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THE BOND DEAL. AN ALLEGEDHISTORYOFTH E.SOl CAROLINA REFUNDING. Some Caarges Xsde Against Senator Till man, Governor Evans and State Treas urer Bates In a New York New-paper. BiLTtn)tP, Jane 3.-Senator Till man of S.uth Cirotina has been very free with his criticis-n of the national administratioa for its manner of con ducting biad optrations, and in the recklessness of his rhetorical frenzy has not hesitated to impute improper m-tives to the President and Secreta ry Carlisle. In vie .v of these facts a little history of ouc of his own bond deals is 'atr-1ntive and interesting. About $3,20.X00 of Sath Cirolina G per cent. b-ads fell due July 1, 1893. Tillman was Governor of the State then. John Gary Evans, the Senator's closest politi^al and personal friend, and said to be slated as his colleague in the Senate, was administration lead er in the Legislature, and Dr. Bates was State Treasurer. Te L3gislature, at its session in 1891, adopted a refanding bill. sug gested by Governor Tillman. This provided for an is;a of $1,0 000 4 percent. bonds to fund the outstand ing 6 per cents., and Treasurer Bates and the G.vernor was appointed Com missioners to manage the matter in behalf of the State. The acts of Mes srs. Tillman, Bats and Evans are out lined in the evidence in a suit devel oped in this city for the division of the commission involved in the transac tion; the brokers and the syndicate which took the bonds having quarrel ed. The action was brought here be cause the funds involved were held by a Baltimore trust company. The evidence shows that one of the first steps taken by the Commissioners was to gi -e a m, n >1 6 y of the entire transaction to a mr. ?tgiad, a broker of Augusta, Ga., whose name does not even appear in the commercial reports. Mr. Rhind testified that early in 1892 be was approached by Mr. Evans,now Governor, and asked to place the South Carolina 4 per cents. He ob tained the exclusive option on the en tire transaction from Governor Till man late in May, the contract being that he was to receive a commission of 5 per cent. on the $5,000,000-a mat ter of $300,000. Mr. Rhind failed to make the trade, however, and in Oc tober surrendered his option. Then Governor Tillman an I Treasurer s Bates took a turn at it. They visited New York and roamed through Wall street. On returning home, they de clared that a 4 per cent. South Caro lina bond would not sell at 95, attrib uting the State's poor credit to the course of Charleston bankers and other political opponents of the State ad ministration. Mr. Rhind again was called in to take the job in November, 1892. He managed to interest a New York broker in it, after having exhausted all his own efforts and influence. And here the curious fact may be noted that Mr. Rhind testified that he at first did not approach this broker on the subject, although making head quarters in his office, regarding him as too small an operator to undertake so big a trade. Yet this broker is rated hign in the reports, while Mr. Rhind, who controlled the option, and was trying tonuse it, is not rated at all. With the assistance of the New York man a syndicate was formed, headed by the late F. 0. French of the Man .-aLTrust Company, which agreed ~to -e $5,250,000 of 4j per cent. South Carolina bonds on a nominal basis of par fiat. This arrangement fell through when Mr. French died. The New York broker then enlisted the aid of a Richmond broker, and the two again went to work, the Legisia ture having met in the meantime 'and started its machinery to pass a new re funding bill, which, it now appears by the evidence of the persons inter ested, was ruggested by the brokers, through Rhind,to Tiliman and Evans. Mr. Evans was not only the adminis tration representative and leader in the Legislature, but he was at the same time the attorney of Rhind, having been engaged in that capacity, accord ing to his own sworn statement, when Rhind was appointed fiscal agent. It .is, therefore, established by undoubted and unchallenged testimony that Governor Tillmnan not only let out thie job of selling the bonds of -his own State exclusively to one man months before the time of sale, but permitted brokers in Wall street and elsewhere to dictate legislation to his Iegislature and allowed a paid attor ney of the purchasing parties to con struct ad steer through the Legisla ture the Act under which the bonds were to be issued. The Act provided for $5,250,000 4i per cent, bonds, to run twenty and forty years. These bonds were to be dated and issued July 1,1893, but they were to begin to bear interest from January 1, 1893. In other words a bonus of six months' interest, or 2e per cent, amounting to $118,000 was offered to whoever would take the bonds and pay dollar for dollar for them. The syndicate organizea by the New York and Richmond brokers agreed to take the bonds at par and to accept three-fourths of one per cent- of the bonus, amounting to $39,000, mak ing the net cost of the bonds to its members about 99k. The remaing 11 per cent. of $78,000, ostensibly went to Mr. Rhind, the man who had been chosen by Mr. Evans, the administra tion leader in the Legislature; the man who had employed Mr. Evans and Major W. T. Gary, Mr. Evan's uncle, as his attorneys, and who had the option on the entire bond issue be fore it had been provided for by the onot appear that Mr. Rhind took any active part in the organiza tion of the syndicate. It is in evi dence that he borrowed $500 from the New York broker, with which to meet his traveling expenses- There is nothing in the testimony to show what services Major Gary, who is a citizen of Georgia, performed, but the sworn statements show that he was paid $1,000. Governor Evans, who was supposed by people in South Car olina to be acting in the interest of the Stae testifies that he came North in Mr hind's behalf, and, after the squabble over the division of the comn mision arose, urged on the members of the syndicate the propriety and .ins tice of allowing Mr. Rhind to receive his share, then tied up in the Balti more Trust Company by litigation. The expense account of the syndicate shows that Governor Evans was paid $100 attorney's fee, and that Treasurer Bates was paid by the syndicate $2, -330.88 for "services" Mr. Rhmnd testified that he had not yet, so far as his part or it was con cerned, paid Governor Evans' fee or learned what it would be, it appears on the record that at least two of the three State officials actively engaged in the negotiation of the bonds were employed and paid by the purchasers. The impression given to the persons most