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VOL. XIX.— NO. 210. BULLETIN OF THrE ST. PflrUL GLOBE. TUESDAY, JULY 98, IS9C. A'entlirr for Today— Fair, Warmer. PAGE 1. ftfyan May Refuse Pop Nomination. Work for Senator Butler. Hail Ruins Clay Connty Crops. The Gray-Western Sensation. Battle of the Winils. Eimtern Rivers Very High. PAGE 2. Dornn Ousts Board of Public Works. Illinois G. A. R. Will Bring a Hand. PAGE 3. Tennis Tourney at Mlnnetonko. Great Cry for Lower Taxes. Minneapolis Democrats for Silver. Critical Situation in Matabeleland. PAGE 4. Editorial. Review of St. Louis Convention. PAGE S. Columbus Makes It Three Straight. Minneapolis Defeated by Detroit. PAGE 6. Wheat and Corn Rates Down. Bur Silver 68 B 8c Cash Wheat in Chicago 58 5-80. Stocks Close Heavy. PAGE 7. JMiuioK,-rai>hiiiK a Human Soul. Wants of the People. PAGE 8. Tapper for Insurance Commissioner. Unlawful Killing of Chickens. TODAY'S EVENTS. Central Fire Hall— Fire Board 4. Ramaley's — Cycle Club Hop 8. MOVEMENT OF STEAMSHIPS. NEW YORK. July 27.— Arrived: Amster dam, Rotterdam; Tauric, Liverpool, Fries land, Antwerp; Mohawk, London; Georgia, Copenhagen. HAMBURG— Arrived: Bolivia, Norfolk. ANTWERP — Arrived: Southwark, New York. Sailed: Kensington, New York. CHERBOURG— SaiIed: Saale, Bremen for New York. LONDON— Arrived: Megantic, Montreal. •». 1 This campaign is a regular 13-15-14 puzzle. Mr. Watson is 13. _^_ The visit of Mr. Platt to Canton has been postponed indefinitely. -^ Li Hung Chang also favors gold — a great deal of gold in pocket. -♦- United labor is showing a disposi tion to walk on Mark Hanna's grass. George Fred Williams is looking for some Massachusetts prairies to set on fire. Among the distinguished Kentuck ians in the woods are Col. Watterson and Col. Bradley. m ■ At any rate, Arthur Sewall will not be called upon to use his bank in the interests of the Populists. m It is becoming apparent that there is no rush for either the band wagon of Mr. Bryan or Mr. Levering. -^- St. Louis may be considered safe for all time. It has withstood a cyclone, a Republican convention and a Popu lrst convention. -^. Up to the Ist of July 14,144 American bicycles had been reported stolen. This is but another evidence of the popular ity of the wheel. -^»- Geologists have found vibrating hills in the Bad Lands. The whisky of Mandan and Medora is much worse than was supposed. The public is warned that the new potato bug is doing business entirely on its own hook without the indorse ment of Mr. Pingree. m Three Chicago boys robbed a church. They are merely following in the foot steps of their fathers, who rob the city in the common council. There is to be so much corn In Ok lahoma that it will sell for eight cents a bushel. Oklahoma ccrn can shake hands with the Minnesota potato. .^ Taubeneck, Coxey and Carl Brown are threatening to take the stump for Bryan. Of course, it is yet possible for Mr. Bryan to bribe them not to do it. m The gold Democrats of Alabama have drawn a queer color line. They are willing to vote for MeKinley if no col ored men are put on the electoral ticket. m Mr. Watson says the interests of this great republic demand that Mr. Sewall shall withdraw. Mr. Sewall telegraphs right back that he cannot hear Mr. Watson. -^». "Cyclone" Davis admits that he anu his Spartan band of 250 may conclude after all to keep off the grass. This will be pleasant reading to the whole country. m , — , A foul fly knocked out the eye of an Ohio man who was attending a Sun day ball game. That foul fly was preaching a little sermon against Sun day ball. Senator Mantle and Congressman Hartman assert that they will become Republicans again after this campaign Is over. Isn't there such a thing as a great party putting up the bars against Buch people? -•- No man has ever reached the depth of despair until he has punctured his bicycle tire eleven miles from a rail "way station and remembers that his quick-repair outfit is hanging in his kitchen in town. -«_ In most of the Northern states it is evident that the Populists are going to indorse the Bryan and Sewall elec tors. This makes it all too plain that Mr. Watson's "frost" will extend from Bangor to Tacoma. A thrilling sight was witnessed in a Now York street the other evening. A young woman violently seized a burly teams-tor who was belaboring a worn out horse, and compelled him to do ■iat. She was connected with a theater aud did it for advertising purposes. THE SAINT PAUL GIjOBE. BHYAfI JttflY HEpOSE QUESTION OF WITHDRAWING HIM FROM THE POPULIST TICKET DISCI SSED. MR. JONES SAW GOV. STONE. THEY CONSIDERED THE MATTER, BUT HAD NOTHING TO GIVE OUT. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE NAMED. Middle Road Populists Are Ready to Act in Case Mr. Itrjau Should Decline,. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., July 27.