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JnlILLSBR VOLT X HILLSBORO. OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY 30. 1806. NO. 19. wo '4 - EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome ot the Telegraphic News of the World. TEEStt TICKS FROM THE WIRES An Intereallug Collection of Items Prom th. Two lleuilapherea I'reeented In a Condeneed Form. It it rumored tbut the Turkish gov eminent oontemplates an issue of paper money. In Viotor, Colo. .fifty poundi of giant powder exploded, causing $5,000 worth of damage. Many people were out by gluei, but none killed. In Bedulia, Mo., Mart Crawford, a section foreman on the Missouri Pa oiflo, wai banged by a foriooa mob for the attempted rape of a 16-year-old girl. The socialist oongress, whiob met in London, proved to be a noisy gather ing. Socnes of violence were enaoted and a free fight wai narrowly averted. The ooming year it ia aaid winea will come high, owing to the fullure of Cal ifornia's grape orop. Little wine will be exported from the golden atate tbia season. A New York dispatch aaya Senator Bill ia now in favor of a third tioket The Information, it ia aaid, oomea di reot from a personal friend of the sen ator, who ia a prominent Democrat A stockman named John Lawrence waa found dead upon the range near Union, Or., with a bullet in bia bead nd a pistol lying a few feet away. It ia aupposed that be oommitted auloide. The trial of the South African raid era haa ended in London, and Dr. Jameson haa been given a aentonoe of fifteen months imprisonment without labor. The others reoeived light sen tences. In Quiuoy, 111., five fatalities by drowning or otherwise ooourted in forty-eight hours. James MoLean waa killed by an accidental fall from the roof of the Ricker National bank; Her bert Harrison, a sohool teaoher, Fred erick Gross and Fred Baumgarten, sons of prominent oitizens, were drowned in Bear oreek; Ooorge Betero, another youth, waa drowned in a pool south of the olty limits, and bia two brothers were saved only with great difrloulty. '"tsylvania waa visited by a disas trous (.urrioane, resulting in loss ot life and property. Steeples were blown from churches, adjoining buildings were orushed, bouses were unroofed, and trees broken off or torn up by the roots. Great havoo waa caused by the heavy rainfall. Two Uvea were lost, thirty-six injured, some fatally, and property damaged to the amount of 1100,000. A boarding-house near Ceoil, Washington oounty, waa waahed away and its occupants, fifteen ooal miner, were drowned. Seven of the bodies have been reoovered. Eight are atill missing. News oomea from the Washington state Republican headquarters that the tate convention will probably be held at Taooma, some time between August 16 and September 15. Hon. Samuel Layman, a prominent and well-known Oregonian, died at hia home near Woodburn from the effects of injuries whioh he sustained " some weeks ago by falling from a oherry tree. Mr. Layman waa 63 years of age. A meeting of representatives from the large foreign banking-bousea waa held in New York, to oonsider plana for the protection of the treasury gold reserve. It ia understood a plan waa arranged to ease the exohange market until the orop movement atarta the balanoe in our favor. A San Franoisoo dispatoh aaya: Ed win B, Webster, the young paymaster who was reoently court-martialed at Mare Island and found guilty of a charge of embezzlement, doea not in tend to abide by the judgment of the court He will appeal to President Cleveland for olemenoy before the navy department shall have an oppor tunity to pasa upon the reoently found vordiot Three members of the revolutionary committee have just arrived in Athena from Crete on a apeoial mission. In the oourse of an interview they made the following statement on an author ity of their oommittee: "We wish to aay it has been deoided that we must have granted to ua the demands we have sent to the sultan or else we shall fight The powers must either give us autonomy or see us orushed. Shonld nnr demands be neglected, then within fifteen days of July 15, the date at whioh they were made, we shall break the armistice." Advices from Hong Kong aay that imperial Chinese troops were reoently sent to Lanohou to suppress the Mo hammedan rebels, who bad risen against the authorities. The rebels urrounded the imperial troops and teem to have totally annihilated them, although the imperial troops were bet ter provisioned and equipped. There were 6,000 