Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-02-20

ship Eui lCchus pasiSu Hons
for Marseilles with 365, 900 bushels q
that grain.
: Charles Ward, S4-year-old negro,
was sentenced at Boston to the state
prison for from thirty Ave to forty
years for fiendish assaults committed
upon women.
Including the National Guard and
naval militia, there are more than
600, 600 men between the ages OF ID
and As liable for military service IN
Massachusetts.
The lower branch of the Vermont
legislature passed a bill requiring
non-residents to give five days mo-
tice of their intention to take oua
marriage licenses.
The United Improvement associa-
ton of Boston adopted resolution
indorsing the position taken by Presi-
dent Wilson in the diplomatic situa-
ton with Germany.
Henry E. Durham, 70, United
States senator from New Hampshire
from 1901 to 1913, died at Manches-
ter. He was admitted to the New
Hampshire bar In 1868.
Albert K. Glass and Crowell Lord
former postoffice clerks at Bangor and
Bar Harbor, Me-, respectively, were
indicted by federal grand jury on
charges of embezzlement.
Alexandra Koezwomska, 8, at.
attempted to fill kerosene lamp at
her home at Pawtucket, R. L., the
oil ignited and, spreading to the girls
garments. burned her to death.
A large barn owned by the Cloud
land Farm, Inc. was burned at Pom
fret, VT, causing a loss Of $50, 900.
Thirteen horses and a quantity Of
produce and machinery were lost.
George Whitcornb, rs, veteran OF
the Civil war who served three en-
listments, committed suicide al
Brockton, Mass, by shooting. De-
spondency is given as the cause.
Mayor Cliff of Somerville, Mass.
ordered that the flags on all school
houses and public buildings be dis
played every day until further notice,
owing to the break with Germany.
After characterizing the premises
az unfit for human habitation, thu
Lawrence Mass, board Of health
declared the Lawrence day nursery
nuisance and ordered the place closed
According to a report OF the fed
eral bureau of fisheries, the fishing
fleet landed at Boston during the year
1916 fish valued at SO, 702, 1865 and al
Gloucester fish valued at 81, 159,
1894.
In a head-Cn collision of a pas.
senger train and freight train a.
Derby Junction, Conn. three passen.
gers and three trainmen were slightly
injured. The property loss is no
| heavy.
An estate valued at SIS, 1853 ,015. SO
including personal property worth
"a. 34S 1853. 10, was left by Eben d
Jordan of Poston, according to his in
yentory filed in the Suffolk probate
registry.
German members of the Boston
Chamber of Commerce purchased Al
American flag, measuring Fl by II
feet, which was hung on the walls o
| the trade room ct the chamber Will
appropriate ceremonies.
Jumping from a second story win
dow of a hospital, William Sikainen
20, ran naked through the town o
Gardner, Mass, and hanged himsel
to a tree by using bandages witt
which his legs had been swathed.
Fourteen children, ranging in az
from / to IA years, were rescued from
a burning home at Biddeford, Me.
where they were boarded by an ali
society. All were asleep when tn
flames were discovered. The prop
| erty loss was not heavy.
While suffering, it Is believed
from temporary insanity Mrs. Heller
A. Keene killed her husband, Sidne.
B. Keene, a former member Of tn
state legislature and alderman, II
their home at Somerville, Mass. AM
| then committed suicide by dnhalini
Illuminating gas.