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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-08-15
BoMBARDMENT INSURANCE.
Policies Held in Portland Run Into the
Hundreds of Thousands.

In the early days of the war when Port
land property owners, or some OF them,
woke up nights to listen for the roar of
the Hontoria guns on the Spanish ships
and the yellow journals printed in
Gotham and sold in large numbers in
this city contained pictures showing how
Brooklyn bridge would tumble down
should the Vizcaya let fly at it, there
were placed in Portland many policies of
insurance against the danger of destruc-
ton to property by bombardment. These
policies were for one year and as If was
stipulated in them that there should be
no rebate If the war ended before that
time was up, Portland property holders
maybe said to be still carrying the insur-
anoe, SO if we should get into row with
Germany before next spring they would
be all fixed for calamity. The policies
were placed at rate of three quarters OF
one per cent on thousand and In some
cases were for amounts ranging as high
as $40, 900 and $50, 600. Indeed it is said
that one large concern paid out one thou
sand dollars in premiums for this class
of insurance, an amout which at the
prevailing rate would represent over one
hundred thousand dollars of insurance.
The insurance was placed on buildings
and stocks in about equal amount, the
buildings including both houses and
business blocks. A member of firm by
whom large amount of the lombard
ment insurance was placed, told PRESS
man Saturday that while he could not
make an estimate in dollars end cents,
the amount of insurance taken in Port
land would run up into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars. The property in
sured was scattered all over the city and
its surroundings but large part of it
was located ON Commercial street and the
wharves there being very natural appre-
bension on the part of the holders of
property in that section that they would
get the first and full effect of lombard
msnt. The ombardment insurance was
not followed by bombardment, but
the holders can comfort themselves
with the reflection that they didn't have
to worry even before Admiral Cervera fell
into the bottle which was so promptly
and tightly corked up by Commodore
Schley.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-08-15
RECORDS FALL.
Great Racing at the Meet of the L. A. W.

Indianapolis. Ind, August 13.-The
national meeting of the L. A. w.. was
closed today and the racing was brilliant.
1t furnished more surprises and more
broken records Eddie Bald was beaten
out In the seni-tinal Of the one-mile
national professional championship, as
were Tom Cooper and Arthur Gardiner.
E. A. Mcfarland, the new champion,
won in record breaking time, lowering
the one-mile single paced competition
mark from 2.01 to 1853 2-5. Major Taylor
was but three inches behind in the won
derful finish, and Kimble but a tires
width back of Taylor. Frank L. Kreamer
of Newark, N. j., won the one-mi1e
national amateur championship. The
winners Of the first and second semi
finals were allowed to start. Kraemer,
however, had world record speed and he
dealt it out fairly. In the last quarter
he pushed to the front, pedalled rapidly
down the back stretch and crossed the
tape a full length in. front of Peabody,
the Chicagoian. The time was 2.04 3-5.
The two-mile amateur handicap event
saw another broken record, and Kraemer,
the one-mile national champion, regis
tered 1t. BY the pluckiest kind of work
he sped around the oval and although he
failed to finish within the money he cut
the record to AT Ia.
The third record was that Of a quad
mile. In trial against time team COM
posed Of Van Colt, Horton, Lishner and
Bennett; cut the record from 1.47 to
1.45 3-5.
In the two-mile tandem professional
race, James Bowler was substituted
for Johnny johnson, who was injured on
the previous night. Bill Martin was out
steering his mate, W. E. Mertens OF
Minneapolis, and the pair won the event
in 4.57 LIS, doing the last quarter in "a
Martin all but tainted after finishing,
and had to be carried from the track.
In the interstate pursuit race with
teams entering from Illinois. Indiana,
New York and Connecticut, the New
York team won. The distance completed
was six miles and three sixteenths, and
the time l54s 3-5.
Inc l0G-talkeQ Oh raCo VI UHe EaSb
against the West, was well contested,
and the Western riders captured the event
The crack "a jacks for the meet were repre-
sented. Mcfarland wsain the Westner
team and Gardiner and Bald In the
Eastern. The Westerners wiped up the
Fasteners. stevens was the only VEST
erner to give up, while all of those from
the East quit except Bill Martin. 1t
required only four and three-sixteenths
miles for the Westerners to stop their
Eastern rivals. The time for the i've
miles by Mcfarland, who finished 1t out
after passing Martin, WAS 1923 l-5
The standing of the first seven OF the
national circuit riders at the close OF the
meet tonight is as follows: E. Q. Bald,
129 points; Mcfarland, ia; Kimble, 80;
Cooper, IS; Gardiner, 70; freeman, 46;
Stevens Al.
The summary:
One.mile professional, national cham
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-08-15
PROTEST WITHDRAWN.
Portland Veteran Firemen and the Con
test at Bath.