troops sent to subdue the rebels and all are either killed or miss ing. The rebels are now mad for blood, massaoreing all in authority, killing and pillaging on their triumph ant march through the oountry. Two oable cars broke ploqse.t the top of the Ninth-street lnollhe in Kan at City, and dashed down the declivity into the Union depot sheds. The grip oar and those on board escaped injury, but the trailer was thrown from the traok just inside the elevated sheds and literally smashed to pieces. Several of the oooupants of this oar were badly hurt. Among them are George D. Fearon, of Kansas City, and his two sis ters, Mrs Gay and Miss Fearon, both of New York. Mrs. Gay anffered an injury of the apine. Sheriff's Commission. The judgment of the lower court Waa roveraed by the supreme court of Washington in Olympia, in the oate of Walter H. Boderburg, appellant, vs. King oounty, respondent This action waa brought by the plaintiff aa as signee ot divera persons, judgment debtors In varloua foreclosure proceed lnga, olaiming to be entitled to the aurplua ariaing from each foreclosure sale. There waa no redemption in any oaBe and the plaintiff in eaoh ao tlon beoame the purchaser. It appears that the amonut claimed aa aurplua waa the sum olalmed by the sheriff as feea and commission. In oonduoting sales the sheriff paid into the oounty treasury several amount under the mistaken belief that it waa hia duty to deduct a commission from the amount bid in eaoh instance. There were thirty-four oauaea and the aggregate amount olaimed 12,004.84. Bow a Quarrel Coded. In Cincinnati, abota were beard at the residence of William T. Wiley, a ' ladies' tailor and furrier, on West ! Fifth street Mra. Wiley waa found ; bleeding from six bullet wounds, and j her husband waa unoonsolons with a ; bullet bole in hia temple. The woman j died on the way to the hospital, j Wiley's wound waa superficial, the ball j glanoing off the skull. The oouple, j after frequent quarrels, had separated, but began to live together again about ' three months ago. Wiley says bia wife-shot him. He then aeized the weapon and firod at her. Aa U-Year-Old Hot Murderer. ! In Cbioago, Harry Rudolph, aged 11, struok two blows with hia puny fists, and his opponent, Grover Han-' aen, aged 9, fell dead at hia feet The j lads were having a boyish quarrel, and young Hansen started to run. Rudolph ; followed In awift pursuit, oatohing the lad near the ourb, and strnok him in the tape and abdomen. Little Hansen ' covered bis face with bia hands, fell backward, and expired. Young Ru dolph waa locked up. The Ballot Thieves. The city oounoil of Taooma, in ape-j oial session, offered a reward of f 1,000 j for the arrest and oonviotion of the j thieves who stole the ballots of four preoinots from the vault at the olty : hall. Mayor Fawoett haa offered a re- ' ward ot $200. The evidenoe thua far i secured indioates that the breaking into 1 the vault was started about two weeka ago, and finished between last Satur day night and Tuesday morning. 1 General George W. Jones Dead. I General George W. Jonea, the oldeat , surviving ex-United States senator, died at hia home in Dubuque.'la., aged 03. He represented aa a delegate to j oongresa the territory now included in Wisconsin, Iowa," Michigan and the' West, exoept the Paoiflo ooast. He waa the atate'a first senator, and waa prominent in national affairs, espeoial- ! ly of the Northwest. Cripple Creek Stage Held Up. The Cripple Creek stage was held up near Grassy, five miles east of there, by three masked men, who obtained twelve gold watches and $500 in oasb. The passengers inoluded thirteen men and two or three women. The latter were unmolested by the robbers. A posse with bloodhounds ia on the trail of the highwaymen. Franchise Granted. The oounoil ot the town of Castle Rook has granted to H. Orobard a thirty-year franchise for tbe oonstruotion of a water and sewer system. The water will be taken from a mountain stream about two miles below town, and oarried to a reservoir on the rook south of town, to an elevation of about ninety feet above the town. Consumptive Milch Cows. Milk Inspeotor Dookery, of San Franoisoo, aaya fifty per oent of the oo w a whioh supply milk for Ban Fran oisoo are oonaumptlve, and will have to be killed. There are 6,700 oowa owned by the dairies of the city, and of these fully 8,000 are diseased, and the milk from them is unfit for use. For A Second Convention. At a meeting of the gold-standard Democrats, held in