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THE PITTSBURG i PJSPATOH WEDNESDAY -AUGUST 10,- 189a
HARRITY'S
Disturbed Over the Betnrn of
Judge Herrick, Who
Keeps Mum About
HIS TALK WITH HILL.
Grace Settled Over a Eeport That He
Will Not Oppose Tammany.
ME. WHITNEY IS MUCH WORRIED
OTdr the linddled State of Affairs in the
Empire State.
BEEDER OPENS HIS HIADQUAETERS
C&rXCUI. TXLXOIUUI TO TBS DISPATCH. 1
Nrw York, Aug. a Judge IX. Cady
Herrick, of Albany, and ex-Mayor Wm. B.
Grace were visitors at Democratio head
quarters to-day. It was Judge Herrick's
first appearance at Mr. Harrity's bureau
since bis visit to Senator Hill at
Normandie-by-the-Sea. The day before
Senator Hill started on his yachting
cruise there has been much specula
tion about that visit. Judge Herrick has
been rated as the most ardent admirer of
Mr. Cleveland in the upper Hudson coun
try. For half a dozen years in Albany
county he has waged relentless war on Gov
ernor Hill and bis friends. In view of this
everybody wanted to know the result of
the Judge's visit to Mr. Hill. Mr. Herrick
was as silent about it as the silent tomb.
Mr. Grace was very much nettled at a re
port that he bad promised Mr. Cleveland,
through William & "Whitney, that be
would not be instrumental in nominating a
candidate for Mayor this fall in opposition
to the candidate of Tammany Hall. Mr.
Grace said there was not a word of truth in
the story." I never made any such promise
to Mr. Cleveland or anybody else," he said.
"The story is absolutely false."
Sir. Grace Is SInch Disturbed.
Mr. Grace, Emery Anderson, ex-Secretary
Fairchildandthe young Anti-Snappers
in their train are disturbed at the promi
nence which Mr. "Whitney assumed at the
Chicago Convention and has enjoyed since
that eventful occasion. Mr. Grace and his
lieutenants, at great expense, got up the
Syracuse Convention professedly in Mr.
Cleveland's interests, but when Mr. Grace,
Mr. Anderson and Mr. Fairchild reached
Chicago they found Mr. "Whitney in charge
of Mr. Cleveland's fortunes.
"Whitney vigorously told the Anti-Snappers
to take a back seat and under no cir
cumstances to demand recognition as a con
torting delegation. As a matter of fact,
Mr. "Whitney walked all over them. Mr.
Cleveland's Anti-SnapDer friends, who bad
raised a fund of 5200,000 to fight the regu
lar Democratic organization, were natur
ally angered. They have been sore ever
since. They believe that they should be
recognized. That is, some of them do.
By Mr. Grace's direction the provisional
State Committee of the Anti-Snappers has
been kept together, with the power given
to Chairman Fairchild to assemble the body
at any time. The delegates from the cross
road towns, the men who were sent to the
Syracuse Convention without the semblance
of a caucus or a primary, are still recognized.
Mr, Grace's machine in New York and
Kings counties is also still on the track.
Anything to Beat Tammany.
Even with Mr. Cleveland in nomination
their cry still is "Anything to beat Tam
many Hall" and a good many of them add
"And Murphy and Sheahan."
Mr. Whitney, as Mr. Cleveland's chief
commander, is naturally worried over
the situation and he was very much
more worried to-day when he
learned that Mr. Grace would prac
tically do as he pleased with his Anti
Snapper machine and wonld nominate can
didates for municipal offices in all great
counties it he wanted to. Mr. Grace will
leave town on Monday next for a two
weeks' vacation in the Adirondack. He
has had several talks with Chairman Harrlty
and jur. wnitney in tne last week.
Mr. Grace, it is said, was not particu
larly amiable in these conversations and
informed these gentlemen that he intended
perfecting the Anti-Snapper organization,
and that already 20 out ot the 30 Assembly
districts in ..this county had organ
izations representing his views and
wishes. This organization, it is
stated by Mr. Grace's friends, is made up
of the remnants of the county Democracy
and a substantial German following. There
is some doubt about the German. Mr.
Grace and his friends believe that by
September 15 they will have organizations
in all the Assembly districts.
Mr. Grace" is of the opinion that it may
not be advisable to nominate a third candi
date for Mayor, but that is to be determined
later on and without further consultation
with Mr. Harrity or Mr. Whitney. The
main object apparently of Mr. Grace's fig
urine is to capture 10 or 12 Assemblymen
in New York county, a job of some" size.
The next Legislature elects a United States
Senator in place of Prank Hiscock.
Republicans Meet at Their Quartern.
At Republican headquarters, 518 Fifth
avenue, to-day, the safe doors of the two
handsomely decorated receptacles for cash
swung to and fro. Hamilton Disston, of
Philadelphia, was on hand, and with him
was Collector Cooper, ot the same Quaker
town. Uncle Philetus Sawyer, the 80-vear-
old statesman of the Republican partv, one
of the richest men in it, was there also.
Chairman Hackett, of the New York Be
publican State Campaign Committee, was
another caller. He chatted with Mr.
Carter for three minutes, and imme
diately the few members of the' Repub
lican Club and Union League Club in town
were convinced that something was up.
They were positive of thij when they
learned that the Hon. Whitelaw Reid, the
candidate for Vice President, had joined
Mr. Carter and Mr. Hackett. The oft-repeated
story to the effect that President
Harrison will stop in New York later
in the month on his war from Loon Lake
to Washington was heard again. The old pro
gramme was that the President was to stop
over an afternoon and evening at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel and informally receive his
friends. Bets were even on his doing it If
the President stops over in New York he
will be here on September 1.
KOLB LEFT BEYOND DOUBT.
