The Oregon mist., August 31, 1894, Image 1

OREGON MI
VOL. 11.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1891.
NO,
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THE TREATY RATIFIED
England Recognizes Japan as
a Fully Civilized Power.
AN OBJECT DKAE TO HKtt PEOPLE
Hjr the Terms of the Treaty th, Claim of
Oreet llrlteln to Kztra Territorial
Jarlsdletloa I, Abaudoned-Tne Ira-
uortene of (treat Britain's A .dun
Waiiiinutom, Auguit 28. Japan ha
at Ut succeeded In an object very dear
to tier people and for which the govern'
mrnt h striven with all the art of
diplomacy for many year. News has
been received here by the diplomatic
corpa that a new treaty haa Jiut been
negotiated between Japan and Great
Britain, by the terms of which the claim
of. extra territorial jarltdictloo by the
latter Is abandoned. Negotiations look
Ing to the ratification of a similar treaty
are going on between Japan and the
United States and Kuropean nation.
oilier man ureii jirnain, and It It said
that they will speedily follow the ex
ample set by tlie latter and fully reeog
niae the right of Japan to exercise Jnrla
diutlon In her own territory. The Im
portance of Great llrllaln', action, which
ly the way rather tends to lioredit the
stories mat ana le hostile to Japan in
bar present war, lit In the fact that it
I actually the recognition of Japan ae a
fully civilised power. The exerciae of
extra territorial Jurisdiction baa always
been eondned to barbaroue and semi
civilised countries, whose Ignorance of
the tint principle of Juntos and law
seemed to render imperative the reten
tion by th civilized nations of the world
of the right to administer justice whore
their own citisena were concerned, even
as against native of the aeml-civlllzed
country and within its borders. This
has been done through the medium of
Consular Courts, and the system obtains
in Kgypt, China, Japan, Turkey and
many other countries. Kver since the
wave of civilisation rolled over Japan
her sensitive and proud people have re
sented the oontinnauce of the extra ter
ritorial system not solely because of its
workings, but also because it was a
standing declaration that Japan was not
civilised and was a reflection upon the
Japanese Judiciary. Therefore the action
of Ureat Britain In surrendering this
claim in the new treaty la of great Im
portance to Japan as marking a distinct
epoch In her advancement to the front
rank of nation.
OKMKKAL vImoND'S BUCPOKT,
Operation, of Ike National Onard Daring
Iks Stria Reviewed.
Saw Fa amcisco, August 28. The re
port of Major-General Dlmond to Gov
, ernor Markham on the operations of
the National Guard at Sacramento dur
ing the strike has been made public by
the Governor. It is a document of
length, and the major portion of it la
devoted to a review of the events at Sac
ramento July 4. He quotes a number
of telegrams that passed between him
and the Mtate authorities and the Na
tional Guard officers, in particular the
one received from the Governor author
ising him to proceed to Hao.ramento with
troops and directing him to use his
"beat Judgment as to number, equip
ment and mode of transportation."
General Dimond, in view of the fact that
the troops suffered much from hunger
on the first day of their arrival at the
capital, lays great stress on the fact that
in wsuing orders to the commanders he
repeatedly directed that two days ra
tions be taken along, which orders, he
aays, " for some reason not yet known
were not complied with." lie also
quotes telegrams to show that he had
made inquiries as to the loyalty of the
troops and had been assured that they
would do their duty at all hazards.
The depot campaign is set forth at
length, but the facte do not differ mate
rially from those published at the time.
It appears that the General had agreed
to take the troops direct to the depot,
but through orders, the responsibility of
which he has not yet been able to place,
he was taken to Twenty-first street, and
found it nmrniftarv to disembark his
trnnne tlmrn. This he refers to H "
serious and fatal mistake." The respon
sibility of the movement of General
Sheelian's troops from the head of the
column is placed on Marshal Baldwin.
;.... ...i ii i .i.m lt (ieneral
V I'll 1' I Ml 1 1 1 1 wi n. v.vv -
Sheehan saw the necessity of occupying
the end of tlie depot, which was clear of
strikers, and sent a request to General
uickinson to mat enect. ueuerni -"--inson
refused, saying he preferred to re
ceive such orders from General Dimond.
When General Dlmond finally sent the
order General Dickinson had been over
come by tlie beat. The removal of the
companies from the head of the column
to guard the bridges was opposed by the
officers as demoralising to the soldiers
and encouraging to the strikers, out
Marshal Baldwin, who had aaaumed
command of tlie troops, Insisted on lue
orders being carried out.
F ALACK CAR BCH-DBRs.
Ks-Kmployes or Pullman and Capitalist,
Organise a Mew Company.
Hiawatha, Kan., August 28.-A com
pany of ex-employes ol Pullman, backed
by capitalists, has been organised to
build car and manufacture shops here.
