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Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16
COMMITTEE HEARINGS,
JUDICIARY.

Committee on Judiciary will give public
hearings in its room at the State House
In Augusta. as follows:
TUESDAY. MARCH 16. at 80 p. M.
An act to amend the charter of the Liv-
ermore Falls Water Company.
By order of the committee,
w. J. KNOwLTON Sec'y
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16

ton developed the fact. II is said. that
no sum of 100000 is unaccounted for
at the German military bureau
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16

What roundup of thugs and
thuggesses there will be in Nevada this
week!
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16
Maine Gossip.
The Season Comes.

The season comes when from her three
months trance
The earth awakes: already her deer.
heart
Begins to stir and send it's life abroad.
On slopes which lie adjacent to the sun
The SHOWS grow thin and vanish, and the
air
Is scented with the odors of the mould:
For there the Spring. with warm and del
icate feet.
Fresh from her hidden caverns of per-
Walks in the noon to wake the early
flowers.
Here the first bird begins the woodlands
song:
But in yon maple grove. where genial airs
Are earliest to blow. and last to leave,
A louder voice is heard. The auger ther,
Passes from tree to tree, and deals the
Whence flows the saccharine crystal into
trOughs.
Propt at the great trunks feet; while
The squirrel swings. and looks in wonde,
And now begins the pleasurable toll
Which tends the sugar-camp. The fire
All day the smoke rolls through the an
All night the blaze illuminates the forest
depths,
ct. b. Reed (b. March 12, 1922
The highway that is we'll drained /.
saving the town many dollars at this
season.
Southwest Harbor did not need las,
years appropriation for a new lookup
They waited for an inmate before at
tempting to build.
Mapleton's tax collector says he is
finding collections easier than for the
previous thirteen years. Evidently DO
tatoes sold for enough to pay taxes.
More sidewalks" says Deering.
That's q refrain which would sound
well coming from some other places in
Maine.
Charitably inclined people in the
town of Garland recently held two
wood bees while the would-bes in town
sat at home mcping.
Our air." writes aCape Rozier corres-
pondent, is $50 bracing women lately
went high and turned several somer-
saults before landing on terra firma"
The Cape Rozierftes should sand their |
sidewalks. The women who meet with |
such experiences should organize a |
village Improvement society.
A blue lamb has been born in North |
Lamoine. Probably that color was Sc
lected before Mckinley was inaugu-
rated.
It does one good to hear such talk as
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16

The powers propose to juggle with
Greece and get no fat in the fire.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16
RAILROADS., TELEGRAPHS AND
EyPRNSSES

The committee on railroads, telegraphs
and expresses will give public hearing:
TUESDAY. MARCH 16. 1897. at 2 o. clock
T: M. on an act additional to the charter
Railway.
Section 1.-The Portsmouth. Kittery &
York Street Railway is hereby authorized
10 construct and maintain q bridge SO as
not to unnecessarily obstruct navigation
for the passage of it's cars and for teams
or carriages, across the tide waters of the
Flscataqua river in said Kittery from
the main land at or near the foot of New
march street in said Kittery, to Badgers
Island.
Section 2.-Said company is further au-
thorized to construct and maintain a
railroad bridge so as not to unnecessarily
obstruct navigation for the passage of its
cars across the tide waters of Brave
Boat Harbor. between the towns of Kit
cry and York, between such points as
may be found convenient.
WEDNESDAY. MARCH II. 1897, at 2
clock r. M; on .ne petition of Alfred
the Wiscasset & Moosehead Lake Tele-
graph and Telephone Co.
"WEDNESDAY. MARCH II. 1897, at Q
O'Clock Z. NJ. on the petition of A. s. c.
Hall and As others of Madison and Skow-
hegan for extension of charter of the
Skowhegan & Athens Railroad Co.
]. M. KALER. Secretary.
EDUCATION.
The committee on education will give
House:
TUESDAY. MARCH IS, 1897. at o'clock
+. M. on a bill defining course of study
In free high schools.
TUESDAY. MARCH JS. 1897 at o'cloc,.
NJ, on resolve in favor Of summer
training schools for teachers and the dis
tr1nution Of educational documents.
TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1897, at o'clock
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16

Mapleton's tax collector says he is
finding collections easier than for the
previous thirteen years. Evidently po-
tatoes sold for enough to pay taxes.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16
Bleed IL Liz.

