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The herald., 1894-05-16

bs preserved alike. having in view the
demands of the people for circulating
medium.
We declare we are not in favor OF gold
monometalllsm or silver monometa
ism, but that both should be coined al
such ratio as will maintain the twp
metals in circulation.
We insist upon the Democratic doc
trine OF jackson and Benton. that all
money issued bv the authority OF con
gress shall he issued and its value main
tanned by the government; that We are
opposed to farming out to national
banks the right to Issue circulation
notes; that We are opposed to any fur
Their increase of interest bearing debt OF
the government.
Following is the report OF the minority
members-Graham Frost, Davis Francis
and r. O Kerr, all of st. Louis-which
is a substitute for the free coinage plank !:
We hereby reaffirm the declaration OF
Democratic principles placed before the
country by the last Democratic conven-
tion mbled in Chicago on June %,
1892. and ratified by the state Democrat
ic platform adopted at Jefferson City on
july 20, 1892.
After the reading of the reports, Ora
ham Frost moved the substitution OF
the minority plank in the majority re-
port, and delegate from Southwestern
Missouri called for the previous question
on the adoption of the majority report.
The roll call is now in progress at :35
am.
The last resolution of the majority re-
port is intended as stab at the Ameri-
can Protective association.
The following candidates have been
named for the following Offices
Judge of supreme court, Francis nj.
Black.
Superintendent of public schools, W.
T. Darlington.
The nomination for railway commits
sioners will be made tomorrow.
At 2:l0a. M. the convention adjourned
until 10 a. m. without having voted on
the report of the committee on resolu-
tione.
The herald., 1894-05-16
INDIAN RARRARlTlES.
Frightful Orgies Along the West Coast of
British Columbia.

Frightful Orgies Along the West Coast OF
British Columbia.
The attention of the department of In
dian affairs has been called to the bar
barous practices of the Indians along the
west coast of northern British Columbia,
who, it appears, are still INDUCING in
cannibalism, supposed to have been long
hgo given up. H. J. Simpson, trader
who has spent 20 years in the vicinity of
Fort Ruperts, has just arrived here and
states that the Indians carry on their
dances with all their old time ferocity,
the only difference being that now they
are careful to have their widest orgies
only in the depth of winter, when the in
clemency of the season has practically
put a stop to trading and hunting and
has driven all white men, including mis-.
sionaries, to move to comfortable quar-
tiers.
So soon as they have the field to them.
selves preparations are started for the
most disgusting orgies. Simpson, who,
having married full blooded "Klootcb-
man." is what is known as "squaw-
man." has been specially favored or
trusted by being permitted to witness
some of these rites and gives a terri
BILE description of what is known to the
Indians as imam eater dance" which
he witnessed few months ago. In
this dance the manista, or chief char
acter, horrifes the spectators by appear
ing with mummy" or the shriveled
remains of back number native, taken
from an eminence upon which it was
exposed to dry after death, and tearing
the shriveled flesh from the bones as he
dances about a huge log fire, all the
time uttering the most frightful sounds
in the Indian voca bulary of lamentations.
Simpson also lately saw the horrible
torture of a maiden in connection with
another dance, in which, to prove herself
worthy to be the bride of a brave chief
tain, she allowed great barbed hooks to
be driven through the flesh of her back
and danced almost naked, while the chief
held the reins attached to the hooks and
by series of wrenches eventually tore
the flesh apart and released them. Mis-
sionaries have taken great credit through
out the civilized world for having con-
verified these savages, and the govern
ment has been led to believe that the
dances now carried on are only imita-
tons of former barbarity, but Simpson,
who is a reliable man, asserts that they
are no mockery at all, but most revolt
ing and cruel reality. q. O.
Special.
The herald., 1894-05-16

