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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-01
Especial Correspondence


MILWAUKEE, Aug. Silt is a matter
of more than passing interest that a Mil
waukee boy has broken the record, in
these record breaking days, as a song
writer, publisher and seller. Everybody
nowadaysis singing that irresistible bal
lad, CATER the Ball." The chorus
After the ball is over, after the break of morn,
After the dancers leaving, after the stars are
gone,
Many a heart is aching, if you could read them
all,
Many the hopes that have vanished, after the
ball
is heard everywhere, and it is probably
the most successful song of the century,
over 100000 copies having been sold. It
is said that no other song ever sold to so
large an extent, and it is certainly fact
that no other song ever Melted its COM
poser a fortune in few months time.
The story of this song, CATER the
Ball." is full of human interest. The
words and music We're composed by
Charles K. Harris in few hours, and
the most remarkable thing of all, out
side of its popularity, is that the COM
poser doesn't know one musical note from
another! Harris is of Hebrew extrac-
ton, is 2S years Of age, is self educated
and is the composer Of at least 10 bal
lads that are now riding the topmost
wave of popularity. He is of small stat
ure, with red hair and blue eyes, and
had eked out the usual everyday exist
/ ence until few months ago as a teacher
of the banjo. Today he is one of the
rich men of Milwaukee and is enjoying
an income of over 81 900 a day from the
sales of ''After the Ball"
Harris has struggled with all of the
phases of poverty, but one morning about
six months ago he awoke to find himself
famous.
The composer showed me a record of
forty amusement enterprises that were
using his song as a feature of their en-
tertainments. It was first brought to
public notice by member of Hallen &
Harris company late in the spring. Its
refrain has Travelled around the world
and is now being sung everywhere. Go
where you may, you can't get out of its
reach. 1t has been dubbed the Column
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-01
blre in the comparison. The regular
annual appropriations for the three

blre in the comparison. The regular
annual appropriations for the three
earlier congresses aggregated S1,02s,-
1885,, 959.87, OF an annual average of
ST., 147, 1854; for the three later con-
crosses, 1852, 1884, 1881, or an annual
average Of 1925, 1886, 8o3.15. Exclusive
of pensions, the annual average for the
earlier congresses was $135, 73S, 846.36
and for the later congresses $159,s2S,
916.7O. These figures in each case Of
course are exclusive of the permanent
annual appropriations for the public
debt, etc.
When I went in to ask him for this
comparison, Governor Sayers said he
knew the natural tendency of larger
membership was toward increased APP
preparations, but he was well pleased
with the membership and believed he
would be able to make an exception TO
the rule in this congress.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-01
One Way of Collecting.

care you and Dedbrole really such
intimate friends as he tries to make out?'
81 don't know. What does he say?'
"Oh, I don't know exactly, only he
creates the general impression that you
and he sleep in the same bed.'
SIS that SO? We never have, but |
guess we'll be obliged to unless he finds
some way to pay up all the money I've
loaned him" = Detroit Tribune.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-01
WEALTH IN ONE SONG.
!: AFTER the BALI, Nets a Young Man
$1,000 Per Day.

The Most Successful Ballad of the Centu-
ry-A Composer Who Cannot Read Mu-
sic-How He Suddenly Awoke to Find
Himself Famous.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-01
CRISP'S COMMITTEES.
What May Be Expected From the
Fifty.Third Congress.

Probable Legislation Upon Silver and the
Tariff-LtttIe For Public Buildings and
Much For Waterways and Our Navy-Im-
migration and Labor.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-20

