Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1892-10-18
ovtR Tnt STATE.

Augustus bailey % Gardiner has been
nominated for Inspector of prison. AMI
J.lls.
josiah l.. Cobb % Winthrop, q war
veteran, aged "a, committed suicide Sat
urday, the sth, by shooting himself
through the heart.
Lester Butterfield of Saco, aged ., IL
missing from home, aud IL IL feared be
may he drowned.
The body of Edward blanchard VA.
brought into Orono Tuesday morning
lie fatally shot himself while cunning
Monday.
IL Ia probable that the legal difficulties
which have stopped work on the
Georges Valley Railroad will be adjust
ell so that work can he resumed.
Psyson Tucker of the Maine Central
gives the big granite steps for the Maine
building at the Worlds Fair. They are
to be q feet long and slx feet wide.
Detective Hartman of Bangor, Who
has been investigating the Dyer brook
murder, think. he IL on track % the
murier.r.-for he believes there we're
more than one.
The national convention Of the Delta
up.ilon fraternity Was held with the
chapter al Colby University last week.
Delegates we're present from chapters
Ia twenty-five colleges.
Gilman D. Hannaford, q Cape Eliza
18th farmer, Tell from his farm wagon
while on his way home "wednesday
morning, and received Injuries from
which ne died shortly afterward.
The Aroostook Herald Of October d,
says: Strawberries are occasionally to
be seen la fields In this vicinity, aud .
few ripe strawberries have been picked
the last week. This IL not bad for north
eastern Maine.
Joseph IAblanche, a boy Is years old,
living on the plains In waterville, while
fooling with q dynamite cartridge Tues
day night. exploded II In his hands.
Thr-e fingers and q thumb on his left
hand were blown OF. A serious wound
Was also inflicted In his thigh.
7. X. stafford. an employee Of the Knox
4 Lincoln branch Of the Maine Central
Railroad, working on . dirt train near
wiscasset, fell between the cars and
three cars passed over him, killing him
Instantly. lie was - years old and be-
longed In brunswick.
Ephrsim Turner, while In the woods
near Millbridge, Was shot and seriously
wounded by George Mitchell, who mis-
took him for deer. The gun WAS load
Ell With shot, some Of which passeti
through his LEG. IL IL thought he will
recover.
There IL some probability Of the es-
tabllshment Of plant for the manufac-
ture of the guns Of the brooks Arms
aud Tool Company In Portland. The
company think they have some good
guns aud have received considerable en-
couIsgement.
John Mcdonald, John Ryan and
Charles Tweedy escaped from the PEN
ob.cot county jail at bangor sunday
night by saving on q window bar.
Tweedy had served nearly two years.
sentence for forgery, and Ryan and
Mcdonald were committed only last week
for an assault for eighteen months and
one year respectively.
J. wiiber Day at Wesley, Was cross
Ing Chain Lake, when he VAS slgnaled
from the shore and beckoued tn return.
when near the shore be was fired upon,
the shot striking his breast and glancing,
making bad wound. A few minutes
later he received . second shot which
shattered the stock Of his rine and dis
abled u. The assaulting parties are un-
known. No motive IL assigned.
One Of the big digesters In the pulp
MILL at Orono blew up Tuesday morning
about 7 rs O'Clock, instantly Killing two
men, seriously lnjuring Ave, snd slight-
~ woundlng number Of others. The
men killed were william Eddy and
Richard Zine. TIE explosion vas ter.
rife oue, the cause Of which has not
been 40 yet accurately determlped. The
pulp MILL Vas about the same a. demol.
ished. Ths money Ices u NOT Gar from
100000. A coroper's jury Are iavssti-
gating The AMIR.