Oxford Democrat., 1916-08-29
was drowned at Bailey's Island. Ne.

while bathing.
Mrs. Julia Boudrot, believed to have
bee nthe oldest woman In New Eng
land, died at Waltham. Mass. at the
age of ITO years.
Fred Roux was killed when car
on which he was motorman left the
rails and overturned on curve at
South Berwick. Ne.
Myer Brown, 3h, fell from a
twenty -five-foot high piazza at Ne
we're, Mass. and died az the result
of q fractured skull.
Stewart E. Rowe, candidate for
treasurer Of Rockingham, N. H.,
county, plans to be carried into ONCE
by singing campaign.
President Sykes OF the Connecticut
college for women announced the gift
Of SIS, 900 by Mrs. Appleton r. Hill
yer of Hartford to the college.
Five hundred bales of cotton waste
used In the manufacture Of gun rot
ton, stored in q railroad shed at
Pawtucket, R. l.. was destroyed By
ire.
Edward P. King, go, superinten-
dent OF Union Water Meter company.
was killed by fall down an elevator
shaft In the factory at Worcester.
Mass.
Mrs. H. F. Stevens OF New York
city, summer visitor at Peaks is
land, Me-. reported the loss in Port
land of a bag containing 1ewslry
valued at $500.
Joseph Stefanik was killed by BE-
ing buried under twenty-five feet OF
sand when the walls Of well he was
digging on his property at Chicopse,
Mass. caved in.
Fire destroyed the Notre Dame
parochial school at Adams. Mass.
conducted by the Sisters OF Holy
Cross. The damage is estimated st
more than $40, 900.
The body Of the woman found on
the beach at Old Orchard, Me-. was
identified as that Of Catherine Kelley,
a domestic. She is believed to have
committed suicide.
Fire, starting from a stove in tho
postoffice at Warren, N. H., de-.
stroyed that structure and three 9TH
er business buildings, causing a loss
estimated at $4,000
The main building Of the Henniker.
N. H., Fibre company. valued with
its contents at $50. 900, was burned.
The company manufactures leather
board and fibre board.
The barking of a dog saved tho
lives OF ten occupants OF the NARROW
Inn, NARROW, N. H., which. with
seven other buildings, was destroyed
by fire. The loss is about 320. 900.
The safe in the office Of the Hebron
Vile Manufacturing company, Attle-
boro, Mass. was blown and sub
stantial amount of money is believed
to have been taken. Ohicials refuse
to state the amount.
Dorothy Blakeley, IL. had Q narrow
escape from drowning when an un.
identified man, said to have been un-
der the Influence Of liquor. threw
her into a creek at Maiden. Mass.
One Of her legs was fractured.
Sixteen horses were burned TO
death, four were shot and forty more
barely saved when fire swept the
stable of Jameson Bros. at Boston.
The loss, apart from that Of tho
horses, is $25, 900.
Every available resource OF the
town OF Watertown. Mass. was en-
listed to fight the diphtheria epidemic
which has an entire section Of the
east end in its throes. and aid was
also solicited from Boston.
Representatives Of six of the acad.
emies of Maine met at Portland for
the purpose Of forming an association
to govern school athletics. indspead-
ent OF the high schools. 4 tsmpo-
rary organization was formed.
Only the absence Of passengers On
a trolley car prevented possible loss
Of life, when the car jumped the
tracks at Saugus. Mass, went
through a stone wall and pltchsa
down q steep embankment into .
field.
In view Of the war departments
ruling that National Guardsmen hav-
ing dependents may be discharged
from service, the Boston and Maine
railroad will discontinue the half-psy
allowed their employees now on tho
border.
Miss Mae F. McNsish Of Chelsea.
Mass. was killed. Miss Ethel Farvsii
Of Cambridge, Mass, received prob.
ably fatal injuries and Harry Wry Of
Boston was seriously hurt In an auto.
mobile collision at Hampton Beach.
N. H.