Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1899 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. I BjlßO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher. I fWsSELAER, - - INDIAN a.

LAURADA IS A WRECK

MSfcs IN SHALLOW WATER IN ■ Hf ZAPADINE BAY. Forty-eight Officers and Men, KRnrenty Passengers, Fnll Carso, and H feWao Bound for Alaska- Dedication of I Slntheran Seminary, Hamline, Minn. I EThe United States revenue cutter Cor■■in, which has reached Seattle, brought ■Survivors of the steamship Laurada, ■Which lies a wreck in Zapadine Bay. St. ■gkeorge Island. The Laurada, Captain ■Frank White, left Seattle for Cape Nome ■With a crew of forty-eight officers and ■ngn and twenty passengers. She carried Ea fnll cargo of general merchandise, hay, ■amber, cattle and sheep. The Laurada ■Encountered rough weather from the Hwart and she sprung a leak. She was ■ ran into the shallow waters of Zapadine B|lAy, where her crew, passengers and were landed and housed in several ■abandoned cabins. The Corwin, attractJEd by signals, took aboard the crew and Messengers, taking some to Dutch Harbor jptnd bringing the remainder to Seattle. and Missionary Alliance Se- ■ ; cares Big Pledges in Gotham. g EP ne thousand dollars a minute for Ejfofty-six minutes is a pretty good record ■even for a professional raiser of money «like Prof. A. B. Simpson of the Chris■gtian and Missionary Alliance, yet that is ■What Mr. Simpson said that he accom®sjplished at the morning meeting in Car- ■ negie Hall, New York, in behalf of the al■tttnee. Besides the $56,000 mentioned KMr. Simpson read promises of SIOO,OOO Kand one earnest and emotional person in ■Mhe audience, not having money enough ■■nth him to use as an offering, passed a Egold watch up to the platform. SOUTHER SEMINARY DEDICATED. Services Are Held at Ham- ■ line, Minn. I seminary at Hamline, midway ■Between Minneapolis and St. Paul, was ■dedicated in the presence of 4,000 perHpnns. The dedicatory sermon was preach■ed by ’Rev. V. Koren, general president the synod. Dinner was served by the iHpdies’ societies. The afternoon sermon IKiwas by Prof. Joseph Ylvisake' of the lEemiuary. The sum of $58,000 has been |»- ttpended on the seminary and everyf'lßhing is furnished with the exception of || the chapel. I Bcaptain slain and cut up. IfMurder for Robbery by a Stranger I i Suspected on an Oyster Sloop. I R The little oyster sloop Dream, on lire, | Birifted into Rock creek, Md., bearing evi- | Otences that a murder had been commitI K on deck, where the dismembered porIH tions of a man's body, supposed to be jlffliat of Captain Oliver Caulk, her owner II and commander, were found. A colored |l|' jeck hand, Frank Collier, is missing. The are searching for a stranger whom i K the Dream started to take to St. MiLrhaels. Captain Clark had S3OO when r the vessel sailed from Baltimore. Big Fire Loss in Chicago. Fire in the six-story building at 130 g- io 136 West Washington street, Chicago, Kfntailed a loss of $125,000 and imperiled [ the lives of several firemen. Two truck K Wmpanies were on the roof fighting the I itubborn blaze when a warning shout E'that the roof was swaying apprised the t- ire fighters of their danger. A rush for L the ladders followed, and as the last man B lining from .the ladder the roof caved in. ft Race for the Pennant, g The standing of the clubs in the Natfonal League race is as follows: J W. L. W. L K Brooklyn .. 101 47 Pittsburg ... 76 73 I Boston 95 57 Chicago 75 73 F Baltimore ..86 62 New York.. .60 90 eSt. L0ui5....84 .67 Washington. 54 98 I Cincinnati . .83 67 Cleveland .. .20 134 Fatally Stabbed by His Son. John Helfrich of Larwill. Ind., died f from the effects of stab wounds inflicted tby an angry son. The father had punRjihed the son and the boy drew an ord'f nary pocketknife and stabbed the father times. He then fled. Tornado Wrecks Farmhouse. r A tornado struck the dwelling of P. ■Brandron, four miles southwest of MurL dock, Minn., demolishing it entirely. Mrs. [Handron and five children when they saw [ the storm coming took refuge in the celI lar and escaped with but little injury. Boy’s School Burned. [ St. Mary’s training school, a reformaEl'tory institution for boys at Feehanville, I DI., was destroyed by fire and its 400 intimates scattered over the county. The | loss on buildings is estimated at $150,000. Lives Lost in Burning Steamer. The Bridgeport Line steamer Nutmeg [ State was burned in Long Island sound, | off Sands point, Long Island, and ten perfcaona were burned to death or drowned. Drowned in Lake Huron. ' The steamer W. P. Ketcham ran down £.the ..little schooner Typo in Lake Huron. BCbe Typo was instantly sunk and four of ■the crew were drowned. Won by Columbia. The first of the series of races for the ; America’s cup was sailed in New York, lithe Columbia winning by ten minutes .7 and eight seconds. Wttkmen Injured by Explosion. , An explosion at the Riverside iron and pitteel works, Wheeling, W. Va., burned ■Safi crushed a number of workmen. | Rival for the Wire Combine. ? The Union Steel Company, with a capiMal Of $1,000,000, which will probably be to $10,000,000 next spring, has B%een formed by Pittsburg capitalists for Ithe purpose of competing with the Ameri- ; Hiil Btee! and Wire Company, known as wire combine.- ' 1 " 1 Dead and Three Injured. rear-end collision occurred near - Canyon station, Wyo., on rhe

