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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-30

of the best quality and well screened.
We will be pleased to supply our friends
and customers at lowest market price per ton
of 224O pounds, delivered at houses, cars or
boats. w. A. SMOOTH CO.,
Telephone call 81.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-30
SOUTHBCUND.

as follows:
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4 Is. Is, ) IS, IS aud 5 Tsp m.
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925. 10 80, II 20. ana II 80 Il. ~, II %.
II 30. 1 %, / 30. 220. $50, 325, 90,
4 20. 4 so and 6 20, : -, and 5 30 p. III.
Ferry Depot Z 40, 925, and II 30 a. m,
- 90 m, u 30, 1 30, $50, 25, %,
) 80 and 6 25 p. IN.
Pennsylvania Railroad Depot IL % a. m.
and - 10, 1 05, 90, 22S, 25S and 90
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
SOVERElGN'S MANIFESTO.
Says Money Lords Apply the Lash While
Congress Sits Like Wooden God.

Philadelphia, December 26.-General
Master Workman Sovereign of the
Knights of Labor today issued an official
statement in which he outlines the
course he will pursue. He says the Or
der must put it's principles into the stat
utes of the country and make them a
part of the practice of society. He con-
tinues: Everywhere is starvation and
death while corporate greed and the ava
ricious money lords apply the arrogant
lash with relentless fury, and Congress,
like a wooden God, looks down in silent
contempt on the miseries of the most
patriotic and industrious people the
world ever knew. With these conditions
confronting the people everywhere,
if we cannot permeate society with a
healthy public opinion on the subject of
labor and force the adoption of our prin-
ciples, we deserve defeat"
The General Master Workman further
says that he feels warranted in asserting
that civil liberty in this country will die
within seven years unless the Knights or
some other like organization come to
the rescue.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
POOR SHOW At DaNsuRY.
The Hat Factory win Not Try to Start Be.
fore February.

Danbury, Conn, December 26.-As
January first draws near it becomes
more apparent the 20 hat factories in
the lockout will not be opened on that
date. When two weeks ago it was
thought possible that shops might open
in short timei it seemed quite certain
that they would open by the first of JAN
uary. But now it seems equally certain
that manufacturers will not attempt to
start up until about February 1. This
information comes from manufacturers
through New York offices which handle
all of their goods. 1t isssall on account OF
stagnation that prevails. especially in the
hating trade. Both manufacturers and
commission houses acknowledge that
they have in their possession some or
ders, but they also state that the vol
ume is not greatand they do not require
immediate attention. Hat iobbers re-
port very light trade in everything, stiff
hats, chiefly made in Danbury, included:
and they say most of their orders re-
ceived can be filed from the stock on
hand. Those impossible to fill in this
way do not require, as rule, immediate
attention.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
LET HIS CHILDREN DIE.
And Made No Effort to Aid Them-Arrest
of Rev. Edward Bell.

Long Island City, L. T., December &c.
Rev. Edward Bell, editor of the Week
ly Flag, and his wife, were arrested this
evening, charged with neglecting and
abusing Arthur Bell, l3-year-old child,
by Bells former wife. The boy was
taken to the hospital week ago, follow
ing the death of his 16-year-old sister
Edith. She died of pneumonia and
diphtheria, and had no medical attend
ance. Her body was exhumed for chem
ical analysis. The neighbors assert that
the girl was shockingly treated, and was
found dead in her room unattended by
any one. Several weeks previous to that
another child in the family, Harry Bell,
12 years old, was found dead under SINH
lar circumstances. An autopsy showed
that he was suffering from typhoid mala-
ria. Agent Meyer, of the Brooklyn So.
ciety for the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Children, says he has evidence enough
against both to have them indicted for
manslaughter in connection with the
death Of the two children named. Bell
is known all over the West and East
where, it is said, he travelled under a
score of aliases while in the ministry.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
OFF FOR RIO.
The New York Started Stern First, but
Was Soon Headed Seaward.

