GROWING OLD.
The fairest lilies droop at eventide,
The sweetest roses fall from off the
stem;
The rarest things on earth cannot abide,
And we are passing, too, uwuy like
them;
We're growing old.
hud our dreams, those rosy dreams of
youth;
They faded, and 'twns welL This after
prime
Hath brought us fuller hopes; and yet,
forsooth,
We drop a tear now In this later time
To tliiuk we're okl.
We smile at those poor faucles of the
past—
A saddened smile, almost akin to pain.
Thoso high desires, those purposes so
vast,
Ahl our poor heartsl they cannot come
again;
We're growing okl.
Old? Well, the heavens are old; this
earth is, too;
Old wine is best, maturest fruit most
sweet;
Much have we lost, more gained, although
'tis true
We tread life's way with most uncertain
feet;
We're growing old.
We move along, nnd scntter as wo pace,
Soft graces, tender hopes on every
hand;
At last, with gray-streaked hnlr and hol
low face,
We step across the boundary of the land
Where none are old.
►-Atlanta Constitution.
TWO HOUSES,
BUT ONE HOME.
Of course the okl house had been
small. When he came out here from
"York Stati'" Bob wondered how be
ever could make a house of the size he
wanted. And 3'et he thought and won
dered about It very little, for he was
brave enough. Ho had talked It over
with his wife, who laughed and sang
the whole day long, and said she would
be satisfied with any kind of a IIOIIHO
ho would make. And while he wan
felling the trees and hewing the ends
of them and cutting the notches she
fixed a tkly little place not far from
the wagon, which had brought them
THE OU> HOUSE AM) THE NEW.
over tho mountains, and there she sat
and sewed—crying sometimes furtively,
for the very silence of It, and then sing
ing in tho cheeriest of tones and
glancing out in the timber where Boh
was chopping sturdily,
i Thoy lived in tho wagon a month,
cooking their meals at a fire on the
ground, and eating, they two alone in
all tho wide forest, such gems of food
as her dimpled bauds had prepared.
And finally tin? logs were railed togeth
er, ready for the raising, and she sat
there by the lire with Boh one night,
very happy, and said little while he told
her what the futuro would bring them.
Next day was the raising. They owned
ft whole quarter sect ion of land—four
times as much as the richest man back
thero at Geneseo Corners, in York
State, find over possessed. And they
had Invited their neighbors to come in
'and help at the raising to-morrow, and
this last night in the woods they sat
thero and dreamed the beautiful
dreams of youth, and love, and perfect
healthfillness. There was a little lire
and tho blaze of it gnawed away on the
billets of birch, and tho smoke went
straight up to the blue sky there above
tho treetops Just a little way above
Hie treotops, it seemed to them, as they
talked about It.
They planned where thoir cornfield
should l)f, and where they would raise
oats and potatoes; and Boh wanted a
big field for wheat, which couldn't he
raised profitably back In York State.
And then they arranged for the garden
and the rose hushes and lilac trees—and
their home was very near thom. And
then they sat there a long lime In
silence, the brook singing to them, and
the foot of the fox pattering in the de
leaves and the cry of the owl coining
to them across the hush of the forest—
which was all their own.
Early lu the morning, even while the
chorus of song birds throbbed in the
heavy gloom of the shadowy woods, the
neighbors began to come. Boh heard
them afar off, for the air was still.
They called out "Hello!" as thoy came
Into his little clearing, one at a time,
each bearing an ax, and all nodding in
an embarrassed way at tho little wom
an who wanted a homo.
Early, was it? But not too early for
her. They had not caught Bob's wife
napping, and they thought well of her
as they noted the order with which her
household gods wore treasured, even
before there was a roof for her head.
Bho made them ft cup of coffee and they
drank It, for It wns pood, nnd she
I brought it to thorn herself, and her l'uee
was very fair.
They lakl the big foundation logs
with four huge stones at the corners.
They raised the smaller logs on that,
and Bob's wife stood awed, for her
homo was growing, her heart was full
and she almost wept with the stress of
a thankfulness she never had known
before, and her eyes met those of her
husband when the first log over the
door was In Id. And she sang—though
very low-—nll day from very happiness.
There was only a dozen men, but they
worked with a will, nnd the timbers
were ready; and the roof of poles was
laid and ready for clapboards long bo
fore the day was done. They had eat
en au excellent dinner, cooked in kit
tles they meant to tell "their women"
about, and eaten from plates which
Bob's wife said her grandmother had
owned.
They helped Bob with the stable when
the house was done and at dark they
said "Good night," and shouldered their
axes and tlamped through the woods.
Bob knelt down by his wife that night
and put his arm about her and almost
prayed -because in the gloom of the
silent woods that unmade house looked
like a home.
llow wonderful it was In the follow
ing day when Bob rived the clapboards
and spread them on and weighted them
down against tin? force of a storm and
hewed the timbers for the Hours and
"chinked" the cracks in the walls and
swung a door for her! How wonderful
it was when Bob's wife brought in her
things and chose the corner for her
cookstove and spread her treasures as
last as the floor was made! I low won
derful it was when the house was com
plet'il and they sat one Sabbath morn
ing and knew that God had given them
all they wanted In the world!
