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DELEGATES TO MM, The Democrats Hold Their Converr tions in Four States. ThS MONEY PLANKS ADOPTED. Iown and South Carolina Declare for Silver, Wbllo New Hampshire and South Dakota Favor a Gold Standard ?Tho Dubuque Convention Proposes Boies for the Presidency. Dceuque, Iowa, May 21.?Tho Domocratic State Convention yesterday declared for Horace Boles for President and free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 by tho decisive vote of 670 to 265. Tho convention was the.stormiest In the history of Iowa. Whenever Cleveland's name was mentioned?as it was frequently?tho sound money men cheered wildly, while hisses and groans issued from the adherents of 3Ir. Boies. EX-GO VERS OB HORACE BOIES. (Iowa's delegation instructed to support him at Chicago ) The sound money mea had the majority in the First and Second Districts, and the convention was harmoniou3 on the one point that they should bo allowed to name the delegates from these districts, the silver men taking the delegates from the other nine districts, and naming Horace Boies, S. B. Evans, W. A. Wells and Louis Geaung as delegates-at-large. Temporary Chairman Wright's speech in favor of sound money provoked a demonstration from the gold men. Cheere followed the mention of Boies's name. When he appeared to address the convention thoy were sullen and silent, while the silver men almost raised the roof. The resolution favoring free coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1 provoked the bitterest fighting of the day, but it was finally passed. The delegates are instructed to vote as a unit, and the resolutions declare that it is "the bounden duty of every patriot in Iowa, without regard to former party affiliations, to use all honorable means to secure the nomination at Chicago of ex-Govemer Botes Ti *.\s,rx A n.in/iUlAn sv# iur rrcaiucxiv, iv IUC cuu iuai ^uuv;i^ica wi Jeffersonian Democracy be preserved and promoted and liberty and prosperity be resorted to the great body of the American people." Judge Nathaniel French, of Davenport, submitted the report of the minority containing a sound-money plank. It was defeated by a vote of 617}? to 21G><>. TILLMAN IN CONTROL. The South Carolina Democrats Declared for Fre? Silver. Columbia. S. C.. May 21.?The South Carolina Democratic Convention, which met yesterday, was thoroughly anti-Cleveland and for free silver. The platform was prepared by Senator Tilman and was practically unanimously adopted. The money plank says: "Wo demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 regardless of the action of anvandall Nations. And such coinage should be a logal tender for all debts, public and private. Therefore, we demand that the National banking system be abolished." The platform, as reported, denounces the Cleveland Administration. The present Supreme Court system is said to be dangerous and a constitutional convention is demanded, to meet the changed condition and growth oi me country, mere is a piaaK. against, monopolies and trust. The platform also demands the enlargement of the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission. A minority report, signed by two members, pledged allegiance to the National party and nominees, and demanded the repeal of the ten per cent, tax on the circulation of State banks. NEW HAMPSHIRE FOR COLD. Democrats Clioose Delegates to Chicago Who Favor Soaud Money. Concord, N. H., May 2].?The New Hampshire Democrats placed themselves solidly on a gold platform in their convention yesterday. The delegates, it is said, will vote for William E. Russell for President, although they are uninstructed. The money plank in the platform declares: "Under present conditions there can be but one standard of value, and every kind of currency should rest upon a gold basis, so long as gold is the standard recognized by ine great commercial canons 01 trid wono. The p atform demands a tariff that will meet the expenses of the Government and incidentally afford required protection to American capital and labor. It declares for the Monroe aoetrinc and contains a resolution favoring the guarding of civil and religious rights of citizens. South Dakota Democrats. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, May 20.?The sound money men captured the Democratic State Conveution at Aberdeen. More than half of the counties instructed for free silver, and it was supposed that the convention would go overwnelmingly for the white metal, but some of the larger counties were opposed to free coinage and the others were unicstructed. The State Committee voted for a sound money chairman by one majority, and when the fight was carried into the convention the committee was sustained by a vote of 240 to 152. Judge E. Garland was named Chairman of the Resolutions Committee, and he drew trie souna money pianK. ne win neau the delegation at Chicago. Lynched In Kansas. Half a dozen farmers of Bearer Township, Cowley County, Kansas, went gunning for a thief who had gone into their