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POPULIST CONVENTION. The Second National Gathering Meets at St. Louis. n-rnnii rnn innr nnrninniT WAIbUIN run Vlut-rnuolUtlil I. Senator Allen, of Nebraska, Made Permanent Chairman of the Convention-? Nominations for Vice-President Ahead of That for President?The Platform in Fall?Details of the Convention's W orlt. 8t. Louis, Mo., July 25.?The Populist National Convention nominated Thoma3 E. Watson for Vice-President. It was decided to proceed to the nomination of a candidate lor Vice-President first, and the names of Arthur Sewall, of Maine; ex-Congressman Watson, of Georgia; Congressman Skinner, of North Carolina, and others were presented. The ballot was taken after midnight. The "Middle of the Road" faction made a determined fight against the indorsement of Sewall, and finally won the contest. The convention was called to order by Chairman Allen at ten o'clock a. m. After prayer a gavel male of forty-eight different kinds of timber, representing every State, was presented to the Chairman by Delegate Denoe, of Ohio, as a ''middle-of-the-road" gavel. Then a couple of fantastically attired Individuals, dressed to represent the characters of Unole Sam and Colum bia, ascended the platform. They were a Mr. Lloyd, of New York, and Mrs. Bennington, the "Sweet 8lncerof Arkansas." They entertained the convention with a song, and then the delegates proceeded to business. H. Z. TACBENECK. (Chairman National Executive Committee of the Populist Party.) Then came the reading of the minority report of the Committee on Eules. It recommended a change in the order of making nominations so as to make the nomination of Vioe-President before that of President. ;This was a move of the "'middle of the road" men. Delegate McGrath, of Illinois, promptly moved to lav tne minority report thA tahlB. flonirresam&n Howard and I Barney Glbbs, of Alabama, demanded to be 'heard on the motion. The plain purpose of the straight-outs was to test Sewall's strength. The proposition would show the extreme high-water strength of the antiBryan men. There was some parliamentary squabbling and a number of speeches were made. With some difficulty the speechmaking was cut off and the vote was taken by States on the adoption of the minority report recommending the nomination of Vice-President before President. The roll call was followed with intense interest, and resulted 785 to 615 In favor of the minority report, which was the signal for an enthusiastic anti-Bryan demonstration. General J. B. Weaver, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, was then reoogBized to read the platform as agreed to by the committoe. He was received with applause. He prefaced the reading by saying that the committee had had a protracted meeting, and that while its proceedings had been harmonious, there was not entire aanimlty, as Kearby.of Texas, and Coxey,of Ohio, both desired to offer minority reports. xn? minority reports were iaiu ua iuo luuie. ? Then the platform as adopted by a majority of tbe committee was adopted and a recess was taken. Immediately after the convention was called to order after recess a message from the Silver Convention stating that Byran and Bewail had been nominated was read. At lb? conclusion there was a terrific outburst ?f applause. Then the call of States for nominations for Tice-President was begun. Mr. Baumann, of Alabama, appearing as the 'spokesman of that delegation to nominate Representative Skinner, the Populist Congressman from North Carolina. - wjkpresentative Howard, of Alabama, placed in nomination Thomas E. Watson, tho late Populist Congressman from Georgia. Mr. Watson'3 name was received with demonstrations which Tully attested his popularly. Mr. Sovereign. Master Workmanjof the l&Ughts of Labor] and Delegate Johnson, of -California, seconded the nomination. t being called, yielded to Lafe fc2ce, who nominated Mr. 89wall. Mr. Weller. of Iowa, nominated Frank Bnrkilt, of Mississippi. TyKiatue'cY yielded to Captain Burnam, of Tv'-g'j;S^G, who nominated A. L. Mlmrns, of ae3J26ssee, and Illinois, which by request ha 1 been passed earlier in the evening, seconi|?. this nomination. urMr Ba'cnian, of Maine, responded when BIS St a*, e was called, and protested against the nomination of Sewall for Vice-President. He then placed in nomination Mann Page, of Virginia. President of the National Farmers' Alliance. Jcwt at midnight nominating speeches wxied the State3 proceeded to vote. The: 5?solt of the first ballot was: Sewall, v 7" ?"7' - ( D { SENATOr. rEFFEE. iTli" K-.Dsas. leader who was on the Committee ou Resolutions.) 236: Sc inner. 133: Uurkott. 193; Mimrns, 108; 103. nu>l Wutsou, 536. ATr ftnrkett withdrew bis oame. Mr. Mimms also withdrew from the contest anil asked his friends to vote for Watson. Texas hanged her vote and cost 103 for Watson. Tcuufsset? cave her 77 to Watson. At this |K>iut Wntsna was nominated unanimously juj i a ?r?at demonstration occurred. Wiiit" tie convention shrit-ked the lightf sndiVniv went out. For near.y a quarter ol Mi huic the multitude made the buildins vjbrn'e with its shouting in the gloom. Tbt STirnant-at-Arms sereamsd out that the . u.'uiiv out oi the lights was the result of a ( lot. Suddenly \he lights flashed out again. Thou tu?5 coi> -an udjouru'.