The Somerset reporter., 1903-12-10
STATE AND GENERAL.

a defective chimney caused the des.
truction by fire of two residences IN
Cornish, Friday, with a loss of over
$1,000
The Maine Sportsmen Fish aud Game
Association will hold its annual meeting
this winter in Bangor probably the first
week in January.
Eleven coal miners we're killed, Fri
day, at the Gasson Laquasz mine at
Moutegnee, Belgium, through the break.
ing of the rope by which a cage was
being lifted. The men fell to the bot
tom of the pit.
Justice spear of the Supreme court
has appointed Erastus C. Ryder of Ban
gor, Henry W. Mayo of Hampden and
col. Charles Fl. Prescott of Biddeford as
appraisers on the petition of the Angus
ia Water District against the Augusta
Water Co. ct ais.
Hon Josiah Crosby of Dexter, was
calling upon Governor Hill and other
friends at the Capitol, Friday. Mr..
Crosby is 81 years of age and is the old
est attorney in the State now actively
practicng his profession. He was pres
ident of the Maine Senate in 1868.
In Pttsfeld, Quincy and Fitchburg,
the three cities of Massachusetts, which
had socialist candidates for mayor last
Tuesday, the decrease of the Socialist
vote in each of them, according TO The
Haverhill Gazette was nearly so per cent
from the last J ears municipal vote.
The Colby junior exhibition parts
have been announced as follows: Miss
Ethel l.. Howard, Winslow; Miss Ethel
NJ. Knight, Waterville; Miss Addie Nj.
Lakin, Waterville; Miss Rose M. Rich
ardson, East Corinth; Guilford d Coy,
Pressure Isle; and Arthur l.. Field,
Bakersvile, Vt
Charles Morgan Wallace, Civil war
veteran, under a life sentence at the
State prison at Thomaston for the shoot
ing of deputy sheriff who attempted
his arrest In 1885, was found dead in his
cell by the night guard, sunday morning.
From indications 1t is believed that the
man committed suicide by taking an
overdose of morphine
Former Rep. VIM. N. Springer of
Illinois, Democratic leader, conspicu-
GUS in the House of Representatives
| during the 44th to the SD Congress in
| elusive and once chairman of the ways
and means committee of the House,
died at his residence in Washington,
Friday, aged "a years. His death was
due to pneumonia, contracted In Chicago,
Thanksgiving day.
The investigation that is being pur-
sued by the st. Lous, Mo, health de
partment officials into alleged irregu-
larlties in the management of city in.
situations, has revealed that over so
names are carried on the books of the
poor house of persons who are not in
food and clothing have been regularly
drawn for the names and constituted
booty for somebody.
Louis E Pendleton of Belfast, was
arrested by Deputy United States Mar
shall Norton, Friday night, at Belfast,
for fraudulent use of the mails at that
city. The arrest was made at the in
stance of Post Office Inspector Chas Z.
Jennings of Bangor, He was arraigned
at Augusta. Pendletons age is given as
"a years, and it is said he was married a
short time ago. He has made his home
with his parents
Sheriff Frank j. Ham of Kennebec
county, has submitted his first annual
report, for the year ending Nov. 80, to
the board of prison inspectors. This
being the first year under the new en-
forcement policy, comparison with the
report of 1902 will be of interest The
number of prisoners in Jail, Nov. 80, was
80, while on the same date of the pre-
ceding year there we're 81. In 1902
there were 597 commitments, all from
kennebec county, while the prisoners
committed during the past year mum
bered 387, of whom 80 were from other
counties, and three were United States
prisoners. There was also large fall.
ing off in the number committed for
Drunkenness, there being 1872, against
425 in 1902. For violating the liquor
laws there were 20 in Jail against ID the
pruioua Mans