THE NEWa3. One man fatally and four others seriously injured Is the result of an explosion caused the building occupied by the Mound City Clean ing and Dye‘og Company, at 8t. Louis, — William Duals, of Camden, N, J., shot his wife, and then attempted his own life, John McCarthy was arrested in San Fran by the careless bundling of gasoline in cisco for complicity in the attempt to tunnel futo the vault of the First National Bank of The L. Company, manufucturers of rubber shoes, work at New Haven, Ct, -Mr Whitehead was arrested in Denver, Col, on Los Angeles Candee resumed Warren a charge of poisoning her busbandland Mrs, Kearney, The Mutuai Bank of New Orleans closed {ts Herron, Taylor & wholesale of Mem- phis, £124,000; Habilities, $08 600 the The Tobacco , of Richmond, Va., of 850,000 by fire in their large works. The Talbot Dye Wood and Chemical Com- pany, at North Billerica, Mass , one of the largest wholesale chemical houses in New England, closed temporarily hn account of dull at Yonkers, N. Y. caused a loss of 25,000, and families homeless. Firemen had difficulty in rescuing women and children. —- National doors Co., grocers, assigned, Poor Gorman-Campbell Tenn., Assets, collections fis CALs Company sustained alos market, «Fire gled In a boiler explosion ata Willis Mountain, in Buckingham county, ~p yacht capsized off Cape May, an Va. life-saving crow rescued thres men and ladies in an Little, a young woman, found dead in the river, near that place wi a bullet-hole in her head, Albert J. Fra: a young man, who had been her ¢ exhausted condition, of Dayton, was arrested, William and Geo cett, made an with assets ab saveral causing a total loss of wholesale grocers, of assigr nt ; Habilities, over $60,000, 16 same, fredostr Harrisonburg, $18 000, Hung Chang experienced an electric = I while inve Niagara Falls - death by the warehouses in about sh works at stigating the ~Eleven firemen y crushed t wore alling walls of a burning house at Harb W. Rober lin th Folson key § th iarder of Freeman, o April The S¢ opened at yr, Mich, @ stat ance, Col, em down, orders n OPerations, fog Company signment, Railway ( passed into t body ofa d Mann, of Phiia dieton. Del. Elia, — Hamuel J daughter " DISASTERS AND CAS The town of isl Island, is reported to have i tally destroyed by fire, One man was killed and three inj the collapse of a building at 147th stree Amsterdam avenue, N. Y. Bpreading Northwestern N sell alt wrecked a Chic Railroad orth Evausville, [il is rads Herbert Dosell, aged Fisher, aged 17, Mass, 5y the explosion ¢ fag machine, Casteriion, Da. lus Lossing were killed by the at Santiac Ce The British steamer Linlithgow, fr Francisco for Leith, with s cargo of barley is adrift off Acapulco, Mex, shalt, The powder mill near East Alton, Iii, wilt a EX instantly. Fheir names are Henry Hegas, Henry Rog, ers and Thomas Keffer, Bergeant Ivy Baldwin, attached to the Sig. nal Bervice of the Department of Colorado, fell from his balloon while making ploded and three men were killed fil an pi Yes, aad will probably die of his injuries, A break in the main line pipe of the La- fayette Natural Gas Company near Mi town, Ind., caused an explosion, which kiil- ed Robert Hanna aad seriously injured two other men. By the burning of the Commercial Hotel, at Vankleek Hil, Out, five persons met death. The victius are Mary Louise Yon- deau, Christy Villeneuve, Josephine Des champs, Mrs, T. Flon and Miss K. Meleod The property loss is about £10,000, sins III iss TEN PERSONS INJURED. nigan- Wreck of a Bt looks Ezourvien Train a Taswell, Ind An excursion train from St. Louis was wrecked at Taawell, Ind, either from =» worn rail at a curve or from the spreading of the rails, Ths baggage car and three woaches jumped the track and rolled down an embankment, Johu Gibson and Wm. A, Eane, both of 8¢ Louis, wers fatrlly Injured. Bight other persons were less severely tojared. E. A. Allen, a farmer, passing at the mo- ment on horseback sas thrown by his fright- ened horse, which jamped on his breast and probably fatally injured him, i i Letter of the Republican Candi- date for Vice-President. THE FINANCES DISCUSSED Mecessity for a Money Value Be tween Nations and individuals The Evils of Free Stivar Coin A Right Settlement of the Tariff Demanded by age the Country, Hon, Hobart has formally ae ceptad the republican nomination for Vice- President. His letter in part is as follows “Hon, Charles W, Fairbanks the Notifleation Committee of Garret A and others « the Hej can National Convent! “Gentlemen, —1 have a the nomination presidency the for me by tendered publican convention, party nceepted “Unvarying Certainty of Value.’ The mons ta rid § ne rency are vastly different “We Must Cease Juggling.” f the e¢ s best for nmercial w sotthy of or wiial nized ¢ } make known at or tatively ti nest dollar mea satan b nttoagold d weight and fin if equivale iar o ¢ tandard of as lollar of America is as inflexil is the French Napoleon, the British ign or the German twenly-mark “An Absolutely Fictitious Ratio” “The free coinage of silver at the tolls ap vefors proposed, and it Is not to-day pe ied in any mint ia the world Mexico. It is proposed to make the coinage unlimited, at an absolutely flotitions ratio, fixed with no reference to intrinsic value o1 pledge of ultimate redemption. With silver at its present price of less than seventy cents per ounce in the market, such a policy means an immediate profit to the s-ller of shiver for which thers Is no return now or heroaflterto the people or the government. It means that for ench dollar's worth of silver bullion de livered at the mint prastically two dollars of stamped coin will be given in exchange, For one hundred dollars’ worth of builion nearly two hundred silver dollars will be delivered. “The Crop of Rilver” “Let it also be remembered that the conse quences of snch an act would probably be cumulative in their effects, The crop of sll ver, unlike that of bay, or wheal or vorn« which being of yearly prodastion dan be reg. ulated by the law of demand and sapply is fixed ones for all. The sliver which bax not vet been gathered is alli in the ground Drought or other socidest of the siements *annot augment or dimisish it. Is it not rat y which no pati +B not even more than probable that with the enormous premium offered for its mining the cupldity of man would make an oversupply continu ous, with the neccessary re if a steady de could Under the nwa RUE preciation as long as the sliver dollar be kept in clrenlation at all? of fluance, which are as fixed as those of any other science, the lpevituble result would finally be a currency all and absolutely flat There is no difference in principle between a The latter, of cheay dollar half flat and one all flat, the woney would surely drive the other out “Would Dishonor Us" “Any attempt on the part of the govern fletis tious value would dishonor us In the eyes of as the cheapest, under logle ment to ¢reate by {ts flat money on a people and bring infinite reproach The such other upon the national ' ana business im rid wide, because our character, Hnancial consequences of An moral act would be we commercial rejati “All our must be mie ng are world wide, with with the me settioments other lands ide, not ney which muy be legal y Id, our reiation current in ot but in g the standard which tenaive, {roc us of the ¢ gold and on ATR for some tin charge will wlrawals ported that several arrests will be nade Baapicion seemha to rest upon some None of the ywed, however, if the bank employes em- pioyes are being shad The announcement to the Comptroller of the Carrency of the failure of the Union Na- that the the discov details are nal Bank at New Orleans, the doors ory of a delaleation states was due to No other sing of given, ii mr. ARMENIAN RETUGLES. The Baitan Appoints a Commission to Deal With Them, The Sultan has appointed a commission to deal with the Armenian refugees Itiz pro posed to furnish sale conducts to those de wiring to leave, and to ensare the safety of those who remain. The dragomans of ths different embassios are attending the meetings of the commis sion. The London Dally Telegraph publishes a despatch from Athens, which says that as official dispatch received there states that the Turks have massacred twenty refugee Armenians in Boutarl, This despatch also states that a proclamation is being sent broadeast through Thessaly, referring to the recent Armenian coup in Constantinople, when the Ottoman Bank was seized, and drging Macedonians to make a similar coup, and to wring autonomy from reluctant Europe, BRYANS LETTER. Formally Accepting the Chicago Nomination. BONDS AND BANK CURRENCY A Discussion of Other Planks In the Platform Which He Stands Announces His Determination Not Under Any Ceneral uU pon ie Circumstances to be a Candida'e For Re-Election. The following is the letter in part of Wm. J. Bry the nomination fo of an, ac Derm President epling the Btephen bers of ths not Natio M. White and others, fleation mimittes Democratic rentiomen i freq | i arty, and in American Institutions A Dual Government f sus tions i ad Economy. “Rinoe the governinents exist for the pro ’ . ip fi of the rights of 1} Hiation, no expenditure of public that expendi honest, economics | money can be justified unless ture is necessary for the and efficient administration of yarn ment. In determinire what appropriations i &re necessary the interest of those who pay the taxes should be that the wishes of those who roceive or disburse the g consulted rather public moneys, The Bounded Debt, “An increase in the bonded debt United States at this time is entirely with i The issue of interest-bearing bonds within the last few years has been de. fended on the ground that