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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-22
Domestic B1araers.


DEC 81 1897
NEW YORK-Ths Flour market-receiprs
~ lol bbls; sales 5000 PACKAGES market is
quiet, steady.
Flour quotations-city mills patents at 6b0
% WINTER patents 6O45 :city mills clears
ents . 4o4a 40; witer straits 6oCa4 rs; MINI.
pats 1918 80: do bakers 4 2OG04 40.
MWheat-recelpts loo, S26bush sales 1,32o, 900
lO2
Rye qnlet-yo Western 30.
+ Corn-recelpts ~, 800 bush: sales &C, ooo bus !;
quiet; May 81 1t-lG0aA i5-l6; Dec &C.
Oats receipts 292. 800 bush; sales 1000. 900
bush; dull; Dec &C: MAY =; track white at 200
$50.
Beef steady; familys9 5o@lo 90; extra mes
50a3 90; packed u0niO 90
Pork firm: new mess at 60G9 90; fami-
ly $40 0O@Sll.
Lard firm prime western steam s2la nomL
Sugar-raw strong; fair refining 8 e-l6c; Cen
trifugal 80 test 4 l-lUc; refined firm: Crushed
5sa c; Powdered i.s5-l6c; Granulated SAC.
GHICAG0-Cash quotations,
Flour steady.
Wheat-No spring s8lz @89Ac: Nos do at
S2@9ec, NO Red l 90. Corn-No2 at 264. c.
OatS--No at % t2c No 2 white 24pqt No
blaxs eed 1891 "a "a. Prime Timothy seed at
y d6. Mess pork at 7 60@7 90. Lard at 521a
.tq4 5b; short RIB sizes at AGA 1919. Dry
ssalted meats-shoulders 45s l14sn C; short clear
Sides at 4 771asg5 90.
Butter steady; creamy at 15(@21e; dairy IL
@2oc. Cheese quiet 81sc. iEggs trmi fresh at
zoe.
Receipts Flour 1000 bbls wheat 2eI 900
bus; corn llS,0uo bush: oats A13 900 bush
rye IL ,000itush; barley $4,000 bush.
Shipments.Flour LOCO bbls; wheat 5000
bush; corn $4,000 bush; oats 276,0UO bush;
rye O0U bush; barley 26 0Oo bush.
/ ST. LOUIS-Wheat-No 2 red cash elevator
at 99s4 C; track at Ooa1 OIL; No 2 hard cash
o7l48sc: Dec at %; May 96aa as1sc
Flour quotations :patents at 7CG4 80 straits
at 4 55G4 so: clear COCA 70 medium at 80
(037 70.
Corn-No cash at 2ec; Dec at zoe bid: May
. Oats 'hnigher-No cash elev 81 sac; track 20
Dec 22c bid May 1914 No white 24l4 @241a !.
DETRoIT-Wheat-N whitst 921ac No 2
Rea % Ac; Dec &C; May 93Me.
Eorn-No mixed at sc.
Dats-No white 2Gc.s
Rve-No at ~.
TOLEDo-W heat-No 2 cash and Dec 951ac;
May at -.
Corn-No 2,mixed 2S44c.
Oats-No mixed 22c.
Rye-No at 4612c.
Cloverseed-prime cash and Dec -.
MINNEAPOLIs-W Wheat December 92I4 c;
May 90Ac; MOI hard 94ac; NO North
ern at 9ac.
MINNEAPULIS-F lour--first patents l5@
5 %; second patents 8 00q5 10; first cleal at
DORA 10; second clears at 3oG3 10.
1DULUTH-Whe hard mo North
ern at 94c cash, May s1Mc; Dec 94A4c; No 2
Northern &C.
MIL.WAUK EE--W heat-No / Northern at
92c; No 2 Spring S7@Ss;Dec =; MY 92sa C.
Observation-Disclosures at 3 Dogs So. Cattle at
2 25a14 20.
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Portland tyBo,esais aIarxa

