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VOL. XVIII.-PRICE TWO CENTS- { &S&$& \ " ST. PAUL, MINN.: MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1895. BULLETIN OF. ftt£ DAILY GI^OBE,. MONDAY, SEPT. 10. Weather for Today- Fair, Warmer. -'.'?■".'"- . PAGE 1. Veterans Gather at Chicknmnnsrn, Four Score Drown in Paciftc. Cyclone nt Mm! i-.0-.ii. State of the Piatt Forecs. Hornltlo.ver to Sncceed Jackson. PAGE 3. New Swedish Pulpit List. Dr. Smith on Glories of Nature. Curroll D. Wright Talks. PAGE 3. Mill City Matters. Henry Clews' Financial Review. Depew Stirs ip the British. PAGES *. Editorial. PAGE S. Apostles Win From Terre Haute. Millers Unfortunate. Rain Cheats the Hoosicrs. Dunraven's Latest Letter. PAGE «* i- ii lii k Star Story. PAGE 7. The World's Markets. People's Wants. PAGE 8, Women Suffragists Hopeful. Dr. Conley Scores Saloons. Chat With Steve Brodle. TODAY'S EVENTS. Metropolitan— IV., 8.15. Grand— On the Bowery, 8.15. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMSHIPS. NEW YORK, Sept. 15.— Arrived: La Gascogne, from Havre; Rotterdam, i from Rotterdam. HAVRE— Arrived: La Bourgogne, New York. SOUTHAMPTON— Arrived: Trave, New York for Bremen. _M»i Utah will be the next state to make Uncle Sam see stars. Chicago has a prominent citizen named Equine. ' He doesn't talk horse inordinately, however. I, mi The Great Northern-Northern Pa cific talking match is reaching pugilistic proportions, so to speak. Peffer's whiskers and "wheels" are • running night and day without ex citing anything more than merri ment. . _ ■■ r The Italians will make Rome howl In earnest next Friday, "the twenty fifth anniversary of the unification of Italy. Having received the indorsement of Chauncey M. Depew, Mr. Glad stone may have to let out his hat band a little. The St. Paul league team, in giv ing Mankato a lesson in base ball today, will administer defeat as gently as possible. An immense demand for mush rooms is reported in Chicago. That i town always had a partiality for mushroom growths. The San Francisco judge who fined a woman for wearing bloomers and confiscated her "pants" must be set down as rather severe. — _-» Mr. Greenhut is organizing an other whisky trust. It will not, however, benefit the man who wants | to "wet his whistle" on credit. _» After this week the Minneapolis papers will have six months in which to explain why the Flour City base ball team got no better than fourth place. _■ The supreme court acknowledges receipt of W. W. Erwin's 600-page protest against the verdict in the Hayward case, but this does not mean that the court intends to read" the volume. _» Those Kansas people do some very shocking things. They postponed a baptism out at Jamesburg the other day for twenty-four hours so that a ball game could be played. -___» • It is still Impossible to state ■whether John J. Ingalls is going up hill or down in his attempt to get a chance to misrepresent Kansas an other half-dozen years in the United States senate. :7~7 '' ■■■ The real reason why Lord Dun raven refused to race any more may not have been guessed. Perhaps the blue-blooded Britisher was afraid he ■would win and have to pay his crew pensions for life. The state fair association should not forget an elaborate vote of thanks to the weather clerk, who gave us six beautiful days and kept rain in the background until a little after midnight Sunday morning. Thomas Christian Piatt has his •wires all laid for the New York convention. He will attempt to elec trify the country with an indorse ment of the wig in the governor's I chair at Albany known as Levi P. Morton. Something must be done to edu cate the bloodhounds of Indiana. A brace of them treed the wrong man, and he is sufficiently unappre ciative of that kind of a Joke to bring a suit against their owner for $10,000. _■_■ . Possibly Illinois and Minnesota should jointly petition the Wisconsin legislature to take some action tc prevent so many children in short dresses and knickerbockers from flying to Hudson and Milwaukee to get married. IBEETJIOWIHPEAGE VETS OF THE BLUE AND GRAY GATHERING IN CHICKAMAU GA'S FIELD. • — THE NEW NATIONAL PARK MARKING THE SITE OF THE GREAT BATTLE TO BE DED ICATED THIS WEEK. ' VISITORS BY THE THOUSANDS. .