One of the most interesting incidents
that marked the funeral ceremonies in
the senate the other day was occasioned
by the arrival of Sir Julian Pauncefote.
The president, members of the supreme
court and all other visitors entitled to the
floor had taken their seats, and the short
wait preceding the opening OF the serv-
ices had begun to grow irksome when
the main door opened, and Sir Julian,
dressed in a close fitting Prince Albert,
entered. He took few steps forward
and then paused, while the master of cere-
monies announced in a distinct voice,
1.-The ambassador of England to the Unit
ed States" The pause was momentary.
The president and every one present
arese instantaneously in their seats! The
English diplomat bowed with the easy
grace of a man who is not embarrassed
by the honors shown him, and with
firm step and erect though respectful
bearing passed down the center aisle,
past the president and cabinet, to the
seat assigned him in the front line of
chairs.-Washingt Post.
The herald., 1894-05-16
JNE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE
striking Coal Miners Present a
Solid Front.
They Will Not Accept Any Form of
Compromise.
the Conferences with the Operators at
Cleveland Expected to Come to
Naught-Grtat Northern
Trouble Ended.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, May l5.-The concensus
OF opinion among miners and operators
before the conference met at 2 o'clock
WAS that the result of the meeting
would be naught. The miners appear
firmly united. Secretary Mcbride says
their motto will continue to be lone for
all, all for one"
The scale committee of miners has en-.
deavored to adjust differences in rates
for mining in manner so as to work no
injustice to the miners OF one section az
compared with another.
Complications have been increasing
all day. Secretary Mcbride held con-
terence with the river operators on the
sublect OF compromise. Alexander
Dempster of Pittsburg said the Pennsyl-
vsnia operators would not treat with
Mcbride or the national board.
An organization was effected by the
election of j. b. Scribe, an operator, OF
this city, as president; Patrick Me-
Bride OF the Miners union as secretary
with Frank Brooks, an operator, of Co.
lumbus, as his assistant.
The herald., 1894-05-16
HoUsE PkoOEEpINGs.
The Naval Bill PAsssd-A Grim oni us


The Naval Bill PAsssd-A Grim oni us
DisoussiOR.
WAsHINGToN, May 10 Speaker Crisp
was not in the chair when the house met
today as he has besn called away by the
death of Mrs. Crisp's mother. In let
ter he designated Mr.. Dockery OF Mis-
eouri as speaker pro TEN.
The naval appropria ion bill was taken
up. Cummings substitute, providing
that hereafter no cadet should be APP
pointed who was not resident of the
congressional district he is appointed to
represent, was agreed to.
When the paragraph relative to armor
plate and armament WAS reached, Mel
&lejohn offered an amendment pro-
yidlng for the appointment by
the speaker OF q select committee
of nine mem bers, with full power
to Investigate the alleged armor plate
frauds by the Carnegie Stee! company
or Carnegie, Phipps & Co, and the as
easements against the company by the
president. Cummings made point OF
order against the amendments, which
the chair sustained.
The paragraph authorizing the secre-
tary OF the navy to use $3.50 600 appro-
priRted by the act of March 2, 1889, for
the construction, armament and equip
ment OF three torpedo boats to cost not
more than 1850, 200, was adopted.
At 2:4o consideration OF the bill in
The herald., 1894-05-16
Magnificent Court Entertainments.

Some court entertainments recently
have been magnificent The court din
ner given in Vienna in honor of the Ger
man emperor had peculiar features.
Though the guests numbered 80, the
whole dinner was served on gold plates
and dishes. The centerpieces and vases
likewise were of massive gold. Really
two dinners were served, because it was
Friday. Beside each plate lay two me-
nus, d fish menu on simple white card
board with the imperial eagle in relief
and meat menu with the usual gold
ornaments and the eagle in gold AS
the guests sat down every one was asked
by the lackeys whether fish or meat
dinner would be agreeable, and then one
menu was taken away. So the servants
knew what dishes to serve. Only the
emperor. Archduchess Maria Theresa
Archduchess Caroline and two cardinals
tasted. Every body else selected the meat
dinner. Vienna Letter
The herald., 1894-05-16
A POSTAL SAVINGS PLAN.
Senator Kyle Has Advanced an Idea That
May Possibly Become Law.

