THE NEWS.
Tbe Republican State Convention of
Towa nominated a ticket and adopted a plat-
form stating that no people who, in counse-
quence of the war have been freed from op-
pression, should be returned to such oppress
sion or be permitted to lapse into barbarism,
The National Dental Association, in ses-
sion at Omaha, elected Dr, H. J. Burkhard,
of Batava, N, Y,, president, and Dr. B. Holly
Smith, of Baltimore, one of its vice-presi-
dents,
The damage from the recent storm which
swept Savanoah, Ga, 18 now estimated at
£20,000,
As a result of the controversy about im-
porting colored miners to take the places of
strikers at Pana, Lil, the president and sup-
PEACE FOR ALL EN
Disarmament of Europe.
Remarkable Proposition
Convocation of sn Intecrustions!
gress of Insuring a Lasting Pence and
Con
of Armaments,
ported to bave been seized and carried
away.
Special letters of administration on the es-
tate of the late Adolph Sutro were granted
in San Francisco to Dr, Emma Sutro Mer-
ritt and W, R. H. Adamson.
Mrs, Cordella Botkin,
in San Francisco on the charge of murder
fog Mrs, John P, Dunning and Mrs, Deane,
them, bas made a statement denying
charges,
The North Caroling railway commission
pavy must pay for the revenue
receipts,
stamps
have nominated full State tickets,
The Democratic State Convention of
Hampshire nominated Charles F. Stone for
Governor and adopted a platform demand-
ing an investigation of the War Depart
ment,
The Wisconsin State Demoeratic
tion declared in favor of punishing
gulity of war mismanagement,
Partial reports from the South
Democratic primaries show that
Ellerbe lends his competitors,
President McKinley left Somerset, Pa.,
for Cleveland, Oblo, where he will spend a
short time,
Rev. Anthony Koz
sued Archbishop
Lodochowski for
count of his
Catholie Chareh,
The hearings in the case of Mrs, Core
Botkin, accused of the murder of Mrs. Dua-
ning and Mrs, Deane in l., have
Conven-
Carolina
Governor
fowski, of Chicago, has
Feshan and Cardinal
£50,000 damages on ac-
excommunication from the
Dover, Del.,
been postponed in San Franeclsco,
The following troops have
mustered out: Ninth Massachusetts, |
dliinois, First Illinois, Fifth Ilifnols, Sixty-
81th New York, Fifth Ohlo, First Wisconsin,
Third Volunteer Cavalry, (Grigsby's,) at
Chickamaugns, Fourth Texas.
Representative bankers, merchants, manu-
facturers, professional men and commitiees
from all the leading clubs and trade asso-
clations of Philadelphia, met in Mayor War-
wick's office and took the flrst steps toward
boiding a peace jubilee in that city. The
meeting was called at the instance of Mayor
Warwick, and it was decided to appointa
committes of 100 to formulate plans and fix
a date, President McKinley will be asked
to attend.
Dispatches from army camps state that
incompetence, jealousy and red tape by offi-
cials are the principal the terrible
etate of affairs in the hospitals there,
The steamer Juniata, of Merchants
and Miners’ Line, struck and sank the yacht
Wabneta In Boston harbor. Eleven
who were on the yacht were rescued
The attendance at the
Exposition, Omabas, has
crease since the
been
auses of
the
ersons
Irans- Mississippi
Wh a iar
* War
in~
se
close
Captain Clark, lormerly
Oregon, arrived
Mich,
The |
has
85 | Alaska steamer
three pers
“Chicago Limited" on the New York
Western Road Wrecked.
