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The Portland daily press., 1890-08-18
LOUISIANA SWINDLE.
The House Makes a Move Towards
Killing the Lottery.

WASHINGTON, August 16.-The vote re-
Cured on the Nat Mckay bill in the House
today, aud the bill was passed-yeas, S3;
nays, 65; the Speaker counting quorum.
The anti-lottery bill was then taken up
and passed. 1t tprovides that no letter, postal
card or circular concerning any lottery, So
called gift concerns or other similar enter
prise offering prizes dependent on lot or
chance Tor concerning schemes devised for
the purpose of obtaining money or property
under false .pretences), and no list OF the
drawings of any lottery or similar scheme,
and no lottery ticket or part thereof, ard no
check, draft. bill, money, postal note or
money order for the purchase Of any ticket,
tickets or part thereof, or of any share or
any chance in any such lottery or gift enter
prise, shall be carried in the mail or deliver
ed at or through any post office or branch
thereof. or by any letter carrier; nor shall
any newspaper, circular, pamphlet or publi-
cation of any kind containing any advertise
ment of any lottery or gift enterprise of any
abndo kind offering prizes depending upon lot or
prizes awarded at the drawings
of any such lottery or gift enterprise,
whether said list is of any part or of all the
drawings, be carried in the mail or delivered
by any postmaster or letter carrier. u rs
1t is made misdemean0r, punishable by
not exceeding $500 fine or Imprisonment
for not more than one year, or both, for any
person to knowingly deposit, or cause to be
deposited anything to be carried through the
mails in violation of this preceding section,
or that is forbidden to be carried through the
mails by this act. Violators of the law may
be tried and punished either in the district
of mailing or in the district to which the
matter is mailed or sent.
The Postmaster General may, upon evil
dence satisfactory to him that any person or
company is engaged in conducting any lot
lery business, such as prohibited by the act,
instruct postmasters at any post office at
any such person or company, or to an agent
or representative, to return all such register
ed letters to the postmaster at the office at
which they were originally mailed, with the
word fraudulent plainly indicated on tie
outside thereof, and returned to the writers.
Nothing in this section however shall auth
orize any postmaster or other person to open
any letter not addressed to himself.
The public advertisement by such person
or company so conducting such lottery, gift
enterprise. scheme or device, that remit
tances for the same may be made by regis
tered letters to any other person, firm, bank,
corporation or association named therein,
shall be held to be prima facie evidence of
the existence of said agency by all the parties
named therein. But the Postmaster General
shall not be precluded from ascertaining the
existence Of such agency in any other legal
way satisfactory to himself The Postmas-
ter General is also given the same powers
and orders directed to the prohibited con-
Germs or their agents as is conferred upon
him by the section relating to registered let
tnrS
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aallef In PIE.

"Do vou really want to know whether
oatmeal Is preferable to pie as an American
na,ional : foodP" writes Dr. Oliver Wendell
Homes in the Atlantic Monthly 81 suppose
tbe hest answer 1 can give to your question
is 10 tell YOU what is my own practice. Oat-
nal In the morning. as an architect lays a
n bad n concrete to form a base for his sup
srStrncture. Pie when can get 1t; that Is,
~ tbs genuine sort. for / am not patriotic
enonSh 10 think very highly of tho artiele
namsd after the father Of his country, who
was 6rst in war, first in peace-not first ia
pies according to my standard. There Ia a
very old prejudice against pie as an article
of diet. 1t is common to hear every form OF
bodily degeneracy and infrmity attributed
TO this particular favorite food. L see ma
reason or sense init. Mr.. Emerson believed
in pie. and was almost indignant when a
fellow traveller refused the Slice he offered
him. Why. Mr.. - said he, what Is pie
made for" III every Green Mountain boy
hasn't eaten thousand times his weight 10
apples, pumpkin, squash and mince pic.
call me dumping. And Col. Ethan Allen
was one Of them-Ethan Allen, who, as they
used to say, could wrench off the head u
wrought iron nail with his teeth.
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GEN ERAL NEWS.

