Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-09-11
news CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
happenings IA Various Parts
Of New England

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Into Gloucester, Mass. bay and was
drowned.
Theresa Irwin, 8, was drowned a.
Cambridge, Mass, when she fell into
the Charles river.
Five-year Alphin Bintel was
killed at Boston when he tumbled
down a fire escape at his home.
Nellie Kaufman, 4, died at Lynn,
Mass, as a result of burns she re-
ceived while playing with matches.
The skeleton of q woman was un-
earthed in the old Southland shipyard
at Richmond, Me. There was no clue
to her identity.
William Sellers, IS, an expert me-
chanic, died at Taunton, Mass. from
injuries received by being struck by
an automobile.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed
at Boston by Mark Abrams, builder
and contractor, who places his liabili-
ties at $2OS, 1888.
John Mahoney, 10, was seriously
injured when the building OF the
Lynn, Mass, Storage Warehouse
company collapsed.
Walter Holroyd, 40, died at Law
renee, Mass. as a result OF frac-
tured skull, received when he fell
from "iitney" bus.
A $4,000 fire Of mysterious origin
destroyed a large barn and contents
on the farm of fMartin s. Connear-
ney, Lexington, Mass.
A headon collision Of trolley cars
occurred at Baltic, Conn. No passen-
gers were seriously injured, but some
were cut by flying glass.
Willie on her way to work at Cam
bridge, Mass. Miss Hattie McDan-
iels, SO, was killed when she was
struck by an automobile.
Frank C. Wellington, So, Pull
man conductor, fatally shot imself in
lavatory at the conductors room In
the North station. Boston.
Robert N. Hudspeth, supervisor OF
music in the Concord, N. H., public
schools, resigned to accept position
in the public schools Of Honolulu.
More than 1000, 900 pounds OF
foodstuffs were placed in Boston and
Bay State cold storage warehouses
during July, according to an official
report.
Rose E. >Shattuck, IL, and Mrs.
Elinor Hosley, %, went bathing IN
the Ashuelot river near Keene, N.
H., and their bodies were found an
hour later.
Sergeant Harry E. Smith, 30, con-
nected with the quartermaster's de-
nartment of the regular army, was
round dead in bed in q room in q
3oston hotel.
Miss Agnes Dalligan Of Stafford
Springs, Conn.,, was killed when the
automobile in which she was riding
ell down forty-foot embankment at
Dummerston, vt.
Samuel Livingston was formally
charged with murder as result of a
shooting at Boston in which Charles
Rub lost his life and Mrs. Charles
Rub, his wife, was wounded.
Rev. Samuel Dupertuis, a native
Of France, pastor of a Methodist
church at Milford, Mass. is to leave
Tor France, to engage in Y. M. T..
A. work among the French soldiers.
Robert Warm, a private in the
Eighteenth United States cavalry,
was arrested at st. Adams, VT, on
n indictment charging him with MUIR
dering 14-year- Jennie Hemming-
way.
While on a duty call at Boston,
Patrick O'Meara was stricken with
illness and died on a Carney hos
pital wagon, of which he had been
driver for more than a quarter Of q
century.
Four persons were injured and two
automobiles wrecked on an overhead
pass two miles from st. Johnsbury,
VT, the cars with their four occu-
pants dropping thirty feet onto rail-
road tracks.
John C. Slorah, 10, was formally
charged with the murder at Bidde-
ford, Me-, Of Miss Della Duquette.
IS, whom he shot while she was
packing up her clothes to leave his
employ as housekeeper.
More than score of persons were
so seriosuly hurt as to require medical
treatment and panic ensued when a
crowded elevated train crashed at
high speed against the steel bumper
at the end Of its siding at Boston.
The "unwritten law" will be the de-
tense offered for Pietro Ruggeiro, 50,
who shot and killed Sabbatina Croce,
26, at Lowell, Mass, because he
claimed Croce twice eloped with Mrs.
Ruggeiro. mother of seven children.
Conductor Tryon and Motorman
Negus of the trolley which crashed
into car at North Branford, Conn. :,
are found criminally responsible for
the accident which killed nineteen
and injured many persons, by Deputy
Coroner Wynne.
Dependency over her husbands ILL
ness and loss of work is said to have
been the cause of the suicide at Lynn,
Mass, of Mrs. Mary Bentzen, IS,
whose body was found in her home
with her right hand nearly severed.
She had bled to death.
William Lawson, 40, fell down an
elevator shaft at Boston and was
killed.
Lora Lebro, 6, fell from. the roof
Of her home at Boston and died Of her
injuries.
Thomas T. Conway, As. Of Lin.
coin, N. H., was found dead In bed
In Boston hotel.
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