Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-11-28
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Happenings In Various Parts Of
New England

Andre Morneau, q Lowell, Mass. /,
youth, died Of injuries received while
hunting.
Fomer Postmaster Clarence N.
Garvin Of Derry. N. H., 81, commit
ted suicide by shooting.
Clarence Campbell Of Rumford /,
Me-, 40, was mistaken for q deer
and killed while hunting.
Michael P. Goodrich, Sc, employed
by coal company, committed sui
eide at Boston by hanging.
Owen Doherty. As. former boxer,
was found dead in his home at Lynn,
Mass. Tired of life, he inhaled gas.
The body of Mrs. Mary Aspin. IS,
was found in a reservoir at Brockton,
Mass. 1t is believed she committed
suicide.
Reuben e. Ladd, 81, who super
vised the building Of the first horse
car line from Lynn to Boston, died at
Foxboro, Mass.
Thousands of Nimrods are taking
part in the Vermont deer hunting
season, which opened Nov. Is and
will last for thirty days.
Fred Gardner of Belmont, N. H.. {,
q farmer. committed suicide by hang
ing. Goth the suicides parents and
a sister took took their own lives.
In her little farmhouse home.
miles from the nearest neighbors,
Mrs. Marcena Daniels, 80, of Albee-
Vile, Mass. was burned to death.
The largest number of votes ever
cast in Boston was recorded on Nov.
IL, according to an official announce
ment. A total of SO, O34 were cast.
The state of Massachusetts has
started an investigation into the high
cost of coal. The investigation was
launched by Attorney General Att
will.
Fred M. Faulkman, 26, a Cornell
graduate, according to his own state
meut, was given two years in jail at
Boston after pleading guilty to for
gerry.
An extra cash dividend Of SO a
share was declared by the directors
of the ,Acushnet mill, New Bedford.
Mass, manufacturers Of cotton
goods.
Henry Trefethen, SO, died at Port
land. Me-. without learning Of the
death OF his brother, George Trefe-
then, IS, at Concord, Mass. a few
hours earlier.
After working a half hour on his
new job at the South station, Boston,
Leopold c. Pfrang, "a, was crushed
to death between the platform OF
shed and a moving car.
More than 500, 200 will be dis
tri0uted among the employees Of the
Jordan Marsh company, Boston. This
distribution will mark the beginning
of a profit sharing plan.
A carload of canned tomatoes from
Virginia, consigned to wholesale
house at Providence, was seized be-
cause they were not up to the stand
ard Of the pure food law.
Thomas Riley, 80, was run over
and killed at Lynn, Mass, by the
auto truck he was driving when he
jumped from 1t to recover his hat,
which had blown off his head.
Captain Brown Of the steamer Cam
den, which recently sank the fishing
schooner Arthur James in Boston har-
Dor with the less Of one mans life,
was excnerated of all blame.
Three Investigations were begun
into the cause of the burning Of Tho
Winslow" at Beachmont, Mass.
The building, vacant and owned by
the state. was burned to the ground.
Colonel ]. P. Bradley OF Boston.
past commander of the department OF
Massachusetts, Grand Army of the
Republic, withdrew as a candidate
for communicative chief Of the Grand
Army.
approximately ninety children were
burned to death in Massachusetts, last
years as a result Of playing with
matches and rubbish fires, according
to Fire Prevention Commissioner
O'Keefe Of Boston.
An express train struck and killed
James. Mcnamara, farmer, IS, at
LIMERICK, Conn. At Canaan,
Conn. a few minutes later the same
tra., struck and killed Lewis Hub
bard, a farmer, So.
Samuel o. Lunt, who was retired
three years ago on pension. after
fifty one years service on the East
ern and Boston and Maine railroads,
died at his home at Somerville.
Mass. from q shock.
Legal proceedings aimed to defeat
the Adamson eight-hour railroad law
and to test it's constitutionality were
brought in the United States district
court in Boston by the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad.
1t took just 312 gallons Of reformed
fire water. valued at 346.s0, drawn
from the bungs Of six sweet cider
barrels. to extinguish fire on the
roof of a barn belonging to Sarkis
Acedishian at Northbridge, Mass.
DR.. Franklin w. Mann, SO years
old, was found dead In the bathroom
Of his home at Milford, Mass. He
was engaged in manufacturing bone
cutting machines, having abandoned
q medical practice to open q fac
tory.
Jacob Marnett. 46, Of Melrose,
Mass. committed suicide by hang
Ing.
John j. Enneking, II, landscape
artist, died at his homo at Boston OF
pneumonia.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mills, IS, was
struck and killed by trolley car at
Watertown, Mass.
The Maine State Pathological So
ciety reelected George A. Yeaton OF