Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-05-02
NEWS CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Happenings In Various Parts Of
New England States

Rev. Edwin A. Rumball of Boston
for ten months efficiency expert for
Unitarian churches, has resigned
and left the Unitarian denomination.
Mrs. Mary A. Roche, 81, a widow
was killed when she fell into an ele-
vator shaft at Boston. She was q real
estate dealer.
A wage raise Of 10 percent for the
employees OF the Comic woolen mills in
West Rochester, N. H.. was an
nounced.
Colonel R. H. /. GODDARD died sud-
denly at Providence of heart failure.
For distinguished services in the Civil
war he was brevetad lieutenant col
onel Of volunteers.
Joe Pomelow, railroad section
hand, charged with the murder OF
George Herbert, an aged Schoodic
lake recIuse, was discharged when
arraigned at Dover. Me.
The New England Belgian relief
fund has reached the total of $114, =
1880.
William H. Hoffman, 49, million
aire manufacturer Of dyestuffs and
chemicals, died suddenly at Barring
ton r. l. He was q native of Paw
tucket.
Delayed in arrival four days by
gales, the freight steamship Tuscan
Prince. with a 81. 900, 900 cargo from
the Far East, arrived at Boston.
A mangled body found ON the rail-
road tracks at Saco, Me. was identi-
fed as Miss Myrtle Meade, 1S, OF
Saco.
Manlon H. Shaw, 80, farmland
living alone in little hut in the
woods at Standish Neck. Me-, blew
of the top of his head with a shot
gun. He was respondent.
Governor Spaulding Of New Hamp-
shire issued proclamation for Ar
Dor day, May IL. He urges tree
planting and forest preservation.
The third Vermont state boys and
girls agricultural and industrial ex-
position will be held at Burlington
next Oct. 10 to 13. inclusive.
Maurice Gray, 7, was drowned in a
mill pond at Barre. vt.
The three-masted schooner w. e.
& w. l.. Tuck, given up as total
loss when wrecked on Sutton's island,
OF Southwest Harbor, Me-, was
fioated by a Rockland concern which
purchased the craft.
Agents Of the Boston board Of health
are prosecuting vigorous campaign
against the sale of bob veal In the
Boston markets.
Charles A. Estey, for forty-two
years in the service Of the Boston
ferry department as cashier sta
toned at East Boston. died after be-
Ing stricken with cerebral hemorrhage
In the ferry office.
While driving q heavily loaded
truck at Boston John Downes, IS,
fell from his seat directly in the path
OF the wheels and was killed.
While Mrs. Evelyn R. Storer, 81,
was tending brush fire in her yard
at Exeter, N. H., her dress caught
fire and she was burned to death.
Captain Henry G. Streeter OF Brat
tleboro was elected commander Of the
department Of Vermont, G. A. R.
The New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad has had twenty ac-
cidents in less than five years. In
these accidents SO persons have been
killed and 57S have been injured.
Stella L. billiard, 3, and her sister,
Virginia, s, were suffocated in fire
in their home at Boston. The blaze
started in the closet Of the bedroom
where they were sleeping. while their
mother was absent.
Clarence Webber, 50, was electro
cuted at q Boston Elevated power
house.
Mrs. Sefa J. Powers Of Medford,
Mass. has sued the Caledonian
County Fair company for $4,000 for in
juries alleged to have been received
by being hit by a balloon while at
tending the annual fair in st. Johns
bury, VT, in September, 1914.
At the seventeenth annual encamp-
ment of the department Of Massachu-
sets, United Spanish War Veterans.
John ]. Linehan Of Lynn was elected
department commander.
After sixty years as valuable as
set to American circuses, Lena, mate
OF the famous Jumbo, was adjudged
useless for show purposes and she
was strangled to death at the Barnum
& Bailey winter quarters at Bridge
port, Conn.
Amos Whipple, 26. employed in a
toy factory at Winchendon. Mass,
was electrocuted when he clutched
sprinkler pipe that had accidentally
become charged with electricity.
Forest Berry, q, and Edmund
Breada, %, were killed by the explo-
sion of dynamite on Beaver brook,
near Houlton, Me-. while breaking
up ice for a drive. "a
Judge Enos T. Luce Of the second
eastern Middlesex district court In
Waltham, the oldest Judge in point Of
service on the Massachusetts, bench,
resigned. E5I
For the loss Of leg while stealing
q ride on a freight train, Pietro Giof-
fire., 10, of Boston won a verdict Of
SO, 900 In his suit against the New
York Central and Hudson River River
Railroad company.
Lightning brought destruction BY
nre and by shock to the principal
industries OF the town Of Connonchet,
r. l., causing damage estimated at
esS 900.
The submarine L-3 was delivered
20 the commandant Of the navy yard
st Boston by the Fore River Ship.
h,uldine CORPORATION and WaS in1medi-