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VOLUME LXXVIH.-NO. 37.
STORMS AND FLOODS
One Kansas Town Laid
in Ruins by a
Cyclone.
BAXTER SPRINGS' LOSS.
Five Persons Killed and Over
Twenty Are Seriously
Injured.
LIVES LOST AT WINONA, MO.
By a Cloudburst and Torrents the
Prosperous Town Is Wiped
Out of Existence.
BAXTER SPRINGS, Kans., July 6.—
Baxter Springs is in ruins. Five people
were killed and about twenty others
wounded as the result of a tornado or
twisting cyclone that struck the town last
evening about 6 o'clock. The dead are:
Sallie Webster, Florence Webster, Ralph
Webster. H. B. Hibbs and the infant
child of Thomas Shields.
Scores of men, women and children in
the town are more or less injured, some
fatally. Those reported are:
Mr.-. Neal, both collarbones broken and
internal injuries; James Neal, head wound
and internal injuries; Roy Webster, right
arm and right hip broken; Mrs. Martha
Smith, hip dislocated and internal in
juries; Etta Smith, internal injuries;
George A. Dicker, head wounds; A. G.
Hancock, serious head wound ; Mrs.
Thomas Shields, fatal internal injuries.
Three members of A. Sharpe's family were
badly hurt.
There seems to have been two currents
of wind which struck the town, one going
north and the other going west, and these
met near the Methodist Episcopal Church,
joined forces and turned east, doing seri
ous damage to property before meeting,
but after coming together the destruction
of property was complete.
In the track of the current going north
the passenger depot was the first thing
damaged. Further on much damage was
done to the residence property, shade trees
and everything in its way. The current
going west seems to have been the stronger.
It struck some of the residences west of
the freight depot, doing serious damage,
but when it came to the yards of the rail
road twenty-eight cars were thrown from
the track and badly damaged. *The depot
was moved from its foundation and
wrecked about tfte roof and the contents
were badly flooded. From the railroad
~rn *•: t .i in <iie point of meeting the other
current the damage to property was not
great.
The first object after the meeting -was
the M. E. Church. This was totally de
stroyed and lies in a heap of ruins. The
current turned slightly to the southeast,
doing a good deal of damage, until it
reached a point just west of J. M. Cooper's
large store, where it turned directly east,
Btriking the store building, caving in the
west end and badly wrecking the roof.
The store was flooded and much damage
was done to the goods. The next object of
the storm's fury was the old blacksmith
ehop on the northwest corner of Military
and River streets, which was completely
swept away. The Christian church was
directly In tne path. It lies like a pile of
kindling wood.
The storm struck further up the street
on the south side, and there was not a
residence that escaped being badly
wrecked. J. M. Cooper bad seven houses,
including the one in which he lives, very
badly damaged. Colonel William March,
A. A. Hanbeck, Mr. Childs, Ira Perkins—
the residences of all these people are in
ruins and untenable.
Three members of the Webster family,
recently from Nebraska, the mother, aged
60, daughter, aged 30, and a son, aged 4,
were killed by iightning. Another son had
his leg broken and his shoulder dislocated,
and will probably die. H. B. Hibbs, aged
about 60, died from excitement, falling
dead in one of the store? on Military street.
The Occidental Hotel, now used as an
opera-house, was struck by lightning and
somewhat damaged. Four large hay-barns
in the neighborhood of the freight depot
were completely wrecked.
A conservative estimate of the damage
places it at about $100,000. There was little,
if any, cyclone insurance. The damage to
property west of Baxter Springs cannot be
folly determined. It is reported that for
many miles in the track of the storm fences
and barns are blown down and crops more
or Jess destroyed.
The west part of Lyon Township seems
to have had a touch of the twister. It
struck the farmhouse of Thomas Shields of
Lyons, demolishing his house and barns.
Mrs. Shields and her two children were in
the building at the time the storm struck
it. One of the children, a two-year-old
baby girl, was killed. The other child's
leg was dislocated and it was injured in
the back and spine. It will die. One or
two other farms in the immediate vicinity
of Mr. Shields' were damaged, fences,
trees, etc., being blown away.
W. L. Archer, better known as "Lute,"
•was found dead en the Noolan farm in
Fhf-ridan Township. He left McCue yes
terday afternoon about 4 o'clock, where he
Lad been on business for his employer, A.
Hood. It is supposed that he was drowned
while crossing a creek.
