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The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
THE SPRUCE STATE.
That Is the Lumber Which Now
Floats Down Maine Rivers.

AUGUSTA, September 29.-The Kennebec
lumbermen are already making preparations
for the winters operations In the woods, and
with the first cold weather men and teams
will begin to work. The indications are that
the cut the coming season will be less than
the average, owing to the slack work the last
summer and low prices. Notwithstanding
this the Kennebec mills have kept their
saws turning out about the usual output of
manufactured lumber. LSeveral concerns
were fortunate in having made early con.
tracts, which were not affected by the slow
demand.
Still the shipments have been made In
excess of the requirements of the market
How long this state of affairs will continue
1t Is difficult to tell, but there does not seem
to be any immediate prospect of improve
ment. Spruce is the great tree down east
today and there Is nc longer any sense in
calling Maine the "Pine Tree State" An
examination of the logs in the Kennebec
will demonstrate this, and hardly stick of
pine is to be found.
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29

The following are the observations Of
the Agricultural Department weather bureau
for yesterday. September 27, taken at 8 .. m.
10th meridian time, the observations for each
station being given In this order: Tempera-
ture. direction Of the wind. state of the
weather:
Boston, 100, SW, cloudless; New York. 76o.
Sc. cloudless; ;;dp Philadelphia. rs. S, cloudless
S. cloudless; Buffalo. 740. Sc, cloudless
Huron. OAK, 52o, W. cloudless; Detroit. 7SO'
SW, cloudless; Chicago, 66o, w. rain: ST.
Paul, 540, w, cloudy; Duluth. 46o, NV, rain !:
st. Vincent. 4S0, w, cloudy; Bismarck. bOo'
NW,lcloudless; Jacksonville, 76o, e, cloud
lass.
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
Facing Against Time

New YORK, September 2S-Millionaire
John w. Mackay. who left San Francisco on
a special coach train to race across the conti.
nent In record-beating time. arrived at the
The train had made the trip Of 3. 1907 miles in
four days, II hours and 3S minutes. This
beats the record by six hours and 12 mjnntes
The route was by way of the Southern Pa.
ciic, Union Pacific, Lake Shore & Michiean
Southern and the New York Central rail
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
Our Fur Trimmed Refer for So

is a beautiful, stylish garment, and one need not
look any further If they do not wish to pay high
er price.
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
Our Garments from $40 to $50

will bear the closest inspection and in comapr
son it Will be found that they cannot be excelled
by an i'm this country and We VIII guarantee that
no one shall buy as good garments cheaper else
where
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
Sig Business.

The Biddeford Journal says 'fhe sum OF
$1,000 in ready cash was received by Saco
farmers Saturday from Burnham & Morrill,,
the big corn canning firm. through their
agent, George III. BoOthby. in payment for
corn delivered at their factory at Dunston
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
wnirIed Around the SHAFT.

EAsrpoBT, September 2s.-Today young
man from Jonesport named Sawyer, en-
ployed at Simpson & Parder's factory, was
attempting to place belt on pulley when
his caught in the the sSa na e[swss as
sga;net the wall. The engine was then
Slammed stonned T he was badly bruised and his left
% arm was broken in four places. he win re-
anvnr
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
american AssocIatIon.

The following games were played by As
ISOLATION clubs yesterday:
AT MILWAUKEE,.
Milwaukees... O 1 g.
L0uisvilles. s.............0 o o o O. 2
Base hits-Mllwaukees, II; Louisville Errors
-Milwaukees, 8; Louisvllles, 6. Batteries
Dwyer and Vaughan, StrattOn and Briggs.
AT WASHINGTON.
WaShingt0nS. .........2 o 2 q O o o. 5
Baltimore...............0 L o D O.
Base -hite-STosf1 ir t9nst o DfvIrso-ea1 Fr-
rors- Washingtons, 3; BaltmQres, q Batteries
Foreman and Mcclure, Mcmahon and Robinson.
An PHILADELPHIA.
Athletics s............1 o o o o o O. 6
Bostons. ...........0 1 o 0 o g. 6
Base hits-AthletIcs, 10; Bost ms, g. Errors
Athletics, g.; Bostons. 2. Battelies-Bowman
and Cross; BuffintoD, O'Brien and Murphy.
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
Sporting Notes.

