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

A hay barn owned by W. H. Moore a
Ellsworth Falls was burned Thursda.
together with 30 tons of hay, two NOW
ing machines, hay rake and other farm
ing utensils. 1t is not known how thu
fire originated. Loss is estimated a
$500. It Is understood there Is no in
suranco.
Ainaziah Harris, aged II years,
farmer residing in Winslow, while trim
ming down NOW of hay Friday, wal
using three tined FORK and reaching
up to pull down projecting punches
when the fork slipped and plungine
downward entered his abdomen, pene
trating his intestines three times.
A fire broke out in ware house, No. 8
South Brooklyn, Friday afternoon anc
spread to buildings on both sides
which contained seven or eight thous
and bales Of cotton, estimated value
at $50 bale. Over half a million dol
lars property was destroyed. Three
fremen were injured by falling bricks
A special to the Bangor Wing from
Millinocket says that j. B. Dumond, q
prominent Massachusetts clergyman
was shot and killed by his guide
Thursday afternoon. Mr.. Dumond
wore snuff.colored sweater and after
separating from his guide was taker
for . deer, He lived one hour after
the shooting.
Mrs. Burleigh, wife of Congressman
Burleigh, who was injured in an aoci
dent last summer, has so far recovered
as to be able recently to ride out. Hel
recovery has been slow, but her friends
expect it to be permanent, and hope
. that she may gain sufficiently to be
able to accompany Congressman Bur
leigh to Washington.
The Goodrich block, three-story
brick structure, of Nashua, N. H
owned by E. L. Morgan and used fol-
Offices and stores, was burned Thursday
afternoon, entailing loss Of over
$4,000. Three fremen we're injured,
two, C. L. Savage and jeremiah Sui.
Ivan, seriously. but the third, Chas'
Saunders, only slightly.
The Windsor hotel at Chatham, N. Y,
was burned to the ground at 2 O'Clock
Monday morning Wallace G. Hale, 35
years OF age, . drummer for the
Monarde Publishing Co. of Philadelphia,
whose homo is supposed to have been
at Brattleboro, Vt, was suffocated In
ono Of the halls of the hotel. The loss
on the building is about $4,000.
An attempt to rob the bank at Sewer.
Vile, Tenn, Friday morning by three
masked robbers resulted very disas-
trous for them. The president of the
bank shot one, another was arrested
after being wounded, and the third got
on his horse and rode mile, but being
hotly pursued by a posse, fled to a barn
where he committed suicide by shoot
lug.
The first railroad In Sweden was
opened In 1855 and the country has now
in proportion moro railroads than any
other country In Europe. They are
owned partly BY the State and partly
by private corporations. Sweden has
the only railway in the world which
passes the polar CIRCLE. g., the State
line from Lulea to Gellivare, in the
Lapland district.
Official dispatches from Batavia, the
capital of the Netherlands Indies, con-
firm the reports regarding the earth.
quake In the island of Corau. 1t
occurred Sept. 20. Not only the town
of Amhei, on the south side of the
island, was destroyed, but several other
villages were wrecked. The official
advices declares that no fewer than
1000 persons were killed and hundreds
of others seriously injured.
The factory of G. Wilmington & Son
OF Buckfeld, Me-, brush manufacturers,
was burned Friday morning about 7
O'Clock. The fire was caused by the