The Somerset reporter., 1901-09-26
STATE AND GENERAL.

The grand jury OF Waldo county re-
ported on Friday having found twenty
eight indictments for larceny aud illegal
liquor selling.
The Kobe Herald says that the Jap
snese cabinet is discussing the placing
of Japanese bonds to the value of So
DOC, 900 yen, in America.
Some time Saturday, Oscar F. Head,
a prosperous farmer of Lincolnyille,
committed suicide by hanging. No
cause for the act is known. He leaves a
widow and two children.
The annual festival of music in Maine
will open this year in Bangor on Oct. 3,
and will continue three days, beginning
In Portland, Monday, Oct. 7, where the
same program will be repeated.
The six-story department store of
Rothschild & Co. of Chicago, was partly
wrecked Thursday night by the falling
of inside partition walls The damage
to the building and stock aggregated
1925, 200.
The semi annual session of the Grand
Ladge of Good Templars of Maine will
be held at Dixfield In Oxford county,
Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 8 and
TO- Reduced rates at hotels and on rail
roads in the State have been secured.
Ten Mormon elders with 80 converts
to their faith, many of Thorn women,
left Maine, last week, on their way to
Utah. The converts were from differ
emit parts of the State and their CONVEX
sion Is the result of the labor which the
missionaries have been putting In since
early last fall.
Charles Coffin, a painter from Lin
coin, fell distance of 1870 feet from a
trestle at the Oxford Paper Co.'s new
mill at Rumford Falls, Sept. 18th and
was killed. Coffin was at work alone on
that part of the trestle when he fell and
the cause of the accident Is not known.
He was 80 years old.
1t is announced that in order to carry
out the wishes and promises of MIR.
Mckinley, President Roosevelt will APP
point DR.. Rixey as surgeon general of
the navy, and w. B. Ridgeley of Illinois,
as comptroller of the currency to sue
coed Charles Dawes, whose resignation
goes into effect on October /.
The following appointments were
made, Friday, by the President: To be
consul of the United States, George o.
Cornelius, Pennsylvania, at st. Johns,
N. r. To be Controller of the Currency.
William b. Ridgely. To be assistant
paymaster in the navy with the rank of
ensign, Edward T. Hooper.
In private letter to a Goteborg edi-
tor dated Tjarkhlik, April 81, the
Swedish explorer Sven Hedin relates
that he had just got his first mail and
received his first news of the world in
nine months His journey for ITO
Swedish miles had led him through an
absolutely unexplored part of Asia.
President Roosevelt is said to have
too big family for the White House.
That is not because the White House is
not big enough for his family, but be-
cause the White House is residence and
Office building too. The White House,
If 1t were simply residence, would give
ample accommodation to the Presiden-
tial family,
Rumford Falls comes in for another
big boom, and the whole State Of Maine
will share in the benefit. The thriving
paper town has been awarded contract
that will not only furnish work for men
during the next four years, but 1t will
Increase the population of the township
by more than hundred people at once,
during the present year.
A fearful accident occurred at the
Monson Pond quarry, one day last week,
by which Nele johnson was instantly
killed by being knocked from where he
was standing to the bottom of the pit a
distance of about 200 feet. No blame
can be attached to the company or to
the workmen who swung the boom to
which the box was attached as no bust
ness called him to this dangerous place.
Herman Ginther, who disappeared
from Lewiston, last May, was found,
Sunday forenoon, by Bert Dresser of
Auburn, hanging to tree one mile
from Baskerville, about 100 feet from
the Maine Central Railroad track. Cor
oner E. P. Sampson was notified and
took the body to his undertaking rooms.
Mr.. Sampson decided that an inquest