The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-08-28

tary, Silas Adams, Waterville; chaplain,
T. Furbush of Clinton; chairman ex-
ecutive committee, N. p. Libby, Unity,
Col j. W. Spaulding was appointed a
board to draft appropriate resolutions
on the death of Col. w. Fl. Fogler. The
association voted to hold their next re-
union at Windmere Park, Unity, In 1908.
Five deaths were occasioned by a fire
in the house at the corner of Federal
and Franklin streets, Portland, at about
half past three clock Sunday morning.
Four of the victims were the children of
William Kronberg, and the fifth was a
servant girl employed by Benjamin Sny-
der. All were sleeping In the attic of
the two story and a half frame house,
and from what could be learned 1t is
safe to say they were dead before the
alarm from box 48 for the fire was pulled
in. Mrs Kronberg at the time was in
the hospital where an operation had
been performed for appendicitis. The
cause of the fire is supposed to have
been from an overturned candle.
The executive committee of the Maine
State Pathological Society was in session
at the Bangor House, Wednesday the
goth inst, They had under considera
ton various matters affecting the fruit
interests of the State. The annual
meeting will be held in Pennington
some time shortly after the first of Nov
ember The making up of the program
was referred to the president and Sec
rotary of the society. There were pre-
sent at Wednesdays meeting d. H.,
Knowlton, secretary of Pennington, and
r. II. Libby of Newport, V. p. DeCosta
of Buckfield, and c. A. Arnold of Ar.
mold, members of the executive COM
mittee. The secretary says the apple
crop in Maine this year will not exceed
90 per cent, Of a good crop, but he does
think the prices will reach those paid
last year.
What is regarded as by far the most
important educational step with regard
to the Philippines is that being con-
summated in the production of Taga-
open the door to literary relations be-
tween the Malaysian country and
America. A Chicago physician, DR..
David j. Doherty, is the author of the
grammar, and he has spent three years
in systematic, scholarly preparation for
the work, which will be brought out in
about two months by firm of Boston
publishers. DR.. Doherty has been in
Boston for week, working with Senior
Sixto Lopez, in going over the manu-
script and in counsellng with Frank B.
Sanborn, Fiske Warren and leading anti
imperialists with regard to matter con-
nected with the publication and dis.
tribution of the book.
The lifeless body of Miss Olive Broad,
middle aged woman who resided in
the outskirts of Cornish, was found,
Thursday, in clump of bushes several
feet from the road leading from the
village to her home Her skull was
crushed and she had been dead several
hours when found. That the motive of
the murderer was robbery seems evident
from the fact that no valuables were
found on the body, but if this is 80 the
fiend was poorly paid for his crime, as
the woman is believed to have had loss
than three dollars in her possession
when murdered. At the autopsy held
that afternoon % calibre revolver
bullet was found which had entered the
right side against the third rib, glanced
over the breast bone and lodged in the
left side. Another bullet, had entered
just above the right eye close to the
temple.