Brown county citizens have taken ISO,
000 In stock and Chicago capitalists
1200,000. Louis Myers, l'ref ident, .and
G. O. Allen, Secretary, will be In Hia
watha to-day to select the site. C. U.
Allen Is the Inventor of a now palace
sleeping car, for which Pullman offered
him tW.OOO and a New York company
180,000 and a royalty. The company
will be managed on the co-operative
plan, each workman to receive a share
of tlie profits, though the capitalists are
giiai anteed 0 per cent on their invest
ment before the laborer comes in for his
share. The company has control of five
patents, and la to manufacture all kinds
of railway equipment. Lonis Myers,
Preside nt of the company, ia the archi
tect of the initial Pullman cars, and has
lieen In the employ of that company
since its organisation. Eight hundred
ex-employesof Pullman will come here
and beirin the building for the works as
soon ai preliminary arrangements are
made.
UUNTINOTOM'S LKTTKK.
Poller ot the southern Pacific Company
Toward the Strike.
8a Fbahmsco, August 28. A fort
night ago a local newspaper printed an
Interview with J. A. Fillmore, General
Superintendent of (he Southern Pacific,
In which he was quoted a follows :
" If I know that a man was not true
to this company, and If I and that he
has a Job anywhere, I will pursue him
and use my best efforts to have him dis
charged." The men referred to, of course, were
American Railway Union men who took
prominent parte In the strike on the
Southern Pacific. The Interview pro
voked a storm of criticism, which was
mainly directed at the Southern Pacific,
for there were many who charged that
Fillmore had spoken with authority, C.
P. Huntington, President of the com
pany, haa written a letter from New
York. In which he Positively declares
that Fillmore's reported policy Is not the
policy of the Southern Pacific Company.
The letter Is to II. E. Huntington of this
city, and is as follows:
" I notice in the papers some remarks
said to have been made by Mr. Fillmore
in respect joaomeoi those who went out
in the lata strike that he would en
deavor to prevent their getting work
elsewhere, etc. I have not the article
before me, hut quote from recollection.
1 can hardly believe that Mr. Fillmore
said this. It he did, I think he was all
wrong. We. of course, owe it to our
selves and the patrons of the road to re
fuse to take beck men who destroyed any
of our property or made any effort to
prevent others from taking their places,
thus prevention the operation of the
road not only for the benefit of the com
pany, bat ipr the common welfare or
people to use the road, particularly those
who had perishable property that needed
celerity of movement to save it from total
loss. But when we have done that, to
refuse to take tlie men back, we have
done onr part toward protecting onr-j
selves and the interests of those wiio
need the road to take their stuff to
market. After we have refused to take '
them back I think we should wish them
to obtain places elsewhere. If it could
be done without Inlurv to the public.
and it is not onr business to follow them,
but when they go, wish them well. I
never should refuse a man work, even
my worst enemy, without regret, as any
one that comes to me for work whereby ,
to support himself and family shall have
it, if I can give it to him, nnless there
was some serious reason : and. as I have
said, I should then almost regret to re
hire them. I hope our people will con
sider there things carefully and bear in
mind that in handling the great interests
we are carina for It is not enough to took
out for the side of the company, but
also for the rights ot every member of
tlie community in which we are work
ing and where our Influence ia felt."
KPFKVT ON FRUIT.
The Present Rot Weather Hi peeled to
Benefit the Grape Crop.
8an Fbancihoo, August 28. In an In
terview to-day Weather Observer Ham
mond gave It as bis opinion that, so far
as tlie effect upon the crops was con
cerned, the present state of the weather
would be rattier an advantage than other
wise. For one thing tlie raisin men have
been worrvlna somewhat of late about
the slowness of the season, fearing that
the ripening of the grape crop was not
proceeding as rapidly aa it should for
their purposes, and a spell 01 extremely
high temperature would seem to be just
what thev need. It would also have the
effect of hastening the ripening of other
Iruita, tnongn u is possiuie, oi w,
that a little scorching may be done also.
As a general proposition. However, it is
considered that everyming is now uw
far advanced and fully matured tor any
particular damage to be done. ,
TBK TRUST AND TBI TARIFF.
Whisky
People Were Vnable to Raise
the Money Needed.
Pbowa. III., August 28. The whisky
trust failed to negotiate the loan of ,
000,000 with the New York banks for the
purpose of taking all of Its product out
of bond before the new tariff went into
effect. At the closeof business nour mis
afternoon, the last day of grace, the gov
ernment wereuuuoe wiiwihto m
quantity of spirit. At 2 o'clock a check J
hM, n. im a i tr n m L i ro ui uuuu vukkdi i
viPreoidentof the Distilling and Cat-
tie Feeding Company, was presented to
Collector Hunter for 1511,105. At 4
o'clock, the utmost limit allowed for the
payment OI Hie OKI lax, anumor tun; i
was sent in for 16,154, making the
total amount paid by the trust to the
Collet-tor to-day 1807,320. From other
distilleries enough was taken to swell
the amount to 1028,767, making ine
largest dally collection at this office in
the history of the service.
