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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
Ready for the Big wheat Crop.

Kansas City, Mo-, July 1s-Long trains
of empty freight cars have rolled out OF
Kansas City for two weeks and dropped
off in twos, threes, and fves on side
tracks along the lines of the railways in
Missouri. Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska,
and Oklahoma. These empty freight cars
of which there are thousands, will be
filled with new 81 wheat inside of foul
or five weeks. A tremendous grain rush
is expected and the best of management
by railroad officials will be needed te
prevent the grain blockades or a grain
car famine. Conservative estimates Of
crops statisticians place the yield of wheat
for this year in Kansas alone at 60, 900, 00c
bushels
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President Ratchford sums Up.
Augusta Has Mysterious Fire.

Augusta, July 1S.-A fire of mysterious
origin was discovered in the Kennebec
boarding house: corner Second and
Academy streets, Hallowell, about 12. Is
this morning, in a closet on the fourth
floor, extending in various directions.
The chemical engine easily controlled the
blaze. Soon after the first fire was out
another was discovered burning fercely
in the back entry. There were a few
boarders in the house, and one was
awakened with much difficulty. The first
fire was in a part of the house little used
and its origin is a mystery. The loss will
is to be held
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
OUR TRADE WITH HAWAII
Circular From Agricultural Ijepait-
ment on Subject.
WE HAVE BOUGHT NEARLY ALL
EXPORTS OF ISLAND.

Imports From This Country Are Only
Three-fourths of Total-statistfcs Show
Trade To Be on the Increase Sugar
Leads in the Exports.
Washington, July 18-Hawaiian COM
merce during the last ten years is the
subject OF a circular just issued by the
Department of Agriculture. The facts
set forth bear directly upon the current
discussion of the annexation of the
Hawaiian islands to the United States
and are as follows:
The comparison Of statistics shows
that the United States controls ninety
per cent of the entire trade of the islands.
The total value Of exports and imports of
Hawaii for 1896 was s21, SIS, 1882, of which
about two-thirds, SIS, SIS, $50, was value
of goods exported. The average of exports
| of the ten years, 1887, 1896 was 81 ,052, IA,
and of imports IS, ,429, 459, leaving an
average balance of Sc, ,628, SS1 in favor of
exports.
Of this traffic 9.2 per cent was with
the United States during the first five
years of the decade and in the second five
years the lead of this conntry over Other.
countries was increased to 81 l.92 per. cent.
The United States, however, does not
yet hold so high position in furnishing
goods for Hawaii as in taking the
products OF the islands. OF the average Of
exports for the ten years, nearly eleven
million dollars year, the United States
purchased by Hawaii on the other hand,
the United States furnished only abo1lt1
three -fourths.
However. it is chiefly in our sales to the
islands that the trade Is growing. The
an nual average of these sales for the five
years, 18S7-1S91ss was $4,376, ,312, but for
1s91-96. s4,496, ,s75, while the exports to
Hawaii for the last year amounted to S5,-
AGA, 208, nearly a million dollars more
than for any previous year.
The goods coming from Hawaii to the
United States are mainly agricultural
products. while the shipments In the
other directions except bread stuffs are
chiefly manufactured. Our imports of
sugar make the largest item in the trade
while our imports of rice come next.
Next in order are our exports of bread
stuffs. cotton goods, fertilizers, ma
chinery,. lumber, tobacco, wire and
chemicals.
Prior to 1876, when the first reciprocity
tire atty was made between the United
States and Hawaii, their total commerce
averaged only 81 $50, 1896. Since that date
a comparatively steady growth has
brought the total to more than five times
that amount, Figures are furnished for
the first ten months of tho fiscal year
1897 as compared with the same period in
1890. They show large increases in the
important items of trade. The other
pears to be growing are China and Japan,
together and Canada
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
BRIEFLY ToL7S

