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DEMOCRATS IN SESSION. [j> State Conventions in Illinois, Wisconsin and Texas. J. P. ALTGELD RENOMINATED, Qllnols Democrats Declare for Silver and Unit Rale? Altgeld Didn't Want to Rnn Again, But the Convention Named Him by Acclamation?Gold Wins In Wisconsin?The Texas Democrats Split. Peoeu, 111., Juae 2i.?Ia a commodious wooden structure on Hamilton avenue, the representatives of the Democracy of Illinois met yesterday to select a State ticket and to name the delegates who will represent it at the National Convention in Chicago. An hour before tho time eet by the official call fully 6500 people were packed within the building, and 2000 more were unable to ob- J, tain admittance. ' At 12.15 o'clock Secretary of State W. ; JOHN V. ALTOELD. " g (Renominated for Governor of Illinois by the Democrats.) Hinrichsen called the convention to order f ^ aud introduced as Temporary Chairman "tl Alexander Hamilton Ball, of Carllnville. ~6' Hon. Chas. K. Ladd, who was presented as ^ Permanent Chairman, made a fiery address. Y< Ex-Congressman L. E. Worthington, of choi Peoria, declared that the Eastern goldbugs or b are responsible for forty-cent wheat and ten- to i dollar horses. Governor Altgeld then made pati his appearance on the platform and received skil t tremendous ovation. gpee Bv a risini? vote of 1069 delegates, and g^ai amid a tumult of applause, cheers, the wav- orie lng of hats, handkerchiefs, and coats, Altgeld pie 1 was renominated for Governor. The remain- mea der of the ticket Is: Liententant-Governor, is it Monroe C. Crawford; Secretary of State, p0p Finis 0. Downing; Auditor of State, W. F. any Beck; State Treasurer, Edward C. Pace; At- bat torney-General, George A. Trade. takf The convention adopted a free silver not plank, named forty-eight delegates to Chi- an ii cago and instructed them to vote as a unit \y for a candidate for President to 6tand on a can free silver platform. Am< The delegates-at-large are John P. Alt- ing, geld, Judge Connell, Secretary of State Hin- in tl richsen and Railroad Commissioner Fithian. ruir tlsrr WISCONSIN FOR COLO, min thiu SUverltes Beaten In the Democratic Con- hosl vention by 271 to 219. he t Milwaukee. Wis., June 24.?The Bijou It ?< Opera House was crowded to the doors long before the time set for calling the Demo- t] cratic State Convention to order. Upon the trat stage were the old-time leaders, Sena- 8toc tor Vilas, General Bragg, W. C. Silver- the thorn, and Thomas Barton. At 11 o'clock that ex-Governor Peck, Chairman of the but State Central Committee, read the call tte and introduced Thomas F. Frawley, of *ooi Eau Claire, to act as Temporary Chairman. of t! After the address the usual committees were doc appointed. In all cases the selections of the ?ur district conventions were endorsed. These ^ prpHminnrv conventions indicated clearly 8ta6 that the gold men had full control of the thei convention. / we After the convention had taken a recess the Alej free silver men, to the number of about sixty, Is t held a caucus. It was resolved to make a yoo r\f fhA ft nil to JUIIS ufeutwt ct-, prevent, it possible, an outright declaration He< lor the gola standard in the platform. sucl When the convention reassembled two re- God ports from the Committee on Resolutions were presented. When Mr. Usher read the the majority report, which declared for gold, God there were loud oheers. When Mr. Silver- Mag thorn took the floor to read the minority re- trut port the cheers broke louder than ever. stjrei Senator Vilas took the platform In response Vnd to cheers, and made an appeal for the gold t ^di standard. Speeches followed by Delegate He! Dockery, of Ashland, for silver; Louis J./ besl Bomrich, of Kenosha, for a straddle in thi6 is sc financial question, and General Bragg 0r mci gold. The minority report was then relict- Ii ed?271 to 219?and the majority report P?ti unanimously passed. P^o The delegates-at-large selected arej/Sena- tbe; tor William F. Vilas, General Edward S. the] ^^^I^Bragp, James G. Flanders, of Milwaukee, spei J. Hogan, of La Crosse. Af 6 o'clock the; convention adjourned sine die. ^ _______ / all ' Democrats Spilt in Texas. ticu HV - Acstis, Texas, Jane 24. ?The regular State ^us Democratic Convention and the Democratic ?!ar *' Convention, which favors the gold standard, otla met here. The gold men men met in the are, Opera House, with about 400 delegates preseat, and the !ree silverites in Convention one Hall, w th about 1000 in attendance. onS ? - *md The regular Democratic Convention or- * ? tranized at 12 o'clock by electing the Hon. arrf W. E. R?ms?y, a free silver man, Chairman, J"0" and after appointing committees adjourned H until 3 o'clock. The "gold" convention adopted a platform repudiating the methods and actions of the |be< State Executive Committee. It declares that the action of the committee necessitates tha reorganization of the Democratic party fon in Texas. Fifteen Democratic electors were " * chosen aad a State Convention called to meet in Waco, August 25, to nominate State c'rc officer?. A full delegation was elected to at- e~? tend the Chicago Convention. The regular convention adopted a plat- Bra form declaring for free silver coinage, "with- tlie * out awaiting the action of any other Na* *)re tion." A minority report by the ''gold" dov wing was voted crown Dy over two-thirds Lmajoritv. spr bus The Liberals Sweep Canada FVom Ome End esti to the Otlter. m<5 tha The Liberal party in Gftaada won a groat tho victory in the Dominion general elections, tou Aftertfour successive defeats since 1378 by tlct ?v? CI. I Poi I the Conservative uoveruuirui ui uio imc | ^ John A. MacDonald they defeated the Con- I servative party under the Premiership of Sit the Charles Tupper, the late High Commissioner cit] tri'tti Canada in England, by an overwhelm- in < ins majority. The victory vnis a complete Yo\ Mirprise to tho Government. As the returns haj i-arnu in showing the election ot the oppoflt* pei lion candidates in the cities wiMi as in the Wa r>arf\ pui rumi i.