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The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
HANNA MUCH BETTER.

Cleveland, December 3.-The condition
of Senator Hanna has much improved
and he will depart for Washington Satur-
day or Sunday.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
ALLLOVED SAME Girl.

Little Rock, Ark, December q A
three -cornered duel took place at d coun-
try church near Huntsville, Madison
county, last night. Seth Lowe, Will
Phillips and John Howard, three farm
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

t9n' 81 old =, CLOUDY. Albany, "a degrees,
oondY: He HIouTs Esiyo,t ,stuaaalo, IL 80 degrees, s.
Chicago. 2S degrees, N, cloudy s St. Paul
degrees, NV, cloudy; Huron. Dak.. g de,
srees, SW, cloudy; Bismarck, degrees W
partly cloudy; Jacksonville, "a degrees.
NE, partly cloudy. es e'''
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
BANK CLOSES DOORS.

Ashyille, NC, December "A special
from Morgantown says that the State.
Piedmont bank of that place closed its
doors this morning owing to inability
to make collections. Assets cover liabili.
ties,
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
JAIL BREAKERS GAUGHT.

Lewiston, December@ 8. TIE three
prisoners who escaped yesterday have
been captured by deputy Sheriffs Max
well o Brien and Deteeuive Bolien at
Danyille Junction.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
CARLIsTs WANT MONEY.

- Madrid, December "A despatch to
Cne inparcial from San Sebastian today
says; The Carlists here are agitating
assisted ASSISTED, by the clergy, who repudlate the
Ta,pppe,s a,pp authority in political questions
me Carilsts are doing their utmost to
procure money!
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
THE vICKsBURG ACCEPTED.

Washington, December 2.-The Navy
Department today finally accepted the
gunboat Vicksburg at the Bath Iron
Works, Maine
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
DAuNTLEss HAS GONE TO CUBA.

49,, madrid, December 2.-Senor de lone,
one spanish minister at Washington has
Gapled the government that the steamer
!Itless Dnuntless has gone to Cuba. The Cuban
ln1ormlsts have decided to form new
party instead of fusing with the
autonomists. Two delegates have started
1or New York and on their return it is
expected that new government will be
constituted
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
STEAMER ON FIRE.

The British steamer Bencroy Captain
Lamb, which sailed from Galveston,
Texas, November 16 for Havre, laden
with cotton, is in Halifax harbor with
her cargo on fire. She dropped anchor
shortly after two O'Clock this morning
The crew are at work pumping water in
to the hold, but there is little sign of fire
below. 1t will be impossible to tell the
condition of things under the deck until
an examination is made after daylight.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
FOUNDRY BURNED.

Waltham, Mass, December 2.-The
foundry of the Davis and Farnum Manu-
featuring company WAS burned this eve
ming, entailing a loss of ST.. 900. The
property was fully covered by insurance.
The foundry building together with its
machinery and patterns is total loss.
1t is thought the fire started in the rear
of the furnace
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
CHEMICAL WORKS BURNED.

Halifax, N. S., December 3.-The
chemical works connected with the ex.
tensive plant of the Peoples Heat and
Light company on the shores of the
Northwest Arm, burst into flames shortly
after midnight. The fire WAS discovered
by one Of the night foremen, but before
anything could be done to extinguish it,
it was spreading to all parts of the build
ing and the men at work had to run for
their lives. The chemical works, in which
was generated the gas to operate the great
coke ovens, were located in new wooden
wing of an old stone building in which a
great deal of the most valuable machinery
was operated. The main building was
quite ire proof and escaped injury, while
the fremen prevented this flames from
extending to adjacent structures SO that
the loss was confined to the chemical
works. The damage will not interfere
with the manufacture of Illuminating
and fuel gas for the city. The building
contained what is known as the acid
tower and the apparatus included two
Moud gas producers worth S25 900 each
The total loss is between $50, 900 and SIS, =
600. Communication with the gaBometers
was shut off at an early stage and danger
from serious explosion averted.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

