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til they. typical river folk. could return
to their native element.
Not one of these people could read or
write; most of the children of the 80
families were born in the shanty boats.
These people are but types of a class
which grows larger every year. and
which may be justly styled "Ohio River
Nomads."
The water wanderer was originally
made; not born; made years ago. when
the country was new and the state of
Ohio was not. He must have had a Pc
culiar turn of mind. Somewhat adj
venturous and restless, as befitted any
one who pushes out from the place
where he was born, yet lacking in stur-
dy endurance, he would accept condi-
tons easily. In those early days those
who had pushed forward out of West
ern Pennsylvania and West Virginia
and Western New York took to the
Kindly bosom of the broad Ohio as a
means of transportation, and on fiat
boats and in rough dugouts and canoes
were borne southwark and westward
with the current. Not a hard life was
this when compared with the toiling ex-
istence of pioneer farm life and the
necessity of hewing down a forest to
make field. Floating down the beau
tiful river in pleasant weather. fishing,
foragfng up and down the banks, hav-
Ing at command the resources of land
and water, living in such a manner
that change could be made every
hour IL IL was desired; this was a free
existence. with less care than any life
in that tracklass Wilderness could lie.
What wonder is IL that the weakest and
most ease-loving of the wanderers from
home should take to the river, love IL,
rear their families on 1t, and IL cay
furnish a people who are really Arabs?
They are amenable to no law-for what
is location to them? They are growing
In numbers and drawing recruits from
the "degenerates of cities and towns"
at all times, until now this river popu-
lation numbers, as near as any esti-
mate can be made, over 10000 people.
They are not easy to count. these river
deniZens. They are here to-day and
gone tomorrow. They know hiding
places up the mouths of creeks where
1t would be hard to find them, and are
as elusive as fieas in every particular.
The overplus of population in three
states-Pennsylvania West Virginia
and Southwestern New York-tumbles
into the Ohio river as easily as do the
creeks, rivulets and rills. From far up
the Allegheny river they come, from
Tioneta creek. from Broken Straw and
Caldwell, from Oil creek and Cherry
Run, out from Big Hickory. Hemlock,
Halls Run and Slippery Rock creek
from the Irish Ripple and the Break
neck from up Cowshannock creek and
the Big Pucketta, from pithole fast
nesses and the Big Mahoning ways-a
slouching, ignorant procession of young
people who have no ambition, no edu-
cation, but who know that the Ohio
river means an easy life, easier than
telling logs in the mountains or work.
ing In the coal mines or on the chutes.
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lew York World.

From the New York World
Policeman Kane OF the fremont sta
ton yesterday stumbled over a man
wriggling along a path in Bedford
park. The man was a powerful fell
low. hatless, and lay fiat on his face.
What's this?" exclaimed the police
man.
The PROSTATE man Missed between
his teeth: Take care. take carel I'm
a snake: I'll bite you"
"Oh. get out of this Come with
me-" said Policeman Kane.
The man sat up and began thrust
ing out his head and drawing IL back
like a snake coiling for a jump on its
prey. The human snake was with
great difficulty bundled into a patrol
wagon and taken to the fremont sta
ton, where he Kissed. in both French
and German: I'm a serpent with a
fiery sting"
When DR. Klein who had come from
Fordham hospital in response TO an
ambulance call arrived. the man tried
10 bite him. and his teeth just grazed
the doctors ear. He was finally land
ed in the Harlem hospital. The doctors
think that Frame has either been Bit
ten by a snake or frightened by one
He is undoubtedly mad. and his bite
would be poisonous. they say
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He Knew His Rights

