BRAGG BARS BRYAN. The Famous General and Old-Time Democrat for McKinley. A«*allft tin' Kan* a* City Platform ami I rtr«'M I nlte«l Action of (■old Dentoern t* fo De feat liryan. Gen. Edward S. Bragg, soldier. Statesman and lifelong democrat, came out squarely for President McKinley in a speech at the I'abst theater. Mil waukee, October It!. He did more. He exhorted the gold democrats, at whose solicitation he publicly made known his views, to do likewise as a step essential to the preservation of national honor. He spoke in part as follows: "I have never yet voted for a chief magis trate of this nation whose name had not been presented for the suffrages of the people by a democratic convention. There is no taint of 'trimmer - in my blood or lin eage. It has always been my pride to be able to rise in place, and say, using the words of a great leader of the party in New York, before the spell of expediency over threw the convictions of his judgment. 'I am a democrat.' Hut I have a pride infinite ly greater than that—that I have always held my life and service subject to my country's call, Irrespective of the politics of the head of the government. "The ht-art of this great people has al ways beat loyal to the government when the war trump sounded, and has never tol erated. and will never tolerate, encourage ment to a public enemy, while he is robbing, lighting, slaying the brave men. your sons and brothers, whom the government has sent forth to do its mission, whether that enemy be an Englishman, or Mexican, a Spaniard or a Filipino. Seen Defeat of llrynn. "looking over the history of the past, and comparing it with the present instincts of the American people as I know them. Jt se< ms beyond possibility that any party or any candidate, no matter upon what high plane of morals, or sympathy for the oppressed, or of constitutional rights, he affects to plant himself, can succeed In reaching the support of the electors of the United States, when In the face of bloody war he classifies the treacherous Aguinaldo as a patriot, and his gm rrilla bands who are shooting down our soldiers 'as subjects of our sympathy, if not of our open commendation. "I may not read the political horoscope correctly, but it is my sincere conviction that were St. Paul to be r< habilitated with mortal presence, ai.d lrad the Bryan col umn with a Filipino badge upon his breast and Hi to 1 painted upon his banner, nothing but signal defeat would await him. l'ro|»liet Samuel Honied. "The old prophet Samuel gives the first record of a pristine Bryan assi mblage when lie writes of the dwellers in the cave of Adullum: 'Ar.d everyone that was In dis tress, and everyone that was in debt, and everyone that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him, and he became a cap tain over them." "This meeting of "discontents' finds a per fect parallel In the basic formation of Bryan's old guard, when the record is fully written, by the addition: 'And the captain lifted tip his voice and promised them relief, with the great balsam of 16 to 1. ar.d they all with one accord gave way to rejoicing." "This organization caught the old dem ocratic party at t'hicago in l>iOt». sleeping outside the garrison, and captured all its camp and garrison equipage, and made captive many prisoners, who savt d tht m selves from political orphanage by taking the oath of allegiance to the conquering chief. Holt of (•old Democrat*. "The members of the party who were un willing to forswear democracy as it had been taught them by the fathers organized themselves as national democrats at In dianapolis. simply to preserve the saered ilres of the l'aith burning upon the demo cratic altars, and keep them burning, to await the arrival of the bridegroom, when the folly, fanaticism and madness that led to the leprous union of silver republican, socialist, anarchist, populist and quasl democrats should be dissolved and its tenets discarded and the old faith re stored. "The result of '9<j is a thrice-told tale. Wisconsin, never lacking in its duty where state or national honor is concerned, set the badger stamp of condt mnation on Mr. Bryan's IB to 1. indorsed by over 100,000 plurality. Are you ashamed of this record, and would you undo it'.' No, my fellow badgers, we will stand to our guns in the second battle, as we did in the first. SuyN HI to 1 I,lves. "Sixteen to one, you say? What has that to do in this canvass? 