Only Revolution Can Change the Betalt
of the Alabama Election. '
Montgomeby, Ala., Aug. a The offi
cial returns from 58 of 66 counties give
Governor Jones 9,386 majority. There are
eight counties from which official returns
have not been received, the majorities in
which are pretty accurately known. Four
of these counties' give majorities for Gov
ernor Jones amounting to 2,361. This
leaves Governor Jones with a clear major
ity of 11,244.
"The Constitution of the State provides
that a contest for the Governorship must be
made before the Legislature. This cannot
be instituted until the meeting of the Leg
islature and alter the declaration of the re
sult. Any talk, therefore, of throwing the I
matter Into the Courts and of Mr. Kolb i
getting the position thereby, it not j
UHBU UU UUV MR M1U uvitu uuir u.y
accomplished uy revolution, xoere is no
danger and no indication of the Utter, as
the people show bo disposition to engage in
desperate measures. The analysis of rote
shows that a large majority of white Demo
crats and a majority of all the white Toters
and a great many negroes voted for Jones.
There is some talk or Mr. Kolb being a can
didate for Congress against Colonel Oates.
NEW HEADQUARTERS OPENED.
Statu Chairman of the Republican Com
mittee Takes Possession of the Booms
Vet? Quietly Clerks and Offlolals Settle
Down to Bard Campaign Work.
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. a Special
General Beeder, wearing a beaming
smil5 but no coat, sat at bis desk in the
Republican Slate Headquarters, at 1231
Walnut street, all day. The desk was
littered with Correspondence and various
documents that had a very businesslike
look, but the State Chairman found time to
greet his callers in his usual cheery
manner. In the adjoining room Secretary
in Chief, Frank Willing Leaob, was hard
at work, Colonel John A. Glenn superin
tended the disposition of efiects in the cosy
apartments at the head of the stairs, while
Secretary Bex in the lower floor surveyed
the new headquarters with undisguised
pleasure.
In the third story of the building the
click of typewriters, operated by a couple
of clerks, was heard throughout the day.
The opening of the new headquarters, al
though it marked a new departure in the
conduct of Republican State campaigns,
was not attended with any formality. For
years the Bepublican battle has been di
rected from the .historic suite of apartments
at the Continental Hotel, bat when General
Beeder was called to command this year he
decided to put into effect his favorite
scheme of having headquarters separate
from the necessary and inevitable interrup
tions of business in a hotel.
General Beeder said the headquarters
would be open from 9 o'clock in the morn
ing till late at night from now until No
vember. As to the hard work that would
be entailed, the Chairman laughed and said
he was used to hard work and thrived on it.
Besides, that was what he had been made
Chairman lor, at any rate. In reply to a
question as to his plan of operations the
State Chairman said it was impossible to
give any definite idea upon that point.
There were but few visitors at the head
quarters during the day, the fact of the
opening not being generally known.
PEBPETUATDIO PATRIOTISM.
The national Encampment Sons of Vet
erans Meets In Montana.
Helena, Mont., Aug. 9. The session
of the National Encampment Sons of Vet
erans to-day was devoted entirelv to read
ing the reports of officers, which were
properly referred. Commander in Chief
Wells, in his report, recommends that
hereafter the sessions of the encampment be
triennial instead of annual, and extending
the term of officers. Referring to the growth
oi the order the report says:
The early data of holding this encamp
ment renders it Impossible to make any
comparison other than upon membership
for tlio quarter, ending September 80, 1891,
Docember 31, 1391, and Huron 31. 1892. Al
though there were reported 61,728 members
In good standing, and 10,861 members sus
pended at the close or June 6, 1891, the
qnarterly report received by this adminis
tration within one year after as
suming command showed only 50,873
members in uood standing, with 11,783
members suspended. The report for the
quitter ending December 31, 1890, showed
63,519 members in good standing and 6,750
members suspended, while the report fnr
the corresponding quarter In 1891 snows 55,
807 members n good standing and 7,350 mem
ber suspended. It is especially noticeable
that larger divisions are, a a rnle, the ones
that show least improvement; in fact, many
of them slion a loss.
To-morrow is. the day'set for the grand
parade, with a campfire in the evening.
But little business will be transacted.
MADE SH0BT W0BK 0? IT.
Tennessee Democrats Nominate a Governor
With but One Ballot.
Nashville, Tenn., Aug a The State
Democratic Convention met at noon, about
1,000 delegates being present. It was more
aTatification meeting than a convention,
only one candidate, Chief Justice Peter
Terney, being before it E. L. Bullock was
Temporary Chairman and made an address.
After the appointment of committees and
speeches by Senator Harris; Congressman
Patterson and ex-Governor Taylor the con
vention adjourned until 3:30.
During the afternoon session speeches
were made by Senator Bate, Congressman
Washington and others while waiting for
the Platform Committee. Judge Terney
wasplaced in nomination and upon roll call
by counties received all the votes cast
except 37. He was brought into the hall
and made a brief speech ot acceptance. A
new Executive Committee was appointed
and the convention adjourned at 6 p. M.,
having held the shortest session known to
gubernatorial conventions.
HAHN TO HELP THE CHIEFS.
He Is Called to NeV Tork to Work With
the Campaign Managers.
Columbus, O., Aug. a tpeciaL W.
H. Hahn, Ohio member of the Bepublican
National Committee and former Chairman
of the Ohio Executive Committee, left for
New York at midnight to-night on the re
quest of Chairman Carter and other man
agers of President Harrison's campaign.
While Mr. Hahn would not indicate the
nature of his business it is learned from
outside sources ,thai his services as one of
the managers are in demand, and he has
been requested to remain in New Tork un
til the close of the campaign.
