The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-07-19
STATE AND GENERAL.

judges are Messrs. Emery, Haskell,
hitehouse. stfout ana Foger. The
usual amount Of business will come
before the court for consideration. ~.
Guiding cases from every county in the
State
petition has been presented to the
commissioners Of inland fisheries and
game asking for continual close tine
On deer in all parts Of Kineo Point. The
petitioners represent that the shooting
Of deer upon the point IS dangerous
and extremely hazardous TO the lives
Of the guests Of the hote and the in.
habitants of the point.
DR.. Benjamin Webber Bartlett. a ma
tive Of Jackson in eastern Maine, died
at his home in Rowley, Mass, Friday.
Of apoplexy. He leaves a widow. also
two brothers and sister in Maine and
brother in Salem. He was - years.
four months and y days Of age and
graduated from the Bowdoin Medical
school in the class OF -
The buildings Of James Scates on the
bog road in Belgrade were burned and
one horse persisted in the flames early
Friday morning. Mr.. Scates received
bad burns about the hands and face aud
is feared may lose his sight. He had a
small insurance Oh the buildings. The
cause of the fire is supposed to be in
cendiary for he had not used any lights
about the stable for weeks.
Wyer 6 Sargent of Sargentyile, died
| Monday at his home in that town aged
90 years He was the head Of the Sar-
gent family, long prominent in town,
county and State affairs He has held
many town offices and represented his
district in the State legislature several
terms, as his son, Henry W, and grand
son, Arthur H., have also done. The
town of Sargentyille was named for him.
According to the statement of :. J.
Abbott, agent of the Lockwood COM
pany of Waterville, the project of the
kennebec Water Power Company to raise
the level of the water in Moosehead
Lake will probably be abandoned be.
cause of the great expense for damages
which would amount to hundreds of
thousands of dollars. The company
engineer is still continuing his surveys
about the lake.
| Five members of the New England
Botanical Club are at Mt. Katahdin for
the purpose of collecting botanical spec
linens. They will remain there for
several weeks. The party is made up of
Dr. George A. Kennedy, Milton, Mass,
Joseph R. Churchill, Boston; Merrill L.
Fernald, Gray, herbarium of Harvard
University; Prof. J. Franklin Collins of
Brown University, Providence, r. /
and Emile F. Williams, secretary of the
club, Boston
Mr.. Hugh T. Chisholm. president of
the International Paper company is
negotiating with a Portland contractor
for the erection of two hundred houses
at Rumford Falls. The cost is TO be
about two thousand dollars each, which
means an expenditure for land and
building of fully half million dollars.
Mr.. Chisholm says that by the time
these houses are built they will be
ready to employ the heads of two hun
dred families at an average wage of
$3.50 per day,
! At the closing session, Wednesday
afternoon, of the State Bpworth League
held in Waterville the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year
President, l.. c. Vannar, Bangor; secre.
tary, Alice M. Lord, Portland; treas
urer, F. NJ. Strout, Portland; first vice
president, Rev. g. NJ. Bailey Sears
mont; second vice president, Mrs. G
W. Butler, Oldtown; third vice presi
dent Ralph w. Richards, Waterville
fourth vice president, Sherman F. Page
Houlton; junior superintendent. Ethe
G. Lindsay.
Frank E. Blake of Rowland, ~ year.
of age, was terribly injured in the new
saw mill connected with the establish
ment of the Rowland Falls Pulp anC
Paper Co. at noon on Wednesday
Blake was under the bed of the mill il
the pit he was assisting othe
workmen in placing some betting OF
some shafting above. A rope huns
down a shaft and when the men above
started the machinery it caught Blak,
around the body and pulled him into
the eogs of the big water wheel. Am
putation of one leg at the hip was nee
essary.
In the Windsor county court at Wood
stock, Vt, Thursday of last week
Dustin Shaw was sentenced by Judge
Loveand Munson for two offenses Il
which he had pleaded guiltY-impedinG
an officer and breaking Jail. For the
former he was sentenced to not less
than two and half nor more than three
years in State prison, and for the latter
not less than two nor more than tive
and one half years. Shaw was repre-
sented by F. c. Southgate, who asked
for the clemency of the court. which
was, to some extent, granted.
According to returns made To Hon
| Edward Wiggin, State statistical agent