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PORTLAND DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1898. PRICE CENTS. ESTABLISHED JUNE 23, 18«2-V0L.35. PORTLAND, MAINE, MORNING, THREE^ miscellaneous. — IJ!. ^SPRING : STYLES. AT HAND. Boot and Shoes ABLEST GERMAN CULMI NATION ABE NOW ARRIVING. Our line will embrace everything THE is new PRESIDENT that and stylish for Spring Official wear. Call and examine our line be- Universal Feeling Throughout fore making your selection. III S. REPAIRING. -) LIST II. Circles WILL INTER- As many people do not oare to put Yesterday. on new shoes at this season of the Preetorius of the Westliche Post Uses year but prefer to make thejr old ones last until later in the season, we would call attention to our Repairing VENE. Department where first class work is PAINE’S CELERY COMPOUND, done and at reasonable promptly March 28.—The rates. Give us a call. Washington, prevailing impression among the Republican leaders That Definite Results are of the House is that the President will center & mcdowell, Ail Believe intervene in Cuba on humane grounds, 539 Congress St, Brown Block. but it is positively sta ed by one of them marl tdtflstp About to be Reached. who is close to the President that the in- tervention will not con e until after the of the board of Inquiry on the HAY’S report Beef, Wine and Iron, Maine disaster goes to Congress. “The two questions will be treated 50c PINT BOTTLE. separately',” said he today, “and the mes- H. ti. HAY & SON, :: Middle St. Will be Sent to Coneress sage relative to Cuba will be sent to Con- Report gress soon after the report on the Maine question.” SPECIAL MO TICKS, With a Monday Message. The Cuban message, as forecasted by a PARTICULARPEOPLE prominent Republican will waive the question of the Maine disaster and put- SENATOR GALLINQER. Prefer to have their carpets beaten one-at-a ting aside that awful occurrence will be line and the dust drawn away by exhaust fans as fast as beaten out, rather than to have them in effect a declaration to Spain that the tumbled around two or three hours in a box methods of warfare In Cuba must with half a dozen others from all over town In present of Horrors Painted mixture of the dust from Scenes by4 a delightful (horrible) President’s Will, However, cease. It will result In intervention in them all. Paper demurs. The will bo We Use the First Method. case Spain message New Senator. Diaster. o oonm Hamphire Deal Solely With Maine fid hr the rpnorts of the consuls rOCTCD^O Forest City Dye House and in Cuba. steara Carpet Cleansing iDuIliI U Mr. Dolllver, Republican of Iowa, says on humane So. 13 Preble St, opp. Preble House. that intervention grounds TELEPHONE 202-3. \ will place our action upon a moral level Dante’s Infers!© Riot to be Compared With The Question of Intervention to be Made that would commend the broad sympathy ----1 of the world. We could afford, he says, to Weyler’s-Over 400,000 People of a Second ALL THE BEST SPRING TONICS Subject Paper-Official all as to the Maine if the waive questions Have Been Starvecl to Death-The and board does not fix the responsibility for AT LOWEST PRICES. Conferences Emergency Prepara- the disaster on Spain in order to make Time For Intervention in Humanity’s tions Still On-A New Steel the issue. A member Middle St. Going greater prominent HAY’S PHARMACY, has been in several Behalf Has Come. Purchased. of the House, who Tug consultation with the President a times in Washington, March 23.—A vivid word and to neighboring people struggling for liberty the United States desiring -March ua.—ine leeiing aiinougu Luis programme unb nut uoou and who possesses as much un- of the horrors and barbarities of Washington, recently, picture peace and deprecating war, will in good announced heretofore. The Puritan, by of was lb. Westliohe Post is the will restore the nerves which have been was universal throughout official oircles information of the cause of the concentration on the island Cuba, faith endeavor to these ends, Moth Marbles, 10c The St. Louis many experts, is regarded as the most official accomplish German daily of the Mississippi shattered by overwork, worry or business that the culmination of the Spanish drawn in the Senate today by Mr. Gal- consistently with national honor, through leading today formidable fighting machine in the navy. Maine disaster as the President does, says and one of the few German cares. and without unneces- Valley, great crisis was near at hand. With the report In addition to its other preparations lot of New Hampshire. The Senator peaceful agencies Gum lb. I can recommend it without iiDger resort to war and bloodshed.” Camphor,50c newspapers in the United States. certainly trouble the