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The Portland daily press., 1895-03-13


vides that The person. injured must give
no'lee that he has suffered within fourteen
days after tue accident. The bill changes
IL SO that the notice may be given. by the
injured person OF some persons in his be-
nail within thirasy DAYS
something lik4 forty measures were
passed to be enacted in The Senate today.
Among the most important were the bill for
the taxation of vessel property, the general
insurance Law. and the resolve appropriate
ing $4,000 Tor the Maine'lnsane hosital.
u Dill has been presented in the Senate to
incorporate the Eoothhay Harbor Yacht
club.
The Senate tomorrow will hold memorial
exercises for the late John L. Hodsdon,
formerly adjutant general of Maine.
The Madison town fight comes up this
week and the hotels arc full of Madison
people down to do what they can in the
1hlrd House to push the matter 1t looks
now like a close fight in the House.
The insurance committee repor, ed finally
today.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
This legislature may not give women
the right to vote, but it is passing many
laws for their benefit Tonight the ju-
dietary committees voted to report the
bill providing that when a husband will
fully neglects to support his wife, she
not being at fault, the court may decree
her an allowance, to be paid her by her
husband. &
4 Another billEelating to women makes
ia widow right 81 dover in oae-third
OF her hus bantiS' real estate absolute, in
stead or its being II life interest as it is
tnoW. Ihe SAME provision is made, for
the husbands sharetin the estate OF d
deceased wife. The committee will re-
port other important measures, including
the medical registration bill.
The bill in relation to local boards of
health will be reported in new draft
by giving the local boards little of the
additional powers wanted. Provisions
to prevent the sale of meat Of turbecu-
losed cattle, and for the reporting of
cases OF tuberculosis are retained. By
another bill the titles to wild lands
shall be valid when state taxes have
been paid during twenty years of unin-
terrupted possession. The committee
taovrs a bill reducing from two years
and six months to two years time in
which action may be begun..against ex-
ecutors and administrators arising from
claims aglnst the estates.
The liquor agency bill is almost ready.
1t will require the liquor commissioner to
haye his residence at the place desig-
mated by the governor and council, aud
keep there stock of liquors watch will
be subject to analysis at an5 tiffeb by
any competent person appointed by the
governor and council. The town and
city agencies will be subject to the
same inspection The commissioners
will have a salary.
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-13
EXECUTORS NOTICE.

TUE subscriber hereby gives notice that he
= has been duly appointed Executor OF the
laSt viii and Testament OF Mary G. Merrill, late
u Portland, in the County of Cumberland,
deceased. and given bond as the law directs.
All persons having demands against the estate
of said deceased, are desired to present the
same for settlement, and all indebted thereto
are requested to make payment Immediately.
HENRY G.. PEABODY,
February 10Th, 1895 feb281aN3wT
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-13
NO. 22I.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
- Of
The First National Bank Of Portland,

at Portland, in the State of Maine, at the close
of business, March 9th, 1895. ia
RESOURCES. az
The Portland daily press., 1895-03-13
THE STATE PRINTING

The state printing contracts were
assigned for today. but were not reached by
the House. Mr.. Whelden of Portland is ex,
pected to speak on them. 81 b
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-08
Alleged Pension Fraud.

