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The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
LETTERS FROM Mr.. CHANDLER.
New Hampshire Senator Explains the
Charges Made Aginst Mckinley.

Washington, March 22.-United State
Senator William Chandler, in commu
nlcation to the Washington Post. asserts
that the interview that paper had with
him on the 18th led to much misrepre-
sentatio of the terms. ssThe New Yort
/ World'' he writes, published with quo.
tation marks words never used. I said
nothing unkind of Mr.. Mckinley per
sonally, but called attention to certain
methods of some of his managers, and
protested against their adoption"
The particular point of the Senator's
communication is to the effect that the
interests of the Republican party would
be seriously injured by demanding and
receiving large contributions in any
one's favor from the representatives of
protected interests.
He says: "Messrs. Reed, Morton, Quay,
Cullom, Allison, Davis and Manderson
are as devoted friends of protection as
Mr.. Mckinley, and the triumph of any
one of them would beysas sure guarantee
of "the enactment of judicious and
effective tariff laws as would be victory
of Mr.. Mckinley. For manufacturers
to contribute large sums of money to be
expended in the nominating of MI. Nc
Kinsley over any other candidate hitherto
named would be most unjust and un-
called for proceeding"
Concluding his letter. Senator Chand-
Ter says: The party should begin it's
new career sustained by high principles
and free from corrupt practices"
D.
to Representative Grosvenor, who said
Repeating the lie does not strengthen
it, OF add to it's vile character All parties
charged deny the truth of it, and no.
body 1 think, believed the original, or
will the repetition"
A CounterbaIancing Burden.
Columbus, Ohio, March s2.-Fred W.
Herbst. a prominent Republican, said
when shown Chandler's criticisms: 81
have felt for sometime that the promi-
lionaire with the Mckinley movement
was hurting us. When Mckinley was
candidate for Governor of Ohio the
first time, was a member of the state
committee Subscriptions to the cleo
tions came in in great numbers from
large manufacturing concerns. There
was big block of them@of $5, QUO each,
SIO,ooo chHie iioiu an CDloaRO steel con-
Germ. several Pittsburg corporations sent
US money. We had money to burn. |
think our campaign fund was $11O. 600.
l presume the Mckinley movement is be-
ing taken care of now by the same peo-
pie. / suppose the leaders are justified
in accepting It, but they must accept
with 1T the counterbalanoing burden that
! may be heavy to bear''
VIM. II. Hahan, a member of the ma
tional committee of Ohio, and one of
cKinley's most ardent political friends,
said Friday concerning Senator Chand-
ler's structures upon Mckinley that the
Senator was in his dotage and not to be
held strictly to what he said.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
Racing in French Waters.

Monaco, March 22-The racing here
today was perfectly uninteresting owing
to the fact that here was not enough
wind to permit yachts to finish before
sun down. The Britannia was first to
cross the line. She held lead through
out the day, and won the race as dusk
was closing in. The second race for 90
raters was won by Ogden Goelet's Sam
phire. The prize won by the Ailsa yes
terday in the race from Cannes to Nice
was 600 pounds. The prize won by the
oamphire in the 20-rater class was 400
pounds.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
Germans style News.

Berlin, March 22.-Herren, Setsche.
Hitler Eand Tschemert, have been con.
victed of stealing and furnishing to the
Socialist organ, Vorwaerts a copy of the
Emperor's edict granting amnesty to
certain prisoners on the occasion Of the
celebration OF the 25th anniversary of
the founding ofsthe empire, January 18th.
Setsche and Hitler were sentenced ia
three months imprisonment and Tsohs-
inert to one month.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
An Unsafe Bridge Replaced.

Portsmouth, N. H.. March ga new
iron bridge was put in place today across
the Great Works river on the Western
division of the Boston & Maine railroad
between Conway junction and Agame-
nticus. The old structure was rendered
unsafe by the recent floods. it being near
ly washed away
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
TAXES ON MAINE RAILROADS.
Maine Central Pays Most Money and b. g.
A. Shows Biggest Gains.