Forty miners at work in mine No. 47, of
the Kansas and Texas Coal Company at
Weir City, who had no knowledge of the
storm, were deluged with water. All nar
rowly escaped, but every mule in the mine
was drowned. The rain was the most vio
lent ever known, resembling a cloudburst,
and the entire country was flooded. Re
ports of further fatalities seem almost cer
tain when the roads are opened up.
WIXOAA IS WIPED OCT.
Many People Perish During the Great
flood There.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., July 6,-Winona,
in point of population and business im
portance the leading town of Shannon
County, was totally wiped out of existence
by a cloudburst or a torrent similar in
devastation between 10:30 last night and 1
o clock this morning. Winona is situated
"£*- th & C .y rrent Riv « branch of the Mem-
P&ifl Kailroad, 123 miles east and a little
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south of Springfield. It had a population
of 610. Twelve persons were drowned and
the financial loss will reach at least $60,000.
The dead are:
Rev. G. W. Duncan, Mrs. G. W. Duncan,
Miss Mattie Duncan, Mrs. Crawford,
daughter of G. W. Duncan; Miss Craw
ford, Mrs. George Nevins, Norma Nevins,
Maggie Cannon, John Norris, Mrs. Nevins,
daughter of Lloyd Wright, and George
Nevins.
The bodies of Rev. G. W. Duncan, his
wife, Mattie Duncan, Mrs. Crawford,
George and Norma Nevins and the little
Wright girl were recovered before day
light ana the others were found before
noon. The bodies of Mrs. Crawford, Mag
gie Cannon and Mrs. Nevins were found
two miles below the town.
The first information of the disaster was
this afternoon when Mayor B. F. Evans
telegraphed to this city and other places
for clothing and other aid. The heavy
rain accompanied by wind of cyclonic na
ture swept down on the town at 9 o'clock.
At 10 o'clock there was an awful torrent
raging and the water was from four to
twelve feet deep in the streets half
an hour later, with the downpour un
abated. Pike Creek, which runs through
the northwestern part of the town,
caught the debris and the struggling
people, carrying all away toward
Current River. The lightning was vivid,
and quick successive flashes showed
men, women and children struggling in
the torrent. They were clinging to broken
timbers, and cries for help could be heard
above the roar and din. It was after mid
night before the storm had abated so that
people were in places of safety. They
stood in the water until daylight. After
the water had in a measure receded in the
early morning, and the bodies of the dead
had been recovered, the survivors scat
tered among the farmhouses or went to
neighboring towns.
The first reports of the flood reached this
City shortly before noon. All wires had
been down since the night before and the
officials of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and
Memphis road were in the dark as to the
cause of delay to their trains on Current
River branch beyond the intelligence that
heavy rains had made a washout on that
road. Shortly after 2 o'clock this after
noon a dispatch was received from Willow
Springs, where the branch leaves the main
road, stating that the|storm had developed
into a cloudburst near Winona. Winona
is forty miles from Willow Springs. How
tne intelligence reached Willow Springs is
not known.
The dispatch says that seven bodies had
been recovered from the flood, and that it
was feared that the loss of life would reach
fifteen. Superintendent Emerick at once
made up a relief train, and with the two
company physicians and plenty of help
and a carload of provisions, left for the
scene of the trouble. Winona is 100 miles
from Springfield, and even though the
train succeeds in getting through to the
flooded district, it will probably be to
morrow before the extent of the damage is
known.
BIRCH TREE, Mo., July 6.— A cloud
burst occurred here at 10:30 o'clock last
right. Tvo heases were swept air ay en
tirely and seven torn from their founda- ;
tions. No lives were lost, though several
persons were injured. A carload of lime
in a warehouse was slacked and fired the
building, which burned to the grouud.
Whole fields of grain were swept bare.
Reports come in that Thomasville, in Ore
gon County, was flooded and Eleven Point
River was carrying death and destruction
along its path. It is impossible to reach
Winona, nine miles east of here. That
town lies low, and when the flood struck
it the loss of life must have been heavy.
OTTAWA, Ka.v., July 6.— The water in
the Maris dcs Cignes river here is the
highest known in thirty years. Forest
Park is flooded, the water having reached
the platform of the tabernacle, submerg
ing all the tenting grounds occupied at the
recent Ohautauqua assembly. The race
track is covered and the flood reaches to
the rear doors of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe shops. The gcity water-works
pumps stood in ten feet of water and were
shut down. The city fire engine was set to
pumping water into the mains at 6 o'clock j
last night and cont:nu,ed till this morning, I
when the water-works puraps were started '
again and are still working under water.