It is the medium which carries to
every nerve. muscle. organ and Ahre p
nourishment and strength. II The
blood Is pure. rich and healthy you VIII
be well: IL impure. dioease win soon
overtake you. Hoods Sarsapafilla has
power to keep you in health by max,
ing your blood rich and pure.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16
The real danger from every
known ailment of man al
M ! AN 4! ! .; ::
is caused by inflam- .>1n
nation. .nA1M"
ML0DV' Cure the
inf1a m m tion
and you have conquer

ed the disease IN each case.
is manifested outwardly by red.
ness, swelling and heat as bites, bruises burns
chaps, sprains Inwardly by congestion of the
blood vessels, growth of unhealthy tissue,
pain and disease. as coughs, colds, catarri,
lame joints and muscular rheuma-
tism. Every part of the vital organs form
one complete plan dependent upon each other.
inflammation anywhere is felt more
or less everywhere, and impairs the health.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16

Southwest Harbor did not need las.
years appropriation for a new lookup.
They waited for an inmate before at
tempting to build.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16

Charitably inclined people in tn,
town of Garland recently held tive
wood bees while the would-bes in towr
sat at home mcping.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16

More sidewalks" says Deerin,
That's a refrain which would soun
well coming from some other places /
Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16

A blue lamb has been born in North
Lamoine. Probably that color was Sc
lected before Mckinley was inaugu-
rated.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16

HOODS PILLS are easy to ta1es
easy to operate. Cure indigestion.
biliousness. 2sc.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16

It does one good to hear such talk as
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-16

The highway that is we'll drained /.
saving the town many dollars at this
season.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23
IOWA CONDENS SEQ.

Fire n few nights ago destroy
ed $1,000 worth of property at Je-
rome. The stores and almost the en-
tire contents belonging TO ID. NJ. Bra
zeale, clothicrs; Donald Forsythe,
druggist: John Shelton, general mer-
chaudise dealer. were burned. Little
insurance was carried. A kit of burg
lars tools was found in the street,
and these signs indicated the BraZeale
store had been robbed and then fired.
Chicago Gispatch: Miss Jessie Lin
coin. daughter OF Robert T. Lincoln,
and Warren Beckwith, young bus
mess man of Mount Pleasant, Iowa,
were married ut Milwaukee. A year
ago young Beckwith aud Miss Lincoln
became sweethearts while the young
woman was visiting at Mount Pleas
ant. the former home of her mother,
daughter of James Harlan. Captain
Beckwith. father OF the groom. is u
warm friend of the Lincoln family,
but the young man. it is said, was
objected to strongly. The affair, it
was thought. was then broken up.
Mrs. Beckwith returned from Mil
waukee To her home on the Lake
Shore drive and upon being questioned
admitted her marriage.
The trouble recently stirred up
in Sioux City over the levy of taxes
has come up again. w. c. McNqmara,
who holds the $1,000 Judgment against
the city. served notice that the original
levy of four mills in the Judgment
fund must be entered by the auditor
or he will begin mandamus proceed
ings to compel such acton In the
recent trouble between the citizens
and tax payers committee and the
city council the levy was cut To two
mills. Mcnamara says this will not
be sufficient to pay his Judgment, and
he intends TO fight the matter in the
courts.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23
ALL OVER THE WORLD
DURRANT MAY NEVER HANG.
Cannot Die Before Next March IN Any
Event Nnu

Cannot Die Before Next March IN Any
Event. Now.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14--1n view of
the fact that the supreme court will
not convene until the second Monday
in January, it is not considered prob
able that Durrant, the condemned
murderer of Blanche Lamont and
Minnie Williams, will expiate the
crime for which he was sentenced to
be hanged in December, 1895, before
the latter part OF February or the
beginning of March next, if at all
The matter cannot come up for hear
ing upon the points involved 10 the
order granting the certificates of
probable cause. to which the muir
derer owes his second lease of life,
until the middle of January. After
the case has been decided another
thirty days at least must intervene
before the remittitur from the supreme
court can reach the trial court and
Durrant be re-sentenced for the
second time. Meantime, Durrant has
been removed from the condemned
cell and returned to his old cell, No
II, in murderers row. at San Quentin.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23
THE NEWS IN IOWA
MURDER AND SUICIDE.

