The Somerset reporter., 1901-12-19
STATE AND GENERAL.

News is given in advices from Japan
of the destruction by fire of the Oriental
Hotel at Yokohama, which was account
ed the handsomest In japan.
The body of Henry II. Davis, aged 81
years was found Friday on the Maine
Central railroad tracks ut North Deer
ing. Mr.. Davis left bis home Thursday
night to visit "A brother, going down the
railroad track aud il is supposed no was
struck by a train.
The jury trial at Washington of Mrs.
BONNIE, accused of the murder of James
Seymour Ayres, Jr, the young census
Office clerk, killed in the Kenmore Ho-
tel last spring, returned, Friday night,
a verdict of not guilty, after being out
about four hours.
Mrs Maria Lombard died at her home
In Auburn, Friday, after "A brief illness
with pneumonia, which it is alleged, re-
suited from the woman being baptized
in the icy waters of the Androscoggin
river, last Thanksgiving day, by men,
bers of the Holy Ghost and Us Society.
Governor Hill has made the following
nominations: Trustee Maine Insane
Hospitals, Charles e Field, Bangor.
Commissioner of pharmacy, d. w. Hes
eltine, Portland. Inspector of lime and
lime casks, Enos e. Ingraham, Rockport.
Inland fish and game warden, Robert
Phillips, Eustis (Stratton)
The coroners verdict in the case of
the death of Harry May, the Woodford's
flagman, who was struck by special
freight engine on the Portland, Worces-
ter & Nashua division of the Boston 81
Maine railroad, states that the cause of
death was the failure to give the usual
signal of the approach of train.
The town of Pennington has voted to
buy the Pennington water works for $685.
600 and towards payment 1t will issue S42,
600 worth of 80 year five per cent. bonds,
secured by first mortgage on the works
Pennington and every Maine communi-
ty of city or of considerable village pro.
portions should own its own water
system
Governor Hill has received from Wash
ington a check for 500, 624 70, the last
item of allowance made by the war de-
partment on account of the claim pre-
sented by the adjutant general of Maine
because of expenses incurred in equip.
ping soldiers for the Spanish war. This
makes five checks of different amounts,
aggregating 500, 36o.2s, which the state
has received from the government.
Henry Ingraham, aged "a, employed
in the cooperative department of the
Rock land and Rockport Lime Company
at Rockland, fell into steaming vat,
Thursday night. The vat is about s
feet in depth and the fact that it WAS
partially filled with hoops alone saved
the young man from instant death. AS
it was he stood in soalding water up to
his waist until dragged out by a fellow
workman.
The report is that the Augusta Ma
tional bank has been absorbed by the
Augusta Trust Co The Augusta Ma
tional bank is the successor of the old
Freemans bank and has in the past en-
joyed the patronage of some of the
largest business firms of the city, Its
consolidation with or purchase by the
trust company would make the latter
institution one of the strongest in this
section of the state
The three-masted American schooner
K. l. White, Capt Mitchell, which sail
ed from Philadelphia Nov. 20, for Car
denas, was wrecked on Gingerbread
Ground, dangerous reef of the Ba-
hama islands, Dec and became total
loss. Two of the crew were drowned.
The E. l. White was built in 1895 in
Harrington, Me-, her hailing port. She
registered 410 tons and was owned by
K. /. White.
While eating her supper Monday even
ing of last week, Emma Sevoy, the
young daughter of Sandy Sevoy of Old
town, got a bone in her throat and was
taken with violent coughing The girl
was taken to Bangor, but before the
doctor could start in ON an operation on