The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-03-12
STATE AND GENERAL.

morning.
Maine people aae interested in the
report that DR.. A. II. Harris, now in
Maryland, formerly president of the
University of Maine, is talked of as
president Sf Boston University.
Hon. Eli B. Bean, public spirited
and prosperous citizen of Brownfield,
did handsome thing at the annual
town meeting in presenting the town
with lot and building for High school
purposes
Hon James Il. Blount, for 20 years a
member of Congress from Georgia, and
afterwards commissioner paramount to
the Hawaiian islands during the second
Cleveland term, died at Macon, Ga,
sunday, of congestion of the lungs.
Rockland wants more commodious
high school quarters, as the number of
pupils has doubled since the present
building was occupied The matter of
more room will also be most pressing
one at the Cony high school in Augusta
at no distant date.
VIM. King of Bangor, an old soldier in
the Civil war, has just been granted an
increase in pension by the vote of Con-
gress. Mr.. King was engineer in the
navy for two and one-half years in the
South Atlantic squadron under Admiral
Du Pont on the Monitor Mohawk
Mr. j. j. Fuller, an aged resident of
East Hebron, attempted to commit sui
eide Friday forenoon by cutting his
throat with a razor. He has been de-
spondent for some time on account of
Illness due to declining years, and has
shown evidence of some mental trouble.
J.H. Ellis, one of the foremost citi-
zens of Rockport and pioneer in the
lime business, died at Los Angeles, Cal ,
Friday. Mr.. Ellis has represented the
town in the Legislature, was president
of the Camden National Bank, and
always leader in the official and BUSH
ness affairs of the community. His age
was SO years.
A train consisting of % cars, left Fort
Fairfield, Thursday morning, loaded
with potatoes. This was a special train
run by the Bangor & AIoostook Railroad
and went through direct to New York
where the potatoes were bound with no
change. The large amount of potatoes
was shipped by one concern, the j. V.
Baylis seed Go.
The Union county grand jury which
has been conducting an inquiry into the
wreck on the New Jersey Central rail-
road near Westfield on Jan. 81, have
made presentment to Judge Vail. The
grand jury finds that Engineer Davis of
the Philadelphia K Reading train which
crashed into the Eastern local express,
was primarily responsible for the wreck,
he having passed signals set against him.
1t is understood that the trial of Ed
ward Ballard of Eastport, accused of the
murder of Martin Stanton of Bangor,
Oct II, 1902, will be begun Tuesday,
March II, at Dover. The court has as
signed as counsel of the defence of Bal.
lard, George w. Howe of Milo, and
Henry Hudson of Guilford. The State
will be represented by Atty. Gen. Seiders
of Portland and County Atty. NJ. L.
Durgin.
The ice cutting business on the Ken
nebec river has been brought to a close
by the mild spell, and from now on
preparations will be made for shipping
it away to the South, where it is always
In good demand 1t is estimated that
about 100000 tons were harvested on
the Kennebec this season, which is the
first time that such quantity has been
cut by the American Ice Company of
New York for several years.
George L. .. Perry, the negro lad,
indicted for the murders of Agnes Nc
Phee at Somerville and Clara Morton at
Waverly, died at the Cambridge Jail at
II o'clock, Sunday morning, of nervous
exhaustion. Perry survived an attack
of typhoid fever and death is announced
to have resulted Indirectly from worry
which prevented complete restoration
from the weakened physical condition
in which the fever LETT him. ~
Annie, the year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Joseph White, who lives a few
miles from Caribou ON the Fort Fairfield
road, was playing round the room, at
her home one morning last week, and
picked up a celluloid comb on the win.
dow sill and it is supposed held her
hand, containing the comb, to the fire.
Her mother heard a scream and rushing
into the room to find he child With its
right hand burned to crisp and it's
face terribly scorched.
Names next boon" town, tits report
ed will be Mattaceunk, little town up
near Mattawa mkeag ON the Penobscot.
1t Is said this town will even Guido Mil
linocket which in couple of years grew
from forest settlement to one of the
livelsst villages in Maine. Business men,
who see in Mattaceunk's location, great
possibilities for water power develop
ment, have bonded acres of land in that