The Somerset reporter., 1904-11-10
STATE AND GENERAL.

Last year Japan imported foodstuffs
exceeding over S52 900, 900 in value.
Eorty-six divorces were decreed at the
October term of supreme court at
Bangor.
All grades Of refined sugar were ad.
vanced 10 cents hundred pounds IN
New York, Friday.
Bates defeated Colby Saturday at foot
ball % to 0 and Bowdoin defeated the
University of Maine % to 5.
The Maine Central Hospital at Port
land received 1859 patients in the L
months ending on September 30.
Charles L. Beal has been released from
the State prison at Thomaston and re-
turned to his former home in Clinton.
The Proctor & Bowie Co, contractors,
Waterville, will undertake the building
at Lewiston of large freight house for
the Maine Central Railroad.
Gorham Savings bank has four trus-
tees who have served it in that oapac-
ity since its organization in 1888. They
are Joseph Ridlon, Simon E. Mcclellan,
Roscoe Harding and Frederick ROBBIE.
Dead with a song on her lips. Eva
Gray, the stage singer. has left an in
effaceable memory with that audience
10 the theater at Biddeford. She left
a daughter, three years old, and her last
song was Good Bye, Little Girl Good
bye,
The death of Roy E Smith, secretary
of the Bar Harbor 7 ~ G. A, occurred
at 100, Friday afternoon, at the Ban
Harbor hospital after an illness of about
three days with appendicitis. A widow
survives.
Deputy United States Marshall Bernet
o Norton of Portland passed through
Bangor Saturday. with three AroOstook
county men in charge bound for Port
land, where they were to be artaigned
on smuggling charges.
George Gray of Turner committed
suicide there, Friday night, by taking
aconite Coroner Charles W. Harris oil
Auburn was called and pronounced it q
case of suicide. The cause is supposed
to have been i'll health.
The Maine sardine pack this year hal
been very heavy, and with four weeks
remaining of the season it Is estimated
that the total pack will exceed that o.
1903, notwithstanding the scarcity o.
behring's in June and July.
David F. Murdock of Portland who
was convicted of receiving postage
stamps stolen from the postoffice a
South west Harbor, withdrew his appeal
Saturday, and took Jail sentence Of
five months and fine of 1920, previous
ly imposed by Judge Hale.
Poultrymen over all the State and il
many other of the New England statei
as well will be glad to learn that the
fourth annual exhibition of the Maine
State Poultry and Pet Stock Association
will be held at city Hall, Portland, or
December 8, 7, s and 8, 1904.
David Watson, a we'll known farmer
who lives in Glenburn, about eigh
miles out of Bangor, was mistaken fol
deer and badly wounded in both armi
by companion while hunting in a
swamp about two miles back of Ken
duskesg, early Sunday forenoon.
Fred A. Stevens, George A. Seavy
Benjamin O. Hare and James A. Hurley
who have been liquor deputies under
Sheriff Charles Cummings since he tool
Office two years ago the first of mex
January rendered heir designations t
take effect at midnight, Sunday night.
J. Samuel McCue, for fonr year.
mayor of Charlottesville, Va. was founc
guilty on Saturday of the murder of hil
wife, Fannie McCue. on sunday night
Sept. 4th, last. The verdict was muir
der In tho first degree, which carries
with it the death penalty. The jury de
| liberated less than half an hour
All the lumber operators in Danforth
Ne. are preparing to get out large
quantity of logs, this winter. II. II
Putnam intends to haul /, 000, 900 for hi
orange box mill and he will stock hi
other mills equally well. The prospec
looks favorable, therefore, for a gooc
winters business on the waters In thai
vicinity.
Hon. Edwin Wiggin Of the educationa
department, went to his homo at Presqu'
Isle, Friday afternoon. and will remain
until after the election. On his return
to Augusta, he will be accompanied BY
Mrs Wiggin, who will pass the winter
in the city, as has been her custom for
several years.
In the matter of the petition OF the
Noosehesd Telephone company TO be
given the right to put up its wires along
INC TlRnb VI way Vi Luo CduSuinp @OlHt
railway, the decision of the railroad com
missioner 10 favorable to the telephone
company, and overrules the objection oil
the railroad company.
The aldermen of Bath have ordered
the Lewiston, Brunswick & Bath Street
Railway to remove it's tracks on Com,
mercial street between Lambert and
Oak streets, and IL this work Is net done
on or before Nov 80 the street and sew.
err commi ssion will be directed to do the
work and charge it to the railroad.
The Gardiner Board of Trade Is to en-.
large the shoe factory building. 1t was
expected the addition would be two
stories but the company has concluded
that it would rather have 1t made -four
stories the Same az the factory, and
offers to pay part of the expense for ths
sake Of having the additional stories
This will probably be done.
Bangor Is to have her long-waited-for
new railroad station and before another
fall has rolled around, so the people
who, ever since the possibility of build.
ing q new station was first mentioned
have been worrying themselves with the
fear of it's not being erected, can now
rest easy. This statement is made on
authoritative information obtained by
the Commercial.
About 30 citizens of Brunswick met al
the court room, saturday evening, and
appointed committee to form corpora.
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