The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-07-02
STATE AND GENERAL.

Twenty.four senators If the Fifty
eigth Congress were soldiers in the
Civil War. Senator Pettus also served
in the Mexican War.
Charles z. Patten of Bath, who died
recently, bequeathed SIS, 600 to the public
institutions Among the institutions
remembered was Good Will farm, & 900
A Hancock county man, Capt Robert
NJ. Tapley of Brooksvile, is chief officer
of the new 1900 tons steamship "Ari-
zone,' which recently arrived in Phlla-
delphia from Honolulu.
The dinner given by U S. Ambassador
Tower to the German Empire at Kise,
Prussia, last Friday, was made the op.
portunity, both by the Emperor and the
Am bassador,t to utter speeches of political
significance
Judge Townsend of Columbia 5. G.
announced that the trial of James Il i.
Tillman will be held in Lexington county
in September, Judge Gage presiding.
The lawyers for the defense sought To
have the case tried in Saluda county.
The herring continue to be very scarce
and high in price on the Maine Coast and
in consequence the sardine factories are
doing but little. This does not presage
a short pack, as the conditions are usual
ly the same during this month of each
year
Crop, trade and labor conditions still
present some Irregularities, but six
months trade returns point to actual
business having been better than a year
ago and the situation as whole shows
favorable features predominatng says
Bradstreet Review.
The kings of Italy aud Roumania,
Pres. Loubet of France and Prince Mich
olas of Montenegro have added their
congratulations to those already received
by King Peter from other chiefs of states.
These cablegrams are regarded as consti,
tuting official recognition of the new
ruler of Servia.
Professor William Elder died sudden
~ at his home at Waterville, Thursday
morning. His health had not been good
for several years, but he had attended
faithfully to his duties as instructor at
Colby. Professor Elder had been at
Colby for the past 80 years as head of
| the department of chemistry,
Machias is making elaborate prepare
tions for the celebration of old-home
week. The executive committee is made
up of the following: Nj. Gardner, H.
Taylor, D. A. Curtis, L. H. Crane, o. NJ
Vose. There is every indication that
Machias will see the greatest home COM
ing ever known in the famous old town
Ivory Henderson of Parsonsfeld, who
is now in his SD year, heard Daniel
Webster's famous speech at the dediea-
ton of Bunker Hill monument in 1S43
and has a very distinct recollection of
that event. How many other persons
are there living in Maine or in New En-.
gland for that matter, who were present
upon that historic occasionP
Charles F. Libby, master in the suit of
the Central Trust Co. of New York,
against the Washington County Railroad,
has filed his report in the circuit court.
He found that the income of the road
was not suffi 3ient to meet interest and
operating expenses and directed that it
be sold at auction at Calais at date to
be fixed later, the upset price at which
it shall be sold to be 100000.
Commissioner Gilman of the agricul
tural department, is sending out invita-
tons to the managers of Maine dreamer.
es to meet with him at the office of the
department at the State house, ON Tues
day, July 7, at 10 80 A. M, for such con-
sultation that the work may Immediately
be organized for the best interest of
every cream producer large or small.
The Bulgarian agent at Constantinople
has asked the grand vizier for an expla-
nation of the concentration of Turkish
troops at Sultantipe. The grand yizer
has professed entire ignorance of the
matter and has promised to make an in
vestigation. Advices received through So.
fla say the Bulgarian government intends
to protest to the powers against the
alarming concentration of Turkish troops
on the frontier of Bulgaria.
The complicated troubles in the build
ing trades at New York have resolved
themselves into plain fight to a finish
between two organized bodies-a reunited
Board of Building Trades, composed of
the mems unions, and the Building Trade
Employers association, the league OF
employers Nominally the fight is over
the latter's arbitration plan. In reality
the issue is agreed to be whether the
walking delegate shall become figure.
head or exert his former power
The 37th national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic will be
held in San Francisco during the week
commencing Monday, August nth, 1903.
The railroads are making preparations
to haul over fifty thousand from east of
the Rocky Mountains. In this number
there will be many Sons of Veterans who