The Republican journal., 1902-10-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

MAINE MATTERS. Name corn shops
are still in operation and III some sec
tlons the corn is of fine quallty, tree
from frost. The Dexter factory VIII
can about 100000 pack. The Boston
transcript says that last year 2o4 SUI
dents from Maine were registered at
Massachusetts colleges. These hgures
dld not include those who were taxing
postgraduate courses. considering
Names college facilities the figures are
at least two hundred higher than they
should have been. All the ice houses
OF the American Ice Co., IN THIS State,
will be emptied of their contents before
winter. The shortage of coal III the
big cities where artificial ice is made is
being felt by the manufacturers ana
the natural commodity is in demand....
Mrs. Martha Baker Dunn OF Water
vile was made happy the other day by
receiving from President Roosevelt an
autograph letter in appreciation OF her
article, ''The Browning Tonic, which
appeared in the August Atlantlc. He
SAID that Mrs. Roosevelt called his at
tention to the article, and wrote an ex-
tended acknowledgement OF the pleas |
ure the article had given him. ....Stonlng-
ton residents will see the reopening of |
an old industry this week under new |
management. Two canning factories,
located within few feet OF each other, |
are to be opened by Messrs. Thorndlke |
u Hicks of Rockland, for canning |
CLAIMS. With the starting up of this
industry native help will be employed
and pay roll ranging from 5000 week
tor the present. and later $1,000, will be
paid ont and expended at stonington.:...
review of the Shipbuilding in the
R9fh t,io I1lrinu tho nina
months of the present year gives the
total amount of tonnage sent overheard
as y, 795 This is a falling off OF over
1000 tons from the corresponding term
IN 1901. The shipbuildiug in that city
has experienced slight failing off dur
ing the past summer which is generally
attributed to the coal Stllke..... Charles
Williams, aged about 20, was gored to
death 10y bull at his home i'll Webster
Saturday, Oct. 4th. Mr.. Williams
led the bull out to water While his fam
lily were at breakfast, lie was out SO
long that son went out to discover The
cause. The bull had done has awful
work and the sight that met the
young mans eyes was CHASTITY. His
father WAS terribly -goIed and i'll few
minutes was dead, MI Williams
leaves 4 widow and three sOnS.....Appje
ralserS are finding it extremely difficult
| to secure barrels to put their apples i'll
tins year and are manufacturing new
ones. one urchardlst III hehnepec
county expects to gather about l,4Oo
barrels of fruit and he is making barrels
at cost of 30 cents apiece.....A JOINT
meeting of the Maine Library -Nssocia-
ton, the Eastern Maine Library Club
and the State Library Commission. was
hnl1 nt ,a I
field, Wednesday, Oct 18th.
IL BRIEF. The American Watch
Company of Waltham, Mass, has made
arrangements for supplying :, 000 tons of
the best American bitunllnous coal to
its employees at $50 per ton, and hard
and soft wood at e6 per cord. Only one
tom of coal Will be delivered to any one
person at a time: but none of the EN-
ployes are to be allowed to suffer for
want of fueI..... Benjamin O. Crane,
foreman OF the making room, and Miss
Frances lierllhy, assistant forewoman
of the stitching room, were killed Oct.
3rd, by the fall of passenger elevator
in the shoe factory of \. r. Little Co.
at Lynn, Mass. Five others were more
or less injured. . Alonzo W. Boardman.
the well known Boston lawyer. died
in that city Oct. 3rd Mr. Boardman
was a member of the State Senate in
IL and - and served as a member of
the Boston board of health under May
or Pierce in 3D.. The Secretary Of the
Navy has awarded the contract for the
construction of the battleship Louisiana
to the Newport News Shipbuilding Co.
at it's bid Of S3, 800, O0O. Frederick f.
Belts was found guilty Oct. Sd on each
of the nine indictments on which he has
been on trial in the t. s. court at Bos-
ton for 10 days past before Judge
Lowell, on charge of having used the
I. $. mails with intent to defraud. The
case, it is understood, will be carried to
the I. 5. supreme court, on exceptions
taken during the progress of the trial.
Belts bail has been increased from
$1,000 to $4,000.