Ligonier Banner., Volume 30, Number 7, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 May 1895 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banner, LIGONIER. ————z—— ' INDIANA.

THERE are in the United States sixtyfour agricultural colleges, endowed by the government, which in 1893 had a net income of $4,024,132, with grounds, Buildings and library apparatus of the aggregate value of $17,537,358. . - DuriNG the most peaceful years the world has 3,700,000 soldiers, who are withdrawn frem productive occupations to pose as soldiers. The pay, equipments, food and clothing of these men cost the world’s tax-payers nearly 48,000,000 a day. -

Maxi M’s cavalry gun, which fires seven hundred shots a minute, weighs but thirty pounds and can be carried strapped to-a soldier’s back. The gun he made for the sultan of Turkey fires seven hundred and seventy shots a minute, but it is a field piece on wheels. ey

" A KALAMAZOO man named Gabriel Green 1s dead, but since his burial it now transpires that he was peculiar. His peculiarities consisted in deposit--ing money in various banks under different names, and: now his heirs are having a beautiful time trying to clear up his estate. L :

* A PLAN is now being pushed by a Madison (Wis.) capitalist, backed up by the government, for the introduction of the reindeer into Alaska. It is groposed to introduce a large number rom Siberia during the coming summer and finally stock the entire western portion of Alaska with reindeer.

- JApPAN’s small losses in men in the battles with the Chinese were du¢ in part to the accidental use of a bullet-proof material. Owing to the severe cold, the Japanese soldiers wore a quantity of floss silk under their clothes; this, when they were hit, was found in many cases to have stopped the bullets.

THE Atlanta (Ga.) board of education has reinstated Miss Laura Morgan, one of the principals of the girls’ high school in that city, whose position was forfeited by marrying her sick lover to nurse him. In addition, the bride has been granted one mointh’s leave of ab; sence, with full pay, to enjoy her honeymoon.

| DR. ANDREW WiLsoN, of London, says that the odor of violets, migonette; tuberoses, and heliotrope are injurious to the voice. Vocalistsare especially suscepible to the scent of these flowers. Violets are said to be the worst in their effect. The odorous particles from the fiowers seem to irritate the vocal ore gans. ;

. THE average daily water supply of London is 190,123,599 gallons. The water is obtained from the Thames, the Lee, from ponds at Hampstead and Highgate, and from springs and wells. The population of London is 5,481,800. The daily consumption per head is, therefore, 34.68 gallons for all purposes. e

'THE two oldest secret trade process‘es now in existence are considered to ‘be the manufacture of Chinese red or vermillion, and that method of inlayJing the hardest steel with gold and silver, which seems to have been practiced at Damascus;ages ‘ago, and is known only to the Syrian smiths and their pupils even to this day.

- OxE of the features of the mass meét- . ing held in Brooklyn the other night "to protest against the ‘‘trolley miirt / ders” was a ghastly dirge composed for the purpose, in which a prominent part was the clang of a trolley gong, followed by a chorus of -childish shrieks. The effect is said to have caused thrills of horror throughout the ' vast assemblage. ‘

~ THE coast of Japan is well protected with lighthouses, lighthouse lighships, beacons and buoys. Its channelsare ~well charted and well sounded. In ‘harbor measurements and channel soundings the Japanesé war ships have served a useful apprenticeship. The navigation bureau recently published valuable charts embodying tne results ‘of these researches. | .

- ArMmy statistics in France and Ger‘many bring out clearly the fact that the latter country has a better system of elementary education than its rival. ,Out of 253,177 recruits incorporated in “‘the German army during last year 617 only were unable to read or write—- - that is tosay, 24 per 10.000. In France, 'on the other hand, out of 343,651 who ‘drew for the conscription no fewer than 22,096, or 643 per 10,000, were sim= ilarly illiterate. -

