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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-08-04


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MISCELLANEOUS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
"A Cruel Sacrficei''

the dealers call when exngencies
their goods low price They make feel though
The herald., 1894-02-04
CHURCH BLOWN DOWN.
Many People Injured During storm
In Alabama.

Many People Injured During . Storm
In Alabama.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala, Feb. ga heavy
wind and rain storm passed over this
city this evening. At Gate City, ak
miles from here, the Congregational
church was blown down, and number
of persons injured. The Christian En-
deavor society, composed of 30 women
and children, was holding meeting at
the time. The roof was crushed in,
burying them beneath the debris.
Nearly every person in the building was
more or less injured. Those injured
most seriously are:
Mrs. R. l. Pritchctt, internally in
jured will die.
Mrs. James Miles, internally injured !;
will die.
Charles Olson, thigh broken; prob
ably fatal injury.
The others are not seriously hurt. A
great many physicians went from Bir-
minghsm to Gate City, and great ex-
element prevails there. The building
was a small frame structure, otherwise
many would have been killed.
In this city several roofs were blown
off, but no one was injured.
The herald., 1894-02-04
puPED BY A SHARPER.


Sullivan County Men VIII Have to Pay
More Than They Bargained For.
Twenty-Five of the former residents
of Sullivan county were last year inter
ested in scheme introduced by trav-
cling sharper, and now they must
settle.
The agent represented that he was
organizing an association for the pur-
chase of a Percheron stallion for the
agreed price Of $4,000. Each member
of the association was to take one
twenty-second part of the venture, and
pay accordingly.
Three notes were given, each for the
sum of 1894, the first due on Oct. 10;
the second on the same date in 1894,
the third in October, 1895. The notes
were joint and were signed by the
members Of the association. A Month
cello lawyer has the notes for collection,
and the collection of the first one is to
be pressed at once.
AS some of the signers are not con-
sidered solvent, and as the notes are all
drawn, 1--WE, or either of u.s. the en-
terprise promises to be a costly one for
some of the members.
The unfortunate men who form the
association claim they were grossly de-
ceived by the agent, as the extent of the
liability which they supposed they as
sumed was only $12S, but by signing
the note each member assumed the en-
tire debt, providing his cosmetics
proved to be insolvent. The notes are
all in the hands of third parties, and
no defense can be entered against their
payment.
IF have to pay all that money"
said one of the men today, my wife
will go crazy, and j shall go to the poor
house. cannot imagine how could
ever have been such fool as to enter
into such an arrangement anyhow. I
always prided myself upon being a
match for any of them, but will never
do any more boasting. This is indeed
a wonderful age
One of the victims decided that if
ever travelling agent attempts to sell
him anything again he will never live
to approach another party"
ooh, nonsense, exclaimed his wife.
"You will be ready to deal with an
other man tomorrow. "-Middletown
On. " Special.
The herald., 1894-02-04
The Origin of sam weller.

The original of Sam Weller was Sam
Vale, an English low comedian, who,
in the early part of this century, was
quite popular in the south Of England
In the year 1911, and for few years
after, he made quite reputation in the
musical farce called 1.-The Boarding
House." written by BeaSley. In this
he played the part of Simon Spatter-
dash, a person who INDUCED in odd and
whimsical sayings. Come on, as the
old man said to the tight boot;'' 81 am
down on you, as the extinguisher said
to the candle; Let every one take
care of himself, as the donkey said
when dancing among the chickens"
are fair illustrations of his witticisms
in the course Of that play, the resem-
blance between them and some of the
sayings of Sam Weller being very
marked. In private life Vale was a
wit, and many good things in his own
time were credited to him. A man of
excellent temper, he had no enemies,
and the good humor which pervadsd
every saying, together with the drol-
lery of his manner, gave his witticisms
unusual value. His sayings were called
Sam Valerisms, and on the appearance
of Pickwick in 1886 the character of
Weller was generally recognized as a
portraiture of Vale. The comedian died
in 1S48 at the age of Baltimore
American,
The herald., 1894-02-04
Four Heirs Get a Quarter Each.

