The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-11-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

MAINE MATTERS. Governor Powers
called special meetings of the execu-
tive council for November 22nd and
49, as required by law, for the purpose
of sorting, counting, calling and record
ing the vote cast at the national cleo
ton. The meeting of Nov. % was
the first special session held since the
beginning of the Spanish American war.
LIN the fleet of Bath built craft en-
ployed by the Glacier Packing Co., as
transports on the Pacific and Alaskan
coasts in the salmon trade, are the ship
Merom. bark Kate Davenport, re-rigged
from ship: ship Sterling ship Eclipse,
ship Bohemia and the ship B. p. Cheney.
with the present scarcity of fish, SO
necessary in the sardine industry, at
PASSPORT many of the factory employees
from outside cities and from the provin-
ces have returned home to await another
season, which begins. in May next.
The assignment of William L. Strong
& Co. of New York involves the wool
EN- mills at Winthrop, Me-, for which the
company was agent. The United States
fish commission considers the Green
Lake station one of the best hatch
cries in America, and are having photo
graphs finished of it for the Pan-Ameri-
IL
1901 December 18th has been selected
as the date for the Portland Festival
chorus first public reheasal of the
season. Selections for next years ora
torios and some of the choral numbers
previously given will be on the pro-
gram, with numbers by local soloists,
not yet selected....A Bath citizen in a
recent conversation with Senator ". 2.
Frye said: II suppose that Maine will
lose one of her Representatives by the
recent census" Senator Frye replied,
1T has been presumed that Maine
would for the past forty years, but she
has not and do not Jhink she will
Game Commissioner Carlton on Nov.
nth shipped from the Forks to Govern
or-elect Hill, one of the largest bucks
that has come from the game regions
this year....T The story that [ nited States
Senator William c. Clark of Montana,
the great mining king of the Northwest,
is to establish granite quarrles at North
JAY is followed by a more interesting
report to the effect that Portland has
been determined upon as the shipping
port OF this plant. Rufus Morrill, of
Morrilfs Corner father of Miss Mary
Morrill, one OF the American Board
missionaries who was reported to have
Ting Flu. has not yet given up all hope
of her escape....The Augusta board of
\ dermen recently granted a license to
the opera house i'll that city with the
provlso that each one of the aldermen
should be furnished with season ticket,
This action caused so much comment
from the citizens Of that city that the
aldermen rescuded the order and gave
the opera house an unconditional IL
ceilSe....The movement for the amneXa-
ton o1 south Portland to Portland has
been revived and the first steps have
been taken to bring the matter before
the atule......The friends of a
worthy Bootibay sea captain, who re-
Gently e1umtd home from the Maine
iteaerai hospital. where he had partially
recovered from a stroke Of paralysis.
made him d cal the other day, and be
SIDES leaving him provisions and fuel
enough 10 last him till next summer.
made him present Of sll9 III cash,