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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-29
Tne Weather.
A COLD WAVE COMING.

CHICAGO, Jan. 26.-The signal ser
vice reports that cold wave is NOV
ing from the north and west and that
the temperature will drop from 15 to
20 iegrees in the next "a to 48 hours.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-29

There is . family of % persons at
Adams, Mass. OF the 81 children the
Oldest is said to be only twelve years
old
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-29

It il stated 800 gallons of whisky
wsre consumed in Butte, II. T., New
Years day.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-29
Rankin'S Remains.
The Remains of Representative
Rankin Borne to Wisconsin
by Special Train.
Congress Will Give the Forfeit
ure of Railroad Land
Grants Thorough At
tentiOn.
The Land Thieves Failed to Fill
Their Contracts.
The Postmaster General Slight.
ly IndiSpOsed.
The Work Accomplished by the
Various Committees.
General Washington News.

REPRESENTATIVES, RANKIN s REMAINS ON
THE WAY TO WISCONSIN.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-The re.
mains of the late Representative j os-
eph Rankin left here this morning
for Wisconsin on special train. They
were accompanied by Senators Saw
yer, Blackburn and James (Ark. J, and
Representatives Bragg, Van Schaick,
Stevenson, Guenther, Carleton, Hen
derson and johnson.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-29

bills and adjsurHed until Monday.
MONDAY, JANUARY %.
Senate.-The chair laid before the
senate a letter from the secretary of the
treasury in compliance with the recent
resolution of the senate asking for infor-
matien as TO what proportion of the
bonds called for payment February 1st.
1885, are held by the national banks as
basis for circulation. The letter
states the amount of such bonds as held
! at s., ,0G9, 500. Among the petitions
! presented and appropriately referred
was one from Mcmillan, from the board
of trade of st, Paul, Mimi, ureiog con-
gress to appropriate money for the i'm
| provemsnt of the Upper Mississippi
| river. The senate went into executive
session, and when the doors opened a
message from the house of representa-
tives was placed before the senate,
! giving Information of the death of
Representative Rankin, CT Wisconsin,
and presenting for the action Of the
senate a Concurrent resolution
expressing its regret. Sen. Saw
yer offered q resolution, which
| was agreed to, in which the sen ate,
after concurring in the house resolu-
ton, expresseJ its deep sensibiiity of
the less sustained by congress in the
death of Mr.. Raskin; and provides for
8 committee of three senators to act
with the house conmitte in superin.
tending the funeral and escortins the
remains of the deceased to Wisconsin.
The chair appointed as such committee
Senators Sawyer, Blackburn and Jones,
of Arkansas The senate then ad-
journed.
House-In the opening prayer, the
| c.apiain referred to the death OF Rep
resentatise Rankin, of Wisconsin, and
invoked divine blessing and pro-
tection upon the sorIowing family.
Oa motion of Blount, it Was ordered
that after the reading Of the Journal to-
morrow, the states be called for the IN
PRODUCTION Of bills and resolutions.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-13
RECENT DEATHS.

E. Franklin Kinks. NJ. D., died in Hyde Park,
Mass, Friday. DR.. Hincks was born in Bucks
port Me-, Aug. 10, 1920, and was educated at the
East Greenwich Seminary, Rhode Island, and the
Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's Hill, Maine.
Graduating at what is now the Boston University,
he entered the ministry of the NJ. E. Church. ana
held pastorates in the Providence and East Maine
Conferences of that denomination, his last ap-
pointments being the First NJ E. Church Bangor,
and the church at ThOmaston, Me. While resld-
ing in Thomaston he was obliged to relinquish the
ministry on account of heart disease which finally
caused his death. Failing to find relief from his
trouble he determined to study medicine for him
self and, becoming so much interested IN IL, ne
took a thorough course OF study and graduated at
the New York Homeopathic Conege IN a. 1851. ne
entered practice as physician IN Inomaston,
where he had much success, and IN a 1eW years
removed to Marlboro, Mass, where he resided
for fifteen years. In order to be nearer MS sons
who were in business in Boston. he removed to
Hyde Park in 1884 and was rapidly estaD!lsmng
himself when, seized with his old complaint, ne
passed away Friday morning Dr. Hlncks was a
man of fine character and presence, universally
beloved and respected by all to whom he was
known. He had been President OF the worcester
County homeopathic Association, and was mem
Der of various societies Of similar character. he
leaves widow and three sons.
The painful intelligence has reached this city OF
the death in Southern California of Ellery Chan
ming Bartlett formerly of this State, aged about
AZ years He had been in falling health for sew
eral years and visited California hoping to gain
some relief. He was an expert stenographer and
for several years reported the dongs in the Maine
House for the Kennebee Journal. Afterwards he
was connected with Pinkerton's celebrated de-
tectiye agency and was private secretary for Sec
retaries of the Treasury Boutelle and Richardson.
He went to Europe on business connected with
the Treasury Department, remaining there one
summer. About the last work he did was for the
French SpoliatIon committee, he being its stenog-
rapher. widow and three children are left He
is quite well known in this State and by his genial
manner made many friends, who deeply regret
his untimey death.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-13
Brilliant costume Party at Alfred.

