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GIVEN AWAY BY A LETTER.
Plot Discovered to Blow Up a Ken
tucky Penftentiary.

Ao1 DiScoNeFeu 10 BLOW Up q Ken.
tucky Penftentiary.
FRANKFORT CKy.), April 9.-War-
den Nell to-day discovered daring plot
10 blow up the penitentiary walls with
dynamite and allow the prisoners to
escape. The plot was laid by Will Clark
and prisoner named Sweeney, both
life men from Louisville, who obtained
dynamite and nitro-glycerine, which
was to be used next Sunday in blowing
up the walls. In the excitement and
confusion they hoped to make their es-
cape. The plot was foiled by the in
Perception of a letter which Clark had
written to his sweetheart in Louisville
Greeting her to secure the dynamite.
The letter was given to a trusty named
Butler, who, in attempting to post it.
was discovered by a guard.
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Gold In Nebraska.

OMAHA, April 9.-Gold has been
found in paying quantities at Calhoun,
a small town in Washington County,
about fifteen miles north of this city,
and the greatest excitement prevails
among the farmers. Otto Wagner in
digging well. struck a ledge of rock
at a depth of 160 feet which on being
examined by the Government assay
Office here yielded SIG of gold to the
ton. Farmers are holding their lands
at an advanced price and well digging
has become fad during the past
twenty four hours
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silver Men yictorious,

ST. LOUIS, April 9.-The Democratic
city primaries resulted in an over
Whelming victory for the silver men.
The sound money men We're successful
in only three of the twenty eight wards.
Ex-Governor Francis was chosen a
delegate in his ward by narrow mar
gin. The vote was light and there was
no disturbance.
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Alaska boundary.

WASHINGTON, April 9-The Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs in the House
to-day instructed Heathwole Rep.) of
Minnesota TO prepare and present joint
resolution appropriating $4,000 for es-
tablishing the boundary line between
Alaska and British Columbia, in ac-
cordance with the convention between
the United States and Great Britain.
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Costly Fire at Chicago.

CHICAGO, April 9.-The four-story
building at 27S Madison street was
badly damaged by fire this morning. A.
Ellinger & Co., cloak manufacturers,
occupying the three upper floors, were
the heaviest losers, their stock and fix
lures being damaged to the extent of
100000. They are fully insured. The
total loss is $4,000, covered by insur-
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QUAY IN THE FIGHT.
Emphatic Denial of the Report That
He Was to Withdraw.

WASHINGTON, April a.-Senator
Quay, through his son, Richard Quay,
this morning made an emphatic denial
of the published statements that he in
tended to withdraw from the contest
for the Republican nomination. A mes
sage was received this morning from
Richard Quay, dated at Pittsburg, in
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Spain Preparing for War.

LONDON, April "a dispatch from
Madrid to the Central News" says
that for a month past the work of
strengthening the defenses in various
parts of the country has been going on.
Mines have been laid at the entrances
of the harbors and elsewhere and heavy
guns have been mounted in the forts.
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and the New Mexico bill taken up. On
this bill the committee divided on the
lines given above, but it was carried by
vote of six to four, those voting in
the negative being Taft, Owens Knox
and Low
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Santa Monica or San Pedro. .

WASHINGTON, April 9.-The Senate
Commerce Committee to-day decided to
give a hearing April 1th on the subject
of a deep water harbor at Santa Mon
lea or San Pedro, Cal.
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The Cuban Resolutions.

WASHINGTON, April 9.-The Pres
ident has not given any intimation as
to what his action will be in regard to
the Cuban resolutions. The many ru-
mors on the subject seem to be un-
founded.
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Using Potatoes for Fuel.

CANANDAIGUA (N.Y. April 9-Po-
tatoes were never SO cheap as now. One
farmer says he burns them in his stove,
and they make very hot fire.
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Rank of Northumberland.

