Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1897-11-02
THE WEEK IN NAINE


rng MOST lMpoaTANT STATE NEW
i oRieFlv TOLD.
Calais l. threatened with q spell o
enforcement Of The prohibitory Law.
The five-year.old daughter Of Herbes
Wlnslow Of Mars Hill ID dead from burn
received by an overturned lamp Sunday
| Lewiston has bridal coaple that Of
starting out In married life had Q Who'll
hotel TO themselves. Tue groom 10 th
Waterman at the Dewitt.
George Webb, clerk In the hardwar
store OF w. Loane, at Ashland, shot him
self dead Tuesday morning. 1t II sup
posed to have been accidental.
A young clergyman In Windsor Is Il
jail awaiting trial on the charge Of Grim
lnal assault upon girl OF 10 employed
at the Hallowell industrial school.
Burglars In the hardware store O
Prescott Emery Of Sanford Tuesday
morning blew his safe, and secured Oh
to pay for their labor and expense.
A Bangor man died the other day al
the age OF IS. For d years he had
worked at one place without loss Of /,
days time. Hard work does not always
kill.
Four burglars arrested In lawrence
Mass, have been identified a. men want
ed In Maine, two for q burglary 10
Brunswick, aud the other two for Lew.
iston break.
Two cases Of ssndbagging have recent.
ly occurred at Rockland. One OF them
vas without effect, but In the other case
Ralph Hastings, 3 young man residing
In South Hope, Was struck insensible
and robbed Of els.
A West Ellsworth hen recently dem.
onstrated the well-recognized truth that
hens given their own way do wondei-
fully well occasionally. She hid IA eggs
under q woodpile, sat on them and
brought out IA chicks.
Penobscot lumbermen are preparing
for the largest crop OF logs since 1872.
Last year the cut Was about $50, 00O, 900
feet, and this year Ii is likely to be near
er to 2l5,000, 900 feet, for the general
estimate Is about 10 per cent in excess OF
1896.
William K. Brsnrs, trackman on the
electric street railway In Lewiston,
hung himself In his woodshed Tuesday.
Dependency Was the cause. He WAS In
his usual health, working all day Mon
day. He leaves wife and four chill
dren.
The epidemic Of diphtheris In Lewis
ton IL assuming alarming proportions.
The Oak Street school, one Of the larg-
est 10 the city, has been closed on sc-
count OF IL. Fourteen deaths have oc-
Cured, aud there are still twenty or
thirty cases on hand.
The lead mines formerly worked at
Lubec are to be reopened BY q New
York syndicate. II is said that work
was suspended on them some years ago,
not because the ore WAS not rich enough,
but because the management WAS too
and wssteful.
After a two days trial, Recorder
Of the Biddeford Municipal
Court has fined man $50 for cruelty to
animals In dehorning cattle. The lengthy
hearing Was for the purpose Of satisfy
Ing the court whether dehornlng was
cruel. The respondent has appealed.
The goat got unusually lively At one OF
the recent Colby limitations, and one
young man required the services Of two
physicians, alumni members OF the fra
,erniiy. who took number OF stitches
Ia the Injured part. IL Is fair 10 state
that the young man Was not an Initiate.
Says an Auburn physician, ~ notice
oy the official statistics that Auburn's
death rate IL . little over Is per cent
On 100, the smallest death rate 10 New
England. haven't the statistics for IL.
but shouldn't be surprised II IL held
true far beyond the New England
states"
editor and proprietor OF the Eastern
Argus, died si his home In Deering FRI
iay evening. Col. Adams was one OF
he Oldest aud best known newspaper
nen In Maine, having been connected
with the Argus In some capacity for
years
Reporter-Journsl: A man, who Il
years sgo held responsible positions In
he political world, Was deputy sheriff
II kenuebec County. and jail turnkey,
boarded The boat this afternoon In this
,ity for Boston, having just served
term OF 30 days 10 the Augusta Jail for
drunkenness Verify old Johnny Bar
eycorn beats the best Of them.
People who live In parts OF the prov
noes where they build walls of their
houses from one 10 two feet thick WON
Der why we In Maine do not. Nor IL this
wholly uncalled for. With
the thick walled houses, coal goes a great
way farther than In the thin walled
house snd the former are cooler 10 sum-
nsr. The thin walled house Is cheaper
20 build but Il IL cheaper In the end when
the COS, Of extra amount Of fuel Ia con-
siiered;
One Belfast merchant will probably
IN the future. read the stories OF hired
ziris kiudling fires with kerosene with
more interest than he has Ia the past.
Tie not only disresarded all previous
earnings, but used q much more in
4 ,mmable liquid to hasten his fire-oen-
liue Luckily for him his fire WAS out of
ioor-, but he had an immediate call To
visit a barber, and thought himself lucky
hat the services Of surgeon or possibly
an undertaken were not required.
Alphouso Holmes OF Guilford COM
mi,ted suicide Saturday morning by
himself with 4 rifle. After FIR
log once or twice nc 4 mark he entered
his barn, telling his wife that he WAS
going to kill himself. His wife re
and he promised 70 put the
rife away, but "a she turned for an In
slant, he fired the fatal shot. IL 10 IT.
ported that he had threatened TO COM
NIT suicide in the past. He had been
engaged In the trucking business for
years.
Bath Independent: A wealthy Bath
man, some time since, presented faith
full employee with new house, furnished
and including 8 piano. When the gift
was made known to the man and his
wife their emotions Of gratitude quite
oyercame them. Their bluff benefactor
hluntly ssh that II he had known how
they were 20 take 1t he wouldn't have
given IL to them. The only proviso was
that IL should never be mortgsged. Here
was case Of capital tremendously over
labor.
Maine Statesman: Those who think
the rich are getting richer, and the poor
are gettiog poorer, should look over the
long list Of Lewiston Taxpayers which