Ligonier Banner., Volume 30, Number 19, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 August 1895 — Page 2

- READY FOR WORK. Iver Democrats Formulate Plans ' for the Campaign. Prealt of Their Conference at Washington £ ~Text of an Address and Series of | Resolutions Adopted — Work of Organization. WA SHINGTON, Aug. 16.—The corridors af the Metropolitan hotel were growded . early Wednesday with #rlegates to the conference of silver democrats called to meet #kere for the purpose of agreeing wpon a line of policy to be pursued “w the interest-of silver in the demoaratie party. While the call for the souference issued by Senators Harris, - Murpie and Jones, of Arkansas, did not speeify the hour, the meeting was postponed until noon. » ), . The meeting was called to order at M oclock by Senator Harris, who moved that Senator Jones, of Arkansas, e made chairman and William C. Hinmiehsen, of Illinois, . secretary. This was done. Senator Jones, in opening, maid that the conference had met in mavcordance with the call, which explained its purpose. He wanted to see a silver militia organized to cope with ke gold forces. The roll call showed mineteen states represented, with the Jollowing number of delegates:

Wirginia, 15; West Virginia, 2; Arkansas. 8; Eolorado, 8; South Carolina, 1; North CaroMwna, 3; Ilinois, 14; Florida, 4; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 4; Ohio, 1; Georgia, 2; Missouri, 14; ladtiama, 2, Delaware, 1; Maryland, 3; Kentmcky, 1; Mississippi, 1, and North Dakota, 1.

On motion of Senator Daniel,”of Virginia, the chairman appointed the folJowing committee to prepare a programme of proceedings and resolu%ions, and report the same to the con#erence at an adjournedl meeting to be held at 4 p. m. ;

- Missouri, Gov. Stone and H. M. Hill; North @arolina, Senator Jarvis; Illinois, 'W. ¥ Hinrichsen; Indiana, -A, 'W. “Clarke; ®eorgin, ex-Senator Walsh; ~ Alabama, #. ¥. Johnson; Tennessee, E. M. Carmack; Virginia, Senator Daniel; Kentucky, W. Woodson; Colorado, A. Newell; North Dakota, W. R Bierby: Ohio, P. S. Yoder; Delaware, .F. Sanesbury; Maryland, M. M. Pullman; Mississippi, W. S. Stocksdale; South CaroMuna, J. F. Trentlen; West Virginia, J. J. ®romwell; Texas, ex-Representative Hare; Arkansas, Senator Jones, and Florida, J. S. Beard. ; ’ ¥

"The conference. reassembled at 4 ®'clock. Senator Daniel, in accordmace with the agreement reached by e committee on programme, reported | ogress and asked that the confer#nee adjourn until 10 o’clock Thurs@ay morning, at which time they expected to be able to report resolutions mnnd an address to the party. The reguest of Senator Daniel met prompt sompliance and the conference adJjourned until 10 o’clock to-day. - WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Without a dissenting voice the delegates to the silver conference on Thursday adopted. free coinage resolutions, appointed a provisional committee to perfect a mational organization, made speeches anything but complimentary of the administration and adjourned sine die. When the committee reports were snnounced as complete shortly before moon, Senator Jones took the chair and Gov. Jones, of Missouri, presented #he address. He announced that it was substantially the same as that parZinily adopted by the Texas silver convention and adopted in ‘toto by the Mississippi convention. : : ; ¢ The Address. ‘The main portion of the address folJows: | : After explaining the call for the conference x2d declaring that it was “purely a voluntary asserablage and therefore does not speak with prrtyy authority” it proceeds as follows: *Profoundly conscious that the democratic party to-day confronts a crisis the most momentous in “its history and fraught with . far-reaching peril to the people and we country, we are assembled as individual democrats to take counsel together and for . Wie undisguised purpose ,of inaugurating and promoting a thorough and systematic organisntion of the democratic masses, so that they memy go forward as one man with a resolute purpose to rescue the old party, founded by Fhomas, Jefferson, from plutocratic dominaHWOT ° “Tihirefore, with this object in view, this gonvention of American democrats, composed of mepcesentatives from twenty-two of the leading states of the union, make the following declaration on the monetary .question which Has heen toreed into the leading place among ke issues "of to-day. The federal constitution names silver and gold together as the mouey metal of the United States. The first goinage law passed by congress under the conssitution made the silver dollar the unit ofyuiue and admitted gold to free coinage at a zatio measured by the silver.dollar unit. *l'rom the beginning of the government, fol=Towing a policy formulaved by Thomas Jefferson and firmly established by Jackson, the democratic party has been the party of bimetallism favoring the free coinage of both silver and gold at the/ national mints and opposed to garming out to banking corporations the wavernment's sovereign power of issuing and sontrolling the money of the people. ‘ X Act of 1873. ! “The act of | 1873 demonetizing silver was surreptitiously passed without the 'approval @r knowledge of the ' American people, and ®row the' time when the effect of this act in Zsstening upon this country the single gold ‘mandard was understood the democratic party has consistently and persistently arged that the grievous wrong be righted. . “Wailure to accomplish this object has rewulted in the steady appreciation of gold and a surresponding fall in the price of commodities groduced by the people, a heavy increase.iinthe ¥ucden of all debts, public and private; the warichment of the money-lending class; wezalysis of industry and the impoverishment of the people and unexampled distress in all gwid standard countries. ' Expoerience has slown that while under the single gold standard there may be an occasional revival of | Business activity accompanied by enhanced griees of a limited number of commodities, .suich revival is due to artiticial and temporary wanses and zannot permanently alleviate the sufferings gue to the falling of prices brought wvout by the appreciation of gold and the inwdequate supply of primary-or rédemption money. - i S . : “he ttghts of the American people; the in- . Wrests of American labor and the prosperity W American industry have a higher claim to Ase consideration of the people’s lawmakers kot Ihe greed of foreign ‘creditors or the araricgous demands made by-“idle holders of #éle ce.pital.’ | : ‘A e -,&n Adnalienable Right. -.. | ~% rié o régulate:its own monevary aysbem in‘the interess ofits own people is a ‘®ighy which no free government can barter, ' a#ll or surrender. This reserved right is a et of every ' bond, 'of every contract xeit of every obligation. No creditor or mm set up-a right that can take prece#awe® over u nation's obligations to promote wae welfare of the masses of its people.. This 'B 8 debt higher and more binding than all % _ debts and one that it is not only dishon- - #st but treasonable to ignore. i - “The land und its products are the basis of pik developm ti’#‘a@%"‘ perity. The .proRwotive capacity of o coustry must 2 . Wmsis of its credit In opposing the policy of watr.o h miist foevitubly Sagypels fj‘fg“y of landand its ggqu:;a ° s _wh& supporters of property ri hts and sound wedis and stand begween the homes o - swintes of the people.and the red flag of the e G U LS S Sl B i L e Ry ey el oyt vas vece AR e e ees s touna L Weaiy prosperity and independénce constantly s ol e B TR T , e . Ry "A'FI,,;.'L“-Jg v,wﬁm‘ﬂécw ﬁl‘f v",gé; :: e"Zs {? it wad FLT SR T ;sé; nie ) VIS SOO WS MWARE LA MMARLY YRS : NS R E e