A train on Nes
Western Ballroad koe
Limited" was wrecked
four miles south
wreck was doubtless
trams, who threw open t
the tralo was wrecked,
switches to the north of the wreck,
The train was an hb
and was running nearly sixty o
when it struck the switch and
o the side track.
twenty feet and
was Inverted. The trucks
the baggage car were torn off and the
coach telescoped the baggage car,
buied chair car aod the sleeper
were derailed, but veither was
aged,
Engineman Dowd and F
jumped and were found under the wreckage
of the tender, Doth were alive at the time,
but Dowd died in a lew minutes and Halil
succumbed to bl injuries three hours later,
The body of Brakeman Osborne was torn in
two. Nine persons were injured
the
8
a
ur and a
lies an hour
was thrown
The locomotive was
pieces,
of
bead
over ¢
thrown
iowa to
he tender t
badly dam-
v
in
HOLLAND'S GIRL QUEEN,
The Queen Regent Invokes Blessings
Upon the Young Sovereign.
The Queen Regent of Hollasd, in a procia-
mation just issued upon the occasion of the
end of ber regency, her
Wiibeimina, coming of age, expresses warm
pleasure at seeing “the whole nation ranged
joyously around the throne of the young
queen,” thanks God that her dearest wish
has been heard, and, alter thanking the peo-
ple lor thelr loving and faithiul support of
herself, invokes God's blessing upon the
youthfal sovereign, and concludes: “May
our country become great in everything in
which a small nation ean be great.”
FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
The election for the seat in the House of
Commons for the Southport division of
Lancashire, made vacant by the acesptance
of Mr. George N. Curzon of the vireroy of
India, resulted in the return of Sir Herbert
Naylor-Leyland, libera;.
ers at Quebec announce that no general
hearings will be granted to persons or dele-
getions on the questions to be considered,
he deciined to salute a priest with a cruct
er.
*&eodor Lerner bas returned to Hammer
sweet With no pews of Andree, the missing
wate jt, but will start on another voyage.
Heer Bichter, the German radical Jeader,
son derns the proposed Increase in the Ger-
man army as unwarranted by any equiva.
lent action of neighboring nations,
Nsdoas, lo the interior of Halnon Island, in
the Chiza Sea, re?
A St. Peter: urg cable says: By order
Czar Nicholas, Count Muraviefl, the Russian
i Foreign Minister, has handed to each of the
foreign representatives in Bt, Petersburg a
! note stating that the maintenance of peace
and the reduction of the excessive arma
| ments now crushing all European nations
| form the ideal for which governments
ought to strive,
The Czar copsiders the present moment
{ favorable Jor starting a movement looking
| to this end, and invites the powers to take
| part in an ioternational conference as a
yeans of ensuring real and
nd ending the increase of armament,
The text of Count Muraviefl’s note
follows
“The malntenatce
{ the possible reduction of
which weigh
all
lasting peace
is as
’
i
and
ar-
general pence
the
upon
BE ©
le world towards
rs of all governments should be
Ibe humanitariaa and
the Emperor, my
sXcassive
| maments,
present themselves io existin
the whe as an ideal whic!
the endeav
firected, mMegD!
mous ideas of his Majesty,
| Rugust master, have been won over to this
view in the conviction that this lofty
Y INOS essanlial
aim Is
inter-
views of
goverument
ale ail the po
tl Ks
rabie to
wers;
egitim
ir
iin the
be Imperial
ment would be very fav
# means,
198f
‘lIuterpational disc nis the mo
means of ensuring all peog
-a real durable peace, above all,
end t
t levelopt
he present
he progressive pine
Armaments,
‘Ia the course of the last twenty years the
ugiog for genoral appeasement has grown
iy pronoun red lo the consciences
red natio and
peace has bean put forward as
international polley., It is in it
cluded among
better
the preservation
alu
4 DAR
it is the
selves powerful alliances
guarantee peace that they have developed in
i rtions
nilitary forces and sti
without shrir
Nevertheless, all
Fie
Vp t 1p
aisaerio u
been able
t desi n.
“The floancial charges follo
ward march strike at the very r
}
prosperity. The
wing
tcl pu
futeliectual and phy
of the nation’s labor and
from opatural appil
luctively consumed.
