The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-03-30
STATE AND GENERAL.

1t was decided by the Holingsworth
* Whitney Paper 20. at its annual meet
ing held in Boston, last week, to enlarge
their Vnslow plant to so per cent. of its
present capacity, giving it an output of
rs tons daily
II Is scmi-officially announced at Lon
don, that the Anglo. Russian negotia-
lions in regard to China have assumed
practical shape and that an early and
satisfactory agreement may be said to
be assured.
A copper mine has been discovered
and is being worked by parties across
the bay from Eastport, on Campobello.
The men have so far struck six different
veins, and it is said that ore in good
paying quantities is being unearthed.
Rev. Alfred Skinner died Saturday of
apoplexy, aged "a. He was born in
Bucksport, and was a graduate of Yale,
class of 40 He was appointed post.
master of Bucksport by President
Lincoln In 1861 and served in that
capacity for rs years.
1t Is reported that the employees of the
Maine Central Railroad Company will
receive an advance in their wages the
first of April The company has al
ready made an advance of five per cent
in wages since its hard-times cut and
this without solicitation from the men.
First Lieut. Herbert N. Royden, 23d
u. D. Infantry, formerly military in.
structor at the University of Maine at
Orono. has been ordered to San Fran
cisco, where he will report for duty with
troops preparing for service in the Phil
ippines. On arriving at Manila he will
join his regiment.
According to dispatch from Shang-
hal at London it Is said that a Moham-
medan rebellion has broken out in the
province of Kan Su, the most north
IVES ern province of China, between the
ltnyinces of Sheng see and So Chuen on
,ne side and Mongolia and the desert of
Cobb ON the other.
The Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Morning Post says: "In their de-
sire to effect friendly settlement of the
Samoa difficulty, the Germany authori-
ties have decided to discontinue their
support of Mataafa, hoping that this
will induce the United States to recall
chief justice Chambers"
Hon. Francis Pierpont, the first COVER
nor of West Virginia, died at Pittsburg,
Pa, Friday evening, after an illness of
several days. Mr.. Pierpont WAS the
union governor of the restored govern
ment of Virginia organized in Wheeling
at the outbreak of the war by the citi-
gems of what Is now West Virginia and
opposed to secession.
The Hutchinson and company,
manufacturers of mems shoes in Au-
burn, made a voluntary assignment,
Saturday, to Ara Cushmas, Esq, presi-
dent of the National Shoe and Leather
bank of Auburn. The assignment was
made after conference of Boston and
local creditors. The liabilities are
thought to be about S35, 900.
The Madrid correspondent of the
Daily Chronicle says: Senior Silvela, the
premier, has informed the Queen Regent
that her ratification of the peace treaty,
by aocelerating the payment of the
$50, 900, 900 promised by the Americans,
has improved the commercial outlook
abroad and that there is nothing what
ever to fear from the Csrlists.
Mrs. Sarah Doron Terry is 100 years
old, and on her one hundred and eighth
birthday she joined the Philadelphia
Chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution. The Quaker City
Chapter plumes itself upon the posses
sion of this member, for Mrs. Terry can
tell of her personal reoollections of
Washington and Lafayette, and has lived
through five American wars. She was
not married until she was sixty.
Three negroes were lynched by mob
near Silver City, in Yazo county, Miss
issippi, last Saturday morning. After