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The Portland daily press., 1899-08-16

Miss Dora Roberts OF Lewiston has bean
New London, ". IL.
Miss Lora v. King ofnI.ewiston has
been elected assistant In the high
school at Skowheaan.
Col. James 4. Small Of Lewiston, IL
seriously III with consumption. He had
a severe hermorrhage Sunday.
Mrs. Mary SalinA Read Of the Old La
dies home at Auburn. who is So years
dedicaaion OF the new public library at
Monmouth.
The fleh and gamescommission has re-
Of Judge John Willis of New York, who
has been In the Maine woods for several
weeks. for killing deer in close time.
Judge Willis was arrested BY game War
den Robert Phillips, superinteudeu OF
the Megautic Dish and game association.
de paid q fine Of $40 and costs.
Rev. Sister justine Fisette, assistant
superioress Of the Sisters OF Charity Of
st. Bonifacs, Montreal. has celebrated the
tiftieth anniversary Of her eutry into
religious lifs She is 20 years OF age ard
was born at Contrecoeur. She entered
the order August Z. l6l9. She nrst went
TO the He'd River I'm a canoe. covering the
distance in three months.
Mrs. Jos. s. Palmer who resides with
her two sons on King street. st. John, ".
B., has discovered chat she is direct
heir to the property now valued at two
hundred million dollars granted by the
United States Governments to the heirs CT
General Hugh Mercer. who died In 17i7 OF
wounds received at the battle Of Trenton.
Her maiden name was Margaret Mercsr
and her grandfather was General MERGERS
br other. Mrs. Palmer's sisters are Mrs
Louis Carvell of Prince Edward Island,
aud Mrs. Purvis, Of Washington, Miss
brother lives ON the st. John River.
Recently a meeting of the Mercer heirs
was held In Chicago. when a committee
was appointed 20 90 to Springfield,
Ohio, to look into the report of p. z.
Mast, who was appointed executor of the
Mercer estate in 1887, and who died
suddenly.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-16

whether the assassin OF Labori was the
hired tool of oonspirstors or simply q
weak man whose mind had been so
wrought upon by the Drefyus oontro-
yersy that he thought he might be doing
his country service by putsing Dreyfus's
counsel, or Dreyfus himself out Of the
way. (for there is some reason to believe
that he believed the man he fired at was
Drafyus himself) is yet to be proved.
Either theory is tenabls on the facts at
hsnd. There are undoubtedly plenty OF
men In France who would have no hssita-
tlon in conniving at murder to secure a
new convistion of Dreyfus because they
live In constant fear that until he is out
Of the way and the agItatiol. over him has
ceased their own wicked part in the con-
spiraoy which everybody believes to have
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-16

been ocnoooted against him may come
to light There are, too, undoubtedly. In
France as well as In every country, plenty
Of weak minded, emotional men who
might have their heads turned BY
such controversy as has been goins
on over Dreyfns until they had come to
teiieve that the killing OF the cause Of the
agitation or his defenders might be JUS
tiflable and even praisswoathy. In times
Of public excitement the emotional
cpank is always dangerous factor.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-16
How's This !?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case Of catarrh that ennnot Do cured by
HalPs Catarrh Cure.
+. u. CHENEY s. CO.. Toledo. o.
We, the undersigned, have known r. j..
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe him
perfectly honorable In all business transactions
and financially able TO carry out any obligations
made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo
o., WALDING, KINNAS u MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, o.
HalPs Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces Of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price 7hes Sold By all Druggists,
Hairs Family Pulls are the BEST.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-16
-Tho Kennebeo JournaI oalls attent

The Kennebec Journal calls attention
to the great number of tragedies that go
on one by one without attracting much
attention, and cites the news of last
Monday mornings papers. Three girls
drowned at Bremen; two men drowned
and perhaps murdered at Stetson; three
human bodies found floating in Portland
harbor; a Biddeford man drowned while
bathing; to say nothing of burglaries, In.
cendiary fires. CRAZY men ut large. etc.
made up total half as large as the loss
of life at Bar Harbor the week before.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-16
TWO brass cannon owned hx the Sta

Two brass cannon owned by the State
have bean loaned to the city of Calais.
They have injured a number OF people
aud last Fourth of July were the ceuse of
the death of one man. and Adjutant
General richards has wisely concluded to
call them in. They are both six pound
brass Eoannons and after being cleaned
and polished will be placed on either side
OF the main entrance to the Capitol. They
will be on the last terrace and win make
q very pretty decoration.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-16
There is understood to Re some hitch ii

