St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 46, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 June 1896 — Page 2

Missouri’s Largest City and Its Illinois Con= sort Meet Terrible Calamity.

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p N Y DEATH ON THE RIVER. ‘Excursion Steamers Are Blown Bottom Side Up. Haman Beings Swept to Instant Doom Steamers Are Sunk, Bnildings Blown Down, and Railroal Trains Over-“ turned -J.oss of Life Rivals That of the Johnstown Disaster - Principal Buildings in Last Bt, Loais Destroyed —Fire Adds Tts Horvora—-Millions of Dollars’ Property Damage, The city of St. Loauis, torn and dcms»l tated by a cyelone, floodedl by torrents | of rain and in many places attacked by | fires, was Wednesday night the scene of i such a carnival of death and destroction ! as has seldom been equaled in America. | Owing to the frightful havoe of the storm ] eutting off almost every line of commuuni- ; eation with the stricken city, but little | dnformation could be Lad, and that of a | wery vague nature. It is estimated that " as many as 000 lives were lost, while the | damage to property is inestimable. Scarce- ’ iy a bailding in the city but has been in ‘ some way or amother.damaged by the | tornado. } Ruin and desolation are upon St. Louis, | For the first time in the history of a me- ‘ e— ] N -{: ! s 11 g gS U ' i ,v'-\lo'm'f‘ ! ~{:’ﬁ‘ e e RSP | = A~ o D b by KT o el i it E LE‘EE F7L i EIRAOB N | /1’ epEEE E R KT F PRI § = g = ey ey U 2 A B 1 - 144 : - - ety SBA C“.—.H% 5 gE: ».-}-’.ﬁ‘/f) | e -3 F TOE GREAT CUPPLES BLOCK. l e tropolis the terrors of a c¢yeclone have come ! mpon its avenues and boulevards, ravaged | the business streets and brought death to duondreds. St. Louis, with its 700,000 people, passed through in one brief h:llf-i; hour Wednesday night an experience | paralleled only by the horrors of the Johnstown flood. Cyclone, flood and fire. | This triple alliance wrought the dreadful havoe. The grand stand at the race track was blown down, killing 150. The east end of the great Eads bridge was destroyed and it is reported that an Alton train went into the river. Steamers ou{ the river were sunk with all on board. A | station of the Vandalia in East St. Louis wae destroyed, and it is reported thirtyfive lives were lost. The roof of the Re- i publican convention hall at St. Louis was taken off. The two top stories of the Planters’ Hotel are gone. The Western ‘ Union and many other buildings are l avrecked. The city was left in darkness. &F'ires broke out and threatened to destroy i what the wind spared, but rain finally | checked the flames. At Drake, 111, r\’ school house is said to have been demoldshed and eighty pupils kiiled. Telegraph wires were down and it is difficult to seeure information. IMeavy damage to life and property is reported from other localBtiea. After the wind and rain had done their work, fire added much to the storm’s loss eccount. Down wires, wild currents of electricity, crushed buildings, all contribuated to this element of destruction. The alarm system was paralyzed. Approaches awere blocked; a $200,000 conflagration on the St. Louis side was supplemented by a dozen lesser fires. In East St. Louis a = e o o A ;;;;‘(/ . ,: 13 L o i"’&'(fﬂ i T Ny I ESE Py A ﬁ'ﬂ,} LR Dl éy,y_;,.l-ﬂa, L s Unea b g BT VD 7 T 000 T 6 o B |l 3 S EE “z--r,v{fl ;%?@f % ﬁ’at A i 2 N = POSTOFFICE AND CUSTOM HOUSE. ———e sill was burned and two other considerable losses were sustained. To the enormous total the fires added at least $600,000. y Trail of Ruin Through the City, From where the storm entered St. &ouls, out in the southwestern suburbs, to

where it left, somewhere near the Fads bridge, there is a wide path of ruins. Factory after factory went down, and piles of bricks and timber mark the spots on ‘ which they stood. Dwellings were picked up and thrown in every direction. Business houses were flattened, There was no chance for the escape of the occupants, The ruins covered bruised and mangled bodies that will not be recovered until a systematic search is made, Thousands of families in South St. Louls are homeless, practically, and the temporary hospitals shelter scores and hundreds. | At the time the storm broke the streets were thronged with crowds of people returning from their work. Among these the sudden fall of almost inky darkness penetrated almost momentarily by flashes of vivid lightning, the ominous rattle and rumble of the thunder, the torrents of stinging rain and the raging and howling of the mad tornado created a panic that made the streets of the city resemble the corridors of a madhouse. (himneys, cornices, signs, everything that came in the wind’s way, were swept away and dashed among the frenzied people. Pedestrians were themselves enught by the wind and buffeted against the walls of buildings or thrown from their feet like mere playthings. Overhead electric wires i were torn from their fastenings and their

