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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

WAsHINGToN, Feb 81 The Jones silver bill
made its exit from the senate, The disposal
OF The measure was emphasized by the deci.
size vote Of 81 to Il IN Mr. q trman's motion to
take up the Indian appropriation bill
WASHINGToN, Feb. 2!.-rhc senate refused
to reconsider the bill extending the time for
making income tax returns. The house re
fused to concur IN tn, Hawaiian cable Appro
priatlon.
WAsHINGroN, Feb 23.--The senate occupied
the day with the Indian appropriation bill,
and the house with the deficiency bill.
WAsHINGToN, Feb. %. The senate killed
the pc ing Ill by refusing to take 1t up The
Indian Appropriation bin WIS passed. The
house further considered the general detici.
ency bill.
WAsHINGToN, Feb 20 The senate passed
an amendment providing for the purchase Of
the Blaine lot The house refused to app p
pirate IN lney TO ply the Bchring sea award.
WAsHl NGToN, Feb :. The house passed the
bill providing for arb traitor OF railroad labor
disputes and that authorizing the publication
of bi.monthly labor bulletins.
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Legislative Affairs.


Tuesday at Augusta, the State Col
lege appropriation came upin the House
amended by the Senate so that $25, 900
per year for two years was appropriated
instead of $25, 900 year for ten years.
The House by a vote of - cOncurred
in this action and passed the bill to be
engrossed.
The following bills ana resolves have
been enacted
Resolve making appropriations for the
Penobsoot Indians, about $1,000
Resolve in favor of Canada road
Resolve in favor of the town of NADIA
waska.
Resolve for the Maine State Year Book
and Legislative Manual for 1895 and
1896.
Resolve authorizing the insurance
laws of Maine.
Resolve to refund certain taxes on
township No. 4, Range 5, Somerset
county.
Act to extend an act to supply the
people of Gardiner with pure water.
Act to amend sec. l3 of chapter GA of
the revised statutes relating to the pro.
bate of foreign wills.
Act to extend the privileges and
power of Bar Harbor Electric Light
Company.
Act relating to the Rumford Falls q
Rangely Lakes Railroad Company.
An act to amend the charter of the
kennebec Water Power Company.
Act to authorize licensed taXidermists
to receive and have in possession fish and
game for the purpose of mounting.
Act TO legaliae certain doings of SkoW-
hogan Electric Light Company.
Act to establish Waterville Hospital
Act relating to taxation of express
companies, corporations or persons.
Act to extend the charter of Castine
Railway & Navigation Company.
Act to prevent the destruction OF
smelts in the bays, harbors and coves in
the town of surry.
Senator Day of Penobseot put in a bill
providing an amendment 10 the law It.
lating to investments by savings banks.
This amendment adds the words iii
cash to the provision of the present
law which specifies the electric rail
roads in which savings banks may in
vest to be those having capital stock
equal in amount to fifty per cent of the
mortgage debt paid in. This amendment
would provide that it should be paid in
cash.
The tax committee debated and voted
Ii the listing bill, Tuesday afternoon
The vote stood : ought not to pass and
3 ought to pass. Regarding the propo-
sition to exempt Y. NJ. c. 4, property
from taxation, the vote stood in favor
and 3 against.
Prof. Lee of Bowdoin college was be.
fore the committee on education relative
to an appropriation for topographic
map of the State. His talk was exceed
ingly interesting and he explained in a
most convincing manner the importance
of having such map and its usefulness
to almost all classes of people. The
plan outlined would be to make the mar
in cooperation with the United States
geological survey as Massachusetts and
several other New England states have
done, the State bearing half the expense
and securing the plates from which the
maps are to be printed.
Gov. Cleaves veto message of the bill
giving extra per diem and milage, to the
Supt. of Insane Hospital, was sustained
in the Senate by an emphatic vote
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How to DO 1t.

