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The Portland daily press., 1897-12-31
MARRIAGES.

In this city, Dec. 80, by Rev. w. S. Ayers,
Miss Emma Isabel Tolman of Portland to Chas.
Il. herald of Jay.
In l)ixmont. Ralph L. Simpson and Miss Lena
B. Sawtele.
In Ellsworth. Dec 20, John s. leighton ana
Mrs. Avilda G. Mccarthy.
In Winterport. Dec. -, Selden Clark and
Miss May L. Boyd, botn of Prospect.
In Camden, Dec 90, Orlando Cooper and Miss
Marian WadSwOfth,
In Camden, Dec. 20, John e. Bean and Laura
a. Ryder.
In South Hope. Dec. 49, Adolphus Moves of
Hope ana Nellie Lawn ence of Warren
In Waterville. Dec. 10, L. G. Blake and Miss
Lillian Tupper.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-31
DEATHS.

In Auburn, Dec. 20, Selvira Nevens, wife of
Samuel Nevens. aged SO years.
In Bangor. Dec 10, Mrs. Mary A Lancaster,
aged So wears.
IL Andover. Dec. 20, Eliza P. Harrington, aged
II years.
In Lowell, Dec. IS, Herbert w. Stearns, aged
32 years.
In Bath. Dec. 20, Mrs. Jessie Harris, aged
20 years.
In Auburn, Dec 20, Selyira Nevens, wife OF
Samuel Nevens. aged So years.
In Rockport, Dec, %. Melvina NJ, daughter of
Thomas and Louisa Starrett, aged 81 years and
10 months.
In Rocklapd, Dee. 81, Charles R. Cole, M D.,
formerly of Harrington, aged 40 years and 2
months.
In Bangor. Dec. 49, Mrs. Mary A. Lancaster,
aged SO years.
In Benton, Dec. II. Mrs Catharne. widow of
the late Capt. John f, Simpson, aged So years
4 months
in Warren. Dec. 49, Oliver Copeland, aged
so years.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-31

Of Odd Fellows have nearly perfected
their arrangements for holding the
dedication services attending the opening
IF their new hall at Woodfords. The
dedication exercises arctic occur on Mon
day afternoon January at O'Clock and
will be opened to the public. The ritual
service of the order will be used at the
dedication and the ceremony will be con-
Quoted by Grand Master A. l.. f: Pike
Of Norway, assisted by other officers of
the grand lodge of Maine. At six O'Clock
a banquet complimentary to the members
OF Fraternity lodge and the grand lodge
officers will be served in the banquet hall.
In the evening at eight o'clock will occur
the installation of the lodge officers for
the ensuing year. The evening service
will be opened to the members of the
order, and in connection with the service
there is to be q programme Of musical
and literary numbers. AT the public
dedication service appropriate music will
belrendred by quartette composed of
Mrs. G. K. Halves, soprano; Miss Lou F.
Harding, alto; Mr.. George E. Smith,
| uC1AO1 I'LL OCLA C43W, DtheSs hhu d5SlHt6u
by Miss Gertrude Buxton as organist,
| The Masons will hold their dedicatory
services Thursday evening of next week,
but their services are not for the public.
Mr.. G. V. Osgood the Woodfords corner
plumber has recovered from his recent
illness and is now able to get around.
| Mr.. F. Fl. Freese, Deering Center, has
| just purchased Of the Portland Electric
Railway company two of the old box cars
formerly in use, and is to haul one of
them to Duck Pond and the other to
at intervals during the season as summer
cottages by Mr.. Freese.
| Hose of Woodfords are to hold grand
/ New Years eve ball tonight in Lewis
hall, Woodfords,
The annual meeting OF Rocky Hill
lodge, No. 81, K. Of p, for the election
of officers was held last evening and the
following were elected: c. c., @. N.
Osgood; V. c., II. A. Mills; Prelats, G.
Fl. Thompson; NJ. of W, l Il. Elder; K.
Of R. & S., G. NJ. Legrow; N. of F.,
| Q. W. Foster; NJ. of E., T. A. Libby; M.
at A., G A. Richardson; I. c., j. A.
Queen; o. G., NJ. O'Connor; representa-
tive to grand lodge, two years, G. S. viii
! son; alternate, &. f. Smell; trustee, ]. L.
/ Elder; janitor, N. o. Oennor. The officers
will be installed Thursday evening
January 18th.
(. PICTURESQUE MAINE.
4 The fourth entertainment in the Deer
/ ing Star course was a lecture delivered
last evening al the Woodfords Congrega
tional church before large and attentive
audience, by Mr.. Edward c. SWEET o.
Portland on Picturesque Maine" This
lecturer was very pleasantly introdu cei
by Hon. Augustus f. Moulten.
/ The speaker held the closest attention
Of his audience from start to flush, as HI
told Of the beauties CT the Pine Ire,
state. The stereopticon views used IL
connection with the lecture are among
the finest ever exhibited, the pictures be
ing faithful reproductions of the scenic
gems of Maine. The next entertainment
in the course will be given January 18th
by Myron W. Whitney, the cele bratel
bass soloist of Boston, assisted by loca
literary and musical talent,
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-31
sECRETARY's REPORT.

