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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Couldn't Reach a Vote.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2.-The Democratic
members of the ways and means com
mittee met last night to finally decide
upon the income tax question and the in
ternal revenue features of the tariff bill.
Mr. Bynum was the only member absent.
His absence prevented vote on the in
come tax question and after Il session of
three hours the committee adjourned
until this evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
A Minister'S Scruples.

New HAVEN. Jan. 2.-Three hundred
people in this city were fed yesterday by
John III. Dillon. Rev. Frank r. Lucky, a
Congregational minister. refused to accept
tickets for distribution among the poor of
his parish because the dinner was to be
served in a hall adjoining place where
liquors were sold
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Drummers Elect Officers.

Boston. Jan. THE seventh annual
banquet and business meeting of the Cape
Cod Commercial Travellers association
was held in the American House last
night At the business meeting the Off
GERS elected were: President, W. b. Seig
nious; vice president, A. l.. Baker; seer
tary, A. W. Thompson; treasurer, c. +.
IIal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
FeoIinu the Hard Times.

WORCESTER, Mass, Jan. 1.-The Wash
burn and Moen Manufacturing Company,
which is the largest wire manufacturing
establishment in the world, yesterday
issued Il notice to the salaried employees
that beginning today there would be u
general reduction in salaries, as follows:
All salaries under $1,000, 10 per cent; from
5000 to $500, Il per cent: $500 and over,
90 per cent Another was sent to the
stockholders, declaring a dividend of only
| per cent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Good News For Prch;bitionjs.s.

TORONTO. Jan. "A plebiscite on the
question of prohibition was taken in con-
nection with the annual municipal cleo
tons throughout the province of Ontario.
Reports so far show IL majority for pro
hibition in nearly every county heard
FROM with the exception of the large
cities, where the Prohibition party also
showed great strength.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03

Frank Brown escaped from the insane
asy lum Tuesday night and got rs far IS
uallowell. He then decided to return,
give an electric car conductor Lis wristers
for his fare and started to walk from this
ETY. TO the asylum. He was overtaken and
very willingly and gladly rode the rest of
the distance to his former warm and c,m-
Portable quarters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03

That which is popularity known as the
funny bone, just ut the point of the ell
bow, is in reality net lore at all, but
nerve that lies near the suriace, and
which, on getting. a knock or blow. causes
the well known tingling sensation in the
arms and fingers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
New ENGLAND Briefs.

Mrs. Johanna McDole of Salem, Mass,
was fatally burned.
Mathew Laughlin and Henry n. Mayo
have been appointed assignees of the
Flanders wooden mill of Dexter, Me.
The subscriptions received SO far for the
fund that is being raised for the relief of
the unemployed of Boston amount to
almost $50, GOO. ..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
LAWYER Tap!eY's Discovery.

HAvERHILL. Mess, Jan. 2.-R. p. Tap
ley, II lawyer, claims that the oath #
Office was illegally administered to mem
bers of the board of aldermen yesterday,
inasmuch rs only three raised their right
hands. Several local lawyers say the
technicality is too small and probably
nothing will be done about it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
IL Kent Her Awake.

Mrs. BrowE-l'm tired out this morning.
was up half the night with the toothache.
Mrs. Jones ympathetically)- too
bad. | hope you've seen {. dentist this
morning {.
Mrs. Bsown-Oh, it was my husbands
tooth that achcd.-New York Times
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Postponed For a Day.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. THE appli-
cation for a writ of heabus corpus for the
release of Mitchell and Corbett will he
argued Wednesday. The postponement
is to give the governor more time to file
instructions, if he has any.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
To Take the New EngIand's Place.

LITCHFIELD, Conn, Jan. 1.-The pro-
iectors of the old Ridgefield road have
had surveyors at work in this vicinity,
and it is believed that the road to New
York will be built as Il substitute for the
New England. President Mcleod is said
to be interested. The surveying com
menced since the trouble of the New
England began.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Death Stepped In.