Mr. Editor
There seems to be considerable diff
Guilty in dividing the town of Madison.
to suit anybody, even the most ardent
divisionist Now if you will allow dis
interested outsider to make a plan, and
you will publish it, we think the thing
could be done and some benefit accrue
therefrom. Nature has done nearly
half the work in placing Hayden Lake
as it is and if the town is to be divided,
this most natural boundary ought not
to be overlooked. The strip on the East
should go on to Cornville, and make that
town up in area what it was before the
strip on the south was given to Milburn.
Cernville is town with no village,
hence the need of anneXing one, and (by
the Way when the upper and lower
mills at East Madison, are developed, as
they will be in time, they will be filled
up between them aud make quite IA re-
spectacle village. We only throw this
out as hint to those interested.
NTNO
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The u. S. Loan Abroad.

The London Standard says in refer
ence to to the premium on the new L. 5.
loan:
This makes the prices of fully paid
bonds equal to ll9 and as 100 represents
the capitalization on three percentage
basis, the quotation looks high for Sc
curities of such an uncertain future
but the buying is said tot be on the
American account, which is the best
thing that could happen. If, however,
the loan be bought by the United States
investors at much above the selling
price, where comes in the influence of
the loan in checking gold exports from
New York. This indicates that had
opportunity been given to American
banking houses much better trade
could have been made, a handsome saw
ing effected the government, and about
as much gold kept in the country as by
selling to the British syndicate.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

The Aroostook Republican issues IA
remarkably fine Souvenir edition to
commemorate the extension of the
Bangor and Aroostook railroad to Carl
bou. 1t was great event for the town
and for Northern Aroostook, and the
number issued in honor thereof WAS in
keeping with the event. Beside its
elegantly illustrated cover its "a large
pages contains 1909 engravings of scenes
along the Bangor & Aroostook railroad,
buildings, portraits of prominent citizens
and other views, not neglecting the
Aroostook potato field. The paper also
contains short historical and descriptive
sketches, a poem on the new railroad
and many brief biographies, all very in
teresting, particularly to natives of this
big, rich county, among whom the editor
of this paper has the honor to be num-
bered. Long may Aroostook, the B. q
A. Railway with its plucky president
and genial manager, Hon. A. A. Bur
leigh and F. w. Cram, and the Aroos-
took Republican live and thrive
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28
OMNIBUS RUMBLlNGS
Lead to the Belief That Revolution IL
Immnt n In Cuba.

HAVANA, Feb 27.-Martial law has been
declared here and the police and Spanish
garrisons throughout the island are on the
alert to prevent an uprising. Slight out.
breaks have already occurred at Cienfue-
gos and Matanzns. At the latter place
three Cuban patriots have been arrested
and small quantity of arms seized.
The coastguards on land and gunbonts
by sea are palroling the coasts to prevent
the landing OF tllbusterers from Florida,
Honduras or Costa Rica. Spies In Tampa
have reported unusual activity among
refugees, and have forwarded some infor-
nation of general conspiracy afoot. The
government seems to fear an instruction,
and Is taking extreme measures to stamp
IL ont
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State

Mrs. Betsey Titon, probably the old
est resident of Androscoggin county,
died at Moose Hill Livermore. Wednes-
day evening, aged 9s years.
Capt. Levi Harris buildings at Ten
ants IIarbor, were burned, this morn.
ing, store, hall, dwelling house and
stable connected. Few goods were
saved. Loss, $1,000; insurance ON
buildings, $1,000; furniture, $500. Cause
probably a defective chimney.
Nearly GOO acres Of ice ON the keunc.
bco river have heen serapcd, cut and
harvested up 10 date. 'lhe Philadelphia
kuickerboekcrs alone having 235 acres,
distributed as follows: IlalloWell. 20;
Old Orchard oat Chelsca1, 30; Randolph,
20; Smithiowu, 60; Dresden, 20; Ice
boro, Il; Swans ISLAND, 10.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

WAsnINGToN, Feb. 25.-Ihe jury in the
case Of Ii. W HowEate, charged with EN-.
bczzlement, returned verdict If aeaaittni.
The jury found that the case was not
barred by the statute Of limitation, but
held that Howgate vas not guilty Of the
particular offsnses charged After the
verdict was rendered, Howgate was sent
back to jail to await trial on the seven in
dictmsnts still remaining against him
1t is not known which Of these Will first
be tried
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The Warrant.

