WILLIAM WIRT HOWE. CHAIUM.W O ' IIIF. CHICAGO COSI'KKKNd: 0\ 'MUSTS. SPREADS LIKE WILD -IRE j Thf Revolution 1 n Vruoyiicln Ammuiiics I Ovßrwlidiiiinti I'io|»orlli)ii». Kingston, Jamaica. Sept. Hi. Late j advices from I.a (liiavrii, the port of j Caracas, capital of Venezuela, report j that the Venezuelan revolution under t tJic leadership of Ceil. Castro is assum ing overwhelming proportions in spite of the wholesale imprisonment of po litical personages known to l>e impli cated in or who are suspected of com plicity in the movement against the government, and who have been un able to reach the insurgent lines. The j government has been endeavoring to prevent the news from reaching the j ports, but it is understood that Presi dent Andrade will change his cabinet and take command of the irovernment troops, which have sustained two severe defeats, losing quantities of mu nitions of war. camp equipments and prisoners,' suggesting the desertion of tl.e government troops and collusion j upon the part of the government gen erals with the insurgent generals. | Sclilcv facta a New Command. Washington, Sept. 16.- Home time j .••go Admiral Schley applied to the ' navy department for sea service. At present he is head of I lie retiring board. The navy department has now | granted tin' request and has notified I him to hold himself in readiness to : command the South Vtlnntie station, i The department is about to take steps j to make the command commensurate | with his rank by increasing the nuin- j ber of vessels 011 tin- station. Tile Cincinnati probably will go there: the Detroit is already on her way and tie.' Marblehead is likely to be attached, j Altogether there will be five or sis ! ships on the station. Will Wltlidraw Hl* Appeal. London, Sept. 16.—The Paris cor- 1 respondent of the Times savs: It is; learned that Dreyfus will shortly | withdraw his appeal for a revision of ! Ihe liennes trial, which will leave the ground clear for the government to i lake immediate steps to pardon him. I'liis pardon will not annul the civil and military consequences of the ver dict- and he will therefore no longer belong to the army. There is noth ing. however, to prevent him from ap plying to the court of cassation to quash the liennes trial whenever the new fact required by law i« produced. When liberated he will settle in tin south of France. A I'lot to Kill tlic Sill tan. Cincinnati. Sept. 10.- Adam Dali rouge. a Syrian now iu jail here, made llie start ling statement Friday that he knows of a plot to kill the sultan of j Turkey; that the chief conspirators, have been in Cincinnati and later in j Indianapolis. The Syrian says he dares not now reveal the names of the! parties, but savs they are studying j high explosives with a view to their! use. Dahrouge is charged with ob taining two typewriters by false pre tenses. lie has claimed to be in eom munication with the consul general of the Ottoman empire and hi' exhibit ed letters from that official. Intuited In the Street. London. Sept. 16.- The Mail, which is booming a boycott of the Paris ex position publishes dispatches from Paris and Nice that describe "insults in the streets" to \merieans and I'.rit ish. Its correspondents refer to these incidents as indications that the peo ple of both nations should avoid going to France, and declare that the house agents there are in despair at the pros pect of a bad season. ."*llll'*™* header Arrested. London. Ky., Sept. 16. C. \Y. Pur cell. member of the national board of United Mine Workers, was arrested Friday 011 a warrant sworn out by the operators of the seven mines now on strike at Altamont and Pittsburg. Ky., charging him with inducing the min ers to strike while under contract. A Famine Imminent. London. Sept. 16.—The Mail pub lishes the following dispatch from Hombav: "It > s doubtful if a famine can be avoided in Cujerat, Kathiwar and the southwest section jif Scinde. Speaking generally the "famine will be restricted to a small portion of the country, but a serious scarcity is prob able in large areas of western India." Tliirty New Cawen ol" Fever. Key West, Fla.. Sept. 10.