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Lesson for the People in the Piratical Methods of the Coal e Trust : MEANING OF M’KINLEY'S REELECTION. Hanna's Hand in the Settlement of .the Coal Miners’ Strike—Efforts of Republicans to Mislead Voters " —=Some Facts Regarding Trust ’ Legislation. . [Special Correspondence.] Mark Hanna, in his recent Chicago speech, confirmed the democratic contention that the ten per cent. advance in wages offered to the coal miners was a republican campaign scheme. With his usual crass stupidity, he assumed that the starving miners would jump at the bait and fail to see the trap which it concealed. Hanna hastened to take the credit of the offer to himself before he knew the result of the employes’ conference. How disappointed he must have been when he found that the miners had detached the cheese from the hook and refused to walk into the trap. If the strike is prolonged until it causes suffering to poor people unable to pay advanced prices, the responsibility of such expense and inconvenience to the public rests solely with the coal combine. ; :

The miners waived recognition of their union, and mereiy asked that the ten per cent. advance be guaranteed to them for six months, until April 1, 1901. They offered to leave the other grievances to arbitration and abide by the decision. Nothing could be fairer than that. Asa matter of fact, the operators could afford to guafantee the six months’ advance in wages purely as a campaign investment if they had any idea of the popular resentment that is growing against their piratical procedure and the protection and encouragement which it receives from the MeKinley administration.

There are various reasons why the ccal combine has not been too anxious to end the strike at once. They are purely business considerations, and these weigh more heavily with the trust than any political advantage, even of the party which stands for its aggressions.

While the coal operators and the railroad combine have reaped a profit of more than $8,000.0060 while the strike ‘has been in pregress, this is not Dbecause there has been any scarcity of coal. On the contrary, there was more than a million tons piled up at various points in New Jersey in anticipation of this strike. It gave a splendid excuse to reap an extra profit from the helpless consuming public. . Mark Hanna may persuade the operators to accede to the very moderate demands of the miners, and settle the strike. but the country has had its lesson. It has seen how unlimited is trust dominion in the coal fields. and how the trusts oppress and degrade the workmen on one hand and rob the consuming public on the other. The voters have already made up their minds that this piratical method of doing business is dangerous to the liberties of the people. The reelection of MecKinley means the éxtension of coal trust methods to every industry in the country controlled by trusts—and they already number 400 and over. Restraint of Trusts, The republicans are taking much pains to confuse and mislead the voters on the trust issue.. Bryan is held up as the bugaboo.who will interfere with legitimate business when he ‘brings the guerrilla trusts under the operation of legal remedies. . No person should be in doubt as to the result of trust restraint. In individual cases the arresting and punishment of a thief means more security for all honest men. In the business world the same principle applies. The arrest and punishment of lawless trusts and combinations means more security and better opportunities for all sorts of honest and legitimate business. . ° To permit the trusts to go unpunished and unrestrained, as.they are doing now.is to introduce a condition of anarchy and disregard of law wherein no citizen will feel sure of employment or of being able to cast a free vote. - Republican Trust Legislation. Roosevelt grows more quiet as he progresses eastward. By the time he ‘struck Illinois he had exchanged vityperation of the democrats for barefaced misrepresentation. = “In relation to trusts he made several untrue and misleading statements. One was to this effect: “It was the democrats who refused to vote for the constitutional amendment. propesed- by our -party during the: last session. thus they made it impossible for the republican majority to apply an effective remedy.” ; It is true that the demoerats refused to join with the republicans and give the necessary two-thirds’ vote to pass the amendment in the. house. - But why? - . Here is the real status of the case: ‘The proposed amendment would never have restrained trusts nor interfered with them in any way, even if it had passed and received the sanction of the necessary number of states. It was not intended to apply to trusts. It was intended to. crush out all organizations among farmers and laborers. It proposed to prosecute them out of existence under the general head of “combinations.” § ! : :