A little bow-legged Jap about -four
feet high made the conductor on a
Market street car feel very uncomfort-
able yesterday. The Jap got on the
car at Powell street, and in payment
of his fare gave the conductor a trans
fer. He glanced at II and observed
that 1t had been punched an hour be-
fore.
Fare, pleased" he growled as he
held out the transfer.
II have gave you one transfer" said
the Jap, very calmly and deliberately.
as he stared ahead like a wooden In
dian.
THAT was punched an hour ago."
81 cannot help If the conductor punch
a wrong hole" declared the Jap.
But ii is not good. / want your
fare"
IF it is not good. why he gave II
me?"
viii you pay your fare?"
"No."
Then you will have to get off,
II neither pay any more nor get Off"
declared the Jap deliberately, and his
face never moved a muscle.
Then i will have to throw you of,
and the conductor stopped the car.
you are afraid to put me off, II
you even could. The law says you
must take transfers. and your employ
er says you must take it, too. If you
cannot make a man pay again. You
cannot make me pay again"
The conductor gave the bell cord
jerk. and the little Jap continued &c
stare out of the window opposite.-Sar
Francisco Post.
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JACK cHINN WAS BEATEN.
One Instance In which the Kentuclsian
Came out second Best.

One Instance In " hieh the Kentuckian
Came out second Best.
From the Washington Post.
Few men have borne a more promi-
nent part in Kentucky politics than
the distinguished Kentuckian who
goes by the short but emphatic name
OF Jack Chinn. He has the record of
being the handsomest man in the state.
He Is a giant in stature and a Samson
in strength. Chinn Is also something
of an expert in the use OF lethal vea-
pons. He Is said TO WELD bowie with
the grace and facility OF Its inventor.
There is only one case on record where
Chinn was ever routed. and ne related
the case personally 10 Senator Lind
say on one occasion. The latter ted
1t at the capitol yesterday.
II was. said the senator. during the
Chicago convention which nominated
Mr.. Cleveland. 20 which Chinn was
delegate. lie was a sarong Cleveland
man. and the sight OF a rammany
democrat; with a Hill badge in his lapel
grieved him sorely. Standing In front
of the wigwam one day IL tscc1rred TO
Chinn TO vent a little OF his anti
Tammany spleen on the crowd OF
Tsmmany braves just then coming to-
ward him in the street. Chinn did this
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PECULIAR ACCIDENTS.
How Several Persons Lost Their sight on
Various Dec ,sions.

How Several Persons Lost Their sight on
Various Dec ,sions.
New Orleans Letter to New York World.
A prominent oculst of this city gives
the following list of queer accidents that
have come under his observation re-
Gently:
A little boy. 10 years old, was standing
In front of bird fancier's shop when an
aged parrot seemed to take a sudden
animosity to the child and darted at him.
pecking out one eye before he could get
out of the way.
Some linemen left a lot of short wire
lying on Euterpe street after repairing
the telephone connections in that dis
trict. An old negro woman who was on
her way to market early the next morn
ing stepped on one end of a bit OF this
wire. when the other end few up. strik-
ing her in the eye and binding her.
A mixer employed at one of the dairy
farms near the city was milking a cow
that had got her tail matted and tangled
with cookie burrs. In the course of the
milking the COW switched her tail into
the mans face. the mass of burrs strik-
ing him in one eye and completely de-
stroying the sight OF IL.
A lad shooting at sparrows with an air
gun, hit his little brother in the eye and
blinded him for life.
Tommy Peats. the handsome, bright
eyed 7-year-old son of a widow, fell down
stairs backward. When his mother pick
ed him up the boy was asleep, the shock
having affected him in a singular man
ner, and In an hour after, when he OPP
ened his eyes. they were badly and ire
vocably crossed.
A poor lad who is affected with epil-
epsy during a recent attack fell against
the steam coils of his fathers office,
burning and blistering his eyes so badly
the sight is gone.
As the Louisville and Nashville pass
enger train was coming into the city a
few weeks since some ruthless person
threw a stone at the day coach. shatter-
ing one of the windows. The particles
of glass few into the face OF a man sit
ting by the window, as many as forty
of them Embedding themselves in his eyes
alone. Most marvellous to relate. every
bit OF glass has been abstract I'd and the
mans eyesight remains unimpaired.
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WAR CLOUDS oveR AFRICA.
Colonists and Native Tribes In Revolt
Against Europ~an Ag resaion.