actively engaged in behalf of the syndicate at the time is clearly set forth in the testimony. Certain memi bers of the sydicate expressed curt osity and interest, natural, perhaps, in the circumstances- They inqunired why it was that of $l118,000) bonus of fered by the State to purchasers of the bond, niya $3939 was available for the a ' .a. -pa rchasers who were to fr ish - n;)mey, wiile ,,JNU was to r to M-r. Iiui, who was furnishing ih maner and apparently takio no active part in the dicker. The Rich maud broker told them he understood -presunaby from Mr. Rhind-that the balk of that sum was to "be di vided among parties in South Carolina who had political influence." The New York br ker, who was in close association with Mr. Rhind, and whose opportunities for knowledge were best of all, replied that they "would better not investigate that; that it was to go to people who would better not be known." It reads thit way in ti tei timony as taken. When Mr. Rhind was on the stand, he was not pressed regarding his use of his part of the bonus, and offered no explanation. It is not in evidence in this case, but it is a fact capable of' easy and direct proof, that Mr. Rhind, while holding the option on the bond issue and endeavoring to induce the formation of a syndicate to take it, stated that he would not get more than enough from it to pay for his time and expenses. It is also true that members of the syndicate who were willing to deal directly with the State and take the bonds for a commission of three-fourths of one per cent. were oiicially informed that no proposi tions could be considered unless they were sent through Mr. Rhind-that not even an offer of par net without any commission, although at that very time Mr. Rhind was demanding a 2J per cent. commission. When the time came for division of the bonus of $78,000, the New York man toook $20,000 and the Richmond man $5000, for a pecial services and expenses. Mr. Rbind got $4.500, and Major Gary $1,000. A peculiar and perhaps significant circumstance is that Mr. Rhind took his $48,000 not in one draft on the Baltimore Trust Company, but in three separate drafts, all payable the same day-one for $25,000 one for $9,000, and one for $14,500 To sum up, according to the sworn evidence on record: Mr. Rhind, who has no special prominence or standing in business circles, and who was not a citizen or resident of South Carolina, was ap proached by the present Governor, Evans, then the recognized adminis tration leader in the Legislature. He was given by Governor Tillman and Treasurer Bates an exclusive option to place $6,000,000 4 per cents at a com mission of 5 per cent. fourteen months before the time for the bonds to be is sued. He failed to effect this, and Governor Tillman declared that, after a personal visit to New York, he be came convinced that a4 percent. bond could not be placed. The Governor again gave an exclusive option to Rhind to place at 4 1-2 percent. loan. The syndicate formed to take this fell to pieces. -For the third time Mr. Rhind was given the exclusive option. The men who composed the syndi cate got $39,000, or three-quarters of 1 percent. The men who organized the syndicate got from Rhind $25,000, or less than one-half of 1 per cent. Mr. Rhind realized $19,000, or nearly 1 per cent., on the option given him long in advance of the time for placing the loan. So far as that part of it is con cerned, it appears to have been a free gift from the State of South Carolina to a chosen citizen of Georgia, who employed the present Governor Evans and his uncle as his attorneys. The $2,000 and odd paid Treasurer Bates by the syndicate is said here to have been for services in removing the money sent by the syndicate from Charleston to Columbia. Governor Tillman demanded that the syndicate pay for its bonds in cur rency in Columbia. That was in June, 1893, about the time for the .anic, and it was represented to him that the currency could not be obtain ed, except in silver, which would load six freight-cars. He replied with the declaration that the six cars should be delivered to him at the State line, and that he would order out the troops to escort it to Columbia. "By -," he excsaimed to the banker who was ne gotiating with him, "you can't scare me by threatening to pay in silver." But he was finally pacified and induc ed to accept exchange on Charleston. It is possible that the continued em ployment of Mr. Rhind and there newals of the exclusive option to him were the results of the confidence he inspired in his ability, and that his forty-nine-thousand-dollar commis sion is his exclusively, not to be shkr ed with any body. It is also possible that the duties of Mr. Evans. now Governor, as attorney for Mr. Rhind did not interfere with or affect his ac tions and course in the legislature, and that he could and did separate his pri vate interests and his public duties eg tirely. It is further possible that State Treasurer Bates earned the $2,000 paid him by the syndicate fairly and fully. In the language of Marc An tony, they are "all honorable men." It is not possible, however, for Till. man and his followers, in view of this transaction, with any consistency to continue to accuse the President and Secretary Carlisle of mismanagement, waste, lavoritism, or worse, or to de nounce with horror the idea of attor neys or members of trusts, corpora tions, and syndicates sitting in Con gress.-New York Times. Attacked by Hyenas. .BRIDGEPORT, Conn., June 11.-Dur ing the street parade of the Barnum & Bailey circus, Harlo Northrop, a keeper, was attacked by four hyenas. The struggle between man and beasts lasted while the den was drawn in parade along Main street from State street to Eairfield avenue Thousands of spectators -witnessed the battle. Women screamed and the crowd massed about the den so as to interfere with the circus men, who were endea oring to assist Northrop. One of the hyenas was killed and the other tnree are battered, bruised and lacerated. Northrop is terribly injurad and in a critical condition. The trouble began just below State street, where the pro cession had been stopped for a few mo ments by some trolley cars. The street was jammed with spectators, and some boys began poking at the ani mals. Northron was seated in the center of the hydua den. At each end were two hyenas. The keeper's busi ness is to prevent the beasts from crossing to the opposite ends of the den. The prods from the boys, however, caused one of the hyenas to rush forward. Northrop drove the animal back with his whip. As he struck at it, the two from the other end rushed at him; as he turned to drive them