Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-02-15
News CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Happenings 10 Various Parts Of
New England States

Royal A.. Davis, for many years
holder OF the New England amateur
checker championship, died at Wo-
burn, Mass, aged IL.
Agnes L. Thibault, 6. was burned
to death at Brockton, MASS. while
playing with matches.
Three tons Of hams were destroyed
at Portsmouth, N. H., by fre
which started in the smokehouse OF
the B. F. Carney company.
Walter E. Wells Of Riverside was
elected grand chancellor OF the grand
lodge of Rhode Island Knights OF
Pythias.
The plant at Washburn, Me-, OF
the Northern Veneer company, man
ufacturers Of veneer and bobbins, was
burned. The loss is $45, 200.
The paper mill and machinery OF
the Savage Paper Manufacturing COM
pany, Skowhegan. Me-, were de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is $50, 0Oe.
Nathan F. Houston. Sc, mayor OF
Belfast, Me. for two terms. is dead.
He had served in the state legislature.
The Standard OH company's office
building and boiler room at Gardner,
Mass. were wrecked when a boiler
exploded. The loss is $500.
William Flynn of Providence DIED
at Portland, Me-, from injuries re-
ceived when he was run over by a
freight train.
Former Mayor Charles NJ. Bryant
Of Quincy, Mass. died after q BRIEF
illness from pneumonia following an
attack Of the grip.
That not one of the tailoring shops
In Boston, some Of which employ as
many as 900 employees, has taken
proper precautions in the event OF
fire. ;. was declared by fire prevention
commissioner.
John H. Gerrish, 81, president OF
the Gerrish Dredging company, died
at Melrose, Mass. as the result OF
a fall.
Thieves broke into the Brightwood,
Mass. station Of the Boston and
Maine railroad and ransacked the
place, but got only IL cents and q
key.
Harvard university law school stu
dents are to compete for 500 prize,
ESSAYS on some subject of maritime
or international law being offered for
the prize.
Cornelius A. Reardon, private sec
rotary to Mayor Curley Of Boston, will
leave city hall to accept more lucra-
tive position as deputy sheriff on the
stan Of Sheriff Quinn.
Trichinosis, 1t is believed, caused
by eating bad pork in sausages, Is
responsible for the death at Worces-
ter, Mass. of Noah Fortier.
Four wooden buildings in the busi-
ness section of North Adams, Mass. :,
occupied as stores and Offices, with
lodging rooms on the upper floors,
were destroyed by fire, causing loss
Of $75. 900.
Goddard seminary. Barre, VT,
closed because Of outbreak Of scarlet
fever, will be reopened this week.
Eighty-fi criminal cases, an al
most unprecedented number for a
winter quarterly period, were entered
In Barre, VT, city court in the three
months ending Jan. 81.
The Dummerston, VT, grange cele-
brated the clearing Of the grange
building from debt by burning the
mortgage of $500 which was placed
on the $4,000 building when 1t was
built in 1909.
Peter Blair OF Vergennes, VT, who
is nearly 100 years old, while SUI
fering from an attack OF acute de-
mentia attempted suicide by cutting
his throat. He Is expected to re-
cover.
Dr.. Quigley. medical inspector OF
Rutland, VT, schools, stated that
about 200 youngsters are laid up with
grip and colds.
Dartmouth men Of Vermont are to
have their annual banquet In Barre
March 8.
Montpelier, VT, owners Of camps
on Groton pond are interested in the
project OF power companies to raise
the pond ten feet for storage pur-
poses. Upwards Of fifty cottages
would have to be moved back to q
side hill. 1t is claimed.
William l.. Griffin. %, was instant
ly killed at Weymouth. Mass. while
skating backward. He fell 80 heavily
that his neck was broken. Just
few minutes before the fatality he
laughingly had predicted his death by
such an accident.
Bishop Lawrence launched at Bos-
ton his pension plan for Episcopal
clergymen when he made his first
public plea for the IS, 900 600 fund
which is to be the object Of great
1916 campaign throughout the do
ceses OF the American churches.
Thieves bored big hole through
wall in the store OF the Boston Lace
Store company at Boston and secured
goods valued at $4,000.
While on his way to church Thomas
J. Collins, 56, Of Winchester, Mass.
was struck by train and killed.
Joseph Hennessy, city solicitor for
the city Of Lowell, Mass. for the last
four years, was removed by the city
council for the good of the service.
Marion Sullivan, 10. of North An
dover, Mass, died as the result OF
injuries received three months ago by
being struck by an automobile.
Additional subscriptions amounting
to $739.13 have brought the total OF
the New England Belgian relief fund
up to $94. 049.11.
Bigger, Better Boston Babies"
has been adopted as the slogan of the
Boston baby weel: campaign commit
tee.
Governor Mccall OF Massachusetts,
attached his signature to appropria-
ton bills aggregating 20. $40. 1854 80.
He has signed fifty-one acts and re-
solves.
Arrangements for a strike Of 20OO
workers in the dressmaking and shirt
waist industry were made at Boston.
Miss Mary l.. Macomber, 80, one