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The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31
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Messengers Notice.

Office of the Sheriff of Cumberland County, State
OF Maine, Cumberland, S., March oath, A. ID.
1890.
VNHIS is to give notice, that on the twenty
Il second day of March, A. ID. 1890. a Warrant
in Insolvency was issued out of the Court of Insol-
vency for said County of Cumberland, against the
estate of
MELVIN sKILLINGs and WALTER M.
SKILLINGS,
individually and as co-partners doing business un-
der the firm name and style of M. Skilings Son. at
Westbrook, adiudged to be Insolyenf Debtors,
on petition of said Debtors, Melvin Skillings
and Walter M. Sklllngs, which petition was filed
on the twenty-second day of March, A. ID. 1890,
to which date interest on claims is to be computed
That the payment of any debts to or by said
Debtors, and the transfer and delivery of any
property by them are forbidden by law.
That meeting of the Creditors of said Debtors,
to prove their debts and choose one or more as
slgnees of their estate, will be held at Court of
Insolvency to be holden at Probate Court Room
in Portland, on the seventh day of April,
A. ID. 1890,at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
Given under my hand the date first above writ
ten. H. r. SARGENT,
Deputy Sheriff, as Messenger of the Court of In
solvency for said County of Cumberland:
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GEN ERAL NEWS.

Charles w. Cancel has been appointed
manager CT the Boston league team.
The British sealer Pathfinder has been
captured blythe revenue cutter Corwin and
is held at Portland, Ore pending action by
the United States government.
Thirty families of Swedes will arrive in
this country about April II and settle in
Windsor and Orange counties, VT. The
farms are waiting them ready for occupation
and cultivation.
Roman Ivanovitch de Lippmann who. as
Count Zuboff, is accused of swindling Bos-
ton people. tells the Boston Globe that the
charges are malicious lies and shows letters
from prominent people of Character 10
substantiate his denial of the accusations.
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TWENrY-ONE KILLED.
Reports Of Losses to Life and Prop
erty Coming In.

HENDERSON, Ky, March 3O.-The most
discouraging reports come from Petersburg,
Blackford and Kother points in the path of
the cyclone. In West Louisville every busi-
ness house and half the residences were
wrecked or swept away. Ton Logan, aged
years, and 10 others were hurt, two fatally.
At Pooltown two men and two children were
killed and many injured. At Petersburg
several building were unroOfed. Blackford
was all but wiped out. Twenty.one lives are
known to have been lost In this locality, and
four times as many were injured
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TRUSTED SERVANT.
Bridget Sweeney Suspected of Set
ting The Tracy Firs.

WASHINGTON, March 29.-It is reported,
on what appears to be reliable authority,
that the mystery of the fire at Secretary
Tracy's residence in this city is about to be
cleared up. There are we'll grounded rumors
that Bridget Sweeney, the trusted old SER
want who had been living in the Secretary's
family for fourteen years or more, has con-
fessed that she fired the house with kero-
sene Her statement is said to be that she
poured kerosene all over the dining-room
panelling and as far up the stairs as her
stock of oil would go, and then lighted the
parl0r gas, set fire to the coal Oil around the
wainscotting and went to church. She as
signs no motive whatever for the horrible
deed, and there could be no possible incen-
tive except insanity.
Ii the facts attending the fire are recalled,
1t will be seen that every incident is sugges-
tive of incendiarism. Brent, the coiored ex-
fireman, who gave the first alarm, and undoubt
edly contributed materially to saving the
lives that were saved, stated at the coroner's
inquest that, when the English butler, Welch,
opened the sliding doors of the parlors, on
his telling him that the house was on fire. he
Immediately noticed that the stairs began to
smoke, and saw the flames run up the steps.
This is entirely consistent with the theory of
the Sweeney woman's alleged confession, and
is inconsistent with any other theory of the
origin of the fire.
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snow is more than fifteen inches deep on
level. 1t Is the heaviest snow storm iOr
many years.
a Victim Known In Portland.
LOUISVILLE, March &c, II. Hathaway'
traveIline salesman for the Kirk Soap Man.
ufacturing Company, Is supposed to be one
of the victims of the tornado. He Is well
known in Portland.
Aid From ohio.
COLUMBUS, o., March 3d. Gov. Camp
bell last night issued proclamation calling
upon the people of Ohio to render financial
assistance to the Louisville sufferers.
No. Less Than Fifty.
LOUISVILLE, March 30-The killed and
wounded at Webster will number not less
than fifty
Added Misfortune.
LOUISVILLE, March 30.-The furniture
manufacturing establishment of j. w. Davis
& Co. burned yesterday. Loss, $4,000.
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Boom for the Bicycle Railway.

