The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-06-06
STATE AND GENERAL.

Edward GRAHAM is to be tried for the
murder of Clifford Mosher on the 10th
of June.
About Is men who are at work for the
international Paper Co. at the Canton
sorting boom were badly poisoned, last
week, by eating canned beef, it is sup
posed.
A steam dredge which has been at
work on the improvements in Portland
harbor was burned, Thursday night, the
loss being estimated at 100000. The
cook was burned, others were injured.
The Department of State has been in
formed reliably that the Chinese govern
ment has issued decree agreeing to
pay an indemnity of 100000 taels,
equivalent to about 1897 600, 000Iat the
present rate of exchange.
Dexter, too, has case of small pox
and a danger of others as before the
nature of his Illness was discovered, the
patient while his physician was away,
rose, dressed himself and went out on
the street, coming in contact with many
people.
Gov. Stone of Pennsylvania, signed a
bill, last week, which forbids the artifi
cial coloring of oeomargarine or its sale
as butter, and makes 1t compulsory upon
each dealer to secure a permit from the
agricultural department before handling
oleomargarine.
The University of Maine base ball
team came to Waterville, Thursday, and
were defeated by Colby on the college
field by a score of 8 to 6. The weather
was very unfavorable but by sprinkling
saw dust around the bases the grounds
were in very fair condition.
Mayor Boothby presided at Portland,
Saturday evening, at meeting OF the
friends of Rev. Elijah Kellogg, called at
the request of Gen. j. L Chamberlain.
Preliminary steps were taken for pop
ular tribute to the memory OF Mr..
Kellogg at Portland, at Harpswell and
possibly at Brunswick.
A Maine boy who Is winning high
place among the teachers of English Is
F. M. Padelford, who graduated from
Colby Ia '96. He Is now at the Uni
versity of Idaho and will next year fill
the chair of English at the University OF
Washington. AS an author as well as q
teacher he Is also gaining distinction.
Hon. James Weymouth of Old Town,
who has been in State public life for
many years, died of heart failure, Fri
day night, aged 81. In 1875 he went to
the Legislature, in 1888 and 'S4 sat in
the Senate from the 10th district and
from 1885 to 1886 was president of the
board of trustees of the Maine Insane
Hospital at Augusta.
A statement prepared at the Treasury
Department shows the receipts from
customs duties collection upon articles
imported into the United States from
the Philippine islands from April l, 1890
to March 81, 1901, were $1,004,917. OF
this amount Ss66,942 came from sugar;
S119,539 from cigars and cigarettes, and
the remainder from miscellaneous arti-
cles.
The Kendall block, on the corner of
LIMERICK and Main streets, Rockland,
was visited by fire, early Thursday morn
IT, in, II nf oil
600 to the building and its tenants. The
block was Quilted by fire last fall, but
has since been built. 1t was nearly
ready to be occupied by various con.
Germs, two of whom had already moved
in.
One of the greatest captures made in
that town for some time has been made
by Special Constable Lionel T. Clough of
Houlton. Clough has captured Leonard
Grant, the alleged horse thief, who is
said to have been working through
northern Maine for months. Grant was
in that town and just In the act of enter.
ing a house when Clough saw and ar
E6st6u
Fred Rochelle, negro, 95 years of
age, who at noon Tuesday, criminally
assaulted and then murdered Mrs. Rena
Taggart, we'll known and respectable
white woman of Martlow, Fla, was
burned at the stake early, Wednesday
evening, In the presence of throng of
people. The burning was on the scene
of the negro's crime, within 100 yards Of
the principal thoroughfare of the city.
The three men convicted of murder in
the second degree for the killing of
Father Riegel of Cheltenham, by the
administration of Knockout drops were
sentenced at Philadelphia, May Goth.
Steve Bryan was sentenced to 10 years,
and bob" Bryan and Jacob Wynne, 20
years each. Ella Barrett and Fannie