The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-10-25


PASSPORT, entered at the custom house
the other day, three silver fox skins,
undressed, the invoiced value of each
being 1915, $3.50, $3.50 a total of 1873
for the three skins.
The big monitor at the Bath Iron
Works will probably go overheard on
Wednesday, Nov. I. This is the last
day of the Food fair. With the launch
ing and the fair Bath ought to entertain
big crowd of visitors.
Will A. Yates, resident of Water
vile, was drowned near Accra, Africa,
Thursday. He was the senior member
or the firm Yates Bros. & Shattuck,
with Offices in that city and Boston, and
doing business on the African coast.
He was aged 40, and is survived by a
wife and two sons
AS the result of fire which broke out
in the slaughter house, A. V. Human d
Co.'s packing house, st. Paul, Mimi,
four firemen are dead and number of
others injured, and property to the
amount of about $4,000 was consum-
ed. The fire is supposed to have been
of incendiary origin.
The receipts of big game at Bangor,
for the third week of the season ending,
Saturday night, were 1913 deer and 5
moose, compared with 222 deer and 5
moose In the corresponding week of
1890. The total rec eipts for the season
to that date were 442 deer and 7 moose,
against TIA deer and moose in the cor
responding period of 1890
There was revolt at the Mattewan
State Hospital at Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
for the criminal insane at half past six
O'Clock, Saturday night, when six or
eight keepers were assaulted and over
powered by about twenty insane
patients. Some of the patients escaped
One or two of the keepers were badly
bruised as a result of the assault.
The Eastern Argus Publishing Co.
has been incorporated for the publica-
tion of the Portland Daily and Weekly
Argus, formerly issued by John M.
Adams & Co. 1t is capitalized at $780,
600 with 80, 100 paid in. Following is
the list of officers: President, Edward
B. Winslow; treasurer, Oscar R. Wish;
directors, Edward B. Winslow, Oscar R.
Wish, Willard F. Hicks, Thomas e. Cal
vert all of Portland.
Forty thousand dollars is believed to
be conservative estimate of the amount
of money, post Office orders, checks and
stamps stolen from post Office station in
the grand central palace, Monday night
of last week, or on its way to the general
post office. Officials tried hard to keep
secret not only the fact that the robbery
had occurred but the amount of money
stolen. They even went 80 far as to
keep the matter from the New York
police and the secret service agents.
A volume of Bowdoin College stories
Of the past and present is to be publish
ed soon, the work of editing and pub
fishing being in the hands of j. G. Min.
OF, '98, of Augusta and Donald F. Snow,
'01 of Bangor. Various alumni will con-
tribute the stories, all of which will be
new ones, and with 30 many alumni of
literary fame and such an inspiring
them as undergraduate life at Bruins
wick to draw upon, the volume cannot
fail to be popular one.
The submarine boat, Holland, which
left Newport, r. l., Monday, for the
naval academy, in charge of Lieut..
Capehart, proved herself to be marine
wonder, having been caught in gale
blowing 10 miles an hour off New Lon
don, Tuesday afternoon, which she
weathered like duck, while steaming
along with her decks awash and In tow
of tug Leyden. She went through the
heavy seas magnificently Her first test
as sea boat in a gale was all that could
be desired.
Former Governor w. p. Dillingham;
was elected United States Senator by
the Vermont Legislature the 18th inst,
to succeed the late Justin S Morrill,.
The choice was made on the third bal
lot, C. A. Prouty, one of the four Re-
publican candidates, having withdrawn
and the Democrat members who pre-
viously had voted for Seneca Hazleton,
having decided to support Dillingham;.
Dillingham; received le2 votes, Grout SO,
Hazleton Q, Prouty and Ross s. 1t
took 1856 votes to elect. The vote result