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THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1897. Office—i£C3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone* Coll*. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms...A 86 TEIUIS OF SI USCRIPTION. DAILY BY UAtU Daily only, rne month $ .70 Daily only, three months 2.00 I'ally only, one year 8.00 Daily, including Sunday, one year 10.00 Sunday only, one year. 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, by carrier 15 cts Sunday, single copy 5 cts Daily and Sunday, per week, by carriers....2o cts „ WEEKLY. Per year SI.OO Reduced Kitten to Club*. Subscribe .vith any oI our numerous agents or send subscriptions to lllE IAOiAtAPOLIS JOURNAL* lniliun:t poli*, inti. Persons wending the Journal through the malls in toe 1 niteu states should put on an eight-page paper a ONE-OENT postage stamp, on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-OENT postage Foreign postage is usually double these ..All communications Intended for publication in tnis paper must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the r/ lrer - it is desired that rejected manuscripts -J- returned, jiogtage must in all cases be inclosed tor that purling t) THE iNDIAN AI'OLISJO U ItN AE b e found at the following places: BLW lOßK—Windsor Hotel and Aster House. C Hi c A G< *~ p l*er House and I*. O. News Cos., Dearborn street. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. _. L'DI’ISVILEE—C. T. Peering, northwest corner of J hird and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. f* r. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. <•.—Riggs House. Kbbitt House, Willard's Hotel and the Washington News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between Penn, avenue and F street. Asa native born American, Anarchist Eugene V. Debs can hold his own with any of the imported gentry. There is no call for an expenditure of 1115 .000 to put a few hundred truants into the schools of Indianapolis. Thore is no silver question in the municipal contest, but a very important park question, which should not be ignored. The Indiana Bimetallic League forgot one thing at its meeting on Thursday. It should have changed its name to Monometallic League, in accordance with its object. Forty-cent wheat next year is not a potential argument for this year, but the calamilyites are having a very hard time of it to find anything to say to make the people unhappy. There seems to be no real cause for the frequent meetings of the state silver “push” except that prosperity has made it necessary for them to comfort and strengthen each other. Mr. Van Vorhis shows a disposition to give his Popocratic friends w'ho were so kind to him a year ago as much trouble In the municipal campaign as possible. This was not expected and is unkind. There is not so much talk about Mr. BryaiVand others participating in the Ohio campaign as there was early in the season. In the presence of prosperity Mr. Bryan is cot a vote getter. He needs calamity as an ally. If the country were on a silver basis, as it would be if Bryan had been elected, it would take twice as much money to move the crops, and the volume of silver and paper, at a silver valuation, would be utterly inadequate to the work. The bank commissioner of Kansas says that, judging from the reports he is now receiving of increased deposits, within the next six months 40,000 Kansas homesteads will be cleared of mortgages. That will be a great blow to Bryanism. A man who attends a Democratic conference, advocates Democratic doctrines and supports Democratic candidates has no right to call himself a free-silver Republican. If he is ashamed of the name Democrat he should keep out of the company.

When the cashier of a bank is seen coming out of it on a mild September evening wearing three overcoats with bulging pockets it Is fair to suspect that something is wrong. The cashier of a private bank at Rockford, 111,, who did this got away with $30,000. Advices from Rome state that high prelates of the Catholic Church are already scheming to control the papal conclave which will elect a successor to Pope Leo when ho shall die. Ambition creeps even Into the churches and human nature crops out In cloisters. There are few obstacles or perils that trained newspaper correspondents will not encounter and overcome in the discharge of professional duty. One of these made the trip from Skaguay to the Klondike by one pass and back by the other, and describes both minutely for the benefit of those who wish to pay their money and take their choice. Nobody will begrudge Mr. McKinley the pleasure he is evidently getting out of his visit to Ohio. If a President of the United States is ever justified in laying aside the cares of office and mingling with his neighbors on an equal footing, it is when he revisits the State in which he was born and from which all his honors were achieved. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is not booming silver as much as it did, but it is honest enough to recognize that we have another kind of boom. “We are now in the beginning of anew movement,” it says. “Dollar wheat, the open sesame, is with us, and it will not depart from us for some time to come.” And dollar wheat is death to Rryanism. Rev. Dr. Vrooman, of Chicago, who is about to abandon the pulpit for the Klondike, says that some time ago he took SI,OOO worth of books from his library and sold them for what they would bring, and latterly he has only received* $25 where he should have received s3uo. He says he Is not "a kicker,” but he must make a living. Most people will say he is right. Acting Controller of the Currency Coffin, whose official duties require him to be well Informed regarding the monetary situation, •ays: "The lurking cause of our English brethren’s lack of confidence in our finances is the knowledge of our unscientific and incongruous currency system.” The reform of that system on safe and scientific lines is, now that the tariff question is disposed of, the most important duty of the hour. President Ratchlord, of the United Mine Workers’ Union, estimates that there are at least 1,500,000 persons in ttie various trades and labor unions of the country, and that a contribution of one day's wages for the strikers will amount to at least $5,000,606. If this estimate is even approximately correct organized labor is the greatest

money force in the country. All the banks and bankers in the United States could not raise $5,000,000 by voluntary contribution for any purpose whatever by months of effort. If the workingmen can raise money at that rate to carry on a peaceable contest they would be great fools to take up arms with a certainty of losing. THE INHARMONIOUS CITY DEMOCRACY. The two wings of the Democratic party in this city are making a desperate effort to flop together on the municipal election, or, perhaps, it would be more accurate to say the gold wing is making a desperate effort to flop with the silver wing, while the latter insists on doing all the flopping itself. The publication of the manifesto of the sound-money Democrats repudiating the Taggart platform, condemning the recent Taggart interview and indorsing Taggart. is accompanied by the Sentinel with an editorial denouncing “the gold-bug bolters,” and their manifesto as a “studied insult to Mayor Taggart.” From the Journal's point of view the manifesto is more discreditable to those who issued it than jt is tq Taggart. The latter is already thoroughly discredited, so far as the silver question is concerned, by his own acts and those of the party managers. Mr. Taggart has shown that if he has any convictions on the money question he either does not know what they are or is willing to be understood as being on both sides of the question, while the party managers have picked him up bodily and set him down on a free-silver platform. For it must be remembered that while the platform on which Mr. Taggart was nominated was chiefly devoted to glittering generalities concerning city affairs it opened with the following declaration: While recognizing that the issues of the municipal campaign are local and not national, we take this opportunity, the first which has offered itself since the presidential election of 1896, to reaffirm and emphasize the declaration of the last national Democratic convention in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the historic ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting the aid or consent of any other nation on earth, upon which that great statesman, William J. Bryan, made his memorable campaign for the presidency. There was no necessity of making this flatfooted declaration in favor of free silver at 16 to 1 or of introducing the subject in city politics at all. The convention went out of its way to do it, and after making the platform as offensive as possible to sound-money Democrats it proceeded to place Mr. Taggart on it. The fact that some gold Democrats assisted in the transaction does not make it any the less offensive to the self-respecting ones among thtm. The inconsistency of their position is made very apparent by the statement in which, after declaring that “we emphatically repudiate and denounce the free-silver declaration in the platform adopted by the silver Democracy,” as also that “we condemn the interview of Mayor Taggart in which he proclaimed his devotion to the free-silver fallacy,” they wound up by declaring in favor of the election of Taggart. This is a most lame and impotent conclusion to such thundering in the index. It is as if the gold Democrats had declared "Whereas, Mr. Taggart is all things to all men on the money question, and has r.o convictions that an honest man is bound to respect; and, whereas, he stands on a platform which we detest and repudiate; therefore, we favor his re-election as mayor.” They justify this position on the ground that “national questions should have no place in a city election.” Perhaps not, but when they are thrust in or dragged in, as they have been in this case, their presence should be recognized. The Journal has faith enough in the honesty of the gold Democrats to believe that they would not vote for a candidate for Congress or President on such a platform as that which Mr. Taggart stands on, yet they must know perfectly well that if he is elected it will be heralded as a free-silver victory, and will tend to bolster up that dying cause throughout the State. But after all their self-abasement in pledging support to a candidate whose principles and platform they repudiate, the party organ declares the whole performance “one of studied insult to Mr. Taggart.” As if anything the gold Democrats might do could be an insult to such a candidate on such a platform.

A GOOD LAW. Dr. Chauncey M. Depew states that at a society function in which he participated recently the chief topic of discussion among the women present was the new provision of the tariff law’ laying full duties on all articles of personal baggage brought back from Europe by American travelers. The women were unanimous in the opinion that the new provision was a great hardship and that the maximum limit of personal baggage free from duty should be at least SSOO. Asa rule American women returning from Europe probably bring more personal baggage than men do, but no doubt many of the latter would concur in the opinion that the SIOO limit is much too low’. This practical unanimity of opinion is the best vindication of the new’ law. Although it has only been in force a short time and is not yet rigidly enforced, it has already been productive of substantial benefits, both to revenue and business. During the short time it has been in force, in spite of evasions, it has added about SIOO,OOO to the revenues of the government, and experts say if it had been honestly obeyed and rigidly enforced it would have added three or four times this amount. As it becomes better known a larger proportion of travelers will comply with it cheerfully, and steps are already being taken by the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Board of Trade of New’ York to insure its more rigid enforcement. “The justice and wisdom of the law,” says the president of this organization, "are becoming more and more apparent and numbers of those who originally opposed it are being converted to our side. Americans, whether Republicans or Democrats, favor, after all, the legislation that is good for the country, wherever it originates. In the few weeks during which the law has been operative the revenue collected from passengers has been greater than that collected from this source in any previous year.” Patriotism, as well as honesty, should lead to cheerful compliance with the law. When Americans go abroad they are under the protection of the tlag wherever they go. If they receive ill treatment in any part of the world they appeal to the flag for protection. The government expends large sums in supporting legations and maintaining ships at various ports to protect the interests of its citizens. It is therefore ungrateful and unpatriotic for an American returning from abroad to object to contributing to the support of the government by the payment of duties on excessive purchases made in other countries. Americans should be proud of a government which protects them in every quarter of the globe, and a person is not entitled to citizenship in a country like ours who would evade in

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any way his or her just portion of expense in maintaining it. The new personal baggage provision is a just and wise law and should be rigidly enforced in every case THE PARK MYSTERY. It is time that those who know about park affairs should take the taxpayers into their confidence to some extent. Already 1350,000 of bonds have been sold. Os this amount the Council set aside $50,000 for labor. It has been asserted time and again that it will take $700,000 to purchase the land which is deemed to be necessary for the proposed park system. Is this statement false or true? The mayor can tell, members of the park commission can tell, and the gentlemen who appraised the lands needed can tell the values of the land which they have appraised. Why do not some of these officials let the voters and taxpayers into the secret? Why not tell us whether $350,000 or s7ou.ouo or $1,000,000 will be required? What is the purpose of the mayor and his park board in holding back the facts? If $350,000 is not enough and the $2u0,000 or so, which is the limit of borrowing, is not sufficient to purchase the land why not tell the people the truth? If it is not enough, and more money than the city can borrow r under the Constitution is needed to purchase land, why does the mayor talk about acquiring parks by a long-time, low-rate bond when he knows that the city cannot negotiate such a loan? It would seem that Mr. Taggart and his friends were trifling with the taxpayers in regard to the parks—that they have some scheme which they propose to spring upon tho people when the time shall be ripe. This park project will admit of no trifling. Before it shall be finished it will involve an expenditure of three or four millions of dollars. If a bad beginning shall be made, the park system will, for want of funds, drag along years in the building and will be a blemish instead of an ornament to the city. Such being the case, let the people know at once what the land will cost and whether or not the proposed system will cover the territory northeast of the city. If the mayor, his commission and other officials will not volunteer such information let a properly constituted committee demand of him this important information. To have it now will prevent the springing of some unwise scheme upon the city after the election. After reading the fiery and trouble-breed-ing utterances of the so-called labor leaders at St. Louis it was a pleasure to turn to the conservative platform adopted by the farmers’ national congress at St. Paul. The former breathed a spirit of class hatred and violence, while the latter was thoroughly patriotic in tone. It favored the establishment of postal savings banks; national appropriation to aid in exterminating gypsy moths; a further extension of the homestead law; extension of free mail delivery in country districts; a law to prevent food adulteration; teaching of elementary principles of agriculture in the public schools; election of United States senators by vote of the people; restriction of undesirable immigration; the immediate construction of the Nicaragua canal; the improvement of the Mississippi river and reclamation of bottom lards by the national government. There is nothing in any of these propositions to excite alarm and scarcely anything to excite opposition. It is gratifying also to remember that the farmers greatly outnumber any other class of workers in the country. By the last census they were 39 per cent, of all the workers of every class, and it is safe to predict they will never be found sympathizing with anarchism or lawlessness.

The coal strike has continued two months without result. The two parties in the contest were no nearer an agreement at the Pittsburg conference than they were when they left the mines July 4. The officers of the miners have made a demand for a 69cent rate, and are not disposed to yield to the offer of the mine operators to mine coal for 64 cents a ton until the dispute shall be settled by arbitration. What the outcome will be no one can tell, but if it should be like the ending of similar coal strikes, the end will be riot and the working of the mines by new men, which will bring loss to all and suffering to many. At the meeting of the free silverites on Thursday Editor Morss, late consul general to Paris, declared that “the nearer we get to the principles of Jackson and Jefferson the more surely we will succeed.” This would pass for a declaration in favor of sound money, but the speaker spoiled it by adding: “My programme is to stand pat on the declarations of the Chicago platform.” One is at a loss to understand how the free silverites are going to get nearer to Jefferson by standing pat on a platform that repudiated the cornerstone of his monetary system. It is seven years since the last census of the United States was taken, and the census office is now’ engaged on the closing work, a pictorial atlas of the entire country. It is probable that before the next census is taken a permanent census bureau w ill have been established in Washington, which will greatly facilitate the work. As the next census will occur in 1900, marking the first full century of the country’s growth, it ought to be as perfect and complete as possible. Mr. Bryan has turned up in Nebraska, where he is making speeches in favor of “bimetallism.” He is not in favor of bimetallism. What he favors is the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, and, ignorant as he is of monetary laws, he knows that this would result in the complete expulsion of gold from the country. He pretends to favor bimetallism because he is afraid to call his doctrine by its true name of silver monometallism. An official statement of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture says the corn crop in that State this year will be almost unprecedented. The acreage planted is 2 per cent, more than last year, being a total of 7,051,527 acres. The board predicts that unless there should be an early frost the crop of 1597 will be a record breaker. All of which goes to show that this is the farmers’ year. Not to be outdone in discoveries. Missouri comes to the front with an al.eged great find of pearls in Black river. There must be some mistake. Pearls grow In White rivers. lit BULKS IN THE AIR. Unlncky Friday. Watts— Honestly, now. don't you have a sort of belief that Friday is an unlucky day? Potts—l know’ it. That’s the day my wife goes bargain chasing. Mueli Intuition. “Vile monster,” said she, “you have had your foot on my neck for the last time.” “Well,” said he. “why don’t you dry up?” Naught but the finest intuition could have grasped all the subtle threads of connection

between damp condition]#, rubber and necks and all that sort of thing, so it was no wonder she did but gaze in amaze. Hi* Record. “Have a good time on your vacation?” asked the man who could not go. "Made a record of .750,” cheerfully answered the young man. * “Did what?” “Proposed to thirty-six girls and was accepted by twenty-seven.” Statesmanship. “I got a note from the Bugle, asking me for an interview,” said the junior statesman. "I think I will send them word that if they will send around a reporter who is not a liar I will grant it.” “No, no,” said the senior statesman. “Let them send the biggest liar they’ve got. His reputation will come in handily when you want to deny the interview.” STRIKES AND THE COAL MINERS. Mr. Gompers, of the Federation of Labor, Discusses the Situation. September Forum. Awful as the ccncit.ons were at the time of the panic of 1893--and still are as a result of that panic—there can be no doubt that had the workers not been so well organized as they were there would have been no limit to the depth to which wages would have fallen. Asa result, the consuming power of the workers would have been so much further reduced as to render the economic and industrial depression still more acute, and the demoralization and misery of the workers so much more marked that, by comparison, their present condition would represent a veritable paradise. In a word, the unions of labor, during the past four years, have stood as a rock to check a wholesale reduction in wages, with all its concomitant misery. Further, the labor movement has served to shorten the duration of panics themselves as well as to enable the workers to maintain the consciousness of power and the hope that full justice will be secured to them in the no distant future. Finally, the movement has been the one great preventive of much more serious conllicts, if not of a revolution. The miners’ strike affords a study’for us all. In the coal industry, as in most others, “machinery is introduced faster than new employments are founded.” Before the panic of 1893 the miners were comparatively poorly organized; reduction after reduction w ,s the order of the day; machine mining had been freely introduced, without the slightest attention being paid to the new conditions under which the miners were required to work. Os course, no observer—certainly no intelligent union member—entertains tho thought of opposing the introduction and full development of machinery, but union labor insists that if, through the genius of man, the production of the necessaries and even the luxuries of life be made easier, the producers of these—the workers—if they do not become the beneficiaries shall certainly not be made to suffer thereby. Union labor insists further that, if new machinery be introduced, the worker shall enjoy at least part of the fruits. It also insists that the burdens of the worker be lightened by a reduction in his daily hours of labor, and that he receive as a reward for his labor a living wage—a wage which, in the dawn of a higher manhood and a nobler civilization, will afford him an opportunity to keep pace with the ever-in-creasing responsibilities devolving upon him as a husband, a father, a man and a citizen. As above stated, the condition of the miners’ organization in 1893 was such that the men were unable to insist upon a fair consideration of their interests. The old abuses of the “company stores,” where the workmen were compelled to deal, were reintroduced and extended; thus compelling them to nav. in most instances, an excess of 25 to 50 per cent, for every necessary of life. The hovels in which they dwelt, the well from which they drank, the church at whose altar they knelt were all owned or controlled by the companies; the workers were truly their bondmen anti their slaves. There is a limit of poverty and misery among the workers in civilized society; and rather than sink below it they prefer to incur the dangers of open revolt. Though they deplore the disturbance it occasions, it is the courage, hardihood and temporary self-sacrifice which this course involves that often prevent a relapse of society into barbarism, and the people from being thrust into actual slavery. It was this state of feeling that provoked the miners’ strike of this year.

The Democracy of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Press. The Democratic parfy has been often compared to a man riorrig backwards in the cars and seeing nothing until it is past. This comparison does not apply to the Democratic party of Pennsylvania, as it implies some progress; but the Reading platform shows the party standing hopelessly still with its fa.ee set to the everlasting night, only solicitous to drive out of the party all who appear to be less blind and stupid than the rest. It is unfortunate in some respects for the Republican partv in Pennsylvania that it is denied the stimulus and discipline which an intelligent and well directed opposition party would give it. The Republican majority has be'en Steadily increasing year by year until it has reached 300,000. There are some Republicans who think that this is big enough and that any more would be superfluous. The Reading Democratic convention did what it could to make the Republican majority go beyond ‘even the superfluous. Kansan “PvESonuln.” Kansas City Journal. There isn’t anything more entertaining than the cheerful and unreserved manner in which the country papers talk over the private affairs of citizens, as, for example, this from the Augusta Journal: “The joke is on Dick Marlow. He refused to allow his wife to accompany him to Wichita, claiming he was in too big a hurry to wait for her to get ready. Joe told him that an old gentleman wanted to go with him and Dick stopped for him and waited two and a half hours for him to get ready. The old gentleman concluded he could not go and sent his daughter-in-law along. Dick was too gallant to refuse, but cautioned Mr. H. not to mention the matter, as his wife would lift him out of his boots if she should get wind of it. It got out and Dick was not adlowed to eat at the table with his family for two weeks. The woman’s husband got after him. too, and he had a very narrow escape. Ha now goes,to Wichita the back way.” A Queen of Comedy. Philadelphia Inquirer. Mrs. Drew was essentially a queen of comedy. Possibly no woman who ever walked upon the stage was more at home thereon, and while her many gracious qualities shone brilliantly at her own fireside, it was on the stage that she knew, certainly in her latter life, the highest form of enjoyment. There was nothing of the cheap or commonplace in what superficial people would call her “art.” She called it her acting, as a great painter calls a picture a painting. Yet no one would say that she was artless, for she was not. The refinement of art, that subtle excellence which always is without ever seeming to be, came to her naturally, easily and under many conditions. What she might have done had she essayed other roles no one can possibly tell. It is enough for us to know that she was the best in all the roles she essayed and that none of these roles was low. Offensive Journalism. Indianapolis Independent. The Sentinel, the self-styled “Monarch of the Dailies,” constantly alludes to Governor Mount as “Goober. ’ What the point of this stupid epithet may be is only known to the "monarch,” but the average person, even though a partisan, will resent such insulting references to the State's chief executive. Even if h'e were an indifferent official. common courtesy demands that he should be treated with respect, but as it is generally admitted that Governor Mount is one of the abfest as well as one of the most patriotic of all the Stare’s Governors, the application to him of offensive nicknames becomes especially offensive to all who like to se'e fair play. But it is perhaps unreasonable to expect the Sentinel to show a sense of proprWv or any kind of sense, so its utterances go "like a tal'e toid by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Not Surprising. Kansas City Journal. It is not surprising to learn that the St. Louis woman whose husband locked her in the ice chest whenever she became angry has sued for a divorce. Such treatment would make any woman’s love grow cold. No Doom for Doubt. Kansas City Journal. Those who follow Debs now will do so with the clear knowledge that they are traveling toward treason, anarchy and ruin. Distinction. Kansas City Journal. Atchison is just now resting her claim for notice upon a man who had the appendictis and got over it without an operation. Doesn’t Seek. Death. Detroit Tribune. k In the midst of a scarcity of liberty Mr. !>ebs manifests no disposition to accept the ■ Patrick Henry alternative.

LEAPED OR FELL OFF ■ ♦ TRAGIC DEATH OF W. RUSSELL ward w hile traveling. Supposed to Have Committed Snielde by Jumping from a Train or to Have Aceidentully Fallen Off. ONCE MRS. BRADBURY’S LOVER RECENTLY ELOPED WITH THE CALIFORNIA MILLIONAIRE’S WIFE, Rot Was “Whitewashed” by the Court Last Week and Starteil to Join His Family in England. WHEATLAND, la., Sept. 3.-W. Russell Ward, of Santa Monica, Cal., who became notorious a short time ago through his connection with the elopement of Mrs. Bradbury, wife of the California millionaire, James H. Bradbury, met his death near here this morning by falling or jumping from tne east-bound overland limited )n the Northwestern Railway. His body was picked up two hours after his death and now f lies at the City Hall awaiting disposition by friends. At 5 o’clock this morning the crew of a west-bound freight train on the Northwestern road discovered the remains of a man attired in a suit of underclothing lying between the double tracks about half a mile west of this place. The body was picked up and later conveyed to the depot. The dead man was apparently about thirtyfive years old. There was nothing about the body to disclose its identity, but later it was learned that the dead man was W. Russell Ward, and that he had been a passenger abroad the Overland limited Which passed here at 2:45 a. m. Ward's ticket from San Francisco to New York was found on the clothing. It is supposed that he arose from his berth in the sleeping car and, mistaking the vestibule door for the door to the toilet room, stepped off the swiftly moving train to his death. He was untouched by the wheels, but his hip was broken and the means of his instant death was apparent from an ugly wound in the forehead. The body was otherwise badly bruised. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. The remains were embalmed and now lie in the City Hall awaiting the disposition of friends.

ANOTHER STORY. Ward Said to Have Committed Suicide While Demented. CHICAGO, Sept. 3.—W. Russell Ward, the Englishman who created a sensation a short time ago by eloping with the wife of Millionaire John Bradbury, of Los Angeles, Cal., committed suicide some time during the early morning by throwing himself from a Chicago Northwestern Railway train. The fact w r as not known until hours later, and as the result of a search which was immediately begun the body of Ward was found at 1 Wheatland, la. It is not known exactly what hour Ward leaped from the train, but according to Conductor Calloway the act w'as committed after 3 o'clock this morning. Ward was evidently insane when he threw himself out of the car window, as he had been acting peculiarly a great part of the trip and frequently sent telegrams to all parts of the country. When the train was at Fremont, Neb., Ward sent a telegram to the police at detective headquarters in Chicago requesting them to meet the train at the Northwestern depot this morning. He signed the telegram “R. W.,” and for several hours the police in this city endeavored to find out who “R. W.” could be. The telegram gave the police no information, but the sending of it makes the police believe Ward intended to commit suicide on the train and sent the telegram for the purpose of having the police find his body on the train’s arrival in this city. Ward boarded the train at San Francisco at 5:30 o’clock Monday evening. He was immediately assigned to Drawing Room B, Car 2, and he had tickets through to Chicago. Although he did not display much money, Ward was dressed in anew suit of black cloth. He had been stopping at a hotel in San Francisco for some time. Early yesterday morning he began to show signs of insanity. He flourished tw r o revolvers on the train several times and almost created a panic among the other passengers. He told the conductor of the train who he was and acted in a very peculiar manner. At nearly every stop of the train he would get off and send telegrams. One of these messages he sent to a resident of Los Angeles, Cal., saying that if Mrs. Bradbury wanted him she could come to him, but for the present he would have to go to England and visit his wife. Another telegram was the one he sent to Chicago. It reads: “Please send a good man to Drawing Room B, Car 2, of the eastbound overland Northwestern train arriving in Chicago at 7:30 to-morrow morning.’’ The telegram was dated Fremont and was sent at 4:49 p. m. Lieutenant Collins received the message and thinking it was in regard to some fugitive from justice turned it over to Lieutenant Hass, and this morning the latter detailed Detective Sergeant Broderick, of headquarters, to meet the train at the depot. All yesterday and last night Ward acted ACTED PECULIARLY in a restless manner and frequently left his apartment and created consternation among the passengers* by his peculiar actions. He remained up all night and refused to retire until 3 o’clock this morning, when ho approached the colored porter and told him he was going to sleep. Ward then went into his room, and W'hen De Kalb, 111., was reached the> porter knocked on the door of Ward’s room, but received no answer. He made several efforts to get into the room, but without success, and then abandoned the idea. When the long line of cars pulled into the Northwestern depot this morning Detective Broderick leaped on board and endeavored to gain entrance into Drawing Room B. The door, however, was securely locked on the inside and all efforts to gain an entrance was without avail for the time. However, the train crew managed to get into the room through an annex, and when the detective w’as admitted the room was found to be empty. A pile of clothing which Ward had worn was found scattered about the room, but no trace of him could be found. It was soon decided that he had leaped through the windows and all his effects were taken in charge by the Pullman porter and taken to Room 9 in the Union Depot building. In the meantime, the police and officials of the Northwesteern Railroad proceeded to learn the man’s identity. They found he had given the name of Ward to persons on the train, but they were not aware of his identity. Ward’s effects consisted of several expensive satchels and his railroad tickets. The satchels were examined by the Pullman officials at the Union Depot, and it was through the papers found in the satchels that his identity was learned. The Northwestern people were notified of this fact, and the train dispatcher of the division of that road immediately proceeded to have the body looked for. Telegrams w'ere sent all along the line as far as Fremont. Neb., and orders were given station agents to search for the remains. Several hours later a dispatch was received from Wheatland. la., that the body had been found alongside the tracks near that place. The body was dressed only in a night robe and was much bruised. The remains were taken to Clinton, la., where they will be held until Ward’s friends are heard from. In his satchels was found only sl2 in cash, but he

also had a draft for $450. He also had in his clothing a hotel bill for $34. LETTER FROM HIS MOTHER. The suicide's personal effects included & big revolver In a holster and a bowie knife. One letter was found, signed “Your Affectionate Mother.” It was dated several months ago. The letter simply upbraided Ward for failing to keep her posted on his whereabouts and for his neglect in not writing to her. Cards, showing his membership in the Marlborough Kennel Club, England, and the Wellington Club, Grosvenor Place, Cornhiil, London, S. W., were also found. The following note was written with lead pencil on a blank piece of paper: “Dear Drew'—Would it be expecting too much of you to see this detective and tell him that I am willing to return to Los Angeles and undergo arrest there with him if he likes. I would rather return and face the music for what can only be a short time. Os course, hf you object in the least, tell me. Yours truly, W. Russell Ward.” A clipping from the San Francisco Examiner detailing the arrest and escape from jail at Los Angeles on Aug. 30 of a man whose name was given as Henry Bacon, was found In his pocket. Bacon was charged w’ith holding up a street car and three gambling houses. From the tone of the note which refers to “the detective” and the telegram sent to the Chicago police, it would seem possible that Ward had committed some crime at Los Angeles and that having failed tx> give himself up to the Los Angeles authorities, concluded to surrender to the Chicago police, but decided later to commit suicide. Later information show's that nobody on the train, not even the officials, knew’ that Ward was missing till Conductor Roundy took charge at Geneva, at o:30 a. m. In going the rounds of the train he found Ward’s berth empty and the car window wide open. All of the man’s clothing was found in the berth. Anew book entitled “Witty, Wise and Wicked Maxims,” with all the passionate love passages and those pertaining to heartless women heavily underlined with pencil, was found. It is the belief of the railroad men that Ward had become insane brooding over his elopment with Mrs. Bradbury. The porter of the car, C. M. Caloway, and the conductor, C. F. Godman, both say that Ward was morose and moody from the time he boarded the train. He kept in his stateroom most of the time reading love stories. Ward was an Englishman. He was married and had a large family in England. A short time ago he visited Los Angeles, Cal., where he met the wife of John Bradbury, a reputed millionaire. Both Bradbury and his wife are still young. The husband was at home at the time, and a sensation was created when Ward eloped with Mrs. Bradbury to San Francisco. When Bradbury learned of the elopement he went after his wife ar.d a reconciliation took place betw’een the two at the Wellington Hotel in this city. Mrs. Bradbury left Ward and all was forgiven by her husband. The deceased has friends in this city and the body may be brought here. The police believe that Ward intended to end his life in his apartment. They argue that he evidently sent the telegram to them while having such an idea In his mind. It was his intention, they say, to kill himself on the train and have his body found by the police when the train arrived in this city.

WARD’S CAREER. Hid Elopement with Mrs. Bradbury and Shameless Conduct. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.—W. Russell Ward, who committed suicide by throwing himself from the window' of the car in which he was traveling from this city to Chicago to-day, first gained notoriety by his very marked attentions to the wife of the young Los Angeles millionaire, Colonel John Bradbury, at Santa Monica, a seaside resort some eighteen miles from Los Angeles. As Ward was a married man and the father of a family, his flirtation with Mrs. Bradbury caused a rupture between himself and Colonel Bradbury, and it was rumored that the latter even challenged his rival to fight a duel. At the same time vague stories of a rupture between Colonel Bradbury and his wife were bruited about, but were strenuously denied by Bradbury. Matters came to a climax on June 30 last i when Mrs. Bradbury eloped with Ward to this city. On their arrival they startled the community by openly admitting their folly and defying public decency by the most shameless conduct. Their career, however, was cut short by their arrest on the charge of adultery at the instance of the Society for the Prevention of Vice. Mrs. Bradbury was released on her own recognizance by Police Judge Low. hut in default of bail Ward spent one night in jail. When the case came up for hearing that against Mrs. Bradbury was dismissed and, with her mother, she at once left for Chicago, where she was met by her husband, who was en route for Europe with his mother. A reconciliation was effected and the couple went to New’ York, whence they departed for Mexico, where they now are. Ward meanwhile returned to his Santa Monica home, but returned here for trial last week. When the matter came up for hearing on Aug. 26 Ward’s attorneys raised the point that the information against him w'as insufficient to warrant his being held to answer, and on Saturday. Aug. 27, Superior Judge Cook sustained this contention and ordered that Ward be dismissed. As he was financially embarrassed and in fact had been dependent upon the money raised from such jewelry as Mrs. Bradbury had taken with her at the time of their elopement, his wife, who was visiting his relatives in England, sent him the necessary funds with which to conduct his defense and defray his expenses to England in the event of his acquittal. After leaving the court a free man Ward went to the Grand Hotel, where he remained in seclusion until Monday. He purchased a ticket for Buffalo, N. Y., and left on the evening east-bound train, announcing that he was going to England and did not expect to return to this country. At t’ Mme there was nothing in his actions demeanor would t< nd to show that as mentally unsound. Yv aid. who was a stalwart jlishman, about forty years old, located m Santa Monica about six years ago. Being a crack polo player and possessed of some means, he at once became very popular among the English set at that place. He soon ingratiated himself into the good graces of the leading families resident at the seaside resort and among them formed the acquaintance of the Bardinis. one of the oldest Spanish families in southern California. He woed and won Miss Bandinis and their marriage was duly celebrated with great eclat. DR. ANDREWS NOT DECIDED. May Wait n Month Before Replying to Brown University Corporation. NEW YORK. Sept. 3.—E. Benjamin Andrews, president of Brown University, was at the Murray Hill Hotel to-day. To a reporter Dr. Andrews said that he had made no response as yet to the request of the corporation of Brown University that he reconsider his resignation of the presidency of the institution. As to the tender which had been made to him of the presidency of the projected Cosmopolitan University. Dr. Andrew's said that the subject is still in abeyance. He spent an hour last night in consultation with John Brisben Walker, the projector of the now educational scheme, and would see him again before returning to Providence. Further, he said, he could not decide what to do in this matter until he had seen and consulted with friends and officers of the Brown University corporation. No decision would be reached, probably for a month. John Brisben YV’alxer said that Dr. Andrew's had a long conference with, him today. during which the prospectus for the new project was gon’e over and carefully prepared. From Mr. Walker’s remarks nothing else could be inferred hut that Dr. Andrews had assumed compete control of the Cosmopolitan University and that he would establish his headquarters at Providence. “In view of the fact that Brown has treated him so nicely.” said Mr. Walker, “I have no doubt that he will look affer that university’s interests until such time as the new' president shall be appointed.” FLEEING FROM CHOLERA. Residents of n British Colombian Town Panic-Stricken. TACOMA. Wash., Sept. 3—Word has been received by Mrs. John W. Brechtel .from her husband at Sandon, B. C., that the people are fleeing for their lives from the town on account of cholera. Santon is situated on a narrow gulch leading to Bear lake, about 150 miles to th’e east and north of Rossland. No estimate of the number of deaths has been received. An Expensive Luxury. Indianapolis Independent. When the people of Indianapolis get through putting up an assessment of $115,0 0 per annum additional to enforce the compulsory school law they will doubtless concludY: that it is a somewhat expensive luxury.

ALASKA’S SILENT CITY WONDERFUL St ENE WITNESSED BY A PARTY OF EXPLORERS. Mysterious Plee Mirrored In the Clear Atmosphere and Seen at the Distance of One Hundred Miles. SEATTLE. Wash., Sept. 3.—Alaska's silent city has emerged once more from Its mysterious hiding place and revealed its presence to six members of the party which accompanied Prince Luigi up Mount St. Elias. In the early morning of July 13 the little party, while returning from the ocean with supplies, suddenly saw the city mirrored in the clear atmosphere. The vision was so clear that C. W. Thornton, well known to Seattle business men and a leading Y. M. C. A. athlete, w r ho first noticed it, wrote in his notebook: "It required no effort of the imagination to liken it to a ,city. It was so distinct and plain that it required, instead, strong faith to believ# that it was not in reality a city.” While the silent city of which Miner Bruce wrote was seen from Muir glacier, that seen by Mr. Thornton and his comrades was noted from Malaspina, a glacier over one hundred miles distant. It remained a perfect image for thirty minutes and then slowly faded away, while in its place appeared a rocky ridge. Following is the story told in the words of Air. Thornton: “Six of us separated from the main party July S to go back to the beach for provisions. Wo were about forty miles from the ocean and allowed three days for the trip to the stores. Our party was composed of Benno Alexander, a poet; Elin Osborg, William Tichman, of Providence Hospital, Seattle; F*rancis Fiorini, an interpreter; William Steele, a sailor, and myself. After leaving the main party near Russell camp we made the trip to the beach, stopping at Camp Independence on the way down. On our way back, while crossinputhe Alalaspina glacier, about ten miles from Camp Ingraham, which is in Ingraham pass, we saw a strange sight. “It was 3:45 o’clock in the morning and we were resting from a hard climb since about 10 o’clock the night before. We had chosen this tim£ to make the climb because it gave us hard snow. In the daytime the hot sun would melt the snow as if you poured boiling water on it. The atmosphere was perfectly clear. There was not a cloud in sight and not a breath of air stirring. It was impossible to calculate distances. ‘lt was some time before sunrise and I w'as looking around at the mountains in the grandeur of the sky, with its limitless sea of light blue. Mount St. Ellas, Mount Newcomb, Mount Augusta and Mount Cook, all over 10,000 feet high, the heads capped with snow, stood out clear and well defined in their great height, like mighty sentinels to bar the path of the most courageous adventurer. The Steward, the Alarvin or the Newton, the Pynacale and many others that have not been named, lay before our eyes. It was a panorama so great, so grand, so wonderful in its marvelous group of grand coloring, that the languages of all ages, of all people, could not furnish figures of speech equal to an adequate description. “When we looked to the north we were thunderstruck to behold a magnificent city, apparently resting on a ridge, which is an extension from the massive west side of Mount St. Elias, It was in truth a silent city. Every detail of street and buildings was plainly visible, but not a sign of life was to be seen. I called the attention of my friends to the sight and found that they saw everything exactly as I saw' it. If it was Imagination on my part, then there were five imaginations that fell in the same channel as I. This, however, is hardly possible. “At the right hand side as they faced us were what loqked like two Chinese temples. Next to them, and occupving the center of the picture, was a large building with massive colujnns and a huge dome. Everything about the building was massive. It towered above all other structures in the city, making them appear dwarfed. Across the entire front at equal distances one from another, were those great columns, extending from the ground to the roof. It was impossible to distinguish either doors or windows. The dome appeared above the roof, w’hich had a gradual slant. The dome w'as first rounded out and then came to a point at its extremity. “At the left of the temple, or whatever it was. was a group of buildings having the appearance of business blocks. There were about six of these blocks. They were square, having rows of windows denoting about four stories. They had flat roofs. Each of these buildings was set flush with the street, and they made a harmonious picture, with short, even spaces between them. “Next came what appeared to be a church, with a tall, slender spire, and at the extreme left I think there were three buildings that looked like factories. Only a portion of these buildings was visible, and it appeared as if the city extended in that direction much farther than we could see. This completed the picture, that was placed before our eyes. It lasted from 3:45 o’clock in the morning until 4:20. It began to disappear at 4:15 and faded away gradually, requiring only five minutes to disappear entirely. From the time we first noticed it until it commenced to fade, it was perfectly steady and the image perfect, as previously described. “I have previously stated that the silent city appeared to rest upon a ridge. I should state that this portion of the ridge did not appear until the city had entirely faded away. The ridge was at least thirty miles distant, but the city appeared much nearer, so it would seem that the picture w'as in the air between us and the ridge and that the ridge really furnished a background. “From a scientific standpoint it may ha worthy of notice that on the same da.y that we saw this picture there was one of the severest storms on the ocean ever known in that region. It lasted during that day and the next. We did not know anything about this, however, until we compared notes with Captain Greenleaf, of the yacht Aggie. on our return from the mountain. “This city appeared to us more like a city of the old country than anything else. We were Inclined to compare it with Russian cities, and since reading Miner Bruce’s description of Willoughby’s‘Silent City.'which he claims to have identified as Bristol, England, and to have photographed after three attempts on three different trips to Aluir glacier, I have been reading up on the subject of mirages, endeavoring to learn where instances have been known where a mirage was thrown as great a. distance. Willoughby’s pictures are very indistinct. If our silent citv was a Russian city and his an English, differences in the distance might explain the remarkable distinctness of the one we saw. “We regretted that Sella, the worldfamous mountain photographer, who was one of Prince Luigi’s party, was not with us this time. The only means we had or photographing the city was with a pocket kodak, which I carried. I took two shots at the city, having little hopes of obtaining good results, as the city did not appear on the ’finder’ on account of the great distance and the smallness of the instrument. I preserved the film, however, and had it doveloned. Tn one case there is no picture at all and in the other only a black shadow where the picture ought to be. “So far as I know we are the first persons to see the silent city from the Malasnina glacier, and if Willoughby’s description of the city seen from the. Afulr glacier is to be relied on, there is little in common between the two pictures. The poiat from which we took our observation is 120 miles from where Willoughby saw the sight that has caused so much excitement.”

IN BED FOR 21 YEARS. Strange Case of a Missouri Farmer Recalled by 111* Death. CHILLTCOTHE. Mo., Sept. 3.— Joseph M. Lilly, a wealthy farmer of Jackson township, is dead, aged about sixty-four years. In 1868 Mr. Lilly told his friends that ho had heart disease, and in the autumn of that year took to his bed and lay prontj there for twenty-one years, telling his physicians and friends that if he raised his head or chest above a slight angle he would instantly expire. Nothing could expel this idea from his mind, and his family had to make the best of the situation. Mia general health was good, but it was not until lato in 1889 that he could be induced ta get up. Once during that time his dwelling caught fire, but he refused to move, and was carried out on his cot. At last he announced that he had worn out his ailment and Ventured to get out of bed. arid was assisted to walk across the room. Since then he has been up most of the time managing his business affairs, for he was a shrewd business man and grew rich even while lying In bed. A few weeks ago he had a slight shock of paralysis, but rallied, and up to the day of his death had fairly good health. He leaves a widow and one daughter about thirty years old.