Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-09-04
NEWS CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Happenings In Various Parts
Of New England

Irving Gray, Is, of Belfast, Me-.
was drowned while swimming.
Robert Christian, 8, OF Peaks is
land, Me-, was drowned while bath
ing.
Warren Colclough, 5, of Maiden,
Mass, was struck and killed by an
automobile truck.
Charles F. Kendall, AZ, assistant
naval constructor at the Portsmouth
navy yard, dropped dead.
The box factory of l.. c. Andrews,
South Windham, Me-, was destroyed
by fire, causing a loss of $25 900.
Ralph R. Thomas, 40, a chemist,
died at Boston, burned all over the
body when a tank of ether exploded.
John B. Healy, 55, OF Maiden.
Mass. the father of ten motherless
children, was drowned while swim
ming
John Logue of Portland, Me-, As.
was killed when his automobile struck
an electric light pole at Seabrook,
n. H.
The Providence plant OF the East
ern Film company was practically
destroyed by fire, the damage being
close to 500, 900.
Arthur Coughln, %. Of Medford.
Mass, was electrocuted when he
grasped live wire with the intention
Of pushing 1t aside.
A searching party found the body
of George Tibbets, 65, Of Melrose,
Mass, who dropped dead in woods
while blueberrying.
John Malen, one of the crew Of the
schooner Mystery, OF Gloucester,
Mass, fell headlong into the fore
castle and was instantly killed.
Mrs. Dolly w. Kimball, who was
school teacher in New Hampshire
for many years long before the Civil
war. died at Nashua at the age Of l03.
The engine of a passenger train
was derailed at the bridge over the
Park river, Hartford, and went down
the embankment. Two trainmen were
painfully injured.
Harry NJ. Smith, held at Rutland,
VT. to await trial on charge Of rob-
bing the postoffice at Orwell, escaped
from jail with two other prisoners,
who overpowered the jailer.
New Hampshire college has con-
tributed thirty mine commissioned Of
ficers to the forces Of the United
States and a great many enlisted men
who did not wait to be drafted.
Because they could not have their
daily beer at the expense Of the COM
pany, quarrymen and kiln tenders
of the New England Lime company at
Canaan, Com. went on strike.
DR.. Herbert E. Thompson, patholo-
gtst and laboratory man at Worces-
ter state hospital, was selected by
the Maine state health council to be
director of diagnostic laboratories.
John Garvey, 35, received injuries
from which he died and two score
were injured when an electric car left
the rails at Wellesley Hills, Mass.
and smashed with terrific force into
tree.
Hat manufacturers Of Danbury,
Conn. whose employees have been on
strike for seventeen weeks, an
nounced that their several plans here
after will be conducted as open
shops"
A horse belonging to milk dealer
became frightened and jumped
through the plate glass window of a
pool room at Newton, Mass, alight-
ing on a table where a game was in
progress.
Despondent because she could get
no one to assist in harvesting the
crops of the farm at Kittery, Me. ON
which she lived with her sister, Miss
Nellie Manson, 40, committed suicide
by shooting.
Major Lucien w. Blanchard, Judge
advocate general on the staff Of Gov
ernor Milliken of Maine, has been
appointed Judge advocate and as
signed to the Eighty-sixth division OF
the national army.
Sabastina Croce, 2S, died at Law
renee, Mass. from a bullet In his
brain, and Pietro Ruggeiro, So, is
locked up without bail, charged with
murder. Ruggeiro claims Croce stole
the affections of his wife.
To be hit by the locomotive of Q
passenger train and live to tell the
tale is the experience Of Mrs. william
Moyle Of Contoocook, N. H.. who was
hit sQuarely by the locomotive, but
sustained only slight injuries.
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