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great ability, earnestness and force of
character. During his first term in Con
gress, the fifty-second session, I appointed
him on the Ways and Means Committee,
notwithstanding it is unusual to appoint
a new member on that committee.
He had, however, been an earnest
advocate of tariff L reform and
came from the right section of the
country. It was soon proven tbat no
mistake had been made in putting him
upon that important committee, for in
that session he made a speech on the sub
ject of tariff reform whloh gave him a
National reputation."
Mr. Crisp added that Mr. Bryan was the
representative, the brilliant representa
tive, of the young Democracy, and ne was
very hopeful of his election. Mr. Crisp
felt sure that if elected his administration
would be in every way successful.
POPULISTS FOR BRYAN.
Senator William V. Allen of Ne-
braska Thinks They Will
Support Him.
OMAHA, Neb.. July 12.— Senator "Will
iam V. Allen. Populist, said in an inter
view here that he would go so far
as to say that the nomination of Mr.
Bryan was very pleasing to him, but polit
ically he was not in a position to say
whether he would give him his support.
Jn reply to a further question Senator
Allen said that he wouid not say what
action he would take until after the Popu
list party had decided what it would do.
While he did not say so in so many woros,
the impression was conveyed that he
would not be displease! if the Populists
saw fit to indorse Bryan.
In a speech in this city the Senator de
clared the Populist party could elect the
next President of the United States. The
audience interpreted it as a decoration for
Bryan, and the name of the Democratic
nominee was echoed by pit and gallery.
Whether the statement was intended to
carry that impression was not made clear,
for the speaker left the subject to attack
McKinley as the representative of tariff
taxation.
He ridiculed the battle-cry of "McKinley
and prosperity," and declared that a pro
tective tariff meant an increase of taxation
on the homes of the country. He quotf d
figures which purported to show that more
gold had gone out of the country under
Harrison's administration than under
Cleveland's, and argued from this that the
tariff had no connection with prosperity.
There was a deficit in the treasury for five
months before Cleveland came into office,
he said, and this nad been caused, in his
opinion, by the fact tbat the tariff had
been placed so high that no one was
willing to import.
The Populist convention on the 15th
will in all probability declare for Bryan.
One of the questions that was most
earnestly and most frequently discussed
about Omaha this morning was whether
Mr. Bryan wouid make his headquarters
in this city or in Lincoln. All the local
business men and the hotel men especi
ally are desirous that the headquarters
shall be here. Tne reason is too apjerent
to be pointed out. Concerning this mat
ter Mr. Hitchcock said this morning that
Mr. Bryan might make his present head
quarters at bis home in Lincoln, with his
official headquarters in this city. Anotuer
Omaha man who has been intimately as
sociated with the Democratic nominee
said he felt quite certain that Omaha
would be Bryan's principal place of busi
ness throughout the campaign. The
superior railroad facilities, be argued,
would go a long way toward deciding the
matter.
AU the railroad men are happy over the
nomination of the Nebraskan. They are
preparing to handle the large crowds tbat
are expected in Omaha daring the cam
paign to pay their respects to the nominee.
General Passenger Agent Francis of the
B. and M. said that he had already re
ceived a number of queries about special
trains to Lincoln, m the event that Mr.
Bryan should establish his headquarter
there. Tbe news that it was probable that
tbere would be no tormal visit from a com
mittee to notify the candidate of his nomi
nation was not received very enthusias
tically by the railroaders. They were ex
pectin* thousands of free silverites on that
occasion.
BRYAN IS RESTING.
Spends the Sabbath Quietly at the
Home of Mrs. Lyman
Trumbull.
CHICAGO, 111., July 12.— Exhausted
by the exactions attendant upon his nomi
nation for the Presidency, William J.
Bryan escaped last night from the im
portunate crowd of congratulatory Demo
crats and convention politicians and found
rest and privacy in the home of a family
friend. He accepted the invitation of
Mrs. Lyman Trumbull, widow of the re
cently deceased statesman, with whom he
studied law, and went to the old-fashioned
homestead oa the lake shore at No. 4008
Lake avenue, accompanied Dy Mrs. Bryan
and the children.
The nominee was so tired that it wan
afternoon when he arose. Early in tbe
afternoon Benator Jones, chairman of the
National Committee. Arthur Sewall, the
Vice-Presidential nominee, and another
Mr. Jones, who was chairman of the last
Democratic State Convention in Arkansas,
called at the spacious frame cottage to nay
their respects and politics was not dis
cussed. Mr. Bryan said he had made no
appointments with any one for tbe day or
evening and would take all the rest he
could get until tomorrow. He went
driving with Senator Jones and Mr. Sewall
in the afternoon and after dinner drove
with Mrs. Trumbull and Mrs. Bryan to
Oakwoods Cemetery, not far from the
Coliseum, to visit the grave of Mr. Trum
bull, to whom Mr. Bryan was devotedly
attached. He retired early so as to be on
hand at 9 o'clock at the Leland Hotel,
where he will meet the sub-committee of
the notification committee to agrta upon
arrangements for tbat function.