--■:'- -'■-■'__-' ■ Congress nnd the State Govern ments to Be Represented at the Ceremonies. - ■ CHATTANOOGA, Term., Sept. 15. —Under the guiding hand of the secretary of war, acting under the authority of congress, Chattanooga and the notable battlefields sur rounding it have been prepared for a national event without parallel. Great throngs of veterans who fought against each other are crowd ing into the city to take equal part, under national enactment, in the dedication of ' fields which their prowess made memorable, as a na tional military park, wherein the movements and the achievements of , each side have received impartial at tention. As provided in the act of congress, Secretary Lamont has invited the attendance of the executive depart ment of the government, the mem bers of the supreme oourt, congress and its presiding officers, the lieu tenant general of the army, and the admiral of the navy, the governors of all the states with their staffs; and the veterans of the contend ing armies. All are prominently rep resented. Nearly every surviving general of the two armies has sent notice of his intention to attend. The governor of every state which had troops in the action here re sponded favorable to the secretary's invitation. In a few cases the gov ernors themselves will be prevented from attending, but their states will be officially represented. A joint committee of twenty sen ators and thirty members of the house will represent congress.. The members of twenty-six state com missions who have been at work with the national commission in lo cating the lines of battle of troops of their respective states will attend. The Society of the Army of the Cumberland, of the Army of the Tennessee, the G. A. R. and the as sociation of Confederate veterans will be present in unusual numbers. This concourse of people' is to be increased by a gathering of an ARMY OF VISITORS already known to be so great that it will tax the capacity of the rail roads centering here and the city ■to their utmost. x The secretary of war and the na tional commission, acting under his direction, have made every possible arrangement which the expenditures authorized by congress allow to en sure the comfort of visitors; and through large and influential citi zen committees the city of Chattan j ooga has given itself with every en ergy and enthusiasm to the work of assisting the secretary of war. Lieut. Gen. Schofield has contributed every assistance which could be giv en from the headquarters of the j army and the movements of regular troops from Fort Sheridan, Fort Riley, Fort Thomas, Columbus bar racks and Pensacola has presented an instance of rapid concentration of I special interest. The telegraphic no tices from Washington to the na tional commission that distant bat talions, batteries and squadrons had been ordered to move were scarcely received before dispatches arrived at park headquarters from each post that the troops were start ing. THE PARK which is to be dedicated is of un usual dimensions.. It extends, with its approaches,, from Sherman heights, in Tennessee, six miles north of Chattanooga, to Glass Mill, in Georgia, a distance of twenty-two miles. The broad boulevard- be tween these two points is owned in fee simple by the government as part of the park, and full jurisdic tion over this, over the fifteen square miles of the Chickamauga field and over many miles besides of old approaches has been ceded to the government by the states of Tennessee and Georgia. This central drive runs for ... eight miles along Bragg's line of battle on the crest of Missionary ridge. It passes along the fronts of Sherman's army, Thomas' Army of the Cumberland and the army under Hooker. It over looks all the battlefields about Chat tanooga, including Lookout moun tain, and runs for "twelve miles through the center of the fighting ground of the three days' battle of Chickamauga. Of the territory over which jurisdiction has been . ceded to the United 'States for park pur poses, ten square miles has been al ready purchased in a single block on the Chickamauga field. The en tire crest about Bragg's headquar ters on Missionary ridge; Orchard knob, the headquarters of Grant, Thomas and Granger during the battle of Chattanooga, a tract eight miles in extent; fifty acres at the north end of Missionary ridge, be ing the ground assaulted by Gen. Sherman and defended by Cleburne, and a tract of five acres on another portion of the ridge marking the • left of , the assault of the Army of the Cumberland, form portions of the park. Congress has also authorized the adding to the park of Hooker's and Walthall's battle ground on Lookout. The government already owns the roads, to and over Lookout mountain Hooker's field to^Wau-. , hatchie oh" Longstreet's -field. ;-"r? 7 .?.? The park and its approaches there fore embrace or overlook the field of five days of general battle between great armies and three days of minor .engagements, namely: Chickamauga, Orchard Knob, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, Brown's Ferry and Wauhatchie. THE PLAN OF THE PARK is to restore the fields as nearly as pos sible to their condition at the time. of the battle, to _ close all new roads and reopen and improve those used in the