The Somerset reporter., 1900-03-29
A SUIT OF WHITE.


owner of the four masted schooner,
Jennie S. Butler, Saturday, received a
telegram from Capt. Mclaughlin of the
schooner, stating that the vessel was a
total loss, having gone ashore at San
Luis Pass, Texas. The crew escaped.
The schooner was bound from Baltimore
to Galveston, with coal.
The u. S. auxiliary cruiser Prairie,
sailed for the United States from Rouen,
France, Sunday morning. An immense
crowd gathered along the quays to bid
the vessel farewell, and hearty cheers
we're given. Commander Morris Mac
Kenzie hoisted the tri.oolor and saluted
it with twenty-one guns, in accordance
with orders cabled from Washington.
At Old Town, Saturday, Fred T..
Mitchell was arrested, charged with the
numerous burglaries that have been
committed In that city, the past year.
In his house were found large number
of stolen articles, including tobacco,
shoes, leather, patent machine, knives
brushes. hinges--in fact all sorts of
articles, nearly all of which have been
identified. After his removal to the
lookup he broke down and acknowledge
ed his guilt to the crimes for which he
was arrested. 1t is believed he had a
partner and the officers are hunting for
him.
A noticeable feature about the two
Maine senators is that they do not put
the government to the expense of pay
ing for various privileges as many of the
western and southern senators do.
There is an evidence of this in the publ
cation here this week of the report of
the secretary of the Senate. There are
80 pages of the report devoted entirely
to lists of kilograms that the government
has paid for and which different senators
sent to various persons in different parts
of the country. The name of neither of
the Maine senators appears in the list of
over 5000 kilograms.
The proposed lease of the Fitchburg
railI DAD to the Boston and Maine was
ratified at Thursdays meeting in Boston
of the stockholders of the former road
by an overwhelming vote. In favor of
the lease ,265 shares of the common
and 90, 412 of the preferred stock were
recorded, while the opposition was rep
resented by %, 44S shares of preferred
stock. The result was reached late in
the afternoon, after four-hour contest,
in which every new proposition for de-
lay was defeated by the protective
Yale university is developing a fond
ness for Bowdoin men to fill important
places on, its faculty. Two Bowdoin
graduates, one former professor of
the Maine college, are already on the
Yale faculty and it has already extended
the call to two more. Prof. Emery,
Bowdoin '92, has been called to the
chair of political economy made vacant
by the promotion of Prof. Hadley to the
and Prof. Torrey, Bowdoin,
"a, now of Andover Theological semi
nary, has been called to the chair of
Semitic languages which has been va
cant since Prof Harper was called to
the presidency of Chicago university.
The State department in Washington
has been notified by the government of
Mexico that it accepts the Presidents
invitation to hold a second pan-Ameri.
can Congress and will invite the repub
lie of North, South and Central America
to send their representatives in such
congress to the City of Mexico. Thus
1t is believed the success of the move.
ment is assured. The State department
had already been notified of the willing
ness of the congress, and now that Mex
leo has entered so earnestly into the
project, it is believed that all the re-
public of the three Americas will send
delegates to the congress.