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HARRISON'S LITTER.
He Formally Accepts the ttepublican
Nomination.
The Principles and Policy of Eis
Party Endorsed.
BE.VJAMIJT HARRISON.
Tbe following is in substance President
Harrison's letter accepting toe nepumirau
nomination for the office of President of th?
United States:
"Washington. D. C., Sept. 3, 1892.
"Hod. William McKinley, Jr., and OthersCommittee.
Etc.
"Gentlemen?I now avail myself of the
first period of relief from public duties to
respond to the notification which you
brought to me on June 20. of my nomination
for the office of President of the United
Stalss by the Republican National Convention,
recently held at Minneapolis. I accept
the nomination, and am grateful for the approval
expressed by the convention of the
acts of the administration.
"The great work of the Fifty-first Congress
has been subjected to the revision of a
Democratic House of Representatives, and
the acts of the Executive Department to its
scrutiny anl investigation. Ther? has seldom
b?en a time. I think, when ? changt
from the declared policies of the Republican
to the declared policies of the Democratic
Party involved such serious results to th9
* * ?*r. ak fhn /? *!! ntrtr "
Dullness lUieresia v.
Here Mr. Harrison writes at length on the
currency question. He continues:
"Pew subjects have elicited more discussion
or excited more general interest
tban that of a recovery by the United
Sr--?- its appropriate share of the
ciw^-carrying trade. This subject touches
not only our pockets, out our National
pride. The great ships?the fastest upon
the sea?which are now in peace profiting by
our traae. are, in a secondary sense, war
ihips of their respective Governments.
"It was plain to ev?jry intelligent American
that if the United States would have
such lines, a similar policy must be entered
upon. The Fifty-first Congress enacted such
a law; and, under its benaHcent influence
sixteen American steamships, of an aggregate
tonnage of 57,400 tons, and oosting
$7,400,000 have been built, or contracted to
be buiit, in American shipyards.
"In addition to this it is now practically
certain that we shall soon have under the
American flag one of the finest steamship
lines sailing out of New York for any
European port. This contract will result in
the construction in American yards of four
new passenger steamships of 10,000 tons
each, costing about IS, 000,003, and will add
nnr 'V*vfil Reserve six steamships, the
fastest upon the sea.
"The Democratic Party has found no
place in its platform for any reference to
this subject, and has shown its hostility to
the general policy by refusing to expend an
appropriation made during the last administration
for ocean mail contracts with
American lines.
On the snbject of reciprocity President
Harrison writes:
"Another related measure, as furnishing
an increased ocean traffic for our ships, and
of great and permanent benefit to tbe farmers
and manufacturers as well, is tbe reciprocity
policv declared by Section 8 of the
Tariff act of 1890 and now in practical operation
with five of the Nations of Central and
South America, San Domingo the Spanish
and British West India Islands, and with
Germany and Austria, under special trade
arrangements with each.
"The removal of the duty on sugar and
the continuance of coffee and tea upon the
free list, while giving great relief to our
own people by cneapening articles used increasingly
in every household, was also of
such enormous advantage to the countries
exporting these articles as to suggest that
in consideration thereof reciprocal favors
should be shown in their tariffs to articles
exported by us to their markets.
"Great credit is due to Mr. Blaine for the
Tigor with which he pressed this view upon
the country. We have only begun to realize j
tne Denenc ot mese iraueojiau^tuiculo. j. uc
work of creating new agencies and of adapting
our goods to new markets has necessarily
taken time, but the results already attained
are such, I am sure, as to establish in
popular favor the policy of reciprocal trade,
based upon the frw importation of such
articles as do not injuriously compete with
the products of our own farms, mines or
factories, in exchange for the free or favored
introduction of our products into other
countries.
"1 he obvious efficacy of this policy in increasing
the foreign trade of the United
States at once attracted the alarmed attention
of European trade journals and boards
of trade. Tne British Board of Trade has
presented to that Government a memorial
asking for the appointment of a commission
tKo Kucf mnan q r?f rvMinUraefcinp
?AJ VUUOtUWi kww ww? m
what is called 'the commercial crusade of
the United States.'
"The Democratic platform promises a repeal
of the tariff law containing this provision,
and denounces as a 'sham reciprocity'
that section of the law under which these
trade arrangements have been made. It no
other issue were involved in the campaign
this alone would give it momentous import*
nee.
"The declaration of the platform in
favor of The American Doctrine ol
Protection' meets my most heartv approval.
The convention did not adopt a
schedule, but a principle that is to control
ail tariff schedules. There may be diff?r?
races of opinion among protectionists as to
the rate upon particular articles necessary
to effect ar. equalization between wagea
abroad and at home.
"Once or twice in our history the production
of tin plate had been attempted, and
the prices obtained by the Welsa makers
wouli have enabled our makers to produce
it at a profit. But the Welsh makers at
once cut prices to a point that drove the
American beginners out of the business;
and. when this was accomplished, again
m?Hp thpir own nrices.
"But ia spite of the doubts rais&d by the
eleciioas of 1890 and ef the machinations ot
foreign producers to maintain their monopoly,
the tin plate industry has beep established
in the United States, and the allianca
between the Welsh producers and the Democratic
Party for its destruction will not suoceed.
"Thig tariff law has given emploment
to many thousands of American men
and women, and will each year jiv9 employment
to increasing thousand?. It*
??m/mlrl thrrvw thousands ouft of
employment and eive work to others
only at reduced wages. I rerret that ail
employers of labor are not just and con*
siderate and that capital sometimes tikes
too large a share of the profit*. But I do
not see that th??s3 evils will be ameliorated
by a tariff po'.icf, the first nec?ssjiry effect
of which is a severe wage cut, and th? sec.md
a larze diminution of the aggregate amount
of work to be done in this country.
"No infw'iieent adv-vat? of a protective
tariff claims that it is able, o'
itself, to maintain a uniform rate of
wag??, without regard to fluctuations in
ko ?.?nn.v of and demand for the
products of labor. But it is confidently
claimed that protective duties strorgly tend
to hold up wages, and are the only harrier
against a reduction to the Eurooean scal<?."
