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The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

Page 1.
General telegraphic news.
Weather indications.
The Lfmington robber caught
Page 2.
Base ball news.
Maine Towns.
Page 3.
Senator David Bennett Hill.
PACED.
Editorials.
Personal and Peculiar.
An American private soldier.
Pages.
Deaths and marriages.
Music and drama
Personal mention.
Stoddard lectures.
The Fl. L. Willard overdue.
Serious accident.
Nearly burned to death.
Page 6.
Wit and Wisdom.
Poem, My Sweetheart
Page z.
Financial and Commercial.
Marine News.
Brief Jottings. Z
Young Mems Republican Club.
City Government
Launching of the CaStine.
Gospel Mission Sunday School.
The death rate.
Obituary.
The City of westbrook.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09

!, DR.. Arthur Chase who is practicing
dentistry at Sullivan came very near los,
ing his life by an accident few days ago
In mixing sedlitz he used by mistake
cocaine. After drinking the mixture the
evil effects of the poison asserted them
selves. In short time his strength was
cone. his face discolored and he could
hardly speak. DR.. Stevens, who was
hastily summoned, administered strong
antidotes and in a few hours the doctor
was out Of danger.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
5 A. M 8 P. NJ.
Weather Observations.

The following are the observations of
the Agricultural Department Weather
Bureau for yesterday May s, taken at
8 p. m, 10Th meridian time, the OBJ
servations for each station being given in
this order: Temperature, direction of
the wind, state Of the weather:
Boston. $50, NV, partly cloudy; New
York, 620, N, cloudless; Philadelphia,
5s0, NV, cloudless; Washington, 44o, N,
cloudless; Albany, $50, N, cloudless
Buffalo, 42o, SW, clondless; Detroit,
42o, NE, cloudy; Chicago, 42o. NV,
cloudy; st. Paul, SOP, NE, cloudy; Du--
luth missing; st. Vincent, AS, E, cloudy;
Huron, So. Oak, 42o, NE, rain; Bis
marck, 400, E, cloudy; Jacksonville, 720,
cloudy. .sa ~
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
In Beautiful Texas.

SAN ANGELO, Texas, May s.-Friday
night, a strong wind, accompanied by
hail and a waterspout from the north,
struck San Angelo, lasting nearly two
hours. Vegetables were beaten into the
ground and trees stripped of their fruit.
A large number OF roofs were perforated
The Santa Fe railroad has several miles
of track near the town washed away.
There were no trains in or out of San An
gelo Yesterday. The Electric Light &,
Power Company's dam in the main Con
cho river, was washed away. Loss $1,000.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
EUROPE STILL HEARS THEM.
Yesterdays Dynamite Explosion Was il
Town in Hungary.

VIENNA, May s.-The residence of
district notary named Papp, at versecz,
Hungary, was wrecked today by dyna-
mite explosion. The roof of the nota-
.ry's dwelling was blown bodily into the
air, and het windows of all the buildings
in the vicinity shattered. It is supposed
the motive of the perpetrator or perpe-
traitors, was revenge. A Roumanian was
arrested on suspicion of being connected
with the affair.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09