-
the seleetmen TO assemble at Coburn Hall
Nond.y NV. u,,,h ~ .,.15z5=
- '''
anu AT ui'oi 'ie 'o'o"ihs ei''0'e'
First. 10 choose a moderator 10 preside
at sand meeting.
Second. 10 choose a town clerk for the
ensuing year.
lhird. 10 choose seleetmen, assessors and
oVerseers oil the poor, and all other officers
required by la" to be chosen IN the month Of
March, annually.
Fourth. o see II the town Will vote to
RAISE sum oil money Tor making and repair
ing highways IN SAID town and to determine
no" II shaii De expended and pass all votes
necessary respecting the same
fiith. o see II the town VIII vote toraise
TWO hundred dollars TO be expended IN "lt-
ehhg the high"ay from flnc street To Nor
fidBe"oek town me and pass all votes nee
essary respecting the same
sixth. Il see II the town will accept a
new street 10 be called Dyer street. extend
ing from Madison street 10 North street, as
, ,, GU, ny the se'ectneh on Petitioh oil IL.
"N0heii ana o'hers Win bounds and al
meas eiiei,'s III accordance WIN thef VIII
'gh return ehefeoi now on HE with the tow n
cletN'
seventh. o see Il the town VIII accept
~" S"ee' u NC c"ilea iioSPee. street. eE-
tehHIB from Madison street 10 North street
as laid out by the seleetmen on petition OF W.
a h9lleY ana others, win bounds and All
eaSufehen's IN accordance with Their writ
'G" 'e'otn 'he'eo' no" on NE win the town
e'elN'
E'si''h. . see Il the town VIII accept an
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speech upon the new bond issue Sena-
tor Sherman of Ohio did not hesitate to
point out in a forcible, if somewhat
indirect way, the fact that John G..
Carlisle is purely an executive clerk aud
that all the policies of the great depart
ment over which he presides are those
Of MIR. Cleveland. This is by no means
disadvantage to the government, for
it appears to be pretty generally COLI
coded that the president rs the soundest
financier of the two.
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Lewiston journal: The criticism of
President Cleveland for giving the for
eign syndicate a chance to make So, 600
600 in three days time in the latest issue
of bonds, should be tempered by our
knowledge of the Congress and of the
Secretary of the Treasury that he has
had to contend against The President
undoubtedly did bunder in uo5 adyertis-
ing for bond.bids but his Congress ha.
done something worse than blunder-it
has attacked patriotism and honesty.
But this bond Issue has shown that the
credit Of the United states, is gilt-edged.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28
A Scientific Discovery.

Scientists the world over have been
greatly interested lately in a newly dis
covered constituent of the air. Chemis-
try has reached point when new dis
coveries are interesting from their rarity.
Therefore, when Lord Rayleigh and
Prof. Ramsey made formal announce
ment of their discovery to the Royal
Society of London, about two weeks
ago, an exceptional degree of interest
was manifested. Elements have been
discovered and named within the past
few decades, but they are all compare
lively rare in occurrence. Now, how
ever, something is found in the air, form
ing almost one per cent of the atmos-
phere. Whether this newly discovered
the oxygen or nitrogen of the air, has
rot been positively determined as yet,
although the evidence seems to point to
the conclusion that it is an element. 1t
is a colorless gas with properties much
the same as those of nitrogen, which
fact has prevented its discovery before
However, it is slightly heavier, and is
characterized by even greater chemical
inertaess. This latter popularity is ex-
pressed in the name given to the new
find, "Argon,' from the two Greek
words meaning mo work.. 1t is early
to speculate whether Argon can be put
to work for the benefit of mankind but
chemists will search doubtless for many
years to discover some means to that
end. Scores of chemical substances have
been wrongly named and let us hope
this Argon will not always deserve its
name.-S Somerset 1rgHS.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