In regard to the Federal Election bill Mr.
Harrison says: In my last annual message
to Oonjresa I said:
"We must yet entertain the hope that it is
possible to secure a cilm. Datriotic consideration
of such Constitutional or statutory
changes as may be necassary to secure the
choiciof the officers of the Government to
the people by fair apportionments and
free elections. I believe it would
be possible to constitute a com
mission, non-partisan in its members
lip anrt composed of patriotic, wise and
impartial men, to whim a consideration of
the questions of the evilsconnectei with our
election systems and methods might be committed
with a cooi prospect of securing
unanimity in some plan for removing or
mitigating those evils.
The Constitution would permit the sslectiou
o? the commission to b9 vested in the
Supreme Court if that method would give
the best guaranty of impartiality. This commission
should be charged with the duty of
inquiriug into the whole subject af the law
of elections as related ti tne choice of officers
of the National Government, with a view
to securing to every elector a ires ana unmolested
exercise of the suffrage and as near
an approach to an equality of value in each
ballot cast as is attainable. * * * The
demand that the limitations of suffrage
shall b3 founi in the law, and only there,
is a just demand, and no just man should resent
cr resist it.
It seems to me that an appeal to our people
to consider tho question of readjusting
our legislation upon absolutely fair nonpartisin
lines mignt flGd some effective response.
Many times I hnve had occasion to
say that laws and election methods designed
to give unfair advantages to the party makinz
them would some time ba used to par- !
petuate in power a faction of a party against
4U* * ?v>r?TT AP f.ha nAnnlp.
VliV TT1U KJL a Uiaji/1 i VJ Vk
Of this we saera to have an illustration in
the recant State election in Alabama. There
was no Republican ticket in the field. The
contest was between white Democrats. The
Kolb party say they were refused the reoresentation
guaranteed by law upon the election
boards, and t'aat when the courts by
mandamus attempted to riqht this wrong, an
appeal that could not ba heard until after
election made the writs ineffectual. Ballot
boxes were thrown out for alleged irregularities
or destroyed, and it is asserted on
behalf ot one-half, at least, of tha white
voters of Alabama that the officers to whom
ViQT7r> Wn <ri von were not
honestly elected.
There is no security for the personal or political
rights o' any man in a community
where any other man is deprived of his parsonal
or political rights. The power of the
States over ths question of the qualification
of electors is ample to protect them against
the dangers of an ignorant or depraved suffrage,
and the demand that every man found
to be qualified under the law shall be made
secure in the rights to cast a free ballot ana
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to have that Dai lot noneswy couutou u?uuvv |
be abated.
Our old Republican battle-cry, "A frae
ballot and a fair count," comes back to
us not only from Alabama but from other
States, and from men who, differing:
with us widely in opinions, have
come to see that parties and political
debate are but a mockery if,
when the debate is euded, the judgment of
honest majorities is to be reversed by ballotbox
frauds and tally-3heet manipulations in
the interest of the party or party faction in
power.
These new political movements in the
States and the r?cent decisions of some of
the State courts against unfair apportionment
laws, encourage the hope that tbe
arbitrary and partisan election laws and
practices which have prevailed may be cor
rected by the States, t&e laws maae equai
and non-partisan, and the elections free and
honest.
The Republican Party would rejoic9 at
such a solution, as a healthy and patriotic
local sentiment is the bast assurance of free
and honest elections.
I shall again urge upon Congress that
provision be made for the appointment of a
non-partisan commission to coosider the
subject of apportionments and elections, in
their relation to the choice of Federal officers.
In conclusion the President remarks: "It
is not possible for me to refer, even in the
briefest way, to many of the topics presented
in the resolutions adopted by the convention.
Upon all that hava not been discussed I have
before publicly expressed ray views.
"A change in the perjonnel of a National
administration is of comparatively little
moment. 11 tnose exercising puuuc imixtions
are able, honest, diligent and faithful,
others possessing all these qualities
may be found to take Their "laces.
But the changes in the laws and
in administrative policies are of great
moment. When public affairs have been
given a direction and business ha3 adjusted
itself to those lines any sudden change involves
a stoppage and new business adjustments.
If the change of direction is so radical
as to bring the commercial turn-table
into use the business changes involved are
not readjustments, but reconstructions.
"The Democratic Party offers a programme
of demolition. The protective
rmii/Mr?tn which all business, even taat of
?
the importer, is now adjusted?the reciprocity
policy, the new merchant marine, ara all
to be demolished, not gradually, not taken
down, but blown up. To this programme of
destruction it has added one constructive
feature, the rs-astablishment ot State banks
of issue.
"Tne policy of the Republicau Party is,
on the other hand, distinctively a poHcy of
safe progression and development?of new
factories, niw markets and new ships. It
will subject business to no perilous changes,
but offers attractive opportunities for expansion
upon familiar lines. Very respeclully
yours, Benjamin Harrison."
THE LABOR WOULD.
A Paw compositors use both hand3.
A Boston girl runs a printing office.
English mines employ 6112 persons.
^ * *ttv ota pfnilrao in fan mnn fvt u
Lf uc? uau Oft iaca iu wu luvuum,
The 33,000 newspapers in this country employ
100,000 men.
Labob in Chicago Is better organized than
It ever was before
Wyoming, Kansas, Idaho, Nebraska and
Indiana have eight-hour laws.
An adult laboring man uses up about five
ounces of his muscle every day. *
The German Miners' Federation has at
present 223 local branches in Germany.
In Saxony about saventy per cent of the
workingmen earn less than $150 per year.
The job printers at Duluth and Superior,
Minn., have formed an eight-hour league.
The London Building Traces Council ii
composed of delegates representing 16,WJ
members.
Too DUII 1-1
ubi ovicuu iaiuv/au ompiujrco ui X UlIiAUVl*
phia are about to revive their lapsed K. of
L. assemblies.
In St. Paul. Minn., no distinction is made
iu wages of male and female teachers in the
public schools.
The percentage system for the payment
of union dues is"being discussed by the labor
organizations of Boston.
