Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-07-15
Mains News Notes.

Edwin Savage, 90 years of age. ende'
his life by hanging at West franklin. Fl
had been In poor health for long time
Perley Dean of Fort Fairfield va
drowned In Pushaw Pond on the Al
while swimming. he was about so year
Of age.
Up to July 5, total receipts Of tn
state for automobile registration
amounted to $593, $4,000 against $50,
S96.75 for the same period last year.
Since the Creator selected the carpe
for Mother Earth there has never been o.
much clover In 1t as one sees at the pres
emit time, remarks the Rockland Courier
Gazette.
Eugene McCluskey of Eastport com
mitted suicide by poison on the 9Th.
widow and married son survive. 81
was abont d years Of age. The cause II
not known.
Asry Lewis of Boothbay Harbor wa
lost when the fishing schooner Edmunt
E. Black was sunk by the steamer Man
gunkook on Georges Banks about ,
week since. He leaves wife and si1
children.
Dorothy, daughter of Percy Wheeler
OF Lewiston, three years Of age, val
fatally burned on the 4th. She wa,
firing firecrackers on the sidewalk wher
her clothing caught fire. She died soor
after reaching the hospital.
William Henry Hooper, son of Mr.. ani
Mrs. W. c. Hooper of North Kennebunk
port, was drowned Monday Afternoon
while bathing with two younger broth
ers. He was about IS years Of age. The
parents and five brothers and sisters sur
vive.
Emile Cloutier of Auburn, 81 years oil
age, was drowned In Lake Auburn Sun
day evening, when he fell overheard In
attempting to change places with com.
panion in canoe. The companion sue
ceeded in preventing the canoe from
but neither of them could
swim, and nothing could be done to save
him.
Allen D. Chapman, whose home is in
Lewiston, has been indicted in Norfolk,
Va, on q charge of murder, it being al
legged that he killed Mrs. Dorothy Schwab
last April. Chapman claimed that be
and Mrs. Schwsb were attacked by a
Chapman was shot in the
hip and confined in q hospital several
weeks.
There are compensations about being
in Jail. "Boston Shorty" who has been
under suspicion in connection with the
murder of Mrs. Carolyn Brown at Rock
land on the 3Oth of December, has been
definitely eliminated from the case, as 1t
is found that at the time of the murder
be was In Jail serving ten days. SEN
tence, and was not discharged until
three days later.
Attorney General Guy a. Sturgis an
nounces the appointment of Judge Fred
2. Lawrence of Skowbegsu as deputy
attorney general under the law passed
By the legislature last winter, and
Franklin Fisher of Lewiston as assistant
attorney general charged with the collec-
ion of inheritance taxes. Mr.. Fisher
has been assistant attorney general for
he past two and half years.
Bert R. Pulsifer, II years of age, of
aowe's Corner, Turner, was drowned at
Bear Pond Sunday while diving from a
'pringboard. 1t is thought that the &C.
,ident was due to an epilectic fit. the boy
having been subject to such seizures for
he past two years. Two of bis brothers
we're with him, and his body was i'm
recovered, but he could not
% resuscitated.
Patrick Fahey of Lewiston, Al years of
.ge, was shot and instantly killed on the
treet in that city Sunday morning by
James Clabby Of the same city. Clabby
vas arrested soon after the shooting.
de is % years of age, and has been an
innate of the state prison, the insane
hospital at Augusta, and the Massachu'
etts insane hospital at Tewksbury. The
police regard him as unbalanced.
Bangor News-A rumor is floating
.round Aroostook and beyond, that Col.
Frank NJ. Hume of Names Own 103rd
Infantry is in line for the governorship
II the National Home for Disabled Vet
rams at Togus. This place pays $4,000
year, without much of any side ex-
,euses. 1t may not be such high honor
10 being Governor of Maine, but 1t is a
teadier job, and much better for ones
,eace of mind.
Mrs. Ethel G. Stetson, SO years of age,
yas almost instantly killed on the even
ny of the 9th at Skillings Crossing at
North Yarmouth, when the automobile
q which she was riding with her brother,
frank NJ. Blair, was struck by Port
and bound Grand Trunk passenger train.
Blair was not seriously hurt. Mrs. Stet-
on is survived by 14-year-old daugh-
er. Both belonged in North Yarmouth.
Blair, who was driving, said that he
leard the train but thought that he
ould get across ahead of 1t.
Petitions by the receivers for permits
ion to discontinue the operation of three
branches of the Lewiston, Augusta and
Vsterville Street Railway have been de-
lied by Justice John A. Morrill,, before
vhom the cases were heard. The
branches which 1t was sought to discon.
inue are, from Lake Grove to Turner,
rom Augusta to Winthrop. and from
Augusta to Togus. With regard to the
Turner branch, the court says that a
oreclosure of the refunding mortgage
GEMS Inevitable. If purchaser is not
ound who will take the franchise and
operate the road, the physical property
must be sold and removed. Conditions
re somewhat different regarding the
,ther two branches, but the court says
bat in view of a possible foreclosure
ale, the purchaser can better determine
With the approval of the public utilities
commission their policy with the road
n operation, than with 1t shut down.
Big Baby Bonds.