back, the opposite two rushed at him. In a second all four were tearing him. Northrop struck them off as well as he could with his loaded (whip. As the cage passed Wall street the hyenas got Northrop down. Then for the first time he drew his revolver. He shot one beast and then managed to rise. He pre sented a sickening spectacle. His clothes were stripped into shreds. He was covered with blood and one cheek was partly bikten off. One arm was cut to the bone, and his body and legs were scratched and cut in long, rag ged wouinds. The eye of one byena was batte red out andi the heads of the other two wooked like raw meat. The crcus men tiually got Northrop out of the cage. Hie was taken to the hos IS TIES MAN A TRANKY" A REPUBLICAN HISTORIAN ON THE GOLD CONSPIRACY. ,Ichn Clark Ridpath Expre-sty Views on the Financial Question Which are Shared by Many Thousands of Hl Is Party in Indi ana. INDIANAPOLIS, June 1.i-The follow ing letter, written by John Clark Rid path, the historian, was addressed to Fran k A. Homer, State coinmitteeman for the Fifth district, in response to an inquire as to whether Mr. Ridpath would become a candidate for congress in that district: "Frank A. Horner, Chairman D'mo cratic Central Committee for Fifth District: "My Dear Sir: I have your favor of June 3 and will say in answer thereto, and to many other letters of like pur port, that I am not a candidate for representative in Congress or any of fice. or for any nomination. I am deeply concerned in the condition of the country and anxious to the last degree that the people shall, in the ensuing contest, succeed in rescuing the government absolutely from the powers that now control it. Those powers are inimical to popular liberty. They are hostile to those rights which the American people once enjoyed, and which, if they are true to them selves, they will soon enjoy again. I do not wish to shrink from any duty, but I think that I shall be able to do the cause more service in the position which I now hold than if I were a candidate for public office. -To me it seems clear that the American house of representatives is no longer the splendid arena that it once was for the display of statesman ship and patriotism. The manner of its organization has closed tnat arena against all individnal initiative and made it a sense for the display only of party contest and the vociferation of party triumph. It is not true that the house of representatives at the present time stands near to the people and speaks their voice. It is one of the strange facts of our political history that the senate has become the area of the people. There their voice is heard, and their of late their will has been expressed. "I greatly hope that all patriots who desire the recovery of the government from the powers that now control it may get together on the simplest pos sible issue, or issues, in the ensuing political contest. There is just one great question before the American people, and that is whether they will be compelled by the international gold consyiracy, having its bifurcations in London and New York, to transact their business, and in particular to pay their debts with a cornered dollar worth two for one, fraudulently sub stituted for the dollar of the law and the contract, or whether they, the peo ple, will reclaim the right to transact their business and pay their debts ac cording to the terms of the contract and according to justice. "It is said by the emissaries of the gold propaganda that they who advo cate the restoration of our coinage and money to the exact condition which it held prior to the act of 1S73 are dishonest; that they wish to coin 50 cents worth of silver into a dollar and compel creditors to accept that in lieu of an honest dollar. Than this there never was a greater sophism and falsehood. What the people desire and what they intend to nio is to coin a hundred cenits worth of silver, that is, a dollar's worth, that is 371+ grains of silver into a dollar, and by that act to break the corner on gold and re duce the exaggerated purchasing pow er of that metal to its standard. "If any man dare say that 371+ grains of Pure silver are not a dollar's worth let himi be challenged with the question whether that amount of un coined silver will not purchase as much of the average of twenty-five of the great staples of the American market, including real estate and la bor, as the same silver would purchase 20 years ago. Let him answer that truly, or forever afterward hold his peace. As a matter of atct, the un coined silver in the American dollar will buy more of the average of our great staples than the same would buy in 1875. What then? The limited supply of gold in the world has been cornered by those who own it. They are few, very few, and the people are millions. The price of the cornered gold has advanced more and more until it has become worth almost two for one. All the while coined gold has conceal the fallacy that is in it. The gold eagle still proclaims itself ten dollars, al though it has advanced in purchasing power until it is nearly t wenty dollar;. Under the obscure and fraudulent process all productive industries have been crashed to the earth. They who labor in the fields and shops have been virtually ruined. For myself, I stand with the men of the.fleld and the shops -with them and for them. If the present process goes on and the price of gold continues to increase until it is worth five for one the owa ers and controllers of it will, I sup pcse still continue to insist that the gold dollar is the honest dollar. The clai n that gold money is the "sound money" the "honest money" of the world that silver money-real, primary silver money on our old statutory ratio-is dishonest and unsound money is the most false, as it is the most adroit, proposition ever put forth'by interested parties to defraud the people of a great nation. I rejoice that our noble gov ernor, Claude Matthews, has repudiat ed it and taken his stand on the side of truth and justice, with the honest people from -whom he sprang. He is worthy of all praise. I do not desire t'he nomination for congress in this district or any nomi nation for any place, and decline the use of my name in that connection; but I shall be found at my post, assist ing my fellow-citizens as much as may be in their contest for the recovery of a true financial system,the restoration >f their rights and the preservation of their liberties. Jorx CLARK RIorATII. Greencastle, Ind., June ri. Three on the scafrold LONDos, June 9.