The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1905-11-23
STATE AND GENERA.

II IN "a uDuuct0 iu7l DlSnoH olindD
who has hot take vacation Ia several
years, will take tip TO Europe this
winter.
The fifth annual exhibition Of the
Maine State poultry and pet stock as
SOC alton, will he held ia POULAND, City
hall, Dec to inclusive There will
be birds and more birds, bnl lev Bel
gian hares
Since the automobile Law IN Mains
ven into force last June III machInes
have been reg stored and 81 motor cy-
Giles, whlle $50 operators have been H.
censed, All this has brought into the
state treasury the sum of ID 100
! he first carload of potatoes out of
Aroostook over the Northern Maine
seaport railroad was sent down Friday
night aud arrived at Stockton springs on
saturday 30 the new road is open at
last for business and the outlet of Aroos.
took to the sea is an established fact
Aroostook is to have another paper
1t will be the Ashland Gazette l. J.
Pendeli, proprietor and editor of the
Aroostook Republican, Caribou is re-
sponsble for it. His brother, Charles
D., of BInghamtton, N. Y will have
charge of tho new publication Here's
luck.
samuel Jameson Anderson, one of
Portland's most distinguished citizens,
for many years one of the democratic
leaders of the state at one time collector
of the port of Portland. and candidate
for his party for Congress, died, Satur-
dag afternoon, at his home "a Free
street after an illness of three weeks as
result of angina pectoris.
One hundred and twenty.eght persons
lost their lives in the wreck of the Lon
don onthwestern Company steamer,
Hilda, OFT the northern coast of France,
Saturday night, according 10 an off cial
estimate given out Monday, by off GERS
of the company. This death roll in
cludes Il saloon passengers so French
onion sellers and 81 of the crew.
The apple shipments from Portland
for the past week were the largest thai
thew have been this fall and will con-
stantly increase from now on There
were IA, Ill barrels taken from that port
last week as compared with 1892 barrels
for the same week year aye about
250 900 barrels of apples have thus
far been shipped abroad, this fall from
all American ports.
Thomas Blaney of Sprague's Wills Az
seriously injured and perhaps fatally
burned and six horses were incinerated
in a fire that, Monday. destroy ed the
stable of Frank b. Gilbert. a Boston
contractor, who was engaged in an ex-
tensve building undertaking The fire
originated through the explosion of a
lantern carried by Blaney The loss
will be heavy, several persons being af-
fected
At the session of the National Grange
in session last week, in Atlantic City,
n. 7 resolution was presented ask
ing the states To exercise a stricter care
and control of both fire and life insur-
ance, or the farmers would be victims
of INSCRIPTIONS companies. The mem
bers were very much elated over the re-
ports from all sections which go to show
tina the embership next year will reach
the million mark
William Murray of Lewis5n has found
four valuable pearls in brook in An
droscoggin county this year They arr
beauties and will bring the owner in the
neighborhood of $500 Many people in
their leisure hours hunt for pearls, but
none have been 30 successful az Mr.
Murray and Adolph Reed. Mr.. Reed
has sold the satin pearl, which he found
IN Lewiston brook. for S140 10 Massa
chusetts jewelry firm
The large barn of the Massachusetts
Agricultural College at Amherst, Mass
which contained the creamery plant
800 tons of hay, and 300 tons of ensilage,
was destroyed by fire, early Thursday
the loss being estimated at $40 600
The horses and nearly all the cattle were
saved, but four valuable bulls and all the
sheep and hogs were burned. The fire
is said to have been of incendlary origin,
The building WAS well constructed and
it is about ID years old.
Mrs. Mary A Ellis, aged 81 years, com
mitted suicide by hanging at her home
in BIddefOrd, Friday She WAS discover
ed by her husband. George ". Ellis, tC
whom she was married eight monts ago
When Ellis arose, Friday his wife wal
missing After searching the house, ht
found her body suspended from a bal
aster in the rear of the house. Mrs
Ellis WAS the wido" of John Farwell
who died several years ago Despondf u
cy is believed to have been the cause oil
the suicide.
A funeral without paralell,in Phladel
phia took place, Sunday, at the Midvalt
! Steel Works where a 40-ton ingot oil
steel permeated with the flesh, blood
and bones of two workmen WAS buried
with the solemn rites of the Roman
Catholic church The workmen who
were 30 strangely laid away were John
Forkn and Joseph Gazda, two laborers
| h,,V Ia
They were in pit near cupalo contain.
many tons of molten STEEL A plug gave
way and 80 600 pounds II the fiery LIQUID
poured from the cup1lo aud overwhe m.
them. The men were completely incin.
Grated and not trace of themselves OF
their clothing was left.
Seven passengers were injured, one
fatally, as the result of runaway horse
attached to heavy dump cart crashing
into the eide of a moving electric car in
south Boston, Friday afternoon. The
heavy vehicle struck the car with great
force, splintering glass and breaking
wood work which was scattered among
the passengers. One of the shafts OF
the cart pierced the car and in its pas
sage struck an unknown young woman,
fracturing her skull and causing other
injuries. She WAS removed to the City
hospital, unconscious Physicians ex
pressed the opinion that she would not
recover. She WAS about 20 years of age.
The other injured passengers were cut
by the flying glass and spinters, as well
az bruised The accident was at the
corner of Broadway and Dorchester
avenue.
ThoughtfuIness