- Chairman Jones of the Democratic na tional committee arrived here thi3 afternoon and sent for Gov. Stone. They were in conference several hours and it is said they considered the mat ter of withdrawing Bryan's name from the Populist ticket. Maj. T. O. Towles, of this city, secre tary of the national bimetallic league, and who was closely allied with Gov. Stone and Senator Jones in their fight for Bryan during the St. Louis convention, met Senator Jones in Kansas City this morning and ac companied him to Jefferson City. Gov. Stone met them in his carriage at the depot. Maj. Towles would not talk tonight about the interview. When Gov. Stone was seen tonight he posi tively declined to be interviewed about his conference with the national com mitteeman, further than to say that there was nothing for the press in the interview. After the conference Sen ator Jones took the evening train for St. Louis. BRYAN TO JONES. Substance of the Telegrams Which They Exchanged. ST. LOUIS, July 27.— The Republic tomorrow will say: Mr. Bryan's tele gram declining to allow his name to go before the People's party conven tion and the conversation that was carried on between him and Senator Jones, chairman of the national com mittee, on Saturday were not made public, it is said, because Senator Jones and Gov. Stone, of Missouri, saw lit to suppress them. Early Saturday afternoon Senator Jones wired Mr. Bryan that his friends in the conven tion intended to nominate him, if pos sible, in spite of his telegram Of the previous evening declining to accept the nomination if Mr. Sewall was not nominated for vice president, Senator Jones had previously notified Mr. Bry an that Watson had been nominated for vice president. About 3 o'clock an operator in the Western Union Telegraph office at Lincoln, Nebraska, the home of the Democratic candidate for president, called up the St Louis office and said that Mr. Bryan was there and would like to speak to Senator Jones. Senator Jones came to the key and the follow ing telegram was sent to Bryan: The convention will surely nominate you. Your friends seem to be in the majority. They are about ready to proceed to a ballot. To this, Mr. Bryan sent substantially the reply that was contained in the dispatch sent out from Chicago Sun day night. At the conclusion of the paragraph ending with the words "American people cannot afford to sur render the right to legislate for them selves on all questions, and so long as the right is disputed it surpasses all other questions in importance." Sena tor Jones interrupted Mr. Bryan's mes sage with a query as to whether it would be advisable to make such a statement to the convention. Then the remainder of the dispatch was sent by Bryan (practically the same as sent out), either in answer to Senator Jones' question or as a continuation of Mr. Bryan's statement. To this Senator Jones replied: I think your position has been clearly stated, and that it is> clearly and fully under stood. I will urge our friends to read your statement. At this juncture a message was sent to the convention hall over another wire to Gov. Stone, asking him to come at once and get Mr. Bryan's telegram in order that it might be read to the convention before the ballot was taken. Gov. Stone got the telegram and hur ried to the convention hall where the scene between he and Senator Allen, of Nebraska, who was chairman of the convention, was enacted. Subsequent developments indicate that neither Gov. Stone nor Senator Jones thought it would be good policy to read the telegram to the convention. While this was going on at the Audi torium, Mr. Bryan sent this: Both friends and opponents are entitled to perfect candor and frankness upon my part, and I think the statement should be read bo that no criticism can arise hereafter. Before the consultation over the wire was brought to a close. Senator Jones sent a telegram asking Mr. Bryan if he was employing all the assistance necessary to carry on his work. "If you are not, employ the necessary help and I will foot the bills," was the way the dispatch closed. Mr. Bryan replied: Am employing necessary help. I wish you would come here as soon as convenient again. There are several questions about which I must consult you. You need only stay one day. _w. J. Bryan. Here is the answer sent by Senator Jones: I think convention will adjourn this after noon. If so, 1 will leave for Lincoln imme diately. — J. K. Jones. After the failure to have the tele grams read to the convention, Mr. Bry an is said to have wired Senator Jones to give them to the St. Louis papers in order that they might be given as wide publicity as possible. To this both Senator Jones and Gov. Stone dissent ed. Senator Jones was going away on the 9 o'clock train, so the matter was turned over to Gov. Stone, who had another confab with Mr. Bryan. The latter urged that his statement be given to the press, but Gov. Stone said it would not be politic and that his case was in the hands of his friends who would do what they believed to be the most politic thing to do as they viewed the situation from the field of battle. "I will bow to the wishes of my friends, but it is due to myself and the members of the Populist party that I treat them with perfect candor," is the tenor of one of Mr. Bryan's dis patches to the Missouri governor. The information was held from the press.. "PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE" Will Control Future Action of Middle Rontl Pops. ST. LOriS, July 27.