Colonists and Native Tribes In Revolt
Against European Ag resaion.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
II will be well for everyone who wants
to keep posted on the events of the
hour to study map of Africa, the local
tiles where there is trouble. and where
history is being made, will be made,
and has been made. The center of the
European war cloud, of which the cor
respondent continuously writes, is GER
tainly over Africa, and particularly
that section Of IL known as the dark
continent.
They fight to kill. the natives of the
sections where some Of the civilized ma
tons of the east are now sending. con-
centrating and massing troops. In the
light of what has been done. and know
ing the character Of the natives as one
must know. by this time, it is not the
view Of an alarmist TO say that the
conflicts TO come must be awful. 1t is
the opinion of many who have foreseen
the situation. and who have studied the
character Of the tribes. that there can
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PIRATES OF THE OHIO RIVER

Nomads Who Keep Out of the Reach of
Officers Of the Law.
From the Cincinnati Tribune.
A tenement at SO Goodloe street. Gin
cinnati. emptied itself out the other
day. and 30 families who had dwelt in
IL during the winter returned. with
much rejoicing. 10 their summer homes
in shanty boats. picking up a living in
Q prscarlous way. and only existing IN
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in a few emphatic epFthets. which brief
ly but forcibly epitOmized his supreme
contempt for the whole tribe. wlhereat
the braves took offense and made a
joint rush for the chivalrous KeDtuck-
ian. Jack made a pass for his knife.
but before he could get his hand on
the weapon the Indian closed IN on
him and the next instant what there
was OF the six feet one OF the invincible
Chinn was flying skyward IN the air.
The Tammany braves had attempted
TO toss him as high as the telegraph
wires which stretched over their heads.
but as they had not given quite
enough impetus to their first effort
they caught him before he struck the
ground and tossed him up again.
Chinn managed 20 get hold OF the tele-
graph pole and slid down 10 the ground
but the braves caught him again and
this performance was repeated 10
times.
Jack put In several months at a first-
class hospital. undergoing repairs. and
left that Establishment with no in
creased regard for the tribe OF TAM
many. But II is only time on record
that the distinguished Kentuckian was
ever put hors de combat.
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A few days ago a Moosup. Conn.
man while tearing down an old house
In that town. found two silver pieces
OF money bearing the dates of 1881 and
1852.
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From Judge.

From Judge.
Mr.. Woodbie Passenger lin railroad
station at Poughkeepsie)-"He you.
What time does the next train go to
New York;"
Mike-"Be jabbersi tits jist gone.
sor."
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"A Chicago paper is worrying for
fear Hickok will knock Beuzetta out
before 1t comes time for her to race
any. The editor of that paper may
be able to teach the willy Orrin some
thing about preparing a race horse.
but horsemen generally will doubt it,
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+. H. Hovey the tennis champion OF
the United States. will be married te
Miss Sarah Sanborn at Newton Centre
Mass. by Rev. Alvah Hovey. next Wed.
nesds~
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The great colt Green Jacket, by imp.
Whistle Jacket-Zuhlan, which Pat
Dunno paid Cliff Porter $4,000 for a
few weeks since, and which was her
aided as the equal in promise of Cliff
ford. may not run any more this sea-
son. He has bowed a tendon in his
front leg. He was entered in Mon
days card at Memphis, but did not go
to the post
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1t is said that E. w. Ayres of Duck
ers. KY. refused an offer of $4,000 re-
Gently for Beulah, dam of Beuzsuta,
2:06A, and Early Bird, 2:10.
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There was considerable interest talk
en- in a little foal that made it's debut
in Oakland last Sunday morning, says
the Breeder and Sportsman, because It
Is a full brother to Zonbro, 2:13. Or
rim A. Hickok, Charles Durfee, NJ. Nc
Manus, p. j. Williams, j. N. Nelson,
and all the other knights of the sulky,
who happened to be near the track
paid the newcomer a visit. 1t rs a
dark bay or brown and is strong and
well made. The dam will be bred to
Mckinney. 2:11A, again this season.
We cannot have too many Zombros.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-20

