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Kim ACCEPTANCE Fhe Republican Candidate for President issues His Formal Letter. DISCUSSES FINANCE AND TARIFF, rhe Document Consists Chiefly or Hii Views on the Money Question?H< Says That an Adequate Protectiv* Gold Standard Will Restore ProupBrlty Cahton. Ohio, August 27.?Major Williatr flcKinley mailed his letter formally acceptthe Republican nomination tor President b Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, yesterday cad then gave out copies for publication hie letter is carefully divided into sections jaeh under a headline written by Majcr Mc Kinlev himself. Thirteen of these section! relate to the currenoy question, eleven to the tariff, one to reciprocity, one to immigration aae to pensions and soldiers and sailors, on? to the merchant marine and navy, one to the < civil service, one to law and order, one to tte obliteration of sectionalism and one ir which he explains that ho cannot refet to each item in Ibe platform separately, but indorses them collectively. Y ipfj WILLIAM M'KIXLEY. In one portion or the letter he shows the condition of the country in 1892 and since by the testimony of Presidents Harrison and Cleveland. The purpose is to show that the currency question aud the tariff issue are inseparable, and that but for our deficient revenues the money question would not now be before the public. The letter, in part, is as follows: ''Hon. John M. Thuraton, and others, Members of ihe Notifloation Committee of the Republican National Convention. 'Gentlemen: In pursuance of the promise aiade to your committee when notified of my nomination as the Republican candidate for President, I beg to submit this formal acceptance of that high honor, and to consider ia detail questions at issue in the pending campaign." After dilating on the importance of the present issues he says: ' The Free Coiuage of Silver. "For the first time since 1868, if ever before. there is presented to the American pea pie this year a clear and direct issue as to ?ur monetary system of vast importance in Its effects, and upon the right settlement of which rests largely the financial honor and prosperity of the country. It is proposed by oe wing of the Democratic party and its alUee, the People's and Silver parties, to inaugurate the free and unlimited coinage of rilyer by independent action on the part of the United States at a ratio of sixteen ounces el silver to one ounce of gold. "The mere declaration of this purpose is a menace to ^ur floanoinl and Industrial interests and has already created universal alarm. It involves great peril to the credit and business of the country, a peril so grave thnt conservative men everywhere are breaking away from their old party associations and uniting with other patriotic citizens in empnauc proie&t agmusi me piawuroi ui mo Democratic National Convention as an as nult upon the faith and honor of the Government and the welfare of the people. We have had few questions in the lifetime of the Bepublic more seslous than the one which is thus presented." .io oeueui IU i^uuur. Continuing he declares that "we must not misled by phrases, nor deluded by false theories. Fre>; silver wou'd not mean that silver dollars were to be freely had without eost or labor. It would mean the free use of the mints of the United States for the few who are owners silver bullion, but would make silver coin no freer to the many who are engaged in other enterprises. It would ot make labor easier, the hours of labor shorter, or the pay better. It would not mako farming less laborious, or more profitable. It would not start a factory, or make a demand for an additional day's labor. It would create no new occupations. It would add nothing to the comfort of ?he masses, the capital of the people, or tii-j wealth of the Nation. It senks to iu ruuucc a urw uiuasuiu ?ji vara", uui wuuiu *dil no vttluu to the thing measured. It would not conserve value?. Ou the contrary, it would dercnge all exist iug values, it would not restore business confidence, but its direct effect would bj to destroy the little which yet remains. What It Mentis. "The meaning of the coinage plan!: adopted at Chicago is that any one may take a quantity of silver bullion, now worth 53 cents to tue mints of the United States, have it soin9d at the expense of the Government aud nceive for it a silver dollar, which shall be loccal tender for the payment of all debts, public and private. The owo'T of the silver bullion would ?at the silver dollar. It would belong to him and to nobodv ase. Other people would get it only by their labor, the products of their hind, or something of value. The bullion owner, on the basis of present va'ues, would receive the jiiver dollar for fifty-three cents worth of silver, and other people would be required to receive it as a full dollar in the payment of debts. The Government would get nothing Jro.u the transaction. It wou d bear the exDense of coining the silver, nnd the community would suffer loss by its use." Silver StAnilnril Would ltesult. Discussing the probable result of freecoin JTo he declares: ' The simple i ruth is wo would be driven to a silver basis?to silver monometallism, These dollars, therefore, would stand upon their real value. If the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of si.v teen ounces of silver to one ounce ol gold would, as some of its advocate; assort, make fifty-three cents in silver worth one hundred cntsand the silver dollar equal to the gold dollar theu we would have no cheaper money than now and U would be no easier to get. But that such would be th result is against reason and is contra !ictet by experience in all times an I in all lands. It means the debasement o; our currency to the amount of the difference between the commercial and colu *alueof thesilvirdo'lar, which is ever cbangio^. nn 1 the ..'ITec: would be to reduce prop< my vaiues, entail untold financial loss, destroy '2 .>u!ldHnce, impair the ob igatious ol MCistins; contracts, further impoverish the laborer and pro lucers of the country, create & panic of uup iralleie I severity an 1 infl ct u;>on trade ::nd :o:nmereo a deadly blow. A;?aiust any .su"h policy I am unalterablj Whit ll'.inpt.illir.in !