The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-21
STATE AND GENERAL.

A temperance crusade is said to have
struck Rockport and the business men
of the place are favoring the movement.
The liquor dealers have been notified of
what is to be done, and the saloon keep
ers are experiencing considerable uneas
mess.
Fire at Saco, Sunday morning, did
damage to the amount of $4,000 in the
three.story wooden block on Main street,
owned by B. F. Bryan of California and
occupied by Diamond Smith, candy man
ufacturer and dealer in toys and confec-
tionery.
Mrs Geo. Lenfest of North Washing
ton committed suicide, Friday morning.
by hanging herself to the doorlatch of
her bedroom, using common handker.
chief for the purpose. she had been
mentally unbalanced for quite IA number
OF years.
The Maine Gem raj Railroad Company
has paid In taxes to the state treasury
for the current year the sum of $145, 266
.63. Last year the company paid the
sum of $79,956 03. This increase comes
from the change in the tax rate, and
also from the gain in the business of the
road.
The Republican mayoralty convention
renominated Mayor F. E. Boothby of
Portland by reclamation. The Port
land Prohibitionists, had previously
nominated Rev. DR.. Edward 5. j. Nc
Alister, already nominated by the Citi,
zens, for mayor, j. f. Merrill is the
nominee of the Democratic party.
Patrick Mulhern, an aged man who
lives alone at East Sullivan, has reported
to the police there that he was robbed of
between $1,000 and 10000 between
Friday evening and daylight Saturday
morning. He could give the officers
only little information beyond the fact
that the money was missing, and they
have not much to work upon.
1t Is announced that the Androscoggin
pulp mills of Brunswick, will increase
in size another spring by the building
of a new two machine mill. The COM
pany bought the cove property year
ago and it was believed then that there
was some such plan in prospect. The
mill has already increased its capacity
about 40 per cent and is still unable to
keep I'D with orders.
The report of the secretary of the
Board of Agriculture for the current
year is we'll under way, and it is certain
to be printed and issued before Jan. l.
Heretofore this report has not been
issued until we'll into the following year.
Mr.. McKeen, however, desires to have it
out before his successor, Hon. A. w.
Gilman, enters upon the discharge of
his duties as secretary of agriculture.
The southwestern express on the
the Northern Central Railway was
wrecked, Friday night, by charge of
dynamite placed under the track near
BLACK bridge, short distance north of
L
rate of 45 miles an hour when the explo.
sion occurred. Passengers on the train
were severely shocked and CONSERVATION
prevailed All escaped injury.
A private dispatch which reached
Louisburg, c. B., Sunday, states that the
Norwegian steamer Ella, under charter
to the Black Diamond line company, has
been lost on the Newfoundland, coast, in
the vicinity of Belle Isle, with all hands.
The steamer left Montreal on Friday
with general cargo for ST. Johns, N. F.
The Ella was 900 tons register and was
built at Sunderland in 1898 This was
her last trip Of the season on that route.
She carried a crew of about 20 men.
The Gorden Bros, are turning out
about 400 barrels daily from theirifactor-
les at Chisholm and at New Sharon.
They are unable to keep up with the
demand. Apple barrels are bringing 80
cents and fairly good -four barrels are
bringing 80 cents while the best of flour
barrels easily bring So cent. The un.
usually brisk demand for apple barrels
is due to the scarcity of -four barrels
which is accounted for by the fact that
most of the -four nowadays comes in
sacks.
A reward of 800 has been offered by
the sheriff and county attorney Of WASH
ington county for information that will
lead to the arrest and conviction of the
person who fred the shot that caused
the death of Leslie Bowker, last week.
Bowker was shot while hunting, pre-
sumably by accident, and the person