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no oraBMltSf Georgia and Florida Choose Democratic Governors. EXCITING STATE CAMPAIGNS. In Georgia a Fusion of Populists and Republicans Beaten and W. Y. Atkinson ICe-elected Governor ? Legislature Democratic in Both Branches-?Election Day Violence?The Result in Florida. Atlanta, Ga., October 8.?The liveliest State campaign Georgia has known in many a year came to an end when the polls closed throughout the various counties at 7 o'clock yesterday evening. The result Axes the control of the State's affairs in the hands of the Democratic party for another two years, but after a harder light than it has ever had j since the war. ! The indications on election night were that the Democratic majority would not be less than 30,000. A. 8. Clay, Chairman o' the Democratic State Committee, said: "Our majority in the State will be at lenst 38,00C anil probably 40,000. We have gained 12,00C or 15.000 over our majority in 1894, and thf Populi9ts tiave lost a number of counties GOVEBUOB WILLIAM Y. ATKINSON'. they carried then. They haven't catried over twenty counties of the 137 in the State." Governor W. Y. Atkinson's majority two years ago was 24,000. Reports indicate that the Democrats have carried the Tenth Congressional District, which is the stronghold of Populism in Georgia. Thomas E. Watson. Populist candidate for Vice-President, lives at Thomson, in the district. The fight has been a square one between the Democratic ticket, headed bv William Yates Atkinson, present Governor, and the Populist ticket, with Seaborn Wright at its front. The Prohibition vote was oast for the Populist candidate, that party having incorporated an anti-barroom plank in its Elatform. The Republicans did not ave a ticket iu the field. Republican State Chairman Buck issued a circular a few days bro oalltng on the voters of the party to support the Populist State ticket. The fact that the only two tickets In the field were Demooratlo and Populist necessarily eliminated the financial question a* an issue of the campaign, both sides being agreed thereon. Tbe fight has been limited, therefore, to State Issues, and about them it has raged with a bitterness which increased up to the very close of election day. The Legislature Is Democratic. This will insure ihe election of ex-Speaker Charles F. Crisp to the United States Senate to succeed General John B. Gordon. At the opening of the polls at Monte, Emanuel County, William Durden and n colored hand walked up to vote, when a Democratic ticket was snatched out of his hand bv C. W. Williams, a colored man. Beveral Democrats rushed for him, and Williams pulled his pistol and killed S. S. Middleton. He made an effort to escape, but was overtaken and shot to death. In an election row at Elberton Will Mafekl shot and killed Bud Sanders and escaped. Tom Wall shot and seriously wounded B. C. Swift. All are white. TVIlHn?v> Vufao A L?iner>h ??a. ernor of Georgia, Is forty-two years of rue and a native of this State, where ho has always lived. He had a university education, and became a lawyer, soon becoming solicitor of his circuit. He then went to the Legislature, where he served eight years, and rose to be Speaker. He served us State Chairman of his part>. In 1894 ho was chosen Governor. Ho is an advocate of the free and unlimited coinage of sliver. ) THE FLORIDA ELECTIONIV. I). liloxhura, the Democratic Candidate, Chosen Governor. Jacksonville, Fla., Oetobar 8.?Returns from the State electiou held on Tuesday were slow in comisy in, duo to a defect in the Australian ballot law, now used for the first time, in not providing a sufficient number of inspectors to count the vote, but'it is assured that the Democrats elected thoir Governor, William D. Bloxham, overEdwardR. Gunby. the Republican, but the Republicans and Ponulists, the lattor ticked headed by Willla?. A. Weeks, polled a heavier vote than w;i - expected. The small precincts, flrst heard from, jfcowed a heavy vote aud Democratic gains over four years ago, when there was no Republican opposition. The Populists ran a ticket then. Chairman Rawls, of iho Democratic Executive Committee, declares that Bloxham wi.l have 18, 00 plurality. The Republican Chairman concedes Bloxham 12,000 more votes than were cast for Gunby. T> -*? ?/-v?. e ft-r\rv> f t? J tm faptv-floA rt/Min. 'tie:- k'ive estimate! Democratic majorities of from lt'/O to GOO la each. The Legislature light is complicated. Unite 1 States Sena or Call, wbo is a caudl- [ aate for re-?lec:lon, made bis fight outside of parly liaes, putting up a Call man wherevr tbe regular Democratic nominee was anti-Call. It is believed he will control onl> about thirty-five out of the one hundred members of the Legislature. There will probably be six Populists and four Republicans in the Legislature. The Constitution a' Amendment, abolishing October elections, has been carried. <>lilo'? finall Wheat Crop. The monthly crop report of tho State Boar*' of Agriculture estimates the aoreageof whea' sown in Ohio tor tho harvest of 1890 af 2.011,708 acres, and the total product at 17,269.545 oushels; average per acre, 8)f bush els. The Ohio wheat yield Is the poorest since lb76. WKAhlncton's Tree tVrecfcod. The la'.e tornado partially wrecked a magnificent magnolia 'reo at Mount Vernon that was planted by Georco Washington In the year of his death. An effort will bo made to revive the flue old tree. Cycling Notes. Bicycles vreighiug less than thirty pouadi, can be sent by mail to England. I Atnericun bicycled aro s:<id to bo driviug nil others out of the market in Mexico, j A lending feature of this year's market has j been the enormous sale of juvenile wheel3. I Thero is a steady increase in the number of tandems seen on the streets of Sfew York City and Brooklyn. Hotel keepers throughout New Jersey and Long Island say that the 18'J6 bicycle trade surpassed all expectations. Bicycle polo, tent pegging on bicycle? and . nt ^Vicnop? for it Is a chance if ' you survivo one rhuio?are steadily grow.ng ooonlar in England. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Wftihlnrton Item*. It is positively asserted by w?ll Informed person? that the removal of Bishop Keane from th<? rectorship of the Catholic University of Washington was made by the Pope at the suggestion of Cardinal S itolli. M. J. Bishop. General Commander, and A. E. Redstone, Adjutant General of the Knights of Labor, Washington, have issued a <\ull for a new organization of workingmen, with headquarters in Washington, to be known as the "Minute Men of '96," to protect the workingman's suffrage. Tho United States cruiser Newark has | been ordered 1o watch tho Three Friends, Dauntless and Comrmdore, suspectea or Cuban filibustering intentions. Bishop Keane has resigned tho rectorshid j of the Catholic University in Washington at the request of the Pope. Cardinal Satolli celebrated his last kieh Pontifical mass, which tho new Apostolic Delegate, Mgr. Marsiuelli, attended iu Washington, and later clergy an<l 'aity rendered a farewell reception to tho Cardinal. Washington diplomats believe that satisfactory arrangements for the settlement of tho Venezuelan boundary dispute have been made by Secretary of State Olney and Joseph Chamberlain, British Secretary for the Colonies. Domeatlc. The thirty-eighth anniversary of tho historic debate betwoon Lincoln and Douglas was commemorated by Knox College, In Til 1... tKn n r* ?.?>t I I rw? n vr?iiu:?ijui 5, ah., 'Jj ku^uutciuuQ vi ? wiuu<iu tablet. ? Major McKinley received desecrations at Canton, Ohio, from the States of Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana, numbering in all 3600 visitors. The Major delivered speeches to each delegation. President Clevoland arrived at Indian Harbor, Conn., where he rejoined his family at E. C. Benedict's country house. William J. Bryan concluded his campaign in Indiana and started for Iowa and the Northwest. Bishop W. D. Walker,of North Dakota,has been elected Bishop of tho Episcopal diocese of Western New York. Daniel G. Griffin and F. W. Hlnrichs, "Gold Standard" Domocratic candidates for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of New York, were formally notified before a lnrge meeting at Cooper Union, New York City. They both made speeches attacking Mr. Bryan. Three men attacked Julius Ooslin, of i'oungstown, Ohio, in a Pullman sleeper at fho Erie station, in Jersey City, N. J., and, robbing him of $2250, escaped, leaving him helpless. The police of New Haven, Conn., assert that trainmen on tho New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad murdered several trumps for stealing rides on freight trains. W. J. Bryan traveled during one day from Louisville to In<ii:inapolis, speaking in these cities and at way stations. A delegation of Republicans from East Brady, in the county of Clarion, Penn., wen in the rain to call ou Major MoKinley at Canton, Ohio. The delegation was made up of miners, farmers and workingmoD. A new electric motor was successfully tried on tho Thirty-fourth street branch of the elevated railway. New York City. The Philadelphia players won a brilliant victory over the Australians in the third and last of the series of cricket matches. T<?n fhnncanst naraon a han r,1 William Tftn nines Bryan's speech at the basebali grounds in Memphis, Tenn. The general 9tore owned by Bnrllngame 4 Pitts, In East Olean, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. The junior partner of the firm, Leon Pitts, who bad sleeping apartments on the second floor, was bumed to death. Frederic R. Coudert, of the Arbitration Commission, returned to New York from Europe. He examined in the Vatican, through the courtesy of the Popo, valuable archives bearing on'the Venezuelan disputo. Randolph Percival, thirteen years old, doomed by consumption, hanged himself In his home in New York City. Allan L. MoDermott declined the Bryan ind Sewall Democracy's nomination for Congress in New Jersey. The second quadrennial convention of the National Association of Democratic Clubs was held In the Auditorium at St. Louis, Mo. Vice-President Stevenson delivered an address in the afternoon, In which he declared emphatically for Bryan and Sewall, and indorsed ihe Chicago platform. He was folio .ved by Chauncey F. Black. The conventloned declared for Bryan and Sewall and [he Chicago platform. The Populist State Convention In Syracuse. W V Indorsed the Democratic State ana Electoral ticket, excepting for judge of the Court of Appeals. Half of the business portion of Ladonia, Texas, *as destroyed by flro. The landlady of the hot"! In which the fire started and two others perished. Frank H. Whitney and Whitney & Son, managers of the Bimk of Atlantic, Iowa, have gone to the will. J. B. Bruff ha9 been appointed receiver, and announces the bank proper has ?200,000 liabilities and assets of 5175,000 that cannot be made available at once. The first of tho trio of new torpodo boats which arc being built at the Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore, Md., for the United States Navy has been successfully launched. George Barnum, a brother of tho late P. T. ,1,?j ui/. TT.?% DaruuiJ), whs fuuruureu 1U un nut at ucudson, Mich. Barnum was reputed to be wenltby. Wlu-n his body was found It ehowed signs of a terrific struggle. His head was literally battered in with some blunt inftrument. The hut had been ransacked and everything of value was taken. A cloudburst in the Whetstone Mouhtaln3 sent a flood of water through tho east end of Benson, Arizona, destroying several buildtngs. Twelve persons are believed to be drowned. The '.