The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-02-02
STATE AND GENERAL.

Friday by reclamation for United states
senator by the Republicans OF Wiscon-
sin.
Col. Edward Moore a well known
contractor of Portland, died at his home
in Deering at noon Friday. Col. Moore
was the contractor who successfully re-
moved the distractions from He'll Gate,
New York.
William II. Brown of the firm of Mac
donald & Brown, former ship builders,
died at his home in Belfast Saturday
night, aged so years. Mr.. Brown de
signed models of all his vessels and his
ships were notable for their speed, sew
eral of them having made record break
ing passages.
The Thomaston Herald rebnkes the
Rockland Courier Gazette for assuming
that Knox county is to give its undivided
support to Hon. Cbas. f. Littletield as
congressional candidate, and endorses
Mayor Herbert NJ. Lord az the man of
it's choice. NJ 4jor Lord is very kindly
thought of by lot of Knox county peo-
Pile.
Fx-United States Senator James II.
Slator of Oregon, died saturday night.
Deceased was born in Illinois in 1928,
went to California in l849 and to Oregon
the following year. In 1870 he was
elected to the 42d Congress and IN 1876
was elected United states senator where
he served until 1885 Senator slator
figured largely during his life in the
politics of the State.
Former Attorney General Augustus
II. Garland, was stricken with apoplexy
while addressing the u. ). supreme
court, Wednesday afternoon, and died
within ten minutes. After the court
convened at noon he resumed an argu-
ment " hen he tottered and fell sidewise
heavily to the floor few loud, deep
proans came from him and he expired,
although medical aid was promptly
rendered.
f. W. Merrill of Waterville, formerly
the lineman for the Postal Telegraph
Co. who went to Savannah as a corporal
of Battery c, First Maine Heavy Artil-
lerv. has been transferred to the Thir-
teenth Volunteer signal corps, and is
now serving with them at Havana. He
says there is n large amount of work to
be done for the government by the sig
nal corps and they are kept busy all the
time working on the wires.
Fred Lawrence, James II. Hudson,
Harry Spencer, Edward Jenkins, Her
bert c. Libby and w. II. V. Wren are
the men who have been chosen to pre-
pare articles and get in shape for the
Colby Bates debate which will be held
sometime in March. From these three
will be selected to take part in the de-
bate. All of them are fine speakers and
have been heard often on the local plat
form and any three .of them would
make a very strong team.
Mrs. George d. b. Pepper of Water
Vile, hoored one man whom she had
heard Directing to the travelling library
on the ground that the germs of disease
might be carried from town to town in
the books by reminding him that the
bills that lay on his table were foul
that every ten cent piece was laden with
danger; that every letter from the post
office carried with it cargo of germs,
and that if he was to devote his attention
to all the germs, the microbes and the
bacilli around him he might as well stop
living now as at any time.-Lewiston
Journal
Dun reports the following features of
trade for the past week; Wool has been
weaker because forced by speculation a
year ago to prices which the market for
goods could not sustain, and has been
much embarrassed in trying to sustain
ever since; cotton is higher and goods
have been strong; pig iron has advanced
wheat has risen eight cents with much
buying based on extraordinary exports
from Atlantic ports; corn has advanced
two cents, and failures of business
houses for the week were 224, against
342 last year. All of which is extreme
ly satisfactory.
A gang of track repairmen were work
ing on the railroad at the western open
ing of the Galltzin tunnel at Altoona,
Penn, Sunday, when they heard the
approach of locomotive which was
running west through the tunnel. They
stepped from the north track on which
west bound tracks move to the south
track. The smoke in the tunnel pre-
vented them from seeing the approach
ing locomotive which in order to avoid
distractions on the north track was run
ming on the south track. One man was
instantly killed and one died in the AL
toona hospital and 10 were more or less
seriously injured.
The resignation of Mary Anna Saw
telle AS dean of the women's collge at
Colby is deeply regretted. Miss Saw
tele was born in 1861 in China and came
to this country when only a few months
old. She graduated from the Chelsea,
Mass, high school and a few years later
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