battles and over which the armies moved to and from the fields. The lines of battle have all been ascertain ed and a vast amount of work towards permanently marking them has been done. This is accomplished by histor ical and guide tablets which point the way to and explain the movements upon every portion of the lines. These tablets show the organization of armies, corps, divisions and brigades, with the names of their respective com manders and their staffs on the field and the commanders of all regiments and baterfes. Full historical" text on each tablet sets forth the details of movement at each point. There is no distinction in the prepara tion of the tablets between Union and Confederate forces, nor in any other department of the work of establish ing the park is there any 'difference. The design is to mark with historical accuracy the identical ground of en gagements which occurred on these fields and thus present an object les son in actual war, such as no other nation has attempted. Besides the historical tablets which are prepared by the government,, the states are erecting monuments" to mark the position of their troops. Al ready nearly a half million of dollars have been appropriated by states which had troops here and all of the states. Wisconsin, 10; Michigan, 11; Missouri 1 Confederate and 4 Union, and all these states have numerous markers. Kansas has three excellent monuments to her one regiment. Penn sylvania is working energetically under large appropriations and Tennessee is preparing contracts for four large mem orial monuments, one of which is to Confederate soldiers. New York is pre paring to erect costly and Imposing memorials on the Chattanooga fields. All of these monuments thus far erected, except those from Indiana, are granite or bronze. Those of that state are Bedford limestone. CONCEIVED BY BOYNTON. The park project and the main de tails of its comprehensive plan were the conception of Gen. H. V. Boynton; now the historian of the national com mission. His suggestion to make Chick amauga a national park was taken up by the secretary of the Army of the Cumberland and his first plan was to accomplish this through a joint memo rial asssociation through Union and Confederate veterans, with the idea ot securing state assistance. A memorial association was organized and charter ed, but before it began operations he perfected a plan for a national com mission, acting under the supervision of the secretary of war. He wrote a bill which is the present law, placed it in the hands of Gen. Grosvenor, of Ohio, who introduced it in the house of representatives. Many members of the house and senate took an immedi ate and strong interest .in - the meas ure, notably thirty of those who served In one or the other armies about Chat tanooga. Before it was called up, uni versal support had been secured for it and it passed both houses by unani mous consent. It provided for the pur chase of 7,600 acres of the Chickamauga field and for the annual participation of both sides in the marking of the lines and the erection of monuments. All subsequent appropriations, now ag gregating $750,000, have also passed without opposition. Secretary Proctor took great interest" in the matter and appointed the com mission under which the park is being established. Senator Elkins gave the project energetic support and through the last two years, while the immense work has been taking final shape, Sec retary Lamont has rendered constant and most energetic assistance. THE NATIONAL COMMISSION consists of Gen. J. S. Fullerton, chair man; Gen. A. P. Stewart, represent ing the Confederate side; Maj. Frank G. Smith, secretary, and Gen. H. V. Boynton, historian. Gen. Fullerton, by order of the secretary of war, has full charge of all arrangements for the dedication. The official dedica tion under the auspices of congress and the secretary of j war will occur on the 19th and Mth Instants, but ex ercises of a general character, which will be attended by most of the officials which are to arrive, will ocuppy the whole day of the 18th and the even ings of the 18th, 19th and 20th. The dedications of state monuments will occur mainly on the 18th. Michigan, her governor presiding, will lead off at Snodgrass Hill at 9 a. m. Ohio, with an elaborate programme, will follow at noon at the same place, and Minnesota at 2 o'clock. These exercises will all take place at the platform and amphitheater erected for the national dedication exercises at the foot of Snodgrass Hill, the fam ous Horse Shoe Ridge of Gen. Thom as' battle. .?:,'? The night of the 18th, in the tent provided for .dedication purposes at Chattanooga, the Army of the Cum berland will hold Its reunion. The tent seats 8,000 and the platform 2,000 