Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-12
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

\ two-story dwelling house on lower
Main street. Pennington. owned by
George q. Roundcr. was destroyed by fire
just before midnight Monday night. 1t
was unoccupied and carpenters had been
at work there during the day. Loss $1,000:
no insurance
rhe officials OF tie Boston e Albany
Railroad h.tNc ordered ? hearing To de-
terninc the responsibility Tor the de-
ralment q i train at East SoWtrville
ionday night. Fireman Maurice l..
Snule Of Ellsworth Me, WAS killed in
the wreck He was 50 years of age and
unmarried
With 50 tons of her deck load of wood
pulp missing and minus her fore staysait
and flying jib the 0-"ear-old three mast
I'd schooner Ann Louisa Lockwood lay at
anchor in Portland harbor Tuesday. after
nine-day trip from Liverpool. y. s.
which should have been made in one-third
the time. For nearly eight hours the
schooner ran under bare poles in Il south
east hurricane and her master, Capt. Os-
car Johnson. said the trip was one Of the
hardest he ever had experienced,
At the annual meeting of the cor
poration trustees of Leavitt Institute.
Dr. .. 4. Sprag1ie was elected presi-
dent. Z. L. Haskell clerk, w. II. Brad
ford treasurer and c. y. Bonney. j. H.
Conant. W. II. Purlziss, c. l.. Booth
and John T. Gushing trustees. The
treasurer's report showed the receipts
for the year $5606.7S and the eXpendi-
lures S453o.9l. leaving a balance OF
al
as follows: Frank T. Fortier. L. VI.
Bonney. J.. NJ Sanborn. Judge Clarence
Hale and Harry Leavitt.
The committee appointed b. the
AroGStooK County Grange, the largest
Grange organization in Maine except
the state Grange, to draft resolutions
on the proposed reciprocity law, has
reported and tie resolutions have been
adopted. The Grange believes the So
called Mccall bill will cause great
hardship to the farmers OF Maine by
Bringing them in competition with
farmers of New Brunswick and pro-
tests against the passage OF such q
bill as teirg detrimental TO the farm
ing interests of Maine especially
Aroostook county.
through Boothbay Harbor. 1t COM
menced last week and at present there
are 20 cases, While at least one death
is attributed to this disease. Physicians
report the cases as Very severe One of
the school, teachers was taken Ill sun
dav and Monday Supt. Smith held a
conference relative to closing the
schools, but unless the situation grows
worse, they will be kept open The
Board of Health and the school board
are watching conditions closely.
y fire which damaged the two-story ten
ement house at 10 Temple street Saco,
owned by Edgar y. Jefferson. to the ex-
tent of $500, was attended by many I'M
usual features early Monday morning.
Ten people We're sleeping in the building
when the fire broke out. and so quickly
did it spread that they had onN time 10
partially dress. Mrs. Edgar y. Jefferson,
a bedridden invalid for nine years, was
carried from the building after the roof
was in flames to the home of George
Lane. She suffered from nervous shock.
a limb of a tree grounded the fire alarm
system, and when Lawrence Doe. an oc-
cupant of the house, tried to ring in an
alarm none sounded. The department
was notified by telephone and Driver
Burns and Chief Engineer Albert l.. Chel-
lis We're the only firemen to go to the fire
on the wagon. Upon discovery that the
entire automatic alarm system was out
of order Chief Chelis sent apparatus
through the streets to mems homes to
wake up the firemen. Meanwhile he
climbed the City hall tower and rang the
fire bell there by hand. 1t was an hour
after the fire broke out before he first
regular alarm could be sounded The loss
on the building was $500, insurance $1,000.
Mr. Jellerson's loss on the furniture was
$1,000 not insured. O. a. Buzzell lost $1,000
worth of household goods. not inquired