Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-10-14
MAINE NEWS NOTES.

The fair season is not yet closed. Top
sham fair this week.
Kent's Hill Seminary gets $4,000 in
the will of the late Frank Jones of Ports
mouth, N. H., who was a trustee of the
institution.
The annual meeting of the Maine
Grand Lodge of Good Templars was held
at West Kennebunk last week. The re-
ports show a membership Of 5000, a
slight loss during the year.
William Ellsworth of Greene, the old
man who set fire to the Greene town
farm buildings two weeks since, died in
the Jail at Auburn Saturday morning.
He had been failing ever since his arrest.
Burglars blew the safe in the Patten
post office Tuesday morning, and secur-
ed about $1,000 in checks and money.
The residents of the place were awaken
ed by the explosion, but the burglars
got away without leaving any clue.
A young man in Bath, after having
trouble with his wife, attempted suicide
with a revolver, but his aim was poor
and the first bullet struck in his left
wrist, causing so much pain that he lost
his courage and gave up the attempt.
Although four rural delivery routes
now start from the Harrison post office,
the people are not yet satisfied and it is
stated that petitions are being circulated
for a fifth to run through the northerly
part of Bridgton and portion of Water
ford.
As the outcome of the sandbagging of
Mrs. Sarah Knowles near Harding's
station some two weeks ago, James A.
Sanford of West Bath and James Richie
of Brunswick were arrested last week,
and after hearing were bound over in
the sum of $1,000.
1t is reported that President Roosevelt
contemplates calling upon a former
Maine man to assist in the construction
of the isthmian canal. F. Fl. Clergue's
operations at Sault Ste. Marie are high
evidence of his executive ability in the
matter of large enterprises.
In the Supreme Court at Auburn, Will
liam St. Clair pleaded guilty of attempt
ing to vote illegally in Lewiston at the
state election, and was sentenced to three
months in Jail. st. Clair attempted to
ferent wards of the city but was detected
each time.
The vacancy in the office of deputy
secretary of state, caused by the death
of Hon. Sumner j. Chadbourne, has
been filled by the appointment of Arthur
/. Brown of Belfast. Mr.. Brown is the
present postmaster of Belfast and is a
member of the Republican state COM
mittee for the county of Waldo.
The murderous assault upon Mrs.
Littlefield in the town of Penobscot some
two weeks since is explained by the con-
fession of Guy Grindle, boy of II. He
cannot give any motive, but says he had
been drinking, and acted upon impulse.
Grindle had not borne specially good
reputation, but was never regarded as
vicious or criminally disposed.
Clarence E. Lombard of Guilford was
accidentally shot and killed while hunt
ing, Sunday, the 5th. He and others
had sat down to rest, when one of his
companions dropped his gun off his
knees where he had laid it. The gun
was discharged, the charge striking
Lombard in the forehead and causing
almost instant death. Lombard was A
years old and leaves a widow and four
children.
In the Supreme Court at Pennington
Friday, Herbert Z. Holbrook of Wilton
was found guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree in shooting his wife on the
9th of September. The defence was in
sanity, and DR.. Sanborn of the state in
sane hospital testified that in his opinion
Holbrook was irresponsible on the day
the deed was done. Holbrook is subject
to epileptic fits. He was sentenced to
state prison for life.
Leon L. Lord of Portland was fatally
wounded by the accidental discharge of
shot gun Sunday, the 5th, and died a
few hours later. With several compan-
ions he was cunning at Highland Lake,
and while he was standing in the door
way of farm house, leaning upon the
muzzle of his gun, one of the young
ladies of the house brushed by him and
her skirts caught on the hammer of the
gun and raised it far enough to discharge
the weapon. Some of the shot pene-
trated his lung.
The Kennebec Journal says that all the
ice houses of the American Ice Co. in
this state will be emptied before the
river closes for the winter. The short
age of coal in the big cities where arti-
fetal ice is made is being felt by the
manufacturers and the natural commodi-
ty is in demand. Orders have been re-
ceived from the headquarters of the COM
pany to hasten the shipment of all the
ice in Maine as rapidly as possible. YES
sells have been chartered within day or
two with total capacity of 1000 tons
and they are expected in the river Mon
day or Tuesday. Others will be charter
ed at once, and the balance of the stock
on hand, which now aggregates about
100000 tons, will undoubtedly be
shipped away before the end of October.
With empty houses the prospect of an
increased cut next winter is very promis-
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