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The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17

WESTBROOk.

On account of replanking the bridge
over tho river at West End travel will be
obliged to use the bridge at the East End
for today. Street Commissioners Hawes
has a large force at work and is in hopes
to have the bridge open to travel by to-
night.
Arthur Andrews of Sanford was in the
city Friday.
DR. Hawkes. and family leave today for
Long Island for a two weeks outing
There seems to be a good prospect OF
our soon having militia company in
this city A petition has recently been
circulated and has received over hun
dred signers, all good material for sol
diers, and the petition with the names,
has been forwarded to headquarters A
meeting of the signers will be held this
evening at Red Mems Hall, East End for
thespurpOse of organizing. Among those
prominently mentioned for captain are
Fl. G Starr, William Lord, Herbert Hunt
and Harry Melcher.
A new piano has been purchased by the
Foresters for use in their hall
The Presumpscot Band gave very
pleasant excursion down the river last
night on steamer Santa Maria. Manches-
ter furnished music for dancing
At the Advent church tomorrow at p.
m. the subject .offthe.pastor's sermon will
Dt I16ll DIS IcN6ulCu Al t'iS i(1OAD.
There will be service of song in the eve
ming at O'Clock, followed by social
meeting.
Prof Buechler is to be at the M.
E. church next. Sunday evening. to con
duct the singing. He come from the
great musical schools of the Old World
with all the latest and best ideas regard
ing the practice of vocal music Come
and hear him.
Mr. Philip L. Cobb of Lee, Me-, is Wis
iting friends in Westbrook. Mr.. Cobb
moved away from WestbIook sixty
years ago and this is his first return
since.
Mrs Edith Lane Thompson will sins
in the choir at the Congregational churcl
tomorrow.
Rev. e. M. Cousens will occupy th
pulpit at the Congregational church to
morrow
Mr. Harry Twombly and Miss Ami
Boyd were married at the home OF tn
bride last evening by Rev. S. N. Adams.
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*Corbett out by trapped ball Winning
run made with one out.
Portland, 1 8 0 Q II
Fall River, 0 0 0 0 0 30
Earned runs-Portland 2, Fall River 4.
Three base hits-J. Harrington. Two
base hits-O' Rourke, Spill, Klobedanz,
Eitzmaurice. Sacrifice hits-O' Rourke,
Terrien. Stolen base-Slater. First base
on balls-By Yerrick, Klobedanz 2; by
Lincoln, Spill 2, Corbett. First base on
errors-Fall River Portland 5. Wild
rick. McDermott 2, Ladd, M. Harrington,
Lincoln 2; by Lincoln, Shaffer, o. Rourke
Corbett. Ierrick. Double plays-Ma-
COON, Corbett and Slater Umpire-Cray.
Time-2 hours 5 minutes.
AT NEW BEDFORD
New Bedford, August 16-Mains had
little speed and was batted hard through
out. Whittrock was hit freely, but was
we'll supported. The score:
New Bedford,6 3 0 0 2 xii
Lewiston, 0 0 s o 0 0 o.
Base hits-New Bedford, IS; Lewiston,
g. Errors-New Bedford, 3; Lewiston,
f. Batteries-Whittrock and Sharp ;
Mains and Rupert
AT BROCKTON.
Broekton, August Is Bangor found
no difficulty in batting Magee today.
Braham kept the hits well scattered, and
the home team narrowly escaped shut
out. The score:
Bangor, 0 8 3 0 3 0-s
Brockton, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 o.
Base hits-Bangor, IA Brockton, 8
Errors-Bangor, O; Brockton,9. Batter
ies-Braham and Hayes ;Magee and Shea.
AT PAWTUCKET.
Pawtucket, August 16 Augusta wor
a most exciting game today. Meakir
pitched splepdidly, and but for pool
support in the second and third Augusta
would have been shut out. The score:
! Augusta, 03 0 20 0 0 O 81,
| Pawtuckct, 09 0 0 0 0 2 0 A.
Base hits-Augusta, 12 Pawtucket, 13
Errors-Augusta, s; Pawtucket g. Bat
teries-Viau and Butler; Meakin ant
Yeager.
New England League Standing.
| The following is the standing of the club
in the New England League:
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AT PHILADELPHIA.

