Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-08-02


known just what happened, but 1t Ia
supposed that she was filling one reser.
voir of her oil stove when the on tool
fire from another burner Of the stove.
Mrs. Gladys Cornish, 20, Of New York
was probably fatally burned at Bowdoin
ham Tuesday, due to an explosion oil
kerosene which she was applying tc
| light fire in the stove. She was visit.
ing her mother, Mrs. A. II. Pease, q
former resilient of New York. Hell
clothing was burned of and her entire
body burned terribly.
Albert Colley, aged SO, a section hand
employed by the Maine Central Railroad
at New Gloucester, was fatally injured
Wednesday by being struck by a freight
engine. Colley was lighting the switch
light and the engine, which had been
detached from the train to take water,
was backing down when 1t struck him.
He died In the hospital few hours later.
The body of an unknown man was
found by some boys on the bank OF q
creek in Westbrook Friday. It had evil
IDENTIFY lain there for some months. There
was little doubt that the man committed
suicide, az q pistol with one empty cart
ridge In his hand and bullet hole in his
head testified. Every mark about bis
clothing that might serve to identify him
had been carefully removed.
The Presumpscot River Is justly called
the Little Giant OF power streams.
Nowhere else In this country has a
stream of Its size and potential horse
power been 80 highly developed for
manufacturing purposes. Its total
length from the gateway where 1t leaves
Sebago Lake to the dam at Presump-
scot lower falls into Casco Bay is trifle
less than 20 miles; and In this distance
1t develops an energy Of 10000 horse
power for the turning of wheels and the
generating of electricity.
Rough Is the road of the liquor dealer
in Mainel N. C. McCausland, deputy
collector OF internal revenue at the
Portsmouth, N. a., Office, has issued a
ukase to Maine liquor dealers. This Is
1t: Retail liquor and retail malt liquor
dealers who fail to pay their special
liquor taxes, which are due on July l.,
before Aug. I will be summarily arrested
and prosecuted to the fullest extent OF
the law. Excuses will no longer be &C.
copied. 1t Is q plain case Of pay, and
pay promptly, or 60 to jail"
In no way is the change In the manner
Of living from former years more marked
than In the consumption of fruit. There
IA more fruit of ali kinds sold and con-
sumed In every city and town OF Maine
in day than there was In year fifty
years ago. The difference Is greater
than that between the wheelbarrow Of
our fathers and the modern touring car.
And the price of fruit to-day Is cheaper
than It was fifty years ago when bananas
brought q dime apiece and no yellow
ones, plantains, were imported into
Maine.
Napoleon Beaudette of Lewiston, 30
years of age, Is dead with fractured
skull, and Louis Gauthier Is under ar.
rest charged With striking the blow
which indirectly caused death. The
two men were walking on tho street
Monday afternoon, and got into an al
tercation, in the course Of which Gau.
thier struck. Beaudette blow which
knocked him down. His head struck
the sidewalk with such force as to
fracture the skull. Gauthier Is the son
of Lewiston police officer, and lives In
Turner.
The town of Kennebunkport lost the
chairman Of Its board Of selectmen Tues
day when Winfield 8. Parkham was run
over and killed by his horse drawing a
heavily loaded cart at Cape Porpoise.
Mr.. Parkham was driving home when
his horse, frightened by the dropping Of
q package from the tailbosrd OF the
team, ran away. Mr.. Parkham, leaning
over, tugged on the relns, trying to stop
the frightened animal. he was pulled
down between the whiffletree and the
team and died instantly when the team
passed over him. He leaves wife and
one child.
DR.. Weir s. Mitchell of Philadelphia
has arrived at bis summer home In Bar
Harbor. As usual he will be busily en-
gagged In writing during the summer.
he has Just returned from An extended
trip In Canada. Although we'll along In
years DR.. Mitchell 10 an inveterate
mountain climber and pedestrian. There
is hardly q square foot OF the island that
he has not covered at some time or other
In his walks, and the geography OF the
island 10 fully known and familiar to
him. A number Of his best known
novels have been written at Bar Harbor
during the summer.
An interesting character is Samuel
Giles OF Aurora. who will celebrate bis
one hundredth birthday In few weeks.
Last fall he told his son to get up large
lot of cord wood for him to saw and
split through the winter, az he did not
want to rust out. Mr.. Giles has won
derful memory aud at the annual re-
unions of the Giles family he 10 one OF
the principal speakers. His talk Is along
| the lines OF history, and bis recollections
take him back nearly or quite 9S years.
| Mr.. Giles has been twice married and Ia
the father OF nineteen children. And all
this 10 what makes him remarkable
character. He says that after he cele.
brates his hundredth birthday he wants
to die, - he can see no particular object
| In living any longer.
A good story comes from the fernside
Dairy Farm, Norridgewook. Mr.. Fuller
the proprietor, sold . ak weeks old pig
to Charles Jones, who lives across tho
Kennebec from the Fernside Farm and
only short distance below; so while u
| ID probably not more than half mile 81
the crow flies, II 10 something like two
miles or more around by the way OF th'
road. The pig was taken to Mr.. Jones' b!
wagon and put into pen from which u
escaped q little later. Mr.. Jones' famil!
turned out to find tho little fellow ant
traced It to the river near the house
here the pig evidently contemplated thu
problem for . time ~ the tracks led NJ
and down the shore for quite distance
but finally took TO tho water. Mr.. Fol
Ter was telephoned to and found that TIL
| Dig had arrived at bis old homo seem
inely mono tho worse for bic swim. Th
question arises a to how tho pig arrives
at the facts In regard 10 the location.