Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1900 — Page 7

DEMOCRATS MEET.

Opening of the National Convention in Kansas City. RICHARDSON RULES. Tennessee Man Chosen to Preside Over the Bis Gathering. Democratic National Convention Called to Order by Chairman Jones on Inde* pendence Day—Speeches Made by Gov. Thomae of Colorado) Kx.-Gov. Altgeld of Illinois and Permanent Chairman Richardson—Preliminaries Are Cleared Away and AdjournmentTakenllu* til the Rollowing Day. Kanin. City correspondence: ' The Democratic national convention was called to order nt noon Wednesday by Chairman James K. Jones of the National Committee amid scenes of great enthusiasm. The convention hall was packed to the doors and the whole amphitheater was a cheering mass of humanity as the best-known leaders of the party came upon the platform. Cheers for Jones and Bryan greeted the chairman as he rose, and it was several minutes before he could proceed amid the uproar. Words outlining the policy of the party for the coming campaign were spoken in the address of Gov. Thomas of Colorado, its temporary chairman, and the gathering of 15,000 people listened to the solemn reading of the Declaration of Independence. After the appointment of the rations committees the convention adjourned until 4 o’clock. At that hour it was found that the committee on credentials was not yet ready to report and adjournment was taken to 8:30 in the evening. Throughout the night there had been no sleep, for the sky was lurid and the sound deafening from rockets and cannon and every conceivable device of

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noisy demonstration. And with the daylight the shock was increased into one long-continued roar in which the patriotism of the day and the enthusiasm of the party blended. The heat was intense. Early in the day the crowds began to turn toward Convention Hall and all the approaches to the vast edifice were tilled with an eager and excited throng, surging toward the many entrances, and seeking to gain early admission to the build ing. With them came bands, marching clubs and drum corps, and to the cotfusion of their crash and hurrah was added the constant crnck, boom, tiir.i of bombs and crackers as the convention enthusiasts and the small boy vied with each other in celebrating the day. Further away there was evidences of the desolation left by the great tire which swept away the convention hall three months ago—here the tall spire of a church with the chancel of mass of ruins, and there tip- debris of a school house, only the dignified facade remaining. The convention hall itself at first glance looks crude and imperfect, but this was only in its external ornamentation of cornice and column. The subsjantiul elements of the structure were complete, ready to house the delegates and the legion of onlookers in out of the most perfect convention halls ever offered to the gathering of a great party. The stars and stripes floated from a hundred staffs along the gable and at intervals surrounding the entire building. There wery hundreds of these flags topping the structure. giving an idea of its vastness, H-40 feet long mid 108 feet wide. Inside the convention hnll the officials wen- enrly on hand to make final preparation. The serges nt-at-m-ms gave a dosing drill to the 300 ushers under his direction, showing that they performed their duties with precision. The doorkeepers. messengers mid pages were likewise drilled in their several duties, mid all was made ready for the rush to occur. N’ght Session. At 8:30 Chairman Thomas rapiied the convention to order. Pending the reports of the committees the convention was addressed by ex.-Govcrnor Altgt-ld of Illinois. The organization committee then reported the selection of J. D. Richardson, of Tenneasee, as permanent chairman. The announcement was received with cheers, and upon assuming the chair Mr. Richardson addressed the convention. Shortly after he had concluded hia speech a motion to adjourn until Thursday morning was made and carried. ~ The Democrats decided that their national convention this year should be held farther west than ever Ix-foft- and that It should open on the Fourth of July. The nearest the Democrat* have come to holding n convention on the Fourth of July before was at the 180<i session In Chicago, which opened July 0 and nominated Bryan July 10. The next nearest was that of 1881, which opened July 8 and nominated Cleveland three days later. One of theae candidates was defeated and one carried the Democratic banner to victory, both starting out in the month of July.

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION HALL IN KANSAS CITY.

KANSAS CITY’S FOURTH.

