FAILURES ARE FEWER
less Business Wreckage Under Mc-
Kinley Than in 18 Years.
Cnlnmlty Hovrlen Slrnolt Dnmh by
Cieneral Prosperity'N Bemarkilile
Exhibit Disastrous Effect of
[. Vriuorrac) «n«I Free Trude.
The real prosperity of a country is
always judged by the number of fail
ures among- its business men. It is
an astonishing tribute to the second
alate of our finances and prosperous
commercial condition when Hrad
etreet's mercantile agency reports for
the first six months of the calendar
year, 1900, the smallest number of fail
ures noted for 18 years past. This is a
showing for McKinley prosperity that
must strike the calamity bowlers
dumb.
Therecords of the mercantile agency
show that for the first si4c months of
1592 the business failures 01 the coun
try were 5,351, with liabilities of $56,-
635,521. In November of that year the
democratic party was voted into pow
er and in March, 1593, took charge of
the country's finances. The first six
months of that year showed failures
of 6,23V> in number, with liabilities of
over $7fl,»00,(X)0. All through the
democratic free trade Wilson bill
administration the number of all
ures steadily increased, until the
first six months of 1896, when
they reached the high water mark,
viz., 7,6H>2. with liabilities of $105.-
635,936. In November of that year
McKinley prosperity was voted in.
and the number of failures stead
ily declined, until the first six months
of 1900 show only 4.50 failures, with
liabilities of $60,064,208, the smallest
number reported for IS years.
In the following tables we compare
the first six months of 1896, the Inst
Year of the last democratic adminis
tration, with the first six months of
1900. the last \cnr of President MeKin
lev's present administration. This ev
idently is fair, as it shows the results
of nearly four years of both policies on
the business affairs of the country.
These tables are worthy of the careful
consideration of the free traders and
free silver calamity bowlers, as well as
of those who believe in the prosperity
and protection of a republican adminis
tration. Thus:
Number of Failures foi
Eastern States. Six Months.
1900
Main* IJ-1 ®
New Hampshire 73
Vermont 37
Massachusetts K0 <"<
Rhode Island 43 4*
•Connecticut 125 1*
Total, eastern states 90S I,OS
MI DI>LE STATUS.
New York 1,059
"New Jersey 110
Pennsylvania 673
Delaware 10 I
Total, middle states 1.552
WKSTKKN STATES.
Ohio 4'W
Indiana !•>■> »;
Illinois 41:2 21.
Missouri 330 J-'
Michigan 173 ,5V
Kansas 357 I<*
Kentucky 152
'Colorado It •*
Total, western states 2.026 #S'
NORTH WESTERN STATES.
"Wisconsin 184 7[
Minnisota 197 <•
lowa "8 1
Nebraska 12» J
South Dakota -4 *•'
North Dakota *> '
Montana 2a 1.
"Wyoming «•
Total, northwest'n states 742
SOUTHERN STATKS.
"Maryland 75
Virginia 134 3-
"West Virginia 21 »;
North Carolina 30 J
South Carolina .24 1
Georgia 101
Florida 24 If
Alabama 4.» j-
Mississippi 69 a!
Louisiana ••• I'}l
Tennessee SO e
Arkansas 68 ®;
Distrist of Columbia 28
Total, southprn states—l.l6l 50!
PACIFIC STATES.
California 515 25'
Oregon 38 5j
Nevada
Utah 45 3i
■Washington 104 o.
Idaho 12
Total, Pacific states 701 38
TERRITORIES.
Arizona 12
Indian Territory if "
New Mexico 21
Alaska 1 •
Oklahoma «o »'
Totals
SUMMARY OF THE ABOVE.
Number of Failures fo)
Six Months.
% IN!M*. 1W
E.i stern states
Middle states 1 ,552
Western states 2,02b
Northwestern states 742
Southern states I,IGI
Pacific states 7H4
Territories B'i «
Total—United States 7.602 4,88'
The liabilities of those failing for
the first six months of ttie two years
compared are as follows:
1890. 1900
Eastern states $i1,233,1r»8 $13.89;5.01:
Middle states 33.320,fi0» 29.i04,39]
Western states
Northwestern states.. 30,507,612 3,4<)9,.>0;
'Southern states 13,847,302 4,001.';'.)!
