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Y, >Uukkiff MnN N .. \ NS)Y OT Ei 3 67 o 2 BARD FATE OF A CONVICT. FOR TWENTY LONG YEARS HE WAR UNDER GROUND. Strange and Awfal Stcry of a Man Who Was Sent to the Mines When He Was Only Elevcn Tcars cf .ge. Ryder Hillard is the Rip Van Win kle of Atlanta. j,t at present, says the Journal. After spending twenty two years of his life in prison, eighteen of wiich was spent under ground, he has come forth into the sunlight, a middle aced man with everything to learn over again. His is a strange, wierd story. of ycuthful crime and painful penalty. In the year 1573 he and three other boys were caught in the act of setting fire to a store building and arrested by the police. Hillard 'as a boy, of 9 years then, and his ccmpanions were all under 15. The plot had been form ed for the older boys to fire the build ing while Hillard was to assist in watching an alley. They paid him a few cents to keep guard, but he was not sharp enough to elude the vigi lance of the police. They stole a march on him, captured him before he could give the alarm, and the other three were caught red handed in the act of incendiarism. The boys were all bound over to su perior court and sent to j dl. The trials were put off from time to time so that it was two years before they were carried before ccurt. On trial they were all convicted and on ac ccunt of their extreme youth were sent up for life. Hillard was then a boy of 11 3 ears of age, small for his age and as black as the ace of spades. He had been all his life a street waif and there was nobody to take any particular interest in his welfare. He was sent to Bade coal mines alone with other prisoners, and on account. of his diminutive size, he was not put to work in the mines, but was given jcbs about the superintendent's house for two years. He did all sorts of chores, looked after his master's horse and made himself quite useful. But all that didn't save him from the in exorable enforcement of the law. When 13 years of age he was sent down into the mines with his pick and shove' and set to work with the other life convicts. According to his statement he never saw tbe sunlight for 18 long weary years. He was as much lost to sigt as if he had been encased in a coffin and buried instead of clad in the stripes and confirmed in the bowels of the earth. At first the boy had a hard time of it. Being so small the big, rough miners, all under life sentences for various horri ble crimes, treated him very badly. But he kept up a cheerful heart,- and bore all their tyranny in such an un complaining manner that they became attached to "the kid" as he became known. Ryder says that twelve tons is the regular task of a miner, and if he is physically able to dig that much he must do so or a whipping awaits him at the end of the long gloomy day. If he gets any more than the task he is promised pay at the rate of $1 a ton extra for it. Ryder says he strove hard to make his task, and after he reached the point where he could get out the regular task, he tried to make something extra, as he had not lost the desire for earning money. At last one day he managed to take out 13 tons, and was paid $1 extra. But that was the last time he received any extra compensation. He found that it was the rule that when a convict took out more than the regulation task, his task was raised to that limit without extra compensation, and as he had taken out 13 tons he was re quired to take out 13 after that as long as he remain in the mines. Ryder says, in his broken lingo, that the miners were forced to get up and get their breakfast at 4 o'clock, and then, since the mine has been extend ed so far they were made to mar ch 12 or 13 miles along the tunnels and ram ifications of the mines, and by 5:30 or 6 o'clock they were hard at work, and kept at it until 7 o'clock in the morn ing. Morning and evening were only relative terms to them, for it was al ways dark, save where the fitful glare of the lanterns glimmered dimly alorng those vast subterranean passages. They only knew that night had come by the order to knock off, and they were only advised that another sun was about to rise upon the bright world outside by the rough command to rise from their couches and get their breakfast. He says that sometimes in his dreams at first, he would fancy that he was again playing about the streets and alleys of Atlanta, but when he would awake and feel the shackles anid open his eyes in the dark cavern, he would lie there and cry un til it seemed sometimes as if his heart would break. But gradually his impressions of lifs in the open~ air became blurred and indistinct, and he lost all count of time. There was no winter nor sum mer there, and it was about as hot one time of the year, and about as cold at one season, as it was at another. Fi nally he gre w to be a stout,heavy built young fellow, and could take out his share of coal with as much a . e as any of the others. One oy one his three companions died and passed out of the circumscribed sphere of their existence, and at last he felt himself all alone in tnat dark dungeon. Sx ne times, he says, there would be a cave in. if the obstruction was not too bad the bosses would set the other convicts at work resurrecting the bodies of their dead comrades. If the cave-in was a bad one he says that they would sometimes leave the bodies where they lay entombed in these murky recesses. Hilliiard was such a faithful worker and gave such little trouble that -inal ly he was recommanded to Governor Atkinson as a fit subject for executive clemency, and his pardon was signed and forwarded to the superintendent. Hilliard says that his old comrades wept as they bade him good-bye. He had been virtually brought up among them, and they had grown very fond of him in their cheerless and monoto nous existence there. At first he could not real ze 'what had happened. Then it dawned on him that he was free. His shackles were removed and he could hardly wait to change his stipes for a new suit, for fear that it should turn out to be but a dream after all. At last he was cleaned up and dressed in a plain suit of clothes and carried outside. His sensation cannot be imagined by one who has lived