Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-11-12
MAINE NEWS NOTES.

i Mrs. Thomas Zero OF Chesuncook ]
hound over on the charge of manslaugh
ter for killing her husband.
Bridget Hargadon Tor Haney),
woman about 60 years Of age, was foun,
dead in the dock at Portland Monday. I
is supposed she fell off the wharf ant
was drowned.
At a meeting of National Guar
officers held at Augusta 1t was voted t,
give John T. Richards, the retiring ad
jutant general, complimentary banque
at Portland, Nov. 10.
Charles Sawyer of Milbridge, engineer
of the steamer Frank and Lloyd, dice
Tuesday from the effects of injuries sus
tanned BY falling from the wharf to the
beach. He leaves widow and five
children.
Arthur G. Curtis of Augusta, who hal
been employed as assistant to the United
States inspector of dredging in Union
River at Ellsworth, was drowned in the
river Tuesday. Curtis was q years old
and a well-known amateur athlete.
The trial of Alexander Theriault or
the charge of numbering Matthias Pare,
the young Canadian lumberman, neal
Asquith station last March, is now in
progress at Skowhegan, and will 60 to
the jury some time early in the week.
Articles of association have been ap-
proved by the railroad commissioners
for an electric railroad to run from Ber-
wick to South Berwick, distance OF
five miles. The capital stock is $50, 900,
Governor John r. Hill having 1876 Of the
200 shares.
The Rickers of Poland Spring, who
recently purchased the Bay Point Hotel
property at Rockland, have bought the
John Jones farm adjoining, paying for
it $4,000. The Jones estate, which has
a fine grove on it, will be connected with
the hotel grounds.
The failure of the air brakes on train
No. 90 on the Dexter & Foxcroft branch
of the Maine Central to work, caused a
freight wreck in the yard at Foxcroft
Thursday night in which fireman Frank
French of North Newport received in
juries from which he died half hour
later. The train, which consisted Of
nineteen cars and three engines, crashed
into the Foxcroft round house. The
locomotives were badly damaged, but
none of the cars were derailed.
Governor Hill has appointed the fol-
lowing Maine members to the Mckinley
National Memorial Association: Fred
N. Dow, Portland; Frank l.. Dingley,
Lewiston; C. II. Prescott, Biddeford; c.
B. Burleigh, Augusta; j. O. Smith,
Skowhegan; Arthur Chaplin, Bangor;
Charles F. johnson, Waterville; G. A.
Curran, Calais; Oscar R. Wish, Port
land; E. K. Gonld, Rockland; R. W.
Shaw, Houlton; John NJ. S. Hunter,
Pennington; Waldo Pettengill, Rum
ford Falls; Wainwright Cushing, Fox
croft; r. L. Grindle, Mt. Desert. The
committee will take necessary steps to
raise contributions to the fund in this
state.
Leslie Bowker of Marshfield is one of
the latest victims of a hunters mistake.
He was cunning on Saturday, the I'd, in
the vicinity of Great Falls on the
Machias River. He was crossing an open
field, and was shot by a gunner in the
woods. The rifle ball cut a
furrow across the left leg and passed
entirely through his right thigh close to
the bone. He shrieked from pain and
the hunter in the woods made off as
quickly as possible. Bowker took his
belt and buckled it around his wounded
limb, and raising himself attempted to
walk. He fell after about 800 yards,
exhausted. On reviving he
attracted the attention of a party of
hunters, who carried him in canoe five
miles, after which he was driven two
miles to his home. Bowker was 80 weak
from loss Of blood and the journey to-
gether with exposure that he died the
next day.
Portland had its biggest fire in some
years Tuesday morning. 1t started in
the rear of the Milliken-T omlinson Co. g
building on Commercial Street, and the
building and the wholesale grocery
stock of the Milliken- Tomlinson Co.
we're total loss. The heat of the fire
and flying sparks set a number of other
fires. So threatening was the blaze that
for time it looked as if the whole
water front would be involved in the
The whole fire depart
ment was called out at the start, and
help was later summoned from Lewis
ton and Biddeford, but it was net neces-
sary to use any of the apparatus. The
total loss is not far from $4,000. The
Milliken- Tomlinson Co. lose about $780,
BOO. The loss on the building, owned
BY James P. Baxter and William G..
Davis, is 100000. The Burnham Ice Co;
lost stable and eleven horses. The
Kelley Lumber Co., and W. E. Willard,
agent, have loss of $4,000 more or
less, and there were various smaller
losses. The firemen were busy on the
ruins for over twelve hours, and kept a
watch posted longer.