Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 11 August 1893 — Page 3

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THE NEWS OF THE W EEK

Vice-President Stevenson left Portland, Orefocvior the Bast on the 31st. Septqjtfcer wheat dropped to t5 cents on the ChtyM market, Thursday. Geopi jLabus, a Youngs town, O., boy, waa potoctaed to death by a bee-sting. LouWittle women may smoke on the, streets, according to the decision of a Judge im 4hat city. Statistics show that seven million per" sons fcpaid their way into the World's Pair since It opened. ftniatf MeNaughtoa, World's Fair ex motive commissioner for New York, died at Chfeajfo. Monday night. Rt-Vtee-President Morton's flhe pew tern near Rhinebeck. N. Y., burned, Wednesday. Loss over $!00,0oa The extensive shops of the New York Jt Erie road at Susquehanna, Pa,, are running but twenty-four hours per week. A Pacific express wagon was held up in the strait, of Wichita, Kansas, on the night of the 31st, and robbed of 17,500. It is claimed by those who ought to know, tbaJfcrman will be continued at the hea4j&4fr$ Appropriation committee. It Is b&ev& the decision of the Bearing Sea Tribuntwittb adverse to the United States la the most important particulars. The attendance at the Wdrid's Fair Sunday was only 18,637. The total attendance to. and including July 31 was ,527.42f7 paid admissions. Howard Mutchler (Dem.) has been elected to Congress from the Eighth Pennsylvania district to fill the vacancy caused by the Head&'Of Ws father. Sharpers have secured nearly a million dollars from eastern bankers, on forged grain certificates, operating in the name of the Northern Pacific Elevator Co. The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Shipbuilders have given fourteen days notice that eight hours is to constitute a day's work. This means a lockout. Two negroes, guilty of an assault on a white woman, were lynched at Gaston, S. C, Sunday. The punishment meted out was first, whipping until unconscious and until the flesh was bruised and bleeding, and then hanging them. 4 Chicago is threatened with another crank. A "Professor'' Tyndall started from Denver, Wednesday, and proposes to be buried in the World's Fair grounds for thirty.da.ys, t tha end of which time he promises to emerge from his temporary tomb alive and well. William Monemacber, a farmer living near Antlgo, Wis., murdered his wife and three children ot the 31st, and then unsuccessfully attempted to kill himself. He confessed to the crime, and gave as the incentive that the crops were poor and he fottad tha ; hts family would starve. Judge $tto, hi the Sujerior Court at Chicago Watineday, fined a number of World's Fair officials for closing the gates n Sunday, July after having obtained an lnjuc4toin prmitting the opening of uhe Fair on Sundays: The officers were aeld to be in cootsjqLpt of court by such proceedings. ., v For the first timepiece the passage of the Sherman silver .law the Secretary last month failed to buy the full quota of 4,500,000 ounces pf silver. The total purchase for tho month, 2,384 COO ounces, leaving a siftage of 2,116,000 ounces. The amount tasobased Monday, was 216,jtO ounces at the counter figure of 1.7030 per ounce. - The O. & gunboat Bennington, which was at the, Brooklyn navy yard, sailed, Monday, for the Mediterranean. Her mission road is to enable her commandar to investigate the charges relating to the perstioju of American missionaries tn Asia Mfaor. Upon leaving Europe the Bennington will sail for Mcntevideo, in the Sooth Atlantic. The Industrial Works, Bay City, Mich., ranking among the largest iron wcks in the country, closed down on the 31st. Many hundreds of men are thrown out of work. Other shops are reported closed down at Manchester, N. fl Pittsburg, Newark, Omaha and Cleveland, and thousands of men, are thereby deprived of labor. According to. the schedule of Foster A Cos Foetor Bank, Charles Foster, ex(Jovernr" elongressman and ex-Secretary of the Treasury, who was President of the hank, overdrew his account 9136,21.98. Varioy other officers and attaches also overdrew their accounts for large soma. The liabilities arts placed at 39644.95; jkssets $88,396.60. The New York Herald s special from Victoria, B. C., says: The U. S. warship Alert, which left Shanghai June 3 for Chemulpo in obedience to urgent telegrama, was in collision while going down the river with the steamer York, also bound outward, which ran into her. It was reported at the time that beyond breaking her jibboom the Alert sustained no injuries. A later report is to the effect that he American warship is leaking and it is probable she will be docked for examination. Particulars of the accident have not been obtained.

