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The Portland daily press., 1896-03-14
OBITUARY
j. Herbert W right.

Mr.. j. Herbert Wright, the general
agent of the Northwestern Life Insurance
Co., died at his residence in Desiring,
during Thursday night, from complioa-
ton of disorders, the result of the grip.
Mr.. Wright has always been man of
fine physique, but some weeks ago he
went east on business trip and was tax
en- at Calais with an attack of grip. He
was recovering and improving rapidly,
and being of very active and energetic
disposition it is probable that he went out
too soon. He had relapse, which Gull
min ated in series of disorders which
he was not able to overcome.
Mr.. Wright was a native of ST. John
N. B., and about forty years of age. He
came to Portland and assumed the gen
eral agency of the Northwestern Life In
surance Co.. about three years ago.
Before coming to Portland. Mr..
Wright was the agent of the Mutual Life
Insurance Co.. of New York at st. John,
for many years.
Mr.. Wright leaves widow and SIX
children
1t is a singular fact that the late Mr..
Boss, general agent of the New England
Life, and Mr. Wright, general agent OF
the Northwestern had Offices on opposite
sides of the Same floor in the Oxford
Building. and both died within fort
night of each other.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-14

car with the plantation hands. with their
baskets and bundles, or ride in a manner
becoming our station.
we are not plantation darkies, said
the Captain. Ny father Is free-born
man, wealthy tobacoonist in New Cor
leans, with something like million OF
dollars before the war I was educated
in German University. and have
travelled through Europe. Our fathers
have assisted US in raising our compa-
MES ana getting our commissio ms. We
want TO Go what we can for our country
and our race, for we have African blood,
as That conductor says. His class are
QUICK 20 detect it. But socially we con-
slider him quite as much ont OF caste as
ne places us from his standpoint
Long before the Captain was done
speaking l had made up my plan. So,
when the conductor appeared at the plat
10TH ana informed me I might conduct
my passengers across to another car, l
quietly informed him that different ar
engagements had been made. Instead of
crossing over TO the car he mentioned, I
GOWN and pun the car we were in up to
CorraltLnl
more Disguised looking conductor
L never saw. He hesitated q while; hut
propaply coming to the conclusion that
ms Wlsest course was to avoid trouble, he
AaoiAy packeu MS Uratn QOWn ana LOOK
us along.
At CorRalton ushered the officers IN
TO the presence of the Provost Marshal,
with the simple statement that they were
the offenders and fastened 10 my quar-
tiers nearby.
An hour latter saw them leaving the
Provost Marshal's office; Capt. Silver
had followed them to the door, and ]
heard cordial Good day as they cheer
Y, do 4,nir. to t,a
levee, to take boat for their camp. ]
crossed over to the Captain and said:
Captain, what do you make Of them,
anyway?'
Make of themf' said he. why,
they are gentlemen from the word gol
They know more, have travelled more,
and are better informed men every way
than I ever thought of bsinG! You
served that Secesh conductor. right. He
will be mad as the devil, but it pleased
those fellows nightly"
CHARLES o. STTCKNEY.
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STRICTLY ONE PRICE
University Extension.

The committee appointed at the recent
University Extension movement have le-
ceived SO much encouragement from our
citizens who were ready to subscribe to
fund as foundation Of financial support,
that they now feel justified in ctfering
tickets to the full course of six lectures
at the merely nominal price of one dol
lar. Only fifty dollars more are needed
to establish "center" in Portland, and
warrant the American Society in detail
ing it's lecturers to deliver the. proposed
course. If fifty tickets can be sold. the
lectures are assured, and it would seem
that thi may easily be accomplished.
Tickets may be had at the stores of Lor
ing, Short & Harmon, Frank B. Clark,
l.. H. Schlosberg, and Carter Brothers
Co. and of Mrs. B. F. Brown at the Sec
ond Advent church On Saturday after
noon. Let it not be said that Portland
is behind the smaller cities and towns in
the State, such as Bangor, Pennington,
Saco, ETC.. where lecture courses have
already been established. This Is
worthy effort in the interest Of popular
education, and to show Its immediate re-
suits we refer to the fact that the libra
rian OF the public library at Bangor
writes that since MI. Coles first lecture
in that CITY, the library, although well
supplied is not able to meet the demand
for the books recommended to be read on
no oJ1h ioofc tpo tod hu tho LOT
our people take up the fifty tickets of
fered, and the course of lectures proposed
can begin next week.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-14
woman's Christian Temperance Union.

