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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10
Ea ST SkoWhegan

The three fair days of last week gave
the farmers a good time for hayng, and
some commenced haying
Mr. Thomas French of Palmyra has
visited us and put up quite number of
his double harpoon forks which will save
great deal of hard labor iu unloading
hay.
A large number will commence the first
of this week although grass is quite
green.
f. L. Bigelow from Lewiston reached
home Friday night, and started TO return
Sunday morning.
Ansel Goodrich sold to Law renee Of
Fairfield nice young horse recently, for
$500.
j. Fernold lost nice year old colt
last week, all right the day before.
The 4th passed OF very quietly in this
place, but the boys at Canaan village
celebrated AZ usual by firing guns, toot-
ing horns and ringing the church bell.
Elder Carr was a little more comforta-
BILE last Sunday.
Frank Goodrich after long sickness
died last Sunday at O'Clock, p. IN, Fun
eral at the school house Tuesday, at !
O'Clock, p. m.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10
BUSINESS IN MAINE IN 1885,
$152.O0o

wealthy foreign syndicate composed
of Lord Anan-- Sir Alexondar eness OF
John Macdonald, Sir Charles Topper, and
others, has purchased 10000, 900 acres of
land in Mcdowell County. Va. The wild
land is covered with the finest timber and
fun Of iron and coal. The same syndicate,
it is reported, bought large tracts In
Wyoming, Mercer, and adjoining coun-
ties, and will build branch road to con-
meet with the Norfolk and Western Rail
road 1t will build town on the $4,000.
acre tract for it's employees.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10

An unfortunate young man Of the name
of Robert Heard, living at Totness, be-
came enamored of a comely maiden who
did not reciprocate his affection. Last
week Robert met the cruel maiden, and
in moment Of uncomfortable rapture
put his arms aboat her and ravished a
kiss. The fair but obdurate one lodged
IL formal complaint against Robert, and
the young man was apprehended and
tried for his nlisdemeanor The magis-
trate, after hearing the pros and cons,
sentenced Robert to six weeks at hard
labor. AS Robert walked off to prison
he remarked proudly; "Well, the kiss
was worth it.'-Eugene Fields Letter
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10
Cookery of the Poor.

The question of the improvement Of
cookery among the poor classes is at
tracing great attention in Europe, where
its immense hygienic Importance is rec
ognized. The subject is one in which
medical men in this country also, skilled
as they are in the physiology Of food and
accustomed to deal with the poor, both
in family life and in public institutions,
might give great aid. That which the
working classes greatly need is instruc-
ton in the art of braising, OF slowly
stewing at low heat, combinations Of
meat scraps and Of vegetables. New
York Commercial Advertiser.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10

Now, strange as it may seem. smiling
is something totally against the rules.
No man ever dreams Of smiling at any
thing, no matter how ludicrous when he
has been in the West Point academy a
few weeks. The face Is required to have
IA stony, expressionless stare, the eyes
fixed ms if in n tranca gazing, g: =. "a ~.
The head is thrown back, the arms held
rigidly, the body straight, and this il the
attitude of attention." which is ex-
pected to be the normal condition of a
cadet, except when speaking with his
own or with lower classmen. Cor. Phila-
delphia Times.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10
Concord.

The report that the Cleveland steam
mill was burned Is mistake.
Most of our farmers commenced hay
ing this week, but few Canada men have
come as yet to help.
Leander Wtham died al North Arson,
July 4. This Is a hard blow for his aged
father who had just settled up his bust
ness here and gone to spend his declining
years with his son In Arson.
School in district No. 10, taught by
Mrs. Levi Taylor Savage, closed last
week
N. II. Savage has COW whose milk
made nine pounds in four days, can any
one do better
We can now see the smoke of the iron
horse as it rushes on toward its new sta
ton on the upper Kennebec.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10
Brighton

Most Of our farmers have commenced
haying in good earnest.
The crops az general thing are look
ing quite nicely for SO much wet weather.
Mrs. John Walker has been very sick,
but is gaining under the treatment of Or
Taggart of Athens.
The village school closed Thursday af-
ter very successful term, taught by Min
ME Foss of Athens.
Mrs. Beals is visiting her sister Mrs.
j. Wyman.
Mrs. Lowell W j. Foss' house keep r
has been away visiting friends in Abbot
and Monson.
Mr.. Bonnie Brazier has returned to his
home In Monson. We are very sorry to
loose Mr.. Brazier, he has only lived here
two years but has gained many friends
in this town and vicinity.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10
A Catch of a1s Trout in a pay.

