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The Portland daily press., 1897-12-28
ANNUAL MEETING-NOTIGE

The Proprietors of the Union Wharf Corpora
ton are hereby notified that their annual meet
ing will be held at the Office of the wharfnger
on Tuesday the fourth day of January, 1898, at
two O'Clock in the afternoon to act on the fcl-
lowing articles
1st To choose President.
End. TO choose q Clerk and other officers
for the ensuing year.
3rd To act on any business that may legally
come before them.
NATHAN d. ROBERTS, Clerk.
Portland. Dee. q, 1897. dec27dSt
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27
HOW TO INSURE SLEEP.

Sleep ensues when the brain is large.
ly denuded of blood, when cerebral
anaemia is es ablished. To partly empty
the brain Of its blood supply, to keep
the head cool, the body sufficiently
warm and to send the blood rather to
the lower e1tremities-this is the physi.
cal problem of the sleepless. 1t is in
leresting to note that, during sleep, q
great number of the bodily functions
continue quite normally without inter-
fering with sleep itself, and therefore
sleep is not so like death as some of the
poets have imagined. Man asleep is
not so profoundly different from man
awake, the two chief points of differ.
ence, however, being these: A
greater indrawing of oxygen and exha-
lation of carbonic acid, and complete
vasomoter rest. The bedroom and the
state of occupant assuming the absence
of external noise are the chief factors in
the problem.
The sleeping room should be airy
and cool, never, for adult persons,
reaching higher temperature than 60
degrees, although young children need
greater warmth. The head should
never be under the sheets, but exposed
and cool. The feet should be kept
warm by little extra clothing at the
foot. With heavy sleeper there
should be no thick curtains, but with
light sleeper curtains are essential. as
sunlight plays upon the optic nerves
and rouses that attention which it is
the one object of the sleeper to keep
in suspended animation. The bed
should never be between the fire place
and door, as it catches the draughts and
much more dangerous and it is much
more easy to contract a chill in bed
than in the daytime, the especially
chilly period being about 81. m.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27
Foreign News.

MADRID, Nov. 27.-The Official Ga.
zette this morning publishes the royal
DEGREES granting autonomy for Cuba
and Porto Rico.
The Captain General of the Philip.
pine Islands cables from Manila that
the Insurgents of that colony held q
meeting, could not arrive at an agree
ment and started for home but, the
dispatch adds, "they were intercepted
by the Spanish troops, who killed many
of them"
VIENNA, Nov. 27.-The bt ar garden
scenes in the lower house of the Reichs
rath were continued to-day. When the
president of tho house, DR.. Abraham
OWES appeared there was chorus Of
"Shame upon you" from the Leftists
accompanied by deafening noise Of
whistles and slamming of desk lids.
Tie scene lasted about quarter of an
aour, during which time the president
quietly remained seated. Then he sus
pended the sitting. At about 10 40 the
vice president appeared and declared
the sitting closed, adding that the date
of the next session would be commu.
nicated to the members of the house
by letter.
BERLIN. Nov. 27.-Wllbur S. Glass,
of South Dakota, who was recently ap.
rointed United States consul at Kiel,
has received his exequateur.
BERLIN, Nov. ga private dispatch
received here from Vienna says that
Samuel L. Clemens MARK Twain,
while being forcibly elected from the
Lower House of the Reichsrath yester.
day, Yves struck severe blow by
Czech delegate.
CoNsrANT1NopLE, Nov. 27.-The
Austrian Lloyd steamer Diana has been
in collision off Galata with the British
steamer Antonio. The Diana sank.
The $50 passengers and 40 members OF
the crew OF the Diana were saved.
LONDON, Nov. 27.-Mr. A. Alexander's
brown colt Ravelaw Castle, ridden by Sloane,
won the Final plate of 100 sovereigns.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