In the checker championship games. the
drawn, 81. Charles f. Barker of Boston
defeats j. P. Reed of Chicago for purse of
$1,000.
The three year old hlly Tosca was sold at
the Grayesend track yesterday to Pierre
Loriliard for $4,000.
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
THE STATES BATTLE WITH DISEASE.
Some OF the Things the Board of
Health Is Doing.
Arrangements For the Convention To
Be Held In Portland.
Topics Which the Members of the
Local Boards Will Discuss.
Tspecial to the Press I

LopOSidi W tliC LICSS.l
AUGUSTA, September 2S.-The quarterly
meeting OF the State Board of Health was
held here today.
Present-Messrs. E. G. Jordan and DR.. G
d. Smith of Portland. Prof. Robinson Of
Brunswick. DR.. o. A. Horr of Lewiston, DR..
J. o. Webster and Secretary Young of Au-
gusta.
Only routine business was ira nsacted.
Prof. Robinson made report of his visit
as delegate to the International Congress of
Hygiene at London In August last. An ac-
count of the principal features of interest
will be published later, probably in the Sani-
tary Inspector.
Arrangements were completed for the sani-
tary convention to be held In Portland Octo-
ber 27th. October 1st the following circular
letter will be issued:
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
League Standing.

The following is the standing of the Ma
tional League:
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
BASE BALL.
The National League.

The following games were played yseter-
day in the National League:
AT PITTSBURG.
SEiinclnnatls ...."...1 Q 2 0 0 x z
Pittsburgs. o 2 1 0 0 O. s
Base hits -Cincinnatis, s; Pittsburgs, H. Err
Tors-Clncinnatis, g.; PitIsburgs, A. Batteries
Ming and Miller, Mullane and Harrington.
AT BOSTON.
Bostons. .............1 / / s o oil
New Yorks.........0 o o o l. 3
Base hits-Bostons. Ia; New York, TO- Errors
Bost0ns, 2; New York, 8. Nichols and Bennett
Coughlin, Buckley and Burrill.
AT BROOKLYN.
Brooklyns.. .........4 1 0 2 1 o. 8
Philadelphias..... 1 o o o I O. 8
Base hlts-Brooklyns, IL; Philadelphias, 13.
Errors -Brooklyns. /; Phlladelplas. 2. Batteries
Foutz and Kinslow Gleason ana Brown.
AT CLEVELAND.
Clevelands. s.....,....1 o o L o o.
Chicagos.. o o o 2 o 0 o. 2
Base ts-Clevelands, q; Chlcagos o. Errors
-Cleyelands L; Chicagos, /. Batteries-Young
and Doyle, Hutchinson and Schriver.
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29

A despatch from Vienna says the Sultan
of Turkey has taken vigorous measures to
repress brigandage in that country.
Dispatches from RaDgoop, the capital OF
British Burmab, say feeling of uneasiness
prevails there over a probable attack by Da-
colts on the garrison at Wuntho. Several
minor conflicts have already occurred
The Moscow GaZ5tte, in reporting the
movement of Russian troops on the Afghan
frontier, boasts that England's impudent
menaces in the Dardanelles matter will be
answered in Asia, where there is no Drei
bund to assist England, aud that every blow
struck at Russian diplomacy In Europe will
be met by a blow in Asia.
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
Chapman Would Not Appear.

BosToN, ,an,ns Septemoerb dbangeS baaSngmSSeorge W, Chap
with criminals, who was cited to appear he
fore the police commissioners this forenoon
declines to appear and has surrendr red hi:
licence as a private detective. His reason
missioners have prejudiced his case. o''''-
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
Weather Observations.

Mean daily ther... 81, Max. vel. wind. ....10 SW
Minimum ther.....52.7l
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29

Immigrant Inspector . =, FqEness at ogdens-
burg, n. T., reports 70 tne treasury Depart
ada ten men who tried to enter this country
In Violation of the alien contract labor law.
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29

g,van in the town hall by the pupils of the
5MT 55aroehiai schools. Bishop Healey will pre-.
Side large number and tew Of priests d,tst the may
or of Waterville anu r aom citizens outside
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
the WEAThs sR.
showers for Iomarro

Showers for Tom orrow.
WASHINGTON, September 2S.-For Maine:
warmer and fair Tuesday; cooler and show
ers Wednesday; southwesterly winds.
Local Weather Report.
PORTLAND, Me-, September 20, 1891.
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
The sIgri Affair.


LONDON, September 2S.-The official En-
glish report on the Sigri incident states the
maIeuvres were carried on by permission of
the Turkish officials
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
FREE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.
The Third annual Meeting at Ply
mouth Church.