A. w. Cooke, of Cayuga, N. Y, and
r. b. Downs, of Rochester, fished in the
Little Kettle creek, in the southern part
of this county, one day Inst week They
caught $40 trout, and were obliged to
leave the brook on account of a fire in
the woods that endangered their safety.
The fish filled two fifteen pound creels
and all the pockets Of the two anglers
fishing coats. The biggest trout was a
foot long, and the most Of them were Of
fair size, but a good many Of them
might better have been left in the brook.
Cor. New York Sun.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10

Elder Chase will hold his next meeting
at the City school house, July 20 There
will be II baptism at the Pond.
Mrs. NJ. Harmon and Earl went to
Madison Thursday and spent the Fourth
at Hayden Lake.
Mrs. l.. Il. Crowell with Henry and
Eflie visited friends in Harmony and
Cambridge last week.
Mrs. Eliza Gardner has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. h. II. Nye
Saturday was the occasion OF much Joy
in the family of A. j, keene, unto them
ON that day, July was born-a son.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10
Palmyra.

The big rain took in the fourth, so
many were disappointed
Grass is looking well, n heavy crop will
be HARVESTED.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. M. Jewett returned
last week from visiting their son and
wife In Stoughton and other friends In
Boston, Waltham, and Somerville, Mass.
Mrs. Arnold Palmer accompanied by
her daughter-in-law Mrs. Alparo Palmer
and children, former residents Of this
town now of Auburn, have been visiting
at Rev. V. d. Sweetland's.
]. j. Emery and crew last week finished
moving barn and two out buildings for
DIR. J. w. Jewett of Webb Ridge. The
change is grand one.
Rev. Ora Chase, baptised fouf converts
In the Sebasticook, July G.; Mr.. Chas e
breaches one fourth of the fine at the
gale school house.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10
Canaan.

Asa ToZier, a venerable and highly re-
spected resident of this town, died on
Wednesday of last week at the advanced
age Of eighty-seven. He was native of
Waterville, but came to this town more
than fifty years ago. lie led an upright,
useful life, and died sincerely lamented.
The funeral took place on Friday after
noon at his late residence, and was con-
Quoted by Rev. G. V. Hanson. OF Show
hogan. He leaves one son, Asa II. Tozier.
His wife died two years ago last Feb
ruary.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10

The proceedings Of the Maine Press As
ISOLATION for the year l889-90, being the
twenty .seventh annual report, has been
issued in well printed pamphlet of 1fty
pages by the Mount Desert Publishing
Company. The work embraces the pro-
ceedings of the business meeting at Port
land In January last, including the address
Of Hon. j. o. Smith and the poem of
James G. Chilcott of Ellsworth; hlstOri-
cal memoranda on press changes for the
year biographical sketches OF Hobart W.
Richardson and Joseph B. Hall, deceased
members ,of the Association, with the
constitution and list of members. The
Association was organized August II,
1864, and now numbers sixty. eight
members. This interesting little work
has been carefully edited by Joseph Wood
Of Bar Harbor, Secretary Of the Asso-
citation.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10

A novel operation has been performed
In the Edinburgh Royal infrmary. A
farmer was suffering from a diseased
leg bone, induced by an accident. On
medical advice he came to the infirmary
and was put under the care Of Mr.. Miller,
surgeon, who determined to remove the
diseased portion and substitute an OF rib.
The operation was performed month
ago, and it seems it has been 30 success
full that the man will be about again
shortly with limb as strong and healthy
as ever.-New York Telegram.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10

