Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-10-17
several hundred tons Of bay. stored

which are being sent abroad to the
allies, were burned in fire which
caused loss of $12 900.
]. W. Chase of Brockton, Macs. I,
was elected commander in chief OF
the Union Veterans Union at its ma
tional encampment. Boston was
chosen for the next meeting of the
encampment, Oct. 4, 1917.
Bakers from all parts Of Massa-
chusetts will be summoned to the
state house at Boston to show cause
why the department Of weights and
measures should not proceed against
them for short weighing bread.
! A floating spar OF New Bedford,
Mass. ended the search Of wreckers
for the lost tug Albert j. Stone, the
new steel vessel that foundered Aug.
IA. She lies in eleven fathoms OF
water. Her owners value her at
$3.50. 600.
After spending twenty-four hours
on a waterlogged and fast sinking
barge, without food or water, in a
fierce no-theasterly storm, seven men
and q woman, crew Of the barge Alex
Anderson, were rescued by the
steamer Sycamore and landed In Bos-
ton.
Ernest Hubert, s, was killed when
he was run over by motor truck at
Somerville, Mass.
Boston coal dealers advanced the re-
tail price of colt coal so cents a ton.
The new price is Sc ton.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hurley, "a, COM
mitted suicide at Boston by jumping
from the roof of her home.
The New Hampshire Democratic
state committee reelected George E.
Farrand of Penacook as chairman.
There was a net increase in the en-
dowment funds of Yale university OF
50, 256, 356. SO during the last year.
Daniel Hatch of Dark Harbor, Me. F.,
was instantly killed by the accidental
discharge of his own shotgun while
bird hunting.
The compilation of Boston's vote
at the state primary by the election
commissioners shows that 81 3ts
votes were cast.
The erection of SO 900 building
as an addition to the plant Of the
Massachusetts cotton mills at Lowell
Mass. has begun.
Fire which started in the kiln-dry-
ing house of the N. P. Clifford lum-
Der mill at Salem, Mass, resulted In
loss of $50, 900.
William H. Leavy, so, OF Melrose,
Mass, was killed by q fall while re-
pairing wires for the New England
Telephone company.
Sixty small cottages at the Hedding
Methodist camp ground, near Epping
N. H., were burned. The total loss
will not exceed $40, 900.
The Melrose, Mass, board Of al
dermen voted to select a committee
to conduct an investigation OF the
Melrose police department.
While lodging from behind an au'
tomobile truck Allen Randall, IL
was struck and killed by another
large truck at Rockport, Mass.
The Maine Baptist and Free Bap'
fist ministers conference voted tt
unite the two bodies, and committee
was appointed to make arrangements
More than $50 of the 172 men who
went out on strike at the pulp mil
of the Forest Paper company, Var
mouth, Me. voted to return to work.
Professor Austin B. Bassett, 81
secretary Of the Hartford Theological
seminary, died at Hartford Of in
juries received in IN automobile &C.
cident.
Chester R. Lawrence, Prohibition
candidate for governor Of Massachu'
sets, announced that he had given vi
his plan for seeking the Progressive
nomination.
The United Baptists' convention o.
Maine chose Orlando E. Frost of Bel.
fast as the second president OF the
organization, succeeding Governor
eysct Milliken.
The law protects moose in Maine
until 1919 so a good-sized bull moose
sauntered into Bangor and calml!
walked through the principal street:
OF the East Side.
Rev. John P. Jones, D. D., fol
thirty-six years Congregational mis-
sionary in India and known in relig
ious circles as an author and lecturer
died at Hartford, aged SO.
Joseph Sullivan, %, was killed
one man is dying and two were injured
when the automobile in which they
= were riding overturned in the ca
, tracks at Weymouth, Mass.
Two lighthouse keepers were
drowned in Sullivan Harbor, Me.
when Chester Brinkworth lost his owl
life in attempting to rescue his broth.
err, Leon, who fell overheard.
William H. Chick, 46, Of Winthrop
Mass, ticket taker at theatre
committed suicide at his home b!
shooting. Dependency, due to ILL.,
health, was assigned as the cause.
>, The famous old United States fri
gate Franklin, flagship OF Admira
Farragut en- his European cruise in
1867, was burned on the beach al
Eastport, Me-, for the metal in hel
hull.
Fire in the factory at Gossville, N.
H., of the Barmer Narrow Fabric
company destroyed the building and
its contents, causing a damage Of
500, 600. The company manufac-
lures looms.
. Frank F. Farrar has been appoint
ed commercial agent for the Bos-
.. ton and Maine railroad, succeeding
the late George E. Dudley, who was
general agent. The latter title has