Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-29
Maine Gossip
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J WAN: Gossip {
The Third District Republicans meet
today at Waterville.
Tuesdays rain was the kind that
really brings forth the mayfoWers.
Two important State gatherings next
week are the Masonic Grand bodies at
Portland and the Congregationalists
at Bangor
The amateur burglars of the Deering
section of Portland are holding a grand
spring carnival t.,
According to those who keep the
official records last Sunday was the
warmest April day Maine has ever
known.
The first bathers of the season VEN
tured into the Old Orchard surf last
Sunday.
Mr.. Swasey maintains d very COM
Portable lead in the fluctuations of the
Second District delegates.
There is material for Holman Day
poem in the death of those foolhardy
drivers who tried to run the rapids
of the Piscataquis at Milo.
1t is not on record that there has
been more surprised woman in Maine
this spring than the wife of the Bow
doin professor when she came home
the other evening and found her hus-
band taking care of a baby that had
been left at the door.
From a reliable source it is learned
that in the near future gigantic new
enterprise will be started in Old
Town. A group of capitalists have
been in the city for the last few days,
looking for a site on which to erect a
building for a cotton mill. The prime
mover in the enterprise has had much
experience in the cotton manufacturing
business in the South and it is his be-
lief that in the future the greater pOr-
ton of the finer grades of cotton is to
be manufactured in the East. The mill
will have about 1000 spindles and will
employ upwards of 500 men. The in
stallation of such plant in the city
would be a great benefit to Old Town
and it would be welcomed by all.
The Fort Fairfield Review reports
the following sensational suicide: Louis
Descheness broncho got risky the
him in single rig near A. a. Hocken-
hulrs mill. and started for the North
pole. He soon cleared himself from
Louis. the wagon, the harness and such
little impediments, and SCARED over a
good part of Aroostook county On the
wings of the wind--tU Caribou, down
through Green Ridge. over Hopkins
Brothers and Simeon Nightingale
farms, up near Limestone, and all
around with men and boys after him
offering him oats, gold-plated hay and
anything his heart might desire. But
with Mr.. Bronchc it was clear case of
Give me liberty or give me death:
for he finally ran onto the bluff over
looking MIR. Hockenhull's mill pond.
hastily made his will, then plunged
downward into the icy waterS-"with
bubbling groan. without: a grave, I'M
knelled, unCoffined and unknown
not quite however, for he will long be
known as one of the "tarnalest" bron-
chos that ever committed suicide to
escape the vile dominion of man. Mr..
Deschenes fished him up and intends
to start glue factory.
Last week the steamer City of Key
West, which has for several years been
hauled up in New York, was towed to
Perth Amboy to the "graveyard' where
she will be stripped and left to Idle"
and it wont take long for her to drop
to pieces. Her name has been taken
from the port list of New York and
she is practically dead" That will
be the last trip the famous Old boat
which as the City of Richmond once
piled the Penobscot and Eastern Maine
waters The City of Richmond was
1882 when the Mt Desert branch of
the Maine Central was opened and the
steamboat line purchased by that
corporation The Portland and Bangor
service was then discontinued, the
Richmond put on the down east route,
where she was in service until 1892
when she was replaced by the Frank
Jones. The Richmond was sold to
New London parties and was used as
an excursion boat for several seasons
and then went South. A short time
before the Spanish war she was caught
filibustering and seized by the United
States government. Her last owners
were the Joy line. but she has not been
in service for number of years. AS
stated above. she is now known as the
City of Key West.