1 will tell you, tny friends. He who knows Mr. Bryan knows that he has never abandoned Hi to 1. The carrying into effect of his financial the ories. is the great purpose of his life, lit is honest, if not practical, ar.d he has never K.ild, and he never will say, he has aban doned it. He would not abandon it at Kan sas City. "1 have said Mr. Bryan is an honest, If not a practical, man. What he says he believes he can do, and will n'-ver falter in his attempt to do it. He is a man of phenomenal oratorical power; in private and social life he is loved and respected, in his presence and speech his inliuence over those who hear and associate with him is almost hypnotic, he writes poetry, but this stamp of mind does not fit one to grapple the complex affairs of state ar.d administer the government of tihs great people In the internal and external clashing of interest and policy that con stantly arise. AKHIIUI the Nebrilskiui. "He is a dreamy idealist. He talks and acts and believes, if he were president, by a Wave of his magic wand, as 'twi re, he eat; make a desert blossom; that he can do away with want and misery, and make all his subjects prosperous and happy. In other words, that he is possessed of the mysterious power that can make the world an Utopia, if you give him a chance. "Such a man is a delightful companion, an estimable member of society, but a wild bull in a china shop would not be more dangerous to the safety of the crock ery than sue); would be to the safety of the state, if intrusted with the manage ment of affai.'s. "The experience of every farmer, ev. ry business man and every wage-earner has taught him that every prophecy, every statement of financial economics, made and believed in by Mr. Bryan, are wholly and wretchedly incorrect. Will you trust the linanccs of this great governnm nt, and its people, in the power and control of such an ignorant economist, because he has win ning ways, is an estimable gentli man and hypnotizing orator? You may, perchance, but 1 will not. No Fear of Imperialism. "I am not an advanced optimist, but I have no fear of the ghost of u destroyed republic intruding upon my presence by reason of any Philippine episode. Mr. Sehurz and Mr. Cockran forget what you do r.'jt—that in the war of the rebellion even 'i'.i good old Horace Greeley believed the republic was r<nt in twain, and petitioned Mr. Lincoln 'that the erring states might go in peace' to prevent further and useless bloodshed. The republic was ruined, cried the chicken h -arts, ar.d the constitution de stroyed. Hut out of the mists came no £iiosts, but the old republic, with new vigor and strength, passing all conjecture In Its progress to the first place among mation.s. A pi ople that can suppri ss the greatest rebellion the world ever saw, and live and prosper. 1s not likely tc be overthrown as th«? result of insurrection in the Philip pines. nor in the purchase of territory and establishing a government tht r« that will protect the person and property of all well disposed persons in the newly-acquired ter ritory. S«» long: as the hearts «»f our people in the home government are tine and loyal, we need not fear for Its safety, as conse quent upon the acquirement of outside ter ritory. Deprecate* C'IIIMN Inane. "The danger to the pence and prosperity of the republic in present conditions cornea from men who constitute themselves walk ing delegates, stirring up bad blood be tween employer and employed, pand« ring to the groundless complaints of the shift less and n'tr-do-well class—and they are in every community—inflaming the pas sion by sympathy with wrongs that have no real existence, teaching tin in the doc trine that to possess wealth makes its owner their enemy and oppressor, and that his wealth is ill-gotten and stained with the blood and toil and suffering of the poor. This state of feeling, when it reaches its climax, makes disorder, disregard of per sonal rights, disregard of judicial opinion, and with a bold and daring leader means class against class in battle array, and bloodshed to follow. "My remedy for this growing evil is em ployment. 'Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.' And for the foolish teachers and preachers of populism and community of property, apply the rule of the Colt, 1 think: 'When you see ahead, hit it/ Call* llrynn Agitator. "The great head of the