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VOLT X
HILLSBORO. OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY 30. 1806.
NO. 19.
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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.
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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
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