A STATE TICKET. It is Named by Ohio Democrats at Dayton. riie Platform Declaret for l*re« and l*n limltfd C oinage of Hllver and Ir.dnrrtCH W. J. ITRVAII for the I'reHidemial Nomination Two Yearn 111 IK O Faction* Compromise. Dayton, 0., Aug. 25.- —The demo eat ir state convention yesterday nomi nated the following ticket: Secretary of state —Upton K. Gu thrie, of Marion county. Judge of Supreme Court —Hugh G. Nichols, of Clermont county. Clerk of Supreme Court —David S. Fisher, of Delaware county. Food and Dairy Commissioner —• John Baker, of Hancock county. Member of the Board of Public Works T. D. Paul, of Summit county. The convention adjourned at 5 p. in., after being in continuous session all day. There were no incidents of spe cial interest after the contest between Joseph P. Dowling and Allen O. Myers had been declared a draw in the in terest of harmony. The effort to get a new plan of party organization in Ohio failed of final adoption, but it was given another chance by such reference as will bring it up next year. The new organization seems to sat isfy those working for the nomination of Paul J. Sorg for governor next year and is not displeasing to the McLean, Price or other elements .and the cam paign this year will be made on the Hanna issue and next year on Senator Forakcr for not taking steps against Hanna. While the resolutions do not favor unlimited colonial expansion. Chairman Finley said the platform meant to expand by the consent of those to be governed. The most de cisive feature of the convention was its preference for Bryan in 1900 on the same platform as in ISOti. The convention assembled at the Fairview Casino, a suburban summer resort. The attendance of delegates was not as large as usual. For two days the Dowling and Myers factions bad contended for control of the con vention, the state committee and the whole party organization. It was ex pected that the factions would fight on the floor of the convention and a large crowd of visitors assembled to witness the exhibition. The convention was called to order by W. W. Durbin, chairman of the state committee, who briefly reviewed the work of the last campaign. Prayer was offered by Kev. K. K. Baker, when the following temporary organization was announced: Chairman, Judge Allen Smalley; secretary, Col. W. A. Taylor; assistant secretary, Martin J. Burke; sergeant-at-arms, 1.. I). A bell. •Judge Smalley made a long speech on taking the chair. Those holding minority reports on credentials were induced not to pre sent them and the majority report was adopted without the expected row. There was also a compromise in the organization of the new state central committee with William S. Thomas as chairman and Harry W. Wilson for secretary. Wilson had been the anti- Dowling candidate for chairman. The committee on rules presented an elab orate plan of party organization, which had recently been prepared. This new plan of party organization was started at the Jackson banquet last January, but a substitute was pre sented. After a long discussion it was referred back for report at the next state convention. Congressman John J. Lent/ on tak ing the chair as permanent chairman spoke at such length on national is sues that the convention did not get t i business till towards evening. The resolutions adopted reaffirm the Chicago atform and say: We particularly indorse the fnancial plank therein declaring for the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at tile ratio of 16 to 1. independent of any and ait other nations. We are proud of the patriotic conduct in peace and war of that brave leader • 112 democracy, William J. liryan. and we favor his renomillation for president in 190'*. The platform favors an income tar and thanks the minority in congress for seeking to secure "a just distribution of the war taxation Miuaily upon the wealth anil corporations of tee country. as well as upon its labor." We recognize the eternal truth that life, lib erty anil the pursuit of happiness is the na tural and inalienable heritage of all mankind. : begun and prosecuted. The resolutions favor the building of the Nicaragua canal, enlarging tiic militia of all th st.ites and reducing the standing army, oppose alliance with England or any other foreign power, and demand that the United States senate take action upon the findings of the ' 'hio senate on the election of Marcus A. Tfanna as senator. \ New Transportation I.ln<*. Washington, Aug. 25. —Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn, of the war de partment, is contemplating the estab lishment of a line of transports from New York to Havana, Santiago. Ponce and return. It is expected that the line will lie ready for operation next week. Havana will not be on the route at present, but as soon as that port is open the war department line of transports will touch there. The line will be used for transporting supplies needed by the I'nited States forces. A New K •Ix-lllon T ireatone I. Manila, Aug. 25.