The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-10-27
STATE AND GEN ERAL.

prooIty with Canada without a definite
statement of terms.
Kent's Hill Seminary defeated the
Maine Central Institute eleven at foot
ball, Saturday afternoon, by the score OF
% to o.
The first time in 10 years Portland
High defeated Bangor High on the Ban
gor grounds, saturday, by a score OF
too.
This is the way an Indian over In
Washington county sizes up the game
laws: xiii man, too bad; kill COW
moose, pay $500"
A Portland paper claims that the
Youngest member of the next House
will be Percival P Baxter, ESQ.,, of that
city, who 10 81 years of age.
The oath annual convention of the
Maine Woman Suffrage association is to
be held at the Chestnut street church,
Portland, November l, 2 and
Bates, 8; University of Maine, O.
Such was the outcome of the battle, Sat
OF Garnet and of the Blue on Garcelon
field, Lewiston.
The freight car famine has struck
Aroostook. IL takes great many cars
to carry 100000 bushels of potatoes
besides the lumber products that are
shipped out of our northeast.
The total registration in Harvard in
all of it's departments shows loss OF
200 students from the number register
ed, last year, but there are still few
over 1000 students in attendance,
Edward L Bartlett, solicitor of New
Mexico since 1889 and once adjutant
general of the territory is dead at santa
Fe of pneumonia, He was born in
Maine and came to Santa Fe in 1881.
The early freeze in Aroostook county
will make considerable difference in the
amount of potatoes ground up for starch.
Previous to 1t the starch factories bid
fair to have small output this season.
William F. Tracy, who assaulted Rev.
II. n. Pringle on the streets of Passport,
July 4, was sentenced by Judge 5trout
In the supreme court at machias to four
months Imprisonment in the county
jail.
Hon. Isaac r. Clark, a prominent resi-
dent, lumber and timber land dealer,
former State land dealer, and former
member of the city government, died at
Bangor the Goth, aged 80 years. He
leaves three daughters
A. W. Cary of Millinocket, left recent
ly for Vest Sebois taking with him a
crew of i've men. He has taken a con-
tract to cut 5000. 600 feet for the Maine
Hub & Manufacturing company. Later
on more men will follow to join the
crew
The sale of the Penebscot Central
Railway will be held, Tuesday, Nov. /,
at the office of the company in Bangor.
1t is probable that the new company will
make many changes in the system and
increase the facilities of the road for
handling the traffic.
At a meeting of the trustees of the
Maine state Sanatorium association,
which was held at The Lafayette in
Portland, Thursday afternoon, 1t was
voted to raise the sum of $4,000 to COM
plete the plant at Hebron. The trustees
are much pleased at the outlook.
Orono ia somewhat worried over it's
diphtheris epidemic. The most dis
couraging phase Of the situation is that
some families when the diphtheria gets
into their families keep the fact hid so
that they may avoid the restrictions Of
quarantine. That was the trouble at
Bath.
The census report on the wealth of
the United states has not been Issued,
but one Of the speakers at a bankers
convention in St. Louis, last week, said
1t was estimated at S10e, 1000, 100000
That is twelve billions more than es-
timated in 1900 and 81 billions more
than in 1890.
Spencer Rogers, one of Portland's
best know contractors and builders, a
man who had long been identified with
Portland's interest and was a familiar
figure to everyone, died at 8 o'clock,
Saturday morning, at his home on Clark
street. after short illness. His age
was 70 years
William Thayer of Bath, about 20
years old, private in Company G. n.
G. s. NJ. committed suicide, Sunday, by
hanging himself to a tree about mile
from his home Thayer was at Mauas-
as in connection with the recent army
maneuvers and has since been unempl0y-
ed and Respondent.
q. T. Haley of Gardiner. passed
through Augusta on train 10, Friday
afternoon, with crew of men, bound
for Greenvlle, on their way to the lum
Der camps There we're 40 in all. and
tho party received about Is recruits
from Augusta. Several of the men were
former employees at the cotton mills.
Thomas Cammack was sentenced at
Woodstock, N b., to be hanged on
January II for the murder of william
Doherty at Glasville, n b.. on July II
l.. n,r ,o1r H..
WAS charged with being an accessory in
the murder, the jury disagreed and he
will be released on $4,000 sureties for
trial at the next court.
Guilty of murder in the first degree
was the verdict found by the jury at
New London, Conn, which for almost
two weeks had listened to evidence pro-
duced by the state against Gershon
Marx, who was charged with killing his
farm hand, Pavol Rodebki. last spring.
There is strong evidence that he muir
dered other farm hands,
Herbert Littlefied, farmer living at
Wells, was arrested, Friday, by Sheriff
Fogg on warrant charging him with
maiciously setting fire to the barn own
ed by the Norton heirs at Ogunquit
which was burned fiat to the ground,
Friday night, together with two horses,
eleven head of cattle, hay, carriages and
farming implements, with loss of
$500.
John = and Martha Gentry, husband
aud wife, quarreled over the slavery
question at 1t Joseph, Mo-, just before
the war He enlisted in the Confeder-
ate army, she went to california, and in
1874 she obtained divorce. The other
day they met by chance on ferry boat
on San Francisco bay, and on Septem be r