Chioago, it was de oided to hold another national conven tion not later than September I. A meeting will soon be held in Indianap olis to decide on the plaoe. Two Bodies Pound. Skamokawa, July 37. The body of Frank Peterson, one of the unfortun ates who, with Mrs. A. R. Croaby and Charlea Newell, drowned May 13 last, near this point, waa pioked up by tbe seine at T. K. Johnson's seining ground yesterday morning. The re mains were naturally very muoh de composed, and were only reoogniced by the clothing and shoes. This is the first appearanoe of any of the ill-fated young people. They were supposed to have been washed out to aea by tbe heavy freshets. Another body was also pioked up near Brookfleld, about the same time, but thoae who saw it say it ia not that ot young Newell, but that of a man who had not been in the water more than a week. The remaina of young Peterson were buried here to day. Glaaa in oven doors is a new contriv ance. It enablea oooka to watch the food without opening the doors. ' A Colllalon Probable. The latest theory regarding the sup posed loss of some ot the ooaat-bound fleet off Cape Horn it to the effeot that two of the vessels have been in colli sion. The British ship Anoaioa, whioh haa juat arrived at Cape Town from the Sound, reporta that, on April 37, in latitude 65 south, longitude 58 west, the abandoned hull of the British ship Gowenbank waa sighted. The dereliot looked like it had been in oollislon. The masts were gone and the headgear oarried away. IS- Selection of the Populist Na tional Convention. WATSON FOB VICE-PRESIDENT The National Committee Given Plenary Power In All Thine Connected With the Party. William Jenninga Bryan, ot Ne braska, who waa nominated bv the Democratic national convention at Chi oago, a fortnight ago, was, Saturday, at St Louis, made tbe standard-bearer of the People's party by a vote of 1,043 to 831. Tbe Demooratio oandldate waa nomi nated in the face of hia own protest, in tbe ahape of a telegram, direoting tbe withdrawal of hia name, aent to Sena tor Jonea, after Bewail, bia running mate, bad been ditched for the vioe preaidential nomination Friday night, and Thomaa F. Watson, of Georgia, had been named for the seoond plaoe on the ticket It waa also made in the face of an opposition ao bitter that, after the convention adjourned, some of the radicala held a "rump" conven tion. Tbe last aeaaion of the convention, whioh lasted from 9:80 o'clock in the morning until 5 o'olock in tbe evening, waa marked by scenes of turbulence fryarV and noisy exoitement, whiob several times bordered on aotual riot, and whioh almost preoipitated personal col lisions. Tbe Texas delegates beaded tbe opposition and clung to the middle of tbe road to tbe last Tbe Populist Bryan managers deoid ed early Saturday to disregard Mr Bryan's telegram of Friday and tc nominate him and straighten out the tangle afterwards. They started out to rush hia nomination through before any other candidate oonld be put in the field. General Weaver, of Iowa, the Popu liat candidate in 1S93, in a masterly addreaa, placed Bryan in nomination, and General Field, of Virginia, wbc waa formerly Weaver'a running mate, after a brief apeech, moved to make the nomination unanimous. About fifty seconding speeches were then made, and some ot them were both eloquent and brilliant The middle-of-the-road contingenl insisted upon knowing at every oppor tunity whether, in view of his tele gram, Bryan wou'd stand on the plat form and aooept the nomination. Bui all these pointed questions were neatly parried. Jndge Green, of Nebraska, and others, vouohed for Bryan'a sym pathy with Populistio principles, but that waa all the satisfaction the radi cals oould get A roll-oall by states was taken, and when it was completed, it was found that Bryan had 1,043 out of the 1,341 votes in the convention. Frank S. Norton, of Chicago, waa the only otbei oandidate. Ignatius Donnelly, of Min nesota, and General Coxey, of Ohio, were nominated, but their names were withdrawn. Norton reoeived 831 votes, Debs 10, and Donnelly 1. Norton got the majority of the solid vote of Texas, Michigan, Missouri, Rhode Island and Wisconsin, and a respectable portion ot the votea of Alabama, California, Kentuoky, Illinois and Ohio. The demonstration when Bryan wai deolared to be the ohoioe of the conven tion lasted fifteen minutes, and waa fully as enthusiastic as that tendered the Nebraska man at the Chioago con vention. Saturday morning a motion was in