February 2, 1898
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/ FEBRUARY THREE CENTS. ESTABLISHED JUNE 23, 18K2-VOL.35. PORTLAND, MAINE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, 2, 1898._ jglffB&'aaSSt_PRICE side streets which has not been broken light. At about half past eleven Monday MRS. HADLEY MUST DISCLOSE. jut, where the snow lay many feet in night two cars started from the head of the smooth white surface being Preble street, one bound to Deerlng the Defendant in Famous Breach of Promise iepth, SNOW DRIFTS. broken only by the twigs which had been other to Westbrook. They did not reach in IN Home BURIED SWEPT STATES. Suit Arrives Suddenly STORM destination on time and at last ao" torn from the trees. No streot cars were their Auburn. 4 to be seen, save one, a Spring street car, counts were still on the way. With a which was making a round trip and was great buzzing of wheels whioh slipped [SPECIAL TO THE PBESS.j behind time, having started about mid- round and round on the icy rails, and a Louise Auburn, February 1.—Mrs. night on its way down town. About the shower of sparks playing about their run- the defendant Dingley Hadley, who was biggest drift which the explorer encoun- ning "-uir, the two cars slowly made their suit Portland Unable to Move in the sensational breach of promise Figuratively was at the foot of the limits. The Westl 10 >k Business Paralyzed in North- tered Temple street waj to city Completely whioh was tried in the Supreme court in this city last September, arrived home Hand or Foot. ern New England. last evening unexpectedly, it is said. In the trial a verdiot was found against Mrs. Hadley and judgement was given against her in the sum of $1500. This has never been paid, as it was claimed that Mrs. Hadley had no property, and her father, STORMS OF TWO DE- METROPOLIS OF BOSTON SHUT OUT OF WORLD the Hon. Jeremiah Dingley, who is re- STORY OF GREATEST to be the richest man in this sec- puted IN THIS SECTION. FOR TWELVE HOURS. tion of the state, refused to pRy it. CADES This morning, the Hon. George C. Wing, who was counsel for the plaintiff, Arthur S. Meloher, sent Deputy Sheriff Cummings to serve a paper in connec- tion with the judgment upon her. Mrs. Street Car Lines Were Paralyzed, Telegraphic Communication A Storm Willi Which There Has Been No 0:hcr Storm To Com- Hadley, who is at the home of.her parents, In the Harbor in Cities was reported to he ill and would not see Cut Off and Steam Boads Simply Quit Business- pare It—Not a Street Car Cine Was Moving Fifty sheriff. A summons was 13ft and Narrow the deputy the Storm Bid Hundreds of Dollars of Damage Bailroad Trains Stalled in a Hundred Snow Drifts—In Boston at the house to which Mr. Cummings Resumed Were Train Service Will Be Electric Wires Are Ddwn, Traffic Is Blocked and Street Are In could not gain admittance. Mrs. Hadley Escapes Many—Regular are Still Snowed ~ Electrics uun uucu — -rj- on All Roads This Int Total Darkness. uao Morning—Bui Judge J. W. Mitchell, who is also a dis- the oovered to a considerable depth. All in The details of the storm whloh of the sohool in that closure commissioner In poor debtor The weather has got even with great Crosby Deerlng High have oldest inhabitant who that the all it was the worst storm that we has just Northern New England cases. argues swept city. enoountered for ten years and some If Mrs. Hadley has no property she will climate is ohanging. He cannot any are now well at hand and show the But it was on the water that the great- sit around and of the days thought that it equalled the famous storm be obliged to take the poor debtor’s oath, longer tell blizzard to have been one which has had est and the loss of of 1886-7 in severity. suffering greatest otherwise she will have to give up her when the snow used to bury the fences the of ever since as of in The first experience that people no equal in many years, if property and life was born of the storm. to satisfy the judgment. from sight something unheard property and Portland hnd with the storm in its full which suffered have be- these times for the snow has come the regions The story which comes from Gloucester had been LOSS. done about all the wonderful force was on Friday night. It com- THREE QUARTERS MiLLION things come the prosperous and populous Is most and it is that but the show appalling probable whioh he has been wont to recall as per snowing before that, early * munities which they are. the worst haB not been told: his fall was a feeble to the'storm yet Reclaiming Plant United State* Rubber talning particularly to the days of only prelude The storm to have confined it- in- to come. When the venturesome left their appears Company Burned. youth. In order to teaoh the oldest homes in the evening to go to the self as far as any serious effects are con- THE STORM IN LEWISTON. habitant this object lesson two storms early of amusement 1.