The Somerset reporter., 1901-04-11

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April 5, by drowning herself in the
Androscoggin river. Mrs. Baldwin got
up about five o'clock and dressed her.
self. Shortly afterwards her daughter,
Mrs. F. E. Smith, missed her and failing
to find her reused several neighbors
who began a search. About six o'clock
George Ridley found the body floating
in the river back of the house. The
body was caught in the bushes along
side the river. No cause can be as
signed for the deed.
Fire was discovered in the White &
Wilson block on Main street, Rockland,
Thursday night at o'clock, when a
heavy wind storm was at its height.
The blaze was on the second floor,
which, with the upper story of the
three story brick building, was used as
an annex to the Thorndike Hotel The
department confined the fire to the
section of the block where it originated,
and had it drowned out at 10.45. Mel
Their the main hotel structure nor the
Masonic block on the other side was
materially damaged. The hotel loss.
which was mainly by water, 10 estiruat-
ed at $50, 900.
James f. Hodgdon, who was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment at hard
labor in the State prison, Is years ago,
was released, Saturday. His Freedom
was brought about by citizens of Bath
who, a year ago, presented lengthy
petition to Governor Powers praying for
pardon. The Governor committed the
sentence to 20 years and the usual allow
ance for good behavior entitled the man
to release at the expiration of 10 years
and three months. The petition for
Hodgdon's pardon was signed by nearly
all the leading business men of Bath
and many cergymen. Hodgdon was
found guilty of killing mis- mother in
Bath in 1885
The southeast storm just before the
Easter dawn threw upon the jagged
rocks near Gloucester, Mass, the old
Calais schooner, Hyenia, and within an
hour the waves had torn her to pieces
and swept off her entire crew of four
men. Two of them, Elmer and Bennett
Stanley, managed to reach shore and
dragged their half drowned and bruised
bodies up the rocks, but her skipper,
Captain r. b. Dix, West fremont, Me
and the steward Fuller, whose home is
not known, failed to gain the land and
were probably either drowned or killed
outright by being dashed on the reefs
The Hyena was loaded with 206 tons of
coal frem Perth Amboy for Calais.
The two masted schooner, Wendall
Burpee of 125 tons burden, owned by N,
c. Scott of st John, N. B., went ashore
sunday about noon, at Broad Cove, Cape
Elizabeth, about half a mile. from the
Two Lights The crew of four men
took boat, when they saw theschooner
was In danger of going on the rocks,
and three of them were drowned by the
capsizing of the boat within a hundred
yards of the shore. The captain, Lewis
Marsburg of st. John, who was married
a month ago, the steward, George Eos
ter, twenty five years old, who lived In
st. John, and had wife and two chill
dren, and seaman called Charlie, last
name unknown, hailing from Liverpool,
England, were drowned. The mate,
John swanson, of st. John, about forty
years old, being powerful man and a
strong swimmer, managed to reach the
rocks where he was pulled out of the
surf in an exhausted condition.
Take it altogether this may be said to
be one of the most prosperous years
Aroostook county has ever known. 1t
shows just what a railroad can do for
big territory which never knew how
rich 1t was until the railroad tapped It.
A few of the more important figures OF
the March shipments over the road will
be found of interest. The potato Ahip
ments In March, 1900, amount to 402,655
bushels In 1901, it was 1926, 038 bushels.
In March, 1900, 6,3iS,000 shingles were
shipped over the road. In 1901, there
were 6, 1852, 900. The starch, on account
of the high price of potatoes, shows
slight falling off. In March, 1900, there
were 1,24S,4 55 pounds shipped and in
1901, 1,124,S73 pounds. Hay to the
amount of $3.50, 900 pounds was shipped
in March, last year, while in the last
month the amount reached 6,03O, 800
pounds, an increase of 774,50O Rail-
road ties figure up for March, 1900,
66,387 and in 1901, S0,536, showing an
increase in shipments of 1850.