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. BRYAN HITS PARKER * Nebraskan Heads Crusade Against New York Jurist. V mtioh nr\i r* mcxtim/^ "AIMlid" nuLu imLLiniu . Judge is Denounced as the Candidate of the Money Power?Hill and Belmont Also Come in for * 4 ^ .... a Roast. #, \ j# _ S* r. > Cooper Union hall, in New Y'or? 11 " city, was crowded Monday night at the anti-Parker convention called by some of those who do not concur in the Parker instructions given at the New York state convention. William J. Bryan was the principal speaker and when he appeared on the platform he was enthusiastically applauded. \ Before making his address he said he would not name his favorite candidate for president, but he made savage attacks on the "reorganizes." and vigorously opposed the nomination of Judge Alton B. Parker, who was held ^ up as the candidate of the corporations and not of the people* Judge Samuel Seaburv, of the city court, who presided, spoke of Parker _ as the candidate of the "plutocracy." Parker Attacked. The platform adopted at the meeting opened by condemning the expansion policy of the republican administration. The platform continues: "Judge Parker is silent. Senator Hiil speaks for him. We know Senator Hill's record. As governor of the state of New York he blocked the socret ballot. As senator he opposed his party's position on the tariff and the income tax. The people of New York expressed their opinion of Senv? ator Hill when he was beaten for the office of governor in 1894 by 156,000 votes. Neither harmony, confidence nor success can now follow his discredited leadership." In the course of the resolution this declaration is made as to a candidate: "The candidate of the democratic - partf most be a man who Has ^tatea * his pitociples and can be trusted to \ apply them with firmness and courage." Bryan Makes Address. i When Mr. Bryan arose he was given an ovation. Ke said in part: "I believe that the national convention should not nominate the man k whom your state convention has recommended. The great question this year is not the money question, but it is whether we are to have a nlutbc racy or a democracy. My own posi,, tion.has been and will be that I shall not attempt to decide upon the availability of Mr. Hearst or others. All I ask that we have a man on. whom there is not the taint of monopoly. "Mr. Parker goes before the coun- j \ try on a cowardly straddling platform. The democrats of this country are brave men. It required brave men to stand up for democracy in 1896. I knew in that year men in every state who were threatened with bankruptcy for being democrats. ? "What does the state platfrom stand for? It states it is opposed to unnecessary duties. Who ever advocated an unnecessary duty? Wa I HiVo II V teVCIUVM ^ivv? "Where does Parker stand on imperialism? We don't know. Where does he stand on the money question? Is ho for gold? We don't know. Is he lor silver? We can't tell. ; Maybe he is for radium?who can tell. "I object to playing with loaded dice. We don't know Parker's views; but I am afraid some men do. My friends, don't trust him. has concealed his views from the peov pie he has made them known to the men behind him. "What is Mr. Belmont's consideration in the Parker candidacy? He is too shrewd a financier to invest his ; money without being sure of the rev turn of the goods. "It has been a fraudulent campaign. They have openly bought men at conventions and any man who countenancses that work does, not deserve the office of president." TWO BROTHERS SHOT DEAD. * . Louisiana Young Man Uses Winchester to Get Revenge. Meager reports of the killing of l?e and Tom Crouch at Crouchs Landing La., have reached Natchez. It seems j that Jesse Calhoun, aged about twen- ! ? ty-three years was standing on the j ^ steamer Columbia when the Crouch brothers, aged respectively 30 and 2G years, were about to board the boat. Calhoun fired three shots from a winChester, killing the two brothers instantly and slightly wounding a negro . Three months ago the Crouches ^ shot and killed Calhoun's brother in a quarrel. GEORGIA TEACHERS MEET. *? Thirty-Eighth Annual Convention in Session at Warm Springs. The thirty-eighth annual convention of the Georgia Educational Associa-; tion opened at Warm Springs Monday j night, with an interesting although informal session. The annual meeting of the board of > directors and of the board of trustees occurred, this being followed by an informal social session. ! 