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The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
QUICK WORK.
Mayor Noble Asked Chief jackson for
an Engine,

But it is Not Required--Chief jackson,
ME-. FerrelI, Fire Fighters and Train
Men All Beat the Record for Rapid
Work.
1t was busy scene at the Grand Trunk
station last evening. At s. 40 ]. w. Far
rell, night train dispatcher received a
telegram from Hon. E. L. Noble, mayor
of Lewiston, asking him to notify Chief
jackson that fire had broken out in
Lewiston, was getting beyond control.
and asking for an engine and as many
men as could be sent.
MIR. Farrell at onco communicated
with Chief jackson, and then ordered a
train out.
Messengers were sent for Conductor
Tryon and Engineer Wells. Trainmen
wore collected, train was made up, and
engine tired: and everything was made
ready for the start.
In the meantime Chief jackson ordered
Casco 5, Engineer French and Assistant
Engineer Payne to go to Lewiston, and
Captain Payne was directed to take as
many members of the company as
possible. At 920. the train was ready,
che engine was on hand, and Conductor
Tryon was at Mr.. Farrell's window ready
for orders.
But just as the train dispatcher was
about co give the order, the following
was received from Lewiston by Chief
jackson:
"We have succeeded in getting the fire
gine now"
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
FOREIGN MINISTER RESIGNS.
Wished Negotiations With the Unite d
States to be Conducted by Another.

Madrid, March 4.-Senor Elduayena,
recently appointed minister Of foreign
affairs, in statement to the Duke Of
Tutuan, has resigned. A meeting of the
Cabinet was held this evening, at which
Senior Elduayena announced he had
rendered his resignation because it was
considered desirable that the same min
lister who began negotiations with the
United States and other countries in re-
gard to Cuba, should complete them. II
is understood that the Duke of Tutuan
and that he will take the oath of office
tomorrow.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
THE TRIAL WAS DRAMATIC,
But Holmes Himself Was Responsible
for That.

A Decision in the Assignment of Errors in
Famous Murder Case-Questions
Raised Only Central Questions of Law
What Judge Williamson Says.
. Philadelphia, March 4.-Lawyer 4. Rotan,
one OF the counsel for Holmes, the con-
demnsd murderer, this afternoon con-
veyed finding of the court to his client.
The recent action of Holmes In request
ing Archbishop Ryan of the Roman Ca
tholic church to send a clergyman to him
is believed to indicate that Holmes
gave up hope Of securing new trial be-
fore the decision of the Supreme Court
was known. District Attorney Graham,
who prosecuted Holmes, is authority for
the statement that the case cannot be
appealed to the United States Supreme
Court and that the decision Of the state
supreme court is final
In the opinion Justice Williams says: !:
"This is aivoluminous record. Examina-
ton shows that the trial of the defend
ant furnishes some unlo oked for situa-
tions and dramatic incidents. No one
of them seems to have been the result
of anything irregular or sensational in
the manner OF ruling of the learned trial
judge (Judge Arnold.)
On the other hand, it is apparent tha
they were due to the extraordinary
character of the circumstances with
which the defendant surrounded himself,
and to his interference with the usual
methods of trial. The assignments OF
error. although IS in number, have been
intended to arise no que stion, except
such as may be characterized as general
questions of law.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
Weather Observations.

The Agricultural Department. Weather
Bureau for yesterday, March 4, taken at
p. m, meridian time, the observations
for each station being given in this order ::
Temperature, direction of the wind, state
of the weather:
Boston, IS degrees. NV. snow; New
2S degrees, N, clear; Washington, &; de,
grees, NV, clear; Albany, degrees NV.
clear; Buffalo, IA degrees, NV, clear;
Detroit, 20 degrees NE, clear; CHICAGO.
20 degrees, E, clear, St. Paul, 80 degrees.
SE, cloudy; Huron, OAK, 20 degrees
Sc, snow; Bismarck, 90 degrees, Sc,
snow; Jacksonville, 81 degrees NE,
clear.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
STUDENTS ENGAGE IN RIOT.
Political Talk Leads to the Free Use of
Knives in Rome.

q Rome, March 4.-During meeting of
the students of the unverisity this morn
ing, an excited discussion took place be-
tween Radical students and those of
the ..Monarchist party, tho former de-
nouncing in unmeasured terms the policy
of the government in respect to the con-
duct of the campaign in Africa. The
Monarchists oheered the king and army.
and from words the participants came to
blows. Knives were drawn and freely
used. Several of the students were
severely wounded. The Radical students
invited Signor Vendemini, Radical men,
ber of the Cham Der of Deputies to make
a speech at the meeting. He attempted
to do so, but was compelled by the up-
roar to stop and withdraw from the hall
The excitement finally subsided.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05

