Oxford Democrat., 1913-08-19
Maine News Notes.

A man identified as George o. Cham.
paign of Glens Falls, N. Y, was cut to
pieces by being run over by train near
Freeport.
Charles e. Thompson, South Port
land boy IA years of age, was drowned
Tuesday while swimming in Portland
harbor near Fort Gorges.
Although once In the grasp of q COM
rade, Alfred j. Ward, 16-year-old Lew
iston boy, was drowned in the Andros-
coggin River q few feet from the shore
Tuesday morning.
Walter Brown. son OF York Brown of
Bowdoinham, who was being taken to
the insane hospital at Augusta, jumped
from the train at point about q mile
from Richmond, and died from the in
juries he received.
To succeed Manning s. Campbell, who
was removed by the governor and coun..
Gil from the position of steward and
treasurer of the Maine State Hospital,
Fred W. Wight of Rockland has been
elected by the trustees.
While playing with matches near her
home at Deer Isle Wednesday, Audrey,
the five. year old daughter OF Chester Ba-
ton, set fire to her clothes and was
burned to death. Neighbors, attracted
by her cries, found her unconscious.
She died In but few hours.
An Oakland man has recently sold one
OF his Orpington cocks for expectation
to Italy. The purchaser hopes by Cross
ing him with native Italian birds, to in
crease their size. This is the least
Maine can do for Italy, after all the
work Italians have done in Maine,
opines the Lewiston Journal.
James Currau of Boston died Thurs
day night at York of injuries sustained
Tuesday when struck by an automobile
driven by Miss Elizabeth Perkins of
New York City. Curran was the pro.
prietor of Boston livery stable and
conducted stable and riding school at
York during the summer. He was forty
years old.
The body of Fred R. Cahill, member
of the Bath board of assessors who had
been missing, was found in the New
Meadows River below Gurnet Bridge
Thursday by Edw ard W. Hyde. Mr.
Hyde was searching for it in the belief
that he had committed suicide while his
mind was temporarily deranged. Mr..
Cahill ha been In poor health for some
time. He was 45 and had wife and
three children.
Believing that the best way for Maine
industries to continue prosperous under
the new tariff is to expand their foreign
trade, tho Portland Board of Trade has
perfected the organization of Manufac-
turers' Bureau which will compile and
arrange information, issue catalogues In
Spanish, carry on sales campaigns, &c,
to stimulate and aid the trade of Maine
manufacturers with South America and
such other countries as are probable
customers.
Boys using Bangor playground have
formed the Third Street Playground In
surance Company, patterned on the fac.
tory insurance system Of Germany. Each
boy is assessed a premium OF 10 cents
season, payable in two-cent weekly in
stallments, and out OF the money thus
collected, damages for injury to benches
and apparatus on the playground will be
paid. William Stuart was elected presi.
dent of the company, and Wilfred Gillin,
treasurer, to care for s1.29 already paid
In.
Among the bills recently presented to
the State of Maine is one from the ch air.
man of the board of selectmen in Han
cock county town, in which the bills for
support of an invalid town-charge would
seem to break the record for the use Of
narcotics and physic. For instance, In
three months Of January, February and
March, 1918, this one patient used six
teen quarts of paregoric; 1000 morphine
pills; seven bottles of medicine at S1.25
bottle; one bottle of Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla and 5000 physic pills.
With a small hill composed Of $4,000
Bibles destined for distribution among
the hotels of Maine and New Hampshire
banking the speakers platform, the
three days convention of Gideons open
ed at Old Orchard Monday. William E.
Henderson of Chicago, the national Sc
cretary, stated in his address that the
Gideons had distributed over 200, 900
Bibles in the United States and planned
to place 835, 900 more. The work will
cost upwards Of s250,0 and $4,000 Of
the Bibles are for New England hotels.
Mrs. Kyle Berry of Houlton showed
wonderful GOODNESS the other day when
she was caught walking on the railroad
bridge by the suddenly appearing train.
She calmly wrapped her dress tightly
around herself and lay down on the
sleepers outside the rails. Owing to a
sharp curve, the engineer could not see
Mrs. Berry till too late to stop his train.
He was Mortified, supposing her to be
torn In pieces. She was uninjured,
however. The event did not excite Mrs.
Berry at all but 1t came near making a
nervous wreck of the engineer.
A spot of great historical interest to
residents of the Kennebec valley was
marked Tuesday at South Pittston when
Mrs. GIN. Day, past regent of the Sam
uel Grant chapter, presided at the plac-
ing Of boulder on the spot where Bene.
dict Arnold's army was transferred from
the transport to the:batteaux which car.
ried the troops farther up the river on
the famous expedition to Quebec. The
spot is on the Coburn estate. Major
Reuben Coburn built the batteaux for
the expedition. A tablet with proper
inscription will be placed on the boulder
soon and dedicatOry exercises will be
held Aug. 2S.
Much mystery surrounds the death of
John A. Mcdonald, Portland painter
81 years of age, whose body was found
lying between the tracks of the Boston
and Maine Railroad near the Scarboro
Beach station on the morning OF the
10th. There was wound in the back
of the head which must have caused in
staut death. 1t Is the opinion OF some
that the man was struck by train,
while others think 1t is q bullet wound
in his head and that he was killed else.
where aud then taken to the place
where he was found. For each theory
there are some facts that do not f1t, and
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