.~ AT the cold of 420 degrees below zero, produced by Prof. Dewar, the tensile strength of iron is doubled and +it will stand a strain of sixty, instead of thirty tons to the square inch. It is believed that the particles of iron and all other 'substances are in constant . motion, which increases as they are " | heated until they liquify, and that the . very low temperature increases their strength by re¢tarding the motion of ' the particles and giving thema greater . power of attraction for each other. . A NEw building enterprise, to be known as the Woman’s Hotel of New , York, was entered upon recently by a prominent capitalist, who has consulted many women: on the subject; the site will be in the neighborhood of Thirty-fourth street and Seventh av‘enue, and the plans have been completed by Mary Nevin Gannon and Alice J. Hands, who are entering upon a promising career as architects. It will be ten stories in height, steel-framed, . fire-proof, with an ornamental brick front, 100 feet square, and the total cost, including the site, will be $250,= : 000. i / ~ ACCORDIXG to the latest English cen- . sus there are 250.000 persons in Great | + Britain receiving incomes of $l,OOO '« each, and 2,000,000 persons having in- - comes of $5OO a year. There are 123,000 families Having incomes of $3,000 - and 5,000 families with incomes of ~ more than $25,000 In the United ~ States there are some 4,000.000 families . or about 2,000,000 persons, whose in‘comes are at least $2,000 a year and more than 10.000 families with incomes of over $25,000. C,fis_idafing the differ- - ence ffimlfi 1 it is clear that ~ the United States contains the greater .NGVS SR GO, . B e s e L

® ' . 4 v Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, G . oo . FROM WASHINGTON. IN the United States the visible sup-’ ply of grain on the 20th was: Wheat, 56,484,000 bushels; corn, 7,566,000 bushels; oats, 6,333,000 bushels; rye, 145,000 bushels; barley;, 183,000 bushels. © RicHARD W. MEADE, rear admiral, was placed upon the retired list. 2 | ON June 8 the supreme court of the United States will adjourn for the term. ‘ ; . 'THF internal revenue commissioner says that under section 3,220 of the revised statutes all the moneys paid in on account of the income tax will be refunded to the payers by the treasury department without delay. - THIRTY-TWO years ago Stephen J. Field was appointed by President Lincoln an associate justice of the supreme court and the anniversary was celebrated in Washington. ; IN sixty-three of the principal cities and towns the latter part of June civil service examinations for clerks, ‘storekeepers and gaugers will be held. AFTER Deing twice heard in the United States supreme court the income tax law was finally decided by that court to be invalid and unconstitutional. The vote in the affirmative was Harlan, White, Brown, and Jackson; in the negative, Fuller,* I'ield, Shiras, Gray and Brewer. 3 CoMMODORE ILESTER A. BEARDSLEE, ¢ommanding the Pacific squadren, wag promoted to be rear admiral. TuE state department received from Frank P. Hastings his credentials from Hawaii as charge d'affaires. OFFICIAL information was given the state department of the withdrawal of Mr. Thurston, the Hawaiian minister. SEXECA HASELTON, United States minister to Venezuela, sent his resignation to the secretary of state. Arethe age of 85 years Hugh McCulloch, whio was secretary of the treasury under Presidents Lincoln and Arthur, died in Washington. THE production of gold by the mines of the United States during tlie calendar year 1894 was ‘estimated at $39,500,000, an increase over 1893 of $3,500,000. The production of silver was $64,000,000, a decrease as compared with 1893 of 10,500,000 ounces. ; SECRETARY JLAMONT wasy officially informed that the Indians.in Arizona were restless and that a feeling of insecurity prevailed.