—At a conference yesterday between the insurgents and the Americans the former declared em phatically that they were willing to co-operate with the Americans and to surrender their arms promptly if as sured that the islands would remain an American or British colony, or un der the protectorate of the United States or (Ireat Britain. Otherwise the insurgent leaders asserted, they would not dare disarm, but positively refuse to do so. They threaten a fresh rebellion within a month if the Ameri cans withdraw. LESSONS IN NAVAL BATTLES. I£n|(li*!i Commendation for the Uoud JiltrU 111m 11 »!■ ill of Ameri can Uunn«r>. The lessons to be drawn from the Spanish-American sea lights are not clear, satisfactory and conclusive. With the barely possible exception of the sinking of the Merrimac, as sug gested by Lieut. Hobson, the torpedo lias played no part in the jiaval engage ments, and of ramming there has not been any. It was even so at Yalu, and throughout the war between China and Japan, says the London Shipping World, liut are we satisfied that if the conditions favored the use of torpedoes or ranis by the Americans there would not have been fairly realized some of the great expectations concerning one or both of these instruments of de- MAJ. GEN. SAMUEL B. M. YOUNG. This officer, who Is now in charge of the American army recuperating from Its haril service at Santiago de Cuba at Montauk Point, L. 1., passed all through the civil war, and by his bravery rose from the rank of a private In a Pennsylvania x -glment to that of colonel, with a brevet brigadier generalship before action ceased. He entered the regular army in ISB6 as a second lieutenant, and earned promotion lapidly. He has been many times wounded, lie was made a major general at the beginning of the Spanish-American war. struetion? "The torpedo bout destroy ers foundered," said the brave Span ish Admiral Cervera, in his report to (ien. Blanco. Yes; and the foundering was brought about by the good practice of the gunners of the Gloucester, a smart armed yacht. Cervera's ships were faster than those of Sampson, but they did not getaway; 13-inch guns can hurl many tons of shot and shell into the enemy before the advantage in speed for a few knots an hour will avail for the emergency. The effect <>f arma ment on armor is not yet accurately ascertained. Several points have, how ever, been made clear by the naval en gagements. namely: (1) That modern shells readily set fire to the woodwork of warships and that, therefore, wood must be avoided or made fireproof; (2) that speed is relatively more im portant from strategical than from lighting considerations; (ii) that in a fair tight superiority of marksmanship and quick firing means victory, and (4) A TRULY PATRIOTIC YACHT. The accompanying sketch Is from a photograph of the Cleopatra, a 40-foot Nan tucket cat boat, which catrles an Amerlcat. flag for a mainsail. The Cleopatra is owned by a Cincinnati man who summersat Nantucket. The sail is 41 feet ti inches on the boom, 2S feet 2 Inches on the gaff. M feet on the hoist and o3 feet on the leach. The red stripes and the blue union are dyed in colors which it la believed will be fust, and the duck is of special weave. The effect of ihe sail Is beautiful. that the Americans can do tliut which they claim —"shoot straight uud obey orders." I I'll la Mini 111 II K So mill 'l'll roll Ii 'l'll 111 IIK. AH interest Ing series of experiments in transmitting sound through tubing U reported from (ieruiany. '1 he piping conveying compressed air into the workings of a coui mine was employed. The greatest length to which a sound could be conveyed in a straight pipe without branches was found to be I.iUO feet to 1,700 feet. For distances up to 2,(>60 feet the best kind of pipe was that with a diameter of about ~'o inches; beyond that distance larger pipes were more effective. It. distances up to JSO feet a diameter of eight inches is needed. Why (In* Kyt'bnll I* White. The eyeball is white because the biood vessels that feed its substunce are so small that they do uot admit the red copuscles. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER x, 1898. I CURTIN'S ILLIMITABLE CHEEK. lie l» tiie Orli&lnator of the "Hello" Mellxxl of Heaelilnv >lll - ItcMUill*. The absolute, real, undoubted hero of this war is not Admiral Dewey sink ing all the Spanish fleet at Manila, nor llobson, sinking a portion of the Amer ican fleet at Santiago, nor Shafter driv ing out the fleet 11 Cervera and captur ing an army double that of his own, nor Sampson ana hissubordinatessend i ir.g Cervera to destruction, nor twenty others we could name, but it is Ensign Curtin, landing at the port of Ponce, j and with inimitable cht>*!t sending his ultimatum to the commander of the Spanish forces at Ponce by telephone! Of all the astonishing incidents of this war nothing for novelty approaches ; thi3, and Mr. Curtin should go down in history as the originator of the "hrllo" method of reaching military results. The illimitable gall of this youth de serves to be crystallized in history. Murat and Lannes, by their capture of tli& tete du pont at Vienna, have been handed down as the typical Gascons, but Mr. Curtin has outbraved them all. The Army and Navy Journal, which ex pects to chronicle the official reports of the battle or Armageddon, hardly hopes to record anything hereafter which for pure impudence will