agitators isaenn didate for your suffrage. His name is William Jennings Bryan. As you desire to suppress this growing ill-feeling be tween class and class, and to maintain harmony between employer and employ* d, upon a basis honorable and just to both, vote to suppress him and his doctrines and met hods. "The country is prosperous; money 1 n plenty and good; intense has dropped to live per cent.; the market of our abundant crops has furnished the money to discharge old mortgages and build new homes; labor finds employment in our .state, and the la borer fixes the wages. Why should you desire a change, unless it be for the better? And that better state you cannot hope to find in the balloon of the idealist, liryat.. "Can free silver. Itf to 1, be a dead issue when populists and silver republicans make it a sine qua non of their support? Can it be a dead issue when Mr. liryan made its adoption a sine qua non of his acceptance of the nomination? Do you believe that Mr. liryan sent the body of a dead baby to Kan sas Cit> t'» have it embalmed? His pet political bantling? Well, I must confess, if you swallow that you are past hope of con version. l*roplicNy on Wisconsin. "S!xt« • n to one lives, with all the life in it that Mr. liryan ran give to it. The im perialist dodge, Croker's denouncing trusts as the great and standing menace to our government, are both tubs thrown to the whale, or as a horseman might say, th- y are only us« <1 to reduce the weight the K-to- I pony shall carry in the race. It won't do, Mr. Crok» r; it won't do, Mr. Hill; it won't do, Mr. Cockran! The voters of Wisconsin will not be diverted from the issue that affects them at home. "If acquirerm nt of territory is impi rial ism. tin n liryan is an imperialist, ai d on that question there is no choice l»etw«»n the candidates. Bryan proposes to with draw the army and apply the doctrine to the treacherous Indians and Malay that we apply to educated people of our own race and under our own government—that we shall form a government as a free, in dependent people, capable of governing themselves. Wild nonsense! That kind of people can only be held in check by the strong arm of the law, and that law must be military law and to induce the fear of enforcement and punishment under that law, there must be a force behind it which shall inspire fear of the application of the power to enforce it. Firm for MeKlnJey. "I have given you. my fellow citizens, my vi» ws upon the existing political situation, and now perhaps I can concludt no better than to use the language of my old 112 riend, the former mayor of New York, Abram S. Hewitt, a democrat and chosen friend of Tilden, whose political integrity has never been questioned. He says: " 'There is no longer any room for doubt as to the course which should be taken by nun who believe in true democracy and de sire to preserve its principles for the ben efit of those who are to.come after us. We are compelled by every, consideration of honor, of duty and of interest, to repudi ate Bryanism and all that it represents.' "And to vote for McKinley and Roosevelt. And*so say we all of us." FACULTIES FOR M'KINLEY. VVculiTii College Ifn Are Five to One for 111K Reelection roll nt Various Institutions. The Chicago Record, which boasts that it is "truthful because nonparti san" i. e„ neutral - has made a poll of II western universities on presidential preferences with the following result: ■< p. •University of Chicago....lo4 13 3 n Northwestern University. 27 .. .. 4 Lake Forest University.. 10 .. • • «i University of Illinois lis 10 12 University of lowa X0 42 .. fc University of Wisconsin. 5u '•» - Beloit ('ollege 20 Oberlln College 5u .. 2 IX* Pauw University S 0 .. i Knox College 12 * 1 Lombard College U 11 1 Totals 4t>s 10u 21 a ♦Four refused to vote. This gives a ratio of nearly 5 to ] for McKinley which is not heaven born, but enough.—Chicago Times- Herald. Bryanites Cheer Filipino Fine. Considerable bad feeling has been en gendered in Willmar, Minn., as a result of 111.