The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-02-12
STATE AND GENERAL

40 a day.
bangor doesn't Ike The looks Of the
+ vital statisl5cs which shoW that the
city lad ~ deaths. art year. 10 30
6iffhs, margin Of y Oh tie wrong
side.
a. A. stitham's store at Blaine. burn.
ed at L o'clock Wednesday night, Feb.
9TH. Nothing war saved except the
storehopse. The goods were owned By
j. Il Judd. The total loss Is 5000:
insurance on stock, 5000; Oh buildings.
5000.
L. {. Armstrong, immigration ageut
Of the Canadian Pacific Railway. SAYS
100000 American, Scandinavian and
English farmers from Western sfatess
French Canadians from New England
factory towns and swedes from Sew
York will settle IN Canada next year.
Three lodges Of Good Templars have
been organized during January and
several more are being arranged The
E sA4h-4'a o1PoI1hb "a AAH COUNTY ulhAl4EA
lodges will be held during February,
and the annual grand lodge session
will be held at Lewiston, April 5, aud
i 8.
Capt. J. W North, a wsll-known
retired sea captain Of Portland commit.
ted suicide, Thursday, by hanging, lie
was s. years old and with the exception
of niece with whom he lived, had no
near relatives. Dependency because
of failing health is supposed to have
prompted the act.
six propeller blades and two manga
nese bronze hubs were recently shipped
from the hyde Windlass Co., Bath to
Moran Bros, of Seattle The shipment
weighed 10000 pounds and required
three fiat cars to carry them. They
were for the battleship Nebraska build.
ing at that place.
Mrs. Henry s. Osgood, the widow of
Col II. S. Osgood of Portland, died the
4th instant Immediately after her
husbands death she was Frustrated and
typhoid fever set in. She gradually
grew worse and passed away quietly,
Wednesday morning, surviving her hus-
band only few days
Dennis Cochrane, a well-known Rock
land young man, was fatally injured
by fall on an icy sidewalk, Friday
afternoon. Cochrane was walking along
Main street when be slipped on the icy
/ pavement and in falling his head struck
an iron projection. He lived only a
few hours. He was % years old.
Orrin j. Dickey who went South from
Belfast the first of the year, has been
appointed postmaster of Tampa sub
station, Florida, located in the Tampa
Bay Hotel at Tampa. This house has
some 600 rooms and is claimed to be
the most extensively furnished resort
hotel in the South, accommodating
some 500 guests and costing with the
grounds three million dollars.
The Boston Herald says that after
March A. there will be no Republican in
the United States senate from south of
Mason and Dixon's line. The terms of
/ McComas of Maryland and of Scott of
West Virginia do not expire for two
years while Elkins of West Virginia has
four years more of his present term to
serve. All are good Republicans and
all are south of the line mentioned.
The death of Hon. Henry Laurens
/ Dawes, for many years United States
Senator from Massachusetts, occurred
at his home in Pittstield, Mass, the 9Th
instant He was So gears of age. Mr.
Dawes had been unwell since Christmas
night when he contracted severe cold
while driving. He served Is years in
the House of Representatives at Wash
ington and the same length of time in
! the L. 5 Senate.
On the Rumford Falls and Rangley
Lake railroad at Bems on Thursday, a
log train and snow pillow came IN col.
lision, driving the engine of the log
train over the snow pillow. The two
men on the snow pillow saw their danger
in time and jumped, the pillow Is a COM
plete wreck. The engine on the log
train is damaged. The engine behind
the snow pillow was slightly injured
A careful estimate of the loss caused
by fire in the shoe factory
district of South Peabody early Friday,
places the total loss at about $4,000
The fire, which was a brisk one fer
over an hour, destroyed two shoe fac
tories and a small shop. A number Of
tenement houses in the district were in
great danger for a time but were saved
through the united efforts Of the Pea
body department and steamer from
Salem.
Only few years ago there were Il
cracker bakeries in this State, and now
there is but one, T. A. Houston & CO.
of Auburn There once were four in
Portland, one in Lewiston, Auburn,
Gardiner, Bath Biddeford and two in
Bangor They represented hundreds
OF thousands of dollars of yearly bnsi-
ness as well as extensive investments
in the plants. Excellent wages were
paid the workmen and the industry was