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deadly coils, with their hisxsing blael flames, joined in the destruetion of life | and property. Peopie were killed by the i | seore and the city hospital, which fortu- | nately escaped serious damage by the | gtorm, was soon crowdal to the doors | with wounded and dying. Loug Ix fore | the tornado bad spent itvell many of the | downtown streets of the city were impas- j ' gable with the wreckage of shattered buildings and the strands of broken elee- | tric wire which were sputtering and blaz- | ing everywhere and had it not been for the floods of rain the tornado might have | been but the prelude to the destruction of | the entire city by fire.

} On the river the destruction was m'(‘:xg 1 | more complete than on land. Only one | !stmum-r out of all the fleet that crowded l the levee remained above the surface ufl | } the Mississippi. The others fell easy i A 1 { prey to the fury of the tempest and quick- 4O 2 m . : | Hy sank, in many cases carrying du\vng A\‘WA r,\'\"‘ £ /:j { /\7 /[T/J ‘ with them all on board. The Great Re- | AR\ =B ' L o f\j\ L e publie, one of the largest steamers on the } \‘} iy ‘{;% O TR e e river, was sunk along with others. o & el ‘L{!gL' fé el T “-~~ B T Death List Is Appalling. | _u;"'t h": "l'.”gﬁ’jg, B ."‘.ﬁ%{*f{xw’:’%‘ Rhcl ooee o Ten millions of damage to property and |[ EU ey TR SHU%Sot st B ii~o, o - i Sahg Lt i " % n }"“ BNL Y T . ‘J"__‘_:YW RC e Trrva o ~a e |h\o hundred persons kilied and a thou W -e " pr !ol .4_ —_—— sand injured, is what has been accom- G e v /-’ Ty e ATy !p’.ish(‘d. “Yast St. Louis is as badly dam- B - - ¢ Y = e I aged as St. Louis. Half a dozen small | s s o . i t ) t towns close to St. Louis, in Missouri, and | ‘;_;3:_’;.: “_-.:;é&.hg \ e . |at least two villages in southwestern Illi- { ._*.3'-_;_—;:5:.:5:“’:;’5:-‘::3&53“'23‘ N L g nois are gone. There has been loss of life | - e -y N in each of these communities, \Vh;lti i seemed to be xhn-g dis}imrt zxxjx_l separate ; CLUBHOUSE,GRANDSTAND AND RACE TRACK, ST.LOUIS FAIRGROUND

cyclones struck the city at 15 minutes past 5 o'clock in the afternoon. They came from the northwest, the west and the southwest. When they reached the Mississippi river they had become one, which descended upon East St. Louis and from thence passed on toward Alton. The day was an oppressive one in the city. There was I no wind and the people suffered from the heat. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon the entire western horizon was banked with clouds. .These were piled one upon the other, with curling edges, yellow in tinge. A light wind sprang up aml a sudden darkness came upon the city. This

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| darkness increased until the storm broke. The descent of the storm was so sudden the flecing women and children were i caught in the streets and hurled to de- | struction or buried under falling walls. Before the mass of clouds in the west, hanging over the villages of Clayton, Fern Ridge, Eden and Central, gave vent to their frightful contents funnels shot out from them. Some of these seemed to be projected, into the air, others leaped to the earth, twisting and turning. Lightning played about them and there was a marvelous electrical display. Then came the outburst. Three of the funnels approached St. Louis with a wind that was traveling at the rate of eighty miles an " | hour. . ; From them and the clouds above, a & strange, crackling sound came. This filled the air and at times was stronger than the incessant peals of thunder. The funnels enveloped the western side of the | city, and in thirty minutes were wreak- ) | ing destruction in the business heart. Men

