The Somerset reporter., 1907-05-30
STATE AND GENERAL ITEMS.

Nathan Bennett of Camden owns a
calf born Tuesday weighing 81
pounds. 1t has to be fed on the bot
tie as it is very small. Calves usual
lv weigh so or so pounds. The calf is
white with black face. This animal
is perfectly formed and moves around
as well as those of usual size.
The body of Harold, the 13yearold
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Horace futile,
who live on the road from Paris Hill
to Buckfeld, in the Whittemore Dis
trict, was found last week by his bro
Their, Arthur in sand pit. The bank
had caved in upon him and his death
had resulted from suffocation.
Ezra McIntire of Fairfield while
blowing a potato patch this spring
came upon a number of sound pota-
toes that had not been dug last fall.
He went to digging after more and
got several bushels of as nice pota-
toes as were ever raised in Maine.
The deep snow had protected them.
4 fire that is believed to have been
started by tramps destroyed $50, 900
feet of dry pine lumber owned by the
Jordan Lumber Co., and Geo. W.
Barker & Son, in Milford, just across
the Penobscot river from Oldtown,
late Sunday, causing a loss of S18,0 900.
The loss is partially covered by i'll
surance.
During the past week a total of
49,, 900 bushe of grain were shipped
to European ports. The steamer,
Acacia, carried 10000 bushels of
grain to st. Petersburg, Russia,
while the Dominion of the Dominion
line sailed Saturday for Liverpool
with cargo of 90, 900 bushels and the
Muriel Coverdale to Spezia, Italy,
with 223, 900 bushels.
One of the largest personal injury
verdicts returned by a Suffolk county
Jury of Boston in months was that "a
warding $4,000 to Mrs. Anna j..
Hooper against the Maine Central
railroad in the superior court.
Mrs. Hooper was alighting from a
Maine Central train i'll Bangor Me-,
Oct. 2, 1903, when an engine caught
her clothing and she was dragged a
considerable distance and badly hurt.
A. NJ. Durham of Norway is feeling
pleased for he has just received let
ter containing duplicate order for
go pairs of snowshoes for Lieutenant
Peary's next Arctic expedition. Mr..
Durham was Justly proud when he
was commissioned to fit out the last
expedition and as this order signifies
perfect satisfaction with his work he
is receiving the heartiest congratula-
tions of his friends.
Theodore Tilton, the Well-known
American editor and author, who has
been ill in Paris, France for several
days past of pneumonia, has passed
away. Mr.. Tilton preferred serious
charges against Henry Ward Beecher,
who had been his pastor and intimate
friend, and demanded civil damages in
the sum of 100000. After the tragedy
which wrecked his career Mr.. Tilton
went to Paris, where he has since
lived the lonely and solitary exist
ence of a broken hearted man.
The grand jury in San Francisco
last week indicted six millionaires on
charges of bribery and attempted
bribery and returned additional in
dictments against Abraham Ruef and
Mayor Z. E. Schmitz. Frank a..
Drum, Eugene Desabla, John Martin,
Abraham Ruef and Mayor Schmitz
were indicted on II counts each
charging that they jointly bribed IA
of the Is supervisors in the sum of
$3.50 each to fix the gas rate for 1905
at SO cents instead of 70 cents.