both in behalf of his own fortunes in the
Fourth District IN which he is a candidate
for reelection, and in behalf of the party
and the silver cause.
Last evening at his home, Mr.. Mcguire
expressed his satisfaction with the State
platform and his belief that the party will
at Chicago declare for free silver and
nominate strong silver man, giving the
Democracy chances of success.
1.-The Democratic State Convention
adopted good platform" he said, "and
of course 1 can't deny that it elected a
good delegation to Chicago.
81 approve the silver plank IN the plat
form, of course, and I think it expresses
the sentiment of four-tif of the party in
this State-yes, probably nine-tenths of it.
"The reconciliation of silver will be the
issue OF the campaign, and all others will
be overshadowed by it. l am satisfied
that the National Convention will not only
adopt strong silver platform, but nomi-
nate cand idates who stand and who have
stood steadfastly for the same proposition.
The plank will not be a straddle. That
would be absolute folly.
'If the gold men have more than
third of the convention the two-thirds
rule will be abolished instantly. The sill
yer N en- will be too much in earnest to
allow any mere precedent of party usage
TO force them to nominate a gold or
compromise candidate on a silver plat
form. 1t doesn't matter what the gold
men do. They will not bolt on account
of abolishing the two-thirds rule, as has
been suggested. If they are disposed to
bolt on the platform they may do it, but
IL would be folly for them to swallow a
silver platform and bolt because a party
precedent was disreg arded. The majority
of that convention will not stop to inquire
what the gold men will do.
"As to candidates there are a good
many available men, but no candidate has
assumed such decided lead on the fight
as to make prediction worth anything.
l can't say that l have any decided prefer
ences myself. l am personally well
acquainted with some of the leading
candidates and l naturally incline
TO them. Among them are Vice
President Stevenson, VINO has been
silent on the money question, Bland,
and Morrison, whom | was for, but
who has made some declarations that
probably put him out of the race. Camp
bell of Ohio is a good man and took
strong position for silver, while Governor
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-20
soUTHsIDE IMPROVEMENTS.
Arrangements Being Made for Big
Demonstration and Jubilee.

Arrangements Being Made for Big
Demonstration and Jubilee.
The executive comm ittees of the South
side and Folsom-street Clubs met last
evening at DIR. Rottanzi's Office. The sec
retary was directed to send communica-
tions to the officials of the San Francisco
and San Mateo Railroad requesting that
the Fourteenth-street crossing be b,tumin-
lied; also to the officials of the Market
Railway Company, requesting them to
bituminize the crossings of Folsom and
Sixteenth, Tenth and Eighth streets.
A committee consisting OF G. L. Center,
A. G. Mcguire ana P. Heyfron and the Of
ficials of Folsom-street clubs and was
appointed to arrange for mass meeting
OF the Folsom-street people, from Sixth
street to the waterfront, to hasten the
completion of the bituminizing of Folsom
street. A committee consisting of G. L.
Center, A. B. Mcguire, 6. G. Raabe,
f. w. McEwen, r. E. Cole, P. Heyfron,
J. Schwartz and DR.. Rottanzi, was ap-
pointed to cooperate with the comm mittees
appointed by the Cycle Board of Trade for
monster Folsom-street jubilee and good
roads demonstration on the completion of
Folsom street to Sixth.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-20
BRODERICK'S ESTIMATES
Working on the Figures That VIII
BE Used in Making Up the
Tax Lew

Auditor Broder1ck and his entire cleri-
cal force has been working for two nights
past on the estimates for the next fiscal
year sent IN by the various municipal de-
partments and preparing the same for the
Board of Supervisors.
The Auditor figures each year what the
amount of the various appropriations
should be and submits the same with
what the head of the departments ask to
the board, which decreases or increases
the appropriations as it sees fit.
The tax levy is based on the aggregate
of these appropriations and the estimate
of revenue, which is also made up by the
Auditor.
Thus far Mr.. Broderick has made only
minor changes in the demands, but the
heaviest-those of the Street. Police and
Fire departments-have not been gone
into, and here the heaviest cuts are ex-
pected.
The Auditors complete estimate will be
submitted to the board on Monday.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-20
BUCKLEY|TES TO
FIGHT RIGHT ON,
They Will Battle for Their
Claim to the Party
Name.
COATS ARE COMING OFF.
Leaders and Followers Start Out
Afresh With Vigor and
Determination.
REGULARS VS.. RAINEYITES.
The Buckleyites C. aim the Local
Ma chine and Will Go to
the Courts.
w hat of the Rucklevites now?

