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The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
SOME BURNED TIC DEATH.
Particulars of the Cyclone at the Little
Town of Cisco, Texas.

DALLAS, Tex, April 30.-Details of
terrible cyclone at Cisco, Tex, have been
received. Out of 400 residences in town.
only one is uninjured. Conservative es-
Inmates place the total property loss at
over 100000. Immediately after the
cyclone passed flames were seen issuing
from several frame buildings. 1t is
thought that some of the missing, of
whom there are a score, were burned to
death, and that their bodies were cre-
mated. Several streets are so full of
debris as to prevent the passage of foot
passengers. For miles around the city, the
ground is covered with wrecks Of brick
OF frame buildings, household furniture
and utensils.
Physicians estimate that 200 or more
were injured. Forty will die. Most of
the people were left in the open air,
without shelter from the cutting wind
that followed the storm.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
THE BEST YET.
The Coming Convention of Republicer
Clubs at Louisville.

NFw YORK, April 30.-The officers of
the National Republican League have
about completed the programme for the
sixth annual convention of the Republi-
can League of the United States, to be
held in Macaulay's theatre, Louisville,
on Monday, May 10. A meeting of the
executive committee of the National
League will be held at the Gait House,
Louisville, on the evening preceding the
opening of the convention. The princi-
pal business of the first days session will
be the addresses of welcome, the intro
duction of resolutions, the decision upon
the place of meeting for 1894, reports of
committees and the annual address of the
president, James S. Clarkson. A league
mass meeting will take place under the
auspices of the National Republican
League and the Republican clubs of
Louisville on the evening of May 10.
Among the speakers who have been in
vited to make speeches at that time are
General Russell A. Alger, Frank j. Can
non, Frederick Douglass, J. Sloat Fas-
sett, D. 81. Hastings, General James
Longstreet, Thomas b. Reed, John G..
Spooner, J. c. Burrows, Chauncey IN.
Depew, M. NJ. Estee, Benjamin Harrison
Robert I. Lincoln, William Mckinley,
John B. Robinson, John NJ. Thurston,
W. o. Bradley, ]. P. Dolliver, ]. B. For
aker, W. P. Hepburn, Henry Cabot
Lodge. Levi P. Morton, J. Fl. Wilson, E.
0. Wolcott.
The business session and the election
of officers will take place on May II. On
the same day there will be held the an
nual convention of the American Repub-
ican College League. In the evening
the citizens of Louisville will give a re-
ception at Phoenix Hill Park in honor of
the visiting delegates Friday, May 12,
will be devoted to excursions to interest
ing places in the neighborhood of Louis.
vile.
The officers have reason to believe thai
the coming convention will be the most
interesting one ever held by the league
Important results are expected.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
1T WOULDN'T GO.
The New Co-Insurance Clause Considered
by the New England Exchange.

Boston, April 90.-As result of the
insurance legislatiouin Maine the past
winter the New England insurance ex-
change, which has Jurisdiction over all
agencies throughout New England and
which really controls the making of rates,
became alarmed and set to work making
new co-insnranec clause for Maine only.
to meet the requirements of the new law.
This clause provided:
sit is part of the consideration of this
policy and the basis upon which the rate
of premium is fixed that the assured
shall maintain insurance on the proper
ty described by this policy to the extent
of at least - per cent. of the actual cash
value thereof, and that failing so to do
the assured shall be an insurer to the ex-
tent of such deficit, and to that extent
shall bear his, her or their proportion of
any loss that may happen to said prop
erty.
1.-THE value of the entire property is
hereby stated to be on the day of the
date of this policy the sum of - dol
lars, divided as follows, VIZ: Item No.
l, item No. 2, item No. 8, item No. 4.
1t is hereby agreed, for the consideration
aforesaid, that in case of any change in
the value of said property, the actual
value of each item thereof at the time of
any loss shall be the basis of settle
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
SENT BACK TO PRISON
And Now the Convict Sues the Governor
Who Gave the Order.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, April 2S.-A sensa-
tional suit was begun against William R.
Merriam, Ex-Governor of Minnesota, to-
day by James G. Nethaway of Saltwater
on behalf of Thomas O'Connor, life
convict in the state penitentiary. The
damages asked are $685. 900.
The story leading up to the suit is one
of the most pathetic in the states histo-
ry. Eighteen years ago Thomas O'Con-
nor and Thomas Kane, two convivial
companions, had rough-and- tumble
fight near Montgomery, LIE Sueur coun-
ty, and Kane was stabbed to death.
OConnor was tried and sentenced to
spend the remainder of his days behind
the prison walls.
Two years ago friends of the Younger
brothers, the Missouri outlaws, secured
the passage thTrlgh the legislature of a
law permitting the governor to release
life prisoners on their promise to leave
the State of MINES ota forever. Under
this law the governor, who was then
William R. Merriam, refused to set free
the Younger brothers, but he ordered the
release of O'Connor. The latter left the
state at once, but his wife, who still lived
nSetl mOutSOAl6IS, loll very III. Ou uer
death bed she expressed desire to see
her husband again. He came, and, while
she fingered between life and death, some
one informed the officers of LIE Sueur
county, who seized O'Connor and in
formed the governor of his capture.
Gov. Merriam ordered O'Connor incar-
cerated and he was sent back to prison.
His case was carried to the Supreme
court of the state, and YESTERDAY a decis-
ion was rendered to the effect that O'Con-
nor must be released on the ground that
Gov. Merriam had no right to act until
the case had been examined by the court
in which the prisoner had been tried or
by higher court An order was this
evening received by Warden Wolfe at
Saltwater, and OConnor will depart a
free man tomorrow.
The twenty-five thousand dollar suit
against Merriam is for false imprison-
ment.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
MAINE AT THE FAIR.
The States Exhibit One That Will DE-
Her Credit.

