Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-04-28
Maine News Notes.


Elijah Pease, prominent resident OF
Belmont, committed suicide by hanging
Wednesday night. He was GA years old.
Dependency it was thought was the
cause of the deed.
OF the six candidates recently examin-
ed for admission to the bar by the state
board, three were given certificates.
They are G.. Allen Howe, Lewiston,
Harry P. Sweetsir, Portland, and Frank
P. Wilson, Belfast.
The three-year-old son of John O'Brien
of Lewiston, a noted base ball player in
the National League, while playing with
other children on Oxford Street was run
over and killed by one of Ferd Penley's
heavy delivery wagons Thursday. No
blame is attached to the driver.
George W. WEIGH, superintendent of
the Great Northern Paper Co. at Madison,
was drowned Sunday, the 10th, while
| fishing in Emblem Pond. Welch was
trolling and is supposed to have had a
strike when he moved quickly and cap
sized the boat. He sank after covering
half of the 20-rod swim to shore. A
companion reached shore safely.
For more than a year there has been
succession of burglaries covering wide
range of section of Waldo County.
Barns, dwellings, and stores have been
ransacked, and property aggregating
thousands of dollars has been stolen.
| Last week Frank Douglass of Jackson,
his two sons, Asher and Elisha, of Unity,
and a son-in-law, Cheltra Furbush of
Jackson, were arrested, and pleaded
guilty. The premises of Frank Douglass
were searched, and large amount of
stolen property was found. The elder
Douglass was sentenced to five years in
state prison, and his sons to six months
in Jail.
According to Sheriff Cummings, en-
forcement is success thus far in andre
scoggin county. Exclusive of kitchen
bar rooms, the sheriff says there were
lO3 places where liquor was sold over
the bar in the county. There has not
been an open bar since January l. There
used to be 4C Jail commitments month;
there were only 80 DRINKS sent to Jail
| for the entire time. Jan. l there were
81 prisoners in the county Jail. April
II there were IS. In December, 1902, the
food bills in the Jail amounted to $4,000;
in March, 1908, they were S214.27.
Liquor sellers have been driven out
or into dark places. Even pocket ped
oilers are in fear of detection and drunk
enness is reduced very much. There is
a remarkable change in the streets of
Lewiston. Quiet and order prevails.
Vigorous and impartial enforcement of
the law will stop the illegal sale of liquors
as much as it will any crime. These
statements of Sheriff Cummings appear
to us to be reasonable. AndrOscoggin
county people ought to appreciate these
conditions. The virtue of law is in its
observance.
A good story is being told at the ex-
pense of a dentist residing in the suburbs
of Portland. A few nights ago the
gentleman and his wife, some hours after
retiring, were suddenly awakened by
hearing a sound of crashing glass in the
rooms below. The man was confident
that burglars were entering the house
and was for going below and graphing
with them. His wife demonstrated and
declared that her husband should not
risk his life in a conflict with the bold,
bad burglars. For some minutes the
couple were undecided what action to
pursue. Suddenly happy thought
struck the man. There was a telephone
in the sleeping apartment, and, stepping
to it, the dentist rang up the heaquarters
of the Portland police and informed the
officers in charge that burglars were in
his house, and their presence was de-
sired post haste. 1t was long past the
hour of the last. trolley car and two
husky police spent an hour walking to
the residence of the dentist. They
forced an entrance and upon examina-
ton found that plate glass mirror,
which had been placed upon table in
the hall way, had fallen down, and the
glass in it had been broken to bits.
Simply that and nothing more.
A writer in the Machias Republican,
in making plea for the local observance
of Old Home week, appropriates this
story which comes from Seattle, WASH
ington: "Not long ago man was up
set out of his boat in the harbor, not far
from the wharf, and to all appearance
was drowning without attracting atten-
ton, until at last he exclaimed: Help,
help, am from Machias, Me- imme-
diately dozen boats all manned by
Machias people were Fastening to his
rescue and he was savedr' Whether true
or not the story only illustrates the fact
of the thousands of people, residents of
other sections of the United States, whose
parents, grandparents or great-grand-
parents or ancestors lived in Machias
since 1862. Seattle, Portland, Port
Townsend, Sacramento, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Oakland on the Pacific
coast are well represented by Machias
people. At one time less than thirty
years ago there were two hundred natives
of Machias by actual count in two wards
of Minneapolis, Mimi; one ward was
called "Machias ward" st. Louis,
Chicago, Duluth, Dubuque of the larger
places of the West have quotas of the
sons and daughters of Notwithstanding
the five towns which made the Machias,
1853 to 1S27,-while New Orleans, Allan.
ia, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New York, New Haven, Providence,
Boston, Portland, could send hundreds |
to the old town for an Old Home cele-