The Somerset reporter., 1900-09-20
STATE AND GENERAL.

The postal service establishment of
the United States is the greatest bust
ness concern in the world. The revenue
of the New York postoffice is more than
100000 yearly with a net profit of
100000.
An extra freight train passed through
Portland, recently, bound for Bath
The train consisted of IA fat cars loaded
with 10 huge pieces of Oregon pine.
The sticks are to be used in vessels as
masts. Some of the sticks measured
1870 feet in length, and it required four
81 foot cars for each stick.
Leonard E. Hansen, German, fell
from the mast head of the three masted
schooner Carrie K. Look at Belfast,
Saturday, and was 80 badly injured that
he died in about half hour after the
accident. The schooner is one of the
Thomaston fleet Of vessels and Is com
handed by Capt. Veazie of Islesboro.
Elnathan Call, a man so years of age,
who has been living alone in his house
in the lower part of Pittston, was found
dead In his bed, Friday morning. He
had been missed for a day or two and
investigation of the premises was made
by neighbors with the above result.
Coroner HIldreth of Gardiner was
notified.
The house and farm buildings belong
ing to Osborne T. Woodward of New
Meadows, we're entirely destroyed by
fire at 2 O'Clock, Thursday morning,
Sept. 10. Four horses, carriages and
nearly all the farming implements were
lost. The fire started in the barn.
The total loss is estimated at $4,000;
insurance $500.
The four. masted schooner Geneva
was launched from Cobb & Buffers
yard, Rockland, Thursday afternoon,
in the presence Of several thousand peo-
pie. 1t was a fine launching scene.
The craft is 1905 feet long, with q gross
tonnage of S74 and and net tonnage of
778 She is owned by John S. Emery &
Co. of Boston, and will be commanded
by Capt. Charles Fl. Bjorktund.
Henry Willer, a well-known Kineo
guide, was drowned, Saturday night, in
Moose river under very peculiar circum-
stances. His body was found, Sunday
morning, in two feet of water. 1t is
supposed that while polling his canoe up
stream he lost his balance and fell, in
juring himself so he was unableIto gain
the shore or lift his head above water.
He was 20 years of age. A widow and
child survive him.
The lower end of Orono got quite a
soorching Thursday evening, the build
ing owned by Frank Violet as resi-.
dence and saloon and an adjoining build
ing belonging to Albert Perkins and
occupied by White & Ring as store
house, being destroyed. The fire orig
mated in the basement of an addition on
the Violet building, catching in pile
of birch edgings kept there. The loss
to the buildings in which the fire was
located Is total.
With his neverfailing thoughtfulness
for his fellow people, the venerable and
honored citizen, Hon. James w. Brad
bury of Augusta has started subscrip-
ton paper for the benefit of the suffer-
ers by the recent terrible hurricane at
Galveston, Texas. Mr.. Bradbury pre-
pared the paper with his ownihand and
his writing Is more legible than that of
many people of not half his age. With
his usual generosity he heads the list
with the sum of 800.
Oakland was visited by bad fire,
Thursday night. The school building
is almost q total wreck, being:badly
damaged by water as we'll as fire. The
four walls were left standing and.some
Of the furniture aud books in the va.
rious rooms can be used. The library
at the top of the building was entirely
destroyed. The fire is supposed to have
caught from defective chimney,
though the building has been built
within two years, at cost Of $11, 900.
The loss is partially covered by an in
surance of $4,000.
The Hon. William Rogers, the oldest
ship builder in Bath, observed his 10th
birthday anniversary, Sunday. He was
born in Bath, Sept. 10, 1924, and after
being educated at the Bath high school
and Andover Academy, has since given
his time to ship building. During the
past 80 years he has built % vessels, the
last being the four-masted schooner