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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-05-14
CALLED DOWN.
President Cleveland Said to Have SEMI
Warning to Spain.

warning ~ 0kOANs .' o.
Madrid, May 11.-A dispatch from
Havana says that the five prisoners
captured on the schooner Competitor
have been sentenced to death. The
men sentenced to death are: Alfredo La
horde, born in New Orleans; Owen Mill
ton, of Kansas; William Kinla, an Eng
lishman, and Elias Bedia and Theodore
de la Maza, both Cubans.
Washington, May 11.-President|
Cleveland and Secretary Olncy werein
consultation on the Competitor .case.i
After the conference the secretary of
state cabled Consul-Gencral Williams|
at Havana and Minister Taylor at Mad-|
rid instructing them to notify the Span-
ish government that summary action I'M
the cases of the men captured on board
the Competitor would he resented by
tho United States. The tenor Of the.
notes is that the United States will step,
in and terminate the bloody war in
Cuba if these prisoners are not pro-
tcctcd. Execution of them under the.
present sentence of the military trib-
unal would be violation of the Cushing
treaty of 1877.
London, May 1.-THE Madrid cor
respondent of the Standard says:
"Senor Canovas del Castillo has publicly
stated that America has not protested
against SPANS right to punish filibusters,
but only against the summary trial. Amer
lean citizens are entitled to be tried in the
civil courts under the treaties Of 1895 and
1877. Tho Spanish government is willing
to consider the demand, ard has cabled to
Capt. Gen. Weyler to delay the executions
pending the result of negotiations which
are actively proceeding between Washing
ton and Madrid to define the Interpretation
Of tho aforesaid treaties.
1.-THE Epoca (ti1e government organ) in
guarded language recommends prudence
and dcprecates demonstrations. 1t clearly
intimates that the government will make
another effort to conciliate President
Cleveland by ordering Gen Weyler to send
all the papers bearing upon the case here
for the supreme court to pronounce upon.
The execution Of the sentences would thus
be virtually shelved.
1.-The rest of the Madrid press are unant-
nous in the opinion that America has taken
an ungenerous and unjustiflable advantage
of Spain's difficulties"
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A CHALLENGE TO CARLISLE.
BRYAN Wants Him to Answer His Own
1878 Argumonts.

1873 Argument.
Omaha, Neb., May S.-Hon. w. ]. Bryan
tas written O letter to Secretary Carlisle,
in which he calls attention to the fact that
the secretary has changed his position on
the question OF finance since 1875 and Is now
defending a policy which he then de-
nounced. Mr.. Bryan challenges Mr.. car
Isle to q Joint debate, and asks him to take
up his speech in 1878 ant. answer 1t one
proposition at q time: He tells the sec
rotary that II he IL not willing to race MS
own arguments and overcome them, ne
cannot complain II his opponents adopt
the philosophy Of Shakespeare and at
tribute his cowarGice to a guilty conscience
Trenton, N. J., May S-The democratic
state convention held on Thursday adopted
losing free silver, deprecattng any attempt
to alter the present tarin, favoring
strengthening Of the navy and coast de-
lenses, commencing the administration OF
President Cleveland, pledging allegiance
to the Monroe doctrine and expressing
egates at large to the national convention
are United States Senator Smith, Allen Nc
Dermott, United States Senator Rufus
Blodgett and Albert L. Tallman.
Nashville, Tenn. May S.-The democratic
state convention held here Thursday NOM
mated ex-Gov. Robert L. Taylor for gov
crnor by reclamation. A. b. Woodward.
Fayetteville. and Columbus Marchbanks.
Of Chattanooga. were chosen electors for
the state at large. The platform contains
q strong free-silver plank. The admins
tration of President Cleveland was not
mentioned in the platform and only referred
to by inference. Some of the speeches were
very bitter and abusive of President Cleve-
land.
Montpelier, VT. May S.-The prohibition
state convention nominated Rodney c.
Whittemore for governor and selected
Cell o1y at o1o oil at a rfra a
delegates to the national convention. The
platform enunciated prohibition principles;
two resolutions regarding national affairs
and free coinage being vote down.
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GERMANY CELEBRATES.