No less an authority on practical" economies than President Samuel ] Gompers, of the American Federation | of Labor, declares that the amendment ‘ proposed by the republicans was the most dangerous to erganized labor of any piece of legislaticn ever offered in | congress. ; ' The republicans pretended that the amendment would not apply to asso- | ciations of farmers and laborers, but they absolutely refused to accept a sec-" tion exempting such ‘organizations from the operation of the trust amendment. That was one of the reasons l why the democrats voted against the | am¢ndment. ; The demoeratic party proposes to assist the farmer and the l workingman to protect their interests, not to- fasten hostile legislation wpon fhem in addition to'the/many u‘n‘ffimt burdens which they already bear. 1 - The republicans propose to crush inAustrial associations was again Weem

clearly -when the amendments to the so-called Sherman antitrust law were brought in. ] _ . The democrats insisted that the amendments be defined so that they should not apply to labor organizations. The house republicans very reluctantly accepted the amendment, passed the bill. and saw to it that their colleagues in the senate buried the measure beyond hope of resurrection. Roosevelt is treading oh dangerous ground when he refers to the record of the recent congress in relation to trust legislation. That record will insure a democratic majority in thenext house. Roosevelt might know, if he were well informed, that the only application the Sherman trust law has ever had in the District of Columbia has been for the purpose of indicting seven members of the Carriage Workers’ union because they called the attention of the public to the fact that a certain carriage making firm was not employing union labor. Great are the uses of alleged trust legislation under a republican administration. ADOLPH PATTERSON. CLEVELAND NOT DRAWN OUT. Former President's Recent Communication Does Not Worry S ¥ Democrats, . A.Kentucky admirer of Grover Cleveland attempted to draw him out on the subject of the present political campaign. He did not proceed directly.- He only asked the former democratic president "if he had changed his financial views since the publication of his letter on that subject to a number of Chicago business men written in 1895. In reply to the attempt to draw him out Mr. Cleveland said that his opinions had not changed. He had not seen the letter of 1895 since it was published in that year, but on looking over it now he had no reason to amend it in any way. : That is all there is of it in any way. It is not a political sensation. A great many men who four or five years ago expressed. views similar to those of Mr. Cleveland at the time are as firm as he is in their old beliefs. They are honest money men still. There are hundreds of this class in Chicago. Their names appear on the recent registration lists in every ward.

This year tliey are supporting the national democratic candidates. Their principles have. not changed. They believe that the dangers to be apprehended through the reelection of Mr. MecKinley are greater than any possible danger which could come through the election of Mr. Bryan. . The fact is that ex-President Cleveland's letter does not distress democrats half as much as ex-President Harrison’s half-hearted deliverance - distresses republicans.—Chicago Chronicle. ‘ ’ SLAVERY IN SULU. Secretary Mciklejohn's Letter to " Bryan Evades the Real : Question, “Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn, saysa Washington dispatch. ““has written to Mr. Bryan” denying the truth of the latter’s statement that the MeKinley administration has recognized slavery in the Sulu islands. Mr. MikleJjohn “calls Br. Bryan's attention.” the dispatch goes on to say. *‘to the fact that the president approved Gen. Bates’ agreement with the Sulu sultan with the understanding and reservation that this agreement was not to be deemed in any way to ‘authorize or give the consent of the United States to the existence of slavery in the Sulu archipelago. a thing: made impoossible by the thirteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States.” That is all very well. Secretary Meiklejohn. But the sultan and dolos of Sulu continue to hold their slaves and keep their harems just the same, And the United States authorities in the Philippines—acting under the orders of President McKinley-~have made not the least attempt to interfere with either of these practices. The eonstitution declar®s - that slavery “shall not exist in any place subject to the jurisdiction of. the United States.” 1t .does exist in the Sulus in direct violation of the constitution. and Secretary Meiklejohn well knows, too, that President McKinley, despite his paper disapproval—which may or may not have been communicated to the polygamous slave-driving sultan—has made no attempt to suppress it.

PRESS COMMENTS. ——We do not believe that the American people can be bluffed, browbeaten or bought; hence we ipok for Bryan’s election.—Albany Argus. ——There is no living man vho ecan say who will influence Bryan if he becomes president. Every living man can teil you the name of the man who has influenced McKinley the last four years and would influence him the next four.—Richmond Dispatch. ——The republicin campaign book maintains that colonies are,; really good things. This is taking a slap at the men who thought differently some years after they are no longer able to defead in the public prirnts their action in rebelling against England.— Cedar Rapids Gazette. ——McKinley's policy at its very inception led to the quadrupling of the American army, and if it is continued no man can reasonably expect ever to see the Uniied States army materiauy less than 100,000 men. In fact, an army of 100.000 men is merely the beginning.—Anaconda Standard. . : ——The farmers, like the rest of the American publie, must pay the trusts a“royalty on every conceivable thing that they have to buy for sustenance, convenience and comfort. Whether they will longer tolerate the mounstrous imposition without the protest which the November election will give them the opportunity to make remains to be seen..—Buffalo Courier. - - , ——Not until the trusts forced the. president to his knees by threat of withholding campaign contributions was the question of taxing Porto Rican products' thought of. The'is. land is now impoverished; hundreds of 'people are suffering for food; prices of necessaries of life have risen fifiggfeentdnd destitution and want prevail ‘everywhere, This is a sample of benevolent -assimilation—Dubuque

FOR FARMERS TO STUDY.

