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WEDNESDAY EVENING.
TOPEKA, KANSAS, JULY 10, 1901.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
TWO CENTS.
CRASH OF TRMiSS
Passenger on the Alton Jams
Into a Freight.
Eight Killed Outright and 23
Injured.
CARS CAUGHT FIRE.
General Passenger Agent 31 c
Lain Was on Board.
Those Killed Were Women,
Trainmen and Tramps.
TWO CARS IN ONE.
Baggage and Smoker Forced
Through Each Other.
Kansas City. Mo., July 10. One of the
worst wrecks In several years on the Chi
cago & Alton railroad occurred shortly
after 6 o'clock this morning near Norton,
Mo., 100 miles east of Kansas City.
When passenger train No. 7, westbound
from Chicago, collided head on with the
second section of freight train No. S6, go
ing east, eight people were killed outright
and about 25 more or less injured. In a
fire that started from the demolished en
gines the dining car and one chair car
"were partially burned. It is feared that
other victims are in the wreck.
Relief trains started from Slater at 10
o'clock and from Kansas City at 12:30,
each carrying a couple of physicians.
The trains collided while going at a
rapid rate, the engines being demolished
and the forward cars telescoped. Both
engineers, the freight conductor Express
Messenger Rogers were killed outright as
were three other passengers, believed to
be women. Most of th damage appears
to have been done in the combination
smoker following the buggage car, thesfc
cars being pushed into the space of one
car by the terrific impact of the collision.
Among the passengers was R. L Mc-I-ain.
general agent of the passenger de
partment in Kansas City of the Cnieago
& Alton railroad. McCIain escaped un
hurt and Immediately after the crash set
about organizing a systematic relief of
the injured, personally directing the ef
forts of the rescuers. In a message to
the local office he recites simply the fact
of the wreck, adding that at the time hia
message was sent the cars were burning.
Nothing: has been received from him since
and at the office of the superintendent of
the road tt is stated that because of the
confusion at the scene it has been im
possible to obtain more than meager de
tails. The dead will be brought to Kansa3
City and the injured will be taken tem
porarily to Marshall, the next station
west. The relief train is not expected
back in Kansas City before 2:30 or 3
o'clock.
DEAD.
DAN McAN'XA. conductor of freight:
Bir.gle. Slater. Mo.
cU; J' ANDEliSON. engineer freight;
d-vn' ' lea-Ves wife and three chil
trjt? MEN- suPPosd to b
tramps on blind b:iggage
t'l-I) WOMAN, grav hair.
Vjrxij WOMAN, dark hair.
FRANK BRIGG3. engineer passenger
trHin. bo.lv liiht wreck: Slater Mo
I. ta. ROOKRS. United Slates express
messenger, Chicago. p "
INJURED,
hisfi .I?ray.' Chicago. 161 State street:
to Sv. n sprained; going
Topeka- ri"
k George B. Hill, Gillian, Mo.; bad cut on
George Allen (colored. New Frankfort
Mo.; hurt on side, not serious '
arm Xa 1 w""' Gillia,n. Mo.; cut on left
m- "Part. leg sprained.
'rf . Harry. Hoopeston 111
E Mrsedjas0t,,fa,Cerilnd aT?ls ot serious.-
Mrs. j. i5. Adsit. Hoooeston. Ill snaldrf
about head and shoulriVrs. scalded
Sydney Jones. Kansas Oltv- terrihlv
scalded about head and a,l over bod7.' J
Dr. J. fe Adsit. Honpesinn. Ill tia,l,
ba'ly S1,''1- hpad slightly.' - "dS
(ttis Williams (colored). New Orleans
fib : brok?ntOUr,St sletPer; hands scklded;
Mrs. C. W. Snyder. Jasper, X. T hands
and face ba.llv scald. -.1 ' nanus
Mrs Frances Walker. Flatbush
STLA breast hands badly
eca Mecl. Inhaled stt-am
Mrs Lottie L. Still.' Hornellsville
Joaldid. ' avenut-: ce and arms
i.0!.1- Dion- Fairbury: face burned
ainca?-
ublic Schools"- .sP'r.inte.n5ent
KtT' 1yr artery in'
arms.' ohes dneTk Salded abUt h-
.cad.1,d.InotSs&ousena: ha"d3 and fac
.Adelehtl"0: hands b
Miss Anna Morrison. Valparaiso TnH
Ieon G. Miller. Bloomington, 111 scald
ed and cut. not serious scaja-
Mrs. I-evy Arch. Crumwell. Ind broken
arm. hurt inside, not serious Droken
onVadEi!i0tt- Mo. I' slights cut
Miss Mary Bird Vandalia. Mo- rib
broken and bruised about head, not serl-
Sadie E. Taylor. Wilmington, 111 face
and arms badlv scalded ' Iace
Mrs. S. L. Ray. Wilmington 111 - scald
ed about head and arms ' scaia-
L. S. Colburn. Pawpaw. Mich scHldel
on face and arms, leg and arm hrnlfi
Dan Donneuy, flpe,Sn on'tSihSiin
d?Vbl? fr?-r,;ur Jaw. eye injured '
C. K Null. Mexico, Mo.: United States
express messenger helper; bruised
back and legs, not serious "ruisea on
Miss Km ma Dixon. W-jlmlngton 111
acalded about head and arms "'slon'
Walter Walsh and Adniph Kanfm.n
TerlSy.0001" n d'ner' BCa'd:
