Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-03-20

college @ Hartford, committed suicide
by turning on the gas.
John Kelly. 80. Of Waltham, VINO
had been missing for several days
was found dead from exposure In
COW barn at WATERFOWL. Mass.
kilograms to President Wilson
pledging support of firm diplomatic
policy were sent by the faculty ana
administrative officers Of Harvard
university.
|, Mrs. Elizabeth R. Maranville.
wife of Walter ]. Meanwhile, short
stop of the Boston Braves, died al
Springfield. Mass. from a complica-
ton of diseases.
Three hundred thousand dollars
compensation by the federal govern
ment for use Of the new dry dock
which is being built at Boston Is now
an assured fact.
G.. F. Parkhurst, associate justice
Of the state supreme court, was elect
ed chief justice by the Rhode island
legislature, succeedinSb Chief Justice
johnson. retired.
For publicly and CONTEMPORARY
insulting the American flag, or repre-
sentation thereof" Augustus Won
Hagen was fined 500 by Judge Logan
in Boston court.
A Manchester, N. H., shoe manu-
featuring company sent 5000 pairs OF
shoes by first class registered mail
to Moscow, Russia. The postage
amounted to $500.
More than 10 percent OF the Har-
ward students applying for admis-
sion to the reserve officers training
corps have been turned down because
of physical disabilities.
Two flremen fell through the root
of the blazing dry house Of the Cas-
cade Wooden mill at Oakland, Me.
and were rescued with difficulty. The
property loss is $40, 900.
As a result Of burrowing its way into
a pillow beside its sleeping mother,
the 6-mcnths old baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard H. Dewey Of Worces-
ter, Mass. was suffocated.
The armed British merchant steam
er Devonian arrived at Boston with a
So, 00O, 900 cargo, the most valuable
one brought to that port to date
through the U-boat barred zone.
A peerless banquet, the first since
the organization came into being more
than fifty years ago, featured the
regular meeting of the Loyal Legion,
commandery of Maine, at Portland.
District Attorney Pelletier declared
that 1.-The circumstances in many OF
the deaths from gas in Boston lead
to the suspicion that gas is menace
to human life for human habitations. I"
Chief Hurley and Fireman Ma
honey were overcome by chlorine gas
at a fire in the stock house Of the
Germania mills, Holyoke, Mass. +,
making cloth for the United States
government.
Stelianos Zacharachi, who shot and
killed Charles w. Craney in the din
ing room of the Essex hotel, Boston,
pleaded guilty to murder in the Sec
ond degree and was sentenced to
prison for life.
Mrs. Bessie Clansky was killed at
Boston by a gasolene saw which her
husband was using to cut wood. The
frame supporting the saw broke and
the saw wheel ground deep into the
woman's head.
The city Of Lowell, Mass. clamped
an attachment of $40, 900 on the Low
ell Trust company in an action to
collect interest amounting to $29 ,6OO
from the trust company during the
last sixteen years.
An act to abolish the municipal
end police courts of Maine and to es-
tablish inferior courts in their place,
with uniformity Of terms, jurisdic-
ton and terms Of Office, was intro
duced in the legislature.
A jury in the superior court at Bos-
ton returned verdict of $500 for the
plaintiff. in the $4,000 suit Of Miss Har-
riet l.. Donahue against DR.. A. e..
MAR. a dentist. Miss Donahue
claimed that MAR held her in chair
and threatened to remove bridge work
from her mouth because she had not
paid bill.