The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-12-31
STATE AND GENERAL

u the Argentine WaTFh pb Moreno and
RlYadayia, bow building al Gen9a, Ifaly
The 81 b course 81 LECTURES IN the
Medical school Of Maine began oaday
Y freshmen had registered winch il a
little Increase over las. year al THIS time
lie British foreign Office confirms the
Associated Press despatch from Paua.
ma, Thursday, announcing that Great
Britain bad recognized The new republic.
Capt. Dfey fus, accused # treason 10
his country, degraded. dismissed from
the French army, and most bitterly
punished, will have another trial, this
time by civilian tribunal
The summing up Of the results Of the
wreck Of the Duqaesue limited on the
Baltimore and ONO, eighty miles west
Of ounelsvllie, Pa. shows a list ofsixty.
four dead and nine Injured
Christmas night was marred. this
year, in Gardiner, by burning accident
that was shocking IL the extreme, Mrs.
Hannah Buker losing her life. She
was 70 years old, widow of Wylie Buker.
1t has at last been decided that the
Maine State g. A K. encampment will
be held next February II and IS and in
Bangor. This is the substance of the
general orders sent out to the q. A. 4.
comrades
The tudahy Packing Co, of South
Omaha, is in receipt of rush order for
l,OOO,OOO pounds of extra mess meat for
the Russian government. The shipment
must be made from South Omaha SO as
to reach San Francisco before Jan. %.
Brooding over his inability to pur
chase suitable Christmas gifts for his
three motherless children, Joseph Phil
lips, Hollowylle, n. Y. farmer. last
week, murdered the children and then
hanged himself in neigh boris barn.
Island Falls is rapidly becoming quite
a manufacting town. 1t already has a
tannery, two saw mills, one moccasin
factory, and two axe factories, and now
rumors are heard of another saw mill
and starch factory to be added in the
spring.
Scott Strickland. bright lad of Is
years. was drowned in the Kennebec
river at Hallowel, shortly before 3
O'Clock, Saturday asternoon. He was
one of a skating party of five boys One
other broke through the ice and came
near drowning.
Apple shipments from Boston for the
week ending Dec. 26 were: Ultonia,
Liverpool, 4484 bbls Bohemian, s771
bbls.; tymlic, Liverpool, 5057 bills;
Columbian, London, co. bbls. Sandman
Glasgow, 100 bbs. Iberan, Manchester,
1913 Total for week, Il, 523 barrels
Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal has
sent to Mayor Low in letter a supple
mental report, recommending the re-
building of Brooklyn bridge, which has
been submitted to the Board of Estimate
and Apportionment. The report advo-
Gates the expenditure of $500 600.
The correspondent of the Daily Mail
at Sydney, n. 5. w, cables that the
japanese government has placed orders
for large quantities of pig-lead with
New South Wales concerns and that the
presumption is that this lead will be
used for the manufacture of bullets
Figures received, Saturday, from the
Bangor & Aroostook Railroad show a
shipment Of CTS deer and AZ moose for
the 10 days of open season in December.
The total numbers for the past season
are 1893 deer and rs moose, against 44a5
deer and PA moose for the season OF
1902
During drunken row at camp Of
Italian laborers near Rumford Falls en-
Christmas, ARA Della, aged pa, was
stabbed to death, Francisco Nicolazzo,
aged %, got bullet wound in the head
that will probably result fatally, and
Francisco Vappalace, aged %, received
dangerous knife wound in the side.
The Russian government his placed
an order with Armour & Co., for 800
600 pounds of mess meat for immediate
shipment to San Francisco. The order
calls for the delivery of the meat at San
Francisco by Jan %. The meat, it is
said, is for use in the Russian army and
it's destination is said to be Port Arthur
The consensus of unofficial opinion
among those associated with the Rus
sian government but not responsible
therefor is that the Gar is so peacefully
disposed that he will make such eonct g.
sions to Japan as are necessary To pre-
vent war, provided no unforeseen events
force the hands of the governments con-
cerned
The discovery of an unexploded stick
of dynamite on the track of the Wis
casset, Waterville Il Pennington mar
row gauge railroad, Thursday of last
week to the belief that a deliberate at
tempt to wreck train was made during
the night. The cartridge, containing a
percussion cap, was found between the
rails by section men. One end had been
crushed, it is believed, by a train which
passed but failed to explode the dyna-
nifn