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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-02

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The south
ern hurricane which swept over this
city with such resistless force on Tues
day night left one fatality, and proba-
bly, several more in it's wake.
The mangled body of James f. F'itz-
gerald was dug out of the ruins Of
Charles L. Beatty's saloon, 1913 Penn
sylvania avenue n. W., at $3.50 o'clock
this morning. Advices from points on
the Potomac river report an extensive
if not alarming rise in the river at all
points above Washington.
At Harper's Ferry, a rise of thirty
one feet above low water mark was
noted early in the afternoon and a
continued rise seems to have followed
Flood river signals are displayed along
the river front, and at comparatively
early hour tonight a rise is reported,
though not to an alarming extent.
The alarming rains about Pittsburg
contribute considerably to the flood
condition, and unless there is an early
fall in the river considerable damage
to property in this city and all upper
points on the Potomac is probable.
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ALLEGED DEMOCRATS.
They Hold n Convention and Name
u Ticket at Omaha.

They Hold n Convention and Name
Il Ticket at Omaha.
OMAHA. Neb., Oct. 1.-The state Ma
tional Democratic convention was held in
this city tonight About sixty counties in
the state were represented. c. j. Ryan
Of Grand Island was chairman Of the
convention. The convention denounced
the action of the Chicago national con-
yention, endorsed the indianapolis plat
form, commen ed the admins tration of
President Clev Gland, and branded the
PopuiisticDemo cratic fusion as repub-
lcanism gone mad. The following ticket
was placed in nomination.:
For governor, Robert S. Bibb, Gage
county; lieutenant governor, O. T. B:g.in,
Holt; Treasurer Frank McGibern. Dodge:
secretary of state, John Mates, jr., Otoe;
auditor, Emil Heller, Cunning; attorney
general, Robert w. Patrick, Omaha; su-
per;ntendent Of public instruction, Sam
missioner of public lands and buildings,
Geo. NJ. Baer, Nance county; regent, DR..
j. J. Leas, Chadron; judges of the su-
preme court, Frank Irving, Douglas coun-
ty; W. II. Plat, Hall county.
For electors-Fred Renner, Burt coun-
ty; VIM. Griffin, Thayer county: A. s.
Godfrey, Lancaster county; ChaS. Turner,
Douglas county; JOS. Bruenig, Platte
county; Alexander Scott, Polk county; j.
A. Kirk, Hitchcock county; Chas. Nicolai,
Custer county.
During a recess of the convention dele
gates from three congressional districts
nominated candidates for congress. The
Third district named NJ. j. Hughes Of
Cunning county; the Fourth r. u. Dunn
ply of Seward; the Fifth r. S Proudft of
Guide Rock.
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THE SEALS.
DR.. David Jordan Gives the Results
Of vi. Inyesttga tons.

DR.. David Jordan Gives the Results
OF His Investigations.
SEATTLE, Wash, Oct. DIR. David
S. Jordan, head of the Bering sea COM
mission for the investigation of the
FUR seal question, arrived in Seattle
last night On the steamer City Of
Topeka in company with Fred A.
Lucas, Of the same commission and
Professor Darcy w. Thompson, head
of the British commission.
DR.. Jordan and MIR. Lucas left at
once for San Francisco, while Pro-
fessor Thompson will spend several
days in Victoria. Of the other menu
bers of the American commission Cap
tain J. F. 5Ecser of the Albatross and
DR.. Leonhard Stejneger are still on
the japanese coast, whittier they have
gone for the exploration of the
Japanese fur seal islands; Charles II.
Townsend is in San Francisco, engaged
in a collection of statistics and George
III. Clark and Colonel Joseph Murras
remain to record the breaking up of
the rookeries on the islands. The fol-
lowing prepared statement was given
out by DR.. Jordan for publication:
DR.. Jordan and Mr. Lucas report
that they are well satisfied with the
work Of the summer. Every phase of
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WATSON IS CRITICAL.
Does Not Like the Action of the
National Cnmpnign Committee.

ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. Thomas z.
Watson, who is here tonight, declines
to discuss the report that he conten-
plated retiring from the national Popu-
list ticket. He is disposed to criticize
the national campaign committee for
allowing him to be traded off in the
fusion between Populists and Demo-
Gratis in the several states. He has
practically nothing in the state where
there has been fusion, the Populists
having taken the local nominations
and given the Democrats the electoral
ticket or a majority of the electors.
In a speech at Stone Mountain, Ca,
today. Mr.. Watson defended his course
III opposing fusion on the electoral
ticket. He said that he had refused
fusion with the Republicans in Georgia
and in Texas. His reason for so doing
was that the Populist party was
organized as a protest aga inst the old
parties and fusion would be endorsing
their faults. IF we were to fuse with
either of them we would be in the
future stopped from attacking them
and would have to admit that they
were right"
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SCENES AT CEDAR KEYS.
sics<ening and Almost Beyond Belief
Bodies Being RecoTered-Many
Vessels Sunk.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. Cedar
Keys is a place of desolation and
death. OF the twenty bodies recov-
cred twelve are white and eight col
ored.
Deplorable as the loss Of life in Cedar
Keys proper is, 1t is as nothing in COM
parison with the number of spongers
and fishermen who are drowned.
The Mary Eliza, d sponging schoon-
ct. reached Cedar Keys at 10 o'clock
this morning. 1t reports that at dark
Monday night nearly 100 vessels were
ancored on the sponge banks near Ce-
dar Keys and that nearly every ona
Of them was sunk by the hurricane.
At daylight on Tuesday morning, the
captain of the Mary Eliza says ne saw
only twenty of the 100 s0onging and
fishing vessels afoat, the others having
gone to the bottom during the early
hours Of the storm. Twelve Of the
twenty vessels that rode out the hur-
ricane during the hours of darkness.
the captain says, went down at s
o'clock on Tuesday morning. Beyond
the bay tops of scores Of masts are vis-
ible just above the water and each top
indicates the burial place of a sponging
schooner and its crew.
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the life and history of the fur seal has
been critically studied and all points
heretofore under dispute have been
settled beyond cavil The first detailed
census of fur seals has been made and
the first complete examination of the
various causes of their death. The
conclusion reached last year by Mr.
Townsend in the study of the killing
of seals at sea has been confirmed in
every particular. A detailed report of
the work of the summer Will be sent
at. once to the treasury department.
There is still a vast body of fur
seals on the islands-more than the
commissioners were at first led to ex-
pect-but the number is steadily de-
clining. The only cause of this de-
cline is the killing of females. The fe-
males are never molested on the
islands, but tnree-fourths Of tho sc
killed in Bering sea are nursing fe
males. The death of the mother causes
the death Of the young on shore, so
that for every four fur seals killed at
sea, three pups starve to death on
shore. AS each of those females is also
pregnant, a like number of unborn
pups is likewise destroyed.
Pelagic sealing as an industry has
already cut it's own throat, as this
fleet this year will not pay expenses.
4Ac hllllJE Vi SUI p1uS yOulS IldiSS' do
provided for by law, is and, has always
been a benefit to the herd.
The commissioners believe that the
way is open to an honorable and
amlcable settlement of this question in
a manner highly satisfactory alike to
the United States ard England and to
Canada. There can no longer be any
difference of opinion as to any facts
in the question. The high character Of
the gentlemen selected by the British
foreign Office, and their unquestioned
ability, give reason to believe that
England viii favor a prompt ant
equitable adjustment which viii give
ample protection to the fur seal herd.
But the duty of the present commit
sion closes With the statement of facts
in question.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-02
IN MASSACHUSETTS.
Republican Ticket Nominated and
st. Louis Platform Endorsed.

