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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-01
THE KENTucI<Y pEApLocz.

FRANKFORT, KY, Feb. 29.-Per-
haps the biggest crowd of the session
saw the joint assembly ballot for sena-
tor today The call of the roll showed
$50 members present; necessary TO
choice, Sc.
1t was stated that Senator Black
burns friends intended to force the
balloting and try to elect their candi-
date. AT the conclusion of roll call
representative Lyons arose and read
a communication from DR. Hunter, in
which he withdrew from the race. He
said, among other things, that az the
session was drawing to a close he
would absolve the members of his
party from their pledge to vote for
him as the caucus nominee.
The ballot was then ordered called.
1t resulted: Blackburn, 81; Bennett, &;
Burnam, 6; S. H. Stone, 8; Deboe, z;
Holt, 8; Finley. Z; Pratt, 2; Dyche, 1;
Hunter, 4 Worthington. 2: Blanford,
8; Buckner, 5; Carlisle, L; Farleigh, l;
rest scattering.
The joint assembly then adjourned.
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VICTORIA. B. c.. Feb. 29-The Iasg
week of January of this year will long
be remembered by residents of the Aus
tralian colonies by reason of the fact
that it witnessed the most terrible gales
and floods ever known on the Queensland
coast. large number Of vessels vera
wrecked and entire villages destroyed,
the damage ashore alone being estimated
at half million pounds sterling. The
loss of property at sea was not so great
cidental marine disasters was even great
er Townsville. a small city on the north
east of Queensland, seemSd to be the
center of the storm. not a town or a
vessel III the harbor escaping. Ross is
land, a short distance away, was also
Hooded and many lives lost in attempts
to reach the mainland in small boats
The damage wrought by the hurricane in
Townsville barbor alone is estimated at
t25O,OOO, this including damage to water
front property. On Ross island many
houses were swept away from their found
ations. At Ross island there was furious
Wln1 which upset rescue boat and her
infant, Mrs. GuninGan, Gertrude Rowe,
the elder Miss Rowe, and a boy named
Willy WALLACE were drowned house
ing toward a punt. was washed off her
feet by the current and drowned. Sandy
Walker was drowned while trying to
cross Victoria bridge, where there was
six feet of water on the rails. Many
steamers were overdue at different points
along the coast and it is feared they have
been wrecked.
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AlLSA RUN DOWN.
FRENCH LINE STEAMER THE AS
sAULTING PARTY.
Result of Some Little CareIessness
and Dense Fog Prevailing in
New York Bay.

NEW YORK, Feb. 29.-The Atlas
line steamer Ailsa was run down at
2:30 o'clock today by French line
steamer, supposed to be the Bourgogne,
while anchored in the channel off Fort
Hamilton The steamer which struck
the Ailsa pulled away from the vessel
and disappeared in the mist The Ailsa
carried a crew OF forty men and there
were fourteen passengers on board.
three of whom were women. All es-
capped without injury, owing to the
prompt arrival Of large tug belonging
to the Merritt Wrecking company.
The Ailsa left her pier in this city at
noon, bound for Kingston, Jamaica.
She was heavily laden with freight. IA
dense fog prevailed in the bay, and
Captain j. w. Morris, as a precaution
against disaster, decided to anchor his
vessel until the fog lifted. He came
to standstill about half mile off
the Fort Hamilton shore. A pilot was
on board and both the whistle and the
fog bell of the vessel were kept going
at short intervals as a warning. The
passengers had just finished dinner
when the crash came. There was abso-
lutely no warning. The big black hull
of the French liner suddenly doomed
I'D
OUT OF THE MIST
and struck the anchored ship about
forty feet from the bow on the port
side.
The greatest confusion prevailed
among the passengers and crew. Cap
tain Morris decided that he would try
to beach his vessel. which commenced
to fiji rapidly. While he was preparing
to do so, the rescuing tug came in an
swer to the Ailsa's whistles Of distress,
and took off the passengers and crew,
who had taken refuge in the rigging
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THE POET LAUREATE.