Pacific states 5,651.0.6 2.4'i'J.hO
Territories 563,800 211.80
Totals $105,535,936 $60,064,201
It will be noted that the liabilities
of those failing in the middle states ir
the first six months of 1900 were $3,
016.207 less than they were in 1896
In the western states'they were $23.-
907.048 less. In the northwesters
states they were $7,158,110 less. In
the southern states they were $9,846,'
103 less. In the Pacific states they
•were $3,248,476 less. In the terri
tories they were $351,934 less, a grand
total of $45,471,728 less than in 1896.
Only in the eastern states, where
the hated "aggregation of wealth." a;
the democrats term it. is supposed tc
exist, were there more failures tills
year than in 1896.
icif Adlai Stevenson w#re only le
n'ofie a short while lie would soon ge
lost ayain. as he is one of the most easi
!J.y forgotten men in the country. —Sai
Francisco Chronicle.
THE THIRD PARTY LEAD.
No one in the world who of wisdom takes
heed,
Will encourage or follow the third party
lead.
Every man in the land lias a duty to do;
He knows that the choice will be one of the
two—
McKinley or Bryan; his duty Is first
To make up his mind which is best—or
which worst-
Then vote us he thinks; It's a silly child's
In a''co n't est like this to throw ballots
away. „
Lack of sense, too much "culchah, too
much self-conceit-
One of these is the cause, and sometimes
they meet.
If you think both are evil, you ought to
select
The one which is least; you can't always
expect
To have choice of the best; but the world
will advance,
When the best thing available is given a
chance. l(
Did there any real question ot "Empire"
exist.
As the antis so loudly and falsely insist,
None truly can urge the least shade of
pretense
That it cannot be settled, say, three years
from hence.
Just as well as to-day; but you've got to
"expect
From Bryan's election an instant effect;
The result to our finances must be delayed,
A fact that the antis don't seem to have
weighed;
They've lost all perspective, all power to
judge »
Of existing relations: The Empire; what
fudge!
When an enemy's pressing you sharply in
front,
Good sense and good discipline certainly
won't
Let you fire in the air, because, haply, you
fear
You may be attacked later on in th» rear.
When a man gets one subject lodged fast
in his brain.
And turns it, and talks it, again and again,
"EXPANSION."
He soon will be smelling the time-honored
ranks.
Of unbearable bores, ar.il fanatical cranks.
Bryan's high up in both, with his 1(J to 1,
And the antis will join him before they
have done;
Furthermore, there are some, much too
good for this earth.
Unequaled in wisdom, supernal in worth.
Who on their own virtues so constantly
dote,
That they think they're too too so, to cast
any vote;
Their feet move around on the earth with
the crowd.
But their heads are concealed in a sancti
fied cloud.
They are few. and the masses from hum
bug exempt,
Can't fail to regard them with honest con
tempt.
PeiiHl»n»* Hlnh-Wuter Mark.
The last year of the Harrison ad
ministration there were paid out for
pensions—fiscal year ending .June 30,
1893, $136,506,537.94. In June, 1893, un
der the Cleveland administration, a
board of review was created the
action of the previous administration
was reviewed, thousands of cases were
reduced and dropped, so that for the
year 1594, the first year of that admin
istration, there was paid for pensions
only $139,986,626.17 —ov a reduction of
$16,819,011.87. In 1905, dropped by
board of revision, 6.425; reduced by
board of revision, 20,0j9.
Prosperity In Ktititn*.
They appetrr to be writing prosper
ity in Kansas with a great big I*, as
the following ollicial figures show.