POPULISTS ARE PLEASED.
Chairman Taubeneck Says the
Democratic Nominees Make
the Roafa Easy.
ST, LOUIS. Mo., July 12.— About the
headquarters of tbe Populist party Na
tional Committee in this city there is a
spirit of exultation at the work of the
Democratic convention. Neither Chair
man Taubeneck nor his assistants will ex
plain their very apparent satisfaction at
the course of political events. When the
United Press dispatches brought to him
the fact of Sewail's nomination he pon
dered a moment and said: "This makes
onr course plain and the road easy. It
could not have been better."
The chairman yesterday sent to each
of the National Central Conimitteeruen
the following notification:
St. Louis, Mo., July 12. 1896.
I hereby notify the members of tho >'auoua!
Central Committee of the People's party to
meet in St. Louis on July 21, l»9t», at 1 o'clock
p. v. This will be a very important meeting
and every member should be present.
H. K. TjUtbknkck,
Chairman of National Executive Committee.
Plans for the Campaign.
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 12.— Vice-
Chairman Apsley of the Republican Con
gressional Campaign Committee left for
Canton last night upon the invitation of
Messrs. McKinley and Hanna. It is pur
posed that the National executive and
Congressional committees shall co-operate
in the campaign, and it is understood that
Mr. Apsley's visit to Ohio is in pursuance
of this plan. Chairman Babcock of the
Congressional committee returned from
Washington last night. He declares Mc-
Kinley will carry that State by a pluraiiiy
of 50,000. The committee is sending out
1,000,000 copies of speeches delivered in
Congress of late years on the financial
question. All the demand at present is
tor literature of this character.
BRYAN THEIR CHOICE.
Kansas Silverites Will Indorse the
Candidate Named at
Chicago.
TOPEKA, Ka>-s., July 12.— The State
convention of the Silver par»y to elect
delegates to the National Convention,
which meets in St. Louis next week, will
be held in Tcpeka on Thursday, July 16.
Many county conventions were held yes
terday to elect delegates to the State con
vention, and without exception the dele
gates were instructed to vote for only such
delegates as would favor the nomination
of Bryan and Sewall. Tbe silver men in
the county conventions have, as far as
practicable, chosen only Republicans as
delegates to tbe State convention, with the
object to make the movement appear as
independent of the People's and Demo
cratic parties as possible.
A number of Pebple's Party conven
tions were also held yesterday in different
parts of tbe State, and they, too, adopted
resolutions favoring the nomination of
Bryan for President. All leading Popu
lists, including Senator Peffer, Jerry
Simpson, ex-Governor Lewellyn, John W.
Breidenthal and W. A. Harris, ex-Con
gressman-at-large, are favorable to the
nomination or indorsement of the Demo
cratic candidates for President and Vice-
President by the People's Party.
COAST RATIFICATOINS.
Sliver Men Express Their Satisfac- 1
tlon With the Chicago Con
vention's Work.
SEATTLE, Wash., July 12.— The Seat- \
tie News, an evening Republican paper,
on the ground that tree coinage of siiver ]
is for the best interests of the country, ]
yesterday declared for the National •
Democratic ticket Regarding Mr. Bryan '
it says:
He fully represents the youth, vigor, inde- '
pendence and inspiration of the great West, .
toward which the star of empire has been
moving for a century. He is in touch with the ]
Industrial masses, with the producing classes, .
and the platform on which he stands is a» sig- !
nally lucid in its declarations of basic Demo
cratic and true Republican principles as the
bill of right'; as strenuous for manhood and '
liberty as was the emancipation proclamation. 1
There can be no doubt as to the duty of every <
citizen. .
Ex-Postmaster Griffith Davies, a life- 1
long Republican, who hela office during ]
the Harrison administration, in discussing |
the ticket and tbe campaign, said: '
"This will be a struggle between wealth- (
users and wealth-producers of this coun- '
try, and I believe the wealth-producers 1
will win." 1
Of the action of some metropolitan <
papers in bolting the ticket, Mr. Davies '
observed: "It is well known tbat the <
financial policy of six or seven leading j '
papers of New York City has for years «
been directed from Lombard street,
London." 1
EUREKA. Cal., July 12.— Democrats
turned out en masse last ni?ht to ratify tbe
nominations of Bryan and Sewall. Siiver ■
advocates from all over the county were
present and joined with the Democrats in
enthusiastic demonstrations. J. F. Coonan, I
chairman of the county executive com- I
mittee, in an introductory speech eulo- 1
eizeg tne party's choice and endorsed the
Chicago platform.
Other speakers of tbe evening were 8. I.
Allard, a candidate for Presidential Elec
tor; H. L. Ford, E. L. Mahan and D. K. B.
Sellers.
Davis Evens, a prominent lumberman
and an old- line Republican, took the stand
and enrolled himself in bilver's cause. I
Attorney Coffey of San Francisco spoke on !
the financial plank adopted by the Chicago
convention.
