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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
New Bedford Mills Tronhle.

New Bedford, April 23.-The group of
small corporations known as the How
lands Mills, the New Bedford Manu-
featuring corporation and the Rdtoh
Spinning company are in financial diff
ctllties, the exact nature and extent Of
which cannot he determined until the
expert bas made his report The three
mills are practically under one manage
n:ent, Morgan Rotoh being president and
Vim. D. Rowland treasurer Of all of them
and the boards of directors being nearly
identical. Their com mbined capital is S2,
600, OC0. 1t has been known for some time
that the mills were largely involved in
debt, and their paper has been looked on
with some suspicion. Consequently
when Mr.. Rowland stated few days ago
that notes aggregating $500, COO were to
fall due shortly, the representatives, of
the bank, made rs condition of renewal
an examination of the mills affairs. 1t
was found after cursory examination
that the statements of Mr.. Rowland were
not horne out by the accounts and the
banks declined to renew the notes. At
meeting of the directors Of the corpora
tlons this afternoon, it was decided to
make full examination Of the accounts
that the creditors might be appraised CT
the exact con dition of the mills.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
BRIEFLY ToL1a

The Rev. DR.. Il. G. Farrar, ex-pastor
of st. LuKe's church, Albany, N. Y, was
Friday expelled from the Methodist Epis-
copal church and the ministry at the
Troy conference for immortality.
News. received from Hong Kong by
steamer contradicts bhe stories from
Madrid that the Phillipine rebellion is
practically stamped out. On the contra
~ two Important engagements have been
fought recently In both of which the
insurgents were victorious.
Mrs. George Bean, better known as
Mabel Paines, the dancer, has been
awarded by jury a verdict for $40, 600
In thefetleral courts for injuries received
from,a folding bed in the Hotel Nor
mandie in Chicago, June "a, 1894.
New Orleans had over 20o0 men at work
on the leyees yes, ,erday. The crisis is
thought to have been reached.
The wages of weavers in the Prender-
CAST wooden mills at Pasooag, X. l., were
increased s per cent yesterday.
Henry Welch was killed at Valley Falls.
R. l., Thursday in a bicycle collision.
Congressman Henderson of Iowa is
seriously i'll.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
Eastern Maine Conference.

Calais. April 2S.-The afternoon ses-
sion of the Methodist conference was
spent in memorial service for minis
ters and ministers wives. who have died
during the year. Two members of the
conference and four ministers wives or
widows have died. This was followed by
a business meeting of the Ministers Aid
Society. In the evening the temperan ae
anniversary was held in the Congrega-
tionar church, which has been rendered
for the use of the conference for its
anniversary and Sunday service. The
address was by Rev. Robert Cliff, nne
of the most prominent yoang men of the
conference. He captured his audience
at the beginning and held than to his
last words SO eloquent was his address.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
POINT TO IMPROVEMENT.
Changes in Business Conditions
However Slight.
INCREASE IN LABOR DISTURB.
ANCES LOOKED FOR,

Wool Quieter With Fair Demand for
Woolens and Shoes-Wheat and Corn
Show Gains-Decreased Prices For
Many Staples.
New York, April 23.-Bradstreet's TO-
morrow will say:
The change in conditions UNDERGOING
general trade, while, slight this week,
has been in the direction of improve
ment. The depression in iron and steel
continues. and besaemer pig and steel
billets have reached another 25 cents a
ton. The outlook favors an increase in
labor disturbances to resist midsummer
wages reductions. Trade in wool is
quieter. There is less life in the whole
sale dry goods trade, and little relief has
been experienced. Recent advances In
woolsns afe sustained by an anticipated
arly fall demand, and makers of shoes
report fair orders.
The total bauk clearings for the past
six business days is 1884, 90, 0o0 as per
cent less than last week, per cent less
than in the third week of April, 1895.
The prices movement is practically
downward, with the exception OF leading
cereals, Influenced more particularly by
the advance in wheat, due to the war
scare abroad and prospective scarcity, in
the face of a rull average demand, prior
to the next harvest. Wheat and wheat
-four, Indian corn and oats, thus show
gains compared with week ago. Cotton
and print cloths are unchanged, as ara
coffee and petroleum. In addition to de-
crease in prices for bessimer and steel
billets those for lard. sugar, pork, hides,
turpsntine and rosin are also lower.
Exports of wheat flour included as
whent) from both coasts of the United
States and from St. John, N. B., this
week, amount to 1854, 668 bushels,
against ], l,344, 600 bushels last week, 1856.
900 bushels in the third week of April.
1885, Exports Of Indian corn amount to
4, 679, 415 bushels this week, against 2,
3a8, 900 bushels last week, less than 1000,
600 bushels in the like week of 1896.
There are ZIG business failures through
ont the United States this week, COM
pared with 195 last week. a40 in the third
week of April, 1896.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
EFFECT OF WAR ON MARKETS.


