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The Portland daily press., 1898-04-04
MILLINERY OPENING.

Miss A. B. Warren's millinery opening
will take place today and tomorrow at
her store No. 23l Congress street. The
store will be open both this and tomorrow
evenings.
The Portland daily press., 1898-04-04
woMEN's MAINE INDIAN AssooIA
TION.

The regular monthly meeting of the as
ISOLATION will be held in the yestry of
Second Parish church tomorrow afternoon
at o'clock.
The Portland daily press., 1898-04-04
THE PRESS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TO-DAY.

Eastman Bros & Bancroft
Owen. Moore & Co.
j. L. Libby Co.
RineS Bros. Co.
j. E. Palmer
Falmouth and Freeport Steamers.
Wasburn Crosby Co.
Fosters Dye House.
Messengers Notice.
Kindergarten.
Wanted-Farm help,
Casco Bay Steamboat Co.
Onion Safe Deposit and Trust Co.
u. S. Proposals.
Atkinson Furnishing Co.
Portland Yacht Club. GN2
f. o. Bailey Carriage Co.
New Wants, To Let, For Sale. Lost Found
and similar advertisements will be found under
their appropriate heads on page 6.
The Portland daily press., 1898-04-04

S. S. Partisan sails April 9. For
tickets, apply to Z. P. McGowan, 400
Congress street.
The Portland daily press., 1898-04-04
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Meeting of the City Government Commit
tee Saturday.

The committee on public buildings met
at noon Saturday.
Bids for doing the plumbing in the
Emerson school were opened as follows:
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THE CHURCHES.
Remarks Made by DIR. jenkins at State St.
and Rev. Mr. Perkins at First Parish.

At State street and First Parish
churches yesterday the pastors, Rev. DR..
Jenkins and Mr.. Perkins referred to the
war crisis.
The Portland daily press., 1898-04-04
STATE STREET.

la l. Ii . 4hl1lI
At State street church yesterday morn
| ing. just before the prayer, Rev. DR.. Jen-
kins, the pastor, said: There is but one
thought probably in the minds of US all
and that IS the sad and perilous condition
of the nation. This Sunday is the first
day of Passion Week, a week of suffer
ing. The nation seems to be not only on
the verge of q wreck, but months and
possibly years of suffering. 1t was mat
ter of great establishment to the speaker
that people could speak as glibly as thsy
do of war and especially when we re-
member what we suffered years ago; that
whatever the issue of the war might be
it would entail great loss Of life and cost.
He recognized the necessity of war. 1t
has been a great agent in human disci-
pline and there are those who say that
every generation needs training in thister-
rible school. However that may be we
should never go to war unless it is una
yoidahle. The nation seems to be taking
a new and very m omentous departure.
We have had our wars for Independence,
lOI tllC liOCuOlA VI UilO oCuo5 ~ &SiNsNSA-,"~
enlargement, and for the nations life.
We are now in danger of being involved
in war with nation that has done us
no harm, leaving out of account wholly
the Maine disaster. The troubles in Cuba
have disturbed business and brought
losses. Our civil war produced riots in
the manufacturing districts of England.
We didn't admit England right to inter
fere on that account. Mr.. Olney, MIR.
Cleveland's secretary Of state, lately de-
livered lecture at Cambridge as to the
isolation of America, saying Washing
toms advice to. avoid sntangling alliances
suited the infancy, not the manhood of
the Republic; that it was time for the
United States to take its place among the
nations and shape the affairs of the
world. Whether the time had come for
this he did not know; 1t was grave mat
ter for those in authority to decide. We
have great occasion to be thankful that
we have President who has exhibited
splendid self mastery, and we should GER
tainly should pray for him and his adj
yisers.
AT FIRST PARISH.
At the close of Rev. Mr.. Perkinss SER
mon at the First Parish yesterday morn
ing, Mr.. Perkins spoke of Palm Sunday
and the momentous condition of the
country in which it seems SO easy for so
many to talk fippantly and carelessly
about war. 1t may, need be, at times,
tnat war must come. Ebut it always brings
great woe on him by whom the offence
cometh. 1t might be foolish to cry peace,
peace when there is no peace, but it is
surely criminal and the merest travesty
on patriotism to cry war when there is
no war. 1t is to be hoped that the spirit
that comes to us II the Eastertide in
which we celebrate the life and influence
of the great Prince of Peace, will find it's
place in our N inds and hearts and rea-
son, and not be made of no avail through
our passions, our enyies and our in
sanities.
The Portland daily press., 1898-04-04
As i'm Her Youth
She Is Kept in Good Health by
Hoods Sarsaparllla
A Woman's Experience with This
Great Medicine.