MASTIN CASE ENDED. Federal Court Finally Disposes of Kansas City Litigation. By a decree in the Federal court at Kansas City, the noted Mastin case, which has dragged along in the Federal court for five years, was ended. The two Mastin brothers, in partnership in the banking firm of John J. Mastin & Co., failed in 1878, catching many workingmen and women. In 1890 John J. Mastin died, and his wife, Julia, became the sole owner of the estate. In 1894 she brought suit against her brother-in-law, Thomas H. Mastin, for a settlement of the estate, claiming that be was using her property improperly. In July, 1894, a receiver for the estate was appointed, the claims against the estate at that time aggregating $1,200,000. The present decree dissolving the partnership and ending the receivership, orders Thomas H. Mastin to pay Julia Mastin $31,099, and divides the estate of John J. Mastin equally between them. This estate, valued at several millions, consists of a vast amount of real estate in Kansas City and vicinity and mining claims in Gunnison County, Colorado. LASSOES A SCREW. Physician’s Clever Plan for Getting It Out of a Child’s Stomach. Twenty yards of raw silk saved the life of a little Brooklyn, N. Y., child. Dr. George D. Barney used the strands to lasso a large screw that the little patient had swallowed. When the physician Was called in haste to the house and discovered the serious nature of the case he was at first nonplussed. “If the screw reaches the intestines it will surely kill the child,’’ he said. Upon a table he happened to notice a hank of raw silk and it gave him an inspiration. “Bread and milk, quick," he cried, and as soon as the food was brought, he made a mush in which he placed the silk. After carefully mixing silk, bread and milk, he made the little sufferer swallow it, being careful to hold one end of the thread. After the meal had been in the child’s stomach for about ten minutes, Dr Barney pulled out the silk and the deadly screw came with it.