PORTLAND, Dec 81
The most prom nent feature of the business
situation, aside from the holiday rush. is the a :
tlyity in Wheat: the demand from abroad for
Wheat continues heavy and prices are irm with
a good gain for the week. There has been no
material advance here in Flour, although a very
firm feeling prevails; millers within few DAYS
have advanced Winter patents DC barrel anu
Spring about zoe. Sugars are strong at the re-
cent rise, and still high figures are anticlpat
ed; for the season the trade are buying freely.
Ii Provisions. the market for Pork is firmer at
previous figures, but Lard shows an advance of
"a C pound as compared with week ago Dry
fish are fairly active aud steady. Mackerel dul
and unchanged. In dairy products there are no
new feature; Butter Cheese and Eggs steady
with fair inquiry. Potatoes firm. Hay IS quiet
and freely offered; prices weak with a scarcity
OF choice. Apples command full prices Poul-
try in good supply and lower. Fresh Fish dull Sc
y ID for Coz, iaadock SAC, Hake l1ac. CuslI
&c, Halibut 1l@14c; Mackerel 13c; smelts &C.
Holsters at 16c y pound for boiled and lie for
live. Fresh Beef is dull and easy-we quote
sides 64ate71ac y tb, kinds at 7gllc, fores at
5h@61sc. rounds and TANKS 7@71se, loins
lo9l6c, rumpS and loins at 1O@I3c, backs GO
&c, rattles 41a@5c. lamps 6(@luc; mutton 7c-
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MISS HERBERT'S SUICIDE.
Laughter of a Former Cabinet Officer
Throws Herself From Window.

washington, December 21-.Miss Leila
iaerpere' daughter of ex-Secretary Her
oefV' oled at her home in this city this
morning as a result of a fall from the
thlro story of her home on New Hamp.
SHIRE avenue, one of the most fashionable
parts of the city.
Inls AFTERNOON the following authorized
statement was made by gentleman
famlliar with all of the facts of the case:
MISS Eerpert was suffering from acute
melancholla. 1t developed several weeks
ago, as the result of injuries received by
being thrown from her horse last spring,
The melanchol1a was not insanity in the
sense OF pelng accompanied by delusions.
At the same tllne there was profound
depression, ana as Is always the case in
this type Of disease there was great dan
ger that suicidal tendencies would de-
velop For this reason nurses were pro-
vided to maintain the closest Wntchful-
ness. No suicidal tendency deyeloned
however. until yesterday, when for the
first time. Miss Herbert made an attempt
to get out of the window, but was re-
strained by the nurse.
.iEarly this morning the nurse found
that Miss Herbert had severed the artery
of her wrist with pair of scissors. Feel
ing that the emergency was great, the
nurse FASTENED to the door and called an
alarm. In this momentary withdrawal
from the bedside, Miss Herbert lesped out
and sprang from the window.
s'The plunge was made headforemost
SO that she lighted on the top OF her head
on 1.-THE asphalt pavement. This injury
alone was sufficient to have caused death
from conclusion and it was doubtless the
immediate cause"
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TRIED TO KILL GEN. OSBORNE.

London, December 21.-Charles Helm
bola, son of the late DR.. Helmbold Of
New York city, the well-known patent
medicine proprietor, has been locked up
and Is awaiting trial at the Bow street
police station on charge of threatening
TO kill United States consul General Os-
borne.
During the last three weeks he has been
haunting the U. S. consulate, shabbily
dressed and demanding money. He told
% story OF the seizure Of his clothes and
effects by the Berlin consul for debt and
declared that Osborne was responsible for
the seizure.
He became SO importunate that last
Friday Mr.. Osborne ordered him to leave
the premises, whereupon he became VIC
lently enraged and shouted, Damn you,
I'll come back and shoot you
Helmbold returned yesterday and re-
peated his threats. Mr. Osborne sum
Inoned a police officer and had him ar
rested.
The physicians think him insane. He
has spent much time in London of recent
years, living high when MS family sent
him money and in deepest poverty be-
tween reInittances.
1t is supposed that the Berlin adven-
lures he describes are imaginary, and it
is said that his father became insane be-
fore his death. An attempt has been made
g. keep the affair secret for the sake OF
Helmbold S family.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-22
TRADING STAMP PEOPLE FINED.

