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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-10-08

IN the United States Court in Boston Sat-
lraay, judges Colt and Nelson. having been
petitloned to change the naturaiization meth.
SesdeS GS deT ~ vogue in the United States Court
ground that no real abuse was shnSv,, On =. ~, e,,e
ist, and that whatever the evils attributed to
the present law may be, they Should nroner, "
ly be regulated by Congress-. piopef-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-10-08
A Rowing Race Ashore.

New YORK, Oct. About 5000 person
were in Madison Square Garden tonight to
see the openingo of the six days rowing match
in which prominent oaIsmen are to compete
for $1,000 in prizes. Their scores at 1890
ctoad
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-10-08

Hewitt, the present incumbent, for the may
orality, and he was chosen by acclamation
After some further business, worthy of no
mention, the convention adjourned without
making further nominations. The ticket
will be completed Tuesday.
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Mr. Blaine is fast mending and will be
able to fill his engagement at Grand Rapids
tonight His physician says the ailment was
a slight cold in the throat and aggravated by
speaking and the only prescription was ab-
solute rest in doors until Monday.
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Other Games.

BATES, O.; BowDoINs, 4.
The Bates boys went to Brunswick Satur-
day afternoon and defeated the Bowdoln
team to 4.
At Cincinnati-Cineinnatis 8; LouisyIlles.
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MAINE.
Court at MachIas.

LDPCCIdI 10 tIIt IUSS.I
MAcHIAs, Oct. 6.-The grand jury, which
convened here last Tuesday, reported today.
Five indictments were presented, four of
which are as follows: Oscar Decourcy, lar
ceny; George W. Crowley, adultery; Eben
A. Holmes, Eastport, for having short lob
sters in his possession and Jasper Wyman
and Edgar A. Wyman, Milbridge, for the
same offence. Decourcy and Crowley were
arraigned. The former pleaded not guilty.
The latter pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to six months in Jail. One indictment was
withheld
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-10-08

The last named broke his machine. Plais-
another.
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Henry Junge Of Newark, N. j., American
agent o. the Hamburg Rubber Company, Is
missing, His accounts are 5000 short.
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THE WEATHER.

SIGNAL OFFICE, WAR Dept, !
WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
Oct. Z, 1888, 8 pm.
The indications for the next "a hours fol
New England. fair weather, stationary tenn
perature, northwesterly winds, high Monday
morning on coast of Maine, attending storm
mails displayed on coast from New Haven to
Eastport.
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the York County Fair.

The closing races of the York county fair
at Saco were postponed until today on ac-
count Of the rain.
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FOCAL WEATHER REPORT.

Mean daily bar. .29.474 Maximum ther. ..5S.5
Mean daily daily ther;.5 Minimum ther. 4s.e
Mean daily dwpt..520 Max; vel. wind....26 s
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
(0ct. z, 1883, 500 PM
Observations taken at the same momen; OF time
at all stations.
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obed Emery.

BIDDEFoRD, Oct. 6.-Obed Emery. prom
nent citizen, died suddenly of heart disease
last night, aged 81. he was constable for
several years and has served in the city gov
ernment. He leaves a wife and one daugh-
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OVER ONE HUNDRED PERSONS INJURED.
A Crowded Floor at a Church Dedi-
cation Gives Way.
People Thrown into Confused Mass
Of Building Material.
Trainmen injured in a Crash on the
Baltimore & Ohio Road.