W e T dming oo and women, horses, all kind of towl 1h the open, were picked up angd cattied hundreds of feet in every direction, So irresistible was t.he cyclone and go much greater in mugnlt.ude than any the country has ever previously known of, that some of the stanchest businesg blocks went down before it. Structums‘ the pride of merchants and architecturally famous from New York to San Francisco, were like tinder boxes when the wind was at its height. The massive stone fronts caved in. Iron beams were torn from thejr fastenings and carried blocks away, as if they had been feathers. Roofs, braced and held to their positions by every device known to the best builders of any day, were torn off as if held onld: by ee o F

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eet e e S A it Ithreads. Telegraph poles<tell in' long rows, not coming down on¥ by one, but in groups of a dozen or more at a time, A railroad train on the Eads bridge, one | of the express trains of the Alton, known as No. 21, was blown over and the passengers piled up in a heap of injured. The east end of the Eade bridge, one of the most solid and finest bridges in the world, was destroyed. The other great bridges spanning the Mississippi were all I injured, some as seriously as the Eads. | Scores of persons were drowned, or, after | | being killed on the land, blown into thol | water. Steamers like the Grand Repub- | lie, the City of Monroe, packets whivhl

are famons between New Orloans gad St Louis, were carried everywhese! Btill others, after !N‘s!}: torn from 'ﬁ'hm T ings, disappesred, and bave nos been hieard from. As a rule the smalleferaft was snok, This was particnlarly th case with the smaller excursion stginers, most of which had a great wanTeom ‘ on board. Houses were blown ifh the river, and at one time during (48 worst of the blow a section of the river was scooped out and the muddy bettom shown. The water wes carried blocks away as though it were a salid. Not while within the city limits did the funnels rise and fall from the ground. as 18 usually the

| pots were piled on top of egech other. | Long lines of box cars loaded with valua- | ble freight were turned upside down., The - | telegraph oflices were destroyed and miles of wire blown down. : There was a short time after the storm | when St. L«mis'g'uuld not communicate - | with the outside world. Nor could her | own citizens communicate with each oth- | er by any electrical means, Such a con- | | fusion and ruin in a large city was never | witnegsed since the Chicago fire, 1# Breaking at the hour it did, and the | night following, the work of rescue and . | relief was very slow. The firemen and , | police were immediately made aids to the | surgeons and physicians of the city. | RECALLS THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD 4 ? = : | Story of the Disaster that Visited : the Pennsylvania Towns. | The catastrophe which has hefallen St. - | Louis was within a few days of the sev- | enth anniversary of the awfu] calamity

M visited upon Johnstown, Pa., and adjoining towns May 31, 1880, in which many lives were lost and millions of dollarg’ worth of property destroyed by the floods that raged along the Conemaugh river, bursting a reservoir covering a squarg mile located just above Johnstown, lor weeks heavy rains had fallen in the mountains, and the resultant freshoet wrought ruin and death that appalled the country. While towns were washed away, bridges destroyed and industries forced to BUSpend. Huadreds of people clung to their floating homes, which were swept onward upon a volume of water unprecedented in modern history. Many people were reacued from their perijons positions in the upper stories of their homes. The Cambria iron works were destroyed

and 2,060 men were thrown out of employment. I'ive large bridges were swept away, Cars and lumber floated upon the mad torrent. All trains on the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio railways were abandoned. Men, women and children were panic stricken. The fatality list exceeded 1,200, The water reached a depth of fifty feet, and it required prompt, persistent and heroic action to rescue the inmates of a valley in which death rode through upon a wave of merciless water. The rain deseended in torrents for sev-enty-two hours. ITundreds of dead bodies floated upon the bosom of the river for a

RAR U, o e ToY oA e WA RARA WA NVasn aALAVYN A “aVa @- distance of fifteen miles from the scene of the disaster. Wires were down and all telegraphic communication temporarily eut off. Collieries in the vicinity were forced to suspend. The damage extended to the properties of the Lehigh Valley and Reading railways, FOUR UNDER ARREST. Quartet of Chicago Toughs Charged with T, J. Marshall’s Muaurder. The coroner's jury bas charged Frank Carpenter, Charies Gurner, Clarence White and John Lang with the murder of