In some of the brickyards at Springwells,
Mich., scores of women, it is sai i, dig in the
pits and carry the molds.
Sixty tin works are now closed in Wales
acd 10,030 bands are idle. Many have sailod
to find employment in America.
The secret work of the Kniehts of Labor
has been translated into the German, Italian,
Swedish and Polish languages.
The report of the New Yorlt Bureau
of Labor shows an increase of over Stt, 000,?
000 paid in wanes and $31,000,000 in value of
production during 1891.
The congress of the workingmen's socialistic
revolution party adopted a resolution
in Paris, France, to send to American
miners an address of sympathy, '
Simon Wixa, a Boatou tailor, for Presi
dent, and Charles Matchett, a Williamsburg
lN. Y.) carpenter, for Vice- President, heaa
the Socialist Libor Nation xl ticket.
At Placeatia Bay, Newlouudland. alone,
1200 meo an1 women are employed in the
lobster industry. Five millions is the annual
catch, which represents $180,00J in value.
Urkat Britain has 1515 co-oparative
lnbor sucietie.-, with 1,0 >3,9tfrS members, ?55,999,070
of share capital, <2,929,705 of reserve
luna and an auiiusl bu>in?ss of #301,127,030.
.t ayofi C G. McIIillsx, of Dayton,
Oi.iy, issued a proclamation urgently at>pealing
to the population of that city w
cease ail kinds of labw aud business on
Labor Day.
H. B. McClelland, who for some time
has been teaching school in EncinaJ County,
Texa*. for $40 per mouth, has been informed
by English attorneys that he is the only heir
of his uncle, the late Lord William Moore,
of England, and is therefore the possessor of
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tnat title as well as an estate 01
Reports frora the California. vineyarai
seem to show that the grape business is being
overdone there. They are producing
more wine than can readily be disposed of,
and the result is a glut in the market and a
tumble iu prices.
THE CHOLERi
News From the Plasrne Ships
in New York Harbor.
Fearful Ravages of the Pestilence
in Europe.
According to the daily bulletins of the
Board of Health, New York City remained
from tha cholera scourge that
found such a comfortable lodging place iu
the three pest-ships lying in th9 Lower Bay.
The last bulletins issued by the Board of
Health told of a condition of affairs in
the city that is far different from that on
the Normannia and Russia, and on those two
desolate spots, Swinburne and Hoffman
Islands.
The plague is spreading there, but consolation
can be derived from the confident
prediction of Dr. Jenkins that the pestilence
will not reach the city. He firmly believes
that he can keen it in the infected territory. I
where it i9 now running riot, and where the
terror-stricken Cibin passengers of the
Normannia were kept like rats in a cageOn
the day that the bulletin just mentioned
was issued there ware ten new cases,
hut no deaths. That last statement of
fact leaves slight ground for congratulation,
of those ten who go
to make up the long list of victims,
ninety per cent, at least will go the
way of those whose bodies have been reduced
to ashe3 in the Swineburne Island crematories
within the past fourteen days.
The pest-ship Normannia, whose name is
only to be mentioned now in connection
with cholera, suffering and death, contribi
uteri eie-ht cases. and the Rugia,
which was kept up with her sister ship in
the race of death, haniel over two to the
o verworked physicians who are fighting the
dread disease. They in turn handed them
over to Dr. Byron on Swinburne Island.
Since the three cholera ships arrived there
have been thirty-one new cases and eight
deaths from the pest in the Port of New
York.
President Harrison gave orders to turn
over part of Sandy Hook an J give 500 tents
for the use of the cabin passengers from the
Normannia.
The City of New York, with Chauncey
Depew and other well-known Americans on
board, besides several other steamers, ar?
rived with no trace of the disease.
Special cables report all the steamers leaving
England crowded with Americans.
Double prices are being paid for berths, and
on some vessels new cabins have been built
nn the decks.
A guard line has been established by the
Federal authorities along the Canadian
border. All the passengers by rail or boat
will be carefully examiued.
The lower bay was so crowded with
the detained ocean liners that navigation
became difficult, if not dangerous. The
terrors of possible collision were added to
the terrors of the present plague.
There were daily additions to the fleet of
steamships idly but anxiously rocking at
anchor in the water* of the bay. The
problem, of how to separate the healthy passengers
who had been exposed to no reasonable
chance of infection from those who
bad been in serious risk and among whom
the dread plague might be lurking, was the
most serious question. So serious wa3 it
that Secretary of the Navy Tracy went to
New York and joined Sectary of the
Treasury Foster and ex-Surgaon-G-euera 1
Hamilton lu considering iuu uurawu.
More Plague Ships.
Following fast in the wake of the plagua
ship Moravia, two more vessels reached
New York Harbor with cholera on hoard.
They were the Normannia and Rugia,
from Hamburg, and both belong to the Hamburg-American
Packet Comoany. Health
Officer Jenkins reported the number of
deaths on both ships to be nine?four on
the Rugia and five on the Normannia. On
each vessel there were four persons still ill
of the disease. The bodies of the dead were
buried at sea. The plague-infected ships
anchored in the lower bay to the east and
soutn or nonman umuu. .m uuo ??
allowed near them
On the two ships there are 581 cabin passengers
who must stay coonei uo on board
or we vessel until toe neaitb Officer Believes
all danger is passed. Among them are
some prominent persons, including Senator
McPherson, of New Jersey, and a number of
theatrical people.
The Normannia has 483 cabin passengers
and 482 staerage. The Rugia has ninetyeight
cabin passengers and 436 steerage.
The tour who died on the Rugia were all
steerage oassengere. Of the five who dlei
on the Normannia one was a first-class
passeneer, one was a second-class and three
were steerage passengers.
On the day after the infected vassals were
sent to quarantine cholera claimed new victims
on every one of the three Hamburg
steamships, and four mora names must b9
added to the death roll. There were two
deaths on the Jformannia. Emma Horn,
eight years old. a steerage passe'uger.succumbed
to tae disease after an illness
of five day?, and Heinrich Lammers, fortyseven
years old, one of the steerage stewards,
died while being removed from the
ship to be taken to Swinburne Island. He
baa been ill one day.