The deposits in Kansas state banks
for the following dates, to-wit, were:
October 13, 1 s!>l sls,i»jj.4Sj SJ
September 1. IS!)-' TlHS'i&i -
October 3. 1593 "••I-r' 5 Jll
July IS, 1«»1 16,m5,!W) W
December -4. 1X95 jti.^iii. 1*
December 19. iS'.IH 1t,66.1,bl
December 24. 1X97
December 31. IS9S t
December 2, 1899 .iS
June 30, 19U0 33,006,101 00
education Mini Prosperity.
Never before was there such a ..flood
of students at our colleges as in 1899.
The reason for this is plain. The fa
thers of the land are prosperous and
have resolved to give tnelr children
the best education possible. More
over, many young men who have been
compelled to work for a living are
now able frotn their savings to pay
for an education.
Iluylnt; I.nxarien.
Tt is only the well-to-do that can
buy luxuries, so when we see the fig
ures showing the enormous increase
in the sales of diamonds, carriages,
pianos, carpets and fine foreign bon
nets and millinery in the last four
years, it shows that the people ate
, | prosperous as tliey never were be-
I fore.
J 4
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, r o.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
irrt is stated that Senator Hannata
a wonderfully hard worker, 'this as
sertion is no news to Mr. Bryan and his
campaign associates. Washington
Star.
CTBryan missed his calling. He
should have been a foreign missionary,
llis warm feeling"for the inhabitants of
other lands even makes him oblivious
to the outrages perpetrated against
our citizens in the south. — 1 oledo Bade.
lE?"When a reporter for the Indianap
olis Press asked Bryan to say some
thing al>out his farm the other day the
candidate replied: "1 must decline to
do so. That farm has already got a
great deal more advertising than is paid
for."
CA Bryan paper claims to have
taken a straw vote among 4,376 men
crossing the Brooklyn bridge, and its
figures indicate that McKinley will car
ry Greater New York by 2*,000, instead
of 61,000. as in 1896. A republican ma
jority of any size in New York city is
a good enough straw for the rest of
the country. —St. Louis Globe-I/emo
crat.
C7The record of Bryan's own state
is against him as a calamity howler
and prophet. In 1897 Ifcbraskans paid
off $19.000,000 of mortgages; in 1 SOS,
$49,000,000, and last year $78,000,000, a
total of $146,000,000 during the three
vears of prosperity which the admin
istration of McKinley gave to their
state in common with the rest of the
country.—San Francisco Chronicle.
ICT'Tlie determination of Hill to per
mit Croker to assume full respon*i'oil*
ity for the state ticket may be regard
ed as a significant admission that the
democrats have no hope of carrying
New York this fall. The boss brigand
of municipal highwaymen is in the sad
dle in New York. It means an over
whelming plurality for McKinley and
Roosevelt in that state. Chicago
Times-Herald.
lE7The caterwaulinigs, spittings and
struggles of the tantamount and the
paramount in the back yards and
upon the shedi roofs of populism, free
silver republicans and bewildered
democrats during the next four
months will be as entertaining as a
cat fight. They will decide whether
that which was tantamount shall find
its paramount in anti-imperialism.
Free silver was equal to al'l else. Then
how can anti-imperialism be its para
mount in the same platform? —J. Ster
ling Morton's Conservative.
ICTThe Kansas City Star (independ
ent) says that "it would appear that
Mr. Hryan. has, undier stubborn pro
test and after much hesitation, con
sented to give imperialism the posi
tion of paramount issue iii the dem
ocratic campaign." The Star doubts
if Mr. Hryan will gain anything by
this, since "the monarchy proposition
is too fantastic to cut any figure even
with the most ignorant voters in the
country." The opinion of the Star is
that of every newspaper that is not a
Hryan organ. —Indianapolis Journal.
A Question fur Ilrynn.
Will Mr. Bryan order the with
drawal of the America if troops from
the Philippine islands immediately on
becoming president, if he is elected?
That is a fair question, which calls
for a frank and manly answer. He
says he is against imposing govern
ment on people. Does he mean it or
is he only using a catch phrase to get
votes? If he means it, then it must
be that he will instantly withdraw
our troops and give the Filipinos a
free chance to set up such govern
ment as they desire and murder such
foreigners as they please; for if our
exercise of authority there is an out
rage and our occupation so wicked as
to have justified Aguinaldo's attack
on our troops while they were main
taining order in Manila before the
conclusion of the war with Spain,
then the quicker we leave the better.