LONDON, Feb. 2s-Alfred A. Austin,
the poet laureate, is still meeting much
ridicule especially regarding his eff
fusion in regard to Jameson's raid So
much so that the matter finally reached
the house of commons yesterday, where
J. Parker Smith, Liberal-Unionist
member for the Patrick division of
Lanarkshire, asked the government for
information regarding the laureate
ship. He suggested that Mr.. Austin's
patriotic ballads should be submitted
to the censorship of Lord Chamberlain,
or, he added, some other minister.
The first lord of the treasury A. J..
Balfour, in replying for the govern
ment. said he did not think any de-
partment of the government was es-
peeialIy qualified for poetiea1 censor
ship.
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BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Darlington Booth and wife will have
a Salvation Army of their own.
The cycle board has sanctioned a
cycle exhibition. at San Francisco
March 5 to IL
a special to the Louisville Post from
Frankfort says DR.. Hunter has with
drawn from the senatorial race
and detriment would follow from COM
plete severance of ties. The general
prohibition still remains as to many
other participation in the proceedings
of the societies.
Captain Heaney. the American citi-
zen who was one of DR.. Jamesons Off
GERS engaged in the Transvaal raid,
and who was shipped with his com
panions on board a British troop ship
from South Africa and liberated at
Port Said, is a passenger on beard the
American line steamship St Louis,
which sailed from this port for New
York today.
The list of Partisan artists upon
whom decorations have been conferred
by the French government during the
the minister des beauX arts. The list
was an unusually short one, there be-
ing only four names upon it. The only
American mentioned was William H
Howe, the cattle painter of New York,
upon whom was conferred the decora-
ton of officer dacademy
The Review, Catholic paper of Chi
cago, publishes an important decree
of the Roman propaganda, given in
Rome under date of Jan Is, 1896. which
modifes considerably the decree pre-
viously issued from that tribunal in
condemnation of the societies of Odd
Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Sons
of Temperance. Catholics who had be-
longed to those societies before the
publication of the condemnation de-
crees are now allowed to leave their
and to pay into the treasury dues and
assessments whenever pecuniary loss
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ST. LOUIS, Feb. Gas the result
of a call issued. several days ago 500
prominent Missouri Democrats who
are opposed to the free coinage of sill
yer at the ratio CT 16 to 1. assembled
here today to protest, as they term it.
against being read out of the party"
Among the more prominent leaders
present were Chairman Charles NJ.
Maffitt, of the Democratic state CEN
trail committee; Congressman U. S.
Hall, Ex-Governor Francis and Hon.
James o. Broadhead.
A LENGTHY ADDRESS
to the Democrats Of Missouri was
adopted unanimously. 1t starts out by
declaring that the unprecedented &C
ton of calling the state convention to
meet in Sedalia on April Is, to elect
delegates to the national convention,
three months in advance of the meet
ing of the convention, was done with
the aVoWed purpose of influencing the
party in other states and committing
the national Democracy to the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio
of Is to 1 of gold, regardless Of the re-
latiVe commercial value of the two
metals and regardless of the action of
the other commercial nations of the
world
The address then goes on to say:
ITO make to the country at large
A SHOWING OF STRENGTH
they do not possess, the advocates of
this policy openly ayow the intention
to secure the national delegates from
every district in the state, if need be,
by depriving voters of the several dis
tricts of the right, never before ques-
toned, of choosing their own repre-
sentatives and eIecting them through
the action of the entire body of the
state convention
And while these advocates of free
silver propose, if they find themselves
in a majority in the state convention,
to deny all right of representation to
the minority, many of them at the
same time avow their purpose not to
submit to the majority in the national
convention, if that majority shall be
adverse to them, but to array the
Democracy of Missouri against " the
platform and nominee of the national
Democracy. 1t is
THE HIGHEST DUTY
of all Democrats who hold to the
ancient faith of the party to no longer
tamely submit to a policy which has
brought upon the party nothing but
humiliation, and is fraught with men
ace to the best interests of the coun-
try. We. therefore. loyal Democrats,
call upon the voters of the party
everywhere throughout the state to
make an open. active and organized
opposition to the effort to commit the
party to policy with can only end
in disaster, and if all who hold with
us will assert themselves by voice and
by vote, we may yet rescue the state
from the threatened misfortune of
Republican rule"
A committee on organization, COM
posed of two delegates from each con-
gressional district, was appointed with
Ex-Governor Francis as chairman.
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LIES.
Teller Says He Has Grown Tired of
Denouncing Them.