Both boiies were cremated at Swinburne
island iu the afternoon. On the Rugia Antonia
Marin, seventeen years old, died after
an illness or a rew uours.
Abraham Schneidermann, the eight-year
old boy who was taken sick on the Moravia,
died while being transferred to Swinburne
Island. Two ne*v cases broke out on the
Rugia, making seven cases on board.
The Quarantine authorities seemed unable
to remove the sufferers to the Swinburne
Island Hospital. The dead were cremated
late at nifcht. There was almost a panic
among the Normannia's cabin passengers.
It was reported by persons who approached
within hailing distance of the ships in tugs
that the passengers were badly trightened.
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w nen jur. jenKins was ou uuuu uuo ui. mo
passengers told him, it is said, that be could
raise $5000 on board in an instant if permission
were given to charter a boat and remove
the cabin passengers to her, the vessel
to be anchored north of the pest grounds
until the passengers could be released.
On toe second day after being placed jp
quarantine there were three deaths and
live new cases of cholera on the plague fleet
in the lower bay. Two tugs with policemen
<"?" r?if?lrAf. lintv. Dr. Jenkins. New
York's Health Officer, decided to act in harmony
with the President.
Secretary of the Treasury Foster visited
Quarantine. He said there would be no
conflict between the State and Federal
authorities, and pronounced the station one
of the best equipped in the country, if not
in the world. He has great faith in Dr.
Jenkins's ability to fight the plague.
Two police boat3 have been added to the
patrol fleet. seven omcers are uu eauu tug.
They will endeavor to keep every kind of
craft away from the peat ships.
At the Navy Yard there are a tug and
launches all ready with stores aboard to go
down to the lower bay and assist the police
in tneir patrol work, should such a thin? ba
necessary. It seemed to be definitely settled
that there should be no more leaks fro.n the
cholera fleet to New York.
Cholera at Hamburg.
Dr. Veuz, of Hamburg, gives a graphia
description of the sad condition of the city.
The old town, he say?, is a collection of
dirty, stiflinsr, crowded caarnel houses. The
Alter Juugferatieg is desolate, the Alster
pavilion deserted. There are few tram cars,
and they are alincst empty. The whole city
is in dreary and disneartening contrast to
what it was. The tre& lined rfp;elbudenplatz
is unfrequented, and an oppressive stillness
hauRS over if. The cafes ara empty.
One head-waiter, who serves at a restauI
r.nl , ,1.. i I ?
?'it "uvic IWJ uin IJ jjciawua ai/o uaitj, i
told the pjysician the other day that eighteen
customers hart been there up to 6 p. in.
In parsing the strasse he saw a crowd and
six policemen holding it in check, while six
women ran scrcaming dowuthe roa i after
ambulances wuich were bearing their
husbands away to the cholera hospital. Occupants
of houses, he says, often run out iu
tl^ MAI.AAMA..
IUC OUll UCJCCULi JM_>i JCOILIOU Ij\J
send ambulances to remove patients, butthe
police can seldom accede to their appeal?, as
the ambulance service is quite inadequate to
the demands upou it.
At uight, Dr. Veuz says, the streets are
completely diserted by pedestrians, although
ambulances, dead wagons and
hearses can be heard passing almost constantly.
'1 ho statistics published by the
authorities. Dr. Veuz says, are utterly
worthless. On one ?!*? the nnmhflr nt
deatbs announced by the health officials was
but ore-half the number registered at the
offic?.
'ihe epidemic shows no sign of abatement.
On the day this cablegram was sent 989 new
cases and 369 deaths ware announced, the
victims beiug mostly women. There were
130 burials. The deaths in the prisons and
lunatic asylums have been disproportionately
numerous. The banks have resolved
to prolong the term of payment of bills now
due till October.
The loss of business is estimated at $50,D00.000.
Prayer meetings are held to implore
Divine assistance. Relief committees
have been formed in every ward of the city.
No other European town presents a greater
contrast between the old and new quarters.
The new quarter and the suburbs are
handsome and well built, with breezy open
spaces. The old part is dirty and stifling,
and its population of 150,000 is squeezed into
the space of an English town of 5000 inhabitants.
It requires some courage to explore
the further recesses of the 9unle33
labyrinths where each house is occupied by
a dozen families. The narrow streets are
reeking with decayed vegetables and evilimelling
liquids.
PB0MINENT PEOPLE.
Gladstone is much addicted to the use of
tea.
Count Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany,
tips the scales at 216 pounds.
The Mayor of nymoutn, .angiana, recently
gave a public luucheon in honor of
Dr T. Dewitt Talmage.
C. H. Harris, who was born and reared
near Long Bridge, Ga., is now Chief of ths
Cherokee Nation of Indians.
Ths oldest officer of the United States
Nary is Commodore Henry Bruce, now livDg
in Boston and on the retired list.
Senator Casey, of North Dakota, has
5000 acres under cultivation. He boasts
that he can plant 350 acre3 of wheat per day
with his drilling machines.
The wife of the Confederate General,
Thomas J. Jackson, when she registers at a
hotel, uses the sobnquat "Stonewall," as if
it hau been her husband's chriscian name.
Tiie lato Stephen States Lee, of Balti
more, was decorated with the French cross
of the Legion of Honor and with Prussian
and Bavarian orderffof merit for services in
aid of the wounded in the Franco-Prussian
Thomas Caxty", of St. Paul, tho nominee
for tho vacant Supreme Court Judgeship of
Minnesota, is one of the seven children of
an Irish day laborer. He got all the schooling
in his reach, taught scnool, and worked
through college.
Congressman* McKbiqhait, of Nebraska,
lives in a sod bouse. This singular dwelling,
which contains three rooms, is boarded over
a tranie work, which is then entirely covered
with thick sod. It is warm in winter and
cool in summer, and there is little danger to
its occuci nts from cyclones.
It has now been finally settled that Glad
scone will acu-ept the peerage soon after the
preliminary work of nis assumption of office
shall be finished. He will bear the title of
Earl Liverpool. This title has formerly
been in the Jenkinson family, and fcas beeu
extinct since tho death of the third earl.