The third annual meeting of the Maine
Free Baptist Association will begin at Ply
m ,uth church, in this city, this evening and
last through Thursday. This Is the pro-
Oramma.
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
OBITUARY..
Israel bennett.

BIDDEFoRD, September 28.-Israel Den
nett, prominent citizen Of Kennebunkport,
died suddenly Sunday. He formerly lived In
Biddeford, was a member Of the city council,
and employed In the repair shop OF the Pep
perell Mills for 80 years. He leaves family.
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
Charles Cook

PORTSMOUTH, N. N, September 2S:- Chas.
Cook of York, Me-, died suddenly this morn
ing, Of heart disease. For many years he
lived In Boston, and for time was superln-
tendent Of the Hawthorne Coach Company's
red line. He was superintendent OF the
Quincy Railroad, Grove Hall line, before it
became absorbed by the West End road. He
leavpe M family.
The Portland daily press., 1891-09-29
AT WASHINGTON
Association Standing.

The following is the standing of the Ameri-
can Association:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-18
STATISTICS OF PAUPERlSM,

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE census of
fee has issued bulletin on the subject oi
paUpers in alms-houses in 1890, which
shows total of e. .055 as against &C. .203 in
1880 These are divided according to sex
and color, as follows: Number of males
1854; number of females, white, 26, 191
number of famales, colored, S,113. In the
number of colored persons given above are
included sixteen male and twenty female
Indians and twelve male and one female
Chinese.
The ratio OF paupers to the total popula-
tiou was l to T5S The present ratio is !
TO $50. This is very marked relative de-
crease The alms-house system is not
keeping pace with the growth of the popu-
lation at large. The decline in the ratio is
due to the very much smaller number of
pauperS cared for in alms-houseS in the
North Atlantic division where there has
been not only a relative decrease, but de-
crease in number. In respect to nativity,
not including the colored paupers who
may all be supposed to be natives, except
the thirteen Chinese, of the &c, ,5TS white
paupers 36. 65S are native-born, q, ,64S for
eign born, and the place of birth of 2 274 is
unknown.
The numerical order of the states &C
cOrding to the numbea of paupers in
aims houses reported in each of them is
as follows: Nav York, 10.2S2;; Pennsyl-
vania, S,653, Ohio, 7.400; Illinois, $685.;
Massachusetts, 4,725; Indiana, 1927; New
Jersey, 2,71S; Wisconsin, 2,641; California,
1900; Missouri, 2, ,37S Virginia 2, 1913; Mich
igan, 1,0l6; Iowa; 1921, Maryland, 1899;
Kentucky, 1878; Tennessee, 1.545; North
Carolina, !, ,493; Connecticut, 1.43S; Maine
1,l6l; New Hampship, l, l43; Georgia, COL;
Vast Virginia, 72S; Alabama, 63; Kansas,
593; South Carolina, 57S; Vermont, 543;
Mississippi, 494; Rhode Island, 400; Texas,
464; Minnesota, 3G5; Delaware, 299; Ne
braska, 1911; Arkansas, 22S; District of Co
lumbia, 221; Montana, 139; Louisiana. 1872:
Oregon, 80; Colorado, SIC; Washington, al;
Utah, 81; South Dakota, So; Nevada, 43;
North Dakota 80; Florida, "A; Arizona, %;
Idaho, 20; New Mexico, l.
The number of outdoor poor, meaning
by that phrase the poor who are perma-
nently supported at public expense at
their own homes or with private fami-
lies, is stated to be approximately 24,000
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-18
A SCARED mosseAcK.

WASHINGTON, July H. Congressman
Oates, of Alabama, in a conversation with
reporter regarding the political outlook
in the south. said:
THE situation as I view it, referring
particularly to the south, is serious one
fraught with danger The Third party
movement can no longer be ignored. The
Alliance is trying to swallow the Domoc-
racy of the southern states. 1t is bent on
putting out ticket in the next national
contest. Unless the Democrats come bold
ly to the front and declare their hostility
to the pet doctrines of the Ailiance-the
sub-treasury scheme, government owner
ship of the transportation lines, and gov
ernment loans on land securities-we are
in imminent danger of ruin as party.
Resolutions condemning these pernic-
ious ideas should be introduced in every
Democratic primary and convention. Why,
such fallaclous and Utopian plans SO inim-
icaI to our scheme of government have
never been advocated-not even by the Re
publican party. No compromise can be
made with advocates of such a vicious
platform, and square out fight has got to
come.
Il am friendly to and have the greatest
respect for our farming brethren, but they
have been deluded by such tricksters as
Macune and company with their specious
arguments and demagogical heresies. But
say, again, if the southern Democracy IS
not wide awake and aggressive disaster
will come upon them"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-18
TOPEKA NOTES.