0 !JAPS SENT TO BOTTCM. | Two Transports Are Caught by Patrolling Warships of Russians and Quickly Put to the Bad. A special from Tokio says: All i doubt as to the sinking of the transj ports Hiatchi and Sado by the Russians have been removed. Three hundred and fifty-three survivors of the j Sado have arried at Kokura. I Details of the destruction of the two transports and the full extent of the casualties are not obtainable. It-'is reported that the transports Hiachi and Sado carried only 1,400 men. If this is true the loss of lives probably is less than one thousand. The transports, however, had many j horses and large quantiites of sup i plies on board. The survivors report that the Sado j and Hitachi were sunk by torpedoes. Details obtainable from the surviv I ors of the ill-fated Japanese transports show that the Hitachi and Sado met three Russian warships near Oki island at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. The Russians fired on the Japanese ships and stopped them and soon afterward they torpedoed and sunk the helpless transports. The captain of the Sado and several otter men ' were captured. One hundred men escaped in the boats and landed at Kokura. The transport Isumi is I still missing. The transport Hino, which has returne dto Moji, reports that she encountered the Russian Vladivostock squadron at 11:20 a. m. Wednesday morning twenty miles west of of the island of Shiro, of the Oki group. The transports Hitachi and Sado were seen two miles to the westward. The weather was foggy and the sea calm. When the Hino sighted the Russian fleet she turned, ran and signaled a warning to the Kanazawa and they both took refuge inside tue island Chiyt. Both signaled danger to the Ibu, which also escaped. The Hino saw the Hitachi and the Sado surrounded by Russian vessels. BIG STORM HITS CUBA. Village Destroyed and Forty-five People Known tq Be Dead. A dispatch from Santiago, 2uba, says: The worst storm of a decade beI gan Friday and culminated Monday j night in 14 inches of rain which fell in five hours, accompanied by a hurricane. The lower village of El Cobre has been destroyed. Forty-five persons are known to be dead and scores are missing. Bodies are floating in the Cobre river. Twenty bodies have been recovered by boats patrolling the bay. All the I bridges on the Cobre railway are out, I and many bridges have been lost on ' the Cuba railway. . j HONORING RAISULI'S DEMAND. Bandit Increases Terms of Ransom of Kidnapped PrFsoners. The state department has "received the following under date of Wednes* | day by cable fro? Mr. Gunmere, the American cc*sul general at Tangier: "As reported yesterday, Raisuii has Increased his demands. I am informed today by the minister of foreign | affairs that one of the sheiks and two | of his brothers, whose apprehension j were demanded by Raisuii, has been I arrested; also that a courier has been ! dispatched this morning to Raisuii to j say that his further demands will very ; probably be granted by the Moroccan j government if the captives are rej leased. VETS IN MONSTER PARADE. _____ r Closing Feature of Reunion of Old Confederates in Nashville. ! A Nashville dispach says: The remnants of the south's once great army honored the people of Nashville and their thousands of guests Thursday by a parade through the principal business streets. It was the feature of the closing day of the reunion, and the cheers which greeted the heroes as they marched through streets dense with humanity, plainly told of the place they still hold in the hearts of the i southern people. LOST MONEY AND SUICIDED. Chicago Lawyer Takes His Own Life in Jacksonville, Fla., Hotel. Charles S. McCoy, a prominent attorney, with offices in the city of Chicago, committed suicide in Jacksonville, Fla., Friday morning by cutting his throat with a razor in a bath tub at a hotel. McCoy, it is saTd, in the last few days, had lost $10,000 by speculating in stock on Wall street througn a loial firm. Mr. McCoy was in JacksonvTTTe look ing after a suit of John L. Davis, against the beminole Hard Hock Phosphate Company. B06RIK0FF TAKEN OFF. Assassin's Bullet Kills Russian Governor General of Finland. Advices from Holsingfors, Finland, say that Gen. Bobrikoff, governor goneral of Finland, who v/as snot on Thursday morning at the entrance to the senate, died at an eariy nour Friday morning. The people are calm and there is no excitement over the assassination. i i \ mmt missing Number of Slccim Victims a Matter