The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-05-31
STATE AND GENERAL.

Hon. Joseph Ii. Manley and E. G.
Dudley have been nominated as the Re.
publican candidates to the next legisla-
ture In large and enthusiastic canous
In the City hall, Augusta.
The attorney general of New York
has decided that the American Ice Co.
10 an unlawful combination, conducting
its branches In restraint of trade, In
violation OF law and against the Ameri-
can Ice Co. to prohibit from doing busi-
ness in that state.
Fire, Thursday evening, damaged the
machine shop of the G. A. Robbins Sons
Gardiner, to the extent of $4,000 or
ol2, 900 to buildings, machines and stock,
beside destroying patterns which cannot
be estimated In money or replaced.
Loss covered by insurance.
Fire at Hallowell. Thursday afternoon,
destroyed Erskine hall, one of the three
large brick buildings which constitute
the Maine Industrial School. The fire
was discovered at Is, and within half
m hour was beyond hope of control.
The loss will be total, and it is UNDER
stood that there is no insurance, 1t being
one OF the State buildings. The build
ing cost $4,000.
A Rockland man says that within o
few weeks the eighteen.hundred-th
sand dollar line combine will have the
cream OF the Knox county quarries in
its control and will be ready for bust
ness. Nearly all the best properties are
Ia the deal and the rest are coming in
rapidly. 1t ia expected, he says, that
the combine will have a steadying effect
on the business and will prove good
thing for ell concerned.
Alexander Mulligan, a ship carpenter
at work on the Percy & Small schooner
In the Mcdonald yard, Bath, fell from a
staging, Thursday. His fall was IS feet
and he struck Oh pile of planks. The
man was taken to his home, 10 Maple
street, but was smashed up 80 badly
that he died in short time. He leaves
Q wife and four children. Mr.. Mulligan
was brother of M. c. Mulligan who
was former United States shipping
commissioner at the port of Bath.
Doubtless the proudest six.year old
boy In Maine is Charles BlackmAn of
Peaks Island. He is quite an elocu-
ZIONIST and likewise great admirer of
Governor Roosevelt. SO he recently
wrote the chief executive of the EN-
pire State, asking him If he would
please send something to recite. Very
much to his surprise the return mail
brought letter from the governor with
an original composition enclosed. The
little fellow was delighted and has
nearly committed 1t to memory.
In the 216 enumerators appointed by
Mr.. Spofford there are five women, two
In Aroostook county, two in Waldo
county and one In Penobsoot county.
Miss Flora M. Valley will take the cen.
sus In Blaine and in the adjoining town
of Mars Hill, Miss Fay B. Ramsey will
be the enumerator. Miss Sarah Estelle
Parkhurst is the taker at Unity and
Miss Ethel A. Turner will look after the
population In Palermo. Penobscot coun-
TVS representative in the list is Miss
Esther Jane Sanborn of Etna.
Albert P. N. Tribou, a student at the
Bucksport Seminary, who would have
graduated with honor at the coming
commencement, was arrested, Thursday
afternoon, at Bucksport, accused with
the theft of a quantity of tickets from
the Maine Central station at Orriugton.
The theft occurred on March 10, but the
loss was not discovered until recently,
when the tickets were counted mp, He
was injured In a base bali game at Cas-
tine, some time ago. 1t is thought that
the act may be accounted for by a dis
ordered state of his mind.
The Wadsworth House at Hiram was
built in the year 1900 by Gen. Peleg
Wadsworth, the distinguished Revolu-
tionary soldier and citizen, the father
of distinguished sons and the grand
father of the poet Longfellow. The
centennial of the building of his Hiram
residence, where he moved in 1906, will
be celebrated by the members of the
Maine Historical Society, the Sons of
the American Revolution and the Eliza
beth Wadsworth Chapter of the Daugh.
tiers of the American Revolution In
Portland, with their families and
friends, by basket picnic to the old
home at Hiram, about the middle of
June.