Haverhill, Mass, December Judge
Carter this morning decided that the Civ
ing OF trading stamps to customers by
storekeepers was violation of the pro-
visions Of chapter 277 of the acts of 1884.
The decision was rendered in a test
which was brought to decide the legality
of the trading stamp business, which has
been carried on extensively in this city.
The defendant in the case was VIM f.
Thayer, and he was fined the minimum,
amount under the law $40, which he
promptly paid, thus making an appeal
impossible. In his decision. Judge Car
ter said that the giving away of trading
stamps to customers was stimulation of
gambling intinct to prevent which the
law had been especially framed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-22
LABRADOR AND HURoNA ARRIVE

The Dominion liner Labrador, Captain
Erskine and the Thomson steamship
HHrona, Captain Dorwood, arrived here
yesterday noon within a few minutes of
each other.
The Labrador had terribly rough time
of it, She left Liverpool on the 9th of
December and has had to fight against
head winds, adverse currents, and snow
and sleet storms during the entire pas
| sage. She was well ICED up, one of her
masts being incased to a thickness of
several inches while huge icicles hung
from her bow The decks were also
coated and, altogether, the big ship bears
out the statement of her officers that the
passage was one of the toughest they
have encountered for good while. The
Labrador stopped three hours in mid
ocean on account of some trouble with
got too near land and had to back away
from it. She arrived off the Cape shore
Monday afternoon but in the thick wealth
er that prevailed the pilots were unable to
lind her and she had to put out to sea
again.
She brings thirteen saloon, twenty two
intermediate and forty nine storage pas
sengers. Among those returning to
American soil was Caterer Weferling,
who has been visiting his old home for
ten months. He says the passage was a
terrible one and that nearly every one on
board was sick good part of the time.
He was heartily glad to get his feet on
Portland terra firma once more, and says
he doesn't care for any more sea voyage
at present. The handsome ship behaved
nobly, however, all the way over, and the
officers did rything in their power to
make the passengers as com Portable as
possible under the circumstances.
For cargo the Labrador brought about
AGO tons of general merchandise includ-
ing 400 tons of oranges for Canada. The
oranges were at once loaded into freight
rain which was in waiting and hurried
through to the West for the holiday trade.
The ship began taking grain at once and
work of discharging will be rushed day
and night. sssa@
The officers of the Thomson boat HUI
roma had much the same story to tell Of
their passage as did those of the Labra-
dor. Head winds and storms all the way
over. Captain Dorwood sailed his ship
from Newcastle upon-Tyne December s,
and as her only cargo was $50 tons of coal
taken on for ballast, her progress was very
slow. Like the other ship the Hurona ar
rived outside Monday. but was also I'M
able to find pilot. hence laid off and on
until yesterday. Her only passengers were
returning cattlemen.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-22
GETS TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
saco Girl WINS a Law Suit Involving
Large Amount.
(Biddeford Record.)