• action of a number of prominent populists at a rally one night re cently. The speaker was Lieut Martin |j. Tew. of Minneapolis. The subject of his address, which was characterized as a lecture, was"The Truth About the Philippines." During the course of his remarks he exhibited a number of relics which he had gathered while with the Thirteenth Minnesota ill Manila. A Kiiipino (lag was exhibited and was ap plauded to the echo. This action has occasioned considerable indignation among the conservative people in a! 1 parlies. Republicans call it treason. — Minneapolis Tribune. The democrats have changed theii t at;tics. Inst rail of claiming everyt hny they are now charging everything The new tactics will work no bettei than the old. Chicago Inter Ocean. E 112 I-'.very time C'roker tries to grow enthusiastic in this campaign sonn trust hater throws cold water on him —Washington Star. CMr. Cleveland didn't say much, bu: he made Mr. Olney look like -JU cents. Chicago Tribune. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1900. AN UNEXPECTED ADVANCE. Llnaecd Oil t onililne Italaea the Prlci of that Artiste Ten lent* a t.alloii. Chicago. Oct. 19. Manufacturers ill every line in which linseed oil figures as an important raw material wre in a flurry all over Ihe country Thursday afternoon, and they k pt the telegraph and telephone liies warm in their frantic attempts to feeure themselves against a ree#rd breaking market fluctuation. At noon the American Linseed Oil -o. marked the price of linseed oil upto 7o cents, or the highest figure knovn since the infancy of the industry. Before noon t-lie price was 00 celts. This advance of ten cents per gal lon is the largest single price fluctu ation ever known in linseed oil. snd is about the equivalent of a 40 or 50 cent per bushel advance in the pree of wheat. Coming at the season of the year when the movement of the new crop of flaxseed from the fann ers of the northwest has just begin, it has caught every manufacturer in the country by surprise. Practically all of them had been expecting 15- ccnt oil. The result has been tlat they had reduced their stocks to Ihe lowest possible points. All of them will have to come to the new state of things, providing the prices are maintained, if they rre to g-et their products in the market in time for next spring's distribution. All interests concede that the em trol of the situation is centered in the American Linseed Co. The oit side concerns quickly came up to the American Co.'s figures and were sell ing freely ill the afternoon. Flaxseed is now selling at SI.S2, or an advance during the last ten days of 35 cents per bushel. WORLD'S CHAMPIONS. llrooklytiM Will the Cup and Present It to Pitcher Met.limit}. Their ll»l Tulrler. Pittsburg, Oct. 19.—Brooklyn is champion of the world in baseball, the owner of the SSOO Chronicle-Te'e graph trophy cup and carries away half the gale receipts of the foir games necessary to determine Ihtir supremacy over the Pittsburg laiis. Brooklyn won Thursday's game by a score of 0 to 1. The Brooklyn team went out of training immediately after the game and last night indulged in a jubilee dinner at their hotel. As a mark of appreciation and lcknowledgment that to his brilliail l work on the r.il>- bcr the success of the club was larg"- ly due, the team by unanimous con sent decided to turn over to Pitcher McGinnity the handsome trophy cup; it to be his personal property forever. The twirler was greatly surprised oil being made the recipient of this tol - en of esteem on the part of his fel low players and he was at a loss for words to < xpress his feelings. The Brooklyn management gave Mcfiinnity SIOO extra for his good work. SHOT HIS ASSAILANT. Lnbor Trouble at l.alnn. Ind., Lrad< to a Probably Fatal Itow. Muncie, Ind., Oct. 19. —A result not unexpected, the outgrowth of labor troubles, came last night at Eaton between independent workmen cm ployed in the Bauer factory and the members of the window glass labor unions, known locally as Burns men. The factory resumed work Tuesday and officers have protected the inde pendent workingmen, who have slept and eaten in the factory. These men ventured out last evening and I rou ble began right away. Robert Cowan was knocked down by Lewis Miliielm and then inflicted a probably fatal bullet wound in lib assailant's back as the latter wa running away. Cowan was hurried tc a place of temporary safety by Ids friends and officers were summoned from this city to come and place hint in jail for safe keeping. In the meantime the Burns men are search ing for him and it is feared if tbe-j find him they will lynch him. A PROFIT OF SIX MILLIONS. Annual Iteport of the Pullman Com* jany Shown Pariilii;;* of 81 ,«,IH>t>,- 000. Chicago, Oct. 19.