Chief Engineer Moody of Woodfords,
secretary of the Maine State Firemen Is
association, has received notice that the
Portland Veteran Firemea's association
have Withdrawn their protest in the con-
test in which the Tiger Engine company
of Warren were the winners at the recent
muster at Bath.
Capt. C. Fl. leighton of the Portland
team protested against the payment Of
the second prize to the Warren company
in the first class hand Tub contest. and
has now withdrawn the protest SO that
the PAYMENT of the $50 prize to the War
rem company will be made at once.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-08-15
500 Reward 500.

The readers of this paper will be
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages, and that is Ca
tarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only posi-
Catarrh being constitutional disease, re-
quires a constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
faces Of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving the
patient strength by building up the consti-
tuition and assisting nature in doing its
in it's curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Send for list Of testimonials tin mails. q
Sold by Druggists, 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-08-15
ACCIDENT TO A HOTEL PORTER.

Mr. Arthur Kirkup. one of the porters
at the Congress Square hotel, met with
a serious accident Saturday. He slipped
from a step on which he was standing,
putting trunks on a hack, and when he
slipped he was struck and renned be-
tween the trunks and the rack of the
hack. Several of his ribs were bruised,
but not broken, and he was hurt inter
nally. DR.. King attended him. Mr.. Kirk
up is a bright, smart young man, very
popular with the hotel people and the
house patrons. 1t Is hoped that he will
soon be- about again.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-08-15
NO LABOR DAY CELEBRATION.

There will be no general observance OF
Labor Day in this city, there being no
Central Labor Union here at present,
The day, however, will be Attingly OBJ
served by several organizations. The
Portland Longshoremen will go to Sebago
Lake where the usual beat races and
sports of various kinds will occur.
The Hibernian Knights will entertain
visiting lodges from away that day and
will celebrate the day with their guests
at Long Island.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-08-15
ORDERS REVOKED.

San Francisco, August 13.-It is an
nounced tonight that the order for the
sailing of troops for Manila on the tran
sports Scandal and Arizona has Deen
The transports will saii
for the Philippines on Monday as
scheduled but they will carry only stores
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-08-15

1t can't burn steal it, and unlike stocks and
bonds which day and down the next land
growing city is always increasing in value There thousands
people who rich today simply because they owned land
New England cities and held to until it
active demand for house lots And safely
prediction that there not foot Of land within
miles of Portland city hall but which will be worth all the
double ten times its value inside OF five
few dollars invested in lots will be laying the foun-
home future capital for man in Port
land and vicinity that you them Young
interests Fathers start the world
lots for nest 1t better than putting
the savings bank for them spend they old
enough them out. Only so cents week And think
what it to You in the future.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-08-15

Builds up the system, puts pure rica
blood in the veins; makes men anu anu
women strong and healthy-BuroocA
Blood Bitters. At any drug store.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-08-15
EIGHTH MAINE MAN DIES.

Chickamauga Park, Ga August 10 -
The eighth death occurred in the flrst
Maine this morning. Luther Anglo
Clark of Brunswick, a corporal in Co. Il,
died at Division hospital of typhoid
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-02-15
STICK To SHIPS
Not Much Shore Liberty
for Jacky Now.
Restriction On Visits to the Town.
Some Shopping Abroad A
New Order On Pay.