New York, December 26.-The cruiser
New York sailed for Rio Janeiro at 10 a.
m. today. Captain J. W. Phillip said
that he had taken HOO tons of coal on
board, sufficient for Is days steaming,
and he had stores for a six months
cruise. Captain Phillip has received full
instructions and will go direct to sea.
His destination is Rio de Janeiro. He
would not say what his orders were fur
ther than that they require him to pro-
ceed to sea.
Admiral Gherardi and his staff went
down on the dock and said goodbye to
Captain Phillip and the officers of the
New York. A strong northwest wind
was blowing, and when the three tugs
pulled the New York out into the stream
and let her go, the wind, aided by the
flood tide, drove her stern foremost
toward the Cobb dock, and she seemed
about to collide with the dock. Her en-
gines were started at slow speed, but
they did not stop her progress. The
tugs were not in position to aid her.
When she was $50 yards from the shore
the starboard anchor was let go. This
stopped her sternway, and her engines
were started up, so that she was soon
moving ahead out of danger. The an
chor was taken aboard, 13 guns were
fired in honor of the admiral, and as the
shore guns gave a parting salute for
Captain Phillip the New York went
down the East river under her own
steam. She passed Governors Island at
lilo a. m.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
CHRISTMAS IN THE sLuMs.
Nearly Three Hundred Drunks Before the
Boston Police Court.

Boston, Mass, December 26.-Records
were SIN ashed at the Municipal court to-
day. More "drunks" were arraigned than
ever before in the history Of the court,
and the margin of excess was not ex-
pressed in beggarly units, :but by nearly
100 cases. The total number of prisoners
up for all sorts of minor offences was
larger than ever known before. Truly
the Christmas festivities in the slums
must have been of a lively description.
Judge Ely, Clerk Ingalls, and their as
sistants got to work on the first batch of
unfortunates at o'clock sharp, and
worked steadily and expeditiously with
out ii.termission until l. 80 p. M, when
they rested from their, labors and went
out for breath of pure air and sOme-
thing to eat. In that space of time 22S
"drunks" of all kinds and degrees, from
the simpler to the one decorated with
unnumbered frilIs, were arraigned and
disposed of.
There were 297 prisoners all told. The
largest previous mum ber attended to in
that court on one day was 1876 only.
1t was tremendous mob of prisoners
which jammed the "1'om bsn down below
stairs, and the dock in the court room
was filed to overlooking six times.
There were no sensational cases and but
one contest
All pleaded @guilyn except one old
shawl and the right side of whose face
was one horrid black bruise the arrest
ing policeman testified to finding her in
state of alcoholic stuper on Causeway
street, Saturday evening, and she got
four months in spite of her protests.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
The Atchison Collapse.

New York, December 26-Interest on
the general mortgage of the st. Louis
and San Francisco, fives and skies, will
be paid January 1. 1t amounts to s541, :
595. This is generally taken as an indi-
cation tnat it is intended to hold the en-
tire Atchison system intact. The failure
to pay the interest on the ST. Louis bonds
would cause defanlt On the interest of
the Atlantic and Pacific bonds, guaran-
teed jointly by the Atchison and St.
Louis and San Francisco, and might re-
suit in the dismem berment of the whole
system. Judge Brown in the United
States Circuit court today, appointed
Joseph M. Reinhart, John J. McCook
and j. C. Wilson, ancillary receivers for
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad company. They are to take
charge of the company's property in this
district Their bonds were fixed at SlO,-
900 each.
Boston, December 26-The Union Trust
company of New York, this afternoon
filed complaint in the United States
court here, asking that ancilIary re-
ceivers be appointed for the Atchison
road in Massachusetts,. The court is
asked to appoint the same men as were
appointed in Arka nsas
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
STEVENS, BLoUNr AND WILLIS.
All Three May Be Called before the Senate
Hawaiian Committee.