La Crosse Chronicle, July 3O.-Deputy
Atty. H. E. Briggs of Madison, arrived
in the city last evening, having in
custody James Johnson Of Tomah, who
was placed under arrest yesterday,
charged with pension fraud. Johnson,
it seems, made application for an inva-
lid pension about four years ago and
managed to obtain one. He had never
served day in the army but for the
last four years has been receiving S12 a
month pension. During an 1nvestiga-
ton of his case short time ago, Special
Pension Examiner Wiggenhorn learned
the facts and reported to the depart
ment. This led to the arrest of Johnson
He was brought before Court Com
missioner Peck last evening and bound
over to the September term of the
United States district court under $1,000
bonds, which he was unable to furnish
He has defrauded the government out
of nearly $500 in the past four years.
The James Johnson mentioned in the
above item is man 66 years of age
He lived on the Ridge for many years,
but for a couple of years has been liv-
ing at West Salem, until recently when
he returned and has been staying with
his daughter, Mrs Bloom, near Jackson
vile. 1t was there that he was arrested
and it is said that he had not been in
the service.
1t is claimed that he obtained a
pension by appropriating the war
record of another man named James
| Johnson, who lived when he enlisted at
Lyndon, Juneau county, and died with
out receiving any pension. His name
appears in the state roster as member
of Wis. Vol. Cavalry, enlisted May 80,
1861, and mustered out July %, 1864.
Claiming to be this James Johnson he
made application for pension under
the dependent pension law of $780,
His application was filed in August 1890
alleging deafness, disease of the eyes,
rheumatism and a gun-shot Wound' as
the grounds for pension. He easily
secured the affidavits required, which
under the law of 1890 are merely the
statement of two persons who have
known the applicant three years to the
effect that his diseases are not due to
his own carelessness or vice. He was
examined by the board of physicians
and in Oct 1891 the claim was allowed
through the Sowle agency. Since that
time Johnson has drawn the pension Of
So per month. The manner in which
the matter got out is probably due to
unpleasant domestic relations. Johnson
has had three wives from whom he
separated and it is supposed they knew
of the alleged pension fraud and
exposed it.-Tomah Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-08
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Ligke.

The expected has taken place. For
some time it has been anticipated that
the marriage Of Mr. Theodore Lipke, a
member of the firm of Spaford, Cole &
Lipke. and Miss Emeline L. Bellows,
a stenographer for a long time n the
law Office of Judge Williams, would
occur. Certain signs can al lays be
depended upon, especially wNel fine
cottages are erected by such prominent
young men as Theodore. Our suspi-
cions have been verified and this office
is in receipt Of card reading as
follows; Theodore \. Lipke and
Emeline L. Bellows, married, Monday
August 9th, 1895, South Superior, Wis. !"
They Will be at home after October 18th
in this city.
This young couple have a host of
friends IN the Twin Cities who will be
delighted to extend them hearty con-
gratulations and wishes for future
success and happiness. The editor of
the REPORTER desires to be counted as
one of that number.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-08
Our Reference to c. l.. Powers.

In our issue of July 25th we made
reference to Mr.. c. L. Powers, who is
employed on the Milwaukee Journal
IN effect that he was probably the
author of most of those unfair charges
and insinuations against Chas. M.
Webb, of this city. On August 2nd we
received the following letter which will
explain itself. We take pleasure in
giving Mr.. Powers an opportunity to
explain his position and delighted to
know he had no connection with
publishing those untruths about Judge
Webb:
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. l, '95.
Editor Reporter,
Grand Rapids, Wis.
My Dear Sir.-You do me altogether
too much honor in attributing all that
has appeared in The Milwaukee Journal
regarding the forces behind the appoint
ment of Judge Webb to me. You also
do me an injustice when you charge
that | am personal enemy of Judge
| Webb or say that | have any old scores
to settle with him. l think that he will
agree with me in saying that our
relations have always been pleasant
since our first acquaintance. He never
has acted toward me as though he felt
that l was other than friend, and |
have never believed that he had any
such feeling. Moreover, our relations
were always cordial when we were
neighbors, and in short any charge of
different character can come only from
a source thatls IN ignorance of the facts.
AS to my personal responsibility for
matter that appears in The Journal it is
only necessary for me to say that the
charge could only hold good if | was in
editorial control of the paper, which |
am not. But to make the matter still
more plain let me assure you that none
of the articles you refer to were even
written by me, my line of work at
present being entirely different. What
l have written concerning Judge Webb
during the past few weeks has not been
in the political line at all, but entirely
different therefrOm, as the enclosed
clippings will show. AS to the course of
The journal, from political point of
view, as you choose to regard it, you
have a perfect right to criticise it as
much as you choose, but | hope that
you will not again impute personal
enm1ty to me In that connection. NV
personal likes or dislikes have nothing
whatever to do with my work as a news
paper man, and such a paper as The
journal could not permit itself to be
the vehicle for personal enmity. A
similar newspaper charge was made
against me once before in your vicinity
when Judge Webb was candidate for
election to the supreme court, and the
publisher of the paper refused to give
me a hearing in my own defense. I
hope that you will not be equally. un-
just to me in this case but will enter
my denial in some form, even if you do
not publish this letter Permit me to
add, however, that if you can find
single person of responsibility who is
willing to declare over his own signature
that he ever knew Of single instance
where [ showed in act or word a
personal feeling against Judge Webb L
will try the issue with him and prove
him in the wrong.
Yours Very Truly,
CLARENCE l.. POWERS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-08
Wausau the Place.

