Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1895 — Page 2

gftejkutofrottt Sentinel J. W, McEWEJ, Pnbli slier. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

’TIS A GRISLY RECORD

FOURTEEN bYNCHINGS IN ONE FLORIDA COUNTY. Persuasive Methods of Missouri Vigilantes—Large Fire Loss at Arkansas City, Kan.—Abandoned at Sea on • Burning Craft. Three More Lynched. Three more negroes have been lynched In Lafayette County, Fla., for assault upon a white woman. The woman is Miss Jeanette Allen. Miss Allen recognized one of her assailants as Bill Collins, one of her father's employes. After a chase lasting all <day Friday he was captured, but while preparations were being made to lynch him he escaped. All Saturday and Saturday night he was pursued. The chase led through the phosphate region, where negroes are numerous, and two of Collins’ friends attempted to conceal him. These two negroes were shot by the pursuers and their bodies placed on the. railroad track, where they were cut to pieces by passing trains. Collins was recaptured early Tuesday morning. He was taken to the scene of the attempted crime, where he was hanged and his body riddled with bullets. The corpse was then cut down, weighted with stones and thrown into the river. In eighteen months fourteen negroes have been put to death in Lafayette County for assaults upon white women. STRUNG-UP TO A TREE. Missouri Mob Tries to Force a Confession from Farmer Bob Young. Bob Young, a farmer near Richmond, Mo., was taken Tty a mob and strung up to a tree in an effort to extort a confession from him which would lead to the capture of the incendiary who recently burned barns in the vicinity. The mob seized Young at the house of a neighbor and took him to the woods. Upon his denial of any knowledge of the crime they tied a rope about his neck, threw It over the limb of a tree and drew him up. He was let down, and, still persisting in denying knowing anything about the tires, was twice more strung up. Not making any damaging admissions, he was then permitted to depart. Young says he knows the meu, but will not divulge their names. LEFT TO THEIR FATE. Passengers on a Burning British Vessel Abandoned by the Crew. News has been received at St. Malo, France, of the abandonment on lire and with her passengers on board of a British vessel, the Why Not, bound for the Island of Jersey and loaded with fodder. The crew of the Why Not, it appears, deserted the passengers when the vessel caught fire and, taking to the boats, succeeded in landing at Erqu.v, department of the Cotes du Nord. These are all the particulars obtainable. The fate of the passengers of the Why Not is not known. SANTA FE SHOPS BURNED. Seven Engines and Many Valuable Tools Destroyed. Monday night at 11 o’clock Hie ten-stall roundhouse, shops, seven locomotives, Corliss engine, lathes and tools of the Santa Fe Railroad Company in Arkansas City, Kan., were, entirely destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated by Master Mechanic Kirk at $125,000; fully insured. The cause of the fire is said to have been spontaneous combustion. In less than five minutes after the fire started the entire roof of the building was a mass of flames. SECURE A LARGE SUM. A Maine Grocer Robbed of $30,L00 in Securities and Cush. At Lovell, Me., the grocery store of J. A. Hutchinson was entered by burglars and $50,000 in cash, stocks, notes and bonds stolen. The securities were kept in a small tin box in the safe ih the store. The burglary was the most mysterious ever committed in Maine. The safe was not blown open, but some one who knew the combination opened it, and, after robbing the box, locked it again.