*J. SECOND DAY'S SESSION. Senator Allen, or Nebrankat Elected Per- ^ raanent Chairman. St. Loris, Mo., July 24.?The Populists be:;;iu to aisvsr.blo in good time Thursday ; for the second morning session, and at ten j j minutes past ten o'clook Senator Butler, < l the Temporary Chairman, called them ^ j to order. The body of the hall was " " ^ " I I MA.BY E. LI.A3E. < (The Kansa3 orator and politician who addressed the Populist Convention). about two-thirds full and there were not over two hundred persons in the {galleries. After prayer Chairman Butler called tor the report of the Committee on Credentials, but that committee was still unprepared to report, and was given further time. The roll ol States was then called for the names of the committeemen on organization, resolutions and notification of nominees. These committees were requested to retire for consultation. The Platform Committee also withdrew to complete its work. A motion to take a recess until 3 o'clock was successful, an<J the Temporary Chairman, at a quaver to one, declared the convention adjourned until that hour. It was half-past three p. m. when ISenator Butler called the convention te order and stated that the Committee' on Credentials was prepared to make a partial report. Thereupon Mr. Wardell, of California, Chairman of the committee, submitted a majority report, recommending that 4.Ua .InlAmn?nn Vl ft i n IUO no iCWVAUittwu ?? all the uncontested cases: that In the 1 cases of the first seven Illinois Congressslonal districts both contestants and contestees be seated with the right to cast half votes, and that, In the case of Colorado, the delegates known as the Patterson delegates be seated and cast the full votes of the State. Minority reports, the Chairman stated, would be submitted In these casa6. That part of the report for t&e admission of the delegates whose seats were uncontested was agreed to, and then the Illinois case was taken up. The report of the majority declared that the Taylor delegates from Cook County, Illinois, are not entitled to the seats, and that the contestants are. The minority report is in favor of the Tayior delegates. ) After an hour's hot debate the roll was called, and both delegations were seated, | c eaoh with the privilege of casting halt a vote. 1 In Missouri the contestants withdrew their 1 claim, and the regulars were seated. The I next contest was that from Wisconsin. This c was decided against Oole, and Mr. Isaacs, 8 proxy for Henry Smith, was seated. e The report from the Committee on Perma- ^ nent Organization'was then presenjed by Mr. ? Cox, of Virginia, Chairman. Mr. Cox stated s the recommendations of the committee, the 9 name of Senator Allen, of Nebraska, being I reported as Permanent Chairman amid loud ^ and prolonged applause. * The minority report was then read, pre- I senting the name of Jame3 E. Campion, of * Maine, as Permanent Chairman. 1 ? t CONGRESSMAN C. A. TOWNS, OP MINNESOTA. c (Free 8ilver man who bolted from the late- F National Republican Convention.} ' s Then the "middle of the road,r men stood, on their chairs and shouted. Th? excite^ \ ment lasted for ten minutes, thfr guidons of t Mississippi, Alabama, Ohio, Texas and Tea- p nessee and the "middle of the road*" banners f being carried around in tumultuous proces- t sion. C A motion to table both reports wa& lost o and the vote on the minority report by n States began. The roll call lasted for an hour, and resulted in the election of Senator a Allen. The total vote was: Allen* 758; p Campion, 564; Donnelly,. 1. a As soon as the vote was announced the I Bryan section of the convention broke out t into a wild shout of triumph, delegates c standing up and waving bats and fans and again a procession of guidon bearers took up the march through the convention hall, yelfIng madly. 1 Finally a certain degree of order wa9 re- ( stored, when Watklns, of California, stepped to the platform and said that the Campion men (of whom he was oue) had been squarely , whipped. He then moved to make the nomi- , nation of Senator Allen unanimous. The motion was adopted with a whoop. , ( Senator Allen was escorted to the chair by "Cyclone" Davis and Ignatius Donnelly. He made an address which aroused great enthusiasm. At the conclusion of Chairman Allen's address the report of the Committee on Rules was presented, but without action on it the convention adjourned till next day. WATSON A FARMER AND A LAWYER. Was Elected to the Fifty-Second Conyress as a Democrat. Washinotos, July 25.?Thomas E. Watson. ot Thomson, G?., Populist nominee for was bora in Columbia County, Georgia. September 5. 1836. He received a c jmmon school education and was then 3ent to Mercer University, Macon, Ga. At the end of the sophomore year he left college for lack of funds and taught school two years. He read law under Judge W. R. McLaws, ot Augusta. Ga., and was admitted to the bar, commencing the practice of the profession at Thomson, Ga., his old home, in Novembar, 1876. He was a member of tho Georgia Legislature 1832-3 and was Democratic Elector for the State-at-large in 188S. Besides practising law, ho has been and is still largely interested in farming. He was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiv ing 5456 votes, as against 597 votes for Anthony E. Williams, Republican. He was i twice de.eated for Congress as a Populist, i Watson's unique personality made him a ; conspicuous figure in the House of Repre> sentatives. He was a flery debater and took i part in numerous hot pari amentary flghts. i In personal appearance Wat3on is thin and , angular, with a close-shavon face ofintel- ; ' lectual cast and a thick mop of auburn hair. . THE POPULIST PLATFORM. 't Favor* Free Coinage, an Income Tax and Government Railroads. St. Louis, JIo., July 25.?The Populist ilatform, as reported by the majority of the ( Committee on Resolutions and adopted by :he convention, is as follows: The People's party, assembled in National Convention, reaffirms its allegianoe to the I principles declared by the founders of the I Republics, and also to the fundamental prin- 1 jiplea of just government as enunciated in I :he platform of the party in 1892. We recog- | lize that, through the connivance of the present and preceding Administrations, the country has reached a crisis in its National life, as predicted in our declaration four years ago, and that prompt and patriotic ac:ion is the supreme duty of the hour. We realize that while we have political independence, our financial anil industrial iri? lependence is yet to be attained by restor- i ng to our country the Constitutional con,rol and exercise of the functions necessary ' :o a people's government, which functions \ lave been basely surrendered by our public .orvanf-a fr> mrnnntfl mnnrtnnlW The In- I luence of European money changers has ' )een more potent in shaping legislation than ' :he voice of the American people. Execu:ive power and patronage have been used to :orruDt our Legislatures and defeat the will >f the people, and plutocracy has thereby toen enthroned upon the ruins of Democracy. To restore the Government intended "by the fathers, and for the welfare md prosperity of this and future generations, we demand the establishment of an economic and financial system which shall make us masters of our own affaire and independent of European control, by the adoption of the following: Declaration of Principles. 