The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19
STATE AND GENERAL.

between Peru ana toIomOla.
In North Dakota, Thursday night, 1t
had been showing over "a hours. Field
work has been stopped. The wheat
crop was only half in.
Prof. Alfred L. P. Dennis, professor
OF history and political science at Bow
doin, has received a call to the Univers-
ity of Chicago, which he will accept.
South Trimble was renominated for
Congress on the 290th ballot by the
Democrats of the 7th district Lexington,
KY, the 18th inst. with single vote to
spare.
Colby College and the University of
day afternoon, for their first game of
the season, and Colby came off vioto-
rious too
Three greenhouses owned by Buckley
& Preble, florists, at Bucksport, valued
with their contents at 1880, and the
stable of the Robinson House, valued at
$500, were burned, the 18th inst.
Arbitration has settled the wage scale
of 1000 union painters in New York and
the agreement has been signed. 1t grants
an increase of 20 cents day making the
scale 81 and $4.25 for plain and decora
tive painters respectively.
Maine members of the Grand Army,
as we'll as all citizens of the state, will be
pleased to learn that the newly elected
commander of the department of Cal
ifornia is Maine boy. He is Charles T.
Rice of Farmingdale and served in Co.
A, 10th Maine.
K. A. Green of New York on Friday,
made an automobile record ride from
New York to Boston, covering the dis
lance in 10 hours, 81 minutee elapsed
time, and hours 81 minutes actual
riding time. This Ia new automobile
record for that distance.
Maj. harles J. House, clerk in the
labor department, secretary of the First
Maine Heavy Artillery, Association, has
just completed list of the members of
the association whose deaths have been
reported since the last reunion. In all
there have been IL deaths reported.
The seating capacity of the Coliseum
at st. Louis for the Democratic nation
al convention has been fixed at 1O. 484.
which includes delegates, alternates,
representatives of the press, Invited
guests, officials of the convention and
the public who will be admitted by
ticket.
All public schools have been closed
and public gatherings prohibited
because of an outbreak of small pox in
Jonesboro. The action was taken after
an investigation by DIR. Young of the
state board of health. 1t was supposed
at first the sickness was chicken pox.
Special dispatches to the International
Mercantile Agency indicate that general
trade is picking up throughout the west
and south. Eastern business has also
been stimulated except in the New Eng
land states, where depression incident to
the rather general shutting down of cot
ton mills is having marked effect.
Ex-Gov. Henry B. Cleaves has request
ed Col. E. G. Milliken, commander of
the department of Maine, G. A. R., to
order handsome silk banner for the de-
partment, to take the place of the some
what ancient one now in the possession
of the department, and it will appear for
the first time in @. A. X. parade at
Boston.
The effective use of the torpedo by
the Japanese in the pending war has
not shaken the faith of Captain Mahan
in the battleship as the means to obtain
control of the sea. He thinks, however
that the nations may be grateful" TO
the torpedo for suggesting check upon
the progressive increase in the size of
battleships
While riding on a Wiscasset, Water
Vile Il Pennington railroad constr uction
train, the 18th inst. section crew of
men were thrown off flat car by reason
of pair of trucks jumping a switch
near North Vassalboro, Edward c.
Roberts, aged 45, foreman of the crew,
fell between two cars and received in
juries from which he died shortly after
1t costs 1924 10 per day to run the
city of Bangor. Here are the principal
Items Highways, $126 20; bridges,
S27 70; schools, $685. paupers, $57 AZ;
incidentals, $50 40; buildings, S93 20;
police, S57 80; sewers, $43.7l; water,
1854 liquor agency, $1O.67; electrical,
$ll8 %; interest, $50 30; discount
$50 81.
Maine has little to fear from an out
breat of small pox, says DR.. Young of
the state board of health. There are
few isolated cases in the State, but the
experience of the past two years has
aroused all of the people In Maine to the
Importance of using care to prevent this
disease and also to the wonderful value
of vaccination as an agent in its pre-.
vention
A Washington correspondent states
that the corrected returns at the
national Democratic headquarters credit
New Hampshire with having four
Hearst delegates to st. Louis. Where
upon the Manchester Union, the leading
Democratic paper of the State, remarks
that 'it would take a man of unusual
courage to accuse any four of the dele
gates of that position to their face
Work was commenced, Monday after
noon, in Bangor, on the survey of the
Electric railroad which is to run from
Bangor to Dexter. This road will start
on the outskirts of Bangor and will
come out through the town of Hermon,
through Stetson, Etna and number of
the small places in that vicinity until it
reaches the town of Newport, where it
Will switch off and come direct to Dex-
ter village.
Eugene n. Foss of Jamaica Plain,
Mass, who attended the University of
Vermont at Burlington for two years,
has made a $50, 900 conditional gift to
his alma mater The University is try
my to raise 81 600 900 as an endowment
fund, and already it ia near the 500 900
mark Mr. FOss has offered to give
5000 for every 100000 raised In the
past he has made extensive gifts to the
university.
Charley Cummings a negro 10 years
DID, was taken from Jail at AppliDg, Col
umbia county, Ga. 20 miles from Au
gusta early Sunday morning and lynched