Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-02-06
NUMBER 6,


al meeting OF the directors OF the
Visiting Nursing association at Bos-
&An.
n q special message to the legisla-.
ture Governor Mccall asks for proper
provision to be made for the enter
tainment Of the Grand Army Of the
Republic, which holds It's national
encampment in Boston the coming
summer.
Frank G. Heald, principal Of the
Ames grammar school. Dedhaim,
Mass. was found guilty Of cruel and
unusual punishment" in compelling
James Hardiman to lie across desk
until hs lost consciousness. A jury
returned a verdict for 500 damaesc.
Antonio Carotunuu was found not
guilty of the murder Of Mrs. Albino
Norton at Bristol. r. /.
So-called snowshoe rabbits from
Oldtown, Me. are to be liberated on
the island Of jamestown, r. I.
Mrs. Amanda s. Edgecomb, the
oldest woman in Maine, died at Co
rinna at the age Of 1921 years.
A scare has been caused at Ston-
ington, Conn, by the discovery OF
seven new cases of smallpox In one
family.
Cornelius Keliher is guiltless In
the death Of his wife, Mary, whose
dead body was found in her bed st
Boston.
Mrs. Marie Harris, 20. show
girl, swallowed poison tablets at .
Boston hotel, from the effects OF
which she died.
Samuel Guisenger was found guilty
at Portland, Me-. on three counts
OF an indictment charging him with
white slavery"
The Mielero, q large steel tank
steamer, built for the Cuba Distilling
company Of New York, was launched
at Quincy. Mass.
The new $40, 900 state armory at
Taunton, Mass. was onicially dedt-
Gated and turned over to the state by
the armory commission.
Mrs. Stanley Plummer Of Maine
was elected president Of tho New
England Conference of State Fsdsrs-
ton Of Womens clubs.
Chief Il Police Binks Of Maynard
was found not guilty Of accepting nq-
uor case bibes by Judge Keyss In
court at Concord, Mass.
Two thousand women Of Greater
Boston, with the cooperation OF local
farmers, have threatened a potato
boycott through the Housekeepers' I
league.
Bostonians have been exceptionally
fortunate in lodging influenza and
pneumonia deaths this winter, ac-
cording to the city health department
statistics.
Forty -one prisoners from the Wash
ington county, VT. jail. unguarded.
marched as an escort to the body OF
John Wilson, who dropped dead at
tho institution.
e. F. Pope, 80, tar collector and
former city treasurer Of Brockton.
Mass, committed suicide by shoot
ing. He had been suffering from Q
nervous trouble.
Stanley Myjac Of Central Falls, R.
l.. after stabbing two men at we'd.
ding. attempted to escape down the
railroad tracks and was struck and
killed by a train.
With the death of George Tanning.
known as the champion "tightwad"
recluse. at Warwick. R. l.. &scov-
cry was made that he had left an 60.
tate valued at S125, 900.
The bodies Of Mrs. Eva H. Bragg
and Michael J. Devaney were taken
from q gas filed room in lodging
house at Lawrence, Mass. Efforts
to revive them proved futile.
Sadie Strickland, 16. pleaded guilty
to granddaughter and was sentenced to
serve ten years In the Maine state
reformatory for women for drowning
her infant child at Oakland.
Prisoners in the Suffolk county jail
were terrorzed and . largo section
Of the West End of Boston was
aroused when two manhole covers
blew up with loud explosion.
A SIS, 900 appropriation for the
public service commission to investi->
gate telephone rates and service was
voted by the house ways and means
committee Of the Massachusetts, leg.
'islature.
Two thousand panes n Of window
glass in 200 packing cases tumblsd
down an embainkment In . SO. .000
freight train wreck 1t Walthan,
Mass. but not piece Of the fragile
glass was broken.
The board of trustees OF the Boston
public library chose Charles +. D.
Belden, librarian Of the Massachu-
setts state library. librarian Of the
Boston public library, to succeed
Horace G. Wadlin.
John McAulisse. dispatcher for Q
street railway, picked up the tele-
phone receiver in his once at MARI
boro, Mass. and received q shock Of
Is, 200 volts. His bnly injury was .
burn on his right hand.
Mrs. Sarah Devaney, an aged wom-
m, who had lived alone In . small
Hat at Boston for nearly twenty years,
was found dead In her home, the re-
suit, according to q medical sxamiA-
r., of starvation and cold.
James N. Goldman. IS, ono OF the
leading citizens of Brookhns,
Mass, died after . weeks illness.
He had been retired from business
Tor sixty years. Pr4oy to 1857. -
was for six years engaged In ths East
india trade.
After sleeping Q night In a ovsa
q -. hs,~hanSSrs hokapv whArA hA had