1
08 are qey
fA
{ destruct]
arded as the
lays into a
ple bave m
lent that
roiong
y the very cataclysm it
advan
these incessant aArmamen
rarding
£3
Lhe
ff tha
“th
wh
pon ail slates,
**Filled with t
been pleased to ¢
ali the governments whose representatives
are credited to the imp art, the
sembling of a conlersnce which shall
erial ¢
ais conterence will be
8 bappy presage for the
it to open. It
owerful foc
by
neg
sincerely seeking to make the
tion of universal
alements o
peaca
{ trouble and discor
at the same time, coment thei
a corporate consecration of
it whereon re
ie welfare of peoples,
trie
Agreement
the prinel.
sk the sn.
tates and
TO TRY CERVERA'S CAPTAINS,
They Will Be Court-Martinled In Spain-—
Situation in Ladrones.
irid special savs {
red, former captain
: t
Colon, promises to eon
mmandants
{the
ively anti-go
the cortes on his return fo 8
'
veroment campaign in
ain, It is de.
finitely stated, however, that he, as well as
the other commanders of Admiral Cervera's
squadron, will have to appear before a
ccurt-martial before anything else is done,
As soon as the eammandante arrives the
government will ask the Cortes for author.
ity to prosecute him, as he is a deputy and
this authorization ls necessary.
A semi-official denial is made of the state.
ment that Admiral Cervera has written a
letter, published in the American press,
praising the American navy. His author.
ehip of the letter Is repudiated,
El Liberal and El Imparcial think it will
be impossible to maintain the suspension of
to continues the
press censorship after the Cortes has as.
sembiled,
Peace J ubiles For Uhieago.
He Committed Suicide After Having
Morning Herald.
Jeen Arrested for Forging Evidence
HAVOC IN SAVANNAH
Storm Causes Half
Dollars Damage.
a Million
NO LIVES WERE LOST.
Hundred Balldings Were
or Fartinlly
More
tool Torn From
Probably
Wholly
ns Many
One
Unroofed, and
Were Otherwise Damn
aged Savannah Thea.
tre and Turned Into » Lake
was no telsgraph
in the evening
In the harbor and at
he damage to shipping J
Breamer, fr
during the
damaged, The Italia
chorage
marsh, where she is lyis
On a jetty
heavily
fr bre ke her an
bark Noe broke from he
antine and went
Isiand, at the mo
Hor crew ¢
MeCauley
is and 20 sun
Yacht Ciutl
Any
$100p8 ing a
trade with the islands, were
Alpha aed Doretta 4
gshore,
Between
and at the Savanah
at Thunderboit, and as
asd schooners d
sunk
y
the steamers
their anchors and went
damaged
orings
ilies from
heavily
broke her n
ab !
Mrs, J af the owner
board, and was rescued with diffle
She was taken to
and thrown in
ghore, and was caught struck the
water, and was carried safely to land. The
revenue steamer Tybee, in command of
George Maher, wont to the assistance of the
stranded vessels in the barbor before day-
light, asd rendered valuable aid
property.
At Tybee Island the hotels and
were badly damaged. The North Carolina
troops passed a terrible night there. All the
raiiroads suffered severely by wathouts, The
tioe and cottan crops bave been sev erely
damaged, It will be impossible, however,
to estimate the losses for several days,
ut ten m
E Lucas, wife
ity t
captain and a deckband,
the top of the wheelhouse
na ahe
cottages
tory. It extended into the faterior not more
than 30 miles, and hardly that distance
north and south, It is believed have
been severe at sea, and fears are for
veasels off the const,
to
foi
BOVEKREIGNTY OVER,
President Dole, of Hawaii, Delivers the
Islands to the United States,
A Washington special saye: The follow
ing letter was posted at the State Depart-
ment:
“Executive Chamber, Honolulu, H, 1,
Aug. 12, 1808, The Hon. Harold M. SBewail,
ebration In Chicago of the return of peace,
It was also agreed that the chisel features of
the parade shall be an open air reception to
i
i
i
potentiary of the United States of America
«Mr. Minister: A treaty of politieal union
consented to by the Repubiie of Hawaii hav
ing bean accepted by the United States of
America, I now, in the interest of the Ha-
Grand Army Veterans and ex-Confederates
shall march together as a guard of honor to
the President, all the provisional regiments
of the city being invited as escorts for the
returned volunteers
§
i
1
i
|
i
i
American people, yield up to you, repre-
senting the Government of the United
States, the soversignty and public property
of the Hawaiian Islands,
“SANFORD B. DOLE."
