The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-11-07
STATE AND GENERAL ITEMS.

Aroostook is on its good behavior
this fall and Houlton jail has the
smallest number of prisoners for
years.
Golden weddings are not uncommon,
but few couples have lived together
so years as is the case of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Buck of Orland.
All of Lewiston, with no regard to
creed, mourns the death Of Father
Wallace, for 80 years beloved and
public spirited priest of that city.
New electric roads which may be
built in 1903 or 1909 are the Bar Har-
Dor line, the line from Lewiston to
Gray and the line from Berwick to
South Berwick.
Forty divorces were decreed in the
October term of court at Bangor by
Judge Cornish. In 80 cases of the
40, the wife asked for separation and
In Is cases there were children.
A peculiar case was before Judge
Stone Of De xter as disclosure commits
sioner last week, when party from
Garland, who has entered a petition
in bankruptcy, found that he had fall
len heir to legacy of several thou
sand dollars, according to the claim
put forth by one of the attorneys in
terested In the case. The case was
continued for further investigation
and the man left the courtroom with
tears of joy streaming down his
cheeks.
The novel sight of woman engag
ed in the business of public carriage
driver is witnessed daily by Gardiner
citizens when Mrs. Winnie Flister,
the young widow of an electrical en-
gineer, who had been advised by a
physician that by reason of poor
health she should be out of doors, APP
pears on the streets with hand :
some bay horse and cab. She intends
to drive particularly for women
Mrs. Flister for years has been ac-
customed to handle horses.
Four weeks from Monday will see
the opening of the second trial OF
Harry K. Thaw for the killing OF
Stanford White on the Madison square
roof garden a year ago last summer
One surprising feature of the second
trial win be that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
will not appear as witness in behalf
of her husband. That much is learned
from a source which, in the absence Of
a positive denial, from Martin w. Lit.
Teton, must be regarded as thorough
ly reliable.
Decisions of the State railroad com
uissioners fixing the responsibility
for two accidents on the Maine Contra
railroad In which lives were lost were
rendered last week. The commits
sioners find that the responsibility fol-
the wreck near Monmouth Dec.6, 1905
In which four train men were killed
rested on Walter HI. Russell, conduc
tor of the extra train, who misreaC
his time table and thought he had ar
other hour to make certain run. The
blame for the wreck Oct. s, last
at Benton, where a freight brake.
man was killed, was placed by tine
commissioners upon Conductor E. E
Dunbar and Engineer Herbert E
Thayer of the work train, and the traiI
dispatcher at Waterville was criticized
for giving verbal orders and for talk
ing with the conductor.
William R. Hisler, aged about 30
of Weeks Mills, was killed Friday by
a charge from shot gun held in the
hands of Philip G. Boynton ant
accidentally discharged, according tt
information gathered by the seleet.
men. Sheriff Plaisted and Coroner
Plummer of Augusta, arrived during
the afternoon to investigate The
shooting occurred in the home of Mr.
Boynton, who is about As years old
Mr.. Hisler had just arranged for him
to drive to Palermo to get some cattle
and one of them thought that II hi
took gun along he might shoot {
deer. Mr.. Boynton then took dowr
his gun and was loading it when Il
was discharged. Mr.. Hister was sho
in the right side, and died in few
minutes. The victims wife wa
buried three weeks ago yesterday
He leaves one son, w. W. Hisler.