yesterday:
AT PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia, August 16-Errors by
Nash and Tucker and few timely hits
in the third inning won today's game for
the Phillies. Boston punched their hits
on Carsey in the third and eighth. but
could not overcome the lead. Hallman
made great one handed catch of a liner
off Tenney's bat in the eighth Atten-
ance 6000 The score:
Philadelphia l 0 2 0 0 . %
Boston, 0 y 4 0 0 % 0 2 1-7
Base Philadelphia, 10; Boston, 12
Errors-Philadelphia O; Boston, 4. Bat
teries-Carsey and Grady; Nichols and
Tenney.
Brooklyn, August 16 in the first game
Stein was responsible for New York s
runs Clarke pitched a good steady game
for New York. Wilson'S poor work be-
hind the bat helped the Brooklyns to
three runs. In the second game German
gave a very poor exhibition in the box.
He gave eight bases on balls and was
hit safely ten times in six innings.
Kennedy was invincible. DAILY made a
home run. The game was called in the
7th on account of darkness Attendance
7OO0 The score:
First Game.
New York, 0 Q / 4-6
Brooklyn, 0 0 0 l 0 o-4
Base hits-New York, s; Brooklyn, TO-
Errors-New York. 4 Brooklyn, B. Bat
| teries-Clarke and Wilson; Stein and
| Grim.
New York, 0 0 0 0 l o.
| Brooklyn, 2 4 0 0 l x-10
Base hits-New York, 8; Brooklyn, TO-
Errors-New York, 3 Brooklyn, /. Bat
teries-German and Wilson; Kennedy
and Daley.
AT CHICAGO.
Chicago. August 16-Young Hewitt
was too much for the Chicagos today.
The locals failed to bunch their hits on
him with any success. Pittsburg gave
him excellent support Terry being hit
hard and his support was miserable. The
game was fdevoid of startling features.
| Attendance 3000
Pittsburg. 2 o 0 2 o 0 1 O-5
Chicago, 0 0 Q Q i 0 / Q %
Base hits-Chioago, 9; Pittsburg, 10.
Errors-Chicago 5 5,Pittsburg, 2. Batter
ies-Hewitt and Merritt Terry and Don
| ahue.
AT WASHINGTON.
Washington, August 49, The Balti-
mores hit Mercer's delivery in terrific
style at the beginning of today's rcon6est.
After the second Washington's twirlel
pitched good ball and the visitors were
given scare towards the close of the
game by the great uphill playing Of the
home team. Kelley made two home run:
and heeler one Attenance $500. The
score'
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SOLD BY
ALL DRUGGISTS.
A British Trick.

New York, August 16-The Amateur
Athletic Union has granted the request
of the New York Athletic club to be al
lowed to recruit from other clubs and
associations new men to strengthen
its ranks in the battle with the London
Athletic club team next month. While
the match was originally club match
between the New York Athletic club and
the London Athletic club the action of
the London club in availing itself of the
pick Of the athletic talent of Great Brit
ain to such an extent that only three of
the old members of the club are represent
ed on the teams makes the contest assume
proportions of an international character
The London Athletic cl ub team Is in
reality team of all Great Britain, and
the New York Athletic club did not feel
significantly strong to compete successfully
against all Great Britian, and accord
ingly decided to elect new members as
did the London Athletic club.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17

graphing the works under the pretence
of taking a picture of the waves thing
known to have happened once. But the
watchman, who said he was suspicious
by nature. did no take his eyes off his
prisoner until he had escorted him to the
boundaries of the reservation. Being
suspicious by nature he makes most
excellent watchman.
The photographers who are thus escort
Cape Elizabeth, are probably nearly all
amateurs. 1t is doubtful whether any
are the spies sent by foreign govern
ments to make plans Of the work. One
visitor who came last summer accom-
panied by his wife, was suspected of be-
ing the emissary of foreign power, per-
has because his wife came with him and
he had light colored camera instead OF
one covered with the regulation black.
Most of the camera fends carry black
covered boxes, and are unaccompanied
by their wives. Of course the resem-
blance between a light colored camera
and lunch box would be proof of an in
| beub tO cluuo buo ViSlldHoo VI uII0 O1HcldlS.
| It is possible that a spy might go to
the works without a camera and If he
was man familiar with Notifications he
might even draw plan of this one from,
memory and get it pretty accurate, too.
Or he might take one Of those little cam
aras which can be carried in the pocket
and thus accomplish his object. How,
ever, photographs representations of the
work at Portland Head will not grace the
album Of the amateur.
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CARRIERS.

