The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-02-16
STATE AND GENERAL.

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Mrs Eunice Downs, the aged woman
who was soseriously burned by her cloth
ing catching fire while she was washing
near cook stove at Portland Nednes-
day morning, died Thursday from the
result of her burns. The physicians
who dressed the wounds which were
very deep, stated that she could
not live. Her age WAS 73 years.
Prof Frank L. Ripley, teacher of
music and proprietor of music store
in Pennington, committed suicide, Fri
day forenoon by taking chloroform.
Mr. Ripley was very popular young
man, but of late he has been brooding
considerably over business troubles, in
consequence of i'll health. He was 81
years of age and was not married.
Zinc ore took sudden jump Thurs.
day and at some of the mining towns in
Kansas and Missouri sold at S45 per ton,
the highest price ever known and 50 80
ton above the best price of the previous
day. Heavy foreign damand is said to
be the underlying cause for the steady
advance since last fall when ore was
selling for less than $50.
Fire swept through a block of build
ings opposite Battery Park, New York,
Thursday, which destroyed thirteen
buildings, entailed a loss of 100000
One hundred and fifty girls employed in
bagging factory were cut off by the
smoke and many were injured in effect
ing an exit. A score of firemen and
policemen we're injured and frostbitten
and 80 families rendered homeless,
One of the new additions to the col
lection of curios in the Walker art build.
ing at Bowdoin college is large piece
of the battleship Maine which was
brought by Mr.. Wainwright of the
Maine He gave it to Bowdoin college
by way of Mrs II. II. Chamberlain who
sent it to the college. 1t is great rusty
mass of metal torn from the bottom of
the ship by one of the explosions and
thrown up toward the deck where it was
found and twisted off.
During the past ten years forty-eight
different towns in this State have been
represented ia the Temporary Home for
Girls at Portland. During this time $50
girls have entered this institution
From Rockland, thirteen have entered !;
Bangor, eleven; Lewiston, eleven; Bath,
ten; Hallowell, ten, and from other
towns all over the State ranging from
ten to two or three. Thirty-four have
entered from Portland, but at least two
thirds of this number are from different
parts of the State.
Belfast had visit one day last week
from general superintendent OF large
New England shoe factory who is look
ing over the site with an intention OF
establishing a shoe factory at that place
providing he can get the citizens to
take certain amount of stock. Con
siderable machinery now in the hands
of the assignees of the defunct Legro Il
Spaulding shoe manufacturers, who
were in business in Belfast two years ago
could be utilized by a new concern and
the engine and boiler are as good as
new.
Word comes from Aroostook that the
smuggers along the border are giving
the revenue officers lot of trouble.
The United States officials have been
obliged to make frequent trips to the
county of late and some arrests have
been made The smuggling has been
mostly confined to potatoes on which
there is a duty of about 62 cents bar
rel and it is said that smugglers in this
line of produce is very profitable when
successful. More or less live stock has
also been smuggled across the line dur
ing the past few weeks so it is reported.
While driving Billeveau Bros grocery
team over the Maine Central railroad
track at the east end of Ticonic bridge
at / D. M, Thursday in Waterville,
Joseph DUMAS was struck by train No.
3 from Portland, and thrown some 20
feet, causing his death. There is very
steep hill approaching the track from
the east, also a blind crossing to the
south, but DUMAS was fully warned by
the flagman of the trains approach, and
it is probable his horse was unmanage-
able, for the train was not going at a
high rate of speed.
Four members of the family of Joseph
Herbert living at Old Town were more
or less seriously injured by the explo-
sion of the cook stove early Thursday
morning The Oldest boy, Patrick, was
the most severely injured, his right
hand being nearly blown OIL, necessitat-
ing the amputation of the thumb and two
fingers. The other members were badly
bruised. The cause is supposed to have
been stick of wood put into the stove
containing a dynamite explosive which
worked so disastrously as soon as it
came in contact with the fire.
Rev. Charles F. Allen, DID, former
president of the Maine State college,
now the University of Maine, and at
ona tin,a nastor of the Pine streat T.