FBOM. ANOTIIRR SOCBCB.
Pbohia, 111., August 28.-With the
close of business the whisky trust took
ont 18.000.000 worth at all points. It
oonld have taken out more, but wanted
to influence the stock. The trust will
test the validity of the new tariff. '
Btambulon Interviewed.
Bublin, August 28. The Frankfurter
Zeltung publishes an Interview with
StambulofT, Bulgaria'a deposed Bis-
i. noiM, hla retirement, he said.
he received from St. Petersburg an offer
of 600.000 roubles as a bribe to depose
Prince Ferdinand. The Csar was as
stubborn as an ox, he continued, ani
would never make friends with the
Prince, although the latter was Inspired
now w th the single desire to Russianlre
BuTgarl. T.nd horA..embly. The return
of the ZankoffisU was imminent. The
nowerof this group lies In intrigue and
assassination, a noma re
wirteXffl
would murder him.
. : -. .1
Blent Nerer to be rorgoweo.
Yos.mitb Cal.. August 28.-The peo-
. ' iu,. in the valley to-
e who were visitors in tne vaney w
pie who were visitors
day were treated to a sight which tney
will never forget. This evening a cloud
hurst somewhere on the Yosemlte creek
hack of the Yosemlte Falls, and the falls
Increased In volume until they were
hlgher than they have ever been at any
time this year. The water below the
faUs Increased until it was within a foot
of the bridge, and had it increased an-
other foot, the State bridge would have
swept way. No damage was .done
rr-i.: ..i T.t a slight washing of
J bank! on the Yoeemita creek.
WAR RUMORS DENIED
No
Recent Battle Between
China and Japan.
ANOTHER UNCONFIRMED BATTLE
1.1 Hung Chang, Tleeroy of China, Or
ders the Mobilisation of the Chinese
fleets tn the Oulf of PI Chi LI The
Opinion of a Coraaa.
London, August 20. The Central
News is authority for the statement that
officials of the Japanese legation here
deny that there has been an engagement
recently either on land or on sea be
tween the forces of Japan and China.
OHqali declare also that the dispatch
to the Standard from Berlin, referring
to Count Ito's remarks concerning the
Interests of Japan and Russia in the
completion ol the Siberian railway, was
the invention of the Chinese embassy
In the German capital. Neither the
foreign office nor the Chinese legation
haa received any news of the battles
mentioned by the Times correspondent
this morning. At the legation the offi
cials say that General Yen, who form
erly commanded at Asan, haa joined his
force ol 2,000 men to the Chinese north
ern army at Ping Yang. The success of
tliis movement, the Chinese say, proves
that the Japanese troops ia Coree are
either weak or negligent.
' NO BBWS Or AM XMOAOKMBKT.
Washington, August 26. The Japan
ese legation has received no news of the
engagement between the Japanese and
Chinese ioroes reported from Shanghai
In the dispatches published this morn
ing. Officials at the legation express the
strongest confidence in the accuracy of
the telegram received at the legation
yesterday, announcing the rinding of the
British naval court of inquiry at Shang
hai in the Kow Shung case was favor
able to Japan. The legation character
ises as unqualifiedly incorrect the as
sertion that the commander of the
Naniwa ordered his men to fire npon the
survivors from the Kow Shung strug
gling in the water.
ANOTBKB DNOONriBMBO BATTLB.
London, August 28. A dispatch from
Shanghai to the Central News says the
Chinese papers contain a report of a
battle near Ping Yang, in which 26,000
men on each side were engaged. The
Chinese, the dispatch adds, claim they
defeated tlie Japanese forces. Reliable
confirmation of the report of the en
gagement, however, is wanting.
Li Hung Chang baa ordered the mo
bilization of the northern, southern and
central Chinese fleets in the Gulf of Pi
Chi LI. The Chinese fleet ia convoying
a number ot troop ships and coal ships
from Taku to Port Arthur. , -
The Japanese nobles subscribed $80,
000,000 as a fund to be nsed in the pros
ecution ot the war. This fond draws no
interest.
a cobian's opinion.
CincAOO, August 26. The acting Co
reaa Minister to the United States, Ye
Sung Boo, and Jang Bong Whan, the
Second Secretary of the legation, arrived
in this city on their way to San Fran
cisco. Minister Soo was sick when be
arrived. Concerning the war between
China and Japan Jang Bong Whan said:
" I do not think the war will last very
long. Japan haa better drilled soldiers
than China,' but the latter country has
Sreater resources and men. That is why
anan ia winning all the victories now."
lie refused to say anything regarding
the position of Corea in the war.
VIBDICT Of TUB CO CST OF INQOIBT.