When Whitelaw Reid was a schoolboy in
Ohio his teacher used to punish him and his
felJow pupils for disobedience by thrusting
peacock feathers down their backs, leaving
the busby ends extended above their heads.
Then the boys were made to line up and
march about the school room, the feathers
waving behind them like plumes.
Gabriel Bznvillk, Chisf of the Sisston
Indian?, died at Browne Valley, Minn., tho
other day. Benville was seventy years old.
At the time of the Sioux massacre in 1863 he
bad a farm of 300J acres near the present
cltj of Graceville on the Minnesota River.
It was mainly through his efforts that 230
white captives were surrendered at Camp
Rivas at the close of the uprising. His influence
had always been to cultivate and
better the condition of the In iians.
LATEB HTSWg.
Ex-United States Senator Francis
Kernan died a few days ago at Utica, N. Y.
He was born in Steuben County, New York,
Japuary 14, 1S10L
The First District Republicans at Manchester,
N. H., nominated ex-United States
Senator Henry W. Blair for Congress. Mr.
Blair received 174 votes, again3t sixty-sight
for Governor Tattle. ,
The Connecticut Republican Convention
at New Haven nominated a State ticket
headed by General Merwin for Governor.
The Montana Republican State Convention
at Great Falls nominated the following
ticket: Governor, J. E. Pickards; Lieutenant-Governor,
W. C, Botkin; Congressman,
Charles W. Hartman.
Richard Wright, aged sixty, of Payne,
Ind., was shot and killed by Dale Judah, his
son-in-law. Judah was immediately killed
by his wife with an ax.
A boiler in a sawmill, located four
miles from Bessemer, La., exploded, killing
three laborers and injuring another so badly
that he died shortly afterward.
Assistant Secrstary Crounse left
Washington for Nebraska to onter actively
into the political campaign. He has severed
his official connectioa with the Treasury Department.
A United States seiner, the Hattie
Maude, has been seized by the Canadian
Government cruiser Curlew for infraction
of the fishery laws. She was caught within
the three-mile limit in the Bay of Fundy,
near St. Andrew's.
A European missionary and a number of
native Christians have been massacred in
the Province of Shanei, China. The bodie3
of the victims were mutilated by the mob.
On account of failing health, Dr. Don
Rafael Nunez, President of Colombia, has
resigned his office.
TO BUY POPOCATEPETL,
Americans Wane ft For Sulphur
and Ice.
A syndicate of American capitalists, rep*
resented by Mauricio Rahden, formerly
Mexican Consul at Kansas City, has securdi
an option on the volcano Popocatepetl, in
Mexico, which they propos9 to operate as a
sulohur mine. The volcano is the property
of General Sanchez Ochoa, who works it oa
a small scale, without modern machinery,
securinz good returns.
The Americans propose to run an electric
railway up the mountain and briug down
sulphur, which will be mined on a large
scale by the most modern machinery, and
also to utilize the railway by bringing down
natural ice to compete with the artificial ice
factories there.
The sulphur is of excallent quality, and is
now only used for making pj?vd9r for the
Mexican Army.
WANT ODE M0TTON.
American Sheep May Be Taken Alive
to England.
Secretary Rusk has just racaivol through
tha Daoartuient of State a codv of a latter |
from Minister Lincoln, statin? tbat lireat
Britain has removed the prohibition on the
a .mission of live siisep fro.11 She United
States into that country. The order requiring
the slaughter or taese animals on the
docks where landed within tea days after
arrival uas been revoked, an 1 hereafter they
may be shipped to any part of the kingdom
if they are landed at the proper ports and
pass inspection.
The conditions are that only one kind of
animals shall be carried by a vessel on the
t-fm that-, fha nopnor nr Acrrtnt". nf thft
vessel shall give a bond that tlie animals
Lave not come in contact with animals from
suspected countries, and that the vassal has
not entered the pores of such countries.
How kick It would be for the fellow
with a 9arage mother-in-law to
order a Piakerton.?Columbus Post.
PORT GATES CLOSED.
Twenty Days' Quarantine Ordered
by President Harrison.
A Circular Which Practically
Suspends All Immigration.
President Harrison practically suspended
foreign immigration by issuing an order
that all steamships from foreign ports
bringing immigrants be subjected to a
quarantine of twenty days at the port of
arrival before landing passengers.
This order applied to all steamships
leavinsr foreign oorts on and after Septem
ber 1, and was enforced against all steamships
then on the sea hound hither, at the
discretion of health officers.
On the announcement of the President's
order the Inman line, Ihe leading American
transatlantic steamship company, immediately
cabled to all its European agents
directing them to suspend all immigrant
business.
As about 50,000 European immigrants are
brought hither a month the order will have
immediate and far reaching effect.
The agents estimate that the loss to the
steamship companies will ba not less than
(2,000,000 a month.
President Harrison arrived at the White
House from his vacation at Loon Lake and
his visit to Whitelaw Reid in New York
about half-past 8 o'clock, and immediately
called a conference of Government officials
to consider the cholera situation.
After an hour's deliberation it was decided
not to issue a proclamation suspending
immigration, but instead to issue the following
circular:
Treasury Department, Office of the
supervising aurokon-u-enekal. uni- |
ted States Marine Hospital 3er- i?
vice. (
Washington, September 1, 1893. J
To Collector of Customs, Medical Officer* of
the Marine Hospital Servica, Foreign
Steamship Companies, State and Local
Boards of Health:
It having been officially declared that
cholera Is prevailing in various portions
of Russia, Germany and Prance,
and at certain ports in Great Britain,
as well as Asia, and it having
been made to appear that immigrants in
large numbers are coming into the United
States from the infected districts aforesaid,
and tbat they and their personal effects are
liable to introduce cholera into the United
States, ana that vessels conveying them
are thereby a direct menace to toe public
health, and it having been further
shown' that under the laws of the several
States quarantine detentions may be imposed
upon these vessels a sufficient length
of time to insure against the introduction
of contagious diseases, it is hereby
ordered that no vessel from any foreign
port carrying immigrants shall be
admitted to ecfcer at any port of the
United States until said vessel shall htve
undergone a quarantine detention of twenty
days (unless such .detention hi forbidden by
the laws of the State, or the regulations
made thereunder) and of such greater number
of days as may be fixed in each special
case by the State authorities.