GRADUATES IN DISGRACE. Expelled for Ducking a Lieutenant Who Wore a New Uniform. Over half the graduating class at the Grove City, Pa., college were expelled for ducking a lieutenant of the college guards, because he appeared in a new uniform. Barely a corporal’s guard of the seniors will receive their diplomas. A number of the freshmen were also expelled for taking part in the affair. Bank Robber Captured. A stranger attempted to rob the Silver Bow National Bank at Butte, Mont., Tuesday. The robber stuck the muzzle of a gun through the cashier’s window and demanded money from the bookkeeper. The latter dodged under the desk and fired six shots into the ceiling to attract the attention of outsiders. The robber ran out without getting any money. He met a policeman and the two exchanged several shots. The robber was caught a few minutes later by Deputy Sheriff Young. Murderer at the Age of Four. Indiana has a youthful murderer in Gilbert Bowsher, 4 years old, who killed Bernice Collins at Montieello, his victim being a toddling infant of 2 years. Bowshflr was angry because the Collins child didn’t speak to him. The authorities are puzzled, the annals of the State failing to record a parallel case. Both families are prominent. Nebraska Gets Rain. Two inches of rain covered the entire State of Nebraska Monday and Tuesday. Fields of grain which had been abandoned as ruined, which had been so parched that a match would have kindled a serious conflagration, have revived, and will in most cases make a full crop. To Bucceed Thurston. Secretary Olney has received a brief telegram from Minister Willis, saying that W. R. Castle has been appointed Hawaiian minister to the United States In place of Mr. Thurston, resigned. Three Killed in a Wreck. Three men were killed by a rear-end collision at Shamokin, Pal A Philadelphia and Reading freight ran into a coal train. The wreck occurred on a. heavy grade and at a sharp curve in the road, and is one of the worst that have occurred there for many years. About thirty cars were piled on top of each other. Wants to Leave Corbett. Rumors are current of trouble between “Jim” Corbett and his wife, and that she has begun proceedings for divorce. Mrs. Corbett’s father, Mr. Lake, said he thought the papers in the case had already been served on the pngilist

LOADED DOWN WITH 'DEBT. Cuba la in No Condition to Pay the Costs of War. - A semi-official statement has been received in Washington from the leaders of one of the most influential elements in Cuba showing that the war expenditures are becoming so enohnous and the sugar and tobacco industries so unprofitable that they believe a general uprising will result from the hard times caused. The portion of the statement concerning the desperate conditions prevailing is as follows: “The War expenses of 1808-78 were paid by Cuba. Spain furnished 212,307 men, but not a single dollar. Cuba was loaded with nearly $200,000,000 debt, besides a yearly budget of $58,000,000 in those ten years. Gen. Lovellar declared in the Spanish Cortes that the war expenses had been $700,000,000, or an average of $70,000,000 a year. Sugar produced then with slave labor was sold at <>% cents a pound. Leaf tobacco was sold 100 per cent above to-day’s prices. Per contra, sugar sells to-day at 1.80 cents a pound, or 30 per cent below cost of production, and is pressed to its last ditch by German beet sugar. The tobacco industry is ruined beyond redemption by a tariff war. Leaf does not pay the cost of labor at to-day’s prices. A $45,000,000 deficit is the last straw on the camel’s hack. The budget of 1803-4 was closed with a $6,000,000 deficit and sugar sold then at 2.625 cents a pound, while this year it sells at I.BC cents a pound.”