He reviewed the history of the two
metals and said he believed the free coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 was the only
way out of the present industrial depres
sion.
During Chairman Coonan's remarks !
great excitement was created by Jeff
Knight, a Populist leader, who exclaimed
in a loud voice: "You have insulted the
Populist party and they never will affiil
iate with such corruption. Eleven times
your party nas downed silver. Now you
come too late." He was led out of the
crowd by a policeman and the disturbance
was quieted.
SPOKANE, Wash., Ju:y 12 —A mass
meeting called by the Republican free
coinage party of this State was held at the
Auditorium last night to discuss the finan
cial question. It resolved itself into a
monster ratification of the platform and
candidate of the National Democratic
Convention. Silver Republicans, Demo
crats and Populists all advocated a union
of forces in support of the Democratic
ticket.
COLUSA, Cal., July 12—An enthusias
tic ratification meeting was held in Colusa
last ni^ht to celebrate the nomination of
Bryan and Sewall. Hundreds of people
lined the streets, and between the strains
of band music, the booming of anvils and
the bursting of bombs listened to the
speeches of Democratic leaders, amon
them Hon. E. A. Bridgeford, H. M. Al
bery and General W. 8. Green and others.
CARSON, Nev., July 12.— Forty-five
cannon salutes were fired by tbe Carson
silver men last evening in honor of Bryan
and Sewal!. Since the nomination the
county, Republican in tbe last election,
has become almost a unit for silver. The
nominations are pleasing 10 Nevada, and
the bimetalii*t and Populist delegations
which go \o Ht. Lou's on the 22d will vote
to indorse the Chicago nominees.
PHO2NIX, Ariz., July 12. -Democrats
ratified tbe nominations of Bryan and
Bewall last night. It was the greatest
demonstration of its character ever wit
nessed in this city. Tbe pyrotechmcal
display was magnificent. Thousands
threnged the streets, carrying transpa
rencies, on which was emblazened,
'•Bryan, Silver and Statehood." Repub
licans and Populists united with tbe
Democrats to do honor to the champions
of the silver en use.
CruliiM of Cholnra in Kqypt.
CAIRO, Egypt, July 12.— The number of
new cases of cholera reported throughout
Egypt yesterday was 362. The deaths
numbered 32L Among those who have
died from the dUepse U Major Owen of the
Boudan expedition.
.— «,
Grand Prix Jtieyclt liar*,
PARIS, Franc*, July 12,-The tinal heat
in the bicycle race for tbe Grand Prix waa
won at Vincennes to-day by Morin, a
Frenchman: Jacquelin was second and
Edin third.
THE SAX FRAXCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1896.
MANY MEETINGS
OF ENDEAVORERS
Sabbath Services Are Held
in Thirty Tents and
Churches.
RALLIES OF THE SECTS.
Evangelist B Fay Mills Creates
a Mild Sensation in His
Sermon.
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
Great Need at This Time of Chris
tian Leaders in American
Politics
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 12.— A list
of thirty meetings arranged to be held in
the tents and churches this af'ernoon
offered varying attractions to the 40,000
Christian Endeavor delegates in attend
ance here upon the fifteenth international
convention. They were mostly denomi
national rallies, and they drew crowds
according to the numerical strength of
each particular denomination. Tbe Bap
tists, Presbyterians and Consrregationalists
occupied tbe three tents on the White lot.
Speeches were made at these rallies by
prominent members of the several denomi
nation?.
Following these rallies, Evangelist B.
Fay Mills of Fort Edward, N. V., ad
dressed a large audience of citizens in Tent
Washington. He created a mild sensation
in the middle of his sermon by* a
pointed reference to Candidate Me
Kinley. Speaking of the extension of the
principles of socialism hS set forth in the
Sermon on the Mount, he showed the need
in the present time of Christian leaders in
American politics.
"Our candidates for public office fr^m
President down to constable should he
guided," said Mr. Mills, "by the spirit of
the lamb that was slain. They do pretend
to be, or they would not get onr votes.
If they came forward honestly aud maJe
known their real motives for running for
office we would not support them. Sup
pose McKinley should step before you and
say, 'Fellow-citizens, I wish to be your
President so tbat I can pay my debts'
[sensation], or suppose Bryan should say,
•I—l— l will be your President for my own
good,' why we would not choose one of
them to take care of our stray dogs. What
they say is, 'Fellow-citizens, I am reaiy
to be sacrificed upon the cross of public
duty. I am ready to be President or con
stable as my country calls me.' Tbat is
Christian. That is the spirit of the lamb
that was slain. It is a pity that it is not
always said in sincerity."
A Sabbath observance meeting was al*o
held in Central Hall, William Sb iw of
Boston presiding. Speeches were made by
Wilbur A. Crafts of Washington, Mrs.
Henry T. McEwen of New York and
others.