— The middle of the road delegates to the Populist na tional convention have appointed a "provisional national committee," to decide upon the future action of the Populists in case Mr. Bryan should not aecout the nomination tendered him or indorse the platform adopted Vy the convention. Henry L. Call, of New York city, until recently of Kan sas, delegate at large from the state nt New York to the People's party na tional convention, and a prominent TUESDAY MOKNINO, JULY 28, 1896. middle of the road Populist, has been appointed chairman of this provisional csmmittee. He said tonight that, in order to be In readiness to act in such a contingency, the following letter has been addressed to delegates in each state: Please furnish me the names and addresses of all prowrnent Populists in your state op posed to the nomination of William J. Bryan. Also keep me advised of the sentiments of the party and of any steps taken or decision reached toward independent political action, and oblige. This letter was sent out in pursuance of a motion adopted by the temporary organization of the dissenting delega tions of the convention. The resolu tion follows: That the committee heretofore appointed to ascertain the decision of William J. Bry an relative to his aeeptance of the nomina tion for president of the United States ten dered him by the People's party, in conven tion assembled, and, further, to ascertain his willingness to Indorse the platform adopted by said party in said convention, be required to report within ten days. That a provisional national committee, con sisting of one member from each state, be ap pointed by the chairman of this meeting, which committee shall receive the report of the aforesaid committee and shall thereafter confer with each other and with the delega tions from the various states relative to what further action shall be taken. That each member of said committee shall be ex-ofßcio chairman for his state of this temporary organization. MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS. Their Fight to be Regained in Com mittee. DETROIT, Mich., July 27.— The Dem ocratic state central committee will meet here tomorrow afternoon and there are indications that -the meeting will have about it some features similar to these which distinguished the gath ering of the Michigan Democrats in Chicago during the national conven tion. The silver wing of the committee seems determined to carry victory to the point of securing the chairmanship of the committee which is to be relin quished by Elliott G. Stevens, hut the sound money men seem confident of preventing this. Mr. Stevenson says positively that Daniel J. Campau shall not succeed him, although he does not know who the new chairman will be. Mr. Campau was re-elected Michigan member of the national committee after Stevenson had been selected by the first caucus of Michigan members. It Is not at all certain that the silver men will be able to control the action of the committee tomorrow as its members were chosen by the same Democratic state convention which selected the sound money delegation to Chicago, enough of whom were unseated by the silverites to give the White metal men a majority of the delegation. Leading silver men say if the committee meeting is not controlled by the silver men that the next state convention will be asked to appoint a new committee. PETTIGREW OUT. He Has Resigned From the Republi can Congressional Committee. WASHINGTON, July 27.— Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota, who fol lowed Senator Teller in his bolt, from the Republican national convention at St. Louis, has resigned as a member of the Republican congressional com mittee. The vacancy has not yet been filled. There are a number of advo cates of the gold standard on the Dem ocratic congressional committee, stand ing as much in opposition to the plat form and ticket, as Senator Pettigrew did, but no resignations have been re ported up to this date from the Dem ocratic committee. It is said that when the Democratic national committee opens headquarters, one of the first subjects to be taken up will be the at titude of certain men towards the na tional platform and ticket, who, hav ing been nominated as presidential electors on the Democratic ticket, prior to the Chicago convention, have since that time repudiated both the platform and the ticket and are publicly credit ed with the intention to vote for Mc- Kinley. WILLIAM SMITH DEAD. He Was Formerly Manager o f the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 27.