NEW YORK, March 29-Twelve eminent
engineers and railroad presidents, and ex-
perts from Europe. San Francisco, Oregon,
Colorado, New York and Canada, tested
Boynton's bicycle road today. The opinion
was, unanimously expressed that all rail
its safety and speed, which was admitted to
be possible from 100 to $50 miles per hour.
Severe tests of curves, grades and Obstruc-
tions were successfully made. Arrange
ments to extend the road were made tndav
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Iron Bridges Broken to Pieces,

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 3O.-The Ches-
apeake and Nashvi Tile railroad suffered much
loss of property by Thursdays cyclone.
About 600 feet Of high trestle work was de-
stroyed and two 800 feet iron bridges were
blown from the pillars, broken and twisted
are total loss. The company hopes to be
able to run trains over the road In three
weeks. A mile Of track was torn up by the
cyclone. A special from Clay, KY, says the
number of lives lost will not fall short of so.
Damage to property is estimated at about
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The following are the United States Signal
Service observations for yesterday, March
3Oth, taken at = 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, 36', w, cloudless; New York,
36o,NW, cloudless; Philadelphia, 3So. NV
cloudyless; Washington, 40, n. cloudyless
cloudless; Cleveland, 800, NV, cloudless
Detroit, 800, w, cloudless Chicago, 32'o, NE,
partly cloudy st. Paul, 2S0, w, partly cloudy
Duluth. 32o. calm, cloudless; ST. Vincent. 140,
n, cloudless; Bismarck. 900, NV, cloudless
Jacksonville, 64o, Sc, cloudless.
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A Planters Advice,

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March 30.-A dis
patch dated Memphis, Tenn, to the Times
from John P. Richardson. the largest cotton
planter in the South. says: 81 find from
special kilograms no break in the levee at
Frlarspoint. The breaks in the levees are
pad. causing good deal of country to be
covered with water, but let the planters not
appeal for aid as otherwise labor would be
oemorallzed and leave the planters in as bad
shape as If their lands were covered with
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schoonsrs In Collision.

New YORK. March 29.--Sehooner Nellie
Coleman, Capt. Haggerty. from St. DomIn-
go City, ~ days. with sugar, reports, March
Aosecom, was In collision with schooner
Alice =. OF Boston. Capt. Fisher, from Booth
bay, Me-, March 16. for Salem, N. j., ice
laden, and carried away bowsprit, jibboOm,
ing the vessel to leak. The Alice B. was
struck IN the fore-rigging on the port side.
and filled with water. She was 2l5 tons reg.
lister: The captain and crew Of six men Of
the Alice b. were taken off and brought to
this port.
All Hands Safe Ashore.
New YORK. March 30.-Steamer Trinidad
from Bermuda today, brought the captain
and six seamen Of the German bark Western
Chief, which sprang aleak and was set on
fire and abandoned off the Bahama The
crew took refuge In two boats. The other
boatload was brought here Saturday by the
brig Pearl.
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THE MAINE STATE PRESS.
MAINE MILLS.
Mr.. Halls Figures Reported to the
Valuation Commission.

AUGUSTA, March 2S.-Hon. John Hall,
member of tine valution commission from
York county and chairman of the committee
on manufactures, has compiled the returns
from the cotton and woollen mills of the
state, as returned by the assessors. Follow.
ing are the figures on the cotton industry:
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NYAcK, N. Y, March 30.-A terrific wind
storm, the worst in many years, prevailed
along the lower Hudson today. A tornado
was feared There was a binding fall Of
snOW
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Local Weather Re@rt.
PORTLAND, Me-, March 80, 1890.
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Emile Barber, well-known citizen of
years. Mr. Barber was a native of France,
and represented Maine at the recent Paris
exposition. He came to America when a
young man, and has carried on the dye
mouse mouse business IN Augusta and different
parts OF the state for many years.
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All Hands Safe Ashore.
Return OF sprIng-A New Theory.

