The Somerset reporter., 1904-07-07
STATE AND GENERAL.

900 appropriated by Congress to provide
arms and equipments for the organized
militia of the United States is Sll,ooS'
A Worlds fair special train from Chi
cage to st. Louis ran into an open
switch at Litchfield, ILL.,, July Sd, caus-
ing the death of II persons and 1nJur-
ing S5.
The Maine Federation will hold It's
annual session at Bar Harbor oy invita-
ton of the Women's club of that place,
some time in Septem6e.. Although the
dates are not decided probably Sept Il,
% and % will be chosen.
The comments of the Maine Republi-
can newspapers show that whatever
differences existed before the Bangor
convention, the party was never more
loyal and united than now in supporting
candidate.
The coroner's jury after an investlga-
ton of the death of Ralph Hussey OF
Milo, under circumstances which seemed
to indicate a possibility of foul play, re-
turned verdict Friday generating the
boys who accompanied young Hussey
and finding that death was due to acci-
dental drowning.
The largest steamboat in the world is
the Baltic of The White Star line, COM
pleted this year. She is 725 feet and
| nine inches long, slightly over an elghth
Of mile, of "a } gross tonnage, Az
! eco tons displacement and moves at
speed of II knots an hour.
During the enforced vacation of DIR.
Twitchell, the man at the helm of the
| Maine Farmer Is B. F. W. Thorp of
1 Lii Ia q l.
perintendent of schools. Mr.. Thorp Is
native of Pennsylvania and has had
practical work on the farm as we'll ss In
writing for various agricultural puoilca-
lions.
The death of Senior Dupuy de LONE,
former Spanish minister to the United
States, recalls the circumstance OF his
hurried resignation in 1898, when
letter OF his got into print in which he
spoke OF President Mckinley as low
and coarse politician. DE LONE was
personally of good sort but inclined to
be rash with his pen.
A party of 395 teachers from Porto
Rico came to Cambridge, Saturday, to
attend the summer school at Harvard
University, arriving on the U. ). trans
port Fitzpatrick at the navy yard. They
were accompanied by 20 teachers OF
English In Porto Rico, who will avail
themselves of the advantages of the reg
ular summer school.
Hon George F. Emery died suddenly
at his home in Portland, Friday of last
week, at the age of SO he was beSn at
Paris Hill and was graduated from Bow
dom College In '36 He ives register of
probate In Oxford county for six years
and served as clerk of the circuit court
In Portland, % years He also was
editor of the Boston Post five years.
Mrs Jennie T. Hobart, widow of vice
president Hobart, with her son and Miss
Kinsey, passed through Boston, Wednes-
day, In their Knox automobile bound
for Poland Springs. They started from
Paterson, N. j their home, Monday,
and travelled at the rate OF 100 miles a
day. The entire trip was greatly en-
joyed by the party In a luxuriantly
equipped car.
| A locomotive and six freight cars dc
stroyed and one man terribly soalded,
was the result of head-on collision
early Sunday morning between regular
and an extra freight train on the Wor
oester, Nashua & Portland division of
the Boston & Maine R r. The col
lision was about quarter OF mile east
of the West Rochester station and less
than 100 feet east of covered bridge.
Over TOO emigrants, bound from
Copenhagen for New York on the
Scandinavian mercan line steamer,
| Norge, have been drowned. Twenty
seven survivors were landed at Grimsby,
Is miles southeast Of Hull, June 80
The Norge struck on rock, June %, in
the North Sea and foundered. There
was heavy sea and most OF the boats
| were smashed. Only Two of the boats
succeeded in getting away and these
picked up by Grimsby trawlers and
brought ashore.
One OF the Fourth of July accidents re-
ported is the case of Harry Percival, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. M. n. Perez val OF Gardi-
| ner, the fore finger o! his left hand being
nearly blown off by the accident ! ex-
plosion of blank ridge In revolver
The affair happened while the revolver
was in the boys right hand when the
shell exploded and as 1t we pointed
toward his other hand the powder aud
fire struck the finger mentioned, badly
decorating the flesh and severiDg the
cord in the finger.
Helen Keller has graduated from
Radcliffe college, the women's annex
to Harvard university, and her grad
uaton is one of the most wonderful
achievements in the history of educ =
ton. Helen Keller was born in Alabe :
ma about "a years ago, and In her
early infancy she lost both sight and
hearing. UP to her eighth year she
could not speak, hear or see. Now this
girl graduates from a college which is
one of the most exacting in scholastic
| requirements of the woman's colleges OF
this country.
| Here ia something refreshingly roman
tic in the line of June weddings. 1t oc-
CURED on the ferry boat at Hillman's
ferry, according to the Livermore Falls
Advert ser. The bridal party consisted
of Mr.. Lewis Leavitt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Dyke, Hon. A. d. Cole and the
contracting parties, Mrs. Hattie Jackson
and Mr.. Mantor Cummings. Mr.. Lewis
Leavitt ferried them near to the Liver
more side of the river and the ceremony
was pc, formed by Hon. A. ID. Cole, the
others acting as witnesses to the pretty
scene by moonlight on the waters OF the
lovely Androsooggin.
Over 400 men in the employ of the
International paper mill, Oxford paper
mill and railroad at Rumford Falls, have
signed an agreement to join the Young
Mems Christian Association, and 1t is
| understood that the association Ia TO be
presented with 1926 COD building fully
equipped and furnished with reading
rooms, writing roo rs, gymnasium,
| billiard and pool rooms, bowling alley