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The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
A MODERN ROMANCE.
The Strange Tale of a Pretty Young
american Girl.

New York, November 8.-When the
North German Lloyd steamship Elbe
went to the bottom of the North Sea
last March it was generally believed that
among the lost was Adolph Guttmann
who, with his brother Daniel, it was
charged, had stolen s400, 600 and was on
his way with it to this country.
The brothers lived in Hungary. They
operated a large mill, which was the
principal industry in the little village
According to the people of the town they
deliberately planned a big steal. They
put off their creditors and pressed their
debtors, sold all the assets ..they could
without excitingssuspicion and cleaned
up millions forins, OF. $500, 600. With
this money they vanished.
1t is considered certain that Daniel
Guttmann. and his sister perished in the
Elbe, but the evidence as to the fate Of
Adolph is not clear, although the best
information obtalnable by the police was
that ne had taken passage on the steam
er. The North German Lloyd steamer
Wittekind, arrived in Hoboken on Feb
ruary IL and it is now clai med that
Adolph Guttmann was on board with
the stolen money, havingsseparated from
follow on the Elbe. On the Wittekind
was pretty Austrian girl named Marie
Holomany, and the story she tells has
aroused the police of two countries into
a hunt for the missing mill owners. Up
on the steamer with Marie was man
who passed as Joseph Pfeifer and whose
description corresponds exactly with that
of Adolph. He fell in love with Marie
and asked her to go West with him and
become his housekeeper
The object of the girls trip to this
country was TO get employment and she
readily agreed to Adolph's plan. She
says he soon became very communicative.
He showed her valise stuffed full of
Hungarian money and then, she asserts,
he told her tnat his name was not Pfeifer,
but Guttmann, and Ethat.he had been the
owner of an extensive mill in hungary.
When the Wittekind' ssspassengers ar
rived at Ellis Island, Marie was detained
by the immigration authorities, who do
not allow young girls to arrive in New
York until they have situation or.sOme
destination. Pfeifer or Guttmann tried
hard to obtain her discharge, but failed.
The girl was kept on the island until
a relative to whom she had been con-
signed called for her. Meanwhile Pfeifer
OF Guttmann had disappeared and the
girl saw him no more.
The story which he related to the girl
and which was by her communicated
to the authorities when he failed to re-
appear is what has led to the suspicion
that Guttmann is alive and has duped
the police into believing that he IS
dead.
It is believed that a bundle Of new
Austrian bills just received by FalcK q
Co. bankers of this city. from their agent
at Winnepeg is clue to Guttmann' $
wbereabouts. The bills were changed
into American currency by man whose
description tallies with that of the fugi-
tive.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
An Attack on the Consumers and
Makers of Shoes.

Chicago, November S.-From Maine to
California a cry goes up from shoe deal
ers, shoe manufacturers and shoe wear
ers against the Vaccinations of the
trust. It is even whispered that echoes
of this cry will be heard before long in
courts of law, where trusts are supposed
to be non-existent, OR at least, where any
trust is liable to be f1ayed alive, eff
caught in the act of being a trust" The
Leather Trust, like every other organ
ization of its character, would sooner call
itself band of robbers than tack the
word trust to it's official title.
Before the world it is known under
another name, even though its articles
of incorporation acknowledge capital
ization of the modest sum of 10000, 000
In it's own quiet, unobtusive way this
trust has been doing business ever since
May l, 1898, stepping hides, in picking
vats, shoveling bark on top of them,
scraping the skins, drying them, an d
finally distributing them all over the
world for anybody who had the price
to walk over them. For, despite its
enormous capital, this trust is nothing II
not humble. Not only does all its Epro-
duct go into soles of mems shoes. but
it even goes further than that and takes
the cheapest kind of soles as its special
care,
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
A Seheme to Build 1t as a Private
Enterprise.
A TRANSACTION WHICH w ILL IN
vOLVE ss0,OOO,00O.
A Chicago Paper Publishes Full Particu-
lars of the Scheme-yyarner Miller at
the Head of the Company-Money
Raised in England and America.