— William Henry smith died at his home in Lake Forest at 3:30 this morning. He had been sick for several days, having had pneu monia. Mr. Smith was born in Columbia county, New York, in 1833. In 1870 he became manager of the Western Asso ciated Press, having headquarters in Chicago. Several years later, upon the personal request of President Hayes he accepted the office of collector of customs at Chicago. During his term of office, he was instrumental in bringing about many needed reforms in the cus toms department. In 1883, he again be came actively engaged in Associated Press work, and in January of that year, he effected a consolidation of the New York and the Western Associated Press, taking the managership of the entire system. Mr. Smith retired from the management of The Associated Press, in March, 1893, and since that time, until his illness, had employed his time in literary work. FIFTEEN STATES Will be Represented at the Indiana polls Sound Money Meeting. INDIANAPOLIS, July 27.—Ex-Cong ressman Bynum, who is a member of the sub-committee of sound money Democrats that is arranging for a nat ional convention to nominate a sound money ticket, said today that fifteen states have already indicated that they will be represented at the meeting in this city, August 7. There are a few of the far Western states that wIH not be represented at the meeting of August 7, he said, because the time is so short that they cannot get their representa tives here. States are beginning to orga nize, Mr. Bynum says, and Minnesota has already appointed delegates and Texas has organized and Kansas has sent word that the state will be organ ized immediately. LISTEN TO WHITNEY. So Says Horatio Hint; to Governor MeKinley. WEST NEWTON, Mass., July 27. — Hon Horatio King, ex-postmaster general, whose official life at Washington, D. C, covered . the time from 1837 to 1861, has sent a letter to Hon. William MeKinley, in which he says: "The danger now threatening the sta bility of the United States is most appalling. I earnestly entreat you to listen to the warn ing appeal of Hon. William C. Whitney. It is your opportunity to place your name along with that of Lincoln, high on the roll of j honor and 'fame. You can well afford to set • aside, for the time being, all minor political | questions, and lead off resolutely in a war ! against the free silver craze, Populists and : anarchists." SOUND MONEY CONFERENCE. One to be Called by Democrats of Missouri. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 27.— L. C. Krothoff, who went to Chicago to at tend the conference of gold standard ; Democrats, returned to this city today. i It was said that as soon as possible, a i conference of local gold standard Dem i ocrats will be held to call a mass meet | ing for the near future. Prominent Democrats will make speeches, and it is said Fred W. Lehman, a St. Louis ■ attorney, who stumped the state for ! the Democratic party four years ago ; will be one of them. Mr. Lehman was ! one of the delegates from Missouri to \ the conference of gold Democrats in | Chicago Thursday. *f s> <S!F > £/£,f£'y^r7 / * '" «^go^,^j!tw^ C^SSS^^: A GREAT EXHIBITION, BUT RATHER TRYING ON THE ONE IN THE MIDDLE. — Chicago Record. I|l BUTLEfI'S fIAfIDS THE POPUXJST CAMPAIGN FORM ALLY TURNED OVER TO THE NEW CHAIRMAN. NO PLANS MADE AS YET. MR. BUTLER WILL NOT CHOOSE HIS HEADQUARTERS FOR SOME WEEKS. MR. BRYAN WILL NOT BE NOTIFIED Hia Nomination by the Pops and Silverites Will be Announced in New York. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 27.— The affairs of the People's party are now in the hands of Senator Butler, of North Car olina, the new chairman of the national executive committee. Today the nine members of the retiring Populist execu tive committee made a .formal settle ment with the new committee. They turned over to Chairman Butler and Secretary Edgerton all the money on hand and their accounts were approv ed. Very few of the new members re mained in the city for the Monday meeting. They authorized Chairman Butler and Secretary Edgerton to audit the accounts and hastened home to prepare for the campaign. The silver party has established a temporary headquarters in the Cor coran building, Washington, D. C. Fu ture events will determine whether or not it will be continued there.. Vice Chairman Stevens who will have ac tive charge of the headquarters and who will relieve Chairman Lane of much of the work connected with the coming campaign will leave for the capital city in a short time. It is ru mored that the Populist national ex ecutive committee will also make its headquarters In that city, but Chair man Butler refused to either confirm or deny the statement. The selection of headquarters has been left to him and a decision to that matter will prob ably not be made for several weeks. Charles B Lane, chairman of the sil ver national committee, left tonight for his home in California. He will stop at Lincoln, Neb., and hold a conference with Bryan. While it has not yet been definitely decided, there will probably be no formal notification of Bryan by either the Populists or the silver men. It was learned from a prominent West ern member