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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-08-20

Ex-President Grover Cleveland con-
cluded his visit at Meddybemps on Sat
urday, much to the surprise of many
who expected the distinguished visitor
to remain another week at least
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-08-20

Commerce between this country and
Russia seems to be on the increase. II
made its highest record in the fiscal year
Just ended. The grand total of exports
and imports combined is larger than for
any year in the history of our commerce
with that country. The total exports to
Russia for the year ending June 80
aggregated ST. COG, s12. This total is
nearly double that of the exports in 1901
and about so per cent in excess of those
of 1902. The imports from Russia In
1908 were $9,2S2. 1896, which is 26 per
cent larger than those of 1902, which
were, prior to that time, the largest on
record. Cotton, agricultural implements
and manufactures OF iron and steel are
the most important factors in the ex-
port trade from the United States to
Russia. Que favorable feature is that
the balance of trade is on the right SIDE
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-08-20
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money II II fails to cure
e. W. Groves signature is on each box. 25c
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-08-20

Stops the Cough and works of the Cold
axative Bromo. Quinine Tablets cures q cold
one day. No Cure. no Pay. Price rs cents
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-08-20

We send the REPORTER for trial trip
three months for 25 cents
Send i1o printing 70 tins atliee.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-08-20
The Somerset Reporter
A Weekly Republican Newspaper.

- a..rrH. K. e. MoNEELIR.
!. o. SMITH & CO., PUBLISHERS
.eu.rFR STREET, SKOWHEGAN ME.
GOVERNMENTS; business and legal adver
..snents inserted at reasonable rates, adjusted
- the space used, and the position given.
o.lees quoted on application.
Cards of Thanks and Resolutions of Respect
,,prted at cents per line.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
When paid in advance.
a.. vaar ......s 80 Six months, ............75c.
v" Three months, ..........3Sc.
n.7 will be charged II not paid until end OF year
.rppFo A SECOND CIAas MAIL MATTER.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-08-20
Yours very truly.
Frank W. Gowen.
Letter to Geo. l. HoYeY.
Skowheqan,

SkoWhegan.
Dear sir: Most mixed paints are either
adulterated or short measure. Deyoe
Lead and ZINC is neither, so it cannot be
classe1 with mixed paints. That's why
it takes fewer gallons of Devoe to paint
a house than it does of mixed paint,
and it lasts longer for the same reason.
Ferguson q Thompson's store, Delhi,
\. Y, was painted some years ago with
thirty-two gallons of mixed paint.
Painted it last spring with Deyoe Lead
and Iinc--thirteen gallons did the work.
Devoe Lead and ENC is here or will
be here very shortly, Spread the good
news.
Yours truly,
F. w. DEvoE & 90,
81 New York.
P. 5. j. R. Emery & Co., Madison,
sell our paint.
-. 5. Henry Rawles sells our paint.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-08-20

Joseph GARNER was before the Court,
Wednesday morning, for being intoxi-
Gated on our streets. He pleaded guilty
and was fined So 90 and costs which was
maid.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
CLOTHIERS LOST on STOCKS.
1000 Blown lii In Wall Street by
SchafrSn Bros.

That speculation in Wall Street was one
OF the principal causes OF the failure OF
Schafran Brothers, manufacturers OF child
ren's clothing, who made an assignment on
Wednesday, was brought out at a meeting
yesterday Of fifty-four creditors out of about
two hundred. Joseph I. Green made a
statement on behalf OF the firm showing
direct liabilities of 3l73,o00. contingent
liabilities of $4,000. nominal assets OF
900 at cost and actual assets at forced
sale Of $i2,5 500
j. c. Simon Of the Northern National
Bank, the second largest creditor, was
ment Of what he had learned Of the failure
and the big difference between the assets
Of a year ago and the present assets. The
inventory Of the Arm on May I, 1902, showed
a surplus OF over 5000 the deficiency
now is about $780, 900, showing a total dif-
ference Of 3!20, 900. Mr. Simon said the
firm had told him that thew lost $4,000 in
Wall street, had advanced $4,000 to sales
men on the road and had borne heavy ex-
penses and big rent.
Mr. Grn"-. on behalf Of the firm, proposed
a settle on at 30 cents on the dollar, and
this was ,.lken into consideration by a
committee Of the creditors.
A creditors petition In bankruptcy has
faoturer Of furs at 40 Bond street. His LA
blities are said to be SO, 0O0
Frederick Weber, manager OF the Bel
mont apartment hotel, at lls West Forty
fifth street, has filed a petition in bank
ruptcy. with liabilities Sl3.227 and no assets.
He formerly had a saloon at ~ West Twenty
eighth street.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
NOT FIT ron A FARMERS WIFE.
Woman Married Last February Kills
Herself-She Wanted Rest.