PATERSON. n. J., Jan. Mrs. p John
son, a widow, aged 80, was being married
last night to John Clever at the Methodist
Episcopal parsonage. She was about to
Join her hand with her intended husband
when she dropped dead.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Still a Mystery.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-The police have
failed to find any trace of \. II. Rowland,
who was supposed to have jumped over
board from the steamer Pilgrim. Three
inspectors are trying to unravel the mys-
terry. There are fears of foul play.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Plans of POpu!ists.

KANSAS CITY, Jan. AT a meeting of
Populists here a committee was appointed
to report plan of campaign to carry the
state for the Populist party at the next
election.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Union Is Well Fixed.

PITTsBUEG, Jan. 1.-The Dispatch today
says that loans of money are being made
by the Window Glass Workers union to
some of the employing manufacturers to
enable them to tide over business troubles
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Relic Hunters We're Plentiful.

CHICAGO. Jan. 1.-The gates of Jackson
park with its relics of the fair, were
thrown wide open yesterday, and 10000
people visited the grounds, and everything
movable was carried off as relics.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03

A half-mi!e track, 40 feet wide, was
scrared on the ice above the dam, Tuesday,
and will probably be q popular resort for
owners of steppers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Overwhelmed BY Anarchists.

ROME, Jan. 1.-The Messaggero reports
riots at Marseila, Partanns, Palma and
Montechiaro. AT Partanna and Blanca
Villa Octroi stations were burned.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Two Lives Sacrificed,

CHATTANOOGA, Jan. 2.-Charles Beckett
and Jesse Lang were instantly killed by
an explosion of the boiler of an engine at
the Cincinnati southern railroad shops.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Will Please Caprivi.

BERLIN, Jan. AS result of a con-
ference of the emperor with Chancellor
Won Caprivi, DR.. Iquel and General Schel-
lendorff, Miquer's financial reform scheme
has been partly announced. This releases
Caprivi from his difficult position in re-
pard to the Conservatives
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Sadly Afflicted.

PROVIDENCE, Jan. 1.-The last child OF
Banker Lippitt died last night, making
three since last Tuesday. Scarlet fever
was the cause.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Laid Up For Repairs.

ST. JOHN, n. B., Jan. 2.-The schooner
Druid, with cargo of oil from Boston,
which put into Southwest Harbor with
loss of sails, arrived here last night in tow
of tug Storm King.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Head Ground to a Jelly.

LOWELL, Mass. Jan. 2.-Charles Con-
don of birmingham. a brakeman. was
kill by the cars while making flying
switch. His head was literally mashed
to a jelly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
Warrant Out For Bennett.

Providence, Jan. "A warrant was is
sued last night for the arrest of William
Austin Bennett, the defaulting teller of
the Globe National bank, in which he was
charged with stealing Sl4, 900.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
German Bark Wrecked.

LONDON, Jan "a heavy gale swept
over the lyme district. The Germ;.n bark
Friedrich Olerich was driven ashore and
her crew were rescued by the lifc-saving
corps.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03

the poor of Rome and vicinity by the ex-
tremely cold weather now prevailing there.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03

Officer Chapia is breaking up the prsc-
ice of boys sliding on Factory hill, and
took one youngsters sled last evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03

J. A. Proctor and =. +. Beaton Of Rich
mond, were in the city, Tuesday.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
Work for Rainy Days.

