Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1896 — Page 2

WtJtmocratkSrntiiftt j. W. McEWE.'V, I»utoll«her. WEHSSLLAER, ■ - -t - INDUMA.

CIGARETTES IN IOWA

NO LAW EXISTS TO KEEP THEM OUT. They Get in Under the "Original Package” Decision—South African Haiders Found Guilty of Invasion of the Transvaal. Declared Unconstitutional. United States Circuit Judge Sanborn tuts decided tbe lowa anti-cigarette law unconstitutional, and ordered released ou a writ of habeas corpus Donald C. McGregor, of Cedar Rapids, lowa. The law was passed by tbe lowa legislature last ■winter, and went into effect ou July 4. 1896. and prohibited absolutely the manufacture or sale of cigarettes in the State, or their importation into the .State, McGregor was arrested for importing cigarettes and selling them in.the original packages. and an application for a writ of habeas corpus was made to Judge Sanborn. The attorneys for the petitioner rested tbei* hrgumcnts on the decision of the Supreme Court'Of the United States in tbe famous prohibition case that weat up from the same State some years ago. after the prohibition law was enacted there. That decisWn is to the effect that the Federal constitution, having delegated to Congress the power to regulate commerce betweeh’'tttO several States, the Legislature had' fio power to prohibit the importation of liquors into the State, or their sale in the original packages by the importer. Attorney General Remley argued that the Legislature had power to prohibit the importation and sale of cigarettes. and cited other authorities to sustain his view. Judge Sanborn followed the decision of the Supreme Court ami granted the writ.

PRISON FOR JAMESON. Verdict of Guilty in the Cases of Transvaal Raiders. The London jury in the Jameson South Africa case returned a verdict that all the defendants had been found guilty of the charge of violating tbe neutrality laws in invading the territory of the South African republic. Besides Dr. Jameson, the defendants were: Major Sir John Willoughby. Col. K. Grey. Col. H. F. White, Major R. White and Captain Henry F. Coventry. Dr. Jameson was sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment without labor. Sir John Willoughby to ten months’ imprisonment. Major R. White to seven months’ imprisonment and Captain Henry F. Coventry. Col? It. Grey and Col. H. F. White to five months’ imprisonment each. The court was packed with people. Lord Russell's remarks were distinctly hostile to the defendants, lie Itegan by pointing out that there was no doubt the prisoners liad taken part in or abetted the proceedings at I’itsani and Mafeking. where the invading forces were mustered preparatory to entering the Transvaal. There was no doubt the-' expedition was of a military character, aitd whether it was aimed to overthrow the Transvaal government or to force a change of the laws in the interests of others; it was equally an expedition against a friendly State. SCARED TREASURY GUARDS. Two Explosions of Goh Brought the Guards Out in a Hurrv. Intense excitement was created in "Washington about 10 o'clock Monday night by two successive explosions at the east front of tbe treasury building. The noise was equal to the discharge of a 13-inch gun. ami the concus-iou was felt all along the opposite side of I'ifeentn street. The treasury guards turned out folly armed, thinking an attempt was beIng made to blow up the building. Within five minutes the second explosion occurred. and for a sow minutes there was considerable alarm. A conduit containin? electric wires extends beneath the sidewalk beside the treasury. Workmen hare been making excavations just within the exterior basement wall of the building for the location of elevator engines. By some means illuminating gas. perhaps from an old rusted pipe, had filled The conduit. The method of ignition of the gas has not been explained, but at all events it was set off. The immense Hagstones of the sidewalks Were hurled fifteen feet in the air and broken into small pieces.

Standins of National League. Following ! s the standing of the duos of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati . .61 26 Philadelphia .37 44 Baltimore . .52 27 Brooklyn .. .37 45 Cleveland .. .53 3«» Washington ,34 44 Chicago .. ..51 38 New York . .33 47 Boston . .43 37St. Louis . ..26 57 Pittsburg ./ .44 3HLouisville .. ,21 59 I;.”-' ~ ' Weatera League Standing. Following is ||>e standing of the dubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis «p4T ; 40 39 St. Paul .. . Minneapolis .48 : 35Gr’d Rapids .31 52 Kansas City .44 3<>Columbus . .27 60 Stranded Miners in Alaska. About 3,000 miners are stranded nt Cook's inlet, which is nearly 1,000 miles uarthwest of Juneau. Alaska. They are •camped in tents along Six Mile and Resaurrection creeks, which empty into Tnrnagain Arm, the headwaters of Cpok's inlet In many eases claims underneath the •now had been staked off last year or before the latest prospectors got there. The result is. a large number of conflicting claims which are likely to cause trouble ahould gold be' discovered in paying quantities. ■ > Youthful Desperado at Large. John. Toms, a youthful desperado of St Joseph. Mo., is at, large.in the vicinity ■of Dearborm A deputy sheriff corralled him in a cornfield, but Toms held the officer at bay with a shotgun and has since «nccessfu}ly resisted arrest. He is wanttor . highway robbery. Eye Cruahed Into a Pulp. At Youngstown, Ohio, while watching • game ‘bf ball Su'udhy. Oscar Gilchrist was (truck- in the eye by a foul fly with «ach force that the eye was knocked into «pnlp and fell out of his head. Bush Fires Raging. , Along the Northern Railway, between Vhatcomb and Goshen, bush fires have framed aud,railroad, Wicodver a noqije tfere framed. Unless rain cotqes sooh large tracts of. timber alqnz the Fraser River Wffi be destroyed,.. ' j " Thousands of Dead. •emits received are that forty pttdrperous of aykilled. The total killed b placed

WILL SAVE HIS FATHER. Son Will Return to Russia to Serve in the Czar’s Army. William Goldthwaiter, a Russian, residing at Plainfield, N. J., acknowledges that he is the shjve to the eqjperoj of all the Russias, and has bowed to the imperial will and announced his intention to return to his native land at, once. By so doing he will save his father from a severe penalty, which, in the old man’s case, might mean ijanyioiTidion to tue dread Siberian mines, or*e?vefi worft/TX he Is under the ban .is a former/ttvolm tjonist, and suspected of participation in the assassination of the Emperor Alexander 11. Young Go’dthwniter is a native of Moscow, and has been i(i this? try several years. His birth place on the 29th of August, 1875, and is formally recorded in the register of Moscow. Un the 29th of May the imperial police copied his name nponfhe enlistment rolls of the empire, and, according to tbe laws, he must report for enlistment in the regular army within 72 hours of sunrise of the day that marks the anniversary of his birth. If the young man had his own way he would remain in this country and defy the Russian Bear and the imperial laws, as he has become attached to the land of his adoption. But he chhnot help himself except at tbe sacrifice of his own father. The notice of enrollment! was given his father, who is a paper dealer in the suburbs of St. Petersbprg, and unless William reports op the .first day, of September the father will have To beir the penalty. The young man has no idea what this penalty will be,' but his conjectures are colored with dark forebodings. William will go back to save his father and remain in the army for three years.

GEO. W. JONES DEAD. Famous Man of lowa Finally Called to Ills Home. Gen. George W. Jones, the oldest surviving ex-United States Senator, died Wednesday night at Dubuque, lowa, aged 92. He was born in Vincennes, dnd., on April 12, 1804. He gave Gov. Dodge valuable assistance in the Black Hawk war. In 1833 he was appointed a judge of the territory. He was nominated as congressional delegate for the very extensive Michigan territory, to which position he was almost unanimously reelected in 1837. In 1840 Gen, Jones was appointed surveyor general, from which office he was removed by President W. H. Harrison, lie was reappointed in 1845, but resigned in 1848 to take his seat ns Senator for lowa, which place he held two terms. President Buchanan appointed Senator Jones minister to Bogota, in South America, whence he was recalled in 1861. Soon after his arrival in America he was placed ns a prisoner of state in Fort Lafayette for writing a persona! letter to his friend, Jefferson Davis. He remained several months’in confinement, nnd upon being released took up his residence at Dubuque. Since the war he bad lived a retired life. MACEO WELCOMED GARCIA. Morales Denies Stories of Dissensions in Cuban Ranks. Col. Rafael Perez y Morales, one of the signers of-tbe Cuban constitution, arrived in New York from Kingston, Jamaica. He was shot in the eye during a recent battle and comes to New York for surgical treatment. “Tije reported ddtith of Gen. .Jose Maceo was in no way due to alleged dissensions with,Gen. Garcia,” said U6l. Mqynles. ‘‘When Gon. Garcia landed Gen: Maceo willingly turned over his command and made a congratulatory speech to the army. Ho served under Gnreia in the previous war and said that he was glad to do.so again. Scarcely a day passes without an engagement in eastern Cuba. A'lmost the whole province oi Santiago de Cuba is nb’w 7n th 4 hands of the insurgents. The army has fifteen pieces of field artillery manned almost entirely by Americans. We cal! it the Wilmington Battery, in remembrance of the assistance given us by the citizens of Wilmington. Del. What the Cubans most need now is 15,000 more rifles.’’

Twelve Thousand Strike. Twelve thousand New York coat tailors were ordered on strike Wednesday morning to enforce higher prices from the wholesale manufacturers and to Stop a renewal of the task and piece-work system. The large wholesale manufacturers were taken by surprise, as it had been given out that a strike had beet, deemed Inadvisable by the leadeys. A committee of fifteen of thp Brotherhood of Tailors, in accordance with early instructions, stole a march on the manufacturers by visiting all the contractors’ shops, 630 in number, in New York, and 250 in Brooklyn and Brownsville, and notifying the workers to quit forthwith nnd report to their headquarters, lip to noon there were 4,000 tailors out in New York and 4,000 more of the total of 8,000 were expected to quit work before the close of the work day. The 4,000 tailors in Brooklyn and Brownsville were ejected to join in the strike, as they, had decided several days ago. Towsef on the Picket Line. The military infotmation division of the War Department has just issued a volume devoted principally to a description in great detail of the large military schools of Europe. It also includes a topical paper by Ix>rd Wolseley discussing the possibility of a hostile invasion of the British isles, and a curious publication of the regulatjoim for thg use oj war dogs jjj the German army. From the latter it appears that there are really such things as “dogs of war" and that it is a part of the functions of the German soldier to train carefully certain breeds of dogs to aid him in both hostile and defensive operations. The dogs are not intended actually to fight, but by training they are made of value in watching camp, in picket duty, in carrying dispatches and in looking for missing men. k Graia Rates Aire Cut in Half.

The Kansas City, Fort Scott'and Memphis Railroad ent the export grain rate from Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico nearly in two Friday, announcing a rate of Id cents per 100 pounds on wheat and 10 cents on corn from Kansas City to South Port. The slash is the deepest yet ,/tytde since the pKgsejjt,grain rate war wa,« started. .The Memphis also announced a proportionate rate of 10 cents per 100 pounds on grain and grain from Kansas City to Memphis. Want Another Convention. Gold standard Denfocra.,ls will hold a national convention tioflarbt'jthari Sept' 2. Where this, .convention will be held, and how the delegates will be selected, remains yet to be determined. This much, however, was (ilftidM by the executive, committee of sound-money Democracy which met in the cifib room of the Chicago Auditorium Friday. Attorney Halflll Pardoned. Gov. Renfrow at Guthrie, O. T., pardoned William D. jHalfill, a well-known attorney a <ff formerly of Wifi-, field. Kan. Heissued & fraudulent check to a little girt whownbAfriendless on. the atreigt,. enabling her Jo J&hgtng, afld, Vfas bitterly prosecuted. He ha^-serveddiPhi’-ly two years and has become'almost' eh- < tireiy blind. t u i,; ' Mrtmt v ■ 1 iPWAMni- ' ton has almost sprung a sensation on thet country in the issue of the new one-dollnr silver certificates. The bill has proved •ery popular, and demands for it have

eome in from banks in all parts of the country. The officials have been obliged to put a limit on tbe amount that will be issued for tbe present to any one bank, and the figure is fixed nt SSOO. There has been every day since Thursday, when the jmtes fi-«t earns ptj-ing of applicants for them, like that at a box at a popular playhouse. For three weeks peoplg Rave,been writing with inclosures of. cash Asking Jpr an exchange. Some of e rauts h?.ve offered gold for the nejFnoicf, and tKese tqve always beep accommodated to ..tie full amoqjjt offered. In all about sl6,ooQof the nptes Kfs' been drawn out in Washington, ivjyle s»tpe $50,000 has gpjie to. the cpjyjJjy at large. Over $23,000 was sent away Saturday. It is only a question of a short time when there will be plenty to supply every call. FARIS KATS BONE MARROW. Thinly Spread Upon Bread It Has Become a Popular Breakfast Delicacy. Paris now recuperates on bone marrow. After the failure of Dr. Brown-Sequard to rejuvenate the world', the search for the spring of perfietiial youth has been taken up again With undiminished ardor. The agent with which the faded beauty now Seeks to bring back the roses to her ehe< ks arid the" roundness to her form is bone marrow. Bone marrow is the soft, fatty appearing matter fouhd inside the hollow bones of animals. It has been discovered that if bone marrow’' is not the elixir of youthj’at least it is a powerful totwe. Bone marrow is now served in Parisian restaurants, spread raw upon thin slices of bread in a dainty manner, and it is said to l»e a very palatable morsel. Every, one e.-its it who can afford to buy ft, and butchers nre fnrnished with a new branch of industry. The long bones of the ox are split open, the marrow extracted, an I -it is then eaten without, further preparation. LOST IN THE FOREST. Aged Mun Tramps in Dense Woods, Living on Tree Burk. Richard Kingdon, an aged Wilkcsbqrre, Fa., man, went into tbe woods Monday to pick berries and lost his way. The forest is alive with wildcats, and his only protection was to keep continually moving. He wandered miles upon miles in the forest and lived upon the berries and tree bark. His faithful dog remained with him and guided him toward a mountain stream that flowed under the rocks and bowlders. While resting nt this spot a shrill whistle of a locomotive came to his ears and he wearily tramped toward the sound. He reached the edge of tlnforest at length and was found by fishermen in an exhausted condition. It is doubtful if he recovers.

DentU in a Cloud Imre t. , A cloudburst in Bear Creek canyon, just above Morrison, -Colo., Friday night sent down a" solid wall of water ten feet high, which not only did great damage to properly, but caused the loss of fifteeh to twenty lives. A party of campers. fifteen or eighteen in number were living in a, small house just below town. All but one are lost, but their names could not be learned. Viola Fos’er, a little Denver Sffrl.' \vli<» was with this party, was saved. Seiiihkiing parties are out on both sides of Ufa stream looking for bodies of dead and'injured. It is feared there lias been more loss of life, as there were scores of people camping along both sides of tbe crock, both above and below the town. Wires were down in all directions, except the' 'ttdephoiie line to Leadville. At Golden. Colo., three lives arc known to be lost alltl 1 thousands of dollars' worth of property is destroyed. At the Treasury. J’ No gold went out for export Saturday mid the only withdrawals were domestic, $307,100 for hoarding and $5,400 in gold bars. On the other hand, $1,490,000 in gold coin was deposited in the sub-treas-•ury by New York bankers, making the gold reserve nt the elose of business stand at $103,688,180. The otho<r financial centers are also coming forward to reinforce the treasury, and gold was offered in exchange fur legal tender notes to.itb.e amount of $6,000,000. Of this Chicago offered $2,500,000, Philadelphia $2,500,000, and Boston $1,000,000. Divorce for Jennie Yeaniana. John E. Ward, referee, has made a report to the New York Supreme Court that Mrs. Jennie Yeamnns Dillingham, who is known on the stage ax Jennie Yenmans, is entitled to a decree of absolute divorce from her husband. Charles B. Dillingham. Damaged in a Collision, The British bark Dundonald. from San Francisco for Hull, was in collision with the steamer Santarense. The Dundonald’s topmasts are goi«j and a hole was stove in her bow. - Wnehonts in Ohio. At Lima,' 0., an engine nnd twbntythree freight cars on the Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton went in the river on account of a washout. Cholera Reported tn London. A doctor reports a <».se of eW>OTa in Walworth road, South London. The officials are examining iu»> the facts of the case. Eugene Spuller Is Dead. At Dijon, France, Eugene Spuiler, politician. journalist and author, is dead, aged 61.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 57e to 58c; corn. No. 2,25 cto 27e; oats. No. 2. ISe to 19c; rye. No. 2. 31c to 32e; bui ter. choice creamery, 13c to 15e; eggs, fresh, 10c to 11c; new potatoes, per jushel, 30e to 40c; broom corn, common sho't to choice dwarf, $25 to S6O per ton, Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50: wheat, No. 2. 54c to 55c; corn. No. 1 white, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50: hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,58 cto 59c; corn, No. 2 yellow. 23c to 25c: oats. TNo. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2,27 c to 29c. ’ Uifidlfinati— Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.50 to $3.75; ; wheat. No. 2,59 cto 61c; corn, No. 2 nmlxed, 29e to 30c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c ry ftv 28c to 31c„., to.. $3.75'; sheep, $2.00 to $.75: Wneat, No. 2‘rqd, (53c 'to 64'e; corn.’ \'o. 2‘ • yP’How,’27c tti 29c; Oitf*; No. 2 white, 22c I to 21ie; rfye. 3Fe f<P3lfei ’. t'-i-.--, 11 ■' •' i -"'Toledo— Wheat. No. 2<ned S )«4c‘4wfs2d; 1 corn. Not 2 yellow. 26c to 28e; bals.. ; ,Ne.‘’ iTwh’HTt 17c to 19c; rye.. No. 2,31 cto 33*;’ seed. $4.35 to $4.45, M^pankee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 57c" . tq'£Bc; corn. No. 3,26 cto 28c; oats. No. 2 whi ( te„ 4 20 c to 22e; barley. No. 2. 30c to 32i’i rye, No. 1,31 cto 32c; pork, mess. ' $ll.OO to $6.25. Buffalo—Chttle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs. $3?00 t 0—54.25; sheep, $3.25 to $4.00; .avbaiAiOift.') 2. tasd, 63c to 65c; corn. No. ■2-yelblf'- 32c Io 33c; oats, No. 2 white, , ta 24c.. . , New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs $.3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00i wheat. No. 2 red, 05c to (Ulc; corn, No. 2, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; butter, creamery, 11c to 16c; eggs, Westeru, 11c to 13c.

BRYAN AND WATSON

These Are the Candidates of the People’s Party. WILD SCENE ENACTED Nebraskan Carries the Convention with a Whoop. "Boy Orator of the Platte” la Named for Preaident by More than TwoThirds Majority at the Populist National Convention—Hia Refusal to Run Without Scwall for a Mate la Ignored-Great Confusion Attends the Calling of the Roll. W. J. Bryan was nominated at St. Louis Saturday afternoon by lhSi)L*#J>ul!sts as their candidate for President' ofi t'ie United States. Only two other candidates, were nominadtd to contest the-field against Bryan. One was Seymour F. Norton, a lawyer, from Chicago, and the other was Gen. Cpxey. The general’s name was with-

PERMANENT CHAIRMAN ALLEN.

drawn before the balloting was tiegun. Eugene V. Debs would have been a candidate had be not sent a message to the convention declining to accept the nomination. The voting was all one way, nnd when the result was announced bedlam broke loose and pandemonium reigned for fifteen or twenty minutes. The Texas, Arkansas and Maine middle-of-the-road men, with their guidons together, took no part in the demonstration. The middle-of-the-road mon finally massed atsiut their stall lard'Oh the left ‘of the hall, about 300 in number, and liihde a counter demonstration. They cheered nnd yelled anil pushed and fought for ten minutes. The sergeants at arms were powerless to restore order, and, after rapping for five minutes, Chairimin Allen declar<-d Mr. Bryan the nominee, of the convention. At the first session Friday the nntiSewall people moved to change the rules and make the nomination of candidate for Vice-President the first oriivr of business, preceding the nomination for President. It was generally understood this was a test vote on the Sewall proposition, and on it the anli-Sewall people were victorious by KMI majority. Gen. J. B. Weaver, chairman of the committee on resolutions, read the platform ns agreed to by the majority of the committee. Marked applause was given to the pronouncement for free coinage of silver, against interest-bearing bonds, the denunciation of the position of the present administration on the bond question; the income tax. provision, ami the Unban pljUJik. The pintform was adopted ns a w.nole after the minority reports of Delegates Kirby of Texas and Coxey of Ohio had been rejected. The convention met for its evening session at 6:30 o’clock nnd speeches nominating candidates for Vice-President were declared to be in order. Half a dozen candidates were put up. Thomas E. Watson of Georgia had the greatest number of friends. No fewyr than two dozen speeches were made in his behalf. The other candidates named were Sewall, Skinner of North Carolina, Bursitt of Mississippi, Minims of Tennessee and Even I’age of Virginia. All the candidates save Sewall were from the South, ther6 being a tacit understanding that a straight-out Populist frdm tlipt section should be placed upon tlit ticket. When the roll was called'- Arkansas started off with twenty-five : vbfes for Watson. Mr. Patterson of Colorado cast the fdrty-five votes of his State for Sewall amid a round of applause from the Bryan men. Indiana gave her thirty votes to Watson. Kansas gave Sewall eighty-two of her ninety-five votes. Louisiana gave the bulk of her vote to -Watson, Maryland divided her vote between Sewall and Watson. North Carolina cast her ninetyfive votes for Skinner, Tennessee voted for Minims and Texas for Burkitt. This split up the large delegations. Before the roll cal! was completed, however. Texas changed her vote to Watson and there were other changes in favor of the Georgian. Col. Burkitt of Mississippi went to the stand and withdrew his name. Then Minims withdrew in Watson's favor. The Georgian already had votes enough to nominate, but the vote of Tennessee was finally transferred to his column. Some one made the motion to make the nomination unanimous and it was carried with a whoop. Senator Allen called the convention to order at 9:35 o’clock Saturday morning. After the invocation the chairman announced that the first thing in order was the selection of members of the national committee and the committees to notify the candidates for President. and VicePresident. Several resolutions were presented and referred without reading or debate. 3 Weaver Names Bryan. The chairman then called for the nominations of President aiid-Vice-President, and Judge Green of Nebraska took the stage to plaeF Mr. Bryan in nomination. A Texas delegate interrupted with a point of order that'-the States mustt be called' in alphabetical order for nominations. Judge Green was driven off the stage by the Texan's point of order. When Alaha’nia was called Gov. Kolb yielded to Gen. Weaver of lowa. btn C*k’ Gaither ‘<>f t( Alabaina got to the plat-fbrtn first and ’mtfM’jected a speech about joining the cotton fields of the South with the wheat fields of the West. At the conclusion’ of iiis z remarks Weaver came forward and formally placed Mr. Bryan in nomination. , Gen. Weaver in his opening remarks askeil the convention not to applaud., and the delegates listened to him without .much demonstration. But when he concluded by naming “that splendid young statesman, William J. Bryan,” ,tjie <;onvention broke lobse. Cheer foliowe<l cheer; The delegates jumped 1 to their chairs, nnd flags, handkerchiefs, coats, hats and State guidons were waved in

THOMAS E. WATSON. WILLIAM J. BRYAN.

wild confusion. The enthusiasm that followed Gen. Wearer's speech was something terrific. Miss Minerva Roberts led the cheering in the Colorado delegation. While the demonstration was at its height thousands of copies of the “Bryan Silver March” were flung high in air and fell in clouds on the frantic delegates. When quiet was restored Gen. Field of Virginia, who was Gen. Weaver’s running mate in 1892, hobbled forward on his crutch, and, after a brief speech, moved to suspend the rules and make Bryan’s nomination unanimous. The convention rose almost en masse and cheered, Itfit above the chorus’of cheers came the sharp cries of the Texas men. "No,” “no.” Giey yelled. Chairman Allen declared the motion carried, but, yielding to the protest, decided to allow a call of States on the motion. The Texas men wildly protested. The Nebraskan having asserted that he positively would not accept the nomination if Sewall was rejected. Robert Schilling of Wisconsin attempted to secure a recess until Bryun could be’ heard from, but he was howled down, ’ibe greatest confusion prevailed, and Bryan’s nomination was seconded by orators from nearly every State, and at last, after six hours of speech-making, the roll call on the ballot was reached. When Alabama, the first State, was called she divided her vote between Bryan and Norton. Arkansas gave her twentylive votes for Bryan; Colorado, Connecticut and Delaware voted solidly for Bryan. Georgia gave five of her sixty-one votes for Norton of Illinois. As the roll call proceeded it became apparent that Bryan would be nominated before it was completed. At its conclusion the tally clerks had figured the totals, and without further delay Chairman Allen announced the official vote as: Bryan. 1.042; Norton, 21; Donnelly, 1. It was then 4:22. Someone made a motion to adjourn. Tin l chairman put the motion and declared the convention adjourned sine die. The Vote by States. Following is the vote by States, the

totals being those announced to the convention: Ilryuu. Norton. Alabama 28 1-4 14 3-4 Arkansas 25 California 24 12 Colorado 45 Connect lent G I tela ware 3, ...... Florida 8 Georgia 5G 5 Idaho 7 Illinois 311 15 Indiana 20 10 lowa 27 1 Kansas 92 Kentucky 15 1-2 lo 1-2 Louisiana 30 Maine 3 5 Maryland Il Massachusetts 21 Michigan 19 11 Minnesota 40 4 Mississippi 12 tl Missouri G 32 Montana 11 Nebraska 57 Nevada 7 ...... New Hampshire. . 4 New Jersey .. 10 2 New York 34 3-4 It 1-4 North Carolina 70 35 North Dakota 12 Ohio 21 17 Oregon 9 4-9 7 5-9 Pennsylvania 55 Rhode Island South Carolina 3 South Dakota. 17 ...... Tennessee G 7 10 Texas 103 Utah 5 Vermont 3 Virginia 50 3 Washington 10 G Wisconsin 8 4-5 Id 1-5 West Virginia 5 7-8 2 1-8 Wyoming 6 Arizona d Indian Territory 5 New Mexico G District of Columbia G Oklahoma 9 Alaska G ...... Totals 1,047 331 WEDNESDAY. The national convention of the Peoples party was Called to order in St. Louis shortly after noon Wednesday by Chairman Taubeueck ot the national committee. The hall in which the Poprtlists met was the same in which the national Republi'can convention was held last month. There were the same arrangements as to seats. The State delegations were located in the pit, each marked, by a guidon. The galleries reared themselves' above the pit on all sides. The plntfoiyu in front - was flanked by. the press benches. Th-* decorations were not elaborate and were practically the same as those of the Republican convention. The delegates began to come in before 111 o’clock, but the spectators were slow in arriving. It was just 12:87 when Chairman Tmibeneck called the delegates to order. Rev. R. Hill Smith invoked the divine blessing, after which Gov. Stone was introduced, who, as the chief executive of Missouri, anti not as a member of coming the 'People's party’"(o'S‘f. ! l.ouis. Gov. Stone only hinted at the plfid 'differences of opinion between the Democrats and Populists, and hoped that in the future they would unite for the welfare of the country. This allusion to a Bryan indorsement set the Nebraskan's friends on the floor 1u cheering. Ignatius Donnelly- replied to the Governor's address in behalf of the convention. Mr. Donnelly made a “middle-of-the-road" speech, in he mentioned

the names of Lincoln, Jackson. Washington and Jefferson, thereby arousing enthusiasm. He paid an earnest tribute to the People’s party, and, in brief, detailed its doctrines, which, be claimed, seek to array the people against those who would seek to deprive them of their rights. Mary Ellen Lease came into the hall as Mr. Donnelly finished his address and was greeted with cheers. She was invited to a seat on the platform. Chairman Taubeneck announced that the national committee hnd nam«l Senator Marion Butler of North Carolina by acclamation for temporary chairman. The tight which was expected on Butler’s selection did not materialise. Somebody on the platform proposed three cheers for the new chairman, and they were given with a will. Senator Butler’s speech wns long nnd his voice was not capable of penetrating the vastness of the auditorium. The delegates wanted to hear what he said, however, and regardless of the protests of the sergeant-at-arms and his assistants, ran into the aisles and crowded around the platform. The Senator closed witii an ardent appeal to the convention to stand together, no matter what might be the result of its deliberations. The only routine business transacted by the convention was the formation of the usual committee, after which an adjdurnment was taken until 8 o'clock. A sort of free-for-all meeting was held after the convention proper had adjourned, at which many men prominent in the party voiced their views. The meeting lasted for nearly three hours. • No Night Session. The attempt of the convention to hold n night session was a failure. Through somebody's omission no provision was made for lighting the hall, and when the delegates and spectators assembled there the interior of the big auditorium was dark. The telegraph companies sent for n supply qf tallow candles, with which they lighted the tables of their operators. They also furnished candles to the newspaper correspondents, and the flickering

THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE PEOPLE'S PARTY IN SESSION.

lights burning in the two press sections were the only illuminations in the hall. They served to throw fantastic shadows across the fl<x»r where the delegates were assembled, but wqre not strong enough to enable the convention to proceed with business. Chairman Butler arrived long after S o'clock, and announced that as no arrangement could nt that Into hour be made for light, the convention would adjourn until 10 o'clock Thursday morning. THURSDAY. At 10:12 the convention was called to order and nt 12:42 took a recess till 3 o'clock. Shortly before 10 o'clock Senators Stewart ot .Nevada nnd Kyle of North Dakota joined Senator Allen and Gen. Field of Virginia on the platform. The tall form of "Cyclone" Davis of Texas eon Id be seen on the floor, toweriqg above the delegates. “Stump” Ashby of the South State, held forth from a rostrum composed ot a chair. At 10:05 Senator Butler, the handsome temporary Chairman, appeared on the platform. Simultaneously the band struck up "Dixie." nnd the delegates uncorked some of their pent-up enthusiasm. Five minutes later Chairman Butler called the convention to order and the Rev. Mr. Smith offered the invocation. The report of the committee on credentials was called for, but no one responded, and the States were called for members of the committees on permanent organization and resolutions. There were nt times long delays nnd the delegates grew |x>rceptib)y impatient. The middle-of-the-roaders were extremely suspicious. They intimated that it was part of the plot to defeat them. A Dramatic Outburst. After the announcement ot the committee on permanent orgamugtion the members retired. While other announcements were being made a middle-of-the-road man attempted a demonstration. It was dramatically arranged. A squad of mid-dle-of-the-roaders suddenly plunged into the hall through the main entrance and came whooping down the cebter aisle. Delegate Branch bore aloft a big white banner with the inscription: "Middle-of-tbe rdtiyl—a straight ticket." The Texas, Georgia. Maine, Missouri and Mississippi delegations mounted their chairs and yelled. At the same time a middle-of-the-road delegate stationed in the gallery over the platform hurled out through the air about, a peek of small green tickets, which brojte and fell like a cloud ot stage snow over the [>it. The green tickets contained the following financial plank: "We demand a national treasury note issued by the genera! government receivable for all public dues and a full legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, and loaned direct to the people through (fostql and other governmental banks at cost, for the benefit of the people. find'tho purchase and coinage of such amount of gold and silver bullion, at the ratio of HI to L as tuny be necessary to pay the debts of, the Government which lire "made payable in coin. We demand flint the volume of money shall speedily increase to an amount necessary to transact the business of the country on a cash basis.” . Afternoon Session. It was half an hour after the chairman hud cabled the contention co order for the

afternoon session when the committee on credentials rejorted. When the matter of contests had been settled New York called for the report of the committee on permanent organisation. Some of the delegates wanted to adjourn until S o clock, but the anti-Bryan people objected. Senator \V. V. Allen of Nebraska was named for permanent chairman by tLe majority of the committee on permanent organization. This was a straight out-and-out Bryan recommendation, uad the Bryan delegates stood on chairs and waved hats and handkerchiefs. Then the minority report was made. It recommended James E. Campion of Maine as the permanent chairman. With a whoop and a yell Texas’ 193 delegates jumped up and Georgia followed, and soou the “middle-of-the-road” and auti-Bryan demonstration was in full blast. Oh motion the previous question on the adoption of the majority report was ordered. The'call of States began in the midst of great eonfusion. Before it was finished darkues* set in and after losing a quarter of mu' hour the electric lights were turned ou and the roll call proceeded. Many of the States had their votes challenged, and each side watched the other closely. The vote as announced was 758 for Allen and 504 for Campion, indicating a majority for Bryan. Instantly the convention became a mob of howling, shrieking, yelling, cheering men. The spontaneous outburst of Bryan enthusiasm put the previous anti-Bryan demonstration iu the shade. the "middle-of-the-road” men were game, however, for one of them carried a banner to the front, and Texas. Arkansas. Tennessee and Ohio sent their standards to re-enforce it. The excitement reached its height at this point, and several personal encounters took plyee. At last, after n quarter of an hour of almost riotous enthusiasm, the delegates calmed down nnd Senator Allen wns brought to the platform. When Senator Allen nppeared the Bryan men gSve him three hearty cheers. He was introduced by "Cyclone” Davis nnd addressed the convention in a speech of considerable length. It was nearly 10 o'clock when the Senator concluded, and shortly after the convention adjourned until the following morning.

THE SILVER PARTY.

White Mctul Men Holl u Convention of Their Own in St. Louin. The delegates to the national silver convention in St. Louis were slow in assembling at the Grand Music Hall Wednesday. and there were not enough visitors to fill the galleries when J. J. Mott, chairman of the naTiohnl committee, called the convention to order. Ht>, too. was tardy, and it was long after 12 o'clock when he stepped to the platform and rapped for order. It was not surprising that t..e delegates, the visitors, and the chairman should have beeu slow la coming together. The weather was intensely tiot. It was of that variety of heat that one finds in the steam room at a Turkish bath.

When the call for tne convention had Iteen read, Congressman Francis G. Newlands, ot Nevada, was introduced by Chairman Mott ns temporary chairman of the convention, and the delegate* gave him a vigorous reception. In his speech 'ie urged the silverites to support the uomnee of the Democratic party. Win. I*. St. John, of New York, was chosen for jsrmnnent chairman. ami when escorted to the platform addressed the convention. What he said was quite in accord with the sentiments of the assemblage and he got several salvos of applause. The platform declares In favor of a distinctly American financial system, opposes the single gold standard and demands the immediate return to the constitutional standard of gold and silver by the restoration by this Government, independently ot any foreign power, of the unrestricted coinage of both gold and silver into standard money, at the ratio of 10 tol, nnd upon terms of exact equality, as they existed prior t0■1873: the silver coin to be a Tull legal tender equally with gold for nil debts mid dues, public and private, and we favor such legislation a® will prevent for the future the demonetization of any kind of legal tender money by private contract. It holds that the power to control and regulate a paper

PERMANENT CHAIRMAN W. P. ST. JOHN.

currency is inseparable ftUhCrtle power to coin money,, mid. hence tUnt aU currency intended to circulate as money should be issued and its vohitne controlled by the genera] only, and should be a legal tender. The, declarationunalterably opposes the Issue by the’L’ulted States of infcrost-beAringbotids in tiine of pence, nnd appeals th the people'of the United States;-to leave-in abeyance for the moment all other .-gucatjana, raud-unite in one supreme effort to free themselves and their children from ths : domination of the money power. ' In a celebration .bf the thirty-eighth anniversary of the birth o-f’tht- Queen Regent of Spain, Capt. Gen. Weyler has liberated eighty-two political prisoners held, in Cuba, arid twelve of the sathe class of prisoners detained at Artcqias. Eight somiers at Matanzns, ■ accused of infraction of regulations, havealso been purdoned.