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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-01-17

The usefulness of carrying sharp jack
knife was shown the other day in Lewis
ton mill viIen oac Of the Young women;
hair came tumbling down as she passed .
piece Of heavy machinery and the ends OF
IL caught 10 some slowly revolving cog
wheels. The girl screamed, but did moi
have the presence of mind To break away
at once before more strands of hair wert
caught and dragged in. She stood Their,
holding ouI her arms and screaming Will,
her head was drawn nearer and nearer Il
the fatal wheels. Then up came mar
with sharp jack-knife. lie compasset
the hair of the girl within his left hand ane
held it firmly as he might a rope and viii
the other hand severed the hair close to the
wheels.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

s,'2,ne courts of st. Louis have decided
Il ~ 4 : citys claim for taxes for telegraph
poles within the city limits is legal.
5chE il. Slcight, aged 6S, is dead at
In ~. n, n. Y. For 20 years he was one
Of H. largest furniture dealers along the
Hudson River.
The lower House of the Prussian Diet
has agreed to the creation of five courts to
arbitratc upon differences between miners
and mine owners.
The Macmurray- Judge Architectural Iron
company of St. Louis has made an assign
ment in favor of the Mississippi Valley
Trust company. Liabilities, $40, 000 as
sets not known.
The election in Madrid has resulted in
the choice of six Republicans and two
Minsterialists. Several provinces have
pollcd a Republican majority. The civil
governor of Madrid has resigned
Judgment for $}G, O13.53 against The
Weeks Sport company of New York in
favor of William 5. Young, on an assigned
claim of james NJ. Waterbury, for money
loaned, WAS filed yesterday.
Joseph Harrison. whose relatives reside
at Ncwhurgh, n. Y, committed suicide i'll
Middlrtown yesterday by shooting himself
i'll the head. lie had been employed i'll the
asylum there, but recently resigned.
"A hrgira of the Russian Jews who
formed the Chesterfield colony near New
LUndun, Conn. has begun. The Sullerings
of the culuniStS during the winter and the
miserable outlook have discouraged them.
Elder Frederick w Evans one of the
oldest Shakers i'll the United States, is
dead at Lebanon, y. \. lie was i'll his
Sjth year. and u man of knowledge, ability
and experience, and one who will he greatly
missed.
In the Canadian Parliament yesterday
the government announced that it had
under consideration IL proposition TO refund
to owners of Canadian vessels the amounts
paid as tolls to the American Sault Ste
Marie canal
A nine of female base ball players from
the United States barely escaped with their
lives from an Infatuated mob at Alcmend-
ares, Cuba, yesterday. The girls standard
of play was not up to the fastidiOus notion
of the spectators.
Counsel for Martin Foy, convicted OF
killing his mistress, has filed an appeal AT
Ballston, n. v, (which operates Us Il stay
until passed upon by the Court of Appeals.
The appeal will probably be argued i'll Sar-
atoga in June.
Gen. Momplasier has been arrested in
Kingston, jamaica, at the instance of that
government for having committed q
breach of international law by starting an
expedition on last Aug. against Hippo
lyte, Haytien President.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07

was left. The use of the magnet and
the bar over it was to tell me whether
the wire had been struck by lightning.
The device was inclosed in glass box
and buried under leaves.
I'm few days 1 was informed that
a peculiar cracking noise was heard at
the other end Of the wire at Racine. 1
visited the box and heard o slight
noise I adjusted the metal piece over
the magnets finer, and Immediately
heard the croaking of frogs issue from
the box. The telephone had whispered
its secret.
II began to develop it at once. Boxes
were made and placed one above the
other and one used for listening and
the other for talking. The boxes were
known as talking boxes. People used
them to order their groceries by, and
we carried on conversations over 2 dis
lance of several miles. The volume of
sound in the original box was as great
as that developed in the modern tel
ephone and the latter instrument does
not differ in the least from my original
discovery. All of its principles are en-
bodied in the Bell instrument"
DIR. Cushman says after the injunction
tying up the American Cushman Tele-
phone company was issued, it was
found that the courts edict did not stop
the manufacture of the instrument
which he had elaborated out of the
glass box which gave out the tidings
that sound could be transmitted over q
wire. He went south and telephone
exchange was fitted with his instru-
ments at point in Arkansas.
"We have recently fitted up another
exchange in this state" said he. land
have besides gone on selling the instru-
ments and many are in use. A broad
patent is now pending which will pro-
tect u.s."
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
A ROUTED HAWK.
How Eight Crows Forced tho Bird OF Prey
to Release a Chicken.

