The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-25
STATE AND GENERAL.

the statement that he has accepted the
presidency of the Washington and Lee
university
The Council of the General Fedora
/ ton of Women's clubs has selected
Omaha as the place for holding the
convention this year.
The New Hampshire house Wednes-
day, unanimously passed the bill pre-
venting the giving or selling of cigar
/ cites to all minors.
The State Pathological soeiety's
meeting at Winthrop, last week, was
we'll attended and great deal of in
terest was manifested
A bill making it punishable offense
to wear high hat at theatrical per-
Torrance in Colorado, has passed the
assembly by vote of AZ to Is.
The New York senate has passed a
bill that persons convicted of train
wrecking by which one or more lives
are lost shall be guilty of murder in the
first degree.
Thomas F. WEIGH on trial in the su-
preme court, Bangor, for assault and
battery upon his wife, Mary Highland
WEIGH, who died not long since, was
found guilty by the jury, Wednesday.
John l.. Best and William Gum of
Portland, have been bound over for
trial at the May term of Superior court
on the charge of selling diseased beef
from cattle afflicted with tuberculosis.
dispatch received from Havana,
says it is reported there that DIR.
Zertucha who was Maceo's physician
and accompanied him at the time the
insurgent leader met his death, has
| been assasinated.
This is in Chicago Warrants were
sworn out, Thursday, for the arrest of
| five aldermen and two other men on a
charge of violating the municipal law
regarding the observance of Sunday,
and the closing of saloons upon that
day.
/ A small fire in the Boston Everett
school, Friday, caused a panic among
the frightened children and in the
stampede 10 or II were crushed and
bruised, some of them being seriously
injured. The fire itself did but little
damage to the building
James II. Kyle was Thursday re-
] Il III
d. 10y the solid Republican vote and the
/ few Populists who stayed by him.
Most of the Populists deserted him but
enough remained to give him the re-
qnired number to elect.
Bangor liquor dealers are no longer
to be allowed to have the easy time
they have had for years past, SO it is
said, and it is to be hoped that the
statement is true. Now it is pay or go
to Jail That's the way it ought to be
in all cases.
In basket of old books that South
| Paris auctioneer bid off at an auction in
aneighboring town recently, he has dis
/ NoNcich wei PieSCi Fou SoPJ VI
Williamson's History of Maine, pub
lished in 1882, and now said to be
worth nearly $50 in the market The
whole cost him 81 %
Adjutant General Common is heartily
in sympathy with the travelling library
! project, and says that even if the eX-
pertinent does not prove a success the
State will not be much of a loser, as it
only means the purchase of a few adj
ditional books which the State will
continue to possess anyway.
The practice of using kerosene to
kindle fires is a bad one, and is indi-
rectly responsible for the death of five
people in leveland, Ohio. BY mistake
the man of the house poured generous
supply of gasolene upon the kindlings,
and an explosion and fire occurred
with the above disastrous result.
The bodies of Rev. Thomas Spicer and
wife, their daughter, Mrs. VIM. Rousnde,
with her one-year old child, and Mrs.
! Waldron, mother of Postmaster valid
ron, were found on the Spicer planta-
ton, n. D., Thursday. All were horr-
bly, mutilated and the tragedy is sup
posed to.haye been the work of Indians
from the Standing Rock agency.
While fishing through the ice for
cells in salt v alter pond at Pretty
Marsh, A. b. Bartlett found frozen into
the ice several bushels of deep-sea fish,
hake, pollock, etc. The wonder is how
they came there, as there is only
small stream that leads into the pond.
Some days later II. l.. Smith found
frozen into the ice in the same pond
good-sized red fox.
Mrs. Addie Stafford was before Trial
Justice Williamson of kingfield, Tues
day, and fined s. and costs for cruel and
abusive treatment of her neice, Bessie
! Kinds, aged II years. Miss Bessie got
away by jumping from the second-story
window and went to her uncle's,, Ste
phen Iander's, in New Portland, reach
| ing there about II o'clock at night by
getting a team to take her there.
Woman's suffrage is meeting with its