Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-11-12
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Miss Helen Louise Alden, direct linea
descendant of John and Priscilla Alden
died at Pennington last week, aget
seventy-seven years.
AT the annual meeting OF the Maine
tuberculosis association at Gardiner last
week, DR.. William O. Peters, OF Bangor,
was reelected president.
Thomas f. Bartlett, aged twenty-eight,
yard brakemen for the Maine Central rail-
road, employed at Bath, was crushed to
death between two cars Thursday.
Fred t. Brown, aged twenty-eight, of
Palermo, was killed Saturday by the ac-
cidental discharge OF a shotgun. He took
the gun by the muzzle to place it in a
wagon,
Hon. James Cunningham, owner and
proprietor of the Lafayette hotel at Port
land, and for many years 6 prominent
builder OF the city, died Friday, aged
seventy-four years.
Fire at Pembroke Mondsy caused dam
age estimated at $4,000. Mrs. Eva E..
Smiths store, with contents, John Dud-
ley's store and two homes of II. B. Small
and William Conley we're burned.
w. g. Jefferson, Portland physician,
in religious frenzy last week, cut off his
right hand at the wrist with surgeons
saw, obeying literally the biblical injunc-
ton: "If thy right hand offend thee, cut
it off,"
Winfred t. Denison, an assistant at
torney- general in the United States de-
partment Of justice, and native of Port
land, has been selected for secretary of
the interior for the Philippine Islands.
Losses aggregating from 100000 to ST.
10000 are estimated to have been caused
to the potato-growers of Maine by rains
and frosts, and the price OF tubers al
ready has begun to ascend. The supply, it
is said, will be gmaller and the prices much
higher than was expected early in the
season.
A young heller on North Auburn farm
was noticed making peculiar noise, and
when examined, she was found to have a
rock weighing one pound in her mouth.
Apparently the animal was chewing the
rock for cud. That it had been in her
her mouth long time was evident from
its smooth appearance worn down by her
teeth. 1t was removed with difficulty.
The rock is now used as paper-weight.
Commissioner Woodbury., OF the sea and
shore fisheries, has given orders to the
wardens all along the Maine coast for
more stringent enforcement of the short
lobster law. Within twenty-four hours
after his order was given, seizures were
made of over 1000 short HOLSTERS. OF
these, SOL were seized at Portland and
over 200 at Machias, other seizures CT
small lots being made all along the coast.
A new passenger steamer to replace the
Katahdin, OF the Moosehead lake feet,
burned sometime ago, is being built by
the Bath Iron Works. The hull will be
shipped in sections and set up at the lake.
The new steamer, which will be named
Katahdin, will be the first steel passenger
steamer on the lake and the largest boat
on the lake. She will be 126 feet long,
twenty-four feet beam, and will accom-
modate 700 passengers.
A plant for the manufacture of paper
pulp is to be installed at the University
of Maine by the department of chemistry,
in connection with the two new courses
in paper and pulp which have been added
to the curriculum. The plant will neces-
sarily be on miniature scale, but will in
clude all the stages in the manufacture of
pulp. This will probably be the only
plant of its kind in use in any American
college, as the University OF Maine is a
pioneer in his sort of technical education
as far as the United States is concerned.
An automobile in which Augustus G..
Anderson, of Bangor, was conveying three
woodsmen to Holden, was overturned on
Whiting hill in that town, Friday night,
by the breaking Of a wheel. Elwick Nc
Pherson, aged twenty-eight, residence
unknown, was instantly killed, his
neck being broken, while Tanal Lehto SUI
fered fracture OF the leg, and Joseph
Swatili had two ribs broken. Anderson
escaped injury. On the finding OF the
coroner's jury that he was "not in COM
petent condition" to drive an automobile
at the time OF the accident Anderson has
been arrested on charge Of manslaughter.