Pabis, August 28. The Toklo corre
spondent of the Journal oea ueoata wi
esraDhs that the court ot inquiry inves
tigating at Shanghai the circumstances
of the sinking of the Chinese transport
Kow Shung by the Japanese warship
Naniwa has rendered a decision holding
that the action of the Japanese oom-
mader In firing npon the transport was
justified, and therefore the Japanese
government will not be called upon to
make any compensation tor the destruc
tion ol the vessel.
MINISTIB dbhby'b DBPABTCBB,
ataubviuub. aiiu., Augu v.
learned to-night that the time for the
Evansvolb. Ind.. August 28. It ia
United States Minister to China, has
Mnneriiirn ill uuuutu uunrioa vwuji
been extended a few days, but the most
persistent inquiry failed to develop the
exact time be is to leave 8an Francisco.
Lionel ircnuy ia iiuw au uiiu..
and from there will go to Ariaona to
yUit bis son. It is known that when he
haves this country he will be conveyed
to China on a government cruiser,
ALL rASBIS HBLD BT JAPANBSB.
London, August 26. A dispatch to
the Central News from Shanghai states
that advices received there from Che-
mnlnn are to the effect that some unim
portant skirmishes have taken place on
the great road north ot Pong San be
tween the Chinese and Japanese forces.
The position of the Japanese troops is
unchanged, and all passes are strongly
held by the Japanese soiaiers.
KINO OF COBBA APFBALBD TO JAPAN.
Torrn. Anenst SO. It Is officially an
nounced that June 80 the King of Core
declared himself independent of China
and appealed to Japan to assist him in
driving the Chinese from Asan with the
assistance of the Corean troops. On the
same date Corea renounced all treaties
with China.
i . TBI POLAR TOTAORRB.
More Complaint From the Members
the Wellman expedition.
' August 27. The . Pall Mall
, ic,e on the WeUmw Arc.
tic expedition says it la stated that th.
1 Norwegian members of the party assert
the unfitness ot the Americans who ao-
! iu. .....
companied the expedition to take part
In such enterprise. Mr. Hyardahl of
"".,' . rn-ri-tinla. who waa
; 0, the paty, i a letter written at
Wa)den Island sUted that the provisions
uk(m b the expedition were not euffl-
denti uj tne members were obliged to
Hve on ,hort rations and drink saltwa-
tor obulned by melting Ice. As a result
0, thl, he WM m(le 111. The Gajette
further yi tht in fairness to Mr. Well-
man th, nablio should suspend judg-
m,nt until the explorer shall have re-
turned and been liven wchanos to dsfend
Himself.,
ARMOR-PI. ATM FRAUDS.
A Bold Crime Has Been Dlseloeed
y
the Investigation.
Washington, Angust 25. The special
committee of the House investigating
the charges affecting the reliability of
material of the new ships furnished by
the Carnegie Company of Pittsburg laid
their report before the House to-day.
The report shows that the contract with
the company covered a period of two
years and three months from Novem
ber, 1880, to Feburary, 1803. The amount
of armor plate contracted for was 8,973
tons, costing $5,461,020. In the Open
ing of the report Mr. Cummings, Chair
man of the committee, gives the ten
charges made against the company, and
follows It with the admissions made
under each charge. Mr. Schwab admits
nnder the first charge that the plate did
not receive uniform treatment, explain
ing that by saying that uniform results
alone were required. The committee
construes the specifications to mean
uniform quality before treatment, and
practically uniform results will neces
sarily follow. If uniform results alone
were meant, there would have been no
necessity for requirement as to the
process. .
A lie commute uuus iuo vuBigee w
fraud sustained, scores the company se
verelv and recommends that fifty-nine
suspected plates in nse be tested aa the
only method of proving their fitness or
unfitness. It finds tlie government in
spection was negligent, but no charge of
dishonesty rests npon the inspectors.
The charges against tne company were
that the plates and bolts did not receive
the treatment required by the contract;
that false reports were made to the gov
ernment inspectors ; that specimens for
testing were retreated before being sub
mitted; that the testing machine was
fraudulently manipulated ; mat sunsu
iniinn u mulA In the case of a Plate
designed for a ballistic test, and that the
government stamp was eitner aupuoaiea
or stolen and nsed without the knowl
edge of the government inspectors. The
report states that tne numoer oi luroaces
nsed was Inadequate to fulfill the specifi
cations of the contract in regard to the
amount of armor-plate turned out. After
the first investigation of the frauds the
number of furnaces waa increased irom
fonr to ten. In resard to the " Jockey
ing " of the test machines it was asserted
that the company made private teats of
material, and if it was below the stand
ard, manipulated the machine at the offi
cial test so that it would show the re
quired tensile strength, the charges of
retreating and substituting plates de
eiirned for ballistic tents, the committee
is satisfied, are true. The charge of using
a duplicate or stolen government stamp
Is not sustained.
