The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1906-02-01
STATE AND GENERAL.

| March 81 1904. was Saturday sentenced
| in the Middlesex Superior Court at East
Cambridge, to death by means of cleo.
tricity during the week of June IL. The
sentence of the court vas "ten days
prior TO sunday, June 10, the prisoner
shall be removed from the jail at East
| Cambridge TO the state prison at
6harlestown. where during the week of
June 10 he shall suffer death by cleo
tricityn
With tire of rear wheel gone be-
fore the fortieth mile, running on the
bare rim at top speed and cheered by
thousands on the beach side, at Or nond,
FLA, tlfford carp, in 9O-horsepoweI
Euglish car, broke the worlds record
for 100 miles Saturday afternoon, max
| ing the distance in one hour, ID minutes,
| 40 2 5 seconds The former worlds
record made by Fletcher on the same
course, was one hour, Is minutes, IA
| seconds.
| Edward r. Cole OF Portland was found
guilty of murder BY a jury IN the su
peror court late saturday for the kill
| Jug of John sleeves of Hillsboro, n.
| g.. April II 1905, after SIX days trial.
| The jury reported the verdict at SO,
just one hour and fifty minutes after
entering the jury chamber The jury Ia
SAID to have stood II for conviction and
one for acquittal on the frat, aud all in
favor of the conviction on the second
I ballot. This was a second trial; in the
first the jury disagreed.
Dennis j. Drawn, one of the progress
awe and successful farmers of Foxcroft,
Is more than pleased with the water
| foh ha I'M al ad ar
latt summer The spring is situated
some 1850 feet from the building, pipes
frat entering the house, then the barn.
The supply of water furnished Is abund
ant for family purposes and for his %
| head of cattle and other creatures. Dur
Ing the past hear Mr.. Brown made 1900
pounds of butter, using an Empire cream
separator Within a few months he has
slaughtered several hogs, the combined
weight of which was 1894 pounds.
The examining committee of the In
sane hospital trustees. consisting of ex
Governor Robbie, Mrs. J K. smith.
Thomas White and I harles +. Field
have made their monthly inspection OF
the insane hospital They had inspect-
cd tie hospital at Bangor They found
at the Bangor hospital 1873 male patents
%
Six over the previous month AT the
hospital in Augusta they found 400 male
patents and 3l5 female, total of 72l, a
gain of six over the previous month
Thus ia the two hospitals there are 976
patients, a gain of IL over December.
At the directors meeting of the Madi-
eon Wooden Co.. held in Portland last
week, Is. z j. Weston, Eco, the resi-
81, Il
known the wants of the new public H..
brary as 10 the stacks for the books and
furnishings for the different rooms and
sitno ut any discusslUn of the subject
the directors unanimously voted $500
for the purpose. This action of the
directors vas very pleasing to the cum
mittee in charge of the building and
coming as 1t did 80 spont aneously, makes
the committee hope that the other cor
porations In the place will appropriate
enough to completely furnish the build
ing.
Passenger Agent + I}oothby of the
Maine Central railroad is making
strong effort to have the Grand Army
encampment held in Portland the COM
ing summer. At the last meeting of the
t,rand Army II was voted to defer the
next encampment until June as II was
thought that more of the old soldiers
should attend at that time in the severe
weather of February No place of meet
ing has been decided upon aud Mr..
Boothby is making such Offers as will
bring the eucampment there. lie is
making specially low rates for long dis
tances like Aroostook Penobscot aod
Washington counties. No city in Maine
can handle such a crowd as well AZ Port
land as the hotel facilities are of the
best
1t is reported that the Denison Manu-
featuring Co, of South birmingham,
Mass may again undertake the manu-
tactnre of boxes 10 Brunswick. Several
months ago the company established
branch there, and since that time con-
siderable work has been done in the
homes. but during the past few days a
representative of the company has been
in town looking for location for shop
II is understood that the company in
tends to start IN on a small scale and
gradually build up the business The
company was located in Brunswick from
1S43 to about 1895 when it removed TO
south birmingham Lately there has
been difficulty in securing help and. be-
side the company is outgro wing its
plant, making it necessary to have part
of the work at least done elsewhere.