of the silver national com mittee that it is the intention of both the silver and Populist comittees to waive the usual formal notification, and on Aug. 12, hold a ratification meeting in New York, at which Bryan's nomination for the .presidency will be announced. A proposition looking to the fusion of the two parties in Missouri on the state ticket has, it is stated, been made by the Populists to the Democratic leaders who have it under consideration. As the price for this fusion, the Populists are said to have demanded that they be given eight out of the seventeen presidential electors In the state. If this concession is not made the Popu lists will put a state ticket in the field at their convention which will be held at Sedialia next Thursday. Among the speakers who will take 1 the stump for the Populist ticket will ! be Senator Butler and ex-Chairman I Taubeneek, Eugene V. Debs, of Terre ! Haute, Ind.; Robert Schilling, of Mil- | waukee; Senator Allen, of Nebraska; I Senator Peffer, of Kansas; Gov. Llewel- I ling, of Kansas; Mrs. Mary Elizabeth j Lease, of Kansas; Mrs. Roberts, of I Gorgia, and many others including • Coxey and Carl Browne. Mr. Debs is ' a strong supporter of the initative and j referendum. The currency will be the i pivot around which the majority of the i speeches will revolve, and the women ! who will be sent rrut will make that their special point of attack. Mrs. Rob- i crts made a speech in the convention j seconding the nomination of Bryan, and In the five minutes" that she was before : the convention wofo for herself the reputation of being one of the most forcible and logical speakers that has ever addressed a Populist gathering. George P. Keeney, secretary, and A. H Pyle, his assistant, both of Califor nia, have left for Washington to take charge of the silver headquarters there, j Chairman Butler, of the Populist nat- i iorsal executive committee, left this i city for his home in WeWh Carolina to- j day, having been cfelled there by a j telegram, but for wfcat purpose haa not been made public. ! ; Before leaving, he : stated he would probably return some time during the first week of August, j when he will call a iieeting of the com- | mittee. He also stated that he expected to hold a conference with Senator Jones, of Arkansas, Jon his return here. George F. WaslArtirn. of Massachus etts, member of the Populist executive j committee, in anfe^rer to an inquiry tonight, said that i>o' far as he knew, no arrangement had been decided upon in respect to the hotlflcwtion of Bryan of his nomination. WATSON WILL WEAKEN. So Say Senator Mantle anil Mr. Hart- Kan. BUTTE, Mont, July 27.— Senator Mantle and Congressman Hartman have arrived here. ;Both say they sup- i port Bryan betauf c he ia a bimetallic, ' and not because he is a Democrat, i When the question ia settled, they will be Republicans In all things once more. "While I deplore that the Populists put up another ticket," said Mr. Hart man, 'yet I think, in thirty days there will be but one bimetallic ticket in the field. I think Watson wail allow his name to be withdrawn. The ticket from a point of good politics, must be Bryan and Sewall. On the second thought, Watson and the men who nominated him, must concede this." Mr. Mantle spoke on the same line and said: "I regard the action of plac ing an independent ticket in the field by the Populists very bad politics, as the Populist party has been crying for free coinage so many years, louder than others. It is one of their cardinal prin ciples of faith. I believe the vast ma jority of the Populist party is honest and sincere in the advocacy of bime tallism, consequently I believe influence will be brought to bear to get Watson to withdraw." FUSION IN KANSAS. Working: Plan Outlined by Con gressman William Harris. KANSAS CITY, July 27.— Relative to fusion of Kansas Democrats and Popu lists, the Times prints an interview with ex-Congressman William A. Harris, in which he is quoted as saying: "The Kansas plan Is for the Populists in their state convention at Abilene, Aug ust 5, to indorse the Bryan and Sewall electors whom the Democrats will name at Hutchinson, the preceding day. It is generally understood that there will be fusion in Kansas this year, although there have been no conferences on the subject and consequently no plans have been formulated, but fusion is in the air. We will nominate our candidates for state officers and telegraph the Democrats the result. They will indorse our nominees, and we will indorse theirs." FUSION DEAL. Pending Between Republicans and Pops In Tennessee. NASHVILLE, Term., July 27.— Popullsta be gan to come in tonight to atten* the state con vention, and the indications are that it will be well attended. A. L. Minims will be nomin ated for governor, If he will accept It. But little else will be done, though there are ru mors of a deal pending between Populists and Republicans. This rumor, however, has not yet been verified. The convention meets to morrow and may not continue longer than one day. BALTIMORE SELECTED. To Notify Bryan of His Nomination, Says, Mr. St. John. NEW YORK, July 27.