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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-14
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Speaking of the liquor agencies, the
Bridgton News says:

sopcdhluS VI tlO ilIttOA "soS0'
Bridgton News says:
Upon mature deliberation and OBJ ervatlon
OF the workings of the system we IND ourselves
IN hearty accord with the following from the
Biddeford Journal: The municipal plan 81 OF
dispensing liquors in Maine has been tried for
thirty years, and to date it has proved dis
graceful failur-. The average agency, legal
lied for humane aud Industrial uses, is today
practically an open rum shop. competing with
saloons an Stun dives of it neighborhood for
the drink business, with the advantage that it
is not subject to the raids of the police or the
f. sheriff" And the nuisance should be abated.
This is good sense. But as liquor is
needed sometimes for medicinal pur-
poses, some means must be provided by
which it may be obtained, without in
ducing people to violate the law. This
means is provided, and well provided,
we believe, by the druggist b Il now be-
fore the legislature.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-14

Our esteemed contemporary the Argus
thinks, anent the nomination of Murphy,
that David B. Hill would not have IA
vored the election to the Senate of an
unfit man. But the omniscient Mr..
Cleveland said that Mr.. Murphy was I'M
fit.
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MISCELLANEOUS,
MISCELLANEOUS,
NERVOUS PROSTRATION And
ERYSIPELAS CURED.
RESTORED TO PERFECT HEALTH.

SKoDA DISCOVERY Co.:
GENTLEMEN - For number OF
years 1 have been severely afflicted
with Erysipelas, Bilious Trouble, and
Nervous Prostitution. lost flesh and
became much run down in strength.
Less than course of SKODA'S DIS
COVERY, with the LITTLE TAB
LETS, has completely cured me. I
have gained 20 lbs. in flesh, and never
was in more perfect health in my life.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-14

General Master Workman Powderly
publicly announces that he is Socialist.
So far as heard from the news has pro-
dueed no great commotion.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-14

Ex-senator Morgan of Alabama is now
prominently mentioned as Mr.. Cleve-
lands Secretary of State. Between the
present and the fourth of March til r.
will be time enough to ''mention'' good
many others.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-14

The Texas Populists have voted to re-
quest Congress to build a peoples rail
road'' from that State to Canada. Be-
fore the extradition treaty with England
was amended such a railroad would
have been great convenience to many
people, bnt at the present time neither
public convenience nor necessity requires
u
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-14
MRS. L. F. INGRAHAM,
Rockland, Me.

My little boy, Harry, has suffered
for years with bad humor, on his
head, which baffled the skill of physi-
clans, and did not yield to other rem
edies tried. A systematic use exter-
nally of SKODA'S GERMAN SOAP,
and SKODA'S OINTMENT, has com
pletely cured him. Respectfully,
MRS. L. F. INGRAHAM.
Mrs. Ingraham is a lady Of culture and
refinement, widely and favorably known,
and her endorsement speaks for itself.
sKoDA DISCOVERY CO., BELFAST, NE.
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We fear that before Mr.. Francis Bel
lamy realizes his dream of liberty,
equality and fraternity" human nature
will have to undergo very thorough re-
vision-more thorough than can be
brought about by legislative enact
ment
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-14

The legislature has got down to work
quickly and is paying close attention to
business. All of which is greatly to its
credit
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-14

Mr.. Cleveland says he has nothing to
say of the nomination of Murphy at
present. When he begins to send New
York nominations to the Senate perhaps
he will say something.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-14
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY, JANUARY IA.

