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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-20
RHODE ISLAND DEMOCRATS
Hold Their Stete Synopsis
OF their Platform

PROVIDENCE, March 10.
Tha Rhode Island democratic convention
continued its session Monday evening. Hon.
Isaac Bell, DR., Chas.s l.. Page, F. L.
r'Reilly, Olncy Arnold, J. T. Brown, Jesse
Metcaif, 4. +. Pierce and Thomas Spencer
were elected delegates to the st. Louis con-
vention. NJ. J. Underwood, William b
Nichols, II. j. Carroll G. J. Hendricks, F.
A. Rhodes, ID. B. Pond, Amasa Sprague and
W. G. Clarke We're elected as alternates
The platform declares that Cleveand's ad-
minStration demands his re- nomination, and
instructs the delegates to vote for him. 1t
tavors the reduction of taxation upon the
nccessares to the whole people, designating
wool, lumber and coal among the most
important raw materials upon which the duty
should be removed to protect and foster the
industries of Rhode Island.
The third resolution declares in favor of
granting pensions to disabled soldiers on a
liberal scale, avoiding any legislation, how
ever, which may have the appearance of
treating them as mere paupers; also a pro-
gressiye reform by intelligent legislation of
civil service, both of the nation and state, to
the end that at no remote date the election
of oflicersthere in may be based upon merit
rather than upon political opinion.
The administration of Gov. Davis was
praised. The republican majority in the
Senate was called to account for the failure
to enact number of measures urged by the
democratic members of the general assem-
bly,, all of which are enumerated and pledges
the party, first, to secure constitutional
convention to the and that many reforms
needed may be accomplished, and that the
abuses and irregularities now existing, which
have been bred and fostered by the ruling
element of the republican party of the State,
may be abolished; second, to abolish the
registry tax which has for another year con
tinued to be a source of unmtigated
evil and fraud on the native born
voters, and the bill for again making
money instead of intelligence the capacity
to be a qualification for office; third, to
abolish the property qualification which has
been unjustly imposed upon naturaized citi-
zens of the United States as prerequisite for
voting; fourth, to provide reasonable and
equitable regulations for times and places
of registering voters and of voting; fifth, to
prevent and to punish bribery; sixth, to
enact all law necessary and enforce all law
necessary to regulate the hours of labor and
the weekly payment of laborers and to en-
force the liens of laborers, mechanics, mid
die men and material men.
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Personal.

Father Plante was in Augusta yesterday.
Detective Heald passed through the city
Monday.
Miss Alice McAllister of Orient is visiting
friends in this city.
Col Wildes. railroad commissioner was in
the city yesterday.
Gov. Marble left the city on Jeweu's
train yesterday afternoon.
Detective Thomas Allen of Ban ger passed
through the city yesterday.
Mr., l.. II. Bigelow of waterville, who has
been visiting in the city, returned home yes
terday.
Rev. ID. b. Randall, Chaplain of the
House of Representatives, was in town yes.
terday.
Mr.. Thomas McCarty aud wife left for
New York yesterday on visit to friends in
that city.
Conductor Jewett was on our streets yester-
day. Conductor George Whitney was taking
his place on the train.
The Rev. Miss Pratt is by special invita-
tion the guest of Mrs. Hannah j. Bailey of
Winthrop for few days, and will attend
services in that place.
Mr.. ID. c, Stone, a well-known business
man of this place, together with his family,
leave this morning for Oakland, Cal. They
intend to locate in the southern part of that
State.
Mrs. Abbie G., wife of Hon. B. o. Simp-
son, died at her residence in Cherokee, Iowa,
March 18th, of typhoid pneumonia. The re.
mains were brought to Windham, N. H., for
interment. The deceased was very estima-
BILE lady, and for many years was resident
of this city, where she leaves many warm
friends, among them her niece, Mrs.
s. W. Simpson. In Cherokee her loss will
be deeply felt by husband, an aged mother
and two children and her memory cherished
by large circle of neighbors and friends.
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THE FISHERIES.
Walker Blaine Discusses the Situation
with Comments on the Treaty.
NEW YORK. March 10