Yesterday morning man went to Pa
quet's stable on India street and hired
a horse and express wagon for two hours
to haul some freight to the Boston boat.
The two hours elapsed but the man
didn't return with the team.
In the afternoon the people at the foot
of Browns hill, in Pleasantdale, Cape
Elizabeth, saw party of men with
horse and wagon. The party also had a
keg of beer and were evidently drunk
enough to be quarrelsome. They were
beating the horse cruelty with base
ball bat. Mr.. William Burgess,
of town constable, who lives near by, at
tempted to arrest the men when they
turned upon him and beat him terribly.
He was knocked down by fearful blow
on the face and then while lying half
unconscious on the ground, was kicked
upon the body by some Of the party.
The rioters then jumped into the team
and made off. They drove down over
Browns hill and into Knightville but
some of the neighbors who had heard of
the assault on Mr.. Burgess headed them
off, going to Knightville by road nearer
the shore and notifying Constable James
E. Hayes of the assault. Mr.. Hayes
with two citizens was on hand when the
team came along and succeeded in cap
turing it with one of the occupants and
the beer keg. The poor horse had been
so beaten that he could hardly walk. He
was taken to nearby stable and another
horse procured to haul the wagon to the
city.
The team was identified upon its arri-
val in town as the one hired of Paquet in
the morning. Mr.. Paquet also identified
the man under arrest, who gave the name
of Flaherty, as the fellow who hired his
horse. The keg bore the direction ''Mr.
Egan, Z Cotton street."
Last evening report was circulated
that Mr.. Burgess was vomiting blood
from an internal injury and could live
but short time. A visit to the injured
officers house, however, showed this ru-
NOR to be greatly exaggerated. Mr.. Bur-
CESS was suffering from the severe
bruises received in the struggle and had
expectorated considerable blood. This
he thought came from his lips which
had been badly cut. He complained of
severe pain in the region of his heart
where he had been kicked, but did not
regard his injuries as sufficiently serious
to keep him indoors today.
Mr.. Burgess said that he went to make
the arrest at the request of two men W no
live near Cash's Corner. He told the
drunken party that they must stop their
noise and behave themselves. They i'm
mediately assaulted him. Finding him
self overpowered, the constable called on
the two men for assistance, but they, he
says, promptly made off. Mr.. Burgess
now threatens to arrest them for refus-
ing to aid an officer.
The horse lived only about an hour,
his death being due to over driving and
abuse. The man calling himself Flaherty
was the only one arrested. Mr.. Bur-
CESS said there were six or seven of them
in the party which attacked him. When
Hayes made the capture of Flaherty the
others ran in the direction of Clark's ice
house near Ligonia and probably made
their way back to town by the Eastern
railroad or Vaughan's bridge.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
FARMS UNDER WATER.
Horses. Cows. Hogs and Sheep Swept
Away-No Human Lives Lost.

Away-No Human Lives Lost.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, May S.-Reports
Of extensive devastation by the water of
the st. Joseph, lSt. Mary and Maumee
rivers continue to come in. Not less
than 500 farms on the lowlands are over
flowed and great deal of timber that
was cut for the mills has gone down
stream. Louis Isaby, a farmer living on
the banks of the Maumee, four miles be-
low Fort Wayne, lost all his horses, COWS,
hogs and sheep in the flood, besides sew
eral acres of cord wood. No human
lives were lost, as the rise was gradual
giving all a chance to escape. While the
river is still high above its banks, the
waters are receding and, if the weather
remains fair, the danger is over. Fami-
lies who moved out Of their houses on
the lowlands at Fort Wayne cannot be
induced to move back.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
A Boom for Boies.

CHICAGO, May Especial dispatches
from several points in Iowa state that the
delegates elected in the district conyen-
tions have been instructed to vote only
for delegates at the state convention who
will pledge themselves to work for the
nomination of Governor Boies for Presi-
dent.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
He ALMOST ESCAPED.
Uncle Sans Men Had Only Few Days
Left to Make the Arrest.

PHILADELPHIA, May s.-Theodore F.
Hunter, late president of the Phoenix
vile National bank of Ph@nixville, Pa,
arrested charged with making false re-
turns to the comptroller of the currency
was brought to this city today. The felony
would have become outlawed within a
few days. The limitation is three years
rant would have expired May 13.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
He Has Killed His Man and Served
Time for 1t.
DEPUTY SHERIFF PLUMMER AND
DETECTIVE NEWBEGIN GET HIM.

