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The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
LIKED TO SEE THEM BURN.
New Hampshire Boys Excuse for Setting
Buildings On Fire,

Nashua, March 29.-For six weeks In
speotor Thomas Flood has been on duty
at the head of Franklin street, Watching
for an incendiary, and Saturday after
noon he arrested Alonzo Wells, 90, In
the act of setting fire in the woods at
the side of the Boston & Maine railroad
track, near Paramount Heights.
The young man at first denied setting
the fire, but after he was locked up he
sent for the mayor and admitted in de-
tail the fires that he has set. These were
May %, fire in Malhoit & Cones shop.
head of Franklin street, damage $3.50;
June IL, fire in freight car on B. &. M.
road, car burned; August Is, fire in
George Wells shop, near Towards furni-
ture shop. damage $120; September "a.
fire in Isaac Eaton's bobbin shop near
Franklin street, damage $243; Later he
set fire in McQuensten & Co.'s store
house, in which considerable damage was
done.
There were fires in the woods near
where the fire was set on April 18th. 21st
and Gath last. and it was thought young
Wells knows something about these, but
he would not admit them.
He gives no excuse In explanation of
his mania for setting fires beyond that
he liked to see prope rty burn. His par
ents are highly respectable.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
THE CHICAGO COLISEUM.
Place Where the Democratic National
Convention Will Be Held.

Chicago, March 29-Architect S. S.
Beman has made public the details of the
plans of the Coliseum, in which the DEM
ooratic national convention is to be held.
The convention hall proper occupies a
space OF 450 by 800 feet at the north end
of the Coliseum. The speakers stand
and platform for members of the nation
al committee and 400 guests is on the east
side, and Immediately in front will bs
desks for POS reporters. These newspaper
workers will OCCUPY semi-oiroular plat
form, raised two feet above the delegates
Directly back of the speaker and in
ready communication with the. newspaper
platform is the telegraph room, with
tables for hundreds of instruments. tx
tending entirely around the building Is
a gallery forty feet wide, toward which
rise the rows of seats in the amphltheatre.
Two thousand seats are reserved for the
delegates and alternates. The seats grad
ually rise as they stretch back from the
speakers platform, and will be separat-
ed from the public sections by substan-
tial railing. Thirteen thousand seats
have been allotted to the public.
A striking innovation is the public re-
oeption hall, $50 feet square, large enough
to comfortably hold TO- 600 men. This is
where delegates, alternates and specta-
tors will mass before the sessions are
called to order. The Coliseum will prob
ably be the largest building under single
roof in the world.
A large force of men is now hard at
work and the contractors have no doubt
that the building will be completed be-
fore June /.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
FIRE IN A HOSPITAL.
Horrible Scenes Attending Confagration
in Paris,

Paris, March 20. The Gothic church
of st. Sauvier, on the boulevard du
Marechal Vallante at Lille, was destroyed
by fire this morning. The flames spread
to the hospital of St. Sauvler, adjoining
the church. There was the greatest ex-
element when it was seen that the hospi-
tai would be burned. The scenes among
the patients were terrible. Convalescents
were hurriedly ordered to leave the
building while the hospital attendants
and others devoted themselves to remoy-
ing those not able to help themselves
Four patients, who were extremely
weak, sucoumbed to fright ana died be-
fore they could be taken out. Ten sappers
were ordered to save the medicines in
the hospital and came across what they
thought was a quantity of schnapps.
They each took drink and were almost
Immediately seized with symptoms Of
poisoning. Despite all efforts. four died
and the others are suffering agonizing
was not pains.
1t was not until this evening that the
fire was extinguished. The fire was caused
by the neglect Of some plumbers working
in the church. who probably left pieces
of ignited charcoal in tine tower.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
WORKED THE INDIANS.
Gamblers Fleece Red Men of Their Money
.N and a Row Follows.

