The Somerset reporter., 1904-12-22
STATE AND GENERAL


Andrew Carnegie has added $40 90
TO the Boston fund for industrial train
ing
The fall term at kenfs iii closed
Dec i after one Of the most successful
terms in the history Of the Institution
The vacation will last two weeks, The
winter tenn being scheduled 10 open
Dec Il
Friends Of 'BiHa sewall Of Island
Falls, Aroostook county, and he has
many, will be Interested 10 know thai il
is considered pretty certain that be Will
receive the appointment As collector Tor
the district Of HOulton.
Two students, who are III with diph-
iberia, have been qaarantined in their
rooms at Bowdoln College The men
are Paul lady, %, Of 1t Louis and
Frank K Ryan, '05, Of 81 John, \ 3.
The students are roommates.
A SNOW storm and gale prevailed along
the New England coast from New Lon.
don To Cape cd, sunday. As usual,
shipping aud telegraph lines suffered
severely, but up to a late hour, sunday,
10 loss Of life had heen reported e}1zS
Southern members Of Congress think
that cotton crop estimates Of the agricul-
tural department are 600, 900 bales TOO
large These reports, it is alleged. have
injured the cotton interests Of Ire south
+ They want an inquiry to be authorized q
+ It is evident that the Legislature vii,
bee asked 20 pass bill carrying with 10
an appropriation for conducting war
against the brow n-tail moth. What the
size Of this appropriation will be is hard
fn say As yet no one will make an esti-
uata
SENATOR ockrell Of Missouri who will
Ie.f ffam the senate March fourth
ied 20 accept a place on the
s#aHa ommeiee Commission sen
se'i went down in the political
sass II the democracy in Noyem
"a .s#E r. the fact that there are abou
~ ts H#meirss Chinese in and arounC
~ saHH a. The result of the Russo-Jap
sneae RAr. rich hinese at Pekin anC
All IIea Tsin have subscribed funds /,
provide warm clothing and food To-
these poor people
Mrs Chadwick pleaded not guilty t
every indictment brought against her b,
the L =. grand jury in Ohio on Satur
lay. She declined to give bail and wa
emanded to jail Beckwith and spea
also pleaded not guilty and were placed
under bonds of SIS 900, each.
Nine persons, including two passen
gers, lost their lives early Saturday il
the burning of the steamer Glen Island
bound from New York to New Haven
rhe steamer drifted aground on Cap,
taius Island in Long Island sound and
was burned to the waters edge.
A petition is now in circulation in
Waterville, which liz to be presented to
the next Legislature which is for the
establishment 10y legislative appropGa-
tion of home in Portland for destitute
women and children Like petitions are
being circulated al over the state.
1t il estimated that million dollars
worth Of new buildings have been added
to Portland during the year. That
breaks the record of any year except
perhaps for a period Immediately after
the big fire of 1866 Portland is bound
to grow, and the boom is Just beginning
w. +. Bowen, private of the Marine
Guard on the prison ship CUTLERY at
the Portsmouth y II. navy yard fell
from the upper to the lower deck, a dis
lance of 25 feet, saturday, and was in
stantly killed Bowen was 80 years old
He enlisted at Perry, Me, three years
ago.
hartman f. NJ. simpson of Bangor
/ has called "A meeting of the Republican
state committee in the Judiciary room,
state house, at 3 o'clock, Jan 8, the
day before the session of the legislature
opens This viii be the new comm =
tee elected at the state convention in
June
Many people IN Lewiston believe the
practices alleged 10 be carried on at the
! Holy Ghost and Us Bible school at
/ Shiloh should be investigated and that
the Legislature should take action with
this end IN view At recent meeting
4 of the Board Of Trade resolution was
adopted to that end.
The only college in Maine and one of
| but two in New England to enroll III It's
student body blind young man is Bates
4 College in Lewiston Francis Joseph
Rockford of Newton Lower Falls N8ss
is this individual, aad probably his only
associate college worker IL RAYMOND
! Brown of Dover, \. II who entered
. Harvard year ago.
A canvass by the New York Times Of
the popular vote at the last Presidential
election complete except AS To- one county
in Tennessee and four counties IN Mich
igan, for which estimates are given,
shows that President Roosevelt defeated
Judge Parker by ? 546, l69. He polled
the largest vote evel given fer hresi-
dent of tho United states, 100, 560.
The contest tor the judgeshlp III Vest
! brook is warm one, there being two
other candidates in the field besides
! Judge j Il Totman, Judge f. NJ. Ray
| is a candidate, as is also + VI Pride "A
well-known attorney of that city EAch
Of the three gentleman are said to have
! good endorsements, and the contest is
an interesting one Judge Tolman is
now finishing his third term
The total OF deer and moose killed
during the hunting season just closed
/ is smaller than last year Up To the
present time 4234 deer and 215 moose
! have been shipped through Bangor, this
/ fall, against 4557 deer and II moose
/ during the same period in 1908 There
has been very h1fle Illegal killing ur
transportation of game, tins season,
compared with former years fAere
have been about the usnai number Of
! accidental shootngs which can be- traced
10 hunting and So far II of these acct
dents have resulted fatally.
II The Maine state da,rymeu's meet
ing held in auburn hall, Thursday she
II inst. il was voted to co operate m
forming a confederation of all agrieultu-