The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1905-02-16

Although High Sheriff Is. ii. Mayo OF
Hancock Co. has been in office scarcely
two months, a marked change has been
wrought in Ellsworth and the county
generally in regard to liquor selling and
maintaining gambling devices In
Ellsworth few sales are made, and a
drunken person on the streets would be
"A novelty.
A small bay mare owned by Alpheus
Libby, North ~aco farmer, was struck
by fire light locomotive, Saturday night,
and carried 1900 feet on the pilot Elk
cept IA few bruises and cut on one of
her hind legs, the mare was unhurt.
The animal. attached to a loaded pung,
had been eft standing on North street
and wandered onto the railroad crossing.
The pung was smashed TO splinters.
The parcels post arrang 3meDts with
England and France which second As
sistant Postmaster General Shallenber-
ger. who is now in Europe is supposed
to have negotiated, may prove of far
reaching consequence. They do not re-
quire the approval of the Senate. The
signature of the Postmaster General for
the President and of the British ambass-
ador for his Government settle the ques-
ton.
Captain William II. Brown, keeper of
The Boston city prison for five years
past, died Friday age SO years. Death
was due to a complication of diseases.
Captain Brown was born in Hallowell,
Me July IT, l84l, and was appointed on
The Boston police force in 1872 He
rose thrOuge the various grades to be
captain in in 1885, and after IA years
service in outlying districts, was ap-
pointed the keeper of the city prison or
Tombs, in 1900.
Benjamin Moquin, a Waterman at the
Amoskeag mill Manchester, n H walk
cd into the police station, saturday
morning at about s o'clock, and stated
that he was the man who committed the
murderous assault on George Pellerin,
on Thursday afternoon, and had come
to surrender himself. With him was
Thomas Plante, also Waterman at the
Amoskesg mill. who was with Moquin
when the assault was made. Plante also
gave himself up.
Out of IS candidates who took the ex
aminations for admission To the State
bar last week, only six were successful
Their names we're announced, Friday,
by Matthew Laughlin, secretary of the
board of State examiners as follows;
Roland K. Clark, Houlton; Ulysses q.
Mudgett, Hampden; Percy N. II. Lom-
bard, Old Orchard; William A. johnson,
Milo; Melvin Fl Simmons, Hallowell,
and d. Drummond Foss, Houlton.
James Sherwood, alias Shannon, who
was arrested at Baltimore, December 8
and indicted for conspiracy to rob a
postoffice and for burglsriziug the post
office at Bowdoinham, was sentenced in
the United States District Court at Port
land on Friday, to serve one year In
State prison and pay fine of $1,000
Edward Coughlin, against whom similar
indictments were found in the same
cases, 10 serving term in Jail at Charles
town, Nass.
senator Frye, president pro tempore
of the Senate, who presided over the
two branches of Congress when the off
cial count of elector vote was made
called at the executive Office Friday, and
delivered to Secretary Loeb, one of the
credential boxes which had contained
the official returns, to represented to the
President. This will be retained by the
President as a souvenir of his election
The box is made of mahogany and orna.
mented with inlay work
Fifty cents barrel for Hebrons and
90 for Mountains are making anything
but glad the heart of the Aroostook po-
tato-raiser. In this Connection the Fort
Fairfield Review says: Last year in A
roostook the best -four was SO or less
per barrel, and potatoes So or, in other
words, the farmer had to take only two
barrels or less of potatoes with which to
buy barrel of the best flour. This
year flour is 81 70, and potatoes so
cents, the farmer having to haul in 1874
barrels OF potatoes to get one barrel of
flour, eight times as many as last year.
According to Portland papers of Sat
urday the whole of New England is In
danger of coal famine because of the
frozen condition of the coast, and all
manufacturing establishments are in
danger of being forced to suspend work
The supplies of the largert dealers are
no more than enough to meet demands.
Al! she coal shipped during the past
two weeks, amounting to thousands of
tons, is tied up along the coast. Maine
people are greatly Inconvenience and
unless their supplies are repleuished i'm
mediately, many of the mills will be
shut down.
The federal grand jury at Portland,
Oregon has indicted Congressman j. R.