more Upon the.p latform will be seated the leading officials, both na tional and state, in attendance at Chattanooga and the leading veterans of both armies, and the Society of the Army of the Tennessee in a body. Gen. C. F. Manderson will be the or ator and there will be brief speeches from Lieut. Gen. Schofield, Gen. Dodge, president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee; Gen. Daniel Butterfield, Gen. Horace Porter, Gen. J. H. Wilson, Col. Fred Grant and Father Sherman. DEDICATED AT NOON. At noon of the 19th the Chickamauga field will be dedicated, the vice presi dent of the United States presiding, upon the invitation of Secretary La mont The orators will be Gen. John M. Palmer and Gen. John B. Gordon, both of the United States senate. The night of the 19th, in the tent at Chattanooga, the veterans of Sher man's and Bragg's armies will hold public exercises, Gen. Granville M. Dodge, president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, presiding. The chief speeches will be by Gen. O. O. Howard, Gen. Joseph Wheeler, of Ala bama, ? and Gen. Willard Warner, of Chattanooga. ? During the forenoon of the 20th there will be a parade and a review, in which all organized military bodies and the governors of states will. take part. At noon the dedication of the Chatta nooga fields will take place in the tent, the speakers being Gen?" Charles H. Grosvenor, of j the house of ; represent atives," and Gen. William Bate, : of the senate. The night of the 20th the ex ercises in the tent will be conducted by the veterans of Hooker's and Long street's forces, Gen. F. C. Walthall, of the United States senate, presiding. ITIS|O^BLOWER CLEVELAND'S CHOICE OF A JUR IST TO SUCCEED JUSTICE r JACKSON. ■ THE MATTER IS SETTLED, PROVIDED THE NEW YORK MAN CAN BE ASSURED OF CON- s FIRMATION. HILL NO LONGER OPPOSES. Probability That the Appointment Would Meet With Little or No Opposition. Bpecial to the Globe. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. —It is learned today that President Cleve land has determined to offer Will iam H. Hornblower, of New York, the place on the supreme bench made vacant by the death of Justice Jackson. The president . has - had communication with Mr. Hornblower and he is willing to accept the ap pointment provided there can be no doubt of his confirmation .by the senate.^ Inasmuch as the antagonism to Mr. Hornblower, when he was nominated for the place made vacant by the death of Justice Blatchford two years ago, was lead in the sen ate by Mr. Hill, it is reasonable there will be no antagonism now. It is well known that Senator Hill will make no further objection to the confirmation of Mr. Hornblower, and that apparently leaves a clear way for his nomination and confirmation. Sen ator Hill said as much as this confi dentiallly to a friend at Manhattan Beach several weeks ago. The presi dent's admiration for Mr. Hornblower is well known, and his was the first name. thought of after Justice. Jack-, son's death. Those in the confidence of the president in such matters have no doubt the whole matter is arranged and that Mr. Hornblower will be nom inated and promptly confirmed im mediately, after ths reassembling of congress. • < . TWISTED A TRAIN. Cyclone Wrecks a Northwestern Freight Fatality. MADISON, Wis., Sept. 15.— afternoon a cyclone knocked ten oars from the Chicago & Northwest ern track, near this city, seriously injuring Conductor Henry Starr and Brakeman Feltz, of Baraboo, as well as Dennis Foley, baggageman, of Evansville, aJI of whom were in? the caboose, which went down a thirty foot- embankment. Feltz may die, being injured internally, and -will lose a leg. Starr was injured about the head and chest, but will recover. The cars were badly wrecked. Trees and a barn or two •in the neighborhood were blown down. A ■ flood of water. came" with the wind. I HOLLOW HORN BEAR ARRESTED i Agent Wright Places the Red Firebrand in the Guardhouse. OMAHA, Neb., Sept 15.— telegram from the Rosebud agency says that Agent Wright had Hollow Horn Bear put: in the guardhouse. No resistance has been offered thus far by his friends, although some fear trouble. It is known Maj. Wright, who has been on the reservation since 1881, is an ex cellent judge of Indian character and a man of unquestioned nerve, and as that quality Is the one the Indians most respect the chances are that the agent's action -will break up the out break. It certainly will if the police , remain loyal, and Maj. Wright must have known they would before taking ] this step. - Hollow Horn Bear was sur rounded by the police while riding over to the reservation inciting his braves to action. • ;.. FATALITY ON THE DIAMOND. '., Dakota County Deputy Auditor Dead. Special to the Globe. ' HASTINGS, Minn., Minn., Sept. 15.