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PORTLAND DAILY PRESS.
ESTABLISHED JUNE 23, 1862---YOL. 31. PORTLAND, MAINE, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1892. PRICE THREE CENTS.
THIS MORNING’S NEWS.
Tage 1.
Weather indications.
General telegraphic news.
Page 3.
Dehth of Horatio N. Jose.
Sporting news.
Page 3i
Maine towns.
The home.
Page i,
Editorials.
In far-off Labrador.
Losses from recent strikes in Pennsylvania.
Page 5.
Deaths and marriages.
The court record.
The death rate the past weels},
Page 6.
Wit and Wisdom.
Poem; The sons of toil.
The romance of an actor.
Page 7.
Financial and Commercial.
Marine News.
Page S.
Brief Jottings.
Personal.
Music and drama.
Keeent mishaps fit Sea—William Hamilton
lost.
No sale of ice on the Kennebec.
Fraternity Scnool’s new quarters.
Successful trial of lire department apparatus.
The new road by the mile track to be located.
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BIG BLAZE IN FREtPORT.
Several Buildings Destroyed by an Early
Morning Fire.
[Special to the Press.]
Feeepokt, October 24, [0.40 a. m.]—
Fire broke put bore at d.uo a.
m., in the three-story wooden building
on main street, owned and
occupied by C. S. Wilson & Co., painters
and paper hangers. Several tenants also
lived in the block. They got out
safely. The block was soon burned
down, but the fire spread to Cate’s
apothecary store destroying that. Tuttle’s
blacksmith shop and N. G. Keay’s house
were also burned. At this hour, the fire
is believed to be under control.
A. Z. Cates, the druggist, owned his
block, which was also occupied by Mrs.
Ada A. Cates, milliner. Their loss will
be total. In the Keay house were two
families besides that of Mr. Keay.
THE WEATHER.
Fair for Today and Tomorrow.
Boston, October 23.—Local forecast
for New England for Monday: Fair;
cooler. For Tuesday: Fair; continued
cool; northwesterly winds.
Local Weather Report.
Poktland, Me, October 23,1892.
8 A. M. 8 P. M.
Barometer. 29.660,29.632
Thermometer.!45.4 47.0
Dew Point. 36. 36.
Humidity.7i. 53.
Wind.W W
Velocity.5 7
Weather.Ci'dles Cl’dles
Mean daily ther.. .50.0 Max. vei. wind. 18 W
Maximum tiler...60.2iTotai;precip.0
Minimum ther. ..40.0|
P C—Partly cloudy.
IN THE OLD DOMINION.
There, As In Alabama, Republicans
May Get Fair Play.
TIDINGS FROM THE POLITICAI
BATTLEFIELD.
Professor Rangstou of Virginia Tells How
the Republicans Were Cheated Out of
Their Victory Four Years Ago and
Their Hope of Success This Year—Good
News from New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut — Republican Reader*
Cheerful.
New Yobk, October 23.—“We shall
carry Virginia for Harrison and Reid, ii
the plan now being worked out there by
loyal Republicans goes on until election
day,” said Prof. John M. Langston oi
Virginia, last night in an uptown hotel.
“There are three districts in the state
where wo will elect Republican Congress
men. They are the Second, Fourth and
Ninth. The Republican nominees are
Bowden, Gillam and Wood. There are
three or four districts—notably the First
—where the People’s party candidates
can be elected with the help of the Re
publican votes, and in them we are going
to vote in that way, because it will de
feat the Demoerates, besides demoraliz
ing them. The Democrats will onlv get
four Congressmen and the opposition
six. Under this friendly relation the
People’s Party has put an
electoral ticket into the field.
It has the support of a large
number of white voters—solid business
men. It will draw many votes away
irom tne nemocrais, possiuiy some num
us. The advantage will be largely ours.
The great feature is the fact tnat it will
be a movement of whites, and will re
ceive votes in every county in the state,
and scattered through all the voting
places. That means that the Democrats,
even under their infamous Anderson
McCormick election law, cannot cheat
us on the count. There will be more
Republican votes cast than Democratic.
The People’s party will stand third, but
as we will help them to at least three
Congressmen, they will see that we get a
fair count on the electoral ticket.
The Democrats cannot count us out as
they did in 1888. They gave Cleveland
1539 plurality ovCr Harrison. The same
vote was cast for Harrison in my district
in 1888 that was cast for rac. 1 wou my
contest for a seat in the Fifty-first Con
gress by showing that I had over 4,500
majority. Harrison had as much major
ity in my district as I had and carried
Virginia, but the electoral vote had been
declared long before I could get all my
proof together.
