Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-11-08
Maine News Notes.

Mayor Gustavus A. Robertson Of Au-
gusta submitted to amputation OF the
left leg at the knee on Monday.
George Gray of Turner committed sui
eide Friday night by taking aconite. !
Ill health Is supposed to have been the
cause.
In the SO years that the weather rec
ords have been kept there has been
only one October, that of 1888, colder
than the month just ended.
John W. Feeney, a Maine Central
brakeman, was killed at Portland Fri
day night while shackling freight cars.
he was about 80 years of age and leaves
wife.
Leonard Nichols, aged II, had both
legs crushed by falling under a train at
Leeds Junction Thursday night. He
was taken to the Central Maine General
Hospital In Lewiston.
William e. Rice, aged Is, of Calais,
brakeman on the Washington County
Railroad, was instantly killed at Column
bia Falls Wednesday morning by being
run over by the engine of the train on
which he was working. He leaves
widow and one child.
The two-year-old daughter of Frank
g. Norton of Limerick died of poison
ing Monday afternoon. A quantity of
strychnine tablets used by her grand
mother was kept in bureau drawer
and the little one found them and ate
quite large quantity.
Edward F. Ellis, aged 80, committed
suicide at his home on Baker avenue, in
Oakland, Monday, by placing the muz-
zle of shot gun under his chin, and
pulling the trigger with string. No
cause is given except possibly sudden
mental arrangement. He is survived by
widow.
Della Flaherty, employed in the
kitchen of the Phoenix Hotel in Bath,
was fatally burned Tuesday morning,
her clothing catching fire from the
kitchen stove. She ran into the Office
of the hotel, where the flames were ex-
tinguished, but she lived less than two
days.
A change in the management of the
Elm House, Auburn, was perfected
Tuesday when papers were passed,
transferring the same from the lease of
George II. Clarke to that of Albert
Young and S. II. Cary. Messrs. Young
and Cary assumed the proprietorship
Immediately and were receiving guests
at noon.
Thomas F. Conner of Lawrence, Mass,
has been held for attempting to shoot
his wife with a revolver Wednesday
night at South Berwick. Mrs. Conner
sustained only scalp wound. Accord
ing to the testimony of third person
who was present, the shooting was in
territorial, but Mrs. Conner testified in
court that it was entirely an accident.
Eta NJ. Thompson, aged 10, daughter
while sitting in front of fireplace Tues
day night, was stricken with an epileptic
fit, and falling upon the burning wood,
was burned to death. She was alone at
the time except for the presence in an
, adjoining room, of her mother. Mrs.
Thompson heard the girl fall but was
too late to prevent the fatal accident.
, 1t is probable the victim was unconscious
from the first.
At Biddeford Monday night, Mrs.
Hiram Willard, whose stage name is
Eva Gray, the soprano soloist and Illus
trated song singer with the Dot KarrOll
repertoire company, took her regular
part in the opening performance at the
opera house and in less than an hour
after leaving the stage expired in one of
the dressing rooms. The immediate
cause of her death was the result of
shock due to heart trouble. She was
about 80 years of age and leaves little
girl three years old, for whom she had
the greatest affection. 1t was very
strange that her last song was "Good-
Bye, Little Girl, Goodbye"
Some sample products of the Saco
Liars Club at the last meeting was a
black snake that carried man weighing
14O pounds on his back; an eel which
was eight feet long and weighed 10
pounds and which after being killed was
restored by dew fall and found his way
back into the river over mile and half
of land; a turtle caught from the Saco
River which was as big over as work
cart wheel and turtles head which
after being cut off for three days snapped
off the head of chicken which was
, picking around it. By vote of the club
honorary membership is extended to the
Skowhegan druggist whose ride on the
, antlers of a moose was in the papers.
The scarcity of good men for the
woods is particularly noticeable. The
wages offered are about the same as last
year, from s26 to $50 per month, and
still the employment agencies cannot
furnish the operators with enough men
, of the class wanted to handle the cut.
, There are plenty of Poles, Swedes, Firms
and other foreigners, but they are poor
woodsmen. They are all right for saw
/ ing but they cannot handle an axe. Once
there were plenty of good axe-men to be
found in Bangor, but that time is past.
The men who formerly came from the
Provinces and stopped in Maine to hire
I for the woods come no longer. They are
here but they do not stop. They all
, have tickets for New Hampshire and
other points west. In short time the
rafting booms will be shut down and
some of the mills will be shut down for
tho w;ptar and this will leave manv men