neighborhood in the guise of h man looking for work, and riddied him witb bullets. He had stolen several articles from them. He showed flgnt and wounded a farmer named Sheriff. Before dying the thief gave his name as Ed Smith and said he was from McComb, 111. A I'opnlar Marble. Georgia marble is used in every State in ihe Union, from M:tine to Call ornia and from Britisu America to the Gulf of Mexico. Prominent 1'eople. Edison has taken out 711 patents up to date. The Czar of Russia is said to be privately practicing on a bicycle. Richard W. Thompson, of Indiana, is said nAlifinijin in th/*Ann. IV UD bUO UiUOOl *?. v.vv*^try. The Prince of Wales h;is been unanimously re-elect of Grand Master of the British Mark Masons for the ensuing year. Secretary Morton will return to Nebraska and go to farming when he leaves the Cabinet. He has a flue estate out there. Alfred Austin, the Euglish laureate, was special correspondent for the London Standard during the Franco-Pruss:un War. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED' TTaghitijrton Item*. The act approved by the President "tc provido for the safety of passengers on excursion steamers," had its inceDtion in th< complaint made by Lord Dunraven of the r crowding of the Defender-Valkyrie regatta course. Hereafter there will be no opportunity for excursion steamers and other vessels to Interfere with aquatic sports. The bill to impose an educational test or immigrants was passed by the House. T. F. Jamison, sentenced in Virginia tc six months' imprisonment and $500 One foj makine false returns and entries on distillers books, has been pardoned by the Present, The District of Columbia bill was passed by the Senate, leaving only two appropriation bills to bo acted on. The title of W. C. Owens to the seat in the House from the Seventh Kentucky Districl was confirmed. Bills to restrict immigration were discussed. The President nominated N. M. Jackson, of Alaska, to be Commissioner for the District of Alaska, to reside at Wrangel. The Senate confirmed the following nominations: William Lochren, of Minnesota, to be Uulted States District Judge for the District of Minnesota, vice R. R- Nelson, resigned; Robert Lee Jenkins, of North Carolina, United States Consul at Patras, Greece. Alexander W. Terrell, Minister to Turkey, arrived in Washington from Texas In obedience to a summons from the President. He had interviews with the President and Secretary Olney. Lieutenant Sobral. naval attache of the Spanish Legation, has published an article on American coast defence which, it was thought, would cause the United States Government to demand hisrecalL The President sent to the Senate the nominations of John Fowler, cf Massachusetts, to be Consul of the United States at Cho Foo, China, and Robert Lee Jenkins, of North Carolina, to be Consul of tho United States at Patras, Greece. The House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds ordered a favorable report on the bill of Mr. Little, of Arkansas, to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in the Capitol building. The contested election case of Hoge against Otey was decided by the House in favor of Mr. Otey, the sitting member. ' Exports of breadstufTs for the ten months ending with April 30 increased from S89,834,000 in 1895 to $111,958,000 this year. The fifteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey nas been issued. It Is a large volume profusely illustrated and embodies a number of special features. The President sent to the Senate the nominations of Ernest A. Man, of Florida, to be Consul at Bergen, Norway, and Robert Ransom, ol North Carolina, to be Second Secretary of the Legation to Mexico. Domestic. nnconD of the league clvtbs. Per Clohs. Won. Lost. ct. Club*. Won. Lost. ct. Cincinnatll8 9 .667 Chicago. 15 18 .536 Cleveland 16 8 .667 W'shing'nlS 13 .500 Boston....17 9 .654;Brooklyn.ll 15 .423 Pittsbure.14 10 .583 Mew York.9 17 .346 Baltimore. 15 11 .577 St. Louis. .9 13 .333 Philadel..l4 12 .538 Loulsville..5 21 .192 John f. Graham, of Rochester, was chosen Department Commander by the G. A. R. Encampment at Utlca, N. Y. Tlllie Lock, a nineteen-year-old girl, whose clothlDg became ignited from a gas stove in New York City, ran across a flve-story Are escape into a neighboring flat, which her burning garments set on Are. She died later in Roosevelt Hospital. Andover, Mass., celebrated its 250th anniversary. In an affray at Fort Thomas, Ky., Private Brown of the United States Army was fatally stabbed by Sergeant Hfirkins, of/Company A, while Harkins was shot through the ear by Sergeant Raymond, of Company G. James Dazzel, colored, was taken from the jail in St. Bernard parish, Louisiana, and lynched. He was arrested for attacking a white woman near the Poydras plantation. Henry Whalen perishod In the barn of George W. Ives at Hainden, Conn. The barn burned with eleven horses, three cows and thirty tons of hay. Loss, $12,000. A Are in a coal bunker near the magazine of the United Statesbattle ship Indiana, at anchor in New York