The Somerset reporter., 1899-11-23
STATE AND GENERAL.

Steamer Pottsvile, which went down
in the Kennebec river below Sand island
Gardiner, with cargo of coal, was
foated Thursday.
Henry Il. Hopkins died at his resi-
dence at Augusta, at o'clock, Friday
morning. after short illness, with a
complication of diseases.
Judge Strout at Portland, Saturday,
dismissed the suits against the Norway
Savings Bank, and dissolved the injunc-
ton restraining it from doing business.
The famous old Corinth Academy
with valuable library and complete
school furnishings, was completely
destroyed by fire early Monday morn
ing.
William A. Heiskell, aged "a, unmar-
ried, committed suicide at Bangor, We'd
nesday night of last week, by turning on
the gas in the Grand Central bowling
alley parlors, where he was proprietor,
and allowing himself to suffQcate. The
coroner deemed an inquest unnecessary.
The body was not discovered until Fri
day afternoon
The steamer, Lincoln, which was built
in Boston in 1897 by the Kennebec q
Boston Steamboat Co., TO do winter SER
vice between Bath and Boston and
which made her first trip in that route
August 1st has been sold to the Florida
East Coast Railway Co. These are the
same parties who had her under charter
last winter.
Merrill Webber, an aged farmer of
Sidney, is supposed to have committed
suicide, Friday morning, by shooting.
The deceased was GO years old and has
been an invalid for some five years.
Friday afternoon, he was found by his
housekeeper, shot through the heart,
laying across his bed His body was
quite cold. On the floor was revolver
with single chamber empty.
j. Henry Harper, vice president of
Harper K Bros, announced Thursday
evening at meeting of the directors of
the publishing company Thursday, Gen.
b. M. Harvey, editor and proprietor of
the North American Review, was
elected president and managing director
of Harper Bros. He added that Mr..
Harvey had purchased from the share
holders large interest in the company
Ex.Speaker Thomas B. Reed, last
Thursday morning, made his first APP
pearance as counsel in case in the su-
preme court since his admission to the
New York bar, when he appeared for
the defendants in the suit brought by
w. J. Logan in his suit against John G.
Moore, Vim. Rockefeller, Henry Rogers
and others, for accounting of the affairs
of the consolidation of the Brooklyn
Gas Co.
The American Line steamer st. Paul,
which sailed from Southampton, Satur-
day, for New York, has among
her passengers Gen. Stewart l.. Wood
ford, the former United States minister
to Spain, and Mr. James l.. Taylor, the
president of the American Society in
London. Mr.. Woodford is returning to
the United States after trip of several
months to Europe, taken on account of
the poor health of his daughter, who
has quite recovered.
The Society of Colonial Wars, Port
land, has recently come into the posses
sion of volume that is highly priced.
1t is an account of Col. Jedediah
Preble's march with his regiment from
Massachusetts to Lake George in 1884
to take part in the French and Indian
war. 1t is the original handwriting
of the ahjutant of the regiment and,
of course, is the only recital of the
incident in existence. The book is
valued at nearly $500.
He was born at Greenwich, England
SO years ago. For some time he belong
ed to the Queens navy, then came to
this country enlisted in the 9th Maine
Regiment and served till the close of
the Civil War. He had long been promi-
nent in Grand Army circles, being COM
mander of Seth Williams Post of Angus
ia, in 1894 and aid-de.camp on the staff
of Gen. Lawler. He wasalso president
of the 9th Maine Repimental Associa-
ton and was elected its secretary at
the last reunion.
Preparations are being made by sever
al prominent packers of sardines in
Eastport, to can CLANS during the winter
An industry that is not new here, but