The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-11-03
STATE AND GENERAL.

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lion mark-the highest since 1904
There are 81 divorce cases before the
present Penobscot term of court, more
than ever before at a single term. One
lawyer is attorney for the plaintiff in p
cases.
Each of the boys, as he is mustered
out, has about $50 handed him by Pay
master Watrous, in addition to Uncle
Sans good will and the precious certi-
ficate of an honorable discharge.
The sardine factory of the Royal Pack
ing Co. was destroyed by fire, Saturday
evening, entailing a loss to the company
of about $1,000. The factory was in full
operation, employing 10 hands, and the
company had large stock on hand.
The insurance is unknown.
The Spanish cruiser Infanta Maria
Teresa, which was raised and repaired
under the direction of Naval Gonstruc-
tor Hobson, sailed for Norfolk, Satur-
day. Owing to a slight accident to one
of her engines earlier in the week, she
started north in tow OF the repair ship,
Vulcan.
On United States army hospital ship
Missouri, which arrived at New York,
Saturday, from Ponce and Mayagnez,
Porto Rico, there were 275 III and con.
valescent soldiers. There was no con.
tagious case among them, all being ty'
phoid fever, dysentery or malaria.
Thomas C.. Spillane, Esq, of Lewis
ton, ex-member of the Maine legislature,
died Sunday last of heart disease. MI.
Spillane was graduate of Bowdoin col
lege. He served two years in the Lewis
ton city government, the last year as
president of the common council.
The recent wholesale emigration OF
INDECENT Jamaicans to the island OF
Cuba has evoked protest from the
American authorities at Santiago and
the local government has issued a mem.
orandum, quoting the protest of the
American officials and warning British
subjects not to proceed to Cuba without
adequate means of support.
President Murray of the New York
health department says that there was
no occasion for any uneasiness in regard
to the spread of yellow fever in that
city. He said that DIR. l.. E Crosby and
DIR. Charles F. Roberts, the Sanitary
superintendent had assured him there is
not the slightest danger even to the peo-
pie in the same house with Col. George
Waring, jr., who has died with yellow
fever.
Col. George E. Waring, jr., of New
York, died at 7.45 o'clock Saturday
morning of yellow fever. His death oc-
Cured at his home, No. 175 Second
avenue, where he had been since he ar
rived from Havana on the Yucatan on
Tuesday last. He had been out to Ha-
vana by the government to ascertain the
sanitary condition of that city and re-
port plan of putting it in first-class SAM
tary shape.
Mrs. Mary Kavanaugh, widow of Mar
tin Kavanaugh, formerly yard conductor
for the Grand Trunk railway in Port
land, wandered away from her home
Wednesday night in a state of tempo
rary insanity. Thursday morning, her
body was found in the water at one of
the docks. She had evidently walked
down the wharf and in the darkness had
accidently fallen in. She was 70 years
of age. Coroner Perry considered an
inquest unnecessary.
The firm of Kelley, Spear & Co. of
Bath, will launch at least three vessels
from their yard this month, and the
places made vacant will be at once filled
by others. The first of these will be
the four-masted schooner built for E C..
Smith of Brooklyn, N. Y, which will be
called the Massachusetts, the other two
will be barges. By December 81 this
firm will have built and launched more
than dozen vessels this year which has
been the greatest in its history.
Chicago's lake front Is battered in
spots from the Indiana State line to
Evanston as a result of the storm which
found a center there during the last two
days. While no lives have been report
ed lost, the severity of the blow was the
greatest since the gale of 1894, when the
shore was strewn with wrecks and many
sailors persisted. The total damage is
estimated at $81 800. The objects that
suffered most were the lake shore prom
enades and walls. Lincoln Park has
suffered most in this respect. 1t will
require $35, 900 to replace its wrecked
walls.
According to the official statistics,
235, 900 men have been sent from Spain
to Cuba. OF these 1000 have been kill
ed in action, $4,000 have died from dis
ease, and 10000 have been returned as
inyalids, many of whom died upon the
voyage or soon after their arrival home.
The evacuation commissioners report
that there are $4,000 regulars, q, 900
volunteers on duty, $1,000 volunteers
armed but not on duty, and about 0,000
sick soldiers still in the hospitals of
Cuba. The cost of transporting $4,000
men will not be less than $50, 900, 900 and