all his life in the light of day. The sunlight was so trying on his eyes, long accustomed to darkness, that he could not see and the glare cansed hMm great pain. It ws nece sary to procure him a nair of dark glasses, and even with these he could not go abroad in the August sun, for it was during the latter part of August that he was released. He was given transportation to Atlanta, but he had long forgotten all the usages of out door life, and he was as ignorant as a child of how to conduct himself. Ar rivet in the city he asked a policeman the way to Decaturstreet, for that was about the locality he could remember. But when he reached that street he was unable to recognize any of the landmarks. Everything was so changed that he was at a loss. Finally he was accosted by a woman who became interested in him, and to her he told his story. She took him home with her to her cabin cn Butler street, and kent him for a day or two. But he had grown sick at heart. He had not a relative nor friend in the whole wide world, and he did not know how lo do anything. At last he made an Effort to get back to the mines, but was told that he would not be received there as they only worked convicts. His new friend interested herself in him, and finally he secured work in a coal yard and is now em ployed there in loading wagons and trucks, his instincts directing him to the kind of vocation that came near est to the employment in which he had been engaged for 22 years. He was compelled to learn how to talk ordinary street language again, as his dialect was unintelligible when he first left the mines. He still has trou ble with his eyes on bright da3 s, and his vision is very dim in the middle of the day, but he is hard at work, quiet and obedient, and his long schooling in the mines has humbled him until there is not a better hand in the yards where he is employed. COTTON MARKET COMBINATION. Some Words of Wisdom from the state Abont Them. Complaints come from many to ins and cities of the State that combina tions exist in their cotton markets by which the price of the staple is de pressed, to the injury at once of the farmers and the merchants. The lat ter feel as strongly on the suj-.ct as the former, for when the raisers of cotton find that they cannot get full prices in such a town they take their cotton, whenever possible, to another where the bidding is free-and thus their trade is lost to the community where the offense is given. It is to the interest of everybody ex cept the mills and the cotton buyers that full prices shall be secured. The higher the price in any market the more money there is to spend in pur chases of goods, and the more cotton is attracted to it; and of course the larger the sales of cotton the larger still the aggregate of purchases. So the farmers and merchants are to gether in this matter, and it is natu ral that the latter should resent any combination which may contract their market for selling and buying. That is the reason the merchants of New berry have resolved to put a cotton buyer of their ovn in the field, to en sure the farmers against imposition and themselves against loss of trade. It would pay them indeee,.4e b4 ton at the price for which they could sell it, for their profits would accrue on the increased sales of goods. We do not positively know whether, the price of cotton in Columbia is as high as it ought to be, and therefore we make no charges. But we do kno 6 that the receipts have not increased as; they should have done in consequence of the establishment of three cotton mills, with their extra demand, and we are sure they would have increas ed very largely if the scale of prices had increased in consfiaence of the expe::ted mill comnpetion. We are in formed that cotton is being shipped by the thousand bales to Wilmington from a point in this caunty only a few miles from Columbia. Therefore we advise our merchints: to look into this matter and find out for themselves if anything is wrong ina the cotton market here; and if they do find that there is not full competi tion we suggest the Newberry plan for their consideration. The prosperity of the cotton mills of Columbia is dear to Tne State; it has had a good deal to do with their establishment. But they can afford to pay as good prices for cotton as any mills in the South. So with the cot ton bayers unconnected with the local mills. We wish them profit in their business. Nevertheless, it is to the in terest of this community generally that cotton shall sell here at the top of the market and that the receipts shall be increased. Let the merchants examine into the methods and prices of our cotton mar ket.-State. Declines to be Fooled. In response to a telegram from the Journal of Atlanta as to the attitude of the Cuban janta towards the ne w Spanish cabinet, Thomas Estrada Pal ma, head of the Cuban revolutionary bureau, telegraphs that paper as fol lows: Inasmuch as the Cubans are now more than ever firmly resolved to accept nothing short of absolute in dependence, the offer of the new Spanish ministry to grant autonomy an have no effect in terminating tne war. We are satisfied that the hoaur of our complete freedomn is a t hand, and this offer only confirms us in the belief that Spain knows that she has lost Cuba. We care not whether there is a liberal or a conservative ministry. We cid not listen to Canovas when he offered autonomy ; we will not lis ten to Sagasta. We have constituted ourselves a nation, and will be ac knowledged as such by Spain, wheth er under a liberal er a conservative ministry, or under a Republican or Carlist regime, before we lay down our arms. We are confident of speedy success. We are fuily prepared for the most aggressive campaign of the war. Spain played her best cards first and lost. What CJampos and Weyler, with more than forty generals and over 200,000 men, failed to do, no other general can acco-nplish. I reilect the unanimous opinion of all our generals and our government when ? say that the only solution is our independence. (Signed.) Thomas Estrada Palma. Afraid of Reaction. The New York Pcst, the staunchest of Republican journals, warns the Hanna brawlers who are working the prosperity boom so tremendously just now, of tne