senator Kyle Has Advanced an Idea That
May Possibly Become Law.
no present financial stringency and
trouble with savings banks and other in
stitutions of deposit have suggested to
Senator Kyle Of Dakota a postal savings
scheme. He is of the opinion that the
designation of certain postofiices in vari-
Gus parts of the country as receivers for
small deposits would 10 advantageous,
and bill is now before the senate COM
mittee on postofices providing for the
details of such plan.
1t is proposed to receive small deposits
at money order offices, for which inter-
est at the rate of q per cent per annum
will be paid. The depositors will receive
stamps in denominations ranging from
10 cents to 81. These are to be kept as
securities by the depositor and are trans
ferable and redeemable on presentation
at any money order Office, proofs of
course being required as to the identity
of the holder. The money thus accumu-
lated by the government is to be loaned
to farmers ON first mortgage security on
lands worth $4,000 and over at A per cent
interest.
The scheme is not wholly new or
wholly impracticable. Postal savings
banks are regular feature of the Brit
ish and continental postal arrangements
of Europe. Mr.. Wanamaker was a warm
advocate of the idea while he was post
master general There is little doubt
but that some plan of making small de-
posts through the postoffice would be
u.s. III to persons far removed from saw
il banks and other banking institu-
tic. They would make the hoardings
of ulany people available in the interest
bearing funds The banking project,
however, of loaning money to farmers
on real estate is a matter upon which
difference of opinion might readily ex-
isl AS consequence it would be quite
necessary to discuss this feature of the
Kyle bill exhaustively.
L IS to be hoped that good working
postal savings scheme will be developed
i'll this country in the near future. While
it may not be needed to the degree that
it is in some foreign countries, it would
undoubtedly prove great public con-
venience and an inducement to more
general saving among persons of small
income. -Baltimor Herald.
The herald., 1894-05-16

committee of the whole WAS ended, the
committee arose, and at 1884 the bill
was passed.
The house then went into committee
OF the whole and the agricultural appro-
priation bill was taken up. After the
reading of the bill in full the COM
mittee rose in order to allow Dockery,
from the committee on appropriations,
to report to the mouse the legislative.
executive and judicial appropriation bill,
when the com mittee of the whole re
eumed its session.
At 4:l2 O'Clock general debate closed
on the dill and it was read by para
graphs for amendment. During the
reading OF the bill Reed took occasion to
make criticism on the evil of reading
bills at a railroad rate of speed. A
discussion between Reed, Hopkins
OF Illinois and Hatch WAS thus
started as an amusing, friendly debate,
but it soon degenerated into an angry,
personal discussion. Hopkins accused
Hatch of Juggling" salaries in the do
partment OF agriculture, when Hatch
angrily retorted that he would not allow
any such imputation on his action, and
he assured Hopkins that If he had
made any such remark outside the
house he would have had the words
rammed down his throat. 1t was some
time before the angry storn-cloud rolled
away from the herlzen.
No amendment sd been made in the
bill when at 5 Us the committee arose
and the house adjourned.
The herald., 1894-05-16
SHOT IN THE STOMACH.
DETECTIVE LEN HARRIS GETS A
FATAL WOUND.
While Attempting to Arrest a Would
be Station kobbor, the Latter
Shot the OGicer and
Escaped.

BOULDER CREEK, CAL, May 15.-About
s O'Clock tonight an attempt was made
to rob the station at this place by man
named Azoff. The man walked up to
the station agent and ordered him to
throw up his hands. which the agent
did. Detective Len Harris Of the South
ern Pacific service had previous infor-
nation that the attempt would be made,
and stepped cut OF a room in which he
was hiding and ordered the robber TO
surrender, but instead of obeying Azoff
turned and shot Harris in the stomach
and made his escape towards Los Gatos.
Harris wound will probably prove fatal.
Azoff has worked around here fer over a
year, bat short time ago lost his posi-
ten, and since then has besn doing
nothing.
The herald., 1894-05-16
THE OLD TAQUl WOMAN DEAD.
A Feature of the Midwinter Fair Passes
Away In Indian Fashion.


Away In Indian Fashion.
A visitor to the Midwlnter fair in San
Francisco says that the little old Taqui
woman at the Arizona Indian village,
who was said to be 10 years old, is dead.
Yet they say there sit was the new coun-
try that killed her, and the clothing" 1t
is not good for a Taqui to wear shoes,
and the women are sick when they feel
the tight dress across their shoulders.
She died just at sunset, which, the IL
dams say, is good sign.
Before she died they washed her face
and put on her shroud and carried her
out of her wigwam and laid her on the
bare ground, put stones under her head
and uncovered her neck and arms, be-
cause they said it was good she should
feel the fresh air for the last time on her
skin. When she had died, they put
cloth over her face, raised her arms high
over her chest and clasped her hands to-
gether and placed burning candle at
her head and one at her feet and began
to wall for her. All night the village
women walled around the body, and the
next day it was buried in Calvary ceme-
terry.
The herald., 1894-05-16
The Earth Has Eegun WabbIing.