Hot Time in the Missouri Town on the Nation’s Natal Day. Kansas City was one of the warmest places on earth on the Glorious Fourth. Within the routines of the City, in its hump-backed streets, in the corridors of its hotels and in the convention hall, there were no less than 100,000 visitorb who helped to make the biggest noise the town had ever heard. From Kansas and Nebraska and from every corner of Missouri thousands of visitors came to celebrate. And. Kansas City let loose its •wn population for a holiday. The roar and rattle of the giant crackers and the snapping of fireworks almost drowned the noise made by the convention orators. Kansas City may never have such a day again, and therefore endeavored to make the most of it. The delegates to the convention pined for a cool retreaton the Fourth, but the crowd was so great that no spot was free from jams. Kansas sent forty train loads of people Wednesday morning to witness the opening of the convention. About 25.000 visitors came from the Sunflower State. J. Mack Love, -chairman of the Kansas State central committee, was besieged by hundreds of Kansans demanding tickets to the convention hall. The Missouri headquarters were also besieged for tickets. Cheap excursion trains were run to Kansas City on the Fourth from nearly every city in the State. It is rare that such a program has been offered to westerners. They expected to attend the session of the convention at which Bryan was nominated and also take part in the general celebration of the Glorious Fourth. The railroads brought nearly 25,000 Missourians to Kansas Wednesday, aud Nebraska sent in a host of. rooters for Bryan. Some came by road, some by rail, others on bicycles, nnd still others in prairie schooners. Monday the arrivals were by hundreds, Tuesday people camd by thousands, and on Wednesday by the trainload. All week until noon Wednesday when Chairman Jones' gavel fell at the opening of the convention, special trains bearing State delegations, political organizations, marching clulm and bands of music arrived almost hourly. By Monday night the people of Kansas City began to realize what it meant to have a big political convention on their hands. However, the people of the metropolis of the Southwest had arranged to take good care of their guests. That they are accustomed to doing things well wits amply evidenced by the notable accomplishment of reconstructing the convention hall in less than ninety days. Three months ago fire swept the great hall to the ground. Undaunted by the disaster, Kansas City decided that another magnificent st rauuiux—should rise, proenix-like, from the ashes of the old. That promise was fulfilled, and in ample time it was in readiness for the convention. The entertainment committee had a list of 11,000 lodgings where visitors could obtain rooms that were guaranteed to be ns desired. Among’the thousands of householders who placed tbeir nanus at the disposal of the bureau of information were hundreds, of the most prominent men in the city, many of them millionaires. I’t is said that these acted purely in a spirit of local pride and did not stipulate that their guests belong to their own grade of society or wealth, btit left the matter of guest selection wholly with the entertainment committee. The collection and codification of these 11,000 rooming place addresses was a task that kept a large force of canvassers and clerks busy for over a month. At one time in May more canvassers were engaged than wen* in any one business in the city. They received no pay for their services, but were incited by the fears, expressed in outside papers, that Kansas City would find in the Democratic convention nn elephant the municipality could not handle. \ Wealthy and i>oor alike turned in together, made a house-to-house canvass for rooms and returned to the headquarters n mass of contracts that satisfied local officials that the city could handle all the ..visitors likely to come. A peculiar feature of the system adopted was that visitors were not allowed to inspect the rooms to which they were assigned, but must pay in advance. If the rooms were not desirable the bureau agreed to refund the money. On the other hand, the householders had to wait until July 0 before they received the money paid by their visitors of a few days. By this arrangement the bureau retained control over l>oth hosts and guests until the period of complaint was past.

Prince from Hawaii. The delegation from the Hawaiian Inlands was headed by n real prince. The delegation consisted of Prince Daniel Kannnakoa, Col. W, 11. Cornell, John H. Wise. John D. Hold and Charles T. Wilder. The lUtyubliran delegation from the islands which wont to Philadelphia had a native, but he was a lawyer of Honolulu. Tills prince was prouder of being a delegate than of anything.so far In bin life. "Birth," he said, disdainfully, “that is of my ancestors. To be a delegate, that is to my own credit.”

JAMES K. JONES. Chairman of the National Democratic Committee.

KAISER'S BLOOD IS UP.

Relations Between Germany and China Reach a Crisis. The murder of the German minister at Pekin, Baron von Ketteler, has brought the relations of Germany aud China to a crisis. The Emperor, in his speech at Kiel, voiced the indignation of Germany When he said that the German flag had been insulted and that the outrage demanded exemplary punishment. The Emperor has decided to send a division of 12,(KJ) men to China. The Berlin foreign office says that the first shot at Taku was fired by the Chinese. Chaos seems to prevail in Government circles in Pekin. Rumors represent the empress dowager as bereft of power and Prince Tuan attempting to wield the imperial scepter, while Gen. Yung Lu is alleged to have declared that his soldiers leftist* to obey him. Other reports assert that the empress dowager and the emperor, fearful lest they lose their heads, have fled westward. Little credence is placed, however, in any of these reports. The only reports from Pekin which are regarded as trustworthy are those from numerous sources affirming that the German minister, Baron von Ketteler, has

WHERE THE OREGON IS GROUNDED.