During the year just passed we have
held 35 regular and two special meetings.
with an average attendance of 80. We
are sad to record the death of six of our
members who have been interested in
this society and it's work among the Door,
In the early part Of the year, Mrs. Wood
bury Davis; in April, Mrs. James Gould :;
in October, Mrs. Sarah Fowler, Mrs. Ed
win Dow and Mrs. Lizzie Meserve, and
now at the close of the year, Mrs. Olive
Strout. They rest from their labor, and
their work do follow them. Two mem
bers have left the city to reside elsewhere.
While they all have finished their work
with us, we have welcomed 4S new mem
bers, making our roll 242 members. While
our work is done very quietly and seems
sometimes to be very small in conpari-
son to the needs of the poor, we have re-
sponded to over 10 Gale in the following
manner: Coal and wood, 500. 81; boots
and shoes, $1sO.09; provisions, $40. 40;
dry goods and underwear, $50, "a; boys
wear, $26.87; Sl25 in cash; one barrel and
100 pounds corned beef, 81 pairs hose,
| IL undsrskirts, pairs mittens, outing
| flannel night dresses, 6 pair under
drawers, 1-2 ton coal, and in secondhand
garments, 1000 pieces, besides overcoats,
40 pair hose, 10 pair pants and boots
overshoes, 1 comforter, l bedstead We
have received from members dues $40. rs;
donations, s.0.50; sale O.. articles, so cts !;
supper and entertainment, $74, and from
a friend l barrel, $50 pounds corned
beef. To all who in any way assisted
us, and especially the gentlemen of the
press, we tender our most sincere thanks.
| FANNIE E. STRICKLAND, Secretary.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
From December 81, 1896, to December
80, 1897.
| Receipts.
Balance in treasury, S LOT
Members dues, 40.75
| Donations, $3.50
Supper, 74.OO
| Sale of articles, so
Received from trustees, POS. 35
| Total, 432. IL
Expenditures.
Paid per order of President, $41719
Balance in treasury, 1892
Total, 1882 ii
| LOUISA K. FESSENDEN. Treasurer.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
The following officers were elected:
President-Mrs. Hattie Parker.
| First Vice President-Mrs Hattie Brett.
| Second Vice President-Mrs. Helen
Smead.
| Secretary-Mrs. Fannie Strickland
Treasurer-Louisa Fessenden.
Trustees-Mrs. Hattie Parker, Mrs.
Dorcas bourne and Mrs. Julia S. Davis.
Counoillors-Mr. N. S. Redlon and N.
G. Fessenoen.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-31

ordering by mail send
piled at the price small lots, pay expessa
lots Of 20 address the line
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-31
MAR HA WASHINGTON SOCIETY,".
Annual Meeting and Election of Officers
Held Yesterday.

The close of che year 1897 brings the
Martha Washington Society to It's 55th
annual meeting, and it was held in the
First Baptist church yesterday.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-31
PORTLAND NEUROLOGY.
Well Known and Aged People who Have
Died This Year.

Following is a list of well known and
aged people who have died during the
year just closing:
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-31

PORTLAND. YACHT CLUB.
The flag officers of the Portland Yacht
club will entertain the members at tine
club house, Saturday afternoon, from two
til five O'Clock.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-08
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

