The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-10-17
STATE AND GENERAL.

Over $4,000 in fines in liquor cases
has been paid during the present term
of supreme court at Auburn.
Nearly the entire business portion of
Los Gatos, Cal, was destroyed by fire,
Sunday. Loss estimated at a quarter
of a million dollars.
The gavels in use in Belfast Lodge of
Good Templars and Seaside Grange we're
presented to those bodies by DR.. l., w.
Hammons, who made them from beech
wood which his father cut for pillow
handles more than - years ago.
Habib Mullah Khan, the new Amer
of Afghanistan, has officially informed
Lord turzon, the viceroy of India, that
he will follow in his fathers footsteps
hoping that the friendship existing be
tween the Afghan and British govern.
ments will continue to increase.
Probably many Maine people will go
across the line either to Fredericton or
St John. N. b., to see the Duke and
Duchess of Cornwall and York upon the
occasion Of their visit to those cities the
middle or last of the month. British
Vice Consul Heating of Portland will go
to the former place.
Fire, Friday night, caused loss of
$4,000 in the large wholesale and retail
furniture and crockery store of Reding-
ton & Co., on Silver street, Waterville.
The fire started In the basement and
was confined there, the damage being
largely from smoke In the other stories
of the block. The loss is covered by
insurance.
President Roosevelt has decided dehn-
itely to appoint V. p Clayton of Column
bia, s. c., collector of internal revenue
for that state, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of (. A. Webster The
announcement will create surprise as it
was understood pretty generally that
Loomis Blalook had been selected for
the place.
Francis G. Peaks of Dover, son of Hon.
j. B. Peaks, has been appointed assist
ant clerk of the board of railroad com.
missioners, and assumed his duties. The
place was created by an act of the last
legislature. Mr.. Peaks is a graduate of
Bowdoin College in the class of '96, and
and has since studied law at Harvard
Law School and in his fathers office.
Lieut.. Albert Weston Grant, I'd officer
of the battleship Indiana one of the
witnesses before the Schley court of in
quiry, in Washington, is a native of
Maine. He was born in Benton about
do years ago, the son of Barzilla and
Elvira Grant. At the time of the battle
at Santiago, Lieut. Grant was second
officer on the battleship Massachusetts.
James Bradstreet Greenough, profess
sor of Latin at Harvard university, died
at his home in Cambridge, Friday, of
paralysis. He has been i'll and unable
to conduct his courses for two years.
Prof. Greenough was Maine man, born
in Portland in 1888. He entered Hair
yard in 1856 In 1873 he was made as
sistant professor of Latin and in 1888, a
professor.
Orrin Corrigan, aged so of Kezar Falls,
lost his life, Friday, in a small freight
wreck on the Grand Trunk at Pownal.
Corrigan was riding on the bumpers be-
tween two cars when the rails spread,
throwing the cars from the track. The
cars we're wrecked and the man was
crushed to death, being horribly mang
led. Traffic was interrupted about one
hour.
shooting ARRAY took place at Togus,
Sunday night. John Jones in a quarrel
with John Greenhalge, who bears an
excellent reputation, rushed at him and
fred two shots from revolver at close
quarters. One bullet entered the fleshy
part of the arm and the other the
shoulder, neither of which will prove
fatal No reason beyond intoxication
can be given for the assault.
Hon. Waldo Pettingill of Rumford
Falls has withdrawn from the guberna-
torial race as successor to Gov. Hill.
1t is also stated that he will not return
to the House. Should he have decided
to return he would have been candi-
date for speaker. One avowed candi-
date for speaker remaining is Hon. o.
+. Fellows of Buoksport, who has made
considerable Roadway.
Nearly every plste-g'ass window for
the distance of four blocks ON the left
side of Congress street, the principal