The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-08-14
STATE AND GENERAL.

University of Chicago during his visit to
Chicago in the fall.
Word came from Duluth that 1t is ex-
pected SIC, 900 worth of steel steam
ships will be built on the American side
of the Great Lakes for service in 1908.
The steamer City of Rockland carried
800 passengers from Boston to Maine
resorts on her outward trip Wednesday
night. She arrived in Bangor, however,
on time, and left on time.
The directors of the Union Shoe Co.,
at Ellsworth whose plant was shut down
three months ago, have made the an.
nouncement that they will resume BUSH
ness at once with 125 hands.
81. j. Wheeler of West Bowdoin, 70
years of age, was in Bath the other day,
and for the first time in his life submit
ted to being shaved by barber. 1t was
an odd experience. but he knows now
how it seems and he may try it again
sometime.
The Louisiana Exposition manage.
ment has determined to get, if possible,
the old Liberty bell in Philadelphia. If
the effort is successful, it will be the
first visit of the bell west of the Mississ-
ippi river. If it goes to st. Louis it will
be the sixth journey which the bell has
taken.
There is strong probability that
Speaker Henderson may deliver several
campaign speeches in Maine. Gen. Hen.
derson is coming to Camden, the last
week in August, and will be the guest
for a few days of Hon. Myron NJ. Par.
ker, a prominent financier of Washington,
who has fine summer cottage there.
According to the Northwestern Miller,
the Minnesota flour mills will beat the
record for output with the 1902 wheat
crop. Including an estimate for the en-.
suing three weeks it is expected that the
-four mills In the year ending Septembe
will have produced Is 900, 900 barrels of
-four, 100000 more than in any other
year.
While King Oscar of Sweden was
yachting, Saturday, at Marstrand
bridge near Stockholm, Sweden, which
was crowded with women and children
the structure collapsed, throwing its
occupants into the water. The king
threw off his coat and assisted in the
rescue of % persons who were taken
aboard the yacht.
The Penn. R. R. Co., for the week
ending Aug. 2, carried only 920 tons of
anthracite coal. This is the smallest
tonnage of hard coal the company has
moved for many years. For the same
week in 1901, the tonnage of anthracite
amounted to 90, 439 tons. The shipment
of bituminous coal continue to show a
steady increase.
The Eastern Steamship company has
surrendered the steamer Cumberland
which was recently badly damaged by
collision in the harbor with the steamer
Admiral Farragut, to the companies
which insured her and she is to be sold.
The steamship company will build new
steamer for the Maine and st. John, n.
B., service at Bath, Maine.
The striking mill men employed by
the Machias Lumber company, who
went out the first of last week to enforce
the demand for ten hour working day
with the same wages previously paid
for eleven hours, returning to work
Thursday without having gained any
concessions from the company. The
men had no organization.
U. S. Marshal Hasty of Saco, Deputy
U. S, Marshall Norton of Portland and
Chinese Inspector Anderson of Boston,
arrested five Cinnamon in Lewiston,
Saturday, for violation of the United
States exclusion laws. One of the
Cinnamon made a sensational run bare
foot and barehead through the streets
to escape arrest. They were taken to
Portland for trial.
Fire, Sunday morning, destroyed the
Landon Hotel at San Angelo, Texas,
burning seven people to crisp and do
ing property damage of $75, 900. There
were IS people in the house and all got
out safely with the exception of the
seven dead and three others who are be-
lieved to be safe. Seven women and
children got out on small gallery and
were requested 10 jump into blankets
but they feared to do so and delayed I'M
til the gallery fell back into the flames.
| The announcement is made of the APP
pointment of Miss Grace E. Berry of
Worcester, Mass, as dean of the wo-
mans division of Colby to succeed Miss
Grace +. Mathews, who resigned at the
close of the school year. Miss Berry
graduated from Mt Holyoke, South
Hadley, Mass, il 1893. After gradual
ing she taught for four years in Western
College, Oxford, Ohio. She then re.
turned to Mt. Holyoke for the Master
of Arts course and after receiving that
degree taught there in the department
of physics,
Dover and Foxcroft citizens already
are predicting that an effort will be
made at the Forthcoming Legislature to