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Thomas J. Marshall, one of the most prosperous young merchants of Chiecago, 1 and the guartet has 1 been held for irinl The muorder was one of the most zensational which have oceurred tn thoe wostern metropolis in years. One evening

| jﬂi! b‘efi}r{’ it was Ty Jo MARSHALL. {time to cinse the general merchandise | gtore known as the Golden Rule, located on West Madison street, owned and conduacted by Mr. Marshall, three men enter{ed the store by dilferent doors and approzebed the cashict's desk, where sat § Miss Mattic Garretson., One of the men | ordered her to deliver over the cash, em- ' phasizing his demand by pointing two re- | volvers at her. She refused to comply with his demand, and closed the cash A{drawer, throwing off the combination, The | would-be robber aimed a blow at her head | with one of his guns, which she barely * managed to dodge. There were several

lady clerks standing about waiting for the time to go home. They saw what was - going on at the desk and began to scream. This attracted the attention of Mr. Marshall, who was in another part of the store talking with his general manager. Just as he was about to start toward the desk one of the other men approached him and leveled two rgvelvers at big head, Frightened Ly the sereams {\i the girls, the burglar at the desk started to back out of the store, guarding his rotreat with his revolvers. Marshall advanced toward the man who was coming his way and he, too, started out of the store, keeping Marshall covered all the time. Secing that the latter was bent upon his capture, the | mgan fired both revolvers just as he reach|mf the door. One bsll struck Marshalil [ in the temple and the other in the heart and he fell back dead. Half a hundred suspects were rounded up by the police, and out of the lot the four named above were identified by the clerks as those who participated in the tragedy. NEW PROFESSOR AT ANN ARBOR Six Hundred Women to Benefit by Dr, KEliza M. Mosher’s Expesricence, Dr. Ellza M. Mosher, of Brooklyn, who comes to Ann Arbor as associate dean of the department of literature and arts and

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professor of hygiene, is now on her way to ISurope to study the ecolleges for women in connection with Oxford and Cambridge. T he - dean of the depart- \ ment for many years ‘was Martini L. | D'Ooge, Dbut the

place Dr. Mosher is ELIIZA M. MOSHER. to fill is a new one. ler duties will bring her into almost personal relations with the 600 young women in the university, and to each of them she will be guide, philosopher and friend. Dr. Mosher will be the first woman professor in thé university, and her post will be one of great distinetion and responsibility. She leaves a very lucrative practice in Brooklyn to accept the offer of the University of Michigan. Henry Stefke, aged 40 years, wae found dead in Bloomington, Ind., the presumption being that he met death in a runaWag, ‘

