The Somerset reporter., 1904-09-29
STATE AND GENERAL.

WIS s.aitou W SPaIk aIoU III ohS'Ao'
Loss 1920.
A move has been made for a canning
factory in Belfast, not for corn exclu
sively, but for beans, squash and other
vegetables, az we'll as clans.
The Gar has put million rubles into
bank for his infant son, to give him a
start in life. Vanity Fair says it is
known as 1.-THE Fresh Heir Fund"
The young commonwealth of Austria
liza has the largest public debt per capita
of any country in the world. France
has the greatest public debt in amount.
John Temple Graves, editor of the
Atlanta News, in leading editorial last
week, defends lynching and advocates
the Ku-klux clans for terrorizing the
negroes.
Eighty-three indictments containing a
total of 10 counts, were found by the
grand jury of the supreme court at Au-
burn, which arose Saturday. half of
them were in liquor cases.
The postofioe at South Dresden was
entered, Thursday night, and about s100
in stamps taken from the safe, which
was unlocked. 1t was supposed the
burglars we're local parties.
A special chartered train on The Penn.
sylvania railroad has broken all previous
records on that line between PhiIadel-
phia and Chicago, making the S22 miles,
the 23d inst, in II hours and 81 minutes.
| The Seth annual session of the Maine
| Universalist Sunday school convention
will be held in connection with the
Young Peoples Christian union con.
yention in Gardiner, Oct. II, II and ID.
Timber mon who have visited Column
bia county report that recent forest fires
in that section have destroyed timber to
the value of 100000 Most of the
timber destroyed was owned by eastern
capitalists.
Minister of Agriculture Sifton reports
that the Manitoba and North west wheat
| cropis fair one and the reports as to
rust and frost are exaggerated. The
crops will aggregate from $4,000, 900 to
go, 900 900 bushels.
The University of Maine opened, last
week, for its 37th year with the largest
attendance In its history, which will be
increased within a week or two The
entering class represents every county
| In Maine and every state in New Eng
land.
Nine schoolgirls were suffocated In q
vault during a recess at q school In
| Pleasant Ridge, seven miles north of
| Cincinnati. A score of others narrowly
escaped the same horrible death. All
the victimS were from tho primary
grade.
Thursday was the coolest Sept. %
New York has experienced since the
establishment of the weather bureau, "a
years ago. The official temperature at
a m. was AZ degrees, but earlier in the
morning the thermometer registered 40
degrees.
Arthur Wheeler, 35 years, and Rufus
Small, 81, of Saco, were drowned by the
upsetting of boat in the Saco river,
three miles above the city. Saturday.
Hanley G. Billings, 80, of 5aco was with
them, but managed to reach the shore
in an exhausted condition.
Slowly undermined by a small brook
the 125-foot embankment of the White
Mountain division OF the Maine Central
at Crawford Notch, caved in, sunday,
leaving nearly 100 feet of rails suspended
in the air and shutting off telephone
and telegraph connections for several
hours.
A catastrophe occurred at 1908, Sat-
urday morning, on the Southern Rail-
way, about one and one-half miles
west of Hodges station and 1871 miles
east of Knoxville, where two passenger
ira ms going in opposite directions were
in collision. 90 dead and.100 injured
are reported.
The business session of the grand
assembly of the Pythian Statehood of
Maine met at 10 a. w., Thurs, in Lewis
ton. Fifty chsncellors were obligated
Reports of the grand officers were &C.
copied. The secretary's report showed
gain of seven Assem- blies in the state
with total of 81.
The following officers were elected
Tuesday, by the Sovereign Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows Grand sire, Robert <.
Wright of Allentown, Pa; deputy grand
sire, K. s. Conway of Chicago; grand
secretary, Frank Grant of Baltimore;
grand treasurer, NJ. Richard Muckie,
Philadelphia
The famous Chief Joseph of the
Nez Perces, while sitting by his camp
fire on the Colyille reservation Wednes-
day afternoon, was seen by Indians near
by to fall from his seat to the ground
and when they lifted him it was found
that he had died from heart disease.
He had been in poor health for a long
time.
Owing to the late spring and cool
summer the corn was backward and a
good deal of it appears to have got
caught by the frost, last week, in this
state as we'll as in New York. Some OF
the packers are said to estimate that
half the crop in Maine is ruined, entail
ing loss on the farmers of $4,000 to
$500, 600
Mayor James p. Baxter of Portland
has announced himself as a candidate
for denomination. When Mr.. Baxter
consented to run for Mayor, last Decem-
Der, he had several schemes which he
desired to see brought to successful
issue. Few of these projects have
materialized but Mayor Baxter hopes to
see them to successful finish during
the next municipal year.
The 10th annual reunion of the 22nd
Maine Regiment was held ct Newport,
September 14lh, Al comrades being
present accompanied by their wives and
daughters 1t was voted to hold the
next reunion at Carmel. six deaths
were reported for the past year: Alonzo
K Thayer, Enoch r. Nye, Weston Hay
cook, John Stewart, John r. Regbey,
George Nye.
The local board of steamboat inspect
ors have made public the report OF their
Investigation into the steam boat General
Slocum disaster, which occurred in tho
East river, New York, last juno. and
cost nearly 1900 lives. The report an