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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-11
BY #. 0. BAILEY s. CO., Auctioneers.
STABLE AT AUCTION.

On Tuesday June 10Th at q 80 p M. we
shall sell the stable at No % Carlton ST. Is in
first class conditions slate roof. ETC. cost $1,000.
Full particulars regardnz removal, etc. at
sale ie9dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-11

Pennington recently held a town meet
ing to put stop to the killing of sheep
by dogs but it didn't brighten the dogs.
Recently 80 sheep and lambs were killed
by dogs belonging to Mr. E. G. Gay,
proprietor of the hotel Willows. The sheep
were the property of Luce and Mosher.
Mr.. Gay promptly offered to pay for the
sheep and dispose of the dogs.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-11

living a life of
uninterr u p t e d
h e a | t h. The
aches, pains and
troubles so COM
mon to his civ
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-11

Lobster fishing in Steuben bay has been
a failure this spring. A man with 70
traps gets but five or six marketable lob
sters to a haul. 1t is going to be hard on
some but probably they will do better lat
er on. Over $3.50 has been expended on
lobster boats in this place within year.
Every trap costs dollar or more when
ready to go into the water, and each man
can use about 100 traps, and we have 20
or 30 men in the lobster business in our
bay, so you see there is lot of money in
vested, but the fishermen are not getting
anything out of it. The past winter
many of the lobster fishermen are said
to have barely made expenses; and this is
the season when they expect the best re-
suits. Evidently the lobster is becoming
exterminated. -Machias Union.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-11

mas become exterminated will serve to
keep his memory green.
The Indian is typically perfect man,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-21
Tragedy in New York.

Sackett's Harbor, N. Y, April ia
horrible crime was committed near here
some time Thursday night. During the
afternoon or evening George Allen, a
steward at Madison barracks, hired a
horse and carriage and took two wom-
en- out driving. One of his companions
was young lady OF Sackett's Harbor,
Miss May Daily, and the other was a
divorced woman, Mrs. Crouch. At $3.50
o'clock Friday morning the horse came
back to the livery stable, drawing the
carriage, with the bodies of the two
women at the bottom of it. About this
time Allen came staggering into the
barracks in weakened condition, and
he, too, is expected to die. He has made
an ante-mortem statement to the eff
feet that Crouch, husband of the di-
vorced woman, assaulted the whole
party, murdered the two women and
wounded him (Allen).
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-21
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
CONGRESSIONAL.

Proceedings of the Special Session.
The senate met at noon on the 18th, but
adjourned Immediately as a mark of respect
to the late Senator voorhees,. and that
many of the senators might attend the
funeral.
Senator Morgan (Ala.) concluded his long
speech in the senate on the 18th on the
resolution declaring that state of war
exists in Cuba Senator Pettigrew Is. d.
introduced a bill providing for the creation
of 40 new executive departments of the
government. The bankruptcy bill was fur
Their discussed. Senator Chandler IN. H.)
introduced bills empowering the secretary
of the navy to take possession of the
armor plants of the Bethlehem and the
Carnegie companies. The house was not
in session.
A test vote on the tariff question in the
senate on the 14th showed a majority of
one in it's favor The Indian appropriation
bill was discussed. A message was received
from the president urging that suitable
provision be made for adequate representa-
ton of the United States at the Paris ex-
position in 1900 The nomination Of James
II. Angel, of Michigan, to be envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary
of the United States to Turkey, and of
George d. Meiklejohn, of Nebraska, to be
assistant secretary of war, were received
from the president. :. The house was in SEES
sion but ten minutes and then adjourned
until the 18th without transacting any
business.
The senate spent the time on the 18th
considering the Indian appropriation bill,
but did not complete it, Senator Davis en-
deavored to secure unanimous agreement
upon a time to take a vote upon the Anglo
American arbitration treaty, but failed.
Senator Hansbrough introduced bill au-
thorizing the appointment of committee
to introduce and populariZe the bread
foods of the United States among the peo-
Piles Of the orient. The house was not in
session.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-21
Test Vote ON the Tariff.

