The Somerset reporter., 1898-03-10
STATE AND GENERAL.
The strike in the Biddeford mills ha
been declared off.

The strike in the Biddeford mills has
been declared off
Captain Charles Baker, ex mayor Of
: Belfast and prominent man in business
and political life Of tie state, lied Fri
day forenoon, after lingering illness.
He was 81 years Of age.
President Butler and Dr. ". :. Bayley
have been IN Brunswick, to make an ex-
animation Of the chemical building at
Bowdoin, with a view Of copying What
is good in its design for the new chem cal
building to be erected by olby the com
ing summer
Two gunners on one Of the Deer Isle
islands, last week, found cave - by 3j
feet, and high enough for man 70 walk
about in. 70 tide water enters il from
the mouth, but a basin or well thai Gibbs
and flows with the tide was found ia It,
Beautiful lime formations hang down
from the ceiling, and numerous fossils
are embedded IN its lava walls
The English press has universally
printed praises Of the statement that
Mark Twain, fMr samuel /. aemeu.J
has paid the last Of his Webster d Go.
debts. Or. McAllister, writing to the
Times on the subject, says. Nth the
exception Of The historical case Of sir
Waiter scott, do not think there is to
be found in the records Of literature any
thing quite equal to Mark Twain.s con.
duct
The Mallory Line steamer left New
York saturday with . tons Of supplies
for the starving Cubans. The steamer
offered to carry these supplies to Key
" Nest, free of charge, and there they will
be transferred to the L ;. ships Mont
gomery and Nashville, to be taken 10
their destination. The Munson line
steamer from New York, also will carry
a large amount free of charge 10 Matan-
zas and sagua. The relief measures are
proving unexpectedly successful.
The general officers of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
announce that it is their purpose to carry
out the plan of their late leader. Frances
f. Willard, with reference to the retire
ment of the Temple tlust bonds. Miss
Cornelia NJ. Dow, the daughter of Gener-
al Neal Dow, of Portland Maine, who
was appointed by Miss Willard as custo-
dian. of the Temple fund, will continue
to receive all money contributed and
will place the same upon interest.
During the month of February total
of 297 vessels arrived at New \ ork from
foreign ports, their descriptions being
as follows: Steamships, as 227; schooners,
Is; barks, u; brigs, 3; ships, u. Out of
the total arrivals more than 80 per cent
flew the British flag, 20 per cent. the
American flag, II per cent. the German
flag, and less than 8 per cent. the Nor
wegian flag This left T. per cent. of the
arrivals divided among nine other nation
alities.
The Pennington Chronicle thinks
Franklin county the most orderly coun-
ty in Maine. The report of jails and
prisons from year to year shows that
this is so. At present there is but one
inmate of the county jail-a women who
is serving brief sentence. This is the
first instance in many years where a
woman who could be called criminal has
been an inmate of the Franklin jail, and
the entire number of those committed,
males and females, is every year very
small,
The Spanish situation developed two
new phases Saturday when it became
known that the Spanish government had
requested the recall of Consul General
Lee, from his post at Havana to which
request the United States had courteous
ly but firmly refused to comply; also
that the Spanish government suggested
the impropriety of sending relief to the
reconcentrados on the cruiser Montgom-
cry and gunboat Nashville, to which
suggestion the United States had given
like answer in the negative.
The joint debate between representa-
tiyes of Colby and Bates college occur
red at Wateryile, Friday evening The
question was "Resolyed that municipali-
ties in the United States, of 25,0D or
more inhabitants, should own and oper'
ate plants for supplying water, light and
surface transportation" Prof. Geo. I.
Baker of Harvard, Judge A. p. Niswell
of Ellsworth and Hon. Herbert II. Heath
were judges. Colby had the affirmative
and Bates the negative, the judges decd-
ed in Colby's favor Argument, man
ner, language and ease were all taken
into consideration. In the two former
debates, Bates was the victor.
The insurrection in Cuba makes the
cattle trade in Florida and Texas, very
prosperous, more especially since the
Spanish authorities have removed the
duty on live stock shipped to the island.
Previous to that order the shipments
were about 800 week; since then they
have doubled and are increasing and
would Soon a y haust the Florida supplY