The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-10-19

explosion of an oil stove which wa
used to heat pitch. Insurance $500
the work of rebuilding will begin al
once. Twenty. five men are thrown ou
of employment by the FIRE.
Peter McFarlane, lineman in the
employ of the Sanford & Cape Porpoise
electric railroad, while at work on tor
of pole in Kennebunk village Saturday
received shock and fell to the ground
sustaining injuries which resulted in
his death in about an hour after the
accident. He was 26 years Of age, un
married and belonged in Hyde Park,
Mass.
st. Mary's training school at Feehan.
Vile, ILL.,, burned to the ground Sunday
Loss estimated at 100000. Seven
buildings were destroyed, Archbishop
Feehan's GUNNER home being the only
building saved. St. Mary's school was
a Roman Catholic industrial institution
for boys. Its founder was Archbishop
Feehan of Chicago. The insurance
amounted to 100000.
Secretary McKeen of the board OF
agriculture Friday issued the harvest
number of the board bulletin. He gives
the following general crop average for
the State: Acreage of corn, yellow, 9s
per cent; sweet 90 per cent. Yield of
oats, SO bushels, quality 80 per cent;
peas, yield % bushels; barley, yield 81
bushels, quality 90 per cent; mixed
grain, yield 81 bushels, quality 90 per
cent. Potato prospect 100 per cent.
Ephraim Filiatrault, of South Brewer,
who was employed as stevedore at
the dock, engaged in loading schooner
with lumber, fell from the lumber pit
between the wharf and boat, Thursday
afternoon, striking his head on the side
of the vessel, and rendering him I'M
conscious before he struck the water.
Several men saw him fall and threw a
line to him, but he was too far gone to
grasp it and sank, His body was re-
covered shortly afterward by graphing.
Two women of the Passamaquoddy
Tribe we're overtaken on trestle at
Pleasant Point near Passport, by q
Maine Central railroad train Saturday
and given bad fright, both e.
Gaping death, although one was serious
ly hurt. As the train ran them down
one woman jumped into the ravine be-
low, but the other tripped and fell and
the engine took off the left arm, al.
though the engineer had reversed his
engine so suddenly that the passengers
on the train were thrown from their
seats.
The Navy Department has disposed
Of three of its condemned vessels as
follows: The single turret monlter Ajax
to H. A. Hitner's Sons of Philadelphia
for 829, 567 The single turret monitor
Passaic to Frank Samuel of Philadelphia
for s19,7s The schooner rugged Hec-
tor, formerly the Spanish vessel Pedro,
captured and condemned as q prize, to
the Metropolitan Coal Company of Bos.
ton at its bid of SOS, $50. The appraised
value of the three vessels was $4,000
and they brought $114,50S.
1t has at last been settled that the
official trial Of the little torpedo boat
Dahlgreen, built by the Bath Iron
Works shall take place October 2S,
the trial to be conducted by a board of
naval experts at the head of which
shall be Admiral Rogers. A great deal
of interest is manifested In Bath as we'll
as in all parts of the country in this
Test for the little boat must attain the
almost phenomenal speed of S0i knots
In an hours run. To be sure she has
made at this rate for half hour and
her builders feel sure that she can keep
1t up.