A few days ago dog rushing into a
Boston restaurant stirred up terrible
excitement, some of the kitchen EN-.
poyes jumping from the windows,
while all the guests mounted the tables
and the proprietor chased the animal
with chair. After quiet had been re-
stored it was learned that the poor beast
wasn't mad at all, as had been supposed
but only frightened through having been
chased by 4 crowd Of boys and men.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10

Alaska Commercial company which un-
Til recently had the exclusive right to
capture seals In the American waters of
Behring Sea, has now secured contract
with the Russian government giving them
exclusive rights to capture seals on the
Siberian coast. This will initiate greatly
against the North American Commercial
company which was recently awarded by
the United States the sealing privilege in
Behring Sea. 1t is believed the effect will
be to greatly reduce the price Of seal
skins.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10

The Fourth of July celebration at
Camden came very near terminating In q
tragedy. man by the name of Davis
persuaded others to sew him In a bag
with rocks after his hands we're securely
tied. lie was then thrown into about ten
feet of water and his friends anxieusly
awaited his reappearance on the surface,
which he previously assured them would
occur. Several minutes passed and the
bystsnders became alarmed at his nom
appearance. Divers secured him In an
apparently lifeless condition. Every ef-
fort was used and he was at last restored
to consciousness. In what manner he
expected to free himself Is question.
No reason for his queer action is assign
ed.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10

A large sewer in Portland, Ore, be-
coming chohed, workmen dug it open,
and to their great surprise found the
roots of shade tree had forced pass.
age through the walls and formed a
solid mass for fifty feet. The top of the
seweg is ten feet below the surface.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10

Sir Julian Pauncefot denies the story
that negotiations over the Behring Sea
difficulty have abruptly ended and Eng
land has ordered her war ships to recapt-
ure sealers If any are seized by the
American cutters. Sir Julian says the
negotiations are protecting satisfactori-
"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10
CornvlIie

! wish TO tender to my friends and
neighbors my most sincere and heartfelt
thanks for their kindness to me, during
my sickness with la grippe last spring. /
found the old adage true friend in need
is friend indeed.
J.. A. JupKfNs.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10

Jay Gould's daily income has been es-
timated recently &C $7,446, Cornelius
Vanderbilt's at $15, 249, John D. Rookie
feller's at $ls,7i5 and William Waldorf
Astors at $23, SOB.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10
ChicaQO, Rock Island B Pacific RV

Including Lines East md Wet Of tho Missouri
River: The Direct Route TO and from CHIcA 90
ROCK LELAND, DAVENPORT, DIES MONIES,
COUNCIL BLUFFS. WATENrOWN. SIOUX
FALLS. MINNEAPOLIS, ct. PAUL. ST. JOS
RPH, ATCHI9ON. LEAVENWORTH. KANSAS
CITY, TOPEKA. DENVER, COLORADO sP'lJ0g
and PUEBLO Free Reclining Chair Cars to ind
from CHICAGO. caldwell. HUTCHINSON
and DODGE CITY. and Palace Sleeping Cara be-
tween CHICAGO WICHITA and HIJTCIlINsOfJ
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10

Agreement upon the silver questi IN
has practically been reached. 1t will
provide for the purchase Of 1900 900
ounces of silver 3 month, no bullion re-
demptlon, the certificates to be redeem
able in coin, and to be full legal tender.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10

Fargo, N. ID. was struck by wind Mon
day. Great damage was done, whole
blocks were unroofed containing some Of
the best buildings in the town, dozens of
small houses were raised. One family Of
seven children was instantly killed. A
passenger train was blown from the track
but no lives were lost.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-07-10
SOLID VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS


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ing Chair Oar TO NORTH PLATTE (Neh.), and
betwsen CHICAGO and DENVER, COLORADO
SPRINGS and PUEBLO. via st. Joseph. or Kan.
sas City and Topeka. Splendid Dining Hotels
west Of q Joseph and Kansas City. Excursions
daily. With Choice OF Routes to and from Salt
Lake Portland. Los Angeles md San Francisco.
The Direct Line to and from Pilre's Peak. Mani
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Via The Albert Lea Route.
eolid Exprsss Trains daily between Chica8o and
2tnnsapolis and 8t Paul with THROUGH Re-
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-02

Projected Schemes Which Will Doubtless
BE Completed.