1. We demand a National money, safe and sound, issued by the general Government only, without the intervention of banks of Issue, to be a full legal tender for all deDts, public and private; a just, equitable and affloient means or distriDution airect to uh people and through the lawful disbursements of the Government. 2. We demand the free and unrestricted joinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of sixteen to one, without waiting tor the consent of foreign Nations. 3. We demand the volume of circulating medium be steadily increased to an amount jufflclent to meet the demands of the business and population and to restore the just level of prices of labor and production. 4. We denounce the sale of bonds and the increase of the public interest-bearing debt made by the present Administration as unlecessary and without authority of law, and lemand that no more bonds be issued except by specific act of Congress. 5. We demand such legislation as will present the demonetization of the lawful money i )f the United States by private contraot. /? TTf- J J .1 i. In I D. wt) ueraauu luai vuo uuiuumumi payment of its obligations, shall use its iption as to the kind of lawful money in which they are to be paid, and we denounce ihe present and preceding Administrations for surrendering this option to the holders of Government obligations. 7. We demand a graduated income tax, to ;he end that aggregated wealth shall bear its ust proportion of taxation, and we regard :he recent decision of the Supreme Court reative to the Income Tax law as a misinterpretation of the Constitution and an in- I, rasion of the rightful powers of Conprress [ >ver the subjecf of taxation. 8. We domand that postal savings banks : )e established by the Government for the lafe deposit of the savings of. the people and ;o facilitate exchange. Transportation. 1. Transportation being a mean? of exihange and a publio necessity, the Governnent should own and operate the railroads n the Interest of the people and on a non)artisan, basis, to the end that all may be ac:orded the same treatment in transportation, ir>/? ?Ko fiTMnny nnrt nnHMnal nnwur now I xercised by the great raiTroad corporations ( vhich result In the Impairment, if not the lestruotlon, of the political rights and peronal liberties of the citizen, may be de- I troyed. Such ownership is to be accom- j dished gradually in a manner consistent vith sound public poiloy. 2. The interest or the United 8tates in the )ubllc highways built with public moneys, j md the proceeds of extensive grants of land o the Pacific railroads, should never be ilienated, mortgaged, or sold, but guarded , ind proteoted for the.general welfare as pro- j rided by the laws organizing such railroads, j Che foreclosure of existing liens of tneUnited . States on these roads should at once follow j iefault in the payment thereof of the debtor ! :ompanie3; and at the foreclosure sales of said roads the Government shall purchase he same if it becomes necessary to protect j rs interests therein, or if they can be pur:hased at a reasonable price; and the Gov- . irament shall operate said railroads as pub- I ic highways for the benefit of the whole people, and not in the interest of the few, I inder suitable provisions for protection of . ife and property, giving to all transporta:ion Interests equal privileges and equal , ates for fares and freights. v)i VY y Q9QUUUUH bUO iuiuiuvuo i ichemes for refundiog these- debtsP and denand that tbe laws now applicable thereto >e executed and administered according to heir interest aod spirit. 4. The telegraph, like the post office sysem, being a neoessity for the transmission >f news, should be owned and operated by he Government In the interest oI the people. Land. 1. True policy demands that the- National md State legislation' shall be suoh as will iltimately enable every prudent and indusrious citizen to secure at. home, and thereore tbe land should not be monopolized for peculative- purposes. All lands now held ty railroads and other corporations in exess of their actual needs should by lawful ueans be reclaimed by the Government and teld for actual settlers* only, and private and monopoly, as well qb alien ownership, hould be prohibited. 2. We condemn the l&nd prant frauds by rhich the-Paoiflc railroad companies have, hrough tbe connivance of the Interior JDe?artment^ robb?d multitudes of actual bona Idesettleis of their homes and miners of heir claims, and we demand legislation by Jongress-which will enforce the exeentlon of aineral land from surA grants after as well a hnfripRtf-hrt naffint. 3. We? demand that* bona fld? settlers on. [ ,11 pubWc lRnds beg*anted fro* homes, as. j irovidad in the National Homestead law.,-j -nd thait no exception be madein the case ot j! ndiam reservations-when opened for settle- i pent,, and that all lands not sow patented: I iomeunder this demand. Direct Legislation. Wfc favor a sysiern of diwct legislation hroach the initiative and roferendum,. unler proper constitutional saf&guards. Gentnl Propositions. 1. We demand the election of President. Rce-President and United States Sjenaioxs >y a direct vo.eof the people. 2. We tondw to the &atriotic psoole of Cuba our deepest sympaAv in their heroic struggle for poliiicai freedom ;\nd independence, and we heliev> the time- has-oome when the United S ates. the greut Republic ohAnifl tKaf Huha. is Vi iuo nvnut ouuuivi *.v^vrv....... ... and of right ought to be a freo and independent State. 3. We favor home rule in th.> Territories and theDistrct of Columbia and the early admission of the Territories as States. 4. public salaries should be made to correspond to the price of labor and its product.'