‘•The reason the Democrats must count
straight with a third party in the field is
because their courts dare not reject the
testimony of white men, whatever they
may do with colored men, and the white
men in the People’s party ana in the Re
publican party in Virginia are going to
join in their watch on the polls.”
FROM THREE STATES.
Good News of New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut Republicans.
New York, October 23. — Colonel
James Kemple of West Virginia, who
has been campaigning in New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut, says he feels
that Connecticut will give her electoral
vote for Harrison and Reid. In New
York, during the past two weeks, he has
found general activity all along the line
He has found there are more Irish-Amer
icans in favor of Harrison in New York
city than four and eight years ago, when
he assisted in organizing Irisli-American
clubs and, as a whole, the campaign here
is better organized and in better shape
than in either of the previous campaigns
In New Jersey the Republicans are mak
ing an active and aggressive fight, which
will snrelv elect Kean for sovernor. with
a chance of the electoral vote going to
Harrison. From his own state, Mr.
Kemple has received most cheering news
through his correspondence. He is con
fident West Virginia will go Republican,
and is assured the vote will be honestly
counted.
OUTLOOK CHEERFUL.
Republican Leaders Talk of the Political
Situation.
New York, October 22.—The Com
mercial Advertiser publishes a review
this afternoon of the Republican situa
tion throughout the country, and espec
ially in the doubtful states, by the na
tional and state leaders.
Chairman Carter of the Republican na
tional committee refers to the quietness
of the campaign, attributes it to the
careful study on the part of the people
of the issue at stake, and from that
draws the conclusion that the vote for
Harrison will be very full, and that he
will be elected.
New York state politics are covered by
Chairman Brookfield of the Republican
state committee and Chairman Hackett
of the New York state executive commit
tee.
Both express confidence in Republi
can success in the empire, state, and give
as a reason tho great efforts that havo
been made to get out the entire Republi
can vote on the registration days and the
constant attention that has beeij given to
voters.
A significant dispatch was sent by R.
A. Mosley, chairman of the Republican
state committee of Alabama, who has
just received the indorsement of the Re
publican national committee.
Mr. Mosley, while saying that there is
no Republican ticket before the Alabama
people claims that theLakeview electoral
ticket, which has been put up by the
Jeffersonian or Kolb branch of the De
mocracy, will be elected by a genuine
plurality of 75,000.
He estimates Democratic frauds at
50,000, and thinks it certain that the 11
electoral votes of the state will be cast
for Harrison.
Joseph H. Manley of Maine, member
of the executive committee of the Repub
can national committee, gives a rather
encouraging account of the situation in
Indiana
He says that the contest will be verj
close,but he expectsllarrison to win on ;
local issue of taxes, caused by the actioi
of the Democrats, in so rearranging
the tax levy that a greater burden now
falls upon the farmers, who, Mr. Manlej
thinks, will in consequence vote for Har
rison.
Franklin Murphy, chairman of the Re
publican state committee of New Jersey,
speaks confidently of the election of the
Republican candidate for governor, John
Kean, Jr., but has not so much to say ol
the success of the Republican national
ticket. ’
Senator Orville H. Platt of Connecticut
claims that state for Harrison, and tin
state chairmen of Wisconsin and West
Virginia are equally confident.
The utterances of Mr. Carter and Mr.
Brookfield are couched in careful lan
guage, and they make no secret of theii
opinion that the fight in the nation, and
in New York state particularly, w'ill be
close.
Mr. Reed Spoke to Thousands.
Albany, October 22.—Ex-Speaker
Reed addressed a Republican meeting
here tonight, at which 3000 were present.
J. M. Palmer, ex-Commander-in-Cliief
of the G. A. R., presided. ' The speech
was mainly on protection and was greet
ed with applause.
Political Notes.
Henry G. Smith, for many years jour
nal clerk of the House of Representa
tives, and authority on matters of par
liamentary law, says that Gen. Sickles,
as a retired army officer, is not eligible
to Congress. Gen. Sickles is one of the
nominees of the New York Democrats.
It was said at Tammany Hall, Satur
day, that evidence is daily accumula
ting that the County Democracy are
working in the interest of the Republi
cans.
Mr. Blaine has emphatically denied to
a reporter of the New York Sun that he
has been interviewed on the subject of
politics. Mr. Blaine said that certain
newspapers had taken unwarranted lib
erties with him fl.nd that he was tired of
it.
