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sEIFERr HAS GONE HOME.
He Says He Does Not Intend to Liv
Nth His Nlfe.

ne. says he Does Not Intend to LiCe
H1th His WiTe.
YOUNGSTOWN. ONO, May 29.-Henry
Seifert, the wealthy Youngstown (Ohio)
farmer, has arrived here. He has been
seen by only few of his intimate friends.
He said his second attempt at matrimonv
was failure, and that after just three
days of welded bliss on the coast he sud-
denly made up his mind to leave Mrs.
Seifert No. 2. He said he tired of the love
which was developed by the result of a
matrimonial agency.
Some time ago an agent for Chicago
matrimonial paper appeared at Seifert S
farm, near here, and solicited an adver-
tisement, saying he would get Saifert a
rich young wife for 81.
Selfert's first wife died some time ago,
and he seemed lonesome, and invested the
dollar. Soon, he claims, woman named
Louise Fumfort appeared, and he after
ward married her at Warren, place four
teen miles from here. Seifert claims he
never saw her before.
The farm was valuable, and was sold for
cash. A daughter claims her father got
$16, ,OOO for farm and stock. Since his mar
riage and departure West the children
1elt uneasy lest something would happen
him. He was advised not to marry.
Tonight q letter was received by Chief
OF Police Mcdowell from A. Morganthal,
an attorney, asking about Seifert and if he
intended deserting his wife. Chief Nc
Dowell has been unable to locate him, but
a CALL man saw an intimate friend to
whom Selfert said his second matrimonial
venture was failure, and he did not in
tend going back to his bride in the far
West,
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DEATH OF FATHER HEAD.
Was Fatally Injured by a church's
Falling Timbers.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 3o.-Shortly after
midnight Rev. Father J. ]. Head, pastor
of .Annunciation Church, Sixth and LasaIle
streets, died of the injuries received by
falling timbers in the disaster Wednesday
night. Father Head and sister were Sit
ting in the parochial residence when the
roof of the church was blown onto the
house.
A falling timber struck the PASTORS
head and he was otherwise seriously in
jured. 1t was thought at the time that
he was not seriously injured. He failed to
rally.
Roy Claypool, son of Mrs. Daniel Clay
pool, who, with her two children was
killed by the storm, died at the Citizens
Hospital on Friday night.
Young Claypool was not injured by the
storm, having been placed in the hos
pital Thursday to be treated for an all
ment, but when he heard that his mother
and two sisters had been killed, the little
fellow began to grieve and this caused his
death,
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ALL KILLED BUT ONE.
Sad Fate of the Mum Family of
Lincoln. Nebr.

LINCOLN, NEBR., May 29-On the 18th
of the present month s. P. Mum and his
family moved from this city to st. Louis,
and all but one OF the entire family were
killed in the st. Louis tornado. There
were thirteen children in the family One
son, Fred, was left here and IS still In the
city, and one of the boys, Frank, escaped
death, but the father, mother and eleven
other children met death in the awful
catastrophe. This sad news was received
by Fred Mum to-day in a letter from
Frank, who had an almost miraculous
escape from the fate OF the other mem bers
of the family. The st. Louis address of
the family is not given. S. P. Mum was
Lincoln contractor and lived here many
wears,
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ON THE RIVER FRONT.
Very Severe Loss Sustained Among
the Shipping.


ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 29.-The following
is list of the losses on the river front.
The estimated loss is based on the figures
of an experienced steam boat man, who is
in possession of the assessed valuation of
most of the marine properties which suf-
fered.
Dolphin No. (towboat) property OF
Sheehan Bros. & Loler. $4,000.
Bald Eagle nlinois River packet)
Schwartz Bros. Commission Company,
$4,000.
Belle of Calhoun QlIinois River packet)
Schwartz Bros. Commission Company,
$4,000.
J. J. odl. Gillis Bros. Commission Com
pany, 5000.
City of Quincy, River Club, being re.
fitted, $4,000.
Libby Conger missouri River packet)
partially loaded, $4,000.
Samuel Club (tug) Virgins Ferry Com
pany, $4,000.
Baton Rouge Belle (tug), Crown Coal
Company, 5000.
The Austria pleasure yacht) William P.
Seink, $1,000.
The Mazele pleasure yachD Hugh l..
Patterson, $1,000.
Andrew Christy (ferry-boat) Virgins
Ferry Company, $1,000.
Napoleon Mullikin lferry-boat) Virgins
Ferry Company, $4,000. :
H. L. Clark (ferry- -boat) Virgins Ferry
Company, $4,000.
Pleasure yacht. Diana, Lucas Bros.
$4,000.
Five Union Sand Company's barges at
$500, $12,5o0.
Three Crown Coal Company's barges at
S25OO, $500.
Seven Virgins Ferry Company's barges,
$1,000.
One barge loaded with grain of the Val
ley line, with cargo, $500.
City of Pittsburg, Diamond Jo line,
partly lost, SIS, 900.
City of Vicksburg, Columbia Excursion
Company. $4,000.
City of Providence, Columbia Excursion
Company, $4,000.
City of Monroe, Anchor line, $1,000.
Henry Sackman, Virgins Ferry Com
pany. $4,000
George A. Madill, S23, 900.
City Harbor boat, $4,000
Polar Wave, Huse-Loomis Ice Company.
$500.
Charlotte Boeckler, lumber boat, $4,000.
Jack Frost, small steamer, $4,000.
Ice barge, Huse-Loomis Ice Company,
$1,000.
Steamer Benton. Captain Sims, $780,
Exporter, Valley Line. $1,000.
Harvester, Valley Line, $4,000.
Jay Gould mot sunk as reported, but al
most totally wreeked), $5000
Gray Eagle and Cherokee, which floated
down below Carondolet. $1700.
Louis Houek. Henry Leyhe, $500.
st. Paul and the D. II. Pike, $780,
Eagle Packet Com pany's wharves, $1,000
Total losses to marine property at st.
Louis. S4O2. 900.
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GOOD FOR SANTA BARBARA.
She Stands a Good Chance of Betno Made
a Sub Port of Entry.

She Stands a Good Chance of BEING Made
Sub Port of Entry.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 29.-.Har-
rison Gray Otis, editor of the Los An
geles Times, with his wife, is among to-
days arrivals. He will remain in the
East until the st. Louis convention, which
he will attend. The bill of Representa-
tive McLachlan, TO make Santa Barbara,
CAL, SUPPORT of entry, has been re-
ported favorably to the House, and if KEN
of Nebraska ceases his unreasonable OBJ
iections to calling up bills of this char
acter McLachlan hopes to pass it.
M. Kinser was to-day appointed Post
master at Montpelier, Stanislaus County,
California, vice Anna B. Cooper. resigned.
Pensions-California: Original-Thomas
Flynn, San Francisco. Additional Especial
May 2O), Benjamin Keller, Clovis. Res
toratlon, reissue and increase-SoIdiers'
Home, Los Angeles. Original widow
Conception O. Valdez, Santa Barbara.
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ST. LOUIS IS THANKFUL.
But the Missouri City Can Care for
Its Own.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 29-Mayor G. P.
WaIbrfdge gave out the following to-day !:
ut is not practical to make individual
answer to the vast number of friends who
have telegraphed sympathy and offering
us assistance. Through the medium of
the United Press st. Louis sincerely
thanks the city's many friends for the in
terest they have shown and their proffers
of aid.
"The people of our city are confident of
their ability to properly care for all the
sufferers from the recent tornado, and
heroic efforts are being made to that end.
No accurate estimate of the loss of prop
erty can now be made, but it is safe to say
that he loss as reported by the press ont
side of ST. Louis has been greatly overesti
mated. &C. P WALBRIDGE Mavor
coroner Wait has been constantly on
duty since Thursday morning, The pro-
cession of the dead is passing under re-
view before HIM like the last resurrections
were passed upon in an official and ner
functory way. The pathos usual on such
occasions was redoubled, intensified by
the surrounding throng of waiting rela-
tIVes, waiting till unsympathetic official
ism had released their dead,
There were ninty-four unfortunates
passed under the ordeal of this necessary
inePeSUlou' uc OOTOner ana assistants
were merciful, even delicate, in their
treatment Of the dead before the living
relatives. When the unknown were reached
the Coroner ceased from his work. waiting
for Identification. There yet remain
eleven bodies on the slabs.
At 2 o'clock this morning two floaters
were picked up at the foot of Destrahan
street. which are supposed to be members
of wrecked boat crews.
A family OF four lived at 716 Barry streat
Wednesday morning When the cyclone
had passed there was but one survivor.
Mrs. Matilda Rux (aged Sc years), her
daughters Jennie III years. and Mary (16
years. and John Labl1en (aged A years)
occupied the dwelling. AS the blast seized
the house and partly lifted it Mary sprang
from the door. The others started to fol-
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following editorial, which is self explana-

