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The Races at Sanford.

Sanford, August b., bic vcIe ,acas at
Mousam river park. ur the ausnices of
the Young Mems Debating club, this after
noon, were attended by a large crowd. The
following are the summaries of the races.
One mile novice. Niltred Howard of Ber-
wick, first Wjifred Senior of Sanford,
second. Time, @.35 "a. One mile open, G. j.
Dyer of Lewiston, first; James Stark of
Dorchester, Mass, second. Time, 2.56 IL.
Boys handicap, one mile, Arthur Perkins of
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Games This Week.

There will be three games on the home
| grounds this week with the Have1h hills. Two
| gam es Tuesday for one admission and. one
Wednesday. These games will have bear
| Ing upon second position and the Portlands
| will work hard to win, Games at 3.l5.
Old Orchard, 10; Y. Nj. G. A..4.
| The Old Orchards beat the y. M. G. Az
| in an exciting game. 1t was a pitchers
| battle and Campbell won his game because
| he received the best support. The Y. M, G.
AS again got dose of poor umpiring,
The score BY innings:
va Z. NJ Gf & ha A. 80 . Soosi13d ~ ~
Base hits-Old Orchards. 9; Y. M. C. A.. s.
Errors.Old Orchards, 2; Y. M. G. A., 6.
Allen.
Base Ball Notes.
Joseph Sharrott has been elected manager
of the Bangors to succeed j. Louis Bacon.
which rather looks as if Slattery's nose was
out of joint.
Manager Allen of the Brocktons. has
signed West, late of the Bostons, despite
the fact that he owes about $1,000 in salaries
Tom Bannon of Pawtucket. a brother of
Jimmy Bannon of Boston, is one of the
coming players of the country. In rs games
this season he has had .346 at bat, scored
lis runs. made lis hits, ISL totals; average.
352. He has the extraordinary record of 81
stolen bases, or 10 more than Hamilton of
Philadelphia, and thus leads the country
easily. He has struck out but five times this
year, has reached first base al times on balls
and has fielding average of S?5.
There have been seven tie games to date
during the present base tall season of the
National league. New York 8, BROOKLYN 4
New York ID, Boston u; PHILADELPHIA +
Baltimore s: New York ., st. Louis 2; Pitts
burg ID, Brooklyn 10; Cincinnati 6, Chicago
6; Chicago 8. Brooklyn s.
We, the Central Stations. challenge the
West End Firemen to a game of base ball
Saturday afternoon. NJ. j. O'Rourke.
= Capt. O'Brion of the Brockton's Joins The
Bangors in Fall River today, having re-
ceived good offer tor the balance of the
season.
Games Today.
Inc Lewiston management refused to
come here today, hoping perhaps. that Port
lana would not go there, and would forfeit
the game as they did Saturday but Port
land will go to Lewiston. Let us hone Lew.
lston Will De given the d1ubbing they de-
serve.
The Races at Sanford
Sanford, August d. bic ycIe races at
Mousam river park, un the ausnices of
the Young Mems Debating club, this after
noon. were attended. by a largo crowd. The
following are the summarize of the races
One mile novice, Wiltred Howard of Per-
wick, first Wilfred Senior of Stafford
Secnnd tNiire a
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There will be three games on the home
grounds this week with the Haven't Two
gam es Tuesday for one admission and. one
Wednesday. These games will have bear
Ing upon second position and the Portlands
will work hard to win, Games at BIS.
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Games Today.

Inc Lewiston management refused to
come mere today, hoping perhaps. that Port
land would not go there, and would forfeit
the game, as they did Saturday but Port
land Will go to Lewiston. Let US hope Lew
iston will be given the d1ubbing they de-
serve.
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by her attendants. All the family were
hastily summoned to her bedside. Count
Herbert Bismarck was present when his
mother passed away. Although 1t is feared
that the effect OF his wife's death upon the
Prince will be serious, 1t Is satisfactory to
add that the great Chancellor has been In
better health lately and that he has been
able to resume his daily drives.
In 1s47 young Count Bismarck married
the woman who to-day passed out OF his
Bismarck's courtship was ardent and un-
ceasing. Herr Won Puttkemer was preju-
diced and uncompromising. and bitterly op-
posed the young mans suit. The Chan
cellor to be was then rather wild young
man. Of DO apparent future. He had left
his university with no particular distinction,
and was, the family thought. IN no way
suited to be son-in-law OF the Won Putt
kamers. One day Bismarck resolved to
take matters into his own hands. he went
before the family circle OF the Won
Puttkamers, folded the young woman
in his AIMS, and looking Herr Won Putt
kamer in the eyes said sternly: ''What God
has joined let no man put asunder." After
that things went all Bismarck's way. he
loved his wife with devotion and fidelity,
and his home life was an ideal one. Politics
did not enter there. Princess Bismarck was
an essentially German woman. She took
but little interest in affairs Of State. She
bore Bismarck two sons, Count William and
Count Herbert. The former Is country
squire. The latter, in 4 measure, took up
the fathers interest in politics. The effect
of the death OF the Princess upon the ex-
Chancellor will be watched with anxiety.
So great was ths sympathy between the hus-
band and wife that illness on the part OF one
always affected the other.
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THE CZAR MARRIED.
Princess Alix, Of Hesse, Becomes EN-
press Of Russia.