Three persons were killed Friday in col
train on the 81 Tonis lton e SnrjngGsid
railroad. All the killed were on the con-
struction train.
On Thursday, September at Belmont
Park. Sunol will trot against the record of
20S3, held by Maud S., aud Palo Alto, will
go against AxtelPs stallion record of 2 II.
James Gilmore fell from fourth story
window in Lowell, Mass, yesterday while
drunk and was killed.
The Dunnell print works at Pawtucket, II.
l., were partially destroyed by fire Saturday I;
loss $50 600 to 100000, insured. About 800
hands will be thrown out of employment
until the mills are rebuilt.
c. III. Nelson claims to have recently driv-
en- the stalli on Nelson mile in 214 and a
half in 1.04 John f. Haines drove him in
218 a day or two ago.
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THE MAINE STATE PRESS,
Seventh Maine Regiment.

The veterans of the Seventh Regiment are
already gathering at their Long Island head
quarters. Their reunion lasts week. This
year some of the Massachusetts members
will probably not come down, but the Maine
members will be well represented.
The business meeting will be held Wednes-
day, but Thursday will be the great day of
the week. Then the ladies will be present,
then the speeches will be made and the an
nual poem read. Then "the" dinner oil the
week will be served and the tent campfire
stories told,
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WASHINGTON COUNTY.

Some years ago the general secretaries OF
the many Young Mems Christian Associa-
tions of New England sought to bring to a
completion what they deemed necessity In
conformity with their other lines of labor,
For this purpose the North Lubec Improve
ment Company was Incorporated under
Maine laws. with capital Of $4,000, with
the following well known association men
as Its officers: President, John Fl. Appleton
land; assistant clerk, Andrew Case of LYNN :
treasurer, j. j. Hazlewood OF Hayerhill.
Saturday night occurred the open
Ing OF the hotel, the Ne-mat-ta-no, and the
beginning of the summer encampment. The
company present taxed the capacity of the
numerous summer resorts about thse waters
two weeks encampment is to follow, and
a varied and interesting programme has
been arranged
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NEWFOUNDLAND AND THE FRENCH.
The Islanders Want No Outsiders on
Their Fishing Grounds.
President Ezeta Places No Faith In
Central American Peace.
The SehrIng Sea pIspute-other
News From Foreign Lands.

HALIFAX, N. S., August 17.-An enthusi.
meeting was held at st. Johns, N. f., to well
come the fishery delegates on their return
from England. 1t was recited that the reso-
lutlons adopted at public meetings at ST.
Johns and other parts of the colony in March
last, and urged by the peoples delegates to
England and Canada in pursuance thereof,
had met with the cordial sympathy and sup
port Of all the British and Canadian press.
The public meeting then adopted the follow
ing:
Resolved, That this meeting here
by declares its unqualified re-
affirmation Of the position taken
in and by the resolutions of the said former
public meeting and reasserts its mistaken
conviction that no arrangement or other
method of disposing of the question of
French treaty rights and claims in New
foundland, except that of entire extinction
of such rights and claims can be accepted
by the people of this colony"
The Portland daily press., 1890-08-18
Mr.. Ames on the Tariff.

BosToN, August 16.-Ex-Goy. Ames was
interviewed Yesterday regarding Secretary
Blaine's criticisms of the Mckinley bill and
Mr.. Biaine's advocacy Of reciprocity treaty. aNI
"You want to know" he said in answer
to an inquiry, "if think MI LII plane will gel
Blaine. But il Mr.. Blaine's, policy is no moi
adopted, and if his lead on the tariff is moi moi
followed, the Republican party will gel
smashed"
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HORSES BURNED.
over Fifty Losv Their Lives Yester-
day-A Western Blaze.

WORCESTER, Mass. August 17.-Fire gut
ted the barn of Charles A. Davis tonight
with five horses, several wagons and con-
siderable hay, grain and farming tools. The
loss is $1,000, partially insured.
New YORK. August 1.-THE extensive
stables of the Lion Brewery, 1O8th street
Ninth and Tenth avenues burned tonight.
Fifty valuable horses perished; loss $780,
900.
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TAPE WORM.
Testimonial.