This was thirty years ago. Bob has
come to be called old Bub, and the
house the pioneers built for them that
far-away day had come to l>e much too
small, oven with the additions time
and ability had given to it. And hero
was the now house, ready and waiting,
The carpenters lmd gone, the lathers
nnd plasterers had taken their toyls
away, the painters had vanished. And
Boh and his wife might move lip into
the new house whenever they wanted.
Inded, Betty, tin* youngest girl and the
only one left at home -declared tint
moving was done. Certainly carpets
were down in every room in the now
house- most of them "bougliten" ear
pets, though Boll's wife had Insisted she
wanted rag carpets upstairs and in the
bedrooms, and tho homely but substan
tial "hit-and-miss" of her hand loom
had been used there.
Certainly thero was new furniture—
fresh from town, with swinging mirrors
on the bureaus, and wire mattresses on
the beds. Certainly there was an organ
in one room and place for a piano in
another and a big, high clock that
chimed stood on the marble mantel.
But Bob ami his wife stood about
down there by the old house, not talk
ing much, but Just looking across the
creek, and both thinking.
"The wagon stood right about hero
when I was notching the logs," said
Boh, stepping it off and looking about
in an effort to reconstruct that forest
picture.
"And 1 sat here on a sheepskin that
you had spread over a log," said Bob's
wife, finding her place in the picture.
"And all that meadowland was one
deep swamp," said Boh; "and bftck
hero on the hill was woods, and the
road runs right where I never thought
It could run at the beginning, hut that
was because the woods were here. Now
there isn't an acre of timber on tho
quarter section."
"And when they got the new house up
I hung our curtains at the windows,"
said Bob's wife.
"Yes," said Bob, "curtains that you
had woven on your mother's loom; and
you bail rugs for the floor and comforts
f-.r the bed and all sorts of things for
the kitchen—though 1 don't see how
you contrived them."
They had gone to the door of tho old
house and were looking in. At the
place where the fireplace used to burn
they let their fancy run, an 1 there was
no modern stove with its unpootle
lien rth.
"Dan's cradle stood right over there,"
said Bob's wife, and she almost started
forward to rock it—for the mother In
stinct welled up again with the thrill
of her youth.
"And little Lctty's coffin stood right
here," said Bob, as he drew again tho
somber picture of that curlier day.
"And here stood Ellen when she mar
ried her man," said Bob's wife, retreat
ing n handbrendth may be, for even In
tho gathering gloom she felt the dis
placing effect of that daughter's ag
grn ndlzoment.
"And there bv the stump of the wild
cherry tree George told mo ho wouldn't
do it," said Bolv. Aud through the pain
of the reflection struck the sense of
satisfaction, for George came back ouo
time, nnd placed himself without re
etrve under the dominion of his father.
So they stood there as the stars came
out, these two old people, shutting their
eyes to the details of to-day, and trying
to see no more than the gracious sweep
of a golden morning. They went over
the times when the orchard was plant
ed, tho trees being carried across tlio
woods, and held by her while Bob pack
ed earth about their tender roots, and
blessed them with honest hopes of his
labor.
They remembered tho time when they
dug the well, and how long it took them
to learn that the water was better than
that from the spring. They erased the
big barns from the present picture and
remembered the shelter of polios nnd
straw and lyirtb that made their stock
all comfortable In thoso distant winters.
They spoke of this and that addition to
the first log house, but they kept its
outlines !u their mind. From this win
dow they used to hear the wolves.
From that they saw Andrew ride home
from the war, one arm in a sling.
'l'llrough this door came the first preach
er who blessed the nelgliliorhood. And
through that trooped for a score of
(>lessed yeapw tho sun-browned feet of
growing childhood.
They followed tho course of the years,
In which that frost had melted away,
aud saw the widening sweep of their
tillable land and the growing barns and
the flocks and herds, and tho manifold
wealth of the prosperous farmer. Then
they turned to the new house. How
ever loving and neighborly the hands
that had helped at "the raising," they
knew It was u service different from
that of the rough-looking men who
came in the gloom of early morning
"with axes on their shoulders ami called
a bashful "Ilello!" All the neighbors
had come, It Is true, aixl nunabers of
women had come over at noon to help
"Bob's folks" with the dinner—though
there was little need of that now when
vigorous Betty had charge of the work,
and her mother need really do nothing—
though she was busy constantly.
The timbers had been hauled home
from the modern sawmills, and were
lying ready to hand. The earth was
dlggi'd up for a mighty cellar. Foun
dation rocks lay all about the spaces set
aside for the home. All the neighbors
were there, hut a how carpenter bad
chargo of the work, and he regarded
the presence of the neighbors as some
thing of uu intrusion, lie understood
they meant well and iiitxsuded It as an
expression of kindliness for Boh and
his family, hut men not ttrod to the car
penter's trade were less of help than
they might ho, anyway.