Washington, April 15.-The first
skirmish on the tariff question oc-
CURED in the senate Wednesday. 1t was
followed by vote which served as a
test of strength of the various elements
of the senate. The vote occurred on q
motion by Senator Morrill, (rep., VT,
chairman of the committee on finance,
to refer a resolution by Senator Vest
(Mo.) one of the democratic members
of that committee. This made the issue
between representatives of the two
leading elements in the senate. Aside
from this, the resolution was in the ma
ture of criticism of Secretary Gage
and declared illegal his recent order
relative to goods imported after April
1, when according to the retroactive
clause of the pending Dingley bill, the
nav tariff rates are to apply. Senator
Morrill's motion prevailed by the close
vote of "a to 3d.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-21
FOREIGN.

Jose Gonzelas Carlos, charged as an
insurgent incendiary, was shot in Ha-
vana.
The Havana press comments favor
ably upon an offer said to have been
made by the American government to
intervene amicably in Cuba.
1t is said that peace negotiations in
Cuba have been checked by the refusal
of Gen. Gomez to receive the three COM
missioners appointed by Gen. Weyler.
A dynamite explosion in deep mine
at L'Langlaarte, Africa, killed eight
English and 26 native miners.
Ten persons were killed through an
explosion of fire damp in the ODER
hansen pit near Essen, Germany.
The Turkish government has formal
ly informed the Greek government that
any further raid of irregulars into Turk
ish territory would be regarded as a
declaration of war upon the part of
Greece.
Car Nicholas, of Austria, says that
nothing now remains but to abandon
Turkey and Greece to their fate and
leave them to measure strength.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-21
DOMESTIC.

"Panamit Tom," an old Indian chief,
killed three men at Panamit, Cal, in a
quarrel over mining property claimed
by the Indian which the white men had
jumped.
President Mckinley announced the
appointment of Senator Wolcott, of Col
orado; C. j. Paine, of Boston, and eX-
Vice President Stevenson, of Illinois,
as commissioners to AN international
monetary conference.
It is said that the sweeping orders
of President Cleveland effecting a con-
sclidation of the pension agencies will
be revoked.
An effort to abolish capital punish
ment for murder in Iowa was defeate !
in the legislature.
A cave said to extend over an area
greater than that of the Mammoth cave
in Kentucky has been discovered at
Castalia, o.
The funeral services over the remains
of the late ex-senator Daniel w. Voor-
hees were held at st. Johns Episcopal
church in Washington, after which the
remains were taken to Terre Haute,
Ind, for burial.
Charles L.. Wood confessed at Pitts
burgh, Pa, 20 having placed $500, 900 in
surance of aged and decrepit men since
January with the policies all assigned
to himself.
Earl Gray Wilson, the newly elected
mayor of Morrow, O., is only 81 years
old.
Senator Voorhees, body lay in state in
Terrc Haute. Ind, and thousands of
persons viewed the remains.
Fire swept the mill town of Toma~
hawk Lake, Wis, ten buildings being
destroyed.
Paul GEM was hanged at Jersey City,
N. j., for killing his mistress, Clara
Arnim, in Hoboken August %, 1894, and
John Mackin, Jr., was executed for kill
ing his wife and her mother, Mrs.
Bridget Connors, on February 81, 1896.
The Greater New York charter bill
was passed by the New York Legislature
over Mayor Strong's veto.
Harvey and James Smith were
drowned near Omro, Wis, by the cap
,izing of their boat. and Otto and John
cnyuer iHeC ike late hSdi EIooid, Ia
East Omaha and North Omaha, Neb.,
we're flooded by the waters that were
rushing from the Missouri river and
the residents fled for their lives, leaving
their possessions behind.
A delegation representing the Ten
nessee exposition called on President
Mckinley and extended to him and his
cabinet an invitation to be present at
the opening exercises at Nashville
May 1.
The work of mnsealing the steel caslet
in the temporary tomb of Gen. Grant
was finished in New York and every
thing is in readiness for the removal Of
the body to the crypt of the new tomt
pm the 27th inst.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-21
AS DUN SEES IT.
The Trade SituatiOn-Big Increase In
Imports.