Cholera Is growing more virulent in Russia. The government of Siam has conceded everything asked for by France. Native rioters have destroyed a Catholic mission near Hankow, China. It is said that England has annexed Solomon Islands, the largest group in the Pacific Two hundred members of the House of Commons, Monday night, abjectly apologized for their recent scrimmage. Vice Admiral Tryon was held responsible for the loss of the Victoria, by the court martial at Vsietta, Malta. Information comes of a serious battle in the Interior f afearagua Mote than a thousand of the participant were killed. BANGED IN EFFIGY. flecretaiy Hok Haith the Victim at Poftmoutfc, O. i Secretary Hoke Smith wa hanged in effigy by the enraged citizens of Borne, a little town of Adams county, Ohio, twenty miles from Portsmouth, Saturday night at K o'clock. A number of pensions had been suspended before. The climax was reached when the pension of J. L. Reed, a veteran of the Eleventh Illinois cavalry, aged eighty-three years, was dropped, Mr. Reed had served four years and five months, and his pension wis his whole support. When he received the news of

his suspension he became a raving maniac. The aroused citizens, led by John Furnier, a Democrat, proposed to hang Smith in effigy. Saturday night, over a thousand people irrespective of party affiliations, assembled to participate in the ceremony. It was intended to burn the President in effigy, but wiser counsel prevailed. A platform was erected and speeches were made after a procession. The eftigy was then hung and afterward burned. Secretary Smith denies any personal knowledge of the Reed ease, crediting it to the Commissioner of Pensions, 'probably for some good reason. NEBEKER'S BANK PAILS.

Tle Farmers ami Merchant' of Covlugtoa Closes Its Doors. The Farmers and Merchants' bank of Covington, Ind., closed at 1 o,clock, Friday afternoon. A notice was- pasted on the door whieh stated the cause to be the present general financjal stringency and an inability to realize on its securities. Ex-U. S. Treasurer E. H. Nebeker, who holds $3,000 of the capital stock, is president. In an interview with the bank officials they stated that the assets are more than sufficient to pay dollar for dollar of the bank's indebtedness. The capital stock of the sus ponded institution is $30,000.

OTHER FAILURES. Bank failures reported on the 33 First National, Ashland, Wis. Akron Savings, Akron, O. First National, East Portland, Ore. N. M. Crane & Co., Cedar Rapids, la. First National Dalles, Ore. Pendleton Savings, Pendleton, Ore. Hatfield fc Son, Ossian, Ind. A Daniels & Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Among the business failures reported on the 1st were the following: M. J. Mo riarty, Cleveland, O., furniture, $50,000; Lyon fc Hurlbert, Chicago, grain margins; Chapman Bros., Chicago, publishers and restauranteurs; Morse, Mitchell & Co. and F. E. Morse & Sons, Chicago, clocks, etc.: Monitor Manufacturing Co., Auburn, Ind., windmills; M. A Chesman, Helena, Mont., real estate; F. A. Loring & Co., Boston, leather. CONTROLLER ECKELSlENlES.

The Situation Not Half as Bad as Reported. Controller Eckels, at Washington, Friday, in an interview, denied- the truth of the summary of failures, published broadcast on Thursday, stating that 200 national banks have failed since January 1. But 105 have gone into the hands of the Controller of the currency during that period. Fourteen ot this number have already resumed business, and an equal number are prepared to resume on or before Sept. 1. Out of the 105 but thirtyseven have gone into the hands of receivers, the balance, not having already resumed, being still in the hands of examiners with strong prospects of reopening. THE COMING EXTRA SESSION.

