Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-06-12

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dered to Governor Milliken his resig-
nation as state bank commissioner
OF Maine.
George Nickerson, 8, was killed
when, after stealing ride, he
jumped directly In front Of an electric
car at Boston.
Governor Keyes Of New Hampshire
was elected president Of the Sullivan
County railroad, leased line Of the
Boston and Maine.
Mrs. Agnes Rae Of Lawrence.
Mass. was killed insanity when the
automobile in which she was riding
skidded and turned turtle.
The corset factory Of the Strouse-
Adler company, New Haven, an
nounced a 10 percent increase in
wages to its $500 employees.
Johann Sauerquell, for nearly
thirty years librarian Of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, died at Boston.
He was born in 1916 in Austria.
Frank Urban, %, of Brockton,
Mass. was instantly killed by an ex-
press train. The police say Urban
threw himself in the path of the
train.
A Boston owned schooner was
chartered 10 transport coal from Nor
folk to Para a. s14 a ton. The
coal will cost South Americans about
$40 ton.
Harvard university will open next
September as usual and the course OF
instruction will be given without any
curtailment whatever, President
Lowell announced.
Repairs costing $50 900 on the
seized German steamship Ockenfels
have been completed at Boston and
the engines started for the first time
in nearly three years.
William e. Kelley was sentenced
at Providence to three years in
federal rent entiary for impersonating
a United States secret service man
and for forging a check.
The Monchasset mills of Providence
have been purchased by the Cleve-
land Worsted Mills company. The
plant will be operated as a worsted
spinning and weaving mill.
Jacob Phillips and julius York,
convicted Boston firebugs, were sem
fenced, Phillips getting from three to
five years in the state prison and York
three years at Deer island.
Over 1900 men enlisted for the
army in Boston for the month Of May
the biggest month ever recorded
for recruiting in that city In any
branch Of the regular service.
Twenty-six head of fancy cattle
were burned to death and much prop
erty destroyed in a fire which die
$50, 900 damage at the New England
sanitarium, Stoneham, Mass.
Maurio Dileo, who caused the death
of Joseph Colmartino at Newbury,
Mass. pleaded guilty to manslaugh-
ter and was sentenced to serve from
ten to twelve years in state prison.
Official figures of the special elec-
ton in the First congressional New
Hampshire district give Sherman E.
Burroughs, Republican, a lead OF
1852 over Patrick H. Sullivan, Demo-
crat.
The proposed employment Of wom-
en- as conductors on street cars In
Boston to fill the places made va
cant by men called to the colors was
opposed by the Boston Street Car
mems union.
George Knowlton, 70, OF Waltham,
Mass, a veteran Of the Civil war,
slipped while in the bathroom Of his
home and struck his head on the edge
Of the bathtub. He died from
fractured skull.
The jury that heard the testimony
In the $100 900 breach of promise
case brought at Providence by Eliza
beth l.. Baxter against Thomas F.
Burke, wholesale liquor dealer, re-
ported disagreement.
Michael Hennigan, SO, who bat
.ered to death his 76-year- mother
with a chair at their home at Boston
and who was charged with first de-
gree murder, was sent to a hospital
for the criminal insane.
Captain Balentine of Portland, who
resigned from the United States army
in 1908, urged Governor Milliken to
add regiment Of artillery to the Ma
tional Guard forces In Maine. He
offered to recruit the regiment at his
expense.
On June /, 1916, Loretta Wakelin,
a 7-year- Melrose, Mass. girl,
was brutally murdered in the woods
not far from her home. Joseph Wake
lin and his wife, Sarah, the girls
parents, have just been held on
Joint charge Of the murder of their