Augusta, March 22.-The excise tax on
railroads doing business in Maine dur
ing the past year was S152. s69.72 against
s144, 962.91 for the previous year. The
largest tax was on the Maine Central,
S67, ,066.
The tax on the Boston & Maine was
s65, o93. The Bangor & Aroostook showed
the largest gain over the previous year,
from S613 90 to So, 9091S.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
SMITH WAS BOUND TO DIE.
His Third Attempt at Dissecting His
Throat With Jack Knife.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.J

Bath, March 22.-At little before s
O'Clock this morning, Charles Smith of
this city was found in his bed with the
clothing pulled up over his head and his
throart cut, the dead having been done
W ith the aid of pocket knife while
he was in fit of dependency. Doctors
Turkey and Snipe attend ed him and it is
believed he will recover.
This is at least his third attempt at
suicide, he having cut his throat with
razor last fall.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
The Massachusetts is Aup;.,,.

Philadelphia, Pa, March s1.-The snt-
tleship Massaohusetts on her builders
trial trip on the Delaware Capes, yester
hour. Her contract speed in Is knots.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
Doesn't Tell Who Won.

Madrid, March 22.-A despatch to I'm
parcial from Havana says that Gen. Villa
had another severe fight with Maceo's
force in the vicinity of Bahia H onda,
westward of Havana. No details are
given.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
An American Missionary Dead.

Constantinople, March 22.-A reporter
In this city of the United Press learns
that Rev. John E. Smith. one of the
American missionaries at Marsovan, died
from influenza Friday last.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
Schooner Kranz Floated and Towea In

New York, March 22.-The schooner
John +. Kranz, Providence for Philadel.
phia, which went ashore on the northern
point of Barnegat Thursday night. was
6oated today and passed IN al Sandy
Hook this evening in tow.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23

Maine Schooner Blown From Her Course
Vineyard Haven, Mass. March ss.-Tbe
ship SD. Carleton of Rockport. Me
Capt. Amesbury, London, FEBRUARY !
for New York, arrived here this eyeninp.
blown from her course by heavy weather''
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
A Meeting

OF the Primary and intermediate Sunday
School Teachers will be held with the Portland
Primary Union at Chestnut ST. M E. Church
Portland, on Wednesday, March 25th, com.
mencing at 10 O'Clock a. M, and continuing
through the day.
All Primary and intermediate Sunday
School Teachers are invited to attend
MRS E. A. DE GARMO,
President Portland Primary Union.
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The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23

A Son Born to Mrs. Beale. 5E3
Augusta. March 22.-A son, Walker
Blaine, was born to Mrs. Iruxton Beale,
Sunday morning.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
TO CURE A COLD INoNE DAY.

Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
all druggists refund the money if it fails
| to cure. Zoo.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
THE WEATHER

Boston, March 22.-
Local forecast for Mon
day: Fair; colder !;
westerly to northerly
Winds.
Washington, March
%. Forecast for Mon
day for New England {:
Fair; colder; moderate
cold wave; northwest
erly winds.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
TO THE WINNING SIDE.

But Mckinley has no more right to
claim these uninstructed votes than any
other candidate.
A distribution of the delegates SO far
ele cted, taking into consideration in
structions, controlling influences at
home and personal preferences, shows
the following result:
Mckinley 11o; Morton, 80; Allison,
39; Reed, a8; Quay, 19; Cullom, 10.
Total 249. This leaves As delegates who
are any body's "game." Some of them
will go to Mckinley. unquestionably, but
some of them will be scattered among
Morton, Allison and Reed. Then, again,
some of the southern delegates in this
floating category will be drawn to the
support of the candidacy of Bradley of
Kentucky, whose candidacy within As
hours has become new and threatening
danger to Mckinley.
The great danger to Mckinley lies in
the fact that there are to be SO many
contesting delegations to st. Louis. MIR.
Platt said tonight that there would be
between 100 and $50 contests in the con.
vention. There are already 56 seats con
tested. Of these contests, two are by
Reed and Morton delegates from Ala
bama,. six are from Florida, four oontes-
tants being Morton men, one Reed and
one Allison; two anti Mckinley delegates
from Georgia will contest and from
Louisiana there
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23

+. The 18th district of Texas elected un-
Instructed delegates to the Republican
national convention Saturday.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
ARE SIX CONTESTANTS.