—The annual meet ing of the stockholders of the Pull man Co. was held Thursday. OUT two-thirds of the eupilal stock wa represented. At a previous meeting of the directors the usual quarterlv dividend of $2 per share from the net earnings was declared, payable No vember 15. The annual statement of the com pany for the year ending July 3! shows: Total revenue $15,022.8.">5, net earnings $6,(523,47(1, surplus $4,895,944 The number of passengers carried during the year was 7,752,870. Dur ing the previous year Ilie number ol passengers carried was 6,015.815. Tin year just ended, therefore, shows at increase of about 25 per cent, in tin number of passengers carried. The total mileage of railways covered by contracts for the opera!ion of cars of the Pullman Co. is 158,503. mcKlnley Will VUit Prlneo. Ran Francisco, Oct. IS.—The Ohio Society of California has received in formation that President McKinley will visit this city next April to wit ness the launching of the battleship Ohio, which is now Hearing comple tion at the Union iron works in this city. A ICIot at Sharpovllle. Sharon. Pa., Oct. 19. —Sharpsvillc was the scene of trouble last night between the Shennngo furnace strik ers and the imported laborers. Thro armed negro laborers were stopped on their way to work bv a crowd ol strikers and after a quarrel some on 1 fired a revolver. One of the negroes supposing the shot was meant fo him, turned and fired a bullet inti the shoulder of Harry (iurslcy. The\ then went to the furnace unmolested Alh ut 20 laborers from Sharon wen taken to Sharpsvillc, but were elms?' out of town. THE MINERS WIN. Every Demand Made by Them Is Granted. A IO Per Tent. Advance In U'hivs Together with the Abolition »> the Obnoxloun Sliding Scale ■a Mliat the Anthracite Digger* Are to Iteeelve* Philadelphia, Oct. 18.—The great strike of the anthracite mine workers of Pennsylvania, which began Sepli m bcr 17, practically ended Wednesday when the Philadelphia A' Reading Coal and Iron Co. and the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. agreed to abolish the sliding scab in their respective re gions and to grant an advance in wages of 10 per cent, net, the advance to remain in operation until April 1. l'»0I, or thereafter. This action metis the demands of the Scranton miners'con venl ion. The decision was arrived at after a conference between representatives of the individual coal operators and ihe large coal carry ing companies. Vesterday's action was the culmina tion of the recent meeting of the in dividual operators at Scranton fol lowing the mine workers' convention i'i the same city. Nearly all of the collieries in the coal region had, pre vious to the mine workers' conven tion, posted notices granting an ad vance of 1') per cent. The mine work ers in considering this demanded that the sliding scale in the Lehigh and Schuylkill districts be abolished, the Increase to be guaranteed until April 1. 1901, and all other differences be submitted to arbitration. The indi vidual operators agreed to everything and the appointment of a committee to induce the Reading and the Lehigh companies to abolish the sliding scale 1 and make Ihe wage increase perma nent followed. It is conceded that the result of yesterday's conference is a complete victory for the men. All the demands of their convention are acceded to and as one of the individ ua! operators put it after the confer ence. the operators go a little further in agreeing to maintain the wage ad vance after April 1. This same oper ator who requested that his name be not used, saitl in speaking of the con ference: "It's all up to the miners now. We have agreed to everything and noth ing remains now but for them to re turn to work as soon as the notices are posted by the colliery managers. These notices will be similar to the Heading Co.'s notice, the phraseology only to be changed. 