At the rally of the Congregational de
nomination held in one of the large tents
this afternoon Miss Margaret W, Leitch
of Ceylon delivered the following interest
ing address:
You gloTf to-day in the thought that Christ
is your captain and you are enlmed under his
banner. You glory to-day in the grent and
growing strength or your Christian Endeavor
host*, and you glory also in the faith, conte
cration and courage of your missionaries, who
are laboring to make known the love of Christ
to 'he millions in anevangelired lands.
You have at the front nearly 570 mission
aries distributed through twenty districts,
having: a popuistion of 100,000,000 people.
Your missionaries in Turkey have given an
object lesson to the whole world of seli-for
petting heroism, devotion to duty and faith ln
God.
More than eighteen months ago, after the
Sa*soun massacres, the missionaries in Turkey
fully understood that a general uprising of
Mohammedans against the Cnristians was
threatened, and that at those interior stations
far away from any consular protection their
lives would be endangered. Were they cow
ardsT Did they desert their posts? Bless God,
not one of the entire number was willing
to leave the Christian communities and the
institutions which had been established un
protected by their presence and at the mercy
of threatening mob?.
In October of last year, beginning nt Con
stantinople and sweeping over the land almost
to Persia, rolled the awful tide of massacre.
The slaughter and plunder continued for
nearly two months. The outside world, aghast
at the tales of horror that but faintly pictured
the reality, began to clamor for the abandon
ing of those interior stations. Then came the
letters from the missionaries, not written in
excitement, not the result 01 mass-meetings in
which one brave soul inspires the rest, but
penned singly, each writer expressing his or
her own brave determination to stand by the
suffering people, no matter what the personal
danger might be.
Oh, what sublime faiih and courage! God
bless those noble missionaries 1 During the
past three years, owing; to lack of funds,
serious reductions have been enforced. Thou
sands of chilai en are being turned oat of mis
sion schools. Many chapels and boarding
ichools are belog closed. Hundreds of trained
native workers are being dismissed, and some
of our noblest missionaries are breaking down
ln health because they are unable to ensure
this intolerable strain. Cannot the 500,000
member* of the Congregational churches and
the 363,000 members of the Congregational
Endeavor societies avert this disaster? The
Endeavorers here present have It easily within
their power to give or coliect the additional
sum necessary to save the foreign missionary
work from grave disaster; $100,000 will do
thi*. It yon are true in your profession of loy.
alty to Christ and the church, could you not
make this extra effort in addition t" all that
you are already doing?
To-night at 7 o'ciock Christian Endeavor
prayer meetings were held in all tbe
churches of the city. Preaching services,
both morning and evening, in the city
churches were well attended by citizens
and Endeavorers.
To-morrow is the closing day of the con
vention, Tuesday being given up entirely
to sightseeing.
SOCIALIST-LABOR ADDRESS.
Old Partis Denounced and Conditions
Declared to Be Ripe for Another
Civil War.
NEW YORK, N.Y., July J2.-The Na
tional Convention iof the Socialist party
has adopted the following resolutions:
Bfolved, That the National Executive Com
mittee be and' ls 'hereby instructed to ii>sue to
the people of the United: States au eddre«a in
which a full presentation shall be made of the
present class conflicts which ; have found ex
pression in the platforms of air the political
parties now in the field, and in which special
•trees shall be .laid ; upon the following fact*
an<l claims: Tne unconditional surrender of
the Democratic party to the Populist demand
tor a 50-cent dollar in opposition to the pluto
cratic demand for a 200-cent doilar marks a
new era in the development of capitalism and
capitalistic politics. Two claws, equally dis
honest and heretofore united for the spolia
tion of labor, are now politically arranged
« gainst, each other In a struggle for the preser
vation of tueir respective fleeclngs.
Peace may not be preserved. A great crisis
may come to pass without violent outburst.
For several years the Eastern plutocracy has
been drilling its militia, while the Western
farmerocracy was burnishing its gung. With
all the armed forces at its command, the
creditor class will unquestionably assert its
privileges as goon as they will be contested,
while the debtor class, holding sway in the
country districts, and relying upon the starved
wage-workers to fight its battles in the great |
industrial centers, will forcibly attempt to re- |
sst annihilation and make good its claims.
In a word, the conditions axe now as ripe for
civil war as they were at any time previous in
the history of our country.
Between the two anarchistic classes that
capitalism, through its misu^ of science and
riches has evolved from a people once united
in comparative ignorance and poverty, stands
the gre*t American polelarian, the wage-slave
class, the landless, homeless and helpless pro
ducer of all that wealth which is now the bone
of contention between its despoilers. It aud it
alone can save tne National ship from the
coming storm of anarchy, but rally at the polls
under the banner of socialism, casting over
board the pirates, taking the helm and steer
ing straightway for the peaceful waters of a
co-operative commonwealth.
New York City waa selected as the seaj
of the next National executive committee
and Cleveland as the seat of the board of
appeals.
BATTLE WITH ROUGHS.