-'jiuiuuvuvii could hardly realize their defeat. fut an< CHV Mr?. Heoiinc cle.tre!. BSHHv tlO Spy The jury in the trial at Ne;v York City oJ bit ^9 Mrs. Alice Almont Livingston Fleming fot *s ' the murder of hor mother, Mrs. Evciini M. Kr Mg Bliss, by poison, returned a vur Ji-.-t of nc: 33, guilty. The jury had been out n arly twelve 1 hours. fri' Yo Out tlie Common Run. H9BhB Henry S^haeht, of Joiasoa Count)'. No- Iu< BflH brasba, sold the other day a pet pig weigh* ce: UDI ing 85u pounds. Ch La Crosse, iian., is dead town. When ^ any one living near wants u house he goes tc tn La Crosse, buys one for a few sesterces anc Pr hauls it oO, 7a HBH iOMl^EEs Qf 4 v' JL 'J? WILL/AM' "McKIN] Candidate foi^ 1 EV. PR TAI1IAGE. JDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. (abject: "God in Everything.0 sxt: "Ar*not two sparrows sold for a ling? And one of them shall not fall on ?round without your Father."?Matthaw :9. >u see the Bible will not be limited in the ,ce of symbols. There is haraly a beast ird or insect which has not been called y llustrato some divine truth?the ox's ence, the ant's industry, the spiderV 1, the hind's surefootedness, the eagle's >d, the dove's gentleness, and even the row's meanness and insignificance./ In ntal countries none but the poorest peobuy the sparrow and eat it?so very little t is there on the bones, and so vtfry poor what there is of it. The comfortable UlttllUU ?UU1U UUl L LI 1X1R. <?i /JUUIUUK It more than you would think /of eating a or a lamprey. Now. says Jesus, if God ? such good care of a poor bird that is worth a cent, will He not care for you, mmortal? / e associate God with revolutions. We see a divine purpose fn the discovery of / Jrica, in the invention of the art of printin the exposure of' the gunpowder plo'., tie contrivance of,the needle gun, In the i of an Austrian' or Napoleonic despoi; but how hard it is to see God in the ute personal affairs of our lives! We ik of God as making a record of the starry but cannot realize tbe Bible truth that :nows hott many hairs are on our head, sems a grand thing that God provided I for hundreds of thousands of Israelites tie desert; but we cannot appreciate the h that, when a sparrow is hungry, God >ps4ownand opens its mouth apd puts seed in. We are struck with the idea God Alls the universe with his presence, cannot understand how he encamps in crvstal nalaee of a dew droo. or finds n to stand between the alabaster pillars tie pond lily. We can see God in the ids. Can we see God in these flowers at feet? e are apt to place God on some great ;e?or to try ro do it?expecting Him re to act out His stupendous projects, but forget that Jhe life of a Cromwell, an cander or a Washington or an archangel lot more under divine inspection than r life or mine. Pompey thought there it be a mist over the eyes of God because ;o much favored Crosar. But there is no 1 mist. He sees everything. ^Ve say .'s path is in the great waters. True agh; but no more certainly than He is In water in the glass on the table. We say . guides the stars in their courses, jniflcent truth! But no more certain h than that He decides which road or et you shall take in coming to ohurch. lerstand that God does not sit upon an fferent or unsympathetic throne, but that sits down beside you to-day, and stands de me to-day, and no affair of our lives > Insignificant but that it is of import5 to God. t the first place, God chooses our occuonforus. I am amazed to see how many pie there are dissatisfied with the work Y have to do. I think three-fcurths wish 7 were insomeotheroccupation, and they id a great deal of time In regretting that Y got in the wrong trade or profession. I it to tell you that God put into operation the influences which led you to that parlar choice. Many of you are not in the Ines3 that vou exoected to be in. You ted for the ministry and learned merndise; you started for the law and you a physician; you preferred agriculture you became a mechanic. You thought way; God thought another. But you ht not to sit down and mourn over the t. You are t? remember that God mged all these circumstances by which were made what you are. ugh Miller says, "I will be a stoneson;" God says, "You will be a geoloDavid goes out to attend his father's jp; God calls him to govern a nation. 