! PERRY KAUFMAN, Villa m Davis and
John Drabenstott stole some alcohol
from Yoos' drug store at Huntington,
Ill, and short time after swallowing
the drug they all became violently i'll
and kaufman and Davis died and Dra-
benscott was said to be at the point of
death. The stuff was found to be
pyroxylic alcohol, a deadly poison.
MAJ. GARRISON, COMMUNICATIVE chief
of the G. A. R., left Omaha, Neb., on
the 4th for two weeks trip to visit
the different departments of his COM
manda
: WHITECAPs went to the house of
Walter Price, a negro, in Greenville
county, S. c., and forcibly dragged him
out and Mary Rochester, a white wo-
man, and gave them an unmerciful
whipping.
! THE fight for the 126-pound cham
pionship at birmingham, Eng, be-
tween Larry Burns, of New York, and
Harry Greenfield, the Englishman,
was won by Greenfield, who hoored
Burns in the eighth round by blow
on the jaw.
. AT Chicago on the 4th Joe Patchen,
the famous pacing stallion. was sold
to J. w. Marks, of Chicago, for SIS, 900.
THE annual convention of the Ma
tional Association of Railway Surgeons
began dU SHlcdSO OH IHc tIh AL do-
dress was delivered by the president,
DIR. Lutz, of St. Louis.
I MAYOR STRONG has stored away in
the basement of the city hall at New
York 1000 bricks from the old tomb of
Gen. Grant which he thinks Grand
Army posts will want as souvenirs.
: THE engine of c. e A. freight train
blew up at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
4th and Engineer Roberts was killed
and Fireman Pardoner fatally injured.
/; AT crowded charitable bazar in
Paris, France, presided over by lead
ing society women, an alarm of fire
was given and there was a wild rush
for the exits and the weaker persons
were borne down and trampled upon.
! The roof soon fell in, burying numbers
, of those unable to get out of the build
ing. Over 100 charred corpses were
I, taken out of the ruins and it was
thought that 100 more bodies were still
buried in the debris
/ THE tariff bill was reported to the
[ senate on the 4th and Mr.. Aldrich an
nounced that he would call it up on
the 18th. The free homestead bill was
passed and the civil appropriation bill
taken up. the item appropriating ST.
333, S33 for continuing the improvement
of the Mississippi river being made i'm
mediately available.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-08

feature of the Mccormick roller bearing is
seen in the form-or cage as it is called
which holds the rollers from running to-
gether, and if for any cause the cage is taken
from the shaft the rollers will not fall out
and get lost. In order to avoid the McCor-
mick patent the other harvesting machine
company who claims to be the originator of
roller bearings in harvesters has cut out the
metal in the ring at the ends of the rollers
If the cage is taken out the rollers slip out
lost.
The methods of the Mccormick Company
result in an annual saving of many thousands
vices are not embodied in their machines
until long and oft-repeated trials have
shown them to be practical 1t has been the
thing else-McCormicls experimenting is
done at Mccormick expense, and not at the
expense of the farmers, who too often
print for notoriety and bull the market With.
impractical forms.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-08

illustration, and the tuck should therefore
be toward the heads, SO that it will not pull
out.
The hand binding harvester with men to
do the binding is out of date, and so is the
left hand machine, which has been super
seeded by the Mccormick Right Hand Open
Elevator, the success of which makes it seem
highly probable that there will be pro-
gressive manufacturer building left hand
machines in three years.
The application of roller bearings to grain
cutting machinery was made by j. G. Perry
in 1869, and his patent, No. sc, 5S4, for an
improved reaper, showed and described
various ways of using roller and ball bear
ings in harvesters. In view of these facts
it Is somewhat amusing to read the claims
of certain reaper maker of the present
day, who says he was the first to introduce
roller bearings in harvesting machinery. As
a matter of fact this manufacturer is COM
Paratively beginner in the art of reaper
building and has originated nothing.
PROFESSIONALLY the most practical and sat-
isfaetory application of roller bearings to-
Mccormick Harvesting Machine Company
The Particular form used by them was patent
ed in 1882 and is now to be found in all Nc
Cormick machines. The especially valuable
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-08
ADLER'S SECOND VICTIM.

The Slayer of Post Office Inspector Mcclure
Murders Another Man in Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 4.-As the
result of quarrel over a ten-cent stake
in crap game last evening, Bill Adler,
the notorious north end thug who,
only two years agolast Karnivalnight,
killed Postmaster Inspector Jesse Nc
Clure, shot and almost instantly killed
William johnson. The victim was a
colored man. The shooting was the
climax of small riot, which followed
Adler's refusal to cash a bet johnson
had made in a crap game select party
had started in the rear of Nolan's sa-
loon at Sixth and May streets. John
son died two minutes after the shoot
ing. Adler himself was shot by James
Gordon, colored, and was captured still
bleeding, two hours afterward in Kan
sas City, Kan. He is now in Jail there,
refusing to come to Iissouri without
a requisition.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-08
THE WORK OF CONGRESS.
Condensed Proceedings of the Senate and
House in Extra Session.