There Is understood to he some hitch in
the peace commissions negotiations with
the Sultan of Sulu. One story is that
His Majesty has not enough coniidencs
wants bis money down. Another Is that
he wants more subsidy than has been
offered and viii make fuss II he doesn't
get II. According TO all accounts 1t viii
be altogether cheaper to raise his subsidy
than to light him.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-16

The American soldier who was tortured
to death by the Filipinos has turned up
alivc aud we'll In u Western town. 1t
seems that he was invalided home. Too
bad that he can't be worked any longer
to show the savagery of the Filipinos.
We shonlin't wonder IL he found himself
denounced now as traitor.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-16

The Augusta people are keeping the
Mother Superior Of the local convent busy
teaching them French in preparation for
the Paris Exposition. AS all America
seems to be going. French may as we'll
be suspended In Paris during the show.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-16

The Lubec Herald quotes Hannibal
Hamliu, who. in a letter printed In
1897. said that by all International
law 1t vas an admitted fact that not
only Campobello' but Grand Manan
belongs to the United States. There is
still an unadjusted boundary in Passa,
maquoddy bay; but there Is no hope that
the adjustment will bring those islands.to
Maine.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-16

"A New York woman has taken out a
State license which permits her to shoot
one deer in Maine in September. Those
going abroad In the woods in that month
should remember this.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-16

Patrons OF the PRESS who are leaving town
temporarily may have the addresses of their
papers changed as often as they may desire by
notifying the Office
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-16

Subscribers whose papers are not delivered
promptly are requested to notify the o1lce Of
the DAILY PRESS. No. VI Exchange street.
Portland. Me.
The Portland daily press., 1899-08-16

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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22
IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Addresses to the Queen in Reply to
Speech From Throne Adopted.

LONDON, Feb. 21.-The address to
the Queen in reply to the speech from
the throne at the opening of Parlia-
ment on February It'll was adopted in
the House of Commons to-day without
division.
BY a vote of 200 against 12a the
House rejected motion to remove the
Bishops from the House of Lords on
the ground that their presence there
is incompatible with their religious du-
ties
The debate, was notable for a re-
markable proposal by Lord Salisbury's
son, Lord Hugh Cecil, Conserv alive
member of Parliament for Greenwich,
who, in quantity amusing speech
moved an amendment suggesting that
instead of removing the Bishops il
would be preferable to create the great
non-conformist preachers life members,
and so make the House of Lords more
representative of the educated classes
Arthur J. Balfour, the Government
leader described Lord Cecil's proposal
as embarrassing and unconventional"
and urged him to withdraw the amend
ment.
The House was highly amused at the
incident, and the amendment was neg
atived without division.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTIONS.
Republicans Garry Philadelphia by
an Immense Plurality.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21.-COrOner
Samuel H. Ashbridge, Republican, was
to-day elected Mayor of Philadelphia
to succeed Charles F. Warwick by a
plurality of at least 100000 over DR.. W.
Horace Hoskin, Democrat, and the Pro-
hibition, Peoples and Single Tax can
didate.
Mayor-elect Ashbridge's plurality will
be about $1,000 in excess of that re-
ceived by Mayor Warwick in 1895, when
a total of PA. 143 votes were cast fer
him and his Democratic opponent. ex-
Governor Pattison.
In Lebanon DR.. Samuel Weise. an
anti-Quay Republican, was elected
State Senator ITO succeed General J. p
S. Goblin, Lieutenant Governor of the
State, by an estimated majority of be-
tween 1000 and 5000 over Alfred.
In Cumberland County, Edgar r.
Manning, Democrat, was elected to the
State Legislature to succeed his faith
er, who recently died.
Democratic Mayors were chosen in
Harrisburg and Altoona In a number
of counties there We're interesting con-
tests for School Directors, in which
women were candidates, and in shy
dertown, Northumberland County. one
of these candidates running on the
Democratic ticket was defeated by her
husband. a Republican.
PITTSBURG, Feb. ~ Municipal
elections were held in Pittsburg and
Allegheny to-day, with the result that
an apparently unprecedented victory
has been scored by the Republican tick
ct in both cities. In PittSourg figures
are given out at Republican headquar-
tiers indicating the election of w. J.
Dlehl for Mayor over ex-Postmaster J.
c. O'Donnell by a majority of 10000
or more Allegheny has probably elect
ed James G. Wyman, Republican, for
Mayor by over 1900 majority.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22
Evarts and Stewart.

