Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1892-06-21
THR WEEK IN MAINE.
the MOST IMPORTANT STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD.

the MOST IMPORTANT STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Fred Nadcau, la Jail At Portland for
assault and battery, escaped wcsines-
day.
Mitchell Cowilng. aged ~, and John
Solgar, aged ~, were drowned while
bathing In saltwater River at Orono,
Monday evening.
Arthur sewaii a Co. have begun the
building Of steel merchant vessels ct
Bath. baths claim to the title OF shlI'-
building city stiil grows.
After three days. trial, Living l..
Iliil Was acquitted nj Saco Of the charge
Of numbering his wife by sending her
poisoned meat from boston.
The Jury decided that BENJAMIN Clark
Godfrey vas guilty Of the assault upon
Treasurer strout Of limlngton last DE
cember. and be gets ten years In state
prison.
A Northport man IL In jail on the
charge Of obtaining wife under false
prctences. Ills Intended wife was under
age, and Il Ia alleged that he forged her
fathers name to written consent to the
marriage.
The wife Of charles y. Guptili 81 West
Gorham threw herself aud her t.u,onths'
old baby into tank % water near their
house Tuesday afternoon, and both were
drowned. Mrs. Guptill was about y
years Of age. No cause IL assigned.
A steam mill at Orono, thr~ large
dwelling house. aud some other smaller
buildings. were burned saturday. the
nth. The large steam mill 81 VIM.
Engel a Go. caught several times but
was not materially damaged. Loss
e., zoo; partly Insured.
A convention Of Kings Daughters will
b. held In BANGOR June 18th and Joth.
MIS- Georgia Libby, former treasurer of
the Central Council; Mrs. Isabella
Charles Davis, corresponding secretary,
and Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, general
secretary % the Central Council. Will de-
liver addresses.
kennebec Journal; nath business men
are about TAI make an excursion Ia the
booming Maine town of I.umford Pals,
which .. far better than q similar trip to
Sioux Falls, craze for which Maine
men had but . short time ago. 1T makes
the utmost difference, you know, In the
name 81 III, falls.
The Aroo.took star.IIerald IL rcspou-
slble for the story that . reslue Isle
man had two double windows made for
Ill. shop last fall aud never found out
until be had them taken on TIL. spring
that the man Who put them on made q
mistake and got Que on the next neigh
Dor. window instead of his own.
In the season 81 $50 Dr. ". VI. Ilalnc.
~ Ellsworth marked any landlocked sal-
mon In Gr,en Lake with aluminium tags
attached To the back I'm, each tag bear
Ing a numt-r. from which Oh. siS. of the
fi.h al the time u was tagged could IL
asc.rtalncd. Last week one of these
salmon va. caught and weighed u
pounds. PROM the number on hi. isg
Il appear. that he has grown au Inch Ia
length and about pound Ia weigh,
since be was tagged two years ago.
4 sensation has been caused In Ba,i
by the arrest 81 q number Of salcot
keepers. II seem. that some weeks sgC
q number 10 the clcrgymen 10 Bath go'
their head. together aud decided To max
an effort Ia secur. better enforcement
of the prohibltory Law. They secured
the service. of q detective Who acted AZ
spo,ter. The arrested parties ~cr'
taken Into the municipal court, plead
not guilty aud were bound Over 20 th'
sapreme Judicial Court.
brunswick Telegraph: The younger
alumni Of the state College arr practi
cally unanlmou. In the hellsf that 4
Younger man of q technical ciucstlou
BE- elected to oil the vacancy a. prc.l'
dent 81 the Stat. College. while r-cog-
nifing the great work done by President
fernald for th. Institution, they sr'
forced 10 believe that q new man would
materially Increase the Attendance
With the Income now assured the col
l.ge, they feel that the Institution should
have more than hundred students.
The cottage which Mr.. y. q. Wood Il
building AZ Castinc !. sa,d Ia eclipse any
thing outside of Bsr lIarbor, on tn
coast of Maine. IL IL about ready fo'
occupancy. Everything about the cot
tage Il very odd. For Instance, tn
.ashes and caps Of = window will be
flushed In hne manner aud the res,
will BE- In the rough wood. lie has
used many natural wood. aud the lire
place. are made Of all kinds ~ stone
The mantel piece Of one Of them ]. mad'
10 big fat rock. The stairway that
leads Ia the piazza IL also very attrac'
tive, the rail- being q whales rib.
The heated term eliminated In terrih,
wind storms Ia various parts 81 Maine
accompanied by thunder aud lightning
and some hall. Biddeford aud saco .uf'
fer-i particularly. Al Lisbon Falls
several thousand panes Of glass wer,
broken by hall. A small steamer which
pile. between Bangor and ilampden va.
capsiyed, and Miss Madeline Adams,
aged L., and Mrs. Thlrta II. Mcdonald,
aged about "A, were drowned. u !,
thought there may have been other
victims, a. II Il not known exactly how
many were on board the steamer
Around Bangor the storm dIi much
damage, and In other parts Of the state
harms we're blown down, houses struck
by lightning and burned, aud much