The Somerset reporter., 1899-02-23
STATE AND GENERAL,

samuel Rowe, fireman in the birch
rull of the Russell Bros. IL Estes Co. al
Pennington, was struck in the stomach
Wednesday, by pulley which came of
the shafting, and was badly hurt.
A beautiful sword and Bible, pur
shased by the sunday school children
of Texas, was, Wednesday, presented tc
Commodore John W. Philip, who com
manded the Texas during the war with
Spain. The battleship Texas now com
manded by Capt. Sigsbee is at Galveston
and all officers and men attend the cere
mony.
Fire destroyed the interior of the
block owned by the Thomas heirs at the
eorner of Exchange and Fore SITS Port
land, early Thursday morning, causing
a loss of $4,000. The fire would have
been much greater but for an iron door
which connected that and an adjoining
block, being closed 1t was supposed TO
have been the work of an incendiary.
Word has come from the sheep ranch
owned by C. w. & l.. A. Robinson on
Foster island in Machias bay, that near
ly 100 sheep were lost in the blizzard of
February Ia. The heavy northeast gale
drove one entire flock to the west end OF
the island where it is supposed they took
shelter behind the massive blocks of ice,
and were buried by huge drifts of snow
or driven to sea on field of ice and
drowned.
The Dutch oil tank steamer Rotter
dam brought into New YORK, Friday, AZ
shipwrecked people taken from the
Johnston line, steamer Rossmore, which
was abandoned in mid-ocean, in sink
ing condition. She left Liverpool, Jan.
%, for Baltimore, apd at the outset of
her voyage encountered terrific gales
and mountainous seas which disabled
her steering gear and started a leak
which could not be stopped.
Peter Welch of South Berwick, who
in the murder of the late Orrin Bootbby
of Saco, was arrested by Deputy Sheriff
Freeman c. Ham, Thursday, on the
charge of breaking and entering the
hardware store of Fred G. Webster of
South Berwick, on the night of Feb. 10
Part of the goods were found at his
house and he confessed. He was held
in $500 for the May court and com
mitted
William A. Heiskell, whose bold oper-
ations with worthless checks in Bangor,
Greenville, Oldtown and other places,
the first of the month, was arrested in
Boston, Thursday, by the police, upon
= description and photograph of him
with information concerning his past
record. He admitted his guilt freely,
and seemed penitent, saving the officers
. great deal of delay by offering to go
back without tradition papers. 1t is
figured up that between $500 and 81 900
were raised by worthless checks and
other devices.
The steamer Admiral Dewey which
had been ashore since Tuesday ON
Schooner ledge on Cuttyhunk islands,
near New Bedford, Mass, was fioated
early Saturday morning. The owners
of the Dewey are remarkably fortunate
in getting the steamer off as Schooner
ledge is a particularly dangerous spot,
somes cores of vessels having gone ashore
there in the last 20 years and only one
ever came off This is the place where
the government tug Triana left heI
bones, going ashore there some eight OF
nine years ago, at the same time the
steamer Golena and tug Nina were
wrecked at Gay Head while the ribs OF
many wooden vessels lie scattered along
the beach opposite where the Dewey
struck.
Weston F. Mlliken, whom President
Mckinley has just appointed collector OF
port of Portland, was born in Minot
Sept. Is, 1920. He received his educa
tion at Lewiston academy and was, fol
four terms, teacher. At the age of q
he became a clerk in Boston, and after
two years went into business for himself
as a general merchant in Minot, where
he remained for four years. In 1856 he
went to Portland where, for many years
he carried on business as a wholesale
grocer with his brothers, Chas. Il. ano
George, and Mr.. Allen Moulton. Since
president of the large wholesale grocery
house of Milliken, Cousens & Tomlin
son. He is member of the Cumber
land club.