Washington, December &C. 26-Tomorrow
the Senate committee on foreign rela-
tions will begin to investigate the
Hawaiian question under the terms of
Senator Morgan's resolution. The in
vestigation will be conducted by SUBJ
committee consisting of Senators Morgan,
Gary, Butler, Sherman and Frye. To get
at the facts without making public the
personalities that may crop out, the COM
mittee will refuse to permit access to its
rooms, while the investigation is going
on. The work tomorrow will be Of a
preliminary character. 1t is not i'm
probable that before the investigation is
concluded Commissioner Blount ex-
Minister Stevens, Minister Willis, certain
army and navy officers and such
Hawaiians as are in the city may be
called before the committee. The COM
mittee will put forth it's best endeavors
to get at the obtainable information and
base its findings upon sound evidence as
to the condition OF affairs on the island
before and after the esta blishment of the
provisional government. 1t is thought
that two months will be consumed in
the inquiry.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
BRIEFLY TOLD.

There was fierce fight in the streets
of Amsterdam yesterday between imam
ployed workmen and the police. Several
were injured.
A Saco special policeman is likeH to
be dropped from the force hecanss he
went fishing on Sunday.
Mrs. Edward Murray of Rriohton
Mass, has died as the result of . heatino tn,
inflicted by her husband. He has % beeS
arrested. ''' "oeA
A report has reached San Francisco
Gilbert islands. 'Ae
The New York Times accuses 1oha n
Sheehan, now police commissioUnnann Unn =, y,
New York, Of having embezzled sss1a,a1 ~
thousana dollars while controller setetae Of The
counts was made up after its ~ disan,a- .ne az,
by .Sheehan's Democratic succassa cseoVeiy
Office, according to the Times. anS .La IN
fact Of the dsfalcatior hushed IN ana sne
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
SCHOONER MILFORD WRECKED.
Roclzland Vessel Lost on Negril Point in
Jamaica.

New York, December 26.-Steamer
Neptune, arrived today from the West
Indies and brought five distressed sea-
men, the crew of the schooner Milford,
of Rockland, Maine, wrecked at Negril
Point, Jamaica, December 8. The Mil
ford was bound from Mobile to King
ston, and was lumber laden. She went
ashore on reef at night in heavy rain
squall. Before the Neptune left the
cargo was all landed on the beach to be
sold for the account of the underwriters.
The vessel had been stripped of her
masts, rigging, etc., and these also will
be sold. The vessel was uninsured and is
reported total loss. The captain re-
mained behind to settle up affairs.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
A STAY FOR McKANE.
Justice Cullen Believes Him Guilty, but
Wants to Go Slow.

Brooklyn, N. Y, December 26.-Judge
Edgar M. Cullen, of the Supreme Court,
today granted stay to John Y. McKane
and others concerned in the Gravesend
contempt cases on the ground that there
is doubt as to the validity of the injunc-
ton order which Justice Barnard issued
and the defendants disobeyed. If the
injunction be invalid, Justice Cullen
says McKane and his associates cannot
be punished for contempt. Justice Gull
len says that in his mind there is no
doubt about the validity of the injunc-
ton, and that Justice Barnard did right
in issuing it,, In the first place, he prop.
erly found McKane aud others guilty of
contempt on the facts, but as the whole
question of validity is matter of law,
on which decisions are of doubtful
character, he thinks the stay shoald be
granted, SO the general term can rule on
the ISSUE
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
WAR CLOUD In THE NORTH
King Oscar May Yet Fight for His
Norwegian Throne.
THE SWEDES ARE AROUSED AND
WILL RALLY FOR THE KING