troduced and oarried that the national committee be given plenary power in all thinga oonnneoted with the party. The Tiee-Preldentlal Nominee. Thomaa F. Watson, of Georgia, who waa a member of the Fifty-first oon gresa, and who, in the Fifty-aeoond and Fifty-third oongreases, unsuccess fully contested Colonel Black's seat, was nominated for vice-president by the convention on tbe first ballot, short ly after midnight Friday night. The nomination waa made unanimoua be fore the result of the roll-oall waa an nounced. . The nominating speeches oooupled exaotlysix hours. Tbe convention adjourned after Bryan had been deolared tbe nominee. After the adjournment of the con vention the national oommittee held a meeting, and after a apirited oontest, elected Senator Butler, of North Caro lina, on the aeoond ballot aa national chairman. The first three days of the convention were oonsumed in organizing, appoint ing of oommittees, eto. Tbe platform was adopted Friday afternoon. Senator Butler was temporary oh air man, and Senator Allen, of Nebraska, permanent ohairman. General Weaver wai ohairman ot platform oommittee. POPULIST PLATFORM. Adopted by the National Convention Held at St. Louia. Following is tbe Populist platform, aa agreed upon by tbe oommittee on resolutions and adopted by the St Louis convention: The People's Party, assembled in na tional convention, reaffirms its allegi ance to the principles deolared by the founders of the republio, and also to tbe fundamental principles ot just gov ernment as enunoiated in the platform of tbe party in 1893. We reoognize that, through tbe connivance of the present and preoeding administrations, the oountry has reaohed a crisis in its national life, aa predicted in our dec laration four yean ago, and that prompt and patriotic action is the su preme duty of the hour. We realize that, while we have politioal independ ence, our financial and industrial in dependence ia yet to be obtained by re storing to our country tbe constitution al oontrol and exercise of the functions necessary to a people's government, which funotiona have been basely sur rendered by our publio servants to cor porate monopolies. -. The influence ot European money ohangers has been more potent in shaping legislation than the voioe of the American people Executive power and patronage have been used to corrupt our legislatures and defeat the will of the people, and plutocracy haa thereby been enthroned upon the ruins of democraoy. To re store the government intended by the fathers of the oountry, for the welfare and prosperity of this and future gen erations, we demand the establishment of an economio and finanoial system whioh shall make na masters of our own affairs and independent of Eu ropean oontrol by the adoption of the following declaration of prinoiplea: . Finance. First We demand a national money, safe and sound, issued by the general government only, without the interven tion of banks of issue, to be a full legal tender for all debts, publio and private; a just, equitable and efficient means of distribution direct to the people and through the lawful disbursements of the government Seoond We demand the free and unrestricted coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, and without waiting for the oonsent of 1 foreign nations. I" Third We demand that the vol j ume of oiroulating medium be speedily ! inoreased to an amount sufficient to meet tbe demands of the business and the population of this oountry, and to restore the just level of prices and la bor production. Fourth We denounce the sale of bonds and the inorease of the publio interest-bearing debt, made by the present administration, as unnecessary and without authority of law, and we demand that no more bonds be issued except by specifio action of congress. Fifth We 'demand such legislation as will prevent the demonetizing of the lawful money of the United States by private oontraot Sixth We demand that the govern ment, in payment of its obligations, shall use its option as to tbe kind of lawful money in whiob they are to be paid, and we denounoe the present and preoeeding administrations for surren dering this option to the holders of government obligation securities. Seventh We demand a graduated inoome tax, to the end that aggregate wealth shall bear its just proportion of taxation, and we regard tbe recent de cision of the supreme court, relative to the inoome-tax law, as a misinterpreta tion of the constitution, an invasion of the