The Somerset reporter., 1905-05-04
STATE AND GENERAL.

Sparks from a pile Of burning waste
boards on the bank of Penobscot river,
carried by the wind into the lumber
yard Of Barker d sons Of Milford, near
Bangor, late Friday, started a fire that
before it had been controlled des-
troyed 21 buildings and 900, 900 feet Of
lumber, entailing a total loss roughly es-
timated at 900.
The andirons with wrought moose and
deer heads which attracted 80 much at
tention in the Maine building at the St.
Louis Exposition have been bought by
the trustees of the Rockland Carnegie
Library, where they may now be seen
The andirons were made by A. j. II.
Turner of Isle au Haut, who is consid.
cred one of the best iron workers in the
STATE.
Twelve men were killed and one fatal
ly injured by an explosion which occur
red, Thursday night, at Dubois, Pa
The shaft is in an isolated part of the
county, and although the explosion oc
Cured at o35, no word reached the
surrounding towns until Friday morning.
The mine is owned by the Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburg railway, and was
only opened two years ago.
One of the largest sales of timberland
in Maine for some time became known
Saturday. The Great Northern Paper
Company has bought of Prouty d Mil.
Ter the whole of Crocker township,
which 10 heavily timbered land The
logs will be driven down the Kennebec
river to Madison and used for pulp in
the large mill at that place. The price
10 haliaUpH n ha q G1k0
1t was determined, Thursday. by DR.
A. c. Young of the State Board of
Health that an epidemic of smallpo ex-
lists in Lewiston and Auburn. Six cases
were in the pest house Thursday, and
many more of mild type have been dis
covered. Just how many cases there
are in the two cities had not been ascer.
tanned, Thursday, but it feared that hun
dreds of persons have been exposed to
the disease.
Newman P. Lyon, aged %, of Rum
ford Falls, district foreman in the Cont.
mental Paper Bag Co. of that place, com.
mitted suicide Thursday by shooting
himself through the head. In a letter
10 his wife he said that he had become
Respondent by worrying over pee uiar
impediment in his speech and had de-
cided to end his life He held respon-
sible position in the mill and was TO
have been promoted May LIST.
Mrs. Alice p. Manley, who with her
husband, the Rev. W. Il. Hanley, went
out as missionary to Rangoon. Berma in
October, 1879, and later was transferred
to India, sailed from Madras with her
little boy, frankie. for home on April 10
They ara expected to arrive in Boston
about May y. Mrs Manley is a daugh-
ter of T.. Freeland Penlev of South Paris.
Mr. Maney proposes to stay in India a
few years longer.
The ArnOstook Valley Starch Factory
at Fort Fairfield has taken in since Mon
day, April II, Thousand barrels of 20
tatoes daily. The factory is getting all
. the potatoes it cares To handle at this
season of the year Five factories in
this town are all busy trying to help the
farmers to lessen their stock of potatoes
! on hand, There are great quantities OF
the tubers still stored Notwithstanding
the shipments this year are far in ex.
cess of any year in the history of the
business in this vicinity
l.. P. Bartlett Of Lynn, Mass, senior
member Of the Radcliffe shoe Company,
is quoted as saying that If homes and
boarding places could be secured for the
additional help there would be good
prospects OF the firm occupying the old
shoe shop at Norway village in the near
future The shop known as the Sanborn
shoe shop has been vacant for some
years but in the possession OF the firm.
Mr.. Bartlett speaks in the most euceur
aging manner of the seasons operations
and there will be much business fer the
new shop at Norway.
Rural free mail delivery by small
steam launches will be established 81
Bar Harbor the first of July, and con-
uuue until the close of the summer re.
sort season, as the result OF petitions
sent 70 the postotfice department boy
many New York people who spend
their vacations on the Maine coast. In
years past, summer cottagers and resi-
dents at hotels of the railroad and
steamship lines have been obliged o.
put up with a mai delivery service
which was run on happy go-lucky par.
causing much Inconvenience - thus,
who awaited the arrival of lmpotns
documents.