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The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
ORDERS TO BATTERY A.
Governor Receives Notice That it Wi

Governor Receives Notice That it Will
 Be Sent to Porto Rico. Hartford, Aug. S,-In Governor Cooke's mail this morning was the for mai notice that Battery A is to be sent to Porto Rico.
 Headquarters Department of the East, Governors Island. N. Y. city. August 4, 1898. (EXtract.)
 Light Battery A, First Connecticut U. s. Volunteer artillery, is designated by the secretary of war to go to Porto Rico as part of the expedition to be commanded by Major General James F. Wade. Tie battery commander will report by telegraph to General Wade at Washington, D. C., for further instruc- ton.
 By Command of Brigadier General Gillespie.
 George Andrews,
 Assistant Adjutant General. To the Governor of Connecticut.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
DEATH OF BRIG. GEN. POLAND.
 His Standing in the Army of the High


 Washington, Aug 8.--The war de- partment to-day received notification of the death of Brigadier General John s. Poland of typhoid fever at Asheville, N. C., this morning. He was born at Princeton, Ind, October IA, 1886, and was graduated from West Point in 1861 and assigned to the Second infantry. He was promoted to first lieutenant July 6, 1861; to captain June 27, 1862, and rose to his present grade of colonel of the Seventeenth United States in- fantry August l, 1891. He was appoint ed brigadier general of volunteers May 4, 1898.
 His first active service was In the Manassas campaign of July, 1861, being in the battle of Bull Run. | The other battles in which he participated were the siege of Yorktown, Gaines Hill, Malvern Hill, Manassas, Antietam, Shepardstown, Fredericksburg and Get tysburg, and he was engaged in the de- fense of the capital against General Early's raid. For gallant and meritori- ous services at the battles of Antietam, Shepardstown and Fredericksburg he was made brevet major and was made brevet lieutenant colonel at the battle of Characteristic.
 At the outbreak of the present war he was in command at Columbus bar racks, Ohio, and promptly offered his services, and at the time of his death was brigadier general commanding the second division, First army corps at Chickamauga Park, Georgit General Poland was a very able and jealous officer and conscientious in the dis charge of every duty. His standing in the army was of the highest, his fellow officers considering him possessed of a high order of ability and discretion, spe- cially adapting him to perform impor- tant duties requiring capacity, profes- sional zeal and good judgment.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
DIVORCED FROM AN ALLEGED
 BARONET.

London, Aug. S.-In the divorce divi- sion of the high court of justice to-day Esther Wessel-Temple of Binghamton N. Y, secured a decree nisi in her suit against William Runcieman, the alleged baronet, who under the name of Sir Granville Temple married an English actress named Agnes Inglouville while his first wife, Esther Vessel, whom he had married in Binghamton, N. Y, was still living.
 Rucieman is undergoing a sentence of five years penal servitude for big amy, imposed upon him on June 22 for marrying Miss Inglouville.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
DEMOCRATS TO MEET.

Chairman James B. Martin of the democratic town committee is to issue a call for meeting of the committee to be held at the democratic headquar- ters in the Insurance building Thurs day night at o'clock. The committee will make arrangements for the vari- ous primaries, including state, congress sional and county, to be held in the near future. The county primary, which will select either Leigh or Tom linson delegates, is expected to be hotly contested.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
A ToothsOme Novelty

The food expert who invented grape- nuts. the pre-digested food. struck a public fancy. This novelty has had a. surprisingly rapid sale in this city. Many people do not eat grains for breakfast because they are too often poorly prepared, but Grape-Nuts, being thoroughly cooked and ready for the table, appeals to the good Judgment and taste of all particular people.
 Leading grocers sell Grape-Nuts.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09