The frame house was "raised" and
the neighbors had gone. The carpen
ters had completed it, the lntheis and
the plasterers and the paintors had gono
away. There hud been a whole spring
full of preparation and there stood Bob
—old Bob—and his wife at the threshold
of the old house, lookinguip at the now.
It was all tihoy had dreamed—and
much more. It was tailor and liner and
fuller of ornament than they had ever
planned. It had furnishings not the
wildest fancy could have provided in
tlie old days. It had ornaments rare
enough for kings and Chairs too sump
tuous to sit upon. It was a palace!
They had moved from the old hous*
up Into the new. They had taken every
thing along. Bob expected to use the
log cabin as a toolhouse. They lmd
left nothing behind. And yet they
missed something as they wont Into the
newer place. They tried to conjure up
that spirit of perfect proprietorship,
that sense of dominion with which they
entered the cabin In the dusk of the
first evening. They tried to realize this
later and more difficult conquest of
difficulty. But they could not. And
they sat in the clmirs and slept on the
beds and ate at n table with an unrea
soning and uncomfortable seuse of loss.
In the new house Bob and big wife
were away from home.—Chicago Chron
icle.
The Tomato Sausage.
The newest market novelty Is tho
tomato sausage. It is made In a do
mestic way at Portland; it Is a deli
cate pinkish white and tastes of sage
and ripe tomatoes. It has made quite a
hit In that city and surrounding towns.
An Old and Largo Tree.
There is a lime tree at Noustadt,
Wurtomburg, which is said to be the
largest in Europe. It Is over 1,000
years old.
"Weight, of the Penny.
Henry 111. of England ordained that
the English penny should equal tho
wolgk? of thirty two grains of wheut
POPULIST mil CONVENTION.
BRYAN AND WATSON.
Populists Name the Nebrasksn for First
Plaoe.
The Fopullst National Convention met at
St. Louis on tho 23i1. Senator Marion But
j lor, of North Carolina, tho choice of the
I compromise Bryan element, was made tem-
I porury chairmuu without opposition. Tho
convention appointed its committee on cre
j dentials and adjourned until H p. m. At
that hour tho delegates found themselves
groping about in tho dark, tho electric lights
having been turned off. The middle-of-the
road men said it was a Bryan trick. Find
ing that tho committee on credentials would
not bo ready to report until morning any
way, the convention adjourned until 10
o'clock Thursday morning.
Coxoy, with bis son-in-law, Carl Browne,
and his young son, "Legal Tender,''were
conspicuous figures at the convention.
J. W. Haves, of tho Knights of Labor, uud
1). Vincent were chosen temporary secre
taries of tho convention.
Tho committee, at its afternoon meeting
took tip tho various contests, Illinois, being
the first in order. This contest involved
tho seats of tho 22 delegates from tho con
gressional district comprised in Chicago.
Ono of tho delegation was headed by 11. S.
Taylor, and the other by William Burns, who
was imprisoned with Eugene Dobs after the
Chicago strike. Speeches wero mado by
both Burns and Taylor, and bitter charges
were mado against each other. Tho contest
was decided by the adoption, by 49 to in, of
a motion offered by Ignatius Donnelly, giv
ing each member of both delegations half u
veto. The hearing in the Ohio enso follow
ed. Tills controversy applied to the Nine
teenth district, involving three district souts,
and indirectly the suit of ono delegate at
large. The National Committee took middle
ground and guvc euch member of the two
delegations a half vote.
There wero two sessions of the Populist
convention Thursday a morning session of
two hours and an afternoon session of six
hours. Tho latter carried the convention
into the night. Senator Allen, of Nebraska,
wasolocted permanent chairman.
The convention was called to order Friday
morning by Senator Allen, permanent chair
man, at 10:05 o'clock. Prayer was offered
by Rev, Mr. Williams, of tip' Union Method
ist church of St Louis.
A gavel, constructed Iu tbo State of Ohio,
out of 4H kinds of timber, representing
every state, was presented ta the chairman
by Delegate Noe, of Ohio, as a "middle-of
the-road" gavel and it wus accepted by tho
chairman.
After considerable debate the Woman's
Suffrage plunk was defeated in the Populist
resolutions committee. It was antagonized
by the southern and western delegates, the
members from Utah declaring that if it pre
vailed the vote in that State would ho turn
ed over entirely to the mormon church. An
other plunk declares the election of Presi
dent, Vioo President and Senators by a di
rect vote of tho nooplo. After some discus
sion and opposition from southern delegates
who deplored anything that would raise an
issue, a plank was adopted declaring for a
free fiullot and a fair Count.
The Populist oommltteo ou resolutions re
jected Coxey's non-interest bearing bond
scheme by a vote of 14 ayes to 25 nays. At
11 o'clock tho committee had agreed upon
the preamble to the platform, and several
flections of the flnauoiul plank.