-Three men, Mil ion, Fowler and Seaman, were hang ad in Newgate prison here at 9 o'clock this morning on one scattold. The ex acution was private and death was in stantaneous.' Milson and Fowler are known as the Mus well Hill murderers. l'hey were convicted of burglariously entering Muswell Lodge, Hetherdown, Muswell Hill, on Feb. 13 last, and :urdering Mr. Henry Smith, the oc :upant. Seaman was a Whitechapel :nurderer. Unless there is a change >f the arrangements, Mrs. Dyer, the baby farmer convicted of murdering 3 number of infants, will be hanged rt the same place tomorrow. i'earfui Explosion. JonssTowN, Pa., June 9.-One hun Ired and eighty cans of dynamite ex ploded about a mile~ below Lilly this afternoon with frightful results. One Slavonian was killed :nstantly, and three Slavoniars, two negroes and :e American were fatally injured. l'he men were at work on the Pensyl ania Railroad and were getting ready to make a blast, when a premnature axlosion followed, blowing up the t80 cans of dynamite and burying the .even men beneath a mass of sand. A Most Horrible Ca 1ie. TwirrN, June 11. -A sad story of man's perfiditv and crimeand a young girl's ruin comes from Sumner, a small town in Worth county between Tifton and Albany. On last Satur day night there was a meeting of the Rosebud society, a literary club, at a residence three miles out from Sum ner. At his invitation Miss Inez Ses sions rode out to this meeting in a buggy with Tom Edwards. The se quel to the trip is that yeterday after noon the sheriff of Worth couty took Edwards to Maco)n and put him be hind the bars there charged with criminal assault. Miss Sessions'state ment is that on the way out her es cart asked her to drink some wine which he had along; that she refused; that on the way back home she was again invited to take wine and finally took only a swallow, and that in a lit tle while she became unconscious and remained so until 9 o'clock the fol lowing day. The couple came in from the woods into Sumner at daylight and when they drove up to Edwards' home Ed wards' father, who is the postmaster at Sumner, met them at the gate. Young Edwards was drunk and the young lady was unconcious. The father helped his son out of the buggy and carried the girl home. Miss bes sions is one of the most beautiful girls in this section and is only 16 years old. Her father is dead and she has no male relatives. Her mother keeps a small merchandise business in the little country town and as a result of her daughter's downfall is almost de stracted with grief. Dr. Bacon, the physician who was called to see the girl, says that she is in a serious con dition. Young Edwards is physically a wreck, having had an operation per formed for agendicitis seven months ago. His version is that the young girl was entirely willing to his advanc es, that they were both intoxicated and that he did not use force with Miss Sessions. His otfer to marry the young girl was turned down by her mother and a warrant as stated is sued and Edwards arrested. Judge Spence will be asked to call a special session of court to try the case and the feeling of sympathy for the unfortu nate girl is outspoken in her section, as well as a feeling of indignation against the young man. A message from Ty-Ty is to the effect that indig nation is so high in the community of Sumner that lynching is freely talked of and every effort will be made to have justice wrought immediately. The sheriff of Worth carried the young man to Bibb because of the intense feeling and the strong probabilities of an -Attempt at mob violence. A Record-Breaking May. State Weather Observer Bauer Wed nesday issued his monthly statement of the weather conditions for May, and it shows that the month just clos ed has broken the record. Here is what Mr. Bauer says in his report: "The month of May, 1836, was the warmest ever recorded in this State, the daily mean temperature having exceeded the normal by 7.7 degrees per day, and on the Sth only did the temperature go below the normal. The number of days on which the temperature rose to 9J or above aveag ed 15 for the whole State, equalling a similar record for June and July in 1895, and two more than during Au gust, 1895. As a corollary of the heat, there was an entire absence of frost. "The rainfall averaged 65 per cent. of the usual amount and fell mostly in lig'ht scattered showers, which were usually followed by bright sunshine and drying winds that quickly evapo rated the moisture from the ground, in consea uence of which drouthy con ditions ~existed quite extensively throughout the state, with exceptions where the showers were more copious. The weather conditions outlined above were not generally favorable for crop development except for cot ton and corn, which made remarkable growth and were in exceptionally promising condition at the end of the month, while spring oats, wheat, po tatoes and gardens were very poor. The weather was also unfavorable on fruit. '-Hail was quite frequent, and t wo tornadoes were reported, of limited extent, but attended by fatalities and considerable injury to crops. '-Temperature-In degrees F.-State mean 76.7 (normal 69.0). Highest mean 73. at Port Royal; lowest, 71.9 at Greenville. Maximum tempera ture, 104 on the 11th at Gillonsville. Minimum, 42 on the 9th at Allendale and Georgetown. State range 52; greatest local range 57 at Gillisonville; least 41 at Pinapolis. "Precipitation-In inches and hun dredths-Average for the State 2.47 (normal 4.:36). Greatest amount 6.07 at Pinopolis; least 0.52 at Charleston. Greatest 24 hourly fall 2.94 on the 21-22 at Pinapolis. Average number of days with 0.1 or more rain S, rang ing from 3 at Georgetown to 11 at Coluimbia a:' States burg." A Prophecy of Evil.I Mr. A. B. Williams, late editor of the Greenville News, has signalized his debut in metropolitan journalism with an article contributed to the New York Tribune, one of the bitterest Re publican papers in the country, in which he attacks the political methods of the South in general and those of South Carolina in particular. He rornounces the "Solid South" a thing of the past never to be restored, unless it be in the form of Republican solid arity. The class relation between the whites have become so strained, he thinks, that it will wipe out the caste or race line that has formerly prevail ed, over all other considerations, to keep the white men together and thus ensure white supremacy. The aris tocracy in his opinion will eventually combine with the negro to escape the dominatiun of the popular white ele ment. The free silver trend of the white masses will atrord the minorit whites the necessary excuse to vote with the Republican party on the sound money issue and thus conjoined with the numerically strong