TRY TO BURN WAR SUPPLIES. Material at Toronto, Intended for the Transvaal, bet on Fire. At Toronto, Ont., an attempt was made to burn the war material which the Government has all ready for serving out to the Toronto, London and Hamilton Transvaal contingent. At the time stated an officer and a private on their rounds found part of the woodwork of the storeroom of the fort on fire and with the help of the fire brigade extinguished the flames before serioas damage was done. It was then discovered that waste and rags saturated with oil had been placed close to the woodwork and set on fire. The woodwork was also well oiled. MINISTER TAKES HIS OWN LIFE. Ohio Pastor Commits Suicide After Entertaining Hia Congresatioa. Rev. W. L. Woodward, one of the most prominent ministers of Disciple Church in northwestern Ohio, committed suicide at his home in Oak Harbor by shooting himself through the heart. He had invited a number of his congregation to spend the evening with him. The last of the guests scarcely had reached the gate to go home before a 'pistol shot rang out. The minister was found prostrate on the floor with a bullet hole through his breast Deserter Given Up by Father. At Denver, Emile Poly, 25 years old, has been arrested as a deserted on information given by his father, Adolph Poly, who became jealous of his son’s relations with Maud Bradley, a French-Canadian girl. Young Poly enlisted in the Thirteenth United States regulars in New York and served in the Santiago campaign. He deserted at Honolulu en route to the Philippines. Noonday Burglary in Rock Island. While Secretary T. J. Medill was at luncheon cracksmen entered the office of the Blackhawk Building and Loan Association in Rock Island, 111., blew open the safe with nitroglycerin and carried off the strong box, with its contents —jewelry valued at SSOO and SSO in money. The box and $29 of the money were found later on the shore of the Mississippi river. The robbers escaped. Bank Robbery at Reynolds, Ind. At Reynolds, Ind., the bank was robbed of $9,000 and wrecked by an explosion. Several citizens were aroused by the sound of the explosion, and President J. C. Van Atta and Cashier Dehling, with a number of others, reached the building in time to see four men run to two buggies and dash away with the horses in full gallop. Cartoon Causes Street DueL A desperate street duel was fought at New Orleans between Dominick O’Malley, proprietor of the Evening Item, and C. Harrison Parker, editor of the Delta. Both were seriously, if not fatally, wounded. The trouble originated over a cartoon in the Item representing Colonel Parker as a little dog led by a string by Gov. Foster and labeled “Me Too.” Highwayman Murders His Victim. Ex-City Treasurer C. L. Funk was shot and killed by a highwayman on El Paso avenue, Pueblo, Colo., when going to the depot to take a train for Cripple Creek, where he was engaged in mining. His pocketbook was taken, but it contained only a small amount of money. Mr. Funk was 38 years old. Austria Has a Telegrams from Linz, capital of Upper Austria, on the Danube, report that the inhabitants of that district are in a state of terror, owing to a series of “Jack-the-Ripper” murders. The fifth occurred recently, the victim being a woman 50 years of age. Four Are Killed by a Train. Frederick George and his three little daughters, Lena, aged 6 years; Maggie, aged 4, and Frieda, aged 2, were instantly killed at Riverside, N. J., by an express train on the Pennsylvania railroad. They were crossing the track in a wagon. Sick Man Leapa to Death. Alfred Hayes, a patient at the People’s hospital in Chicago, became delirious and leaped through a second-story window to the gronnd, twenty-five feet. His injuries were so severe that he died a few minutes later. . Chicagoan Kills Himself in Duluth. Joe Goldberg, son of Solomon Goldberg, a wealthy Jew of Chicago, committed suicide at Duluth, Minn., by shooting. He was 21 years old and manager of the

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PROGRESS IN ALASKAN BOUNDARY CASE. Temporary Arrangement of the Dispute Is Made by Establishment of a Line at Suggestion of Americans— Mistakes a Hunter for a Deer. Sir Louis Henry Davies, Canadian minister of marine and fisheries, says that he has given Canada’s consent to a temporary arrangement of the Alaskan dispute. This has practically settled the whole matter for the time being, as the main features of the arrangement were originally suggested by the United States. Col. John Hay, the American Secretary of State, will sign the last papers within a few days, and Reginald Tower, British charge d’affaires in Washington, will ratify on behalf of Great Britain. Sir Louis Davies said: “The terms agreed upon are simply a line drawn across Chilkat pass, deliminated by the river and mountain top. It has absolutely no significance except that we hope thereby to avert local friction. Of course an arrival at even a temporary agreement is satisfactory. So far as the original contention is concerned, we are just as misty as ever. I see no signs of reaching an immediate settlement.” BIG DEAL IN COAL LANDS. Four Thousand Acres on Monongahela River Changes Hands. The Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company has closed a deal for the purchase of the immense tract of coal belonging to the New York end Cleveland Gas Coal Company at Charleroi, Pa., for $1,000,600 cash. The money has been paid into the Union Trust Company, and the river combine is now' in possession. The tract contains about 4,000 acres, and is one of the largest bodies of coal on the Monongahela river. It has been under option for some time to the Monongahela company and also to the Pittsburg Coal Company, the rail coal combine. It is probable the tract will be opened up next spring by the river combine on a large scale. PREVENTS ESCAPE FROM JAIL. Daughter of Jailer in Mason Kentucky, Defeats a Plot. Miss Bettie Mcllvain, daughter of Jailer Mcllvain of Mason County, Ky., frustrated an attempt to escape from the Mason County jail. Miss Mcllvain held the heavy iron entrance door against the prisoners who were trying to force their way out. Charles Shotwell, a desperate prisoner, slashed her with a case knife, but she bravely held the door until Deputy Jailer Slack secured his pistol and fired, driving the prisoners back. Several iron bars had been sawed in two, and knives and heavy pieces of iron for weapons had been provided, ready to make a desperate fight for liberty.