liberally with the necessities and luxuries of life, nor can the wage earnes prosper, for under depressed conditions there isiless and less competition for hisfebor. . - Traditional Frieng of Blmet*lllsm. : “The democratic party is the traditional friend and champion of bimetallism. Its strength and power and popularity has been Igrgely built upon its steadfast opposition to the demonetization =of silver| and fts record of unwearied effort to .*estort it to its historic place assa money metal equal with gold. The effort at this late dﬂv to make it par excellence the champion of gold monometallism, the enemy of the policy iﬁ has upheld, and the defender of the crime it has denounced, is an effort to| dishono¥ its record, its promises and its principles. The moment the democratic party s forced into this position it heaps obloquy on its own past and crowns its great adversary with glory and honor. r “Duty to the people requires that the party of the people continue the battle for bimetals lism until the efforts are crowned 'tnh suecess; therefore, be it - ‘“‘Resolved, That the democratic party in national convention assembled should demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold into primary or redemption morrey at the ratlo of 16 to 1 without waiting for the action or approval of any other nation. 1 “Resolved, That it should declare its irrevocable opposition to the substitution for a metallic money of a panic-breedingﬁ corpora=tion credit currency, based ona sinile metal, the supply of which is so limited that it can be cornered atany time by a few bainking‘institutions in Europe and America. | : *‘Resolved, That it should declare its opposition to the policy and practice of surrendering to the holders of the obligations of the United States the option reserved by the law to the government of redeeming such obliga= tions in either silver coin or gold coiq‘, . - “Resolved, That it should declare its opposition to the issuing of interest-bearing bonds iu the United States in time of peace, and especially to placing the treasury. of the govern= ment under the control of any syndicate of bankers and the issuance of bonds to be sold by them at an enormous profit for the purpose of supplying the federal treasury witﬂ gold to maintain the policy of go!d monometallism. *With a view to securing the adherence to a re-adoption of the democratic financial policy above set forth by the democratic national convention to be assembled in 1896 and of the nomination of a candidate for the presidency, well known 'to be ,in | hearty sympathy therewith, we hereby pleq}ge our mutual cooperation, and urgently recqmmend to democratic brethren in allthe states to at once begin and vigorously and systematically prosgeute the work of a thorough organization, and to this end the adoption of t‘pe plan of organization herewith submitted is|recom-= mended.” : |

Mr. Hill, of Missouri, moveﬂ the adoption of the address and resolutions, which were agreed to by a unanimous vote. ' : Plan of Reorganization.

The plan of organization recommended by the committee was outlined to the conference as follows: ‘‘Believing that a large majority of the democratic voters of the United States are in harmony with the sent;ments expressed in -the foregoing address and knowing that a full and free expression of their views can only be ascertained and made effective through proper organization, we recommend the following plan of organization: s : “First—There shall be a national committee of democrats who are in favor of both gold and silver as the money of the constitution, which shall be composed of one democrat from each state and the executive committee hereinafter provided for. “Second—That until otherwise ordered by the national eommittee, Senators Harris, of Tennessee; Jones, of Arkansas: Turpie, of Indiana, and Hon. W. J. Stone, of Missouri, and Hon. W. H, Hinrichsen, of Illinois, be and are hereby constituted the executive committee and shall have full power and authority and it shall be their duty at as early a day as possible to zippointéL the members of the national committee herein provided for and to fill vacancies in the same. ‘ *Third—That said executive committee shall have full control and direction of the patriotio effort of the bimetallic démocrats of the nation to secure in the next democratic convention the maintenance of the time-honored principles and policies of the democratic party.”