FOXCROFT, Feb. 10, ISUO.
Dear DR.. True:-I wish to add testimonial to
the many you have had from all over the country
most certainly believe it duty that / not only
owe to you, but that owe to suffering humanity,
many OF which are no doubt suffering today from
no other cause than which 1 have Just been re-
lieved by the use of Trues Pin Worm Elixir. 1
began taking this elixir for a balsam, having a
manner as a balsam, and besides, relieving me of
a quantity of pin worms and tape worm be-
tween "a and 85 feet In length, measuring seben-
expended in True's Pin Worm Elixir, 1 have been
restored from the most miserable state of health
health and happiness. ! cannot recommend too
highly True's Worm Elixir and am ready at any
time to answer any questions that may be asked
In my case and to furnish scores OF witnesses to
this testimonial.
Placing my name alongside OF the many al
ready enrolled who have had good reasons for
saying God bless DIR. True, am,
Yours very truly, A. +. BRAGG.
Foxcroft, Me. ap12eod&w1ycS
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EXPECTS WAR.
President Ezeta Has No Faith In Gem
tral American Peace.

NEW YORK, August 16.-A special to the
Herald from the city of San Salvador con-
tains an interview with President Ezeta on
the situation Of affairs In Central America.
The president says:
Il have nothing to fear in the interior
now. The people are unanimous in repell-
ing forcibly all foreign interference with
their home business, and are perfectly will
ing to fight out the question with Guatemala
Il have no confidence in the peaceful eff
forts Of the diplomatic corps. and soon ex-
pect reopening of hostilities. 1 know that
General Barillas is gathering troops on the
frontier every day, and am preparing to
receive him. My troops are enthusiastic and
are desirous to engage in battle"
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The following is the standing of the clubs
In the Players League:
The National League.

The following games were played in the
National League Saturday:
AT BOSTON.
New Yorks......0 o o o 4 o 2 o o o 6
Base hlts-Bostons, 12: New Yorks, 8. En-
rors- Bostous, 81; New Yorks, IA. Batteries
GetZein and Hardie; Rusie and Buckley.
AT BROOKLYN.
Phiiadelphias 10 2 2 0 2 o Q 410
Base hits-Brook:yns, 6: Phlladelphlas, IL.
Errors-BroOklyns, q; Philadelphias; 3. Bat
teries-Carruthers and Clark; Gleason and
Clements.
AT CHICAGO.
ChicagOs. .......... % o o O13 OILS
PIttsburgs. o 0 0 O.
Base hits-Chicagos, 10; Pittsburgs, TO- En-
rors -Chieagos, 8; Pittsburgs, 8. Batteries
Hutchinson and Kittredge; Phillips ann Decker.
AT CINCINNATI.
CincInnatis ........1 2 1 o oil
Cleyelands. o 0 o D o o o. o
Base -Cineinnatls, 16 Clevelands, 8. Er
rors-Clevelands A. Batteries-Rhines and Har-
rngton; Young and thinner.
NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING.
The following is the standing Of the clubs
in the National League:
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SATURDAYS Trouble.
BASE BALL.


The following games were played in the
Players League Saturday:
AT NEW YORK.
Bostons.. .........0 l 3 2 3 o PIC
New Yorks.........5 o U o 3 2 1-16
Base hits-New Yorks, IL; Bostons, IL. En-
rors-New Yorks, 10: Bostons, II. Batteries
Keefe and Ewing; Gumberr and Kelly.
AT PHILADELPHIA.
Brook lyns. ..........O o o o o o l. 2
Phlladelphias.. o / o o o o.
Base hits-Philadelphlas, Z; Brooklyns, 8. En-
Philadelphias, /; Brooklyns. 1. Batteries
Sanders and Mlllingin; Weyhing and Knslow.
AT BUFFALO.
Chicagos. Q o o 2 o. o
Buffaios. -. ........1 0 o / o. s
Base hits Buffalos, 8; Chicagos, IL. Errors
Buffalos, 4; Chicagos, A. Batteries, Cunningham
and Mack; Bartson and Boyle.
AT PITTsBURG.
Pittsburgs.... ......1 o o 2 o o 1 g. o
Clevelands. ..........0 o o 1 o o 8 O.
Base hits-PIttsburgs, o; Clevelands, TO- Err
rors-PttsburgS. o; Clevel2ndS 2. Batteries
Staley and Qninp; Gruber ard Sutelife
PLAYERS LEAGUE STANDING.
The following is the standing of the clubs
in the Players League:
The Portland daily press., 1890-08-18

PHILLIPS AND RANaELEY.