1 go<*s out to hunt his father's asses, and >re he gets back finds the crown of regal Union. How much happier would we be >e were content with the places God gave God saw your temperament and all the nmctiinofx; bv whieh vnu wfre enrround and T Believe nine-tenths of you ore fn work you are best fitted for. I hear a it racket In my watch, and I find that hands, and the wheels, and the spring getting out of their places. I send it rn to the jeweler's and say, "Overhaul t watch and teach the wheels, and the ing, and the hands to mind their own lness." You know a mitn having a large ?to Re fathers his working hands in the rning, and says to one, "You go and trim t vine;" to another, "You go and weed se flowers;" to another, "You plow that gh glebe;" and each one goes to his parilar work. The owner of the estate nts the man to what he knows ho can -do t, and so it is with the Lord. remark further that God has arranged place of our dwelling. What particular , or town, street or house you shall live eems to be a mere matter of accident, a go out to hunt for a house, and you >pen to pa?s up a certain street, and hap1 to see a sign, and you select that honse. s it all happening so? Ob, no! God idcd you in every step. He foresaw the ure. He knew all your circumstances, 1 He selected just that one bouse as bettor ycu than auv of the 10.C00 habitant in the city. Cur house, however humi the roof and however lowly the portals, as near God's heart as an Alhambra or u emlin. Prove it, you say. Proverbs ill.. "He blesseth the habitation of the just.' ! remark further that God arranges all our endships. You were driven to the wall. n f, ,11,1,1 n mnn ilist at I h.lt orisis WhO SVrt> thized with you and helped you. Vou r, "'How iucky I was!" There was no .'k about it. God s<nt that friend just as rtainly as Ho sent the ancel to strengthen irist. Your domestic friends, your busiss friends, your Christian friends, God~ut em to bless you, and if any of them ua^e oved traitorous, it is ouly to bring out the lue of those who remain. If some die, it only that they may stand at the outposts heaven to greet you at your coming. I / / 4 . I 7 THE REPUBLl / / LEY, OF OHIO, / President. -/. J -??j You always will have friends, warm lieartnd friends, magnanimous friends, and; when sickness comes to your dwelling there will be watchers. When trouble comes /to your heart, there will b? sympathizers. When death comes there Thrill be gentle/Angers to close the eyes and'fold the hands, and gentle lips to tell of a rfeurrectlon. Oh, we are comv.. ~ j ~ e t~j .-j.i xi ptu&eu uj a uuvygutuu ui irieuus: r. very man, if he hap- behaved himself well, is surrounded by three circles of friends?those of the outer circle wishing him well; those in the next .Circle willing to help him; while close up to his heart are a few who would die for him. God pity the wretch who has not any friends! I .-remark again, that God puts down th^' limit to our temporal prosperity. The worid of finance seems to have no God in it You cannot tell where a man will land. The affluent fall; the poor rise. The ingenious fail; the Ignorant succeed. An enterprise opening grandly, shut3 in bankruptcy, while out 01 the peat dug up from some New England marsh the millionaire builds his fortune. The poor man thinks it is chance' that keeps him down; the rich man thinks it is chance wnich hoists him; and they are both wrong. It Is so hard to realize that God rules the money. market, and has a hook in the nose of the stock gambler, and that all the commercial revolutions of the world shall result in the very best for God's dear children. My brethren, do not kick against the divine allotments. God knows just how much money it is best for you to i06p. You never gain unless it is best for you to gain. You go up when it is best for you to go up and fo down when it is best for vou to go down. rove it, you say. I will. Romans viii.. 28, 'All things work together for good to them that love God. ' You go into a factory and you see 20 or 30 wheeh, and they are going in differeni directions. This band Is rolling off this way and another band another way; one down and another un. You say, "What confusion in a factory!" Ob, no! all these different bands are only different parts of the machinery. 80 I cro into your life and see stranee things. Here is one providence pullinc yon one way and another in another way. Eut these are different parts of one machinery by which He will advance your ewrlasting and present well being. Now you know that a second mortgage, and a third and fourth morti?age are often worth nothing. It is the first mortgage that is a good investment. I have to tell you that every Christian man has a first mortgage on every trial, and on every disaster, and it must make a payment of eternal advantasre to hissoul. How many worrinftnts it would take out of your heart if you beMeved that fully. You buy goods and hope the price will^o up, but you aro in a fret and a frown for tear the price will go down. You do not buy the goods u?inc your best discretion in the matter, and then say: "Ob, Lord, I have done the best I could!" I commit this whole transaction into Thy hands!" That is what religion is good tor or it is good for nothing. There are two things, eays an old proverb, you ought not to frot about?first, tbines that you can help, and second, things which you cannot help. If you can help them, why do you not apply the remedy? If you cannot help them, you might as well surrender first as last. My dear brethren, do not sit any longer moping about your ledger. TX-v nl* InrtHnjT OA ^acr^nHinfl?ltr nnAfl 1/W UVl OIL IVA'ILIU^ OV UV^pvtiUHtQ'j ?f ycrar stock of unsalable goods. Do you think that God is going to allow you, a Christian man, to do business alone? God is the controlling partner in every firm, and although your debtors may abscond, although your securities may fail, although your store may burn, God will, out of an infinity ot results, choose for you tho very best results. Do not have any idea that