T.. ID. spickIer, of Cushing. Kills His
Wife and Himself.
Sioux CITY. Nov. ia murder and
suicide occurred at Cushing. The
murderer was L. d. Spickler, a farmer,
and the victim was his wife. The man
killed himself after the deed. This
couple separated some time ago on
account of family troubles, and the
man has been in the east for some
time. However, he came home few
DAYS ago and beat his stepdaughter.
For this he was arrested, but was
released in few days. He went
about the town of Cushing saying he
would kill his wife, but people thought
nothing of the threat. But he meant
il. and went to where his wife was
living, about a mile from town. Upon
entering the door he opened fire, the
shot striking her in the breast. He
then went outside and blew out his
own brains. The woman lived few
hours. Four children are left. They
were the children of the woman by her
first husband The tragedy has
created n sensation in that section OF
the county Spickler was 40 years old
and his wife 35.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23

An assassin made an attempt upon
the life of the President of Mexico. He
was arrested and held in confinement.
BY the connivance Of the chief of po-
lice, a mob gained possession of his
person and put him to death. Their
act OF violence was intended as an act
of devotion to, and affection for, a wise
and good ruler To the president him
self the form of the compliment robbed
it Of its value. Its lawlessness de-
feated his purpose to give the criminal
fair trial. He held those who took
the mans life in a vulgar fury to be
guilty of murder. Accordingly he
caused the arrest of the chief OF police,
who, after confessing his fault, COM
mitted suicide in prison. Other per-
SOM in authority, who had approved
or failed to resist the attack upon the
assassin, were promptly deposed from
office; and twenty-one participants in
the actual killing of the man were ar
rested and held for trial. This is the
wayPresident Diaz deals with lynchers
and their abetters. 1t is good way.
1t emphasizes the fact that mob ven
geance, while 1t may seem an act of
justice in the abstract, really defeats
justice and imperils society by its
method.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23
PROUD ENGLAND BENDS.
Losing Prestige as IA Leader in the In
dustriaI World.

dustrial World.
LONDON. Nov. ia series of arti-
cles which are attracting much at
tention headed, Marching Back
wards" have been appearing in the
Daily Mail The writer has shown
that Great Britain is falling behind
in the great industrial race, and
demonstrated how the United States,
france and Germany can show in
creased exports to the amount of COS
900. 900 in twelve years, extending
from 1883 to 1895. 1t is further prov
ed that the exports in the United
Kingdom in the same period
have decreased 50, 900, 900 (S45, OOO,-
900. Commenting on this showing
the Daily Mail expresses the opinion
that the main reasons for this falling
off is that British traders want bust
ness instinct and some genuine
patriotism, as evidenced by ship own
ers CARRYING foreigners goods ut
lower rates than the British.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23
NATIONAL CROP STATISTICS.
Average Yield OF Corn Is 23.7 Bushels
Per Acre-Other Crops

Average Yield of Corn is 1877 Bushels
Per Acre--Other Crops.
Washington dispatch: The Novem-
Der report of the statistician of the
department of agriculture gives ear
bushels as the average yield per acre
OF corn according to the preliminary
returns of the departments cores
pondents. The corresponding prelim-
mary estimate last year was els
bushels, and that of 1895 was 2O. .
bushels
The average yield in the principal
corn states is as follows:
New York, 32.5: Pennsylvania, SO:
Ohio, 32.5: Indiana. 2S; Illinois, ais:
Iowa, 90; Missouri, %; Kansas, 10
Nebraska, 30
The average per cent of quality is
$50, as compared with S. A in 1896, and
923 in 1895.
The preliminary estimate of the
average yield of buckwheat is e0.7
bushels per acre, as compared with
1s.7 bushels last year and 20. 1 bushels
in 1895.
The average yield per acre of tobacco
is 'i6 pounds, against GO pounds per
acre last year
Inc estimated average yield per
acre OF Irish potatoes is GAG bushels.
as compared with So 8 bushels Inst
year. The average per cent of qnaiity
Is sl.3, against S9.2 in November last
year.
The average yield of hay is Lac tons
per acre, against an average of lei
tons for the last fifteen years. In
point OF quality, the average is %. S
per cent, rs compared with go per
cent last year
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23
DIVIDE NEW YORK.
Boss Croker Will Have a Bill Introduced
This Winter.