Projected Schemes Which Will Doubtless
BE Completed.
Notwithstanding the setback which has
been given to the northwest by the gen.
eral drouth of last season and the conse.
quent short crops-a misfortune which be-
falls all new countries at some period or
other-there will be a great deal of railroad
building in the northwest this year. The
Montana, South Dakota and California
senators say there are quite a number of
projects for the construction OF
railroad lines which will be
developed and put into operation his
spring. Senator Pettigrew, of South Da-
kota, is o in Boston arranging for the
construction of his Midland Pacific road
tom Sioux Falls, S. D., to the Pacific
ocean and be expects to lay 100 miles Of
track west of Sioux Falls this summer.
The entire line has been surveyed. he
says there will be very large immigration
to his state this summer, consequent upon
the opening of the Sioux, Wahpeton aud
other Indian reservations. Three lines
have been surveyed into Wheeler, Charles
Mix county, on the Missouri river, and it
is expected that one or more of these lines
will be built within a few months, one of
them to cross the river and continue in the
direction of Colorado.
Representative Dorsey, of Nebraska, is
interested with some gentlemen in the
construction of q line from Sioux City to,
Ogden, and he says the work till Be
pushed through as rapidly as possible this
season. He has secured favorable aethan
upon the bill granting right of vuytn cun-
struct a bridge over the Missouri rrvr at
Sioux City. This line Will connect with
the Oregon Short Line ct Ogden andm4ke
another opposing line to the Pacific
1t is understood that President Hill In
tends to push the Manitoba line down
through South Dakota and continue In Che
direction of Denver this summer.
Senator Squire, of Washington, says
that there will be a number Of branch lines
extended in his state this season. while
Senator Stanford's absence from the city
is understood to be in connection with pro-
jected connections of the Southern and
Union Pacific.
Altogether the railroad construct u in
terests are not suffering by the depression
in the money market and the glut in the
markets upon farm produce, if one is to
believe the statements of many railroad
magnates in congress-.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-02
SHORT BITS OF NEWS.

The trouble at the postal card factory at
Shelton, Mass, has been satisfactorily ar.
ranged and the workes are running again.
The Mississippi river continues to rise
at Baton Rouge. La. 1t is now over o foot
above the highest point reached this wear,
DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHAL
FUGGLEMAN, Of Ell Paso. Tex, was killed
by Mexican horse thieves whom he was
trying to arrest.
IN an opinion by the supreme court of
New York, in an assignment case, several
instances of fraud are cited in the sheriff s
Office in New York.
The Ohio house has passed the Mallon
Australian ballot system bill-6e to 81.
1t is thought that the senate will concur IN
this action.
JOSEPH A. ALLEN, n reporter on the
New York Erening Telegram, committed
suicide by inhaling chloroform. He has
been a martyr to rheumatism.
NEAR Cygnet. O., a wagon loaded with
nitro glycerine shells used in shooting oil
and gas wells, exploded. Two men on the
wagon were blown hundreds of wards, and
nothing left of them but q few strings of
their clothing.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-02