North Central Wisconsin does not
possess a state institution and we
believe it is high time that this section
of Wisconsin should be recognized. The
Board of Control could do no nicer
thing than to locate the "Home for
Feeble Minded" in Wausau. She
possesses the necessary advantages and
conditions for such an institution. The
Wausau Record assigns the following
reasons why it should be located there.
We agree with them:
"The Rhinelander New Nor.i, in an
able article, favOrs the location of the
Home for Feeble Minded, in Wausau,
the metropolis of the Wisconsin river
valley. There is strong sentiment
behind the movement to locate the
home here, and the sentiment is not all
in Wausau either. We haYe the land,
the water, the air, and geographical
location that cannot be improved upon.
The New North is of opinion that the
contest lies between Marinette and
Wausau. How true that may be we
have no means Of knowing, but we do
know that there should be no call for
a contest between these two towns. 1t
is well known that parents and rela-
tives of inmates of the home make
frequent visits to the institution, and
railroad fare would be very serious
obstacle in the way Of such visits.
Marinette is located in the extreme
northeastern part of the state. A trip
to that city is a long and tedious journey
with many changes of cars from the
central and southwestern portions of
the state. On the contrary Wausau is
located centrally, with two trunk lines
of railroad, the c., NJ. & st. P. and the
North-W Western. The board will un-
doubtedly take these matters into
consideration when it comes to decide
upon a location.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-08

0oUSSc.JO
Marshfeld 72,454.OO 1864 41OOo-4SS, 90
How do these figures suit you? The
farther back you 60 the proportion is
more favorable to the Twins. These
show on an average of over 100000
more valuation than Marshfield with a
population of 1862. There is nothing
more for us to say.
In regards to representation on the
County Board you have all you are
entitled to. Three municipalities would
naturally have little more representa-
ton on account of the three having
more precincts than the same popula-
ton combined would have in one
municipality.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-08
Portrait of Ex=Gov. RuSk.

A life-size oil portrait of ex-Goy.
jeremiah NJ. Rusk was received by
Secretary of State Casson from Mrs.
Rusk, Tuesday, and was hung in the
executive chamber. The portrait is
one of two painted by Artist S. Jerome
Uhl at Washington in 1898. The other
now occupies place in the Agricul-
tural department at Washington. It is
considered an excellent likeness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-08
CENSUS CCnPLETE.

This week we arc able to give the
population of Wood county complete,
returns having all been handed in to
County Clerk Ksycki. The result shows
good, healthy increase for tie county
In 1890 the total was IS, ,127; in 1895 the
total foots up to 21,911-gain 1874
Figures by towns as follows:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-08

How in the world can you expect to
be cured OF the Piles unless you get a
box of Beggs' German Salve? Sample
boxes free. Equally good for Scalds,
Burns, Old Sores, ETC. Sold and
warranted by John E. DAILY
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-05-29

a force Of carpenters are at work
in the room used as the Supreme
Court law library. All the book
cases have been moved out and the
floor is being relaid. Other i'm
provements will be made which
will result in greater convenience
to those who have use for the IL
brary, which heretofore has been
too crowded for comfort.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-05-29
The Deputy Marshal.