1t Vienna last night 10000 persons
assembled and threatened the govern
ment with revolution. After much riot
ing many arrests were made.
Edward Moore, of the South Side,
Pittsburg, Pa, was shot and fatally
wounded this afternoon by his wife,
Mrs. Sarah Moore. The couple have
not been living together and it is sup
posed that jealousy was the cause OF
the shooting. Mrs. Moore was arrested.
Samuel Tongue and William Dow,
who went to Lake Taillen, near Mat
tawa, Ont, on hunting expedition,
returned home yesterday and reported
that they in self-defenss had shot and
killed James Mcconnell, notorious
desperate who has terrorized the set
tiers of Nippissing district for many
years.
A receiver was to day appointed for
George 81. Pell, who for many years
was well.known Wall street, New
York, broker and railroad operator.
Mr.. Pell admitted that there were
$500, 900 in judgments out against him
and practically admitted that he had
little or no property, but that his wife
was we'll of.
Burglars. early this morning, blew
open the vault of the Savings Deposit
Bank, in North Amherst, Ohio, con-
tanning $4,000. The noise awakened
Henry Weshecker, who slept in an ad-
joining store. He telephoned to ]. E.
Plato, one of the owners of the bank,
then arming himself with a shotgun, he
fired at one of the burglars and
wounded him. This frightened the
other three and they retreated, Carry
ing their wounded accomplice. Mr..
Plato coming to the scene, met one of
the IN glars and marched him to jail,
covering him with his gun. The burg
lars failed to get the money.
The British ship Natuna is now sixty days
overdne from London 10 San Francisco. The
itsh bark Taymount, for the same port. is
nov two hundred and nine days out from
Liverpool.
Miss Louise Massale and Miss Jennie
Sheress, two girls, each about II years of
age, were drowned in tho river near Duluth,
Mimi, last night while skating.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27
OUT OF A SHARKS MOUTH.

The British cutter Sparrow command
ed by Capt. Wylie, while cruising off
Cape Tiburon, on the island of San
Domingo, chased and overhauled an
American brig, the cargo of which, to-
gether with certain other circumstances,
gave rise to such a suspicion that she
was enemy's property that Capt. Wylie
thought it best to send her to Port
Royal for examination.
The Yankee captain not in the least
dismayed, swore SO positively az to the
truth of the chips papers, which he
produced, that the admiralty court was
at length persuaded to set him free,
whereupon he Immediately began &C.
ton for demurrage against Capt. Wylie
for having taken him.
About this time Lieutenant Fitton, Of
the navy, (who was then midship-
man in command of small TENDER ar
rived at Port Royal, went on board the
Sparrow to pay visit to Wylie. He
found the captain in very low spirits over
the pending suit, and greatly depressed
at the idea of the ruinous damages that
it seemed certain would be awarded
him on account of the American.
Fitton, however, in learning the name
of the captain of the brig, advised Wylie
not to worry and stated that he could
prove that the brig was yet good
prize.
He went on then to explain that
while cruising in his tender near the
place where the sparrow had overhaul.
ed the brig, and very shortly after that
time, his sailors had caught a large
shark. He was very much surprised on
hearing one of the men employed in
cutting the fish open cry out, "Stand
by for your letters, my boys; for here's
the postmau come on bcard!" at the
same moment handing out bundle of
papers from the sharks stomach. They
were only slightly damaged by the gastric
jnices of the fish, and Fitton kept them.
Upon examination he found that they were
the real papers of the American, which he
had thrown overheard when he became hard
pressed. and which had been promptly swal.
lowed by the shark. The papers proved be-
yond question that the cargo was French.
The two officers went Immediately to King.
ston with this new and most important evi.
dence; but no further Investigation of the
matter was necessary, for the captsin of the
brig was so overwhelmed upon hearing the
circumstances, which he regarded as vista
ton from heaven for his peuuries. that he
hurriedly escaped from the island, and the
vessel, after all, was condemned to the Spar
row. Wylis received for his share of the
prize money something over 1000 pounds.
Mr.. Fitton sent the jaw bones Of the shark
to the Admiralty Court at Jamaica, where
they still remain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27
A Tragedy.

