Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-11-11
MAINE NEWS NOTES.


Francis j. Breslin of Roxbury, Mass
!. committed suicide by shooting Thurs
:. day night, in Portland, where he hal
. been occupying o small rent for few
y months. He was about 45, and unmar
!. ried.
Rev. Mr.. Hanscom of Bar Harbor, en-
: forcement candidate for sheriff of Han
e cock County, who contested the election
!. but was turned down by the governor
!. and council, will carry the matter to thu
. courts.
The association to erect a monument
!, to the memory of the late Elijah kellogg
has accumulated quite fund, and Gen
Chamberlain hopes to see it in place al
Harpswell before the close of 1908
Portland also wants Kellogg monu
: ment.
Thursday afternoon, Byron Harnder
while busily engaged at Bridgton cream
cry fell through scuttle and struck the
hard floor of the basement on his head
and shoulders, causing severe internal
injuries, from which it is feared he will
not recover.
Word was received Friday, that Harry
Fisher of Smyrna Mills, was mistaken
for deer and shot through the shoulder
by Chas. De Long, son of the Smyrna
Mills hotel proprietor, about IA miles
from that town. Fishers wound is not
considered serious.
Henry c. Brown of Brunswick, sec
ton foreman on the Maine Central, was
killed on the morning of the I'd, on the
bridge between Brunswick and Tops
ham. He was on handcar and freight
train ran him down in dense fog. He
leaves wife and four children.
W. D. Wilson, while hunting in the
woods, some distance from Ellsworth.
was mistaken for deer and shot through
the thigh by L. E. Treadwell, a COM
panion. The wound is serious but not
necessarily fatal. Wilson was mistaken
for deer last fall and shot through the
wrist.
Edward Dostie, a resident of the
''Plains" at Waterville, on Monday shot
his wife and then himself. Although
his wife was hit three times, she will re-
cover. The bullet which he directed at
himself went through his brain, and
he will die. The couple had separated a
short time before.
Herbert Young of Shirley was so bad
ly injured by the accidental discharge OF
a gun loaded with buckShot that it was
necessary to amputate one leg at the
knee. The accident happened in hunt
ing camp. The gun, which was left
standing against the wall of the camp,
fell over and was discharged.
1t looks as though the Grand Trunk
would do bigger business at Portland
this winter than ever before. Mr.. Hays,
the general manager of the road, says
that sin addition to getting our share of
the crops in the Western States our line
to Portland will handle far greater
amount of live stock and dressed meats
than it has ever before contracted for"
Job Rines, So years of age, was serious
ly and probably fatally injured at
South Portland Wednesday. He is en-
ployed as carpenter by the Portland
Ship Building Co., and while at work on
the deck of schooner which was being
unloaded, he was struck by portion of
the cargo which had been hoisted out of
the hold and swung around. His skull
was fractured.
Edward Adams, blacksmith, was
foud dead Thursday morning in the hall
way of house at Waterville. An empty
bottle which had contained choral was
found beside the body. Coroner
Edwards and City Physician Bunker
viewed the remains and deemed an in
quest unnecessary, stating that death
was due to alcohol rather than chloral.
Adams had been on protracted spree
for nearly month.
For several months 100 men have
been at work about the grounds of the
Samoset, Rockland, and the Rickers
make it plain that they propose to make
this hotel and surroundings the best on
the whole Atlantic coast. The hotel it
self is enlarged, new stables, carriage
house, and bath houses built, the extern
sive oak grove transformed into fairy
land, massive gates erected, new drives
laid out, golf links improved and the
great easterly lawn, stretching from the
hotel to the sea, made level as billiard
table. The Kicker brothers do nothing
by halves and the Samoset will not be
second to Poland Spring as a great
objective point for the highest class of
summer travel which comes to Maine.
O.W. Knight of Bangor, in letter to
the Commercial, has something to say
regarding the reported discovery of coal
in the Fish River region. He says he
recently spent five days in this region
and made thorough examination of
the alleged coal deposit. The rock
formation there is of that type of slate
or shale, so common in many parts of
the State, containing small pockets and
incrustations of graphitoidal carbon.
Instead of being an indication Of coal
this formation is the best possible indi-
cation that coal does not exist in the
vicinity. Mr.. Knight is of the opinion
that if coal is ever discovered in Maine it |
will be somewhere in the eastern part of |
Washington county and that to seek for
it elsewhere is waste of time and
money.
A 16-year-old hunter, David Fuller,
was shot and instantly killed by a COM
panion Monday, the latter having fired
into a clump of alders which were being |
shaken as if by moving animal. The
fatality occurred at Little Brassua Pond,
about three miles from Ashwith Station
on the Canadian Pacific road. A party |
of three, consisting of Mark Fuller and
his son David, and Arthur Bagley of
Henderson, had been hunting in the
woods for two weeks. Monday all three
started down a wood road. After
while David struck into the woods, leav-
ing his father and Bagley to follow the
path. Suddenly Bagley is said to have
fired at moving object in a clump of
alders. Upon hearing the death cry of
human being, Bagley and Fuller ran
to the place and found the lad dead. He
had been shot through the neck. Bag
ley has been arrested.
500 REWARD $500.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
lea I'm that there is at least one dreaded disease