you can overstep the limit that God has laid down for your prosperity. You will never get one inch beyond it. God has decided how much prosperity you can stand honorably and employ usefully and control righteously; and at the end of the year you will have just so many dollars and cents, just so much wardrobe, just so much furniture, iust so many bonds and mortgages, and nothing more. I will give you S100 for ever}' penny you pet beyond that. God has looked over your life. He knows what is best for you, and he Is going to bless you in time, and bless you for eternity; and He will do It in the best way. Your little 3hild says: "Papa, I wish you ttould let trie have that knife." "No," yon say, 'It Is a sharp knife and you will cut yourself." Ha says, '! most have tt" "Bat you cannot have It," you reply. He (jets angry and red in the face, and says he will have it; but you say hesball not have it. Are you not kind in keeping it from him? 80 God treats His children, I say, "I wish, Heavenly Father, to get that" God says, ''No, my child." I say."I must have it" God says, "You cannot have it" I get angrv and say, "I will have it" God says. ''You shall not bavo it;" and I do not get it. Is He not kind and loving and the best of Fathers? Do you tell me there is no rule and regulation in these things? Tell that to the men who believe in no God and no Blbie. Teil it not tome! A man of large business concludes to go our of his store, leaving much of his investments in the business, and he says to bia sons: "Now, I am goins to leave this business in yonr hands. Perhaps I may come back in a little while, and perhaps not. While 1 am gone you will please to look aftec affairs." After awhile the father comes back and finds everything at loose ends, and the whole business seems to be going wrone. He says: "I am goin.t; to take possession of this business?you know I never fully surrendered it?and henceforth consider yourselves subordinates." Is he not riRht in doing it? He saves the business. The Lord seems to let us go on in life, guided by our own skill, and we make miserable work of it God comes down to our shop, or our store, and says: ''Things are going wrong. I come to take charge. I am Master and I know wha' is best, and I proclaim my authority."' We are merely subordinates. " It is liko a boy a! school with a long sum that he cannot" do. He has been working at it for hours, making figures here and rubbing out figures there, and it is all mixed up, and the teacher, looking over the boy's shoulder, knows that he cannot got out of It, and cleaning the slate, says, "Begin again." Just so God does td us. Our affairs got into an inextricable outangiement, and He rubs everything out and says. "Begin again!" Is He not wise and loving in so doing? can National < GARRET A. HOBAR' Candidate for ' ; a I think the trouble is that there Is 90 large a difference between the divine and the human estimate as to what is enough. I have heard of people striving for that which is enough, but I never heard of any one who had enough. What God calls enough for man man call too little. What man calls enough God says is too much. The difference between a poor man and a rich man is only the difference in banks. The rich man Suts his money in the Washington bank, or le Central bank, or the Metropolitan bank, or some other bank of that character, while the poor man comes up and makes his investments in the bank of Him who runs all the quarries, all the mines, all the gold, all the earth, all heaven. Do you think a man can fail when he is bfqkgd ud like that? You may have* seen a map" on which is described, with red ink, the travels of the children of Israel through the desert to the promised land. You see bow they took this and that direction, crossed that river and went through the sea. Do you know God has made a map of your life with paths leading up to this river and across that sea? But, blessed be God, the path always comes out at the promised landL Mark that! Mark that! I remark again that all those things that seem to be but accidents in our life are under the divine supervision. fWe sometimes seem to be going helmless and anchorlees. You say, "If I had some other trade; if I had not gone there this summer; if I had lived in some other house." You have no right to say that. Every tear you wopt, every step you have taken, every burden you have carried is under olvine Inspiration, and that event which startled your whole household with horror God met with perfect placidity, because He knew it was for your good. It was part of a great plan projected long ago. In eternity, when you come to reckon up your mercies, you willp6int to that affliction as one of your greatest blessings. God has a stranee wav with us. JoseDh found his way to the prime minister's chair by being pushed into a pit; and to maDy a Christian down is up. The wheat must be flailed; the quarry must be blasted; the diamond must be (wound: the Christian must be afflicted; and that single event, which you supposed stood entirely alone, was a connecting link between two great chains, one chain reaching through all eternity past and the other chain reaching through all eternity future?go small an event fastening two eternities together. A missionary coming from India to the United States stopped at St. Helena while the vessel was taking water. He had hl3 little child with him. They walked along by an embankment, and a rock at that moment became loosened