It is understood to be at the request of
Senator Sherman and President Harrison
that Mr. Hahn is to be given an important
department to manage during the cam
paign. While Mr. Hahn has met with
fairlv good success in the management of a
couple of Ohio campaigns with an over
whelming Bepublican majority to workon,
it is not believed that he is conversant with
the methods and management which will
aid materially in a national contest.
KOLB IS STILL KICKING.
He Writes a Letter Claiming; That Ha Has
Been Elected. .
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 9. Ex-Com-missioner
Kolb,Mate Alliance candidate for
Governor, is out in a published letter this
morning disputing the claims of Jones' elec
tion. The letter concludes:
""I have been fairly and honestly elected
by over 40,000 majority, and the people of
jny native State recognize the fact, and will
see that justice -Is accorded by placing mo
at the head or our State Government for the
next two years. (Signed.) B. F. Kolb.
The letter creates a sensation and is re
garded as an evidence of Kolb's intention to
challange the "official count, which is nearly
completed and fixes Jones' majority at be
tween 9,000 and 12,000.
Lockhaven Republican Nominees.
Lockhavkn, , Pa., Aug. a Clinton
county Republicans in convention this
afternoon nominated A. C. Hopkins for
Congress. James 3". Tavlor. of Lamar, for
Assembly, H. T. T. Hall, of Lockhaven,
District Attorney, and A. K, White, of
Beech Creek, for County Surveyer. S. M.
McCormiek was re-elected County Chair
man. Congressman Rife Defeated,"
, Habeisbueo,' Pa., Aug. a Congress
man John W. -"Bife was defeated for re
nomination to-day by the "Bepublican
Dauphin County' Convention. E. M. Woo
me'r, of Lebanon, county, will get the con-,
lerees.
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TO REDEEM' KANSAS.
Republicans Perfecting an Organiza
. tion and Determined to Win.
OPPOSITION TO JERRY SIMPSON.
Etrong Protection Candidates in Each Con
gressional District
THE DEMOCRATS IN THE STATE DIVIDED
SriCIAL TXLXOKAX TO TBI DtSrATCH.t
Topeka, Kan., Aug. 9. Notwithstand
ing the combined opposition has 40,000
majority in this State, the Republicans
appear at this time to have' decidedly the
best of it. The recalcitrant Democrats have
been asserting their independence in a way
which "will count and from present indica
tions every district in the State except the
fourth will have four candidates for Con
gress, In their nominations the Republic
ans have been very fortunate and have
selected without exception the best
campaigners in the district.
unester nong, wno has been making it
interesting lorJerry Simpson in the Seventh
district, comes from the same town as the
sockless statesman and has the advantage ot
knowing thoroughly his methods. He has
attacked Jerry on his Congressional record
and during the letter's absence has so man
aged his fight that it will be impossible for
him to make the same kind of a campaign
which resulted in his election two vears ago.
The Democrats in the Seventh district do
not like Simpson and the part he has taken
in the Watson investigation has made him
all the more unpopular. When the Demo
cratic Congressional Convention meets, the
opposition to Simpson will bolt if he is in
dorsed and nominate a candidate of their
own. In the Congressional district which
adjoins the Third Governor Humphrey, the
Bepublican nominee for Congress, is con
ducting an , aggressive campaign. He has
the strongest competitor of any of the Be
publican nominees but he has'.entered the
fight to win.
Work of a Brilliant Ora'or.
J. B. Burton, the nominee in the Fifth
district, is the most brilliant orator in the
State. He is doing more work than was
ever undertaken before by a candidate for
Congress. For the past six weeks he has
averaged two speeches per day, and pro
poses to keep up the fight until election day.
John Davis, the present Alliance Congress
man, Is very unpopular with the Democrats,
and, although a Democratio candidate has
been nominated, Burton will get thousands
of Democratio votes, because it is the only
way to defeat Davis.
Charles Curtis, the Bepublican nominee
in the Fourth district, is a man of the peo
ple. His mother was a half-breed Indian
and his father was a horse trader. Every
man, woman and child 'in Topeka knows
him and is proud of him, and irrespective of
party tne men win nave to vote lor him.
H. L. Pestana, who will make the race
against Baker, the Alliance Congressman,
in the Sixth district, is a lawyer of ability,
who never figured In politics until this year.
Ha has a State reputation and is an able de
bater. The Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and
Seventh were the Congressional districts
carried by the Alliance two years ago, and
bits have been offered that the Bepublicans
will carry three of the five. In the First
and Second districts, now represented- by
Bepublicans, the re-election of Funston and
Broderick is practically conceded.
The Republicans Bonnd to Win.
. There is much to challenge admiration in
the manner in which the Bepublican party
has picked itself up and entered this cam
paign. It no longer expects assistance from
the Democrats on either the electoral or
State ticket,nnless it comes through further
blunders of the Populist leaders. The lead
ers have slmplv bent every energy to perfect
such an organization as can be absolutely
controlled. "With a disorganized opposition
it expects to cut both ways and win through
the mistakes made. The suspicion with
which the Populists regard the Democratio
leaders Is fed from Bepublican sources and
unless the Bepublican Central Committee
is disappointed, this distrust will- result in
thousands of Bepublican farmers scratching
the electoral ticket.
The railroad vote, which went solidly to
the People's party two years ago, is now
actively working with the Rennh1lf.ana
There are 28,000 railroad votes in the State
and the Republicans count on ,20,000 of
them. In the same way the Third party
Prohibition vote, which went to the Peo
pie's party two years ago, will this year
vote the Third nartv Prohibition tinkef.
The Prohibitionists have been sorely dis
appointed with the People's party. They
expected the farmers to adopt the Ism and
make it a feature of the campaign,but every
State and Congressional Convention has
ignored It. The Third party Prohibitionists
are equally disgusted with the Bepublican
party and propose to make a vigorous inde
pendent campaign. Ex-Governor St John
has a personal grievance against Smith, the
Bepublican candidate for Governor, but the
speeches he proposes to make will assist
rather than harm the Bepublican nominee.