—There have been 30 new cases of yellow fever iu the past I hours. One death has been reported. LOOKS LIKE WAR. Transvaal's Reply to England Is Not Pacific. SUZERAINTY QUESTION. Boers Refuse to Admit that They are Vassals of the Queen. THEY YIELD ON ONE POINT. Tile Unrulier* are Willing to Make < oliceiiwlouft on tlic I'Tain liiftc tluea tioti, but OtlierwiHC Tliey Itemaln Firm and l'|> Kollilns. London. Sept. 10. —A dispatch from Pretoria says: Transvaal's reply will be 011 the following lines: Transvaal adheres to the seven years' franchise law, but is willing to consider and if necessary to adopt any suggestions F.ngland may make with regard to the working of the law. In regard to the other points of Mr. Chamberlain's dis patch Transvaal boldy stands by the London convention. It is said the re ply is couched in polite terms. State Secretary licit/ in the course of an in terview yesterday expressed some doubt as to whether any alteration would be made in the existing fran chise law. but said he believed a way could be found to establish an arbitra tion court. As to suzerainty the least said the soonest mended, remarked the state secretary. In the forecasts of President Kru ger's reply there is evidently a large basis of truth, which seems to bring the dispute within a measurable dis tance of war. Last evening the press association issued a curious statement to the effect that as soon as the garri son in Natal had been sufficiently strengthened Transvaal would be called upon to accept a new conven tion. already drafted, which, while guaranteeing the integrity of Trans vaal. provides for the demolition of the forts and limits The armed force of Transvaal to a number deemed suf ficient to maintain internal order. Ac cording to the press association the convention will demand that the dip lomatic agencies lie suppressed and the judiciary be made independent of the executive. This statement, which realizes the extreme demands of the nit landers, must be accepted under re serve at the present stage, but it is not unlikely to be a semi-official hint as to the next move of the government should Kruger prove obdurate. The morning paper editorials regard the crisis as having reached its most acute phase. The papers talk of the imminence I of war and all the. dispatches' from | South Africa continue to describe the military preparations on both sides. The Pretoria correspondent of the Chronicle says:"The lioers assert that Mr. Oreen. P.ritish diplomatic agent at Pretoria, knew it was their i intention to adopt the attitude they | have regarding suzerainty and that he 1 tactily encouraged them, as the docu ments show. His 18 hours' demand 1 and the string of blue book innuen ' docs for which he and Alfred Milner I are responsible, have produced an of j ficial atmosphere in which anything 'is possible. At the same time Mr. I llofmcier and practically every nicm ! ber of the Cape Afrikander party have j wired urging acceptance of the Tirit ! ish demands," An Fventlui Voyage. St. Thomas. W. L, Sept. 16.—Th< Uritish steamer Fontabelle, from New York for St. Vincent, arrived here Fri- I day. She reports having encountered a hurricane during which she losti her deck load, including 4!i mules and 21 sheep, and also two boats. She also reports having rescued front the schooner Isaac Newton, lumber laden, the captain, his wife and the crew. The vessel was dismasted and water logged. fteelssred a ttnaruiitine. Savannah (Ja., Sept. 1 <>. The city council last night declared a qtiaran ' line against New Orleans on account of yellow fever. Parties coming to Savannah must have health certiii- I cat«B. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1899 ISAMOAN CHIEF. Jle Semis a Letter to Presi dent MeKinley. STORY OF A TIMEPIECE. It Belonged to an American Ofli eer Killed in Samoa. THE EX-KING HI NTED IT IP. Letter lo Ihe PreKldcnt In in iCelation to Ilie ICrcoverv ot I.ieiit. | l>an«dalc'« \Vylcll, M liii h Cell Into j Ihe liaml* ol Native Warrior*. Washington, Sept. 10.—The president received at the White House yesterday Mr. George Leigh, who has spent sev eral months ill Samoa as correspon dent of the London Times and is now returning to Fngland. While in oiu of the black villages of I'polu, Mr Leigh learned that a watch, believed to have belonged to cither Lieut Lansdale or Ensign Monaghan. tin. two officers of the United States crui ser Philadelphia who were killed dur ing the recent war against Mntaafa. had been found and was in possession of a native. lie at once communi cated with Mataafa, whom be had vis ited oiily it few days previously, and received a reply from the chief assur ing him that no effort would be spared In recover the relic and begging him, should the search prove successful, to restore the watch to the rightful own er. \t the same time be placed at Mr. Leigh's' command hi.s grandson and a boat's crew, who were instructed to carry in every necessary direction Ma taafa's order to his adherents. While