The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22
STATE AND GENERAL.

The giving way of staging on the
new Catholic church at sanford precip
itated four men 80 feet, and two of them,
John Lawrence of Portland, and John
Smith of Sanford, are probably fatally
injured.
The annual encampment of the Grand
Army Department of Maine will be held
at Bangor Feb. Is and IL, 1899. The
leading candidates for department com
membership are Ex-Governor Robe and
Seth I. Snipe of Bath.
Gardiner has passed the curfew ordi-
nance and the police force of that city
are instructed to send all children under
sixteen years of age from the streets at
nine o'clock. Lewiston people are inter
ested and a similar ordinance is said to
be in the process of construction for pre-
sentiment to the city government.
Terre Haute, Ind, experienced the
worst fire in the history of the city,
Monday, causing a loss of nearly 81
900, 900. There was no loss of life al
though many we're injured. The cause
was supposed to have been live wire
setting fire to the cotton which deco
rated the windows in one of the stores,
Harlow Haskell, % years of age, whose
home was in Rockland, Me-, was found
unconscious at Boston Sunday evening,
with a bottle containing small portion
of carbolic acid by his side. He died
soon after his removal to the police
station from the effects of the drug,
probably taken with suicidal intent.
Baldwinsville, a village Il miles north
of Syracuse, n. Y, was visited by a
disastrous fire Sunday, three manufac-
turing plants being destroyed and
fourth damaged. The fire started in
the plant of the Kenyon Paper Com
pany, one story brick structure, and
spread rapidly to a three story frame
building occupied by the new process
rawhide company. The lost is estimat-
ed at $4,000.
Lieut. Richmond p. Hobson, en- route
| from Nashville to san Francisco, whence
he will sail next Saturday for Hong
Kong and thence to Manila to assist
Admiral Dewey in raising some of the
sunken Spanish ships, stopped at Louis
Vile, Ky, Saturday, and was given an
enthusiastic welcome. lie was the guest
of honor at theatre party and after
ward banquet was given in his honor
in the Louisville hotel. He is being
entertained as the city's guest.
Isaac Mcclellan of New York, the well
know poet, one of the three Oldest grad
yates of Bowdoin college, who has rela-
tives living in Maine, WAS confirmed in
the doctrines of the Episcopal church in
Greenport, N. Y, the other day. He
was in the Bowdoin class of 1928 and is
now 93 years of age. The two other
aged graduates of Bowdoin are Hon.
James ". Bradbury of Augusta, class
of '25, aged 90, and Fred w. Burke,
class of "a, New York, aged 9S years
and 10 months.
Rose Carson White, who escaped from
the State prison at Thomaston in com
pany with Plummer, was found Satur-
day in the barn of a Gushing farmer
where she had hidden in the hay.
Plummer was discovered first and ex-
planned that he was travelling and crowd
cd into the hay to sleep. He inquired
the way to Bath and on its being point
ed out started off in that direction.
Rose was soon after found, taken to the
house and messenger despatched to
the prison to notify the officials, who
came after her.
Forrest j. Martin, Esq, of Bangor,
has been secured by the faculty of the
law school of the University of Maine
to deliver a course of 80 lectures upon
Pleading and Practice in Maine before
the students. The lectures will be given
in the spring term. Mr.. Martin, who is
one of the able lawyers of the State, is
ALI expert on common law pleading and
the students are looking forward with
much interest to the course from which
they expect to receive great benefits.
The faculty of the school are likewise
highly pleased at having secured Mr..
Martin.
George l.. Smith, who has purchased
the birch and poplar stumpage of Dallas
township, has let 1900 cords of birch
and 300 cords of poplar to cut. Among
those who have taken contracts are:
Henry Tibbetts, 500 cords of birch;
Freeman Tibbetts, 800 cords, and Orrie
Haley and Ernest Ross, 200 cords Mr..
Smith has some idea of building a mill
to saw spruce and hard wood somewhere
on the Phillips & Rangeley road near
the Dallas line, probably at log track
No. /. He estimates the amount of
spruce left on Dallas at - millions, be-
sides large quantities of white birch.
w. f. Hagar met with a peculiar and
painful accident in a Richmond store
Saturday evening. 1t appears that he
was standing with his back against the
door glass when some one on the out