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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-01-01

The census of the Penobscot ,nd,.,.
a total Of 1888 In the tribe. a decreasa ~ SHOWS
Is their great foe. consumption
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WHILE making A SNEAK"
An Express Train Meets Another
Going Fifty Miles an Hour.

INDIANAPOLIS, December 31.-At Ko-
komo this morning, on the Pan Handle
railway, one mile north of the dep0I ain
IS, north bound, met train IA, south bound,
running 80 miles an hour. The two trains
crashed together, totally demolishing the en-
gines and burning the baggage car and
coaches on the south bound train, which
tumbled on top of the engines. The injured
were confined to those on the engines, ex-
press and baggage cars. George Cummings,
engineer of No. IA, was buried in the wreck,
and died Immediately after being extricated.
Tom Mccullough, engineer of No. 13, lies at
the Clinton House, Kokomo, with his head
crushed. He cannot live. Baggage-master
Kerlin was injured in the back and head.
He was taken to Galveston, where he died at
o'clock. Thomas Harper was badly hurt.
Express Messenger Grant was seriously but
not fatally hurt about the body. Two men
were badly hurt, but not fatally. A number
of passengers in the coaches were shaken up
badly. The cause of the wreck is mystery,
as the engineers of both trains were unable
to testify. The general belief is that the
north-bound engineer was trying to make a
"sneak" to the side track at Jewell, four
miles north, to pass No. IA, which was
slightly behind time.
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IA cRIPPE's VICTIMS.
The Disease In the Old World Fol-
lowed BY others More Dangerous.

| BERLIN, December 81. - The Tagsblatt
| says the more the epidemic in Berlin appears
| to be drawing toward its close, the greater
the tendency to various complications, most
ly pneumonia, which of itself seems to have
become virtually an epidemic. Other COM
plications are diseases of the ear and neura J.
gia. In the city of Frankfort scarcely a sin
gle house has escaped this visitation.
LONDON, December 3l.-The Marquis of
Salisbury has la grippe in a severe FORM He
was taken on the oath and pneumonia is ap-
pretended. The marquis is physically untitled
for the struggle with very severe disease
and will certainly be housed for fortnight.
He abstains from business as far as possible.
At Copenhagen the epidemic is abating.
An official report gives a total of 5000 cases.
mostly of mild character. Reports from
Cassel say the disease is spreading there. In
many cases, the influenza is followed by in
fiamation of the lungs.
New YORK, December 31.-All the city
departments have more employees on the sick
list today, and the same condition exists
among the banks, insurance companies and
stores. The number of members of the
police force laid up today, was 302 The
hospitals report large number of appli-
cants for treatment, who claim to be affected
with the influenza. The cases are usually
aggravated by other complications. often
quite serious.
LONDON, December 31.-Many diplomats
are down with the epidemic. The latest
news from Hatfield is that the Marquis of
Salisbury is better. His private secretary
states that no bulletins are necessary, and
the condition of the Premier at present is
not serious.
NORFOLK, Va, December 31.-Twenty-
seven cases of la grippe are reported among
the men on the United States receiving ship
Franklin, and forty-five cases in the United
States Marine Hospital here.
PARIS, December 31.-There were 461
deaths here Monday. The Journal des
Debates declared the situation serious,
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COULD uNDERSELl.
Whats Lumberman Might DO With
out Canadian Duties.

NEW YORK, December 3l.-Before the
Senate Canadian relations committee u. e.
Lowland, lumber merchant Of Saginaw,
Michigan, said he had bought large tract
of forest lands in the Dominion as the rapid
denuding of the forests of Michigan made
such step necessary. The point was brought
out that if better commercial relations were
established with Canada and the export duty
of Canada reduced or taken entirely off the
logs cut in the Dominion, the witness could
feat logs cut on his Canadian land to his
mills on the Saginaw river. and underseli
other mill owners there. Though not special
ly anxious for annexation, be would not OBJ
ject to it.
SylvanuS Smith, owner of fishing vessels
at Gloucester, said that in 1885 when a re-
ciprocity treaty existed American fishery in
terests were booming and the Canadian fleet
was laid up on the stocks. Now the Cana-
dians have the advantage in the fishery in
dustry He complained of the denial to
American fishermen by Canada of the gem
eral commercial privileges allowed other
vessels. He cited instances of sick fisher
men in American vessels being refused
medical treatment and not even permitted to
mail letters home.
The committee adjourned to meet next in
Washington.
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DRUMMERS AT DINNER.
The Annual Banquet of the Conn
nerciai Travellers Association.
In the Falmouth Hotel was a Bril-
liant Scene Last Evening.
A Full Account Of the Exercises and
Speeches Of the Occasion.