these messengers were in the island of Savaii, a watch and chain with a locket and other articles attached were handed to Mr. Leigh and identi fied as the property •>)' Lieut. Lans :!ale. A few days later the correspon dent left Samoa for San Francisco, where he met the widow of the olii i-er and placed the articles in her pos session. Long ago at the instigation of her family and of Lansdale's com rades in the navy, unsuccessful efforts had been made to trace the articles, so hope that they ever would be found had been abandoned. Mr. Leigh handed lo the president a letter from Mataafa of which the fol lowing is a translation: "To his excellency William MeKin ley, president ol the United Suites. "I have been informed that a watch has been, found by one of my people which is believed to have belonged U> Lieut. Lansdale or Ensign Monoghan. who were killed in the battle at \ai lele on April I. I have learned that Mr. Leigh is about to leave Samoa for America and I have asked him to con vey the watch to your excellency, in the hope that you will cause it to be forwarded to the bereaved mother or nearest relative of the brave and much lamented officer. Mr. Leigh will tell you that 1 have sincerely deplored the sad, untimely death of the brave offi cers and men who came from America and perished in the late war. My sorrow is the more because of the great friendship which your great eountrv has in the past extended to Samoa. lam especially anxious that this should be made known to the mother and relatives. May it. be the will of God that there will never again be strife between America and the Sa moans and that the tlireci powers will recognize my submission to their will and desire for good government. I prav that God mnv give you long life. "T. J. MATAAFA." Mr. MeKinley. expressed hiinselt much gratified with this proof of Ma taafa's thoughtful humanity and said that it would afford him pleasure t< personally respond to the lettei. lb warmly thanked Mr. Leigh fon his ac tion in the matter and for having con veyed the relics to Mrs. Lansdale. When Mr. Leigh left Salmon, endeavors were being made to recover Knsigr Monaghan's watch, and Mr. Leigh be lieves that it will follow him to Wash ington by the mail due in a. week or so. In that event it will lie at once forwarded to the relatives. WeMton lo CrltlciNm. Washington. Sept. I(s.—Commissar. S General Weston says that the soldiei of the Colorado regiment who hits found so much to criticize at Manila, evidently was misinformed about, tin: exorbitant prices which were beinp paid for supplies in the Philippines Sugar is bought about 40 per cent cheaper than in the United Statis. rice is 50 per cent, cheaper and a consider able reduction is found in the price ol beef. \s to other articles which art a part of the commissary stores, Wes ton says there is no possibility of loss to the government upon them. Y a intertill I'M Funeral. New York, Sept. 16. —Funeral Serv ices were held over the remains of Cor nelius Vanderbilt yesterday in St. Bar tholomevv's Episcopal church. The church funeral was preceded by sliori exercises at the house. At the close of the church services the remain* were taken to the Vanderbilt mauso leum at New Dorp, Staten Island. i,.ii. c 11-1 Si Ift Dying. Washington. Sept. 10. —Gen. Harry Betli. the famous Confederate leadei who has been ill sit his home here sine* last December, is dying. It was thought when lie was first striekei last winter that death would soon en sue, bill bis remarkable vitality ha* kept him up until now. < arpentem Strike, New York. Sept. 10.- vt noon 8..".00 carpenters and .joiners in thi citv will lay down their tools with tht understand inn that they shall not re turn to work unil their demands t'o: more pay are conceded. LADY YARDE BULLER. I'll moil* California lleniily linn Jaul Been I'laeed I inlcr the CaiT of 11 l.egal (iunrilimi. Lady Yarde Puller, daughter of the millionaire California pioneer. Gen. Kirkham, has linen adjudged insane and a guardian was appointed tor her per son and estate at San Francisco, t'al. While her aetual income is now only about SIOO monthly, she has been spending S2OO in excess of this. She •lot s not realize that her income is not as large as in years pone by, before her properties vcre incumbered with mort gages. Frequently she still talks about J7?.) f-%. illl /jf. />/r 'V . . i ; 'is !