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The advocate., 1895-02-06

In response 20 my Arblol0 ia blS WOrIQ
Of December u, I received letters from
several different states in the Union. All
the writer's feared the results OF the then
approaching ST. Louis conference; feared
an effort would be made TO sidetraCk the
party on the silver 16 to l issue. We
are safely past the peril without dis
grace, but it is due the people to know
the inside of the matter. It is clear the
conference was called in pursuance Of
plans laid at the silver conference" at
st. Louis about one month before. No
one acknowledged the responsibility of
having called the conference, but the ma
tionsl chairman. He declared himself
OK oficio chairman Of the conference.
When called to order il was proposed the
national committee and the Visiting
friends," Rs all not members were cRlled,
should 60 into executive session" and
the reporters be put out. This proposi-
tion was lost. The next proposition was,
the chairman should appoint q commit.
tee Of ten to formulate an "Rddress to
the country" l moved to amend that
motion by making il q committee Of
thirty, to be appointed by the confer
ence or national committee. This amend
msnt was carried but the chairman
failed to announce 1t one way or the
other. By this time it was clear to the
little Coteris who had undertaken it,
that no cut and dried program could be
carried out.
The chairman then called q meeting
Of the executive committee composed Of
nine members of the national committee.
They reported an order OF business; un.
seated Mr.. Taubeneck "a chairman OF
the conference and directed him to call
q meeting of the national committee, to
whom any address should be submitted
before it was issued. The national com
mittes, however, was not called till Sat
urdey at 2 .. m. When called the chair
man appointed sub committee OF the
national committee to meat with q like
committee appointed by the conference,
10 all ten, to formulate the "address." "
The national committee called to meet
and declared to be in executive session,
was outside OF locked doors, OF a com
mittee on address, not permitted to take
any part in formulating an address to be
issued in their name, The whole thing
from beginning to end was managed"
and was q travssty upon parliamentary
usage and proceedings.
The address was finally submitted to
the committee between 4 and O'clock
on Saturday evening; too late to make
any change therein. The address has
been published.
In the meantime the tide was riaing
higher and higher and higher against
the silver issue, until its champions saw
they dare press their pre- j ,Ct no further.
The truth is, our party barely escaped
actual Disgrace and peril in that SO called
conference.
The purpose was to adopt in substance
the Iowa conference resolution on the
money question. It would then DO as.
sumed by that influence that silver, l6
to /, was the money question" ;" and the
dominant one, for the next two years,
and then it would be in position to side.
track our party on that question in 1896.
The advocate., 1895-02-06
The Most Modern Method.

II you would rather be a stFaggleF than
succsssful in the poultry business you have
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LATER NEvia.

+. w. CAssETT, the Pella 0o.) bank
wrecker, plead guilty the 18th and was
given nine years in prison.
The miners of Ishpeming and Ne
gawnee, Mich, decided the 18th to
strike for higher wages.
DIR. A. L. ADAMS, of Ardmore, l. r.,
the night of the 18th, raistook his wife,
who was attending a sic'- chi \, for a
burglar and shot her through the heart,
killing her instantly.
The new yacht Defender for the sec
ond time, the 18th, outsailed the Vigil
liant, which won the international race
last year. The Defender will race
against the British yacht Valkerie.
TWENTY freight cars were thrown
down an embankment on the Pittsburg,
Akron & Western railroad at Carey, O.,
the 18th. An oil tank exploded, setting
fire TO the wreck, which was complete
ly destroyed. A tramp who was riding
on the train was burned to death.
BURNEY BIRD, the st. Paul eyclist,
won the two-mile handicap race at Ash
bury Park. y. j., the 18th. The prize
was $500 horse, carriage and harness.
ANN Arbor railroad officials have as
sented to a proposition made by Toledo.
o., sporting men to allow the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight to take place on
their two big transfer boats, used for
ferrying loaded trains across Lake
Michigan. + ch is 26o feet wide. and
the plan is to have the two boats dashed
together. so that 1000 people could wit
ness The fight. The Toledo projectors
of the scheme are now in communica-
tion with he hackers of the two ath-
letes.
GAIT. Porter of the secret service de-
partment the 18th raided a plant in
Chicago in which spurious coins were
being made by an Italian gang and
captured Pasquela Getrofela, his son
aud also one named Mario.
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HAVE SOME FEARS.
Conservatives APprehensive of the Rapid
Business Flood.

