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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11
WAR NOTES.

A heavy battle occurred near Manila
July 31st. The Spanish forces, num-
boring 5000, were thrown against the
American force in repea'ed attempts TO
turn the flank but they were repulsed
each time with heavy loss, stated to be
about 800 while the loss of our troops,
who fought in trenches, was but so.
The insurgents took no part in the
battle.
Capt. Sigsby of Battle ship Maine
fame, has been assigned to the COM
mand of the Texas and Capt Phillips it
is said will be assigned to shore duty.
The Navy Department has sent out
orders to stop further recruiting for the
navy. The enlisted force is 27,07G and
the authorized war strength is 27,000.
1t is expected that the permanent force
after the war will be very little lowered.
The interesting feature of Wednes-
days news of the war department was
the cable from Gen. Miles stating that
nc uld not neeu enforcement anu auNlS-
Ing that no more troops be sent to Porto
Rico. The effect of this dispatch was
to stop the embarkation of troops at
Newport News and to stop Gen. Wade's
corps from sailing. THIS leaves all of
Gen. Wade's provisional corps of the
Western regiments still in the United
States.
More than "a hours after it had begun
to reach Washington, the Spanish note
In answer to the Presidents peace con-
dtions was presented at the White
House by the French ambassador, Tues
day. The conference lasted one hour
and twenty-five minutes. This prolong-
ed discussion was believed TO indicate
that the Spanish answer was BOT salts
factory IN all respects, though in just
what points it fell short of meeting the
expectations of the President, it is i'm
possible to say.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11

Here is new light on the character
Of Lord Byron. The quotation is from a
letter by John Murray
Lord Byron is curious man. He
gave me, as l told you, the copyright of
his new poems, to be printed only in
his works. / did not receive the last
until Tuesday night. l was so delighted
with it that even as | read sent him a
draft for 1000 guineas. The two poems
are altogether no more than 1900 and
1000 lines and will together sell for
5s. Cd. But he returned the draft, say
ing that it was very liberal-much more
than they were worth; that l was per-
fectly welcome to both poems to print
in his (collected) works without cost or
expectation, but that he did not think
them equal to what they ought to be,
and that he would not admit of their
separate publication.
II went yesterday, and he was rally
ing me upon my folly in offering SO
much and that he dared to say l
thought now / had most lucky escape.
To prove how much | think SO,
my lord, said l. do me the favor to ao-
cept this pocketbook, in which i had
brought with me the draft, changed in
to two bank notes of 1000 and 900,
but he would not take it. y
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11

One Of the erroneous impressions that
Americans have before they try shop
ping in London is that things are re-
markably cheap there. and when they
are set right by actual experience with
the fashionable dressmakers and haber-
dashers they get second mistaken idea
that English tradesmen are extraordi-
narily uncivil. This all arises from the
different customs that govern retail
business in the two countries. In Amer
lea we pay cash for goods or settle our
accounts monthly. In England, how
ever, accounts are supposed to be rem
dered quarterly, and it has frequently
happened that because some patrons
have social prominence that gives their
trade value as an advertisement the
shopkeeper has allowed their accounts
to run for three and four years. Other
patrons have demanded the same priv
leges and have abused them, and the re.
suit Is that to compensate for interest on
money owing by solvent debtors and for
the,sums lost through those who never
pay the tradesman charges goodly
profit on all his goods, aud the prices
are accordingly bfgh. On the other
hand, American women shopping abroad
seem to be bargain mad. and their eff
forts to beat down prices inspire the
tradesman with much the same feeling
that well trained butler experiences
when his nouveau richie master econo-
mixes on his wines. In fact looking for
bargains in Bond street is folly.
Francisco Argonaut.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11
News From the Klondike.

Port Townsend, Wash, Aug. 9-The
steamer Rosalie arrived here last night
from Skaguay. Alaska, with loo pas
sengers from Dawson City, who came
up the Yukon river via the lakes. They
bring advices from Dawson up to July
u and considerable gold dust, estimat-
ed at 500 600. Joseph Barrett of Seattle
brought out about $4,000. Others
brought out sums ranging from $1,000
up to $4,000.
The Dawson market is we'll supplied
with fresh beef at s1.15 per pound.
Mining operations in the Klondike are
at a standstill and will continue So un-
til cold weather sets in. 1t is estimat-
ed that there are about $4,000 idle men
in Dawson eagerly waiting for some
thing TO turn up. This number Is being
sweled eve Y day by new arrivals from
both up and down the river. There are
now more people there than the country
can Support.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11
A Transformation.