It is sad to see that the Boston Herald
is not reconciled to the selection Of Sem
ator Carlisle for Secretary of the Treas
,,ru
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UNION MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Your Home Company, the
Union Mutual Life paid to its
Policy-hOfders and their Bene-
ficiaries during the year ending
December 81, 1892, nearly seven
hundred thousand dollars.
Those who desire the deuelOp-
ment of home institutions will
be interested to note that for the
FOURTH consecutive year, an
increase has been made in new
business written in Maine by its
Home Company, the Union Mu-
tual.
During the past three years
the new business written in
Maine, when compared with that
of the three preceding years
shows an increase of more than
one million dollars.
The policy plans of the Com
pany are comprehensive and en-
brace an entirely new issue of
Trust Policies the features Of
which commend themselves to
those who desire insurance pro-
lection during their life time
with the certainty of Trust pro-
visions after their death for the
benefit of their family.
JAM eodn
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-14
nrHECroRs.

DIRECTORS.
Byron ID. verrill, President, Attorney at
Law. Portland, Maine.
Weston Lewis, President MaineTrust and
Banking Company, Gardiner, Me.
stephen J. Young, Treasurer Bowdoin
College, Brunswick, Me.
L. L. Keith, President Machias Bank and
Treasurer Machias Savings Bank, Machias,
Me.
Theodore @. Woodbury., of Messrs. Wood
bury s. Moulton, Bankers, Portland, Me.
The bonds are in denominations OF $1,000
$500 and $780, bearing 51a Per Cent. interest
payable semi-annually at the Company's Office
in Portland Maine.
We have made careful examination of this
Security and can recommend these bonds for
Trust Funds, as we believe them to be per
fectiy safe security, based as they are on the
ing, and secured by Municipal Obligations.
We shall be pleased to give further informa-
ton in regard to these bonds upon application.
Price par and accrued interest.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-14

stories of ballot box stufing at the
South were Republican lies invented for
political effect.
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RINES BROTHERS.
FINANCIAL.
Municipal security Company.

A LII coupons from Municipal Security Com,
"A pany Bonds, due on January }. 1893, Will
be paid on and after that date, at the office OF
Messrs. Woodbury. & Moulton, Portland, Me.
dec28dtf FREDERICK F. TALBOT. Sec'y.
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We OFFER FOR SALE
Municipal Security
COMPANY
) 1-2Per Cent Bonds
DUE 1899.

Especially secured by Municipal Evidences
o indebtedness, deposited with the Trustee
The bar value Of such deposited debts and OBJ
LEGATIONS, exceeding by ten per cent the par
value Of the outstanding bonds issued by the
Security Company.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-09
ERQM WASHINGTON.

THE business failures in the United
States in the seven days ended on the
lst numbered $50, against 40 the pre-
ing time last year.
THROUGHOUT the country the national
bank note circulation increased during
the month of August SIG, ,3S2, O54, the
circulation now being sl9S, Ss1. .SSi.
In the United States the exchanges
at the leading clearing houses during
the week ended on the LIST aggregated
vious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1892,
was 32.5.
THE statement of the public debt
issued on the 1st showed that the debt
increased $40, 442, S9S during the month
of August The cash in the treasury
was sIl2, s57,s The total debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury.
amounts to 53,616,3lS.
ACCOMPANIED by Mrs. Cleveland the
president returned to Washington in
excellent health.
AT the several mints in the country
the silver bullion on hand was said to
be lS4,625, 492 fine ounces, valued at
s122. .3O3, ,I56.
GOVERNMENT receipts during August
aggregated s23, 500. .ss5, against $780,
1870 in August year ago The en-
penditures were $3S, ,3O5, ,22S, or about
g., 600, 600 more than during August a
year ago.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-09
Observation-Disclosures.

AT n dance near Sonora, Mexico,
Pedro Martinez stabbed and instantly
killed Miss Maria Gonzales. a girl of
IL, for refusing to join him in a dance
A crowd pelted Martinez fatally with
stones.
EDWARD VEzzY and BViolet ucking-
ham were married at Branfort, Ont,
few days ago, and now it has been
discovered that they were brother and
sister. They had been separated since
childhood.
Is London the packing box factory of
George York & Co, the pianoforte fac
tory of Squire &c Sops and several other
places were burned, the total loss being
s4O0, ZOO.
In South Wales over GO,OOO miners
who struck for higher wages returned
to work at the cd prices
THE royalists at Honolulu plotted TO
blow up public buildings. fire the city
and restore the queen, but they were
foiled. @
HUNDREDS of persons were dying of
starvation in Hokchang, China, and the
cholera was raging.
THE home rule bill passed third read
ing in the British house of commons by
a majority of thirty-four. It now goes
to the lords
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-09
A GRAND SHUToUT.
Boomers Who Will Fail to Show the Nee.
essary Qualities to Register.

