The Somerset reporter., 1905-07-27
STATE AND GENERAL.

Of Main street, Auburn was drowned
Friday evening, IL the Audroseoggin
rlver.
Twenty deaths have been added to the
list Of Chicago morallfies due 10 tie
lighting heat Of the fret three days Of
last week OF this number seven were
adults and he Others we're infants.
The papers are retelhng he story Of an
Oxford county tOurmaline via ch Prince
Henry Of Prussia bought for $50 O0O.
There are fortunes N the gems lyiug
round on the Oxford hills waiting tU be
picked up.
Henry Thayer Of Cambridge, Mass
who with his wife Is visiting 10 Brown
vile, recently shot bear while driving
Ia Barnard which weighed over 300
pounds He is having the hide made
into mat.
1t is expected that Machias will give
trade carvinal and fair August and 9,
The various committees already have
been ap olnted and plans are under
way 10 make this one of the best enter
tainments of its kind that Machias has
ever had.
President Roosevelt will call an extra.
ordinary session of Congress TO begin
November II. 1t was originally in
tended to call the session for month
earlier but the President has postponed
the date until after the completion of
his promised trip south.
The Maine Naval Reserve will have
its annual cruise beginning at 10 A. M,
at Portland. August 9 and continuing
one week. according to an announcement
m ada from tho ad infant uaDara1c
Friday. The name of the vessel to be
assigned by the navy department will
be announced later.
The body of Miss Lillian ). keene,
aged % years of Jamaica Plain Mass,
teacher in Milton Academy, who dis
appeared, Dec. S, at Bath, supposed TO
have jumped into the river, early in the
morning, from one of the wharves, was
discovered floating in the harbor Fri
day. The identity was established by
the clothing.
A Maine weather-wise prophesies that
August will be one of the hottest
months in many years. He says: Un
less all signs fail, no one will have rea-
son to complain of b wing h I'd cold
summer, II the end of August. July
still has few more hot days store fot
us, but August is the month, this year
we shall get our resi- old-fashioned sum
mer weather.
| The two oldest women in Maine are
natives of Hancock county-Mrs Mary
/ Cunningham, of Bangor, who was los
| years oil ON July A, last, and Mrs. Sa-
lone Sellers, of Deer Isle, who will be
105 If she lives until Oct. Is next Mrs
cunningham was born in Sedgwick and
lived there until 1850. when she moved
to Bucksport and thence TO Bangor in
! 1887
| The Arctic steamer Roosevelt, bound
| from New FORK for northern waters via
North Sydney, c. B., called at Bar
! Harbor Wednesday night, and after
! Commander X. E Peary had bade fare
well to Morris K Jesup of New York.
whose contributions to the Artic Club
have made it possible to build and
equip the vessel, she continued her
voyage.
The oldest persoa drawing aid from
tie State on the rolls in the pension
Office is Eli Cook of Belfast, who has
passed the century milestone Mr..
Cook wss a soldier in the bloodles
Aroostook war of 1888 and, according to
a special act of the Legislature draws
81 per month MIR. Cook has sons, both
| Civil War veterans, who also draw State
aid.
| NJ, Y. Wilson, the Bar Harbor florist
and experimentalist in vegetables, has
succeeded in raising a freak tomato
! which is seedless and shaped like a
cucumber and which he has called the
4 Amalgamated. 1t has delicious flavor
and is as hard as the ordinary cucumb ber
| Prof Wilson refuses to disclose the
secret which he has snatched from
nature and is preparing a statement of
the case for the agricultural station at
| Orono.
/ The entire set of farm buildings of
! Willard Z. Littlefield of the Poland
! Road, Auburn burned 10 the ground,
/ Sunday morning, between 3 and / o
clock The live stock which consisted
/ of five horses, COW and number of
hens was burned to death. Only a few
pieces of furniture were saved. The
cause of the fire is unknown. The loss
will be $1,000, and there is but little in
surance.
A small crowd attended the race meet
hich had been arranged for saturday
afternoon at Central Maine park, Water
vile, by {. Ii. simpson There was
some delay n getting the fields away Ia
each first heat but after much threaten
ins the drivers got down 10 business ami
the events were interesting. The T.
race WAS won by Frank ), five heats.
best time l9t : "a class won 10y Fer
nando, five heats, best time Il .
minute class Ven by Louise O., three
heats, best time PSI
The lumber mill, II cars partly loaded
with lumber. and the loadiug platform
of the Fish River Lumber Co, at Eagle
Lake plantation, we're totally destroyed
by fire, early L. day The total loss Is
estimated at 500 Oo0 on which there
is an insurance of $50, 600 The origin
of the fire is unknown, but the flames
had gained great head d-way when dis
covered The mill, which was in fli.
operation, employing l25 men, was
situated in The vicinity of Eagle Lake
in the extreme northern portion If
Aroostook county, and was the largest
northeast of Bangor The main Offices
of the company are located at Hon.tou.
Five miners were literally blown To
pieces by the explosion of twenty-five
pounds of dynamite in a $ orage powder
house at the West Riverside coal mine,
two miles west of Des Moines, Iowa, We l.
nesday. Heads, arms and legs were
scattered arouLd for a distance OF five
hundred feet. No one knew of the
explosion until the day shift came 10
work. The men killed were engaged in
sinking new shaft They sought