dangers taat the boonmer ang argument may produce next year upon the congressional elections, when with good crops abroad, the price of wheat declines, wooi does not rise as5 it should, and there are strikes and men everywhei-e out+ ne mployent THE PRICE OF COTTON. MR A. B. SHEPPERSON SUBMITS AN EXPLAN ATION Why the Great Stapie Does Not Keep Cc m pany with the Sharp Advance in Whea*, Corr. Frcvisions and Other Commo dities. Mr. Alfred B. Shrpperson writes as follows, concerning the prices of cot ton, in the Textile American - In view of the fact that the supply of cotton in the markets and mills of the world has for several months been smaller than for several years, many persons have been surprised that the great staple has not kept company with the sharp advance which has cc curred in wheat, corn, provisions, etc., or responded to the better feeling and moderate advance in this country in cotton goods. Not only has cotton failed to advance, but since the first week in September it has actually de clined, in New York 1j cents a pound. The situation admits of ready expla nation. From July 1 to September 1, middling cotton has been selling at about S cents in New York, rarely fall ing more than 18 of a cent below this price, and going several times 1 4 to 5 16 cents above it. In the meantime cotton goods were generally extremely dull and the prices about as low as ever recorded. Print cloths sold for weeks at 2 7 163. per yard, with cotton at Sc. per pound, and they sold at the same price and not any lower in March, 1895. when middling cotton sold in New York for 5 9 16 cents per pound, being the lowest price for near ly fifty years. Between July 1 and September 1, and for some time pre vious, the price of cotton was conid erably above the parity of yarns and goods. Those mills which were under contract for goods or yarns and un provided with the cotton from which to manufacture them were compelled to buy cotton at the relatively high prices, but they did not buy beyond; actual requirements. Many of our mills ran on short time and some of them actually suspended operations because they cound not be kept run ning at a profit. The cotton crop of 1895 96 was a small one, being only about 7.150,000 bales, and the crcp of 1896 97 was only a moderate one and hence without large consumption any where, the stocks of cotton in the markets and mills had become by July 1 comparatively snail, and it was evi dent that the supplies would grow smaller each week until our new crop began to be marketed. In the mean time, the indications pointed to a con siderably larger cotton crop than the previous season and some extravagant ly large estimates of its sz 3 were quite extensively published. Weather c )ndi tions in Texas during August and in other sections in September have caused cotton to mature and open iap idly and hence the receipts have been very liberal and on a scale which has convinced many persons that the crop will be a very large one. As a matter of fact. the September receipts cannot be safely taken asa criterion by which to estimate the extent of a crop, as the September receipts of some of the larg est crops have been very moderate. Large receipts in September indicate early maturing.of crop and only this. Tne favorable crop accounts previous to September 1 and the liberal receipts since then have censed American and E aropean spinners to buy as sparing ly as poisible in the hope of low prices when stocks increased. The course of the market has j istified taeir expecia tions. Io fact, this was the only out come of the situation unless somne seri ous disaster to the crop should occur revious to September 10, and none1 has happened.- Cotton was too high f or goods, and as goods could not be1 forced up to the parity of cotton, the price of tne raw material h ad to decline. Tha market for spot cotton here during the week ending September 3 was pure ly artificial. O a bigaust 30 the price was advance d ;'16 of .a cent, while the saes for the day were only 2) bales. The next day there was a decline of 1 4c. on sales of 37 bales, and by Seu tember 3 the price had decl:ined 3 8: additional, making a decline from Tuesday to Friday of 5 S:. per pound. Since then prices nave steadily declin ed, losing 7-83. more up to this date (September 23), when middling cotton closed at 6 3 4c., against 8 1 43. on August 30. While it is true that the visible and invisible supply of cotton was less at the beginning of the ne wseasonaon the 1st inst.,,than for the past seven years,, t is to be noted that the spinners in~ Europe are not more prosperous than they have been in this country. L it est advices fram Manchester are that a reduction in wages of mill operat ives or resort to "'short hours' are be ing seriously considered in vie w of the dujness and unprofitableness of busi ness. Oar mills are fairly well at work no r, but there have been no re cent advances in goods, and prices are barely maintained. Print cioths are weaker; stocks accumulating. Tnere seems no disposition at the South to hold cotton for nigher prXen, but, on the contrary, the weaaness of the market here and in Eirope is id no small measure due to free Ar~r ings of cotton by Soutnern dealers at constant ly lo wer prices. Probably the prevalence of yellow fever at New Orleans and Mo oile, and the possible contingency of the prac tical closing of tnese places as cotton markets in the near future, may have been one reason for the free offerings of cotton by Soathern dealers, to wich I have referred. At this particular time there seems to exist an earnest desir-e on the part or tae South to part, with its cotton quickly, and witnoat regard to de clining prices, coinciderat with an in disposition on the part of Americaa and Earopean spinners to buy, except for tQeir immediate wants. Despite the printing of daily journals all over the country of an unsigned piece of advice to the public, "to bay cotton and hold it; it is the only cheap thing lef"-it is evident that tne speculative public has generally failed to take the advice, and tnose venturesome people who did buy '-cotton futures" sold out so quickly upon every decline that teir investments proved a positive source of weakness to a market al ready