TEme-1 hour, 30 minutes. Umpire
Hassett.
GoRlHANIss, s;MURPHY BALSAMS, 4.
Murphy Balsams visited Gorham yes
terday and crossed bats with the Cor
hams, and were defeated in an interesting
gams.
The game was the best played on these
grounds this season, it requiring ten in
nings to decide the contest. Webb started
in to pitch for the Murphy's, but gave
way to- Wood, one Of the Portland league
pitcheirsYin the fourth inning, who pitched
great ball up to the ninth, when the Cor
hams found him for five singles, scoring
two runs, which tied the score. Eaton,
although rather wild in the first part of
the ginne, pitched good game. The
visitors scould not touch him in the last
three innings. Among the features of
the game were the batting of Mullen
and this fielding of Hanson and Buck.
Attenda nee 500 The score:
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A Tennis Tournament.

Today there will occur an interesting
tennis tournament at the grounds of the
Poarl street tennis club in Deering. In
doubles there will be the following con-
testants: Wyman and Leighton agains,
HAIL and Freeman; Tonpson and Bragg
against Matthews and Allen; and Foster
and Thompson will. play the wie~rs. In
singles there will be the following con-
tests. Bragg against Allen; Hall against
Tompson; Matthews against Leighton
Wyman agaiunst freeman; and Foster
against Thompson.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17

the end of this new fortifcation, work
has been begun on another, and the stone
crusher is kept busy providing material
for the manufacture OF the concrete. The
building of government fortifcation
causes new village to spring into exis-
tence, Here there are two or three large
barns, for it takes many horses and carts
to transport the sand and gravel used to
the place. Then the stone crusher is COW
cred by a lofty building at the.top of
which reyolves big seiye looking like
great pop corn pepper. 1t sifts out GER
tain of the pieces of rock. Beneath is the
railway trestle for they have railroad
here. and we'll built one for hauling
material from one part of the work to
the other, small dumping cars being
used which are hauled by the inclines
by cable so that there is at least one
cable road in Maine.
In France and Germany it is a serious
crime to be found photographing or
sketching Notifications. 1t is not so seri-
| GUS as that at Portland Head, but the
man with camera is promptly escorted
off the reservation. There is watch
man. one of whose principal duties seems
to be to prevent the works being subject
ed to bombardment by Kodak artillery
men. A luokless photographer who wan
dered into the place one day this week
found that the majesty of the United
States as represented by the watchman
acting under orders of officers of the engi-
neer corps, had been seriously offended
The man with the snap shot machine as
he was escorted towards the public high
way thought of that Captain Dreyfus of
the French army, who was stripped of
the insignia of his rank and sent to a
i penal station in tho tropics for selling
the plans of a French fort to the Ger
mans. The watchman was courteous and
comforted the photographer by telling
him that he.looked like . gentleman, and
so would not probably be guilty of photo
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17
RACES MAY Be DELAYED.

New York, Aug. 16.-No word has been
received from DGnraven's Valkyrie since
she was sighted last Monday evening
passing Cape Race. H. Maitland kersey,
Lord Dunraven's S representative, does not
expect the boat until Sunday or Monday.
Owing to the short time the Valkyrie
would have to change her rig and prepare
for the international races, the dates
will probably be set for the middle or
last part of September instead OF early IN
the month as has been talked OF.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17
Columbia.s Injuries Trivial.

Washington, Aug. 16.-The report of
the board appointed to examine the cruls-
York to ascertain the extent of her in
juries, received by her while in the dry
dock at Southampton, England was re
ceived by Acting Secretary McAdoo. He
telegraphed orders to the commandant OF
the Brooklyn Navy Yard to have the nee
essary repairs made at once. The report
shows the damage sustained by the vessel
to be trivial.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17

the ground, Then the signal men at the
handles race off with the machine, the
wire uncoiling as they run, and lying on
the ground. Either the telehone or the
telegraph may be used according to
circumstances. Several members of the
corps are expert telegraphers.
A military topic naturally suggests the
work being done by Uncle Sam at Port
land Head. Here just back of the tall
white light house have been constructed
in the past two or three years several
bomb proofs for shelter and magazines,
and the foundations for a disappearing
gun carriage to lift and lower one of the
biggest of coast defence guns The sea-
side of this battery looks like a grass COW
cred mound in a field, but when you
stand ON it's top, you find smooth, level
floor of concrete. The bomb proofs are
little dungeon like cells away down be-
low you in this mass of artificial stone.
They are accessible from the interior of
the work, where low door ways give ac-
cess to the cayernous depths of the piles
of earth and concrete. The grass stops
at the top of the slope of the work.
There is no inner slope, for there you find
a perpendicular wall of concrete, which
at the place where the big gun is to be
located is about twenty feet high. A
sort of niche, of horse shoe shape, has
been made here to give room for the gun.
Leading up to the level of the stone plat
form is one of the inclined road ways SO
common in Notifications, and at it's low
er end is the entrance to magazine. On
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AT CLEVELAND.

