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The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
CARRIES TOO MANY GUNS.
Experts Say the Indiana Is Too Heavily
Weighted.

Philadelphia, March 14.-Henry Cramp
of the Cramp and Sons company, when
asked today about the report that the
battleship Indiana's guns were much to
heavy for her replied: "There is moth
ing in that story at all. Her trial was
very satisfactory and nothing was the
matter with her guns. I cannot under
stand how such a rumor could have
originated.
The report referred to was printed in
a local paper which said that private
advices received in this city convey the
information direct from the officers of
the new battleship Indiana that the
result of the gun trials at sea
Of that vessel has been disappointing
and unsatisfactory. 1t seems the guns
are too big and are not placed so as to
be operated in action as designated.
The two 13inch guns and the four g.
inch guns mounted in turrets fore and
aft were meant to shoot straight ahead
or straight astern. But in trial it was
found impossible to shoot the 9-inch
guns within more than so degrees.of a
straight line forward or aft without great
danger to the men in the main turrets
just beneath them. The discharge of the
big guns in the upper turrots on the
trial almost blew the head off gunner's
mats who was in the sighting tower of
the main turret. 1t was found impossi-
BILE also, to operate the 13-inch guns in
broadsids. When fired straight ahead
on the trial trip the explosion caused the
iron battle matches on the main deck to
fly off. The charge for one of these big
guns varies from Ats to 525 pounds Of
hexagonal powder and naval experts fear
that the ship would cripple herself befor e
she had been in action half an hour.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
FORTY FIVE WHITE STARS,
Pawned Their Jewels

New York, March 10. Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Mason have more trouble. Mrs.
Mason and her husband, "Jack" Mason,
were unsuccessful in 1.-THE Idler," which
they played in London, and in order TO
GET back to New York they jointly
and a gold mounted pipe and cigar
holder for $500. The pledges are said to
be worth $4,000. They are now making
fair salaries, ana they recently sent to
England the money to redeem the
pledges. They we're held upon their
arrival here as being undervalued by the
Masons, and as being Of foreign make,
Gourley said that the property would be
returned to the Masons if they would
make affidavit that the goo DIS were Of
American manufacture
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
KILLED ON THE BATTLE FIELD.
Nicaraguan Government Troops Defeat
the Rebels

NeR York, March 14.-An afternoon
paper prints the following special de.
spatoh under Manngua, Mic, date line:
The Nicaraguan government troops have
won another important victory over the
forces of the rebellious Leonists in the
engagement at Pital. The latest reports
say that bet wsen 1000 and 5000 men were
engaged. The fighting was severe, and
the troops from Leon, Chicihogalpa and
Chinandeag, the three strongholds of
the Leonjsts, numbering about 1900 men,
were completely routed with the loss of
about 200 men killed and wounded. OF
the government troops, numbering
about 1900 men, about 90 were killed or
wounded.
The rebels were commar led by Gen.
Ortise, the ommander-in-o of the
Leon forces; hut, Baca. the rebel presi-
dent, was at Leon, it is supposed, super
vising the work Of putting that city in
as completes state of defense as possible,
in anticipation of the arrival of the
government army, and the army which
the government of Honduras has sent to
| uiio oippoiV VI uuo UlOUpS OI PRESIDENT
Zelaya.
The government troops in the battle
were commanded By Generals Paiz and
Boden.
Pital is small town near lake Mana
qua. Outside of it is high ridge of
ground, from which soldiers can fire
upon an advancing force without expos
ing themselves much. The government
troops began the advance from Maya rote-
on Wednesday, after the skirmish with
the enemy, which resulted in the Leonists
being driven backward with the loss of
80 killed and wounded
They approached Pital yesterday morn
ing. The firing upon the part of the
rebels began as soon as the troops were
within range, but the government forces
Preserved their fire and continued their
advance, and got within striking dis
rance of Ptal with the loss of only three
men killed and seven wounded.
The Leonists left about 200 killed and
wounded on the field, besides taking
away with them a large number of men
who were slightly wounded. The govern
ment troops captured more than 90 pris-
oners in the houses of Pital.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
BIBLE MANUSCRIPTS.
Remarkable Discoveries of Ancient Writ
ings TIL at Have Been Made,