Woman'S Christian Temperance Union.
The following was the expression of
sympathy and regret, regarding the death
of Mr. George s. Hunt, passed at the
regular business meeting of the Woman s
Christian Temperance Union, Friday af-
ternoon, March 49,:
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union record with profound sorrow the
death of MIR. George S. Hunt, who,
through the history Of our society in the
nation, the state and the city, has proved
himself to he a true and generous friend.
We recall with sense of sincere appreci-
alton his generosity to the Portland I'm
ion, which has enabled MS to carry on
charities which otherwise we could not
have done. Our deepest sympathy is
with the hearts of those who were bound
to him In the family life, who SORROW
most of all. Especially to Mrs. Hunt
who has been and is so closely identified
with the work and success of the Union,
do our hearts go out in peculiar tender
ness.
May the God of love, who doth not will
ingly affiiot, comfort all who mourn and
give them peace
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-14
SAILORS IN DEMAN D.
The Ella Nj. Doughty Lost Her Deck
Load in the Storm-Arrival of the Charles
e. Balch-General Water Front News.

Mr.. O.S. Yates OF the village of Round
Pond, in the town of Bristol was in
the city yesterday. He reports that there
is a prospect that the season of 1896 will
see a more active demand for granite
and expects that more men will be en-
ployed in the granite works at his place,
The schooner Lexington arrived from
Portsmouth yesterday and Capt. Thomp-
son reported that he WAS in some danger
during the storm of dragging his anchor
and going ashore.
Commissioner Tolman says that good
sailors are in demand here. The best of
the men have been shipped within the
past few days.
The schooner Ella NJ. Doughty was out
during the storm of Wednesday night.
She brought in 10, 600 pounds of cod and
haddook, but lost her deck load of fish,
about 5000 pounds. Captain W arren A.
Doughty said yesterday that it was ~he
worst storm for short one he was ever
out in.
j. W. Trefethen received telegram
yesterday from Gloucester, that the fish
ing schooner Mary e. Hagan, out through
the storm, arrived at that port with
dories and fish gone, and with ballast
shifted. Captain Thomas will probably
return to this port.
The Uncle Joe is the only fishing
schooner sailing fron this port unhsard
from yesterday afternoon, and she was
believed to be all right
The delayed schooner Charles E. Balch,
several day overdue, but previously re-
ported by the PRESS at Salem, came in
yesterday. 1t will be remembered that
she was at one time reported lost at sea.
Captain Croker said yesterday that they
had very hard passage, encountered
much rough and OBTAINING weather and
lost an anchor.
The steamer Monaghan is at the elevator
taking grains. Her osrgo will probably
be largely package freight.
All the steamer lines from this port are
again making trips on schedule time.
There is an abundance of freight COM
ing from the west for the steamers. 1t
consists mostly of grains, cheese, and es-
pecially boxed meats. The shipments of
provisions from this time onward prom
ises to be very heavy.
The Charles S. Baioh lost her windlass
and hnd her sails split. Capt. Croker s
big craft was practically exposed to q
constant series of storms for two weeks.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-14
American Association of Masters and
Pilots.

W. F. Leonard Of the Seaboard, the
official organ OF the American Asso-
citation of Masters and Pilots of Steam
Vessels organized local harbor in this
city Thursday. There are ten charter
members and an application for charter
was immediately forwarded to the
national headquarters. Mr. Leonard s
special mission to Portland was to de-
liver a set of resolutions to the widow of
Capt Daniel Allen, passed by Harbor
No. - of New York of which the de-
ceased was O member.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-14
TIE MUNICIPAL COURT.

BEFORE JUDGE ROBINSON.
Briday-Daniel Melcher. Intoxioation;
fined So aud costs.
Harry Buckles. Larceny; 30 days in
county Jail.
James Ha1ey--Search and seizure; fined
500 and costs. Paid.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-14

ter:
Linconl Me Penobsoott County
March 1896
Portland united States Deceive Service
Dear Sirs Can Have & Apointment on
yonr Force Thare Are Two men Who
Have Com mitted A States Prison Crime
And the Parties Have ben Looking At
ter Them for Some dime But Failed to
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WHO WILL EsEA I'D
THIS ADVERTISEMENT

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The Portland daily press., 1896-03-14

sCastoria is the best remedy for children
of which I am acquainted. hope the day
is not far distant when mothers will COIL
slider the real interest of their children, and
use Castoria instead of the various quack
nostrums which are destroying their loved
ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing
syrup and other hurtfu1 agents down their
threats, thereby sending them to premature
graves" Dr.. ]. F. KINcHELoE,
ros,xroxy Act
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-14
Castoria.

