The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 12, 1896, Image 1
twin
IHK SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, iS50.
; Consolidated Aug* 291881.
4iBe Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's."
TBE TK?E SODTHKON, Eetabliehed Jene. 13G6
SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1896.
New Series-Vol. XVI. No. 2
l/|e -?fe|mmi w? Southon j
Published BYsry Wednesday,
JNT. CS-. Osteen,!
SUMTER, S. C.
TERMS :
?i 50 per annum-tn advance
ADVERTISEMENT:
One Square first insertion.SI 00
Every subsequent insertion. 50
Contracts for three, months, or longer will j
be made atTedaced rates.
All communications which subserve private j
interests will be charged for as advertisements, j
Obituaries and tributes of respect will be j
charged for.
Looks Like A Conspiracy, j
Riotous ProceediDg at Winns- j
boro.
COLUMBIA, S C., August 4.-Add
another laure: to the crown of che cam?
paign of education. This greatest of
achievements in getting the candidates
face to face is a glorious thing. Oh
yes, it's great and eternal when candi?
dates are virtually howled down and in
suited on the stand. But'this is one .of
the great results of having candidates
canvass the State, To have rowdyism,
to approaob fights, to risk bloodshed, to
carse, t> bowl and do- things like this
may be something to boast of in this day
and time, bat there has been a different
state of affairs.
To be plaio, to-day's meeting at
Winnsboro was a disgrace to the intel?
ligence of South Carolina. Blame
who you wiii for it, the bold, undenia?
ble fact remains that the meeting was
virtualty in the bands of about a dozen
men, who ran over things and people
and their feelings like the Dalton or
James brothers. They, no doubt,
thought it was the proper way to show
their undying faith in Reform and
Evans, bat they should have remem?
bered that this is not a Conservative
fight, bat that the men at whom they
howled most furiously were of their
own kith and kio. There are those
who charge that it was a job of the
dispensary clique, but that is perhaps
far fetched, and probably accounted for
by the fact that Dispenser John Steven?
son was the chief promoter of the con?
fusion. He was present because of the
.losicg of the dispensary for the day,
but some of the "chemically pure" was
decidedly in evidence. There came
dangerously near being a riot io this
campaign of education. There were
some few meo of voluminous mouth
who were trying to howl down Mr.
Duncan, and for the sake of order the
chief of police wanted to take two of
the most boisterous ?ut, and this pro?
voked the most blatant threats of want?
ing to tear op the eartht if a fight were
wanted, or if the men were arrested.
The curious thing was no ooe wanted
to fight, and the chief did not care
to press matters, as it was quiet and
not a fight he was after. Governor
Evans had some trouble io quieting the
apparently combative spirits of his
howlers, but he struggled ably to that
end, and helped materially, but, of
coarse, it is to be remembered no one
was offeriog to fight.
Then to add to the flame, Chairman
Lyle cried out that this was a scheme
of the town against country. As a mat?
ter of fact the rowing and offers to
fight were entirely from countrymen,
and these wh"o know say there were
not a score of townspeople in the crowd.
A few stood around on the outside. Not
only did Mr. Duncan have to encounter
the dozen systematic howlers, but Mr.
Whitman was treated even more
roughly aod that saint of good manners
and respectfulness had to meet jeers
for a while.
To-day the constables got it all
round. Mr. Dancan spoke of a body
gaurd of Governor Evan Mr. Whit
man wagered that "those fellows" were
protected by whiskey constables, and
Mr. Harrison lamented the day when
he would have to have constables to
protect bim.
Governor Evans in the course of his
Speech for the first time paid any atten?
tion to the Hubbeli-Mixon rebate mat?
ter, and said there was nothing in the
charge. Judge Earle spoke of several
State matters, but more largely of nat?
ional politics, and gave a young jester a
severe rebuke that quieted him. Gov?
ernor Evan, aside from the cheers of
his over-enthusiastic friends, could ard
did speak connectedly ' to the boys."
The other speakers had to meet useless
questions, while many others were how?
led down. The newspaper men and
speakers were given the benefit of a
basking sun, and the boy who held ac
umbrella over the press stampeded du?
ring the threatened row and lost his
little fee.-News and Courier.
Births and Deaths.
Births and deaths reported to Health Chi?
cer Reardon for week ending August 17th,
t835, are: Births-White-One female:
Colered-One male, one female.