condensed Proceedings of the Senate and
House in Extra Session.
WHEN the senate met the 29th Senator
Chandler On. H-) gave notice that he would OBJ
ject to any business being done, because there
was an understanding that none should be taken
up during the absence of SO many senators in
New York to attend the ceremonies of dedicat-
ing the Grant monument A message from the
president transmitting the report of the COM
mission to adjust the boundary line between the
United States and Mexico, west of the Rio
Grande. was read Several resolutions were in
troduced, among them being one by Senator
to report at the beginning of the next session
the causes of the Mississippi floods and means
OF preventing them A resolution was also Of
fered by Senator Morgan (Ala) asking the
president TO transmit all correspondence with
United States officials in Cuba since the begin
until May B. The house only in session
Tor seven minutes Mr.. Simpson QAan-) pro-
tested against adjourning for than one
day without quorum, but the regular ORDER
was loudly demanded and by vote of "A "A
the house then adjourned until May
IN the senate on the Sd joint resolution for
making Immediately available $50 600 for the
purposes of the international postal congress-
about TO assemble at Washington agreed
to. The free homestead bill was then taken up
and an agreement reached to take a final vote
on it the next day. The Vest resolution direct
ing the committee on commerce to inveStigai e
and report the causes of the Mississippi
floods was favorably reported from the COM
mittee-- In the house Mr.. Simpson Chan-)
made attack on the speaker, the issue being
appointment of committees A motion was
finally put to appoint the committees immedi-
ately, which was voted down by 124 nays 81
ayes, the speakers policy being thus sustained.
The senate resolution appropriating $50 600 for
the postal congress was passed and the house
adjourned until the 9th
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-08
GENERAL NEWS.

HAVANA advices show that the in
surgents are active in that province.
TapaSta was attacked by a force of 400
insurgents and held for an entire day,
the Spanish garrison in block house
retiring completely. The Cubans took
possession of the vacated blockhouse,
footing it of all the arms and pro-
visions they could find, and then set it
on fire
THE president of Colorado college at
Colorado Springs, Col, has announced
the receipt of an anonymous gift of
S1O,O to be used in the erection of
building for young women
AMBASSADOR AND MRS. JOHN HAY
were presented to Queen Victoria at
Windsor castle on the 4th, and her
majesty accorded them unusual atten-
ton.
A SPECIAL. from Jellico, Tena., said
that 1000 miners in that coal district
We're idle on account of the failure of
the operators to renew the contract of
prices that expired April so. No eff
fort has been made on either side to
make new contracts.
ISAAC MICHEL, millinery salesman,
has entered suit at Pittsburgh, Pa,
against Robert Fitzsimmons, the pugi-
list, for $3.50 damages for being at
tackled by Fits big dog Yarrum.
AT Cincinnati and throughout south
ern Ohio snow fell on the I'd and con-
siderable damage was done by the low
temperature throughout the Ohio val
lev.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, was visited by big
fire on the morning of the Sd, which
started in Jenkins wholesale grocery
and reduced three large blocks to ashes
Loss estimated between 81, O0O, 900 and
e3, 600, 900.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Glen
Lion, Pa, a mining town The fire
was the work of an incendiary and but
for the rain the whole town would
have been destroyed
A RECENT New York dispatch said
that a movement has been inaugurated
to concentrate under limited manage
ment the insurance interests of the
country. The plan is for the fraternal
societies of the United States to aban-
don the insurance field and transfer
the outstanding policies to the regu-
aarly-incorporated insurance compa-
MES
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-08
To REPLACE CarIisIe Bills.

WASHINGTON, May S.-Secretary of
the Treasury Gage issued an order Sat-
urday that as soon as the 81, So and SIS
bills recently issued by the treasury,
and known as the Carlisle certificates,
come in they are to be destroyed. They
will be replaced by bills of a new de-
sign. The bills now in circulation
have proved far from satisfactory.
The objections urged against them are
numerous. The most serious is that
the 81 and SIS bills are so much alike
that it is difficult at a glance to tell
them apart
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-08
why Mccormick Changed from the
Left to the Right Hand Binder.

It has been said that the conveniences OF
one age become the necessities of the next:
but no ordinarily sane man will contend
that the necessities of one age should be-
binding was done by hand the left hand cut
harvester was a necessity. The grain fell on
the platform of the harvester and was de-
towards the rear of the machine. The men
stood in the receiver facing the grain. With
the left hand machine the heads of the
the binding SO in taxing al % out e the bundle
with the band around it, whether the man
turned to the front table or to the back
bundle itselfFthat is, with the heads toward
his left hand; hence in making the tuck he
showed the ends under the band toward the
grasping into the heads, as shown in the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-08
She Was Convinced.

