Published every Thursday. Geo- W. Wagenscller, t j tfmor ana rropneu Subscription 3 1.50 rer lileli must bo paid In advance when ent C. side tlw county.) ATIS Of AOVIATIIINO. All transient advertisement not other,, contracted (r will be charged t the r pentfl per line (nnnpartel measure) fur Urn In Hon mi l lucent per Hue lor every nubseou Insertion. , 0rPrnlh nntirv puhtithnt frrfi Mluatypr trilrutti r'rt, f c. Uirrt emit Unr. " Republican Oommitteemei Ad.ims.-.T. K KettPMlf. Tobias Mitchell. lU'uviT. Nutlmn Kr I. Irvln Klnnev. )i"aver W. Win. Ihs-ter. W. lirillMll. rctitro. J. W. Sumpsol, II. (.'. S ilnpsel. -hapmiin.-f. A. portline, T. II. N'0.1'.-..! Kranklin.-:. II. Imnketberger. J. W. Ep bower. , , .Tarkii.-Wm. Martin. .1. . Vnrick. MloMlclmrgh.-mrtln llowcrsox. W r. KOflfig Vlddleereck,-J. J. Mlti lwl. I'. I.. How. li Monroe. II. II. llortlner. I. K. Houst. ,., penn, -Daniel Knouse, c. K. Wiigncr. ,. Perry. -Irwin Ifcivcr. Henry Harding. tf perrv W..- -Daniel M uh'viiI. II. K. Kerstcr" spring,- Ur. A. M Smith, I. K.Hpuld. ; Sellnsgrove, K. H. Gembcrllng. W. tO l" riilon, iieo. I. Klundcr. J. . Ward, the Washington.-Wm. C. Hllblsh, Jerry Cha by rgc FOIt PRESIDENT, ut-Ht William McKinlte v..'e. The h" irlng In the ililo on follow ed. Tln controversy ii plied to th Nino t""ntli dt-trl.t. Involving t tt r- ll-t rl-t seats, an I indirectly the ..cut of mi" delegate nt lit ):. National Committee took middle ground mi l bvp i'h.'Ii member of tli" two J -l.-tf u t ! ii r a half vote. Th"r' wT" two session of th I. (n 1 1 t nuivi'ii!!. ii Tlmrl-y u morning ws.imii of two lion r und mi afternoon so-sion of nil hours. Tli" latter carri"'l tin- convention Into the night. Hi'iiitt-r All.-ii. f Nebraska, km elected permanent I'liairiiiiin. Hi" convention Kin " ill" I to order I'rMny morning by Senator Allen, permanent chair innii. at iili."i o'clock. Prayer wax offered by ltcv. Mr. Williams, of tlx) Union Method ist church "f st. I.ouU. A gavel, constructed In th Stat" of Ohio, out of 44 kinds of limber, rv pr--ri'iit Uitf every Mat", wan presented tit th" "lialriiiiin by liclcgute No", of i ililo, us a "middle-of-the-road" gavel ninl it wait accepted by th" ehnlrmnn. After insl'lerublo ilelmte tli Womnti's Suflratc" I'lank was il'f"iit"J in tli J'oiiilltt renolutloiiii "ornniltt"". It win nntai(oiil"il liy the omttn'rn iiu.l W"Ht"rn l"l"k'at"!, the menil er from I'tiih l""lnriiii that If It pre vmleil th" vi t" in that St.tt" woiiM 1") turn eil over "iitlri'ly to the uiormort "liiirc h. An oth'h plank il""lur" tho "lection of I'rmtu ileiit, Vlee l're.-lili'lit Hli'l Senators y ll il reet vote oftlio people. After Home 1U.mih ion uii'l opp"itlon from Honthorn il"l"i:iitei who deplorecl imytliliiK tliat woiil.l raiw an tvui', a plank wan a lopti'il Jeolarinif for a free lailot aii'l n f.ilr eoiint. 'Hie Populist iMiimiltteii on resolutions re jeotiKl 1'oxey n iioti-llitereitt l'"irini? I'oli'l eelieni" lv a vc.(" of 14 nye to U nayn. At II o'clock tli" eotniiiitt"" lni't ufr""l upon the pr.'tnil'l" to the platform, nn.l ncveral BDi'tloIIH of th" tliinuciitl plituk. A ili-maipl Ik ma I" for Hiich "Kl,latlon m will cnalil" every lii'lutrloiM nul prmlent eltl7eu to "i-ciire it home, aii'l il""liir" that puhll'.' Iiiii Ih fhoulil not ! monopoll."i for Bpeculative piirpiiHc. 'I'll" policy that li.i.-i prevail". 1 In the Interior department ciinliUinr bona IM" .'"tiler, to ho ilepoilci of their honien, lit cgill'li'Illlieil, IIU'1 reiliejiut leUllf tioti it"milll.e.. The (.ympitthy of the purty with Culm lu tier "trutfulo for iolitci fiveJorn nmiir'b pen.ieii'ee, i ireii..l, Hii'l the ilevlarallon mit'le thnt the tlnm im come when the I'nlt el StHteH, th" tfreiitext repiihlie of the WorM, nlioiil.1 recotfiii.H that Ulund a it freeitn.1 lu d...eii...it Mat". The lint eioii of th" convention, which lante l until alnioKt ' o'clock haturilay atler noon, wiih tnarke.l l.y hcik" of turlnili'iico KUil lloisy exi'ltenieut, which Hi'Veral tllliei. Iionh're.l on actual riot aii'l what alm.nt precipitate I personal coIINioiih. Hue ll.t lUIlt .11.1 occur. A Ktl.nl" I-lail.l delc-iite was ejecti'.l ail. I It West Virginia ileirilte, iiillaine.l t y tli" iietlon of tli" convention, walke.l M.i."iily out of tli" hull. I Ii" st..rm ei'iiter. us on the three ptcvlotis .lays, was in th" I'"IUl .h lcuutloii. Wllllii;y J "ii n in u llryaii, of Xehraka.who was ii..niiiiii!."l l y the 1 . in . . ni t i . conven lion at i 'lilcitKo it fortnlitht was tna.lc the stun. lar.l-l.enr'T ol the I'..pullst party l.y u vote of 1,1)47 to 3U1. Th) lieinocratli' ciin.U.iat" was uottiiiiatcil in th" fa. " of his own pr..t.