"Castoria is an excellent medicine for
children. Mothers have repeatedly told me
Of its good effect upon their children
DIR. c. c. Oseoop,
Lowell Mass
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-14
wants to be a Detective.
Linconl Me Penobsoott

Marshal Trioksy has recsived this let
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-14

How Fearless Maine Officer Made the
Naughty Southern Eat Humble Pie
"Back Down This Train Immediately,
Sir, and Take Your Sidetraoked Car
and Those tNigger's Officers AIong!"-
A Righteous Denouement and Sur
prising "Coior Line" Revelation.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-14

1t Was Heard in August 1898. and Related
to an Accident Which Occurred the Pre-
vious May.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-14


Wost % t Wanskuck
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-15
CHICAGO sCRIBEs DID 1T.
Why Railway Meetings Are Being
Held Elsewhere.

1t is fact which has struck some Of the
Western railroad men that this season there
have been an unusually large number of
meetings, which, as a rule. are held in Chi
cago, on account of its central location
scheduled for other places, particularly st.
Louis and Milwaukee. There have been
meetings of both passenger and freight men.
and while at first glance the statement made
that it was thought only fair to divide up the
honor among the several cities was taken as
sufficient, it now appears there is a more i'm
portant reason for the change.
Early in the season at the conclusion of
several important gatherings of railroad Of
f1cials the Windy City newspaper men sought
information and opinions on actions taken
and in some cases the construction put by
the railroad reporters upon them did not tally
exactly with the views of the railroaders.
The scribes asked the different men leading
questions on knotty subjects. and to put 1t
mildly, there was some embarrassment
The too certain matters which were not SUD-
posed to be made public were shrewdly dug
up" and freely commented upon, much to the
chagrin of the gentlemen meeting.
certain gentleman in st. Paul than
whom there is probably no more digni6ed
railroad official to be found in the city. ad-
mits the force of this. He says that the
transfer Of meetings to st. Louis and Mil
waukee has been in large degree the result
of too much keenness the part Of Chicago
reporters. Why said he yesterday, speak
Ing of garbled telegraph report of a meet
ing held In Chicago, at which he was pres
ent. ~ cannot understand how that happened
unless 1T was because the, meeting which is
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-15
SHIPPING OF ORE.
Large Quantities of 1T Waiting
Opening of Navigation.

Opening of Navigation.
Vice President Joseph Sellwood and Solicitor
j. H. Chandler, of the Duluth & Iron Range
railroad, came down from Duluth yesterday
morning and spent several <hours in this city.
Both gentlemen are interested in the Minne-
sofa Iron company. and Capt. Serwood is
president Of the Security bank, Of Duluth.
Judge Chandler is Chicago attorney
Capt. Sellwood said to Globe reporter
in the Ryan yesterday that the road was only
awaiting the formal opening of navigation to
commence the shipping of iron ore from the
Vermillion range to Cleveland and Chicago
by the Great lakes. '7'
'An the underground mines on the Vermil-
lion range have been butfding up immense
stock piles he said. "and when the ice leaves
the 500 the trains Will be loaded with ore
for Two Harbors, where the Iron companies
boats will receive 1t for shipment down the
lakes.
''The Chandler, Minnesota and Pioneer
mines have all stock piles, and the bulk of
the ore will come from these. There are about
100000 TONS Of which much will go to Cleve-
land. with some to Chicago. Last year the
Duluth & Iron Range carried 213O, 900 tons,
the Duluth, Missabe G. Northern ZOO, 900 tons
and the Duluth &c Winnipeg about 100 600.
This season we expect that nearly $500 900 tons
will be carried down by our company. Inas-
much as no ore has been sold to date this sea-
son, it is impossible to state accurately what
prices will rule, but it is thought that we will
get better figure than that which was paid
last year. Our big shipments have made nee
essary new ore dock at Two Harbors which
will greatly facilitate the work of unloading
and loading, and which will be completed
about June L.
Messrs. Sellwood and Chandler returned to
Duluth yesterday afternoon.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-15
JEpKS GOT 4 RAISE
THE GRAND FORKS MAN PRO-
NOTED BY GENERAL MAN.
AGER WARREN.
SUCCEEDS DANIEL M'LAREN
AS sUPERINTENDEST OF THE MON
TANA CENTRAL AND THE
OPERATED LINES.
SHIPMENT OF MINNESOTA ORE.
Thousands Of Tons Ready for the
Opening of NayigatiOn-Local
Railway Notes.