Wednesday evening, February 10th, the Meth
odist Society of Alfred, cordially assisted by the
Congregational Society, gave costume party in
the Town Hall. There were represented the
statesmen who founded our republic and their
Queen who fostered the golden age of our Iitera-
ture; members of the English nobility; the
choicest poetic creations OF Continental and of
English poets since the Reformation; the fascinat-
ing characters of fiction and of the opera and the
representative citizens of foreign nations. The
characteristics of our civilization, the pecuiari
ties of our religion and of our politics, and some
of the phenomena of Nature, too, were success
fully represented. Among the representations
the distinguished parsonage was Her Majesty
nifty and queenly grace during her reception to
the characters in costume could but remind one
reception Her Majesty listened to a concert by
the Peaks Family The Queen then Joined her
guests in grand march, after which refresh
ments were served. But one criticism can De
made--a brilliant evening,
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-13
Miss Agnes Robson.

One more of our old ladies has passed from the
old home and its surroundings that she admired
so much. Robert Jordan, minister, came to this
country previous to 1910. He married Sarah
Winter, daughter of John Winter, who was
settled at Spurwink as early as 1852. Winter, az
agent of Mr. Trelawney, claimed nearly all the
land which joined him. Jordan succeeded TO the
rights of Winter, and his claim was little more
broad. He had a son, Samuel,to whom he devised
some 1900 acres ON the Cape John Roboson, OF
Kittery, Me-, not Robinson, married Sarah Jor-
dan, daughter of Samuel, and they succeeded 10
part of the paternal tract of land.
Miss Agnes always lived on part of the original
farm. From her house she saw the first steam
boat that passed I'm and out of Portland harbor ;
She saw Portland before cars ever were in the
town and personally knew many of the soldiers
of the revolutionary war. The war of 1912 began
when She was a small child and the sound of The
cannon from aboard of the Enterprise and Boxer
was distinctly heard at her residence at the time
of fhe conflict between them. The Old North
church had been repaired, but she could remem-
her the changes that had been made. When the
Free VIII Baptist meetings were held In the old
hall of the Alvin Emery house she attended them
quite often This was before they had purchased
the church they now occupy.-Cape Elizabeth
Sentinel.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-13
MAIN e.
Baths Business Boom.

lOpecltl W b16 ITcSSI
BATH, Feb. 12.-Some of the business men of
this city held meeting this afternoon in the office
of ex-Mayor Ledyard to take into consideration
the establishing of a kindling factory in connec-
ton with the Shaw lumber mill. Mayor Wake
field presided. Mr. Wyman, superintendent of a
like mill in Wiscasset, was present and gave in
formation relative to the establishment and
operating such factories as well as the prospects
of ready market for the product. Those present
were so far favorable to the project as to appoint
a committee to meet with Mr.. Wyman at future
day to look the ground over on which to make
plant prepare statistics of necessary outlay etc.,
and report at another meeting. The president OF
the Board of Trade, DR.. A. j. Fuller, is chairman
of the committee, which means earnest business.
1t seemed to be the sentiment of those at the
meeting that, in view of the depressed state OF
navigation interests, Bath should make an effort
in the direction of manufacturing business, and
that engaging i'll small enterprises OF the kind
will be wiser than waiting for larger establish
mens. There is 10 doubt that abundant capital
in this city could be relied upon in aid OF legti-
mate enterprises having fair showing of success.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-13
HoRATlo SEYMOUR.
Death of a Man Prominent in Ameri-
can Politics.

