The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1905-02-02
STATE AND GENERAL

j IL ~toddard. the veteran actor, has
been on the stage Is years, aud during
that time has missed but two perform
ances through illness or other causes.
Department Commander ailliken has
issued an order that the annual eneamp-
ment of the Grand Army will be held at
Lewiston on February Iii and II next.
There were 1173 people inoculated
against the plague at Habli, tudia, and
only 2 per cent died. The percentage
of deaths among those who refused to
! be inoculated WAS rs g
! The casualties during the recent
fighting at Chenchehpao and Heinkou-
tan are estimated at 5000 ON the side of
the Japanese, and 10000 ON the Russian
side.
The American steamer NJ Dollar,
EN- cute for Vladivostok with cargo OF
provisions and forage, was seized FRI
day by the Japanese Ia the Paolfic ocean
east of Hokkaido Island
Mrs, Mary Mabel Rogers must abe
hanged next Friday. GOV. Bell remains
inexorably steadfast to his ult,matum
that he is to see that the law is executed
and not to interfere With II
About 500 of the Presidents neigh
bors in Nassau county. headed 10y band
are arranging to go To Washington 10
SEQ him lnaugurated. They will wear
silk hats. rain coats and carry silk um-
bralIas.
As the result of drinking wood Alec.
hol and water two men, David Mlchevle
and toulumbe, are dead and woman
named Gotta is not expected 10 live All
resided on Treat and Webster island at
Old Town.
Popular demonstrations in sympathy
with the victims of the rloting in st
| Petersburg, sunday last, have occurred
in Rome and the other principal cities
of Italy. They we're easily handled by
the police.
The increasing scarcity of hickory in
this country is alarming the manufac
turers OF wagons and other consumers
of this timber. Insects are preyng on
the trees, and the hickory supply il
nearing extinction.
Work on the new ship for Arctic ex
ploration, which is being built at Bucks
port by Mckay & Dix for Commander
Robert +. Peary is now well along and
II is expected that the vessel will go
overheard in March.
The United States cruiser Dixie at
Colon has received hurry orders to pro-
coed to Santa Domingo Two hundred
marines wereIbrought to dion, from EN-
pire camp and embarked on board The
Dixie and sailed by way of Guantanamo.
Every week brings reports from new
towns in York county where nests of
the brown-laied moth have been found.
1t looks as If every town in the county
would prove to be inc uded by spring
which makes the situation very serious
IN that section.
slot machines and gambling devices
are doomed in Hancock county and ue-
fore many days there will be a carload
or two for sale; Sheriff b. Il. Mayo has
instructed his deputies that the nuisance
is To be abolished and that every town Ii
to be looked after
A despatch to Reuters Telegi am Com
pany at London from Riga, Russia con
firms the previous announcement of a
collision there between suikefs and
troops Thirty wofkmen were killed or
wounded and a snb-chlef of police and
two soldiers were MORALLY wounded.
The secretary of state has received a
telegram from Consul General Gudger AZ
Panama saving that with the exception
of l'aymasfer Saekett, all the yellow
fever cases on the U ). Steamship
Boston are much better and that tueIe
have been no new cases on board that
ship
The trustees of Colby college, at their
meeting, last week, in Portland, took
several important steps. Most import
ant was the action, anticipated since last
commencement, looking to the estab-
lishment of a separate college for wo-
men. OF this college the new Foss hall,
rapidly nearing completion, Is the nu-
cleus.
The belief in financial and other we'll
informed circles that the crisis in Russia
will soon compel even the grand ducal
regime To seek peace with Japan grows
stronger, at London. The logic of the
situation points in this direction, as was
indicated in dispatches which were
based on the views of high financial
authority
Before host of their friends and rea
tives who came from all parts of the
country TO witness their graduation, the
ia members of the first class at the Ma
val Acadamy, on Monday completed
their four-years' course and received
their diplomas at the hands of President
Roosevelt.
Three steamers carry ing 1000 Russian
refugees, left, a'urday, for Odessa.
Two junks, the van guard of 25, which
eft Port Arthur, jan. 81, arrived here,
today The coolest weather of the sea-
son was experienced during the trip and
a majority of the women and children
aboard we're nearly frozen.
The War Department has authorized
Sergeant Richardson OF Fort Popham TO
tnrn over to } H. Stacy for the village
of Popham Beach, one of the old guns
now 10 the fort, the last one that is to
be given away AZ a relic. This gun is to
be taken from the fort and mounted on
the lawn in front of the Riverside Hotel
at that place
Within the next three years the Inter
national Pulp and Paper Company will
erect another mill on the Penobscot
river, either at VIM or above Malta
wamkeag. Such IL the statement of a
man connected with the company and
while he frankly says that he doesn't
expect it to be built the present year, he
is sure hat construction will begin with
in the time said,
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