1 look for a re sumption of operations by Monday at tin* latest. The conference was en tirely harmonious and every phase of the strike situation was gone over." No formal announcement has as yet been made by the Lehigh Valley Kail road Co. regarding its intentions, but after the Reading company's state ment had been made public Vice Pres ident (iarrett, of the Lehigh Valley, said: "Concerning our operations in the Schuylkill region you may say that the action of our company will be similar to that of the Heading Co. In other districts, however, certain con ditions* exist, for instance, the price of powder, which must be treated separately, and we have not decided 3< finitely with regard to them. These matters arc now in the hands of Su perintendent Lathrop. whose head quarters are at Wilkesbarre." Calvin Pardee & Co., extensive in dividual operators in the Hazleton region, late Wednesday afternoon an nounced that they will post two no tices similar to that issued by the Heading (•>. This indicates what- all Ihe individual operators will do. Hazelton, Pa.. Oct. IS. —President Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, when informed of the Keadii.g com pany's action, was pressed for n statement on this acceptance of the miners' proposition. All he would venture to say was thai he was glad to know that the anthracite operators had decided to change ihe notices previously posted, so as to comply with the resolutions adopted at the Scranton convent ion. lla/clton. Pa.. Oct. 19.—As far as ending the coal miners' strike is con cerned. not a move in that direction was made Thursday by the United Mine Workers' officials. President Mitchell is absolutely silent on all questions pertaining to the termina tion of the contest and it is not be lieved he will anything to say on the subject until he calls a meet ing of the national executive board fe>r the purpose of considering the question of issuing a formal declara tion calling the strike off. When that shall be depends entirely upon the operators. The feeling is prevalent here that the decision of tiie operators' meet ing at Scranton yesterday that the reduction in the price of powder must be taken into consideration in determining the net 10 per cent, in crease in wages, has complicated matiers somewhat. Further delay in reaching an amicable adjustment of the trouble is now feared. The situ ation otherwise is precisely the same as that which obtained when the first notices of the coal companies Men posted on October 3. Then, as now, the Reading Co. was the first to post a notice of an advance in wages and was quickly followed by other large coal companies and nearly all the smaller individual operators, after which Mr. Mitchell issued tiie call for the Scranton convention. To Heleame (apt. 112 arter, Leavenworth, Kan., Oct. IS. —A habeas corpus suit to release Oberiin M. Carter, captain of engineers, from the penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth was filed in the United States court Wednesd ly. The suit was filed with Stanton Carter, a brother of the pris oner, as the petitioner and was made out returnable against Warden Me- Claughery, of the penitentiary . Judge Hook set October 2(5 as Ihe date for hearing- the application and announc ed that Judge Thayer, of St. Louis, would probably be ht'te to sit with him. CAPTURED BY BOLOMEN. ?»pt. M.lcld» anil If Is .Urn A llibunhcd toy as Sverwlirlmlng Force of lii •ursrnla WVrf Hadly Treated. Manila, Oct. 17. — Full detail!* are row at hand as to the capture of lapt. Devereaux Shields and liis party by the insurgents in the island of Varinduqiie last month and their ex periences prior to their rescue by Sen. Luther I!. Hare. After four weeks of captivity, hard l*eatmei»t, and continual Parching to avoid the rescuing' force, which greatly aggravated the suffer- Jigs of the wounded, ('apt. Shields and his command were delivered by tie rebels to <ien. Hare last Saturday at Buena Vista, on the Marinduque c>ast. ('apt. Shields and his party, while operating north of Tariques, were taken in arnbtisli in the hills. They attempted to cut their way through to the coa ;t. but became subjected to the enemy's four-sided fire, ("apt. Shields being 1 badly wounded. After four had been killed and five wounded, being - out of ammunition, the command surrendered to 1.000 bolomen. The rebels separated their prisoners into small parties and con veyed them into impassable volcanic mountains. On this news reaching Manila two companies of the Thirty-eighth vol unteer infantry under Col. George S. \nderson were sent to Marinduque. I'his force was followed by eight com panies of the First infantry under Hen. Hare. The combined force of 1.300 men proceeded to occupy all towns in the district and scour the country. The Americans controlled the situ ation. The rebels perceived that it was only a question of time when Ihe release of their prisoners would be effected