exceed this occurrence. The only thing which could rival it would be for another en sign to send a district messenger boy to Sagasta with an ultimatum to be answered in 15 minutes. Spider*' WcliN for lla 11 rooms. Spiders' webs have passed through many usages, from the styptic of a thousand years ago to the festooning of cellars and bottles in which "old" wines are stored, but not the least striking of their adaptations is that ] now being made in France, where they | are spun lor the making of balloons. ] The resulting texture it. much lighter I than ordinary silk of the same hulk, j and strong cords for military balloons | are also made of it. The spiders are i grouped in dozens before a reel, which I withdraws the delicate threads. After | giving a thread of 2U to 40 yards, the | spider is released. Eight threads have | to be combined. Kvent» in lllHimirck'N l arcrr. iSisuiarck's career, snys the .New ' York Tribune, was a series of battles, j First, for the l'russian crown against I republicanism; next, for tlie Prussian j crown against Austria; then for the (ierinan crown against France; again I for the (.ierman crown against the Vatican; and finally, for the German j crown against political factions an 6 j socialist tendencies. From first to j last he wore the uniform of the kittsr'* 1 Luau THE OBSTINATE SPANIARD. He HUM a \\ a > of Makinjt Vr/f I atta Jb'lt in Hi* Theory of !!»«' WOrlil. "Well, I suppose by this time jour friends, the Spanish, will begin to be lieve they really did get the hot end of it at Santiago," said one bong Island suburbanite to another. "Oh, no," said the man, who lived in Spain before he settled in Flatbusli. ".Not at all." "What!" "1 say not at all. You don't under stand the Spanish people. I don't un derstand tlieni, for that matter, but I have picked up one or two points in the course of a long experience. Let me tell you a story in illustration. One summer evening, when I was at school in England, not in Spain, four or Ave of us boys were watching the sunset. Presently a young Spaniard who had only recently arrived —and he happened to be from Havana, too—came and joined us. We had just been wondering why the sun seemed to get so flat as it got near to the horizon. We all noticed that the sun did sce«u to flatten, and we all had different ways of accounting for the phenomenon. By way of be ing civil to this foreigner, who under stood hardly six words of English at that time, one of us told him in French what we were talking about. He nod ded and smiled, just to show that he understood, but lie was standing with his back to the sun and didn't turn around to look at it. "The acting interpreter was instruct ed to ask the Spanish gentleman if he could tell us why the sun seemed to be swelling out right and left like that. I'.ut the Spanish gentleman only smiled affably, still keeping his brick to the sun. Then we suggested to him all our different explanations, one after an other. but he dismissed every one of them with a grave, courteous smile and a shake of his head. At last, when om interpi eter once more demanded of him the Havana theory of the thing, he vouchsafed to say in French: " 'lt does not look so because it can not. The sun is round.' And all that we could do could not make that Span iard turn round and look at the sun for himself." "ll'm," said theuntraveled American, "lie must have been particularly mul ish." "Xot particularly," said the other. "If it comes to being mulish 1 can give othel instances just as strong. Do you know how they drive mules in the Pyrenees? No, they don't light fires under them; that would make them go too fast I mean on those mountain roads. The driver gets together a lot of stones on the box beside him, and every now and then, when the mules get too slow In just tires a rock at the leader's head. At least that was what my driver did, and it interested ine very much, for it was when I lirst went to Spain, and everything interested me. So I asked my driver why he didn't use a whip. He looked at me very seriously and said that a Spanish mule didn't need a whip. I thought he was making fun of mi", so I climbed out on the seat be sitiV him and poked nt the w heeler with an alpenstock I had strapped up with my waterproof and things. Well, I had to stop it and apologize or get out and flu-lit the driver on that narrow, lonely roadside." "Why? Didn't your plan work as well as the bombarding?" "It made the mules go all right, but the driver said it didn't. He said they were not common mules, but Pyreneean 'lilies of blue blood, and that if I did :* again they would be insulted and die right there rather than haul us a stej) further. He himself was very angry and swore bet ween his teeth, and he fired a fresh broadside of rocks just when the mules were really doing un usually well. "Hut about the coolest piece of po lite obstinacy 1 evt'r met in Spain was at a little country railroad station. I was so inconsiderate as to ask the sta tion master if he thought my train would be on time. I ought to have known that Spanish trains never are on time, as we understand the term. The answer I got was enough to wilt me. The station master smiled mag nanimously. and iyiwed and said: 'Sin embargo, senor' ('Without doubt, sir'). Hut the schedule time came and no train. I couldn't say any more to the station master On that subject, but hi' saw me look at the clock once or twice. As it turned out. the train was unusual ly punctual only 40 minutes late. The station master gave me a not her low bow as 1 got on board, and then I saw him deliberately climb on file back of a bench and set the hands of the clock back 40 minutes."