The Somerset reporter., 1899-04-27
STATE AND GENERAL.

Tho wood room at the paper mill at
Rulnford Falls started up saturday
The big plant'had been shut down some
weeks.
Governor Roosevelt has secured the
repeal of Gov. Blacks starchess civil
service law and the substitution of one
with plenty of starch in it.
A special to the Express from Bald
win, Me-, says Mrs. Nettie Meserve COM
mitted suicide by drowning, Wednesday
afternoon. She had been mentally un-
balanced for some time and had been
kept under close surveillance.
In report to the secretary of war,
DIR. Victor s. lark, sub-director of pub
lie instruction in Porto Rico, says that
only $50 month can be offered to
American teachers, with transportation
to tho island from New York.
The death of Lieutenant Colonel
Charles !. Illsley, U. s. A, retired, is
reported from Salt Lake City, Utah.
Colonel Ilsley was 81 years of age. He
was born in Portland, and during part
of the Civil War was captain of the 18th
Maine Infantry.
The new wrecking steamer Rescue, of
the Merritt-Chapman Wrecking COM
pany, is being fitted out for trip
to Santiago. She is the largest wreck
ing vessel afioat. The Rescue is going
to Santiago to tow the raised Spanish
cruiser keina Mercedes to Norfolk, Va.
Aus ralian advices give particulars of
a terrible hurricane which swept the
northeast coast of Queenland early in
March and in which fourteen white and
about 400 colored men were drowned
Eighty luggers and six schooners were
wrecked. The damage is estimated at
$250,000.
During the month of March 1899, the
total internal revenue receipts were S22,
1884 an increase over March 1898, of
$9,19l, $40. For the nine months of the
present fiscal year the total receipts
were S201 ,522, 141, an increase over the
corresponding period of last year of
S77, 100, 400.
lawyer and author of the legal life and
fire insurance policy forms used in New
York, Connecticut and other States.
died last week at New York. He was
55 years OF age. He had been actuary
of Maine insurance department for some
25 years.
1t is proposed to erect in Washington
\ monument to Rev. Samuel Francis
Smith, forever famous as the author of
my Country 'Tis of Thee A com.
mittee of Washington business men is to
be formed for raising $4,000 for defray.
ing the cost of erecting the monument
on some appropriate site at the Capital.
The committee in charge of the affairs
of the Electrolytic Marine Salts Com
pany of which Prescott Il. Jernegan was
president and which was thrown into
difficulty by Mr.. Jernegan's unexpected
departure several months ago, have an
nounced to the share holders represent
ed by them dividend of 20 per cent
payable May l.
Hon. James r. Talbot, prominent in
the lumber trade at East Machias, is
dead after an illness of several weeks.
He was for long time a member of the
Democratic State committee, represent.
ing Washington county. He had repre-
scented his county in the Senate and
town in the House of Representatives at
Augusta some 20 years ago.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Governor and Council was held last
week, beginning Thursday. Every
member was in attendance. All the
long list of nominations made by Gov.
ernor Powers last week, with one excep-
ton, received confirmation. The excep.
ton was the appointment of j. w. Black
of Searsport, for Judge of the municipal
court there.
Two new cases of yellow fever devel-
oped in Havana, Saturday, making five
officially reported. There are no Amer
leans among them, and, SO far as is
known at the Office of the chief surgeon,
there is only one American in Cuba with
the fever, a man named Biscomb, who
had been working on plantation in
Natanzas province. He is a discharged
private.
W. A. Storey, formerly of Machas, is
now acting mayor of Portland, Oregon.
He was president of the city council
when the death of the mayor left him