To
ILL DIVIDE SAMOA,
Malietoa's Reported Death May
Cause Trouble.
WE WILL GETPAGO-PAGO
The Islands Would Serve As a Good Naval
Station Present Government is Unsnt-
to More
to Hun Than Any Government of Its Bize
inthe World.
isfactory All Concerned - Costs
sleameors
Francis
ant
ihe United ids title to » oe
ground for a coallng station
vu the lsiand of Tall
the least lu size of any of
fe than large en
#iation, =0 thal
State Departmen
al Pago Pago,
wila, This siand is
1} resi fe i
the group, but is
wn GEHL 0 support a naval
it has been the pian of the
2
8 0 re it 7 in
in
the event ¢ artite
13) fat -
on an existing in-
i a Xisling i
+f the three nations, Germany, hoid-
iargest interest, would the
lake
CRG lu size, possessing Lhe
Apia, and Great Brit
inrgest of the group,
Capital,
Bill Wolid receive Lue
but the second iu eo
elcid 1X poriance
it i provable that among the
falilug to Mr, Hay when be assumes the
office of Secretary of State will be the con
| sideration of some plan to tide over the crisis
expected to foliow the death of the King.
{ The admisistration of government is being
{supervised Ly the three consuls, L. W.
first duties
F. lose, representing
chief justice, William Chambers, acting as
| president of the supervisory committee, an
arrangement that will continue in foros until
cliosen,
ABUUE NULED PLICLE
Dr. Ernest M. Lieber, the
Centrist party in the German Heichstag, is
expected to attend the German Catholie
ust 30,
Mre, Lowes is sexton of the town of
Lewes, England, and though quite an old
woman, until recentiy she dug wil the graves
in the parish churchyard.
Miiber, the famous Frereh comedian, who
died a short time ago, ranked in France on
much the same eminence as J, L. Toole in
Eogiand, He excelled in the presentment
of old men of the bourgeois type,
Midshipman Morres, of the Vizeaya,
mourns the loss of a collection of nearly 25.-
000 postage stamps, including masy rare
European varietios, which were destroyed
ta the Spanish ship,
Sergt, F. T. Okawara, one of the herces
of the war between China and Japan, lives
in Denver. He was wounded twice in one
of the battles near Port Arthur, and for
cotispicuous bravery o~ that occasion w
pensioned by his government,
France Demands Justice for
Devil's Island Victim.
HENRY'S SUICIDE URGED.
Is Suid That the Army Chiefs Per.
funded Him to Pat Himself Our of the
Way General Holsdef re Believed to Be
Deeply Involved Free,
But In Danger
Esterlinzy Stil}
Paris say
from
Clan ne of the most jug
A cablegram
and a
reuch
Desses against Dreyfus
4 I the i
ened with arrest in ¢
the hon Army,
forgery
1 wt
8 in open court, Thers
Justice must bo done at
Lhe, perhaps in less
three mon {ime
reyius may be restored to
rench Army, vindicat
this far already.