The IA delegates elected in Mississippi,
are claimed by Mckinley, and not one
instructed for him, but are contested. There
are two contests by anti-Quay delegates
from Pennsylvania, and 16 contests from
Texas
There are also 10 contests from New
York. These last mentioned disputes are
encouraged by the Mckinley men, who
hope thus to get 20 votes away from
Platt. There will be food of other CON
tests from the South as soon as the con-
venti ons are held in Alabama, South
Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina and
Tennessee
The Mckinley men are preparing to
dispute Bradley's claim in kentucky tc
be favorite son, and If they cannot
elect the delegates will endeavor to con.
test every district. Thus it will be seen
that 1t is anybody's fight yet, and the
combine that controls the national com.
mittee when the roll is made up will
have tremendous advantage.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23

If you care for a flexible
shoe, a tackless shoe, a COM
Portable shoe, buy a pair OF
Goodyear Welts. Sold by
dealers everywhere. Millions
wear them.
GOODYEAR SHOE MACH'Y co. BOSTON
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
THE AWARD OF. THE SPoILs.
Biddeford's New City Coun Ill Distributin
the Patronage Within Its Control.

ESPECIAL TO THE PRESS. !
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23

Great Danger to Him Lies in Contesting
Delegations-Already Sc Seats Are in
Contest-There Will Be Flood of 9th
ers-Combine Controlling National Com
mittee Will Have Tremendous Advantage.
New York. March 22.-The New Herald
today publishes the following as to the ma
tional political situation: What progress
is Mckinley making in his great effort TO
force his nomination on the first ballot
at the Republican national convention
is he saccding; has he made it apparent
that he will win2 The New York Her.
aid here endeavors to answer the question
without bias. The Mckinley shoutsrs
have begun to claim the nomination OF
their favorite without doubt. They are
| adopting the tactics of Blaine and Grant
when they had the field pitted against
them. They are claiming everything
On this and that hand the managers OF
Reed Morton and Allison declare thai
McKinley's actual strength is much less
than is claimed. The Mckinley mel
assert that their candidate will have sol
votes on the first ballot The anti -McKin
Icy managers say that he cannot posi-
bly, get more than $50 votes on tha
ballot. AS there will be at least 80!
votes in the convention, of which ma
iority will be 455, the Mckinley men, ac
oording to their claim, will nominal,
their candidate on the first poll, whilt
the opposition places
HIS HIGH WATER MARK
at more than 100 less than majority
The number of delegates elected up te
today was 294, a little less than one
| third of the convention. The delegates
elected the last week numbered 90, as
follows: New York, A; Wisconsin, IA;
Kansas, 2; Indiana, 26; Pennsylvania, Q
Ohio, q
The states which have elected delegates
so far are as follows: Alabama, 2; Ar.
kansas, Is; Florida, Q; Georgia, Is; Illi-
nois, 12; Indiana, 26 Iowa, 26; Kansas,
Is; Louisiana, Is; Missouri, 2; Mississ-
ippi, IA; New York, 81; Pennsylvania,
90; Ohio, 26; South Carolina, 2; Texas,
90; Wisconsin, 49,; District of Columbia,
2; total, 1894.
Dismissing the Mckinley claims as
extravagant, and the declarations of the
anti Mckinley men as biased, careful,
examination of the situation shows that
Mckinley has the hardest sort of fighting
ahead of him to win. The Mckinley
men are claiming every delegate not
instructed for some other candidate.
They unqUestionably will get some of
these in case Mckinley demonstrates on
the first ballot cast in the convention
his ability to win. There will be many
delegates who will jump
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
Call at L0VEJ0Y, The jewelers.,

and have your Watches, Clocks and Jewel
ry repaired.
French clock repairing specially. First
class work. Low prices. Twelve years with
American Walthap Watch Co. NO. 666
CONGRESS STREET. Drop me card and 1
Will call and get your clock and return it.
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The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
NO MESTAKING ITS MEANING.
Platform of New York Republican
State Convention.

VIII Make An Unqualified Declaration
Against Free Silver -McKinley's Name
PIatt
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
THE HERALD'S REVIEW.
Mr.. Benefits Paper Discusses Presi.
Dental Situation.
SAYS MCKINLEY HAS HARDEST
SORT OF FIGHT AHEAD.

Great Danger to Him Lies in Contesting
Delegations-Already Sc Seats Are in
Contest-There Will Be a Flood of 9th
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-07-15
Surgery In the Middle Ages.