40 Lhe EQttOr OF Me f'feSS
The temperature Of Sebago water as 1t
issued from the faucets inPortland Saturday
morning was observed to be one-tenth Of one
degree higher than the minimum point at
which 1t had steadily remained the previous
five weeks. or since February 23d. This rise
of temperature though so very slight Is prob
ably an indication that the frost Is coming
out Of the ground along the line Of the
Sebago mains. fact of some Importance to
the farmers and gardeners OF Cumberland
county.
Daily observationslin Portland during the
past five years show that the Sebago water
Is very slow to feel the changes which are so
noticeable and are often so violent In the
atmosphere. For instance the highest
temperature OF the water last summer was
$50 which was reached August Sd and once
more August 24th. Furthermore the temper
ature remained between 66o and 65o from
July Sth to September Goth. Yet during
these ten weeks while the water changed
only two degrees the air ranged between 450
and 90'. After the Ice forms in Sebago lake
and the ground Is frozen or covered with
now, the temperature Of the water Is even
more steady, and it continues to fall slowly,
hardly noticing either cold wave or thaw.
Thus on the second day Of last December
the water was 43o. BY january 2d il had
lowered to 37o. 1t then dropped slowly until
February 23d when 1t reached its lowest
point "a. /, and there IL remained without the
slightest variation until last Saturday as be-
fore noted.
The limits Of lowest-point last season were
February 18th to March 9TH, 1889, nineteen
days only, and the lowest-poInt period was
still more peculiar In being unsteady, since
six days from some cause which Is not ap-
parent, the mercury dropped to 1873 which Is
the lowest record Of five winters, and IL will
be remembered that the winter was unusual
ly mild.
IL we are right in our theory that the rise
OF temperature OF Sebago water after II has
run under ground about twenty miles Is an
indication of "spring time" from the point Of
view OF those who dig or till the earth then
the annexed dates will show the comparative
earliness OF spring the past five years.
Water hpoan In grow Waruar.
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Fighting In Dahomey.

PARIS, March 3O.-The Temps has advices
from Dahomey that Colterlllon has attacked
the native forces and dislodged them from
tive loses are heavy.
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CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE
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the w EATkER

Fair.
The following is the forecast of the wealth
or till pm. today:
Colder, fair weather and northwesterly
winds.
InoaI sn4nsAo. noA.%
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Buried Under Falling Walls.

LOUISVILLE, KY, March 29.-An Eliza
bethtown. KY, special says the house of
Nathan Paulsey in that county was demol.
ished and his family caught under the falling
Paulsey died yesterday afternoon The
houses OF VIM. Hayden and Isaac Richard
son were unroofed. A negro was killed at
Hayden's. One or two other fatalities are
reported in the conntv
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The Urgent Deficiency Sill.

WASHINGTON, March 29.-Mr. Hale pre-
sented the conference report on the urgent
deficiency BILL and stated that the only mat
ter of controversy still left open, and which
would have to be the subject of further
conference, was an amendment relating to
the location of artesian wells. The report
was agreed to.
On motion of Mr.. VOORHEES,, the Senate bill
appropriating $14,675 for the purchase of
the CaprOn collection of Japanese works of
art now in the National Museum was taken
up and discussed. In the course of the dis
cussion, Mr.. Hale satirized Mr.. Voorhees, for
his advocacy of the measure, ss if it were on
behalf of the farmers of the country, whose
depressed condition he had pictured to the
Senate last week. BE supposed that the
farmers of the West would be very much
Statistic and pleased to know that Congress
was hunting up old relics from Japan. For
bill.
=, Mr. voorhees, said that he would forgive
the very mean speech of the Senator from
Maine ON account of its excellent conclusion.
Mr.. Capron had been Republi ,an commits
sloner OF agriculture, and his widow was
now old ana poor
me Dill was passed-yeas. 81; nays, Is.
Alter brief executive session, the Senate
adjourned ''-0
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Washington Notes.

