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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19
James Vaughan Killed on
Thayer Street.
He Was a Line Man Engaged in
Removing Old Wires.
One OF Them Crossed n Live Wire and
He Received 2OOO Volts.

James Vaughan, aged 27, was instantly
killed, at 10:45 this forenoon by a live elec-
trio wire at the corner OF Thayer and
Meeting streets.
Vaughan was one of gang of 10 men
who were at work in that vicinity under
the supervision of Michael Shay. Vaughan
was ordered TO the top of a 55-foot pole
at the northeast corner of Thayer and
Meeting streets, and was hauling
wire from pole just below the south
east corner of the same streets, and IN
some way the wire fell upon one OF the
Narraganse,t Electric Lighting Co. wires
which made a circuit. Vaughan's COM
panions saw him lying in heap on the
bed OF wires at the top OF the pole, which
was the first intimation that they had
that anything had gone wrong. The
wire that did the death work was cut,
and Lee Woodward. one OF the linemen,
went to the top OF the pole and
cred TO the ground and the ambulance
called for, but upon its arrival the at
tending physician found there was no
use for ii.
Medical Examiner Palmer was called
and ordered the remains TO be taken
TO the undertaking rooms of Boyce
Brothers, on Weybosset street The body
was frightfully burned about the right
wrist and forearm, and back of the right
ear, as well as other parts of the body
Until the wire upon which Vaughan
had been at work was cut, the men could
not get near the wires which held the
body. and not less than 2000 volts took
effect upon the body Of the victim.
Charles Jackson, cousin of the dead
man, was asked why they allowed the
wire To fall upon the electric light
wire, and his reply was that
they did not give it thought.
Vaughan was single man, "a years old,
and boarded with Mrs. Kiltz, on Pine
street. He and his cousin, Jackson, had
been in the employ of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company since June
10. and came from Prince Edwards Island.
DR.. Palmer says that so far as he can
learn the death of Vaughan was acct
dental. He will take more testimony,
and may possibly report the case to the
coroner.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19
One of Them Captured Hero.

One week ago Saturday Dennis Linehan
and Thomas Nyland were raising distur-
bance in an electric car In Everett Mass.
aud were arrested by officer Keelly of that
place. The two men were handcuffed and
the officer was on his way 20 police box
when Dennis and Daniel O'Leary came 20
the rescue of the two prisoners. The officer
was handled in a very rough manner and -
now confined 20 his home. Dennis was shot
by the officer and now lies in dangerous
condition at the Maiden Hospital. In the
meanwhile Linehan and Nyland made their
escape. The latter was captured short
time afterward and Linehan was arrested
on Webster street in this city last evening ~
detectiye Reardon, and today was taken TO
Maiden by Captain Hewett Linehan - mar
ried and INLAND has a wife and four chidrlen
in ireland. All four Of the men are relatives.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19

II is not likely this season, when a spin
maker is hoisted on the Defender, that
there will be the valuable loss OF time
such as occurred whenever that maneuver
was performed on the Vigilant in the last
cup races English racing crews are so i'm
variably better drilled than ours that
many fear for the same exhibition OF
shortcomings in this respect 20 take place
-this year. But Mr. Iselin and Captain Han
feel otherwise. The most remarkable
feature OF the many on the new Herreshoh
creation Is the extent to which weight has
been reduced, not only in the hull but
also aloft, and yet, with all, not particle
Continued on Page 3.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19
IN VACATION.
But Little Going on i'm the Court
House These Days.

business is practically at a standstill at tho
County Court House just now, and were ~
not for the fact that the officers OF the various
courts are bound TO be around every day one
would suppose that the mills OF justice had
suspended their labOrs.
No potition.for new trial has yet been
fled In the kecgan case. There Is one phase
OF the hearing ON tho petition that will attract
attention, as the State, owing TO the filing OF
testimony by Keegan's counsel, which was
not taken by tho official sienogrHpher, viii
nave TO have copy Of the testimony made at
its own expense and there = likely, therefore,
20 he a warm contest over the testimony filed
when the case comes up for hearing before
the appellate division sometime after October
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19

miles to and around a stake boat, thence
10 miles TO the finish, turning the marks
OF the outside triangle to port or star
board according as the yachts are sent
around.
Starting and finishing lines. Will be
between point on the flagship Sylvia, in
dicated by white flag, and the main
mast of the lightship. The starting and
the outward and home courses respec-
lively. The new boat, the Defender, with
out a doubt is the most costly racing
craft ever constructed. Everything that
could in anyway suggest itself to the in
genious mind of her designer and
builder to further her chances as sue
cessful defender OF the most valued yacht
ing trophy in the world, was provided by
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19