THE EAST. : -Tae firm of Stevens & Co., New York commission brokers, failed for $lOO,OOO. s o | IN Babylon, L. 1., an order was issued for the arrest of all persons who ride bicycles on Sunday. ' TaE two small children of John Watkins set fire to the dwelling at Nanticoke, Pa., and were burned to. death. IN western New York the entire grape and peach crop was destroyed by frost and the fruit was damaged in Orleans county, the great peach county of the state. The damage was placed at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Tuage death of William Cogswell, of Salem, who had served continuously in congress from the Sixth Massachusetts district since 1886, occurred in ‘Washington, at the age of 57 years. Mr. Cogswell was also a war veteran, entering the service as a private in 1861 and retiring’ as brigadier general in 1865. 4 : A NEw and magnificent $1,000,000 temple of the odd fellows in Philadelphia was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies. *’ ' FLAMES swept away many factories at Cambridge, Mass. i THE philanthropist and noted abolitionist, Henry A. Chittenden; died at his home in Mont Clair, N. J.,.aged 79 years. Tue sudden death. of Andre Louis Bagger, consul in Washington for Sweden, Norway and Denmark, occurred at Asbury Park, N. J. COMMODORE BALLINGTON BooTH, of the Salvation Army, and his wife, Maude Elizabeth Booth, became citizens of the ,United States at Jersey City, N. J. They declared their intentions five years ago. - WEST AND SOUTH. ! A RECEIVERnwas appointed.for the Milwaukee Street Railway company, with a bonded indebtedness of nearly $12,000,000. Frogt in Michigan did over $1,000,000 worth of damage in Allegan, Ottawa, Van Buren, Barry, Muskegon and neighboring counties. : AT Pinole, Cal., a powder house exploded, killing fourteen men. . IN session at Ottumwa the lowa Federation of Labor defeated an effort to commit the federation to free silver or socialism. - JouN B. KorTiNG, the banker who wrecked the South Side savings bank in Milwaukee, after making a fight for two years, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison. g At St. Louis Paul Taustin, aged 22, leaped from the center arch of the Eads bridge into the Mississippi river, 120 feet below, and was not injured. IN an explosion in a coal mine near ‘Fairmount, W. Va., four miners were killed. - Gt DuriNG a tornado at Lockport, Tex., the St. Mary hotel and Catholic church were unroofed and forty other houses were damaged, causing a loss of $lOO,THROUGH the region east of Superior, Wis., forest fires were raging and great damage was being done. ON the lakes insurance losses this season up to May 15 were unprecedentedly heavy. The aggregate was $520,000, as compared with losses last sea~ son up to the same date of $136,000. Two MEN swindled G.'H. Taggert, a wealthy farmer near Warrensburg, -Mo., out of $8,500. . o . AT Creede, Col., snow to the depth of & foot fell. : i o AT Renville, Minn,, gold was struck in paying quantities. ' NeArR Cheyenne, Wyo., a freight train ran into the rear end of a passenger train and Engineer August Gray and Fireman Ed Fuller, both of Denver, were crushed to death. . AT the snorting of an elephant in the parade of a circus at Fort Wayne, Ind., a horse took fright and dashed into the midst of a crowd of women ~and children, killing Mrs. Eliza Lemay, fatally injuring Mrs. F. Wehner and "her boy and bruising sixteen other - persons. . i - ; - Miss MAup Myrrs, Miss Kate John~son and Charles Wiley were drowned ‘at Effingham, 111, by the upsetting of araft. Vil .Ix Oheago sixty hopses rgrivy, A S the Carette company wers burned to mfi the stables and ten T ; ~éfi§‘° mrl S

A MoB kille& William Connell, .who killed Sheri George Dunham, of Montgomery county, Ga. - ; RoBBERS blew open the vault ‘of the state bank at Oneida, Kan., securing about $l,BOO. | Sl Apvices from the great wheat belt of North Dakota, the Red river valley, say that the frosts have not ruined the young plant. | - ‘ : THE Texas clena.rtment of education ruled that nuns could not teach in the public schools of the state. ] Two YOUNG men were fishing in the Neches river near Crockett, Tex., when their ca#noe was attacked by alligators and broken up’and the young men were torn to pieces. ADVICES from the vast wheat farms of the northwest, in Minnesota and the Dakotas, show that the wheat crop is not only uninjured, but actually is in better than the average condition. . Toe Michi’g‘an legislature passed a bill making it unlawful for one person to treat another to liquor in any public place in the state. It also prohibits the selling of liquor- for such | purposes. . } Mgrs. ANNA ANNABLE in a fit of jealousy shot and killed her husband. in Chicago and then put a bullet into her own heart. . ‘ NEAR Lebanon, Ind., Thomas Irving, J a wealthy farmer, mistook his eldest son for a burglar and shot him fatally, THE convention of ‘‘sound money and better banking’ facilities” met at Memphis, Tenn., and was addressed by Secretary (Carlisle. . A MoB lynched Claxd2 Thompson (colored) at |Dekoven, Ky., ' for attempted assault on a 13-year-old white girl. b ' Miss ' ANNIE NELSoN and George Laibel, midgets of the Mrs. Tom Thumb company, were married at Minneapolis, Minn. | IN a house at Omaha, Neb., a gasoline explosiom killed William Henry and his wife and Mrs. G. 8. Osborn. Ex-Gov. W. D. HoArp was elected department commander of the Wisconsin G. A. R. at the encampment at Green Bay. | . Kickaroo Indian lands in Oklahoma were thrown open for settlement and it was estimated that not less than 20,000 persons joined in the rush.

: FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FIRE destroyed the tobacco and cigay factory in Havana known as the Flor de Fumar, the loss being $150,000. Eighteen firemen were injured, two of them fatally.| FrAMES dektroyed the tobacco and cigar factory in Havana known as the Flor de Fumar, the loss being $150,000. Eighteen firemen were injured, two of them fatally. _ IN Armenia five of the Kurds who murdered Frank G. Lenz, of Pittsburgh, Pa., who was attempting to ride around the world on a bicycle, were discovered. | ' AT Kuchan, Persia, the lieutenant goveraor and six officials were murdered and mutilated during disturbances due to the premature collection of taxes. |, IN eastern Cuba an engagement disastrous to the rebels was fought in which Jose Marti, who was proclaimed president of | the revolutionary party, was killed. | , : i Fire destroyed sixty-two houses in Coatepre Castles, Mexico, and left thir-ty-five families homeless. : FRANZ VON SUPPE, the musical composer, died in Vienna, aged 75 years. A DECREE was issued by the Chinese emperor recalling from the island of Formosa, ceded to Japan by the treaty of peace, all the Chinese officials on the island. ;‘ : : AT the age of 75 years Franz von Suppe, the musical composer, died in Vienna. 2 LATER details of the loss of the Spanish steamer Gravina, wrecked off Manilla, Ph’iiippifie-'islands, during a typhoon, show that 168 persons werg, drowned. o . - TeE diplomatic relations between. China and Japan have been resumed by the appointment of Count Hayashi, vice foreign minister, to be Japanese minister to Reking. ] THIRTY negroes who were attempting to leave Mexico for theirformer homes in Alabama were said to have been shot and killed by their employers.

' LATER NEWS. THERE were 207 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 24th, against 211 the week previous 'and 183 in the corresponding time in 1894. THE 76th birthday of Queen Victoria was observed in London. GeN. J. B.| HAWLEY, assistant secreretary of the|treasury under President Hayes and six years a member of congress from Illinois, died suddenly at Hot Springs, ‘S D.: Tue Langley flying machine flew a distance of 1,000 feet at a test near Washington.! Formosa d"eclared its independence and the population will fight the Japanese and lxjrill not submit to the orders of the jmperial Chinese government. f A MOB took John Halls, Jr., and William 'Royce from their cells in the jail at Danvi_lle, Ili., and hanged them for assaulting Miss Laura Barnett. : AN earthqlfake in the town of Paramythia, in [the province of Epirus, which is a part of Albania, destroyed nearly all the houses in the town and 50 persons were killed and 150 injured. MounT Vm§cvxus was reported to be in an unusual state of eruption, - RATHER than endure the reproach of living off his wife's earnings Couis Kracman, off Chicago, killed his little girl, 2 years|of age, and then took his own life. [ - : Tue minerns’ strike in the Pittsburgh (Pu.)‘distric#;.was ended; the strikers going back to work at the operators’ terms, sixty/cents per ton. . Rev. WILLIAM HENSHAW was indicted by the Hendricks county (Ind.) grand jur'y‘laor the murder of his wife. llenshaw claimed that robbers had killed his wife and wounded him.: - AT a meeting in New York of the democratie editors of the state a letter was read from the president in which he depicts the danger of free coinage of silver, - T Ay “. NEARLY 80,000 pupils took partin the great unnivtt-rsary parade in Brooklyn, N. Y., of the Sunday School union. iEx-Presidenr‘ llarrison reviewed the children.” ~ e i ~Ar Huron, 8. D., C. D. Houghton’s stables, with many valuable horses, ‘were burned. o He ~ 'l'nr friends of free coinage gathered in force ut Memphis, Tenn:, to hear exCongressman W. J. liryan, of Nebraska, reply to the sound money speech of Secretary Carlisle before the anti-free silver convention. Mr. Bryan comtrasted Mr. Carlisle's silver attitude now with lis views in 1878,