MASON, Mich, Nov. 27.-scott A.
Bowdish shot his 8 year-old daughter
last night, fatally injuriDg her, and then
killed himself. The tragedy was not
discovered until this morning. Accord
ing to the little girl , her father awakened
her during the night, kissed her and
asked her where her heart was. He
felt about her breast and after locating
the girls heart he drew revolver and
shot. Again he fred, the bail this time
penetrating the child's right side. After
this he located his own heart and shot
himself dead. Bowdish was hard up
and discouraged, but no other reason
for the crime is known.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27
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Alexandria Steam Bread Bakery. 1t
THE NEsToR OF THE MAGAZINES.
The North American Review

has been in the van of American thought for
more than three quarters of a century, rank
ing always with the best and most influential
periodicals in the world
1t ia the mouth.piece Of The mon who know
most about the great topics on which Amer
cans require to be informed from month to
month, it's contributors being tho leaders Of
thought and action in every field.
Those who would take counsel OF the high
est knowledge on the affairs of the times, ard
learn what is to be said regarding them by
the recognized authorized on both sides. must
therefore read The North american Review,
the Nestor of the magazines.
This magazine has for moro than eighty
years, within its we'll defined lines, stood at
the head of monthly publications.-[Chicsgo
Record.
The REVIEW may well be proud Of IL
eighty-two yeaIs, fer truly it may be said oil
it that 'agc cannot wither nor time stale its
infinite variety.H' Fortunate i, the one
who can sit down and feast upon the goo1
things furnished by the best literary caterers
in the worid.-[Grand Rapids Democrat,
II any one name in magazine liters:ure
stands for what is authoritative that name Is
the North American Beview, which for more
than eighty years has remained st the hes'l OF
the monthly periodicals i Boston Post.
The Review ia filed each month with ar
ticles which should be r6sd by every true
citixen.-EOddfellow Beview st. Pail.
The Review has done more for the better
class Of readers than any other publication OF
this kind in tie ountiy.-[ChIistian Advo-
cate, St Leuis
6Oc Number; So Year.
NON 10 The TINE TO sUbSCRl6E
TIE NORTH AMERICAN RETlEW, n. I.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27

MIR. WILLARD FOR CONGRESS Hon.
Joseph E. Willard, who was elected on
the second instant to the Legislature
from Fairfax county over Mr.. Hine, q
republican. by majority of 574, is being
nominated already in some of the pa
pers for Congress next year from this,
the Sth district, now represented, by
Mr.. Rixey.
Mr.. Willard is member of the State
central committee from this congress.
sional district and is said to be unusually
popular.
About year ago he spoke in the
courthouse here and made fine i'm
preston on our people. He is young
man and q millionaire, but he is for
free silver every inch of him and for
the rights of the masses. Whilst the
News does not this early declare for
him we are of the belief that he would
make US wide.awake and aggressive
and useful congressman. From what
we know of him we do not believe he
would take sides with the rich men
against the haid-pressed masses.
We suppose if Mr.. Willard declares
for Congress he will put mis- views fully
before the people shortly. He has got
a large and influential lot of we'll
wishers in this district and as he is a
man of energy aid political shrewdness
it would not surprise US to see him
nominated over his chief opponent
Mr.. Rixey.-[L Louisa News.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27
To-DAY'S TELEGRApHIC NEWS
The Thorn Trial.

NEW YORK, Nov. N.-There is every
probability that the case OF Martin
Thorn, on trial for the murder OF VIM.
Guldensuppe, will go to the jury not
later than Wednesday next and posi-
bly Tuesday night. Thorn will testify
in his own behalf and accuse Mrs.
Mack of killing Guldensuppe. 1t is
understood that after the defense closes
Mrs. Mack will be called by the prose.
cution in rebuttal to repeat her COMES
sion and accuse Thorn of the murder.
When Thorn's fate has been decided
Mrs. Nack's case will come up. 1t is
generally supposed she will be allowed
to plead guilty either to murder in the
second degree. or manslaughter in the
first degree. For murder in the second
degree she would receive sentence OF
imprisonment for life and for man
slaughter in the first degree the ex-
trrme penalty is wenty years.
NEW YORK, Nov. pa statement
signed by Martin Thorn is published in
an evening paper to-day. Among other
things he says: Augusta Mack planned
and accomplished the murder OF VIM.
Guldensuppe. When l got to the
Woodside cottage that Saturday morn
ing she me- me at the door and said I
have got Guldensuppe upstairs. he is
dead She had shot him in the face
and stabbed him in the breast, she said.
1 was not even in the house at the time
but in the doorway, and she was out OF
sight OF the people on the street at the
time, about half way up stairs.
You have got to help me get rid of
it, she said, or both of us will get in.
to trouble. All you have got to do is
to help At last I bel ped her to carry
the body to the bath tub. 1t was very
heavy. Guldensuppe was dead. He
was not breathing when we put him in
the bath tub. Mrs. Mack did the cut
ting while I held the body. First she
cut the head off, then she took the saw
and sawed the trunk in two and then
the legs. Afterwards the body was
rolled up in the oil cloth and cloth that
Mrs. Mack bought at Mrs. Rger's. Then
we talked over the plans to get
rid of the body. She arranged
for the surrey drive and the
throwing away of the pieces. She
gave the money to hire the surrey.
After we threw the head into the river
and disposed of pieces of body she
took Guldensuppe's clothes and burned
them in stove. J. can prove that she
herself killed Guldensuppe because be
knew of other crimes she had commit
ted, and because she was afraid that
Guldensuppe would kill her for having
had anything to do with me-"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27