negro population enable them to convert the Southern States to the Repuplican olumn. In commenting on? Mr. Williams' article the Charleston Sun voices the sentiment of nine-tenths of the white people of the State when it ays "the negro of the South will not be a factor in the settlement of this ques tion. It is not in the nature of things that he should rise as a race to a high er plane on such a question than the white masses of the State, as Mr. Williams seems to anticipate. The Enancial problem is one that is clearly beyond the attainments and capacity af the race in so far as they have yet been developed. It miust be confessed that it is too abstruse and intricate for the undoubted mastery of the children >f our older and superior civilization. We think better of all political ele ments of our citizenship than Mr. Williams seems to do. We have not he slightest anticipation that any ap preciable p)ortion of our Conservati're :itizenship will be moved to throw in their fortunes with the Republicans and the colored people. They will eather turn and merge again with the masses of their own race and caste, helping as individuals and brotners to work out the common and inseparable :estiny and piacing implicit fatith and reliance in the eventual welfate of the Saite under such auspices." MURDERED MANY BABES. Mrs. Annie Dyer Hung Wednesday in Newgate Prison London. LONDoN, June 1O.-Mrs. Annie Dyer, the baby farmer, of Reading, who was arrested on April 9. on the charge of murdering mauy infants entrused to her care, was hanged in Newgate pri son at 9 o'clock this morning. Mrs. Dyer was one of the most extraordinary criminals of the age, a wholesale, cold blooded murderess. The police first became suspicious of her and her son in-law, Arthur E. Palmer, earlyin April, when the bodies of a number of children, apparently strangled to death, were recovered from the River Thames, where they had been thrown, weighted down with bricks, etc. An investigation led to the arrest of Mrs. Dyer and Palmer. Letters found in her possession showed that many of the parents with whom she and her accomplice had dealings were aware of the fate intended for the infants. These letters were from persons in all ranks of society. The coroners had long been puzzled at the fact that so many bodies of infants were found in the Thames between Wapping and Battersea, some of them naked and others wrapped in old linen or brown paper, but all of them weighted down in some way or other and all of them evidently strangled to death. The preliminary examination devel oped a most horrifying condition of affairs. It was proved that since Chrismas at least twenty children had been entrusted to Mrs. Dyer's keeping and of this number only four were then living. In addition, prior to Christ mas, many other children that had been placed in the woman's charge were unaccounted for and are admitted to have been murdered. A conserva tive estimate places the number of children killed at forty, but other estimates have it that as many as 100 infant:; were either strangled cr drowned by Mrs. Dyer. Mrs. Dyer and her son-in-law lived in Reading, where they had a great reputation for piety. Over the door of her home was a figure of Jesus Christ, beneath which was the inscription: "Surer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of heaven." Mrs. Dyer had been arrested on four previous occasions, but somehow she not only managed to escape punish ment but succeeded in maintaining her reputation for piety. But, in court, the woman's nerve entirely deserted her. She had a dejected, terrified look and apparently was in despiar and saw the gallows ahead. The baby farmer was a gaunt, yet fairly good-looking woman of about 50 years of age and she seems to have derived quite a good income from her crimes. Three chil dren were found at Mrs. Dyer's resi dence, when she was arrested. They were a boy, seven year of age, a girl of eight years and a boy three months old. There is little doubt that they would have gone the way of the other charges of the baby farmer had the lat ter not been arrested. Some idea of the extent of the busi ness done by Mrs. Dyer may be gath ered fr:>m the statement that baby clothes weighing nearly 300 pounds were found at her house vrhen the po lice made the first search. A box con taining the decomposed body of an in fant was also discovered in the wo :.nan's adwelling, evidently having been placed there while she awaited an oppotunity to throw it into the Thames. Late in April Mrs. Dyer made a written confession, admitting the murders of which she was accused. It was proposed to introduce the plea of insanity in her defense. She was examined later by a physician em ployed by the Home Office and was declared to be sane. On May 21, Mrs. Dyer was indicted for murder and on the following day s-he was sentenced to death. In prison Mrs. Dyer made several attempts to commit suicide. As Read ing she tried to strangle herself with her shoe laces; some time later she tried to force a handkerchief down her throat and upon another occasion she attempted to cut her wrist against a piece ot iron. The baby farmer's last attempt at suicide was on May 26, in Newgate prison, when, while lying in bed, apparently asleep, she t wisted a handkerchief around her throat and almost succeeded in strangling herself. A Wail street Tip. The men who have made millions out of the people of the United States through the bond deals which Presi dent Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle have sanctioned, are marshalling their forc es for a new and bigger deal than ev er. Here is a circular that is being sent out to every bond and stock broker in the country, and perhaps to many ini other countries: Unied States Bond Brokerage, 279 Seventh Street, New York, June, 1S9t. Dear Sir: It is with a peculiar kind of self satisfaction that I am writing to y ou this letter. For ever since the time that I wrote to you the last let ter, you have had ample opportunity to become convinced that what I state, propose or predict is not mere theory but is founded on absolute facts and positive information. What I now wish to bring to your notice is that there will soon be an is sue of Uuited States Government bonds. The amount of the bonds in this next issue will be five hundred million dollars. As you well know, the silver ques Lion is coming rapidly to the front, and large withdrawals of gold from the treasury are being made every :lay, therefore, acc:>rding to my cal :ulations; this issue will be very soo~n mnd the last one for a long time to :3ne. Hence the greater need of vig ilance. protection and taking