The Japanese Tidal Wave. Harrowing Details of the Most Frightful Catastro? phe of Recent Years. SAN FRANCISCO, Joly 12 -The To? kio correspondent of the United Press writing under date of Jane 26, thus graphically describes the devastation wrooght by the seismic wave which re? cently visited the northeast coast of Japan. Japan has been visited by a calamity of almost unprecedented magnitude. On the 15th of June, at half-past 8 o'clock in the evening, a seismic wave struck the northeast coast of the main island throughout a distance of about 200 miles, and in five minutes 30,000 people were killed and 8.000 houses destroyed. That is the whole story. Any one oan identify the locality of the disaster by a glance at the map of Japan. From the island Kin ka-San, on the south, to Eachinoye, on the north, the coasts of Rikuseo and Riku ehu provinces assumes a distinctly con? vex shape. Throughout the whole of this bow-like area, nearly every town and every village was visited by the wave, the portion between Motoyosbi and Yamada suffering most severely. The geneeral direction of the wave appears to have been north by east, for after carrying devastation to the shore of the main island it left Yezo in the west, touching that island at Yerimo Cape only. In the case of inundations, cyclones or even earthquakes, there is a record of more or less continuous mischief, and more or less successful struggle against th? forces of destruction ; but in the case of seitab waves, one tremendous blow accomplishes the whole clamity in an instant. At half-past 8 o'clock the inhabitants of numerous towns and hamlets along the coast were celebrating the "Boys' Festival," on the fifth day of the fifth moon, according to the old calendar; at twenty-five minutes before 9, 30,000 of them had been swept out io flea OJ thrown dead upon the shore, and 8,000 of their homes had disappeared or lay wrecked. There was nothing to presage the disaster. From ll in the forenoon until 4.30 in the afternoon heavy rain fell. It was followed by a fine evening and a dark, calm night. There is . much difficulty in obtaining perfectly accurate statements as to the time of the phenomena that preceded the final catas? trophe; they were too insignificant to seem worth recording. Several ac? counts agree, however, that about 7 o'clock three or four shocks of earth? quake were fels, not violent shocks? though of the vertical kind that folks in Japan have learned to dread. The barometer gave, at the time, no indica? tion of anything unusual. Some twenty or twenty-five minutes later a booming sound became audible from the direction of the sea. It appears to have been variously interpreted. Some construed it as the noise of a coming gale ; others supposed that a huge school of sardines had reached the offing. Only a few suspected the real significance of thc sound and fled inland at the top of their speed. Rapidly the noise iocreased until it assumed the volume and deafening din of a great park of artillery and then, in a moment waves from 20 to 30 feet high were thundering against the shore. The places where the actual totals of the deaths reached the highest figures were ?ot always those that suffered most in proportion to their population. Of the three prefectures visited by the wave Iwate, Miyagi and Aomori-Iwate had by far the largest aggregate of disas? ters, its list of dead amounting to 26, 000. Some of the details, however, convey a more graphic idea of the facts than any general statement can sug? gest." Kamaishi is a little seaside towo, situated at the head of a rocky inlet two miles deep and directly facing the Pacific Ocean. Behind it is a precipi? tous hill. The inhabitants seem to have remained until the last wholly un? conscious of what was pending. At a little after 8 in the evening a mountain of sea was observed piling itself up at the mouth of the inlet and in a moment, with a thunderous roar, waves thirty feet high swept over the towo. Three times the avalanches of water rushed forward, the first incomparably the most terrible, and in less than two minutes the towo was virtually annihilated. Out of 1,223 dwellings only 143 re? mained standing, and out of a popula? tion of 6,557?.death bad overtaken 4,700 and 500 lay wounded. ID com pletness of destruction this record heads the list. Scarcely less appall log was the work of the waves in the bay some five miles father north There, in the village of Futaisbi, only 100 persons escaped death out of a population of 790. and only two out of as many hundreds re? mained standing. At Yamada 700 houses out of 900 were destroyed, and 3,000 persons were killed out of 4,200. At Toni 250 houses were swept away out of 269, and 1,103 persons were killed and 82 wounded out of a total of 1,206 In the Kissen district one town and eleven villages attacked by the wave had 6,380 persons killed and 1,560 houses washed away or wrecked. At Gongo the whole hamlet of 150 houses was annihilated, and the sole survivors were a party of men that hap? pened to be playing "go" in a temple situated on high ground. Such are the tales of death and ruin that cocue from plaee to place, the ter? rible totals