The Somerset reporter., 1900-01-04
AfATE AND GENERAL.

Tue mid-winter meeting of the Maine
Federation, is to be held at Westbrook,
January "a, by invitation of the Ammon'
congin club.
Joseph Gross OF Rockland committed
suicide, Saturday night, by drowning
The body was found, Sunday afternoon
near Tillsons wharf by fishermen. MI
Gross was IS years of age and had lived
in that city for several years.
Fire in the department store of j. A
Bucknam & Co, Rockland Thursday, dit
about $500 damage to the building anC
$500 to the stock; fully insured. The
fire was discovered about a. m, anc
was caused by defective chimney.
After being missed six days, Benjamin
w. Chapman of Waterville was founo
dead at his home on Western avenue
Sunday morning at o'clock by Eugene
Dearborn who notified Coroner w. w
Edwards and DR.. Rancourt. There IL
something of a mystery surrounding the
affair.
1t is expected that II additional looms
will soon be in running order in the
Newport wooden mill, and this will mean
an addition of a like number of weavers
This brings the mills equipment OF
looms up to 81 and in order to keep
these all running it will be necessary to
run carding and spinning departments
over time.
Prof. Henry Crosby Emery, Phi. D., OF
Ellsworth, who has occupied the Daniel
B. Fayerweather chair of political econ
oiny and sociology at Bowdoin college
r the past two years, has been elected
I the profe Ssorship of political economy
u Yale college Prof. Emery is the son
OF Judge l.. \. Emery of the Maine su-
preme court.
The house and sheds at the farm of
Walter Marcoux in Clinton were burned
to the ground, Thursday, together with
all the furniture and household goods.
The fire is supposed to have been caused
by defective chimney, as no one was
at home at the time the fire started.
Mrs. Marcoux was Frustrated when she
learned of the fire. The loss is about
$1,000 and partly covered by insurance.
The Oakland Electric company or
ganized at Waterville, for the purpose
of furnishing power and light for Oak
land and Belgrade with $4,000 capital
stock, of which nothing is paid in, filed
certificate of incorporation at Augusta,
Thursday. The officers are: President,
Harvey D. Eaton of Waterville, Me. ;
treasurer, G. K. Boutelle of Watervlle,
Me. Certificates approved, Dec. 81,
1899.
Camden doesn't forget to emphasize
the fact that it now ranks next to Bath,
as a shipbuilding center. In fact, the
town has launched greater tonnage of
wooden sailing vessels during the year
than Bath and so in this line it has led
the State. 1t has also led the State in
building the biggest FIVE master in the
world and next year it will be the big
gest six-master. Surely Camden has a
right to feel proud of this record.
Commencing Monday, Jan. l, the old
passenger service on the Norway branch
of the Grand Trunk railway, from South
Paris to Norway, was restored. The
notification came to Mr.. Freeland Howe,
secretary of the Norway Branch Com
pany, Wednesday. 1t is supposed that
the road has come to the decision that
it will be fully as cheap to restore pas
senger traffic as it is to run the increased
freight trains which have been put on
since the passenger train was taken off.
Three prisoners took French leave at
the county Jail in Auburn, Thursday
evening, Paul Parent, Thomas Outlet
and Arthur Mayant. 1t seems that the
men were not in their cells when the
locks were turned for the night but
were secreted in the work room. They
dug through the brick wall by aid of
table knives. This opened the way to
the corridor extending from the prison
to the workshop. The paddock and sta
pie which held the door were made to
yield by aid of saws made out of table
knives.
At the annual meeting of the Maine
Pedagogical Society held at Bangor, last
week, the following officers were elected
at the afternoon session, Friday, the
closing day: President, Miss Mary s..
Snow, Bangor; vice president, f. W..
johnson, Waterville; secretary and