The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1905-04-13
STATE AND GENERAL.

The prize baby of the season is ia
pound son born, last week, to MI. and
Mrs. Samuel souoa of Caribou. More
over it is their thirteenth child.
Five persons were injured in col
lison, head on, between passenger
train and freight train on the White
hall division of the Delaware Il Hudson
River Railroad at Strong's corner, a
mile south of Vest Rutlsnd, late Mon
day. All, is believed will recover.
In the Kennebeo county Superior
Court, Monday afternoon, Orrin Little
field of Dexter WAS sentenced by Judge
Hall to serve one year IN the state
prison at Thomaston, having been con
voted of adultry by the jury. The al
legged offense occurred in hotel In
Waterville.
The washout at Gerald's dam on the
Sebasticook proves to be more serious
than at first was supposed. About 100
feet of earth has been washed out, thus
far. Unless the water should suddenly
rise again, the washout is stepped. But
the damage Is now considerable and will
necessitate much labor and expense to
repair the break.
Henry c. Moulton, we'll to do farmer
of York, was crushed to death Friday
by the collapse of small out building
which he was moving The building,
which was about Is feet square, was
lacked up, and Mr.. Moulton, who was
alone, had crawled beneath 1t to adjust
one of the rollers when it fell. He was
removed Immediately from the debris,
but lived only few minutes, MIR, Moul-
ton was TO years old and leaves three
daughters
The treasurer of the National Home
at Togus has received official notice of
the amount appropriated by congress
for the support of that branch of the
Home, for the year beginning July lst.
The amounts are as follows: Current
expenses, S35, 500; subsistence, $lS4 900 :;
household, $1,000; hospital, $50, 900;
transportation, 81, 800; repairs, $26, 600;
farm, $15, 900 addition to library build
ing, $1,000 Total, $685., 900.
The NJ. C. r. R. freight house at Read
field with its contents and five loaded
cars were entirely destroyed by fire
which was discovered Friday morning
about 4.30 O'Clock, during heavy rain
which was continuous throughout the
night. The loss to the owners must be
heavy "a there was a large amount of
merchandise in the building. Among
the cars burned was one freighted with
grain belonging to Gordon & Son, and
another with moving machines owned
by K. Mccormick The origin OF the
fire is unknown
At the meeting OF the Civic Federation
in New York, Seth Low took the ground
- w n ind ipinl |
arbitration. He believes that future
strikes and lock-outs should be settled
in this country "a they are now settled
in Australia. He urges that labor and
capital are often arbitrary and that
while we declare for compulsory arbtra-
ton between individuals, one OF whom ia
accused of wronging the other, we
should logically apply the same prir-
ciples TO the great trusts OF labor and
capital whose wars are menace to bust
ness
1t is an interesting coincidence that
the city clerks of three leading Maine
cities, Ralph p Plaisted of Bangor,
Frank q. Harrington of Augusta and
Harry VI. Bigelow of Portland were all
members of the class of 1890 in the
COny High school, Augusta After
graduation, Plaisted and harrington went
to Bowdoip. where they graduated in
'94, PlaisteG being the best baseball
pitcher of his day in the State and Far
rington excelling i'll scholarship and be-
ing the most popular man of his class.
Later both studied law. Bigelow went
to Annapolis and later entered news.
paper work in Portland.
The Elmwood Farm at Poland, Me-,
purchased by the late James :. Sanborn
in 1887, is to be sold. This farm has be-
come famous throughout New England.
At first it was stocked with Holsteins,
and after a few years the cattle were
sold and Gemare, Lothian and five i'm
ported mares all French coach, selected
with great care from the government
horses of France, were purchased.
Others have since been added until this
year there we're % choice brood mares,
all pure bred except three. From this
farm has gone yearly lot of high class
road horses, while through the liberality
of Mr.. Sanborn, the farmers of the State
have had the use of the stations at low
rates. 1t il claimed Elmwood Farm has
done more for the road horse stock in
Maine the past fifteen years than any
other farm The death of j. :. Sanborn
was a loss to the state.