This circular to take immediate effect, exrant
in case.* of vessels afloat at this date.
which will be made the subject of special
consideration upon due application to the
Department. Walter Wyman,
Supervising Surgeon-General, United States
Marine Hospital Service.
Charles Foster,
Secretory of the Treasury.
Approved: Benjamin Harrison.
This circular was accompanied by le?al
opinion as to the power of the President
from Attorney-General Miller, the essence
of which is in the following latter half:
By the law of 1873 it is provided, among
other thing?,:
First?That no vessel coming from any
foreign port or country where any contagious
disease exists, or conveying any person
or persons, merchandise or animals, affected
with any contagious disease, shall come into
the United States except in the manner and
subject to th9 regulations in that act authorized
.
Second?The Surgeon-General of thj
Marine Hospital Service shall, under the
direction of the Secretary of the Treasury,
be charged with the execution of
the provisions of ttiis act, and
shall frame all needed rules and regula
tions for that purpose. These rules
and regulations shall be subject to the approval
of the President; but such rules and
regulations shall not conflict with or impair
any sanitary or quarantine laws or regulations
of any State or municipal authorities
now existing, or which may hereafter be
enacted.
The policy of Congress has apparently
been to mainly leave this branch of the public
service with the States, and most of the
seaboard States have statutes more or less
elalx>rate on the subject.
The State statutes and regulations, however,
may be supplemented by the National
Executive. My conclusion, therefore,
is that the Surgeon-General of the
Marine Hospital Service and the Secretary
of the Treasury, with your approval, have
authority to make needful rule3 and regulations,
not inconsistent with the State laws
and regulations for the quarantining of ships
coming into our harbors, with a view to the
protection of the health and lives of our
people. Very respectfully,
w. H. H. Miller, Attorney-Genera!.
The Postofflce Department also decided
on a rigid inspection of all foreign mails
from infected countries. The step was considered
necessary by reason of the large
commercial correspondence constantly- going
on between the United States ana those
countries, and by which cholera germs
could be communicated. Mail matter
of this description is to be thoroughly
fumigated before being delivered for
distribution, and the upmost pains taken to
prevent the introduction of th'e disease into
the United States through the mails.
Tne chief of tbe Foreign Mail Bureau has
the matter in charge, anJ his instructions to
posto.lice officials on the subject are most
comprehensive.
Additional means of security have beea
ordered for use at the National Quarantine
3tation3 at tne Delaware Breakwater and
|-> Va Tho rBMnilS eutter
uunt too, u. *.w - _.
Winona was ordered to the former and the
revenue steamer Crawiord to the latter
place.
Both boats are well equipped for the work
n hand, and Marine Hospital officials say
.hat their presence at the two stations
named will be fruitful of good results should
infected ships put in there.
The revenue steamer Ewing is also at the
Cape Charles station fitted up for use as a
floating hospital, and this makes the outfit
a: that station complete in every particular.
A FATAL WKECJL
Disregard or a Danger Signal by th<
Engineer the Cause.
Three men were instantly killed and twc
others injured by an accident to the morning
newspaper train on the Hudson River
division of the New York Central ana nuapon
River Railroad at New Hamburg, N.
Y., at 6:15 o'clock a few mornings ago.
The fatal accident was said to have been
due to the carelessness of the engineer, who
disregarded a danger signal and tried to run
his train over an op3n drawbridge. The engineer
wad one of the three who were killed
outright. His fireman and a postal clerk
were the others. Of the sixteen men on the
train, eleven escaped with a severe shaking.
At New Hamburg, the Hudson River
division of the Central, crosses Nappinger's
Creek on a short bridge which spans about
twenty-five of water. The bridge is a swing
draw. The draw had been opened for the
? ami11 ar??mhr)ftt_ and had been
Wl a ouaw*. ,
nearly closed again when the train dashed
on the bridge at the rate of a mile a minute.
The engino bounded over the space between
the southern section of the bridge and
the draw and hung from the middle portion,
with the tender hanging over the
water.
Only the strength of the couplings prevented
the rest of the train from plunging
down into the creek. But the mail car
was hurled on top of the tender
and badly smashed. Engineer Owens,
Firemen Beck and John H. King, one
of the postal clerks, were instantly killed.
Conductor Todd, Chief Postal Clerk
Toomev and Brakemaa O'Neil were badly
bruised. The other men escaped with slight
hurts.
Much of the mail matter was destroyed.
Fna engine, tender and mail car wara entirely
wrecked.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Lowe leads the Bostons in batting.
McQgirs leads the Waahingtons in batting.
Pittsburg has recalled pitcher Gurnbert's
release.
Pitches Baldwin has been released by
Pittsburg.
Daly and Foutz have proven great utility
2ien for Brooklyn this season.
The Brooklyns have fallen off somewb .j
in both batting and fielding lately.
Pitcher Rcsie, of the New Yorks, has
regained uisoia nine eaectiveness.
The St. Louis Club has released Outfielder
Wolf, and signed Outfielder Browning.
Poor fleliinz and a lack of sacrifice hitting
is the trouble with the Chicago team.
Ewing's throwing, while catching for the
New York's out West, has surprised people.
Highlands, of Harvard, is by long odds
the best amateur pitcher who showed this
year.
Sunday, the ex-baseball player, has bean
nominated for Congress in an Illinois district.
Kkeke'b work in excellent when he pitches
for the Philadelphias, but he scarcely averages
a game a week.
Thk New York amateur team now in
England is meeting with success, both financially
and artistically.
Burke, of the New Yorks, has been playing
the best all-round game of any second
basemen in the country.
Connob has fallen off wofully in his battine.
Heis moving down gradually in the
Philadelphia battiag list.
The St. Louis Club has shifted more players
and had more captains this year than
any team in the League.
Second-baseman Bierbauer is putting
np the mo3t brilliant iielding game of his
career with the Pittsburg*.