The report says the government in
spection was negligent and defective,
but this is attri Duiea to me iact u tuei-n
were not nearly enough inspectors to do
the work. It is asserted that the fraud
has been traced home to the general su
perintendent, who is a stockholder in
tho (lernnrie CoinDanv. Of the feature
of criminality involved Chairman Cum
mings savs:
"The frauds which the committee haa
found are worthy to be called crimes.
The earnnta ot the Carnezie Company
(whether with or without knowledge of
the company) to increase tueir gain ae
liberately continued for many months to
commit acts whoee natural probable
consequences would be a tern no loss oi
men in times of war, and perhapa the
nation. A fine or to make a mere money
compensation is an inadequate atone
ment for such wrongs. Your committee
does not consider it within its province
to draft a criminal statute, but they do
feel nnder obligations to call the atten
tion of the public to the importance ot
protecting the lives of our seamen and
the nation by appropriate legislation de
nouncing as crimes all such acta as the
frauds practiced npon the government
in connection with armor-plate and
other material of war and making such
acta punishable in all persons who com
mit them or aid in their commission."
In recommending a test of plate the
committee says that,notwithBtanding all
the admissions made by the superintend
ents employed by the company, they
lim H.t ell nlatea naid for bv the gov
ernment are np to the specifications of
the contracts. The contract of Febroarv
28, 1803, states the obligation imposed
npon the contractors to satisfy the in
spectors that everything haa been in
strict acoordanoe with the terms of the
contract. It haa been shown that the
inspectors have been satisfied and the
armor-plates passed oy tne moat uutorr
oua frauds.
WASHINGTON NOTRB.
President Miller of the North Yakima
Milling Company estimates that in the
various valleys tributary to Yakima
tl,u sill ha hervMtnrl this Tear about
150,000 bushels of grain about 60,000
bushels of wheat, 40,000 of barley and
60.000 bushels of oata.
The Northern Pacific railroad Is as
sessed 17,600 per mile for the main line
and 3,75 for sidetracks in Whitman
county. The company asxs lor a reauc
tion to (5,300 for the main line and 2,120
for sidetracks. These latter figures are
the same as were allowed by the Board
of Equalisation last year. , ;
Word is received in Walla Walla'that
a joint excursion of borne seekers from
Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas will leave
Cheyenne over the Union Pacific on
September 10 for Eastern Washington
to look at lands. A second excursion ia
being arranged for the month of October
with a view to looking over the irrigated
districts. : .;. ;
The man Braithwaite, who shot James
Tow at Winona over a card game re
cently, was discharged upon his pre
liminary examination at Colfax. He
made ont something of a showing at
self-defense. Then It developed that
Tow had been cheating. Tlie game was
BHJ atiuipIi mhn were watchinff
, the game testified that Tow was playing
BIX cams ana soraenmee niuro vu
waite's five. Under such provocation as
this local sentiment justified the shoot
ing, so Braithwaite goes free and the
node ot the national game is vindicated.
culling Champion.
tTANcoovKB. B. O.. August 25. Bob
, Johnson, the single sculling champion of
1 British Colombia and winner of the dn
1 gle scull race at the regatta of the Asso
ciation of Amateur uaremco oi me i m
cifio Northwest held at Seattle, haa le
aned a challenge to row any bona-fide
amateur for the championship ot the
Paoo Coast,
FOR EQUAL COINAGE.
Organized Labor Contributes
to the Silver Question.
FOBMEE AND PEES EST TALUE9.
Bepreaentatlve Hertmen of Montana
Preaente Beeotntlons for the Pree
Coinage of Sliver, Aeeontpanled by an
Address of the Labor Leaders.
Washinotoic, August 24. Representa
tive Hartman of Montana has presented
In the House resolutions for the free
coinage of silver, which are regarded by
the freersilver advocates as one of the
most significant expressions in favor of
their doctrine which have been elicited
by the agitation of the past year. The
resolutions have been considered and
adopted during the present session by
the most powerful labor organizations
of the country, are strongly worded and
are signed by the chief officers of the
various unions. The signers are J. D.
Soveriegn, Grand Master Workman, and
John W. Hayes, Secretary and Treasurer
ot the Knights of Labor; Samuel Gomp
era. President of the American Federa-
' . r , - .l T IJ A.
lion OI iaoor : juarion jouuer, x-iesiueut
of the National Farmers' Alliance;
Henry H. Trenor, President, and P. F.
McGuire. Secretary of the Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners; P. M. Ar
thur, Chief of tne Brotherhood ol Lo
comotive Engineers; C. A. Bollinson,
President of the Farmers' Mntual Bene
fit Association ; Frank Sargent, Grand
Master Workman, and F. W. Arnold,
Secretary of the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen, and John McBride, Presi
dent of the United Mine Workers of
America. , . ,
Accompanying the resolution is an ad
dress to the members of organized labor
and all other producers and toilers
throughout the United States. The ad
dress declares " that in view of the gen
eral distress at a time when granaries
are full and in the natural order of things
producers and toilers should be enjoying
the fruits ot their labors it seems the
time baa come for united action on the
part of those who create the wealth of
the country." One of the causes which
has brought about this condition, the
address says, is the departure from the
wise bimetallic financial principle of
Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton and
the substitution of the monometallic
policy dictated by the European money
holders and their American allies.