But two days remain for the present
Congress to act and the branches are
hard at work on the appropriation bills.
By rider to the sundry Civil bill the
Senate provides for the payment of
sugar bounties due for last year under
the Mckinley act. The appropriations
of the present congress are said to far
exceed the "Billion Dollar congress of
which the Democracy has so much to
say.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

DR.. John Swan of WestbrOok, Maine,
the specialist in all nervous diseases, has
been elected managing Medical Director
of the Seates Medical Co., and all mcd-
cincs bearing his name will be compound
ed in the future under his personal
supervision.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

Boston journal: The order that all
railway mail clerks must take up their
residence at one end or the other of the
routes to which they are assigned seems
TO be an extraordinarily arbitrary and
senseless proceeding. There is "a con
slant disposition to tie the postal service
up with more and more red tape, and it
is an evil tendency which ought to be re-
sisted. This would appear to he a par
ticularly fragrant instance of an abuse of
Executive authority.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

Sir William Harcourt in the House of
Commons, Monday spoke strongly in
favor of Bi-Metallic Conference, and
stated that England will join in a move
ment fol- an international Conference in
the interest of Bimetal.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

Gen. Lew Wallace is being severely
criticised for publicly defending the
Turk. His personal acquaintance with
the Sultan seems to blind his eyes to the
unfavorabe aud atrocious things in the
government of Turkey.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28
MilI Sue ColIectnr.

PROVIDENCE, Feb. p collector Bvx
bee recently appointed Mylys McNamee a.
an income tax collector. McNanre has
instituted proceedings against Byxb,e.
alleging that after the latter had aecep. =, [
McNamee's bond and ~he had taken the
oath OF office Charles W Murphy was ap
pointed in his place
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Arson Quarterly Meeting.

The next session of the Arson . NJ.
of Free Baptist churches will be holden
in North Arson, March and :, com
mencing, Wednesday at 10 o'clock A. ".
and holding through the day Thursday.
All are cordially invited.
LEONARD lit IlulN>. Scribe.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

LOWELL, Feb. % the employees of Oh.
Lowell Manufacturing company ye>t r
day formed an association Tor the purp.
of collecting a fund tosupport beds in
hospitals, which are 10 be free to euplo, .,
of the corporation. Each employe wil. 9,
asked to contribute 3 cents month t.
this fund
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

The death of Fred Douglass removes
one of the most notable men of the times
and the most prominent among the
colored men of our. Nation. He oceu
pied a conspicuous place in the history of
our country in the days of the anti
slavery agitation preceding the war
His early struggles for an education and
for freedom were arduous, and at last
were crowned with success. His age
was IS years.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28
Moorish Capital In Rebels Hand.

TANGlER, Feb 25.-Rebel tribes have
entered and looted Morocco City. one {
the capitals Of Morocco. Serious tlxhti.y
occurred before the city fell into the nan i,
of the rehels. and many on both sides were
killed A British warship has arrived her,
from Constautiunple
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28
INDIGNANT OUlDA.
She Protests Against Any Public Library
Censorship of Books.

She Protests Against Any Public Library
Censorship of Books.
There is another matter in which, to
my view, great libraries are as much at
fault as when they desire to dictate the
price of books 1t is when they at.
tempt to constitute themselves the cen
sors OF opinion, the judges of what the
public should or should not read. 1t is
as monstrous for librarian or a COM
mittee of librarians to exclude work
which is asked for from their book
shelves Oh the score of its immortality as
it would be for a grocer to refuse to sell
a customer tea because he thought it bad
for the nerves. The puryeyor has no
business to dictate the tastes of his sup
porters The public is the sole judge csf
what it wishes to read. If the wickedest
book in the world be in demand, the
circulating libraries, which are merely
the go between, uniting the publisher
and the reader, are bound to supply it.
Its character is no affair of theirs. They
are not popos or police officers, nor Il
the public child or ward in Chancery.
-Ouida in North American Review.
Unfortunately Put.
"Uncle " said the impecunious neph-
ew, you ought to go and see the new
play. You would just die laughing"
The old man merely glared. In few
moments later there could be heard the
sound of scratching pen as he altered
his will for the forty fourth time.
The Rebubieans of Watervillc, Satur-
day evening nominated for Mayor Chris
tan knauff by acclamation.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