Fear of General Uprising Causes Cen
eral Advance.
New York, April 23.-R. q. Dun aud
company, in their weekly review of trade
will say:
If either turkey or Greece had been
wholly buried i'll the saa, markets might
have been affected less than by the out.
break of WEE in Europe. Like fire in
the heert Of crowded city. it raises the
question whether a general confagration
may spring out of it. To this possibility
and not to the direct influence of either
Turkey or Greece upon the worlds
money or produce markets was due the
excitement In grain and stocks. AS the
unknown is magnified. American
markets were much more Tightly than
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
Defeat For Insurgents,

Havana, April 23-Lieut. Col. Allan,
with the Maria Christina battalion, en-
gagged the insurgents at PurRatorio, Ha-
vana province, the advance guard pur-
suing them to the Province farm. Here
they were found entrenched and three
hours fighting followed. The Spaniarda
captured the camp and important doou-
ments. The fleeing insurgents left II
killed on the field and had many wound
ed. The regulars lost none, but had II
wounded.
Orders have been given for the expul
sion from the island of George Aguirre,
a naturalized American citizen. He was
captured in boat near Havana.
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riable.

riable.
Boston, April 23.-Forecast for Boston
and vicinity for Saturday: generally
fair; continued warm; southwest winds.
Local Weather Report.
Portland. Me-. April 25.-rhe local
weather bureau office records as to the
weather are as follows:
8 a. m.-Barometer. 30 2o6; thermome-
ter, 47.0; dew point, 34O humidity, 81 +:
wind s.; velocity, g.; weather, cloudy.
s Sp. m.-Barometer, 30.1 .103; thermome-
ter. $40; dew point, "A; humidity, 72;
wind. S; velocity, IL; weather, clear.
Mean daily thermometer, go; maxi
mum thermometer, 600; IL. .inimum ther-
mometer, 43; maximum velocity of wind,
16, SW; total precipitation, @
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
LIVE WASHINGTON TOPICS.
Presidential Trip TO New York-The Naval
Reserve. Etc.

Washington, April s3.-Final arrange
ments for the p,esid entail trip to New
York were comp mpleted today. The presi-
dential party will 60 By n special train
over the Pennsylvania roah leaving
Washington on Monday next at 10. so a.
m.
The President had busy hour before
the cabinet meeting today. Those wh o
saw him included Wayne MacVeagh, late
ambassador to Italy. The cabinet meet
ing was unusually lengthy, lasting until
160.
1t is understood that the nominations
of Judge Day as assistant secretary of
state, and Bellamy StOrer as minister to
Belgium we're discussed.
Professor Lawrence Brumer Of the
University of Michigan, o we'll know l
ornihologist and entomOlogist. sails
from New York tomorrow for the Argen-
tine Republic to investigate the hest
means for the determination Of the grass
hOppers.
The Navy Department. has perfected It's
plans for the creation uf q reserve list of
war vessels. The first vessel to be made
the eucleus of the reserve feet is the
Colum bia. She W i'll not be taken out
of commission, but will be laid up at
| neagne island as soon as she returns
| from the New York celebration next
week. or her crew of four hundred men,
| only seventy -ssven will be retained on
| the ship The ship will be kept in such
condition as to be able to put to sea
| within twenty days after orders for active
service.
Tbe Interior Department. announced
this afternoon that an agreement was
consummated today between the Haw es
Indian commission and both the ChoctsW
and Chickasaw tribes in Indian Territory
| for the allotment of land In severalty, the
disposition of town sites. jurisdiction OF
federal courts, and for presidential ap,
proval of acts of the tribal council
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
Mr., MlLLIkEN's SUCCESSOR.
Special Election Called For June 23-Gov.
Burleigh Announces His Candidacy.