been murdered, and all the legations, except the British, German and French, destroyed. All the provinces south of the Yellow river, whose viceroys and governors maintain friendly relations with the powers through the consuls, have been informally constituted into a confederacy, with Nankin as the capital. According to a cable from Shanghai, the southern viceroys wholly disavow Prince Tuan's government. They have practically constituted an independent state, extending from the Hoang-110 to British and French frontiers. Admiral Kempff's dispatch confirming the report of the murder of the German minister and declaring the situation, at Pektn desperate, with provisions nearly exhausted, has aroused the officials at Washington to renewed efforts. Secretaries Hay, Long and Root discussed at length the situation and a decision whs reached to Increase promptly the American forces in China. A dispatch estimates the total of the Boxers' force at 00,00<). According to the statement of the Chinese general staff, the imperial army can be raised to a wartime strength of 1,752,000 men, but this is regarded m a considerable exaggeration. Little steamer Dick Brown sank near Bc<Lamsville, Ohio. Two negro roustabouts drowned. In Berlin an association of eminent physicians has been formed for the *i>ecial study of cancer.

GREAT CONVENTION HALL.

Kansas City Auditorium Has Risen Phoenix-Like from the Ashes. The great auditorium in which the national Democratic convention met hak risen Phoenix-like from the ashes. On April 4 the great structure of which it is a duplicate was entirely destroyed by tire, entailing a loss of $235,000. Firemen were still at work on the smoldering ruins when the owners of the hall metand decided to rebuild. Next day the clearing away of the rubbish began. Contracts let for the destroyed structure were duplicated, and immediately began the rush of steel structural work, lumber, brick and building material to Kansas City. The original bad only been constructed in 1808, and was regarded as a model building of the kind. On June 24 ftie finishing touches were put upon this building and save for the lack of decoration the convention could have mot next day. The rapidity of the execution of a task so monumental reflects great credit upon Western energy. The hall occupies a space 314 by 200 feet. It is two stories high, built of Missouri stone, with cream brick aud terra cotta embellishments. The first story is of the renaissance style and the second of peristyle form, with groups and Corinthian columns. It is of bridge construe* tion. without a column, the roof being supported by great steel girders. The floor space is divided into an arena, in which the delegates and alternates were seated, an arena balcony and balcony and roof garden, with boxes skirting the arena and arena balcony. The arena alone seats four thousand persons, while the entire structure affords standing room for about twenty-two thousand. During the convention fifty firemen were stationed about the building, and nn engine was kept in readiness on the out-' side. The building can be emptied at the rate of five thousand a minute.

MAY SAVE THE OREGON.

A Press Dispatch from Che-Foo Encourages the Navy Department. A press dispatch from Chefoo encourages the Navy Department in the belief that the battleship Oregon, Which grounded on uncharted rocks near Chefoo, will be saved. The dispatch states that the

pumps are holding the water down, which indicates that the holes in the ship’s bottom are not of much Importance. 'The work of lightening the battleship has proceeded with all posible haste. The fight to save the battleship is being earnestly made by the men and the machinery of the big ship, Admiral Kempff's favorable report of the condition of the Oregon is believed by Secretary Long to lx* based upon the report of the commander of the Japanese vessel which generously offered assistance.

Odds and Ends.

Census enumerators will get S3,!MM),OW. Purls exposition has been flncUy completed. Kansas wheat crop estimated at 100,000.000 bushels. Harry P. Bissell, 25. und Clifford) Longbotham, bookkee|>cr, Yonkers, N. drowned. - .Mrs. Joseph Kelly of Akron, drowned nt Boston. Thought to be suicide. The motorman of n car in Chicago fell dead at his post, and the passengers narrowly escaped destruction on a railroad track. A man named Gaida enticed 5-year-old Marie Pion from her playmates ft Paris and strangled her, throwing her body into a pond. For printing criticisms upon the army, all the editorial staff of the Voce de Mexico were sent to prison for six mouths at t'*> Oity of Maxiiax

SIXTY HURLED TO DEATH.