Conductor and Engineer Badly Beaten
by a Gang Who Refused to
Pay Their Fare.
CHICAGO, 111., July 12.— The con
ductor of a Wisconsin Central suburban
train which left the downtown station at
1 o'clock this afternoon had a savage fight
with six men near Harlem station, in
which hoth trainmen were injured. Six
men who got on just outside of Chicago
refused to pay their fare, and in their ar
gument with the conductor retreated to
the front platform of the first car, where
they made a stand.
Three of the men got off the train, but
the others clambered on the tender, and
when Conductor Cole attempted to follow
them they hit him over the head with a
coupling pin, rendering him insensible.
Engineer Wiiliam King, who came to
Cole's aid, was set upon and badly bruised
by the three toughs. Tue men were kept
on the train, however, until tne uext
station, where they were placed under
arrest. Their names are George Letters,
Frank O'Hearn and George Mason. When
Conductor Cole recovered he lound he was
minus $41 which he had in his vest pocket,
but whether he lost the money in the
scuffle or the men robbed him, he is
uuabie to say.
WAS BEATEN TO DEATH.
Mrs. Hayden Rcberts of Peru,
Nebraska, Slam by Her
Husband.
The Murdrrer Then Dispatches Him
self—Note Show^g the Crime
Premeditated.
ATJBURN, Nebr., July 12.— County At
torney A. J. Burn ham returned to-night
from the scene of the murder of Mrs.
Hayden Robert 3 by her husband, near
Peru, which occurred this morninjr. He
c.-.ys the woman was kiikd by being beaten
over the head with the stock of a shotgun,
unf.l the same was broken, and then tho
barrel of the gun was u-ed.
Tbe murder was surely premeditated,
for a note was found near the dead
woman's body signed by Hayden Roberts
and saying that bis body would oe found
near the old salt basin in his father's
pasture, about one mile distant. The per
son finding the note did not think to look
at it until the middle of the forenoon.
Robert? had shot himself just back of tbe
right ear, aud seemiu,,iy died without a
struggle.
The tragedy is one of the most shocking
that ever occumd in Nemaha County.
Hayden Roberts was one of the oldest
resident* of the county, and a man of
some prominence. His father, an aged
veteran of the war and a man universally
respected, survives him. Henry Roberts,
a brother, was years ago a clerk in the
office of the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction at Lincoln. The murdered
woman was a widow when she married
Roberts, with children of h?r own. Their
home life was not always happy, but as to
who was to blame opinions diner.
HAWAIIAN ISLAND NEWS.
Independence Day Is Celebrated
at Honolulu on an Elabo
rate Scale.
Fifteen Thousand Japs and Chinese
Expect-d to Arrive Within
Twelve Months.
HONOLULU, Hawaii, July 6— As the
celebration of American independence and
the first anniversary of the establishment
of the republic of Hawaii feil upon July 4,
th« American residents and Hawaiian
citizens united in a joint celebration on
last Saturday which far surpassed any
previous affair of the kind held here. A
marked feature of the event was the par
ticipation of many native Hawaiians and
the general friendly feeling displayed by
the natives during the day.
Considerable anxiety is beinp; felt lately
by the friends of the Government over the
question of Asiatic immigration. The late
Legislature, which ha«, not without cause,
been called "the planters' Legislature,"
passed a bill limiting the number of
Japanese laborers by one yes-el to 7uo men.
It is now alleged that the bill, seemingly
in favor of reduced importations of planta
tion laborers, was a put-up job. The
serious charge is made that tho planters
had all amngnments mode with the
Pacific Mail Company, so that hereafter
all its steamers from the Orient w«ll touch
here, each bringing a full complement of
700 laborers. The first installment arrived
by the Doric yesterday, and it it said the
remaining steamers to touch here will
laud Io.OW Japanese laborers within the
next twelve months.
In addition to this it is learned on the
best authority ttie Government has
granted written permission to a local
agent of Chineno labor to bring in 6000
Chinese laborers during the same period.
These facia have become known to the po
litical leaders, and have already rai-ed
much adverse comm°nt. At won as the
facts become generally known, it is feared
the popularity the Government haa en
joyed since the establishment of the Re
public will be seriously compromised, if
not permanently impaired.
The wf-h is generally cxi ressed that the
Government will find itself strong enough
to carry out the policy of political und
commercial compromises entered upon
soon after its establishment, without
either injuring its own popularity and use
fuiness or alienating the support of the
large number of American residents who
entered the movement to secure annexa
tion on principle, with no thought of oom
promising with tbe planters in the mean
time.
That the immigration question is the
most serious of the hour does not seem as
yet to'be realized by the Government, and
I am quite certain from a recent interview
with one of the Cabinet that tbat body
does not even know that threats have
been made by the opponents of Japanese
immigration to prevent the landing of
future shipments of cooly labor, if the
scheme of the planters ia carried further.