Guthrie, Oklahoma, March 29.-Infor-
nation has reached here of row on
Thursday near Fort Sill Indian Agency,
in which $4,000 in money on horse races
changed hands, and two spectators were
hurt. Last week the regular annuities due
the Apache, Kiowa and Comanohe In
dams werespaid by the government, the
aggregate of the money paid out being
s125, 900. After the payment at Fort Sill
the young bucks and an army of gamblers
and confidence men retired about six
miles from the fort and began a series OF
horse races. The race track was on the
prairie. After 20 races had .been run. and
a large amount of money wagered, won
and lost, general fight was preoipitated
by an Apache Indian accusing a gambler
of "doping" horse which had already
run six miles and won several races.
Some of the Indians sided with the
whites, and for 40 minutes riot ensued
in which Little Horse and Charlie
Leftahoe, Apaohes, were killed. A sold
Ter from the, barracks and two spectators
of the races were wounded by random
bullets.
During the races, some of the reds,
after losing from $500 to $3.50, wagered
and lost even the provisions and blankets
which had been issued them few hours
before
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
A BATTLEFoR RECOGNITION.
Employees of an Auburn Shoe Shop Dissat-
isfied and Strike.

Auburn, March 2s.-The lasters at the
Pray-Small company's shoe factory quit
work at 4. 80 p. N. Today. The workmen
told the firm that at meeting of the
Boot and Shoe Workers union Friday
evening, it was voted that the lasters
of the Pray Small company go out. 1t
cannot be learned that any question of
price or method has arisen between the
men and their employers. The Pray.
Small company say that on Friday they
were waited on by Fl. M. Eaton, of
Brookton, Mass, general secretary of the
Boot & Shoe Workers union, who in
formed them that their men were not
satisfied with certain prices for lasting.
The firm refused to talk prices with the
general secretary but said they would be
glad to try to adjust prices satisfactorily
with the men themselves il they should
make their grievances known. At this
writing, no demand by the lasters them
selves has been made Of the firm, so that
it now appears to be an effort on the part
of the 1asters, or of the Boot & Shoe
Workers union, to force the Pray-Small
company to acknowledge and treat with
the union. The Pray-Sman company at
once notified the Auburn Shoe Manufac
turers association of what had taken
place and at meeting of the manufac-
turers. it was unanimously voted to sup
port the Pray-Small company in resisting
this attempt to force them to recognize
the Boot & Shoe Workers. union.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
Lecture on Evolution,

The third lecture delivered by Professor
John M Tyler, on evolution, was listened
to Saturday evening by an audience that
filed the Advent church. The subject
was Classification, palaeotology and
smbryology." He spoke of the old man.
ner Of classification, that placed the bat
with birds, and the whale among fishes
and yet tho whale is flsh-like only be-
cause Of characteristics 1t might have
gained by adoption. Long after this
classification the results Of adoption be-
gan to be seen. He took up the great
groups from man to fishes and spoke of
the distinct features common to all. The
back bone Is the result of evolution, a
crouching frog bears close resemblance
to man bending over, and after all
man himself is still very primitive sort
of being. Even ia man the process of
evolution has not been wholly satisfao-
tory. Even now man stands upright
with some difficulty, and DR.. Burke of
Washington in recent paper, stated that
some diseases can be traced to this non
adaptability of the human frame to stand
erect. Even the development of the hack
bone is to be traced back to the lower an
imals. We have far less of the bee than
Of the earth worm In our make up. And
these many changes can be explained not
by the theory of special creation, but by
thai of evolution only.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
Marine News.

New York, March 29.-Arrived, Albert
L. Butler, Manzanilla.
City Island. March 29.-Sailed. schoon-
ers Monhegan, Nellie Z. Morse Rebecca
A. Taulane, New York.
Boston, March 29.-Arrived, schooners
Jennie Lockwood, Hathorn, Fernandlna !;
Isaac I. Campbell, Matthews, Charles
ton, S. G AT Weymouth, Sarah G.
Ropes, Kreaer, Henry L. Peckham,
Harding. Young Brothers, SNOW, all from
Philadelphia; Willie ii. Higgins, Free.
man, Baltimore; John b. Manning,
Sprag1e. and I. H. Lawrence. Kelley,
Perthy Amboy; Hattie Pale, Dill, Bel
Belfast; Robert Pettis, Perkins, Brooks
Vile, HannieF. Hall. Hntchins, Castine:
John NJ. Fisk, Clifford, Polly, McFar-
land, Ida Hudson, Bishop, all from Rock
land; W. c. Noroross, Small, Peerless,
Thompson. Ripley, Banks. Ralph f.
Grant, Simmons, all from Rockport;
Hattie S. Collins, Greenaw, Deer Isle !;
Norton, Wall, Deer Isle G. M. Hopkins,
Smith, New buryport. Anchored in Nan
tucket Roads, schooner Charles Daven-
port, Portland for coal port.
Philadelphia, March 29-Arrived,
schooners Sarah and Ellen, New Haven !;
Oliver Ames. Damariscotta; w. Cobb,
Boston,
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
There May Be Peace.