"Oh, can't sing" pleaded a young
man, who femininely wanted to bef
coaxed before gratifying his auditors.
eyes, you can. I've heard two Or
three of your friends say So" persisted
a pretty girl to whom he had been talk
ing.
ssNo, can't" he repeated, getting
up to go to the piano.
Eyes, you can. Go on now and sing"
she urged.
He said he couldn't two or three
times more, but he went ahead, and
for half an hour his voice was the most
prominent thing in the room. Then he
came back smiling to the young lady.
''Ah," she said, YEARLY, thanks
You were quite right about the sing
ing"
His face clouded, and he never spoke
again to the girl who agreed with
him.-London Tit-Bits.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-08
Occupation Taxes Illegal.

LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, May 4.-The
appellate court has decided the case of
the city of Leavenworth versus the
agent for the Pacific Express Co., in
volving the validity Of the occupation
tax ordinance, against the city. The
effect of the decision will be to pre-
vent the city from collecting license
or occupation tax from three express
companies, two telegraph companies
and probably all of the insurance COM
panies and will apply to other cities of
the state where similar ordinances
have been passed.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-08

ABOUT 1900 plumbers went on
strike at Chicago on the Sd and nearly
every boilding in course of construc-
ton in that city was at standstilL
If an attempt should be made to hire
non-union men to fill the places of the
strikers a general strike of all unions
affiliated with the building trades will
result
THE admirals commanding the fleets
of the foreign powers in Cretan waters
had a conference with the insurgent
leaders The Cretans were promised
complete autonomy, but the Cretans
cut the discussion short and reit4reted
that their motto remained '1unexa-
ton to Greece or DEATH
JOHN NoLIN, his two little daughters
and another man whose name could not
be learned were drowned in the river
near Gallatin, Tenn, on the Sd The
Skim was overturned and the father
tried to take his children to shore, but
the swift current swept all four of
them under.
BILL ADLER, who two years ago
killed Postmaster Inspector Jessie Nc
Clure, shot and killed William Johnson
at Kansas City, No, on the I'd. The
victim was a colored man and the
shooting was caused by quarrel over
a crap game.
A DISPATCH from Jamaica said that
news had been received there of a series
of earthquakes throughout the Lee
ward islands that caused the loss of
hundreds of lives and the collapse of
many buildings
Four wagons loaded with barrels of
dynamite were recently driven through
the streets of San Salvador in South
America when an explosion took place
and two blocks of buildings were de-
Stroyed and MANY lives lost.
MORAL reformers in Weston, w. Va,
went to the house of two women whom
they suspected of not being of good
character, broke open the doors and
then stripped them and smeared their
naked bodies with hot tar. One of the
women will die from the outrage and
the other was reported in a serious
condition.
TwENrY-sIx more anarchists, in ad-
dition to those already sentenced, were
condemned to death on the 1st for COM
plicity in the bomb outrage at BARGE
Iona, Spain, by which a dozen persons
were killed and SO others injured.
WHOLESALE arrests have been made
of persons at Anderson, Ind, for lille
gally dynamiting fish in White river
and other eastern Indiana streams.
AT Sunnyside, Tex, Henry Daniels,
his stepdaughter and little child were
murdered and then burned. together
with the hut in which they lived.
A TRIP through every section of the
flooded district at Guthrie, Ok. on the
goth showed over 100 houses entirely
gone, three times as many wrecked or
damaged, a dozen business houses
wrecked and twice as many stocks of
goods mixed. The loss was fully $780,
600. Five hundred people are homeless
and twice as many have lost their
household goods and personal effects.
The deaths will probably not exceed 20
or 25, as many of those previously re-
ported drowned were afterwards found
in trees or in houses lodged down
stream,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-08
Pension Orders Revoked,

WASHINGTON, May 3.-Commissioner
of Pensions Evans has revoked orders
2O6 and 229 issued by Commissioner
Murphy. The first order restricted
congressional calls for information
about pensions to cases within the
senator's state or congresSman'S dis
trict and provided that data as to the
status of a pension case shall not be
furnished more than on ce in 90 days.
The pension Office now proposes to an
swer all calls for information, but to
do so in printed circulars.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-08
Dunlop Must Serve His Sentence.

WASHINGTON, May 1.-The presi-
dent has decided not to interfere in
the case of Joseph R. Dunlop, proprie-
tor of the Chicago Dispatch, who was
sentenced to two years imprisonment
for sending obscene matter through
the mails. A strong effort was made
to secure his pardon on the ground
that his life would be placed in jeop-
ardy by his imprisonment, but the
president decided that Dunlop must
serve out his term.