— James A. Duffy, deputy county audi tor, died this evening, his sudden de mise being attributed to hernia, caused while participating in a base ball game at North Side park last Thursday. The sad event casts a feeling of sorrow and gloom over the entire community. Mr. Duffy was born in Baltimore in 1844, coming to Hastings in 1869.- He was quite a prominent and well-known Democrat, admitted to the bar of Da kota county in 1872. He was a member of the board of education, member of the church choir of the Church of Guardian Angels and belonged to Hast ings Division No. 1, A. O. H. He was married and leaves a wife. BONANZA IN ORE. Superior Mining Company Open ing Up New .{Mines, y-y' -y - DULUTH, Minn., Sept. 15.— The Lake Superior Mining company is about to erect a second mining plant at Hib bing, covering ten acres. Two shafts * are already being sunk and work will commence, on two more at once. - On the Sauntry and Clark property at Virginia, where seven new pits are' being . worked, the largest and . best body of ore yet discovered in that sec tion has been found. Not a pit but ends in ore, and the depth of the ore body is yet unknown. Wisconsin Fair Opens Today. * Special to the Globe. MILWAUKEE. . Wis., Sept. 15.—Sec retary Fleming has concluded all ar rangements for the Wisconsin state fair, which will . open . Monday. -It promises to be the largest and most complete fair in the history of the Agricultural society. Racing will be gin Tuesday. . The . purses .-* are ". large and a big field of good horses has been entered for all the events. Joe Patchen and John R. Gentry are matched to beat the stallion pacing record. Mr, Fleming has stipulated In his contract with the owners that the mile must be:' made in 2:04 or better or the purse of $3,000 will be forfeited. y J ■•' V . Tramp Badly Crushed. _ y Special to the Globe. '-'? V'"-^ LITTLE £• ALLS, Sept. 15.— James Mcllvlane, of Mendota, 111., fell* off: a. brake beam of passenger train No. 8. at 4:30 yesterday. He was dragged' nearly. 600 feet. He was sent to the* hospital, where ,it is thought The, witf-' die, aq he W&s badly crushed. He had r a check rot $28 ln his pocket. ?.-*! ?_---%_p' Killed In aii Oregon Wreck. Special to the Globe. '- : V >r ' .".''• •>: - - HASTINGS," Minn., Sept. 15.— dis patch was' received this evening an? nouncing that A. H. Schneider, of this city, -was killed in a railway wreck > this i morning at Arlington, Or. The remains will be forwarded here for burial. CAUGHT YACHTERS UNAWARES. Possible Loss of Life in Storm at . { CliieiiK'o. CHICAGO, Sept. With little or no warning a terrific wind and rain storm struck this city at 6 \ o'clock this afternoon, and for more than an hour numerous small craft that had been caught some distance out in the lake were in danger of capsizing. The ; yacht "Jag," with a party on board, was caught off Hyde Park, and as darkness settled over the lake soon afterwards it was reported that she had been lost with all on board. At a late hour, however, the yacht ran in at South Chicago, hav ing run before the wind to that point under bare poles. Shortly before 7 o'clock the Evanston life saving crew were notified that two men in a small boat, which appeared to be unman ageable, had been sighted off the Evanston shore. >.y-:' The crew manned the surf boat and went out, but when they arrived at the point where the boat had been seen last it had disappeared. It is the be lief of the life savers that the two ocupants of the boat lost their lives, as it was said that no small boat, es- SSBlfc^^^ THE STRONGHOLb ON THE ROrtD TO THE INEWT'cfI.-A^lP'l-^OHicloj Tikes'-Hebauj. Wfy~ pecially one :InJ an unmanageable con- ; ? dition, could live in the sea that was running. Rain came down in \ tor- I rents for more than an hour, and the j storm was accompanied by a brilliant j electric display." Four or five houses j were struck by lightning, but no fa talities were reported. At South Chi- | cago one woman . was rendered un- ' I conscious but was restored after a short time. . - MANY BONES BROKEN. Plain- Proof of Brutality at Dun- L . :• .1 ningr. . ' - CHICAGO, Sept. 15.— body of David Adam who it is said came to his death at the hands i of attend- ' ants at the Dunning insane asylum, ' was ;_ exhumed in Oakwoods ceme- j tery today, and a post mortem ' ex- , amination held under the direction of - State's Attorney Kern and Cor- , orel* McHale. The coroner's : sur- ' geon found that Adam had been ' treated in a heartless manner be fore his death. There were numer ous t scalp ; wounds, the nasal bones on both sides were broken, the upper I jaw bone on the left side of the face was broken,? the thyroid or Adam's i apple | broken and the fingers and \ left hand badly scalded. The cor- [ oner immediately ordered the im- | panrielling of a jury, and it is said j when its verdict is given the state's j attorney will order a thorough in- j vestigation of the insane asylum by j a grand jury. SHOT. DOWN HIS RIVAL. The Girl a Witness of the Bloody 7. . . Deed. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 15.— Near Green Pond, twenty-five miles from here, J. D. Catchings and Sidney Blackb***-"*-., were paying attention to th*., same young woman. Last night they met at her house and a- desperate hancL- to-hand struggle followed. Black burn got his pistol and fired three shots in ''rapid succession, the first taking effect in Catching' s forehead, the sec- 1 ond in his temple and the third in his heart, producing instant death. Black burn fled, but has sent word to the sheriff of the county that he will sur render, iy -ning that he acted in self defense. The ' young woman was an unwilling witness of the tragedy. . WHOLE BLOCK IN ASHES. Disastrous Fire Rasing: at Union City, Term. s | NASHVILLE, Term., Sept. 15.— formation Just reached here from Union City stating a fierce fire is now raging there. A whole block is now consumed, in which is the Obion county. >•- The origin '." of the . fire Is unknown, . but it is supposed to have caught from the bath rooms of a barber shop. Loss about $30,000; insurance unknown. At 10 p. .':" m. the flames are thought to be under control... . ''-':' -."V' "'. .'■•' Smokeless Powder Went Off. . SANTA CRUZ, Cal., Sept. 15.— ex . plosion In .- the smokeless department at the powder works . today killed Maxle Grim and fatally burned James Howard. About 650 pounds of powder being made for the cruiser Boston went • off.— Howard's .- clothing ? was - entirely 1 burned - off and his body .is a : mass of - burns.. The cause of the explosion is unknown. • ______ _, Rejected Lover's Revenge, '...,. HOUSTON, Tex., " Sept. 15.— Near- Black's mill, near Giddings, Oscar Hen > nlngan . blew ' out Martha - Bradley's j brains because • she rejected* his 'suit. - He-tried;: tO shoot her _ father . but ths !cm failed:' to explode. He was ar rested. ..- .-.■■-.' IS THE SLATE ALL FIXED IP BY BOSS PLATT FOR THE NEW YORK REPUB LICAN r CONVENTION. EXCISE CLOUD LOOMS UP. i i ~l - - "■ ! SUNDAY CLOSING IN GOTHAM PROMISES TO MAKE MUCH TROUBLE. __ THE PLATFORM IS READY-MADE i . ._ i . i . : 7 : -Z; ' 77z7 ; • It Indorses Governor Morton nnd 1 Pronounces Against Free Sil . ver -Coinage. I SARATOGA, N. V., Sept. 15.-— The ticket which will be put in the field by the state Republican convention will be: "Judge of the court of appeals, Celora E. Martin, of Binghamton. Secretary of state, John Palmer, of Albany. THEIR ROE OR TODAY. - Comptroller, James A. Roberts, of - ' Buffalo. . .... : State treasurer, Addison B. Colvln, of Glens Falls. Attorney. general, Theodore C. Han cock, of Syracuse. ■■*•--.. ----- • ■'-...- State engineer, Campbell W. Adams, of Utica. y. The platform, in .substance,- will affirm these principles: ■■■•" - -?-._,. Congratulating y the V Republican party upon the dawn of prosperity in the country and state, due to the confidence inspired in the people by the return to power of a Republican congress, congratulating the wage earners, the sugar - planters, the ag riculturists and the business men that the conditions are such that the Republican party can fulfill its pledges of protection to American industries; condemning the' policy of the Democratic administration in declining to act decisively on the Armenian and Chinese questions, for inaction on questions of financial policy, its refusal to aid the old- sol dier and its disregard of civil serv ice law; commending the proposed constitutional amendment to bond the state for $9,000,000 to enlarge and improve the canals; indorsing the administration of Gov Levi P. Mor ton; commending the last legislature in the attempt to free the great city of New York from the burden of rule by the Democratic ring; the ad ditional tax on sugar, and declaring that the present tariff system in augurated by Democrats is a men ace and detriment to the country;fa voring an honest dollar and oppos ing any effort to coin silver freely or lower the currency standard and favoring an international agree ment which will result in the use of both gold and silver as an interna- ' tional circulating medium. EXCISE CLOUD.