EAsToN. Nd. June BINARY Beall, wife
Of Clinton G.. Beall. committed suicide
last night by taking poison. The symp-
toms indicated opium poisoning. Mrs.
Beall was 20 years old. She was the daueh-
ter OF Daniel Bennett OF Warrensburr.
n. Y. She married Mr. Beall in February
last and was his second wife. She was
alone in the house at the time, and her
condition was not discovered until the
return Of her husband at 8 o'clock in the
evening. 1t is suppo sed she took the drug
1t 2 O'Clock.
About noon she had dressed her husba nd 8
three children and sent them to a school
pcnic at C ordova. After her death this
letter was found:
Mother, dear, please forgive me. I
must have rest, and don't wish me back.
I wish you all we'll"
The following letter was presumably to
bar husband:
II ask you to forgive me. but I am tired
Of hving, and death Is to me preferable to
separation: but living here Is impossible.
] don't want to be taken to Warrensbur1
or my people ent for. Bury me as quickly
as possible. You have always been GOOD
10 me. l have done my best, but have
failed to make a farmers wife / am 40
tired and siok shall be glad Of rest I
am not insane, but tired. MARY"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
EGAN DEPENDS THE DOCK LEASE.
Denies That the Minutes Were Altered
for His Benef1t


Joseph Egan, who is the defendant in q
suit instituted by the city to annul the lease
TO him Of the bulkhead property between
Invent -eighth and twenty ninth streets
on the North River, when Charles F. Muir
ply was Dock Commissioner, has 81 I'd
his answer to the allegations contained in
the city's complaint. 1t is charged that the
lease was made for $3.50 a year with two
ten-year term renewal privileges and that
the city will lose s577.0O0 In consequence.
Egan denies that he conspired, combined
or confederated with any ono to deprive
the city Of it's bulkhead rights BY illegal
means. He denies that the minutes Of the
Dock Board were altered for his benefit,
or that any resolution in his favor was
illegally put through He says that the
resolution granting him the lease and priv.
ege was legally passed on Nov. 8, 1901,
and that he is legally in possession of the
bulkhead He says that the rent is fair
fraudulent or void.
Assistant District Attorney Marshall B.
Clarke spent yeNerday wading through
hundreds Of pages of the old Dock Board 8
records. making in blue pencil marginal
notes which he will make use of in cross
examining William II. Burke, the former
secretary OF the board, who has been sub
pPnaed for the hearing which Mfr. Clarke
will resume on Monday In case JUST ice
Mayer returns from his vacation
Burke, according to Mr.. Clarke, is fami-
liar with all the circumstances under which
pier leases were granted by the board at
cheap rentals Ia persons who were near
to the old commissioners He will be asked
to explain why 1t appears that leases were
granted at meetings attended by only
two Of the three members of the board.
Mr.. Clarke believes that the courts will
not uphold the leases made In this manner.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
ROGERS GRANDDAUGHTER NOW.
Hints OF Another Claim on Locomotive
Mans Money.

This advertisement was printed in yester-
day mornings papers:
marriage 11 s se i.cos snd eh "a
io s'' AZ! sSGT Betty Ds Yo
whereabouts Of surviving witness. ": ". Davis,
G }Ss muse IN "a :: birth of
The advertisement refers to another
claim against the estate of Jacob s. Rogers.
the locomotive builder Of Paterson. n. j..
by whose will the Metropolitan Museum
OF Art was made the residuary legatee of
an estate whose gross value has been
estimated at something more than "a 900 900.
About two weeks ago Theodore C.
Rogers, one Of the executors OF the estate,
received letter from the law firm OF Heyn
4 Coyington OF l3s Broadway in which
1t was stated that they represented, accord
ing to the recollection Of one who saw
the letter, a woman Of the name OF White.
who, it was alleged, was daughter OF q
son Of Jacob g. Rogers by Bertha Yost.
The letter stated that the lawyers client
ought to have a part OF the Rogers estate.
and intimated that formal claim might
be put in later. Mr.. Rogers turned the
letter over to De Forrest Bros, attorneys
for the Metropolitan Museum OF Art. Since
then nothing more has been heard from
Heyn l. Covington.
After the eccentric millionaire's death
several alleged widows bobbed eup, but
they were never verv assertive. This Ia
the first time that anybody has set up that
Mr.. Rogers ever went through a marie &c
ceremony. So far as any OF his friends
ever knew, the old gentleman lived and
died bachelor. This Is not the first time
however, that a woman Of the name of
iost has been heard Of A newspaper
article was printed in New York several
months ago in which a woman named
fost said that she was the widow Of the
son Of Jacob S. Rogers, and that. had her
husba nd been alive, he would have put in
claim for the estate.
White Is new name to me-" said q
person familiar with the litigation, 1but
the new claimant may assert that she is
the daughter Of the alleged son Of Rogers
by the Yost woman"
The estimated va lue OF the estate in New
York is about 100000. When the estate
is finally settled the Museum of Art will
get something more tina n - 500 $780,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
Lord@ Taylor.