Four legacies of rs cents each result
from the will of Matthew Stanley, late
of Watervliet, just probated before Sur
rogate Conway. The estate consists of
real estate valued at 81, 500, mortgaged
for So, 600, and So, 900 worth of person
al estate. The will devises to the tesla
tors wife, Eveline, the income of one
third of the property during her life
time. A son, Edward, of Barton, VT,
is bequeathed 81. The rest of the es-
tate is devised to William L. Stanley
and James Oscar Stanley. Edward
Stanley is dead, and his bequest of 81
goes to his children, Susie 9. Stanley,
Eliza A. Chapman, Springfield, Mass. ;
Samuel e. Stanley, Barton, VT, and
freeman G. Stanley, San Francisco,
who will receive 25 cents each.-Al-
bany Argus.
The herald., 1894-02-04
Boards and Diplomacy.

Sir Edmund Monson was the posses
sor of the finest and longest beard in
the diplomatic service, but he has just
sacrificed it in Difference to the friend
ly advice of the Prince of Wales, who
is standing authority upon all mat
tiers of personal appearance, uniform
and etiquette. His royal highness was
of the opinion that patriarchal beard
would not be considered becoming in
Vienna, and her majesty's ambassador at
the imperial court is now almost clean.
shaven. Not one in hundred of his
old friends can recognize him, and the
hall porter at st. James club will GER
tainly require some proof of his identity
when next he comes to London. The
unexpected change sorely puzzled Prince
Henry of Battenberg and those who met
Sir Edmund at Gratz. Vienna Letter.
The herald., 1894-02-04
AS He HAD LIVED 50 He DIED
George W. Childs Sank Peace
fully to Rest.
He Suffered No Pain in His Dying
Moments.
Public Funeral to Be Accorded Him.
Hundreds of kilograms of Con-
dolence from Distin-
guished Men.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 3.-George W.
Childs, the philanthropist and proprie-
tor of the Public Ledger, passed away
at 8 :03 O'Clock this morning, as told in
these dispatches late last night, sur
rounded by his family and friends. One
OF his physicians made the following
statement to the Associated Press this
morning:
Childs suffered no pain; his end was
peaceful, as beftted his life. He had
been unconscious the past three days,
except at intervals, The change for the
worst became manifest about $50 last
evening. His pulse faltered, and he be-
came rapidly worse; then it was APP
parent the end was near, and that
death was only a question OF few
hours. The paralytic stroke which he
suffered January 18th only affected his
right side, causing him to lose the
use of both the right arm and leg.
During the last hours he lay like child
asleep, and when he grew 80 much
worse about midnight, every effort was
made to rouse him, but without avail.
Childs' fortune is believed to be large,
but whether one million, or ten. only
those intimately acquainted with his
affairs know. The profit from the
Ledger is said to have averaged as
high as $1,000 day. and he had made
many profitable investment. He leaves
no children, and it is probable his name
sake, George W. Childs Drexel, son OF
his old friend, A. j. Drexel, now pub
Usher OF the paper, will assume full
charge OF it.
The first knowledge many citizens
had of his death was secured through
seeing Grape on the door of his late resi-
dence, or on the doors of the Ledger
Office. Hundreds of kilograms announc-
ing his death were sent by Mrs. Childs'
direction this morning, to friends in
this country and Europe. and hundreds
of dispatches of coincidence were re-
ceived.
The arrangements for the funeral are
not yet completed. Mrs. Childs would
like the funeral to bs private, but
friends are urging, on account OF his
position, that it is due him that he be
given public funeral.
Among the hundreds of kilograms re :
ceived by Mrs. Childs today the follow
ing offered condolences: Grover Cleve-
land, Benjamin Harrison, J. g. Carlisle,
w. @. Gresham, H. A. Herbert. w. S.
Bissell, ]. Sterling Morton, Joseph JEFF
ferson, Melville E. Stone, John
Sherman, A. P. German, Gov.
Robert Pattison of Pennsylvania,
Bishop Nichols of California, Julia
Marlowe, Senator Morrill,. O. III. Jones,
editor OF the World; e. Rosewater OF
the Omaha Bee, Abram 8. Hewitt,
John A. Cockerill of the New York Ad-
vertiser, st. Clair McKelway of the
Brooklyn Eagle, Horace White, @. Van
derbilt, Whitelaw Reid, Daniel @.
Gilman, president Of the Johns Hop.
kins university. John r. Mclean Of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, Murat Hal
stead, ex-Speaker Reed, II. H. Kohl
saat OF the Chicago Inter-Ocean and NJ
H. de Young Of the San Francisco
Chronicle.
The herald., 1894-02-04
PRINCESS ELIzABETH's LOVE.
She Preferred the Man of Her Choice to
Crown and Throne.