-t In the hliup of H teli'Kram ilirectlni; th" withdrawal of his nani"S"iit to Senator Jones, nft-r Sew nil. his rumiiiitf mat.', had been ditchetl for tile vice, presldeiitinl noinliiittloii, mid Thomas K. Watson, of (ieorKla, had Is'U named for necond plaoi on the ticket. It was itiso made in th" t"eth of an opposition no latter that alter the convention ndjourucd some of the ra Heals held a "rump" convention. J. A. r.dh'crton, nf Nebraska, was chosen iccretury and C. Itankln, of Indiana, tieas urer of tli l'opuliHt National eonunittee. J, A. Sovereign, of Arkansas; t'. V. Taylor, of reunsyiviiiila: II. W. lleed, of (leorjria; j. H. Iore. of California; i. V. Wnslilmrn, of Massachusetts, and J. II. Iiretdeiithul, of Kansas, were elected tho executive com mittee. TWO POOR COUNTERFEITS. SILVUK PARTY CONVENTION. Dtlegttti of th WhlU Mtttl Prty ITeet la St Loni. The silver pnrty convention wn enlleil to order nt 12 35 p. m., Wednesday. Tt mpor nry Chairman Newlan l n't Representatlvo Town", ii boltlntt Republican from Minii" Hota, were xreete.I with applause when they took sent on the platform. Chairman New lands deliver'! an lJr"s outlining the I oHltioh of the party. , Tli" call f..r tn" convention emanated from a "..iifcrciic" ..f tip. friends of filver, hH I nt Washltitftoii, I). ('., January 'li and 2S lust, ninl was slirnod by A. J. Varnr, pr"ld"iit American l!l;n talllu I.enifiiuj II. (. Mlll.-r, chairmiu nnti in.il rilver eommltteo; It. C. liiiinle-rs, president National Illmetnlllc I ni.. Ik J. M. Iievin". secretary Amerl-an III- tlietalll" l.fHKU". Ur. J. J. Mott, of North Carolina, who was "lecte.l clmirT.an of the executive com mittee, ms been in St. I.ouls for Keveral weeks, making prerarntions for the con vention. 1h" halt had I ."en ntti-tlvey d rapped with tilths and l.iintiiof. but the ntmosphere was so close and hot that It was almost suf fociitlnif when Clinirman Mott came forward to cull the convention to order, the devat"s for tli" moment cense I the ne of fans and roused from the torpor caused by the nwful heat, lndiilK"d tu some etithuslastle eheerlntr. Prayer was oiTereil, after whb'h Ils I.lllie II. 1'lerce, rend the Iieclaratlon of Indepen dence. This caused another outburst of ap plans". I he pre tfram of the sliver convention wa al! arranired In advance. It Included simply the adoption of a III to 1 platform mid the nomination of llryan and Sewali, but those In chitrir" of it deemed it jrood policy to uo slowly In th" belb t that they mlcht by re miiliitiitf in Ion be able to exercise an In linen. .. in shapliiK tluiik's In the Populist convention, 'I o this end they appointed n commltthe of seven headed by Ju.le Scott of California to meet with a similar commit tee from the populists for the purpose of rendiinK a common plen of action. Win. P. St. John of New York Is perma nent chairman of the sliver convention and It. K. IifTcii..irf.T of Pi'iitisy.vaiilii Is secre tary. Mr. St. John delivered a III to 1 Speech and preached Populist nut lcmo"ratic unity Th" second days session was devotcl to sp.s.cli iimkinif. Charles A. fowne of Minn esota and .Mr'. 1 1 l.-n M. Oouirarof Indiana were the principal speakers. It was 10 41 o'clock when Chairman St. John called the stiver convention to order Friday. Itev. Ir. I,. W. Covert ld In prayer, after wlil -h (i. W. ll.iker, of Cali fornia, took the Door. He said the People's party convention had appointed a conference call and moved that the convention confer action In the platform and postpone the nomination of a ticket until :c:)i. A motion that when the convention adjourn it adjourn until ;i::Hl p. m., also i.revailed. Senator Stewart, of Nebraska, was called to the front and was ch"'r". as he took the stand, ills mention of Iiryan's name while reviewing the work of the Chicago conten tion was trreeted with applause. The National sliver party adjourned sine ill" shortly after ti:.lo o'clock Friday Mveutun, after t;olio( on record l.v nomlnailiiK the nominees ,,t tli" l'emocratio convention, William Jennings Ilrymiund Arthur S. wa 1, for president and "vc president of the I lilted States respectively. The Ium net before final adjournment was the selection of Lincoln, Neb., as the city at which the nominees were to be notified, of the honor extend" I to them. Sll.vr.ll M.IFollM. The National Silver party In conventlo0 assembled hereby n lopu the followiuir tb-c-Inratb. n of principles; The paramount Issue at this time in the I'nile.l States Is indisputably the money luestion. It Is between the (told standard. Kold bonds mid I'Hiik currency ou the one hide, ami the bimetallic standard, no bonds and Government currency on the oth.. (tn tiiis nue issue we deelure Airsei. to ! j lu lavor of a iiistluctlyely American nnaa- rial system. We hold tliat the power to control anil reuulatx a paper currency Is Inseparable from the power to coin money. We are unalterably opposed to the Issue by the I' nlte.l States of Uitcrest-bearlnR bonds lu time of pence. We, therefore, confidently appeal to the people of the I' mted St.tti-s to leave In abey ance for the mom. nt all other iuestlous, aiid unit- in one supreme effort to free them selves and their children from tho domina tion of the money power. FATAL RUSH OHM WATERS. TrENTY-EIGHT DROWNED.' TUtla cf t- C'.ondbsrst la a Colorado Cinca. A special dlpntch from Morrison, Col., says: A cloudburst In Ilear creek canyon, just above Lealvflle, at 8 o'clock on the nU't.t of the 21th. brought l"wn a solid wall of water ten feet hU'li, which not only did freat damage to property, but caused tho iss of fifteen to twenty lives. The known dead are; Mrs. Miller and three children: A arty of campers, fifteen or eighteen In number, who were llvlnif in a small hou-n Inst below the town. Viola Foster, a llttl" IHnver (lirl, was