rightful powers of oongress on the aubjeot of taxation. Eighth We demand that postal sav ings banks be established by the gov ernment for the safe deposit of the sav ings of the people and to faoilitate ex change. Transportation. First Transportation being a means of exohange and a publio necessity, the government abould own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people on a nonpartisan basis, to the end that all may be aooorded the same treatment in transportation, and that the tyranny of politioal power, now exercised by the great railroad corporations, whiob result in the impairment, if not the destruction of the politioal rights and personal liberty of the oitizen may be destroyed. Suoh ownership ia to be accomplished gradually in a manner consistent with sound publio polioy. Seoond The interest of the United States in the publio highways built with publio moneys and the proceeds of extensive grants of land to the Pa oiflo railroads should never have been alienated, mortgaged or sold, but guarded and protected for tbe general welfare as provided by the lawa organ izing suoh railroads. The foreclosure of existing liens of the United States on these roads should at onoe follow default in the payment thereof by the debtor oompaniea, and at the fore closure sales of said roads the govern ment should - purchase the same, if it becomes neoessry, to protect its inter ests, or if they can be purohased at a reasonable prioe, and the government shall operate said railroads as publio highways for the benefit of the whole people, and not in the interest of the few, nnder suitable provisions for pro tection of life and property, giving to all the transportation interests equal privileges and equal rates for fares and freights. Third We denounoe the present in famous eohemea for refunding the said debts, and demand that the laws now applicable thereto be exeouted and ad ministered aooording to their true in tent and spirit Fourth Tbe telegraph, like tbe post office system, being a necessity for tbe transaction of newa, should be owned and operated by the government In the interest of the people. Land. First The true polioy demands that the national and atate legislation shall be such as will ultimately enable every prudent and industrious citizen to secure a borne, and therefore the land should not be monopolized for speculative purposes. All lands now held by railways and other corporations in excess of their aotual needs should, by lawful means, be reolalmed by the government and held tor aotual settlers only, and private land monopoly, as well as alien ownership, should be pro hibited. Seoond We condemn the frauds by which the land grants to Paoiflo rail road oompanies have, through the con nivance of tbe interior department, robbed multitudes of bona-flde settlera of their homea and miners of their olaims, and we demand legislation by oongress which will enforce the exemp tion of mineral land from suoh grants after, as well as before, patenting. Third We demand that bona fide settlers on all publio lands be granted free homes, as provided in the national homestead law, and tbat no exception be made in tbe case of Indian reserva tions when opened for settlement, and that all lands not now patented oome under this demand. Direct Legislation. We favor a system ot direot legisla tion through the initiative and referen dum, under proper constitutional safe guards. General Propositions. First We demand the election ot president, vice-president and United States senators by direot vote of the people. Seoond We tender to the patriotio people of Cuba our deepest sympathy in their struggle for political freedom and independence, and we believe the time baa oome when the United States, the great republio of tbe world, should recognize that Cuba ia, and of right ought to be, a free and independent atate. Third We favor home rule in the territories and tbe Distriot of Colum bia, and the early admission of the ter ritories as states. Fourth All publio salaries shonld be made to correspond to the price of labor and its products. Fifth In times of great industrial depression, idle labor should be em ployed on publio works as far as prac ticable. Sixth The arbitrary oourse of the court in assuming to imprison oitizens for indirect contempt and ruling them by injunotion should be prevented by proper legislation. Seventh We favor just pensions fur every disabled Union soldier. Eighth Believing that the eleotion franchise and untrammeied