What It Will Cost American Producers to 'l‘akg In the Philippines,

Fine macadamized roads that are good at all secasons and in all kinds of weather can be built for less than $lO,OOO a mile, on the average, in the United States. The present cost of the operations in the Philippine islands intended for the subjugation of a race that never harmed this country until oui president ordered his generals to make them subjects against their will, is at least $75.006.000 a year. The inerease in the army appropriationsindicates a much larger sum. For the money used to no profit, except that of a few favored contractors and capitalists, the general government, acting under authority expressly given by the clause of the constitution respecting post-roads. might build: 7.500 miles of spiendid highways in a single vear. That would make a road from Maine to California, and two from Canada to the gulf, with several side branches left over. Ten years of such ‘use of the people’s money would give this country 75.000 miles ‘of fine roads to be of incalculable benefit and. comfort to the inhabitants of the United States. and especially to the farming populatien, which gets the smallest share of the bounty of the nation. - The annetxation of the Philippine islands and their development by American capitalists will be accomplished by the cutting down of trade barriers between the isiands and this country to a low limit. Business instincets and all precedents prove 'that. Philippine products will ceme into very Wose competition with similar products of this country. ~These products are nearly all agricultural. They include tobacco, sugar and fruits. The mere we cling to the Philippine islands the more reason American farmers will

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have for anticipating the competition of Chinese and Malay labor producing. | for American capitalists, sugar to hand- ‘ icap our young beet sugar industry.i fruits to nmarrow the market for the orchard crops of California, Oregon. Washington, Florida. and. indeed, -all other states, for oranges may displace apples, to a great extent. and tobacco hurt all American .tobacco interests except those of big companies owning lands in the Philippines and using the cheap labor of that region. The fancied and much-boasted maxket developed in the Philippines for American beef, canned vegetables. bacon, beer. flour and other products representing agricultural staples in some form, is reaily the evidence of a loss which American farmers are even now enduring. These American products are being sent to the Philippines Igr the use of 65.000 American soldiers and officials employed there and paid and fed at the expense of the American people. It is simply a part of the home market transferred to distant islands as any one can see. But in the transfer a portion of the market is lost. American beef has met the competition of cargnes of Australian cattle in Manila. Part of the food of our soldiers in the Philippines comes from the islands. Much of it is obtained in the British colonies, which are nearer than the United States. llf the same men who eat the American farm and ranch produets which are being disposed of in the Philippines were at home they would not live on a diet of mixed American, Australian and Asiatic food. All of it would come from this country. And the men who do the eating would be adding to 'the | ?wealth of their country if they were‘ at home. and doing such work as they would do if it were not for the war. Now they are being paid out of the public treasury. .~ To appreciate the cost of the military operations in the Philippinesitisnecessary to show what the expenditure of $75.000,000 a year méans when reckoned in other things than a lump sum of money too big to be comprehended. It is equivalent to the wiping out of all the~ wheat that can be grown on 50,000 farms, with 100 acres of wheat to every farm’'and the high average yield of 20‘1 bushels to the acre. The price of the ‘wheat is calculated at 75 cents a bushel.

Look at it from another point of view, the waste of American money in the islands -which are to be sources of fresh competition for American farmers, if the plans of the syndicates which are being formed to exploit them can be carried out, is equal to six per cent a year on the vaiue of 25,000,000 acres of land worth $5O an acre. That means 250,000 farms of 100 acres apiece. Again, the money annually poured into the islands which must ever be a threat to American agriculture and a burden to American farmers if held under the government of the United States, would buy 1.000,000 good work horses. It is like taking from the people every year 5,000.000 hogs, large and fat enough to be worth $l5 apiece. And the ends sought by the investment of these vast smgi{wlfldeth«e development of new eompetition for American agriculture. e