Observations are to be made stimuli
taneously at Washington and at Manila,
in the Philippine islands, which is almost
directly opposite Washington on the
other side of the globe, to see what is
the matter with the axis of our planet.
Observations show that for some time
the earth has not been revolving on that
important if imaginary support, as she
has done for centuries, and scientists
have decided that it is time to find, if
possible, what it all means Those who
have studied the subject declare that if
the variations continue i'll the course OF
some very long and very indefinite peri
cd we shall have an arctic climate at
Washington, and the latitude Of every
place on the globe will be changed, and
our Biographies will be useless. An
equatorial telescope has been finished
and sent out to Manila, and before long
diligent inquiry will be made into the
why's and wherefores of the peculiar
performances of old mother earth
Washington Correspondent.
The herald., 1894-05-16
PEACE RES rORED.
The Great Northern strike Trouble Am
icably Adjusted.

The Great Northern strike Trouble AM
icably Adjusted.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 15.-All the differ
ences existing between the Great North
ern and its employees, growing out of
the recent strike, were am icably settled
tonight when the report of the arbitra-
ton committee was unanimously adopt
ed. 1t provides for the restoration of
the salaries OF certain employees of the
company, in accordance with the orig
inal proposition, and also that all
classes OF employees should be taken
back o work, including those charged
with the destruction of property or 10
the hands OF the law.
President Dshs and Vice President
Howard OF the American Railway union
arrived today and went into executive
session with ne Great Northern EN-.
ployees' committee.
The engineers in convention today
endorsed the cigarmakers' blue label,
The herald., 1894-05-16
Afraid of the Women.

Captain Joe Waters says in letter de-
Ginning to engage in a debate with the
Populist Women's club of Topeka; mo
power on earth is strong enough TO com
pei me TO dispute with woman. If any
of them desire to fight me, | at once dis
play flag Of truce and Internationally
surrender. AS a lawyer l carry this fur.
ther. Under no stress, no compulsion,
no apparently magnificent opportunity
for me to air my art, will I ever cross ex-
anime a woman who is witness against
me, and in this think have wisdom be
You'd Mr.. Butterworth. Chicago Her
aid,
The herald., 1894-05-16
THE FRENCH PRESIDENCY.
Some of the Candidates Who VIII Contend
For the Exalted Place In November.

The convention Of the two houses of
parliament for the election of president
of the French republic has been fixed for
Nov. 2 at Versailles. Besides Carnot,
whose position is not yet declared, there
are no less than eight active candidates.
They are:
NJ. Casimir-Perier, prime minister at
the present moment and highly favored
candidate.
NJ. Dupuy, speaker of the chamber. Ii
he reaches the Elysee, Vaillant's bomb
will have helped to send him there.
M. Challemel Lacour, president of the
senate.
NJ. Magrin, governor of the Bank of
France.
NJ. Meline of apostle protection.
Admiral Gervais, the figurehead of the
Freuch-Russian amenities.
The austere Brisson, who would get
the Radical Socialist vote.
Waldcck Rousseau, the Benjamin of
the Gambetta ministry, who, though out
of politics, is the chief luminary Of the
Paris bar.-Paris Correspondent.
The herald., 1894-05-16

A recent issue of The Medical Bulletin
printed the following remarkable offer:
Physicians desiring to obtain a subject
on which to observe the process of di-
gestion or other workings Of the vital Or
gan, or ON whom to try the effects of
poisons and their antidotes, may proba-
bly, do so by communicating with the ed
itor Of The Bulletin. Subject is unmar-
ried and not prevented by any ties or re-
sponsibilities from acting in this matter
as he chooses, and does not object to a
probable fatal termination of the affair.
The herald., 1894-05-16
Is This Libelous?

