Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1893-11-21
THE WEEK IN MAINE.
rns MOST IMPORTANT STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD.


rhr MOST IMPORTANT srArg NEW
BRIEFLY TOLD.
A sardlne factory at Eastport burne
Wednesday morning. Loss bstwee
$4,000 and q, 200.
The railroad commissioners inspecte
the now Georges Valley road Tuesda
and found Il In good shape and read
for business.
Gilmore Miller Of Appleton committee
suicide. There were Indications OF 10
sanity. He was 90 years OF ago an
leaves . wife.
A man from Brunswick has been ex
hibltipg In Portland Q snowy owl, who's
appearance at this early period OF tn
season ID said by prophets 70 b . sur,
Sign of the coolest kind Of winter.
A young son OF Hon. r. H. Phair O
Pressure Isle, In forcing cartridge Int
q revolver, struck Il with stone, caus
Ing Il to discharge, the shell lodging In
the right eye, causing the total loss Of
the eye.
A little child OF Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie,
Dickinson Of Biddeford was found dead
In bed BY its parents week ago Friday
night. IL 10 supposed that the child wal
accidentally smothered under the bed
clothing.
A New London, Conn.,, paper says that
Gen. Hyde has asked the board OF trade Of
New London to come to bath and look
over the prospects Of the Bath Iron
Works, to see what Il would need to 10
cate In New London.
Charles d. Bartlett OF Portland has
left home under suspicion of insanity,
and nothing has yet been learned a. TO
his whereabouts. He was the owner OF
a milk route. There are Indications
that he intended to commit suicide.
There 10 strong prospect that the
winthrop factory OF the Aroostook Con.
densed Mix Company will resume oper-
ations on the first OF January. A meet
Ing Of the directors recently decided
upOn this course II q necessary amount
OF milk !, furnished.
Payson Tucker denies q current re-
port that the dividends of the Maine
Central Railroad are to be reduced from
six to Ave per cent. He says that Ia the
future the quarterly dividends Of IL
per cent on the Maine Central stock are
AZ sure to be paid 40 the sun Is sure to
rise and set.
John L. woodcock OF Searsmont,
q ged % years, attempted suicide at the
home of his mother In that village ut
about noon. Tuesday. The weapon
used was q large revolver. One shot
was fired, the bullet entering under his
right eur and passing through the rooi
of his mouth, lodging ut the base OF the
skull on the left side. W00dc0ck u liy-
Ing, but not expected to survive. lie Il
supposed to have been deranged.
Pastors sometimes have lots OF
trouble to get their congregation down
In the front seats of the church, at the
evening meetings. An Auburn pastor
has hit upon scheme that works splen-
didly. At the Sunday evening meetings
he causes rails to be put up along the
ends Of the rear pews, which pews are
kept unoccupled until the front rows are
filed. The pastor 10 much pleased with
the success Of the plan and 10 expressed
himself ut the morning service on Sum
day.
Peter Bennett Of Plymouth, 10 dead.
He, Il will be remembered, Was the VIC
tim of a murderous assault and robbery
nj his Plymouth farmhouse six years
ago, for which crime several Newport
people were arrested and tried, and one,
The son of q clergyman residing 10 the
village, was, together with his New
York pal, convicted by their own admls-
slon and arc now serving time In the
state prison at Thomast0n. The old
man was nearly IS.
East Machias boasts Of the largest
clergyman In the state II not In the
world. Rev. II. +. Day, q Bal tist min.
Ister, tips the beam at $50 pounds and
nays he 10 not 10 good fiesh either for
when at his best he easily goes 800
pounds. He makes East MAchlas GEN.
Ire but no one of his three preaching
stations 10 less than six miles from thr'
and he Intends to visit each OF them ut
least once week. On An average he
attends about thirty services month
four every Sunday.
The coroner's Jury concluded their In.
into the violent death OF
Miss Jennie Young, who met her death
nc the Dexter crossing short distance
from Newport village on the LIST Inst,
and brought 10 verdict Saturday IN
which they find the employees Of tho
Maine Central railroad blsmeless, and
that the accident was caused by q blind
and dangerous crossing, not guarded by
the company. II IL understood that the
selectmeu OF the town are taking meas
ures to have the crossing guarded by
gates or q fiagman.
About as fortunate a find rs has been
for some time 10 noted In the
last issue OF the Portland Transcript.
A Young man OF that city, while eating
some homemade strawberry Jam, dis
covered q cameo stone which he Lost
from ring last spring. lie then recol-
lected the fact that he helped pick over
the berries for the preserves, and had
lost the stone In question ut that time.
That II should have been lost among the
berries, cooked with them and then have
arrived safely In his own plate months
afterward was 90 strange ~ to be almost
startling.
Coroner Parks and County Attorney
H0vey went to Athens, recently, re
ports the Plttsheld Advertiser, to con-
duct an inquest, upon request OF neigh
bOrs, over the remains OF Lucius L.
Wheeler, the six-year-old son OF jesse
Wheeler, who was shot fatally lew
days before by william 8. Chapman,
who was cleaning Q gun ut the time.
The verdict was that the boy "came tn
his death by the accidental discharge OF
A gun In the hands of william 3. Chap
man, and that said accidental discharge
was due to the gross carelessne's OF SAIL
Judge Foster has granted another In.
against Auburn and Lewiston
members OF the Shoe Workers unions.
This one, which IL the third to be issue'l
"a on the petition OF Munr0es, Packard
& Llnscott and like the other two ap-
piles to specified members OF the Boot
and Shoe Workers International Union
No. IL, the Boot and Shoe Cutters
Union, No. 1874, and the IAsters' Pro-
tective Union Of Auburn. The charge.
are substantially the same 40 containe
In the Cushmsn company and Dlngley
Foss Shoe company injunctIons.
There 10 q catch In the new collateral
Inheritance law, and It 10 the occasion
Of fiue figuring among the lawyer'.
The statute, after specifying that rroI-
erty not descending to direct heirs u
subject to taxation, says such property