SAAoiicai Norks OF Inc Peoples meat
and Light Comyanv at Halifax De-
stroyed-steamer Comes Into Rarbor
With Cargo on Fire.
providence, r. L., December 2.-One OF
The most disastrous fires that has visited
this city for some time occurred late this
afternoon, when blaze broke out in
Flint and company's furniture establish
ment at the corner of Eddy and Weybos-
set streets. 1t is supposed that it started
from lighted match or cigarette thrown
into pile of excelsior by careless
porter. 1t swept up the freight elevator
shaft to the roof and filled the entire
structure, four stories high with smoke.
There were forty employees in the build
Ing, some of them women and they be-
oame panic stricken F. P. Slocum,
carpet sewer, was found unconscious on
tho floor near the elevator and was
brought out with difficulty. John Cong
don was rescued from second story win
dow by the tiremen. After the fire had
been extinguished the dead body of
Samuel Borg, a Swede, twenty years old,
was discovered three feet from one of the
front windows. He had been over come
before he could get within hearing. He
was employed as tailor
The elevator boy took several of the
women from the top floor to safety from
the top through the smoke. The damage
| is principally fire and water, the fire be
ing confined to the rear of the building.
The damage to the stock and building is
estimated at $l25, 600. The stock is in
sured for S1S5,O00
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

Az ~ was announced from the palace to-
70 .na1 40 prisoners have been released
au ou 1Ihanzanillo and that SO persons In prls-
Un ~, nave been pardoned at Sancti Spr1tl-
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
WORK OF THE FLAMES.
Big Providence Furniture Establish.
ment Destroyed.
EMPLOYEES TAKEN DOWN ELEVA-
TOR THROUGH FIRE AND SMOKE.

Chemical Works of The Peoples Heat
and Light Comyanv at Halifax De-
stroyed-Steamer Comes Into Rarbor
With Cargo on Fire.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
HELP CUBA TO BIZ FREE.
Secretary Of Cuba League Interviews
the President.
URGES ACTIVE INTERFERENCE
BY THIS GOVERNMENT.

Argument Presented Giving Ten Reasons
why such Action Should Be Taken
President Promises to Consider tho
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
HENRY GEORGE A CANDIDATE.
Bryan Democrats win Offer Him the
Mayor Candidacy of Greater
new York.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Sept. 23.-The
Herald this morning announces in a
double loaded article:
The proffer of the Bryan Democratic
nomination for Mayor of Greater New
York will be made to Henry George to-
day. This action was decided upon yes
terday at a secret meeting of the leaders
in the recent Holland House conference.
These men, who insist that the Chicago
platform must be reaffirmed and a loval
supporter of Bryan placed in the Mayor
atty contest, have decided to ask Mr..
George to make the race, after carefully
canvassing the situation.
Those present took the ground that if
Tammany nominated an unsatisfactory
candidate, Mr.. George would stand a good
chan ce of winning against Seth Low and
the candidate of the Platt machine.
1t will be known within a day or two
proba bly,, whether Mr.. George will con-
sent to make the race on the Bryan ticket.
The nominating convention Will be held
Monday evening.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
ANDREW w. JOhDANS SUICIDE.
Once a WeH-Known Photographer, but
hfter Retiring From Business His
Fortune IMndied Away.

NEW YORK, n. Y, Sept. 23.-Andrew
w. Jordan, who was a well-known pho
tographer twenty years ago, com mltted
suicide to-day in Miss Kingsland's board
ing house, 81 West Thirty-ssvenlh street,
Jordan was 63 years of age. He was con-
sidered a man of wealth, having retired
from business with a fortune. He be-an
to speculate in Wall street, and his for
tune dwindled away. Then his wife
opened a dressmaking establishment.
After that the couple did not live to-
gether, Jordan going to board.
The adjoining room was occupied by
Charles E. Mahoney, lawyer. Thinking
his neighbor might be i'll Mahoney
knocked at the duo-, and, receiving no
reply, opened it. Jordan was seated on a
chair near the window, with his head rest.
ing on writing table. A pistol lay on
the dead mans lap, while in his left hand
was pen. On a sheet of paper were these
words: "All is over. The end is near"
In letter addressed to Miss Kin gsland,
Jordan apologized for what he was going
to do. The second letter was addressed
to his niece, an actress now playing at the
Alcazar Theater, San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
Friendship for the United
States Is Candidly
Admitted.
AFRAID OF GOING FROM
BAD TO WORSE.
In Mass Meeting Islanders Protest
Against Being Swallowed Up
by the White Race.