UTICA. N. ", Feb 12-Ex-Gov. Horatio Sey-
mour died at 10 O'Clock tonight As had been MS
custom in recent years, he came from his Deer
field farm in the fall to pass the winter IN thls
city with his brother John F. and Mrs. Conkllng.
During the last two weeks he had had periods OF
indisposition but not of a serious nature. during
the last few days, however, the attacks had been
most severe, the patient being unconscious most
of the time and indicating breaking down OF MS
system. Mrs Seymour was also i'll, and this it IS
thought aggravated the husbands condition
bringing on depression, loss of appetite, indiges-
tion and prostration
Ex-Governor Seymour died at exactly 10 O'Clock
tonight at the residence Of MS sister MIS- Kos
coe COnkling, He began to fail perceptlDly at
four this afternoon Shortly afterWard. owing 70
stimulants being administered, he rallied, but
soon relapsed into total uneOnSciouSnesS. during
his illness he had experienced little any physical
suffering, and to-day he was wholly without pam
Mrs. Seymollt, who is also very III, sat Win her
husband during the afternoon: MOST OF the tlme
the ext Governor rested peacefully and his condl-
ton could only be distinguished from protonnG
sleep by the ashen pallor Of ms copnieh$nce M anu
sinking rapidly his pulse could scarcely pc count
ed, and his respiration was more and more diff,
cult He finally e1Pr1;ed without Se Stgg he
cause of death was cerebral etfuslOn, the usual
process Of death in old age: As yetno arrange
ments have been made for the funeral
Horatio seymour, LID, was born in Onondaga
county, New York, May 81, 1910. He was edus
Gated at Geneva College and studied law, but soon
abandoned practice, devotng himself to the care
of the large estates left by his father and father
in-law. In 1841 he was elected to the State leg
islature and was reelected three times, being
speaker in 1S45. He was elected mayor OF Utica
in 1912, and governor of the State in 1852, but
was defeated for reelection in 1854. In 1862 he
was again elected governor as the Democratic
candidate
He opposed the general war policy Of the ma
tional government; but when the invasion of
Pennsylvania took place, in June, 1868, he
promptly forwarded more than the quota of militia
re0uired from his State At the expiration of his
term he retired to private life and was not again
a candidate for public hOnOrS till July, 1865,
when he was nominated as the Democratic candi-
date for President, being defeated by Gen Grant
In 1874 he was rendered the nomination for U. s.
Senator and would have been elected, as his party
was in power in that State then, but he Declined
the honor, and since that time has positively de-
clined all nominations for public office. HIS only
publications are a few State papers and many
public addresses, mostly on agricultural topics.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-13
TWO TRAINS COLLIDE.
Serious Accident on the Boston g.
Lowell Railroad.
Two Persons Fatally and Many 9th
ers Seriously Injured.

WILMINGTON, Mass, Feb. 12.-The passenger
train leaving Boston at 6.15 p m, and the passen-
GER train which left Lowell at $50 on the Boston
& lowell railroad collided about z O'Clock to-
nipht at the junction of the Wilmington branch
with the main line near the station. The engines
ofboth trains were wrecked and the smoker and
Pullman car of the down train were badly
smashed The engineer of the down train had
had one leg torn off and will probably die while
one passenger, a Frenehman, was fatally injured.
Aboilt dozen passengers OF the east bound train
were more or less injured, but the extent OF their
injuries or their names cannot yet be ascertained.
wreckng gang is busily at work clearing the
track The accident is said to have been caused
nv fine failure of the signals to work.
Boston, Feb. 12.-The train bringing the dead
and injured from the wreck arrived in this city
about III O'Clock. The only fatality was In the
case of the unknown Frenchman who was steal
inc a ride between the engine and the baggage
car Of the down Montreal express. He was badly
crushed and died on the way to the city. DR.. f.:
n Nelson who had been prominently connected
with the Lancaster Bank difficulties, suffered q
severe fracture of the left leg which will necessi
fate amputation below the knee. He was removed
ia the Massachusetts General Hospital. Fireman
Dudly of the up train had his leg broken, While
Engineer Hammond of the same train was ser-
ously injured internally. The conductor of the
sligh injuries, but they were not serious enough
TO Cause their removal to the hospital. The
cause of the accident has not yet been Satisactor-
ily determined, but the officials believe it due TO
the dense fogg which prevailed all day ana To-
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-13
The Cambridge.