HEW JEBSEY PBOHIBIIIOHISTB.
They Nominate-T. J. Krnnedr for Gov
ernor'and Adopt the Usual Platform.
Trenton, N. J., Aug. 9. The Prohibi
tion Convention completed its work this
afternoon by nominating Thomas J. Ken
nedy, of Hudson, for Governor. The plat
form reaffirms that adopted by the National
Convention; recognizes the rum traffic as, a
curse to the homes and corruption to poli
tics; declares anew against the sale or
manufacture of all liquors; denounces the
license system and invites the co-operation
ot capital and labor to suppress the system.
It also denounced the State Excise Com
mission protests against horse racing and
pool selling; favors the convening of the
Legislature but once in two years and de
nounces the printing of the laws in news
papers as a waste. As first read the plat
lorm contained a clause favoring referring
all laws passed by the Legislature to the
people for acceptance or rejection, but this
was striken out after considerable discus
sion. TENNESSEE ALLIANCE TBADEES.
They Make an Effort to Control the Legis
lature by a Combine.
Nashville, Tenn, Aug. a A state
ment was made at Knoxville, Tenn., this
morqing which mar have apme political
significance. It is that efforts are to be
made to have the Alliance support Win
stead, the Bepublican candidate for Gov
ernor. In return the Bepublicans will support
Alliance candidates for the Legislature.
Thus an effort will be made to control that
body, and if successful Buchanan is to be
elected to the United States Senate.
7JSK0CBATS CALLED OUT.
The State Executive Committee to Meet on
the 16th to Fix the Assembly Date.
Habbisburg, Pa., Aug. 9. President
Chauncey F. Black, through Secretary John
D. Worman, has issued a call for a meeting
of the Executive Committee of the Demo
cratic Soeiety of Pennsylvania at the Bol
ton House, in this city, on the 16th fit
August to fix the date for the sixth annual
assembly at Scranton.
Bibley tbe Choice of Two Parties.
EBXB, Pa., Aug. a SpeciaL Tho Dem--ocratio
Congressional conferees of Erie and
Crawford counties met this forenoon. The
conference ope'ned up with some lively
speeches, especially one from Mr. Sibley, of
Venango county. Mr. Sibley, who ii al
ready the nominee of tha People's party,
was unanimously nominated. fc
THE OPENING IN ILLINOIS.
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Republicans Commence Their Canvass
With Rousing DemonstrationNo Re
liance to .Be PJaced.Upon Democratio
Claim of German Xwtheran Support.
Pekin, III., Aug". 9. The Republican
campaign 'for the State of Illinois was
opened here to-day with a big demonstra
tion. The weather was intensely, warm and
this had the effect; of slightly limiting
the attendance. The meeting in the
Court House square was called to
order by ex-Congressman D. C. Smith, of
Pekln, who was President of the day. In a
short address he introduced Governor Fifer,
the orator ot the afternoon. The Executive
discussed the political situation and pre
faced his remarks by a laudation of the Re
publican party, and said: "It has carved
out and made the America of to-day. It
has again come up for trial before the judg-,
ment bar of the great American people."
He thought the people would decide to
continue the long established industrial
policr, and that Illinois would be found in
tne itepuDiicau coiuiuu in jMovemDer. no
spoke of Judge Atgeld's claim that he
would be elected by 70,000 majority and
said: "In this claim he is doubtless ue
, venitD oa the Republican German Luther.
I Bns, How flattering it must be to the
aggressive, intelligent and liberty-lov
ing Germans of Illinois to have it
supposed that they are the creature of any
party Or of any individual. Some people
suppose that the German vote can be In
fluenced by an appeal to passion and preju
dice. I have never been one of those who
believe so and I meet them to-dav on the
'high plane of American citizenship and ap
peal to their intelligence, to their love of
liberty and fair pJay."
.Governor Fifer discussed other State is
sues, the taxes and the tariff. He con
cluded with remarks eulogistic of the Be
publican national ticket. He was frequently
interrupted with applause, and at the con
clusion of his address Lieutenant Governor
Bay, candidate for re-election; 1 N. Pier
son, candidate for Secretary of State;
Henrv L. Hortz. candidate for Treasurer:
George L. Willetts and Bichard Yates, can;j
aiaaies ior uoogressmen at xargef were
each introduced and made short addresses.
A second meeting was held in the evening.
H0KINATI0NB AT BElLEFONTB.
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Uelegates Instructed to Tote for Aaron
William tor Congress.
Bellefonte, Pa., Aug. a The Demo
crats of Centre county to-day nominated
the following ticket: 0. F. Faulkner, As
sociate Judge; John T. McCormiek and
James Sehofield, L&cislature; W. F. Smith,
Prothonotary: W. J. Singer, District At
torney. The delegates .who were instructed for
Aaron Williams for Congress were elected
to the next State Convention as follows:
W. D. Wolf, George T. Bush, John Hoy, J.
Erkeidge and Bobert C. Hunter. They
passed resolutions indorsing Cleveland,
Pattison and Harrity, and condemning the
McKinley and force bills.
THE WISCONSIN GEBBYMAHDEB.
Republicans Snbmlt Their Caae, and ths
Sapreme Conrt Is Considering It.
Madison, Wis., Aug. a Attorney Gen
eral O'Connor appeared before the Supreme
Court to-day and announced that he had not
had time to consider whether or not to
bring an action against the Secretarv of
State to test the constitutionality of" the
apportionment act passed by the Legisla
ture in special session, as requested by the
Republicans.
In reply to an inquiry of the Court, he
said he could give a decision in about ten
days. The attorney lor the Bepublicans
then asked permission to" bring suit without
any action in the matter by the Attorney
General, and the Court has taken the mat
ter under advisement.