?. 5. In times of creat industrial depression idle labor should be employod on public works as far as practicable. 6. The arbitrary course of the courts in assuming to imprison citizens for indirect contempt and ruling them by injuuctiou should be prevented by proper legislation. 7. We favor jUit pensions for our disabled Uuiou soldiers. 8. E lieving I hat the elective franchise and an untrammelled bal.oi are essential to irovernmeut of, for, au I by the people, the People's party condemn the wholesale system of disfranchisement adopted in some of tne States as unrepublioan and undemocratic, and wo declare it to bo tho duty of the several State Legislatures to take such action as will secure a full, free and fair ballot and an honest count. 9. While the foregoing propositions constitute the platform upon which our party stands, and for the vindication of which its organization will be maintained, we recognize that the great and pressing issue of the pending campaign upon which the present ?hii ??rn is the financial question. and upon this great and specific IVsum between the parties we cordially invite the aid and co-operat-on of all organizations and citizens agreeing wth as upon thiij vital question. E JAMESON IS GUILTY.= c The Transvaal Raider and His Aids J Sent to Prison. i PUT IN CONVICT GARB AT ONCE. 1 t s c The Leader Sentenced to a Term of Fif- J teen Months' Imprisonment?Five of ? Hid Fellow-Freebooters Also Convicted of Violating the Foreign Enlistment * Act and Receive Lighter Sentences, 1 Lokdos, England, July 29.?Dr. Leander t L. Jameson, Major Sir John Wllloughby ' Major Raleigh Grey, Colonel H. F. White J ilajor R. White and the Hon. Henry F. Coyintry, charged with violating the Foreign 2 Snlistment Act by their part in the Transraal raid of last December, were convicted ' yesterday. Dr. Jameson was sentenced to ^ dfteen months' imprisonment, Major Wil- p loughby and Colonel White to ten and seven s ind the others to three months each, without hard labor. 1 1: DB. L. L. JAMEBOS. \ : - c The trial was concluded In the High Court ? of Ju3tice before Lord Chief Justice Russell, ? TT q rtrHna ouiuu cunuun uuu JUI. </uanv,u Ui?T The defendants were charged with violating * the Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870 in that 5 they took part in an armed expedition against a State with which Great Britain was at peace. Counsel for the defence and the 0 prosecution submitted their cases and Lord 81 Chief Justioe Russell summed up the case. * A.t that time the court room was crowded, interest in the case reviving as it drew to a C close. Among those present were many a well-known society women. In summing up Lord Russell emphasized -j the Importance of the trial. He said that tbe j crime with which the defendants was charged might entail consequences which nobody could foresee. L Continuing, the Lord Chiei ? Jnstloe said that if such things as the de- <j fendanta were charged with had been done d by the Queen's authority tbey would have a amounted to an act of war. Done by the Queen's subjects, without her authority, C they amounted to an Illegal filibustering a raid. Lord Bussell concluded his summing up at e 4.20 o'ciock and the case was then given to 3 the jury, who at once retired to consider their verrdiot. All the defendants wore , found guilty. The Court sentenced Dr. Jameson to fif- * teen months' imprisonment. MajorSir John Willoughby was sentenced to ten months, t Colonel flu 7. White to seven months, ana a the other defendants to three months' im- 9 prisonment each. None of the prisoners t will be compelled to do hard labor daring his incarceration. a A large crowd hrcd gathered outsido the courtroom to await the exit of the prisoner?, c and cheered vooifaronsly when they made j their appearance.. Many shouts of "Sod j bless you" were heard as the prisoners weit j brought out on their way to HollawayJadl, where they are to bo eonflned temporarily. _ Jamesonand his fellow-prisoners were placet? Jin cells in the Holloway Jill, where they were jj dressed In the garb of ordinary conviotu-and c received the common prison fare. Theii treatment will differ in no way from that of c other prisoners unless their appeal for first- fc class treatment be granted. <3 The Jameson trial wa9 a "trial at bar,'*" a form of oriminal Inquiry which differs from o any other in British jurisprudence. It must taike place before a jury and more than one e nunoMilu thrpp. Annthnr differ- 1 1^6^ ? enoe Is that the proceedings "at bar"" j, are not final, And a> rehearing may ' be applied for, and held,, by reason of evidence Improperly admitted or rejected,.or I because the verdict is against the weight of . It,.or on aocount of some informality or in- j ooirreotness in the proceedings. Tbe sen- : I teocea are extremely ligtbt, considering"the' ' 1 gravity of the offence,, but are probably j 5 Bewere enough to satisfy the exact demands . of justioe. A marked ohange of sentiment ! has taken place in the six months since the- 1 c facts of the Jameson raid became known, and ' > there are very few now who do not believe' I that the raiders really deaervo to be mad? an< ' I example of. The incursion into the Trans- i J vaul was perpetrated at'tbe very end of the 11 last year, between Christmas, 1895, and New | Year's Day, 1896, and tbfe' new year dawned . i om the defeat of the raiders, after the failure' i of the Uitlandeis in Jbhannesberg to rise ; and flook to their assistance. The story oi , , the prisoners since that has been anvthing , bvrt cheerful, and the fitting result of their. 1 error has been reached!. HORRIBLE DEATH FOR TWO; \l { Oranken Man Pulls* a-. Fireman From Uli | Cab and Both Are Killed. ' < Micky Higglns, a-, pugilist, twenty-five ! j years old, and Nathan B: Lowe, a flr&man or ; a switch engine of tfte Boston and Maine I Bailroad, were boti run over by tht ! 