1t is stated that Postmaster General Wan
amaker has already received the resignation
of First Assistant Clarkson.
The House committee on claims has Or
dered favorable report upon the famous
Dolphin claim. 1t contains a scathing ar
raignment of Grover Cleveland and his
Secretary of the Navy, VIM. G. Whitney,
because of their ignominious treatment Of
John Roach
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LOUISVILLE MOURNS FOR HER DEAD.
Funeral Professions Fill the Streets
of the Stricken City.
Ninety-four Bodies Recovered land
Five or Six Still mis- sing.
Reports of Death From Other
Places in the Cyclones Path.

LOUISVILLE, KY, March 3O.-Work under
the supervision Of Chief Taylor and the
Board Of Trade committee on the wreck
stopped early this morning. Ninety-four
bodies have been recovered and
1t Is supposed that five or six
more may be found in out of the
way places. OF the injured to noticeable
extent the closest estimates are 125 persons.
The ruined district has been placed .under
guard Of the militia. The Louisville Legion
has been ordered out and is guarding the
houses from the raids of looters. Several
people were supposed to be buried under the
ruins OF X: Ii. Carothers' printing establish
ment at the corner of Main and Eighth
streets. 1t Is known positively that one
woman Is buried under the ruins. Frank
Smith, pressman, ventured into the cellar
OF the wrecked building, and after cropping
around in the darkness be found the body Of
dead woman. who was pinned down by
several heavy timbers. He tried to release
her but could not. He took pair of brace
let's from the unfortunate woman's arm, and
some other jewelry. The wreck was full of
escaping gas, and Smith was suffocated.
Two brave men went down to rescue him,
and they were nearly overcome by the ter
ribe gas but after some difficulty he was
brough to the surface Several attempts
were made by men to go in the hole again,
but tley deSistpd for fear of their lives
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Foreign Notes,

A FRENCH ganboat has been sunk in a col
lision at Rochefort - "
A German spy has been arrested at Epinal,
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1t Is rumored that a new Democratic paper
is to be established In Presque Isle very soon
Aroostook Is great and growing county
with its Democracy alive and enterprtsing.
The county has nothing but Republican
papers but the leading Democrats propose 10
have an organ Of their own.
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LOWELL, Mass, March 30.-Charles A.
Harwood died here Saturday night In terri
BILE agony from hydrophobia, caused by Sc
He was forty years Of age and unmarried.
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no LADY SHOULD BIZ WITHOUT
THE PORTLANz:,OAILY PRESS,

Published every day Sundays excepted) by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY,
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SPECIAL NOTICES, One-third additional.
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THE MAINE STATE PRESS.
Published every THURSDAY MORNING, at $3.50
year; IL paid in advance, $500 a year.
Advertisements inserted in the "MAINE STATE
PRESS" (which has large circulation in every
part OF the State) for s100 per square for first in
sertion. and 30 cents per square for each subse-
quent insertion.
TERMS: Six Dollars Year, or fifty cents
month, when paid In advance. When payment is
Dollars.
Address All communications 10
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Weather Observations.

P.C.-Partly Cloudy.
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MAtH Z.
The Lost Found.

Boston, March 3O.-Schooner Katie, at
this port today from Sheet Harbor, N. S..
picked up fisherman named Myron A. Per-
kins of York, Me-, March 2Sth at II a. M, off
Boone Island. He was out tending travis
when strong east northeast wind came up
with thick snow storm and he lost sight of
land.
BIDDEFoRD. March 29.-Myron Perkins,
an Ogunquit fisherman, went out fishing Fri
day morning, and has not yet returned. The
sea was very rough and it is feared his boat
was capsiZed,
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The snow storm that has prevailed the
last few days seems untimely to those who
keep no record. 1t Is well TO know. there.
lore, that we are having about the average
soIt 9l spring, and that IL we should be Ia
vored with fall Of snow on the sth or at,
OF April, as we almost always are, we nee
not, even then, think that the spring Is back
WdIu. T. MIG
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Webster County Devastated

LOUISVILLE, March 3O.-A Dixon Ken
lucky special says "the most terrific storm
which ever invaded this section of the state
passed through Webster county Thursday
afternoon at about six O'Clock. 1t was
twenty minutes in duration. Eight lives
were lost and about 30 persons were wounded
some Of whom will die. About S150,000
worth of property was destroyed"
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a Victim Known In Portland.

snow is more than fifteen inches deep on
level. 1t Is the heaviest snow storm iOr
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The New Navy.