at ibis moment ot writing being 29,073 killed, 7,337 wounded and 7,844 hous-es washed away or wrecked. Only One Silver Ticket. The Bimetallic Union En? dorses the Democratic Ticket. CHICAGO. July 12 -After a 12 days' J secret sessioo and conference with ! prominent members, the executive com j mittee of the American Bimetallic union ! adjourned to day and formally an I nounced.its approval of the Democratic platform and candidates. The commit? tee appeals to the silver organizations of the country who intend tosend dele? gates to the St Louis convention to unify the silver forces by endorsing the work done in the coliseum. Tbirty-odd members of the commit? tee and outside members' of the union attended the council, which reached this decision. General A. J. Warner, president of the union, presided. There was no division of sentiment as to endorsement. Following is the address issued by she committee : To the members of the American Bi? metallic union, and of all affiliated unions and leagues throughout the United States and all other friends of bimetallism : ^.Whereas, the American Bimetallic union, being a consolidation of the American Bimetallic league, the Na? tional Bimetallic union, the National Silver committee and other bimetallic organizations, called a conference at Washington, D. C., on the 22d day. of January last, at which conference it was determined that the people in the approaching olection should have the opportunity to vote for candidates for President and Vice President, and for members of congress, committed uo eqivocally to the restoration of the un? restricted coinage of both gold and sil? ver on the equality existing prior to 1873, and to make this determination sure, a convention was calied by said conference to met at St. Louis on the 22d of July, there to place in nomina? tion candidates for President and Vice President, in case in the meantime neither of the great parties, as theo appeared doubtful, offered acceptable candidates, on a platform committing the party and the candidates to the restoration of the unrestricted coinage of both gold and'silver. And, whereas, the Democratic coo veotion jost ended at Chicago has adopted a platform containing all that bimetallists have demanded, fully and unequivocally expressed, and has nom? inated candidates of distinguished abil? ity and long known as sincere advo? cates to our cause ; therefore, be it Resolved. That in the opinion of this committee, but one duty remains for the friends of this great cause to per? form, and that is to unite as one man in support of the platform adopted at Chicago, and the candidates nominated thereon, and to work with might and main until election in November, to secure the success of the ticket. If this is done we siocerely believe that, our cause will be won and prosperity be restored, to our people. The only daoger to be feared is io the division of our own forces, which we pray will not be allowed to take place. To divide our forces on the eve of the great contest before the world is unnatural and suicidal : and for one to lead a revolt in such a cause aod at such a time would come little short of beiag a public crime. We, therefore, appeal to all members of the Bimetallic union and of the affiliated silver leagues and all others opposed to the continu? ance of the single gold standard, re? gardless of party affiliations, to come to the support of the platform and the splendid ticket given us at the peoples' great convection just held at Chicago. We further urge upon all who agree with us upon this vital issue to join U3 at St. Louis on the 22d of July, there to endorse aod ratify the work so oobiy begun. A. J. Warner, President, R. C. Chambers, First Vice Prest., H. C. Miller, Second Vice Prest., Thomas C. Merrill, Treasurer, J B. Grant. Ex Committee, H. F. Bartine, Ex. Committee, George E. Owen, Secretary. General Warner, just before leaving to-night for his home io Marietta, said to a reporter for the Southern Associa? ted Press : "The committee was unanimous for endorsement Two thirds of those present T7ere Republicans. The silver j convention in St. Louis will certainly support Bryau. The gold men cac have ail the tickets they please, the more the better, but we must have only one silver ticket if we are to win. No silver man of national reputation from any other source. We want all the big silver guns to come to the St. Louis convention. The Democrats gave us all we asked for and more than we ex? pected a year ago. If we bad drawn the silver plank to suit the Domocrats we would probably have made it a lit? tle more conservative. We must have a silver daily newspaper in Chicago, and I think there will be one here soon. We expect to beat McKinley in Ohio. The people there are not for the gold standard. I live among them and know them. HIM-i mm -wm* - COLON, COLOMBIA, July 13.