TROUBLES bOA'YASSA.
fears That Ill-Treated Employes May BIse
and Massacre the Officers of a Guano
Company The Kearsarge Ordered
There to Investigate Affairs.
NeytYorK, Aug. a SpectdL It the
sloop-of-war Kearsage had waited until
Monday morning, instead of .sailing on Sun
day for Honduras, Captain Crowinshieid
would have received instructions from
Washington that he should ."stop at the
guano island of Navassa, an insignificant
island in itself, in the Caribbean Sea, but
which has become notorious because of the
many troubles there between) the American
Company, of Baltimore, arid its employes
on the island. But Captain Crowinshieid
will receive the orders directing him to
stop at Navassa when he arrives at Key
West on Saturday or Sunday.
His instructions will be to go to Navassa
.to investigate the complaint from the Gov
ernment of Austria-Hungary that the
guano company is guilty of gross ill-treatment
ot some of its subjects there. When
the Kearsarge arrives at Navassa it may be
discovered that there has been another up
rising and massacre such as occurred in
1889, when six of the officers of the com
pany were killed. The Kearsarge was
hjirriedly sent over to Navassa by Bear
Admiral Gherardl in April, 1891, when the
employes w ent on a strike and threatened
murderous disorders similar to those of 1889
and April 29.
The trouble last year was caused by
abuse and ill treatment perpetrated 'by, the
company upon Frederick Carter, jfor refus
ing to obey the orders and. instructions of
the company after the expiration of his con
tract, and when he asked to be sent home.
Many of the workmen claimed to have been
"shanghaied" to the island by brokers, and
an investigation resulted in a censure of the
company. The impression of some of the
old officers of the Kearsage, who are now at
the navy yard, is that the employes are
badly treated at Navassa. .
TIMID CALIFOBNIA OPFICEKS
Allow the Callls Train Bobbsrs to Slip
Through Their Nerrom Fingers.
Vis alia, Cal., Aug. 9. Evans and
Sontag, who are supposed to be the train
robbers who stopped the Los Angeles ex
press near Fresno last week, are apparently
as lar from capture as ever. Nothing
further has been heard from the party who
claimed to have the robbers surrounded in
the foothills near Beedly yesterday morn
ing. There was much excitement here last
night owing to a report that Evans and
Sontag had returned to Evans' home, near
town, and were concealed in a. barn there.
Sheriff Kay and a hundred armed men sur
rounded the barn, but would not approach
tbe building. Alter waiting in the vicinity
for nearly two hours the Sheriff aroused
Evans' wife and she accompanied him to
the barn, where a thorough search failed to
reveal any trace ot the robbers.
EUE0PEANS DEMAND PE0TECTI0N.
They Ask for Warships to Protect Them
From the Moors of Both SIdrs.
Tangier, Aug. 9. The Sultan's troops,
after marching in three divisions to-day to
attack the rebels, returned to tjie.cam
outside Tangier without having engaged in
juar fighting. ,
The European residents' here are much
alarmed at the dangerous condition of
affairs, and urgently demand that warships
be sent to protect them. The Moorish
troops threaten to shoot any Europeans
who attempt to approach their camp.
The Eight-Hoar law Obstructs.
Washington, Aug. a The execution
of the eight-hour law as applied to the con
struction of public buildings has proved so
embarrassing to the officials of tbe Treasury
, Department that the Attorney General has
been asked tor a legal construction, ol the.
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CARLISLE Otf SILYER.
He Defines His Position on the Free
Coinage Question.
A DOLLAR OP THE WHITE METAL
Hunt Be l"Qual m Actual Yalue to the
One Hade ofrflol'd.
THE OUTLINES OF HIS PRESENT P0LIOI
Washington, D. a, Aug. 9. Senator
Carlisle has addressed a letter to John A,
Lyne, of Henderson, Ky, in answer to bis
question whether the Senator had hereto
fore been in favor of the free coinage of sil
ver, and whether his views on the Bubject
had undergone any change. ,
Senator Carlisle says: '"The 'answer to
your question depends largely upon what
you mean by 'the free coinage of silver.' If
you mean the policy urged by many under
which the Government of the United Btates
would be compelledby law toreceive"68 cents'
worth of silver bullion when' presented by
the owner and coin it at the 'expense of all
the people of the country and compel the
people by "law to receive the coin-as the
equivalent of 100 cents, my answer is that I
am not now and never have .been in favor
of it. I stand now where my lamented
predecessor, Mr." Beck, and I stood i together
in 1878, when the so-called 'Bland-Allison
bill' was passed by Congress, under which
the Secretary of the Treasury was required
to purchase and coin monthly not less than
52,000.000 nor more than 54,000,000 worth of
silver bullion.
"When the bill passed the House of Rep
resentatives it provided for the free and un
limited coinage of the silver dollar, but
after it went to the Senate Mr. Beck offered
an amendment which provided that the Sec
retary of the Treasury should purchase at
the market price each month not less than
53,000.000 worth of silver bullion, or as
Lmuch more as could be coined at the mint,
tne seniorage to be paia in tne Treasury,
and whenever the bullion could not be pur
chased at less than par with legal tender
notes any owner of silver bullion might de
posit it for coinage on the same terms as
gold was deposited."
Recollections of His Farmer Ylews,
Senator Carlisle here quotes at some
length from speeches made by Senator Beck
at the time of the passage of the "Bland
Allison bill," to the effect that he (Mr.
Beck) desired that the people of the United
States should receive tho benefit of the
'difference, if any, between the actual and
the coined value of the bullion. At the
time, says Senator Carlisle, silver was only
8 or 10 per cent below gold, while it is now
about 45 per cent below, and if it was not
right and just to the people then to donate a
seniorage of 8 or 10 per cent to the '.'combi
nations of bullionists" it certainly cannot
be right and just now to donate over four or
five times that much.
