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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-04
Marine Nnies.

Swan 4 Siblcy Of Belfast. agents for
tn" schooner James Holmes. reported
missing. have heard nothing other thaU
that the vessel had loaded in Boston and
would probably leave, Saturday. Frank
Ryan. son Of the regular captain, is in
command. The vessel may put in 10 Sa-
lem. The sailors are Everett Patterson,
Alfred Staples Fred Gordon and John
jackson OF Belfast. Tho vessel is Il
packet between Belfast and Boston, car
ryins goods for Belfast merchants.
Portland Argus Feb. .: The steamer
Salacia arrived here, yesterday from
Boothbay. When interviewed by the
writer. one of the officers said: eve
were ON our way to Portland on Monday
when We encountered the gale We kept
along on our course until il became so
rough that ii would not have been safe
tor It's To attempt to make Portland.
When some distance south of Seguin, we
determined to run for Boothbay. and
after getting turned around. which was
no easy job, We SCudded for Roothbay as
fast as We could, and We did not get
there amy too soon. either" When asked
what the condition of affairs was at
Boothbay, the officer said: "The whole
place is showed under ana II is practi-
cally cut OFF from the outside. world |
believe that few of the telephone wires
are working. but there is no telegraphic
communication whatever. When we left
the streets We're all blockaded and it was
impossible to drive horse through
many of them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-04

The discovery is alleged to have bce'l
made that two employees of the New
England Railroad Co. at Boston. have
been rohbing the company for the past
three years. and VIM. l.. COylc. a time
clerk is under arrest. while Charles \
Messer, a freight engineer who is
charged With being Coyle's accomulicp
is already in jail on another complaint
Although the total amount involved j.
but $500. their alleged population
might have continued indefinitely. ha I
not the payroll been scrutinized more
carefully than usual within the past
two months. General Superintendent
Dewey said Coyle has been employed tr
check the pay roll and time slips.
MeSser Is allowed pay for overtime.
ON the pay roll it WAS made to appear
That Messer has worked many hours
overtime during the past three YEAR;
when he had i'll reality been off duty
the alleged Justification OF the accounts
is charged 10 Coyle and It is alleged THAI
CoFle and Messer divided the money
which was thus obtained.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-04
WITH CRASH AND SMASH
Two Trains a, Walnut Hill Collide A Number
OF Persons Injured.

Somcr~ylIt Mass, Feb. S.-Eetwc"n
% ana to persons fatally. TWO
less injured. ON" perhaps fatally, two
ears were smashed and !. locomotive was
ruined AS thc result 90 Il rear cuI cplli-
sion at The Winter I'M station Of The
Boston x Maine Railroad, about -
o'clock this morning. That thu accident
was not more disastrous * little short at
Il miracle a. the TWO trains were crowded,
The storm was in a meaSur" responsible
for the accident. as none of the signals
on the road was working. but there seems
Ia hay" been also confusion on the part
Of the train officials. As the track fuU
half mile is practically straight ana
there are No. distractions. il would seem
rs though Engineer LanSmaid Of the APP
preaching train, might have seen tn"
train standing at IN" station, but h.
claimed after The accident that steam
obStrurte1 his view. The train. which
WIS standing at the station taking on
passengers. was Il local one from Stone
nam white the collidng train was from
concord. Mass. and came on tn" main
lin" at West SomerVile. about 4 mile
from the Winter Hin station, running
cypress 10 Boston. The Concord train
had not attained full speed when tn" dc-
rid,ut occurred, which undoubtedly ac-
counts for the escape from loss of life.
Both the rear car Of the Stoneham train
and the front one of the concord train
were tclCSrOped. while the others Of both
trains were shaken M.
The passengers on the Concord train
seem to have Jared worse than those in
the other train but all the injuries
seemed to be confined to broken limbs and
bad cuts, although c. W. Rugg of this
city is believed TO be internally injured
and may die. Fortunately the wreck did
not catch fire and only few were badly
sealded by steam. rhc track was clear
in about four hours after the accident oc-
CURED.
Among the injured are:
Albert Bishop. Winchester. thighs badly
crushed, L. L. Harding. West Somcr-
vile, arm and leg injured; Allie" Watts
SomcrVile. leg broken. otherwise unin-
iured. Il. L. lewiston, Arlington Heights
badly cut on head and face Joseph Ma
clifton. Somervillc. scaldcd. eye cut. ], -
bruised; Herbert Northrup. West Somer-
vile. crushed about body; Henry {. Burr
West Somervillc cut about the head.
Several others sustained cuts, bruises and
minor injuries
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SSH CONGRESS-.
Continued from page -

