The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1905-06-29
STATE AND GENERAL

An extensive newspaper MI is to be
erected at SacO by the Publ ,hers Paper
Co.
Thomas Nichoi one Of the last sur.
vivors Of Commodore Perry expedition
To Japar IN 1850 is dead at hls home IL
Brook yn. He was - years Of age and
was born u England
The United states doubie-turreted
monitor Puritan, the largest and most
formidable war vessel Of the monitor
type III the world, has been ordered ~
PASSPORT for the Fourth Of July
General Manager ". Il Marshall OF
the Lake Shore road expressed the
i opirion that the wreck Of the Twentieth
/ Century limited tram WAS deliberately
/ planned by some unknown person
throwing the swith at Mentor.
Viceroy Yuan at fien Sien hna has
/ pTohi bited students from holding meet
! ngs in reference To the boycOtting Of
/ American manufactured goods and has
also issued a strong proclamation
against merchants interfering with at
fairs in the hands Of the Government.
The most serious accident since work
on the Northern seaport Railroad com
meneed, occurred. the 22nd inst in cut
near the South Hampden line. Eincen.
70 Catalogue was killed and three other
Italian laborers badly injured by the
delayed explosion of dynamite blast.
Chinese immigration to this country
/ aud the execution of the Chinese ex-
elusion laws constituted the principal
/ topic of discussion at the meeting of the
cabinet, Friday Ii was the last meet
ing of the cabinet to be held before
President Roosevelt leaves Washington
for the summer
The attendance at the Lewis and
Clark Exposition at Portland, Oregon, is
remarkably good. From the first day
the average was above 10000 and on
some days there have been 20, 600 people
present II this average keeps up
throughout the season the Exposition
connot fail 10 be financial success
Pressure Isle village is a busy place
and labor is scarce, and hard to obtain,
both for the farmers and building puf-
poses The large number employed on
The new normal dormitory, the new
block of stores, the private residences
being built and the school buildings
being repaired makes laborers OF every
kind in good demand.
The vice-royalty of the Far East hay
ing been abolished by the Imperial
ukase of June II, Admiral Alexieff has
been appointed a member of the council
of the empire and will continue TO hold
his position as aide de camp general TO
the Emperor. The minister of the in
terror has prohibited the pub ication of
the Russ for month.
Twenty-Five persons were killed as the
result of firing by dragons and Cos
sacks on a procession Of so 600 " orkmen
which had been organized as a
demonstration against the government
on the 23d inst at LODI Russia. Zen of
about 100 wounded are dying. Two
women were crushed to death in the
rush of the panic-stricken crowds, after
the firing began.
Some of the people are asking
whether we are to have another Euro
pean steamship line to Maine with
docks at stockton Springs Maine
apple Taisers are especially interested
since the steamships coming TO Portland
have freight contracts which prevent
handling much Maine fruit except that
raised in the country reached by the
Grand Trunk Railway.
New York reports that her epidemic
of spinal meningitis has come TO an end,
and that the death rate from this disease
has declined to the normal. The death
roll shows | 900 deaths since the first of
the ear; while of the cases reported as
cured, the disease in many instances has
left its victims without sight or hearing
and in many cases with unsound minds.
The Board of State Normal School
Trustees has elected Prof. ". f Rus
sell, principal of the Gorham school.
w. j. Corthell, the venerable principal
of the school, some time since an
nouneed his desire of being relieved of
the duties owing TO his reaching IS
years of age. Prof. Russell had been
Mr.. Corthels assistant for number of
terms.
Whitelaw Reid, the American am
bassador, who has been officially re-
ceived by King Edward and the mem
bers of the cabinet and entertained
socially by royalty and the leaders of
English society, made his first public APP
pearance as ambassador at a dinner
given in his honor by the Pilgrims so.
ciety of London, Friday. The gather
ing was most notable and included many
of England's most famous men with q
sprinkling of American representatives.
While travelling at the rate of seventy
miles an hour, the famous Twentieth
Century Limited, the fastest longdis-
lance train in the world, ran through an
open switch at the little town of Mentor,
east of Cleveland, the 2lst,, causing one
of the worst wrecks in the history Of the
Lake Shore road. The engine was
hurled into the ditch A part Of the
train was crushed on top OF il, and the
wreck was partly burned. The horrors
of the wreck were doubled in the hor
rors Of the fire.
Following the publication, of the re
port Of superintendent of Insurance
Hendricks AS 10 the affairs of the Equit-
able Life Assurance Society, came the
statement that District Attorney lie
rome of New York county has under
taken an inquiry into the conduct of the
society. The district attorney tele-
graphed to Mr. Hendricks request for
an official copy of his report. He re-
ceived a reply TO the effect that a copy
certified by the insurance department,
/ had been forwarded as requested.
! A reprieve until December S. for Mrs.
/ Mary Rogers, the condemned murderess,
/ has been signed by Governor Charles J..
! Bell, and for the third time the woman,
who was to have been hanged at
Windsor, Vt, Friday for killing her hus-
band, has been saved through
the operation of the governors