The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-10-30
STATE AND GENERAL.

noon of last week, and like Gardiner
is now dry town.
Two cases of small pox have devel,
oped at Biddeford, one of the victims
being an employee at the saco and
Petee machine shops and the other
being employed in the cotton mills.
A stubborn fire in the basement of F.
o. Bailey & Co.'S. carriage warerooms,
Portland, Thursday, caused a loss of
s20,0 The damage was principally to
the stock and was covered by insurance.
While Frank Sherman and Thomas
Barclay, school boys, were canoeing
on Middybump lake, Saturday, the
craft was overturned and Barclay
drowned, The boys resided in Mill
town, Me.
The store of Henry B. Hartford, Jr.
at Standish with his residence, carriage
house and two stables, a dwelling
house and post office were destroyed
by fire, Monday. The loss exceeded
$40, 1000, with insurance at $4,000.
Mrs. Samuel Clark, 80 years old, of
Monroe, was burned to death in her
home late Friday afternoon. 1t is
presumed that her clothes became
ignited with building a fire in the
kitchen stove. She is survived by her
husband.
Walter E. Clark, son of John 7. Clark
of South Atkinson, has recently been
appointed inspector of lumber for all
the Philippine Islands with salary of
$500. He received the appointment
on 80 days trial but at the end of four
days it was made final.
Passadumkeag was visited by dis
asterous fire Friday afternoon in which
the Page & McKeever kindling wood
mill, with two storehouses was burned
to the ground. 1t looked as though the
whole town would go and assistance was
called from Bangor. The mill was in
sured.
The body of Albert Jones of Knight
vile was found frightfully mangled
in the freight yard of the Eastern
division of the Boston & Maine r. R.,
Saturday evening at about 80. There
was no eye witness to the accident and
he was only identified by the clothes
he wore.
The Daily London Mail, Friday morn
ing says it understands that the govern
ment will next week ask Parliment to
vote grant of $40, 600, 900 for the benefit
those residents of the Transvaal who re-
manned loyal to Great Britain during the
war in South Africa, in addition to the
SIS, 100000 granted under the peace
treaty.
A Northern Pacific mail train was rob.
bed between Bermount and Drummond,
Mont, about midnight Friday night.
The engineer was killed, the mail car
broken into and robbed of all registered
mail, but no other car was touched.
The train was found stalled where the
attack had been made.
The body of Franklin B. Brown of
Abbott village, an inmate of the insane
hospital at Bangor, who disappeared
from thst institution on the 18th of
the present month, was found in the
woods near the hospital, Sunday, morn
ing. The man had committed suicide
by hanging.
Llewellyn j. Morse, long prominent
in the business and political affairs of
Bangor and of Maine, pioneer among
Bangor manufacturers and one of the
men who has performed a conspicuous
part in the building up of that city,
died at 9 o'clock Friday night at his
residence in Bangor, of heart failure, at
the age of S3 years.
DR.. w. Fl. Baker of the Eye and Ear
Infirmary, Portland, while out rabbit
hunting Thursday afternoon with his
father, w. Baker of the G. T. r., re-
ceived shot from his fathers gun in his
arms and breast, four in his bowels
which came near penetrating the aldo
minal WALL which in that case would
have been fatal. 1t required the SER
vices of physician to remove the shot
Henry Howe, travelling agent for
the American School of Correspond
ence, Boston, while attempting to board
the midnight train as 1t was moving
out of Lewiston, Saturday evening,
fell under the wheels of the car and
his left arm was crushed so that it
had to be amputated above the elbow.
He received shock to his nervous
system. He is at the Central Maine
Hospital and is quite comfortable.
Guy Grindle, against whom the grand
jury returned al indictment for muir.
derous assault upon Mrs. Joseph C.
Littlefield at Penobscot, Oct. 2, was
Friday ordered to be sent to the State
Insane Asylum at Augusta, until
further orders from the Court, for
observation. The order was issued
by Chief Justice Wiswell, on the
strength of a report from Superin-
tendent Sanborn of the asylum, who
examined Grindle.
The road bed has been completed
along the entire SO miles of the new