The Somerset reporter., 1903-09-17

SUPERNUMERARIES: George H. Palmer Show
hegan; Benjamin A. Sawyer, Skowhegan;
y. A. Withee, Norridgewock; Hanson G.
Walker, Norridgewock.
Tuesday forenoon the grand jury was
empanelled and a concise and able
charge addressed to them by Judge
Powers. The empaneling of the
traverse juries was not completed until
yesterday. The docket was called and
cases assigned for trial and otherwise
disposed of in the afternoon.
The legal fraternity was well repre-
sented within the bar during the calling
of the docket. Among the out of town
attorneys were the following:
D. D. Stewart st. Albans; L. c.
Cornish, Augusta; S. S. Brown, w. c.
Philbrook, N. K Fuller, Watervile;
Josiah Crosby, l. B. Waldron, Dexter;
j, w. Manson, G. II. Morse, Pittsfeld; !;
w. b Brown, Hartland; j. F. Holman,
Athens; 7. j. Young, Solon; Augustine
Simmons, North Anson; G. o. Small,
j. w. Foster, Bernard Gibbs, Madison !;
W. r. Jordan, Bingham; l.. r. Folsom,
! Norridgewock; Geo. G. Weeks, Geo. NJ.
Chapman, P A. Smith, Fairfield.
Skowhegan lawyers present were, S.
j. Walton, E. N. Merrill, E, F. Dan
forth, o. r Bachelor, L. l.. Walton,
Daniel Lewis, S. W. Gould, A. K
Butler, K. c. Butler, Geo. W. Cover,
FL. j. Phillips, Forrest Goodwin.
The number of jurymen being only
sufficient to make up the two juries
with no supernumeries, venires were
issued by the Clerk of Courts and on
Wednesday morning six men we're
present In court, as follows: George II.
Palmer, b. A. Sawyer, George d.
Arnold, c. Davis Miller of Skowhegan,
and Y. A. Withee and Hanson &
Walker of NorIidgewock. MIR. Arnold
and Mr.. Miller were excused, the other
four serving as supernumeries.
Henry Mitchell was on Tuesday ex-
cused from serving on the grand jury
because he had performed jury duty
within two preceding years.
In the action Frank E. Bridgham vs.
Mary c. Turner, entered at the present
NCA ia VA OOutb n uollCo lOE lIldi ht lno
first term having been served, the
defendant appeared by Josiah Crosby,
Esq OF Dexter, ana moved for a con
tinuance. The motion WAS opposed by
u. ID. stewart, ESQ counsel for plaintiff
Judge Powers denied the motion, and
the action was assigned for trial at this
term: Pleadings were filed by the
defendant.
In the suit of Corydon z. Yeasie,
Admr., VS.. S. J illiamson, a default
was entered for $3.50 and costs.
The libel of Hessie McIntire vs.. John
McIntire was dismissed.
The first action for trial came on
yesterday afternoon before the first
jury. The suit is brought by Oren o
Vittum and Fred Vittum of Solon
against the Somerset Railway Company,
to recover for the alleged negligent
killing of an OK belonging to the
plaintiff, claimed to be of the value of
$50 The plaintiffs are represented by
+. n. Merrill, Esq and the defendant
by Augustine Simmons and Walton &
Walton. The accident by which the OK
was killed occurred at Thompson Stream
ossing in Concord on the afternoon of
Sept. /, 1890, as Fred Vittum was
driving head of Il cattle to Solon
Ferry. The animal was struck by the
caboose, the train going backward at
the time. The plaintiffs claim negligence
on the part of the defendant company in
several particulars, that the speed of
the train was too great, considering the
the grade in the road, that no warning
bell or whistle was seasonably given,
and that no one was on the lookout.
FoleY's Kidney Cure makes the dis