Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-11-25
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While returning from the woods, where
he had been chopping wood, Monday,
Clarence Hayford, of Wayne, aged fifty
three, fell, the fall causing the discharge
of gun he was carrying. The charge en-
tered his neck killing him instantly.
A. j. Munson, aged sixty-five years,
fagman at the B. & A. crossing between
the passenger and freight station at
Presque Isle, was run over and killed by
an engine used in the yard in making up
trains Tuesday, Nov. IL.
By the provisions Of the will of the late
Anna A. Burnet, of Hilton, N. j., $4,000
is bequeathed to Bangor theological semi
nary. Miss Burnet was lifelong friend
of the President Beach's family, and took
great interest in the work of the SEMI
nary.
James Hutchins, eighty years of age,
who lived alone in a small house about
five miles from York village, was burned
to death Saturday night in his home.
Patents have been granted to Maine in
yentors as follows: w. II. Chapman,
Portland, means for removing static cleo
tricity; G. Naylor, Lewiston, filling stop
motion.
Col. Lucius H. Kendall, aged fifty five,
prominent citizen of Biddetord and we'll
known in business circles throughout the
State, died Thursday, of Bright's disease.
Col. Kendall was for thirty-one years
member of the national guard Of Maine,
having joined the LIST regiment in 1876,
and retired in 1907. He held the Office of
colonel eighteen years.
On Monday of last week young
man by the name Of Ernest Nelson
was found dead in the woods about
five miles from the camps Of the G. N. P.
Co. on the south branch of the Penobscot.
He left camp Sunday morning to go into
the woods hunting, and did not return at
night. The foreman sent out q searching
party, and Monday morning the young
man was found about five miles from the
camp.
At meeting OF the legislative commit
| tee of the Maine Sportsmen's Fish and
Game association Thursday evening, res
olution was presented by Col. E. c. Far
ington, secretary Of the association, that
law be recommended that will prohibit
the carrying of firearms into the woods in
close time, so far as is consistent with the
present fish and game laws.
The body of Wallace Carter, of Ashland,
aged seventeen. years, who started out
Sunday, Nov. Is, TO spend the day at the
camp of j. II. Dolstridge, three miles from
Hayford, was found Wednesday by the
searching party, which at times mum bered
200 men and boys. There were no signs
Of violence and Carter probably died from
exhaustion and cold after losing his way.
Measurements completed Thursday
showed that the six-masted schooner
Edward B. Winslow, launched at Bath
this week, is the largest wooden schooner
in the world. She is 3iS.4 feet long, SO
feet beam and % feet deep, her gross ton
mage being 3,42i. Her gross tonnage ex-
ceeds that of the Eleanor A. Percy by
twenty-three tons, RELOCATING the Percy
to second position as to size.
A horse owned by Charles Henderson, OF
Readfeld, was injured in peculiar
manner last week. While reaching out
of It's stall for hay, the horse knocked
down a hinged board in such way that
its tongue was caught. The more the
horse tried to free its tongue by pulling
the harder the board pinched. In its
struggles the horse drew its tongue out by
the roots, and when found. was SO ex-
hausted from loss Of blood that it had ts
be killed.
Linwood, the ten-year-oid son of Ed
ward Edes, of Burlington, was drowned il
the stream near Grand Falls Thursday
The boy went into Morrson's camp, about
ten miles from Burlington, to visit hi