The Somerset reporter., 1901-09-19
STATE AND GENERAL.

VT, was, Friday, unanimously elected
national commander of the Womans
Relief Corps Auxiliary of the G. A. R
at Cleveland, o.
The annual meeting of the Maine Fed
Grafton of Women's clubs will be held in
Biddeford, Oct. 10, II and Is. A pro-
gram which is likely to prove of much
interest is being prepared.
Suspended from the bedpost the body
of Harold P. Mason of Somerville, Me,
was found, Sunday afternoon, at his
boarding house at Northeast Harbor.
1t is thought he was temporarily insane.
A widow and one son are at West New.
ton, Mass.
The steamer Ha Ting arrived, last
week, from Skaguay with S250,0O0 in
gold dust. Passengers from Dawson
say that great outward rush from that
city is now on and it is estimated that
five thousand people will come out dur
ing september and October.
Five Cinnamon were captured at
Lowelltown, Me, by the Chinese in
spector, Thursday They were taken
to Portland and will probably be put
through the same course that is being
pursued with the other Cinnamon who
were recently arrested and are awaiting
deportation.
Monday, Sept 9th, was a record
breaking day at the factory of the Port
land Packing Co. at Dexter. From one
to six o'clock in the afternoon 60 cans a
minute were filled and sealed on an
average The days product was Al 1874
cans and 1O1 loads of corn we're brought
in by the farmers
The announcement was made at chapel
at Bates College, Thursday morning, of
last week, by President Chase of gift
of $1,000 to the institution. The name
of the donor is withheld by request, but
he is an aged man who made this his
80th birthday gift to Bates, evidently
believing it "more blessed to give than
TO receive"
The residence of Edward d. Boynton
of Maple street, Cornish, consisting of
house, ell and stable, was completely
destroyed by fire, Friday. The build
ings were worth about $1,000 and insur-
ed for S1400. The contents were par
TALLY saved. The loss on them will be
5000; insured for $500. Two boys we're
hunting for mice in the barn with a
bicycle lantern by which the hay was
set on fire.
The list of liquor indictments given
out by the authorities of Augusta, last
week, created considerable excitement
among the dealers of Kennebec county
There we're 200 in all, the largest num-
Der ever returned in thatscounty. Every
holder of United States license was
indicted. Henry A. Hodges, a Vassal-
boro constable in the employ of the
Civic League, figured as the moving
party in a number of single sale cases.
Events of dual significance to Chris
tian Endeavorers were marked, Thurs
day. The 50th birthday anniversary of
Rev. DR.. Francis e. Clark, president of
the worlds union, and the Goth anniver-
sary of the beginning of the Christian
Endeavor movement were alike com
memorated. Hillcrest, DR.. Clark's beau
tiful home in Auburndale, Mass, was
the scene of the jubilations. DR.. Clark
received fully 200 guests, and congratu-
lations were pouring in by letter and
telegram all the evening from those who
could not be present, He was the re.
cipient of many beautiful gifts.
The second attempt to launch the FIVE
masted schooner, Arthur Seitz of Cam
den, Thursday forenoon, proved most
successful and she took the water only a
few minutes after the appointed time.
The first attempt, week ago, resulted
in big disappointment, the Seitz refus-
ing to move when all the blocks had
been knocked away. A hasty examna.
at that time did not disclose the cause
of the trouble and a postponement be-
came necessary. A few days later the
schooner began to heel over and the
builders were obliged to construct new
ways. The Arthur Seitz is the 68th
vessel constructed by Capt. H. n Bean
at his yards.
Nine minutes after the death of Pres-
dent Mckinley was announced in Au-
gusta the first of the message was rung
from the South Parish Congregational
Church by Baker Weston, Augustus
octogenarian bell ringer, who rang the
knell of Lincoln in the sixties and tolled
the bell for Garfield in the eighties.
Hour after hour he sat in the telegraph
Office, Friday night, refusing to go home
or go to sleep till the fight was finished,
anxious that none save his hands should
give the first warning that death had
triumphed in the face of nations
prayers. 1t is given to few men to
sound the knell for three martyred
Presidents of a republic such as this.
Crazed with desire to kill President
Roosevelt, Christopher Miller, a Prus-
sion, arrested by Capt. Titus as he was
leaving the Grand Central station, New
York, Friday evening, is in the insane
pavilion at Bellevue Hospital, awaiting