The Somerset reporter., 1900-01-18
STATE AND GENERAL.

rs city of Gardiner, Me-, is to have
II &c delivery of mail with three carriers
and one substitute.
A dispatch from Toronto says the
order in council prohibiting the export
of spruce wood out from crown lands
has been adopted by the Ontario govern.
ment. Consequently all wood cut after
April 80, must be manufactured into
pulp in Canada.
Through the agency of Admiral
Dewey, two inch muzzle loading,
smooth bore guns, which formerly form
ed part of the Spanish defense at
Manila, will adorn the base of the
monument to be erected to the late
Lieut.. T. M. Brumby.
The State Fire Commissioner stephen
w. Carr of Augusta, has completed AN
investigation as to the cause of the late
fires in Mechanic Falls, and as no
motive or probable cause for incendiar-
ism was found the conn ssioner decided
to proceed no further with the examina
ton.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse Captain En-
gelbart, established new eastern rec
ord, last week, by covering the distance
between New York and Cherbourg in
five days, 10 hours and so minutes. She
steamed SOFT knots at an average speed
of % 81 knots per hour and lowered the
best previous record by two hours and
ak minutes.
Col K. K. Newcomb, commander of
the second regiment, N. G. ). M. has
l"tt.i Aalt Cen. Richards of the
! .intmeot of Lieut.. II. Y. Jonah of
J 81, port, me junior assistant surgeon of
,i,e regiment, to be captain and assistant
surgeon in the place of Capt K. j..
Martin, who declined reappointment.
DIR. John r. Hill of Waterville, has been
appointed lieutenant and assistant sur
geon in the place of DR.. Jonah.
One postage stamp brought $1,7l0,
Friday, at the sale of the collection of
+. w. Hunter of New York. This is
the largest sum any stamp has ever
brought in this country at auction. 1t
was specimen of the first issue of
British Guiana In 1850. 1t Is of the two
cent denomination. The stamp was pur-
chased by prominent stamp and coin
company of New York, who represented
an English collector. Mr.. Hunter
bought this specimen for l,0l0.
Frank Choate of Montville, who has
been in the Waldo county Jail at Bel.
fast for nearly month on suspicion of
having something to do with the thefts
before the court Wednesday of last week
on two indictments connecting him with
the Montville cases. The reading of the
indictment was waived and Choate was
placed under $500 bonds for the two
charges on his own recoguizance at the
supreme court to be held In Waldo
county in April.
DR.. Benaiah Langley whitman, a
former president of Colby, has rendered
his resignation as president of Colum.
bian University at meeting of the
board of trustees. DR.. Whitman has
accepted the pastorate of the Calvary
Baptist church, Philadelphia. He will
remain with the university until the
close of the present academic year, how
ever. The action was complete sur.
prise to the majority of the trustees, and
no thought has yet been given TO the
choice of successor to DR.. whitman.
A special to the Record from Ortiz,
Mexico, says: Small bands of Yaqui
Indians have become very annoying to
the Mexican troops during the last few
days, and frequent sklrmishes have oo-
Cured. A few nights ago hundred
Indians boldly rode into the corral aud
stampeded over 200 horses belonging TO
tured the animals for their own use. 1t
is almost impossible to get supplies to
the troops owing to the Yaquis' tactics,
Gen. Torres men are living on the
country and there are times when they
must suffer severely for lack of food.
Americans who have come from the
Yaqui country say the troops have made
no Roadway toward putting down the
rebellion.
The Wilder Oil Cloth factory at Hal
lowell, owned by stock company COM
posed of Augusta capitalists was burned
Saturday morning, causing loss esti-