Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-04-25

Names great pf1ma oonnaS, 1s lo
celebrate her 18th anniversary next
October at Portland. when she will
be the honored guest OF the Maine
Music Festival.
The log driving season will start on
northern Maine rivers within a few
days, and the loggers will have a
good pitch Of water for their big
sticks, on account Of the unusually
heavy snowfall during March.
Governor Mccall set apart April ~
as Arbor day in Massachusetts.
William A. Bradford Of Quincy was
elected president OF the Massachusetts,
State association Of Master Plumbers.
George A. Quigley, Republican.
was reelected mayor Of New Britain,
Conn. The common council will be
composed Of twenty five Republicans
and five Democrats.
The Vermont Democratic state COM
mittee voted to hold the state conven-
ton May rs in Burlington. At this
time delegates and alternates will be
elected to the st. Louis convention.
With his scalp torn from his head,
Patrick E. Casey, a railroad employe,
was found on the roof Of freight car
at Middlebury, VT. 1t is thought he
was struck by bridge.
Sept. 6 and Z are the oates for the
Eastport, Me-, 4, big fish fair. The
fish will be shown alive; also there
will be an exhibition of fish products.
One Of the chicks in a brood be-
longing to Mrs. Joseph Duquette OF
Worcester, Mass, had four legs,
four wings and two tails. 1t did not
live.
Guy Facini, So, was killed by fall
ing down stairs at his home at Glou-
cester. Mass.
Governor Beeckman Of Rhode Is
land signed a pardon for Lawrence
Keegan, who was convicted in 1895
for the murder of Emily Chambers.
Walter II. Howe, Sc, committed
suicide at Newburyport, Mass, by
taking poison.
Fourteen unpledged delegates and
similar number OF alternates from
Connecticut to the national Republi-
can convention at Chicago were chos-
en- at the state convention Of the party
at Hartford.
James H. Canavan,. actor and
writer, was sent to prison for five
years after pleading guilty at Boston
to forgery, uttering and larceny.
The bodies of thirty-one prisoners
of war, who were taken during the
Spanish war and who died from
wounds at the Portsmouth, N. H.,
navy yard prison camp, were trans
ferred to the Spanish government.
Five hundred striking quarrymen
returned to work at Milford, N. H.,
having accepted 10 percent increase
in wages, with an agreement which
is to run until May, 1920.
Rats attacked a full grown steer
and seriously wounded the animal
while 1t was stabbed In its usual place
at Ware, Mass. The steer was slight
ly cut and its blood is supposed to
have drawn the rodents.
Irving E. Olmstead, alleged MUIR
derer Of Mrs. Violet Mooers, was ar
raigned at Boston upon the indict-
ment charging him with first degree
murder. lie pleaded not guilty.
Before a large assembly OF New
England postmasters at their semi
annual banquet at Boston President
Wilson's attitude on peace was high
ly extolled.
Edward Norton, who was serving
Q twenty year sentence in Maine state
prison for manslaughter, was par
doned by the governor and council.
Otto Melanson, 2k years old. fell
from the third-story window OF his
home at Lynn, Mass, thirty-five
feet to the concrete walk. and was
apparently unhurt.
Leroy Jacques was killed when the
motor car on which he and some 9TH
ar men we're riding along the Boston
and Maine tracks at Nashua, N. H.,
was overturned by lump OF iron that
dropped into q Wheel
While at work On steamer at
Boston Dennis ]. Hickey, 45,
freight handler, fell into the hold OF
the vessel and was killed.
Governor McCalls recommends
ton for the abolition Of capital pun
ishment was rejected by the Joint ju-
dietary committee OF the Massachu-
setts legislature.
Eden Munsey, "a, OF Portsmouth,
N. H., recently discharged from the
United States marine hospital at
Chelsea, Mass, committed suicide
BY teing a rock-weighed rope
around his neck and jumping into the
Piscataqua river.
Fire in the Curtis Bros store
house. Ashburnham, Mass, where
they had stored 1900 chairs. did $4,000
damage.