The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-11-19
STATE AND GEN ERAL.

seat in Congress, and Charles A Towne
is now said to be slated for the coming
vacancy.
The some cutters strike at Clark 8
Island, Knox county, has been adjusted,
the employers granting the men an in
crease of II cents an hour and semi
monthly payments.
On Friday occurred the death of Mrs.
Parker Spofford of Bucksport, wife of
Railroad Commissioner Spofford. She
had been i'll for two or three weeks
and her death was not unexpected
special comm unication of the Grand
Lodge of Masons of Maine will be held
at Livermore Falls ON Tuesday, Novem-
Der "a 1913, at 2 p. m. for the dedi-
cation of the new hall of Oriental star
Lodge, No. 81.
Twenty boot and shoe factories at
Quebec have been closed owing to a
wage difference. The proprietors an
nounce they will insist upon individual
contracts hereafter. Five thousand
operatives are affected.
A conspiracy for the systematic rob
berry of railway cars said to involve more
than forty employees of the Big -Four
company has been announced by the
police of Indianapolis. The robberies
are said to have extended over a period
of seven years.
The Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Express says that Baron
Speck Won Sternburg. German ambassa
dor to the United States, who recently
returned there for medical treatment,
has developed a cancerous growth on
the cheek.
The annual banquet of the Democrats
of Maine will be held in Watervile,
Jan. Sth, next jackson Day. The list
of speakers has not yet been arranged,
but will include one or more New York
men of political promipence and several
NJ assach usetts men.
The result of the inquiry instituted by
the Gar into the cause of the increasing
poverty of the Moujiks (peasants) has
been published. 1t is a supplement to
the zar's manifesto on civil and re.
ligious rights and recommends the ed
ucation of the peasants.
State Land Agent Ring has completed
his figures on the forest fires which
ragged through northern and eastern
Maine last June. He puts the losses at
IS, 900, 900 to $6,O00,0 900, and says much
of this might have been averted if the
State had had force of trained fire
wardens.
Over 100 pupils in Cincinnati, Onio
and Kentucky suburbs we're occupied
last Sunday, by ladies who are delegates
or other attendants at the national con.
vention of the Woman's { hristisn Tenn
perance Union. At the same time sc
visiting clergymen of the Ohio Anti
saloon League occupied other pulpits.
The correspondent of a Berlin paper
at Constantinople says the Pennsylvania
Steel Company has been awarded the
contract for twenty thousand tons Of
steel rails for the Mecca railway, il
competition with the Krup and severa
other German and Belgian establish
ments. The price is $22 38 per ton, de
livered at Beirut.
The wages discussion is not factor
in the cotton mill situation at Lewiston
The high price and uncertainty has It'll
effect here as elsewhere; but the chic
anxiety is over the unusually low water
If the streams should freeze up before
storms have returned them to theil
normal volume, it would be embarrassing
No time has been lost yet.
The first mistake en- fora deer accident
to occur in the Aroostook county since
the opening of the game season has oc
CURED, the victim being George Spinney
of Staceyville, registered guide, who
was taken to the Eastern Maine Genera
hospital in Bangor, Wednesday. The
shot struck him in the groin, badly
SCATTERING the bone, but it is thought
that amputation may not be necessary
Because he mlstook bottle of Army
and Navy liniment for whiskey and
drank the contents Elbridge York OF
! Millinocket, laborer, aged about Al
years, is dead. he found the bottle
about his boarding place late Friday
night, drank the contents and died foul
hours later. An inquest was deemed
unnecessary. Y ork was native oil
Midway and leaves a widow whose resi-
dence is not known here.
Adjutant General Farnham of thil
S ate has replied to the War Depart
ment in regard to communication con
corning the annual inspection of the
National Guard of this State for thu
coming year, that the Guards of Maine
will be ready for inspection to begin or
Monday, Feb. / 1904, and that a SEIZED
ule giving the dates and location of tn,
organizations Is being prepared, anC
will be issued within few days.
The agents of the various cotton mills
| at Maaa warn ratioan