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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-22

st. Louis, June 19.-The Udell Wood
enware company, whose stock for the
third time in as many years was burned
last week, has filed general assign
ment, turning all the assets of the COM
pany over to A. Welborn Noise as
trustee for the creditors. Assignee
Noise states that the liabilities are $780,
600 and the assets $4,000.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-22
Pioneer pa.tor Dies.

Rockford, H., June 19.-Rev. James
Baume died at his home in this city,
aged 70 years. He was the first pastor
of the Clark street Methodist Episco-
pal church, in Chicago, when it erected
it's edificc, and was pastor at Evans
ton during the Chicago fire. He spent
many years in foreign fields as mis-
sionnry, much of his time being spent in
India. Deceased was the father of Judge
James S. Baume, of Galena.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-22
BiIliard Hau for wom.n

A billiard hall for women is in course
oferection in St. Louis. One apartment
in the structure will be devoted to a
school OF instruction, where novices
may receive lessons from an expert
teacher. The proprietor will expend
$4,000 in fitting up the hall. The new
club will be unique in this country,
there being but one public billiard per.
isr for weMsh Ii thS worN-in visaaA.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-22
Deva.tated by Enrtbouo,..

Calcutta, June 10.-Almost the whole
OF the province Of Assam has been dev,
astated by the earthquake. The ruin is
appalling. The courts, treasures
jail and hospitals have collapsed. The
loss of food supplies is enormous. The
crops are mostly ruined and great scar
city of food is expected. All traffic is
difficult, as numbers Of the roads have
been completely demolished.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-22
Three Men KILLED.

Windsor Locks, Conn, June 1e.-At
1870 o'clock in the afternoon quantity
of powder in building attached to the
plant of the Hazard Powder company,
at Hazardyille, exploded and three men
were killed. <. zI,-
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-22
HanneL.

Baton Rouge, La, June 19.-Allen.
Butler (colored) was executed in the
jailyard at Port Allen, West Baton
Rouge parish, Friday afternoon. The
crime for which Butler was hanged was
wife murder
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-22
ALSO ACQUITTED.
Two More of the Alleged Recaloitran
Witnesses Set Free.

Washington, June 1o.-John S.
Shriver, the correspondent of the New
York Mail and Express, was declared
not guilty of contempt in refusing to
answer questions of the senate com.
mittee in relation to sugar trust in.
yestigation. Mr.. Shriver was the fourth
of the alleged recalcitrant witnesses,
Messrs. Havemeyer and searles, presi-
dent and secretary of the American
Sugar Refining company, both having
been discharged, while Broker Elver-
ton R. Chapman was convicted and
served one month in Jail.
Washington, June 19.-The jury un-
der orders from the court brought in q
verdict of not guilty in the case of E.
j. Edwards, New York correspondent
of the Philadelphia Press, on trial for
contempt of the senate sugar trust in.
vestigating committee. The ground
was that Edwards never had been lie.
gally summoned. District Attorney
Davis gave notice that he would call
up the cases of Brokers Mccartney and
Seymour, the last of the recreant wit.
nesses on Monday next
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-22
olive Culture In Caltforn,..

The culture of olives in California has
increased SO rapidly that the state now
has monopoly of the market OF this
country. The crop last year netted
s25o,O00 to the growers, but this year
it is estimated the output will yield
s3,ooo,0oo. The reason for the expected
great increase is that great number
of orchards bear this year for the first
time. 1t takes seven years to bring an
orchard to profitable bearing. Prop
erly tended, the trees continue to pro-
duce for centuries.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-22
Mutilated Body Found.

Portage, Wis.,, June 19.-The badly
decomposed trunk of woman, minus
head, arms and legs, was found floating
in the Wisconsin river, four miles be-
low this city Friday. There were many
indications of murder. Coroner Allen
was called and, finding no clew to the
identity of the corpse, buried it without
formality. There was not vestige of
clothing or anything that would aid
in identification. The authorities are
Investigating the case, however, and
sensational developments are expected.
Some time ago a young woman disap-
peared in such manner as to direct
suspicion toward certain individuals,
and excitement in the community runs
high.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-22
The one Exception,

She's most sincere, and when she speaks
To question none would dare,
Excepting when she rides and says:
NEW, dear, I'll pay the fare
Warrington Star.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-22
Fruit Trees in Colorado.