>odies of William Zeek, a barber, his wife and two children, and Oscar Asliburn have been found. The path of the storm was twelve miles wide. Walter Harris, fifteen years old, of New York City, while riding a bicycle, was run over by an express wagon and" killed. It was learne 1 that the sixteen-year-old daughter of the proprietor of the Hotel America. New York City, had committed suicide because she was not allowed to return to school when she wanted to. Foretcm Note*. A despatch fiorn Madrid, Spain, gives account of heavy fighting in the neighborhood of i'inar del Itio, in Cuba, where the Insurgent forces were defeated with much loss and routed from their positions. Lord liosebery resigned tlie leadership of the English Liberal party. Despatches from Guayaquil. Ecuador, slate that tho city was almost wholly deMroyp.t by a Are atarie*! bv incendiarie". Many lives wore lo?r and property worth 55.000,(J00 was burned. Tho strike of train dispatchers on the Canadian 1'uciflc Railway having been declared off, the men returned to work. Ti e Czar and Czarina of Russia visited in Paris tho Pantheon, Notre Dame Cathedral, aud laid the foundation stone of the AkxanJer III. Bridge. The Legislature of British Guiana has fmntrd n. (^oBci'ssion for a railway throueh I ho disputed territory to tho Barlma cold Holds. Tho work of tho Venezuela Boundary Commission is nearly completed, and it is expected that its decision will be announced ill President Cleveland's message to Congress. An important engagement, in which General Serafin Sanchez, tho we.l-known Cuban insurgent leader, was killed, hits been fought at (lie Ueserva Plantation, Province of Mail ll711v Th? Czar and Czarina of Russia entered Paris and were reco.vod wish unprecedented enthusiasm by Ihe French. Victor do Lea.seps, son of tho Into Ferdinand do Lesseps, died in Paris; it was rumored that he committed suicide. Tho mills, dwollings, and barns at Tracadie, New Brunswick, beiongiug to tho Trapplst monks havo been destroyed by flro, whioh is supposed to have been started tbroucrh the carolessneas of workmen. Loss. $40,000; no insurance. The Czar and Czarina of Russia landed in France an I were effusively welcomed. The great international chess tourney for a prize of $20,000, offered by the Emperor of Austria, opened at Budapest. Pill3bury, of Brooklyn, represents America. CEDiS KE7S DEVASTATED A The Florida Town Struck by a Hurricane and a Tidal Wave. AN APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE. The City Wrecked and Many of Itg Inhabitant* Killed or Injured?The Fleet of Sponger* Caught in tho Hurricane and Loit With the Crews?Many Unfile* Recovered?Dead liuried in Mud Jacksonville, FU., October 8.?Codar Keys is a place of desolation and death. Before the hurricane visiter! it It was a thrivInc tftwn ftf IRrtfl fnlmhlfonto TnJni; minv of the people are dead, scores of others are Injured, and few hou?es are left standing- i Twenty bodies have been recovered, anrl It Is known that many other persons havo been killed. But few of the bodies hav? been Identified, so mutilated were they by falling timbers. The storm struok the town at 3.30 o'clock on Tuesday morning and continued for several hours. At 4 a. m. It blew a perfect hurrlcan. The wind suddenly changed to southenpt, bringing in a delude of water, the tide rising two feet higher than It did In the memorable gale of 1884, whlcn was at tne time said to bo the severest storm on reoord. At 7 o'clock ari Immense tidal wave came In from the south, oarrying destruction with It. Boats, wharves and small houses were burled from the shore and broken Into fragments, covering the streets with .wreckage and rendering them impassable, while the torrents ot water rushing through every open space took the strongest men off their feet. This tidal wave caused the prinoipal loss of life, many houses being swept from their foundations, and the inmates drowned. Of the twenty bodies recovered, twelve are white and eight oolored. Of the whites, six?a mother, four children and a young woman visitor -bolonsr to the Whitson family. The other four white victims are men, and have not yet been identified. Of the colored people only one, Peter Woodson, has been identified. Most of the victims were buried deep in mud by tho tidal wave, and many of the bodies will probably never be recovered. Deplorable as Is the loss of life In Cedar Keys, it is nothing in comparison with the number of spongers and fishermen who were drowned. The Mary Eliza, a sponging schooner, reports that at dark on Monday night nearly one hundred vessels were anchored on the sponge bar, just below Cedar Keys, and that nearly every one of them was Bunk by the hurricane. As these vessels carried from four to ten men each, the loss of life Is horrible to contemplate. There was not one chance In a thousand for such frail craft to live In such a storm. Two men who went a few miles down the eo?9t returned to Cedar Keys and reported finding the bodies of eight men washed ashore. These men were the crew of a Bponglng vessel, and the crews of most of tne other vessels have undoubtedly met a similar fate. Pour men reached Cedar Keys '? " ^ I r? rm? TV. r?r? noi4 rtf f V?0 Al>AV f\t Ill Ck UiUgJT* 1UOJ iTCIO pui?. \SL IUU V4VIT W I the sohooner Rosalie, and report the vessel aunk and eight of their companions drowned. Those who escaped death in Oedar Keys had a terrible experience when the tidal wave overwhelmed the town. Many of the people floated in the water, clinging to pieces of timber, while others clung to treetope for hours. until the water receded. They were buffeted oy wind and wave, and many are still missing. While the gale was at Its height Are broke out in the Bettinl House, and it was burned. The force of the wind demolished the large and handsome Methodist Episcopal Ohuroh, the Cedar Keys High School building, the Christian Church, throe colored churches, many private houses and all the flshhouses except one. The Suwanee ico factory, Wolf's oedar mill, the Eagle Pencil Company's mill, the large lumber mill of V. J. Horlong, ana the planing mill of Moyer & Sons, just completed and ready for work, suffered considerably. WOLCOTT FOR COVERNOR. Massachusetts Republicans Name a state Ticket. The annual State Convention of the Massachusetts Republicans, for the nomination of a full itate ticket and Presidential electors, ; was calle