Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1912-05-01
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100 years old, was burned Thursday.
William II. Bradford, aged sixty-nine
years, for the past eleven years one of the
overseers Of the poor OF Bangor, died April
"a.
Mrs. Amasa Gilman, aged seventy-two,
of Foxcroft, was burned TO death Thurs
day, while fighting grass fire that
threatened her home.
Fred J. Meservey, of South Brewer, first
officer of Hon. e. IL. Blake's steam yacht
Aria, committed suicide on board the
yacht at Bangor Friday. Ill health is the
cause assigned.
Judgment for q 100 was returned against
Frank w Sanford, OF the Holy Ghost and
Us society, in the suit of Mrs. Florence
NJ. Whitaker, who claimed she was illeg-
ally detained aboard the yacht Coronet
by the Shiloh leader.
The largest corporation fee ever received
in the State of Maine was paid last week
to the secretary OF State for the organiza-
ton of the Tennessee Railway, Light &
Power Co., capitalsstock, $4,000, 900. The
fee is 1000. The next largast corporation
organized in Maine was for $50, 600, 900 sew
eral years ago, for steamship combine.
tailor, was shot down and robbed on
street in Lewiston, near his home, last
Wednesday night. Mr.. Bibber died few
minutes after reaching the hospital. A
man IN a nearby house saw his assailant
bend over the PROSTATE man a moment,
then walk slowly away across vacant lot
The Fairbanks lumber mills at Unity
were burned Friday night. Loss $4,000.
More than a dozen buildings, including
the Catholic and Episcopal churches, the
water-tower and shops of the Maine Gen.
trail railroad, the coal-sheds of Knight 81
Stanwood, and half a dozen dwelling
houses, were destroyed by fire at Bruins
wick Friday. The losses total upward Of
100000.
A decree has been handed down by the
supreme court denying the writ OF pro-
hibition pettioned for to forbid the pro-
ceedings in equity brought under the new
corrupt practices act. The proceedings
were instituted last winter, accusing the
mayor and democratic aldermen of being
guilty OF corrupt practices at the munich
pal election in December. The hearing of
the case before the supreme court justices
will now proceed.
A bill providing for the consolidation OF
the Boston & Maine and New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroads, under the
name OF the New England lines, and the
creation OF public service commission,
to have general control of public utility
corporations in the state, was sent to the
Massachusetts, legislature last Wednesday.
The proposal is to dissolve the Boston
railroad holding company, under which
the roads are now virtually united, and to
provide for their actual physical union by
a four-track tunnel under the city of Bos-
ton between the North and South stations.
Commissioner Donahue, of the sea and
shore fisheries, has issued letter in which
he calls the attention OF the public and
particularly the municipal officers OF coast
towns to the public law OF 1911 pertain
ing to the building Of weirs. The law re-
quires town officials to procure bond of
400 from parties before granting license
to build weirs, the condition OF which is
that upon termination OF said lease the
lessee shall remove all stakes, brush and
other materials from the location used.
Thus is a law that was very much needed,
as it has been the custom in the past for
parties, upon the abandonment OF weirs, to
leave the old stakes and brush In the
water, a menace to navigation, and I'M
slightly.
Less than 100 yards from the spot
where John w. Bibber was mysteriously
murdered in Lewiston last Wednesday,
burglars Sunday night successfully
operated at the home. of Wallace I'll.
White, jr. About an hour after Mr.. and
Mrs. White has retired, Mrs. White had
occasion to leave her room and go to an
other part OF the house. In the hall she
encountered a man who felled her with
blow over the head, and gagged her with
handkerchief. Mrs. White heard another
man down stairs. Some time later she
succeeded in arousing her husband. In
vestigation showed that the burglars had
ransacked the room in which Mr.. and
Mrs. White were sleeping, taking cash
and jeweiry to the value Of about 81 200.