Mr. Carlisle then quotes from his speech
in the House in '78 when the original Bland
bill had been amended by the Senate. Part
of the quotation reads: "My position on
this subject is briefly this: I atu opposed to
free coinage of either gold or silver, but in
favor of unlimited coinage of both metals
npon terms of exaot equality. No discrim
ination should be made in 'favor of one as
against the other; nor should any discrim
ination be made in favor of the holders of
either gold or silver bullion and against the
great body of people who own other kinds
of property. A great government should
treat all its citizens aliKe, and whenever it
attempts to do otherwise it will engender a
spirit of discontent which sooner or later
must disturb the harmony if not the peace
ot society.
Both Metals Should Be Alike.
Senator Carlisle says: "This paragraph
shows preoisely what my position then was
and always has been upon this subject; I
believe that gold and silver bullion should
be treated exactly alike in the mints of the
United States that is, a dollar's worth of
gold should be jeoined into a gold dollar and
a dollar's worth of silver should be coined
into a silver dollar, and if no charge is
made for the coining of one, then no charge
should be made for the coinage of the other.
In my opinion the declaration made upon
this subject by the Democratic party at its
recent national convention is perfectly
sound In principle and enunciates the only
true public policy."
The Senator quotes the silver plank and
then goes on to argue that its demands can
not be met unless the metal in gold and sil
ver coins is of equal value to the coin while
still in bullion torm for coinage. In his
view, adds nothing to the intrinsic value of
the metal. He says - that although the
United States has coined over 54,000,000 in
silver since 1883, it has not increased the
value of tbe bullion but on the contrary
that value had decreased.
The Senator asserts that neither gold nor
silver coin, excepting subsidiary coins, will
ever again enter very generally into use in
any great commercial country, but they will
serve only as a basis for the issue of the cur
rency. Any measure that would broaden
this basis would benefit the world generally,
but this cannot be done by the fabrication
of two coins of the same denomination but
of unequal intrinsic value. This has been
demonstrated by our experience during the
last 14 years with silver as a legal tender,
end we'are still on a gold'basis.
The Way to Make Sliver Real Money.
The Senator says there are only two
ways in which the basis"of circulation can
be broadened by the use of silver as part of
the real money. First, by the coinage of
the silver dollar containing a dollar s worth
of silver; secondly, by an international
agreement on the ratio. He admits that it
would be unfair for the United States act
ing alone, to make the present value of
silver bullion the basis of adjustment, be
cause the partial demonetization of silver
by limiting this coinage has undoubtedly
had considerable influence in depreciating
its price and appreciating the price of gold.
Free coinage of silver would bring the
values nearer, and a true ratio for coinage
would be found at some point between 16 to
1 and the present relative prices of silver
and gold million.
The Senator says it may be possible for
one nation to fix a stable ratio and it so an
international conference is the only tribunal
that can extricate us from the present situa
tion. In conclusion the Senator says he
will support any measure that will tnlly
remonetize silver and insure equality of the
dollars coined from the two metals, and he
sincerely hopes that the aoproaching con
ference will be able to reach such an agree
ment as will meet the approval of all gov
ernments participating in it.
UINQLEll PLEA8TJBE AND PAIN.
,ABad Railroad Wreck Only a- Few Miles
From Denver's Big Parade.
Denver, Aug. 9. While thousands of
people were lining the streets to-day, enjoy
ing the parade, a sad scene was being
viewed a few miles from Denver, in which
several persons were badly injured in a
wrecked passenger train on the Santa Fe
Bailroad. When near Carpentersbnrg,
about six miles out ot Denver, the rails
spread and every car in the train was
thrown from the track except the dining
car in the rear. The following were the
most seriously injured:
Ned IS Deerinp, Pneblo.'ribs and side badly
injured; J. P. Jaokston, Colorado Springs,
head cut and other injuries; Miss Jennie An
derson, Montrose, arm broken and back and
shoulder hurt: Samuel Ely, Iroquois, 111.,
bruised on shoulders and arms: Mies Masfr
Kdlngton, Owensburg, 111., bead partly
scalped, back and breast injured: Mrs. Gen
eral Roberts, BattHPCreek, Mich, shoulder
broken, side and back braised; Mrs. J. V.
Carson, Chicago, pose badly broken.
Ihe Cost Is Nominal
In comparison to returns you get by adver
Mains vour. vacant room in the "to let
I rooma"cent-a-word columns of The Dispatch
A LAKE SENSATION.
Hor.lble Find on Erie's Brash The Mutil
ated Body of a Man Foard In a Grain
Sack No Identifying Marks and Slight
Hopes for a Clew.
Dunktbk, N. Y., Aug. 9. Spedd. A
grain sack containing the remains of a man
drifted ashore about seven miles west of
Dunkirk and two miles west of Yan Buren
Monday, August & It was observed
by Mr. Skinner, of Brockton, who was
passing along the beach when he nntied the
bag to asoertain the contents. He was both
horrified and disgusted to find tbe remains
of a human being in a badly decomposed
state. v
Dragging the bag, far enough upon tbe
beach to be safe from tbe waves, he imme
diately notified Dr. Dean, ot Brockton,
Supervisor af the town of Portland. Dr.
Dean telephoned Coroner Charles Blood, of
Dunkirk, who at once visited the
spot and examine1 the remains, which
he found to be those of a man of apparently
middle age, entirelynude, without any head
and destitute of any distinguishing marks to
aid identification. The large bones, especially
those of the legs, were broken and sawed,
as if for the purpose of being
packed in the bag, and its contents had the
appearance of having been floating some
time in the water. The flesh was so badly
decayed that Coroner Blood, after noting a
description of the gruesome find, buried the
remains upon the beach.