to Release q Chicken.
A white-feathered chicken in search
of worms straycd from the yard of a
Feeding Hills farmer on a recent after
noon and was soon scratching merrily in
the black loan of Il swamp near by, says
the Springfield Mass. )Rcpublican. A big
hen hawk that was sailing lazily along
far up in the sky tipped an eye down
ward and saw the little white chick.
The hawk had had no dinner and was
very hungry. The big, hungry hawk
suddenly shot down like Il stone and be-
fore the chick could run or cluck or
even flap her funny little wings she
was in the hawks cruel claws. The
farmer was cutting cornstallls in a
wagon near the barn and did not see
the hawk with Tapping wings rise into
tho air, clrtching tight the little white
chi k frightened and still. But perched
upon some trees the other side of the
swamp were eight black crows. They
had seen it all Putting their heads
together these crows consulted hur-
ricdly, and then with loud, defiant
chorus of ''caw, cav, cav" they took
wing. The bird of prey had not risen
fifty feet into the air before the crows
had completely surrounded him. They
pecl1cd at him above, below, in front
and behind. They would rise many
feet above and shoot downward one
after the other at the hawk with the
swiftncss and celebrity of swallows.
The hawk, burdencd with the breath
less chick, could not endure the savage
onset and soon sunk among the trees.
But the crows, crying ''caw, cav"
more defiantly than before, beat upon
him STILL and at last the hawk dropped
the chick and angrily dashed upward
again. For minutes the battle ragged
over the tree tops. The hawk was fierce
in his, defense, but the crows, using the
same tactics as before, gradually
drove him higher and higher still, until
finally discounted and thoroughly beat
en- the bird of prey sailed off to the
south whittier he was followed miles
and miles by two of the more pugna-
cious crows. The others now flew in
the opposite direction and disappeared.
Meanwhile what had become of the
little white.chic to whose rescue these
eight crows had so chivalrously gone?
With feathers sadly ruflled and her
breast black with the slime of the bog
into which she had dropped from the
claws of the hawk, the dazed chick
YVES slowly and painfully hopping back
through the swamp to the maternal
rooSt.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
mvn HARRIS FAMOUS FIGHT


what May be the Final Skirmish Took
Place Yesterday.
New YORK, March What may be
the final skrmish in the famous battle of
Carlyle w. Harris to escape the penalty for
the murder of his wife, Helen Potts Harris,
of which he was convicted, took place in
the Court of General Sessions yesterday.
The result will hang in the balance until
the judge in his own good time shall an
nounce his decision.
Harris fate rests with Recorder Smyth;
he has been asked to grant n new trial; and
a regular fusilade of aflidavits was fired by
the DiStrict-Attorney on one side and
William f. Howe, counsel for Harris, on
the other
The District-Attorney presented the aft
lavit of Druggist Van Mater, of Asbury
Park, N. j., in which he swears that in
1890 there were less than fifty grains OF
morphine sold at his store for the whole
season, whereas his former clerk, Letferts.
had sworn that he sold $50 grains to Helen
Potts that year
To offset this Mr. Howe had prepared ar
affidavit of his own in regard to an inven-
tory of William Stiger. dealer in drugs at
20 College Place, showing that Stiger sold
to Van Mater on June %, 1890, several
hundred morphine pills and opium in other
FORMS
Van Matters sister also makes affidavit
that her brother was out of town most of
that season, and DR.. Kinmouth, another
druggist, makes affidavit that he sold nor
prime pills to Helen Potts.
Another affidavit is from a law student,
stating that Lefferts told him he would
swear to anything for $500.
Detective Gray, Of Philadelphia, says he
knew Mrs. Frenetteo in 1887 as the mis-
tress of one James n. Taggart, who is now
fugitive from justice, having robbed the
Union Trust Company, of Philadelphia.
George Potts, Helen Potts father makes
affidavit that none of his family was at
Ocean Grove, n. j.. nor in the State of
New Jersey at all, between June | and the
| latter part of September, 1890
Neither Harris nor his mother were in
| court. There was no argument in the
/ case, the ailidavits simply being presented
| and read.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07