/ PHILLIPS AND RANGELEY.
Over ten miles of the Phillips & Rangeley
railroad is now graded and the ties are on
the ground ready for the rails. The work Of
laying six miles Of the work will begin on
Monday. The work is progressing much
faster than the contract require. and 1t Is
hoped that the entire road may be completed
this fall
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MUSIC AND DRAMA.
PAVILION THEATRE.

stricken Blind, or a Wife's Devotion
| will be the attraction at the Pavilion tonight
| 1t is a melo-drama In four acts. Professor
| Adrain has painted the scenery expressly
| for this piece. The scenic effects are said to
be excellent, among them a realistic lock
| scene on a canal. Miss Harrington will play
the blind woman, and Mr.. McCallum and
Miss Florence Hamilton will be in the cast,
ler's music store.
GREENWOOD GARDEN.
Tonight Bancroft's Opera Company will
give "The Mascotte" at the Garden. Miss
Bessie Gray will appear as Bettina, and Mr..
Osborne as Prince Lorenzo. The Garden
line Of steamers runs from the foot OF Ex-
change street.
The past week the Bancroft Opera Com
pany has been playing to Ithe largest
houses Of the season, and all have been
pleased with their productions. The prinei-
pals are all up in their different solos, and
sing them In first class style. This week
they will present another double bill. The
first three days, commencing this afternoon,
they will stage Mascotte. and the last Of the
week, commencing Thursday afternoon, the
Pirates Of PenZance. These are very popu-
lar operas, and will draw crowded houses
Secure your reserved seats at Chsndler's
music store. The Garden steamers will run
to accommodate the public.
oLDJED PRoUTY.
There was good advance sale Of seats for
"Old Jed Prouty"-to bs given by Richard
Golden, Dora Wiley, Tony Riggs. the Ban
gor tenor, and the excellent company under
Mr. MeGeaehy's management, at City Hall
next Friday evening-at ;Stoekbridge's Sat
urday. Better apply early If you wish to
see one Of the great dramatic attractions Of
the day.
Grimmer's Orchestra will render the fol
lowing programme:
Oyerture-BlIssful Moments .......... .GruenwaId
Waltz-Afaire DAmour.. .Gasser
GalOp-SPAsn .''...'''''. - ''s.'''''''''s sEscneI
Persian-March.. .........s..Suauss
NOTES.
The Portland Male Quartette, assisted by
other talent, will give one OF their delightful
concerts at the Ottawa House Wednesday
evening
The P. l. L. A. will give a lawn musicale
at Jones, landing, Peaks Island. this eve
ming. The talent is Robert Rexdale, Miss
Staples, John Shaw, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
True. Charles K. Baker, Messrs. Burnham
and Holmes. Miss Bicknell, 9. L. True ac-
companist. and others.
Next Friday evening there will be con-
cert at Little Diamond to get funds for the
new pavilion. Mrs. G. X. Halves, the fav-
ite soprano, Miss Bertha Webb. viollnlst.
Mime. Zimmerman on the either, the Schu-
bert Quartette, and Roy Hawes pianist, will
take part.
The Portland Theatre closed Saturday
night until September.
The citizens Of Pennington are going to
have four days fair In aid of the village
library fund. There Is to be an entertain
ment each evening. Among the well known
vocalists who have been engaged to sing are
Nine Nordica, Mr.. VIII Stockbridge of this
city, Miss Bette of Lewiston, Miss Brown,
Miss Knight, Miss Kicker, DR.. Nickerson,
Mr.. Harry Merrill, all Of Portland, and
others.
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Joseph Jameson's Suicide. .