Republican Ticket Nominated and
st. Louis Platform, Endorsed.
BOSTON, Oct. 1.-The Republicans of
Massachusetts. in state convention to-
day, nominated the following ticket
and endorsed the ST. Louis platform.
For Governor-Roge Wolcott.
Lieutenant-Governor-William Muir
ray Crane
Secretary of state-colonel William
DIN.
Observation-Disclosures P. Shaw.
Auditor-John w KimbaH.
Attorney-General-Hosea Moulton.
General William T. Draper, who was
selected as permanent chairman was
greeted with a storm of applause He
said, in part:
The logic of events has brought the
currency question into the greatest
prominence. The real question is
whether we shall change the standard
which fixes the value of our currency
from gold to silver with all that such
a change implies.
THE only argument in favor of the
change is the argument of dishonesty;
that the government as a whole, and
private debtors as individuals, can
temporarily save money by cheating
their creditors.
Il do not believe that a majority of
the voters in this country can be Sc
cured for any such policy
Congressman Diapers remarks were
enthusiastically cheered.
The platform was then read and
adopted. 1t endorses the platform
adopted at the national Republican
convention at St. Louis; unaltera Bile
opposition to free coinage by this coun-
try alone; the enactment of tariff laws
which will provide revenue adequate
for the payment of the national ex-
penditures, and the gradual reduction
of the national debt; the promotion OF
the policy of reciprocity; protection Of
American industries and American
workmen, and the preservation Of our
own markets to our own people.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-02
INDEX OF T0saY'S IMPORTANT NEWS

PAGE ONE. (;
B-yan's Tour OF Triumph.
Iowa's Semi-Centenniai.
The Storm ut Washington.
The Florida Storm.
PAGE TWO.
An Aristocrntic yagrant.
Mckinley as Il Dodger.
Blackburn on Bryan.
PAGE THREE.
The Northern Light Mill.
Board OF Education.
PAGE FOUR.
Predictions of weak Mem
PACE FIVE.
Sale of County Bonds.
Yesterdays Court Record.
PAGE SIX.
Red Hot Reply to Il Gold Bug.
Interest on County Warrants.
The Worlds Markets.
Met "a Horrible Death.
PAGE SEVEN.
News From Nearby.
PAGE EIGHT.
Review of City Politics.
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FREIGHT WRECK.
Entire Train Crew as Wen as Two
Traznps Meet Death.

PTTTsBURG, Pa. Oct. IA disastrous
freight wreck occurred at Filson station
on the Baltimore & Ohio road early this
morning. The entire train crew, consist
Iorakemen, flagnan and two tranps were
killed. Thirty-four cars loaded with COAL
together with engine and caboose, were
pied up on the track and traffic entirely
suspended.
The train was running at a terrific speed
and beyond the control Of the trainmen
AT short curve the engine left the track
and the entire train was wrecked and piled
up in a cut The bodies of the trainmen
have not yet been found, and are evil
IDENTIFY buried deep in the wreck. The
grade where the runaway occurred is the
steepest on the system, being ten miles
long and 10 feet 10 the mile
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Al SYRACUSE.
Second Convention of the Peoples
Party Held Yesterday.

