The Somerset reporter., 1899-06-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.

yards
Michael Cammichi. 4 years old fell
Into the hold of the schooner Comet at
Plymouth Mass and Vas killed
The Zion Evangelical Lutheran church,
built on the site of the Church of the
Messiah at Boston. was dedicated.
The New York board al aldermen voted
10 close all municipal offices on Santiago
day. July 3, the anniversary of the naval
victory
Tina stone one of the oldest newspa-
per publishers in Lowell, Mass, died
there. aged &c years. He vas born in
Bethel. Me.
Herbert Clark, aged Z was run over
and killed by an electric car al Portland.
Me Clark sNayed on bicycle and fen
under the car
George Odom the 4-year-old Jockey,
has signed contract to ride for ". G.
Whitney in 900. 1901 and 1902 a salary
of $4,000 q year.
Mrs. Kate Murphy aged as, stepped
from a moving car a Haverhill, Mass,
and sustained a fracture of the skull.
She will probably die.
Michael Carroll. SIS years old. attempted
to cross the track in front of an electric
car at Pawtucket, r. l.. and was hit and
almost instantly killed.
Mrs. Eliza Wstterer, aged As. q widow.
committed suicide at Gloucester, Mass.
by hanging. She had been melancholy
for the pass three months.
The attempts made Saturday and
Sunday to float the American line
steamer Paris were unsuccessful. The
vessel is more buoyant. but is still fast.
Sumner Hollingswortn. president Of
the Hollingsworth & Whitney Paper
company. Boston, died suddenly at his
summer home in Milton, Mass, of apo
pleXy.
Louis Cote, 8 years bid. was drowned
in Powwow river, Amesbury. Mass. The
boy went into deep water and efforts to
help him were futile. The body was
recovered.
Congressman Knox has appointed G..
F. Waugh of Lowell as a cadet at the
military academy at West Point. Arthur
w. Copp of Lawrence was chosen as an
alternate
Governor Roosevelt had a pleasant
journey across Missouri, Iowa and ILL
nois. He was greeted by cheering
crowds a many stations and made sew
eral speeches.
1t is the intention of the University OF
Pennsylvania to enter a team next year
in the Olympian games at the worlds
fair in Paris and also in the English
mpionships.
The Catholic church at Presque Isle,
Me-, was burned, together with the barn
of Henry Howard, near it, The fire
started in the barn. The loss on the
church is $4,000
A. a. Stage. director of athletics at the
University of Chicago, announces that
he has decided to send a track team to
Paris to compete in the games at the ex-
position in 1900.
The sloop yacht Mischief which sue
cessfully defended the Am erica cup in
1881, was sold at public auction a Bos-
ton to d. s. Packard for $3.50. She was
built at a cost of SIG 900.
Ground is to be broken at once for an
infirmary at Harvard university. The
building, it is expected, will be COM
pleted and ready for occupancy in the
autumn or early winter.
w. n Mott was killed by the cars near
Christiana, Pa. He was one of the fast
est and most expert telegraph operators
in the country and had worked in nearly
every state in the Union.
No new cases Of smallpox have de-
veloped at Fall River Mass, In several
days and the quarantine on all places ex-
cept the city hospital and a contagion
hospital has been raised.
Superintendent Mills of the military
academy has recommended that the eX-
listing cadet vacancies. about so from CON
gresSional districts be filled this year
fer September examination.
While out riding behind a pair of
ponies at Northport. Me, Mrs. Harry
Carleton of Boston was thrown from her
carriage and quite seriously injured. A
runaway caused the accident
While playing about the railroad
freight depot at Chicopee, Mass, Dennis
Looney, 10 years, was struck by barrel
which had rolled down from a pile and
received injuries from which he died
Former Congressman Smedley Oar
lington died at Westminster. Pa, aged 70
years. He was elected to congress on the
Republican ticket from the Sixth Penn
sylvania district in 1883 and served four
years
Mrs. Hannah Robinson, "A years old.
was thrown from her carriage at Sias-
conset, Mass. and had her collar bone
broken and her ankle sprained The
horse ran five miles over farms and
gardens.
Joshua Gray, a well-known inventor
OF Medford. Mass, died, aged -. At
the time of his death he was at work
upon new electric car. and "a mag
netized eur wheel, designed to prevent
slipping
The trustees of the state Industrial
school for girls at Hallowell, Me. have
accepted the plan submitted by Archi-
tect stevens for a new building to take
the place of the school destroyed by fire
last winter
A cloudburst and terrific hailstorm
struck Athol. Mass. the hail breaking
over 5000 lights of glass in an hour
Some of the hailstones measured eight
inches in circumference and weighed
~ ounces.
Leroy II. Shields. sc years old. prom
inent in Virginia politics. committed
suicide at Old Point Comfort, by shoot
ing Melancholy. induced by recent
financial reverses is the cause assigned
for the deed
Rev Edwin L. Noble. pastor of the
Wendell Avenue church. Brockton.
Mass. gave his congregation surprise
by handing letter Of resignation 10 the
clerk. He states that he has not yet
received a call elseW here
Joseph Sexton. 3 years old, was run
over by a team at Boston and instantly
killed, the wheels of the heavy team
going over his head. The boy S mother
is on the verge of insanity, caused by the