Augusta, April g3.-Gov. Powers to.
day Issued the proclamation for an
election in the third district to elect a
successor.to thesslatesS. L. Milliken.
The proclamation calls for an election
June 2e, the third Monday of the month.
The Kennebec journal of tomorrow
morning will formally.a announce the can
didacy of Ex-Governor Burleigh for the
place made vacant blythe death of He n.
Seth L. MiIlikeD.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
New Postna asters.

Washington, April a3-The aggregate
of appointments of fourth-class post
masters today was 100 The changes
include for Maine: Falmouth Foreside,
C.Snrgent, vice L. H. Ramsdell, deceased;
Haines Landing, 3. B. Burns, vice e.
3. Whorff, resigned.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24

The shoe factory owned by Charles f.
Ford, and occupied by John Lane on
Bowler street, Lynn, was badly damaged
by fire last night. Loss or stock and
machinery $40, GOO; loss on building $4,000.
Insurance unknown.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
Killed While Stealing a Ride.

Lawrence, April 2S.-Lawrence Nc.
Evoy, while stealing ride ON freight
train from this city to Boston about IL. 60
tonight lest his balance just outside the
city and fell hetweon the cars. The
whesls passed. over his body above the
waist QUITTING him in two pieces.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
Death of Samuel Colgate,

New York, April 49, Samuel Colgate,
ulti-millionaire, and head OF the trm
of Samuel Colgate & Company, died
of heart trouble at his home in Orange
N. j., this afternoon. MIR. Colgate was
born in New York city in 1929.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
rHE WEATHER.

Washington, April
%. Forecast for
Saturday for Maine,
New Hampshire and
Vermont: part ly
cloudy weather, with
occasional showers
probably slightly
cooler; southwesterly
winds, becoming va
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
,Jimmy Barry Given Decision.

San Francisco, April 23.-Jimmy
Barry WAS given the decision over Jimmy
Anthony of San Francisco at the end of
the twentieth round tonight. The fight
was for $4,000 purse,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
Can't Find the samaria.

San Francisco, April 23-rie reve-
nue. cuttershas returned after ali TN iuc-
cessful search for The overdue Samaria,
bound from Seattle TOR San Francisco.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
Experts win Examine KELLEY,
Ameshnry. April 23.-Mr. KelleY.

Amesbury, April 23.-Mr. Kelley, the
father of Joseph. e. Kelley, the Somers-
worth murderer, has been advised by
local attorneys that Che only possibl
hope for his son lies in plea of in
sanity This will be ais defense and it
is understood that he will be examined
in few days by an expert on insanity.
The interest in the case here continues
urahated.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
Turks Abandoning Towns.

Arta, April 22.-(6 p. IN. 1.-The Turks
have abandoned Kiafa and Kosnitadeson.
on the left bank of the Arachphos The
inhabitants left precipitately, leaving
their belongings. All along the route
to Fort Imaret Captured by the Greeks),
there were evidences of the hasty flight
Of the Turkish households.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24

The prefeot of Arta has reached Fill
lipiada. He was received with aoclama-
tiOn by the population.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Greeks Capture Turkish Stores.

Athens. April 93.-After the bonn bard
ment OF Katrina, on the Gulf of Sslonios.
blythe Greek squadron, had put to flight
two battalions of Turks and the inhabi-
tants of that place. the Greek fleet land
ed detachment and found tho Turks
had left tehind the immense stores of
provisions destined for the armies of
Edhem Pasha.
The loss Of the stores places u serious
difficulty in the pathsof Edhem Pasha,
and it is stated here that ns SOON as the
Turkish commander-in- chief heard the
news of the capture of Platamona and
Katrina, he despatched 10000 men to-
wards the coastsof Macedonia fearing a
flank attack from the Gulf of Salonioa.
Depre ssion at Constantinople.
Constantinople, April 2S-It is stated
here that Turkish brigade which had
been pushed forward on the plain of
Larissa has been unable to advance owing
to foodsscaused by rains.
Edhem Pashh has telegrapbed asking
for the immediate dispatch Of pontoons
10 enable the troops to cross the river,
the Greeks having blown up the bridge.
Thess reports have had very deprsss-
ing effect here when taken in conjunction
with the fighting which the Turks have
met with around Tyrnavo and 1T is stated
that Osman Pnsba. tie hero of plevna,
is to be sent to the seat of war at once,
to direct military operations against
the Greeks.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24