The oldest manuscripts of the Bible are
not those of the old testament, but of the
new. The earliest new testament text
dates from the fourth century. whereas
these of the old testament are not older
than the ninth century, according to the
New York Press.
Thus the Oldest extant manuscripts of
the Hebrew old testament are 500 years
later than the earliest manuscripts of the
Greek new testament. One eminent
modern writer declares that all the exist
ing Hebrew manuscripts Of the old testa-
ment descend from single copy made iii
the reign of Hadrian "a. d. 102-117) at
the time of the great persecution of the
Jews by that emperor.
Some memorials of the greatest value,
completely revolutionizing all previous
knowledge of the conditions under which
written documents were prepared In re-
mote ages, have been discovered within
the last decade or SO by the merest acci-
dent. OF such nature was the discovery
of the Tel-el-Armana tablets nine years
ago.
These were found by an egyptian
woman in 1887 among the ruins of an
ancient temple, between Memphis and
Thebes. They are of clay, and contain
the engraved correspondence in the Baby
lonian tongue (the language of diplomacy
of that age) between King Amenonhis
", of Egypt and his vassal princes in
Palestine. The tablets belong to the age
of the book of Joshua, and in part relate
to events recorded therein. 1t is quite
proba bic that the original editions of the
earliest books of the old testament were
writton on clay tablets similar to these.
The history of the text of the new tes-
lament has its romantic incidents as we'll
as that of the old. The story OF Tis-
ohendorf's discovery of the Codex Sinaiti-
Gus is one Of these. Fifty lone years ago,
in the course of his travels in the east,
Tisohendorf put up for the night in the
monastery OF ST. Catherine, at Mount
Sinai.
While taking look through the library
he noticed waste paper basket contain
ing leaves of the most ancient Crack
writing that he had ever seen. They
were part Of the now priceless Greek
Bible. This Bible Is, I'm fortunately, not
perIect, because many of its leaves, be-
fore Ilschendorf discovered it, had been
used by monks of st. Catherine to light
the fire with.
After great trouble and expense Tisch-
endorf discovered the whole of the I'M
consumed portions Of this important
document, which frequently contains the
new testament intact. AS soon rs the
monks found out that it was valuable
they raised such a disturbance that the
ozar of Russia had to Interfere before
the precious document coulr be secured.
1t is now in the imperial library at st.
Petersburg.
An earlier Syriac manuscript was dis
covered in the monastery by two women
travellers couple OF years ago.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
NEARLY DEAD.
The Adventures of Rolling Stone From
Maine.

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Boston, March 14.-The men unloading
the Warren liner Kansas at Charlestown
today found in the forehold stowaway
nearly dead. While awaiting the arrival
OF doctor, the man was lifted out and
placed in ii berth. where he was revived
slightly. He says he is Edward Sher-
man of Lincolnville, Me-, whers he has
relatives living. He went on beard the
Kansas when she lay at Liverpool and
has lived since in the hold without food
or water. The doctor thinks he may
live. The vessel left Liverpool two
weeks ago today and the forehold was
closed two days before that The doctor
thinks the stowaway ate some pitch in
the hold. He left his home in Maine 30
years ago and went to South America
where he knocked around for some time
and then became cattleman on South
American steamers. On bis last trip out
Of Buenos Ayres, he was wrecked off
the Palmeros Isles and rescued by the
steamer Gulf of Mexico and landed at
Liverpool. He determined to sail for the
United States and SO slowed himself away
on the Kansas.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
Here Is Good News For Men Suffering
From Nervous Debility, Weakened

Powers and Exhausted Vigor.
Weak men suffering from nervous de-
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vigor, can now take new hope. Here is
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complaints owing to the cost of travel to
the large cities and tho high fees charged
by these eminent phsy icIans.
Here, therefore. is a chance for weak
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be lost DR.. Greene Of "a Temple Place,
Boston, Mass, who has the largest
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The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
Trouble for Mckinley in Ohio.
MASSACHUSETTS, WILL LEAD.
Senator Lodge Will Be at Head of New
England Forces at St. Louis