DENVER, Colo. Feb. pa special
to the Rocky Mountain News from
Washington referring to the Chicago
Records alleged interview with Sena-
tors Teller and Carter in which they
were quoted as saying they would
never leave the Republican party,
says:
Both senators we're shown the article
in question and both Indignantly deny
that they ever said, either in the
above words, or in substance, anything
upon the question
Senator Teller said that he had
grown tired of denying the lies and
insinuations of the eastern press re-
garding his attitude, that he had never
said to any newspaper man. nor to
anyone else that he would not leave
the Republf, IN party. no matter who
was nominated
He said further, that under no cir
cumstances would he support a gold
man or vote for a party whose plat
form contained gold plank.
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SUNDAY SPECIAL FEATURES

PAGE s.-Last letter Of Bill Nye.. Spring
styles for the men,
PAGE 1o.-For women. .Flora's garden
Bakers bread.
PAGE 11-Music and drama. The past
week at the theatres .Paderewskl'9
programme. The Sousa, concert---Tha
Krouse testimonial tonight. Stage gOSs
sip. Some wheel sports
PAGE Fin Uncle Sans big gun SHOPS
A courageous daughter.
PAGE 1s.-Women not ready to vote..a
Use of motor wagons in war
PAGE 14.-General Grants boyhood home
PAGE 15.-Here is a game brand news
The Boer as he really is.
PAGE 1s-The Shadow Of the Greenback,
by Robert Barr.
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(Ga). Turner Wa), Washington and
Yoakum-9S, all Democrats.
The Democrats who voted with the
Republicans and Populists were as
follows: Bailey, Cobb (Ala.), Cox.
Crisp, Cummings. Dearmond. Dins-
more, Downing, Hutchinson. baltimore
Layton, Little, Livingston. Maddox,
McCulloch, McDearmon, McLaurin, Nc
Rea, Money, Moses, Neill, Richardson,
Robbins, Stallings, Stokes. Strait. Tai
bert, Terry. Underwood, Wheeler and
Williams
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And Another.

BROOKLYN, Feb 29,-Hard1y had
the steamer Ailsa disappeared from
view in the waters of the narrows
when two other steamers came in col
lision hardly three-quarters of mile
from the scene of the first accident.
The George ". Clyde of the Clyde
steamship line was run into by the
Guyandotte, of the Old Dominion line
fleet, and had to be run ashore in or
der to prevent her from sinking. She
was beached on the Fort Hamilton
shore in the narrows The accident
occurred about o'clock.
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OPPOSED TO
FREE COINAGE
Missouri Democrats Show
Plainly Where They
Stand.
GOLD-BUGS TO THE CORE.
Free Coinage of Silver Merely a
Heresy.
G0LD-BUGS TO THE CORE.

Have Grasped the Idea That it
Would He Wrong For Democrats
to Longer Tamely Submit to a
Policy Which, They Say, Has
Brought Upon the Party Nothing
But Humiliation and is Fraught
with Menace to the Best Inter
ests of the Country.
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city about the 18th or 9th of next month,
and L think we can come to an agree
ment whereby you can secure this order.
| have already written your Mr. Bodman
of Omaha that ] will call and see him on
my way to Chicago as this matter will
not come UP until my return from the
east.
Hoping to hear from you by return mail
as to whether you want to bid on this
work or not, remain. Yours very truly,
L. G. DAVIS,
COL Mccormick Bldg.
The following is a copy of the author
County Court House Of Salt Lake
County. Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. %,
1895.
l.. c. Davis, Esq.
The undersigned were this day author
lied by the county court of Salt Lake
county to negotiate for and purchase an
elevator for the county portion Of the
joint city and county building; and, in
pursuance of that authority, do hereby
request you to have prepared the neceS-
sary plans and specifications for such
elevator, and to solicit for bids and pro-
posals for the same which bids and pro-
posals are to be submitted to as with
YOUR recommendations concerning the
same.
A S. GEDDES,
CHAS. H. ROBERTS,
NJ CHRISTOPHERSON,
Selectmen of Salt Lake County.
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GREAT Gales.
AWFUL FLOODS
Much Damage Done on the
Queensland Coast.
VILLAGES ARE DESTROYED
Loss of Life on the Sea Was
Something Fearful.
VILLAGES ARE DESTROYED

Large Number of Vessels wrecked.
and as There Are Many Steamers
Overdue it is Feared Some of
Them May Have Been Caught Irl
the WhirIwind-Damnge to One
HarbOr Alone VIII Reach 100000
Pounds.
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Selectmen of S
THE BIDS.

