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

c., were members of the national House
of Representatives at the same time, the
only instance In the political history of
the government when three men thus re-
lated had seats in Congress simultane-
ously.
Chancellor Day of Syracuse n. Y.
university has declared in an address to
the students that dancing must cease.
The chancellor so decided because of
the dances given by an organization of
college women who have been holding
weekly parties at Westminster Hall DIR.
Day said: These dances mitigate
scholarship and study. What we are
here for is to study. Any attempt to
hold dance after this will be taken as
deliberate notice of your intention to
be no longer one of u.s."
After an Illness of several weeks, Hon.
Marquis F. King. an ex mayor of Port
land, died at O'clock, Friday afternoon,
at the hospital of his son, DR.. Alfred
King. He was director OF the Union
Mutual Life Insurance Company, and
prominent in his city for many years
He was a member of the executive
council of Maine for two terms In the
eighties He was prominent in Masonry
and member of the Maine Historical
society. His age was sixty'nine years.
Another fatal case of mistaking
human being for deer was reported,
Saturday night. This time the shooting
took place In the woods near Bemis.
Edward Cobb, a Rumford Falls Rail
road section foreman. whose home is
in Bartlett, n II but who has been
working several weeks at Bemis, was
shot through the head by Alexander
Bergeon, the accident taking place about
dusk. Bergeon was lying in wait for
deer and seeing something moving in
the underbrush, blazed away. Cobb
leaves wife and nine children at Bart
lett.
The third trial of former Mayor Ames
of Minneapolis, indicted for bribery in
connection with Minneapolis graft
scandals, resulted in a disagreement by
the jury, Friday, and the jury was dis
charged. Scarcely had the jurymen
left their seats when Judge Harrison
called the case for immediate
trial, making the fouSth time the aged
former mayor has appeared before the
bar on the same charge. Once he was
convicted and sentenced to six years in
prison, but the Supreme Court set aside
the verdict, and Ames was again indict-
ed
The eighth annual session of the Su-
preme commandery of the Order of
knights of Temperance was held in Port
land, saturday. The meeting was called
to order by supreme Commander G. II.
Kimball Officers were elected for the
fnll
mander, George s. Chase, Portland; Su-
preme vice commander, Mrs Emily F.
Perry, Portland; Supreme keeper of
records, Charles A. Maxwell, Portland /;
Supreme treasurer, James l. Blaisdell,
Portland; Supreme prelate, Mrs. Ora (
Pearson, Saco.
The governor and council are again
struggling with the porcupine bounty
law which was passed by the last legis
lature 1t was an act appropriating
$500 as bounty on the porcupine, %
cents being paid for each animal killed.
Returns show that in 1908 10000 porcu-
pines were killed in the state. and the
appropriation has been exceeded by
Sd, 800 Some of the towns have al
ready pal these bounties, and are now
looking for the state treasury to repay
them Under the law, the governor and
council could do nothing about it with
ont authority from the legislature.
In comparing the electoral college to-
day with that of four years ago the fact
should not be overlooked that under the
reappointment of 1900 the aggregate
vote was Increased twenty-niDe, making
the total 476, against 447 four years ago
In 1900 seventeen states, with an ag
gregate of 155 votes, declared for Will
liam Jennings Bryan, and % states, with
an aggregate of 292 votes, declared for
William Mckinley. These same states
now have 165 and 81 votes respectively,
the Bryan states having gained ten and
the Mckinley states nineteen votes under
the reappointment of 1900 and what the
vote would have been under the exist
ing law.
Hon George p. Wescott died at The
Lafayette Hotel, Portland, at O'clock,
Saturday afternoon. Mr.. Wescott has
been in falling health for the past year.
Saturday evening, October 10. he was
taken with a paralytic shock in his
apartments at The Lafayette With the
best of medical attendance and nursing
he partially recovered, but his sickness
took a serious turn, Friday morning,
and he passed away without suffering,
Saturday. Mr.. Wescott was for many
years a very prominent man in the city
of Portland and the state. He was
Mayor of the city and Senator from
Cumberland County some 20 years ago.
II was large owner in water works in
Maine and manager of the Portland
Water Company for many years and a
director of the Maine Central railroad
since 1888 His age was 81 years.
Could Not be better.