Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-07-17

members Of the @. "A. r !. 70 help de-
fray expenses for the national en-
campment, Aug. 10 to 25. in Boston
Miss Florence e. Downing filed q
suit for $50. 900 against Frank G. Al
len. q prominent leather business
man of Boston, alleging a breach OF
promise to marry.
The Ottawa House, summer hotei
on Cushing's island, at the entrance
to Portland, Me-. harbor, was prac-
tically destroyed by fire. with q loss
Of about SITS. 900.
Edwin p. Brown was elected presi-
dent of the United Shoe Machinery
company, to succeed the late Sidney
w. Winslow, at a meeting Of the d.
rectors at Boston.
A strike was ordered at the Amerf-
can and British Manufacturing COM
papy's plant, Bridgeport, Conn, to
obtain for the machinists Is percent
increase of wages.
Making their usual visit to their
mackerel nets of Plymorth, Mass,
Harry Sloan and Jacob Snyder found
a 60O-pound shark entangled. The
men killed it with clubs.
Fire destroyed a grain elevator
owned by Diendonne Harbeck and
the large icehouses of the New Bed
ford Ice company at New Bedford,
Mass. The loss is $40. 900.
George N. Tarbox, g., widely
known in the grocery trade in New
England as a travelling flour sales
man, was struck and killed at Hamp-
den, Me. by an automobile.
The Dauntless, the first vessel built
on the Connecticut river In century
for war purposes, was launched at
Essex. Conn. The vessel was built
for presentation to the government.
Edward Thompson, 20, of Worces-
ter, was killed and Miss Ruth Boud-
reau, 10, seriously injured as the re-
suit of a collision between an automo-
bile and a train at birmingham,
Mass.
Mary Hofritcher, 10; Edith Hofrit-
cher, 81, her sister; Max Hofritcher,
81, their bother, and Frank Baldwin,
we're drowned OF Burlington, Vt,
when a launch upset in the Winooski
river.
Superintendent James E. Jaeger OF
the Holyoke, Mass, Plush company
and his 4-year-old daughter, Grace,
were killed when a PASSENGER train
struck the Jaeger automobile on q
grade crossing.
Theodore P. Burgess, 81, promi-
nent yachtsman and inventor, died at
Dedham, Mass. He was the founder
Of the Sulphate Fibre company, one
Of the largest manufacturers of ma
chinery in the world.
About 300 carders and ringspinners
of the Butler mill, New Bedford,
Mass, went on strike out of SYM
patty for the weavers who quit work
because of the resumption Of the fin
ing system at the plant.
Mrs. Deborah K. Livingston, chair
man of the Maine suffrage campaign
committee, issued statement de-
ploring anything that appeared like
militancy on the part OF the suffra-
gists of the Uni.ed States.
Olympia Squillacioti, who shot and
killed her husband, Alfonso, Boston
banker and hotel proprietor, was
freed of blame through a no-bill re-
turned by the grand jury, which found
she had acted in self-defense.
All organized shoe workers through
out the country are to be asked by
the executive board of the United
Shoe Workers of America to pledge
all their resources to the aid Of the
shoe workers Of Lynn, Mass.
The Brockton, Mass, police are
investigating what they believe was
an attempt to harm the two children
of William KATE, over whom bull
let passed while they slept in crib
near a bedroom window in their
home.
The will Of Sydney W. Winslow
who was president Of the United Shoe
Machinery company, leaves an es-
tate aggregating 81 500, 900 in trust
to his childrsn. There are no be-
quests to charities or persons outside
the family.