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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-02
GOSPEL MISSION.
What Has Been Done During January
and February.

After 20 years Of trying experience OF
Rev. S. F. Pearson in city and oospei
temperance mission work, the winter OF
1897 and '9S, has proved record breaker.
The applications for help in distress, and
relief in absolute necessity, have more
than doubled that of any previous year.
and in large number Of instances the
calls for assistance has come from those
who never before asked for aid. The fol-
lowing is but brief synopsis OF. the work
accomplished by and through the Gospel
Mission for the months of January and
February:
Sixty-one meetings have been held at
the Mission, and at these services large
numbers have signed the temperance
pledge and asked for the prayers of the
workers that they might become Chris
tians. Three thousand, six hundred and
thirty pounds of cooked and uncooked
provisions and groceries have been dis
tributed to the needy, 349 garments of
wearing apparel furnished to the suffer-
ing, 20 pairs of boots, shoes and rubbers,
provided for those who are entirely desti-
tute OF foot wear. Employment has been
secured for 35 persons, wood land coal
provided, and in some cases where they
had been without fire. Messrs. Pearson
and Dexter have made about 200 personal
calls upon the sick, afflicted, distressed
and dying, and given what comfort, con-
ISOLATION and encouragement,in their pow
or lay. Thirty-nine meals and II
lodgings have been providedEfor strang-
ers, way farers, sick and destitute, strand
ed in our city. Services have been held
at the Reform school, and hospitals, ID
funeral services conducted, 5 marriages
ceremoniesI performedl .and watchers for
the sick. and dying provided in IA cases.
By the kindness of John B. Coyle. ESQ.,.
we have been enabled to send five sick
persons to their homes or friends. BY
the death of the late Sylvester Mari, the
last member of the Gospel Mission COM
mittee has been taken from us and have
gone to their reward, the original COM
mittee. consisting of Ira +. Clark, Fred
erick Fox, Capt. N. G. Davis and Sylves-
ter Mari. The total receipts for the
months Of January and February have
been as follows:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-02
Disbursements for charity and

From these figures it will be clearly
seen that there is large deficit with the
balance on the wrong side, and as the
goth anniversary occurs in May, we do
earnestly appeal to all to assist in re-
moving the burden Of the heavy debt we
are now laboring under.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-02

Don't hurry. Take time to examine
the labels and trademarks of goods you
buy, and you will protect yourself from
cheap and worthless substitutes.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-02
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
To the HarbOr Commissioners
Of the civ OF Portland.

ID ESPECTFULLY represents the Maine Cen
HI tral Railroad company that it is the owner
OF land and flats extending from Portland
Bridge westerly to land of the Portland Gas
Light Company:
That it is DESTROYS of improving the same and
to fill. and make erectiOns thereon. Where
fore itrequeStS authority so to do, substantially
as shown on the accompanying plan.
Dated at Portland this 2Sth day of February
A. d. 1885,
(Signed) GEO. F. EVANS,
V. P. s. Gen'l Mana ger.
Office of the Commissioners of Portland
Harbor, No. Exchange street.
Portland, Me-. March 1. 1898
AN the foregoing petition 1t is ordered that a
" hearing be appointed for Thursday March
10 at o'clock p. M, at No. Exchange street,
where all parties interested may be heard and
plan OF the locality examined and it is fur
ther ordered that the above petition together
with this our order thereon be given by publ,
cation in the Daily Press. Argus. Express and
Advertiser for seven days previous to the
hearing.
(Signed) HENRY FOX.
SAML b. KELSEY,
G. III. FARLEY,
Harbor Commissioners.
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-02
BANGOR DEMOCRATS NOMINATE.

CIV OI1nOONAI6 20
Bangor. March 1.-The Democrats to-
night nominated John r. Mason for
mayor. There was no opposition. The
election occurs March 18th.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-02
LAW COURT.

These Rsscripts Were Received Yester-
day.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-02
sAGADAHoC COUNTY

The following rescripts were received
gastarda We
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-02
NOTES.

Spears dramatic company hold the
boards at the Portland theatre all next
week at popular prices.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-02

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The record-union., 1898-04-12

DA.CU tAe A@
u known as a box seat 1t is
) braced all around directly under the
seat, doing away with the rounds in
front, which are generally scratched
up very easily.
u Quartersawed oak was used in
the construction of this chair and it
is unusually strong. 1t has cane
seat, which is surrounded with
! wide frame, and the legs you will
notice are the pretty French style.
The polish is the very best-such
! as first-class factories only turn
out Price, $3.50
At So large arm chair to match
the above can be had Also made Of
solid oak, with cane seat
The record-union., 1898-04-12
FEDERATED TRADES.
A Busy Meeting Held by the Coun-
Gil Last Night.