What of the Buckleyites nowP
Gavin McNab has been wiping away his
sweat since Tuesday. leaning on spade
most of the time and telling that he has
just finished rounding mound of garbae e
over the grave where BuckIeyism lies
sleeping.
The Junta people generally have been
taking it for granted since Tuesday that
the Buckley" party organization would
now disintegrate at once and that the
members of this faction would break each
others necks getting in behind Rainey,
Daggett and Lanigan, who now have q
sure grip on the Junta organization.
But the seating of the Daggett Rainey-
McNab delegation in the State Convention
has but put new vigor and determination
into the regular" organization. They are
going for the municipal fight now. and
they are just taking off their coats and
getting really to work.
The Occidental Club was crowded last
night. The leaders of the faction and the
most reliable and influential district
workers were gathered there, and they
seemed to feel better for the thrashing
they got at Sacramento. They surely felt
more like fighting, and every mothers
son of them declared that they were right
in the middle of big fight and that they
proposed to stay there.
The State Convention, they say, is one
thing and municipal politics another. As
they held a majority of the old committee
when the Junta split off last fall when the
gas was turned out, they declare that they
have an incontrovertible and unassailahle
claim to being the regular Democratic
municipal party.
They say that the courts must recognize
the fact that they alone are entitled to a
place on the ticket under the title Demo
cratic, and that they will hold on to and
battle for this right.
They also point to the. fact that they
enroll four or five times the mum ber of
voters the other side can lay claim to. th at
they have practically all the party workers
with them except those who follow Rainey
or who are enrolled by Daggett, that IN
the fight at Sacramento they had every
consideration of party right and reg.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-20

Boies and Matthews are strong men. l
think that the candidate to be selected
must be leading Democrat who has a
record as leader in this silver cause,
either State or National.
with a silver platform and a silver
candidate think the prospects of Demo
cratic success will be good with the
chances in favor of the Democratic ticket.
l think that the fight will increase in in
tensity as 1t goes on, and develop into a
fight between the money power, for which
the extreme East is rather an agency than
q controlling force, and the masses of the
people, who realize that they are bein e
enslaved by the money system.
"The whole fight for the gold standard,
both to establish it and to maintain it, is
being made by the great moneyed inter
ests of Europe and tire extreme East,
which have the homes, industries and
commerce of the people of all the rest of
the country mortgaged to them and
which insist on drawing their tribute in
gold only"
When asked about the possibility of any
agreement on candidates between the
Democrats and PopuGsts he said:
II have no knowledge of any such pos
sibility, and hardly think any such thing
is possible. l don't think any such ar
rangement could be made now. There
might come about certain community of
action, but it would not probably be
brought about by prearrangement."
AS one of the leading and best known
single-taxers in the country, Mr.. Mcguire
is much interested in the single-tax cam
paign in Delaware.
THE single-ta1 movement has grown
very strong in all parts of Delaware" +"
he said, "and while 1 never believed
it possible that the sentiment or
credence of a State could be changed
in one years campaign, yet the
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-20

single-tax men of Delaware strongly
believe that majority will favor it in
November. The growth of the single-tax
theory there has been so rapid as to make
that prediction reasonable.
"My belief is that some reasonable con-
cessions will be made to the single takers,
and that they ought to be accepted. The
main concession would probably be the
abolition of the polltaxes, except the
small polltax necessary to be paid under
the constitution to secure the right of SUI
frage. The fact that the system of taxa
ton in Delaware is especially mixed, and
indefensible by the opponents of the single
tax, makes that field fertile one to
work in."
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-20
MIL LWAUKEE BoYCoTr OFF.

Bat tho Strike Is SttII On, Against the
Streetcar Company.
MILWAUKEE,. WIS.,, June 19.-The
street-railway boycott is ended. 1t was
formally declared off to-day by President
James Flint OF the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Street-railway Employees; that is,
1t was declared off so far as it was within
his power to do SO. He said this morning
that his organization has discontinued
running buses and no longer asks the
public to refrain from riding in the cars
He stated, however, that the strike has
not been declared off, and that it will not
be as long as the men feel as they do at
present.