A demand is made for suoh legislation as
will enable evory industrious and prudent
citizen to secure a homo, and declares that
public lauds should not bo monopolized for
speculative purposes. The policy that has
prevailed In the interior department enabling
bona lido settlers to be despoiled of their
homos, is condemned, and remedial legisla
tion demanded.
The sympathy of the party with Cuba in
her struggle for political freedom uud inde
pendence, is expressed, and tho declaration
made that the time has come when the Unit
ed Stub's, tho greatest republic of the world,
should recognizo that island as a freoand in
dependent state.
Tho lost session of tho convention, which
lasted until almost 5 o'clock Saturday after
noon, was marked by scenes of turbulence
and noisy excitement, which soveral times
bordered on actual riot and what almost
precipitated personal collisions. Ono list
light did occur. A Rhode Island delegate
was ejected and a West Virginia delegate,
inflamed by tho action of the convention, j
walked suddenly out of the hall. Tho storm ;
center, as on tho three previous days, was in i
the Texas delegation.
William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska,who
wus nominated by tho Democratic conven
tion ut ( hicugo a fortuight ago, was made
the standard-bearer of tho Populist party by
a vote of 1,047 to 331.
The democratic candidates was nominated
in tbo face of his own protest in tho shape of
a telegram directing the withdrawal of his
name sent to Senator Jones, after Howall. his
running mate, had been ditched for the vice
presidential nomination, and Thomas E.
Watson, of Georgia, had been named f-.r
second placo on the ticket, It was also
mado in the teeth of an opposition so bitter
that after the convention adjourned some of
the radicals held a "rump" convention.
J. A. Edgcrton, of Nebraska, was chosen
secretary and C. Rankin, of Indiana, treas
urer of tho Populist National committee. J.
A. Sovereign, of Arkansas; 0. F. Taylor, of
Pennsylvania; fl. \V. ltced, of Georgia; J. S.
Pore, of California; G. F. Wusliburu, of
Massachusetts, and J. B. Brcldonthal, of
Kansas, wero elected the oxecutive com
mittee.
TWO POOR COUNTERFEITS.
Two Bogus Silver Certificates That Will
Impose on tho Careless.
Two new counterfeits of United Stntes
silver certificates have been discovered by
tho Treasury Department. Tho first is of tho
series of 1891, cheek letter signed by J.
Fount Tillman, Register, and P. N. Morgan,
Treasurer, and having a portrait of Stanton.
Tho second is a $5 bill, series of 1891, check
letter 8., signed by J. Fount Tilltnan, Regis
tor, and J>. N. Morgan, Treasurer, and hav
ing a portrait of Grant.
Those counterfeits aro printed from etched
plates and are very poor productions. Tho
portraits, lathe work and small lettering es
pecially are bud, being much blurred and in
distinct. The paper is also poor. A few
pieces of silk thread have been distributed
through it. Tho most careless handler of
money, it is said, should roadlly dotocttho
counterfeit notes.
DRIVEN FROM WORK.
The Strugglo in the Troubled Illinois Dis
tricts Is Spreading.
A mob of 200 striking miners from tho
mining districts of Rivorton and Spauldlng,
111., marched to Barclay, 111., and compelled
the miners to return home. They would not
allow the men to go to work on account of n
reduction iu wages from 35 cents a ton to
cents a ton.
The men had all assembled around the
mine when tho striking miners made their
appcarunoc. Homo confusion followed, and
when tho llrst cage of men wus let down into
tho mine there was a general riot. Tho Bar
clay miners wont to their homos and agreed
to work no more until next Tuesday.
Gold Rosorve Restored.
Tho treasury gold reserve, through tho
action of the Now York national banks bo
enmo intact again Thursduy, standing at the
close of business at $101,8*1,770. This result
was attained by the banks depositing sls,
250,000 in gold and receiving tberoforo a
like sum in legal tender notes, which are re
deemable In gold on presoutatlou" , trea
■ t#ury,
SILVER PARTY CONVENTION.
Delegates of the White Metal Party Meet
In Bt. Louis.
Tho silver party convention was called to
order at 12:85 p. m., Wednesday. Tempor
ary Chairman Newlands and Representative
| Towne, a bolting Republican from Minno
sotn, wore greeted with applause whun thoy
took seats on tho platform. Chairman New
lands delivered an address outlining the
position of tho party.
Tlio call for the convention emanated from
u conference of the friends of silver, hold at
Washington, D. 0., January 22 and 20 last,
and was signed by A. J. \\ amor, president
American Biuietallla League; 11. a. Miller,
chairman national silver committee? R. 0.
Chambers, president National Bimetallic
Union; J. M. Dovino. sooretary American Bi
metallic League.
l)r. J. J. Matt, of North Carolina, who
was elected chairman of tho executive com
mittee, has been in bt. Louis for soveral
weeks, making preparations for tho con
vention.
The hall had been attractively drapped
with Hags and bunting, but tho atmosphoro
was so close and hot that it wAs almost suf
focating when Chairman Mott came forward
to cull the convention to order, the delegates
for tho moment ceased tho use of funs and
roused from tho torpor caused by the awful
heat, indulged in some enthusiastic cheering.