>Ioans. "H mctallism cannot bo secured by inde^ jx-n;ent action on our part. It cannot b( obtained by openiug our mints to the unliui' itei coinage of the silver of the world, at ti ratio of 10 ouucesof silver to 1 ouu?e of gold whim the commercial ratio is more than 3t ounca of silver to 1 ounce of gold Mexico and China bave tried th< Koa frou nnlnnm VAJJUi'llUUUI. jawv of ?ilv>*r ati<l i;oid ;tt a ratio slightly in exress of 1C>2 ounces of silver to 1 ounce ol cold, ati'l while her mints are freely open tc both metals at that ratio not u single dolia' in >?old bullion is coined and circulated a; money. Gold has been 'lriven out of cirtfblation ia these countries, aud they are on a ailrer basis alone. ? rffitoiWiifrSftii'r iff' .... ^ I "Until international agreement is had It I Is the plain duty of the United States to I maintain the gold 9tandard. It Is the recognized and sole standard of the great com* mercial Nations of the world, with which we trade mora largely than any other." Favor* the Una oT Silver Money. He then adds that "the Republican party has not been, and is not now. opposed to tho use of silver money, as its record abundantly shows. It has done nil that could be done for its increased U3e, with safe and honor, j i by tho United States acting apart from other j Governments. There are those who think j that it has already gone beyond the limit of financial prudence. Surely, we can go no 1 further, and we must not Dermit false lights | to lure us across tho daugir line. More Silver Than Other Lands. "We have much more silver in use than any country in tho world except India or China?$500,000,000 more than Great Britain. $150,000,000 moro than France, $400,000,000 more than Germany, $325,000,000 less than India and $125,000,000 less than China. I "The Republican party has declared in favor of an international agreement, and if elected President it will be my duty to employ all proper means to promote it. Tho free coinage of silver in this country would defer, if not defeat, international bimetallism. and until an international agreemeut can bo had every interest requires us to maintain our present standard. "Independent free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 ounces of silver to 1 ounce of gold i would insure the speedy contraction of the volume of our currency. It would drive at least 500.000.000 cold dollars, which we now ! have, permanently from the trade of the . country and greatiy decrease our per capita , circulation. It is not proposed bv the Republican pariytotak??from thecirculatingme, dium of the couutry any of the silver we now have. On the coiltrary, it i3 proposed to keep all of the silver money now in circulation on a parity with gold by maintaining the pledge of the Government that ail of it shall be equal to gold." Farmers and Laborers Suffer Most. i He maintains that "debasement of the currency means destruction of values. No one sufTers so much from cheap money as the farmers and laborers. They are the flrst to feel its bad effects and the last to recover from them. This has been the uniform experience of all countries, und here, as elsewhere, the poor, and not the rich, are always the greatest sufferers from every attempt to debase our money. It would fall with alarming severity upon investments already made, upon insurance companies and their policy holders, upon savings banks and their depositors, upon building and loan association members, upon the savings of thrift, upon pensioners and their families and upon wage earners and the purchasing power of their wages." In the Highest Degree Reprehensible. Continuing, he observes: "It is a cause for painful regret and solicitude that an effort is being made by those high in the . counsels of the allied parties to divide the , people of this country into classes and create distinctions among us which, in fact, d o I not exist and are repugnant to our form of i government. These appeals to passion and . prejudice are beneath the spirit and intelligence of a free people and should be met witn stern rebuke by those they are sought to Influence, and I believe they will be. "Every attempt to array class against class, 'the classes against the masses,' section against section, labor against capital, 'the poor against the rich' or interest against interest in the United States, is in the highest degree reprehensible. It is opposed to the National instinct and interest and should te resisted by every citizen. "This ever-recurring effort endangers popular government and is a menace to our liberties. It is not a new campaign device or party appeal. It is as old as government among men, but was never more untimely and unfortunate than now. Protection of Supreme Importance. "Anothor issue of supreme importance," Mr. SIcKiniey states, "Is that of protection. Tne peril of free silver is a menace to be feared; we^ are already experiencing the effect of partial free trade. The one must be averted, the other corrected. "The Republican party is wedded to the dnrtf-rinfl of nrotectlon and was never more earnest in Its support and advocacy than now. If argument were needed to strengthen its devotion to ' the American system,' or increase tho hold of that system upon the party and people, it is found in the lesson and experience of the past three years. "The public exigencies demand prompt protective legislation which will avoid the accumulation of further debt by providing adequate revenues for the expenses of the Government. This is manifestly the require, ment of duty. If elected President of the United States it will be my aim to vigorously promote this object and give that ample encouragement to the occupations of the American people which above all else is so imperatively demanded at this juncture of our National affairs." Finance Not the Canse. He then asserts: "It is a mere pretence to attribute the hard times to the fact that all our currency is on a gold basis. Good money never made times hard. Those who assert that our present industrial and financial depression is the result of the gold standard, have not read American history aright or been careful students of the events of reoent year?. We never had greater prosperity in this country, in every field of employment and industry, than in the busy years from 1880 to 1892, during all of which time this country was on a gold basis and employed