harbor,was extinguished quickly and quietly while the ship was thronged witn visitors. The town of Andover, Mass,, oelebrated the 250th anniversary of its founding. By the explosion of a sawmill boiler at Hoffman, N. C., three men were killed. The prisoners in Newport (Ky.) jail sawed the binges off a rear door ana all escaped except Jackson and Walling, the alleged murderers of Pearl Bryan, who refused to leave, thinking it a plan to lynch them. A railroad wreck occurred two miles south of Waldo, Wis., in which three men were killed and two seriously injured. The dead are Emil Caspari, a brakeman; John Miller, a tramp; and John O'Connor, engineer. Fires of incendiary origin have destroyed timber valued at ?500,000 in West Virginia. Excited Italians drove fourteen spectators from a ball field, near Hazleton, Penru, and many persons were shot In the riot. The trotting mare Nightingale, the property of C. J. Hamlin, dropped dead at Louisville, Ky.; she was vjrtued at over $10,00J. The Democratic State Committee met in New York City and fixed June 24 as the date and Saratoga as the place for the New York State Convention to elect four delegates-atlarge to the National Convention. Rear Admiral Thomas H. Stevens, United States Navy (retired), died in Rockville, Md. Admiral Stevens was born in Middletown, Conn., in 1819. Scott Jackson was convicted and sentenced to death at Newport, Ky., for the murder of Pearl Bryan. John Hepner, a hotel keeper of Centralia, Penn., was shot and killed by Michael Corri gun, 10 wnom lie uttu reiuseu iu sou a arma.. During a terrific electric storm near Norfolk, Ya., a large frame house on the farm of T. J. Cramer was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. 8. L. Dashiel and an unknown boy perished in the flames. The doors of the Sumner National Bank. Wellington, Kau.. were closed because of a run which has been In progress for several days. The obligations to depositors and reserve agents are *63,000. The assets are estimated to be largely in excess of that amount. Eugene Akers, also known as "Diamond" Akers, a confectioner of New York City, was robbed of J25.000 worth of diamonds. Police Captain Killllea, of New York City, was acquitted of the charge of improperly accepting $100 from the managers of the Yale-Princeton football game. Koralcn Notes. Queen Victoria's birthday was officially aeiebrated in London. British colonists in Guiana ?re greatly alarmed at the prospect of an adverse decision of the Anglo-Venezuelan boundary dispute. A despatch from Eulowayo, South Africa, says that Colonel Napier, of the British forces, with 160 men, wnile engaged in establishing a heliograph station, was attacked hy a large force of i.ativt-3, but after a sharp litritr me natives were unven away, leaving eighty d^ad behind them. The Russian press continues its attacks on the Cuban policy of the United ytates. The German life insurance companies have been summoned to a conference at Eissenach to establish a consolidated union of all th? German companies. Baron vou Kotze, formerly Court Chamberlain. was sentenced at Berlin, Germany, to two years' imprisonment in a fortress for 'the killing of Baron vou Schrader, Muster of Ceremonies of the Prussian Court, in a duel. Italian troops withdrew from Adigrat, Abjtslnia, ana the campaign is considered to oe at an end. Mrs. Annie Dyer, the bnbv farmer, who, with her son-in-law, Arthur E. Palmer, was arrested at Reading, England, on April 11, charged with murdering a number of infants whoso bodies were found in the river, has been legally declared insane. There were five fatal cases of cholera in Marseilles, France. The bark Mozambique lost five men from yellow fever on her voyage from Rio Janeiro j to New York, and one man jumped Over Donra ana was arovrnod. It is reported from Suakim, on the Red Sea, that the Khalifa, the leader of the Dervishes, is deaJ. CZARAEB17ESATMOSCOW Lv ? La; I The Coronation Fetes of Russia's iao& | Autocrat Begin, ^ .? tropfc ' GORGEOUS BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL. ) _ _ ? 1 The Ancient City Gives an Enthusiastic Reception to tho Czar, Czarina and Court?Greeted by Throngs of Subjects ' ?Their Progress a Triumphant March jfi ?Grandeur of the Imperial Train. 1 Moscow, Ras3ia, May 19.?Rain descended 1 npon Russia's ancient capital, and all tho I | gorgcousness with which the city is be- A fWlfA:! sorionqlv marrim? tha inaneuration V of the unparalleled fetes in honor of the coronation of the Czar. The festivities began yesterday, as they end, with a birthday, yesterday being the anniversary of the birth of tho Czar, and Jane 6 being that of the Czarina. Long before thetr Majosties' arrival regiments of soldiers ware massed about the Smolensky station, which i3 just without the ramparts on the long Tver street, to which the imperial train wa3 diverted from tho main line at the first station just outside Moscow. Enormous orowds of people had gathered near the station and gave the imperial couple an enthusiastic reception. The Grand Duke