Ex-senator Evarts hit off Mr.. Stew
arts peculiarities in a, little story that
he told at a dinner given in honor of
Senator Speoner when the latter was
leaving public life six years ago. After
the coffee was served one after an
other of his colleagues arose and pro-
ncurced eulogy When Mr. Stew
arts turn came he said that while
Spooner was a good fellow he was all
wrong on finances, and proceeded to
repeat the old speech he had made so
many times in the Senate.
Senator Evarts, who next took the
floor. said that Stewart reminded him
of 6. man he had met in an insane asy-
Ium one time when he was acting as a
member of a board of visitors. The
Superintendent told them that. they
must say cheerful things to the pa
stients. and therefore when he saw a
lunatic sitting astride of a table beat
ing it with whip and pretending to
drive it with a pair of string lines he
walked up to him and said: That's a
fine hobby you have there, my friend y
ssIt isn't. a hobby" answered the luna
tic; cts a horse"
whats the difference between a
horse and a hobby?" suggested Mr..
Eyarts. The 'lunatic turned on him
with an air of supreme contempt, and
remarked: pYou blank fool, anybody
can.tget off a horse. but nobody ever
got off a hobby Chicago Record.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22
GOVERNING OF CUBA.
GEN. BROOKE TO MODIFY THE
MILITARY CONTROL.
Government Of Civil Affairs to be
Put Into the Hands of Cuban
Administrators.

HAVANA, Feb. 21.-Governor-Gen-
eral Brooke has determined to modify
the control of civil affairs by putting
the government into the, hands of Gu
ban administrators. In this direct de-
cision he follows the declaration of a
proclamation of January list, respect
ing civil government by Cubans. The
subject has been fully considered by
the Governor General and his Cabinet,
and he has addressed to each Depart
ment Secretary letter directing that
the Administration of the Department
be put in operation as soon as practi-
cable.
The letter asserts that military con-
troll is not relaxed, but that the Gov
ernor- General relieves the Secretaries
from sending communications to civil
officials in the provinces to the COM
manders, copies merely being sent to
provincial Governors, and the originals
sent direct. General Brooke will give
the Secretaries as much independence
as the Presidential Secretaries in the
United States and except as the heads
of bureaus he will not require that he
be consulted in the matter of appoint
ments.
If the present state of peace contin-
ues, municipal elections will probably
be held in May. The election laws are
to be revised and the suffrage to be
enlarged, probably on a basis of educa-
tional qualifications.
Washington's, Birthday win be OBJ
served here by a review of troops at
midday, in which a part of the Sew
enth Army Corps will march. No pub
lie holiday has been ordered but the
Cuban officials will voluntarily suspend
business. The day will be properly OBJ
served at all army posts.
Major E. ]. Rathbone, in charge of
the Cuban postal services, has appointed
p. H. Bristow to be Assistant Director
of Posts. The registry and money or
der systems have been started, and the
Cuban and United States postage rates
will go into effect on March 10Th. when
the new stamps now being prepared by
the Bureau of Engraving are expected
here.
General Gomez arrived last night at
Matanzas from Cardenas. He was
met by Major General Wilson, military
Governor of the Department of Matan-
zas; General Sanger military Governor
of the City of Matanzas, and the Gu
ban General, Betancourt, who is in
command of the Cuban forces in Ma
tanzas Province. From the railway
station he was escorted by the Eighth
Massachuetts Volunteers, the Second
United States Cavalry and several local
clubs to the palace. where he is the
guest of the civil Governor. recep-
ton was given in his honor soon after;
his arrival but he did not deliver an
address This evening he was rendered
an elaborate banquet.
Governor General Brooke has direct
ed General Ludlow to receive the Gu
ban COMMUNICATIVE chief on his arrival
here with appropriate military honoFs.
General Chaffee. the Governor Cen
erars Chief Of Staff who, with other
military men, will sail for Matanzas
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22
CRABB DIVORCE SUIT.
Defendant Often Contradicts Her
self ON the Witness Stand.