Minister Patrick Egan is greatly in
censed at the attack upon him by Mr.
Wayne MacVeagh in his speech Wednes
day night. Mr. Egan characterizes Mr.
MacVeagh’s remark relative to his offi
cial fitness as a “rascally attack wholly
without foundation.” The minister to
Chili has make known his intention to
reply.
The Post-Intelligencer of Seattle, Wash,
publishes, under ^ display head, copies
of court documents and affidavits to the
effect that Henry I, Snively, Democratic
candidate for governor of the State of
Washington, ran avvay from Grafton, W.
Va., charged with swindling and embez
zling, robbing a widow and live children,
and defrauding workmen, and borrowing
money from confiding friends and never
paying it.
Saturday’s Mew York Herald says:
“Stories about Mr. Blaine intending to
make more speeches were circulated, but
there is no need to change the Herald’s
news that Mr. Blaine does not contem
plate making more speeches or writing
more letters:”
■‘the spook priestess again.
Ann O'Delia Dis Debar at Her Old
Tricks Out West. \
Mew Yokk, October 22.—A despatch
from Quincy, 111., says: “Ann O’Delia
Diss Debar, the Spiritualist, was arrested
here today on complaint of a woman of
Elgin, 111., for defrauding her out of
$1000. Diss Dyebar, who is now called
Vera Ava, went to Elgin last winter with
a man who claimed to be her agent. She
won the confidence of Mrs. John Mitch
ell, whose husband had committed sui
cide a few months before. Vera Ava re
appeared there a month ago, and stop
ped with Mrs. Mitchell, giving seances.
On the day of the alleged theft, Mrs.
Mitchell had drawn $1000 from the bank
and was counting it in her room, in
which she was assisted by Vera Ava.
Mrs. Mitchell was called to the door, and
when she returned to the room Vera and
the money were gone.”
The notorious Ann O’Delia Diss Debar
after a last effort to win a reputation as
a theatrical freak, disappeared from this
city on April 13, last year. She wrote to
the district attorney and to the newspa
pers, stating that she would drown her
self by jumping from a Staten Island fer
ry boat.
She had attracted attention immediate
ly previous to that time by appearing in
nun’s attire on the streets. Humors of
her appearance in the West and as a “per
secuted philanthropist” in Chicago were
afterward printed.
Her first jump into notoriety as the
spook priestess who swindled Luther P.
Marsh out of his property, for which
she served a term on Blackwell’s Island,
is well known. There was a warrant for
her arrest when she disappeared from
Taylor’s Hotel in Jersey City.
BRIEFLY TOLD.
The stallion Stamboul has lowered his
record from 2.11 to 2. lOf.
The weather in northern England is
cold and stormy. Along the Tyne
heavy hail and snow are reported.
During the Columbus day celebration
at Los Angeles, Cal., a piece of six inch
gas pipe loaded with powder premature
ly exploded, instantly killing seven per
sons. Seven others were badly injured
some of whom will die.
A despatch from Sardinia, Brown
county, O., states that Stephen Feike, a
prominent banker and merchant of that
town, was shot and killed Thursday by
George Justice, a former tenant. Justice
claims that he acted in self defence.
In the case of Dr. W. It. Smart, whose
sudden death at Camden, Me., has been
reported, the coroner’s jury decided that
alcoholism was the cause. Dr. Smart
graduated from Dartmouth in 1S70 and
afterwards studied medicine in Portland.
The Cherokee commission has finished
its negotiations with the Comanche,
Apache and Kiowas tribes, and has ar
rived at an agreement with them. The
Indians are to be paid $200,000,000 for ro
linguishing their land. The territory to
be reliuguished consists of three million
acres.
The Carnegie Company has ended the
arrangements whereby it gave freeboard
to the men who took the strikers’ places
in the Homestead mills. At Beaver
Falls, citizens are trying to secure a re
sumption of work but tne company will
not start the mills unless assured that
the men will make no further trouble.
BY DL BLAINE.
A Review of the Political
Situation.
——.—.— *
CLEVELAND IS ON HIS OWN
PLATFORM.
Harrison, Unlike His Opponent, Can
Stand For His Party’s Principles.
THE MODERN DEMOCRACY’S AMUS
ING DEVOTION TO JEFFERSON.
Mr. Blaine Sharply Criticises Mr. Cleve
land’s Better—He Finds that the Demo
cratic Deader Has Deserted the Demo
cratic Platform for Another—Sound
Sense Regarding the Pension System—
Some of the Results of Reciprocity
Shown—The Article To Appear in the
North American Review.
