Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-03-28

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ment at Boston with gas escaping
from an open cock in q gas stove. She
| II said to have q husband, an actor.
| in some other city.
Martha Chodan, 8 weeks old, died
nom suflocation at Boston In bed
| In which the parents and four children
slept together.
The weekly report Of the Boston
board of health shows there IL not
single case Of typhoid in the city.
Six thousand actors viii take part in
the Yale pageant, which will COM
msmorate the removal Of the college
from Saybrook to New Haven.
An explosion started fire at Man
chester, NH, causing loss OF
| $50, 900. The plant, Of the Manches-
| ter hat works and the salesroom OF
the Greer Plano company were
burned.
Mrs. Ellen Kiley, 80. cook at the
Atlantic House, Revere, Mass,
whose clothing ignited when she was
making toast over gas stove, died
from her injuries.
After long struggle with storm
on the Massachusetts, coast the
schooner William Bisbee was towed
| into Vineyard Haven, Mass, with
nve feet of water In her hold. The
crew of six men had had nothing to
eat for two days.
Theodore Beaudry brought SUIT At
Rutland, VT, for divorce from his
wife, whom he claims has habit OF
going to bed with an axe under her
pillow.
Walter e. Dyson, q Nahant.
Mass. druggist, fled . bankruptcy
petition. He owes 80, SOS.
Whsn q womHn Is Rugged against
her will, she IL entitled. according to
q ruling by Judge Bennett, in the SUI
perior court at Hartford. to sub
stantial damages.
Wind from an open window tipped
q burning candle into the casket of g.
| months -old Joseph Eukowsh at Man
Chester, N. H. Part Of the clothing
on the body was burned OF.
After thirty-one years of married
life, Howard s. Shaw Of Needham.
Mass, fled suit for divorce against
Mile e. Shaw, charging she desert
ed him.
Webster Tyler and Franklin M.
Upham, Jr., farm and dairymen at
West Acton, Mass. filed petition
In bankruptcy, revealing liabilities
of $14, s6S.S1.
The bill to prevent the use OF hand
cufYs on women prisoners except In
times OF emergency was defeated IN
the Massachusetts house Of repre-
sentatives.
Mayor Fogg Of Newburyport,
Mass. announced that the appropria-
ton for the removal Of ice and snow
was exhausted and ordered all work
stopped.
Harry l.. Dadmun Of Arlington,
Mass, was elected captain Of next
falls football team at Harvard uni
versity.
Jason 8. Haines, Trumbull,
Conn. farmer. was found guilty OF
numbering his wife. He was sentenced
to life Imprisonment.
The fourth submarine built for the
United States navy by the Fore River
Shipbuilding corporation, the LILO,
was launched at Quincy, Mass.
The navy department has estab-
nshed a wireless direction finder at
the naval radio station at North
Truro, Mass.
Cornelius J. Regan was appoInIeo
superintendent of the WATERFOWL,
Mass. postofice to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Fred
erick Robbins, aged 81.
James A. Thompson, section
foreman on the Boston and Maine
railroad, was run over and instantly
killed by switching engine at Som
erville, Mass.
Rev. Henry P. Bull, head of the
Church Of st. John the Evangelist In
Boston, has been elected superior
general OF the Society Of st. John the
Evangelist and will return to Cowley,
Eng. the seat Of the order.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy was filed against Frank Lu-
ciano, Boston banker, under indict-
ment for the murder of Eugenio Co.
vino, q business associate.
Miss Ella Reynolds of Brookline,
Mass, receives the sum Of $15, 200
from her mothers will, but II she
marries she Is to trun $500 over to
her sister. Mrs. Elizabeth R. Child.
The bill to abolish the annual vote
on license was rejected In a Massa-
chusetts house rollcall, rs to 131.
An order for fifty powerful loco
motives has been placed by the New
Haven railroad with the Westinghouse
Electric company.
D. w. Faulkner, 80, Of Maiden,
Mass. died suddenly from an over
dose Of medicine. He was once q
prominent druggist.
Fire OF undetermined origin de-
stroyed the rope factory Of Small
Bros. at Fall River, Mass, causing
loss OF $50, 200.
| Dr.. Edmund R. 'P. Fourth, for
twenty years practising physician OF
Waltham, Mass. dropped dead while
answering an emergency call.
Daniel Ryan, rs, crossing tend
or, was killed at Newbury. Mass. by
q train.
James F. Conley, IS, former
Haverhill, Mass. leather merchant,
dropped dead while riding in sleigh
from Atkinson, N. H., to North
Salem. N. H.
Reginald w. Hutton Of Baltimore,
Junior Gold Coaster at Harvard uni
versity, eloped with Miss Mabel q.
D. Finn. daughter of a Boston plumb
ing contractor.
Fire drove from their homes about
eighty occupants of Beverly hall,
forty suite, five-story apartment
building at Boston. The loss Is $780,
900.
Three men were injured, one prob
| ably fatally. when the crownsheet