-
Chicago, November S-An afternoon
newspaper publishes long article, spur-
porting to give the facts regarding new
deal, the co1summation of which will
mean the complete constr uction OF the
Nlcaraguan ship canal with American
and British millions, purely as private
enterprise and aided materially by Chi
cago capital, as representedSin the newly
invented canal digging machinery in
successful operation in the Chicago
drainage channel
1t is kstated that all attempts to.obtain
financial assistance from the United
States government through Congress will
be abandoned. If it should developed the
charter granted the Nicaragua Maritime
Canal Company by Congress is likely to
prove EN- mbarassing it will be surrendered.
With revised est imatesIof the cost Of con-
structing the canal, based on the great
sa wing through the use of their improved
excavating machinery, owned by the
Chicago contractors and inventors, it is
said the canal promoters went to Lon
don and laid the tempting plans before
the money kings there The foremost of
these financiers have been Investigating
the proposition and great deal OF it is
on the verge of consummation.
The new plans,call for an expenditure
Of between $40, 900, 900 and $50, 000 600.
It is asserted that the engineers in the
employ of the Nicaragua Ship Canal Con
struction Company, which has invested
SO, 900, 900 in the Isthmus canal, to date,
camped for month on the line of the
Chicago..canal from here to Joliet, observ-
ing the wonderful mechanical improve
ments in ditch digging on huge scale.
When they returned to New York it is
said the experts gave such an enco uraging
report of their examination that the
prime movers in the canal enterprise no.
tably Hon Warner Miller, president of
the construction company, were induced
to undertake at once negotiation for the
London DEAL
The company expect there will be an
opposition of this side of the Atlantic in
the executive and legislative branches
Of the government,w when the fact becomes
known that British capital is to be in
vested in the canal. but they do not ap-
prehend serious complications from
this source. They claim that as a purely
private enterprise, ..they have a perfect
right to get capital in any market free
from interference or dictation from any
government.
President Wenter of the drainage board
and the contractors, Inaualy and Mason,
admit that Warner Miller was here dur
ing the summer on the mission stated
above.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
A NINE MONTHS SENTENCE.
One of the Famous Haverhin Conspiracy
Cases is Connected With Liquor Licen-

Lawrence, Mass November s. Thorn
as Mo Donald, charged with conspiracy
to bribe Hadley H. Hoyt, an alderman
Of Haverhill, exception in whose case
was overruled in the Supreme court yes
terday, was sentenced to nine months in
the House of Correction by Judge Sher-
man in the Superior Ecourt this after
noon.
This is one of the famous Haverhill
conspiracy cases in connection with the
license matters in 1894. McDonald's case
was that of conspiring with two Others
to get a transfer of his license, paying
$50, which Hoyt received. District At
torney Moody said to the Court that
since the trial Of the cases he had chang
ed his opinion regarding Mcdonald s
attitude toward the principal conspiracy
case upon which two aldermen and one
other defendant are serving sentence.
He believed him to be the spring of the
conspiray, but he believed the Mcdonald
incident was scheme on the part of
Aldermen Ham, Gate and Tilton to see
if they could get Hoyt into combination
with them.
Attorneys Huribert and Fuller appear
ed for the defendant.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09

ings, heaviest iron and steel proouo''oN
on record, widespread advances IN wasos'
prices for cotton and cotton goods pfonn7
Using prosperity during the coming eo,'
son, that those should look who fcip oni1
disappointment in the falling way ol on'
demand since Sc ptember.
The increased bank cleariDgs totals oiiis
week, compared with last, when e''e
decrease was recorded for several Weeks
is noteworthy. Particularly in the laoo
of smaller bank clearings totals this
week and last from Boston, Baltimore
and Omaha.
The more conspicuous increases are az
New York, 23 per cent: Philadelphia, 81
per cent; Buffalo, 26 per cent Chicago,
- per cent; st. Louis, 21 per cent; Pitts
burg, 19 per cent; Minneapolis 81 per
cent; Providence, 2S per cent Failures
throughout the United States this week
aggregate 260, against 241 in the CORES
p ponding week one year ago.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
DETROIT snHoRRoR.
The Work of Recovering fhe Bodies ID
Progressing.