-The government of Costa Rica is issuing a decree withdrawing its present, system of currency and establishing a gold standard. A Bolt at Chicage There is now some indication of an impending bolt in the Chicago convention At present pandemo nium reigns. Anarchy is in the sad? dle, and the course of the democracy is threatened with dangers so formi? dable and numerous as to make a creditable issue almost out of the question. Chaos and ruin wait on conspiracy and stupidity. It is a shameful spectacle. We cannot repress a feeling of mingled pity and regret as we be? hold a great political party, decora? ted with resplendent names and his? toric deeds, turning away from the original landmarks erected by its founders and bartering its traditions and its ancient principles for an un? savory and unsatisfying mess of pot? tage. Such unblushing apostacy would seem sufficient to make Jef? ferson and Jackson turn in their graves. It is worse than apostacy ; it is deliberate suicide. No patriotic and conservative citizen can be indif? ferent to such ac abandonment of honor and principle by a political organization that has been so con? spicuous and influential in the his torical development of American institutions It is true that for nearly a half century the democratic party has been so bent on erroneous and danger? ous theories and policies as to forfeit the confidence and support of those most concerned for the safety and per? petuity of the Nation.. It has per? versely chosen the wrong side of almost every important issue It has fostered discontent and pandered to disloyalty. It has sowed in sin and is now reaping in sorrow There is one hope left for a survival of self respect and of a semblance at least of patriotic solicitude for the National welfare, in the Eastern division of the democratic party That hope is in a bolt at Chicago. Ex-Secretary Whitney and other Eastern democrats are reported as advocating the expediency of such action in a certain contingency. They have expressed themselves as being fully determined to resist to the bitter end any attempt by the free silver faction to ride roughshod over the sound money minority, and, if forced to the extremity of honor? able endurance, to suitably manifest their resentment by bolting the plat? form aod nomination of the conven? tion Under the existing conditions a bolt by the Eastern democrats seems to be the only course left open by which to rebuke, if not check, the revolutionary proceeding of tho free silver majority Such action by Mr. Whitney and his followers would un questionably strengthen and stimulate the conservative sound money senti? ment throughout the country -N Y Mail and Express Fighting in Cuba. HABANA, July ll.-Four Spanish warships, in conjunction with the land forces under command of Col? onel Zaniera, on June 29, attacked the rebels who held possession of Tace and Naguageje bays, near Bara cao. After sharp fighting, the insur? gents were dislodged from their posi? tions. The rebels lost seven killed and the Spanish captured 14 boate belonging to them and destroyed their camps, plantations, etc. The Spanien losses are not stated. General Ochea upon receiving the information that a filibustring expe? dition would attempt to land on the coast near Jaruco, in the province of ll?bana, left his camp with 170 men for the purpose of preventing the fil? ibusterers from getting ashore. Du? ring his march he was harrassed by rebel bands which tried to intercept his reaching the coast. With these parties General Ochea had a number of engagements in which the fighting was of the fiercest character. The rebels made a strong defense of then positions and the firing was mostly done at close range. While storming one of the rebel positions, General Ochea was wounded, though not se? riously. The rebels, who were com? manded by Leaders Montero and Valencia, lost 36 killed and 3 wound? ed and 9 of them were taken prison? ers Among the killed were a number of foreigners. In addition to those rebel losses the Spaniards, when they reached the coast, captured seven prisoners from the expedition they had gone to intercept. The troops also captured 31 rifles, a great many machete and 6,000 cartridges. The Spanish loss was 8 wounded. A Heavy Fire Insurance. The Bishop of Petersburg cannot j help saying good things both in and out of the pulpit-especially out of it. The other night a rich, benevolent, but somewhat brainless millionaire, was boasting after dioner that he gave away ?2,000 to the poor regularly every year. He said : "I think it is right, you know; a sort of duty of one in my positioo. i can't say what becomes of it, but it's given away in charity, that's all I know and that's all I care about it. ?2,000 every year.'7 "What," said the bishop, "do you really mean to say you pay away ?2.000 to the poor every year as a religions duty V "I assure you, my dear sir, it is so," re? plied the wealthy man, with careless complacency. "Well," said the witty bishop, "that's the largest insurance against ?re I ever beard of!" * Gold Men Decide to Bolt. A Pronunciamento Issued Prom Chicago. CHICAGO, July 13.