The New York Herald's Washington correspondent, Friday, states on what he regards as official authority, that President Cleveland, in his coming message to the special session of Congress, will eonfine his recommendations solely to the financial situation, and will use hi? influence to defer tho consideration of tariff reform until the regular session in De cember. The length of the extra session can not certainly be predicted, the stumbling block likely to be encountered being the ultra silver advocates in the Senate. Don't Dfsc&rd tbe Suspender. Pittsburg Dispatch. The stout man who wears a tight belt around his waist to give him an appearance of jauntincss, as well as to do the suspender service, does not know what harm he is doing to him self. A doctor told me yesterday that the wearing of a tight belt by a man, especially a stout man is most injurious to health. It stops the circulation and does not permit the digestive organs to operate as they should. When asked why it should be so much more injurious for a "man to wear anything tight around his waist than it is for a woman, who is laced up year in and year out, the doctor said: "A man and a woman can't be compared in that regard. A man uses entirely different muscles in breathing than a woman. He becomes accustomed to breathing from his abdomen, while a woman breathes almost entirely from her chest. Men had better wear loose belts and provide some other substitute for suspenders." Tortoni's, the celebrated Paris restaurant, which is soon to close its doors, had a head waiter named Prevost some vears ago who enjoyed the deserveS reputation of being the politest personage in Prance. He never directly asked a customer what he required, but discreetly whispered to him: "Pardon, but has monsieur had the goodness to desire to order any thing?'1 The repetiton of this unvarying formula earned him the sobriquet of 1 'Pardon Prevost." But with all his polite nesshe had an itching palm and he was eventually dismissed from Tor toni's service forgiving shortchange to the patrons. learning Rewarded, Atlanta Cc institution. "Did Brown stand the civil service examination?" "First -class." "Wept through the Greek alphabet?" "Jest a-hum nainM" "And the Latin verbs?" "Every one of 'em!" "What place did they give him?' "Heacl coal shoveler."

H. Q Evans, the son-in-iaw o1 General Weaver, the Populist candidate for the presidency lastyear,has been apointed a chief of division in the office of the second auditor of tht treasury. Mr. Evans is said to have supported the Populist ticket in Nebraska last year, and now variout people oat there are asking why lu has been singled out for governmcnl office-

Indiana state Iws.