■: I mm ism <n^: Ls> 4fir 1 * LADY YARDE (Noted California Woman to End Her Career in an Asylum.) tier large estates, and lately she has even been'casting money into the street, as she believes that she lias unlimited wealth. Lady Yarde Buller's story is as strange as fiction. The petted daugh ter of Gen. Kirkham, once commandant at the Presidio, she had everything that wealth could command. She was the belle of San Francisco and completed her education in Paris, where her beau ty won' her fame. She attempted an elopement in Japan with young Maj. Banks, who afterward became Lord Tweedmouth, but her father prevented it. Later she married David Boyle Blair, with whom she came to Oakland, and they lived at the Kirkham mansion on the banks of Lake Merritt. Blair went to South America and later news came announcing his death on the bat tlefield. Next she married Yarde Buller, a Scotchman twice her age at the time and possessed of an undue fondness for the flowing cup. with which the wife soon learned to keep pace. Soon a scan dal arose over an affair with Valentine Gadesden, with whom the woman jour neyed through Germany. Buller se cured a divorce, and then one day Val entine, while playing to his love on the piano, fell dead at her feet. She re turned to her old home with only a trace of her former beauty, but with all her old imperiousness, and she has caused several scandals since. LEADS OHIO DEMOCRATS. Jolin 11. McLean, Editor of tlie Oncla iinti En«|tilrer, Nominated for the Govcrnornlili>. John T!. McLean was born in Cincin nati, September IT, IS4S, and is 51 years old. Be went from Harvard to Ger many. After he served in all the depart ments of the Enquirer, he became half owner in 1872, and sole owner in ISSI. Mr. McLean has conducted the Cincin nati Enquirer over a quarter of a cen tury, and its success is due to him. He has succeeded in many other enter prises. While he has never held public office, he has been a powerful factor in politics. In 1885 Mr. McLean was the democratic nominee for senator against Mr. Sherman. Six years ago he was the JOHN R. M'LEAN. (Democratic Nominee for Governor of Ohio.) generally recognized candidate of the democrats for senator against Senator Banna, of the republicans. Mr. McLean Mas been prominent at national as well as at local and stnteconventions. When Hancock was nominated for president at Cincinnati in 1880, Mr. McLean took a conspicuous part. In 1884 he was ore of the Ohio dele gates at large and chairman of the Ohio j delegation. Be has been one of the | Ohio t|e-egatcs at large at succeeding national democratic conventions and is still thi' Ohio member of the national democratic committee. At the last democratic national convention he was a pfominent candidate for the presi dency, and declined the nomination for vice president. Why Coins Are Struck. The principal reasM.i that coins are struck and not cast Is the well-known j fact that molten metals contract on J cooling. Thus counterfeit coins, which I are always east, show fatal variations in size, which authentic stamped coins donot. Secondly, it is impossible toget ihe same sharpness of delineation as in I stamping, and, lastly, when the stiinip l ing machine is once set up the process | of striking oins is infinitely cheaper j a:i(i more rapid than that of casting j evr could be. Hon. W. .1, Bryan Disap points Chicdgmius. A POINT BLANK. UEFUSAL The Nebraskan Decline i to with uourke C'ocUran. THAT Till ST CONFERENCE. Tl»e Programme 'l'hereot ■* I hanged lo suit 'ir. an ami Mr. toewrau .fluke* (he Prtuci|>ai AilUrettn at tile .\ight scMH.oii, Chicago, Sept. Hi. Ibe exciting joint debate looked i\.r last night be tween W. .1. lirynn anil P.'iurke ( ock run on trusts <11<! not take place. ' en trul Music hall was packed with in eager audience, but the people had to content themselves without tin ora tory of the famous Ncbrnsknn. who, however, occupied a seat on tin plat form. Mr. llryan reached the hall early in Ihe evening. lie went direct to a room upstairs, where he was greeted by Chairman Frank Head. Con gressman Gaines and other members of the programme committee of tin; Civic Federation conference on trusts. Mr. llryan surprised the committee by declining to speak at the night session with \\. I'. Coekran, in accordance with the programme previously ur i anged. Mr. ISryan explained that lie did not wish to let the impression go out that he was t«i enter into a debate with Mr. Coekran. For that reason he said he would not speak with Mr. < ockran at the same session. Mr. Coekran was sent for and lie and Mr. I irvan dis cussed the situation. The committee withdrew to allow the two orators lo settle the dispute between themselves. Mr. liryan asserted that be