NEW YORK, July 15,-R. G. Dun &
Co in their weekly review of trade.
saws:
"A business food so strong and rapid that
the conservatives fear 1t may do harm. is out
OF season In July. But the seasons this year
lap over and crowd each other. May frosts and
frights. IL is now evident. kept back much
business that would naturally have been
finished before midsummer aud the delayed
elimination OF one season gets In the way Of
Efforts TO begin another on time. But the vol
uTne OF business however. 1t may be meas
ured. is remarkably large for the month
The week has been notable for a sensa-
tional fall In wheat Of eight cents in two days.
followed by recovery Of five cents The sud-
den drop in prices was the result OF specu-
lative rather than commercial influences
The latest news indicates enormous
crop OF corn, much the largest ever grown II
weather favors, but the price Is only &C lower
than week ago Cotton has not changed.
though speculation still turns wholly on pros
poets, regardless of enormous stocks carried
over In Europe the manufacture lags. but
here it is satisfactory
The weekly output OF pig iron was III .le<
tons, having risen 1890 tons in June and
other furnaces have gone into operation since
July 4 The rapid rise in prices has brought
| into operation many additional works, and
there is still rush to buy before prices ad-
vance further. influential manufacturers are
sending out warnings that the rise may easily
do mischief and prices have in fact advanced
nearly per cent in two weeks, but are still
IS per cent. lower than In October. ls9!
Wool is still advancing. with enormous
sales Cotton goods continue active and
strong. IL is not the season for activity in
/ boots and shoes and orders have fallen OF
/ Prices of shoes. leather and hides are stifi
as ever. Foreign trade is not quite as ercour-
aging, exports for July showing a large de-
/ crease.
The failures for the first four days OF July
show liabilities of 81 .25s 500. of which sSs6.45i
were OF manufacting and 1902 0e5 of trading
| concerns Failures this week have been 253 in
the United States. against 2i7 last year. and y
/ in Canada aoafnSt last
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THE EAST.

IL the Casino building at Atlantic
City, y. j., the collapse of a floor dur
ing a social session of the National
Lodge of Ellxs resulted n the death Of
one man and injuries more or less Sc
we're 10 POD other persons.
Is Boston the fourteenth annual con-
ventiou Of the Young Peoples Society
of Christian Endeavor was formally
opened with simultaneous meetings
held in twenty churches.
IN the new city directory of New
York there are 339.l2s names, an in
crease from last year of HIT.
RESOLUTIONS We're adopted at the
annual meeting in Saratoga of the New
York State Bankers association oppos-
ing the free coinage of silver.
AT Clayton, y. V. fifteen OF the
finest buildings were burned, the loss
being $4,000.
At smith Mills, n. J., Daniel Acl1er-
man stabbed his wife and himself
fatally with his pOcket-knife.
JOHS kEEGAN, aged & years, George
+. Rippet, aged :, and John MeGuil.
aged .. were drowned at Slatersville.
X. l., while fishing.
At Chapel Hin, y. Y. John Hoch, an
ex-convict. killed Minnie Ingersoll.
aged I6, fatally shot y. p. Strife and
shot himself. Minnie refused to re-
ceive his attentions.
N Philadelphia g. L. Hahn, whole
sale dealer in boys and mems cloth
ing made an assignment, with liabili-
ties of sos. 0O0.
The rolls of the Catholic Total Alb
stinence union of America have been
opened tn all denominations.
The chief business event of impor-
tance at the Christian Endeavor meet
ing in Boston on the 18th was the
formation Of the World Christian En-
desvor union. to meet triennially.
Is the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the week
ended on the 18th We're: baltimore.
sec; Pittsburgh, SIS, Boston. $50: Gin
cinuati. 500; Cleveland. $50; Chicago.
.555; Philadelphia, .5fs; Brooklyn, .55s;
New York. 500; Washington, 400; st.
Louis. .33s; Louisville, 100.
AT Cherry Hill, y. j.. a tornado
made twenty-five families homeless
and killed three persons.
ELIZABETH RANKIN, wife of Hugh
Rankin. of Pittsburgh, gave birth to
four children, three male and one
female
BUILDINGS were demolished by a tor
nadO at Wood Haven, l.. l., and one
woman was killed and a number of
men, women and children were in
jured more or less seriously.
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The News Of the Week.
~ TELEGRAPH ~ -
FROM WASHINGTON.