England Forces at St. Louis
Washington, March IA ccording to
the figures of the Reed managers, and
they assert that they are not contradcted
by the frie nds of other candidates, of
the 175 delegates already elected to the
National Republican convention, Nc
kinley, 60; Reed, 80; Quay, 26; Cullom,
10; Morton, s.; Allison, and the titles
OF 20 are contested.
While this distribution apr arently gives
Mckinley long lead. it is not as great
as it looks, for out of Mckinley's So, 70 Of
them are from his own ST. t, of Ohio,
while in Mr.. Reeds column not one of
the New England delegates is Included.
A recent despatch from Portland stated
that, following the example Of Ohio in
electing delegates -at-large men OF ma
tional prominence, the ur-uelegates at
large from Maine would DO epuators
Hale and Frye, Gov. Cleaves and either
representatives Dingley or Boutelle
This is a mistake. Among the Maine
ex-Gov. Burleigh, Charles e. Littlefield
of Rockland and Amos L.Allen of AL
tired, the latter being Mr.. Reeds private
secretary and an old time friend.
1t is not intended that Maine shall take
a leading part in the convention in bring
ing about Mr. Reeds nomination. MI.
Reed is to go to ST. Louis lot as the
Maine candidate, but as the candidate
Of the New England Republicans, and
as Massachusetts, is the most important
of the New England states, the Massa-
chusetts delegates will be the
controlling men.
For that reason Mr.. Lodge goes as one
of the delegates at-large, so as TO make
the speech nominating Mr.. Reed, to show
that his candidacy is not being urged by
the State of Maine, but by the Republi-
cans of New England, and it will be
Mr.. Lodge who will really be the direct.
ing and controlling force.
Rhode Island Solid for Reed.
Providence, March 15.-The Republican
machine leaders in this state have
selected delegation to the National CON-
vention headed by ex-Mayor Olney of
Providence, and all are solid for Speaker
Reed for President.
The eight delegates were chosen from
143 candidates. Tho leaders saw the
Rhode Ilsand delegation will support the
Maine man as long as there is hope, but
they admit that in their opinion neither
Reed nor Mckinley will be- nominated.
Shook Many Hands.
Washington, March IA. The President
shook hands with 500 people in the East
Room of the White House today, the
largest crowd that has attended his
public receptions since they were re-
newed
The Gold Reserve.
Washington March 14.-The treasury
gold reserve at the close of business to-
day stood aJ S126, ISL, $40.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
Crippled Vessels Now Limping Into por

Vineyard Haven, Mass, March IA
The brig Fl. B. Hussey had a rough pas
sage and was blown off the coast by the
heavy northwest gale. Her rudder Is
somewhat disabled and she proceeded to
her destination in tow of the tug Herald.
The disabled schooner Alfred Brabrook
left here this morning from Salem In tow
Of the tug Right Arm. There also ar
rived the schooner Georgia Gilkey of
Searsport, Me. The Gilkey left Rosario,
January g. for Boston. She crossed the
equator February 10 in longitude SO and
had strong trades to February %. She
experienced violent northwest gale
when in latitude 25 "a north and lonci-
tude 3d. 86, lasting five days. during
which she was blown back 300 miles, and
lost and split her sails. She has one
cabin passenger, W. R. Gilkey of Boston.
The schooner Benjamin Oliver, Well
feet for New York, arrived today with
the loss of her jibboom. There also ar
rived the steam tug Scranton, New York
for Boston, towing the barges Pequest,
Tunkhannock, Shickshinny and Nayaug.
She proceeded with the three former.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
AN HONEST MAN.

Dear Editor: Please inform your readers
that if written to conhdentially. / will mail in
sealed letter. the plan pursued by which /
was permanently restored to health and manly
yigor after years of suffering from Nervous
Weakness, night losses and weak, shrunken
parts
/ have no scheme to exhort money from anv
one whomsoever. l was robbed and swindIed
by the quacks until l nearly lost faith in
mankind. but thank Heaven. I am now
well, vigorous and strong. and anxious to
make TINS certain means OF cure known to
all.
Having nothing to sell or send G. o. d, Iwant
no money. Address JAS. A, HARRIS
Delray, Mich, Box 35e.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
Suspected of Murder.