George Maurice Ebers was born in Berlin on March 1, 1887, soon after the death of his father, banker and man. ufacturer well known in the city. Af- ter the usual course at the gymnasium, George Ebers read law at the Univer- sity of Goettingen. While he was a student he was attacked by danger- ous illness, and from this he never fully recovered. Finding that he was not well fitted for career in business life, he decided to devote himself to academic studies in Egyptology, a sci ence which had always attracted him. In the same house in which his mother lodged lived the brothers Grimm, the grammarians and folk lore students, and through Jacob Grimm young Ebers met Lepsius. The first fruit of Ebers' study was "A Princess of Egypt" The book was we'll received by the general reader, and that gave Ebers much en- couragement. He was appointed a pro- lessor in his own university in 1864, and soon afterward he married a daughter of the Burgomaster of Riga While on a journey to Egypt he was recalled to fill the chair of professor of Egyp- tology at the University of Lelpsic. He again visited Egypt in 1872. In 1876 appeared his novel "Uarda," "Homo Sum- ''The Sisters" and "The Elm peror'' were published not long after ward In all, he wrote sixteen histori cal novels, besides numerous fairy tales and biographies. He retired from active work in 1889.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
TO USE WATER POWER FOR
 JGJTTNG

Chicago, Aug. 8.-Contracts were let to-day which will result in supplying the cities of Tacoma and Seattle with electric light and power similar to, if not far in advance of. that now being furnished at Niagara. The Snequalamie Falls Power company has just closed contracts for the completion of it's plant. This is undertaken by Chicago firm
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
NAMED A BIG TREE.

California Pays Graceful Compliment
 to Connecticut. Governor Cooke yesterday morning received this letter:
 Hon. Lorrin A. Cooke, Governor of Connecticut:
 Dear Sir-I have the honor to inform you that a meeting of the board of commissioners to manage the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Tree grove, held last month, one of the trees of the Mariposa Big Tree grove was named Connecticut in honor of your state.
 Very respectfully,
 J. J. Lenne, Secretary. San Francisco, Cal, July 25, 1898.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
THEY AWARD HIM S32, 900.
Bridgeport Property Wanted for Fed
 eral Building.

Bridgeport Property Wanted for Fed
 eral Building.
 Bridgeport, Aug s,-The government must pay s52,O06 for the R. M. Judson property in Cannon street adjoining the federal building if it carries out the proposition to take it for the addition to the postoffice That is the award the arbitrators made at a meeting this morning.
 The $1O0,OO0 appropriated by congress for the enlargement of the government building has never been used, although 1t has been available for two years or more, because the government officials could not agree with MT. Judson and Radcliffe Hicks on price for the two lots east of the federal building.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
HELD FOR BURGLARY.

New Britain Aug, S.--In the city court to-day Guy Raymond. aged sev enteen, and Eugene Dayde, aged eigh- teen, were held for burglary at the house of Frank Wright on the Plain ville road. William Coffedy, aged six teen, charged with complicity in the crime, had his case adjourned under bonds of $1,000.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS LOADED.

Winsted, Aug. S.-Walter Bushnell, the eighteen-year-old son of Dr. Chas. Bushnell, was the victim of didn't know-it was loaded" shooting affair here yesterday. He, in company with a colored youth, Adolphe Skowe, were carelessly handling a double-barrelled shotgun, when he weapon was dis charged, the charge entering young Bushnell's shoulder, making serious but not fatal wound. Neither of the boys knew the gun was loaded.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
DRUGGIST TREFRY.

Bought Out Waterbury Drug Store
 Yesterday.
 T. c. Trefry, who for ten or twelve years was proprietor of the drug store on State street, corner of Edwards, this city, and who sold the stock and busi- ness to George A. Whitmore a year or more ago, returning then to his old home, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, owing to illness in his family, bought out yes- terday the drug business of George M. Ladd in Waterbury, corner of South Main and Washington streets. Mir. Ladd sold out because of ill-health. MT. Trefry has been visiting in this city for a few weeks past, and is quite large real estate owner here.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
GANDINrs LIFE SPARED.

Hartford, Aug. S.-The board of par dons came in at 2 o'clock this afternoon and remained in session until nearly 8 o'clock, when 1t was announced that the board had commuted the death sentence of Gandini to Imprisonment for life. The board then adjourned,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
ELEcTRoLYT1c MARINE SALTS

ELECTROLYTIC MARINE SALTS
 co.
 Boston, Aug. S.-The directors of the Electrolytic Marine Salts company held meeting at the office of the concern to-day and voted to call an informal meeting of the stockholders of the com pany August IS and a good meeting, which will be the legal one at Portland, August 19.
 The Boston meeting will be called In order to give the great majority of stockholders, who are residents of Bos- ton and vicinity, chance to be heard. The action taken at this meeting as to the future of the company will proba- bly, shape the action to be taken at the formal meeting in Portland.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
A GOOD SWIMMER.