Deaths-White-One female 36 years old ;
Colored-Ooe female 19 years old, one male
6 mouths old, one male ?4 months old.
Jas. Gr. Blaine's Silver!
Speech.
Argument of the Man From
Maioe in Favor of the Con?
stitution's Money.
i
This paper has many readers who
were admirers cf the late Janies G.
Blaine, the greatest statesman the Re?
publican party ever had within its
ranks. To some there is no such con?
vincing argument, as the words of a
mao who is admired and, with the hope
of winning a few to the great cauje
of free silver, we publish extracts from
Mr. Blaine's .speech, made in the Sen-]
ate, Feb. 7th, 1S78, when the great
debate for th? recoinage- of silver was
on.
"Mr. President-The discussion on
the qnesiion of remonitizicg silver has
boen prolonged and exhaustive. I may
not expect to add much to its value,
but I promise not to add much to its
length. I snail endeavor to consider
facts rather than theories, to s:ate con?
clusions rather than arguments.
"I believe gold and silver coin to be
the money of the constitution-indeed,
the monty of the American people
anterior to the constitution, money
which the organic law of the republic
recognized as independent of its own
existence. No power was conferred on
congress to declare that either metal
should not be money Congress bas,
therefore, io my judgment, no more
power to demonetize silver than to de?
monetize gold ; no more power to de?
monetize either than to demonetize
both, in this statement I am but re?
peating the weighty dictum of the first
of constitutional lawyers, 4I am cer?
tainly of the opinion/ said Mr. Web?
ster, 'that gold and silver, at fixed rates
by congress, constitute the legal stan?
dard of value in this country, and that
neither congress nor any state has au?
thority to establish any other standard
or to displace tbie standard. Few per?
sons can be found, I apprehend, who
will maintain that congress possesses
the power to demonetize both gold and
silver, or that congress could be justi?
fied in prohibiting the coinage of both ;
and yet io logic and legal construction
it would be difficult to show where and
why the power of congress over silver
ts greater than over gold-greater over
either than over both. If, therefore,
silver has been demonetized, ? am in
favor of remonetizing it. If its coin?
age has been prohibited. I am in favor
of ordering it To be resumed. If it has
been restricted, I am in favor of order?
ing it to be enlarged.
On the mush-vexed question of a
bimetallic standard, my own views arc
sufficiently indicated io the remarks I
have made. I believe the struggle
now going on in this country, and io
other countries, for a single gold
standard, would, if successful, produce
disaster in the end throughout the com?
mercial world. The destruction of sil?
ver as money and the establishment of
gold as the sole unit of value, must
have a ruinous effect upon all forms of
property, except these inves'meats
which yield a fixed return io money.
These would be enormously enchanced
in value, and would gain a dispropor?
tionate, and therefore unfair, advaifcige
ever other species of property. If, as
the mest reliable statistics affirm, there
are nearly seven thousand millions of
coin or bullion io the world, not very
unequally divided between gold ard
silver, it is impossible to strike out of
existence as money without results
which will prove distressing to millions,
and utterly disastrous to tens of thou?
sands. Alexander Hamilton, in his
able and invaluable report in 1791 on
the establishment of a mint, declared
tbat'to annul the use of either gold orsiU
veras money is to a bridge the quantity of
circulating medium, and is liable to all
the objections which arise from a com
Darison of the beoefits of a full circula
tion with the evils of a scanty circula?
tion.7 I take no risk in saying that the
benefits of a fall circulation,and the evils
of a scanty circulation, are both immeae
urably greater to-dav than they were
when Mr Hamilton uttered these
weighty words, always provided that
the circulation is one of actual money,
and not of depreciated 'promises to
pay.'
"In the report from which I have
already quoted, Mr. Hamilton argues at
length in favor of a double standard,
and all the subsequent experience of
ninety years has brought out no clearer
statement of the case, or developed a
more complete comprehension of this
Fubtle and diffioult subject. On the
whole' says Mr. Hamilton, "it seems
most advisable not to attach the unit
exclusively to either of the metals, be?
cause this cannot be done effectually
without destroying the office and char?
acter of them as money, and reducing
it to the situation of mere merchandise.'