I to order in Mu3io Hall, Boston. I General William F. Draper was selected as Permanent Chairman. AOTIKQ GOVERNOR ROOER WOLCOTT. Tho platform adopted indorses Major McKinley and the. protective tariff and scores the programme announced at Chicago. Aoting Governor Roger Wolcott was nominated for Governor by acclamation and W. Murray Crane for Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of the Commonwealth William M. Olin, Treasurer Edward P. Shaw, Auditor John W. Kimball and Attorney-General Hosea Moulton were renominated. Representative Samuel H. McCaK nominated two electors-at-large, former Governor John C. A. Brackett, of Arlington, and former Lieutenant-Governor William H. Haile, of Springfield, and they were chosen by acclamation. In his speech Mr. McCall paid aa eloquent tribute to the memory of tbo lute William E. Russell, and it was heartily upplauded. Shoots His Employer unci Kills lilraaeir. Colonel Georgo Sheldon was shot five times at close range by bis coachman at Houghton, Mich. The coachman then committed suicide. Colonel Sboldou was one of the bestknown citizens. One Mouth's Colc.ige, The monthly statement of the Director of tne Alini snows me toiai coinage iu cue um- i ted States mint9 during the month of September, 1806, to have been $5,915,363.50, which is divided as follows: Gold, 83,140,922.50; silver, $2,754,185; minor coins, 820,226. Of the silver coined, 82,700,100 was in standard dollars. A Fever Epidemic in Turklstan. Advi es from Merv, Turklstan, show that an epidemic of fever bos been raging among the Turcomans for some time. During the past two months nearly 10,000 have died. Cycling Notes. Tbe bicycle path is a protest against bad roads. Wood rims should be treated to a coat of varnish after a year's use. While moderate cycling benefits the heart, Immoderate cvolini? disturbs It. The PostmiiBter-General of England, in his last report, not only permits postmen who own wheels to use them, but says that some postmen have reoelved special allowances for the purchase of bicyole3. With the help of a moderate wind on a straight away track at Denver, Col, Stanley H. Barrows maA? a quarter mile in 16 2-5 eecondai It is claimed to be the fastest quarter mile ever ridden on a bloyole. THE VICE-PRESIDENT HURT. Reviewing Stand Collapses During: ? Parade In Jo-wa. Yice-Presldent Stevenson was near death a few davs a?o at Burlincrron, Iowa. Only by the merest stroke of luck did he escape being mangled to pieces. The accident occurred during a parade at the Iowa semicentennial oelebralion. The reviewing: stand, containing the VicePresident, Governor Drake, of Iowa, and staff, and many other prominent persons, PI 1DLAI E. 8TSTSM805. i?o1UnqAl. throwine all to tha ground and injuring about thirty. Vice-President Stevenson and Governor Drake escaped with alight bruises. The seriously Injured are: County Treasurer E. B. Burrls, leg broken; James D. Owen, of the Governor's staff; Ex-Governor Sherman, of Vinton. Iowa: Rev. Dr. Fellows, of Iowa City; Auditor of 8tate C. G. McCarthy, of Des Moines, head bruised; City Commissioner S. M. Jones, of Burlington, Iowa, baok hurt: Ex-Governor Newbold. of Mount Pleasant, hands 6praJned; Lafayette Young, tne orator of the day, slightly bruised. There were about fifty persons on the stand when It collapsed. The acoident had a frightful appearance to the spectators. Vlae-President Stevenson and Governor Drake went down clasped In eaoh other's arms, and It was-several minutes before they coulct be extricated from the struggling mass of people. It was a wonder no one was trampled to death. Ex-Governor Sherman was found lying under the debris, a large plank lying across his neok, but was rescued without serious injury. rnwniTinw nc thf trfasury. Expenditure! Exceeding the Receipts at the Rate or 8100,000,000 a Tear. The official monthly statement of United States Treasury receipts and expenditures shows the receipts for September to have beon $24,584,244 and the expenditures $26,579,585, leaving a deficit for the month of $1,995,291. The receipts for the first quarter of the fiscal year to date were $79,175,550. or at the rate of $816,700,000 per annum. The expenditures for the quarter are stated at ?iu?,ao?,o/?, or at mo rtuo ui 9111,110,110 per year. The deficit for the quarter is $25.194,000. This ratio of receipts to expenditures would, if carried through the year, make the deficit 9100,000,000 at the end of the twelve months ending June 30, 1897. Aa compared with the first quarter of 1895, the receipts are $6,500,000 less now than then and the expenditures $9,000,000 more. The principal items of increase in expenditures are in the oivil establishments, whioh show an increase of $8,000,000, and in interest which has Increased from $9,443,164 to $10,071,003, as compared with the first quarter of 1895. The receipts for the first quarter of 1896 show a decline in customs, as compared with the corresponding quarter ol 1895, of nearly $2,000,000. Internal revenue receipts show a slight increase, and miscellaneous receipts an increase of nearly $2,. 000,000, due to the coinage of the silver Scignorage. RUNAWAY TRAIN WRECK. Eighteen Tramp* Killed in a Maryland Collision. Two Baltimore and Ohio freight trains, ODe a runaway down the Alleghany Mountains at a speed of seventy-five miles an hour, and the other slowly tolling up the grade, collided at Pliilson station, twenty miles east of Cumberland, Md., and ten miles west of 8and Patch. In the collision eighteen men, all said to bo tramps, were killed outright. Ah the engine shot around the cure at Philson the engineer saw the headlight of No. 05 ahead and swung himself off in the darkness. He was hurled down over the mountain side. The east bound train struck the other with an awful crash. Every car on the former was thrown toward the common centre of the collision. The engines were crushed into scrap iron, and many of the cars on the west bound train were destroyed. The debris was piled in a vast heap higher