A Woman's Experience with This
Great Medicine.
81 have had Hoods Sarsaparilla in my
family for many years and have been kept
in good health by its use. A few years
ago had heart trouble and I was adj
vised not to work too hard, as it was q
critical period in my life. This was i'm
possible as was not able to hire my work
done. began taking Hoods Sarsaparilla
and it kept me in good health all through
this period. was able to do my house
work besides running sewing machine,
as I did In my younger days. Whenever
get to feeling tired and languid and
cannot sleep at night I get bottle of
Hoods SarsaparilIa and 1T does me good.
My son had erysipelas and was weak and
without appetite. After taking Hoods
he was well and able to work every day."
MRS. ALMEDA HILL, Lyman, Maine.
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Is the best-in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
: r.
The Portland daily press., 1898-04-04

1t was voted to award the contract to
Wiley & Calhoun.
Voted that the agent of City hall be
authorized to notify the Boston Star
course that no reduction can be made
for rent of the hall next season.
1. II. Baker was elected engineer at the
High school.
Freeman Jordan was elected janitor of
East End Long Island school house.
Samuel Pettengill was elected janitor
of Cliff Island school house.
Voted that Mr. Barker be authorized to
contract for a fence in front of the alley
between the Veteran Firemen and Ward
ward room.
Voted that Mr.. Barker be authorized to
contract for temporary wooden fence
to protect the lawn in front of the Audi
torium. e.
Voted to adjourn until IL clock Mon
day, when a janitor for the North school
will be elected.
The Portland daily press., 1898-04-04

Middle aged man and wife without children, to
york on farm. Apply with reference, Box 40,
Portland Postad1ces apr4d1w
The Portland daily press., 1898-04-04
PORTLAND YACHT CLUB.

The regular monthly meeting of the Portland
Yacht Club will be held at the club house on
Merchants wharf on Wednesday evening
April 9th, at o'clock.
apr4d3t CHARLES F. FLAGG, Sec'y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-24
.RIOTING AT SHANGHAI.
French Fire on the Natives
Killing Fifteen.

San Francisco, Aug. 24.-Serious riot
ing has occurred over French conces-
sions in Shanghai's suburbs, attended
by serious loss of life. According to ad-
vices brought by the steamer Belgic the
trouble grew out of the failure of the
negotiations by the French municipal
ity to secure the Ming Pc joss house
and an unused building on the French
concession for a proposed school, hospi-
tai and abbatoir. After lengthy parley-
ing with unfruitful results the Taotai
seized the cemetery on July II and pull
ed down the walls.
The force employed in the work in
cluded landing parties from the French
gunboat Eclaireur and the steamer
Oceanien, together with police and
French volunteers mum bering altogeth-
er 200. The Ming Po population was
greatly wrought up and after all the
shops had been shut up an attack was
made on the police station and the
south end of the French quarter. The
Frenchmen opened fire on the mob,
killing IS and wounding % others, who
were taken to the hospital, one of them
in a dying condition. The situation is
serious. All the Ming Pc servants have
been ordered to leave the French en-
plOyS.
Following the attack on the French
station $50 men were landed from the
Italian man of war Marco Polo. The
Shanghai volunteer corps was also call
to hold themselves in readiness for an
other outbreak The Sikh police fully
armed are holding the bridges between
the English and French concessions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-24
NEW WORKERS ARE CADS
According to the Stories Related
About Them by Kansas
Volunteers,