1 ansine In the- freight yard at [ , Lynn, Mass. Higglns was .under > i j the influence of liquor and walk- i iDg upon the track. As the enginn i i 1 neared him he stepped to one side;. and then. ; saught at the handle bar near the cab, as i! to swing on. The fliremaa put out his hand to ward Higgins- off. when the puffilial caught tne hand and pulled tile fireman from the cab.. They fell in 3uch a wa> across the rail, tkatthe engine- passed cxer both men. Fifty Persons Killrtd. An accident) resulting in tire loss of Aft) live?, occurred on the rallwa?between Sambay, India, and Delhi. The Iratn was. running at good; spee.i, whent it was tbrowi from the rails and a number of the coaehu wrecked. Most of the kilted were cAtivef. ___ Canada Has Good Crops. Dispratches from all pacts of Ontario, Canada, and the greater portion of the Provincf of Quebec show the ccatlitlon of ths ciopstc be, os the whole, very sntisfaoto-rj except perhaps, the bay crop, which in some locult ties is a total failure. The prospoets for th< apple orop iu the Niagara district are verj tarorable, but the peach crop, it is believed will fall somewhut short. Short in HU Accounts. James Byers, agent for the Yaudalia Lin< and Adams Express Company, at Mo ran. Ind. killed himsolf because he was short in hi.! accounts. Shot bv Ills lirothor-lu-Law. Michael L. Lehmaier, a solicitor of advertisements, was shot and mortally wounded id New ^ork City by his brother-in-law, Charles A. Johnson, a sllverplater. Johnson says that the shootlnfc was dono in self defence while ho wus defending his sister, Mrs. Lehmaier, from what she"feared was a murderous attack by her husband. The trapredy was the culmination of Mr. and Mrs. Lehmaier's Ave months of unhappy married llta Complicated Politics lnJMalne. Maine Democrats must nominate another candidate for Governor, acoordlng to the Secretary of State, Mr. Wlnslow having failed to file his acceoUuuie at A.u<?nsta, THt NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington Itaraa. Tho President has appointed Johi Rherlian, of West Virginia, a Government diector of the Union Pacific Railway Com>any, in the place of Fitzhugh Lee, now Consul-General at Havana. The gold reserve in the United Stntes treasury is now 8104.832,523, and when >ledge3 by Philadelphia banks are redeemed t will be 5112.000.000. Auditor Baldwin finished the compiling of he sugar bounty claims. They aggregate !6,085.156.66. yhere was appropriated 85,100^000 to pay tBe bounty, and eighty-two >er cent, of the claims filed and allowed will >e paid immediately. The Quartermaster-General of the Army, Jrlgadier-General Richard N. Bachelder, ras, by special orders, placed on the retired 1st on reaching the age limit of active series. General Bachelder was awarded a aeda! of honor for most distinguished galantry in action against Mosby's guerillas. According to Turkish official reports from Jrete the Christian insurgents in that island ,re burning Moslem villages and are murlering women and children. The withdrawals of gold from the Treaslry aggregated 858,800, of which $48,700 tos in coin and $10,100 In bars. None went >ut for export. Now York banks put $875, 00 in gold coin Into the Sub-Treasury, welling the gold reserve to $108,951,891. A medal of honor has been presented t? Jichard Beddows, late private Tnirth-fourth 'few York Battery, for most distinguished gallantry in action at the battle of Spottsylranla C. H., May 18, 1864. The State Department has been informed hat Ye Pom Gin has been appointed Minls:er of Korea to the United States, to succeed ?om Kwang Soh. The latter is recalled to jerform the duties of President of the Privy 3ounoll, to which he has just been ap(olnted. Domestic. BEOO&D or THS LSAQUE CLODS. Par Ptr CIab?. Won. ct I Club'. Wap. I/nt. ct. UaoInnatlGl 27 .693 Phlladel. .88 44 .463 laltimore.53 27 .663|Brooklrn.38 45 .458 'Ieveiand54 30 .643, VV'shing'n34 45 .430 !hicapro..52 38 .578.Now York33 48 .407 Joston. ...43 38 .531 St. Louis.27 57 .321 >Itt9bura:.44 39 .530 Louisville21 60 .259 The Denison (Ohio) Deposit Bank closed Is doors. No statement was made, but the labilities were thought to be heavy. George JlcConnell, Grand Keeper of Kec>ds and Seals of the Knights of Pythias, of )regon, disappeared and his accounts are aid to be about $2000 short. /I M "RHaa woa nnnnlnfflrl TrflAQIirPr of fllfi ? tepublican Nationaf Committee at the first lectins:, in New York City, of the Executive Jommitlee. Major Morehead, formerly City Attorney f Pittsburg, Penn., and his assistant were entenced to the penitentiary for embezzleaent. The large paper manufacturing firm of A. K Elliot &, Co.. of Philadelphia, failed on ccount ol the depreciation fe securities. The Democratic State Committee of New rork called this State Convention to meet in Jufftilo on September 16. Dennis M. Mlneham entered the office of uperintendent Peddle3, of the New Jersey !entral Railroad, in Jersey City,. N- J., and emanded $2,000,000 In bonds. After belntt rrested he was discharged as ''harmless." By the explosion of a boiler in the Wood Jounty (Ohio) oil field, three men were :Hlod. Mark A. Hannro, Chairman of the-Bepublian National Committee, arrived ia New rork City and selected Eastern headquartere. The Appellate Division of the Supreme !ourt has' decided the Rapid Transit Act for Fftw nifw f/-v. Sft^nnaUfntlnnftl. The- Walker & Pratt Foundry, at Waterown, Mass., started up on full time and with .11 hands. The- plant has been shut down ince July 8. Steady work is expected for he fall and winter. Grace Wilson, ten years old. was killed'by , truck while riding a bicycle in Brooklyn* Edward M. Clark, of Nafr York, and' his omDanion, Henry Sanford, of Columbus, To., have undoubtedly been lost on the lojave desert, California, while prospecting or gold. Daniel Shroyer,. a well known resident of 'ark Ridge,, was shot dead In Chicago by lis son-in-law, who- mistook him for at mrglar. I. N. Coffee, President of the State Board' ?f Pharmucy, in Cairo, III., was stabbed and :illed by Dr. Ctabtree,in front of the latter'sIrug store. Crabtree to in jail. Both men cere prominent. A 1 T)Q Fir Tit A A. liJClUUO SCIUUn. vumiu ino. r Tounds, near Cleveland. Ohio, completely lestroying eight or nine houses, a large tabmade and other valuable property. The033 Is estimated at many thousands of dolars. 