Gibson county taxables are$V-7I9 3i5. Kurtz will soon dedicate a new Masonic hall. One of the Richmond banks has m)ftO0 in it vaults. All the secret societies have lodges in Torre Haute. The State militia broke camp at Tern Haute, Thursday. Madison reports river men much discouraged by low water. There wj . two more prize tights at Roby, Monday night. The Smithville quarries are running! but with reduced force. Senator Turpie is seriously ill at his home in Indianapolis, A lodge of Knights of Honor will be organized at Bedford this week, Cloverdale was visited by a most destructive tire, Tuesday morning. Six horses were cremated by a barn burning in Laporte county oa the 31st. Rev. Hayden Rayburn, of Kokomo, is alleged to have solemnized 1162 marriages. An old settlers' meeting will be held in the old grove at Eagletowu, Saturday, Au gust 13. Vernon township, Jackson county, re ports the largest and best hay crou in its history. John Donhost, of Seymour, has :.'0,WX growing cabbage plants and 10,000 sweet potatoes. The wheat crop of L. M. Rogers, near New Haven, averaged over thirty bushels to the acre. The State Institution for the Blind at Indianapolis w as dameged $1,500 by tire, Wednesday. Work on the gas belt electric was begun at a point one mile south of Nohlcsvilie, Tuesday. Miss Emma Linsey, sixteen years old. of Jeffersonville. was suddenly stricken both blind and dumb. Charles Haney, of Haubstadt, while iu.toxicated, laid down on the railroad track to sleep, and was killed. Despite the alleged hard times, many buildings are going up and much improvement is being made in Seymour. The Bank of Commerce, of Indianppolis, will resume business, the directors so deciding at a meeting held, Wednesday. Chas. Cooprider, who killed Thomas Kress, near Middlebury, surrendered to Sheriff Rizigo, at Clay City, Monday evening. Henry Butts, one of the oldest residents of Evansvilie, was seized by highwaymen on a crowded street in broad daylight and robbed of 126. The old settlers' reunion of Morgan and adjoining counties will be held at Mooresville, August 6th. It will be the twentyfourth annual reunion. 6 The Busch parrot is a noted bird at Columbus. It has seen a half century of life and is noted lor its conversational powers. It is Republican in politics. Carrie Perkhiser, eighteen years old, near Corydon, while snapping a revolver which she supposed to be unloaded, shot and killed Katie Eckert. nine years old. A special election will be held in Morgan county oi; the 23d inst. on the proposition to appropriate $50,000 in aid of the proposed Martinsville-Indianapolis electric line. The Eagle Machine Works, Indianapolis, one of the )est known manufacturing tirms in the state, went into the hands of a receiver on the 1st., on petition of a heavy debtor. The council lanic ticket recently nominated at India aapelis by the Democrats, has been withdrawn because of fraud in the counting of the votes. Another convention will be held. 1 The first telegraph instrument put in operation at Frankfort was by the Vandalia road twenty-one years ago. H. Beaver was then appointed operator of the Va.ndalia at that point,and still holds the position. Mrs. Rebecca White, widow, near Daggett, has 120,000 cash and is her own banker, never having deposited a dollar. Site keeps the money loaned to her neighbors on personal surety, taking no mortgages. She has never lost a dollar. The annual harvest basket meeting held by the Progressive Dunkard brethren near Burlington, was much of a success. The grove was tilled with people and the meeting is reported to have been one of the most Interesting yet held. The Mackey quarries at Heltonvilie, are yielding a beautiful light brown stone, which takes an elegant polish. A large vein of fine blue limestone has also been developed near the village. The quarries are doing a very profitable business. y- While the Rhoads bro vhers were thrashing wheat on Levi Bun n's farm, in Harrison township, Cass c int-y, the engine set fire to a load of unthrashed wheat, and two horses and two mules were burned in the general flames. Loss, 91,500. A relative, under the supposition that it was not loaded, pointed a gun at Joel Coats, near Winchester, and pulled the trigger. The bullet entered Mr. Coats mouth splitting his tongue and lodging in the base of the skull. He cannot recover. A preacher in Noble county is very much disliked because he made the statement that God created (the earth in sixty days, and then rested. Later He made man, and again rested. Then He made woman, since which time neither Wod nor man has had a rest. The Albion Democrat says Rile Baird, the deputv postmaster at Woleottville, created a costly blaze not long ago. While burning up a quantity of old papers he accidentally picked up one which held 982 worth of stamps. The loss is greatthey were Columbian stamps. The Indiana Associatton of Spiritualists, in session at Chesterfield, elected J. W. Westerfield, president; Mrs. Colby Luther, of Ciown Point, vice-presiden i ; M iss Flora Hardin, of Anderson, secretary, and L. V. Smith, of Indianapolis, treasurer. Reports show a membfship of 20,000 in the State. Mitchell's Bank, at Martinsville, which is part of the estate of the late S M. Mitchell, will go into voluntary liquidation, October 1 After settling up the business, a stock company, largely composed of the heirs, will succeed to the

management, and the bank will be rt cK

ganized. John Thraikill, son of Milton Thraikill, a wealthy farmer of Spencer county, was thrown from a freight train at Morgansfield, Ky., Tuesday and instantly killed. It is but a short ttm ago that John Thrai'Kill'B aunt and her son Frank Thraikill, both committed suicide. Threv masked men entered the home of