Princess Alix, Of Hesse, Becomes EN-.
press Of Russia.
The marriage OF the Gear Nicholas IL, of
Russia, to Princess Alix, Of Hesse, was cel-
ebrated at the Winter Palace amid every
demonstration OF rejoicing on the part Of
the population OF st. Petersburg.
Emperor Nicholas, the King of Denmark,
the Grand Dukes and the royal princes were
grouped in Malachire Hall, where they
awaited the arrival of the bride. g.
At II. 80 o'clock Prince Dolgorouki, Grand
Master OF Ceremonies, and Count Vor-
ontzofE- -Dashdoff, Minister Of the Imperial
Court, announced to Emperor Nicholas that
all was ready. aud Princess Alix, her train
borne by four court dignitaries, two on each
side, and the extremity Of the garment held
by the Grand Chamberlain, entered the hall.
She, wore jeweled crown and robe OF
white brooaded silk, with mantle OF straw
berry colored velvet, trimmed with gold
and double row OF ermine.
The gowns Of the ladies especially varied
in style; some were all white, others red or
yellow, and some were OF white with trim
mings OF various colors. The mantles worn
were chiefly Of blue, purple or gold.
All Of the ladies wore headdresses with
coronets OF pearls and long tulle wells, and
each lady's dress was made with o long train.
The ceremony was OF most impressive
character and lasted nearly two hours.
The marriage service took place In the
Cathedral. 1t was the one In use In the
Orthodox Church.
At the conclusion of the service, when
the Gear and his bride went to Kazan
Cath, ,ral to invoke the Divine pro
lection, the enormous crowd, which
completely filed the Newsky Prospect,
the great square in which the oathe-
dral stands, made the mcst frantic demon
strations OF Joy as the Imperial cortege en-.
.ered the car tedral, and again when It lett,
the enthusiastic shouts blending with the
roar OF guns from the fortress and peals
from al; the bells In the city.
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FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY.
Two Men Killed on the Elevated Rail
road in New York.

Two Men Killed on the Elevated Rail.
road in New York.
There was fearful accident in New York
City on the Sixth Avenue Elevated Road at
Cortlandt street.
DR.. Francis S. Whettemore, OF No. 1s
West Forty-third street, recently from
Sandwich, Mass, aged thirty;si5, and his
OF No. 3O8 West 12sth street, were
mangled to death under the wheels
OF train. The accident hap
pened at 8.15 o'clock p. m. Whettemore
was instantly killed. Basley died twenty
minutes later, in the House of Belief, on
Hudson street. The latter was a drummer
in the employ Of E. C. Hazard d Co., whole
sale grocers.
Whettemore and Basley, accompanied by
friend, who disappeared afterths tragedy,
were, 1t was thought, skylarking on the
platform, though one theory was that Bas-
ley attempted to commit suicide, and In at
tempting to save him Whettemore was
killed.
Engineer Aurysen, Of the fatal train, mads
statement. He saw two men on the plat.
form as the engine came into the station :.
they seemed to be struggling. Then he had
seen one man break away from the other
and throw himself deliberately on the tracks
before the engine. The second man tried to
catch the one that was falling, lost bis bal
ance, tottered from the platform and was
caught by the first car.
Whettemore was so tightly wedged in that
It was found necessary to cut out q section
Of the platform before he could be released.
As the policeman chopped the surgeon
stood by the man holding his pulse. They
had not half completed their work on the
platform when the surgeon exclaimed, "He
Is dead"
Five minutes later the body was released.
It was not until then that they who worked
saw under the car, few feet from where the
man had been cut out, the form OF another
man, BRsley.
From the other side Of the car in the cen.
tire OF the structure. this man was carried
out. His right arm was out off and those
who lifted him, could feel tnat his back was
broken.
The dead man was taken to the Church
Street Station, the dying man to the Hudson
Street Hospital. An hour later, this second
man died without recovering consciousness.
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OCEAN POSTAL SERVICE.
Report of the superintendent OF
Foreign Mails.


