The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-05-01
STATE AND GENERAL.

! IaClufer5 Nat1onal Dank OF LeWlsIou,
for over 20 years.
The fire at Marianvlle, Forest county
Pa, Apr. % consumed $50 buildings and
entailing loss of nearly 100000; in
surance, $75, 900. About one half of the
town is in ashes and 500 people are
homeless
| Rev. Silas n. Adams, Sunday resigned
the pastorate of the Westbrook Congre-
gational church, stating as the cause of
the action the lack of harmony between
the church and parish The resigna-
ton took place May LIST.
/ John F. Doe of Livermore committed
suicide by drowning in small stream
near his home late Friday night. Mr..
/ Doe was about Sd years old and leaves a
! widow and one son, Harry F. Doe, a
/ freshman in Bates college.
/ Hon. julius Sterling Morton, former
secretary of agriculture in Cleveland S
second administration, died at the home
of his son, at Lake Forest, Ill, Sunday
! afternoon. He was exactly seventy
years old, his death occurring on the
anniversary of his birth.
The United states officer who took
Granville w. Leighton, the Portland de-
faulter, to Thomaston, says that he was
told by the prison authorities that
Leighton would be employed for the
present in the carriage department at
the prison. After a time he may be CIV
en- some clerical work to do.
A terrible accident occurred at South
Brewer at about 1890 o'clock Wednes-
day forenoon of last week, when Sylvia
Despret, the 7.year-old granddaughter
of Mitchell King was struck by the end
car of backing freight train and one
leg was cut off near the hip, and the
ankle of the other broken.
Nelson Brown of Maple, Is years of
age, has sawed with a buck saw and
split eleven cords of hard wood the past
winter. He says he can jump up and
strike his feet together twice before he
strikes the ground. Maple also has a
smart old lady, Mrs. Fellows, 50 years
old, who has MIXED one cow all winter
and done other work at the barn.
Flames will soon destroy all that can
be burned of the historic receiving ship
| Vermont, which for more than half a
century has been moored at the dock in
the navy yard at Brooklyn acting as
Uncle Sans nursery for Tyro sailors.
1t will be towed to Eastport, Me-, where
it will be beached, partly broken up and
then burned for the metal in her.
The peasants in the Poliava and Khar.
koff provinces, Russia, where $4,000 are
reported to be participating in riots.
have already sacked eighty estates
where they destroyed everything they
could not carry off. The whole region
is terrorized and land owners and stew
ards are seeking for safety. The fear is
increasing that kharkoff and other
towns will be attacked.
Friday morning, in the municipal
court at Portland Charles Wilson was
arraigned for the murder of his wife at
Cundy's Harbor Wilson was repre-.
sented by D. A. Meaher, ESQ.,, and with
out formality waived an examination.
He was then committed for the grand
jury next month, without bail. This
was the program agreed on and hereto
fore outlined. Wilson appeared at base
and says he has no doubt that the grand
jury will discharge him when the case
is brought before them
| Mark Crockett, former resident of
Portland, but lately living with his
daughter, Mrs. George Morse, at Me
chanic Falls, cut his throat in the stable
Friday morning about nine o'clock. He
was found by his daughter. Physicians
were called but before they could dress
the wound he died. He was about 6S
years of age and member of the Nor
way Masonic lodge. He was in his u.s.
ual health and spirits up to the time of
his suicidal act. He leaves two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. George Morse and Miss Per
sis Crockett, both of Mechanic Falls
| The following officers were elected at
/ the annual session of the Grand Divi-
sion, Sons of Temperance in Westbrook,
last week Grand worthy patriarch,
Mrs l.. G. Partington, Portland; grand
worthy associate, Rev VIM Moore Ken
nebunkport; grand scribe, Mrs. A. l..
Hayes, Chelsea; grand treas, T. w.
Burnham, Portland; grand chaplain
Mrs j. S. Bragdon, Westbrook; grand
conductor, Arthur Varnum, Cumber-
land Mills; grand seminal, Wilton P.
Pratt, Portland; grand superintendent
juvenile work, Mrs A. NJ. Morrison,
Portland
James Crosby Of Bangor, and his
daughter Caroline, aged 7, were drown
ed in the river at hampden, Thursday
afternoon, by the overturning of a canoe.
Mr. Crosby, with his wife and child, left
Bangor, early in the afternoon, for the
Z anoe Club house at Hampden, and
when within half mile of the house,
the canoe was capsized by sudden gust
of wind Mr.. Crosby placed his wife on
the bottom of the canoe, telling her to