Detroit, Mich. ,Novem ber S.-Rain adds
to thesgloom around the scene Of Wednes-
days Larned street disaster. Late last
night the body of workers, pick ing at
the ruins of No. AZ, uncovered the head
Of Lizzie Wiedburch, whose body was
pinned beneath heavy timbers lying
along the journal building. 1t was 10
this morning before the girls body could
be gotten from underneath the heavy
beams At 1915 the workers uncovered
the leg Of man whose body was buried
under tine heavy machinery. The body
was recovered shortly after noon. 1t was
crushed and mangled beyond all recog-
milton, but it was identified by clothing
as Charles Lind.
With the exception of Annie O'Donog-
hue, who is still in criti cal condition,
all of the injured are doing well and will
recover.
This monring the prosecuting attorney
ordered Engineer Thompson, who was
in charge Of the boilers of the Journal
building, to be kept under police sur
yeilance until the cause of the boiler ex-
plosion has been thoroughly inyestigat-
cd
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
OBITUARY..
AImon Libby.

Rev. Almon Libby died from paralysis
of the brain in Georgetown, November
1. after an illness of about thlrty-slx
hours Mr.. Libby was born in Mlnot,
October 10, 1916, and had been clergy
man in the Free Baptist denomination
nearly sixty years. In his youth ne at
tended the then popular academy at Ear
sonstield, in September 1887 was licensed
to preach and July 4th 1888, was pup
liclv ordained to the ministry. In lo45 ne
married Hannah Ii. Hall OF 6orha1n, anu
with her kept the fiftieth anniversary OF
their wedding in '93. Mr.. Llppy nao
held many pastorates in the state ana
was greatly loved by the people OF his
denomination He had never seemeo IN
better health than on the night ne was
taken ILL., His wife died last fepruary
two brothers, Rev. David Libby OF Lew
iston. and Simon Libby OF Meohanlc
Falls. are still living; two daugh'ers'
Mrs. White and Mrs. Hawes 1.-Two IN
Stroudwater, a son is in chicago ana
one in Colorado Springs.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
HoKE SAYS WAIT.
The Secretary Does Not Care to Forestall
Congress- Policy.


Washington, November 8.-Some time
ago Ellery Anderson, government direct
or of the Union Pacific Railroad COM
pany made number of suggestions to
Secretary Hoke Smith, relative to pat
enting lands to the Union Pacific COM
any, within the limits of its grant with
certain limitations to be prescribed by
the department
Secretary Smith, today, sent his reply
to Mr.. Anderson, saying: "In reply to
your suggestions l have to say that ]
have examined with care the arguments
presented by you, and in view of the fact
that Congress at its coming session will,
in all probability, take action on the
matters which you have submitted
deem it unadvisable at this time to pass
on those matters or commit the depart
mont to any given policy with reference
thereto"
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
Customs Duties to he Refunded

Washington, November S.-Thomas l..
Thompson, United States Minister to
Brazil, has informed the State Depart
ment, that the Brazilian President has
sanctioned decree authorizing the open
ing of a supplementary credit of 1928, 200
(U. S. CURRENCY for the restitution of
expedient duties, collected by the custom
house upon American mercandise, which
should have been admitted free, under
the commercial arrangement between
Brazil and the United States.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
He is FOR REED.
Congressman Elect Spetry, Announces
Himself for the Maine Man,

Waterbury, Conn.,, November s.-Con-
gressman- elect Nehemiah D. Sperry of
the Second District, in an interview this
evening, announced himself in favor of
the nomination of Thomas B. Reed for
Pre- ident.
He expressed the opinion that the Re-
publicans could win easily with any of
the candidates promi nently mentioned
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
Local Weather Report.

Portland, November 8-The local
weather bureau office records as to the
weather are the following:
s a. m. Barometer, 10000; thermome-
ter, 5S. 0; dew point 55; humidity, 80;
wind, southwest; Velocity. II; weather,
cloudy.
8p m.-Barometer. 30. $50; thermome.
ter. 81. 2; dew point, Sc; humidity, 81;
wind, southwest; velocity, 4; weather,
cloudy.
Mean daily thermometer, 600; maxi
mum thermometer, 900: minimum ther-
mometer, 51.0; maximum velocity OF
wind, IA, southwest; total precipitation,
Trace
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
Durrant,s Cause Continued.