Robert Baker, an eighteen-year-old boy, performed the remarkable feat on Sunday of swimming from Long wharf to Lighthouse Point. He covered the distance in about three hours. A party of friends in boats accompanied him.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
THREW H1MsELF UNDER ATRAIr

Providence, R. l.. Aug. 8.-John Dris- coll, tool sharpener, whose home was at White Rock near Westerly, this state, threw himself under the wheels of a moving freight train in the West
 Exchange street freight yard to-day
 and was killed. Two cars were de- railed. Driscoll left a note in a sa- loon near the scene of the accident in , which he intimated his intention of committing suicide, saying be was mot
 guilty The local police have no knowledge of what his statement can mean.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
$l.98

Look at that for S1.98. Bought them out of Green woods window. It's his Semi-AnnuaI End of Season Sale. Twice each year he dumps all his broken lots of Mems three and four dollar Shoes into his win dow at S1.90 per pair. You can find quite a sprink- ling of $500 shoes among them dandies, too --- only the style is not quite the latest.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
c. N. G.

State Encampment at Niantio This Month.
 Hartford, Aug. Ex-Governor Cooke said this morning that he had finally decided taht there should be an en- campment of the state militia at Man. tic in August. He has not fixed the ex- act date
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09
DIR. GEORGE BEERS IS DEAD.

Famous German Egytologist Passes
 Away. Munich, Aug. 8.-Dr. George Maurice Ebers, the famous Psychologist and novelist, died at Tutzing last evening, aged sixty-one years.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-10
COUNTY NEWS.
BreVitieS.

The County Teachers Institute will
commence in Cumberland Monday,
January 2, and continue several days.
Mrs. Barnhill, Of Westernport, re-
Gently incurred injuries by fall. due,
she alleges. to negligence of town au-
thorities, and claims 1919 damages.
tits related that when E. r. Johnston
was told that ''there are only two real
editors in Allegany county-himself
and }. j. Robinson" he YEARLY in
CURED" why drag in Robinson ?"
1t now develops that a great deal of
so-called Scotch Whiskey is made in
Germany, and Irish whiskey in Scot
land, but the nativity OF the "Old Brad
dock" has never and can never be i'm
peached. Its excellence for holiday
purposes and the Barley Malt for
medical uses are equally proof against
all questionings.
City attorney Moomaw, of Roanoke,
Va, has submitted an opinion in writ
ing IN which he pronounces uncon-
stltutional the "curfew'' ordinance
recently adopted by the Roanoke
city council. He holds that the ordi-
nance is in violation of the rights of
parents and guardians of minor chill
dren under sixteen years. Sounds
sensible.
The Georges Creek and Cumber-
land Railroad company is erecting a
new passenger depot at Midland.
One of governor-elect Theodore
Roosevelt's hyglenlc schemes contem-
plates the sale of pure beer only-to
people who indulge that beverage
What the great Rough RIDER wants
for his people, therefore, is made al
most right here by the Cumberland
Brewing company.
Das vas mean teng mining faller ded
en- Eckhart som TEN ago. Haze com
home poorly full of alkahal an mine
water an stock mining pick through
picter of hes vife's modder das vas
hangin on tie vail. Eft DIES show vat
vas in faller's mind ven haze vas sober.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-10
BreVitieS.

Monday afternoon, with several
inches of snow on the ground and the
wind full of it, comparison with
Cumberland showed a radical differ
ence. In the latter place there was
very little snow, and the wind though
cold, carried none. The thermometer
showed temperature 10 degrees cold
err than Cumberland-nearly a degree
for each 100 feet of altitude.
j. M. Irwin, of Huntington, Pa, has
opened a grocery store on the corner
of Main and Water streets, formerly
occupied by burst q Slick.
Council errs in permitting large,
heavy buildings to be placed on posts
They are unsightly and in several
ways unsafe-to people out as well as
inside. Quit it.
A moderate audience enioved
Havers' entertainment in the Glad
stone annex Tuesday evening. The
pictures were excellent, but the lee
turer should stop lecturng long
enough to take a heroic course in
United States English.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-10
Architect.
Legislative History Taken from the
Record.


