The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-10-24
STATE AND GENERAL.

About 1900 acres of timber land in
Shirley has just been sold by Manley r.
Morgan of Guilford to DR.. C.. G. Hall of
Dover for $4,000.
DR.. Eugene D. Tapley of Bar Harbor
will soon go to Edinburg, Scotland, to
study medicine for year. This oppor-
tunity comes to him as prize from the
Medical school from which he was
graduated.
Herbert Ramsdell of Massachusetts,
who was on shooting trip down the bay
ut Belfast, was injured by accidental dis
barge of a shot gun which bib W away
part of the muscles of the forearm but it
10 thought he will regain use of his arm,
Mr.. Kruger has received report from
Mr.. Schalkburger that the great part of
Cape Colony is in open rebe lion. says a
despatch to the Daily Mail from Brussels,
and that the Beers have armed $4,000
Afrikanders within the last three
months.
Fire Sunday morning in station 3 of
the Waterville and Fairfield Railway
Light and Power company of Watervile
caused loss to the machinery of 81, 200 ;
insured. Cause a small short circuit
created by transferring one circuit from
station 4.
1t is rumored In steamboat circles that
Charles W. Morse will re establish the
Bar Harbor.New York direct route
abandoned some years ago after the
burning of one of the big boats that
piled between Bar Harbor, Eastport and
New York.
Hon. Seth NJ. Carter in behalf of the
Maine Central railroad has filed pc
tition with the railroad commissioners
asking for location for an extension of
the steam railroad from Augusta to Win.
torop, according to plans and specifica-
lions made by the company.
The big boarding house at Redington
Mills, hamlet which clusters around
the big saw mill of the Redington Lum.
Der Company, on the Rangeley road,
midway between Phillips and Rapgeley
was burned, Sunday night. The loss is
5000. The cause was a defective
chimney.
The date of the encampment of the
Maine division of the Union Veterans
Union which will be held in Saco this
year has been set for Nov. 5. The en-
campment will continue for two days at
least and possibly three. The opening
session will be held at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon.
President Roosevelt accepted honorary
membership, Wednesday of last week,
IN the VIM. Mckinley National Memorial
Arch Association and gave his approval
to Its purpose of erecting by national
popular subscription a memorial arch
at the Washington approach to the
Memorial bridge
Thh officers of the Prohibition State
Alliance have called meeting at Auburn
Hall Oct, 80, at which time the annual
meeting of the faculty will be held fol-
lowed by general temperance confer
ence. The advisability of publishing a
State Prohibition newspaper is one of
the questions TO be considered.
A sensational robbery which Melted
the perpetrators STA, $40 in stamps, was
discovered at Chicago, Ill., Monday,
when the wholesale department of the
postofice was opened for business. In-
vestigation developed the fact that
the burglars had crawled under the
flooring for about 800 feet, bored hole
In the bottom of the safe, secured the
stamps and escaped, carrying the booty
in wagon.
An interesting case is to be tried at
the October term of court in Lincoln
county, which will begin next week at
Wiscasset, is against the town of SON.
srville, on its bonds. 1t has been the
custom of the town to allow it's cases to
90 by default, but it will contest the
matter at this term to determine, whether
the bonds are legal or not. The decision
of the court Is awaitedIwith much In
terest.
Reuben X. Stanley, age SO, section
boss on the Maine Central Railroad, near
Thompson's point, Thursday, was in the
act of jumping on gravel train, and in
doing SO slipped and fell under the car
III such way that the wheels passed
over the left leg crushing 1t, besides
breaking the ankle of the right foot.
He was taken to his home In Portland