tory:
Now, that the great cyclones are over,
we think it is not out OF order to cali
special attention to the admirable way in
which they have been reported by the
United Press, whose service the Gazette
enjoys. The night of the cyclone in st.
Louis the Gazette received from the United
Press and printed the next morning one
of the fullest and most complete reports
of the storm that has ever been made of
anything of the sort. Lists of the build
ings DESTROYED, estimates of the loss, a
particular account of the track of the
storm and an excellent description of
it were among the features of
this report. 1t has been supplemented
since with the most definite and particu-
lar accounts of losses and the most ac-
curate details Of everything essential
to be known. OF course it is the business
of the United Press to gather news, but
the excellence of its service can only be
appreciated by a comparison of the ac-
counts it has sent out of this disaster with
the corresponding accounts sent out by
the Associated Press, and printed in the
Denver papers. This latter organization
seemed to be paralyzed by the size of the
event; the United Press rose to meet the
emergency, as it always does, and sent
out the best report of it which has ever
been given to a similar catastrophe.
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MANLEY DENIES Il RUMoR.
SGys the Convention Viii Undoubtedly
Be Held at st. LOUIS

SoJs tHe Convention Viii Undoubtedly
Be Held at st. LOUIS.
AUGUSTA, Me-, May 29-J. H. Man
ley was seen this afternoon in reference to
to dispatch from Washington saying that
Chairman Carter had called a meeting OF
the executive committee of the National
Republican Committee to settle the ques-
ton whether the National Convention
called to meet at st. Louis June 16 should
be deferred or removed to some other city
owing 10 the recent disaster at st. Louis.
Mr.. Manley said he had heard nothing
OF it; that he himself was chairman of the
executive committee, and in addition was
chairman OF the subcommittee which had
charge of all arrangements for the conven-
ton hall. He had received two dispatches
from st. Louis stating that the conven.
tion hall had not been injured; that it
would be ready for the convention on the
10th Of June. Mr.. Manley added:
''In my judgment the committee does
not possess the legal power to defer the
convention or change it. l have no doubt
that the convention will meet in the con-
vention hall erected for the purpose in st.
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SOME SMALLER CYCLONES.
Houses Demolished and Several Per-
sons Perish.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May ga dis
patch received to-day from the agent of
the st. Louis and Hannibal Railroad at
Bowling Green, Mo-, states that the tor
nado struck eight miles from that city,
unroofed the depot at Burryville, demol-
ished several houses and killed one
woman.
PERRY, o. T., May 29.-Pawnee, thirty
miles east of here, is reported to have been
struck by tornado which killed and in
jured half dozen citizens and smashed
all window-lights facing north and west.
Hailstones four inches in circumference are
said to have fallen and done great dam
age. Many houses and barns are reported
wrecked in tho country around Sheridan,
but no one is known to be dead.
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-30
Must Produce Certificates,

WASHINGTON, D. c.. May 29.-Attor-
neyGeneral Harmon has rendered two
opinions constituting recent laws regulat-
ing the return of Chinese to this country
In the case of Chinese Iabo rers he holds
that, if they don't return within a year,
they must produce certificates from the
Chinese Consul at the port of departure
from the United States; that their delay
in returning was beyond their control.
This case arose from Burlington, VT.
In the case of Chinese merchants the
second decision holds that they may pre-
sent certificate from the Chinese Govern
ment, or from the Government in which
they last resided, showing their right to re-.
enter the United States.
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ST. LOUIS SUFFERERS.
Contributions Received by The
Call" for Their Relief.

The sympathy for the sufferers by the
recent terrible cyclone at st. Louis is
evidently both deep and widespread. For
their relief the first contributions of San
Francisco are now just beginning to come
into the Office of THE CALL.
The sum of $l1 was received yesterday
from Cohl Brothers, Louis Cohn and H.
L. Judell, accompanied by the following
letter, addressed to the editor:
Dear Sir: Having read in the columns of
your valuable journal of the dreadful calamity
which has so recently befallen the inhabitants
OF the city of st. Louis, and realizing that
many of them are left in dire distress, we feel
that all possible aid should be given them.
We accordingly inclose herein the sum of SII
TO be applied TO their relief.
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CANNor BE BUILT.
Not Enough Money for a NesU Torpedo
Cruiser.