Sergius, Governor-General of Moscow, met the Imperial train at . Elin and accompanied it to the city. Only those who possessed tickets were admitted to the station, but these were very numerous. The platform was covered with red cloth and ornamented with plants and flowers, large, spreading palms forming an arch at the entrance to the royal apartments, which every station of importance in Bussia contains. she \ On the platform were the Minister of War, foote: a number of generals and aides-de-camp. Herri covered with orders, numerous foreign for t, princes and the Grand Duke Vladimir. tiny The guard or honor was composed of a de- parts tachment of cuirassiers, headed by the royal crap, standard and the cuirassier band, command- arran ed by a full complement of cuirassier officers, last fi Horse guards and dragoon guards were mone also waiting outside the station to accom- chase nanv the roval Darty to the Petroffsky Thi fcalace. " to tn< At 5.30 o'clock the Imperial train steamed charg slowly into the station. This special train, says which the Czar had made for himself lately, whiol is fitted up with every luxury and has elec- is a trie lights throughout. The walls aud the ounc? doors are made of inlaid wood. The train wldei V V ^ CZAR OF RUSJ consists of seven carriages, a salon, dining top si room, bedroom, bathroom and dressing into d room, kitchen, luggage vans and carriages conne for the suite and servants. will The carriage in which the Emperor and name; Empress were stopped opposite the royal apartments. The Czar was received on the platform by the Grand Duke Vladimir, the thu trnnna nresent in the tumu;amici ut city, and after a moment's conversation Tbe I the imperial party walked through the double line of princes and generals to the p. bertltifully decorated rooms. Shortly after * this the Emperor and Empress appeared at c,al 0' the outside door and entered an open car- stituti riaRe with the Governor-General. throe The appearance of their Majesties was the Bignal for prolonged hurrahs from the people W1"8gathered outside, led off by the long roar of buildi soldiery. The cuirassier band played to Na- Centr tional anthem, and surrounded by the culr- entire assier guard, the carriage was driven off to busin the palace. Great enthusiasm was manifest- great ed during the whole of the short drive by the Whi thickly massed people along the sides of the ing a road, which was kept clear throughout its the rc distance by the dragoon guards. in th The illuminations at night were a dismal Dona! failure and an inky darkness prevailed, crush greatly to the discomfiture of the munici- taken pallty, that too trustingly depended on Hospl moonlight in the elaborate scheme of cele- upon bration. ^EH8gMBB3BBsgWM {demn X aff0cf rS ^ I aentei 1 Brltal w| - ***" I stool 1 / uel3? V jPW I compi \ *^e acce < W order: CZARINA OF BUSSIA Co At The Czar is twentv-eli?ht years old, and tho condi anniversary of bis birth was fittingly cele- Streel brated in all the cities of the Empire. All The v tho warships at Cronstadt. including tne arouc American and British, joined in firing salutes untan in honor of tho occasion. fatal i Separate Cars in Louisiana* The United States Supremo Court, m na The opinion read by Justice Brown, sustained Senat the constitutionality of the law of Louisiana 1897 requiring the railroads of tho State to pro- bill c? vide separate cars for white and colored pas- added seneers. The judgment of tho Supreme to tht Court of the State upholding tho law was for th therefore affirmed. Mr. Justice Harlan announced dissent. nTratf>rinn> Suicide Identified. Tho mysterious woman who committed {flrgU( Buicide at the Colonnade Hotel. Now York uivsa City, was identified positively as Mrs. E. E. rang* Hill, daughter-in-law of Judge Balph Hill, was. Ol Xiuli ua^oUi. - IPMTS 1 I A BEAUTIFUL TROPHY. Dtoroatlonal Cap, Worth 8500, TThlCli I WelBhs 200 Ounces. I st season the Seawanhaka-Corinthian t Club, of New York, with a view o! en-' tQ* iging small-boat racing in America, i^g 5d a $500 international silver challenge i iy, open to yachts of any country be- Is s 115 and 25 feet sailing length. The re- wo of their offer was J. Arthur Brand's i enge with the half-rater Spruce IV., and att: 1 1 use s THE INTERNATIONAL CUP. r ne vas defeated by the American fifteen- on r Ethelwynn last fall. This year G* a} ok Duggan, of Toronto, has challenged an be cup, ana nearly a hundred of tlnse raoers are now being built in various of the country for the defence of the a , Owing to the graat haste in whioh the cements for the contcst were conducted all, the cup was not made, though tho F?1 y was deposited in the bank to purit in case Mr.'.Brand won it. s year various designs were submitted f~ j committee having charge of the pur;e of the trophy, and the New York Sun they have just accepted the design ?? 1 is reproduced here. The cup, which Greek vase in form, will weigh 2*0 ?s. It Is 29 Inches In height, 15 inches le? and 27 inches in circumference. At tho ttai 1 i.'