contending wita legiiate causes for depression. Since September L. my advices indi cate that tfle general condition of ie crop has undoubtedly deteriorated and the outlook is for a smaller yield than seemed probable at that time. The in jury may be exaggeraated, as all inji ries to a cotton crop usuially are, oat the occurrence of unusually early frost would undoubtedLy reduce tne yield far more than the shedding and are now being made. Cotton is not dear at present prices. it has not been so low since May. 1895, the season of the great depression in cotton. I think that spinners can now rnanufacture it at a fair pr oit. It may go lower, and the prospects for an im mediate improvement are not encour aging, but from its present price it would jamp leaps and bounds should unusualiy early frosts occur. The spinner who buysat present -i::es and in case of further decline. follows the market do vu, will probably not have cause t:, re ret such action, for he rill have obtained his supplies of a raw material (which loses nothing of its value by being keon) at a price far below the average for many years. These who wait for lower prices in their anxiety to secure their cotton at I the very 'bottom" may find their plans upset by sudden and severe frosts and be compelled to pay well for their cotton-and experience. The crop is far from being secured. Its extent and its quality will largely de pend upon the weather during the next six or seven weeks. Frosts will reduce the yield and frosts and rain will in jare the quality. The prese.2t Ie ceipts are excelent, both as to suality and staple, and spinners need not be afraid to bay it and put it awsy, for there are far worse investments than actual cotton of good grade and staple at present prices. Those who enter tain the idea that cotton will fall to the low prices of the season of 1591 95 are hugging a vain delusion The conditions are essentially ditffrent, and 1 never expect again to see mid dling cotton sell in New York for 5 9 16., wnic'a was the prize in N vember, 1891, and in March, 1895. It is well to remember that in April. .1S95, it had advaneed nearly 112 cents, and in May advanced 3 S cents more, making an advance of nearly 2 cents in two months. Exactly this state of things may oc cur again if prices are force:d to.) low during the present depression. Dispensary Figures. Comnmissioner Vance takes issue with the assertion in the State Thurs day morning that "the sarplas in the dispensary's treasury is made up of un sold whiskey" and the bank: books of the institution show that statement is incorrect. OF course, a large part of the dispensary's assets is represented by the stock on hand, bat it is by no means suffering from a lack of cash. On the 30th of September, the dispen sary had to its credit in cold casa in state treasury the comfortable sum of $69,873 21, while it also had on deposit on that date in the Carolina National bank $1,551.47. Daring the first six days of October, there was paid into the dispensary $18,107.17. Tnese cash assets make a total of $89,531.86. Since the 30th of September the dispensary has paid out $33,00J in round figures, which ridicules the $3,500.40 it has turned over to the state treasury to fin ancially pay up the accared profits which went to the credit of the gen eral fund of the state treasury at the time the legislature declared the profits of the dispensary afterward earned should be devoted to edaeational par pses. Tnat shows that tae dispensary still has on hind as a cash balance the tidy amoant of $56,531 LS3. All the liquor bought by the state board of control has been paid for, except two or tnree carloads which have no: yet been received. Commissioner Vance says the cash balance on hand is sufliient to pay for those two or three carloads aad all the liquar which the state board wiil bay at this meeting. He says the cash receipts of the dispensary last week were $22,000 and that they will at least reaan that sun this week. He laughs at the gloomy predictions of the State as to the financial fature of the dispensary. He says tne editor of Tue State has a perfect right to indalge in such speculations if he wants to, but that tne outcome will prove the editor of Tue State was incorrect in those seculations, for the dispensary will continue to make money.-Record. Dishonest Bank Orucer. William E. Breese, president, W. H. Pnenland, cashier, and J. C. Dick. inson, a director, of the defunct First National Bank of Asheville, N. C., were arrested thera Tnursday morn ing on indictments from the United States court in session at Greensboro charging them with embezs lement and conspiracy. Thirty thousand dollars bail was required in each case, which was given. They have all been under five thousand dollars bonds since July 31 for violating the national banking act. Since then National Bank Ex aminer Maxey has been in Ashville and has made some startling discov eries. One of these discoveries is ai leged to be the fact that $950,000 of "accmmcdation notes," singed by in solvent persons and filled out by the oficials, and some forged papers, are in the bank. Some of the insolvent notes had been rediscounted in other banks. C. B. Leonard, the man who is sur pa-: to have secured tue note signers, comprising j initors, street car motormen, plasterers, carpenters and others of no financial standing, has died to Mexico. A Most Revolting orime. An angry crowd gathered about the court house and jill in Newport, Ky., Thursday, upon the announcement of a shocking assault by eleven men upon the young wife of a ssvitchman recent ly marrael. The sheriff was obliged to clear the corridors, and threats of vengeance were made. Tuomas Glea son and his wife started out the Alex ander pike t> visit a friend Wednes day night, wheri t~vo mea with reval vers, and representing themselves to be otlicers, separated husbitnd and wife andl drayed thee s'hrieking wo mana into a tield, vr~aere eleven men assaulted her. The penaLty for this crime in Keatacar is death. The men were giv.aa a preliininary hearing be fore Judge Bernnett, wao held ten of them for tue grand jury without bail. Te eleventh has not yet been identi tied. U~ving to the excited state of feeling and the inmecarity of