Travor was offered, after which Miss Lillio
B. Pierce, read the Declaration of Indepen
dence. This caused another outburst of ap
plause.
The pre gram of the silver convention wus
all arranged in advance. It included simply
the adoption of a 1G to 1 platform uud the
nomination of Bryan and Howall, but those
iu charge of it deemed it good policy to go
slowly in the boliet that they might by re
maining in session bo able to exercise an iu
lluence in shaping things in the Populist
convention. To tills end they appointed a
committho of seven headed by Judge Scott
of California to meet with a similar commit
tee from the Populists for tho purpose of
reaching a common pleu of action.
Win. P. St. John of Now York Is perma
nent ehuirmnn of the silver convention and
R. E. Diffendorfer of Pennsylvania is secre
tary. 31 r. St. John delivered u 10 to 1 speech
and preached Populist and Democratic unity
The second days session was devoted to
speech making. Charles A. Towne of Minn
esota and Mrs. Helen M. Gougnrof Indiana
wore tho principal speakers.
It wus 10:41 o'clock when Chairman St.
John called the silver convention to order
Friday. Rev. Dr. L. W. Covert led in
prayer, after which G. W. Baker, of Cali
fornia, took the lloor. Ho said the People's
party convention had appointed u conference
cull and raovod that the convention confer
action in the platform and postpone tho
nomination of a ticket until 3:80. A motion
that when tho convention adjourn it adjourn
until 8:30 p. m., also prevailed.
Senator Stewart, of Nebraska, was called
to the front and was cheered as ho took tho
stand. His mention of Bryan's name while
reviewing the work of the Chicago conven
tion was gruoted with applause.
The National silver party adjourned sine
die shortly after 6:80 o'clock Friday evening,
after going on record bv nominating the
nominees of the Democratic convention,
William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Hawaii,
for president and "vice president of tho
United States respectively.
The last act before final adjournment was
the selection of Lincoln, Neb., us the city at
which the nominees were to be notified of
the honor extended to them.
SII.VF.It PLATFORM.
The National Silver party in eonventio n
assembled hereby adopts the following dec
laration of principles:
Tho paramount issue at this tlino iu tho
United States is indisputably the money
question. It Is between the gold standard,
gold bonds and bunk currency on the one
side, and tbo bimetallic standard, no bonds
and government currency on tho other, On
this sumo issue wo declare ourselves to be
in favor of a distinctively American flnan
oiul system.
We hold that tho power to control and
regulate a paper currency is Inseparable
from tho power to coin money.
We are unalterably opposed to tho Issue by
tho United States or interest-bearing bonds
iu time of peace.
We, therefore, confidently uppoal to the
people of tho United States to leave in abey
ance for tho moment all other questions, and
unite in one supreme effort to free them
selves and their children from tho domina
tion of tho money power.
CLOUDBURST CAUSES DEATH.
Ten Persons Drowned be ths Inundation of
a Kontuoky Creek.
A cloudburst at 4 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing at Benson's Creek, four milos from
Frankfort, Ky., resulted in the drowning of
James Bradley, his wife and live children.
Mrs. Bryant, a widow, and her two small
children. Mrs. Bryant kept a toll gate near
the bridge. Jler house was on the creek and
aer from that of James Bradley. Tho
Conway mill was just above, and was the
llrst to go. Its timbers must have swept
away tho Bryant and Bradley houses, and
those houses struck tho railroad bridge and
carried it away. All trains on the Louisville
and Nashville and Chesapeake and Ohio
railroads, from Frankfort, Lexington and
intermediate points, wero cut off from Louis
ville.
Ten minutes after the cloudburst Benson's
creek bcoamo a swollen river, covering tho
valley on either bank and sweeping every
thing before it.
A Sound Monoy Banner.
Tho Captain Robert Gillespie Republican
Club will display a hand some net banner,
with portraits of MeKtnloy and Hobart also
n campaign transparency from the front of
their (uub houso, Lehigh avenue uud Marsh
all street. At u meeting of the organisation
last Tuesday ovening Captain Robert Gilles
pie, 0. Joseph Dacey and James Clarenoy
wore electee as delegates to tho convention
of tho Republican State League of Clubs, to
be hold at Erie in September. The alter
nates eleotod wore Thomas J. Kioruuu,Frank
Boulter and John Allen.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
Forty broad gauge Prohibitionists mot
in Denver and nominated Booth for Gover
nor.
The Indiunu convention of bituminous
miners voted to remain out against tho re
duction of wuges from GO to 55 cents per
ton.
James T. Hurst, of Wyandotte, oue of tho
largest lumber operators in Michigan, has
filed a trust deed for the benetlt of his credit
ors, who have claims aggregating $514,000.
By an unanimous vote, the Americnu
Window Glass Workers' association Tuesday
withdrew from the Knights of Labor, ana
for tho present will operate us a non-afllli
ated trades union.