D. W. Hooker, Svracuse X v.
Pcalded about head and arms'- X'e'rv old
not expected to recover s ver olA-
Mrs. New Mitchell and Mrs r
Mitchell. Pontlac. Ill tcl anZ ?'
scalded, cot serlouJ. e and ua-'3s
EnliBQ Educational BilL
Kew Tork. July 10. The Salisbury
tribune's London correspondent.
.NEGRO POPULATION.
Figures Shown
Census.
by the Late
New Tork, July 10. A special to the
Herald from Washington Bays:
Predictions based on the census of
1890, that the negro population of the
United States would gradually decrease
in proportion to the total population are
not borne out by the statistics of the
present census.
The negro population in the United
States in 1S90 was 11.93 per cent of the
total, a decrease from 13.12 per cent in
lsSO. This year the percentage will be
somewhat less than 11, though until the
compilation of statistics has been more
nearly completed it will be impossible
to give exact figures.
In some of the southern states, the
negro population is increasing faster
in proportion than the white. In the
obrder states there seems to be a little
falling off, and in the northern states,
to which the tide of European immigra
tion flows strongest, the white popula
tion is increasing more rapidly, though
this does not hold good in some special
localities, such as cities in which negro
servants, especially in hotels, are rap
idly displacing white men and women.
youngersTree,
Minnesota Pardon Board
proves Their Parole.
Ap-
11 are Been in the Penitentiary
Twenty-fire Years.
St. Paul, Minn., July 10. The state
pardon board today approved the parole
of Coleman and James Tounger, who
have been in the Stillwater penitentiary
for the past 25 years for complicity in
the robbery and murder at the time of
the raid on the Northfield, Minn., bank.
Cole and Jim Tounger, a quarter of
j a century ago were the James brothers
; of the north and sometimes made raids
j together with Jesse James, Their rec
j ord of train robberies and bank rob
I beries is a long one. They were finally
! captured and sentenced to prison for
I life. Their last raid was at Northfield,
I Minn., in broad daylight, where, with
I a gang of confederates, they undertook
j to rob a bank. In the melee incident
i to the event and their subsequent cap
! ture two bank officials were shot down
I and a number of the aiders killed, and
wounded.
BLOWNAWAY.
Port LaVaca, Texas, Destroyed
by a Storm.
St. Louis, July 10. A special to the
Post-Dispatch from Austin, Texas,
say s :
A telegram received today by Web
ster Flanigan, collector of internal rev
enue from F. V. Gentry, agent of the
American Brewing association states
that the town of Port LaVaca, Calhoun
county, was swept away last night by
a storm. Nearly all the houses were
blown away and a large mirnber of
boats were wrecked. No lives are re
ported lost. Port La. Vaca is on the
Gulf of Mexico, on La Vaca Bay.
SELLING THEIR STOCK.
Ho
to Market.
The farmers In the vicinity of Topeka
are unloading their hogs and cattle on
to the packing houses as fast as they
are able to get them to market. As
high as from 400 to 500 hogs are being
daily bought at the Wolff packing
house here, most of them from wagons.
The unprecedented sales of hogs and
cattle are brought about by the droutn.
in the eastern portion of the state.Hogs
are bringing $5.60 per hundred here to
day which is a higher price than was
paid a year ago.
Cattle are selling here and on the
Kansas City market at from 2 to 3
cents while three months ago the same
stock would have brjght from SVi to
ilz cents. The farmers throughout the
state are unloading their cattle on the
Kansas City market. "The railroads are
experiencing great difficulty in provid
ing facilities for the transportation of
the large shipments now being made
from local points.
The prices of cattle are demoralized
a drop of practically half being made
within the past few months.
ENGLAND'S CENSORSHIP
South. African Correspondent Pro
tests Against Mutilation.