MARQUETTE, Kans., July 6. — The
Smoky Hill at this place ba3 overflowed
its banks and on the south side extends
nearly back to the bluffs, two miles dis
tant. The water is nearly to the second
story of the houses nearest the river, and
some people have been taken out in boats.
The approaches to the Missouri Pacific
bridge are washed away and the bridge it- I
self isjnearly off the abutments. Nearly all I
the wagon bridges across the river west of
here have been washed away, and the
water is the highest ever known. Several
houses have been swept away.
LITTLE GIRLS MURDERED
A Series of Shocking Crimes
in the English
Country.
Bodies of Victims Usually Hidden In
Fields by the Fiendish
Miscreant.
LONDON, Eng., July 6.— A series of out
rages and murders of little girls of the
ages ranging from four to seven years has
created great excitement among the work
ing classes in the district of Waithamstow,
seven miles northeast of London. Within
two months five little ones have been de
coyed from near their homes and vanished
completely.
Searching parties have found their
bodies stripped of all their clothing and
giving evidence of the most outrageous
treatment. In every case the victims have
been of the same type of children, who
have been playing along the roadside or
on the way of errands. The immediate
cause of death m every instance has been
strangulation.
The police inquiry points to a well
dressed man of 30, but there the clew stops
Only one of the many victims of the mon
ster, whoever he may be, has succeeded in
escaping death— a little girl four years old
After being subjected to the most horrible
treatment, she was found lying in a field
by persons whose attention "was attracted
by her cries. The child was unable to de
cribe her assailant.
Several half-witted men have been ar
rested on suspicion, but they have been
able to establish sJibis and were liberated
The miscreant usually hides the bodies of
his victims in secluded places in the field
and under hedges and covers them with
leaves. There is, as yet, absolutely no
trace of him.
SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 7, 1895-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES.
ALL ARE PATRIOTIC.
Americans Abroad Show
Their Spirit on the
Fourth.
ENGLISHMEN ARE COOL
London and Paris Delivered
Over to Visitors During
the Week.
SALISBURY IS EMBARRASSED.
During the Upheaval There Is
Great Turmoil Among Aspirants
for Honors.
[Copyright, 1895, by th« New York Sun.]
LONDON, Esq., July 6.— London and
Paris have been delivered over to Ameri
cans this week and they will hold possession
during the ensuing two months of this
summer. The occupation of two of the Old
World capitals by friendly New World in
vaders never before took place in such im
posing force. It has been demonstrated in
most annoying fashion that the hotel facil
ities of both cities are utterly inadequate
to meet even half the demands which are
frequently made upon the public houses of
New Yord City. Two thousand midweek
arrivals from New York who had failed to
engage quarters in advance had a sorry
time before they found roofs to shelter
them. The passengers coming to-day by
the Campania were rather more fortunate,
for the exodus of Londoners on account of
the waning season has now begun and in
a few days more the London hotels will be
given over almost exclusively to American
guests.
The celebration of Independence day
was the most prominent event of the week
in both the French and English capitols.
Never did the stars and stripes wave so
proudly, never did Americans sing "The
Star-spangled Banner" with such fervor in
foreign lands. Never, indeed, have two
j great companies of American citizens,
I electric with patriotism, assembled under
alien roofs to celebrate the National day of
the Republic. Even the sentiment-loving
Parisians listened with sympathy mixed
with surprise to the burst of wild cheers
with which the toast of the evening was
greeted at the Chamber of Commerce din
! ner, while the uncomprehending English
men, in whom patriotism is a decorous and
never uncontrolled emotion, looked upon
the fervent outburst of affection for their
country's flag, which the Americana here
indulged in, as a harmless form of mad
ness.
There was no diplomatic reserve in the
patriotic sentiments expressed by Em
bassadora Wayne MacVeagh and Eustis
when they presided in London and Paris
respectively. Americans at the King's
Hall especially were enthusiastic over the
skill and eloquence with which their rep
resentatives to the court voiced their sen
timents. The enthusiasm of the great
audience perhaps needed little curbing,
for there is nothing like London air to de
velop all the latent patriotism in the
American heart, but the tact and rare
sense of humor of Mr. MacVeagh enabled
it to find full vent without giving offense
to such sensitive English ears as might be
listening.