the Ne w port jail, the men were ordered to be taken to Mayesv-ille for safe keeping. Curious Acc~dent. A ratner curious accident occarred Tuesday morning at about S o'clock at the South Carolina and Georgia rail road company's yards in Charlaeton in utc t wo colored men were near ly dosaed. A large a woden water tank used b the road, sudde~nly burst calored wun. Jrmns Smu ls and Jhn Benson. The two men were seattd beneath the tank when the crash came and in an instant they were tarown to te ground by a deluge of water and splnteredt timber. A patrol wagon removed them to the Infirmary where ONLY TRUE DEMICRACY IS THAT WHICH ADHERES TO THE CH!C-GO PLATFORM. Henry Georga Accepts the Democratic Nomitnation for Mayor of Greater New Yeik at a Monster 7t'( morAtratlon Held in His I!'Huse. IInry George accepted the Demo craic nomination fcr mavor of Great er New York at Cooper Union Tues day right. It was is the same hail and before many of the same people that ho accepted the nomination elev en years ago. In 1S9G he received 63, 000 votes. The gathering was the greotest outpouringJ of the people seen in New York daring the present cam paign. The doors were opened at 7:15, atd in less than tno minutes every seat in the big hall was occu pied and the aisles as far ss the po lice permitted were crowded. Hun dreds were turned away during the next fifteen minu:es, and by 8 o'clcck several thousand, unable to gain ed misssion assembled cutside and held open air meetings in the plszs, which were addressed by local speakers. Henry George's app earance before the meeting was the signal for an outburst of cheeriv that lasted three minutes. Jerome ON -ill of the Central Labor Union presided. In his address the cnairnan mentioned the Chicago plat form. whereupon the entire audience rose to its feet as one man, hats and handktrchiefs were waved in the sir and the cheering continued for sev eral minutes. The secretary then read the follow ing telegram from C. A. Wilsh, sec retary of the national committee and members of the committee from Iowa. "There is no democracy save the demnocracy of the Chicazo platform. The local organization that refuses to recognize majority rule as bind ing on the democrats of this coun try cannot be the regular democratic organization. Whoever his the char;e and keeping of the principles of the Chicago platform is and must of necessity be the regular democra cy. In New York city that caarge seems to rest with ' he organization supporting Henry G orge, and as I see the situation a: this distance, were I in New York I should vote and work for his election. A tel-i-am was also read from Sen ator Benj R. Tillman, encouraging the movement for the election of Henry George, and promising that he would work and vote for the recogni tion of the organization in the nation al commmittee. Charles O'Connor Hennessey, in making the nomination of Mr. George, said simply: "I have no speech to make, but I nominate for mayor of the Greater New York Henry George.' This was followed by a frantic out burst of cheering, and the nomination was made by acclamation. William M. Speer then moved that an executive committee of five be ap pointed by the chair, with power to add to their number, to select the re maining candidates on the ticket and to carry on the campaign- The only restriction placed upon the chatrman in tie naming of the committee was that the names should be acceptable to Mr. George. Tae res;lution was adopted. The platform has the follo wing to say in regard to the national platform: " We, democrats of Greater New York, in mass meeting assembled, do reatlirm our adherence to the creed of democracy as set fortn in the platform adopted by the national convention of the democratic party in Chicago, July 9, 1896. We declare our allegiance to the principles enunciated in that d >cu ment, pronouncing them the formal expression of the spirit of true democ racy; and we point in corroboration of tnis belief to the fact that the mere promulgation of the doctrines drove from the democratic party those who for corrupt, raercenary or ambitious ends had striven to make it more of a menace to the ri-ghts and liberties of the people than the defender ." It declares there is no regular demo cratic candidate for mayor except Henry George, and "sends greetings to the gallant leader of the democratic party, William Jennings B:-yan." Continuing, it says: "We declare the true purpose of government to be the maintenance of that sacred right of property which gives to every one opportunity to employ his labor and security taa he shall enjoy its fruits; to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak and the unscrapulous from robbing the honest; and to do for the equal beneflit of all such things as can be better done by organized society than by individuals; and we aim at the abolition of all la ws which give to any class of citizens advantages, either judicial, financial, industrial or politi cal, that are not equally shared 1y all -others." Municipal ownership of city rail ways, gas and electric lighting plants, ferries, telephones and telegraphs is favored. The platform demands the compul sory reduction of the price of gas to SLt or less per 1,u00 feet and of street car fares to "a j ast and reasonable point.? The platform hints at the sin gle tax by declaring "the resumption of diverted wealth, tarough wise, equitable and scientitic taxation." The platform demnands the repoal of the Ruines excise law, and continues: "Deploring with full hearts the mas sacre at Hlazelton, Pa , of a score of workingmen who were shiot down for exercising their natural right to use the public highways for an orderly procession, we cdi I he attention of the people of Newv Y.ork to the fact that the execrable perversion of law by whichi that bioady d-el was given a hollo- semblance of legailty exists equally intis city. I We decacea' theinterference with the pe-ople's rights by the mandatory order of a court, issued after an ex parte hearing, and the disrezard of which results in the den ial to the citi zen who has asserted his historic rights opportunity to defend himself be ore a jury of his peers. Whether exer cised oy a federal or a state court, gov ernment by iujunction