Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-04-21
Maine News Notes.
The Maine State Grange will meet at
Waterville in December.

Maine News Notes.
, The Maine State Grange will meet
, Waterville in December.
Kennebec Journal: They are paintin
the Old Orchard pier, but the resort II
self will not be painted until later in tn
season.
The plans for Houlton's new hote
provide for one of the best hostelries il
the state, with GA rooms, 20 baths ant
everything up to date.
William GagnOn, aged %, fell from
the suspension bridge over the andre
scoggin River at Brunswick on Easte
Sunday and was drowned.
A young man from Five Islands visited
Richmond, the other day, and saw rail
road train for the first time in his life
The way he took to cover made sensa
ton among the spectators.
Gilbert Blondell committed suicide al
Scotchtown, p. O., about ten days since
Blondell shot Jack Moses at Lowelltown
Me-, in the fall of 1896. He was tried al
Pennington in the following June and
served a sentence in the Pennington Jail.
1t will be pretty hard to beat the
record of the Bangor lawyer who was
counsel in eight divorce cases in one
day, and obtained decree in each. But
obtaining decree is not difficult part
of the work. if the legal formalities have
haan 6uly ohSaryad
From communication received in
Lewiston it is learned that Miss Alice
Roosevelt, daughter of the President,
will visit Maine during the coming sum-
mer or early fall. 1t is thought that she
will visit the state at the time the PreSi-
dents sons are intending to hunt in the
Maine woods.
According to the reports which come
from some of the numbering sections, it
is going to take quite little bunch of
money to pay the bounty on ''porcu-
pines, so called" established by the
legislature. There seemed at first to be
some doubt as to just what the law
stood that porcupines and hedgehogs
are the same thing, Also that they are
plenty in some parts of the state.
While Clarendon Hayford of North
Turner Bridge, carpenter, was repair
ing the barn of Chandler Denning in
LivermOre, on the 18th, he missed his
footing and fell TO the cellar of the barn,
a distance of some II feet. The I'M
man was carried into the
house of Mr.. Denning, and upon exami-
nation, it was found that the skull had
been fractured, finger and several ribs
broken. But slight hope was entertained
for his recovery at last report.
From over in Hudson comes peculiar
tale of a sheep which is owned by Fred
Kicker of that place. This sheep is now
a mother having given birth to twin
lambs the first day of March. This per-
haps is nothing peculiar although it is
slightly out of the ordinary. The in
part of the tale, however, is
that March rs, the same sheep gave birth
to third lamb, and that at the present
time they are all lively and active as
lambs of that age are wont to be-in-
Guiding the mother.
Presque Isle had peculiar chapter of
casualties about ten days since. One
William Currier was knocked out by
blow on the jaw, said to have been dealt
him by local butcher when he refused
% leave the butchers shop. AS the
,esult Currer was confined to the bed
or some days. Currier and Leslie
Brown had been around together during
he day in an intoxicated condition. On
'eaching home Brown dropped dead.
An autopsy was necessary to determine
he cause, when it was found that he
lied of a ruptured liver.
Bates College debaters won over those
rom Trinity College at the debate held
n Lewiston City Hall Friday evening,
he decision being unanimous for Bates.
The question was: "Resolved that in
lustrial combinations commonly known
IS trusts, are likely to promote the well
are of society,"" Bates had the mega
i've side, the debaters being Norris S.
ord, Judson C. Briggs and Carol l..
3eedy. Trinity debaters were Edmund
;. Thomas, Henry l.. G. Meyer and
larry C. Golden. The judges were
Ion. Percival Bonney of Portland. Hon.
oliver 6. Hall, Augusta, and Robert
Treat Whitehouse, Esq, Portland.
The police of Portland were called to
house on Newbury Street Sunday after
loon, the 18th, by report of row
nd murder among the Italians which
made up the population of the house.
they found one of the boarders at the
louse, Pasquale Birthstone, lying in the
ellar dead, his throat cut with razor.
lie had been in this country but short
ime, and was employed at the Grand
Trunk coal pockets. 1t appeared from
What could be learned about the case
hat Antonio Farrando was the man
wanted, and he was secured by the police
t the union station, where it was
bought he was about to take train. 1t
ppears from the latest information
,btained that the affair was not the out
ome of a row, but was deliberately
damned. 1t is said to be the result of
endetta or feud imported from Italy.
The big l2-paddle war canoe now
icing completed to the order of the
sland City Canoe Club of Old Town is
apidly nearing completion and will be
urned over to Billnaupe Paul, the well
,nown Indian artist, who will put on the
inishing touches in the way of war
paint and battle emblems, taking as
,opy the famous warcanoe of the
which was exhibited
It the centennial exposition in 1876 and I
aid to be the last of the kind in exist
nee. The bow will be Ornamented with
,orcupine quilts and feathers forming an
,ffigy said to be the war god of the tribe,
while along the sides will be signs and
igures concentrating battles and wars,
While at the stern will be large repre-
of the Amblikjejik or Indian
Mascot. On the paddles deeply burned
ire Indian words signifying "speed,"
strength, victory" and the like. 1t is
that the war-canoe will be very
popular with the members and trips have
,lready been planned up river. The
natives will be astonished when they see
t coming.
ROBBED THE GRAVE.
A startling incident, is narrated by