The Choctaw- -Chickasaw union party
proposes to treat with the Dawes commits
sion, provided the United States govern
ment will buy all of the Ghoctaw and
Chickasaw land outright. They will then
form colony, go into Mexico, buy q lot
of land from Mexico and have their own
lands. They say that white men shall not
move among them. The full bloods are
very favorably impressed with the move
but none but the ignorant ChoctaWs will
go into such a scheme.
The dead body of G. G. Harrington of
Cambridge, was discovered by Lewis Cole
| yesterday morning on Avenue beach,
Annisquam, Mass. He was missed yester-
| day afternoon and q search was instituted
which was kept up all night, with the
above result. 1t is believed to be case OF
\ S uicide.
| Harry Hartoni, % years old, a Finland.
er, employed at Baileys brick yard Clin.
ton, Mass, was drowned in the Nashua
| river at Still river Harvard Saturday
night while bathing. His body was re-
covered Sunday morning
] John P. Lovell's condition contin1es Fl
change for the better and it is almost Ger
tain in the opinion of his physicians thai
he will survive the immediate effects q
| his recent shock.
! Th ere has been satisfactory rain fall
| throughout the northwest provinces o.
India, and the authorities intend to re
duce considerably the extent of the relie
work.
"A A special to the Bangor Whig from
Winn says Harry S. Freeland, aged /;
years, was drowned there Sunday.
4 A violent earthquake occurred in1 the
island of Stromboli, one of the Lipar
islands off the north coast of Sicily or
Saturday. The shock was followed by al
active eruption of the volcano OF Strom.
boil.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19

New England and Eastern New York
Showers, southeasterly winds.
Local Weather Report.
Portland, Me-, July IS. The local
weather bureau Office records as to the
weather are as follows:
8 a. m.-Barometer. 3O.263; thermo-
meter, 70; dew point. &c. humidity, 81;
wind. N velocity, 8; weather. cloudy.
8 p. m.-Barometer, 3O.304; thermom-
eter, ee; dew point, 6s. humidity, rs;
wind, Sc; velocity, 1: weather, clouny.
Mean daily thermometer, 10; maxi
mum thermometer, Is; minimum ther-
mometer. 81; maximum velocity OF
wind, 10 NE; total precipitation, 0.
Weather Observation.
The agricultural department weather
bureau for yesterday, July 1s, taker
at p. m., meridian time, the observa
ton for each section being given in this
order: Temperature, direction of wind
tate of weather:
Boston, Is, E, cloudy: New York, Y
E, cloudy; Philadelphia, IA, SE, cloudy
Washington. IA, S, rain; Albany
Y. S, cloudy; Buffalo, &c, E, cloudy
Detroit, Y, NE, cloudy ); chicago
| Y, N. clear; st. Paul, s2
s.. clear; Huron, Oak. 81, N, rain
Bismarck. "a, N cloudy; Jack
sonvills, 80; E, clear.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
Young Girl Assaulted in Andover.

Andover, Mass, July 1s.-Henrietta
Davis, 46 years old, was waylaid by a
stranger, while on her way home from
Sunday school today. The girl was walk
ing down the turnpike when man ap-
preached and asked her to go berrying.
She refused and attempted to run away,
but the man threw coat over her head,
choking and beating her into insensibili-
ty. The girl was found later, the man
evidently being frightened away. A.
body of citizens are in pursuit of the
girls assailant.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
The Brooklyn at Home,

New York, July 17.-The United States
cruiser Brooklyn reached her anchorage
off Tolnpkinsville, S. l., today. The
Brooklyn left New York on June for
England to take part in the Queens iubi-
lee: arriving at Southampton on the morn
ing of June IA. The appearance of the
BROOKLYN in the great naval parade elicit
ed favorable comment from those who
saw the grand demonstration. Ali on
board are we'll
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
Two Deaths at Poland Springs.

Lewiston, July 1s.-The Lewiston Sun
says. Hon. Fl. e. Barnard, prominent
lawyer and judge of San Antonio, Texas,
died at the Poland Springs house Friday
night of abscess of the lungs. He had
arrived few days previously and was
taken i'll at Boston where he remained a
week. The remains were forwarded to
St. Louis for interment.
G. B. Jones Of Sheboygan, Wis, who
arrived at the Poland Springs house We'd
nesday in a dangerous state, died Friday.
He was prominent lumber man.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
A Modern Cain.

New York, July 1s.-James Flynn, 25
years old of Brooklyn and his brother
William, 23 years old of New York.
quarrelled at the formers residence this
mo rning and during the alteration
William drew knife and stabbed James
twice in the abdomen, inf1icting wounds
which are likely to cause his death. The
wounded man was removed to St, Johns
hospital, where his condition tonight was
pronounced to be extremely critical
William was arrested.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
The Sultan Still Haggling.