In deciding intelligently between the
parties it is essential to know what
! the first steps of either wouW be.
Let Mr. Bryan tell the people squarely
what, he would do. Would he inline
! diately withdraw the troops?—N. Y.
I Tribune.
STEWART FLOPS.
A. Nevada Senator Deserts tbe
Bryan Ranks.
In a Lxttrr to ll»e Public Tl»l»
liiii Advocate ol' I'ree Silver lil»e»
111* lor Heturiiltm
to ilie Itt'publlcHM Fold
Alter Luiii; .Ibirnie,
New York, Aug. 21. —Senator* Wil
liam M. Stewart, of Nevi.da, called at
republican headquarters Monday and
said he had decided to vote for Presi
dent McKinley. lie made a statement
in part as follows:
"The United States went to war
with Spain urged on by the demo
cratic party. The popularity of the
war was such that Mr. Bryan joined
the army. The war was successful, a
treaty of peace was entered into
whereby the United* States agreed to
pay $20,000,000 and accept, the sover
eignty and public property of Spain
in the Philippine archipelago. There
was opposition to the ratification of
the treaty. Mr. Bryan came to Wash
ington and persuaded his democratic
friends to vote for the treaty and it
was through his influence that the
treaty was Anally ratified.
"It then became the duty of the
United States to maintain law and
order and protect, the lives and prop
erty of all residents in the islands,
whether native or foreign born. '1 he
United States at the time of the rati
fication of the treaty held military
possession of Manila and immediately
after such ratification assumed the
sovereignty of the islands. The peo
ple of the United States, and partic
ularly of the Pacific; coast, became
entitled to the vast commerce of the
Pacific ocean, of which the Philip
pines furnish the key.
•'One Aguinaldo had raised a rebel
lion in Luzon against Spain before
the commencement of the Spanish
war with the United States. Th s ad
venturer had sold out or settled his
rebellion with Spain for $400,000 be
fore Dewey set sail for Manila, and
as a part of th" bargain with Spain,
Aguinaldo agreed to leave the islands
and never return.
"Dewey took the wily agitator
back to the islands, supposing that
Aguinaldo would naturally be an en
emy of Spain and a friend of the
United States. In this Admiral
Dewey was mistaken. Aguinaldo, as
soon as he landed on his native soil,
organized a rebellion against the
United States, which would have been
of little consequence if he had not
been able to obtain comfort and aid
in this country.
"An organization was formed in the
United States called the Anti-Impe
rialist league, which has for the last
two years co-operated with Aguinal
do's junta, with hei juartcrs at
Hong Kong, to supply literature and
materials of war for Aguinaldo. Pres
ident McKinley had no authority to
buy out Aguinaldo's rebellion against
the United States, but was bound by
the treaty (which was the supreme
law of the land) to maintain law and
order and protect life and property
in the islands.
"It required a large army and the
expenditure of hundreds of millions
of dollars to p.it down Aguinaldo's
rebellion. The assistaih-e and the en
couragement he received from the
Anti-Imperialist league and the ene
mies of the United States, both at
home and abroad, made his barbar
ous and irregular war bloody and
expensive. Congress, however, made
all necessary appropriations, provid
ing the executive with men and
money to maintain the authority of
the United States in tbe Philippines.
The so-called anti-imperialists declar
ed that the policy pursued by the
government to put down the rebellion
and maintain law and order in all
territories of the United Stales, with
out regard to the time vvlier. such
territories were acquired, was 'iuip '-
rialisin' and that any use of the army
to maintain law and order—however
necessary—was 'militarism,' and that
giving aid and comfort to rebels in
arms against the United States was
'maintaining the principles of the
Declaration of Independence.'
"Mr. Bryan's unparalleled campaign
for the principles of the Chicago plat
form and his insistence upon the
adoption of that platform at Kansas
City, induced the people to suppose
the campaign of 1900 would be con
ducted on 1 lie issues of tSSMi. In this
it seems they wire mistaken."