New Tork, July 10. The London cor
respondent of the Tribune declares that
Edgar Wallace, the correspondent in
South Africa of the Daily Mail whose
articles touching the conduct of the
war are attracting attention, is known
as a painstaking correspondent, and
the war office will not find it easy to
invalidate his testimony. The colonies,
the Tribune's correspondent continues,
are especially interested in his exposure
of the senseless vagaries of censorship,
since one of the principal efforts of the
mutilation of his dispatches was an in
justice in withholding credit from the
colonial troops.
PEHS10H FOR LITTLE.
Twentieth Kansas Colonel
Granted 30 Per Month.
Abilene, July 10. Col. E. C. Little has
been granted a pension of $30 per month
dating back to June, 1900. It was se
cured through the agency of W. T.
Davidson.
Temperatures of Large Cities.
Chicago. July 10. 7 a. m. tempera
tures: Kew York, 72; Boston, 64; Phil
adelphia, 70; Washington. 74; Chicago,
76; Minneapolis, 7a; Cincinnati, 70; St.
Louis, 76.
CORN ISJWURED.
Another Hot Wave Here and
Crops Are Withering.
Jlercury Above 100 Mark With
Ko Bain Promised.
IS GLOOMY OUTLOOK.
From AH Over Kansas Comes
Discouraging Keports.
Farmers Moving Stock to Mar
ket Before Fattening.
The hot weather in Kansas continues
with no Immediate chance of relief.
Corn has withstood the ravages of the
heat until yesterday. Now it is fast
shriveling up, and the prospect is any
thing but pleasing to the farmers. The
oats crop is worse than a failure, and
hay is scarcer than for years.
In western Kansas the conditions are
better than in the eastern part, this
being directly opposite to the usual
state of affairs. Some of the central
Kansas farmers are shipping their
stock to western Kansas so as to take
advantage of the superior hay crop.
It is estimated that Kansas will suf
fer crop losses from the protracted
heated spell to the extent of $100,000,000.
This figure will be even larger if the
heat continues a few days longer, as
then there will be absolutely no help
for the corn.
Prospects for immediate rain have
been dispelled and a second hot wave
is upon Kansas.
AT SALINA.
Salina, Kan., July 10. Central Kan
sas is badly in need of rain. The ex
tremely hot weather of the past few
weeks has dried everything up and part
of the early corn is ruined. The late
corn looks well, but is badly In need of
moisture.
AT FORT SCOTT.
Port Scott, Kan., July 10. The ther
mometer at the government observa
tory here Tuesday registered 10S de
grees. This is two degrees hotter than
it has been any day of this year and it
smashes the new heat record of this
station. Vegetation is rapidly blasting
under the heat and warm winds and
feeders are shipping their stock out.
AT LEAVENWORTH.
Leavenworth, Kas., July 10. The
thermometer registered 103 and thg
winds were of the simoon order. Not
during the hot spell of the season has
the wind taken on such withering
warmth as today. Everything is burn
ing up. Unless rain comes this week
there will be nothing raised. The dry
ness which continues to accompany
the heat is having its effect on wood
work of all kinds, more notably on
wagon wheels. Many carriage wheels
have shrunk so they are in the shops
to have tires tightened. Wagon wheel3
are falling to pieces and lumber of ail
kinds is shrinking fearfully. Nails are
being drawn out of framework in
houses.
AT LAWRENCE.
Lawrence, Kas., July 10. Observa
tions at Kansas university show a
maximum temperature for Tuesday of
104.5, the highest point reached this
summer by one degree.
There is slightly more breeze here to
day than yesterday, but no indications
of rain. The minimum temperature
since 9 o'clock last night was 78, an in
crease of ten degrees over yesterday.
AT ATCHISON.
Atchison, Kas., July 10. The dry
weather is simply ruining the coin.
The brakemen are getting blue about
corn along the Central Branch west of
Waterville. They say the corn can't
stand the present hot weather, even if
the country has had -rain, and the en
tire Central Branch crop is now in
dan ger.
J. O. PhilippI, assistant general
freight agent of the Missouri Pacific,
was in Atchison today. He is on a tour
of the main line and the branches look
ing up the crop prospects. He says
conditions along the Central Branch
are serious. Vv ith good rains from now
on the corn crop would be short at
least 25 per cent. He says the corn is
very short, and is already tasseling, so
there is really no hope for It.
Four weeks ago an Atchison man
paid $3.S0 for a lot of stockers and
feeders. Yesterday he shipped them to
Kansas City and sold then for $2.80.
Another farmer was offered $1,100 for a
bunch of heifers a month ago. He of
fered them for &550 yesterday, but was
unable to find a buver.
AT WICHITA.