elected for a term of six years beginning
March 1, 1899
Caffrey contended that the Legislature
H oregon. which met in January. 1881,
was duly and properly organized under
the constitution of the state. In responsa
TO an inquiry of Spooner as to whether a
Legislature of Oregon might be organized
with such power as would enable il ia
elect a senator and yet under the consti-
tution be unable to pass a law. Caffery
replied that in certain circumstances such
Il condition might arise
Cullom called up the Agricultural anpro-
priatfon bill. the reading of which was
concluded. last evening. Pending the sub
mission OF certain amendments to the
oll, Piatt. Ct, expressed his regret that
me committee had not stricken from the
Oil the appropriation for the purchase
and distribution of seeds.
Cullom, in charge of the bill, yielded to
White, Cal, for the introduction of the
following joint resolution
Resolved, that of right it belongs
wholly to the people of the Hawaiian
Islands To establish and maintain their
own form of government and domestic
policy; that the United States ought in
no wise to interfere Herewith. and that
any Intervention in the political affairs
OF the islands by any other government
wEl be regarded an act unfriendly to
tEe United States.
The resolution was passed by the Sen
ate on May 81, 1894. White asked that the
resolution lie on the table. After some
debate on the seed distribution matter
the amendment to the agricultural bill
offered by Warren, providing for Il divi
sion of irrigating and reclamation of arid
lands and for investigation of the meth
of constructing canals and of storing and
distributing water in the reclamation of
arid lands, was discussed. and Cullom
proposed as a substitute for Warren $
amendment the following:
For the purpose of collecting from
agricultural colleges, agricultural state
experiment stations and other sources
including practical agents and engineers
practical information and data on the
subject of irrigation and publishing the
same In bulletin form, 10000
The amendment was adopted and the
bill. carrying $3,527. POI. was passed.
The Senate at 5.25 +. NJ. went into cX-
ocutive session, and at 5.2S p. NJ. adj
journed.
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IT WAS CHILLY.
New Hampshire and Vermont Report from 90
anu as Below. Ihursdoy.

Concord, ~ H., Feb 3.-TEe work Of
repairing the damage by the great
storm has been delayed. today, by the
extreme Geld. The official record. at
this morning, was % degrees below
zero, the coolest since January I. 1873
when il was 81 below Loudon. ~
miles out, reported 40 below. ami
Hancock "A below. Passenger trains
are now nearly on time but freight
traffic Is still demoralized. The local
street railroad hopes to be running as
usual, tomorrow. after being disabled
three days.
Chester Depot. VT. Feb. with the
town still buried under snow the tenn
pcfature fell, this morning, 10 AZ de-
grees below zero, the coolest ever
known here. At Londonderry the
thermometer registered - bel0"-
Trains are delayed and wires are down
Hanover. n. H.. Feb. 3.-This morn
ing was the coolest on record here. this
winter The mercury was down to ~
degrees below zero. Neighboring sta
tons Of Vermont report the weather
ever colder
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CONDENSED Di PATCHES.