WASHINGTON, March 29-The Uousa
committee on naval affairs TODAY comnleted
the naval appropriation bill, and Chairman
Boutelle will report it to the House on Mon
day. The bill carries total appropriation
of $22, 151 ,253, which is about $3,40OOOO less
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The Worst In Years.

AMPERsAND, Saranac Lake, March 3d.
and 1t is still showing hard tonight. The
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MAINE WELL DIGGERS IN PERSIA.
MIR. cIergue's Company About TO Be-
gin Operations in Earnest.
Minister Reid Talks of PortIand's
Soldiers and Sailors Monument.
The Tracy Fire-canteens and Tenn
psrance-NavaI Appropriations.
fSaecial TO the Press.1

lSeeclal TO the PreSS.
WASHINGTON, March 3O.-If the Shah of
Persia continues gracious, it seems proba-
BILE that the Persia Company, for which Mr..
Francis ii. Clergue of Bangor, obtained con-
cessions In Persia, may make some money.
The full report of our consul general at
Teheran, Hon. E. Spencer Pratt, which has
been mentioned briefly before, speaks en-
couragingly of the enterprise. In the Staue
Department the venture seems to be regard
ed as of considerable Importance and as like
ly to open up considerable field for Amer
ican enterprise. The full report of Consul
General Pratt. as 1t has been filed in the
State Department, is as follows:
Referring to my despatch, No. SO, of the
End of March, 1889. stating that a certain
concession or franchise granting the exclu-
slve right of boring artesian wells through
out the Empire of Persia, as we'll as for the
privilege of prospecting for minerals, for
petroleum and other purposes for the term
of 25 years. awarded by his imperial majes-
ty, the Shah, on the Doth of February. 1888,
to DR.. w. w. Terrence, had been trans
ferred by the latter to an American associa-
tion entitled the Persia Company, represent
ed by Mr.. F. H. Cergue of Bangor, Me-, L
have now the honor to report that / am in
formed from Bushire, that there has arrived
and been landed at that port, upon Persian
soil, a set of well-boring machinery sent
from New York in charge of an American
engineer. who will begin operations in accord
ance with tie provisions of the concessions
before mentioned.
''The general scarcity of water being the
main obstacle in the way of Persia's ag-
ricultural development. there can be but lit
tie doubt as to the financial success of the
undertaking in question, if, as anticipated.
water for irrigating purposes can be obtained
here at sufficiently convenient depth from
the surface. Should the present experiment
therefore prove successful America will en-
joy the credit of having brought upon this
land blessing of which she must necessari-
ly reap substantial benefits in the new and
ever increasing demand which will thus have
been created for her engineers specially
skilled in this work, and the mechanical ap-
pliances peculiarly adapted thereto, which
cha hoo
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The Sugar Schedule.

,v xed wayS thya suSar anu schnd nave nna
to stay in the new tariff bill 1t fixes the
duty at 40 per cent for all above number 16
Dutch standard and 35 per cent for number
16 and all below
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More Trouble for Tarbox,

James W. Small today brought suit for
$1,000 damages against City Marshal Fred A.
Tarbox for assault and false Imprisonment
on election day.
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To Adorn the Forest citv.

Whitelaw Reid, our minister to France, is
in Washington for brief visit. Speaking
of Simmons, the Maine sculptor, who has
just completed, at his studio in Rome, the
plaster cast of the Portland soldiers monu-
ment which is to be placed on The pedestal
in MarketSquare, MI. Reid pays tribute to
Mr.. Simmons's genius and then says of the
cast for the Portland monument that it ssis
Thought by our friends at Roma, as we'll as
things American sculptors have vet pro-
duced." Mr.. Simmons was one of the art
critics called to Paris by Minister Reid to
inspect, in company with M. Taine, the
great French literary and art critic, the La
Fayette monument, which is to be erected in
this CITY,