Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-02-05

under arrest. Bernardo said he got
the mony ''by looking at theatres ana
barrooms from the outside"
A campaign to pledge Massachu-
sets retail grocers to give their GUS
toners the benefit Of rock-bottom
prices has resulted In 1875 Massachu-
sets retailers signing such a pledge.
Six Worcester, Mass. persons will
share In the estate of jeremiah Moyni-
han, who died at st. Louis, leaving
an estate of more than $4,000, which
he had acquired in the junk business.
A million bushels Of onions are In
danger of spelling in Massachusetts
unless better freight facilities are pro-
vided at once, according to Secretary
Wheeler OF the state board OF agricui-
| ture.
Rachel YoungsteiD. 2, was drowned
at Woonsocket, R. l., by falling into
wash boiler.
The Gilmore Hotel company OF
Springfield, Mass. filed a petition In
bankruptcy. The petition states that
the liabilities are $30.153.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
| the car barns Of the Concord, May
nard and Hudson Street Railway
company at Maynard, Mass, and all
| the rolling stock owned by the COM
pany, with the exception Of two cars.
Tho 1ooc "a S16O mn
| The Massachusetts house ways and
means committee reported a prelim-
mary state budget bill, calling for
the appropriation of $2S,138, 164.
Five stores in the business section
of Fairhaven. Vt, were destroyed by
a $4,000 fire.
The Ice being harvested on the
| Charles river at Waltham, Mass,
averages twenty-five inches in thick.
ness.
Lincoln Mckinley Grant, the con-
fessed boy slayer Of Miles Hewitt,
| was taken from Pittsfield, Mass, to
! state hospital for observation as to
his sanity.
The first shark Of the season to ar.
rive in Boston weighed 300 pounds and
was sold to a fish dealer for the rec
ord-breaking price of 20 cents a pound
wholesale.
Grifiths' Inn, a motion picture the
atre, and some stores and houses
were destroyed by $40, 200 fire at
Pascoag, R. I.
Miss Blanche Toohey, 25, was in
stantly killed at Boston when she was
struck by an express train.
Mackerel, whiting, anchovies,
sprats, and other fish are now being
canned in quantities and sent to the
battlefronts of France for food, ac-
cording to the Boston Fish Bureau.
Penobscot Bay, Me-, is frozen over
to such an extent that the service Of
the Eastern Steamship corporation
boats will be discontinued until fur
ther notice.
Frank A. Bump, q member Of the
Massachusetts state board Of concil-
iation and arbitration, submitted his
resignation to Gov. Mccall.
Lysander N. Paine, SO, president
of the Seamen's Savings bank, Prov
incetown, Mass, died after an ILL
ness of FIVE months. He had been
connected with the bank for forty
nine years.
Miss Carita G.. Rutherford, who set
fires at the Frances e. Willard Set
Element House, Boston, was commit
ted to a psycopathic hospital for thir-
ty days, under special statute. She
admitted setting the fires.
A loss of nearly 100000 was
caused when the sales stables Of G.
II. Hanson & Co., Lowell, Mass,
were burned. Twelve automobiles,
twenty-five carriages, $50 tons OF
hay, 1900 bushels Of corn, 1000 BUSH
els of oats and much valuable har-
ness were destroyed. All Of the
horses were saved.
Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. D.,
former minister to the Netherlands,
reported at the Boston navy yard as
an aide on the staff of Commandant
Rush. He is chaplain in the naval
reserves.
Hehim Goldschmidt, said to have
been the first bicycle rider in the
country to "loop-the-loop," died at
New Haven, of accidental gas poison
ing, aged 80.
A fund of 500, 900 for research
work In tuberculosis was given to
Harvard medical school and 500, ZOO
to the Boston Museum Of Fine Arts
by the will, fled at Worcester,
Mass. of Mrs. Frances e. Coburn.
The mystery surrounding the death
Of Joseph Shaw, a caretaker at Bos-
ton cemetery, who, with his wife,
was found dead at their home, was
solved following an autopsy, which
disclosed death due to stove gas.
Teachers in Boston schools closed
because Of lack of fuel will draw
their full pay.
| Richard B. Thomas and Frank
Davis, shoeworkers, each aged As.
were found dead in the latter's apart
ments at Haverhill, Mass, with gas
streaming from a jet above them.
Cyrus W. Longley, II, register of
probate of Sagadahoc county more
than thirty-five years. died at Bath,
Me.
[ Thaddeus F. Griffin, 81, well-to-
do retired mason, and familiar figure
at Gloucester. Mass, committed sui
eide.
The fuel committee at Midway,
Mass, seized ninety-six tons of coal
from a factory and two greenhouses
for distribution among householders.
The Massachusetts legislative COM
mittee on metropolitan affairs was
told that more than $5,OO0O00 of food
stuffs Is stored in Boston buildings
which lack adequate protection
against fire.