mPOEtDs
New York, April 17.-R. G. Dun &c
Co.. in their weekly review of trade,
say:
IAN undeclared war between Greece and
Turkey has been more responsible than any
other single cause for the changes in busi-
ness this week. The progress of Missis-
sfppi floods does not change the price Of
cotton. and settlement Of the more impor-
tant labor difficulties has revived works
suspended last week
1.-THE temporary decrease in exports and
large increase in imports at New York
cos per cent for the month) caused uues-
tons about the financial future which have
not much influence as yet. The increase
in imports ($9,9OO.0OO, or over Is per cent.
from last year, and s17,100,0O0, or 28.9 per
cent. from February, If long continued,
may embarrass some branches of business,
but can hardly exhaust balances remain
Ing from the unprecedented excess Of mer-
chandise exports, $685., 3S1, $40 in nine r:onths
ending with March.
The wheat market, after it's decline Of
SIX cents last week, was prepared to rise
with prospects of European war and in
creased purchases for export and has risen
4.S7 cents since last Friday. Exports for
the week are very small, and Cor two weeks
but little greater than last year, while
corn exports continue over three times
those of last years, for two weeks $685. OBS
bushels, against 1861, 1893 last year. the price
advancing less than one cent Western re-
ceipts of wheat are larger for the week
and for two weeks as large as last year,
and the government report indicates con-
siderably larger yield than that of 1896,
which has Sufficed to meet an extraOr-
binary demand. Cotton has scarcely
changed during the week Of unprecedent
hoods, thong this years crop will be ma
terially diminished unless the water soon
subsidies But there are numerous indf-
cations that in other parts of the south
large acreage Is being planted. The
great sale of 1900 pieces of cotton goods
was considered satisfactory, as prices av-
eraged but five to eight per cent. below the
current market and better general de-
mand Is expected. Print cloths sell slowly,
without change Wooden mills are doing
little more, though much machinery Is
idle and there is scarcely any buying of
qualities recently advanced
THE output of pig iron increases, though
10 furnaces stopped in March as others
with larger capacity started. and the week
ly production April l was 1929 tons,
against 169,9S6 last year. While 20 per cent
below the greatest ever known, the output
is 81 per cent. larger than October l. and
stocks unsold increased scarcely any,
though the largest on record. The demand
for nails and wire continues heavy, and
In spite of large transactions in the past
in structural work and rails is still fair
While there is much doing in machinery
Tor export to Russia, Japan and South
Africa.
Failures for the week have been 207
in the United States, against 222 last year,
ana ~ In Canada, against Sc last year."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-21

Near the town of Encrucijada, Cuba.
Spanish troops destroyed the property
owned by the wife of the British vice
consul. Mr.. Harris, and tore up an
American flag which the manager of
the estate, George Harris. who is an
American citizen, had draped over his
bed.
United States Consul Little tele-
graphs from Tegucigalpa. the capital
Of Honduras, that revolution has
broken out and that the republic is now
under martial law.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-21
Bank Cashier Murdered.

Somersworth, N. H., April 17.-While
resisting the entry of two desperate
and determined robbers, and during
heroic but futile struggle to protect
$15O,OOO or more in money and securi-
ties in the compartments OF the open
vault of the Great Falls national bank
of Somersworth Friday afternoon,
Cashier Joseph A. Stickney was struck
down and brutally murdered near the
desk which he had occupied for years.
After killing Stickney, the murderers
rarsacked the vault and fled with all
the cash it contained with the exception
of a five-dollar gold piece. AS near as
can be estimated, about $4,000 was
taken, but it is possible that the loss
will considerably exceed this sum, as
no one but the dead cashier knew the
exact amount that was in the lnstrtu-
ton ait the time.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-21
HOSTILITIES BEGUN!
Fighting Between the Greek and
Turkish Armies.
IT IS NOW GRIM WAR In EARNEST.
Every Prospect Of q Prolonged and Bloody
Struggle That May Involve All of
Europe. The Greeks Have
the Advantage.