Another phase of the Philippine question that is of special interest for farmers is the fact that the success of one scheme of foreign annexation and adventure, forced upon the government of the United States by eapitalists directly interested in using the people’s money to make places for the amassing of still grater fortunes than they now possess, must inevitably, human nature being what it is, make the government at Washington more and more careless of its internal needs and more and more busy with expensive and dangerous projects outside of the boundaries of this country. The matters of interest to farmers will be taken up when the more glittering and exciting ventures of big capitalists who want the nation to look out for their investments beyond the seas shall have been attendled to, if such a time can be .expected to come at all. Every farmer who wants to make it harder to get a hearing at Washington for legislation intended to create good roads, or anything else of immediate value to the rural population of the United States, should vote for Philippine annexation and so for the transfer of congressional .interest from the needs of the American people to the ambitious projects and entanglements with foreign mnations which are directly in line with the administration’s poliey in the Philippine islands. ! ?

How many farmers, not one of them willing, if able, to hire sharp lawyers and lobbyists to look after their affairs at Washington or to give costly dinners to congressmen and senators, would be required already to offset the influence of one trust with a capital of $50.000,000:? How will the balance stand when the army is bigger and the influence of officers made much of in Washington society is all on -the side of the capitalists who want plenty of government expendi-

tures in distant parts of the earth? How many, when on costly adventure, having no regard for the welfare of the farming population, shall have been upheld at the polls, if that can happen? How many farmers wouid weigh eneugh in congress to hold their own against the agents and money of a great corporation looking for subsidies or fat concessions, if the people of the United States should decide to indorse a policy which is manifestly all for the few and powerful and not in any sense for the many, the average voters of this republic? In all lands and all ages foreign conquests and the government of distant dependencies at long range have tended at home to promote the power and influence of the rich and favored and to weaken and push to one side the poor and the middle classes, as well as persons of wealth who have neither aptitude nor conscience for evil scheming at the seat of power. What right ‘have we to expect that this rule of history will be changed or suspended in the United States? Government in a distant dependency is always government by wealth, When the tillers of the soil and the working people of the Philippines shall come under the permanent rule of a small class given the suffrage on a property qualification, supposing that the administration’s plans shall be indorsed at the polls, is it reasonable to imagine that the common people of the United States and the rich who are not skilled in working “pulls” in Washington, or who do not stoop to such tactics, will have as much influence and favor as they are now shown? Will not the inevitable effect be to cheapen everyone in official estimation that is neither connected with a trust nor a syndicate, nor is the possessor of social or business influence with the government, and to make congress more impatient of the requests of the average American? To pervert government activities and subordinate home interests and needs to schemes of all kinds in far-off lands the best possible thing to do is to support the present administration and its Philippine policy. -3'lf farmers do not, guard their own interests dnd welfare, by whom shall they be defended? Will the trusts do it? Will the syndicates busy with plans for the development of: sugar plantations and tobacco fields in the Philippines, to be cultivated by Chinese labor, spur congress to ' the proper encouragement of ~American agriculture? Answer these questions at the polls in November. They are of vital importance to your own chances of prosperity and to the security of the rights of your children. : ——The question for the workingman who is to voté in Noventheris this: If McKinley prosperity hae increased the cost of everything he egts, drinks or wears, as well as the shelter that covers him, 25 per cent., while his wages have not increased at all, or at least not. exceeding ten per cent., taking a general average, what will become of his family at the end of four years more of such grinding by the trusts? &Pittsb'u:rgh ot

THE STRIKE SITUATION. Belief in Some Quarters That the End Will Come This Week-—State-ment by President M{;hell. . Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 22.—The general belief here is that the coming week will see the windup of the strike. The strikers do not admit this openly, but it is the feeling that the lockout cannot be continued much longer. Both sides are expected to make concessions. The operators say they have none to make, but under certain pressure they are expected to make them, nevertheless. The politicians have had their say in the negotiations looking towards a settlement, and now the sales agents for the big coal companies and the retail dealers in the big cities are taking a hand. They are writing and telegraphing every day to the coal companies that unless something is done very soon to bring the strike to am end and an effort made to get some hard. coal on the market at saleable figures, the anthracite trade will be demoralized = for years to come, and some of it will be lost forever. Onesales agent writes: “‘One of my largest customers tells me that consumers are getting to like bituminous coal, and that they think they will keep on using it.” It is such reminders as these that makes the operators just as anxious to settle the strike as the miners. But the strikers must make the biggest concession, and there is every reason to believe that they will do it before the week is over. . Hazleton, Pa., Oct. 22.—When President Mitchell, of the TUnited Mine Workers, was asked Sunday night what he had to say in regard to a settlement of the anthracite coal miners’ strike, he said: | “As there appears to be some disposition on the part of the public to place the responsibility for the prolongation of the strike on th 2 shoulders of the mine workers, speaking for them, I want to say that when the Scranton conyention accepted the ten per cent. advance in wages, providing the operators abolished the: sliding scale and guaranteed the payment of the advance until April 1, the miners had met the operators more than half way. They had shown conciliatory spirit, and I know of no good reason why the proposition should not have been accepted by the operators.