is hateful, un American andI in il-grant violation of the principies of individual liberty which our forefathers di .ended. " We declare that this mars meeting~ was mae necesary by the denial to the people of the righ t of self govern ment by men who, having seized the machinery of tue Democratic party or ganizatiu, belie ved tnemselves able to dictate to the citizms of Greater New York not only their rulers but the very political gation with which they may occupy tueir thoughts. We are here to demonstrate that what Demo crats shall or shall not think and speak jof is not to be determinard on the lagr lisp race tracks nor in secret corclaves of self constituted bosses." It is said that Henry George wrote the p1 atform. While all this w.7rk wvas goig on, Mr. George was still absent form th hall. When he entered, accompanied by Tom L. Johnson. the audience again arose, with more fervor than be fore, if that were possible, and for several minutes there was a wild hur ricane of cheering. A. B. Craikshank of the United Domecracy, then form ally tendered the nominatior' on be half of hi; mcanzition to Mr. George. Chart F'rederick Adam3, on behal of the D -mureeratic Alliance, then of1 fered to Mr. (Gorge the nomination of the organization, which he repre sented. James T. Ga . , ct the people's party, and John H. Crosby, of the Manhat an Single Tax Cu'o, also no tilled Mr. G orge of his nomination by their respecir.ve organiz ttions. The rising of Mr. George was the signal for another outburst of cheer ing. Mr. Georze said: "Fellow D mccrats, men who voted last year for William Jennings Bryan: I accept your nomination. From now until election closes, I am yours. Aye, and aft;r elcion, too. I am a Demo crat. (Thunderous applause and cries of "Not of the Hill stripe.") "I cannot divide into parts the ques tions which I as a citzen have to deal with. For the same season that I op pose this monstrous tariff in all its forms, for the same reason that I would vote where:er I could for the utter abolition of that tari f, for that same reason I am opposed to the in terference with individual liberty which you see here in New York. I am a Democrat in the Jetfersonian sense, because I believe in the prin.--: oles and stand for the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. "It was for that I voted at the last election. Because the Chicago plat form represented the idea of giving to the great common people what be longs to theat, tia: I stod for it, vot ! ed for it and was sorrier taun I as ever before when it was defeated." Mr. George thin d;L:a.:ed that he had not sought the nomnatif; that it was repugnant to him; but he xe cepted it for th1 cause ot D:nzrrae:-y. M:. George spoke for 23 minutes. Immediately af ter the coualusion of his speech the meing vas declared adjurned. Many of the audience climbed over the press tabes to tan platform and took turns in shaking the hand of Mr. George, Cl Mslae Calamity. A heavy explosioa of gas occurred in No. 2 scope of the Parish Coal com pany at Plymouth Wednesday after noon, by which three men lost their lves. The names of 'he victims are: Isa-c Eimand;. miner, aged 6.5, wid ower; G orze E idy, d river, azed 23, single; Louis Ricaarus, driver boss, aged 32, married, wife and two chil dren. The force of the exploston was felt on the surface and a rescuing par ty was at once sent into the mine, bat taey worked under great diilicuLies, as the practice work was down and the ventilation poor. The place where the men were at work was reached about 5 o'clock and their bolies taken out. Ti b-dy of E~ihunds was badly burned. He evidently recoeival the fall force of the explosion. His two companioas had started to inake their escape wnea taey were overcome oy the tire-damp. The cause of the ac-:i-. dent is as yet a myse~ery. One theory is that thie men came unexoectedly upon a pocket of gas and set it on ir~e with their lamps. Another is that some body carelessly left a door open which sent the gas ia large volumes into the place where the men were at work. The company oiflcials w~ll make a thorough investigation. About !orty men were at work in the lower lifts of the mine when the explosion oc curred. They all res ched the surface, though some of them had narrow es capes from the after damp. seven Girls Bu&rnt to Death. One of the worst disasters that ever happened in Soth Dakota was the burning of the girl's dormitory of the State Industrial School at Piankinton, in which seven girls lost their lives. The burned structure was of wood, three stories high, and was but recent ly completed. Thae origin of the fire is unknown. Tne watchman sar the llimes bursting from thle upper win dows while he was in a building some distance away. There was no fire fighting apparatus at the school, and the building being over a mile from town, no aid could be rendered. In a short time the entire annex was envel oped in Ilames, and in less than twen ty minutes from the time the fire was seen the bailding was destroyed. Nothing whatever -was saved. There were about t.venty-five otner persons in school who esQ.ped in their night clothes with the greatest didticulty. Searcha for the bodies was co-nmencced as soon as possible, and la:Thur- ay a'ternoon all had been r2co-rered and were im-mediately buarid. E tch was burned beyond recognihion. 