advan tage of the opportunity. Should you let this opportunity pass by, without :loing anything, then you can blame only yourself, for this notice clearly lescribe~s the situation, and deserves at east an investigation. For the purpose of buying this en ire issue of bonds for mutual protec ion, and for excluding all other pur ~hasers, the parties wvho were during he last issue direct opponents, have ~ormed a syndicate. The reason for he existence of this syndicate must be vident to you, because every person xho participated in the last issue made normous profits. This syndicate to "smash" and in ther ways to hinder its success, I have >rgania:ed a rival syndicate with the ntention of buying up a large part or erhaps the whole of the next issue of he bonds. In th is syndicate that you should in erest yourself is the object of this let er to propose. Yours respectrully, HENRY J3ARNA. P. S. Subscription list is already >pened. Plans and calculations are al readly. and aetails will be furnish d on application. ___ IN a recent speech, at Des Moines. ov. Boise said he expressed con fi ience that if Democrany would make inaace the overshadowing issue this rear and a brief platform unequivo tally demanding free silver e >inage it vould carry all the south and west .md ITlnois Indiana and Michigan S9UT OUT OF 1 HE HOTELS. Cleveland Delegates Given the Cold Shoul der at St. Louis. ST. Louis, June 10.-The St. James Hotel today openly refused to enter tain negro delegates and- cancelled a $ 6,000 contract it had made for feed ing and housing delegates. Three weeks ago the officers of the Tippecanoe Club, under the direction of M. A. Hanna, made a contract with Thomas P. Miller, the propiietor of the St. James Hotel, to take care of a certain nnmber of delegates for live days during the convention. The club otlicers then wrote to certain Southern delegations that rooms had been engaged for them at the St. James. When Mr. Miller learned that the club intended to fill the rooms with negroes he objected. "If I permit you to bring negroes here," he said, "all my help, will leave. It will put me in a most em barrasing predicament." Upon the arrival of Mr. Hanna from Cleveland today he was told of what had occurred. "I am sorry for Mr. Miller," said Mr. Hanna to his agent, "but he signed a contract and unless he lives up to it he will find himself involved in a most unpleasant legal compl cation." When the hotel man was notified of this, he made the folcwing written reply: "ST. Louis, June 10, 18963. "Mr. J. C. Dorn, Agent Tippecanoe Club: "DEAR SIR: [ cannot entertain the colored delegates in our main dining room or under the contract with your club. Yours truly, "THoMAs P. MILLER" As all the leading hotels are crowd ed, the Tippecanoe Club is in a quar. dary as to what it will do with the colored delegates whom it promised to care for. Mr. Hanna said he felt very sorry for the Business Men's Leag1:e which promised the national commit tee there would be no color line drawn. "The league has done everything in its power to prevent this trouble," he added, "and I do not consider it in any way to blame." Mr. Hanna's emisaries also rented th.e big expoli tion building for use during the con vention. It was suggested that cots be placed in it for the use of the col ored men, but when the manage ment of the building learned of this, it told the club that negroes could not be quartered there. It was finally agreed, however, that the colored dele gates. might be fed there. Tony Faust, who holds the lease of the kitchen at the exposition, said he could not furn ish either food or cooks to do the work. An officer of the club said to night that cooks would be imported from Cleveland. Many of the colored men have of their own accord, gone to the homes of colored people living here and obtained board and lodging. Some of them, however, refuse to do this. Dr. John Gant of Sherman, Texas, who leads the contesting Mc Kinley delegation from the Lone Star State, is angry over the service which he is assured Proprietor Griswold of the Laclede Hotel expects to give the colored members of his delegation. Gant has a contract with Griswold for quarters at the Laclede for his peo ple, black and white alike, and this end of it the hotel man is going to keep, but black delegates will not be allowed to eat in the dining hall. ~Meals will be served in their rooms and there will be no lack of attention to them. This is what makes Dr. Gant angry. ON TO RICHMOND! Gen. Gordon Calls on all the Old soldiers to Rally Once More. Gen. J. B. Gordon, commanding the United Confederate Veterans has issued a circular letter calling on all veterans to be present at th'e reunion of the U. 0. V., a t Richmond on June 30, July 1st and 2nd and urging all old soldiers to form into local associa tions and apply for papers to organize in time to participate in the great re union. The letter continues "Business of the greatest importance will demand careful consideration du ring the Sixth Annual Reunion such as the best methods of securing impartial history, and to enlist eacil State in the complication and preser vation of the history of her citizen soldiery; the benevolent care through State aid or otherwise of disabled, des titute, or aged veterans and the wid ows and orphans of our fallen broth ers-in arms; the care of the graves of our known and unknown dead buried at Gettysburg, Fort Warren, Camps Morton, Chase, Douglass, Oakland emetery, at Chicago, Johnson's Is land, Cairo and at all other points; to see that they are annually decorated, the headstones preserved and protect ed, and complete lists of names of our ead heroes with the location of their last resting places furnished to their friends and relatives through the me dium of our camps, thus rescuing their names from oblivion and hand ing them down in history; to partic pate id laying the cornerstone of the Jefferson Davis monument at Rich mond, Va.; the consideration of the itierent movements, plans and means1 o complete the monument to the memory of Jafferson Davis. President f the Confederate States of America, and to aid in building monurnents to ther great leaders, soldiers and sail rs of the South; and as there is no r ief or aid for our veterans and their families, outside of our selves and our( own resources, to perfect a plan for a utual aid and benevolent asssocia ion; to make such changes in the con- I titution and by laws as experience ay suggest, and other matters of eneral interest. Total number of camps now admit ed 833, with applications in for near y one hundred more. The follo wino. s the list of camps by states: Texes 213, Alabama S7, South Car lina 71, Missouri 69, Mississippi 60, eorgia 54, Louisiana 51. Arkansas 50, entucky 37, Florida 30, Tennessee 9, Virginia 27, North Carolina 21, ndiana 1, California 1, District of Co- I umbia 1." It will be seen that South Carolina as the third largest number of camps I and an etfort should be made to place er still higher in the list. Murdered in Bed, AUGUTn, June 11.