The Somerset reporter., 1905-05-18
STATE AND GENERAL

conference at the hite House, that
he would retire from the cabinet SOME
time next fall.
President Roosevelt has approved the
recommendation Of sec. Morton thaf the
body Of John Paul Jones be buried at
Annapolis, Md
Beginning last week the through
sleeping car service Ras resumed be
tween Boston and Greenville Moose
head lake.
James Martin Fuller % years Of age Of
Augusta committed suicide at Lake
Cobossecontic 90 Monday by jumping
into the lake from a boat
The safe ia the post Office kept by
postmaster Orman l. Stanley at Kezar
Fails was blown open with nitroglvceI-
Inc, early Thursday, and stamps valued
at about t275 taken
The condition of Admiral Dewey, who
was taken ill., saturday, in New YORK
and who returned to his home u Waeh-
ington, sunday was reported Monday to
be better
At South Gofham the saw.mill be-
longing to Samuel Knights was destroy
ed, Friday. The mil was a large one,
well equipped, and the loss was quite
heavy Ii is understood that Mr.
Knights carried insurance.
The Tooth anniversary of the founding
of the First Baptist church of >edgeweck
was on Sunday, observed with appro-
pirate exercises in the morning, after.
noon and evening The church has enc
of the finest structures in the county
The Great Northern Paper Company
of Maine has purchased the Crocker
township which is heavily timbered
Logs will be driven down the Kennebec
to Madison and turned into pulp. The
price paid is said to have been $50, 900
Fred Bilodeau of Oakland, who was
arrested by the officers of that town on
the charge of connterfeiting, was taken
to Portland, Thursday last, by United
States Deputy Marshall Hasty for a
hearing, and held under bonds for trial
The body of DIR. E. G Reynolds, the
West Newfield dentist who disappeared.
the day before, was found, Friday. hang
Ing from halter attached to a tree a
mile from his home. He had been seri-
ously i'll for three months with a ner.
yous attack.
Because it was not stipulated and
specifically stared that one sentence
should take effect at the expiration of
the other August g. Perro served two
sentences in one in Bangor jail and now
has his liberty, as much to his own sur
prise as that of anyone else.
President Roosevelt reached home at
midnight, the 11th mat from his west.
ern trip, which be declared was one of
the most enjoyable journeys he has
taken since he has been President He
travelled 60O6 miles and passed through
II states and three territories.
Chief Justice Andrew P. Wiswell and
Mrs. Wiswell of Ellsworth are planning
to spend the Judges vacation. this sum-
mer in Europe. They are booked to
sail from New York on the Baltic of the
White star Line, June q. and intend to
spend two or three months abroad.
The new Watervile Free Library
building was formerly dedicated, Friday,
the II inst, in the presence of an intel
! ligent and interested audience. which
gathered about the building and listen
ed to the program which had been pre-.
pared for the occasion by the trustees
1t WAS announced, Friday. that the
! granite strike at Hurricane Island had
been settled and the 55 quarrymer
would soon resume work Peace terms
were arrived at as the result of con
ference between general manager VIM
| S White and P. J Mccarthy, secretary
of the International Quarrymen's IN
| ion.
| After more than ii months in prison
and three mistrials, on the charge OF
numbering Caesar Young. Nan Patterson
walked from the Tumbs, Friday, a free
woman. Az she left the great buildinl
which has been her home since a few
days after Young was found dying in
cab in lower New York, 2000 people
greeted her with cheers.
Richard Croker is certainly beu.
severely afflicted the tragic death o
his son following close after the fata
accident to his boy Frank, who was thu
victim of an automobile accident il
Florida MIR. Croker had but recently
been in this country to attend III,
funeral of Frank. He returned I,
Europe ten days or fortnight since
Herbert V. Croker, a son of RicharC
Croker, the New York political leader
WAS found dead or a south bound Atchi
son, Topeka and santa Fe Railroad tran
between Kansas City and Newton, Kan.
Friday. He had died during the night
| evidently from the effects of some dru.
administered at Kansas City where b.
took the train, for Bliss, Okla.
Among Maine men who have Ittaine,
journalistic prominence in New foIi
the following are enumerated: +. Z
Mitchell, editor of the sun; Frank "
Ia thorne, editor of the Commercial
Charles W. Lincoln. city editor of TIN
World; Morrill, Goddard, managing edi
lar of the sunday American and jour
nal, and Don Q. Seitz business manage
OF the World.
The large ice house of Bearce a vi
son. Lewiston. was destroyed, Frida
afternoon by ire which broke ont Al
O'Clock. II is thought that most of tb
ice will be unfit for use. The loss Nj
probably be $500 The company ha'
S21OO insurance on the buildings AM
contents Several buildings, inc'uiIn.
three dwelling honses, caught fire frou
the sparks but little damage resulted.
Nineteen persons are known to %
dead and more than 100 others were in
jured in the railroad wreck and dynl
mite explosion which occurred, th
18th inst, on the Pennsylvania raliraa'
in the southern part of Harrisburg
That no more persons were killed j
considered remarkable 10y the Peunsyl
yania railroad officials as a full box "a
of dynamite exploded directly at I'll
middle of the heavy express train
Fierce fighting has been goinE ON III
last two weeks on the island ol dole be