Wichita, July 10. The weather here
today is very warm and dry with no
rain in sight.
Evidence is accumulating that the
stotk east of this city is suffering for
want of water, and that the drouth is
causing a scarcity of feed for stock.
John Chain came in from Towanda
yesterday and he tells some wonderful
stories about the scarcity of water for
stock. He told of a whole trainload of
cattle being shipped into El Dorado to
get water from the Walnut river.
Mr. Cham said over in the neighbor
hood of LeRoy the people were abso
lutely unable to get grass and water
for their cattle. They gathered a whole
trainload and .shipped them to El Do
rado, where they could get water, and
they hoped to find grass also for their
cattle.
Mr. Chain said these people from
LeRoy came to him and begged him to
take their cattle until the drouth was
over, but he was unable to take any of
them. Mr. Chain says if the drouth
lasts much longer there will be a vast
amount of suffering among stock in the
counties east of Butler.
AT EMPORIA.
Emporia, July 10. The dry spell is
ruining most of the corn. Some fields
are past hope of saving. Others are at
the critical period just now. while oth
ers that were planted late will survive
for some time yet. The lack of r;in
and the heat are fast ruining such
crops as are left.
AT ABILENE.
Abilene, July 10. Rain is badly need
ed here. Reports from all parts of the
county say that the condition is seri
ous and only immediate and generous
rains can make anything like half a
crop." The prairies are burned up and
the creeks are going dry, and the indi
sations are for a failure of the corn
crop without rain.
AT PARSONS.
Parsons. Kas., July 10. The unprece
dented drouth has ruined the early corn
and will probably kill the late corn.
Labette county corn has all burned up.
No rain has visited Labette county for
a month and a half, and vegetables, as
well as all corn, are ruined.
AT NEWTON.
Newton, Kan., July 10. The protract
ed drouth in many localities is becom
ing alarming. Reports are coming in
that streams and ponds are drying up,
and the grass is so nearly dead that
farmers and stockmen are compelled
to take cattle off pasture. Farmers in
town today say that should it rain
within the next week, a large majority
of the corn fields will be saved, but the
farmers and cattlemen are beginning to
feel pretty blue over the prospects.
AT DODGE CITY.
Dodge City, July 10. This portion of
the state is in great need of rain. Pas
ture is drying up and cattle water is
growing scarce. Unless rain comes
soon much stock w-ill have to be ship
ped to market before properly fattened.
SULTAflPAYS IT.
Turkey's Deht to the United
States Is Discharged.
Washington, July 10. The state de
partment has received the amount of
the American indemnity claim against
Turkey, $95,000, through the American
legation at Constantinople.
The money was paid by the Turkish
government to Mr. Leischman, our
minister at Constantinople; was placed
by him in the Ottoman Imperial bank,
and drafts remitted for the amount.
These drafts have just reached Wash
ington. As is always the case, the claims in
the aggregate considerably exceed the
amount of the indemnity actually paid,
but our government has expressed
itself satified with the payment. It as
sumes full responsibility for tr.e distri
bution, the Turkish government p ly
ing down a lump sum of $95,000 and
leaving it to the state department to
distribute among the aimants at its
discretion and after its own fashion.
It is stated that as soon as the depart
ment officials can prepare their list
they will communicate directly with
the claimants.
CROP DAMAGE SMALL
Effects of Dry Weather Have
Not Been Serious so Far.
Washing-ton, July 10. The weather bu
reau's weekly summary of the crop con
ditions is as follows:
The northern and central districts east
of the Rocky mountains have experienced
two consecutive w ks of intense heats
and while the daily average temperature
excess for the week ending July 8 was
not quite so marked as in the previous
week in the central valley, it was more so
in tne middle Atlantic coast districts, xmo
seriously injurious effects to crops from
this period of intense heat is reported
from the middle Atlantic states, but from
Texas northward to Nebraska, including:
Missouri. Arkansas and portions of Illi
nois, Kentucky and Tennessee, crops
have suffered to a greater or less extent.
The weather conditions on the Pacifies
coast and in- the plateau regions have
been favorable, although frosts caused
some injury in Utah and Wyoming on
the 5th.
In Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas
and Arkansas corn has been seriously
damaged by intense heat and drying
winds, although late corn in Kansas is in
fair condition. The bulk of the crop in
Nebraska and Iowa has so far escaped
injury except in a few southwestern
counties in Nebraska, where corn has
been slightly injured, while in southwest
ern Iowa it is threatened. In the states of
the Ohio valley corn has suffered no in
jury from heat and has generally made
good growth, but continues in need of cul
tivation in portions of Ohio and West
Virginia.