CAPTAIN N. NJ. Brooks, Superintendent Of
Foreign Mails, in his annual report, gives
an interesting description OF the
ocean postal service. he says the
international sea postof1ces have been
in continuous operation on the iast
steamships of the North German Lloyd Com
pany and the Hamburg-Ameriean Packer
Eompany. 113 trips having been made rom
New York and lis from Germany.
Sea nostoflce CLERKS also have been on
dntv op rhe New York and Paris OF the In
ternationYl Navigation Company, thirty-one
trins having been made from New YORK anu
thirty-two from Southampton. be says.
.tOur communication with the west coast
of Central and South America Is reeula. ana
reliable at least three times mon'n w
means of steamships plying between ne"
York and Colon" .u,-,
fasf STEAMSHIPS sailing once or twice a
aonth from Tacoma, WASH, as we'll as the
eIeamships sailing regularly three times a
,aon-h from San Francisco, the opportunt-
80 inv the exchange OF mails with japan
IA China have been increased to not less
than four. and sometimes to i've, dispatches
month. , 80 81. m;
versal postal union during the year, nor In
deed | ia there much territory yet to be ae
uuired uuI d AZ the Chinese Empire, Cape Col
anv the Orange Free State and certain
groups OF islands are the only countries ;1 an
Colonies now remaining outside OF the limits
of the postal union.
Cantain Brooks calls attention to the faci
That Ihe next Postal Congress will meet II
washington in 1897, and to the circum
stance that under the provisions OF the Uni
versal Postal Convention OF Vienna this de
nortment ts under obligations, as soon a,
practicable, to reduce Its registration Zee te
fivs cents, and to assume limited response
bility for registered articles lost IN Its ser
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LATER NEWS.

DAVID MORGAN, coupon and discount clerk
in the Bank Of the Republic, New York City,
was discovered to be short $4,000 In his
accounts, $4,000 Of which was made good.
TIE Bethlehem (Penn.) Iron Company's
steel mills resumed operations with 1000
hands.
Two brothers, named Harry and Eugene
Sanders. were killed near Bowanstown,
Penn. They were picking coal on the rail.
road track.
DpHrHER1A In Detroit, Mich, has rapidly
increased and the closing Of all the schools
has been ordered,
TIE Trans-Mississippi Congress began its
sessions In St. Louis, Mo.
MORE than twenty-five members Of Con-
gress, 1t Is said, have written letters to the
serseant-at-Arms Of the House, asking that
their mileage for this session be forwarded
10 them, as they do not wish to come to
Washington this winter.
A coMELY woman about thirty years old
was found dead In frequented thorough
fare, Holland Villas Road, Kensington,
London. about midnight. Her throat was
cut and some newspapers intimated that It
was another "Jack the Ripper" crime.
IT Is now stated that the Chinese loss at
the battle of Port Arthur was three thou
sand men.
FIRE destroyed the entire business portion
ofLyndonville, Vt. except J. L. Watchiss
grocery and Dodge & Watson's furniture
store. Ths loss is S2OO, 900; insurance $780,
900, distributed among nearly twenty COM
panies.
In New York City, Moses Holstein was
run over and killed by Broadway cable
car, and Joseph Bello was killed by Sew
enth avenue horse car.
PENS1LEss Harry Menier jumped from
the Brooklyn Bridge with parachute.
E. P. HnL1ARp, Chicago capitalist, was
shot and killed in his Office by a milkman,
who thought Hllliard had defrauded him.
A FALLING wall killed three men in Spring
field, III.
SHERIFF MCGEE was killed at Canadian
City, Texas, by bandits who tried to rob an
express train.
The British Minister IN tho Mosquito
Reservation sent to Port Limon for war.
ship. The United States ship Columbia
started from Jamaica for Blue6elds, and
Secretary Gresham instructed Ambassador
Bayard by cable to ask the British Foreign
Office to explain why Great Britain refused
to recognize the Nlcaraguan Government.
PROPOSALS for a monument Of American
granite to be erected at Washington's BIRTH
place, Wakefield, Va, have been invited.
The amount available for the monument Is
$11.0Oo.
A DECREE abolishing public executions in
Spain has been issued at Madrid.
CH1SA's special peace commissioner ar
rived in Japan.
A FISHING schooner arriving at Cape Bre-
ton, Nova Scotia, reports that the Falcon
Arctic Explorer Peary's vessel, was lost with
all on board OF the Newfoundland coast.
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> NOVEL UNDERTAKING.
A Great Company Furnishes It's h"
nIoyes Free Medical Attendance.