with th" party, and was saved by the people who heard her crii. This much has -cn learned on this side of the creek but as all bridges are trone and the water Is still hlirh and swift, nothing can' be learned from the other side, searching pnr tles are out on both sides of the stream, look Inn: for bodies of dea l and Injured. It Is feared there has been more loss of life, as there were scores of pie ramplntt alotitr both sides of the creek, both Hbove and be low town. Wires are down in all directions, except the telephone line to l.vadville, and heavy storms between hero and there threaten to break that. Another message says: -The victims of Friday night's flood were three In Oolden. f..ur In Mount veruon canon, 21 near Mor rison, making the tola! 2, The servant girl, Anna Hansen, who was reported dead, was not at the camp at the time of the flood and consequently escaped. A charcoal burner named Nichols, up at the Kvergreen, Is re ported missing, making the total list still 2s. Of these 10 bodies were recovered Satur day, nnd the body of Matt Herres, a little child, was found Sun. lay. P. Johnson, of ArvVln, telephoned In to Iienver that he had found four bodies In the be I of Clear creek about a mile above the towu of Arvada. T hese bodies either floated down from Oold en or are those of campers in clear creek vail. y between the two points and are not to be confounded with the missing dea 1 over the ridge lu Hear creek valley where Mor rison is located. The flood of Friday ulght lasted about half an hour and woe followed by a heavy rain which continued until about ID o'clock. At that hour a body of water, greater In vol ume than the first flood came down Tucker Oulch, emptying Into (dear creek. It was this seci,, flood that carried awuy the houses of Johnson and his wife and which drowned Mrs. Ktl wards. Cloudburst In Switzerland. Heventl lives were lost in a cloudburst wliieu occurred on th" upper tteneva Lake, Switzerland, Saturday. Mii 'ti damage was also doll" to property of the overflowing rivers. The town of N"U"tibcrg Is Inundat ed. In part, and many houses on the banks of the swollen streams have been nwcpt away. OHIO RIVER IMPROVEMENTS. Two Bogus Silver Csrtiflcatei That Will Impost on tbt Caralett. Two new counterfeits of I'nited States silver certlllciites have been discovered by the Treasury department. Theflmt Is of tho series of 1M1. check letter C, signed by J. Fount Tillman. Itegistcr, and 1. N. Morgan, Treasurer, nud having a portrait of Stanton. The second Is a ?." bill, Serb's of IS'.M, cheek letter II., sinned by J. Fount Tillman, U.-is-ter, and I. N. Morgan, Treasurer, and hav ing a portrait of ( ir.int. These counterfeits are printed from etched plates and are very poor productions. The portraits, lit lie w..r and small lettering es pecially nr" l it I, being much blurred nnd in distinct. Th" paper is also poor. A few pieces of hlik thread llllV" been distributed through it. The most careless handler of money, it Is said, should readily detect tho counterfeit notes. CLOUDBURST CAUSES DFATII. Ton Persons Drowned bs the Inundation ol a Ke ntuoky Creek. A cloudburst nt 4 o'clock Tuesday morn ing at llensoii's reek, f.,nr miles from Frankfort, Ky., resulted lu the drowning of James Uradley, his wife and five children, Mrs. Hryant, a widow, and U'T two small children. Mrs. Iiryunt kept o toll gate near the bridge. Ib-r house was on the cr.-ek and across from that of James Uradley. T lie I'onway mill was just above, and was the llrst to go. Its timbers must have swept away th" Hryant and Uradley houses, and tliese houses struck the iallroa.1 bridge nud carried It away. All trains ou the Louisville ami Nashville and Chesapeake and Ohio railroads, from Frankfort, Lexington and intermediate points, were cut off from Louis ville. Ten minutes after the cloudburst llensou's creek became a swollen river, covering the valley on either bank and sweeping every thing before it. A Sound Money Banner. The Captain Hubert OilloHpto Republican Club will display a him liome not banner, with portraits of M.'Klnley and iloburt also a campaign transparency from the front of their club house, Lehigh av.iuue and Marsh all street. At a meeting of the organization last Tuesday evening Captuiu Robert Oilles ple, C. Jos.'j.h lliieey nnd James Clareney were elected lis delegates to the convention of tli" Republican State League of Clubs, to be held nt F.rle In September. The alter nates elected were Thomas J. Klernaa, Frank lioulter ami John Allen. DRIVEN FROM WORK. Th Struggle in the Troubled Illinois Dis tricts Is Spreading. A mob of 200 striking miners from the mining districts of Riverton and Spauldlug, III., marched to Ilarclay, III., and compelled the miners to return home. They would not allow the men to go to work on account of a reduction In wages from 33 cuts a ton to 8J-1 cents a ton. T lie men had all assembled around the mine wlieu the striking minors made their appearance. Soine confusion followed, and when the llrst cage of men was let down Into the mine there hus it general riot. The liar clay miuers went to their homes and ugreed to work no more until next Tuesday. Death of John W. Harper. John Wesley Harper, who was for a quar ter of