ECKHART, MD Nov %, 1898
To the MINING JOURNAL.
Capt. T. F. McCardell is gentle
man who in no situation of life is
either ashamed or afraid of discharg-
ing his duty to his feilow-men. Hum
Die without being mean, simple in
manner but manly in his feelings, he
is one on whose word we can always
rely one, in fine, whom we could love
as a brother--thiS is the man who must
receive most credit for the Normal
School which is to be established at
Frostburg.
Mr.. Campbell denies that the meas
ure Was dead when the amendment
was tackled on to the appropriation
bill and says:
Had the amendment never been thought
of, never introduced and passed, the Normal
School would still have been located at Frost
burg, and that, too, with less expense and
trouble than the amendment entailed.
The first clause of the above para
graph Mr.. Campbell emphasizes by the
use of italics. But if the amendment
was as useless as he intimates, why
did he, Immediately after it passed the
House, telegraph to the Forum, over
his own signature rs we'll us these of
Messrs. Rowe and Leake, the glorious
news that they had secured the new
Normal School at Frostburg by tack
ing an amendment to the appropria-
ton bill which provided the means for
its erection
Mr.. Campbell insists that the meas
III of Innl he, .J,>,, :
was suggested. This opinion was not
shared by his colleagues, who were as
well posted as to the chances of its
passage as he. They sadly admitted
that it esas dead, and wanted to know
what was to be done.
Now let us see what chances there
were for it. The amendment suggest
ed and written by Capt. McCardell
was adopted by the House at the after
noon session. Thursday, March 81.
The General Assembly expired by con-
stltutional limitation at midnight on
the following Monday, April +. Ex-
cepting Sunday, three legislative days
were left for the passage of the bill
through both Houses. The House journal
shows that the bill passed that body at
the night session Friday, April |, and
was ordered to be sent to the Senate,
where, Mr.. Campbell knows, that every
bill must be read three times in each
House before final passage. and that no
bill can be read twice the same day
without the consent OF twO-thirds of all
the members elected to the body, enter
ed by yeas and nays upon the Journal
The question is-could it have com.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-10
After Legal Knowledge.

Bay yiminy, Aye mat Cumberland
lawyer odder day an Aye say to hem
-"how vas das ?"
An haze say-''vas vat ?"
''Es tie law zen force ven ct es obey.
ed alretfy!"
An haze say-"do yo read New Jork
YOu,nall"
mo, Aye read tie Vrostburg MINING
JOURNAL"
An haze say-"das joospaper vas all
right ven ct say ct es not tie law Diet es
zen force Et es tie yury."
Bay Jerusalem, Diet teckel mae lax
DICKENS, for Aye tank all tenn das vas
vat save Yoey Yoker from pootin
Vorum en- yail
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-10

The Salisbury (Pa.) Star keeps close
watch of journalistic affairs in this
county. Not only close, but kindly.
Under auspices of the latter quality it
said last week:
John Farrell late editor of the Frostburg
Forrw~, has resigned his position to superin-
tend the construction of railroad in Canada
FarrelPs successor Is George T. Goshorn. 1t
remains to be seen whether the new editor
will attempt to journalistically annihilate
editor j. B. Oder, Of the JOURNAL, as the other
editors of the Forum have tried to do and
made dismal failure of it,
1t will probably interest the Star to
learn that Henry F. Cook has issued
an ultimntum to the Forum to "sell out
or get run OUT Accordingly, he
offered money for the concern. But
the Forum wanted 'steen hundred, and
now Cook says he wont pay 100 per cent.
profit on a big drum cylinder, includ-
ing the dingus, to corporation that
makes only l per cent. on job work.
The JOURNAL is compelled to repeat
in terms of growing tenderness the in
junction--''let us hope for the best"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-10
TOWN AND VICINITY.
Married.

