Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-08-13
THE WEEK IN MAINE.
THE MOST IMPORTANT STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD.

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BRIEFLY TOLD.
The eight-year-old son of F. w. Gil
more of Keene's Mills was drowned il
the Androscoggin River Thursday.
The Bath school board has elected
Edward H. McLachlin Of Bristol, Conn.
superintendent of schools at salary o.
$l4OO per year.
Mary Chevenir, aged 10 years, wa
| drowned while bathing in the kenneoet
River at Waterville Tuesday. The body
was recovered.
Mrs. George W. Sanford of Guilford
aged fifty years, bride OF five weeks
made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide
by drowning Tuesday.
Arthur, eldest son of Archie Trimble
was drowned at Western Lake in Rob-
binston, Sunday. The deceased was
worthy young man of Is years.
The relatives and friends of Andrew
Herrin of Norridgewock, fear that he
wandered away in the forest and is lost.
Herrin is sixty-three years old.
Lewiston is having spell of what
looks like genuine liquor law enforce
ment. How long spell, the weather
forecast man does not undertake to tell
us.
Mr.. Clarence A. Hight, counsel for the
Grand Trunk, has filed q protest with
the state assessors against the tax levied
upon that corporation, claiming that 1t
is exOrbitant.
Algernon II. Payne committed suicide
in Jay Sunday by cutting his throat with
a razor. Payne has suffered several
years with nervous prostration. He was
Sc years old and unmarried.
John Hurley, who was confined at the
Belfast police station for drunkenness,
committed suicide Monday by hanging in
his cell. He tore a blanket into strips
and tied one end of the improvised rope
to the bars.
All the property formerly owned by
the Kennebec Framing Co. at Fairfield
has been purchased by Hon. S. A. Nye,
who will erect large shops for the man
ufacture of wood novelties, thereby
bringing a new industry to the town.
A Manchester, N. H., firm, had rep
resentative at East New Portland for
several days looking over the water
power privilege with a view to the es-
Establishment of a good-sized plant for
the manufacture of wooden novelties.
A heavy thunder shower passed over
Eliot at an early hour Friday morning,
and the valuable farm buildings of
Nathaniel Staples were struck and
burned. Mr.. Staples was rendered I'M
conscious, and died while his buildings
were burning.
Robert Ridley, a river driver employ.
ed on the West Branch drive, was killed
by premature blast near Shad Pond,
Saturday, the Sd. Ridley was struck in
the face by a fragment Of rock and in.
stantly killed. He was "a years old and
his home was in Chatham, n. b.
The body of Joel E. Boomer, who was
in Lake Auburn June 22d, was
found Sunday, the 4th inst, by his
father. The body was floating in shoal
water and near the shore. The body OF
Ross, who was drowned at the same
time, has not yet been recovered.
Among the many distinguished sum-
mer visitors at York are Mr.. and Mis-.
Charles Dana Gibson, and those who see
Mrs. Gibson for the first time are no
longer at loss to understand the source
of inspiration which gives character to
NJ. % hast work
The town officers of Scion have placed
in the hands of contractors plans and
specifications for a system of water
works for that village. The estimated
cost of the system is $45, 900. The water
to be used in the service will be taken
from pond fed by springs little north
of the village.
Acting under orders from the state
board Of health, guards have been sta
toned on all the roads leading from
New Brunswick in the towns of Houlton,
Monticello, Bridgewater, and Blaine and
everything possible is being done to
prevent the small pox epidemic from
crossing the border from New Bruins
wick.
Professor F. h. Butterfield of New
Bedford, Mass, who is spending the
summer at his summer home in Weld,
has been troubled many years with dys-
pepsia and is trying the fasting cure: AT
last accounts he had gone without food
for twenty-three days, and said that he
intended to eat nothing until desire
for food manifested itself.
On Wednesday, August l4th, Dexter
will celebrate her Tooth anniversary. An
artistic souvenir programme, just issued,
gives the order of exercises which open
at sunrise with a salute of 100 guns.
Then follows a grand parade and in the
afternoon there will be exercises on the
school house common. There will be
dramatic performance in the evening
and fireworks.
A letter has been received at Mercer
by relatives of Charles Washburn, who
went from that section in 1898 to the
Klondike, containing the information
that Washburn had been killed in fight
while defending his claim in the gold
fields. The letter was dated from Little
Snake River. Washburn was native of
New Portland, where relatives are living
at the present time.
The mayor of Rockland has developed
a new use of the veto power, about the
legality of which there seems to be some
question. The board of aldermen grant
ed a license for choking exhibition" by
a vote of to 2, whereupon the mayor
announced that he annulled the permis-
sion and that no license would be issued
to the petitioners. The legality OF his
action will probably be tested.
CONGRESSMAN Littlefield has completed
the address which he is to deliver before
the National Bar Association at Denver
this month. 1t occupies about 80 type
written pages and is an exhaustive sum-
mary of over 10000 words, dealing with
the insular cases. Mr.. Littlefield has
devoted the utmost care and research in
the preparation of this address, and that
it will be a feature of the national gath
ering no one doubts.
Charles Steward of Rangeley is per,
haps fatally injured, and both he and
Dennis Taylor, his neighbor, are under
arrest, as the result of shooting ARRAY
Tuesday night. The explanations Of the
affair given by the parties do not ex-
plain, but as far as can be learned lay.
ior's sister was riding with Steward and
TAYLOR objected. whereupon words were
followed by shots, Steward using re-
volver and Taylor a rifle. Steward was
the only one hurt.