The Somerset reporter., 1897-10-21
STATE AND GENERAL.

Charles A. Dana, the editor of The
New York Sun, died Sunday.
The law court has sustained the YER
dict in the libel case AcNally vs.. Ken
nebec journal.
A Lewiston marketman says that
more Maine turkeys will be ready for
Thanksgiving this year than before for
many years.
1t is confidently expected that At
torney General Joseph hcKenna of
California, will be nominated TO succeed
Justice Field.
The foundation Of what is 10 be the /
great commercial port of Russia was
laid at Yladerostock Friday with con.
siderable ceremony.
A Mr.. Davis at McAdam went hunting
deer the other day but made a record
for himself as a bear hunter instead,
shooting three.
Portland and Rochester freight
train loaded with paper from the Cum
berland mills was wrecked at Rochester
Friday night, occasioning a loss of
$4,000.
This is the bouquet a Richmond
farmer culled one day last week: Apple
blossoms, ox-eyed daisies, yellow
daisies, dandelions, buttercups and
violets
Two cars of quartz passed through
Portland, recently bound for Findlay,
o., to be used in a glass factory. This
may be the opening wedge for new
Maine industry.
John Jewett, the veteran conductor
made his last trip for this season up the
Kennebec valley Thursday, he having
been transferred to the Portland and
Pennington route.
1t is reported that filibustering ex-
petition, including Jose Lorelo Cepero
an American citizen, and Il others, has
been landed at the entrance of the river
Arimao, province of Santa Clara
Carl Decker, the reporter, who sue
cessfully rescued Evangelina Cossia Cis
neros from the Havana prison has arriv-
ed in New York. He says he narrowly
escaped Imprisonment himself and his
success in getting away Was due to his
skill in bluffing.
The son born to the Duke and Duchess
of Marlborough ON Sept. Is, will be
christened John William Albert, a COM
bination of the names of John Churchill,
the first Duke of Marlborough William
X. Vanderbilt, father of the Duchess.
and the Prince OF Wales who will be the
child's godfather.
At meeting held at the office Of the
Wing and Courier a corporation was or
ganized under the name of the Wing
and Courier Publishing company and
the following officers were elected:
President, c. A. Boutelie; treasurer,
Edward Stetson; directors, Hiram H
Fogg, f. r. Burpee and {. A. Boutelle.
Newspapers may soon be used in the
Kansas City public schools as text books.
At a meeting of the local board, j. NJ.
Greenwood, superintendent of schools
said II will introduce a system where
by newspapers will be used as text
books a little later. l am getting the
teachers prepared for it now"
President Mckinley has made the fol-
lowing appointments: Consuls of the
United States--John A. Barnes Of
Illinois, at Cologne, Germany. Leonard
b. Smith of Brewer, Maine, at Curacao,
West Indies. William F. Sands of the
District of Columbia, Secretary of Lega-
ton of the United States, at Seoule,
| Korea.
Mrs. Agnes Barnum, alias Mrs Frank
Atwood, and ". II. Matthews were ar
rested at Boston, Friday, charged with
post office box robberies. Mrs. At
woods statements reveal what the post
office authorities have long suspected,
namely, that an organized gang of post
office robbers has been working in the
principal cities throughout the country
The subscription list of the Gospel
/ Banner, the Universalist publication in
Maine, has been sold to the Christian
| Leader of Boston, another Universalist
paper. The plant will be sold and the
Banner after four more issues will 60
out of existence. Rev. |. A. Mead, the
senior member of the firm which pub
fishes the Banner, has accepted posi-
ton as associate editor of the Leader.
The State Sunday School convention,
closed in Bangor, Thursday, after
three days sitting. Rev. j. NJ. Frost
of Bangor was made PRESIDENT
Rev. 5. c. Whitcomb of Bangor.
secretary; l.. NJ. Douglass of Port
land, treasurer, and Rev. W. W. Ogier
of Thomaston and D. p. Hatch OF Ban
gor, members of the executive com.
mittee for three years. The debt Of the
association, S400, was raised by pledges.
At special meeting OF the stockhold-
ers of the Somerset Railroad Co, called
for the purpose of electng a director
and president, caused by the death of
1 the late John Aver of Oakland and held