and, falling Instantly, killed the child. Was it an accident? Was it a surprise to God? Had He allowed His servant, after a life of consecration, to come to such a trial? Not such Is my God, There are no accidents in the divine mind, though they may seem so to us. God is good, and by every single incident of our life, whether it be adverse or otherwise, before earth and heaven. God will demonstrate His mercy. I hear a man say: "That idea belittles God. l'ou bring Him down to such little ikinrM " AK T hftffa o m/M>a fKnwAnrth nn_ v/u^ A umo u """ 1 mi'i v/u^u u^r* preclation of God in little things than I have in great things. The mother does not wait until the child has crushed its foot or broken its arm before ehe administers sympathy. The .child comes in with the least bruise, and the mother kisses it. God doe3 not wait for some tremendous crisis in our life, but comes down to us in our most insignificant trials and throws over us the arms of His mercy. Going up the White Mountains some years ago I. thought of that passage in the Bible that speaks of God as weighing mountains in a balance. As I looked at those great mountains I thought, Can it be possible that God can put these great mountains in scales? It was an idea too great for me to grasp; but when 1 saw a bluebell down by the mule's foot, on my way up Mount Washington, then I understood the kindness and goodness of God. It Is not so much of God in great things I can understand, but of God in little thlngsj There is a man who says, "That doctrine cannot be true, because things do go so very wrong." I reply it is no inconsistency on the part of God, but a lack of understanding on our part. I hear that men are mailing very fine shawls in some factorv. I go in on the first floor and see only the raw materials, and I ask. "Are these the shawls I have heard about?" "No," says the manufacturer. "Go up to the next floor," and I go up, and there I begin to see the design. But the man says: "Do not stop hero. Go up to the top floor of the factory and you will see the Idea fully carried out." I do so, and having come to the top, see the complete pattern of on exquisite shawl. 3o in our life, standing down on a low level of A * nn^ n T-cf n n H i/unsuttu eAperiuiiuo wo uu uui God's dealings. He tel:s us to get up higher and higher until we begin to understand the divine meaning with respect to us, and we advance until we stand at the very gate of heaven, and there see God's Ilea all wrought out?a perfect Idea of mercy, of love, of kindness. And we sav, "Just and true are all my ways." It is all right at the top. Remember there is no inconsistency on the part of God, but It Is only oar mental and spiritual incapacity. Some of you may be dlsapolnted this summer?vacations are apt to be disappointments?but whatever your perplexities and worriments, know that "Man's heart deviseth his way. but the Lord directeth his steps." Ask these aged men in this church If it is not so. It has been so in rav own life. 000 summer I started for the Artirondacks, but my plans were so changed that I landed in Liverpool. I studied law and I got into tho ministry. I resolved to go as a missionary to China, and staid in the United States. 1 thought I would like to be in the east, and I went to the west. All the circumstances " 11 ?- Ho* oi lire, an my wotk, uiucreui num mui. which I expected. "A. man's heart devisoth his way, but the Lord directeth his steps." So, my dear friends, this day take homo this subject. Be content with such things as you have. From every grass blado under your feet learn the lesson of divine care, and never let the smallest bird flit across your path without thinking of the truth that two sparrows are sold for a farthing, and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. Blessod be Hi3 glorious name forever. Amen. KM ^-^VENTION. Five ?Ai I'e r, OF HEW JERSEY, e Vice-President. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED* Washington Itemi. HoshlToru, the new Japanese Minister, arrived In Washington. The British Government decided to ash Secretary Olney to use his good offices witi Venezuela to secure the release of Mr. Har rlson. Secretary Olney held a conference with th< Spanish Minister, Dupuy De Lome, the result of which will be reported to President Cleveland. The Venezuelan Boundary Commission received another batch of important evidence irom ine government ai ^arucua. Wm. Byan, a Virginia revenue collector, r.rrlved with news from Cuba for the Administration. He says annexation Is now the chief topic of discussion In Havana. President Cleveland, accompanied by Secretary Carlisle and Dr. O'Reilly, left Washington for a brief Ashing cruise along the South Atlantic coast. Guatemala has had another attempt at revolution. If the little uprising which occurred there during the past few days can be dignified as such. The 8tate Department received news of the affair from Mr. Prlngle, Charge d'Affaires of the United States at Gautemala City. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Ambassador, bad an Interview with Secretary Olney. Sir Julian has Informed Mr. Andrade, the Venezuelan Minister, that he will reoeive any proposals concerning the boundary dispute which Venezuela may desire to make to the British Government. It is probable that some agreement will be reached by Sir Julian and Mr. Olney In a short time. Postmaster Sayre, of Atlantla City, N. J., was removed from office by Postmaster-Gen1X741 Kftrtfltian /v# a ohrtrfflCA fif ?1400 in his accounts. Domestic. BECOED 0? THE LEAGUE CLOTS. Per. Pet CI ribs. Won. L"?t. ct.l Club*. 