The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-05-28
STATE AND GENERAL.

Eugene w. Staples of Washington, D. G..
to Mrs. Mae L. Cleaves of Newport, K. l..
The Hancock county officials report
a large number of floating saloons along
that part of the coast against which
vigorous campaign is being waged.
The permanent treaty between the
United States and Cuba, embodying all
the provisions of the Plat amendment,
was signed at Havana, Friday afternoon.
The former cup-defender Columbia
was badly beaten in % mile race,
Thursday, by the new yacht, Reliance,
the latter boat leading at the finish by
nearly fifteen minutes.
A fire in the village of East Orrington
Friday afternoon, destroyed the tannery
and cheese factory of Covell Bros, and
one residence, together with stable,
dry house and a large quantity of Dark.
The loss amounts of over $4,000; in
surance, $1,000
Yale won the dual track athletic meet
with Harvard at New Haven, Saturday,
by score SO points to 40. Harvard
proved almost invincible in the fiat
track events, and Yale in the hurdles
and the field large crowd assembled
and, though the conduct of the games
was dilatory, the sport was interesting
throughout.
A committee representing the Phila'
delphia chapter Of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, has presented
Secretary of the Army Root certified
check for $4,000 to be used in the erec-
ton of memorial building at the new
military post at Manila for the physical
and medical welfare of the enlisted men
By decree signed last Thursday, by
Judge Strout, Frank w. Hovey of Los
Angeles, Cal, formerly resident of
Biddeford and Pittsfeld, Me-, was dis.
barred from membership in the York
Bar Association on charge of unpro.
fessional conduct. According to decree
Hovey was charged with forgery, per-
jury, and disloyalty to clients.
The largest FIVE masted schooner ever
built, the Dorothy Palmer, is now ap-
preaching completion in the yard of
Geo. L. Welt at Waldoboro, and will be
launched May %. This vessel is so fine
! ly modelled that she looks like an I'M
mense yacht, and her lines are the de.
light of all the old ship carpenters and
draughtsmen who have seen her.
Arthur Lane of Cornish was arrested,
Friday, at Standish, Me-, by State De-
tective, A. P. Bassett of Norway, on the
charge of having murdered Miss Olive
Broad on the goth of last August, near
the Cornish railroad station. Officers
have been at work on the casa ever
since the date of the murder, and their
discovery of what they consider incrimi
mating evidence led to Lanes arrest
The preliminary hearing will be held on
Friday of this week. The prisoner
claims he can establish an alibi.
The first annual interscholastic speak
ing contest held under the auspices ~
the University of Maine, took place in
the chapel at Orono, Friday evening
Twenty preparatory schools from al
sections of the state sent speakers
From this number ten were selected by
a preliminary contest to speak at the
evenings exhibition. The board OF
judges, consisting of Edward II. Kelley
Bangor; N. r. Smith, Orono and j. y
Gould, Oldtown, awarded the first prize
of $40 in gold to Ralph w. +. Hunt
Westbrook seminary, and the second
prize of $40 in gold to Joe K. Goodrich
Skowhegan High school.
A perusal of the records of the Ken
nebec Jail shows that during the first
four months of 1902 there were 221 com
mitments for intoxication, divided is
follows: January, AZ; February, %
March, 54; April, 81. For the same
period this year, or since the strict en-,
forcement era, there were 10 commit
ments, divided as follows: January, 90
February, 30; March, II; April 4. II
will thus be seen that there is very
perceptible decrease since the era OF
rigid enforcement began. 1t is also
noted that from Jan l, to May 90 1902
the total number of commitments to the
Jail was 253 as against Isl for the cor
responding period this year.
VIM. Pickens, the Yaie negro student,
who won the Ten Eyck prize in tue lead
ing oratorcal contest of the year has re
ceived an offer of financial assistance
from Mrs. Douglas Robinson of New
York city, a sister of Pres. Roose-
velt. Pickens went to Newport to
speak, last week, and after his grafton
Miss Lucy Giles, milionaire's daughter,
was 80 deeply affected that she stuck a
diamond pin in his coat. Pickens has
been invited to go to Boston to speak at
Harvard University. he has declined
the offer to accept the presidency of
Hayti after the conquest of the island
by an army of American negroes, who
have been planning to attack it.
The New York lumber strike has al
ready had an extensive effect on the
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