After adopting the address and resolutions, and the plan of reorganization, the silver conference at 12:45 p. m. adjourned sine die. : ;s

A LIGHT SENTENCE. W. W. Taylor, South Dakota’s Defaulfing . Treasurer, Gets Five Years. PIERRE, 8. D., Aug. 16.—Ex-State Treasurer W. W. Taylor was Wednesday morning sentenced to five years in the penitentiary at Sioux Falls by Judge Gaffy. ‘ A The court room was crowded when judgment was pronounced on the offending state treasurer. In a low voice the defendant, in reply to the question if he had anything to say, said: *I have not.” The court then reviewed the crime and the statutes bearing on the case. He considered the much-discussed section void and intimated that the two-year. sentence was not intended to cover such a case. The worst part of Taylor’s crime, in the estimation of the judge, was that he had tried to force a compromise after getting his hand on all the state funds he could. s : [The crime for which W. W. Taylor has been sentenced to the penitentiary was the embezzlement of §367.000 of the state funds. He flad to South America, and after a long chage finally gave himself up to the authoritiss and agreed to return to the state and reiicburse the funds taken, by cash and gil his property, and take the sentence which tja court would impose on him, one condition g~ ing that $lOO,OOO cash must be paid in the saitlement.. The cash required in the settlemest has been paid into the state treasury and tiis property has been transferred to the state.]

Many Turks Slain,

LoxDoN, Aug. 15.—A Sofia dispatea which the Times publishes says: Aw cording to mnews received from a Turkish official source 500 Bulgariansg, led by three reserve officers, at tacked the Mohammedan village of Despota, across the Turkish frontier, before dawn Saturday. The Bui-~ garians then set the village on fire and slaughtered the inhabitants indiscrinsinately as they rushed from the housea, It is stated that several hundred wera killed. @The Ottoman commissiones has delivered a protest to the Bulgariau government. ! i The Treasury Gold Reserve. ; NEw Yorg, Aug. 16.—1 t was learned Wednesday that tbhe Belmont Morgan syndicate have deposited $1,650,000 of gold in the subtreasury in addition $1,550,000 turned in Tuesday afternoon, making $3,000,000 in gold turnesi in during the last twenty-four hours ‘WasniNneToN, Aug. 15.—The treasge ury’s net gold at the close of business Wednesday, withdrawals and deposity all accounted for, stood at $102,531,061 The withdrawal of gold for shipmeus to Europe Wednesday amounted t $1,150,000. : S N : Lynched by Missourians. ' - Mexico, Mo., Aug. 17.—A special received by the Intelligencer, dated Flor‘ence, says Emmitt Divers, who mupdered Mrs. John Cain, was hanged %om the Caldwood bridge at 1 o'clock B ~ﬁtsdﬁy morning by a mob. c} § ./ The British Parliament. . ~ LoNDow, Aug. 17.—After the houss of commons reassembled Thursday. the members were summoned tab!‘%\e’ 8 ~of lords with the usual formalit ,:; \%d ‘the queen's speech was read by the lord chancellor, Baron Halsbury, PR st T | Lowndes Nominnted for Governor, publican state cony OBy, WRLCAL: senibled. . coediiyr. Tine noiiAetad 2% fongramman Lloye %ﬁ%‘@% Rt D

A MONTH LATE

Present Mideummer Dullness in Trade : Was Due in July.

NEw Yorg, Aug. 19°—R. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly review of trade say:

“It is a belated season; a frozen May set everything back. The heavy business which oaght to have been done in May and June was pashed into July, so that the midsummer de¢jine due in July comes in August. With tails in mind, one is not surprised to find tae shrinkage from July to August rather nsore conspicuous than usual. Financial events afe used in speculative markets to create apprehension. Exports of ‘gold have continued this week, and while the syndicate has deposited enough in the treasury to keep the reserve intact,” the impression grows that another sale of bonds may be made. Exports are falling below last year’s, in two weeks of August, $3,300.000, or 20 per cent., while imports show a small increase of 5% per cent. Government receipts for half of August are $7,181,336 less than expenses. 'The disap‘pointing crop reports of last Saturday, though evidently distrusted, lessen confidence in regard to the future of trade, even while some speculators gain by them. Back of all doubts is the fact that the industries are doing better than anybody could have expected. ‘““Actual consumption of pig-iron is large. and prices rise in the face of the increasing output. : v “‘Sales indicate that daemestic wool is large1y held for speculation at prices about a cens higher than manufacturers feel able to pay. *‘Shipments oi boots and shoes have fallen almost to last year's figures for August thus far, and orders are as yet scanty for the new season. but prices are firm, and leather does not change, though tanners decline to pay current quotations—9% to 10 cents—for western hides. =

“Crop revorts modified expectations as to cotton and wheat, and cotton speculators have bought, lifting the price five-sixteenths, while wheat, with more evidence of loss in yield, has declined 1%. Aceording to government reports the crop of each would be about two-thirds of the maximum.

