The Portland daily press., 1898-03-19

1t is reported that many of the double
liability cases which have been pending
in Maine have been settled out of court.
These are the cases growing out of West
ern Investments in concerns which after
wards became insolvent. the Eastern
holders of the securities being called upon
for assessments on their holdings under
the laws of the States in which the COM
panies were located.
Superintendent of Schools Stetson notes
with satisfaction largely increased at
tendance at all the normal schools, which
is accounted for in part through the
summer schools, which have led the
teachers to realize the necessity of q
special training for theiy profession. The
constant agitation CT the condition Of
the rural schools and the unfitness of
many teachers, mas also had an influence
The academies and seminaries, as we'll as
the normal schools, are seeing better times
and there is an improvement in the at
tendance. Mr.. Stetson says the towns
have voted larger sums for school pur-
poses than in 1897, the appropriations
haing been specially liberal for text books
and repairs.
and Mrs. R. o. Robbins, formerly
of Bangor, died on Tues
day night at her fathers home in Need
ham, Mass, of blood poisoning. The
origin of the trouble was in q out OF the
left thumb Through the Inflammation
resulting from the cut the left forearm
was involved, but no serious results
were looked for, and Miss Robbins
seemed to be recovering when the poison
suddenly attacked the lungs and caused
early death.
At meeting OF the Maine Mannfao-
turers' Club in Pittsfeld Wednesday, the
mem bers expressed the opinion that an
appeal should be made to the local and
State assessors, and If necessary to the
courts, to prevent what they claim is ex-
oessive taxation. The members say that
the business is picking up and they are
just about getting into q state of pros
perity, when In many localities the taxes
are jumped up to what seems to them to
be an undue rate. They have statistics
as to the value of their plants, and the
business done here and in other PARTS of
the country and these figures it is said
show that they have good case.
The class of 1913, Rockland High School,
are actively preparing for the graduation
exercises, to occur at the close OF the
spring term, early in June. The class
Valedictory, Agnes Skinner; salutatory,
Harry Leach; third part, Beatrice Plum
mer; fourth part, Susie Mcneil; prophe-
cy, Arthur Hayden; history, Fred Derby;
poem, Frances Tibbetts; Ode, Mary
Cole; music for ode, g. +. Packard. The
rst four parts were awarded to the four
students having the highest rank in the
four years course, and the others were
determined by class vote.
a Maine newspaper to the effect that q
few days ago /. man thought to have been
a spy in the employ of the Spanish gov
eminent, was a passenger on steamer
Lincoln from Boston to Bath failed to
raise hair on che head of the most tim
i'd townsmen. AS the story goes, this al
legged Spanish spy came down from Bos-
ton on steamer Lincoln and talked with
the crew about Bath and Popham. The
article states that the Chief of Bath police
is trying hard to locate the suspect. AS
a matter of fact she Chief of the Bath
police laughed when he saw the article
today and said was all nonsense. There
has been no Spanish spya in town." To
quote the words of the night police, 1t
Is all bosh. A newspaper tale made out
of whole CLOTH" In referring to Treas
urer Hyde at the Iron Works the elastic
Imagination of the writer conceived the
idea that that official was going to take
more care in the future about admitting
strangers in order to prevent any Spanish
spies from gaining admission to the
plant. Treasurer Hyde looked at the mat
ter in the same light as did the chief of
police.-Bath Times.