HONOLULU, HAWAII, Sept. 16.-We
have had a Hawaiian mass-meetiDg
against annexation, and it has passed off
much more orderly and quietly than an
ordinary ward club meeting in an Ameri-
can city.
There was quite a difference of opinion
among the leaders of the anti-annexation
party as to the advsa biIity of holding a
mass-meeting after the numerous untrue
assertions foisted upon the American
press by irresponsible persons, but it was
eventually decided by the officers OF the
two important Hawaiian patriotic So
cieties that as the statement had been
falsely sent abroad that the Hawaiians
were almost unanimously in favor of an
nexation it would be at least advisable to
present formal protest from them to the
Government, so that the Senate of
Hawaii might be notified of their opposi-
ton to the ratification of the treaty of
annexation, if only to have it inserted in
the journal as a formal record, it being an
assured fact that it would have no vital
effect.
Accordingly, few handb bills were
printed and circulated among the mem
bers of the leagues and their friends, call
ing meeting in Union square for O'Clock
on the afternoon of September g. the Sem
ate having been convened for the Sth.
A solid, earnest body of Hawaiian men
and women of the respectable mechanic
and laboring class, well behaved, deeply
interested, good tempered and enthus-
astic; and the proceedings throughout
were III Hawaiian and uninterrupted, and
only occupied thirty minutes. The Ha-
waiians were curious TO learn how it is
that the love of country which among
other nationallties is known as patriot
ISM in their instance should only be re-
garded as sentiment" They cannot
understand why conditions of climate
should change conditions of heart
phraseology. A noteworthy phase of the
speeches was the cordial respect and
esteem displayed toward the American
people and Government to whom they
feel they are SO deeply indebted for their
progress in civilization. The speeches
were eloquent, practical and moderate in
tone, as few brief extracts will show.
Hon. J. X. Kaulia, pure blooded Ha-
waiian, LAWYER and for a brief time in
the Foreign Office during Hon. J. A. Cum
MINIS ad dmlnistration, and now the presi-
dent of the Aloha Alma Society, said:
Let us stand as 81 unit against any such
measure as is now being considered. America
has done us no wrong. but 1t is this Govern.
ment in power to-day that has divested us of
our rights and our heritage. They are trying
to coax the United States 10 take us. We must
not allow such thing as long our protests
will do any good.
If we are annexed to-day the morrow will
bring us no good. Not so with the rich people
the men in power to-day. They wib reap the
harvest. Our profit will be where? Our gain
VIII be from what source? We meet here to-
day as peaceably inclined and law-abiding
class OF people, but our opinions, freely ex-
pressed, we wish all to hear. We come not
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
BLOWN UP AT THE WHARF
An Explosion of hnphtha VIII Pre-
vent the Schooner 1eering From
Sailing for Alaska.

LYNN, Mass, Sept. 23.-The schooner
Abbie NJ. Deerlng, which has been lying
at Green's wharf here fitting out for an
expedition around the Horn to the Yukon
gold fields, will never sail for the land of
nuggets, and the argonauts who proposed
going aboard her must seek other means
of transportation. This afternoon ouan-
tlty OF naphths, which formed part of her
stores exploded-or rather the gas gener.
ated bv the naphtha did-from the fire in
the galley-stove. The violence of the ex-
po,ion ripped up the deck from bow TO
stern, mashed bulkhead and bulwark,
ana nearly lifted the masts from their
sockets.
Several of the crew were blown into the
dock oy the force of the shock, but were
rescued. Michael Kennedy was thrown a
dozen feet and was severely cut on the
mead, besides receiving internal in njuries
that will probably prove fatal A couple
Of riggers were shaken down from aloft
and nearly suffocated by smoke and
naphiha fumes, besides receiving DIS
ablng bruises. The cargo of the Deering
IS totally ruined and the vessel so badly
damaged as to make it scarcely worth
while to repair her. The expedition was
composed of Gloucester men, who had
been assessed $500 each to pay for the
:rip. They lose everything, and most OF
them have no more money.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
Sarah Pratt Carr Writes of the
Need of Religious
Training.
PLEADS FOR MORE LIBERAL
TEACHING.
The Christian Register indorses the
Communication In Pointed
Editorial Comments.