than the telegraph wires. When the debris was digged out the bodies of the dead were found. By 8 a. m. the remains of six men, all dressed like tramps, were recovered. The bodies were In the piles of wreckage which obstructed the tracks. By evening ten additional bodies were picked out. These, with two discovered during tho afternoon, made a total of eighteen dead. ROBBER SHOT DEAD. Young Man Kills a liamlit Who Kalded a Bank. The First Bank of Joseph, Wallowa County. Oregon, wa9 robbed of $2000 by throe men, one of whom is dead and another badly wounded, while the third escaped. At tho time of the hold-up four custom, ers were In tho bank. All were lined up against the wall, and while two of the robbers stood guard the third went into the vault, taking all tho coiu and currency, even to nickels, ami placing them in a sack. Ho then ransacked the private boxes. As the robbers made their exit from the bank Alexander Donnelly, a young man twenty-five years of age, opened fire and killed one robber instantly and wounded another. hitting him twice. The third robber had the suck containing the coin and succeeded in reaching his horse, which was standing near by, and made his escape to the hills. 8100,000 Worth of Alaskan Gold. The steamship City of Topeka arrived ai Seattle, Wash., from Alaska, bringing $100,000 In gold bullion. A Comparative Centui Sogxeited. Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor, in charge of the eleventh census, has submitted his annual report as Census Commissioner, its most Interesting feature being a statement that a committee has been appointed consisting of representatives of the various Governments to take a comparative condus of eyery country some time in the year 1900. ISoth Killed In a Duel. Thomas Newkirk and Henry Ashcraft fought a duel at Mlddlesborough, Ky., with Winchesters. Thoy were both suitors oi Mary Dean. Both m-in were killed. Prominent People. Rev. Dr. William Nast, the father of German-American Methodism, is eighty-nine years old. ' ^o fKa CQnAnrl OAR rnnce usciir jooiuuuwm., 0UU..UV> o^u of the present King of Sweden and Norway, has a 8unday-3Chool for the children of the higher classes. Professor Francis J. Child, of Harvard, who died on September 11, has been a Harvard teacher for nearly flity years, and will ke missed and mourned in Cambridge. Kaiser Wilhelm has designed a silver cup which ho will offer as a prize for a yacht race from Dover to Heligoland next year, after the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of hto grandmother's acoession to l the throne of Great Britain. .. SEWALL'S ACCEPTANCE. Formal Letter From the Democratic Vlce> Presidential Candidate. The letter of acceptance of Arthur Sewall, Democratic nominee for Vice-President ol the United States, was given out from his home in Bath, Me. It is in part as follows' Bath, Me., October 6. The Hon. Stephen H. White, Chairman, and Members of the Notification Committee: Gentlemen?I have the honor to accept in writing, as I have already done verbally, the nomination tendere.l by you on behalf of the Democratic party as its candidate for Vice-President of the United States. And in doing so I am glad, first, to express mysatisfaction that the platform of our party which has comnranded my life long allegiance, is honesMv and fnllv dpftlntorv of all its nriv lieges, and especially of the absorbing financial Issue upon which, as you say, I took my stand "when the hours of triumph seemed remote, and when arrogant money changers throughout the world boasted that the conquest of the American masses was complete." We aro told that the country has prospered under the present monetary standard; that Its wealth has enormously increased. Granted. But In whose hands? In the hands of the tollers, the producers.the farmers, the miners, the fabricators In the factories, tho .creators of the Nation's wealth in peace, its defenderss in war? Have I they the prosperity which was theirs so late as even twenty years aeo? I deny it. They deny it. None affirms it, ^ave those whose interest it is to do so, whose profits would diminish as prosperity returns to those on whose distress they thrive. 1 The free and unlimited coinage of silver is the sole remedy with which to check the wrongs of to-day, to undo the ruin of the l past, and for our inspiration we have the 'justice of our cause and those cherished principles of Jefferson and Jackson, which 'shall be our guide on our return to power. . "Equal and exact justice to all men; absolute acquiescence in decisions ot the majority, the vital principles of republics; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." ! Profoundly sensible of the high honor ol I the nomination you tender, I am truly yours, Abthcb Sewall. BANK RAID ON WHEELS. 'Masked Jlnndlts, Riding Bicycles, Kill iwo iuen ana escape. The Bank of 8herburne,Minn., was robbed and George Thorburn, assistant cashier, and Mr. Oestorn, a traveling oolleotor for the -Walter A. Wood Harvester Company, were shot dead. The robbers escaped through a back window, mounted bioycles and rode out of town. The evidence in the bank indicates that wten they entered it tney covered Thorburi. and Oestern with revolvers. Thorburn kepi a revolver in a drawer besides him and, aa the drawer wa9 found partly open,the theory is that, instead of putting up nis hands, he reached for his weapon. He was then shot, ' the bullet passing through his head. Oestern tried to get out of the bank, and was shot through the head while running toward the door. There was 85000 in the vault. Of this $2000 in Kold was overlooked. The remaining $3000 was taken, but in jumping from the rear window the thief dropped a package containing $2000. BANCROFT CANT ENTER. Our War Vessel May Not Pais the Dardanelles. The Turkish Government has decided not to admit the United States gunboat Bancroft through the Dardanelles. Ab a consequence, the Americans will have no guardship In the Bosporus. It will not be possible, therefore, to provide