IAennanS lTOSFalHs
At a meeting of the Exile Petition asso-
citation in Philadelphia, George KEENAN,.
the Siberian traveller, gave his views as to
what can be LONE for the relief of the ex-
lies. The petition which he presented last
fall, he said, promised to be one of the
largest ever presented to any ruler. He
did not anticipate that it would have any
effect in making the car acquainted with
any new facts, but by showing the intense
feeling abroad in relation to the unfortu-
nate exiles 1t would exert a great moral
effect. Every year, he said, the Rus
sian government is sending people
to the remotest parts of Siberia by
an administrative process. that is,
without trial. They are not charged with
any crime, but the government is satisfied
that their influence is political in the cir
cles in which they move, and they are ex-
lied to the Arctic parts of the country, or
about 5000 or 5000 miles from st. Peters
burg, for five or ten years. Generally, he
said, wives voluntarily accompany their
husbands into exile, and, by the death of
the latter. are soon left without means of
any kind. If there is any reason why some
thing should not be done to alleviate the
miseries of these people in Siberia, he
wished to know what it could be. Mr..
KEENAN, read an affecting letter written,
a few hours before his execution, by
Kohan-Bernstein on exile, to his child,
and he thought that such matters should
be published in pamphlet form for gra-
tuitous distribution. He suggested, also,
cat the movement for the relies OF the ex-
lies could be carried forward j n connection
with that of the petition, saying that the
former would heighten the effect of the
latter.
Rev. DR.. McVickar, the chairman of the
association, stated that the committee at
times was met with the objection that the
stories of Russian cruelty had been denied.
To this Mr.. Herman said he fell back on
the official Russian documents and if he
could not overthrow any reply of the Rus
sian authorities to his charges he was will
ing to sink into obscurity. He was ready,
he said, to go before the international
prison congress, which is to meet at st.
Petersburg, and prove his assertions, if
the Russian government would permit
him to call his witnesses. 1t was time
enough, be added, to defend himself when
he was attacked. He believed his case to
be lmpregnable.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-02
Told in Short Meter.

AOA~ "a IN
P1ERRE's baby show was a bowling sue.
cess.
REV. ANNA SHAW, national lecturer of
the Woman's Suffrage association, is max
ing o tour of the state in the interest of
equal suffrage.
FORTY young Assinnaboine Sioux In.
dams from the Fort Berthold reservation
have gone east to attend the Indian school
at Carlisle, Pa.
OLE JE1NER, who shot and killed his
brother Albert at Richardton, has been re-.
leased, the coroner's jury returning q YER
dict OF justifable fratricide. Albert made
improper proposals to Ole's wife. and in
the quarrel which ensued the former was
shot dead.
FOREST CITY claims to hold the pole in
TIE race for permanent capital, and the
Press says that when the home stretch is
reached in November she will be a winner
by a large majority"
In Pennington county winter wheat has
attained & growth of four inches.
The new tow of Shackton is at the
head OF Medicine creek, thirty miles north
west of Chamberlain. The soil ia the
vicinity Is excellent aud there is a plenti-
tul supply of wood and water.
A VALLEY in Lawrence county bears
the highly profane title of Cote. He'll
eulcb
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-02
A Physician in Trouble,

The sensation of the day is the arrest o
DR.. Jacob J. West, a leading physician
of Salt Lake, on the charge of bigamy.
West two weeks ago married Jams Everell.
a daughter of a leading family, aged 10.
Saturday wife No. l appeared on the scene
and caused the doctors arrest. Wife
No. 2 is temporarily insane over the mat.
ter. Monday in court while the prelim-
mary hearing was IN progress wife No.
8 bobbed up and then there was a scene.
West tried to play the game of believing
the first wife dead, but when No. 3 came
into conrt he said it was a blackmailing
scheme. Finally he changed his tactics and
tried to work the insane dodge. A brother
of wife No. 2 tried to shoot him, but was
prevented by bystanders. West is IS years
old and came originally from Oregon. He
has lived here about a year. He has had a
big practice and was considered an emf
nently respectable citizen.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-02
ALABAMA TORNADO.
A Clean Sweep Over the Earth for About
Seven Miles.

A Clean Sweep Over the Earth for About
Seven Miles.
The upper part of Geneva county has
been visited by a destructive tornado.
Houses, barns and fences were torn to
pieces. Fragments were carried up into
the clouds and scattered in all directions.
The path Of the tornado was only a few
hundred yards in width when it first struck
the earth, but it made a clean sweep over
everything for a distance of seven miles.
Then the black mass of storm cloud Q
high above the earth, and with a
roar louder than the thunder, rushed
on, striking the earth again two miles
further on. When it struck the second
time, the force was greater than at first.
Barns and fences were blown down for .
distance of three miles, and then the force
OF the storm seems to have been spent.
The loss of life is small because the ooun-
try is thinly settled and because the roar
of the storm was heard in plenty of time
for people to get put of its track. One
report places the number of persons killed
or fatally injured at nine, and another at
fifteen. No names have yet been OBJ
tanned. The path of the tornado was
twenty miles from the nearest telegraph
Office.