She Preferred the Man of Her Choice to a
Crown and Throne.
Some time ago it was believed that
the heir presumptive to the Austrian
throne, Archduke Francis Ferdinand,
would marry his Bavarian cousins
daughter, Princess Elizabeth. l now
hear that the idea existed and was
much favored by the emperor, but the
young princess frustrated these plans.
More than year ago she began to
look approvingly upon a handsome
young lieutenant, Baron S. The officer
began by riding past her windows
couple Of times day, then he obtained
room with windows facing Prince
Leopold's palace. In the winter, at
court balls, the lieutenant danced oftenerl
than any other with the princess, and
in the spring lawn tennis brought them
more together still.
All at once the young officer was
transferred to a regiment stationed in
Alsace, and this seemed the tame end
of a romantic story. But in the sum-
mer, when Princess Elizabeth staid
with her emperor grandpapa at lschl,
she is supposed to have used her time
so we'll that the emperor promised to-
make the baron a prince, to give him
some landed property and to allow the
happy couple to marry if their love
was proof against time.
The princess is 10, pretty, perfectly
natural and very sweet tempered.
That she should have preferred union
with the man she loves to the certain
ty of an imperial throne will not alien
ate the sympathies of those who know
her and love her for her natural grace.
Vienna Correspondent. (
The herald., 1894-02-04
ONE s0UAw KILLED.
Reliable News of Battle With Kid and
His Band.

Reliable News of a Battle With Kid and
His Band.
TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 3.-Authentic adj
vices reached here tonight OF a battle
the other day in the Bunker hill mining
district, about IS miles from Tucson,
between Hualapai Clark, well-known
ex-United States scout, and small
band of Indians under the leadership of
the renegade Kid, which resulted in one
squaw being killed. A number of cat
tlemen and miners are now in pursuit
of the Indians.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-No information
has been received at the Indian bur eau
concerning the reported outbreak of In
dams from the Apache reservation. In
the face of the fact that the bureau has
direct telegraphic communication with
the agency, and both military posts men
toned in the telegraphic report of the
outbreak, the Indian Office thinks the
facts have been exaggerated.
The herald., 1894-02-04

LONDON, Feb. 3.-The weather has
been fair for wheat, which has been
green and promising and farm work
progressing. The wheat market ia dull,
rather despondent. though fair business
has been done. La Plata wheat and a
few cargoes of white wheat have been
sold. Otherwise the week has been with
out q feature. United Kingdom stocks
are reduced and exports are lighter,
but this has had no effect upon the
market. France has ceased to buy and
prices are unchanged. Parcel trade is
moderate. Spot business is quiet and
easy and country trade is quiet and
steady. California prompt is quoted at
Sos Cd; red winter parcel, February and
March at PAS Sd.
Flour dull, GLOW, third lower.
Maize in ali positions was dull owing
to the mild weather. Prices are easy
and American parcels fairly steady.
Spot moderate. Mixed American on
passage quoted at 1Ss. Country trade
quiet.
Barley is Sd down and active at de-
cline. Spot lie quiet and stesdier.
Oats unchanged.
The herald., 1894-02-04
EVANS WILL VISIT vISALIA
Another Message From the
Bold Outlaw.
Going to Have Good Time With
His Old Friends.
A Rumor That He and His Pal Were
Seen In British Oolumbia-A
Battle with Kid-Other
Coast News.