Mr. Hamilton wisely concludes that
this reduction of either of the metals
to mere merchandise (I again quote his
exact words) 'would probably be a
greater evil than occasional variations
io the unit from the uuctuations in the
relative value cf the metals, especially
if care ne taken to regulate the propor
t'on between them, with an eye to their
average commercial value. I do not
thiok that this country, n oding so vast
a r. roportio'i of the world's supply of
silver in its mountains and its mines,
can afford to reduce the meta! to the
'situation of merchandise.' If silver
csases to he used as money ic Kurope
and America, the mines of the Pacific
slop? would be closed and dead. Mining
enterprises of the gigantic scale existing
in this country cannot be carried ou to
provide backs for mirrors, and to manu?
facture cream pitchers and sugar-bowls.
A source of incalculable wealth to this
entire country is destroyed the moment
silver is permanently disused as money.
lt is for us to check that tendency and
briog the oooticen; of Europe back to
the fall recognition of the value of the
msiai es a medium of exchange
Riot Near Charleston.
Six Men Badly Hurt at a Ne?
gro Pic Nie.
CHARLESTON, Aug. 4 -There was a
riot at a oegro pic nie held at Mount
Pleasent, just across the river from
here, to day. Some negro venders on
the grounds were violating town ordin?
ances. They were arrested by negro
deputy marshals and the riot was star?
ted by their friends. Knives and pis?
tols were used freely and sis men were
more or less seriously hurt. Toe ring
leader of the riots had his head crashed
by a blow from one of the marshals and
he ?iii probably die. The other injured
men are Marshals Edmond Jenkins,
Henry McNeil, Prince Simon?, Jack
Gethe:s and an unknown uegro These
meo were cut with razors by the rioters
A detachment of the Chicora Rifles, of
the Mount Pleasent naval reserves, was
called out and the riot was quelled. Six
of the ringleaders of the mob were ar?
rested and lodged in jail and there will
probably be a number of other arrests
to-morrowr
The Florida Democracy.
JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 4.-The
threatened bolt of the silver Demo?
crats of Florida has probably been
averted by the action of the State
executive committee in removing
J. F. Welborne and J. P. Fisher, two
gold electors and replacing them by
F. B Carter and R. A. Burford, who
are pronounced silver men, thus
dividing the electors evenly between
gold and silver. As orginally chosen,
two electors were for gold and two
for silver. The State executive com?
mittee, however, got rid of the two
silver electors and replaced them by
gold men. This maddened the silver
Democrats and they ordered a call
for a State convention to consider
the advisability of naming four sil vet
electors, alleging that the gold elec?
tors did not intend to vote for Bryan
This action of the silver Democrats
alarmed the executive committee and
to-day two of the gold electors were
removed and replaced by silver men.
This will probably satisfy silver De?
mocrats and prevent a split.
Some of the effets of free coinage
ina South American republics have
been pointed out in a published com?
munication by the United States
minister to Colombia,Mr. McKinney,
who says that twenty years ago, in
1S86, gold and silver were coined in
tue mints of Columbia, both being
legal tender for debts, and at that
time, owing to the scarcity of the
white metal, silver was at a premium
over gold of about 3 per cent. About
1880 gold was at a premium, because
the imports exceeeded the exports.
Up to 1S85 the government contin?
ued to coin gold and silver, and at
that time gold waa at a premium over
silver of about 20 percent. In 1885
the Congress passed a law that made
paper money a legal tender for all
debts, the paper to be payable in
gold or silver at the option of the
government, this being an attempt to
put silver at par with gold. At once
the gold all went out of the country,
and the government was on a 6iiver
basis in spite of its effort by legisla?
tion to keep gold and silver at a
parity. From that time to this, it
appears, there has been no gold in
circulation in Colombia. The effect
of this was to raise the premium on
gold from '20 per cent, in 18S5 to 190
per cent, in 1895. At the date of
the communication, June IT, ex?
change on New York was 140, the
price of exchange depending whol?
ly on the number of drafts on the
market and the demand for them.
Bradstreets.
The ''bicycle huit for two" has been
celebrated in song, but the bicycle built
for six got away the other day with the
fastest train ip. the world. The Em?
pire S?atc Express, ic a half mile run
near Syracuse. For the first quarter
it was nip and tuck, but io the second
quarter the six boys put on muscle and
crossed the line several lengths ahead
of the train.
