The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-30
STATE AND GENERAL.

last time on Sunday, as the pastor of the
of the First Unitarian church of Port
land, after period of twenty-one years.
The new battleship King Edward VII,
the largest in the world, was success
fully launched by the Princess of Wales
at Davenport the 23th. The vessel cost
$7,500,000.
Two trains met in head-on collision
on the Chicago & Great Western rail
road near st. Paul, Sunday, and four
men were killed and twenty-five or tn rty
passengers injured.
Postmaster A. J. Shaw OF Exeter, a
general trader and we'll known citizen of
that place is dead, aged about so years
He had been i'll for the past two weeks.
An aged mother and a widow survive
him.
Governor John +. Hill, his staff men,
bers of the Council and many heads of
state departments attended the services
held, Tuesday merning in the Cathedral
of the Immaculate Conception Portland,
in memory of Pope Leo.
Miss Ellen NJ Stone, whose release
from captivity of brigands in the noun
tains of Turkey was secured by the pay.
ment of s65, 900 ransom, raised in the
United States, made an address at Old
Orchard Sunday. Three thousand
people attended the meeting.
Col. Samuel M. Mills Artillery Corps,
has been ordered to proceed to Fort
Preble and take temporary command of
that post and of the artillery district of
Portland during the combined army and
navy manoeuvres next month.
The annual reunion of the 18th Maine
Regiment Association will be held at
the reglmental building on Long Island,
the week commencing August Sd. The
business meeting of the association will
be held on Wednesday, August 9Th.
The Commercial Pacific cables, oper-
ated in direct connection with the land
lines of the Postal Telegraph Cable
company, will be opened for cable bust
ness to and from the Philippine and
Ladrone islands, China, Japan and Corea
on and after Saturday, July 25, 1908.
Representative Fred II. Campbelle of
Cherryfeld, father of Names famous
hedgehog law, was in Bangor last week
and while there stated that it would
cost the State $4,000 to pay the bounties
on the hedgehogs this year He still
believes that it will be money well spent
The increasing activity of the reyolu
tionists in Macedonia and the difficulties
encountered by the Turkish troops are
producing an unpleasant effect in of
fetal quarters and apprehension in diplo-
matte circles, where it is believed the
existing situation will lead to fresh de-
mands on the part of the powers, includ
ing the establishment of efficacious
European control.
A contract has been signed for the
construction of the Saco Valley Electric
road Work will bs commenced at the
Bonny Eagle end and the road built to
Bar-Mills and at once put into operation.
The balance of the road to Saoo will be
finished before the spring of 1904. The
road will be 20 miles long and operated
by water power, a valuable privilege
having been secured.
Everett Pillsbury, aged 30, a local
job printer, his two young children, and
Miss Carrie Stevens, aged about 20 years
of Frankfort, are supposed to have
capszed and drowned while in a sail
boat in the harbor when the squall
struck Sunday night. Nothing has been
heard from them and no trace of the
boat can be found. Pillsbury had a
wife in Belfast and parents in Sanford.
Life members of the Maine State Fair
will recall that this year change has
been made in the issue of tickets. Each
life member will receive coupon tickets,
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each ticket are four coupons-good for
holder, his wife and two minor children.
This ticket, coupons and all, will be taken
upon presentation by any person. All
four must be on hand to gain admission
on it.
The number of cities and towns which
have taken advantage Of the good road
fund, provided for by the Legislature
of 1901 is very large. Already $50 cities
and towns have made application for
this money and some have filed certii
Gates showing that they have expended
the required amount to entitle them to
State aid. The others have only filed
an application for the aid, pending the
expenditure OF the money.
Figures Of foreign trade for the fiscal
year ending June 80, made public by the
department of customs of Canada, shows
an enormous expansion In the trade and
commerce of that country. The aggre.
gate foreign trade for the year, which
embraces total imports and total exports
of domestic and foreign produce,
amounted to no less than $467, 1877 ,049
which is an increase of s4S, 10000 over
the trade of the fiscal year 1902.