The bout between Tracey and Douglas
ut ST. Louis Thursday evening, WAS Dc
clarcd Il draw in the eighth round.
Fire at Scranton. Pa. Thursday night
destroyed the big Y. NJ. c. A. building.
which contained two stores. in addition
To the association assembly han and
rooms, a large Very stable, Il milk dis
tributing depot and one of Il row 1T two
story dwellings. y dozen large adjacent
buildings caught fire, but were saved
with only slight damage. 1t is not pos
sible to estimate the damage or insur-
ancc. but the former is probably SD. eto
The lire started from an explosion of Il
lot of Cimemetograph films used in giving
exhibition curtain lectures in u vacant
Stor" room.
The secretary of war has tclcgraphtd
instructions to Gen. Merriam command
ing the department of the Columbia Feb.
|, TO organize and send an exploring cX-
prdlttou over the Copper River route in
Alaska for the purpose of ascertaining
whether Il practicable summer and win
ter route. wholly within the territory of
the United States for mail and supplies
oT for mail alone, could be found to the
mining regions on the Yukon. between
Forty Nil" Creek and Circle city. The
organization of the party and the selec-
ton of the officers to command it has
been left To the judgment of Gen.
Merriam.
employee in the Boston post office was
taken into custody, Thursday on the
charge of robbery from the mails. Ryan &
home, in RoXbury. WAS searched and
many articles of icwcry and a large
number of books We're found. He Stoutiy
denied when first questioned after his
arrest. that he had been pilfering. ld.
later II" broke down ara confessed. His
method was to draw u line through the
address on the packages and place his
40 II 4. L,
bundle, after which he would put il back
in the mails. BY this means he accun.u-
lated large amount of jewclry and
many books. much of which he sold. He
will be arraigned. Friday. before the
nited States commissioner.
Neither Francis (. Grabo nor John S.
Silver. the men to whom Cashier VIM. J.
tiuinlan Of the Chemical National Bank.
loaned S}9S.eh on Western stocks, was
1T his office at New York. Thursday.
President Wi!ilams Of the bank, said that
nothing had been found to justify the
bank in bringing criminal action against
Mr.. ouinlan. He said that Mr. Silver
called on him. late Wednesday, after the
matter had become public, and handed
INN S04.Wo worth of securities. Mr.. Will
iia!aS seemed doubtful about the value
bur declared that they might after al
;'tONe to De worth more than at first
thought. Mi, silver said that he owed the
money ia the Chemical National Banl.
and tnat ne was going to pay it. lie de
r'ned to give any description OF the aa-
dilional securities Which Ii. handed l.,
Nj Williams
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DOES MOT BACK DOWN.
Strongly Denied that England Yields an Iota
in Eastern Question.

London, Feb. J--On incontroVertible
authority The Associated Press learns
that Great Britain has not backed
down on the question of making Ia
Lien Wan "A free port. The Marquis of
Salisbury. Mr.. George ~ Curzon. the
parliamentary secretary of the foreign
office: the Russian ambassador and the
Chinese minister each remarked, yes
terday, III conversation, that they had
not heard of any backdoWn.
The opening of ALLEN Wan. it is
pointed out, was never made Il cOndi-
ton, in any sine qua non sense in con-
nection with the loan to China. In the
preliminary negotiations on that sub
ject the opening Of TaLien- Wan was
'skctched in natural tints. Great
Britain only suggesting it as one condi-
ton faVoring a speedy completion Of
The loan. She never demanded it and,
therefore. in no sense can he said Ia
have backed down. if the desire was
not persisted in, The question of Ia
Lien Wan, Is. however with other
suggested conditions of the loan, still
negotiating,
According to a special dispatch from
Shanghai. published, today. two British
war ships entered Port Arthur. yester-
day, and left without anchoring,
The heat of the Russian press on the
subject is in no sense shown by the
Russian government in its communi
cations which haNe reached the foreign
office. though Russia has protested. and
means to continue tn protest in the
stoutest manner against Ta-Lien- Wan
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AGAINST AMERICAN FRUIT.
Germany Seems Determined 10 Shut Out Our
Products on Some Excuse.

