Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-11-05
MAINE NEWS NOTES.


Ill health, Orrin Jones of Madison,
Iyears of age, committed suicide by han
ing in his stable Tuesday.
Mrs. Thomas Danforth committt
suicide at her home in Madison fe
days since by taking arsenic, She WI
Iabout 90 years of age. Her husbau
died short time ago.
| A. C. Kenneth of Conway, N. H., HI
bonded a tract of land at Baunebe
Lake, North Berwick, in the interest
the syndicate which proposes to estal
lish a new paper company. The Ian
will be the site of new pulp mill, an
will be connected with the Boston an
Maine road by an electric branch line.
Harvey F. wiggin, who had been Al
rested for drunkenness, hanged himse
in the police station at Gardiner Sunday
He was a member of the Soldiers HON
at Togus, having served as sergeant i
the 1st New Hampshire Regiment an
lieutenant in the 4th New Hampshir
Regiment. He was 63 years Of age an
a native of Dover, N. H.
Fire at Lewiston Monday night de
strOyed three buildings and 800 cords
wood belonging to the Harper & Googil
Co., and three freight cars belonging t.
the Maine Central Railroad Company
The cause of the fire is unknown. Som
believe it was set, and others think |
caught by spontaneous combustion. Tn,
loss is estimated at $4,000; insurance
hat " een a OOO and a. 600
The Times says Bath people are tax
ing lively interest in the troubles of j
NJ. Fisher & Co., the Boston investment
firm, the members of which are reported
as being wanted by United States au
thorities. 1t is estimated that the
amount of money entrusted to the con.
Germ by Bath citizens will exceed $25, 600
One member of the firm has spent his
summers in Bath, and married Wool
witch girl.
There is on file at Alfred contract OF
great importance, inasmuch as it is the
consolidation of the Pepperell and
Laconia corporations of Biddeford,
which is remarkable in one respect, and
that is that there is not single punctua-
ton mark in the entire contract. The
legal document was drawn up by lead
ing Boston law firm. A search of the
entire document by Saco attorney fail
ed to reveal a single comma, period, or
any other mark of punctuation. That is
where the lawyers will probably come
in.
By the overturning of canoe on
Lake, near Greenville, Sum
day night, Oct. %, two young men were
drowned and two Others narrowly es-
capped with their lives. The dead are
Charles Dudley, aged 16, and Louis
Duffy, 20, both of Bangor. Dudley and
Duffy were employed in the veneer mill
there. About II o'clock they started
for a canoe trip on the lake. They had
gone only a few rods from the shore
when they struck floating buoy and
,apsized. One man swan to the steamer
Katahdin, anchored near by, and another
succeeded in reaching shore, but Dudley
and Duffy were drowned.
Among the buildings recently erected
IN Bath is one which is said to be a
spite house." This building, the Bath
Enterprise says. was added to what was
formerly a pretty little home, for the
purpose of obtaining vengeance from a
party who has built a large and impOs-
ng house on the next lot. The spite as
me would readily imagine, is not de-
,igned for comfort or convenience, as it
has many angles, but the owner in car
'ying out his object of spelling the view
md shutting out all sunlight from one
tide of his neighbours house, has made a
Iuccessful job of it.
Another murder in Maine Tuesday.
Thomas Zero Tor Giroux), who lived on
he shore of Chesuncook Lake, was
ound dead in his yard. There were
seventeen cuts about his body, most of
hem apparently made with knife or a
azor, though one seems to have been
lone with an axe. Three people who
we're on the premises were held pending
N investigation, and later Mrs. Gero.
wife of the murdered man, was placed
lnder arrest. All the parties seem to
,ave been considerably under the influ-
nee of liquor when neighbOrs reached
he place. The Zero place has not borne
very savory reputation.
1t is said that the owners of the
sandy River Railroad, who are Gardiner
PARTIES, recently refused a very iattering
'ffer for the sale of their property. This
,ffer is said to have been made by the
Maine Central Company, who, for rea-
ons quite evident on the railroad check
,rboard, desire this road for themselves.
rhe Sandy River railroad runs from
to Phillips, distance of
eighteen miles, and is one of the best
,aying lines in the state. Indeed, so
veil does it pay that though the offer of
he Maine Central is said to have been
generous in it's amount it was no induce
nent whatever to the Gardiner gentle
men.
It would be almost enough to make
he old-fashioned Quakers turn in their
raves at Winthrop if they could read
he program of the dedicatory exercises
II the Friends church at Winthrop
centre. The Friends of years ago didn't
believe in opening their mouths at a
church servie unless they were duly
moved and the thought of church music
vas thoroughly repugnant. But in this
modern service there we're anthems and
and organ preludes and organ
,ostludes, and what not else OF a varied
md extensive musical program. It all
illustrates the fact that times have
many changes in this, one OF
he most conservative of religious Or
plantations.
Mrs. Susan r. Peters of Portland, who
8 now we'll along in her nineties, relates
IN interesting incident of the war Of 1912.
The roof of her uncle's house was about
,ven with the top of Munjoy Hill, and
me day she looked across there and saw
. very grievous sight. Two deserters
rom the American army had been SEN
.enced to be shot and all preparations
had been made for carrying out the SEN
:ence. There stood the two men each
cooking down into his coffin while the
chaplain read the service for the dying.
They wore long white flannel gowns
md white caps on their heads. Munjoy
Hill was alive with people. A death
ike stiffness prevailed. In an instant
there was a stir. Confusion followed.
An officer on splendid horse dashed up
the side of the hill waving something
white in his hand and proclaiming a
pardon for the poor men. "Such cheer
ing as went up from that vast assemblagc
Is seldom heard" said Mrs. Peters.
This is the way it always happens in
stories and it is gratifying to know that
It once happened in real life.
CHAMBERLAIN'S
AND LIVER TABLETS.