The winter wheat harvest is finished in
Kansas, Missouri and in the lower Ohio
valley and is !n progress in the more
northerly sections. Rains have interfered
with the harvest in portions of Ohio and
West Virginia and reports of injury by
fly continue from the first named state,
as well as from portions of Pennsylva
nia and New York. On the Pacific coast
t he harvest has begun in Oregon and
wheat is ripening in Washington.
In the Oakotas. Minnesota. Oregon and
Washinsrton spring wheat continues gen
erally in promising condition, although
areas in northern Minnesota have been
flooded and the crop has suffered from
drouth in portions of South Jakota. In
Iowa the excessive heat has probably im-
f mired the quality of the crop by causing
t to ripen too rapidly.
The oats crop in the states of the up
per Mississippi and Missouri valleys has
suffered further injury from intense heat,
but in southern Minnesota and portions
of South Dakota it is in promising condi
tion. In the Ohio valley and middle At
lantic states the crop has ripened rapidly
under the high temperatures, a fair to
good yield being indicated for these dis
tricts. A large crop of hay is being secured in
New England and New York and haying
continues with fair to good results in the
Ohio valley and lake region. The in
tense heat has materially reduced the
crop in the central Mississippi and lower j
Missouri vallevs. but its condition in the
Dakptas is excellent. The haying weather
has prevailed on the north Pacific coast
with satisfactory yields except in east
ern Oregon.
In the central and western portions or
the cotton belt, with the exception of
South Carolina and Florida, cotton is gen
erally growing and fruiting well. In Ten
nessee ana to tne westward or tne iviis
HiKsinnl river cotton is much in need of
rain, "esoeciallv in the uplands of Texas
and portions of Arkansas. The crop is
generally irom one to iwo weens mi:.
Tobacco has suffered somewhat from
heat in Marvland and Virginia and its
growth has been checked by drouth in
portions of Tennessee and western Ken
tuckv. The general condition of the crop,
however, is satisfactory. Cutting and
curing continues in South Carolina and
has begun in North Carolina.
In the states of Missouri and central
Mississippi valleys apples and other fruits
have been seriously injured by heat and
the reports from the districts to the east
ward respecting apples are not encourag
ing. THROWfl 30 FEET.
Ladder Breaks Causing: Injury
to New York Fire Chief.
New Tork, July 10. Thomas Lang
ford, chief of the Fifth battalion of the
New Tork fire department, was thrown
thirty feet by the breaking of a ladder
at No. '88 Prince street today. His back
is so badly wrenched that the sur
geons at St. Vincent's hospital do not
expect Mm to live. It is feared his
spine is broken.
The fire, which burned for an hour
before it could be located, caused a
damage of at least $40,000, thoueh it
was confined to the ostrich feather
establishment of Julius Sauk & Co.,
in which it started.
Weather Indications.
Chicago, July 10. Forecast for Kan
sas: Generally fair tonight and Thurs
day, cooler in northern portion tonight;
variable winds becoming southerly.
DIVIDED HONORS.
McLean Followers Didn't Have
it All Their Waj.
Johnson Men Scored on Taxa
tion Flank at Coi unions.
COMPROMISE SPIRIT
Appeared to Pervade the Entire
Proceedings.
No
Reference to Bryan, Silver
or K. C. Platform.
KILB0URNE IS NAMED.
McLean Candidate Nominated
For Governor by Acclamation.
Convention Hall, Columbus, O.. July
10. The Democratic state convention
met here today under peculiar circum
stances. All the more conservative ele
ments had combined in the preliminar
ies against the friends of Mayor Tom
L. Johnson, but the combination was
' not maintained after the committees
were selected and during the all-night
session of the committee on resolutions
it was claimed that the McLean and
Kilbourne men were no longer co-operating
on the propositions of the
Johnston men on the platform and or
ganization. The contest was in the
committee on resolutions and on both
national and state issues.
The Johnson men won on their favor
ite views on state matters and the oth
ers on national issues.
There is no reaffirmation of the Kan
sas City or any other platform. There
is no mention of previous platforms or
of Bryan. The substitute committee of
seven that drafted the platform stood
four to three in favor of the conserva
tives, but the full committee rejected
both the majority and the minority re
ports and then picked out such parts
of each as were voted in section by
section. The full committee old not
stand the same on all sections or
planks. The three planks of the John
son men on franchises, steam and elec
trical railways and corporation taxa
tion were adopted as amendments.
. The majority report of the subcom
mittee and the resolutions as amend
ed, were adopted so that the majority
report of the sub-commfttee practically
became the majority report of the full
committee and things were generally
reversed from what had previously
been the course of the convention.
