Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-12-09
MAINE NEWS NOTES

Jesse Hoyt of Dexter was shot in the
thigh by the accidental discharge of a
companions rifle while hunting. The
wound is not thought to be serious.
H. G. Hilton of Bingham, guide, was
shot by the accidental discharge of his
rifle, the bullet entering at the knee and
going down through the muscles to the
ankle.
Maine leads even New Jersey in the
magnitude of corporations organized
during the month of November, the total
capitalization of Maine corporations be-
ing s5S,000,000.
President Roosevelt's old Maine guide,
Bill Sewell of Island Falls, has been in
vited to visit the president at the White
House, and will go with his wife some
time in February.
News reached Cherryfield Monday
morning of the death of Walter c. Farms
worth by accidental shooting while in
the woods. Mr.. Farnsworth was much
respected man in that community.
VIM. Graffte of Jackman, aged 10,
while hunting was shot and instantly
killed. 1t is supposed death was caused
by the accidental discharge of Graffte's
rifle and not by the hand of another
hunter.
Thomas B. Reed, former speaker of
the National House of Representatives
and one of the most eminent men in
America, died early Sunday morning
after very brief illness, in Washington,
where he had gone for a short visit at
the opening of the session of congress.
Patrick Mulkern, aged about As, hung
himself in cell in the Portland police
station early Monday morning. He was
man with an apparently uncomfortable
thirst for liquor. He was under arrest
for intoIication, and was out of Jail less
than three days after completing his
preceding sentence for the same offence.
During the present hunting season, of
which only few days remains, three
men. mistaken for deer, have been killed
outright in the Maine woods this season,
there having been one less fatality than
in 1901. A half dozen others have been
accidentally killed from other causes
and ten have been wounded, but not
seriously.
The coroner's jury in the case of Olive
Broad of Cornish, who was murdered on
the 2lst of August, rendered verdict
last Wednesday, to the effect that she
came to her death by violence at the
hands of some person or persons to the
jury unknown. The adjournment was
delayed that every possible clue might
be followed, but they were unable to fix
the crime upon anyone.
This is said to be the greatest hunting
season that Maine has ever known. The
total receipts of game in Bangor for the
month of November were 2229 deer, Sc
moose and 81 bears, which was gain of
$40 deer, 62 moose over the correspond.
ing period in 1901. The total shipments
for the season up to Dec. 1st are AGA
deer, l64 moose and 80 bears. At the
same time year ago the figures were
1854 deer and $50 moose, showing a gain
of $40 deer and IA moose.
Sylvester Coleman of Wichita, Kan,
who is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Henry
Smalley of Sidney, attempted suicide
one night recently in several different
ways. He first took poison, but it
would not stay on his stomach; he then
stabbed himself in the neck with pair
of shears, but did not infict mortal
wound; hanging was then resorted to by
the desperate man, but discovery was
made in season to preserve his life.
Temporary insanity, superinduced by
continued ill-health, was the cause of
the attempted suicide.
Mrs. Hattie L. Written of Dexter, who
was charged by coroner's jury with the
murder of her nine-year-old daughter,
Thursday, by administering poison, and
who was suspected of causing the death
of an l1-year-old daughter Sept. 10 last,
by similar method, committed suicide
Saturday, Nov. Goth, by hanging from
bed post while in the custody of Deputy
Sheriff Leslie Curtis. She was left alone
in the room only few minutes, but
managed to accomplish the deed. This
was one of the most horrible affairs that
ever occurred in Maine. She is supposed
to have killed the children to obtain the
small insurance on their lives.
Two men were killed in the woods
near Foxcroft Tuesday by the falling of
dead tree stub which they had set on
fire. A short distance from it they cut
another tree and as it was ready to fall
they were watching it, apparently over
looking the fact of danger from the
burning stub, when it swerved about
sweeping the stub down with crash,
which struck the men with full force,
killing one of the men instantly, while
his companion was extricated in dying
condition, and died little later The
men were Isaac Goodroe and Dennis
Laundry, aged respectively Al and So,
French Canadians and brOthers-in-law,
and both leave families.