COTTON DOING FAIRLY WELL. Corn Promises Well in the South, but Rain Is Needed. According to the Government weekly crop report, the warm weather of the past week has been favorable for cotton, which is reported as doing well in Tennessee and Oklahoma, and is improved in Arkansas and North Carolina, though still backward in the last-named State. In Louisiana the stand has been affected by the cool weather of the preceding week, brff it has commenced to grow again. In Texas the early part of the week was unfavorable, but the warm weather of the latter part was favorable for cultivation, which was badly needed. The warm weather has also been beneficial to corn, replanting of which over the northern pbrtion of the corn belt is about completed? and it is coming up and doiug well.- Urnports from Southern States indicate corn in that section is iu excellent condi-' tion. In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and southern Illinois corn would be greatly benefited by rain. Winttf* whcat)-is in less promising condition in Ohio, Jndiann, Michigan and Missouri, and rust is appearing in Illinois. It is nearly ready to harvest in Kansas and is bending in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Arkansas nnd Kentucky report improved condition, and prospects in Oregon are excellent. SCORES OF PEOPLE DROWN. Cloudburst in Germany Results in the Destruction of Life and Property. A tremendous cloudburst occurred over the Wurtemburg portion of the Black Forest, in Germany, The downfall of water caused the river Eyach to rise and many houses at Ballingeu, Frommern, Dirrwangen and Lanfeti were swept away. Ten persons were drowned at Ballingen, 6even were killed at Frommern nnd nine other persons are missing. At Laufen ten persons were killed. The Black Forest is a mountainous region of southwestern Germany iu the grand duchy of Baden and the west of Wurtemburg, separating the basins of the lthine and Neckar. In many places it is 3,700 feet above the sea. Neckar, Kinzig, Murg, Eltz and other rivers rise in this region. are mainly engaged in rearing live stock, trading in timber gud manufacturing wooden clocks, toys and woolen fabrics. INDIANS WEARY OF SCHOOL. Two Youths Make a Futile Attempt to Reach Their Reservations, Philip Pratt and Victor Bette, two Inlian youths, one an Apache and the other an Arapahoe, arrived at the Indian office at Washington, fugitives from the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa. Some time ago they ran away from a farmer and on returning to the school were sent to the guard house. When released they went to Washington and asked to he sent back to their reservations. lustend they will oe returned to the school under guard. Cuused by Overloading. The Colima survivors declare that the ship was overloaded, badly loaded, topheavy—ull agree to it. When the gale struck her the vessel weathered it badly. There was a list to starboard and she did not right again. Men called out to the captain to cut away the deckload of heavy spars. The captain was obdurate. He knew his luisiuess, or fancied that he did, and would brook no suggestions from what he called the terrified and panicstricken passengers. The ship listed more and more and lost her steering power. The captain rang for more steam, and would not cut loose the decklond, that might have saved her. Steam could not save her. The engines were taxed to their utmost. Still the vessel listed. The panic on board grew worse, the fear of death more intense. Then the captain gave orders for the crew to keep the passengers within bounds. The effect of these orders Was to turn the crew into subaltern tyrants, who acted nB though they sought to prevent passengers from escaping the doom that yawned before them. Those who were saved are some of those who were wiser than the captain, who could see their peril more clearly, and had wit enough to throw themselves into the foaming sea before the Colima gave her last list to starboard. As she did this the captain’s whistle sounded to cut loose the deckload of spars.

Race for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clHbs of the National Baseball Leaguer , Per Clubs. Flayed, Won. Lost, cent., Pittsburg 41 20 15 ~ .034 Boston 34 21 13 .618 Baltimore 34 20 14 .58S Chicago 42 24 18 XH I Cleveland 39 22 17 .564 New Y0rk.......38 20 18 .526 Cincinnati 40 21 19 .585 Philadelphia .....37 19 18 ,514 Brooklyn 37 18 19 .486 Washington 38 17 21 .447 St. Louis 41 15 26 .360 Louisville 37 6 31 .162 WESTERN LEAGUE. Following is the standing of the clubs of the Western League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Indianapolis 34 ' 23 11 .676 Minneapolis 32 19 13 .594 Grand Rapids....3s 20 15 .571 Milwaukee 37 .18 19 .486 Kansas City 36 16 20 .444 St. Fatil 34 15 19 .4st Detroit 32 13 19 ...406 T01ed0*:.....’....34 13 21 .382 Aifed Couple Divorced. The Kanawha Copnty, W. Va., Circuit Court granted a divorce to Mrs. Carney Totiey, aged 72, from her husband, aged 90. They bad only been married three years, but expressed themselves as having hud enough of wadded life. The wife wa* granted alimony. Encouraging Trade Reports. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The tide of business is lis-