Constantinople, July 1s.-At Saturday IS
sitting of the peace conference, Tewflk
Pasha, the Turkish minister Of foreign
affairs, arrived late. He submitted to
the conference new frontier scheme,
which was unacceptable to the Powers,
and the ambassadors hereupon informed
Tewf1k Pasha that the conference would
adjourn until he brought a written ac-
ceptance by his government OF the frontier
line traced by the military attaches.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19

Washington, July 1s.-Senor Dupuy de
LONE, the Spanish minister, and Sonora
de LONE, entertained at dinner tonight
Hon. Stewart L. Woodford, the newly ap-
pointed minister to Spain, and Mrs. and
Miss Woodford. The guests invited to
meet them were Assistant Secretaries Day
and Adee of the State Department, the
Portuguese minister and Viscountess
Thryso, Senior Rengifo, the Colombian
charge d d'affairs and Mrs. Rengifo, DR..
Merou, the Argentine minister Miss
Drain, Senior Soler, First Secretary,
Senor Galariza, Third Secretary, and
Senior Almeido, attachee, respectively of
the Spanish legation.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
The Report AN Ready.

Washington, July Ex-senator Allison
and Representative Dingley, were engaged
up to midnight in the preparation of the
report which is to accompany the bill
when it is presented to the respective
houses. After the meeting Mr.. Dingley
authorized the statement that the meas
ure would be submitted to the full con-
fele lence committee, including the Demo-
cratic members, tomorrow morning at
ten o'clock for final action. He confident
" believes that the whole committee will
complete its work by midday and that
the conference report will be submitted to
the House at noon.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
More Torpedo Boats.

directed today eHM' that T q contract be entered tered
into with the firm of Harlan & Hollins-
worth for the construction of 39O-ton
torpedo boat, to cost 1896, 900. It is ex-
pected similar contracts will be drawn up
for the construction of smaller vessels
proposed by the Gas Engine g Power
company of New York, and Wolff & Sc
wicker Of Portland, Ore.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
New Telephone Company Elects onicers.

Pennington, July 1s.-The Dirigo Tele.
phone company elected the following
officers yesterday: President, John j.
Linscott; treasurer, Austin Reynolds; sec.
retary, f. o. Lyford; general manager, s.
E. Beedy; board of directors, Austin Rey-
olds, John j. Linscott, George W. Cole,
Francis M. Russell, S. E. Beedy, G.
Hendricks, F. o. Ford, Franklin J.
Clark, A. G. Howard. The stockholders
authorized the directors to extend the
lines and business of the company into
every principal city and town of the state.
Negotiations with strong capitalists to
carry out an energetic business policy are
progressing in satisfactory way. The
charter rights of the Dirigo company are
unique and sweeping, in fact it is the
only corporation in the state with such
general rights and privileges.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
Prominent Lewiston Men in Embarrassing
Predicament.

Lewiston, July 1s.-Captain Scanned of
the Lewiston police force and State
Detective Fred L. Odlin raided two
places on Main street in this city late last
night and in the two places caugh
twenty-five men playing poker. The
were ordered to report at the Municipal
cour tomorrow morning. The officers re-
fuse to divulge the names of the men, but
it is rum ored that number of quite
prominent citizens are among them.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19

