The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-05-26
STATE AND GENERAL.

Auburn and Lewiston shoe factories
have received rush orders for about
u, 900 pairs Of shoes for the govern
nent.
The Maine Medical Association will
hold its 10Th annual meeting ia the com
mon council chamber, Portland City
hall, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
June l, : and 3.
The kennebec journal suggests thar it
may yet be- in order for the Governor 10
appoint a caterpillar day" II Maine eX.
poets to keep up her reputation "a an
apple-growing state.
Bates and University Of Maine met at
Lee Park in Lewiston, Saturday after
noon for the second ball game Of thu
season between the teams the other BE-
ing played At OrouO last Saturday,
ates losing l3 to 6.
Col. George \. philbrook was at the
camp al Augusta, SUNDAY afternoon. in
fall uniform. and was greeted warmly
/ by his military friends. His resignation
/ has been in the hands of the adjutaut
| general for several days.
Hon. NJ. p. Frank, whose name was
mentioned for candidate for governor at
the meeting of the Democratic state
committee at Augusta, says that be can
not accept the nomination owing to
| pressing business engagements. Hon.
j. b. Madigan OF Houlton, is spoken of
as candidate says the Portland Press.
| The House committee on military
affairs directed Chairman Hull, Friday,
to call up Monday a bill providing for
! ha ,,F ,,o1 for b,a int al In
tween their enrolment and muster into
service. Also the senate bill providing
that officers of the regular army accept
positions in the volunteer service during
the war without losing their relative
ranks in the regular army.
Passenger lists of outward. bound IL
ners show how seriously the war has
affected ocean travel. The harvest sea
son of the big trans Atlantic liners
usually begins early in April and lasts
until the end of October. 1t is different
now. marked falling off in bookings
and sailngs has taken place in the first
and second cabins.
Secretary Alger has sent to the secre-
tary of the treasury for transmission to
Congress supplemental estimates of APP
preparations aggregating SIS, 63S, $40 re-
quired by the War department for the
support of the regular aud volunteer
army of the United States for the first
six months of the fiscal year ending
June 80 1899, in addition to the
amounts appropriated in the acts of
March - and May t. 1898.
Spanish / per cent bonds are worth
2Qt cents on the dollar. That is to say,
a Spanish promise to pay 500 is worth
5000. United States per cent bonds
are worth 1223 cents on the dollar, and
promise of the United States To pay
500 at per cent is worth sl22 80.
That tells the story of public judgment
as to the outcome of this contest.
An Unprecedented demand for cereals
in alifornia is being met by shipments
OF Nebraska grain to the Pacific coast,
which are matter of surprise and graf
ilcation to railway officials, as we'll as
To the farmers of Nebraska, because the
rates and prices are good. Within a
fortnight POO ears of corn have moved
ont of Nebraska To alifornia over the
Union Pacific.
There will be no State encampment
of the Patriarch Militant, | O. o. +
this year. This decision has been made
! by the state officers and they have sent
out notices To the various canton-
through out the State Ia that effect
1t had been planned to hold the field
= day in Houlton and the lodge there
had extended an invitation to have
the convention in that city.
A tornado struck the village of Pen
, nington, Mimi, Thursday, practically
4 vipng out the place. Three persons
were killed and 30 injured. The sector
foreman and two section men are among
a the killed. There was untold suffering
among the injured people till Nort
could be sent To North ransom, % milei
away, for assistance. A special trail
with physicians and provisions went t.
the scene of the disaster Friday evening
/ The report says that scarcely bnlidins
I is left standing.
p Forty-two persons are known To hav,
lost their lives and IS others are reporte,
injured as the result of the tornad"
which devastated portions Of eastern
I Iowa western Illinois and northern
/ Wisconsin Friday night Iowa lead
the list with ~ fatalities. Fourteen
deaths are reported in Illinois, Wis
consin reports nine known dead. Will
uuconfrmed stories The propert!
damage in Wisconsin while quite heavy
! will doubtless fall much below tina
done in the farming districts along tn,
, Mississippi ia Iowa and Illinois
4 one Of lie employees of the Crane
3 Tury RtiiraH3 n Portland has beer
/ reviewing he records 1T The steamship
: season iust cl8-.d anl Is UharlHv fo
$ tuo statement tbu $4,000 60 If lieish
/ have survived eg,r .tHU r1ao during rh