Anniversary Of Signing of Peace Treaty
with France Fifty Observed.
Berlin, May 1.-The 25th anniver-
sary of the signing of the treaty of peace
between Germany and France, which
was signed at Frankfort-on-the-Ma
IN 1871, was celebrated in that city Sun:
day. Emperor William and Empress
Victoria arrived at Frankfort in the
morning and were given a most en-
thusiastic reception by the officials and
other residents of the city. The town
was handsomely decorated in honor OF
the occasion. Delegates were present
from every university in southern and
central Germany. In the afternoon the
emperor unveiled a monument to his
grandfather. His majesty sent tele-
gram to Prince Bismarck recalling his
never-to-be-forgotten services to the
empire. Among other things the dis
patch said: "Side by side with the name
of the great emperor, that of the great
chancellor will ever be emblazoned in
history. The feeling of gratitude to
you will never die in my heart"
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The ladelphia Mint

Philadelphia, May 0.-The presses at
the United States mint i'll this city
which have been stamping silver dollars
and subsidiary coin for two months will
shortly also begin turning out double
eagles. Gold bars to the value of 81, 000,-
900 are now stored in the mint and all
of this will be coined prior to the annual
shut down, which will take place on
June 30, and last for two weeks. The
coinage of silver dollars and the SUBJ
sidiary coin will, however, not be
stopped altogether the order to coin
them not having been rescinded.
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LATER.

Edward Conery, president of the In
dependent Oil Comdany, at New Or
leans, assigned the 18th. Liabilities
S445,O 200; assets $685., O09. a.
William Simpson Sloan, vice presi-
dent of the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western Railroad Company, died st
New York, the 18th, after . protracted
illness.
The large tow boat, Henry Brown,
exploded her boilers below Vicksburg,
Miss, the night of the 10th, ahd was
completely wrecked. The Brown had
tow of emptles. When the explosion
occurred she broke in two. OF her crew
of 40 men, three are ut Vicksburg dead,
eight missing and the captain and four
others are badly injured. y
In the Competitor case it can be au-
thoritatlvely stated that at the time Of
the request of the United States the
Spanish government will postpone exc
cution of the death sentences upon
American citizens until the views of the
United States respecting the applica-
ton to their cases of the treaty of 1795,
and the protocol of 1877. can be pre-
sented and considered. i,
A gas explosion occurred at the I'm.
beetle asylum, at Columbus, O., the
18th. Several persons were killed. 4,
John Houlihan' died at New Britain,
Conn.,, the 18th, from injuries received
in a prize fight few days previous. n
An attempt was made, the 18th, ia
destroy the Burkes Hill concentration at
Wardner, Idaho, by dynamite. q
/ Among the passengers arriving at
New York by the steamer Wilhelm II.
from GENE the 18th, were Dona Elvira
De Bourbon, infanta of Spain. Oh
7 Mustapha Bey, under secretary in
the foreign ministry, has been appoint
ed Turkish minister at Washington. 81
The treasury the 18th lost So, los, 800
in gold coin and $2G, 200 in bars, leaving
the true amount of the gold reserve
Sis, 7S5,646. ....-. = =
Several small buildings were wrecked
in Omaha, Neb., the 18th by wind. q
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Veteran Demented in Nicararua.

Washington, May 11.-Mr. Baker, the
United States minister to Nicaragua,
telegraphed to the state department
Saturday from Managua that Daniel
Norton, a United States pensioner, was
ut Matagalpa in a serious sdemented
condition. lie came to Nicaragua from
California three years ago. Mr.. Baker
says that no relatives of the man are
known and that there is no public in
stitution in the country in which he
can be cared for, adding that Norton
has some money. The state depart
ment is anxious 10 hear from anybody
who knows Norton. 7.. ,.,s
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Drowned ina Pond.

= Chicago, May l1.-Four persons were
thrown into the water by the capsizing
of boat on an ice pond in South Chica-
20, two of them, Mary Berry and
Michael Welsh, were drowned. The
OF the boat was due, it is said, to the
hilarity of Welsh, who persisted in rock
ing the craft in fun. He finally gave it
too vigorous lurch and the entire party
was tipped into the water.
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GOOD GOVERNMENT.