General Manager Warren, of the Great
Northern, yesterday issued a circular appoint
ins c. H. jerks superintendent Of the Mon
tana Central railway and operated lines, vice
Daniel McLaren. whose resignation was noted
at length in this column some two weeks ago.
The appointment is made effective today, and
the division headquarters are located at Great
Falls, Mont
Cyrus H. jerks was born in Illinois in 1914,
and first entered the railroad business in 1870,
since which he has been consecutively brake
man, conductor, construction on freight and
passenger trains, trainmaster and assistant
superintendent Of the old st. Paul & Pacific
railway (now Great Northern). In February,
1887, he was made superintendent Of the Da-
kota division Of the st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Manitoba, and in April, 1892 he was appointed
superintendent of the northern DIVISION a
place which he held until March 10, 1S93 when
he was made superintendent of the Montana
Central. For the past two years he has been
at the head of the northern division of the
Great Northern at Grand Forks
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-15
Railway Notes.

Among the callers at the Great Northern
general Offices yesterday was q. T. Burton,
who halls from a thriving Montana town
named for him, and to which he has induced
q number Of his friends and others from the
Eastern states to go and settle. Mr.. Burton
makes his headquarters in Helena, and is In
terested in a big irrigation proposition In Te-
ton county. He was formerly register of the
United States land ONCE In Helena.
A small error crept into the new time sched-
ule OF the Omaha printed in the G o yes
terday regarding the Pacific express between
mere and Chicago. The correct time of the
train is here given: Leaving Chicago at 1910
p. M, 1t reaches st. Paul at II 80 g. M and
Minneapolis at 1910.
G. W. Galligan and E.. A. williams have
been appointed assistant general freight and
passenger agents respectively of the St. Louis.
Chicago G. st. Paul road, with headquarters
at st. Louis.
George E. Larry and B. J. Rowe have been
named assistant general freight agent and
travelling freight agent Of the Illinois Central
road, with headquarters at st. Louis.
Assistant General Freight Agent H. M.
Pearce. Of the Omaha, is in Chicago, attend
ing the meeting of the Western Freight asso-
citation.
immigration Agent c. w. Mott, OF the
Northern Pacific, returned yesterday from
Chicago
The Minneapolis & ST. Louis road is SELL
ing communication tickets to Lake Minnetonka
Vice President W. P. CIough, of the Great
Northern road, is in New York.
Walt Wyand, of the Michigan Central.
left yesterday for Fargo.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-15
ST. PAUL. WON OUT
DUBUQUE NINE BEATEN BOTH AT
ORATORY AND BASE
BALL.
TALK CAME IN TORRENTS.
BOTH SIDES CONTRIBUTED LIBER-
ALLY TO THE SILVER TONGUE
TOTAL.
In the Ninth Inning He Called
Everything That Came His
Way Ball.
Special to the GInha.

Special to the Globe. :r'-'
DUBUQUE, To-, April H-This was ora
tcrs' day at the base ball park. Each club
furnished an umpire who was an inspiration
to eloquence. Talk flowed spontaneously
when Kraus was declared out in the sixth
for lifting his bat to help Mertes to steal
second, and it gushed in torrents when. with
three men on bases, Shugart dropped Tighe's
fly and ORourke called the batter out St.
Paul knocked out six runs in the sixth after
Shortstop O'Connor had missed a chance to
retire the side. Kraus made homer, Mertes
triple and George a double off Keas, a
local pitcher. Denzer had good speed, and
was effective until the ninth, when the Du-
buque umpire called everything a ball. and
five hits were mingled with three bases on
balls. Mertes' pretty catch of Raymond's fly
settled Dubuque's hopes. O'Rourke was sore
and Mullane played third. Sccse:
St. Paul ......0 61 0 Ks
Dubuque ......O 0 GO
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-15

usually held In the Auditorium was called
at 10 o'clock in the annex, and at it's con-
clusion, shortly after 1 o'clock. most Of the
members left the city, and thus the news
papers had to guess at what was done, for
there was not one correct statement in the
dispatch.
why, some of those Chicago papers have
railroad reporters who, by virtue of long ex-
perience and quick wit, would make pretty
good traffic managers themselves. In Mil
waukee we had an easy time. Nobody came
to ask about the meeting save a great big
chuckle-headed boy, who looked as If he had
scarcely had a high school education. He
asked foolish questions, and rather than
waste any time the members, or some Of
them. gave him q glad smile and two or
three lines which he even distorted until they
meant nothing. Oh, yes, we will probably
have more meetings In Milwaukee,
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-15
AMERICA VICTORIOUS.

