The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-09-29
STATE AND GENERAL.

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rhe Bath Iron Works have an $50, 900
contract. 1t is To convert the temporary
transport Moha sk into a permanent one.
Foster Nj. Voorhees,, the present act
ing Governor, has been nominated as
gubernatorial candidate by New Jersey
Republicans.
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Nj.
Delcasse, has offered the Peace Com
missoners the use of the Foreign Office
for their meetings, which commence on
Oct. /.
Gen. Lawton's health reports from
Santiago are easter reading day after
day. On Wednesday only IS men fell
sick, while 50 returned to duty. The
worst is over.
\ Waterville statstician figures that the
motormeu aud conductors ON the Water
willie Il Fairfield line travel - $50 miles
each year, or nearly one and one-third
vines around the earth at the equator.
The death sentence of Guillemain,
murderer of John Lapointe at st. Libore,
Que, has been committed to life imprs-
onment on account of his youth. Gull
lemain was arrested at Biddeford, Me.
a special from Pennington says
Charles Valley of Lewiston, % years old,
was killed at Carrabassett, Thursday,
while transferring poplar for the ). ID.
Warren Company of Cumberland Mills.
The fact that yellow fever has broken
out here and there in the south should
not excite CONSERVATION. Medical ex-
pertness, the growth of years of in
innate experience with the dread dis
ease, may be depended upon to stitie the
plague in its infancy.
A South Auburn farmer tells the
champion pumpkin story of the season.
A volunteer pumpkin vine, the product
of stray seed, has yielded Is large,
we'll colored pumpkins. For a volun-
teer pumpkin, with no special advan-
tages, he thinks this vine holds the
record.
| Admiral Cervera has arrived at Ma
dIid. There were no incidents worth
noting in connection with his arrival at
the capital. General Toral, the Spanish
commander who surrendered his forces
at Santiago de Cuba, has arrived at Ma
Grid without attracting any attention.
He is now sick in bed
An important change in army engi-
neers for Maine is announced. Major
K. l.. Hoxie, now stationed at Portland,
and for several years in charge of Maine
harbor improvements, has been ordered
to duty in Washington as engineer sec
rotary of the lighthouse board. He will
be superseded in Portland by Major S.
w. kossler, now stationed at Willets
Point
The grand jury in Knox county on
Friday, the following indictments
Charles C. Ringburg charged with as
sault on Mrs. Ida Kennedy with intent
to kill; John Eaton, assault and battery
on Oliver r. Stewart; two indictments
against Ensign Il. Coombs for assault
and battery; Dave Sawyer, indicted for
cruelty overdriving two horses. Thirty
indictments were found against parties
selling liquor.
The prospect for good winters work
n, Hxtfxh
ice houses are all empty and will be
filled. Our several saw mills will run
during the winter months, while the
shoe factory is employing over three
hundred hands, and has to reject orders,
on account of lack of capacity to fill
them. The old wooden mill will soon
have fifty employees, under its new man.
agement, with prospect of an additional
force in the spring.
The following officers of the High
Court, Independent Order of Foresters,
were elected at their annual meeting at
Houlton: II. c. R., Clarence Scott, Old
town; II. V. G. R., A. K. p. Meserve, M.
D., Portland; H. s., DIR. VIM. McDavid,
Augusta; treasurer, G.. L. Spaulding,
Orono; H. p, T. S. Dickinson, M. d.,
Houlton; member of high council, M. L.
Hunton, Esq, Oakland; high auditors,
A. H. Bailey, Augusta; DR.. M. L.
Damon, Pittsfield.
The state department at Washington,
has received from Minister Conger at
Pekin, information that DR.. VIM. A. p.
Martin has been appointed president of
the Imperial University of China, re-
Gently established by imperial decree.
DR.. Martin is a citizen of the United
States but went to China as a missionary
about 40 years ago. In his knowledge
of the PEOPLE, their language, folk lore
and customs, Minister Conger says Dr.
Martin is considered to have no equal.
A rush to the Klondike, part of
which went overland through Canadian
territory, has given the terrible floating
marshes between the Nelson and Pease
Rivers more victims, among them Fred
erick Short of Chicago. Early last
spring party of seven men, all Eastern
ers, started from Fort ST. John, on the
Pease River, to cross the marshes to the
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