TO tho Editor OF the Press
Whether the loss Of the Cambridge was due to
an error of judgment or to detection OF the com
pass will never be positively known, but the very
last freight taken on board before leaving Boston
was several tons of long iron rods and bars which
l saw taken in at the foricdrd port 9ongwdD
when the main lower deck from the ladies' cabin
forward was too solidly filed with cargo to admit
of its being stored aft This fact should be given
its full weight before passing judgme Mt on pilot
whose record of twenty-five years continuous ser
vice is unbemfshed by q single serious mistake.
Few passengers and quiet sea made 1t an easy
matter to leave the wreck without confuse and
possibly rendered an exercise of strict discipline
Unnecessary, but it is at least suggestive of what
might have taken plaee under different and in such
more common circumstances, that the launching
of the four life-boats abaft the paddle-boXes was
due to the intelligent and vigorous action OF some
sea-farng passengers who undertook the work
after the deck-hands had shown their utter lgnor-
ance of how to proceed.
The officers all did their duty like men and no
imputation of want of courage or competence has
been raised against any one of them, but it is use,
less to pretend that there existed any regular and
effective system in which every man in the crew
knew his place and his duty in an emergency.
Had there been any such organized discipline
probably the colored walters, with their personal
boat When we remember that the Cambridge
bad ample accommodations for four hundred and
fifty passengers it is evident that under more Or
binary conditions the steamship company might
not have been able to congratulate themselves on
the "cool and systematic manner in which the
embarcation was conducted.
L. DUDLEY FREEMAN.
othe Editor Of the Press;
Your correspondent, in the article in todays
PRESS, describing the run Of the steamer Cam
bridge, from Boston to Bangor, touching at inter
mediate ports, ought to have stated that the new
steamer was placed under command of Captain
Richard Donovan, of steamer fremont, he having
been detached from his other command for the
purpose of bringing herin safety to the latter port
READER.
February 70 1886,
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-13
RAILWAY MATTERS.

THE MAINE CENTRAL SHOPS.
Mayor Nealley of Bangor has received reply
to his letter to President Sewall of the Maine
Central. asking that Bangor might receive atten-
ton from the committee elected to locate the new
Maine Central repair and construction shops The
communication was from General Manager Tuck
er and was to the effect that President sewall
was now on a visit to California and the matter
was moi likely 10 come up before the committee
for SIX or eight weeks but when it does the sug-
gestions which have been, and may be made from
Bangor will receive due consideration.
CANADIAN PACIFIC EXTENSION.
Gov. Washburn, ex-Goy. Pillsbury and Mr..
Fletcher of Minneapolis, have been in Montreal
for the last few days, representing the four-mil-
ing interest of tnat city, interviewing the Canadi-
an Pacific officials in regard to some important
railroad connections. An understanding has been
arrived at by which the Canadian Pacific will be
extended by Western syndicate from Algoma
Mills to Sault Ste. Marie, whence direct line to
Minneapolis is building. While in Montreal, the
Minneapolis gentlemen made all necessary ar
rangements with the Bank of Montreal for the
monetary assistance required, and by the fall Of
1887, Montreal and Minneapolis will be in direct
communication, via the Canadian Pacific. This
will give Minneapolis a shorter line to the sea
board by 400 miles than any existing, with Mon
treal for its summer port and a cnolce OF united
States and Province ports for its winter shipments
TO Europe. InlS is Clle route WHICH OON.
Israel Washburn always insisted would be OF as
great value to Portland in the future as the Grand
Trunk had been in the past
THE VERDICT AGAINST THE GRAND TRUNK.
The PRESS yesterday announced that Ira s.
Waldron's administrator had obtained verdict
of $500 against the Grand Trnnk for killing
Waldron. The case involved the question OF the
legality OF ejecting passenger in an intoxicated
condition at flag station; also of the negligence
of the servants of the corporation. The case was
an important one being the first of this character
tried since the passage of the act of 1874 provid
ing that no person shall be elected from train
for non-payment of fare, excepting at some pas
senger station. Judge Blodgett charged the jury
that law, was a usual stopping place with the or
binary and reasonable accommodation OF such
places and left it to them to say whether the flag
station in question came within the statute.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-13
Congregational Ministers from
Maine in Other States.