Felt Miller, a St Joseph county farmer aged seventy years, and took from him a small amount of money and other valuables. Mr. Miller had the presence of mind to throw his pocketbook, containing 9l;V, out of the window when the robbers entered and they did not find it, 4 P. B. O Reiiley, after twenty-nine years service as dnputy County Clerk of Vigo county, twenty-two years of which were served continuously, has retired because of political changes. He had charge of the Criminal and Probate Court records. A few weeks ago himself and wife celebrated their golden wedding. Mr. O'Reilly is a Republican. Michael Lnvenduskl, near Otis, went to church last Sunday, accompanied by one of his eleven children. He invited hts wife to go along, but she declined because of the pressure of house work. Mr. Levenduski did not return until evening, when he found his wife and five younger children missing. Mrs. Ievenduskl took unusual pains in making the house attractive before her departure. The husband is unable to account for her flight. Tom Hollarn was making a change in the boiler at Horner's bakery at Richmond, Tuesday, and was cutting some rivets. The head of one flew off, hit the boiler and struck one of Hollarn's eyeballs, cutting it completely in two. The eyesight is entirely extinguished and it is very probable that lie will lose the other eye. Probably no more complete surprise has been lately recorded than was enacted at tho Zion Methodist Episcopal church, Carroll, recently. Mrs. George V. Shellenbar-ger, living just west of Flora, was about to leave the church w hen she stood face to face with Judge Francis Hamer, of Kearney, Neb., a brother whom she had not seen for twenty-five years. The Welsh tin-plate workers at El wood, are still out on a strike, and demand 93,50 per day. The company only offer 92.50. The foreigners are very jealous and fear to instruct Americans in their trade. They also show a very hostile spirit to all Americans and American institutions. There are about 100 Welshmen at Elwood. Several of the leaders will at once return to Wales. The will of W. D. McCoy, lato U. S. minister to Liberia, was probated at Indianapolis Thursday. Mrs. McCoy is given a life interest in all the property, real and persona!. After her death the property is to go the School Board of Indianapolis, to be used for various purposes specially set forth in the document, The value of the estate is estimated at920,C01 Mr. McCoy was a prominent colored citizen of Indianapolis previous to his departure for Liberia. Farmers should look out for the windmill sharpers, who are finding many victims in neighboring counties. They sell a windmill agency territory for what appears in the agreement signed by the victim to be a small price conditioned upon the sale of 912" worth of windmills, the same to be paid one year from date. By tearing off one end of tbe agreement it turns out to be an ironclad promissory note, such as has been used with telling effect iu the past. A convention o' tramps was held on the lake shore near Whitney, Friday. One hundred representatives were present. Every State in the Lnion responded to the roll call. Tbe proceedings were opened with prayer and were marked with a decorum and diguity that would have been creditable to any assembly. Resolutions against the custom of working for a living were passed. The next annual meeting will be held at St Louis. It wasdecldedly the most unique assemblage ever called to order in this country. Middlebury, twenty miies south of Bra zJl, was the scone of a shocking murder, Wednesday afternoon. Charies Cooprider and Thomas Kress renewed an old grudge. Cooprider challenged Kress to stand up and face him, which he did; Cooprider then iired, three shots taking effect in Kress body, and he fell dead. Cooprider escaped by threatening the people, and alter arming himself at his home, lied to the Eel river bottoms. This is the seventeenth homicide in Clay county since 1SX). Captain Fritts, chief of the special examination division of the Pension Oftiee, is turning his attention to Indiana. The State is pretty fairly stocked with special examiners at present and more will bo sent out soon to make inquiry into operations of the act of S)0 on the Hoosier pensioners. Examiners are stationed at the following points: Two at Indianapolis, and one at each of the following places: Torre Haute, Vince.nnes, Gosport. New Albany, Evansvilie, Lafayette, Ft. Wayne, Muncic and Kokomo. 4 Robert Hewitt, proprietor of a drug store at Mt. Summit, was accused of selling intoxicants, and the populace rose en masse and ordered him out He obeyed, retiring to a farm a short distance away. The populace also accused Wm. L. Brown of selling intoxicants, but he showed light, in which he was supported by A. .1. Ice, ow ner of the building of which he was lessee. Mr. Ice placed a guard over his property. The village continues greatly excited over the matter, and threats arc made that If the grand jury does nothing at the September term other agencies will be brought into play. Patents were, Tuesday, issued to Indiana inventors as follows: C. Darnell, assignor of one-half to E. F. Harris and C. A. Book waiter, Indianapolis, woouorlathing: T. C. Greene, Liberty, assignor of one-half to C. F. Cleveland, Indianapolis, wire stretcher; E. L. Hiatt, Dublin, folding handie for dustpans; (. G. Klugel. Indianapolis, coin controlled dice shaking machine; C. A. Krutch. Logansport, hail crimper; G. A, Lake, Stoekweil, combination step ladder; C. W. Futton, Ohio Falls, car coupling. I. M. Schafler, New Castle, assignor to Charles Tux, Greene A Co:, Chicago, veterinary forceps; W. N, Springer, Fortville, threshing machine; G. W. Wear, Elkhart, air vent for oil can; J. L. Wood, Fort Wayne; rheostat; J. A Wright, Indianapolis, bicycle tire.

