The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-02-24
STATE AND GENERAL.

N'4N e'phH h'"E 'ODuiu Hall at tHt ez-
pense Of about So, 900
spain has officially disclaimed in posi-.
tive manner the reflection contained in
the De LONE letter and as officially an
nosnced by the State department, tie
incident is satisfactorily closed.
The cost of the disaster TO the Maine
is estimated at about 500, 90. That
is big sum to be wiped out at blow.
but with the American people ii vii
not weigh in the balance as against tie
loss Of nearly three hundred Of their
brave and gallant sailors.
Up to Wednesday night =, 1SG 4G had
been received in the Penobscot 5 J.
court from liquor fines and costs, and il
is estimated that before adjournment
Thursday night the amount sill reach
$500. In ls97 the total receipts from
this scource amounted to =, 9G454
A conditiona. gift Of 5000 from the
Hon. hester W. Kingsley Of CambIidge.
Mass, has been accepted by the board
of trustees Of Colby University. Tins
gift coming close upon the successful,
effort to raise $4,000 for the college
brings encouragement to the friends #
Colby.
The Spanish armored cruiser Yizcaya
is in New York waters. She arrived
Friday. When her officers and men
learned the startling news Of the disas-
ter to the American battleship Maine in
Havana harbor and Of the downfall of
Minister de LONE they broke into a wild
uproar of talk
The Carnegie Steel Company has
/ booked an order from the Russian Gov
eminent for Harveyized nickel steel in
i quantity sufficient for armor in two first
class battleships. The price named is
$500 per ton. The contract was secured
against the bids of English, French and
German armor makers, including the
famous Crupp establishment.
Secretary Longs list of seamen on
board the Maine shows five who we're
born in the Pine Tree State. The names
are; John H. Bloomer of Portland !:
Martin V Webster of Bar Harbor; Frank
C. Talbot and Clarence .E Lowell of
Bath and Eden II. Nero of Augusta
/ Lowell, Nero and Talbot were killed also
VIM. II. Tinsmau of Deering.
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At the meeting of the Woman's Relief
Corps, department of Maine, held last
week at Augusta the following officers
were elected: Mrs. Addie V. Grant of
Biddeford, president; senior vice presi-
dent, Alice 5. Gilman of Oakland; junior
vice president, Nellie NJ. Carleton of
i Winthrop; secretary, Mary Pillsbury Of
Biddeford; treasurer, Almeda Berry,
Biddeford; chaplain, Susan Merrick
Waterville.
! The price of cotton has been so low
this year that Mr.. Booker Washington
is already at work upon a plan to aid
negro farmers in beginning to raise
other crops also. His industrial faculty
is as great as his philanthropic insight.
He has been sending to all the farmers
within accessible distance of Tuskegee
a circular promising valuable package
of garden seed to all who attend this
month negro conference at Tuskegee
The Navy Department has compiled
the following summary showing the
total results of the Maine disaster from
all available official information up to
the close of the department Friday. Tot
al officers and men on board the Maine,
355. Total officers, 20; total men, 329:
total officers saved, "a; total men saved
10; total officers lost, 2; total men lost,
246; total officers injured, 0; total men in
jured, 81; doubtful(men :.
j Miss Frances +. Willard, the president
of the Worlds and National Woman's
/ Christian Temperance Union, who had
been suffering from an attack of intiu-
enza, with gastric complication died,
+ Thursday. shortly after midnight at the
Hotel Empire, New York. At the bed
side of Miss willard at the time of her
death was her neice, Mrs W. W. Bald
/ win, Mrs l.. NJ. y. Stevens, vice presi.
/ dent of the w. c. T. T.. Miss Anna NJ.
! Gordon, Miss Wizards secretary, and
Dr. Alfred X. Hill,
] r. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly re-
view of trade say: The dreadful dis
aster to the Maine, much as it has affect.
ed all hearts, has not much affected bust
ness. Nothing has occurred to check
the increase in production or in working
force The proposal OF a general strike
in the cotton mills to support the New
Bedford strikers does not thus far seem
likely to meet much response. Failures
for the week have been 225 in the United
States, sos last year, and 35 in Canada
against IS last year
Judge 5. :. Stearns of Norway, tells
of "A joke on himself. While in Portland
one day he bought his little boy to!
wheelbarrow and brought it home al
some inconvenience. On the way &
friend in the train turned the wheelbar
row over and called his attention to thu
stamp: paris Manufacturing Co.
South Paris, Name There | was,
says Judge Stearns, trucking from
Portland an article made within mil,
and a half of my homer' But the dis