.L |V|> ?m-i_ ori lai roi 41 n? mm ^ th( j \ \ at 1 nel 3IA. pit i lells and scroll are ingeniously worked cer lolphins' heads. Underneath are shields los icted with a laurel branch, on which j be an inscription and room for the Lo 3 of the various winners. nu str BIC FIRE IN WASHINGTON. J ag firemen of Engine 8 Barled Under ?" Falling: Willi. . ?fll, ) swept away a whole block of cotnmer- I uildings opposite the Smithsonian In-. Cr< ion, Washington. The lives of at least firemen were crushed out by falling flfi The loss will exceed 82C0,000. The i ,ngs covering the block adjoining the so : e Market constituted practically the tha i commission and wholesale produce; ore ess of Washington, and while not of: oui value, their eontentB burned fiercely. I ile firemen of No. 8 Engine were work-' ola hose through one of the old buildings, lea, iof fell without warning, burying them the e ruins. Three firemen, Mulhall. to 1 Idson and Kennedy, scorohed and ^ ed beyond all hope of recovery, were 0m out and removed to the Providence g0< tal. At midnight the firemen came another body. the _ A VENEZUELA WILL PAY UP. tha llc( ihe Stoutly Refu?e? to Apologize to England. i Venezuelan Government has agreed to j ae $7500 demanded by Great Britain for not uruan Incident (tho arrest and impri- He ent of a British police officer) on con- jjjjj l that it Is considered simply as in- fj0i Ity for personal damages, 'and not as j ing the boundary dispute. . iuc i Government, however, has not con- -ttc i to maice a puDnc apoiogy to ureat 20r In as a prerequisite to the resumption -joe ilomatic relations, although it is under- Qati that the United States, in carrying out ain endly purpose as an adviser of Venez- . counseled that this condition should be f lied with, in accordance with the terms i British demand. gj " o fox 8000 Were Killed. up tg and sensational details of the mas- t0 5 of Armenians at Urfa represent it as ily eclipsing the butchery at Sassoon. ^ estimated that 8090 persons were ha) at CTrfa, of which number nearly 3000 led while seeking refuge in tho cathewhich was set on fire by tho Turks. It are ,rs that the affair was deliberately tba ed and was effected with the conniv- flft, Df tho officials, who were acting under s from Constantinople. T mductor Killed by a Feeder Wire. bur Lowell, Mass., Jeremiah Cahalane, a jb? tctor on the Lowell and Suburban me1 ; Railway, was killed by electricity, era ?ind broke a feed wire and it twisted trai id his trolley rope. In attempting to Z>! gle the rope and the wire ho received a tor. shock. Ton Millions for Fortification#. \ i Fortifications bill was reported to the ers, e by Mr. Perkins. The estimates for of i amounted to $8,045,105. Tho Houso i1 irried $5,845,837, to which tho Senate I $4,918,051, making the total reported i Senate $10,763,888. Tho appropriation ?ot e current llscal year is only $1,304,557. Shot Peacemakers Dead. Hopkins, Mo., Charles Ulmer, whose Is :;uing bim for a divorcc, had a con- j, io with his wife and Bailey Dawes and . es Suther, the two latter trying to ar' a peaceful separation. Ulmor, who in? intoxicatjd, began shooting. Both U<0 ?. WKLftuUuT w?fe kill?4 . / : IBJJEEP CYCLING NOTES. JrookJyn Bridge la now free 'co cyders. < t has bpen estimated that one in every btcyc ? riders in America is colored. )urlng 1895 the wheel trade is estimated have spent nearly $1,850,00 ) for advertis'he Ariel Cyclers, of Asbury Park. N. J., t new organization, composed entirely of men. l paper in Nice advertises among its other factions a private race track solely for the i of its cycling patrons. ersey City (N. J.) officials are working id in hand with the wheelmea by placing nboards at corners where they have been ich needed. ttie Century Road Club of Toronto, nada, nas been revived. In addition to arding gold bars to century riders tbe Lb will control al! road racing in Canada. )ne clause in the regulations governing :ling in Germany strikes the ordinance server as slightly superfluous, "No bicycle ,y bo ridden unless provided with a handle r." ["he New York State circuit will open at ffalo on June 6. It will includo meet3 Rochester. Albany. Cohoes and othef Ints, closing at Mannattan Beach, Coney and, on June 27. rhe wheelmen of Utica. Syracuse, Frankt, Illon, Mohawk and Little Falls, N. Y., 3 interesting themselves in constructing a ider path that will extend from Syracuse Albany. rhe L. A W. guide posts in New Jersey asist of a steel pillar, seven feet high, sur>unted by a board shaped like a hand. On Is Is painted the L. A. W. symbol and the stance to the nearest town of any importce. < rhere is a heavy demand by bicyclists for ivernment geographical survey maps of untry roads. These maps show the topoShical character of the country, the road ices and the hills, and thus tell where sasant territory for bicycle riding can be md. The maps were made expressely for a Army. rhe farmers of Oxford County, Mel; an arly all taking to bicycles. The other day e of them rode three miles to the store on vheel carrying a pail of butter