*The stock market has been quite inactive, with a trifling decline both in railroads and trust stocks as a whole, largely influenced from day to day by financial rumors. ;

' “Failures for the week have been 196 in the United States, against 229 last year, and 36 in Canada, against 45 last vear.” ;

APPOINTMENT WAS ILLEGAL.

Our Minister to Mexico Cannot Draw His . Salary.

WasmiNeToN: Aug. 19.—Hon. *Matt W. Ransom, of North Carolina, is no longer minister from the United States to Mexico. That office was practically deciared vacant Friday by a decision rendered by Mr. Holmes Conrad, solici~ tor general of the United States and acting attorney general. The decision of the acting attorne§ general was based on a question raised hy Auditor Holcomb as to the legality of Mr.- Ransom’s appointment to the Mexican mission, in view of the existence of section 2, article 6 of the constitution, :which declares that ‘‘no senator or representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States which shall have been creat~ ed, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased, during such time.” This provision apparently fitted the case of Mr. Ransom, for he was nominated, by President Cleveland and confirmed by the senate before his term of office as senator: fromn North Carolina had expired, and during that term the salary of the Mexican mission had been increased 85,00 a year. : '

The constitutional provision through which Mr. Ransom has been deprived of his office does not bar him from beirg reappointed to the Mexiaan missionr, He could have been appointed without violation of the la&w or constitution atany time after the hour of noon on Nlarch 4 last, when his senatorial term expired . T

FAVOR CURRENCY REFORM.

Members of Parliament Organize to Secure an International Conference.

LoNDON, Aug. 19.—A meeting of the members of parliament favorable to currency reform was held in the house of commons Friday. Sir William Henry Houldsworth, member for northwestern division of Manchester, conservative, who was a delegate of Great Britain at the DBrussels monetary conference, presided. DMessrs. Lorna, Dorington, Valentia, Ves-sey-Thompson, Bhonnaggre, Disraeli, Sam Smith and Provand were present. It was resolved to form a- parliamentary committee, its members being engaged to promote an international conference for the purpose of considering what meastres can be taken ‘““‘to remove or mitigate the evils resulting from the fluctuations growing out of the divergence in the relative value of gold and silver.”

Prominent Texan Is Dead. il EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark., Aug. 19.— Gen. Samuel Bell Maxey, ex-United States senator, died here Friday. o [Gepn. Maxey was born in Tompkinsville, Ky,, in 1825. of a Huguenot family. He graduated from West Point in 1846 and was assigned to the Seventh infantry. He fought in all the principal battles of the war with Mexico. He resigned in 1849 and in the following year Dbegan the practice .of law at Albany, Ky. He married in' 1853 and four years later removed to Paris, Tex. .He raised the Ninth Texas infantry during the civil war and organized and commanded all the forces of the Indian territory., He was made major general for his military achievements. He was elected to the United States senate in 1874 and 1831 ] Probably Wanted a Boy. PirrsBURGH, - Pa., Aug. 17. — Rosa Sefcik, a 16-year-old Bohemian employed in the Heinz pickling establishment, went to her home on Mount Troy, Allegheny, Thursday evening, and discovered that during the day her mother had given birth to another daughter. Rosa was greatly grieved, and during the evening took a dose of paris green, from the effects of which shetied in great agony Friday. ; An Outlaw Killed. SERGEANT, Ky., Aug. 16.-—John Hopkins, of Beaver, Floyd county, was waylaid and shot Wednesday evening by George Runyon, a neighbor. Hop‘kins has been feared more than any man in this vicinity. He has been practically an outlaw for years and his death is rejoiced in by the community. Apostolic Delegation to Mexico. ~ RoME, Aug. 17.—The vatican will shortly institute an apostolic delegation to Mexico with functions similar to those of the delegation at Washington. The papal delegation to Mexico has not yet been selected. : . More Spurious Coin Found, MarioN, la., Aug. 17.—Since the finding of $lOO of counterfeit silver pieces in the bed of Indian creek Tues‘day, about the same amount has been found in circulation among citizens here. Local officers believe there is still eonsiderable of the spurious coin in the hands of innocent acceptors. .. . 'Test thé New Dock. - Porr Rovar, 8. C, Aug. 17.-The gwﬂk?g s | for the first time. The United States

. TO VINDICATE DEBS, | - A General €2ll 2or an Expression of 4m‘ i ! copmthy.,. t o , CEICAGO, Aug. 19.—Eugene V. Debs is likely on Labor day to receive fri¢ndly messages from thousands of sources. The labor leader who won renowhn in the big railroad strike of 1894 spnﬁ]s a pardon. He says he wishes to work out his salvation in his own way%—in jail. Mr. Debs’ associates have issued the following cards, which they believe will bring the required respox%zes: “Let every union, every labor man, every mechanic, farmer, merchant, business man, professional man—in short, every friend of civil liberty—send a telegram to Woodstock Jail, IIL. on Luabor day, denouncing the; supreme court decision. Let it be labor’s lightning to thunder along the wires to Woodstock uatil plutocracy is struck dazzled and dunb.” TERRE HAvUTE, Ind., Aug. 19.f-?’lll‘he Railway Times, the organ of the American Railway union, in the current number gives to the ' public the correspondence between President Eugene V. Debs and the department of justice in regard to the application for a pardon which was filed in the department by a laborf union of Philadelphia without the knowlddge of Debs or his associates. The first Debs knew of the application Efor pardon was a notice from the: department of justice that as jexDistrict Attorney Milchrist had | reported unfavorably on the application it would not be granted. Then Debs wrote to the department to ask where the application came from and to [Milchrist to tell him that he had fnot asked for a pardon. In the letter to the department of justice. asking’ for the namesof the persons who made| the application Debs says: : i It was an utver surprise, as we hn%i not thought of asking for a pardon. The department of justice refused us justice and we scorn its mercy. “1 speak for all my col_le{gues as well as myself when I say we -would rather rot in jail than enjoy our freedom by the clemency of those who sentenced us.” i