ROBBED ON THE sTREET.-A number
of ladies in the central and northwest
ern sections of Baltimore city have been
greatly terrified at the actions of fash.
able dressed white man, who, on several
occasions, has made desperate and
vicious attempts to rob them on the
street. The most outrageous attempt
yet made by the man took place last
Wednesday evening, shortly before six
O'Clock, when Miss Lydia Reynolds, a
well-known and prominent young go.
ciety woman, was beaten into insensi.
bility and robbed, on Lanvale street,
near Mt. Royal avenue. The highway.
man only secured a silk card case and
a pair of kid gloves,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27

THE OLIVE PICKER TRIALs.-A dis
patch from Norfolk says: IN. F. Pleas
ants, of the United States Court, at
Richmond, did not arrive here yester.
day, as WAS anticipated, to draw up
names for jury in the cases of John
Anderson and others for murder and
arson on the schooner Olive Pecker.
This district embraces ffty.three coun-
ties, from which jurors can be drawn,
and there is no doubt that jury can
be found who have not already formed
or expressed ap opinion as to the guilt
or innocence of the prisoners. At the
United States marshal's Office it was
said that the cases NAV l5e called in a
week or not until after Christmas. II
the latter, then it is highly probable
that the trials will take place at Alex.
andria.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27

THE THORN TRIAL.-Lawyers Howe
and Moss, who have defended Martin
Thorn in New York, met yesterday
with aerious and unlocked. for obsta.
Gle, when, after brief adjournment,
District Attorney Youngs informed the
court that the people rested their case.
1t was generally expected that Mrs.
Mack would be- put on the stand to re.
iterate her confession, and the lawyers
who had been assigned to look after
Thorn's interests thought that she
would repeat her statement of two
weeks ego. The district attorney.
however, decided that be has strong
enough case without her evidence. Sh.
will be kept in reserve for rebuttal ties.
timony if the defense should put Thorn
on the stand. Mrs. Mack was brought
into court, but she avoided Thorn's
ewes,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27
LION TAMER's LIFE IN PERIL

LION TAMER's LIFE IN PERIL
Bronco Boccacceio, a half caste animal
trainer, was almost devoured by an
angry lioness at the Zoo at Chicago
Thursday night. He was playing the
part of man lost in an equatorial for
est which was supposed to be in flames.
Three beasts in the cage became ex-
cited, and while the trainer was gazing
at the crowd one of the animals sprang
upon him. 1t was preparing to gnaw
his throat, but blow with an iron bar
in an attendants hands saved the train
er's life. He was badly cut and breath.
less, but moment later he re.entered
the cage and thrashed the lioness into
submission.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27
NEWS OF TBI DAY.
No American citizen is now confined
in prison on the. island of Cuba.

