The Somerset reporter., 1904-09-15
STATE AND GENERAL.


New Hampshire democrats
Advices received at Buenos Ayres
from Paraguay show that negotiations
for peace between the government Of
that republic and the Paraguayan in
surgents have been resumed.
There is every reason to believe that
Judge Parker will make arrangements
to come to New York for temporary
residence soon after his formal letter of
acceptance is made public.
The Field family held a reunion, We'd
nesday, at the Page cottage on Messalon-
skee lake, Oakland. The party number
ed 30 and were the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jesse Field of Salem, Mass.
Mississippi leads the murder record
with 200 homicides in the past three
months That Is at the rate of 800 a
year. Violence breeds violence. The
name of the governor of Mississippi is
Vardaman.
Ex-Alderman E. W. Goss of Auburn
and Fred W. Keene of the same city
have returned from few days fishing
trip off Orr's Island. They caught 1000
pounds of pollock and a shark Is feet
long.
Queen Olga of Greece is an honorary
Russian admiral, and this spring many
of the prominent women at Athens met
at the palace three times week to
make Red Cross supplies for the Rus
sian Army
The British government committee on
public accounts has submitted the re.
port of the expenses of King Edwards
coronation to Parliament. They amount
aH IN IF
it was said they would.
After another conference with George
l.. atson, held in London, Sir Thomas
Upton announced that Mr.. Watson per-
sisted in his refusal to design a chaleng-
or for the Americans cup for 1905, Civ.
ing as his reason i'll health.
Forest fires are doing great damage
in several sections of California. In Al.
ameda and CONTRACT counties thousands
of acres of land have been swept by
flames and many houses have been de-
stroyed, the loss reaching 100000.
Col. VIM. A. CASTOR OF Boston, Just
before leaving that city, Thursday, to
spend Sunday with his family at his
summer home, authorized the statement
that he is not candidate for the demo
cratic nomination for governor this year.
The Rev. DR.. Geo. G. Lorimer of New
York. pastor of the Madison avenue
Baptist church, who died at the Hotel
Regina, AK Les Baines, France, the 9th
mat, ad been suffering from an affection
OF the lungs with uric complication.
Hon. William w. Thomas, a olassmate
of the late ex-Speaker Reed, American
minister to Sweden and Norway, is visit
n 10 10 dol;
home again and notes with pleasure the
happy progress of his country under
Republican rule.
After an idleness Of nearly six months,
20O0 miners In the sub-district No. 6
have declared off the strike which was
begun because of request that they ac-
cept greater reduction than that COD
tanned in the indianapolis convention
agreement.
Cyrus Greedy of Lewiston, Me-, was
elected president of the Society of Cali
fornia Pioneers of New England at its
annual meeting at the U. :. hotel at
Boston the 9th inst The occasion was
also the 18th anniversary celebration of
the organization. Seventy-f1ve members
were present.
Great Britain has had much trouble In
India preventing the natives from drink
ing the water in wells and springs which
have been condemned because they have
become polluted Now some one has
hit on the scheme of loading the con-
taminated water with coal oil and the
natives only try it.
The monthly crop report of the de-
partment of agriculture will show the
condition of corn on Sept. |, to have
been "a 9, as compared with S73 last
month. 80 on Sept. 0, 1918 "a 8 at the
corresponding date in 1902, and ten
year average of 1916.
William c. Clark, Esq died very sud
denly Saturday noon, after an illness of
several months. His age was 80 years
Mr. Clark was born in Holden but has
been a prominent resident of Lincoln for
many years. he leaves wife and
three sons, Walter, Fred and Hugo
Clark, Esq, of Bangor.
Ri. Hon. and Most Rev. Randall
Thomas Davidson, archbishop of Cante-
bury, with Mrs. Davidson arrived at Bar
Harbor, Friday, from New York on
special train as the guests of J. p.
Morgan. The party went to Northeast
Harbor, where they will be entertained
ny DlonOp DOhn6 Oh Albany.
The markets of the world for foreign
imports amounts to about ten billions of
dollars annually. The home market of
the United States, measured by the pur-
chasing power of the people, amounts to
considerably over twice that in value
and is estimated by many to be worth
thirty billions of dollars during every
twelve months
The Halifax agents of the Norwegian
bark Kong Sverre fear that she has been
lost at sea. She sailed from Durham,
Natal, May 20, for Halifax and was last
heard of AT st. Helena, when she sailed,
July 20. The Kong Sverre hailed from
Sandejord, at which port she was built
In 1870 She Fas owned by 0. Nelson of
Goysted sh9 registered 463 tons and
had crew of II or Is men.
The seventy eighth annual meeting of
the general conference of Congregation
al churches in Maine will be held with
the church in Gorham, Sept. 20-22 and
the ninety, seventh anniversary of the
Maine Missionary Society, sept. 81.
The Congregational church at Gorhsm
is one of the oldest In our state, organ
lied April 4, 1880.
Editors of upward of 200 of the Demo-
cratic newspapers representing various
parts of the country, came to Rose
mount, Sept s, to visit Judge Parker.
They were received by the candidate
and the visit was made the occasion of
the first political speech he has made in
many years, aside from that in which on
Aug. 10, he accepted the nomination.
The mystery surrounding the discov-