The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-01-08
STATE AND GENERAL.

score were severely burned.
Miss Nellie Sanborn, aged %, of Mil
ford, committed suicide, Thursday, by
shooting. She had been great sufferer
from rheumatism and had become des
pendent.
Edward Griffin of Corinna, employed
as a woodsman by T. F. Burrill in that
town, was struck by falling limb,
Thursday, and instantly killed. A wild
ow survives him.
Thursday liquor fines in the Knox S.
J. court, amounting to about 1000
were paid, the largest amount in the
history of the county. Justice Spear
doubled the fine for single sale, fixing it
at 500 and costs with an alternative of
four months in Jail A half dozen liquor
dealers will go to Jail.
The Peoples Coal Co., is to be organ
lied shortly with capital of 100000
of which S50,000 will be paid in. The
purpose will be to buy and sell import.
ed and domestic coal, also wood, in
Portland and throughout the state
The proposed company has an option on
valuable wharf property where bust
ness is already established.
King Christian received the diploma
tic corps, Thursday, January lst The
members of the corps were presented to
His Majesty by United States Minister
Swenson, the doyen The King, through
Mr.. Swenson, conveyed his good wishes
to Mr.. Roosevelt. King Christian, al
though he is So years old, still enjoys
good health and is in good spirits.
w. G Paul, aged 81 years, propri etor
of Paul's Hotel, died January LIST after
an illness of only a days duration.
Landlord Paul who was known through.
out New England succeeded his father
and grand father in the ownership of
the hotel which is one of the oldest in
the country and is claimed to have en-.
tertaned Lafayette during visit to
this country. Mr. Paul was unmarried.
The new Franklin county officer
qualified, Thursday afternoon, and Sher.
if James W. Worthey appointed as his
deputies Alonzo Sylvester and Nelson
Gould of Pennington, j. B. Noble of
Phillips, w. B. Small of Kingfeld, Her
man Sanborn of Wilton, James H. Howe
of New Sharon, Heber II. Allen of Jay,
George w. Esty of Rangeley and Joseph
A. Witham of Weld. The jailer is Mar
tin II. Fowler of Pennington,
Justice Spear before the adjournment
of the supreme judicial court for Knox
county, Friday, quashed the indictments
in seven cases of the State vs.. George E.
Arey, manager of the Bryant & Kent
Lime Co. Of Boston, at Rockport, and
against Capt. Frank Thurston of the
schooner Antelope, on complaint of
Enos E. Ingraham, lime inspector of
Rockport, who charged Arey with ship
ping and Capt. Thurston with receiving
on board his vessel lime in casks that
were not inspected or branded according
to the law.
The annual report of the prison and
Jail inspectors, Whitman Sawyer of Port
land, William |. Scribner of Springfield
and Albion P. Gordon of Fryeburg was
given Friday There were committed
to the several jails 5.297 prisoners, of
whom 03j we're males and 282 females
during the year OF this number 3,193
were committed for drunkenness. The
inspectors recommend that in the count
les where there are no work shops that
some method be used by which the
prisoners can be employed at some Kind
of labor.
San Francisco and Honolulu are now
connected by cable The first words
passed under the ocean few moments
after Il o'clock Jan. LIST. The wire work
ed perfectly. The silver town just be-
fore splicing the ends, some 80 miles off
shore from Honolulu, telegraphed both
ways for the land stations 10 wait until
II 10 o'clock, San Francisco time, before
trying the cable. That time was desired
to insure the imperfect hardening of the
guItapercha in the splice after the joint
should be lowered overheard from the
ship in about $500 of water.
Belfast has been more fortunate than
most places, not only in obtaining coal
to burn during time of general scarcity,
but in getting it at reasonable price.
One firm had enough on hand at the time
of the strike to carry its customers well
into the winter, and since the strike five
cargoes of coal have been secured, OF
which two, one of soft and one of hard
coal, have been delivered hele, and
three cargoes of hard coal are now in
port, the vessels arriving Sunday. This
coal is sold at much lower price than
is paid in Boston or in any other city in
this section.
newspaper deal of considerable i'm
portance has just been completed in
Bath, by which Harry c. Weber, who
for the past year has managed the Bath
Independent, becomes the sole owner of
that paper. In addition to that he has.
purchased the Bath Enterprise, started
about IL years by Joshua F. Upton, and
which has ever since been conducted by