Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-05-22
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iAlg1o -. WulCluS duo uA1 WhC wa
held for the grand jury without bail
for the alleged murder OF an infant
girl at their home at Dover. Me.
George F. Granger. 43. killed his
wife, Edith, 80, at their home at
Plantsville, Conn, and then killed
himself with shot through the head.
Arthur J. Casey was sentenced at
Calais, Me-. to serve from six to nj
teen years in prison for the murder OF
John Tracey, a railroad section hand.
TIE Connecticut house Of repre-
sentaives adopted a resolution pro-
pcstn- en- amendment to the state
cons .itu.ion to provide for equal SUI
tragc. l
Every town in Kennebec county
was re'.rescnted in a patriotic pa
rade end demonstration at Augusta
Me. Thousands participated in the
celebration.
Striking employees Of the Maine
Central railroad repair shops claim
that 1909 men in Portland, Waterville
and other points along the line have
stopped work.
The delegates to the ninety eighth
annual convention of the Protestant
Episcopal churches of the diocese OF
Maine voted to hold the next conven-
ton at Bangor.
A Pullman car on a Boston-St.
John express left the rails and was
dragged across the Kennebec river
bridne between Winslow and Water
Vile. Me. No one was injured.
Edward B. George, "a, clerk of the
Essex county superior court at Sa-
lem, Mass, died in Boston hos
pital. He was prominent In Ma
sonic and other fraternal circles.
Mrs. Margaret Hewitt, held for the
grard jury as accessory before the
fact in Connection with the killing OF
her bus and at Pittsfield, Mass. was
released from custody in $1,000 bonds
Decreased egg production in Hamp-
den county, Mass, amounting to ~
percent, the result Of flock reduction
by farmers, was announced by the
County Improvement league.
league.
Governor Mccall vetoed the bill to
allow the mayor of Boston to grant
permits for special exhibitions OF
moving pictures in buildings in which
such exhibitions are forbidden by the
general law.
New Hampshire manufacturers
promised Governor Reyes to release
as many men as possible for farm
work, but said that in many cases
they were themselves embarrassed BY
| lack of workers.
Four persons lost their lives and
more than score barely escaped in
their night clothes in fire which de-
stroyed the Weston & Fits block al
Manchester, N. H. The loss is esti-
| mated at $500, 900.
During a period Of forty eight hours
hours O,672, 300 pounds Of sugar
reached Boston from Cuba. Six large
steamers are under charter to brint
| 20 900, 900 pounds to Boston from
| Porto Rico this month.
Four men were drowned when the
tug James H. Hogan capsized in New
Haven harbor. The Hogan's tow o
barges had broken away, and thu
tug was keaming back to pick 1t VI
when the accident occurred.
Donabet Donabetian pleaded guilt!
at Manchester, N. H., to robbins
Park Stevens, paymaster Of the w
H. McElwain Shoe company of Sill,
900, and was sentenced to from eigh
to fifteen years in state prison.
SayIe's bleacheries, the Howard and
Bullough American Machine compan!
and tie Hope Welding company
Pawtucket, R. l., employing NOR
than 1000 persons, announced wag'
increases Of 10 percent to all work