The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-09-25
STATE AND GENERAL.

of Hallowell was terribly burned, dying
soon after the accident.
Fl. A. Allan of the Allan line on his
return from England announces that
this winter the ships of his line will run
from st. John and Portland, cutting out
Halifax.
An ingenious Belfast man, Leander
Staples, has invented patent halter for
which he has been offered $1,000. He
holds out for $4,000 and in the mean.
time has three men busy trying to fill
the orders for the halter.
1t is reported from Caribou that a
$500, 900 saw mill is to be erected at Van
Buren, soon. C. A. Milliken of Augusta
and other Augusta and Portland men
are interested. They were there, Thurs
day, to select site for the mill.
Two men got into difficulty, Friday
night, in the building where the Negro
Baptists are holding meetings at Bir-
mington, Ala, someone cried flight
and the crowd stampeded. About So
are reported dead and over 80 injured.
James McInce of Calais was seriously
injured, Thursday, while hauling wood.
The load slipped from its position and
threw him under the heels of his horses.
| He was taken to the hospital and IL is
thought that his injuries Will not prove
fatal.
Work on the construction of the new
Grand Trunk Railroad station at Port
land will commence, Monday, sept. 20.
The officers are moving from the old
building into temporary quarters. The
new building when completed will be
one of the finest In the country.
Isabelle Clifford, six scar old child,
was abandoned by its mother on Maine
Central train at Bangor, Thursday. The
child was sent to the Kings Daughters
Home, pending developments. The
mother and child came in from the B. &
A. train and got on at some station near
Lagrange.
Mrs. Sadie Haley Keene, wife of Car
ter B. Keene of the Post Office Depart.
ment and native of Freedom, Me-, died
at Washington, D. c., Thursday after
noon, at the Georgetown hospital, after
long illness. She was a graduate of
Kent's Hill Seminary and was formerly
a teacher there.
The Montreal express oyer the Grand
Trunk line bound toward Portland kill
ed three people at the crossing at West
Pownal, at 5.29 Friday night. The vic
tins of the accident were Abel Bowie,
aged II; his sister, Rebecca Bowie, aged
"a; and Addie Bowie, his daughter,
aged Of The three were driving with a
single team from Durham to North Pow
nal, where they had been visiting.
The sessions of the Supreme Council
of scottish Rite Masons were chiefly
notable for the comforting of the 33d
degree upon three more candidates,
making the total DO for this meeting,
and a number of members were pro-
posed and balloted for to receive the de-
gree at the meeting of the supreme
Council next year, which will occur in
Boston. Among the three who received
the degree, Wednesday, was William G.
Mason of Bangor.
A record in brickmaking was made
in w. S. Hellier's Bangor brickyard on
Monday. The crew, consisting of ten
men and using Henry Martin horse
power machine, such as has been used
there for the last 20 years, undertook to
see how many brick they could make in
ten hours. The result was 10000. The
men consider this record for that vi
cinity and would like to hear of any
machine which can make more bricks
with the same number of men in the
same time.
Chicago banks are shipping from
S1,500,000 daily to the country banks
of the north and northeast and
south and southwest sections of the
country to meet the demand of the
FARMERS for actual currency to pay the
expenses of harvesting and marketing
the grain crop. The movement is in
excess of last years shipments, although
the harvesting season is far from being
over. 1t is estimated that over $87 900, :
600 will have been supplied by Chicago
banks to the farmers of the Mississippi
valley before the crop Is all put away
for the season.
The annual reunion of the 18th Maine
Regiment Association was held, Friday,
at Grand Army hall, Westbrook, and
wss attended by about 80 of the men,
bers of the old regiment. The election
of officers for the ensuing year resulted
in the choice of the following: President
Col Edwin Illsley, Limerick; vice presi-
dents, Lewis Il. Bradbury, Chelsea,
Mass; r. G. Randall, Pennington; NJ.
NJ. Smart, Fryeburg; secretary and
treasurer, William P. Hodsdon, West
brook; executive committee, Samuel
Knight, Bridgton; Capt. James NJ.
Thompson, Portland; NJ. T. Holt, Will
mington, Mass; chaplain, Rev. Elliott
b. Barber, Westbrook.
Warren Jackson, receiver in the Cam