Some OF the men aboard the United
States Navy ships and a good many
people up town complain that the en-
listed men get much less time in the
city than they did when the Philadel-
phia was in port, for instance The
cause Of this is very apparent. Shore
leave, under new orders, is a scarce
article now. On Saturdays or Sundays
men (one-third of the crew may come
off from the ships at 1 p. N. and re-
main till Z the next morning Any
other day they may leave ship only at
3 in the evening and must be back
aboard again before II at night. These
days a good many of the men are send
ing to the Coast for articles they form
erly purchased here. If they come
ashore at $50, most of the stores are
closed. Saturday afternoon is not a
good time for shopping. 1t is brought
out in investigating this matter that
not a few of the men-scores of whom
patronize stores of Chinese. They
want to do business with local white
dealers and failing in the opportunity
for this, order from the Coast The
saloons lose a good deal by the new
"shore leave" rules. So do the bicycle
and horse liveries. Probably, however,
the blow falls heaviest on retail deal
ers, for the bluejackets are liberal
purchasers.
An order just out from Washington
and taking effect next pay day has
created quite a wave of excitement
aboard both the Bennington and Bal
timore 1t touches enlisted men only
and is to the effect that they can call
for only one months pay at time.
1t has been the practice of the more
thrifty men to allow their money to
accumulate with the paymaster for a
few months and then take down a
nice lump sum. Some Of the men in
vested or sent away their savings and
some of them had a big time on the
hoard Once in awhile a man would
have a few hundreds and would con-
clude that he could do better outside
the navy with so much capital and
, disappear. 1t is likely that to reduce
assertions the rule was made
Several men on ships here are caught
with quite large sums to their credit.
They can transfer this to the bank on
board and have it draw per cent in
terest. They cannot have the reserve
till enlistment expires.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-02-15
CARTRIDGE STUCK.
Bullet Went Flying and Powder
Lett Marks.

There was CONSERVATION in one quar-
ter Of the police station at about 8
a. m. yesterday. George Greene, for
merry officer at the boat landing. went
into Mr.. Bachelors room next that
CT the Marshal and, picking up one
OF the rifles. began examining the ex-
tractor. There were loaded cartridges
in the gun and Mr. Greene was prac-
ticing at throwing these out quickly.
Finally he ran across one that stuck
in the barrel. He gave a quick jerk
10 dislodge it when the cartridge ex-
ploded
Mr.. Greene was standing at the back
door when examining the gun and
the barrel was pointed across the hall
way in the direction of the stairway
leading TO the cells below. The bull
let passed very close to Jim Kupihea
and other officers engaged in the work
of loading cartridges and struck
against the wall down stairs.
The powder from the cartridge flash
ed up and burned Mr.. Greene's nose
quite badly 1t was a fortunate cir
cumstance that he had on glasses
Otherwise he must surely have been
blinded by the powder.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-02-15
BENEFIT SOCIETY.
Plan of Action of the Hawaiian
Glee Club.

Glee Club.
The Hawaiian Glee Club sends the
following communication to the Ad-
vertiser:
Through the suggestion of a very
kind lady, the Hawaiian Glee Club was
organized in August, 1896, for the pur-
pose of working to found home for
the poor children of Hawaii, where
they can be properly brought up, in
the manner of the orphan asylums of
America and Europe.
Indeed, many think the enterprise
too great to establish here, but we
earnestly hope by patience such a home
can be established here, and that it
will be an ornament to our Paradise.
THE plan of the club is plain. The
proceeds of every concert given by the
club or under it's auspices shall be
divided as follows:
twenty-five per cent for the relief
of it's members.
twenty-five per cent for the gen
eral fund to meet expenses.
Fifty per cent for the Orphan Fund,
which is to help build the home.
article Of the clubs bylaws reads
as follows: No person is allowed to
become member unless he agrees to
the above.
The Orphan Fund will be in charge
of a committee to be appointed by the
men and women who will be invited
for that purpose. They will select the
members thereof and make rules fol-
the proper management of said fund
This can be done just as easily as
Father Dougherty did in New YorB
with the home for the orphans he
established.
'The only benefit which is expected
the club will get in this matter, is the
pleasure of attending lectures upor
any useful topic to be given free tc
all.
Hoping our friends will kindly re-
spond on the occasions above cited.
1--WE remain with Aloha Nui,
THE HAWAIIAN GLEE CLUB"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-02-15
The FaVorite