VICTIMS OF A MOB.| A Pair of Brutes Taken from Jail and Hanged. j Lynchers Hold Sway at Danville, IlL.—Battering’ Down Prison Doors, They ¢ End the Careers of a Young' fl? ' Lady’s Assailants. : o DANvVILLE, IIL, May 25.—4 a. mi— Early this morning a mob which had been in possession of Vermillion county’s jail for several hours sncceededléin locating John Halls, Jr., and William Royce in their cells, took them ou_tsiFe and ‘hanged them for assaulting Miss Laura Barnett. From midnight, when the crowd first made its appearance at the jail doors, until the victims were reached,” it was the determined, desperate struggle of a frenzied mob to mete summary justice, battling against heavy oaken doors and iron bars, and occasionally halted by the g‘r{m stand of a little band of defenders of law and order under the command jof Sheriff Thompson. No amount of parleying on his part and no plea from his wife could withstand the mob which had but the one object in view. - | The story of the crime was the topic of discussion here all day.: Businéss was practically suspended and shopkeepers and their clerks gathered in knots on the street corners and discussed the affair with farmers who flocked'to the city during the day. Shortly after nightfall omiigus mutterings were heard and some openly counseled the more quiet of their neighbors to take snmmary vengeance on the perpetrators of the erime and not take the chances of the law’s delay or the tec¢hnicalities which might arise and eyéntGially free the men. , ' ‘As early as 10 o’clock the crowd congregated on the main street, and it only needed a venturesome leaderto proceed to the jail at once. That leader was soon found. From whispered threats the cry arose for vengeance; swelling on the night air until it echoed and reechoed from one end) of Danville to the other. A rush was made for the jail, where, under fear of just such a proceeding, the guard had been reenforced, but constituted only a handful of men to face a frenzied, bloodthirsty mob, wrought. up to an indescribable pitch and bent only on having the-lives of the two cowéring men within. Clamoring at the. jail doors, the mob was met by Sheriff Thompson, who denied admission and, retiring behind the doors, locked ahd doubled bolted them. ¢

The crowd procured a telegraph pale and a railroad iron, and at 1:30 battered in the outer door. The besiegers thronged in and commenced work on the inner door. At 2 o'clock Sheriff Thompson sent for Judge Bookwalter, of the circuit court, who addressed the crowd fro!m the jail corridor. He counseled them to peace "and order, and for a minute, and but a minute only, his' words were heeded. Then another desperate attempt was made to reach the cells where the two ‘men were secreted. Finally gßoyce was located crouching and shivering with fear. His cell door was quickly Dbattered down. A score of hands dragged him unceremoniously from- his hiding place underneath the wooden bench which serves prisoners as their bed. Half dragged and half pushed he was hustled into the dining-room and seated on the table. A rope was placed over his head, ard while part of the mob kept close guard over him the others continued the search for Halls until he was discovered in another and more remote portion of the jail. At 3:15 o’clock-the mob secured both of the prisoners and started toward the bridge with ropes about their necks. They were hanged almost upon the scene of their crime. gl [Miss Laura Barnett and Miss Lillinn Draper, very respectable young ladies, were walking across the Vermillion river bridge within two blocks of the heart of the city Wednesday evening qat 7 o’clock, when they were attackied by John Halls, Jr., and William Royce. Mi__ss’ Draper escaped, but Miss Barnett was knockied down and then carried off the bridge and into a neighboring fleld. John Downs, who dattempted to go tothe assistance of Miss Barnett on the bridge, was badly beaten by Hajls and Royce. The crowd that started 1n pursuit did not find the girl until after 10 o’clock. She was unconscious and badly bruised. Halls and Royce were arrested at 1 o’clock Thursday morning and bound over to the grand jury now in session,] y £

' THE KICKAPOO LANDS. Great Dissatisfaction Over the Blanafie-_ ment of the Opening. ‘ OkLAHOMA CITY, O. T., May 25.—Over 2,500 people have been in line at the land office here since daylight Friday to file ;upon 437 Kickapoo land claims. In some cases as many s fifteen men are claiming one plot. All bitterly denounce the management jof opening 'and, blame Secretary Hoke Sm#th for permitting School Land Agent Harvey to enter the reservation three days before the opening and secure 20,000 acres of the best land to the exclusion of settlers. The removal of troops by Secretary Smith is also candemned, as it permitted ‘‘sooners” ito occupy - the best claims. Those iin line stand doggedly at their posts and food and drink is carried to them. Some of the worstseenes of the Cherokee strip opening have not been repeated, but the discontent is great. Litigation will follow overevery claim and the land will cost more than!if bought outright. Thereturn wave has set in and within a month there will be claims for sale at low prices. Three towns have been started, one of thefn, unnamed, having 3,000 inhabitants. :

. Down On Her Luck. PARKERSBURG, W. Va., May 25— Mrs. W. I. Jackson, of Pittsburgh, who, through her daring oil speculations, has gained national notoriety as Pennsylvania’s ‘‘oil queen,” was arrested here Friday charged by a boardinghouse keeper named Schleicher with jumping a board bill. After giving bond for her appearance next month she was released. =For years everything Mrs. Jackson touched turned cut successful and she was reputed to z{be worth $1,000,000. Recently fortune seems to have changed, and she is now said to be in ‘‘hard luck.” b ‘ Big mdlng. ; :