A review of the financial legislation is
given to show what part was enacted in
the interest of the producing and what
tn that of the non-Druducing classes.
The proposition is set forth that before
the demonetization of silver 8.600 bush
els of wheat or 85,000 pounds of cotton
equaled the annnal pay of a benator or
Congressman, while to-day 10,000 bush
els of wheat or 100.000 pounds of cotton
barely suffice; that formerly 85,000
bushels of wheat or 350,000 pounds of
cotton would have paid the salary of the
President, while to-day he receives the
equivalent of 100,000 bushels of wheat
or 1,000,000 pounds of cotton, and the
same proportion applies to all other fixed
salaries and incomes.
Demoralisation of the food-producing
sections is said to have caused the man
ufacturers to lose the markets for their
goods, so that hundreds of thousands of
workmen have been thrown out of em
ployment; and the demonetization of
half of the world's volume of money
makes it comparatively easy for capital
ists to corner and manipulate the other
half. In the review of financial legisla
tion it is charged that all the acts since
the civil war have been in the interest
of bondholders and asainst the produ
cers, and the Sherman law is aaid to
have been repealed at the demand of
European financiers, although a grand
fight was made by the people's repre
sentatives. The resolutions are as follows: "We
demand of the present Congress the im
mediate return to the monev of the con
stitution as established by our fathers by
restoring the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, the coins
of both metals to be equally full legal
tender tor all debts, public and private,
aa before the fraudulent demonetisation
of silver in 1873. We also condemn the
increase of the public debt in a time of
peace and the issue of interest-bearing
bonds at any time."
8CABK AT HONOLULU.
Talk of Another UprUing on the Ha
waiian Islands.
Sah Fbascisco, August 25. The
United States cruiser Philadelphia ar
rived this afternoon from Honolulu,
bringing the following advices dated
August 12 : Several days ago it was an'
nounced that the cruiser Philadelphia
waa to leave here, and about the same
time the Captain of the British ship
Champion stated that his vessel waa
about to leave on a two weeks' cruise,
ostensibly to look over the route of the
proposed Pacific cable. On the day fol
lowing these announcements a petition
was circulated by British residents ask
ing that the Champion remain. The
petitioners professed to be in fear of
trouble it left without armed protection.
The Champion's commander then agreed
to remain in port, whereupon Admiral
Walker announced that he hal changed
his mind about sailing with the Phila
delphia, and that he, too, should remain
in port. This unexpected change in the
plans of the naval commanders caused
unusual comment The royalists pro
fessed to believe th. bad the rhila
delphia left, there would have been an
uprising againBt the government. Men
high in the government counsels, how
ever, declared they were anxious for the
Philadelphia to leave, as it would give
them an opportunity to show the royal
ists that the government needed no out
side protection. The wishes of these
confident supporters of the government
were fulfilled yesterday when the mail
from . San Francisco brought positive
orders to Admiral Walker for the Phila
delphia to proceed to Mare Island at
once.
The war between China and Japan
threatens disturbance of more or less
seriousness on the islands. A report haa
been received of one tight between Chi
nese and Japanese laborers, and further
outbreaks are feared on soma of the
large plantationa.
nUNOBEDS OV PKTITIOXS
Asking- for Reinstatement of Old Ball-
. road. Km ploy as. :
Omaha, August 20. General Manager
Dickinson of the Union Pacific is receiv
ing hundreds of petitions for the rein
statement of old employes who went ont
on the strike. The letters do not corns
from the men themselves, but from mer
chants, bankers, real estate agents,
board of trade associations and others.
They are all of the same temper, asking
that work be resumed In the shops and
that the old employes be given the prefer
ence over imported help. So urgent are
some of the demands that Mr. Dickerson
has about decided to go West and per
sonally interview business men of the
communities clamoring for relief and
asking for the reinstatement of the men.
The petitions declare many of the men's
families are in want.
THB ATCHIBOS'S POLICY.
Kansas Citt. August 26. Receiver
Wilson of the Atchison system passed
through here on his return trip to To
peka from New York to-day. To re
porter he aaid there would be no more
developments in the affairs of the road
till alter the arrival of the new receiver.
Mr. Walker, in New York. Walker ia
due in New York September 2, and soon
tnereaiter tne three receivers, uenerai
Solicitor Peck, D. B. Robinson. First
Vice-President, and others will have a
consultation. Wilson declined to state
in advance what policy the receivers
would adopt, bnt waa willing to say that
he believed an entirely new policy would
be inaugurated both in the management
of the company's finances and in the
operation oi the road. u. a. ttooinson,
he said, would remain at the head of the
auditing department. Whether there
would be changes in any of the other
departments he conld not say, but left
the impression that there would. ' Re
ceiver Walker, he thought, would make
his official headquarters at Chicago, that
being his home. .