telephone litigation. An organization
using his instrument known as the
American Cushman Telephone company
was cnjoincd from doing business at
the suit of the American Bell Telephone
company in 1883.
DR.. CuShman has for years claimed to
be the original inventor of the tele-
phone. He is white-haired man sew
enty-four years of age, and for forty
five of these has been connected with
electrical work of various kinds. The
telephone, he says, was a discovery in
which colony of Wisconsin bullfrogs
played prominent part. The story Of
his claims has been told before in the
accounts of the litigations in which he
has figured. The other day he retold them
before q rough painting which hangs
on the wall of his Office. 1t shows d
swampy landscape, stretching into the
foreground of which is telegraph line.
The wire drops to the ground and en-
tiers q box which contains at one end
two iron disks, separated and fitted on
their inner surfaces with platinum
points, which approach each other, but
do not touch. From the disk not con-
nected with the line wire a wire Is run
from this disk to q horseshoe magnet,
about which, supported on wooden up
rights, is piece of iron stretching
across tho poles of the magnet. The
wire which is connected with the latter
from the disk energies again at the 9th
or side Of the magnet and at that point
is fastened to a ground wire Near the
box is q large bullfrog seated on a lit
tie knoll.
''1n 1881 I was engaged In building a
telegraph line out of Racine, Wis.," said
the doctor. eve ran short of poles on
reaching the stream shown In the pic
ture. I wanted q lightning-arrester
and rugged up the device shown in the
picture. If tho wire were struck by
lightning the first ground wire, be-
lieved, would carry to the earth most
of the current and the second one
would provide a passage for any that
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
ARISTOCRATIC BUT POOR.
How Lots OF Men EGnvied for Their Swell
ness uaYe to Economlize.

How Lots of Men Envied for Their Swell
ness Have to Econonlize.
A popular young fellow was heard by
q representative of the New York Trib-
unc to discuss tho other day the way in
which so many idle society men con-
trivo to exist upon very limited in
comes. IF you wear dccently good
clothes, belong to at least ono good
club, and ARC in tho swin,'" he said,
mo one asks about you further; and if
you have Inexpensive tastes you can
economic in u thousand ways. In the
first place, If n man Is fairly popular, he
is always In demand for dinners and
during the seasons he can dine out
every evening if he desires to do so, n
prompt aftcr-dinncr call and little at
tcntion at the opera or ball being all
the return majority of hostesses OK
poet or care to receive.
"a woman of the world who is fond
of entertaining considers the accept
ancc of an invitation Us no particular
favor on tho one side or the other, be-
ing n givc-and-tal1e sort of arrange
mcnt with both parties" "But are
there not many outside expenses conse-
qucnt upon living in an expensive set?'
said the nearer. ION the contrary" he
replied, 'thcrc are fewer than for those
who are out of it.
"Pcoplo are only too glad to get us
to fill up their parties of various kinds,
and there is no question of an obHga-
ton; besides, there arc so many society
men that are obliged perforce to live
economically that they constitute set
In themselves, and consequently there
is no standard of high expenditure
among them. Contrary to the accepted
idea, the majority of men you meet
about live exceedingly frugal and
simple lives, and it would surprise many
Woodworking clerk, who thinks that
'swells' must necessarily be rich, If he
saw tho small economies with which
| most of us ore familiar"
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07

WASHINGTON, ID. c. March For New Eng
land: Fair weather, slightly warmer, south
westerly winds.
For Eastern New York, Eastern Penn
sylvania, Now Jersey, Delaware and Mary
land: Fair, slightly warmer weather, fol
lowed by local SHOWS in northern portion,
southweSterly winds.
For Western New York: Local snow or
rain throughout the southern portion; fair
weather elsewhere, northwcstcrly winds, be-
coming variable. warmer followed by colder
tomorrow.
For Western Pennsylvania: Fair, except
light snow at lake stations, westerly winds,
warmer weather.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
OLD LONDON CHURCHES.
Tho Pcstilential Airs with Which They
Arc Filled.