A representative of this paper in
terviewed J. NJ. Nivas this morning
regarding his possible appointment
to the deputy marshalship. Mr..
Was said that he had not paid
much attention to the matter but,
as certain friends of his had brought
his name forward as a candidate
and insisted on his being one, he
was in the field for the office and
thought his chances were as good
as anyone's else, if not better.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-05-29

Hoods Pills cure constipation by
restoring peristaltic action OF the
alimentary canal.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-05-29
Common Sense

Should be used in attempting to
cure that very disagreeable disease,
catarrh. As catarrh originates in
impurities in the blood, local appli.
cations can do no permanent good.
The common sense method Of treat
ment is to purify the blood, and for
this purpose there is no preparation
superior to Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-10-30
Could Not Mako Tibet,

MIR. Wilson relates an amusing story
of an officer who determined to enter
Chinese Tibet by stratagem. This off,
Ger managed to cross the frontier at
night, and so escaped the frontier guard.
Next day, however, while he was jour-
neying deeper into Tibet the Tibetan
soldiers overlook him and informed him
that as the country was unsafe, because
of robbers, they would go with him in
order to protect him, to which arrange
ment the traveller was compelled to
agree. In a few hours they came to a
river, which was CROSSED BY q rope
bridge. The Tibetans passed over first,
in order to show that the bridge was
safe, and then the officer got into the
basket and was pulled along by the lib
etans. Suddenly, however, they ceased
pulling and left the Englishman hang
ing in midair above the rushing torrent.
In vain the traveller shouted to the
Tibetans to pull They merely smoked
and nodded their heads. The hours pass
ed, and still the officer hung above the
torrent. At last the Tibetans agreed to
pull him back if he would promise to
leave Tibet Immediately. This Of
course he was compelled to do and took
his departure from the forbidden land.
-Gentleman' Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-10-30
WILD FLOWERS.

Oh, beautiful blossoms, pure and sweet,
Agleam with dew from the country wayR
To me, at work in city street,
You bring fair visions Of bygone days
Glad days. when hid IN mist Of Green
To watch springs delicate buds unfold.
And all the riches cared to CLEAN
We're daisy silver and buttercup gold.
It's true you come Of a lowly race,
Nursed by the sunshine, fed by the showers,
And yet you are heirs to 4 nameless gree
Which fail to find in my dollhouse fJTers,
And you breathe on me with your honeyed
lips,
Till in thought stand ON the wind swept
fells,
Where the brown bees hum DER the ferny dips,
Or ring faint peals on the heather bells.
close my eyes on the crowded street,
! shut my ears to the city's roar,
And ar, out in the open with flying feet
OF, off to your emerald haunts once morei
But the harsh wheels crate on the stones be
And n sparrow chirps at the murky pane,
And my bright dreams fade in an overflow
OF passionate longing and tender pain
E MathesOn in Chambers Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-10-30
Evolution OF o Name.

An amusing account is given of the
evolution Of name. A man named
Halfpenny lived in Dublin at the end of
the last century. Having been very sue
cessful in business, his children per-
suaded him to change his name to a
more dignified one, which he did by
dropping the last letter.
In the course Of time the photography
was also changed. and when the man
died he was buried as Mr.. Halpen. The
fortunes Of the family increased still
further, and the son soon dropped the H.
Tho next transition was an equally
easy one. and he who had run the
streets as little Kenny Halfpenny came
out as Kenneth MacAlpin, the descend
ant Of a hundred kings Boston Tray
eller.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-10-30
Big Plantations In Slavery DAYS.

Agriculture on q great scale in tho
new west has made people forget the
great business undertakings of some
planters in the days Of slavery. An
English traveller describes q plantation
in Louisiana where single field of
5000 acres in sugar cane and 600 in
corn bordered the Mississippi. The plan.
tation was sold not long before for near
100000. and it yielded that year
more than 100000 worth Of products.
The same planter had another plantation
of 5000 acres, worth about $780, 900.
One Of his neighbors had saved 81 ,OOO,-
900 in 20 years. The crop of sugar on
the first plantation was estimated to be
worth nearly $780, 900 in the year Of
the Englishman' visit.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-10-30
Mexican Street Car Customs.