BOSTON, Mass. Sept. 23.-The Christian
Register to-day publishes as lis leading
article and indorses editorially a remark
able appeal for the rescue of the people of
the San joaquin Valley from what is
vividly pictured as slough of i'm morality
and church neglect 1t is signed by Sarah
Pratt Carr and follows in substance:
"At this time OF the annual meeting of
the national conference. we who live so
far away that we cannot attend beg that,
with other deliberations. some considera-
ton will be given to the field in the far
West Restraints which check license and
curb material am bitions in older States do
not exist here. The refnements and in
tellectual pleasures of older towns are
almost unknown. In many of the towns
of this great San Joaquin Valley there is
absolutely nothing in The way of amuse-
ment between the all-night ball and the
religious revival. The class which attends
balls takes in the revival as the next best
thing for fun. The class which takes the
revival seriously believes all ball-goers
eternally lost, and there is a continual
feud between them with occasional back
sliders from each side.
''The orthodox churches, which are
very strict and old-fashioned, work hard
among the young people. But for those
who will not subscribe to their doctrines
there is nothing. For them the saloons
are open seven days and seven nights in
the week. They are told regularly once d
week in every church that they are ever
IastingIy doomed. There is no man or
woman enough interested or fitted to lead
them to better thought. There are no
reading-rooms-or very few-no lecture
courses or taste for lectures, no art asso-
Citations, no musical organizations, except
brass bands and the class of an occasional
hard working music-teacher, 20 natural
history cub TO interest the young i'll study
ing nature at first hand, no dramatic so.
cieties-no intellectual life whatever.
"Is not this field for the liberal
church? Is not the work of saving bright
young American citizens to better in
iellectuaIIty, and especially to a higher
morality as worthy as the attempt to
teach the Zulu 10 eat with fork, or the
effort of explaining to the South Sea
Islander the doctrine of the trinity? Is
not the real problem OF the hour for both
ministers and lavmen this-how to at
tract to better life those who now have
neither religious nor refining life of any
sort2 Will not those who have the
luxury of going to large, beautiful
churches receive tenfold more benefit if
they also undertake to help some rough
frontier town 10 small reflection of their
religious life2 Ii each prosperous uni
tartan church IN the populous East would
only mother missionary child so that
there could be personal, living link
between the old and the young, would
not the lie OF every such church be
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
Nine New Gases Discovered in
the Crescent City During
the Day.
SPREAD OF THE DISEASE
AT MOBILE.
Physicians Continue the Battle to
Check the RaVages of the
Yellow Plague.

NEW ORLEANS, LA, Sept. 23.-The
local fever situation did not show any i'm
provement to-day when results were
summed up. There were fewer cases than
we're reported yesterday, but there was
one more death than in the previous
twenty-four hours and at least four of the
patients were reported at o'clock to be
in q dangerous condition, so that, while
there is no reason to justify the statement
that there is danger of an epidemic here,
conditions are multiplying to prove what
most of the eminent physicians here have
said that yellow fever exists.
Nine new cases were reported during
day and the following deaths:
Marie Dubois, three years old, st.
Charles street, between Cherokee and
Hillary.
c. S. secreto, s1ls Birch street, Carroll
ton.
Mrs. Gasparo Lessemes. 524 ST. Phillip
street.
Paul Tom of ST. Andrews street, be-
tween Camp and Chestnut
The ninth new case reported to-day was
that of Mrs. Lessemes. whose death is
mentioned. The woman had been sick
for several days, but she had apparently
no friends, or if she did they were afraid
TO 60 near her. 1t was only this morning
that a doctor was summoned, and when
he went TO the house he diagnosed the
case as yellow fever. The woman died of
inattention as much as of the disease.
Marie Dubois was taken on the 10th and
her case was Immediately diagnosed as
yellow fever.
Secreto was an Italian, and physician
was only called in when there was no hope
of saving his life.
Tonight four cases at least were re-
ported to be in an extremely dangerous
condition. The other cases, however, were
reported as presenting favorable signs,
and there was a marked improveme ent in
the ST. Claude neigh borhood.
Another death occurred tonight and
fourth to-day. Three were Italians. The
neIghbor oods in which the poor Sicilians
live are thickly settled and very dirty,
and the Board of Health recognizes the
necessity of removing and isolating these
people so as to take away so much food
for injection. The camp of detention was
established at Oakland Park, but the
Italians refused 10 go there, d deeming it a
plot to do them harm, even tearing pois-
onous food.
Lead ing citizens of their own race went
among them and argued that their going
to the place was one of self-preservation,
and some fifty were taken out
MOBILE, ALA, Sept. 23.-The official
report to-day is that 50 far there have
been thirty-eight cases of pronounced
yellow fever; three have died, sixteen have
been discharged and nineteen remain
under treatment. Two of the cases were
reported to-day and ten were discharged
to-day. Up to noon there had been no
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
GUNBOAT WHEELING SENT IN
GREAT HASTE.
Carries Dispatches Instructing Admiral Miller
:. to Land Forces and Raise the Ameri-
= can Flag at Honoulu IF
Necessary.