'Won. Loit. ct. Baltimore.34 18 .654.Plttsburc.27 25 .619 Cleveland 32 18 .640|Brooklyn.27 26 .509 Cinolnnati34 22 .607 Chicago. .29 28 .509 Boston....80 21 .588 New. York22 81 .415 WshinK'n26 23 .531 St. Louls.15 88 .283 Phlladei. .29 26 .527 Louisville 11 40 .216 Judge Wallace, of the UnitedStates Circuit Court, 8yracuse, N. Y., rendered a decision denying the motion of William J. Kresser. ol Albany, to restrain Excise Commissioner Ly> man from revoking his license on Juno SO. The opinion declares that the Raines law Ib constitutional and not a violation of the United 8tates Constitution. Every minelnLeadville, CoL, is closed on account of the strike. The New Home 8ewing Machine Company of New York City has ascertained that it has been robbed of more than 620,000 in the last Kv? AmnlAvflQ flaran flrfAatq TTPrO iO>Y JCOiO UJ CUi|/iVJv?t wwtvm I. w.made. The freshmen boat race at Poughkeepsle, N. Y.f was won by Cornell by a length, Harvard second, Pennsylvania third and Co* lumbjajast. David Belasco, the playwright, who sued N. K. Falrbank, the Chicago pork-packer, for 865,000 for his services In preparing Mrs. Leslie Carter for the stage, was awarded a verdict of $16,000 in the Supreme Court, New York City. The triennial convention of the International Sunday-school Association was held in Boston. Frank Marquardt, an engineer, and Charles Angus, a fireman, were killed by the explosion of the boiler of a New York Central Railroad loconootiv# in Utica, N. Y. A McEinlev and Hobart ratification meeting wai held in Carnegie Music Hall, New York CUy, among the speakers being Edward Laaterbach. T. C. Piatt, J. Bloat Fas satt, Frajk Hiscock and W. A- Sutherland. Banker Auijust Belmont's horse, Henry of Navarre, won the Suburban, at Sheepshead Bay, near New York City, with The Commoner secr.nd and the heavily backed favcr?ite, Clifford third. The first Vaticnal Convention of the Credit Men of the Uoited States was held at Toledo, Ohio. Mayor Major's address of welcome was responded to by M. E. Bannin, of New York; T. J. Ferguson, of New Orleans. and W. H. Taylor, of Kansas City. W. H. Preston, of Sioux City, Iowa, was then elected Permanent Chairman. The State Bar Association of Indiana was organized at Indianapolis at a meeting represented by lawyers from all parts of the State. General Benjamin Harrison was elected first President unanimously. In New York City Judge Cowing sentenced a saloon keeper to one month in the penlten iarv, and his bartender to ten days In the Tombs for selling beer In an alleged club over his saloon on Sundays. John Martsolf, a leading citizen of Webb City, Mo., committed suicide, blowlncr his head off his shoulders with a stick of giant powder. George H. Wyckoff, Presi lent of the Bank of New Amsterdam, New York City, died from the effects of the shot fired by George H. Somple. Albert Woods, thirly-two years old, the proprietor of a photograph gallery at Washington Park, Philadelphia, and Richard *r t-u a ric?ifnr tn thft UlttUZie, IVVCUIJ > com w.? , ? . gallery, were shocked to death by touching an electric screen. Henry B. Eeecher, a son of the late Henry WarJ Bnecher, was acquitted in New York City on tue charge of lorging a corporate name. vandals visited Wappinger's Fajls (N. Y.) Cemetery at night and destroyed fifty of Its most beautiful monuments. Alonzo A. Walling was, at Newport, Ky., adjudged cuilty of the murder of Pearl Eryan, with penalty of death, and was imprisoned with Seott Jackson at Covington, fcy., who is awaiting death for the same crime. The boiler nf the excursion steamer Titus Shear! explode 1 when about to larvi at Taylor's Driving Park, Little Falls, N. Y., and eleven persons were killed and six injured. The Sub-Committee of the Senate Finance Committee, investigating the recont Government bon 1 Issue, began its sessions in New York City. August Bslmont, J. Pierpont Morgan and Francis Lyn le Stot3on testified. '" S ; 'yy'- V.' ""'" ""'- "\9> .LED BY k BUILDING'^ U# THE SI Lives Lost In the CollapseFrandtco Lodging Home^jn Th0T 1 the collapse of a three-story ling on the corner of Fifth stre?e At a e avenue, San Francisco, Cal., ' the boll le were killed outright and elfc can Na1 rs were more or less seriously lnjnrt eratlon >ast two more victims were known to Lte(j sta LPi ruins. nress. le building was occupied as a restaurant^ na| he lower floor, and the second and third ^da les were utilized as a lodging house. Q 0f inel OTSeefe. the owner of the premises, Q0| recently informed that the foundation defective, and on the advice of an archi- n d the ground had been entirelv dug away of n beneath the building, in or<5er that new ? lerplnnlng might be set In. wine to some mismanagement on the t of the contractors the structure was left ifflciently supported and collapsed. The us took fire, but the flames were subdued h little ouncuuy. .n unidentified lady who was passing by building at the time of the collapse was nek by falling timbers and instantly killed, a mangled remains of an old man were aoved from the top of the wreckage, to:her with the body of an unidentified man, > ooeupant of the lodging house, The em>yes and guests of the restaurant, eleven number, were all rescued. Some of them ire seriously injured. BENJAMIN H. BRISTOW DEAD. ? 