Berlin. Feb. 3.-It is announced that
the Bundesrath Federal CounciD in
parliamentary sitting. today, approved
its committees proposal that decree
should he issued prohibiting the i'm
portation from America of live plants
and shrubs and packages containing
the same. The decree will also in "A
certain measure affect American fruits.
These are to bc examined by experts on
their arrival at German ports, and
packages found to be infected with the
fruit louise viii be excluded. Instruc-
tions to this effect will be issued to the
customs authorities.
This announcement. which is made
by many official agents. appears to in
dictate d measure distinct from the de
cree issued. Tue sday. by DR.. MIGUEL.
the PruSSian minister of finance, pro-
hihiting the Importation of every kind
Of American fresh fruits. but it is
difficult to ascertain the exact details
The Bundesrath's meaSure,it is pointed
out. is far less stringent than simila"
measures at present enforced in i'll
diVidual states of the American union.
The Associated Press learns that tho
Hamburg authorities. today, permitted
the unloading of apples from the
United States, owing to instructions
received from Berlin as the result of
protests of United States Ambassador
White against Dr Miquel's decree.
The Associated Press ascertains that
the Bundesrath protects with its au
thority Dr.. Mquel's decree which
seems ill-adViscd in its rieor and sud
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DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS
Address the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association at Philadelphia.

Baltimore. Feb. 3-The annual han.
quet of the Merchants and Manufat
turers' Association held here. tonight
was one of the most notable affairs 81
the kind ever given in Baltimore
Tn principal toastS We're: The Rela-
ton of business to Government Fin
ances. response by Secretary Of the
Treasury Gage. who was the chi Il
speaker The Postal Service ana Its
Relation to Commerce" response NV
Postmaster General Gary: our Indus
triel and Business Future. " response hy
Congressman Nelson pingley, Cuba "
responded To by Congressman John VI
Allen; Woman. responded to ry
Congressman Joseph H. Walker.
There We're nearly 200 covers and the
menu was an elaborate one.
Secretary Gag in part said. TIL.
theory on which our government rests
is the ability Of man u work out his
own destiny. Protect him from I'M
just aggression IN his common rights
from enemies AT home. from foes with
out; q for the whole, body of the stare
" hat the individual initiative. could not
secure aud leave men free to work out,
through the paths I'll industry and an
terprisc, their own individual salvation
this / understand 10 be the spirit AMI
essence OF our American political in
situations. Whenever, therefore. the
state takes over ID itself functions
alien to It's own nature: whenever il
interfercs. Unless to secure general
equity aud justice. With those opera
tions which men III their free relations
with each other viii develop and carry
forward, there is injected into the field
Of Industrial activities ana commercial
exchange the injurious influence of @
body foreign 10 these activities
It is the just complaint against goN-
eminent issues uf money that though
ohedient 10 The legislative will. is
nevertheless net in harmony With
higher economic law which blesSeS thc
obedient ana Furnishes all violation.
whether the violation be wilfu or
through ignorance. \ true credit in
strument, truthfully cvidencing that a
thing of value has passed-yct still
exists in fact-even If transformed in
shape and substance, such an instru-
mcnt is clothed with the quality Of
legitimacy. If the fact he otherwise. if
the value passed has been consumed.
destroyed or lost. the credit instrument
itself becomes a commercial interioper
with a misleading token; nor can
kings. empcrols or senate change the
fact
our own legal tender notes, dear as
they are To the patriotic heart. ser
viceahlc as they are in a great crisis.
are yet out of accord with the true
economic laws. The value fen which
they were originally issued was imma-
diately consumed or destroyed. IS
now issued, they are evidence of a
value already consumed by the issuer,
or of service already past. These not S
operating in the commercial field, thus
differentiated from the true credit in
strumcntS which commerce can create,
must somewhere work injury even II
We cannot distnctiVely point it ou'.
In my opinion. il is here that business
receives an injury general and wide
reaching. through its forced relations
to government paper money.
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COURT AT FAR siNGT0N.
February Term Convenes, Judge WisAe' Pre-.
siding-lmpcrtani Cases TO &c Heard.

