Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-01-09
NEWS CONDENSED
FOR. BUSY READERS

Happenings IN Various Parts Of
New England
Michael J. Moon, 40, was killed o
Boston when he fell down flight Of
stairs.
Professor George T. Files OF Bow.
doin college was elected president Of
the Maine Automobile association.
William M. Smith was sentenced 70
five years in state prison for assault.
ing Mary Mcdonald. Is, at Dedhsm.
Mass.
Cornelius Crowley, 81, while dnv.
ing a team at Boston, fell from the
wagon seat before the wheels and WA
killed.
The proposed merger Of the Nation.
al Shawmut and the Merchants Ma.
tional banks, Boston. has been aban.
doned.
Patrick r. Foley, 3S, Of Somer.
Vile, Mass, while cranking his
automobile was jammed against an
other car and killed.
Edmund Amarola, 4, died at Bos.
ton as the result Of burns. He WAS
poking a furnace hre with Q stick
when his clothing caught fire.
Charles R. Whitten, for many
years cashier Of the Augusta Savings
bank, and formerly state bank com.
missioner, died at Augusta, Me.
The T wharf property at Boston
will be used as site for five great
cold storage warehouses. each to be
eleven stories high and 140x162 feet.
About a score OF churches Of all
creeds in Gloucester will share in the
500 200 worth OF property left BY
Charles A. Reed of Gloucester,
Mass.
Engineer Henry l.. Stearns was
killed and three men injured when .
locomotive sideswiped a passenger
locomotive which was switching at
Boston.
Dominick ChifIalo, 80, while work.
ing in the Waltham, Mass. Bleach.
cry and Dye Works, was crushed 10
death after being caught In whirlinS
betting.
Edward Doheny, 40, formerly .
we'll known baseball pitcher for the
Giants and Pittsburg teams. died In
Medfield, Mass. hospital Of tn.
berculosis.
The engine house of the Boston and
Maine railroad at Newport. VT. was
destroyed by fire and four locomotives
badly damaged. The loss is upward
of $50, 900.
DR.. Sarah e. Jenness. 80 years old
and until recently practising physi.
clan in Boston. lost her life when her
home at Wolfeboro. N. H.. was do.
stroyed by flre.
The rapidly thinning ranks Of large
American schooners are further do.
pleted by the loss OF the five-mastsr
Fannie Palmer Of Boston, which
foundered at sea.
Following the example Of physicians
Of Lexington and other Massachusetts,
towns, the physicians OF Milford.
Hopedale and Upton have boosted the
cost of getting we'll.
Stanley R. Bryant. president OF the
Windsor. VT. County Trust company
and who, prior to 1912. was for six
teen years postmaster OF Windsor,
died at the ago Of 81.
While on duty on his train, p. J..
Barrett, IS, Of Wakefield. Mass,
: conductor on the Boston and Maine.
was seized with a stroke Of apoplsxy
and died two hours later.
In attempting to steal ride on .
moving auto truck at Cambridge.
Mass, John 8. Mcnamara, H..
was killed when he slipped and fell
under the wheels Of the truck.
Captain Courtney Gilbert. 90. Of
Boothbay, Me-. who followed the sea
since he was 8 years old. was found
dead from accidental gas poisoning In
Portland, Me-. lodging house.
Thirty five guests in Hotel Miller.
Great Darlington. Mass. we're driven
to the streets by FIRE In house
furnishing store on the street door
of the hotel. The loss 10 SIT. .00o.
Nantucket. Mass, fisher folk
gained rich prize when they brought
into port, apparently seaworthy, the
three -masted schooner Roger Drury,
which had been abandoned By hen
crew.
Az the result Of report submitted
by landscape architects. Boston city
officials decided to reject the suggss.
tdon of Shaksperian guilds that Q
Shaksperian village be erected in the
Fenway.
A scare was thrown into the police
force Of Salem, Mass. by the sus-
pension of six patrolmen following the
declaration Of their superiors thsa
they intend to enforce the strictsse
discipline in the department.
DR.. Celia P. Adams died at Bos-
ton q suicide. This finding BY Judge
Palmer and the filing Of the report
with the district attorney ends IN.
other ohaper In the triangular mys.
terry case Of three osteopaths.
Captain Henry F. Ladbury Of Com
pany I, First regiment. Connecticut
National Guard, relieved Of his COM
msnd and ordered to report at Hart
ford for further orders. committed
suicide by shooting ct the state arm-
ory at New Britain.
Mrs. Sophronia H. White. aged iol
years and { months. died at New
sharon, Me. As
Everett N. Staples. 81. who lived
alone 1t limerick, Me-, committed