The Somerset reporter., 1899-10-05

1t is expected that the fire which de-
stroyed the postoffice block Friday was
the work of an incendiary.
R. L. Porter of Winslow, will manu-.
facture two million bricks this season
and Horace Purington & Co. of Water
Vile, seven million. The latter is now
burning what is claimed to be the largest
kiln of brick ever burned in the State,
100000.
Frank johnson of Atkinson, shot him.
self through the side Sunday afternoon
at 8 o'clock, three miles back of Katah.
din Iron Works, while in the woods
hunting. Mr.. johnson is a member of
the lumber firm of johnson d Wood
ward, operating for pulp wood for Geo.
Babson of Foxcroft.
The Rangeley Lake House at Range
ley Lake was damaged by fire Saturday
night. The fire started in room on
the fourth story occupied by bell boys
and quickly burned through the roof.
The house was full of guests, but nobody
was injured. The loss to the owners of
the hotel is estimated at $1,000 and is
covered by insurance.
Patrick Whalen of Lewiston, was
killed on the Lewiston water works
extension near Lake Auburn on Satur-
day at p. m. He was a teamster in
the employ of Bearce & Clifford, but at
the time of the accident was helping
unload some pipe from another team.
Mr.. Whalen WAS caught by section of
water main weighing nearly 5000 pounds,
killing him almost instantly.
A fire early Saturday morning at the
Union passenger station, Cincinnati, o.,
destroyed the freight depot and ware
house and many cars. The station was
saved by pulling out the cars from the
sheds while they we're burning. The
loss of goods in the warehouse and
loaded cars will affect many shippers
and others as we'll as the railway which
has sustained a heavy loss. The total
loss is nearly 81 100000.
At the afternoon session of the Maine
Spiritualist association convention, held
at Waterville last week, the following
officers were elected: A. FL. Blackington
Rockland, president; Sadie j. Clifford,
Sandy Point, first vice president;
A. N. Stewart, Augusta, second vice
president; Viela A. R. Rand, Hartland,
secretary; b. M. Bradbury, Fairfield,
treasurer; X. W. Wood, Westbrook,
Mrs. F. K. Ward, Portland, Robert
Hayden, Athens, T. F. Rand, Hartland,
Mrs. M. J. Wentworth. Knox, DIR. III.
K. Field, Lewiston, Mrs. II. N. Howard,
Skowhegan, trustees A. NJ, Backing
ton, Rockland, and B. M. Bradbury,
Fairfield, were elected delegates to the
national convention.
Charles p. Stetson of Bangor, a we'll
known lawyer, died suddenly, Friday
morning, at his home at the age of "a,
of heart disease. He graduated at Yale
College in the class of 1856, and from
Harvard law school in 1853, having dur
ing some portion of the preceding three
years been a student in the Office of
Messrs. Rowe & Bartlett, in Bangor,
and Immediately commenced practice
there. He was county attorney of
Penobscot county for period of II
years, being obliged to decline further
election to that office on account of his
increasing private business. He was
counsel for several corporations and at
the time of his death he was president
of the European & North American
Railway Company, vice president of the
Merchants National bank and director
in the First National bank, Union In
surance Co., and Bangor Gas Light Co.
of Bangor.