North fl cid, VT, March 14.-Georg
Marsh died January 20 under suspicious
circu instances, and the town authorities
had the body djsinterred February 49,
DR.. j. Ii. Lindsay of Burlington made
an examination. No cause of death was
observable to the naked eye, but parts of
the body were removed and taken to
Hanover, N. H., for analysis. During
the past week may witnesses were
brought before the authorities and, as
result, Mrs George Marsh, the wife,
and VIM. Buzzall, the hired man, were
arrested and taken to Montpelier jail to-
will take placs here On Monday morning,
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
Uncle Sam Played John Bull BY Cabl.

Uncle Sam Played John Bull BY Cable
and Won.
New York, March 14.-The information
al chess match between Great Britain
and Ireland and the United States of
America was finished today and Anne
RIGA won by four and half to three and
a half games. The proceedings today
wero similar to those of yesterday, the
moves being made pretty rapidly. The
spectators, numbering upwards of.1oOo.
enjoyed the match thoroughly and at the
conclusion there was q cheer such as has
never been heard before at chess match.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
Agusta,s CITY officials.

Augusta, Me-, March 14.-At a eau
Gus of the Republican city government
held this afternoon, the following noml.
nations of city officers were made: Clerk,
Lewis A. Burleigh; treasurer and collec-
tor, j. h. Townsend; marshal, Henry
Z. Morse; street commissioners, Column
bus Cottle and Parker N. Savage; ply
stefan, Wellington Johnson; solicitor
Thomas Leigh, Jr. chief engineer OF the
fire department, Charles W. Kicker: as
sistan. engineer, Ell bridge Pedder; over
seer OF the poor, J. J. Maker. The above
nominations practically amount to an
election.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
How's This?

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The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
OFF FOR CUBA.
The Steamer Bermuda Steals AWAY in
the Night.

Carries Arms and Recruits for the Cause
of the Insurgents-This Attempt M ore
Successful Than the Last.
New York, March 15.-At midnight
tonight. it was whispered that the steam
er BERN nda, which failed in getting away
with q Cuban filibustering expedition a
short time ago, was to make another at
tempt to steal away from her anchorage.
during the night or early Sunday morn
ing. Groups of dark oomplexioned men
were seen vending their way towards a
tug boat. The lighter Stranahan, which
had OIL board the arms and ammunition
which the lighter unsuccessfully at
tempted to Gplaoe on board the Bermuda
when that vessel was seized by the
United States authorities recently, was
said to have been engaged today in
transferring her cargo TO the steamer.
1t was also said that the Bermuda had
a full head of steam on and was ready to
slip out of the harbor at any moment
The Bermuda is cleared for Vera Cruz
and is in charge OF Capt. O'Brien. She
has on BIO Ard all the arms and ammu-
milton which were seized at the time of
the raid which were afterward returned.
gang OF men We're congregated at
Pier l, North river, apparently waiting
for tug to take them to the BERN uda.s
1t was rumored late tonight that the
German steamer Schieswig which sailed
from the pier at about tonight, had
on board some 90 men which she will
transfer to the Bermuda outside of the
three-mile limit, whore she is now lying.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
A Name for New Salvation Army.

New York, March 14.-Henceforth the
followers OF Ballington Booth will be
known as Goods American Volunteers. :"
Commander Booth announced the name
of the new organization Saturday after
noon, and the christening was attended
by the enthusiastic cheering OF a large
number of the Commanders suppo1 tiers.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16

West Buxton, March 14.-Fred and Ed
ward Hand tried to cross the river this
morning In boat but the "anchor ioe''
swept them over the dam. Edward, II
years OF age, never was seen after pass
ing the dam, but Fred held on to the
boat rail and was saved by Clifford Cole
who heard the cry for help, got un.
dressed, jumped into row boat and
pulled for the stream. Search is being
made for the body of the drowned boy.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

The Orono Pulp and Paper Company
has taken possession Of the pulp and pa
per mill plant at Basin Mills, which it
had leased to the Bangor Pulp and Paper
Co., which recently assigned. One of the
heaviest owners in the Bangor Pulp and
Paper Co., will return from Europe in a
few days, and it is not believed that he
will consent to see the enterprise slump
and lose all the money that has been put
into it for the lack Of a little working
capital.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
TRUE TO THE OLD ARMY.
The New Body of Salvation Army as De-
scribed By Its Founder.