SAN JOSE, Feb. 21.-In the divorce
suit of Rev. w. d. Crabb VS.. Hattie
Crabb, Mrs. Mcclure was on for the
defense to-day. She was given a Sc
we're cross examination, and she be-
came so confused in her testimony that
she often contradicted herself
She had testified that Rev. Crabb told
her he had written a paper, or con-
fession, which Mrs. Crabb had. He
(Crabb) said that this paper would ruin
him if he could not get it back.
Under the cross examination witness
denied that he had told her this, but
that she thought, but could not swear,
that Crabb had talked to her about
some paper he had written.
Witness confessed that. she was liv-
ing apart from her husband, he living
with daughter by former marriage
in San Francisco, while she lived in
Gilroy Witness said she could not
visit that daughter.
In the long examination of witness
there were numerous conflicts in her
testimony and she often said she could
not remember.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22
DAUGHTERS OF REVOLUTION.
Proceedings Of the Congress in
Session at Washington.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-At the
morning session of the Congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
the President Mrs. Manning, introduce
ed Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mary
Wright Sewall and other prominent
members of the National Council of
American Women, recently in session
here. They were received with enthus-
instic applause, the audience standing
Miss Anthony and Miss Sewall spoke
briefly, expressing their sympathy with
the work being done by the Daughters
of the American Revolution.
In the course of the proceedings Cen
eral Joseph Wheeler was discovered to
be in the audience, and a committee
was appointed to escort him to the plat
form. The General, however, excused
himself with promise to make some
remarks at the patriotic celebration to
be held at the congress this evening.
Amendments to the Constitution
adopted to-day include the following:
Precluding the election of honorary
Vice Presidents General as long as the
number of these officers is thirteen,
representative of the original thirteen
States; no one is to hold more than
one active office in the society at the
same time, and vesting in the CONT
mental congress all legislative and judi
cial power in the National Society of
the Daughters.
A brilliant gathering filled the opera
house in the evening, when q special
peace jubilee celebration took place Of
the regular night session. Strong adj
dresses on the late war were made, pa
triotic music rendered by the Fourth
Artillery Band, and national songs
sung. Mrs. Daniel Manning presided.
Hon. John T. Griffiths of Indiana
spoke eloquently on the soldiers in the
late war. He mentioned by name the
heroes in the war and each name was
greeted with rounds of applause The
climax came when the speaker uttered
the name of William Mckinley, the en-
thusiasm being unbounded.
Ex-Secretary of the Navy Hilary A.
Herbert spoke of the work of the sailor
in the war The American, he said, is
a sailor by heredity.
Mrs. Roberts of Pennsylvania spoke
of the Daughters and their work in
the last war.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22
ORDER OF B'NAI BIRTH.
Grand Lodge Elects Officers for
the Ensuing Term.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 21.-The
Grand Lodge of District No. Four of
the Independent Order of B'nai Birth
to-ay elected the following officers: Sig
Sichel of Portland, President; Lucius
L. Solomon, First President; Geo.
Samuel, Second President; Ben
jamin Harris of Carson, Treasurer Gre
elected: Israel J. Aschheim, Secretary
Ts-elected); Simon Hochstadter, Max
Marcuse and julius PIatshek, Trustees
tre-elected); Samuel Flyshaker, Ser
geant -at-Arms; A. N. Levy, Messen-
ger, DR.. S. S. Kahn, Chief Medical Elk
aminer
j. Greenbuam, Hy Schwartz, Ed
Tausky. Sol Bloom and Marcus Rosen-
thai were chosen to constitute the
Court of District No. f.
The lodge. in Committee of the
Whole, decided against optional endow-
ment
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22
New Shoes
FOR
YOUNG
FOLKS.

New shoes for the new season
are also coming each successive
day, and as each seasons pro-
auctions in this line seems to
bring the shoemaking art
nearer to perfection, you'll find
1T quite interesting and to your
advantage to inspect the new
arrivals in shoes for young
folks, a few of which we quote
here.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22

Scott, emulsion Of Cod
liver Oil VIZ. Hypophos-
Phitcs | II md palatable.
For cars it has been used
for co -g-4s md colds, for con-
sumption for those whose
blood is thin or colorless,
whose systems are emaciated
or run down.
For children it means
health and strength, stronger
bones and teeth, and food
for the growing mind.
Baby gains in weight and
thrives when SCOTS Emul-
sion is added to its milk.
soc and s. 90, all druggists ~.
SCOTT s BOVINE Chemists. New York
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22

An Unidentified Suicide.

