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Lincoln Coanty Ltsadsr J. F. SIKH'AKT. FuI.M.Ikt. TOLEDO OKK'iON I NEW8 OF I WEEK Comprehensive Kevlew of tbe Import ant Happenings of the Fftit Week Colled From the Telegraph Column. Cleveland, O., is celebrating it cen tennial with due ceremony. News comes from the Washington state Republican headquarters that the state convention will probably be held t Tacoma, tome time between August 15 and September 15. Hon. Samuel Layman, a prominent and well-known Oregonian, died at his home near Woodburn from the effects of injuries which he sustained tome weeks ago by falling from a cherry tree. Mr. Layman was 63 years of age. A meeting of representatives from the large foreign banking-bouses was held in New York, to consider plans for the protection of the troasnry pnld reserve. It is understood a plan was arranged to ease the exchange market until the crop movement starts the balance in our favor. A San Francisco dispatch says: Ed win B. Webster, the young paymaster who was recently court-martialed at Mare Island and found guilty of a charge of embezzlement, does not in tend to abide by the judgment of the court. He will appeal to President Cleveland for clemency before the navy department shall have an oppor tunity to pass upon the recently found verdict Percival Lowell, Boston's famous astronomer, who is now on his way to Flagstaff, Ariz., is at the head of the most important scientific expedition planned for more than half a century. The object of the expedition is to make observations on Mars, and to procure, if possible, evidence to support the theory held by Mr. Lowell- and other astronomers that the "red star of war" is inhabited by human beings. Three members of the revolutionary committee have just arrived in Athens from Crete on a special mission. In the course of an interview they made the following statement on an author ity of their committee: "We wish to say it has been decided that we must have granted to us the demands we have sent to the sultan or else we shall fight. The powers must either give us autonomy or see us crushed. Should our demands be neglected, then within fifteen days of July 15, the date at which they were made, we shall break the armistice." Advices from Hong Kong Bay that imperial Chinese troops were recently sent to Lanchou to suppress the Mo hammedan rebels, who bad risen against the authorities. The rebels urrounded the imperial troops and seem 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 lug. The rebels are now mad for blood, massacreiug all in authority, killing and pillaging on their triumph ant march through the country. Chinatown in Han Francisco is in a fever of excitement and another high binder wur has been declared. Cloclin's sawmill, situated on Deep creek, near Medical lake, Wash., was burned to the ground. The loss is 12,600. Cholera is abating in Egypt. Bat tles in Crete are almost of hourly occur rence, and the Turks have Buffered heavy losses, The rpmainn nf Ed Mnr,.n fn,i floating in h Pnv.iinn riv, t.- is supposed to have drowned himself on June 80 last The storthing, the representative body of Norway, has defeated the bill for the temporary increase of duties ou petroleum and sugar, and for the Imposition of a duty ou meat. Mrs. T. H. Tofree, who was (trover Cleveland's1 secretary while he was mayor of Buffalo, committed suicide in Mojave, Cal. , by drinking carbolic acid. It 1h supposed she was temporarily in sane. Ad jutant-General Tuttle has received from the secretary of the state of Ore gon a warrant for 15,1117, with which to pay the militia boys fur their serv ices at Astoria during the recent fishing troubles. Near Dryden, Mich., George Kwayne, a farmer, about 45 years uld, killed his three small children and set fire to bis house, then blew his brains out His wife died a short time ago. It is thought that this deranged his mind. Tho barkeutiue Herbert Fuller, Cap tain Nash, from Boston for liosario, has put into Halifax, Novia Scotia. There had been a mutiny on board. The captain, his wife ami the second mate worn killed in their berths iu tho night. The first officer, who was ou watch, know uothiug about the affair. The murderer or murderers crawled aft to the cabin, descended, and with axes chopped the victims to death. I" pen the arrival of the barkeutiue all the crew were locked up in the polio uition to await trial. THE SILVER CONVENTION. ISryna Nominated for President and Bewail :or Vlce-Prr.i.iei.t. St Louis, Mo. At the trx day's session of the silver convention lid much headway was made. Tae pro gramme of the conference was ail ar ranged in advance. It include'! simply the adoption of a 16-to-l platform and the nomination of Bryan and Sewail. but those in charge of it deemed it good policy to go slow in the belief that they might, by remaining in sessoi, be able to exercise an influence in shaping things in the Populist convention. To this end, they appointed a committ 'f seven, headed by Judge Scott, of Cali fornia, to meet a Eimilar committee of the Populists for the purpose of reach ing a common plan of acticn. The convention was called 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 claims of the eilverites. The Second Day. The second day's session of the silver convention was given over to speeches and song3. No business of aDy im portance was transacted. The ladies weie in evidence, anu tne assembly was addressed by Mrs. Helen Conger, of Indiana, who denounced the gold bug monopolists