The pardon clerk :sent the némis of the applicants, and Debs to this replied that he and his associates ‘‘desired no pardon, because they had _com‘m(ijtted no crime, and had not been tridd or convicted. We are entitled to ourn liberty as a matter of right, but we do not want it on the ground of mercj."

GREAT SLAUGHTER.

Battle in British Honrduras—Many #ﬁlnn- : ; dreds Are Killed. i NEw Yorxg, Aug. 19.—A letter {just received in Trenton, N. J., says that a bloody battie occurred on Augusbﬂ' 3at Straun creek and Mullins river, about 30 miles. sonth of Belize, in British Honduras, "The trouble arose over an attempt of Knglish farmers to build a railroad from their plantations to the coast through the Carib reservations. The. English planters set about E,OOO Jamaica negroes at work on thejconstruction of the road in spite of wiarnings by the Caribs of trouble. Th¢ letter continues: b “Late in the afternoon of August # the Carab’s in large numbers, armed with{ machetes, advanced upon the Jamaica negrages at work upon the raiiroads and ordered them to take. up the rails which they had put fown. The Jamaican's not only refused but threatened to attack the Carib's unless they cl?ared out. b i

“The Caribs went away, but returned in less an than hour to the number of close jupon 7.000, and immediately began to tear up the newly laid rails. The infuriated Englishmen, on seeing this done, ordered their negroes to resist. The moment the Jamaicans mise«%‘the,ir weapons the Caribsrushed upon them,and with their machetes hacked and chopped the negroes to pieces. Small as their numbers were, the Jamaicans fought bravely and killed many of their antagonists, but they could only stand against the Caribs two hours. 2 “By that time, the ground was literally covered with dead and wounded. Some had‘rtheir head or some of their limbs chopped off.; The English used their guns with deadly ¢ffect. Between 500 and €OO negroes in all were killed and about as many wounded, while the Qaribs had about’. 30 killed and twice asi many wounded. some mortally. As soonas the negroes were forced to beat the retr’cds the Caribs went to work and tore up every floot of rail, damaged many of the KEaglish pjanta=tions and destroyed fruit, rubber, ete., the value of several thousand dollars. The| governor, upon hearing the news, ordered out the local military forces. Since the arrival pf the soldiers, who number 1,500, nothing further, up to the present time of writing (August 6), has occurred. | :

“The Caribs say they will repeat their attack if another attempt is made %o lay down rails upon their reservations. The’ governor has ordered the English planters to proceed whenever they feel disposed with thel conmstruction of their railroads, which tliy are likely to do in the course ot’a}, few d:xys."’]

SENT TO JAIL. } Dr. and Mrs. Hearne Indicted for the ‘ Murder of A. J. Stilwell. % Sr. Louls, Aug. 19.—A special t‘;o the Chronicle from. Hannibal, Mo., | says that the grand jury hasveturned %tn indictment against Dr. Hearne and his wife, charging them with the murder of A J. Stilwell in Ha,nnlbal,ébout seven years ago. Warrants.were immesdiately issued and Dr. and @ Mrs. Hearne have been placed under airrest. Ever since Amos J. Stilwell, the wealthy pork packér, was murdered in his bed on the night of December 21, 1888, Dr. Hearne and the widow of the murdered man have been suspected of the murder, and the case has been investigated by several grand juries. None of them found sufficient evidence to convict until the presentgrand jury. This indictment is no surprise to the citizens of Hannibal, as more than 90 per cent. of ‘the citizens believe that -Dr. Hearne and his wife are guilty.

KILLED TWO MEN. | A Game of Cards Causes a Do_nblé Muri der Near Marion, 111, | CARBONDALE, 111., Aug. 19.+Near Marion, Saturday evening, Fred Hisholn shot and instantly killed William Malke and William Read with & double barreled shotgun. It was the resalt of a quarrel over a game of cards. - | THE ISLAND KINGDON{. ' THE royal plate at Windsor is Tlalued at over $10,000,000. . ; Mouxnt Coog, the highest pe‘ak in New Zealand, 13,032 feet high, has just been climbed for the first time. | A NEw order of members (called craftsmen is to ‘be established by the Royal Institute of British A_rci:;tects, to be selected from the artistic trades closely connected with architecture. . Slr JosEPH RENALS is the eighth lord mayor of London toreceive a baronetey in'the last twenty years. The pthers were all knighted except Lord Mayor Nottage, who died early in his jear of office. ; o oo . TecuNtoALLy, any inhabitant of the united kingdom is liable to bejcalled upon to underrake the uncongenial task of hangman. Dhe salaryis one pound sterling a weelcas a retaining fee and two pounds sterling after ap exeA MEMORIAL tablet has been placed in the Church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, Cromwell and_ the danghter pf Sir *' AEOt Taie Liite oo T