WASHINGTON, April 9-Hull of
Iowa, the Chairman of the House Mill
tary Committee, filed to-day the ma
Jority report on the joint resolution
which promotes Major General Miles
to the rank of Lieutenant-G General. The
report states that the committee deems
the rank of Lieutenant-G General the
most appropriate for the General COM
manding the army in nation of this
magnitude, the army now numbering
10000 men. In case of war, by filling
up the companies and regiments. it
would be more than twice that number.
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Illinois Prohibitionists,

SPRINGFIELD Qll), April 9-The
Prohibition State Convention was
called to order promptly at o'clock
this morning by Chairman Oliver W.
Stewart. The only business transacted
was to select candidates for State Off
ces. The ticket is as follows: Governor,
Hale Johnson; Governor, E.
A. Windell, Fairbury; Secretary of
State, Alonzo E. Wilson, Chicago; Aud
itor, Arthur ]. Bassett, Chicago; Treas
urer, e. X. Hays, Galva; Attorney
General, Robert H. Patton, Spring
field.
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A bishop Serionsly mn.

BUFFALO, April 9.-Bishop Ryan Is
sinking rapidly. One side is partially
paralyzed and he is unconscious.
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TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.
Suicide of a Weli.to-Do Citizen of
Washington City.

WASHINGTON, April 9-Henry
Sanford Fitch, well-to-do real estefa
owner of Washington, committed sui
eide with revolver at the residence of
his son, with whom he'lived. No cause
can be given except on the theory that
the recent suicide of two of his friends.
Robert Cuttings and Congressman Har-
ter, preyed upon his mind. The remains
will be inferred in Ohio. Two brothers
live in California and one in Ohio and
sisters in Ohio, North Carolina and
Kansas. He was a widower with two
sons, one of whom lives in Kentucky.
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MEMPHIS JOCKEY CLUB RACES.
Disappointing Sport at the Opening
Day of the Meeting.


MEMPHIS Tenn), April 9.-The fif-
teen days race meeting ofthe Memphis
Jockey Club began to-day, the track be-
ing fast, the crowd about 10000 and
the sport disappointing. The latter was
due to the starting machine, which
caused the burning of a, great deal of
money by leaving two favorites at the
post. The Tennessee Derby was cap
tured DR.. McLean's Berclair,
maiden, who lowered the Derby record
by three and one-half seconds. Sum
mary:
Six furlongs, George F. Smith won,
David second Nick third. Time-1: 1872
Four furlongs, Scribe won, Clifford
Jr., second, Lear third. Time-O:51.
One and one-e1ghth miles, Tennessee
Derby, value $4,000, Berclair won, Lady
Inez second, Ben Eder third. Time
1 :55A.
Four furlongs, O'Lean won, Izeyl Sec
ond, Marie c. third Time-0:50R.
One mile, Mopsey won, Sandoval sec
ond, Tancred third. Time not taken.
One mile, Helen Mar won, Miss Glare
second, Leonora third. Time-1: 40.
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Northern Pacific Bonds.

NEW YORK, April 9.-It is learned
that the holders of about S5,0O0,000 of
the general first mortgage bonds of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
have agreed to exchange them for the 4
per cent. prior lien mortgage bonds Of
the reorganized company on terms Of
fered in the plan of reorganization,
namely 135 per cent. in new bonds and
cash for the coupons of 3 per cent. due
July l, 1896. 1t is understood that the
proposition to exchange the general
mortgage firsts upon the terms named
in the plan will not be held open indefi-
nitely
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HOUSE PROCEEDINGS

WASHINGTON. April 9.-The bill
20 repeal the compulsory pilotage sys-
tenn, so far as it affects sailing vessels
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POLITICAL SHOTS.

Yale students have the reputation of guy
ing all fake shows. = Philadelphia North
American.
The price of wheat is going up. and every
body is glad except the silver men-Boston
Transcript.
If Miss Democracy selects another mate
in New York. will John Boyd Scratcher?
Chicago Dispatch.
Governor Altgeld is making speeches for
silver. but his lease contracts still call for
gold-New York Press.
Davy Hill is still acting like a man who
expects someone to go to bat for him in
the ninth inning. -Washington Post
The hole left in the Republican party bv
the retirement of Jesse Grant has been
plugged with cigarette.-San Francisco
Chronicle
Mckinley does not have to run after the
people. He is the kind of man they have
been looking for more than three years.
David Bunko Hill says that he is trying
to save the party in New York Did
David ever read the story of the blind
Samson and the PhillistineS' temple Phil
adelphia Press.
Mr.. SewalPs remark that the cloud in
Maine is no bigger than mans hand may
be supplemented with Al suggestion of Mr..
Watson that the hand has got a wart on it,
Boston Herald
The geysers in Yellowstone Park are
abating, and in less than SIX weeks the
Popocratic campaigrers will cease to vex
the autumn atmosphere with their great
spouts of blather.-Phiadelph Record 4
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WHICH SHALL BE CHOSEN