NEw York, May 25.—The Railroad Gazette publishes a tabulation of orders for freight cars, placed by railroad companies this year, which gives the number at 22,020. The passenger cars ordered amount to: seventy-two, with contracts for thirteen more to be given out shortly. This represents an investment of over $10,000,000 | ' | Formogs Mebols. | | " TAIPEH, May 25. — Formosa has declared its independance. The popu~lation will fight the Japanese and will not submit to the orders of tae im- . perial Chinese government.

o ANOTHER LETTER. In It the President Presents Some Views to New York Editors. NEw York, May 25.—Two hundred and twenty-seven editors and their friends were present at the banquet of the Democratic Editorial association of the state of New York held at Delmonico’s Friday night. American flags were draped around the state coat-of-arms behind President Stephen H. Parker. Senator David B. Hill occupied the seat of honor on the right of the president. = The dinner began at 6:30 p. m., and it was 10 o'clock before the ‘speaking commenced. Previous to the speaking letters expressing regret at not being able to be present from President Clevelund, Postmaster General Wilson, Secretary of War Lamont and many others were read. | > President Cleveland in his letter said: “Our party is so much a party of power, and its proper action and usefulness are so dependent upon a constant adherenceto its doctrines and traditions that no tendency in our ranks to follow the misleading light of & temporary popuiar misapprehension should go unchallenged. Our victories have all been won when we have closely followed the banner of democratic principles. We have always been punished by defeat when, losing sight of our banner, we have yielded to the blandishments of undemocratic expediency. 2 “‘There-is a temptation now vexing the people in different Sections of the country which assumes the disguise of democratic party principle, inasmuch as it presents a scheme which is claimed to be a remedy for agricultural depression and such other hardships as afflict our fellow citizens. Thus, because we are the friends of the people and profess devotion to their interests, the help of the members of our party is invoked in support of a plan to . revolutionize thesmonetary condition of the country, and.embark upon an experiment which is discredited by all reason and experience, which invites trouble and disaster in ever§ avenue of labor and enterprise, and which must prove destructive to our national prestige and character. ‘*When a campaign is actively on foot to force the free, unlimited and independent coinage of silver by the gowernment at a ratio which will add to our circulation unrestrained millions of so-called dollars, intrinsically worth but half the amount they purport to represent, with- no provision or resource to make good this deficiency in value, and when it is claimed that such a proposition has any relation to the principles of democracy, it is time for all who may in the least- degree influence democratic thought, to realize their responsibility. “Our party is .the party of the people, not because it is wafted hither and thither by every sudden wave of° popular excitement and misconception, but because while it tests every proposition by the doctrines which underlie its organization, it ‘insists that all interests should be defended in the administration of the government without especial favor or discrimination. Our party is the party of the people because in its care of the welfare of allour countrymen, it resists dangerous schemes born of discontent advocated by appeals to sectional or class predjudices, and’ reinforced by the insidious aid of private selfishess and cupidity. Above all, our party is the party of the people when it recognizes the fact that sound and absolutely safe money is the life blood of our country's strength and prosperity, and when it teaches that none of our fellow-citizens, rich or poor, great or humble, can escape the consequences of degeneration of our currency. “Democratic care and conservatism dictate that if there exists inconvenience and hardships resulting from the cgugestion or imperfect distribution of our circulating medium a remedy should be applied which will avoid the disaster that must follow in the train of silver monometallism, | . ‘‘What T have written has not been prompted by any fear that the democrac:&of the state of New York will ever be an aclomplice in such an injury to their country as would be entailed by the free, unlimited and independent coinage of silver; mnor do I believe they will be so heedless of party interests asto support such a movement. I have referred to this subject in the belief that nothing more important can engage ‘;he attention of the American people or the® national democracy, and in the conviction that the voice of the democrats of New York, through its press, should constantly be heard in every state. **Yours very truly, : 2 “GROVER CLEVELAND. Hon. William L. Brown acted as toastmaster. The {following were among the toasts: ‘Democracy,” Hon. David ‘B. Hill; “‘Sound Money,” Hon. James H. Eckels; “Party Principles,’ Hon. Charles S. Fairchild; ‘‘The Democracy of the State of New York,” Hon. Roswell P. Flower. : : " WHEAT FEVERISH.

