Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-19
Maine News Notes.

The centennial of Methodism in Au-
gusta was celebrated In the church in
that city last week with an interesting
programme.
Two Italians have been arrested charg-
ed with the recent murder of fellow.
countryman and the shooting of another
at camp near Millinocket.
Randolph is to have basket factory,
employing about fifteen hands, in a
building formerly used as a shoe factory,
but for some time unoccupied.
John Sylvester, deck boy on the
steamer Ransom B. Fuller, was drowned
at Gardiner Tuesday by falling from a
ladder on the side Of the steamer.
John w. O'Brion, a gas piper, 25 years
of age, ended his life Thursday night at
his home in Portland by turning on the
gas. He leaves widow and four chill
dren.
Some OF the men in the engineering
department of the Bath Iron Works
have been figuring lately and have found
that it will require 25 miles of steel tn b.
ing for the boilers of the two torpedo
boats to be built by this plant.
A work train which was taking sid
ing at Newport Wednesday to let a
freight train by, was struck a glancing
blow by the freight for which it was
clearing the track. Seven of the crew
of the work train were somewhat injur-
ed, though not seriously, but all had a
narrow escape.
| A threatened strike of paper makers
of the Northern Paper Co. at Millinocket
and Madison has been averted by re.
ferring the matter to the American
Federation of Labor, whose decision
shall be final. The cause of the trouble
seems to have been disagreement be-
tween two labor unions, as far as can be
judged from the reports.
A fire which started early Tuesday
morning in the drug and paint store OF
Fl. H. Hays Sons in Portland did large
damage before it was got under control.
The stock Of the Hays, and the stock of
the James Bailey Co., dealers in bar
nesses and horse furnishings, next door,
are reckoned as total loss, and both
buildings are considerably damaged.
| The total loss is reckoned at $135, 200.
Miss Elizabeth E. Merrill of Wales
committed suicide by hanging Monday.
Miss Merrill was about 43 years of age,
and had been a teacher in the Lewiston
schools for nearly twenty years. She
was an active church member and re-
spected and useful member of society,
but had been mentally affected for some
months, and had been granted six
months leave OF absence by the Lewis
ton school board in the hope that she
would recover.
The state printing for the two coming
years was awarded by the governor and
council last week. The large item in
the printing, the book work, which has
for many years been done at the Kenne-
bee Journal Office, was awarded to the
Waterville Sentinel Co. of Waterville,
except the half.tOne work, which went
to the Maine Farmer. The bulk Of the
miscellaneous printing went to the Ladd
Printing Co. OF Augusta. One or two
small divisions OF 1t went TO r. P. Har-
riman of BuckspOrt. No awards were
made on the ballot printing, or the legis-
lative printing. For the legislative work
Burleigh & Flynt Of Augusta, publishers
of the Kennebec Journal, who have al
ways done it, were the only bidders for
the work as a whole, and they do not
care to take it unless they have some
thing else with 1t, as 1t requires large
force Of men for three months out of
twenty-four, with nothing the rest of
the time.