The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13
STATE AND GENERAL.

South Africa for London about the
middle of October.
The ice shipments from the Kennebec
will be practically at an end for this
season by the middle OF the month.
Governor Powers has nominated DR..
d. W. Fellows of Portland and DR.. L.
e. Bryant of Pittsfeld as members Of
the board of dental examiners.
Mrs. Rhoda P. Sampson Of Dexter
died, Tuesday, aged % years six
months and ID days. Mrs Sampson war
a pensioner of the war of 1872
A farmer from Oxford county re-
marks to the journal: ~ came down
to state Fair and have seen the biggest
show Of my life and not drunken
man have seen on the grounds
Ex-President Cleveland has declined
the Presidents appointment as a mem
Der Of the International Board Of Arbi
tration, under the Hague treaty. TX
President Harrison has accepted the
appointment.
The 74th annual meeting of the Ger
eral Conference of the congregational
churches in Maine, and the ninty-thrd
anniversary of the Maine Missionary
Society are to be held in the South
Congregational church, Augusta, Sept
ember 25-27
So heavy has been the travel from
points along the Maine coast for Boston
these last few days. that regular boats
of the various lines have been constantly
behind their usual time in arriving,
though the agents say they are running
on regular though later schedule.
laundering for the season of 1900-19O1
has commenced and though it's been
scarcely more than a week since tie
drives having the logs of last season.
cut arrived in the booms, cutting and
yarding has commenced at many of the
camps where big crews are hard at
work.
The firm of Hodgkins & Hall, lumber
manufacturers, Bangor, has made an
assignment with the liabilities OF s64, 900
and assets of $4,000. The failure was
caused by the firms paying high prices
for logs, last winter, while the bottom
has since dropped out of the lumber
market.
The Secretary of States office Satur-
day night, received word that the town
house at fremont, 10 miles from Bar
Harbor, was burned that morning, and
the ballots to be used for the State
election were lost. Consequently a new
set was rushed by special messenger for
Mondays election.
LAUNDERING for the season of 1900 1901
has commenced and though it's been
scarcely more than a week since the
drives having the logs of last seasons
cut arrived in the booms, cutting and
yarding has commenced at many of the
camps where big crews are hard at
work
Only Saturday before he was pros
trated Mr.. Sewall drove to Small Point
with his span of horses. Before he
went he sat under the trees on his lawn
for an hour with the Hon. George f.
/ Hughes, chairman of the Democratic
State committee. He talked of business
and politics. and seemed as well as he
has recently been.
The full returns show that the potato
crop in Aroostook county will be but 70
per cent of the usual amount. Early
in the year the prospect was very
bright. Now with the rust and other
conditions the damage is very great
In some places the crop has dropped
down to so per cent. Only one CORE.
spondent, that in Piscataqus county
reports that the crop is up to the usual
standard.
The war department has been inform.
ed that the Russians have laid a cable
from Port Arthur to Che Foo, which
gives Russia through connection on
the overland wire with the forces in
China. The dispatch from Genera
Chaffee announces that the Danish
cable from shanghai to Taku has been
captured. This is taken to mean Eng.
fish" instead of Danish
All the starch factories in the vicinity
of Blaine opened their doors to receive
potatoes, Sept. 10. Many farmers have
already begun digging and are selling tC
the buyers for 81 per barrel. Consider
able rot is reported. Usually the yield
is from so to 100 barrels per acre, but
the present season it will be anywhere
between 20 and so barrels, and the crop
throughout the country will be lighter
than for many years.
The conference committee of the
National Federation of Textile Workers
have decided to support the movement
of the Textile National Workers Union
for ten hour work day in the Southern
mills. The conference committee adopt
ed constitution for the federation. Ii
was voted to hold the next convention
of the federation in Washington, Dec
II, in order to accommodate the large
number of delegates from the Southern
States.
The population of the city of Portland