Second Convention of the Peoples
Party Held Yesterday
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Oct Twenty
members of the Peoples party re-
sponded today to the call of a second
convention to revise the work OF the one
held in this city on September g AT
the former convention Bryan and Wat
son electors were named and also a
full state ticket
These men We're named with the I'M
Outstanding that they would place their
designations in the hands of the state
committee, to be used if fusion with
the Democrats would be arranged at
the Buffalo conyen Ion. The commit
tee sent to Buffalo received no recogni-
ton, but according to the Populistic
leaders who are present, william St
John, treasurer Of the Democratic
party, has given assurance that fusion
will be made on congressman in several
districts in the state, provided the
Democratic electors and state ticket
were endorsed
The convention was reconvened to
carry out this programme. All who
came went into executive session as a
state committee, and at some time dur
ing the proceedings they resolved them
selves into a convention. The consti-
tuition of the Peoples party was
amended so as to allow fusion to be
made. Then it was found that Lansing
e. Lincoln, who had been nominated
for governor, had not resigned as re-
ported. This difficulty was overcome
by Ignoring the action of the conven-
ton of September for the reason that
its officers had never been sworn in
AID it was, therefore, declared Illegal.
Chairman Ferry and Secretary Nc
Parlin were sworn in and the Bryan
and Sewall electors were endorsed
without opposition. When it came to
endorsing Porter and Schraub, the
Democratic candidates for governor
and lieutenant governor. there was
some objection, but the programme
went through and the convention ad-
journed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-02
TIE FIRST CENTENNIAL

of the state. What has been brought out
amid the conflicts of the past is but the
earnest Of the development, the progress,
the marvellous achievements of the COM
ing century. The American spirit is one
that knows no rest In the words of
Macaulay, The goal of today is but the
starting post for tomorrow The past is
secure, the records of fifty years of trials
and triumphs safely garnered up.
Grateful to God for the successes, the
achievements. the blessings of the past.
the people of this grand commonwealth
today turn their faces resolutely, hope
fully. to the future"
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BIG LEAPS AND ROIINDS.

LONDON. Oct. commenting upon
the statement made in the Austrian
reichsrath by the minister of finance,
the Standard says that the expendi-
lures of Austria are increasing an
nually by leaps and bounds 1t ques-
tons whether the revenue viii be suf-
ficient to meet them. 1t adds the
budget is not likely to be passed by the
present parliament, which already feels
the pangs of approaching dissolution.
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boYcE'S ADVICE.
1t Has Evidently Been Taken BY the
Miners of LeadviIlc.

Miners OIL EAe1edN1L1S.
LEADvILLE, Colo. Oct. las al
ready stated in these dispatches, it is
evident the Miners union has decided
to take the advice given them by Ed
ward Boyce, to stick out the strike. AS
a result, a number of mine managers
will gradually start UP properties with
as many men as they can secure until
the strike is off.
The most important step in this d.
rection is the announcement by the
managers of the hex, Resurrection
Bison and Mapala Mining companies
that they intend to resume. None of
these properties have acceded to the
demands of the union, but the man
ayers state that they are securing
enough men here and from outside to
run their mines. At all these properties
cleaning up and preparatory work has
been commenced. This combination
can furnish employment to 600 men.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-02
HIGH TIDES
PLAYED HAVOC
A Glimpse at the Damage
Done BY the Florida
Storm.
PATH WAS 40 MILES WIDE
Heaviest Losers the Tnrpentine
Manufacturers.

Those Heard From Say Their Plants
VIII Prove Total Loss, and That
They VIII Be Compelled to Go
Out of Business-The Air Monster
scOrched Through the stnte ut the
Rate of 100 Miles Per Hour.
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century of the life of this great common
wealth What sacrifices, what struggles,
what heroic deeds of noble men and wO
men. what mary elous achievements, are
bound up in this fifty years of history
Another anniversary, and what Won
ders will meet the eyes of those who upon
this historic ground shall celebrate
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''The POpulistic Picnic Orator
of the Platte" is Eagerly
Sought.
CHEERED BY
THOUSANDS
EVERYWHERE
An Imposing Parade at Wheeling
West Virginia.

Mcr1inley.s Record on the Silver
Question Held Up Before the Peo-
pIc. Who See in the Republican
soIdbu- Candidate the Rypocrite
That he Is-WiIIing to Leave His
tory to Deal with the Gentleman
Who NOW Fills the Executive
Chair-No Let Up to the EntAu-
siasn of the People.
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CoATMAKERs STRIKE.

