Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
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A total Of 143 foreign students are
registered at Harvard. The Chinese
lead with 46 men, and Japan is sec
ond with Is.
The April gas output of the Boston
Consolidated Gas Company was 4SS,-
100000 cubic feet, decrease OF Ia
percent compared with the CORE
spending 1918 month.
Robert Warm, ex-soldier charged
with the murder Of his sweet
heart, Jennie Hemingway, IA. was
found guilty of manslaughter by a
pury at st. Albans, VT.
Shoe workers from Brockton. Mass,
which is no-license, swarmed on May
1st to surrounding towns which have
granted first-class licenses. There is
one saloon open in Whitman, one In
Arlington, one in North Abingdon, five
in Rockland and three in Plymouth.
John d. Howard, formerly employed
in the pneumatic tube station at the
s mth Postal Station, Boston, was
sentenced by Judge Morton in Fed
eral Court 20 serve one year and
day in Plymouth Jail for the larceny
of 81 from a letter. He pleaded
guilty.
A complete set Of hypodermic
syringes and box and bottle con-
tanning morphine was found sewn In
side the coat and trousers lining OF
William Schoeld and Joseph c. Ka-
basin of Nashua, N. H., by the police
after their arrest for vagrancy at
Burlington, VT. Both men are un-
der Is and Kabasin Is married.
Coffee rooms as a substitute for the
saloon are no longer efficient, desir
able or practical, in the opinion of the
directors of the Church Temperance
society. which for a quarter OF CEN
tury conducted such rooms in Boston.
At the request of the members, Judge
| Loring of the supreme court dissolved
the New England department of the
society.
Gov. Coolidge of Massachusetts, has
signed the bill providing that the
names of oil honorably discharged
soldiers, sailors and marines shall be
placed above the names Of all other
applicants in civil service examina-
tons. The measure ID one redrafted
by the Legislature from q message OF
the Governor recommending such a
Law and of bills on the same subject.
The naval fuel ship Brazos, the larg-
I est vessel ever constructed at the Bos-
ton navy yard, was launched at the
yard. The ship was christened by
Catharine Rush, daughter Of the com
mandant of the yard. Capt William X.
Rush. The Brazos was named for the
Brazos river in Texas, from which
state the navy department obtains
considerable part Of the fuel OIL Used
by the fighting ships.
A general increase in salaries OF
members Of the faculty at Amherst
(Mass.) college was voted by the
board OF trustees. The scale Of sal
| aries for Instructors. now ranging
| from 1920 to $500, was increased 30
az to range from $1,000 to $1,000. that
of associate professors, now rang
ing from $1,000 to $4,000. was made
$4,000 to $4,000. and the minimum FOL
| professors was raised from $4,000 to
$3.50.
Wreckers from Boston are making
| ing the $1,000, 900 wool and hides
cargo of the beacked Russian bark
Professor Koch. The bark struck on
Long Ledge. The cargo is for Boe-
ton consignees. Boston underwriters
are heavily concerned in the possible
damage to or loss Of the cargo. 1t Is
planned to get OUT as much OF the
cargo as possible, seal up the holes
in the bark's hull pump out and then
refoat the vessel.
In the District Court at Salem
Mass. Isadore Ginsberg Of Beverly
convicted of malicious injury to an
c,ter persons property. was sen
tenced to the House OF Correction
for 30 days. Testimony submitted
showed that the defendant borrowed
a stove of a man named Click year
ago. and when asked to return 1t did
go with the stove filled with ashes and
badly broken. The stove cost CLICK
s24 and was made worthless.
improvements to the Mystic River
costing $3.50 900, will be undertaken
soon to the great satisfaction OF the
boards of trade ano improvement as
sociations Of Somerville, Mass. Gov
Coolidge having signed the bill max
ing the above appropriation. The i'm
proWements include Strengthening
widening and deepening as wen as re-
| claiming q large lano afeo ou een
side of the river. The Investigation
for. the purpose Of deciding the nature
and locality OF the improvements
must be completed, according to the
law. not later than the first Wedncs'
day In January. 1890.
Earnings reported BY the Boston 4
Maine road for March this year show
decrease TN gross Of $2zs.3s4. COM
pared with an increase Of $136s, ,ooo
In January and an increase Of $641,'
coo In February. This was the fars'
decrease for q month since February
ported q dehctt in net operating In
come decreased $274,S7o. compared
with loss Of $37s.osS In February
and a deficit of $177,S46 in January,
In December last, the company re-
ported a deficit In net operating m
come of $2,10s.s1s.