Thomaston, March 4.-Edwin Gushing
died here yesterday, aged 81 years. He
survives all members of his family, both
wives and children. He was native
life in Warren. He was the last survivor
of the children, of DR.. Isaiah Gushing,
who graduated from Harvard in the
famous GLASS of 1898 in which were the
world renowned William Ellery Charming
and Judge Joseph Story.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
Local Weather Report.

Portland, March 4. - The local
weather bureau office records as to the
wsather are the following:
ga. m.-Barometer. 29 452 thermometer,
1870; dew point. 10; humidity. 100;
wind, NV: velocity. 90; weather. 1t snow.
ap. m.-Barometer, 29. oil; thermome-
ter. 100: dew point. 9: humidity. SO;
wind, NV, velocity 20; weather, partly
cloudy.
Mean daily thermometer, $50: maxi
mum thermometer, II; minimum ther-
mometer, 10; maximum velocity wind
70, NV; total precipitation, 40.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
THE GREAT WORKS.
Echoes of the Flood Along the Lively
Stream.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss,1

ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.l
South Berwick, March 4.-The water in
the Great Works river has fallen rapidly
and is now about its normal height and
it is now possible to see what damage
has been done, but hardly possible to
estimate the money loss TO the Newich-
awanick Company. The wet finishing
room in No. / mill suffered the worst
The waters in their mad rush took out
six windows and many of the bricks
about and lodged many tons of ice and
sand in the room, filling it up to the
depth of six or eight feet. One large
mapping machine made it's way down
through the floor and came very near
demolishing the engine placed IN the
basement five years ago when the lower
dam OF this concern went down river
and since then has been used only when
water was scarce. However, the engine
escaped much damage except by water,
as when the floor went down it poured
roof over the engine. The boiler house
| is filled up two or three feet deep with
| Ice and gravel. A large crew of men
have bsen at work cleaning up and are
making fair progress. The two mills
of this concern are about 200 yards apart,
but the river runs between, and at pres
ent the nearest communicate on by team
is at least three miles by way of Yeaton' s
mills. Foot passengers can make the dis
tance about mile and half, by Gro So
| ing the railroad bridge of the north ern
division of the B. & N. r. R. half way
between Great Works and Conway juno
tion. Mr.. Hodgdon, the treasurer, has
| been away all day today buying stone
to repair the river walls and the br idge.
The loss, while not possible to make any
| where near correct estimate, will be
considerably in excess of $4,000.
| The water In the Samon Falls river
has also fallen and the Salmon Falls
Manufacturing Company resumed work
this morning. The electric light pl ant
started their street circuit at 9 o'olock K
Tuesday evening and tonight are again
| lighting the village as usual. The bridge
at South Berwick Junction is not On tire
ly gone as at first reported, but enough
of it is left for foot passengers. The
bridge at South Berwick is again open
to travel. The town is heavy loser in
bridges. The losses of the Salmon Halls
Co mpany and the Portsmouth Company
are very slight. Today has been a very
dis agreeable one, binding snow storm
has been raging all day and tonight we
don't know whether to use runners or
wheels.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
CLAIMS BRITISH CASE is STRONG
England Will Present Good Argument,
Against venezuela's Position.

London, March 4.-The ST. James Ca
zette prints summary of the report
made BY Sir Frederick Pollock for sub
mission to Parliament. The Gazette say
that besides having at his disposal doou-
ments in possession of the!British colonial
and foreign office, Mr.. Pollock has drawn
freely from information made accessi BILE
to the British government by keepers of
archives of Spain and Holland. He says
that the documents show the British case
to be of overwhelming strength against
the claims of Venezuela.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
West Baths Lists.
ESPECIAL TO THE pREss.1

West Bath, March AIT the town
election these officers were elected !:
Moderator, a. r. Rich; clerk, D. R.
Wylie; selectmen. J. W. Winter, Joseph
White, G. W. Campbell; collector and
treasurer, 1. W. Coombs; school commit
tee, Mrs. Miles Puripgton; road commits
sioner, T. 6. Coombs, VIM. E. Mitchell.
Appropriations: : For schools, $3.50;
roads, $500; school house, $50; school
books, S25; support of poor, 5000; inci-
dental expenses, $400; resources ovsr
liabllities, S767.64
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
Death of Charles II. Parcher.