and they opened up commu nications with Gen. Hare, which re sulted in the handing over of the cap tives, I?, of whom, the sick and wounded, were sent to Manila by the gunboat Villalobos. Gen. Hare's command will remain in Marinduque. He has given the insur gents until October 21 to surrender themselves and tiie f>l captured rifles. If they fail to comply he will under take an active punitive campaign. Capt. Shields and his companions suffered greatly at the hands of their captors, who robbed and maltreated them. The rebel officers had tr re strain lie bolomen from killing the \ merica ns. When ( apt. Shields was unable to move he ordered his soldiers to <ro forward and to leave him; but they leelined and fought stubbornly until I hey were overpowered. STRIKERS BEATEN. PrcKident of the Window (■IIION Trust S«V« ilisi I I In- l'"la tlener* an<l i utter* liavc Ifccii Defeated. Pittsburg, Oct. 17.-—At the annual meeting of the American Window ' '<lass Co. yesterday Auditor ,1. W. Orth was elected a "straw" director nd subsequently resigned to make a vacancy lor a director to be named by ilie Window Glass Workers' associa tion, L. A. 300, Knights of Labor. The company h is putin trust for this as sociation .1,000 shares of its common stock, which is to be delivered when accumulated dividends have paid for it. President Simon Burns, of L. A. 300. is expected to be placed in the din ctorate. Operations at the factories, regard less of the strikes of the association tlat-eners and cutters, have been steadily increasing since the start in the middle of September till last week 63,8n"> boxes were cut, as against an average production last blast of-near ly - 1,000 boxes per week. President Chambers yesterday expressed his conviction that tbe company had won the strike. NEW NATIONAL BANKS. Application* lor the Organization ol IM6 Such InmtltiitioiiM Have Keen Hade Since "Harcli I I. Washington, Oct. IT. —A statement prepared by the comptroller of the currency shows that applications had been approved under the act of March 14, 1900, for the organization of 49(i new national banks with a, total capi tal of $23,305,000. Of this number >7! will have a capital of less than $50,- 000 each, and 12.5 of $50,000 or more. The number already organized and started in business is 331, having made deposits of bonds amounting to $5,128,450. The largest number of applications to organize national banks came from lowa. 45 having been received Texas comes next with 30. Pennsyl vania has 33, Illinois 31, Minnesota 23, Ohio 22, Nebraska 10, Oklahoma 19. New York t4, Indiana 13, Kansas 12 Indian Territory 12, North Dakota 11 The remaining states range down from seven to one, Hawaii having ont and Porto Rico one each, with a capi tal of $500,000. No applications have yet been received from the follow in? states and territories: Massachu setts, Rhode Island, Nevada, tTtah. Arizona and Alaska. Fort)-tlirec Seamen llronned, St. Johns, N. F., Oct. 17.—The St, Pierre schooner Fiona drifted a. short in Fortune bay during the recent gale, and her entire crew of 20 met were drowned. The schooner is a ti» tal loss. The schooners Amelia, Rose ! bud and Angler, with crews aggre gating 18 men, were also lost. Th« schooner Huntress is ashore on tin Labrador coast. Five of her crew were drowned. A Terrible UlMaMter at Sea. Victoria, P>. C., Oct. 17.—News of a marine catastrophe as a result ol which 33 persons, 19 of whom wen foreigners, live hailing from the Uni ted States, were drowned, was brought Tuesday by the Empress ol Japan. The Norwegian steamer Cat landa was making her third voyagt from Port Arthur for Japanese ports and when off lowassima she was rim down by the steamer Ise Maru. Sh« had 40 passengers and a crew of 20, with five foreign officers. Tbe Ise Maru picked up the survivors and brought them to Nagasaki. 