When the Senate amendment to strike
out the provision in the bill to ratify the
gas and oil leases of the Seneca indians
was reached. Mr.. Q. W. Stone, Republi-
can of Pennsylvania, moved to concur.
He denounced in unmeasursd terms ths
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24
ARRANGEMENT TODAY.
Kelley Will Be Formally Accused Of
Murder.
A TWO WEEKS CONTINUANCE OF
CASE WILL BE ASKED FOR.

Mr.. Kelley, Senior, Has Not Yet Arrived
and the Plea Is Matter of Doubt
The Claimants for the Reward Offered
by Bank.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-24

London, April 2S.-The Daily Tele-
graphs correspondent at Larissa says
that on Thursday the Greeks attempted
to retake Gritzovali. A long fight en-
sued, but the Greeks failed owing to the
superior force of the Turks and their
stronger position. Tha Greeks. occupy
good position in front OF Li&arsia
whore, the correspondent is convinced,
they will bs victor ious.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

FROM Atlanta comes the news
that there is a, war on between
the papers and the theaters in
that city. It is said that at the
request of the papers the free list
has been suspended, so far as
newspapers were concerned, and
on the other hand it was de-
manded of the theaters that they
pay for advance notices and
criticisms at the rate of 25 cents
per line.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

A GREAT deal Of Unnecessary
and i'll considered action is no.
ticesble in connection with the
adoption of quarantine measures
by many towns in the state. The
situation is one which calls forth
effective and thorough precau-
tionary and preventive measures
but it should not be met by I'M
necessary, uselessly oppressive
and damaging Requirements.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

A WRITER in the New York
Herald asserts that "there is
nothing in a game of poker that
either improves or in any way
betters mankind" People who
hold good hands and know how
to use them, however, would
probably express themselves
quite differently.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

A BANKER sauntering home for
his dinner saw a $40 bill lying on
the curbstone. OF course he
picked it up and took the number
in order to find the owner.
While at home his wife told him
that the butcher had sent in his
bill amounting to $40. The only
money he had with him was the
bill he had found, which he gave
to her and she paid it to the
butcher. The butcher paid it to
a farmer for a calf, and the farmer
paid it to q merchant for grocer
les, who in turn paid it to the
Washerwoman; and she owing
the banker a note of $40 went to
the bank and paid her note.
The banker recognized the bill as
the one he had found, and which
up to that time had settled $50 of
debts. On careful examination
of the bill he found it to be a
counterfeit, Did any one lose
anything?
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

The Chicago Tribune gives
this sensible advice to the young
man who wishes to know how to
fit himself for going to the Klon-
dixie: &c Acquire habits of self
control and industry; be pre-
pared to meet with firmness
whatever discouragements may
arise; scrape together two or
three times as much money for
the journey as the best estimates
render necessary; and don't go.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

THE proposition made by a
wild-eyed Chicago follower of
Debs, to hang all rich editors,
hasn't created anything like a
panic in the newspaper offices.
A rich man may be newspaper
owner, but a working editor he
very seldom is; he prefers hiring
editors.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

THE railroad companies have
not attempted to enjoin the COM
mission from carrying into effect
its cotton tariffs, compress regu-
lations, etc., but Geo. H. McFad-
den & Bro, who handle a vast
amount of cotton and own a
number of congresses, have done
so, joining the railroads in the
suit.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

WITH the prospect of carrying
a baby doubled up with the collie
through the long hours of a BIen-
helm night, the Duke of Marl-
borough deserves all the money.
his wife brought him.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

A NEW political party is to be
organized next summer, we are
told. This is, indeed, gratifying
news. If there is anything that
this country needs more than
anything else it is more political
parties.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

THERE is plenty of fright but
no yellow fever in Texas. The
inconvenience of quarantine
regulations cannot last long and
therefore it is best to be patient
with the protective measures
adopted by exposed points.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07
Brennan. Thursday. Oct =. 1897.