Biddeford, March 4.-Charles H.
Parcher, clerk of the Biddeford and Saco
Water company, died today of paralys sis,
aged fifty-tive. He leaves q wife. He
was at one time city clerk. He served
during the war as member OF the
Seventeenth Maine regiment, enlisting as
private and afterwards promoted to
first lieutenant. He was prominently
connected with several secret orders
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
F. L. NOZZLE,
Mayor of Lewiston


When it is remembered that in exactly
thirty five minutes the train with an en-
gine company was ready to start, it will
be seen that everybody had to work.
Conductor Tryon and Engineer Wells
live in widely separated sections of the
city, and no two of the trainmen live on
the same street. Mr. Farrell and Mr..
Lowe acted with the greatest possible
promptness, and the fire department did
not lose any time. Had Mayor Noble not
sent his second telegram, even with the
washouts making slow running necss-
sary, Portland would have had an engine
playing on that fire inside of an hour
and quarter after the time when Mr..
Farrell received his first message from
Lewiston. AS it was the fire engine was
at the Grand Trunk station some minutes
before all the trainmen could be collected
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
GOOD FOR THE PORKER.
How Lively Lebanon Pig Survived the
Freshet.

Especial to the Press.
Centre Lebanon, March 4.-Reports of
serious damage by the recent freshets
are coming from all directions in this
section. Mills and bridges have been in
jured and destroyed to large amounts.
In this town alone II bridges have been
rendered unsafe or totally swept away.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05

Chicago, March 4.-William j. Camp
bell, member of the Republican nation
al committee, died here today. He was
elected chairman of the national COM
mittee in 1899, and resigned in favor of
Senator Carter. Mr.. Campbell was
successful lawyer and was 46 wears OIL.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
Gardiner Gets a Mail Train.

Gardiner, Marohs4. AT six O'Clock this
afternoon trains passed through this oity
to and from places east One train of
nine cars, filed with people for the
Province, many of whom left Boston
Sunday night and Monday, was stalled
here nine hours before getting through
the immense pile of wreckage covering
the double tracks, for mile between
here and Hallowell. No mail or express
matter has reached here before since
Saturday night and the National Home
at Togus with several towns on the east
bank of the Kennebec is still without
mail and will be till the river is passable
for boats.
A Blizzard at 1t at L1vermors Falls,
Livermore Falls, March 4-The first
mail train for four days arrived here this
afternoon. The river has subsided
enough to allow several big paper plants
to be started UP. A terrible blizzard is
raging.
Crooked River Loses Eighteen Bridges.
South Paris, March 4.-The first mail
over the Grand Trunk since Saturday ar
rived this afternoon. Eighteen important
bridges over Crooked river have gone out.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
THE w EATHER
Boston, March

Boston, March
4.-Local fore
cast for Thurs
day: Fair and
n 0 r t b w 9 s t
winds diminish
ing in force.
W a S hington.
March 4. 4.-Fore-
cast for Thurs
day for New
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
Still Reducing the Gold Reserve.

Washington, March 4.-The treasury
gold reserve at the close of business to-
DAY was s124, 1873. 167. The Withdrawals
for the daz vsra S373. 200
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.1

Pownal, March 4.-Eyery day makes
more and more apparent the damage
done in this vicinity by the storm of
Saturday and Sunday. One item alone
is the loss of eight bridges, the loss
which our town will sustain from the
same being estimated at not less than
$1,000. The saw mill at North Pownal
owned by Enoch Shaw, was washed
away by the tfreshet. Some of the gear
ing of the mill was taken into Lewis
Lache's pasture by the force of the water.
Trees were stripped of their bark on the
low lands near the mill privaleges at
Pownal Cenpte.
The winter of 1895 and '96 will long be
remembered for the number and seyerl-
ty of it's rain storms. Although the cor
rect estimate of the several rain falls has
been kept, it is perfectly safe to say that
just the rain falls for the past winter
have been in excess of those experienced
in any one season for several years past.
A fire of the most peculiar conditions
was recently found well under way in
the front room of Mr.. Arnold Newton's
house, same being the Warren property.
In few minutes the whole house would
have been in flames. but Mr. Newton
succeeded in extinguishing the fire be-
fore any serious loss was occasioned.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05

England: Fair, northerly winds dimin-
ishing in force. Signals displayed on the
Atlantic coast from Eastport to Hatteras.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
uATIoN STILL THREATENING.

