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

joseph McNaHldrd, ~, OIL CneibeU
Mass, was killed by q freight train.
Jack Finn, sporting editor of The
Union and Leader, died at Manches.
ter, N. H.
The newspaper plant Of the Rock.
land, Me-. Opinion was destroyed BY
fire. The total loss Is nearly $2O,
900.
Thomas j. Lowder, %. was killec
by train at Woburn, Mass. Hi:
father was killed by q train yeal
ago.
Waterville, Me. Is tighter than
drum, the lid being clamped dowr
with bang by order of City Marshal
Robinson.
Bishop John ]. Milan of the Roman
Catholic diocese Of Hartford Is quite
Ill. All Of his engagements have been
cancelled.
| Miss Grace York OF Boston was
killed at Windsor, Conn. when an
automobile in which she was riding
overturned.
Seventeen automobiles were de-
stroyed in fire in garage at Do
yer, N. H. and did damage estimat-
ed at $50. 200.
Watson vidito, IS, contractor and
builder, died at Maiden, Mass. He
built 3S9 houses in Maiden, Everett
and Somerville.
Walter Glade, 26, of Derry, N.
H., died of injuries received at Me-
thuen, Mass, when he was struck
by motorcycle.
From the first Of the year up tc
the present time the sum Of 1856,
S16.25 has been received at Augusta,
Me. in automobile fees.
Joseph N. Stockett, Jr., 27, an
instructor in the department Of eco
nomics at Dartmouth college, COM
mitted suicide by shooting.
Solomon Segel, a Maiden, Mass.
carpenter, admits owing $48, ,497 and
having no assets in voluntary bank
ruptcy petition filed by him.
Joseph Posey, an aged emloye Of a
brick company, was instantly killed
at Saco, Me-, when falling wall
buried him under five feet Of bricks.
At the twenty-third annual meeting
of the Society Of Colonial Wars Of the
state Of New Hampshire Justin h.
Smith of Boston was chosen governor.
A moving picture theatre, the York
Beach fire and police stations and a
garage and three small buildings were
destroyed by fire at York Beach, Ne.
The loss is $40 900.
Jewelry valued at between SIS. .ooU
and 500 900 was stolen from the sum-
mer residence of Samuel D. Warren
in Essex, Mass. while the members
of the family were away.
The strike Of papermakers at the
mills of s. D. Warren & Co., West
brook, Me-, has ended. The men
sought recognition Of their union,
which was not obtained.
The Passaic Cotton Mill company OF
New York is to erect large spinning
and weaving mill at New Bedford ,
Mass. The new mill will be 44S feet
long and two stories high.
Governor Curtis of Maine and coun-
ell granted a pardon to Harry Avery
of Augusta, who has served eighteen
months of three years sentence In
the state prison for bigamy.
Captain George c. Devine Of the
Revere, Mass, police department
died after an illness of several months
duration. He was born in Fryeburg,
Me. sixty-four years ago.
Exceptions were filed in the su-
perior court at Providence for new
trial for Cecil V. Brown and Harry
Spellman, convicted by a jury last
January for the murder Of DR.. e. r.
Mohr.
On a charge involving the trans
|portation of Florence Gagne, aged IL,
q Rochester, N. H., mill employe,
to Barre, VT, E. M. Anderson OF
Boston was fined 500 and costs at
Barre.
The officers of the Portsmouth navy
yard and ships now tied up at the
station propose to raise the sum OF
$1,000 in a military ball to be given
for the benefit of the new army and
navy home for enlisted men.
Mrs. Clara E. Pearson, restaurant
owner, and her 12-year-old daughter
committed suicide in their rooms at
Quincy, Mass. Mrs. Pearson, 1t is
said, had been worrying because her
restaurants had been losing money.
The Vermont Republican state con-
Ivention indorsed the national plat
form and advocated legislation to
extend the highway system, to con-
Itinue the present school law and to
lextend the workmen's compensation
law.
Seventeen horses and several pigs
|perished and valuable farm implements
|were destroyed when the large barn
land stables of Florence Driscoll at
beverly, Mass. burned in q IRE
Thought to have been Of incendiary
Iorigin.
The nineteenth annual convention
Of the New Hampshire State Fire.
mems association closed at Ports
mouth with parade. Chief Engineer
Woods of Portsmouth heads the as
Dociation as president for the third
consecutive year.
/ Robert Blanche, IL, was killed q
the result of being struck by an auto
mobile at Boston. .a
| Jumping from an Ice wagon at soutl
Portland, Me-, Earl Ames, 10, va
run over and killed. by an automobile
Six-year-old John Ferris OF Ma
chias, Me. :, fell from see-saw PLAN
while at play and was instantly killed
| Yale university began Its 2lSt
collegiate year. No registration ng
ures will be available for severa
days.
Olga Koczera, 3, while runnin
L .k,~ak ~ TAWo11 Ma4a