The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-09-08
STATE AND GENERAL.

among the volunteers TO he mustered
out. Battery A has returned from Fort
Popham.
The Chintz factory Of Gsrtaido Il Co,
near Rouen, France, was burned. Friday
evening. The loss Is estimated at two
million francs.
State Treasurer Carter Of Concord. y.
H.. has discovered that ex-Deputy state
Treasurer Hiram F. Gerrish is s.. 900
short In his accounts.
Major X. X. Timer of the lst Maine
Volunteers, passed away at his home IN
Rockland, Saturday evening, after an
illness of several weeks.
Prof. A. F. Caldwell of the Maine
Wesleyan Seminery has accepted chair
in the Illinois Seminary. Prof. Cald-
well is native of Oxford in this State.
Bernie c. Carroll, formerly of Lewis.
ton, has been nominated for city justice
of Stockton, Cal, nomination which is
equivalent to an election. The office
pays SZlOO year.
The gold in the treasury is steadily
climbing upward, and, Saturday, again
broke a record with a total reserve of
500. GIG, 2S2, the highest in the history
OF the reserve fund.
Word has been received that satisfae.
tory arrangements have been made with
Spain for the transportation Of the pris-
oners at Portsmouth, \. H., at the ex-
pense of the Spanish government.
Gen. c. p. Mattocks of Portland, Me-.
has been assigned to the command of an
immune brigade and it is understood
will go TO Cuba with the Sd brigade of
Gen. Franks corps.
Commissioner Evans reports that
$40, 000, 900 were expended by the pen
sion office, last year, and the number of
pensioners now exceeds million. Both
numbers are likely to be larger before
they are smaller.
A special conference of the Adams,
American and United States express
companies has been held, at which it
was decided thar the companies would
hereafter bear the expense Of the war
tax instead of requiring the public to
stamp consignmeuts.
A terrible gale struck Savannah, Ca,
Wednesday evening, unroofing houses
and blowing down telegraph poles, max
ing travel in the streets impossible. No
loss of life occurred although the dam
age to property will be fully 100000.
The rice crop suffered to quite an ex-
tent.
The four.master British steam. ship
Columb ian collided with the fishing
schooner Ella NJ. Dougherty, Tuesday
about $50 miles east of Boston in a
dense fog. Only one man was injured
by the falling spars. The fishing
schooner was rendered useless and had
to be towed into port.
The naval display in Boston harbor,
Saturday, consisted of the beautiful
battleship, Massachusetts, followed by
eight other warships of the navy,
smaller but most effective. The Machias
followed the Massachusetts, then the
Detroit, Castine, Wilmington, Helena,
Marietta, Bancroft and Topeka.
Hon. Leroy T. Carleton, chairman of
the fish and game commissioners, says
that the reports from northern Maine
indicate that the woods are swarming
with deer-more than all the hunters
can need. Moose are also increasing in
numbers, while caribou are holding their
own. Upon the whole, Mr.. Carleton
believes the outlook for autumn hunting
is excellent.
H. E. Capen, one of the best known OF
the Maine hotel men, assumed control
OF the Augusta House on Thursday,
having purchased the interest of Pink
ham and Arnold, who opened the house
in June. Mr.. Capen has been connected
with the kineo House five years, and the
Silver Lake Hotel at katahdin Iron
Works and the Bay View House at Cam.
den, for eight years each.
President Mckinley inspected Camp
Wikoff, Saturday. There were about
| 5000 men there. Gen. Shafter had
arrived but Gen. Wheeler was in com.
mand This great camp is to be evacu.
ated by troops as fast as transportation
can be furnished, the volunteers to be
mustered out generally, and the regulars
to garrsons in military camps in differ.
emf parts of the country.
Train No. on the New York Ontario
& Western railroad known as 1.-THE
Chicago Limited, was wrecked at
Ingalls, Crossing, four miles from SYRIA
cuse, Thursday evening. The wreck
was doubtless the work of tramps who
threw open the switch. The engine
was thrown twenty feet and blown to
pieces The engineer, fireman and
brakeman, were killed and ten received
injuries.
f. II. Gerrish, the well-known canoe
builder of Bangor, has received an order
for canoe 16 feet in length from a
German in Jerusalem who will make a
trip up the river Jordan. Maine pro
dupta ~ all Ovar tho world hut an orda,