as "Wall street plu tocrats" and "English bond sharks" and said the only salvation of the peo ple from serfdom was to declare for the free coinage of silver. The Third IJay. It was ten minutes to 11 o'clock when Chairman St. John called 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 Action on the platform and postpone the nom ination until 3:30 P. M. The motion prevailed. No business was transacted during the day, the time being taken up in the rendering of silver speeches, poems and songs. Friday night, after the committee of seven appointed to confer with the Populists, had reported that no agree ment could be reached, the convention proceeded to close its business. The platform was read and adopted with out change. A motion was then made to nominate Biyan and Sewall by ac clamation. Amid much excitement the motion carried. The convention then adjourned sine die. The riHtrorm. The demonetization of silver in 1ST3 enormously increased the demand for gold, enhancing the purchasing power and lowering all prices measured by that standard, and since that unjust and indispensable act, the prices of American products have fallen upon an average nearly 50 per cent, carrying down with them proportionately the money value of all other forms of prop erty. Such fall of prices has destroyed the profits of legitimate industry, in juring the producer for the benefit of the 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 the effort to maintain the gold standard, the oouutry has. within the last four years, in a time of profound peace and plenty, been loaded down with a 1262,000,000 of additional in terest-bearing dobt, under such cir cumtsances as to allow a syndicate of native and foreign bankers to realize a net profit of millions on a single deal. It stands confessed that the gold- "andard can only be upheld by so de pleting our paper currency as to force l?8 priceg of our Pr0(1nct8 .low the buruironu aui luiow me Asiatic level, and enable ns to sell in foreign mar kets, thus aggravating the very misery of which our people so bitterly com plain, degrading Amerioan labor and striking at the foundations of 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 much that it has made us poor; which implies that the true remedy is to close the factory, abandon the farm and throw a multi tude of people out of employment, a doctrine that leaves us disheartened and without hope for the future. We affirm it to beunqestinnable that there can be no such ecomunio paradox overproduction and at the same time ens ' thousands of our fellow-citizens remain half-clothed and half fed, and who are piteously clamoring for the common necessities of life. Inasmuch as the patriotic majority of the Chicago convention embodied iii the financial plauk of its platform the principles enunciated by the American bimetallio party, promulgated at Wash ington, D. C, January 22. ISiKi, and herein reiterated, which is not only paramount, but the only real issue iii the pending campaign; therefore, rec ognizing that their mmiiuees embody these patriotio principles, wo reeoui meud that this convention uouiinato W. J. Bryan, of Nebraka. for "vul; "u" Ar"ur sewall, of Maine lor "ce-pwH.ieut The "Boy Orator of the Platte" IyThrice Chosen ON A FREE SILVER PLATFORM Sewall, HoweTer. Was Not Acceptable, and Thomas F. Watson, of Georgia, Is GiTen Second Place on the Ticket. William Jennings Bryan, of Ne braska, who was nominated bv the Democratic national convention at Chi sago, a fortnight ago, was, Saturday, at St Louis, made the standard-bearer of the People's party by a vote of 1,012 to 321. The Democratic candidate was nomi nated in the face of bis own protest, in the shape of a telegram, directing the withdrawal of his name, sent to Sena tor Jones, after Sewall, his running mate, had been ditched for the vice presidential nomination Friday nighr, and Thomas F. Watson, of Georgia, had been named for the second place on the ticket, it was also made in the face of an opposition so bitter that, after the convention adjourned, some cf the radicals held a "rump" conven tion. The last session of the convention, which lasted from 9:30 o'clock in the morning until 5 o'clock in the evening, was marked by 6cenes of turbulence V J Bryan. and noisy excitement, which several times bordered on actual riot, and which almost precipitated personal col lisions. The Texas delegates headed the opposition and clung to th6 middle of the road to the last. The Populist Bryan managers decid ed early Saturday to disregard Mr Bryan's telegram of Fridiy and tc nominate him and straighten out the tangle afterwards. They started out to rush his nomination through before any other candidate could be put in the field. General Weaver, of Iowa, the Popu list candidate in 1892, in a masterly address, placed Bryan in nomination, and General Field, of Virginia, who was formerly Weaver's running mate, after a brief speech, moved to make the nomination nuanimous. About fifty seconding speeches were then made, and some of them were both eloquent and brilliant. The middle-of-the-road contingent insisted upon knowing at every oppor tunity whether, in view of his tele gram, Bryan won'd stand on the plat form and accept the nomination. But all these pointed questions were neatly parried. Judge Green, of Nebraska, and others, vouched for Bryan's sym pathy with Populistic principles, "but that was all the satisfaction the radi cals could get. A roll-call by states was taken, and when it was