IS THE FAVORITE place for the
finest liquors only, and the best dis
tillers of the United States, Canada
and Great Britain are represented.
Best brews of Beer, either on draft or
in bottles, may be had at all times.
w NJ Cunningham, Proprietor of
this well-known resort, has been in
the business for many years, and is a
connoisseur in liquors. His establish
ment is always orderly, and, with the
services of his assistant, Mr. Thomp-
son, customers are promptly supplied.
Bethel and Hotel streets is a Favorite
corner for the lovers of cold Beer or
fine Wines and Liquors.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-02-15

The depth of water has a consider
able influence on the speed Of steamers,
which are found to move more slow
ly in shallow water.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-20
spcctator,s View of tbe'Case

London. Aug. 2O.-The Spectator in
IDS issue this week prophesies that
America will retain all the Spanish
possessions she has captured. and thinks
that pressure from the Cuban loyalisis s
will force the commission to stipulate
that Cuba shall be governed by the
United States for twenty years" The
Spectator says: America will find her
self at the end of the year in the
possession OF the beginning of an over
sea tropical empire. Long may she rule
IT in the interests of humanity and JUS
tice. While il is so ruled Englishmen
viii never envy her possessions, nor
their expansion into a domain as great
as our own"
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-20
A Survivor of the Cavalier Spirit.

The eourtly Cavalier spirit that marked
the character of the early Virginian is
still present in the blood of those who
have descended from the discomfiters of
the Roundhead. The old Virginia gentle
man is a type of the race whose memory
is fragrant in the minds of all who ever
knew him, and the example that he set
and the lesson that he taught is still emu
lated in the Virginian of today News
comes, in fact, direct from Elliot's Greek,
in the fine old Montgomery county, to the
effect that :. Clarence one OF the society
young men of that place, has shocked the
Inodcsty of some of the villagers by intro
ducing the custom Of wearing his sweet
hearts shoes to- break them.
Talk about the cavalier spirit being dead
in old Virginia is all nonsense after this
What nobler sacrifice Of a personal COM
fort could a man be eexpected TO make than
thus offering to break in his sweetheart,s q
shoess What deed more coursly, what
service more emblematic Of the true knight
errantry that bids the hero pass through
every conflict to win the favor of his Ladyis
hand It Is a picture full OF the mellow
glow OF manly heroisIn, Clarence, and
may your example be efnnlsted by every
young man in EIliot's Creek whose girl
has a pair Of shoes to break.-Baltimore
News.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-20

the Cantabrian range following the coast
at o distance of 40 to so miles and break
ing up near the sea into number OF
branching chains, which cover several
provinces. Thus from the Atlantic to the
Mediterranean there runs an almost con-
tinuous rugged chain, denscly wooded and
exceedingly difficult for military opera
tions. These mountains are the natural
habitat of the Basqucs, and whenever an
instruction breaks out the inhabitants
remove to the mountain fastnesses and
can indefinitely prolong the war against
any force brought to bear upon them.
As mercenary soldiers they We're at one
Swiss, their obstinacy, However making
them exceedingly intractablc even under
their own officers and wholly unmanage-
able under foreign control. Gonsalvo de
CordOva had a body of them as Inercenaries
among his troops at Rome and said pub
licly that he would rather undSctake to
keep lions than NiZcayans. His expert
encc was that of every commander who
employed them, and consequently they fell
into disfavor among the miliranry mon of
Europe, and even 200 years ago only in
the dircst emergency would any govern
ment hire Fizcayans as merGenaries.
The Basques arc mountainous, and
mountaineers in every country are indie
pendent, liberty loving and impatient of
any form of political control save when
exercised by their own people Like the
Swiss, the Welsh, the AIbanians, the At
ghans, tho hill tribes of the Himalayas,
they have never patiently submitted to a
foreign yoke.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-20
Robbers and Incendiarics.

Bloomington, Ills. Aug. 20. = Early
Thursday morning the residence of
Bartlett Hall. 404 North Lee street. was
burglarized and the thieves set fire to
the house. But for the d discovery Of the
fire by a nurse, watching a sufferer in
George ". Parke'S residence next door.
Bartlett. his wife and son would have
perished. Bartlett and his son attempte i
TO lower Mrs. Bartlett to the ground
from q window by a rope imprCvisad
from bed she is. She weighs $50 p-urds.
The rope broke and she was very dan
gerously hurt by the fall. Bartlett was
robbed OF $500 in cash and drafts col
lected for Armour & So. for whom he
travels. The fire loss is atoIt S9.OOl.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-20
LIVING CORPSE TALKS LOVE,
Proof Against KNIVES. but Susceptible to
the Dart of Cupid.