-A special to the h onicle from Harlem, Ga., says A. . Verdery and George Edmunds 0f1 olumbia county, living six milest from Harlem were brutally murdered e ast night at the home 'of Edmunds. s hey were both attacked while asleep y n bed. Murderer used a large stick, r hich was founid in the room. They a ere both horribly beaten in the face. o clue has as yet been obtained con-s erning the identity of the guilty par- f y, and the crime is wrapped in mys- 1 erv. Parties are looking for the mur-r erer, and if found he will undoubted y be lynched. A slaughter of Germans. e LoNDO J une 9.-The Daily News ill publish a dispatch from Athens t aying that instead of only a few I rench, British and German engineers - eing massacred by Kurds on the line f the railway from Smyrna to Kassa- f< a, as reported on Sunda; last, the s umber of victims is estimated at 200. Itl he consuls at Smyrna have gone to I. Silver's Coming Triumph. Under the above caption the Chica go Record says the silver men of that section regard the .silver victory in Oregon as a sure indication that the next President of the United States will be elected on a free silver, 16 to 1, platform. For several weeks they have been talking of a free silver cy clone which was to sweep the country. These men take it for granted that the National Democratic convention will not only adopt an out-and-out free silver plank. but will nominate men for President and Vice President who will be acceptable to the free sil ver men. If the Democrats do this the silver convention, which meets in St. Louis, July 22, will be turned into a national free silver ratification meet ing. This, The Record says, is the tali at the headquarters of the free silverites in Chicago, and they all agree that the following table of elec toral votes is a very conservative esti mate. Free E'lver. Democrats, Iep'b- D'b't States. Popullstr. lican. ful. Alabama ............. 11 ..- . Arkansas............... s ... California............. 9 ... ... Coiorado................ 4 ... Connecticut............ ... d ... Delaware............ :. - Florida................. 4 ... --- Georgia.................. 13 ... Idaho.................... 3 ... Illinois................... ... 21 Inc iana.................... ... 15 Iowa....................... ... 13 Ka sa,...............10 ... .. Kentucky............... 13 ... .. Louisiana.............. 8 ... ... Maine............... G ... Maryland ............... ... 8 ... N aassachusetts ..... ... 15 Michigan.........-...... ... ... 14 Mi nesota ................ ... 9 Mississippi............ 9 -- - M issouri........ 17 -. - M ontana................ ... .. Nebraska............... s ... .. N evada.................. ... .. New Hampshire....... 4 --- New Jersey.............. 1 --- New York................ : . North Carolina...... It ... . North Dakota........ 3 ... ... Ohio....................... 23 ... Oregon................. 4 --- .. Pennsylvania ............ 32 --- bhode Island......... ... 4 --- South Carolina....... 9 --- --- South Dakota......... 4 .-- ... Tennessee ............. 12 Texas.......... 15 .. --- Utah..................... 3 --- . Vermont................... 4 Virginia ............. 12 --- -- Washington ......... 4 -.- - West Virginia ....... 6 . Wisconsin........... ... . 12 Wyo .ing........ 3 ... ... Totals................ 209 151 87 Necessary to elect, ::24. I n the above table Illinois, Indiana and Iowa are put in the list of doubt ful States, and it is almost certain that Illinois and Indiana will go for free silver, with a strong probability of of Iowa doing the same. According to the table the silver men lack- only fifteen voters which we are almost cer tain to get from some of the States classed as doubtful. On this point the Columbia State comments as fol lows: "The estimate of Chicago sil ver men as to the electoral vote ap pears conservative enough. The only States set down for silver which we have any doubt about are Kentucky and West Virginia. The problem in each of these States is how many gold Democrats will vote tbe Republican ticket and how many silver Republi cans will vote the Democratic ticket. The Democrats had 40,000 plurality in entucky in 1892, and there were 23, 000 Populist votes; in 1895 the Re publicans had 8,000 plurality, and the Populists 16,000 votes. Kentucky is, however, decidedly safer than West Virginia, where the Republicans had 13,000 majority in the last congres sional elections. These 19 votes would be more than offset, however, by the 24 of Illinois, which we regard as more certain for the Democracy than either Kentucky or West V irginia; and Indiana, which is a sure thing, will give the necessary majority to elect. The chances are good in Michi an and Minnesota, and we dont con ede Ohio by a good deal. -Times and Democrat. Destroyed by a Cyclone. MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 9.-The retty little town of Weyeth City in Iarshall county on the Tennessee 'iver and some 30 miles west of Gads en, with a population of some 300 ouls, -was completely wrecked at 11 clock this morning by a cyclone. arly in the morning a dark and hreatning cloud came up in the outheast with considerable wind, and 11i of a sudden the wind made a swoop rnd struck the to wn, almost complete y demolishing it. . Eighteen d welling iouse swere destroyed, live being s wept ~opletey away and not a stick of he timber left. Tne cyclone lasted ully five minutes and then p assed in northeasterly direction. ?'rees as arge as a man's waist were taken own like weeds. After the storm assed the work of rescuing was com nenced. At this writing it is known bat 15 are wounded ana six of them 'atally. Mrs. Ricketts and a man amedi Bundy were badly hurt and vill d ie. Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Brown and everal children will probably die. A .0-year old boy was found half a mile ~way in a dying co'nditioni. Others re bay wounded. The path of the yclone was about 100 yards wide and total devastation marks its path. ad the storm struck an hour later ally 50 people would have been killed r wounded,at that time the operators tf the basket factory would have been .t dinner. Fortunately both factories scapd. The scene of the storm is a esolate one now. The work of res ue goes bravely on and every few iours. a fresh victim is found. The loud had tihe regular funnel shape ,nd when it struck the town there "as a loud report as of cannon and on the air was full of flying timber, rees houses, animals, etc. Several ersons are missing and it is possible bat taey will be found dead. A meet og of citizens held at Gunitersville aised several hundred dollars for uferes. Fully 100 people are acting s a relief corps. Big Fire in roronto. TORONTO, June 8.