The Council of Federated Trades held
a large and interesting meeting in Fed
Grafton Hall last night, President Code
gast presiding.
Representative Hicks from the Book
binders Union and the representative
from the Electricians Union were
seated.
An effort is on foot to organize local
union Of the tailors and also of the BIZ
cycle workers.
A communication was received from
the lronmolders' Union of Alhon, Mich,
to the effect that the Gale Manufacture
ing Company's goods of that place were
now produced under fair conditions.
An effort will be made to have all the
local electrical workers join union, and
also to have union musicians only en-
gagged on occasions where music is ne
cessary.
Beginning next Monday evening the
council will hold weekly debates, and
the subject for next Monday evening
will be: Can the States Penal Institu-
tions be Made Self-supporting? All
union men are invited to these meet
ings, which are expected to be both in
teresting and instructive.
Trade in most lines throughout the
city was reported by the several dele
gates as rather dull, but the conditions
favor Improvement.
The record-union., 1898-04-12
Articles OF Incorporation.

Articles of incorporation were yeSter-
day filed in the office of the Secretary
of State as follows:
The Reynolds Company. Formed to
carry on a real estate, insurance and
mining business. Principal place of
business, San Francisco. Directors
c. G. Reynolds, r. E. Douglass, w. u.
Shafer and H. V. Whitaker of San
Francisco and J. T. Hall of Oakland.
Capital stock $4,000. Amount sub
scribed, $4,000.
Victoria Mining Company. Principal
place of business, San Francisco. Di-
rectors-John J. Daley Of Gertrude,
Stephen T. Gage of Oakland Cyril c.
Juster of Berkeley, c. E. Hayes of San
Francisco and c. c. Wallace of Eure-
ka. Capital stock, 81 ,000,0 600. Amount
subscribed, $3.50.
Covina Valley Bank. Principal place
of business, Covina, Los Angeles Coun-
ty. Directors-C H Ruddock, James
H Adams, Anton P. Kerekhoff and
Samuel A. Overholtzer of Coyina, F.
NJ. Douglas of Duarte, J. H. Bartle OF
Monrovia and Herman w. Hellman of
Los Angeles. Capital stock, S25,OUO,
all subscribed.
California pulmonary Sanltarlum
Company. Principal place of business,
Los Angeles. Directors-F. E. Bake
man of Chicago, r. B. Dickinson, II. c.
Brown, w. c. Petchner and F. G. l3ry-
ant, all of Los Angeles. Capital stock,
S150.0O0. Amount subscribed, 5000.
Economic Light and Heat Company.
Principal place of business, Los Ange-
les. Directors-R. S. Lawrence, A.
Brogden, w. w. Brown and c. A. Rob-
inson of Los Angeles and A. S. Stinson
of Tropico. Capital stock, 100000, all
subscribed.
Co1ima Tract Water Company. Prin-
cipal place of business, Whittier. d.
rectors-Asa Douglas, John L. Gales,
William Cammack and H. S. Johnson
of Whittier and George w. Sibley Of
Los Angeles. Capital stock, Slu,OOO.
Amount subscribed, $4,000.
Western Paper Bag Company. Prtn-
cipal place of business, San Diego. pi-
rectors-M. A Wertheimer, l. Wer-
theimer and A. r. Hubbard of San
Diego and w. A Avery and e. t.
Wright of Los Angeles. Capital stock,
$4,000. all subscribed.
The record-union., 1898-04-12
TOO MUCH FOR KID PARKER.
THE PUGILIST LAST NIGHT AT
DEATHS DOOR.
Suffering From a Severe Attack OF
Inflammation of the
Bowels.

There will be no fight on THURSDAY
night between Kid Parker and Critic, as
has been announced.
At last accounts, received about mid
night last night from Parker's training
quarters, the pugilist was engaged III
a struggle with death, and was theh
nearly out The two physicians attend
ing him and his friends were hoping
almost against hope-that he might
rally and win out, but the prospect was
that he would hardly survive till TINS
morning.
The trouble with the young puglhst
is Inflammation of the bowels. Last
evening his stomach was bloated and
swollen to several times its natural size,
and he was suffering great agony
He was at ]. F. Heenan's resort on
Tenth street near Y, where he had been
doing his training, but if well enough
TO be moved this morning he Will prob
ably be taken either to the Sisters or
fhe County Hospital.
It seems that some four days ago Par
ker caught a severe cold While train
Ing. and the Inflammation settled in ms
stomach and bowels. He was delirious
all day yesterday, but when last heard
from last night he was sleeping under
khe influence of o0iates.
Even should he recover it will be
dong time before he will be able to again
enter the ring, if indeed he can ever
do so.
The record-union., 1898-04-12
BATTALION DRILL.
The Local Companies Made a Good
Showing Last Night.