—N. Y. Sun. Tnrmnutli'n Revolving; Toner. At Yarmouth, England, a seaside re sort of growing favof. a revolving tow er has been constructed as an attrac tion. It is placed close to the sea. over looking a large expanse of land and water. The tower is 155 feet high, and has the capacity of carrying 200 persons in each trip. Persons who have never ridden in a roundabout or been up in a balloon can here, in this revolving life, experience something of both of these —odd to some and most pleasant to clliers sensations. On the little plat form at the top of the tower the breeze is more than refreshing it is a blow; whilst the view beneath is superb. Wide, white sands, a deep, blue bay. and the Cumberland hills running down to the shore make up an ideal land scape. Then, at other points within the 24 miles of country under the specta tor's eye. lie gets glimpses into West moreland, Yorkshire. Lancashire and Cheshire. ('hiengo Tribune. 'l'hat (. rn ml \lr. "Papa. 1 want a pug dog; they's so 'r is toe ratio look hi*." "Hobby, what do you mean by aris tocrat ic-looking?" "W'y, they looks tike they'd git hop pin' mad if they had ter git a'quainted with anybody."—Brooklyn l,it'e. PRIZE WINNERS. They are Announced at tlia K. of T. Encampment. MEN OF WISCONSIN LEAD. The Kau Claire Company WalUe I Dll* with NEW SUPREME CHANCELLOR. TlinniikH fi. Nnmple, of Allegheny, I'a., M I'lKwen—Session of the Supreme l.otlgo Is Devoted to lilHeiiMMloii of the KIHIOW ment Kunk'n i-'inttnees. Indianapolis, Aug. 27.—The supreme lodge. Knights of Pythias, adjourned last evening after having elected the following officers: Supreme Chan cellor, Thomas f the supreme lodge was devoted to the consideration of the report of John A. Ilinscy, supreme organizer of the en dowment rank, on the condition of that organization. Vague rumors were floating about among the supreme representatives as to the condition of the endowment rank. This is the insurance branch of the order and has 53,579 members carrying insurance amounting to 201,500. Tlie statement of the board of control shows the resources to be $523,270. It is charged that $91,7!H is entangled in the affairs of a defunct national bank of Fort Worth, Tex., and nothing but a judgment against bondsmen represents this money; also that the $230,127 invested in a hotel building at Chicago, which is now in the hands of a receiver, is nothing more than a fifth lien on the prop erty. The rumors are as yet vague and indefinite. The committee appointed to inves tigate into charges made against the supreme officers has been in session two days, but. is not yet ready to report. The liathbone sisters have elected the following officers: Supreme chief, Mrs. .Teanette IS. S. Neubert. Kansas City; supreme senior, Mrs. 1,. K. Sher man. Cleveland; supreme junior, Mrs. Dell P. Glazier, Fort Madison, la.; supreme mistress of records and cor respondence, Mrs. M. D. Woods, Kan sas City; supreme mistress of finance, Mrs. Alexander Murray, Le Vay, 111. Camp Colgrove is almost a thing of the past. The last formality was the award of prizes, as follows: Class A First prize. $1,500, John Parr (ilenn company, of Kau Claire. Wis.; sec md prize. $1,200, Terre Ilaute, I nil., com pany No. 3; third prize, SI,OOO, Kala mazoo, Mich., company No. 9; fourth prize, SBOO. Yellow Cross company No. N5, Alliance. <).: fifth prize. $00). Friendship company. No. 25, Coving ton, Ky. The general prize, value SIOO, for tlie best company commander of this class was awarded to ('apt. Con Terge, of the John Hart* (ilenn company. Class I! first prize. SSOO, Couer de Leon company, Lancaster, ().: second prize, S4OO. Vigo company. No. S3, Terre Haute: third prize, S3OO, Alpha company. No. 45, Louisville, Ky.; fourth, S2OO, JeffersonviHe, I ml., com pany. The jewel prize valued at SIOO for the best company commander in class I*. was awarded to Penjamin F. Gray, captain of the Louisville company. The prize for the best troop of cav alry was awarded to the Iturns Hus sars. of St. Joseph, Mo., it having no competitors. Serii|> with liisiirjj-eutH. Manila, Aug. 27. On Wednesday a corporal and two troopers of fhe I'tali artillery, after disembarking at Ca vite. were sent on an errand. While passing through the street Trooper Hudson discharged his revolver. The natives immediately began firing. Dismounted cavalry were sent to quell the disturbance, but the natives mis understood the movement and the tir ing' became general. Trooper Hudson was killed and Corporal Anderson mortally wounded. Four troopers of the Fourth cavalry were wounded. Four natives were killed and several wounded. I>i Ul MB. A. A. MoDONALD, PBOPBIBTOB. BKPOBIUM, PA. & F. X. 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