THB TBAXSCONTINBHTAIi ASSOCIATION.
Chicago. August 20. The Atchison
has announced positively that it will not
become a member of the transconti
nental Association, which the Southern
Pacific is making an effort to revive. It
will throw no obstacles in the way of re
organization except that it will not be
come a member. This one thing, how
ever, is sufficient to kill the association.
The Southern Pacific will not join the
Atchison on the outside, and nnless
these two roads can get together, it will
be impossible by any pretense to organ
ize a transcontinental association.
GOING BACK TO HAWAII.
The Commlseloners Sey Their Visit to
Wnehlngton Wne antlefaetory.
Sam Francisco, August 27. Commis
sioners tiamuel rarker, a, A. wide
mann, J. A. Cummings and W. 6. Se
ward of Hawaii, who went to Washing
ton over a month ago to cee President
Cleveland on behalf of the deposed Queen
Liliuokalani, and who returned here
Tuesday, sailed for Hawaii to-day. In
an interview lonimiseioner I'arker says
that, notwithstanding the Washington
dii-patt'-hes to the contrary, they raw all
I ne great men in asiiiiicun, luciiuiuig
President Cleveland, and that their
interview waa satisfactory. " We went
to Washington," he said, "to get a
answer from the government aa to wh'
it intended to do, and we got it. It wa
to the effect that the government won)
not at present interfere, whirh was i
substance the answer furnished by th
Senate some time since. Still we it"
much encouragement of a subetanti:
sort, the nature of which is private nnt
we return to Hawaii and render our r
port to the people who sent ns. I ca
say this much, that 't is satisfactory,
staved at the same hotel with Seoretar
Gresham, and saw and talked with hi'
nearly every day."
NOW A LOCKOUT.
The Textile Mills to be Shot Down fa
an Indefinite Period.
Fall Rrvia, Mass., August 25. Tin
great textile strike developed to-day int
a lockout. Notices were posted in tli
mills to-day that to-night every mill op
erated by members of the Manufactur
ers' Association will be shut down in
definitely. These mills include every
establishment engaged in the manufact
ure of nrint cloth, and the shutdown
throws 22,645 men and women out of
employment. There at preeens aooni
2 500 who have voluntarily Quit work
which swells the total number to 25,0Cf
operatives. The decision to close wa'
reached by the manufacturers at theii
secret meeting yesterday, and is the re
suit of an agreement to close the mil!
at any time that three-fourths of tin
looms'were silent for any cause. Th
shutdown will leave a total of 3,235 em
nloves at work for the Barnable Manu
facturing Company, the Fall Eiver iror
works and tlie Connecticut and Seacanir
mills. These establishments are engaged
in the manufacture of goods that do no
come under the manufacturers' agree
ment. . .... . .
BALERS' DAMAGES.
A Convention at Tanoonver to Decide
Upon the Amounte.
WASHKOTOJt, August 25. Secretary
Gresham and Sir Julian Pauncefote, the
British Ambassador, have agreed upon a
convention, to be ratified by the United
States and Great Britain, providing foi
a commission to meet at Vancouver and
consider the amount of damages to be
paid by the United States for seizing Ca
nadian sealers more than three miles
from land from 1888 to 1890 inclusive.
The Paris Behring Sea tribunal estab
lished as findings of facta that twenty
such seizures were made. It is under
stood that the President wonld like to
have the proposed convention approved
by tiie Sens to before the close of the
present session, and it was to learn
whether or not this conld be accom
plished that Gresham visited the capitol
several daya ago.
Mo taw Agln It.
Los Anobles, August 25. Judge Mo
Kinley in the Superior Court to-day de
cided that there was no law prohibiting
a Japanese from marrying a mulatto.
The case was that of Henry Tingle, a
Jananese cook with Considerable means.
who wanted to marry Mary Dismond. a
mnlatto crirl. Thev were married, and
-
started to-night for Kansas City on
,1 re tot rv
nouu.ug 'f
A RUSSIAN SEA GALE
It is Certain ThH a Thousand
Persons Have Perished.
REPORTS RECOUNT WIDE I1AV00
Two Parties ot Amerlenn Tonrlets Are
opposed to Hare Been on the Sea at
the Time Impossible for bays TaS
to Compote the Damage Done.
St. Pbtibsbdbo, August 28. Words
cannot describe the wind that swept
across the Sea of- Azof yesterday. It ia
impossible for days yet to compute the
damage done, but It is certain that 1,000
have perished, some by drowning, others
by being crushed nnder falling houses.
