The Somerset reporter., 1899-04-20
STATE AND GENERAL.

for 81 900.
A p Davis d % Of Freeport, have
purchased Of Major Sydney " Thaxter
the Millett shoe factory at Freeport and
will run it in connection with their
other factories.
The Duke OF Aroos, the late spanish
minister To Mexico, who married an
American lady, formerly Miss Virginia
Lowery Of Washington, d. G., has been
designated as Spanish minister at v ash.
ington.
Speaker Thomas B. Reed, ME- Reed
aud Miss Kitty, their daughter, sailed
for Europe, Wednesday. on the Paris.
They will spend a month in Paris The
time of their return to America has not
been fixed
Biddeford has secured a new industry
and will be known as the Biddeford
Plating Company. The company Will
do all kinds of plating, silver and nickel,
and it is anticipated a profitable bust
/ hCoo Will DC dOuc
Hon. Guy W. McAlister has been rec
commended TO the postmaster general
for appointment as postmaster Of Bucks
port, Me-, in place of the present inoum-
bent, G. G. Homer, who will have served
years, ON the LIST day of June next.
BY direction Of the President the
battery at Portland Head, Portland, Me-.
will hereafter be known and designated
as Fort Williams, in honor of the late
Brevet Major General Seth Williams.
Assistant Adjutant General, U. 5 A.
There is boom coming in the Maine
granite quarres, due to government
orders and the general demand for
building materials. Probably some peo-
ple~will take more money out Of Maine
granite than others will from Montana
copper.
There is great rus of young Fin
landers for the United States to avoid
the recent decree of Emperor Nicholas
regarding Finland, which provides for
an increase of the Russian military and
naval forces and the extension of con.
struction.
Convicts Albert A Hodgson and Hob
son, alias Gerry, escaped from prison
Saturday night and were captured at
Portland Monday afternoon by Deputy
Sheriff Smalley of Tenants Harbor.
They had on citizens clothes with the
prison garb underneath.
The villagers of Ta-Po.Su, one of the
newly acquired places in the British
territory on the Hong Kong mainland,
rebelled Saturday and burned some
British matsheds. They are now armed
and occupy the hills. Troops have been
sent to quel the disturbance.
The President has appointed Law
renee Townsend of Pennsylvania, to
succeed Dir. Bellamy Storer az &. :.
minister at Lisbon and his transfer
leaves vacancy in the Portuguese mis-
sion for which a selection has already
been made and will shortly be an
nounced.
o. d. Brown of Gorham, junior mem
Der of the well-known firm of Brown
Brothers, undertakers, committed sui.
eide, early Friday morning, by hanging
himself in the chamber of his barn
He has been respondent for some time
and this state of his mind undoubtedly
caused him to take his own life, as
stated.
The total sum 10 be raised by sub
scriptiou in Bangor to ensure the en-.
gagement Of Nine. Sembrich for the
next Maine music festival has been rails
ed there sembrich will sing at the next
festival both in Bangor and Portland.
the latter city having also subscribed
the sum required
Fire broke out in the almshouse at
Chatham, y. b., shortly before midnight
Saturday, burning il to the ground
There were in the institution at the
time 30 inmates besides the matron and
servants. OF these all were rescued but
four. The institution was one of the
finest in New Brunswick The loss is
estimated at $4,000
William Gerrio, barber employed in
Old Town, but whose home is in Water
vile, met with a very serious accident
Sunday afternoon, while visiting the
new wooden mill under construction
there. He fell from ladder down a
scuttle some twenty feet TO a floor
One shoulder was dislocated and there
are internal injuries
Prof. A. II. Abbott of Pennington,
died Saturday, aged = years. He
graduated from Bowdoin in 1910 at the
age of Is In 1S4a he became principal
and proprietor of the Abbott family
school Uittle Blue,) for the education
of boys, but some time ago gave up &C
tive work at the school. MIR. Abbott
possessed rare scholarly attainmeuts and
was one of the best known educators in
/ New England
The failure to receive an invitation TO
christening vt Ninslow, Maine, result
ed in a drunken TOW, Saturday night,
/ during which Louis Brassua and An
drew Roseby received knife wounds in
/ the abdomen which resulted in the