Quiet Meeting at a Portland Hotel
which Resulted In Surprise for Cod
frey-The circumstances of the Rob-
bing of Town Treasurer strout of Linn
ington-Pi emises Haunted Before the
Assault-How Deputy Sheriff Samuel
d. PIummer Laid His Plans and the
Successful Scheme of Detective New
begin-A Chapter that Reads Like a
Sensational Novel.
In room No. 33, at the United States
Hotel, Saturday evening, Deputy Sheriff
Samuel D. Plummer, assisted by Dectec-
tive John F. Newbegin of Boston, COM
pleted one of the most interesting and
brilliant pieces of detective work done
in this part of the country for long
time. They arrested Benjamin Clark
Godfrey of Limington, Me-, charged
with robbing Town Treasurer Leonard
j. Strout of Limington, who, on the
evening of December I'd last, was assault
ed at the door of his own barn, knocked
senseless with club and robbed of his
pocket-book containing over two hun
dred and fifty dollars in cash and checks
and other valuable papers. Godfrey is a
desperate fellow, and although only 81
years old, has already killed his man
and .'done time'' in the States Prison at
Concord, N. H. 1t is his boast that he
will shoot any man who draws a weapon
on him; and he is very proud of his
''quickness at the trigger But Satur-
day night he was entirely unprepared,
and Deputy Sheriff Plummer and Officer
Stevens of the Portland police. who had
been called to assist, had him by the
arms and handcuffed before he really
comprehended what was going on.
The story of the Limington crime was
told partially in the PRESS at the time it
was committed. Mr.. Strout is promi-
nent man in the town of Limington. Be-
sides being town treasurer, he is one of
the trustees of the Academy and does
considerable amount of probate business
for his neighbors and townsmen. He is
himself a man of means. He lives in a
sparsely settled portion of the town on
the road which runs southwest from
Limington village. In travelling on this
road from Limington, one comes first to
a little Quaker chapel in the fork of the
Limington and Saco roads. A short dis
tance beyond the church, and on the
right hand side of the road is house oc-
cupied by Benjamin S. Godfrey, his wife,
five sons and daughter. The God
freys have not lived there long, and cam
not be said to be entirely in the
Confidence of the Nsighborhood.
About 80 rods beyond the Godfreys,
on the opposite side of the road, stands
the home of Town Treasurer Strout,
with its large barn and barnyard
and short distance further
on is the house of Stephen
Hobson, brother-in-law of Mr.. Strout.
The Godfreys have lived wandering
life. Years ago they lived in Stoneham
in Oxford county, Maine. Later they
lived in Freedom, N. H., and still later,
about three or four years ago, they
moved to Gorham, Me-. living about a
mile and half from Standish Corner.
From there they moved to Iimington a
year and half or two years ago. Benia-
min Clark Godfrey, the third son, and the
CONTINUED ON SECOND pAcEA
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
A Trio of Rascals.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 8.-Assistant
Postmaster Carroll, of Alpharetta, KY,
was arrested today for abstracting a
bank check from letter, forging an en-
dorsement and getting a note cashed.
Postmaster Felix Flannery of Alpharetta.
was arrested, charged with complicity
with Carroll. Lummy Price, postmaster
at Pikeville, KY, was arrested charged
with abstracting checks from the mail
and getting them cashed.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09

the Village.
BANGOR, May S.-This afternoon ire
broke out at Conant & Carrs shingle
mill at Oldtown, and spread rapidly to
adjacent property. The fremen of the
neighboring towns came to the assistance
of the oldtown firemen. The mill was
destroyed with a large stock of shingles
and rough material. The loss is 1900;
insurance about $500. Sparks set fire to
the Soper house near by and it burned.
The loss on the dwelling is $1,000, cov-
cred by insurance.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