Over 100000 fruit trees were planted
In Otero county, Col, last year. It is
expected that moro than 400, 1000 will be
planted this year.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-22

Monsoon Bursts in India.
Bombay, June 19.-The monsoon has
fully burst and 1t is raining heavily and
continuously,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-22
In Nebraska.

Lincoln, Neb., June 19.-violent wind
storms prevailed over wide district
IN Nebraska late Thursday night and
early Friday morning. In Lincoln
some minor damage was done. At
NYnros. west Of here. the storm 40.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-22

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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-22
In Iowa.

( Louisville, KY, June 10. = A severe
windstorm passed over this city be-
tween the hours of five and six Friday
morning. Considerable damage was
done to property, but no lives were lost.
In several cases houses were blown
down, unroofed, but in no instance was
there fatality, though number sus.
tanned injuries.
Reports received from central and
eastern Kentucky indicate that great
damage has been done to crops. The
wheat fields have been laid low; farm
houses and barns were wrecked and
fences destroyed.
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04
The senate's Cuban Dem nstration
(Journal of Commerce.


We are unable to suggest any explana-
ton of this vote except that programme
of menace, with possibilities of war, and
accompanied by good deal of bravado,
is much more popular in the mining and
cattle-raising States than it is in older
communities, more habituated to the
forms of law, the practice of peace and
the dignity of self-restraint, while the
South seems to have inherited the ante
bellum tradition that the addition of
Cuba would enhance the weight Of that
section in the counsels of the nation, and
perhaps add much to the commercial
Importance of the Gulf ports. But the
abolition Of slavery here and there has
destroyed the only substantial reason why
the old South looked toward Mexico and
Spanish possessions for the means of re
inforcing itself in its struggle with the
North. The commerce of Cuba is now
almost entirely with the North, and there
is nothing in the emancipation of Cuba
or it's annexation to this country that
would defect its trade from New York to
Mobile. Savannah, New Orleans or Gal
weston. The provisions and manufac-
tured goods which Cuba would import
more freely from the United States were
the Spanish tariff removed do not come
from the South, and will not largely
come from the South; the sugar and to
bacco exports from Cuba now come to
the North, with the exception of what
tobacco goes to Key West, and these would
continue to come North We're Cuba free
or part Of the United Safes.
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

A very important legal question has
just been decided by the Supreme Court
of this state, as appears in a despatch
in our news columns. The question
arose under the will of the late
Ira P Harrington, by which two-thirds of
of his residuary estate was bequeathed
to the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, to
be held by that institution for its charit-
able purposes. This corporation was
organized under Chapter So of the Revised
Statutes of this state, authorizing the
formation of charitable and benevolent
corporations, and by Section of that
Chapter, such corporations are authorized
''to take and hold by purchase, gift, de-
wise or bequest, personal or real estate, in
all not exceeding one hundred thousand
dollars owned at any one time AT the
time of MIR. harrington decease, the In
Urinary owned its buildings and lot on
Congress street, subject to a mortgage,
and with the Harrington legacy, the
amount of its property would largely ex-
coed one hundred thousand dollars The
heirs-at-law of Mr.. Harrington brought
bill in equity to restrain the executors of
his will from paying the legacy to the In
Urinary, on the ground that the bequest
was void for the reason that the Inflrma-
ry was not permitted to take and hold
property in excess of the limitation above
mentioned, and praying for decree that
the property should be distributed among
the heirs as undevised estate. The In
Urinary contended that the. objection was
not open to the heirs, and that no one
but the state could take, advantage of the
limitation. The case excited general in
terest on account of the Importance of
the questions involved, on which some
of the highest state courts had reached op-
posite conclusions, and was argued by
eminent counsel at the law term held in
this city in July last. The opinion is
drawn by Chief Justice Peters, and is
concurred in by all the justices who sat
in the case. 1t sustains the contentious
of the defendants that the state only can
take advantage of the limitation, and
also establishes the doctrine that there is
no distinction between a deed and de-
lSo 81 icel do pAlC I1Sllu VI ID COfpOEStUlOu 10
take and hold property is concerned. At
the last session of the legislature a spec
ial act was passed. authorizing the Maine
Eye and Ear Infirmary to take and hold
property for the purposes of it's organiza-
ton, to the amount of one million dollars,
50 that this decision practically settles
the question at issue, and confirms the
right of the Infirmary to take the full
amount Of the bequest under Mr. Earring
toms will. All friends of the Infirmary
will be gratified that technicality has
not defeated the wishes of the testator
in aid of this charity. The
opinion is learned and exhaustive. 1t
reviews critically all the decisions of the
courts upon the subject, and reaches con-
illusions which establish the law of this
state upon broad and permanent basis,
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04