Farmington Me. Feb. ST. Speciall.--
The February term of the Franklin
county supreme court, which should have
opened. the first Of the month, organized.
his morning 1T 10 o clock. lion. Andrew
2. Wiswell OF Ellsworth. the justice pre-
siding. arrived Wednesday, afternoon.
ma took his quarters at the Stoddard
house. Sheriff j. y. Blake had adjourned
court. in the forenoon Wednesday,. to to-
lay. hence no business could he tran
sactcd. that afternoon. y good many of
he jurTmen were also late on account of
he impossible country roads. Rev. l..
A. Royal of the Baptist church, offered
prayer. The court is organized Us fol-
lows: Hon. Andrew p. Wisweli, justice
presiding; Byron NJ, Small clerk; Elmer
+. Richards county attorney; J. ~.
Blake. sheriff: The deputy sheri:fs of the
county c. f. Dyer jailor and court mes
scngcr.
The same grand jury that served. last
September. is to serve this term. The
irst and second traverse iuries Were next
called and impanellcd. Then the court
docket was gone through and prepard-
lions for assignments made.
The suit of Major S. Clifford BClcher
vs.. the Farmington Village Corporation.
which was on the continued list. was en-
tered neither party. This disposes of the
last claim against the village corporation
rising from the railroad bond deal of
over q quarter Of il century ago. There
IRE one or two NOR" bonds outstanding.
out the holders of these titles We're rril-
ipally awaiting the action Of Ma jur
BeIchor.
The grand jury went into session. this
afternoon. and will probably report, Sat
urdaY or Monday.
The trustee suit Of Kings captors vs..
he Boylston Bank, WAS referred to JUS
tice W +. WhtrhOuSe. The trustees are
7 disclose he 0pXf term
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BEGGING LIVING SKELETONS.
Horrible Sights at Havana and People Gather
to Receive Food Supplies.

Havana. Feb. LA Discussion. today,
says: The scenes Witnessed at the resi-
dence of DR.. Castro Jesus Del Monte pre-
vious to the distribution of food to the
reConCcntrados are too pathetic to be
fully described.
As soon as the doors We're opened. .,
mass of beggary, living skeletons of all
races. all ages and both sexes. invaded
the place where the food was to be dis
tributed with out-Stretched hands almost
fieshless. imploring aims, frightful ami
nation filling their spectral faces at the
sight of food.
Many We're not even strong enough To
endure the food and fell in the street as
they turned away. a few others, more
fortunate, perhaps, seemed to regain
some vitality.
This painful scene is daily witnessed
wherever food is distributed to the recon
ccntradoS.
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Base Ball Notes.

The Lewiston Journal has received a
letter from George l.. Wheeler. pitcher
of the Philadelphia National League
baseball team, locating him at 25l3 North
Broad street. Philadelphia. Wheeler Dc
MES all stories that have been printed
about him as to his departure from Lew
iStou, where he was manager Of the Lev
ston polo team. He says that all his
friends cnd business associates knew
that he wig going and that ne is taking
a course of study at the Industrial Art
school III Philadelphia. He denies that
name is Herou. Wheeler being the Enc
fish version of the French name n.
says that he married Mary Lourneier il,
Methuen. Mass. in 1894. and that she de-
serted him in lS94 lie has never married
since. as has been ALLEGED.
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Other Domestic Ports.