Beno, the strange Egyptian who is in
sensible to the stabs of pins andssknives
and proof against poison, quickly capitu-
lated TO Cupid and married Miss Grace
Wagner of Muncie, Ind. Beno can sUs-
pend animation for a period of two weeks.
Upon this last qualification hangs tho
romance of his life.
To fulfill the conditions of a wager for
500 ho was To be lowered into a grave at
Muncic, Ind, thCro to romain eight days.
Thousands of people had assembled to SEQ
the intcrmcnt of the rash mortal who was
to taste the terrors of the grave before
death had claimed him.
Beno saw the anxious look on the faces
of several of the young girls and just as
he was being lowered into the grave he
made a last request that they keep his
grave green. At first many dccked out
his living sepulchre with flowers, but only
one was constant in her visits to the little
mound. This was Miss Wagner. Beno's
only food was air, and this was admitted
through tube. On one of her visits Grace
was looking down this tube and musing
upon the strange manner of man confined
beneath the sod, when n cough, half sup
pressed, escaped her. To her great aston
ishment subterranean voice spoke up out
of the tube and inquired who was at his
grave. In accents trembling with joy and
horror Grace gave her name and said she
had come with fresh flowers fer his grave.
The lonely man within must have been
glad for the sound of some human voice.
He engaged the girl in casual conversa-
tion, which was restricted by the limita-
tions of the tube. The visits of Miss Way
mer now became moro frequent. The
pretty girl without and the handsome
man within began to go the way of all
flesh. Tho tube began to carry words that
were not parts Of a casual conversation.
Beno discovered that a man in coffin can
still fall in Hove with soft voice, though
he does not see the face.
Strange indeed are tho Vaccinations of
the little god of love. He might be able to
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-20
WAITING WITH CONFIDENCE.
Mercantile Community Has No Doubt of n
Big Fall Trade.


New York. Aug 2e--Bradstreet's
SAYS: Perhaps the most interesting
feature of the general business situa-
tion at present is the air OF confidence
with which the mercantile community
awaits the approach OF the fall trade
period. While based in some degree
Itpon favorable rssults already achieved
in many lines, II is unquestionably true
that the hattering crop outlook at home
and the return of peace, with the ex-
pectation of benefits To our export trade
naturally to accrue therefrom. make for
much OF the feeling thus expressed.
Reflection Of the. growth of fan trade
is found in the ste ady expansion now
going on in bank clearings. the improving
demand a { higher prices for most makes
of iron and steel the generally favor
able railway earTsags which point to
a large return trade in manufactured
goods TO the agricultural sections. and
the reports Of the continued activity in
distriDutive trade west and south, with
signs of moderate increase in interest
at leading eastern markets.
The situation in cereals shows but lit
lie change. The balance established be-
tween the phenunenally reduced visible
supplies. active milling demand at
hcme and fair export inquiry on the
one hand. and the very promising crop
outlook ON the other hand. tends to
steadiness in prices. and other cereals
sympathiZe with wheat.
Reports as to collections the country
over are very encouraging. Business
failures are larger in number than last
week, aggregating 195. against 157 last
week, but compare with 221 in this week
"A year ago. 2G4 in 1896. 1872 in 1895 ana
PSI in 1894
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-20
BExo's PROPOSAL FROM HIS GRAVE.

BENo's PROPOSAL FROM HIS CRAVE.
stick brad avis into his body and not feel
them, but nevertheless Cupid shot straight
its work.
Before the stipulated eight days were
up Miss Wagner had been honored with a
proposal from the tomb. In truth she
might have said it was unexpected, but
she did not. She said Yes" Six feet of
earth, before mentioned, prevented Beno
from receiving this answer in the time
honored and approved manner. He waited
a gentle kiss mp the tube and told her he
would attend TO the rest of the programme
as soon as he could get out of that hole.
AT the end of the eight days Beno was
exhumed, and the marriage took place.