—A fire their forces and descended in all theatre and other places to Maine, New Hampshire and Terrible Experience of an Electric Line Naugatuck, Conn.. February joined cerned, that a storm of severi of the their on the state of Maine, Port- they realized great In that section which broke out in the fourth story vigor Northern Massachusetts. Employe. had struck the city, but even then it reclaiming plant of the United States land getting her full share of attention. ty that all not a street what Portland was it is probable day to the o clock here on at 7.45 was not apparent [special press.] Rubber company shortly after ten It began to snow Monday until late in the af- time about to through. By the time the car moved and only Lewiston, February 1.—This seotion has tonight practically destroyed the entire a. m. and kept at it all day. At that pass east its seekers had started for their ternoon were steam roads able to begin experienced the worst storm known a loss of upwards of a Western storm was moving pleasure just plant, entailing had arrived in Lake Huron. Down in homes, however, the storm of the storm in years. Last evening about 10.30 it be- Insured. The building center being over to break the bands king. $700,000, partially was 'about Hatteras was another all its fury. The wind whistling The Car That Out AH gan to snow and a regular blizzard set in. was of brick, four stories In height, the vicinity of Cape Stayed Night, Boston apparently suffered most and the wires and driving be- The storm like demon until about feet wide, and four hundred storm oenter. This southern visitor was shrilly among raged seventy-five white for 12 hours was completely cut off from a union fore it the falling snow in dense ten o’clock this forenoon. In the streets feet long. It was the largest reclaiming moving up the coast and It made the rest of the world, either by telegraph, the snow is piled many feet deep and the plant in the country and was considered where the snow was piled higher than a car which was preceded by a snow plow are ■ n man’s but there were more was in advance. After two houra of telephone or railroad. country roads litorally impassable. practically fire proof. head, plenty The eleotrio road has not been able to The floor was used as a drying ilmost as large, work, It had reached the baseball grounds The Jsnow was heavily Jladened vlth upper started a drift which was move a oar since two o’clock this morn- room and It is thought the Are The storm interferred with the feeding and then it struok to the and moisture and clinging trolley one machines, which ing. Wo trains have arrived today over about of the drying of the multitude and many a family somewhat bigger than the other giants of are made of wood. The factory was other electric wires bore them down into either the lower or Maine Central drank the morning coffee without milk, snow which blocked the way. Into the upper equipped throughout with automatio the street in hopeless confusion. The lines and none are expected much before sprinklers, which confined the fire to the but the grocers were equal to the drift went car and snow plow and there train left over for of an hour. and found it to be stuck. It was to ahead of the Hub were blockaded morning. This morning a fourth floor upwards emergency when they they Impossible go narrow streets succeeded in reach- the lower Maine Central and succeeded in The flames, however, impossible to haul their pnngs through and it was equally impossible to go back. and choas reigned supreme. ing the floor below, where vast quantities as as This morn- the snow took off the forward The car came to a standstill a getting far Brunswick. of old shoes and rubbers were stored, and deep they Deering In Maine the railroads were paralyzed, and it became ing a train left the Grand Trunk station made suoh a fierce fire that the depart- runners and perched on these light sleds short distanoe away ap- to cheek tut will resume business pretty generally for Portland, but was obliged to turn ment was unable to do anything with several baskets of provisions around parent to the passengers that they could it.