While the story that belongs to this mys
tery of Lake Erie may never be know, it is
puamuic limb uiner oiews may oe Drougnt to
iight that will aid in making known the
facts of the case which now looks like
murder.
FELLED BY A STONE.
Two Klttannlmr, Men Fall Oat and Fight at
a Fishing; Party The Weaker Horls a
Stone and Mortally Wounds His Ad ,
versary Now In Jail.
KrxTANNrNG, Aug. a SpedaL With
in the next 24 hours Armstrong county will
havaprobably added another murder to its
list. Early this morning a party of young
men left this place on a fishing excursion,
their destination being Buffalo Creek, sev
eral miles from Kittannlng.
Among the gay crowd were two well
known young men, George Stickler and
Thomas Steffy. Early in the day these two
quarreled about some trifle, after which
both remained in a bad humor, and upon
every occasion would abuse each other.
Finally they came together in a rough and
tumble fight. Steffy, seeing that he was
getting the worst of it, picked up a large
stone and hurled at Stickler. Steffy's aim
was good, and the stone struck the unfor
tunate man oa the head. He fell to the
ground in an instant, and it was thonght for
a time that he was instantly killed.
The injured man was picked up by his
companions and taken to Walts Chalk,
about three miles from this city, where he
now lies in an unconscious Condition. A
physician was immediately summoned, who
pronounced the wound fatal, and it is ex
pected the victim will die any minute.
Steffy made no attempt to escape, and later
he "was arrested and brought to jail here.
A NEW SLOT DEVICE.
It Will Bob Uncle Sam or P. O. Offlclats-r
Postage Stamps to Be Delivered Auto
matically A Money Maker as Well a. a
Trouble Saver.
Washington, Aug. 9. Special The
resignation of S. A Whitfield, of Ohio,
First Assistant Postmaster General, -which
takes place on September 1, will be fol
lowed by the resignation of other post
office officials within the next few
days. These gentleman leave the service
of the Government to connect themselves
with the Boston company that owns a
patent for a recently invented postage
stamp-selling machine, which has the official
indorsement of the' Postoffice Department.
By dropping a nickel in the slot of the
new device it gives forth 4 cents worth of
postage stamps and a. 1-cent coupon, good
for its face value in trade at the stores of
any ot tne arms who advertise on
the coupon. This coupon is said
to be not unlike a national bank
note, and will not escape tbe criticism of
being much like a counterfeit.' Postage
stamps, of course, can only be sold at one
rate- and the owners of the slot machine
therefore depend for their commissions
upon their coupon advertising privileges.
United States Labor Commissioner Car
roll D. Wright is the President of the Bos
ton company that will flood the country
with these Yankee money-making and
trouble-saving devices.
A NEW M0NETABT SCHEME.
Prof.
Soetbeer Has Devised a Mew Way
to Equalize All Differences.
Chicago, Aug. 9. Prof. Soetbeer, the
well-known German economist, has pro
pounded for the consideration of the Inter
nationalfMonetary Conference a scheme by
which he thinks the monetary systems of
the world would be harmonized.
He suggests that the conference agree
that no gold coin containing less than 2.8065
grams of fine gold be allowed to be coined
or circulated In the contracting countries;
that silver 'be coined in the pro
portion of 20 value units of silver
to one of gold; that silver be legal tender
up to 520, and that silver coins below the
fixed standard of purity be withdrawn from
circulation. This suggestion will- hardly
meet the views of the silver men, who will
contend that the ratio proposed is greater
than it should be. It wlil certainly ndt
suit the silver men in the United States,
who will contend that silver ought to be
rated higher.
Prof. Soetbeer, it appears, thinks that
opposition may be encountered nearer
home, which is the way we account for the
remark attributed to him in a cabled report
that everything depends on the attitude of
Great Britain.
MESSE5GEB B073 8TBIEE.
They TTanted an, Equal Division of the
Company's Income.
Boston, Aug. 9. Special. Boston mes
senger boys got the "strike" fever to-day
and IS of the Boston district messenger
boys who work in connection with the
Postal District Telegraph Company, quit
work this morning. They have been re
ceiving 40 per cent of the company's re
ceipts for deliver of telegraph messages
and they want CO per cent. The company
refused to grant their request and to-day
thgy struct
There has been flo attempted violence
The boys have merely gone off on a lark
and it is probable that they will return to
work in a day or two. The only demonstra
tion occurred at 10.30 o'clock, when some 40
of them, having somewhere prooured a
amaii. flag, paraded down Devonshire street,
past the postoffice, marching single file, like
a band ot Indians on a warpath, led by a
youtn witn tne nag. xne band did not piay,
but there was music enough from the noise
of teams, the shouts of other boys and the
drivers who were bothered by the wriggling
serpentine line of blue-coated messengers as
they marched along, grinning from ear to
ear.
Eight Negro Hucksters Drowned.
Charleston, S. a, Aug. 9. Eight per
sons; all negroes, were drowned by the
swamping of a ferry sloop between Sulli
van's Island and the mainland to-day. They
were hucksters on their way to the island
with vegetables.
Count Eulenberg's Rising Star.
Berlin, Aug. 9. Count Von Eulenberg,
President of the Prussian Council of
Ministers, ill succeed Herr Herrrurthai
Prussian Minister of the Interior.
FOUGHT JOE A DAT.
Revolqtionists in Honduras Defeated
in a Big Battle.
MANY INN0CEKT PE0PIE KILLED.
International Questions Spring Up Over a
War Tessel's Acts.
PACTS OP THE BOMBARDMENT OP CEIBA
tSPXCUL TXLXQSAU TO THE BISFATCITI
New Orleans, Aug. 9. Letters from
Honduras report a big battle in. the inter
ior, some say at Botijas, others at Danli be
tween Generals Nulla, commanding the
revolutionary forces and General Villeta,
commanding those of the Government in
which Nulla was defeated after a fight ofll
hours and retreated toward Nicaragua.