By far too many farmers and their
laborers consider the rainy days as Sc
cred to rest and inactivity. The thrift
ty, successful farmer however, usually
has plenty of indoor work planned for
this inclement weather. The harness
is to be cleaned and properly oiled, the
stable floors are to be mended, tools
and wagons repaired, gates made, the
compost heap in the basement han.
died over, and q hundred other little
jobs attended to. The team may need
shoeing; if SO, let man take them to
the shop. He will do more favors in
the future than if kept working on
the farm all the time, and these little
things show that you have confidence
in him. He will fully appreciate the
situation, and not find fault if, in the
rush of work, late hours sometimes
find him in the field, and will look af-
ter your interest in the proper care OF
live stock and the attention to details
that will make many dollars difference
in your favor at the end of the year
The tasks planned for a rainy day
should be such rs can be done under
or near shelter. In the latter case
the intervals between showers may be
utilized. Itrarely pays any farmer tc
work outdoors when it is raining.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10

burn. Cleveland jumped out of his
chair and hoped up and down in his
anger, shouting: No man alive can
burn any document OF mine. What
do you mean, sir?'
=" Why, governor said German, as
coolly as you please, you said I was
to run this campaign according to my
own discretion. The document that |
have just thrown into the fire is about
as unwise a manuscript as ever came
under my notice.
"Cleveland meantime was tramping
about in his rage, but German was as
cool as an iceberg. Finally Cleveland
began to laugh at himself. He re-
membered his remark to German on
the first interview, and the two men
parted friends, but not until Cleve-
land had told German that he was the
coolest sun of a gun he had ever
met"
If Senator Gorrnan could have got
hold OF the letter Mr.. Cleveland sent
to Professor Wilson, he might have
found fire somewhere in Washing
ton, even in July.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
Rates TO the Fair.

The rate for admission to tie Inter.
state Fair, which opens at Tacoma, in
afew days, have been fixed as follows:
Season tickets admitting lady and
gentleman, $40.
Season ticket, one gentleman, sc.
Season ticket, one lady, 81.
Children under years OF age, and
accompanied by par, nts or guardians,
free.
Children between and II years,
single admission, % cents; season
ticket for season, SO.
Regular admission, so cents.
Exhibitors tickets for their en-
ployes for the season will be sold at
81.
Exhibitors and concessionaires will
be admitted free on tickets to be pro.
vided, which will contain their photo.
graphs.
Regular admission tickets will be
sold to railroad and transportation
companies at 20 per cent. discount.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
Well - Know.

To clean your lace curtains, place
them in large tub with lukewarm
water, into which half pound of fine.
fy shaved soap and little household
ammonia have been added, and allow
them to soak over night. In the
morning wash carefully with your
hands and rinse them in q tub oil
clean, warm water. and then in water
containing bluing. After pressing out
all the water possible spread your cur.
tains over sheets on a carpet. in an un.
occupied room. When they are al.
most dry dip them in hot starch and
fasten them again to the sheets, pin.
ming them with pins in such a way
that the pattern of the border will be
brought out. Open the windows oI
the room and leave your curtains
pinned to the sheets on the floor un.
til they are perfectly dry, when they
will be ready for use. If you want
them an ecru shade rinse them in
weak coffee instead of bluing.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
An Expensive Blunder.


Debs was an expensive contingent
both to the laboring man and the
government.
His strike cost the railroads, in loss
OF business and destruction of prop.
erty, about $5,312,O0O.
1t cost railroad employees, those who
struck and thousands who were laid
off on account of a strike with which
they had no sympathy. about S. 5,OO0,-
600.
1t cost wage-earners forced out OF
work in industries dependent upon
the railroads and other wage-earners
who struck in sympathy with the
American Railway Union, about 81 ;
10000.
1t cost the United State. govern
ment 81 100000.
1t cost for the maintenance OF State
military forces about $750,OOO.
And the Pullman employees, who
had lost about 100000 through their
own strike before Debs' organization
took up the fight for them, have lost
$500, 900 more.
1t was Pullman employees vs.. Pull
man; then Debs vs.. Pullman, Debs
vs.. railroads, Debs vs. the United
States.
The total cost of this sympathetic,
four part affair is in the neighborhood
of $l3.612 600 up to date, aside from
the $3,OOO,OOO or $4,000, 900 of perish.
able goods-mest, fruits and the like
lost by delay in transit or in conse-
quence of the refusal OF the railroads
to accept freight for shipment. To
that should be added, if it could only
be calculated, the loss to the general
business interests of the country, all
affected to a greater or less degree by
the paralysis of the railroads.
Then it cost a number of lives, the
wounding of many persons, the i'm.
prisonment of many.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
Comparison Of Taxation,

