Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-12-04

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girl, especially by the young people of
the lower village. At that time she
lived in the family of the late Giles
Loring, Esq. noted shipbuilder of
Yarmouth and was known as Nellie M.
Loring. She was a bright pretty girl
and a general taVorite with her young
friends. She attended school in dis
! II let No. 3 and was a brilliant scholar.
On leaving Yarmouth she went to
Portland where she lived with Mrs.
Thoits, a former resident of Yarmouth.
She became greatly interested in anna
teur theatricals and later went on the
stage and became famous as an ac-
tress and playwright.
1T looks as if it were to be hard
winter on the outer coast and islands
this year." says Bar Harbor CORES
rondent, and the fishermen are facing
the prospect of nard times. The fishing
season during the summer and fall
months has not been as prosperous as
usual, the hauls being lower than be-
fore, and the prices reaching low
mark. Not lorg ago the price of lob
STEERS reached the lowest point in
number of years. The fishermen, or at
least large percentage of them, do not
believe in the present lobster law, and
While they recognize that it protects
the lobster, claim that it deprives them
Of making a livelihood, especially the
law that makes close time in the
winter in Hancock county. This pro-
vision the fishermen are anxious to
have repealed. They say that If the
state continues, there will be many
paupers on the outer islands, Where
most of them have none. 1t is diff
cult question to settle and one that Is a
hard one to work out"
Here is gruesome story from Ban
gor. Nov. % human hand was found
in a Sanford street dump. From the
appearance of the member, It had been
in alcohol for some time. The police
turned the grucsome find over to Cor
oner Finnigan, who was notified by 3
physician that the hand had been
thrown away with some ashes and 9th
er refuse. The hand, the physician said
had been amputated by him, about ii
years ago and had been kept as a sort
of souvenir Edwin G. Henderson of
Valley Avenue, who had read the de-
scripton of the hand called at police
headquarters Monday morning and an
1ounced that the hand was his and
that he desired it returned Mr.. Hen
derson says that it was about nine
years ago, While employed by the Ban
gor Ice Co. huge cake of ice fell upon
the second finger of his right hand.
,ni. ;,,n no
PEELED to have the finger amputatcd
Later he lost the entire little finger and
tops of the other two the thumb alone
remaining intact. Eventually the blood
poisoning caused the amputation of his
hand. 1t was by the popularity Of the
member that Mr.. Henderson was able
to Identify it, The hand had been
buried in Mt. Hope cemetery by Cor
oner Finnigan but it will be returned to
Mr.. Henderson, who will place it in his
saniily lot.
L. F Giles. of Ellsworth, was hunt
ing last week in the vicinity of Junk
Bottle heath on township IA, and
bought he would investigate that bot
tomless pit about which The Ellis
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respondent wrote q few weeks ago. Mr.
Giles admits that he was somewhat
skeptical in regard to the story until
he visited the spot. He found not only
the remains of the three moose men
toned by the West Franklin cores
pondent-tWo bulls and a cow-but he
'Ound also the hoof of calf moose,
which was all that showed above the
surface of the mre in which the I'M
i rtunate animal had been caught. All
these animals, Mr.. Giles thinks from
the condition of the bodies, must nave
2Gen caught in the mire during last
summer or the early fall. Ii this death
trap has caught four victims in one
season, Mr.. Giles is curious to know
how many bones are at the bottom of
,he pit. The mire is only about TWEEN
tyfve feet long ana eight feet wide at
the widest part. At one place it is only
four feet wide, and Mr.. Giles stepped
across it. The surface of the mire is
about q foot below the surrounding
heath and for a foot or two back from
the hole the bushes are cleared away
as if the unfortunate animals caught
in the relentless mud. had eaten as
ar as they could reach. and then SLOW