ballot are essential to a government ot, tor and by the people, the People's party con demns the wholesale system of disfran chisement adopted in some of the states as unrepublioan and undemocratic, and we declare it to be the duty of tbe sev eral state legislatures to take suoh ao tion as will seoure a full and free and fair ballot and an honest oount Ninth While the foregoing proposi tions constitute tbe platform whioh our party stands upon and for the vindica tion of its organization will be main tained, we recognize tbat the great and pressing issue of tbe pending campaign upon which tbe presidential election will turn, is the finanoial question, and upon this great and specifio issue between the parties we cordially invite the aid and co-operation of all organi zations and oitizens agreeing with us upon this vital question. A METEOR IN MEXICO. Carried Down the Side of a Mountain In Its Fall. Mexico, July 37. A remarkable phenomenon at the mine of Carlos Reyes, in the state of Chihuahua, oc curred at 8 o'clock yesterday. A tee menduous explosion was heard and an enormous mass of burning matter was seen to fall from the heavens, striking the side of the mountain and bringing with it in its oourse entire oliffs, and finally plunged 700 feet into the ground making a hole from whioh boiling water still issues. . One of the most singular pehnomena observed was the heavy rain falling from the sky immediately after the descent of the meteor. The people are very supersti tious, as this is one of the many reali zations of the prophecies of tbe vision seeing girl of Tobasoo. The same meteor destroyed tbe house of a miner killing his two obildren. Fired on an American Ship. The sohooner Governor J, Y. Smith, Captain Patrick, from Gibrara, Cuba, to Wilmington, N. C, has arrived at quarantine, at Southport N. C. The sohooner left Gibrara July 14. Two days later, while off the Cuban ooast in the neighborhood of Neuvitas har bor, she passed a Spanish gunboat about a mile and a half away. The gunboat opened fire on the schooner, Bending a solid shot over her deck. The shell fell in the sea a quarter of a mile to starboard, doing no damage. Captain Patriok immediately ran up the American ensign and left the neighborhood as quiokly as possible. He was not able to learn the name of the gunboat, wbioh remained station ary, firing no more shots. . It is ex peoted that Captain Patriok will make an offloial report, as the schooner is entered at the custom-house. Fatal Shooting Accident. A fatal shooting aocident occurred at Addy, Wash. Thomas Smith's boy, 17 years old, shot and instantly killed the son of H. Skeel, about 14 years old. The Smith boy had taken a rifle with him to sohool for the purpose ot kill ing birds on .bis way. Returning home with a number of children, he shot at a mark on a tree, the bullet glanoing and penetrating the heart of the Skeel boy, killing him instantly. There were a number of children stand ing around at the time. An inquest will be held, as different rumors seem to exist THE SILVER CONVENTION. Bryan Nominated for Preeldent and Bewail lor Vice-President. St Louis, Mo. At tbe first day's session of the silver convention not muoh headway was made. The pro gramme of the conference was all ar ranged in advance. It inoluded simply the adoption of a 16-to-l platform and the nomination of Bryan and Sewall, but those in oharge of it deemed it good polioy to go alow in the belief that they might, by remaining in season, be able to exercise an influence in shaping things in tbe Populist convention. To . Vl 4 Anil tVl M .nMlnhul " mmv. 1 . seven, beaded by Judge Scott, of Call fornia, to meet a similar oommittee of the Populists for the purpose of reach ing a common Dlan of action. The ! convention was oalled to order by Na tional Chairman Mott, who introduced Francis B. Newlands, of Nevada, as temporary chairman. Mr. Newlands addressed the convention at some length, and was followed by other speakers setting forth the olaima of the silverites. The Seoond Day. the seoond day's session of the silver convention was given over to speeches and songs. No business of any im portance was transacted. The ladies were in evidenoe, and the assembly was addressed by Mrs. Helen Conger, of Indiana, who denounoed the gold bug monopolists as "Wall street plu tocrats" and "English bond sharks" and said tbe only salvation of the peo ple from serfdom was to declare for the free coinage of silver. The Third Day. It was ten minutes to 11 