Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-11-26
Maine News Notes.


Strychnlne pills left on wash stand
were responsible for the death OF =
year-old child In Portland Thursday.
Charles s. udley Of Palermo was seri-
ously but not fatally wounded BY tho
accidental discharge Of . rife In the
hands OF his 12-year-old son.
A pretty sight after . recent snow
storm was the bed of yellow zionias at
the homo OF George L.. Lakln ut the up
per village In Phillips. They were In
full blossom and held their blossoms
straight out OF the snow.
For tho second time within little more
than . year tho town Of Rangeley lost Ito
high school building Friday, tho struo-
ture replacing the one burned on Oct.
20, 1911, going up In smoke on Friday.
The loss Is $4,000. Cause unknown.
, One lumberman, James Murdoch Of
Springfield, % years Of age, has already
been frozen to death In the woods. and
Walter Workman of Mt. Vernon Ia In
serious condition with hands aud feet
frozen when he was lost while hunting
deer.
The day after construction work on 1t
was finished, the roof of the new con-
crete standpipe OF the Brunswick and
Topsham Water District fell In. The
accident was due to the giving way OF
the false work. 1t will cost the con-
tractors about 5000.
C. s. Stetson, master Of the Maine
State Grange, was elected chairman Of
the executive committee of the National
Grange at the session Of that body In
Spokane, Wash, Saturday. Mr.. Stetson
was elected to the committee as repre-
sentative of what Is called the "insurgent
faction"
There is great interest In the trial now
in progress at Augusta, Of Mrs. Elsie
Hobbs Raymond, charged with the muir.
der of Miss Matte Hackett at Readfield,
more than seven years ago. The Matte
Hackett case has been one of the great
est murder mysteries Of Maine. The
trial is nearly finished.
According to the report OF the lumber
men in Somerset, which there 10 no rea-
son to doubt, moro rain has fallen this
fall than in any other year for . decade.
The lakes and rivers are higher at pres
emit than they have been In the month OF
November since 1902. This is especially
pleasing to the lumber interests, az 1t
promises to aid them In handling their
logs now and In the spring.
At least thousand dollars worth Of
solid silver table ware which was stolen
from the summer home Of George VIVIAN
derbilt at Bar Harbor some seventeen
years ago, was found few days since
hidden In the rocks at the base OF cliff
on Eden Street. This was only por-
ton of the haul made at that time, the
amount of which was never made public,
but 1t was many thousands Of dollars.
Dexter 10 to have a wireless station
with possible receiving radius OF hum
dreds of miles, says the Eastern Gazette.
It's private enterprise, however. Wes-
ton Howard has put up the mssts for the
aerial for wireless station at his home
and confidently expects TO be able to
listen 10 on wireless messages that may
happen to be flying through the air ss
soon as he receives tho remainder OF his
apparatus. One mast Is 70 feet In
height and the other forty. !.
The second thought-it-was-a-deer case
In q week occurred near Blanchard
Thursday, when Fred N. Spencer OF
Monson was killed by receiving in the
head rifle bullet fred by Charles Tyler
Of Foxcroft. Tyler was Frustrated BY
the affair. he said that he did not know
Spencer WAS In the vicinity, and they
we're evidently following the same deer
tracks. When he saw the bushes move
ahead OF him, be thought 1t was the
deer and fred. Spencer was 40 years
old and leaves 0 widow.
The Law court has handed down . de-
cision In the tax case OF Sandy River
Plantation vs.. Weston Lewis and Josiah
s. Maxcy of Gardiner, owners OF proper
ty in this plantation. The decision,
which overrules the exceptions OF the
defendants, afarms the constitutionality
of the forestry district act under which
the tax was levied. The forestry district
act is peculiar to Maine and the Law
Court decides that land within this dis
trict had special benefits that no other
forest land In the State had and 1t ought
to bear the burdens caused BY the re-
ceipt OF these special benefits.
ROYAL W. Blanchard died at his home
in Stratton on Sunday, the 18th, as the
result of burns received Friday morning:
Mr.. Blanchard was using to kindle his
FIRE mixture of kerosene and gasoline,
which he had fixed to use In bis automo-
bile, but which did not work properly.
The stuff exploded, setting Mr.. Blsnch-
ard on fire. He jumped through .
second story window to the ground and
rolled in the snow, but 1t was too late.
Mr.. Blanchard was Al years OF age, was
town clerk and justice OF the peace, q
man of considerable business interests,
and respected and valued member OF
the community.
Scion, where the high school building
was burned last winter, 10 now the pos
SCISSOR of new building of which 1t Is
proud ss one of the finest modern school
In Maine. The building Ia .
wooden structure Of two stories, we'll
lighted, having 20 windows on the front.
Il is IS feet long and 63 feet wide and has
nine rooms. There 10 . library room on
the second floor about mid. OF the
building on the front. On this floor also
are three recitation rooms, library, teach
era room and large hall. On the first
floor is also the laboratory. The build.
ing will be heated by steam by the radi-
ator system. The total cost will be about
$50, 900.
Warren Holden, q Jackman guide, was
shot by mistake for deer In the woods
near the Canada line on the 18th, by
William Wilding, q railroad conductor
from Indianapolis who was . member OF
an Indiana hunting party. According to
the story as related, the two men had
started ont at the same time a. others
did. and were to keep on different sides
of the mountain. Instead OF that, Hoi.
den worked around to point IN front OF
the party on the other side. Wtlding
saw something brown moving In the
bushes, and fred, MORALLY wounding
Holden. Although before he died Hol'
den Is said to have signed an explanation
releasing Wilding from blame, the latter
was bound over to the grand jury In the
sum Of $1,000.
The finding OF lost articles by the
process of telepathy appears to have
been the method used by Sheriff John A.
Mooers In finding . bunch Of keys, own
ed by Charles W. Day, at Skowhegan.
Mr.. Day left his keys In the store door
on Sunday and when he returned to get
them they we're gone. He used every
method he could think Of to find them
and finally Wednesday, sent for the