Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-03-27
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Happenings In Various Parts
Of New England
John Brand, 6, died at Somerville.
Mass. as the result Of being struck
by an automobile.
Charles A. Daniels Of Maiden, dean
of the Massachusetts, school teachers.
observed his $50 birthday.
Mrs. George w. Pfeffer. Is, club
woman and former teacher Of parlia-
mentary law, died at Boston.
Mrs. Margaret Rsgan, 20. died at
Boston ten minutes after she had
been knocked down by an automo-
bile.
-year-old James Brown died at
Brockton, Mass, from fractured
skull sustained when he slipped on an
Icy street.
Arthur G.. Lewis, II, died at Wor-
cester, Mass, where he was for
thirty eight years principal OF q pub
lie school.
DR.. Lemuel F. Noble was found
guilty by a Boston jury of Illegally
prescribing and dispensing narcotic
drugs to addicts.
Acton, Mass, Is one of the first
towns In Massachusetts to indorse
military training and drill by the
citizens Of the town.
Herbert Singleton, 30, was instantly
killed when he fell sixty-five feet
from the fifth floor to the basement OF
a building at Boston.
Accidental falls down stone stair
ways of Boston subway entrances
brought death to Daniel Carney, As,
and Peter Hughes, AZ.
The American ambulance field SER
vice will receive more than $40 200
as the result of a collection taken al
the Boston opera house.
Strike losses in Connecticut indus
trial plants during the past two years
are placed at 81, 500 900 by the state
bureau of labor statistics.
Captain Sutherland, commandant
of the cadet corps at New Hampshire
college, Durham, received notice Of
his transfer to Ell Paso, Tex.
Grief over the recent death of his
wife caused the death Of Colonel AL
fred Hooking, rs, superintendent Of
the Melrose, Mass. postofice.
Thirty employees in the Boston and
Maine railroad passenger station al
Lyndonville, VT, escaped without in.
jury when fire partially destroyed the
building.
Kidder, Peabody & Co., treasur.
ers, Boston, announced a total OIL
contributions to the American func
for French wounded amounting tc
$2OS, 2s7.6 So.
Standing before a mirror and hold
ing a picture Of her husband in one
hand Mrs. Esther Rotterdam, IS,
shot and killed herself in her home al
Revere, Mass.
Two firemen were overcome and
the lives of several others were en-
dangered by gas escaping in the base
ment Of the Wales building, Boston,
during $50 200 fire.
Charles R. Harris, for twenty -one
years bookkeeper and cashier for the
Portland. Me-, water department,
was asked to resign. An auditor IL
working on his books.
Captain Joseph Whitmore, assist
ant keepers Of Crabtree ledge light,
was drowned by the capsizing of s
boat in which he was returning to hif
post from Ellsworth, Me.
Arthur v. Phillips Of New Haven
was killed and Mrs. James T. Pat
terson of Milford was probably "a.
tally injured in an automobile acci.
dent at Bridgeport, Conn.
Lieutenant Porter, aide to Com.
mandant Rush at the Boston navy
yard, will go to every city and town
on the Maine seacoast to stimulate
recruiting for the navy patrol.
Leon A. Gilman Of Willimantic,
Conn. who killed his grandfather
Nelson Gilman, and his counsin, Ed
ward E. Gilman, in that city, was
indicted for murder in the first de-
gree.
Viola Lynch. Is, who disappeared
from a Woonsocket, R. L., reform
school last December and who had
been missing since that time. was 10
Gated in Boston and taken back to the
institution.
Violation Of the hours of service
act is alleged in an information filed
against the Grand Trunk Railway
company in the federal district court
at Rutland, VT. The imposition OF
500 900 in fines is asked.
Two unidentified men entered the
Pawtucket exchange Of the ProH-
dence Telephone company, choked
Miss E. NJ. Mcdonald, "a, the CASH
Ter, until she was unconscious, and
made their escape with over $500.
A warrant was issued at Nashua,
N. H.. for the arrest Of Henry j.
Knowlton, financial secretary OF
Eureka tent, Order of the Maccabees,
on charge of obtaining money un-
der false pretences. The police say
$4,000 Is involved.
A monster demonstration to empha-
size the movement toward q more act
i've and patriotic support Of the federal
government and to create q create
interest throughout Maine In the Ma
tlonal Guard and defensive measure
was held at Portland.
The Massachusetts, senate killed the
bill providing one day of in seven for
hotel employees.
Heny O'Neill, a rubber mill work.
er, committed suicide at Millville.
Mass. by shooting.