Arc Filled.
The church of st. Mary Woolnoth,
which stands out conspicuously at the
King William street corner of Lombard
street, London, says the News of that
city, was closed ten months ago, and it
is clear from the statement of the rector
that the step was not premature. 1t
has been his unhappy lot to be often
startled in the course of his services by
loud, yet mufflcd sound, evidently is
suing from the vaults under the church.
AS these vaults are now Theoretically
scaled" the phenomenon may well have
excited the imaginations of timid mem
bers of the congregation. Mr.. Brooke,
however, recognized the noises only too
we'll They werc caused by the falling
of leadcn collins, sometimes from
height of ten or twelve feet, in conse-
quence of the moldering away of the
collins of oak and elm on which they
had been piled. 1t would be well if
the evils of this relic of our barbarous
system of intramural intcrnent had
| ended here. Unfortunately the process
| of Theoretically scaling" according to
| Mr.. Brool1c'S evidence before the con-
sistory court of st. Paul'S cathedral,
| has been anything but "hermetical."
Mr.. Brooke declares that for years near
| ly every official had died from the eff
fects, direct or indirect, of the unendur-
| able smell.
Arthur Stratham, the counsel repre-
senting the parish, stated that one
thousand six hundred and eighty-one
adults and four hundred and twenty
two children had been deposited in this
horrible receptacle between 100 and
1882. In the latter year, according to
Mr.. Stratham, the vault was closed for
burials; but these burials In St. Mary
Woolnoth, if burials they can be called,
were continued for at least twelve
| years after the latter date.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
Thawins Out a Field.

So much trouble has rarely been
taken to prepare athletic grounds for q
match as ut Cardiff not long ago. Tho
occasion was Il football match for the
championship of England and Wales.
Two hundred brazicrs or perforated
fire buckets were set up on the field,
and bonfircs were kindled in many
parts of it, the flames being kept going
until tho frost was thawed out OF the
ground Then the field was covered
with straw to retain tho heat, and just
before the match began n small army
of mon cleared and ral<ed the ground.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
Leading Questions in the Senate.

WASHINGTON, March IA poll of the
new Senate on the three leading questions
of the day, viz: The repeal of the Sher-
man silver law; the repeal of the Mckinley
tariff and the annexation of Hawaii,
shows that at least 80 Senators are in
favor of the repeal of the Sherman silver
law, % are opposed to repeats, while 16 are
non-committal. In regard to the Mckinley
law, Al Senators declare themselves in
favor of its repeal, 33 oppose the repeal,
and 8 are non-committal. On the Hawaiian
question 40 will vote annexation when OPP
pOrtunity offers while 90 oppose it.
Twenty-three declined to express their
views on the subject of annexation.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07

New HAVEN, March 7.-Jamcs Bailey
aged g., a wcll-to-do farmer, of Durham,
was killed last night by the ''ghost" train
on the Air line division of the Consolidated
road while attempting to drive his sleigh
across the tracks Miss Rose Bailey, who
was with her father. was thrown a consid-
cradle distance, sustaining IL conclusion of
the brain. The sleigh was crushed and the
horse killed.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
HAWAlIANS UNDECIDED.


Latest News From the Islands That Seek
to BE Annexed.
SAN Francisco, March THE schooner
Whitman has arrived from Honolulu with
news up to Feb. Is. Opinions there as to
the course that will be taken by the United
States are as diverse as the many factors in
Hawaiian politics.
AS a general proposition, however, the
American and German interests in Hawaii
strongly urge upon the Government at
Washington the necessity of protecting the
business interests at least of the islands
by anncXing them.
The native Hawaiians are divided on the
proposition, on one side being an innate
love for royalty, affection for Princess Kaiu-
lani and pride in native institutions: on the
other side, a desire for greater prosperity
and greater cnfranchiscment, which would
follow the inauguration of republican rule
as one of the American States.
The English sentiment against anncNa-
ton is not strong as that which prevails
against the idea of Il Hawaiian republic
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
Killed His Wife and Then Himself.