8lxty Ute and Phobia radians have stirred ip a commotion by introdacing "the corn: lance." Tho visiting Indians evaded Indian Lgent Woodson, and gave their new dance u a secluded spot;, and against his orlers. for teaching the new dance, the Cheyennes ma Arapuhoes gave the visiting braves a. Ine herd of ponies/ A race riot occurred'fffteec miles northeast >f Jasper, Fla., in which six men were killed ind eight persons wounded. Two of thealter were women. Those killed aresaid to >e Henry Jackson. Albert Sullivan, Edward fobnson, WOKO; J1DQ- CKMomon, Amos uauip?I1, Ike Mitchell, ool'ored. William Henry Smith, formerly general nanager of the Associated Press, died at his home. Lake Forest, III'.. He was born in 1832. The draft of the first live chapters of the Breater New York charter was made public. Groat damage was-done by floods In West 7irRinia and Ohio.. The National Co-operative Union was organized in St. Louia Major McKlnley- addressed at Canton, Dhio, 400 delegates to the National Convention of wlndow-glase workers and afterwards 2at a flfty-flve ponnd Georgia watermelon presented to him by a party of railroad ofScials. The Northern Pariflc Railroad was-sold in New York City forr Si3,000,000. It waabought k>y the reorganized company. Several oyster a&hermen have been ar? rested for dredsring on the beds leased from the State of Now York by Staten- Island oystormen. Under the new law their boats may be confiscated. W. C. Whitney, in an Interview in New York City, said that in the light of the present political situation, a third ticket was inevitable. Mrs. James jr. Coogan, of New York, was robbed of $35,000 worth of diamonds in the Mathewson Hotel, Narragansett Pier, R. I. George WaJlaee Jones, formerly a United States Senator, died at his bome in Da> buque, Iowa. He had been la poor health for some time and his death wss not unexpected. Mr. Jones was born. In Ylncecnes, Ind., on April 12, 1804. Major McKlnley visited Alliance, Ohio, and macte two speeches. Mrs. Mary Bogardus Livingstoa was burnecS to death at Annandiale, N. Y. William Hennessy was accidentally shol and killed by bis sixteen-yoar-old schoolboy friend Simonton, near Camden. N. J. At Cincinnati, Ohio, William Willey, a tailor, thirtv-seven years old, shot and killed his wife, flrins four shots at her, all of which took effect. Ho then committed snicido. Four children survive them. Fordcn Not#*. President Alfaro, of Ecuador, is marchinj acjainst the rubels. who are said to be In pos session of Cuenca. The American champion, Pillsbury's de 4 " - ? ? - .vf fho nhoai leat 01 LiOSKCT was it icaiuiu 'H tournament at Nuremberg. Germany. The Irish Land bill passed tho House o Commons. The Venezuelan dispute was brought U| in tho British Houso of Commons by ques tious from John Morley. The London Board of Trade has deoidei that the loss of the steamship Drummoni Casilo off Usliant on Juno 16, resulting u tho drowning of about 250 persons, was du to the fact that she was not navigated witl proper seamanllke care. The International Socialist Trades Cod press met in St- Martin's Town Hall, Lon don; the Anarchist delegates forced an en trance Into the hall. A crazy man forced his way into the pes ence of Premier Canovas, of Spain, in Mad rid, nnd threatened to kill him. The JunaH was arrested. ? THEIR ALL SWEPT AWAY. A Terrific Cloadbnrat In the Wild* of Weit j Virginia. The n9W3 of a cloudburst and by far the most destructive which has occurred in West Virginia has just oeen received. This time the scene of destruction was in Calhoun County, in the central part of the State, in the territory bordering on Steer, Yellow and Straight Creeks. The elements broke loose with terriflo foroe, flooding the entire county with a deluge of water ten feet deep. The three creeks &welled to enormous proportions, and hajdly a building of any kind remains lo mark the course of the streams. xofeo totalities are reported. Mrs. woortJ?r and her daughter and Sarah Stephens In their efforts to save their household effects were carried away In their own homes and drowned. On Yellow Creek four houses and a sawmill were carried the entire oourse of the stream. Several booms containing thousands of log3 were forced from their moorings. There is not eveh a fence to be seen to mark off the division of the farm lands. The scene of this disaster is in the wilds of West Virginia, where there are neither telegraphic communication nor railroads. A poor class of farmers make up the population, and to-day they are without a single possession. All the crops were destroyed, leaving them without means of food. Unless assistance can be sent to them, starvation will follow. Farmers who were in good circumstances are penniless. To estimate the loss Is impossible. This is the fifth cloudburst ocourlng in West Virginia during the last month, each one being worse than the former. Entire reconstruction was necessary AK1 a a ^IcfinPQ ftt UU IUO jjaiuuiuxn ?uu vutu iVi ? VAUJI?*AWV v* fifty miles. CONVICTS BREAK FOR LIBERTY. The Prison Guards Shoot Some of Them and All Are Recaptured. A gang of forty convicts from the United Stales Penitentiary were working on the prison farm on the Fort Leavenworth (Kan.) reservation when they became mutinous and made a break for liberty. The guards started shooting as sgon as the prisoners ran, and nearly all the convicts dropped to the ground to avoid being killed. George Yeast, the leader of the outbreak, refused to surrender, aud tried to get into some brnsb. Six loads of buckshot were emptied into him, and he received deato wounds. least is an Indian Territory desperado. S. F. Dove refused to stop running until he was shot in the hip and abdomen ana was knocked down with the butt end of a pistol. Sam Mills gained the Missouri River bank and was about to jump in when he was shot in the left leg and badly wounded. The prisoners shot were long term Territory horse thieves with bad records. When the prisoners who were shot were brought to tne jail yard 200 convicts started a second mutiny, and the guards, to protect themselves, were Rbout to fire into them. Warden French arrived ju3t In time and got the men into their