It is announced on good authority that
tne white population of the islands will, if
forced, take concerted measures to pre
vent the proposed importation of nearly
fifteen thousand laborers during the
coming year.
The fact that 36.000 unsurcharged 18
-cent postage-stamps of the old monarchy
were put on sale at the postoffice lastweeK
wa« soon followed by some rumors of an
attempted stamp deal in official circles,
which had failed to mature owing to the
vigilance and prompt action of the Minis
ter of Finance. After considerable trouble
tbe following facts in the case wete
secured from semi-official and official
sources and can be relied upon to be sub
stantially correct.
Ou June 26 the Postmaster-General
called on Minister Damon and asked his
permission to sell at face value the stamps
in question. These consisted of 36,000 18
-cent stamps, which had been condemned,
being stuck together by hut weather. The
Postmaster had separated them by steam
ing so that they could be sold. After con
sultation with Judge Cooper, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, consent was given that
the stamps were to be sold for lace value
and the proceeds, $6480, turned over to
the treasury.
Aa the stamps in question are worth
$1 each some of the clerks in the post
office applied for some of them, but were
toid by those acting for the Postmaster
that the stamps were all sold to a syndi
cate, the names of whom were refused.
Rumors that another stamp deal was on
in < ih'uial circles were soon current on the
street, and, it is supposed, reached the
Minister of Finance, as the next day he
sent for the Postmaster-General and in
formed him that as the stamps were cata
logued at $1 each by stamp dealers and
were worth 50 cents each at forced sale
the public should have the advantage of
any commercial speculation in the matter.
This attitude of Minister Damon, who is
upright to an extreme in mch matters,
caused the postoffice syndicate to vanish,
and the stamps are "now being eagerly
bought up by the public and local dealers.
It is alleged that one official, who was a
member of the syndicate that failed, dis
posed of several thousand dollars' worth
of Plantation stock at a discount to carry
his share of the stamps. Had the syndi
cate succeeded in getting the stamps'they
would in a few months have made a small
fortune, as tneir profit on a forced sale, at
wholesale rates, would have been nearly
$12,000.
A BIG FIRE AT ST. LOUIS.
Assistant Chief Fatally injured— Lost
Ettimatrd at $100,000.
BT. LOUIS, Mo., July 13.— At 2:15
o'clock this (Monday) morning fire was
discovered in the Merchants' Terminal
Elevator, at Biddie street and the levee.
When the Fire Department arrived the
building was a mass of flames and a gen
eral alarm was turned in. Assistant
Chief Hines fell from a ladder and was
probably fatally injured.
Tne fire continued to spread rapidly and
at 3:20 o'clock another alarm was sent in
and more engine* were sent to tbe scene.
At 4 o'ciocic it was got under control. The
loss is roughly estimated at $100,000.
SLUGGED AND ROBBER
Xete I'ork Jlnmrmli'nlrr , Falls Among
'Ihievea in Joint.
OTTUMWA. lowa. July 12.— William
Gray, a horse-buyer for Crandall & Co. of
East Buffalo. N. V., was slugged at \Yi;
liamsburp, lowa '"last night and robbed of
$2500 in cash and a gold watch and chain.
He came from Preston -to -Williamsbure
on a w night passenger train about 11
o'clock. as he got . off the train he was
accosted . by a man whose features he
I could not discern in the dark. As he went
to town he was struck on the back of the
neck with some hard instrument. When
he came to his watch, chain and money
were gone, with the exception of $40 in a
trousers pocket, which the robbers over
looked. Gray is badiy hurt.
Cloudburst Drowns an Aged Lady.
AUGUSTA, Ky., July 12.— About mid
night last night there was a cloudburst
four miles south of here on Big Bracken
Creek, greatly swelling the little stream.
Mr». Henry Susco, 64 years old, was caught
in the swollen stream and drowned.
Thousands of acres of tobacco and corn
were destroyed.
Three Young Men Drowned.
BUFFALO, N. V., July 12.— A sailboat
containing three young men capsized on
the Niagara River, near the foot of Austin
street, this afternoon. The current of the
river at this point is very strong, and be
fore assistance could reach them tney were
drowned.
tire Wire Causes a Denver Hlaz».
DENVER, Colo., July 12.— The two
story brick building of the Denver Con
solidated Light Company at Twenty-first
and Wyncoop streets, was destroyed by
fire to-night. The lire was caused by a
live wire crossing tbe switch board. To
tal loss, $130,000; insured for ?120,000.
Clerical Victory in. Belgium.
BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 12.—Rebal
lots for members of the Chamber of Depu
ties in the district where the candidates
failed of election last Sunday were held to
day. The returns from 400 polling stations
show that the clerical candidates received
98.100 votes, the radical socialists 88.800.
Thiny-eight polling stations are yet to be
heard from.
<>rnn<j» Free state Gold Fields.
> LONDON, EsoLAyn, July 12.— The
Times will to-morrow publish a dispatch
from Vienna saying that Emil Holub, the
noted African explorer, has received de
tail" of the discovtry of gold fields in the
the Orange Free State which rival those of
the Transvaal.