The States Exhibit One That Will Do
Her Credit
A Chicago despatch to the Boston
Herald saws:
Trnl;ke Tho o+bor Now Eno,,o,a .+o4ou
:, 10 o.noi 1.uw i,"nu s'a'es'
the state OF Maine Will be relatively bet
ter represented IN certain other depart
ments than in that of manufactures. II is
of co,rsa not s,,r,,.;s;, - 1,a, 4l,.I
>, ~ ' - i's W io"in 'n"o
lhe Flne Tree staee Will include IN her
Columbian display an admirable exhibit
of her native woods. All of these. both
hard and soft, will be elouuently repre-
sented bycollections of specimens CON
sisting of sticks, each two feet long.
mounted on canxas and properly labelled
with both the scientific and the popular
name. The state which has for so long
been pre-eminent. not only in timber in,
terests, but in the production of mapnif-
icent wooden ships, will thus be charac-
teristically represented in the material to
which is due her fame in these two i'm
portant Industries. The forest trees. it is
to be added. will be exhibited also by
sections of their trunks and in other
ways calculated to display their peculiar
ties to the best advantage
An EXTREMITY interesting exhibit will
be that of the fauna of the state. 1t will
include specimens of all the Indigenous
wild animals, notably the game animals
and birds, a male and female of each
species being represented, not excluding
the moose and the caribou, those de-
lights of all true sportsmen.
The mineral exhibit, too, will be par
ticularly fine, and the granite resources
of Maine, which include no less than 90
varieties, adapted, according to Prof.
Bailey of Colby University. to building
purposes.
Plaster casts will be exhibited showing
the status of the fisheries of the state.
and good exhibits will also be seen of
the educational, agricultural, pomologi-
cal and live stock interests of the state.
In the last named, attention will be
called to the possession by Maine of ex-
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
WHlTTLlNG 1T DOWN.
Recount Ras Reduced Everett's Majority
Over Barrett to Ten.

BosToN, April 20. The recount of the
ballots cast last Tuesday for Congress
man in Wards and of Boston was
made today resulting in gain of four
votes for Hon. William E. Barrett, Re-
publican nominee, over DIR. William Ev-
erett, the Democratic. In Ward 4, Bar
rett made a net gain of five and in Ward
a net loss of one. By this recount,
Everett's plurality in the entire district
is reduced to ten. There were some pro-
tests on both sides as to the counting of
certain ballots which will yet have to be
settled
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND.
Erastus wiman's Affairs Give the Annex
ationist New Fame.