cells. Robert Garrett Dead. Ko%ert Garrett, ex-President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and the head of the widely known banking house1 of Robert Garrett & Sons, died at Deer Park, Md. Mr. Garrett had been in poor health since fre retired from the- Presidency of the Baltimore' and Ohio system In 1887. Id reJ cent yenrs be had been mentally, as well as pbystoally.. anflt to take part In businessRobert G&rrett was the eldest son of John W. ' Garrett. H<* was born In Baltimore on April 9, 1847. His father was President of the' i Baltimore'and Ohio Railroad Company from 1857 until his death at Deer P&rk on Beptem- ! ber 26, 1884. Engine rails Through s> Bridge. A locomotive went through- tfte Vandallo Railroad Bridge, over Walnut^Fork, Ind.f killing three men. The run was being made to see if th9 track was safe after the heavy rain. Five men were aboard the engine when it went down. Engineer Frank Bowman, of Terre- Haute, escaoed with a few bruises. Road Supervisor J. Si Brouthers was severely injured. The killed are: John Hibber, flreraany of Lopansport; N. B. Fowler, conductor, of Terre Haute; Charles i McKenzle, brakeman, of Terre Hivate. Suicide of ? Notorious Swindler. ! Roman I. Zubof, alias Reuben- LIpman, j who called himself a Russian Count, one of . the most successful adventurers- who ever fmposed upon society in this country, committed suicide by Banelng himself in Jeffer*' son Market Prison, New York City. Anj , hour before, as he-was boarding the Ameri! can Line steamship New York, hound,for ! England, he had been arrested oaachargf ' at swindling. Zubof handed himself with an , oidlnary linen handkerchief. : Porto RIcomm Called to Arms. | A revolutionary-address to the residents of ; Forto Rico was read in all the towns of that! : Island. Advices from the island stated that, j tbe people are preparing for ani uprising I I against spain'9 oppression, anu win juia hands with Cuba in battling for liberty. The! ! address to the Porto Ricoans was' issued bv 1 Er. J. Julius Henna, of New York City, the! '.President of the Revolutionary COiamitteo of I ; Porto Rico In the United 8tates. German Cruiser Lost. j The German third-class cruiser litis was lb6t In a typhoon on July 28; ten miles i northward of the- 8han-Tung Promontory, ;;Cfcina. Ten of the men were saved. All of , the others, about seventy-five men. includi iosr the officers, perished. The- litis was a : small cruiser of 489 tons displacement, with litwoten and one-half centimetre guns and ' itwo light guns.. 8he was launched In 1878, t; i luivlng oost about 9138,000. . ,i Silver Headquarters Cttosen. William P. St.. John, acting' tor the Demo. ?ratic and FreeSilver National Committor ' engaged headqisarters for both committees at the Bartholdi Hotel, New York City. The building is atr Twenty-third street and - Broadway, and its northerly front is oa Madison Square, within a stone's throw af i jthe building where the Repuirdican National (headquarters-is situated. Damage-bj Hall in Sonth Dakota*. The loss-by the recent hail storm in Yankton, Clay,affl/d Union Counties, South Dakota. * Is now estimated at 5100,000. Growing-crops i were absolutely ruined iathe district visited, and many bogs were killed. Sew Convention in 9Ialne> The Jfaine Democratic Committee' called a new coavention to aaeet at Waterville cn August 6 to nominate a free sllTer candl .date for Governor in place of EL B. Winslow, who has withdrawn, i S-JOO.OOO Fire lm Ilfracombcs England. Part of the tovra of Ilfracombo, Deroo ,shire, England, ooe 01 tne msuiuuuuio nuu i Imost attractive seaside resorts in Europe, 1 was burned. There were many visitors in i the town and there was much excitement, it [ being feared at one time that the whole town would be destroyed. So far as known nobody was hurt. The loss is $4.00,000. f Spain's New Terror. Spain so much fears a mutiny that the great body of reinforcements to be dis3 patched to Cuba in August will be sent unarmed, other vessels taking their equip, f ments. The National Game. L Friend is turning out a winning pitcher for Chicago after all. i Rogers and Crooks nave strengthened the i Louisville team wonderfully. a Baltimore is the only club in the League e that carries a salaried mascot. 1 Ehret. of the Cincinnatis, at present leads ihe pitcners of the National League. The cry, "Wait till nest year!" is beginning to be sounded all along the lines. The New Yorks gave in exchange for Beckley Outfielder Harry Davis and a cash con? aideration. c It looks now as if there might be more Western clubs in the first division than Eastbra at the wind up, _ 1 .. BIG STRIKE OF TAILORS. Iboiuudi Refnae to Be Driven to th* Sweating; System. The great strike of clothing workers in New York City. Brooklyn and vicinity spread until nearly 80,000 men, women and girls were in enforced Idleness. The loss to them in wages during the continuance of the strike amounted to nearly $50,000 a day. There were 2090 operators out, the same number of basters, 2200 finishers, 1500 pressors. 500 bushelers. 1200 overooat and sack coat makers. Also on strike were 5000 pants makers, 4000 children's jacket makers and 8000 vest makers. More than fifteen hundred shops were idle within two days after the strike started, each shop averaging twenty workers and four or , five sewing machines. The food consumed by this army of the idle cost $150,000 a week,1 as there are fully 100,000 human beings dependent upon the earnings of the strikers. i This makes the cost to the strikers $450,000 o ttt/ialr A aonmlnr* flia /iam t w> /? a mi an?i a ?T ODOi AOOUUilU^ IUIU kUU ?;uuuauivio QUU ' manufacturers lose only one-quarter of that | sum, which they claim is a very moderate estimate, the total cost of the strike is over half a million dollars a week. The schedule of prices to obtain whioh the strike was begun, was submitted to a meet-' lng and agreed to. According to this schedule first class operators must receive (18 a week; second olass, $16; first class basters, $16; second class, $12; preesers, $12; first class finishers, $11; second class, $9. The hours are to be fifty-nine per weekThere