The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-07-28
STATE AND GENERAL.

Thursday morning train No. 70, when
a short distance west of Auburn, ran
oAer and killed an unknown man lying
on the track.
The lightning struck the exhibition
building at the Maine State fair grounds
at Lewiston Thursday. The only dam
age done was the tearing off of few
shingles.
After the troops going TO Manila on
the Rio de Janeiro embarked on that
vessel on Friday last, there remained
at Camp Merritt, z23 officers and 1918
enlisted men.
The shipment of spool bars from
Blanchard via Maine Central Railroad
to Portland has begun. About = cars
of this timber has been sold by Geo.
w Stacy to 60 across the water.
Robert d. Towne, has sold the Daily
sun, Lewiston, to George W. Wood,
editor and publisher of the Maine
Statesman. The sun will be run as an
independent newspaper and the States
man will continue to be published as
weekly.
The front cover Of the Maine Central
for July shows picture of the largest
trout ever known to have been taken
from Moosehead lake. This beauty was
captured by Mrs. Frank L. Gardner of
Portland, W fe of the popular Maine
Central conductor.
The largest sale of wool ever made in
the west has been effected by st.
Louis firm. The amount was three
quarters of a million pounds of territory
WOOL which came from the western
and southwestern States. 1t will re-
quire 30 cars TO transport it to its east
ern consgnee.
Geo. Shampigne, Geo. Confer and
Fred Romeo, three Greenville men in
the employ of John Terrill, the well
known lumberman, were drowned in
Moosehead lake last week They went
up the lake to the Penobscot for the
purpose of hosting the gate and on
their return it is supposed that the
canoe must have capsized.
The second fleet Of transports from
the United States has reached Manila.
The China arrived on the afternoon of
July 16 and the Zealandia, Colon and
Senator on the morning of the 17th
Four deaths occurred during the voy.
age, Lieut.. Lazalle and Private Mad
dox, of the 18th infantry, Sargent Ged-
DIES, of the First Nebraska, and Private
Wisebaid, of the First Colorado.
a bust of James G. Blaine has been
placed in the rotunda of the capitol at
Augusta by the courtesy of Prof. G..
Trentanove, the great Italian sculptor
whose statue of Pierre Marquette,
which provoked such universal favora-
able comment, stands in the old Repre-
sentative's hall in the capitol at Wash
ington. This bust of Mr. Blaine is re-
garded as one of Prof Trentanove's
greatest works.
The vacancies in the department of
physics at the University of Maine have
been filled by the election of Herbert G.
Dorsey as tutor and Leon E. Ryther as
assistant. Mr. Dorsey is graduate of
Dennison University and has a master s
degree from that institution. He has
studied at Johns Hopkins. Mr.. Ryther
was graduated at the University of
Maine this year. He had taken a course
in general science including considerable
work in the physical laboratory
Sangeryille is having her share of
prosperity as far as her wooden mills
are concerned. In an interview with
f. Ii. Carr, treasurer of the Sangeryille
Wooden CO., says a correspondent in
the Guldford Citizen, he said they had
orders enough to last them, by running
night and day, for two months. This
company has just received a shipment
of 100000 pounds of wool direct from
Wyoming, which was purchased sever
al months ago.
The Maine Dental Society's annual
meeting was held last week in Portland ;
officers were elected: President, F. w.
Rafter, Gardiner; vca president, A w.
Haskell, Brunswick; secretary, II. A.
Kelly, Portland; treasurer, E. ]. Rob
erts, Augusta; Librarian, Elbridge
Bacon, Bar Mills; executive committee,
7. f. Tibbetts of Rockland, E. C Bry-
ant of Pittsfied, l. 5. Chilcott of Ban
gor, J. +. Harvey, of Freeport, and F.
0. Stoddard OF South Berwick. 1t was
voted to hold the next annual meeting
at Pittsfield.