Yacht Club and the course outside Sandy
Hook has been selected A cup valued
at 900 is offered for the winner with
hundred dollar cup for the second boat
IL four boats or more should start.
The race will begin at II n. IN and the
start will be made of Sandy Hook or the
Scotland ltghtship, as may be signaled.
The clubs regatta committee have
issued tfTu tUtfUwfuE- sutiiffg directions
Course No. From the starting line
20 and around n mar X 10 miles 20 wind
ward or leeward and return leaving mark
OF the starboard hand.
Course No Prom the starting line
10 miles to and around a mark, thence 10
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19
Tomorrow is Expected TO Demonstrate the Strong Points
of the Cup Defender.
The Race Will Begin O'clock and the Start viii Be Made Of Sandy
Hook Scotland Lghtship.
Winner with 500 Cup for the
Second

NEW YORK, July 19.-The races which
will he sailed off the lightships on tomor-
row and Monday it is agreed, will be the
first real trial between the successful
defender of the Americas cup in the 1913
races-namely the Vigilant, and the new
sloop, Defender, which is looked upon at
present as being, in all probability. the
Yacht which viii uphold America .
yachting honors in the races Win
Valkyrie III.
The so-called races so far between the
Colonia and the Vigilant and the latest
Herreshoff creation have been in no wise
true trests. The Colonia was and is In
far from racing form, her hull being very
foul while the Vigilant in single run
on last Sunday for few moments was IN
AN equally bad condition. No times were
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19

the syndicate that owns her, so that
Captain Half puts the boat across
the line tomorrow, at the start of the
first race on he may feel confident OF the
fact that, there is no likelihood OF any
accident happening to the Defender II
human forethought can prevent 1t.
The Defenders crew, very important
portion of the whole fabric, is a novelty,
inasmuch as they are Americans from
Deer Island, Me-, and have proved to be
a remarkably active and intelligent body
of men.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19

taken nor was there start or finish, ex-
cept for the fact that il was learned that
the new boat was remarkably quick in
stays and that even with the enormous
spread of canvas and tremendously
long main boom she was remarkably
stiif, the general pubic is as much in
the dark as ever regarding her true form.
The races tomorrow, therefore. will be
the first opportunity as yet presented for
getting cline on the real merits OF the
new boat. The races to be sailed to be
under the auspices of the New York
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19
The Girl Was Foxy.

DIR. q. l.. Collins and his family, OF 2
Congdon street, went out ls,t evening,
and during their absence man called
and told the servant girl that Mr.. Carpen-
ter OF Cooke street had sent him TO borrow
a silver ladle and some othes silver dishes,
but he didn't get them, as the girl-hought
that Mr. Carpenter had all that he needed
i'm that line.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19
WATER TOWER TRIAL,
Fire Departments Pet Machine Does
Good Work.

There was trial OF the fire department =
water tower on Kingsley avenue this fore
noon, and the results We're extrem, ly
gratifying to Chief Steere and the com
missioners, who witnessed the exhibition.
The tower was first operated by Engine 2
and the reserve engine and threw two
inch stream 160 feet and then with the
same nozzle, but with four hydrants in
stead of the engine, a reach of 100 feet was
obtained. The tower was operated at all
the various angles in which IL is capable
of being directed and the men showed
great proficiency in handling IT,
THE SAME DOCUMENT.
The annual report OF the Fire Depart
ment, a comprehensive summary OF which
was published I'm The NEWS last Janu-
airy, came from the printers yesterday
afternoon.
Tennis and Sporting shoes.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19
Announcement.

of a cut price sale Is a sufficient guarantee to
those who have formerly attended our SHles.
n. r. BALLOU, IL heyb0sset street
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19

Mrs. J. r. Cowper and family Of East
Providence. have gone to Cleveland >ot-
tage, Prospect Hill, Douglas, Mass, i"'
the summer.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19

The office windows OF the new police
station on Fountain street, have been
decorated with awnings.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19
We Are Now Selling

Russet ana summer Shoes at special cut
prices. n. r. BALLOU, ~ Weybossot street.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19
Tan Shoes.