completed, it was found that Bryan had 1,012 out of the 1 ,341 votes in the convention. Frank S. Norton, of Chicago, was the only othei candidate. Ignatius Donnelly, of Min nesota, and General Coxey, of Ohio, were nominated, but their names werf withdrawn. Norton received 821 votes, Debs 10, and Donnelly 1. Norton go! the majority of the solid vote of Texas, Michigan, Missouri, Rhode Island anc Wisconsin, and a respectable portion of the votes of Alabama, California, Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio. The demonstration when Bryan wa declared to be the choice of the conven tion lasted fifteen minutes, and vas fully as enthusiastic as that tendered the Nebraska man at the Chicago con vention. Saturday morning a motion was1 in troduced and carried that the national committee lie given plenary power it all things couuuected with the party. The Vlce-I'renlrientlal Nominee, Thomas F. Watson, of Georgia, whe was a member of the Fiftv-first con gress. and who, in the Fifty-second and Fifty-third congresses, unsuccess fully contested Colonel Black's seat, was nominated for vice-president In the convention on the first ballot, short ly after midnight Friday night. Thf nomination was made unanimous be fore the result of the roll-cull was an nounced. The nominating speeches exactly six hours. occupied The convention adjourned after Bryan had been declared the nominee. ff7 POPULIST PLATfORM. Adopted br the National Convention Held at St. Louis, i Following is the Populist platform, ; as agreed upon by the committee on resolutions and adopted by the St Louis convention: The People's Party, assembled in na- j tional convention, reaffirms its allegi ance to the principles declared by the ! founders of the republic, and also to 1 the fundamental principles of just gov- ! ernment as enunciated in the platform j of the party in 192. We recognize that, through the connivance of the , present and preceding administrations, ; the country has reached a crisis in its national life, as predicted in our dec- : laration four years ago, and that prompt and patriotic action is the su- preme duty of the hour. We realize j that, while we have political independ- ; ence, our financial and industrial in- ; dependence is yet to be obtained by re- j storing to our country the constitution- i al control and exercise of the functions 1 necessary to a people's government, which functions have been basely sur- rendered by our public servants to cor- 1 porate monopolies. The influence of European money changers has been more potent in shaping legislation than the voice C tlto American peopiej Executive power and patronage have been used to corrupt our legislatures and defeat the will of the people, and ; plutocracy has thereby been enthroned ' upon the ruins of democracy. To re- store the government intended by the fathers of the country, for the welfare j and prosperity of this and future gen- j erations, we demand the establishment ! of an economic and financial system ! which shall make ns masters of our own affairs and independent of Eu ropean control by the adoption of the following declaration of principles: Finance. First We demand a national money, cafe 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, public and private; a just, equitable and efficient means of distribution direct to the people and through the lawful disbursements of the government. Second We demand the free and nnrestricted coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, and without waiting for the consent of foreign nations. Third We demand that the vol ume of circulating medium be speedily increased to an amount sufficient to meet the demands of the business and the population of this country, and to restore the just level of prices and la bor production. Fourth We denounce the sale of bonds and the increase 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 specific action of congress. Fifth We demand such legislation as will prevent the demonetizing of the lawful money of the United States by private contract. Sixth We demand that the govern ment, in payment of its obligations, shall use its option as to the kind of lawful money in which they are to be paid, and we denounce the present and preceeding administrations for surren dering this option to the holders of government obligation securities. Seventh We demand a graduated income tax, to the end that aggregate wealth shall bear its just proportion of taxation, and we regard the recent de cision of the supreme court, relative to the income-tax law, as a misinterpreta tion of the constitution, an invasion of the rightful powers of congress on the subject 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 facilitate ex change. Transportation. First Transportation being a means of exchange and a publio necessity, the government should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people on a nonpartisan basis, to the end that all may be accorded the same treatment in transportation, and that the tyranny of political power, now exercised by the great railroad corporations, which result in the impairment, if not the destruction of the political rights and personal liberty of the citizen may be destroyed. Such ownership is to be accomplished gradually in a manner consistent with sound publio policy. Second The interest of the T7nirrl States in the publio highways built with public moneys and the proceeds of extensive gTants of land to the Pa cifio railroads should never have been alienated, mortgaged