Arthur Cleveland Coxo, a bishop of tbo
Episcopal diocese of Western New York,
died suddenly of nervous prostration at tho
Clifton Springs sanitarium, whore he had
been spending u few days.
Tho Populist National oommltteo on the
case of the contest from the Nineteenth Ohio
district, decided that tho delegation selected
at the convention called by the district -om
mitteeman was entitled to seats.
The New York Times will be eold August
18 at receiver's sale and bought in by a com
pany representing the stockholders and
creditors with Adolnh B. Oohs, of Cliatta
noogu, at its head. The capital stock will bo
$1,000,000 with $250,000 worth of bonds.
Herman Auth, an eleetrioian, residing at
122 Winslow street, East End, Pittsburg, was
shot and killed by Police Officer Robert
Richards nt 0■ ' dn-k Wednesday night. He
wn • , . ion of having bur
glar iuusiy entered the residence of J. D.
, Tucker. 602 Lincoln nvenuo.
lira Of Hi MUD WITERS.
TWENTY-EIGHT DROWNED.
Viotimi of the Cloudburst ill a Colorado
Canon.
A special dispatch from Morrison, Col.,
says: A cloudburst In Bear creek canyon,
Just übovo Leadvillo, at 8 o'clock on the
night of the 24th, brought down a solid wall
of water ten feet high, which not only did
J front damage to property, but caused tho
OSH of fifteen to twenty lives. Tho known
dead are: Mrs. Miller and threo children:
a party of campers. fifteen or eighteen in
number, who woro living In a small house
inst below tho town. Viola Foster, a little
Denver Girl, was with tho party, and was
saved by tho poopie who heard her cries.
This much has peOn learned on this side of
the crook but as all bridges are gone and the
water is still high and swift, nothing can bo
loarnod from the other side. Searching par
ties are out on both sides of the stream,look
ing for bodies of dead and Injured. It Is
feared there has been more loss of life, as
there were scores of people camping along
both sides of tho crook, both above and bo
low town. Wires are down In all directions,
except tho telephone lino to Loadvllle, una
heavy storms between hero and there
threaten to break that.
Another message says:—Tho victims of
Friduy night's flood were threo in Golden,
four In Mount Vernon oauon. 21 near Mor
rison, making tho total 28. The servant girl,
Anna Hanson, who was reported dead, was
not at tho camp at tho time of the ilood and
consequently escaped. A charcoal burner
named Nichols, up at tho Evergreen, is re
ported missing, making the total list still 28.
Of these 16 bodies wore recovered Satur
day, and tho body of Matt llorros, a little
child, was found Sunday. P. Johnson, of
Arvada, telephoned in to Doutor Unit he had
found four bodies lu the bod of Clear erook
about u mile above tho town of Arvada.
These bodies either floated down from Gold
en or are those of campors in Clear crook
vallfty between tho two points and are not to
bo confounded with tho missing dead ovor
the ridge In Bear ofook valley whore Mor
rison is located.
The flood of Friday night lusted about
half an hour and was followod by a heavy
rain which continued until about 10 o'clock.
At that hour a body of water, greater in vol
ume than tho first flood came down Tucker
Guloh, emptying into Clear creek. It was
tills second flood that carried away the
houses of Johnson and his wife and which
drowned Mrs. Edwards.
Cloudburst in Switzerland.
Several lives woro lost in a cloudburst
whlon ooourred on tho upper Geneva Lake,
Switzerland, Saturday. Much damage was
also done to property of tho overflowing
rivers. Tho town of Neuenborg is Inundat
ed, in purt, and inuuy houses on tho hunks
of the swollen streams have been swept
away.
OHIO HIVER IMPROVEMENTS.
Mr. Houer, in Charge of the Work, Maks
an Exhaustive Report.
Mr. Houer, In ehurgo of improvements on
tho river in his onnual report to the war de
partment, says that tho methods employed
during tho year have resulted in much valu
able work Doing done advantageously and
economically. Several dams were repaired
and dikes built at Blcnnerhassets Island and
Guyamlotte bar. Tho work at the hitter
place has much improved tho channel at
what was a very difficult place. Tho elTeot
of tho dike ut Eight Mile bar Is said to huvo
been excellent, Operations were also car
ried on at other points further down the
river and good progress generally made.
The work done by dredges bos also been of
material benefit to navigation. Contracts
have been entered Into for the construction
of an ice harbor at Hartford, West Vlaginla,
and steps will bo taken at an early date to
construct an additional pior ut Middleport,
Ohio. As a result of inquiries as to tho
benefit derlvod from the harbors during the
lust winter, Ir was found that they had with
one or two exceptions, proved of groat Horv
ice to navigation. There is an available bal
ance of £308,81)8 for ooutlnuing operations on
tho river.
TAILORS ON STRIKE.
Twelve Thousand Ordered to Enforos an
Advanoe.
