The Somerset reporter., 1897-11-25
STATE AND GENERAL.

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At the regular monthly meeting Of tic
directors Of the Maine Central, M
George +. Evans, general manager, vas
elected vice president.
London, England was visited By
$ZO,0OO,000 fire, Friday. The burned
area covers 100000 square yards aud 10
ware houses were destroyed.
Minister Woodford has telegraphed
the State department thar the spanish
cabinet has notified him that the Queen
has pardoned the Competitor prisoners
The executive committee Of Tammany
Hall, at their last meeting subscribed
$4,000 for the starving Cubans and
$4,000 for the poor Of New York city
A despatch from Madrid says all the
important insurgent chiefs Of the Phillip
pine islands, have surrendered to the
Spanish authorities, and that Captain
General Primo &c Rivera, announces the
complete pacifcatlon of that colony.
The Havana correspondent of the
Heraldo, has cabled to his paper saying
that in spite Of autonomist projects in
the different provinces OF cuba there
does not exist single sign Of the ap-
preaching submission Of the insurgents.
A shooting ARRAY occurred at Eustis,
Thursday Charles Perry fired three
shots at Louis King, resident Of Eustis.
woundiDg him in the arm, face and
shoulder. The trouble arose over the
alleged intimacy Of Perry with Kings
wife.
Too much Biblical instruction could
not be complained of in the Boston
school reported by the Rev. +. /. Hale
in which he declared that nine Of ten
girls INTERCEPTED as to the history of
Noahs ark acknowledged that they
never heard of such a structure
The gentleman who has had the rank
ing of the examination papers. written
by candidates for state teachers Ger
titicates, has nearly completed Dab, task,
and finds that between 90 and a1 per
cent of The teachers taking the examina-
ton have passed successfully.
Statistics recently published show
that the contributions OF Congregational
churches last year for home expenses
and benevolent purposes were $4,000
5S4, which was sl4.36 per member, ami
that the contributions 81 the ric-0yte-
nan church were l3.29, I5I. being
almost exactly s13 per member.
The railroad commissioners had a
/ hearing in Portland, Saturday, in rela
ton to the petition Of the Wiscasset u
/ Quebec road to cross the Maine Central
road at Burnham. The crossing Of the
main line of the Maine Central road
will probably be at Pittsfield, but this
proposed crossing is at the Belfast
/ branch.
Kenrebec Worsted Mills has been or
ganzed at v aterville for the purpose of
spinning yarn, manufacturing shoddy
and fabrics and doing a general business
in this line, with $4,000 capital stock
Of which $50, SEQ ispaid in. The officers
are: President, Philip l.. Schel Of
New Y DIRK; treasurer, Thomas Sampson
of Ninslow Certificate approved, No
yember Il, 1897.
The Lewiston journal gives an ac-
count OF the moving of fifty ton block
of granite by the Uallowell Granite
company, destined for a tomb for a New
York millionaire, VI. Mckay. The
whole tomb is of solid and substantial
character, the most striking feature is
the cover, SO to speak. Over this last
home of the man of millions the roof is
to be one solid block Of granite. The
roof is OF one piece, twenty and one-half
/ by twenty and one-half feet, and a foot
thick, the tomb will cost $4,000.
Industrial journal, November u:
Maine manufacturers are equal to an
emergency The Orono Pulp and Paper
Company received an order tins week
for MANILA paper for immediate ship
meut to New Yoik. The logs were In
the mill pond at noon Wednesday. but
since that time, under the supervision
of the hustling general manager, Charles
II. Sawyer, the logs have been converted
into pulp and the same manufactured
into paper, which goes forward by the
train at 10 a. m, today, to Portland
whence it will be shipped 10y the Main,
Steamship line, arriving in New York
in season for use Monday morning
The order was for MANILA paper to b,
used for the cover Of a magazine.
Old Jed Buzzell who lives in tn,
meadow land near Greenfield, Me. la.
turned tailor after having passed three
score years on farm and is getting ricl
by making suits for a New York whole
sale firm, as well as for wealthy visitor.
who go to Maine every autumn lhugl
none of the garments which lac con
structs are made to order, they all give
good satisfaction to the purchasers
none of whom complain about the wear
ing qualities or the fit of Buell.,
clothes. This is all the more remarka
BILE because most of his men are ricl
men, who are accustomed to purchase