READING, Pa, Oct. 7.-Over 100 people
took place this afternoon during the ceremo-
nies attending the laying of the corner stone
of the new st. Mary's Catholic church. Pre-
vious to the corner stone laying there was
street parade, participated in by all the
Catholic societies of this city, the Knights of
st. John, of Lancaster, and visitors from
Wilmington, Del. Lebanon, Shenandoah and
other places. Probably 1000 people were
gathered at the site of the church this after
noon to witness the ceremonies, about 1000
of whom were crowded on temporary floor
laid on posts and the walls of the edifice,
which had been carried up one story. Arch
bishop Ryan of Philadelphia conducted the
ceremonies. assisted by the priests of the
three Catholic churches here.
After the corner stone had been laid, Fa-
ther Libichi, pastor of the congregation,
arose to speak, and had hardly commenced
his remarks when the newly constructed
walls gave way, and one-fourth of the floor
fell with an awful crash, precipitating 200
people to the ground, a distance of from 10
to Is feet: Men, women and children were
thrown into confused mass with joists,
bricks, stone and mortar on top of them. The
excitement was intense, but willing hands
at once began the work of eXtlicating the
unfortunates, many of whom had to be car
ried to neighboring houses where their inju-
ries were attended to and then removed to
their homes or to the hospital. Fully two
hours passed before the wounded were all
cared for. 1t is said that several children
are still missing. About % received serious
injuries, having limbs broken, the others
receiving only slight cuts and bruises.
The accident was caused by the spreading
OF the walls, which were completed Satur-
day. The ceremonies were brought to sud
den close. Three bands of music were sta
toned on the main floor. Only one of
their members was injured, but many of
their instruments were crushed. 1t is said
that several of the injured have since died.
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10 be Taken to bangor.

BANGOR, Oct. 6.-City Marshal Whitney
received despatch this afternoon from Off
Ger Tracey of this city, at Bartlett, N. H.,
saying that William Hutchinson and Peter
Mogan, two men supposed to be the burglars
who entered and robbed the house of Miss
Hardy of this city, one night recently, have
been arrested and are in his custody. They
will be brought here for trial. If they refuse
to come without requisition, the papers
will be at once forwarded.
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Democrats Divided About Adjourn
inQ
The Pension List.

The following Maine pensions were grant,
ed to residents of Maine yesterday:
INCREASE.
Daniel l.. Berry, Dover South Mills.
George III. Gardner, Cross Hill.
Ruben Hill, Springfield.
REISSUE.
PhilemonlTueker, East Winn; Thomas r. Glenn
ents. Monroe; Calvin b. Seavey, East Exeter.
REISSUE AND INCREASE.
Iavia Cliddan Haruan
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A Crash in the Dark.

WASHINGTON. Oct THE Cincinnati and
st. Louis express, on the Baltimore & Ohio
road, collided shortly before midnight Satur-
day, near Dickerson Station, with an east
bound freight train, killing three train men
and injuring six others. The escape from
much greater loss of life was miraculous.
The accident was due TO a mistake on the
part of the freight trainmen. They say they
had orders to lay off ON switch at Tuscaro
and wait for the sections of the Pittsburg
express and the express train which caused
the collision, to pass. They had been on du-
ty continuously for Sc hours they say, and
after seeing the first section of the Pittsburg
express pass, had gone to sleep at their posts
to secure little rest. They awoke as the
second section thundered by, and as it was
running on the schedule time of the Cincin-
natl and st. Louis express, they thought it
was that train which had just passed, and
therefore pulled out of the siding and came
down on the single track.
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Died From His Injuries.
Especial to tile Press.l

AUGUSTA, Oct. 6.-Nevens. the employe
of the Electric Light Company, who tried
the experiment of warming dynamite car
tridges over forge last week and was terri
bly, injured in the explosion which followed,
died last night.
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BASE BALL.
Tho National League

