Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-12-17
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sylvanus B. Haynes, prominent Lewis
ton merchant, dropped dead last Tednes-
day, of heart disease.
Gilbert l.. Schoppe, of Cherryiield, a
well-known lnmberman, died Friday,
aged sixty-four years.
Thomas Adams, aged fifteen, OF Ram
ford, was drowned in the AndroscoggIn
river Friday. He was skating on thin ice
Louis Bishop, of bonneville, hunting near
Lagrange Friday, fred at deer and killed
his son Ralph, aged twenty, whom he did
not see.
The Thomson line steamer Cervons,
from Shields, Eng, for Portland with
coal, was wrecked on the Newfoundland
coast last Friday.
Edgar A. Hubbard, city clerk of Bidde-
ford for eleven years, and member of
the York county bar, died last week, aged
sixty-one years.
Fire at Bingham Saturday burned out
the dry goods store of Mark Savage g. Co.
and the general store of Preble q Robin
son. Loss, $4,000.
Capt. Matthias johnson, who sailed
from Eastport for the Pacific coast last
August in twenty-eight- foot power
boat, has reached Havana, Cuba.
Burieigh Chase, aged twenty. of Canaan.
rested the butt OF his rifle on log and
leaned on the muzzle last Wednesday
The butt slipped. Death was almost in
Simultaneous.
Skowhegan is happy over the announce
ment that her WOODEN mill is to be re-
opened by the recent purchasers, the
American Wooden Co. The mill will en-
ploy about 800 hands.
Frank DeWof Granger, native of
Eastport, for nearly fifty years in the
United States coast and geedetic survey,
died last Wednesday at Somerville, Mass,
aged sixty-six years.
A bill to donate the abandoned Fort
George reservation, in st. Georges river.
to the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion Of Thomaston, has been introduced
IN Congress by Rep. McGillicuddy.
John Driscoll, an Ashland barber, I'M
able to obtain liquor to satisfy his APP
petite, mixed some of his hair dye with
wood alcohol, and drank it. He died be-
! fore he could be removed from his shop.
| Albert l.. Page, of East Eddington,
aged fitty-two, was instantly killed while
hunting near Kingman Saturday. One of
the party hunting with him fired at
deer, hitting Page, whom he did not know
was in range.
Mrs. Charles Stacey, aged thirty-five, of
Lincoln, WAS instantly killed, and her
brother, ROLLS Bruce, was seriously in
jured, when their carriage was struck BY a
train at railroad crossing at North Lin
coin last Wednesday.
John Farrah, OF Rumford, was caught
beneath a falling tree Friday. Fellow
workmen released him and he rose to his
feet, saying that he was "all right. He
| started to walk to his home, and had gone
but short distance when he fell dead.
The eighteen months-old son OF
William Kilton, OF Machias, was playing
about the floor OF the Kitchen last Thurs
day, when one of the legs came out of
the stove and the stove toppled toward
him. The child's mother prevented the
stove falling on him, but kettle of boil
ing water was spilled over him. He died
the following day.
Mrs. Erma b. Salley, Topsham high
school teacher, put her hand out of her
window the other night upon retiring, to
see IL it was still raining. Her hand came
in contact with the face of man, who
had climbed upon an extension roof, and
was crouching under the window.
| Whether 1t was a "Peeping Tom, or a
burglar awaiting chance to enter the
house, the authorities are now trying to
dnhEr