Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-05-08
TALK or THE STATE.
The Ice went out Of the Ilangele,
4 akea lasi Wcdne.dAN.

The Ice went out Of the Rangeley
Lakes last "wednesday.
Thomas Ware, q notorious horse thief.
escaped from jail at Alfred saturday
night, the 18th ult., by saving on the
bars Of his cell.
A competent practical electrician IL Ia
be- employed at the State College, aud
this fall Q course In electrical engineer
Ing will be opened there.
Calvin II. Whitehead, q ship carpenter
ut hath, went Ia the river 10 drown q
cat and dropped dead on the wharf from
heart disease. lie leaves family.
Frank Powers, aged 10, was drowned
In IIili's Pond on the road between Weld
and wilton while fishing from . boat
with two companions sunday, 18th ult.
Frank Adams, q south berwick paint.
er, had his skull fractured by q rigging
falling thirty feet and striking on the
top Of the head. There IL slight chance
OF recovery.
One Of the railway postal clerks In
this state IL Ia trouble because be- took
from the mall he Was handling q letter
addressed to his wife, and did not give
her the letter when he went home.
There IL . strong possibility that q
Bath shlpbuIidlng firm will soon begin
work on one of the largest steamers
ever built In Maine. Negotiations arr
pending, and IL I. thought that the con-
tract will be signed In few days.
The store OF T.. &. PIKE at Calais wa.
entered from the rear Tuesday night and
the officers caught the offender, boy II
years Of age, In the store. The officer.
attention was attracted by some one
whi.tiing, giving signs TO the fellow out
side.
The two yosng men from Amlty ~ho
have been raising two dollar bills 10 tens,
pleaded guilty In the United States court
at Portland Wednesday, and were sen.
fenced to clio finc aud imprisonment at
hard labor la Portland jail for ten
months.
Mr.. &. T.. Leighton % Harmony com.
m,tted suicide by hanging the Joth ut.
Insanity was the cause. Mr.. leighton
has been one of the selectmen In town
for nearly twenty years and had great
many friends. Ills age Was q years
lie leaves = widow, two daughters and
one sou.
People living In the vicinity of q Gem
etery Ia Blddeford have been seeing
ghosts recently. The ghost proved "a
be q woman who had become dementoi
over the death Of her lover which occur
red fifteen years ago. She would robs
herself Ia white and 60 and lie upon hi'
grave ut night.
While some members of Co. OF the
state militia at PASSPORT were practic-
Ing At the rifle range, James Cloonsn,
tending the target, madea mistake, e.
posing himself just at the wrong
moment, and was shot In the left arm
by one Of the marksmen. I'll . painful
wound, but the arm will be saved.
There came back to the First National
bank Ia Lewiston, Monday, AFTER ~
absence Of thirty year., one OF the very
first notes aligned by Mr.. a. l.. Temple
ton a. cashier. Mr.. u. y. Packard va.
president OF the bank at the time aud
since then two other gentlemen have
held the Office. The bill IL In frst-clAss
condition and evidently has not done
very much business since II left the
bank.
The corner stone for the city hall "a
be erected ut Jersey City Ia being cut n
Hurricane Isle. u weighs " tons, the
Inscription, "ls9t," being OF rslsed let.
tiers, one and one-hsif inches rise. In
the centre Of the stone IL . large pocket
two feet square TO receive the records
coins aud other mementos. The cover
Ing for this pocket IL very delicate
piece of work being only one and one
eighth inches In thickness.
Within the past three or four weeks
the Grand Trunk has been silently pom
dering on . policy Of retrenchment. II
Was for some time q question with ths
executive whether this would take the
form Of ten per cent reduction OF The
wages, or ten per cent reduction OF the
working and clerical staffs. The latter
course Was adopted, - Il was held that
reduction Of wages II not conducive q
good service, and tended TO take thu
heart Of the employees. The result ha'
been the cutting offof 1000 men along the
whole system, the great majority of the
sufferers, a. In the case Of the Canadian
Pacific, being In the repair shops.
Rockland has collector Of treasures
Chas. Y. IIavener, who possesses what
Il called the best collection OF birds and
eggs east Of Warrington. lie has ~
varieties Of birds, Including some very
rare specimens and which cost . small
fortune 10 mount. Among the mors
valuable specimens are Japanese tee
worth go and king elder worth e65
Mr.. Havener has been visited by col
; lege people from all over the country
desIrous Of viewing his collection, and
once he Was obliged TO laugh at Q cast
/. Offer of $1,000 for the lot. But birds and
eggs do not entirely constitute Mr.
Ilavener's collection. lie has . grist o.
curioslties, among which may be men
toned the famous Capt. Kidd quadrant
The sidney poisoning case has beef
on trial at Augusta during tho pas
: week. Mrs. 0etcheli Of Sidney II charg
ed with the murder Of william III. Get
. chell, her husband, last December. IN
position Of the government Il that Mrs
iietchell put strychuine 10 q bottle o.
gin and sulphur which be was uslng q
medicine. On the day Of his death h
: drank quantity OF the mixture, va
soon after taken violently III and died q
J o'clock that evening, with symptom
: which were suspected 70 b those o
strychnine poisoning. The evidence
. put In IL TO show that che could hay
. had better opportunity 10 put In tn
. poison than anybody else, and that Oh
had q motive, 90 she was unduly init
} mate with another man, aud wanted q
get her husband out Of the way. Tn
thai occupied the whols Of last wsst
and 10 likely 70 last until the middle o