Boomers Who Will Fail to Show the Nee.
essary Qualities to Register.
GUTHRIE. Okla. Aug. 31.-The inte-
rior department agents have just ar
rived here with blanks showing what
will be required of all persons intend
ing to settle upon the Cherokee strip.
Before gettings permit 10 enter the
land, each person wanting it must
make oath that he has not been on the
land and viii not go on until the hour
of opening. The men wanting a home
stead must have all the legal qualifca-
tions, and in addition must certify.
that he has not made or commuted
a homestead entry since March ., 1889;
does not own 100 acres of land; will
keep the homestead he is about to en-
ter for his own home. and will not
speculate with the same; has not
agreed TO sell the land or any timber,
stone or mineral thereon; is not in the
employ of any person or corporation to
aid them in securing land; has never
been on the land, and will not go on
until the hour of opening. These re-
quirements are so strict as to shut out
half the people now arriving to enter
the land
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-09
LArkn adviees say that since the re.

LArkR advices say that since the re-
cent storm in the south 800 dead bodies
have been found on the ISLANDS about
Beaufort and Port Royal, :. C., and that
the total number of dead would reach
1000. Over 1900, COO worth of proper
ty was wrecked near the same points.
J Near Jacksonville. Fla, fourteen dead
bodies were found, and the damage to
fruit trees and orange groves was enor-
nous
Ar the session in St Louis of the sew
enth international Sunday school con-
IsFepfiOn the report of Secretary Porter
showed the number of Sunday schools
of the United States and British Amer
ica to be $50, 1917; teachers and officers,
!, ,372, SIS; scholars, 10, $40, 104; total, IL
242. .66a.
WHILE carelessly handling n revolver
supposed to be unloaded Leo Stafford
shot and killed his bride of six weeks at
East Liverpool, O.
THE total paid admissions during the
first four months of the worlds fair
numbered 9,99O,699 by months the at
tendance was: May, 1,050,0S7; June,
1875, llS; July, 2, 76o, s6s; August, s,514,-
es6. -
Is Chicago Judge Goggin declared
the worlds fair Sunday opening in
junction should stand, overriding
1dges Dunno and Brentano and sur
prising court attendants.
FIVE tramps and Jack Swanson, the
engineer, We're killed in freight
train wreck near BRENNAN, Tex, and
Fireman Cameron and brakeman Ford
were fatally injured. sE
ii. S. BuNDY. of jackson county, was
nominated for congress in the Tenth
Ohio district on the 1, 793d ballot. MIR.
Bundy has served two terms in con-
gress.
AT Rockford, Ill, the Royal Sewing
Machine company made an assignment
with liabilities of sl19, 900 and assets of
$4,000.
WHILE insane Samuel Deeters, of
Waterloo, ind, shot and killed Amos
Bactel and fatally shot Mrs Lowe,
neighbors, and wounded his mother.
FIRE destroyed the business part Of
DE Pauw. Ind.
THE following executions took place:
ueorge S. Turner Ia wealthy mani at
Spartenburg, $. C., for, killing, Ed
Finger; Wade Cannon and tieorge Bow
ers (colored) at Laurens, s. C., for
arson and John Ferguson for wife mur-
der: Oscar johnson and Henry Ewing
at Bcrkely, S. c.. for numbering Henry
Weltman; and All Lo Doom, n China
man. mt San Rafael, Cal, for the mur-
der of William Shentor
RECEIVERS were named for the Equit-
able Mortgage company of Missouri,
with headquarters in New York, the
liabilities being sl9. 900, 900
THE American national bank of Nash
vile, Tenn, and the American national
bank of Omaha, Neb., have reopened
their doors.
AT the annual meeting in Milwaukee
Judge Thomas Cooley, of Michigan,
was elected president of the American
Bar association.
THE Denver savings bank failed with
liabilities of s67O, 900. Depositvrs would
be paid in full.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-09
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FIFTY-THlRD CONGRESS.
G--s 1s-