Companies E and G of the Second
Infantry held battalion drill in Arm
ory Hall last evening, and there We're
several hundred very interested spec
tators.
Both companies We're out with we'll
filled ranks. Company G had the larger
number, so it was divided, and while
Captain Zittinger commanded the
larger section Lieutenant de Finness
was in charge of the other. Captain
Ed Lucy commanded Company E.
Colonel J. w. Guthrie commanded
the battalion. and for two hours the
men were put through the various evo-
lutions acquitting themselves in very
Icreditable manner. The men presented
very neat and soldier-like appear
ance, and the officers were well up in
their work
At the close of the drill the specta-
tors were invited down from the CALLER
les to join in social dance. The Regi-
mental Band was present and dis
coursed music for the dancers.
The record-union., 1898-04-12
SPRING ADVICE.
Some Timely Hints For All Who Are Go
ing Through This Trying Season.
Scientific Magazine.)


tScientific Magazine)
Be careful of your diet. You do not
need heavy food such as you require dur
ing the winter.
Spring may be beautiful but it IS
treacherous. Do not let it deceive you
into cold. fever, malaria or pneu-
mona.
DO not throw off your winter fannels
too early. 1t is better to suffer a little
inconvenience than to take cold.
If you feel tired, feverish or over
heated. do not rush off and take Spring
medicines" Cool yourself down and in
this way help your system and purify
your blood
If you feel hot and thirsty, do not
drink large quantities of water or other
long drinks. 1t is much better to take
a little pure whisky and water, which
will quench the thirst, tone the system
ana fortify against disease.
RenemDer that only pure whisky should
ever be taken into the system, and that
the leading chemists and scientists of
the present day unite in declaring that
Dutfy's Pure Malt is absolutely the purest
and best.
Do not permit any druggist or grocer
TO persuade you to take something else. y
Bear in mind that this is a medicinal
WHISKY and Tar superior for this reason,
while it costs no more.
II you use proper care and follow the
ADVICE above given, you may hope to go
thfough the spring in good shape.
The record-union., 1898-04-12
MONDAYS MUSTER.
An Easter-Egg Feast Lands Ah Linn
for Seventy DAYS.

All Lin. the Chinaman who on Sat
urday stole two eggs, of the value of
five cents, from the store of G.. \. My
ers at Twelfth and G. streets, pleaded
guilty in the City Justices court yes
terday morning and will 81 end
seventy days in the County Jail.
Frank Minton and Thomas Lawler
pleaded guilty to vagrancy charges and
were sentenced, the former to serve
forty, the latter seventy, days III the
County Jail.
William Moran pleaded guilty to
stealing carpenter tools, and viii spend
forty days in the County Jail.
Phil Hurrell entered plea of guilty
to a charge of battering Jim Riley, and
will remain for forty days in charge of
Sheriff Johnson
The record-union., 1898-04-12
Terror OF the Balkans.

The. news OF the CAPTURE of the motor
lous brigand, Captain Athanas, the ter
rOr or travellers in the Balkans, has
caused sigh of relief His career is the
most remarkable in modern brigandage
He had withdrawn himself from his
prohtable and romantic business some
time before his capture, and lived peace
fully as citizen at Kuslowitz. His past
did not, apparently, affect his social po-
sition in town which is somewhat re-
markable for its indifference as to the
antecedents of it's inhabitants, for the
one very good reason that he had given
up all the inconvenient habits associated
with his former adventurous life. He
tried even to make himself popular
among his neighbors, and gave his i'll
gotten gains-a veritable Robin Hood
for the benefit of the poor and distress
ed. His generosity with other peoples
money has not been without effect. Man
kind can sometimes be grateful, and
mankind in the shape of his fellow
citizens have petitioned by telegraph for
his release.
If he did not exactly make for himself
a name so deservedly famous as that OF
Rosa Sander and other great men OF
tIldl I'M, HIS Idlile HIS passed lar DeyOilu
the boundaries of the mother country.
The deed by which his memory will go
down to pOsterity is undoubtedly the
| holding up of the international eX-
press in 1891 from COnstantinople to vi
emma at the station of Tscherkeskoi.
close to the Turkish capital. The train
was derailed, and the passengers, under
the escort of the Berlin tourist firm of
Stangen, We're plundered and carried off
to the mountains to be held as hostages
until ransom was paid. Among them
was an Englishman. With the excep-
tion of four Germans and Jew, all
were subsequently released. With
sharp eye to business, the Jew, a rich
Berlin merchant named Moritz Israel,
was dispatched to Constantinople, and
brought the alarming news that the
hostages would be murdered unless a
ransom of 200, 600 francs was forthcom
ing. The German Government inter-
vened and finally paid the ransom. Later
some of the brigands were captured.
But Athanas managed to evade all pur-
suit-St James Gazette.
The record-union., 1898-04-12
IS NOT DYING.
Warden Au1I Was Walking About
Yesterday.