o'olock when Chairman St John oalled the silver convention to order. G. W. Baker, of California, said that the People's Party convention had appoint a conference committee and moved that the convention defer aotion on the platform and postpone the nom ination until 8:80 P. M. The motion prevailed. No business was transacted during the day, the time being taken up in tbe rendering of silver speeches, poems and songs. Friday night, after tbe oommittee of seven appointed to confer with the Populists, bad reported that no agree ment oould be reached, the convention proceeded to close its business. Tbe platform was read 'and adopted with out change. A motion was then made to nominate Bryan and Sewall by ac clamation. ' Amid muoh exoitement the motion carried. The convention then adjourned sine die. The Platform. The demonetization of silver in 1878 enormously inoreased the demand for gold, enbanoing the purchasing power and lowering all prices measured by that standard, and since that unjust and indispensable aot, the prices of ! AmnrinAn rtrnrlnntji have fnllnn nnnn on average nearly 50 per oent, carrying down with them proportionately the money value of all other forms of prop erty. Such fall of prices has destroyed tbe profits of legitimate industry, in juring the produoer for the benefit ot tbe non-producer, increasing the bur. den of the debtor, swelling the gains of the creditor, paralyzing the productive energies of the American people, rele gating to idleness vast numbers of willing workers, sending the shadows of despair into the home of the honest toiler, filling the land with tramps and paupers, and building up colossal for tunes at the money centers. In tbe effort to maintain the gold standard, the oountry has, within the last four years, in a time of profound peace and plenty, been loaded down with a $263,000,000 of additional interest-bearing debt, under suoh oir oumtsances as to allow a syndicate ot native and foreign bankers to realize a net profit of millions on a single deal. ' It stands oonfessed that the gold standard can only be upheld by so de pleting our paper currency as to foroe tbe prices of our products below the European and below tbe Asiatio level, and enable us to sell in foreign mar kets, thus aggravating the very misery of whioh our people so bitterly com plain, degrading Amerioan labor and striking at the foundations ot our civ ilization itself. The advocates of the gold standard persistently claim that the cause of our distress is overproduction; that we have produced so muoh that it has made us poor; whioh implies that the true remedy is to close the faotory, abandon the farm and throw a multi tude of people out of employment, a doctrine tbat leaves us disheartened and without hope for tbe future. We affirm it to be unqestionable tbat there can be no suoh economio paradox as overproduction and at the same time tens of thousands of our fellow-citizens remain half-slothed and half fed, and who are piteously olamoring for the common necessities of life. -, Inasmuoh as the patriotio majority of the Chicago convention embodied in the finanoial plank ot its platform the principles enunoiated by the Amerioan bimetallio party, promulgated at Wash ington, D. C, January 33, 1896, and herein reiterated, whioh is not only paramount, but the only real issue in the pending oanuaign; therefore, reo ognizing that their nominees embody these patriotio principles, we recom mend that this convention nominate W. J. Bryan, of Nebraska, for presi dent, and Arthur Sewall, of Maine, for vioe-president. A cloudburst occurred a Springfield, O., flooding everything. People in the I East End moved up stairs on aooount j ot the overflow of Buck oreek. Front ! and North streets were partially under ; water. A orowd of oampers at Red mond mill were perohed in trees all night. The magnifloent Snyder Park, ; costing $35,000 is almost ruined.' In Europe thrushes buld ' their nesfti at near to human habitations aa they oan, to escape the persecutions of the 1 magpies. ";,'.. AMERICANS EXECUTED. Shot aa Filibuster by Spaniards la Cnba. Key West, July 39. Twelve of the filibusters reoently landed in Cuba by the steamer Three Friends have been killed by the Spaniards, aooording to letters reoeived here. They were land ed near Havana. A small band ot in surgents were in waiting and took th arms to the mountains. While wait ing they were discovered by a Spanish column. The filibusters fled into tbe forest and for four days were without