Mr. Duncan's latest dispensary
charge, it should be remembered, is not
that anybody really got any rebates;
but that Governor Evans indicated bis
willingness to take them, and told Mix
on that. Tillman had "lined his pockets
with them." Ard Mixon, it will be
noticed, has not denied that Evans
said what Duncan said he said. Mix
on merely claims that Duncan's state?
ment was "unauthorized." In other
words, Mixon appears to be io this
position ; "I told Dancan this and it
is true : but I did" cot expect him
to tell anybody."-Yorkviile Eoquirer.
Telegraph Briefs.
Wednesday, Aag. 5.
The Democratic State convention and
the Populists S:atc convention of Kan?
sas both met. to-day. Fusion between
the two parties seems to be assured.
The house of lords by a vote of 25 to
I 19 adopted the amendment to the Irish
? laborers' bili in opposition to the gcv
{ ernraent.
j Mr. Hanna will cot be able to finif-h
i his political business in the east in time
to preside ovar a meeting of the western
executive committee this week.
-A secret conference of Mootana Re?
publicans, called together by Senator
Mantle, met at Butte yesterday to dis?
cuss the ad visibility of putting up Mc?
Kinley electors. Electing a congressman
was reached aft cr mu ch bitter discussion
by which thc State convention will first
nominate the stale ticket and then the
silver men will draw out and let the
gola men no- :cate electors if they
want to.
The Texas Populists meet in conven?
tion to-day. The outlook is in a chaotic
?tate.
Mr. Bryan telegraphed the Cook
county Democracy that he- will arrive
at Chicago at o'clock Saturday even?
ing.
The New Hampshire Prohibitionists
have neminated Geo. V. Barnard of
Claremont for Governor,
The Missouri Democratic State con?
vention meets to-day. It will fully en?
dorse the Chicago platform, and "Bryan
and Se wail.
The sound money Democratic execu?
tive committee at Indianapolis expect a
large attendance at next Friday's con?
vention.
FIORENCE, Aug. 4.-Mr. Arthur
Husbands of this city was severely cut
this afternoon by a negro whom he had
caught entering the house of Mr. C. D.
Hutaff. He was cut while bringing
him to the station house. All of the
leaders of the right band were severed.
The chief of police is after the negro
now with blood hounds.
Thursday, Aug. 6.
GUTHRIE, Okla , Aug. 5.-Bill
Doolin, tho outlaw who escaped from
the jail in this city four weeks ago, was
surrounded by deputy marshals at
Wcwoka last night. A desperate S?ht
took place and during a fusilade of
shots Doolin escaped. Deputies T
McGregor and Mr. Horace Reynolds
were killed.
HALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 5.-Dr. J. J.
Mott, ex.chairman of the national sil?
ver party, is here. He is an earnest
supporter of fusion of the Democrats
and Populists and has entir-'ly cut loose
from the Republican party. He insists
that fusion of the Democrsts and Popu?
lists in North Carolina on the Stale
ticket is a necessity and coosiders it
certain to come. The Populists are
vehemently protesting against any
fu?'ion. It. looks as if it will not be
consummated.
CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-To-day was the
holtest Chicago has seen this season and
before the middle of the afternoon the
thermometer bad reached 96 and be?
tween 15 and 20 people had been pick?
ed up on the streets overcome by heat.
J. B. Lipman, a well-known shoe
dealer, was the first to die from the
beac. He died to-day from a paralytic
stroke induced by the warm weather.
LISBON, Aug. 5.-Newspapers here
declare that Great Britain has recog?
nized Brazil as the owner of the Isle cf
Trinidad, off the coast of Brazil which
Great Britaio recently took possession
of as a landing for a telegraph cable,
The seizure of the island called forth
energetic protests from business men,
which, according to some papers here,
have resulted in England withdrawing
her pretensions to sovereignty of the
island.
Friday, Aug. 7.
The Populist convention of Ocala,
Fla , yesterday nominated A. N. Weeks
of Walton county, for Governor, en?
dorsed the St. Louis platform, defeated
a resolution to substitute Norton's
name for Bryan's if Sewall did not
withdraw, and passed one asking that
he withdraw. There arc rumors there
that Watson intends withdrawing.