New York, March 29.-Mrs. Booth
Tucker, wife of Commissioner Booth
Tucker, recently appointed by Gen.
Booth from the national headquarters in
London, to take charge of the Salvation
Army in this country, arrived today in
the American line steamer ST. Louis.
She was accompanied by her son and
daughter. Miss Giropazzi, her secretary.
and Major j. Malan, Gen. Booths ssore-
tary, were also in the party. Mrs. Booth
Tucker received royal welcome when
she reached the steamship pier, as many
mem bers Of the Salvation Army had
gathered to greet her. When asked If she
brought the olive branch to Ballington
Booth, she replied: "We, of the Saliva
tion Army, bring the olive branch every
where. We bring the olive branch to
Ballington ana to every one else. I am
sure that my dear brother will be as glad
to zee me as / will be to see him. I love
him dearly, and it win be the happiest
day Of my life when / have succeeded in
bringing him back to the army, even as
it was the most sorrowful when heard
he had left it. ="
Mrs. Booth Tucker was asked if the
statement was true that should Balling-
ton come back, the General would assign
him to Canada, and then, after two or
three months reappoiDt him as command
or in the United States. She answered
that she thought such statement was
unauthorized, but as far as she knew
and believed, such was not ths intention
of Gen. Booth.
sit has always been my firm convic-
tion," she continued, "that had my
brother seen the General for only five
minutes his resignation from the Saliva
tion Army would never have occurred.
It is my desire still, as it is that of the
General, that there shall be a personal
talk between them, and feel sure he
will no longer be outside of the army"
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
SEARCHING FOR Mr.. ALIENS BODY.
Efforts Are Still Made But With No Re-
suits.

Lewiston, March 29.-The man who has
charge of the boats crews searching for
the body of Chief Engineer Allen, Mr..
John o. Bri5n. has two boats out, each
manned by six men, including the man
in the bow. and the man in the stern who
manipuIates the grapple. Mr.. O'Brien
was the man who hooked Chief Engineer
morning. 1t was in the eddy below the
central fall, in line with the opening
between the 'big rock" and profile rock,
and WAS in about seven feet of water.
Mr.. O'Brien says that it did not seem to
him that the line pulled hard enough to
have body at the end. He il, of course,
unable to say whether it was on or off
the body when he hooked it. He thought
he had the body, and he worked the
grapple with all the care at his COM
mand. The hooks caught the coat in
the back near the collar.
ST was disappointed, says Mr..
O'Brien. "when l got the load to the sur
face and found that the body was not
there. kept both boats right there for
an hour and it seems as though we must
have dragged over every inch of the
ground many times, but we found no
further traces"
Mr.. o. Brien inclines to the theory that
the body is above the little island below
the falls. 1t is possible, he says, that
it may be lodged under shelving rock,
in which case it will not be recovered
until the water goes down. They used dy-
Mantle on the falls. Thursday, and start
ed several logs from their ssresting eplaoes.
He thinks Impossible that the body might
have been started at the same time.
Mr.. O'Brien had about concluded to
give up the search at the falls and pro-
ceed down river, but when ne found the
coat he decided TO put in two days more.
Today he continued the search down
Lisbon way.
In Mr.. Aliens overcoat was pair of
gloves, a note book, a newspaper and a
dollar bill. There is no question about
his having the overcoat on when he fell
from the train. 1t is thought however,
that the coat was unbuttoned.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
THE NEWS AT BATH.
Liquor Saloons Raided Saturday Night
Popular Clergyman to Leave the Citv.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.1

Bath, March 20.-Last night the Bath
police made the first raid on liquor sell
ers that they have made for many months,
this work having been left to the two
special sheriffs, appointed for the enforce
ment of the prohibitory law. They raid
ed the places kept by Daniel Nickerson
and Joseph Kelley and SECURED liquor at
both places. The warrants were sworn
out by Marshal Kittridge, complaints
having been made by some party.
Rev. Abram Conklin, who, for seeyrsl
years, has been pastor Of the Universalist
church in this city, has been given a
call to a church in Fitchburg, Mass,
and told the PRESS correspondent today
that he should accept it, taking his new
charge early in May. He has been one of
the most active preachers Bath has ever
had and made the Universalist church
one of the best in the city.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
DR.; Flower Brings Suit.

