baggage and express building has been
dragging. Although there is an immense
amount of work yet to be done, it is ex
pected that much of this will be COM
pleted before the formal opening. On and
after July % it is expected that all trains
will arrive and depart from the new sta
ton. The old western station will be torn
down to make way for yard-room.
Action has been brought against num-
Der of alewive fishermen at East Machias
by the town to recover fee of ten cents
for every barrel of alewives taken during
the present season. This is one of the
most peculiar actions which has ever been
brought before Maine court. AT the
annual town meeting the board of select
men were chosen fish committee and in
structed to collect a fee of ten cents per
barrel, in excess of one barrel, from all
the fishermen on the river within the
town limits. Some of the fishermen paid
the fees, while Others refused on the
ground that, while the town has the say
as to who shall have fishing privilege,
the occupant must pay rent to the East
Machias Lumber Co., which owns all the
land on both sides of the river where the
fishing is done. The town contends that
this does not alter the fact that it con-
trolls the fisheries, and that in refusing to
pay the fee the fishermen have resisted the
fish committee in the performance of its
duties.