Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-24
Maine Gossip

MO1Ste OOSStP
OF the cases taken up by the court
at Machias last week perhaps the most
/ interesting to Eastport people was the
| trial of Frank whalen for an assault
committed on another young resident
4 of PASSPORT on the night of July third.
j An indictment was returned by the
/ grand jury earlier in the week, the
! charge being assault with intent TO
/ kill. While the defendants attorneys
made point of the alleged bad record
/ of the party assaulted, their principal
claim was that the defendant acted in
self-defense. The court held that,
granting the truth of this, it was car
ried too far, since the law allows only
as much force to be used in self pro-
lection as will restrain the aggressor.
The jury returned a. verdict of guilty
of assault and battery. and the de-
PENDANT was sentenced to one year in
the Bangor workhouse.
colony of hornets has chosen a
strange place in which to build their
nest, locating it in the peak of the
gable of the M E. Parsons house on
Chapel street, Eastport. The nest is a
large one, so they seem to have found
it a favorable location, and such in
fact ii is, for the gable fronts the
south, the caves above it project we'll
out, and it is far above the reach of
small boys and other mo1dlers. No
body, least of all those who have had
experience with them while picking
berries or hunting, would object much
If all hornets built in places as COM
pletely out of reach as this.
Harry and Dacid varney, who went
down to st. George, N. B., last week
to do some masonry work in the new
bank building there. were met on the
wharf by a Dominion immigrant in
spector and ordered not to land on ac-
count of the contract or alien labor
law, reports the Eastport Sentinel.
They were then summarily consigned
to the care of the captain of the VII
king, but not caring to spend the night
aboard her, returned Immediately to
Eastport in a hired motor boat They
had been engaged to do the work, at
which they are expert, of kind no one
in ST. George would attempt, and the
inspector was certainly ION the job"
to say the least, in enforcing the law
so literally. We wonder how our Ca
madam cousins" would appreciate such
officiousness over here, especially dur
ing this particular season of the year.
Houiton several months ago voted to
raise $4,000 for new High School
building, but as the selectmen decided
that 1t was illegal to hire the money
under the conditions another meeting
was called for Wednesday, Oct. IA, at
which the sum of $4,000 was voted for
the same purpose. The selectmen say
that at least $4,000 will be needed in
addition to provide for the laboratories
domestic science department, etc. and
it is probable that the next town meet
ing will be asked to appropriate that
amount.
The new steamer building in the
Francis Cobb Co.'S yard, Rockland, for
the Penobscot Bay and Rive. Steam
boat Co.. is rapidly approaching COM
pletion, and is expected to go over
board in about a fortnight. Immedi-
ately after launching she will be
towed to Portland to take on her en-
2ines and machinery at the Portland
Company. She will be named the
lslesboro and will take the place of
the steamer Stockton on the Bucksport
and Camden route
Several of our subscribers have in
quired why we no longer run the
weskly weather forecast in our Tues
days issue says the Pennington
Chronicle. They say that it was usual
~ accurate and they appreciated it. We
do not run it because we cannot get it.
In common with many ether articles
the weather is also affected by the
European War. The cable reports re-
gar1ing weather conditions in Europe
and Asia are so delayed in transmits
sion that the Weather Bureau las
been forced to suspend the forecast
ing except for periods covering from
SO to As hours. 1t is expected that the
weekly forecasts will be resumed as
soon as the cable service will permit.
Inc Stanulng committee OF the maine
Historical Society met Thursday in
Portland for the first time since the
annual meeting in June. The resig-
nation Of Hannibal H.. Emery as re-
cording secretary was received and
accepted. Charles T. Libbey being
elected to fill the vacancy. Gen. Sell
den Conner of Augusta was elected
a member of the standing committee
to succeed the late Hon. Joseph Will
hanson of Augusta. Hon. Augustus f.
Moulton waws elected to represent
the society at the dedication of the
Longfellow birthplace. Considerable
routine business was disposed Of.
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