more gold money in its fiscal and business operation than ever before. "We had, too. a protective tariff under which ample revenues were collected for the Government and an accumulating surplus which was constantly applied to the payment of the public debt. Let us hold fast to that which we know is good. It is not more money we want; what we want 19 to put the money we already have at work.'" Continuing, he says: "We cannot inspire confidence by advocating repudiation or practising dishonesty. We cannot restore confidence, either to the Treasury or to the people, without a change in our present tariff legislation. More Work Wanted. "It is not an increase in the volume of money which is the need of the time, but an increase in the volume of business. Not an increase of coin, but an increase of confidence. Not more coinage, but a more active j use of money coiuea. Not open mints for | the unlimited coin<ujo of the silver of the j world, but open mill3 for the full and unrestricted labor of American workinsmen. The employment of our miuts for the coinage of the silver of the world would not brins the necessaries and comforts of life back to our i peorde. This will only come with the employment of ihu masses, and such employ- I ment is certain to follow the re-establish- ! ment of a wise protective policy which shall I anrtftiipuftQ nionitf-irthirinff nf homo Proton. ! tion has lost none of its virtue and importance. 'The first duty of the Republican party, il restored to power in the country, will be the 1 enactment of a tariff law which will raisa ' all the money necessary to conduct the Gov* i ernment, economically and honestly administered, and so adjusted as to give profer ence to home manufacturers and adequate protection to home labor and the home inar' ket." In conclusion Major McKinley say3: i Should Be a United Country. 1 "After the lapse of a century since its ut! terance let us, at length, and forever hereafter heed thrt admonition of Washington. 1 'There should be no North, no South, nc East, no West?but a common country.' It ' shall be my constant aim to improve ' 1 nvorv nnnnrtnntiv to iitlvanee the I cause of good government by promot- I Ing that spirit of forbearance and justice j ' which is so essential to our prosperity and ! ' happiness, by joining mo3t heartily in all j 1 proper efforts to re-tore the rolatiou^ ol j 1 brotherly respect and affection which in out early history chara terized all the people of r all the States, "I would be glid to contribute towards | binding in indivisible union the different di- | visions of the country, which, indeed, now ' have every inducement of sympathy and in* i > terest to wold them together more strongly I than ever. I would rejoice to see d*)mon- j ^ strated to the world, that the North and the i . South and tho East and the West are not sep- j > aratcd. or in danerer of becoming separated, because of sectional or party differences. J "Tne war is long since over;'we are not i enemies, but friends,' and as friends we will faithfully and cordially co-operate, under i r the approving smilo of Him who has thus i > far so signally sustained and Raided us, to j preserve; inviolate our country's name and I > honor, its peace and gooa order, and its ! continued aaceudeucy among the greatest I k Governments an earth. I . " WlLHAJt McKlXLEt." I i / / / i BLACK F1 EOmOR jL Action of the New York Republicans at Saratoga. HELD A TWO DAYS' SESSION. | " / Congressman Black, of Troy, Nominated to Head the Ticket on the Fourth Ballot?Timothy L. Woodruff for Lieutenant-Governor? Judge Irvine G. Vann, of Onondaga, for the Court of Appeals. Saratooa, N. Y., August 27.?The Republican State Convention met in the historic Assembly Hall at this placo and held a session lasting two days. The first day's proceedings were of a routine character. At the second day's session, which lasted two hours, these nomitfations were made: For Governor, Frank 9. Black, of Rensselaer; for Lieutenant-Governor, Timothy L. Woodruff, of Kings, and for Associate Judge of the Court of AppeaU, Irving G. Vann, of Onondaga. The convention then adjourned sine die. The first day's session of the convention was devoted to temporary and permanent organizations, the adoption of a platform and the nomination of candidates for Governor. f , The con^nuon was caneu 10 oruor nu 12.22 o'clock p. m. by Benjamin Odell, in the absence, oy reason of illness, of Chairman Hackett, of the Republican State Committee. Bishop Newman, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, opened the convention with prayer. Frank 8. Black, the Temporary Chairman,then made an effective address and General Stewart L. Woodford, who was selected for Permanent Chairman, followed him in a brief speech. Roll call showed that 758 delegates were in attendance. A feature of the first day's proceedings was the exclusion of Warner Miller from the convention. When the Committee on Credentials reported against Mr. Miller he tried to speak, but was ruled out of order because his name was not on the roll, On motion of Thomas C. Piatt he was allowed to be heard. Then the convention almost uuanimously voted to adopt the committee's report. The platform which indorsed the National tinlfftt and the State issues uoon which this campaign Is to be made was then read and adopted. The following men were then put in nomination for Governor: George W. Aldridge, Monroe; Hamilton Fish, Putnam; Frank S. Black, Rensselaer; Timothy D. Ellsworth, Niagara; Edgar T. Brackett, 8arato<?a; James A. Wad9worth, Genesee; Archie E. Baxter. Chemung; John Palmer, Albany; Charles T. Saxton, of Wayne, and Jame3 A. Roberts, of Erie. Without the formality of a nomination the names of J. Sloat Fassett, of Chemung; Clar: ence E. Lexow, of Rockland, and Frank Hiscock, of Onondaga, were voted for. Two ballots were taken in the convention. There are 758 delegates and 380 were necessary to a choice. No candidate received within 150 votes of enough to nominate and the convention adjourned for the day. Second Day's Proceedings. The morning of the second day of the convention opened with everybody stllL guessing and twelve hopeful candidates in the field for the Gubernatorial nomination. After ca'llng the convention to order Chairman Woodford reoognized Titua Sheard, of Herkimer, who proceeded to answer Warner Miller's speech of the day before saying that the end of the party he represented had been maligned by Mr. Miller. When Mr. Sheard bad finished, the tlrst roil can or tne day on the nomination for Governor, the third of the convention, was begun, and an indication of the decision of the leaders was given when William Barnes, of Albany, came to the front, and withdrew the name of John Palmer, casting the majority of tne votes ol Albany County for Frank 8. Blaek. Black got votes in New York and obtained a few votes from Kincs. Saxton withdrew hip name, and cast Wayne's vote for Black, Before the clerk could announce the total result, Jacob Worth, of Kings County, arose and announced that on the next ballot he would cast ninety-two votes for Black. The oonvent.on was in an uproar, but the chair Anally got order, and the result was announced as follows: Aldrldge. 