By the Associated Press.
VIsALIA, CAL, Feb. 3.-Chfis Evans
was at Churchill, IA miles north OF this
city, last evening. He sent notes to two
gentlement in this city which we're de-
livered today. In one note he says ::
"Will be in to see you soon, and we will
have another good time as OF DID,"
The officers were all alert last night
taking arms to the rendezvous. They
did not leave town, however, but stayed
up all night.
IN THE UPPER COUNTRY.
SEATTLE, WASH, Feb. ga special to
the Post-Intelligencer from New West
minister, B. c., says two men arrived by
the Canadian Pacific express at Mission
Junction, Thursday, from the south.
and left by train for the interior. They
were observed by couple of returning
Californians who declare one of them
was Evans, the notorious bandit. The
other man was unknown to them, but
was small in stature and in other ways
resembled the description of Morel.
The destination OF the men was un-
known. but it was understood it WAS
the upper country.
The herald., 1894-02-04
TIE COUGHLIN CASE.
John p. Kunze on the Witness Stand
for the Defense.

John p. Kunze on the Witness Stand
for the Defense.
CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-John P. Kunze was
put on the stand by the defense in the
Coughlin case today. Kunze was one of
the defendants in the former trial and
was acquitted. He told of his acquaint.
ance with Coughlin. saying he assisted
the latter in investigating the explo-
sion at Shuieldt's distillery, he having
been employed there at the time the
explosion occurred. Kunze denied that
he ever knew Woodruff, Cooney or Mar
tin Burke.
Kunze created sensation by declar.
ing Captain Schuettler oil. the police,
after his arrest, tried to make him
promise to swear ne drove Ooughlin to
the Carbon cottage ON the night of the
murder, saying if he did go he would get
off; il he did not, he would be hanged.
After some more minor testimony,
the case was adjourned till Monday.
The herald., 1894-02-04
BURNED LIKE FINDER.
A BIG DRYGOODS STORE DIES
TROYED IN OMAHA.
Miraculous EscaPe of the Numerous
Inmates Some Severely scorched.
Several Other Build
fngs Burned.

OMAHA, Feb. 3.-Shortly before z
O'Clock tonight fire broke out in show
window of the Boston store, and five
minutes later the entire building was
ablsze. The store was crowded with
clerks and customers, it being the GUS
tom to keep open Saturday night. The
third floor was occupied by night
school. Consideration reigned among
the people in the store, and mad rush
for the exits began. Men, women and
children crowded for the streets. Sales
girls and cash girls left wraps and other
belongings. Every alive,
but a number OF girls employed in the
millinery and cloak department were
badly scorched and blistered, several
losing all the hair from their heads.
On the west stood st. Msgdslene's
church. 1t was quickly ON fire and
burned like tar barrel. On the south,
across Douglass street, are the Y. NJ. O.
A. building and a row of three-story
flats. On the ground floor of the Y. M.
O. A. building is Thompson q Belden's
dry goods store. They suffered consid-
cradle loss. The upper floor of the fats
was cleaned out. The intense heat from
the Boston store building kept the fire.
men out of that portion of Douglass
street half an hour. and this gave the
flames a chance to get across the street.
So rapidly did the Boston store burn
that the cashier abandoned the ca9h in
the drawer and the book-keepers had to
leave the books on which they were work
ing. The safe door was open, but no one
dared to tempt death by trying to close
it. The escape of the inmates from the
blazing tinder-box was all but miracu-
lous.
The losses are: Boston store, $780,
600, insurance $4,000; other losses es-
timated at $50, 1000.
The herald., 1894-02-04
Whom WAR Is Daolnr.d