London. April ia dispatch to the
Daily Chronicle" from Athens, dated at
midnight, says the Greeks have captured
Menexa after severe fighting. The Turk
lsh losses were very heavy, the Greek
comparatively light.
Corfu, April 18.-Furious fighting has
been in progress at the frontier to-day
near Arata and it is rumored that the
Greeks have taken Menexa by assault.
The key to Milouna pass is Menexa, po-
sition of the greatest Importance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-21

| The president has decided to rec
ommend to congress an appropriation
as indemnity for the killing by mob
of lynchers of three italian citizens at
Hahnville, La, August 8 last.
Seven incendiary fires were started
in Kansas City, Mo-, the total loss being
| 100000.
The river continued to rise slowly at
Vicksburg and all points south and the
situation along the Louisiana system of
levees was acute.
Sylvester Sanders and his wife and
| five children were drowned near Helena.
Ark, by the upsetting of boat.
Joseph Bloodworth, Jock Gooden and
Sarah Evanson, children who were bit
ten by mad dog in Gordon, Ca, died of
hydrophobia.
John Formella shot and instantly
killed his stepson, Matthias Dostert, in
Chicago while in a rage and then killed
himself.
Jesse Evans, negro charged with ac-
costing two little white girls, was riddled
with bullets at Edwards, Miss, by a
| mob.
Two-thirds of the winter wheat crop
of Illinois is said to have been winter
killed.
South of Council Bluffs, Ia, the water
has inundated farms for distance of
three or four miles and much stock
| has been drowned.
Edward Reynolds and his wife and
daughter were murdered near Sweet
hill, r. l., and the house set on fire,
presumably to cover the crime. Mar
tin Mowry, the hired man, was under
arrest.
A snowslide near Ketcham, Idaho,
buried man named White, Fred Tul-
ford and his six-year-old stepson so feet
deep.
The Long Mead Iron company and
the Conshohocken Tube company at
Conshohocken, Pa, failed for 100000
A passenger train on the Wabash rail-
road struck a buggy near West Point,
Ind, and James Holton, Plymouth
Field and Miss Nan Wilson Gall col
ored) were killed.
Ten thousand acres of the best land
in the Quincy Qll.) district were sub
merged under from four to ten feet of
water.
Near Dekoven, KY, James Green and
William Green, deputy constable,
were shot dead, and Constable William
Beset fatally wounded by William Cody
and Thomas Hite, post office thieves.
John Donallen & Son, one of the
largest firms of morocco manufacturers
at Lynn, Mass, failed for $4,000.
The Moresque building in New Or
leans, occupied by business firms, was
burned, the loss being 100000.
The funeral of ex-senator Daniel W.
Voorhees, took place from St. Stephens
Episcopal church in Terre Haute, Ind,
Rev. John E. Sulger, the rector, Of
floating.
I Fire destroyed the business portion
Of the village of Lindsey, o.
The new laws passed by the last legis-
lature went into force in Indiana by
the governors proclamation.
Army officers detailed to distribute
supplies in the flooded districts in the
south say that over nine-tenths of Wash
ington, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunfower
and considerable of Yazoo and Warren
counties in Mississippi are overlooked
and that 10000 persons need food.
Judge James J. Storrow, aged 60, a
well-known Boston lawyer, dropped
dead while at the congressional library
in Washington.
Services commemorative of the death
of Abraham Lincoln, 80 years ago, were
held in Representatives hall in Spring
field, Ill.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-21
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

DR.. William Fox, Milwaukee's most
prominent physician, died at the age of
So years.
Justin Smith Morrill,, the veteran
senator from Vermont, celebrated his
eighty-seventh birthday in Washing
ton. Mr.. Morrill, completed his 80
years of continuous service March 4
last.
Carter I'll. Harrison, recently elected
mayor of Chicago on the democratic
ticket, was inaugurated.
The republicans of the First con-
gressional district of Missouri renomi-
mated Charles n. Clark, of Hannibal, for
congress.
Mrs. Elizabeth r. Tilton, the wife of
Henry Ward Beecher's accuser, died at
her home in Brooklyn from paralytic
stroke. Theodore Tilton, her husband,
is in Paris, where he has lived ever
since the Beecher trial.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-21
nomination.. Sent to the senate

Washington, April Is. = The presi-
dent Wednesday sent the following
nominations to the senate:
State-James b. Angel, of Michigan, to
he envoy extraordinary and minister pien-
ipotentiary of the United States to TURKEY
b;a Consul of the United States at Pictou.
Nova Scotia.
War-George D. Meiklejohn, Of Nebraska.
to be assistant secretary of war.
To be commissioner of the Dlstrict OF
columbia-John B. Wight and John W.
Ross.
The record-union., 1897-05-25
THE DRUMMOND CASE.