242: Black, 154; Fish, 119; Odell, 82; Baxter. 51; Roberts, 38: Wadsworth, 42; Saxton, 15; Ellsworth, 9; Fassett, 6. Then a new roll-call was demanded. Aln * nnaf i + a frti" "Rlftrtlr T7u COOtt rtf UUUjr VyCWfc HO TUIW 1U1 MIUVA. ? ?>?? ?., # Chemung, withdrew the name of Baxter and cast his votes for BlRCk. When New York was called Edward Lauterbaoh stepped into tho a'sle and said: "It Is a pleasant duty for me to ca9t New York's 134 votes for Frank S. Black." This announcement caused a burst of applause and the demonstration lasted several minutes. The fourth and last ballot resulted as follows: Black, 675; Aldridge, 77; Pish. 6. Mr. Piatt moved that a committee of threi be appointed to wait on Mr. Black and notify nim of his nomination and ask him to come to the hall. Thi? motion was carried with a roar and the Chair named Mr. Piatt, Lieutenant-Governor Saxton and Congressman Foote. When the committee returned with him there was another great demonstration. Mr. Black responded in a short speech, accepting the nomination. A motion was then made that the conven* - I- . U..4. zs# ??XTA" lion luse a recess, uui win cues ui compelled the motion to be withdrawn, and the nomination of a Lieutenant-Governor was proceeded with. Representative Sherman, of Oneida, placed in nomination Titus Sheard, of Herkimer. J. E. Pendergast, of Brooklyn, named Timothy L. Woodruff, of Brooklyn, in a speech from the platform. He was seconded by W. H. Killboy, ot New York. Nevada M. Stranaban, of Oswego, was also named. On the roll call Mr. Woodruff was nominated by the vote of New York. Mr. Woodruff \Tw 'CKufiii/l Ironalra,! *11 \*otes and Mr. Stranaban received 176. The nomination was the a made unanimous by acclamation. Mr. Woodruff was escorted to the platform and also made a speech of acceptance. The Secretary was directed to cast the unanimous vote of the convention for Judge Isaac G. Vann, of Syracuse, for Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, and he was declared nominated by the convention. The usual resolutions of thanks to the convention officers and notification of the candidates were introduced and adopted and then at 2.03 p. m. the convention adjourned sine die. C.ireer of Frank S. Black. Franlc S. Black, nominated for Governor by the Republicans of New ?ork, is a Maine man by birth, having been born in Livingston County, Maine, March 8,1853. He is the son of Jacob and Charlotte B. Black, and was reared on a farm. He vais oducated in tho district schools, at Lebanon Academy. West Lebanon, Me., graduated at the acad emy in 1871. una from Dartmouth Col.esje in 1875. Mr. Black took up the pursuit of journalism, and was editor of the Johnstown (N. Y.) Journal for a short time after graduating from Dartmouth. In 1877 he removed to Troy, where he worked as a newspaper reporter and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1879, and since that time has followed his profession in Troy. He never held offlee until he was elected to the Fiftyfourth Congress as a Republican, receiving 20,954 votes against 17,514 for Charles D. Haines. Democrat, and 595 for Adam N. Myer, Prohibitionist. M>\ Black gave the convention an oratorical surprise during its first day's session. He does not look like an orator uor has he the bearing or manners of .one. Yet when lie was installed as TemporPh.iifm.in nf lli.i K.o eiininl. scored a striking success with the dolegates aud the galleries. It was replete with clever phrases aud brilliaut with frequent flashes of wit. It practically won him the nomination. Timothy L. Woodruff. Timothy L. Woodruff, the candidate of the New York Republicans for Lieutenant-Governor. is a son of John Woodruff, a descendant of the early settlers of Connecticut. He was born in New Haven on August 4,1858. After a preparatory course at Phillips Academy, heentered Yale University in 1875, and was graduated ,n 1Q Apni, iaau, ne married Miss Cora C. Eastman, daughter of the late H. G. Eastman, of Poughkeepsie. He took up his residence in Brooklyn in the same year. He is interested in va^ous grain elevators, stores, warehouses and trust companies. , >;in*, i*:IlL&uW WHITNEY-VANDERBILT WEDDING, Heir and Helreas Married Quietly at New< port, R. I. Gertrude Vanderbilt, oldest daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the New York million* aire, was married to Harry Payne Whitney, oldest son of the former Secretary of th? Navy, William C. Whitney, at 12.30 o'clock p. m. nt "The Breakers," the Vanderbilt summer villa, at Newport, R. I. < The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. George J. Magill. rector of Trinity Church, and Bishop Potter gave the benedlotlon. ] MISS. HAB11I PATNE WHITXEY. Although the affair has been watched with great Interest it was in a way a disappoint- j ment to the exclusive set in society because < it was strictly for the family. This was s necessarily so on account of the state of Mr. ] Vanderbilt's health, his physicians thinking t it unwise for him to undergo anything but the quietest oeremony. Therefore, outside t of the immediate bridal party, only about t sixty persons were present. * i The bride and her attendants assembled 1 in the upper hall and proceeded down the ] grand stairway. The bride entered the room j on the arm of Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, and < proceeded to the prisdieu, where she was met by the groom, ansa vanaerout wa3 given away by her father, who was wheeled ] Into the room on a reclining chair, and the 1 words which joined the young people tot ' life were quietly spoken. Miss-Vanderbilt s gown, a3 well as that ol i each of her bridesmaids, was from Paris. < The bride's oostume was of white satin, ' trimmed with old lace, which has been Id the family for years. 