Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-02-20
NEWS ON0ENS ED'ss
FOR BUSY READERS
Happenings In Various Parts
Of New England


H., was instantly killed by train.
The body Of John ]. Jordan was
found frozen stiff in q vacant lot at
Cambridge, Mass.
George C. Burdick, railroad fire.
man, died at, Providence as result
of having both legs cut OF.
Samuel Ostrofsky. 16. was killed
by an elevator in a building at Bos-
ton, where was employed by tenant.
A building at st. Johnsbury, VT,
owned by the Knights Of Pythias, was
destroyed by fire. The loss Is $40, :
600.
Orders from the navy department
direct the first division Maine naval
militia to prepare for immediate de-
parture.
Fire destroyed the Manchester, N.
H.. slaughtering and rendering plant,
owned by Swift & Co. causing a loss
Of $50, 900.
Michael Keaney, a foreman Of long
shoremen at Portland, Me-, fell fifty
feet into the hold Of q steamer and
Was killed.
Amillo Torrendo, II, shot Cd in
stantly killed his mother, Mary Tor
rendo, 43, while toying with q rifle
at Portland, Me.
Edward E. Washington, 81, was
indicted by a grand jury on charge
of the murder OF Joseph Cosmas at
New Bedford. Mass.
All the permanent guests Of the Ho-
tel Lenox, Boston, are back in the
hotel, for the damage caused by q
fire was confined to two floors.
The 600 c1garmakers who asked an
increase Of 81 Per 1000 cigars Of the
Sullivan Cigar factories, Manchester ,
N. H.. were granted that increase.
III health, the police say, 80 az
fected the mind Of j. J. O'Connor. q
Lowell, Mass. politician and lawyer
that he committed suicide by shoot
ing. I
The Maine senate judiciary com
mittee reported unanimously in IA
vor of resolution providing for wom-
an suffrage by constitutional amend
ment.
BY vote of 16 to the New Hamp-
shire senate defeated a bill giving
women the right to vote In prest-
Dental, state, county and town cleo
lions.
The price of milk in Boston is now
10h cents q quart, for the H. P.
Hood & Sons company increased the
price, as did the other contractors
some time ago.
Gas escaping from the half-open
Jet of range in the kitchen Of mis-
home at Chelsea, Mass. caused the
death of John Cullen, 90. His wife
is in a serious condition.
The New England Shoe and Leath-
er association, at the annual meet
ing at Boston, adopted a resolution
pledging its support to President VIII
son in the present crisis.
During the progress of fire in the
Colonial theatre at Providence loo
men slid down rope from the sec
ond balcony to the stage when all the
exits were cut of by fire.
Wind and the weight Of snow
caused the collapse Of the roof on
one-third Of the Milo Nelson store
house at Montpelier, VT, filled with
farm machinery. The damage Is SO, :
900.
Samuel Ekwall, Indian fighter
miner, hunter, explorer, died sud
denly from heart disease in his cob
bling shop at Everett, Mass. where
he had made shoes for some Of Amer
ica's most famous men.
Because his conscience would no,
allow him to do strike duty as a po-
liceman against his fellow workmen,
Daniel ]. Kelleher, reserve police
man, resigned from the Newburyport
Mass. reserve police force.
Timothy H. Murname, s., base
ball editor Of the Boston Globe, gen
orally regarded as one Of the greatest
authorities on the national game ir
the United States, dropped dead ir
the check room of Boston theatre.
Colonel Josiah H. Benton, lawyer,
Civil war veteran, and for the past
twenty-five years a member of the
board of public library trustees, died
at his home at Boston of acute heart
trouble. He was born at Addison
vt. in 1913.
Sebastian W.. Ryall, 45, OF Attic.
boro, Mass. in a drunken frenzy
heat into Inconsistencies with q po-
tato masher his daughter. Mary, 10,
and then committed suicide by slash
ing his own throat. The girl will re.
cover.
Almost nineteen years after the
sinking of the battleship Maine In Ha-
vana harbor, plans are being made al
Bangor, Me-, for an appropriate
mounting for the only part Of the
Maine Of any artistic proportions, the
bow shield and scrollwork.
Edward Portley, gatetender at the
Still River, Mass. railroad crossing
where DR.. James E. Ferry and three
other members of his family, all Of
Cambridge. and George Howard Of
Harvard were killed by freight
train, was held for the grand jury,
charged with manslaughter.
John X. Allen of Keene was nomi.
mated as justice of the New Hamp'
shire superior court.
Charles Bailey, 81, Of Brookline
Mass. committed suicide by throw
ing himself in front Of train.
Charles E. Brown, 65, retired
publisher, was killed at Boston wher
he was run over by an automobile.
The British steamer Cornishman
several days overdue on a voyage
from Liverpool. arrived at Portland