CHICAGO. March Frank Eek. formerly
Il fireman of Wichita, Kan. murdered his
wife last night in a hotel by cutting her
throat with n razor and then committed
suicide by slashing himself from ear to ear.
Mrs. Eek had for two weeks been employed
us chambcrmaid at Statfords hotel having
come here from Wichita to escape
her husband, who she said was so insanrly
jealous of her that it was impossible to
live with him
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07

A NEW Gotham paper has this to say
about its subscribers: eve have def
mite, valued circulation to-day among
people who are accustomed to luSuri-
Gus surroundings, who use costly
things, who know the difference be-
tween common goods and fine" I'm
mediately following this paragraph, by
the irony of fate, is an advertisement of
reversible collars and cuffs!
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
STARS AND STRIPES AGAIN.
The Steamship Paris Flys the American
COlors Now.

The Steamship Paris Flys the AmeriCnn
Colors Now.
New York, March AT noon to-day
the American line steamship Paris became
a full -hedgpd American vessel, thus follow
ing the example of her Amrricanized sister
ship New York. The Stars and Stripes
were raised over her stern just at the
stoke of l2
Miss Frances G.. Griscom, daughter of
the President of the International Naviga-
ton company hauled the flag to the taifrail
There was no public ceremony, but the
occasion was gruced by the presence of a
Few ladies of the families of the directors
and officers of the company
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
Writing Up Rlnine's Life.

WASHINGTON, March 7.-The announce
ment is publicly made by Gail Hamilton
Miss Abigail Dodge that with the co
operation of Mr.. Blaine's family she is pre-
pairing a biography of the late james G.
Blaine but cannot yet say when it will be
completed and issued.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07

Squirrels are plentiful and destructive
in some parts of the state Of Washing
ton. Linden county paid out forty
thousand dollars in bounties on squir-
rel scalps last year, yet but little good
effect was produced. 1t is proposed to
tax all the lands in the county TO raise
funds to fight the pest and so make
railroads and Nonresident owners helr
II '.ilc work.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
No Boxing Matches in BROOKLYN.

New YORK, March 7.-Pugilism has re
ceived its death blow in Brooklyn, the po-
lice authorities having decided that no
more professional boxing matches are to be
permitted. A riot was threatened last
night when the Hampton Athletic clubs
bouts at the Claremont Avenue rink were
stopped and the rink closed. The audience
wanted their money back, but did not get it
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07

A BALTIMORE friend of the late Gen.
Butler says: "All the eccentricities he
possessed-s as chewing on the
stump of a cigar in open court, putting
and blowing during the examination
of witnesses, striding up and down in
front of the jury, wearing boutonnieres
on all occasions, and making great
stew when he entered any assembly
all these were originally done for
effect. but as he aged they became a
part of his nature"
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
Senator Morgan Confined to His Bed.

LONDON, March 7.-Senator Morgan, one
of the representatives of the United States
in the Behring Sea Court of Arbitration,
who was passenger on the American line
steamer New York, which arrived at
southampton Saturday, was taken sick on
the voyage Since his arrival he has be
come worse, and is now confined to his beti
at the Southwestern Hotel at Southampton.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
DUE TO A BULLFROG.
How a Sonorous Croak Awoke an
Inventive Genius
DIR. Cushman Heard 1t and StraIEhtway
Constructed ''Talking Boxes" WhIch.
He Claims, Antedated Prof.
BELLS Telephone.

DR. Sylvanus d. Cushman, of Chicago,
claims to have antedated Bell in the dis
covery of the telephone. DIR. Cushman,
says the Chicago Tribune, is one of the
picturesque characters in the history of
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
Blown Up by Dynamite.

ASHLAND, Wis, March 7.-Chas. Enron
was blown up in a dynimite explosion
yesterday. He was fatally hurt. Five
others stood around while he opened a can
of dynamite. They were all more or less in
jured.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07

PARIS, March 7.-Adviccs from NADIA
gascar bring news of the wreck of the
French despatch boat Labourlonnais near
the French island of ST. Marie. Twenty
seven of the crew were lost
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
Change Of Residence.

Dr.TGill'has moved from Humph-
rey'siblock to Ralph Smiths new
brick flats, rear of 80 Meadow st.
Driveway off Meadow st, and plank
walk from South Main st.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-03-07
Killed ut His Work.

NEWARK, N j., March 7,-Conrad Lay,
81 years old, an employe of Wood Turner
Otto Bernz, was instantly killed by the
bursting of an emory wheel, yesterday.