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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
SHARPS AND FLATS FROM OUR
EXCHA NGES.

Without commenting upon this phase
Of the question, we frankly state that, in
the interests of real progress, the income
tax decision was the most fortunate de-
cision ever rendered 1t will hasten the
preparation and application of the rem
dy to the congested condition Of society.
1t will force another attack upon the sys-
tenn which encourages the aggregation
of wealth in the hands of the few. 1t
will cause the reformers to turn from
superficial to a radical treatment of the
monOpolistic maniac of our civilization
The bred Scott decision made inevitable
the liberation of the chattel slaves of this
country. The income tax decision has
foredoomed the early collapse of all pri-
vate monopoles OF the public utilities of
the nation. There is now no way but the
right way. Let us thank God and take
ourage.-PrOgressive Age.
The agents Of the money power try to
create the idea that gold is money be-
cause of some inherent quality of the
metal. This is utterly false. Gold, sill
YER, nickel, paper, none Of these things
are money. Money is no commodity at
all, but unit created by law to convey
the relationships Of commodities in ex-
change. The commodity on which the
money is stamped is no more money than
is the piece of paper multiplication table
on which multiplication table is printed.
Rural Banner.
Why not make John Rockefeller secre-
tary of the treasury? asks the Milwaukee
(W;s) Advance. If, it says, the govern
ment needed money he could squeeze it
out of the people in a hurry. BY just
raising the price of oil few cents his
Standard Oil company made over $780,
100000 And the fool people pay the
bills without kick while they grumble
like thunder when called on to pay taxes
for the public good.-Duluth Common
wealth.
The populist party dug up one prec-
ious nugget from the mine of political
economy, and that nugget of truth is the
real kernel of this money question, and
money warfare. Is it this: The vol
ume of money in circulation determines
the price of things offered for sale. This
is central truth, an axiom in commerce
and trade. 1t affects the farmer, the man.
ufacturer, the miner, the professional
man, the tradesman and the day laborer.
Now, it is claimed that the real CONNER
cal worth of gold and silver are
to each other 16 to 1, and that if both
metals be made into money, there will be
more money and hence higher prices for
all that is offered for sale.
This nugget Of wisdom the gold stand
ard men cannot crack they simply chafe
and call i'll names when driven to a cor
ner.
The rank and file of all political parties
see this and the free silver cause is going
on apparently to victory.-South Dakota
State Forum
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26

The U. S. government debt
is given at.
State debts. county, munic-
ipal and school.
Bonds on railroads. -.
r. r. stocks on which the
public pay interest. j..
Street car capital and
bonds
Farm mortgages. ........
Home mortgages other than
farms. -.
Families renting and there
fore paying interest in
rent, being to them the
same as a debt Of.
Debts personal held by ma
tional banks. ........
Stocks and bonds of tele-
graph, electric light, gas,
water, oil, coal, sugar,
leather, and 457 trusts
and combines, about. 80.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-08
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
A Wild Mob Kills Father and Son on
the Canal.

North Tonawanda, N. Y. October Z.
"A double murder was committed on P.
W. Scribner's lumber docks at an early
hour this morning, and up to the pres
emit time IA men have been placed under
arrest and search is being made for 9th
ers.
Shortly after midnight Capt. Phillips
the canal boat Jennie Graft, and his SON
of the boat May, began loading up with
lumber. Other boatmen who had refused
to take loads at the price Scribner offered,
marched down ina body to the dock and
and interfered. Phillips, who was armed,
drew revolver and fred over the heads
of the crowd, probably seeking to intimi-
date them. Some one fired three shots at
Phillips, who fell to the deck of his boat
dead.
The younger Phillips, who had taken
a hand in the melee was struck down
with club and horribly beaten. He
managed to crawl into the cabin where
he died at 8. Is this morning.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-08
NO YALE-HARVARD FOOTBALL
Yale's Time for Challenge Has Elk
PRED