a century, until two yeursago, a mem ber nf the llrra of Ilui per A llrot hers, died Tuesday at his borne ou Fifth avenue, New York, very suddenly after an acute attack of pout, which eventuuliy itlYuolod his heart, lie was Uii years old. and had been a su.rur Irom the malady for many years. TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. It Is said that bees can fly 20 percent faster than pigeons. Forty broad gauge Prohibitionists met lu Iienver and nominated Hootu for Gover nor. Joseph II. Larimer has been uominutcd for Congress by the Iiemocrnts of the Tenth Indiana district. The Indiana convention of bituminous miners voted to remain out against the re duction of wages from 00 to Hi ccuts per ton. JumesT. Hurst, of Wyandotte, one of the Inrgost lumber operators lu Michigan, has tiled a trust deed for the benefit of his credit ors, who bare claims aggregating 511,0ih). liy an unanimous vote, the American Window Glass Workers' association Tuesday withdrew from the Knights of Labor, and for the present will operate as a uon-Alltli-ated trades union. Arthur Cleveland Coxe, a bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Western New York, died suddenly of nervous prostration at the Clifton Springs sanitarium, where ho bad been spending a few days. The Populist National committee on the case of the contest from the Nineteenth Ohio district, decided that the delegation selected at the convention called by the district com mitteeman was entitled to seats. Herman Auth, an electrician, residing at 122 Wluslow street, East Eud, Pittsburg, was shot and killed by Police Ollleer Robert Richards at U o'clock Wednesday night. He was pursued on suspicion of having bur glariously entered the residence of J. D. Tucker, 5U2 Lincoln avenue. Mr. Rouer, in Charge of th Work, Mak an Exhaustive Report. Mr. Hotter, In charge of Improvement on tho river in his oniiual report to the war de partment, says that the methods employed during the year have resulte I lu much valu able work being done ad vautageously aud economically. Several dams were repaired and dikes built at Hlennerhassets Island and Guyuudolto bar. The work at the lutter place hat much Improved the channel at what was n verv dlttlcult place. The effect of the dike at Eight Mile bur is said to have Is-eu excellent, operations were ulso car ried on at other points further down the rfcood progress' generally made.'' IliffKork done by dredges has also been of material benefit to navigation. Contracts have been entered into for the construction of an Ice harbor at Hartford, West Vlaglnla, nnd steps will be taken at an early date to construct an additional pier at Mlddlcport, Ohio. As a result of Inquiries us to the benefit derived from the harbors during the last winter, Ir was found that they hud with one or two exceptions, proved of great serv ice to navigation. There is an available bal ance of $3'.i.),sy:j for continuing operations on the river. TAILORS ON STRIKE. Twelve Thousand Ordered to Enforo an Advance. Twelve thousand New York coat tailors were ordered on strike Wednesday morning to enforce higher prices from the wholesale manufacturers and to stop a renewal of t!i tusk mi I piece work work system. I'he large manufacturers w.-re tnki'ii by surprise, its It bad been given out that a strike bad been deemed Inadvisable by the l"a l"rs. A committee of l. of the lirotlierlioo 1 of Tailors, tu accordance with early Instruc tions, stole a march on the mauufitcters by visiting all the contractors' shops, i'.:WI lu number lu New York und 'J.'iO lu llrooklya and Hrownsvflle and notifying the workers to ipm forthwith and report to their heal quarters. I p to uoon there were 1,000 tailors in New York aud 4,IIU0 more of the the total 8,000 were expected to quit work before the close of the workday. I'he 4,000 tailors in ilrook lyn and Ilrowusville were expected to Jolu lu the strike, as they had decided several days ago. ANOTHER CONVENTION CALLED, Th Chioago Conferjno Decile in Psvor of Putting a Third Tioket in th rield. IMegutes from Kentucky, MUsourl, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Nebraska, Ohio and Michigan were nt the conference with the honest money liemocratln committee, of Il linois, lu Chicago, July 2.). General llragg, of Wisconsin, was made chuirmau. Letters and telegram were rea l from Iiemocruts In Massachusetts, Texas, Washington City, Ne I rask a, Maine, New York and West Virginia, advising that it national convention be called. A resolufiou was adopted declar ing It the sense of the conference that there should b" held a convention not litter tlinii September 2 to enunciate a Iiemocratle plat form and nominate u Uemocrutlj ticket. The details of the cull were left to a committee of ouc member from each stnt i represented. THINK SEARCH IS USELESS. Mining Expert Advise th Cessation of Work in the Twin Shaft, A large number of mine experts bold a conference Friday on the Twin shaft disas ter, at Pittston, Pa. The majority went Into the shaft and made a thorough examination. Ou coming to the surface they reported tbut further search for the entombed men would not only be dangerous but useless. The of lliilals of the Newton Coal Mining compauy decided to go ou