New YORK, April 20. - The
Evening Post says: Erastus Wiman
the King of Staten Island, as he has of.
ten been called, the advocate of CONNER
eial reciprocity with Canada, the pro-
moter of numerous projects of more or
less financial success, and a prominent
member of the New York Chamber of
Commerce, the New York Board of
Trade and many other business organi-
zations, and until recently member of
the firm of r. &. Dun & Co. formerly
Dun, Wiman 6 Coz, has joined his wife
in making an assignment for the benefit
of his creditors.
The total omount of Mr.. Wiman's liza
bilities and assets are not known. 1t is
estimated, however, that his liabilities
will amount to $1,000,000 at least, and
they may exceed that sum.
The only available assets are believed
to consist of some land on Staten Island,
which stands in the name of his wife,
Mr.. Wiman, as a Canadian and British
subject, being unable to hold any lands
in this state in his own name.
Mr.. Wiman, it is said, estimated the
property transferred as worth $1,000, 900.
ouC OtLCI pCIoOuS WuOSc OplulOu have T6-
Gently been asked, do not value it as a
quick asset at more than $60O,0OO,. and
they think that if forced sale were
were made it would not realize as much
as that. 1t was not possible today to
secure list of Mr.. Wiman's S creditors
The fact of Mr.. Wiman's assignment
has been known to some men in Wall
street for some days and, therefore no
surprise was expressed by many bank
officers today when the matter was men
toned to them. .,..-,.'s4
Mr.. Wiman Denies 1t.
New BRIGHTON, N. Y, April 29.-
Erastus Wiman denies that he has made
an assignment as alleged by New
York evening paper. He says that be-
ing British subject and unable as such
to own land in the state of New York,
his large real estate accumulations on
Staten Island have hitherto been held in
the name of his wife. Several weeks
ago this property, (which, with develop
ment would realize $1,OO0,O0O, was all
conveyed by Mrs. Wiman to a trustee for
the benefit of creditors, past and pres
ent or to come. In this conveyance.
MI. Wiman joined. The result of the
creation of this trust is to place within
reach of creditors a large estate hitherto
unavailable to them and is the only
foundation for the story that MI. Wiman
has assigned.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
RUSHING TO DEFEAT.
The Hopeless Battle Of An Army Of
Ohio Coal Miners.
THEY VOTED TO STRIKE AGAINST
THEIR LEADERS, ADVICE.

This Is the Only Case Known Where the
Wishes of Labor Leaders Have Been
So Completely Ignored BY Their Fol-
lowers-The President of the Miners
Organization Sent an Appeal from His
Sick Bed.
COLUMBUS, Ohio April 30.-As result
of conference of delegates from vari-
GUS local organizations of miners held
here yesterday, 10000 Ohio GOAL miners
will refuse to work Monday morning.
Early in the spring the Ohio miners
made demand upon the operators for
an advance of five cents on ton for pick
mining and ten cents for machine min
ing. AT the joint conference held April
10 both operators and miners refused to
make concessions, The National Mine
Workers officers decided to submit the
proposition Of strike May 1st to vote
OF the locals of the district composed of
Ohio. West Virginia, Indiana and Him
ois. The locals of Ohio were directed
to send instructed delegates to tnt CON
ference held here yesterday. They came
instructed to man to stand unaiterably
for the origina' demand or strike. Yes
tescay morning official advices were re-
ceived at national headquarters here
from the Pennsylvania fields stating that
an amicable adjustment of affairs there
was concluded, which shattered the
plans for concerted action. Both the ma
tional and state officers of the union adj
vised against a strike in Ohio, but the
delegates had instructions and were not
to be moved from them. After their
officers had labored all day to dissuade
the delegates, not one man had been
converted last night. The strike was de-
elared and every local union telegraphed
not to return to work Monday. The
strike is remarkable one. Never before
did men go out against the unanimous
protests of union officers. National
President Mcbride lay almost helpless on
sick bed, but mustered stength enough
to dictate a strong appeal to the dele
gates to recede from their stand. That
the strike will result in disastrous fail
ure is almost foregone conclusion.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
ment of such loss under the provisions

ment of such loss under the provisions
of this policy"
This was brought into the exchange
at its last meeting by the committee on
Maine affairs and was laid over until yes
terday's meeting. Then it became the
first business in the order for the day.
1t was rejected by big majority.
The reason for its rejection was that
it made the policy" valued policy, and
valued policy IN the eyes of an insur-
ance man is great deal worse than a
policy issued without any co-insurance
clause whatever. So that at present
Maine fire insurance policies are written
as they were before co-insurance was
inserted. But the rates will probably
be increased.
All local boards of the exchange in
Maine were yesterday withdrawn and
cancelled, to comply with the law.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
EPIDEMIC OF FAILURES.
Another Great Australian Bank Joins
the Procession.
THE GOVERNMENT HAS TAKEN UP
THE MATTER.

