The Somerset reporter., 1907-09-12
STATE AND GENERAL ITEMS.

The Cliff House, San Francisco's
first attraction for tourists, was burn
ed to the ground Saturday night.
Only blaekened heap of ruins is left.
Loss, about 100000
They have found the bodies of five
of the six boys drowned by the cap
sizing of the sloop Ruth Cumstock off
Castine early in the summer, but no
trace of the two Bowdoin students
drowned off Cape Small Point on the
same day.
Twelve were killed and dozen
injured Friday when a north bound
Chicago, Rock Island Il Pacific pass
enger train left the rails at Norris, Ia,
and crashed into a south bound freight
standing on a siding. Four of the
dead are unidentified.
A fly wheel in the saw mill of Err
nest Walton at Byfield, Mass, burst
Saturday and killed Clarence Derris,
machinist. Derris' body was cut in
two by flying fragments. Derris was
36 years of age and leaves wife and
two children.
Plans are being made at the Naval
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reception and use of the U. s. s.
Constitution which is to be transferred
to the academy from the Boston navy
yard. She will replace the Z. 8. 8.
Hartford, on whose decks Admiral
Farragut ran the blockade at Mobile
bay.
Pearl Potter of Grand Rapids,
Mich, was killed Friday at the fair
here while making her first balloon
assertion. The girl was encased wit h
a parachute, in a cannon which was
to have been fred mid air. The can
non was cut loose at height of 500
feet, but failed to go off. The girl
was dead when picked up.
The annual reunion of the 21st
Maine will occur at Waterville Thurs
day, September 26th, 1890 a. M, in
Grand Army Hall. The railroads will
grant the usual concessions regarding
rates and the train service is ideal.
The ladies' of the relief corps will
supply dinners and those who wish to
do SO can be accommodated at the
hotel.
BoWdoinham, was found guilty of the
murder of his chum, Norris w. Heath,
at Bowdoinham, on the 18th day of
last May, by a jury in the Supreme
Judicial court. Under the Maine
laws, the penalty is life imprisonment.
The trial commenced Monday and the
jury to night was out three hours and
half.
The explosion of several sticks
of dynamit which he was carrying in
a basket on one arm killed Don Grant,
aged 10, Friday afternoon, at Crystal
near Island Falls. His body was blown
to bits. The cause of the accident is
a mystery as he was alone at the time.
The dynamite was to have been used
in blowing up stumps on the farm of
his father, Henry Grant.
Not many women of S6 years can
sing, and it is remarkable indeed for
one of that age to sing in religious
meeting for the benefit of prisoners,
but last Sunday Mrs. Lucy Perkins of
New York led the singing in the meet
ing III Bangor jail, and sang a solo
sweetly and feelingly and with visible
effect upon the prisoners, most of
whom are not at all bad-merely I'M
fortunate.
AT meeting of stockholders of the
Independent Telephone Co. here to-
day it was voted to sell all the COM
pany's lines to the Aroostook Tele-
phone Co., corporation controlled
by the New England Telephone &
Telegraph Co. The Independent
company has lines in all parts of
Aroostook county. 1t was announced
after the meeting that the transfer
will take place as soon as the details
OF the merger are arranged.
Nineteen horses were burned to
death Friday morning in fire which
Quilted the stables on st. John street,
owned by j. w. Minott, the florist,
and conducted by James Richardson,
while two watchmen who were in the
building had a narrow escape from
beiug suffocated. Had Officer Strout
discovered the fire five minutes later
than he did, the men would have been
beyond help. The total loss on the
buildings and contents, including the
the horses, will be more than $1,000.
G. A. Jacobson of New Sweden has
a small patch of garden, but from
six rows of cabbages, four rods long
he has sold nearly s14 worth this
summer and has taken only about half
the heads. At first he sold them for
ten cents apiece; later at Ave cents a
pound. One head weighed seven
pounds. This more than pays the
taxes on house, stable and three acre
lot; besides this he has started fair
sized hennery that Is paying hand l.
some returns. This is what may be
called intensive farming on a small
scale.
With total sale of 1904, 900 stamps
during the month of August, the
Portland postoffice did record break
ing business. 1t was the heaviest
business that has ever been done dur
ing summer month at the Portland
Office and Postmaster King and his
assistants were pushed to the limit to
take care of the rush. An idea of