Another audience, composed chiefly of
Americans, filled St. James Hall last even
ing and gave the Cornell boys such a greet
ing as they will not soon forget on the
occasion of their first glee club concert.
No college music was ever given so well in
England, and it will be surprising if the
English public do not soon become equally
enthusiastic over the entertainment which
the undergraduates provide. If they only
learn to sing "The Star-spangled Banner"
with the same fervor that they give to
"God Save the Queen" Americans in Lon
don will be tempted to crown them with
the highest laurels of minstrels.
Lord Salisbury's administration is now
complete and the Tories will be able to
realize the full cost of Joseph Chamber
lain's co-operation in forming it. The
figures are positively appalling to those
" DON'T^YOtr' LIKE IT t " A QUESTION THAT 18 BEING ASKED ALL OVER THE WOULD.
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affected by them. The so-called governing
families in Europe, with their own people
in power, find themselves with younger
sons unprovided for, while common Radi
cals, with only a veneer of Toryism, are
reveiing in fat things. No wonder that,
according to some of the newspapers,
Lord Salisbury wrote letters of apol
ogy, stained with "tears, to several
noble friends whom cruel fate had com
pelled him to overlook. He evidently
loathes himself for his subsfffVience to the
Liberal-Unionist dictates, but what was he
to do? He could not dispense with Mr.
Chamberlain's assistance and he had no
option but to pay for it. Sir John Gorst,
the trusted friend of the late Lord Ran
dolph Churchill, was to be left out alto
gether, but he would not be ignored and
threatened, not obscurely, to form a group
of overlooked place-hunters, so an und|r
secretaryship was tardily given to him.
Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett got up me
morials to the Premier and then tried
threats and finally weakened and got noth
ing. Sir George Baden Powell, who dab
bled in the seal fishery negotiations and
has visited Washington ana other semi
civilized parts of the world, utilized the
influence of all his friends and himself
and worked with great fervor with the
object of getting the secretaryship of the
colonies, which he and his family considered
should naturally tail to his share. When the
secretaryship was given to Mr. Chamber
lain, there was great indignation in the
Powell family, but patriotism conquered
selfishness, and Lord Salisbury was given
to understand that Sir George, in the in
terest of his party and country, would
consent to cramp his great intellect within
the narrow limits of the under-secretary
shipofthe colonies, but, alas, he has got
nothing. Forwood, who was regarded as
a heaven-sent naval administrator, claimed
promotion and has not got even his former
minor post. Sir Albert Rolli, a shining
light in the Primrose League, claimed to j
represent the commercial class and
thought he ought to get in the Cabinet or
at least be Postmaster-General, but he has
been left out in the cold and declares his
intention to follow an independent course
in the new Parliament.
There is talk to-day of a big batch of
i peerages with a few colonial governorships
thrown in to solace the slighted ones, but
for the moment they refuse to lind
consolation and threats of cabals grow.
I Lord Salisbury treats them with tine con
| tempt, feeling secure of a large majority as
i the result of the general election, but if
I his majority should be small the malcon
tents may possibly give him a good deal
of trouble. The number of near relations
in the new administration is interesting.
They include father and son, Mr. Cham
berlain and Austin Chamberlain; a father
in-law and son-in-law, Lord Salisbury and
Lord Selbourn; two brothers, Arthur and
Gerard Balfour; an uncle and two
nephews, Lord Salisbury and the Messrs.
Balfour. and two brother-in-laws, Lord
George Hamilton and Lord Lansdowne.
Parliament was prorogued to-day, and
henceforth, until the conclusion of the
i electoral struggle, the peers of the realm
' are debarred from speaking or writing on
political affairs, but, a> lus been already
explained, this does not apply to their
women folks, and any number of countesses
and baronesses will take an active part in
the fight in the next fortnight. In Lon
don these aristocratic stumpers are devot
ing their energies pluckily to tbe artisan
! constituencies hitherto represented by Lib
eral members, and their successful propa
ganda is causing considerable uneasiness.
Chief among them are the Countess of
Westbury and the Prime Minister's daugh
ter, Lady Gwendolin Cecil, each of whom
addresses two or three public meetings
every day.
If it should happen that the Tories get
a working majority sufficient to be inde
pendent of their Liberal-Unionist allies
there will probably be a radical revision of
the present Cabinet, and Mr. Chamberlain
by no means secure a dominating influence.