Price Drops to 76 1-2 on the Chicago i « Board of Trade. : ‘ CHICAGO, May 25.—Under the pressure of heavy sales by holders who desired | to realize their profits on previous ; purchases, wheat sold down almost ' from the start Friday and reached | 7614, a decline of 5% ' from i the high point of Thursday. i The reaction was not permanent, | however, and prices regained somei thing of the loss. In the early houws of the session the quotations were driven down to 774, but there was a | sharprally on heavy buying orders from the country. Later came a further slump, which sent the July ‘option to 76} and from this point the recovery was slow. The offish feeling in the market was due entirely to the liquidation by the successful speculators, who were anxious to get out of ' their deals temporarily and take their profits. W i . About noon wheat weakened again and selling orders coming in again. freely the price tottered and fell to 77c. During the last ten minutes of the session country holders began, selling and the price receded to 763 cents. Trading in.the last few days has been the heawiest ever known on this exchange or any other in wheat. As was to have been expected, the price of flour has sympathized exactly with the rise in the price of wheat. L. Z. Holley, who represents the big Pillsbury mills in Minneapolis and the Washburn mills, said that the advance in the price of flour per barrel of both mills has been in proportion to that of wheat. ‘‘Pillsbury’s Best” has advanced from $3.75 per barrel to $5 per barrel, and ‘‘Washburn’s Best” from $3.75 to $4.70. " . TO LICENSE 'THRESHERQS. Secretary’s Scheme to Secure Accurate ‘ Figures of Cereal Yield. WasHINGTON, May 25. — Secretary Morton’s latest plan for, securing | absolutely accurate figures as to the yield of cereals in this country is announced as follows: : He suggests that the various states license all threshers of grain and'shellers of corn at a nominal sum, and<réquire them under oath to return the number of bushels of grain threshed by them, and the number of bushels of corn shelled. In this way, he believes, a return would be reached that could not be impeached. This plan would, of course, requiré the legislative cooperation of all the states in ghe union. : i g : e ' .Griffin Gets Five Years. B CHIcAGO, May 25.—Frederick W. Griffin, the defaulting assistant cashier of the Northwestern national bank, pleaded guilty in Judge Bunn’s court Friday morning, and was sentenced to five years in'the penitentiary. Two ‘months ago Griffin was found to be $50,000 short in his accounts. He admitted taking the money, which, he said, he had lost in speculation. Vesuvius Raising & Row. ' [Nawrms, May 25.—Mount Vesuvius i ' in'an unusual state of eruption. The ' seismic instruments in the vicinity are m? '&o;m& } " e ( :

OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH. Secretary Carlisle’s Past ‘Record Is Used Against Him. Ex-Congressman Bryan, at Mempbhis, Presents a Comparison of. the Keni tuckian’s Position on Silver, fre : : Past and Present. : Mempuls, Tenn., May 25.—Before an audience that filled every nook and gorner of the Grand opera house and ovelrflowed into the street. ex-Con-gressman W. J. Bryan, of Nebraska, replied Friday night to the speech on the monetary issue delivered across the street on Thursday afternoon

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by Secretary Carlisle. In‘the course of his speech Mr. Bryan said: ~ | ' “I have read the speech delivered by Mr. Carlisle in this ¢ity on Thursday; also the one delivered by him in Covington, Ky.. last Monday evening, and I have compared them with the speechdelivered by him on the 2lstof Feb- - ruary, 1878, in the house of representatives;and lnl am reminded of the language used by David in lamenting the Geath of ‘Saul: ‘‘How are the mighty fallen?’ In 1878 Mr. Carlisle was hurling the pebble of truth at the glant of the Phil- | istines, John Sherman; to-day, as .a Goliath. he daily issues challenges to his former friends. His speech of 1873 was made when he was 43 years old, 1n the full possession of his ’ physical strength and mental vigor. He had then been a practicing lawyer for twenty - years; a member of the state legislature of - Kentucky and a lieutenant governog: of - that state, and was then a member of congréss. . “Mr. Carlisle did not refer, at Memphis, to ‘his speech of 1878, but he did referto it at Coyington and said: ‘Some of'@the opinions then expressed have been modified, and some of them have becen changed - altogether by subsequent evénts and by a more thorough investigation of the subjects to which they related; but, on the question of free coinage my convictions have never been shaken for a moment;’ but he did not state, even.at Covington, what parts of his ‘former speech he repudiated, and what parts he modified. He served in the housé and’ senate .for about fifteen = years after the making ° of ' that = speech, and never, upon a single occasion did he attempt to withdraw the utterances of 187310 r to mogdify the emphasis with which he then spoke. ‘lt is true that in 1878 Mr. Carlisle did say that he was opposed.to the free coinage of silver, but he ought, in all fairness, to have stated that he was at that time opposed to the free coinage of gold also. He said in his speech of 1878: ‘L am opposed to the free coinage of either gold or silver, bnt in favor of the unlimited coinage of both metals upon terms of exact equality.’ e “ “So much for the position of Mr. Carlisle upon the question of free coinage. We do net denv him'the right to change his opinion, but it has been more thap a change of opinion; it has teen a change of heart. Mr. Carlisle at that time was the Moses of the common people; he is now the commander in chiefof Pharaoh’s army. -He was then the courageous and zealous leader of the masses in the effort to restore the gold and silver coinage of the constitution; he 1s now the foremost champion of the very forces that he then denouncedswith s 0 much vigor. . £ “In his denunciation of Senator Sherman at that time Mr. Carhisle stated in substance: First, that the interests of the ‘idlerholders of idle capital’ are different from the ‘interestst of- the ‘struggling masses;’ sec“ond, that Senator Sherman syrhpathizes with the capitalists, rather than with the masses. and third, that Senatot Sherman, as a public official, sworn to do his duty, would be gov= erned by his sympathies, and, therefore, coin only half as, much money as he would coin if his sympathies were with the “struggling masses.’ * : '