ME SILVEBITES COUNCIL Large G-ahering of White Metal Advocates.

OtD SETTIiEKS' MKKT1NG,

ICsouctlon to Mooresville, August 8th, vlr th Pennsylvania Ilne, Low ronnd-trip Kxcursion Tickets wil be sold from Indianapolis via the Fenn syivania Lines ( Indianapolis it Vineenne division) to Mooresville, Tuesday, Augus Sth, for the 24th annual meeting of th Old Settlers of Morgan and adjolningcoun ties. Return coupons valid until W mines day, August iith, inclusive

t'he Pvoredlng Kpeechei-KeoinUo -SatD of th Prominent lo In Attendance. The national convention of the itimatallic Leatratt met at 10 o'clock, Aug. 1, in Chicago, witii a larger attendance than any proviaiw aasemblyof like character in tho history of financial agitation. Among the prominent men in at tendance are Gen. A. J. Warnttr of Ohio, Congressmen Bryan of Nebraska, iSartine of Iowa, Gov. Waite of Colorado, Senators Stewart of Nevada, Mantle of Montana, Shoup and Dubois of Idaho, Gov. Kolbe of Alabama, T. M. Patterson, q Colorado, Editor Goodwin,

GOVERNOR WAJT, OP COLOKADO. of Utah, H. G. Taubeneck, and a long list of well known people. The convention was called to order by Chairman Warner. Mayor Carter H. Harrison made an address of welcome, strongly endorsing the purposes of the convention, which was responded to by T. M. Fatterson, Allen W. Thurman, of Ohio, was elected chairman and delivered tbe following ad dress : Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention The tight between those who believe that the circulating medium of this country should be hard moneythat is, real money, gold and silver, and paper redeemable in the same and those who belieVe in the use of soft moneythat is, paper promises to pay money redeemable in other promises to payis on. Tho late demand in the East to have the Govern'-' ment issue bonds, and the cry that is nowmade for tho unconditional repeal of tho Sherman law, charging it, regardless of facts, with all the ills that flosh is heir to, ought to m&ke this perfectly apparent to every thinking man, for should the Sherman law be repealed without substituting anything in lieu thereof, it means the finoJ destruction of silver money a ft measure of value, and no ma can tell when it will ever be agun restored to its former place. No matter what may be said of the contrary, this means for years and years to come, its reduction to token money, after whicn the issue resolves itself down simply to the question whether the paper money of the country is to be issued by banking corporations upon the debts of the people, or upon other kinds of corporate securities, or whether it is to rest on tho broad and safe basis of gold and silver. This is so, because gold alone certainly cannot afford a sufficient basis upon which the amount of circulation medium required by the people of this country, can safely rest. If this is uot so.wlty is it tH we see this tremendous scramble for the yellow metal? If there is not only a sufficient amount of gold with which to carry on the world's commerce, but also a sufficient amount upon which the credits of the world can safely rest, why is it that whenever any of it, to any amount, begins to flow from one country to another that is. simply obeys the natural laws of trade -we immediately hear cries of distress? Vet, every one knows that we do, and