Crowded Street Car Goes Down Steep Em bank went at Tacoma, Wash. A street car, heavily loaded with pa»sengers from surrounding towns and running at a high rate of speed, left the tracks while rounding a sharp curve at 20th and C streets, Tacoma, Wash., polled 100 feet down an embankment, killing sixty people and injuring as many inffre* It was a most appalling accident, and strong Tnen whose humane instincts told them to lend aid hdd to turn away from the sickening sight utterly helpless. As the car shot from the tracks it turned over aud over ns it descended nn almost perpendicular incline. Tacoma citizens, old and young, hastened to the scene of the catastrophe to give their aid. Victims of the wreck were extricated with the greatest difficulty. They were strewn along on the grass and later drawn to the top of the gulch with the aid of lowered ropes. Hacks, express wagons and even private carriages were pressed into service to convey the dead and wounded to morgues or hospitals, as the cases indicated. When at last all had been removed from the debris the places where bodies had been taken for temporary eare were besieged by thousands of i»eople in search of dear ones who were on the ill-fated car. In some cases countenances were so badly mutilated that other means of identification had to be resorted to. The car which dashed into the ravine was No. 116 of the Union Traction Company’s system, operating on the Edison line, which serves a largo patronage in near-by towns. The car is a box-like affair and was so crowded that men were hanging to the railings. All went well until Apexa Hill, just beyond Tacoma avenue, was reached. At this point it is said that the motorman, instead of shutting off the current before attempting to descend the hill, turned the current on. When the car with its unusually heavy load reached a high momentum and threatened to get away from his control he quickly turned off the current, but it was too late. As the curve was struck the car leaped from the rails and went to destruction. I’aseugers on the front platform who saw danger in the curve ahead jumped with only a bare chance of saving their lives; Some were badly injured, while some reached the ground in safety.

ALL FOREIGNERS KILLED.

Fearful Slaughter by Chinese of Men. Women and Children. Three Chinese servants of foreigners have, it is rumored from a good source, escaped from Pekin. They report that all the foreigners. 1,060 in number, including 400 soldiers, 100 members of the Chinese customs staff and a r»timls*r of women and children, held out till their ammunition was exhausted, in the British legation. The legation was finally burned mid all the foreigners Were killed. The Pekin city gates have been dosed and rioting is rampant. It is reported that Kuang-Hsu and the dowager empress have been poisoned. Missionaries and all foreigners have been driven from Tientsin. The international Storetnent for ThFrolief of the foreigners penned in by murderous fanatics nt Pekin is paralyzed. It is officially admitted in Tendon that the allies at Tientsin are wholly unable to advance, and, indeed, it appears that large numbers of Boxers imperil the safety of the troops themselves. They showed themselves at the north Saturday, threatening to take the town, and a late dispatch from Shanghai says they did take Tientsin, but this was rejected in London. The attempt to relieve the hard-pressed European garrison in Pekin has been formally abandoned. The admirals have met and decided that the weakness of the allied forces left no other course open. The experiences which befell Admiral Seymour’s force practically decided the question of relief. It was pointed out that the Chinese bad at that time in the field only a fraction of the large force which now cuts off Tientsin from ’he capital. Now this amounts to at least 200,000 men, nearly all of them well armed. There are, in addition, no real means of trans]>ort, and no food in the country around, for it is l»etng laid waste by Hood and fire. The drinking water is of the worst kind. Even if any small force ever reached Pekin, it would simply have to cut its wxy b»ek with the rescued garrison, if alive. It would probably find this task too great it* addition to the approach to Pekin.

CHINESE PUNISHMENTS.

The Chinese authorities have various methods of punishing criminals, all more or less peculiar. The simplest-and the one most generally employed—is the process of slicing off the culprit’s head with