‘ons ,
ience-striken—in
£5 4
+8 BOL
matler
urs
afterward
ti leswed
Henry
3 +
the mi
t where aYazor had jet
made
searched
said
razor
was
Apparently not
taken to the prieon, for itis
rity that he
faARY
was
carried the
re pow, Itis said that
he Goveromeut asked tim polut blank
commil suicide, saying it was the best way
10 save his tarnished reputation and avoid
the terrible scandal which must follow his
confession, and which would tarnish the
honor of the French Army. Ultimately
Henry did as persuaded, and now many se-
can tell 50 me
EXPOSITIONS BiG SUCCESS,
Fiattering Results Thus Far of Omaha's
Big Show
An Omaba special says: The success of the
i
highest expectations of stockholders and
The total attendance last week
was 115.%80, or over twelve thousand fa-
crease over the week previous,
Secretary Wakefleld bas issaed vouchers
for the redemption of more than one-half of
the warrants Issued to the exposition cred.
tors in June, This is good proof that the
finances are on a safe basis, When the war
ranis were issued Secretary Wakeflold as
sured the contractors and others who were
asked to carry them that the process of re.
demption would be tegun by September 1.
Of the $36,180.72 issued, $10,974.75 were
time had sxpired, The talance, amounting
to $16.195.15, will be called in early in Sep
tember
Lisatenant Morgan Drowned,
Lieut, H. 8. Morgan, of the United States
engineer corpe, in charge of the fortification
work on Tybee lelavd, Ga., and Henry
Smith, a rigger, were drowned in Calabogus
sound in an effort to rescue the crew of the
Norwegian bark Nee, whieh went ashore
and was lost on Duulauskie Beach.
JOY TURNED TO
GRIEF.
i
Horrible Disaster Terminates an Pleasure
Farty.
A Ware, Mass,, special save
Five oer.
at Whitiog's Crossing, on
Maine raliroad, by a
the Boston and
between a
costalnisg o pleasure
coiilsion
The first intimation of the borrible affair
at 6.80
board,
irad were left in the bag.
the medical
were taken to
#8 worked
brought by the trails due bere
victims on
the
The bodies of
the train awaiting
of
examiner and the wounded
re the
the town ball, whe FUrge on
The pleasures party was made t the
immediote
they were golug
their home in ndviile to Forest Laks
a covered wagon drawn by four horses,
the crovsing there Is quite a
sng right down to the tracks.
ver the f the
allroad
the Lill was
BO ap
t y
me oi their
friends, of
ir
On one side
As WHREOD came
y ‘
Lil and started down t
crest
ward the r
¢ flag boy at the foot of
Lag
The mon
boy and out
seriously
: 10 Uve.
i is
rrp
ut
ARMY'S LONG LIST OF DEAD.
10 Discnre,
INDUSTRIAL NOTES
MORE GOLD FROM ALASKA,
Seattle
in his sale
& 50,000,
A quartette consisting of C. W. 3
L. Sichier, J. A. Snow and Ge
had an equal am Ib. Rach bad
$28,000. Captain Eagler aud the crew of the
wrecked bark Guardian were also passeagers,
MERRITT STARTS FOR PARIS.
rege T. Saow,
unt, J.
Gen. Green Also Starts from Manila for
United States.
we United States transport China, se-
cordiog to a despateh from Hoagkong to
the London Daliy Mail, bas arrived there
with Gegeral Merritt acd Gen. Green, the
former enroute for Paris to attend the pro-
ceedings of the Hispano-American Peace
Commission, and the jaller enroute for
Washington.
Congressional Nominations.
Kansas—Fifth District, W, D. Viscest
(Popuiist), indorsed by Demoorats,
Missouri—Nioth Distriot, R. L. shack«iford
(Republican), District, A. W. Drewter
{ Republican ).
Okiaboma—J. R Keaton (Democrat), in
dorsed by Independent Republicans,
Minnesota First District, Miio
{Demoorat
White
GERMANY MUST REMAIN ARMED,
Berliner Post, In a Seemingly Inspired
Articie, Distrusts Frases.
The Berliner Post, in a seemingly inspired
article with reference 10 the French recep-
tion of the disarmament proclamation of
Emperor Nicholas, says: “Germany must re-
mained armed and on guard until France i
willing to convert her weapons into plow.
shares.”