And Is Trying to Find Means to Get the
Concerns On Their Feet-One Way Is
To Give Depositors Time To Recover
Their Senses BY Declaring a Five
Days Holiday-NIany Millions Inyolv-
ed in the Last Failure.
LONDON, April 30-A despatch from
Melbourne announces the failure of the
National Bank of Australasia. The bank
has some 100 branches in Australia, and
agencies in mostof the large cities of the
United Kingdom, the continent and the
United States. The authorized capital
of the bank is e2,OO0,0OO; the subscribed
capital is 81, ,250,OO0; the paid up capital
is 81, 100000, sand the reserve fund is
100000. The assets are estimated at
$4,000, ,O00SThe liabilities in the colonies
are only e7,500,000. The cause of the
failure was heavy run on the bank and
all it's branches. Since April 10th more
than e6,5O0,O0O have been withdrawn
from deposit. At the official meeting
last Thursday, dividend of ten per cent
payable May Sth was declared. The de-
posits of the bank amount to nearly
SO, 100000, of which about 10 per cent
belongs to persons in England. A part
of the deposits have been transferred to
banks now trying to reconstruct the
financial institutions which have gone to
pieces in Australia recently. The di-
rectors who were discussing schemes of
reconstruction were receiving money
meantime in trust with view to afford
ing time for the excitement to subside.
The Victoria government has pro-
claimed a bank holiday for the next five
days. Sir Jos. Downer, premier Of South
Australia, has invited the premiers of
the other colonies to a conference which
will consider measures for allaving the
panic and staying the progress of financial
disaster. The government of New South
Wales has declined the invitation on the
ground that it has already taken steps it
deems advisable. The Commercial
Bank, with head offices in Melbourne,
which failed recently, by the efforts of
other banks has been pulled together and
will open its head offices tomorrow and
it's branch offices Tuesday.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
BATH HAPPENlN 6s.
The New Broom Will Sweep Very Clean at
the Custom House.
Esnecial TO the Prass.1


BATH, April 29.-On Monday, it will
be Collector Larrabee, Mr.. Wakefield S
time expiring May 1st. The new col
lector is one of the foremost members of
the Sagadahoc county bar, and one of the
recognized leaders of the Democracy in
this section. The personnel Of the minor
offices is not yet made public, but it is
understood that the new broom will
make clean sweep.
Station Agent Stiles retires from active
service this week, on account of ill
health. For over 20 years he has been
station agent at the Maine Central depot
in this city, and his loss will be felt by
the road and its patrons. Conductor Jo-
seph Anderson takes his place. Mr..
Anderson has many friends in Bath.
which was formerly his home.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
A RACE TO THE FAIR.
Bicycle Riders Speeding Westward With
a Letter from Russell.

WORCESTER, Mass, April 3O.-Guy L.
Gary, of the Press Cycle Club and Geo.
E. Quinn of the Winnisimmets, began
bicycle relay race from Boston to
Chicago by starting from the office OF
the Boston Post at s p; m. today. To
their care was entrusted pouch con
tanning message from Gov. Russell of
Massachusetts, to Gov. Altgeld of Him
ois. There were 10 relays of riders be-
tween Boston and here, and the pouch
reaching here at 7.15, 13 minutes behind
the scheduled time.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
Finishing Touches Put On in the
Midst Of a Rain Storm.
THE PRESIDENT THINKS THE
SHOW is STUPENDOUS.
Mr.. Cleveland and His Party We're Given a
Private View and the President was
Loud in His Praises-The Windy City
Entertaining Many Distinguished Visit
ors-What is Said of the Maine Exhibit.

N-N->- -
CHICAGO, April 3o.-"Grand, marvel
GUS, incomprehensible," was the verdict
of the President after his first visit to
the worlds fair. Mr. Cleveland went
to the grounds yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Secretaries Gresham,
Smith, Herbert and Carlisle, Mrs. Car
Isle and Mrs. Herbert. The Presidents
visit was unannounced and strictly pri-
vate. The visit was necessarily hurried.
Darkness forced the party to leave the
grounds before many of the buildings
were visited.
1t was raining in torrents and blowing
a gale from the northeast when Director
General Davis hurried to the World S fair
grounds this morning. A large force of
men was at work putting the finishing
touches to the grounds and arranging the
interior of the big building. Hundreds
of men and teams were cleaning up the
rubbish, removing piles Of gravel and
dirt, levelling mounds and putting the
place in holiday attire as far as the
weather would permit. By noon, the
rain ceased. Inside the buildings, ex-
hibitors were scrubbing floors, cleaning
alleyways and decorating the pavilions
In the manufacturers building, with few
exceptions, the exhibits on the main
avenue will be in perfect shape when the
doors are thrown open tomorrow morn
ing. Everything in the government and
fisheries buildings is practically in place
and satisfactory progress has been made
| in all the other buildings.
| Director General Davis met the depart
! ment chiefs at II O'Clock this morning,
| at breakfast given in the administra-
| ton building by Director of Works
Burnham. Various phases of the situa-
tion were discussed. Owing to the large
attendance of distinguished visitors up
on the opening ceremonies, it was the
| prevailing opinion that Music Hall would
not accommodate the crowd, and the
terminal station was voted the best and
most available building. The distin-
| guished guests continue to arrive to
take part in tomorrow's ceremonies.
They nearly filled the down town hotels.
No one was refused rooms tonight. The
| visitors filled many, homes where they
were entertained as guests. Among
| those who reached the city today were
| Governor Morris of Connecticut and
| staff, Governor Pattison and party of
Pennsylvania, Rev. DR.. w. H. Milburn,
Whitelaw Reid, Sousa Rosa of Ecuador,
| John Prout of Bolivia, Senior Romerio of
Spain, General Canervo, Peruvian minis
ter, General Alexander S. Webb of New
York, Manuel Lewis, Leon Rosenthal,
and Rafael Avits of Guatemala
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
Maine Pensions.
Famous Old Vessel Gone.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3O.-Schooner
Czarina arrived here yesterday from
Sand Point, Alaska, with the captain
and four of the !crew of the historic old
vessel, John Hancock. The Hancock
was tied up at wharf when a gale
came up that wrecked her completely.
The vessel was built at Charlestown,
Mass, in 1850, by the United States
government.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
Weather Observations.

