Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-08-05
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Lumber Co. ct Auburn Monday caused
$4,000 damage.
Leonard Blake, aged twenty four, Of
Denmark, was drowned in Moose pond
near that town Monday, by the capsizing
of Q canoe.
Monday, Aug. II, will be Maine woman
suffrage association day at the twenty
eighth annual session of the Chautauqua
assembly at Old Orchard.
Fire Thursday night in the our-story
brick building at 223 Commercial street,
Portland. occupied by the F. II. Little Oil
Co., caused $23,50o damage.
During severe electrical storm last
Wednesday night, the house and barn of
Stillman Wilson, in Brewer, were struck
by lightning and burned. Loss $4,000.
James Weeks, OF Madison, fifty-five
years of age, fell from the roof of barn
which he was shingling last Wednesday,
and broke his neck, causing instant death.
Mrs. Jennie Tomlinson, wife OF Enoch
Tomlinson, of Waverley, Mass, was
drowned in the lake at Jefferson last
Thursday, while bathing Mr.. and Mrs.
Tomlinson were visiting Mrs. Tomlinson' S
mother, Mrs. Frank Hall.
Announcement was made at the State
house Friday that the total cost OF the en-
forcement commission, created by the
legislature Of 1905, from the beginning of
this year to the last day Of July, is SIS 249. 80
while the fines and fees collected in the
same period amount to $a,272.0S, which
makes the net cost Of the commission thus
far this year, $13,977.SS.
Wednesday night, for the second time
this summer, the large wooden block owned
by J.. F. Boothby and F. H. White, in
damage will amount to over 81 900. G..
NJ. Fogg, harness dealer; A. H. Mears,
confectioner; A. L. Durgin, restaurant
keeper; Eli Clark, Mrs. E. A. Shelton and
the owners OF the block, are the heaviest
losers.
A cyclonic storm visited sections of
Somerset and Kennebec counties Friday.
At South Smithfield the farm buildings
of Addison Colwell, consisting of house,
ell, stable and barn, were demolished.
The roof OF church at Nye's Corner was
torn OF. Many small buildings were
wrecked, and several large buildings were
moved from their foundation. At Benton
the barn of Leroy Bowman was struck by
lightning and burned.
Miss Gertrude Gilbert, aged nineteen
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proprietor Of West Outlet camps, Kineo,
wasstruck and instantly killed by light
ming during a storm which passed over
the camps last Wednesday. The young
woman went into the shelter Of bunga
low when the storm came up, and lay
down on. a couch. The bolt struck the
woman without leaving mark in any
part of the bungalow. An aunt, Miss
Alice Coombs, sitting three feet from Miss
Gilbert, felt no effects Of the lightning.
John l.. Crosby, for twenty years city
treasurer OF Bangor, died Friday after an
illness of several months. For the past
fifteen years he had been treasurer of the
Bangor savings bank. He was q member
Of the finance committee of the board of
overseers OF Bowdoin college, treasurer OF
Bangor theological seminary and of the
Bangor public library, and was a member
Of the board Of trustees Of the Eastern
Maine general hospital and Bangor chill.
dren's home. From 1881 to 1898 he was
treasurer of the Maine missionary society
The body of James Scott, OF Livermore
Falls, who had been missing since early
last winter. was found Friday under the
floor of a sheep pen on Herbert White
more's farm four miles from Livern,ore
Falls. There was every indication of
murder. The hands were tied behind,
and there was rope around the neck and
a gag in the mouth. The coroner's jury
prom ounced it murder at the hands of
some person unknown. Nicholas None,
a Greek peddler, of Lewiston, who is
known to have had dealings with Scott