Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-05-29
Happenings Ii various Part.
Of New England !

John F. Tierney, 3, died ct Bos-
ton from injuries received from fall
out OF a window.
Fire destroyed all but two build
ings Of the village Of North Raymond +.
Me-, with $4S, 900 loss.
Charles W. Mullen Of Bangor re-
signed as q member Of the Maine
public utilities commission.
Fenwick Hall, for forty years q
noted summer hotel at Saybrook
Point. Conn.,, was destroyed by fire.
Rev. Edward Williston of the Con-
gregational church, Litchfeld, Me.
has quit preaching to go to work in q
powder factory.
Governor Milliken Of Maine ap.
poined sixteen county boards who will
have charge OF the registration under
the selectie draft law.
Peter Kline, 10, q private in the
Second Maine infantry, was STRUCK
and killed by freight train while on
guard at Biddeford bridge.
Edward Boland, charged with the
murder Of Thomas G.. Scannell al
Boston, pleaded not guilty and was
held without bail for hearing.
Demanding rs percent increase II
wages, which was refused, $50 EN-.
ployes of the American Textile COM
pany struck at Pawtucket, r. I.
The charred remains of John How.
land, IS, were found in the ruins Of
small cottage at Milford. Mass.
which was burned to the ground.
Governor Reyes Of New Hampshire
announced that he has obtained the
Endorsement Of all the governors o.
New England to the daylight saving
plan.
DR.. C. H. Dolloff, assistant SUI.
perintendent Of the New Hampshire
state hospital, was appointed super
intendent, to succeed DR.. C. P. Ban.
croft.
A Lynn, Mass. policeman seizec
fifty gallons of whisky labelled put.
ter" from an automobile truck, in.
tended for delivery at Lynn drus
store.
The oil district Ut Boston wa
threatened for time when fire
started in a building in Fort Hi
square, causing damage Of nearl!
$50, 900.
There are indications of grea
agricultural boom in Rhode Island
due to cooperative effort of the state
agricultural college and count!
agencies.
The championship regatta Of TIT
National Association of Amateur
Oarsmen, scheduled to be held a
Lynn, Mass. July ~ and %, ha!
been abandoned.
More than 200 employees of TIT
United Box and Lumber company
Rochester, N. H., stopped work t.
enforce demands for a Saturday half
holiday with pay.
Men looking for gasoline, with in.
tent to steal the fluid, and carrying 6
lighted candle, are held responsible
for a $25, 900 fire In Waterbury
Conn, stable and garage.
| Angelo Bianchi, SO, shot and killet
his mother and himself at Montpe
her, VT. Bianchi is thought to have
become insane through brooding owe
his bad physical condition.
| Judge Byram, at Attleboro, Mass.
ruled the Hebron Manufacturing com.
pany not guilty Of the charges tina
the company had employed minors
and females contrary to law.
| Vernon Hall, %, while washin!
bottles In a bottling works near Cal
ais, Me-, was suddenly stricken Will
illness, fell face downward in the sinl
and drowned in eight inches Of wa
ter.
The Lyman Mills company, Hol
yoke, Mass. announced a 10 rercen
wage increase, affecting 1900 EN-
ployes. This, with other increases
since Jan. /, 1915, totals about 8;
percent.
Notices were posted in the Pep
PERIL cotton mills, Biddeford, Me.
and the York cotton mills, Saco
Me-, that a wage advance of 10 per
cent will be put into effect. It az
fects 10, 900 operatives.
Mrs. Edna c. flanagan of Revere
Mass. won verdict Of $500 agains
the Boston Elevated Railway com
pany for the conscious suffering ant
death Of her husband, a conducto
for the Bay State Street Railway com
pany.
Women workers In the Butler mill
New Bedford, Mass. appeared II
overalls provided by the Management
to avoid the danger to which womei
employees have been subjected from
their skirts being caught in the ma
chinery.
| Fred Watkins, travelling sales
man, was badly injured at Keene. N
H. /. when he was shot by soldier OF
sentry duty on failing to halt the ca
in which he was speeding to brin.
aid to the victim of an automobile
accident.
| Eleven buildings were ablaze
New Bedford, Mass, at one time
but quick work by the flremen pre-
vented a confagration. The fr'
started probably from spontaneous
combustion in painting establish
nent. The loss Is $40, 900.
The four masted schooner Maudl
N. Morey was launched at Bath, Me
i Placide Collette, 80. committe,
suicide at Worcester. Mass. b!
drowning.
Frank e. Guernsey Of Dover was
nominated by Governor Milliken as
trustee of University Of Maine.
u George W. Parker, 81, well known
Christian Science practitioner
dropped dead in his Office at Boston.
| There will be no strike Of the or.