NEW HAVEN, Feb 26 The criminal
suit against Jeremiah Olney. comm.s.
sioner OF the Connecticut school fund, .lr
alleged taking OF Illegal commissions, :
been postponed, and Il is not likely tA4t
either it or the civil suit of e1-Comptro.ler
Slaub will be tried
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

Boston Record The death of Fred
Douglas takes away a man who was cast
in many ways in larger than the com
mon mould. His work for the freedom
of the blacks won him place in Ameri-
can history. He became an inter
national figure too in his way, when he
fled to Englan to avoid capture shortly
after the abolition of the corn laws, and
the movement for his freedom won
many English supporters.
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nedouins Canture Mn.cat.

CALCUTTA, Feb IS The greater por-
tion of the city OF Muscat has been cap
tured by insurgent Bedouins The sultan
fed from the palace, but eventually TEE
gained the eastern portion Of the town
The fighting continues.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

This is the last week of the ADD Con-
gress. There WAS never another like it
and people will feel a relief when it is
among the things of the past.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

MAssowAH, Feb. -. Dispatches have
reached here 10y carriers from Allow
stating hat Emperor Meueak lost .ulu
warriors IN the last raid at NoIlamo. HI,
forces killed 700 Galias and captured
l1,UUO slaves.
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Belfast journal Everybody seems
to be after an appropriation from $500
to 100000 and unless the brakes are
put on the treasury will be depleted and
the State bankrupted. 1t behooves the
watch dogs of the treasury to be on
their guard The people are in no hu-
NOR to stand any monkeying with ex-
pensive schemes
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The Somerset Reporter,
A Weekly Republican Newspaper.
Il. e. McNERLIK,
!. o. SMITH.

l. o. SMrrH. r. e. McNERLIR.
10. SMITH & CO., PUBLISHERS,
1Ss WATER STREET. sKoWHEGAN, ME.
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Boston Journal :-Fiftv-third Con-
gress will need no monument to keep its
memory fresh 4 loss of sixteen mill
ion dollars distributed through the next
30 years will be a sufficient reminder of
its imbecilitv.
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Boston journal Our cuckoos will
be delighted to learn that the London
Tory press is stgmatizing President
Dole and his New England-born asso-
cates as lawless gang of "American
adventures" This is a sharp reminder
of war days, when every calumny of the
copperheads was eagerly caught up and
echoed by Union haters in Europe.
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euBscRIPrIoN RATRs;-One year $1.50; SIX
months, rs cts; three months, 81 cts, when
said In advance.
s1.76 will be charged IL not paid until the
nd of year
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

France has sent three war ships to
San Domingo, and Secretary Gresham
has demonstrated thereat. France re-
plies that France has long held claims
against San Domingo, that cannot be
settled by ordinary diplomatic methods.
Secretary Gresham replies that the
United States has claims against San
Domingo ante dating those of France.
The French reply comedies the point but
states that immediate reparation was de-
manded only in the case of French
citizen who was assaulted with the con-
nvance of Dominican officials. This
the United States very properly asserts
does not warrant hostile naval de-
monstration. And here the incident
rests for the present.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

Governor Cleayes sent in a message to
the legislature. Wednesday, submitting
some suggestions relative to financial
affairs. He Says the appropriations al
ready made for 1896 amount to 81 ,29s,-
057 an increase of $53,633 over appro-
priations made for the same purposes in
from the State treasury, and he asks the
most careful consideration of these, and
intimates that this course will be
necessary in order to make the reduction
in rate of taxation recommended by him
in his inaugural address. The message
is timely.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-02-28

The Republicans of Watervilc, Satur-
day evening nominated for Mayor Chris
tian knauff by acclamation.