Harry E. Wagner, a Topeka boy who
enlisted in the Twentieth Kansas regi-
ment. in a letter to H. o. Alexander in
this city tells of the raid made on the
New York regiment by the men of the
Kansas, Iowa and Tennessee regiments
in camp at the Preside in San Francis
co. He says:
We have just arrived at our new
camp, and to say we are very grateful
for the change does not express it at
all. We now have good tents, tight
board floors and ticks filed with straw
like home, and the only thing we have
to kick about is the grub, we don't get
enough to eat and many of the boys
go to bed hungry at night. We have on
our right the First New York regiment
and just north of us is the First Ten
nessee regiment and east the Iowa reg
iment. The New Workers are a peculiar
lot of fellows, and are so impressed
with themselves that they will have
nothing to do with any of the rest of
the boys, so the boys from Tennessee.
Iowa and Kansas regiments are going
out tonight to tear down their tents.
and as they are about starting I will
wait their return before finishing this
letter Well, they have returned, and
their mission was a success from eve
~ standpoint. The report that not a
tent is standing and most of the poles
broken in two. Some of the boys re-
turned with broken fingers broken ia
ces, and God only knows how many
broken noses. 1t may be necessary to
repeat the lesson before they will show
US the necessary decency we demand,
but we can do it, and WILL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-24

! was. I do know, however, that I have
malignant and vindictiVe enemy, but
who this person is cannot say. All
that know is that she has brought my
name into this horrible tragedy to in
jure me.
Mr.. Dunning idolized his wife and
his little girl, and his despair was pitt
able when they left him and went east.
He often said TT would be far better
for them if I were dead
He carried life insurance of $4,000.
and often went without food to meet
the premiums, so that his family would
be provided for after his death.
I expected every day during his busi-
ness troubles in San Francisco that he
would kill himself. He drank to drown
his sorrow, and it was at this time that
Mrs. CORDIALLY befriended him, both fin
ancially and with encouraging, hope
full words.
IF I am to be arrested the officers
Will have no difficulty in finding me. I
admit frankly that have d number of
Mr.. Dunning's letters to me, and 1 as
sure you they will not be destroyed If
the proper authorities want them they
can have them. 1t is impossible for me
to believe that Mr. Dunning has
charged me with this atrocious, diaboI-
lcaI crime of sending poisoned candy to
his wife I am prepared at any mo-
ment to tell the story of my life, be-
cause there is nothing I need conceal
The publication of every act of my life
would not bring a blush of shame to
my brow, or cause my husband, son or
sister to feel the slightest sense of
shame
Mr. Botkin added this supplemental
statement to that of his wife:
Il know that my wife is innocent of
any crime or wrOngdOing. She is in
capable of committing the atrOcious
murder of two innocent women, neither
of whom she knew"
Mrs. BotIxin is about As years old,
with black hair, and is short and quite
stout. She talked very rapidly and
nervously, rocking to and fro in her
chair and tanning herself incessantly.
She spoke without hesitation or re-
straint and appeared anxious to give eV-
cry detail which would in any manner
serve to eXtricate her from the unenVi-
able position in which she is placed. Her
references to Dunning were all in the
kindlieSt tones, and she seemed to sin
cerely sympathize with him in his great
distress and sorrow.
Mrs. BOtkin's Night in Jail.
Stockton, Cal. Aug. 24.-Mrs. Botkin
spent a rather restless night in her cell
in the county jail here last night, after
having been arrested for the alleged
murder of Mrs. Dunning and Mrs.
Deane. She had nothing to say, how
ever, and positively refused to see re-
pOrters.
DR.. Stone who had been giving Mrs.
Botkin morphine for her nerves inform
ed the jaiIer that she had enough of the
drug to kill her If she should take it all
at once, so it was taken from her short
ly after her arrival at the Jail. The ac-
cused woman was taken from the Jail
in this city this morning in a hack and
driven to the Southern Pacific station
where she left for San Francisco on the
rs train accompanied by Chief of Po-
lice Gall of Stockton, Detective Gibson
Of San Francisco and her husband.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-24
HINTS TO POPULISTS.
Morton Frewen Says Currency Ex-
pansion and National Expan-
sion Belong Together.