men to guard the Legation in case ol emergency. Stmilar action has been taken by the Porte respecting the war vessels of Holland and Greece. In a general way tbls is in accordance wltb the Berlin treaty. The treaty does not admit through the straits the vessels of any Nation that is not a party to it. CONNECTICUT TOWN ELECTIONS. Losses for the Democrat* In Many Local Contests. Town elections were held in all the 168 towDs in Connecticut, with the exceptions or Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Ansonia, Derby and Naugatuck. Tne returns show that the Republicans have made large gains over a year Hgo, when it was supposed high water mark had been reached, the Republicans having nearly doubled their number of towns from 1893. Complete returns show that the Republicans have gained at least fifteen towns. Women to the number of 1200 turned out to vote in a school election in Windham, and an extraordinary scene at the polls resulted. CORN POPPED BY THE SUN. Five-Acre Crop liulned, According to an Indiana Narrative. Theodore Roberts planted five acres in pop corn on his farm, four miles from St ^roix, lnd., last spring. A few days ago he noticed that the shucks were abnormally swollen and that the ear seemed to be larger than when it began to ripen, a thing contrary to corn,, as shrinkage is the rule. >f_ T> 4-Ur,*- rnTTAn.AUkfha /\ f 171 r* XkUUClin iUUUU IUIU DtY OU-DX^UkUO \Jl the grain had popped open and was capped with the white pulp, as though It had been In the Are. Some of the corn tastes as sweet as when newly popped, but the greater part of It Is dry and tnsteless. The phenomenon is attributed to the hot weather that prevailed two or thrco weeks ago. The crop Is ruined. Expert Burglars In Nebraska. At Claytonia, Neb., the vault of the Claytouia Depository was broken open and about $1500 was stolen. William Steinmoyer, President of the bank, went to Lincoln, and while he was reporting the robbery to the Lincoln police, Albert P. Anderson arrived to report that the Bank of Shelby, Nebraska, had been robbed of 83100. The safe was blown open with dynamite. The postofflce at Glecmile, Neb., had its safe blown open and 9230, besides stamps, were taken. All the work is that of experts. Enormous Peach Crop. Owing to the enormous crop, poaches in Michigan have been so cheap that in some cases the ^rtfwers found themselves in debt to the commission merchant after the latter had sold a consignment of peaches. Cowa With Tuberculosis. Nearly fifty per cent, of San Francisco's dairy cows will have to be slaughtered to stamp out tuberculosis. Biggest Horse In the World. William Williams, a weauny Daaswr u? Hardin County, Ohio, claims to have the largest horse in the world. It is seven years old, weighs 2800 pounds and is twenty-four hands high. The largest horseshoe made is No. 6, and this animal requires one font times that size. It takes sixty-three feet 0/ material to blanket him. Ripe Stra-wberrle* In Washington. Ripe strawberries are again on the market at Yakima, Wash. They are of the "everbearing" variety. The vines bear and flower the year around until stopped by the frost, and the product is delicious. Out of the Common Ban. Germany has 10,476 po3tofflces. Canada sends eggs to England. Twelve tons of cucumbers were shipped from West Baldwin, Me., in two days recently. H. B. Plant is to build a permanent exposition building for Florida exhibits at Tampo Bay. Newfoundland Is organizing to ceieorace the fourth oenteaary of Cabot's dlscovory of the island, which occurs nest year. Warden Coffin, of the Ohio Stato Prison, is having difficulty in buyina: an eleotrio plant to carry out the eloctrocutiou law. None of the manufacturers will take an order for such a ouroose. ' 7 BRYAN.TO THE THIRD PARTY. He Formally Accepts the Presidential Nomination of the Populists. William J. Bryan gave out at St. Louis, Ho., his letter accepting the Populist nomlnation for the Presidency. It is in part as follows: "Lincoln, Nob. October 8, 189G. ''Hon. William V. Allen. Chairman, and others, members of the Notification Committee of the People's party: "Gentlemen?The nomination of the People's party for the Presidency of the United States had been tendered me in su3h a generous spit it anil upon such honorable term3 that I am able to accept the same without departing from the platform adopted by the National Convention at Chicago. "I fully appreciate the breadth of the pair otism which hns actuated the members of r>.?? -? -~U* tn zirtnanUHnfa x-eupiu S piirijf, \vuu9 lU UlllOl iv UUUOVUUUIV the sediment in favor of bimetallism, having been willing to go outside of party lines and support ns their candidate one already nominated by the Democratio party and also by the silver party." He refers to tiie good done the cause of free silver through the agitation kept up by the People's party and welcomes to nls support tbe members of any organization who favor bimetal lism. In conclusion he sayg: "The American people have proven equal to every emergency wbioh has arisen in the past, and I am confident that in the present emergency there wilf be no antagonism between the various regiments of the one great army which is marching to repel an invasion more dangerous to our welfare than an army with banners. Acknowledging with gratitude your expressions of confidence and good will. I am, very truly yours, W. J. Bbian.' SUICIDE IN A RAILROAD WRECK. Six Others Killed br n Locomotive Exploding In Kansas. An oast bound passenger train on the Santa Fa road was wrecked two miles north of Osage City, Kan., by the explosion of the locomotive. Six persons were killed in the crash, and one of the passengers, William ! Beckler, committed snloide by shooting. The vlotima are William Beokler, Harry Hollister, fireman; William McAdams, a tramp; Engineer 8trump, three tramps, names unknown. The locomotive was completely shattered. The express, baggage and passenger coaches came crashing upon the wrecked engine, and the ooaches that were ahead were piled up in one heap of wreckage. 