The Bryanites are demanding q restora-
ton of the conditions of 1872. What We're
those conditions? The average premium
for gold during the year was 112.4. The
average of wages was $1.62 paid in dollars
worth $40 cents, or less than 81 3. The
country had a total stock of money of $751;
100000 worth SIG cents on the dollar. The
rates of interest on all outstanding govern
ment bonds We're and per cent, from s
to II per cent. to the people on business pa
per and from IL to IS on mortgages. The
wealth of the country in 1870 was 1924 000,-
100000. with an aggregate Indebtedness of
over 40 per cent. of that sum. A few over
600 men and women were employed in
manufactures. The clothing which was pur-
chased in 1870 for $1.39 could have been pur-
chased in 1892 for S24 cents There was not
a silver dollar in circulation. and only about
coined TO that date.
The McKinleyites point to the year 1890
or 1892 as the golden era of prosperity to
which they would return. At that time
gold, silver and paper were all al parity;
the actual interest government bonds
ranged from to per cent. and from to Z
per cent. to the people, with an average less
than per cent. on mortgages throughout
the country. The total stock of money
including that in the treasury in 1892
81 1854, 900, 900. The total wealth of the coun-
try was $65,oOo,oOO ooO,. with aggregate debts
less than 80 per cent. In 1890 400 900 people
were employed in manufactures at wages
averaging $483 a year in gold value The
average days wages was the highest ever
paid in the world, and the days wages of
1890 would purchase nearly a third more
than those of 1870.
Which general prosperity for all the peo-
pie is preferred-that which is the desire of
the silver mine owners and their followers
and dupes or that which came to the coun-
try as the result of years of a Republican
fiscal policy, and which it is the policy of
the same party to restore?
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CROWDS NOT VOTES.