to regain it exhorbttant premiums are paid for it. If things are as they should be, why is there any danger because a certain amount of metallic money leaves the country? We do not give it away, do we? On the contrary, do not those who take it give value received for it? And is not this what money is used for? If this be true, and I defy any one to prove to the contrary, why, then, is it dangerous to use it, and more, why is It particularly dangerous to nso it out of the United States, if, by so doing, we can obtain more in exchange for it than we could if we only exchanged it among ourselves? Money in this sense is simply an exc h angea bkv comrnod i ty , j ust 1 ike a ny other commodity, and if it is advantageous at some time to exchange our commodities with people other than ourselves, why it is not so with this one? When things are ir. a normal condition, no harm can follow, but when they are not norma!, when tho basis upon which things rest i not an ample one, then it will prove dangerous to have any of this basis taken away. But this proves -lothing other than under such conditions it is dangerous to use money in the way in which it was intended to be used, and when you can not use things in this way, something is decidedly wi ng. That is the condition existing to-ay, I most firmly believe, and therefore, if our circulating medium is to rest upon gold alone, practically the whole of it will be based simply upon faith, and faith means tiat money. At the elofre of Mr. Thurman's remarks loud calls were made for Mr. Powderly and in response the labor leader made a brief speech favoring free coinage at the rate of 16 to 1. Ignatius iDonnelly, of Minnesota, followed in a speech of an hour's duration, in the course of which he indorsed the recent speech of Gov. Waite of Colorado. A mass meeting at night was addresoed by Senator Stewart and Congressman Bryan. At Wednesday morning's session addresses were made by ex-Senator Hill and others. Senator Allen, of Nebraska, made a brief speech in which he pledged the People's parvy to the cause of silver. "I do nob come here to talk politics," he said, "but 1 want to say that so far as the Populist party is represented in the United States Senate it will not be found wanting. tAppljuuie. We may not understand tho parliamentary maneuvering as well as some, but I tell yon we w ill be in sight of the fox all the time, Great laughter. Our party is pledged now and all time for free coinat e of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. Gov. Waite, of Colorado, after repeated calls, responded at great length in a very forcible speech. In concluding, he said: 'VVho UGmver Cleveland and who is Benjamin Harrison, and who are their supporters in Wall Street and Chicago, that they dare assume to drive into poverty and exilo half a million of American free men? There is no use crying peace when there in no peace. Most dangerous tyranny is that enforced under the forms of law. Our weapons are arguments and ballots; a tnw ballot and a fair count. If the money power shall attempt to sustain its usurpation of our rights by strong hands, as in other lands, we will meet that issue; that is, if it is forced upon us. For it is better, infinitely better, rather than that our liberty should be destroyed by tyranny that is oppressing mankind