— William P. St John, treasurer of the national sliver party, re turned today from the St. Louis convention. He said: "The national silver party has ac cepted an invitation from Baltimore mer chants to notify Messrs. Bryan and Sewall In the city of Baltimore. The notification will be made about fourten days after the Democratic notification in New York. The place of headquarters will be determined by Senator J. K. Jones, of Arkansas, chairman of the Democratic national committee. It looks at present as though he would select Washington for headquarters. Whatever he doe 3 will be followed by the silver party. In state and municipal affairs, the national silver party will not move. This will leave the Republicans to vote their own state ticket, but the national silver party will have a congressional candidate in every district where the Democratic nominee favors the gold standard." GROVER'S WARNING Given to the Southern Silver Men Long Ago. NEW ORLEANS, La., July 27.— The Picayune's special from Jackson, Mis sissippi, quotes a letter written by President Cleveland on May l r 1892, on the evening of the Democratic conven tion of that year to the late Judge. L. D. C. Larmar in which the president, discussing his probable candidacy, says: I can easily be disposed of either by the selection of a candidate more available or by the adoption of a policy on the financial ques tion which I am not willing to further. In the first case, I shall be a happy helper; in the second I shall sadly await the announcement of a party defeat, which will be pre-deter m!ned. Our Southern friends, if they persist, will be left alone with their free coinage her esy. The danger is that another Southern idea and a charge of heedlessness for the pub lic safety on the financial question will do service in the place of the memories of the civil war. The question is often and justifi ably put by friendly Southerners: Can Cleve land carry New York? The answer Is ready as to Cleveland or any other man if the Dem ocracy is at all weak on the coinage ques tion. As one who loves his country and be lieves that her interest is bound up in Demo cratic supremacy, I am most uncomfortable and unhappy in the fear that the South will not see until too late the danger. If I should read this I hardly think I should send it, but it goes laden with affection and the most ten der memories. CAMPAIGN IN NEBRASKA. R-epubllcan Stars Will be Heard in That State. OMAHA, Neb., July 27.— Senator Thurston has made official announcement of the itin erary of Hon. Roswell O. Horr, of Michigan, so far as it concerns the Nebraska cam paign. He will speak at Lincoln Aug. 5, and at the meeting of the Republican state league, and at five other points In Ne braska. Following Horr, Senator Thur&ton says, Senator Burroughs, of Michigan; Sen ator Foraker, of Ohio; W. E. Mason, of Chi cago, and Benjamin Butterworth, of Cincin nati, will all probably make speeches in this state at dates to be fixed later. Mr. Thurston will make a political address at the Chautaqua at Madison, Wis., July 31, and will open the campaign in Wisconsin at Milwaukee- Aug. 5 at the meeting of the Re- I publican state convention. The latter part of August he will go to Vermont, where he Is billed for two speeches. He will make one speech each in Mains, Boston, New- York, Baltimore, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, and from two to four each in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois. The last weeks of the campaign he will give his whole attention to Nebraska. Dakota River Work. WASHINGTON, July 27.— C01. W. A. Jones, in charge of the improvements on the Mis souri river, between Great Falls, Mont., and Sioux City, la., reports that $25,967 was ex pended during the year. At Bismarck, N. D., Pierre and Fort Pierre, S. D., and Sioux City, la., the work consisted in removing sn&zs. PKJCE TWO CENTS— j WHEAT LAID FLAT GREAT DAMAGE DONE: TO THE RED RIVER VALLEY BY HAIL.. LAST STRAW TO FARMERS. LITTLE HOPE THAT THEY WILL. HAVE MORE THAN HALF A CROP. STORM STRUCK IN CXAY COUXTY. Damage Done to Crops to the Ex tent of $50,000 In That Coun ty Alone. Special to the Globe. MOORHEAD, Minn., July 27.—De tails are just coming in of a destruc tive hail storm which struck Clay county at the town of Comstock, tak ing a northwesterly course from there through Sabin and reaching as far as Glyndon on the west and Stockwood on the east. In many cases the de struction was complete. The heaviest loss, so far as heard from, was that of David Askegaard, of Comstock, who suffered the loss of over 600 acres of wheat. The path of the storm was about two and a half miles wide and it is impossible as yet to give a com plete estimate of the total damage. Good judges claim the aggregate loss will be not less than $50,000 in this county and may amount to twice that much. This is the straw that finally discourages the people here. The crop prospects were none too good at any time, and it can safely be asserted now that the crop of wheat in the Red river valley will not be more than half an average yield. DAKOTA DAMAGE. It Will Foot tip a Hundred Thousand Dollars. YANKTON. S. D., July 27.