The Republican journal., 1909-09-02
traverse jurors for the September term of the
supreme judicial court.

We are indebted to some friend in New York
for the Warheit, a Hebrew newspaper printed
in New York. If the sender will kindly send the
key to the alphabet we will endeavor to make
out the article marked.
Albert A. Cunningham of Lowell, Mass,
who has been spending several weeks in Cas-
tine, was in town Saturday, the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. John B. Black on Clark street. He
returned home by boat the same day.
Sch. Prescott Palmer Capt Carlisle, arrived
Sunday from Newport News with 4,378 tons
of coal to the Penobscot Coal Co. at Mack's
Point. The schooner was placed under the
stages at the dock Monday morning.
James H. Duncan, civil engineer, who has
been in the employ of the Great Northern
Paper Co. in Northern Maine during the sum-
mer, arrived home Friday, accompanied by
Charles C. Havener who has been employed
with him.
District Deputy Percy Clark, installed the
officers of Penobscot Lodge, K. of P, Monday
night August 23rd. The following officers were
installed: c. c., H. E. Merrithew; v. c., E. W.
Fletcher; P, E. L. Keene; M. of w., W.. P. Rich;
M. of A., L. W. Merrithew; l. G., C. G. Roberts;
o. G., Geo. Sweetser.
There will be supper in Union Hall Thurs
day, September 9th, by the ladies of the NJ E.
church, to be followed by concert in the
evening. Selections will be given by vocalists
from Belfast and by local talent. There will
be pleasing recitations and Mrs. W. H. Goodell,
our well known whistler will assist The pro-
gram will be given next week.
Upon payment into court of bonds of the
National railways of Mexico, valued at $500,
held by Charles J. German and claimed by Mrs.
Alexine L. Hadlock, Judge Dana of the superior
court has dissolved an injunction issued some
days ago to Mrs .Hadlock, which restrained
German from having access to private box in
the vaults of the Bay State trust company.
The court declined to dissolve an injunction
restraining German from disposing of mort
gage on house in Roxbury-Boston Globe.
Capt. R. T. Lewis of Duluth, Mich, who was
in town recently, the guest of Mr.. and Mrs ].
A. McDougall on Elm street, was formerly
well-known deep-water ship master, native
of Brunswick Me-, and commanded for several
years the ship Kit Carson in the foreign trade,
where he formed the acquaintance of several
deep-water ship masters of Searsport. He re-
tired from the sea some 25 years ago and
went to Duluth, where he has since been en-
gagged in the real estate and insurance bust
ness.
The ship Aryan. built in Phippsburg, Me-, in
1893, by C. V. Minot & Co., of 2123 tons, and the
last ship built of wood in the United States,'
h.. IL;
under the American flag and built of wood.
now on the passage from Philadelphia to San
Francisco, coal laden, is commanded by Capt
Albert T. Whittier of Searsport, and the sole
owner of the ship is Eugene P. Carver of Bos-
ton, the wel-known marine lawyer, who is
also native of Searsport Capt. Whittier is
the only Searsport commander of a full-rigged
ship now float,-a striking contrast to the
year 1885, when Sc full-rigged ships, or one
tenth of all sailing under the American flag
were commanded by Seaport captains.
Col. A. M. Mosman, who was last week ap-
pointed assistant sergeant at arms at the State
House in Boston, at salary of $1,000 year,
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Moses Mosman and
was born in Searsport in the early fifties. His
fathers house was burned Jan. H. 1855, and it
was the first fire in which the old Penobscot
fire engine was brought into use, she having
been bought in the fall of 1854 from the HUI
nneman Co., builders of fire engines in Boston
1t was a bitter cold day and strong north
west wind was blowing. The house was total
ly destroyed, the company having barely hose
enough to reach the fire. Mr.. Mosman later
moved to Massachusetts, where he died many
years ago. Col. Mosman now resides in Hud-
son. Another incident of that day was the
sailing of the new ship Charter Oak, command
ed by Capt Phineas Pendleton. She made the
run from Searsport to Charleston, S. c., in four
and a half days.
DoDGE's CORNER. Last Saturday afternoon
Mr. Geo. Webster of Boston, one of our cottage
residents, met with a serious accident in his
Mrs. W. and his daughters, Hazel and Helen,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Cloak and daughter Mildred
were driving along the Stevens road when a
dog ran in front of the machine. One of the
front wheels struck the dog and caused the
machine to skid over into ditch and collide
with tree The top of the machine crushed
down on the heads of the occupants and Mrs.
Webster's nose was broken and her face badly
cut and she was rendered unconscious. DR.
Charles Hills, who was visiting at W. j. Mat
thews' was called and Dr. E. d. Tapley of Bel
fast was also sent for and Mrs. Webster was
removed to their cottage, and we are pleased to
learn that she is rapidly gaining. The machine
was badly damaged and has been shipped to
Boston for repairs. -. DR.. Charles Hills and
daughter Marian arrived from South Natick,
Mass, last Friday. They came through in their
auto -. Waldo M. Chaplin arrived from Brook
Ign, N. Y, last Saturday evening to join his
family at his fathers Geo. E. Chapin's.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 80 Mysterious
gases released from the hold of the U. S. Col
lier Nanshan when the steel bulkheads of that
vessel were stove in by typhoon were re-
sponsible for the death of five members of her
crew, according to the story of Third Asst. En-
gineer Elmer Hutchins, who arrived here on
board the cruiser Buffalo. The vessel was en-
route from Cavite to Hong Kong. Shortly
after the ship ran into terrible typhoon
noise like the explosion of gases was heard
and as soon as water began to pour into the
paint locker, the fumes began to rise from it
in great volume. Capt Carver took five men,
bers of the Filipino crew and went forward to
investigate. The failure of the men to return
led Hutchins to make an investigation and he
was also overcome but was revived. When the
men were finally dragged back from the hold it
was found that by some strange freak the
bodies had been stripped. Capt. Carver re-
vived, but Chief Officer Larkn, Second Officer
Rapp and three sailors died from inhaling the
gases. An investigation into the cause is being