DIGGING UP THE DEAD ‘ e S 1 FIVE HUNDRED BODIES OF CYCLONE ViCTIMS RECOVERED. ‘ Nel o ‘ Weeks Will Have Passed Before the Full Extent of the Calamity Il‘ Kunown—Whole Country Offers Help ) —List of Dcad by Towns. ] Cities as Graveyards. The full extent of the havoc wrought by storms which swept over portions of Illinois and Missouri cannot be known for several days. In many places telegraph wires are down, and communication with these points cannot be had at the time this is written. The reports so far as received show the storm to have been widespread and fatal to a degree never before known in the history of the country. In St. Louis alone the angel of death only knows how many victims he gathered unto mself when he rode into that city Wednesday night on the wings of the wind., Not for days, if over, will the list of victims be complete. Nearly half of St. Louis is a burial ground, and across the river in Ilast St. Louis the dis- | mantled, wrecked, and demolished structures seem to cover a single grave of uncounted dead. They are being counted one by one as the masses of shattered brick, stone and lumber are cleared away, but in all probability the exact number of those whose lives were crushed out by falling walls or who met tacir fate under the waters of the raging .\lississippi will never be known. Appended is a careful and couservative estimate of the killed ‘ and injured based on the most reliable information obtainable: ‘ Killed. Injured. ‘ oL Joule. ... 250 300‘ East Bt T0u15........... 100 250 ‘ Breckinetdge: 11 ... ..., 2 sl Brinker Station, 111....... 8 350 Rt PR i 2 folumbia. P 8 ... ... ... 1 13 Eamhela. ML ... X i Salet Me. ... ... 0.0 4 “in Sharmiony L .o ... B Shncastee Py, . L Y Siesenetenh 110 .. ... % ixear Contralia, . ...... 43 33 Near Jefferson City, M 0... 4 i Near Mount Vernon, 1i1... 6 20 Near Mexico. Mo.. ....... b 13 SewarE O 1 Near Vandalia, 11L........ 13 13 P New Madeta 2. 0L T 30 § Now Beden, 1 .......... 8 13 “.!'«.w}i b L e 8 Sushwilie il oL & 24 f TN 0. 00 Bl o 0 % Value of Property Destroyed. 1 Neith v the total value of property { desir red 1 Ve, Estimates in the i vagions pa: 2 vary from 310,000,000 to | $95,000.000 It is not likely. however, % the damage will be over 815.000,000. On l' vilat &3 thore is practically no in- { suranece and little salvage. There are } probably not 100 people in St Louis who | cairried eyclone policies, and they were of i the better elass who were not the onoes to | sulfer 18 the comman people who are ix«\. g to-day, mourning over the biers { of their loved and lost, and over the total annihilation of what few worldly goods they owned. The damage to the ball in which the national Republican convention is so be held was sligot as compared with other losses, it being contined largely to the carrying away of part of the roof and in mouetary valoe will not exceed $5,000. ‘ St. louis is looking after its own. The monered men of the town have pat their { hands into their pockets, and will go leeper as the occasion demands. At a public meecting the day following the storm SISOOO was rcised, and that amount was more than doubled within twenty-four hours afterward. The woes of the wounded and homeless have stirred the great heart of the country to its depths. St. Lonis is the stricken child of the nation, and offers of aid have been tendered from every quarter. Congress passed a joint resolution directing the Secretary of War to place at the disposal of the Magyors of the stricken cities a suflicient number of tents to provide for the temporary necessities of the homeless and to render such aid as might be in his power. There are eight or ten boats used in the Mississippi river improvement which are able to rendér assistance, and these were ordered to the scene of the disaster. The Mayors of all large cities, presidents of Boards of Trade and commercial clubs telegraphed offers of assist- ! ance. Gov. Stone ordered militia to St. Louis to protect the stricken people and | their scattered property, and Gov. Alt-| geld sent two companies to East St. Louis : The Mayor of that city believes at present that the outside help will not be needed. The offers that have poured in on him have been tentatively declined. It‘ shows a commendable spirit of self-reli-ance and courage, but as the needs of the people are revealed this aid may be found necessary to meet them, and its acceptance will not detract from the city's dignity. The dead will be buried and some may | be forgotten; new buildings will take the | place of those that lie level with the streets to-day, and the smoke of the city will soon destroy the newmness thereof, but the memory of that visitation of wind will never fade from the minds of those who witnessed it. ‘ T 0 AID BT, LOUIS l | Mayor Swift Calls a Special Meeting of the Chicago Council, l Mayor Swift on Thursday sent ont a ! call for a special meeting of the Chicago City Council for the purpose of considering what might best be done to aid the stricken city of St. Louis. Chief Sweniy of the fire department said that no call had been made on him from the fire de partment of St. Liouis, but that of course he stood ready to act when one was made. All the ¢ity officials were deeply concerned over the catastrophe which had befallen St. Lonis, and expressions of willingness to aid in every way were heard on all sides. News of Minor Note, A bausiness block at Burket, Ind., collapsed. One man, Joseph Condor, was killed and four others were injured, one fatally. Gov. Morton has signed the bill of Assomblyr.nnn Austin authorizing an increase in the New York police force of 600 patrolmen. Gen. John Echols, of Louisville, died at ?tmznton, Va. He was C. P. Huntingtqns Southern representative, and was vice-president and receiver of the Chesa geake and Obio Railroad, .

LEVERING IS NAMED. The “ Narrow-Gauge’’ Prohibitionists Nominate a Ticket. The national prohibition convention at Pittsburg resulted in a split. By a vote of 427 to 387 the narrow gauge members of the party Thursday won their fight to confine the platform to the single issue ~of hostility to the liquor traffic. The test ;camo on a motion to adopt a free silver plank, which was defeated by a majority, of forty. The silver men made good their threat to bolt if they were defeated, and at night met in separate convention. The

regular .onvention nominated Joshua P. Levering, the millionaire coffee merchant of Baltimore, as its choice for President. Hale Johnson, of Illinois, candidate for Governor of that State, was nominated as his running mate.