with the search until com pel le.1 to stop. The relatives of the entomb" 1 miner have abandoned all hope of evi r finding the men alive r dead. Ou Tuesday next a solemn high muss of requiem will be celebrated in St. Murv's Cittholiu church tor the repose of the souls of the unfortunate victims of the disaster, lllshops O llara and Hoban will atteudthe service. Two-thirds of the vic tims were members of the Catholic church Boston Wool Market. The business transacted in the wool mar ket bus beeu remarkably small this week, hardly sulflcieut being done to maintain prices. The following are the quotalons of leading descriptions: Ohio nnd Pennsyl vania fleeces, X and above 10 ld.'oj XX and above 17(.n'lc. TRADE REVIEVvT. . St Lcnii nestings Xtta Trci Cais:i; Through th Week. R. O. Pun A Co'., Weekly Review . Trade says: The week beaa with extrm depression In stock and speculative markets, owing to the heavy outgo of gold and the fall of the treasury reserve below the minimum. Tho Populist and sllvi'r conventions caused some apreheiislon and lao:e withdrawals of gold for boarding were rather feared than seen. There eif.iiM sharp recoverv with the union of banks to turn c20,(i(l,6o0 gold into the treasury and of Ititernntloi nl bunkers to con trol foreign ex-hiinge. The gold reserve has been qub kly lifted above 100,000,000 nn.l political events have h'dped to clear Away apprehensions. Iluslncs of all kinds has been considerably affected by tho monetary conditions nud Is slower to Improve. Hie produce markets hnve been seriously depressed, lard making the lowest quotations on record, corn falling to .12 cents, wheat to Cl:''4 cents and cotton to 7'4' cents. There has been a slight recovery lu Corn, a sixteenth In cotton, nnd a cent lu w heat, but the main can of low rl. es remalns--natneiy. pros pects of large crops, with h. nvy stocks of old on hand, old com Is coming forward at about double the rate a year ago, and so far another big yield Is Indicated. Cotton receipts nre as usual Insignificant, but new cotton already begins to appear some weeks earlier than usual, and the pros pect for a larger yield grows clear, though owing to over rain development of the quality may Im defective. The state of woolen manufacture appears In sab's of wool at tke chief markets for the week, the smallest ever known, only l,.17u 4"i0 pounds, nf which Sl.'.n.'X) pound were domestle.agnlnst 10,.')l,'i.',0 pounds lost year, of which U,2:!l.750 were domestic. Prices do not nominally change, but are shaded to make sales, and etern markets are weak ening some, though stbl higher than eastern. Leather is Inactive, and hides at Chicago average 3 per cent lower for the week. Fail ure for the week have Iwen 2sl In the I'nit ed States, against 202 last year, and il'J in Canada, agirinst 27 last year. . SONS OF VETERANS. 7 National Encampment to be Held la Louisville. The encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be reproduced tn Louisville next September on a scale Identical with that of Inst year, save that It will be smaller. The city will be again decked with the nati onal colors, and thero will bo camp fires, parade and burls-cue when the Son nf Veterans gather In the city that welcomed their father. The encampment will be held from September 7 to 11. It Is estimated that 20,000 memls-rs of the order will attend. W. 11. Russell Is commander-in-chief, with head quarters nt Lacrosse. F.lwood T. Citrr, of Scranton, Pa., Is senior vice commander. Preparations for the national encampment have been made on the same order as those for the Graud Army encampment last year. A committee of twenty was appointed which appoint" I In turn vice committers on trans portation, accommodations, amusements, camp fires, etc. The order will give a par ade on the plan of the G. A. R. There will also bo a barbecue and a great Competitive drill. This will be the fifteenth annual encamp ment. Every effort is being made to make It the beet ever known. ATKINSON FOR GOVERNOR. West Virginia Republican Convention Key not Soa'ded. The largest state Convention either political party ever held in the state began ut Parkers- burs; at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning. Hon. . 31. IK iAW00 i -"'s'llMll Of ! committee, called tiff 'Pe.emblagit aud Introduced l'.ev. lr. Itumore, w ho mad.. the oHvnlng prayer, lion. S. II. Elkin wit announ.s'.l as temporary chairman, nud Hon. A. Ii. White, Senator Stuart F. Reed, T. W. 11. uckwttli, Chris. Payne nud J. J. Peterson, as temporary secretaries. Senator Elklns received a perfect ovation, lusting several miiiuti-s upon takiug the chair. lie spoke for about an hour, sounding the key note to Went Virginia's campaign and was repcittedly greeted with Vociferous upplnuse. Two nominations were made ut the llrst day's sessions of the Republican State con vention lion. George W. Atkinson, of Wheeling, for goveruor.niid L. M. Lufoilette, of Taylor county, for auditor. Each mad" u brief speech of acceptance, M. A. Kendall, of Wood county, was noiiii tinted lor treastir -r. J. Russell" Trotter of L'psliur county was nominated for superin tendent of S"liooU. He is a graduate of the West Virginia l iilverslty und of llarvarj. i.diMr P. Itucker, of