An item in the Denver, COL, Times
reads:
6 Judge Hayett has rendered decision
by which Miss Annie M. Dolly OF Saco,
Maine, can hold the property given to her
by DR.. J. S. Crasswell. His brother con-
tested the will on the ground that it was
made but a few days before his death,
after his mind had become affected. He
lett life insurance policy of $1,000 and
real estate estimated at $4,000, to Miss
Dolly
From what can be learned this after
noon it seems that there is no family of
Dolly's in Saco. There was family by
thissname some years ago but they have
moved to Pine Point. Evidently there
was typographical error in the Denver
paper for Miss Ann NJ Dolly turns cut
to be Miss Ann M. Dolby, a niece of Miss
Ann Melissa Dolby, one of the Bryant
heirs, who now lives with her aunt,
Miss Ann M. Dolby first, on Dyer street,
Saco.
Miss Dolby is a daughter of Albra
Dolby. deceased. About year and q
half ago she went to Denver, Col, for
her health and there was guest in q
doctor family where DR.. j. S. Croswell
was in the habit of visiting. Here Miss
Dolby, who is young woman about 27
years of age, becamce acquainted with
DR.. Croswell.
About six months ago Miss Dolby re
turned to her hcme in Saco and a month
or two ago DR.. Croswell died, leaving
his property to Miss Dolby. The will
was made few days before his death
and for this reason claims were made
that he was not of q sound mind and the
will was contested.
Miss Dolby heard of her legacy through
friend in Denver short time ago, and
action was taken to suhstantiate her
claim, she finally coming off the victor in
the legal fight.
Up to this forenoon some OF Miss Dol
by's relatives had not heard of the good
news of her winning the suit until the
clipping from the Denver paper was
shown them by Record reporter.
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.oRANaE IN GOOD CONDITION.
Reports at Annual Meeting Show Healthy
Growth.

Augusta, December 2l.-The State
Grange met promptly at ten O'Clock a.
m, and opened in the fifth degree. Most
of the forenoon was occupied in calling
the roll of subordinate and Pom ona
oranges. Otis Meader of Albion, Lester
Holwsy of Fairfield were appointed a
COMMITTEES on credentials, and l.. W. Jose
OF Dexter, A. G. Farnsworth of West
Pembroke and Joseph White of West
Bath committee on order of business.
Inc COMMITTEES on credentials made par
tlal report that there were present lab
masters and their wives. Arrangements
were made for trips to Togus and Insane
hospital. This afternoon State Master
Wiggln delivered his annual address and
reports of treasurer and executive com
mittee heard.
The report of the executive committee,
L. y. Shaw, Ansel Holway, b. II.
Briggs and l.. W. Jose, was a comprehen-
siye document.
A quiet but steady growth has been
going on with majority of the grange,
so that except in few instances the order
is stronger and more united than ever.
That the executive committee may keep
in touch with subordinate oranges, 1t is
recommended that all county deputies
communicate the standing of the several
oranges in their jurisdiction semi-annual'
ly .least to the master of the State
Grange and he to the executive commit
tee. This will enable the committee TO
act more Juciously in the expenditure OF
funds. More of an outlay is advised in
nursing and strengthening weak and dis
coulaged oranges. Stimulate the weak
oranges in every possible way.
The rigid enforcement Of the constltu-
tional law of the order is advised. The
strongest oranges in the state are those
abiding strictly to ritualistic discipline.
A more careful and scrupulous selec-
ton of grange officers is re recommended.
OF the oranges reporting to the COM
lnittee, 81 own their halls; SO do not: 9
own in part. The value of the halls
owned is S122.728; the value of grange
property owned by oranges owning no
halls, $l1, 20; and the value of halls
owned in part, 1876. The number OF
oranges owning libraries, 575; mum Der
not owning them, 1l6; number having
no property, 46. The executive commit
tee at its last meeting voted to receive
proposals at once for the manufacture OF
grange phosphates. Last years arrange
men5 was good one, over 800 tons being
sold at a very reasonable rate.
State Master Virgins annual address
was delivered before a large audience in
the afternoon, the exercises being public.
Secretary K. II. Libby submitted his re-
port, which shows a great gain in MEM
.bership. Treasurer Hunt in his report,
shows that there is balance of
50, 453. 10 in the treasury. The election of
officers occurs tomorrow.
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M A Rim IT. n H w
PORT OF PORTLAND.
TUESDAY. Dec 81.