alt over the world, that wet should wa4t through seas of blood yea, blood tothi horses' bridles." (Tremendous applftww.1 Tho committee on resolutions reported in the afternoon as follows: Whereas, Bimetal ism is as ancient M human history, as for more than thret thousand years gold and silver have come down through the ages hana-in-baJMt , their relations to each other having varied but a few points in all that vast period ol time, and then almost invariably through legislation; and Whereas, The two metals are named together, indissolubly united. In the constitution of the United .Ntatefc as the money basis of this country; and Whereas, Hilver, one of these ancient metals, was In the year 1873 without any previous demand by any political iwrty, and by any part of the people, or even by any newsuapers and without public discussion whatever, stricken down from tha place it had occupied since tho days oi Abraham and the Pharaohs; under circumstances of such secrecy that many Senators and Representatives, subsequently repeatedly and publicly declared that tney did not know until long afterward that so grave and great a changs had been made in the financial system founded by the fathers of the Republic; and Whereas, The debates in Congress Show that the parentage of the measure wmm in part ascribed by the friends of the bill to one Ernest Seyd, a London banker, wfcto, it is claimed, was sent over to Washift&ton by the moneyed classes of the Old World to secure its passage; and Whereas, President Grant, who signed the bill, declared that he did not know that it demonetized silver, and. Whereas, The purpose of this attack upon one of the two Ancient precious metals of the world was, by striking down one-half of the money supply, to-wit, silver, to double the purchcae power of tbe remainder, gold, by making it the equivalent of everything possessed or produced by the labor of man, thus reducing the price of all commodities, arresting enterprise, impoverishing the toiler and degrading mankind; and, Whereas. The awful consequences thus prophesied are upon the people of the w holo world , for we stand in the midst of unparalled distress and in tho shadow of impending calamities which are beyond estimate. In the midst of these conditions tho daily press are clamoring for the repeal of tine act of, called the Sherman cct, al-. though the repeal of that act means the stoppage of the issue of more than three million dollars of money every month, the shutting off of tho supply of the funds for the business of the country, ia the midst of the terrible CDoditlottft which surround us, and ignoring the fact that to hold the balance level between the debtor and creditor classes the supply of currency must increase side by side with the increase of population and business, and in this nation the growth of population is at the rate of about 33 per cent, every ten years, while the increase of business is much greater. Therefore, in view of all those facp we declare; 1. That there must be no compromise of this question. All legislation demonetizing silver and restricting the coinage thereof must be immediately and completely repealed by an act restoring the coinage of the country to the conditions established by the soundness of tho Nation. 2. We assert that the only remedy for pure metallic financial troubles is to open the mints of the Nation to gold and silver on the equal terms at the old ratio of sixteen of silver to one of gold. Whenever silver bullion can be exchanged at tbev mints for legal tender silver dollars worth one hundred cents that moment 412X grains of standard silver will be worth 100 cents; and as commerce equalizes the price of all commodities throughout the world whenever grains of the s tandard silver are worth 100 cents In the United States they will be worth th at sum everywhere else and can not be bought for less. 3. That while the "Sherman act;" of July 14, 1890, was a device of the enetny to prevent the restoration of the coinage, and is greatly objectionable because it continues the practical exclusion of sliver from tbe mints and reduces it from a money metal to a commercial commodity, nevertheless its repeal without the restoration of free coinage would stop the expansion of our currency required by our growth in population arid business, widen still farther the distance between the two precious metals, thus making the return to bimetalism more difficult. 4. We assert that the unparalled calamities which now atllict the American people are not duo to the so-called Shermau act of 1800, and in proof thereof we call attention to the fact that the same evil conditions now prevail over all the gold standard world. We are convinced that, bad as is tho state of affairs in this country, it would have been still worse but for tbe Sherman act. r. That we would call the attention of the people to the fact that in the midst of all the troubles of the time the value of the national bond ar d the national legal tender raonov, whether made of gold, silver or paper, has not fallen a particle, and we denounce th attempt to unconditionally repeal the Sheiman law as au attempt to secure gold mor:ometalism ia flagrant violation of the last national platform of all the political parties, . A lenthy exposition of the ideas of the committee was also reported for the consideration of the convention and was unanimously adopted. After a number of speeches by Mr. Donnelly, Cyclone Davis, of Texas, and Congressman Bryan, the convention, on motion of Gen. Warner, adjourned sine die. COMPTROLLER ECKELS TALKS. The financial depression is to be rel ieved from a quarter that has not been looked to for succor. The report of the Treasury Department, issued Tuesday, shows that in July the circulation of national banks was increased $5,0X0,000. Controller Eckels was asked what was the significance of the increase, It is due," he said, "in the tirst plneeto the low pri of govcrnraeut bonds, which makes the issue of currency, even when restricted, to 90 per cent, of the par value of bonds deposited to sec ure it a profitable venture for the binks. Four per cents, are now quoted at $1.06 which is quite a fall from the maximum tigure which they have attained. Then uhe stringency of the money market makes it desirable that the circulating medium !hall be increased as much as possiblenational bank notes

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The Bottom Drop Oot-Cudal&jr Ceuffht. Mess pork, which has been ubullei" on the Chicago market since March, dropped from $19.25 to 110.50 in forty minutestTuesday, on the Chicago Board of Trade. The panic was precipitated by the failures of the North American Provision Company, in which "Jack" Cudahy was a partner, and the collapse of a number of smaller firms. Cnduhy's estimated losses for the day were $500,000, A scarcity oi Muorers reported at Nobles vi lie, the construction of the gas bell electric having created a large demand.