The Somerset reporter., 1899-03-02
STATE AND GENERAL.

The Republican caucus at Bath,
Thursday last, nominated harles K
Hyde for mayor.
The United States supply ship Solace,
from New York on Feb. 2, for Manila,
arrived at Port Said, Saturday.
In session in Auburn, Friday, the
Maine State Fair trustees fixed the dates
of the next State fair for Sept. D 6-7-8'
O. $. Ham has been nominated for
mayor at Republican caucus at Lewis
ton, by vote of 1856 to 1886 for DR.. F. h.
Dixon.
Alfred Ii. Coe, one of Portlands lead
ing hat dealers, died, Monday morning,
having been stricken with paralysis
He was 55 years old.
There L new head for the depart
ment of diseases of the eye and ear, at
the Bangor General hospital; on Satur.
day the trustees elected DR.. II. T. Clough
of Portland, to that position.
Small pox in bad form has broken
out at Riley, settlement in Franklin
county, and fears are entertained that
through tardy discovery an epidemic is
threatened. Vaccination has been COM
menced, no one being excepted.
The jury in the case of Louis Boushay,
on trial in the Penobscot supreme judic,
ial court for the murder of Nellie Dona
hue in Old Town, on the night of Jan.
18, brought in verdict, Thursday after
noon, of murder in the first degree.
Bradford knights, who has confessed
to the murder of Mamie Small at Gard
liner, Friday, Feb. II, was removed to
the Insane Hospital at Augusta, for OBJ
servation Friday, from the Jail whore he
has been since his arrest the morning
after the murder. Knights is in good
health.
DR.. Alonzo Garcelon, who has charge
of the small pox cases in Lewiston and
Auburn, has decided that Clarence b.
Smith of Auburn, whom he declared
i'll with small pox on Wednesday, is suf.
fering from measles. Smith was to
have been taken to the small pox hos
pital Thursday afternoon.
No new cases of small pox are reported
in either Lewiston or Auburn. In Au.
burn it was decided, Friday, to reopen
the city schools, Feb. %. and the village
schools, March g. DIR. Alonzo Garcelon
decided, Friday, that the Woodside boy
reported Ill of small pox at Sabattus, is
suffering from mild form of scarlet
fever.
The small pox epidemic of Waterville
is said to have passed the point of
danger of contagion. A week has
passed without even suspected case.
All places of public worship were opened
Sunday. Public schools resumed work
Monday, and Colby College and Coburn
Classical Institute on Wednesday, after
two weeks recess.
The United States is feeding FIVE per
cent of the total population of Cuba,
and the number appears to increase
rather than diminish. From 10000 to
%, 1000 are fed in Havana alone on army
rations, or ten per cent of the city's
Inhabitants. How to stop this wide.
spread restitution is the serious cues.
tion which the military administration
has to handle.
The funeral ship Roumania, which is
engaged in the mission of bringing home
the remains of the soldiers who lost
their lives in Porto Rico and in Cuba,
has completed its work so far as Porto
Rico is concerned. The number OF
American dead on the island was com.
paratively small, and their disintermen,
and removal to the transport occupied
only about weeks time.
The coroner's jury In the Adams case
in New York, came to it's verdict Mon
day, at S.43 p. m. 1t was as follows
wv hho ehab thC Shiu OdbubTlu6 u,
Adams came to her death, on Dec. 2s
1893, in 81 West seth street, by poison
by mercuric cyanide, administered by
Harry S. Cornish, to whom said poison
had been sent in bottle of bromo self
ger by Roland B. Molineux.
The committee of the Maine Legislature
on library has voted to report bill IL
favor Of travelling libraries. Fifteer
hundred dollars are appropriated fol
the year 1890 and $1,000 for the yea,
1900. This project was started by the
members of the State federation OF
women's clubs, and has been ably advo.
Gated by number of prominent ladies'