1^6(817 of the Treasury Under Grant and Prominent in Law and Politics. Benjamin EL Bristow, the well-known law* !r and former Secretary of the Treasury, led at his home in New York City of periinitifl. Benjamin Holm Bristow was born in Elk>n. Ky., on June 20,1832, and received hl3 ducation at Jefferson College, in Pennsylania. from which he was graduated at the ge of nineteen. He was admitted to the ar of Kentucky two yeare later. On the ut break oft tie Civil War he joined the Northrn forces. He was United States District ittorney for the Louisville District from 865 to 1870. In that year he was appointed lolloitor-General of the United States. In 872 he resigned to become attorney for the 'exas Pacific Ballroad. In 1873 he was bminated Attorney-General of the United Ea+oa hot was not confirmed. He was ap? P'nted Secretary of the Treasury by PrasiGrant, In 1874, and served until 1878, he resigned to attend to his private PfMce. He fought the "Whisky ?lng." Sinoti876 Mr. Brlstow had practiced In N9W York <tty, ^DIAMOND CAVED IN.' BsuballWjen Narrowly Escape Falling Into a Mine. During thtprogress of a game of baseball In Laurel HlllPark, Hazleton, Perm., a portion of the diamond dropped into th<J mines and several players narrowly escaped being dragged to a living tomb. The Weatherly and the Laurel Hill teams were the contestants, and a big crowd of speotators was present. In the third Inning Harry Blackwell, theJLaurel Hill shortstop, left his position to sectors a batted ball. A minute later a load roar was heard and a dark hole appeared in\the> surface where Blaflkwell had stood. \ The spectators, fearing (a further fdnklna of the earth, fled In terror from the flela. The spot where the hole cSfc^ed In was undermined by a worked out &ud the -t-n ji-iji? ?.u- t? - - j Airfnffl. crave BIJOU, UlVlULUg UiO Hmo HUU M?'-"l way, creating an apparentlji bottomless hole. \ ^ Justice Field Voder X Fays. ^ Stephen J. Field, Justice of the Suprem^ Court of the United States, has had an experience of three-quarters of an hour under the Rontgen rays at 8an Francisco, CaL He Is troubled with an affection of the knee joint, which doctors cannot define precisely. The negative showed that tno tibia and the femur have almost grown together. The hinge, so to speak, la practically solidified. The bones have not tnat clearness of outline shown in the normal knee. The result Is a gratifying demonstration of the X ray as a means of disclosing the nature, location and extent of an Interior lesion. Indicted the Haiders. The Grind Jury at London found true bills against Dr. Leander Starr Jameson, Major Sir John Wlllonghby, Colonel R. Gray. Major R. White, Colonel R. F. Walte and tne Honorable Henry F. Coventry, who were held for trial at the Bow Street Police Court on June 15, charged with violating the neutrality laws by Invading the Transvaal Republic. Bank Bobbed at Jfoon by One Stan. The Miners' Bank, Creede, CoL, was robbed at noon of 81000 by a man wno slipped in by the private entrance, and, after covering the cashier with a revolver, seized all tfle money la toe arawer. men, uaciLmx oat, he slipped through au alley and escaped. ' Killed in a Dael. A duel was fought at Kummersdorf, near Berlin, Germany .between Lieutenant Buch,of the Ninth Regiment, and Lieutenant L*uh? ring, of the Sixth Regiment. The weapons used were pistols. Lieutenant Luehrlng was shot and aimost instantly killed. School Girls as Fall Bearers. | The last request of Mis3 Sallle V. Crane, a school girl in Franklin County, Kentucky, who died a few dajs ago, was that her sir girl classmates be her pall bearers. At her funeral her classmates, dressed in white, carried her coffin to the grave. Great Damage by Forest Fires. Forest fires are raging on all parts of the Isthmus of TehuaDtepec. Thousands of acres of coffee, cotton and tobacco plantations have been burnod over, and .several railway bridges on the National Tehuantepec Railway completely destroyed. Shot His Son. George Price fatally shot his son, Thomas Price, at the residence of Mrs. Romlne, ten miles from Danville, III. The only excuse the old man gives Is mat his son was a hard drinker and had followed him with threats tor more than three years. 30,000 Lives Lout by Japan Tidal TTave. Secretary Olnoy received the following dejpatch from Mr. Hero.i, Secretary of the United States Legation at Toklo: "Deaths caused by tidal wave estimated at over S!),000. In reports to date no mortalities among Americana." Reception to Uobnrt, A ncn-partisan reception was given to Garrett A. Hobart, Republican nominee for Vice-President, at Paterson. >*. J., and 20r 000 people took part in it. -LI I.?.l T a Kill*,!. Five hundred Turk? were kidei or wounds ed In a recent flsfct with Insurgent Druses In the Hauran district of Turkey. Brothers Drowned. "While bathing in the Illinois P.iver, near Morris, Iil.. Albert and Fran'-: Holloubeck, brothers, were drowned in a whirlpool The National Game. Columbus has turned thu veteran, Pote Browning, adrifr. The Brooklyns have not played an errorless game this season. Daub appears to have supplanted KenneJy as Brooklyn's winning pitcher. Brodie, of the Baltimores, has taken a big drop in his batting this season. Pitcher Hawley, of Pittsburg, has not won a game from Baltimore In two year?. Jerrems, of the Yale team, Is about the best outfielder among the college players. From the present outlook, Cleveland will fight for the first place, with but little help from the other Western clubs. - m LVER BOLTERS' MANIFESTO. Cine an