AT the residence of the bride S
mother Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 6,
1898, by Rev. D. w. Griffin. Miss Lena
Alberta Deremer, of this place, to Mr..
H. Benjamin Turner, of Cumberland.
Harry S. Keller furnished the wedding
music. The ring ceremony was used
in accord with the ritual read from a
handsome marital album. The bride
was attired in a gown of white organ
die trimmed with satin ribbon. After
the collation. was served Mr.. and Mrs.
Turner left on the evening train for
Cumberland and next day occupied
their own home in that city. The
bride is welknown and popular
vocalist with diploma as a result of
a two-years' course in the Boston
Conservatory of Music. Her father,
the late W. A. Deremer, was an edu-
Gator of high repute in several States.
Her mother, a talented lady. has been
Il resident of Frostburg a number Of
years. Mr.. Turner is trusted GUS
todian of an important department of
McMullens' est. Nicholas" store, Cum
berland, and young man of promise.
Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1898, by Rev.
D. w. Griffin, Miss Annie Hawkins,
daughter Of Richard Hawkins, to Mr..
Harry E. Williams, all of this place
Thursday, Dec. s. 1898, by Rev. d.
w. Griffin, Miss Rachel Folck, of this
place, to Mr.. Benjamin c. Filler, Of
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-10
Normal School News.

While some people are disputing
over the honors of obtaining the School
the architects are drifting into snarl
concerning the practicability of getting
the building within $4,000.
1t seems, however, that the archi-
tects We're not asked for modified
plans, as reported. This is establish
ed by Prof. Prettyman. the Secretary,
who writes:
The State Board of Education determined
to take more time to examine the several
plans and consider them. 1t did nothing
else with plans. Some newspapers made a
mistake, although | gave out the above in
writing, so that all parties interested might
be properly informed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-10
What is Wanted.

The dispatch quoted below appeared
yesterday:
Consul Skinner, at Marselles, has informed
the State department tn 1t if American coal
companies can supply the right kind of coal
at the right price-about S7.72 per ton, deliv-
cred in the coal bunkers at Marseiles, they
have before them the opportunity for new
and important market. The Consul says that
what is desired is coal resembling the best
Welsh, not more than | to I per- cent. ash, de-
veloping 5000 to $500 caloritic power and
containing the least volatile matter. The
high price at Marscilles is ascribed to the
shortage in the British output, owing to the
strikes.
There are two impressive hints in
that statement
l., That Georges Creek coal is what
the French want, and
., That strikes" abroad are 100 per-
cent. better for the people of Georges
Creek than "strikes" at home.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-12-10
Death ola Good Man.

William Staples, Ill for some time,
died at his home, near this place,
Thursday morning, Dec. s, 1898. He
was born in Temple township. Maine,
July 25, 1921, and had, therefore,
passed his nth year.
With the late A. G.. Greene he en-
tered the employment of the Fall
River Or. - Iron Works company in
lo43, a corporation whose members
subsequently originated and formed
the Borden Mining company. Mr..
Greene was assigned charge of the
latter's interests here in September,
1880, Mr.. Staples following two
months later and taking charge Of its
agricultural property-a trust he held
over IS years.
AT Providence, r. l., July 3, 1850,
Miss Patience d. Manchester became
Mr.. Staples wife, a union blessed by
five accomplished daughters Isabella
S., wife of Davisson Armstrong, resi-
dent agent Of the Borden Mining COM
pany Clara g., wife of Dr. j. Z. Ped
dicord, and Estella g., wife Of j. T.
Engleby, both of Roanoke. Va, and
Misses Annie E. and Minnie P, at
home.
Mr.. Staples had been member of
the English Lutheran church, this
place. since 1860, and in the edltice of
an institution he did much to sustain
the funeral services will be held next
Monday afternoon at 2 O'Clock.
Mr.. Staples enjoyed the implicit
confidence of his employers trust
he never betrayed by omission or
commission. This is strongly attested
10y the fact that after he had become
incapacltated tor business by the in
firmities of age, the company gener-
ously continued payment of his salary
to the date of his death. One who
knew HIM well said sententiously that
William Staples always told the
truth and paid his debts" He was.
moreover, practically sympathetic
with the poor, altogether leaving to
his children the priceless legacy of a
spotless name.