july returns TO the statistician of
the department of agriculture in Wash
ington by he correspondents thereof
make the following averages Of condi-
tons: Corn. 81: winter wheat, g.. ;;
spring wheat, 1922; oats. $50; winter
rye. SD; spring rye, =; all rye, so :;
barley. 9l.9: rice, S44; potatoes, Sl.5;
tobacco, $50.
THE official returns show that 250,0
immigrants landed in this country dur
ing the last twelve months.
EXPORTS of provisions during June
amounted to sli. 1874, s67. loss for the
month of about S5,250,OO0. For the
entire year the exports of provisions
amounted to $50. I69, as, a loss of
about SIS. O0e. 600
RECEIPTS at the United States treas
ury thus far this month aggregate s1O,-
s79.O 900 and the expenditures se3.3ls,-
OOO, making the deficit sl2. $500
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the l2th aggregated
lac, as3, $50. against s975, g9I,944 the
previous week. The inc. ease, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was 295.
IL the United States there We're 253
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 18th. against psf the week
previous and 247 in the corresponding
time in 1891.
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A FIRE .monr business houses at

A FIRE among business houses at
OsceOla, Ia. caused a loss of sl75.O00
THE senior editor of the Christian
Advocate, Rev. DIR. McAnally, died in
St Louis, aged IS years
AFTER a fast of sixty-eight days, A.
VI. Kennedy. II years old, died in Nor
ris county, Kan. His tongue, lips and
throat were paralyzed.
a FREAK of nature that can be Wit
messed on farm near Sailor Springs,
Ill. is a pear tree loaded with apples.
IL a crazy fit Mrs. ]. Delay, of Anna
wan. Ill, killed her two children, aged
3 and wears. with a natchet
FIRE destroyed a grain elevator at
indianapolis with its contents, the loss
being 500, 900.
THE bank at Cloverdale, Ind, closed
its doors
A RECEIVER was named for the Camp
bell Commission company of Chicago,
with branch offices in st. Louis, Kan
sas City and Omaha. The liabilities
were ss50.O0O.
WHILE insane w. n. Bender. of Gin
cil natl. burned up SIS, 900 in cash and
81. .25O in United States bonds.
The oldest circus horse in the coun-
try, Ginger, aged "a years, died at Gin
cinnati.
wITH a child in her arms, which was
asleep, Mrs John Cooper. of Trav-
erse City, Mich, was found dead in
her rocking-chair.
ESGINEER Al HoRNER and Fireman
John Dcvine were killed in a wreck on
the Texas Pacific road near Handley,
Tex.
TIE National Furniture association
in session at 1T. Louis resolved against
handling prison-made goods.
FIRE destroyed William Lanahan's
country home stables near Baltimore,
six valuable horses being lost.
In Chicago one of the biggest gangs
of counterfeittrs that had operated in
the United States for many year was
found. They had been making silver
quarters and half dollars and 81. 81
! and s. hills ny tho Wholesale.
MARY HUXLEY, Cora Pace (colored)
and Lewis Stewart, confined in the
Owsley county (Ky.) Jail for immoral
ity, were taken out by a mob and
given 100 lashes each.
FLORA and Mary Tomasch, who ac-
companied an excursion from Cleve-
land to Chippewa lake, were drowned
/ by the capsizing of a rowboat.
Two NEGROES were hanged by eighty
sfve men at Hampton. Ark, for killing
a white man two weeks ago.
JESSIE ROBINSON. aged 90, of Indian
apolis, will ride bicycle from Chicago
to the city Of Mexico. 1900 miles. She
will start August 10, will ride alone,
and has wagered to make the run in
thirty-eight days.
THE death of Frederick Remain,
congressman from the Eighteenth llli-
nois district, occurred at his home in
4 Nandalia, aged IS years
NEAR South Haven, Mich, the yacht
Arctic capsized and Messrs. Coates
and Stilson, builders of the yacht, and
II. ;. Ellsworth, the owner, were
drowned.
FLAME destroyed the large passen-
ger steamer Cibela, of the Niagara
Navigation company. at Leadstone,
n y, the loss being $3.50, 900.
MARSHALL GARNER and Isaac Huff
man. two young farmers in Shelby
county, Ky, killed themselves with
knives in a fight.
FoREsT fires in northern Michigan
were dying out. The loss to property
thus far was over 5000. 900.
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THE TEACHERS.
Convention at Denver Elects Ohicers snd
Adopts Resolutions.