On Saturday Mr.. Bryan was in Bath
Me, the home of Mr. Sewall. There
an immense ovation. Such crowds the ship
building city never saw, and, if the press
agent tells the truth, the conservative peo-
pie of one of the most conservative towns
in New England We're fairly beside them
selves with Bryan enthusiasm. And yet
Bath, the native place and residence of the
capitalist and national banker who is the
really favored by Mr.. Bryan of his two
running mates. would tomorrow vote as
it did the second Monday of September.
In other words. Bath would give a. Repuo-
lican majority three times greater than the
Bryan vote We are all alike, the East
and the West. We run to see a novelty,
and those who shout shout SO loudly that
all appear to be shouting. 1t will be differ
ent when they come to vote in the West as
it has been in Maine. Voting is business;
running to Bryan is a rare excitement
which comes at long intervals. 1t came in
1860. when the really great Douglas toured
the country, having cause and reputation
as a statesman. The opportunity came
again in 1872, when Horace Greeley, one of
the best-known men in the country, starred
the land as the candidate of an alleged
wing of the Republican and the whole DEM
ocratic party. People fell over each other
in crowds to get a sight of him and to listen
to his strange statements in high treble.
Never were presidential candidates
beaten in electoral votes as were Douglas
and Greeley, both of whom were great
men with personal following. Crowds
which became mobs headed the entrance
of General Butler into Chicago when he
went as candidate and delegate in 1885, to
the convention when Mr.. Cleveland was
nominated When election came, as the
peoples candidate, he a poor third,
even in Massachusetts, where he had been
elected Governor two years earlier by the
Democratic party. Denis Kearney in 1873
" as greeted in the East by most enthusiasts
tic crowds to whom he denounced the rich
and urged the poor to rally to defend their
rights, much as Mr.. Bryan is doing. The
elections a few months later did not show
any trace of the revolt which Kearney
urged hundreds of thousands to make.
So this year the American people who
flock to hear Mr.. Bryan will not be led to
vote for him unless he does something bet
ter than to advocate war between employer
ers and to take the risks of a general panic
simply to put the silver miners trust in
control of the government.
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osition on all sides and find no argument
in IL for free-silver and cheap-siiyer dol
lars.-Terre Haute Express.
The poll of Henry county shows over 200
out-and-out sound-money Democrats. They
will not all vote for Palmer and Buckner.
for some of them have put patriotic duty
above desire to save the organization from
ruin and viii vote straight for Mckinley
and Hobart--New Castle Courier.
The Republican party of Warren county
has the best organization to-day it has ever
had. No brass band has been used in tie
work. but the whole committee has labored
TO bring about the organization. The fruit
will be shown in Noyember.-West Leba-
non Gazette.
The free coinage of silver would give a
chance for speculation in money, which all
spectators will profit by and no one will
be profited more than the Englishmen. who
have so large an interest in the gold and
SILVER mines of the United States. Just re-
member that-Winamac Republican.
The silverites who think silver and wheat
go hand in hand and have their ups and
downs together. have had their simple no
ton rudely shocked by the events of the
past ten days. Wheat has advanced 10
cents bushel, and while it has Nbeen going
up, silver has gone down about 3 cents an
ounce.-Kokomo Tribune.
One of our most prosperous farmers sold
100 bushels of oats last week, for which he
received $50 in gold. He got the very best
of money. but the price was the very low
est. He should have received not less than
S2O0 for his oats. He would have received
1t and did receive ii under a protectiye
tariff law.-Tipton Advocate.
No Bryan orator who has visited Hunt
1ngton so far has dared to attempt an ex-
PLANTATION why. if 16 to i is a good thing.
to is not better: why, if free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver at one-half its com
mercial value is going to makes times BET
ter. coinage of the same metal at one
fourth its value will not make them twice
as good.-Huntington Herald
Free coinage, as advocated by Bryan and
bis followers, has for its object the carry
ing out of the trade and commerce of a
single countryside United States-on a
money basis that none of the other great
commercial nations will adopt or tolerate.
and which, if adopted by the United States
would practically exclude her from the roll
of great commercial nations-Mt Vernon
Sun.
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business himself Mr.. Bryan is the under
dog in the fight and entitled to some con-
sderation at their hands on that account.
1t would not do them any harm to say
something pleasant about him, and might
help to tighten his weight of woe after the
Sd of November. For instance, the end
man might ask, why is Mr.. Bryan like
the proprietor of this great combination?
The answer would be, Because he has a
show" So far as Mr.. Bryan is concerned
this would be a complimentary reply. and
vet it's manifest absurdity would create a
laugh, which is what the minstrels want.
Or they might ask. why is Mr.. Bryan
like the Mississippi river?" the answer being
Because he flows forever and is great
est at his mouth This would be a pleas
ant reference to the most prominent fea-
ture- in Mr.. Bryans face and to the gift
on which he most prdes himself. The min
strels ought to try and work III a rev
pleasant little things of this kind to please
the minority. it won't do to be too hard
on the Boy Orator.
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MORE TROUBLE FOR THE PoPO-
CRAFTS.

There is more trouble for the Popocrats
The elements seem to have combined
against them. and the stars in their course
even the negro minstrel stars, are
fighting them. At least the local
Popocrat organ says so. 1t was
bad enough when wicked correspond
ents consoired to make the organ
print Munchausen stories concerning the
growth of free-siver clubs. 1t was very
discouraging when railroad men allowed
themselves u be coerced by thousands into
: Joining sound-money and Mckinley clubs.
But If the negro Ministries are going to
fight Mr.. Bryan his case is desperate He
is in the travelling show business himself.
and ought not to be subjected to an attack
in the rear while he is fighting the enemy
in front. The local Popocrat organ yes
terday. said editorially:
Ii Primrose and Vests minstrels are not
in the pay of Mark Hanna and the Repub-
lican managers they should instruct their
end men to sandwich their humor with an
occasional pleasant reference to Mr.
BRYAN. Some of their Jokes" were posi-
tive insults to the national Democratic
candidate and others were pointless but
none the less insulting. End man Wilson
referred to Mckinley as one who was
wanted because ne could put money in the
strels are up to date on current politics.
but such Jokes cf the Wilson standard
are positively Doverty-stricken in their at
tempts at humor One of the managers of
the concern remarked to the Sentinel rep
resentative TO wait and hear something
pleasant about Mr.. Bryan. 1t was then
$40 d. m. and three references to the can
didates had been made and all OF them
were mserably attenuated attempts at wit
and hunnor and more or less insulting 10
Democrats.
Now. the Journal is not an expert in
what constitutes negro minstrel humor and
would not for a moment undertake to sit
in Judgment on their jokes. but on humani-
tartan grounds it would have no hesitation
in saying that in dealing with politics they
ought TO sandwich their humor with an
occa sional pleasant reference to Mr. Bry-
an" OF course, IT is the business of min
strels to make people applaud. and when
they find that deDreciating references to a
candidate take better and elicit more APP
plause than complimentary ones they are
very apt to give the people what they
want But something is due TO profession
al courtesy. and they should remember
that besides being in the travelling show
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Emil G. Hirsch. in Reform Advocate