of Conjecture. SUNDAY'S FiND OF DEAD ! Up to Sunday Night 624 Bodies Had Been Recovered ? City to Issue Bonds for Succor of Distressed Community. A New York special says: Sunday's harvest of dead from the steamer fjpnprftl Sloeum numbered forty-one, bringing the total number of bodies so far recovered up to G24. Of these 559 have been identified. While the list of missing has been cut down somewhat by the identifications made Sunday, eleven new names were added to that roll, thus leaving the total of missing almost as :it was on Saturday, something more than 300.. Coroners O'Gorman and Berry, with expert pilots and others, sailed over the course taken by the General Slocum. The first notification of fire was received in the vicinity of One hundred and twenty-ninth street, and the pilot told the chief engineer he would have beached the boat at that street, which could have been reached m a few minutes, instead of trying for North Brothers island. "I learned," said he. "that they were trying to escape, and I asked the police to detail everybody whj was employed on the boat at witnesses. Some of them have escaped and we may never be able to get them . But we are after them, and will leave no stone unturned to get them within our jurisdiction." Secretary Cortelyou, of the department of commerce and labor, visited the scene of the disaster, and then went to Washington. The federal government will begin its official inquiry at once. Three of the bodies recovered Sunday were floating and it is the general * i ^ Will />ATY> Opinion 111(11 illdllj' lllUi U VT I AX Vy VmVrf WV the surface during the week. A life saver, grappling from a raft, brought up a woman of 30 and a girl of 11 years locked in each other's arms. A few minutes later he brought the bodies of a boy 0 years old and a girl of G, apparently brother and sister, clinging tightly to each other. Divers who went to the wreck found the bodies of a woman, a girl and a boy, and brought them to the surface. They were burned beyond recognition. The divers said there were more bodies in the wreck. Nineteen were brought up from the bottom along the beach, running from the island down to the channel in the river. fiinor-oit! nf nonrlv a hundred JL LlC lUU^lUiO vi. *.j ?. ? victims of the disaster were held during the day. In many instances two caskets were carried in the same hearse, and in some cases two and even three hearses bore away the dead of a single family. Large Fun for Relief. N * The relief funds will have a large addition from the city treasury, a resolution for the issuance of $50,000 in bonds for the succor of the distressed victims of the accident having been introduced Saturday. Of the money, jewelry and other valuables taken from the dead in the General Slocum. aggregating nearly $100,000, much has been claimed from the coroner by relatives. There is one package, however, for which no claim has yet been established. It was found on the body of a woman at first supposed to be that of Eva Kruger, but has not yet been identified. The property consists of eight bank books, showing deposits of nearly $25,000; two or three life insurance policies, amounting in all to about $10,000 or $15,000; deeds to property in New York and elsewhere, and a considerable amount in bank notes. The heeds, insurance policies anu bank books are all in the name of a person who, it would seem, was quite different from Eva Kruger, Ixit the coroner is keeping the name secret for the present. AMERICAN COIN FOR PANAMA. Commission Establishes a Currency Standard for th elsthmus. A Washington dispatch says: The commision charged with the preparation of a currency system for Panama have reached an agreement which establishes a coin equivalent in fineness and weight to the dollars of the United States as the standard, and -which also makes the United States dollar legal tender in Panama. Under the terms of the agreement the Panama government will recoin or convert the Columbian silver into coins of the size of a silver dollar. BOOKBINDERS FILE KICK. Protest Against Action of President Roosevelt in the Miller Case. At St. Paul, Friday, after passing resolutions censuring President ikoosevelt in the Milder case in connection with the printing office in Washington and electing officers, the International Brotherhood oi Bookbinders adjourned after a mcst interesting annual session. - ;;'7T'V ^outiTsteadfast This Section Not Affected by Business Depression, ISO DECLARES SPENCER i : President