In the political turmoil of the approach
ing general election the serious state of
affairs in Turkey is not receiving the atten
tion here wnich it merits, although most
people are able to realize the gravity of the
situation caused by the Bulgarian agitation
in Macedonia. Doubtless it will be found
sooner or later that Prince Ferdinand has
not acted in this matter on his own initia
tive nor without powerful backing; but for
the moment the whole business is mysteri
ous and confusing. One thing is clear, and
that is that the Sultan is in a most mad
dening position, wherein great danger lies.
The European pressure anent Armenia is
less real and urgent than that which is
daily, almost hourl}-, brought to bear upon
him from his own people. Europe, as far
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STATED BY FREDERIC
Excitement Rises Over
the Coming English
Combat.
LIBERALS WILL LOSE.
Gladstone Withdraws From
the Party in Extreme
Disgust.
NO, SUPPORT FOR ROSEBERY.
Scandal Caused by the Raising of
Certain Millionaires to
the Peerage.
[Copyrigdt 1895 by the New York Tlmes.J
LONDON, Eire., July 6.— During the
week a considerable change has come over
the political situation here. As the ex
citement of approaching combat rises you
hear the Liberals speaking much more
confidently than they did six days ago,
but in reality they have far fewer chances
of winning than they appear to have. In
fact it seems at the moment doubtful if
they have any chances at all worth dis
cussing. The selection of Monday for the
dissolution of Parliament renders it pos
sible for some of the borough elections to
be held next Saturday if the returning
officers choose to appoint that day, so that
it may be that the opening batch of results
will be chronicled a week from to-night.
If they do not foreshadow a crushing Lib
eral defeat, then omens are all at fault.
It was pointed out last week that prac
tically everything depended on Gladstone.
It was known to informants of mine that
he had returned deeply stirred up over the
Armenian question, and it was understood
that he had consented to waive his own
personal feelings as to the party's treat
ment of him, and come to the front with
another Midlothian bugle blast on this, to
him, burning theme, which might electrify
the country and give the Liberals such an
invigorating Impetus that they might carry
all before them. Something has happened
to prevent all this. Gladstone's two letters
of farewell to Midlothian have appeared,
and they are so chilling in tone and nig
gard of expressions of interest in the party
that the Liberal papers printed them in
small type and scarcely alluded to them
editorially. A few sanguine persons cling
still to the hope that the grand old man
is lying low, waiting for Monday to spring
his war cry. It is to be fe&red that their
faith will go unrewarded. I hear to the
contrary that Gladstone, furious at the ex
planations given by Rosebery's personal
organs in defense of his disgraceful honor
list, abruptly declined to lift a finger in the
elections, and the whole Armenian issue
has therefore gone by the board.
The events of the week furnished other
plausible excuses for Gladstone's disgusted
withdrawal, but the episode of the honor
list is the most probable of them. N©
other party retiring from office has ever
made more shamelessly mercenary use of
its power to confer titles. It is bad enough
that Lord Rosebery, who is preaching the
extinction of the House of Lords, should
have made four new peers. It is scandal
ous that at least two of these should have
been openly sold to millionaires almost
avowedly in return for big campaign fund
contributions, not to mention a baronetcy
given to another millionaire, Naylor Ley
land, in reward for having deserted the
Tory party a few months ago, bringing the
borough of Colonel Chester with him and
also drawing a handsome check.
":. There was a general outcry of shame
when these dignitaries were announced,
and to ward off attacks Rosebery's friends
had the meanness to circulate a news item
to the effect that he was really not respon
sible for the new peers, since they had
been promised their titles while Gladstone
was in office. After that they may whistle
for Gladstone's help.
Of almost equal importance is the de
monstration rushed forward by the Eighty
Club, and by its principal London organ
isers, that Kosebery is fastened irrevocably
upon the organization as its leader. This
will take all the nerve out of the
party everywhere. Harcourt, Morley
and a few other real leaders
are doing their best in the country by the
finest speeches that they ever made to undo
the mischief thus wrought. They barely
mention Rosebery's name, and ignore his
foolish attempt to subordinate the entire
Liberal platform to the solitary plank of
attacking the House of Lords, but the odds
are too heavily against them. As matters
stand, indeed, intelligent, far-sighted
Liberals see that the worst thing which
could happen to their party would be to
win some sort of scratch victory. It is
now necessary, if the part}' is not to be
broken into pieces and dispersed for years,
that it should be beaten now and have
time to reshape its organization, settle its
leadership and make sure that it will never
again be possible for a little crowd of in
triguers and moneyed snobs to rush into
it in an emergency.