Danger ON the Kennebec Greater than Was
Expected and Ice Jams Still Feared.
Augusta, March 4.-No further dam
age from the freshet in this city is report
ed. The tracks on the Maine Central are
now clear from Portland to Bangor
trains passing oEer the Farmingdale
section about this evening. The
western mails delayed since Sunday were
received here today.
The damage at points below on the
Kennebec river were fully as great as
first reported. The situati on is not yet
settled. More jams are being threatened.
The rema inder of the bridge between
Randolph and Gardiner was carried away
Tuesday night.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money if it fails
To cnra 2FG.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
ECHOES OF THE FLOOD.
What the Rampage Of the Waters
Has Cost.
SOME OF THE "WAY BACK,
PLACES HEARD FROM.

The Little Spring Racket of the Rivers
Will Cost the Dirig0 State MiIIions-A
Lebanon Pigs Excursions ONE of the
Humors and Eccentricities of the
Freshet-Delayed News.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05
AT THE lNTERvALE.

cality.
ESPECIAL TO THE PRESs1
Intervale, March 3.-We have had one
of the worst freshets ever known in this
vicinity. Several bridges across streams
have been partially and some entirely
carried away, and the bridge over Royal
River on the Penny road, was also washed
away. Many Of the roads are impossible,
and one cannot communicate with an
other. Only one team crossed the fat be-
tween the M. G. and @. 7. r. r. stations
Monday, and that was the stage from
Raymond which carried the mail, and
they accomplished it under much danger
from the rapid current and immense
blocks of Ice which were going down
the intervale. The new bridge built by
the G.. T. R. Company. just above Cobb's
crossing, had the lower abutment so
much damaged that no trains can pass
it, No train up to the present time.
(Tuesday noon) except the repair train,
has been seen in this town since Satur-
day. Never has SO long time passed
without malls coming into town.
Merrill's mill on the Penny road, is
surrounded by water, it being all around
the engine and boilers. 1t is portable
mill and was put there, near the NJ G.
siding for the winter. This is as far
as particulars have reached US at the
present writing.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05

MEMBERS OF REIcHsTAo EXCITED.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-05

The lumber mill owned by Knox &
Corson at South Lebanon, narrowly es-
capped serious damage and great guam
tity of lumber in their yards was carried
down the stream. 1t is impossible to
tell at this time how much of it may be
recovered.
Serious damage is sustained by the
large woolen manufacturing company
at East Rochester, N. H., just across
the river.
AT Milton, N. H.. point further up
the Salmon Falls, the railroad is entire
ly submerged for some distance.
A pig owned by Mr.. Fred Chamberlain,
hotel keeper in Milton, was foated
from his pen by the rise of the river
and carried down with the ice under the
bridge. He struggled bravely in the cur
rent, only his ears at times being seen
above water. and after being carried
over the dam, was rescued by some on
lockers, who thought him too valuable
piece of pork to be lost. His weight
was about $50 pounds, and he was ap-
parently none the worse for his 10y bath.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17

In 1886 in Odd Fellows Hall, San Francisco,
when stephen NJ White was again chairman.
did the Democratic party declare the mo-
tion out of order? [Again the noes louder and
more general than before.l And one of the
very men who stood up in favor OF the contest
ing delegations was John Daggett himself.
Are you going to permit the chairman OF this
convention to turn his back upon every pre-
cedent of the Democratic party? l appeal to
your sense of justice to prevent his doing SO.
Then Gibson took the floor and ad-
mitted that he was wrong in making the
motion when he did and before the nomi-
mating speeches were concluded. This pro-
voked another laugh at his expense. He
now renewed his motion, and Judge Ryan
of Los Angeles made the appeal from the
chairs refusal to hear it. A great hubbub
ensued, and the chair was called several
other names than Mr.. Chairman.
Andy Clunie, with that distended finger
of his in the air and his coat and vest
open, now claimed recognition, and with
cries of "to the platform, Clunie, to the
platform Andy advanced to the lower
step of the throne, but there he stopped.
The hubbub continued, the chairman
working his gavel energetically and the
regulars yelling encouragement to
Clunie, while the others cried him down.
He stood with the finger in position
until he got hearing, and then disap-
pointed everybody by merely moving that
the calling of the roll be dispensed with in
this matter, and that the vote be taken
viva voce. Andy saw what the uncertain
Gibson had not, that the calling of the
roll would determine the status of the
regulars, which meant they would be out
of the fight.
The chairman declared the motion out
of order and called for the calling of the
roll.
Some one, however, put the question
and there was rousing may" vote, over
ruling the chair. But the clerk continued
to call the roll, and as it ran along and
county after county from the country that
the regulars so much depended upon
voted to sustain the chair the shifty Mr..
Gibson from San Joaquin received a deal
of advice from his friends. In response to
it he twice pleadingy asked the chair for
permission, ''in the interests of harmony
to withdraw his motion, but it was too
late. The remorseless call and recording
of the vote went on.
The record of the vote-the test vote OF
the entire convention-as to the respective
standing of the "regulars" and the Juntas
shows 176 to sustain the chair in a ruling
against the regulars, with Ia for the ap-
peal, with San Francisco not voting. By
counties the vote was as follows:
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17