San Francisco, November S-Durrant
was brought up for sentence this morn
ing for the murder of Blanche Lamont,
and on application Of the prisoners coun-
sci a continuance was granted for two
weeks, to give them time to prepare
a motion for new trial. The Minnie
Williams murder case, set for today, is
indefinitely postponed.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09

Woolwich, November S.-Turner Nc
Kenney died this morning after sick
ness of several weeks. His age was44about
SO, and he was the oldest person in town.
He was farmer and was highly respect
ed for his intelligence and integrity OF
character, and had been entrusted by the
town with offices of the highest response
bility. He was a staunch Republican
from the organization of the party. Only
one child, Mrs. Powell, survives him.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
To Pacify the Strike.

London. November s.-The govern
ment has deputed Gerald Balfour, Chief
Secretary for Ireland, to use his Influence
with Belfast and, Clyde shipbuilders to
induce them to arrange terms with their
ers locked out 1.-The Clyde engineers and
the Workmen.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
A Sch hooner Disabled.

Highland Light, Mass, November g.
The four masted shooner Haroldine,
Boston for Philadelphia, ran ashore early
this morning near the Nauset Life Saw
ing Sta tion. She was hauled off at p.
m. by tug aided by the schooner IS
anchors. She is apparently uninjured
and will doubtless proceed to her desti-
nation AS soon as her anchors are recov-
cred by the wreckers.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
H. H. HAY & SON,
Middle Street.
THE WEATHER
Mixed.

mlX6Q.
Boston, November 8-The local fore
cast for Saturday: Cloudy; probably
light rain, followed by fair; cooler, west
erly, shifting to northerly winds.
Washington, November 8-Forecast
for Saturday for New England: Threat
ening weather will continue with light
rains, winds shifting to northeerly and
cooler
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
THE BANQUET.

AT 80 O'Clock the banquet began in the
vestry. Six long tables were set in the
vestry laden with delightful repast
Chandler's orchestra disooursed sweet
music, and if waltz crept in now or
then, it did not seem to bring to the fes-
tive tables the ghost of any of those who
seeded Of old because a bass-viol was
brought into the church.
Mr.. Charles H. Baker: presided, and af-
ter all were seated, introduced Rev. j.
B. Hustled, the veteran of 81 years, form
erly pastor of the church, to ask grace.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
PAINE FURNITURE CO.,
AS Canal ST., Boston.

PORTLAND. Nov. 9th, 1895.
TT F IT'S A BON-
i NET for the baby
this is the shop for
them.
Such an array of dainty
tasteful headwear for lit
tie people you nor we have
seen before.
And the shapes
The hideous ugly un-
becoming shapes of other
years are gone. There's
art and style and a deal I
of beauty in baby caps
nowadays, t h e y make
even a plain child pretty.
The line begins at 25c,
for one of silkoline, warm
ly wadded. Fifty cents
oets a white silk one
ruched and capped. This
trifling price also buys
a nice little bonnet of red,
blue, grey or brown ben
galine, almost as silky as
silk, poke or "full ruch"
shape, with or without an
edge of white d o W n
around the face.
For S1.oo a beautiful
corded silk one, white or
bright colors, long strings,
pompon On top, lined and
ruched, and there are
several shapes to choose
from.
"Lilliputian'' is the
name of the only real cap
novelty that the season
has produced and it is a
marked departure from
all other baby bonnet
fashions. Made of rich
heavy white corded silk,
the front made very long
and folded flat away from
the face, the edges fur
trimmed all round and
down the full cape be-
hind, these are $500 in
silk, and SI.25 in fancy
wool cashmeres.
They go on up to S2.75
for the ermine trimmed
ones, and S4.25 for one of
ottoman silk b e aver
trimmed, the very PIN
nacle of baby bonner ele-
gance.
For children two and
three years old, the jaunty
Tam-O-Shanter of silk or
cashmere with a broad
band OF velvet and a saucy
quilt in front is the favor
ite shape, and the assort-
ment of these in quality,
color and price is near
endless.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09

"Midnight Frollc. !" Lillian Kennedy.
Monday Evening, City Hall, 10, ao, 30,
so cents.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09

The centennial exercises of Chestnut
street Methodist church continued sue
cessfullly and interestingly last evening.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09

R. G. Dun & Co. report the failures
for the week $50 in the rRUnlted state
against 261 last year, -
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
1795--THE BANQUET 1895.
Good Cheer Enjoyed by Celebrating
MethOdists.
SEVERAL ADDRESSES MADE AFTER
THE DINNER.

