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

Ivory Norwood, house joiner
residing in Kennebunkport, committed
suicide, Friday, by cutting his throat
He had worked at his trade in Boston
for a number of years. He was Al
years old.
The industry of lobster catching In
and around the town of Gouldsboro IL
becoming a very profitable one. Al
Winter Harbor 80 men are engaged il
the work this winter, while good
business is done in this at Prospect
Harbor and Corea.
A letter received, Monday, by the
friends of Congressman Boutelle con
veys the information that the physicians
say his improvement has been 80 mark
cd that he will be able to leave the SAM
tarinm now, in a few weeks, entirely
recovered.
Willie Webber of York, who has
been on trial in the Supreme Court on
the charge of assault with danger
GUS weapon on Charles e. Perkins, was
found guilty Thursday, and sentenced
to serve one year in the county jail
The act was committed on Thanksgiv'
ing day of last year.
Rev. Robert Goldman, Jr., the newly
elected Episcopal bishop of Maine,
preached his farewell sermon as rector
of st. Johns Episcopal church, Rox
bury, Sunday morning. The church
was crowded to the doors by the mem
bers of the parish, who were eager te
hear the parting words of their beloved
pastor.
Mrs. Belle G. Dowst, formerly OF
I,angor and late of Calais, died at the
home of her husband, Henry F. Dows'
in Calais, Saturday, aged Al years. She
had been i'll for several years, but only
within q month had her immediate
death been looked for. In 1894 and
1895 Mrs. Dowst was president of the
Maine Federation of Women's Clubs.
The firm of Oren Hoopers Sons,
Portland is rapidly coming 10 the
front In the heating and plumbing lines
They have just been awarded, in com
petition with numerous Boston and
Portland concerns, the contract to in.
stall tho steam heating apparatus fol-
the new sixty room hotel at Bridgton'
It Is understood that the price was in
the neigh borhood of 81, 500 90.
The insurance department announced
an increase in the amount of Fire and
Marine insurance written in Maine In
1859, by old line companies, of 81, 100, 98O
over the work of 1893, and an increase
in premiums collected over 5000, 142.
The amount of insurance written in his
class of business was $11, 1872, 8l9 .65.
The calculations for Commissioner Carr's
report are just being made up.
Z. Y. Turner has opened fine
feldspar mine in Auburn on the old
Hatch farm. 1t is near the spot
where 5000 worth of tourmaline gems
was mined few years ago. MIR. Tur-
ner recently took out one of the finest
iron garnets ever found in Maine. 1t
is nearly perfect, has twenty sides, and
rests in matrix. 1t is nine inches one
way and eight the other and weighs
thirty three pounds.
The returns received by Insurance
Commissioner Carr for the year 1899
shows that the fire insurance business
done in Maine during the year amount
ed to $156, 129, 58S.2S against $118, esq.,
121 .OS In 1898 In risks written. OF the
premiums received in 1899 they amount
ed to 81, O98, 400 90 against 81, 849, 1851 .eS
in 1893. 1t is found that the losses paid
in 1899 we're 81, 1888, 1872 Al against $685.
476 a. The year was a hard one 80 far
~ losses were concerned.
A Chicago man has been trying to
contract with the fishermen on the
Hancock county coast for the shipment
of fresh fish direct to Chicago. He
wants to take large numbers of fish
in fact to make this the supply point
for the Chicago fish market, believing
the fish could be got to the western
market fresher by having them shipped
direct from some fishing point which
could supply the demand, than by
buying from eastern wholesale markets.
Late in the January term of the SUI
preme court the following entry was
made in the equity case of Flavius o.
Beal VS.. Elias Milliken and NJ. s. Hol-
way: "Bill dismissed with costs; judg-
ment for costs satisfied" This means