The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1885-02-25
General Notes.

Mr.. Frelin :huysec's house IN Washing-
ton l., advertised for sale.
The Portland Star Match Company Will
have half a million feet OF pihe tm'er
ON the vicinity Of Rochester.
Vice President-eleet Hendricks attended
A Chinese New Years banquet In lndianap-
otis, Monday night and responded 10
toast
France Is in a condition bordering on
despera,ion owing to the depression Of in
tcrests. Paris alone has 300, 900 idle work
men, aud 10 the provinces there are AT least
a milnon unemployed work-people
Since the birth of the first Prince OF
Wales Ia 1884, more than six centuries ago
the title has been borne by seventeen per-
sons, but the present possessor OF 1t Is the
only one who has lived to see a son attain
his majority.
Robert IDgersoll and his client Dorsey,
are going to Europe for yesr or two.
They are both rich from the profits of the
Dorsey ranch u New Mexico, which yield
ed net profit last year OF $4,000
10 the city OF Bloomington, ILL.,, place
of about o,0O0 inhabitants, there are fifty
saloons. One day recently their proprie-
tors Joined in a pool aud agreed to give one
days proceeds to the poor OF the city.
They averaged 1926 each, SO that $3.50 was
realized for the city's poor.
The action of the Harvard Club at Wash
ington in excluding colored graduates
from the dinner last Wednesday is justly
oil Hnar
and Congressman Long declined to attend
on account of such exclusion.
There are in America at the present time
Sc, 900 locomotives. To keep up the stand
ard and supply new demands, 1900 must be
built each year. Locomotives cost on the
average $4,000 each, which would indi-
cate an expenditure of $l2,000,000 this
wear. There are 10 locomotive works in
| the United States, among which this work
| aud money will be more or less evenly dis
| tributed.
An important move is contemplated by
the Quiquichan mill corporation which IT,
| cludes transfer of the entire plant except
the mill holding, to Mexico. 1t is proposed
| to erect mill there, equip it with machin-
| eiy in the present MILL to add few print
| ing machines and enter upon the complete
manufacture of certain classes of printed
| goods In that country. Quiquicban mill
+, was established in 1926, runs 1892 spin
| dies and 422 looms, and has a pay roll of
about 1900 weekly. They will employ
| Mexican help.
In less than one year, In 1884, Maine
! had six different governors: Gov. Fair
field elected in 1913, resigned; Gov. Kava-
| nagh, President of the Senate, 1913, de-
ceased; Gov Virgil Delphni Paris, who
succeeded Gov. Kavanagh as president OF
| the Senate, 1913; Gov. Dunn, Speaker OF
the House, 1S43 superseded by Gov Dana,
| president of the Senate, 1874; Gov. Ander.
son elected for the year 1874.
The students of Paris have issued pro.
test against CRITICS m upon their action in
attacking German Socialists who were
marching In the funeral procession of Jules
| Wales last Monday. They say that they
| felt compelled in honor OF the youth and
manhood of France to oppose the defiance
| offered by the Germans in Haunting their
| banner in procession through the streets
! of Paris. They proposed to teach foreign
| ers to beware of reopening wounds that are
| yet bleeding and they conclude by saying,
| "For ourselves we desire to bear banners
torn with bullets not detiled by mud"