Where will you find jollier set of men
than the commercial travellers, and where
will you find a jollier set OF commercial tray-
ellers than in the Maine Association? They
know how to eat, how to talk, how to laugh,
the three requisites for successful dinner.
The drummers came, 200 strong, to that ele-
CANT hotel, the Falmouth. last night, and ere
they left, the very walls themselves had
rung with cheers for 1890.
For dinner to be good one, the first
element is attractiveness, and If the pervad-
ing odor Of roses and heliotrope and the per-
feet conservatory Of hyacinths, orchids and
palms that greeted the men as they entered
the dining hall can testify anything, it is
that the element of attractiyeness was there.
Arrangements were made for 204, and every
place was filled.
AT the head of the table sat President
Roberts, and at either hand the honored
guests of the evening. ex-Mayor Deering,
Vice President w. w. Roberts, ex-President
Dow, President Winslow of the Board of
Trade, Alderman John Fl. Rand, Captain FL.
81. Shaw. Dr. Way, S. w. Whitcomb of Ban
gor, and James Champlin. The other rep
resentatives of Maine firms present were as
follows:
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GENERAL NEWS.

The trouble in Clements shoe shop, at Do
yer, N. H., was settled yesterday morning,
when Manager Wiggin allowed four out of
the five demands of the union.
Detectives are hunting for Dexter G.
Turner, wanted for extensive swindling by
means of a bogus insurance company, at
Sioux Falls, S. ID.
Two wOrkmen in the rolling mills at To
ronto Can, were crushed TO death beneath
seven tons of metal, yesterday. The scales
broke as they were weighing 1t.
Two apartment houses on Madison avenue
New York, burned yesterday morning, the
tenants barely escaping with their lives. All
their goods were destroyed.
A strange disease has killed two of the 80
cattle owned by KnowltOn Foss of Stafford
Bridge, N. H., and the others are sick with
it. The State Board of Health is making an
examination.
Isaac H. Hill. an intimate friend Of Con-
gressmau Samuel j. Randall, has stated pri-
vately that the condition of the latter is
much worse than has been reported, and that
Mr.. Randall will meyer occupy his seat in tho
House again.
The schooner Geo, W. WhitlCrd has left
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Athletics In Colleges.

DIR. Sargent of Harvard has lately written
an article on college athletics, in which he
says that the position of our young men, and
especially of college students, in regard to
them, lis false and wholly untenable. SO far
as the continuance of athletics is concerned.
He remarked that the attempt to make col
lege athletics support themselves, by giving
exhibitions and taking gate money, leads the
managers to adopt professional methods, to
conduct college sports as business enter
prises and to exhibit where they can make
money.
"Thus'" he says, I'VE see that the tendency of
athletic contests on every side Is toward profess
sionalSm. If the highest degree of excellence in
every sport Is the thing to be obtained II the
winning of the championship Is TO be considered
the only indication OF success; IL the physical su
premacy of the few Is to be maintained at any
cost, and the amusement of the many catered TO /;
and If athletic sports are to be pursued as ends in
themselves, rather than means OF physical
training aud development, then the tendency OF
athletics Is IN the right direction"
Reform, he says, is necessary, and it must
come in the general direction Of the resolu-
tions adopted be the intercollegiate atheletic
conference.
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A Convincing Argument.

RAPID BEATING OF THE HEART,
Whenever you feel an uneasiness in the region
of the heart a slight pain the shoulder. arm, or
under the sh ulier-biade, or when you find your
self short of breath when exercising, or your
heart has periOus of beating fast you have heart
disease and should take DR. FLINT's EMEDY
Descriptive treatise " ith each bottle; or ADDRESS
mars eod1stp1y
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Mr.. J. Pierrespont Morgan's Christ
mas Present.