New York, October 23.—Mr. Blaine’s
long promised utterance oif the Presi
dential election of 1S92 appears in the
November number of the North Ameri
cau iioviow, iu uo puwiinnuu luiuviiuw
[Monday.] It occupies 13 pages of the
Review. Mr. Blaine notes the lack of
excitement attending the political elec
tions, contrasing it with the turmoil of
interest that characterized the campaign
of the elder Harrison. This change of pub
lie interest in such contests, he suggests,
may be accounted for by the growth
in population, and consequent absorption
in vast commercial and financial opera
tions, may possibly indicate subsidence
in the future of extreme partisanship.
Mr. Blaine gives special attention to
the letters of the Presidential candi
dates. Of President Harrison’s letter,
he says among other things, “Perhaps
none of his predecessors has made so ex
haustive and none a morejdear presenta
tion of the questions involved.” Mr.
Cleveland’s letter is subjected to search
ing criticism. Mr. Blaine finds that in
greater measure than Mr. Harrison’s it
departs from the platform of his party;
in fact, “Mr. Cleveland has made a plat
form upon which he is now before the
people.” “Mr. Cleveland’s departure
from the position of his party’s plat
form on the question of free trade con
firms the impression which has been
general, that a large proportion of the
Democratic party believes in protection
in some form.”
Mr. Blaine Makes Caustic Comment
upon Mr. Cleveland’s utterances on the
currency and state banks.
He upholds the Republican policy of
granting liberal pensions to veterans of
the war. On this point he says: “The
amount we contribute toward pensions
is larger than the amount paid by any of
the European nations for a standing
army. Surely the binding up of the
wounds of the past war is a more merci
ful and honorable work than preparing
the country for a new one.”
The most remarkable thing in the
Presidential canvass of 1892, Mr. Blaine
regards as the “manner in which in some
sections of the country all other issues
have been put out of sight, and the
‘force bill’ alone brought into promin
ence.” He compliments Mr. Dana, of
the New York Sun, the author of this
policy, on his zeal and ability in reaching
this end. The representations made as
to the purpose and effect of the “force
bill,” he declares to be inconsistent with
the spirit of President Harrison’s letter.
Mr] Blaine is full and explicit in his
treatment of the subject of reciprocity,
claiming that material increase has been
caused in the United States trade by re
ciprocal treaties with the islands and
countries of America, and particularly
by the treaties made with European
countries. Mr. Blaine quotes interesting
figures in relation to the increase of
trade with the Leeward and Windward
islands and Cuba and predicts in relation
to Cuba that
>Ve Shall Conquer by Commerce
far better than by force of armies, and
cordially establish such mutual interests
between Cuba and this country that com
mercially the two countries will be one.
Mr. Blaine, dealing with the claim of
the Democratic party to be the Jeffer
sonian party, says: “It would surprise
Jefferson, if he could once more appear
in the flesh, to learn that he was held to
be the indorser of all the principles and
measures advocated by the Democratic
party today. It is, perhaps, not worth
while to enter into any elaborate argu
ment on the subject, but the Democracy
owes no little of its success to the per
sistence with which its adherents have
made their disiples believe this preten
sion through all the mutations of their
party. It was equally true, it must be
supposed, when Mr. Buchanan, a con
firmed Federalist, was the President
elect of the Democracy, though
it is well known that the object
of Mr. Jefferson's most intense dislike
was the Federal party. In vain it is
nointed out that the position of Jeffer
son on any subject was directly the re
verse of the Democratic position; he is
duly quoted at the next convention, and
a new oath of allegiance taken to his
principles. In ISO l, after a severe con
test, Jefferson came to the presidency as
the founder and head of the Kenubliean
party. The prefix Democratic was some
times, though seldom, used. The tenac
ity with which
Jefferson Held to the Protective Principle
was only proportioned to the necessities
of the country. His action in 1807, when
he declined to recommend the repeal or
alteration of the revenue law, after a
surplus of $14,000,000 had accumulated,
puts him in sharpest contrast to Mr.
Cleveland, who, in his term of office,
treated the surplus accumulated, as the
sum of all villainies.”
In conclusion, Mr. Blaine calls atten
tion to the essential agreement of the two
parties on the great majority of issues.
“It is interesting and suggestive,” he
says, “to look over the platforms of the
two parties, and see how much alike
they are in several vital measures after
the real and decisive issues arc stated.