Soon after my arrival in Leipsio my
attention was called one day to an eld-
erlv gentleman on the street.
"Do you see that old gentleman with
the big soft felt hat, the blue glasses
and the big UMBRELLA"
"You mean the one who is shambling
along as if he were not just sure where
he is going"
Yes, but you should not speak so
disrespectfully of the greatest of living
psychologists. -
But the mistake was pardonable, for
few would have supposed that he was
not some plain village burgher who
had just come up to town and felt some-
what lost i'll the big city, Once in
Wundt's lecture room, however, one
receives a very different impression of
him. AS the great philosopher pours
forth one of his learned discourses those
plain features light up, his bearing be-
comes dignifed and impressive, and
you no longer think of the ungainly
walk and the quaint mannerisms. -
Roanoke Collegian.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11
The SueZ Canal.

The Suez Cara! is eighty seven miles
long and begins en- the Mediterranean
Sea at Port Said, near the eastern end
of that lnlano ocean and runs 10 Suez
near the head OF the Red Sea. Twenty
one miles Of its length passes through
chain of small lakes ard the rest is in
cutting made mostly through earth. 1t
is ude-water canal without locks, and
since it was Widened and deepened in
the latter part OF the eighties and lighted
by electricity It can be navigated by ships
oil twenty-six feet draft and the passage
can be made BY Gay CT by night. The
speed OF vessels II the cut is limited to
six miles an hour, but higher speeds are
allowed in the lake sections ana the aver
age time OF passage IS now only from
sixteen to twenty hours. as against about
thirty five or ihirtys hours when the
canal was frs, opened in 1860 The
canal makes saving in distance over
the old route around the Cape of Good
Hope Of : IL miles and places Spain
just that much nearer to the Philippines
than she used TO be.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11

Sims recently received private infor.
nation that his son was not combining
himself strictly to the straight and mar
row path. There We're ugly rumors that
the young man played cards and bet on
the horses. Sims determined to double
his parental vigilance. The other even
ing he turned to the young man who
was deep Ill a newspaper and inquired
sharply, "What are you reading, SOM"
"a column under the head of What
the Book Makers Are Doing?'
"I'll tell you what they are doing,
sir, said the old man severely. They
are living luxuriously this winter and
laying their plans to fleece such lam bs
as you next season. They keep up the
race tracks and get rich by fooling
noodle pates like you. I've heard all
about you, sir, and your wild ways.
Order that paper stopped. What are
you laughing at, you young rascal?'
"At your surprising knowledge of
horse race methods | was reading the
literary reviews. Detroit Free Press.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11

by local applications. as they cannot reach
the diseased porti-' OF the ear. There is
only one way 70 cure Deafness and that
is by constitutional remedies. Deafness
is caused by an infamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When the lnle gets infamed you have a
rumbling sound Of imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed Deafness is the
result and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be destroy
ed forever; nine cases out OF ten are
caused by oatarrh. which IS nothing but
an infamed condition OF the mucous sur
faces.
We Will s.se ore Hundred Dollars for
any case OF Deafness Caused by catarrh
that canro; lie cured by Halls Catarh
Cure. Send Tor circulars. free.
F. CHENEY X Co, Toledo. O..
II Sid ly crgg SIS. sc.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11
Crop Conditions.

Secretary McKeen's bulletin for Aug
ust recently gives the condition of crops
IN Somerse, county as follows
Condition OF fruit, $ per cent; grain,
lo2 per cent, hoed crops. 90 per cent.
Elghty-three per cent OF the hay harvest
co. Potato beetles as plenty as usual.
New insecticides used Bug Death, with
not very favorable results in most instan-
ces But few reports Of rust on pota-
toes very little Bordeaux mixture be-
ing used.
The general average for the State is;
Condition OF fruit, s. per cent; grain,
% per cent; hoed crops. % per cent.
Proportion OF the hay harvested. e per
cent. Slight indications of rust on po-
tatoes reported from ten counties, mostly
en- early varieties.
1t will be noticed says the Secretary,
that the average conciiion OF fruit for
Maine, as given By the crop circular Of
the |. S. department OF agricu ure, for
luly, agreed very nearly with the figures
given by US ID our July bulletin.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11
Peace Prospects Bright,