me national League.
The following games In the National League
were played Saturday:
AT WASHINGTON.
cbianng Innings s'.'''''.'.'.'..'..d
WaShlngtonS.. L o o.
Base hits-Cheagos, z; washIngtons. T. Errors
-Chieagos,3; WaShingtOns, 9. Battere5-Gum-
bert and Farrell; Whitney and Mack.
THE BOSTON MANAGEMENT.
The case CT John @. Haynes ct al. VS.. Ar
thur II. Soden ct al came up before Judge
Holmes Of the Supreme Court in Boston, Sat-
urday afternoon. on a demurrer to the bill
which was argued by Mr.. George Putnam.
The plaintiffs, who are stockholders Of the
Base Ball Association, allege that the defend
ants, Soden, COnant and Billings, who con
troll a majority Of the stock. manage the cor
poratiOn in their own interest. The plain
THIS pray that an account may be taken Of
the assets and liabilities and the earnings and
income Of the corporation, and II shall be
found that the defendants have mismanaged
the affairs Of the corporation that they be re-
moved from office. The bill further prays
that z shares OF stock, declared forfeited, be
sold.
Judge holmes thought that the allegations
were not sufficient to maintain the bill, and
said that on a demurrer he had no right to
infer any facts. He appreciated the hard po-
sition In which Mr. Williams found himself,
and also appreciated his delcaey IN Deing
unwilling TO go further and allege fraud on
the part Of the directors. To give time f0ran
examination ofauthorities the Judge reserved
The Standing.
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Schooner Wigwam Abandoned.

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, Oct g.
Schooner Wigwam of Cherryfeld, Me-, Cap.
tain Strout, Machias, for this port. for or
ders, with cargo of lumber, sprung leak
on the night of the 3rd inst. during strong
northwest wind and heavy sea. The crew
pumped constantly but the water steadily
gained on them and it was decided to aban-
don her. The vessel was abandoned so miles
north-by-east of Cape Cod. with five and a
half feet of water in her and fast filling.
The captain and crew were taken on board
the schooner Canton of Portland. bound to
st. Pierre, Martinique, and afterwards got
aboard the schooner Stephen Morgan, from
Boston for New York
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The Standing.

The following is the standing Of the club,
IN tba National League:
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The following games In the National League
were played Saturday:
The morning news., 1888-03-08
ON RAIL AND CROSSTIE.
Local and General Gossip in Railway
Circles.


The Georgia Midland railroad has again
reduced its fare. A ticket from Atlanta to
Columbus which formerly called for S4 10
now costs only 81 80.
The matter of building the Monticello
extension of the Savannah, Florida and
| Western railway has been referred by the
| board of directors to President Plant, with
| power to act.
| The extension of the Orange Belt FLA J
! railway, in the way of track LAYING, is rap
| idly going on below Tarpon Springs and in
the direction of st. Petersburg, which place
it will doubtless reach by the end of March.
1t is the intention of Dexter Hunter, SAYS
the Jacksonville Metropolis, to continue the
main line of the Florida Western railroad
toward the western edge of Clay county.
and to effect a junction with the railroad
system of Florida.
In anticipation of the building of the
Thomasville, Tallahassee and Monticello
| railroad, a new town is being laid off about
twelve miles south of Thomasville, Ga
The site selected is said to be well adapted
for healthy and prosperous town.
The withdrawal of the Northwestern
from the Southern Passenger Association
promises to engage the Louisville and Nash
vile, Mobile and Ohio, and Illinois Central
in q rate war. These are the only three
roads liable to be effected by the with
drawal.
The Georgia Railroad Commission has
arranged with the United States Treas
ury Department to supply copper coins to
the various railroads of that State, so that
the exact fare can be paid. This new ar
rangement will go into effect May 2. The
man who wants to ride eleven miles pays
33c instead of 35c. as heretofore The ad-
vantages of having copper coins in use
are 50 many that they scarcely need enum-
Grafton.
There is only one thing better than the
cut on the first page of the last issue of the
KeHneSdU Gazette, and that is the recent
cut in passenger fares on the popular and
progressive Western and Atlantic railroad,
which is typitied in the picture. The rooster
the Western and Atlantic-jumps across
the chasm of cheap passenger fares, from
the land of old ways and Slim Jim ideas to
the land of progress and prosperity The
wild horse-East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia-is sorry he didn't make the first
jump, and the lion-Central--say 1t took
tremendous jump and hanged if be has hasn't
a great notion to try it too. The fine italian
hand of Mr. Joseph NJ. Brown is seen in the
unique and artistic frontispiece." The
above from the Atlanta Constitution is
about the situation at present. Mr.. Browns
movements have certainly produced a sensa-
ton in railroad circles, and in 1890, when
the lease Of the Western and Atlantic runs
out, it is predicted that he will either buy
the railroad or the State of Georgia-de-
pending on which Is the cheaper.
The morning news., 1888-03-08
A Successful Enterprise.
Fron, The Ne,o York pran,attc Ne1c!