Belfat, which was occupied by the revolu
tionists has surrendered to General Ordonez
of the Government army. The foreign
residents of Ceiba complain that no notice
was given of the intended bombardment of
Ceiba, by the Pizzati and that in conse
quence a number of innocent people in
cluding one woman were killed.
The residence and office of the American
Consul, B. Tocca, was riddled with rifle
balls, two men being shot on the premises.
Tbe Stars and Stripes were floating over
tha Consulate before and during the bom
bardment The residence of the agent of
the Oteri, American line, also had the
American banner flying, but that as well as
the residences of the French and Spanish
representatives were badly wrecked by the
bombardment. The town was a good "deal
damaged and so were the other towns on the
coast bombarded by the Pizzati.
Serious Questions Have Arisen.
The Honduras affair, although settled,
promises to cause some serious interna
tional complications. Threats are made by
the foreign and American owners, whose
property was destroyed by the bombard
ment of Ceiba by the steamer Pizzati, to
bring suit for damages against tha owners of
that vessel, the nationality of which will
have to beestablished. The Pizzati car
ries the American register and floated the
American flag, but daring the bombard
ment of the coast towns acted as a man-of-war
of Hondnras, and Captain Henry Piz
zati, although an American citizen, held a
commission as a General in the army of
Honduras.
Santo Oteri, the owner of the Pizzati,
says that before the vessel entered into the
service of the Government at all, General'
Leiva had obtained the consent of the
United States War Department at Wash
ington that the Pizzati be used as a war ves
sel for the Legitimate Government of Hon
duras. He thinks that ought relieve him
of responsibility in the matter of an in
demnity. President Leiva.. of Honduras,
gave the Captain of the Pizzati a written
guarantee that he would accede to any de
mands for compensation that the Caotain
would make for his services, leaving him to
fix the price. The Pizzati will remain in
the service of the Honduras Government a
few weeks longer until it is certain that tho
.revolution is ended.
International Complication. Possible.
A telegram from Guatemala to-day an
nounces another international complication.
This telegram was from Captain Challoner,
of the steamship Joseph Oteri, belonging to
Mr. Joseph Oteri, of this city.brother of the
owner of the Pizzati, announcing that his
vessel had been refused the right to enter
any Honduras port. The Oteri was the
steamer seized by the revolutionists and
used in the capture of Truxillu and carries
an American register.
It was charged that the officers of the
Oteri were friendly to the revolntionists
and connived at the seirnre of that vessel
and its use against the Government. The
latter evidently accepts this story, ior it has
refused entrance to tbe Oteri, which left
here a few days ago with a large cargo of
freight for any port of the Republic As tha
freight is perishable, this refusal will entail
a heavy loss on the owners of the vessel. A
protest was accordingly entered and an ap
peal made by telegraph to the United States
secretary ot State tor protection.
The owners of the Oteri claim that the
Honduras Government cannot shut their
vessels out ot that country because one of
them was seized by the revolutionists and
used against the Government. The Oteri
was the only vessel denied entrance to Hon
duras. The report from Gnatemala that the
ports of that country have been closed to
commerce are untrue.
WANAMAKER AS AN AUTHOR.
His
Official Work to Ba Il'ustrated ivith
Pictures of Pretty Clerks.
Washington, Aug. 9. Postmaster Gen
eral Wanamaker has determined to write a
book. The forthcoming volume is to be
devoted to Mr. Waaamaker's personal ex
perience as Postmaster General. Through
out the Postoffice Department it is re
ferred to as '.'Wanamaker's Book."
Several clerks have been engaged for
some time past in tbe preparation of the
manuscript, and everything was progressing
finely until the author decided to include a
number of illustrations in the publication.
Portraits of a few of the leading Bureau
officers are to appear, but a special feature
is to be the pictures of some of the hand
somest of the women employes:
It has been said that the rolls of the Post
office Department contain the names of a
large number of beautiful young women,
and the selections of the subjects for
"Wanamaker's Book" has caused a merry
war to break out in the department. The
favored ones who have been invited to give
the Postmaster General their respective
tintypes are of course in high glee, but those
who have been overlooked are saying some
very mean things about the Postmaster
General and those who assisted him in
making the selections. Those who have not
the necessary photographs on hand are au
thorized to go to a local artist arid have
them taken at the expense of the Post
master General.
CONVERSED WITH THE SPIRITS.
A Stmnge performance Enacted in a New
Jersey Cemetery.
Ntacs, Aug. 9. A party of Jersey City
Spiritualists came to Oak Hill Cemetery
yesterday to communicate in broad day
light with divers departed spirits. It was
their annual visit They were Mrs. Straut,
Miss Helen Beed, Frank Bandolph and
Lewis Beed. A dozen invited guests seated
on tombstones awaited their coming. After
the usual greetings had been exchanged and
the company had resumed their seats, weird
performances were inaugurated.
The spirits of the various dead persons,
the names by which they wire known when
in the body, being suggested by those pres
ent, were called up, duly communed with
and then relegated to their normal state.
Answers to Questions propounded by mem
bers of the circle were given through the
medium, and there weie many more
uncanny doings. Throughout the strange
exercises the decorum of a Quaker meeting
was observed by all but the active partici
pants. A Quiet Day at XiOon lake.
Loon LakeN. Y., Aug. 9. President
Harrison has spent another quiet and seemingly-uneventful
day. He had no visitors.
He went for a short walk this afternoon,
accompanied by Mrs. Dimmick. Last even
ing he attended a campfire given at Yander
hoef Camp and remained until a late hour.
Columbia to Resume Non-Union.
Columbia, Pa., Aug. 9. The ColumM.
Ion Work will start Monday with non
union men.
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