NEW YORK, August 17.-Joseph A. jane
son Of Jameson, Smith & Co.. bankers and
brokers, committed suicide at the residence
of his sister, Mrs. Ames Cotting, Fifth
avenue, by hanging He leaves widow
and five grown children. Temporary in
sanity caused by illness is given as the
cause
Mrs. Jameson and the youngest son, II
years old, are at Scarborough Beach, Maine.
Two sons and daughter were at their
fathers farm at Clinton Corners.
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weather Observations.

The following are the United States Signal
Service observations for yesterday, August
18th. taken at p. M, 18th meridian time
the observations for each station being given
in this order: Temperature direction Of the
wind, state of the weather:
Boston, 76o. SW, cloudy; New York, 70o,
S, cloudy; Philadelphia. 7S SW, partly
cloudy; Washington, 76o, SW, cloudless
Albany. 100, Sc, rain; BuIalo, 64o, NV,
go, Sc, cioudless; Chicago; 62o; NE, cloud
less; st. Paul, 64o, E. cloudIess; Duluth,
Sc, cloudy; Bismarck, 68o, NE. cloudless
Jacksonville, 7So, SE, cloudless.
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The Squadron Sails.

BosToN, August 16.-The United States
cruisers Dolphin, Yorktown, Atlanta and
from off Minot Light. where they had been
maneuyring during the forenoon. The ex-
ercises by the flotilla were witnessed from
numerous steamers by large humber Of
Grand Army men and others. All were en-.
handling
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Local weather Roport.

Mean daily ther.... o Max. vel. wind.... 16 S
Maximum. .ther. ....75.9 Total precip...... .01
Minimum ther.. ...53.Si
C indicates nartIy cloudy.
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Bow BURGLARS Arrested.

NASHUA, August 17.-Bqrglars today
entered the freight debot Of the Boston and
Lowell railro cad here and stole a lot OF boots.
Thew entered Lifeboro's laundry and fruit
stand at the Concord railroad depot, stealing
q small amount Of goods at each place. To-
ni0ht the police arrested seven boys, the
Oldest about 16 years, under suspicion that
thew were the burglars. 1t Is supposed they
We're implicated In the robblng Of II. L.
Smiths boot store.
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THE STATE.
ANpRosCoaaIN COUNTY

The Lincoln street grammar school at
Auburn has been infested with boring
worms that ate up the floors, for long time.
The floor had to be taken up to dislodge
them,
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Robbed of 100000.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, August 1.-THE linn
tied Kansas City express on the Missouri
Pacific was held up by seven highwaymen at
Ottoville, Mo-, early this evening and robbed
Of $4,000 of express matter
Later-A special to the Republic from
Sedalia, Mo-, says that two detectives with
posse left for the scene. Bloodhounds
were pressed into suryice but failed to fol-
low the scent. The search SO far has proved
unsuccessful. Superintendent Fuller of the
Pacific Express Company stated this morn
ing that S74 in money. gold watch and a
package supposed to contain government
supplies was all that was secured by the
rOhharS
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The Driving Partv Escanes

KEENE, N. H., August 17.-Lightning
burned the house, two barns and fifty tons OF
hay on the George Nourse, farm at Beach
Hill this morning, owned by Horace Good
now The loss Is $500, no insurance. A
driving party was sheltered in the barn but
none Of them were injured.
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SANFORD, August ia seventeen year
old French boy named Delor Cadette fell out
of boat in the old fishing pond at South
Sanford last night and drowned. The body
was rncnvnrad tndav
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Fell into the water and Drowned

LAcoNIA, N. H., August 17.-This morn
Ing Arthur u. Vaughan, the 7-year-ol6 son
Oh charles w. Vaughan, junior editor of the
Laconla Democrat, fell from ledge ON Loon
Island into Lake Winnesquam and was
drowned. His mother was standing on the
shore, but was unable to render assistance.
No men were on the island at the time The
body was recovered.
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Aller Stuck In Weser.