Mclbiwell county, was nominated for lUtoriiey-gcneral. Dr. James II. Fitch, of Monongalia county, und S. M. Rittliboue, of Wirt county, were uominated for preideutiitl-eectors-at-large. C0TELL SENTENCED TO DIE. Th Tallmadg Murderer Indifferent When Told H Must Hang. Judge Jacob A. Koehler sentenced Romu lus Cotell, who wits two week tgo convicted of the murder of the Stone family at Tall- mange on March 2'.), to !c iiuugeii on Friday November 0, ItlW. The court was opened at 11 o'clock Tuesday morulng to hear the test imony nud argumeuts ou the motion for a new trial, About a dozen wltuessee were examined, but the testimony of all was Im material aud mude little or no Impression, The attempt was made to prove that the judgment of the jurors had been lutiuenetd by outside purties during the trial; that the jurors, had talked about aud discussed the cuse; mat one oi tnein Ua.l anuounee.i pre viously tbut he would hung Cotell. The de fense fulled to uphold these assertion aud Ju .a Koehler overruled the motion. Vt hen asked what be hud to say why sen tence should not be pronouueed, Cotell said: "All that I have to say Is that I am not the perpetrator of the crime nud uu Inuo cent." Tim boy maintained throughout the re markable Indifference and flippancy which has charaterl.ed bis bearing throughout the entire case. W hen making bis statement a smile hovered about his lips, and wh"n the Judge passed the sentence he puld no atten tion to the words. The higher courts will be appealed to by the defendant's uttorneys. MINOR MENTION. i of mmm. - r CYCLONE AND TIDAL VAVD. Cleveland Picnio Resort Was Wre:ttd ty . a Storm. A cyclone struck Itrulnh park picnic grounds, Cleveland, at 9.30 p, tn., Sunday, demolishing eight or nine houses, a large tabernacle and other valuable property. The loos is estimated nt many thousands of dol lars. The grounds were well filled wdth people, but bcyoud being soaked by the pouring rain, no one was harmed. The storm first struck the water works tower nnd demolished it as though It were a bunch of sticks. The large tuls'rnnide recently erect ed for the religious camp meetings was wreck '"d. not a timber being left standing. A house was life I from Its foundations aud tnov.d twelve feet. 'J'lie lurge bridge over the lavine nt lleiilah pkrk was curried 200 feet. The chimneys were blown off the Cody hotel. The boarders took fright and start ed for the tabernacle. Jut before they reached It the big gull. ling wo renullslied. Many tent useil by campers were blown away and the occupants left without a p. ace to sleep. A heavy rain accompanied the wind. At lluliih Is'a.'h a party f young men an.l women were bathing. They were compelled to make their escape In their bathing suits, as their clothing wo blown awav. At Euclid Reach park the Crystal Maze was damaged to the extent of :hi. Imrlng the storm a tidal wave raised the water four feet and the steamer Duluth nud Superior were almost blown from the water. ALL ON BOARD LOST. Th Clipper City of Philadelphia Went Down With 29 People. Information from Stanley, F. I., under date of June ft, prove that the ship which foundered off that locality May 14 was, th" Philadelphia clipper City of Philadelphia, that ('apt. Johnson, his wife and family ,oue passenger nnd crew, niimls-rlng in all 2. perished. The artlcb salved have been d" crihed minutely and have been recogulred by the shippers a the goods shipped to San Francisco by the city of Philadelphia, which made sail from Sandy Hook early on the morning of February 2. Fiven the clothing of the female who drifted ashore from the wrecked ship is described by the wrecker In the Falkland Islands, and while the wom an "Was about is years of ago, it can be uoue other than the wife of ( apt. Johnson. TWO WERE SWEPT AWAY. Mother th and Dughtr Drowned la River at Bellalr. Mrs. Mary Long, aged tli years and her daughter, Daisy, aged 17 years, were drown' ed Sunday evening In the Ohio river near the mouth of the McMeehau creek. They were In a small bout with two young men, Thomas Dennett and William Francis, and while passing the snug boat, E. A. Wood ruff, where the current runs swiftly, were drawn under the wheel, the bout being cap sized nud crushed by the pn. Idles. llcnnett mid Fritucl grasped the wheel and the two women seized the former, while Frauds swum ashore, llcnnett maintained his grasp on the wheel for some time, the women clinging to him, but Mrs. Long be. came exhausted nnd relaxed her hold. The llerce current quickly swept ber away, the daughter Presently followed. Reunetl. re- Uvrvi of tlm Wright.- wnj a'llw to Jrsr-4tte.