The Somerset reporter., 1900-05-10

cemetery and sparks ignited the house
of George Moulton. Assistance was
asked from Orono and Oldtown and the
fire in the residence was controlled, but
flames had secured considerable head
way in the forest, and started good
sized fire. 1t will be some time before
the fire in the woods is extinguished.
The North German Lloyd line has
placed an order with the Vulcan Ship
Building company of Stettin for vessel,
which, when completed will be As feet
longer than the White Star Liner Oceanic
and many knots faster than the Kaiser
Wilhelm Der Crosse. She will have
twin screws and 5000 horse power,
which is 5, 900 more than the forth-com-
ing Hamburg American line steamer
Deutschland, which is due to arrive here
next month on her maiden trip. In
length she will be 1852 feet.
j. w. Edgerly, Jr, and Edmund |.
Davis, engineers in the Typographical
survey party, left Bangor on the 10
train, Saturday morning, for Hermon,
where the beginning of this years work
will be made, Mr.. Davis commission
from Washington having arrived on Fri
day night. 1t is expected that the pre-
liminary work in the vicinity of Her
mon will be quickly accomplished owing
to the comparative lightness of the
country. Messrs. Edgerly and Davis re-
turned to Bangor on saturday evening,
to spend Sunday and returned to work
on Monday morning.
A sad feature of the Pennington fire
was the loss of Henry rosby, poor
man from Avon. He was about to move
with his family to Lewiston, and had
brought down all their household goods.
The heavy furniture was packed into
freight cars; but three trunks and one
large grip filled with brc-a-brac, pic
lures, photographs and family relics
were placed in the passenger depot, to
go with the family. Tuesday morning,
Mr.. trosby came down with his wife
and children to take the train-and
their grief can be imagined when they
found they had lost all their family
knick-knacks.
The April term of the Aroostook SUI
preme judicial court, which convened in
Houlton, April II, adjourned, last week.
During the term $50 civil and rs criminal
actions were disposed Of Although but
| few indictments were found by the
grand Jury, there was collected during
the term, $3,3S0.33 in fines and costs.
| Most of the above amount was paid on
liquor appeal cases. Daniel Patrick
Murphy was sentenced to State prison
during his natural life for murder. AL
bert White was sentenced to six months
in the county jail for larceny. Joseph
Baker was sentenced to the county Jail
for III months for assault Ten persons
were naturalized.
Dunstan Shaw and his son, Frank,
who escaped from the Woodstock Jail,
April 20, and who for the past 10 days
have been bounded through the woods
and mountains of central Vermont by
armed officers and citizens, numbering
between 200 and 300 at various times,
and who in course of their flight killed
Deputy Sheriff Hoffman of Windsor
county, last Friday, were captured in
swamp about four miles from Middle
bury, at noon Thursday, May 5. They
resisted the approach of officers and
citizens with Winchestels and IA or Is
shots were exchanged when Frank Shaw
fell with two bullet wounds in his body
and his father surrendered.
According to Quebec dispatches, the
Phoenix Bridge company of Phoenix
Vile, Pa, has received the contract to
build the st. Lawrence river bridge at
Quebec. The contract price will reach
81, 100000 The bridge will require
n, 900 tons of steel to build 1t will be
$50 feet above the river, so that ships
with the tallest masts can pass under it,
and it will be 70 feet wide. 1t will be
built in three spans, two of 900 feet each
and the centre one of 1900 feet. The
middle span will be oantlever, and will
surpass the great span of the Tay bridge
In Scotland by several hundred feet.
The bridge will! carry four railway
tracks, with a driveway and walk on
each side. 1t will take the Phoenix
Bridge company three years to turn out
the structural material and erect the
bridge.
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