The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
STATE AND GENERAL.

Gen. Manager Fogg says work on the
Wiscasset, Quebec extension has not
been suspended and is not likely to be
until the road Is finished.
The newspaper friends Of Nj. John
V. Lane, associate editor Of the Kenne.
bee Journal, are glad TO hear of his good
fortune in being appointed assistant
postmaster of Augusta.
Charles +. Marston, general manager
Of l.. b. Hanson Clothing Store of Wa
terVille, is missing and 80 is $3.50 of the
firms money. This information is Of
the most startling nature to those who
have been acquainted with the young
man from boyhood.
The ice outlook on the Penobscot riv-
er is favorable and there is every promise
of big harvest. There are now about
230, 900 tons of old ice on this river, and
nearly all of the companies are prepar-
ing to fill their houses. On the Ken.
nebec there are over 300, 900 tons of old
ice on hand.
CHARLES A. Smith Of Wateryile, doing
business as the {. A. Smith Photo. Co,
has filed petition in insolvency He
has conducted studios at Wateryille.
Lewiston, Augusta and elsewhere His
liabilities amount to 81 800 and his as
sets are practically nothing. In SEIZED
ule of his creditors are II newspapers of
the State which he owes $500.
DR.. Lewis w. PendIeton, the Portland
physician, who died in Florida the other
day, added a codicil to his will on Dec
% last, setting apart $40, 900 for the full
payment of his creditors in Belfast with
whom he had settled at percentage
when he encountered business failure.
some years ago The action was quite
, in line with the doctors high sense of
] honor.
This year the State assessors will
; make valuation of the wild lands in
the State, they having met the local as
SCISSORS last year. Just before the legis-
lature convenes the assessors submit
their report to the governor SO that one
g summer they meet the local assessors
and the next they meet the wild land
owners at different counties in which
D wild lands are situated. They will not
r start out to hold these meetings until
the latter part of April.
The eYacutiVa porn NIT TOO 81 h. C+a+a
7 Grange was in session at Augusta,
Thursday, and Master O. Gardner an.
a nounced the following State deputies
8 Nelson Ham, Lewiston; d. II. Thing.
Mt. Vernon; Frederick Robe, Gorham
: M. b. Hunt, Belmont; Edward Wiggin,
Augusta John A. Roberts, Norway
: W. B. Ferguson, Brewer; Geo. NJ.
Twitchell, Augusta; l.. W. Jose, Dexter
| Geo w. Richie, Winterport r. Leavitt,
Howes Corner; b. F. Hamilton, Bidde-
ford; Otis Meader, Albion; Ansel Hol-
way, Skowhegan; E. H. Libby, Dirigo.
, Mr.. Alvin D. Sweetsir, for many years
> noted as Portland's conspicuous Jackso-
MAN Democrat, has at last sacrificed his
. life to his desire to do honor to the hero
of New Orleans. When he was engaged
; on Jan. s, in firing a salute in honor of
the memory of Andrew Jackson, he
} took severe cold. That same evening
he complained to some of the guests at
; his banquet to celebrate the day, of not
feeling well, but he attached no impor-
lance to his sickness and expected to be
better very soon. But his cold gradu-
ally grew worse until it developed into
pneumonia, which at last caused his
death.
Japan is prepared for war. That, in
nutshell, is the news from Yokohoma,
and it is the first real news from Japan
| since the beginning of the Chinese crisis.
) 1t was obvious that the Japanese gov
eminent had stopped telegraphic COM
munication, which it never does except
when mobilizing the army or navy.
That is precisely what it has been doing.
1t is almost certain that the destination
= of the fleet is Wei-Hei-Wei and there is
no doubt the movement means that the
status quo in China so far as Manchuria
and Corea are concerned, shall not be
altered by Russia or any combination of
: Russia's allies, in defiance of Great
l Britain and Japan.
, Recent statements 90 to show that
5 Treasurer Foster of the Lubec savings
bank, kept two sets of books and there
by was able to deceive the bank exam
iner when he made an official visit 1t
appears that the principal losers by the
I speculations of Treasurer Foster will be
t the small depositors, chiefly Lubec fish
e ermen, The depositors of large sums
got an mixing that something was
wrong, and many of them drew out
. their money before the smash. The
trustees have had no real knowledge of
the bank affairs for years. They had
I relied entirely upon Mr. Foster, and he
s had run the bank exclusively as if it
1 had been his own private institution.
: One of them in explanation of his neg
lect, says he thought Mr., Foster was
Y such good Christian gentlemen that
| he did not need watching.