'The loss on the building is $25,u00. New Bilding Blowa De w . T.vo men are dead and ten ir~jared as the result of the blowing down of a big new hotel at L:.ndsay Park, Mica., Wednssday afternoon. The structure had bien all enclosed and partly plastered. About 4) men were at work in and around the boallding when the crash came. A wer buried in the ruins. After the rescuts were cem pktetd it was fou nd that but two' hal Icst their lives--i erce kedli cf C2harleyoix and an unkno. a, wh-i still in the ruius. e badn as 44) feet long and' the :suh 0 'aa to sway, te roof see tO rit n trie whole i:n-ne a ra - ure c .ra-n ed and crashe, Ih rL a - o o0ing like a tidal war to h : no'n ed It is asseredtaa ih -uilding was not properly Ora Ud anda woe en blamre Charles i sr~ i thesupervising carpeater, wu> is no . r ott t-a. Lee building is a total wreck~ and the ioss will be :nany to usa'nd of dollars. Dr. Wilia jixC pied gulyTu day af ternoon ia the- Saai-o sir cult cxurt at SpringJ ld,11., to the charge of bigamy an wa givn an indefinite senten~ce under the new la;' in Ches'.er peiteaaizr. Tn coma plaint was made byt es rug brother of Miss Eau Hcrung, of B~e: ry, Ills., his- lat- victimx von a married last spring when he -a other undivo-ced s ii-uno ous citits in Ind:ana, Missouri, Ku-.i sas, Udah ana and )exas. Mhis do rung, witn an uncacreantaOle f aratua-& tion, stuck to Six to thie jact. ais a veterinary surgeon, about 1 years old and fairly good look ing. ie Nw Oleans Timnsemccrat of r2cent date says. The cvlindrcicl ta? of cotton was or: exhibition main a d yes erday i the oiice o r. P- ker, on Perdido str't. The b A :fined by a great many reO : t . ot{ the marbf hre-rt. T re vwre c-)tion :actors, mnercha nts, : hip men, cAton pres ine., c. ;n mil men, screwmen, stevedores :mid many oth ers interested in cttou who went in there to inspict it, and of the 5O0 pec pie, at least, whoa Mr. Parker says sal, the cotton, not one of them in his presence gave it a favorable opinion. The suggestioa of this kind of cotton bale taking the place of the square has, of cour e, cret:d a great deal of in teret alion local cotton people. If en r beco t he st'l in tnis sec. tion c. the cotr-, as oue of aie cut ton .en sa i,1 s.erd v, it .rti not only do :y 'ita ircal cotton facto ries, loci bal s, local comnpresses and scr .v;a:n, :U:, wili coe up .l1 the country conpresses, obviate the necessity of having coantry buyers in fact, re7olutioniz: the whole coton business and paralyz those brascas indicated above. It is proposed th t the backers and p:nomoters of the round bale buy taeir cotton direct from the consumer in the iieid; thus doing away with all middlemen. Tae! cotton men here say that the systemn would result eventually in the tru.;u peopic dictating terms to the produ;ers of cotton. They might give probably a better price than any one eiss for a yea: or two, but as soon as they got control cf .ne staple they would dic ta.e price an:. terms to the firmer. Kr. Vincent of the tiru o: Vinc nt & layfe, w:1. w-s pres'a, said tact thr adoption of .La' kind of cotton baling would taro uu o. basiacss all the 2U) coinpresses of tue south, and could mean a revolution-.ot only revolution iu a basiness sense, at oae in whica me people of te ciuary woad ri u i aruss against tie ciostug up of a uasiness taa. acv gives e i oioynent to so many wonk:ng iro pie. The ba e is not well pres-e - nothing li e the sa ara bale. If adopa.1, is would do away wah t compress, the cotton factors, sore waan, etc. The cotton men have not muds :ny plans yet for a cocerted action againstL teinvaetrof tne South's great est, interest bat will do so. Tnere is plenty of time, they say, but son: thing must and shall be done to avert the threatened ruin to douthern plant ers and the people whose interests are identical with tnem. "We do not knoiv," says the C. lambia State, "that there would be much ianentatioa by the producers of cotton if the midalemen generally were done away with. The staple as has been made to support a great many more people thaa it oagnt to have supported. I has been sampled, and weighed, and bought, and sold, and resampled, and resold, and rtsampled, and ex ported, and resampied, and reoougat and fiaaily manufacturei Too many people have been msking a living out of cotton, and the produeer has had to pay tnein adl. If he couid. sell dive.t to the consumer without deduction, actual or conventional, fna would oc more likely to get the real value of his product. irge interests have grown up a bout the handling of cotton. and it would be unpleasat-and douotiess it j iits to many people-to have t ac ---cssi'a of natdremen done :.way wutn; but, after nai, that is tim wsy of the world. Where a process is too ex pensive, invention gets to -work to re duce the cost, and tne cylindrical bale mnachiaery is as natural a sequence of exoensive arit wasteful metaods as the typesetting machine is. Six cents cot ton cannot pay the tolls that 12 cents cotton paid. Something must give way, somebody must go to the wall-tne farmer or middlemnan. If the farmer does, there is no crop; so he is a neces sity, he must stay. fine logic of cir cumstances forces the middieman ou t. The cotton factor has already gone, in this part of the country at 1east. Other middleman bet sveen the groTer and the manufacturer nmust go, as the bringing of the muils to tne cotton tes tiies. Tfne foreign consumer must roll ali his middlemen into one in order to meet on fairly equal terms the manu facturer on tue-spot. The American Cotton company, with izs cyiia-arical bale, constitutes thie middleman-rolled into one. It is a necessary develop ment of the times. The only question is whether this company, wiA its su perior metheds of packing, and its readiness to p .y higher prices than the ordinary bayer ctfers, is Eikely to monopol:z:) the cotton purchasing bus mness and thereby control the price of the staple to the dezriment of the pr ducer. So far ns South Carolina is concerned, this is impossible. Half the cotton crop of the State is bought b7 State millh. This cotton does not need to be '.acked in any special way. It is manufactured in the same neigh borhood in whica it is grown and par chased. There can be no sa::h monop oly as wculd enable any one comnpany, howvever great, to dictate the price here. Should the American Cotton company be the only outside buyer it would ha;ve ins th" purchasiog fi d agaius:. it somne 7> South Car-oita m:lls. Whatever mnany be the case in Texss and Louisiana, we in South Crlaaae s-ecure fron oppr ssior. of cm.1 es~'aise:2.of tue ag-ccia t An'rlev Cot ton c~a.a. weald prolyrase a i tm St.e. to onr '-at-s :ess favorably~ sua. -i - a be sad: They~ :a~ ere c-"mp-t-lon ndcmeitive price; by i-ieun'n malc--inery which will ri. uto the z-m'rcana Cotton conpry. We du not kn~o- what the ptens are on -he-maic-ery for proc cigth- Ds onette bale; but we arepeyse tht Yane Cit not iout~~?ra nu coud crcunavent them. - h r z Ie osho'l comen :th o op"0 somebadb~y would br<ing Cr n ea pronal ol s:-oalb, ndb prc:s so ne 1 vhat d j arel J~~ n othe, ad tus wta ~ ua ta' ies ca~~ape on r will dbe futIPi or sa- a5'C ryRnrew m-t inth ong : rough the aec Cf a rad, to whomz Mr Coles had inti -e tha he wa-s locking for a wi't -ad h agreed in Ofour.miCte to marry.