The Somerset reporter., 1899-08-10
STATE AND GENERAL.

The bill providing for the payment
by Canada of a proportionate share OF
cost of the construction of the proposed
Pacific cable, passed the Canadian SEN
ate last week, thus becoming law.
A despatch received today from Apia,
Samoa, under date of July II, confirms
the report of the appointment OF Mr.
Luther w. Osburne, U. 5. consul general
at Apia as acting chief justice and as
serts that he was appointed on the pro-
posal of Dr. Solf, German president of
the municipal council.
&c. Libby, treasurer of the Bruins
wick & Bath street railway, last week,
sold New York parties 100000 worth
of bonds and $4,000 worth of stock in
this road. This deal closes out nearly
all the securities and gives the New
Workers. an ownership of three-fourths
of a million dollars in the road.
Rt. Rev. John r. Spaulding, S. T. D.,
of Denver, Colorado, has just complet-
ed the 18th year of his Episcopate as
bishop of the diocese of Colorado.
Bishop Spaulding was native OF
Belgrade, and attended Bowdoin Col
lege, from which he graduated in 1853,
in the same class with Chief Justice
Fuller.
Rec, liver Felker of the Dover, N. H.,
five-cent savings bank, has declared a
dividend of 12t per cent. This is the
third dividend declared since the insti-
tuition was closed as the result OF the
defalcation of Cashier Isaac Abbott and
makes a total of S74 per cent. Mr..
Felker expects to declare another divi-
dend soon.
While filling the tank of gasoline
stove with gasoline at the Nutshell
lunch room in Biddeford, one day last
week, the liquid caught fire and explod'
ed, throwing Edward Slavin, who was
standing on a chair, backward and burn
ing off his eyebrows, mustache and front
hair, while his shirt front blazed up.
The walls of the building also caught
fire but Slavin, although suffering from
blsters on his face and arms, batted
with the blaze and put it out.
The congress of Nicaragua assembled
Aug. 2. President Xelaya read his mes
sage opening the session. In it he COM
mends the treaty made at Bluefields on
April 20, with U. =. Minister Merry and
asks congress to take measures to pre-
vent the threatened deficit in the finan-
ces of the country. President Zelaya
also says that the decision of General
Alexander, the arbitrator of the dispute
as to the boundry line between Nicara-
qua and Costa Rica is favorable to Mic
aragua.
Philip G. Hanna, late United States
consul at Porto Rico, was a passenger
per steamer Arkadia, which arrived in
San Juan. With his departure from
Porto Rico, the Office of consul to that
country was abolished Just prior to
the outbreak of the Spanish American
war Consul Hanna went to st. Thomas
and from there watched the movements
of the enemy and furnished the Wash
ington government with much valuable
information.
The employees of five big golfers in
the anthracite region at Wilkesbarre,
have gone ON strike. The main griev-
ance is alleged excessive dockage. 1t is
estimated that nearly $500 men are idle.
At the Nanticoke collery of the Sus-
quehanna Coal Co., 1000 have stopped
work and at the Keystone five hundred
are out. The latter have several griev-
ances. AT the Babylon mine at Duryea,
five hundred men are on a strike for an
increase in wages, and the same number
stopped work at the Exeter shaft, at
West Pittston.
Fire broke out Thursday morning, in
the carding mill at Machias operated by
J. w. Remission and spread so rapidly
that before it could be subdued the
building was Quilted and machinery de-
stroyed. There was on hand at the
time of the outbreak about ton of rolls
which were waiting for their owners to
call and take them away These were
consumed and made the loss large one
with no insurance on property. The
cause is thought to be spontaneous
combustion.
Grace Fernandez, of Sangerville, a
graduate of the University of Maine,
1898, and of the Dexter High school,