BOSTON, Oct. 1.-Coatmakers in this
city to the number of 5000 struck to-
day because their employers have re-
fused to sign a schedule of wages. It
is said that the strike is particularly
among the Jewish and Italian people,
and the large clothing manufacturers
are not affected
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PARIS, Oct. president Faure has
conferred the grand Gordon of the Legion
of Honor upon NJ. .Shislzin, the acting
Russian minister, who arrived here to-
day TO await the arrival of the car from
England. NJ. Shiskin has already had an
interview with the minister Of foreign af-
70;
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SEVEN CARS 60 THROUGH.

LYNCHBURG, Va, Oct. 1.-The
axle of a car of freight train coming
north on the Southern railway broke
While the train was on trestle a few
miles north OF Danville The dragging
of the broken axle caused the trestIe
to give way and seven cars went
through. Nobody was hurt.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-02
POTOMAC
ON 4 TEAR
An Extensive, if Not an Alarm
ing Rise is Reported.
LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
Flood-River Signals Displayed
Along the Front.
LOOKING FOR TROUBLE

Heavy Rains Contribute Consider
ably to the Flood Condition, and
Unless There is an Early Fall in
the River Considerable Damage
to Property in Washington and
ALI UpDer Points on the Potomac
is Probable.
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BURIED At SEA.

NEW YORK, Oct. Phillip McCarron
of San Francisco. who was a passenger
on the steamer Finance. Which arrived
today, died of pthisis on September q and
was buried at sea-
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MARRIED BY
AN ACCIDENT
Celebration Of Iowa's Semi
Centennial AnniYer-
Sary.
MANY NARROW ESCAPES
Vice-President Stevenson Rather
Rough Iy Used.

Tl,is, However, Does Not Prevent
Him Making One OF the Most Flo
Guent Addresses Io,ynns Ever
Listened To-"The Goal of Today
is But the Starting Post For
Tomorrow"
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0HE-TIME ADVERTISING

Is good enough In fits way. but
you should keep your name and
bargains before the public con-
stantly If you want to make
money.
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wants the gold standard because it will
be good for the business man. You tell
them there is not enough gold for the
that if he can just have god standard
few financiers can hold the gold and the
business man can use confidence in the
place of money. loud cheers and laugh
teri But you tell him that the farmer,
the laboring man and the business man
don't want the gold standard: tell him
they are willing 10 risk whatever evil
comes from bimetallism, and he rises to
the full height if his moral stature and
says: But shall l let those people hurt
themselves? Oaughter.) No, 1 will ram
the gold standard down their throats
whether they want it or not because
love them So. loud laughter and
cheersl NV friends. YOU NAV believe
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TO GET EVEN

because we will give them free coinage
and let them enjoy it to their heart 3
content" ovid and prolonged applause
and great laughter)
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-08-05
INQUEST ON THE ChINAMAN
flyers Tells Rambling Stury t, the Coroner
About the Fire

AT the undertaking rooms of Kregelo
& Bresee yesterday morning Coroner
Campbell held an inquest upon the body
of Guam Kict, the Chinese who was
burned to death Monday morning in the
fire at the corner of First and Los Ange-
les streets. Only three witnesses We're
called, two of them Celestials, and the
third Max Myers, the secondhand deal
err, who is under, arrest on a charge of
having caused the co nfiagration.
The Cinnamon identified the blacken-
ed body of their countryman and told
the circumstances of his death as al
ready published. Myers gave a ram
bling and disconnected account of the
origin of the fire, contradicting himself
several times. He at first said that he
filled the reservoir of the gasoline stove
on Monday morning after he opened the
shop. This he afterwaT retracted and
said he had filled the stove Saturday
night. Myers also admitted that he had
received 5000 insurance as the result of
a fire which occurred in his place some
months ago.
The jury returned verdict simply
stating that Guam kict came to his
death by being burned in fire at the
corner of First and Los Angeles streets.
The body will be buried tomorrow after
the usual ceremonies in Chinatown.