The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-07-06
STATE AND GENERAL.
Rioting is reported in Barcelona and
Valencia, Spain.

The law firm of Baker, Baker &
Staples, Augusta, announces its dssolu-
ton of partnership. Hon. Oliver D.
Baker will continue the business, Mr..
Frank L. Staples retiring,
Gautly, numbering village in Wolfe
county, Canada, near Sherbrook, was
almost wiped out by fire Saturday,
30 out of the 90 houses being destroyed.
Loss is heavy and the insurance small.
San Francisco is alarmed over the
report that bacteria of the bubonic
plague have been found on two sailors
on a Japanese steamer. The steamer
is in quarantine and arrangements are
being made for the establishment of
detention hospital.
Bates College was honored, Thursday,
of last week, Commencement day, with
the presence of Governor Powers, Con-
gresham Littlefield of the I'd district,
State Superintendent of schools, Stetson,
Professor w. f. g. Rich of Boston, Rev.
Arthur Given of Providence, and others.
The first orders were issued, June 80,
for recruiting the troops under the
clause authorizing the enlistment OF 3d.
600 men. The order contemplates en-
listing men for the three skeleton regi-
ments in the Philippines. Recruiting
officers have been instructed to enlist
men with this understanding.
Business over the Boston & Maine
system is looking up, both in the freight
and passenger departments. Ticket
sales at the Union station Portland, for
the first Is days in June we're $500
greater than for the same period last
year. The movement of freight cars is
largely in excess of that during June,
1898.
If the stockholders ratify and the
Legislature approves the recommends
lions of the Boston Il Albany h. R.,
one of Massachusetts great railroad sys-
TENS will on and after July LIST, 1900,
become part of the New York Central
and Hudson h. X. Co., at least for a
period of 300 years, The directors of
the two roads have 80 voted.
The use of automobiles in Bar Harbor
was practically prohibited, Friday, by
the adoption in special town meeting
of a regulation limiting the freedom of
machine driven vehicles to side streets
and regulating their speed to low
figure. The regulation specifically pro-
hibits the use of the vehicles on all
principal driving streets, day and night.
So far as the returns have come in
Bowdon college is the only college in
the United States where at the recent
commencement exercises a number of
the class of 1925 was in the alumni pro-
cession. Elk United States Senator j.
w. Bradbury of Augusta, 81 years of
age, classmate of Longfellow and
Hawthorne, bears off the trophy of
years for Bowdoin.
Owing to the condition of the Nation
al Guards of other States the adj utant
general of Maine is glad there is to be
no muster this year. 1t is reported that
in some of the States where the usual
State encampment is to be held they are
having bad time of it. Some of the
equipments that have been sent them by
the government are not fit to use and
they are to be sent back, and then they
are having other troubles of their own.
Mrs. Emma ID. L. N. Southworth, the
authoress, died at her residence at
Washington, Friday, after an illness of
several weeks. About month ago
Mrs. Southworth was Frustrated by the
heat and the infirmity of advanced age,
she being in her 10th year, rendering
her unable to recuperate from the attack
she grew rapidly worse, until few days
since it was seen death was inevitable.
She was attended by her son, Dr. South
worth.
Gen. Leonard Wood was in Washing
ton, Friday. He came at the request of
the officials of the war department to
confer with the President and secretary
of war regarding the situation in Cuba
and discuss with them his future plans.
He has declined absolutely the offer
made to become the president of the
Washington Traction and Electric Co.
and will remain in the army. The
President and the secretary of war want
him to remain in Santiago, where he has
been so successful