SALEM. MAss.-Fcb ,. ar sch Ta>
OBJ 81 John y Il. for Bridgeport.
Sid. schs Irene dBD, and Sackvill,
Packet CBr,, st John. for Bridgeport
Harry & Chester. Machias; Hume. Rock
Land. + II King, Eastport; Wide Awake
Rockland Helen 9 King. Calais: Mary
Farren. Portland.
in port. schs Addie Schlaefer Lcona
Ira y Strugis. ana Cathic & Berry, hay
ing ridden out the gale in safety.
Also in port, SENS Annie Harper (l5rl
Caroline Knight. Georgia. Addie SNOW
james r Talbot II II Reed and Nat
Mcader. an badly crippled from the storm
BOSTON~-Fcb 9. ar. stms Lycia tl3fJ
Monmouth. Eng: Boston I3r1. Yarmouth
\ :. Hiberniau OBJ, Glasgow Halifax
t3r) Halifax. y :.
cd. sim Romans CBr), London: schs Otis
Miller OBJ and Rondo Br>, ST John. y
f.
Sid. stms Armenian fBr), and Sycamore
VtiNEYARD HAvEN-Feb 8. ar. schs
Thelma, Brunswick. Ga. for Boston; A
Heaton. South Amboy for Boston; Rich
ara lfin. Barren Island. New York for
Portland; sim tugs, Sylvester |. Ward,
Bass River Ghe Ward and tug Argus
have bgs Alabama Annie " Weston,
Chalmette and Sarah \. Staples, Perth
Amboy for Boston anchored at Bass
RIVER: Joshua Lovett. for New York,
towing bg 'assaic (sailetN.
NEW GORk-Feo 8 cid, sum Mas'hat-
tan. Portland. - A1
Sid Sims Europe London. Edam,
Amsterdam: Fortuna. Rotterdam.
Ar. sim Buenos Ayrian, from Glasgow.
CITY ioLAND-Feb 5, bound south, sim
Manhattan. Portland.
VINEYARD HAVEN. MASS-Feb 2,
ar tug Taurus and sid. towing blk Ce-
lima for Boston.
Sid. schs Hattie { Luce, Carries Belle,
Fostira. j. s. Lamprey, Charles Noble
simmons, Mary f Morse. Elm City. Yale,
Rchecca W Huddell. Carleton Belle.
Lewis II Coward. Charley Woolsey, Alb
bic Bowker, Ella Pressey, o NJ Marrett
George Bird. John Booth. Dreadnaught
Maggie Hurley. Laura Robinson. ~Fihe-
man. J L bodwell. Ada Ames. Lucy. Oro-
limbo. Empress. Jennie G Pillsbury, Sd
Lindsey, Sarah Eeaton. Pefetta fBrl. aus
Harvard II HaVeY (Br); sim HarrisbuIgs
towing 10y Indian Ridge: tugs Gladiator.
towing bgs Falcon and Robert ] Garter;
Storm King. towing bgs Liberty. Escort
ana Nrrcedita; Wrestler, towing bgs
Burnside and Richardson.
Psd sim Maverick Philadelphia for
Boston. towing bgs $ o Go No IS; San
TUT, Boston for q coal port; tug Cata-
wissa, from Philadelphia, towing three
In
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Nh Edward J. Ryan of Midtown,
has applied for L. 5. patent on d.
vice which he calls am automatic pres
sure governor, and which he claims
will compel the ocean waves to pump
and compress air The air is to run an
engine, the engine will generate cleo
tricity,and the electricity viii he trans
mitted to land on insulated wires
This. he claims, is far ahead of the
scheme to harness the ocean. devised
by Thomas \. Edison, Jr His is not
a speed governor, but a pressure GOV
CrnOr.
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SHIPPING NEWS
Maine Ports.

BoOTHBAY-Feb. ,. ar sch Al
faretta S. Snare, Boston, and SD for
New Brunswick.
PORTLAND-Fcb 3 ar. Sims Atlas.
with s o bg. No - from New York. Schs
Charles = hoffman. Jewctt. Norfolk.
King Philip. duncan. Baltimore: . -
WithercH. Chase ana Abby Bowker,
Perry. New York: Fannie Rciche. from
Weymouth: II G King. DcYoung- salem
Ga, sim Iona CBr,. Cummings. London.
Sid. sim John Englis. Bragg. New York.