The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-12-01
STATE AND GENERAL.

sider the dispute m relation no tie
North Sea tragedy.
Guy Roche the gambler. Win. I7 a
legged, was shot by Frank FELTON,, Tues
day afternoon IN Broad Ny, New York
city. died Saturday night IN the Ne.
York h1splla.
Dr. Bunker Of WatrrYiile, bas report
ed four cases Of smallpox in he family
of haries stargis At laYefslde. lhe
house IL under quarantine aud tue
patients are dong we'll.
Inferior Minister ~viatopo hIrsky Of
Russia ha, removed N Khugeubefg.
governor 81 Moghuef, because Of his
harsh measures against the Jews, con
trary TO his recent orders
Andrew Carnegie was reported 10 be
slightly indisposed at his home 10 Fifth
avenue New York, last week The Ia
tnre Of his illness was not made pubic.
bat it was stated to be not at al
serious.
4 despatch from Washington says
that senator Hale, who has arrived
there, will take a prominent stand
against tarif revision, and that be vii
strongly advise President Roosevelt
against such step.
Automobile trains are 20 be run on
the wagon roads III rOgoiand and Gef-
man East Atuca for feeders - the raj
way lines. HE colonial administration
is now Improving the loads aud building
bridges with this object ia view.
Alta meeting of the executy We com
mittee of the Maine board Of I NJ. {.
A held at the Office Of II. G Day Of
Auburn, last week, plans were pro.
posed for a state convention TO be held
probably some time IN February, i'll
Bath.
A fast Pennsylvania passenger train
collided with a sou,hbound electric car
on the Northern Ono Traction railway
Friday with terrific force. near Bedford,
"a suburb. The electric car was cut in
two. The electric car contained from -
to 20 passengers, every one OF whom vas
injured.
The jury in the case of Edward Finn
of Ellsworth versus the New England
Telephone Company saturday returned
a verdict for the defendant. Finn sued
for $4,000 for injuries incurred by con-
tact with live wire while on a pole in
front of the Blaine residence year ago
last August.
The temperature in some districts of
the United Kingdom during the night,
Of Nov. % at London was the lowest
ever recorded. The distress is general
and the local authorities are organizing
relief works In few instances way
farers have been discovered frozen to
death in the snow
Quite an undertaking for a man of 80
years to build mill at this season of the
year in the Maine woods, yet Joel r.
Page of Eddington has gone to do this
for A f Merrill & ompany. He will
build a mill Gu Millnocket s re nm where
the company will saw birch into spool
bars using steam for power.
Congressman Powers while in Bangor
this week, expressed the opinion thai no
tariff egislation would be enacted this
winter. Mr. Powers declared that the
tariff as 1t stands affords Maine the best
possible protection, and that this State
would gam nothing by revision, while It
might lose considerable.
The National Grange has decided TO
hold the next annual session in the
state of New Jersey The selection Of
the city will be made by the executive
committee. The grange went on record
as favoring industrial education in the
country schools, especially IN the matter
of agricultural training.
A division of the Russian Second Pa
ctic squadron, which arrived, Thursday,
at Port SAID, had entered the Suez canal
Nov. % Local Representatives. of Rus
STA are accompanying the squadron on
board the flagship. The ironc.ads are
being tOwed through the canal.
So great las been the rush of immi-
grants to New York within the past few
days that the immigration station at
Ellis island was crowded Friday, and
several thousand steerage passengers
were forced To remain over night on
board the steamers ia which they ar
rived from Europe.
samuel Gompers was practically IN
animously elected president of the
American Federation of Labor, Satur-
day, at San Francisco One delegate,
Victor Berger, of Milwaukee, leader Of
the Socialist element in the convention,
voted in the negative and asked that his
vote be 50 recorded.
The steamer Fitzwilliam with cargo
of oil has been given up for lost. she
left Liverpool on October 20 for GOthen
burg and no vestige of her has been seen
since. There ia a theory that the Fitz-
william was sunk in the North sea by a
Russian shell about Nov. 2, when, &C
cording to rumors, vessel was thus
sunk.
The Chicago Review-Herald says:
Thirteen deaths have resulted from foot
ball this season. The casualty list is
the same as last year, but the number of
serious injuries during the season just
closed will exceed that of any year since
/ the introduction of the modern college
sport. The players injured numbered
/ 1876.
Henry Mccormick was placed under
$1,000 bonds, the 23d inst, by Judge
i Cornish for his appearance on Nov. 80
at the Lewiston municipal court. in
charge of shooting his friend, John
Riley. He insists that the shooting WAS
purely accidental Riley says McCorm-
lex pointed the pistol at him and fired
The accused is a young man of weak
mind.
The armored cruiser Pennsylvania, in
her officiai trial trip off the New England
coast, last week, made the highest speed
with the smallest relative expenditure
of fuel of any armored vessel so far built
for the United States navy Her
contract called for % knots and her
average for the four hours trial Was
%. 43 knots per hour. while her coal con-
sumption was % pounds per horse
power per hour,
Col. E. c. Stevens of Chelsea. superin-
tendent of public buildings of Maine,
died Friday of last week of heart trouble,