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a huge knife. Punishments of minor degree lire varying system* of torture, and the one here pictured is considered the mildest one of the lot. The board the men wear upon their necks Is known as the cangtie, and they an- sometime* compolled to carry it for months.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Census enumerators will get $3,900,000, In a head-on collision nt Norfolk, Va., Fireman Sawyer, was killed. John Cooley. Mitchellburg, Ky., found dend with a bullet In his head. Mystery, ktella Edward*. colored, Kansas City, was killed by Turner Bradford. Jealous. IJev. D. N. B. Dowling, vicar general of the Chicago archdiocese, is dead. Mr*. Joseph Kelly of Akron, Ohio, drowned nt Boston. Thought to Im* suicide.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Girl Jilts a Farmer to Wed Hie Bon— Paroled Prisoner Gets a LegacyImportant Supreme Court Decisior ou Tumping of Gas. . Miss Carrie Duncan, aged 19, whose marriage to Alfred Higgins, 51 years old, was announced to take place nt English on the 24th of June, disappeared from home a little before that date. A few days later she called upon a sister in Louisville, Ky., and said she intended spending a short time with each of her friends in that city before marriage, as she was not likely to see them soon again. This set her people at ease till Mr. Duncan received a letter from her, dated at Great Band, Kan., telling him that she and Fred Higgins, son of Alfred Higgins, were happily married. Alfred Higgins is a well-to-do farmer; the son is a hired hand on a Kansas farm. __ ——— ——►:.zs..' ' - • ■ Indiana Is Btorm-Swept. Storms over Indiana'destroyed considerable property' and killed and injured many persons. At Union City the Odd Fellows’ hall was demolished, and Miss Gertrude Sipe was struck by lightning. Crops were ruined in the Southern part of Henry County, and several houses were destroyed by lightning. The electric light plant at Sullivan and the Methodist Church were unroofed. At Knightstown Charles Estell was instantly killed. Horace Hardin and a farm hand were struck while driving to town. Both were found by farmers unconscious beside their dead horses. Twenty houses were destroyed at Linton. George Shopman was killed ut Cambridge City while taking shelter under a tree. At North Manchester Henry Brown was killed , and Alexander. Homan prostrated. «.Miss Nellie Beecher was struck while walking along the Streets of Greenfield. The damage to crops will be enormous. Happy Day for a Convict. At New Albany, Ernest Roulet was notified that he was finally paroled from the Indiana reformatory, where he was serving n (erm charged with stealing a bicycle. Thewame mail brought the tidings that by the death of his mother in Switzerland he inherits $6,600. A draft for the amount accompanied the letter. Ronlet ran away from home when a youth, and came to this country because his mother had married a second time. At Indianapolis,-while drinking, he took a friend’s bicycle, as he claimed, in fun, and was sentenced to prison. His good conduct secured his release. Cannot Legally Pump Gas. The Indiana Supreme Court in a decision in the case of the Manufacturers’ Gas and Oil Company vs. the Indiana Natural Gas and Oil Company, appealed from the Grant County Circuit Court, held that natural gas cannot legally be pumped out of gas wells. The case was one of four suits brought to prevent the ManuYucturers^ - company from pumping gas out of Grant County to towns and cities at a distance. There is some question among lawyers whether the gas companies will be allowed to use pumps along their lines or not. Gives His Employes Stock. The Hurrle window glass factory, a twelve-pot concern nt Hartford City, independent of the trust,. has been compelled to close down on account of the intense bent. The shutdown will continue until Sept. 15. Mr. Hurrle.presented each cutter, flattener. blower and gatherer with a SIOO block of stock in his factory, and in the future they will receive dividends in addition to their earnings.

Within Our BorUera. Sixteen cases of smallpox in Anderson. Decided decrease. Connersville has more people than houses. Booming. Henry G. ('artmill, 52. was drowned while seining near St. Paul. Farmers of Stoneycreek township will improve twenty miles of roads. L. W. Kibbey, 27. B. & O. S. W. surveyor, was struck by a train near Huron. Philip Bullion, Goshen, ft-41 from a load of hay, struck a pitchfork and died instantly. Barn at the Wayne County infirmary is in ashes. Loss $4,000. Incendiary origin suspected. James Robins, Shelbyville, while passing an alley was beaten almost to death. Cause unknown. Geo. Green, Jeffersonville, goes to the penitentiary for from two to twenty-one years (or wife murder. Wm. Dakin, Muncie, succeeded in killing himself after six attempts. Butted the stone wall of the jail. Albert Knight. Greenfield laborer, has received word that he is heir to $70,000 from an English estate. Clare Hurley, 13, of Cincinnati, has disappeared in Muncie. Supposed he followed the Forepnngh-Mells circus. George Watson, Sullivan, charged with complicity in the murder of Clara Wagoner, eight years ago, was acquitted. Reuben Deßord, Tern- Haute, was given S3OO damages against the American Wringer Company for false imprisonment. e Miss Lola Truss, 18, Marion, disappeared six weeks ago. Case against a prominent married man for kidnaping her was dismissed. George Laureh, 15. Dublin, fell from a swing, stricken with heart failure, mid died. Boys with him laughed, thinking he was feigning. Williard Gibson mid his stepfather, William Gibbs, quarreled at Kokomo over Gibson's wife. Gibbs split open Gibson's skull with a spade and tied. Police are enforcing the liquor laws in Marion. The W. C. T. U. tlinnks the sheriff for enforcing the gambling laws. A rate war is on between the packet lines en the Ohio river. The fare has been cut to 25 cents from Madison to Cincinnati. Joseph M. Dunlap, denh-r in agricultural implements, coal and lime, nnd proprietor of grain elevators at Franklin nnf Trafalgar, made a voluntary assignment for the benefit of his creditors to E. F. jttarder and W. V. King. The assets nn» thought to Im* $05,000 nnd liabilities estimated at about $32,000.