and Mcclure.
AT CLEVELAND.
Cleveland, August 16.-The Cincinn ats
lost today's game through Pitcher Fore
mans wildness and their inability to hit
Cuppy. Attendance $500. The score:
Cincinnati, 0 0 0 0 0 %
Cleveland, 0 2 / 0 0 O. O-5
Base hits Cincinnati, s; Cleveland 8.
Errors Cincinnati, 4; Cleveland, q Bat
teries Foreman and Vaughn; Cuppy and
thinner.
AT ST LOUIS.
st. Louis, August 16.-The game be-
tween the st. Louis and Louisville teams
this afternoon abounded in good hitting.
Dowd's batting was the feature. He
made a home run, Attendance 500. The
score:
Louisville. 3 0 % o Is
ST Louis, 05 0 0 2 0 ks
Base hits-Louisville, 1s; St. Louis
| II. Errors-Louisville, 1; st. Louis. l.
Batteries-Insk and Warner; Breiten.
stein and Reitz.
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and Thompson to left for double. Fer
nald fumbled Chase's hit and William
then stole Cousins struck. out Kane
threw out Alexander PiTlshury was hit
and stole. Dow tossed Ball out. A passed
ball permitted Pillsbury tx, score. Mad
den struck out Phillips took first and
came in on Ross's single. Thompson
forced Ross. The scores
polio yE.
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Earned runs-Gorhams, 5; Murphys, /.
Two base hits-Saddlin. Three base
hits-Bnck, Webb. Home rlln-Mullen.
Stolen bases-Mullen 2. Willis, Jackson.
Bases on balls-Gorhams, L; Murphys,
T. Hit by pitched balls-McManus, Ross.
Struck out-By Eaton, 8; by Webb, /;
by Wood, 4. Left on bases-Gorhams, 9;
Murphys, g. Time3 hours, 10 minutes.
Umpire-Dr L. W. Holden. Scorer.
T Flaherty
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WAR STORIES.
The Field Telegraph of the Maine
National Guard.

AAAS bhC DabtSIy at 1OFliduu 1Edu-
How 1t is Preserved From Bombard-
ment by Snap Shot Cameras-A Sus-
picious Visitor Who Brought His Wife
and Camera Which Looked Like a
Lunch Box.
There was one feature of the muster
at Augusta, this week that attracted a
good deal of attention. 1t was the pres
ence of Lieutenant Butler and his sig
nal corps, something new in the history
nal corps have in times of actual war to
expose themselves to the greatest danger
They must perch in prominent places,
in order that their signals may be seen,
and they must be able to go quickly from
one place to another So that these men
may be able to act as sharpshooters and
defend themselves in case of attack while
not being hampered by heavy accounter-
ments, they are armed with small rifles
of great accuracy and long range They
wear cartridges belts instead of being
provided with pouches. But while the
its the field apparatus which attracts the
most attention. 1t was in the war of the
Rebellion that telegraphy first come into
active service during an army campaign,
but there was then no apparatus as COM
pact and useful as the field telegraph in
struments of the modern singal corps
In each of the two boxes on the frame
are telephone and telegraph Instruments,
and around the reel in the middle is
coiled several hundred yards of WIRE In
using the apparatus, one chest with the
end of the wire attached to it is placed or
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17
For $50 Yards Sprint.

Brockton, August 1e.-Tom Morris,
the California sprinter, entered here for
the America sweepstakes races Labor
day, made a try for the 100 yards record
this morning. The record IS ID 1-a SEQ
onds Morris did it in IA 3-b He had
no pacing.
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OUR TURN TO-DAY.
Portland Defeated the Champions ! to 6

Fall flyer, August 16.-Portla nd de-
feated Fall River in an exciting, although
not particularly brilliantly played game
today Fall River out batted their op-
ponents two to one, but put up llstiess
game IN the field. A feature of the game
was Fltzmaurice's batting. Attendance
600 The score:
PORTLAND
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17

HOODS PILLS cure Liver LIS,
Biliousness, Indigestion, Headache
a pleasant laxative. All Druggists.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17
National League Stan ding.

Base Ball Notes.
Camden defeated Rockland to at
Camden yesterday.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17

The Game Was Re markabIe in Many Re-
spects-Fiye 1nnings Were Played Be-
fore Dark-ResuIt of Other Games.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17
The National League.