The veterans are dropping intoob3curity
at an aiarmiag rata tuisaooauu. xuo jruuug
player will now have his inning.
Carpenter, the veteran Cincinnati play*
er, has retired from the profession to accept
an engagement as a Pullman car conductors
This has been Anson's worst year in baseball,
and there would not be much wailing
if he should retire from the Chicago team.
One thing which counts against the veteran
player is that he gets injured rather
easily and then it takes him a long time to
recover.
Brouthers, of the Brooklyn team, is in
his unual place among the leaders in batting.
Lizzie Borden Held at Fall River for
Her Father's Murder.
Arguments were heard by Judge Blaisdell,
of the District Court, at Fall River,
Mass., in the case of Miss Lizzie Borden, accused
of the murder of her father and stepmother.
The evidence was reviewed by
both Mr. Jennings, Miss Borden's counsel,
and the District Attorney, and at the close
the Judge declared Miss Borden probably
guilty and held her for the action of the
Grand Jury.
Mr. A. J. Jennings, counsel for the defendant
mmmonra? hh (trmmimt At 10:39 I
and closed at 11:05. He contended that the
State had failed to prove that there existed
an opportunity for the prisoner to commit
the crime, and that it based its c^se on
merely the inconsistencies in the story told
by Lizzie Borden of her whereabouts on the
morning of the murder.
District Attorney H. M. Knowlton followed.
Hn argument was a masterly summing
up of the evidence. His language
was simple, and be forged around
the accused a solid chain of circumstantial
evidence. He said the
motive that caused Lizzie Borden to kill
her parents was her anxiety to inherit the
property, and he declared that she, and sne
alone, did the deed.
The hacking butchery was not the work
of a man. It was the work of a woman woo
knew not when she had completed her work.
The hatchet had not been found, neither
was the bloody dress which she wore, but
the evidence was so strong that aside from
these things the Court must find that she is
probably guilty.
When District-Attorney Knowlton had
hio mmminff nn for th? nrosecution
Few or the old timers Keep up tneir Datuog
like be does.
Cleveland's left field is the worst in the
world?bar none. Old Sol stares the unfortunate
"meadowlander" full in the face and
high flies are almost sure to fall safe.
Carsey is Philadelphia's winning pitcher.
Not so long ago he was playing around the
vacant lots in New York City and pitching
with any semi-professional club which would
let him. He deserves great credit for his
pern stance.
There is something of a contrast between
the salaries paid the old Cincinnati Reds an
der Harry Wright in 1869 anil those paid by
the existing Cincinnati Cluo in 1892! The
salary list of tbe old Rels in 18d9 was as
follows: Harry Wright, captain and centre
field, $2000; George Wright, shortstop,
$10JO; brainard, pitcher, $890; Gould, first
base, $800; Waterman, third base, $300;
Sweasy, second base, $700; Allison, catcher,
$700; Leonard, left field, $700; McVey, right
field, $700; Hurley, substitute, $60J.
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLT7B3.
Per Per
Clubs. Won. Lost. ct. Clubs. Won. Lost ct.
Cleveland..34 12 .739 Philad'lp'a.23 23 . 500
BoetoD 27 18 .600 Louisville..22 23 .489
Pittsburgh 19 .587 Naw York.21 24 .467
Brooklyn...24 22 .522 Baltimore..1.7 27 . 386
Chicago....24 22 . 522 St. Louis.. 17 29 .370
Cinclnnati.24 22 .522 Washiug'n.14 33 .298
"PE0BABLT GUILTY."
UUiflUQU UW BU?M..|.MQ - Mr? ?
Judge Blalsdell said: "Sympathy should be
laid aside, and duty, 6tern duty, re
quires upon this evidence that
but one thing be done. Supposing that
a man was seen in the chamber
of Mrs. Borden, the guest chamber of
death, and that ha was in the room of the
father when death came; suppose that a
man should tell as many different stories as
Lizzie Borden bad done, the way would be
plain. I find that she is probably guilty."
When Lizzie Borden was pronounced probably
guilty, hundreds of people gave way to
tears, and the scene in tne courtroom was
truly affecting.
She was committed to Taunton Jail with
out bail to await the action of the Grand
Jury.
EXCURSIONISTS PEEISH. I
T&e Western Reserve Goes Down
With a Pleasure Party.
The steamer Western Reserve, one of the
largest and finest vessels on the lakes, went
down off Deer Park, Mich., the other night.
Twenty-six persons were drownei and only
one of those on board was saved. Among
the lost were Captain P. G. Minch, his wife
and two young children.
Captain Minch was the principal owner
of the Reserve, and one of the wealthiest
1 M and hia f?.milv
vessel men oi i/imuauu,
were taking a pleasure trip. The boat
was commanded by Captain Aloerfc
Myers, of Vermillion. The survivor
is Harry Stewart, o* AIg;onac,
Micb. A sister of Mrs. Minch,
Mrs. Jacob Ingledry, and her nine-year-old
daughter were also lost, The vessel was
| valued at 1230,000. The disaster is the
| worst which ever bp.ppnnei on the upper
lakes.
BEHEADED AT MESS.
A Soldier Murdered by llis Comrade
Because nt Jealous}*.
A horrible murder has bean committed
at the Sehuvalovo Barracks, St. Petersburg,
Russia. The murderer was a bauds*
man of the Imperial Guard who
was actuated by jealousy of a
comrade. The murderer stole up behind
his victim while the latter was at mess and
dealt the unfortunate man a terrific blow
with a sabre, which completely beheaded
him, hi3 head falling into his plate.
The Pennsylvania woman who gave
a costly funeral to her pet mastiff the
ot,hf>r riav r/imfis under the exact
definition of a dog gone idiot.?Boston
Pilot. , >
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JOHN 6BEEMLEAF VHITTIEEL
The Good Quaker Poet Peace*
fully Passes Away.
A Sketch of His Brilliant Literary
Career.
JOHN G REE S LI A? WHITTtKB.