8he wore her mother's < bridal veil. She carried a bouquet of stepba- 1 notls and gardenias. The bridesmaids wore J mousselln do sole over white silk, fluffy i ruffles of queen Valenciennes lace, beaded with insertion of the same. The waists were 1 of Valenciennes inserting, with puffings oi < the same material, and Van Dyke collars. I The sleeves were full length, with cuffs oi 1 Valenciennes insertings and small puffs at J the shoulders. 8haded rose colored belts ] lent a pleasing touch of colors to the cos- ' tumes. Miss Gladys Vanderbilt. sister of the bride. < and Miss Dorothy Whitney, sister of the I groom, were the maids of honor. They wore I organdie muslins, with fluffy collars of Val- ] cnciennes lace. The bride's gift to the bridemaids were forget-me-nots brooches, of dia- < monds and pearls. Mr. Whitney's gifts to ] the best men and ushers were pearl and dia- i mond stick pins. j The bride s dowry i9 $5,000,000. The bridal i ?,4a- ' ? J >. rt/44 n*A fnmfltr n pa a f louaf 1 j.rum iuo imuiouiaio ioiuhj ?.?*.? Uk .???., $500,000. These oomprisesolld service, gold Elate, br ic-a-brac and superb jewelry. This ] i exolus lve of the trousseau, which repre ] sents a fortune. QUEEN WILHELMINA BETROTHED. The Girl Queen of Holland Encased to Prince Bernard. The betrothal of Queen Wllhelmina of the Netherlands to Prince Bernard of SaxeWelmar will be announced in September j Queen Wllhelmina is sixLeen yeare of age ( and Prince Bernard was eighteen years old on April IS last. i QUEEN WILHELMINA OF HOLLAND. 1 Queen Wilbolmina was bora August 31, i 1880, aDd succeeded to the throne on the death of her father, King Wilhelm IIL, on November 23, 1890. Her mother, the present Queen Regent of the Netherlands,, was Princess Emma, daughter of Prince George Victor of Waldeck, and her father's second wife. * The girl Queen has often been reported as engaged. Prince Bernard Henry is the secon-l son of the late hereditary Grand Duke Charles of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, who died in 18?1. He was '.torn at Weimar April 18,1878, and i9 a lieutenant in the Fifth Thuringian Infantry regiment. In case the engagement ends in marriage the Prince wilLoccupy the position of a King consort, similar to that held by Prince Albert in England. The Chickasaw Nation Election. Completo returns from tbo elections in the Chickasaw Nation show that Harris has beon elected Governor by a majority of fifty-three over Jones NVulf. Harris was "the candidate of the balf-bree l, or professional element. As a big majority of the half-breeds wore elected to the Souate and House, a ralical change for the belter maybe expected in the management of the Chickasaw Nation. 1 Ecuador Kehe'.llnn Ended. The rebels' stronghold in the mountainous , district of Cuenca has fallen, practically putting an end to the revolution in Ecuador against Alfaro, headed by one Vega and j openly supported with money, mon andarms by the clergy. l ?. . - ?. nr?l 1-4- I Una 01 mo unpiaio oiriHe, The tlnplato strike at Elwood, In']., wa9 ended by the company signing the scale, and the city went wild with rejoicing. The strikers were greatly pleased at the outcome, and spent the night in celebrating. Out of the Common Itun. Thieves turned up the cornerstone of a new church at Lonuon, uiaaua, aua scoio the money deposited in it. Chartered banks of Halifax, Nova Scotia, have bogun to charge a five per cent, dis- J count on American currency. I Orange growing is being abandoned on the i peninsula of Lower California, and the or- I chardists are cutting down their trees and planting the land with coffee, cotton aud ?ugar cane. Elk have been all but exterminated In this country, and the report of a herd of eleven 1 having been seen north of Mar/a peak, near J Corvallis, Oregon, recently, excited comment in the far northwest. i D.E. FEANGIS APPOINTED" i Missouri's Former Governor the New jj Secretary of the Interior. b a THE SUCCESSOR OF HOKE SMITH. 3 ii President Cleveland Announced That David f B. Francis, ex-Governor of Missouri, 3 Had Been Appointed a Member of Tils j Cabinet, and That He Woald Assume the Duties of His Office on September 1 Buzzard's Bat, Mass., August 25.?David R. Francis, formerly Governor of Missouri, lias been appointed Secretary of the Interior, to succeed Hoke Smith. He will assume the iuties of his office on Septomber 1. The appointment was announced by President Cleveland at "Gray Gables," his summer home here. Mr. Francis was slated for a Cabinet position ^hen Cleveland bepran his second Administration. J. Sterling Morton, the Secretary of Agriculture, however, ws named as (he representative of the "West. Francis Is und has from the beginning of Cleveland's I National career boen a close personal friend < of the President. < ( DAVID ROWLAND FRANCIS. Hli Career an a BunineiA Man and an Ac tlve Politician. I 8t. Louis, Mo., August 25.?David Row- 1 land Francis was horn of Scotch-Irish pir- J jntage October 1,1850. In Richmond, Madison County. Kentucky. He came to St. Louis in 1866, and for four years attended < :he Washington University. He began his business career in 1870 as thipping clerk for Shryock k Rowland, of VWo nil. ?111. J.1 a "1 ? - U1..1 uiij, auu iciiiniucu wJill IUO urin UUI.ll II vent out of business, when he continued on | lis own account, and is still thus engaged. j He is President of the D. R. Francis & | Brother Commission Company and receiver | , of the United States Elevator Company. Mr. Francis began his political life in 1884, I ' when ho was elected del?gate-at-larsre from j 1 Missouri to the Democratic National Conven- | [ion held in Chicago. He was an active ad- i vocate of Cleveland and Hendriclcp. He was 1 ^ice-President of the Merchants' Exchange i in 1883, and elected President in 1884. in one I of the most spirited elections ever held on j Change. j He was nominated for Mayor of St. Louis on the 184th ballot in 1885, and was elected j by a majority of 1300 over a competitor who