Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-05-01
News CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Happenings In Various Parts
Of New England

Mrs. Wilhelmina Peterson, 5o'
committed suicide at Cambridge,
Mass, by inhaling gas.
John E. Spencer of Swampscott,
Mass, was struck by a train and
died from a fractured skull.
Governor Reyes signed the Lewis
bill, which will make prohibition ef-
fective in New Hampshire on May /,
1918.
Ellen Goodish, 2h. fell into a
sunken barrel which enclosed q
spring at Pawtucket, R. l., and was
drowned.
Riverside Inn, a three story wood
en- summer hotel at Hooksett, N.
H., was burned to the ground. The
loss is $500
Fourteen large patrol boats, six OF
which have become government prop
erty, will be in service on the Maine
coast this week.
Vessels for Newport, Boston and
points outside of Buzzards bay can
not leave New Bedford, Mass, ex-
cept at nightfall.
An appeal for an army OF school
boys to go to Connecticut farms this
spring and summer was made by the
state food committee.
The New Hampshire Methodist con-
ference adopted resolutions pledgine
support to President Wilson and the
government in the war.
St. Jean Baptiste, a French news
paper published at Pawtucket, r.
l., was wiped out in a $50, 900 fire
that swept the Kinyon block.
The executive committee OF the
New Bedford, Mass, Mule Spinners
union voted unanimously to ask foI
q 10 percent increase in wages
About Is, 900 shoe operatives in
Lynn are idle through the consum-
nation of the plan Of twenty manu-
tacturers to close their factories.
Application for marriage license was
made at Boston by Mrs. Francis j.
Baker, 70, who is to marry hel
brother in law, Gilbert Baldwin, rs.
The Connecticut house accepted an
unfavorable committee report on the
proposed statute giving women the
right to vote at all except state cleo
tons.
Charles W. Dyes, former semi
professional ball player, died as the
result of injuries he received when q
train hit him at Newton Junction
N. H.
Mrs. Edith Wheaton. "a, a nurse
swallowed several tablets Of bichloride
OF mercury at Medford, Mass, anc
died. Her husband is now fighting
in the trenches.
The newly created Maine state
penal commission appointed Franl
Ham of Augusta as warden Of the
Maine state prison to succeed Elmer
H. Warehouse.
Herbert w. Conn, 81, state bac.
teriologist, professor at Wesleyan uni
versity, and one Of the foremost bac-
teriologists Of the country, died a
Middletown, Conn.
A thousand school children tool
part in patriotic demonstration a
Augusta, Me-. when flag presented
to the city by the pupils was accept
ed by Mayor Swift.
Thomas w. Lawson's offer to have
his "Dreamwold" estate operated a
cost as a great market garden ant
cannery was accepted by Governor
Mccall of Massachusetts,.
The Savannah liner City of Atlantis
sank the steam lighter Hercules in
fog in Boston harbor. Boats from thu
liner saved the lighters crew Of ten
The liner was not damaged.
The famous model farm of abou
5000 acres of Henry s. Hale,
wealthy Philadelphia manufacturer
located in Coos county, N. H., hal
been offered to the government.
The Bay State Cotton corporation
Lowell, Mass, announced that an.
of its employees who enlist in the ma
TONS armed forces will be paid full
wages during their absence from thu
corporations, factories.
The FIVE masted schooner Virgini;
Pendleton was launched at Noank
Conn. She Is the most costly an
the strongest wooden schooner eve
built in the United States. A foreign
firm bought the craft for $235 900.
George E. Richardson, 81, the ole
est municipal employee in point o
service in the city of Boston, died il
that city. Had he lived until May ]
he would have rounded out sixt.
years of continuous service In tn
assessors department.
Perley A. Foster, state secretar!
of the Young Mems Christian asso
citation, offered to assist the New
Hampshire committee on public safe
ty in the mobilization Of young mel
and boys, not liable to military ser
vice, for work on larms.
Joseph A. Ray, Lynn, Mass.
real estate dealer, whose advertise
ments year ago greeted strange
on every Lynn street corner, was ar
rested on a charge of larceny Of $40,
600 from two Lynn banks. He wa
arraigned and released in $4,000 bail
Governor Beeckman signed the &c
granting presidential suffrage to thu
women of Rhode Island.
While crossing bridge at Milton
Lower Mills, Mass, Albert c. Boye
IL, fell into the river and wa
drowned.
Thomas J. Finneran, prominent II
Boston Democratic politics, died fol-
lowing injuries received in a runawa!
accident.
The Richards block, the principa
business building Of Newport, N
H., was damaged by fire to the ex.
tent Of $50 900.