Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-08-14

Trinity church, Montpelier VI mas
accepted the presidency OF Beaver
college, at Beaver, Pa.
Edward Corcoran, Is, who was
rood swimmer, became entangled IN
weeds while swimming at Wakefeid'
Mass, and was drowned.
Losing control Of motor cycle
which he was driving, Alfred Cote
%, crashed into post at LOWELL
Mass. and was instantly killed.
Gustave E. Rydin, an overseer IN
the Amoskeag mills, Manchester, N.
H.. was killed when an automobile In
which he was riding turned over.
Edward Lorette, II, Of Maiden
Mass, was found dead beside rail-
road tracks near that city. 1t IL
thought he fell from freight train
Herbert Wentworth, Sc, treasurer
and general manager Of the Skowne-
gan, Me-, Water company for many
years, committed suicide by hanging.
The will of the late Justice William
H. Moody of the United States SUI
| preme court was filed for probate at
Salem, Mass. The estate Is valued
at $67, 500.
Forty three men were disqualified
physically when the Dover, Tacoma
! and Exeter, N. H., companies or the
coast artillery were mustered into
federal service.
John Wright and George Kingsley
negro servants Of summer residents
at Hyannis, Mass, were killed when
an automobile in which they were rid
ing overturned.
The National Association of Or
ganists opened its annual convention
at Springfield, Mass. with members
in attendance from most of the large
cities of the east.
The price of milk will advance 3
cents to IL cents quart retail for
the towns of Milford, Hopedale,
Mendon, Upton, West Upton and
Bellingham, Mass.
Brooding over an automobile acct
dent in which he ran over and broke
the leg of a newsboy caused John l..
Sinclair to commit suicide at Nashua,
N. H., by hanging.
Machinists are in demand in Bos-
ton and there is also a field for men In
the steel and metal trades outside
Boston, according to the state free
employment agency.
Yale university must pay to the
state inheritance taxes amounting to
about s34 1000, according to a de-
cision handed, down by the supreme
court of Connections.
Herbert l.. Molitor was instantly
killed and his wife and Adolph Sill
were injured when motorcycle with
a side car attachment rammed
bridge railing at Suffield, Conn.
Four Massachusetts shoe manufac-
turing concerns have just been award
ed contracts for 1000, 900 pairs OF
shoes for the Russian army. The
shoes are for immediate delivery.
| Pasquale Salemne was held at Law
renee, Mass. for the grand jury
without bail on charge Of murder In
connection with the death of Fran
cesco Maciocia, who was stabbed.
Fireman Patterson was killed, two
men severely scalded and several
more, all employees Of the Boston and
Maine railroad, were injured when
two locomotives crashed head-on at
Wakefield, Mass.
Five minutes after policeman
sent in duty call from police box
outside the door Of the H. Winer Id
uor concern at Boston a masked man
held up the clerk and customer and
decamped with $1O3 in cash.
The supreme court Of New Hamp-
shire will hear the arguments on q
bill of thirty-one exceptions present
ed in favor of Frederick Small, con-
victed of numbering his wife at Lake
Ossipee. Small is sentenced to hang
on Jan. Is, 1918.
Poor health, aggravated by sensi
tiveness over his own pro German at
titude, is ascribed as the explanation
Of the killing of his wife, Ora, by
Major William Hoffman, U. S. A.. +,
retired, 70 years old, and his own
suicide in their home In Boston.