Judge Simonton has filed a decision
which deals an almost death blow to the
South Carolina dispensary law. In his
decision Judge Simonton is very clear.
He declares the right of state to pre-
vent the manufacture or sale of liquor
within its borders in the exercise of
police powers, but maintains that when
a state recognizes and approves such
manufacture and sale Of liquor as a
beverage by engaging in it for a profit
it precludes the idea that such sale is
considered injurious to the public well
fare, and it is not a lawful exercise of
police power to forbid the importation of
such liquors or their sale in original
packages for personal use and consump-
ton, such prohibition under those cir.
cumstances being in conflict with laws of
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04
PORTLAND DAILY PRESS
AND
tlTAINE STATE PRESS.
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The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04

A conference made up of representa-.
tives Of colleges, preparatory schools and
high schools from nearly every part o.
the country east of the Mississippi ha!
been in session at the University of ths
City of New York. Its chief object seems
to have been to secure in high schools ant
other preparatory schools uniformity O.
English courses, with reference alike to
students who intend going to-college ant
those who do not Another question be-
fore the conference was change in tn,
present system by which the text books
in use are changed from year to year by
a process of rotation
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04

The decision of Jud ge Bradley in the
Trust, is coming in for good deal of
! criticism, and of kind too, that tends
! TO lower the courts in the] estimation of
| the people. The inference that is being
drawn from it is that the rich WELD I'M
due influence and power not alone in the
legislatures but also in the courts which
are supposed to hold the scales of justice
evenly and to be blind to the standing
the lltigants, except SO far as it may have
a Tearing upon the credibility of their
testimony. Judge Bradley is said to be a
man of high standing in the community
and those who know him best do not be-
lieve that he would be swerved to the
right or the left by wealth or social posi-
ton. Nevertheless it is unfortunate that
the soundness of the distinction which
he drew between the cases of Broker Chap
man and Secretary Searles is not more
evident. The inquiries put to Chapman
for refusing to answer which he is now
in Jail related to the corruption Of sena-
tors by the Sugar Trust Those that were
put to Searles related to alleged attempt
OF the Sugar Trust by campaign contri-
buttons to put party representatives un-
der obligation to them The first set
Judge Bradley holds are legitimate, the
second he holds are improper and imper-
tinent Yet it is difficult to the ordinary
mind to see why, if it be proper to in
qulre if a man after he became mem
Der OF the Senate was put under obliga-
ton to vote certain way, it is not also
proper to inquire whether man previ-
GUS to becoming member had put him
self under obligation if he became a
member to vote in certain way. The
charge had been made that the Sugar
Trust was accustomed to contribute liber-
ally to the campaign funds of both parties
IN the various states, and it was to prove
or disprove this charge that the inquiries
which Mr.. Searles refused to answer
were put to him. The fact, if it were a
fact, that contributions were made to
both parties was prima facie evidence at
least that they were not made for the
purpose of promoting any set of princi-
P-S'
they were made for the purpose of put
ting both parties, and through them the
representatives of both parties, under obi
CATION to the Trust The Senate has a
direct interest in state campaigns because
its members are elected by state legisla.
lures, the products of state campaigns.
The inquiry which the Senate committee
made of Mr.. Searles was in effect, wheth-
er it was true that the company of which
he is the secretary had underta ken
through contributions of money to in.
fiuence or control the action of men who
were likely to become members of the
Senate 1t is difficult to see why ques
ton of that kind is not pertinent. Ger
tainly if the Senate can only inquire in to
cases of direct bribery of it's members, it
is deprived of the means of effectually
purifying itself.
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. CHENEY q CO., Props, Toledo, 0.
We the undersigned, have known F. j
Cheney for the last ID years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac-
tlons and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm.
do. o.
WALDING, KINNAN s. MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, o.
. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and mucuof,s
surfaces of the system. Price, 75c per bottle.
SOLD buy all Druggists. Testimonials free,
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04
STATE or M AlNE.
CUMBERLAND IS.