TUESDAY. Dec 81.
Arrived.
Steamphp Labrador, Erskine. Liverpool
passengers and mdSe to d Torrance & Co.
Steamship Hurona (BD Dorwood, Shields
mdSe to II Reford s. Co.
Steamer State of Maine. Thompson, St John,
NIB. via PASSPORT for Boston.
Tug Triton. towing barge {nickerbockr, from
Norfolk, with 1900 tons coal TO Randall g. Nc
AlliSter.
Sch Walter Miller. Barton, St John, NIB, for
New York,
Lizzie d Small, Lamson, Apple River, Ms,
for New York. IT
Sch Myra b, st John, NIB, for Boston.
Sch Howard A Holder, st John, B. for Bog
ton.
Sch Hazelwood. Targis. st John. NIB. for New
York
Sch Lucy Calais for Boston.
Sen Harry Chester, Small, Machias for Ros
Sch Nettie Cushing Thomaston for New
York.
Sch Joe. Kelley. Calais for Scituate. D
sch Lydia M Webster Hooper, Camden-lime
to Cox & Ward
Sch Fanny Hall, Hutchins, Ranger for Boston
Sch Rosa L, Davis, Georgetown.
sen Carrie Miles, -cOastWlse.
Sens Emma Jane. with 10000 lbs fish; Wide
awake S,Ou0 do; Mariner, 10000 do; Minetta,
10000 do; Uncle Joe, 10000 do.
Cleared.
:, Steamship Norwegian, (Br) Gunson, Glasgow.
Fl & A Allan.
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$500 Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that scie nee has been able to cure in all it
stages and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being constitu-
tonal disease requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Caiarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation OF the disease, and giving the pa
and assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its curative
powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list
OF testimonials
Address. F. j. CHENEY & co: Toledo, O.
s5R- Sold by druggists, 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best,
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MORE TROUBLE WITH TURKEY.

Constantinople, December 21.-It ap-
pears that when the U. S. S. Bancroft
arrived at Smyrna, on the night of De-
cember 4, she was greeted with blank
cannon shot and rifle bullets from the
Fort of Yenikale.
A boat from the warship sent shore
wards to ask for explanations, was fired
upon and compelled to return.
Thereupon the American admiral lodged
protest with the United States minis
ter here, DR.. James B. Angel, who de-
manded the punishment of the guilty
parties and an apology from the Turkish
government which was given on Sunday
last. In addition two Turkish officers
were dismissed and sentenced to week S
arrest.
The entry of ships into Smyrna at
night is prohibited, but on this occasion
the lamps in the outer lighthouse were
still burning and the Bancroft stopped
when the requisite signals We're made.
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Boston & Maine r.. r.
In effect Oct. 4th, 1897.