The excitement is great among the Ameri
can colony in this city, for it is feared
that at least two parties of American
tourists were on the Sea of Azof at the
time the wind did its deadly work. All
the afternoon there haa been a string of
callers at the American ministry asking,
almost begging, for news from Odessa,
whence the tourists were to have started
on the regulation sight-seeing trip across '
the Crimea, visiting Sebastopol, Balak
lava and the other famous battle scenes.
probable they started within twelve
hours of each other, and according to the
schedule of these excursions they would
have reached tne Straits of Kertch yes
terday morning, going thence by steam
boat north to Berdiansk, where they '
would take a train back to Odessa. It
is said the leader of one of these parties
had nroDoeed a trip a short distance
north from Temruk into the Lake of the
Black Cossacks. 11 bis party branched
off that way, they have nnqoestionably
perished, lor tne storm raged almost
along the entire east coast of the lake.
It is hoped some lucky chance delayed
the excursionists so that they could not
reach their embarking port to-day.
At a late hoar there was sun no gen- -
era! report of the disaster on which to
base surmises of the Americans' safety.
The reports received recount wide havoc.
The wind waa first felt at Nogaisk. . No- ,
gaisk is peopled by fishermen, who were
out on the water. When the hurrii-ane
bad swept out to the north a terrible
scene waa presented. The village was
razed overturned as if an immense
plow had been pushed through it. Ly
ing everywhere were women and chil
dren, dead or in the last agonies. Too
shallow waters of the Sea of Asoff were
lashed to such a height that it was plain
every fishing boat must have been sunk.
The cyclone swept on to the northwest
after wrecking Nogaisk. Its path seemed
to have been nnusnally wide, for at Ma-
nopol it devastated the country to a
point eleven miles inland, and had ita
outer edge iar npon me sea. jmriuui
- . . . . ,
was practically blotted ont of existence.
Nut three houses in luu are leit s tann
ing. It is estimated that 300 perron
perished in this place atone, ftortti ot
there the cyclone made a sudden tnrn
to the east over Dolga points. Its left
edge inflicted slight damage to the town
of Berdiansk. House were unroofed
and a dozen persona killed by falling
timbers.
Once at the storm made its foil
fury felt. Of the steamers that touch
at the port of Berdianfk not one had
come in at the hour of the late-t report.
Grave fears are expressed that every
craft on the sea has gone to the bottom,
and that every passenger has been killed. '
When the windswept over the northern
end of Azof it took a new course, and
Siing southerly along the roast of the
nd of the Black Cossacks, Temruk and
Achuev were ravaged, each town being
almost totally destroyed. Telegraphic
communication with this district is ens-
wuucu, WJU Ik iujMmuiv w aw... .n
extent of the destruction, but at least
1,000 persona must have died on the two
shores. The storm, aa nearly as can be
learned, seemed to suddenly cease ita
force near Temruk, and passed off with
comparative quiet southerly over the
black Sea.
PBJCPABKD FOR THI BBBAK.
Another Jsbnatowe, but Tflthent tka
Lm ef LIT.
' SiutA, August 28. Gohna Lake, which
has for some time past been threatening
to break ita banks and sweep down the
valley, at the head of which it lies, haa
broken the dam controlling the waters.
Thousanda of tons of water poured
through the valley like a cataract, sweep
ing everything before it. Huge bowl
ders were swept along like pebbles, trees
were uprooted and carried on the crest
of the flood, and villages along the valley
were swept out of existence in an in
stant after the roaring torrent of whirl
ing waters struck them. 'I be rainfall
during the monsoon baa been heavy,
and the lake rose with great rapidity.
The percolation at the dam became very
heavy, and the engineers who examined
it decided that its breakage was im
minent. To repair it was impossible,
and the government at once took steps
to prevent loss of life when the break
came. Elaborate railway and tele
graphic arrangements were made, and
when the dam started to go out the .
pe-le nearest the point of danger were
&.--ied by the railroad to places of
safety, while those farther down the val
ley wera notified to pack up their be
longings and be prepared to leave their
homes when called npon by the govern
ment to do so. The call waa soon issued
and the people taken away. So when
the flood really cam the valley 'was
deserted by everybody. To this wise
foresight of the government is doe the
fact that great loas.of life waa averted.
National Perk at Gettysburg.
Naw Yobk, August 27. General Dan
iel E. Sickles haa a scheme for the con
struction of a grand national park, which
will include the battlefield and other
historic points of interest at Gettysbnrg.
The purchase ot something like 4.0UO
acres in and around Gettysburg la em
braced in the plan. - The government
already owns several hundred acres at
the scene of the decisive battle of the
war, and General Sickles propose to ac
quire a boot 2,500 acre morn. His plan
contemplate the establishment of a
I Will Ml J UVI fc. K fWFU IW,
boln( Bnr Indian school and perlia a
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military poet at uettysourg a a soioierr
urand Army museum.