‘““As a consequence, the responsibility for the continuation of the strike rests solely upon the failure of the operators to treat the proposition of their employes considerately. The public should understand that, unsatisfactory as is the proposition of the operators, who make the reduction in the price of powder a part of the advance of ten per cent., that even this proposition has not been offered by a very large number of the coal-producing companies in the anthracite region, and until all companies guarantee the payment of the ten per cent. advance above the rate of wages paid in Beptember until April 1, according to the decisioh of the Scranton convention, the miners are powerless to act. I want to repeat again that there can be no partial sectional settlement of this strike.

‘“The large companies«in the ILehigh region that have refused to move at all since the Scranton convention was held are Coxe Bros. & Co., the largest coal producers in the Lehigh region; G. B. Markle & Co., the L.ehigh & Wilkesbarre company, the Lehigh Coal & Navigation company and a large number of smaller companies. There are also a considerable number of coal companies in -the Lackawanna and Wyoming regions that have not guaranteed the payment of the ten per cent. advance until April 1. The only district that has accepted the terms of the Scrantcen convention in full is No. 9, better known as the Schuylkill district. Companies which produce about 65 per ‘cent. oi the total production of the anthracite coal fields have guaranteed the payment of the ten per cent. advance and have abolished the sliding scale.” When Mr. Mitchell was asked what he would do if all the companies were to post notices, he said: “When all the companies have posted notices then I will have something to say.” " When it was suggested to him that there might be a break in the ranks of the strikers if the contest was to continue much longer, he said that not one man will go back to the mines until they are officially notified to return.

Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 22.—President Mitchell and the executive board have virtually decided to call another convention of strikers in -order to consider this last offer of the operators. When this convention will be called has not yet been determined. The decision rests with President Mitchell, and he will probably decide next Wednesday or Thursday. Scranton will doubtless be again selected as the place of meeting, and the arrangements will be as before. Shamokin, Pa.; Oct. 22— ®ommittees of United Mine Workers canvassed the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Tron company strikers of inis piace, Mount Carmel and Locust Gap Sunday to learn whether any of the men intended to go to work to-day. The strike leaders state that no one will respond to the blowing of the whistles excepting engineers and fire bosses. A prominent local official of the Union Coal company says the company positively refuses to concede to any of the demands made by the Seranton convention. The company claims that their busy season has peen ruined by the strike and they don’t care when the strike is settled, feeling positive that they can hold out much longer than the striking miners. The company controls four large collieries in the Shamokin region. The Spanish Cabiret Resigns, - Madrid, Oct. 22.—The appointment cf Weyler as captain general of Madrid has caused the resignation of the cabinet. Gen. Azcarraga has been called to form a o ministry, LAW TO THEATER-GOERS. - The spectator has no right: To Le disorderly or a nuisance to others or to the manager. : To occupy a seat other than the one he has paid for, or to occupy a seat on a standing-room admission ticket. The purchase of a ticket is held by the courts to be, a contract, or the symbol of a contract, entered into between a patron and the manager. In some cases it has been held to be merely a license, revokable ‘at will, giving the purchaser permission to enter the playhouse and witness ' the performance. Whether it is'a mutual contract, which can be revoked only by mutual consent, or whether it is merely a license, revokable at will, has mnever been authoritatively settled. To avoid trouble, managers now print a clause upon their tickets, providing that it is merely a iicense, revokable at will by the management, and that the holder can be ejected from the theater or admission refused by thé refunding of the purchase price—Washington Post. e T el L WS i Gk el FEEN Gen. Joseph Wheeler is said to have been under fire 800 times. =

ITHE FALL ELECTIONS. Ten Candidates for President to Be Voted Fo- at the Polls on Nevember G. i New York, Oct. 20.—Ten candidates for president and vice president will be voted .for on November 6. -Ballots will not be east for all of them in all the states, but the ten parties will be represented at the polls in most of them. L ; State tickets will be numerous, Tilis nois and Indiana leading With seven 2ach; Colorado, Idaho. Kentucky, Michigan, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin following with five each: Connecticut, Delaware, Towa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, Texas and Washington coming next with four each; Kansas, Missouri. New Hampshire and West Virginia trailing with three each; and then Florida. Nevada, Tenunessee and Utah with two each; South Carolina with only one occupying the end of the line. ) " Maine, Oregon and Vermont have already elected congressmen and will vote for presidential electors only. Alabama, Arkansas. California. Georgia. Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi. New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia and Wyoming having no state tickets, will choose congressmen.and electors. All the other states elect congressmen.