NOT Enough Money for NetU Torpedo
Cruiser.
NEW YORK, N. Y, MAY ga Herald
special from Washington says: Secretary
Herbert has given up the hope of being
able to build torpedo cruiser in accord
ance with the act of June 80, 1890. By this
act an appropriation of $3.50, 900 was made
for the construction of vessel of $50 tons
displacement, having a speed of not less
than twenty-three knots. The department
at the time was unable to find any one will
ing to build ship in accordance with the
provisions of this act, and the moaey has
remained unexpended.
Recently, Secretary Herbert gave con-
sideration to the act authorizing the con-
struction of this vessel. The matter was
referred to the chief of the Bureau of Con-
struction ana Repairs ana the chief of the
Bureau of Steam Engineering. and it is
their report that has caused the Secretary to
abandon the idea of building the vessel,
unless Congress agrees to make certain
notifications in the act authorizing her.
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MOSoOW YEr THRONGED.
But Soon There WiU Be a Transfer Of
Festivities to st. Petersburg.

Festivities to st. Petersburg.
MOSCOW, RUSSIA, May 29.-This morn
ing the imperial regalia which was used
in the coronation ceremonies in the
Cathedral of the Assumption last Tues
day were tranferred from the throneroom
in the Kremhn palace to their depository
in the treasury. The ceremony attending
the transfer was similar 70 that employed
last Monday, when the regalia was taken
to the throneroom. The regalia will
later be taken to st. Petersburg to be
used in the ceremonies which will take
place after the return of the Emperor and
Empress to the capital.
A reception was given to the distin-
guished ladies attending the coronation
festivities by the Emperor and Empress
at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon in the
palace of the KremIin. The weather con-
tinue6 bright and clear, and the streets
are still filled with visitors.
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low, but the roof fell and crushed them to
death. The surviving daughter stood on
the street, wringing her hands, frantic
from grief and refusing to be led away.
Neighbors told the story this morning.
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masses and before any rain falls. AT times
the storm will begin with roar of thun-
der. peal after peal. as if the elements
were marshanng for an onslaught behind
the cannonade
One OF the most graphic pen pictures of
. tornado ever produced was contributed
by John j: ingalls, to the Kansas Maya
zine, a publication which had cyclonic
existence in the early seventies. From
that description an artist might paint
tornado, indicating the fury of the light
ming and the trembling masses of angry
clouds. The hush or calm which imme-
dlately precedes the burst of tornado is
the most oppressive silence in the world
silence that one can feel. Not only do
men feel ii as a sort of premonition of
disaster, but dumb brutes, by that sense
which is called instinct in the absence of
any other definition, seem to understand
that peril is impending.
The United States Weather Bureau has
the following record of deaths by storms
IN the United States since 1890:
1890 076
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Louis on the 18th of June and proceed to
transact the business which calls it to-
gether"
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ROSTER OF The DEAD.

KtVIstu LISI OF FICtImS OF the
Disaster.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-, May 29.-The revised
list of the dead in this city as verified by
official reports at midnight is as follows
and may be regarded as absolutely correct:
Alclays August, August Attenmeyer,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-22
TOILET.


mo LET-Large front room with alcove,
IL hot and cold water, furnace heat, ba tn
room privileges. Inquire ii Henry str Get.
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OBITUARY..
william II. Fessenden.

Mr.. William II. Fesseuden the we'll
known tenor SO we'll and faovrably
known to many Portland people who he
has delighted in tie past with his beauti-
full voice, is dead. The Boston Journal
says very appropriately,
And yet the death of Mr.. W. H.
Fessenden will be, even to those VIII o
knew him only as singer, a personal
loss. There have been greater tenors in
concert; there have been many more
heroic figures on the lyric stage, and yet
Mr.. Fessenden had many natural gifts
that were denied to them. His voice Ia
anthem or ballad was always sympa-
thetic, and he had the ability to MAKE a
pronounced effect by this natural SYM
plicity aided by artful simplicity. In his
prime his singing in such widely opposite
parts as the tenor in St. Paul and the
reporter in Fatinitza showed fully his
resources, and in the last few years of his
life his musical intelligence often pre-
vented the hearer from noticing the cruel
marks of envlous time.
The same year calls and one goes hence
with another.
And men sit sad that were glad for
their sweet songs sake;
The same year beckons and elder with
younger brother
Takes mutely the cup from his hand
that we all shall take.
They pass ere the leaves be past or the
SHOWS be come.
And the birds are loud but the lips that
outsang them dumb.
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At Poland Springs.
Correspondence of the PRESS.

