The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1885-11-04
GENERAL NEWS.

The public debt waa decreased $l3,276, PALS
during the month of October.
There is a report that the Grand Trunk and
the Canadian Pacific railroads are to be CONSOLE
dated.
An explosion occurred Friday at Reschitza,
Hungary, IN coal mine connected with the
tate railway works. Thirteen were killed and
fifteen injured,
The American government has intimatcd to
Spain that if the latter's sovereignty of the Car
oline Islands is recognized, the American Prot
estant Mission must be respected and freedom of
religion permitted.
Statistics are printed to show that Cincinnati
is losing its commerce through the political cor
ruption that rcigns there. Some large houses
have already removed to other cities, and others
are expected to do so within few months.
| The Solicitor of the Treasury has given an
| opinion that seamen engaged in fishing vessels
| are legally entitled to treatment in marine hos
pitfalls, and Surgeon General Hamilton will issue
an order to medical officers of the marine hospt-
al service to admit seamcn of the class indicated.
The complaints against the President because
Of the order excluding office seekers from the
White House increases. One Congressman
says ats effect upon the party will be IA finish
ing stroke Of paralysis" That Congressman eX-
poets large delegation Of office seekers here.
| EAGoy. Ramsey, Chairman ofthe Utah Com
mission, has presented the report of the commits
ion to the Secretary of the Interior The com
mission say it is now only matter of time when
polygamy becomes extinct, and recommend con-
tinuation Of the same policy.
General Mcclellan was buried from the Madi-
son Avenue Presbyterian church in New York
city at 10 O'Clock Monday. There was no mill
tnry demonstration. Among the pail bearers
were Generals W. S. Hancock, Martin S. McMa-
hon, Fitz John Porter, w. B. Franklin, and the
Confederate General Joseph f. Johnson.
The Land Office is not quite clear to some
Of the points in its programme for the read just
trouble in the matter OF the Winona and ST. Pet
crs grant, which is now the property of the
Northwestern. The Land Office is not quite GER
tain as to its power to readjust these grants with
out additional legislation.
There are indications that one of the schemes
which will be urgently pressed in Congress this
winter will be the Eads Ship Railway. There are
some preliminary indications Of movement Of
this sort These indications consist in the in
genious manner in which the supposed difficult
| les OF the Panama Canal have been advertised,
while the Nicaragua route is practically ADAM
doned.
| The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports
that the total values of the imports of merchan-
disc during the twelve months ended September
80, 1885, were $50, 55l ,260, and during the pre-
ceding twelve months S658ll0 ,065, decrease Of
1857 ,558, SO5. The values Of exports Of merchan-
disc for the twelve months ended Sept. 80, 1885,
were $s7l5,S9S67l, and for the twelve months
ended Sept 80, 1884, were $735,777 600, de-
crease of $l9,S7S,359.
Hon. Vim E. Smith of New York has been ap-
pointed assistant secretary of the treasury, i'll
pace Of Charles L. Coon, resigned, to take effect
Nov. 10th. Mr. Smith is a lawyer about 40
years of age, and resides i'll Pattsburgh, Clinton
county, N. Y, with Office in New York city.
where he is one oil the attorneys for the Della.
ware & Hudson Canal Co.
Commissioner Carroll D. Wrght's first report
of the operations of the National Bureau, says
that between March 18th and June 9th, twenty
special agents were appointed, and at the close
of the year fifteen Of these agents were actively
employed in the United States and five in Eu-
rope, collecting information relating to labor in
Europe, and the results ,of these Investigations
which will be embodied in the first annual report
Of the bureau, will be submitted early in the
coming year.