The Somerset reporter., 1897-05-27
STATE AND GENERAL.

over period Of Il days was formally
concluded, Thursday.
Hon. L. 7. Carleton, the chairman Of
the inland fish and game commissioners,
reports that about 100 applications Tor
guides licenses have been received.
"a New York editor has been offered
$4,000 salary TO take charge Of a
university in Colorado. But he prefers
what he deems the higher and more i'm
portant position-the editorial chair.
Rev. j. ". Higgins Of Charleston,
Me, member of the board Of trustees
Of Colby University, has donated the
sum Of 5000 toward the building fund
for the purpose Of erecting woman 3
dormitory
Bids on the contract to furnish the
abutments and side walls Of the Turkey
bridge were opened at Portland, Thurs
day. The Maine and New Hampshire
Granite Co. was the lowest bidder It's
bid was S55,42l
The latest regarding the new senator
from Florida is that he is the son and
not the father Mallory; also that he had
close cali for an election as only the
votes Of some Of the Call men succeeded
in pulling him through.
A special dispatch from Canea. Island
of Crete, says: 1 hat the Cretans have
decided to cooperate with the admirals
commanding the fleets Of the foreign
Powers in the work Of organizing GOV
eminent for the island.
At the intercollegiate debate between
Bates and Colby at Lewiston Friday
evening, the representatives of Bates
wen. The two colleges were so well
matched in oratory that it took the
judges an hour to make their decision.
Among the recent graduates Of the
Cobb Divinity school, department of
Bates college, is Lewis Renwick Clinton.
of Grand Bassa, Africa. Mr.. Clinton is
an African prince and will go back to
Africa to be missionary in his own
tribe.
At West Sullivan, Wednesday night,
the store of the Sullivan Granite Co.,
was entered by burglars who blew the
safe open and took 500 Some mer-
ehandise was also taken, and an attempt
was made to rob the store of Crabtree
Il Harvey.
Mrs. Mary Cushman claims the honor
of being the oldest person living in the
town of Montville, having passed her
a5th birthday, May 9th. She enjoys
good health, her eye-sight and hearing
are remarkably good and her intellect
as keen as ever.
Bangor merchants are receiving a
large amount of grain. The schooner
Lillian has arrived from Boston with
1000 bushels of corn and %, 600 bushels
of oats for j. G. Towle d Co., and the
schooner Olive Branch is in port with
5000 bushels of corn for A. II. Thaxter
Il Co.
The Cuban belligerency resolution
passed the Senate by large majority,
Thursday last, the vote standing Il to
IA, and the House unanimously passed
the Cuban relief resolution appropria-
$4,000 for food and supplies for suffer
ing Americans in Cuba
The building occupied by f. E. Saw
yer as market, and the hardware store
adjoining, of W. p. Mellon, at Phillips
upper village, were burned Friday night.
The loss is So, 700. The fire caught in
Shed adjoining the market where Mr..
Sawyer was curing hams.
Congressman BOutelle has been invit-
ed by the Department of the District OF
Columbia G.. A. II, to deliver the Mem
Orial address at the National cemetery
at Arlington on the 30th of May, but
prior engagements have prevented his
acceptance. Mr.. Boutelle delivered the
the Memorial address at Arlington in
1890.
Bangor's new company, G., Maine
National Guard, has been mustered in
with tifty-two members Stanley 2.
bennett, an ex-Annapolis Naval Cadet.
was elected captain; Frank B. Cum
mings, LIST lieutenant, and Harold :.
Boardman, 2nd lieutenant. They are a
fine body of young men and the new
company starts under favorable auspices.
The Canadian wire and cut nail man.
ufacturers have been shut ont of the
western Canadian market by American
rivals, as result of the changes in the
tariff. There is consequently much
complaint. Americans lay down wire
nails in Duluth at % cents per hundred
pounds as against 81 cents Canadian.
Large orders have been procured by
Americans in Winnipeg.
The losses caused by this year 5
Mississippi flood are being counted now
that it is thought all danger OF further
loss is over. The losses ia Louisiana
are estimated at 81, 10000, in Mississip-
pi $500, 900, and in Arkansas S4,250,-
600, or total of Sl3,500,oo0, not as
serious loss as in many previous years
of overflow, when the river WAS not
nearly as high as it is now
The eighth annual convention nf the