The Somerset reporter., 1899-06-01
STATE AND GENERAL.

d. w. 3. Flint of Searsport, Me-, was
thrown from his carriage at Swanville
Mills, Thursday night, and instantly
killed. His neck was broken.
Admiral Dewey telegraphs the navy
department that he will stop at various
places on his way to the United States
and will reach New York about Oct. 1st.
The health authorities of Philadelphia
are making every effort to check the
spread of smallpox which appeared
few days ago in the negro settlement
of Nicetown, a suburb of that city.
There are now "a smallpox patients in
the municipal hospital
A disastrous fire started early Friday
morning in pavilion at Coney Island,
N. Y, and destroyed seven blocks of
frame buildings with loss of 100000.
Several policemen were painfully burned
in arousing sleeping occupants. The
cause Is believed to be of incendiary
origin.
The Yale corporation held its regular
May meeting last Thursday, and at the
session at New Haven, Conn, Thursday
afternoon elected Prof. Arthur Twining
Hadley, M. A, president of Yale Uni
versity, to succeed Timothy Dwight, re-
signed. 1t is understood that the vote
was practically unanimous.
The Kennebec River Cotton mill sale
by auction, advertised to take place
Thursday, at Hallowell, did not materi-
alize, for no bid was made. The bid
ders were asked to start at $4,000, but no
offer was made. The tenement houses
of the company were sold later. This
brick mill is an immense structure and
at one time was taxed at $4,000. 1t
has not been in operation for many
years.
Resolutions of confiden noe in the Phil
ippine policy of the administration was
adopted by the Indiana G. A. r., in con
vention, Terre Haute, May 18th. The
resolutions condemn all utterances from
whatever source which have tendency
to create dissatisfaction or discomfort
among our sailors or to invite insurrec-
ton or rebellion among the natives or
inhabitants of our recently acquired
possessions.
DR.. Percy $. Merrill of Waterville, has
received a first appointment at the
Bridgeport, Conn, hospital after com
petitive examination held in Bridgeport,
Conn, in which Yale, Cornell, Albany
medical school and College of Surgeons
and Physicians of New York engaged.
DIR. Merrill is native of Waterville, son
of A. K. Merrill, a graduate of Colby
college in the class of "a and will enter
upon his new duties July !.
A meeting of the committee on the
new president of Brown university will
call a meeting of the corporation on
June 3 to elect the man whom they have
selected, the Rev. William II p. Faunoe,
ID. D., of New York. 1t is said that the
committee has been agreed upon the
man for more than month, but that
there was one objector, a member of the
corporation who lives in New York.
That gentleman is said to have now
withdrawn his objections.
Maine now has five colleges, the gov
ernor and council having formally re-
oognized the right of Van Buren, college
to confer degrees such as the other col
leges confer. This college is the we'll
known Catholic institution at Van Bu-
rem, in Aroostook county, in the midst
of the country settled by the descend
ants of the old Acadians. 1t has been
prospecting, and is said to be especially
strong in its departments of literature
and languages. 1t is modelled after one
of the schools of Montreal, and fits
many young men for beginning their
education as priests.
fire broke out, Thursday afternoon,
in dwelling house adjoining the gen.
eral warehouse of p. Nase il Sons, Main
street, st. Johns, N. b., and for several
hours it's progress was unchecked. The
destruction of several buildings by the
use of dynamite along the line of the
street railway allowed the firemen to
concentrate their energies and late in
evening succeeded in checking the fire.
The area burned over comprises fifteen
blocks and the buildings destroyed
I,atr; or H.,
the fire was composed largely of tene-
ments and one thousand people, the
majority laboring people, are made
homeless. Two deaths are reported.