The Somerset reporter., 1903-01-29
an accident on the Bangor q Aroostook
Railroad, a short distance south of

an accident on the Bangor g. Aroostook
Railroad, a short distance south of
Ashland junction. A south bound
freight train broke apart, the two sec
tions coming together with such force
heating apparatus. No one was injured
and the liue was cleared without delay
For several days there have been
rumors that the electric road from
Belfast to Camden is to be constructed
this coming summer. Inquiry drew
out the information that a syndicate
of outside parties with lots of push and
plenty of money is negotiating for the
purchase of the charter of the Waldo
Street Railway Co., which holds a
charter for an electric road from Stock
ton Springs to Camden. If the con-
struction will not exceed certain price,
the work of building the road will COM
mence this autumn anG the road will
be ready for business in 1904
According to figures compiled by
the operators, the lumber cut on the
st. John river will be somewhat less
than that of last season Last year
al 600, 900 feet was RATED and came
through the bComs while 10,500, 900
was RATED below the booms. OF the
cut last year the greater part of the logs
were American, while this year the
majority are provincial. The estimated
cut for for 1902 1903 is 1874, 900, 900.
Operators say that, generally speaking
the season has been very favorable,
there have been no serions hnderances
to interfere with the work of the woods
men.
The Belfast Journal states that the
Peoples National Bank of Belfast las
been sold to the Augusta Trust Com
pany of Augusta, Maine, and will in
future be operated by that company as
branch Trust Company. The transfer
was made Tuesday, Jan. goth. The
Augusta Trust Company has capital
and deposits of over two millions and
half, and is controlled and managed
by board of trustees consisting of
some of the ablest financiers IN the
State, such as j. Manchester Haynes,
Hon. Edwin c. Burleigh, member of
Congress for this District, Hon. John
f. Hill, Hon. George K Macomber and
Hon. Byron Boyd, Secretary of State.
A Frenchman named Edward Jap
erau was aocidently run over by a
freight train at Hartford Friday morn
ing about 7 o'clock. One of his legs
was broken, his shoulder was broken
and his right arm 80 terribly mangled,
that it needed but the cutting away of
a bit of flesh to sever it entirely from
his body. His condition is very critical
The man was employed on the fraction
of the Portland & Rumford Falls rail
road digging out switch for an extra
freight which was drawn by engine No.
IA. The man evidently thought he had
stepped aside far enough to let the
train pass him, but one of the cars
caught his coat and dragged him be-
meath the train.
Superintendent j. E. Hanson, of the
Lawrence, Newhall & Page Co. has
returned from Boston where he secured
the contract for furnishing the windows
and frames for the "Old South" office
building now going up in that city.
The building will ue shaped like a
carpenters square, with frontages on
Washington Street, Milk street, Spring
lane and Sewall place, and with the
Old South church in the corner. 1t
will be IL stories high, with stores on
the ground floor, and $40 offices in the
upper stories, making it the largest
office building in New England. The
contract of the Lawrence, Newhall &
Page Co. calls for between 100 and
1900 windows, nearly all of which will
be ski feet in size. About % freight
cars will be required to carry the win
dows and frames from Augusta to
Boston.