There is already a movement on foot to
get the Radical members who are re
elected to promptly hold a meeting or
sign a paper to pledge themselves never to
support in the future a Ccbinet supporting
any peers. This is a better indication of
what the Radicals really expect in the way
of election results than all the brave
words on their platforms put together.
The best political guesser I know has put
the Unionist majority at 40. I own that
to me it seems likely to be larger. What
was said last week about Ireland
calls for some revision in the light
of more recent events. The Na
tionalists will be limited to two
seats in Ulster-Derry and North Tyrone.
The Parnellites will probably lose East
Clare and North Gal way, but will certainly
win North Roscommon with Jake O'Kelly,
possibly win East Wicklow and conceiv
ably may slip in a man in Cork City. In
other words, the Irish parties in the next
House will be about as in the last, minus
enthusiasm. As to internecine friction,
Healy is not pushing the advantage which
the control of the federation council ma
jority might give him. For instance, the
secretary of the council, David Sheehy,
who is hostile to Healy, might have been
thrown out and was not.
At the last meeting of the council, on
motion of Dr. Fox, a resolution of sym
pathy with the family of Dr. vVallace of
New York on the death of him and his son
was passed unanimously, but Sheehy re
fused to send it to the press and nobody in
terfered.
Three of Healy's warmest supporters,
Kennedy, Mains and Foley, who are also
among the strongest men in the delega
tion, decline re-election this year, which,
with those who were previously retired,
leaves only a dozen or so whose names
carry the slightest weight or who are able
to pay their own expenses. There is no
money, no fit men, and so Ireland may
hang up the fiddle till the beginning of the
twentieth century.
It would be unwise to attach overmuch
importance to the development of the
friction between the Tories and the Union
ists over the division of the spoils. It is
obvious that Chamberlain has driven a
very hard bargain and secured a vastly
larger share of the patronage plums than
i is numerical .following yntiiled him to. It
is equally apparent that the rank and file
of the Tories are violently enraged at this
and at the bumptious way in which Cham
berlain is already laying down tne law
in the matter of programme, committing
them to all sorts of wild-cat schemes of
social revolution, but I have seen Tories
quite as passionately outraged several
times before and heard curses and deep
mouthed pledges of mutiny fit to bring the
Carlton Club roof down over their heads,
but I never knew them to vote otherwise
than straight. They will vote straight
now and trust to luck to somehow get the
better of Chamberlain and his obnoxious
gang of allies when the crisis arises. Six
months hence these seeds of trouble inside
the Unionist Cabinet may have germinated
and be showing green above the ground—
they are not of much present significance.
Nor is it so certain that Lord Salisbury's
Government will not enjoy a career of more
than ordinary popularity in England. It is
stuffed full of lords, both in the Cabinet
and out of it. So many peers have never
held high office before, and with courtesy
lords and heirs of peerages, they have a
considerable majority of the whole Minis
try. Even the great spending denartment
of the postoffice is given to the Duke
of Norfolk, and there will be no official in
the House of Commons to answer questions
on its administration^ who more nearly
conforms to the general public than any
other. This big cynical bluff, by its very
magnitude and thoroughness, is not un
likely to amu.se rather than to offend the
democracy. Moreover, it is becoming un
derstood that troublous international com
plications are close ahead, and with Lord
Salisbury at the Foreign Office, the Duke
of Devonshire at the head of the new Na
tional Council of Defense, and the Mar
quis of Landsowne as War Minister there
is a suggestion of old-time aristocratic cap
taincy in days of stress which rather strikes
the British imagination.
The world will not halt on its axis, for
the British elections will be finished after
a fortnight. In spite of the reports that
the negotiations had broken down which
attained such volume and such an air of
authority at last that the wisest finan
ciers here were wholly deceived, the
Russo-Chinese loan has gone through, as
these dispatches insisted that it would.
So far as can be learned there is no modi
fication of Russia's original demands, ana
she takes as security a lien on the Chinese
maritime customs. This clashes at once
and sharply with England's vested inter
ests in China, and it is incredible that a
British protest will not be promptly forth
coming.
On the Continent, too, each week brings
new complexities of unrest and agitation
to help along an unexpected outbreak of
the Eastern question. Servia has now un
dergone an obscure ministerial revolution,
supposed to be mysteriously related to the
general effervescence in the Balkans. Bul
garia's responsibility for the Macedonian
order is not denied, but this throws very
ittle light on its object, unless, indeed,
;here be some underground compact with
Russia not known to the embassies.