Senator Stewart then <|iio!es Mr.
Bryan's declaration of his intention,
if "elected, to call an extraordinary
session of congress to give the Phil
ippines freedom upon the same terms
as Cuba. Me also denounces the re
cent convention of anti-imperialists
at Indianapolis. He also denounces
Mr. ISryan for promising' to attempt
to "extend the Monroe doctrine. to
the Orient."-
All IHi<|iif I.uw*uit.
Chicago, Aug-. 21.—50l Bloom, a
music publisher, has brought srit for
$50,000 damages against the Cnion
restaurant and hotel in Kandolph
street for refusing to serve him while
he was clad in a shirt waist and
minus a coat. This is said to be the
first time the shirt waist cpjestion lias
been broug'ht before a court. Attor
neys for plaintiff conlend that the
defendant had no right to refuse to
serve Bloom merely because lie wore
the latest style in men's garments.
The management of the restaurant
said that patrons wearing shirt
waists would only be served at taolea
adjoining the main dining room.
Killed III* Wile and Children.
Arlington. Minn., Aug. 21.—'1 hco
dore Wallart, a farmer living three
miles from town, on Sunday night
killed his wife, a boy of lit years, a
girl of 10 and a baby He then set
tire to his barn, destroying the stable
with nine horses, a corn crib and a
hay barn. Mrs. Wallart had been try.
ing' to secure a divorce, the couple
having separated. Wallart entered
the house through a window and
slaughtered the family with the ex
ception of one child, a boy. who was
wounded, however, axd probably will
die. Wallart fled.
LEFT THE CAPITAL.
Highest Officials of China Aban
don Pekin.
Plagnof til* Alllri Float Ovrr the Im
perial I'alarr PrrMilrut TlcKlii"
ley llrjri'U ICarl LI 1 * I'eace
>*r»|>oaals.
Pole ill. Ati!?. 14, via Clio Foo, Aug.
2?.—The American and Russian ttagfS
were planted on the east wall of J'e
kin at 11 o'clock this morning. The
Indian troops entered the Uritish le
gation at 1 o'clock and the Americans
at :i. There was a joyful reception
from the wall.
The emaciated tenants could have
lasted but little longer. They had
only three days' rations. The Chi
nese had been attacking furiously for
two flays. Four thousand shells fell
in the legation during the siege.
Sixty-live people were killed and 1150
wounded
The generals, alarmed at the
Rounds of a heavy attack on the lega
tions. pushed forward independently,
the Mritish. Americans and French on
the left of The river and the Russians
and Japanese on the right, begin
ning at 2 o'clock this morning, the
Japanese diverted the brunt of resist
ance to the northern city, their ar
tillery engaging the Chinese heavily
there. The Americans and Mritish
met with but little resistance until
they entered the city, where there
was street fighting. R«ilev's battery
attempted to breach the inner wall.
Company E, Fourteenth United
States infantry, planted its ring on the
outer wall. Musician Titus scaling the
wall with a rope, by means ol which
the others climbed to the top.
Washington, \ttg. 22. —The cabinet
eession yesterilav practically opened
the consideration of Ihe questions
growing out of 1 lie capture of Pel in
and the war in China. Until recently
the absorbing question has been thj
safety of Minister Conger and the le
g.'iiioners at Pekin. Now. however,
that has {riven place to problems of a
more intricate and far-reachin{r char
acter. touching the very existence of
the Chinese empire and the part
which the American government is to
take in the reconstruction of that
count ry.
The meeting Tuesday was devoted
entirely to the Chinese situation.
Several questions were awaiting at
tention.
First of Hiese was the application
of .Li llnn»' Chang for the appoint
ment of Minister Conger or some
other commissioner to negotiate for
the cessation of hostilities. The de
cision arrived at was to reject the
iippeal. and a reply of this character
will be sent to Minister Wu to be for
warded to T.i Hung Chang.