-self, upou the wheel and after a short resT gained the snore, , THE INDIANS WANT TO DANCE. Th Agent Wont Allow Them to Learn a .New Shindig. The dancing fever bus again broken out among the Iudiaus of the Cheyenne nnd Ar apahoe reservation In Oklahoma. As the re sult of the visit of 110 t'olorodu Indians of the I'te and Pueblo tribes, the Indians have dis obeyed the order of the agent, Captain A.E, Woodson, and have spent two days und nights in wihl revelry. The visitors came for the purpose of teach ing the Clieyennes and Arapalloes it new duuee originated by their trlm-s, but Wood son forbade them to huve the duuee or to in fer" lu any way with the Indians who, up to that time, bud been quietly working on tneir allotments. Tho Colorados were ordered to return to their reservation, but Instead, with several hundred Clieyennes nud Arapalloes. they went to Cantonment, '5 miles north of the Caundlan river, ami begun their dune The agent sent Indian policemen with or ders to disperse the dancers and send the visitors home. They were having a gr.'itt feast In addition to the dunce. They sullen ly obeyed the agent's orders. They declared that their dunce was simply a "com dance," but It Is claimed that it was the ghost dunce or something similar to it. The chief concern of the agent has been to keep the Indians at work ou their allotments and break up their savage customs, but they do not take kindly to restraint. The agents Interference with their duuee has Incensed tli em uud trouble M feared. The sound money Iiemocruts of Minnesota have organized for another ticket. A dispatch from Rome says that the gov ernment has ordered tne third-class cruiser Llgurlu to prooee , Canoe. An Athens dispatch says that a body of Turkish irregular soldiers have killed 13 Christians near lierakllon, lu the Island of Crete. John Pryde was hung at Ilraluard, Minn., fur the murder of Andrew Peterson. Pryde murdered him for 4X II confessed before dcutb. Mr. Drill, aged H5, and her son Juke, aged 24, have beeu arrested at Louisville, Ky., on a churgeof counterfeiting. Nicholas Smith wus Instantly killed and Elmer Stringer badly hurt by the fulling of portion of the old postofttce wall nt Chicago Thursday. Tho building was being torn down. A dispatch from Constantinople report that massacre have occurred at Ordu, on the lilitck Sea, In Asia Minor. According to ufllciul accouut 'ii Armenian have been tilled. Section 522 of the postal law has been amended so that any railway postal clerk uuu deliver to the person addressed at any time, strict aud prompt identification being required, of course. SIX SLAIN IN A RACE RIOT. Three White and Three Blaok Bit the Duet. A race riot occurred 43 miles northeast of Jasper, Flo. Six men were killed and eight persons, two nf whom were women, wound, ed. Those killed are said to be Henry John sou, Albert Sullivan, Edward Johnson t white i; Jim Solomon, Amos Campbell, Ike Mitchell (colored). The names ol the wound ed have not been learned. The tragedy occurred ut Haggard's tur pentine still, where many colored men nre employed. The colored men gave a 'festi val and while it was In progress, a number of while men intruded aud the shooting resulted. A Royal Wedding. Triucess Maud, third .laughter of the Prince aud Priuces of Wales, was married ,to Prince Charles, second sou of Crown Prince Frederick, of Ib-tnuurk. The cere meny took place in the private chapel of liucklugham Palace. So far as the general public is concerned the weddlug did not at tract much attention. Wisconsin Forest Fires. Forest fire are sweepiug over a large area In the northwestern purt of Marinetta coun ty, about the Eagle, one of the main branches ot the peshtlgo. It Is estimated that nearly four townships have beeu burned over, the tires being chiefly confined to old slashings, though some valuable stuuding cedar bus been destroyed. The smoke from 'he fire swept urea enn be seen for miles, aud with a strong wind, serious results would be appro dended. Fifty Live Lost. A bad accident, resulting In the loss of fifty lives, bus occurred on tho railway be tween liombny and liellib The train woe running at good speed when It was thrown from the rail and a number of coaches were wrecked. Most of the killed were natives. Forty Villag Dsstroysd. A dispatch from Constantinople says that th latest acoounts there are to the effect that forty prosperous village around Van have been destroyed and every male over H years of age killed. The total killed are plajed at 12, WO. BRYAN WILL THINK ITOv? Csn't Dscld en th Aoespun: of tw list Nomination. Snator Jones, of Arkansas, ciri Iha numn....l.. V - . H rriiiuimii,, i.w.i.tin. vummitts) to Lincoln, N"b., and bad a confpf. Mr. llryan and Gov. IJolccmb. leaving Mr. Jones that he would I-, the common senie of the prople to t, nomination of Watson. No defn:;, ( he said, woul I be tak n at this tin. gard to the ac eptunee or leen,,tj ' Populist nomination I y Mr. Iiryn v lones added thnt the ratification ir. New York would take plac-. Aiun.'iu gov. itolcomli said that Mr. J(rva " probably accent the St. I.nnis ,....'. ' Mr. llryan said that it all dci..-n i'.'. ' the conditions attached to It. I "I appreciate th desire mainf....... f.MlU Is. .......ll.ln. n .t. . ' . 1 1 . ,,,,.,,,7 ,,,, 1,1,7 irec.m,. nud retrret thnt tliev Hi. I nnl .. . Sewnll also. He stands squar-lv mV sn.r i,Utl...m . I i .1... i " lI ll"v r'i..'. til f.u.4 .OVS U'l'lllli against greater opposition than w k. to meet in the West and South Tv. . list platform Is In tally Identical with the Chicago J goes beyond the Chicago platform, h , ii'iorst-v soul" poiici.n wilicn ilii.. .. t t. M 1 1 ... .......... .... si 1'iw'vvi. i sunn mi uouiing mat wilt g"r the success of bimetallism, n. 