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After the convention had been called to or.der in the morning a telegram expressing the sympathy of the convention for the sufferers from the St. Louis cyclone was forwarded to the Mayor of St. T.ouis. A memorial from the national W. C. T. U. convention in Baltimore last year was read and referred to a committee. It reaffirmed allegiance to the prohibition party “as the only political party with the courage to speak out boldly in favor of woman suffrage and the total amnihilation of the liquor traffic.” The fight of the day then began. Dr. J. K. IFunk, of New York, chairman of the committee on platform, reported the platform. Planks denunciatory of tha liquor traffic and proposing straightout prohibition, he said, had been unanimously adopted. Another plank, which declared that no citizen should be denied the right to vote on account of sex, he said, had been adopted by only a small majority. Still other planks upon which e -2 B - N / S P S i SR e 7A = NN ,f P R % N 7, § LN \ A L 2, RN, e . SR N /s = eV \ ‘ Y o b 7 TR Ao MAsER\! v ‘,/. ‘7’;’ !: ;g- “{3\ g 5, X B/ BN {7 4 ; (83 7, AT\ i < M AL S ,;i:“,v‘\\\' i B e Ty RS SR E R\ ':"VT‘-'F ‘,r ﬂ&({}"f,’ N 3}“’\& el ./_‘/,«o?f-”-:’;/f-w’,\y;\ ‘-f‘!f:] k-u‘ 7r e RS eSO b2l St . s 7RSS g&i,,.“ﬁ:,é | 5 Pe N R Lo DR B TR SR LS ; L " A "‘;‘!‘3;*,l§ | L 2 L L7 | (Y T |\ w7 |AN R .. S mpi g Y |a2 Y 9 B o 52 oSG 5 \CATRR U ek T . =z {/\‘s""':’7&4«? / A SN s - N ;;ﬂ;:n!‘\ ¢ b W Sl % 1 /'f- A e E | \§u: Tg~ w/ | WSS eet ! JOSHUA P. LEVERING. :§ i e O " { there was some division in the cominittee ,! referred to Sabbath observance, non-sec-g tarian schools, election of President, Viee- | President and Scnators by pepalar vote, i liberal pensions, immigration, naturalizaj tion, labor arbitration aud co-eperation | with other partics favoriag these views. S After a motion to adopt the report had | been made ex-Governcr St. John offered ‘| a minority report. He was applauded by | the broad gauge delegates, and especially .iu'h';n he read the silver plank. It con¢ ‘ cluded: : “We demand the full and unlimited . coinage of both silver and gold at a ratie 1 of 16 to 1, without consulting -any cthes ' * nation.” ) . ) Mr. St. John no sooner moved that the

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i adoption of the mo- EX-GOV. ST. JOHN. iti«m_ Mr. Castle, of Pittsburg, moved that it be tabled. The chair called for a iviva voce vote. Getting it, he declared ! the motion to table had carried. Several hundred throats united in one mighty protest and a yell for a division. On the 1 call of the roll 802 votes were cast and the broad-gaugers §ad a majority of 182. The silverites had then gained one point, but the great battle was yet to come. The minority report having been added to the other, the platform was taken up for consideration plank by plank. When Mr. St. John’s 16 to 1 plank was reached both sides exerted their full strength. l The Western silverites fought with bulldog teracity and hung on until the last vote was taken. When they saw they had lost by forty votes many sulked and said they would secede. o Substitute Adopted. i When the vote was announced, R. H. | Patton, of Illinois, jumped in with a subl’ stitute platform for the other. Its prineipal plank declares it but right to leave every prohibitionist the freedom of his - . own conscience upon political questions b other than that of prohibition. It was read and adopted by a rising vote. Mrs. Helen M. Gougar yainly attempted to save the woman suffragé plank. After the substitute had been adopted the af-ﬁm-x_qu sossion closed in the wildest confusion. B e e ' Only one candidate other than M~ | Levering was named—ex-Gov. Hughes, of Arizona—and his name was afterward withdrawn by request and Mr. Levering's nomination made by acclamation. A committee escorted the nominee to the platform amid shouts and cheers. ! During this time the radical silver men ‘left .the hall to organize their own con~vention. In the convention of bolters it was decided to appoint a committee to visit the national Democratic, Republican and Populist conventions and invite all dissatisfied persons to unite with the new party. | Telegraphic Brevities. : Fully 9,000 people witnessed the unveiling of the Fjedle statue of Ole Bull at Minneapolis.” It was unveiled by Miss Caroline Bgeckman. ’Mrs.'Katherine Alice Tingley, of New York, is now the recognized successor of the late W. Q. Judge as the head of the Theosophical Society. The new b-ﬁby in the Blaine family is named Walker Blaine Beale. Truxton Beale, tt;e father, is now traveling in the East trying to sell wagons for the Studebaker company. ¢