The Somerset reporter., 1899-05-18
STATE AND GENERAL.

] 10 MA ITO tDhbi al diiOSONho a"'N Wv
clared their usual quarterly dividend of
$3.50 per share and made the same pay
able July /.
One of the We kilns owned by Cobb,
White & Co., Rockland, set fire to the
trestle work of the Limerick Railroad,
Saturday afternoon, and fully $1,000
damage resulted.
Fire in the large six story block at
Manchester, N. H., known as the Ken
nard, occupied by the Second National
Bank, number of clothing firms and
offices, caused loss of 100000 early
Sunday morning.
Miss Maude Noyes, assistant at the
Sangerville high school, was badly
burned about the face and hands Friday
afternoon by the explosion of chemicals
before class in chemistry. Her hair
and clothing suffered injury also.
The Christian Endeavor Convention
will be held in City Hall, Portland, Me-,
September s, 6 and 7. The Convention
Committee and State Officers are al
ready hard at work, and an especially
good programme is being arranged.
DIR. Clark is to be one of the principal
speakers. Portland will do its best.
The Aroostook Pioneer learns from
authentic sources that from the time
the shippers began to receive potatoes
last fall mp to tho oath of last month,
over 100000 bushels of potatoes were
shipped from Aroostook county over the
b. & A. For these potatoes over
81 ,OOO, 900 were paid to the farmers of
Aroostook.
Former Gov. Roswell Z. Flower of
New York, died Friday night at 10 30 at
the PASSPORT Country Club at Eastport,
LII Mr.. Flower was taken i'll early in
the day with severe attack of acute
indigestion. In the afternoon symp-
toms of heart failure supervened and he
grew steadily worse until the time of
his death.
Edgar l.. Hayford while trying to
start up a set of looms in the Continen-
tai mill at Lewiston Friday morning by
throwing a two inch belt over pulley
with his hands, was caught around the
shaft which was revolving at 200 revo-
buttons minute and instantly killed.
He was single, living with his parents,
his father being machinist in the same
mill for years.
A fire of incendiary origin took place
Saturday morning at Midtown totally
destroying Kerris's carriage shop and
store with tenement belonging to John
Tracey. The loss is estimated at $1,000
with an insurance of $500 on the car
riage shop. A large number of
wooden houses were saved by the heroic
work of the firemen.
A cablegram was received at the
Japanese legation in Washington Friday
announcing the death of Gen Viscount
Kawakami, chief of the headquarters
staff of the imperial army of Japan.
Gen. Kawakami rendered his country
great service during the China-J Japanese
war as vice chief of the headquarters
staff. He was regarded rs one of the
most famous soldiers of his time.
The scarlet fever has broken out in
the village of Orono and at the univer-
sity. The Katahdin club and the @. T.
V. House are under quarantine. Sew
eral of the students have left town and
returned to their homes and there is
ard and Mayo have charge of the college
cases. The disease thus far is running
lightly.
Robert Wilson, a helper in the pipe
shop at the Bath iron works, WAS ar
rested one day last week on complaint
of J. d. Wilson, an officer from the
Massachusetts reformatory at Concord
junction, who arrived in Bath looking
for the young man who had escaped
from the reformatory on the 18th of last
July while under sentence for breaking
and entering and larceny in Chelsea,
Mass.
An abstract of meteorological observa-
lions taken at the Maine Agricultural
Experiment Station, for the month of
April, 1890, shows that April has been
remarkable in several respects. The av-
erage temperature for the month was
three degrees higher than the averages
for April for 80 years, while the highest
point reached, "a degrees was go de-
greesuhigher than ever before recorded
for April at this station. April has the