he ADVISED them to give up ''bossing'
thelr children and begin to love them
He ridiculed the custom of some parent,
VINO when entertaining guests send the
cnliofen or out of doors or into bacE
rooms and oblige them to wait for theil
ulnner till all the good things have beer
oevoured. In this part of his address ht
displayed wonderful perception of keeI
humor, and talent for impersonatioI
and dramatic preservation that was very
catching. The audience was first in tears,
then convulsed with laughter, and at in
tervals such stiffness peryaded the grove
that the clipper of the birds could be
heard in the distance, and the speaker
voice echoe through the tree tops.
Mr.. Murphy spoke very tenderly OF
several Portland parties who had assisted
him and offered him words of encourage
ment in the early years of his reforma-
tion. In his connection he made special
reference to Mr.. and Mrs. Eben N. Perry
of Portland.
He concluded his address with strong
appeal to young men to abstain from the
use of intoxicants.
The religious services of the day were
all attended by large audiences. A prayer
service was held at $50, a love feast at
s. 80 and at 10 O'Clock Rev. DIR. Bates
preached a powerful sermon on Christian
Unity" The afternoon services included
social meeting at 1.30 and children &
meeting, the latter under the charge OF
Mr.. and Mrs. R. S. Robson of Boston.
In the evening a young peoples service
was held at $50, followed by preaching
service, in which Rev. Walter Russell, an
evangelist of Canada, discoursed on g A
Trip Abroad With God.''
An interesting interruption of Rev. DIR.
Bates came in the midst of his forenoon
sermon, when he incidentally alluded to
the recent congressional fight over the
sugar schedule, and took occasion to
thank God for Thomas B. Reed, who SO
vigorously opposed the sugar trust.
At the mention of Mr.. Reed name the
audience burst into volcano of applause,
which the preacher seemed to fully appre-
ciate.
Francis Murphy will deliver another
address at the camp ground tomorrow
evening.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19

Even In the most severe cases OF strain
or bruise, cut or burn, Thomas Electric
Oil gives almost instant relief. 1t is the
ideal family liniment.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
WILL MARCH ON THE MINES.
Miners Contemplating Desperate Move
Today.


day in the Pittsburg coal mining district
indicate that there is trouble ahead. Be-
fore morning one thousand miners will
have marched to Cannonsburg. the OBJ
Jective point being the Boone and Allison
mines. 1t is supposed that there are at
least fifty deputy sheriffs at each mine,
we'll armed for any friction that may take
place. Today the miners of the Millers
and Toms run district held mass meet
1ngs. Many of the women openly branded
their husbands as towards. They argued
that they might as well fight as starve.
whether the miners will go armed is
not yet known, but they expect to be at
the mines when the offending diggers are
ready to go to work and will use every
Influence possible to keep them from 60
ing into the mines. Just what the result
will be it is difficult at this hour to tell.
The men are known to be in a condition
OF semi-insanity on the strike question.
wives, daughters and sweethearts, and it
appears as if it is the beginning of the
end of the strike.
The negotiations to induce the coal
operators of this district to sign q uni
formity agreement are still going on.
Secretary 6. Frank Schmid said tonight
that the prospects were brighter than they
have been since negotiations began The
indications were for successful consum-
nation of the agreement.
Decide Not to Strike.
Huntington, W. Va, July 18.-The
miners at Thacker, Logan and Dingess,
who yesterday afternoon decided to strike
held a mass meeting this afternoon and
reconsidered their action. They will re-
turn to work as usual Monday. The Elks
horn miners, who, yesterday, decided to
strike, will, it is believed, follow their
example.
Ohio Miners Given Ultimatum.
Martins Ferry, Ohio, July 18.-The
miners at Dillonyale were notified yester-
day that they must return to work tomor-
row or new men would be employed Two
hundred carloads of West Virginia coal
passed through here today. The Wheeling
and Lake Erie road has orders for 1900
carloads.
President Ratchford Sums Up.
Columbus, July 1S.-President Ratch-
ford today summed up the strike situa-
tion as follows:
'tThe manner in which the miners are
conducting themselves commends itself
to the country and gives their officers
renewed encouragement and strengthens
the belief that victory ultimately will
crown their efforts. Our demand for
living wages and the determination of
our miners to secure it have brought ex-
pressions OF sympathy and more moral
support from almost every branch of Or
ganized labor"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
rAE WEATHER.

Boston, July 49,
Local forecast for
! Boston and vicini-
ty for Monday:
Cloudy weather and
possibly occasional
light rains, easterly
winds.
| Washington, July
| 18.-Forecast fol
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19

to were the Senate rates on steel tubing
and hollow bNlets used in the manu-
facture of bucycle frames. The rate on
cotton bagging is seven-tenths of cent.
The House rate was twelve-tenths.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
Victim Was Charles n. Chase.

