Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-01-01
news REDUCED
TO A MINIMUM
Recent Happenings Of Interest
to New Eng|aaders


The clothing of Mrs. John G. Evans
IS, of Amesbury, Mass, caught nre
from her kitchen stove and she was
burned to death.
Walter Taubert was killed TT Bos'
ton when he received fractured Skull
by falling downstairs.
DR.. Everett ]. Mcknight. former
president Of the Connecticut Medical
association, died at Hartford suddenly
of heart disease.
The body of Stephen Holman. rs
member of 'well-known Cambridge
Mass, family, was found on the beach
at Clifton, Mass. On three other oc'
casions he had attempted to take MS
life. He had recently escaped from
an insane institution.
Robert II. Corners, II, OF Bar Har
Dor. Me-, died from the effects or q
bullet wound received while playing
"hold up" with Charles L. Pratt. Both
Youths were students at the University
of Maine.
A dozen passengers were injured
but none killed. when q broken raj
wrecked a train near Roxbury. Conn
Peter Carbell died at Aver. Mass
Mt the age of 81. He was the Oldest
Odd Fellow in the state and was &c.
MANY years selectman and deputy
sheriff.
In a collision between light en-
CINE and a freight train at keougn
Me-. B. Beaton, conductor, and L
Brasson, a section hand, were killed
The G A. r. convention committee
returned $4,000 to the city of Boston
it being the unxepended balance OF
the $4,000 which the city appropriate
cd to make the field day Of the vet
Grams q success.
DR.. Leverett w. Spring, professor
emeritus of English literature at VII
liams college, died at Boston He was
horn at Grafton. VT, in 1910.
Massachusetts, liquor firms and
agencies which have been sending
liquor advertisements and circulars In
to Maine through the mail will be
prosecuted, Federal District Attorne!
Merrill announced at Portland.
Nearly 1000 tons of mail passed
through the Boston central postoffice
in the five days preceding Christmas
Day.
Judge Robert ]. Walsh of Green
wich. Conn.,, former secretary of state
and senator, left an estate valued al
about S1,OOO,OOO. according to peti
ton for administration just filed.
Mayor Curley of Boston appointed
Lucius Hicks, negro, assistant cor
poration counsel, salary $1,000, to as
sumo the duties of Edward T. McGet
trick, absent on leave for military ser
vice.
With a revolver clutched in hel
right hand and bullet wound In
her head, the body of Mrs. Adele
Mock, 40, was found, covered with Ice
Ind snow, in Franklin Park, Boston
.;he had been misclng from her home
since Dec. 6.
Col. Arnold A. Rand, 80, leader Of
Inc Fourth Massachusetts cavalry II
The Civil war and vice president ant
general counsel for the John Hancocl
Mutual Life Insurance company fol
the last twenty years, died at his
home at BroOkline, Mass.
Harve Buker, woodsman, sho
himself fatally in remorse for the &C
cidental shooting and killing OF Mrs
John Secor in lumber camp at Som
erset, Me.
The Boston and Maine railroad sus
tanned heavy loss when seven loco
motives were wrecked by fire a.
Lawrence, Mass. The blaze Is sup
posed to have been Started by spari
from one Of the engines.
The plant of the Madison Woolel
company, Madison, Me-, which Is max
ing overcoat cloth for the government
was closed by strike.
improvements costing 100000 have
been completed by the New Havel
Railroad company at Providence en-
CINE houses in preparation for carin;
for additional traffic.
Maiden, Mass, had an explosion
scare when 500 gallons Of gasoline IL
a tank in the rear of the Boston Dy'
House blew up with roar that wa!
heard all over the city.
The Me 1ford, Mass, board Of alder
men passed the new salary ordinance
providing fol increases in salaries
totaling about $500.
James NJ. Olmstead, one of the
referees III bankruptcy for Suffolk
county, Mass, was reelected presi
dent of the referees in bankruptcy fol
the New England states.
After more than sixty years con
;inucus service as a barber in Ames
bury, Mass, Samuel A. Fetch has re
tired. He Is thought to be the oldes
barber in point of service In New
England.
Wi'list0n Hall, one of the recita
ton buildings at Mt. Holyoke college
South Hadley, Mass, was destroyed
by fire. The loss Is $4,000.
Miss Harriet A. Varney, acquitted
on a charge of killing Mrs. George II
Reyes, collected 500 from Norfolk
Mass, county, 1t representing 80 cents
a day during the six months she wal
confined In Jail.
Some very fine specimens of Maine
shipbuilding have been sent overheard
recently, and a lot more are nearl!
ready to take the water.
More than 100 naval reserves arr