-The honest money Democracy of Illinois, through its executive committee, issued an address tonight to the Democrats of other States, calling upon them to nominate another national ticket and adopt a platform of "sound money" principles, upon which the nominees can appeal to the people of that opinion. This addi ess was author? ized by a meeting of the executive committee Saturdy night, and a com? mittee ot three. This committee met today in the law office of Henry S Robbins, president of the Illinois Democratic Sound Money league, and agreed upon the address, which is as follows : A national convention, convened under the constitutional authority of our party, has just closed its see sion in the city of Chicago. It en? tered upon its work by violating all party precedents in the rejection of a distinguished Democrat as its pre? siding officer. It deprived a sover? eign State of a voice in its deliber eration8 by unseating, without cause or justification, delegates elected with all the regularity known to the parly organization. It refused to en? dorse the honesty and fidelity of the present Democratic national admin istation. It adopted a jplatform which favors the free and unlimited coinage of silver by this country alone at a ratio of 16 to 1, and thereby its reputation a time-hon? ored Democratic principal which de mands the strict maintainance of a sound .and staple national cur? rency. Finally, to make it still plainer that, although in name, it was not in fact a Democratic convention, it nom? inated for President one who is not ir; his political conviction, and has not i always been even in his profession, a Democrat. This has made such a Grisis, both for the nation and the Democratic party, that the sound money Demo crats must at once decide what action they will take for the pro | tection of the honor of the nation, j the prosperity of the people and the life and usefulness of the party. The sound money Democrats of Illinois have fully made up their minds that a new Democratic nation? al convention should be called for the earliest feasible date to nomin? ate Democratic candidates for Presi? dent and Vice President, and adopt a platform of Democratic principles, and to state to their fellow Demo crats of the other States their reasons, as follows : 1st The sound money Democrats, to make certain at once that their re? volt against free silver is determin? ed and will be organized. It is un fair to oblige the credit of the na? tion and the business and industrial interests of the people to merely guess what the sound money Demo? crats will do in November, and to wait until november to find out. 2d. The nomination of n new j ticket is the logical course, without it, and a sound money Democratic campaign, 'he whole educational forces of sound money Democratic sentiment would be paralyzed from the beginning. Republicans cannot argue the sound money question to Democratic voters. Republican sin cerity of that question is doubted by : the Democratic masses The tariff question will be put to the front and ! insisted upon by Republican speak- \ i ers, and the Republican press, as it j ' has been repeatedly done, by McKin-1 I ley himself. Democrats will not lis- j i ten to talks on finance when it is ac- ? I companied by abuse of the Demo- j eratic party. The most effective j force at this time for a campaign is | the force residing in the sound j money Democrats ; for they are pro- j foundly in earnest and can get a ( hearing from Democrats that the Re- , publicans cannot possibly get | . Without a campaign we should not j j only have no speakers, but our press j ? would be firing in the air ; and the ? whole force of campaign organiza- ?, tion and campaign workers in cam- j, paign literature and the great power j of constant private discussion and ! appeal would all be lost. 3d. A new convention would also j preserve for the future the opportuni- , ties of the Democratic party. Unless a clear comparison is made between j the genuine Democrats who are drifting into Populism or are clready ? in Populism, and unleRS that clear- j cut separation is supported by or- j, ganization and a reorganized Demo- j eratic party is the result, the party j, has no chance of regaining public j confidence for years to come The j sound money Democrats in the differ- i ent States must either make in clear j , that they have no association with j j the Bryan party, or they must accept association and entanglement with ? it ; and all State organizations will, j in the public mind, be for it that do j not make it absolutely clear that they ! are against it. 4th. Democrats who believe prin- j i eiples must have a party. They now j have the opportunity to recognize ? and Reep the Democratic party and j the interests of the nation impera- i tively Democratic, and the real Dem- 11 ocratic party shall be rescued out of i Populism and kept on its historic foundation The shouml money Democrats are already sufficiently or? ganized in this State to be able to meet their fellow Democrats in a new convention and are anxious to confer with representatives of any other State whenever a conference can be brought about. Communications should be addressed to Mr Charles A Ewing, chairman, Palmer House, Chicago. John M. Palmer, Charles A. Ew? ing, Franklin MacVeagh, Ben T. Cable, VV. S Foreman, Thomas A. Moran, John P Hopkins. Henry S Robbins, A. A. Goodrich, Adolph Krauss, James M Sheeman, Charles II Williamson, Lynden Evans, R E Spangler, executive committee