The Somerset reporter., 1900-01-25
TATE AND GENERAL.

The barge Iowa was launched in the
yard of the New England Co. at Bath
Saturday afternoon. She has capacity
of 5000 tons and is for the Coaatwise
Steamship Co.
Lauren w. Blake, found guilty by the
jury of causing the fires in Montville,
was sentenced, Wednesday, to serve two
years and six months at hard labor in
the State prison at Thomaston.
Samuel Pnkham, aged 81, hostler,
was burned to death at Charles Perry's
stable, Percival court, at Waterville,
Thursday afternoon, an oil heater ex-
ploding and setting fire to. his clothes,
causing his death.
An election has been ordered to fill
the vacancy in the First Maine regi-
ment caused by the death of Maj. X. X.
Ulmer of Rockland. 1t will be held in
Portland on Jan. 80, at 8 p. m, Col l..
H. Kendall presiding.
Fire in the home of Warren M. True,
Watervile, caused a damage of $500
Saturday night. The fire broke out at
II o'clock and owing to the efficient
work of the firemen the all-out alarm
was rung within half an hour afterward.
The <. Fl. Hatch Mfg Co. has COM
pleted suitable arrangements with the
village authorities and will open a skirt
and waist factory in Clinton, Feb, 1.
The building has been leased for the
purpose and some 80 hands will be given
employment.
Tie damage wrought by the fire at the
winter quarters of the Barnum d Bailey
cncus at Bridgeport, Conn, Friday
night was fully S125 900. An inventory
of the stock which is being taken already
shows loss of more than 100000 and
Supt. Hutchinson says the total amount
will surely be s25, 900 more.
Mrs. Henry Vashon and Mrs. Lucy
King of Waterville, were badly burned,
Saturday night, and rendered uncon.
scious by trying to put out fire from
an overturned lamp which communicat'
ed to their clothing. James Mahew and
daughter were badly burned about the
hands in extinguishing the blaze
Mr.. Charles e. Macrum, former United
States consul at Pretoria, who left
Lourenzo Marquee on December IL,
bound for New Y ork, landed at Naples,
Italy, Thursday. 1t is reported that he
bears a letter from President Kruger to
President Mckinley asking the latter to
mediate between the Transvaal and
Great Britain.
The schooner Nellie j. Crocker of
Calais, Capt. Henderson, from st. John
for New York, with cargo of piling,
went ashore at an early hour, Thursday
morning, in thick fog, on Schoodic
Island, Frenchman's bay, and is a total
loss. The crew were saved. The Crock
er was built in East Haven, Conn, in
1874, and registered 3l2 tons.
Frank w. Rollins, who on Thursday
was appointed postmaster at Ellsworth,
Mr.. Rollins is a native of Ellsworth.
After engaging in newspaper work in
Boston and New York several years, he
returned to Ellsworth six years ago and
purchased the paper on which he learn
ed the printers trade as boy.
John Murray, of French Canadian
ovI haI tn in
was killed while at work on donkey
engine, in the woods near Redington
Mills, Friday. 1t is thought Murray's
clothing caught in the engine, as the
body was laeerated aud several bones
crushed. He lived only an hour after
being released from the gears. Muir
rays father is thought to live in Man
chester, N. H.
Southern senators express themselves
as hopeful over the prospects of secur-
ing legislation during the present ses-
sion of Congress, looking to the refund
ing of money paid into the treasury of
the United States soon after the Civil
War as the result of the sale of cotton
captured by the federal forces. There
was originally aoout $50, 100000 of this
money, but portion of it was paid to
the owners of the cotton soon after the
close of the war.
Henry Dolbier died at North Andover,
Mass, Sunday, in his s2nd year. Mr..
Dolbier was born in Kingheld, Me-, of
which town he was postmaster and
member of the board of selectmen for
many years. He served in the Maine