For all ages at cut prices.
f. L. BALLOU, III Weybosset street.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19
Tennis and Sporting shoes.

For all ages. at cut prices.
r.. Il. BALLOU, iH Weybossot street
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-19

"Heip Wanted" 1c.a word.
1-2c. con-
TO Let" Ads, tisuance.
~Situations Wanted" 1-2c.
word.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-27
THE PRICE OF WHEAT.
A Question of Fact.

We have received the following let
ter:
CoRCoRAN, Mimi, Jan. %, '95.
II ON. IGNATIUs DoNNELLY.
DEAR SIR:-As l have had several
discu ssions lately concerning the diff
ference in the price of wheat between
here and Liverpool,-I would like to
have you settle one point in which we
cannot agree. When wheat sells in
minneapolis or Duluth at 60 cents per
buShel, the same grade will be quoted
the same day in Liverpool at say, 5s.
3D.. difference Of over sixty cents a
DuShel, which cannot all be accounted
for as freight. l claimed that their
DuShel was the same as ours, but one
OF my opponents cOntended that the
English buShel was one hundred
pounds, which would of course, make
great difference in my argument.
SO far | have beaten in argument
all the Republican and Democrats
around here, in points between the
parties and If l am wrong l want to
know 1T before doing any more talk
Ing on the subject, but if am right
hope that you will make this great
dlfference in price the subject of one
of your stirring editorials in the REP
RESENTATIvE.
inns Is a very conservative place,
but from only two votes cast two
years ago for the Peoples Party. the
number raised, last fall to forty-six,
Ia which take part Of the credit to
myself, being the only active Populist
here. The farmers around here are
beginning at last, to shake themselves
loose from party ties and if you would
make this wheat robbery more clear
to them, it would help the cause won
derfully, bringing the subject home
to their own pockets.
Ii you do not care to take this SUBJ
ject up in the REPRESENTATIVE I
will enclose stamp for a personal re-
ply, simply answering my questions.
Yours for the cause
WM M. DELLEs.
Burschville, MINI.
The English bushel is the same as
the American bushel; but as we do
not have the English newspapers we
cannot say whether the market report
referred to meant bushels or hun
dreds of pounds. We scarcely think
however that there can be 60 cents
difference between the price of wheat
in Minneapolis and Liverpool. We
would be glad to hear from some of
our correspondents who are better
posted.
The President of the Alliance, Mr..
Vermilya, would do we'll to thorough
ly Investigate this matter and give
his conclusions to the public. Wheat
is generally sold in England by "the
quarter" The question is a compli-
Gated one, for it is difficult to find just
what kind Of wheat is meant in the
Mark Lane market reports. Certain
ly the average wheat sold in England
is far inferior to our No. | hard; and
it is doubtful if any Of our No hard
reaches Liverpool unmixed with in
ferior grades. Let us hear from Mr.
Bodkin also, president of the Wheat
Growers Association. We want to
get at the facts-the absolute facts.
l. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-27
THE BOY LIED.
Interest On GreenbackS.
We have received the following let