Last Sunday week, at Bar Harbor,
two young men were strolling in the
woods when they heard cries of distress.
they found woman sitting on stump
and crying. A. rope was around her neck
with long end trailing on the ground.
The woman was uncommunictive and
refused to talk except to say that she
was tired of life and wanted to die.
They tried to get the rope away from her
but she held stubbornly on. Finally she
promised that she would go home. She
looked to be about 40 years old. She
had had, apparently, some family trouble
and had rushed away from home with
the intention Of taking her life, but her
failing courage saved her.
When the tide went out on a recent
afternoon a great commotion was noticed
in the pool in Rodick's weir on the bar
between Bar Harbor and Bar Island. In
vestigation showed that some monster
fish was prisoner. The next forenoon
after the tide had gone out the fish was
landed. 1t proved to be monster, being
little over twelve feet long and exceed
ingly large and fat. 1t was thought by
some, to be of the species known as the
ground shark although larger than ever
seen in that vicinity before. It's color
was dark brown and its skin very rough
and prickly. Its mouth was located
well under its head and was about foot
across. 1t was thought that it would
weigh something over 1900 pounds. Its
liver filed a barrel and half. A large
number of people went over to see it.
The fish had two well-deflned blow holes
and there is some conjecture as to
whether it was not young whale.
If there have been any doubts in the
minds of any as to the ability of the U.
S. Fish Commissioner to restock Green
Lake, with land locked salmon, recent
eqidence must have dispelled such doubt.
More salmon have been taken since the
opening of the fishing season, than for
| many years, nearly one hundred having
been caught within the past ten days.
The majority of those caught range from
fifteen to twenty inches in length, and
weigh about three pounds, and are with
out doubt, the matured product of the
| first plant of salmon made three years
ago. There We're fifteen Thousand yearl-
ings which were Grand Lake and stream
salmon, Matched and reared by the u. S.
Fish Commission. Already this Lake is
| attracting wide attention and with it's
fine fishing and the immense Matching
works now established there by the y.
S. Government as an attraction. it must
in the near future become a most noted
resort
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
THE DAM AT HENRY.
If That Goes the Devastation VIII Be
Appalling.

PEORIA, ILL.,, May s.-Thousands of
people today visited the inundated dis
tricts surrounding the city. The river is
still raging torrent. This morning it
registered 21 feet and seven inches, rise
of seven inches in "a hours. It is be-
lieved it will not rise much more, but a
strong wind which prevails is dashing
the water so furiously against the banks
that many bridges are liable to be washed
out. A dam at Henry, 40 miles above
here, threatens to go out and should it
do so the devastation along the river will
be appalling. In the Lemarsh district
the destruction continues. Many houses
have f1oated off or been dashed to pieces.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
WILL MEET THEM HALF WAY.
Barre Granite Cutters Make an Offer to
Their Employers.

BARRE, Vt, May 9.-The striking
granite cutters are willing to meet their
employers half way. They will notify
the dealers that they will sign revised
bill of prices, dated May /, the bill to run
one year and continue, if notice of change
is not given six months previous to the
time Jor it's expiration. The dealers
want the bill signed in January, and no.
tice of change in October. The strik-
ers say their proposition is fair, as it
gives the manufacturers ample time to
figure for the summers work. No action
has been taken by the dealers.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
A Firebuc in Saco.

SAco, May 8.-B. M. Littlefeld's steam
saw mill was burned early this morning.
The fire started at 4.30 AS there had
bsen no fire in the stoves and as the
machinery had not been used since Sat-
urday noon, the fire was evidently incen-
diary. The property was valued at $S, 900
and was insured for $4,000.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
A POINT FOR NAVAL CONSTRUCTORS.
How House Swept All Before 1t ON the
River.


SOUTH BEND, Ind, May s.-The high
water caused great excitement here today
and yesterday. Friday night the water
reached high point and was at stand
still for few hours. Towards morning,
it suddenly rose several inches and scores
of factory buildings were in great dam
ger. Hundreds of men worked all last
night and all today moving goods to
places of safety, while others labored to
save the embankments. Early this
morning large house went over the
dam and tore out portion of the apron.
1t passed under the bridges without
straining the piers. At Bertrand the
house struck bridge and carried away
a section of it just as Frank G. Nippold
was crossing in his buggy. The horse
and buggy were lost but Nippold swan
ashore greatly exhausted. The water
has receded somewhat.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
A Bath Woman Fatally Burned.