HUNTER SHOT BY HIS GUIDE. Representative J. B. Dnmond of Boston is Almost Instantly Killed. Representative J. B. Dumond of Boston, Mass., was shot and killed at Messer pond, twenty-three miles inland from Bangor, Me., by his guide, William Hobbs. He was mistaken for a deer. The bullet passed through his abdomen and the victim lived only half an hour. He exonerated the guide from all blame in his dying statement to Senator Charles H. Innes and Representative Franz Hugo Krebs of Boston, who accompanied him on the hunting trip. Hobbs is an old guide and bore the reputation of being thoroughly reliable and competent. Mi-. Dumond had hunted annually for nine years in his company. BANK ROBBERS IN MISSOURI. Safe Blown Open at Schell City and $3,500 Taken—Thieves Escape. Burglars entered the Farmers’ Bank at Schell City, Mo., blew open the safe and secured $3,500 in bash, with which they escaped. About la. m. the town watchman was captured on the street by armed men and a bag was thrown over the man’s head to stifle his cries. The burglars, of whom there were several, then broke into the bank, blew off the door of the safe and took the money. The bank will lose nothing, as it held a policy in a burglar insurance company covering the amount taken. Frij{htfnl Boss of Life. A dispatch from Batavia, capital of the Netherlands Indies, Java, says that a violent earthquake has visited the south side of the island of Ceram, next to the largest of the Moluccas, between Boorda and Papua, completely destroying the town of Amhei and killing, it is estimated, at least 4,000 persons as well as injuring more than 500 others. Killed His Brother’s Assailant. At Mountain Grove, Mo., David Branson emptied his six-shooter into Henry Holt, killing him instantly. Holt had quarreled with Branson’s brother, a cripple, and was slashing him with a knife when David stepped off a train and interfered. Caramel Factory Destroyed. Fire started on the fifth floor of the six-story brick building at 18 Desbrosses street, New York, and soon the whole building was ablaze. The fire destroyed the Dexter-Frane caramel factory on the fifth floor, then worked up into hundreds of bags of cork on the sixth floor. Slays His Wife’s Father. At Plainville, Ind., William D. Killion, a prosperous farmer, shot and killed his wife’s father, Walter Buckley. Killion is alleged to have mistreated his wife and the father upbraided him for it. In a fit of anger Killion drew a pistol and shot the old man four times. Silk Mills Burned. Fire destroyed the three-story frame building in Newton, L. 1., owned and occupied by the Equitable Silk Mills, and stock and machinery was damaged $30,000 and the building $15,000. Explosion Kills Fonr Men. A threshing engine belonging to Peter Anderson, twelve miles southeast of Britton, S. D., blew up, killing four men and seriously injuring one mote. Low water is supposed to be the cause. I Bridge Jumper Hurt. James Brady, a bridge jumper of Pittaburg, traveling with a wild west show, was injured in making a high dive at B t. h n L