The street cars are an Institution that
will cost you many real pang before
you master all of their peculiarities.
You can hire one for your personal use
and go anywhere for a day for about
~. 80, with the privilege of stopping at
any one place for not over two hours ut
. time, and the fun you would have
would be like taking q car in Chicago
and going all over the North, South and
West sides, pulling the car of the track
ard getting the policeman to put it on
again il you wanted to visit at any one
place for some time. These cars are
driven at gallop, and the driver holds
a continuous conversation with his little
mules that is always fervid and forcible
and occasionally picturesque. The con-
ductors are very accommodating, if
there is small coin in sight, and will
sell you q ticket for the lottery or a
ticket for tho baths, or hurry Off and
buy you cigar, and then run the mules
20 make up for lost time. There is q
sign in the cars requesting the passen-
gers not to detain the car by their ever
lasting goodbys, but it is dead letter.
The dear women will hug and kiss and
ask about the baby and all the relatives
and exchange the latest fashions on the
street car steps just the same as they try
to do in more civilized lands, and the
men are inst as bad in their way, for
they hing, asl; questions, swear eternal
friendship and relight the obstinate Gig
arctic in way to drive ono mad, espe-
cially if you are in hurry to catch a
train.-New York Posts City Of Mexico
Letter
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-10-30
All Weather. Suited DR.. ,yobn.o,.

DR.. johnson stoutly poohpoohed tho
notion of the effect Of weather on the
mind. Ito temperance, he wrote,
every day is bright, and every hour is
propitious to diligence. johnson, how
ever, was little given to ana!yze the in
fuences Of nature, or any other influ-
ences, upon himself. And it may well
be that this disposition On his part was
IN the spirit of the stoics and in def
ance of his own feelings, to which he
disdained to give way. 1t seemed to
him n sorry thing that "a being en-
lowed with reason" should resign his
powers to the influences of the air and
live in dependence on the weather and
the wind. Temple Bar.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-10-30
A STATELY OLD MANSION.

The Homo Of Sarah Orne Jewett, the Nov.
elist, ut Berwick, Ne.
wonder if there is another such house
in New England as the home of Sarah
Orne Jewett, says a writer in the Boston
Herald. have seen many stately man.
sions that go back to the days before the
Revolution - one in particular where
General Gage was quartered in old Dan
vers. town which is linked by witch
threads to Berwick, and one with gam
brel roof upon which good dame and
her cronies climbed to be out of reach of
husbandly authority while they drank
tea forbidden to patriots until the tax
was removed-but l have never seen q
living place at once SO modern and so
reminiscent Of 1870 CT days younger
still In its great rooms filed with old
mahogany and warmed by huge tiled
fireplaces it would be easy to forget that
the gundalows, with their high peaked
sails like great birds wings, do not yet
sail down the liver from the landing
wharves in fleets of tens and twenties
to Portsmouth, with their loads of pine
planks and boards to be exchanged for
East Indian rum, tobacco and molasses
or for Russian iron, duck or cordage, or
for such priceless old glass and silver
and china rs came from unknown ports
and now peep out wonderingly upon
nineteenth century cushions and pic
lures and bric-a-brac, from their deep
set cupboards and shelves.
II found these things here" Miss
Jcwett says, land hope to leave them
when go into the unknown. If one
had ones choice of ancestors, it would
be impossible to pick out better than
those who chose the elaborate corniCes,
all carved by hand with infinite pains,
and the high paneling of the parlors,
and the broad window stills, and the
lowered wall paper, still bright and
fresh, though of a pattern ON which Ma
RE Antoinette might have set the seal
Of her approval when she fitted up tho
little Trianon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-10-30

the showing for the present year,
and especially for the last three
months under consideration, is in.
deed cheering. It does not seem
likely that the list will be greatly in
creased in the quarter now passing.
and the prospect is good that the re-
ceiverships of 1895 will prove to rep
resent smaller number OF roads
than in any year since 1887. when
the list included only nine compa-
MES, operating LOAF miles and in
volving $50. 900 of securities"