in one hand d a basket of eggs in the otner. Another ihed a ")ag of meal to the handlebars of his ?AA1 AM J ?A/1 A ml tU iU A l^.n icui auu l uui; uumc yyilu iuau, leighbor wbo was returning in a wagon. One of the most dangerous persons on a adway is the alleged expert who rides with j hands off the handle-bar3. Too frequentriders are seen with their hands folded, d there have been several narrow escapes >m accidents caused by them. In some of a Western cities ordinances have been ssed against such performances, and sevil arrests have been made. rhe collection of toll on the turnpikes iding out of Washington and Baltimore is :ely to be abandoned, owing to the fact it wheelmen seem too anxious to have the der enforced. They have been advised by ivyers that damage to wheels through bad ids could, under the circumstances, be llected from the ownere of the turnpikes, lich would be expensive for the latter. Che Pennsylvania lines we3t of Pittsburg ve come to the conclusion that they cant consistently make a charge for bicycles their Western roads which they are not rmitted to make on some of their Eeastern es. Notice has therefore been issued that reafter bicycles will be transported free in Kgage cars between all points on their es west of Pittsburg and the Yandalia es. Mobile (Ala.) wheelmen have a big fight their hands. In that city for some years st an annual tax of twenty-five cents per leel was Imposed by the city fathers. Beltly, however, the Aldermen thought that 3 tax ought to be higher, and so they ised the ante to $1. The wheelmen rejed to pay the tax, but, instead, chipped and retained eminent counsel. The result 11 probably be that the tax will be wiped t altogether. THE NATIONAL CAME. rredway has joined the Louisvilles. Doyle's absence hurts the Baltimores. Che Brooklyns are in a crippled condition, Latham has been unconditionally released the St. Louis Club. rhe Boston team contains seven New Engid League graduates. Dhe pitching department nt present seems be Boston's weak point. Dhe Bostons played two consecative games Louisville without a fielding error. Jew York and Boston are both after Tanlill, the "Virginia League's left-hand cher. Lfter winning eight straight g&mes Mer . of the Washingtons, pitched his first ing game of the season against St. Louis, ust to show what a good baseball town uisvilleis the "rooters" turned out to the mber of 9000 as a result of the winning eak of the home team. i.n umpire has about 300 decisions during ame of ball, including those on balls and ike3, and it would be more than human if got every decision right without a mis:e. Jasoball still holds the public in Boston. >wds throng the field, so as to interfere iously with the players, and the newspa s report and illustrate the games on the it page. ?he average attendance at baseball games far this year has been considerably larger in oyer, sauwmg wutti a, grout: tuiu juasing hold the National Game has upon r people. 'resident Beach Is of the opinion that the ce to get recruits was not in minor (?ues, but in up-country cluhs, where y sprang up by natnre, and didn't need se trained. 'here are now two old baseball players ployed as baseball editors on prominent iton dailies?John Morrill and "Tim" rnane. And both covered flret base for i old Boston team. .ason, of Chicago, very sensibly declares t left-handed batsmen should be prac:d against the left-handed pitchers of lr team, with a view to getting a lin3 on south-winged pitchers of opposition ms. lan.v of the "fans" of the present day do ; remember Umpire Weldman as a pitcher, was one of the best in the big league, 3hing for Detroit in the famous eighteening 1 to 0 itame at Providence that Eadirn won with a home run, 'he Philadelphia team, with any kind of k, will be a strong factor In the League e. There are plenty of big hitters and a ps of excellent pitchers, besides equally id fielders. As Captain Nash has abso3 authority he is almost sure to get wing results. , . coach line grammer would develop nurous wonders of the Queen's English. I re are a few samples: "Don't git 1 rviif' ''Thfim fullers is y!" "Look where you're going at!" i ere's only two balls on him!" "Go down 1 lecond, already!" "Where are you go- ! ?" "Make it good," and others equally < ertaining. < 'here are many queer things about baseI. An illustration can be found in the iunapolis Club, of the Western League. 5 never headed champions last season the tail enders to-day, despite the fact 1 t Manager Watkins said his team was j Y per cent, stronger than last year. A C.reat Mimical Event. j he National sanverfest to be held at Pitts- ? g, Penn., on Juno 8, will be, it is said, greatest musical event ever known in > country. An orchestra of 100 instruiits, comprising many of the best performof the country, and a chorus of 30C0 ( ned voices will be tho features. Herr c Iner, of New York, is the musical direc- * 1 Fatally Shoots the 1'inpire. ,t Vivian, W. Va., a gang of colored minoC for a half-holiday, engaged in a game jaseball. "Jim" Carrigan tried to make j ome run, but was declared out at tiie | 10 plate by tho umpire, Charles Hunt, s so enraged Carrigan that he went home, his shotgun and llred a load of buckshot > the umpire, inflicting wounds, probably il. A new umpire was substituted, and i game went on, Carrigan taking part in it. j Favor Civil Service. he National Convention of Police Chiof9 c .tlanta, Ga., adopted a resolution /avorthe divorcement of politics Irqm the Po- ^ Department. ' * V f- '5*^ TERRITORY ?CCUPIED B\ ? ' ' i Awflf { I j ff tJ/ f^ffCvppeJ r9** 4:-V I Wf \Qi*J-. /w* <?"7 - ^ ! - JPWj?