BLOODHOUND DETECTIVES. Question Being Agitated by English Canine ¢ - Papers. - The question whether bloodhounds eould not be utilized in this country te aid in the discovery of criminals has again -been raised in one of the canine journals. 1t is Buggested by a gentleman in the Midlands that a bloodhound club might well be started, the object of which would be to have properlytrained dogs always ready to assist in the work of bringing burglars and murderers to justice. The last occasion on which a systematic attempt was made in this country to put the ‘bloodhound to his old traditional use was in 1889, when the chief commander of police in London encouraged, and was himself personally present at, some trials with a couple of the dogs belonging to the well-known breeder, Mr. Brough. : " St. James’ park was the spot selected for these trials, and both animals showed themselves decidedly:skillful in tracking and following up the husman footstep. Once in the crowded streets, however, the hounds seemed to lose¢ their cunning, and there exists, indeed, no reliable record of eriminals being successfully hunted do®wn by the aid of these canine detectives in the case of crowded cities and thoroughfares. Even if the scent were a hot one, it is more than doubtful whether the cleverest and best-trained bloodhound would follow it very far where it had been crossed and recrossed by many other strange feet. Thus the idea of the bloodhound being used for the discovery of criminals, so far as populous centers and large towns are concerned, may be regarded, after the failure in the case of the Whitechapel murders, as an exploded one. The case, however, may be different in regard to country districts, where it is at least = conceivable that the hound might now and again be turned to. some good service. Msdny of the old stories respecting the successful hunting of the Mosstroopers by blood or sleuth hounds reston a rather slender historical basis, though the frequency with which the name of the dog occurs in some of "the records of those days shows that its detective qualities were highly estimated. - In later times the Cuban bloodhound, of a far more savage breed than, our own, was unquestionably used as a man-hunter; while only a few years ago Capt. Powell gave a good deal of information respecting the dogs used at the present time for tracking convicts who escape from prisons in Florida. Bloodhounds were first resorted to for Ihis purpose, but it appears that latterly an animal more like our fox hound has been adopted. These. animals, like the English bloodhound, are not inclined when they have discovered their man to attack him, but rather prefer to keep at a respectful distance after he has been fairly brought to bay. Half a dozen years or so ago some exceedingly interesting trials were held at Alexandria palace, in which several of the most noted bloodhounds of the day took part. A ‘‘clean boot,” as well as a greased one, was hunted, the length of the .course being about six hundred yards. A keeper was dispatched with a good start, and though some of the hounds failed almost entirely, others delighted the spectators by the unerring accuracy with which they followed the ‘‘clean boot” over a. considerable portion of the course. One dog leaped the railings which the hunted man had climbed, and ran under others which he had slipped through. - All, however, were more or less at fault when they came too near the crowd, a sure sign that only in lonely and sparsely-populated districts, or at hours when few people are about can the bloodhound be really relied on as a suceessful manshunter.—Pall Mall Gazette.

FRANKLIN’'S SERVICES. Were of Great Benefit to the Cause eof Education. The university of Pennsylvania was founded in Philadelphia, in 1740, as a charitable school, one hundred and four years later than Harvard, thirtynine yvears later than Yale. The most distinguished men active in its founda~ tion were Dr, William Smith, its first provost, and Berjamin Franklin, who for nearly half a century was identified with the-institution as a trustee, and for a large part of thai time as the president of its board. Nine yearsafter its foundation Franklin wrote a pamphlet relative to the education of youth in Pennsylvania, in which he advocated courses in the English language and literature; in other modern languages, particularly French, Italian and Spanish, because they were the tongues of commerce in his day; in history, in mathematics, and in the elements of the applied sciences—all constituting a curriculum which, in his opinion, would qualify those who pursued them ‘‘to pass through and execute the several offices of ecivil life with advantage and reputation to themselves and country.” Franklin tried to exclude Latin and Greek from the school. Provost Smith advocated them. By compromise, both ancignt and modern languages were included in the, course.” Shortly before his death Franklin wrote an elaborate paper to show that his own Ideas of education were the ideas of the founders of the university. As many of his ideas have been adopted into modern educational systems, and especially his emphasis of science, modern languages, history, political economy and psyghol'og'y, as the university has developed intoa great school of science, and has of late yearslaid the foundations of schools of economy, history, biology, hygiene, veterinary science, chemistry and engineering. Frm?l_in,‘ by many, is called the founder of the uniyersity. Probably a just statement will include the labors of Provost Smith and the ideas of Dr. Franklin as the principal initiative forces of the university.—Francis N. Thorpe, in Harper's Magagine: ol a 0 e o RN e ‘ ‘.;_;jgvipapa‘s.s;: G B e L ~ Bhe knelt beside the dejected figure and fondly kissed the drooping head. . “‘Papa, can I not keep the wolf from the door with my singing?” i -~ He was without hope, although he ing would keep almost anything else {rom the door, but the wolf is pretty nervy, youknow.”—Detroit ‘Lribune. * o Ridie Compusien. play the piano when your husband is

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.,

BIRDIE’S TROUBLES.