The above letters speak for them
selves. In this connection it may be
of interest to quote the bids, which
were as follows:
Crane Elevator company
Electric passenger elevator. 49, S4'Soo
Two electric passenger elevators. 500
Vertical hydraulic elevator COM
piete, with pumping plant. 4,4IS
Two vertical hydraulic elevators
complete. with pumping plant. SIN
One vertical hydraulic elevator
complete, with pumping plant
4 Bro5 9wo E,ievafor Misunderstanding
company
Compression tank system. to be
operated by water power, .......S5 $50
Windslow Brothers Elevator COM
TWO hydraulic passenger eleva-
tors Observation-Disclosures. $13, BOO
Two hydraulic passenger eleva-
tors, with two separate pump
tanks and pipe plants. 1886
Sprague Electric Elevator company,
per c. r. Mckay
Sprague-Platt multiple sneave
electric passenger elevator. $500
L. c. Trent & Co.
Hydraulic passenger elevator. So, 335
Crane electric elevator. .......... S,475
Standard Elevator and Manufacture
ing company
Two hydraulic passenger eleva-
tors So 165
From the above it will be seen that
the bid of L. G. Trent & Co., a local
firm, was about $1,000 less than the
bid from the factory. a fact that may
be of considerable significance when
the foregoing letters are taken into
consideration.
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STARTLING
REVELATIONS
More Very Peculiar Methods
of the County Com
nliSSionerS.
RECEIVING BIDS A FARCE.
Contract Awarded Before the
Bids Were Opened.
RECEIVING BIDS A FARCE.

I. G Davis, Whittemore's Detective,
Given Authority to Purchase a
Machine and it Is Said He Has
Done so at a Figure One Thou
sand Dollars Above the Lowest
Bi6 Received-Letters Which
Like Those of HayI<en Require
an Explanation.
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Mrs Thompson was Just arriving at
the Wilson dance as we were leaving"
.I think you must be mistaken
'Oh, no; noticed her especially; she
wore such a beautiful wrap"
Now know you've mistaken her for
some one else. for 1 met her at the De
la Courts, and she hadn't wrap on. -
Pick Me Up.
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A THICK FOG

prevailed at the time. The Guyandotte
tore hole fifteen feet wide in the
Clyde's side. Three tug boats hap
pened to be in the vicinity and an of
them at once made to the scene. They
tied fast to the disabled vessel and
backed her into shore. They were
helped by the steamers engines and
the speed of the vessel was so great
as she approached the shore that she
was damned in for quite a distance.
She is now resting on a sandy bottom
in less than fifteen feet of water. No
attempt will be made to float her until
morning.
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FEAR oF DIE sUCTIoN.

I'm three minutes more the Ailsa was
under water. Then the Harold came
alongside and all, with the exception
of three, were taken safely aboard and
landed at the battery. The remaining
three were rescued by another tug
The captain and officers of the Ailsa
were as kind as possible to all on
board After running into US the
French liner backed off and disappear
ed in the fog. She sounded no warn
ing and we knew nothing of her pres
ence until she struck us
The Ailsa was an iron vessel of 1000
tons and was the crack steamer of the
Zine. 0
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oHEEF. cRo1.EY REs1eNs-

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 29-The resig.
nation of Chief of Police Patrick Crowley
is announced. Chief Crowley has been
connected with the police department OF
this city since 1850, most of the time as
chief. His resignation is due to i'll
health.
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ExPoRTs AND IMPoRrs.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-The exports of
specie from the port of New York for
the week amounted to $3.50 in gold and
81, 1888 Geo in silver. The imports were:
Gold, 1852 Al; silver. s51, 613: dry goods.
S., 935,2 O5; general merchandise, $8,615, 976
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THE FEE SYSTEM.

