The Somerset reporter., 1900-08-16
STATE AND GENERAL.

Glens' Falls, N. T., suffered $780,
900 fire, Saturday morning, starting in
shirt mandatory and consuming several
other buildings. Nearly three hundred
operatives were thrown out of employ
ment.
The Maine horses are growing fewer.
And In this connection here Is rather
curious thing about Maine. She breeds
fast horses for half the cities of the East,
bur her work horses she buys by the
Thousand In the West.
As result of the recent trip to the
United States of Rear Admiral Ahmed
Pasha, of the Turkish army, the Sultan
has ordered the minister of marine,
Hussan Pasha, to negotiate for the
construction of six cruisers at the Ger
mania Works, Kiel.
Baron Russell of Killowen, lord chief
Justice of England, died Friday morning
as the result of operation performed by
DR.. Treves. Baron Russell, who had been
i'll for about fortnight Is variously re-
ported to have suffered from gastric dis
order and from tumor in the stomach.
The Hon. Bartlett Trip Is an Old
Homer of the broad-mindea type. He
told the Bangor people that his father
was q Methodist preacher and that he
himself was born on the circuit. There
fore that he considered Bangor his home
as we'll as Dexter, Harmony and few
other towns.
A new boat is to be put onto the Port
lsnd-Rockland route. An order has
been given for the boat and she will be
completed 30 as to run another season.
She will be a much larger and more
commodious boat than the American
ioue, the boat now in the company's
service.
Edward Hartery of Brewer was shot
by the accidental discharge of arevolver
in the hands of his playmate, Walter
Lawson, Thursday, receiving a wound
that resulted in his death at about 7.3O
O'Clock that night. Edward Hartery
was eight years of age, while that OF
Walter Lawson Is ten years.
Chester Hutchinson, sixteen years
old boy of Auburn, had fearful fall
from a tricycle., Friday evening, by
which two of his front teeth were
knocked out and his jaw fractured and
he received bad bruises about the head.
He was scorching when his wheel struck
railroad crossing. The fork was
broken and he was thrown headleng
several feet.
Mai. W. S. Edgerly of the Seventh
cavalry for some time stationed at Or
ono as military instructor at the UNI
versity of Maine, has been ordered to
Cuba. Maj. Edgerly, during the late
Spanish war, was on sick leave, and
though he applied for service as soon as
the war broke out, he was unable to
obtain a detail on account of poor
health.
is saving vessel load of deals for the
English market, the first to be shipped
from that port. The lumber will be
taken down the river in vessel and
transferred to steamer for transport to
England. The company say they got
satisfactory price for the lumber, some
being as short as ten feet in length.
The laying of the first telegraph cable
to connect the United States directly
with Germany was started at six a. M,
Saturday from the Commercial Cable
Co.'S. station on Coney Island, N. Y. 1t
will be the most direct telegraphic line
to the European continent. The cost of
the cable will be 935, 900 pounds and is
approximately 2400 miles in length.
At the annual reunion of the andre
scoggin Valley G. A R. Association at
East Livermore campgrounds, Friday,
which was attended by nearly 1000 peo-
pie, Congressman G: E. Littlefield
spoke upon the subject of pensions.
Mr.. Littlefleld was made an honorary
member OF the association. Hon. Edwin
Riley of Livermore Falls was elected
president and A. A. Brown, secretary
and treasury.
During the manoeuvres of the French
feet of Cape St. Vincent, Saturday
night, collision occurred between the
first class battleship Berennus, flying
the flag of Vice Admiral Fourier, COM
mander of the feet, and the torpedo
boat destroyer France. The. France
sank Immediately. The accident was