The Republican journal., 1898-01-27
NEWS Or ThE EEK

NtNE MATTERS. Dr. George H.
.y of the State cattle commission
Hat this year the board has killed
lows. more than double the number
IN tile two preceding years He
-nere is no doubt but that tuberculosis
easing, but with no funds the board
nothing to stop it. Hog cholera is
.-.lL at Cornish at the present time. ~
oldest member OF the Massachusetts
l-.ature is-just as was to have been
14-.-ed--a native of Maine. This is
N- B F Stanley who was born in North
--Hlek Il years ago.....A handsome
.Iels monument will probably be
ted in Danariscotta during the com
summer Harlow Dunbar Post has
l.G-e of the NATTER. Warren has a
I male quartet of singers, one of them
ae.A- a relative of Madam Nordica.
tiam @ Brien Walker, formerly of
'.itland, has been appointed supernten-
l-lr Of docks for Greater New Y ork.......
gnee Hewitt figures that the liabilities
ID. the lime rock firm of Burgess &
BrIen, will not be less than 500, 900,
NIth assets of only $50, 200. VIM. c..
Burgess and f. K. Brien will be left
geuniless and Edward Ellis O. Brien, who
Us personal estate for SIS, 900 to settle
4f firm Indebtedness. The bulk of
VI liabilities are in the form of notes
gt by banks in Thomaston, Rockland,
lldUbOrO, Damariscotta and Portland.
June II. 1870, 500 was deposited in
-4r Nacnias Savings Bank Five dollars
"4~ withdrawn in August, 1879. The
balance remained undisturbed until De
-ba, Ia,
Ieaositor's credit. The Casino at Will
and Beach South Portland, was destroy
I'D ley lire Jan. 10th. A pavilion and
F.fe tisp burned. The Casino cost 81,
JN Wizards loss was 81, 600 An
4elestuon. costing IS, 800, was burn
-t..... Lester Wright, Lewiston high
l1ol boy II years of age, planned an
opement with a high school girl and
t-- c.uple were to have taken the II o.
NJ rain Jan. 18th, for Boston The
'lrment was stopped by teacher il
aAom Jhe girl had contided. :. Messrs.
ltu 4 Davis and c. p. Weber of Ban
htNe made large purchase of wild
liIs from the estate of the late eX- Gov
-ttot Daniel f. Davis and from Senator
eugene Hale and Hon. Clarence Hale OF
and located in townships Nos. and 3,
r.ange 9, and township A, Range Z, in Pen
Ds OF county and township A, range ) in
Aroostook county .A Bangor special
VI the Lewiston sun says The ice bust
less on the Penobscot this winter promises
70 be the dullest that it has been for
many years 1t is said that there will be
"a excellent crop on the Hudson, and il
his is the case the Penobscot river
operators will not harvest great deal.
The houses on the Penobscot have a
apacity of about $50, 600 tons and there
) now 30, 900 tons of old ice on hand. >.
lie forthcoming report of the State
Commissioner of industrial and labor
statistics will include tabulations of facts
leceiyed from one half the cotton manu-
'aeturing business in the State. These
show that the raw material and wages en-
tering into given product in 1880 were
together II per cent while in 1897 the
The same items constituted 81 per cent OF
be product. Taking the value of the
product as a basis, wages have increased
rom Y per cent. in 1880 to 80 per cent
tu 1897. Average annual earnings in
$50, 9249. 10; in 1890, S312.50; il
I947, 1889. 3d.. Mrs. L. NJ. \. Stevens
PRESIDENT of the Maine Woman's Chris
Ian Temperance Union, addressed
lie members of the Bangor w. G. T
and Ladies' Crusade January 18th
Mrs. Stevens opened her address by
epeaking Of her trip through Aroostool
.Hunty where she was warmly received
ne felt that a greater interest is bein!
shown in the work now than at any TIM
u the past u years. She spoke feelingl!
of the last message of Neal Dow, which
vas Go Forward; Be Not Discouraged
Prohibition Will Triumph! and advised
the unions to go on step by step, tt
arouse the Indifferent and to live up t.
The spirit of their motto. 1t was decided
that the State W. G. 7. U. convention
should be held in Bangorin the first weel
Of October SO. Mrs. Pauline B. Cornish
widow of the late Hon. Colby Cornish
died at her residence in Winslow, Jan
18th, after long illness of heart disease
She was born in Winslow, on Feb. IA
1920. Two children survive her, Mrs. J
". Bassett of Winslow, and Leslie c
Cornish, Esq, Augusta. Mrs. c. V
Crossman, one of the most prominen
temperance workers in Maine, died a
her home in Bangor Jan. 18th. She wa
member of the first woman's TEN
perance crusade societies organized il
the country and was for many year
president of the Bangor branch. She wa
also closely Unidentified with all move
ments pertaining to the enforcement o
the prohibitory law in Maine.