Representatives of Other Denominations
Present-Those Who Dined-Many In
teresting RecoIIections of the Past--Mr.
G. H. Baker Presides.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
PRESCRIPTION

is the first. the most i'm
portant work of a phar-
macy. All else is second
airy to it. We give this
department of our store
the most careful and exact
attention. We use none
but the best materials; we
have careful Clerks. If
you desire it, we return the
original prescription to you,
and are always glad to de-
liver YOUR parcel,
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09
BANK CLEARINGS

throughout the United States this week,
aggregate 81, 121, 900, 600, gain of 35 per
cent over last week, IS per cent compared
with the first week Of November, 1894,
and 20 per cent in contrast with total
for the like week in 1895, and a decrease
of less than per cent from a like total
in 1892, when the volume of business was
very heavy. 1t is to such exhibits as this,
with greatly increased railroad earn
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09

Continued on Second Page.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-03-27
FORMING Chnrncters.

No human being can come Into this
world without increasing or diminish
ing the sum total Of human happiness
not only of the present but every subse-
quent age of humanity. No ono can do.
tach himself from this connection.
There is no sequestered spot In the uni
verse, no dark niche along the disk of
nonexistence, TO which he can retreat
from his relations to others, where he
can withdraw tho influence Of his exist
ence upon the moral destiny Of the
world. Everywhere his presence or alb
senco will be felt. Everywhere no will
have companions who will be better or
worse for his influence. 1t is an old say.
ing, and ono OF fearful and fathomless
import, that we are forming characters
for eternity. Forming characters
Whose? Our own or others2 Both, and In
that momentous fact lie the peril and
responsibility of our existence Who IL
sufficient for the thought Thousands Of
my fellow beings will yearly enter eter-
nifty with characters differing from those
they would have carried thither had l
never lived. The sunlight of that world
will reveal my finger marks in their
primacy formations and in their success.
sive strata of thought and life. .-Elihu
Burritt.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-03-27
AN ABSURD OLD LAW.
It Stood Tn the Way Of the Recovery Of
the Body of One of the Elbe Victims.

It Stood Tn the Way OF the Recovery Of
the Body OF One of the Elbe Victims.
Dickens, who so often studied with
delighted interest the applications of
English law to particular cases, would
have found subject worthy of his
grimmest humor in the fact, cabled tho
other day from London, that when tho
master Of fishing smack, cruising near
where the Elbo went down, saw floating
in the water dead body, which was
doubtless that Of victim of the great
disaster, he made no effort to rescue il
from the waves and carry it ashore for
identification and burial
Instead he sailed past and away from
the doleful bit of fiotsam as quickly as
circumstances would permit, not, as one
might suppose, because ho was n partic-
ularly hard hearted and cold blooded
mariner, but because recently, after
landing body, he had been forced to
pay the funeral expenses Curious as
that experience had been and delight
fully illustrative rs it was of "crown-
er's quest" wisdom, the captain had no
inclination to repeat it. One lesson had
been enough to teach him the great
principle that common sense cannot be
allowed to interfere with consistency in
the enforcement Of parliamentary act,
and what in comparison with that is the
continued agonized uncertainty Of some
German wife w mother?-New York
Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-03-27
A $4,000 Bachelor Dance.

OF course everybody is talking about
the Hitchcock Bulkley dance.
1t is said to have cost those young
bachelors about so, 1000, and, as there
were only about 200 people present,
each person had TO absorb about $50
worth of pleasure and refreshment.
ID was announced that every one could
order what he or she chose for supper.
1t was not surprising then to SEQ terra.
pin and canvasback ducks washed down
with rare old clarets and champagnes
costing SO a bottle.
Some of the dudes either deliberately
or stupidly misunderstood tho carte
blanche idea of supper, and, when the
walters came to them for orders, asked
for new dress suits or diamond scarf.
pins.
I should think that one dance like
this on such an elaborate scale would
last society for long time.
Like everything else remarkable,
Aladdin's marvellous lamp gets tire.
some when SWING around too promiscu.
ously. -Cholly Knickerbocker In New
York Recorder.