We have received the following let
ter:
MINNEAPOLIs, 2, 18. '95.
DEAR SIR:-Please allow me Just a
few words. The Minneapolis Times OF
Sunday, Feb. II, says that it has cost
the government or the people $685.
100000 in interest to maintain the
greenbacks. / would like to know how
they make that out? / would like
very much to know about that, would
you please let us know? Respectfully,
A POPULIST.
There is story told of little boy
who said to gentleman:
''You see that little girl. That lit
tie girls father is my father, and that
little girls mother is my mother
but that little girl is no relation Of
mine."
The gentleman cudgelled his brains
for some time in vain over the puzzle.
The solution was easy enough the
Joy lied!
That is the answer to good many
of this worlds conundrums; and it ex-
plains the foregoing statement of the
Times; in fact it answers three
fourths of all the editorials of the old
party papers.
How could the greenbacks cost the
people $l35, 100000, or any other sum,
for interest? They we're issued di
rectly by the government, in payment
OF its liabilities, to it's own citizens,
and have ever since passed from hand
to hand like gold or silver. Where
could the interest come in?
How different from national bank
notes, which are the property of bank
ing corporations. Not dollar of
their money can get across the coun-
ter until some man comes up, with
good security, and borrows it, and
agrees to pay interest on it, at I. 8, or
10 per cent; in addition to the interest
paid by the public on the national
bonds on which the notes are based.
And when A. B. borrows $1,000 of
those bank notes, and comes up at the
end ,of 80, 60 or 80 days and pays his
principal and interest, the bank turns
around and lends the same money out
again to c. D., not perhaps the same
identical notes, but their equivalent
in silver, gold or other paper-money.
So that every dollar of bank notes in
circulation is constantly bearing in
terest, compounded every sixty or
ninety days.!
And this is the cause of all the fight
in our poiitics;-the banks want no
paper money in existence but their
own; they want to assess the whole
people and all their varied forms of
industry for their own benefit. Why
don't they apply the same system to
postage stamps? I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-27

cess OF paper issue. It was founded
on nothing but patriotism. It was
Over-lssued and largely cOunterfeited,
and was thus brought to the point Of
worthlessness. Yet when ut failed, it
left the common people in better con-
d1tlOn than before the paper was is
sued. The Continental currency
found our fathers at war with the
longest purse and one of the greatest
nations of Europe. They had no mon
ey nor any of the usual means of float
ing paper currency; but they did the
Lest they could in the emergency.
The paper failed, of course, but it
carried the country through five of the
most perilouS years of the war; and in
1881, Albert Gallatin, formerly secre-
tary Of the treasury under Presidents
Jefferson and Madison, said: cit can
not be denied that it saved the coun-
try"
Observe that England was seeking
to destroy our paper-money in 1880
just as she is seeking to destroy it in
1895. And the ''powe1 of gold' was
invoked then to enslave US, just as it
is now.
1t is plain also that no comparison
can be instituted between the paper
issued by the Continental Congress, of
1850, representing 100000 people,
without legal-tender power, and the
legal-tender paper money that could
be issued by 7O,OOO.00O people, possess
ing one Of the great subdivisions of
the earth's surface, and rich beyond
all the nations Of the earth. And yet
you cannot talk ten minutes to
banker, or an old-party politician, on
the money question, but he will ele-
yate his wise eyebrows, and his intel
ligent nose, and refer you to the Con-
tinental currency, of which 1000
would not, at the close of the revolu-
tionary war, buy breakfast.
These are the shallow sophis tries
with which it is sought to arrest the
progress of mankind. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-27
USURY.
Another Decision.

Judge Start, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court, has handed done an
other decision on the Usury question
which merits approval. Here is the
syllabus:
civilian F. Phelps. respondent, VS..
Thomas j. Montgomery, appellant.
Syllabus-1. Evidence considered
and held to sustain the finding of the
trial court that the promissory notes
in question in this case are usurious.
2. The rule of evidence in usury
cases is the same as in any other civil
action. All that is required is fair
prepOnderance Of evidence to estab-
lish the fact of usury. There is no de-
vice or shift on the part of the lender
to evade the statute, under or behind
which the law will not look, in order
to ascertain the real character of the
transaction: following Luskens VS..
Hazlett, 81 Mimi, AL. Order affirm
ed. Start, G. j..
In this case the money-lender not
only charged the highest rate Of in
terest permitted by law, but COM
PEELED the borrower to give him 81 POO
Of stock in mine. The Supreme
Court set aside the loan as void and
compelled the lender to hand back
the mining stock and the collaterals.
And SO human greed is again re-
strained, Good. Judge Start is an
able man and an honest one.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-27
A Choice of Evils.