never said he would follow Mr. Coekran with an address on the same evening. If Ike committeemen got that impression from the conversation he had with them over the long distance telephone he said they misunderstood him. Mr. Coekran wanted to talk at the same session with the Nebraskan and tillered to flip a coin to determine w ho should have the privilege of delivering the closing address. Mr. Bryan would not accept this proposition. Mr. Coekran then agreed to appear at any time the committee desired. The programme was then changed to meet Mr. Bryan's wishes. Mr. Br,van said he was anxious to address the conference, and repeated that his only reason for changing the programme was to avoid any indication of a public debate with Mr. Coekran. Mr. llryan will speak at to-day's session. Though disappointed in failing to see such a spectacle as llryan and Coekran pitted against civil other, the audience ueicr theless enjoyed a rare treat, as Mr. Coekran was :it his best and his speech was punctuated with frequent ap plause. When Mr. llryan made his appear ance at the entrance it was the signal for tumultuous cheering which lasted until the Nebraskan bad taken his seat on the speakers stand. Mr. Foil Ike. of Indiana, who was in the middle of an address when the out burst occurred, put tile audience in good humor by remarking: "I guess you came here to-night to hear some body else speak." Mr. Foulke was followed by Edward iiosewater. of Omaha, whose address received close attention from his hearers. The chairman then introduced W. I>. C ock ran. of New York, who made a lengthy address. \t the close of his speech the New "l ork lawyer won the hearts of his listeners b\ paying Mr. Bryan a well chosen compliment which the demo cratic leader blushingly acknowledged. Mr. Coekran likened Mr. Bryan to a monopoly and claimed lie was a big ger monopoly ns the leader ot the dem ocratic party than any financial cor poration in thi' world. Mr. Coekran spoke for two hours and when lie concluded cries for llry an came from all over the house. Finally Mr. Bryan arose and snid that for the good of the conference all par tisan feeling should be eliminated from the gathering, and although he agreed with Mr. Coekran in many of his arguments, it was necessary that his side of the controversy should be given to-day. Increase* KM Capital. Chicago, Sept. 10. The Diamond Match Co. yesterday i-sned new stock to the holders of the old securities to the amount of 25 per cent, of tle-ir holdings. The stockholders author ized an increase in capital stock from $! 1,000.000 to $15,000,000. and under the conditions of its i.-sue old stock holders were given the right to sub scribe for its new stock to the amount of 25 tier cent, of their holdings, which calls for $2,750,000 ol the *4,000.- 00(1 authorized, leaving $1,250,000 t i be used in tli" acquiring of rival plants. Strop!><'<! Through a l"r ilrr. Omaha. Neb.. Sept. 1(5. —Twenty-one ears and one engine went through a bridge on the Missouri Pacific a few miles soutl of Nebraska City last even ing. Three men burned to death. ■ ffi'mni'.'* «'rtiw. Scotia, Neb.. Sept. I(s.—As a result of domestic difficulty Mrs. Fame I" '>s forced her two children, aged 1 and 2 years, to take carbolic acid and then swallowed a dose of the poison her self. The husband found all three dead when he returned. < ro«l*e I :k; I) «■ JSI «i Dover. Fug., Sept. 10. - Percival Spencer, the aeronaut who started by balloon to convey the greetings of the llritisli association to the French Sci ence association now convened at llou logne, lias landed safely near Bun kirk. PERSONAL AND LITERARY. It, is not pone rally l<no\vn lhat Rich aril Mansfield started in life in London as a painter. Tliomns Hardy, the. novelist, writes all liis stories with copying inl<. 'i his enables hint to take press copies, and so obtain exact duplicates without the aid of a clerk or typewriter. ■Rubens received for hi painting; of the grapd eeiiiujj at the banqueting' house; \Whitehall,'the sum of #20.000. The space covered by Ihis painting is about s}in yards, so that he was paid nearly #SO a 3 aid. One one occasion, when Sir John Lub bock was about to underpo a surgical operation, his friends tried to entice him to take chloroform, but he would not give his consent to this, anil only replied: "No. thank you; I would much rather be present at the opera tion." lioiirke Cockran tells a story which shows that in his eaidy days he was much discouraged and went to a friend's office high up in a skyscraper to ask help 1o leave