In answer to the query. "How does
the debt of the United States and the
amount of taxation compare, per
capita of population, with those oil
other countries" the american Econ
on'ist published the following:
According to calculations at the
census bureau, the debt OF the United
States amounts to SO per family ol
nine persons, or SO per capita. On a
similar basis OF calculation, the debt
of Germany is $4OO per family of five
persons, or $50 per capita; the debt oI
France is 1881 per family, or SIC pei
capita; of Great Britain it is 1887 pei
family. or $67. 40 per capita. The aver
age proportion of customs and inter.
nal revenue paid by each person in
the countries mentioned below during
tbo ,,oo,. 1000 - 1O0O - fu
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
Hot Water for COws.

Hot water for cows is the maxim of
the French dairy farmer in the depart
ment OF Finisterre. They claimed to
have proved by experiments that when
COWS drink hot water they produce
one.third more milk than when they
are refreshed with cold water only.
Caution must, of course, be observed
in adopting the new system. Avari.
cious dsirymen must beware of scald.
ing the throats Of their COWS in their
haste to avail themselves of this dis.
covery, which is vouched for by our
consul at Brest. The proportions, we
are told, are half pail OF boiling wa
ter and half pail of cold.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, organized by the Federal govern
ment for the purpose of studying rail-
road statistics, recently completed q re.
port on their operations in the Uni
ted States. 1t appears that there we're
1880 railroad corporations in the
United States during the year ending
June 80, 1893. They received in that
period nearly half a billion and a
quarter OF dollars. They carried $685.
560,6l2 passengers over IA ,229, ,1O1 ,OS4
miles and transported 745, lis, ,4S2 tons
of freight a distance of 93,5SS, Ill 1893
miles. These operations were con-
Quoted on 176,461 miles of railroad.
In round numbers 100000 employees
of all grades are supported by these
roads, making one person in every
ninety OF the population of the United
States. Accepting the stated capital
izations which the companies have
reported, it appears that on an invest
ment OF $lO,5OO,OOO,OOO less than one
per cent. of dividends were paid. 1t is
calculated that out of every dollar
that was received by the railroad com.
panies, Is cents went to their em-
ployes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
WHOLE NUMBER 1904.
PROSPEROUSFARMERS
THEY ARE HAPPY OVER PROS
PECT OF BIG CROPS,

Better Times Seem to he Mt Hand
A Better Outlook I'm the Great PA.
louise Country-The Stock Like.
wise In Good Condition.
A business man Of Portland, WHO
has been travelling through the East.
ern part OF this State, gives a glowing
account of the prospects for bounteous
crops this season. His trip extended
through the wonderful Palouse coun.
try and as far as Spokane.
"The people of Washington are go.
ing to have a good year of it," said
this gentleman to Telegram reporter
a few days ago. al doubt if many
other places in the country will pull
through 1894 as well. No communi-
ties are reviving from business depres-
sion better than they. In Eastern
Washington business of all kinds has
been distressed and is considerably so
yet. But it is in the great grain sec.
tions, from which big crops will be
reaped, that times are reviving and
the people are becoming greatly en-.
couraged.
'"One thing in the peoples favor is
that the great body of them are not
in debt. The merchants tell me that
they have refused to trust their custo-
mers in the hard times, even at the
cost OF losing little trade. The farm
ers and Others have gone through the
year without running up bill with
their dealers, and the result is good
for all concerned. With the heavy
harvest coming on, the farmers, if
they can get any price at all for their
products this fall, will be in good
shape, for they will not have to be
paying last years bills all this winter.
The merchants confidently look for
ward to a lively fall trade, for the pro-
ducts OF the agricultural districts will
do the work.
Naturally, as the price OF wheat is
low, the farmers want help as cheaply
as it can be had, and on the other
hand, the laborers want as much for
their work as they can get, looking
only at the heavy crops and not the
price that they will bring. Even if
the land owners can get enough out OF
their crops TO cover the expense OF
cultivating them they will be satisfied,
for the times for the past ten months
have not been such as to warrant busi-
ness men in any line to entertain high
hopes about great profits and CONNER
cial prosperity.
"During the strike the Palouse
country was as effectually cut off from
the outside world as if it had been
walled in. They lived through It Sc
renely, and were undisturbed by wars
or the ceaseless conflict being carried
on in the outside world. Harvesting
will not begin in that part of the
country for nearly a month. assure
you it was comforting to travel through
that great agricultural empire, see the
numberless fields of grain and hear
soil-tillers and the town merchants
talking of big crops and coming pros
perity.
Gall the stock ranges are in fine
condition, and there is abundant green
grass for the herds, of which all appear
to be in first-class condition. Gener-
ally the wool crop, 1 was informed,
was heavy and the outlook was very
fair"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON FRIDAY EVENING" AUG. TO- 1884,