The Armenia matter stands where it
did a month ago, awaiting Lord Salis
bury's decision on what use to make of its
tangled possibility of barter and war. In
our generation no change of miniaterial
power has been effected in England amid
so many and such varied portentiona of
storm abroad. The possibility that we
may see Lord Salisbury's hand displayed
in a sensational fashion in European di
plomacy, even before the votes are all
counted here at home, lends a zest to the
elections which compensates in part for
their threatened one-sidedness.
The first week of Mr. Smalley's service
GorUinncd on Fourth Paaa.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
MR. MANLEY'S VIEWS.
Did Not Shorten His
Trip to Boom Mr.
Reed.
SOME STORIES REFUTED.
Carter Will Retain the Chair
manship of the National
Committee.
SUPPORT FOR THE EX-SPEAKER.
The Maine Delegation Will Make the
Battle for Their Favored
Statesman.
AUGUSTA, Me., July 6. — Joseph H.
Manley was asked by a reporter whether
there was anything in the stories that have
been circulated to the effect that he short
ened his trip through Europe in order that
he might hasten home to help boom Mr.
Reed as a candidate for the Pres'dency.
Mr. Manley said that there was not a par
ticle of truth in any of these stories. Be
fore he left New York in March last he had
arranged for his passage home by the
American line steamer leaving Southamp
ton on June 22, and he carried out literally
the programme which he made before
leaving America. In reply to questions,
Mr. Manley said :
"There is not one word of truth in all
these stories about my views relative to
Mr. Carter. I have never heard the slight
est hint or received the least intimation
from any member of the National Repub
lican Committee that ther Q was or would
be any effort to depose Mr. Carter from
his position as chairman of that commit
tee. I certainly have no intention and
never had of endeavoring in any way to
bring this about.
"The National committee has only one
dutt to perform. It will meet next De
cember to select the place where the next
National Republican convention is to be
held and decide when it shall be held, and
when the next National convention meets
the term of office of the present members
of the National Republican Committee will
expire.
"Mr. Carter is a very able man, he is a
man of very strong convictions and his
pronounced views on the silver question
represent simply his own individual
opinion. Personally he is very popular
with the members of the National com
mittee and he will retain his position as
chairman of that committee until his term
)of office expires, unit ss he should himself
j voluntarily tender his resignation."
Mr. Manley said, very frankly, in
answer to some further questions as to the
political outlook, that during his absence
abroad he had not kept thoroughly in
formed as to affairs in the United States.
He said that, in consequence of this, ho
did not care to have anything to say about
the political situation until he had been
at home some time and had had an oppor
tunity to post himself thoroughly on
the run of things in the world of politics.
He did say, however, very emphatically,
that he had an abiding faith that Mr.
Reed would have the cordial support of
the entire New p]ngland delegation to the
next Republican National Convention, and
that he hoped and believed that he would
receive the nomination of the party.
The Rebublicans in Mr. Reed's own
State of Maine are beginning to talk about
delegates to the National convention. The
State and district conventions in Maine
will not be held until early next spring.
But it is sure that Maine cannot send any
delegation to the National convention
which will not earnestly and emphatically
urge upon the Republicans of the country
the nomination of their own fellow-states
man, Thomas B. Reed.
There is absolute unanimity in Maine as
to the nominee of the party for the cam
paign of 1896, and Mr. Reed will be sup
ported with an earnestness and enthusiasm
equal to the support given in old days to
Mr. Blame.
Maine has four delegates-at-large in the
National convention, and those most
talked of as likely to be elected are: E. C.
Burleigh of Augusta, ex-Governor of the
State Charles E. Littlelied of Rockland,
Harrison Hume of Robbinston (a member
of the present Senate of Maine) and George
M. Seiders, the present President of the
Maine Senate.
Mr. Littlefield will probably be made the
chairman of the delegation, and he will
present Mr. Reed's name to the Nationa
convention. Mr. Littlefield has always
been a warm personal friend and admirer
of ex-Speaker Reed, and no man in Maine
could better perform the task of leading
the Maine delegation at the next National
convention in the contest which they will
make to place Mr. Reed's name at the
head of the ticket for the great campaign
of 1896.
For Pacific Coast Telegrams see
Pages 3 and 4.
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