Trains leave Union Station. for Scarboro
Crossing. 1000 a. M. 5.15. go pm; scarbo-
TO Beach. Pine Point, Z 90. 1000 a. M. 8: so.
deford. 100. $40. 70 90 a. NJ. i2. 30. $50
5;l5 $50 p. m: Kennebunk. 700, $40 a. M.
72 "a s;so; BIB $50 n; Ass6nnebunkport.
Wells Beach TOO, $40 a. M. $50. 5.l5 p. N. !,
North Berwick, somerswotth. Dov0r,T .O5,
ZOO: $40 q. m. 12.45, $50, SIS 6. m. |;
FnrminSton. Alton Bay. $40 a. M I246,
$50 D. M; Northern DIV. Lakeport, La.
Sonia. plymouth. $40 a. M; 72.45 p. NJ;
Maaehssior. Concord. via ROCKING l M !
Rockingham Junction. Exeter. Have.
n' oo ts1o hawo 9a heste a:o ffa o.
Arrive in Boston, 7.a5. 1915 m. 1S.5o %.
4.22. 7:25. .; m. Leave Boston for Port
land, 5.59. 1880 500. $50 a. H., LOO, 4.I5.
p. m. Arrive Portland, 1913, HOO a.
NJ, 1900. 1920. 500, 500 .. m.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Scarboro Beach. Pine Point, Gid Or
chard, saco, Biddeford, Kennebunk. Wells
Beach, 1855. 4.30 D. M; North Berwick.
Dover, Exeter, HaverII.n Lawrence, Low
ell. Boston. 4.05 q. M. 1856. 4.3o p. m. Ar
rive Boston, 7.25 a. m. 5.2S, $40 p. m. Leave
Boston for Portland 3.45 a. NJ, arrive Port.
land ITO q. m.
EASTERN DIVISION.
For Way Stations, a. NJ; Biddeford.
Portsmouth, Newburyport, salem, Lynn,
Boston, t20o 1900 a. H., s1.OU. 49, 10
D. m Arrive in Boston, SGT d. M. 1880
Ais, 1926 D. m. Leave Boston, for
Portland, so, 500 a. M. 1870, 100
D. m. Arrive Portland, 11,5o "a. M. 1915
4.30. 1920 p. m.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Biddeford. Portsmouth. Newbury-
port. Salem. Lynn. Boston. 200 a. H. 100
D. m. Arrive in Boston, 6.57 a. M. 4slo Pc N.
Leave Boston for Portlsnd. 500 a. NJ. 100
p. m. Arrive il Portland. 1926, 10. so
D. m.
tConnects With Rail Lines for New York
South and West.
TDaily except Monday.
sConlects with Sound Lines for New York.
Through tickets to all points for sale at Union
Station.
ID. J.FLANDERS. G. P. & I. A.. Boston
GEO. H. THOMPSON. Ticket Agent. Port
land.
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Philadelphia, Dee 21-TuglCampania left here
Yesterday for the purpose of stripping the brig
II II Wright, ashore on Cross Ledge. All her
small spars and rigging will be taken off. She
is in a bad position and the wreckars may not
be able to take her off. The tide GIBBS and flows
through her her.
Philadelphia. Dec 2I-Tug Campauta has re-
turned here with the sails and rigging taken
from brig H H Wright.
Eastport Dec 20-Sch Edith & May parted
chains ana carried away headgear by contact
with schr Velna
Greenport. IL, Dec 20-Sch Lucy, Nickerson,
from New York for Fall River. Is ashore on the
east end of Plum Islaud, iuli OF water.
Key West, Dec 20-Sch Frederick Roesner.
Wilson, from New York. reports bad weather
on the passage and lost and split sails.
st John, NIB, Dec l9-Sch Louisa A Board
man, OF Calais, which drlfted out from West
Quoddy Bay 10th, was picked up by tug Spring
hill and t0Wed to this port.
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FreIghUs.

The following are recent charters:
snip Florence, Philadelphia to San Francisco,
general cargo, p.t
Bark Ethe V. Bovnton New York to Ro ario,
case oil &c.
Sehr G. j. Wizard, Red Beach to New York,
p'aster, lump sum $500.
Schr Henry Crosby. Demerera to north OF
Hatreras, sugar 10@l1c
Schr CLARA E. Randall, Baltimore to Cay
Francis. coal 81 80.
Schr r. D. Bibber. Pensacola to New York
lumber Sc 37la.
schr NJ. v. B. Chase, Pascagoula to Boston,
lumber So 20, and timber 81 70.
Schr David Torrey, Hoboken to Warren coal
60c
schr Ell OF L. Dow, Perth Amboy to Portland,
coal soc.
Schr VIM. Johns On, Philadelphia to ortland,
coal 95c ana b. m.
Schr has. P. hoffman, Philadelphia to Bos-
ton, coal soc.
Sehrs W. B. Palmer, Mary E. Palmer. and
Sarah e. Palmer. Newport News to Boston, coal
81