--e PRINCE OF SWINDLERS. BEAT PEOPLE OUT OF S400,000 IN LAST FOUR YEARS. Forer. Worthless Check Utterer and F o gas Dealer in Bonds and Stocks-Henry C!'wsi and ,nhn Waiamiaker Among -W- -c:tm,-Scm- of his Transactions. Tre Nolc say that Ammet C. Gib sor. also known as George A. Sheri dan, who was arrested in New York Thursday and is now a prisoner at police headquarters, is the most accom plished bogus check and, hotel swin dler in the country. Gioson, according to the police, has succeeded, by means of forgery, bogus checks and dealings in stock and bonds and playing his wiles upon first-class hotel keepers, during the last four years, in gett:ng and spending in the neighborhood of $100,000. Among his victims, according to Po ice Captain MeCluskey, are Henry Clews and John Wanamaker. The police had been getting com claints from different firstclass hotels in tuis city for many days back. Bo gas c_.ecks were laid down by Gibson a paymcn: of board bills. The checks were nonored in almost every case, t it ,vorthiessness only coming 10 :gr w,.,n he had made himself scire. Umn laints reached headquar ters from t-i police of cities both in the east and the west, and the police recognized G bson's handiwork. Detectives were put on the Clews case and they located Gibson at the itel Bartholdi. Tney did not find him in when they went to the hotel yesierday to bag the game. He was, however, found in the Grand hotel. The detectives saw a tall, slim, sharp featured man, with blue eyes, a high fcrehead and blonde whisker:. He was well dressed and very cool when tue otilers inn;ted him to take a stroll to police headgaarters, protesting that the police has made a mistake. At police hedgaarters he described himself as Emmes C. Gibson, uamar ried, 33 years old, of the Bartholdi noi:l, and a native of this country. He sa d he was vice president of the Aaron S:reet Railway company of Akron, C., a laivyer and once upon a time judge man Onio town. Tne specid complaint entered on the blotter against nim was made by the auditor of the imperial hotel. He alleges that Gibson was a guest at the hotel on August 6 of last year, and presented a worthless check for $620 in payment of a $265 board bill. Gib son "put down" the check and went away with the balance in cash. He was seen no more at the Imperial. "Gibsoa had an office in the Mills building not long ago," said Captain McCluskey. It was handsomely ap pointed. He talked about his connec tion with the Akron Street Railway company as a winning card to gain contidence. He won over even Mr. Henry Ciewa. In fact, his offbwe was next to Mr. Clew's. When he had worked himself into Mr. Ciew's good graces, he calmly laid down with him a check for $1,000. Mr. Clews cashed it, only to discover how worthlesss it was; but Gibson had gone. A padlock was put on his office door. "Gibson met Mr. Wanamaker in Philadelphia some time ago, and the dry goods man was attracted by him. Gibson suggested a paper to be started and run by him in the interest of Mr. Wanamaker's store. 'Good idea,' Mr. Wanamaker said to Gibson, and a plant was purchased. The next thing Mr. Wanamaker knew, Gibson had sold the plant for several thousand dollars and Pailadelphis has not zuo wn him since, so far as I know. "I have not yet got a definite idea of the amount of Gibson's swindles. I am told that they will foot up more than.$100,000 in fours years, and he operated in both the east and west. "Among the hotels here i.t which Gibson stopped. and presented his bo gus checks were the Netherlands, the Fifth Avenue and the Imperial. He beat the hotel Netherlands out of an $33 board bill e July 2t last. He stopped one day at the Fifth avenue and a check was cashed for him. When he paid his bill he managed to get a $3 rebate, and the Fifth avenue saw himn no more." Captain McCluskey enumerates among the hotels which have suffered from Gibson's patronaze the Parker House, Boston; the Hollenden, Cleve land; Tne Stratford, Pniladelphia; the Bristol Inn , Akron, O., and the Cad ilac and the Lincoln, Pittsburg. A wido w in Cleveland is said to have been defrauded out of $6,000 by Gib son. Among the papers found on him were papers instituted against him by thr German A-nerican Bank of Pitts bu~rg. The Caban Heroine Escapes. The b, cautiful young Cuban patriot, Sencrita E s'angelina Cossio Cisneros, heorine of the sensational adventare with the Spanish governor of the Isle of Pines, has escaped from the Casa de Recogidas (house of scrapings), where she had been connined for several months on a charge of conspiracy against the crown of Spain and of an auempt noon the life of Governor Brez governor of the Isle of Pines. \.cording to the statements of the j:ilrs or attendants, she made her ese:.pe som'e time Wednesday night. A. Thursdcay morning's roll call she was miv and when search was ma'de f .her the attendants found that one of i e iron bars in the room in whc sie~ had been confined had been filed and bent outward. The bar could not hae b enoved except by agreat u lay of strength, andalithecircum stne oto prove the co operation :of oatsideis in her escape. The au taoritis have not yet secured any cia as :o the whereabouts~ of Senorita E :sgelca.Se veral of the employes ethstishczent have been arrested. -1 Causes a Strike. -.'. -e he kissed one of the fair E gis lassies employed in the dust 2naatent of the New Castle, -., tipate works, Richard Kissing erws icaraeJi. He is a member of he Patent Machine Tinners' Union, wich is aiiliated with the Federation of Labo. Stealing a kiss was not suf dcetexcuse for- discharging a work man, the oilicials of the union said, and they demanded Kissinger's rein statement. This was refused and a trike- wras ordered. About 200 men ad bOys are out. The company does nrot ciann the girl objected to the kiss is isner says the suaperintend e: iemi wanted to get rid of oin ndto this means of doing it. I .e it sys he did not kiss her, but eve &e i, she said, the offense 'as no erious enouzh to cause a sus -ension of work. The strikers say chy wil not return until Kissinger