The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-06-02
STATE AND GEN ERAL.

the Boston Iow0oat Company Tor a
grain barge in Boston harbor.
Thursday afternoon at about 3.45,
Rev. and Mrs. NJ. b. Townshend while
out canoeing at Foxcroft, were capsized
in the Piscataquis river aud narrowly
escaped drowning.
The cotton mill proprietors at Calais,
having received a number of large
orders, are thinking of running the
factory three evenings and Saturday af-
ternoons in each week, giving the hands
an opportunity of making plenty extra
time during the coming summer.
The Mount Waldo Granite Co. have
moved two large blocks of granite,
weighing so tons each, from the quarry
to the wharf, where they are to be cut
and shipped to New Y ork to be used in
building a Mausoleum. The company
are looking after some big contracts and
are employing large crew,
F. +. Rogers has resigned as assistant
superintendent of the b. Il A. railroad
and his resignation will go into effect on
May 81, on which date that office will be
abolished. Beginning on June l, w. NJ.
Brown will be superintendent for the
entire line and will have full control of
all train movements and station service.
A fire in Ex-Mayor Jas. p. Baxter's
block at Portland, Friday morning at
5 Is, called out the entire fighting force
of the city. They succeeded in check
ing 1t, though not until considerable
damage was done. The loss will be
about $4,000 with an insurance of
$500 1t is thought to be of incendiary
origin.
VIM. Cheverle employed in running a
die at the factory of Capen Canning Co.,
Eastport, met with serious accident,
Tuesday, through which he lost the ends
of his thumb and fore finger of his left
hand In placing a piece of the tin
under the die he accidently tripped it,
and the two parts came together with
the above results.
The foundations for an extension of
13j by Go feet are now complete and
will support that sized addition to the
machine shop of the Hyde Windlass
Company's works at Bath. This will
make the shops of this plant larger than
the shipbuilding department of the Bath
Iron orks at the time the Castine and
Machias were built
Mrs o. y. Bradbury, now of Norway,
is said to hold the Maine record for
bandage making. She spent three years
in a camp, during the civil war,
with her husband, Dir. O. \. Bradbury,
who was a surgeon in the United States
army, and her son, Major B. F. Brad
bury, is now surgeon of the First regi-
ment. The late DR.. o. y. Bradbury
was resident of springfield, and one of
its leading physicians for many years.
Mrs Bradbury is a sister of W. l.. Serb
ner of that town.
Prof. w. W. Stetson, State superin-
tendent of schools, has been engaged to
deliver a lecture before the National
Educational Association at Washington,
d. c., on the evening of July s. This is
an important event, and shows the high
position which Prof. Stetson holds as an
educator. The subject on this occasion
will be 1.-THE Educational Outlook" He
is also to deliver an address on the con-
dition and needs of our rural schools
before the educational congress at the
Mississippi exhibition at Omaha,
some time during the latter part of
June.
A crew of men at work on the railroad
line at East Machias on the lots of F. c.
Talbot, last week, found four human
skeletons and a tombstone dated 120
years ago. The skeletons were exam
ined by DR.. j. A. Mcdonald of that
place, who pronounced them as follows:
One the skeleton of a child because it
contained the first set of teeth; another
of Young man because it contained
part of the wisdom teeth another of an
old man, because the teeth were worn
showing the use of a pipe; and the
fourth, a woman, as shown by the frail
bones. The remains were re-buried in
the cemetery at that place.
The hull of the torpedo boat Dahlgren
in the plate shop of the Bath Iron " orks
is completed and ready to receive the
engines and boilers. Her sister, the
Craven, lying near by is not as far ad-
vanced in construction. Work on the
two boats has been pushed ahead re-
markably fast by busy crews working
night and day. One of the boats will be
launched in about two months and the
other little later. Many of the cast
ings have been received and the rest are
on the way to Bath The large steel
cargo steamer, Winifred, which looms
up in the Iron Works ship yard, will be
ready to make her maiden plunge into
the Kennebec in three or four weeks.
The launching of the huge vessel will be
grand sight and memorable one, it
being the first steamer of the kind ever
constructed in America.
An explosion occurred at the fire room
of tho electric light station at Bath, on
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