Twelve thoueund Now York coat tailors
were ordered on strike Wednesday morning
to enforce higher prices from the wholesale
manufacturers and to stop a renewal of the
task and piece work work system. The large
manufacturers were taken by surprise, us it
hud been given out that ft strike had boon
deemed inadvisable by tho loaders.
A committee of 15 of the Brotherhood of
Tailors, in accordance with early Instruc
tions, stole a inarch on tho manuinetore by
visiting all the contractors' shops, 680 In
number in New York and 250 in Brooklyn
uud Brownsville and notifying tho workers
to quit forthwith and report to tholr head- !
quarters.
Up to uoon there were 4,000 tailors In New
York and 4,000 moro of the tho total 8 000
were expected to quit work before tho closo
of tho workday. The 4,000 tailors In Brook
lyn and Brownsville were expected to Join In
the strike, as they had decided soVeraf days
ago.
ANOTHER CONVENTION OALLBD.
The Chioago Conferonoe Decides In Favor of
Putting a Third Tioket in the Field.
Delegates from Koutuoky, Missouri, lowa,
Wisconsin, Indiana, Nebraska, Ohio und
Michigan were at tho oonferoneo with tho
honest money Domooratlo oommitteo, of Il
linois, in Chicago, July 23. General Bragg,
of Wisconsin, was made chairman. Letters
and telegrams were read from Democrats in
Massachusetts, Texas. Washington City, Ne
braska, Maine, New Vork and West Virginia,
advising that a national convention bo
called. A resolution was adopted declar
ing it the sense of the oonferenco that thoro
should bo held a convention not later than
September 2 to enunciate a Deinooratio plat
form and nominate a Demooratlo tioket Tho
details of the ottll wore left to a committee
of one member from each Stato represented.
THINK SEARCH IS USELESS.
Mining Experts Advise the Cessation of
Work in tho Twin Bhaft
A largo numbor of mine experts held a
conference Friday on tho Twin Shaft disas
ter, at Fittston, Pu. The majority wont into
the shaft and made a thorough examination.
On coming to the surface they reported that
further search for tho entombed men would
not only be dangerous but useless. Tho of
ficials of the Newton Coal Mining company
decided to go on with the search until com
pelled to stop.
The relatives of the entombed minors havo
abandoned all hope of over finding tho men
alive or dead. On Tuesday next a solemn
high mass of requiem will be eolobratod in
Ht. Mary's Catholio church for the repose
of the souls of tho uufortunato victims or tho
disaster. Bishops O'Haru aud Hob&n will
attend tho services. Two-thirds of tho vic
tims wore members of the Catholic church.
Death of John W. Harper.
John Wesley Harper, who was for a quar
ter of a century, until two years ago, a mem
ber of tho firm of Harper A Brothers, died
Tuesday at his homo on Fifth nvenuo, New
York, very suddenly after an acute attack of
gout, which eventually affected his heart.
He was 66 years old, Hud had been a sufferer
from tfce malady fqr fnony years.
TRADE REVIEW.
St Loul* Meetings Keep Trade Guessing
Through the Week.
R. G. Dun A Co's., Weekly Review of
Trade says:
The weok began with extreme depression
in stock and speculative markets, owing to
tho heavy outgo of gold and tho full of tho
treasury reserve below tlio minimum. Tho
Populist and silver conventions caused some
aprohonsion and large withdrawals of gold
for hoarding were rather feared than soon.
There came sharp reoovery with the unlou
of banks to turn 120,00,000 gold Into the
treasury and of lntornatloi al bankers to con
trol foreign exchange. The gold reserve has
been quickly lifted nbovo £100,01)0,000 and
political events have helped to clear awuy
ftpprehonslons. Business of all kinds has
been considerably uffeotod by tho monetary
conditions and is slower to Improve.
The produce markets have been seriously
depressed,lard making the lowest quotations
on record, eorn falling to 32 cents, wheat to
61% oonts aud cotton to 7% cents. There
has been a slight recovery in corn,a sixteenth
in ootton. and a cent in wheat, but the main
c&ino of low prices reuiains—namely, pros
poots of large crops, with heavy stocks of old
on hand. Old corn Is coming forward at
about double the rate a year ago, and so far
another big yield Is indicated.
C'otton receipts are aw usual insignificant,
but new cotton already begins to appear
Some weeks oarlior than usual, and the pros
pect for a larger yield grows clear, though
oWing to over rain development of tho
quality may bo defective.
The stato of woolen manufacture appears
In sales of wool at the chief markets for tho
Weok, the smallest over known, only 1,370,-
450 pounds, of which 842,050 pounds wore
domestic,against 10,301,250 pounds last year,
of which 6,231,760 were domestic. Prices do
not nominally change, but are shaded to
make sales, and western markets are weak
ening some, though still higher than eastern.
Lent nor IB Inactive, and hides ut Chicago
average 3 per cent lower for the week. Fail
ures for the weok huvo been 281 In the Unit
ed States, against 202 last your, and 20 in
Canada, against 27 lust year.
SOME POINTERS ON WAR.