FLAMES IN MILL VALLE Y.' California Summer Visitors Forced to Flee for Their Lives. A fire believed to have been of incendiary origin has done great damage in Mill Valley and the adjoining country about the base of Mount Tamalpais, Cat The town of Mill Valley was for hours in imminent danger, and many summer visitors fled to places of temporary safety. Corte Madera Gulch, Boyle Canyon, Blithdale Canyon and the Cascades were denuded of their majestic pines and redwoods, which the flames swept away like so much dry grass. Owl’s Nest, the residence of George T. Marsh, was destroyed. There were many narrow escapes and over a dozen persons were severely scorched by the flames. Over 640 acres were burned over, several small buildings were destroyed and many beautiful residences narrowly escaped destruction. A conservative estimate of the loss places it at $130,000, though some claim that it may reach $500,000. GREAT PATENT SUIT. California Inventor Claims Royalty from Electric Companies. The San Francisco Call says that a bill of complaint will soon be filed in the United States Circuit Court there as the commencement of one of the most important suits ever tried in any court. Binson Bidwell, who claims to be the original inventor of the system by which all the electric roads of the country are operated, is the principal complainant. The Market Street Railroad Company of San Francisco, the Thomson-Houston Electric Company of Connecticut and the General Electric of New York are made defendants, and similar suits will be commenced in several States. Bidwell charges that the defendant corporation, as well as others, has made immense profits out of his inventions, and the suits in quest ! on are based upon infringement of his patents. He prays for a royalty of 40 per cent on the net profits. SWALLOWED A BIG PIN. Child Hurried to ’t. Louis with a Safety Pin in Its Throat. The 1%-year-old child of James Gray of California, Mo., was taken to St. Louis by its parents after it had swallowed an'open safety pin, which lodged in its throat. While the frightened parents were comforting it on the train the big pin went down. The little one was apparently without a pain, and the parents decided to await the development of evil symptoms before consenting to an operation. Aetna Powder Mills Blown Up. ■With a detonation that was felt ia towns manj miles distant two of the powder mills of the Aetna company’s works near Millei's, Ind., blew up. Two men who were supposed to have been in the structures —known as the tankhouse and the mixhouse—are missing, but so far as known there were no other fatalities. Fire in Kansas City. The C. J. Baker Tent and Awning Company’s establishment in Kansas City burned. Loss $60,000, with $40,000 insurance. The building, owned by J. A. A. Bullen of Chicago and valued at $22,000, was totally destroyed, fully covered by insurance. Boy Kills His Sister. While playing with a shotgun, the 11-year-old son of C. B. Johnson, who lives two miles west of Columbia, Mo., shot and killed his little sister, aged 8. The head of the child was blown almost completely from her shoulders. Carnegie Increases His Gift. Word has been received from Andrew Carnegie that he would give $50,000 more toward the erection and equipment of a library for Washington city, making the total amount of his gift to the city $350,000. Fjarid Bey Assassinated. Djarid Bey, son of Khalil Rifkat Pasha, the Grand Vizier, was assassinated on the Galatea bridge at Constantinople by an Albanian, who fired four shots from a revolver. The murderer was arrested. Two Women Seek Death Together. Madge Davenport, 21 years old, and Mamie White, 22 years old, drank carbolic acid in McGuirk’s Bowery dancing halj, New York. Both women are dead. Mayor Taggart Is Re-elected. At Indianapolis Mayor Taggart ahd the entire Democratic city ticket were elected by from 600 to 1,000 majority. War Declared by Boers. Formal declaration of war upon Great Britain has been made by the South African republic of the Transvaal. ,

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2. 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2,22 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 57c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 17c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 35c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice, light, $2.75 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 34; oats. No. 2 white, 25c to 26c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; bogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,23 cto 25c; rye. No. 2,58 cto 60c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; rye, No. 2,64 cto 66c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 96c to 28c; rye, 61c to G3c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,59 c to 61c; clover seed, $5.95 to $6.05. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 Northern, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 3,31 cto 33c; pats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 1,58 e to 60c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 47c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.00 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.50. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; Aeep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 76c; cor®, No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; butter, creamery, 17c to 25c; eggs, west-

WORN AND USELESS.

AN OBSOLETE* DECLARATION OF CAMPAIGN ISSUES Democrats Are Reaffirming the Chicago Calamity Platform of 1896 in Ignorant Disregard of Its Numerous Absurd Incongruities. It being the fashion of Democratic State conventions In 1889 to “reaffirm the Chicago platform of 1896,” the St Louis Globe-Democrat shrewdly raises the question whether all or any of these unanimous reaffirmers have actually read the declaration of principles which they now adopt as their own. Probably they have not To suppose otherwise would be to assume a degree of asinine absurdity quite beyond that which is commonly characteristic of Democratic making. Take, for example, the Ohio Democratic convention. Must one believe that the Committee on Resolutions knew what it was that they reaffirmed word for word? Is it possible that In the presence of conditions which give the laugh to calamity croakers and which show a state of individual and general prosperity far beyond any that has ever been experienced by the people of the United States, or by any other people on the face of the earth—is it possible that the Buckeye Bourbons remembered that in the Chicago platform of 1896 which they reaffirmed It is gravely asserted that the demonetization of silver has resulted in “the prostration of industry and the impoverishment of the people?” Where are the prostrate Industries and the Impoverished people? They existed in 1896 at the time the Chlckgo platform was promulgated, as the result, almost wholly, of free trade experiments in tariff making, but they do not exist in 1899, after two years of Republican tariff making. Much has happened since the Chicago platform was written which makes

FULFILLMENT OF REPUBLICAN PLEDGES.

IN 1896.

