The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-03-19
STATE AND GENERAL.

year was that of the sash and blind fac
tory in July. AZ alarms were answered
by the department.
Charles Harmon, lumberman of Bid
deford and so years of age, was found
dead in his chair, Thursday night. He
leaves a son and three daughters, one of
whom is the wife of State Senator John
N. Deering of Saco.
Fire In the Mendelssohn block in New
Auburn, Wednesday of last week,
caused uneasiness for time, as it was
feared that the flames would reach a
tank containing 125 gallons of oil. The
total damage however was only $4,000
George II. johnson, admitted to the
Soldiers Home at Togus from Chelsea
Mass, in 1888, died at the hospital,
| Thursday morning, age "A years. His
service extended from August, 1862, to
June, 1865, in Co. of the 10th Mass.
Vol. Int.
v lillian A. Deering of Bangor, aged
about 90, was found dead, Sunday morn
ing, about 30 o'clock. in the room adj
journing that of his wife, with bullet
hole in his left temple. Beside the
couch was found a revolver of 80 calibre
and five shots, with one barrel empty
The first keel plate of the battleship
Connecticut, the first large battleship
ever constructed in a government navy
yard, and the largest war vessel ever
constructed for the United States, was
laid the 10th inst, in the navy yard in
| Brooklyn. There were no ceremonies
in connection with the laying of the
plate.
Samuel K. Dow, former law partner
of Chief Justice Melville w. Fuller, died
at his home in Chicago this week. Mr..
Dow was born in Hollis, Me-, June %,
1928. His family was famed in New
England history Lorenzo Dow, the
eccentric preacher, and Neal Dow, the
noted temperance reformer, sprang from
the same stock.
Good authority states that the new
Grand Trunk station at Portland cannot
possibly be done on the first of April as
| the contract calls for, but that it will be
fully the first of July before the depot
is completed. 1t is said for every day IS
delay incurred in the construction, a
sum has to be paid the Grand Trunk by
the contractors.
The Penobscot river is open to naviga'
ton, the ice having gone out Thursday
morning Several vessels are chartered
for Bangor with coal and arrivals will
probably commence within few days.
The Boston steamers will not go up
until the ice above that city has come
down. This is the earliest date of open
ing 80 far as known, the previous record
having been Mar. 10, in 1871.
Fire which broke out in Ganong candy
factory at st. stephen, N. b., early Sat
urday afternoon, completely Quilted the
building. 1t was caused by an employe
dropping lighted match into some eel.
luloid paper used for packing candy,
and it spread so rapidly that the opera
tives had to be taken from the building
by ladders. The loss is nearly 100000
and one thousand people are thrown out
of employment.
Joseph B. Chandler, for many years a
conductor on the Maine Central, who
was injured in the railroad yard in
Portland on Feb. 9th, 30 seriously that
his right arm had to be amputated
came out of the Maine General Hospital
Thursday afternoon in excellent condi
ton. Mr.. Chandler has host of friends
throughout the State who will be de.
lighted to learn that the accident did
not impair his general health.
The iron bridge across the Sebasticook
river at Benton Falls yielded to the force
of the freshet Thursday. The river was
not excessively high, but the ice jam
had formed above the bridge and when
that gave way and came down against
the iron structure it could not stand the
force of the current. The bridge was
some eight or nine years old and cost
between niue and ten thousand dollars
| 1t is serious loss to the town of Benton.
The only assachnsetts woman and
perhaps the only woman in the country
who is entitled to practice both law and
medicine is a native of Maine. she
is DR.. Mary Chandler Lowell and was
born in Foxcroft, the daughter of Col
Chas w. Lowell, distinguished as a
lawyer and a soldier, and who after the
war was in succession acknowledgement
of Louisiana, postmaster of New Orleans
and speaker of Louisiana legislature.
DR. Geo. Shorkley of Camden has just
received a beautiful gift from VIM.
Iiegler, the Arctic explorer, that he
prizes very dearly. DR.. Shorkley was
on the Zlegler expedition in the summer
of 1902, when he shot off the coast of
Franz Josef Land polar bear, which
Mr.. Zlegler had made into rug and
forwarded with his compliments to the
doctor. The bear weighed 900 pounds
and the rug is II feet from tip to tip and
6 feet nine inches across.
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