j aad served for four years and who was origin- i ( ally elected by a majority of 14.000._ mr. r rancis was nominated ior governor jy the Democracy in 1888, and elected by a joraparatively small majority. He resigned the Mayoralty on January 1, three months jefore the expiration of his term, and was , naugurated Governor on January 14, 1889. Els term expired January 1, 1893, when he j tvas succeeded by Governor Stone. Since then Governor Stone and the free i silver advocates have wrested control of the \ 3tate politics from Mr. Francis's friends. He ! rought the free silver movement until he I i found himself overwhelmingly defeated. In personal appearance the new Secretary 1 of the Interior is very striking. He has a pleasant face, with a frank expression. His manners are nasy and genial. He is a great i favorite in social life. He has amassed a i ? W.. ? I uuiuiuoidi/it iuiluuc u y uio uu31uc03 om.ec- ! ' prises in Missouri. Mrs. Francis has been the leader of St. : Louis society for yeara. She baa entertained j Mrs. Cleveland at her home, and there is a warm attachment between them. i GARCIA'S BIC VICTORY. ' j Cuban Insurgents Defeat 3000 Spanish i Soldiers and Kill 200. j , Tomas Estrada Palma, Presilent of the Cuban Junta In New Yorlc City, received a letter from General Callxto Garcia, of the Cuban army. ! , In the letter he says that a short time af- ' ter he landed he defeated a detachment of the Spanish army near the river Canto. The , snpmy lort 250 dead uuon the field. After- j ward Garcia captured the Spanish gunboat Bellicos, loaded with arms and provisions I near the city of Manzanillo. He also took a I large quantity of ammunition from the j anemy. In his letter Garcia tells of the defeat of 1 3000 Spanish troops at the cityof Banabacoa, | In the province of Santiago de Cuba, on July I 22. The loss of the insurgents was InconBid- ! urable. Cuban insurgents also blew up tw<" i | trains with dynamite. . j . " I STEEL WORKS FAIL FOR $1,000,000 . 1 Union Company of Anderson, Ind., Attrib- | uten It to Financial Agitation. I The Union Steel Company at Anderson, iDd., has been placed in the hands of a re- j ( :eiver, Tbe company is capitalized at $1,500,000, und claims to have 31,000,000 invested in s?tock. machinery, and plant at Alexandria, I wblch covers thirty acres and is a complete rail and steel concern. Tbe company es- I tablished itself in Alexandria for a bonus of i i 8175,000 and employs 1600 men when in full I blast. j i It seems that most of the plant was built ; \ upon borrowed money, among the creditors | being the Missouri Steel Company, for $50,- | DOP. The financial agitation, the company j i avers, so par.ilyzed business that it was j , forced to close the plant, and has been unable to meet payments. WAR IN CRETE ENDED. ! i An Agreement Prepared by the Austrian ! Minister Satisfies Both Sides. The Porte has signi (led its willingness to i accept the terms of the proposal for the set- : tlement of the Cretan troubles which originated with Count Ooluchowskl, Austrian j Minister of Foreign Affairs. * < The proposal is that Turkey xrrant to Crete 1 a new "constitution, the main' features of I which are the appointment of a Christian I Governor and the establishment of Cretan ! ' financial autonomy, with the payment of [ J tribute to the Sultan under the genoral ' guarantee of the European rowers, the j 1 amount of tribute to be paid annually to be j based upon the ratio of revenues of the isl- , 1 and. This ends ail trouble. 3 i To Suppress the Suj;ar Crop. It is reported that Captain-General Weyler : < will shortly issue an order prohibiting the ] grinding of the coming sugar crop in Cuba, i Two Burglars Die. ' alino .!!(? 1.1." I vvuu, niitK? A>AJ uouaiin, IV. LIU WU i*3 | ^ tbe "big man" in tho Bedford Station (N. Y.) . j ittempted burglary and tragedy, died at the 1 t Mount Kisco Jail four dnys after he was shot, j 1 and John Clare, another of the outlaws, who i i was wouuiled during tbe light with tho bur- | elars. died tbe same day at tie Long Island : ^ Hospital In Brooklyn. Both men wore shot j 1 by "Will" Adams, son of the merchant whom ; i tbe burglars killoJ. i j ( Kmperor William Knuckled. I < Emperor William dually save up iu the j struggle with his Ministers over court mar- , , tiai reform. j , A Kruvt; ltewue. It required the uuiteJ efforts of seven of ; [lie city life guards to save Mr. and Mrs. f Charles Bannon, a bridal couple from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., from drowning iu tho I surf at Atlantic City, N. J. It was the most s thrilling rescue of the season, ami was wit- ' nessed by thousands of people, who cheered ] the brave guards in their struggle. i 1 Mulne'tt Campulgu Open. 1 Tho Republican party of Maine formally opened its Presidential campaign in sixteen 1 lities and towns with twenty speeches, do- , * livered before 25,000 persons. Senator Frye and Llewellen Powers, tbe party's candidate 5 for Governor, addressed 1000 oersoni) in Rath , 1 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED' Washington Itecu. Chairman Jones, of the Democratic Na? onal Committee, issued from Washington n earnest appeal to the people of the United tates to contribute to the campaign fund. The single taxere of Washington have een holding outdoor meetings for the past hree months in a small park Just off Psnnylvanla avenue. Foreign lithographic firms are In grave langer of having an embargo placed on the mportatioQ of their productions to this ountry. Judge Cole, ot the District Court, who a ew weeks ago refused to naturalize an [tallan because the mau admitted that he vas unable to comprehend our form of Govsrnment, has rejected the application of a Jerman who could not read English, saying hat no one was entitled to the rights of sufrage who could not read the language of he country. A. third edition of the Treasury Circular So. 123. giving the financial t-anaactions of :he Government, has been Issued. This time JO,000 copies have been printed, which, with :hetwo former editions of 15,000 copies each, swells the total printed to dato to 60,000. rhere Is no apparent diminution in the demand for the circular. The Treasury has begun Davinz out over ;he counter the new $2 silver certificates. Domestic. Rgaoao OF THE LEAGUE OLUB3. Per Pfr