BATH, May Mrs. McDonough of
Bath, who was severely burned here
Friday while kindling fire with kero
scend died from the effects of the burns
this morning, aged 55 years.
The five-year-old daughter of William
Williams was burned to death yesterday
afternoon, her clothing catching from a
brush fire her father was building.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
Sixteen Inches of Snow.

RusHvILLE, Neb., May s.-snow has
fallen here during the past IS hours to
the depth of 16 inches.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
The Lockout Coming.

QUINCY, Mass, May s.-The Manufac-
turers' Association decided Saturday eve
ming to return to the quarrymen's old
bill of prices to be signed to terminate
January /, 1898. This is understood to
be the prelude to a formal lockout next
Saturday, when 10000 men in New Eng
land will take an enforced vacation.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09

Dropped Man and His Team Into
the Torrent-A Texas waterspout.
KANSAS CRY, No., May S.-Heavy
rain has been falling since midnight last
night and accounts are coming from all
over the western Missouri and eastern
Kansas of overfowed streams. In some
localities, towns are flooded and some
damage is reported to dwellings. The
flood came so suddenly in other districts
that farmers had no time to prepare for
it. Much of their stock was drowned
and washed away. Growing crops were
badly damaged. Thousands of fields
will be replanted. In Saline county, Mo-,
all the streams are reported out of their
banks and the whole country is turned
into lake. Houses have been washed away
and much stock lost. Along the Platte
river and the One Hundred and Two
river, the whole country is inundated
and houses and barns destroyed. In Liv-
ingstone, Grundy and Mercer counties, the
district from Chillicothe to the low
line is one sea of water. All the crops
are washed out for miles throughout the
Grand River valley and much stock is
lost. In Oklohoma territory, steady
rain has fallen for "a hours and all the
streams have overfowed their banks.
Many bridges We're carried away. A
small cyclone accompanied by rain,
north of Guthrie, did considerable dam
age. Three houses were carried some
distance by the cyclone and badly dam
aged. Many barns and other buildings
were destroyed.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
ToUeHs ON A SPREE.

They Nearly Killed Constable Burgess
Their Horse They Abused SO That it
Dfed--Seven Men and Beer Keg in the
Debauoh--one Man and the Empty
Keg Captured.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
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FIREMAN:s MUSTER.

They Went to Oldtown and HelpsA Save
the Village.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-09
THE LAND HAS SHRUNK.
Western States Becoming Islands in
Great Inland Seas.
DAMS, BRIDGES AND HOUSES GONE
BEFORE THE FLOODS.

Immense Loss Of Life Among Cattle and
Other Farm Stock-The Owners More
Fortunate-How House Sailed Down
River, Knocked Over Bridge and
Dropped Man and His Team Into
the Torrent--A Texas Waterspout.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1892-04-27
NATIONAL LEGISLATION.
Not Much Done in Either Branch
of Congress-.

WAHlNGToN, April 27.-The opening
hour Of the house session today was an
unusually dull one. Various measures
were presented for action. They were
all of local Importance, but after some
time had been consumed in reading bills
and reports, objections to their passage
was interjected. BY unanimous consent
the Walker eXpunging resolution still
blocking the way of the regular order
the house went into committee OF the
whole on the diplomatic and consular
appropriation bill.
In the senate the resolution offered sew
eral weeks ago by Mr.. Stewart calling
on the secretary of the treasury tor IN
formation as to the purchase of silver
bullion and the coinage OF standard Sill
yer dollars under the act OF 1890, was
taken up for action and was agreed to,
with an amendment offered by Mr.. Nor
rill, requiring the secretary to state also
the amount which the silver dollars and
bullion on hand would have cost at the
present price of silver bullion.
The army appropriation bill was then
taken up, the question being on the strlk'
ing out the house proviso which pro-
hibits payment for the transportation Of
troops and supplies of the army over
any of the unbonded lines owned, con
trolled or operated by the Union Pacific
railway company, including the lines o
the Oregon Short line and the Utai
Northern railway company or by th'
Southern Pacific railway company owe
lines embraced in its Pacific system.