While the Norwegians Demand Conces-
sions, Failing Which They May Try to
Set Up an Independent Government
They Hope for a Republic But Might
Accept a King in the Person of the
Danish Prince WaIdemar.
London, Decemb Der 26.-The Times TO-
day contains another article on the situa-
tion in Sweden and Norway. It says if
the coming elections in Norway result in
large and militant radical majority,
the conservative ministry is bound to
retire and the king will find himself face
to face with the necessity of accepting
radical Interpretation of the act of union.
thereby surrendering the unity in foreign
policy upon which the alliance of the
two kingdoms consists, or of enforcing
the Swedish reading of the act against
the manifest determination of the Nor
wegian people. Sweden, it appears, is
prepared to use force. The Swedes have
been reused to such pitch of exaspera-
tion that it will take little to goad them
to action. The King. confident of the
SuPPoAo VI ohC OWCu0Ss WILL uCU SuErtuucI
the Norwegian crown nor sacrifice the
union which he believes indispensable to
the safetysand prosperity of both Sweden
and Norway. The first shot fired by
Sweden will rally the Norwegian radicals
and conservatives in defence of their
common nationality. Despite the superi-
GRITTY of her military resources Sweden
would find it hard task to reduce Nor
way to subsection, and harder still to
keep her in subsection. If the sentiment
of the Swedes compels the King to un-
sheath the sword, the European powers
who are sponsors of the union, ought to
intervene, armed with European man.
date, as in 1914. Sweden might act with
in limits leading TO an arrangement for
an avoidance of war. Opinion in Nor
way is in the meantime raised on only
two issues, union and monarchy. or
separation and a republic, but ::
the contingencies, acute observer
a third couj ,, the creation of
in Norway with Prince Walden
youngest son of the King of Denai.
as king.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
RAILROADS In THE TOLLS.
Nothing Like the Record for the
Year Just Closing.
SEvENTY.THREE COMPANIES IN
THE LONG LIST.

Last Night 1t Was Announced that the
Latest Applicant for a Receivership-
One Set of Stockholders Trying to Head
Off Mcleod who Is Also Supposed to
Want Receiver Appointed.
New York, December 26.-In an article
on railroad troubles, the Press today
says:
This year will be forever memorable as
year unprecedented in the number and
magnitude of railroad and commercial
bankruptcies. Eighteen hundred and
ninety-three ought to stand in American
economic history as the year 1898 still
stands in French political history. 1t
ought to bring revolution in methods
of railroad financiering, and it ought to
end for generation at least fraud and
false pretense in politics. Tie evil
wrought by these has been great enough
to cause permanent revolution.
The railroad bankruptcies of 1898 in
vo We seventy-three companies, 31,o7S
miles of railroad, and 81, GIL, 2S4, 600 in
bonds and stocks. The Press has COM
piled these figures from careful tables
prepared by the Railway Age. an ac-
knowledged authority. We have added
the Atchison failure of Saturday. The
aggregate of these figures, involving the
bankruptcy of nearly one-fitth of all the
railroads in the country, is too large to
be comprehended at a glance. 1t is
difficult to realize that the stocks and
bonds involved have par value of more
than twice the whole national debt of
the United States. Unwieldy floating
debts, unshrinking credit, and steady
falling freight rates (Which decline in
rates has been universal throughout the
country for fourteen years. have brought
many companies to ruin in the past ten
years, but this years disasters have
capped the climax.
Dishonesty or mismanagement have
brought few of the larger of these COM
panies to grief, like the Reading and the
Northern Pacific failures, but the major
ity of the railroads are honestly and
capably managed. The cause of a ma
jority of failures lies deeper than the
faults of railroad officers. A cure is the
great problem of the near future.
More than half of their stocks
and bonds have sold at or near par
within the past ten years. Ten cents on
the dollar is probably too high price
to put on the whole capital stock of
these companies now. The mere shrink
age here involved represents an amount
of losses approximate to the valuation
of the entire city of New York, sas shown
by the assessors books.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27

The following are the observations for
the Agricultural Department Weather
Bureaul for yesterday, Dec. 26. 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, 20o, NV, clear; New York, 220,
NV, clear; Philadelphia, 260, N, clear:
Washington, $40, NV, cleaa; Albany,
140, W, clear; Buffalo, 220, NV. clear:
Detroit, 22o, SW, fair; Chicago, 20o, SW,
cloudy; ST. Paul, 2S0, S, cloudy; st. Vim
cent, A., S. cloudy; Huron, Oak, 14o, S,
clear; Bismarck, 140, NV, clear; jack
sonville, 64o, N, clear.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
Local Weather Report.

