The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-01-28
STATE AND GENERAL.

Hunt, bound for Boston from Norfolk.
Dix6eld had IS 900 set of farm build
ings burned, last week, with II head OF
cattle and two horses. The property
was owned by Mrs. Gibson Saunders, a
widow.
Captain Patrick Garrett, United States
collector of customs at FL Paso, and
other Americans have just purchased
3, 600 900 acres of land in the state of
Sinalao, Mexico. The land will be
stocked with cattle.
Mrs Abel Work and her daughter,
Mrs. Alfred z Tarbox, of Bath narrow
ly escaped losing their lives in fire
which destroyed their home, Mr.. Tar
box was awakened by the smell of smoke
and hurriedly dressing himself, ran to
the nearest fire alarm box to call the
department.
Mrs. L. NJ. y. Stevens, president of
the National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, and Miss Anna Gordon,
left Portland, Jan. 20, for Washington,
D C, where tLey will remain for week
or longer, representing the organic alton
in several matters in which the Union
has taken a stand.
The Sultan has ordered that general
amnesty be granted to the Bulgarians
and Macedonians, who have been i'm
prisoned for participation in the distur-
Dances of last summer. Before giving
effect to this decree, however, the Porte
Is trying to obtain assurance regarding
! Bulgaria's attitude in the future.
| Governor John l.. Bates of Massachu-
sets was rendered banquet at Bangor,
! Friday, by the Gamma Eta Gamma fra
ternity of the University of Maine law
school of which he is an honorary mem
Der. 1t was brilliant affair, with elabo.
rate decorations. overs were laid fol-
60 guests. c. Vey Holman was toast
master.
An explosion in the cellar of Charles
Martels drug store on Lincoln street
Lewiston, the % inst, caused wood
en- blocks in the business section of the
city to be destroyed by fire, and the
owners and occupants, among the latter
being furniture company, druggist
and blueing mandatory, will sustain
a loss of about $25, 900.
Mr. Denny Bangs of Waterville, Me
| fAI. 1.Az Il -
i'll in Washington at the Buckingham
He was first taken down with rheumatic
fever and then pneumonia set in Hi
mother is there with him DR.. Vel
lington, formerly of Albion, Me-, and {
graduate of Colby, is one of the physi
clans attending Mr.. Bangs
The Allegheny and Monongohelf
rivers were flooded, last week, causing
great obstruction of property and damage
burg, Pa. Operation of mills was sus
pended and railroad traffic delayed
There were also other rivers swollen b.
rains to the fl bod petch in various part
of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio ant
Indiana
The Pekin correspondent of the rime
has cabled a corrected and infinitely de
tailed list OF all the Russian militar.
forces in the far east, east of Lake Bikal
in eastern Siberia and including thu
frontier railway guards, which shows
total of 3115 officers, lat 470 men anC
200 guns. He says the Russian fleet
with the exception of four armoret
cruisers at Vladivoslock, is now wedgec
in the harbor of Port Arthur.
Rev. Frank w. Sanford, of th'
"Holy Ghost and U.s. colony at Shiloh
was indicted for manslaugbter by tn,
Androscoggin County grand jury, Satur
day. The charges grow out of the treat
ment of children at Shiloh, and were
preferred by the Androscoggin County
Humane Society, and the Cumberland
Conference of congregational Churches
These organizations alleged that children
had been treated cruelty in the Shiloh
colony, and maintained that Rev Mr.
Sanford was responsible.
After having spent more than 80 years
of his life as a prisoner behind he grim
walls of the State prison, Benz amin "
Chadbourne on Saturday walked forth
from the institution a free man. Sen
fenced in 1888 to life imprisonment fol
murder, Chadbourne always has pro
tested his innocence and never lost hope
Yesterday, after hearing an earnest plea
from the aged attorney who defended
hadbourne at his trial, more than I
score of years ago and receiving a report
from the prison physician to the effec
that the prisoner was suffering from q
fatal illness, a full pardon was granted
by the governors council
Antonio Nassau. the young Syrian, who
escaped from cell in the loca
police station at Brunswick and later
was captured at Yarmouth, was arraign
ed in police court, Friday, charged with
burglary and held for the grand jury.
He was unable to furnish bail in the sum
| of $1,000 and was taken to the county