NEW YORK, August 16.-A despatch to
the North German Lloyd steamship agents
today states that the steamer Aller which
left New York about week ago for Brem-
extent Of the damage is not known, the des-
patch being very meagre.
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Uncle Sam,s Big Family.

=, WASHINGTON, August 16.-The count of
the census up to this time shows an aggre-
gate Of 62 695, ,955, and when the entire count
is hnlshed the population of the country ac-
about g., 900, or an increase of about 30
per cent during the decade.
The Portland daily press., 1890-08-18
REPUBLICAN cAucusEs.


The Republican caucus Saturday at Free
port, elected the following delegates; E. @.
Merrill. Joseph @. Curtis, t. @. Wiggin, j..
S. Littlefeld, George P. Field and Joseph L.
Davis. They we're instructed to vote for
Cram for sheriff, Brewer for register Of
deeds, and Allen for county commissioner.
Harrison.
At the Republican caucus held Saturday,
these delegates were elected: Philander
Tolman. N. II. SeaVey and Melville Morrill,,
for Cram for Sheriff and Lord for county
commissioner.
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THE w EATk Err.
.Showers and Cooler.

Following is the forecast Of the weather
for Maine: Light showers, cooler, westerly
winds.
Cautionary signals displayed at Woods
Holl Section and Narragansett Section.
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DOOMs TO LET-Furnished, $1.00 to
III $3.50 per week. Single nights lodging,
35 cts. to 90 cts. MRS. HATCH, SO India st.
FTvO LET-One large finely furnished room
Il with board. Man and wife preferred.
BAINES, 90 Spring street. 141
ITO LET-Furnished front room at 161 Cum
Il berland street. 12u
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lopecidi 10 tne freSS.l
RocKLAND, August 16.-The Rocklands
defeated the Warrens today in a one sided
game. The error and batting columns tell
the story. Grey pitched another splended
game while Smith was batted at leisure.
The following is the summary
Warrens. ...........O o o o o. 1
Errors Rocklands, 2 Warrens, IL. Base
hits-ROcklands, II; Warrens, 8. Two base
hits-Backington, Hyler SimontOn, Ray (twO.)
Struck out-Gray, eleven; Smith, one.
The Portland daily press., 1890-08-18
Foreign Notes.

The Portuguese have released the British
African Lake Company's steamer seized BY
Lieutenant Continho, and the crew of the
steamer were also released.
A despatch from Cairo denies that cholera
has appeared In that CITY,
The Queens Theatre at Manchester, Eng
laud, has been destroyed by fire.
The Portland daily press., 1890-08-18
Famine Fever in ireland.

DUBLIN, August 1.-THE potato crop is
certain to be exhausted by October. Famine
fever has appeared in Basket Islands on the
west coast Of Ireland.
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WANTED-An persons in want of trunks or
w bags to call at e. ID. REYNOLDS'S, 656 and
facture our goods, and can therefore give you bot
tom prices; trunks repaired; open evenings till 8.
A-A
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RingIeaders Sentenced to Death.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, August 1.-THE court
martial which has been trying the persons
implicated in the riot at the Armenian
church at Koomkape. has condemned the
ringleaderS to death and sentenced the 9TH
wears.
The Portland daily press., 1890-08-18
FOR SALE.

THE OCEAN HOUSE property at Cape Eliza
ate pet os % es 9neIea i9r sale The hotel accom-
land fronting on the shore. viii be sold at a bar
gain. Apply to SETH L. LARRABEE, 39e
Congress Street, Portland Me- aneI2dtf
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WANTED.

"ANTED-A needy family desires washing
w to do; satisfaction guaranteed, the favor
home on account of small children. The family
in need is Mrs. o. A. Sanborn. Inquire of MRS.
ALBERT SMALL. No. AZ MAYO ST. City. 14-4
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PASSENGER Trains All Right.

New YORK, August 17.-All regular pas
senger trains On the New York Central ran
on schedule time today. Incoming trains
came in without any delay. No freight
trains were sent out today. Railroad officials
say they will be run regularly tomorrow.