Boston, March 2S.-Papers were filed in
court in this city today in suit for
$3.50, 600 for alleged conspiracy and false
arrest against W. S. McCausland, a
lawyer, by DR.. Flower of Boston. Papers
were also served upon McCausland. He
is here, so he states, for the purpose of
making an attempt to secure two deposit
lions to be used In Chicago in legal pro-
ceedinRs against DIR. Flower. This is the
climax OF the story published about q
year ago. Lawyer McCausland is counsel
for Mr.. Foster of Chicago, a well known
millionaire, who was financially interest
ed with DR.. Flower.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
THE LADDER SLIPPED
And Mr.. Patrick Coolahan Met With Bad
Accident.

Last even ing Patrick Coolahan, en-
ployed in and about the Grand Trunk
station met with bad accident.
He was on his ladder putting up the
signal at the end of the station, when it
slipped on the wet planking letting him
down. 1t was direct fall of about four
teen feet and he was unable to rise.
He WAS assisted to sMr. Farrell's office
and DIR. Merrill was sent for. He found
that Mr.. Coolahan's right wrist was
broken and that he was otherwise badly
injured. He set the wrist and the In
jured man was taken to his home. Mr..
Coolahan is an old employe OF the Grand
Trunk and member OF the Grand Trunk
Insurance association.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
FUNDS MISSING, so is BRENDAL.
Collector of Lisbon Falls Lodge Has Dis
appeared.

Lewiston, March 28.-A. B. Brendal of
that place was reported has not been
heard from. He was the collector of En-
terprise colony, U. o. P. f., and it is
alleged that $500 of its funds are miss
ing. He collected the February and
March assessments, it is claimed, but
failed to pay the amount due in March,
so the supreme colony credited it up to
February.
1t is claimed that the missing man
hired $25 from George Turnbull, forging
Mrs. Goss' name to the note as indorser.
He also, it is alleged, carried away with
him about $1S which was given him by a
boarder to pay for suit of clothes.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
BRIEFLY TOLD. !

The executive council of the Federation
of Labor at its meeting approved the
action of President Goinpers in sending
out requests that local unions memorial
ize Congress in favor of free silver.
The American steamship Volusis, from
Kinsgton, Jamaica, for New York, has
been abandoned at sea in sinking con-
abandoned vessel have landed in Ber-
muda.
The Republicans of Derry, N. Y,
chose delegates who are strongly in fa-
vor of sending delegates to the national
convention who are for Thomas B.
Reed Of Maine.
Schooner William Wilson. which was
in a dangerous position Friday night,
has reached Portsmouth, LII, all right.
W. 3. Phelps, passenger on the steam
er Oakdale at Bermuda, was dangerously
hurt Wednesday by the fall of stay
which was broken when the steamer
oollidsd with schooner.
The Yerxa Brothers. building, corner
VI S0fohoh phN OSooi coEooeS,
Mimi, was destroyed by fire Saturday
morning. The occupants of the fifth
floor were brought down on ladders, one
being unconscious and others suffering
from smoke inhalation.
The remains of Brigadier General
Thomas L. Casey were inferred in tine
family grave yard on the Casey farm in
North Kingstown, K. T., at noon Sat
urday.
At the inter-scholastic meet of the
Manhattan Athletic club in New York
last night, Harvard defeated Penn
sylvania in the mile team race % to IA.
The statement was made in the Chioa-
go newspapers recently that Baron Won
Durrioke Won dor Horst, Prussian minis
tor of the interior, had declared that
American insurance companies would
soon be readnitted into Prussia The
statement was wholly unfounded.
Postmaster General Wilson spoke at
Wesleyan university, Middleton, Ct,
Saturday evening on "Politics as a
Duty He urged the duty of profess
sioral and business men to take part in
settling the vexed problems of Ameri-
can municipal politics.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
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IA HONEST MAN.

Dear Editor: Please inform vour readers
that # written to conhdentially, 1 will mail in
sealed letter. the plan pursued by which /
was permanently restored TO health and manly
Weakness. night losses and weak, shrunken
parts.
have no scheme to exhort money from any
one Wholnsotyer. l was robbed and swindled
by Ine quacks until l nearly lost faith in
mankind. but thank Heaven, i am now
well, vigorous and strong, and anxious to
make thls certain means of cure known to
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The Hired Man Fscaped.