food. On the fifth day, after some had died of heat and exhaustion, they met some insurgents who undertook to guide them to a place", safety. Soon after meeting the scouts they rsn into a Spanish column and were foroed to scatter. Gabriel Offall and Louis Payroll, of Key West; James Floyd, ot Columbus, O., and Pea roe Atkins, whose relatives are a Jacksonville family, are among the killed. The names of the others killed have not been heard. Tbe other members of the expedition reached an Insurgent camp. REGISTRATION FRAUDS. Wholesale Violation of the Law la Saa Franciaeo City Hall. San Franoisoo, July 39. Unmistak able signs of fraud have been discov ered in the registration at the main office in the oity hall, and it has also been found that many of the successful applicants for places on the precinct boards resorted to falsehood to make themselves eligible. The frauds in registration were discovered by Regis trar Hinton's deputies, and the discov eries concern lntr the nrecinst snnnintswn was made by men employed by the ueisoorano and Kepublioan committees, under the supervision of Max Poppet and T. J. L. Smiley. Doubtless muoh wrongdoing of the same kind will be disolosed. The grand jury's attention waa called bv the eleotion onmmiaainn. era today to fraud already ascertained. Mr. smiley said there were perhaps 50. oases of men having registered as resi dents in preoinots wherein they do not live, so as to get appointed on registra tion boards. WORK OF WRECKERS. Laid Trap for Passenger Train, bat Caught a Freight. Sun Franoisoo, July 38. An attempt was made to wreck a passenger train on the Southern Paoiflo, near Niles, to day, but instead, a local freight train waa toppled over fifty-foot embank ment The engineer, fireman and brakeman were badly but not fatally hurt Three oars went over with tha engine. A rail had been placed so that when the engine atruok it it would be lifted off the traok and sent down a steep embankment It is thought the intention was to wreck the passenger train due two hours later. The injured are John Edwards, engineer; Fireman Hurd, Brakeman Wright The rail road ooiupany immediately sent a wrecking train to the soene and a foroe of detectives is investigating the wreck and soouring the oountry to cap ture the miscreants. Had the passen ger train gone over, the loss of life would have been large, as the spot ia a dangerous one. IN A NARROW GORGE. Brash With Hatabelee In the Matoppo Hilts. . London, July 38. The following Buluwayo dispatoh has been reoeived by the Chronicle: , JNionoison s natrol. 800 stronir. waa yesterday oheoked in a narrow gorge at tne nortn 01 tne Matoppo hills, leading to Laugua' stronghold. The enemv in great strength occupied an impreg nable position, and they were fully equipped with rifles and ammunition. The straightnesa of their shooting was remaruaoie. The Cane "bovs" (with Niohnlnnn'a patrol) cleared the neighboring heights of the enemy, killing twenty of tbe rerjeis, out a ganant attempt to force a passage was obecked by a heavy fire from the oaves studding the mountains, delivered at olose range. ' Nicholson lost but five troopers and two Cape "boys" in a few minutes. He therefore withdrew his forces, and returned to the oamp. ; A MOTHER'S CRIME. Drowned Her Two Children and Tried to Follow Them. . Camden, N. J., July 39. Mrs. Mary Hermann, 80 years old, of 981 South Fourth street, drowned her two infant ohildren and tried to drown herself to night in tbe Delaware river. She tied the hands of one obild and tbe feet of the other and took a large dose ot car bolic aoid. Then, holding a ohild in eaoh arm, she leaped overboard. Two boatmen saw her jump, and dragged her out ot the water as she was going down for the third time.' She oannot live. Domestic troubles oansed her wish to die. When Mrs, Hermann's husband heard of her crime, he at tempted to oommit suicide by cutting his throat, but the police wrested th weapon from his hands before he in jured himself. ' He was looked up. ; The oldest national flag in the world is the that of Denmark, whioh hat been in use since the year 1319. A Student's Suicide. ' Philadelphia, " July 39. Emmett ; Hall, 33 years old, of Indianapolis, jumped from , the steamboat HavaM into Delaware bay, while returning, from an excursion, His body wss not reoovered. Hall if said. to. have been ft , stjndent at VloMi 'wBege,'b'ut' toqvJbT failed to.wivwn'h psWs,ioj at.'"-,-- noiutW MQ.a.vti iCoioMdoi, it tV I wid an rothuslutiolilqycU.. i