TOPEKA, Kan. July IA letter from
Senator Peffer, who Is now stUmping
Kentucky, states that he will remain in
that state several days longer, and will
cancel his dates for the four mass meetings
in Georgia. The interests of the Peoples
party demand that every effort be put forth
to carry Kentucky as an entering wedge to
break the solid south.
Judge Q. w. Mckay of Harper county,
the Alliance judge who was to have gone
to Ann Arbor to study law after he was
elected to Office, is interfering with the SUI
pTeme court, and may get himself into
trouble He has made three orders which
have set aside orders of the supreme court.
One of these cases was brought to public
notice to-day by an application for a writ
of hsbeas corpus against j. r. Hsines,
sheriff of Harper county, and {. w. Nc
KAY, Judge of the district court. The writ
asked is for the release from the Harper
county jail of B. A. Burr, who is confined
there on the order of Judge Mckay, who
fined Burr $50 and committed him to Jail
for failure to pay the fine, for an alleged
contempt Of court.
Burr was appointed receiver of some
property owned by Albert Honeywell in
sane, against which there were foreclosure
proceedings pending in the Harper county
court HonevwelPs guardian asked to
have Burr removed, and the request was
granted by Judge Mckay. Burr. how
ever, applied to the supreme court for an
order prohibiting Judge Mckay from in
terfering with him as receiver Chief
Justice Horton made the order applied
for, but Judge Mckay made an order
calling Burr before him for contempt of
court. Burr replied that the order he had
not obeyed was not a legal order, but
Judge Mckay fined him $50 for contempt
Of court and ordered him confined in Jail
until it was paid. A temporary writ was
granted today in the supreme court order
ing Burr released on 81, 300 bond and the
hearing is set for September l.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-18
GRASSHOPPERS,

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, July rs. II.
Lawson, a prominent stock man, of Dem
ing, n. NJ, has arrived here and gives an
account of the grasshopper ravages in the
northern and western counties OF New
Mexico, where he says, they are doing IN
calculable harm. Some consider them the
seventeeu-year locusts which ravaged the
west during the '70's. The locusts are
moving east and north and the two princi-
pal swarms are devouring the grass on the
ranges and leaving the alkali bare. They
have stripped the vegetation and the trees,
and left nothing but the dry alkah earth.
Where they have struck the Rio Grande
valley where the land is cultivated, they
have ravaged the ground of everything in
sight. They move in punches four and
five miles wide. One bunch has devastated
Colfax and Mora counties in the northern
part of the territory, and is spreading into
Colorado, Kansas and the Panhandle of
Texas while another bunch will reach the
central Texas line by winter. They donot
make much progress after flying. but the
eggs they lay hatch and each new batch
flies eastward. They will keep moving in
this way and lay billions of eggs in Texas
and Kansas for next seasons Matching. 1t
will be bad for the ranges ofwestern Texas,
for IL they cross New Mexico they will
have notrouble on the old staked plains.
They may not reach eastern Texas soon
enough to destroy the crops. But as for
Kansas, Mr. Lawson thinks it will go hard
with her in 1892
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-18
A KENTUCKY LYNCHING.