London. Aug. 22. —In the news that
reaches London this morning direct
from China there is nothing to con
firm the report that the empress
dowaser has been run to earth. The
foreign envoys, according to the
Shanghai correspondent ol' the Daily
Express, are proceeding to Tien Tsin.
"The flags of the allies" says the
Shanghai correspondent of the Daily
Mail, wiring yesterday, "are n:i\v
floating over tbe imperial palace.
Street fighting, however, continues.
Considerable assistance in tiie cap
ture of Pekin was rendered by 4,000
armed tiative Christians. The lega
tions were enabled to hold out by
purchasing ammunition from the Chi
nese."
Washington, Aug. 23. —The most im
portant development of Wednesday as
to the actual conditions in Pekin
came late in the afternoon when the
state department made public a dis
patch from Minister Conger dated at
Pekin on the l'Jth. It is as follows:
"The entire city with the exception
of the palace is occupied by Japanese,
Russian, British,American and French
troops. It is being apportioned into
districts for police supervision. The
Chinese army fled. The imperial fam
ily and the court have gone westward,
probably to Sianfti, in the province of
Shensi. No representatives of the
Chinese government are in sight in
Pekin and the conditions are chaotic.
The palace is expected to be taken
immediately. Many missionaries
have started for home, while others
remain in charge of the Christian
refugees, numbering about 1.000."
London. Aug. ■' 1 o-dav 1,.»0«)
Americans attacked the imperial pal
ace," says a dispatch to the Morning
Post from Pekin. dated August l">.
'and captured four oT the courts.
The \meriean flag is flying over the
imperial granary and the Imperial
bank has been looted."
Washington, Aug. 24.—The import-
anl development in the Chinese situ
at ion Thursday was the decision o
the government not to send any mori
troops to C'liina. All the troops nov
at sea, to about 4.000, to
get her with those under orders fo'
service in the far east which ha\V no
sailed, amounting to about 3,000 more
will l>e sent to Manila.
Seymour I'raWe* A rlran Troop*.
London. Anff. 22.—'The Daily KK
press prints a letter, >-aid to have
been written by Admiral Seymour, in
which he defends his action in ad
vancing to the relief of the legation
ers when he did, saving: "Two or
three times our prospects were very
dark and disaster seemed probable."
Keferrilig to the ditlieulties of eon
trollinp" mixed troops and to t Ji»>ir
characteristics, he says:"The Ger
mans we admired most; but for dash
and go none surpassed or perhaps
equalled the Americans.'
% Political ltlot 111 Porto Itii'O.
San .Hinn, Aug. IS.—Thursday at
Ma vague/, a crowd of federals and
republicans got tog-ether and, aftet
healed oolitical disputes. :;0 revolver
sliots were exchanged r.nd clubs and
other weapons freely used. One man
was killed and a dozen others were
injured, two fatallv. For some weeks
violent political discussions have been
frequent there; and recently the re
publicans attempted to hold a muss
meeting in a ward controlled by fed.
erals. It was this that led to Thurs
day's collision. Other encounters ait
I feared.
KxcrriMi IIIM.
Pickpockets Followed Bryan
from Topoka.
WERE SOOX DETECTED.
One as Arrested and Held hy
a Nebraska Sheriff.
MADE A DASH FOR LIBERTY
Jn*t After (lie < Train Ila4
Fulkd Out ol' a Nebraska Town lha
llii<l IXroko Away Iroui Hi* i ajUor
and lOarapied*
Beatrice, Xeb., Aug. 2.*>.— \n excit
ing incident marked Mr. Bryan's first
stop in lii.s own state yesterday, upon
his return from the Topeka notifica
tion meeting. Tlds incident was the
detection of a pickpocket in 111.' act
ive pursuit of his avocation l>y Mr.
Bryan, a lively chase through the
cars for the thief and his capture an I
subsequent escape. The incident oc
curred at the village of Hameston,
on the I'nion Pacific railroad. A.
dense crowd had gathered to bid Mr.
Hrvan welcome. As the train slowed
up Mr. Bryan appeared on the plat
form of Ihe last car. lie was shaking
hands with the people when there
was a suspicious movement in tha
center of the assemblage.