'r do anything unfair to Mr. Sewali. The complications thnt seem Imti.is, ' oi iii'j s'-t'iiiiuic iiueessuy or i,. twn a.... O . mulued the candidate of the p,,,. ,,. was nnoiner oi me OMIlCUKl. s vihi-i mut be trusted to remove, sai l Mr i f . u II . . I - . . .. r. nt-weii sui'i null me acilor,,ft Louis convention does not chanc-i ....... . i . . uiie .ii pinns tue ieni pnrtlcl" u ik.i i.i. .1.... i. ....... i i i , ' 0 ...ni it(i .i''.-iiiiiiii.,u i-nrricti ma nr,v tne question wneiner tie would r-.. the ticket. Thorns E. Watson, the Popull-t & for Vice pp-sldcnt. was sih-h at ,; . Thomson, la. He said he would ,.v, nomination and that If Urvan ii---Mleve the ticket Will be elected. ' AX OHIO LAW. The nomination of llryan by tl. r i will cause a test of the liana W J ...kl .1. L.I 11. ... . .1. .1. . . . . U win. -ii p rontons inn placing oi vii l.a,- man as a culminate on the on;, lt iuih iiiaii uius, iiooj lawyers ti. s a soiiini on", ami win in UIV. .I.....I.I .I.... I... .U , ' smu.i.ij .uu. iro in,, L'ltso curious ,., iions win iouow. SOME POINTERS ON WA? Millitary Information Departmai U eued an Intrsting Book. The millitary Information dlvi.l g war department bos Just Issued tt number of tho series of valuable ...i-x publications, the present being s, principally to a description in gn u! of the large military schools f r ilther papers In the volume treat .f t. Acuities experienced lu the Eur..- iitry eoiiiuric in securing me r.'--I.;j- nt non-commissioned officers; of tin- . devices used in European armies in tinders, with illustrations of th n. eessful appliances of that kind; tli- il: oi smoKcies powuor on incucs hi. 1 i interesting statement of the cluing.., ; use of this new military iti.l will a:. old methods of lighting; a topical ,: Lord Wolesley discussing the po-.m.: hostile iuvasion of the llrltlsh i-K . curious publication of the regulati .rv use of wur dogs in the (ierman nrmr. the latter It appears that there ur such things as "dogs of of war," st. Ills a part of the futctlons ot th oldlerto train carefully certain l dog to id 1 him In both hostile r rl !- op"?fStfoTV--J u'e (logs lire" not. first be (upposed. Intended to acbmlii but by training they are made .! u in watching camp in picket duty. i:. x dispatches und lu looking for in;-!:; MEANS MUCK FOR THE STATI West Virginia Will Benefit by the Sr. in th Famous Xing Case. One of the most important decl.-i a United Stutes Court of West Virg:i reudered by Judge Jackson, in tie 1 tion of the Injunction uguinst th-1. Lumber Company, ou niotloii of th ants. I his ends one of the gr.-r. which has greatly retarded the terests of a considerable portion i.ftr. un.l secures to the settlers und .!;- ooo acres of land claimed by II. i . K.: others, of Iloetou, Mass. This stilt was one of a number Il altogether 2,30,0H acres of lu n I is western Went Virginia, Kentucky t glnla. The origin of these suits' !,. to the wer of the revolution. !; House of llurgesses of Went Vlrginm; General James Swann tho almost ui scope of laud referred to. No such legal buttle was ever f this State, and perhaps none su ch broad country. Out of th" c..,!"t claims for the school lands of IcgaD ' and the Commissioner of School l.iii II. llusklrk. was arrested for euttii ou the lauds clulmed by the plaintiff. Ii arrestea and committed, to Jail uu I t;n for contempt, but was rcl.'ii-i writ of habeas corpus. At the la-t '' court the Commissioner won his tic by a Jury verdict. Then came up many other ot tl- the lust one before the oourt I'.-iu.'1' above mentioned, in which Judii" 1 hum, of Tugwell, Va., represented th' duuts. Several suits for immense of laud still remain unsettled, but tic: beeu taken up to the supreme c ..art. Sevang With a Bullet At Orlando, Ela., W. Uulley Tuck, eral manager of the Tavares, Atlm'; Gulf railroad, was shot by Alfr- I ' Abrums, prosecuting attorney of I.iU ty. (Jne bullet struck I uckcr In tc and lufllcted uu ugiy wound. T'1' clans sny be may recover. Abr '; iy the autl-riillroad candidate f ir tli" l latere iu Luke County. He was .I.'!. '' charged that Tucker hud brought " unfuir means. Two Instantly Ki'.lel As Levi Huucombe. aged Pi v-in Nellie lJuchy. uged lit yeurs, of ( li.it " N. Y were driving home from p-'1 Saturday night, where they had lug a show, tne veniole In which riding was struck by un expre-. trsm Ogdeusburg and Lake Chami'laiu r ut a crossing, two miles west of t'li!" lioth were iustautly killed. Th Ii " also killed and the wagon wa e.i: demolished. HEWS ROTES, 1'; There are 72 places called St- EtM t ruueo. Suicides In Tarls average elevs In December aud 1st a day in Jun. The lMiilndeliihia banker nt a houae meeting tendered 0,7U'J,WJ lif the sub-trousurv. The U nited States League of l)ui Loan associations, lu session ui pbia, bos indorsed sound mouy. This does not appear to be a s'i,'1''j I'lttsuurg suiooukeoper. iiuriuv eut month twenty-two execution entered against retail liquor dealer. most an average of ouo for business. ' ThiMA miles from llovston. til- Tlerrvniaii killed his wife and llrel u.l .i.u.. A.....n.i.u,l u..l..i.l Si HUM IUI.-I, lUUilimMIU U.1..I.V. i . t. . a.... k.. i... .... rtrtJ niHUW, A . wciua . . n . 11 n -- j drink, and it is supposed he killed t in a moment oj trunty.
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