John Groenleaf Whitfcier, the poet, diedAt
Hampton Fall?, N. H., at 4:30 o'clock a few
mornings ago. He had been unconscious at
intervals since the first serious symptoms of
his illness developed, but at the last moment
was apparently con3cion? of his surround*
Inn.
Whittier's last conscious utterancj was
one of recognition of his nieca, Mrs. Samuel '
L. Pickard. who lived with him for soma
years previous to her marriage. Mrs. Pickard
aslcea him whether he knew her, and ha
replied^ "?e?. I have known you all tne
time," and immediately lapsed into unooa?
sclousness. His end was painless and peace* 1
ful.
Upon the announcement of the death of
Whittier, the bells of Amesbury, Mass,,
were tolled eighty-four strokes, the age of
the poet in years, and the flags on the public
buildings were placed at half-mast.
His body was taken to his home in ,Ame?
bury, and it was decided that the funeral be
held from his old home on Friend street, the
house in which manv of his bert poerru ware written,
and the shrine of every visitor to
a.mesoury.
Bis Career.
John Greenleaf Whlttier was born in
Haverhill, Mas?., December 17, 1807. Hit
parents were members of the Society1 of
Friends, and the poet himself always conformed
to the customs and usages of that
sect, even to its peculiarities of speech and
dress.
He spent his earlier years upon his
father's farm, and bis first occupations
*! ? ? A* a farmaria hii taniilnv th?
cows and assisting in tbe lighter labors of
having and harvest.
It was thos that he was early brought into
touch with nature, his intimate acquaintance
and knowledge of whose charms gives
such a picturesque beauty to many or his
Sjemr. They reflect the country scenery of
ew England with a fidelity that has never
been equalled.
His early schooling was of the scantiest
kind, for it was only in the winter months
that he had the opportunity of attending tha
neighboring district school. Later on ba
learned the shoemaker's trade, and by this
means he earned enough to enable Him to
attend the Haverhill Academy daring six
months in 1827.
He was then able to teach school himself,
thus obtaining the means of continuing his
course at the academy another year. During
all this time he was a regular contrlb-.
utor to the "Poet's Corner,'' in the. Free
Press, a paper edited by William Lloyd
Garrison, at Newburyport, Mass., for his
literary tastes had begun to develop when.
? - -4JI1 -
Be was tuu a uuj>
Garrison saw signs of promise in the
young man, and their association at this
time led to the life-long friendship which
existed between them and brought them
closely together.
After his father's death Whittier carried
on the farm for live years uutil 1835, during
which time he was an industrious writer
contributed verses to many periodicals. H?
was also in turn editor of the American
Manufacturer, of Boston, the Haverhill
Gazette and the New England Weekly Review,
of Hartford, Conn.
to In 1836 be removed to Philadelphia, where
1 ? 15 1 .i.
Deeaiteu vuttxcuiu/Kouia ik^uiuu Vu.u
offlca of that paper was sacked and burned
by a mob. In 1840 he returned to New'
England and took up his abode in Ameabory,
where be lived a quiet and simple life.
During bis seclusion Whittier has never
been idle. His tirst volume in prose and
verse, "Lozends of New England," was published
in 1831, and since teat time collection!
of his writings have appeared almost every
year. The last edition of his poetical and
prose works was published in 18S9 in seven
volumes.
Among his best known works cure "Lays
of My Home and Other Poems," published
in 1843; "Old Portraits and Modern
Sketches," 1850; "Home Ballads and
Poems," 1860; "Snow Bound," 1882; "In
War Time and Other Poems," 1863; "The
Tent on the B?acD," 1667; "Among the
Hills," 1868; "Hazel Blossom?1874; "The
Vision of Echard," "The King's Missive,"
"Bay of Seven Islands" and "Poems of
Nature," all published within the past dozen
years,
pennsylvaniT soldiers.
Colonel Voltman Hoports to the
War Department.
The United States War Department has
received a long and interesting report by /
Colonel W. J. Volkman, of the AdjntantGeneral's
Department, on the National
Guard of Pennsylvania. The reoort dwells
at some lenzth on the mobilization or tne
militia at Homestead and speaks highly of
the efficiency and discipline of the State
troops.
After criticising the equipment of the *
trooos and the inclination of some of the
militiamen to wear starched linen and
patent-leather shoes in active service, the
colonel commends the activity displayed in
calling out the troops an i says:
The system for notifying men is unique
and very interesting. A captain in a
Western regiment explained to me his
method, which, if not uniform throughout
the entire Guard, is substantially followed
by many officers. The company was
divided into squads, each under charge of a
sergeant, corporals and privates of squads
being grouped. as far as practicable, accordine
to residence or place of employment.
Ia one regiment there was a company consisting:
entirely of coal miners; when the
captain actually received his orders, Monday
morning his men were miles underground,
among shafts and galleries of mines,
yet the orders were communicated to the
men, who dropped their mining tool?, ascended
to the surface an 1 were soon in their
places in the ranks.
The colonel give* credit for the discipline
in tta* Guard to Governor Patterson. Co!onel
Volkman has this to say of the lama
case:
When the Guard arrived at Homestead
toe mnaoitants prepared au auiuu
well calculated to induca the troops to
affiliate with the populacs. With quiet,
soldierly dignity th > Commanding General
frigidly declined to entertain such overtures,
and he instantly became the target for
abuse.
Matters reached a climax one day when
the hand of the assassin was raised; for a
moment no one could tell who would fall
beneath the next shot and great excitement
prevailed. In Homestead the provost
/?.iorvi snondilv disnersed crowds clustering
about posted telegraph bulletins, while
enlisted men disposed to gather in group3
wero ordered at ones to their tents.
In defiance of this order, one man proposed
cheers for the assassin and was dealt
with summarily if not in exact accordance
with forms of law. There are times wh9a
immediate example is absolutely necissar/,
and although the one to which I allude has
l 1 j ?> ? Xntirtrml
drouguuuuirtu ?u iuo x <iuu;i<?u..
Guard, as a body, most unmerited obloquy,
it is certain that hesitation might have easily
resulted in gatherings which could have baea
dispersed only by ordering one part of tbo
force to fire upon another.