The editor of Natural Science eng
land) in its last issue makes this little
fling at the United States: Strange are
the ways of the American place hunter,
and strange, as we have noted before, is
the system under which scientific ap-
pointmentsa are made in the United States.
One of our transatlantic correspondents
complains that he has no time for scien-
tifc work. AT present, he writes, Il am
very busy, being engaged in politics, as
am a candidate before the Republican
convention for the nomination of state
geologist and have the most fattering
prospects. My only opponent is local
collector AS our friend might possibly
obtain the appointment, we have suffi-
cient regard for his reputation to sup
press his name"
The herald., 1894-05-16
Good Friday In Spain.

A curious Good Friday custom still
prevails in Spain. On that day the Span
ish sovereign pardons certain number
of criminals condemned to death, and
this year the queen regent reprieved
seven unfortunate men. Standing with
one hand on the petitions for mercy,
Donna Christina placed the other on a
crucifx and said solemnly, according to
formula, 81 pardon these men that God
may pardon me-" The news of the re-
prieve was then telegraphed to the cul-
prits -Nq.71.;,l o-+er
The herald., 1894-05-16
A Great deal OF Nonsense

A Great deal OF Nonsense
Has been written = and believed.
about Blood Purifiers.
WHAT
PURIFIEs THE BLooDf
THE KIDNEYS
PURIFY THE BLooDi
and they alone.
If diseased, however. they cannot,
and the blood continually becomes
more impure. Every drop of blood
in the body goes through the Kid
news, the sewers of the system, every
three minutes, night and day, while
life endures.
WARNER's SAFE CURE
puts the Kidneys in perfect health
and nature does the rest.
The heavy dragged out feeling
the bilious attacks, headaches, ner-
vous unrest, tickle appetite. all
caused by poisoned blood, will dis
appear when the Kidneys properly
perform their functions.
There ia no doubt about this.
Thousands have so testified. The
theory is right, the cure is right and
health follows ss natural sequence.
Be self-convinced through personal
proof.
The herald., 1894-05-16
A Coal Fam no at Das Moines.

DEs MONIES. May 10 The miners
strike here will close the electric light
works and leave the city in darkness in
the course of few days Much dam age
is also threatened to brick factories.
The mine operators are determined to
hold cut as long as the miners.
The herald., 1894-05-16
wilson. Return to Congress.

WASHINGTON, May l5.-The entrance
of Chairman Wilson of the ways and
means CO ~ mittee into the house for the
first time after his long illness, today,
WAS a signal for a spontaneous outburst
OF applause. In an instant the business
OF the house was suspended and mem.
bers hocked around the West Virginisn
on his return to congress and congratu-
late him on his recovery.
The herald., 1894-05-16

SALT LAKE, May 15.-The western
federation of the Miners union held the
opening session of their annual conven-
lion here this morning. The proceed
ings are behind closed doors. 1t is sup
posed the convention is considering the
beet mesne for securing proper recosni-
ton of the mining interests OF the west
Nearly all lie western states and terri
tories are represented
The herald., 1894-05-16
Kentucky Coal Strikers.

RUssELLvILLE. Ky, Nav 15.-Fiftsen
hundred miners in the coal fields OF
OHIO and Muhlsnberg counties struck
today. Non-union men seem to be
joining with the organized ers
This district represents over 81 per
cent OF the output of the entire western
field.
The herald., 1894-05-16
Amalgamat.d AssnciAtion.

CLEVELAND, May 15.-The convention
of the Amslgamated association of iron
and steel workers, after organizing and
appointing committees, proceeded in ex-
ecutive session to consider the wage
scale for the year beginning July 1st.
The herald., 1894-05-16

FRosrBURG, Md, May 15.-Owing to
the nine strike, 1900 men in this and
surrounding towns and many families
are on the verge OF suffering.
The herald., 1894-05-16

LONDON, May 15.-Five hundred cab
drivers of London met at midnight and
decided to strike against the exorbitant
charges for cab hire insisted upon by
the owners
The herald., 1894-05-16

There are undeliyered kilograms at
the Western Union telegraph Office,
corner Court and Main streets. May Is.
for M. G Hester, Louis Seinturier,
Rirdia Smith