Meeting at Baltimore of Weli-Known
Political Reformers
Baltimore. Md, May 7.-Many we'll.
known political reformers, engaged in
IN effort to improve the present meth
DDS of governing municipalities, met In
the assembly room of Music hall
Wednesday afternoon and opened the
annual conference of the National Mu-
nicipal league. The sessions will con-
tinue until Friday evening. Delegates
from all parts of the country were pres
ent.
Mr.. James C. Carter, of New York.
one of the country's leading jurists, is
president of the league. He presided
over the sessions Wednesday. He is an
enthusiastic believer in the organiza-
ton and predicts many beneficial re-
suits in the near future.
Mr.. Charles Morris Howard, secre-
tary of the Baltimore Reform league,
made very interesting address on the
recent revolt in Baltimore, it's results
and it's lesson. -.., ....
1.-THE work of the Ohio state board Of
commerce. was the subject of paper
by Thomas L. johnson, secretary OF
the civic federation of Cleveland. o.
Mr.. Merritt Starr read paper on
"Chicago since the adoption of NUM-
cipal civil service REFORM giving
description of the workings of the law.
The feature of the nights session
was the annual address made by MIR.
James c. Carter, president of the league.
He called attention to the remarkable
growth of interest in questions of NUM-
cipal government; to the vigor and uni
versatility of the movement, and asserted
that the outlook for municipal reform
was more promising than ever before.
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: Fail with Zig Assets, .

Ottawa, ILL.,. May 1.-The schuma-
cher interests at Marseilles, consisting
of the Marseilles Land and Waterfowl
er company and the Illinois River Pa
per company, assigned at noon satur-
day. The assets foot up about $3.50, 200,
more than double the liabilities.
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Provided for His Cremation.

. Quincy, ILL.,, May 11.-Rev. DR.. Charles
+. Bradley, the distinguished Unitarian
minister and magazine writer. left
will providing for the cremation of his
body. The remains will be taken TO St.
Louis and incinerated with appropriate
ceremonies. l"a'7<.5&E
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A Big Failure.

Akron, O., May 11.-Ferdinand Schu-
macher, president of the American
Cereal company. and known as the "oat-
meal king" turned over his property
to his nephew, Hugo Schumacher, and
Attorney J. A. Arbogast, of this city,
Saturday afternoon for the benefit of
creditors. The assets, which consist
of Sl,10O,0O0 in American Cereal COM
pany stock, other similar securities and
real estate, would reach $2,000.000 If
there was a market for them. The liza
bilities will reach $1,5oo,OO0. The as
signment was caused by heavy losses in
the Marseilles Land and Water Power
company and the Illinois River Paper
company of Marseilles, ILL.,, which went
to the wall Saturday in consequence
of the failure of the chief stockholder-
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Was Heavily Insured.

Pittsburgh, Pa, May o.-Hamilton
Disston, of Philadelphia, a few weeks
before his sudden death. had increased
the amount of his life insurance $780,
600. A representative of the company
that loses by the transaction was in the
city and confirms this statement. The
company's agent here is positive no liti-
cation will follow the death of Mr.. Diss-
ton and believes that an error is due
to the present difficulty. The Disston
family, consisting of wife, brother and
son, are all heavily insured and with
that Of the deceased the total will reach
nearly $4,000, 600. - =
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The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts
CONGRESSIONAL.

Srhe Proceedinss Of tho First Session.
In the senate on tho 9th an hour was
devoted to the consideration OF the river
and harbor bill and then the PETER bond
resolution was taken up and Senator HilA
finished his speech In opposition to the
measure and Senator Pettigrew spoke IN
ito favor. A resolution was introduced re-
Questing the president to protest against
the execution of American citizens taken
on board the schooner Competitor ny
Spanish gunboat Twenty-seven pension
bills were passed. In the house the naval
bill was further discussed.
The bond resolution was further dis
cussed In the senate on the eth. In the
house q resolution was adopted fcI maj
adjournment on May IL. A favorable re-
pensions Of veterans Of the Mexican and
Indian wars from eight to twelve dollars
per month. Seventy-two private pension
bills were passed.
BY q vote of 81 to s the senate on tho I'll,
1naugurated an investigation. to be con-
Quoted by the senate committee on finance,
into the facts and circumstances connected
with the sale Of United States bonds by the
secretary Of the treasury during the last
three years. .. In the house no business OF
importance was transacted.
In the senate on the Sth bill to prohibit
the issue Of United States bonds without
authority OF congress was introduced by
Senator Bacon (Ga.). The river and har-
Dor bill was completed with the exception
of the item for deep sea harbor on the Pa
cific coast. :. In the house bill was passed
to appropriate 5000 for the deportation of
the Canadian refugee Cree Indians form the
state of Montana, and another to provide
clerks for the chairmen Of regular COM
mittees the year round. At the evening ses-
sion % pension bills were passed.
The last paragraph Of the river and har-
Dor bill for the deep water harbor at Santa
Monica bay, California, was not completed
by the senate on the 9th, the entire session
being taken up in discussing the Item
1.-THE house was not in session.
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91f vY1 Il Gras
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-10
A NEW TURN OF AFFAIRS.

