The Somerset reporter., 1899-05-04
STATE AND GENERAL.

A statement prepared at the war de-
partment shows that 1913 soldiers were
killed in the Philippines from Feb. to
April 2S, and LII wounded. Total,
1909.
I'd Wood an inmate of the National
home at Togus, committed suicide Fri
day, at the boarding house of Mrs. Cor
don in Randolph by taking an overdose
of laudanum.
The friends of Hon. Charles K. Little.
field are congratuating him on the GER
tainty of his nomination for Congress
from the End District, the caucus re-
ports now give him over 1856 delegates.
Virulent small pox has appeared sim
ultaneously in various parts of Germany,
notably at Iserlohn, Hanover and Moe
zadlog. The Prussian authorities are
taking prompt steps to prevent its
spread.
A dispatch from Philadelphia says
that an order for As locomotives from
the government of India has been re-
ceived there, the order covering various
sizes, including many especially adapted
TO mining districts.
The farm buildings of James Curtis,
situated three miles from Winterport,
were burned Saturday night, together
with three horses, seven cows and five
hogs. The household furniture was
saved. Loss about 5000. Insurance
$1,000.
A fire was started in the drying closet
of II. G. Clark's tobacco factory at Rock.
land, at $50 o'clock Thursday evening,
causing damage of about 5000. The
block owned by Nathaniel Jones was
flooded with water the damage by fire
being small.
A large five.story building in Dover
street, Boston, occupied by number of
manufacturing firms, and on the second
floor by the Boston Fire department as
q storage for extra apparatus, was COM
pletely destroyed by fire, Sunday after
noon. The loss is estimated at 800, 900.
After the U. S. s. Badger sailed from
San Francisco, Thursday, for Samoa
with the Samoan commissioners aboard,
important orders arrived. A boat was
sent after the steamer, but was unable
to overtake her. The transports Ohio
and Senator sailed Friday, and the latter
will try to reach Honolulu before the
Badger leaves there.
The Canadian post Office department
has decideaathat United States postal
cards posted in Canada, addressed to
any place in Canada or the United
States, may be forwarded if prepaid by
the affi king of a one-cent Canadian post
age stamp, or, in other words, United
States postal card may be mailed in
Canada as private card.
Twenty million dollars was paid over
to M. Cambon, the French ambassador,
Saturday, for the transfer of the SOY.
ereignty of the Philippine islands from
Spain to the United States. The tran
saction was consummated upon the heels
of favorable news from the islands,
which indicated the complete triumph
of the American arms, and the suppress
sion of the instruction.
A disastrous railroad wreck occurred
Sunday afternoon, on the Rochester Il
Lake Ontario Railroad, at Rosenbaur's
Corners, about one.half mile north of
the Rochester line when two cars of an
excursion train filled with. passengers
left the track while going around a
curve at full speed, and was completely
wrecked. Over 80 persons were injured,
three are dead and at least dozen are
fatally injured.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works has
just finished the first locomotive of the
30 recently ordered by the Midland Rail-
way of England. The locomotives will
be shipped from New York instead of
Philadelphia because of lower rates and
berth facilities. The locomotives differ
from those In general use in England in
the cowcatchers, couples and airbrakes,
and in much greater capacity for coal
and water.
A tornado swept over Kirksville, Mo-,
Thursday evening, wiping out the entire
east side of the city, Over fifty persons
were killed and two hundred buildings,
homes and stores were leveled. A rain
followed the cyclone and the debris of
wrecked buildings took fire in several
places, lighting the way for resouers.
Reports from country districts state
that many farmers have suffered So.