Xew York for IJeadwood. The friend took him to the window, which commanded a large view of xli" city, and remarked: "There are 2u Dead woods within your range of vi sion." Rev. 11. T!. Haweis is said to be the greatest clerical traveler of the cen tury. Between 18S3, when he was ap pointed Lowell lecturer at Boston, and university preacher at Cornell and Har vard, and 1895, he covered no fewer than 100,000 miles outside Europe, .while notes of his travels in Italy, France, Germany, Morocco and other countries would alone fill several boftks and are not even touched upon in hi.; two amusing volumes, "My 'Hundred Thousand Miles." Prof. Bliss Perry, who for seven years has held the chair of oratory anil aesthetic criticism in Princeton univer sity. has been elected editor of the At lantic Monthly, to succeed W. 11. Page, and has accepted the appointment. Prof. Perry is a graduate of Williams college. lie is the author of several critical works and many short stories which have appeared in Scribner's Mag azine, and has lectured in Xew York, Philadelphia and many other leading cities. A REPORTER'S CLOSE CALL. AH Episode Thai Curi'il Illmof Ml De sire to "Fake" Interviews with Prominent Politicians. "The most painful experience of my career occurred when I had been in the business only three months," said an old reporter, "and the city editor as signed me to interview a big northern politician who had dropped into town en route to 'Frisco. 1 rushed over to the hotel, saw my man, and he promised to give me a talk at 8:30 p. m.; so that evening, after supper, 1 was fool enough togo out to see my best girl, thinking 1 would be back in plenty of time for the appointment. As bad luck would have it, we had a quarrel, and when we got it patched up and 1 looked at my ■watch it was after ten. 1 was horrified. J grabbed my hat, Hew to the hotel, and was informed that my man had been in bed for an hour. Merciful heav ens! AVhat was 1 to do? To own up meant certain discharge and disgrace, and, on the spur of the moment, I had a desperate inspiration. Why not fake up an interview? The big man was go ing away early in thu morning, and if he ever saw the article it was dollars to doughnuts he'd ignore it altogether. So, without appreciating the enormity of my idiocy, I wrote up the story. It vyas a very conservative interview, but I handed it in feeling like a felon. Next day 1 was slinking to the office, nervous as a cat. when whom should I meet but the distinguished politician himself, bound the same way. 1 felt my hair stand 011 end. but, to my unbounded amazement, he addressed me cordially. "'That interview was very satisfac tory.' he said, 'very accurate, intl>.V and lie invited me to have a tiring,. I construed his remarks as bitter sar cascft, and supposed, of course he had prepM'eil some horrible revenge, but I went along, mechanically, like a nuui hypnotized. In the cafe he seemed cu rio usly em ba rrassed. " 'By the way,' he said, confidentially, 'I didn't say or do anything unusual last evening, did 1?' "'Unusual!' i gasped, 'I—I don't un derstand." "'I asked,' he said, smiling, 'because —well, to tell t«he truth. I have only a very—cr —indistinct idea of what hap pened after I met some old friends'. I know I talked with you, and that you have the —or —substance of my remarks ?orrect!y, but I thought possibly I might have said something else." " 'N'n, sir; not a word,' 1 replied, fer vently, and we shook hands and part ed. It was the narrowest escape and the biggest scare of my life. It cured ine permanently of faking."—N. <). Times-Democrat. ' Hnxlisli Outdoor Life. A young American woman visiting on one of the old English estates writes most appreciatively of the almost Arca dian simplicity of the summer outdoor life. "The other day." she says, "we were invited, children and all. to take tea in the hayfield belonging to the next estate. It is a great thing here for everyone to turn in and help in haying time, as the weather is so uncertain. The women raked the hay together and the men loaded the donkey carts and took it to the end of the field, where they were going to build a stack, and the children rode back in the empty carts and had lots of fun. Then we all had tea in the fields, ai d a pretty pic ture it made. Afterward an organ ;?rinder was called in anil the children danced on the lawn and the older peo ple played games with them until the risinp moon warned us that it was time for the children to seek the home nest." —Troy Times. 3
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