Against mans happiness by mis- stomach, the
enemy may be pacided and brought speedily
and easily toterms. That potent regulator of
digestion, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, disci-
plines the rebellious organ thoroughly Indi-
gestion arises fiom weakness of the stomach.
and the food in 1t, for want of the pc wer to
digest, decomposes and acidifies, giving rise to
hear burn, hatulence and pain, besides null
titude OF symptoms both changeful anu per-
picking. But peace soon reigns when the
great stomachic is resorteo to and used with
persistence Dyspepsia gives rise to morbid
discomposure of mind, and even sleeplessnes
una hypochondrla in chronic cases. To the
complete dismissal OF these the Bitters Is
iuily adequate Liver complaint constipa-
ton. debility, rheumatism and malaria are
completely suhdaed BY this genial medioine.
The herald., 1894-02-04
The house then adjourned.
STEVENS TAKES EXCEPTIONS.
He Accuses McCreary of Misrepresen
ing the Situation at Honolulu.

He Accuses McCreary of Misrepresent-
ing the Situation at Honolulu.
AUGUSTA, Me-, Feb. AK Minister
Stevens takes decided exceptions to the
correctness of the assertions made in
the house on Friday by McCreary re-
fecting on his official conduct at Homo.
lulu. Stevens said most of McCreary's
statements were entirely erroneous.
McCreary, as reported, states that when
the marines and sailors of the Boston
landed there was British man-of-war
in the harbor; also Japanese war
ship. Stevens save no British war-ship
a any kind was then at Honolulu, and
the Japanese ironclad did not arrive
until several weeks after the men from
the Boston had been landed.
The herald., 1894-02-04
sUNpRY OWL ELL.
A Marked Decrease in the Amount
Approximations.

A Marked Decrease in tho Amount OF
appropriations.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-The sundry
civil bill, as reported in the house to.
day, appropriated $a2, 2s1, 1882 for the
fiscal year 1895. The bill for 1894 car
ried an appropriation of SAL. ZIG, 311.
The estimates submitted to the commit
tee for 1895 amounted to $3s, 1881. OO2. The
greatest saving is in the item OF rivers
and harbors, the sum recommended
being $8,300,00G. against $14, l66, l53
in '94. For public buildings and grounds
the appropriation drops from sl,077 500
to $647 900; artificial limbs for soldiers
from s647 900 to $4,000; claims of
back pay and bounty from $4,000 to
$4,000.
The herald., 1894-02-04

In the South Pacific ocean is an is
land belonging to the Polynesian arch
ipelago, about 80 miles IN circumfer-
ence, and which at its highest point is
1900 feet above the level of the sea.
This is Easter island, formerly called
Davis Land, and has 1000 inhabitants,
who, like all the other South Sea is
landers, are dark skinned.
1t appears to have been Of volcanic
origin, but the greater point of interest
about it is not its people, with their
habits and manners, but the wonderful
ruins which are found there. These
consist of temples, with statues 10 and
IS feet high, some of them in rows
standing on wide platforms of solid
masonry. The inhabitants of the is
land know nothing at all of these ruins
or of those who built them.
Therefore, like many others, they
may date centuries back. and perhaps
are prehistoric. They evidently are the
work Of a race that has passed away,
and about which we can only conjeo.
ture. Who these people were, what
they believed and what they did are
questions that, like many others, muss
remain unanswered. = Goldtnwsi.e \
Geographical Magazine.
Gold Weather.
ODESSA, Feb. 3.--The westhcr IN tAs
Caucasus has been feariully Geld,
The herald., 1894-02-04
MARRIED BY PROXY.

A LoophoIe Through Which Chinese
Women Can Be LANDED.
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. Sin the United
States district court this afternoon Judge
Bellinger decided that Lum Lin Wing, a
Chinese woman who came here from
China few days ago, had right to
land. The woman claimed to be the
wife of Chung Chu, merchant OF this
city, and that she was married to him
by proxy ak months ago in China. The
court held that the marriage was legal
according to the Chinese custom, and
consequently was legal in this country.