Sing, o, my muse of the West, the games of
renowned Olympus;
Tell the lost glory of Greece, and laud the
victorious Yankeesi
See in the Stadium Of Athens. built ages ago
by Lycurgus.
Thousands Of persons gre sitting, gathered
from hundreds of nations;
See how the athletes stand forth to strive
for the chaplet Of olive.
Guerdon of victory once and earnest of glory
forever!
from Franklin, Ohio,
With him Magyar, Szokoly, though this is
bad day for Magyars;
Reaching for all he can get the Buckeye in
Rushes and reaches and takes it. because he
comes from Ohio.
Then in the Stadium stands one Curtis from
far San Francisco,
Stands and then runs and then wins, which
is all there is of that contest.
Following him is Tom Burke from Boston,
both bean-fed and brawny-
Boston, that modern Athens near the poly
phlysboean Atlantic.
What is expected when one comes forth from
the Hub of the Cosmos?
What is expected happens: His many op-
ponents conquered.
Throwing the discus comes next, and Gar
rett the captain of Princeton,
Throws, and the end is at hand and here
and there-don't you hear ft?-
soundeth the skyrocket yell, with a long,
lusty "Tiger!" to close it.
Jamison trots Ger his course of fully four
hundred long meters
What are mere meters to him who inhabits
home on the prairies?
Burke runs once more, and Briton retires
crestfallen and humbled
Finding himself at the close an ''also ram
and no better.
fears have rolled on and the victors who
once gave renown to all Hellas
Now are but ashes and dust, live alone in the
deeds of these moderns.
Hark to the names of the mighty! Lane
and Burke and Curtis,
Garrett and Burke yet again, and Jamisea
ever unconQuered
Hailng from Illinois, from Peori', Peoria
county.
Bow, o thou violet-crowned, to the gildea
dome of the state house;
Yield, o thou Parthenon-tipped, to the solid
man from Ohio;
Attica, what now thy fame to the fame OF
Peoria county!
Chicago Tribune
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-15

will defeat the cable project entirely. It has
developed in the course Of the discussions
that ]. Pierpont Morgan is with James L..
Serymser, the chief stockholder In the Pa
cif1c Cable Company OF New York. Promi-
nent among the stockholders of the other
company are Col. Spalding. of Honolulu !;
Abram s. Hewitt D. Ogden Mills. Frederick
u. Grant, Gen. Wagner Swayne, of New
York, and ]. J. Hill, Of st. Paul. The per-
sonnel of the two companies insures their
ability to carry out any contract they may
enter into with the United States, and the
committee members would be we'll satisfied
with either If the other were not in the field
Considerable interest is taken in the pro-
gress OF the negotiations by the Hawaiian
legation and Its representative is present at
all of the hearings. Efforts have been made
In New York for compromise between the
two companies. but without success up to
the present time. = p, --.. .-...
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-15
PARTY RATES.
For the Present Theatrical Compan.
les Are Turned Down.


les Are Turned Down.
CHICAGO. April 14.-The general officers of
the Western roads, who for three days have
been struggling with the question of party
rates, have adjourned until next Tuesday
They were not able to reach a definite con-
cluston in all things, and a committee has
been appointed to consider certain phases of
the matter. and to report at the meeting on
Tuesday. 1t was decided. however, that party
rates should not be made except In the terri
tory of the Eastern committee of the Western
Passenger association This practically means
that party rates will be made in the state of
Illinois, but In no other part Of the associa-
ton territory. This decision, the roads de-
clare, does not mean that they have taken vol
untary action against the rights of theatri-
cal companies to have reduced rates, but there
is no other way for the roads to legally stop
the decentralization attendant upon the sale of
the party tickets. At the, same time a COM
rittee was appointed to see if there is not some
way In which the roads will be able to grant
the reduced rates to theatrical parties, and at
the same time keep within the law.
At meeting Of the executive committee Of
the Travelling Passenger Agents association,
held in this city today, 1t was decided to hold
the next annual convention at the Southern
hotel, ST. Louis September % and %.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-15
LOrillard Shut Out.

: NEWMARKET, Eng, April 1.-THE New
market meeting which commenced here today
was eagerly awaited by turtles as it marked
the opening of the regular racing season, and
is likely to throw light on the Derby pros
poets. There was additional interest in the
racing today, as it was the occasion of the
debut of Pierre Lorillard's string of Amer
lean horses, his entries today being Anisette,
king of Bohemia and Glaring. Not one Of
!Richard Croker's horses have reached here.
None of the Lorillard horses were placed in
the events in which they started. Mr..
Croker was asked regarding the chances Of
Montauk for the Derby. The New Yorker
Smiled in reply and said: 1--WE shall do our
best 4"