Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-05

fixing bail at $500. Currier was taken
to Bangor jail in default Of bail.
Old Town Indian Found Dead.
The body of Louisa Francis, a
Penobscot Indian woman, who lived
on Indian Island, Old Town. was
found Monday afternoon near the
Bangor & Aroostook railroad about a
mile above Old Town. The woman
had been missing since last Thursday.
She had been frequently arrested in
Old Town and in Bangor for intoxioa-'
ton. and the island people made no
special search until within a few days.
Officials made an investigation AMI
decided that her death was due to al
| coholism and exposure. there being
no marks to indicate anything else.
She was of one Of the oldest Indian
families on the reservation.
Rumford Village Corporation Meeting
The Rumford Village Corporation held
its annual meeting Tuesday night and
reelected all officers. Judge Mccarthy
acted as moderator. The assessors were
authorized to appoint a police force to
| consist OF a chief and four officers and
the pay is to be increased % cents a
day over that of last year.
Important appropriations were as fol-,
lows: Police. 5000; fire department, s6OOo;
| street lights, $500; Improvement Of lights
on Congress and Waldo streets, 5000; hy-
drants, $21Oc: miscellaneous, $1,000; COL
lecting garbage, 5000; decreasing corr
poration debt. $780, interest on debt.
$500: sewers. $1,000; tax attachments. $780,
band concerts, $500; Fourth Of July, $3.50
Dragged to Death by Horses.
Brohm Everett, son of the late
Joseph and Hannah Everett of Fort
Fairfield. met a horrible death Mon
day. He was on the way to CARING
ford, when his horses in some way
became frightened while in a piece Of
woods, taken for a short cut home,
ran away and dragged Everett about
three-quarters of a mile. The horses
made their way home and a brother
went in search of the missing driver.
finding him dead in the road. The
brother and four sisters survive
Herbert Cuts Of Biddeford Missing
Efforts are being made to locate Her.
Utit tults vi f1iuutlOTU WHO mas Deell
missing two weeks. He boarded with
Mrs Fannie Goodridge at q Middle street
Herbert left for New York to call on
his brother George Quits, who is an n
mate of Bellevue hospital. and since
then nothing has been heard from him.
George Z. Cults of Saco. left Friday for
New York to search for his uncle. Chief
of police Stone has interested himself
in the matter. Before Herbert left for
New York, he went to a local savings
bank and drew out large sum of
money he had on deposit there. Ha
has a brother living in WATERFOWL, Mass
City Marshal Buchanan Of Auburn.
Edward H. Buchanan. for the past
| three years a patrolman on the Au-
| burn police force. was appointed and
unanimously confirmed to be city
marshal of Auburn at a meeting Of
| the Board of Mayor and Aldermen
| held Monday night at the mayors Of
flee. The appointment took effect at
midnight. Every member of the board
/ was present and when Mayor Porter
announced his appointment the vote
! to confirm made by a show Of hands,
was unanimous.
Fishing Opens at Sebaeo.
! All first days fishing records at
Sebago were broken Thursday. April
l. when nearly $50 salmon were taken.
! The. first was landed by Capt H. H.
| Merrinnan Of Portland, a small one.
DR.. w. E. DENIM of Worcester, Mass.
landed the largest. weighing IL
pounds, and the famous BILLY" Mains
of baseball fame caught the finest
string, having seven, two Of which
| weighed seven. one six and the re-
L
| quarters each.
J. w. Steen Of Patten Killed.
! J. Wellington Steen. so, was in
! stantly killed at Patten Wednesday
while opera ting a saw in wood
working shop, a piece of lumber being
thrown back and striking him over
the heart. A wife and three daugh-
tiers survive. He was for some time
a resident and official of Mt Chase.
Cover Will Case Appeal Dismissed.
| BY the terms of the rescript handed
down by the law court in the case OF
| Sarah c. Cover against Charles u.
Keene, administrator of the estate OF
her late husband. the appeal taken by
Mrs Cover is dismissed. The action
was bill in equity by which the
plaintiff sought to show that the ad-
ministrator of her husbands estate
was a trustee of certain funds ii the
Brunswick Savings institution part OF
which had been deposited by her hus-
band and part of which she claimed
to have deposited. A verdict for the
defendant was rendered when the case
was tried in the Supreme court.