Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1917-07-18

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placing rifle In . carriage preparatory
to driving to his farm- Tie ballet paced
through his abdomen, and ne died In .
short time
Attempting to assist her husband when
their new OAKLAND six stalled ON = hill In
Randolph Tuesday night. Mr.. Frank !.
Shaw OF Pitts6eld was thrown down and
rum over by the car, receiving injuries fropa
which her death ensued in > hcspital .
few houra later.
Georrs E Bracket, . weIi-known
publisher and Temperance worker OF
Belfast, died Monday, after long illness.
He wss tor many yean editor Of the
Belfast Adcertissr, the Sea Breese and the
Maims Temperance Advocate. He was
also for many years grand secretary OF the
Good Tempisrs OF Maine
Proposals for the construction OF thirtssn
wooden hzlis OF steamships tor the United
States emergency aest submitted BY Maine
builders were approved BY tbs Maine ship
building committss Friday. Contracts
for twsnty-sight bulls BY Maine builders
have now bsen approved.
An automobile operstsd by Rev. Fr.
Joseph r. Creeden OF LAconis, n. H.,
crashed through the rail OF Mill bridge 1t
North Kittery. July II, causing the death
OF John Crowe, aged seventy year,, OF
East Jaffrey, N. H., and his daughter,
Miss Mary Grove, aged nfty years.
Names quota for the nrst army draft
will be !, SZ1 men. senator Hale on Bat
urday sent the following telegram to
Governor Milliken: "On account of her
splendid eniistn,snt, Maine has = smaller
proportion OF men 10 be conscripted than
any other state in the Union except Ore
gon. Heartiest congratulations TO You
and the State"
The Gardiner @. Dcering, Ave- masted
schooner built in Bath in 1903, hailing
from Maine was sold recently in Boston
to q New York concern at 10000.
The Deering which just passed her
fourteenth birthday, registers ,s62 tons
gross. She was owned BY Boston parties,
and her captain, joni c. Stahi OF Waldo
boro, who was principal owner.
The petitions asking for referendum on
the matters Of the Lewiston police comi
mission, the sea and shore fsheries COM
mission, the inland fisheries and game
commission and the State paper have
each received more than the required TO-
900 signatures, and will be submitted TO
the voters at q special election in Septem-
Der, unless the petitions are declared to be
illegal in form.
The schooner Mary W. Bowen, New
York for French port, was torpedoed
and sunk las, week. The vessel VAS CON-
msnded by Capt. Stephen McDonough OF
Winterport, who was in command OF the
schooner Lyman NJ. Law, when that yes
sci Was torpedoed in the Mediterranean
last Jsnaar,e. William II. Lowe OF VIM
terport was mate OF the Mary w. Bowen.
The Mary W. Bowen was a Ave- masted
schooner OF 1907 tons net, built at Bath in
1900, and hailed from Fail River.
After the first OF August, according to q
schedule filed with the public utilities
NoshaiA1HseAAs Wv Rhte| ~ AssNaSS etOh .
on the Maine Central railroad viii be in
creased from two and one quarter TO two
aud one-half cents per mile, good for
bearer and unlimited as TO time. The
governor and council Monday ordered a
bearing on the matter. The order also
stipuiates that, pending such investisa-
ton and any order OF The public utilities
commission, the operation OF sucb
schedule as proposed be suspended.
Announcement is made by Senator
kneeisnd OF Princeton for appointment
as midshipman at the naval academy at
Annapolis. and OF Mortimer II. Wakefield
of Augusta and William II. Bigelow OF
Portland to West Point. Alternates TO
Kneeland are Earl Keen Kicker OF Port
land, Gordon Albert Cushmsn OF Old
Orchard. and Philip X. Coffin of Portland.
Those to Wakefield are Louis Z. Curtis,
! IT,, Freeport, and Raymond w. Light
body OF Waterville. To Bigeiow they are
Merrill A. Moore OF Hsrtland and Nor
man Z. rraiton OF Bath.
Alvan c. Cove, teacher in the public
schools OF Biddeford, while at the Casino
at Old Orchard pier one night recently,
picked up 4 six-inch bar pin. The fact
that he had found the pin was announced
from the stage. but no one came forward
to claim it. When he came home that
night ne threw 1t on the dres;er in dish
containing lot of trinkets. There were
thirty-five stones in the pin, which he
supposed were brilliants. In . paper Z
few days later he saw an advertisement
Offering ei50 reward for . six-inch bar pin
containing thirty-five diamonds. Mr..
Govs returned the pin to its owner.
| Hilbert Stockton Of Portla nd, and re-
ceived the reward Of ESQ.
| The shipbuilding plant OF Rice Bros. u
East Boothbay was destroyed by fire last
week, together with . half-completed
iigntship, several beam trawlers, several
an hma riue chnners and half n dozen