Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-10-04
Maine News Notes.

Two Biddeford men, Arthur Wheeler,
35 years of age, and Rufus w. Small,
aged 81, were drowned by the upsetting
of boat in the Saco River, Sept. Oath.
Each of them leaves wife and children.
North Vassalboro, like Brunswick, still
gazes sorrowfully at the site of Its
burned hotel and wonders, when, and
by whom, a new one will be built.
A small tornado in the Penobscot Val
ley on Friday was responsible for quite
a little damage, especially at Belfast,
and one death. Allie Richards, aged
35, was struck by falling chimney at
Belfast and killed.
Elmer S. Randall, a telephone inspect
or, was killed at Augusta Friday by
coming in contact with live wire.
Randall was adjutant of the third
battalion, Second Regiment, N. G. S.
NJ. He was buried by Co. X at Farm
ington with military honors. His age
was %.
The official vote in the recent state
election is announced as follows:
Cobb, Republican, 1851
Davis Democrat. 1871
Woodbury., Prohibition, 2.756
HapgOod, Socialist, l,5I6
Scattering Is
Total vote, 1913!
Cobb's plurality, 800
Maine men who voted on the constitu-
tional amendment regarding the increase
of legislators salaries will be interested
to know that Maine pays her law makers
less than is paid by any other state in
the Union. Massachusetts, pays heI
legislators $3.50 for the session, New
York and Pennsylvania pay $500, ILL
nois $1,000 and Ohio 5000. Five other
states pay all the way from 5000 to $3.50
for the session. All the other states pay
their legislators per diem of from 50 tC
So, which is generally made to figure up
J to about the average of the lump sun
: payments in other states, the average
length of the legislative sessions in these
: states being about sixty days.
The Maine Teachers Association will
hold its next annual meeting at Bangor
Oct. 81, %, and 20. DR.. Bliss Perry
Principal S. II. Russell, DR.. Jane E.
Robbins, DR.. Henry Houck, and many
other bright men and women will adj
> dress the meetings. Attractive and in
spring programmes covering every de-
partment of school work have been pre-
pared and there will be separate con,
; ferences for kindergarten, primary
grammar, and rural school teachers
secondary school and college instructors
as we'll as for superintendent. Every
teacher should remember that, since
there are to be no county meetings this
year, the Bangor convention is the only
opportunity to meet socially any con.
siderable number of educational work
ers. The hotels and railroads have offer
ed such reduced rates that large at
tendance is easily possible.
The worst railroad accident of the
, year in Maine occurred on the Maine
Central at Lewiston Monday afternoon,
directly in front of the state fair grounds.
The train from Pennington, running at
, high speed, ran into switch which was
wrongly set for the siding, and plowed
into the freight cars standing on the
siding. The engineer saw the signal
too late, and put on the brakes, but they
did not stop the train. The locomotive
and baggage car were completely wreck
ed, and the other cars were more or less
damaged. Hundreds of people witnessed
the accident. The wreck took fire, but
the flames were promptly subdued by
the fire department. Two men were
killed outright, two Others have since
died from their injuries, and several
were seriously and a larger number
slightly injured. The dead are William
F. Kimball of Portland, engineer, who
leaves widow; William S. Chapman of
Rockland, fireman, unmarried; Almon
Hodgson of Lewiston, government mail
weigher; and Joseph E. Cook of Port
land, travelling engineer on the Maine
Central, AZ years of age, who leaves a
wife and daughter. The railroad COM
missionors will conduct an investigation
into the accident.