— The de struction of crops, live stock and farm property in this country by hail last night, is now estimated to amount to one hundred thousand dollars. The devastated district covers an area of fifty square miles, extending from the village of I.esterville to the town of Vohn and lying four miles North of lankton. The hail stones measured from 2 to 4 inches in diameter and fell with such force as to kill young cattle, pigs and chickens by the hun dreds. Corn fields were entirely stripped. J KATHERIXE WESTERX'S CLAIM To the Estate of Rich Gray on for Hearing-. Special to the Globe. DULUTH, Minn., July 27.-Before Judge of Probate Ayer today, the hearing in which Katnenne Western seeks to establish her claim as the widow of the late Rich A. Gray to his estate of $250,000, was resumed after a continuance of thirty days. Miss Western was on the stand for the greater portion of the afternoon and testified to visits which she had made in company with Gray to St. Paul and Minneapolis. The registers of the Merchants' hotel, and of the Nicollet house at Minneapolis, showing that Gray and Miss Western had registered as man and wife were introduced. George Kibbee, of the Mer chants', testified that Gray, upon engaging a room had told him that he was married but could not identify the claimant as the woman who had been with Gray on that oc- CfLsion, The case of Olive Bradley, of Chicago who also claims to be Gray's widow and who has an eighteen-year-old son, whom she asserts is the issue of this marriage will immediately follow the close of thT West ern case. Fire at Princeton. Special to the Globe. PRINCETON. Minn., July 27.-At 1 a. m. today fl re destroyed the large warehouse ??™ A C - H - Mines, of this town. Loss $2,000; Insurance, $1,000. A large quantity of potato starch owned by the Princeton Starch company, was stored in this building and was- totally destroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown. Populist Nomination*. Special to the Globe. MORRIS, Minn., July 27.-At the People's party legislative convention held here today . £. Hal1 ' of Stev ens, and G. A. We°tphal of Traverse county, were nominated for rep resentatives. Resolutions recommended the nomination of John Lind for governor. Jail Delivery. Special to the Globe. NEILLSVILLE, Wis., July 27. - Sunday night Harry La Fluer, confined In the city lockup for assault and battery, broke jail and made his escape. He has not been re captured. Endeavor Convention. Special to the Globe. SLEEPY EYE, Minn., July 27.— The Chris tian Endeavor convention has closed. The new officers are: Rev. John Sinclair Red Wood Palls, president; Miss Mane Starr, Tracy, secretary; Miss Kitty Stiles, treas urer. About 100 delegates attended. Death Ended a Visit. Special to the Globe. SLEEPY EYE, Minn., July 27.— Mrs. Swen son, of Racine, Wis., fell from a buggy last evening and died today from her Injuries. She was visiting friends here. Stone Acquitted. LA CROSSE, Wis., July 27.— The jury in the case of George Stone, who, in January last, shot and killed George Allendorf. today brought in a verdict of acquittal. The de fense was on the ground of Insanity. BATTLE OF WINDS TWO HEAVY STORMS COME TO. GETHER EH THE VICINITY OF PITTSBURG. THREE LIVES SNUFFED OUT. PROPERTY LOSS NOT YET DETER. MIXED, BUT IT WILL BE LARGE. NEW YORK Of OXE STORM'S PATH, A Tree Blown Down, Killed One Man, But no Other Fatalitien Are Reported. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 27.-A wind and rain storm of unusual fierceness visited this city at 4:30 o'clock this af ternoon causing the loss of at least three lives and doing immense damage to property. Several dwellings were completely demolished and others par tially wrecked. Eight or ten churches had their roofs blown off and other wise damaged. Telegraph; telephone and electric light poles were snapped like pipe stems, mixing the wires in an , inextricable mass. Fierce lightning and high winds accompanied the storm or rather two storms, for Pittsburg and Allegheny were the meeting place of one storm from the west which came up the Ohio valley and another from the east which followed the course of the Allegheny river. Such a battle of the elements is rarely witnessed. In East Pittsburg and Wilmerding hail fell in large quantities, some of the stones being quite large. In the first five minutes of the storm, .8* ot an inch of water fell and the wind reach ed a velocity of 30 miles an hour. At 8 p. m., another storm, almost as fierce as the first came up, and .68 of an inch of water fell, making a total of 1.33. The rivers are now rising and another flood is expected. Among the casualties reported Is an accident to the camp of the Eighth Ward Hunting and Fishing club, of Allegheny. The club was at its