The Somerset reporter., 1904-10-13
STATE AND GENERAL.

Colby won foot ball game over New
Hampshire state College, On saturday
% to ..
TeIegraphlc communication now has
been reached between seattle and all
parts OF Alaska.
Pres Hyde OF BowdoiD has been elec'-
ed president Of the New England Associ-
alton of Colleges.
Gov Bells plurality In Vermont was
81 800. He was inaugurated as governor
on Thursday last.
Harvard beat the University Of Maine
at foot ball in Cam bridge, Mass, on
Saturday, % to O
The gold production OF the entire
Alaskan district for the present year
Is estimated at s26, 000, 900
Noe T Lola was elected Governor OF
the Passamaquoddy Indians, last week.
There were three candidates
Waterville as well as Lewiston is said
to have an eye on that unused appro-
priation of sl750 made for the Bangor
fair.
Charles W. Larribee, Esq the nestor
OF Sagadahoc bar, died at his home in
Bath, Thursday Of last week, aged 81
years.
Milltown's famous old flag pole, erect
ed half century ago and standing l76
feet tall, was snapped off by high
wind, the other day.
Tristram Goldwaite died at his home
at Biddeford Pool, Friday. Death is at.
tributed to heart trouble from which he
had been suffering for some time.
While handling loaded revolver,
Friday morning, Arthur Selkirk, Bangor
lawyer, was shot through the hand by
the accidental discharge of the weapon
The Japanese are said to be buying
! ponies in the Canadian territories. be-
lieying that they will stand the hard.
ships OF winter campaign in Manchuria
The price Of anthracite coal was ad.
vanced % cents ton by all the retail
dealers of greater Boston, last week
This advance applies to all grades except
! pea coal.
The first week of big game hunting
closed with 1872 deer and 7 bears shipped
through Bangor; falling off of IS deer
and 3 bears from last years first week
shipments.
Mathew w. Ransom, U. s. Senator
| from North Carolina for % years. snd
later minister to Mexico, died suddenly
of heart failure Sunday. He was Is
years of age.
Clinton Gross, aged 10, was drowned
Friday, off Stahls point, Waldoboro, by
the swapping of his dory which wa,
heavily loaded with clans for canning
factory at Friendship.
Three sons of Senator Marcus A
Hanna are to erect 800, 900 mausoleun
on the family lot in Lakeview cemetery
Cleveland, to contain Is catacombs foi
members of the Hanna family
Maine has one young man in thu
present senior class at West Point
Ellery w. Niles He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs J. F Niles OF North Chester
vile and Is a former student of the
Pennington High school.
Mrs. Eta H. Osgood, Portlands vel
known newspaper writer and club
woman, is going to Philadelphia whett
she is to conduct classes in parliament
AIRY law. Her many Maine friends wish
her all success in her new field.
John Whipple, the farmer, who TO
two weeks has defed capture by tn,
state police, was hemmed in and caugh
in barn at South Glastonbury, { onn
Friday. Finding himself trapped, b.
put two bullets into his own head
Harris |. Tobin who shot James Hit
W Auburn, Friday, was arraigned in tht
MUNICIPAL court at Auburn and held il
the sum OF $1,000 for appearance at Su
preme court. In an interview he Sal
he committed the deed in a FIX of anger
a loss estimated at $40, 900 all coyere,
by insurance, resulted from blaz
which broke out at 40, Friday after
noon, in the basement of the drug stor
OF fancy Il Sbattuck in the Stricklan,
building on kenduskeag Bridge, Bangor
The town of Eden will not apply I
the next Legislature for city charter
such decision being reached by tn
town after very animated town meet
ing held Thursday afternoon. The sent
ment against applying for a charter wa
about two to one.
The fourth annual convention of tn
Maine undertakers' association was he'll
at Augusta, the 9th instant. The 10
lowing officers were elected: President
J. Clark Flagg, Richmond; vice pres
dent, George III. Phoenix, Alfred; secrt
tary, A. s. Plummer, Auburn; treasurer
V. d. Irouant, Augusta.
1t was decided to take Everett j..
Boardman, who was held in the sum c
$1,000 for the supreme court at Rocl
land for an alleged assault with inter
to kill upon Harold B, Heal at CamdeI
last week, to the State Insane asyluI
for examination, claim having bee
made that he was not mentally responi
ible.
King Leopold of Belgium was assa
ed for his policy as sovereign of til
Congo Free State at a pnblio meetin
held in Boston, Friday, in connectio
with the sessions of the Internationi
Peace Congress The attack upon Kin
Leopold was delivered by Z. T. Morel c
England, who represented the Cong
Reform Association.
A 800 mile automobile race came o
on Long Island, New York, Saturda
last, for the w. H. Vanderbilt, Jr. cuI
George Heath, an American, running
wheel of foreign make, won the race, i
5 hours, 26f minutes, an average OF 8
miles an hour. One death and one ma
in the hospital are the serious casualitie
of the event.
The establishment of public baths i
Portland long since passed out of tn
experimental stage and has become
settled policy. AT slight annual ex
peDse accommodations are provided fo
those who may not find them elsewert
and that they are appreciated is see
from the fact that 100 900 persons hav
made use of them in the past year.