In the middle of the twelfth century
priests were the only doctors. By an
edict of the council Of Tours surgery
was separated from medicine and the
practice Of the former forbidden to the
clergy. The latter then employed their
BARRIERS to perform surgical operations.
This arose from the fact Of the monks
having their heads shaved frequently
and observing the 'dexterity acquired BY
the BARRIERS in the use Of edge tools
The knights of the razor, from cupping
and bleeding, passed on to tooth draw
ing and finally to other operations re-
quiring skill and dizziness, if not muca
knowledge. They knew practically moth
ing Of anatomy. tits said surgery was
denied to the clergy by a canon of tie
church which forbade them to shed
blood. This was considered the dark age
Of medicine, and somber indeed It
must have been to the worthy citoyeh
who, perhaps, placing himself in THE
hands Of his barber for relief, might, at
the same time that he was getting rid
Of a tumor, also part company with his
hedl-Exchange
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-07-15
The Pull of p Fish.

stWhat I want. y said an angler, is q
rigging Of some sort tomeasure the pull
Of fish. If pound fish pulls pounds
3 ounces, want to know it, and if a 5
pound fish pulls only 8 pounds ounces
Iwant to know that too. A joker wrote
to sportsman's paper the other day to
tell of an invention to measure the size
of the fish that ere lost That is where
this pull measure machine would be
good too. 1t would have to be self regis
tering, OF course.
Everybody laughs when any one
says he lost a big one. I've lost fish of a
sizeI never dared tell Of just because
Of the bad name a fellow gets for tell
ing Of such things. ] could tell Of and
Z pound trout in Canochogola lake up
in the Adirondacks, but what's the use?
Why, say, I've seen trout just
then he remembered himself and began
to talk about a grizzly king fly with a
yellow tail.-New York Sun.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-07-15
The Glacier Of the Dead Plain.

The finest scenery in this part of our
journey, at the west end Of the famous
Bernese oberland, was that Of the gla-
cief of the great Dead plain. We did
not see it until we were on its edge and
the white expanse spread before us. It
fills kind Of elliptical hollow, some
two miles long by mile wide. Once
on its smooth, large surface the external
world is shut out by a ring of low
mountain wall Not a trace of human
activity can be seen many direction.
The largeness, simplicity and seclusion
OF this strange snowfeld make it unique.
We traversed its longest diameter. The
snow fortunately renamed hard
throughout the hour Of our passage,
thanks to cool breeze and yelled
sun. The surface was beautifully rip
pied and perfectly clean.-''A Thou
sand Miles Through the Alps by Sir
w. M. Conway, in Scribner's.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-07-15
Controlled by Watches.

Paul du Chaillu, the African explor-
er, tells how he once controlled race
of savage cannibals while he was on the
dark continent. He had number of
Waterbury watches, whose ticking com
pletely nonplused the savages and
caused them to regard him as spirit.
He made practice of leaving one of
these watches in 4 village where he had
stopped After awhile the watch, of
course, ran down and stopped, and the
cannibals said that the spirits had gone
to overtake their master: When Du
Chaillu returned to these villages, he
always got the watch that he had left
behind him and, unobserved, wound it
up again. The natives heard the ticking
continue, swore again that the ex-
plorer was a spirit and did their utmost
to please him. s5s
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-07-15
Ben Wade on Davis.

When Ben Wade Of Ohio was the
presiding officer of the senate, he used
occasionally to call some senator to take
the chair and relieve himself by walk
ing up and down in the lobby which
runs back of the senate chamber Once
while thus walking he was overtaken
by a certain carpetbag senator from one
of the southern states, who occupied the
identical chair that Jefferson Davis had
used while member of the senate.
Walking along by the side Of Wade, he
rubbed his back YEARLY and said:
"Wade, these senate chairs are the most
uncomfortable things I ever saw. My
back is positively blistered from sitting
in mine" Wade looked at him for a
moment, and, as he turned away, NUT
tered, "Davis left enough brains in the
seat Of that chair to blister the backs of
two or three such men as you are. D.
San Francisco Argonaut.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-07-15
When They Began to Write.

It is astonishing the number of Sue
cessful writer's who were well on in
years before they even thought of adopt
ing literature as a profession. Thomas
Hardy was 81 before he began to turn
his attention to story telling George
Eliot was 40 before she wrote line Of
fiction, having no faith in her powers
as story teller. Barry Cornwall was
IS before he thought Of writing verse.
Jules Verne was 35 before he wrote his
first story. Rider Haggard started at
S6; Mr.. Barrie and Conan Doyle at 81;
Grant Allen at 80, and Sir Walter Be-
SAINT and Mr.. G. Manville Fem at 80.
George Meredith was nearly 35 when
he began to write stories in his own pc
culiar style.-New York World.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-07-15
ART IN ST. PETERS.
There Are Few Pictures or Frescoes In
the Great Cathedral.