of the honest money Democracy of Illi? nois This pronunciamento of the gold party of Illinois set the pace for the east, but iu the minds of the leaders there is not an abundance of faith that the party organizations which sent gold delegations to the Chicago convention will declare for another convention The most that Illinois expects is that enough gold Demo? crats outuide the regular organiza? tions will send delegations to the new convention proposed, so as to make it successful, and -the middle and Southern States are relied on to give the new movement much sup? port. It is in those States that the gold men expect to win. Names of standard bearers have been freely mentioned Chief among them is Secretary Carlisle. He is regarded as the ideal candidate if he would accept, but no assurances have been received from him Henry Watter? son is looked upon with almost equal favor, coming from the same State, but he is out of the country and it is not known when he will return. The other statesmen mentioned are Senator John M. Palmer, of Illinois, and Secretary J. Sterling Morton, who is from Bryan's State Senator Hill is regarded as the great obstacle to the co operation of each of the party organizations in j the call for a new ticket. From pri-1 vate telegrams received to-day from I the New York senator and other party leaders in the Empire State, it seems almost certain that New York's Democratic organization will favor another convention. Senator Hill's plan is reported io oe the fight for the election of gold congressmen and for the throwing of the presiden? tial candidates into congress, where a contest for a gold candidate would be more probable than a third ticket. Another set back is the announce merit of Postmaster Washington Hesing, a leader of that faction from the start, that he was opposed to a third ticket. He denounced the pro? position on the ground that a third ticket would mean the election of the silver Democratic ticket. The revolt of the Illinois delega? tion against Governor Altgeld, which broke out first in the convention hall when the State swung to Bryan, was accentuated to day by the resigna lion of Col Henry F Donovan of Chicago of hi? position of inspector general of the lliinois national guard, to which he was appointed by the governor. Col. Donovan was an original Boies man and led the anti- i Bland forces in the convention against the governor. Before leaving Chicago, Mr Sewall denounced the attack which had been made on him in a morning paper, de? picting him a foe of organized labor He said : "Any one acquainted with thc history of Maine and her lumber and shipbuilding interests knows that the house of Sewall has always had the friendship of its employees. We have never had the slightest trouble nor have we ever opposed union labor. I am an advocate of the cause of the laboring man and our men have always been treated on that principle A Single Rapture. Next to the joy of having made an immense, world-wide hit io oopular lit- j srature, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe I md her husband, the stiff Puritan pro fesror, had an exceptional delight io be? ing paid, in ooo check, $10,000 for the first sale ofUocie Tom's Cabin. The publisher summoned the Stowes to his counting room and paid the Professor the amount in a check to his order. He adds : "Neither the professor nor Mrs. Stowe had ever before received a check, they told me, and they did not know what to do with it or how to get the moDey it represented. I explained to the profes- ! sor that he must indorse the check and present it for payment. I advised him J to deposit, his money in the same bank. | We went thither together. I intro-j duced him to the president and the pro- j fessor opened an account. After in? structing him bow to keep his check I book and so on and cautioning bim and his wife never to go about with more than $5 io their pocket I bade them good day, and they went their way rejoic? ing. When I gave them a second check for $10,000 I found they oeeded no further instruction. The delicious rapture could oot be felt a second time. It had. when re? peated, lost what Mr. Tillmao, the Clark's Hill statesman and philosopher, calls "the freshness of novelty." WASHINGTON, July 13 -Congress? man W. J. Baily of Texas denies that he will bolt, the ticket nominated at Chicago. He asserts on the coDtrary that he will give it his earnest support. He believes that Bryan will be elected. PHILADELPHIA, July 13.-United States Seuntor Quay bas resigned the State chairmanship aud bis successor will be elected at -mee by Auditor Gen? eral Mvlio. permanent chairman of the last Republican State convention and Judge Davenport, of Erie and Repre? sentative Gafusha A Grew, the candi? date for congressmeo at large. Deputy Attorney General John P. Elkiu will be elected Mr Quay's successor. He is a staunch follower of rbe senator. Mr. Quay's resignation of the State chairmanship w takeo to indicate that as a member of rhe executive commit? tee of the Republican committee, he intends to take an active part in the Presidential campaign. - ? ? ? 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