New YORK. March 49,
The Tribune prints letter from Walker
Blaine this morning reviewing the fisheries
treaty recently made AT Washington
He says of the peniing treaty that it would
tax the ingenuity of man to devise a measure
less calculated to inspire our fishermen with
confidence for the future or allay the smarts
and wounds inflicted in the past.
Three to five hundred thousand dollars per
year in remitted duties is not great price
for a nation TO pay which is looking around
for some way of diminishing its bank ac-
count, bat it is practically what we would
have to pay for the privilege of purchasing
bait and ice aud needed supplies.
4 treaty better devised to bring about the
contentious of 1918 could not have been
framed
American fishermen will never rest con.
tented and this vexed problem will never
find an abiding solution save under some
such agreement as that of 1888 and 1856.
henorably enforced and maintained in spirit
and in letter
If the negotiations cannot bring about such
an end, there are two measures that suggest
themselves, punition and persuasion.
The means for the first are furnishfd in
the resolution of Congress, authorizing the
President TO inhict retaltory measures: the
second is the lately much-discussed CONNER
cial union.
Deprive Canada of all business relations
with this country, or grant to her treaty on
the basis of unrestricted interchange of pro
ducts with the enactment and enforcement
of our tariff laws.
"Manfestly. fisheries are for sale Blaine
concludes. ''Is it for our interest'to purchase
them at such price? Probably the imme-
date answer of the general public would be
a negative one. 4 great governments Is bound
to maintain its rights as nation, and to pro-
ect its citizens in their enjoyment of those
rights, aud that unless weakly abandoned. il
is very probable the question will be source
of fruitful dispute, until it shall be satlstac
torly, amicably and definitely settled"
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Strange Lands.

Draw on paper pyramid one inch across
its base and three inches high-stretch the
until the same proportions as
sumo a magnitude of 100 feet base and three
times that in height, and you have "Lot's
Wife as ! saw her. do not refer to that
curious female of Bible times, who in con-
seq uence of disobeying orders became
saline fixture, but to q namesake that could
undoubtedly boast on existence as ancient,
were it possible to learn the truth.
In the North Pacific ocean, latitude 29deg.
and 27sec. longitude l40deg. and 30sec. east,
is what is shown on the charts as ''Ship Rock"
but universally known among navigators as
Lots wife" Leaving the water, it shoots
299 feet into the air, terminating in point
apparently not more than foot or two in
diameter, its whole surface being SO smooth
that the gulls and kittiwskes find no resting
place. Forty five miles from the island of
st Pedro, the nearest land, this grim senti-
mel has been standing guard for ages and
ages, and will continue to stand until leveled
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five know all the methods Of approach
adopted by an enemy we are the better en-
ablcd to ward of the danger and postpone
the moment when surrender becomes Inevita-
BILE. In many instances the inherent strength
Of the body sufiices to enable it to oppose the
tendency toward death. Many however have
lost these forces to such an extent that there
is little or no help In other cases little aid
to the weakened Lungs will make all the DIFF
ference between sudden death and many
years of useful life. Upon the first symp-
toms of a Cough, Cold or any trouble Of the
Throat or Lungs, give that old and we'll
known remedy-Boschee's German Syrup, .
careful trial. 1t will prove what Thousands
say of it to be, the "benefactor Of any
home"
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from the time of his visit TO the centennial
until he was put forward by the promoters
of the Peoples Telephone Company. nearly
four years afterward, TO contest the claims
of Bell. Ii he had really done what these
witnesses now think he did. he would most
certainly have spoken. We don't doubt that
Draw baugh may have conceived the idea
that speech could be transmitted from a dis
tance by means of electricity, and was ex-
perimenting upon the subject. but TO hold
that he discovered the art of doing il before
Bell, would be TO construe the testimony
without regard TO the ordinary laws that gov
ern human conduct. We decide that the
Draw baugh defence is not made out. The
chief justice than took up the allegations of
collusion and fraud made in the charge that
Bells application. as originally filed in the
patent office, didn't contain his present
fourth claim or any description of the varia-
bic resistance method and all of which now
appears in the specification on that subject,
including the fourth claim, which was sur
reptiously interpolated afterwards. and de-
cided them untenable. The chief Justice
then reviewed briefly the case of the Bell
Company against the Molecular Telephone
Company, which involves one of the claims
of the patent issued TO Bell Jan. so, 1877.
The court below held that the fifth claim of
this patent was anticipated by the Scheller
magnet The supreme court reverses their
decision. Justices Field, Harlan and Brad
ley are not able TO concur with the other
members of the court in the result reached.
The point on which they dissent is the Ques-
tion of whether the Draw baugh invention, or
the alleged invention they think is Draw
baugh's, did not anticipate the invention of
Bell. That the evidence on that point is SO
overwhelming, both with regard 10 the num-
ber and character of the witnesses, that it |
can't be overcome.
The |. :. Supreme Court gave decision |
today in the case of the Western Union Tel |
egraph so. against the Attorney General of |
Massachusetts. This is suit TO enforce the |
collection of tax levied by the State au-
thorities upon telegraph companies and for
the purpose of enjoining the Co. from fur
ther operation of its lines within the State
until the tax is paid The Co. refuses to pay
a tax upon the ground that 2,S33 miles of !
liues within the State, more than 1884 miles
were over, under, or across post roads made
such by the L $, leaving only 49S miles
not over or along such post roads, on which
the company offered to pay the proportion
of the tax assessed according to mileage by
the State authorities. The court holds
that the statutes which grants telegraph Co.'S
privileges of running lines through or over
any portion of the public domain and along
post roads, is merely permissive and there
is no expression in it which implies or con-
fers any exemption from ordinary burdens
of taxation. The tax is valid and the judg-
ment of the lower court is affirmed, mas
much as refers TO the amount due the State
viz: Sl0,6lS with interest; but that part
which awards the injunction to restrain the
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MARKET REPORTS.
New York Produce Market.

