The Somerset reporter., 1901-07-04
STATE AND GENERAL.

cd to death at a. m. Saturday. The
house caught Gre while both parents
were absent.
A dispatch TO the Petit Blue of Paris
from Rome announces the Pope to be
seriously Ill and says that DR.. Lapponni,
his attending physician, does not leave
the Pontiff's bedside. Vatican officials
are anxious.
Judge Webb of the United States Dis
trict court, Friday, reappointed for four
years. the following United States COM
missioners: William NJ. Bradley, Port
land; Winfield 5. Choate and Charles
Hamlin, Augusta.
1t is current at Pekin that many edu-
Gated Chinese are anxious to accompany
Prince Chin's mission to Berlin to make
formal apology for the assassination oil
Baron Won Ketteler, and that they are
volunteering to go in mental positions
rather than not go at all
The Sewal firm of shipbuilders In
Bath has decided to construct the four
masted steel schooner upon which they
have been figuring. She will be $50 feet
long and the first steel schooner ever
built. Work upon her will not begin
antil the ship william Frye is launched,
which will be late In August.
What promises to be fierce local
political war was started at the Academy
of Music, Philadelphia, when five thous
and citizens in town meeting nominated
District Attorney F. Z. Rottermel, Jr.,
for the district attorney against John
Weaver, who was nominated last week
by the Republican organization.
Commander friedrich Robinson Smith,
U. s. N. (retired) died at his home in
Birmingham, Ala, Friday night, aged
81 years. He was born in Wiscasset,
Me-, Feb. 6, 1910. He graduated from
Annapolis in 1851 and served with dis
tinction in the Civil war He was APP
pointed commander In 1870.
John Flannery of Machias, who has
been In the employ of the electric light
ing at Camden for some time, caught
hold of live wire with both hands
while at work on pole, Saturday. His
hands and shoulders were severely burn
ed and he was badly shaken up by fall
of some 20 feet, but the doctors at the
hospital say he will recover.
The large bark rugged yacht, Aphro
dite, owned by Col. Paine, arrived at
Bangor, Monday, with party of promi
nent New York men who are stock
holders in the Great Northern Paper %,
which operate the big pulp and paper
mill at Millnocket. The party pro-
ceeded to Millinocket in special train
to inspect the mill. he men will be In
Maine for several days.
During the debate on the army recog-
milton bill In the House of Lords, Lon
don, Friday, Lord Wolsley, the former
commander in-chief, declared the United
States army was the finest of its size in
the world. He said its superiority was
due to good wages. Great Britain must
face the alternative of CONSUMPTION of
L, s., D. pounds, shillings and pence)
to secure the results.
The annual reunion of the 1st Maine
Heavy Artillery Association will be held
Aug. 81, at 1890 a. M, at Lincoln. One
fare round trip, has been obtained for
members and their wives over the rail-
road lines. Tickets on sale goth and 21st,
good to return until the Oath, inclusive
Trains leave Bangor at 425 a. m. and 7
a. m. Trains leave Lincoln for Bangor
at A. AZ p. IN. and 1885 p. m.
Emerson Hilton, young lawyer of
Wiscasset was brought to the Maine
General hospital, Friday, with his lower
limbs paralyzed as the result of fall
into the cellar of the new library build
ing at Bowdoin College on Thursday
night. At the hospital 1t was found
that Mr. Hilton had fractured or dis.
located some of the vertebrae of the
neck. Mr.. Hilton, who is a graduate of
Bowdoin in the class of '9l Is In a criti-
cal condition.
The Chinese minister, who was at the
State Department, Friday, said he was
not aware that the total indemnity was
less by So, 900, 900 taels than the amount
China had agreed to pay and for the
present he was not prepared to say
whether China would be allowed to re-
tain this amount. 1t is believed that
the United States would decline to take
any part of the excuses, that it would
favor all the powers RENTING this
amount to China.
The attention of the navy department
has formally been called to what APP
pears to be an unsatisfactory condition
of affairs of Guam. The incoming mail
has brought copy of an order issued
by the naval commandant of the island,
Commander Schroeder, denouncing
'Hoodlumism and lawlessness," which,
he says, are rampant at the station. The
order refers to terrorism, theft, gambl-
ing and drunkenness, which have brought
the United States forces into disrepute."
In the most exhaustive report ever
handed down by the railroad commits
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