The resignation of Hon. Sterling r. Holt
as chairman of the Democratic State CEN
trail committee is a direct and natural re-
Matthews in regard to the appointment of
members of the State Board of Election
Commissioners. That position is entirely
untenable. The law says:
The Governor of the State and two quail
each of the two political parties that cast
the largest number of votes in the State
constitute a State Board of Election Com
m1SSlonerS. Such appointments shall be
made at least thirty days prior
prior TO that time the chairman of the
State central committee of either of such
parties shall nominate, in writing a men,
Der of his own party for such appointment.
the Governor of the State shall appoint
such nominee.
The law is perfectly clear that if the
chairmen of the two central committees
nominate members of the board in writing
the Governor must appoint the persons SO
nominated. He has no discretion in the
matter and no right to question the nomi-
nations. Only in the event of the failure
of either of the chairmen to nominate
person for the position can the Governor
Otherwise, he has no choice and no dis
erection in the matter. In view of his per-
sistent claim that he had right to reject
or reverse the nomination made by Mr..
Holt, the latter could not remain chairman
of the committee and retain his self-re-
spect. His resignation was the only con-
sistent and manly course for him to take,
and whatever the consequences on the
party organization may be- the RESPONSE
biity will be the Governor, who has
forced the crisis by assuming and main
tanning an indefensible position. The
resignation of Mr. Magee as member of
the committee is scarcely less significant
than that of Chairman Holt. Their
ton will necessitate general reforming of
the party organization and lines through
out the State.
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speaks with convincing emphasis when he
wonders how he the youthful Bryan)
found time to accumulate so enormous
store of transformation and to develop so
mature an incapacity for understanding
this subject" The Boy Orator must have
felt crude and boyish, indeed, and may even
have had momentary doubt of his nfalli-
bility when he read further: considering
that for years the discussion of these ques-
tions has been his only business, and that
he has remained SO entirely unacquainted
with the most rudimentary of economic
principles and with the most conspicuous
of business experience, we must conclude
that he not only does not know, but is I'M
able to learn. Imagine such ignorance
coupled with such assurance clothed with
great power, Imagine him, President
of the United States, parading such childish
absurditeS in his messages. 1t would
make the laughing stock of the
world. and every self-respectng American
would hang his head in shame The time
has surely not come when Americans are
ready to put such Unbalanced, ignorant
and bumptious man in the highest place.
They do not need the scholarship or the
craftsmanship of Schurz to know that he
is unfit.
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BRYAN's ITINERARY.
Where the PopOcrat VIII Speak in
the south md East.

LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 9.-The following
is the itinerary of the Southern and East
ern trip of William j. Bryan, as given out
by him to-day: He will leave Lincoln Fri
day, Sept. IL, at 9:15 p. m, arriving in Kan
sas City at o'clock the morning of the
18th. He will not speak at this place but
will take the a. m train for ST Louis
passing through Mexico and Moberly. Mo-
at which places he viii make short speech
es. and will get irto St. Louis at 8 o'clock
hat evening he will address audiences at
the Auditorium, Music Hall and Uhrigs
Cave Sunday morning he will go to his
old home, in Salem. ILL.,. and spend the day
with relatives, returning TO St. Louis Mon
day morning, the 18th. and Immediately go
Louisville, ky over the L. & N. where
he viii address meetings that evening. The
Lext day he goes to Lexington. Ky. pass
ing through Versailles and Frankfort. over
the same road. and will speak in the after
noon at Lexington. The same afternoon
he will go to Maysvflla. and that night viii
return to Lexington. where. at 10 O'clock
he will start for Ashevile. n. c.. PASSING
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commercial gold price in deprecated silver
or paper just as we did before specie pay
ments. Now as TO taxes-for what are
they raised? portion is to pay the inter-
est on State bonds, which are owned main
~ by two three savings banks in New
York. Possibly Indiana could force thou
sands of people in moderate circumstances
to accept their principal or interest in de-
preciated silver. but it would be the cruel
est wrong ever inflicted upon wage earners
by a sovereign State. The annual interest
account is the smallest part of the State
tax. The larger part goes to purchase sup
plies for public institutions and a lesser
part to pay officials and employees Now,
if a deprecated cheap dollar would en-
nance the price of wheat and other farm
products, the State as purchaser would
be compelled TO pay more for them, and
the result would be that larger amounts
of money would have to be appropriated
for their purchase and taxes would neces-
sarily be increased. With everything else,
taxes would go up with deprecated silver
money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-10

In his letter of acceptance Mr.. Bryan de-
votes considerable space to an indirect criti-
cism of the action of President Cleveland IL
sending troops to Chicago to prevent the
obstruction of mail trains and interference
with interstate commerce. Mr.. Bryan
seems to have forgotten that after some
discussion the Senate passed, without divi-
SIGN, resolutions prepared by Senator Dam
iel of Virginia, declaring that the Pres-
Dent only exercised his constitutional pow
ers in suppressing the Chicago riots. Does
he forget that in the Democratic House,
of which he was a member, the Populists
and a few others could not muster enough
votes to demand the ayes and noes on the
re solution approving the action of the Pres
ident in the Chicago affair? Was he
of the Intellectual eighteen who asked for
a roll call, or was he with the majority?
Both votes were as much a condemnation CT
Altge!d as an Endorsement of the Presi-
dent. At that time the temporary chair
man of the convention which nominated
Mr.. Bryan prepared the resolution APPROX
ing the ACTION of the President, and both
Democrats and Republicans sustained the
President. How large port of the Demo
cratic party now sustains Mr.. Bryan in 'ie-
ft riding the position of Governor Altgcld?
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The evils of the proposed free and unlim-
in so many phases that it would seem i'm
possible to add anything which would show
more plainly the catastrophe which would
come to the country if the scheme of the
silver-mine barons should succeed; never
theless Mr. Hobart, the Republican candi-
date for Vice President. in his letter of
acceptance, given in this issue, has present.
ed some of the results which would follow
the success of the silver milionaires in
very effective. if not a novel, manner
After going the amounts which de-
positors in savings banks, shareholders in
building and loan associations and those
connected with life insurance and benefit
organizations have invested, he declares
that all these organizations hold in trust
more than 1000. .000 which would be
deprecated by passing TO a silver basis.
While the greater part of Mr.. Hobart's
letter is devoted to consideration of the
financial issue, he touches on other salient
features Of the Republican platform show
ing very clearly the imperative necessity
CT a protective tariff, which will increase
the revenues, and pointing out the danger
of that heresy of the Chicago platform
which denies to the President the right to
enforce federal laws and protect federal
property in the states
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There should be no more possibility of
making a commercial profit from money
than there Should be from the open and
avowed alterations of any other measure.
A dishonest dollar is as great evil as
a dishonest yard stick; fluctuating dol
lar is as great an evil fiuctuating yard
stick.
The foregoing is taken from pamphlet
entitled The Worlds Silver Question"
written by Mr.. Jacob p. Dunn and pub
lished in 1894. Mr. Dunn is now writing
the editorials in the Sentinel urging free
and unlimited coinage of silver, by which
the owners of silver bullion, by mere coin
age at public expense, would make a COM
mercal profit on their silver bullion of
nearly 80 per cent, compared with present
prices No one has ever more pointedly
denounced the dishonest dollar than has
Mr.. Dunn the pamphleteer. and yet he
has recently devoted a column of the Sem
tineI 10 the castigation of clergyman
who ventured to speak in the same line as
Mr. Dunn wrote two years ago. Mr.. Dunn
seems to have reformed backward since
the Chicago convention.