English authority has again asserted
abroad. Drummond, an Englishman,
in Honduras, engaged in the revolu-
ton in that State and took up arms
against the Government. Taken in the
very act of his offending, he was cast
into prison, we presume was tried and
then condemned. He was about to be
shot when a British naval commander
pressed into the interior in his mill
tary capacity and with a guard, and
arrived upon the scene just in time to
forbid the execution, which was, of
course, abandoned.
More than this, he ordered the Gov
ernment to set at liberty all foreign
ers' confined in prison because of any
part they had taken in the rebellion,
and it was done.
Had Drummond been an American
citizen he would have been shot, for
the carte blanche with which British
Captains are equipped when they sail
the ocean blue The facts may not
have been accurately stated in the
news dispatches, but taking them as
We have them, it is difficult to compre-
hend what right the British commander
had to order all foreign prisoners re-
leased, Suppose we had foreign pris-
oners in a jail for similar offenses, pre-
sumably engagement in revolutionary
movement against, and assault upon
the Federal Government, would Eng
lish officers be justified or obeyed in
stepping upon our soil and commanding
the release of the men?
Suppose that in time of civil war, we
had taken a rebel commander, such as
Drummond was, and had condemned
him to death, does anyone believe that
British naval Captain would land a
body of blue jackets, penetrate the
country and, reaching the scene of the
execution, stop it? Would any British
commander undertake to do any such
thing? We apprehend that he would
content himself with addressing a pro-
test to the Government
But Honduras is a feeble state. 1t
has not the power of resistance when
opposed by the strength of Great Brit
ain. Either this, or we are not fully
advised as to the circumstances in the
Honduran case. This last is probably
the truth. 1t is probable that Drum
mond had not had a fair trial, and that
the suspension of his execution was Sc
cured for the purpose of giving him
such a trial. 1t is probable that the
prisoners ordered released were held
without trial, TO which they were en-
titled, and that they will now have. 1t
must be assumed that the English
Government acted within the line of
the law of the treaty between the two
nations.
The record-union., 1897-05-25

1t is fortunate that the route from
Sacramento to Folsom was chosen for
this model road for these reasons: 1t
embraces bottom and alluvial land,
bench and hard pan land, foothill, loan
and gravel land; SO that the three great
divisions of soil will be treated most
common in California. Next, the line
of the road is in proximity to the best
supply of road material in the State,
and the most extensive granite quar-
ries from which bridge stone can De
taken Lastly, it runs closely along
line of railway, enabling material to be
handled at least possible cost.
Under all the circumstances, then Sac
ramento County is greatly favored and
to be congratulated, it should therefore
stand by the new commission and en-
courage it to rapidity and excellence in
all ways. At best it will take a year to
build the road and do it as model
bridge work cannot be entered upon to
any great extent before next winter.
The road will therefore at best be
ready only just in time for the meeting
of the next Legislature. All conditions
demand, therefore, that every interest
should conserve the work of the Com
mission and encourage it to give us
just what the law contemplates, and
to maintain independence of action and
administration, that it shall not be
said that any possible failure was due
to Sacramento County forcing upon the
commission narrow and mistaken ideas
of economy. Sacramento will furnish
the means. 1t will be money in her
pocket to do it. 1t will not make
ripple in her finances. Beyond that,
she should leave the commission free
handed, independent and bearing the
whole responsibility. In that way it
will be stimulated to the highest en-
deavor and will give as the best posi-
bic results.
The record-union., 1897-05-25
CYCLE NOTES.
San Francisco Riders Will be Here in
Numbers June 9th.

The Capital City Wheelmen at their
meeting last night received eight more
applications for membership and elected
two new members. The coming meet
was the absorbing topic of the hour.
The race committee reported every
thing done that could be conjured up to
prepare for the great event, and added
that if anything remained undone on the
9th of June it would not be the fault of
the committee.
From all sides it has good reports of
entries coming in. The excursion
from San Francisco is now assured and
the excursionists will bring their wheels
and take spin on the wheelway early
in the morning on the 9th. The enter
tainment committee will probably take
Foresters' Hall for the reception of the
guests.
The Olympic Circuit riders are all now
entering and will be in the races for all
they are worth. The c. c. w. men now
training report that the Oak Park track
is developing remarkably fast.