Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-01-21
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| Miss Adelaide Jordan, aged twenty, of
Sanford, was burned to death Friday
when her clothing caught fire from the
kitchen stove.
Despondent because of ill health, Mrs.
Annie c. AIdridge, of Hampden, aged
forty-four, committed suicide last We'd
nesday, cutting her throat with razor.
The farm buildings of Mrs. Mary Tracy,
near Cherryfield, were burned last We'd
nesday. Only the furniture from the first
floor was saved. There was no insurance.
Bernard Archibald of Houlton, has been
nominated by Gov. Haines to ill the I'M
expired term Of the late Perley c. Brown
as county-attorney of Aroostook.
Upon hearing of the death of lifelong
friend last Wednesday, Thomas w.
Fisher, of Bowdoinbam, retired farmer,
aged lightweight, committed suicide by
shooting.
William G.. Ellis, of Gardiner, deputy
State bank commissioner, died Saturday
at the East Maine general hospital in
Bangor, aged fifty-one years. He was
taken ill while in Bangor on business for
his department.
The five masted Bath schooner Fuller
Palmer, built six years ago at cost OF
more than 100000, was abandoned at sea
100 miles east Of Thatcher's island Thurs
day, and sank. The crew was taken off
| by steamer. The vessel registered 1851
| tons net.
Edwin Boultbee, aged forty, foreman of
machinists at the paper mill of the Inter-
national Paper Co., at Orono, died Sunday
from injuries received in the mill Friday
He was shifting belt on moving pulley
when the stick he was using broke and
struck him in the groin.
| The FIVE masted Bath schooner Grace A.
Martin, 2,670 tons net, Percy & Small
managing owners, foundered off Matinicus
last Thursday. The crew of seventeen
took to the boat and were picked up by
the steamer A. w. Perry. The Martin
| was bound from Norfolk for Portland
with 5000 tons of coal.
The grand jury OF the Cumberland
county superior court last week returned
two indictments against Rev. w. f. Berry,
of Waterville, charged with libel, based
upon articles in the Civic League Record
regarding the disposal of liquor cases of
Justice Hanson, of the supreme court.
The trial is set for January &c.
Browning Clifford, of Fairfield Center,
aged about thirty five years, was drowned
Monday morning at Brewer lake by the
breaking of the ice, which let the log
hauler which he was driving slide into
the icy waters OF the lake. Mr.. Clifford ap-
peared to be caught by one foot, and was
carried down with the machine, which
sank in about twenty-five feet of water.
Two firemen were killed and four in
iured in fire that destroyed the Bangor
opera house early Thursday morning.
The loss on the building is $4,000 and the
insurance amounts to $4,000. The fire
was the most disastrous that has visited
that city since the great fire OF 1911. The
firemen killed were John F. Leonard, aged
thirty five, married; Walter Morrill,, aged
thirty nine, married. Both were buried
beneath falling wall.
The Maine department of agriculture, in
its campaign for the occupancy OF Maine
farms, is soon to issue another catalogue
of s'Farms for Sale in Maine', which is
given wide distribution. 1t is the de-
sire OF the department to catalogue any
farm property which is for sale. No
charge is made for this listing, and
owners OF farms they wish to sell are in
vited to send to the department of agri-
culture at Augusta for blanks and infor-
nation.