Oh, dear! lam nearly distracted to-day, - My gg@uy‘worries me 80; . For sweet'Angelina, my very best doll, = Has quarreled with Benjé,gmin Joe. Poor Margaret Mabel has ttrn her best dress And Jane has cracked three of her toes; Jemima has burt her right arm and been | scalpeds ; And Daisy has broken her nose..

Then Itleanor Rose has got a sore mouth Just while she was leariing to talk; - Dear Bessie has lost both shoes and her hat;” And so Lcan't take her to walk. i,

The twins, Jack and Jill, have got such a bad cold, 3 : And Elsie has measles; and I b Have sent for the doctor, who hasn't come yet, And I fear they will certainly die. :

My kitty has scratched: my mamma's asleep; Ican’t find my slate when Ilook; : My tea-set is broken and sister i§ cross,* = - And Johnny has hidden my boéyk.

If papa was here He would sing me a song, Or tell me a story, I know, : And if he would ride me downstairs on his back 1 believe all my troubles would go.

I do feel so bad; do you s'pose it's my nerves? And do you know what will relieve? . . But there; I heard somebody open the door; It's papa--Ireally believe! . . iy _ —Presbyterian Journal THE AMERICAN BISON. - Only Two Hundred Wild Buffaloes Saun Alive in the United States. . 5 In a wild state, the American: bison, or buffalo, is practically, though not quite wholly, extinct. At the present moment there are about 200 wild buffaloes alive and on foot in the United States. To obtain these high figures we in¢lude the 150 individuals that the white head hunters and red meat hunters have thus far left alive in the Yellowstone park, where the buffaloes are fondly supposed to be pretected from slaughter. Besides these, there are only two other bunches; one of about 20 head in Lost park, Col., protected by state laws, and another, .containing between 30 dnd 40 head, in Val Verde county, Tex., betm}eena Devil’s river and the Rio Grande. ' Four years ago there were over 800 head in the Yellowstone} park, thriving and increasing quite(! satisfactorily. Through them we fontlly hoped -the species would yet be gaved from absolute extinction. Buj] alasl we were reckoning without tiie poachers. Congress provides pay fox just one solitary scout to guard in T 8,575 square miles of rugged mountain country against the horde of lawless white men and Indians who surround the park on-all sides, eager to kill the last buffalo! The poachers have been hard at worl, and as a result our park herd has recently decreased more than onehalf in number. It is a brutal, burning shame that formerly, through lack of congressional law adequately to punish such poachers as the wretch who was actually ' caught red-handed in January, 1894, while skinning seven dead buffaloes! and now, through lack of a paltry $l,BOO a year to pay four more sccuts, the park buffaloes are all doomed to certain and speedy destruce tion. - 3

~ Besides the places mentioned, there is only ome other spot in all North America that contains wild buffaloes.

Immediately southwestward of Great Slave Yake there lies a vast ! wilderness

he \\‘l\k—\ TN e L SR @ ”:\\*f Rk VT ! % \‘* , -= S = < By e ] Ny o 2R S AT EZ T i -Wt - \M,;A_’- iﬁ% , ‘ AN ANCIENT BISON. b of swamps and stunted pines, into which no white man has ever penetrated far, and where the red man still reigns supreme. It is bounded on the north by the Liard and Mackenzie rivers, on the east by the Slave river, on the south by the Peace river, and on the west by the Rocky mountains. = Mr. Warburfpn Pike says it is now -the greatest fbeaver country in the world, and thdt it also containsa few bands of the so-called wood buffalo. ‘‘Sometimes they are heard of at Forts Smith and Vermillion, sometimes at Fort St. John, on the Peaac&e river, and occasionally at Fort Nelson, on the Liard; * * * but it is impossible to say anything about their numbers.” At all events, in February, 1800, Mr. Pike found cight buffaloes only four days’ travel from Fort Resolution, on Great Slave lake, and succeeded in killing one. TheCanadian anthorities estimate the total number in that region at three hundred. —W. T. Hornaday, in St. Nicholas. B Gty

BROWNIES AND DRAGONS.

fhe. Queer Little Folk Have Appeared

Upon the Stage.

In Philadelphia, not long ago, the quaint little brownies, that all boys and girls have delighted in for many a day, made their bow to an audience in a theater. Palmer Cox, who invented them, has written a play to show them off. 1t is a very pretty fairy story, in which the brownies and fays, who are the good fairies, have a great many thrilling adventures with the little dragons, who are the bad fairies. All our favorite brownies—the dude, the Chinaman, the Dutchman, the policeman and all the rest—are in the play, and, as usual, the gzar little brown people, after some severe trials indeed, come out winners in the good scheme in which they are engaged. Mr. Cox, the father of these queer little elfs, got his ideas of them from the letters of the alphabet. Somebody sent him a piece of poetry on the alphabet, inwhich the letters were made into pic~ tures of real persons. Although these pictures werenot at all like the brown: ies, in looking at them it occurred to. Mr. Cox—who is a gkillful artist; or he would not have had the idea—that the #lphabet letters. iwere queer, anyway, and it would not be hard to make them into people. That was the beginning of the brownies, which hayve grown into suchjan army of funny folk that even Jlr. Cox himself can’t keep track of themall. Tlle is very fond of these children of his brain, and they have ‘become so real to him that he is never quite sure that there aren’t odd little