Club*. Won. ct. Club'. Wnn. Ln*t. ct, 3altlmore.71 33 .683 Brooklyn.49 55 .471 3lncinnati69 36 .657 New York49 57 .462 Cleveland 64 39 .621 Phlladel. .49 57 .462 Chicago. .62 46 .574 W'shing'n40 63 .388 Pittsburg.58 46 .558 St. Louis.33 71 .317 Boston....67 48 .543 Louisville26 76 .255 The Miami Powder Works, at Goes Station. Ohio, were blown up. The report was heard Bfty miles distant. Frank Eich, general foreman, and Silas Figgins, boss carpenter, were killed. Silas D. Mead, a farmer, living In North Greenwich, Conn., died from iujurles inflicted by a bull. He was seventy-seven years old and one of the wealthiest and best known men in the State. r? Wni-i/1mnnac>? nf Ohin wnu flhnoan President of the Republican National League by the convention at Milwaukee, Wis. The Emerson Piano Company, with factory and store In Boston, Mass., and branch stores in New York and Chicago, has made an assignment. Tbe Canada defeafed the Yencedor for the second time on Lake Erie, thereby winning the international yachting championship of the lakes. The locked-out men of the Brown Hoisting and Conveying Works, Cleveland, Ohio, voted to return to work, and the famous strike, productiveof several battles and riots, is broken. New Jersoy's gold standard Democrats, in convention at Trenton, reaffirmed the financial plank in the platform adopted by the regular State Convention in May. It declares for the gold standard. Would-bo lynchers who tried to shoot Dave Williams near Mount Tabor, N. J., for an alleged assault on a woman, were foiled by a constable, who took the man to jail. Durusiuo tlUU l*VCUlJ%UiOO UiOU cf the steamsliip Moldava, which was sunk by collision with a berg, reached New York on loard the Anchor line steamship Circas3la. 8penker Thoma9 B. Reed addressed a Republican mass meeting at Old Orchard, Me. The international yacht race on Lake Erie was won by the Canadian boat Canada. The Postoffice at Pattenburg, N. J., was again entered by burglars, arousing the Postmaster, who shot one of them as he was running away in the darkn jss. In the preliminary or practice trial the United States cruiser Brooklyn developed an average speed closely approximating twenty-one knots. The trial was made over the Government offlolal course from off Cape Ann, Mas9., to a point off Cape Porpoise, Me., and return. The through express train from Chicago on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad was wrecked at Valencia, Penn., and more than a score of passengers were injured, four ol them fatally. f The Rflnublican canmaism was formallv opened in Indiana. It is estimated that 200,000 voters participated in the sixty-one meetings. Charles W. Fairbanks spoko in Indianapolis. "Chris" Lovering, a desperado and outlaw, was captured on the top of 8aurland Mountain by a detective, George D. Totten, of Bomerville, N. J. The fltate Convention of the National Prohibition party in North Carolina nominated the Rev. J. W. Holt for Governor, and a full Btate ticket. H. W. Reed, Populist National Committeeman from Georgia, has resigned the Presidency of the First National Bank of Brunswick because, being an ardent believer in the free coinage of silver, he could not conform to the wishes of bis bank associates. Frederick Gordon Rew, the Cornell student who disappeared from Ithaca, N. Y., on October 2,1894, and who was supposed to have mot with foul play, ha3 been heard from. His father, Fabian B. Rew. of Buffalo, received a letter from him. dated in India. 9tating that he was in good health and bound for home. John Henka, an old miser, of Burlington, N. J., was strangled and beaten to death for his money by unknown persons. Senator Hill invite.1 W. J. Bryan to dine with him at Wolfert's Roost, Albany, N. Y., and the invitation was accepted. * Four man were killed by the wreck of a train on the Northern Pacific Road in Montana. Mrs. Hanry M. 8tephenson, of Boston, Mass., returning home to die of an incurable trouble, jumped from the staamsbip 9paarndam in midocean and was drowned The <nfe in theElberon (N. J.) Postofflce was blown open and robbed. A gold watoh, i fireman's gold badge, and $110 were lost by Mr. Fay. Two registered letters and many sheets ol postage stamps also were stolen. Lord Russell of Killowen, Lord Chief Justice of England, addressed the Americau Bar issooiation in Saratoga, N. Y., on "International Law and Arbitration." A report was current in Boston, Mass., :hat the Western Union Telegraph Company bad obtained control of the Bell Telephone Companies. The united capital of the comJination is $150,000,030. Apartments for Li Hung Chang were engaged at the Waldorf, New York City. Presiient Cleveland will be the guest of former Secretary Whitney, at whose house he will receive tho Chinese Envoy. The Stock Yards branch of tho American National Bank, on tho second floor of tho Live Stock Exchange, Kansas City, JIo., was robbed of *2 00 iu cash byt; thief." The Bank of Wymore, Nebraska, closed its ioors. It was one of tho depositories for 3age County; $6000 are on deposit, amply jrotecteJ by $86,000 in bonds. No run was iiade on the bank, the directors deeming it idvisable to close ou account of slow collec:ions and inability to lenow loans. A dispatch from North Baltimore, Ohio, inys that the Ohio Oil Company, the Ohio jranch of the Standard, decided to reduce he wages of pumpers in all tho Buckeye lelds from $55 to $50 a month. About 5000 nen are affected. Mrs. WiWon Terry, of Stillwater, N. Y., >vas missed from her home. A domestio 'ound two of tho children, girls aged six md four years, i-sleep in a crib, bat the youngest child, two months old, had been irowned by being plunged head first into a slop jar. Tho searching parly traced the nother to the towpath of the Champlain 3anal. After drasrtring the canal her body ,vas recovered. H>ir mind was unbalanced. T""> AMinMf* cmmHrnn from its !ea manoeuvres and anchored of! Tomkinsrille, Staten Island, New York Harbor. Leopold Weil A Co., jewelry imnufacturirs, of New York City, were forced to transer their stock and accounts to their princi>al creditors. The failure is ascribed to the ilver agitation. An attachment was served on Ovlngton 3rothers, the china and glass dealers of New fork and Brooklyn. Forelcn Notes. A Pd'tiah A <1 mi ml cAnt an nlHmfttnm to I he new Sultan of Zanzibar ordering him to