ing and Mrs. Edward c. Post Her ma
ternal grandmother, Mrs William K. Thorn.
Sixteenth street west CT Fifth avs1O.
was daughter Of Commodore Vander7
blt. Mr.. Brown il son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles S. Brown Of 247 Lexington avenue
He and his fancee have younger brothers
at Groton School.
Some New Workers will attend the we'd.
ding o. Seth Sprague Terry and Miss Ger
tr,ide Sackett, daughter OF Myron Watd
Sackett, to take place at Meadville. Pa
next Tuesday. Mr.. Terry Is widower J
He was formerly Commissioner Of Accounts
end is u member OF the City Club. Iva
Mr.. and Mrs. 4 Livingston Beeckmsf
who sail on Wednesday for Europe. win
return early In September Mrs. Beck
man In in deep mourning for her fathsry,
Gen. Thomas. Mr.. and Mrs. Charler a.
Hsckstaff OF Chelsea square also sad, on
the Ocean on July 1. Mr.. end Mrs. Jamee
A. Burden and Mis- Jessie Colgate Colby
will be passengers on the Oceanic. Mrs
Burden he's recently been the guest cf'
Mrs. Vanderbilt ct the Breakers, Newport j,
Miss Helen Mario Underwood and Rich.
ard Way!and- Smith will have snlaIf
tivcs md intimate friends have been asked
10 witness the ceremony. which 10 to take
place in Grace Church chantry Mr.. Way
'dnd-Smth Ia "a member Of the New. rofn
Athletic, Apawams and Columbia Yacht
clubs. .- .r -,-g
Miss Marion Tripler and George Wehstrf'
Tripkr will have a pretty home wedding
on Tuesday evening, at the residence, 81
the brides psrers. MIR. and Mrs. Arthur
.. Tripler 100 St. Nicholas avenue The
couple will 20 TO Boston to live
Miss Isabelle May, who was bridesmaid
at the Msr,in-Oeirchs Vanderbilt Nelson,
ard Yarmomh-Thaw weddings. is likely
to act IN thet capa city again for her aunt,
Mss Lilly Msy. whom her nIptiaIs with Lord
nagot take place, The cards are not yc,
out, but are about to be issued and Mrs.
May. the bride . mother, has tahpa Lon
don house for the br>akfAse. " VT
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
CHARLES :. GREEN DYING.
The veteran Horsenan and Driver In
Hospital with . Fractured Skuil.

Utica. June 27.-Charles S. Green, the
veteran horsenan, lies at the point Of
death in local hospital with a fractured
skull, the result of being struck by trolley
car. Mr.. Green Is probably the best known
driver in the State, or he has been In years
past. He has driven in all OF the big circuits
all over the country. and in many Of the
smaller ones Some OF the most famous
horses on the turf, In years gone by, ave
made their records under his guidance.
Often be was pitted against the celebrated
Budd Doble. and in the famous cof,tests
at State fair. and large racing meets he
has been looked upon - one Of tho best
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
EVANGELIST ATTACKS A JAG.
And Pictures Hell In Such Lurid Colors
That tho jag Collapsss.


