Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-05-19
MAINE HAPPENINGS.

A Brunswick lad with two artificis
feet Is bicycle expert.
i The electric road between Lewiston
and Bath won't matcriallxe this year.
| The Maine Division, l.. A. W., ha
accepted the invitation OF the Massa
chusetts Division to meet with them q
Boston Memorial Day.
Two children by the name Of Cote
aged 10 and 8 years, were drowned In tn
Back Bay at Portland. Saturday, tn
9th, while playing In boat.
The Augusta Bicycle Club has voted
unanimously not to hold the wheelmen'
meet In that city Memorial Day. Prob
ably there will be no spring meet held
Engineer Straw IL surveying for tn
railroad between Jay and Gilbertvill'
and II Ia reported by good authority tina
work Is soon to commence on the dam a
Peterson's Falls.
Heryey Nelson, while confined in id
at Portland serving sentence Tor In
toxicati0n and vagrancr. hsd an attach
Of delirium tremens, and hung himself
with cord used to hang clothes on.
Three burglars, one named Bradley
and the other two Flahertv, were captur
ed by Deputy Sands and Officer Scame
of Lewiston In their room In Cont
mental Block, Lewiston. Monday night
Six gentlemen In Augusta have con
tributed 800 apiece for It'll Of JULY
celebration. They are j. ii. Manley, z
o. Vickery, T.. G.. Burleigh, j. r. Hill
I4endsll Titcomb aud Geo. +. Macon
Der.
Two BOYS at Gorham didn't know II
was loaded. They were playing with
an old pistol, when II went of, the bullet
striking Simon Fifeld behind the ear.
He Is not expected TO live. His age Is
IL years.
Two men were arrested at Buxton
Tuesday night for working the "flim-
dam" game, whom the officers believe to
be New York crooks working their way
into the state preparatory 10 doing bush
ness at the summer resorts and fairs.
The partial shutting down OF the
blow To that lively place. The reduction
In help will go into effect next Monday.
All unmarried men and female operatives
are To go out, reducing the working force
about one-half.
AZ Mrs. Eunice Farwell and Mrs.
George w. Adams were out riding al
Cumberland Junction Tuesday, while in
the act Of changing the reins from one
hand TO the other, the horse started and
ran, throwing both out aud breaking
Mrs. Farwell's neck. She lived but II
few moments. Mrs. Adams was un-
injured.
A syndicate has made proposition to
build and equip n narrow gauge railroad
from the tide water at Boothbay Harbor
to wiscasset, the road to be completed
for travel by Nov. /. a. surveyed, the
road Is about fifteen miles long, and
passes through the towns of Boothbay
Harbor, Boothbay and Edgecomb to
Wiscasset.
Leroy Pike, an employe OF the Umba"
cog pulp mill at Liyermore Falls. mlrac-
ulously escaped being killed Sunday
night. He was caught by the counter
shaft and his arm WAS broken In two
places and his leg dislocated. The body
was badly bruised. lie made sixty revo-
buttons around the shaft before he was
released.
The electric saw mill Of the Whitman
tic Linen Company Is now In successful
operation after having encountered sew
eral set-bscks. The mill l. situated five
miles from the power plant, aud WAS
first started up last fall, but did not
run successfully, owing to insufficient
power A larger motor has been put 10
and now the mill runs smoothly as clock
work. The concern has over 500 cords
Of spool stock to saw this spring.
The Linn Wooden Co. Of HArtland.
will ship in few days to New York
samples OF shawls and make bid for
the government contract to manufacture
Is, ESQ shawls, 40 less than they manu-.
featured last year. The shawls to be
manufactured this year will be oil
drab and other dark colors, and look very
much different from the high colors
called for few years ago. IL Il fair TO
presume by this that the Indians have
different tastes now than formerly.
The thunder shower Of Sunday even
ing. the 10th, was accompanied by
terrific hurricane which swept through
Strong, Mt. Vernon, Belgrade, Sidney,
Augusta, and other Franklin and Ken
nebec County towns. The number of
barns blown down Is well towards
hundred, a number OF head OF stock
were killed. aud some people were In
jured. though none seriously. The en-
tire damage done will reach pretty far
up among the tens OF thousands. IL was
the worst hurricane known since Maine
was settled.