Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-07-10
NUMBER 28.

Daily Press was damaged by $780,
900 fire which ran through an annex
Of The Press building.
Alex D. McEachern. AZ, was in
stantly killed at Nantasket. Mass,
when a wire he was repairing on .
railroad pole became alive"
Because of scarcity Of tin plate for
making sardine cans, Eastport, Me-.
fish factories are facing the possibility
of closing earlier this season.
Business for the past year in ex-
cess of SO, 900. 200 was transacted by
the Farmers union of Maine, 1t was
reported at the annual meeting.
Plans have been completed for the
Worcester county farmers public
market to be erected at Worcester,
Mass, at a cost of about $50. 900.
William D. Curtis, 73, proprietor
of the Curtis hotel, Lenox, Mass. Is
dead. He was a son Of William y.
Curtis, who established the hotel In
1858.
Mrs. Alice G. Mayne, 60. widow Of
Frank Mayne, a full-blooded Mohawk
Indian, committed suicide at Fox
boro, Mass, by shooting. She was
despondent.
The 200, 900 yacht Isabel, built
at Bath, Me-. and turned over to the
government by John N. Willys OF
Toledo, made 2S.4 knots an hour on
her trial trip.
Peter Powers, so, Of Caribou,
Me-, was killed by running OF an
embankment in an automobile as he
was approaching bridge across the
Aroostook river.
Jonathan Chace, United States SEN
ator from Rhode Island from 1885 to
1889 and congressman from 1882 to
1885, died at Valley Falls, R. I. He
was born in 1929.
During the next year the shipyards
In New England engaged in the build
ing of ships for the government will
need IL 900 extra men, It was stated
by Admiral Bowles.
Margaret C. Farrar, stenographer
in a Plainfield, Conn. garage, was
shot by James French. another en-
ploye, after his failure at assault.
Both are probably dying.
Harry Weymouth, neighbor OF
Oscar Mayo, who was killed, pre-
sumably in mistake for deer, on
his farm at Milo, Me-, was detained
pending an investigation.
Tadeuoz Olezak, %, killed his
mother in the kitchen Of their home
at Greenfield, Mass, by stabbing her
through the heart. The motive for
the crime is being investigated.
Henry Vaughn, 72, one Of the best
known architects in America, died at
Newton, Mass. Many beautiful build
ings remain as tributes to his skill,
especially churches and chapels.
Weavers of the Arlington mills.
Lawrence, Mass. who have been on
a strike over wage conditions for two
weeks, voted to return to work. .
compromise having been effected.
The Danbury, Conn, Hatters
union proposed to debate publicly the
wage scale dispute between the union
hatters and hat manufacturers, which
has caused Z shutdown Of fifteen
shops.
The several steam railroads In
Maine filed with the public utilities
commission notice Of a general ad-
vance Of Is percent on practically all
freight as applying to intra-state
traffic.
The twenty-five Fairgrounds oper-
ated by the city Of Providence will
be turned into Red Cross sewing
camps and children attending them
will all do their bit" to help the army
and navy.
Margaret C. Sullivan, ) rs, was shot
and killed at her home at Worcester.
Mass. by Richard B. Fitzgerald, A..
who ended his own life with a bullet
through his heart. Jealousy is said
to have been the cause.
The silver loving cup offered by the
New England Clean up and Patnt-Up
Campaign committee to the city or
town conducting the most efacient
cleanup and paint-up campaign was
awarded to Manchester, N. H.
Joseph /. O'Brien, 40, and his
fiancee, Miss Nora Collins, 2S. both
of Rochester, were instantly killed
and an express train was derailsd
when the automobile in which OBrien
and Miss Collins were riding was
struck by the express at Milton. N. H.
Mrs. Annie P. Monahan, who, .
year ago, was discharged after arrest
and detention for year under suspi-
cion of poisoning her niece. Jennie
MeNamee, was held at New Haven
for the second time. charged with
murder in causing the death Of her
third husband by poisoning.