Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-24
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.
Belfast Child Burned to Death.

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The 4-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Faust of Belfast was
burned to. death Sunday morning and
her mother is in the hospital suffering
severely from burns sustained in an
endeavor to save the child's life. Mrs.
Faust and her daughter were alone
in their home shortly after noon. The
mother says she was sitting by the
kitchen stove with the child playing
near when she tainted and fell against
the stove. She was aroused to con-
seriousness by the screams of the child
and saw the little ones clothing in
flames. She rushed outdoors with the
child and rolled her in a snowbank eX-
tinguishing the flames, but setting her
own dress on fire. 1t was extfnguish-
ed by q neighbor who came to the
rescue The mother and child were hur-
ried to the hospital where the latter
died in about 3 hours. The mother will
probably recover.
Tamperins With 3. G. A. Engines.
A second arrest for alleged tamper-
ing with the locomotives of the Bangor
& Aroostook Railroad at the Northern
Maine Junction roundhouse was made
Sunday when Peter Brante. an italian
house fireman, was taken in custody to
a special officer and locked up for
hearing.
Charles n. Sawyer a Suicide.
Charles H. Sawyer, aged SO, who
camped with his 17-year-old son
Ralph, near Weeks Mills, New Sharon
committed suicide Sunday by shooting
~. h. -
The body was found on the floor Of the
camp by the son on his return after
an absence Of less than an hour. De-
spondency from sickness is believed to
have been the cause of the suicide.
Sawyer was widower and had son
and two small daughters, also two
brothers. Ed and Seth G. Sawyer, both
of Pennington, and a sister, Mrs.
Luther F. Brown of New Sharon.
Capt. Theodore Colcord Of Searsport.
Capt. Theodore Colcord, for years in
command of ships sailing from New
York to foreign ports, died Sunday at
his home in Searsport Of a complica-
ton of diseases. Capt. Colcord was of
famous seafaring family, the son of
John p. Colcord. He went to sea when
16 and sailed practically all his life in
ships managed by Chapman & Flint of
New York. He was promoted rapidly,
his first command being the ship, B.
Colcord. Other commands were the
Pactolus, the A. J. Fuller, which was
built for him, the st. John, the Henry
B. Hyde and the. John Mcdonald. With
the decline of American merchant ma
rine Capt. Colcord was one of the first
to shift from sail to steam, and COM
manded the steamship American one
of the first of the American Hawaiian
line. For some time he was master of
the steamship Columbian, his last COM
mand Last summer Capt. Colcord came
from the Pacific to .Searsport. called by
the illness of his only near relative.
sister. Miss Hannah Colcord. who sur
wives. His wife died about IL years
ago. ~ HA
Bankruptcy Proceedings. ~
Petition: Edwin e. Fowler, farmer of
Albion. Liabilities, s10s6: assets, $685.,
of which $467, is claimed exempt. At
torney, C. w. Hussey of Waterville.
Discharges: frankie Wilbur Perry.
Hermon; Clarence A. Cooling, Oxbow
plantation; Hart & Stetson. Portland;
Solomon Aides, Portland; Harry Ger
Der, Portland; Frank E. Martin, Carl
bou; Andrew j. Pease, Rumford; ST.
mon King, Silver Ridge plantation;
Charles E. Delt, H. Lincoln.