against the sign -f1Isener'~ or -t-a,,st-
and, presto!-you are Immediately in Chi.
cago again. Beer is everywhere. 1t seems
the universal tipple. 1t is that in the
Plaisance. Turks, Arabs, Algerians, Da-
homeyans, Indians, and all thirst for it.
The Dahomeyans have learned to like it
since they came here. never having known
the taste of beer until their arrival in Chi
cago. and have developed a capacity for
the amber fluid equal to that of the Ger
man worEars III a brewery. Lately IL mas
been found necessary to put two or three
cases OF beer in sight of the platform
belo:e they begin their dances and
other performances, and as soon as the
programme is ended the semi-naked
heathens make dash for the supplies,
ana deXterously forcing the corks insert
the neck of the bottle between their teeth
and keep it there until the contents are
entirely exhausted.
1t would be a sad commentary on our
civilization if these people should learn
but one thing well over here and that is
how to put away the white mans "tan-
glefoot." Some of the Moors are said to
be developing taste for whisky and it is
stated that several of the half savages have
had to be sent back to their native land
because of the effect on them of American
drinks. The Hindoo seems to be free of
this vice to greater extent than any 9TH
ers of the Orientals. But this may be on
account of the startling god of prudence
whom he worships.
There was n joke on the national COM
mission as result of the panic over the
storage fire. One of the commissioners ap-
peared in the commission chamber in high
excitement, and announced that there was
pipe in the Agricultural building that
was sure to set fire to something; he could
not hold his hand on it, A committee was
appointed to inform the director general,
and was told by that official thPt the pipe
was harmless. 1t was only a steam ex-
haust, he said, and further informed the
committee that the fact that it was hot to
the hand did not make it dangerous.
The Congress of College Fraternities has
begun its session. The members nearly
startled President Bonney out of a years
growth by giving a terrible college veil
just as he had opened lis mouth to wei
come them. Meetings were held in the
various halls of the Art institute of the
University of Extension congress, Congress
of College Fraternities, Congress of Social
Settlements and the opening session of
the Emma Willard Memorial association
At the latter an address by Mrs Elizabeth
Cady stanton entitled "Pioneer Work in
the Higher Education of Women in the
United States" was read by Miss Susan
B. Anthony.
The special celebration of the state of
Colombia and the dedication of the Col
ombian pavilion will take place this after
noon at o'clock. President Senor Castos
Martinez Silva will make special ad-
dress and the Valisi mandolin orchestra
will give programme of music.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-20
JOHNNY CRAPAUO AND SIAM.
A Specimen of the Universal Aggression
of the Strong on the wenk.

Specimen of the Universal Aggression
of the Strong on the Weak
PARIS, July 20,-The statement relative
to the sending Of an ultimatum to the ST.
amese government is confirmed by a semi
official announcement. The ultiu atum
has been sent, but instead of only twenty
four hours being allowed for an answer
Siam will be given forty-eight hours in
which to accept or reject the demands
made upon her by France The total in
demnity claimed by France is 5000. 900
francs, exclusive of the claims made by
private persons The ultimatum declares
that if Siam does not agree to the demands
made upon he: in the time specified the
French feet will blockade the Menam river.
upon which the Siamese capital is located.
And these are the demands; that the ST.
amese evacuate the left bank of the Me-
kong river; that guarantees be given by
the Siamese government for the faithful
performance of its treaty of obligations,
and that indemnity be paid Tor the out
RACES perpetrated by the Siamese upon the
French. The French are already in pos
session of the lower MeEong river, and if
Siam comedies the demands now made
upon her the river will be made almost en-
tirely French. And thus it is that the
nub of the French demands is the first, by
which Siam will be robbed of a nice piece
OF real estate and France be that much
better off
Ii was but a short time ago that the
river was acknowledged to be a consider
able distance to the westward of the
French strip of influence in AMMAN. A
mountain range lies long distance to the
eastward of the Mekong river, and the
French claimed no jurisdiction to the
westward of this range Recently France
claimed the entire watershed to the west
ward of the mountains to the river. and
now she demands that the Siamese evacu-
ate the western bank
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-20
| Single Copies 8 Gents
! FER Week 12x Cents
THE DREAD SCOTT DECISION.
1t Seems to BE Is i'm Force Yet Both in the
North and the South


CHICAGO, July 20.-A crowd of southern
excursionists from Atlanta, Ga, terrorized
No. train on the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois road within the city limits, severe
ly beat j. L. Lewis, a colored messenger in
the employ of the Santa Fe road and forced
another railway employe to jump from the
swiftly moving train. The southerners called
to the negro with au oath to come to them
and he paid no attention. They then or
dered him again with the remark that
they would teach him to come "when a
white man calls you." But still, believing
the popular fiction that the United States
is free country, he did not 60
This angered the Georgians and a num-
ber of them with revolvers in their hands
advanced toward him, shouting: XIII
the - negro After striking him on
the head a number of times with their
revolvers they forced him to walk down
the car while they beat him with their
fists and guns. In the meantime a num-
Der of the party attacked the switch fore
man, who was still on the rear platform,
forcing him to jump from the train.
Lewis finally made his escape to the front
cars, where the passengers protected him
from further assault. On the arrival of
the train at the depot Lewis complained
to the police, but they refused to do any
thing, saying they had NO business to
interfere
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-20
LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKETS.
Chicago.