or sold, but guarded and protected for the general welfare as provided by the laws organ izing such railroads. The foreclosure of existing liens of the United States on these roads should at once follow default in the payment thereof by the debtor companies, and at the fore closure sales of said roads the govern ment should purchase the sams, if it becomes necessry. to protect its inter ests, or if they can be purchased at a reasonable price, 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, under suitable provisions for pro tection of life and property, giving to all the transpoitation interests equal privileges and equal rates for fares tt. freights. Third We denounce the present j famous schemes for refunding the a- HoVira onrl H.manrl trio a 1 ' - laws 115, appucaoie mereio oe executed aadjc ministered according to their true j. tent and spirit. Fourth The telegraph, like the n- office system, being a necessity for transaction of news, should be own ana operatea oy tne government in 4 interest of the people. 1-anU. First The true policy demands ri-. the national and state legislation V be such as will ultimately eaj1 every prudent and industrious cita to secure a home, and therefore tt, land should not be monopolized speculative purposes. All lands n0 held by railways and other corporation; in excess 01 tneir actual needs should oy lawiui means, De reclaimed by tki government and held for actual settlers only, and private land monopoly, u well as alien ownership, should be pro. niDitea. Second We condemn the frauds bi which the land grants to Pacific rail road companies have, through the con nivance of the interior department, robbed multitudes of bona-fide wn,. of their homes and miners of their claims, and we demand legislation bv congress which will enforce the exemp tion of mineral land from such grants alter, as weii as Deiore, patentinz. Third AVe demand that bona fide settlers on all publio lands be granted free homes, as provided in the national homestead law, and that no exception be made in the case of Indian reservi. tions when opened for settlement, and that all lands not now patented conn under this demand. Direct Legislation. We favor a system of direct legisU iton through the initiative and referen. dum, under proper constitutional safe- guaras. General Propositions. First We demand the election of president, vice-president and United States senators by direct vote of the people. Second We tender to the patriotic people of Cuba our deepest sympathy in their struggle for political freedom and independence, and we believe the time has come when the United State!, the great repnblio of the world, should recognize that Cuba is, and of right ought to be, a free and independent state. Third We favor borne rule in the territories and the District of Colnn. bia, and the early admission of the ter ritories as states. Fourth All tlnhlin snlaripn shnnlfl be made to correspond to the price of laDor ana its products. Fifth In times of crest industrial denression. idle labor should be em ployed on publio works as far as prac- ilea dir. Sixth The arbitrarv course of the court in assuming to imprison citizen! zor inairect contempt ana ruling tnen by injunction should be rrevented bj proper legislation. Seventh We favor just pensions for every disabled Union soldier. Eighth Believing that the election franchise and untrammeied ballot are essential to a government of, for and bv the nflonle. thft Ponnla'a nnrrv con demns the wholesale system of disfran chisement adopted in some of the states as unrepublican and undemocratic, and we declare it to be the duty of the sev eral state legislatures to take such ac tion as will secure a full and free and fair ballot and an honest count. NinfhWVtila tVia fro-arrnincr nrnnOSi- . . . 1 r tions constitute the platform which our party stands upon and for the vindica tion ft to A.in 1 n t.a main. tained. we recosnizn that the creat and pressing issue of the pending campaign upon wnicn tne presidential election will turn, is the financial question, and unnn this oroat anil anif1n isaoe between the parties we cordially invite the aid and co-operation of all organi zations and citizens agreeing with n upon tnis vital question. rinil on .n A.. ailn. .-'.'.-". ------- The schooner Governor J. Y. Smith. CAntAin Pfltrinlr 1evn liiUraya Pnhl. r .u. ...... to Wilmington, N. C, has arrived at quarantine, at Southnort N. C. The schooner left Gibrara Jnlv 14. Two days later, while off the Cuban coast in the neighborhood of Neuvitas har bor, she passed a Spanish gunboat about a mile and a half awav. The gunboat onened fire on the schooner, fipnriinc a anlfl ek.l a A. V,am AecV. The shell fell in the sea a quarter of a, mile to starboard, doing no damage Captain Patrick immediately ran np me American ensiun and lelt u" neishborhood ns nnioVlv an nossiblfr He was not able to learn the name 0! the gunboat, which remained station- . ary, firing no more sbotB. It is .' I pected that Captain Patrick will m. an Official rpnnrr na rha anhnnner ll entered atihe custom-house. According to recent experiments o? Weber the normal temperature of the incandescent electric lamp is between 1,565 degrees and 1.5&5 degrees. In India there is a species of butter fly in which the male has the left wing yellow and the right wing red. TH? colors on the female are vice versa. The first modern bridge of which hi tory makes mention was the famon' Sublician bridiza of Rome. It erected in the seventh century.