NEW YORK, Mar. ~.
FLoUR--Recepts, .l04 packages; exports, i29
barrels; sales, - 600. Repeat quotations including
1900 City mill extra, - i0a$i 20, 1900 fine, " 06a
" CO. $40 superdne. ~ 40as3 90; 1900 extra No. z.
s2 90as3 40, 800 winter wheat extra, ~ 9Oat3 10;
700 Minnesota extra, e. gasi W; southern -four
dull, barely steady; Rye holfr In moderate demand
WHEAr-Receipts, H. 600, exports, 40.2l7; sales,
~ 900; quiet but steady No. spring nominal. e9l
No. hard OIL No. red. s9iayO elevator WI; fob
9lla91I; delivered No. red, nominal, oil; No 1
white nominal, 101.
kYE---dull.
BARLEY firm and quiet.
CORN Receipts, 81 300. EXPORTS 62s4; sales, 62,
010 dull and weak. steamer, 59l; No.2 5Ylso0;
store and elevator G0l delivered.
OATS Receipts, 5000, exports, go sales, 43-
OO0 lower No.3. 3sl do white 40a41i; No. 3Sa39k
do white 3iaill; 40. ], nominal; do white. ~
Mixed Western, 39sII white do, 4latj.
CorFEE--far; Rio, dull. t3i
SUGAR.--dull refined, dull.
PETROLEUM steady, united, GOT.
PoRK---steady.
BEEF---quiet.
LARD steady; western steam, " o5at7 ~;
closing Is %; city steam. ~ 65; refined quoted
81 ~, continent ss 60, g. A.
BUTTER---hrm, demand fair.
CHEEsE.-.quiet, steady. Freights to Liverpool
dull.
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NARROW ESCAPE
OF Connecticut Family from Burning
House.
WILLAuAxr1c. CT. March 10

About three o'clock last Sunday morn
ing. F. y. Carpenter OF Exeter, awak-
cned by his dog whining. He went down
stairs AMI found the kitchen all ablaze. He
rushed back TO the bed room for his wife and
three year old child. The fire spread so
rapidly that they had just time to escape in
their night clothing.
They went out in the terrible storm, into a
deep drift, and stood by tree to watch the
house burn. After three quarters of an
hour. Chas. Strong. a relative, living half a
mile distant. arrived, having been awakened
bv the light of the fire. He found the Car
penter family dazed aad almost dumb with
the cold.
Other neighbors soon came. and the suffer-
ing ones were removed 80 the nearest house,
forty rods distant The mother and child
were terribly chilled. Carpenter had both
feet frozen.
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LAST EVENINGS NEWS.