"Look out for those pickpockets,**
shouted the democratic leader, re
membering their movements from hi:-*
experience with Ihis class four years
ago. lie had not pointed out any
particular person, but three or four
men started immediately to move
rapidly through the crowd. The
movement excited the attention of
people in the crowd and also those on
the train and everybody gave chase.
They, however, devoted their especial
attention to one individual, a tall
voting man, who easily distanced his
pursuers. He jumped upon the train,
but as he did so he fell into the arms
of. Sheriff Waddington.
The man protested his innocence,
but the sheriff took him into custody
and as the train pulled out he walked
him into the car immediately forward.
The train was getting under fair
headway when the prisoner, with tha
alertness of a wild deer, turned and.
rushing l>v his custodian, dashed do\v>
the crowded aislt of the car, through
the doorway and upon the car plat
form. Without an instant's hesita
tion he jumped, alighted upon his
feet and was off with the swiftness
of a trained athlete.
Before the train could be stopped
the culprit was seen running swiftly
across a plowed field fully half a mile
distant. lie soon disappeared in .fc
patch of high Indian corn. The oc
currence engaged the attention of all
the passengers and the feet was
brought out that there was a number
of the men on the train who had got.
on at Topeka and whose actions had
aroused the suspicion cf the train
officials. There had been some thefts
in the crowd at Topeka, a new spaper
man in Mr. Hryan's party having been
among the victims. This fact was
connected with the presence of tha
men and they were under suspicion
before the Barnest.n incident oc
curred. , .
The fact was also remembered that
when the train had stopped at
Barneston the men under suspicion,
had jumped from the train to mingle
with the crowd, yelling loudly for
Bryan as they went. When the train
slowed up a few miles further on, be
fore crossing a bridge another mem
ber of the suspected party jumped off
the train and disappeared in a grove.
When the train reached Beatrice the
members of the party under suspicion
were detained. There eight or ten
men thus held and they made no re
sistance.
Mr. Br van arrived at Beatrice from
Manhattan in the afternoon and af
terwards delivered a speech to the
people of this vicinity. lie was greet
ed by considerable gathering's upon
his |onrni*v. At Kandolph he made iv
five-minute speech in which he com
pared the republican party to an as
sociation of athletes trained to turn
somersa' ' in concert whene\er the
leaders say "flop."
Peck Draw* « Life Sentence,
Akron. <)., Aug. 25. —Louis Peck,
colored man whose crime is responsi
ble for the riot in* in Akron Wednes
day night, was rushed to Akron from
Cleveland Friday afternoon, tried be
fore Judge Nye, of Klyria, and a spe
cial grand jury, convicted of the
crime" with which he was charged,
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
life. Within five minutes after hi*
trial and conviction, l'«*ck was speed
ing on his \vav to the ( oluinbus peni
tentiary on a ('., \. iSr train, in the
custody of Sheriff Kelly and others.
l*r<'|»iirlii£ tor u Political llliiivuiit.
New York, Aug. 25.—The exectitiva
committee of Tammany Hall last
night arranged for the reception of
\V. .1. Bryan, October lti. A commit
tee was formed for the purpose.
KWWiard Croker is a member of the
committee. Mr. Croker urged that
the Bryan meeting should be in the
nature of a raiitication and suggest
ed that it take in all trades, as wall
as all lines of business.
I'o-.imi an Ancient Matiio.
Athens, Aug. 25.—A magnificent
marble statue of Apollo, life size, h is
been discovered in this vicinity. Its
workmanship ix of ' Ih ' century
15. C. and it is believed to be the first
in existence. Archaeologists are de
lighted at this important discovery.
Firwt 'l ime ill Two Vcain.
Santiago. Cuba, Aug. 25. — It is in
dicative of the policy of the I'nitecl
States government that the Cuban
flag will be hoisted to-day over tins
palace in Santiago. It will float there
for the firs! time since Gen. Shatter
ordered >* '»a.u'ed dowu iu IH9S.
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