boss STokeT VIII nhNe Dill
This Winter.
New YORK, Nov. 1T.-Accordipg to
local paper it is Richard Croker's am
bition to extend Tammany's domain
beyond the confines of greater New
York. The proposal to create new
state of New York and Incorporating
them as the state of Manhattan is de-
fined in bill which is to be introduc-
ed at the coming session of the legis-
lature by Assemblyman Patrick Train
or. OF the Thirtieth district Mr..
Trainor, who is Il member of Tam
many hall, presented similar bill in
the assembly last year, but it did not
get beyond a committee. The plan is
TO create new democratic state and
add two sure democratic United States
senators. to secure control of the iegis-
lature of what would be the greatest
and richest state in the union, to di-
vide the electoral vote of the pivotal
state, to send to the lower house of
congress, u solid delegation from the
state of Manhattan, aud to get abso-
Lutte legislative control over the second
greatest city on earth.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23

Progress toward reform in weights
and measures by the two great nations
or the world continues. In the United
States a general law providing for the
use of the French metric system
throughout the country was near en-
actment by the last congress, and the
English parliament has. only few
weeks ago, passed an act legalizing the
system in Great Britain, step toward
It's early exclusive adoption. The
congress of the United States has new
er exercised the power granted it in
the constitution by establishing a def
mite system of weights and measures
for the whole country. and all stand
ards in customary use are legal only
by authority of state legislation.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23
PARDON FOR COMPETITOR MEN.

HAVANA, Nov. 14.--Dispatches from
Madrid confirm the reports that the
prisoners captured on the Competitor,
in April, 1896, will be included in the
amnesty decree soon To be issued.
HAVANA, Nov. 1.-THE Spanish ca
vairy came upon the insurgents under
General Alejandro Rodriques, in the
province of Havana and in the en-
gagement killed twenty insurgents,
capturing n quantity of arms, togeth-
er with the Announcements of General
Rodriguez, a quantity of baggage and
letters
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23

To the Editor: affairs Of Cuba
have reached crisis. Spain tries by
perfidious diplomacy to win where her
sword has failed. The offer of au-
tonomy is device TO change the pa
triosic sentiment of America, and to
betray Cuba by false promises. In
this way she triumphed twenty years
ago. This time she must fail. Au-
tonomy is another term for imposi-
ton and fraud. The Cuban League Of
the United States has long since ex-
posed and condemned this hypocrisy.
Since then more interested forces have
supplemented this opinion. The states
men OF Cuba repudiate it. The COM
manders in the field say "Independ-
enco or Death" The late American
minister to Spain proclaims 1t to be
an impracticable sham. More than all
Ibis. in the city of New York recently
q meeting Of Cubans. who together
represented more than one-half the
property values of the entire island,
merchants, bankers and planters in
exile, who today bear the burdens OF
the war by their contributions to its
treasury, in very decided language de-
clared that no offer from Spain will
be considered short OF absolute indie
pendence. All that remains is that we
should now move steadily onward to
the assured victory which this league
has heretofore pledged. Our duty is
to influence the representatives in
congress to grant belligerent rights.
The senate has already done so. Be
fore the New Year is ushered in may
The lower house respond. Then log
ically follows independence. The pres
ldent must not falter now, and it is
the duty of this league to see to it
that he shall not. will you give this
the publicity Of your journal?-Ethan
Allen, President OF the Cuban League
of the United States.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23
Major Van Heuten is Missing.

DUBUQUE, Nov. 15.-Major Harry
Van Houten left his home on the Sth
to go to the postoffice near by and has
not since been seen, though the police
have made a thorough search. Major
Van Houten is a veteran of the Thir-
'''ansas cavalry, which latter reg
he commanded in several
nents. He has occupied govern
49,. positions at Salt Lake, Denver
and Rock Island, and was for eight
years connected with the Western
Union Telegraph Company's supply
department in Chicago.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23

Fhe Zuni Indians have concluded not
% torture witches hereafter. Here is
'eform in an unexpected quarter, and
1t is the more surprising because Spain
seeks to torture in Spain, Cuba and
the Philippines. while the sultan both
tortures and assassinates. Presently,
with the progress of the Zuni Indians
before them, the Christian govern
ments of Europe may pluck up cour-
age and conscientiousness sufficiently
to protect the men and women who be-
long to their own church.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23
HOLDS THREE TROPHIES.
Fred Gilbert. of Spirit Lake, a Wonderful
Shot.

