Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-01-15
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The new double-track railroad
bridge of the Maine Central across
the Kennebac river between Fairneio
and Benton, Me-, was completed.
The, cost was 100000.
At the annual meeting Of the Chill
dren's Protective society OF Maine, A.
G. Pettlngell of Portland was elected
president.
Three hundred employees OF the
Pacific Mills prints works. Lawrence
Mass, struck for 16 percent In
crease in wages.
Andrew ]. Wilcox, "a. sheriff OF
Providence county, died at North
Providence, R. L., from complications
resulting from fall on the Ice.
Goldfish sold at the highest price on
record at the Boston fish pier, 20 to
"a cents q pound being the quotations
on steak cod.
Just one short of 5000 animals, be-
sides those at the stock yards, were
examined by the Massachusetts, Soci'
ETY. for the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Animals in the month Of December.
An investigation was ordered into
the circumstances surrounding the or
ipin of a fire that caused considerable
damage to the passenger repair shop
of the Vermont Central Railway at
st Adams, VT.
They are taking in landlubbers and
turning on. sailors by the hundreds
at Uncle Sans newest merchant ma
rine war college aboard the Calvin
Austin at Boston.
Arkalis Apostolos, 4. was killed at
Woburn, Mass. when he coasted I'M
der heavy truck.
One person of every $50 IN Mas
sachusetts Is insane, declares the
Massachusetts commission on mental
diseases in its latest annual report.
The body of Miss Florencs Bale,
| %, of Lawrence, Mass, who hao been
missing from her home for several
days, was found IN the Shawsheen
river. She had been in poor health.
An Investigation into the cause OF
| the panic on the grounded and stalled
Cambridge, Mass, subway train, In
which forty persons were injured, and
hundreds of others bruised and shak.
en- up, will be conducted.
Peter OMeara was killed at Aver,
Mass, when a sleigh which he was
driving was struck by train.
The navy department refused the
request of the 200 clerks at the Bos-
ton navy yard for exemption from
the draft.
Gill nets worth about $4,000 were
destroyed by fire in the loft OF one
Of Atwood & Payne company's build
ings at Gloucester. Mass.
James j. amb, 25, met his death
at Boston by falling upon a wire
fence. A piece of wire was thrust up
his nostril and 1t reached the brain.
Death was apparently instantaneous.
In carrying out orders to conserve
coal in the Lawrence, Mass, schools
| during the vacation the loss Of nearly
| $4,000 from frozen water pipes and
radiators was discovered when the
schools were opened.
The first of the new sugar crop
from Cuba arrived at Boston as the
vanguard of a near flood, 80 long
awaited. J.;
AS a result Of accidentally shooting
himself while hunting rabbits at Kit
terry, Me-, Frederick Tustethen, 16,
lost his foot by amputation.
Randolph gymnasium, the new home
of indoor sports at Harvard univer-
sity, was formally opened.
Arlington, Mass, had its own river,
waterfalls and cataracts, when q big
water main burst and flooded Sec
ton of the town.
Daniel Flood, 6S, a gate tender,
was instantly killed at Boston when
q train ran over him.
Fire, believed to have been incendi.
airy, In the repair shop swept Cam
bridge, Mass, yards of the Boston and
Maine railroad, destroying several
coaches, cars. the repair shop, the
blacksmith shop, gas shed and the
machine shop. The loss Is upward OF
$15O.OO0.
The decision to raise S1,0O0,0O0 to
teach 100000 college students the life
of Christ was reached at the students
volunteer conference at the North.
field, Mass, seminary.
| Ernest Hamel was burned to death
at Bddeford. Me-. when a lamp ex.
ploded. He was a mill worker.
| George r. Trip, superintendent OF
transportation for the Boston Elevated
Railway company, died at Arlington
Mass. He had been with the Elevated
for nearly forty years. He was born
at Kennebunk. Me-, In 1853.
| Anthony Rock, 20, of Boston, was
found dead in bed from gas poisoning.
Gas was flowing from an open cock.
i The Lynn, Mass, Gas and Electric
company announced that the price OF
gas In Lynn will be increased.
Il Enrolment In the radio training
school at Harvard now exceeds by
several hundred names the enrolment
of Harvard university itself. Nearly
$500 students are now In attendance
i Mrs Hannah Duper, SO, was fatally
burned In a fire In a tenement house
at Lynn, Mass.
Mayor Wilton Of Quincy, Mass, an
nounced that the trees In the six
acres of woodland at Faxon park
would be cut down to supply the city's
poor with free fuel.
| Joseph Volentenanch. so. was frozen
to death at Worcester. Mass.