ing, even as It was falling just two yean ago, with surprising rapidity. The gain has gone so far and so fast in some branches Uhat the more conservative fear it may not be maintained. But the period of dullness which comes in each market after an unusual rise brings as yet nothing like** corresponding decline. Industries gain much, halt back a little and then gain once more. The demand for consumption steadily increases as the employment and wages of the people increase. Demand for money expands, one bajik reporting 29 per cent larger in the discounts for the country and another 23 per cent more commercial loans than a year ago, and a| but two report some gain. The serious question remains whether the crop will be full enough to sustain a large business, but the worst reports to-day are better by far than the estimates recently current.” KILLED BY CHINESE. Frightful Reports Concerning the Missions at Chengte. A London cablegram says: A special dispatch from Shanghai says that it is almost certain that a massacre of all the persons connected wth the English, French and American missions at Chengte has occurred. Neither men, women nor children have been spared. It is admitted that telegrams have been intercepted by the Government, the object being to conceal the news of the massacre. A French gunboat is en route to Woenchang to investigate the report. Chengte is situated in the province of Pe Chi Li, 100 miles northeast of Pekin. The people composing the population of the city are of a low order. The fact that Chengte is so near-Pekin, the seat of the Chinese Government, makes the outrage all the more flagrant. When the news of the massacre arrived in Shanghai a French gunboat was promptly ordered to Wreng Cheng to investigate. There arc several English warships here, but none has been ordered north. The Americans and English will, however, make a thorough investigation.

FIRE IN MILWAUKEE. Property Worth Nearly a Million Dollars Is Destroyed. Fire early Monday morning, in the center of the Milwaukee, Wis., lumber and tannery district, and only eight blocks from the business center of the city, did $750,000 damag6. At 3 o’clock the flames were under control. Foster’s and Uhrig’s lumber yards, Gallun’s tannery, the steambnrge Itaieigh and the steambarge Lucy Graham were destroyed. The Schlitz brewery had a narrow escape from being burned. Other shipping was damaged, as was considerable other property in the neighborhood. GOULD VICTORIOUS. Uis Yacht Wins a Prize in the London Regatta. In a fresh northeaster Howard Gould’s tyvepty-rater Niagara defeated two other yachts of the same class in a race for a prjze of £2O in the regatta of the Royal London Yacht-Clhb at Sheerness, England. The Prince of Wales’ Britannia and A. B. Walker's Alisa were to have started oyer the same course in a race for a prize o’ffered for yachts of their class, but the 4hsa’s main sail split at the gaff and she was compelled to retire.

TP RESCUE PEARY. Expedition Being Fitted Out to Sail Next Month from St. Johns. The whaleboat Kite has been chartered at St. John’s, N. F., to carry an expedition of ten persons to Greenland to rescue Lieut. Peary, the Arctic explorer. Emile Diebitseh, Peary’s brother-in-law, will have charge of the party. Mrs. Peary will not accompany the party, but will waiit for the return of her husband at St. John’s, The Kite is to start about the middle of next month. Cabinet Now Complete. President Cleveland Friday afternoor. announced the appointment of Richard Olney, of Massachusetts, to be Secretary of State and Judson Harmon, of Ohio, to be Attorney General. The announcement of Mr. Olney's promotion caused no surprise, ns it had been expected, but the nomination of Hnrmon caused a sensation, as his name had not been mentioned in connection with the vaenney. Mr. Harmon is about 50 years old, has been a judge of the Common Pleas in Cincinnati and at present is oue of the counsel of the “Big Four” and other roads. Missouri Is Bank-Full. For the first time in almost a year the Missouri river is running bank full at Omaha, and is within ten feet of the danger line. Every river in Nebraska is on the point of overflowing Formosan Republic Dead. The republic proclaimed in Formosa has collapsed and President Tang has escaped. The Chinese forces in North Formosa are disorganized at the approach of the Japanese. Alfaro Proclaimed Chief. Gen. Eloy Alfaro has been proclaimed supreme chief of the revolution in Ecuador. He is preparing to leave Nicaragua for Guayaquil. Three Lead Miners Killed. A portion of the Doe Run lend mine at Flat River, Mo., caved iu, killing three men.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to 81c; corn, No. 2,53 cto 54c; oats, No. 2,30 c to 31c; rye, No. 2,68 cto 70e; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, lie to 12c; potatoes, ear lots, per bushel, 135 c to 50c; broom corn, S6O to $l2O per ton for poor to choice. 1 Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,83 cto 85c; corn, No. 1 white, 51c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 33e .to 35c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn, No. 2,49 cto 50c; oats, No. 2, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2. 67c to 69c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,86 cto 87c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 mixed, S3c to 34c; rye, No. 2,64 cto 66c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, Sse to 86c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; rye, 60c to 68c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 85c to 86c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; rye, No. 2,62 c to 04c. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5,00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 1 hard, 85c to 86c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 57c to 59c; oats, No. 2 white, 36e to 37c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 82c to 83c; corn, No. 3,51 cto 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; barley. No. 2, 4Se to 52c; rye, No. 1,67 cto 69e; pork, mess, $12.25 to $12.75. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 84c to 85c; corn* No. 2, 58c to 59c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 38c; butter, crenmery, 14c t<y 19c; eggs. Western, 13c to 15c.