Japan not interfere with the Hawaiian Islands That such the ultima
Washington
boat Wheeling the islands earliest rushed
0 rounded hustled to the
So quickly Wheeling o'clock
anchored Preside, will
The Wheeling
that her official
satisfactory,
under the the Navy
have taken place week and short the
Diego, the Wheeling joined the Berng
The
her
patches Minister Sewa Wheeling
warship
all Honolulu
nearly completed
Philadelphia
his flag t the Baltimore early
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24

without cruiser more than two weeks al
a time.
Orders were issued to the commandant
Of The Mare Island Navy-yard to-day. di-
recting him 20 place all the stores aboard
the Baltimore, and have her In readiness
to leave the harbor just as soon as the
Philadelphia reaches port and the trans
Ter of officers and men could be effected.
u nder the instructions which have been
sent to Rear Admiral Miller and by that
ofbcer given to the commanding officer OF
the Philadelphia, the officers and men of
the cruiser are to be ready to go aboard
the Baltimore Immediately upon their ar
rival at Mare Island. The Philadelphia
will be taken in charge by Rear-A Admiral
Kirkland, the commandant of the Mare
Island Navy-yard, and towed to the dock,
where she will undergo immediate repairs
The orders which the Navy Department
issued to-day were a subject of consider
able speculation among the few who be-
came acquainted with their tenor. The
general opinion seems to be that the ad-
minislration is apprehensIve OF an attempt
on the part of the japanese in the islands.
supported secretly by Japan, to over
throw the Dole Government, and thus
give the Mikado's Government a better
foundation tor claim to the islands.
The administration, however, is not to be
caught mapping, and the various precau-
tions which have been taken are all with
view 10 preventing the success of any
plan which the Government may have
mapped out looking to securing control OF
the islands before the Senate of the United
States can act on the annexation treaty.
1t was stated at the Navy Department
to-day that there is no intention of send
ing the Oregon to Honolulu.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24

deaths since Saturday last, and all the
sick but one or two we're reported doing
well. To- might another death was added
to the list, being that of Jonn ]. Bourne,
chief clerk of the Louisville and Nashville
shops, who lived on Elmira street, between
Jefferson and Bayou. He was taken
sick September IA. The surgeon
general has ordered all mail from Mobile
fumigated. Heretofore only the mail for
southern districts that have quaran tined
Mobile have been fumigated.
ATLANTA, GA, Sept. 23-The Board
of Health OF Atlanta announced that Car
rie Fleming, a 14-year-old girl, refugee
from Mobile with her father and mother
and who is stopping at a boarding house
at 1I9 Auburn avenue, is suffering with
yellow fever.
The Board of Health met tonight and
issued a statement, in which it says: 1.-The
case seems TO be very mild and the indica-
tions point to recovery. The patient, her
father and mother, and other individuals S
from Mobile, who were in the house, have
been placed under strict quarantine. The
Board of Health does not consider that
there is the least danger of any Atlanta
individuals not exposed in infected cities
catching the disease, nor is it surprised at
the development of the case. having anti
cipated that such sporadic cases would
occur.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 23.-John Nc
Dougall, the young machinist from Mo-
bile, Ala, who has been sick with yellow
fever, died this morning at the Detention
Hospital. McDougalPs parents live in
Toronto Ontario.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
Ntpnn.prd bY a Sea.

LONDON, ENG, Sept. N.-The Berlin
CORE spondent Of the Daily Mail says the
disaster that beiell the torpedo boat 26,
which capsized and sunk near the first
lightship of Cuxhaven, with Commander
Duke Frederick William of Mecklenuurg-
Schwerin and eight OF her crew, was due
to her oeing swamped by heavy sea. As
she was sinking the Duke called out to his
men, telling them to save thems selves.
The survivors praise his great courage and
GOODNESS. He was popular and promis-
ing officer.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
BRi7LH VENGEANCE.
Kjro of Benin viii Be Sent Into Exle
and Two of His Chiefs
We're Shot.

LAGOS, WEST COAST OF AFRICA, Sept.
23.-Drunami. Inc King OF Benin, who has
been on trial at Benin City since August
last, with a mum Der of his leading chiefs,
charged with being concerned with the
massacre of the unarmed expedition I'M
der British Consul Phillips, has been con-
demned to be transported to Calabar, a
slave settlement of British West Africa.
Three of the Kings of Benin's chiefs
were previously sentenced. Two OF them
were shot ahd their bodies display ed
hanging in the streets for twenty-four
hours The third of these caiefs escape d
a similar fate by committing suicide.