The preliminary negotiations looking
toward the confirmation of peace adj
vsnced a long stride, Wednesday, when
the secretary of state and the French
ambassador agreed upon the terms
upon which future negotiation for a
treaty are to be conducted and reduced
them to the form of Il protocol. This
protocol, it is true, is yet to be signed
and is to be submit, ed to the Spanish
government before the formal signatures
are affixed, but the administration view
as to the progress made, yesterday, was
set out in Secretary Days sentences 1T
is expected that this protocol will be ex-
ecuted."
Secretary Day, at l o'clock yesterday,
made the following statement to The
Associated Press: I'VE have agreed
upon protocol embodying the proposed
terms for the negotiations of treaty OF
peace, including the evacuation of Cuba
and Porto Rico, and it is expected this
protocol will be executed"
1t can be stated that the terms are
precisely those laid down by the Presi-
dent in his original note, about a week
ago.
This was The first admission that the
two governments at last had practically
come together on the basis of peace. 1t
was intimated that what remained to be
accomplished was purely formal in
character and no doubt was entertained
that the signatures required would be
attached in due time.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11

At Republican convention held at
Mercer, Thursday, the 4th instant,
ddate for representative to the legisla-
ture for the class composed of the towns
of Fairfield Smithfirld and Mercer. Mr..
Girdler has long been first selectman Of
the town and will look closely after the
interests of his town and district at the
State capitol.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11
A n1h Man, Crime

West Newton, Pa Aug 9--J0hn
Evans, an old man shot and killed his
wife at her home yesterday and theu
attempted suicide by cutting his throat
with razor. When the officers were
notified Evans fed to the cellar where
he fortified himself and all effbrts "a
dslodge him have been Ruthless Evans
has been separated from his wife for "a
year and WIS intoxicated when haeum-
mitted the murder
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11

IF l were only man, she said,
I've could
POSSIBLY we could, he said but
the chances are we wouldn't. If you
were man, | wouldn he here. I'd be
saying NICE things to somebody who
wasn't man,x
Sometimes Il is worth while 10 think
of such facts as these. Chicago Post.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11

In New Guinea the single young wom-
an let's her hair hang about her should
ers in all its glory; but Immediately
after marriage she must have it cut
short.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11

Benefit combined with luxury. Sever
al parties have the privilege of sea-hath-
ing while taking the Kelley trestment in
Portland. Go now by all means. 4w29
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11

Portsmouth. Aug. S.-Mrs. Wolfsang
Geiger her two children aid the TWO
children of Alexander Green We're
drowned last night in the river, their
boat being crushed by being swep'
against the ptling of the Dover poinl
bridge by the high tide. Mr.. and Mrs
Green and Geiger We're rescued by ~
drawten Ter and assistants
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11
The Somerset Reporter,
A Weekly Republican Newspaper.

~ SMITH. e. e. McNRKLIK.
10. SMITH g. CO., PUBLISHERS,
,0 WATER STREET, sKoWHEGAN, ME.
suBscRIPTIoN RATEs;-One year &l.60; six
~onths, rs cts, three months, 81 cts, when
aid In advance.
Al rs will be charged II not paid until the
md OF year.
ADVERTISEMENTS business and legal adver-
,,sm ents inserted at reasonable rates, adjusted
10 the space used, and the position given.
py,cesquoted on application.
Cards OF Thanks and Resolutions of Respect
inserted at cents per line.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11
ar Taxes.

Notwithstanding the war tax placed
by the Government or medicines. the
price Of Humphreys Speeches. Hump
hreys' Witch Hazel OIL. Humphreys
Veterinary SPECIFICS and Hump hreys'
Marvel OF Healing. will not be advanced,
as the manufacturers, The Humphreys
Medicine Company, have Cecided to pay
this tax that L my not fall upon the
people at large This patriotic stand
will be appreciated by the thousands of
consumers OF Or. Humphreys Specifics.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11
CHEESE. EGGS AND potatoes