MONDAY, Aug. aS.-In the senate
the bill TO increase the -unational
bank circulation was discussed and a
bill was reported for the repeal Of the
federal election law. 1t Was decided by
vote of 81 to 80 that Mr.. Mantle, OF
Montana, and Mr. Allen, of Washing
ton, are not entitled to seats and that a
governor of state has not the right to
appoint senator to fill vacancies. In
the house the bill in. favor of the uh-
conditionalrepeal of the silver purchase
clause of the Sherman act was passed
by vote of 2I0 to no. The average of
sentiment on free silver was shown in
the votes on the ratios at l6 and 90 to
], respectively, in both cases there be-
ing trifle more than 100 majority
against silver.
TUESDAY. Aug. 60 Mr.. Voorhees,,
chairman of the finance committee
in the senate, reported back the
house bill repeating part of the Sher-
man act with an amendment in the
nature of substitute The difference
bseyeen thss Spuse. bill and the voor-
hecs bill is, fohnd ID, fhe attachment to
the latter Of paragraph declaring
that it is the policy of the United States
TO use both gold and silver as money
metals and to preserve parity. No ac-
ton was taken. In the house an ami
mated discussion took place over the
rules between Speaker Crisp and ex-
Speaker Reed. Mr.~Springer intro
duced bill to provide for the coinage
of the seignorage silver in the treasury,
WHICH was referred.
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 30.-In the senate
Senator Sherman spoke in favor of
the repeal of the silver law, but said
the present financial troubles were not
due to silver, and that alterations of
the tariff laws would prove disastrous
to the country. A bill was introduced
providing for the dismissal from the
government service of all persons not
citizens of the United States. In the
house the urgency deficiency appropria-
ton bill ts3O0, ,0O0) was passed. The
new code of rules was discussed.
THURSDAY, Aug. S1.-ln the senate
Senator Wolcott Coll spoke against
the repeal OF the silver law. A
concurrent resolution was introduced
directing the secretary of the treasury
TO issue certificates not to exceed 90
per cent of the amount of gold coin
and bullion in the treasury. In the
house the new code of rules was fur
ther discussed.
FRIDAY, Sept In the senate
Mr.. Voorhees, request for unanimous
consent that the senate bill be substi-
tuted for the house bill repeating the
purchasing clause of the Sherman act
was objected to by Mr.. CockrelL Mr..
Vance spoke against the repeal of the
silver law and in favor of free coinage.
The time in the house was passed in
discussing the rules. An amendment
was adopted prohibiting smoking in
the chamber at any time.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-09
TROUBLE PROBABLE
Over the Aiiotments Made to Cherokee
Indians In the Strip.


Indians In the Strip. -
ARKANSAS CITY, Kas, Aug. ST.
There is likely to be trouble over the
Cherokee allotments after the strip
opens. When the allotments were
made the Cherokes' picked them near
projected county seats. The location
of county seats was then changed by
the department to circumvent them.
They have also filed on lands on which
there are permanent improvements, and
as they will interfere seriously with a
number of town-site schemes they will
be contested. - @
A cattleman who rode through the
strip Tuesday from Oklahoma SAYS
there are thousands of ''sooners" all
along the eastern border. He saw
hundreds of them who did not try to
hide, and he saw their hiding places
out on the prairie. The have gopher
holes on many of the town sites.
These are holes covered with boards
on which sods are nailed and furnished
with breathing hole. He states that
the cavalry would not be able to dis.
cover them A body of men who have
expressed their right to enter the
lands has organized to enter the strip,
locate apd demand REIMBURSEMENT
money from settlers
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-09
THE EAST.

