The Somerset reporter., 1903-06-11
STATE AND GENERAL.

GhodOhi MO-
The summer schedule on the Maine
Central railroad will go into effect on
Sunday, June IA.
In the courts of a trial of liquor case
in the municipal court, at Bangor, Fri
day, Judge Bailey ruled that "Uno" beer
is non-alcoholic and non. intoxicating
A bad freight wreck occurred on the
Rumford Falls railroad, Saturday, near
Mechanic Falls, in which six cars loaded
largely with rolls of paper were badly
smashed.
According to the government crop
report cotton is in the lowest condition
ever reported at this season of the year,
being TAI per cent as compared with
95.1 year ago.
A we'll known Houlton lumberman
says the loss from fires and drought in
Aroostook county will exceed 81, Co.,
600. Another says a conservative esti-
mate for northern and eastern Maine is
SO, 100000
A special from Paoli, Kas., says: Two
Santa Fe trains, north bound and a
special south bound, collided head on
one mile north of Stillwell, Kas., Thurs
day. Nine persons are dead, and twenty
eight injured.
The New England yearly meeting of
Friends will begin their session inll Port
land today lat Friends church. o The
meeting will continue for a week.
Prominent Friends will be present from
Ohio and Kansas.
The saw mills owned by F. Il. Kim
ball, two miles from Moscow, were
burned, Thursday. The origin of the
fire was unknown. The loss was $1,000;
insurance, $4,000. The fire was beyond
control when discovered.
DR.. John B. Thompson of Bangor,
who has returned after an extensive trip
to the Madawaska, reports the finding of
large number of cases of small pox in
the lumber camps of that RECON. In the
Madawaska valley alone he found over
300 cases.
Sunday night beteen four and five
o'clock Sandy river round house caught
fire from some unknown cause. The
inside of the building was practically
destroyed. Two engines we're also bad
ly damaged. The total loss was about
$500, partly insured.
A cloudburst destroyed three cotton
mills and badly damaged other mills and
property In the towns of Pacolet, Clifton,
Sportansburg and Converse, South Caro-
lima on Saturday. The loss of property
is estimated at SO ,0O00 900 and loss of
so lives is reported.
The Bucksport Times is the latest to
join the newspaper family in this State,
the first issue appearing last week. 1t
is to be published each Friday, and the
first number promises well E A.
| Cooper Is proprietor and manager and
! Robert Sutcliffe is editor.
The effects of the recent terrible tor
nado in Georgia felt in are Biddeford
where an order for $4,000 worth of new
machinery at the Saco & Pettee shops
has been cancelled on account of the
destruction of the GAINESVILLE cotton mill
for which 1t was intended.
More than 100 people are believed to
have been drowned near Marseilles, Mon.
day as result of collision between
two passenger steamers, the Insulaire
and Liban, both belonging to the Frais-
sonet Steamship Company of Marseilles.
The Liban sank soon after the accident.
The Gazetta Divinezia asserts that
the Pope is suffering from intestinal in
flammation, that he eats practically no.
thing and that his strength is diminish
ing. The paper add: "Though there
is no immediate danger there will be
room for apprehension unless an i'm
provement is soon manifested"
The annual Colby freshman reading
was to have taken place at the Baptist
church, Waterville, Friday evening, but
on account of the disturbances made by
the sophomores was adjourned by Presi-
dent White after the first speaker had
finished, something that has never hap
pened before in the history of the col
| lege so far as could be remembered.
Braggsville village, 80 miles below
Houlton on the B & A. railroad, was
totally destroyed by forest fire, We'd
nesday, the 30th inst. The buildings
destroyed included the saw mill of +. l..
Robinson, two hotels, the store of Fl. P.
Gardner & Co, and NJ. s. Il j. d. Leen,
the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad sta
ton and pumping station and dozen
dwellings. Loss, thirty thousand dol
lars. Partially covered by insurance.
The wage scale conference of officials
of the American Sheet Steel Co. and
representatives of the American AS
ISOLATION of Iron and Steel aud Tin
Plate Workers held at Pittsburg, this
week, has resulted in an amicable ad
justment of all differences between the
manufacturers and workers. 1t is under
stood the men are granted the 10 per
cent increase. The settlement of the
scale means continued work in the sheet
mills of the country for the ensuing