a fairly steady cheese market is all
that can be reported. With demand con-
fined to small lots for current consump-
ton. Sales run along al - To cents for
best northern, and to = cents for most
western.
Eggs We're quiet ard steady yester-
day, with a large portion IF the receipts
more or less heated. Sales If fresh vest
ern at 1872 L. II cents. and choice Miehi-
gan at "A 10 l4l2 cents. only a few seize
tons sold at over Il cents. Fresh east
ern Is TO 16 cents. Cold storage stock is
being used L. some extent and gives good
satisfaction. The stock in cold storage
is IL. - cases, against 1852 cases same
time last year.
With larger offerings the bean market
is in buyers favor. and 81 l. o. 10 Is a
fun quotation for large Its If choice
marrow PEA. other kinds ar without
material change.
There has been liberal supply II p
tatoes, with sales thu past W. days at
LEO To 81 g per barre. at the d-putS
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11
The New England Fair.

The New England Agricultural society
will hold its thirty-tifth annual fair and
exhibition at Rigby Park, Portland,
NJ tine, August %, % n. %, 2G, 1898.
At the last exhibition there were nearly
one thousand head of neat stock, em-
hracing all choice breeds and the best
that can be found in New England.
The rotting TO the present year prom
i-es 10 be interesting and exciting
Fifteen II ousand dollars is off red in
purse., insuf1s the entry Of the fastest
horses ana Rigby Park has tn BEST
track in Ne England for making fast
time.
The entries in all departments war;
raut the expectation and cotfidence
th4t the coming fair will he equal 10 any
ever held by the society Ia The graf
attractions that have made former ones
uniformly highly successful.
Appearances indicate beyond reason
able doubt, that peace between America
and Spain is assumed. 1t will take some
time to agree upon details and may re-
quire As hours or even more TO arrange
the protocol for the signatures of the
Ambassador of France and Secretary
Day. II is matter of great importance
and even the preliminaries require time.
Spanish rulers are very deliberate in their
movements. They have their own peo-
pie to please as well as our own govern
ment.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11

Spurious coins are legally made in
{ hina They are used To put in the
collins If NE dead, and the superstition
prevails that 10y make the dead hannY.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11

Hampton roads from Porto Rico Wit
two officers and 102 men sick 70 Of then
of the Sixth Massachusetts, five died on
the way, two of them sixth Massachu.
sets boys. Transport Louisiana, which
lef Santiago Aug. l, arrived in New York
with eight officers and 81 men invalided
home.
SUNDAY. AUG. s.
Lafayette post of NV York sends SILK
flags TO General Miles for Porto RI
schools
Guayamo, Porto Rico, captured by the
Americans after fight IN which several
soldiers were wounded.
Foreign consuls in san Juan advise
the Spanish commander to surrender
but he refuses.
An army officer says that the war bal
loon was responsible for many deaths
at Santiago.
General Woods regulates the price Of
provisions in Santiago.
Soldiers of the Second army corps al
most starving at Manassas, Va.
Canadian American legion volunteer.
to relieve the army at Santiago, as mans
of them are immunes.
Secretary Alger says that there wers
extenuating circumstances in the cas-.
of those troops of the Seventy first New
York regiment criticised in Genera
kent's report.
Captain A. 5. Barker gets the Oregon
and Sigsbee is again disappointed.
Senator Foraker SAYS it would be moth
ing short of crime to restore the Philip
pines to Spain.
SAID to be impossible for the Spanish
company to fulfill its contract for trans
portation OF troops to Spain.
Men just out Of hospital put on a
march from Camp Alger to Manassas
and II of them break down, five of then
from the Ninth Massachusetts.
Cruiser Maria Teresa hoated and er
route to Norfilk
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11

supply - ltsr. Drawn mn NJ, -g.r-
~" T 'o"' Stands
Dot
'is 0usA'' maj nj
XII '''"H last @ssk. ne iaet
INA ..a5sis ar faiAng DICK IN cold
tt"iats STOCK. az evidenced - the taking
but u 100 tubs last 9esk Is proof that
they fhitk j. b. about ea.e t. call Il hat
oH tn upward trend II the market Oh
fresh eaals. but whether tbs ~.ll act az
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11
TUESDAY. AUG. 9

