Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-04-16
MAINE NEWS NOTES.

MAINE NEWS NOTES.
The Pepperell Manufacturing Co. o.
Biddeford, which employs about 4OOt
hands, is curtailing production, closing
down two days week.
While watching the high water In the
Androscoggin near the pumping station
Monday afternoon, George Shedd, II
years Of age, fell into the river and was
drowned.
tits reported that Senator Matthew
Is. Quay of Pennsylvania who spent
several weeks in the woods Of central
Maine last season on the Ashland Branch
Is to build cottage this season al
Moosehead Lake.
Specials from Burnbam aud East Will
ton say parties there arc ;oing extensive.
" into breeding Angora goats. One
firm has bought $50 Of the animals now
on the way from Mexico. Great interest
is manifested throughout the state In
this attempt to produce mohair In Maine.
William Doyle, Of Calais, 81 years of
age and unmarried, committed suicide
Tuesday by drinking carbolic acid.
He committed the act In room adjoin-
ing local restaurant and was discover
ed Immediately, but he died in Is minutes
after an unsuccessful attempt of two
physicians to save his life.
There Is a warm time In store for the
Biddeford man who is sending complaints
to the police, signed with the names Of
other citizens, giving information on
liquor sellers. The saloon men want to
get at him, and the people whose names
he signs would also like to make his
acquaintance.
James Fury of Bangor is in Rockland
with fractured skull, and Fred Savage,
a Rockland saloon keeper, is locked up
to await the outcom' Of Fury's injuries.
This is as the outcome of scrimmage
in the saloon, in the course Of which at
least one Of the men seems to have lived
up to his name.
Hancock is the first county in Maine
to recognize the trout as distinctively
game fish-not a food fish-and to
prohibit their sale. Other counties will
probably follow suit. The action in
Hancock county was made necessary by
the depredations of those seeking to
supply the Bar Harbor markets with all
the trout wanted.
James F. Hodgdon, who was found
guilty of numbering his mother In Bath
in 1885, and was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment at hard labor in state prison,
was released from that institution Sat
urday. Hodgdon's release was brought
about by citizens Of Bath, who, year
ago, presented lengthy petition to
Gov. Powers praying for a pardon for
Hodgdon.
Daniel Berry in temporary fit of in
sanity, shot and killed himself at his
mothers home in Montague. The cause
is supposed to be the leaving home of
his wife, taking with her their only
child, her application for divorce and
the attachment of his property by the
court, saws the Bangor Commercial. The
man was about 80 years old and had al
ways been hard working citizen.
A general order has been issued in &C.
cordance with the militia laws by the
chief for an officers meet
ing for military instruction to be held at
the State House April II. The instruc-
tions will be under the direction Of Col.
L. H. Kendall of the First Regiment,
and Col. f. E. Newcomb of the Second
Regiment. The plan to have the in
structions for officers OF both regiments
at the same time is an innovation in the
state.
Charles B. Hatch Of Wells, single,
aged AZ, living alone, was found dead in
his house Sunday. The doors and win
dows of the house were all fastened from
the inside, and a gun fastened to the
bedstead, with rope attached to the
trigger, indicated the strange mode OF
suicide. Sitting in chair he pulled the
trigger, and his head was almost COM
pletely blown off and his body burned
to crisp. The man has been acting
strangely for some time.
The election in the Fourth Congress
sional District on Monday resulted In
the election of Hon. LleWellyn Powers
by a plurality of 1900 to 1900 over,
Thomas White Of Bangor, the Demo
cratic candidate. The majority is much
reduced from that at the September
when Congressman Boutelle
had about 10000. A special election, in
a time of bad weather and almost i'm
passable roads, is responsible for
portion of the shrinkage.
1t is long story of damage by the
recent high water that comes from all
over Maine. Roads washed out, cellars
and easements flooded, bridges carried
away, and even a few buildings de-
make up the list Of items.
Most of the streams rose to pitch
higher than any recorded for years ex-
cept during the phenomenal freshet OF
March, 1896, and few even exceeded
that height. The sum total of damage
done is, however, much less than at that
time.
The town Of Bridgewater has a unique
plan of collecting taxes and one that
seems to be working to charm. They
employ no collector and give liberal
discount to all taxpayers who settle be-
fore certain date, payment being made
directly to the town treasurer. All
arrearages of taxes which remain unpaid
at the end of the year in which they
were assessed are turned over to an at
torney for collection, who is instructed
to proceed impartislly with the enforce
ment of the demands. The result of this
course is that it has cost the town but
500 to collect the 1900 assessment,
amounting to between seven and eight
thousand dollars, and the best part OF 1t
is that the tax Is completely cleaned up.
FIRE AT MILTON.