The Somerset reporter., 1899-11-16

Rear Admiral Schley, Friday night at
Washington, received the orders which
made him Knight Templar and a
Knight of Malta. The degrees were
conferred upon Admiral Schley by the
officers of Columbia commandery, No.
2, District of Columbia, in the presence
of large and distinguished assemblage.
The grand commander of the District of
Columbia and his counsel were present
as body.
The brief call of the President of the
United States on the Secretary of State
after hours few days since recalls the
fact that President Mckinley is the first
President to visit the State Department
in many years. 1t is said that Cleveland
was never in the department in either of
his administrations. President Harri-
son visited Blaine there once. And be.
fore him there had been no Presidential
visit to the department since the time of
Grant.
Edward Delaney of Lewiston, who a
few years ago was placed under guar
dianship, and who after contest in the
courts was allowed to manage his own
property, was arrested, Saturday, for
intoxication. In the night he attempted
suicide by hanging himself with his sus-
penders; he was cut down and it was some
time before he recovered consciousness.
Later, although closely guarded, he at
tempted to kill himself again. Delaney
was suffering from excessive drinking
but says he wished to kill himself as he
was discouraged and does not care to
live
Secretary of the Navy John d. Long,
accompanied by Mrs. Long and Misses
Margaret and Helen, his daughters, and
Mrs. Carter, a relative of the family,
left Saturday night for Colorado Springs.
The party makes the trip in President
Clark's private car ATLANTA" The
party goes in order that Secretary Long g
daughter, Miss Helen, may benefit her
health in the invigorating climate of
Colorado. Miss Margaret Long will
leave the party at Philadelphia. to re-
sumo her study at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, Baltimore.
The government now has building
some 38 war vessels of various descrip-
tions. 1t is pretty good showing for
the State of Maine that about one eight
of these are building within her borders.
The Bath Iron Works is at work on six
of these AZ vessels and Mr.. +. w. Hyde
was in Washington, last week, to see
about getting contract for another
cruiser OF course most of the vessels
at the Bath Iron Works are of smaller
dimensions but their construction rep
resents a vast amount of money, much
of which will go into the pockets of
Maine laborers.
People throughout the State regret to
learn of the death in Greenville, Tues,
day afternoon, of John II. EVeleth, for
years proprietor of the Eveleth House at
Greenville, and one of the best known
men in Maine. Mr.. Eveleth's death was
from injuries received in a runaway on
Monday He was at the Canadian
Pacific railway station with his team,
his horse took fright at an incoming
train, and in running down the hill the
carriage struck an abutment of the
bridge, throwing Mr.. Eveleth out. He
was taken to the home of his daughter
Mrs. Crafts, nearby, in an unconscious
condition, and it was found that he had
sustained fractures of two ribs and
a severe cut on the forehead. 1t il
probable that he also received internal
injuries. Probably no man around
Moosehead lake was better known than
Mr. Eveleth. He was the largest owner
of timberlands in that section, and up tC
few years ago he was very extensively
engaged in numbering. He owned the Eve
leth House, had a large interest in Moose
head Inn, Greenyille Junction, and was
also largely interested in the Knee
House He was nearly so years of age
and had been in feeble health for some
time.