Assistant Surgeon Edward l.. Munsor
reports to Surgeon General Sternherl
on the fearful conditions and the causes
of the lack of supplies at Santiago. H.
virtually charges General Shafter witt
the responsibility, but that officer re-
fuses To assume the blame.
Navy department has authorized tht
discontinuance of enlistmeuts: fore
now numbers 27076. and $4,000 will be
kept.
Spaniards made a sortie and attacked
the American line at Malate, Philip
pines. were repulsed with loss of about
200. The American loss was nine killed
Health conditions at Chattanooga
much improved, drinking water Of thu
men 10 be boiled.
Death of Colonel Began of the Ninth
Massachusetts at his home in Charle s.
town.
Captain Charles d. SiEsbee is assigned
to the command Of the battltship Texas
as Captain Philip is said to have beer
sent 10 tn Mare Island navy yard
Secretary Long writes a brilliant letter
IN defense Of Admiral Sampson. WIN
he says. has been cruelty aspelssd d.
Miles men, three regiments of volun-
teers. capture Caimo. with zoo Spdniards
and 20 more killed: American loss five
wounded.
Extracts from the correspondence,
of Shdfter and SAMPSON just before tn,
surrender OF Santiago, show that TIL
reason Samson wanted to Iarticinat.
in the negotiations was because h
felt the result was due to the action oil
the combined forces
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11
II HES MARKETS.
Butter Prices No Higher Than
Last Week.

Receipt Falling on and Dealers Calling
Haft On Upward Trend=CoId Storage
supply of Legs Drawn Upon-No scar
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-08-11

.rrnxD As SECOND GLASS NAIL MATTER.
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MONDAY, AUG. S.

Admiral Dewey says that he ceule
have captured Manila on the day II,
DESTROYED the Spanish fleet, but his fore
Of men was too small TO hold the city
The McCulloch captures the Spanish
gunboat Leyte and adds it to Dewey
squadron
Tug Hudson captured one Spanish
sloop and sank another off Cardenas.
Correspondence given out by navy de-
partment which shows Sampson and
Schley to have been in perfect ACCORD
as to entering Santiago harbor.
Porto Rico dispatch to Madrid says
the Americans have seized Fajardo
which was without garrison.
Madrid has news which says that L
Spaniards were killed in the defense OF
Guayama.
The war has lasted los days; 266 Amer
leans were killed, just the number lost
by the destruction Of the Maine. and
l400 wounded; Spanish losses, 1000 killed
1880 wounded.
Official word received that the Spanish
cabinet had approved the reply ae.
oepting the American peace conditions
Many of the patients at Fernandina
cannot be given proper treatment on
account of shortage of medicine.
Death of Brigader General Poland 4
typhoid fever in Asheville,-N. c.
SPANS reply came in sections.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-06-09

Statistics compiled for railroad rec
ords indicate that inexperienced EN-
ployes are more careful than those who
have grown old in railroad service,
According to these statistics the larg-
est average Of injuries occurred after
the employees had been in service six
years, and the figures given would in
dictate that the employees as general
rule are careful up to the time when
they have been In the service three OF
four years, and then become more care
less until about their eighth year OF
service, when the figures show that
they again become more careful, as
those who had worked over ten years
have q smaller comparative percentage
OF injuries than those who had worked
six years.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-06-09
WORK OF CONGRESS

Washington, May 2S. \ notable
speech on the war revenue measure
was delivered i'm the senate by Mr..
German of Maryland. In the course
of an argument in support of Il tax
on corporations he denounced aS lin
famous the decision of the supreme
court declaring the income tax law Of
1894 as unconstitutional. The warn
ing sounded by some senators that il
tax were placed upon corporations it
would be pronounced unconstitutional
by the supreme court had. he said. no
effect upon him. A decision against
such an enactment would not destroy
our financial structure, but il would
destroy the court which should hand il
with the majority of his fellow Demo
Gratis upon those propositions To coin
the silver seigniorage and TO issue legal
tender notes. and made IA powerful ar
gument in favor of the issuance OF
bonds 10 raise funds with which 10
prosecute the war. Mr.. Teller con
cluded his speech advocating the coin
age Of the seigniorage. the levying of
an income tax and the issue of legal
tender notes. and opposing the issue
of bonds. Mr.. Nelson Of Minnesota
presented carefully prepared argu-
ment against the issue of legal tender
notes. In speech of two hours Mr.
Cockrell Of Missouri discussed the
financial questions in contention.