Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-10-03

rolled from his bed In his home at
Boston and fell two feet to the floor,
suffering a fractured skull from which
he died.
More than 300 union stone cutters
of Greater Boston, who had been on
strike for a week, returned to work,
a compromise agreement having been
reached.
Alberta Saunders, 20, drowned her
self in a cistern in the cellar Of her
home at Gloucester, Mass. She had
been Ill and under surveillance OF
relatives.
Yeggmen blew open the postofiice
safe at Colchester, Conn.,, escaping
with considerable sum of money,
stamps and other valuable letters and
packages.
A fair in which all exhibitors were
upward of 60 years of age, and all
exhibits were their handiwork, was
held at the Auburn, Me-, home for
aged women.
More than 5000 students were on
hand when the new $40, 900, 900 home
Of the Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology opened its doors at Cam
bridge, Mass.
An incendiary set a fire at Maynard I,
Mass, which destroyed a fifteen
room grammar school and high school
with a loss of $40, 900, Fire Chief
Gutterige declared.
DR.. Sanford Hanscom, who left his
studies at Colby college in 1863 to
fight in the Civil war, died at Som
erville, Mass. He was born at AL
bion, Me-, in 1S41.
The drowning Of William T. Adams
and Edward L. Winslow, both OF
Waltham, who were vacationists, was
learned when their bodies were found
of Provincetown, Mass.
Adam Clifford, head of the Saliva
ton Army in New England, has been
appointed representative of Massachu-
| sets to the national prison confer
ence, to be held at Buffalo.
Both schools at West Newbury,
Mass. the Central grammar and the
high, were ordered closed indefinitely
| following the death from infantile
paralysis of Florence Knapp.
The old Stanton homestead at Clin-
ton, Conn. known to thousands OF
lovers of antiques and things his
torical throughout New England, IL
| to be converted into museum.
George C. Stearns of Dedham,
Mass, 60, newspaper man, Boston
real estate dealer and for twenty live
years clerk of the overseers Of the
poor of Dedham, died from pneu-
monia.
Roland j. Libby, who stole a gas
meter from a closet in Boston house
and thereby caused the death of Har-
ry E. Day from gas poisoning, was
sentenced to hospital for the feeble
minded.
New England's apple trees are out
to break another record. More ap-
Piles will be picked in New England
this fall than last years bumper sea-
son brought to this section of the
country.
The largest hay crop on record IS
being reported in the farming country
In the vicinity of Contoocook, N. II. +,
Thousands of tons of meadow hay will
remain uncut because Of lack OF
storage room in the barns.
Annoyed by the noise Of children in
the neighborhood, Alfred Simoneau OF
Lewiston, Me-, rushed to window
to warn them to keep quiet, when
the screen gave way and he fell to
the ground, three stories below, and
was killed.
Mrs. Peter L. Shepard, S5, mother
OF Finley Shepard, who married
Helen M. Gould, died at New Haven
from infirmities of age. Mrs. Shop
ard had been a patient In a hospital
since 1907. She was the widow OF an
Episcopal clergyman.
The Bennington, VT, police an
Inounced that they had secured a con-
fession from Francis Ketcham, VINO
is now serving a sentence in the Sa-
lem, N. Y, jail for larceny, that ne
killed William Costello at Benning-
ton. Costello's body was found be-
side the car tracks with three bullet
II ,uoupdo IN hia head