The following are the observations of
the Agricultural Department Weather
Bureau for yesterday. April 80, taken
at 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. 5O0, SW. rain; New York, 500,
Sc, cloudy; Philadelphia, 500, E,
cloudy; Washington, $50, E, fair; Al
bany, $50, y. fair; Buffalo. 44o, E, rain;
Detroit, 40, NE, rain; Chicago, 40o. NE,
cloudy; St. Paul, 42o, NE, rain; St.
Vincent, 340, S, clear; Huron, Oak, 42o,
NE, cloudy; Bismarck, 40, Sc, cloudy;
Jacksonville, "a, Sc, clear.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
THE WEATHER.
Clouds and Rain.

BOSTON, April 3O.-Local forecast for
New England for Monday: Cloudy and
rain; slightly colder in the southern sec
tions and on the Maine coast; east to
south winds.
WASHINGTON, April 3O.-For Maine:
Generally fair; increasing cloudiness;
east winds; slightly colder. Signals dis
played from Narrangansett section to
Woodsholl section.
Local Weather Report.
PORTLAND. ME, April 80, 1898.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
Randolph Getchell.

HARRISBURG, Pa, April 3O.-Randolph
Getchell, United States Pension Exami-
ner, fell dead at his boarding house to-
day. He was 50 years old, and came
here from Boston. Getchell was reared
by James G.. Blaine. He had been in
good health.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
A Most Remarkable Discovery.

New YORK, April 29.-The Recorders
thousand dollar prize for cure for con.
sumption is awarded to w. R. Amick, M.
D., for seventeen years Professor in the
Cincinnati College of Medicine and Sur
gerry. The Recorder invites physicians
everywhere to verify this result of its
three months investigation and says
medicines for this purpose will be sent
free OF cost to those who write direct to
DIR. Amick at Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
ESTABLISHED JUNE 2s, 1se2-voL. 81.
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

Page L.
weather indications.
General telegraph news.
Page 2.
Base bail news.
NJ Maine dispatches.
Special worlds fair letter.
Page 8.
Rev. ]. G. Perkins's sermon on Andrew Preston
Peabody.
Page 4.
Editorials
State topics of interest.
Page s.
Deaths and marriages.
Music and drama
Annual meeting Woman's Baptist Missionary
Society.
The bowling tournament.
Miss McCobb's recital of the Merchant of Ven
ice.
Obituary.
Wit and WISDOM
Page7.
Financial and Commercial
Marine News.
Page s.
Brief Jottings.
Personals.
Forest Queen meets with an accident.
Presentation to Mr.. orestes Romagnoli.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
The schooner Was There to stav

CHATHAM, Mass, April 30.-Tug Elsie
made an unsuccessful attempt Yesterday
to pull the schooner Flanagan off the bar
The schooner could not be moved and
has been condemned. She will he
stripped and sold at auction,
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
Lost Time Recovered.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. April 3O.-The
bicycle relay arrived here at 11.21, one
hour and % minutes ahead of time.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01

ity Of the Indian
proves the poten-
cy Of the Indians
medicine.
Indian Sagwa
keeps him well.
II you feel "run
down" " or lack
app e tite, don't
sleep well, have
q bad lasts in
the mouth, pains
; In any part OF the
body, respond to
the cry of nature,
and with Kicka-
poo Indian Sagwa