New York, March l4.-Anong the pas
sengers on the American line steamer st.
Paul today were Major Susie f. Swift
Captain Elizabeth Clark and Adjutant
Caroline Pease Salvation Army officers.
All are American girls and have been at
work the past year in England. They
were recently ordered from the Inter
national headquarters to report TO Col.
Eadie, chief secretary Of the army In this
country. Major Swift is an ex-Vassar
girl and when pressed as to how the rank
and file of the army in Europe looked on
the recent action of Isallington Booth
said: "The rank and file are absolutely
astounded. They look on the whole mat
ter with absolute astonlshment ana de-
plore and deprecate the action of Com
mander Booth. / am at the mead OF the
English auxiliaries and have been hard
at work trying to explain to my COM
rades that the American auxiliaries do
not as a body support the action OF Bal
lington. Booth. The detection while
small is deplorable one from spiritual
standpoint besides from political one.
The army in England is loyal to man.
I mean both the men and women and
is making great progress there
Adjutant PeaSe comes as the secretary
to Eva Booth.
GOODS AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS,
is the name of Darlington Booths new
organization OF seceders from the Saliva
tlon Army. The name was decided on
today and announced to the newspaper
reporters by Commander Booth himself.
A standard has also been designed for the
6. A. V. For the first time in many
days. Commander Booth gave a personal
audience to the reporters. In commune
eating the facts briefly stated above he
made quite speech. He said in part
The time has now comeswhen we feel war
ranted in announcing the name selected
for the new movement We have deoid
ed toaoall it, Gods American volun-
teers,' and the symbolic letters will be
g. A. W We have also decided on a
flag. The standard of the G. A. V.
will be white field, emblematioal Of
purity, and in the centre single large
blue star, typical of truth. Centrally
placed with the radius of the star is
whitesoross, emblamatical of sacrifice for
Others. Above the star is the motto,
The Lord my banner while below it
are the words Post No. L. In the up
per corner, next the staff is an oblong
blue field showing
HORTY- FIVE WHITE STARS,
representative of the 45 states of the un-
ion. The star will be surmounted by a
golden eagle. God grant that this prinoi-
pies of truth represented by this standard
will prevail for all time"
Concerning the statement that Gen
VIM. Booth had said that he could not
except a member of his own family in
making transfer in the army and there
BY destroy, all discipline, Commander
Booth said: Neither I nor Mrs Booth
ever asked for any exception in our case.
We did not write asking to be allowed to
remain in America. All official relations
between Gen. Booth and myself are closed
and we are not entertaining any PROPOSE
tions with regard to our returning to the
army.b
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
B0ND call NOTICE
NUMBER FIVE.
CITY Of R0CkIand, Knox Co., Me.

To the holders of the following described four
per cent. City of Rockland, Knox Co., Me-, OPP
ton bonds, series Of 18S1-19f1, notice is
hereby given that the following said described
bonds are now due and are hereby called in
for payment by said city of Rockland, Me-,
and are payable at the office of the City Treas
urer.
Description.
Said bonds read being due "a. D. 1911 or
after ten years from the date hereof at the
option of the City, and are of the following
dates, numbers and denominations. On
the following said described bonds INTER
EST STOPS on the sixteenth day of March,
A. D., eighteen hundred and nintey- six (iarch
16, 1860
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-16
Emperor William Went to the Aid of an
Injured Woman

Berlin, March 1.-The KAISER while
out driving today, ran over working
woman named Anna Vendit as she was
turning corner. His Majesty sprang
out OF the carriage before the driver had
pulled up the horses, lifted the woman
from the ground and helped to remove
her to chemists shop. Being assured
that the woman was not hurt beyond be-
Ing shaken up. the Emperor entered his
carriage and resumed his drive, but later
he sent bis personal e-de-camp, Major
Won Moltke, to ascertain the woman s
condition