DAIRYMEN AT LOS ANGELES
ProtperoUM Condition of the Southern
.*' ; California Atsoeiation.
LOS ANGELES, . Cai,., July 12.— The
second annual meeting of the Dairymen's
Association of California was held yes
terday in : the assembly- room of the
Chamber of Commerce. ..;, President Ses
sions . called tbe . meeting ,to order • and
spoke briefly. He said the association wag
only two years old/but was in a prosper
ous condition. 1 In referring to tlie law
which brings filled cheese under the con
trol of the Government internal revenue
officers, be said it was a preat success, as
it brought $2,600,000 into the Govern
ment's treasury. Before -the tilled-cheese
law had been enacted * there were 400,000
pounds sold in California in one year, and
the year J after the law, went s in to effect
th"re were only 20,000 pounds sold.
President Sessions stated that the dairy
men would ur.e the continuance of the
dairy bureau by requesting the next Le,'i>
lature to re-enact the law making the bu
reau permanent,-. The present law expires
on June 30, 1897." ■
A new board of directors and officers are
to be elected. The present board consists
of:. M. Sessions, pr-sident; R. ft. R:Udon.
secretary G. H. Peck, vice-president. . The
directors; are: ' c." E. Mitchell, W. H.
Smith, George Platt and D. Durkee.
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Surmmba to Meat A'aar 2Heree<l
MERCED, Cal., July 12.— The fourth
case of sunstroke has been added to
Merced County's deatbroll for the week.
Coroner dough was notified last evening
that Peter Peterson of Stockton, a line
man in the employ of the Valley road,
had succumbed to the heat while at work
near Mariposa Creek.
GOSSIP OF THE
FATHERLAND,
General Exodus Frcm Ber
lin for the Summer
Vacation.
MINISTERS DETAINED.
By Order of Emperor William
They Must Remain at
Their Posts.
REVIVAL OF COUBT SCANDALS.
The Powers Reach an Armistice in
the Diplomatic Warfare Over
Turkey.
BERLIN, Germany, July 12.— With the
departure of the imperial family from
Potsdam, there has been a general flight
from Beriin of official, court and society
dignitaries and leaders. The Emperor
has not permitted some of the Ministers
to leave their posts as yet, and has re
quested Freiherr Marschal yon Bieber
stein, Minister of Affairs, Dr. Miquel,
Minister of Finance, and Dr. yon Boe:
-ticher, Imperial Secretary of fctate for the
Interior, to keep in touch with him by
telegraph, The minor officials, however,
are free to go wherever they please, and
the consequence is that the various de
partments of the Government bear a list
less and solitary aspect.
The group of court dames remaining as
the entourage of the Empress, together
with the Crown Prince William and his
brother, Prince Eital Frederick, who re
cently came home from Ploen, where they
have beeu at school, kept the circles of
tbe new palace lively until Thursday
when the Empress and her family left for
the schioss at Wilhelmshohe. The Kais
erine, accompanied by the Princess of
Russe, tbe Princess of Hohenzollern,
Prince Asibert and Princess yon An halt,
took boating excursions on the Havel
every day and had their Juncbeon on an
island in the river. There were also in
formal musical parties la the evening and
som 'times tue elder of the young prin
cesses would be permitted to give an early
supper party. During the day the prin
cesses were compelled to confine them
selves for a limited time to their studies.
Theot>serv;:nce of this programme lasted
until the party was broken up by the de
parture of the Empress and her children
for Wilhelmshohe, where they wiil remain
until tbe Emperor returns to Berhn from
the trip he is taking in the northern bous
and rejoins the imperial family, wLich he
wiil do early in August.
The scattering of the whole of the great
world of Beriin has seemed opportune for
authors of libelous pamphlets to try the
credulity of the public by issuing a bro
chure containing pseudo revelation? of
court scandals. Under initials which in
dicate the^names of the personages impli
cated in the scandals tbe authors of the
pamphlets rehash the old stories which
were published long ago, many of which
have since beeu repeatedly shown to be
untrue.
Yon Kotze's wife, who is staying at Ed
mansdorff as the guest of the Princess of
Saxe-Meiningen, knows nothing of the
pamphlet, and others of Yon Koize's
friends declare that the publication of the
stories were not authorized by him. The
policß are prohibiting the sale of the
pamphlet.
With Prince Lobanoff-Rostovsky, Rus
sian Minister of Popiffn Affairs, in Bwit.
z°rlami, where he will go this week from
St. Petersburg; Prince Huhenlohe, the
German Chancellor, at hi* chateau at A.t-
Au^e, Austria; the King of Greece at Aix
les-Bains, for which place he is about to
start for a three weeks' sojourn, after
w icl» he will jro to Copenhagen for an
other three weeks' stay; the Czar on the
eve of visiting the European capitals and
all of the leading dij.lomiU* contemplating
holidays, there will oe a pause in th? de
velonmentx on the situation in the liust,
as might be expected.