of Southern Railway Holds | Optimistic View of Condition in This Boomjng .Section of the " Country There is a general depression of I j business all over the country, but it is : felt less and probably will be felt less j in the south ::han any other section, says Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern railroad system. This opinion was expressed by Mr. ! Spencer whec he was asked by a I representative of The Atlanta Const!i _ j tution for an ioterview concerning the | railroad situation in the south. "The volume of business the counI try over has decreased to a considera| ble extent within the past few ! months," said Mr. Spencer, "and railroads in all parts of the United States have undergone a corresponding decrease in their business. Ths railroads of the east have been retrenching in operating expenses of late, and the rai2roads of other sections have been compelled to adopt similar policies. In the south, however, the slump has been much smaller than elsewhere, though it has affected southern interests to some extent. "Fbr this reason there are at present no great railroad movement going on. No roads are extending, but all the larger lines and systems are now occupied with bringing their equip! ment and standard to a point comi mensurate with the business they are called on to handle. Roads Were Unprepared. "The commercial and industrial activity marking the past several years was unprecedented, and with few exceptions the railroads of the country were caught in a state of unpreparedness. They did not have the means I of caring for the work laid upon them. "Now there has come a slack in business, but not enough to prevent the railroads from increasing their-ca pacity and equipment, though sufficient to forestall extensions and to necessitate some retrenchments in expenses. r : i "No single cause has brought this i condition about. The falling off in I business is attributable to several ! causes. In the first place business j never remains at the high tide of i some time past. It cannot do so, the J ebb is bound to come, though it may be slight. I don't think that the present depression is a forerunner of any panic, such as swept the country in 1S93, nor 'hard times' and stringent financial conditions similar to those of 1896. But no living man can s^y what the future will bring forth. "In addition to the natural turning of the tide there is another factor influencing'TJusiness conditions just now, and that is the presidential campaign. The country is aiways more or less in a state of unrest immediately preceding the election of a president, and this unrest has its effect on financial i AUWVA v o LQ* RUSSIAN GENERAL OUTWITTED, j | Stalkeburg Tells What He Intended to Do, Elut Failed to Show. Emperor Nicholas, at St. Peters! burg, has received the following telegram, dated June 1G, from General Kuropatkin: "I have received the following dispatch from Lieutenant General Baron Stalkeberg, dated June 1G, 1:20 a. m.: "'Yesterday I had intended'to attack the enemy's right flank, but just as our troops; had been assigned for the purpose and were beginning to i successfully envelope the enemy's I right flank, the Japanese, in their turn, . j attacked my right flank, with superior forces, and I was compelled to retreat by three roads to the north." JUVENILE COURT A FARCE. More Youths Being Arrested in Atlanta Than Ever Before. The police of Atlanta assert that the juvenile court of tnat city is doing more harm than good. They claim that crime is being multiplied by the establishment of the juvenile court. The police records will show that for the past month more prisoners were arrested under 15 years of age than for the six months previous. Outside of the criminal class many boys are arrested on most flimsy provocation. WRECKAGE CAUSES ALARM. Savannah People Suspect Loss of Steamship City of Memphis. A report received in Savannah that the observer at Cape Henry had dis: covered wreckage indicating that some disaster had befallen one of the vessels of the Ocoan Steamshhip Company, created. mu-ch consternation among the people, though the local officials of the company said that they felt no alarra. . -' * ' ' . . / .. .'V_- . ' CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE May Be Charged to Slocum's Crew. 3ome Startling Disclosure?List of | Dead Still in Doubt. A New York special says: Forty- j eight hoars after the burning of the I General Slocum the exact number of victims still vary greatly