CHICAGO July 49,
Following were the quotations on the
board of trade today: Wheat-July. opened
63c, closed 623sc; September, opened 6G5zc,
closed G6c; December. opened 735sc. closed
1850. Corn-July. opened 391kc, closed 39lkc:
August, opened 1880, closed 3914c; September,
opened 4015c, closed 40c. Oats-July.
opened 2S34c, closed 2i34c; September.
opened Csc. closed ei3sc. Pork-July
opened sls75, closed slS.75; September,
opened $3.50, closed $3.50. Lard-July.
opened $3.50. closed s935.
Stock Yards today ranged as follows:
Hogs-Estimated receipts for the day %. 600:
quality only fair; left over about 1000; mar
ket only moderately active; packers accept
ing fair numbers, but shippers slow to
purchase; feeling week; light lots steady, but
S4elG5.s) pigs, s5s09625 light, S5.4O0555
rough packing, S5.70G6.1O mixed, and S5601
5.s5 heavy packing and shipping lots.
Cattle-Estimated receipts for the day.
1l,0O0; quality fair; market rather active on
local and shipping account, and prices fairly
well maintained; quotations ranged at S4.S56
s5.25 choice to extra shipping steers,
TO good, S3.SJG3.s0 common to medium do,
s3.2593.65 butchers steers, s2.40a3l5 stock.
ers, S2.S013.75 feeders, Sl.2513l0 cows
S2.5013.49 heifers, s2.OOG3.75 bulls, S2.l5S
osJ Texas steers. and S25OG5.75 veal calves.
Sheep-Estimatedr receipts for the day, 10, oOo:
quality fair: market fairly active and prices
steady; quotations ranged at S30014.5 so
per 100 lbs westerns, S2.5014IO Texas,
$40 16.0o natives. and S2.50155 so lambs,
Produce: Butter-Fancy separator, lsIsneoc
per 10; fancy dairy, l69l7c; packing stock, l3
Gl3Ifc. Eggs-Fresh northern stock. 1876 Der
dozen. Live Poultry-Spring chickens, l0
IL per ID; old hens lie; turkeys. lO,tollc;
ducks. sole; geese, S3.5GD8OO per dozen.
New potatoes. $l.7512.5O per barrel. Apples
Choice to fancy, So. 3.75G4.0O per barrel Straw.
berries-Michigan, 5O975o per l6qt case.
Honey-White clover, lib sections, l5nl7c;
broken comb, 1Oc; dark comb. good condition.
loGl4c; extracted. 6Gsc per ID.
New York.
New YORK, July ls
Wheat-July, 70Ac; August. 7l4c; Septem-
Der, 5314 070a4c; October, 755s976c; December.
70 l3-l6Gs0 5-l6c.. Corn-No. dull and
weaker; August, 4sAc; September, IS 9.l6
0is3sc; No. =, 4s14G4sI4c. Oats-No. 2, dull
and easier; August, s214c; September. 3O5sc;
state. Ss04ic; western, e6I60i4c. Pork
Dull and steady. Lard-Dull, nominal.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-20
M'LAUGHLlN'S DISAPPEARANCE.
Nearly Three Years Missing-What Was
Found in His Trunk

Nearly Three Years Missing-What Was
Found in His Trunk
TIFFIN, o., July 20-In November, 1890
Daniel Mclaughlin, an unmarried man
IS years old, and supposed to be possessed
of large amount of this worlds goods.
mysteriously disappeared from Jackson,
Mich, whence he started for a three-days'
trip to indianapolis Prospective heirs
employed detectives, and since that time a
vigorous search has been prosecuted, but
the whereabouts of the missing man and
his fate have never been ascertained. A
short time ago trunk belonging to the
missing man was discovered in Jackson.
Mich, and was brought to this city by T.
J. Kintz.
He was appointed administrator on re-
quest of the heirs who reside in Columbus
and Somerset, o., and others in Indiana
Mr.. Kintz has opened the trunk and dis
covered that it contained 1890 in cash and
valid mortgage notes amounting to s., 200
besides score of warranty deeds to real
estate in Indianapolis, South Bend and
Fort Wayne, Ind. Papers found in the
trunk also showed that Mclaughlin had
given to various Roman Catholic orphans
homes donations to the amount of $23 600
and S26, 0O0 to the children of his sister.
Administrator Kintz has reason to be-
heye that Mclaughlin left valuable pa
pers elsewhere, but as the old man made
his home in indianapolis, South Bend and
Fort Wayne, Ind, and Kalamazoo. De.
troit and Jackson, Mich, it is difficult
task to ascertain the location of such pa
pers. The efforts TO discover McIaurh-
Inns fate will lie continued, and the ad.
ministrator will also look up all the prop
erty for which deeds have been found.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-20
The Local Markets.
GalrN ETr

