Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-10
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.
swasey to Speak at Portland.

Swasey to Speak at Portland.
Hon. John P. Swasey, former men,
Der of Congress in the nd Maine Dis
trict, will be the guest of the Portland
Club Monday evening next and after
the dinner regularly served in the
club rooms on Monday evenings, Mr..
Swasey will speak to the club on cur
rent political topics.
Angler w. Tapey.
Angler w. Tapley, SO, for many
years employed in the lighthouse SER
vice on the Maine coast, who by a
hairs breadth escaped being killed
when a gas buoy blew up as it was
being placed several weeks ago, died
suddenly at his home at the Colonial
on High street. Portland, Friday eve
ming, death being due to pneu-
monia. Mr. Tapley had been for 10
years or whereabouts first officer of the
lighthouse tender Hibiscus, and pre-
vious to that time was in the service
at Cuckolds light station off Cape
Newagen.
Warren e. Allen of Bath.
Warren f. Allen passed quietly away
Friday morning at his home on Pine
street, Bath, at the advanced age of
So years, months and 15 days. Mr..
Allen was born in Bowdoin July "a,
1928, the son of Warren and Susan
Allen, and attended the schools of his
home town and also at Freeport and
Bath. When a young man he learned
the blacksmith trade and later fol-
lowed the sea. A brother. brother
and three daughters survive.
Van Horn Dickey at Camden.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Leo
Strong of Camden was the scene of a
very pretty though simple wedding
on New Years day, when Miss Carrie
NJ. Dickey of Lincolnville Center was
united in marriage to Freeman 0. Van
Horn of Ocean Point. A more elab-
crate wedding had been planned to be
held at the home of the BRIDES par
ents, but a sudden severe illness of
Mrs. Dickey made any excitement i'm
possible, and Mrs. Strong kindly open
ed her home for the occasion
Mary j. Paine.
Mary j. Paines, for about % years a
clerk at the Portland post office, died
Friday morning at her home, 1856 Con-
gress street, Portland. Her death was
sudden as she had been i'll but few
days. She was obliged to give up her
duties in the registry division on Monday,
where she had worked for some time,
and from that time rapidly failed until
her DEATH The immediate cause of her
death was pneumonia
Rum Smusglers Surprised.
The sheriff's department sprang little
surprise on Melville H. Dodge of South
Portland, William Seeley and George
Thorne, by bringing new complaint al
leging illegal transportation of intoxi-
eating liquors Friday at Portland The
complaint was based on the alleged car
rying of cargo of so kegs of whiskey
and some other liquor in the schooner
Vigilant The cargo was seized by the
sheriff and his deputies as the Vigilant
was coming into the harbor, and Dodge
Sseeley and Therne, who were aboard.
We're arrested. They were brought into
court on a complaint dated Dec 81, al
leging unlawful possession, and the case
was continued to jan 9. When the mat
ter came up Friday before Judge Merrill
a new complaint alleging illegal trans
portation was presented and both cases
were continued to Jan. 10. with bail fixed
at $500 as to each. The respondents fur
nished bail and were released.
PortIand's Fraudulent Registration.
Evidence has been discovered by Re-
publican investigators who are still at
work in the effort to unearth the corrup-
ton which they believe was practiced in