Oxford Democrat., 1908-02-04
Maine News Notes.

from Portland for transatlantic port
this season than in many previous years
Two rooms of the Bates mill in Lewis
ton, employing 800 or 400 hands, about
fifth of the whole force, have gone oil
half time.
Thomas Green died at yarmouth
Thursday night from the effect of in
juries received in a runaway accident II
the paper mill yard that morning.
At the meeting of the governor ant
council last week, a pardon was refuses
to Edward A. Chase, who Is serving
life sentence for the murder of Mrs. Id
Stevens of Gardiner at Portland in 1888
| Word comes from Massachusetts, tha
Albert II. Hurd, formerly of Biddeford
is again behind the bars where he hal
spent Al of his 63 years. This time it il
horse stealing.
Five hundred and forty-seven persons
in this state have this year paid United
States liquor tax, according to th'
records in the office of the interna
revenue department for this district a
Portsmouth, N. Fl.
A we'll known native of Maine wa
Daniel G. Heath, of Boston, who died
Wednesday. Mr.. Heath was the heat
of the we'll known concern, d. G. Heath
& Co., publishers of school books.
The fame of the Ellsworth dam ha
spread beyond the ocean. Recently th'
company received cablegram from st
4 n ocly hn
to cable results of first filling of the con
crete dam.
Advance copies of the annual report o.
State Treasurer, Pascal p. Gilmore
show that the receipts during the past
year amounted to s3,3O6, 1888, and the
cash on hand Jan. l, 1907, was S597,97l
a total of $S,9O4,7O4. The expenditures
during the year amounted to So, 425 ,236
F. D. Reynolds, an Augusta building
mover, slipped under an electric car at
Gardiner Friday and one of his legs was
taken off at the knee. He was removed
to the Augusta hospital where it was
considered improbable that he could re,
cover because of his advanced age, 70
years.
On the bank of the river near Phipps-
burg Center for years an old hulk, once
fine schooner, has gradually gone to
decay, her days of usefulness being over.
The craft bears on her stern the name
"Hyue." Many people have seen the
old hulk there and wondered from
whence came the peculiar name. The
story goes that when the craft was built
the master builder was constantly calling
to his men "Hi! You" and when it came
to selecting a name for the craft she was
given the appellation above alluded to.
James L. Collins, aged IS, and AL
phonse Brodeau, As, of Bradley, were
drowned Thursday while crossing the
Penobscot River to go to their work at
the mills of the Penobscot Chemical &
Fibre Co., at Great Works. In the
severe gale and snow storm they lost
their way on the ice and walked into
open water just above the dam. Their
absence was not discovered until one of
their dinner pals was found on the ice
near the water. Collins leaves widow
and one son, and Brodeau, widow and
seven children.
A petition has been filed for receiver
for the Consolidated Steamship Co.
This is company of which the Eastern
Steamship Co., controlling the steamer
lines between Boston and Maine ports,
is constituent part. These companies
were organized by Charles W. Morse,
formerly of Bath, whose endeavors to
control the coastwise steamer business
on the Atlantic coast have got i'm into
financial difficulties. Two of the banks
with which he was connected have re-
Gently suspended, after he had resigned
from their management, and now his
whole steamship business is in trouble.
A decision of interest throughout the
state was made by Judge Cornish in the
Supreme Court at Dover Wednesday
when he ordered that a quantity of i'm
pure liquor seized from Maine Central
freight car be held under the require
ments of the pure food law. The pure
liquor seized at the same time was or
dered to be returned to the railroad COM
pany. An appeal was taken and the
case will go to the Law Court on ex-
ceptions. The liquors were valued at
about 81, 200 and about one-third, includ-
ing practically all the whskey, rum and
cocktails, was impure. The pure liquor
consisted of beer, ale, etc.
At present there is but one breeding
place of the elder duck in the United
States, that is Old Mans Island, situated
in the town of Cutler in Maine. 1t is
one and one-half miles east of the Cross
Island Life Saving Station and was leas-
ed by the state with the understanding
that it was to he used for the protection,
propagation and preservation of all wild
birds. Captain Fred Small, who is con-
nected with the life saving station, has
also been appointed warden to look
after these birds. The state through
the efforts of the Audubon society who
are advocating their cause is trying to
preserve three species of wild fowl, the
elder duck, the putin and laughing gulls
from determination in Maine. Their
eggs are large and very palatable and
highly priced by fishermen for food.
Those interested are asking the CO.
operation of gunners and fishermen to
preserve the birds.
The second big fire which Portland
had suffered within forty-eight hours
broke out Sunday night, Jan. 26, in the
wholesale district. The cause is not
even surmised, but when discovered the
fire had made great progress in the build
ing occupied by Milliken, Cousens & Co.
on the corner of Middle and Market
Streets. The building was doomed from
the first, but after few hours Of hard
work it was thought to be under control
when the fire wall separating that build
ing from the one occupied byA. F. Cox
& Son, wholesale shoe dealers, collapsed,
and the fire spread through that also.
Other firms suffered loss by smoke, and
for a time conhagration was threaten
ed. Help was summoned from num-
Der of cities, and there we're numerous
responses, but the fire was under control
before part of them arrived. The to-
tai loss is somewhere in the vicinity OF
$500, 900, fairly well insured. This
makes Portland's fire loss in three days
about million and half.
Death of Hon. Eben E. Rand.
Hon. Eben E. Rand, formerly we'll
known in Oxford County, died at his
home at Curtis Corner, in the town OF
Leeds, Thursday, Jan. 30. Mr.. Rand
was born in Lewiston, April 27, 1S4l.
and later moved to Lisbon. For several
years he was teacher in that vicinity,
and later was in trade at Lisbon.
In 1870 he moved to Locke's Mills and
engaged in trade there. He filled
several town offices, and was an i'm
portant figure in the Republican party
OF Oxford County. In 1878 and again in