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that dismal apologue “look like thirty cents;” and yet the party which “never learns and never forgets” keeps right on reaffirming that platform. It Is asserted, seriously asserted, In these days of wonderful well-doing, that monometallism “has locked fact the prosperity of an industrial people In the paralysis of hard times.” It is such rot as this that Democratic conventions are now “reaffirming,” Well and truly the Globe-Democrat remarks that “The Chicago platform was made In the last year of a Democratic administration, under a chaotic Democratic tariff law, and in a period of distressing Democratic depression. With the passing away of the Democratic blight the clouds vanished. • • • When the Chicago convention met that hybrid absurdity, the Wilson tariff law, was In force, throwing out of balance all forms of American Industry, and at the same time producing insufficient revenue. Yet the Chicago platform contains this clause: ‘We denounce .as disturbing to business the Republican threat to restore the McKinley law.” The Dingley law has been In operation two years, and the people are familiar with its results. It has revivified our manufactures without oppressing any one and assisted in bringing about an era giving employment to all. The revenue from the Dingley law is a fourth larger than that of the Wilson law. Yet the Chicago platform said the McKinley law, upon which the Dingley law is patterned, “enriched the few at the expense of the many, restricted trade, and deprived the producers of the great American staples of access to their natural markets.” Nevertheless, our foreign trade for the last two years has been enormously larger than ever before, in manufactured articles as well as the products of agriculture.” Democratic resolution writers would do well to read up on the platform of 1896, and endeavor to evolve something for present use that Is not absolutely ridiculous in the light of known facts and conditions. T.oyal Black Men. Ths sentiments entertained toward the administration of President McKinley by the colored people of the fruited States are Indicated by the resolution adopted by the lowa conference of the African Methodist church. In session at Chicago, Sept 11. With much enthusiasm the conference placed on record Its indorsement of the Gov-

economics! administration of national affairs Ims brought a return of pronperity. “Milllone of wheels of industry, whichtwo years ago were idle and still, are now rapidly revolving, the stream of commerce is once more flowing throughout the land, and future prospects are bright for increased prosperity in all lines of Industry.” Free traders, mugwumps and copperheads are scarce articles among the colored men of this country. Would Benefit the Country. The nomination of Bryan next year now being accepted as a foregone cooelusion, there is no doubt that many of the sound money Democrats will, welcome such action by the National Coovention as a final disposition of the silver issue and Its chief champion. Men who desire the reorganization of the Democratic party on old Democratic lines realize that they can never accomplish their purpose until silver is dead and Bryan is out of the way, and they are begtantag to realize that thesurest method to bring about the desired result is to help the Republicans administer another defeat to the cause of repudiation next year. One thing certain is that if Bruyn is nominated next year on the Chioagoplatform the silver issue will be brought to the front, and every man who voted against Mm three years ago will haveas good cause to oppose Ms election then as he did in 1896. Every voter who opposed Bryan then will be against Mm next year, with the possible exception of the mugwumps, who are bound to oppose President McKinley on the expansion issue, and the silver champion will go down to defeat again. Thus it appears that Bryan’s nomination would be beneficial to the country.—Clevlamd Leader. Product of Republican Policies. The Lehi sugar factory started its season’s run yesterday, with unusually rich promise. The season’s product of sugar there will be greater than ever, because of the better quality of the beets and the satisfactory yield, and>

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already the plans for next season contemplate operations a good deal more than double those of this season In magnitude and product The pioneer sugar factory is a great institution, sure enough; and an especially gratifying feature of it is it is a direct product of Republican policies—Salt Lake City Tribune. P-nwiou Agentn Didn’t Dictate. It is gratifying to know that the acta of tine national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic with respect to penstonß was tempered by moderation and good sense, says the Cleveland Leader, and that disgruntled pension attorneys were not permitted to dictate what should be done. The resolutions adopted are far every way sensible. They simply ask that one of the rules under which the Commdssdoner of Pensions is operating be modified in a way suggested by the Committee on Pensions, and the request will be taken to the President by the committee, who will explain to him in person what they want. If the rule qanmot be modified as suggested, then the committee wfll ask Congress for additional legislation interpreting the section of the pension laws in question. There to no reason to doubt that the veterans will get the relief they ask for if It to witMn the power of the President to grant Ift McKinley la to Blame. A number of construction concerns have had to close their works temporarily because the iron and steel mills of the country are unable to keep up with their, orders. If It wasn’t for the present administration, the Chicago Post says, this never would have happened. The iron and steel mills wduld have more material on hand than they could conveniently dispose of, and, incidentally, most of them would be shut down. Thus it to plain that this man McKinley must be defeated at the next election. ’/ An Admirable Fit. j