Disastrous floods are reported in Hungary.
Iowa and Kansas are having cold wave.
Passenger trains ON the Santa Fe road run
regularly Monday.
Henry Richardson of Waterville was
robbed of $500, Monday.
Northern and Eastern Germany have been
visited with heavy snow storms.
Hon. William Weir Strickney. prominent
citizen of Exeter, N. H., died ON Monday.
An Ohama despatch reports extensive
washouts on the Union Pacific railroad.
Several large business houses in Jackson
vile, Fla, were destroyed by fire Sunday
night
The Jackson and the Nashua manufacture
ing corporations will give their operators Sat
urday half holidays.
Mayor Wakefield of Bath, delivered his
fourth inaugural on Monday. The city gov
ernmert was organized.
The steam mill belonging to Amasa Howe
at Fort Fairfield was burned Saturday night
loss about SIS 900; insured for 81 900.
Twenty light persons were injured by a
coasting accident at Colebrook, Sunday,
caused by collision with telegraph pole
MHNor Little of IpWisfnu and Mayar
Penley of Auburn, delivered their naugu-
rails on Monday, and the new city govern
ments were organized.
Mrs. Hewey of Phillips, who has been on
trial at Pennington for poisoning her hus-
band was declared innocent after the jury
had taken taken the goth ballot.
A reported elopement at Bangor has caused
a sensation in that CITY. Sunday night. the
most beautiful pirl in Bangor and her brother
in-law left ON the Pullman train.
Sunday evening mart of tho br;dge which
s,,nor,od ,ho ,rracL of ,ho C,han mail a,
plarI shoar oovo in L;ilina throo of tho
wrecking crew and wounding five others.
rho u,h,,.,,,. Io,,;.I,.. ,;,..
-, ,a;l,aaJs srarar,od h;1i 20 au,,or;na ,,,o
pos,nn e Wa;np r., nurchaso tho Eas,orn and
por,Sn,or,h 60, Ea,Is and Conwav roads
-, ~,
Washou's are reported III montana Inc
p'g oridge on 'he rocky fork ra'iroao was
-" ca. u. 49," a ,i ..a'u "". 'u,os" ~
al. wv f"''' y
"'o'''
saturday night rreeh humphreys OF war
rehtoh MO-, iataiiy sho' MS "iie during
quarrei, ana wni'e uhoer arrest Oh S"h"ay
committed suicide py shoouhg' lie was
prominent ana wealthy ci'izen'
An apartment house in New York was
burned early Monday morning. The occu-
pants jumped from the windows to save their
lives. Several persons were severely injured
ana one Mrs. fralcis "es'iake was k''ie"'
missing the ite net
The Rhode Island democratic state con-
vention on Monday, nominated the following
ticket; For governor, John W. Davis;
Lieut.. governor, Howard Smith of Newport; !;
secretary of state, Edward McGinness of
Providence; Attorney general, Ziba o. Slo-
cum of Providence; Gen. treasurer, John G..
Perry of South Kingstown.
The commencement of the fourth week of
tho Rurlnu,on strike shows no material
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MAINE DISPATCHES.
CAMDEN REPUBLICANS
Successful in Electing Every Town
Officer

CAMDEN, March 10.
AT the annual town meeting held here
today the republicans elected all the officers,
the contest being ON first selectman, Alden
Miller, Jr., republican who was elected over
i. A. Hunt democrat, majority one hundred
and twentyfour; total vote, G52. The
check list was used in voting for frs, select
man for the first time in many years The
following is list of officers: Moderator
G. F. Burgess; Clerk, \. d. Champony
Selectmen, Alden Miller, Jr, j. : Fuller,
Elliot Orberto; Treasurer, &. +. Burgess
Auditor, j. >. Cleveland; School Com
mttce, Ruel Robinson, +. 4. Brsatow Col
lector, J. ). Foster Truant Officers, Frank
Anderson, Frank +. Libby, Elliott Orberto
Without transacting any other business after
election OF officers, at . F. VI. it was voted
to adjourn one week. There are 81 articles
in the warrant.
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Notes.