Emil u. HlrScn, III lNelotiH <AuNoSatt'
There may not be very many Jewish vo-
ters in Indiana: but II is very poor policy
for the Popocratic candidate for Governor
to designate them hook -nosed shy
locks simply because he thinks them adj
herents of the gold standard. Biilingsgate
is not argument. AS rule, it's use In po-
litical debate betrays weak and losing
cause The appeal to class prejudice TO
sectionalism TO greed and passion. which
has characterized most of the utterances
of many famous pleaders for the
restoration of silver" will be re-
membered by the future historians
as the saddest of all the many sad
phenomena of this years campaign. None
who love this country and its institutions
but rpuse deplore this spirit and Will resent
it at the ballot-box. TO the Popocratic
candi date for the governorshp of Indiana
belongs the honor of having enlarged the
scope OF this damnable spirit, by dragging
into the controversy the demons OF rellgi-
Gus bias. ''Hook-nosed Shylocks. agents
of Rothschild." etc. are some OF the choiG-
est bits of rhetoric to keep company with
the crown of thorns" and the cross or
gold.' VIII the American people tolerate
this woeful degeneration of partisan zeal?
We know it will not.
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A FEW WORDS TO WORKERS
Reasons Why WOrkingmeD Should
Vote Against Free silver.

Gentlemen-Why should we vote to scale
down the wages of % 800, 900 workers over
$1,000, 900, besides the earnings of clerks
mail carriers, officers preachers and teach
of our land? ITO enable US to pay off
immense and crushing national debt
to cancel the bonds and stop the bondhold-
ers' interest, enslavng our people to the
money power" we are told. That is en-
tirely unnecessary. Four fifths of it is al
ready paid, and no one wronged or injured.
Avenues of employment multiplied wages
improved, and were paid in money equally
as good as gold in purchasing power eur
ing the time of the paying process. The
coinage securing such grand good results
complete the job and restore lost
prosperity. We need new device with
which to do it. We are not favorably i'm
pressed with experiments.
Four years ago free trade was to bless
our country and emancipate our people, and
it cursed both. Free coinage now, is to re-
lieve us from all trouble; but our faith is
small. The same party promises, with less
probability of performing than before.
Perhaps we desire both metals in our cur
rency, and, therefore, favor free coinage;
but that we have now, with limited COIN
age of silver (s456 OOO0 600 of gold and $3.50. Co.,,
coo of silver or its representatives., which
we never had with free coinage.
We are asked to have silver placed on an
equality with gold and, therefore, should
vote for free coinage of silver. But TWO
unequal things cannot be made equal mere
ly by giving equal opportunities. 1t is said
the scarcity of money Expresses the peo-
pie; we have plenty OF silver in our noun
tains: let US mine and coin and nave
abundance" But we have now fifty times
more silver dollars, in eighteen years or
limited coinage, than we had in eighty-four
years of free. Why change our policy and
drive our best coin from circulation! But
suppose it did not do SO, and silver Is
mined and coined by the millions, would
the people be relieved? Who would have
and own these coined millions? Not the
government; not the people: only the al
ready rich mine owners. And how would
we or the government get them without
paying for them? Why should we vote to
make the miners 30 cents worth OF product
a dollar at our expense? Why his product
and not the farmers and manufacturer s?
We need no radical change in our money
system the base of all our business trans
actions. No shifting of prices and disturb
ing of all values. With the present our
greatest improvements, our unequaled
financial success, our unprecedented peo-
pies prosperity have been achieved. Why
Should we vote for another, oft tried. and
always found wanting?
ONE OF THE WORKERS.
INDIANAPOLIS Sept. 26