Boston, October 7.-AH hope of a
Harvard Yale football game this year
came to an end Saturday night when the
time given Yale for making a challenge
expired. Prof. Beale of the athletic COM
mittee announced that no official COM
munication had been received up to
Saturday evening from the Yale athletic
authorities.
While the college world at large will
doubtless consider it good thing for
both Harvard and Yale to stay apart for
year or until the hard feeling on both
sides has tempered down, the loss of the
best chance of winning that has come for
years will be severe disappointment to
the Harvard team. The statement which
has appeared to the effect that if Harvard
and Yale did not play this year they
would not come together again for several
years. does not rest upon any foundation
whatever. Harvard will play as soon as
Yale challenges adjudging from the atti-
tude of many Yale graduates this year., q
stronger pressure than ever will be
brought to bear upon the football
management which will assume control
at New Haven next spring.
While Harvard men feel that they can
not without loss Of pride put themselves
in the position Of openly inviting a
challenge from Yale, it is very evident
that nothing would Big more acceptable
to them. S1t 49,
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-08
Chicago Has aKaffir Fever"

Chicago, October "A morning paper
SAYS: Chicago is to have an attack of
"Kaff1r fever, the disease that is now
playing,havoc with London fnnnciers and
closely resembling the famous South Sea
Bubble"
j. F. Webner, promoter, is now in
Chicago on prospecting tour, not look
ing for gold mines, but for money to
develope those in South Africa. Before
December /, Katfir stocks, in allsprobabil-
ity, :" will be listed in Chicago and the
South Afrlcan-American Investment and
Mining Company, with offices in johann
nesburg, London, Chicago. and New York,
will be engaged in an effort to float it's
stock in America.
For two weeks it has been whispered
among bankers and brokers that such an
attempt on the part of the South Ameri
can nlagnates was inevitable and that
Chicago could be down with t he 'Kaffir
fever just as London now is, before the
winter was over.
The establishment of the South Afri
can American Investment Mining Com
pany is certain. Whether its operation
will be begun simultaneously in New
York and Chicago is a question which
the next two days will settle
The gossip, whichshas been only gossip
for two weeks, began to take definite
form Saturday. The,story came from the
officer of certain bankers, who, it is said,
had decided that II. Kafirs' are a good
thing and will strike Chicago just as
they did London.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-08
EVERYBODY HAPPY.
All Things Serene in the Scott Family
Once More.

New York, October 7.-Helwig ElVira
Scott. the young wife of Lloyd Mitiin
Scott, was produced in the Supreme
Court today in obedience to writ OF
habeas corpus.
1t was charged by George Smythe
Boston lawyer, that young Scott and his
father, John G. Scott, had abducted
Helwig, the formers wife, and were
keeping her in custody.
Helwig had como to this country from
Europe unknown to her husband and had
brought suit against her authoritarian
for $l00, 900 damages tor alleged al1ena-
ton of her husbands affections. Her hus'
band followed her from Europe and for
long time has been seeking for her. She
was located in Boston, from which place
she disappeared the other day and Mr..
Smythe who wanted her as a witness in
the 500, 900 suit thought that the SCOTS
suanoe of n writ of habeas corpus
Frank @. Vandeveer sopened the pro-
ceedings by stating that the retun of the
writ was a great surprise as it asserted
| that the husband wife had been fully re-
conciled He said that In thus assuming
| marital relations the young couple had
yindicated the action OF Mr.. S1nythe In
the case and Justified him in all he had
done in..behalf of Mrs. Scott He asserted
that Scott had secured divorce in Da-
| kota. which had subsequently been set
aside at Mrs Scott's request, which was
| in his opinion, further evidence showing
the influence of young Scott's father. Will
| liam r. BRONX, acting in behalf of Mr..
| SCOTT and his son, replied that it was
something unusual for a lawyer to seek
| for yindication. Return to the writ
showed that young Mr.. Scott had found
his wife in Boston, that there had been
complete reconciliation and that the
young woman had freely accompanied
her husabnd to this CITY and was then
missed with costs which was ordered by
| Judge Reach.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-08
A SHOCKING DEATH.
A Little Belfast Girl Burned Fatally
Sunday Morning.