Foote, and they are joined by many otthe
other radical opponents of Gould in the
Craftsmanship fight.
The Buckleyites repeat loudly and fre-
quently the story that they sent heavy
forces into Alameda County to b clip Foote
win his victory in the primary elections.
They reiterate their charges that he is an
migrate. There is no charge that Foote
personally made any compact with Buck
ley or any OF the Buckley leaders.
They content themselves with telling
the story of the volunteer assistance.
Leaders like Recorder Glynn, Sam New
man and others have limited all this with
out going into particulars. Some Of the
boys come right out with 1t.
"Foote would never have won as much
as.he did if he had not got our help" said
Alexander Greggains. "Why, we sent
more than $50 men over into Alameda
that day. They went into Alameda
mainly, but they were scattered all over
the country. You know what $50 fellows
of that sort can do. | bought four dollars
and six bits worth of tickets for one lot OF
fellows in the morning myself"
"And [ sent over sixty-tive men myself, 7"
Sdlu y. y. SWEENEY udI WdS III ehO
afternoon, after l went over and arranged
with Foote's friends. They went with or
ders to go to Dennis, and he handled
them. 1t was understood that Foote'S
friends were going to stand by us, and
now this is the way we get thrown down.
The best we have got all along has been
the worst of it. :"
Foote's support of Gould at the last
hour, when he had been expected to
stand out against him with his friends,
has naturally made him enemies who
would do any thing they could to knife him
now. 1t is said that the Solano dele
CATION, as far as Ed McGettigan can handle
it, will be thrown to Fitzgerald in his hight
against Laymance as district delegate to
Chicago, in order to get little revenge on
Foote and his friends.
1t is now understood that Foote will
have the Daggett- Gould-M support
for delegate -at-large.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
DAGGETT HOLDS ALooF.
Refuses to Join Issues With the
Regulars.

Refuses to Join Issues With the
Regulars.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, June lev. w.
Foote'S decision to flock with the Gould
people, and presumably with the Junta,
on the understanding that Daggett was to
get no consideration at the hands OF the
Stockton man should he be elected chair
man, inspired the Buckley leaders with
hope that Daggett might be enlisted IN
their fight against Gould.
With this understanding DR.. Stanton,
Apdy Clunie and several Others OF the
anti-Junta delegation sought and had
conference with Mr.. Daggett last night,
but despite the fact that Foote had been
taken into the Junta camp on the under
standing mentioned Daggett declared that
he was first, last and all the time for the
Junta. Thus another hope OF the Buck
leyites went glimmering and faded out.
V. A. Scholar of San Jose, who mas
been prominent candidate for the Con-
gressional nomination from the Fifth Dis
trict has been withdrawn by his frienSs.
The reason for this is said to be the antag-
onism aroused among the San Francisco
delegates a the Fifth District by the crltl-
cism on the part of the Santa Clara dele
CATION of Governor dd's.distributlon OF
patronage in that county.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
SOME GLAD; OTHERS SAD

Individual Feelings in Marked Con-
trast After the Fight.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, June 16.-Andy
Clunie was inclined to be jocuiar in re-
gard to the result of the fight in which
the regulars were so badly defeated by
the Junta delegates.
1--WE have met the enemy and we are
his'n," said Clunie. He added that he
and his companions were not yet out OF
the Democratic party.
Gavin McNab spoke for the Junta: etc
hear those other fellows shout you would
have thought they had a thousand votes,
but when the roll was called they were toe
light to do much. We are satisfied with
the result 1t all came out as we expected y