Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-07-29
MAINE NEWS NOTES.

new theatre in Lewiston.
Sanford is having a serious typhOi
epidemic. Chemists declare it is not du
to the water and the cause is a mystery
Young Plaisted, who was accidental,
shot on China Lake by Harold William
of Waltham, Mass, died few days late
in consequence.
Daniel Fl. Chandler, the well-knowl
band master, for long time leader
Chambers Band, died in Portland Mon
day, aged "a years.
Sheriff Pearson of Cumberland Count.
is seriously i'll at White Oak Hill Hote
in Poland, where he went to rest from
the strain of his official duties.
Joseph Mccarthy of Montreal, work
man on the new Maine Central bridge
at Bangor, fell off the bridge Thursda!
and was drowned. He was 81, and un
married.
Boston Herald: Addresses on the tons
of baggage leaving the city these days
prove that the old "Pine Tree State
is one of New England's Maine summer
attractions.
The editor of the Lincoln County
News thanks those who have beer
sending beautiful bouquets but carefully
states, however, that the flowers are
not considered as payment for subscrip
tions.
William D. Alexander of North Bucks
port was drowned at Brewer Tuesday by
falling between a schooner and the
Dirigo mill wharf. Alexander was a
sailor, married and aged 26. His body
was recovered.
By orders from Washington the Port
land and Bangor custom houses are hav-
ing grand house-cleaning, the first in
their history, and tons of worthless old
documents, some over century old, are
being destroyed.
Frank B. Brown, the Brewer man who
has been missing since July 6, when he
went fishing on Pushaw Lake, was found
Monday on the farm of a man named
Bradford where he has been working for
some time. 1t is supposed that Brown
became affected by the heat which re-
suited in dementia and that while in this
condition he landed and went
through the woods to Bradford's where
he applied for and received work.
Two gravel cars on the Portland and
Brunswick Street Railway line, now
under construction, collided Wednesday
evening in Freeport. Melville Soule of
Freeport,, who was motorman on one OF
the cars, jumped just before the cars
struck. He jumped against a pole and
was internally injured, how seriously is
not vet known. The mOtorman on the
other car, Jack Chaplin of Brunswick,
thrown over the fender on to the was
track, and one foot was taken off at the
ankle.
A somewhat novel case in law is likely
to arise as the result of the severe thun-
der storm of Tuesday, July Is. On that
afternoon Charles Vigue of Waterville
hired horse of c. II. Libby to go to
North Pond, where he is building sum-
mer cottage. The horse was valued at
$500. The storm came up very suddenly
and Mr.. Vigue hitched the animal to a
tree and started for cover. A bolt of
lightning came and struck the horse,
killing him instantly. A law suit may
result for the recovery of the value of the
horse, although Mr.. Vigue claims he is
not responsible for the action of the ele-
ments.
The governor and council are doing
quite business refusing pardons this
year. At their session last week hear
ing was had on petition for pardon of
Walter II. Moore, in prison for life for
robbery committed while armed with a
weapon. Pardon was refused.
Pardon of Edward A. Chase, serving a
life sentence for murder of Mrs. Ida a.
Stevens in Portland depot in 1888, the pc
tition for which has been pending since
the session of the council in November
Of last year, was also refused. Petition
for pardon of James Newcomb in prison
for life for the crime of arson was tabled
for another month.
Two new electric railways from Au-
gusta to points north and west are pro-
iected and articles of association Lave
been filed with the Secretary of State.
The proposed new roads are to extend
from Augusta to Waterville, through
Vassalboro and Winslow in one case,
from Augusta to Belgrades Lake and
thence to Oakland on the other. The
promoters are well known kennebec
men, several of whom are largely
interested in the electric railway inter-
ests of the state. The combined mileage
of the two roads will be 80 miles, and
both will reach territory not now pro-
vided with railroad facilities.
Arthur Frank Durgin, son of Land
lord Frank w. Durgin of the Windsor
Hotel, Bangor, was instantly killed
Thursday by falling down a shaft in the
Cash mine, Prescott, Arizona. DurGln,
who served in Cuba during the Spanish
war and later in the Philippines, was in
Bangor month ago for visit, having
left to take position in the mine where
he met his death. He was a gallant
soldier and was wounded three times
during his service in Cuba and the
Philippines. In Cuba he was soldier
in the Seventh U. S. Infantry, and in the
Philippines in the Thirteenth infantry.
While a member of the latter command
he participated in the relief of Pekin
during the disturbance in China. Dur
gin was 26 years old.
Kennebec Journal: Twelve years ago,
a horse began cheerfully plodding along
a three mile stretch of track at Fryeburg.
1t was his business to pull car from one
end of the line to the other and then pull
it back again. The whole burden OF
operating the system rested upon him.
If he had baked the entire line would
have gone out of commission. The
company owned three cars, but it had
no other horse. But his responsibility
did not make him proud or presumptu-
Gus. Neither was he lonesome, for,
while he had no comrades in the SER
vice of the Fryeburg Horse Railway
company, he was one of noble army OF
car horses employed by more than 700
street railroads in the United States.
There were 7,341 of his associates work
ing in New England alone, and ut least ten
times as many in the country at large.
That horse, or his successor, is still pull
ing his car along the Fryeburg track,
but in all New England he has not sin
Gle surviving mate. The last of his 7,34l
companions has disappeared. Think OF
the lonely grandeur of his position-the
pathos and the solemnity of it! In all
the &C, 600 square miles of territory from
Long island sound to the highlands OF
the St. Croix. with its five and a hall
millions people, with its millions of driv
ing horses, cows, dogs, pigs and chickens
and its thousands of whizzing trolley
cars and automobiles, one single cal
horse patrols his solitary beat, the sole