Municipal Court,
Tuesday, March %, 1897.
DORTLAND Publishing Company corpora
a ton existing by law and having an estab-
lished place Of business at Portland in said
County, Plaintiff. vs., Nerve Seed Company. a
corporation existing by law and having an es-
tablished place of business at Chicago in the
County OF Cook and State Of Illinois, Defendant.
and Edward L. Foss aud Lyman c. Fowler,
trustees.
Action of assumpsit on account annexed 10
recover the sum Of Twenty-four Dollars and
Fifty-four cents t$24.54) alleged to be due
from the Defendant to the Plaintiff, according
to the declaration In the writ. The writ is
dated the twenty-ninth day OF January, A. D.,
1897, and made sreturnable the twenty-third
day OF March, A. D., 1897, at said Municipal
Court.
Ad Damnum Fifty Dollars $4,000.
UPON THE FOREGOING. It appearing to
the Court that the said Nerve Seed Company is
not an inhabitant of this State, and has no ten
ant, agent or attorney in this State. and that
It's goods or estate has been attached, it is
ORDERED by the Court that the PLAIN
TIFF cause the said Nerve Seed Company to
be notified of the pendency OF this suit by pub
fishing once week for three weeks successive
ly in the PORTLAND DAILY PRESS, a news
paper printed in Portland, in the County of
Cumberland an abstract or the Writ and Dec
laraticn, and this Order of Court thereon the
last publication to be thirty days at least, be-
fore the term of said Court to be holden at
Portland aforesaid, Oh the sixth day of july.
A. D., 1897, that it may then and there in said
Court. appear and show cause, if any it have.
why Judgment should not be rendered against
it and execution issue accordingly.
Abstract of the Writ and Declaration. and
Order of Court thereon.
ATTEST: L. TURNER, Recorder.
may2l 1aw3wF
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04

The only thing settled in the Spanish
situation is that Premier Canovas has
rendered his resignation. The Queen
has yet to determine whether she will &C.
cept it and call upon Sagasta to form a
ministry, or command him to withdraw
it. The fall of Canovas has been predict
ed for some time, but it was apparently
FASTENED by the squabble between the
Duke of Tetuan and q member of the
Cortes. Whether a change of ministry
will make any material change in the
Cuban situation is doubtful. Sagasta is
as strongly opposed to the surrender of
Cuba as Canovas, though it has been in
timated that Sagasta is inclined to try the
effect of a promise of real autonomy on
the Cuban rebels.
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04

Interstate and foreign com merce. Gov
ernor Ellesbe said two weeks ago if
Slmonton decided this case against the
dlspensary he would shut it down. This
being the situation it would seem that
the dispensary must be closed unless in
the meantime Senator. Tillman should be
successful in his effort to secure national
legislation necessary to restore, as he says,
to South Carolina its right to regulate
the liquor traffic in its own way.
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04

A dispatch to the New York Herald
says the almost universal condemnation
of the sugar schedule reported by the Sen
ate Finance Committee has had so much
effect upon the Republican Senators that
there is no longer much doubt that the
schedule will be abandoned by the com.
mittee.
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04

Mr.. Whitelaw Reds chief response
bility as special ambassador to Great
Britain will be to present in person tc
Queen Victoria an autograph letter from
the President of the United States ex.
tending his congratulations upon her long
life, and his good wishes for her future
health and prosperity.
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04

Mr.. W. e. Curtis observes that severe
shock has been sustained by the moral
sentiment of the community upon the dis
covery that the old pensioner who re-
turned $50. so to the treasury, which he
believed to be an over-payment, has been
adjudged insane and sent to lunatic
asylum.
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04

Silver seems to have fallen to low
water mark, and rece ntly sold in London
at price equivalent to about ffty-fve
cents an ounce. The difference in price
between the two metals should dispose
the more thoughtful of the so-called
bimetalists to serious reflection.
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04

''Morgan gets up in the Senate
and talks to himself" This remark
which is alleged to have been made by
Mr.. Reed and which some officious
friend repeated to the Senator from Ala
bama, is thought to be the cause of Mr..
Morgan recent attack upon the Speaker
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY, JUNE 4.

A Board of Pardons will henceforth
pass on cases for executive clemency in
Illinois. Could Altgeld's reign have been
anticipated wisdom would have sugges-
ted like provision many years ago.
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04

What has started the Cheyenne Indians
on the war path is not made clear by the
dispatches, but it is pretty safe to assume
that when the facts come out it will APP
pear that the white settlers have not been
without fault in the matter.
The Portland daily press., 1897-06-04

and the eminence of the jurist who drew
the opinion will make it leading case
in the profession.