The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-12-12
STATE AND GENERAL.

Henry May, gate keeper of The Port
land & Rochester division of the Boston
& Maine railroad at Portland, was killed
Saturday morning, by being struck by
an engine of a special freight No blame
was attached to the crew of the freight.
The work of labelling and packing
corn at the Portland Packing Company's
factory in Foxcroft was completed last
week The number of cans put up
was about 800, 600, which required some
81 cars to transport them to their
destination.
The shipping season at the port of
Bangor closed Saturd ~, when the last
vessel, the five masted schooner, Louise
B. Crazy, was towed out. The weather
was very cold last week, and heavy ice
has formed, giving the tugs hard work
to prevent vessels from being frozen in.
The main building of the Michigan
Alkali Co.'S. soda ash plant at Wyan-
dotte, Mich. was completely destroyed
by fire. THURSDAY The loss is placed at
100000 Seven hundr d men are tenn
porarily thrown out of employment by
the fire, the cause of which is not
known.
The Lambert trial, which has just
been completed at Dover, was expensive
for Piscataquis county. 1t is estimated
1T cost nearly $4,000 The services of the
Jurors, their board and mileage will
make the total nearly $1,000. There
were lis witnesses summoned; their
fees average 1922 each, total of $3.50.
After final examination Monday the
local board of health reported that Miss
Jennie Storer of Bath, the young woman
reported i'll, Saturday, was suffering
fran we'll developed case of smallpox.
The house has been quarantined and a
physician appointed by the board of
health to give his attention to the case.
Capt r. T. Randlett, former collector
of customs at Wiscasset, died Sunday,
aged 81 years. The immediate cause of
death was a cancer. Capt. Randlett
went to sea for number of years, the
last vessel he commanded being the
Wiscasset built ship Richard Ill. His
wife died about year ago and be leaves
only an aged mother.
Secretary Root received the following
cable message, Saturday, from Luke
Wright, acting civil governor of the
Philippines, dated Manila, Dec. 7; "Taft
will leave Manila on the transport
Grant, Dec. 20, reaching Washington as
soon as possible. Condition much i'm
proved from second operation. Re-
oovery fully expected by the time San
Francisco is reached"
William II. Givran of Bangor, who
was taken to the pest house, Tuesday of
last week, suffering with smallpox, died
there. Sunday morning, and the remains
were buried that night. The Giryan
family is still under quarantine but no
symptoms of the disease have manifested
themselves there as yet. The board of
health are not apprehensive of any fur
Their outbreak in Bangor.
A test of The submarine boat Fulton,
was made Saturday, in Long Island
Sound for Capt. Geelmugden of Nor
wegian navy. The Fulton was given
surface trial of mile and then sub
merged for longer run, at the end of
which two torpedoes were fired at i'm
aginary targets, The trial was pro.
nounced entirely successful and Capt.
Geelmugden expressed much satisfac-
ton over the vessels showing.
Orders recently issued from the head
quarters of the Department of Maine,
Grand Army of the Republic, call atten,
ton to the fact that the next annual en-
campment of that body is to be held in
Augusta sometime in February. They
will be entertained by Seth Williams
post of that city. Active preparations
have not yet been begun but committees
will probably be appointed in the near
future.
Early last fall, George N. Lawrence,
agent of the American Ice Co., received
instructions to get all the property of
the company in proper shape for harvest
ing at least 10000 tons this winter. He
subsequently wrote the company that all