The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-04-09
STATE AND GENERAL.

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the tenants will be about $1,000
About 40 workmen employed by the
Red Beach Plaster Co near Calais, went
out on strike this week. The men de-
mand an increase in wages and re-
duction in time.
By the breaking of dam at Roxbury,
Vt, ednesday evening, the town was
flooded, water being five feet deep on
the main thoroughfare. The loss was
only to damage of property.
The two-years old daughter of VIII.
liam Sturgeon of Mllinocket fell into
a bonfire about which she was playing,
Thursday afternoon. The child's cloth
ing was burned from her body and she
received serious burns
The little son of Edward Ware of
Watervlle found a dynamite cartridge
and not knowing what it was commence
ed digging it out when it exploded tear
ing his left hand 80 that the thumb and
two fingers had to be amputated.
Co. F of the First Regiment of the
National Guard of the State of Maine of
Augusta was disbanded, saturday, by
order of the adjutant general. The
cause WAS its failure to comply with
regulations and discipline of service,
also it's falling below the proper stan
] s. afr nd off
Lenden Jackson. chief engineer at the
power station of the Rockland, Camden
& Thomaston Street Railway at Glen
Cove, was caught in the shafting Sunday
and seriously hurt. He was carried over
the shafting and fell on the granite
floor. His shoulder blade is broken and
other injuries were sustained that will
keep him in the hospital for some time.
A mass of rock which had fallen onto
the tracks of the Central Vermont rail-
road, one mile south of Mortified, VT;
caused the wreck of the North bound
express running from Boston to Mon
treal at $40 o'clock, Friday morning.
The locomotive and three cars plunged
over an embankment 40 feet high but
only one man lost his life, Timothy o.
Neil of Mortified, the fireman.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the town
of Wiscasset 81 900 to erect free public
library building. There is more senti
ment connected with this offer than in
many similar gifts. The ship which
brought Andrew Carnegie and his father
from Scotland to America in 1848 was
named Wiscasset and was built in Wis
casset for the whale fishing company
organized there in 1884
The little son of Landlord Jordan OF
the Kingfield House was at the station
Thursday, when they were turning an
engine on the turntable. The little fel
low jumped on to get ride and was
caught between the table and the header
to the track. Six or more ribs were
broker on his right side and he was bad
ly bruised in other places. The only
| thing that saved his life was that they
were turning it very slowly and his body
wedged in so that it stopped it.
Governor Hill has appointed the fol
lowing list of delegates to the Nationa
Conference of Charities and Correction
which will meet at Atlanta, Georgia
May 6 to 49, Hiram w. Kicker, Soutf
Poland; 4. B. Winslow, Portland; Mis-
Clara Farwell, Rockland; Mrs. Ann;
Sargent Hunt, Augusta; Prof. jonathan
stanton, Lewiston; Rev. w. F. Berry
Kents Hill; Mrs. Persis NJ. Martin, Au
gusta; Rev Geo. w. Hlnckley, Fairfield
Rev. smith Baker, Portland, and Geo
Il. Eaton, Calais.
Hon. EIhu Burritt Hayes, former
mayor of Lynn, and generally known al
the father of the Australian ballot law
died at Lynn, April LIST, from irritation
of the brain, resulting from fall at hi
home last October, when his skull wal
fractured at the base. He was in Close
touch with the late President McKinle.
and when the appointment of a COVER
nor for Porto Rico was under considera
4 ton, he was rendered that Office but de
clined it, He was also close persona
and political friend of Senator Lodge.
The annual catalogue of the Bangor
! Theological seminary has recently come
, from the press and shows that the semi
nary is in most tlourishing condition
There are at present 20 students, and {
large entering class in being looked for
ward to this fall The buildings are al
in the best of condition and the library
p has been placed on a better footing thar
s it ever has been before, through the
: efforts of Miss Carrie Smythe Greene
the efficient librarian. This library il
T. one of the largest and most complete o
l any theological school in the country
william j. Clisham of Portland arrest
$ ed, April LIST for alleged threats to in
/ jure Mayor Frederick E. Boothby auC
/ Fred N. Mayberry, chairman of th'
2 board of police examiners, because h'
: had not received an appointment in thu
: police department after passing the re
: CURED examination, appeared in thu
municipal court, Thursday. The cas'
was continued for ten days and Clishan
held under $1,000 bonds, that he may b'