Legislatures which ele(-tt a -Unpited : States senator are to be elected in : Kansas, Montana, New Hampshire, I Texas, Tllinois, West Virginia. lowa, Massachusetts, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota, New Jersey, Idaho, Nebraska, South Carolina. Te- | nessee, Wyoming, Colorado, Pennsylqu vania and Utah. L | The following are the national tickets: o B REPUBLICAN. : . ‘President........William McKiniey; of Ohio Vice President.........cooiiiiiiaeoninia. 1) .......Theodore Roosevelt, of New York | DEMOCRATIC. - . l President ......0... o iiiiiiiiiiiiiiie. ! viiere....Willilam J. Bryan, of Nebraska | Vice President...........cooiqeiiiiiiinioe, o ceiieee...oJAdlal El Ste\_’e‘l‘.s(‘fll. of Ilinois POPULIST. ‘ : President ..................William J. Bryan ! Vice President........... Adlai E. Stevenson SILVER REPUBLICANS. President ..................Williama J. Bryan | Vice President........... Adlai E. Stevenson ! MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD POPULISTS. ’ President .......ooiiiiiiiiiiiniiiianininaas ......Wharton Barker, of Pennsylvan!a ' Vice President........ooouinu e o vev......lgnatius Donnelly, of Minnesota f % PROHIBITIONIST. - ' President .......John G. Woolley, of Tllinois ! Vice President..........ooooiiiniiiasl i «.....Henry B. Metcalf, of Rhode Island | : UNION REFORM. .- - : l Pre5ident..................5cth Ellis, ef Ohio Vice President........oooiiiviiiiiiiinians i ..Samuel T. Nicholson, of Pennsylvania | UNITED CHRISTIANS. | President ........ ... oil ! ......Dr. S. C. Swallow. of Pennsylvania’ Vice President.. John G. Woolley. of Illinois | SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. i Pres.dent ......Eugene V. Debs, of Indiana } Vice Pre5ident................i00iii .. 1 veieeneen.....Job Harriman, of California | DE LEON SOCIALISTS. - i President ........ o i : ...Joseph F. Maloney, of Massachusetts ' Vice Pre5ident........... ..o 00l ! ....Valentine Remmill, of ."er’.r.s_\'l\'an\lali y . — = o 17 <o ELECTED SENATOR. = i Former Governor Dillingham Chosen - by Vermont Legislztare to Go - ! " to Washington. - » ! Montpelier. Vt., Oect. 1!L-—~F0rmer? Gov. W. P. Dillingham was el‘ect.ed'»i United States senator by the Vermont | legislature Thursday. The choice was | made on the third ballot, C.-A. Prouty, | one of the four republican candidates, | having withdrawn and the democratic members who previously had voted-for | Seneca Hazleton having decided to sup- | port Dillingham. : " Sold for ’[‘axes.. o New York, Oct. 20.—The plot of ground on which the historie monu-. ment erected at Tappan, N. Y., by. the late Cyrus W. Field, in memory of | Andre, the revolutionary ' spy, was I sold Friday by Treasurer Randolph, of Rockland county, for nonpayment | of taxes. Since the death of Mr. Field . the memorial has been neglected, and ; Friday it passed into the hands of George Dickey, of Nyack, who says that he will obliterate the historical memorial. The monument was unveiled October 2, 1879, and in April, 1 1882, an attempt to destroy it by an explosion of nitro-glycerin was made. , Murdered and Robbed. .~