knowledged successor of Ole Bull.
Remenyi marvels at the discovery and
declares that it will edo away with all
fiddies."
Mr.. Brady has no idea OF ever turn
ing his discovery to any pecuniary ac-
count. He seems satisfied to know
that he has his treasure safe in his
keeping and has repulsed the ad-
vances made by capitalists who have
recently learned of his discovery. To
use his own words, Il have forever
done away with tiddles,' and that is
enough for me-"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
One OF the Benefits.

In looking for the beneficial results
from the late strike trouble, Gays the
Portland Telegram, the most crafty.
ing incident was the promptness and
earnestness with which the masses
rallied to the support of the govern.
ment. There can be no mistaking the
sentiment which has been aroused
among the intelligent and patriotic
masses of the American people by the
conflict between the forces of law and
of anarchy. We come out of the con-
tiict more thoroughly nation than
at any time in our history. The sem
timent is overwhelming and its ex-
preston all but universal that, cost
what it may, order must be observed,
the supremacy of the law vindicated,
and the authority of the government
upheld. Here and there discordant
note may be heard, the defiant cry of
some anarchist or the wretched plea
of some demagogue, but it is drowned
in the universal acclaim of approval
OF the firm stand taken by the Presi-
dent in the discharge of his duty to
uphold the constitution and the laws.
1t is striking proof OF the unanim-
ity OF public opinion in this respect,
that the press, without distinction OF
party or politics, spoke with one voice
in support of the President. The DEM
ocratic Governor of Virginia and the
Republican Governor OF Ohio uttered
the same sentiments of loyalty. The
Republican Senator from Minnesota,
Mr.. Davis, and the Democratic Sena-
tor from Georgia, General Gordon,
stood on the floor of the Senate the
same day and made ringing speeches
in support OF the Presidents firm pol
icy. There was no section or politics
in the general rally to the support of
the government when it became a
question between the government and
no government. The veteran who
wore the gray in the late civil war Of
fered his services to fight alongside
OF the Grand Army veteran in defense
OF the government. The gravity OF
the crisis through which the country
was passing was universally realized.
The Pullman strike and the Debs boy
colt were lost sight OF. The labor is
sue was merged in the greater issue
that had arisen. 1t was no longer
question between capital and labor,
but between the government and re-
bellion. 1t was not a question of work
and wages, but of the safety OF human
life and property. and the maintenance
of that peace and good order which
are the foundation stones of all civil
lized society. And when it reached
this issue the whole body of patriotic
American citizens. regardless OF wheth-
er they lived in the North or in the
South, rose up as one man and said
that the government should be up
held. This creation of national sem
timent, and this rallying together of
all classes to the flag which floats ss
the symbol of law and order. ia itself
compensation for the losses that the
country has suffered.