The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-07-21
STATE AND GENERAL.


morning
The one Disturbing inference WAS t1t
stfike ~ faekln2 house employees.
E1-tIesldeat cleveland and Mfs
Cleveland are speudIhg vacation u
some "eeks IL Ne" Hampshire
A body II al .uku5~n taau was fouud
in the Andf5se9ggIo ssea Al DurLam.
Friday. It lad e.deaty 3eeu IL Ire
water some months
The first payment # $1,000 VA tie
government loan # S5=a#JN.J '9 fAe
Louisiana PureAase Ex.sat.aa aoupaag
was deposited IN the aa5-tfeas4ty .a -
Louis the 18th instsIt
While in a boat ID Portland .a.sf.f.
sunday, with TWO compaa.9a1, NaF#.
Howard fell overheard aad ..a -.
come to the surface. He 8as .55s.
sbOreman and aged 81 years.
j The total admissions 10 the Wore :
fair for one week were ~ 3D3 Th.s
breaks the weekly Attendance record
On the Fourth no less than l72.I80
people visited the grounds.
The cotton mill Of the EDWARDS Man
ufacturing Company at Augusta WAS
shut down Saturday for no months -
install new machinery aud make repairs.
About l 90 employees are 9at.
secretary Hay left Warrington Tie
18th INST for Lake Sunapee, y 3d. lie
will probably be absent until 'le afst
OF October unless some emergency a.4ses
requiring his presence in HasAiuEt9a.
The bird Maine regimeutal a,s9e ..
i ton will hold It's Both annua reunion -
room / English high school Boston u
Tuesday morning, August -, during liz
national encampmeut week Of Tie -. y
X.
Saturday WAS a big DAY for Camdeo.
for the launching Of the big hye-uastea
schooner Margaret Haskell proved an
event which drew more thai 800 PEI
pie from Rocklsnd, Bay POINT am ~
summer resorts in that vicinity.
An autopsy performed, SATURDAY. "
order Of County Attorney Emery on The
body Of George Skillings, found in the
well on his farm in Limington, Thursday.
proved that he was not drowned, bat
was dead when he reached the water.
Ray p. smith, the 19-year.old son Of
Mr and Mrs. j. f. Smith OF Lewiston
was drowned, Sunday afternoon, while
swimming in the Androscoggin river.
Mr.. Smith was graduate Of the Lewis.
ton high school and had attended Dart
month college.
Special Liquor Deputies Yarney and
Chamberlain made a large haul at VIII
shire's stable in Railroad square Water
Vile, Saturday. 1t had been suspected
by the deputies for some time that the
stable was the headquarters Of men who
were engaged in doing pocket peddling.
A movement is under way 10 recover
"Fewacres' in Pennington, which for
nearly twenty years has been in the
possession of strangers. It will be re-
stored as nearly as possible TO its con-
ditiOn when Jacob Abbott occupied it,
and will be preserved as his memorial.
On an attack, Sunday afternoon, on
four colored strike-breakers by a mob
composed of spectators at an amateur
baseball game in the yiciaity of the
stockyards, at Chicago. two white men,
one policeman and iOurstrike- breakers
were severely injured. keyolyers and
knives we're used.
"aterville Lodge of Good Templars
held a very beautiful memorial service
at its hall, Friday night, in honor Of the
late samuel Osborne. W |. Sterling.
HSPuNJ VI elAO Acu6Oi f40Si1t1d anu aAA04
appropriate music, eloquent and stirring
addresses were made by leading mem
bers of the lodge.
Gov. Hill on Friday nominated Judge
Geo, II. smith of Pressure Isle to be re-
porter of decisions to succeed Gen. CLas.
Hamlin of Bangor who has held the Of
flee for the past Is years. He also nom
mated Edward p. Mayo of Fairfield to
be inspector of prisons and jails to sue
coed the late capt. Whitman Sawyer OF
Portland
Aug. is the date set for the actual
opening of the Presidential and Con
gresslonal campaiGA of 1904 By that
time an the pre-. minaries vii have been
arranged. The candidates for first
places on the national tickets will have
published their letters Of acceptance
and in doing 80 will have fired the first
gun in opening the battle.
State Treasurer Smith notified the
cities, towns and plantations, that he
has apportioned among them 1913, 3S6 05
/ for educational purposes. This school
! fund is divided among 206, 1872 scholars,
which gives each one something over
SITS The towns receive their notice
at this time but they cannot draw their
cash till after the first day of next Janu-
airy.
The biggest launching event that has
taken place in Bath for many years, &c
CURED, saturday, when the big FIVE
] masted schooner Grace A. Martin was
sent overheard from the yard of Percy
Il small at 40 o'clock. The weather
was ideal for such an event and exclr.
sion parties came from all nearby re-
sorts to witness the launching.
Four hundred thousand dollars worth
of property was destroyed by fire the
18th inst at Duluth, Mimi, at the docks
and warehouses of the Chicago, It Paul
and Minneapolis railroad company, aud
one man. a cook named George Smith.
on the tug Abbott, was drowned in an
attempt TO make his escape from the
craft as the flames swept over it from
the docks. 1t was the most disastrous
fire witnessed in Duluth in years and
the mott spectacular.
Ceenrie MORN, young French girl
about 16 years old, was fatally burned,
saturday morning by kerosene and died
the next day at the Augusta City hos
pital Miss MORN, who lived with her
sister, Mrs Paul Labbee on Laurel
street, was alone in the room at the
I time the accident occurred with the eX-
ception of hen sisters baby, SO the exact
4 circumstances Will never be exactly
known. but il is supposed that she at
! tempted to start the fire by pouring on
kerosene and that the can exploded.
Pres Roosevelt and sec Loeb are
perfecting arrangements for the cere-
~, ha In