The Somerset reporter., 1906-05-10
STATE AND GENERAL

The ann nncement Of the Watervlle
T'uat Company that II Will build 4
$50 600 businees bic ok in Dexter thls
wear. is "A most welcome one to he le.
sidents of that Town.
Montreal il threatened with a general
cotton strike six hundred employees
Of the nocheIaga mills If the Dominion
Textile o. went out, last week, and
unless the difficulty is settled immedl-
alely, 5000 more men will 90 out. The
dispute is ABOUT a 20 per cent increase
in wages.
An inquest into the death of Mira.
Leone Muenter. wife Of Erich Muentef,
the German instructor at Harvard Uni
versitv. Tor whom the police are search
ing GU charge of poisoning bis wife,
has been ordered by Justice Charles
Almy of the third district court, to be
held in Cam bridge Friday
The railway commission of Canada
which has been in session at windsor,
Ont, for several days have granted a
concession for the first railroad to be
built in the KlondIke region The road
will start at Dawson City and will run
eighty miles into the regions that are
reached now only by dog sleds
Five Wisconsin lumber men and bank
ers representing an aggregate wealth IN
excess of 81 600. 600 have been arrested
bv federal officers on charge OF con-
spiracy TO defraud the government by
means of alleged land frauds in Oregon
The men arrested are ..eander Choate,
James Matt Bray, Benjamin Doughty,
James Doughty and Thomas Dolly
Each was placed under $4,000 and the
hearing adjourned to May II
Traffic was delayed 13 hours by the
wrecklng of the immigrant train from
Halifax on the Canadian Pacific near
Lowelltown ats O'clock Friday night
The Halifax and Montreal express
trains passed the wreck at a. m sat
urday. The damage to rolling stock
vas bout 10000 three of the coaches
being turned on their sides. Two pas
sengers who sustained compound frac
lures of the legs and arms are being
cared for at Megantic.
At the government fish hatchery at
Boothbay Harbor may be seen at the
present time SO, 600 000 lobster fry and
with the warming OF the water to 55 or
90 degrees these are expected to hatch
and later will be distributed in various
spots along the Name coast. There are
also large number of cod fry at this
station, some of which have already
hatched The water which is kept
running in this hatchery is pumped
directly from the ocean and therefor e
the fry are hatched in their own native
cement and visit to the station is a
very interesting one
Carter & Corey of New York and
Pret que Isle have leased tract of land
at Cape Jolson, Que of the bay terminal
towns of the Northern Maine Seaport
Railroad and will erect there large
warehouses; for the storage and sorting OF
p Jta'oes, chiefly of seed varities intend
ed for shipment to the South, notably
to Gulf OF Mexico ports. This building
will ultimately be 1900 feet long and will
cover about four acres of land 1t will
contain hundreds of sorting bins, and
will be equipped with electrical carriers,
running to all parts of the structure and
also out upon a pier, alongside vessels,
BY which means the cost of handling
potatoes will be reduced to the mini
mum.
1t has practically been decided that
the Berlin mill in FaTmingdale will b"
operated this summer The Berlin Mills
co II is understood, has bought the
logs owned by J. Gray & Sons, whose
mill was burned week after it was
put in operation this spring. The Gray
firm would probably have sawed its own
logs at the mill in Farmingdale # the
plant could have been leased or bought
at price upon which both sides could
have agreed. The mill has been idle for
two seasons and many people believed
that it would never be used again. If
present plans are carried out the mill
Will probably be- talted within short
time. and employment will be given to
large crew,
The Connecticut papers relate that an
earthquake that will shake the under
pinning of all New England is predicted
between the 22nd and 24th OF this
month BY "Uncle" Horace johnson,
the middle Haddam weather prophet
The sh ocks are to be accompanied by
severe lightning and high Winds, &C
cording 10 the seer, and the electrical
discharges will be 30 great that Mr..
johnson urges the farmers not to tether
COWS in the open field on those dates
He warns everybody to make for the
cellar door when the first big noise comes
for the earthquakes shocks are likely
to be severe enough to topple over some
of the church steeples and high chin
neys "Uncle" Horace gained consider
able note by forecasting the blizzard OF
1888
Hundreds of persons, made homeless
and pennies by the tornado which
swept over two countries have appealed
for help through relief committees. The
suffering ia worst at Bellevue, of which
not house is left standing. Most of
the residents of the town have lost
everything. Thirteen persons were
killed in Bellevue alone. Fifty were in
jured Az horses and live stock were
killed The bellevue relief committee
made an appeal to the country for help
requesting that contributions be 81, mt 10
w. b. Wolfram Il Co, bankers, Henri
eta, Texas Stoneburg also has its
share of suffering persons, and reports
from other districts indicate that the
tornado did great damage on farms,
blowing down buildings and killing
cattle The total loss Of life is uu-
known.
The average man isn'l half as fair with
other man as he -YnrcfS other men IN bt,