The Somerset reporter., 1906-02-08
STATE AND GENERA.


A fire in the wood room of tho How
land Pulp & Sulphite Co, last week,
WAS the cause of damage amounting to
SIS 600 or more Tho loss WAS prin-
cipally in the machinery Of the mill
which was badly damaged IN that room
Miss Clara Smith. who lives with her
brother, William Smith, on the North
field road in Thomaston, near Ainsted,
Coun.. has invented an auger that will
bore a square hole. She ia of ingenious
mind but the suger is her best produce
tion. and carpenters say there is for
tune in it for her.
The Union elevator at Rast =. Louis,
Ill.,. containing a million bushels of
wheat was destroyed by fire, saturday
night, entsiling loss of more than ST.
900 600 The fire spread to the stables
Of the ST. Louis Transfer %, and 100
horses and 200 wagons we're burned, az
well AS the stables
John Hamlin was killed Monday, by
getting entangled in machinery at the
grain mill of l.. \ bithales at Rocklaud.
He was whirled about shaft until his
life was beaten out. Hamlin was 20
years old. He was q new hand In the
mill and was working alone there at the
time of the accident,
A special to the Buffalo, Y. Y Ex-
press from Geneseo says 30 men were
burned, many of them seriously, in an
explosion at the Sterling salt Cos mine
near Cuylervile, saturday night. The
explosion was caused by an accumulation
of gas in the sand house near the sur
face. They were all brought to the
surface by rescue parties
A balloon of the Aero Club, which
left London, Saturday afternoon, for
France and later WAS sighted from East
Bourne pier moving seward, successful.
ly crossed the English channel and de
scended in safety at Bermouyiile, ~
miles inland In France The entire time
consumed from London to the place of
descent was hours and 10 minutes
1t is now announced that the Countess
dc Castklane, formerly Anna Gould,
has inetituted legal proceedings from
Count Baron de Castallane. Their we'd
ding occurred II years ago aud at that
time the income of the countess S6O.OOO
a year, but ii was not enough for the
connt. 1t is estimated that in the first
five years of their married life the count
spent 50 900, 600 of his wifes money
II seems to be finally settled that Dir
Abram y. Harris formerly president of
the University of Maine aud some yeais
president of the Jacob Tome Institute at
Por, Deposit Md will be the president
of North western University at Evanston,
III IL has been expected a long time,
and the formal announcement has just
been made of his intention of golug tol
that Illinois institution, the largest
inu in tho AqthnH TAT
denomination
Alta meeting 10 Portland OF the exc
cutive board of tho state board of Trade
it WAS voted to accept tho invitation ex
tended to the ~tate Board 10 be the
guests of the State of Maine Club at
Boston The date will be- mutually ar
ranged The 25 gentlemen who attend
ed the meeting of the executive board
that evening represented all sections OF
the state. The visit to Boston will serve
az the regular mid winter meeting OF the
organization
A maddened bull. which escaped from
a slaughter house in Wakefield, Mass.
last week, endangered tbs lives of sever
al persons, delayed an express train and
cleared Wakefield streets 81 pedestrians
for time. The police and half hun
bred men and boys armed with guns,
pistols and revolvers, pursued the In
furiated animal for miles and discharged
their weapons at frequent intervals, but
it was not until the bull fled to Melrose
Highlands that his career WAS ended
At meeting of the Per lind board OF
trade held Thursday afternoon at which
Pres Millken, recently elected, pre-
sided Dir " heller reported for the com
mittee on finance aud financial affairs
that the subscriptions for the purchase
of the Merchants National bank block
now amounts to S14 300 and the funds
of the board to 5000. The committee
recommended the immediate purchase
of the building at $50 90, which was
unanimously voted by the board.
At meeting of representatives. OF all
the building trades unions IN the city ol
New York. saturday night last. II was
unanimously decided to order the va
rious unions in the building trades 60
on strike Feb Is, in sympathy With the
hOusesmiths' union Tho conference
WAS held under the auspices OF the I tn
trail Federated Union, and 1t was an
nounced that the failure of any union
concerned to support the honsesmiths
would mean the expulsion of that par
ticular union from the Central Federated
Union.
In reaching from her bod TOR some
medicine Mrs. Ellen MeClareu, aged 63
wears of Maiden, Mass, upset lamp
and received burns from which abe soon