The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1888-07-05
STATE NEW S.

Gordon Dob>on of Pttsfeld Is spending
a few months in England and Scotland.
His father and mother are spending Few
weeks in -. John and vicinity.
The Executive Committee Of Maine
Central Institute have elected Miss \. j.
Webher a teacher III the Institution. She
is teacher of ten years successful eN e
perience She has taken the course AT
Pennington Normal School ard comes
highly recommended. Work has ialready
begun uu the rooms To be used for the
Commercial department
toy. Marble returned 10 the capital.
Thursday afternoon. direct from Chicago.
lie left FRIDAY for his home. and viii re-
turn To- Augusta next Thursday, Ia attend
the SESSION Of the Governor and Council
on the 18th of July
Tie Brad>treets arr to commence their
numbering operations al Moosehead Lake
at an early date. They arr now preparing
for the Work.
\ sad accident occurred ON saturday
last a short distance above West Cove.
Grpcnyille At Camp 80. > one man waS
thrown hundred feet hy a blast. INTO the
water and instantly Killed. lis com
panion received severe Injuries about the
mead and face They were both New
Brunswick men.
The Lewiston Journal tells the story of
NJ Jennie Armstrong who, : year.
ago. left Lewiston a pale emaciate5 glris
Who weighed only ~ pounds aud whom
everybody said would die with consumP-
ton within a year She upw come baCk
from ltaly a plump. healthy woman, With
a great reputation II singer and pro
feSsjonai name Mile Ayiglaua.
+ W Dana. president Of the Lewiston
Auburn Horse Railroad. and his rs
soeiatc~ have been empowered hy the
railroad commissioner 10 construct q
steam railroad from Auburn to East Au
burn. \ narrow gauge viii be built al
once.
Il is reported that after the grand Ie
ceptiou IN New York and a visit Ia Au-
susta. Mr.. Blaine will make a tour of III,
country. going to Portland. oregon, an,
speaking in the large cities
Hon aud Mrs L G. Burleigh were sur
ptlscd Al their home in Augusta, Thurs
day night. on the occasion of their twentl
NTH marriage annniveI sary. by abou
nifty persons, consisting Of heads Of de
partucuts and clerks at the State House
with their ladies. Hon. y. A. Luce, il
behalf of the company, presented al
elegant silver water service.
Alta meeting Saturday afternoon of tn
officers Of the Franklin Veteran Associa
ton decided to hold their annual reunion
at Pennington August twenty first an
. twenty
Hon. George Z. Wescott of Portland
says the line which is to open up tn
northern Aroo>took region will be all SUI
ycycd this season and the constructio
q 1 4. .I..t
% ls9l OF the sloo,ooo pledged by tn
people Of Aroostook county. 81 BOO Ia
. already been offered and the balance wi
= be made up.
1t is reported that the necessary fund
have been raised by the citizens of DeN
ter and Dover, for the railway bctwec
= the two points to make connection wit
the Bangor and piscataquis, and grouu
will be broken in about month.
Mr. Howard Owen, Of Augusta has in h
possession an ink stand which used in ii
famous "log cabin campaign Of 1910
q The Ellsworth American says that Jam,
Gordon Bennett, father of the present propri'
tor Of the New York Herald, taught school
one time in Steuben for twelve dollars p'
month.
Rev. Steven Allen prominent Mcihodi
Minister well known in Maine died suddenly
W lhifup 1 utnhdA
u The father Of the bigam,t who escaped fro
Z Deputy Sheriff DcspeauX while being taken
Il Portland, and who since then has been assiste
by his father in eluding the officers, was arres
. ted by Dcspeaux while aboard boat in Ne
! Meadows river. The son is still free
h At hearing before Judge Stewart, at Waite
vile, Monday forenoon, Isaac Rome confcsse
to the theft Of freight from the cars and dep,
in that city at various periods during the la
: ten years. lie was unable to obtain bail and a
Z companicd by Deputy sheriff Ill., went to Al
: g1sta jail, Monday forenoon.
The Augusta correspondent of the Lewistu
journal writes II learn that our candidate (,
70 governor, Hon. l.. c. Bureigh, did a noble an
c generous act, which is characteristic of the MAJ
( during the recent Republican convention
- Portland. Tuesday forenoon while the CONVEX
= ton was assembling and getting ready for bus
ness, Mr.. Burlcigh was looking after the Gca
! delegate, Mr.. Gcrrsh from Oakhcld plantation
! Aruusook county, who died that morning
r the hotel, OF apuplexy. He ordered a casket an
h robes had the body embalmed, paid the under
q takers bills and purchased ticket on the raj
road and sent the body all the way nome free q
, expense 10 his family"
n Millbridge had suicide Of romantic an
e sensational character Monday. Ralph Wallace
II Young sailor, returned from sea on Saturda
- 10 find that his young lady had been reccivin
the attentions OF another and refused to receiy
u further attentions from him. lie became il
, tcnscy jealous and this afternoon sought an in
t teryiew with her and wanted her to marry hin
} She refused and he drew revolver and sht
himself through the heart, dying instantly. II
, was a son Of Francis Wallace, Of Portland. an
wa nineteen years Of age.