must also be a more binding agreement with contractors, and the bonds for Its carrying out must be substantial In an address by Leader Solovotsky, he j announced that for the present the Interests of the strikers and contractors were pretty j much the same. It was the manufacturers who, this time, were Intent upon driving the garment makers baok to the sweating svstem, but they would fail as dismallv as did the contractors last falL OPENED WITH A FIGHT. ???? _\ Socialist* and Anarchists Used Their Flgta In Their Congress. The fourth International Socialist Trade Congress opened In London, England, eight hundred delegates from all parts of Europe j and from the United States, Australia and1 the Argentine Republic belnsr present. \ Among the delegates are one hundred and sixty representatives of British trade unions. Among the American delegates are Laden . Sanial, of the Socialist Trade and Labor AI? j 'iance; Matthew Magulre, who represents the Socialist Labor party of New Jersey; H. j Bestold, who represents the brewery emploves, and M. Dalski. There were several Anarchists present who lemanded seats as delegates and claimed :he right to be heard. The English and Ger-: nan delegates warmly opposed their being !" illowedto air their views on any subject be-; fore the oongress, and olamored for an imme liate vote on the question of their expul- j lion. A prolonged uproar followed. Finally the j Anarchists tried to storm the platform, and [ :lien occurred a most disgraceful soene. j Their opponents rallied in front of the platform and burled the Anarchists back, beating them with their fists. i The delegates of the British Independent j Labor'party sided with the Anarchists la J their efforts to command recognition. It j aaving been found impossible to restore even] i semblance'of order, the Chairman declared j the congress adjourned and ordered the hall J co be clearecL STRIKE FINALLY" SETTLED. ' 1 Brown CTork^ Lockout in CI ere land Reache* an AmlcaWo End. The Brown ffotst and Conveying Works' i lockout at Cleveland, Ohio, is ended. This i Is a virtual victory for the ment TheproposU :ion of the company as accepted is to remove; ihe blacklist and reemploy all union men, : Irrespective of the part they have taken in ! the'trouble at the works. Tbo action on the part of the- men was! unanimous. The union is recognized and; :he men will get holidays, and pay and a i hair for all over time. All old men are to be' takes back. Committees are to be recog-! aized when a grievance common* to all of one-trade exists. It* was the strike- at the Bhrwn works j which caused numerous riots' during the ( past three weeks. The police and ttre work-! men- same into conflict several times. To suppress this lawlessness the- militia was, finally called out, and this body had several ; ' bloody encounters with' the men> who had > beeni locked out. ' FLAMES IN A SHIPYARD* HaittrndA Wolff1! Plant,. In Belfast, lx*?, land, Wipei' Oat. The-great shipbuilding- yards- of Hhrianfl, 4.Wolff, in Belfast, Ireland,, were nearly destroyed by Are. The loae wae $11,250,000. The- yards, with the marine engineering" works attached, cover an. area of nearly eighty-acres. The firm employed upward of eight ttiousana nanas. The fire began in' the engine fitting department, and the ffamea spread rapidly, being oommtmlcated to tho-buildings in the shipyard of Workman, Clark Jt Co.. adjoining flarland <fc- Wolff's. The buildings in both' Tarda,, which were mostly bugh wooden structures,, were destroyed! An immense quantity of valuable machinery belonging to vessels- now in course of finishing at the yards was- rnined^.ae were also the tools and machinery belonging to the various shops. WpTLER TO TAKE THE HELD. The Captain-General of Cuba Wilt Direct the Campaign. A*aln?t Uaaeo. Captain-General Weyier, of' Cube, will : take toe neia in persoai wuem reimurvrciucuuj will have reacisd Havana from SpaLu. He will direst the campaign against Antonio Maceoln the province-of Pinardel Rio. There were several skirmishes- in Pinor del Bio and Santa Clara recently, in one of which eighteen Cubans were killed. Twentyone Spaniards were wounded.. Colonel Allan defeated a body of iasurgeDts at Del Medio, killing eleven of them. Major Ygleslas, at Congo Mountain^. eapturea the Cubans' H camp and destroyed a hospital used by the I inssrgents. The tatter had fiv? men killed. 9 Perilous Trip of Caban Znrargoiitt. E Colonel Enrique Ceepedee, a nephew of | Vice-President Masso, of the Cnban Repub- I lij; Captain Mario Carlilo, sou of Isaao Ca- I rilio, of New York; Eduardo Laborde, a B brother of Captain Laborde, who was taken H cc the Competitor and a New York news- flj ?-n. rPfti>h?;l \HS3flU. in the Panamas, from Cuba, in a twenty-seven foot H whaleboat. They made the trip from tb? K Cuban coast in three day9, and the Journey H under the Mistering tropical a an was one of' H the mo3t awful hardships throughout es- B 1 pedes lb the bearer of despatches from the h Insurgent Government to.the Cuban Junta In H New York. H Shot Each Other In Church. I Carl Hightower and Noah Beadenower, sons of well-to-do. farmers, some time ago had a fist fight at the wedding of a neigh- H bor's daughter. Thoy met afterward at Mount Pleasaut Church, Wllliamstown, Ky. H Hij?htowor pulled his gun and fired two shots |H ^ * o'rtAf moWnrt ft oHo?hf at fieaaonuwcr, nuu ouui ua>un u ..... wouail, aud then started to run. As he did so Readenower flred at hiai, the ball striking him la the back and killing him almost Instantly. A Mother's Awful Deed. Mrs. Mary Harman, of Camden, N. J., while insane, drowned her two children and tried to drown herself. The Labor World. <" I California has 18,003 miners. China has many labor unions. ? ! ? ? x-onAA hr-3 U03IUL1 uua ?vw -*?. .. Slipper makers organized a union in Brook- fl lyn. 8t. Louis is to have a co-operative oon gress. MB ftjicrinaw. Mich.. has a Ladles' Union La- H bor League. New York sheep butchers commenced form- B ing a union. 9 A National Building Trades Council lila I I course of formation. |H Philadelphia jacket makers won a strike H I for jhortw hours apd *ee?ly pay. I