Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-06-26
NUMBER 26.

a grocery wagon he was driving at
Marblehead, Mass, and was tn
stantly killed.
The Manchester, N. H.. board OF
public works granted an increase OF
pay to city laborers, averaging from
8 to 13 percent.
Plans for the summer military camp
of Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology students at East Machias.
Me. have been outlined.
Barrell Lindsay, member OF the
National Guard, was struck and in
stanuy killed by a locomotive at .
bridge near Chester, Mass.
The Booths Fisheries company be-
gan canning sardines at Eastport.
Me-. with 300 employees and a ca
pacity Of 1000 cans daily.
A Green Mountain express from
Montpelier to Boston as held up by a
derailed freight and washont between
Plainsfield and East Montpelier, Vt.
Chief Justice Albert R. Savage or
the Maine supreme judicial court, 10,
died at his home In Auburn. He was
speaker of the Maine house In 1898.
Milk producers throughout New
England have begun a definite cam
paign for a substantial increase In
the price Of milk delivered In Boston.
Milton H. Bronsdon. city engineer
of Providence, is to direct the layout
and construction Of one of the war
department cantonments In New Eng
land.
DR.. Pearl T. Haskell was elected
superintendent of the Maine state
hospital at Bangor to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation Of DR..
Hills.
Fred Green, 40, dropped dead in q
Doctors Office at Montpelier, VT,
where he had gone to secure relief
from acute indigestion, caused from
eating peanuts.
Alfred Gleason, 16, and Joseph
Wilson, IA, of Maiden, Mass, we're
rescued in Lynn harbor after they had
clung two hours to the bottom Of an
overturned dory.
Robert Cushing was killed and two
other men were injured, one sert-
ously, when an automobile truck In
which they were riding overturned at
bingham, Mass.
About $50 employees of Sears, Roe
buck & Co., shoe manufacturers,
Newburyport, Mass, struck because
q piece work wage was substituted
for weekly salaries.
Edwin d. McHenry, formerly
private detective, was sentenced at
Providence to seven months in jail
for representing himself to be Unit
ed States secret service agent.
Fifty members of the graduating
class and seven instructors in the
Quincy, Mass, high school were
made seriously Ill with what is be-
lieved to be ptomaine poisoning.
DR.. Gardner T. Swarts, twenty
i've years secretary Of the Rhode Is
land state board of health, was
removed from office. DR.. Byron
Richards was elected to succeed him.
Private Leon c. Clifford of the Ma
tional Guard was killed at Greenfield.
Mass. by the accidental dischage OF
mis- rife. He was on guard duty and
dropped his gun while crossing Q
bridge.
Rigid precautions against the dam
age or destruction by fire OF the po-
tato warehouses in Maine are to be
taken by Governor Milliken with the
assistance of the fire insurance rep
resentatives.
Congressman Sherman E. Burroughs
of Manchester resigned as member
Of the New Hampshire state board OF
charities and corrections. Charles P.
Bancroft of Concord was appointed
to fill out the term.
The sudden death Of John Mona
han, her third husband, from pol
son, in the same manner in which
her other two husbands died. caused
The arrest at New Haven on suspicion
Of Mrs. Annie Monahan.
The hearing Of Manoog Berbarian,
a, charged with the murder OF
Serekian Moorodian. So, at Chelsea,
Mass, was postponed for q week.
The men are said to have had trouble
over an automobile trade.
Werner Horn, the German army
officer who attempted to destroy the
international bridge over the st.
Croix river at Vanceboro, Me. early
in February, 1915. was found guilty
by a jury at Boston. Sentence was
deferred.
Fearing that the regular police
force of two men may not be able to
maintain the peace and dignity Of the
community when the conscrpted
army Of 80, 900 men reaches camp st
Aver, Mass. the selectmen have ap-
pointed thirty five reserve men.