The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-13
STATE AND GENERAL.

Darling, the famous guide and hunter in
Maine, died at his home in Lowell
Wednesday.
The Westbrook cotton mills, so long
idle, are to be utilized by the Haskell silk
Go. in the silk industry. T@enty-four
silk looms will be put in Immediately
and that number increased as demand
warrants.
The Lewiston sur reports that citi-
zens of Lewiston and Auburn, were
very enthusiastic over the Maine sym.
pbony concert, given there Friday even
ing. BlauVelt, as usual, was beautiful
to look upon and sang divinely.
Edward Green, a young man of Lew.
iston, has received an appointment at
the Capitol under the sergeant-atarms
1t is understood be will be assigned to
the library Of the Senate His appoint.
ment is due to the good Offices of sena-
tor Frye.
There will be meeting at Lewiston
this week of the managers Of the Maine
State Fair and Eastern Fair with view
to arranging the dates for the fair Of
1898 amicaby. Representatives Of the
New England Fair will also be in at
tendance.
reduction of wages to take effect
January II was announced Friday by
not ces posted in the mills of the York
Manufacturing Co. The amount Of the
reduction is not stated, but it is sup
posed to be in line with cut downs in
other mills. About 800 operatives will
be affected.
! The Ward Line steamer Niagara
which arrived Saturday from Cienfue-
Cos, etc, brought the first consignment
OF sugar from the south side of Cuba
since its shipment was prohibited by
Gen. Weyler. The number of bags
brought is 1850 The Niagara also
brought 206 bales of leaf tobacco.
Massachusetts, is going the wrong way
in respect to the State debt. Governor
Wolcott in his inaugural address reports
that the debt has increased from S4,377-
663 in 1895. to Sl2, 462, 1878 in 1S96-an
increase of nearly threefold in three
years. But the mouey has gone for
necessary public buildings and improve
ments.
Dtn n Co Do, l. h.
of which decided to wind up its business
some time ago, has disposed of the
banks fixtures at auction. Among the
securities sold were number of Arkan-
sas bonds of face value of thousand
each. The bonds brought $51 each. A
number of bonds will be disposed of
later and the affairs of the bank wound
up.
The directors of the new Franklin,
Somerset & Kennebec railway are ma
turing their plans for their summer
campaign. Early in the season the
trains will undoubtedly be running from
Pennington to New Sharon and the
matter of the final terminus of the road
will then be settled, and it will be
known whether Lewiston, Augusta,
Gardiner or Waterville will be the end
of the road.
John Smart of North Haven, is a
wonderful man in his way. He is totally
blind, yet can make almost anything
that can be made of wood with jack
knife. He has two violins, made by
himself, which are very fine instruments
both in tone and finish. He makes a
good many toys for the children such as
knives, forks, spoons, rolling pins, etc.
He is SO years of age, fine looking man
and an interesting talker.
The January term of the S. j. court
will convene at Machias next Tuesday
morning and as several very important
cases are to be tried the term promises
to be long. Cashier NJ. NJ. Foster of the
defunct Lubec Savings bank will be
before the grand jury and the Washing
Iou SoubAy iCoidouloi cspSSiniiy at l1u
bee, are eagerly waiting to hear about
the case as 1923 900 is missing. Severa
prominent depositors will be at the
trial.
The grand jury of the Waldo supreme
judicial court Friday returned six in
dictments, one of which charges Ed
mund Elliott with attempting to murder
Mrs. Kitty Leavitt by shooting. Mrs
Leavitt was fired at five times and foul
of the shots took effect. The shooting
occurred at lodging house in Belfast
Elliott was under the influence of liquor
at the time. Mrs. Leavitt was in very
serious condition for several weeks after
the affair
There was a wholesale cutting dowr
in the force of help at the Sawyer Pub
fishing Co. of Waterville, Friday night
when fifty of the girls in the addressing
department were given notice of theil
discharge. This action is taken not be
cause the business of the company il
falling off but rather because the new
! addressing machine which was put in /
short time ago is now in good working
order and will easily do the work which
has been done by hand.