The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-01-10
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STATE NEWS.
Seth NJ Carter of Auburn, Eben +.
Rand of Greenwood, X. S. Partridge OF
Whiteheld, John f Spraguc of Monson,
and w, S. Brown of Waldoboro, commit
tee to examine the State Treasnrers &C
counts, resumed their labors Tuesday
The store of c. A Russ & CO., at
Green's Landing in Hancock county, was
totally destroyed by fire early Monday
morning. The second story of the build
ing was occupied as sleeping apartments.
The occupants had only sufficient time to
leave the burning building in their night
clothes. Loss estimated at $4,000; par
tial insurance. Cause unknown.
On Saturday the last diptheretic patient
at the Insane Hospital was pronounced
cured, and for the first time for many
months the isolated ward is empty. 1t
will be thoroughly fumigated and every
possible precauton will be taken against
another outbreak of the disease.
There has been steady advance in
rates on freights and charters at the port
of Portland the past week. Vessels sail
ing from Portland for West India ports
are about 80 per cent. higher than during
the preceding week. A year ago vessels
received $1,000 for a trip to the Windward
islands. They now receive over $1,000
for the same voyage. Freights to the
West Indies and Australia, have received
a marked advance. Lumber rates to
Buenos Ayres year ago were from IS 90
to $1,000 per thousand feet, to-day they
are Sl7. Many engagements are being
made at good rates, and the coasting
business seems to be improving.
The case of Starrett VS.. Timer which
was T. bill III equity so st. aside the elee-
ton of X. X. Timer as clerk OF courts,
after hearing of two days, was dismiss
ed, Monday morning, with costs. The
court held, after hearing the evidence,
that Timer still had a majority of two.
Starrett claimed that by reason of illegal
votes cast for Timer, he should be de-
clared elected.
The name of Charles Baker, of Cam
den, Me-, has been sent to the Senate for
Collector of the port of Camden, vice
Cushing removed.
| The post office at Pressure Isle, Me ,
has been raised to the presidential class.
Governor Burleigh has nominated Ma
than L. Perkins, for recorder of the po-
lice court in Bangor
Mr.. Charles G. Wing. the senior editor
of the Waterville Mail, who has been
suggested as the Republican candidate
| for mayor. In declining the honor, Mr..
Wing says. 1.-The only office we intend to
hold for the next twenty-five years is
the Mail office. We had rather be edi-
tor of the Mail than mayor of Waterville,
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United States and Canada"
A man named Higgins was Instantly
killed Friday last, by premature eXplos-
ion at the granite quarry of A. j. Whit
ing on Somes Sound Several other
workmen were injured.
The Androscoggin Poultry and Pet Stock
Association open their first annual eXhi-
bition Tuesday, to continue three days
| The entries of poultry exceed any previ-
GUS record. The show of light brahmas,
| plymouth rocks, and wandottes will be
very large. The attraction in the Kennel
show will be the $4,000 St. Bernard,
owned by Mr.. Sears of Melrose, Mass.
Everything promises successful exhibit
ton of Lewiston.
John ID. Morse confesses that his re-
ported robbery was an invention to cover
the loss of money.
The suit of Detective Powers of Halifax
against the Saco & Biddeford Savings in
sttution to recover the reward offered
for the arrest and conviction of Frank
Medically will be tried at Alfred at the
May term of the supreme court. The re-
port that the savings institution has Of
ferd anything to Detective Powers to
compromise the suit is emphatically deni-
ed by the officers of the bank and they
claim of Detective Powers will be resist
ed to the end,
At the annual meeting of the Bath
Military and Naval Orphan Asylum As
ISOLATION Monday Seth T. Snipe
was elected president, william II. Wat
son secretary, ii. A. Duncan treasurer,
and S. T. Snipe, William II. Watson and
j. G. Richardson trustees. The report of
the treasurer shows that the expenses for
the year were So. 492,62 and the receipts
$7,752 80. The association will ask the
Legislature to make an appropriation from
$4,000. The amount appropriated in SO
is 500, 900 for the next two years.
The Bangor & Piscataquis railroad di-
rectors have voted to commence survey
and obtain estimates upon the cost of ex-
tending the road from Oldtown to tide
water at Bangor, a distance of twelve
miles.
Hon. Il. A. Gilbert, Secretary of the
Board of Agriculture and editor of the
Maine Farmer, Is in New Brunswick this
week assisting the Provincial Farmers
Association in organizing a series of
farmers institutes.
A petition has been circulated among
the Waterville attorneys petitoning to
have the February term of the Superior
Court of Kennebec county, held at Water
vile, instead of at Augusta, as at pres
ent.
John Mulverhill, convicted of man
slaughter at the last term of Court in
Kennebec County, and sentenced to two
and one-half years in State Prison, and
Sawyer and Campbell of Winthrop, the
robbers who came near taking the life of
Mr.. Frost, sentenced for life, left Kenne-
bee Jail at daylight, Tuesday morning, for
| Thomaston. A crowd collected at the
station for glimpse of the faces of the
Winthrop men, but they covered their
heads with newspapers,
Reports from the lumber camps on Ithe
Penobscot show that the warm weather
retards operations in the woods and may
affect the business severely.
At Millnocket stream, the ice Is gone
and 1t Is better canoeing than shedding.
Roads are rough and there is not enough
snow for teaming. At Chamberlain Lake
there has been only about eight inches of
snow but this WAS packed so solid that it
was remarkably good shedding
The Little Sandy river lis we'll filled
with ice gorges In many places. When
they break, 1t is going to show its tenn
per In big freshet.
1t is reported that one firm of lumber
men operating in Franklin have fifty
horses on their hands that have been idle
most of the time for month owing to
lack Of snow.
REAL ESTATE TRANsFERs.-The follow
ing are the real estate transfers, recorded
In our county the past week.
Fairfeld-Llewellyn Haskell to VIM. T.
Mutt, 81. ono. Isabel Chase to Albion X.
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