Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-11-03
TALK OF THE STATE.

| Thus early In the season FRANKLIN
County has shipped &C, 900 barrels Of ap
Piles to England.
The Otis Falls Pulp Co. is preparing
to cut about Is, 000, 900 feet OF lumber II
the woods above Rumford Falls.
Leonard Pomroy Of South Hancock
- years Of age, was drowned by tn
cspsizing Of boat near Mount Deser
Ferry, Sunday.
Caleb Morton OF North Windham
aged IS years, was fatally burned at hi
home Tuesday. 1t Is thought that n
must have been smoking, and some o
the fire must have fallen on his clothe
and set them on fire. He leaves m
children but has two or three brothers
William Parks fired four shots from
revolver at his wife, on Middle Street
Portland, Tuesday evening. Though tn
shots were fired at close range, neithe
the woman nor anybody else was hit
He was arrested without difficulty
jealousy Is the explanation that u
given Of the crime.
The officers are looking after Charles
III. Bickford, who Is wanted for the ab
duction of Myrtle Adams, the li-year-olt
adopted daughter of Oscar Adams o.
Bowdoin. The girl was found at a
house i'm Norridgewock, where Bickford
had left her. She tells pitiful tale OF
the way Bickford dragged her through
the towns on foot, and his outrage anc
abuse OF her.
George Grenier of Lewiston, aged IL
was found in dying condition in s
stable loft Thursday morning and died
on the way TO the hospital. He Is sup
posed to have been thrown from q
rum smugglers' team frightened by a
shifter in the Main Central yard In the
night. It is not ascertained how he
got into the stable loft. Investigation
Is In progress. The deceased was a
brother of Henry Grenier, recently SEN
fenced to state prison for manslaughter.
The work of equipping freight cars
with automatic brakes In compliance
with the United States law, is rapidly
going forward, not only on the Maine
Central but on every road, large and
small, in the whole country. Only n
very few years ago an automatic coupler
on car was such rarity as 10 cause a
great interest in 'the thing" among the
railroad men when such car would
stray into the yard. Now, close OBJ
seryance OF any freight train will show
that nearly two-thirds OF the cars are
connected BY the standard NJ. &. B. au-
tomato couplers. 1t will be a happy
day for the traiumen when all the cars
are equipped, for il is far more danger
Gus than By the old order OF things to
attempt to make hitch between an
automatic and an old-styled drawbar.
The developments In the West Parsons
field case where Mrs. Betsy Hobbs was
shot and the house fired, have been
startling. and reveal a moral condition
in the minds OF two boys which IL al
most beyond comprehension. Frank
j. Palmer, aged IL, and Charles Savage.
aged 20. are under arrest for the murder,
aud both have told their stories. While
the stories do not entirely agree, 1t Is
evident that both are guilty. IL seems
that the bows had been drinking some
the day before, and while In that condi-
ton deliberately planned 10 shoot and
rob Mrs. Hobbs. Going there In the
morning they carried out their plan.
Savage undertook to do the shooting,
but bis courage failed, and Palmer, &C
cording to his own confession, grabbed
the gun and fired. The boys expect a
life sentence, and seem 10 be rather
proui Of their nOtOriety.