And now it is reported that the
plutcratic Democratic Congress is to
be succeeded on the 4th Of March by a
plutocratic Republican Congress.
"From the devil and all his works
good Lord deliver us!'
The country will feel like the boy
down in southern Illinois. He was
sitting on a fence, where the road
forked. The mud was knee
deep A weary traveller on
tired horse limped slowly up and stop
ped.
"Boy," said he, (which of these
roads goes to Bungtown?"
"B-B-Both," said the boy ,stuttering
badly.
(Which road had I better take?"
asked the traveller.
"MMMister," said the boy solemn
ly, "do you s-s-s-sce that road?"
"Yes;' replied the traveller.
"Well, M minister if you t-t-take
that road you'll w-w-wish you was in
h-I'
"Then." said the alarmed traveller,
81 will take this road"
"MM-Mister," was the reply, 'if
you t-t-take that road you'll w-w-wish
you'd t-t-took the other one."
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-27
THE REAL CAUSE.
Keeping Money Out of the Coun.
try.-NOt the Populists.

we nave had a great outcry that
fopullst success ruined Kansas, Ore
gon, Colorado, ETC., by creating such
ulstrust among foreign investors, as
TO prevent money being sent there
from abroad. Read this and see what
the truth really is:
line London correspondent of the
new YORK Sun cables his paper as fol-
| lows:
'''The failure to punish the criminal
mlsmanagement Of the railroad and
oIner great corporations in America
IS having disastrous effect upon the
English view of the American sense Of
honor. There can be no revival of
English interests in this class of in
veStments until at least some meas
ure is adopted in the United States
1or the punishment of railway
thleves. An Englishman sees public
conscience practically Indifferent to
the matter, and naturally concludes
that the lack of commercial honor has
Become national charac teristic."
This is in line with what the con-
sular agents of the United States
have been reporting for some time
from nearly all the European money
centers, and in a great measure, il
not altogether, this is the reason Of
SO much unloading of our railway Sc
curlties and the withdrawal Of gold
the last year or so. The exposure of
the almost fathomless rottenness of
the system, following as it did SO close
upon the heels of the Northern
Pacific exposure, added very much to
the existing suspicion, and it is not
at all surprising that the honor and
integrity of at least some managers Of
american railway properties is queS-
toned by foreign investors.
That foreign holders of American
railway securities have been deliber-
ately robbed of untold millions there
is not the shadow of doubt. The
Erie was the first to lead off on lines
OF direct and contemplated fraud and
every year since has added to the
number of swindling corporations.
And now II these securities are COM
ing back to be sold for what they will
bring and if the experience of the
holders of them is taken as a warning
In Europe to put no faith in the man.
ayers or railways the fault is wholly
our own.
The railways of the United States
are capitalized at over $11 900, ,OOO. 900,
anu Is odIc w Say UndU Iully one
third of it represents nothing but the
propensity of promoters of railway en-
terprise to rob and plunder innocent
investors, and Europe is justified in
ques tioning the integrity Of people
who do not make such business opera
tionS penitentiary offense. But this
sort of thing will go on until a railway
means that not before the share
capital has been paid in full and the
road ballasted, equipped, and in oper-
alton, with ample terminal and inter-
mediate stations shall bond or addi-
tiOnal stock be issued. This is the on
ly way swindling railway enterprises
can be prevented.-Omaha World
Herald.
1t appears from this that the very
things the Populists complained Of
dishonesty, robbery, watcred stock
and all the rest-have been the real
causes of the decline in American
credit abroad; not the effort of the
Peoples Party to stop rascality and
make the people prosperous I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-27
MTNN NFSnAV

oarlsm, universal wars,-leading US at
last into the primeval cave, where the
troglodyte sits, cracking the bones Of
MS human victim, to extract the mar
row for his dreadful banquet.
Forward-forward-God is behind
us pressing us on; and through tur-
mol and trouble we advance to
heights of development undreamed of
Dy our ancestors. Forward-forward
brother Smalley; and don't kick
backward, like reluctant mule,
when the Divine command fills all
space, like a trumpet blast, and every
trembling wavering thrill of its voice
cries,-FOrward! I'D.