Boston, July 1S.-The young man ro-
ported killed by jumping or falling from
a train at East Kingston, N. H., was
Mr.. Charles H. Chase of this city, who
was for some time past been the proprietor
of the cigar stand in the tsOld El,n'
restaurant on fremont street, opposite
the Common. He roomed on Charles
street, and was unmarried being about q
years of age. Young Chase was a nephew
of Mr. Charles E. Sleeper, manager of
Hotel Plaza, Columbus avenue, and was
a frequent visitor at the hotel where lie
often took his meals.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19
JUMPED FROM TRAIN.
Young Man Killed at East Kingston, N. n.
Yesterday.

/ Hayerhill, Mass, July 1s.-A man sup.
posed to be Charles Ell. Chase of Boston,
jumped from the newspaper train at East
Kingston tbs morning and was probably
killed instantly, his head being terribly
crushed. The dead man was at first re-
ported to be Charles A. Chase of King.
ston, who is clerk in Haverhin store,
but resides in Kingston and goes home
every week. This evening, however, the
latter returned to Haverhill and stated
that he believed the dead man to be one
Charles III. Chase, who formerly lived in
Danville, N. II. Farther than that he
knew nothing about him.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-19

Horses h'iied by Lightning in New sharon.
Bennington, July 1s.-During a hea,
shower last evening two horses of Albert
Sawyer, in New Sharon were instantly
killed by lightning. The driver escared
with slight injuries.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-08-18

Send your son into the world with
good principles, good habits, and q good
education, and he will work his way.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-08-18

New Orleans" said Murrcll, at one Of
our friends houses at that place. We
sat in council three days before We
got all u plans to our notion. we
then determined to undertake the re-
bellion at all hazards, and made as
many friends as We couldfor that pur-
pose. Every mans business was as
signed to him, and when all was ready
the signal was given for the rebellion
to break loose. The history Of it is
we'll known. Suffice it to say hat We
carried off thousands Of dollars in hor-
ses, cattle and other movable property
and killed people without number,
who were in our way"
Another noted outlaw of the early
part of the century was Mason, the
highwayman of Natchez Trace, who
infested the cancbrakes neal Walnut
Hills, from where they boarded many
a boat, killing the crew and carrying
off the cargo.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-08-18
The Silver Crisis.

The enormous and persistent decline
in the price of silver is everywhere
compelling attention.
Silver was worth about SO cents an
ounce in June, 1893 it is now worth
only Sc cents, and the Director Of the
Mint gives it as his opinion that a
fine ounce of silver will be worth not
more than 40 cents within the next
six months.
In Mexico-where the silver stand
ard re7ails-this decline has sudden
ly put an end to business in imported
goods, including the large trade in
American-made machinery, farm i'm
plements and the like. The mer-
chants, who must buy in gold and sell
for silver, paying an enormous price
for exchange, feel that the situation
is too uncertain for commerce to con
tinue. They have cancelled all their
orders and are simply waiting. This
means paralysis there and a heavy
loss to the manufacturers and mer-
chants of all countries with which
Mexico trades.
The popular inquiry into the causes
of the decline is very eager. The
Butte City Miner and other journals
in that region contend that it is the
result of a conspiracy Of "the money
power" to destroy the white metal.
They ignore the fact that the specu-
lators whom they group together as
"the money power are simply indi-
vidual men engaged in making all the
money they can out Of market chan
GEES, whether up or down that for
every ''bear crowd seeking to depress
a price there is always a "bull crowd
seeking to advance it, and that these
two "crowds' never act together. If
there were any conspiracy to depress
] silver there would at once be a coun-
ter.conspiracy to "bull'' it. Wall
street spectators do not care the snap
of a finger whether they make money
by a rise or by fall in prices so long
as they make money.
There are precisely two factors that
determine. the price Of everything in
the world. One of them is supply
and the other is demand. Supply is
Influenced by cost of production.
Now, as to silver, the supply has
enormously increased by reason of q
reduced cost Of production, and at the
same time the demand has enormously
fallen off. It is reckoned that most
of our rich mines can produce silver at
a profit for 35 cents an ounce, and
that some of the Mexican mines can
produce it at "a cents an ounce
The increase in supply has been
phenomenal and continuous. In 1875
there were produced in the whole
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-08-18

No matter how wealthy a man
may be, let him give away a cent and
he becomes a penny-less man.