New Bloomfield, Mo., Oct. 20.. — A" coroner’s jury, called to investigate the’ death of Dr.C. M. Wright, whose body was found in the ruins of his drug store, which burned = Thursday, has found that he was murdered and robbed and the building set on fire. The skull had been crushed. Money that was known to be in the store could not be found. Dr. Wright was 65 years old and a British subjeet. = Pleads Guilty. . . . Lansing. Mich., Oct. 19.—C01. Harold A. Smith. assistant quartermaster gen- ’ eral at the time the state was defrauded of $40,000 on a fraudulent purchase of military supplies, changed his plea (in the circuit court Thursday afternoon to guilty, and was sentenced to paya fine of $1.200 or be confined in the county jail for two years. The fine was paid, 1 Indians in a Beef Deal. v ~ Cannon Ball. N. D., Oct. 19.—The In~dians have sold to the government over 1,500,000 pounds of grass beef %this week at four cents per pound. The cattle were of fine quality ‘and } will net the Indians nearly $70,060. ‘ A Patriotic Celebration. | Boston, Oct. 20.—The Sons of the | American Revolution Friday night celebrated one of the greatest events in the history of the United States— Yorktown day, the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and the foundation-of the American republic 119 years ago. Hobson le—e——;"a‘—_L_o;ng Cup. . Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 20,—This was muitary day at the street fair, the feature being the presentation to Lieut. Hobson of a ioving cup from “the people of Alabama. = Gen. Joe Wheeler made the presentation speech.. - s : Roberts Declines, London, Oct, 18.—Under reserve the Daily Express publishes a report that Gen. Sir Redvers Buller has been summoned from South Africa to succeed Lord Wolsley as commander in chief, Lord Roberts declining to accept the position without a free hand, gt Fatal Saloon Fight, -~ - Osceola, Wis.,, Oct. 18. — George Huyck is dead, one man’s skull is erushed and he will die, while two ‘men have ,;ev;;rg-?gsml wounds as the result of a fight in Huyck’s saloon at Clam Falls, W&%fltmwm

~ FAMOUS AUTHOR DIES. Charles Dudley “’nrl‘ler Expires Sud~denly from Heart Trouble in Tar Hartford, Conn. Hartfofd. Conn., Oct. 22.—Charles Dudley Warner, the well-known author and lecturer, died here suddenly Saturday night. Mr. Warner had dined with Senator J. R. Hawley, Rev. Joseph H. Twitchell -and Ccl. Frank Cheney, as the guest of Samuel G. Dunham. Following the dinner he called at the office of the Hartford Courant, of which he is a part owner, for a short stay and then went for a walk.” An hour later Gen. Hawley and others were summoned to the house of -a-colored. family named Smith, on Windsor street, where they found the body of Mr. Warner, who had died very suddenly. ~He was interested in the family and supplied them with many books. I* is said that he called at the house, and. after talking a few minutes, was (SeiZfifd- with a fainting spell and called for water. He compalined of the heat and asked the privilege of Iyving down. ‘He soon fell asleep and breathed heavily. "In ten minutes he was dead. Medical Examiner Fuller pronounced ‘death due to heart failure. The body was removed to an undertaker’'s and then taken to his home. Mr. Warner had not been in robust health for three or four years. Recently he suffered a slight attack of paralysis, but was ‘thought to be improving. Senator Hawley was greatly overcome by the sudden death of his friend. - [Mr. Warner, in addition to being a noted author, was also a student of social science. -He was for several years 2 member of the state commission on prisons and of the National Prison association. Yale gave him the degree of A. M. in 1872 and Dartmouth in 1884. - His chreer as an author began in 1870. "He was born in Pittsfield, Mass., ‘September 12, 1827. In 1853 he was a member -0f a surveyvor’'s*party on the Missouri fron‘tier. In 1854 hée entered the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1856. In 1860. he practiced in Chicago. That year he was engaged as assistant =ditor of t?e Hartford Press, becoming €ditor in chief the followin® yvezr. In 1867 the paper was consolidated with the Courant. ~Mr.- Warner became coeditor with Joseph R. Hawley. Mr. Warner's best knéwn Books ' were ‘“My Summer in a Garden” and ‘““Back Log Studies,” though he wrote many other charming works and was well known as the editor of the “Easy Chair’ of Harper's Monthly for many years.]