The unanimous sentiment in
favor of postal savings banks
seems to be the only danger OF a
defeat of the measure. Con-
gress has a habit of ignoring the
wishes of the people.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07
YELLOW FEVER SCARE.

There are two rather remark
able facts in connection with the
yellow fever scourge now pre-
vailing in New Orleans and Mo-
bile and along the gulf coast.
One is the surprising small num-
Der of cases in the infected To-
calities, considering the length
of time the disease has been run
ming. and the low ratio of NOR
tally. The other is the intensity
and wide scope of the yellow
fever scare, says the San An
tonic Express. In 1873 yellow
fever made its appearance in
New Orleans and at various
points in the Mississippi valley
early in July, having been car
ried by a tow boat far up the
Mississippi and Ohio rivers. By
the first of August it had broken
out in Memphis and was a raging
epidemic in Grenada, Miss.
About the middle of August it
was declared epidemic in Vicks-
burg and subsequently it ragged
with great virulence in East
Mississippi, where the local con-
ditions were not supposed to be
favorable to its spread.
There was comparatively little
fear of contagion or infection
north of the Tennessee line or
west of Galveston, and even near
the infected points, in what might
be considered the yellow fever
belt, people regarded themselves
as safe and their locality as i'm
mune. Thousands of refugees
from Memphis, Vicksburg and
other infected points fled from
the seourge after it had become
epidemic and made their way,
unchallenged by quarantine Of
icials, to places of safety or en-
camped too near the infection to
afford security. In that year
people died by the thousands.
IN Memphis and in the Mississip-
oi towns attacked by the scourge
here were not enough well peo-
Die to look after the sick, nearly
,ne-half the population being
Town at the same time. The
mortality was frightful, more
leaths occurring every day in
'ither one of the plague stricken
titles than have thus far been
eported from all the infected
POINTS since the announcement of
he first case of yellow fever at
ocean Springs. Then it was
midsummer, with long time for
he fever to run. Now it is well |
long in the autumn season, and
rost, which is a certain des- !
roger of the yellow fever germ, {
as already been reported in s
'ennessee and Mississippi, yet t
ne fever scare seems hardly to |
ave abated where quarantine q
were not thought of t
$ a hindrance to refugees from L
scourge that was claiming a
lousands of victims every day t
| the previous epidemic. Il
The country has perhaps never v
efore known so mild type of l
elbow fever or such widespread +
light, and this, too, in spite of e
lie fact that the country was q
ever before so well prepared to Il
attic with the disease and pre- 6
ant its spread. But the scare c
IS had a good effect; it has n
Iused a good many Southern I
ties to be put in a more Clearly p
'ndition than they have been in p
long time, and that is, perhaps, a
more effective preventative of II
,idemics of any sort than all the c
Iarantine that could be en- b
reed. tx
The fault finder is color blind tt
virtue. il
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

THE European powers seem to
be in cord in one thing. If the
United States interferes in the
Cuban war, they viii keep out.
There is nothing for them in the
matter or its outcome and they
are not hunting trouble where
nothing is to be gained.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

A NEW YORK man has been
sent to the penitentiary for hav-
ing five wives. But how could
they punish him again for that.
He should have plead former
jeopardy.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

MEXICO set US a good example
by its promptness in dealing with
lynchers and officials who winked
at their crime.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

The fault finder is color blind
to virtue.
Every man is a giant in the
eyes of some boy.
A girls idea of a "big time"
makes man laugh.
An old bachelor resembles a
pair of scissors with only one
blade.
The empress Of Austria agrees
with the anti-cigarette crusaders.
She smokes cigars.
We have often thoughtit pity
that mans stomach is not bet
ter than his appetite.
There is one fact about human
ity that all may agree on; it is
always safe to watch it.
There is a girl in Atchison who
can't look at boiled shirt with
out wanting to flirt.