Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-08-28
NEWS CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Happenings In Various Parts
Of New England

OF New t1gldnQ
Roy Hamilton, II, of Maiden,
Mass. was drowned while bathing.
Sixteen horses were burned to death
in a fire at Boston caused by light
ming.
DR.. Richard H. Mansur. 80, OF
Chelsea, Mass, was held in $4,000
bail on charge Of illegal surgery.
Nus. Plandilla Iavobucci of Quin-
cy, Mass, charged with practising
medicine without being registered,
was fined 500.
Charged with numbering his wife,
Olive, by shooting, Carl o. Willin
was held at Dedham, Mass. for the
grand jury without bail.
Charles w. Bancroft, president OF
the International Trust company, was
appointed receiver for the w. & A.
Bacon company OF Boston.
Joseph M. Russell, Jr., %, assist
ant receiving teller of the New Eng
land Trust company, Boston, was
drowned in Boston harbor.
Louie Pantella, a laborer, was
killed in the cave-in Of portion of a
cellar wall of a theatre under con-
struction at Waltham. Mass.
Plans are being considered by the
naval authorities to prohibit operation
OF pleasure craft and excursion boats
in Boston harbor during heavy fog.
Former Attorney General Dana Ma
lone, So, died at Greenfield, Mass. ,
from fractured skull, received when
he was thrown from his mount while
horseback riding.
There is work-for many men at the
Boston navy yard. There are places
for common laborers, boat builders
wood caulkers, shipfitters, steel
molders and meters.
Huntley N. Spaulding Of Rochester
has been approved as food admins
traitor of New Hampshire by Presi-
dent Wilson. Spaulding was named
by Herbert c.. Hoover.
Two soldiers at Fort Mckinley, on
Great Diamond island, Portland
Me. harbor, who were in detention
for military offenses, broke out Of the
guard house and escaped.
Adelbert H. Bicknell, naval re-
servist, of Everett, who was in train
ing at the naval reserve station on
pumpkin island, Boston harbor, was
drowned while swimming.
DR.. D. A. Sargent, director OF
gymnastics at Harvard university
has been appointed by the navy de-
partment to train the members OF the
naval reserve radio school.
Leo Folsom, a youthful Corinna,
Me-, farmer of draft age,. shot and
killed his 16-year- old wife and him
self because she planned to leave him
without cause for exemption.
Mrs. Marion Corner plunged SIX
stories to instant death at Holyoke,
Mass. She had been i'll for nearly
two years. Recently she had been
constantly attended by nurse.
Charles M. Bailey, who was en-
gagged in the manufacture of oilcloth
for seventy-five years, died at Win
throp, Me-, at the age Of 81. He was
said to be worth nearly SO, 900, 900.
Seated In an Office chair in the
hardware store at Gloucester, Mass.
where he had worked for forty seven
years, Frank Z. Smothers, IS, its
owner, committed suicide by gas poi
soning.
James Golden, a patrolman, plead
ed guilty to the murder of his faith
q, Nicholas Golden, at Bristol, r.
T., by shooting. The patrolman said
bis father first struck him with a
Aammer.
The body Of Charles w. Laban, As,
a farmer, was found hanging to tha
rafters Of a barn at Quincy, Mass
III health is said to be the cause OF
the suicide.
George Moody, so, who had been
held for the grand jury on statutory
charge, committed suicide at Port
land, Me-, by shooting. He left q
note declaring that the case against
him was trumped up.
The worst electrical storm for many
years swept over Portsmouth, N. H.
causing four fires, burning out tele-
phone wires and covering car tracks
with washed out sand. Lightning
struck in many places.
David l. Walsh, former governor
Of Massachusetts,, was appointed re-
ceiver of the New England Equitable
Insurance company, to take the place
of Dana Malone, who recently was
killed by fall from his horse.
Lieutenant George H. Paul Of the
United States naval reserve was dis
honorably discharged frqm service
and escorted from the Boston navy
yard for absenting himself without
leave and for conduct unbecoming an
officer.
The first pastor of New England to
offer his services to the United
States navy for active duty was Rev.
Jack HYDE, the organizer and founder