The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-12-27
STATE AND GENERAL.

The Kneichel Co. furniture factory at
Hanover, Ont, the largest furniture fac
tory in the Dominion of Canada, was to-
tally destroyed by fire, Thursday night.
The fire spread to adjoining buildings
causing a loss of between S250,0O0 and
$4,000
Great Northern train, No. 4, east
bound. was the first TO enter the as
cade tunnel, Friday. Eleven minutes
later II emerged on the east side. The
trip was success in every particular.
President Hill did not arrive in time TO
participate in the event.
Department Commander Suipe of
Bath announced that he had selected
Feb. 10 20 as the date for holding the
State encampment of the Maine G. A
r. at Auburn. Commander in Chief
Leon Rassier of st Louis has been in
vited and is expected to attend.
State Veterinarian Dr. Geo. II. Bailey
was at Island Falls one day, last week,
called there to inspect the stock owned
by George K. Cutler at Barker Ridge
farm. After carefully examining the
herd he decided IL out of the herd OF ID
were afflicted with tuberculosis and or
dered them killed. The stock was
some that had been bred from Massa
chusetts stock and was quite valuable.
Lewis, the young negro, who Wednes-
day night, shot and killed Marshal W..
Z. Richardson at Gulfport, Miss, was
captured, Thursday afternoon, eight
miles from town. A mob which had
followed the bloodhounds used to track
the murderer, Immediately took Lewis
from the officers, dragged him back to
town and hanged him to a tree near the
scene OF his crime.
Thomas Ouiette, who escaped from
Auburn Jail, Dec. rs, 1899, was recap
tured by Sheriff Huskins on Friday,
nearly a year after he took leg bail
Ouillette was confined in Auburn jail at
that time for breaking and entering.
He has been in Pawtucket and recently
returned to Lewiston to recover from an
injury He must await trial for burgla
ry and then for breaking jail.
A petition which Is to be presented to
the next legislature was circulated in
Watervlle, Wednesday, asking for an
nexation to that city of that portion of
the town of Winslow between the Ken
nebec and Sebasticook rivers and the
southern boundary line of the town of
Benton. This includes about 95 per
cent. of the village Of Benton, with
several stores, a saw mill and the large
Hollingsworth & Whitney Paper Com
pany's mill
In view of the increasing trans Allan
tic passenger business at Boston, the
Dominion Line and the Boston & Maine
Railroad Company acting cojointly, have
agreed upon a project for the erection
of huge passenger depot for its &C.
commodation on Pier 7, Hoosac tunnel
docks, Charlestown, which when com
pleted will be one of the most CONNIE
dious and best appointed steamship pas
senger waiting rooms in the country. 1t
Is expected that the building will be
ready for use by Feb. l.
The directors of the Chicago & North
western railroad have decided upon a
permanent pension system for the q, 900
employees of the road to go into effect,
Jan. 1, 1901. The system is patterned
In many respects after that recently
created by the Penna. lines. How many
employees of the road the system will
Immediately retire, the officials of the
directory have been unable to calculate
as yet, but eventually the full working
of the plan will call for an annual ex-
pense upon the part of the company of
100000
One hundred and fortY-fve live tur-
keys and 2774 pounds of dressed tur-
keys, together with 500 dozen eggs. all
alleged to have been struggled across
thO OOtuoij WotO eoiHoh ~
Wednesday of last week, by Deputy
Collector jerks. The stuff was taken
to Bangor, where on depositing sum
equal to the value of the birds, E. l..
Ellingwood, who was in charge of them
was permitted to take them pending in
struotions from Washington. Mr.. FL
lingwood asserts that he bought the
turkeys in the United States, in the
vicinity of Houlton.
The big four-masted schooner Joseph
p. Thomas, the largest vessel built in
Thomaston in many years, was success
fully launched from Washburn Bros
shipyard, Thomaston, at 9.45 o'clock
Thursday morning There was large
attendance of townspeople. The schoon-
er was christened by Misses Edith and
Beth Washburn, daughters of the build
or, and Mary f. Lermond, daughter of
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