The Christmas gift from the New York
Central Railroad 70 Mr.. j. Pierrepent Nor.
gan of the firm of DIexel & Morgan. in rec
ognition of his services m,the reorganization
of the West Shore is thus described by the
New York Press:
The gift is a silver gilt dessert service, con-
material is composed of solid sterling silver
heavily plated with gold. The pieces are
fashioned IN the Romanesque style. Their
chief beauty is the refinement of form and
remarkable minuteness of decoration and
finish. Mr. Cook of Tiffany 81 Co., who re-
Gently returned from the Paris Exposition,
said that he had seen nothing to equal either
design or execution at the exposition. and
that the service was the finest that Tiffany &
CO.-and, so far as he knew, any other jew
eler-had ever made.
The principal piece of the set is the stand
for the fruit and flowers. This is large,
round bowl with rolling edges, very richly
decorated. From the center Of the bowl
rises afarge plateau composed of mirror
set in silver frame. This center piece con-
On this plateau stands richly chased female
figure representing Peace. The right hand
is extended, and in the left she holds
the emblem of commerce. At her feet
and resting on the laurel is an owl, in
dicative of wisdom. On the top of the
base directly on which the figure rests are
placed six or eight little disks with cherubs'
faces with cheeks distended. This repre-
sents speed, and is the only portion of the
work emblematical of railroads. Between
each of the disks are two cornucopia, one
filled with flowers, representing plenty, aud
the other filled with coin, indicating wealth.
On the case of the pedestal appears the in.
scription: Presented by the New York Gen.
tral and Hudson River Railroad to j. Pierponi
MORGAN in recognition of his services as
chairman of the Reorganization Committee
of the West Shore Railway. 1SS5-1888."
This inscription is so interviewer and in
terlaced with flowers and leaves as to appear
part Of the ornamentation. The donors also
bought all the dies from which the knives,
forks and spoons, etc, were made and pre-.
sented them to DIR. Morgan so that they can
not be duplicated. 1t was impossible to as
certain the cost of the service. At fair es-
innate it will foot up fifty thousand dollars.
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TARIFF REFoRMERs DINE.
Free Trade and Grover Cleveland
Enthusiastically Doomed.

BOSTON, December 31.-The members of
the Massachusetts Tariff Reform League
gathered in full force at the fremont House
this evening for the annual dinner of the or
ganization. Hon. Henry l.. PierceIpresided.
Mr.. Pierce introduced Hon. r. @. Mills as
the first regular speaker of the evening.
Mr.. Mills's address was enthusiastically re-
ceived. Hon. j. M Forbes read paper
showing the effect of protection on foreign
nations in past ages. DIR. William Everett
delivered an address favoring free books as
moral and spiritual right. Thomas G.
Shearman then spoke, His illusions to ex-
President Cleveland and his prediction that
the latter would be reelected in 1892 were re-
ceived with wild enthusiasm. He was fol-
lowed by Edward Atkinson.
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csTTINc READY FOR WORK.
Grange Managers Planning the
Years Operations.
Special to the PreSs.l

AUBURN. December 31.-The full board of
the executive committee of the State Grange.
with State Lecturer DR.. G. M. Twitchell,
have been in session at the Elm House to-
day. The work chiefly done has been pre-
paratory for the active campaign soon to
commence, when the lecturer will take the
field. Already calls are coming in from every
section for his services.
Worthy Master Prince, acting under advice
for every county in the State, as follows
Seth Sennett, Saco; j. B. Hammond, New
Gloucester; b. w. McKeen, Fryeburg; w.
Tracy, Norway; B. +. Cobb. Poland; W. S.
Rogers, Topsham; l.. K. Litchfeld, VIM
throp;. Ansel Holway, Skownegan: Nj. l..
Merrill, st. Albans; Mrs. NJ. S. Scott, and
number in the eastern portion of the State
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On the back were the names 6 the follow
ing committee:

On the back were the names c the follow
ing committee;
L. b. Roberts, j. c. Brow
j. III. Davis, j, +. Chut
j. ID. Dunbar, G.. III. Nc cnney,
Lester Woodbury., c. Tru
W. II. Littlefeld, J: Z. Dav
Eugene Merrill.
1t took two hours for thrummers to
show that they hadn't stoppeat first class
hotels enough the past yeao keep them
from appreciating first-clasdnner at the
best hotel in Maine,
The dinner ended and ars lighted dis
there drummer who doesnnoke p, Pres
ident Roberts called the b to order and
said:
PRESIDENT ROBERTS oDREss.
Gentlemen of the Maine Coercial Trarel-
lers' Association and Fris;
thank you, gentlemen, -four presence
here tonight, and as we ha long list of
speakers it seems only pro that my re-
marks should be brief. Wee had very
BBesiiPIfDgS BegiRPni0g Syith ySal l67 5efs sna
closing with 364. ' have also
furnished rooms that O. member is |
proud of, with the assist9f numerous |
friends who have generous ded rs in the |
work and to whom the asslon Is greatly |
indebted. And we feel, gm1en, that we
have standing in the corlty, and that
our association is reorgaI as factor in
the social and business II the city. As
we are class of men who're than any
other go from this city ave to stand up
for its good name, and aturally inter-
ested in all of its imInents, do not
need to tell you, gentlensat the want of
new opera house is 1recognized by
every member of the aAOn, and that
any assistance we me, aDle to render |
will be cheerfully fotlng thank
you, gentlemen, for yoptlon, and shall
have the pleasure 0faucing several
speakers whom you wiiad 10 listen to. .
The Portland Male ate then rem !
dered song, and folltnis letters Of
regret were read by fesident w. w. t
Roberts from G. B. Tlsecretary Of the c
New England Associ iayor Melcher.
A. r. Savage. mayor arn; Z. Stearns,
president Of the .NeHnd Commercial
Travellers Associate Z. GoOdnow n
mayor OF Biddeford; Y. Little, may n
| or of Lewiston, and eS chapman. al
Ex-Mayor Deering virst called up b
on to respond to the ] the Cit, of IL
| Portland, and said thas totally un- ~ ~
prepared to make a snd came with In
the understanding tlshould not be B,
called upon. He saidere a number II
OF the members of thoi Trade pres GHI
ent who were famouAing good Teso- tn
| lutions whether they tnem out or ou
not. They always bsaying we have ne. y"
the finest harDor in ild' A few wo
weeks ago thew AZ resolution for me
building an opera re noped they 20, 90,
would succeed, bu oeiieVe they cit!
would unless the co iaVeiierS took OF
hold of it and helpe i"s nc said ne bar
hoped they would r. resolution bel
in favor Of the Con ravellers' Asso- of
citation, for he fear - piofe 70 thelr iike
injury. bmi
Following this w1i ao"s' VIII -
ten by Robert Re 'Of''''' "uu "r-
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Bias coast. She Is fully armed and If the
Colombian authorities attempt to interfere
with her lawful proceedings, will resist Two
trading sehooners have recently been seized.
A policy holders of the New York Life
Insurance Company says that President
Beers's reply to the charges of the Massa-
ply an invasion and fails to meet the damag-
ing facts set forth.
George Westinghouse announces that his
company is about to supply New York city
with new system of arc electric lighting,
which will be perfectly free from danger.
1t will consist of main currents underground
duced current Just sufficient for itself and
harmless to any person coming in contact
with IT,
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:, i4e conditions for the lumbermen ara had
s. ~ Maine. The blanket OF snow covers err pSa tSo
thsrahps' preventing them from freezing and
cnIt makes operations slow and djfS-
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MAIN {.
Sudden Change.
[SpecialIto the Press.l


LIvEREoRE FALLS, December 31.-This
morning the thermometer registered about
so degrees colder than yesterday at about the
same hour. Clear and excellent sleighing.
Killed BY Falling Tree.
BANGOR, December 31.-Isaac w. ShOrey.
a prominent lumberman of Burlington. was
instantly killed yesterday by tree falling on
him and breaking his neck.
Leeds Visited by Oiphtheria.
LEEDS, December 31.-In the family of
VIM. Borneman Of Leeds, there have been
five cases of malignant dipththeria. One
child died Monday. His wife was reported
in dying condition, Tuesday morning, and
it is thought that one or two others cannot
recover. The Board of Health of Leeds
have taken the matter in charge and isolated
the family. 1t is stated that the body of
child that had died of the disease in Massa-
chusetts was brought to Leeds for burial,
and that some of the clothes of the deceased
had been worn by the Borneman children,
thus communicating the disease.
New Passenger c5Pot at Brunswick.
BRUNSWICK, December, ,3L=There is now
no question among Brunswick people but
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The following are the United StatessSignal
Service observations for yesterday, Decem-
ber 3lst, taken at 8 p. m, 10Th meridian time
the observations for each station being given
in this order: Temperature, direction of the
wind, state of the weather:
Boston, 2So, NE, cloudless; New York, 800,
N, partly cloudy; Philadelphia, 800, E,
cloudy; Washington, ,340, NE, cloudy Buffalo
800. Sc. cloudless; Cleveland, $40, 5, cloud.
less; Detroit, 30c, Sc, cloudy; Chicago, $40,
Sc, cloudy st. Paul, 800. Sc. cloudy; Du-
luth, 28o, E, cloudy; st. Vincent, 10, N,
snow; bismarck. zero, N, cloudy; Jack
sonville, $50, N, rain.
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one Of the Best Newspapers In New
EroIanA
England.
ELLSWORTH American ]
.t t,

