Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-07-10
NEWS CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Happenings In Various Parts
Of New England


Dr.. F. s. Woods of Portland was
elected president Of the Maine Dental
society.
Judge Thomas appointed receivers
for the Hopkins & Allen Arms COM
pany Of Norwich, Conn.
Two-year-old Ruth Donahue was
killed when she toddled in front OF
an express train at Woburn, Mass.
George E. Farrand, chairman OF
the Democratic state committee, was
appointed acting postmaster Of Con-
cord, N. H.
George n. Cary, 45, and Miss
Mabel Lane, A, of Portland, Me. 4,
were drowned when their canoe
was overturned.
Francis KetchuM YES -ound guilty
Of murder in the first degree for the
shooting of Wi';iam Costello at Ben
nington, VT, during dispute.
James Monahan died in Watertown,
Mass. at the age of 110. He tried
to enlist when the Civil war broke
out, but was refused because he was
too old.
Savero Romayola was killed in the
woods in q revolver duel with five
constables of Upton, Mass. after he
had fired three shots at Frank Usher
and his son.
Miss Winifred Mclaughlin Of Cor
ham, the first woman to pass the bar
examination in New Hampshire, was
admitted to the practice Of law by the
supreme court.
Mail service to and from Milan.
N. H., was restored after having
been interrupted for ten days as re-
suit Of heavy rains that flooded north
ern New Hampshire.
A. w. Munster was appointed pur-
chasing agent for the entire Boston
and Maine railroad system, to sue
ceed B. s. Hinckley, who resigned to
enter private business.
An excursion train hit an automo-
bile at a blind crossing near Bridg-
ton Junction, Me-, Gilman N. Kim
ball, Mrs. Alice Jewell and Mrs.
Alice Weeman were killed.
With her thirty y-seventh marriage
anniversary but a few weeks awav,
Mrs. Emma j. Walton Of Lanesboro, 4,
Mass, brought suit against Andrew
D. Walton, alleging desertion.
Three hundred employees Of the
Howland, Me-, Pulp and Paper COM
pany, who struck to enforce demands
for shorter hours, returned to work It,
their demands having been granted.
DR.. Alfred w. Lavigne Of Lowell.
Mass. pleaded guilty to an indict-
ment charging him with performing
an illegal operation, a woman's
death following. He was fined $500
and paid.
United States Marshal Mitchell in
termed in Worcester, Mass. jail for
the duration Of the war Frederick w.
Schaefer, an enemy alien suspected
of completely in the bomb plots at Ho-
boken, n. j.
What was believed to have been
an attempt to wreck fast New York.
Boston express train was frustrated
when the crew Of a freight train dis
covered a tie across the tracks at
Clinton, Conn.
Proposals from Maine shipbuilders
for the construction OF ten additional
hulls of wooden steamships for the
government emergency feet have
been approved by the Maine shipbuild-
ing committee.
The Vermont state board Of health
recommended that all public places
In Montpelier and Barre be closed to
children under 16 years Of age, in an
effort to prevent the spread Of in
fantile paralysis.
President William D. Hyde OF Bow
doin college died at Brunswick, Me. f.,
after months illness, due to a
general breakdown in health. He
was So years old and q native OF
Winchendon, Mass.
The average crop acreage per farm
in Penobscot county, Me-. increased
from seven arces in 1916 to approx
mately eleven acres in 1917, and the
total acreage in the county from about
80 900 in 1916 to 10000 in 1917
Michael Shannon. quartermaster
sergeant Of the Fourteenth company,
coast artillery corps, was held FOL
the grand jury on charge OF MUIR
dering his brother in law. Robert A.
Parkinson, at Saunderstown, R. l.
The electrical laboratories and lee
ture apparatus Of Dartmouth college
will be available during the summer
for any who desire to prepare them
selves for enlistment in the signal
CORDS of the army or in the engineer
ing corps.
A verdict of not guilty was returned
by the jury in the case OF Mrs. Anna
Felch, charged with completely in the
murder of her husband, Joseph Felch
Of Topsham, vt. Otis Williams IL
now serving a life sentence for his
share in Felch's death. .
Fiske Warren, exponent Of the
single tax, has purchased the prop
erty of the famous Shaker colony ol
Harvard, Mass. The property con
sists OF about 500 acres Of land and
several buildings. The colony was
founded there more than 125 years
ego.
Dora Maiiiey, -, We drowned a
Danvers, Mass, white bathing.
| William Davinos,, %, was drowned
while bathing at Marblehead, Mass.
Miss Esther Bennett, %. savet
three girls from downing at Contoo
cook, N. H.
The New England Typographica
union elected Edward l.. Cahill o
Lynn, Mass, president.
The Vermont Equal Suffrage asso
citation elected Mrs. A. L. Bailey o
st. Johnsbury president.