Addre?? to the People Nominating: Teller. | ecret conference In St Louis, Mo., of ting silver delegates to the Republic clonal Convention after much considan address to the people of the UniW tes was agreed upon and given to th& While the address contains mucn In' ure of a silver coinage argument, tha ding paragraph show the determlna-j ! the boitlng delegates to bring about^ .fl H minatlon if possible of Senator Henry M.: . of Coloraao, as the candidate for the . [ency on a platform having for Its cardi-j . H inciple the free and unlimited coinage -r. It invites the Democrats, Populists,] H?XBY M. TELLER. , ' blmetalists and all parties or organizations1, j that have their nominees yet to name and; y - J their platforms to adODt to unite on the Col-' ,'cj orado Senator as their standard bearer and \ ' -JM to Ignore all other Issues in the effort to re* ^ form the currency system, in justice to the ey9teaQ. in Justice to the creditors and la the Interest of the masses ot the people. All the J delegates who withdrew and some others ? have signed this declaration. 1 PRESIDENT DIAZ'S TRIUMPH. J Renominated In Mexico for the Fifth Time' ; i* and Greeted With Applaate. *>% % There was a great demonstration In the ji City olMexloo in honor ot President Diaz,' ,"fcnh" tofln renominated for a filth term.: ^ nuv mm ? There was a procession of about eight thou- * w sand persons, lnoladlng four thousand pore , blooded Indiana from neighboring ^ PBESIDEUT DIAZ, OP MEXICO. 1 carrying banners and flags. The belli were' ringing all day and In the night there was a' display of fireworks. Forty volumes, with more than half a' million signatures, favoring the renomination of President Diaz, were presented. He had practically no opposition. I HON. W. C. WHITNEY'S STATEMENT,1 I His Views on th? Currency Question stated In a Letter to the Public. In a statement to the public William C.1 Whitney, ex-Secretary of the Navy, declares tw HinannnHnn nf afpea silver Dlank bvl """ '"v """f""" ~~ - I .. the Democratic National Convention would, ' , be disastrous to the party and Impede the1 promised success ol International, bimetallism. In his letter Mr. Whitney makes plain the fact that he is thoroughly convinced that, the differences between the factions of the Democratic party on the question of our-! rency are wide. He admits a majority of, the delegates elected to the convention at Chicago are pledged to the independent free coinage of silver by the United 8tates at a ratio of 10 to 1 with gold. ! Mr. Whitney sets forth at length his reasons for his objection to the adoption of such a , policy by this country at this time when the possibility of an international agreement favoring the increased use of silver as a money metal seems brighter than at any time in many years. ;0j In regard to his possible candidacy for the Democratic Presidential nomination, Mr.: H Whitney sets all doubts aside by declaring in the emphatic language once used by General Sherman: "I will not run if nominated, nor A serve if elected." Bold Criminal* In Chicago. The tenth store hold-up within the last three months was successfullv cajoled out by five armed men who at 10 o^clock p. m. en? tered the butcher shop oi peter Aceermen, with drawn revolvers and ordered Ackerman and his clerks to hold up their hands. As Mrs. Ackerman fled and readied the street k one of the robbers on tbe outside began firing J at her, and the others ran out of the store. The firing attracted the police, who pursued 9 the robbers half-a-dozen blocks, shooting as I they ran. The robbers returned the Are, > S more than twenty shots being exchanged, I though nobody was hit. After a hard run the thieves made their escape. They secured J about $100 in cash. I Four Killed by a Train. fl Four men were killed by an express on the * J Camden and Atlantic Railroad, at Abjocom, J N. J. The dead are George Huber, his son, 1 Frederick Huber; his son-in-law. Joseph M Sahl, and George Graetzner. The horse mey were uri>uig luuh msUL ?" Tornado at Poughke?p?le, X. T. I A. terriflo windstorm swept through. 1 Poughkeepsle, N. Y., ami the surrounding count ry, accompanied by a tremendous downpour of rain and hall The wind at- -J**. talned a velocity of seventy-five miles an hour, lasting for about ten minutes. Over five hundred shade trees were uprooted. The Knickerbocker ioehouse. at Fox's Point, was demolished. T. H. Burrlll & fio.'s hardware manufactory was wrecked, causing a loss of 610,000, and several other buildings were unroofed and otherwise damaged. All wire9 of every description in the city were either 1 broken down or rendered useless, and the 1 city was left in total darkness. The los3 in fj the city is estimated at about $23,000. ] Three Drowned In the Muskingum. ' A drowning accident occurred on th? < Muskintrum River, four miles below Zanes- j mil A rifant Wun'ftv nc?oM thlrtv^ I three; Emma Collins, aged twenty-one^A. I 0. Williams, agel twenty-one, and J Evans, aged sixteen, were out in a skiff in the mitl.l.e of the river when the boat began to fill with water. Young Williams sprang B Into thr* water and with hands on the boat' was swimming for shore, when, within thirty. fl feet of the b-uik. the three occupants of the boat became panic-stricken and jumped into' 9 the water. In their struggle the two young women seized Harvey and pulled him down ^ with them, the three sinking immediately.; Williams was picked up by another skiff ia an exhausted condition. ?