LOUISVILLE. KY, July IA desperate
attempt was made to assasslDate the Mid
dleborougn police force yesterday after
noon about O'clock. 1t seems that lot
of disreputable characters who frequent
Gum Springs" a low drinking aud
gambling dive just outside the city limits,
formed plot to murder the officers. They
accordingly strung about fifteen of their
gang in ambush along the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, and two of their num-
Der came Just within the city limits and
commenced firing their Winchesters.
These two were Gillas johnson and Frank
Rossimus. Chief Naples, with a posse of
officers, went in pursuit of the pair and
were led into the ambush. Over hun
dred shots were exchanged. Special
Officer Dorsey Williams was shot through
both thighs, and Patrolman Tucker was
shot through one leg. The police were
forced to retreat.
They returned to the city and a posse of
about 100 citizens armed with rifles was
soon marching in pursuit. Finally, one
squad came upon Johnson and Rossimus
at sharp bend in the road. The two
toughs threw up their Winchesters and
opened fire. The squad returned the fire
and about seventy-five shots were fired,
when the toughs took to the bush. Rossl-
mus was captured a few minutes later,
just as he had drawn bead on Officer
OOu8ldSS. III dnOJueT ulOIHcDO Ilc OIIiCCi
would have been a dead man, as he was
only about ten feet from Rossimus, who
was concealed by bush. Five Winches-
ters leveled at him caused him to surren
der. He was lodged in the city jail here.
About O'Clock last night Johnson sent
word that he would surrender if he would
be taken Immediately to the county Jail at
Pineville. He accordingly surrendered
to a deputy sheriff outside the city limits,
and was smuggled to the county jail on
the o'clock train.
A bout l O'Clock this morning crowd of
masked men entered Jailor Potts sleeping
apartment at the city Jail and demanded
the keys, The jailor was forced to give up
the keys. The crowd then went into the
jail, took Rossimus out, gagged him. and
led him to the bridge over the canal on
Twentieth street, where he was shot sew
eral times in the head. A rope was then
fastened around his neck, and the body
was swung over the side of the bridge, and
left there until o'clock, when he was cut
down. A placard was stuck on the bridge
just above the body bearing this inscrip-
tion: Warning: This is the fate of all
would be murderers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-18
LIE Sal ION AYE

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.-THE source Of
the Salton lake is now settled. The water
cones from the Colorado river, and a
newspaper party has just come into Salton
from Yuma, having made the whole dis
tance in boat. They report that the Col
orado river has broken through the west
ern banks at several points, the original
hanks being about twenty miles from
Yuma. This overflow filled large basin
bounded by the Southern Pacific track on
the northeast: by the Colorado river on
the southeast, and by ridge of hills some
distance south of SalUon on the northwest.
This basin was filling rapidly when the
second break occurred in the last named
range OF hills, freeing an immense volume
of water through two streams into Saltou
basin and forming the present lake The
saliuity of the water Is explained by the
large deposits OF salt in the desert. The
water is bringing down an immense lot of
seed and excellent cattle food is springing
up everywhere The desert viii soon have
good pasturage.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-18
LadLea. STAY In Bed.

Polly Peppers says that early rising wears
out women too fast. notice that our
thrifty greataunts and grandmothers had
habit of dying early and giving their
husbands an opportunity of leading two
or three blushing brides to the altar. Now,
don't propose to leave any chance for my
husband to get any such double or triple
bliss as that. don't intend to have any
other woman walking around in my shoes,
appropriating my kisses and doing other
disagreeable things which I should object
to.
/ mean to take care of myself so as to last
as long as my better half. No woman has
any business, ordinarily, to get up and go
to work at or 5 O'Clock in the morning.
If there is anything in the world that o
woman needs it is plenty of rest. If she
feels tired and languid in the morning and
hates to get up, it is sure sign that she
is OVERRIDING and wearing out. Six o'clock
is as early IS any one ought to get up and
go to work.-Anerican Home.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-18
TIRE EVENTS


CHICAGO, July 17.-The event of the day
at the Washington Park races was 70
Tambine's winning the Lake View hAndl-
cap, three. quarters of a mile, in 1:l4%, the
fastest time made in the west this year.
Other winners were: Laura Davidson,
Linlithgow, Nina Archer, Homer, Rival.
PITTsBURG, July 1.-THE Grand Circuit
trotting meeting at Homewood Driving
Park closed to-day. Bud Doble drove
Nancy Hanks to beat 2:1011 for purse of
$500. She failed in this, but lowered her
record to PA. In the 2:25 class, trotting,
Redmont won, Happy Bee second. Best
time, 2:21. Free for all-McDoet won,
Rosalind second. Best time, 2:15%. Pac-
ing. 2:20 class-Lady Sheridan won. Mon
roe Bristor second. Best time, 2:20H.
SAGINAW. Mich, July 17.-Nelson at
tempted to lower his record of 2:10sl, but
failed Time, 2:t1%. Free for all. trotting
-Alcyon first, Homestake second. Time,
2:16. 2:40, trotting-Emma Balch won,
Mayor Mitchell second. Time, 2:20$z.
Three minute stake-Little Albert won,
Clara K second. Best time, 2:2lI.
Boston, July 17.-Last day of the Mystic
park races: 231 1class-Mountaineer first,
Clsoa second. Best time, 2:2SA. The 2:30
class was won by Ramona, Dumette Sec
ond. Best time, 2:24%.