Warden Aull is not "at deaths door,"
as stated by the San Francisco Call"
yesterday.
Last nights Bulletin says that Mr..
Aull emphatically denies the statement
that he is near unto death
For some time past he has been a
sufferer from rheumatism at the Grand
Hotel in that city but he has been up
for several days. He was about the
hotel lobby yesterday.
The 'Record-Union' also has the as
surance of Brainard' F. Smith, Clerk of
the Folsom Prison, that Warden Aull,
though in poor health, has not been
dangerously i'll.
The record-union., 1898-04-12

Sold throughout the world Price, 25c. POTTER DRuo
AED CHEN. CORP, Sole Props. Boston.
rS-" How to Prevent and Cure Pmpies" mailed free
The record-union., 1898-04-12
CLIMATE NOT CHANGING.
The Oldest Inhabitants Stories
Are Not Always Correct.

A correspondent in Northfield, Mass,
desires our opinion on the question,
| Were the winters of fifty or seventy
five years ago much colder or were the
snowfalls deeper than at present? The
opinion is widely held that the winters
were colder and the SnoWfalls deeper,
but l can find nothing to warrant the
belief except that in the first part of
the century a much larger percentage
of the population lived in the hill towns
or in the interior, which are both colder
| than the valley or the coast towns"
On the general question as to ap-
preciable changes in climate the editors
opinion is that there has been no such
change in any respect whatever so far
as meteorology proper is concerned If
we divide our records of the weather
recorded in North America since the
days of Columbus into two periods.
viz, before and after the year 1900. we
shall find that every popularity, such
as remarkable storms, winds, rains.
floods, frosts, etc, recorded in the cur
rent century can be matched by a COR
responding remarkable event before the
year 1900 The popular impressions al
luded to by our correspondent result al
our records and especially of our mem
ories. There is a large class of persons
whose habits of thought are so crude
that when they experience any very re-
markable weather they jump to the
conclusion that the climate has chang
ed forgetting that they themselves
have had such a limited personal ex-
perience that they are not fair judges
Of %Ix.Ox L.
or of the climate of a century.
Our correspondent seems to suggest
that certain change in the habits of
the people, such as the removal from
the interior to the coast, or from for
ests to prairies or from country to city.
or vice versa, will partly account for
widespread erorrs in respect to the cli-
mate. The suggestion is excellent, but
the editor would be inclined to interpret
the phenomenon somewhat differently
The general movement of the popula-
ton in the past century has been from
the Atlantic States westward and from
the country to the city, or quite oppo-
site to the movements suggested by our
correspondent. In fact, we find no real
agreement in the so-called popular ira
ditiOns with regard to the weather We
have met with quite as many persons
who think the winters are more severe
as with those who think the winters
are less severe than formerly. Every
thing seems to depend upon how and
where the oldest inhabitant' lived
when he was q boy, as compared with
his present condition. The average eli
mate of New England so far as the
weather is concerned. has not appre-
ciably changed since the days when
their oldest forest trees We're young
saplings. Weather Review.
The record-union., 1898-04-12

S1.25, are probably the most eco
nomical floor covering a person can
buy
They are "springy" and have a
close pile to which dirt will not cas-
lily adhere. Chair feet, table legs
and footballs will quickly make de-
pressions in a cheap grade IF vel
vets, but not SO with this carpet
S1.25 is the regular price OF these
carpets, and they are worth every
cent of that price They are yours
now for S1.O0 the yard.
Your choice of ten new, fresh. up
to-date patterns that have just ar
rived.
The record-union., 1898-04-12
AT OAK PARK.
Easter Evening Exercises at the
Chapel There.