" “History bore out the prophecy made by Mr. Carlisle, because Mr. Sherman and his successors never coined more than the minimum. amount. Senator Sherman and Mr. Carlisle are now in hearty accord. Has Senator Sherman at last become -the champion of the ‘struggling masses,’ or. has Secretary Carlisle become the champion of the ‘idle holders.of idle capital?” . . : “Mr. Carlisle, in discussing the legal ratio, assumes that the United States can accomplish no more by free coinage than our little neighbor, Mexico, and -overlooks entirely the effect which will be produced upon the value of silver bullion by the unlimited use of it in the United . States. In other words, he does not take into consideration the fact that the United States’ commercial standing is ten times greater than Mexico’s, and he does not take into consideration that an increased demand, such as would be furnished by the United States, will affect the price of that portion of silver which falls upon the market. *ln estimating the amount of. gold available for coinage annually he fails to consider the great increase in the consumption of gold in the arts and the increase in commerce in the last hundred years. Mr. Carlisle holds out no hope of international .bimetallism, but insists that it is the duty of this governmet to maintain @ gold standard, and tries to show that it will cause no appreciation in the value of the dollar. : “At the Memphis convention Mr. Catchings insisteg that the opponents of silvar were expecting international bimetallism. The seeming conflict between Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Catchings can bé.easily explained. Mr. Carlisle believes that the government should buy whatever silver it needs, and therefore might be called a-buy-metallist. Mr. Catchings is in favor of the restoration of silver after awhile if other nations will help:us. and therefore may be called a by-and-by-metallist. = * *What need is:there for bimetallism if the gold standard will furnish a sufficient amount of money? The confession that bimetallism is desirable destroys all argument in behalf of gold monometalilism, and when one has admitted the desirability of bimetallism he must either favor the restoration of it. by the United States alone or submit the destinies of this people to foreign nations’ It has been well saidthat it is more dangerous to put an English banker at the head of our financial sys-. tem than to put an English admiral at the head of our navy or an English general at the head of our army." 3 < Mr. Bryan discussed various phases of the money question, quoting frequently from Secretary Carlisle and answering his arguments by arguments formerly made by Senator Carlisle, or by statistics. He closed by saying that Secretary Carlisle had deserted . the ‘‘struggling masses’” for whom he formerly spoke, but that, even without his leadership they would be able to cast their ballots for the restoration of the gold and silver coinage of the constitution, and that the present efforts of Secretary Carlisle, instead of retarding the movement would ‘make his formerspeech: familiar to the Amerjcan people and show them the danger-of intrusting our financial policy to the ‘'idle holders of idle capital” or to their representatives. " More Money for the Stockholders. CuicAco, May 25.—The announcement is made that more money will be paid the stockholders of the World’s Columbian Exposition before the books are finally closed. The additional return on the investment will amount to at least 2)¢ per cent. The stockholders have already received 10 per centi, and the receipt of that portion of their subscriptions was as much a surprise as the additional sum will be. The cash assets amount. now to 500,000 and there is $99,472 more in estimated assets, including various claims in litigaHm‘ RERERE R R R ’ u'ln f" 3 "’, ;

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