SILVER BABE IS BORN

ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS SPONSORS FOR THE CHILD. Demand the ie to 1 Ratio, and Ask the National Committee to Call a Currency Convention—Policy of the Administration Criticised. Silver in the Saddle. Springfield correspondence: Illinois Democrats in convention declared unqualifiedly in favor of the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 with gold. This declaration was adopted without one dissenting voice from the 850 delegates who composed the convention. The delegates also went on record as being in favor of the holding of a national Democratic convention, to take action on the money question. John P. Hopkins, of Chicago; W. H. Hinrichsen, of Jacksonville; George W. Fithian, of Newton, and L. B. Parsons, of Flora, were named as delegates-at-large from this State to attend such convention if one shall be called by the properly constituted Democratic authorities. By 10 o’clock in the morning the streets were thronged with silverites who had

W. H. HINRICHSEN, The moving spirit of the convention.

come from all parts of the State. Blue badges heralding the war cry of “16 to 1” were as numerous as snowflakes in December. Many delegations carried banners proclaiming their belief in free coin-

THE ILLINOIS SILVER CONVENTION IN SESSION AT SPRINGFIELD.

age of silver and altogether no small degree of enthusiasm prevailed. As early as 9 o’clock the different congressional delegations began holding caucuses in the rooms of the capitol building for the purpose of selecting committees on credentials, rules, permanent organization and resolutions. It was after 11 o’clock when the committees concluded their work and then a stampede was made to get desirable seats. The hall was arranged in regulation gala attire, bunting and flags being draped in reckless profusion. Over the entrance two immense flags were draped. The galleries were filled as soon as the doors were thrown open, a majority of the occupants being ladies. The very first evidence of any enthusiasm by the delegates was when Mr. Hinrichsen walked to the platform. Then a few men near the center aisle clapped their hands. “Billy” O’Brien, of Chicago, jumped on a chair to see what was np. “That’s Hinrichsen,” he shouted. The Cook County delegation began to ap-

TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN CRAWFORD.

plaud, and kept it up until the contagion spread to the country members. Hinrichsen shook his curly head, hut never slackened his pace until he reached the platform. When he took up the gavel the applause drowned the rapping which called the convention to order. This time the secretary bowed right and left. When the noise finally died down the invocation was pronounced by the Rev. F. W. Taylor. Reads Palmer Out of the Party. Then came Mr. Hinrichsen’s speech, which was one of the great sensations of the convention, s Chairman Hinrichsen read the opponents of silver out of the Democratic party in his gpening address. He struck particularly at Senator John when he declared that any man who opposed the State committee had not a drop of Democratic blood in his reins. He appealed all through his speech to the radical element of the convention. He delighted those who are strong in their disapproval of President Cleveland by

mentioning his name in connection with the assertion that the president was neither in accord with the people nor with his party. Bat the telling stroke by the Secretary of State was made when, with

GOVERNOR ALTGELD.