that while the report of the hoard will to sary a of the Maine court of a lit- possible navy department visited Cuba study Established in 1857, it soon passed into hesitation to all these in need of such inquiry only recently personally Mr. Bacon said that owing to the im- today took steps towards utilizing ten oi for the and to the hands of Dr. Emil Preetorius and the reoonstructant of the nervous system. tle while off, with the White House the not fix the responsibility explosion the situation of the rcconcentiados portance of the resolution he would net & Middle St. the sea cutters for use along the H. H. HAY SON, the Yours going ask for its consideration immediately but Hon. Carl Schurz. For 40 years truly. centre of loDg aud earnest conferences Altantio coast. (Japt. Shoemaker, ohiei it will be startling in its nature. The in- ascertain tho facts concerning the general shown the most effec- EDWARD L. PREETORIUS. would it to lie on the table until Westliohe Post has the rovenue cutter conferred was known that Mr. permit between the President and the party Of service, at the is that Cuban question. It tive devotion to honorable and progres- The relative merit and efficiency of Roosevelt dur- formation capitol already tomorrow. with the with Assistant Secretary to ak on Cuba today sive ideas. in leaders of Congress and excep- Gallinger was sp Very quietly, and with no attempt to Paine’s celery comound, comparison ing the day on the plans for turning ovei of the $50,000,000 appropriated Edward Preetorius. business' towards $25,000,000 before the Senate convened the effect the bill providing for the manager with all other remedies for making peo- tional activity emergency prepa- these cutters to the navy- They will bt and long produce and is a man of distinction shown in the intelli- for the national defense has been ex- relief of‘the survivors of the Maine MORNING! treasurer, ple well, is clearly rations in the war and navy departments, .U’v tent't-. Norfolk, wherfe udditiona galleries were packed. Notwithstanding GOOD was to the Senate for disaster throughout the Southwest, and is known character and responsible standing and will noise presented gent there was abundanco of evidence that ■guns will be mounted proceed on contracts entered into for Its the crowd there was a minimum of to thousands in other of on it to cure pended consideration. Have smoked a many portions of the people who today rely to Key West and become a part of tht you the for his broad business meth- definite results regarding the Maine dis- and confusion. When the spectators ad- Mr. Hale of Maine, chairman of the country insomnia, nervous debility, persistent squadron there. Their main service, expenditure. and for the influence another In naval affairs committee, reported tho kill ods, commanding headaches and a rundown condition. aster and the Cuban question in general however, will be as naval pickets a chair dressed one they spoke of his in national, state and city of the tis- favorably, and asked that it he placed at journal Its power rapidly repairing were about to be reached. the of these fleet cutters being maintained and daring tho opening pro- Among WON’T BE SCIENTIFIC. whispers, onco its Tho bill vv; s read politics. sues and the blood makes and upon passage. cleansing Cook- outside of the cruisers battleships, so that is an President’s callers were Senators ceedings it was quiet ordinary and without a word of debate was unani- Mr. Preetorius indefatigable Paine’s’ celery compound the great saver The revenue cutter servico now hat La Luclia Criticizes the It quiry Court have been heard without amendment. worker. Subjected by his profession to of life that it is. It brings just the need- rell, Turpie and Foraker; Gen. Dan for iustant and active service 12- conversation might mously passed ready, Report. in accordance with notice given CBI1 unusual business cares, overwork and ed nutriment to the weaki lied nerve tis- former United States minister to 74 900 enlisted the chamber. Then, U lino CRIEGA officers, Sickles, engineers, throughout of New sudden demands upon his nervous sues all over the and increases the March 23.—Miss Clara yesterday. Mr. (lallingor Hamp- body, and Wm. Allen men and 19 vessels of which 14 are or Havana, Barton, Almost as soon as the Senate convened his and his so that a break- Madrid, Representative shire, was recognized for a speech upon one this strength, personal experience volume of healthy blood, the Atlantic coast. Two others are it of the American branch of the ret? If uot try of Paine’s Smith of who has recently re- president Mr. Bacon of Georgia, introduced a joint the condition o[ affairs in Cut s.
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