'AFFAIRSIN CUBA. They are Discussed by Gen. Fitzhugli Lee. A RADICAL PROGRAMME. Old Soldiers May Make Trouble in the Convention. YELLOW FEVER'S RAVAGES. The- (irnrral Say* that like Past Vcar ■ la* llrrn One of the Worst on liee» ord an the Spread of Till* Disease Anions (be Islander*. Washington, Oct. 20.,—Gen. Fitz hugh I,co. of Virginia, wlio is here on ieavc <>f absence, paid his respects to the president yesterday. Gen. Lee will return to Cuba at the end of tins month, lie says that the constiution al convention of the < uhan people to which delegates already have been, elected will be held November 5 to establish "the free and independent republic of Cuba." '•en. I.ee savs there is likely to be a great deal of friction in 1 he conven tion and the result is problematical. The foreigners, French, Engl'sli, Americans and property-holding Spaniards, he said, are in favor of some sort of American protectorate which would insure Ihe protection of life and property, bill the old sol diers of Gomez's army want to carry out a radical program. '1 hey threat en to initiate proceedings in the con vention by the adoption of a resolu tion demanding the immediate with drawal of the American troops. •■en. Lee expressed the opinion that the troops could not be withdrawn until n stable government was set up which proved capable of furnishing the necessary guarantees as to life and property. In nm- final settle ment. (ien. Lee said, some difficult problems would have to be adjusted. fien. Lee said the past year in Cuba has been the worst, so far as yellow lever is concerned, in his experience. Pile fever had been prevalent all over the island and lie said that some of Ihe facts in connection with it -eem ed to completely explode the theories of American medical experts regard ing the efficacy of sanitation as a pre ventive. A FRIGHTFUL CRASH. A Sit lleli Demolishes a Street 'ar Fifteen People Injured* Indianapolis. 0c1..20.—A Lake Erie & Western railroad switch engine, in charge of Engineer John A. I'epley and fireman Edward Fultz. struck a street ear at Thirteenth street late last night. There were 21 persons in the car and of this number 15 were .more or less injured, several perhaps fatally. The engine struck file front end of the ear. reducing it to kindling and, carrying it for 20 feet, finally threw it against a freight car stand ing on a sidetrack. The passengers, pome of whom were in the demolish ed end of the car, were pinioned by the broken timbers. The doors could not be opened and the less injured people in the mad rush to escape trampled over those unable to help themselves. To add to the general confusion the steam from the engine enveloped the wrecked car and it was with great difficulty the work of resetting them was carried forward. At least half the passengers were women and their screams and the crash awoke people living within two blocks of the scene of the accident. The wrecked car was returning from Bright wood and had on board a number of passengers who had been attending a political meeting. When Ihe tracks were reached the conductor, Harry TCraus, went ahead as usual to see that the road was clear. A Monon engine go ing north passed the crossing, drown ing the noise made by the Lake Erie engine. The conductor was unable to see-the-engine till too fate, lie yelled to the motorman and four or five passengers on the rear platform, jumped to safety. Will Destroy tlie Andre .Monument. New York, Oct. 20. —The plot of ground on which the monument erec ted at Tappan, X. Y.„ by Ilie late Cyrus W. Field, in memory of Andre, the revolutionary spy, was sold Fri day by Treasurer Randolph, of Rock land county, for non-payment of taxes. Since the death of Mr. Field the memorial has been neglected, and it has now passed into the hands of George Dickey, of Xyack, who says he wilt obliterate the memorial. The monument was unveiled October 2, IST'.), and in April, 1 882. an attempt was made to destroy it by an explo sion of nit ro-glycerine. Hr> enforth"* Circular. Washington, Oct. 20. Robert G. Dryenforth. as commander-in-chief of the Union Veterans' union, has issued i-n official circular urging all mem bers of the. order to vote for the re election of NfeKinley. The circular states that the constitution of the order makes it the duty of the com ma ndcr-i»i-ehief to advise in election matters. landed Ills Trouble* with a IlilllrU New Vorlt, Oct. 20. Nicholas Scalp, a Swedish cook who was on the bat tleship Maine when she was blown up in Havana harbor, shot and killed himself in lirookV.n yesterday. His jaw was shattered by flying iron in the Maine explosion and he had been (■•table to eat solid food since. Slierilinn Does Not (lain, Washington. Oct. 20.- Ex-Secretary Sherman was more conifovutbie last night. There has not been any ap preciable chnngv in his condition e?.- cept that he is a triite weaker than on Thursday. 3
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