The following are the results OF the
games played in the National League
Yesterday;
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Baltimore, 2 0 0 oJo.o Q x-ls
Washington, 0 0 0 0 o 8 l. s
Base Baltimore, 16: Washington,
H. Errors-Baltimore, 2; Washington, /.
notwithstanding and Clark; Mercer
and Mcclure.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
MUNYON'S
Wonderful Record.

His Remedies Reduce the Death Raia.
Washington, % per cent. in four
weeks WASHINGTON Posi-.
Plttsburg, 40 per cent. in seven
weeks PITrsBURG Press.
Allegheny, SIS per cent. in seven
weeks PITTsBURG TIMES.
Cleveland, 33 per cent. in four
weeks CLEVELAND Press.
Made Phi ladelphia the most
Healthy City in the country.
PHILADELPHIA TIMES.
Buffalo, % per cent. in two weeks.
TBUFFALo EXPRESS.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17

Gorhams, 2 0 o 0 0 2 IS
Murphys, / O. 0 0 OIL 2 0 Cd
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-17

against Thompson.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-01-26

The oldest boys of an Eskimo village
have all sorts of hunting games-muslr
OK hunts, polar bear hunts and many
other of like character, which, l fear,
would take up too much time TO de-
scribe here. In this way they fit them
selves TO become expert hunters by the
time they become young men. In nth-
letic sports these boys really excel,
and roll down hill is for them the
greatest fun. They generally find a
very steep hill we'll covered with snow
and seat themselves on the ridge,
thrust their heads between their legs,
pass their clinched hands over their
ankles pressing their legs as closely
against their bodies as possible. Thus
they really become great balls covered
with reindeer hair. And then away
they go on the down hill race, sudden
ly spreading themselves out at full
length at the bottom of the hill. An
amusement that requires great deal
of muscular strength is peculiar kind
of short race on the hands and feet, the
legs and arms held perfectly rigid. 1t
is quite exhausting, and they generally
cover but two or three yards at time.
They have many similar ways of rae
ing to tougher the muscles of both
legs and feet.-Lieut. Swatlka, in Sun
day-School Times,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-01-26
Rats XIII a Hog.

This story comes from President, n
village located up the Allegheny: Saw
age rats attacked pig belonging to
Henry Karns recently. Mr.. Karns
heard his porler squealing and went to
the pen to investigate. He found the
pig down on the floor of the pen and
literally covered with rats that were
squealing, fighting, and tearing skin
and flesh from the head and under por-
tions of the animals body. The pig
had made gallant struggle and sew
eral rats lay dead around the pen,
while number had been crushed by
his weight. Mr.. Karns, with the han
die of a fail, attempted to beat the
rats away, but they were savage from
hunger and the taste of blood, and at
tackled him so savagely that he was
forced to leave the pig to his fate.
After returning and loading his gun he
returned to the pen, but the rats had
disappeared and the pig was dying.
They had eaten the flesh from the soft
portions of the porker's body.-Phila-
delphia Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-01-26
FOREIGN,

A sNowsLIDE about 10 miles from
Kaslo, b. c.. killed three miners named
Moore, Mcmillan and Charles Mitchell,
owners of the Eureka mine.
ADvICEs from the Fiji islands report
terrible hurricane which DESTROYED
much shipping and killed a number of
people.
REvoLUTIoNIsTs in Hawaii started
killed. The rebels were under COM
plete control.
AvALANCnEs in the canton of Ticino
Switzerland, caused great destruction
of property and loss of life.
GERMANY has struck another blow at
America by forbidding the importa-
ton of her cattle through Great Brit
ain.
THE election of NJ. Faure as president
of France is we'll received He is the
first protestant ruler the country has
had.
THE clergy of st. Johns, n. F., issued
an appeal for help to prevent wide
spread starvation.
GUATEMALA rejected Mexico's ulti-
matum, and though negotiations were
still in progress it was believed war
would follow.
THREE THOUSAND persons We're re-
ceiving food from the soup kitchens at
st. Johns, N F., and the number of
destitute was increasing.
A CHINESE army numbering $1,000
was defeated by the Japanese near
Hal Cheng. Only one Jap was killed
The city of Kuchan, Persia, which
had but recently been rebuilt, was
again destroyed by.an earthquake and
many persons were killed.
PRESIDENT SAENZ PENA, of the Argen-
tine Republic resigned on account of
difficulty with congress over his cabi-
net.