Portland, Me-, December 26.-The local
signal Office records as to the weather
the following
a. m.-Barometer. &c. $50: thermome-
ter, 23.6; dew point, 81: humidity, 81;
wind. NV; velocity, 0: weather. clear
Sp. m.-Barometer, 30.226: thermome-
ter. 16.0: dew point. q; humidity, 40:
wind, NV; velocity. Z: weather. clear.
The mean daily thermometer. 20: max
imum thermometer. 23.6; minimum ther-
mometer, 16.0; maximum velocity of
wind, "a, NV; total precipitation. 600
inch.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
ANARCHISTS MAKE THREATS.
Travellers Baggage in Paris Examined for
Internal Machines.


Paris, December 26.-Written threats
to destroy various public buildings in
this city and elsewhere continue to be
made ostensibly by the anarchists. The
latest buildings threatened are the
stations of the Eastern railway. Every
precaution has been taken to prevent the
threats being put into execution.
Among the measures adopted is an ex-
animation of the luggage of passengers,
it being feared that the anarchists will
attempt to smuggle a trunk or valise
containing an internal machine into the
station. The police at Besiers have
learned that the alleged bomb explosion
in the church there during, the service at
a midnight mass on Christmas eve was
the work of a practical joker, who set
off squib in the church and caused a
momentary panic.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
NoWTHE NEW ENGLAND.
It Is Reported that Receivers Are To Be
Asked For.

New York, December 26.-From dis
patches received in this city today from
Boston and Philadelphia. rumor has
spread that an application would be
made tonight to one of the judges of the
Supreme court for receiver for the New
York and New England railroad. This
action, it was claimed, would be resorted
to to forestall Mr.. Mcleod and his asso-
ciates who, it was said, would apply for
a receiver tomorrow morning A meeting
of the board of directors was held today
at which several of the largest stock
holders of the road were present. The
object of the meeting was to provide for
raising interest due in January. FIJI.
Prince of Boston, is IN the city. Mr..
Prince denied all knowledge of the ap-
plication for a receiver. Mr.. Platt, when
spoken to about tho appointment of a
receiver, said he had DO intimation of
such state of things.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
The Ives Pool Bill Void,

Syracuse, NY, December 26. in the
case of Thomas D. Reilley VS.. Milton
Gray, to recover $3.50, which the plain
tiff paid for auction, and French pools
association, in August, 1892, Judge Nc
Lehman handed down a decision today
holding that French and auction pools
are lottery and illegal and that Ives's
pool bill, insofar as it attempts to
authorize such transactions, is illegal
and void
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
McGaffray's Little Mistake.

Woburn, Mass, December 26.-John J.
cGaffray, who was fired at by Miss
Nellie A. Hanson, Sunday night while he
was attempting to get into the house
where he boarded, was fined SO this
morning for being intoxicated. No one
desired to prosecute McGaffray for trying
to get into the house, as it was evident
he had only mistaken the house for his
own while under the influence of liquor.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
Fifty Feet of Protest.

Willimantic, Conn. December 2e.-A
petition, so feet long, signed by 1900 en-
ployes of the Willimantic Linen Compa-
ny, petitioning Congress not to change
the tariff on spool cotton and cotton
yarn, was forwarded to Congressman
Russell of this district today.p
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
THE WEAT HER.
Fair and Warmer.

Washington, December 26.-For New
England for Wednesday: Generally fair;
warmer Wednesday night; northwest
winds, becoming southwest.
Boston, December 26-Local forecast
for, New England for Wednesday: Fair;
warmer weather Wednesday afternoon;
winds becoming west and southwest.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-27
The Bicycle Race.

New York, December a7.-The score at
midnight in the bicycle race was:
Schock, 733 miles, 1 lap; Waller. 1882:
Martin, 7o1-s; Albert, 6ss-2: Hosmer'
612-2; Meixell. 56i-4; Golden, 544-5: Van
Embnrg, 53S; .Asshinger, 530-s; Baron,
500: Forster, 472-7