Millitary Information Dopartmont has Is
sued an Interesting Book.
The millitary Information division of tho
wur department has just Issued tho ninth
numbor of thosorles of valuable educational
publications, ihe present being devoted
principally to a description in great details
of tho large military schools of Europe.
Other papers in the volume treat of the dif
ficulties experienced in the European mili
tary countries in scouring tho re-enlistment
of non-commissioned officers; of the various
devices used in European armies as range
finders, with illustrations of the most suo
©essfhl appliances of that kind; tho Influence
of smokeless powder on tactics uud u most
Interesting statement of the changes that the
use of this new military aid will euuse in tho
old methods of fighting; a topical tmpor by
Lord Woleeley discussing the possibility of a
hostile invasion of the British isles, aud a
curious publication of tho regulations for tho
use of war dogs iu tho German array. From
tho latter it appears that there are really
such things us "dogs of of war," and that
it Is a part of the functions of the German
soldier to train carefully certain breeds of
dogs to aid him In both hostile and defensive
Operations. The dogs arc not. as might ut
first be sunposod, Intended to actually fight,
but by training they are made of value in
in watching cainn In picket duty, in currying
dispatches aud in looking for missing men.
ATKINSON FOR GOVERNOR.
West Virginia Republican Convention-
Keynote Sou-ded.
Tho largest state convention either political
party ever held In tho state began at Purkers
burg at 11 o'dook Wednesday morning. Ilont
W. M. O. Dawson, chairman of tho state
committee, called tho assemblage to order
und Introduced Rev. Dr. Ruinore, who mudo
tho opening prayer, Hon. 8. B. Elklns woe
announced as temporary chairman, and
Hon. A. B. White, Senator Stuart F. Itoed,
T. W. B. Duekwnll, Chris. Payne and J. J.
Peterson, as tomnorary secretaries. Senator
Elklns received a perfect ovation, lusting
several minutes upon taking the chair. lie
spoke for about an hour, sounding tho key
note to West Virginia's campaign and was
repeatedly greeted with vooifurous applause.
Two nominations were made at tho first
day's sessions of the Republican Htute con
vention—Hon. George W. Atkinson, of
Wheeling, for governor;and L. M. Lufollette,
of Taylor oounty, for auditor. Each mado u
brief speech of acceptance.
M. A. Kendall, of Wood county, was nomi
nated for treasurer. J. Russell Trotter of
Upshur oounty was nominated f->r superin
tendent of schools. He Is a graduate of the
West Virginia University und of Harvard
Edgar P. Rucker, of McDowell oounty, was
nominated for attorney-general. Dr. Janice
B. l'ltoh, of Monongalia county, aud 8. M.
Hathbono. of Wirt county, were noinluutod
for presluentlul-olectors-iit- large.
COTELL BENTENCED TO DIE.
Tho Tallmadge Murdoror Indifferent When
Told He Must Hang.
Judge Jacob A. Koohler sentenced Romu
lus Cotell, who was two wooks ,igo convicted
of tho murder of tho Stone family at Tall
madge on March 29, to be bunged on Friday
November 6, 1896. The court was opened at
11 o'oloek Tuesday morning to hour the test
imony and arguments on tho motion for a
now trial. About u dozen witnesses were
examined, but the testimony of ull was Im
material and made littlo or no impression.
The attempt was mado to prove that the
Judgment of the jurors had been Influenced
by outside parties during the trial; that tho
jurors hud talked about und discussed tho
case; that one of thorn had announced pre
viously that he would hang Cotell. The de
fense failed to uphold these assertions and
Judge Koehlor overruled the motion.
W hen asked what he had to say why sen
tence should not be pronounoed, Cotell
said:
"All that I havo to say is that I am not
tho perpetrator of tho crlmo and an inno
cent."
The boy maintained throughout tho ro
markablo indifference and flippancy which
has oharaterlzed his bearing throughout tho
entire ease. When making Ids statement a
smile hovered about his lips, and when tho
Judge passed the sentence ho paid no atten
tion to tho words. The higher courts will
bo appealed to by tho defendant's attorneys.
A Royal Wedding.
Prinooes Maud, third daughter of tho
Prince nnd Princess of Wales, was married
to Prince Charles, second son of Crown
Prince Frederick, of Denmark. Tho cere
mony took placo in tho private chapel of
Buckingham Palace, So far as the general
publlfc is concerned the wedding did not at
tract much attention.
MINOR MENTION.
A dispatch from Rome says that tho gov
ernment has ordered the third-class cruiser
Llguria to proceed to Canes.
An Athous dispatch says that a body of
Turkish irregular soldiers huvo killed 15
Christians near Horaklion, in the Island of
Creto.
John Prydo was hung at Brainurd, Minn.,
for the murder of Andrew Peterson. Prydo
murdered him for $42. Ho confessed be/ore
death.
Nicholas Smith was instantly killed and
Elmer Htrlngor badly hurt by tho fulling of a
portion of tftfi old postpffloe wall at Chicago
Thursday.