THE Pennsylva;na republicans in
state convention at Harrisburg NOM
mated D. Newiin Fell, of Philadelphia,
for supreme judge, and Col. Samuel
jackson, of Armstrong, for state treas
urer. -t
THE famous lawyer, William NJ. Ev-
arts, of New York, and his wife cele-
brated their golden wedding anni-
versary at their summer home near
Windsor, vt.
AT his summer home at Beverly
Farms, near Boston, Oliver Wendell
Holmes passed the s4th milestone of his
life in very quiet manner.
FIRE destroyed the Old Guard armory,
one of the landmarks of New York
city, together with many paintings,
relics, battle flags and historic bric-a-
brac, the loss being 100000.
AT Fleetwood park, New York.
Nancy Hanks trotted a mile in 2:0esI.
Twelve thousand persons witnessed the
little mares feat =
The republicans of New York viii
hold their state convention at Syracuse
October G. 5
THE Chicago limited express on the
Boston & Albany road bound east was
thrown into ravine near Chester,
Mass, by the collapse Of q bridge and
fourteen persons were killed and TWEEN
ty-eight were injured -.
WHILE playing under an apple tree at
Petersham, Mass, three children were
struck dead by lightning ia
FLAMks destroyed the :. Thornton
worsted mill IN Johnston. B. J., the
loss being s225. 600.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-09
SHERMAN ON SILVER.
The Ohio Statesman Talks On the
Silver Question. -
An Argument Against silver Monometal-
li1Tn, to Which. He Declared the Ma
tion, Under the Purchasing
Clause, Was Drifting.

WASHINGTON Aug. 3o,-The feature
OF the session of the senate to-day was
the speech of Senator Sherman, of Ohio.
Ati.:35 the hill to repeal the Sherman act
was lad before the senate. and Mr.. Sherman
CtepL, o. proceeded to address the senate. He
said that il the repeal Of the purchasing
clauses Ct the act of July. 1901 was the only
reason fer the extraordinary session, II
would scem to him insufficient II
was, however, justified by the existing
financial stringency. On one thing. he said.
congress and the people were agreed. and that
was that roth gold and silver should be con-
tinued in use as money. Monometallism. pure
and simple, had never gained foothold in tbe
United States. II senators wanted cheap
money and an advance in prices. free coinage
OF silver was the way to do it; but they should
not call Il bimetaIlfsm
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-09

THE ministers have been discussing
the bad boy problem and casting about
for the best method of making the bad
boy good and preventing the good boy
from becoming bad. The first step
should be the education of the parents
TO sense Of their responsibility. Par
ents nowadays are inclined to intrust
too large a share of the training of
their children to the public schools,
the church aud the state. Character il
formed at home 20
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-09

A CONGREGATIONAL clergyman of
Ohio has forwarded to the patent Office
at Washington a model of device for
furnishing communicates with indi-
vidual cups They are about two
inches high, one inch at the mouth,
tapering down to nearly fve-eighths of
an inch at the bottom. As many as
forty can conveniently be carried in
frame, and be replenished in few sec
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-09
A Pension once Location.
Washington Special.

WashInRtOh Sptc1aI.
Congressman Cobb has filed q strong argu-
ment with the secretary OF the interior In sup
port Of his application for the return OF the
pension ofice from Topeka to St Louis He
shows that st. Louis is the natural center OF
the pensioners OF the district. But perhaps the
strongest point he makes is in regard to the
way the drafts must travel between Topeka
and st. Louis before the business can be trans
nctcd. St Louis having the sub-treasury. the
drafts must go there. and the travelling they do
between the subtreasury and Topeka is all su-
perduous