-A conflagration rhi at one time threatened to eclipse ny former experience of Toronto in iat line, broke out in McKundry & ompany's department store on Young treet at 7 o'clozk this evening. By rompt work on the part of the fire en. the fire was confined to McKun ry & Co's., store. The stock of Ea >n company and Guinane Bros., shoe tore, suffered considerable damage com water and smoke. The total >ss on the building and stock is esti 2ated at i20)0,000; insurance $150,000. Mss Helen Gould has once more ome to the front as a dispenser of iuni~cent charity. She has sent to re surferers from the storm at St. .uis the splendid gift of $100,000. lrelv she has devoted to charitable york a considerable portion of the rtunie left her b.y her father, and it ems to be her purpose to continue J 1e g:od work whenever occasion of ers. Wealthi in such hands is a ben action to the human race. Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength -Latest United States Government Food Report. RoYAL BAKING POWDER Co., New York City. A DESPOTS WILL Napoleon's Stubbornness Caused the Death of Two Hundre-] Frenchmen. It is only a'few years since many English sailors were drowned because an admiral gave a wrong order. and another office*, who knew the order to be wrong, obeyed it. Admiral Bruix, of the French navy, was once in the English officer's position, and took a contrary course, although his orders came from no less a personage than Napoleon I. Both cases, it should be noted, occurred not in battle, but on parade. At such a time, surely, a sub ordinate must be justified in saving the lives of his men, even at the cost of technical disobedience. While Napoleon was at Boulogne. in 1S04, he went out to ride one morning, leaving word that on his return he would review the fleet. During his absence, therefore, a message was sent to Admiral Bruix, that he might order the ship to weigh anchor and put out to sea. To the astonishment of the messenger, the admiral replied that he was very sorry, but the state of the weather would not permit the review to take place. In due time the emperor returned, and inquired if everything was ready. The admiral's response was communi cated to him. At first he seemed not to understand, but on its being re peated he stamped his foot and ordered the admiral summoned into his pres ence. The admiral came at once, but even so he was not quick enough for the em peror, who met him half way. The emperor's staff followed, and stood ranged in silence about him. "Sir Admiral," said Napoleon, in an angry voice, "why have you not obeyed my orders?" "Sire," answered the admiral, with respectful firmness, "a fearful tempest is preparing. Your majesty can see it as well as I. You cannot wish to ex pose uselessly the lives of so many brave men." Constant, the first y et tie chambre of the emperor, and one of his firmest apologists, is constrained to admit, in relating the story, that the aspect of the sky at that very moment -fully justified the fears of the admiral; but Napoleon was too much irritated to listen to reason. "Sir," he said, "I have given orders. Once more, why have you not executed them? Obey!" "Sire, I shall not obey." At that word the emperor advanced, riding whip in hand, as if to strike. The admiral recoiled a steppd lai~ his hand upon his sword.~ "Sire," he said, turning .jale, "take care!" The two men faced each other; then the emperor dropped his whip, and the admiral withdreir his grasp from the handle of his sword. "Rear Admiral Magon," said Na poleon, "you will execute instantly the order I have issued. As for you, sir." turning to Admiral Bruix, "you will leave .Boulogne within twenty four hours and .retire into Holland. Go!" The rear admiral did as the emperor had bidden. The temnest broke as the admiral had predicted, and more than two hundred Frenchmen were drowned before the emperor's eyes. Youth's Companion. WIG RIOTS. Troubles Among the Hairdressers of Olden Times. A long chapter might be written on hairdressers, their rights and wrongs and revolutions; but they have always been stanch tories in their hatred of. wigs. England had her wig riot in the reign of George 11.; 3Milan had hers in the reign of M1aria Theresa. It arose from an audacious attempt by some restless innovator to cover every fashionable head in M1ilan with a wig of steel or silver wire, warranted to save some three hours' daily toil and endurance in the dressing of the hair. Up rose the hairdressers like one man. ad petitioned the empress to save them from the threatened ruin of their rt. The empress listened to their prayer, ad straightway decreed tiat anyond" wearing one of thsse-new-fangledl periwigs must pfy a fine of fifty sequins or -J6 thrice scourged in public. She further eni~owered th. police to search private houses for the offending article, and to destroy it if round. To this imperial legislation Loldoni alludes in the doggerel lines: In that great day It came to pas4 That a gentle countess was forced, alas! For her hairdresser's sake to forego her mass. He kept her too long at her toilet. Ten years later another satirist pub ished an "Account of a Prodigious omet Lately Seen at M1ilan," the ~omet being a transcendent specimen >f the hairdresser's art, erected on the 'ead of a certain noble dame.-3Mac nillan's M1agazine. Stub Ends of Thought What man has done, woman thinks she can do. If the men didn't oppose the women n their efforts to gain their rights the omen wouldn't think they had any -ights to gain. It is harder work holding back when ye starts going down the hill than it s to get up when one starts goin.g up. A pretty woman is the prettiest :hing on earth-to the eye. A wife may easily love herself mough to make her husband unhappy. The more a bachelor thinks of matri nony the less of it he does A pair of soft brown eyes in a man's seart makes him blind all over. 31elody is the soul of music, while armny is its mind. Love is the great inexplicable, and narriage sometimes makes it more so. Faith in men and things is one of ankind's slipperiest possessions. Jetroit Free P'ress. One ltequired the Other. Thamma-Willie,. where are those ap *,.'tlat, were ini the~ st').rrovni?