Previously to the assembling of the
convention today there was unusual
agitation among the delegates.
C. P. Salen, a member ob Mayor
Johnson's cabinet at Cleveland, had
been continued as permanent chairman
and other friends of Johnson had sf"--ed
the taxation resolutions that were
wanted. There was much talk about
the Kilbourne and McLean men having
differences but it became evident later
on that the Johnson men had won on
the taxation issues without any other
changes.
The convention was not called to or
der till about 11 o'clock by Chairman
Brucker, when prayer was offered by
Rev. John Hewitt
Charles P. Salen was greeted with an
ovation on being introduced as tempor
ary chairman.
Before Salen could proceed, the Cuya
hoga delegation gave three cheers for
"Tom Johnson and Charlie Salen" and
the demonstrations followed.
The closing part of Salen's speech on
railway taxation was loudly applauded.
Atfer the adoption of the rules and
order of business, the report on creden
tials was submitted, seating the Dowl
ing delegates from Montgomery, the
McCloud delegates from Union, the
Buckley delegates from Portage and
the Mason delegates from Butler coun
ty. E. H. Moore presented a minority re
port, signed by seven of the twenty-one
members of the committee, to seat the
anti-Dowling delegates from Mont
gomery, and an animated scene fol
lowed over this contest, which involved
the local power of J. H. Dowling and
which has been precipitated into the
state conventions for several years.
Thomas Galvin moved as a subsiitute
for both reports that both delegations
be seated with half votes each, and
that next year the state committee
take charge of the- Democratic p i
maries in Montgomery county, ignor
ing both local factions.
Joseph H. Dowling opened the argu
ment in a most animated statement.
He was requested by the chair to use
more parliamentary language when the
"lie" was passed. He accused his op
ponents of defeating N. S. Bickley for
congress, and other Democratic candi
dates, and being in league with the Re
publican secretary of state.
While E. H. Moore was replying to
Dowling, there were heated demonstra
tions in the audience and they contin
ued while J. P. Seward replied to Mr.
Moore, especially when L. A. Russell
interrupted Seward with Questions.
Judge B. F. McCain of Dayton charged i
Dowling with attempting to defeat him
and otljer Democratic candidates.
The motion of Galvin to seat both del
egations with half votes was defv.atf.
The chair declared the motion to sub- !
stitute the minority report for the ma
joirty raoort carried in a viva voce
vote. There was great excitement un
til Chairman Salen recognized those de
manding a call of the counties and or
dered a ballot
There was much disturbance in the
Cuyahoga delegation on the floor over
the enforcement of the unit rule, but
the chair recognized those who an
nounced its 85 votes solid against Dowl
ing. Kilbourne was nominated by accla
mation. SKETCH OF HILBOUKNS.
Was Friend and Adviser of Late Allen
G. Thurman.
Columbus, O., July 10. James Kil
bourne, Democratic candidate for gov
ernor of Ohio, was born in Columbus
in 1841. graduated at Knyon before
the civil war and at Harvard law
school after the war, enlisted as a pri
vate and became a colonel. He is
president of the Ohio centennial com
mittee, the Columbus board of trade,
public library, children's home, gu.ld
and associated charities, director of
banks and railways, vice president of
the Army of the Tennessee and a
member of other military organiza
tions. He has never held public office
and was never a candidate till to
years ago, when he was defeated for
the gubernatorial nomination by Join
R. McLean. He has been especially
popular among wrorking men, and is
an honorary member of the Columbus
trades and labor assembly. For years
he was the next-door neighbor of the
late Senator Allen G. Thurman, and
was his close counselor. His father
formerly represented the Columbus
district in congress, and his grand
father was one of the earliest settlers
of this city.
THE PLATFORM.
Declaration of Principles by the Ohio
Democracy.
Columbus, O., July 10. The following
is a synopsis of the report of the com
mittee on resolutions at the Democratic
state convention:
"The Democrats of Ohio reaffirm their
belief in the equality of taxation and
other public burdens; their advocacy of
the gradual rights of all people with
special privileges to none; their hostili
ty to the monopolization of industry
with its tendency on the one hand to
crush out individual enterprise and on
the other to promote a socialistic
spirit among the people as the only
refuge from oppression and their faith
in that theory and practice of constitu
tional government which brought the
nation into existence and has preserved
it; to the present generation. For the
promotion of those objects the Demo
cratic party ui -mo mattes nie lunyw
ing declaration of principles and poli
cies: "The government of municipalities of
the state should be radically informed,
and wise treneral laws be enacted to
correct abuses and prevent their recur
rence. The Democratic party therefore calls
upon the people to unite with it In plac
ing the conduct of municipal affairs
upon a business basis, and they may
be administered by the people in the in
terest of all the people on the principle
of home rule. No franchise, extension
or renewal thereof to be granted by any
city or village without first submitting
the same to a vote of the people.
