Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-05-02
Maine News Notes.

With 25 new dwellings to be built dur
ing the coming season Wilton seems to
be enjoying good sized boom.
The lobster canning factories are said
to have gone into trust, which has con-
troll of the industry in the country.
Arthur Leblanc, the seven years old
son of Amedee Leblanc, was drowned at
Brunswick on the 22d, the boy falling
from a high bank into the swiftly flow
ing stream.
No indictment was found by the grand
Jury at Ellsworth In the murder case OF
William w. Robbins of Deer Isle, the
fisherman whose body was found on
Jan. 9th in his isolated hut at Mountain
vile.
A number of cases of what DR.. Young
of the State Board of Health pronounces
small pox have been discovered in Lew
iston and Auburn. Several hundred
people have probably been exposed, but
the disease is in very mild form, and
the season of the year Is the most favor
able for controllingit.
The ninth annual meeting of the
Christian Civic League of Maine will be
held May 9th at Waterville. The pro-
gramme begins at 10 A. NJ. at the Baptist
church. Congressman Charles E. Little
field of Rockland and Superintendent
Edwin c. Dinwiddie of Washington,
d. c., will be present and speak in the
evening.
No race suicide in Saco. With the
population of the city about the same
as it was 80 years ago, and with three
new schoolhouses built in that period,
there are now so many pupils that all of
the youngest cannot be provided for.
Either there are more children now in
proportion to the population or else the
youngsters of to-day. play truant less
than those of generation ago.
During the Easter concert given at the
new Congregational church at Winthrop
a panic was caused by the settling of the
floor in the centre of the auditorium.
The room was packed to its utmost ca
pacity and the people made rush for
the door. Fortunately no one was in
iured and when it was found that no
serious accident had occurred to the
church many returned and the exercises
were resumed.
The wave of murder and suicide which
seemed to be sweeping over the state
struck Greene Tuesday morning. Two
farm hands, Eli Rogers and French
man named Napoleon Champagne, en-
ployed by II. L. Keyser, got into an
alteration at the breakfast table. The
dispute arose over a very trivial matter,
something connected with the appear
ance of the breakfast table. Champagne
became angry, went to his room and got
his revolver, and returning, fired four
shots at Rogers. He then went to his
room and shot himself. Both men died
instantly. Neither of the men had been
drinking.
If this story, which is going the
rounds, is not libel on Maine land
lord, it ought to be: "When York Har-
Dor was less fashionable than it is now
the summer frequenter put up with
primitive arrangements. One summer a
family OF patrons, who had formerly
carried up their own Ice water and
lamps, were astOnished to find the hotel
fitted up with the modern conveniences
of electric bells in all the bedrooms.
But the proprietor had omitted one item
of progress, hall boys to answer the
bells. About q week later the bells all
disappeared. When asked the reason
for it, the proprietor answered: why,
folks KEEP ringin' 'em all the time, so l
Just took 'em out!'
Boys hunting Mayflowers in thewoods
at Falmouth Easter Sunday came upon
the body of q man. 1t proved to be
that of John Frank Sleeves, who came
to Portland from Hillsboro, Nova Scotia,
q few weeks before, and who had been
missing about two weeks. 1t was at
first supposed to be case of suicide,
but a little investigation upset that
theory. There were jagged wounds
ON the head, and the throat was cut.
Later Edward Cole, at whose house In
Portland Sleeves had been staying, was
placed under arrest 80 that he might not
leave town while the Investigation of the
affair was 10 progress. Cole was also q
former resident Of the Nova Scotia town
from which Sleeves came. The officers
are at work upon the case, which seems
to. be rather blind one.