The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-08-02
STATE AND GENERAL.

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1t il announced that COY. Roosevelt
will make one speech in the Maine cam
paign, and that will be at Old Orchard
senator Channcey ". Depew is expect.
ed to make four speeches, in Portland,
Augusta. Bangor and Lewiston.
The Sixth Maine Battery association
will hold reunion in Bangor during
the last part of August. there are not
many of the members left but what
there are will congregate there during
the Eastern Maine State fair to enjoy
the hospitality of Bangor
The chances are that there will be a
1000, 900, 600 bushel corn crop, after all.
Recent reports from the region which
was parched and unpromisng a week or
ten days ago represent the conditions as
being materially improved. This il
good news for the country.
John Matson, "a, Finn, and married.
was fatally injured at the Long CoYe
granite quarry, Rockland, Wednesday
afternoon Of last week. A boiler.
weighing 500 pounds, fell from the
bluff above, striking him on the head
and shoulders, breaking his back Mat.
son was known at the quarry as No. 3.
At noon, Thursday, Kelley, Spear d
Co, Bath, launched the ninety-ninth
vessel which they have built since 1856.
when the firm was organized. 1t was
the trim little three master Helena built
for Capt. Charles Hodgkins of Lamoine.
She is 166 5 feet long, 35 feet wide
and 1871 feet deep Her net tonnage is
119,47 tons.
section l of the Buffalo Bill Wild
West Show train suffered severe col
lision near Detroit, Mich, shortly be
fore daylight, saturday, resulting in the
smashing of show employees sleeping
car containing some forty sleeping in
mates. One of the latter is dead and
nine others are in Detroit hospitals SUI.
fering from more or less serious INJURIES
The new United States torpedo boat
Barney was launched at Bath, Saturday
afternoon, and large number of spec
tators witnessed the launching. The
Barney was christened by Miss Ethel
Nicholson Barney of Fredericksburg
Va, great granddaughter of Commo.
dore Joshua Barney of Revolutionary
fame, who was also the grandfather oil
the late Commodore j. II Barney
DR.. E. H. Kidder of Waterville has a
wise in his laboratory which is 100 years
old. 1t was made by hand, all the
pieces being forged by some old-timt
blacksmith. The date, 1900, is stamped
or chiseled on one side. The wise is a
small one and is in good working order
Only the very best of material and labor
was used in the good old fashioned way
so that it is good for another century OF
use
Ex-senator Matthew S. Quay of Penn.
sylvania will come to Maine, this week,
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to arrive in Bangor on Friday, Aug 8,
| and will 90 from here to northern
Maine, presumably ON a fishing trip
| although it is said that Mr.. Quay i.
about to become interested in the pull
business in Maine. 1t is also announced
that Gov. Roosevelt will make a short
visit to Island Falls, Aroostook county
in the fall, deer shooting.
Two boys were drowned at Goose
Falls, Cape Rozier, near Castne, last
Thursday forenoon, at 10 O'Clock. One
of them was named Redmond, 10 year,
old, of Lowell, Mass, who was visiting
his grandparents there. The other wa,
the eight year old son of Daniel Gray o.
Cape Rezier, They were out in a pun
of their own manufacture, and which
was nothing more than a shell. Tn,
craft capsized and both were drowned
in about five feet of water. Their bodies
were recovered.
There was large attendance at the
fourth annual meeting of the Wooler
Overseers' Association of eastern Maine
held at Foxcroft, Saturday. The gath
ering represented Is different manu-
facturers. Forty-tive members wer,
added. These officers were elected
President, j. II. Fitzgerald, Oldtowl
Wooden Company; first vice. president
K. L. White, Guilford; second vice
president, James Muggins Dexter; sec
Rotary, Il. Taylor, Dover; treasurer, J
T. Davis, Guilford, The next meeting
will be held at Dexter.
Before another month is past a build
| ing of giant dimensions will be vel
under way on the banks of mill cove
where now stands the Colby and Brow
mills, Brunswick. 1t will be used as
pulp mill, the present building being
inadequate for the rapidly increasin!
business of the Androscoggin Pulp o
Final arrangements have not been com
pleted as yet for the power house, a
they are pending the arrival of two o
the owners who are at present in Eu
rope, but are expected home the first o
/ August.
The appointment of Walter B. Maln!
of Portland, Me, to be clerk of the new
United States District court of Hawaii
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