SAN JOSE, Feb 21.-The body of
the man who killed himself Sunday
remains at the Morgue unidentified.
There have been some intimation that
it might be Army Officer Neall, who is
missing from San Francisco, but the
Coroner and police do not think so.
1t is evident that the man took every
means to conceal his identity. His
clothing, neat and inexpensive, is new,
but all tags and marks had been re-
moved. He has full set of false up
per teeth, and is about forty years of
age, five feet ten inches tall, and
weighs 165 pounds.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22
While in a Drunken Frenzy Over an
Imaginary Wrong,
Curtis E. Smith Probably Fatally Wounds
Thomas MeClintock.
An Apparently Wel1-to-Do Man
Registering From Fresno Com
mits Suicide at a San Francisco
Hotel by Inhaling Illuminating
Gas,

LOS ANGELES, Feb 21.-While in
drunken frenzy over an imagined
wrong, Curtis Z. Smith, a cook, shot
and probably fatally wounded Thomas
McClintock, a. cobbler, this afternoon.
The bullet pierced the intestines.
The shooting took place in Fifth
street saloon, where the men, who were
friends. had been drinking. Smith be-
ing short of funds, pawned his watch
with McClintock for So cents, and spent
the money for whisky. He left the sa-
loon in an intoxicated condition, but
returned shortly afterward, and at the
point of a revolver demanded of Nc
Clintock his watch, which the latter
Immediately handed over. After OBJ
tanning the watch Smith fired a bullet
into McClintock's abdomen, and he will
probably die
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22

wonderful impulse to all labors of char
ity, cooperation and thrift, the aim
being to do away with or lessen. unde-
served suffering.
Let US develop this work, which is
the pride of four country. I shall he
happy. if by toll, which nothing shall
deter l am able, with the help of UNI
ion,s to the maintenance of which all
my efforts will be directed, to combine
within the limits of the rightssI hold
under the Constitution and which I
shall not allow to weaken in my hands.
to the realization of our common hopes
and in Strengthening the republic"
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22
Lord Charles Beresford.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Secretary
Hay this evening entertained at dinner
Lord Charles Beresford, inviting to
meet that officer a number of persons
in official life. The list of guests in
cluded Rear Admiral Schley, Senators
Fairbanks, Foraker. Lodge, Gray, Nor
gan, Hawley, Wolcott and Elklns; c..
H. Allen Assistant Secretary of the
Navy: Mr. Andre, Belgian Consul at
Manila: Baron Sternberg of the Ger
man Embassy, and Hon. John A. kas-
son.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22
Robert Burdette to Marry.

TOLEDO (Ohio), Feb. 21.-The
Blade announces that Robert J. Bur-
dette, the humorist, is to marry Mrs.
P. C. Baker. a very wealthy widow of
Pasadena, California, who has been his
lifelong friend. She has one son
about the same age as Mr.. Burdette' s
SON. The two young men are close
friends, and are delighted with the
match. The ceremony will take place
at Pasadena after Easter.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22
Agonci1lo Sails for Europe.

HALIFAX On. 81, Feb. 21.-Tha fact
that the name of Agoncillo appeared at
the foot of the list of cabin passengers
on the steamer Labrador which sailed
for Liverpool this morning, it is con-
fidently asserted that the chief agent
of the Filipinos has left this country
for Europe. AS the first-class passan-
gers for this steamer arrived on a
night express and Immediately en-
barked, no one is known to have estab-
lished the identity of the passenger
registered as Agoncillo.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
Edward Kearney Has a Marrow
Call for His Life.

STOCKTON. Feb. 21.-Edward Kear-
ney of Seattle made his escape from
death last evening little less than
miraculous. He left San Francisco for
Stockton on the Captain Weber. After
being on the steamer about an hour
he fell overheard while unconscious
from fit or palpitation of the heart
He was picked up alive by the Mary
Garret, which followed along about a
half-hour later, between the Brothers
lighthouse and Red Rock.
He was unconscious most of the time
while in the water. but managed TO
keep afloat. He attracted the atten-
ton of the Mary Carrot by shouting.
He will recover. 1t was dark when he
was picked up. He was coming to
Stockton on pleasure trip.