camp in Sugar Grove about four miles up thy Allegheny river when the storm came up. The members say it was a genuine cyclone. The trees in the grove were broken and twisted as though they were weeds, and one large sycamore was snapped off near the ground and fell upon the tent of the camper?, kill ing almost instantly John Figvs, breaking the back of George Miller, who will, die, and . seriously in;urh,g Thomas O'Connell, Charles Kosack, Jacob Metz, Frank Ott and Harry Had ley. On Garfleld avenue in the east end Joseph Ashfelder was killed by a Pign being blown down, striking him on the head. In Sharpsburg, W. L<. Norr was killed by the roof of a house being blown onto him. At McKee's Rocks, where Prof. Gerodette, curxtor i.f Car negie museum, had a gang of men at work digging up an old Indian mouni in the interest of science, lightning struck a tree under which they had taken refuge, shocking one of iho labor ers, an old man, into unconsciousness, also a young man by the name of Pool, son of a college professor, >oth of whom will probably die. The result of the storm in property damage has not all been gathered in at midnight, but it is known that all through Allegheny, the South side and the east end many houses were un roofed, signs blown down and windows broken. Along Perm toward Home wood, where many fine suburban man sions are located, the splendid lawns are completely destroyed and th? beau tiful shade and ornamental tre<-a ruined. It is estimated that $100/00 will hardly cover the loss in this local ity alone. Reports from outlying towns tell of much damage to houses and other property, but no lives lost so far as known. In Allegheny twelve people were struck by lightning. They are in the hospital and considered by the phy sicians to be in a critical condition. Their names are Abner Hayes, freight receiver of the Fort Wayne railroad; A. M. Bennett and three children; Au gust Snedz, his wife and their four children. Mr. Hayes was standing in the freight house door when a bolt of lightning struck the building, knocking Mr. Hayes unconscious. Mr. Bennett and his children were standing on their porch on St. Clair terrace, when a flash was conducted from a trolley wire in front of the house close to the porch, prostrating the entire party. The Snedz family were eating supper when light ning struck the residence, following the chimney flue to the dining room. About half an hour later a neighbor discovered the White family lying en the floor in an unconscious condition. They may recover, but it is doubtful. In Pittsburg reports of damage to property are still coming in. On Wash ington street ten houses, a machine shop, and the Fifth Presbyterian church were blown down and com pletely ruined, but fortunately no one was injured. The row of houses be longed to the Dennis estate and had been condemned and tenants removed from them. The M. E. church on Kirkpatrick street had its roof and steeple carried away by the wind, the bells from the tcwer were thrown to the ground and broken. The roof of the John Wesley chapel was torn away and carried 200 feet. The Pittsburg High school and Holy Ghost college suffered somewhat but are not badly damaged. Returns from the different sections of the two cities show 25 or 30 people injured more or less by falling trees, roofs, and signs, but their names cannot be given tonight. Western Newton, Pennsylvania, a station on the Baltimore & Ohio about 30 miles east of here reports the rain there very heavy. The telegram says: la. m.— A landslide 200 feet long and sev eral feet deep Is Just reported here on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks at Osceola. The New York express, which left Plttsburg at 9 o'clock. Is stranded somewhere west of here. lioth tracks are reported covered with trees and rocks between here and Griffin Station, two m'les east. The watchman of the Pemtckoy road ftt Cedar Creek, two miles east of here, reached town at 1 o'clock and reports eight big land slides there. He says the water came off the hills like rivers, bringing everything with it. He could not get around the elides, and had to cross the river to get here. STORM WAS SEVERE. . Dnniage Done In the Vicinity of Dn bnqne Heavy, DUBUQITE, la., July 27.— Later report* of th«= storm show that It was more disastrous than at first stated. On the Illinois ContraJ four hundred feet of track were washed out at Dyersville, two hundred at Jullen, an<l a bridge at Rockdale on the west, and washouts occurred at Portage bridge at Scuthtown and a potion of the track near ShcTvandasse are gone. The Chicago & Great Western has washouts at Durango and Dyersvii'e. Trains are bad'y delayed. Prank Rahe was drowned while attempting to ford a swollen creek near ■Dyerevil'e. Many outbuildings In the coun try were blown down by the wind there, and In thf city several dwellings were struck by lightning. The damage to streets and sew ers in the city is heavy. The rainfall during the twenty-four hours ending at 7 this morn ing, was 5.27 inches.