WheaJ-74G76 76e. (
Corn-40c.
Oats-29l31c.
Hay-Timothy. S12. 90; upland, SfOa1t: sIouo,
IS. 90; baled. Si0.0O111 90.
PRODUCE.
Butter.Fair 10 choice, 2Ot; creamery, 2Oc
Eggs Fresh, 14Gs15
Poultry-Chickens, 12hc; turkeys l2b
ducks, 12hc; geese, 10c.
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES
Apples-S4 90 perbbl.
Potatoes-S5093c.
Onions-s4 GO per bbl.
Turnips-60c per bu.
LIVE STOCK
Cattle-Bntchers pay for corn fed steers
415c.
Hogs-7I7Mc.
Sheep-4Gt5c.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-20
On the Base Ball Diamond.

CHICAGO, July 20.-Following are the
League scores at base ball: At Cleveland
Pittsburg 10, Cleveland 6; at Baltimore
brooklyn 2, Baltimore IL; at Wash
Observation-Disclosures IA, Washington 8; at
Cincinnati-Louisville 9, Cincinnati s: at
New York-(first game)-Boston u, New
York 6; Second game) Boston g, New
York IL
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-20
BY SWEDEN
Scandinavia Moves in Force on
the Worlds Fair.
THREE DAYS JOLLIFIOATION BEGUN

Two Nights of Fireworks and Illumina-
tion Part of the Programme, With
speeches and Music to Fill in the Time
College Fraternities Have Days
outing-Midway Plaisance and Beer
An Omnipresent beverage.
CHICAGO. July 20.-Scandnavia has
taken possession of Jackson park and will
hold the fort for three days, during which
music, speeches and fireworks will cut a
figure. There is "whole lot" of Scandi-
navian folks in the limits of Chicago to
say nothing of the colonies of that nation
allty In the states surrounding, and a
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-20

IL.
large percentage of them are at the park
today. Tonight the searchlight on Manu-.
factures building will light up the statues
in the Court of Honor and show them in
a halo The appearance of these statues
when so lighted up is inexpressibly beau
tiful. They look like they were chiseled
out of marble and their artistic beauties
are thoroughly developed
1t Is a Gallery of Sculpture.
The Court of Honor is gallery of sculp.
ture. The splendid figure of America on a
pedestal in the lagoon; the Columbus
Quadriga in the center of the peristvle:
the MacNonnes fountain; the two mag
nificent and heroic statues of the OK with
the maiden: leading them; the splendid
figures of Norman horses, and last bur not
least the sym bolcal groups on the Admin
istration building. are all masterpieces in
design and execution, and never look more
perfect than when under the brilliant rays
of the search light
Two Nights of Light for Sweden
The illuminations occur twice week.
and this week they will both be for Swe.
den. Nothing more entrancingly love'y
was ever witnessed by human eyes than
the Court of Honor on illumination nights.
and the fact that the Swedish celebration
includes two of the nights is sufficient to
mark it as a red letter event. But Sweden
proposes to do the occasion justice Most
nations are satisfied with one day. Even
Germany was. But the Scandinavian
has captured three and Will make them
notable, so he 81 ys, and the managers of
the fair cry Amen" especially as to paid
admissions
TIE jollification began this morning b1
the parade into the grounds of fifty of the
Swedish societies of Chicago. These were
led by the American Union of Swedish
Singers 500 strong. This union consists of
twenty-five singing societies scattered
from st. Paul to Boston. In the parade
there were societies from Chicago, St.
Paut, Rockford, New York, Milwaukee.
Minneapolis Buffalo, and other cities. The
members wore white caps and sang g
they marched. In the afternoon at O'Clock
these societies VIII give concert at Festival
hall, singing the gee and part songs of
Sweden. For this occasion three of the
most hoted Swedish soloists have been en-
gaged-Mme. Caroline Ostberg, C. f.
Lundquist. Of TIE Royal opera, Stockholm,
and Conrad Dehrens Nine. Ostberg is
considere, 81 lens first soprano. and
Mr.. Lundq;. u baritone, a man of gigan-
tic stature, h1s Jven singing in the Royal
opera since it%).
College Boys VIII Help Whoop Things.
And the Swedes will have help in max
ing thinga lively today For the mem
bers of the Greek college fraternities who
are now holding congress. at the Art In
stltute are participating in a celebration
of College fraternity day at the exposi-
ton today. Several thousand college So
clety men and women are expected at the
grounds The ladies of the woman's So
cieties will hold a reception 10 the visit
ing Greeks in the New York state build.
ing from to o'clock in the afternoon.
This will be followed by a college song
concert led by the Cincinnati band at the
lake front music pavilion
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-20
scooPED BY THE SEDUCTIVE BEER