/ torn* TORNADO'S AWFUL WOBI *# ----- A Fatal and Destructive Storm Sweeps Over Texas, am fiunrmnnc mss of iiff. nil bllVlllliVWW hWWW V* mmwm mm w A Path One Hundred and Fifty Feet Wide Made Through the Heart of Sherman ?No Buildings Loft Standing?The City Hall Turned Into a MorgueGreat Destruction of Property. De>*i80S, Texas, May 16.?The city of Sherman was visited by the worst tornado in the history of North Texas about 5 o'clock yesterday evening. The path of the destroyer was 150 yards wide. It struck the city at the west end of Post Oak Creek and swept in a westerly direction for several blocks, and then spread and spent Its force. The track of the storm is a grewsome sight, the devastation being complete?houses, trees, fences ?in fact, everything in its pathway destroyed. The los3 of Ufo will probably reach one hundred, with as many more bruised and wounded. The City Hall and the storeroom formerly occupied by 8. C. Holmes have been turned into temporary hospitals, and eighteen bruised, mangled and mutilated bodies aro awaiting identification. Nearly every house in Fairview Addition has been turned into a hospital. Following is tho list of dead so far ai knowni R. L. Burns, wife and two children! Ur& Otto Paulding and two children; James Nicholson, wife and two children; T. R. Montgomery, wife and two children; John Ames, wife ana two children: the Rev. Mr. Shearer; eight members of the Pearce and Richardson famllie?. at the Wakefield farm; child of Mrs. Craighead, Mrs. James Davis, , Mrs. Jchn Fields, Lueinda Lake, colored; Charles Cox, colored; Eliza Cox. colored; Bosina Lake, colored; Sloan Ballinger, col- 1 ored; Katie Ballinger, colored; William Nickerson's four children, colored; Wright Clark ; and three members of his family, colored; ' Mrs. Athens. Eighteen unidentified dead are at the City Hall. The seriously injured are Professor ; and Mrs. Kohler, six children of J. B. Irwin on/1 Tmfl. Gray's Hill and Foirview both were badly damaged, and the tornado passed directly ' west of the North Texas Female College, barely missing it. B. B. Sayles, a delivery man. drove down 1 Houston avenue directly after toe storm. He said that he saw at least seven men, women and ohildren lying along the avenue dead and many wounded- The devastation in < spots where the storm was the worst Is complete. Trees were stripped of their foliage in some places, while in others they were uprooted. Houses once the pride of the city < are in some instances entirely gone, and in others only a pile of rubbish marks the place where they stood. Captain Ily's fine dwelling was blown to Eleces. His wife and two children were at ome, but fortunately escaped without serious injury. Not a thins remains to mark the spot where only a few hours before stood the flne home of Captain Burgess. His family was absent from the house at the time. Mayor Tone, of Denison, who was in Sherman during the storm, gives the following account of it: "I was on the courthouse square about 5 o'clock and heard a roaring wind ooming from the south. The next thing I knew the air was thick with mud and small speoks resembling ashes. The storm did da? strike the courthouse or jail, but followqfcap Post Oak Creek. The roaring did not ^fctlnue over two or three minutes. During all this time it rained hard. Ia about five minutes rumors began to spread that many lives haa been losr, and the reports grew*.worse and worse as time passed. By 9 o'clock fifty dead bodies had been brought into the public buildings,and searching parties are out for more. The dead hnM hcw?n fotmd in trees, under] V'UttUiOU uufw ... levelled houses and on Post Oak Creek. An iron bridge over Post Oak Creek was twisted into scrap Iron." Jebtin, Texas, May 16.?A cyclone struck the town of Justin, blowing twelve houses / down, killing one man named W. J. Evans, of Keller, Texas. *nd badly Injuring seventeen others. The cyclone also did much . damage north of here. L Fobt Wobth, Texas. May 16.?A special J from Denton, Texas, says a cyclone struck 1 the town of Grlbblo Springs, eight miles north of Denton. Four persons were killed and five others so badly wounded they cannot live. The property damage is great. Newtox, Texas, May 16.?Six porsons were t Injured, one of tnem fatally, by a cyclone f which passod near Mound Ridge. A stretch ^ of country about eight miles in length and a 'j hundred yards in width was devastated, i Samuel Bass was [fatally injured and his j bouse