1 When the orash came the first impression i of nearly all was that the train had been attacked by robbers. William Beokler, who bad been drinking, seemed to lose his reason entirely. He drew a pistol from his 1 nooket and. in the Dresence of a car full of 1 Terrified passengers,'shot himself dead. DELEGATIONS VISIT M'KINLEY. He Reviews a Bicycle Parade and Ao> cepU Several Gilt*. 1 Delegations of Republicans continue to pour In upon Major McKinley at Canton, Ohio. Five States?New York, Pennsyl. < vania. Indiana, Illinois and Ohio?contribute i to thethrongs. ] The feature of Saturday was the parade of t bloyole clubs. James B. Dunn brought down , two train loads of Ohicagoans, and Buffalo, Rochester, Pittsburg. Cleveland and other j Ohio towns swelled the parade to a thousand | wheels, which were reviewed by Major McKinley and addressed oy him. j Among the features of the day were the ( presentations to Major McKinley of a handsomely gold ornamented porcelain bath tub < by Pittsburg friends, and a gold loving cup by the employee of a New York jewelry com- j pany. The Buffalo contingent of wheelmen , brought with them several homing pigeons. Mrs. McKinley released these pigeons with a message of greeting from Major McKinley attached to each. DEFEAT FOR THE SPANIARDS. One Thousand Troops Slain or Wounded ' by the Cnbans. i Advices from Havana, Cuba, state than < Antonio Maceo In a recent attaok on the j trocha indicted terrible losses on the Span- > lards, more than 1000 being killed or woundod. ] The attack was made nt night, and was carefully planned. The lighting was gen- ! ernl along the lino, but wns fiercest near Artemisa, where Antonio Maceo led a picked ' foroe of Insurgents nealnst the Spanish column commanded by General Aralas. It is said many Spanish offloere were killed, and that General Aralas himself was slightly injured. . The insurgents captured six pieces of ar- , tlllery, many thousand cartridges and several hundred stands of arms. A large section of the trocha fortifications was demolished with dynamite. , MEXICO BUYINC OUR CORN. ?_____ Larce Shipment* of tho Grain From Soatlicrn Port* ia the United State*. ' Corals being shipped from Mobile, Ala.. 1 and other Southern ports to Mexico in large ' quantities at present. Two months ngc ! Mex(po removed tho Import duly on corn ? from this country. A corn famine In the two Mexican pro- i vinces upon which Mexico depends for its t supply of grain prompted the action. Since \ thattime l,G00,0t)0 bushels have been shipped t from MobiiH alone to the City of Mexico and to Paobla. The total corn shipmeuts from the United States to Mexico during 1895 aggregated less than 180,000 bushels. SPAIN STOPS EMIGRATION. Slio Doesn't Propose to Have Yoanjr IVfen t Flee From Slllitary Service. I The Spanish Govornment is taking ener- 3 Kotic moa-sures to stop tho emigration oi t lower and middle class families to which be- ' long young men liable to military sorvice. Tho Government has learned that peveral n thousand young men liave gone to South i America, Franco and Algeria because they f wero unable to pay tlio ?400 necessary to i redeem themselves from serving with the c army in Cuba. Eighteen thousand out of 80,000 men bought immunity in 1893, and thorn is evidence that fully as many have purchased exemption thus far this year. t Gold Yield Grtnvlnj; in lirltlsh Guiana. ^ Advices received from British Guiana are 2 to tho effect that the yield of gold in that ^ country i? steadily lnoroasing and mining ? propwrty is rising In value. Shares In the c Uarima mine of the par value ot $5 are now v selling at 815, and a further advance In j value is expected. The greater portion of ^ the gold-producing territory Is within the f domain claimed by Venezuela. a Klg Deficit In Chile. At a meeting of the Finance Committee of Chile, the Minister of Finance announced t: that there would be a deficit of several mill- a ions of dol ors at the end of the present b year. A special committee was appointed n to consider mean9 to raise funds to lace the Ii I crisis. JucmcI'd Creat Fire. A prcat fire destroyed two-thiri!s 01 the town of Jacuiel, Jamaica, on Septom- i ber 19. 20 and 21. No water could be ob- f( tained at any time during tho Are. The loss e is estimated at $5,000,00 '. tl Tho I.abor World, Utah has 0000 miners. Plumbers have 160 unions. Illinois employs 30,000 minors. D Uncle Sam has 70,36.) postofflces. K Six Fall River (Mass.) mills are idle. b Chattanooga, Tenn., has 170 moldors. J Chicago has 3000 elovator conductors. City of Moxico carpenters get 87 a day. Theatrical unionists number nearly 20,000. ,i Portland (Oregon) newsboys run a oo- a operative paper. . v* TAiiwnAumon hatnrs a.re beim? orranlxed I t( throachout Kentucky. . J J 5ECRE i ARY OLNBY AT WORK AGAIN No Progress Expected In th? Veneznela Dlspntc Until the CoutmlMlon lteportt. Secretary Olaev returned to the State De partment Washington, after several months absence, and plunged into diplomatic work. A.lmo9t all important negotiations have been suspended during the summer for various causes, the Turkish complications being th? chief matter tbat required attention from time to time. The Secretary will not leave his post again for the remaining Ave months of the administration, in which time he hopes to close several pending questions, notably that of general arbitration with England. If {a fha> nrt nrrtfTrnHK ifl fintlflf pated in the Venezuelan dispute until after the report of the United States High Commission is made. If only the United 8tates and Great Britain worn concerned in th# matter a compromise conclusion could perhaps be reached, but Venezuela's Ann confidence in the forthcoming decision of the Commission and (he provision of her constitution forbidding the surrender ol any territory, render it altogether unlikely that her rulers could agree to any provisions involving the release of the troublesome so-called "settled districts," which alone are