gavel uplifted and head thrown back, he declared that the delegates had the authority to take whatever action they saw fit. The delegates showed their gratification by prolonged cheers. After this incident the convention was with Mr. Hinrichsen at every point. At every remark made by the chairman of the State ebmmittee the delegates let loose an installment of the enthusiasm which had been so judiciously secreted prior to the appearance of Mr. Hinrichsen. Ex-Congressman William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, took tip the denunciation where Hinrichsen left off and drove the convention into a frenzy of enthusiasm by heaping criticism on the head of the national administration. Nor did he stop there, for he went down the line of President Cleveland’s supporters. Gov. Altgeld followed in the, same course, as did exCongressman Andrew J. Hunter. This was the means taken to arouse the enthusiasm of the delegates’,' and it was successful. Crawford for Temporary Chairman. At the close of the address Chairman Hinrichsen introduced as temporary chairman Monroe C. Crawtord, of Union County, who had been recommended by the State committee. Judge Crawford made no remarks except to impress upon the delegates that their action was being watched by every person in the State. He told the delegates that if they wanted free silver to say so, and then announced that he was ready for business. Judge Kramer moved that .the various congressional districts be called that the chairman might name the delegations’ selections for the various committees. It

was carried. Thompson W. McNealy, of Menard County, wanted all resolutions of a political nature referred to the committee on resolutions without reading. Thomas Merritt, of Marion County, protested. He declared that 6uch a move would be gag law and that gag law should have no place in such a convention. Upon this show of opposition Mr. McNealy withdrew his motion. Secretary Bentley then read the list of committees as appointed by the congressional delegations. By unanimous consent Judge Henry S. Miller, of Chicago, and Andrew J. Hunter, of Paris, were added to the committee on resolutions. The convention then adjourned for dinner. The afternoon session began work with little delay. The committee on credentials reported no contests and recommended that the sitting delegates be declared the delegates of the convention. The report was adopted. The committee on rules favored those used by last summer’s convention. This report was also adopted. When the committee on permanent organization reported £*-Judge S. P. McConnell as the permanent chairman, Cook County broke loose. The delegates shouted for the president of the Iroquois Club all the time that Judge Crawford was putting the motion to concur in the report of the committee. Ex-Congressman Nicholas E. Worthington, of Peoria County, Free P. Morris, of Iroquois, and Judge Bell, of Hamilton County, were appointed a committee to escort Judge McConnell to the chair. When he ascended the platform the umbrellas and silk hats of the Cook County men again went into the air. When the applause the Chicago lawyer had died away Mr. Crawford introduced Mr. McConnell. Without delay he began his address to the convention. It was warmly, even enthusiastically, received. He was applauded frequently, and at times so long that the delegates lost the thread of the silver argiment which Mr. McConnell made.

The convention was full of political sensations. The greatest excitement came just before the adjournment of the convention. The passionate speeches had all been made, and the Democrats, who filled every chair and the aisles of the convention hall, were ripe to indorse the action of the resolutions committee. Ex-Con-gressman George W. Fithian was chairman of the committee on resolutions. Resolutions Adopted. Mr. Fithian in a clear voice read the platform. Several times during the reading of the declaration for free coinage he was interrupted while the convention went into transports of enthusiasm. When finally he pronounced the words 16 to 1 the delegates jumped from their seats and threw their hats into the air. For fully five minutes the jiproar lasted. The first outburst died away only to make way for another. The resolutions adopted by the convention and read by Mr. Fithian were as follows: Whereas, Sliver and gold have been the principal money metals of the world for thousands of years, and sliver money Is recognized and used as bonest money between Individuals and between nations not-

withstanding the varying ratio* between ail. ver aDd gold; and. Whereas, The demonetisation of (liver s«« deprived the people of free use and benefits of au Invaluable and original money metal and has Increased debts and added to the burden* of the people by lowering the value of labor and labor products; and. Whereas, The Constitution of the United States prohibits any State from using anything but gold and silver coin as a legal tender for the payment of debts, thereby recognizing that coin composed of allver or of gold Is honest money and fit to be used as a legal tender, therefore, be It Resolved. By the Democrat* of Illinois, In convention assembled, that we are In favor of the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the United States, and demand the free and unlimited coinage of both metals at the ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the action of any other nation, and that such coins shall be a legal tender for all debts, both public and private, and that all contracts hereafter executed for the payment of money, whether In gold, silver or coin, may be discharged by any money which is by law legal tender. Resolved, That we hereby Indorse the action of the Democratic State Central Committee in calling this convention, and we Instruct the committee to carry out the will of this convention as expressed In Its platform by Inaugurating and carrying on a campaign of education In this State and to thoroughly organize the Democracy of the State on the lines as laid down in the platform of this convention. Resolved, That the Democratic members of Congress and members of the Senate from the State be and they are hereby Instructed to use all honorable means to carry out the priuciples above’ enunciated. Resolved. That we request the Democratic Xatloual Committee to call a Democratic national convention to consider the money question not later than August, 1895. If the committee refuses to call such a convention, then we Invite the Democratic State Committees of other States "to take concurrent action with the Democratic State Committee of this State lu calling such convention. Free Silver Delegates. Following are the men appointed by the Illinois Democrats to represent the State