they were neces sary to secure gold with which to redeem United States notes and treasury notes, bug his necessity has been Imaginary rather than real. Instead of exorcising the legal rights vested In the United States to redeem its coin in efther gold or silver; the executive branch of the government bas foliowed a grecedent established by a former adminis tration and surrendered the option to the holder of the obligations. This administra. tive policy leaves the government at the metey of those who find a pecuniary profit 4 bond issues, National Bank Carrency. “The position taken by the platform against the lssue of paper money by national banks fs supported by the highest demo. erstic authority, as well as demanded hy the interests of the people, The present attempt of the national banks to force the retirement of United States notes and treasury notes in order to secure a Lasia for & larger lssae of thelr own notes illostrates the danger which arises from permitting them to lssue their paper as a circulating mediom, The of the * redasmable in being never national bank nots, inwiul woney, has been Letter than the Uplied Bates note which stands behind if, wud the tat these United State futerest shall give that the the lnterast which the people now save, To tu yel sraistently demand bisnks p # notes which draw no pisce Lo vouds lo order UROKS NAY collect smpower gations! Lauks issue circulntiog e8 In tO Kraul a valuable privilege to a fuvored cines, surrender to privats corpora. volume of which Wns Lhe doutral uver the apr ip A Clune wii cial pation s Huaucind iu the United Biates notes, commonly “HOWL KE woke, being redeemable in the atl the Kreeu vither gold or sliver at guvernment and pot option of the Golder, ure safer and cheaper for the people than pational bank pote based upon loter- vol-bearing bonds, fae Monroe Doctrine Hed bat od but firm alot f at gusranlee Oi ain other nations all concerned that bas Le Lian Pensions, Calen f 54 Immigration. The Tarif. £1 I pecessary { fences ug in aid aside in order action among those gress toward an universal gold standard shall be stayed the gold and sliver of tion restored. aud inage of the constitu “W. J. Bavax.” tsi AOI BRUTAL WHITE CAPS. Two Women Btripped asd Oreelly Beaten Vy Thirty Mex. White Caps, numbering thirty or more, broke into the house occupied by Maggie Kunoe and Faany Adkins, white women, firing on Lost Creek, sight miles from Grey, son, Centre county, Ky., and alter stripping the women, administered a terrible whipping with hickory withes, Their flesh was cut into ribbons, and both ure in a very serious condition. The women are witnesses against Adkins and Marcum, the men held for the killing of Raymond Fletcher, near Denton, two months ago, and the outrage is attributed to the friends of the prisoners, who wish to frighten the women from appearing at the trial, which comes off early next month, Before releasing the women the White Caps threatened banging eoless both ime wediately loft the county, soot oni The Czar and Carina met Cmperor Wil liam and the Emprosa of Germany at Bres- jag and an elaborate series of festivities ls In progress, [NAMITE'S WORK Armored Train. Plucky Islanders Many Arms The Capture and Considerable Ammunition and Money Wey ler Watches Uncle Sam. The Insurgents are us effectively against the Boag to advices ju seeived at K Imst Tuesday the out a military train The train carried a am Her she walked are a man foots i show that From there, there MAY CLATH OF GOL Cassdiza Burda There is a strong unless sed by the State Depart. of probability that more haste 8 exer ment in beginning iael he Alaskan bot plications States and Great Britain The action of the Uy week in locating the (41st meridian 8» a8 to throw 300 gold mines, including the richest pincer mines o! Alaska contained in a strip from three to eight miles dian territory, is likely at any time to pre" cipitate sach a conflict of authority as can. not be ignored by the home Goverament, These mines are operated by Americans, thousands of whom have gone to the Alas. kan Delde sino the discovery of gold, and they will not submit to the stricter rules and roguintions presoribel by the mounted po- Hee, who will attempt to 8% > charge of the disputed territory on the str ugth of the re. pert made by SBarvoyo: Oglivie that the land is on the Canadian side The officials of the State Department do not recognize Oglivie's survey as in any Way binding upon the United Statox, and no coi cessions will be made upon the strength of his conclusions, ns A MBA Will Organize Palitical Cluba, The Populist party, following in the wake of the Republican, Democratic aad Silver riies, has decided to otgnaiss lube in Soery precinot of the United Au a sei{linipent fOr may resait beiween the indian surveyors inst wide, into Cana-~
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