The Portland PRESS is one of the best
newspapers in New England. 1t is inde-
pendent in the EXPRESSION OF its views,
prompt in giving the news Of the day and Is
a Republican organ, which though fair In
uncertain sound. One is never at loss to
tell which side it is on. To the citizens of
the coast towns its shipping list alone, which
is very full, is worth great deal more than
the price of subscription.
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BOSTON Il NAMES NEW PRESi-
DENT.
George c. Lord Resigns and Frank
Jones Elected His Successor.

BosToN, December 3l.-At the annual
meeting of the Boston & Maine Railroad di-
rectors today, President George c. Lord
rendered his resignation, to take effect TO-
morrow.
The resignation was accepted, and Hon.
Frank Jones of Portsmouth was unanimous
ly elected his successor, to Immediately as
sumo his official duties.
The directors transacted large amount of
routine business, but the matter of c0nsoll-
dation with the Eastern road was not men,
toned, neither was any meeting of the con-
sOlidation committee called.
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Maine Inventions.

WASHINGTON, D. c., December 31.-Maine
patents have been granted as follows
Edward NJ. Atwood, Portland, two ,Ipnd;s patents
apparatus for recovering soda; FRANCIS A.
Cloudman, Cumberland Mills, two patents,
apparatus for recovering soda; Benjamin N.
Goodale, Saco, support for spinningrs spindle; ;
Timothy B. Hussey, North Berwick, harrow
attachment; Oliver p. Hicks, Rockland, car
coupling.
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Alumni of Bates.

BOSTON, December 31.-The sixth annual
dinner of the Bates College Alumni Asso-
citation was served at Young's Hotel this
evening and attended by 80 graduates who
reside in Boston and vicinity. l.. A. Barr,
IT, presided. Previous to the dinner bust
ness meeting was held and these officers
elected for the ensuing year:
President-Dr. +. A. Twitchel, '81.
Vice President-Dr. l.. NJ Palmer. rs.
Secretary and Treasurer-Geo. E Smith, '73.
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Equitable Life Assurance.

New YORK, December 81 The Equitable
Life Assurance Society reports for the year
a new business of one hundred and sevent-
five million dollars, the largest business
written by any company in 1889 The out
standing assurance Gf the society now ex-
ceeds $625 O00, ,000 the assets are $l05 900, 900,
and its surplus $22 100000.
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Washington Notes.
LOYAL TO PARNELL.
No Libeiious Attacks Can Quench
His Followers Love.

DUBLIN, December 3l.-At the Leagues
meeting here the speakers denounced the at
tack made upon the private character of Mr..
Parnell, and said that no method was so dis
honest but it might be tried in the hope to
injure the Irish cause. Nothing could shake
the love and trust of the Irish people for
their leader
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Peters's Fate in Doubt.

BERLIN, December n.-Dr. Peters, writ
September &c, says that from Massa he fol-
lowed the traces of the British expedition
dispersed by the Somalia. Its leader, Smith,
fed to Ukanba In order to make his way
back to Mombasa. The Danziger Zeitung
has a report that Peters. on his way up the
Yara, cut down all the flag poles and threw
them into the river. These reports leave
Patars'S fate douhtfnl
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Local Weather Report.

PORTLAND. Me-. December 81, 1889.
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THE w EATHER r.
Fair.

Fair.
SIGNAL OFFICE, WAR DEPT,
WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
December 81, 1898 p. m.
The following is the forecast of the wealth
or for New England till pm. today:
Fair weather, warmer, easterly winds.
Warmer weather on Thursday.