and this may De accounted for by reason of the failure to report to the proper authorities on the part of many who. although officially registered as missing, were in j reality saved. Already 539 bodies have been recovered, of which about fifty remain unidentified. These include 273 children, 243 women and 23 men. Thirteen officers of the Sc. Mark church are among the dead. The task of burying the dead began Friday. Early in the forenoon a meeting of the German Lutheran ministers of the city was held and a program of service arranged, while in many instances a joint service will be held over several bodies. The distressing concenfration of the blow of the disaster is shown by the fact that in one apartment house in Eighth street there were 35 dead, while in an Irvington street house 16 bodies were awaiting burial. Many thousands of dollars have been subscribed to the relief fund. Within an hour or two after the subscription list to the mayor's relief fund was opened, $12,000 had been collected. General Uhler, of Washington; Supervising Inspector General of Steamboats Collector Stranahan, General Clarkson, the surveyor of the port, ana Local Supervising Inspectors fiodie and Dumont had a conference Friday afternoon and arranged for the inquiry ? . , - . , a I tato tne siocum disaster, wnicn aau i been ordered by Secretary Cortelyou. The session was secret, but it was learned that the character of the life preservers and fire equipment of the General Siocum received general consideration. The first officer, Edward Flanagan, of the Siocum, is quoted in an interview as saying that the steamer's fire hose was rotten and useless and that it burst in a dozen places when he and his men tried to use it. The charge is also made that the life preservers on the vessel were old and rotten and in most instances proved inadequate when used. , Several papers print pictdres ?f preservers taken from the Siocum which bear in black letters the instription: "Passed by United sfates Steamboat Inspector, June 18, 1891." William Thembley, a.deck hand, corroborates Flanagan's statement regarding the defective hose, and it is reported that evidence has been secured showing that some of the life boats were made fast by wires, making it impossible for them to be cast 'oose and lowered. All the men who have maHe these statements will he called as witnesses by the coroner. PATHETIC STORY THIS. Woman Gave Birth to Babe on Burn-1 ing Steamer and Both Drowned. Several witnesses were examined by Coroner Berry at New York Friday, including the second mate of the Slocum, James Corcoran. Corcoran said the first engineer, William Conklin, was among the first to hurry off the vessel to a tug. The fire started in a room used Tor storing oils, Corcoran said. "A sight I saw on the boat I will remember for a long time, i guess," he continued. "I saw a woman give birth to a child and then jump overboard with tne new born babe. They both died. I .could not get to her, the crowd was so great, and she had no help at all. People were crazy. The fire was all around her and she picked up her babe in her arms, wrapped a piece of her clothing about it. and sick and frightened as she was, looked about for a nla<o to escape. There was none. It took only a moment for her to realize tnis. Then she* climbed on tne railing and leaped out into the water." Florida Editors in Chattanooga. ; Over a hundred members of the Florida Press Association were in Chattanooga, Tenn., Friday. They visited Chickamauga Park, and left for St. Louis yia Nashville Friday night. CHARGE AGAINST MINISTER. Presiding Elder Focte Suspended for Alleged Intoxication. Rev. W. R. Foote, presiding elder of the Rome, Ga., district of the North o^nrpia conference, has been suspend VI W0? ? ed frem his work until the next Annual Conference which meets in Marietta on November 23, 1904. His suspension arises over rumors that on a given date this spring Mr. Fo^te was intoxicated in the city of Rome. This news wii a compile surprise to his friends everywhere, and it is undeniable that he is a man of immense popularity. PASTOR PROVED POOR SHOT. Firing at Cats He Killed Woman in a Neighboring Yard. The Rev. Decatur Edwards, pastor of the Falmouth Baptist church, while shooting at cats in his back yard at Fredericksburg, Va., Saturday, accidentally shot and mortally v.-ounde.d Mrs. Lucy Mann, who was standing in her back perch in an adjoining j premises. 