Pennington, March 28.-The buildings
On the farm of the late W. B. Fletcher,
two miles from Starks village burned
last night, while his son, Fred Fletcher,
and his family were at the village attend
ing an entertainment. The hired man
was awakened by the fire and had to
jump from window. Nothing was
saved from the house or barn. The lar
ter contained two COWS, two sheep and
two hogs. The loss is estimated at $4,000:
insurance for $1,000. The cause of the
fire Is unknown
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
Daniel Wasn't the DAILY.

Bangor. March pa dispatch received
here by brother of Dan DAILY, the feath-
erweight pugilist reported in ST. Louis
dispatch last night, as having been killed
on railroad, near Desoto, Mo-, states
that Dan was not killed, the victim being
one Thomas Daley. Dan Daily was for
merly of Bangor.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
skeleton Solved the Mystery.

San Antonio, Tex, March 49, A few
days ago skeleton was found near the
town of Toohig. south of here. The
clothing on the bones had led to the
recognition of the remains as those of
Stanley G. Rogers, son of W. @. Rogers,
an attorney of Cleveland Young Rog-
ers came here more than year ago, 40
companied by his mother, who died soon
after reaching this city. He disappeared
on the day that he was to have started
for Cleveland. 1t is believed that the
young man was decoyed to the remote
locality and murdered.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
Military Moves in Egypt.

Carlo, March 29.-Gen. Kitchener Sirdar
rived at Wady Halfa today. The second
column Of the expedition under Major
Mcdonald is approaching Akashen. Sixty
Dervishes reconnoitered the column and
were fired upon by the artillery, where
upon they rapidly retired. The report of
the defeat of the Egyptian advance guard,
near Akashen is untrue.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
Aplatform of Many PIanks.

Pittsburg, Pa, March 2s. The prohini-
ton National Executive committee, repre-
senting the new National reform party
has issued an official circular calling a
national convention of the reformers to
meet in Pittsburg, May 25. The follow
ing principles and measures are recon-
mended by the committee to the conside r
auion of the platform committee to be
created by that convention:
First-Direot legislation, through the
initiative and referendum should be the
first principle Incorporated in the nation
al platform in order to restore the an
Gent rights of government of the people,
by the people and for the people,
Seooud-That, as the money question
has become live issue in politics, it
must therefore form prominent feature
in the platform setting forth the distino-
tive views of the reformers as fav0ring
the issuing of all money, gold, silver and
paper, by the general government, and
this money should be legal tender for
all debts, both public and private, and
that each shall be exchangeable into the
other at par at the option Of the govern
ment.
Third-The abolition of the liquor
traffic for beverage purposes with govern
ment control of the same for all other
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
ALL FOR REED.
Banquet of the Mfddlesex Club at Boston
Saturday

Banquet of the Middlesex Club at Boston
Saturday.
Boston, March 29.-In Young's yester-
day afternoon the Middlesex club let loose
it's good Rebuplican voice in rejoicing
over the successful delegates and alter
nates-at-large to the st. Louis conven-
ton. John Haskell Butler presided.
Congressman Samuel W. Mccall, the
first speaker, said the recent convention
showed thatRepublicans in the state were
in earnest for the candidate of New Eng
land and for the principles of the party.
His ability rs speaker is acknow-
lodged, but he is greater man on the
floor"
Curtis Guild said the late state conven-
ton had probably seen the beginning of
Democratic depression. sit is a great
fight we have to face this coming year, "
he said; ian enforcement of the payment
of 100 cents on the dollar, not only by
individual Americans, but by the govern
ment.
1.-THE repeal of the Sherman silver act
was accomplished in spite Of the Demo-
cratic votes in both houses, and by a ma
jority vote Of the Republican party I'M
u6f ING lehuefSuip Oh me man WDOiu we
now nominate for President, Thomas
Brackett Reed.' (Applause.)
Ex-Gov. Boutwell, said:
1t was my fortune to know Mr.. Reed
when he first entered Congress, and from
that day to this he has grown in the esti-
nation of all who have known him OF
heard of him. If Mr.. Reed had come
from the Pacific coast the people of New
England would have been ready to give
hi 1,nov nj fo,, he ;Io
fol which he is eminently fitted"
Roland Boutwell, and Senator South.
ard closed the meeting with brief ad
dresses.