SENATOR PALMER ON THE STREET.

in the proposed national monetary conference: First District—Thomas Gahan, Chicago; F. J. Gaulter, Chicago. Second—P. Kern, Chicago; Thomas Byrne. Third—J. J. Coughlin, Chicago; W. ,T.

O’Brlen, Chicago. Fourth—Thomas E. Gallagher, Chicago; James McAndrews, Chicago. Fifth—John Clancy, Chicago; J. J. Brennan, Chicago. Sixth—H. C. Bartling, Chicago; Frank Agncw, Chicago. Seventh—D. G. Moore, Chicago; J. W. Lanehnrt, Chicago. liranen, Sycamore; Phil Freiler, Elgin. Ninth—M. H. Cleary, Galena; Charles Nleman, Freeport. Tenth—C. K. Ladd, Kewanee; M. J. Daugherty, Galesburg. Eleventh—D. Heenan, Streator; C. S. B.vdla, Falrbury. Twelfth—J. W. Downey, Joliet; G. N. McDowell, Danville. Thirteenth—W. H. Purcell, Champaign; Baird Feltney, Normal. Fourteenth—Charles Fosbender, Lacon; Lute C. Breeden, Lewiston. Fifteenth—C. S. Hearn, Quincy; N. P. Kennedy, Browning. Sixteenth—H. T. Rainey, Carrollton; Sylvester Allen, Bluffs. Seventeenth—W. S. Nelson, Decatur; T. W. McNealy, Petersburg. Eighteenth—Rufus Huff, Sullivan; W. H. Dowdy. Greenville. Nineteenth—George M. Lecrone, Effingham; J. W. Graham, Marshall. Twentieth—W S. Cantrell, Benton; J. R. Creighton, Fairchild. Twenty-first—N. B. Norrison, Odin; E. C. Pace, Ashley. Twenty-second—H. N. Deltrlch, Anna; F. M. Youngblood, Carbondale. Then the list of the delegates-at-large was adopted. The delegates-at-large elect-

JUDGE NELSON IN AN ARGUMENT.

ed were: John P. Hopkins, Chicago; Geo. W. Fithian, W. H. Hinrichsen and L. E. Parsons, of Clay County. The alternates chosen were: John Warner, Peoria; John Watson, Galesburg; Gen. Alfred Orendorff, Springfield, and G. C. Whitnell, of Johnson County. After this was done motion was made to adjourn, which was carried. A report originating in Cincinnati, 0., that Minister Edwin Dun, of Ohio, who has represented the United States at Tokio in one capacity or another since ISS4, is to be removed and that J. F. Connelly, late comptroller of Newark, N. J., is to succeed him, is denied at the State Department. The pension of the late Secretary Gresham remained unclaimed for a little over three years and technically has lapsed, but it can be recovered by application and proof that for the three years the disability continued. The amount due is sl.100.

STRAY BURROS.

Thwy Furnish ■ Desert Indian With ■ Livelihood. . An old Indian, known to prospectors as “ Figtree John,” has for many years lived alone beside a large spring in the Colorado desert in San Diego .county. His home is one of the most desolate and inaccessible spots on the earth's surface and the last place one would expect to find a human being living in contentment. It is close to the Mexican line and about fifty miles east of the hills that form the western boundary to the waste of white sand. At all seasons of the year the heat is intolerable and the awful hot wind blows day and night. Five yards from the spring in any direction there is not a living green thing in sight—only the blinding glare of the sandy plain stretching for miles on all sides until it joins the foothills in a simmering purple hue. Figtree John’s place, however, is a tiny oasis of about 20U square feet. The spring is a large one and the water pure and fresh when it bubbles from the earth. But it evaporates during the day almost as fast as it comes from the ground, so that the surface is only moistened for a small extent. On the edge of the spring grasses and weeds grow, ana one large hg tree - spreads its branches over the whole spot. The tree hears fruit almost the

year around and also serves as a shelter ,lor John. Blapkets are spread on the ground and camp utensils scattered around. But there are always plenty of things to eat and drink that have been brought froui,the markets of civilization, and thfl way John obtained these, was-a puzzle to the prospectors for a long time. He never did any work and certainly could not raise nor find anything to sell anywhere near his place. Bn| it seems John’s money has always came to him without an effort. He simply' lay down and waited. It is horrible to, think about, but he waited for. the pack burros of prospectors who had been overcome by thirst apddied in the desert. John’s place is several miles off the trail of prospectors going to and from the gold country, and hundreds of bleaching bones have been found in the vicinity. Most of these men have several burros and good outfits when they start, but somehow they lose the trail or are overtaken by sandstorms. All share the same fate—a few days of horrible suffering and then death. The burros, being more hardy than the men, are more able to stand the hardships, and when their masters lie down and die in the burning sand they find water by instinct. Since old John has been at the spring a large number have come to his place crazy for water. Of course he takfck care of them and makes a search for their owners, or holds them for identification. Sometimes they have expensive outfits, showing the owner to have been a tenderfoot that expected to find a mountain of gold. The provisions in the packs John has always appropriated after a certain time, and the burros he has sold to people in the foothills to whom he makes periodical trips. On one occasion a whole train of burros came to his place, and the owners were never found, so that John cleared several dollars just by waiting under his fig tree. Old John is perfectly happy in his desert home, and is well pleased to have prospectors die in the desert, so long as their burros come to his spring. He takes good care of the animals and becomes very friendly with them. He never sells any of them or the contents of their packs for at least a year, but keeps them in case any one calls to claim them. But nobody ever calls to claim stray burros that are driven by thirst to Figtree John’s place.

The Art of Breathing.

It is perhaps one of the signs ot the times, to those alert for indications, that the art of breathing has become more and more a. subject of attention. Oculists as well as physiologists go deeply into its study in a way hardly to be touched upon here. Physicians have cured aggravated cases of insomnia by long-drawn regular breaths, fever-stricken patients have been quieted, stubborn forms of indigestion made to disappear. A tendency to consumption may be entirely overcome, as some authority has within the last few years clearly demonstrated, by exercises in breathing. Seasickness, too, may be surmounted, and the victim of hypnotic influence taught to withstand the force of any energy directed against him. There is a famous physician of Muwich, who has written an extensive norkupon the subject of breathing. He has, besides formulated a system by which asthmatic patients are made to walk without losing breath, while sufferers from weakness of the heart are cured. At Meran, in the Austrian Tyrol, his patients (almost every royal house of Europe is represented) are put through a certain system of breathing and walking. The mountain paths are all marked off with stakes of different colors, each indicating the number of minutes in which a patient must walk the given distance, the breathing and walking being in time together. As the cure progresses the ascents are made steeper and steeper.

Politeness Pays.

When Mr. H. H. Kohlsaat;, the new proprietor of the Chicago TimesHerald, entered the office the other day to take possession, the first person he saw was the cashier, who sab behind his desk with his money stacked neatly in front of him. The man did not know the new proprietor, and when Mr. Kohlsaat approached and politely asked him for change for a $5 bill he crustily replied that he had his money all arranged and entered, and did not care to disturb it. Mr. Kohlsaat said that he ‘would be satisfied with five silver dollars, but - the cashier absolutely declined to accommodate him. Mr. Kohlsaat went away, and in a few minutes the cashier was informed as to his identity. He now is wondering where be fe at.