If the parties would aim to discover and
define those subjects on which there is
a vital difference of opinion, and would
confine the discussion to those issues, it
would not only simplify the matter and
be a welcome relief to the candidates,
but would also greatly help in arriving
at the truth which is the ultimate sub
ject of a popular discussion and a popu
lar election.”
BACK BEHIND THE BARS.
Train Robber Perry’s Daring Dash for
Freedom Did Not Succeed.
AtJiiukx, October 28.—Oliver Curtis
Perry, the train robber, who escaped
from his ceil in Auburn prison yester
day, was found at 1.30 a. m. hiding in
the marble shop. He started in a race
for liberty. Pursued by several guards,
he ran into the arms of Keeper Smith.
The desperado made an attempt to kill
the keeper with a large stone, which he
hurled at Smith, striking him in the leg.
Smith struck Perry on the head with a
heavy came. This ended the scrimmage
and the robber was carried to his cell.
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of the most noted criminals. So careful
ly was lie guarded that a keeper was
stationed outside his cell door when the
other convicts were passing to and from
their work in order that the train robber
might have no conversation with them.
Not even the prison guard was allowed
to converse with the prisoner.
Perry’s cell was located in the base
ment of the north wing. The cells on
either side were occupied by men who
work in the shops, and through one of
these Perry made his escapo by digging
through the brick partition.
At 5 o’clock, when the other convicts
were marched from the shops,-a man
named Edmunds, who occupied the cell
next Perry’s reported that there was a
hole through the dividing wall.
A hasty examination by the officers con
firmed the report. A towel had been
pinned over the opening in Edmunds’s
cell to conceal it. A glance into Perry’s
cell revealed what appeared to be his
form stretched on the cot, but closer in
spection proved it only a dummy.
HUNDREDS WERE DROWNED.
Particulars of tlie Floods Which Devas
tated Sardinian Villages.
Loivdox, October 23.—Last advices
from Cagliari give an appalling account
of the terrible storm and flood in Sar
dinia, Thursday and Friday last. Hun
dreds of lives were lost, and thousands
of dollars worth of property destroyed
The plain of Campidano for 15 miles
north of Cagliari, is an important vine
and olive growing centre. The storm
began Thursday, and the rain fell in tor
rents. All the lowlands were flooded in
a very short time. The liver Mannu and
other streams intersecting the district
soon overflowed their banks, inundating
an area of 15 square kilometers. Among
the villages invaded by the waters wero
Decimo,Mannu, Assemini, Eimas, Saqiat
zai, Sanspare and Brazzali, with a total
population of 60,000. Scores of dwell
ings and barns were demolished by the
raging flood, and hundreds of people
drowned. In most of the villages named
there were many huts built of mud,
which collapsed in a few moments. Oth
er huts floated away witli the current,
forming rafts, to which many clung dur
ing the night until rescued. Friday
morning dozens of persons were found
huddled together on elevations of land
and in the upper parts of houses still
standing. Many were half dead from
terror and exposure.
Election and Riot in Portugal.
LisBon, October 23.—General elections
were held in Portugal today. Four
Monarchists and two Republicans have
been elected for Lisbon and three
Monarchists and one Republican for
Oporto. Returns so far indicate that
the cabinet will have a large majority.
Election riots occurred at Cintria and
other places. Many persons were in
iiirorl rriio lMAfc trnro cimnvnouoi] lnr
the troops.
A Hurricane in Honduras.
New Orleans, October 23.—The Ital
ian steamship Soteri, from Ceiba, Span
ish Honduras, arrived here today. She
reports that a terrific hurricane swept
the coast of Spanish Honduras October
12th, causing much damage to fruit,
ruining banana plantations, blowing ves
sels ashore and destroying many houses.
Schooner Helen Adams, with a cargo of
coeoanuts, was sunk in Kuatan harbor.
Kil!e<l in au Earthquake.
London, October 23.—A corresponden
at Odessa says five villages near KuCais
in the trans Caucasia were destroyed by
an earthquake, and many lives are re
ported lost. So far 27 bodies have been
recovered from ruined dwellings.
The Calamity Appalling:,
Cagliari. October 22.—A most appall
ing calamity has befallen the village of
San Sperate, situated a short distance
from this city. It is estimated that not
less than two hundred villagers were
drowned. The flood swept through the
village with sudden fury and in a mo
ment the streets became rivers that
carried everything before them; houses
were lifted from their foundations and
carried whirling down by the flood. The
occupants did not have an opportunity to
attempt to save themselves; mauy of
them were asleep when the torrent
carried oft' their houses and were awak
ened only to find themselves struggling
in the water. Hen, women and children
were drowned and not a single effort
could be made to save them, so sudden
was the disaster. Half the houses in the
village were swept away. The place is
isolated by the flood and access to it
vei'y difficult.
