The Somerset reporter., 1886-05-26
CE N ERAL.

The wooden manufacturers of Eastern
Maine met in Boston, last week, and de
cided to form an association to be known
as the Pcnobscot Club. The object of the
club Is the promotion of social intercourse
and united action in affairs of general in
tcrest to the industry.
The New York sun thinks it "a most
surprising thing that reform Admini>tra
ton should in The very first year Of its cX
istencc be involved in IA pccunlary anC
speculative scandal so serious that it la,
been investigated by the House of Repre-
>entatiycs'
The Democratic State Committee has
"ccnsurrd the Senate for rejecting the
nomination of Capt Chase. We hope the
Senate will be able to bear up under it,
Bcifdst Jomnal
Mrs. Alice Pcndlcton and Miss Jane
Pcndleton, wife and daughter of the
American minister to Berlin, were thrown
! from their carriage in Central Park New
| York city, Thursday The mother was
killed, and the daughter injured, probably
| fatally
| The motion for a stay in the case Of eX-
Alderman Jaehne has been denied, and he
was taken to Sing Sing prison.
1t is said that several mines of gold, sill
yer. iron and loadstone, with some cop
per, have been discovered in Trinidad by
Engineers Marco, Cabrera and Mamcrto
Perez.
The Bell Telephone Company has been
paying only about S2i 900 year taxes in
Massachusetts on the plea that its proper
ty was outside of the State, while in other
States it pleaded that its property was in
Massachusetts. For the future it will
pay Massachusetts S250, 900 year. the
Legislature of that State having passed a
bill to compel the company to pay in pro-
portion to its business and its ability,
DR. bio Lewis, author and rcformer
died at his home, Friday morning, from
erysipelas Dir. Lewis was born in An
burn, \. b., March ;. 1923, and was cdn-
cuted at Harvard medical school. He fell
from horse "A short time ago and hurt his
knee. Erysipclas set in with fatal results
The services at General Grants tomb
Memorial Day will be of an international
character The ceremonies will be under
the charge of L. $. Grant post &. A. r.,
Brooklyn From the correspondence had
by Major b. Il. COrwin. it is learned that
st. John y. b., will send a floral piece of
special design; llamilto1, Bermuda will
send two living date palm trees; Senior
Romero, Minister to Mexico, will see that
his country is represented, while Consul
General " iliams, of Havana, writes that
he has reason to believe the governor
general will direct that the island of Cuba
be also represented.
The London Press comment editorially
upon the Chicago riots the Times saying,
The american labor market is unable to
absorb the unlimited number of recruits
from Europe; it is a grave fact that
America yearly receives number of rest
less, INSCRIPTIONS spirits from Europe
who freely use dynamite and revolver to
gain their ends" The Telegraph says
The Chicago rio; has shown IFS anew what
manner of men the supporters of these
Irish bills beyond the Atlantic are" The
Ne,rs says "Thc territorial democracy of
America will make very short work of
Anarchist plots once it has been aroused,
as it now is likely to be, to action against
them"
The iron moulders of st, Louis, some Of whom
struck at the beginning of this month for eight
hours and others of whom made recently a de-
mand for advance i'll wages, met on Saturday
and decided to suspend all further agitation of
the labor question, to return to work and to
withdraw their demands
Bradstreet reports that the total loss on build
ing contracts III ten cities, on account of the
strike, was $40, 400 ,000 the New England cities
suffering S27j,O00 in wages and 81, OOO,O 600 in
new business stopped Only Is 900 Of the 250- |
900 men who have at one time or another been
on strike since April q were out ON May 20.