- Tonight on the horizon there Is a sullen-looking cloud . marked "ex cise." Edward Lauterbach, Mr. Piatt, Thurlow Weed Barnes, Lou Payne, Frank Hiscock, Frank Hen dricks, Warner Miller and Charles I W. Hackett are trying to stay the anticipated tumult. New York, Kings and Erie are the three coun ties where the troublesome cry is coming from. As yet the representa tion* from these places is small and the full delegations will not be here until tomorrow, so that the action to be taken cannot be determined. Mr. Piatt is inclined to believe that an affirmation for the protection of the American Sabbath and yet favoring more liberal excise laws in some way, is the proper course. It does not seem possible to frame a resolution that will please both the Sabbatarians and the liquor dealers and their friends. That somebody from one of the three counties named will In troduce a local option resolution is fairly certain.? The only other trou blesome question before the leaders is the sentiment being agitated in favor of an enlarged state commit tee, and those who lead the agitating forces are inclined tonight to be lieve that nothing will be done for them. They discovered today that it was the design 'of the : Piatt forces to - prevent the agitation ..' reaching the convention by _._. '.. '■■■'■ FORBIDDING ANY DEBATE on the introduction of I resolutions, and ? also • upon the ''■■ platform when reported to the convention. . They have decided to make a fight in the open convention by nominating Hon. J. Sloat Fassett for temporary chair man. The convention -as planned PRICE TWO CENTS— {^^ffi. }— NO. 259. will meet at noon, and Congressman Sherman ! will be made temporary chairman. Senator Lexow will be permanent chairman and Edward Lauterbach, of New York, chair man of the committee on resolu tions.-'? .... ' From 11 a. m. until nearly 11 o'clock tonight the party . leaders struggled with the excise question. There were present Messrs,? Plaft, Lexow, Thur low W. Barnes, Hiscock, Hendricks, Hackett, Lauterbach, Green, Ken yon, Miller, Sloane and a few of the minor lights. Mayor Green, of Bing hamton, said he was' for a plank in the platform that would declare against the sale of liquor on Sun day. Mr. Barnes said he was for allowing the sale of liquor on Sun day with certain regulations. Mr. Piatt said: . . "I believe it is entirely a legislative matter, but I am not prepared to say how it shall be handled." Close to midnight, after consultation with almost half of the delegates, the leaders of the party determined that they would, avoid the question of ex cise 'altogether, and make no recom mendation In the shape of a resolution ! unless forced to do so by the introduc tion of such resolutions. . ' — "~ ' Used Oil, Powder and Dynamite. SCARBOROUGH, N. V., Sept. 15.— Late last night fire destroyed the large - barn,, hen-houses and several hot ! houses, the property of John D. Rock- i efeller. The buildings, |it is believed, | were set on fire, empty, oil cans, pow- j der and dynamite being found in the • woods near by. Loss estimated at $30,000. _: . THROTTLING THE U. P. The Omaha Bee Makes Charges ! Against Huntington Crowd. j OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 15. — The ' Omaha Bee has a column editorial today discussing the Pacific railroad j question and probable solution of ! the intricate subject at the next con- j gress. The article is devoted par ticularly to the possible future of the ! Union Pacific. After discussing the •history of the road from its incep- ! tion and the imperative demands j for a change, the "editorial refers to ! the numerous efforts .of railroad j rings to wreck the property, and i adds: j "During all this time congress has ! been sawing wood. The officers of J the federal government who should [ have interfered to protect the gov- j ernment and moved for the recovery ■ of the property diverted and stolen ! have not lifted a finger. The only : thing attempted up to . date is the ' suit in California against the Le- ' land Stanford estate, and has al- ' ready been turned to a farce. ! "In dealing with the Pacific rail- ! road debt, congress should, as a I preliminary step, require the Union ' and Central Pacific roads to be op- ' crated as one continuous line. It should be first and foremost to com- < pel the Huntington syndicate which ! controls both the Southern and Cen- J tral Pacific to take hands off the I throat of the Central Pacific and I give it a chance to do business. As j it now is, and has been for years, j the Central Pacific is being starved ' to death, and the Union Pacific is ; being seriously crippled by the pol- * icy which the Huntington syndicate is pursuing. Not only has there been a systematic diversion of freight' from the Central to the Southern! Pacific, but the whole road has been j so shamefully neglected as to make it impossible for the Union Pacific to compete for through traffic from : the coast. The very latest effort to ' hamper the Union Pacific is the ' proposed abandonment of all but one i passenger train— that between Og- i den and San Francisco. At the ; same time the Southern Pacific has j recently supplemented Its passenger j train service by a new palace coach ! flyer which is advertised to reduce time and afford luxurious accommo dations. How can the Union Pacific be expected to earn operating ex penses under such conditions, much less to lay. up a surplus to pay off its bonded debts? Something must be done by congress if the govern ment's interest in the ? Pacific road is to be protected and people in the central belt who depended on these roads for an outlet to and from the coast are to have the transporta tion facilities to which they are en titled." gggg£C ; ;?': No* Fear of Cholera. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-Dr. Wy man, surgeon general . of the Marine hospital service, feels assured that all possible precautions haye 5 been taken to prevent an epidemic of cholera or yellow fever. He says that the cool weather will do a great deal to keep out ■ the diseases and . probably the country having; escaped so far there need be no fear of an invasion at this late date in the yea*. WITH 81 OH BOfIHD BRITISH STEAMER CATTEIU THUN LIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PACIFIC. ONLY TWENTY-SIX SAVED OUT OF A LARGE LIST OF PAS* SENGERS AND CREW. STRUCK ON SUNKEN HOCKS* And Quickly Went to Pieces ia Darkness and the . Storm. NEW YORK, Sept. 15.— A special j to the Herald from Vancouver, 8.C., j says: - The 2,000-ton China steamer j Catterthun, bound from Sydney to | China, with eighty-one human be ' ings on board, is lying many fath -1 oms deep off Seal rock, near Port • Stevens lighthouse. Only twenty-six lives were saved. The terrible de tails', of the catastrophe fill many pages of Australian papers. : y The following are the names of the drowned: R. Frazer, R. Smith, Mrs. Mathias, Mrs. Loring, Miss Loring, Neil Shannon, Liverpool, master; W. P. Pinney, chief officer; Harold Lei fler, third officer; R. H. ? Anderson, surgeon; J. H. Harper, Scotland, chief engineer; F. Wilson, second engineer; R. Manning, chief steward, and forty-one " Chinese. .The accident was due to currents drifting the steamer on the rocks in the fury and darkness of the storm. Mrs. and Miss Loring were the wife and daughter of the secretary of the Imperial Federation League of Au stralia,* and were well known in San Francisco, having been on their way there via China. " At the coroner's inquest it was em phatically proved that the steamer was being steered all right and that the? only way to account for the ves sel's striking was that some mys terious current carried her on the rocks.' Following is an account of the disaster by a survivor, Dr. Cope man, which most accurately and briefly detailed the circumstances of the disaster: - "I was returning to England by way of China via Vancouver. At 2 o'clock in the morning. I was shot out of .the bunks by a terrible shock, which was followed by the second one. I rushed on deck and found the steamer listed and rapidly settling. An officer told me we had struck a rock. There was no screaming. The skipper was as cool as possible, and told the passengers not to get ex cited. In the meantime the steamer was being washed to pieces. Capt. Shannon gave orders to lower the boats, and Immediatly afterward he was washed overboard and drowned. As the boats were lowered they were dashed to pieces or swept away. At last only the starboard boat was left. There were thirteen people in it. It was torn from the davits and washed away. I sprang into the sea and was picked up by a Chinaman. We rescued twelve more, the China man working heroically. "The last one we pulled in was a European. He dropped limp in the stern. I asked:. 'Who are you?' He said: 'Fawkes, old chap, thank God.' We tossed about standing all night with seas washing up over us, and were picked up by a fishing boat in the morning. The cargo of the Cat terthun was very valuable. Among the cargo were 10,000 sovereigns. FITZ WANTS* TOO MUCH.?:'?; Big Fight-May Not Come Off if Ha Persists. CHICAGO. Sept. 15.— 1n sporting cir cles here It is said tonight that if Bob Fitzsimmons adheres to his determina tion to claim a part of the proceeds on the various concessions or refuse to go into the ring there is a proba bility - that the big fight between him and Corbett will not take place at all. Dan Stuart * said yesterday that the picture privilege had been sold to W. A. Brady when the articles of agreement j were ... signed. . The other privileges were his own and he would never surrender a part of them to any one no matter what the conse quences. Stuart is of the opinion that the hanging up of a purse of $41,000 is all that can be expected of him by the fighters, and . in this position he Is generally, backed up by the Chicago sporting fraternity. ---??";