There Are Few Pictures Frescoes In
the Great Cathedral.
Nothing perhaps is more striking as
one becomes better acquainted with ST.
Peters than the constant variety Of de-
tail. The vast building produces at first
sight an impression of harmony, and
there appears to be remarkable uni
formity of style in all the objects one
sees.
There are no oil paintings to speak Of
in the church and but few frescoes The
great altar pieces are almost exclusively
fine mosaic copies of famous pictures
which are preserved elsewhere. Of these
reproductions the best is generally con-
sidered to be that of Guercino's est.
Petronilla' at the end of the right aisle
of the tribune. Desbrosses praises these
mosaic altar pieces extravagantly, and
even expresses the opinion that they are
probably superior in point of color to
the originals, from which they are cop.
led. In execution they are certainly
wonderful, and many stranger looks
at them and passes on believing them
to be oil paintings
They possess the quality of being i'm
perishable and beyond all influence of
climate or dampness, and they are mas
terpieces of mechanical workmanship.
But many will think them hard and
unsympathetic in outline and decidedly
crude in color. Much wit has been man.
ufactured by the critics at the expense
Of Guido RENTS michael, for in
stance, and as many sharp things could
be said about good many other works
Of the same kind in the church. Yet,
on the whole, they do not destroy the
general harmony. Big as they are, when
they are seen from little distance, they
sink into mere insignificant patches of
color, all but lost in the deep richness
Of the whole. Marion Crawford in
CentT7rv "a,
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-07-15
ssBulls'' Not Irish.

! These who are not Irishmen some
times trespass on irish property. A
French cure. preaching about sudden
death, said, THUS it is with us-we go
to bed we'll and get up stone dead!''
An old French lawyer, writing OF an
estate he had just bought, added,
There is chapel upon it in which
my wife and wish to be buried, if God
spares our lives =
"A merchant who died suddenly left
in his bureau a letter to one. of his cor
respondents which he had not sealed.
His clerk, seeing it necessary to send
the letter, wrote at the bottom, Since
writing the above have died. =
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-07-15
POWDER FOR CANNON.


W. 1ltxture 11,at y M . urn slowIyb H..
For HiEgs .ss
The great trouble with. powder ia
cannon was soon found to be that tick
erted all its force too suddenly, SO that
laall the strain came on one end of the
lsgun. When gnnpowder is get on fire, il
TURNS suddenly into gas, and the gas
needs about 800 times the space that
the solid powder occupied The explo-
sion Of ordinary gunpowder is so sud-
den that for moment that part Of the
gun around the powder charge has to
hold the big volume Of gas squeezed
down under enormous pressure until the
shot can make a start to get out Of the
gun and make room for the gas. If,
therefore, gunpowder could be made
which would burn little slower, SO
that it would not all be burned until
the shot reached the muzzle, the gas
would be more gradually formed and
the strain be distributed all along the
gun. Such powder was first made in
Germany and was first called cocoa pow
der, because it resembled in color and
general appearance cake of chocolate
Its method Of manufacture was kept Sc
cret, but other countries analysed the
grains and soon learned to. make it even
better than Germany. It is made partly
by changing the proportions of the in
gradients, making them about 70 per
cent saltpeter, 8 per cent sulphur and
18 per cent charcoal, but mainly by
using an underlined charcoal, thus
giving the powder its peculiar color.
Thus there arose division of gunpow-
der into quick and slow burning pow
ders. -
It was not alone necessary to make
powder which would burn more slowly,
but if possible to make one burn SO that
more gas would be forming when the
shot got near the muzzle than was
forming when it started from the breech,
because there is more room behind the
shot when it nears the muzzle, and it
therefore takes more gas to keep up the
same pressure against its base.
To accomplish this and to- make the
grains lie SO that there should be spaces
evenly distributed among them to al
low the fame to reach every grain at
once, causing all of them to begin run
ming together, grains were made of reg
ular shapes, and each shape was tried
to see how nearly it gave the desired
results. Thus there have been used
round grains, square grains, sphere
hexagonal grains, cylindrical grains
and prismatic grains. Of course it is
impossible to make grain which will
have more and more surface to burn the
smaller it gets, SO the best result which
has thus far been obtained is only an
approach to it, and this is obtained
with a hexagonal prismatic grain about
1 inch high and " inches in diameter,
with hole or several holes through it.
Lieutenant John M. Ellicott in St
Nicholas. ..s@s,sss s -