"Theacceptanceof free passes or other
favors from railroads by public officers
or employes shall be made an adequate
ground for vacating the offices held by
them.
"Steam and electric railwavs and
other corporations possessing public
franchises shall be assessed in the same
proportion to their salable value as
are farms and city real estate.
"The proceedings of the Republican
majority of the state board of equaliza
tion are a scandal. Property values In
stead of being equalized or diminished
at the dictation of political bosses pur
suant to corrupt combinations and con
spiracies, have been increased.
'The present Republican administra
tion in the conduct of public affairs and
in the management of public institu
tions has been the most costly in the
history of the state. Its benevolent and
penal institutions should be conducted
upon a non-partisan and business basis
"The reserved rights of the state and
people to be upheld. Centralization
which would destroy them to be con
demned. A strict observation of the
constitution. The greatest of individual
liberty consistent with public order and
welfare.
"Tariff reform was never more urgent
ly demanded than now when the pro
duction of the country so far exceeds
its power of consumption that foreign
markets are a prime condition of its
continued prosperity, and when the ex
istence and abolition of trusts have
been brought about by the policy of
protecting favored industries. The
abolition of the so-called protective
svstem and the substitution in its place
of the traditional Democratic policy of
a tariff for revenue so levied as to not
burden one industry for the benefit of
another.
"The enactment and rigorous enforce
ment of measures which shall prevent
all monopolies and combinations in re
straint of trade and commerce the
matter of first importance being to pre
vent the use of the government as an
instrumentality for the creation and
increase of the wealth of the few.while
preserving intact the right of private
property and the fullest measure of in
dividual liberty or contract ana assur
ing to every man the just reward of su
perior industry and skill.
"We demand the suppression of all
trusts and a return to industrial free
dom. As a means to that end all trust
products should be placed on the free
list and the government should exercise
a more rigid supervision of transporta
tion lines and abolish, in fact, all dis
crimination in rates.
"Our merchant marine to be restored
to its former greatness and made the
ally of the people against monopoly bv
the repeal of antiquated and restricted
navigation laws. But no subsidies for
favored ship owners.
"The powers granted the federal gov
ernment were not meant to be used to
conquer or hold into subjugation the
people of other countries.
"The Democratic party has never fa
vored and now opposes any extension
of the national boundaries not meant
to carry speedily to all inhabitants full
equal rights with ourselves. If these
are unfitted by local condition or char
acter to be formed into self-governing
territory and then incorporated into th?
Union of states in accordance with the
historic policy of the republic they
should be permitted to work out their
own destiny.
"Only territorial expansion demanded
by the national welfare and the nation
al safety to be at any time favored
the objection which should have pre
vented certain of our recent accessions
being that they imperil the national
safety without promotion of the na
tional welfare; that they devolve upon
us enormous responsibilities we have
no call to assume; that they are certain
to be an unrenumerative drain upon
our resources; that they tend to embroil
us with European powers; that they
weaken our claims to supremacy on the
American continent at the same time
that they lessen our ability to make the
claim good; and that they furnish a
dangerous opportunity and temptation
for the disregard of the 'self evident
truth of universal application that gov
ernments derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed.'
"The obvious sympathy of the na
tional administration with the British
government in its efforts to destroy the
South African republics and the policy
which has made the ports of the United
States a basis of supply for the British
army, without which the war could not
be successfully carried on are con
demned by the Democracy of Ohio.
"The maintenance of the Monroe
CContinued on Sixth Paee.1
TRIAL TOPROCEED
Expert Government Account
ant, E. P. Jloxej,
En Route From Washington to
Emporia to Look Up
THE MARTINDALE CASE
Which Is to Be Pished For
Trial in October.
Involves $150,000 of Alleged
.Misapplied Bank Funds.
The case of Wm. Martindale, as vii
president and a director of the defunct
First National bank of Emporia, which
has been continued from time to time,
will be tried at the October term of
the United States district court.
E. P. Moxey, a government expert
accountant, is now on hia way from
Washington to go over the books of
the bank. He will arrive in Emporia
tomorrow.
United States District Attorney Lam
bert has been instructed to notify the
receiver of the bank to turn the books
1 over to Moxey.
Martlndale is charged with embezzle
ment and with violating the national
bank laws as vice president and di
rector. There are nineteen indictment!
against him, as follows, involving mis
appropriation of about $l,r)0.O00:
MAKTINDALE S IN DICTM ENV.