No American citizen is now confined
in prison on the. island of Cuba.
Six jurors lave only thus far been
drawn IN the acknowledgement MUIR
der trial. which is in progress at Par
sons, W. Va.
TIE fusion members of the Ohio
Legislature from Hamilton county,
have decided to vote for the nominee of
the republican caucus for United
States Senator.
Jas. A. Clemmer has been arrested at
Newark, N. j., on the charge of MUIR
dering Mrs. Emma P. Kaiser, at Nor.
ristown, Pa, October 26, 1896. He adj
mitted his guilt.
The skeleton of a man who ia sup
posed to have starved to death was
found yesterday on mountain, in the
neighborhood of Cooks Mills, north of
Cumberland, Md.
Mayor Quincy and the democratic
regulars swept the city of Baltimore in
the democratic caucuses last night, the
opposition not carrying ward. Mayor
Quincy will be renominated and the al
dermanic slate of the regulars will
probably 20 through also.
The town of Taneytown, Md, mar.
rowly escaped destruction by fire last
night, and for time it seemed as if
that catastrophe could not be averted.
By the assistance of the fremen of Lit
tletown, Pa, who promptly responded
to an appeal for help, and went by
special train to the scene, the fire was
put out.
All the sailing records between Bra.
iii and Baltimore have been broken by
the four masted barkentine Josephine
which passed in at the capes at s
o'clock Thanksgiving night, her run
from Rio to the capes being made in
t1enty-three days. From thirty to forty
days is the average passage from Bra
zil to Baltimore.
The impression that the purchased OF
the tract of forty acres near the Catho'
lie University in Washington by Mr..
Scott Lord, of New York, last spring,
was made for the Franciscans, and the
belief that they will soon begin the
erection of monastery there seems
to be growing, and the grounds for this
belief are said to be good.
In his annual report to the President,
Secretary of the Navy Long asks Tor
appropriations for the running expenses
of the navy amounting to S22, 232,
72S So aud S., 444, 273 for the increase OF
the navy. total of $40. 673, 0O1 So. He
recommends that the authorization OF
new ships by the coming Congress be
limited to one battle ship for the Pa
clfc coast.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27
Durrant to Hang.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Nov. 81
Word has been received from Attorney
General Fitzgerald to the effect that
after present legal bubbles have been
decided be will advise Warden Hale to
carry out the execution of Theodore
Durrant regardless of any new legal
proceedings that may be instituted by
Durrant's attorney. Durrant will be
resentenced as soon as the controversy
now pending is settled, after which the
attorney general believes no legal step
can accomplish further delay in the
proposed execution of Durrant.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27
Lynched by q Mob.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nov 27.-Hicks
Price, the negro charged with rape, was taken
from jail at .starks, last night, BY about one
hundred determined men, and hanged to q
limb Of tree and about fifty shots were fred
into his body. The mob gained entrance to
the jail by pretending to have another SUE.
pect to imprison, then overpoweling the Jail.
OF. Tho work was done before the town
realized the presence of tho mob.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27
How's This I?

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any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
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obligations made by their firm.
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Halls Family Pills are the best.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27
AHoRR1BLz DEATH.-The wife of Anto.

AHoRR1BLE DEATH-The wife of Anto.
Mo Milsgno, of Erie Pa, died yesterday
most horrible death. On Thanksgiving Day
Antonio was drunk and went to the cellar for
more liquor. Ee fell, and his wife came 10
his assistance with lamp, but he threw
hammer at her head. missing the mark. He
then came up stairs With can of oil aud tar,
which he threw in his wife's face. In an in
slant tie mixture caught lie from the lamp.
and she was enveloped in flames. Help ar
rived in time to prevent her from burning up
where she stood Tho woman was laid on
the bed and when the officers arrived they
found Antonio standing over his wife pluck
ing the cooked flesh from her breast AID
arms in fendish gee snd cursing like a
demon. When he was arrested be Iaved and
had to be subjected to rough treatment be
fore he could be taken TO lhs police station.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27

The famous Warroch- Richardson AL
manack, for 1898, has just been received
from the publisher, James E. Goode,
Richmond. This is the eighty-third
year of its publication, and in that time
it has acquired wide and well.merited
reputation, not only in Virginia, but in
Maryland and North Carolina. 1t g
now looked upon as one of the few old
time institutions that remain, and it is
really a valuable one.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27
Fire and Loss Of Life.

JAMESTOWN. N. Y, Nov. 27-At 4
o'clock this morning fire on First
street, in this city, resulted in the death
of two man and one woman. The
building was occupied for illicit pur-
poses. The woman was one of the
inmates and the two men who lost
their lives were visitors. The origin Ct
the fire is unknown. The building YVES
not badly damaged, the fire having bee
confined to the two rooms occupied by
the three persons, who we're smothered.