From the NeU YORK DTdnlutc NeWS.
Speaking about theatrical profits and the
atrfcal receipts Mr. Bran Stoker told me
on Monday evening that Mr.. Irving's gross
takings during his present season will aggre-
gate more than 100000. The present en-
gagement of Mr.. Irving at the Star Theater
comprises the last five weeks Of a twenty
weeks season in America, so that it will be
seen that his business averages $4,000 a
week. Mr.. Irving said some time ago that
his percentage of profit on his gross receipts
was only about 20 per cent, but even at
this rate his personal income from his
American tour will be $4,000. This of
course is a considerable sum Of money, but
in view Of the large and expensive company
he brings over, and the enormous expendi-
lures he incures for transporting a large
company and the scenery, the amount is
certainly not excessive. | am told that his
salary list is 5000 a week. He has about
100 people whose fares he pays to and from
England at first-class rates, and even the
minor members of the company are fairly
skilful players, drawing something more
than living salaries.
The morning news., 1888-03-08
A HAPPY REUNION.
An Illinois Man Meets His Wife After
Twenty-Five Years Separation.
From the Nashville american

From the Nashville american
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Feb ga special
from Johnson City, Tenn, says: lone of
the happiest cases of reunion that ever oc-
CURED, took place on the train at johnson
City tnis morning. A gentleman came up
from Knoxville on the morning train, in
tending TO go up the narrow-gauge road
changing his mind for some reason, he
started back for Knoxville that morning
As he approached the train a gentleman
heard him make startled exclamation as
he saw face appear at one of the car
windows. Rushing into the car, fol-
lowed by two or three by'standers, he
seized a middle-aged lady by both hands
One glance of startled recognition, and both
burst into tears of happiness. The gentle
man, who gave his name as Ward, briefly
stated that he lived at Golconda, Ill, and
had been a member Of tine Seventy-sixth
regiment, leaving his wife and three chill
dren at home. He had been wounded and
reported dead, and when he returned he
could find no trace of his family; and, now,
when least expecting it, he had found his
long lost WIFE Mrs. Ward, hearing of her
husbands death, had married a man named
johnson and moved TO Montgomery, Ala.
She again became a widow two years ago,
and is now reunited 10 her first husband
They will go to Golconda, where they will
in the future reside
The morning news., 1888-03-08
Even His Honor Took Hand in the
Row.
From "a Kansas On TYmes

From the Kansas CITY Times.
WICHITA, KAN, Feb. 2:.-To-day, in a
suit between two farmers at Oatville, be-
fore Justice Berry, the attorneys, r. Flem-
ing and Ed Callahan, became engaged in a
quarrel over what was supposed to be a
law point. Finally Fleming opened up a
fight ON Callahan, and before many blows
had been struck some members of the jury,
who had become Interested, jumped into
the row with chairs aud other furniture.
The fight lasted some time, and was be-
coming bloody from the use Of clubs and
knives, when Justice Berry became enraged,
and yelling out Contempt Of court" raised
his hard bottomed chair above his head and
let it fly at the fighting gang. He is large
man and sent the char flying among the
litigants, attorneys and jurymen with such
force as to bring three of them to the floor
and frightened the rest TO such au extent as
to put an end to the battle. Time for the
dressing of wounds found no one dead, but
all engaged except the court suffering from
injuries, some quite serious, calling for sew
eral days in the bed room.
His Honor took the chair when the
wounds were partially dressed and declared
the suit off as the result of the indecent ac-
tions before the court on the part of the at
torneys and htigants
The morning news., 1888-03-08

GRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.
The great parties are laying plans for the
struggle that will determine which of them
will administer the government for the four
years beginning next March A great deal
of work will have been done before the CON
ventions of the coming summer AS time
rolls on, the reality of preparation for the
Presidential contest becomes strikingly ap-
parent For example, the Democrats have
made James Taylor Jones, of Alabama,
chairman of their Congressional Campaign
Committee, and that gentleman has ap-
pointed an executive committee of ten mem
bers.
Mr.. Jones, reflection of whose energetic
and capable cOuntenance adorns this
column, was born at Richmond, Va. in
1882, but as he was only two years old when
taken to Alabama to live, he may be re-
garded as almost an Alabamian from the
beginning. He was twenty years of age
when he was graduated at Princeton
College, New Jersey. In 1855 he received
the degree of LIB. from the University
of Virginia in the law school of
which he had been a student. The next
year he was admitted to the bar. His
professional duties were interrupted for the
period of four years by the war, in which
Mr.. Jones served first as a private and
afterward as an officer in the Confederate
army. In 1868 he was sent as a delegate to
the Alabama State Constitutional Conven-
ton. He was a State Senator in 1S72-73.
Representative Jones was member of the
Forty-fifth Congress, also of the Forty
eighth and Forty-ninth. He was elected to
the Fiftieth Congress without opposition.
Mr.. Jones resides at Damopolis and repre-
sentS the First district of his State.
The morning news., 1888-03-08

~ EORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY. Notice is here.
VI by given that | have made application to
the Court Of Ordinary for Chatham county for
order to sell lots Nos. 10 and 20, with improve
ments thereon, consisting Of dwelling and out.
houses, on Tybee Island, said county and state,
county and State, belonging 20 estate of
THOMAS j. CHARLTON, deceased, for the pay.
ment of debts and distribution. and that said
order will be granted at APRIL TERM, 1883. OF
said court, unless objections are filed.
HORACE A. CRANE,
Administrator estate of Thomas J. Charlton.
deceasd.
FEBRuARY Goth, 1888.
The morning news., 1888-03-08
WET FLORIDA SKETCHES
LUMBER THE GREAT STAPLE OF
THE COUNTRY.

Approaches to the Gulf-Pensacola-
An Ancient but Progressive City
2,5oo Tons of Fresh Fish Sold in One
Yesr-Demand for Timber Lands
New Railroads - How the City is
acknowledgement Removal of the
SITE of the Navy Yard-New Business
Finns-A Bright Outlook for the
Future.
Tie Pensacola and Atlantic railroad,
afteI leaving Mariana, passes for the most
pail through an elevated piny woods
refton, dotted with occasional small lakes,
arl generally conceded to be the most salu-
bious portion of Florida. Very little of the
lad is under cultivation except within the
vicinity of Chipley, where the soil is more
frtile and we'll adapted to fruit culture
lumber is the principal article of export,
md the chief sourceof wealth to the people.
n proof of this. we find in the large county
If Escarnbia that out of 342, ,7O6 acres of
and assessed for taxation, but 1,064 acres
are improved and cultivated. In process of
time, however, when the elevated plains
have been denuded of their timber, it will
be found that the soil is easily cultivated,
and responds generously to the application
of fertilizers.
Nearing the Gulf, the aspect of the
scenery changes, and
BOLD BLUFFS
overlook the water landward, covered with
a magnificent growth of stately forest trees,
evergreens and creeping vines. Some of
the views are lovely and picturesque in the
extreme. Nor is the finger of art wanting
as displayed in the tasty villas which ever
and anon peer forth from their leafy and
elevated covertS
PENSACOLA.
This singularly cosmopolitan and ancient
seaport city, only second in population to
Jacksonville, is rapidly beginning to fulfill
the proud destiny long predicted for her as
the grand maritime outlet for the West and
Northwest on the Gulf A few figures re-
ceived in person from the books of her off
cials will sufficiently show that the above is
no vain assertion. Thus in july 1887: