Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1893 — Page 1

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BLOCKADE STILL ON

Until France's Dfrnands Shall Be Me: j And Her Former Prestige Fully Restored. MORE GUN BOATS SENT j And There Are Fears of an Attack on Bangkok. Uneasiness Among the Residents Increasing. Th e Departure of M. ravle to n j Slnnimr City, LeiiviiiK Hear Admiral j II ii ma mi I ntlrr Direct Ordern frmii Pari The Itrport of Correspond- . rnln Indicate That the Qurstlun I Aot Vet Settled. PAR It-'. July 31. The ambiguous tone of yesterday's cabinet council in accepting iam's surrciler has excited much comment. It Is generally underto.il that the tone was adopted for the Iurpose of southing international susceptibilities. It is stated on high authority that France intends to take decisive .steps to insure Siam's carrying out the terms of the ultimatum, it is said, until France's demands are satisfied. The Fiench force now present at Siamese waters is believed to be sufficient to make the blockade effective. A prominent Paris merchant who owns warehouses in Bangkok, in an interview today expressed the opinion1 that decisive action is necessary to restore- the prestige which France enjoyed in Siam after the adoption of the commercial treaty of 1SC0. French trade has recently declined heavily he said in consequence of English and German enterprises and intrigues to destroy French Influence. He believed that the strong lone of the ultimatum would tend greatly to restore the influence of France in Siam. The general opinion here is that the issue of the controversy is a triumph for French over Ilneiish diplomacy. It is believed in the diplomatic circle that there will be no disagreement between France a. id England in the delimitation' of the frontier. It is also believed that China will adopt her customary course of Iaissez faire and not meddle with the matter. More I'rpiirli fiunhonta. LONDON, July 31. The Paris correspondent of a news agency says that it has been learned from good authority that France , demands as security froni Siam that the terms of the ultimatum will be carried out, the temporary cus.o,y ct C!.T'TTa7L.-3T?T?!""n To v.'n nu." L.ie. gulf of Siam; also that Siam shall establish no military stations at certain named places near the frontier of Cambodia or within a certain distance of the Mekong river. A dispatch from Bangkok, dated Monday, 7 p. m., says: "The uneasiness among the people here, far from lessening, is increasing. Seven more French gun boats have arrived at Koh-Si-Chang, making a total of thirteen now there. Negotiation are still going on but the progress made is not reported. The ir tentions of the French are awaU. d with fear and apprehension. Bear Admiral Humann, commanding the French squadron, ahs issued a second blockade notice to take effect three days from Saturday. "He will order the British warships Pallas and Swift, now lying off Bangkok, to K outside the blockade limits. M. Pavie, the French minister resident, has gone to Saigon, and Kenr Admiral Humann is under direct orders from Paris. I'nless the French government interposes quickly an attack on Bangkok seems certain. The trading community is surprised that llunvmn is ti!l allowed a free hand." The Standard today received the following dispatch from its Paris correspondent: "Owing to the representation mad to M. Pevelle. the foreign minister, by Bord Bufferin. the British ambassador to France, the question of a neutral rone between the French possessions in the Siamese peninsula ana British Burmah and the Slam states, has been settle! satisfactorily. It has been agreed that the French blockade of the Siamese coast shall be raised immediately." No confirmation of the foregoing had beer, received up to a late hour tonight. ACTION OF SAVINGS BANKS. SOMR OP TIIKM TAKE ADVANTAGE OF Tili: TIME CLUSH. So Ran on the Xcvr York Instltu1 1 o ii , Although Other Institution Have Some Trouble More Hank Sunpeimloii During' the Day Other Muttern. NEW YORK. .July 31. With this morning the savings banks of this city, as a rule, began to take advantage of the sixty-day time clause, that Is the bank officials made use of the prerogative in cases where large amounts were concerned or where such action was deemed necessary to check the withdrawal of money. Cut while nearly all the banks claimed the privilege of using the time clause, still. In comparatively Tew instances was it used. A visit to the principal 6avings banks of this city this morning disclosed the fact that about the usual amount of business was being done, perhaps a trifle more than the average number of depositors were waiting their turns to draw money. But on the other hand in most of the banks there were corresponding lines of persons anxious to deposit money. The general impression seemed to be one of confidence in the banks. There did not peem to be anything like a run anywhere in this city. In Brooklyn the effect was somewhat different and the notice caused several runs. The greatest was on the Brooklyn savings bank. When the doors of the bank opened at 10 this morning an enormous crowd was waiting to draw Its money. Threats were made, but as these were of no avail the crowd went away in &rt ugly mood. Slight runs were also made on the South Brooklyn savings Institution and on the Dime savings. Call money wan offered at H per cent, per diem and legal Interest, but there was very little to be had at that rate until today, when a decline to 6 per cent, per annum took place. There is no time money nor U there anything doing in mercantile paper to speak of. There was a big demand at the subtreasury for transfer of silver dollar

to western points, principally of Chi- j cago, and up to noon $130,000 had been i applied for. The loan committee of the I clearing house at the session this j morning issued $2.fSO,Oo) additional loan certificates, bringing the amount out- i

standing up to $8.000,000. it is understood that the certificates taken out today are to be used to provide for further importation of gold. The sub-treasury was $02.340 creditor at the clearing house and received gold in payment. The exchange market opened steady and subsequently weakened owing to an increase in the supply of bills of all kinds; $4.81 Un 4.S3K posted rates. .Bankers are still figuring on gold imports and generally agree that the receipts will be larger within thirty days or so. The subscription books of the Northern Pacine collateral loan trust closed today. The subscriptions from stockholders have amounted to little or nothing, and the underwriting syndicate will practically take the whole $15,000,000. The currency movement was again havy today, the shipment of the town Iteing estimated at from $1,750.000 to $2.000,00. The demand was from Boston and other New England points, where the need for funds seems to be more pressing. From the sub-treasury alone $20o,0oo in silver dollars was sent by express to the county banks at the request of their New York correspondents. There is a growing disposition among New York bankers to take some actien looking to a stoppage of the drain. At considerable Inconvenience to themselves they have taken out clearinghouse loan certificates and sent large amounts of money so released to their corresHndents. Some of this money is either hoarded or lent at high rates of interest at the expense of New York. In consequence accommodation was given to country banks much less freely than heretofore. The exchange over the counter was about $:J'm).(oo, and $250.0110 was paid out in checks. Most of this was in coin. From San Francisco $50,000 was received by telegraph. Clearinghouse loan certificates to the amount of $2..r.2f.000 w.-re taken out. Most of it. it was thought, was for use in facilitating gold imports, which are expected to reach large proportions within the next two weeks. The total outstandnlR- issue of certificates has now reached $27,!i7.".000. This is the largest amount ever put into circulation, beating the records of 1S73 and Tin: ii.Ys mwk iwn.ntns. Three Simpenniona in Oregon nnd Other In Ohio anil cw lork. PORTLAND, Ore., July 31. The First national bani; of East Portland fail-d to open its doois this morning. The officers of the bank say the suspension is temiM-rary. A statement published July 12 shows resources of the bank to be $32.".0O0; deposits on hand, $ti0,uh). DAhLKS, Ore., July 31. The First national bank closed its doors this morning. The suspension is due to closing of the Commercial national bank of Portland. CEDAIl RAPIDS, la., July 31. A. Daniels & Co., private bankers at Marion, made an assignment to C. II. Kurtz of property valued at $2J0.000 for the benefit of all their creditors. The cause is tho lack of immediate each. ASHLAND. Wis.. July 31. The First national bank of Ashland failed to open its doors this morning. There has been a steady draw on the bank's deposits for a month past. Its resources, according to the cjtaUnie'ni4i'icv-Jv'-lI were $VJC,4SS. Dr. Edwin Ellis is president and ex-Governor Sam S. Fifield, vicepresident." The other banks are experiencing runs in consequence of the First national failure. PENDLETON, Ore., July 31. The Pendleton savings bank has temporarily suspended. R. T. Cox has been appointed receiver. Assets, 5250,000; liabilities, $130.00). TUB HON. I'KTKU SCIIAF. His Death Occurs at Mrookville Rüther Suddenly. RROOKVILLK. July 31. Special. About 9 o'clock tonight the news passed from mouth to mouth that the Hon. Peter Schaf, who represented the counties of Franklin, Ripley and Union in the last Indiana legislature, had died a few moments before at his home in this city from heart disease. He had been complaining of not feeling well during the day, but it was not thought that his illness was of a serious nature. Death came in a few minutes after he was stricken. He was a self made man in every sense of the word. Born in Fiance in he came to the United States in 1M0 and settled in Kelso township, Dearlorn county, this state. In 1M1 he took service as a cabin boy on a boat running between Cincinnati and Xouisvllle. His first trip was on the Ben Franklin, the boat that carried Gen. William Henry Harrison on his way to Washington to take his seat as president of the United States. For fourteen years he acted In the capacity of cabin boy, steward and cook. He came to Brook-ville-in 1870 and took charge of the Smalley house, a hotel which attained an enviable reputation among traveling men. In 18'j2 he was nominated and elected as a democrat to the office of Joint representative and made a creditable record during the last session of the legislature. He was recently appointed a delegate l.y Bishop Chatard to the Catholic Columbian congress which meets at Chicago in September. The funeral will probably take place Thursday morning. A XOTF.D IMIYSICIAX DKAD. Demise of Dr. Samuel K. Munford of Princeton. PRINCETON, July 31. Special. Dr. Samuel E. Munford, a noted physician and surgeon, died In this city this morning at 11 o'clock. He had been in poor health for the past two years, having had an attack of la grippe, which finally ended In consumption. For a time he was able to resume his practice, but last fall had to quit and he has since that time been confined to his room. Dr. Munford was one of the trustees of the Indiana medical college at the time of his death. He had contributed many valuable papers to medical science. In 1&83 he was the president of the State medical society. His address at the close of his term was a very able one. He was a consistent member of the United presbyterlan church. During the war he entered as a private In the Seventeenth Indiana vounteer infantry, but soon rose to' the rank of surgeon. Funeral Wednesday at 3 p. m. A Treniendon Shaking I' p. This Is what every system afflicted with chills and fever, bullous remittent, or any other form of malarial disease undergoes teriodically. Not only is malaria terrible it in the breeder of an infinity ot bodily aliments. Heciflcs used for its prevention and removal prove, In the vast majority of cases, useless for every other purpose than to mitigate the disease and stave off its attacks. '1 hey are sure, with the average treatment, to return after awhile. The sufferer may change his location to a healthier one, but th complaint, which Itt in his blood. Is not thus Jightly got rid or, and returns after the wonted Interval. Organic affections of the nerves, heart trouble, general debility of the system are the offspring of malaria, taire the originating cause and avert future physical iniury with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, efficacious also In liver complaint. Inactivity of the kidneys, rheumatism and Uidlgesticn.

THEADVAHCEGUARD

i Of the Fifty-Third Congress at Washington. A Few Members Ready for the Special Session. THE SHERMAN LAY TO GO Says Representative Geary of California. Senator Quay Expresses Himself the Same Way. It SceniN to Be the Opinion That Some Supplementary I.eKl'lntlon Will lie ecemfiiiry The Sentiments of Scun(or I'm nil of Alabama In Accord with Thope of Senator Vent Other AetVM from Washington. WASHINGTON, July 30. The advance guard of members of the fiftythird congress, coming to attend the special session which will begin a week from tomorrow, are at the capital. There are not many of them, and the probabilities are that but few congressmen will be In the city before next Saturday. Among those who have arrived the opinion seems to be unanimous that the Sherman law will and must be repealed, or at least the sliver-purchasing clause, but what shall follow is an unknown quantity. One cf the early arrivals is Representative deary of California, known to fame in connection with the Chinese exclusion and registration act, which bears his name. He said: "I am opposed to the so-called Sherman act. I have always been. It is vicious, and time does not improve it. The sooner it is repealed the better for the whole country. Of course some subsequent legislation will be necessary, but I am not prepared to say what It will be. because at this time I do not know. I am satisfied, however, that the Sherman law will go and that in its stead we will have something of benefit instead of harm. I could not tell you how my colleagues individually stand, for I have had no very extended talks with them on the subject. In place of the present law the chances are that we will have one that is new from top to bottom. There will be very radical changes in the schedule. The country expects this. The declarations of the democratic platform are so plain that there is no chance to misunderstand them. I do not think that action upon the silver question or the tariff will be so long delayed as some papers and persons seem to have imagined. The session will naturally be lengthy, as we have many other things to do. The democracy will come out all right, I guess. It .has a fair working majority, and I think both sides the silver and single-standard men are disposed to be reasonable." Another equally Interesting and important congressional character is Senator Quay of Pennsylvania, who said in reply to a question on the prevailing topic: "I think th silver-purchasing clause of the Sherman act should be repealed. That seems to be the consensus of opinion from those who know most about the financial situation. I would be satisfied to have congress adjourn, after that having been done, until the regular time of meeting." Ex-Speaker Crisp arrived in Washington this, evening from Georgia and took up his old quarters in the Metropolitan hotel. Mr. Crisp is not inclined to talk freely upon the probability of the repeal of the Sherman law and does not say whether he believes it will be repealed or not, foiling a question In that direction b,y the statement that he had not been here long enough to talk with members, and until he found what the sentiment was he could not make any predictions. The bare question of repeal could hardly, Mr. Crisp thought, be considered alone, for while it was true that the democratic party was opposed to the law and demanded Its repeal In the platform, It was not known to what extent conditions would be insisted upon. Of one thing Mr. Crisp was confident, and that was the coming session would not be a brief one. He was of the opinion that the settlement of the silver question would consume some time and that after It had been disposed of the tariff would be taken up, the members preferring rather to stay after they were here than adjourn and run the chance of a protracted session later on. SENATOR VEST'S VIEWS. Sayn We Must Either Defend Silver r Demonetise It Altogether. f'T. LOUIS, July 2S.U. S. Senator George G. Vest Is at the Southern hotel. The senator's mind is naturally full of the financial situation and he talks freely, but Is rather more inclined to seek opinions than to give them. Said he: "Can any one tell where this will all end? I can not, I am sure. This panic may be further reaching 'and longer enduring than any this country has ever experienced. Nine men out of ten I meet say, 'Repeal the Sherman law. Will that do It? If it will we can repeal It. 'Not ea'slly, I must admit," but we can do it. The country is right now at the most critical period In Its financial history. We have been traveling along on makeshifts of one kind and another since 1878. Expedients will avail no longer. We are at the parting of the ways and must take definite, decided action one way or the other. We must either take up our silver and defend it against the world, or drop It, demonetize, declare that It is not available as a basis of currency, and declare that the constitutional right granted to congress to 'coin money means only that we shall coin gold only. There are extremeista on both sides. Silver men can be heard who will talk as foolishly as Governor Walte did, with his rant about blood up to the bridles, which nun- . sense has recoiled on their own heads; j and Wall-st. has its gyld bugs who are I as unreasonable and wild In their pro1 testations and demands. The outlook is gloomy. We are in a fog. It may j continue to spread and there la no way to JudKe of Its extent. It may lift, as fogs do sometimes, as suddenly as It formed and find us in the sunlight under a smiling sun. In this, as in all other dilemmas, the nation turns to the law

making power and cries help us. I can only pray that heaven may direct us to do that. which is right and for the benefit of our land. "On the last Fourth of July I heard an orator down in Virginia say to a vast audience: " 'How is It that France, with a population of only 40,000,000 and a territory only one-thirtieth as large as ours, can keep $700,000,000 of silver on a parity with gold? How Is it that she, with a population mainly composed of Ignorant peasants, can keep a gold reserve of $250,000.000 and be able to loan England $15,000.000 as Klie did at the time of the Baring Bros. failure? What is the matter with our statesmen that we can't do that? Are we not better, then, than these Frenchmen? What is all this talk of our inestimable material wealth that we. hear so much about? Where are our statesmen, where our financiers?' "Now that is the kird of argument that reflects tho popular mind upon the money question. How -vill it be possible to convert the nation to a faith in monometallism to a single gold standard?"-

I'iikIi Sari Vent In Itltrht. SARATOGA, N. Y.. July 30. Senator James L. Pugh of Alabama is at the American resting. He read the recently published interview with Senator Vest with intense interest. "Mr. Vest is right," sakl the Alabamalan. Then he wrote o.ut this as a rellection of his own views: Senator Pugh says that "the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law would place silver where it was under the act of 1S73 and would amount to a recognition and indorsement of that law which every democrat has denounced as a crime. Senator Sherman would live to see his lifelong financial policy, for which the republican party has struggled for twenty years, fully vindkated by the votes of democratic representatives. The Sherman law repealed unconditionally leaves silver at the mercy of its enemies. A majority of both houses is democratic, and a fearful responsibility will rest upon those democrats who aid in giving the enemies ofsilver all they want, and that is the unconditional rejK-al of the Sherman law. The Sherman law is not responsible for existing conditions. It is a perversion on that law ard not the law as congress passed it. The banks made the law that has Jjeen executed, and Its execution as made by the banks caused the mischief. A majority of the democratic senators cannot be driven or influenced to vote for unconditional repeal. A cloture in the senate is not a possibility." Senntor Wolcott' Declaration. CHICAGO. July SO. Serrator Wolcott of Colorado is here on his way to Washington. Though desiring to bo present at the silver convention, the senator said he was compelled to go to Washington, where the real battle must be fougnt. He has no doubt that free coinage Will triumph at the special session. He said the deplorable condition of affairs all through the mining region has strengthened the determination of the silver people, and it may become a battle for the preservation of the financial and commercial interests of the West, and the effect of the crisis there is becoming apparent in the Kast, and only the establishment of free coinage can save the entire natim from a financial ruin worse than an it has ever experienced. The Sh-r !-;n bill will not be repealed wi:I.v.t j:i adequate and satisfactory substitute. The battle in congress will not be over the repeal of the Sherman law, but over the character of the substitute, nnd that seems to narrow down the ratio to be established between gold and silver. MURDERED IN THE WOODS. KCXT llROWXn IS FOl'XD DEAD XEAll WINCHESTER. WINCH KSTER, July 31. Special. Kent Browne, a colored man of this city, was brought here by the late Gen. Tom Drowne at Uie close of the war from one of the southern states. Whatever his name wa.-f up to that time, he was called after the general, although he retained his first name. He learned to be a barber and had been in that business for a long time and was well known here and In this county. Today he was found about two miles south o" town dead In Simon Ramsey's wood pasture. He had evidently been murdered, as the body showed three wounds, made, it is supposed, by a revolver. One shot had taken effect In his head, one in his heart and still another In his hip. Browne left town last night In his buggy between 7 and 8 o'clock. He said he was going to drive out to Rural, a small village In this county. At 10 o'clock the horse returned to town with the bugsy Intact, but Browne was not In It, so that he must have been killed about 8:30 or 9 o'clock last night. As Browne did not show up this morning, much speculation was indulged In, and It finally was agreed among his friends that he had met with a serious accident or that foul play was at the bottom of It. Sheriff Fletcher and City Marshal Coffin started out In the direction of Rural and about 10 o'clock Coffin discovered Browne's body In the Itamsey woods already stated. This afternoon it was determined to arrest Samuel Price of this rity. This was done and he stands tonight charged with Browne's murder. What the direct evidence amounts to against Friee is not altogether known. It Is stated an old feud and much bad blood have existed between the two men for some time. a Fonrrxc of millions. Ilelra to an Estate In India AVorth BUFFALO, July 31. A family living in this city may soon become the possessors of more than $23,000,000. They claim to be the nearest heirs to the estate of Philip Reinhardt, who died intestate in India about forty years ago. The relationship will easily be shown, as it is all on record in Germany, and although there are many claimants to this . immense property, the family in this city will become one of the richest in the United States. For over forty j years his vast estates have been un claimed until a snort time ago, when an advertisement appeared in one of the daily papers asking for intelligence of any heirs of Philip Reinhardt. To this advertisement the family In this city responded and found that they were the direct lielrs to the vast possessions. They are now engaged In proving their kinship. The Third One Lynched. COLUMBIA, S. C, July 31. A special I from Swansea says that Handy, the i third negro engaged in the outrage on ! Mrs. Slghters, was hanged to the same tree as the other two this morning at : 6:3) o'clock. No confession could be exItorted from either him or Preston, his alleged accomplice,

WILL DECLARE WAR

On the So-Called "Money Power" of the World. Gathering of the Friends of Silver at Chicago. THE DELEGATES' PROGRAM Will Demand That the Sherman Law Be Left Alone, Unless Supplementary Legislation Be Enacted. The Deles-ate Very 3lueh in Enrnent and Mvn of Intelligence and Power Ex-Seuator It en gnu Likely to lie (iuiKen Permanent Chairman of the Convention Some of the Lending it epreieu tallves Already in. the City of Chicago Senator Vuuee and the Silver Question. CHICAGO. July 31. There will be a declaration of war tomorrow and the signal of hostilities will be given by the combined convention of populists, freesilver men and greenbackers. The foe to be outlawed will be the "money power," and this generalization is so broad that it is designed to include the capitalists of Europe as well as the money barons of Wall-st. In the present depreciation of silver the delegates who will assemble In national convention tomorrow only .iee a great conspiracy on the part of the gold lenders of England and Germany, aid"d and abetted by the lesser capitalists, their vassals of Wallst., to make gold the only recognized international coin metal of the world and to subjugate the United States to the financial control of the country from whom she wrested her political autonomy a hundred years ago Great Britain. The scenes following the imposition of the tax on tea that was so hotly contested and indignantly denounced by the colonial fathers of 1776 would have been a fitting parallel to that furnished in the hotel lobbies today by the popular arraignment of the attempt now being made by Great Britain and the monometallic monarchies of Europe to coerce the American continent into financial dependency upon the feats of the mints of the old world. The laws of supply and demand, the results of overproduction, found no place In their arguments, fvv every suggestion of this kind was repulsed by a startling array of figures tending to show that the closing of the mints of India, the death blow of free coinage in Europe and the demand of Wall-st. for the repeal of the Sherman bill were but parts of a "great conspiracy" against the silver republics of the Western hemisphere. It is the opinion, too, of the delegates now assembling that this conspiracy should be firmly met and the enemy promptly routed, and some of them grow hot enousrh to intimate that if legislation should be inefficient a recourse to1 arms might prove a salutary remedy. Want More Currency. Those who have expected that the convention to be assembled at 10 o'clock tomorrow would go to pieces on the shoals of partisanship have underestimated the deep feelings that actuate most of the delegates who are to discuss the financial Issue In this assembly. Populist, greenbacker and the freesilver men seem to be united on one programthat the repeal of the Sherman purchasing act must be resisted to the last unless there be coupled with It an act for the free coinage of silver or for a greater volume of currency. The greenbackers and populists, who believe that the fiat of the government is as potent to make a dollar out of a strip of green paper as to make a dollar out cf 70 cents of silver, are of course not particular whether the legislation to be substituted for the Sherman act should be free coinage or government greenbacks; but for the sake of showing a solid front against the common enemy, the monometalist, they will unite with the free-coinage men In concerted resistance to the Cleveland policy unless a greater volume of currency be insured to meet the stringency of the financial situation. In this program are found united the republican Congressman Bartine of Nevada, the democratic silver dollar Warner of Ohio, the populist Kolb of Alabama and all their respective followers, and their name Is legion. XlKhtly Mas Meeting". It is apparent even now that the work of the convention is not to end with the sine die agreed adjournment on Wednesday. Aggressive committees are to be appointed to carry the fight to Washington, and state committees will be named to work up public sentiment in the various states. Then a campaign committee Is to be named, and to this committee is likely to be entrusted what Is really the most Important work of the free silver crusades. Its work will be' secret and It is said it will labor to enlist the assistance of the unemployed everywhere. Mass meetings nightly for all the weeks to come during the financial crisis are to be held by the unemployed and poverty-stricken In every city of the land, and resolutions are to be there represented and adopted calling upon congress to pass a free coinage bill. This is to be followed by another important move. The proselyting of labor leaders of labor organizations is to follow next, and the silver men, who well know how subserviently the average political demagogue bends the knee to the demands of the labor organizations, expect the same law. makers who passed the alien labor law and the Chinese exclusitm bin to hearken to the voice of labor - and Increase the volume of circulating medium until the wants of the country are relieved. It's to be a great moral crusade, an awakening of the masses, until the popular demand becomes so strong that "the voice of the people will be stronger than the voice of gold," as the populists put It tonight. The men who are assembled here are terribly in earnest, and their numbers and the marked personality and intelligence of most of their leaders give greater significance to the gathering than that attending any similar convention In the pajjt. Over 1.000 delegates will assemble for deliberation tomorrow, and the gathering will be Indeed a national convention. Headquarters of the various "delegations have been opened at the Great

Northern. Palmer. Grand Pacific and Antique, and they are rapidly filling up. Colorado's big delegation arrived at the Palmer today, ami a goodly number from Iowa. Nevada, Montana, Alabama, Indiana and Idaho are at Xh-i Gr-at Northern.

Some of the Delegate. Some of the most prominent now In the city are ex-Senator Thomas M. Patterson. Gen. Warner. Senator Lee Mantel. Montana; Senator George T. Shoup, Idaho: Congressman Willis Sweet of Idaho: Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada; Congressman Marion Cannon of California: Col. Sumpter Lee of Alabama; Senator Fred T. Dubois of Idaho; Congressman W. W. Bowers of California; Capt. R. F. Cobb, Col. P. J. Bowman, Warren Reese. A. T. Goodwin and Zell Gaston of Alabama. Herman Taubeneck of Illinois, chairman of the people's party national executive committee; George F. Washburne of Massachusetts; Congressman Bartine of Nevada; Governor Toole of Montana and ex -Governor Routt of Colorado. Hon. A. J. Warner will call the convention to order and Mayor Cut-r H. Harrison of Chicago will deliver an address of welcome. It is expected tonight that ex-U. S. Senator John M. Reagan of Texas will be chosen permanent chairman of the convention. Th ti nun ii for t'liairinnn. The chairmanship of the silver convention was settled last night by the selection of a dark horse who has not figured to any great extent in the preliminary forecast and discussion about hotels yesterday, in the person of Allen W. Thurman of Ohio, son of ex-Senator Allen G. Thurman. Senator Vance" Position. RALEIGH. N. C. July 31. Senator Vance last week wrote ,t l.-tl-r to the Farmers' alliance, which was in reply to a question as to his position' on the silver law. He said he was unalterably opposed to the repeal of the Sherman act. unless some substitute was provided. He was severely criticised for the tone of his letter, and now he replies in another letter. He says: "The charge that a democrat is at variance with his party who refuses to favor the unconditional lepeal of the Sherman law depends for truth on what the party laid down in the platform at Chicago. If promises and pledges amount to anything, the Chicago platform demands the repeal of the law as an obstruction to the free coinage of silver. "The obvious meaning is. if th law was out of the way, we could have free coinage. That is one of the things I propose to put in place of the Shenivm law, and I propose to vote against repeal unless that be done. If my party is opposed to that, then the utterances at Chicago were intended to deceive. If it was sincere, then I am trying to stand on the platform. It pledges the party to the use of both gold and silver wilhout discrimination. If we cease to coin one and refuse to tender it in payment, een of obligations, which by contract are payable therein, we do discriminate against that metal. Men of common t-enpe. who are loyal to the purposes they profess, will not surrender the advantages of their position. The law now in existence can be kept thus by non-concurrence of either the house, the senate, or the president to its repeal, whefvas the Sherman law, once repealed, measures which are to take its place would have to be passed by affirmative legislation, requiring the concurrence of all three branches of the law-making department, and no sensible man acquainted with the situation can believe that these measures could be passed under such clicumstances." Ill'GE COXSIMHACY. Ranks and Other Xew Eimlaml InntKutloiiM Are Victimised. NEW YORK, July 30. The World's Boston special says that a huge co isplracy has been unearthed, whereby seventy-three banks and banking institutions in New England were victimized. The story is to the effect that certain employes of the Northern Pacific elevator comrany of Minnesota Issued $1,DOO.Otto worth of froged duplicate certificates for grain on storage in country elevators, owned by the concern, where the inspection is not so strict as at the terminal elevators. These forged certificates were deiosited with eastern banks as collateral. About $vi0.MV) was secured in New England and the balance in New York. Some cf the eastern holders of the paper became suspicious and on an investigation being made the true stat? of affairs came to light. The stockholders of the elevators were dumfounded when the facts came to their notice and offers of settlement with the banks were at once made and terms of compromise offered. The company was then reorganized as the Lake Superior elevator company, with George Cook, secretary of David Dows & Co New York, as president. The terms offered to the banks were 60 per cent, cash, the remainder to be paid in five annual payments. A committee of bankers whose institutions hold large blocks of the elevator certificates was appointed to consider this proposition. It is lmIHjssible to say exactly what course the bankers will pursue as they are loath to talk, and in fact they have done all in their power to keep the whole affair from the public. MUIDLRS WIFE AM) CHILDREX. Iteeaaae Croo Are lind n Farmer Kill III Family with nn Ax. ANTIGO, Wis., July 31. Wiliam Xcmemacher, a farmer living nine miles southeast of Antigo, murdered his wife and three children about 10 o'clock Saturday night and then made an unsuccessful attempt to take his own life. Tin deed was not discovered until Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock, and the news reached here this morning. At the inquest Nonemacher made a full confession. s He said the crops were poor and he was afraid of starving; that his wife's parents were in (Quebec, where they had come all the way from Germany, and wanted money, and he had none to send. He had intended to kill his family Fridaynight, but he changed his plan to Satur- , day night. Atter the ramny was asleep ; he went out and got an ax and returned j to do the deed. He said he killed his wit'e ; first by three swinging blows on the left I temple. He then went into the next room and killed six-year-old Joseph, and W illie, four year old. He struck both boys on the head twice. Returning to the ruom where his wife lay, he picked up his two-year-old baby, held her in one arm and struck her on the top of the head. He then went to the barn, climbed to the roof, and Jumped twenty feet to the floor of the pig-sty, sustaining injuries to the spine and paralyzing his lower extremities. j "' Hit nli ed Oat the 11 he's Ilrnlnn. J CADILLAC. Mich.. July 29. A terrible murder occurred at Clark's Siding last night. Joseph Ashley, in a drunken rage, snatched his own child from the hands of his brother and dashed its brains out against a post. Ashley was violent and puarrelsome in the house and hia brother took the child out In the yard to keep Its farther from hurting it. . Awhley followeu him and. after a struggle got the chtla. and before he could be prevented, had committed the horrible crime. He wan arrested and bropght here this morningr. The victim was only a baby about one j tar and a half old.

ROBY'S PRIZE RING

Once Again the Scene of a Fistic Carnival, Attended by Five Thousand Faithful Sports. "YOUNG COR BETT" BEATEN. Paddy Smith's Blows a Little Too Frequent for Him. Baker Whips Mnyhew in Six Game Rounds. ISolh len l!ciii,r Severely l'unih-d O'Jla 1 1 " 'n Speeeh t 'o n ee rn i 11 ü the ( orhct t-iitcl I! I iglit In the Former" I'i'oriict '1 Ii e ( li:ii:iiiini Occupied :t l'.o, I. in Had othin to Say i.illli hiiocUt Out III Man in the 'I' vc ii I -IM(;li t ii. ROHY. July 31. T.ie liglit weight finish ficht 'oetween l'addy I'lrilh. brother of Denver Ed Simih, and "Y.-ung Cvletl." otherwise known a tb-.rge Gre.-n, at the Columbian nth!-;ic cli ! attracted a).otlt 5.(i . p ...:. 1. to,.iui,t. Tie fis'ht was for a pi:r: e of ';,.V. . of wi.i.-h "m went to ;he I.i-i r. This was "Young C rb-if s' first firi. h licht and bis name-father. Champion Jim lVH ;t. was there to see it. He was received by the audience on entrance with great e-Mi"iitiatioii. The curtain raier tonight was a tenround I ut b i ween Henry Raker aid William Mayo. 1 . .: Ii f Cifieat:.. for a oiiM-thousa nd-d' Olar purse. Both are heavy-vei.",rl:ls. 1 ut nltliough Mayo weighed nearly fifteen pounds more than Baker, the latter won in the sixth round. After some furious hf.hiir.g. in which both men wer.- badly punished, he succeeded in landing a kii"tk-out b'.ow oil Mayo's nee!;. Daring the interval President O'Malley of the Columbian club slepil to th front and '.kcc- 1 1 - an'n ii!u-eine:it that the match between Co:W-tt and Mitchell will be held in thi:-. el. ib. "I have." ha sad. "artieles of arrangements signed by Charles Mitchell t C rbett's signature on. We ouc!U to appreciate Corbett's position. lie did llol sij;!1 With the Coney Island atjlcUc club to meet Mitchell." The main light of the evening ws then called. Smith was seconded by Joe Choyn.-ki. Dan Murphy. Lilly Poole. Greene's seconds were Billy Delaney and John Donaldson. IU feree. Siher. Jim Coibett sat in his piote;.-.' corner, but took no ai live par!. It was m-ai ty II o lo.-k l:n time ".va.s called. First tvo rounds were good exhibitions of cautious sparring. Green being very shifty. In the third round he started rushing tactics, landing on Smith's fön head, but Paddy returned hard une on the neck, knocking Greene to the ropes. Greene led aeain, landing on Smith's head nnd Just at this juncture the electric lights went ut and the refer. e parted the ni'-n. After a delay of over half an Ib-ur oil Limps were brought into ue. Tiie men came up fresh for the fourth round, which was another exhibition of cauii -us sparring. Toward its dos- Smith used his elbow on Greene's neck and hud orbs of foul were heard. Both landed heavily just as the gong sounded. In the filth round Smith rushed Green around the ring, but sudd-, "ly Green landed v. ith th-' h it with g od effect. Smith did sotn dirty in-iit-'ht ing In a clinch and the referee warned him. In Hi- sixth, a fur . sharp exchanges. Smith again trio! ri.f.Jr work an.l was once more warned by the ri f .'fee. In the seventh, after sharp exchanges and good in-lighting. Green uppercut with good ciYect, but Paddy lame back witn a swing on the neck, which staggered Gleen. In the eighth Smith l.ind d on Greens stomach, but Gre. n reirned with the right on the neck, knocking Smith to the ropes. In the ninth Green landed on Smith's left eye, raisirg a lump. Then he upper cut when Smith clinched to avoid punishment. Oreen s-ems weak. Smith butts him, and is warned by the referee. In flic tenth and eleventh Smith seems determiners to land a kfev-k-out blow, but his swings fall short. Green lands several times, but his blows lack forte. In the twelfth, after hard infighting. Green landed heavily on Smith's neck, staggering him. Some Hot I'iuhllnK. In the thirteenth and fourteenth rounds there was considerable hot fighting, but Green's blows did not seem to count, and Smith hast he best of it. In the fifteenth, after sharp in fighting. Smith knocked Green t his knees. In the sixteenth Green landed hard on Smith's mouth, swelling Paddy's lips. In the seventeenth Smith rush d Green, landed a swing on the neck which sent Green to the ropes. Green landed on Smith's nose and Is ..edited with first blood. Green now seems to Im refraining strength, nnd in the eighteenth anj nineteenth lands again on Smith's sore nose, and upper cuts him with good effect. In the twentieth and twenty-first rounds sevral hot exchanges, but no serious damage. In the twenty-second Smith drew blood from Green's nose. In the twenty-third Green was aggresive but did not 'inflict any punishment on Smith, while he gets two or three blows himself. In the twenty-fourth a;.d twenty-fifth Green rushed Smith ai-ound and lands some good ones on the neck and body. In the twenty-sixth he landed hard on Smith's ear and in spite f sharp returns rushed Smith to the ropes and had everything his own way at the call of lime. In the twenty-seventh the aspect of affairs changed. Green whs knocked down by -a swine on th" jaw. lie got up before counted out. but Smith knock him down five times In succession. Gren finally clinching to avoi 1 punishment. This was the hottest round of th fishu In the twertty-ciahth Green came up apparently fresh, but Smith landed and knocked him down. Delaney then threw up the sponge, but Grem would not quit until Champion Jim Corbet t went into the ring and made Lira stop. A It lot at the Clone. There Was a riot just outside the arena, caused by a KriK of rouehs from South Chicago and Whiting trtnjr to break in to see the fight. Some Pinkerton detectives ran out of the door and tried to disperse the mob with their clubs, but they were met with a shower of rocks, anl Detective Forsythe was hit on the hen! and knocked down. Home one among th crowd fired two shots from outside and an unkiv.wn man was shot aKtve the heart, and the club physicians say he cannot live. To insure a hearty appetite and Increased digestion take Simmon Uvsr llegulator. .... . ...