A canvass made last night of the
sentiments of the ."Jf> committeeman
who will meet in to-day's sound money
Democratic meeting at Indianapolis,
shows that 29 of them will favor an?
other convention and ticket. The six
who are opposed include Texas, Geor?
gia, Alambama and three eastern
Staten
Two men were fatally injured in a
boiler explosion at High Spring?, Fla.,
yesterday.
The Texas Populist convention yes?
terday got into a snarl over an amend?
ment to the platform to limit salaries of
all State officers to ?2,000 The plat?
form favors a salary rather than a fee
system.
The Populist convention at Obeline,
Kansas, yesterday endorsed the St.
Louis platform and Bryan and Watson.
The only condition attached to the ori?
ginal proposition was that, if otuside of
Kansas, theie were more votes in the
electoral college for Watson than for
Sewall that the Kansas electors vote for
Watson, but if on the other hand if
Sewall should receive the most votes
outside of Kansas that he be given the
vote of this State. A minority is also
iu readiness which will demand the
nomination of a straight Populist elec?
toral ticket.
There was a sound money club or?
ganized at Newbern, N. C., yesterday.
The Republican convention of Michi?
gan yesterday uominated Mayor
Pingree of Detroit for governor and
endorsed the St. Louis platform.
The Republicans at Milwaukee yes- ;
terday nominated Schofield for governor ;
on the sixth ballot, over LaFollet, who I
... ! 1
led at the beginning.
The governing committee of the Chi- ?
cago stock exchange held a meeting ! ,
yesterday afternoon, but adjourned sub- !
ject the call of the secretary without ac- j
complishing anything toward the settle- J
ment of the Moore Brothers' tangle or
the opening of the exchange. Moore
Brothers have not yet furnished a state?
ment of their affairs and matters are not
in shape for the forming of a pool to
bay in Diamond Match and New York
Biscuit stock. Just when affairs will
be straightened out no one can yet tell.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 6 -The Amer?
ican National bank closed its doors this
morning. No statement of the extent
of the failure can be made until the
books have been examined. The bank
was unable last nigbt to meet its en?
gagements with the clearing bouse. It
had on July 2, deposits of $535,000.
No business firm or other baok has
been effected by the embarrassment of
the American National bank. The
bank is about five years old.
Last night about 9 o'clock John Lee,
a white boy about seventeen years old,
was shot and killed at his home near
Whiteville, N. C., by an unknown
party. The sheriff of the county has
telegraphed to the. Mayor of Florence
for the blood hounds to run the mur?
derer down.
Saturday, Aug. 8.
The steamer Laurada, which has
taken several filibustering expeditions
to Cuba, sailed yesterday from Wil?
mington, Del, with a party of men
and a quantity of military stores
Senator D. B. Hill, of New York,
will not preside at the Bryan notifica?
tion meetiag in Madison Square Gar?
den. He has not yet state;! whether |
he will vote the Democratic ticket or j
not.
It is not at all likely that the Chica?
go stock exchange will re-open its
doors for some days yet to come. The
Moore Bros. are not hastening mattere.
\li agree that it will be well into next
week before arrangements oan be made
to resume business on the 'change.
Clifford Richardson and George
Spillers had a shooting scrape at Reedy
River factory, Greenville county ,on
Thursday night. Both were wounded.
Spillers will probably die from the
effects of a wound through the stomach.
The gold reserve at the close cf
business yesterday stood at $108,548,
984. The day's withdrawals were
?430,400.
The Habana cigar manufacturers
continu-3 to oppose the exportation of
tobacco from Cuba.
George Brown, a colored laborer was
killed yesterday, while moving a build?
ing a* Claflin College, Orangeburg.
Louis Breaux and wife, an aged
creole couple of Iberia Parish, La.,
were murdered with an axe a few
nigbt6 ago.
Condense<l Testimony.
Cha?. B. Hood , Broker and Manufacture'
Agent, Columba;, Ohio, osrtiiie3 that Dr.
King's New Discovery has noeijiial as a Cough
remedy. J. D. Brown, Prop. St. James Hotel,
Ft. VtTayne, Ind. testifies that he was cured of
a Cough of two years standing, caused bj' La?
Grippe, by Dr. King's New Discovery. B. F.
Merrill, Baldw?nsvillc. Mass., soys that he has
a.;ed and recomrrc?:ded it and never knew it
(ail and would rather have it than any doctors
because it always cures. Mrs. Hemming, 222 E.
25th St., Chicago, always keet'S ic at hand and
has tm fear of Croup, because it instantly re?
lieves. Free Trial Bottles at J. P. W. DeLorme's
Drug store.
Highest cf all in Leavening Powe
Bryan's Triumph.
* M
Des Moines Crowds Must
Hear Him Speak.
DE* MOINES, Ia., Aug. 7.-William
Jennings Bryan ended up seven hours
of campaigning through Nebraska and
Iowa at Des Moines to-night. Hib re?
ception here was a fitting climax to the
enthu8ias;n with which he had been
greeted at a number of places in this
State. The weather was swelterins du?
ring all the journey The crowds at
statiors however, did not ecem to
mind the heat, and gave vent to their
enthusiasm without regard to the height
of the temperature. It was 9.30 o'clock
when the train on which Mr. :>ryan
was a passenger pulled into the station
here. Attached to the regular num?
ber of coaches were four special oars
containing a large contingent )f -roe
silver men from De? Moines, Demo?
crats, Populists and bolting Republicans
composing the advance guard of fros sil?
ver enthusiasts from this city, who
joined Mr. Bryan at Stuart, 50 miles
west. More than 1,000 people were
gathered at the railway station here,
and they sweltered and perspired with?
out seeming to mind it in their efforts
to catch a glimpso of the nominee.
Carriages were io waiting, and these
conveyed Mr. and Mrs. Bryan and the
members of the local reception commit?
tee to the Tabernacle, the largest hall
in the city. So great was the crowd in
the streets that thc political clubs that
had assembled at the station to escort
Mr. Bryan to the Tabernacle could net
form in line and were obliged to pro?
ceed as best they could to the scene of
the demonstration. To make progress,
Mr. Bryan bad to pacify the people by a
few remarks. There was a blockade
most of the way, and several times the
Bryan enthusiasts held up Mr. Bryan's
carriage and tried to get a speech from
him. The crush in front of the Taber?
nacle was tremendous. So solid were
the masses of people packed, that the
carriages containing the Democratic
candidate's party could not make any
progress. The holding up process was
repeated, and this time Mr. Bryan was
obliged to again yield to the demands
of the csowd. He made a 10-minute
speech and was wildly cheered. The
multitude wa.- .-atisfied ?.nd ai.owed bim
to pass into the big Tabernacle. The
seating capacity of the Tabernacle i>
4,550. To-night not only was every
chair occupied, but the aisles and all
available 6pace was crowded with per?
spiring, but enthusiastic human beinss.
Those who formed the multitude out?
side had been unable to gain admission.
When Mr. Bryan, escorted by Govern?
or Boies, appeared on the platform,
there was a wild demonstration ?losely
resembling that io the Coliseum in
Chicago when .Mr. Bryan closed the
debate on the platform. Whet: the
tumult was ?oa?y quelled, Governor
Boies introduced his successful young
opponent, and Mr. Bryan made a 10
micutes speech. He was frequently
interrupted by cheers, and when he
concluded another outburst carno from
the highly enthused gathering.
After the speech-making, Mr. and
Mrs. Bryan went to the Kirkwood
House and retired at once, in order to
get a good rest prenaratory to the early
start for Chicago in the morning.
A large lot of ha ra mock s just received ny
H. G. Osteen & Co. Will he fold cheaper
than ever kr:0^c.
Republican Uprising.
LONDON, Aug. 5.-A dispatch from
Madrid to The Central News repre?
sents the tax riots in the province o?
Valencia as serious republican upris?
ings. The leader of the insurrec?
tionists, Bernardo Toledui was .mee a
student cf medicine in New York
city and bis brother is now in com?
mand of a band of insurgents in
Cuba. Among the persons taken
into cuetoday in connection with the
disturbances is one who had ii* his
possesion when arrested a number of
compromising letters, some i'rom
Buenos Ayres and others from the
United States. Stores of anns have
been discovered in two places and
several arrests have been made in
Madrid, where extraordinary precau?
tions have been taken to prevent an
unrising. It is suspected by the
authorities that conspiracies exist in
Gerona and Saragossa The anti
Protestant feeling among the popu?
lace, the dispatch adds, is spreading
and is especially strong against
Americans, who are suspected of
promoting the agitation.
r.-Latest U. S. Gov't Report
sift pynE