The Somerset reporter., 1906-03-01
STATE AND GENERAL.

O'clock and caused damage of 10000
There WAS no insurance
Hon and Mrs Leslie {. Cornish oil
Augusta and Miss Alice Bassett OF Win
slow will spend he early spring months
among the ports along the Mediterranean
sra ard viii sail from Boston, saturday,
March Il. on the Romantic.
On account of his illness George A.
Wilson of South Paris las resigned az
referee IN bankruptcy for Oxford county
and Walter l.. Gray, member of the
legislature, has been appointed 10 fill out
ths term, which expires next July.
Governor cobb mas accepted an ~
yitaton for himself and staff 70 be pre-
sent at a dinner to be gwen by the ofl
Gers OF the State of Maine club Of Bos-
ton on Thursday March ID, when the
state BOARD of Trade is 70 be il session
at the club house.
Rev. Father Mothon, pastor of st
Peters Parish, in Lewiston announced
at all of the services Of the church yes
terday the census of the French popula-
/ ton of Lewiston as 1858 families, max
ing grand total Of 1912 persons a
gam of 800 over last year.
Charles Mingo, aged Is and married,
was fatally injured, last Thursday, while
watching operations in the Tarbox lath
/ mill at Red Beach. An overhead pull
| ley burst and piece OF 1t struck him
upon the head, crushing in The skull
1 He died several hours later. Mngo WAS
employed by the Maine Red Granite
/ Company.
The highest railroad bridge 10 the
world will be built across the top OF the
/ famous Royal gorge, near Canon City,
/ Colo II will be $50 feet above the hang
+ ing bridge of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad so high in the air that the
roaring of the Arkansas river below Will
not be heard and the powerful stream
will look like thread of silver running
between the frowning cliffs.
Freeman J. Gerry aud Walter l.. G )r-
ION of + ! Gerry & tompany, Dexter,
have been In Dover arranging tpI the
starting OF creamery. AfJcr lnspect
ing several prospective buildings Tor a
location they decided on the Bailey
block on south street and succeeded in
obtaining lease of the building The
firm of + J Gerry K Company is among
the leaders IN the creamery business in
Maine. Il operates creameries in Dex
ter, Corinna, Belfast, Bucksport.
There are two young Japs at West
j brook Seminary. Shukichi Nagal and
Yukich Nose. The young men are here
! for the study of English and they will
I eventually have positions in large bust
ness houses in hicago. presumably tea
houses They have taken English ia
+ their own schools. and while they can
read 1t readily, they can speak bat little
but are now learning rapidly. In man
ner and bearing they are particularly
gen,lemenly and dignifed.
The Augusta, Oakland and Waterville
Street Railway company filed articles OF
/ association last week at the Office of the
( State board of railroad commissioners.
i The company proposes to con 'truct aud
operate by compressed air or electricity
/ a railroad from Oakland through Sidney
/ to Augusta, a distance of Is miles The
capitaliza tion Is placed at $75 900 The
directors are Cyrus w. Davis and Ralph
NJ Gilmore of Waterville. Edwin j..
! Lawrence. Stephen Nye and Amos Ger
aid of Fairfield
While Telling trees In the woods near
his home on tho Burnham road, near
! Pittstield, Wednesday of last week.
( William Getchell had the misfortune to
be struck by a falling tree with such
force a. to fracture his right thigh JUST
/ below the hip Joint. Mr.. Getchell was
alone in the woods at the time and II
was more than three hours after the
! incident occurred before he was found
! by his brother, Dennis, with wnom he
! makes his home The injured man wae
rendered helpless by the accident, which
pinioued him to the spot.
According to a fisherman who came to
! Portland Friday of last week, two fami-
! lies, consisting of IA persons, living on
an isolated island near New Meadow
river, Is miles from Portland, were on
the verge of starvation recently because
their one boat was carried away by a
storm. Provisions became exhausted
Both families suffered intensely on &C
count of lack of nourishm ent, The men
finally succeeded in constructing n rough
boat, in v hich they reached Malaga is-
land, eight miles distant, and got provi-
sons and another boat.
The guide who is alleged to have shot
deer in the hotel park at KineO last fall
and straightway skipped for the woods
WAS arrested early in the week at Jack
son camp above Seboomook on the
West Branch aud was broughtto Green
vile Tuesday night on the stage from
Northeast Garry by Game "ardens w.
Hamilton and David Brown of Green
vile The deer was shot in open sea
son but on Sunday. which Is always close
time. Besides, the deer was claimed as
the property of the hotel and there was
no little indignation over the affair at
the time The wardens have been look
ing for the man ever since, and when he
WAS found at ,Jackson's he was arreste
at once.
The hearing on the petition for the
pardon of Fred NJ. staples, of Belfast
who ia serving term in Jail for the
violation of the liquor law, will not be
held on Friday by the governor and
council AZ the petition has been with,
drawn. The petition was gotten up by
friends of Mrs staples, bed-rdden i'll
valid and circulated aud signed by pro
minent ladies in the city. The legal de-
lay of one month caused the matter to
be brought before the public and after q
thorough investigation of circumstances
of Mr.. Staples case the ladies of the
Moman's Christian Temperance union
circulated a remonstrance which received
number of hundred signatures to a
very frankly worded petit ion WheI
Staples learned of the opposition petit
ton he requested those who had beer
active in the move for his pardon t
withdraw the petition before the gov
ernor. Later this was done by tele
phone.
The Rev. Dr. Minot j. Savage, minis
ter of the Unitarian church of the Mes