The Politibcbe Corresponde, an official
9 • ■
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9 Palaro, san Jose, and by sea to Crescent City, Eureka, Point Arena, Bodega, Santa S3
m Cruz and Monterey. .- »«
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spent Our July Catalogue tells more about It. tjp
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1 1 1 $5.00 Buys S
@ Nothing for something; I •' ;.
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go. 414, 4-16, 418 FRONT STREET, NEAR POSTOFFICB,
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c>"»an ha». information that Prince Loba
noff-Rostovsky will devote his leave of
absence absolutely to the repose winch is
necessary to xhe restoration of his health.
There is rfo doubt that Europe has
reached a period of armistice in the diplo
matic warfare over Turkey, but the Gov
ernments are relying too much upon the
slowing up of matters in Cr te, and the
unlikelihood of a recurrence of important
events in that island is the official impres
sion here. Dr. Nicholaides. the official
representative of the Cretan Reiorm Com
mittee, wno is now in Berlin, distrusts the
present comparative calm and regards it
merely as a brief truce before the break
ing out of the storm. The only c:.ance of
permanent peace in Crete, he declare*. 11
in the intervention of" the powers and the
granting of autonomy to the island.
Apart from ihe opinion expressed by Dr.
Nic .olaides advices have been received
here from Cauea to the effect that althoneh
the Christian deputies will attend the
opening session of the Cretan Assembly
to-morrow, they do not intend to engage
in debate with the Moslem deputies, but
will present to Berovitch Georgi Pasha,
the newly appointed Christian Governor
of Crete, who will preside, a document
setting forth the claims of the Christian
Cretans, to which will De added a demand
for universal suffrage and the recognition
of a Cretan flag with the cross thereon.
They will give the Porte a short time in
which to respond to these demands, and
if the Porte's reply shall be unfavorable,
as it certainly will be, the Christian denu
ties will constitute an independent assem
bly. In the meantime the insurgent-w ill
seize the advantage afforded by the Turk
ish troops being forced into inactivity and
occupy ail of the strategic points in the
island. J , „
The fus* which has been made by the
French and Belgian newspapers over the
formation of a German military camp at
Elsenborn, on the German frontier, has no
substantial basis.
Two years ago, as was cabled at the time,
the Government purchased larL'e tracts of
ground at Malmeder and Eisenborn, which,
it was understood, were to be devoted to
making experiments in field operations
and shooting practice with various kinds
ot guns. Since that time the bouses upon
the land purchased have beer, torn down
and replaced by extensive barracks, and
roads and trenches have been constructed,
but no fort works nave been erected. There
is ample room for the camping of 4000
men. There is no doubt that the position
woul dbe of great strategic value if Ger
many designed to strike at France through
Belgium, but there is not the slightest
siirn of any intention on the part of Ger
many to create a stronghold there, and the
imliirnant protests ot the French and
Belgium press have been wasted.
PLAINT OF A MOSHOVXA. MAN.
Demands of Goreruor Bud I Itnn ediate
Pautnent for Coyote .scalps.
SACRAMENTO. Cal., July 12-Goyeiw
nor Budd is occasionally the recipient of
letters which wouid persuade almost any
person that there are times when it would
seem advisable to adopt a course of physi
! cal culture or strive to attain that quick
ness of action so essential to the peaceable
j enjoyment of existence upon tne frontiers.
The following is but a fair sample of this
class of epistles, and is given verbatim :
July the 9, 1896, Monrovia, Loss Angels,
Co, Cal.
Mr. James Budd, Esq. Govner of California.
Dear Sir i will write you a few Li acs to let
yon know that I am in need some Money
my home Is under mortgage and I will have to
Ixiose it if you Dont sena me my money which
the state Treasure is debter to me three hun
dred dollurs lor coyote f-ralp*. you must
do something I have got to have my
money it iaust come, i hold yuii re
! spou<ible for It, you may send me my money
I anc l I will give you a power of eturney to col
lect my claim* from the state, you will please
gtve this attention and save a good deal of
trouble. 1 must have my money thi* month
Burely. (signed) Jackson Higgins.
Srlmn. Roy Impaled on a Fork.
FELMA. Cal.. July I.— The eldest son
of A. G. Brown of this place, « lad of 14,
was yesterday impaled on a pitchfork.
There is little hope of hjs recovery. He
was on a load of hay when he was jolted
from the wagon. Tne fork fell from his
bands to the ground and he fell upon it,
one of the long tines penetrated bia
threat.
The 4th
Reminds us of the glorious record of our
country, which is not more glorious in its
way than the record of Hood's Sarsapa-
rilla. So many cures of cases considered
incurable, so many hearts made happy by
health restored, so many truthful testimo-
nials telling their joyous tales, hare never
been won by any other medicine.
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
The Best— ln fact The One True Blood Purifier.
Hnod Pill«s cure Liver IlhT; easy to
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