Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-01-20
NUMBER 3.

Chief Of Police Smith OF New Ha
ven, Ct, revoked the permit for tn
Leonard Dundee bout there Jan. Is.
Henry M. Canfeld. 70, one-time
United States consul-gen,r ,rl at
Athens, Greece, and a participant In
several episodes of an international
character, died at his home, South
bridge, Ct, from injuries received
some days ago when thrown out OF 3
his carriage.
The Rev. Rufus B. Tobey, founder OF
the Boston Floating Hospital and for
mer pastor of Berkeley Temple, dieI
at Middleboro, Mass, at the age OF u
He was identified for years with char
table and philanthropic enterprises.
The Rev. Mr.. Tobey was born in New
Bedford May 6, 1S49.
Robert Boyer, first adult German to
enter Boston from Europe since the
war, arrived at Commonwealth pier
on the White Star liner Cretic. He
is on his way to Chicago, where, he
declares, he has been given a well
paying position by the International
Harvester Company.
An equipment fer making subsidi-
ary silver coins was found by Lieut..
w. N. Keiser of the fire department,
while investigating house fire In
Bridgeport, Ct. Nicholas Camarra, the
tenant, was held for the federal au-
thonties and the materials turned
over to federal officers.
An Injunction to restrain federal
officials in Rhode Island from inter-
fering, under the national prohibition
amendment with "the manufacture
and sale of Notwithstanding malt bev-
erages" was asked in three bills OF
complaint filed in the United States
district court Of Providence.
Slowly suffocating to death because
of an elastic garter tightly bound
around her neck, Bella Vigue, go years
old. was frustrated in her attempl
at suicide at the city prison, Boston
by the discovery Of her nearly ur
conscious form by Miss Genevieve
Berreta, assistant matron OF the
prison.
Ex-Judge Charles D. Burnes Of 81
Maple St., Springfield, Mass, e1-Sec-
retary of State Of Connecticut and JUS
tice OF the Police Court Of Greenwich
for 16 years, pleaded guilty in Police
Court to the charge OF larceny by the
use of forged checks. Judge w. X.
Heady placed him on probation for
two years.
Members of the Worcester, Mass,
post Of the American Legion have
started a fight to block an attempt,
which It is rumored is under way, to
hold up the new civil service list OF
men who took the examination for
Worcester's fire department appoint
ments, and to have the appointments
made from the old civil service list.
Apparently the hopes Of many per-
sons in Portland and vicinity that
they would fall into soft snap" by
securing obs as prohibition enforce
ment officers went glimmeriRg when
they learned the requirements de-
manded for the position by Uncle
Sam, for Of the so applicants only
half a dozen appeared for examina-
ton.
While his older sisters were playing
in another part Of the house and his
mother had stepped out to neigh
boris house, William Pollock, 14-mos.-
old son of Mrs Evelyn Pollock, OF
Providence, pulled himself up over the
side Of a wash tub and fell into six
inches Of water. When his mother
found him FIVE minutes later he had
drowned.
Following an unsuccessful attempt
to include yeowomen in the bill, the
Rhode Island House passed the SOL
diers' bonus act on a roll call vote,
80 to 0. The House Immediately al
terward passed the resolution autho-
rizing a special election to be held
Feb. 10 for the purpose Of submitting
to the electors the $2,500,000 soldier
bonus bond issue.
A thousand barrels Of Kentucky
whiskey formed part cargo OF the Ley
land Liner freighter Nitonian which
sailed from Boston for Liverpool. the
LIQUOR having been in bond while
transferred to Hoosac docks. hcfud-
ed in the cargo were $50 tons OF hops
for English brewers, 100000 bushels
of wheat, 700 tons of provisions, 500
tons of rolled oats and 100 tons OF
lumber.
The cost of remodelling the state
farm at Bridgewater, Mass. 80 that
Il could be used as state prison,
with consequent abandonment OF the
penitentiary at Charlestown, would be
s982;000, according to an estimate
made by the special investigating
commission named by the last Legs
lature. The commission does not
recommend that the work be done; 1t
only reports as to cost.
After going to New York to meet
his wife and children whom he had
not seen for seven years, ITael Mir-
skv of Boston arrived at the steamship
pier to find that his wife, passenger
on the La Touraine, was dying. She
lived only half an hour after the snip
docked. passing away soon after see
ing her husband, who had spent prac-
tically every cent he had to bring
her and the children to America from
Poland.
The loss OF the schooner Eleanor
A. Percy, recently reported as having
toundered in mid d-ocean on Christmas
day, reduces to three the feet OF ~
six-masted schooners engaged IN the
coal carrying trade from southern
ports to Boston and Portland before
the war. Construction OF the heet q
Bath was begun 20 years ago and the
Percy was the first Of the schoonefS
nut into commission. The three s1-
masters Of the fleet stiIl afoat are tno
Edward ]. Lawrence, the WyomlhS
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