The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-28


ance. The assurances were held in the
agency of l.. T. Boothby & Son. n
At II o'clock Saturday night, the
Seth Dodge store, stock and fittings of
Vassalboro, together with his house,
stables and sheds, with their contents,
were burned at an estimated loss of
about $4,000 The fire is said to have
caught in the store. Insurance, $1,000.
Joseph Perry, aged %, lumberman,
while driving from Sanford to PorrelFs
logging camp on the edge of North Ber-
wick, late Saturday night, lost control
of his horses and in his efforts to stop
the frightened animals was thrown
under the wheels of the heavy wagon
and crushed to death.
The third annual meeting of the
Maine State Spiritual Association will
be held in City hall, Waterville, Sept.
80, Oct. 1. Edgar w. Emerson of Man
chester, N. H., Harrison D. Barrett of
Boston, president of N. s. A. and other
prominent speakers will be present.
Reduction of fares on M. c. r. r. All
meetings are free to the public.
Augustus Blaisdell of Clinton, died
Sunday, as the result of compound
fracture of the bones of both legs: The
accident occurred, over u week ago,
while be was at work near hay press.
Then the block carrying hawser gave
way and the hawser struck him, break
ing the bones of both legs. The bones
were so badly splintered that all at
tempts to prevent blood poisoning set
ting in were useless. The funeral &C.
Cured, Monday, from his home.
The schooner, Mary T. Quimby, one
of . the finest built and most modern
equipped vessels of which Maine can
boast, was successfully launched last
Thursday, from Washburn Bros ship
yard at Thomaston. The schooner was
named in honor of the daughter of DR..
A. s. Thayer of Portland, and will be
commanded by Captain K. w. Arey of
Vinal Haven. The Quimby is built
after the model of the John B. Haynes,
one of Washburn Bros fleet which sail
ed for Port Tampa, Fla, just before the
hurricane of last month, with phosphate
rock for Baltimore, and from which
nothing since has been heard.
The fast freight train from Boston,
which arrives at Bath, at 6 o'clock,
broke apart, Thursday morning, about
two miles from the city, and the. for
ward section, consisting of 81 loaded
cars and the engine being deprived of
the rear brake, failed to stop when 1t
reached the station. This train collided
with two freight cars, driving them over
the end of the track and through sec.
ton of Moultons boiler house. The
two cars were torn off their trucks, but
otherwise were not seriously damaged.
Both inside guides of the engine were
broken. No person was injured. The
damage to the building is about $1,000.
The Bath Iron Works company have
recently purchased the Lowell property
on the west side of Water street, Bath,
which has been desired for some time.
In the early spring the wharves will all
be extended to the harbor line a dis
lance of 80 feet, says the Bath Daily
News. Work will at once begin on
pattern storage room to be located be-
tween the new joiner shop and the
blacksmith shop on the west side of
what was once Water street. 1t will be
built of galvanized corrugated iron and
will be $50 feet long by 90 wide. II will
be strictly fire proof structure. This
with the new brick gate house will COM
prise all of the new building, which will
be erected this fall.
The large box shook mill at Deep
Cove, less than two miles out island,
built year ago by New York parties,
has been closed for an indefinite period
and 1t is rnmored that the management
may move their entire building and ma
chinery to Nova Scotia before the open
ing of the new year. From present in
dications there is every reason to think
that the mill will be closed for the win.
ter, and what promised to be a very
profitable industry now looks like fail
ure. 1t is said that the present scarcity
of logs and the heavy duty on lumber
from the Canadian side is directly re-
sponsible for the closing of the mill
where the box shocks were to be manu-
featured for the West and South. 1t is
also stated that the wages for laborers
was not enough to cause a general rush
of these to the new mill.