The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-12-01
STATE AND GENERAL.

10 the sultan Of Morocco on
the subject Of the detention and i'll
treatment of Italian proteges. A week
has been given him in which to reply,
and the Italian warship Umbra will
fetch the answer Of tie sultan.
AT the Union Iron " orks, saturday,
great marine fighting machine was added
to the already large feet Of Pacific war
vessels. This vessel, saturday, was the
battleship Wisconsin, the largest Of the
vessels built for the United States gov
eminent by the Union Iron Works.
The battleships Oregon and Iowa have
resumed their long cruise to Honolulu.
Captain Barker, commanding the Ore
gon and the senior officer of the expedi-
ton, has notified the Navy Department
that his little squadron sailed last sat.
urday from Rio for Monteyideo, where
another stop will be made for coal.
The powder mill at Lamoutte. Mo,
situated 50 miles south of St. Louis on
the "K'' line and a half mile from Ash
burn, blew up early last Wednesday
morning, killing six men and wounding
several others. The explosion took
place in the packing house and was SO
terrific as to be heard and felt distance
of % miles.
Cambridge, Mass, was visited by an
other disastrous fire sunday which
destroyed an entire block valued at $50
600. The building was occupied BY
more than dozen tenents, prominent
among them being the famous Dickey
Club of Harvard University. This
makes the third bad fire at cambridge
within ten days.
1t is announced that an important
series of educational meetings will be
held in the principal towns of Washing
ton county, sometime in December or
January, in which State Superintendent
Stetson, Mr.. w. j torthell, principal of
the Gorham normal school, and other
prominent educators of Maine and Mas
sachusetts will take part.
Upward of 1900 veterans enjoyed a
Thanksgiving dinner at the National
Home at Togus, the days supplies in
Guiding turkeys, 2000 pounds; cram
berries, 7 barrels; sweet potatoes, Q
barrels; celery, 1S9 punches; oranges,
$500; apples, barrels, and 500 mince
pies. 1t was the first Thanksgiving
dinner served in the new dining hall.
The vault of the Wrentham National
bank of Wrentham, Mass, was blown
open by burglars early Saturday morn
ing, and rifled of about s., 600 in cash,
and notes valued at SG5 900 are missing.
The robbery occurred between one and
two o'clock. The police of surrounding
towns have been notified. The town
authorities have very little to work on
as the burglars left no clue.
The Maine State Pedagogical Society
will hold its annual meeting at the state
House, Augusta, on December 20, p
and %. The forenoon of Dec. q, We'd
nesday, will be devoted to the depart
ment of programs. Miss A. V. Finch of
Lewiston, is president of the primary
section and Miss Finch feels that she
has been particularly fortunate in secur-
ing an exceptionally strong program for
her department.
An attempt was made upon the life of
the Tsar, Wednesday, while he was re-
turning from Copenhagen. Just before
his special train was due at the bridge
between Goehmenhoefen and Lagern, a
switchman discovered that the bridge
had been barricaded. BY almost super
human efforts, as result of which he is
now in the hospital, the switchman re-
moved the obstacles sufficiently to per.
nit the passing of the imperial train
A secret investigation is being con-
Quoted
The annual meeting of the Somerset
Educational Association was held at
Hartland, Friday and Saturday. Among
the interesting features of the program
were; Address of welcome, o, H..
Drake, A. b Pittsfeld; Value of an
education, p. r. Longley, principal of
high school, St Adams; Mathematics in
the lower grades, Mrs. Lucela Stafford,
Hartland; Importance of order in the
schools, f. p. Dyer, principal Hartland
academy The relation of the home TO
the school, Prof. Brown, principal high
school, Dexter; Methods of teaching
Geography, Mrs. l. II. Brown, Hartland;
lecture by Hon W. ". Stetson. State
superintendent of the public schools;
The Importance of physiology in the
common schools, l.. II. Blanchard NJ.
D., Hartland; English in the rural
schools, Miss d. NJ. Elliott, Dexter; How
can superintendent best benefit teach
ers? VIM. Mclaughlin, NJ, D., Harmony;
What needed changes in the school
laws? discussion opened by Eden Pratt,
principal high school, Canaan.
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