The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-11-24
STATE AND GENERAL.

VlllC hlgh school, graduate of olby in
the class Of ~, has received a flattering
offer to teach Greek and Latin in a
" estern school. This il the third offer
hr. Dyer has had since he has been at
sanRerylle. This time he has been
offered salary Of s14OO.
The successful launching Of the crm
ser Nadiejda at Bordeaux, which will
soon be ready for sea, marks the begin
ming Of Bulgaria az a naval power. She
is really torpedo boat destroyer, being
Of but 7j0 tons displacement. she is an
exceedingly diminutive copy Of the
Russian ironelad gunboat Khravy.
Joseph Wyman Of Vassalbofo, aged 81
years lies in very critical condition at
his home in that place, caused by being
thrown by a large barn door, recently.
Mr.. Wyman is a shoemaker by trade,
and on the day previous to bis accident,
he cut out and partially made pair Of
shoes for an old friend, who is % years
of age.
Advices from Vancouver, B. C., per
steamship Empress Of China, tell of a
terrible disaster in an inland sea on Oct.
%, when the steamer Kinshiu. Maru
came into collision with the steamer
Myagawa MaIu off Takami, with the
result that the latter sank in three
minutes. 1t is reported that 70 were
drowned.
Biddeford now puts forward a claim
to being the cosmopolis of Maine In
addition to the usual number of French,
English, Irish, Hebrew, Italian and
Scandinavian residents it boasts of Sy-
rians, Egyptians, Chinese, Russians,
Germans, Austrans, Firms and two
Greeks-one a native of sparta and the
other of Athens.
Nelson Z. Thomas, son of Rev. w. II.
Thomas, pastor of the Bates Street Bap-
fist church of Lewiston, took the Dodge
entrance prize at Colgate University at
Hamilton, \. Y. MIR. Thomas, who is
a brilliant scholar, was for short time
a student of the Lewiston high school
and graduated from Coburn Classical
Institute last JUNE.
Byron w. Hardy, freight conductor
on the Grand Trunk, was instantly killed
at O'Clock, Thursday morning, at Me
chanc Falls. He was helping shift and
in going between the cars to make a
coupling, lost his footing and tell under
the train. Hardy was making his first
trip as conductor, having been pro
noted from brakeman.
Private Ardacton Smith of Battery {,
First Maine Volunteers, died at the
city hospital, Augusta, at 10 o'clock
Wednesday evening, of typhoid fever
He had been ill for several weeks and
his death was no surprise as complica-
tons had set in. He was % years OF
age, and resident of Oakland, where
he was a grocer's clerk.
Gen. Don Carlos Buell., who won fame
on the battlefelds of both the Mexican
and civil war, died at his home four
miles from Rockport, Ky, Saturday
General Buell. was born at Marietta
!, Ohio, March %, 1918. In the Mexican
war he was promoted for gallantry tC
, brevet major and when the civil wal
began he was made a brigadier general
Rev. Geo. r. Nandewater has resigned
as chaplain of the list Regiment, y. G.
j, n. Y. This action was taken because
some of the mustered out men of TIE
regiment in the armory labelled an eff
, fgy with the chaplain's name and pelteC
/ it with stones. They accuse the chap
! lain with being at the rear instead o
with them during the charge up Sar
Juan hill before Santiago.
! s. d. Graves of Rockland, is putting
. IN considerable work at present prepar
' ing history of the LIST Maine Volun
teers, Mr. Graves being appointed his
, torian by Col. Kendall. He has collect
ed lot and will give the history of tn,
different companies from the time o
i. their organization. Mr.. Graves is
witty, able writer and his history vii
. prove well worth reading.
t The japanese nation proposes to hole
in 1899 great fair in honor of the 5Otl
anniversary of the opening of that coun
try to Western civilization. 1t is note
worthy that the japanese always dat,
their awakening to new ideas to tn,
/ coming of Commodore Perry To tina
$ country with a squadron of Unite,
t States vessels nearly 80 years ago.
, A frightful accident occurred on tn,
Pennsylvania K. X. Friday morning il
which the eastbound passenger trail
run into a gang of workmen, killing
, thirteen and injuring seven. Anothe
, train had just passed over the Yves
, bound track and the settling smoke To
gether with the fog prevented the work
: men from seeing the train and th'
engineer from avoiding the accident
In the Peters trial at Dover last weel
ON Saturday the jury, after being GU
e two hours and half, returned a verde
y of manslaughter. The case thus ende,
= was that against Paul Peters for thu
. killing of John Smart a kineo guide
the grand jury having reported bill o
murder against him. The trial has &C
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