First count Misupjilyinp sr.150 on April
1, lMtti. Llruft First Natioiutl hank New
York city, payable to a. A. Fernald &:
Co.
Second count Misapplying $KU on
Ft'liruary au. IsVJ. Draft on First Nation
al bank New York city, inya!le to orui-r
of Investors' Agency coriioi ation.
Third count Misapplying if,0"0 on Octo
ber 2ii. 1-ur. Draft.
Fourth count Misapplying $R.'W on Julv
17, ly.7. Kalse entry on books of First
National bank of Kmporia.
Fifth count Misapplying $5,LM0 on July
7, lv.7. False entry.
Sixth count Misapplying t".(ViO on Feb
ruary 2S, J!t. False tnlry In books and
records of the First National bttnk or
Kmporia.
Seventh count Misapplying $5."0 oh
April L 1S;S. False entrv in books an. I
records of the First National bank of
Emporia.
Kiyhth count Misapplying $6.0io on Au
gust 1, lsvs. False entry in books an.i
records thereof.
Ninth count Misapplying IS. (.Kit) on April
30. lhUl. False entry in books and record
thereof.
Tenth count Misapplying J1).'i on
August 2, 1W. False entry in books and
records thereof.
F.leventh count Misapplying $K.0o0 tin
September 27. 1K;i7. Accommodation note
of If. L. Leilifried.
Twelfth count Misapplying 5.0o' 01
July 10. 1897. False entry in books of th
First National bank of Kmporia. showiiitr
la credit in favor of William Martimlaie.
'lnirtetnth count Misapplying v.u"i on
April 1, !'.'. False entry in books show
in a credit to Wlllnun Martimla e.
Fourteenth count MjsH.p'iyiiodr on
! September 27. as-.'. Note of F. M.-Har-iy
J At Co. indorsed by Martiiulale t'rosw i-
First National bank of New York eitv.
afterward paid by Martlmiale & t ns.
the ame being an aeeominu'lation note
and paid out of the funds of the bunk.
Fifteenth count M isapplying $10.7f- on
December 20. IM. Note of V. J. Kynn.
indorsed by Martlndale 6c Cross to Fftu-iii
National hunk of St. Louis, Mo., and af
terwards paid by Martindaie t- Cross, t!i
same being an accommodation note and
paid out of the funds of the bank.
Sixteenth count Misapplying HO. ) on
September IS, 1SS8. Note of V. J. Ryan,
itrlorsed by Martimla le A- Cross to tho
Fourth National batik of St. IjOuIh. Mo.;
also $j.7bii.4ri. Note of S. Nation: also
(ixt, note of S. Nation, all of which nvro
paid out of the funds of the First Nation
al bank.
Seventeenth count Misapplying $1,768.17
on November 27, lh'.itt. Fals entry.
Kighteenth count Fmbezzlement of $2.
670 on October 4. lWifc.
Nineteenth count Kmbezzlement of
$150,000 on April lt.
THINGS ARE SCORCH IHG
Mercury Lingers Round the 1U0
Degree Mark.
There is a high barometer in the stat ;
of Washington and as Washingtoniann
are through with It the weather bureau
may decide to move it eastward ami
bring cooler weather to northern Kan
sas. The weather bureau officials have not
fully decided to do this but Observer
Jennings announces that it may be
done. In anticipation of such a movrj
the following forecast was sent out to
day for Kansas:
"Generally fair tonight and Thurs
day. Cooler north portion Thursday."
Tuesday was hot as the government
records Bliow the following: Toronto
108, McPherson 107, Osage City l')6, Se
dan 106. Fort Scott 106. Hays City lor,,
Manhattan 100, Dresden 102, Concordia.
102. Today's minimum was 7i. The
wind has been southwest blowing eight
miles an hour. Today's temperatures an
recorded by the government thermom
eter were as follows:
7 o'clock 7K
8 o'clock 8rt
9 o'clock !o
10 o'clock t S:t
11 o'clock
12 o'clock 97
1 o'clock 98
2 o'clock loo
3 o'clock 100
PROSTRATED BY HEAT.
Caspar Ileim, Santa Fe Illaek
smith, in Serious Condition.
Caspar Helm, a blacksmith in th
Santa Fe shop, was prostrated by tt:?
heat at his forge Tuesday afternoon.
He was was carried to his home on
East Third avenue by his mates on a
stretcher. His condition is serious but
slightly improved today.
John Russell, of the blacksmith shop
had his right eye badly burned by a
spark yesterday.
A sheet of steel fell upon Jesse Dixon,
a helper in the Santa Fe boiler shop,
this morning. His legs were severely
bruised from hips to knees and he Is la
the hospUaX