The Somerset reporter., 1902-04-10
STATE AND GENERAL.

SATURDAY afternoon, 30 indictments, 10
of them liquor cases
Miss Dora E Roberts of Lewiston,
Me-, has been unanimously elected as
sistant teacher at the high school at
Dover, N. II.
Mrs. Ellen, wife of Chas. Wilson,
a fisherman of Cundy's Harbor, COM
mitted suicide by drowning, Sunday.
Unhappy relations of Mr. and Mrs. Will
son was the cause of the sad act.
Miss Stone has decided not to deliver
lectures in this country as her voice will
not stand the strain. She sailed from
Liverpool for New York Saturday. Her
injured knee still gives her trouble
The dwelling of Mrs. D. e. Donovan
of Ellsworth was burned early Friday
morning with contents The sleeping
occupants we're aroused by the neighbors
after the fire was well under way. Loss
$500; insurance 800
While Alvin Hatch was running a
stave saw in the mill of j. Fl. and j. W.
Fox, Center Lowell, Thursday, slab
few from the saw, striking him on the
nose and the side of his face, breaking
his nose badly and it is feared destroying
the sight of the eye.
A certified check for $1,000 drawn to
the order of President Roosevelt, was
forwarded to the President on March IS
by the committee of citizens which Gov
Yates of Illinois appointed in December
last to raise funds for the relief of Boer
women and children sufferers in the con-
centration camps.
VIM. W. Thomas, Jr, the U. S. min
lister at Stockholm, has just sent to the
United States his check for over $500,
representing the contributions of the
minister and others in Sweden and Nor
way towards the erection at Canton,
Ohio, of the national memorial to the
late President Mckinley.
Mr.. George T. Whitehouse, one of our
well known citizens of Lisbon Falls,
died at his home Thursday evening of
hemorrhage of the gums, after having a
tooth extracted Tuesday. All means
were used but it was impossible to stop
the flowing of blood from the gum,
which resulted fatally.
Only few Maine men can treat their
guests to an oyster supper supplied from
their own private oyster bed. That is
what E. S. Dunton of Woolwich did, last
week. The oysters were grown in
Montsweag bay where Mr.. Dunton plant
ed two barrels of "seed," two years ago.
1t Is now estimated there are % bushels
of oysters there and they are fast in
creasing.
Mr.. William III. Dascomb of Wilton,
on Wednesday afternoon led his horse
out of the stable, when the horse laid
down and rolled and when the animal
got up he kicked Mr.. Dascomb in the
face, breaking his lower jaw on both
sides, and pushing one side back, also
breaking the upper jaw and nose and
decorating the flesh very badly. Mr..
Dascomb was taken to the Maine Central
Hospital, on Thursday morning.
Twelve hotels and more than score
of small buildings adjoining the bord
walk which is built along the ocean edge
at Atlantic City, N. j. were destroyed,
April 3rd, by fire which swept the
beach front for two long blocks. The
loss, it is believed, will exceed $4,000.
In this respect the confagration is the
most disastrous that has ever visited that
city. The loss will be only partly cover
ed by insurance, as the rate of per cent
charged by insurance companies on pro
perty here, is regarded as almost pro-
hibitive.
Plans are being perfeoted!for lobster
fishing trust. Representatives of New
York and Boston capitalists have been
in Eastport making a canvass among the
parties engaged in the industry, and
they look favorably on the inducements
offered. AT present the lobster. fishing
is carried on to great extent by in
dividual parties, and it is proposed to
bring all of these into a combine and
under the management of the promoters
of the deal. The business of the com
bne will not only include the handling
of Holsters in the market fresh from
water, but also tie canning of the pro-
duct
wild EoraHa In Ruaaia