The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-10-04
STATE AND GENERAL.

A regular session Of Good Templars
will be held at Gardiner, Oct. 10Th and
18th. All prominent railroads in Maine
will sell tickets for one fare the round
trip. The session viii be held at Oak
land lodge, No. 306, Davenport block
The last Of September 2. 20 men were
employed cleaning the streets Of Cal
weston of debris and disposng Of dead
bodies from the wreckage Thirty.one
bodies were found, making a total of
2.3l1 so far known to have been re.
covered.
Mr. Michael J Dady, the Brooklyn
contractor has offered the municipality
of Havana a complete sewerage aud paw
ing system of the city in accordance
with plans officially approved, for the
sum of 100000. The municipality
has the offer under consideration
In the superior court a. Portland
Thursday Of last week, liquor fines were
paid to the amount of about $1,000 and
bail was defaulted in a number of such
cases. The total revenue for the county
from such source the present term of
court is expected to exceed $50, 900.
The time for receiving signatures for
the nomination Of Presidential electors
at the Office of the Secretary of State ex-
PRED Friday night at midnight. The
Socialists filing ITO names will get the
names of their candidates for electors
upon the ticket. The Populists getting
but 1872 names and needing 1000 fail.
At meeting of the democratic state
committee at Augusta, Thursday even
ing of last week, resolutions on the
death of the late Arthur Sewall of Bath
were unanimously adopted and George
E. Hughes of Bath unanimously recon-
mended for the national democratic
committee to succeed Mr. sewall
sad drowning accident occurred
about two miles from East Benton, Fri
day evening, when the young son of
Wilder Estes lost his life by falling from
a bridge that crosses Maple brook near
the home of his father. The body was
recovered two hours later. 1t was with
considerable difficulty that the mother
was prevented from flnging herself into
the stream. so wild was her glief
Fire early Friday morning totally
destroyed storehouse near the Bangor
: d Aroostook railway station in Island
Falls containing 900, 900 last blocks, the
property of H. A. Bennett & Co of
Danforth. The wind was blowing
towards town. A railway freight shed
adjoining and the lumber yard of the
Mattawamkeag Lumber Co. were saved
with difficulty Loss covered by in
surance. Origin of the fire unknown.
Charles S. Hamilton, a former judge
of the Biddeford municipal court and
u former mayor of the city, died, Sunday
night, of meningitis. He was prominent
at the bar and we'll known for his work
in criminal cases He had been engaged
for the defense of George Champion,
who is charged with the West Newfeld
murders For eight years he served as
judge of the municipal court, retiring
after a memorable trial before the State
legislature on the charge of misconduct.
He was twice elected mayor of Bidde-
ford, on the Republican ticket.
The claim of Capt. Lincoln W. lib
belts of Portland, against the United
States for $4,000 damages on account
of the loss sustained by him in 1862 in
: the keeping of his ship with cargo of
powder from the Confederacy, losing
the use of his vessel for a long time and
seriously damaging her, will be brought
up at the coming session of Congress,
and Attorney F. II. Hartford will en-
deavor to secure a favorable report from
the committee on claims which now has
the matter in its grist. In this he will
have the assistance of Congressman
Allen, who has interested himself in the
case. The case has been before Con-
gress in various forms for nearly 20
years.
4 James Howard has been found guilty
of being principal of the assassination
of Gov. Goebel. A verdict was returned
shortly before ten o'clock, Wednesday
morning, Sept. 26th, and entailed q
death sentence. The verdict was a sur
prise as it had been rumored that the
jury was divided on the question of
guilty or innocent. 1t has been learned,
however, that the difficulty in reaching
a verdict was over the degree of punish
ment, some of the jurors favoring the
life imprisonment, while others stood
out for the death penalty and finally
won their associates over. The jury
which tried the case was divided POI
litically as follows: Nine democrats,
one republican and two anti Goebel
democrats.
Lieut. Gen. Miles has issued a general
order to the army intended to secure a
general improvement in the moral and
physical condition of the force The
order particularly directs the inculca.
ton of patriotic principles, the eelebra-
ton of national holidays, by patriotic
readings strict attention TO the salutes,
respect for the flag and attention to