MMW THE EMI.
The President At the Bedside of His
THE SUN MAY NOT SHINE AGAIN
FOR 1HE SUFFERER.
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A Night of Suspense When Death Was Ex
pected at Any Minute—Mrs. Harrison
As Weak As Possible For Her To Be
And Dive—Yet She Was Perfectly con
scious.
Washington, D. C., October 23.—Dr.
Gardner visited the White House about
5 o’clock this afternoon, making the
fourth time ho had seen Mrs. Harrison
during the day. After his visit, he stated
that Mrs. Harrison was in a state of ex
treme exhaustion, and unless she could
rally from it, was apt to pass away with
in a few hours. In his opinion, she was
now as weak as she possibly could be
and live. She passed a very restless
night, generally becoming weaker and
weaker. She had displayed remarkable
vitality throughout and nearly reached
the limit of her endurance.
In reply to a direct question on that
point, Dr. Gardner said that Mrs. Har
rison might pass away at any time with
in a few hours, and might linger in her
present condition forty-eight hours.
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mated plainly that he feared the end
would come before morning. At 6.30,
Mrs. Harrison was much weaker.
Washington, 8 p. m.—Dr. Gardner
came to the White House shortly after
7 and remained about half an hour.
When he came down stairs he said Mrs.
Harrison’s condition was so critical that
she might pass away at any time.
Washington, 10 r>. m.—Dr. Gardner,
up to this hour, had paid six visits to
the sick room, and eachr time could give
no word of encouragement to the anxious
family. The history of the day, as gath
ered from the report of the doctor, is one
of such steady and rapidly decline of the
little remaining strength of his patient
that it would seem that the utmost limit
of weakness, co-existent with life, had
been reached. Mrs. Harrison’s condition
tonight is so critical that her physician
and family fear that tomorrow’s sun may
not shine for her.
STILL CLUNG TO LIFE.
Late In the Evening Dr. Gardner Thought
Mrs. Harrison Would Survive the Night.
Washington, October 23. — At 10
o’clock, Dr Gardner made another visit
to the White House and remained half
an hour. When leaving the House, he
said Mrs. Harrison was rei ting quietly
and lie did not think she would die to
night. There was still evidence in the
case of Mrs. Harrison’s wonderful vitali
ty, for the doctor said that althonght
the patient was a grain weaker han when
he last saw her, she was stronger than
he expected to find her. Mrs. Harrison
suffered from nervousness during the
day and this helped to bring about ex
haustion, hastening the decline in pro
gress all day. She sleeps about half an
hour at a time and takes very little nour
ishment now. This is restricted to a
little peptonized beef with a stimvlant.
So weak and helpless lias Mrs. Harrison
become that she has no longer strength
enough to cough. She is perfectly con
scious. Dr. Gardner, at the end of this
visit, notified the President and mem
bers of his household of the exceedingly
precarious condition of Mrs. Harrison.
He said he would not call again during
the night unless summoned by informa
tion of a change m her present condition.
Washington, October 24, 12.30 pc m.
—Mrs. Harrison is resting quietly and
there is no change in her condition from
previous reports. The President and
liis family circle, fearful of the worst,
are sitting up with the invalid.
Washington, October 24,• 1.45 a. m.—
Mrs. Harrison is slowly sinking. It is
feared she will not live out the night.
There are signs that the end is getting
very near.
Washington, October 24.—2.40 a. m.
—All is quiet at the White House. Mem
bers of the family are still sitting up.
Washington, October 24.—3.45 a.m.—
There is no change in Mrs. Harrison’s
condition.
The Blaine House Opened.
Washington, D. G\, October 22.—Mr.
Blaine s residence on Liaiayeue square
was opened to the gaze of the curious
today, after being closed all summer.
Through the open doors and windows it
could be seen that carpets were being
put down and everything made ready for
the reception of the ex-secretary and his
family. Mr. Blaine is not expected to
arrive in Washington before Monday
night or Tuesday next.
Judge Biddle in Philadelphia Satur!
[lay granted a rule to show cause why
the funds of the Order of the Iron Hall,
now held by several banking institutions,
should not be turned over to him. Thirty
three foreign attachment have been filed
in court by certificate holders to recover
the amount of their certificates
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