GALVESTON RELIEF FUND. Goi’. Sayers Makes a Report—in Three’ . - Weeks’ Time a Total of $670,326.20 Was Received. Galveston, Tex., Oct. 22.—Gov. Say‘ers has submitted a statement of the moneys. received by him personally, for the benefit of the Texas storm sufferers. From September 10 to September 29 the actual amount of money received. for this purpose by ‘Gov. Sayers was $670,326.20, and the total disbursements $585.792.02, leaving a balance on hand-October 1 of $84.534.18. The following statement is made by Gov, Sayers: _ *“To the Public: I beg to herewith submit a statqgnent of all the moneys received by * me Tor the benefit of the storm sufferers on the Texas coast to and including September 3J, 1900; also of =all expenditures and disbursements made by me to that date. “Since September 30 I have received the further sum of $82,923.35, consisting in the main of drafts and authorizations to draw. many of *which are now in transit and uncollected by the banks to whom I have intrusted them; and have disbursed $165,125:01. 1 will shortly submit to the public a complete itemized statement in the form of a supplemental report of all moneys received and expended since September 30. “It must be borne in mind that the accompanying statemer® and that which is to follow will embrace only the funds which I have received, and none other. ““Reports in writing, for publication, will be required of all to whom I have made remittanees as to how the moneys sent them have been expended. Rar “JOSEPH D. SAYERS, ; : .. ‘“‘Governor of Texas.? __ The contributions of the states and territories follow: Alabama .....$3,748 86 Mi550uri......539,789 73 Arizona ...... 660 25 Montana ..... ° 50 00 : Arkansas ..... 3,563 37 Nebraska .... 1,109 88" California ....15,384 74 N.Hampshire -125 0 Colorado .....13,952 30 New Jersey.. 17,404 00 Cornecticut.. 1,792 86 New Mexico.. 719 75 ‘Delaware .... 1,142 71 New York.... 83,527 49 District of N. Carolina.. 3,110 &0 ~ Columbia ... 7,748 37T N. Dakota.... 11475 Florida ... 688 70 Ohio ........... 37,195 17 Georgia ...... 7,835 T Oklahoma ... 52598 ldaho /......... 10 00 Oregon ....... 2,088 91 Illinois .......26,656 74 Pennsylvanial3l,sBo 01 Indiana-.....:. 538 25 Rhode Island. . 358 &5 Towa .......... 6,092 41 5. Carolina.,. 1,873 61 Kansas ....... 1,837 36 3. Dakota.... 177 00 Kentucky. ... 3,230 42/ Tennessee ... 5,394 16 L0ui5iana‘....13,474 15/Texas ........ 11,145 33 Maine ........ = 32°00{Vermont .»... . 2714 Maryland ....12,241 45Virginia ...... 127 75 Massach’tts..3s,ol7 50 'W. Virginia.. 1,632 62 Michigan'..... 5,610 31 Washington.. 1,516 4) Minnesota ...12.861 32/Wisconsin ... 12,600 83 Mississippi .. 3,281 654 S - - The foreign donations were: Canada .........$42 00:Mexico ........$4,794 80 Cuba ............. 68 00 Switzerland .. 500 00 England .:...... 47 50| - YOUTSEY FOUND GUILTY. Given Life Sentence — Motion for — Arrest of Judgmenft Set for Trial .~ . Next February. . Georgetown, Ky., Oct. 22.—“ We, the jury, find this defendant guilty and fix his punishment at life imprisonment.” This is the verdict returned by the 12 men who were selected to try Henry E. Youtsey, one of the principals in the murder of William GoeR The defense filed their motion for an - arrest of judgment, and Judge Cantrill set the motion for hearing ‘the second day of the February term, and therefore Youtsey will not be sentenced till next year, if then. . ' “Woman's Strange Suicide. - Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 22.—Mrs. Louise Ratze, a former Indianapolis woman and lately a resident of Chicago, killed herself on Buchanan street by swallowing carbolic acid. She was 76 years old and bad no relatives in this. eity.. Mrs. Ratze lived in ‘this city until about four years ago avith her son-in-law, George Meyers. The family then moved _to Chicago and Mrs. Ratze went also. -Mr. Meyers is connected with the Chicago Crane Elevator company. of Chicago. He was notified of the_ Sui}cide.’ ) ts e ' ; e s ARtEI L - Quincy, 111, Oct. 22.—Joseph E. Tallis, a newspaper man of Tennessee, who wrote under the name of Ray Raymond, was killed by falling from a thirdstory window of the Occidental hotel. The presumption is he feil asleep on LRy g T e RS R e e -Ret g the window sill, as the body was found . nzfédmhfl*!é;%m”i e skull « B ga. i e W — e - ??»:a - Madrid &' < Oen, Waxler 8l ” e aa B Railiis e @f‘%fif p &IR SNRERE els e R e