The following, not before reported, who for
longer or shorter period were in this State, are
now in the ministry in other States Edward B.
Tuthill, Burlington, in San Mateo, California:
George II. Claflin, Bradford and Kenduskeag, af-
forwards missionary in Africa, now in Dunlap,
Kansas; Samuel McDuffee, North Bridgton, in
Orange City, Florida; Perrin B. Fiske, graduate
Bangor Seminary in 1858, now in Gettysburg,
Dakota; Jonathan Edwards, East Orrington, in
Scranton, Pa, recently called to Spokan Falls,
Wis. George L. Freeman, graduate of Ban
gor Seminary, 1868, now in Fresna, CAL; Da-
vid L. Davis, Dedham and Midway in Carbondale
Pa. John C. Aganior, Steuben and Jonesboro,
in New London, Ohio; John A. Thomas, Cape
Elizabeth, Ligonia church, and Northfeld, in
Carbona, Ind; John G. Bailey, Bangor Seminary,
1862, in Windsor, Mo-; Hagap H. Aeterian "a
native of Turkey, Lincoln, in Bancroft, Mich. /;
Bernard Coping, Freedom and Thorndike, in
Rupert, VT. Raymond C. Drisko, jackson, in
Derby, VT; George W. Osgood, Lee and Holden
in Provincetown, Mass; Thomas E. Babb, East
port, in West Brookfeld, Mass; Charles NJ
Schwarzaur. Kingman and East Eddington, III 81
Catharnes, Mo-; Frank A. Mansfield, Athehs
and Bingham, in National City, Cal; Charles A
Conant, Carroll and Springfield, in Wayzata, MIMI;
Alfred j. McGoun, Orono and Bar Harbor, IN AM
herst, N. H.; Richard g. McGoun, Turner, Ill MI
Vernon, N H.; William DePew, Wlscasset, III
South Weymouth, Mass called to Oshkosh WIS.,
Charles H. Taintor, West Brooksville ana bing-
ham, in Chicago now agent American Congrega-
tional Union; Frederic A. Wilson, Dexter, IN Bill
lerica Mass; David S. Hibbard, Mt. Desert and
Eliot in Capiama, Kansas; Arthur Z. Armstrong,
Burlington and East Bangor, in Denver, Col. (;
John McGregor, Sumner in sugar Island, Mich. !;
Nahum W. Grover, Topshan and Bethel, at East
St. Johnsbury Centre, Vt; Robert T. True. East
Bangor, called to Society Of Y. NJ. e. A., New
and Princeton. in Unionvle Ohio; William Car
ruthers, Calais, In Farhaven. Mass Richard s.
Whidden, Standish, in Marshfield, Mass; George
H. Scott, Rockland, in Ipswich, Mass; George NJ
Sanborne, Abbott and Monson, in Little Rock
AT Ark; Warren +. Bickford, Winthrop, in Manitou
Cal, called to Park church, Berkeley. Cal; Ebe
nezer 5. Jordan, Brownfeld, in Waltham Mass
residing with son; George f. Tewksbury, Ly-
man, IN CambridgepOrt Mass, residing with his
son, Rev. George A. Tewksbury, formerly pastor
OF West church, Portland.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-13
Maine In the South,

There are ten from this State who are commits
stoned by the American Missionary Association
to labor among the Freedmen. Rev. Benjamin
Dodge, of Lebanon, pastor at Pleasant Hill and
Pamona, Alabama Mrs. Hannah A. Lord, of Leb-
anon, teacher at Pleasant Hill, Alabama; Miss
Mary E. Sands Saco, instructor in Atlanta Uni
versity, Georgia; Miss E. F. Newton, AndoVer,
instructor in Talledsga college, Alahsna; Mss
6, L. Emerson, Hanowen, instructor 1evgsloa
University, Mississippi; Miss Anna E. Earring
ton Portland special missionary, Gregory InStl
tute, Wilmington n. c.; Miss Mary Duren Hyde,
Bangor. instructor in Gregory Institute, Whining
special missionary Selma. Alabama; Miss ): 5.
Evans special missinaIy. Louisville, ny MISS
Ruth L. StinSOn, Woolwich, teacher, Le moquo
school, Memphis. Tenn.