demolished. c HOUSTON, Texas, May 16.?Reports from 0 different places throughout this State show a that over a hundred persons have lost their s lives in a frightful cyclone which swept the T country for miles. The damage to property t; :annot be even reasonably estimated. c Enormous Profit In Bicycles, A recent Are has disclosed tho fact that bicycles are being sold at a tremendous prof- s it. In adjusting the insurance loss of a ^ arge bicycling concern, whose salesrooms ~ v""' htrnn Hoafrovftfl. It fame OUt . tuu aiuck uuu ww** ?, :hat the wheels sold to the public at $100 J* ;ach cost but $19 to manufacture! _ c Killed His Mother. g Frank Harding, a well know cigarmaker )[ Quincy, 111., fatally shot his mother, aged ilxty-flye, and tried to kill himself. Harding, ,yho a brother in an insane u?y tl The Labor World. There are 12,000 union stone masons. St Louis servant girls are organizing. ^ Buffalo, N. Y., has 300 bicycle makers. 0 Chicago bricklayers want a six-hour day. F New Zealand has a compulsory arbitration C aw.i ii Virginia now enjoys a legal Saturday hall- ?! lollday. " Detroit brewers who wear non-union shoes ire lined $5. Buffalo, N. I., has a Polish freight hanllers' union. fI Saginaw, Mich?, has a Woman's Union , Label League. A woman to Piesldent of the Lansing y Clerks' Union. it 'v r CRt'ATER NEW YORK. SH 17 /!?.. ? /?s- . iV. \V ! BR lUW/Wl T4A, H ,; \ . . /?^'" I ? f ,^ fMA,eA'^& l! s yoT^?^ '! fl , , - ? - n -???JMONUMENT FOR OE LONG. National Memorial for tbe Victims of the Jeannctte Expedition. Senator Chandler has introduced la the United States Senate a bill appropriating @100,000 for tbe erection of a National ^B| monument over the remains of Lieutenant H De Long and Ms fellow heroes of the Jean- ]BB nette expedition. A lot ot ground had been ^H9 purchased in Woodiawn Cemetery, New York, by the widowed Mrs. Oe Long in 1884, W^M when the r^rued remains of the JZAJWETT2 HEEOES' KO'SXnSZST. ' dead were brought to this country. Here Lieutenant Do Long himself and ^^B sis of his companions wero laid B^| to rest, with solemn services, on 9| February 23. The bodies had been <flslnterred from the spot in the Lena delta,where ^Bfl their discoverer, Chlet Engineer George W.i B B Jlelville, bad interred them In March, 1882. This was a rudo, but a splendid and appro B priate sepulchre for Arctic heroes. On the * Bummlt of Monument Hill, a solid rock 300 ^^^B feet high, he du ga grave. And above that ^^BN grave ha place a gigantic wooden cross, In- HI scribed with their names. ^^^B The monument In Woodlawn is to be a B^B fac-simile of that built by Chlet Engineer fl^B Melville. Where wood was used, however,, B the proposed tomb Is to have bronze. ^^^B These are the'names of those burled In Woodlawn over whom It Is proposed to ^^^B erect the monument*: Lleutenant-Commander G. W. DeLong, W. Lee, A. Gortz, A Dressier, N. Iverson, H. H. Hack and Ah CHANGE IN PENSION BUREAU. j IBB Commissioner Lochren to Get a Judgeship?Succeeded by His Deputy. Tbo President nominated Pension Commiasloner Lochren to be United States Judge H PESSICW C0Hir:S3I0SEE LOCBEZM. 'Nominated for United States Judge la Minnesota.) or ibe District of Minnesota, and Deputy Commissioner Murphy to be Chief of the 'ension Bureau. The Dupont Cato Settled. The claim of Colonel Henry A. Dupont for he vacant seat In the United States Senate rom the State of Delaware was decided ad ersely to him by n. majority of one. ?ho question bos been debated at great engtb from time to time. The Eepub-i lean Senators, to a man, voted in favor! >f Dapont's claim, the Democrats voted Just 3 unanimously against it, and tne Populists Hied themselves solidly on tne Democratic ide, making the vote on the amendment, rhioh declared that Mr. Dupont was not enitled to the seat, 31 to 30. This oioses the The Oregon la a Racer. After months of patient toll, after weeks pent in preparation, after trial trips on San 'rancisco Bay, and spoed tests In the Santa larbara Channel, California, the United tates battleship Oregon repaid her builders y doing all they asked for her. She made n average speed of 1G.78 knots, boating the rorld's record for vessels of this class. The iregon, by her work, earns a premium of 175,000 for her builders. For a Continental Congress. The message of the President of Brazil on le opening of Congress favors the Idea of a ongress of American republics. Fato of a Boatlns Party. Near Skamokawa, Wash., three persons 'ere drowned. A boating party, compo^gd f Mr3. A. R. Crosby, Miss Ketta rant feterson, uaanes rteweu ana a jit. 'raft?, the latter from Portland, was re tarnDg from a trip to Oathlamet when the boat ras struck by a squall and capsized. Miss [ennody and Mr. Crafts were rescued. fl^HB Advised to Let Oar 9ecnrltles Aloae. ^B^B^^B Tne paper which is t&e financial authority 1 London advises English Investors to leave mertcan securities alone, owing to tha rospects of heavy gold shipments from New ^HB^B^E ork and the financial uncertainties attend* ig tne Presidential campaign. BBI H