The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-05-14
STATE AND GENERAL.

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Augusta These include 20 of the 38
governors, IA of the 20 U. S. senator's,
and IA of the 80 supreme court justices.
! Director in-Chief William r. Chap
man, in conjunction with the Maine fes-
tival associations, announces the artists
for the seventh Maine music festival to
be held in Bangor and Portland. The
list, for the first time, is composed en-
tirely of American singers, several of
whom are of international reputation.
The artists engaged thus far are: Nine.
Lillian Blauvelt, Nine. Louise Homer,
Nine. Shotwell Piper, Miss Corinne
Welsh, Felix Fox, David Bispham, Ed
ward P. Johnson, Percy Hemus, Fran
els Archambault
! Sen. Aldrch, chairman of the Senate
committee on finance, who is spending a
few weeks at Hot Springs, La, has in
vited Senators Allison, Plat of Con.
, nectieut, and ~pooner, all Republicans of
the finance committee, to visit him for
the purpose of comforting over provisions
of the financial bill to be introduced in
the next session of Congress. The confer
ence will continue for ten days or two
weeks. 1t is expected that the bill for
mulated will be along the general lines
of the bond deposit bill of last season.
The meeting at Hot Springs will not be
official.
George p Adams, aged about %
years, employed as brakeman on pas
senger train No. 8, arriving in Bangor
daily from Waterville. and on freight
train No. 80 running between Bangor
and Watervile, was instantly killed in
the Newport freight yard shortly after
o'clock Wednesday morning, May 6.
He is supposed to have made mis-step,
falling between the cars. One pair of
trucks run over his body, nearly sever
ing it in twain. Mr. Adams mother
resides in East Deering. Henry Adams.
brother, is an air brake inspector on
the Grand Trunk railway.
Sabine Mcdonald, young resident of
PASSPORT met with serious accident,
Wednesday morning, which will per-
manently cripple him. Mr.. Mcdonald
for some unaccountable purpose, and
with exceeding recklessness, was hold
ing dynamite cartridge close to a
stove, with the result which usually
attends such needless temptings of
Providence. The dynamite exploded
and Mr.. Mcdonald now has a badly
shattered left hand, and will be per-
manently minus an index finger, the
greater part of his thumb, and the
| remainder of his left hand painfully
torn and bruised by the force of the
powerful explosive.
Police Commissioner Greene in New
York, Wednesday, revoked 322 permits
issued to Italians for the carrying of
concealed weapons The finding of
stilettos and revolvers upon everyone of
the 13 Italians arrested in connection
with the Madonna barrel mystery, is
directly responsible for the commission
er's action and marks the start of a cru
SADIE against the practice of indiscrm-
nate permit giving. Commissioner
Green explained his action as follows:
"Nearly every Italian arrested recently
was found with a walking arsenal
was amazed to hear that the prisoners
invariably had permits and accordingly
directed Borough Inspector Brooks to
make an investigation which was start
ling in its revelations.
Leslie C. Cornish, Esq, of Augusta,
acting as counsel for Hon. Freeman
Patten, Hon. Frederic Danforth and
Hon. Henry richards, trustees of the
Gardiner Water District, chartered by
the last Legislature, on Monday filed in
| the Supreme judicial court, before
! Associate Justice Whitehouse, sitting in
vacation, petition of the district
/ against the Maine Water Co. The pc.
tition sets forth that the parties were
unable to agree upon price for the
plant of the company located in Gardi
/ ner, and asks the court to authorize the
/ district to exercise the right of eminent
/ domain and take the property as for
public uses. The petition also asks for
the appointment of three disinterested
appraisers who shall value the plant,
property and franch SEES.
Osgood NJ. Bartlett, formerly of Carl.
! bou, patient at the Eastern Maine In
sane Hospital, hurled himself from a
third story window in one of the mems
wards late Monday night and was in
stautly killed on striking the rocks
below. Bartlett waa one of the original
! lot OF patients received when the hos
pital was opened and although he had
been confined, it wasn't thought that he
was especially dangerous His body
was removed 70 an undertaker's Tues
/ day morning to be prepared for burial
The windows at the hospital are all
heavily barred but Bartlett succeeded
IN wrenching one of the irons from its
place, giving space enough for him to
force his body through. An alarm was
! given when his disappearance was
dioovered, and the twisted bar was
| found and his body located
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