The 'Haythin Turks and Other wor-
shippers of Strange Gods
There is one thing on the Midway Plais.
ance that must strike the observer more
than any other, and that is the omnipres-
ence of beer. You go into the Cairo street
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-11-07
Tubing the Channel.

Sir Edward Reeds plan for con-
structing a railroad across the Brit
ish Channel is to lay two mammoth
tubes of steel plate and concrete
twenty feet in diameter. The tubes
would be made in lengths and when
two lengths were completed they
would be joined together in a paral-
lei fifty feet apart and foated into
the channel to be attached to the
completed length. All the work is to
be done above water. Thus the end
of the completed tube is to be kept
above water until a fresh length is
Joined on. Then that will be allowed
to sink and the last attached part will
form the end of the completed part
This plan has already been prac-
ticed with success in America in car
rying the pipe, forty inches in diane
ter, for water works long distance
across salt water. In that case the
engineer in charge inyented joint
which renamed tight as the compile
ted tube first hung in curve, and
afterward adjusted itself to the bot.
tom on which it came to lie.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-11-07
4 COMPROMISE EFFECTED
The state Wagon Road Bonds "a r..
Taken.
Statesman, SUNDAY.

Statesman. Sunday.
A compromise has been effected
between the State and the Coffin
stanton company with reference sc
the floating Of the State wagon road
bonds.
Yesterday the company, through
its attorney w. A. Underwood
signed contract to take the balance
OF the bonds, amounting to $l15,OOO.
in consideration Of the time for paw.
ing the premium being deferred.
The firm contracts to take $3s..
200 OF the bonds at once and $27 900
worth on Dec. l, 1893. This issue Of
s6o,OOo was made on July !, 1898,
but the Coffin, Stanton company
were unable to comply with the
terms of their contract and the bonds
were not taken. The firm agrees to
pay the ii per cent premium, amount
ing to $3.50, on April /, 1894, to-
gether with interest at the rate of s
per cent from July 1st. The remain
der of the bonds, $4,000, are to be
taken, when rendered, any time be-
tween April l, 1894, and July l,
1884, the premium to be paid imme-
diately upon the bonds being deIiv-
cred.
The State officials have security
for the performance of the contract
on part of the Coffin, Stanton compa-
ny in the shape of $4,000 in bonds
deposited with the State Treasurer.
The State officials now turn the en-
tire matter over to the Wagon Road
Commissioners.
The first contract made with the
Colin, Stanton company provided for
the payment of the premium upon
the delivery of the bonds. When the
nnanclai depression came on, the firm
adopted unusual tactics to find some
loop-hole through which to escape,
but the contract was impregnable.
They secured extension after extern
sion from a lenient administration.
The officers of State finally threat
ened to sue the company, and an at
torney was sent out to arrange com.
promise, if possible. This was yes
terday consummated on the basis al
ready stated.
The Wagon Road Commissioners
will meet in a few weeks. There
will be sufficient money available to
commence work on the road early
next spring.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-11-07

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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-11-07

In setting up the marriage notice
in last Fridays WORLD the typo got
in a figure l instead of 8, making
the year 1891 instead of 1898, and
the proof reader overlooked the error
An error of this kind is always re-
gretted by the newspaper man, but
they will occasionally occur, in all
papers, both large and small and oi
high and low degree. The marriage
took place in Garden valley On Oct
81, 1898, the contracting parties be-
ing Matt Zapp and Miss Anna CARR
gan. 1t is useless to apologize te
Matt and Anna by promising to dc
better next time. The young couple
starts out in welded life with the
very best wishes of large circle O.
friends. Not in 1891 but '93, they
start to sail the matromonial sea
They'll glide just as smoothly ane
happy and free as if the World hac
married them in ninety-three.