Belfast. October THE most shocking
accident that has occurred here for some
time took place Sunday morning, as the
result of which young girl of fourteen,
lost her life.
Miss Josie Thomas, daughter Of Mrs.
Elbridge Thomas Of this city, bright
little miss, who lived with l. v. and
Mrs. Miller of the Arlington Home, got
I'D at six O'Clock and was making a fire
IN the kitchen stove when the house was
startled by loud explosion which shook
the building. This was followed by
shrieks from tho girl Mr.. Miller rushed
down stairs where he met the girl in one
sheet of flame her clothing being on fire
all over her body. Mr.. Miller succeeded
in extinguishing the blaze. but not until
her body was literally roasted. Mr..
Milier's clothing took fire from the burn
ing girl and he was badly scorched about
the breast
The kitchen was mass of flames and
Mr.. Miller gave his attention to that
while the little girl ran up stairs to Mrs:
M1llers room. She removed the charred
remains of clothing and got the girl to
he'd and went for physicians The girl S
body from her feet to her neck was
burned to crisp, the hands and fore
arms being the worst The face was dis
colored, but not so badly burned as the
remainder of the body. She died from the
burns at midnight.
Mr.. Miller succeeded in extinguishing
the fire i'll the kitchen, but with the
shock and his own injuries, he sue
culnbed and became sick in bed.
Wherever the girl went after the ex-
plosion, she left trail of fire, making
blazes in several places.
1t was evident that the explosion was
caused by the girls turning naphtha in
to the stove, in which some fire remained
from the night before, as the can was
found in the kitchen.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-08
experience no serious difficulty from the

experience no serious difficulty from the
wound.
search and seizure were sworn out Sat-
urday evening, but from some cause they
we're not carried into effect. They will
probably be heard from, at some later
date.
A petition has been sent to the Mayor,
requesting him to give the police in
structions to be more vigilant in the at
TEMPT to suppress the sale of liquor and
in the arrest of those who appear upon
the streets under the influence of the ar
dent. -
The Methodist harvest supper and
entertainment has been postponed one
week, to Wednesday evening, October 49,
There will be d special meeting OF the
Methodist ladies' oirole Monday after
noon at 2. 30 O'Clock in the church.
Messrs. Eben GRAHAM and Leroy Spill
Ter left Saturday for Rumford Falls, for
.. weeks cunning. They will stop at the
Westbrook Hunting Clubs camp.
Superintendent Hess of the hosiery
mill has purchased the Wheeler residence
on Main street. -
Mr.. Patrick Donnely of the Chronicle
and Mrs. M. A.. Bosworth are to open a
hotel in the Bosworth block on Main
street, this week. 1t Is to be known as
the Central House.
Mr.. G. 4. Ames stopped a runaway
horse at the head of Church street Sat
urday evening. The owner, who gave
his name as Libby, soon appeared. He
was badly bruised about the face and
said that he was thrown from his car
riage on Main street. - q
The ladies' circle Of the Congregational
church is to be entertained Wednesday
evening by Mrs G.. Fred Murch, Mrs.
D. W. Babb and Mrs. Alonzo Libby at
the chapel,
at theyBaptistEohurch this evening.
At the parsonage of the Baptist church,
Saturday evening, Rev. A. A. Dairy,
united in marriagegMiss Alice Maud Holt
Of Cottage place and Mr. Andrew Meldon
Pride. Of Windham. After. the. ceremonies
the couple held reception TO the rela-
tiyes and few friends at the brides
home. The couple left Monday for, Mas
sachusetts on short bridal tour. The
couples popularity was pleasingly attest,
ed by numerous beautiful ana useLul
gifts. Among the donors were her
friends in the cutter department of l. ID.
Warren & Go. IS plant.
There we're 351 young people present
at the Warren Sunday school Sunday
morning, it being rally day. Remarks
we're made by the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Mann
and by the several teachers. A very pleas
ing musical entertainment was given by
the members of the school.
The 18th meeting Of the Westbrook So
ciety of Natural History was held at the
High school building Saturday evening.
In the absence of tho president, Mr.. Rol-
Inns filled the vacancy. Donations were
announced from the U. s. department Of
Agriculture, Miss Ellen A. Winslow, M.
Il. Small andsH. p. Babb. About Al
specimens hays been added to the coliec-
ton since the last meeting. An interest.
ing paper on the works Of the United
States Fish Commission was read by one
of the members. The following were
elected to membership B. A. Freeman,
Frank Swan and Prof. jackson Ad-
journed until November q 1896.
nThere will be meeting of Naoni. Re-
bekah degree staff next Monday night at
100 O'Clock. All members are requested
to be present.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-08