1 THE HORROR GROWS ~;Jg Dead in Steamer Holocaust" May Reach Thousand. J ii GHOULS PLY THEIR WORK | M Over Five Hundred Bodies Recovered Up to Thursday Wight from Waters of Hell Gate and Charred Hull of Vessel. . A- New York dispatch says: With -J| unceasing effort search is going on for , the bodies of those who perished Wednesday on the General Slocum. What the list of victims will > total scarce one dare venture a guess, but what- M ever the number may be, there is hardly a parallel in the history of disasters where death came to so many || in so brief a period of time. Police and heaxth department officials have J| placed a figure as high as 1,000 or J|i more. x All day long Thursday, from sun- ' rise until darkness shut off even the "CjS melancholy satisfaction of watching ' for the dead, anxious searchers kept .JS up the eternal vigilance, and at dusk there had been recovered 53G bodies, for the greater part womep and chil- | dren?mothers who weeks ago had - ^|H planned that fatal outing for their |g children; little ones, who had longed for the coming of the happy day. Unlike the Iroquois theatre, and oth- . -tJ| er catastrophes of recent years, where >J# the woe of the disaster reached ?Jj| throughout the land, the blow of the Slocum's mortality falls heavily upon one little neighborhood of a great city.. O ^ r\A Minlt A/) t'l ' ol iuai n. 9 ptuiou, nuivu luiuuucu v? nearly every victim, lies within tea crowded blocks of the middle east side . J|| of New York, and there is hardly a house there not in mourning. ^ The race of the burning steamer from the moment the fire was discov- .'3a , ered until her bows crashed on the shelving beach of North Brothers Island lasted little more than ten minutes, yet that time sufficed for deeds of heroism which make the one bright v^nj chapter m the heartrending story. The :||i credit for the greatest saving of life is due to the hardy tugboat men and :;|| other followers of the river, who braved flames and held the noses of their boats against he fire-wrapped la, steamer until driven off by the heat, scorched and choking. Dead bodies v'? of women were found with their burn- ;|| : ed arms clasping close the pitiful 4|j forms of little children, and babes were found, their arms enfolding each, other in the stiff embrace of death. Cowardice Laid to Crew. But there is a darker side hinted at along the river front, wherg are - JM told stories that seem .0 be the'inevit able accompaniment 01 an great calamities. There has been no evidence of a character specific enough to fasten it upon individuals and permit of punishment, but survivors and eye-wit- . 'Jflj nesses say that some brutal acts of |ja selfishness and cowardice on the part -Jaj of the Slocum's frew were seen and that distress signals from the burn- .jjjj ing boat were disregarded by passing Even more horrible is the story of Miss Martha Weirk, who says that while she struggled in the water a boat drew alongside her, and that men, after stripping her of her rings and '^jt| other jewelry, pushed her back into iji the water. The body of the steward .t|j. had been rifled when found, and of several dollars he was supposed tt> have in his pockets, not a cent was :3a| found. 'hmk Mayor Takes Action. Mayor McClellan announced Thursday afternoon that he had decided to issue a proclamation asking for sub- scriptions for the burial of the dead and for such other immediate relief as could be given. He said he would J| ask ten men of prominence to serve on a committee to take charge of the "-J? CHATTAHOOCHEE IS CURBEDw ' Kiver impounaeo to i-m nig Basin Built by Electric Company. The big dim of the North Georgia Electric Company, of Gainesville, was ^ completed Thursday after nearly two ^ years of hard work, and at 11 o'clock Friday morning the huge water gates % were closed down and the great and . mighty Chattahoochee was successful- . . ^j ly debarred from making its usual un- ^ interrupted run to the sea. Under ,33 present dry conditions without considerable rainfall it will take from ? seven to ten days for the huge basin 'J to fill up and the water overflow the huge dam, which is 38 feet high. KNOX QUITS FIRST OF JULY. Attorney General Names Date of Re S tirement from Cabinet. attorney General Knox said Friday J| that he would retire from the cabinet -||j some time this month, perhaps about || the 1st of July. Some matters are ^ pending in the department of justice -;Jf which he desires to bring to a conclusion before presenting formally his ..:|? resignation to the president.