five up the throne and surrender. Miss Clara Barton, President of the American Red Cro?8 Society, returned to Loudon rom Constantinople, Turkey. MRS. ARTHUR SEWALL The Fife of the Democratic Nominee tor Vice-President. Mrs. Arthur Sewall, the wife of the Demo, cratlc nominee for the Vice-Presidency, shrinks from publicity. That is the reason she persistently refused to give her pictures to the newspapers. Soon, however, she iuuuu eun wnouui rrioo m iuio f ?v* portraits that In no wise did her justice began to appear, and at last she succumbed and sat for her photograph for publication. This picture was taken since Mr. Sewall's nomination, and Is her latest photograph. The wife of the Maine candidate was Miss MBS. ABTHUB BEWAIL. ? sally Duncan Crocker and the daughter of one of Bath's most respected oltizens. She was educated abroad and has spent much time on the Continent. She Is a wide reader and of more than ordinary culture. Mrs. Sewall's ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Brunswick, Me., and she loves to visit the scene of her ancient home. She is a clever amateur photographer, loves flowers, delights in good literature, and is not averse to musiq. Mrs. 8ewall agrees with her husband in politics. Their son, Harold M., who was Consul to Samoa, Is a Republican. BROKEN BANKER KILLS HIMSELF. See* the Sheriff, and Before Suicide Shoot* HI* Wife. H Church & Sons, bankers in Lowell, Mich., H closed their doors and posted a notice an- H nounaing that, owing to inability to Realize H on assets, they were temporarily unable to H meet their obligations. The deposits are H estimated at from 98000 to $12,000, lnolud- Hj lng about (2200 belonging to the village Hj treasury. Rfl Deputy Sheriff Cowans, of! Grand Rapids, 1 H was approaching the house of C. A. Church, H junior member of the firm, to serve a writ B on him which had been sworn out by the i National City Bank of Grand Rapids. H Church saw him coming. He locked the H doors of tne house, and then seized a revol-; ver and fatally shot his wife and then killed H hlmsolf. H The National Garni. Hi Washington's first division hopes have H vanished. S Joyce Is making a winning team out of the H New Tories. SB All that New lork needs now is one first- Dj class battery. Q Shlndle was the first Brooklyn player to H make 100 hits. Hamilton, of Boston, has missed bat one samo this season. Connaughton Is playing a strong game In ' loft for New York. Everett, of Chicago, has made a groat suo ceaa in the outfield. IB Doyle has been a tower of strength to Baltimore In all departments. The Bangor (He.) Club has a record of fourteen straight vlotorles. 3Bi Tenney Is the one Boston player who is^H doing solentlflo stick work. Tlernan Is the remnant of the days whenflH the New Yorks were called "glants.,r BS Pltohei-Outfielder Wallace, of the Glo7d<^|B lands, has a bad case of Oharley*hone In arm. fl^DHE Boston's new second baseman, MoQana, l^^H only an ordinary fielder, bat a natusal batfrj^H man. Dolao, the new shortstop of the Lonls^^l vtlles, Is showing up well, especially as sticker. ^H| PfeCfer, of Chicago, made only two error^^H In sixteen games, accepting nlnety-fou^^H chances, ?Soi It Is a carious fact tnat Mercer, of th^^H Washington team, has never won a agninat Baltimore. wH The best ball player*, especially ioflelders^Hj aw said to make the mo9t errm. Simply be^^H can^e they take the most chances. MMI How do baseball players stand the intens^^R heat of our tropical summers? One seldoz^^H hears of a player being sunstrack. jj^Hj Pittsburg has tho honor of taking the series from Cleveland. This Is the first seri^HH that the Cleveland Club has lost In two se^HBI Cincinnati has achieved the rare feat winning the entire series from a rival teaaHH| St. Louis fell twelve consecutive games b^^H fore tho Reds. The Buffalo (N. Y.) team contains sevefl^^B left*handed batsmou. They are terrors flB rlght-hand-d pitchers, but h southpaw keej^^H them guessing. McOraw's recent illness does not appe.*^^B to have hurt bis effectiveness. He plays samo great games at Baltimore's third ba^HH ho played last year. Loth Burkett, of Cleveland, and Jrvnning^^H of Baltimore, are dropping off in their ba^^BB ting. At that they nro the only League^Hfl batting above the .400 mark. 1'ittsburg has played winnin? ba^^^fl since Beckley left and New York Has brace^^^fl since he joined them. That makes it nicu a^^^| around aud everybody satisfied. SHK Tho New forks did not secure one man out of tbe dozen or so youngsters tht^^ral corratlod last fall and during the winte^HH All have been absolute failures. From being the greatest base runrLiH^B team in the League, Boston has become tl^^H| weakest. Add to this the fact that mo^|S| bases are stolen on the Boston catchers tht^HH oq uny others, and you havo figured out^^^H weakness that means much ia u champio^HH ship ' 0. P. Caylor hints that a certain Leag^HH magnate (name not given) has paid RusI^HH father this year a sum of money equal Amos's New York salary in hope of eecuri^^HJ the big fellow's release through the Nation^^^f Board, and then securing Busie's services hla own club. A Famoai Firm Fall*. HH The great dry goods firm of Hilton, Hagt^f^fl <fc Company, New York City, the hot^^^f which was founded by Alexander T. Ste.va^^^J I and during his lifetime was the great^HBD establishment of its kind in the wor^m has gone down to ruin. The dlsast^^^9 is absolute and tlnal. The bu^^^H ness which Mr. Stewart founded ^B9| 1823 will never be resumed. Albert B. ton, the sole member of the firm of HiltoH|H| Hughes <k Co., made the assignment to cre^^^^H tors, without preferences. The llabilitl^^^H are between 31,500,000 and 32,009,00^^^B About 1500 persons are thrown out of ei^|^H ployment. The stringency in the moniMH market is given as the immediate cause HH the failure. flHH Invalids Mutt Obtain I'ermiU. Tho Colorado State Board of Health, in annual report, holds It a duty to stop the discriminate transportation of sick peopI^HH which, it is alleged, propogates disease, an^Eflj proposes that invalids bo required to obtai^^BH pormits before they can travel in ColoraddH?H Cattle Plague In Jamaica. KH A serious cattle p'.a^ue has broken out ~ 1 r .... /v?nAll Vi<M1 uuiuaiia, uuu IUC Ajtrj^iaitui%v uuuuui appropriated ?2000 to pay for tlio ssrvioos