Correspondence OF the PRESS.)
Poland Springs, Sept. 81, ls9e.-Noth-
ing can be more delightful than these
clear September days at Poland Springs.
The doors of the Maine State Building
open to great number Of enthusiastic
visitors daily, and those who. after visit
ing the Art Gallery, climb to the tower,
are we'll repaid for the little exertion,
for from this height miles upon miles of
the natural beauties of the grand OLD
Pine Tee State can be easily scanned.
P. L. Chandler, of West brook, was at
the Mansion House Saturday.
There were about forty arrivals at the
Poland Spring House Saturday and Sum
day.
The Cutter Tower Company are dis
tributing some little boxes Of World s
Fair Sliverless T0othpicks, which are
unique souvenirs of Poland Springs.
On the front of the box is a picture of
the Poland Spring House, on the back
the Maine State Building as regretted
at Poland Springs, and on each side an
excellent cut of a half-gallon bottle of
Poland water. with the words Leads
ALL"
Kunrz's orchestra gave fine concert
Sunday evening with the following pro-
gramme:
Marche Militaire, Schubert
Andante from Surprise Symphony,
Haydn
Flute solo-souvenir de Opera,
Bricoialdi
Mr.. A. Brooke
lntermezzo-Naila, Delibes
Cello Solo
(a) Andante Religioso, Goltermann
OBJ La Cinquanatine. Marie
Mr.. e. Loef1er
Nocturno, Doppler
Mn Daniel Kuntz-Taader
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The Boston 81 Maine suburban sum-
mer service was withdrawn Sunday.
The change viii. go into effect on the
Boston & Maine, Maine Central and
Portland & Rochester Sunday, Oct. 4.
The freight business Is booming at all
the stations along the line of the Maine
Central railroad. Drummers are now
making their fall calls, and are getting
pretty fair-sized orders which only makes
the freight business better. Maine ap-
pies are shipped in large quantities from
various points in the State to the Boston
and New York markets. The apple crop
this year, is something unprecedented in
the annals OF appledom in Maine. so
there will surely be no scarcity in the
local market Maine apples Will not only
go to the markets of this countrys but
there will be bushels and bushels that
will be shipped to England.
Steam and street railroad business in
Maine has largely increased since 1890.
The numb of passengers carried with
over 1890, demonstrating that Maine is
becoming more popular each year as the
summer resort State of New England.
About 100 miles of street railroad r.,
now being operated in Maine.
The new Bangor s. Aroostook railroad
is rapidly becoming one of the most i'm
portant roads in the State, as regards
opening up new lands.
Preparations are in progress by the
Maine Genital for the construction near
Tewksbury's dock In Bangor of wharf
having 500 feet of frontage. for the use
of the Ashland mill company. and for
the extension to that point of the Maine
Central track which now traverses the
entire length of the wharves at High
Head. A survey has been made for a
track extending from High Head across
| the cove to the site of the Katahdin ice
houses, recently burned, thence through
Crosby's shipyard and across the Cassidy
g. Thissell mill var to the extensive
fats below, the shore front of which was
| long ago used as a dock for the repair of
vessels. On these flats there is room for
the piling of millions Of feet of lumber,
and wharf extending q short distance
| into the river would have sufficient
depth along it's front for vessels of good
size, while by little dredging berths
could be made for heavy tonnage. These
arrangements are contemplated for the
accommodation of the expected big out
put of the new Ashland mill.
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Portland Man in Trou BILE.

In the Saco municipal court Saturday
afternoon Walter Cushing Of Portland,
aged Is, was bound over to the supreme
court on the charge of attempting to
Lowell. The respondent claims he
wanted to call at Lowell's for food and
receiving no response when he raped at
the door he tried to enter the window.
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Nearly Lost.

Hiram G. Hadsdon, an old gentleman
who resides at 10 Stone street, wandered
off Sunday afternoon and came near be-
ing lost. He boarded the electric cars for
Morrills corner where he stopped and
went down into the large tract of woods.
There Mr.. Hodsdon became fatigued fell
hours when passersby rescued him and
took him home.
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To Offer a Reward of 100 Dollars
for a case of catarrh that cannot be cured,
amounts to nothing except to sell article. Do
you know of any such reward being paid? Elv
Bros. do not promise rewards in order to sell
their well-known Cream Balm" They offer
the most effective medicants, prepared in con-
venient form to use, which is absolutely free
from mercurials or other harmful drugs.
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ITO LET-Two or three tenements in the
Il western part OF the city (Sl6 per month
and upwards to $3.50. B. D. VERklLL,
Adm, 191 Middle street. 1871