Bt =SNSS v 2 A BAD BOY'S PRANK. How He Madd’ a Big Pelican Etruggle ; - | .with a Rubber Band. Several hundred people were intensely amused at the queer anties of the usually dignified pelican who swims around in Stow lake at Golden Gate park. o . Of course, a small boy was &t the bot~_ tom of it, and the bird is undoubtedly still wondering how it all happened. The pelican’s enormous bill with its membranous sack has made the bird an object of more than ordinary in-: terest to visitors. .. So much bread was thrown to it for the sale of seeing the big bill open and ot ”&ﬁ(ﬁw Lot aln \\\{l{” = st S \Y ¥ = TR : M. N - N ‘tf\@". ng :A, .;)‘\”F : fﬂ:\\‘x\f = 4“&\\l?‘s?/;?/ ‘i-'k}'&\ . N}& L%ﬁ \\\%b&vl A 5 41 17 N L eßy T e ' RN o — T : Ny SN T= g e ——— S G g S = . HAD A RUBBER BAND IN HIS HAND, . close that the pelican grew quite tame and a few days ago it swam up to take a piece of bread from the hand of & small hoy on the bank. The youngster had a rubber band in his hand. - This he slipped over the big bird’s bill. : , _The pelican at once felt,soﬁlething decidedly unusual had happened. Ha tried to shake the band off.

" The bdand didn’t move; then the bird opéned- its bill, but-as it gave its head an impatient ‘shake the muscles relaxed. . ‘“*Snap,” the rubber band got in its work and the mandibles came to~ gether with a noise 1ik(? the slapping of slats) @ P e ]

- The big bird looked surprised. Its round eyes were Focused on its bill, which it again.essayed to open.

" But the rubber band, being near the end, had too great a leverage and the mandibles . could be separated but four or five inches, only to audibly snap together,: = .17 A most amusing struggle ensued. The bird’s bill opened, only to snap shut. Each time the pelican was more surprised than before.

It tried to rub the band off on its back. - Then| it stuck its bill under water and in' the mud. Still the band stuck. - ;

Then the unhappy fowl made for the land. S . S

As it walked, it lifted its big, broad feet. unnaturally high, and after going a short distance brought its right foot dowmr on its left. - Then it couldn’t pick the left foot up. - : & The ungainly bird, with its big bill stuck heavenward, teetered for awhile and then lost its balance and fell over,

‘This released the foot, and the pelican started for the water, where it continued to struggle with the tenacious band while the crowd fairly shrieked itsapplause.—San Francisco Call.

HOUSES IN TREES.

Travelers Have Seen’ Them in All Por- *. - tions of the Earth, -~ Not many years ago the custom of building houses in the branches of trees was a ¢ommon one among many of the savage peoples of the Pacifio islands, but latterly the custom has become less'general. Tree houses have also been seen by travelers in three districts of Africa—by Nachtigal, near the Sharl river in the Soudan; by Greenfell, on the Mobangi, and by Wolf, on the Lomami. - i . The natives whom Nachtigal and Greenfell saw in their little houses, perched high up among the branches, appear to use these elevated structures only as places of refuge in time of ‘danger; but Dr. Wolf, on the Lomami, discovered tree-dwellers who prefer 'to live always among the branches, onit of the easy reach of their enemies and of the freshets that frequently inundate their lands. : ‘We have heard more of the treedwellers in Borneo than of those in any other part of the world. But these buildings are also found in considerable numbérs in New Guinea and the Solomon islands.

Some tribes there have long been in the habit of building houses fifty or *sixty feet fromthe ground. When their lookouts report the approach of the enemy in their rowboats the danger signal is communicated by a peculiar ery. Then the women and children climb into the tree-houses by means of rough’ ladders, and watch, safe from harm, the conflict which ensues. ' Firearms are responsible for the ‘abandonment of these tree-houses for ground dwellings. It is against the ‘law to sell:firearms to these Pacific sav--ages, but in one way or another they are able to secure a considerable quantity. When theyare used the natives find the perches. ineffectual refuges for the women and children against ‘guns and rifles. - The poor ecreatures ‘prefer to take their chances ot being ‘shot on the gronnd, and so the practice of building tree-huts has come to be abandoned.—Golden Days. . : . Humn_iin‘g Birds and Flowers. . It has long been knownthat tnsects assist plants by carrying the fertilizing pollénfromflower to flower, but the fact has only recently been promiuently ‘brought forward that humming birds are just as effective distributors of pollen as insects are. It has been shown ‘that these little birds, -wvhich are as fond as bees of -the honey of flawers, carry the pollen grains in great quamtity, not onmly on their feathers but on their long bills also. Indeed, so well suited is the humming bird to do this ‘work ‘of distribution, without any intention of its own,that the question ‘has been raised whether it may not be the most beneficent of all the unconseious friends that the flowers have in * the anlmalwenld. . - . iAo T atiyts RGeS - Alittle gir] was overheard talking to .. hféréd‘eils whoﬁe‘aamhaicom@ﬁ,;xposing the sawdust stuffing: ‘“You fonr, ook, oteent fAltg 1 BUAW. 1 ‘ians think that you would chew 1 se. fine as that.”—Home and Countrv, eS W e Lo B G Doy AL BRI 4 siis et ok ei e s s