by exhibiting it in the towns and villages
as curiosity. After few years, how
ever, Thimonnier fell in with capitalist
who believed in him and his machine,
and was willing to stake money on both
A partnership was entered into for the
manufacture and sale Of the machine,
and all promised we'll for the new firm,
when the Revolution of 1S48 broke out,
stopped the business, and ruined both the
inventor and the capitalist. Thimonnier
died in 1857 in a poorhouse of a broken
heart.
This French machine was also on the
chainstitch principle, but it was forty
years later than Saints In between the
two came, about 1889, one Walter Hunt OF
New York, who is said to have construct
ed sewing machine with the lock stitch
movement Some uncertainty surrounds
this claim, and Elias Howe is the person
usually credited with this important.
indeed invaluable, invention. Chambers
journal
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
YOUR TIRED STOMACH.

81 have no appetite" you sag, ''and the little
DO eat does me no good. At first it feels CO Id
and dead in my stomach and by and by have
aches ard pains that sometimes go to my chest
and back. 1 feel weak low spirited and out of
sorts all over. l fancy the demon Of dyspepsia
has got me-" That's the way you talk, and no
wonder. But wait moment. Let us reason
together Perhaps thus for your stomach is
merely tired. You have been eating too MUCH
eating the wrong things and irregularly. You
have given it too much to do, and like all living
things, when overworked it stops at length
from sheer exhaustion. There may not be an
actually diseased condition as get. Still it is
natures warning, and you must heed it or worse
will follow. But must eat or starve," you
say. True enough, but safety usually lies in
middle courses. Here is one for you. You
don't need drastic purges or exciting stlnlu-
lants. Your condition is one easily relieved if
we go about it gently and sensbly. The tired
stomach won work under whip and spur. 1t
has probably had too much of that already
What you require is something that is at once
food and digester of food. Such an article
Is the Shaker Digestive Cordial, discovered and
prepared by the Shaker Community of Mt LED
anon. N. Y Taken right after eating. so as TO
mix with the food 1t does the stomach's WORK
or it, gives it the advantage OF further rest
ltrengthens you in natural way, and soon
enables the stomach to do full duty. There is
nothing else like this simple. safe, certain and
palatable remedy Yet the Shakers respect your
doubts. and authorize druggists to sell a trial
hottla for ten cents
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-08

A London cabinet maker, called
Thomas Saint, in or about 1870 took out
a patent}for machine for sewing leather,
or rather for "quilting, stitching, and
making shoes, boots, splatterdashes, clogs
and other articles" This. patent, I'M
fortunately, was taken out along with
other inventions in connection with
leather, and it was quite by accident that,
some eighty years later, the specification
Of it was discovered by one who had made
for himself name In connection with
sewing machines. Even the Patent Office
did not seem to have known of its exis-
tence, yet now it is clear enough that
Thomas Saints leather-sewing machine
of 1890 was the first genuine sewing-ma-
chine ever constructed, and that 1t was
on what is now known as the "chain-
stitch" principle. Rude as 1t was, it Is
declared by experts to have anticipated
most of the ingenious ideas of half CEN
fury of successive Inventors, not one OF
whom, however, could in all human pro-
liability have as much as heard Of Saints
machine This is not the least curious in
oident in the history of the sewing-ma-
chine
In Saints machine the features are
the overhanging arm. which Is the char
acterlstic of many modern machines;
tho perpendicular action of the Singer
machine; the eye-pointed needle of the
Howe machine; the pressure surfaces
noon1iap To the and a
feed system equal to that of the most
modern Inventions. Whether Saints,
machine was ever worked in practical
workshop or not it was uDquestionably
a practicable machine, Eoonstr ucted by one
who knew pretty well what he was about
and what he wanted to achieve.
Now note the date of Thomas Saints
patent G79O), and next note the date of
thesinyentlon OF Parthelmy Thimonnler
Of st. Etienne, who is claimed in France
as the inventor OF the sewing machine IN
1880 Thmionner constructed machine,
principally OF wood, with an arrange
ment of barbed needles, for stitching
gloves. and in the following year he be-
gan business in Paris, W it'll a partner, as
an army olothier. The firm of Thimon-
nier, Petit &Co., however, did not thrive
because the Ouvriers thought they saw IN
the principals machineEan Instrument
destined to ruin them; much as the
Luddites viewed steam machinery IN the
cotton districts Of England. An idea of
that sort rapidly terminated heat, and
Thimonnier's workshop was one fday in.
vaded by an angry mob, who smashed all
the machines and compelled the inventor
to seek safety in flight Poor Thimonnier
was absent from Paris for three years,
but in 1884 returned with another and
more perfect machine. This was so coldly
received, both by employers and work
the capital, and, journeying through
France with his machine, paid bis wa6
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-08
THE COMING POWER.
An Electric Engine Makes a Wonderful
Record.