SYRACUSE, June 27.-George Washing
ton. a negro evangelist who plays the
guitar on the street. was encountered by a
drunken man this afternoon who shouted:
'Give us suthin' lively. Hit EN- up"
The evangelist responded with Keep
in the Middle of the Road" and the man
with the jag danced, to the entertainment
OF the crowd. When he had concluded
Brethren he Shouted. .dar's hone for
dis yer Teller. De I.awd sabed Shadrack,
Mesckack and Abednego out oh de flerv
fu mace. You fellers like dis yere man
hottest pah. oh he'll for a thousand wears.
and den along'll come de debill and you'll
say Amt dis about ober?. and de debil!
he'll say 1T amt only jest beginnin.' and
den he'll take you and drap you in de lake
of boilin' birthstone to cool you on"
The drunken man collapsed and was
led away by friend.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
President Paima's Son Sails

Tomas Palma, the twenty year-old son
OF President Tomas Estrada Palma of
Cube, sailed for Havana yesterday on
the steamship MORO Castle He is a stu
dent at Cornell University. and will spend
his vacation with his family
Carlos Zaldo, Cuban Secretary of State,
who was aboard the steamer to zee young
Palma of. said he has no intention OF re-
signing his office.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
Hob.ey Dies Of HI, Burns.

Thomas B. Hobley. Of ass Leonard street
Williamsburg. who with his business part
ner. Samuel Marsh. manufacturers of alum
leather at 4e5 Keap street. was bad ~
burned on Thursday morning by an eI.
plosion Of chemicals used in dressing sheep
skins, died yesterday in the Eastern Dist rict
hospital. He was IS years old on the day
celebrate the event in the evening. For
many years Mr.. Hobley was prominent in
Republican politics and at one time he was
the Supervisor Of the old Fifteenth ward.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
WOODRCFF-BLACK CONTEST.
RumOrs That the Brooklyn Man and the
Ex-Governor Are Rivals.

Tha Republican statesmen In Brooklyn
were interested yesterday in report that
former Lieutenant Governor Timothy l..
Woodruff aspired to be one OF the four
tielegates-at- Large TO the Republican
National Convention next year. and that
there was likely TO be contest between
him and Ex-Governor Frank S. Black In the
State convention for the honor. Friend
Of Mr. Woodruff say that II the threatened
break between him and Col. Michael j
Dady can bs averted he IL sure of a solid
delegation behind him from Kings county
in tho State convention.
There 10 no doubt that the political re-
lations Of Mr.. Woodruff and Col. Dady are
expected that the friction will result In a
factional contest In tho organisation, At
least until after the MsyoraEy campaign.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
TO Reach Points In the Catshi,I,.

Direct connection for all points in the
Catskill Mountains can now be made BY
way OF the Catskill Mountain, Otis and
Catsliu and Tannersville railways, direct
connections with the New York Central
trains leaving here at 7:54 and II 30 A. NJ,
the Detroit Special" at I p. NJ. daily and
Sunday, and the West Shore trains leaving
at ITO and II 20 A. NJ: also on the Hudson
River Day Line and the Catskill Evening
Line steamers,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
Ex.Chap,A . Convert to Roma nlsm.

Capt. John s. Seibold. a retired chaplain
in the United States Army. and until re-
Gently an Episcopal clergyman, has be-
come a convert to the Roman Catholic
Church and ia now a com municant at st..
Mary's. New Haven Capt. Seibold was
received into the church privately several
months aeo. He is a convert OF Father
Guggenbefkcr Of Canisiln College, Buffalo.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
VIA Jor Runcie Returns to Havana

VIA Jor Runcie Returns to Havana.
Among passengers on tho MORO Cast lie
saiApg for Havana yesterday were Major
James A. Runcie. U. s. A. (retired). Major
Runcie is now q pra ct isne lawyer intAlavana
and came north In the interest Of clients.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28

In the acquisition OF California and New
Mexico, Polk intended a treaty incorporat-
ing them Immediately, but In the acquisi-
ton OF the Philippines and Porto Rico
Mckinley intended and concluded a treaty
excluding immediate Incorporation and
rule them as colonies, or provinces, or Terri
tories. II Bryan and his friends did not
like st,oh treaty. they need not have urged
its ratification. Mr.. Justice Brown In his
Mankichi opinion pointed out that Polk
went on the theory that California had
consented to his war rule after ratification
OF the treaty, whereas McKlnleys theory
was that the Constitution had impaired
to him the power to rule according to inter-
national law.
Whether or not the to opinions in the
insular cases were right or wrong, and
whether or not they modified or amended
the Constitution, they are law till changed
by a subsequent court. They cut up by the
roots everything that the Bryan Democratic
or Populist conventions Of 1900 uttered re-
garding imperialism. the Constitution, con
sent OF the governed" and expansion. They
did not leave remaining so much as even
grease spot Of what those conventions de-
scribed as -the paramount issue OF the cam
paign.'
The opposition conventions OF 1901 need
not regard those opinions. Il they wish to
advocate giving Incorporation and indie
pendence to the Philippines. any more than
the Democrats OF Jacksons day needed
the Supreme Court utterances regarding
.the bank. but the opposition are not likely
now to make much Roadway by exclama-
tons over imperialism In violation Of the
Constitution. Colonies and dependencies
have been established!
Nor Is that all. The court in effect de-
cided by to in the Dooley case that Con.
gress can at Manila lay Q customs duty on
merchandise arriving there from New York
and thereby tax American commerce be-
tween these two points, 10 face Of the CLAUSE
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-19
TIMELY TOPICS

Try Argo and Cyco paper at Zig latzktMarks if you would have good pictures.
 1. Chase still keeps adding the lat est styles and shapes to his stock of millinery.
 Eight big specials at Grieve, Bisset & Hollands for tonight only. Look up their ad.
 All the latest shades in new silk fin ish corduroy, the regular $1 goods, is now 79c at Reid & Hughes's.
 J. T. Phelan has meat market doing business of $45O a week, for sale.
 Ladies silk lined jackets are $1.9e at Miller & Peck's. Boys heavy weight school bose 15c a pair.
 Full flare Melton cloth walking skirts, blue, oxford and black, at Cur ran's for $2.95 tonight and Monday.
 Pick your suit from those $1O and S20 ones displayed in the window al JcAes, Morgan & Co.'S.
 Your footwear has a great deal tc do with your appearance. Get shoes at Original Boston store.
 Ask the United Gas Improvement Go about that new gas arc.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-19
TRADE CONDITIONS.

Business Generally GoOd-Adversa
 Weather For Great Staples. ss
 NEW YORK, Sept 19.-R. G. Dun 6 Co.'S weekly review of trade says:
 Business has made moderate prog. ress during the past week despite un. usual opposition from the clements. When all other industries are to con. siderable degree dependent upon agri. cultural conditions reports of serious injury to crops by cold and wet weath. CT are not calculated to stimulate con fdence. Subsequent corrections indi' tcated that the amount of damage had been exaggerated as usual, and pros. poets frightened.
 Traffic was impeded to considerable extent especially by water, and al most of the large cities there was more or less Interruption to trade by storms or unseasonably high tenn. perature. Labor troubles diminished at the east, but new enes are threat ened at the west, and a Texas min. ing town was depopulated by the emigration of strikers. The car short age is beginning to be felt, especially in the Pittsburg district, where sufn. cient labor cannot be secured for han ding freight. Manufa curing plants are we'll occupied as a rule, even the textile mills reporting less idle ma. chinery, and at Chicago there is nota. ble pressure for implements and hard ware. Lumber is in better demand as structural activity revives.
 Textile mills are rather more fully {hn Ia OH H ditions have been made to the idle cot ton machinery, partially offsetting the increased activity of other spindles. No developments of importance occur. red in the dry goods market. Jobbins trade continues satisfactory, but at first hands the situation is unchanged and no definite improvement can be expected until prices and stocks of raw material are more nearly normal. Weather conditions have been ad. verse for the great staples during the past week. Cautious estimates of the total crop made allowance for damage by frost and heavy rains since the tardiness of the corn and cotton crops made injury almost inevitable. When the corn crop was placed at 2,000, ,00O.. GOO bushels it was not contingent upon ideal temperature; loss was expected When predictions of bumper crops were reduced it was not because dam | age had actually occurred, but the backwardness of the season indicated that early frost would do harm. The expected has happened and prices are 1 firmer, but there is no reason to an l tcipate famine conditions.
 1 Failures this week were 21o in the United States against 199 last year ant l 19 in Canada compared with 25 a year 1 ago.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-19
The New sa-.Iae Out Again.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 19. - The new battle ship Maine, which has been undergoing repairs at Cramps ship yards for structural weakness which developed under tests of her heavy guns, has left the works of her build ems, proceeding to the League Island navy yard. The Maine, which is in command of Captain Fl. G. Leutz, will stop only long enough to take on a sup ply of provisions and coal and have her magazines stored with ammuni- don- She will then sail for Culebra, West Indies, where she will participate in the fall maneuvers of the Atlantic coast squadron. The Maine will also undergo an official speed test.