The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-10-20
STATE AND GENERAL

/ King George Of Saxony died a. HI
ni,z a, 2 Is O'Clock, Friday. His s9ur
we're present at tho deathbed.
Mrs. Salome Sc lers of Deer Isle, VII
ia said 10 be the Oldest woman IN Name,
celebrated her 10th birthday. saturday
Fred Peters, aged l., rho was struck
by railroad train at Gardiner. Monday
evening, died at the City hospital, Tues
day morning.
Oscar Beodle was killed, Monday. at
Gardiner in the HOllingswprta d Whit
ney Co.'S works by being ce1s4flu re.
Yolyiug shaft His age WAS 81 gearA
Four lives were lost, nearly . score II
persons were injured and tle YES II
more than 100 others were endangered
IL an early tenement house Ire 10 ne
Williamsburg section Of Broos 81. Nm
day
A drop in japanese aud L s. an se-
curities IN the London and NV York
markets indicates less confidence IN the
financial condition of these caau .ties
Three fires within a week occurring Al
York Beach, has aroused tae property
owners along the beach. ard ws,cIrue1
have been engaged to patiDl tie district
+ Ii8ul ana udy
The coreless apple from The L.
and Canada is the latest seusafI9n In tie
English fruit market Specimens of the
new fruit are expected II arrive before
the end of the year, and orders for trees
are pouring in from all quarters.
1t is reported from various parts Of
the Aroostook that the starch factories
are grinding fewer potatoes this wear
than they have been IN any season for
years. Why? Because tie crop Is such
fine one OF marketable tubers-few
small and practically no rotten ones
America is to manufacture type
writers for syria, the machines being
fitted with new alphabet of 80 char
acters. which was arranged recently by
sslim Haddad, a syrian artist and IN
ventor The actual SYRIAN alphabet
contains $50 characters
About 100 delegates were present at
the 31st annual meeting Of the FREQ
Baptist "oman's Missionary society for
New England at SAGE, last week A
question of importance before the con-
vention was the proposed union of ihe
society with the general conference.
Joseph j. Willette, aged 20 years, of
Great Works, a brakeman in the Bangor
yard of the Maine Central. uasrun over
and instantly kllled, shortly after 8
m, saturday. At the inquest, in the
afternoon the jury returned a verdict
generating the railroad and its en-
ployes from all blame
Three persons are known to be dead
sixteen are reported killed and score
+ injured as a result of head-on collision
ON the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
between eastbound California limited
passenger train No 8 and uestbound
freight train, the nth inst, at Beaver
+ reek, Is miles west Of Pueblo
The quarterly meeting Of the Name
Newspaper Publishers was held At
Bangor, Thursday \ banquet at tie
Bangor House was followed by a bus
mesa meeting with the president. J
Norman fowle OF Bangor, IL the char.
In the evening the members were enter
tained by Hon p. Bass IT the Bangor
I commercial
The repatriation of new men at tie
University OF Maine school of Law
shows a total OF rs students in tho
entering class and total registration
OF II students, little larger than Any
/ previous attendance. OF these y stu
dents large number are graduates of
colleges in Maine and Nassaohnsetts
With the 20 embalmsrs, who took az
aminstions at the State House and re-
eeived licenses recently, there are now
l3l in abe state. Ii is thought that
about half the smbalmers In the state
are now licensed, which is considered a
good record for the board, in view of
the fact that it has only been in exist
enoe two years.
membership in Maine of 1000 was
reported at tho closing session Of the
Grand Lodge of Good Templars at Rock
land Thursday. The Juvenile Temple
has 422 members. Resolutions were Ad-
opted endorsing the work of the Name
civic League and the Woman's hrs
tan Temperance Union. Bangor WAS
selected As the place OF the annual sss.
sion, next April.
The will OF the late Postmaster Gener-
al Payne has been filed for probate The
estate, estimated at $3.50, 90, is eft in
trust TO Frank q Bigelow and George
ID. Miller as executors. In addition 10
household goods, horses, carriages, etc g,
an annuity OF $500 is provided for the
widow of the teststor during the settle
ment of the estate.
In PenObscot county case the law
court states; Towns have fully per
formed their duty to the travelling pub
/ lie when they have constructed and
maintained wrought ways of reasonable
width and smoothness II driver
choose, without reasonable cause, 10
drive outside such way, he does it at
his own risk and at the risk of bis pas
sengers, and not at the risk of the town
Senator Fairbanks returned to Chi
cago, Thursday, the 18th inst from his
campaign tour to the Pacific coast The
trip began at Chicago on the 23i OF
Septic m Der, aud has occupied the entire
20 days since. The distance travelled
was 500 miles Fourteen states were
travsrsed, III speeches made and no
material accident or delay occurred 10
mar the success of the tour.
Three men of the S9th coast artillery
we're killed and eight were injured by
the explosion of a mortar battery at
Fort Banks, Winthrop, Saturday II is
feared that three Of the injured will die
The dead are: Sergeant Geo. Nsysns,
Private Kelley and Private Higgins,
The injured included Sergeant Foley
and seven privates. The accident
occurred while the artillery men wore
engaged at target practice.
At the request of Francis B Loomis,
acting Secretary Of state, Governor Hill