The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, June 03, 1896, Image 2
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
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' GORGEOUS BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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BIC FIRE IN WASHINGTON. J
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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
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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 .
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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- *
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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.
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Favor Civil Service.
he National Convention of Police Chiof9 c
.tlanta, Ga., adopted a resolution /avorthe
divorcement of politics Irqm the Po- ^
Department. '
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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]
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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