Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-05-13
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The democrats of the fourth district
have nominated George NJ. Hanson, of
Calais, for representative to Congress.
Alfred NJ. Cowen, one OF the overseers of
the poor of Bangor, and long prominent in
grange affairs, died Friday, aged sixty
seven years.
Gen. Joseph s. Smith, OF Bangor, has
been appointed by Congress as member
OF the board of managers OF the national
homes for disabled volunteer soldiers.
The eighty-eighth annual catalogue of
Colby college has just been issued. The
list of members of the faculty contains
two new names, Ellis Earle Lawton, Phi.
D., associate professor of physics and as
B., instructor in gymnastic. The sum-
mary shows faculty of seventeen and
total of 239 students.
Nicholas Wallace. tried in the supreme
court for Washington county at Calais for
the murder of Andrew Higgins, the
Baileyville farmer, was found guilty and
sentenced by Chief Justice Emery to life
imprisonment. Attorney General Han
nibal E. Hamlin summed up the evidence
for the State and Attorney R. ]. Nc
Carlyle, of Calais, for the respondent.
Fred Tucker, of Rumford Falls, was
sentenced to seventy-fve days at hard
labor in the county Jail at Auburn, by
Justice Savage, Saturday, for violating an
injunction restraining him from allowing
a building which he owns at Rumford
Falls to be used as resort where intox-
icating liquors are sold or dispensed il
legally. The case is unique in that it is
the first time in the history Of this State
that the court has been asked to sentence
a man for violating an injunction OF this
kind.
By the will of the late Char les E. Phil
lips, Of Bangor, who died recently, Ban
gor charitable institutions will receive
large requests. To Lillian l.. Clarry, of
Bangor, is given his residence and all eff
fects, three shares OF NJ. c. R. r. stock
and $4,000 in cash or bonds as she pleases;
also all real estate. The Home for Aged
Women and the Children's Home are
given $4,000 each, provision being made
so that each institution will get this sum
net. The Eastern Maine general hospital
gets all the residue of the estate, said to
amount to nearly $4,000.
The three masted schooner Penobscot,
OF Islesboro, went ashore on Two Bush
island Monday and became total loss.
Captain Pendleton and the five men COM
posing the crew abandoned the craft in q
yawl and were picked up by the tug Fred
erick w. Wilson and landed in Rockland.
While getting away from the schooner
when wave drove the small boat against
the vessels side. 1t is feared that he is
hurt internally. The Penobscot was
owned by Pendleton Brothers, Of Isles
boro, and was valued at about $4,000.
She was uninsured. The schooner left
Rockland for Long Cove, st. George,
where she was to load paving stones for
New York. When near Two Bush island
| she misstayed twice. Capt. Pendleton
tried to reef her, but the wheel rope broke
and the schooner vas blown on the rocks.
The life saving crew at Whitehead went
out to the vessel and the tug Frederick w.
Wilson, after putting the rescued men
ashore, returned to the wreck, intending
to assist in stripping it, but arrived just
in time to see the schooner roll over and
disappear under the breakers. The Pc
nobscot was built in Belfast in 1882. She
had gross tonnage of 35s.