william l.. Douglas, President OF tine
" T.. Douglas Shoe Co., has always
had great personal interest in the army "
man and women who inhablt the great iac-
.o-,. ~ Montello. Mass. He is great oe'
i;ayer IN The idea that manufacturers snoulo
have this personal interest in the conoit,on !.on
oftheIr employees, and feels that II tne I' rue"
ia carried out TO the extent that ID posslple,
hat II will result ultimately IN the oreakIs
Inwn NJ the barriers which have been punt
nm between employers and those Wnom tnef
employ. A.. , o,be,ne
he has originated Is good one, ana no nas
now put 1t to practical test. a le" oaSsaso
he handed to every person In MS emPluyl
and they form small army caau, ~ ndicai
entitled the bearer 'to full and free mealca'
attendance while employed by the ". y;
Douclas Shoe Company. A competent anu
atiIf1l physician will be at the private once
of the company at u M, daily, except sun,
days and holidays. II said employe snoulo
he detained at home by sickness, tne pny-
stefan will give full and free medical at'ena'
ance there" .ho
BLANK spaces are left In the card Tor the
name and residence OF the employe, ana u
is slrned BY Mr.. Douglas, as President OF tne
W. Z. Douglas Shoe Company. Tne Gonoi.
tions printed on the card are as 1olioWs'
ssThe physician will not make visits outs,oe
the city limits. This ticket is not transfer.
able. and does not applyto the family OF tao
employe, and must be returned as soon as
the term of employment ceases. This priv
lepe is free gift OF the company and IS no
part OF the contract for wages, and may De
made void by the company, at lib own
oution without notice,
A doctor has been engaged to attend sicH
employees, and everything that medlcal sHlli
can accomplish will be done for them DUR
ing illness.
This is a practical illustration OF tho plan.
It will doubtless be appreciated BY tne nun
dreds who receive the cards. Mr.. douglas
believes there a:e hundreds OF workingmen
and workingwomen who I'm. DOCTORS oni
a great burden after a period OF enforced
tdleness, and that II this Is lifted from tnem
they must feel that their employer Is inter-
ested In them in some ether way than SIM
ply to get all the work he can for just as ilt'
lie money as he can. Mr.. Douglas says also
that there are men and women who Keep
at work when It would be better for
their health II they laid of day OF
two and received medical attendance. Inen
again they will now feel free to consult tne
doctor for slight troubles, which heretofore
they would not do because OF the COST. d.
Speaking Of the W. L. Douglas Shoe Co., 1t
may be snid furt her that in their factory the
principle OF arbitration Is recognized. Mr..
Douglas Is q firm believer in the principle
and has been since the establishment OF the
State Board ofArbltration. The firm obligea
every employe to sign an agreement to SUD,
NIT any disagreement that may arise, ana
which cannot be settled by the Interested
parties, to the State Board of Arbitration,
the decision OF that Board to be final
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WORK OF THE q. s. MINTS.
The Gold Coinage the Heaviest Ever
Known.

R. e. Preston, the Director of the United
States Mint, has submitted to the Secretary
the Treasury his report OF the operation
OF the mints and assay Office for the fiscal
year 1894 The value OF the gold deposited
is stated at $40, ,942 900. The deposits and
purchases OF silver during the year are 49,
746,661 fine ounces, the coming value In
silver dollars being S29. 409, 900.
Since the repeal OF the purchasing clause
of the act Of July IA, 1890, silver contained
in gold deposits. bar charges and fractions,
amounting to $3.50 fine ounces, costing
S53, ,O96, was purchased for the subsidiary
coinage, under the provisions OF Section No.
1926 Of the Revised Statutes OF the United
States.
The coinage ofthe year was Gold, s9s;-
474 9l2. so; silver dollars, 1853 subsidiary sill
yer. s6. .024 l4o. 80 minor coins, S716, ,919. 26
total, $106, ,2t6, ,730.06, the gold coinage be:
ing the largest ever executed at the mints OF
the United States in any one year. .
or this coinage. S76, ,219, $50 was exscu-
ted by the mint at Philadelphia, and was
made from bullion which had accumulated
at the New York Assay Office since 1880, and
which, to meet the requirements OF the
Treasury, It became necessary to transfer
and coin.
The Director, in his report, states that the
highest price of silver during the year was
so. 7645, and the lowest. 0.5SlS, showing
fluctuation OF O.1725 per fine ounce.
The Director estimates the value OF the
GOLD used in the industrial arts in the United
States during the calendar year 1898 at sl2,-
523 523. and silver at SO, ,277. or the
gold SO, ,S54. .4s2 and Of the silver S6,57O,7S7
was new bullion.
The production of gold and silver in the
United States during the calendar year was
Gold, 1,739, 1928 fine ounces OF the value OF
1856, 955, 900; silver, 10000, 900 fine ounces,
the commercial value OF the same oeing S4o,-
800. 600 and the coming value ST ,576: coo.
Revised estimates OF the worlds produc-
tion OF the precious metals for the calendar
year 1898 show S157, 7,22s, 100 In gold and
S209, ,165, 900 in silver.