Mr.. Henderson (Rep. Iowa. from the
committee on rules then presented the
special order of which he had given
notice yesterday, making it in order to
offer the bill to abolish the fee system
in the case of United States attorneys
and marshals, as an amendment to the
legislative appropriation bill He ex
planned that the house was strongly
in favor of this measure and that the
adoption of the rule would give con-
gress an opportunity to work this much
needed reform He expressed the be-
lief that reduction of over 100000
could be effected The appropriations
for
UNITED STATES MARSHALS
and deputies had increased from $780,
900 in 1890 to $1.SS0,0O0 in 1896, for Unit
ed States attorneys. from s289,0O0 to
$410, 600; for United States commission
ers from $1S5 900 to $4,000. The total
appropriations for the United States
courts had increased since 1885 from
SO. 100000 to Sc, 461,0 00
Mr. Catchings Oem. Miss.) asked if
an amendment would be in order to
abolish the fee system in the case of
United States clerks.
Mr.. Henderson replied that he did
not think it would.
The subcommittee which had pre-
pared the bill, he said, did not include
clerks because clerks were not en-
gagged in working up litigation. where
as attorneys and marshals were at the
fountainheau
Mr.. Crisp, (Dem.) of Georgia, said
that ordinarily he would not favor
such an order, but realized that if this
urgent reform were to be effected it
would have to be in the shape Of an
amendment to this appropriation, bill;
he should vote for this rule.
Mr.. Cooper (Dem) of Florida, pro-
tested against the passage of such a
sweeping bill in such a manner. He
thought the
BILL WAS DEFECTIVE
in many respects Every member, he
thought. would desire an opportunity
to consult with his constituents, Drac-
ticing lawyers and the officers of the
courts before voting.
The special order was adopted with
out division.
Mr. Daniels (Rep.) of New York,
chairman of the elections committee
No. 2, presented the report of that
committee in the contested election
case of Aldrich VS.. Robbins. from the
Second Alabama district. The report
favored the contestant, Mr.. Aldrich.
who was voted for by fusion of
Republicans and Populists. He gave
notice he would call the case I'D in
about ten days.
The house then went into commit
tee of the whole and resumed the con-
sideration of the legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bills.
Mr.. Catron, the New Mexico delegate
offered an amendment to change the
time for the meeting of the territorial
legislature of New Mexico and its
methods Of orgs niz, son, but it was
not acted on. today.
Several minor amendments were
adopted and the bill was completed,
except for controverting para phs,
when the committee rose.
At $40 the house adjourned.
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OVERRULED
CLEVELAND
House Passes the Arizona
Land Bill over
His Veto.
A RATHER WARN DEBATE.
Those Who Voted TO Sustain the
President.

Fee System in the Case of United
States NInrshaIs and Attorneys
Comes Up For Discussion-New
MeAico's Delegate Offers an
Amendment in Relation to the
Legislature of That Territory.
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CALLED HOME.
General Reilly.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 29.-General
Motif Reilly died today, aged IA. He
was prominent volunteer soldier dur.
ing the war Of Rebellion.
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AT THE BARRACKS.

Corporal Go )-Grasshupper. now
don't you be making a face like a hen
that has laid billiard ball instead of
an gg.-Soldatenhort.
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We seek TO deal honestly with adj
vertisers; we shall expect no business
TO which our bona flde circulation does
not entitle us.
OUR CIRCULATION BOOKS ARE
OPEN TO The INoUIRING ADvER-
User.
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General Stoch.

BERLIN, Feb. 29.-General Albrecht
stooh died today at Oesterich on the
Rhine.
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GAVE WARNINGS

at intervals Suddenly there was
a terrific crash and the ship trem-
bled. We had been run into by one of
the French liners. We found that six
to ten feet of our bow had been cut
off below the water line. On account
of the alright compartments we did
not sink at once. The tug Earold, ly-
ing off Fort Hamilton, started to come
to our rescue. Ten minutes after the
collision the Ailsa began to founder.
We all took to the rigging. The wo-
men acted admirably. There was no
screaming. but they were nearly fright
ened to death. Six of the crew took
the life boat and went ashore at Fort
Hamilton
zone lady and one gentleman jumped
overheard and were rescued. The tug
Harold played about us, twenty-five
yards distant, not daring to come
nearer for
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Our s-coIor Rand & McNally Map Of
Utah, size t2x1S inches. Population OF
every Town and County in the State.
1886 Calendar appended. Location, OF
towns shown by marginal references
WORTH 20 CENTS