Denver. Aug. 24.-BIr. G. G. Norrick
of this city has received a letter from
Mr.. Morton F'rewen, the noted British
bimetaIlist in which he expresses the
hope that the party in this country
which favOrs currency expansion will
also favor national expansion. Re-
garding the currency experiment in IN
dia he says:
Il understand that the commission
now sitting-a commission carefully
packed with cOmplacent officials are yet
unable to get any evidence which they
dare print which favors the gold stand
ard in India. 1t cannot then be very
long before the Indian mints reopen
Mr.. Frewen also says China will alb
sOrb an enormous quantity of silver 'if
the trade of those myriads is about to be
unlocked by modern conditions of trans
pOrtatiOn" -"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-24
PLACES FOR KANSANS.
Young Tom Ryan Made Assistant
Quartermaster Sergeant

Washington, D. c., Aug 24-The
president has appointed Thomas Ryan,
Jr., of Kansas, to be assistant quarter
master sergeant Of volunteers, with
rank of captain. Mr.. Ryan is a son Of
Thomas Ryan, first assistant secretary
of the interior. He has been assigned
to duty at Montauk Point.
Fred K. Brown, of Blue Rapids. has
been appointed to be inspector of the
internal revenue stamp plant to be put
in The Hall Lithographing Co, printers.
at Topeka. Mr.. Brown is a brother of
c. J. Brown, and a son-in-law of Judge
Albert H. Horton. He will receive a
salary of 81, 500 a year
Frank Hendricks, of Danville. Ill has
been appointed to be stamp counter at
Halls, with a salary of $500 a year
A. H. Burtis, of Garden City has
been appointed to be a special agent of
the land department at a salary of
81 600 a year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-24
THE DARK SIDE
OF Territorial Expansion as Seen by
Henry Labouchere.

London, Aug. 24.-Henry Labouchere,
in Truth, says that a large standing
army would be necessary if the United
States were to embark on a foreign pol
icy of annexation.
This army he declared, would
soon crush out democracy at home and
in the end some popular general would
feel it his duty to save society by max
ing himself such a president as the con-
stitutiOn never contemplated.
THE old world" he continues, lin it's
dealings with the new, assumes an at
titude of condeScension as ridiculous as
it is unwarranted. One of the salient
features of the late war was the manly
honest, generous and chivalrous conduct
of the United States government, forces
and people from the beginning to the
end of the campaign. 1t is only just
to express the general feeling of admir-
alton which the new chiValry has Gre
ated throughout Europe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-24
OH. WHAT GRIEF.
But You Always Have to Have It in
Getting Up Carnival

1.-The fireworks of the Karnival Knights
have commenced" sighed President c. K.
Holiday, Jr., yesterday afternoon as he
watched advertising thermometer
climb up to 125 fiat in the shade. 1.-The
company that received the order for our
200 red, white and blue umbrellas got the
order completed, and 20 minutes after they
had shipped the umbrellas the factory
burned down. Now here comes word that
a woman tried to pull the banner that
hangs across Kansas avenue down and
she lost the top of her buggy in the at
tempt and now she will bring suit against
the Knights for new horse, buggy and
harness."
The banner will be the death of us,
said John McManus. THE ropes that hold
the banner got mixed with the telegraph
wires and the wires were all tied up in a
bunch. The messages got mixed and a
man that ordered a bicycle by. telegraph
got case of 20 year old rye. He is not
kicking but the man that ordered the rye
is
The two hard working Knights mopped
their browS and when someone stepped IN
and asked if that was the headquarters
of the Knights of Labor there was trOu-
BILE
DR.. Ashton's tights that he will, or was
to, wear in the grand ballet of the min
strels tomorrow night were left out in
the rain last night and shrunk 50 that
a pair must be secured, and there is
hardly time before the show. but it has
been promised that DIR. Ashton Will ap-
pear If he has to wear flour sacks for
boomers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-24
AMERICAN PLAN.
Public Schools at Santiago to
Open September 15.
All Sectarianism is to Be EIim-
mated.
1O7 BAGS OF MAIL
Arrive From the u. s. = The
First in Ten Days.
EmbarkatiOn of Spanish Troops
Proceeding Rapidly.

Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 24.-The con-
ference between General Wood, military
governor of Santiago, and the local au-
thorities with reference to opening the
public schools, has resulted satisfac-
torily and places will be ready for four
thousand children on September Is. The
salaries of the school commissioners
have been fixed at somewhat reduced
figures; the element of sectarianism has
been eliminated from the mana cement
and an American basis of education has
been proposed.
The San Juan arrived today from
Guantanamo Bay, bringing two COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-24

panies of Hoods regiment and 10Y bags
of mail delivered there by the Fern
from Key West. It was the first mail
matter received for ten days. When
the Fifth regular infantry arrives for
garrison duty in the city, taking the
place of Hoods regiment, that will be
transferred to San Juan de Porto Rico,
Cranes immunes will be assigned to
guard the Spanish prisoners of war.
The embarkatiOn of the latter con-
tinues. Today 1900 sailed by the trans
port MontevideO and 900 by the trans
port Pedro de Satrustogui Thirteen
hundred will leave by the transport
Leon tomorrow.
The Spanish general, Linares, whom
General Toral succeeded in command
at Santiago prior to the evacuation,
left by the Pedro de Satrustogui. There
was a great demonstration <by the Span
ish soldiers on his departure.
The United States transport Mime
waska left today with 95 men of the
Thirty-third Michigan volunteers, the
Second regular cavalry, a balloon de-
tachment of the engineer corps and
about 250 men of the First District of
Columbia volunteers.
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Mr.. Botkin remained with her for a
time converSing in a low tone When
he stepped to the door of the office for
a moment, her face, which had been
heavily yelled from the moment she
was ready to leave her own room for
the JAIL sank on her breast and she
raised it only when her husband stepped
back to her chair and she started for
the female department of the Jail
Detective Gibson said that he would
return to San Francisco with his pris-
oner and she would there await the ar
rival of Detective McVey of Delaware
to be no other woman arrested, and
that there was no other woman impli-
Gated in the crime as far as he had been
able to learn. The Delaware warrant
is for Mrs. Botkin alone.
Mrs. BOtkin's Statement.
Stockton, Calf, Aug. 24.-Previous to
her arrest Mrs. Ada Botkin made the
following statement regarding the ac-
cusation that she was responsible for
the Dunning poisoning:
'I never saw Mrs. Dunning. I was
not her enemy. 1 would not have mar
ried Dunning had he been free to wed.
When he was in Salt Lake, Mr.. Dun
ming sent me an anonymous letter
which had been received by his wife, in
which the writer charged that he
Ounning) was devoting all his time to
a woman at No. 927 Geary street, San
Francisco. Mrs. Dunning sent the let
ter to her husband and he sent it to me
with the inscription, You have a dead
ly enemy
THAT is the only letter other than
those of his own writing, that I ever
received from Mr.. Dunning after he left
San Francisco, and it is also true that
we were friends, trusted and tried, but
nothing more.
''I do not know who wrote these anon
ymous letters to Mrs. Dunning, and
have no suspicion as to who the author
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-24
MUSTER OUT ORDER.
First List includes Eight Regi-
ments of Volunteer Infantry.

Washington, Aug 24-Orders have been
issued for mastering out the following
regiments:
First Vermont First Maine, F'ifty-sec-
ond Iowa, Sixth Pennsylvania, Fifth In
diana, Second New York, Second Ne
braska, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh
Indiana, all volunteer infantry; also bat
terry of Ohio light artillery, First Illinois
volunteer cavalry batteries A and B,
Georgia light artillery, TWenty-eighth In
diana light battery and the New York and
Pennsylvania cavalry troops now in Porto
Rico Other orders to muster out troops
will be announced as soon as definite de-
cisionS are reached.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-24
UNCLE SAM IN FOR 1T.
Philippine Insurgents Will
Fight if Troops Are With
drawn.

Manila, Aug. 24-At a conference to-
day between the insurgents and the
Americans the former declared emphat-
icaIIy that they were willing to cooper
ate with the Americans and to surren-
der their arms promptly if assured that
the islands would remain either an
American or British colony or under
the protectorate of the United States
or Great Britain.
Otherwise the insurgent leaders as
sert that they would not dare disarm
but most positively refuse to do so.
They threaten a fresh rebellion within a
month if the Americans withdraw.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-24
IS GOVERNOR.
Transfers His Command to Ma
jOr General Otis.

San Francisco, Aug. PA special
from Manila says:
General Merritt has assumed the
governors duties and transferred the
command of the Eighth corps to Major
General Otis.
Brigadier General H. G. Otis, of Cali
fornia. has been ordered to report to
General Anderson and General MacAr-
thur has been assigned to command the
Second division Colonel Ovenshine of
the Third regulars will command the
brigade in place of General Macarthur