The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-12-11
STATE AND GENERAL.

| ford Q principal business Diock, causing
a financial loss of fully 500, 900, and left
FIVE secret societies without meeting
place in that town. The burned building
was owned by Henry Douglass and Good
Cheer Lodge of Odd Fellows.
Consul General Mast died at Guaya-
quill, Ecuador, Sunday at noon, after
three days Illness with yellow fever.
The remains were inferred at o'clock.
the same afternoon. The funeral was
attended by the governor, the consular
corps, the Elm colony and by many
friends. The coffin was wrapped in the
Stars and Stripes.
Elliott Walker of Newport, aged 80
years, who was judge of probate for
Penobscot county 1881 4, and promi-
nent lawyer, is dead. He was grad
uate of Colby college, Waterville, a
member of the legislature in 1872 and
the first principal of Corinna Academy.
He leaves son and daughter, DR.. W
e. Walker of Newport and Mrs. Horace
Atwood of Fairfield.
A tramp named Lewis Willis brought
to Cornish from Dedham, Mass, late
Thursday night by York county officers
was released as local people we're unable
to identify him as the tramp seen 10 the
vicinity of the Olive H. Broad murder
August 81 The officers began the
search for him when they learned he
had attended the county fair in that
town the day of the murder.
In the Portland municipal court
Thursday Judge Hill gave a decision
of some importance in its bearing on
the description of premises in warrant.
The court In sustaining the point made
! by the State ruled that whenever a
dwelling or tenement has internal com.
munication with the shop, that the
shop as well as the tenement may be
searched under warrant issued against
the dwelling house.
The Auburn board of mayor and alder.
men at a meeting held, Thursday eve.
ming authorized the extension of a troll
ey line from that city to the Minor line
1t is the intention of the Auburn,
Mechanic Falls &c Norway Street Rail.
way Co. to connect Lewiston and Auburn
with Norway, South Paris and other
leading towns In Oxford county by cleo.
trio cars. The road will probably be
built in the spring.
Col Alfred K. Buck, a graduate OF
Colby In the class of 1859 and for the
last five years United States minister
to Japan, died at Toxic, Japan's capital
the 4th instant He was born in Fair.
field, Me-, served in the war earning
the promotion of colonel, represented
Alabama in Congress one term, soon
after the war His wife who was q
daughter of tho late Judge Baker of Hal
lowell, survives. His age was So years.
The sardine factory at Gleason's cove
in Perry was burned, Wednesday night,
the 3rd inst. The fire was discovered
at about O'Clock, and burned rapidly,
in spite of all efforts to stop it, the
building and contents being completely
destroyed. The factory was owned by
Wolff & Reesing of New York, and
operated by Andrew and Edgar Holmes
of Eastport. The property was valued
at about $4,000, and there is little in
surance.
How many people in Maine ever saw
a live beavers Probably the proportion
If not more than one in hundred of the
total population, and yet we are told
that the owners of cumberland In the
northern part of the state are to appear
before the Legislature at it's next session
and ask that the law protecting beavers
be repealed. They say that the beavers,
since they were protected by law, have
increased 80 rapidly that they are a
source of danger to the timber in our
northern forests.
On last Tuesday, in Augusta Decem
Der law term of the Supreme court
began and for some two weeks the
chief justice and five of the associate
justices will sit in solemn state to hear
cases which have come up to the full
bench from mis- prius terms The as
Segment of justices for this term is
Chief Justice Wiswell and Associate
Justices Emery, Strout, Savage and
Spear, the latter taking the assignment
which was made for the late Associate
Justice Fogler
About 6 o'clock Tuesday night, the
2nd inst. the potato house on the Fl
ID. Stevens farm in Maple Grove was
totally destroyed by fire, together with
all its contents, which consisted in part
of 1000 barrels of potatoes belonging
to Mr.. Stevens and 800 barrels stored
there by Charles Fisher, a neighbor
also 300 bushels of oats, a moving
machine, a potato digger, and all other
farming implements used on the farm,
such as ploughs, harrows, rakes and etc.
Loss about $1,000 with only a small
insurance.
Ambrose Fl. Fessenden, a stamper Id
In the Portland postoffice, was arrested
wednesday night, Dec 3rd, by United
States Inspectors Neiss and Mcmillan,
who allege that their prisoner has been