The Somerset reporter., 1905-04-20
STATE AND GEN ERAL.


last Thursday, Charles NJ Reed, one Of
the oldest lawyers in Boston, was found
guilty of embezzling sums to the amount
of $90,0 900
The starch factories i'll Aroostook
have started up and are taking care 81
the surplus potatoes. Good potatoes
are worth az much to grind up for starch
as they sell for at the shipping stations.
Joseph Jefferson, the noted actor, Is
critically i'll at his winter residence at
Palm Beach, Fla Mr.. Jefferson caught
cold about three week ago while on a
VISIT to ex-President Cleveland at Hobe
Sound
Governor Robert NJ. LaFollette of
Wisconsin has signed the antl-cigarette
bill, which prohibits the sale or manu-.
faeture of cigarettes or cigarette tobacco
or paper, or the giving away OF cigarette
paper The bin goes into effect July /.
The date of the Weymouth oelebra-
ton at Thomaston has been fixed for
July 8 Governor Cobb will deliver an
address at the unwilling of the tablet
and there will be river carnival with
basket picnic at one of the islands.
Bangor expects that fully half a mil
lion dollars will be spent in that city for
new buildings during 1905 This in.
cudes the new NJ. c. K X. passenger
station, a hotel addition, an Odd Fellows
hall, the new public library and 80 or
more dwellings
The Maine Methodist conference held
an executive session on Friday at which
the charges against Rev. f. II. Billing
ton. former pastor of the Wayne
church, for conduct unbecoming a min
lister were heard 1t was voted that he
be expelled from the church.
H. l. Hunton of Waterville has re-
ceived two dozen turkey eggs by ex.
press recently from the celebrated In
terstate Bronze Turkey Farm in West
Virginia, where turkeys are raised
weighing 40 pounds. Mr.. Hunton will
oonsign the eggs to the care of the in
cubator.
At meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Maine state Grange, held
at the Bangor House last week, it was
voted to accept the invitation of the
Bangor Board of Trade to hold the next
annual meeting of the state Grange in
Bangor, in the third week of Decemb Der
Waldoboro il famous for its poultry
and they claim that the secret of making
hens lay in the winter is to feed them
on apples Miss Emma |. Labe, winter
ed nineteen pullets, and she has fed
eight barrels of apples to them, and is
now buying apples to feed them on; and
those 10 pullets have laid from Is to Is
eggs per day all winter. Edward f.
Waterman has fed 20 barrels of apples
to his hens and has got upwards of 200
eggs per day all winter.
The old State flag of the 18th Massa-
chusetts Volunteer Infantry, which was
lost in the second battle of Bull Run,
August 30, 1862, was returned to the
State. last week, by deit CATION repre-
sentlng the regiment. The delegation
was received by Governor Douglass, and
were introduced by Lieut.. Gov. Guild.
In the party was col William b. White,
who commanded the regiment, Lieuten-
ant Amasa Guild and Sergt. David c.
Mecchan
One of the heaviest fines ever i'm.
posed in a liquor case in this State was
imposed in the Kennebec county shpe-
,ior court by Judge Oliver e.. Hall, last
week, tn l.. Leroy simpson, a prominent
Watervlle druggist 1t was for $500 on
one indictment for maintaining a liquor
nuisance and to pay the costs of prose
cution on five other cases The respon
dent was also compelled to give bond
of 81 900 not to violate the prohibitory
liquor law again He had no previous
record in the superior court.
Nrs Gassie l. Chadwick was arrang-
ed IN the United states district court in
Cleveland, o Friday and pleaded not
guilty to the new indictment recently re-
turned against her by the grand jury
charging her with aiding and abetting A .
Spear, cashier of the Oberlin O.,
hank in making false entries In bank
books and in making untrue statements
to the comptroller of the currency
Spear was also arraigned and pleaded
not guilty The court has increased
Mrs Chadwick's bail from $40 00O to
$4,000
An unknown body, afterwards ascer.
tanned to be that of Joseph Bolger a
French Canadian belonging at ST Fran
cis Z. Q was discovered, Friday in one
of the old Charles Green camps at Cham
of Ponds, above Eustis, under oircum-
stances indicating he was murdered; the
if he had been struck by blunt instru
ment The pockets were turned our,
which would suggest robbery as a pos
sibe motive, and spots of blood were
upon the floor. Bolger had been mis-.
sing since last December when he left
st. Frances, which is situated near the
boundary line and about 80 miles through
the forest to the northwest of Eustis
The mans identity was ascertaned
from time bill in his clothing 10 which
it was shown that 5000 was paid him in
December and it is presumed he was
murdered and robbed at that time while
in possession of this money. The body
was badly decomposed and must have
been dead at least three months The
report that he had left Chain of Ponds
farm, Wednesday afternoon, evidently
was caused by confusion in the des-
criptiOn given of the body Five dollars
was found upon the floor near the body
and the pockets were turned out Later
news after the visit of coroner from
Pennington disaproves the murder
theory, it being decided be died natu
raj death.
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