Dies MONIES, Nov. 1G.-Fred Gilbert,
the Phantom of Spirit Lake." holds
three Of the four recognized trap shoot
ing trophies in the country. They are
the Dupont championship trophy and
the Kansas City Star cup for live birds,
and the E. c. cup, emblematic of the
championship of the United States at
inanimate targets. Gilbert will be
called upon to defend the possession
of two of them against n challenger
during the great trap shooting week
TO be held at Watson's Park, Chicago,
in December. Both matches will be
against the same expert, j. A. Il.
Elliott, of Kansas City. They are for
the Dupont trophy and the Kansas
City Star cup. Each match will be at
100 live birds.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23
Fell to- His Death.

Dies MONIES, Nov. 1G.-The police
found the dead body of August Olson,
a tailor, in the alley between the See
burger and Manhattan buildings. He
had probably fallen ont of rear
thrd-story window of the Seeburger
building. When found his head was
terribly crushed and the pavement was
covered with blood. Doctors did not
arrive on the scene until twenty
minutes after the man fell, but said he
had been killed instantly. The man
had been intoxicated two or three
days and must have fallen from the
window while in n maudlin condition.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23

RAINING to help poor family, who
lived on broken victuals gathered from
door to door, a good woman gave the
mother a days work and paid her a
dollar. Two or three days later, says
the New Unity, the woman called to
express her gratitude. The children
had always wanted to so to the mat
inee, and the dollar had taken them
all! Sometimes 1.-The destruction of
the poor is their poverty" Again, as
In this case, it is their idiocy.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23
iOWA'S VOTE.

Corrected Returns From All Counties
On All Tickets.
DIES MONIES. Nov. 1.-THE Register
publishes table showing the corrected
returns on the heads of the six tickets
in the last election, which gives the
total vote as follows: Shaw, 224, 726;
White, 1874 ,G3G: Leland, 7.l15; Lloyd,
1889; Cliggitt. 1898; Kremer. 5S3;
Shaw's plurality. 10000; majority.
1870 According to these returns.
the Twensy-seventh general assembly
will be made up as follows: Senate,
80 republicans and / 1 democrats: house,
CO republicans and 81 democrats.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23
RUSSIA'S DUN FOR TURKEY.
Cars Significant Hint as to the DISPOSE
ton OF Greek Indemnity

Cars Significant Hint as to the DISPOSE
ton of Greek Indemnity.
CoNsTANTINOPLE, Nov. 15-The Rus
sian embassy here has made an inn
portant announcement to the Turkish
government. In substance it is that
If Turkey intends to apply part of the
Greek war indemnity to an increase of
the Turkish ornaments, Russia desires
to remind Turkey that the unpaid
arrears of the Russo-Turkey war in
demnity amounts to Ell, 300, 900, adding
that, il the policy of the Turkish gov
eminent is as indicated, Russia will
demand the payment of this amount.
The Russian pronouncement has
strongly impressed the diplomatic
corps. who believe it is directed
against the plans TO reorganize the
Turkish navy
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23
NOVAk SPRINGS A SURPRISE.
One Statement of 81 State Witness FiatIy
Contradicted.


Contradicted.
VINToN, Nov. 1.-THE defense in
the Novall trial sprung surprise,
when Joseph Stusak, an old employee
of Novak' S. testified that on the night
following the fire he and John Dusil
turned the valves in the gas pipes in
the boiler room, which the witness for
the state claimed they found welded
together by the heat so they could not
be turned. Mr.. and Mrs. Zabortsky
testified that the stock in the store
was worth Sc, 900 To $1,000, and that
they carried insurance on only $500;
that the building was worth $4,000
and the insurance was $4,000. They
also testified that just above the sleep
ing room were a number of Baskets,
indicating that in falling they might
have struck Murray and frac tured the
skull