Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1897-06-15
MAINE NEWS NOTES.

jeremiah Hurley, aged - years, wa
killed Monday bv being caught between
freight car and the bumper at the ent
Of the track. on Commercial Street, Port
land.
The town OF windham voted agains
granting any aid to the Westbrook
Windham and Harrison electric road
and many think that will lay the project
up for the present.
II was not comet or the approach ol
a Marian visitor that caused knot oi
Bar Harborites TO crane their necks and
peer long into the heavens the Other
day. IL was bit Of blue sky no bigger
than a mans hand.
Anna Darlington OF Lewiston, aged
Il. member Of the Shaker family at
Shaker village, New Gloucester. commit
ted suicide by drowning Friday night.
The girl was intelligent and high-minded
and no reason Is assigned for the suicide.
The city OF Augusta observed the Gen.
tenuisl OF It's Incorporation "Wednesday,
with literary exercises. Hon. j. w.
Bradbury, 95 years OF age, was presi-
dent Of the day. The address was de-
livered by Chief Justice Melville w. Full
Ter. OF the Supreme Court OF the United
States.
| There was great excitement at Benton
Falls Sunday afternoon, the 9Th, when
II was learned that a man by the name
OF Clspp had attempted his wife's life
and his own. They were walking In the
woods, when he attempted to cut her
throat and then his own with razor.
Both will recover. 1t Is thought that
Clapp Is insane.
On Saturday, June 9Th, Fred witham
of Alfred went TO the house OF Mrs.
William kimball in South WATERFORD,
and after some words with Charles l..
Winchester, an inmate OF the house, fired
two revolver shots through the door,
one Of the bullets lodging in Mrs. KIM
balls abdomen, just below the heart.
| She will recover. The trouble between
Withsm and Winchester arose over
widow named Lillian Russell.
There ia trouble among the Portland
milkmen over an order by the Portland
board OF health. This order was In sub
| stance that every man selling milk In
Portland should have his cows inspected
annually and their good health certified
by competent veterinary-the cows TO
be tested by the tuberculin test. This
| regulation has raised storm among the
| milkmen, many OF whom assert that the
tuberculin test Is not reliable. There Is
a possibility OF some satisfactory COM
promise Of the matter.
kennebec Journal: There were no
weather bureaus when Augusta was
christened and for that matter 1t Is open
TO question whether there was such
weather 100 years ago as that OF the past
many days. We trust not for We OF this
generation have been taking much OF
credit to ourselves for undergoing this
ordeal so nicely. As for the weather
bureau that's another trial which our
forefathers' patience was not subjected
TO. Morning after morning their hopes
and pulses did not bound upward on
reading the cheerful announcement In
the morning paper, "showers, clearing
nj night" only to find that one rain storm
began where the former left of, and then
when the clouds In fit OF alteration
wandered away, and the stars twinkled
as IL they had enjoyed long rest to be
distressed by an evening bulletin to this
effect, ''rain, easterly winds, colder"
Joseph B. Holt, the Mechanic Falls
murderer, now presents a problem In
criminal procedure. He has been turned
over to the insane asylum and turned out
as sane. He has been tried for murder
and the Jury has disagreed, eleven for
conviction and one against. He has lain
over in Auburn Jail for months and has
not asked for trial himself, nor has any
one else. He has no friends, no Interest
In himself, and seems content as he Is.
In his trial in January he was immobile,
stolid, maintaining fixed position hour
after hour, only his eyes moving rest
lessly and watching each witness As a
child watches play, but without show
of animation. II he Is sent to the insane
asylum, he will soon after be turned
loose on the public. II he Is sent to state
prison, there Is the claim that he was
insane when the deed was done. Judge
Strout says that he has never known 8
more peculiar case than this man lying
over in Jail after jury disagreement
with no one to ask for trial Of him al
the succeeding term Of court. You viii
! hardly find parallel case. Holt, it vii
i be remembered, murdered his infant
child and tried to kill his wife.