DENVER, Col, July l3.-The follow
ing officers of the National Education
al association for the coming year
were elected Thursday morning:
President. D C Dougherty, Peoria, Ill; Sec
rotary. Edwin Sheppard Winona. MINI. treas
urer. l. c Mcneil, Kansas City. Mo;
first vice president, II Butler. New
York city; second. Mrs ]. Peavey,
Colorado. third. w. r. Bartholomew, Louis
vile, XIV; fourth N C. Schae fer. Harrisburg.
Pa; fifth. W NJ Sheetz. Tallahassee, Fla;
sixth, Henry Sabin Des Moines. Ia; seventh.
f r. McElroy. Portland Ore: eighth. C. G..
Purse. Beatrice, Neh; ninth. II r Pettingill.
Ann Arbor, Mich; tenth. r. II. Halsey, Madi-
son. Wis; eleventh. ]. f. Talmage. Salt Lake.
Utah; twelfth, Miss Estelle Beel, Cheyenne,
Wye.
The general subject under discussion
in the morning was The Duty and
Opportunity of the Schools in Piomot-
ing Patriotism" and it provoked many
enthusiastic expressions from the
teachers, which were warmly APP
plauded.
DENVER, Col, July Is. = At Friday
evenings session of the National Edu-
catioual association convention the
committee on resolutions made its re-
port. President-El Dougherty was
formally installed in office after which
the convention adjourned sine die. A
synopsis of the resolutions committee
report follows:
1t Endorsed the cotton exposition; the move
ment in favor OF patriotic instruction and the
national bureau OF education; the administra-
tion of the association was commended; the
governments efforts to educate the Indians
was Endorsed. as was Commissioner Mailman S
proposition regarding tnem.
Departments of natural science,
physical training and school officers
were added to the association work.
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BIG RESERVOIR GIVES WAY.
Council Bluffs startIs.i by the sound
Man Fatally Injured.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, July l5.-The
collapse of an artificial reservoir con-
tanning large quartity of water at
the corner of Main and Sixth
streets destroyed considerable prop
erty and probably fatally injured
j. A. Kellar, an engineer. The
theory advanced by some OF the mem
bers of the fire department. is that the
constant jarring of the engines, and
perhaps the movement of the water,
gradually weakened the walls of the
building. AT noon Sunday the neigh
bors for block AROUND were startled
bv a crash and found chat the walls of
the engine room "a distance of
perhaps 20 feet lsy with hardly
one brick on top ii another The
roof had caved in and the reservoir
was pouring out il contents in a
flood. So suddenly tad the crash cor e
that Engineer kella"lid not have time
to get out. A big irsn waterpipe fell
in such way as to nd Ike sort of arch
way over him. lie was nearly drowned
by the flood. His body was a mass OF
bruises from head to- foot,
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AUGUST SILVER CONFERENCE.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, Tells Why 1t
Was Called.

Senator Jones, of Arkansas, Tells Why 1t
Was Called.
WASHING TON. july 10 Senator Jones,
of Arkansas, who joined with Senators
Harris and Turpie in issuing a call for
a conference of silver democrats in
Washington August Is, has written
letter to friend in Washington ex-
planning the origin of the call and the
purposes of the meeting. He says:
AT Memphis, after the adjournment OF the
meeting there, a number OF democrats from
different states had meeting at the Gayoso
hotel, and after consideration that meeting
requested Sen tors Harris furpie and me
to take steps to organize the silver demo-
Gratis so that they should be fairly
represented in the next national convention.
We concluded that the best waysto do this was
to first organize "a national central committee
of silver democrats. consisting of one or more
members for each state, and let these
members look after the organization of
their own states To select gentlemen
Tor membership of this committe by cor
respondence seemed SLOW; hence it was
concluded to invite one or more gentlemen Of
character ami experience from eacn state to
meet in Washington and select, If they thought
well of it, this central committee, This is all
there is of 1t as understand
The general impression seems to have
gone out that this conference was to
be a mass-meeting. Senator Jones
statement puts it in different light.
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WOODS ABLAZE.
News from the Scene of Michigan's For
est Fires.
5. National league:

DETROIT, Mich, July IA special
20 the journal from Thompsonville,
Mich, says: Forest fires are still rag
ing north and south of here. Wallin,
she small town miles north that was
swept by fire Thursday, presented
desolate appearance Friday morning. A
Mrs. Griffin and her three small children
wrapped in bed clothes were found
buried in the sand in a very precarious
condition. The fire had swept over
them and scorched them severely.
Johnnie Payne, a boy s years of age,
was found in the Betsey river with the
FIRE raging on both sides of him. The
little fellow had lain in the stream all
night. So far there has been no
actual loss of life reported, although
some three or four persons are reported
missing. The town of Clary, which
was said to have been destroyed, is
thought tn be safe, as the residents had
pack-fired on all sides.
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TO TALK OF MONEY.
Roswell G.. Horr and W. III. Harvey q
Discuss Finance for Ten Days.

Roswell G.. Horr and W. III. Harvey to
Discuss Finance for Ten Days.
CHICAGO, July 15.-Hon. Roswell G.
Horr, of New York, will begin Tuesday
in this city ten days silver debate
with w. Ii. Harvey, author OF Coins
Financial school" The debate will
begin at , p. IN. in the parlors
of the Illinois club and will con-
tinue three hours daily. Neither dis
putant is allowed more than loo
words in any one answer or state
ment. The controversy will be run
ming fight at close range, taken by
stenographer and given to the press
daily. The topics agreed on are:
Money. What is it?" The Law of
1873" Ratio and Bimetallism,
Money and Its Relation to Credit,
Wages. Prices and Debts and closing
with lis 1t Advisable for the United
States to Act Independently on Ratio
of 10 to -" Both disputants have been
preparing for the contest for the last
O.; ,xaalrS
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roREiGN INTELLIGENCE.

Az extensive conspiracy against the
life of the car of Russia was discov-
cred near Moscow and the police ar
rested eight of the conspirators
IN the Yaqui river valley in Mexico
Manuel Perara, a cattleman, and his
son and three cowboys were killed by
Indians.
Is the race at London for the grand
challenge cup the first heat was won
by the Cornell crew of Ithaca, n. "a
SECTIONS of train bearing pilgrims
to the shrine of st. Anne de Beaupre
in Que bee collided at Craig's Road, and
thirteen persons, including three
priests. were killed and twenty-nine
injured.
ONE caisson of a big bridge at Mage
named, Egypt, collapsed and forty
wOrkmen persisted.
FROM st. Johns, \. F., the steamer
Kite sailed with the Greenland scien-
tific expedition to relieve Lieut.. Peary.
In the Caspian and Ural districts of
Russia severe earthquake shocks oc-
Cured and many houses were destroyed
at Usunada, Astrachan and Krasno-
vodsk.
In the trial heats for the grand chal-
lenge cup in London Cornell was beaten
by the Trinity Hall Cambridge eight.
Is the Montezuma district of Sonora,
Mexico. six men were executed for
completely in a series of robberies
BY collision between two immi-
grant trains at San Pablo, Argentina,
fifteen persons were killed and thirty
injured.
by a cloudburst in the mountains
above Taulapantia, Mexico, six lives
were lost.
THE death of Rev. DIR. Clark, an
American missionary to Siam and an
intimate adviser of the king, occurred
in Siam. lie had been there twenty
two years.
AT Guanajayabo, Cuba, four negroes
murdered a groccryman and his wife
and three daughters and a brother-in-
law.
THE tories secured an overwhelming
victory in the British elections. The
most notable event was the defeat of
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, the lib
eral leader in the house of commons
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ENGLISH ELECTIONS.
Sir william Hsrcourt, the Liberal Leader.
Badly Defeated.

LONDON, July l5.-Sir William Har-
courts defeat in Derby is the sensation
in political circles 1t is admitted
on all sides that the liberals
are beginning very badly. of 10
members thus far elected ninety-six
are unionists, ten liberals and four
ParDellites. Eight liberal seats have
been captured by the unionists, and
the radicals have captured one union
ist seat, that at Perth. The moral effect
of Sir William Harcourt's defeat will
be great, as even the most sanguine
conservative did not expect liberal
majority of 1900 TO be converted into
a .unionist majority of l,1O0. Sir Will
liam Harcourt's defeat is generally at
tributed to the prominence which he
gave to the local veto or local option
measure.