Abbreviations used
Date August 14 1888
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper Saint John Globe
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Mayor Thorne received a letter today from S.W. Philbrick of the Kennebec Log Driving Co., Skowhegan, Maine, stating that John SPELLMAN, formerly of Saint John, was drowned at Skowhegan on Friday last while at work on the logs. Enquiries by a Globe reporter developed the fact that the deceased was the son of Thomas SPELLMAN and was a young unmarried man known in St. John.