The Somerset reporter., 1900-07-12
STATE AND GENERAL.

The Russian government by way OF
aiding the campaign against alcoholism,
has contributed "A 900 rubies toward the
erection of hospital for military
victims.
First Lieut., William H. Clifford, Jr.,
of the u. S. Marine Corps, formerly OF
Portland, who has been stationed at
Cavit, Philippine Islands, sailed recently,
for China, with the First Battalion OF
Marines.
President McKinley's sister and niece
are spending the month of July at the
Mascot, Orr's Island. About the first
of August they will be joined by Prsi-
dent Mckinley and in company with
him will go to Poland Springs.
Walter Day, stable keeper of North
Berwick, was held up and robbed by a
highwayman, Thursday noon, while he
was returning from drive to Sanford.
He received built wound in the arm
from his assailant's revolver. The affair
occurred near Bonegbeag pond.
The condition of the national finances
az shown by the annual balance sheet is
extremely gratifying, showing surplus
of S81, 229,777. Secretary Gage in his
last annual report estimated the surplus
at the end of the fiscal year 1900 at
$40,0OO,0OO The total receipts, exclu-
sive of the postal service, are $685. $685.
.94S, and the expenditures $4S7, 100 Ill.
Wingate F. Cram, son of General
Manager Franklin w. Cram of the Ban
gor & Aroostook Railroad, will leave
shortly for New York, where he will
study law. Mr.. Cram will enter the
Office of Lewis Cass Leyard, a pultl.
millionaire, and one of the eminent
lawyers of this country. Mr.. Cram
graduated from Harvard University in
June
Fort Fairfield was visited by burglars
Friday night. They made raid on the
G. p r. station. They effected an en-.
trance to the office by prying out the
bars of the ticket window and removing
he window. They drilled the safe, the
explosion throwing the door of the safe
clear across the Office. They were
poorly paid for their trouble as only
about So were deposited there. 1t was
evidently the work of experts. No clue
m tho perpetratOra
Nearly 100 people, passengers on a
car bound for Tacoma, Wash, were
plunged down a gulch at Goth and C
streets, July 4th. Those who were
standing on the platform dropped
off only to be bruised and wounded by
the heavy body of the coach, while
others inside were killed and MANNED
before they knew what had happened.
The car jumped the track and was
smashed to kindling wood in the bottom
of the chasm over 100 feet below.
The big steamer Maverick of the
Standard Oil Company, has arrived at
the Bath Iron Works, where it will be
repaired. The job will take four
months and the cost will be upwards of
100000. The craft was scuttled in
Halifax on the 18th of last July on &C
count of her cargo of oil getting on fire
She was discharging at the wharf in
Halifax, when leak started in one of
the pipes leading from one of the tanks
and the oil leaked down into the fire.
room. The fire spread so quickly that
1t was impossible to extinguish it.
One of the Oriental powder mills,
known as the "Wheel mill' at South
Windham, was wrecked, about o'clock,
Thursday morning, July 3, by an ex-
plosion which shook houses for mile
around and was plainly heard by resi-
dents of Gorham. Not more than two
minutes earlier the night Waterman,
Fred c. Allen, had finished tour of
inspection.wh revealed no apparent
danger He escaped without injury as