The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1906-01-11
STATE AND GENERAL

Portland bad 342 FIRE alarms ia 1875.
Icing twO more thau ~efe ruug, n 1903
here are % Afo0stjok saf veteran
no" getting pensions uudef The state
las II 1872.
With the lssae Of Jan. Tie Rock
land Courier bazet'e caters upon the
6ist year Of II existence. which is d
comfortable age 10 have attained 70
cheering advancement a. he OPEN
iag - the ieitn a. Colby Cd ~ L. aft
III s4z5U lion In r-fate Of tie Ia Rob
ert q. FuiIef 81 anibrdge. N arr which
vii be added h The general endowment
Ind Of The cntItpr
Tie firm Of v illlam . Cray d som.
which built up an extensive granite
pant at High Island below kockland
has Just taken the contract 10 furnish
Georgia marble 10 be u,ed in the con
strncfion # The Girard building IL PhIla-
Gelphla This war one Of the largest
contracts made IN the year 1905, the
amount being about 81 500, OOo Pity 1t
wasn't granite instead Of marble though
Forty three weayeIs al The wooden
mil at Oakland. Who Quit work, Tues
day, because no respOLte lad been re
ceived to their request the previous day
for an increase III wagee, returned To
their duties at one o'clock, Wednesday
afternoon The men agreed to work
until Supt Taylor arrangts with the
owners IN New York for a settlement.
This IL the first s1ike IN the Oakland
mil
Among the divorces granted by Judge
A. ri spear OF the supreme court at
bath was one Of sTs. Louise Baechele
from her husband. Louis 7 P
Bsechele, on he grounds If cruel and
abusive treatment. The granting OF this
decree is of general interest. as Mrs
Baechele created something Of sensa
ton ID Bath when she married against
her mothers wishes last February, an
actor playing With repertoire company
James w sylvester died at the home
of bis daughter, Mrs. Y ". Clifford, at
Benton, v ednesday, Dec u, of heart
failure. He was born IN Casco, June 8.
1920 and always been an active business
man and was confined To the house and
bed only one week previous to his death
He leaves one daughter, Mrs. 2 y" CT
ford, with whom he lived; two brothers,
Edward of York Harbor, -amuel c. Of
Harrison, and two sisters MIS-. Hannah
Thompson of Embden and Mrs Henrietta
Moore of East Madison.
Mary w. Narsiss, Syrian woman. q
years old, who was not quite right men.
tally and for some months an Inmate Of
the Portland home, committed suicide,
Thursday of last week, by taking an oil
stove and turning the oil from it over
her head and clothing Unknown to the
attendants she had procured a match
and set fire to her hair. she was ter
ribly burned when the nurse Miss
Lonise Wood, discovered her and at
tempted to smother the flames The
woman died in a short time as a result
of the terrible burns
There are nine Maine-torn members
of the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives which assemblies this week
They are A. ". Nalker of Lynn, born
in Stoneham in Is47; + p. Bennett, Jr
OF saugus, born in Palermo in 1873; =.
Elwell of Boston born in Bangor, IN
1865; & Z Gleason of Pittsfeld born in
Oakland IN 1902 +. b. Howard Of Med
ford born in Auburn in 1867; Robert
Luce of eomervile, born in Auburn in
1862; NJ. McCsnn of Lynn. born in Calais
in 1868; :. |. Porter of Amesbury, born
in Portland in 1850; W. Z. Weeks Of
Everett, born in Portland in 1850
despatch frbm Chicago says that
DIR Abram W. Harris, president of ia
cob Tome Institute, Fort Deposit, Nd,
is 10 be offered the presidency of North
western University to succeed Dr..
James DR. Harris was prominently
mentioned for the presidency of Boston
University in 1913, when the student
body addressed petition 10 the trustees
exI ressing "unbonnded confidence in
him He has been at tho head of the
Jacob Tome Institute for about four
years, having gone there from the presi-
dency Of the University of Maine at
Orono where be had served several
years
Mayor fitzgerald, who presided al a
meeting which closed the tuberculosis
convention at Horticultural Hal, Dos.
ton. Sunday night, said in his speech
that by Monday night the act calling
for a board of trustees for the establish
ment of hospital for consumptives to
cost $3.50 600 will have passed the board
of aldermen and will soon after receive
bis signature The tuberculosis con
ventlon which had been in session IN
Boston for two weeks has been a great
success, the hall being crowded at near
ly all the lectures while the exhibits
have been carefully examined ana ex-
planned More than l0,0 600 people visit
ed the hall, sunday.
Mis- Sarah J. Robinson, one of the
most noted female convicts in the coun-
try, died, Thursday night of last week
IN the Middlesex county jail in East
Cambridge, Mas. Mrs Robinson was
Is years ot age and for Is years had been
in solitary confinement She was con
yicted iu 1887 for the murder of Prince
Freeman, her brother.n law. but il was
established at the trial that she had also
murdered her son William, 70 years If
age; her daughter Elizabeth, - years of
age; her husband and her nephew.
Thomas Arthur Freeman. he victims
we're all poisoned and it was discl 1sed
that the object of the crime was to get
possession of money on insurance poll
cies on their lives.
Bowdoin College catalogue issued,
recently, showed a total registration of
sos students against 363 a year ago.
The number ia divided as follows: 81
seniors, go juniors. so sophomores, II
freshmen, 81 specials. and 50 medical
students. Three of the seniors are en-
rolled in the medical school There are
81 instructors and professors, an increase
of II in the medical department Among
the new prizes listed is the "Pbilo Nher-