The [. :. Supreme Courts decision in
the telephone cases was read this afternoon
by Justice Blatchford, the Chief Justice who
prepared it being indisposed. The eases COW
cred by this decision are six. In the first
five cases, the appellants Amos +.
Dobear, ct al Molecular Co., Clay Com
mercial Co., Peoples Telephone Co, Over
land Telephone Co. In the sixth the Bell
Telephone Co. against the Molecular Co.
The Chief Justice began the opinion with a
review of the question raised as to the scope
of the 9TH clause of Bells patent Mari, 1876 :;
that is whether the patent was for the art or
the process of transmitting articuate speech,
or merely for the apparatus by which that
object could be obtained. The court is of
the opinion that Bell discovered that speech
could be transmitted by gradually changing
the Intensity of q continuous electric current
so as to make it correspond exactly to the
change, in the density OF the air, caused by
The sound of the voice. This was his art.
He then devised way in which these chang
es of intensity could be made and speech
actually transmitted This art was thus put
in condition for practical use.
In doing this both discovery and invention
were involved. For such discoveries and such
inventions, the law has given the discoverer
and the inventor the right to a patent as a
discoverer for useful art, and as an inven-
tor for means devised to make the discovery
of actual value
I The alleged anticipation of Bells discov-
cry by Philip Res vas considered
I Refs, the Chief Justice said discovered
/ how to produce musical tones but no more
He could sing through his apparatus but
could not talk and he conceded this. After
reviewing the history of Refs invention, the
1 Chief Justice said
/ Bell discovered that REFS failures were due
/ to the wrong principle; that sReis intermit
tent current couldn't reproduce articulat'
/ speech but thai the true way was to operate
on an uubroken current by increasing and
diminishing its intensity. Refs never though
of this, and he failed to transmit speech tele
graphically. After reviewing briefly tn
claims of Dr. Vanderweid, James W. Nc
enough and Cromwell T. Varley, and show
ing that those claims have no bearing upo
the validity of Bells patent, the chief justic
took up the case of Daniel Drawbaugh 0
Pennsy lvania and reviewed it at great length
He said the court had studied with care tn
dispositions taken in such large numbers t
show that Drawbaugh succeeded in using tn
instrument put in evidence as exhibit:
and which antedates the instruments O
Bell; and if these dispositions containe
all the testimony in the case, it would b
more difficult to reach the conclusion ths
Drawbaugh's claim was not sustained. l
the courts opinion their effect Was con
pletely overcome by Drawbaugh's silenc
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RICHMOND.

The Relief Corps took almost ten dollars
at their sociable, Saturday night.-Wm. J.
Hall Jr., of Bowdoin, 'sS, spent Sunday ut
attending the Business College at Augusta,
spent Sunday in town.-G. A, Beale returned
from his New York trip Monday The Sun
day Pullman, bound east, did not arrive here
Little attended n party at Brunswick Monday
night.--Clark 4 Milliken have three teams
hauling wood to the shoe factory.--A car
load of cattle was shipped on the afternoon
freight Monday.
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ORONO NEWS.
Farm Buildings Burned-Result OF the
Town Meeting.

ORoNo. March -.
The farm buildings of William Shires
were burned with most of their contents this
forenoon. The fire was caused by an over
heated chimney. Insured for 81 900. The
loss is probably double that amount,
At the annual town meeting today the fol
lowing officers were elected Moderator,
Hon. j. W. Atwell; Selectmen, A. f. Lewis,
Treasurer, Albert White; School Commit
tee, a. j. Durgin. 1t was voted to instruct
the selectmen to make arrangements to light
the streets with electricity
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FOREIGN intelligence.
PARLIAMENT.
c. 7. Ritchie Introduces q Bill in the
House Of Commons
Providing for Local Gov eminent in Eng
land and Wales.
LONDON. March 10.
House of Commons.

In the House of Commons this evening, c.
T. Ritchie, president of the local government
board, introduced local government bill
for England aud Wales. The bill proposes: TO
establish county councils to be elected di-
rectly by the rate payers, which are to have
control of the county police, to WELD the
powers now exercised by the local authori-
ties over the gas and water works. artisans
dwellings, sale of food, drugs, sanitary con-
ditions, and to make advances in aid of emf
grafton, when there is reason to
believe the advances will be repaid
The local government board is
TO retain its present power TO control the bor-
rowing of money by counties, aud audit ac-
counts of counties; is also TO fix the
number of members of county councils.
Other provisions give the councils oversight
of the lunatc asylums, work houses. reform
atories, industrial schools and power to grant
license for the sale of intoxicating liquors.
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A Desperate Glove Contest.

NEW YORK. March -.
Jim Fell of New York, 10 pounds, and
Joe Lannon of Boston, $50 pounds, fought
two desperate rounds with two ounce gloves
at Palace rink, Brooklyn, tonight. The con-
test was to have been for ten rounds, but
they were stopped by the police. Fell was
knocked down three times and went down
once for overreaching and weakness. The
audience was so enraged that a small panic
ensued and the police cleared the hall.
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WANT TO BOUNCE HIM.
A Superintendent OF County Aim >
House Asked To Resign
DoyrR y. II. March

There is much excitement over the houee
of the county commissioners, demanding 'he
resignation of the superintenoSns or I
county almshouse, William l. Ne"'wo,un' NJ,
10 take effect before the hrst OF Ap'ii' 49,
worth this evening said he wouiu reiuse w W
resign, and would let the eonlmssioneis ~ r"s snn
.s lnos =, get three months notice. His sue
poss pr ;s 10 he Mr. Stiles, overseer OF the
almshouse at Lynn, Mass.