In the years to come delightful mem
cries will cluster around the hour spent
at Oak Park Chapel on Sunday evening.
1t was an object lesson of Sacramento's s
growing suburb.
Five years ago Rev. A. C. Herrick
organized a Sabbath-school in the new
Baptist Chapel which had been built by
the Sacramento Baptist Union, assisted
by friends in the city and at Oak Park
and surroundings. The school started
with twenty scholars; this year it num-
bers 215, and 172 were present on Easter
evening.
AS proof of the friendly feeling be-
tween the two congregations, Rev. MI.
Russell, pastor of the Methodist Church,
gave up his evening service and with
his people worshiped with the Baptists,
assisting in the exercises.
The prominent thought of the hour in
the songs and the recitations was The
Resurrection of Christ From the
Dead" Peace, joy and gratitude was
in the minds and hearts of all present.
The record-union., 1898-04-12
SHOCKING DEATH.
Yardmaster A. III. Starke Killed at
Red Bluff.

A. H. Starke, Yardmaster in the
Southern Pacific. Company's yards at
Red Bluff, was instantly killed Sunday
night while making up a freight train
Starke was experimenting the
switching His foot caught in the
guard-rail at a switch, and before he
could extricate it a car coming down
the track struck him down and passed
over him. Death was instantaneous.
Starke was up to a month ago Yard
master at Truckee
The record-union., 1898-04-12
WILL ATTACK THE LAW.
The Vagrancy Act to be Tested in
the Courts.

The vagrancy cases of John SuuJ
and George Wilson, the men who are
alleged to have buncoed James Kelly of
Truckee out of 800 last week. came
UP in the City Justices court yesterday
and were continued until this morning
The defendants attorney, J. F.
Brown, withdrew the former plea of
not guilty and interposed a demurrer
to all the statutory provisions of the
Act under which the complaints were
drawn. The demurrer will be argued
this morning.
The record-union., 1898-04-12
Mrs. Fairweather's Lecture.

Notwithstanding the several attrac-
tions elsewhere. the Tuesday Literary
Club had a good attendance last evening
on the occasion of Mrs. Henri Fair
weathers lecture on "Neibulunger
Lied
At . o'clock this afternoon Mrs. Fair
weather will deliver the last of her
series of musical lectures before the
club. Her SUBJECT will be Saul" They
have been a genuine treat to the mem
bers and all who have heard them.
The record-union., 1898-04-12
To be Buried at Astoria.

1t is understood that the remains of
the late Stanley M. Grimes, no lost
his life by the recent snowslide on
Chilcoot Pass, will be buried at Asto-
ria, Or Mrs. Grimes is now there with
her father, and Ernest and Allen
Grimes are on their way hence from
this city.
Deceaseds brother-in-law, G. Harra-
den, whose home is at Dyea, has start
ed for Astoria with the body.
The record-union., 1898-04-12
How He Shot

A Texas military company was out
on the range recently, practicing at
rifle shooting. The Lieutenant in COM
mand suddenly became exasperated at
the poor shooting, and, seizing a gun
from one of the privates, cried sharply:
"Tll show you fellows how to shooti"
Taking a long aim, and a strong aim,
and an aim altogether, he fired and
missed. Coolly turning to the private
who owned the gun. he said:
That's the way you shoot
He again loaded the weapon and
missed. Turning to the second man
in the ranks, he remarked:
That's the way you shoot"
In this way ne missed about a dozen
times, illustrating to each soldier his
personal incapacity, and finally he ac-
cidentally hit the target.
And that he calculated, handing
the gun back to the private. lis the
way | shoot''-Los Angeles Express.
The record-union., 1898-04-12
Rosa DingIeY's Mentality.

A number of witnesses were exam
ined in Judge Hughes court yesterday
in the matter of the petition for the
appointment of S. B. Smith as guar
dian of the person and property Of
Miss Rosa Dingley, who is alleged to
be incompetent to care for the inheri-
tance derived from her fathers estate.
The case was not concluded.
The record-union., 1898-04-12
Not an Obstruction.

The complaint made by Chief En-
gineer Guthrie against w. F. Peterson
alleging that the latter maintained
an obstruction over a sidewalk in the
alley between Sixth and Seventh, ] and
K streets, was heard by Justice Davis
yesterday, and Peterson was acquitted
The alleged obstruction consists of
a balcony or shed that projects over
the sidewalk and is supported on posts.
The court did not think it amounted to
an obstruction
The record-union., 1898-04-12
Petition to Sell Personal Property.

Theresa Tietjens, through her attor-
neys, Holl & Dunn, has petitioned the
Superior Court for permission to sell
fifteen shares of the stock of the Gas
and Electric Light Company of San
Francisco belonging to the estate of
C. Chauncey Tietjens, deceased, Of
which she is executrix. The hearing is
set for April odd