Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-10-08
MAINE NEWS NOTES.

BY the overturning of a canoe on
Athens Pond Sunday DR.. +. W. Mcclure
of Springfield, Mass, was drowned. He
was accompanied by Canadian, who
was saved. The body was recovered
the same day. DR.. Mcclure was 80 years
old and single.
More than half a million bushels of
potatoes were shipped over the Bangor
and Aroostook railroad during the month
of September, breaking all records in the
history of the road for any month in this
sort of freight. The actual number of
bushels shipped was 1000.
The steel ship William P. Frye, which
stuck on the ways at the first attempt to
launch her from the Sewall yard at
Bath, went into the water smoothly at
the second trial Thursday. She was
christened by Miss Caroline Frye Briggs,
granddaughter of Senator Frye.
The body of Joseph Ouillette, who
was drowned several days before in the
Hollingsworth & Whitney canal at
Waterville, was found Sunday, Sept. go,
thus setting at rest the many rumors
that had been aflOat that Ouillette had
pcdicu VI own dOSOAu ehuU hssu
not been drowned.
A Lewiston Sun special from North
Auburn reports that the body of Willie
Gouthier of Skillings was found hang
ing TO an oak tree Saturday night,
ghere he had undoubtedly committed
de- The deceased left letter to his
5 saying he was tired of life. He
90 wears Of apa and unmarried
The reOpening of the Sarah Ware
murder case is probable at the session
of the Hancock County Supreme Judicial
Court, which opens Oct. at Ellsworth,
according to positive statements of
Bucksport parties who have been inter
ested since the start, particularly in
operations of State Detective Dennis
Tracey.
The Maine Commission of the Louis
lana Purchase Exposition which is TO be
held at ST. Louis in 1908, held its first
meeting at Portland last week. No
definite programme was settled upon,
but it is thought that the Maine exhibit
will be largely devoted to advertising
the state as summer resort and hunt
ing ground.
The Franklin County grand jury has
returned an indictment against Dennis
Taylor for assault with intent to kill
Charles Stewart at Rangeley on the 9th
of August last. The finding of the
grand jury is the result of the investiga-
ton by that body of the shooting affair
at Rangeley, which was so widely re-
ported at the time of the occurrence.
An exceedingly narrow escape from a
repetition of the Richard Knight tragedy
occurred at Middle Dam on Monday
night, when Mr.. Corbin of New Britain,
Conn, became bewildered in the woods
around Richardson Lake. He was
found after search of several hours.
He was completely out of the course,
and had gone two miles back from the
lake shore. Mr.. Corbin is an elderly
man, and when found he was entirely
exhausted. 1t required the assistance
of two men to bring him out of the
woods.
In the Cumberland Superior Court at
Portland, George III. Brainard has been
for the past few days on trial for the
murder of Isaiah Farnham. Brainard,
it will be remembered, was superin-
tendent of crew putting in a new
switchboard at the New England tele-
phone exchange. One afternoon in
April he suddenly pulled a revolver and
began firing, killing Farnham and one
other man and wounding two or three
others. The facts were not contested,
the defence relying upon the plea of
insanity. Four experts have testified in
the case, all agreeing that Brainard is
insane.
The murder case of Electus Cakes
has been settled in the Aroostook Su-
preme Court by his pleading guilty to a
charge of manslaughter and taking a
Jail sentence of six months. Hon. ID.
II. Powers appeared for the defence and
Attorney General Seiders for the state.
Cakes was convicted of the murder of
his son in 1899, but Mr.. Powers secured
new trial from the Law Court and it
was then arranged that Cakes should
plead guilty to second count of man
slaughter. The killing of the son re-
suited from family quarrel in which he
was the aggressor and threatened the
life of his father, man of So years.
The open season on man in this state
seems to have begun earlier than the
open season on deer. A report from
De VOLTS Corner, Washington County,
Saturday night, Sept. 2Sth, is that
Daniel McIninch of that place was taken
for deer and seriously shot. McIninch
and John Dinsmore were hunting deer
in the woods near De VOLTS Corner late
Saturday night. They became separated
about IL O'Clock, and few minutes
later Dinsmore, hearing sound in the
opposite direction to which he believed
McIninch had gone thought it was a
deer and fired. The bullet entered
McIninch's body, and inflicted serious
wound which possibly may prove fatal.