excepted from the arbitration which Great Britain is willing to concedal Mr. Olney is said to be aware that no Von? zuelan Government could stand a moment with the people there after surrendering an inch in advance of tbe announcement by the commission 01 lis decision oh id "a iiuo m visional line." t SUFFERING IN FLORIDA, The Death Llit and I'roperty Losses by the Stortn Increasing. Every report from Florida in regard to th< storm increases the death list and the eeti< mation of the property loss. The oondltloi of the people in the storm district Is appalling, and there is urgent need for aid to prevent starvation. The County Commissioners or Baker County have sent an appeal to the Governor, in which they say "The people are" In destitute olrcamstances, without shelter to cover their heads, without food to appease their hunger, and a great many are withoat a change of olothlng. We would suggest to your Excellency that an earnest call to uninjured counting to come to our aid, or If necessarv. a call for an extra session of the Legislature, would be of great moment. But one gin house stands in the country, every church aud school house is destroyed and the merchants, who are heavy losers, are unable-to contribute to the distressed. Most all of the farmers in the county have lost their ootton crops, just housed and ready for market, and as a consequence are unable to pay the merohants for advances and fertilizers furnished, or even to purohase food: for their suffering one." Advices from remote points tell the same story. POSTOFFICE BALANCE SHEET. More Than *8,000,000 Excess of Expendl* tures Ovrr Receipts. Goorge M. Howard, Auditor for the Portoffice Department, has In preparation his annual report for the flsenl year ended Jnne SO, L896, from which the following condensed statement of the finances of the Postofflce Department for the fiscal year is taken. The total revenue for the past fiscal year i* 882,499,203, au Increase* of 15,616,080 oyer :he previous year. The total expenditures for tho year are 890,626,296, an inorease of 13,838,121 over :he expenditures of the Drevlous year. The excess of expenditures over receipts is 88,127,088. This is a decrease In the annual deficit of 81.679,356, as compared with the prevlou# fear. AMERICAN MISSION PILLAGED. 1 Claim for 92900 Indemnity, Which Minister Terrell Cannot Collect. During the recent massacre at Hasakeoy, rurkey, the American Mission at that plaot ivas pillaged In the absence of the missioniries. The latter havo now handed to tho imerioan Legation at Constantinople a claim [or $2000 indemnity. United States Mtnlster rerrell is doing his best to collect it from the Porte, but donbts his success in doing so. Karatheodori Pacha, formerly Governor of Srete and the Turkish Plenipotentiary at ihfl Berlin Congress of 1878, has been appointed First Translator to the Sultnu, and It is n? lerstood that hereafter he will direot the for 31gU pontics 01 tne I uriuau Ampict), m MAIDS MADE WHISKY, Three Mountain MoonnhUiern Arretted fo^H Running an Illicit Still. I Three little mountain maids were amongH the motley crowd of moonshiners whc^B were brought to the jail at Loulsvllle^B Ey., from various parts ot Kentucky^? These three were Polly Mitchell, Katf^B Murrs and Sallle Fallen, and thoy woreH charged with maintaining an Illicit still^H .vhich. it is said, they had been conducting ong time without the knowledge of any oneJH tod thoy would probably never have beei^H ound out, It a man could only have Kept th^H secret/ IB As It was, Sal He told her beau about ind he had to talk and it wasn't but a ehorHH ime till it reached the ears of the Secret Set^H -'Ice men, and the three girls were arreste<]^H ind the still destroyed. FOURTEEN-OUNCE BABY GIRL. jH >ald to Be the Smallest Piece of Fiet^H Lorn to Human Parent*. A baby girl weighing fourteen ounces h^H >een born to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. P< era, Slkhart County, Indiana. This uidget aid to t>6 the smuliest piece of flesh born t^D luman parents, not excepting the wee bit lumacity born into the Force "amily, Jurlington, N. J. The ohild is but eight inches in lens^^H ,nd is cradled in the smallest doll cab. 9 bright and healthy, cries lustily and bl^Hfl air to live. The Force midget was ni^^fl aches in length when born, and when thr^^H uonths old weighed forty ounces. BH Awful Death of an Aeronaut. HQ Geor?e P. Anderson, an aeronaut tweat^Hf wo years old, at Paola, Ran., met a horritSB ieutb. His ascension was a feature of liami County Fair, and was a pecuIlarHfl taring onw. Attached to his balloon wos^^H annon, When the balloon had reached .Ititude of 5000 feet, he climbed into tj^^H annon with his parachute. The cann/^^M ras fired and ho was thrust out into the a^HH ust as his parachute opened a small rt/^^D iy whioh he was fastened to it broke and nil tr> th? irrrtund. a lifeless mass of ,nd bones, crashed beyond recognition. Contracts Ut for Torpedo Boats. Secretary Herbert has settled the c^^H roversy over the torpede boat contracts^^H warding two torpodo boats of the thli^^H not olass to tho Bath Iron Work*, Uai^^H nd one thirty-knot torpedo boat of irgor olass to the Union Iron Work5, 'raticlsco. MH lllc Indian L'printnc. BBSS Two thousand Indians have lnva<^^H launta. Peru. Thev killed the Mayor, ect. soldiers and many citizens The O^^Bj rnment ha* sent a detachment of troop^HH| be town. Statue to Commodore VunderbllL. HHH| The citizen:", of Nashville, Tenn., are ributlng to a tund to erect a bronze sta^HSj lino feet bi?rlt of the lato Commodore elius Vauderbilt In appreciation of HH enurosity in founding tho university wh^^Bj ears his namu and Is the prldoof every r^HH cut of Nashville. Wliwt nt KIkIi Notch. S^H Tho price of wheat attained tho hfgb^HH oiut '<f tin' year iu New York and Chica^^^P ud the activity of the traders made tht^^^H erv lively. December, which closed at > liS'^ cents, opened at t>S^ cents and^Bfl euts. and in little over on hour It went^BH igh a* 70 ceuts.