Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-02-11
Maine News Notes.


Considerable damage to wharves, sum-
mer cottages, fishing craft, and other
property, was done along the Maine
coast by the storm and high sea OF the
first of last week.
Since the Portland city hall fire about
100 men have been busy removing the
debris and over 1900 loads have been
hauled away from the ruins. The clear
ing up is now practically completed.
The decision of the referee in the
bankruptcy case of Roscoe G. Penney of
Augusta orders that Penney payl over
the sum of $1,000. Penney claimed
that the money was stolen from him in
sale stable in Boston last spring.
In fire in boarding house at Mill
nocket Saturday, Joseph Perry, a mem
Der of the fire company, was killed by
the collapsing of the second floor. Two
others who were with him escaped with
out serious injury. Perry was about 80
years of age and unmarried.
Suggestions of foul play in the case of
Charles Drawn of Brunswick, cook in a
lumber camp in Bowdoinham, who was
found dead in his bunk, were quickly set
at rest. The coroner's jury found that
death was due to natural causes, prob
ably aggravated by cold weather and
bad liquor.
An acquittal resulted in the trial of
| Conductor B. D. Dunbar and Engineer
Fl. E. Thayer of the Maine Central, tried
at Augusta for manslaughter in con-
necton with a railroad accident at Ben
ton in which brakeman was killed.
This is the first case of the kind ever
tried in Maine, and the verdict Is gen.
orally accepted as correct, but it is
thought that the prosecution Of the mat
ter will have good effect on the matter
of railroad safety, both as regards the
trainmen and the railroad management.
As showing that athletic activity does
not of necessity interfere greatly with
the more serious lines of college work,
it may be mentioned that among the
eight young men just chosen at Bowdoin
by com petition from large number OF
principals and alternates in the annual
Bradbury Prize debate, there are the
captain of the track team, the college
tennis champion, member of last
springs championship nine, the manager
of the track team, the college tennis
champion and a football man. Six of
the eight are prominently connected
with the athletic work of the college.
The Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes
Railroad Co. has been organized at
Gardiner with capital stock of s241 500
to take over all the narrow gauge rail.
roads in Franklin County. The Sandy
River, the Franklin & Megantic and the
Kingheld & Dead River railroads have
been taken into the new company and
in about sixty days the Phillips &
Rangeley railroad, which includes the
Eustis and Madrid railroad, will be
taken over. The Phillips & Rangeley
railroad has been in the hands of Seth
Carter of Lewiston as receiver for three
years All these roads are of narrow
gauge construction. The Sandy River
road was opened in November, 1870, and
was the first two-foot gauge railroad in
Maine.
Jeremiah C. Mccarthy, who some
years ago was a we'll known contractor
in Boston and Roxbury, and worth
$50, 900, is under arrest on the charge of
manslaughter for the killing at Portland
on Sunday of Arthur Norton, aged 60, at
the large farm of Col. q. NJ. Cashier,
proprietor of the West End Hotel. Nor
ton. died on the way to the hospital,
shortly after he had been knocked down,
according to witnesses, by blow from
McCarthy's fist and kicked in the jaw.
The police were informed that Mccarthy
had been drinking and was ugly. Nor.
ton for three years had been employed
on the farm, having charge of the cows,
while Mccarthy, who in his day owned
some fast horses and was devotee of
the race track, had been in charge of the
horses since early last month.