Baltimore, October 1.-THE electric
locomotive used in hauling freight trains
through the Bedtime tunnelEof the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad, demonstrated
yesterday that it's drawing power afar ex.
ceeds the Expectations of its builders.
Forty -four LOADED cars and three steam
locomotives, not working, which had
been used to haul the heavy train on
the surface, were coupled to the electric
giant at the tunnel entrance and pulled
up the heavy grade of the tunnel, a
speed of 10 miles an hour being deyel-
oped The total weight of the train was
1900 tons. The draw bar pulled exerted
in starting this unusual heavy load
was ..more than 60, 600 pounds and con-
tinued throughout the trip at more than
40, coo pounds. The Baltimore & Ohio
officials claim that no steam locomotive
has ever approached this record.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-08
NO PRIZE FIGHTING.
Governor Altgeld on the Right Side of a
Question for Once.

Springfield, ILL.,, October 7-Gove1nor
what course he would take in case an at
tempt WAS made to pull off the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight on Honey Island in
the Illinois river.
II do not know of any projected prize
fight" he said, "but if it is on the
Illinois soil we will do all in our power
to prevent any prize fight taking place
here. The enforcement of the law rests
primarily with the local authorities, but
if it becomes necessary for the state to
take hand you must say that ] will use
every effort to prevent the fight.
The governor has no doubt as to his
ability and his right to uphold the laws
Of Illinois.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-08
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
So Say the Courts of Part of the Kansas
Liquor Law.

Topeka, Kan, October "A decision
has been handed down by the Supreme
court, involving the validity of one
section of the prohibitory law.
The law of 1889 conferred on police
where it was thought liquor was being
sold, and make arrests without a
warrant Under this section the police
men have been in the habit of entering
places which had fallen under suspicion,
and arresting whoever they caught in ap-
parent possession of the place.
The courts holds that this section, in
so far as it authorized an arrest without
a warrant for misdemeanor not commit
ted in the view of the officer, is unoonsti-
tutional and void.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-08
Booming the Reed Club.

A largely attended and enthusiastic
meeting of the special committee of the
Lincoln club, appointed to arrange for
the formation of the Reed club of Maine
was held last evening at the Lincoln club
rooms. Addresses were made by Hon. g..
M. Soldiers, Col. Fred N. Dow, Col. 7.
P. Shaw, G. W. Morrill,, Esq, and A.
b. ] ordan.
A special committee of five was ap-
nointed to correspond with the leading
Republicans of the state in reference to
Joining the club. This committee was
named as follows: GOV. H. B. Cleaves
Hon. Geo. P. Wescott, Col. Thomas p.
shaw Wost on f. Milliken and Edward
p. Chase.
President Libby presided over the
nesting, which was very earnest and
enthusiastic one.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-08
Obadiah Won.

BY an oversight, the result of the 1928
trot at Rigby. last Saturday, carried over
from Friday. was omitted from Monday S
PRESS. About 200 people went out to
see the conclusion of this exciting race.
1t required but one heat to settle it.
Black Nathan made good fight but lost
his feet on the home stretch and made so
bad a break that he finished in fifth place.
Obadiah won the heat and race and
Yankee Luck was second. The sum-
mary: