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OTTO DEMOCRdTS.
Free Silver Men Confident of Controlling
 the State ConYention.

Free Silver Men Confident of Controlling
 the State Convention.
 Columbus, June 22.-The free silver democrats are now so confident of con- trolling the state convention here this week that they are disputing over the honors. There are seven candidates for delegates at-large. They are John R. Mclean, John w. Bookwalter, Allen W. Thurman, General F. B. Finley, E. ]. Blondin, l.. E. Wolden and A. J. Warner. Mclean and Bookwalter are practically agreed upon. The other five will contest for the two remaining places. Allen w. Thurman will prob ably be made chairman of the conven- tion to take the place declined by John A McMahon. No candidates are yet announced for the state offices to be filled this year. All interest centers in the action of the convention on the financial question. The gold democrats concede that a large majority of the delegates to the state convention are in favor of free silver. The minority will contain some strong men, however, among them ex-Congressman Tom l.. Johnson, Frank IIurd and John A. Mo Mahon, and they will at least enter protest against free silver. The con- venton will be held in the High street theater, and will be called to order at D. m. on Tuesday. There will be 7S1 delegates.
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NEW HAVEN HOUSE RENOTATED.

The New Haven house will make radical changes and improvements in it's interior decorations as soon as the commencement season is over.
 The vestibules on College and Chapel streets, as we'll as the office and hall are to be inlaid with mosaic, while the interior walls are to be covered with marble dado. The old stairway is to be be replaced by a handsome marble stairway and the two narrow doors leading into the dining room are to be thrown in one large entrance with slid- ing doors. The dining room itself is to be redecorated and to have large mir- TOTS hung in prominent places.
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Reception to Hobart.

Paterson, N. J., June 22-This city was brilliantly illuminated and deco rated tonight in honor of Garret A. Hobart's nomination for vice president. Nearly 5000 citizens of all political parties joined in procession to the armory, where 5000 persons, mostly women, were in waiting for the parade MT. Hobart, in speaking, confined his remarks to the city and people of Pat terson. and said that he would rather have the esteem and confidence of the people, such as was manifested to- night, than any office within the gift of any political organization.
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BENJ IMIN II. BRISTOW DEID.
The Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Expired
 Yesterday.


 Yesterday.
 New York, June 22.-Benjamin H. Bristow, ex-secretary of the treasury and once a leading republican politi- clan, died of appendicitis at his home, 27 West Fifteenth street, at noon to- day.
 Benjamin H. Brstow is best known as President Grants secretary of the treasury for two years from June, 1874, until June, 1876, and as a candidate for the nomination for the presidency at the republican convention of 1876, in which he received 113 votes on the first ballot Rutherford B. Hayes was nom- mated.
 Benjamin Helm Bristow was born June 20, 1892, at Elkton, Todd county, Kentucky. He was graduated at Jeff ferson college, Pennsylvania, In 1851, and in 1853 was admitted to the bar at Elkton, Ky. When the civil war broke out he threw in his fortunes with the Union side and became lieutenant colo nel of the Twenty fifth Kentucky In fantry. He di ,tinguished himself at the capture of Fort Donelson and at Shiloh, where he was wounded. From 1863 to 1865 he served in the Kentucky senate. As United States district at torney for the Louisville district for five years, beginning in 1865, he proved so efficient that he was appointed solic- itor general of the United States. In 1873 President Grant sent his name to the senate for the place of attorney general, but the senate refused to con- firm the nomination. The following year MT. Bristow became secretary of the treasury. Since 1876 he has prac- ticed law in New York city.
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OF LOCAL INTEREST.

Justice Peckham of the United States supreme court is the guest of Judge " K. Townsend
 Tonight the committee on streets will have a hearing on the petition for the extension of Little Orange street through to Water street. Owing to the importance of the subject a large att tendance is expected.
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y4yy PERsONs ESrOuBED
Lodging House Collapses in San Francisco
 Several Deaths,

Lodging House CoIIapses in San FranciscO
 Several Deaths.
 San Francisco, June 22.-While work men were engaged in putting in new foundation the Brayton lodging house, a three-story frame structure on the corner of Mint avenue and Fifth street collapsed at $40 this afternoon. The building became a complete wreck and took fire, driving would-be rescuers back from their work. The lower floor of the structure was utilized as res taurant and about twenty-five or thir- ty persons are said to have been in it at the time. 4 number of people were upstairs when the disaster occurred.
 Up to 4:30 p. m. three bodies had been taken out.
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Baseball.

Paterson, N. J., June 22.-Paterson defeated New Haven this afternoon by punching hits in the eighth inning. Both teams played a good fielding game Elton and Killarkey did good work. The score:
 Paterson .....O Q 0 ? 0 0 0-7 New Haven 70 0 0 ] 0 0 0-3
 Hits-Paterson 9, New Haven [. Er- rors-Paterson 0, New Haven 1. Bat teries-Gray and Elton; Garvin and Hodge.
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Much Improved.

Young Frank Ballmonn, who was pin toned between two cars of the New Ha- ven Street Railway, Friday, while go- ing to the freshmen races on Lake Sal tonstall, was slightly improved yester- day At one time Sunday his tempera- ture was 105 and his pulse reached 120 Yesterday both were much reduced and there are other indications that the crisis has passed. The young man is not out of danger yet
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4 New Haven Firm.

Middletown, June 22.--The Bradley Smith & Co. of New Haven has asked that a trustee be appointed upon the estate of William H. Brainerd, repre- sented insolvent Brainerd has run a drug store in this city for number of years, but his whereabouts are un- known.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-23
A Enfnl Dnel.

Berlin, June 22.-A duel was fought this morning at Kummerdorf, near Berlin, between Lieutenant Buch, of the Ninth regiment, and Lieutenant Lieurhring of the Sixth, The weapons were pistols. Lieutenant Liehring was shot and almost instantly killed.
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Sir Augustus Harris Dead.

London, June 22.-Sir Augustus Har- ris, the well known theatrical manager, died at 10:30 tonight
, 1896-04-08
THE GOOD TIME COMING.
With the Kew Woman on the Platform II
Will IL. Time to Look Out.

With the Kew Woman on the Platform II
Will he Time to Look Out.
"Dcy tells me-" said Aunt Dinah
pausing in the dining room door and
resting her hands on her hips, ''dey tells
ME dat de Winmin is nd Il meetin goin
on whar dey iiss spechifys same az dc
meI. Is dat su?"
Her mistress laid down tho paper in
which she was reading the reports of
some of the brilliant papers delivered
before the Association For the Advance
ment Of Women, and tried to explain
matters TO her.
"Dey dos got up on de platform, did
dey:' asked tho old woman, IAN speak
right cut III meetin?'
She was assured they did.
IAN dey kin talk hack?'
She was informed that was their priv
ilege.
Bless Cord l don't live to see dis
day y she replied fervently. Il lay III
des git Brcr Jones at de meetin dis very
night. De odder night l felt called OF
to 'zort sinners. an he say: Set down,
Sis Dinal., de wimmin must keep 81
lence in de chu'ch. Dey's de weaker ves-
sell | was hot, an l 'spon': Ell .dey
want nc wimmin in de clutches,
Brer Jones, whar would de chuc'h be?
Who pays de preacher! Whar you get
dat fine coat Oh yo' back? Amt it de
Daughters of Zion done raise de money?
Don't seem lax l hear nobody complain
in bout wimmin in de chuc'h when it
comes to passin roun de hat
"iou say de time comm when do
wimmin gwine run dc town? Dey'll
clean up things then, sho'. l boun de
mayor himself can't sweep like me, let
lone %depupity pleec'men. Des give me
a broom al l kin clean mo- street in u
hour dan de committee does in a year.
IAN wimmin gwine to vote too?
Good marster, how the worl do change!
Fus' de niggers an den de wimmin.
Recon folks think some dem wimmin
what's been goin to school an colleges
il got most much sense as niggers now.
What dat you say? Wimmin gwine
purify politics an amt gwine sell their
votes? Sho'! What's de good of votin if
dey amt nc two-bitsin it! Dis ole mig
gers been plannin to lay of work an
vote fer all it's worth. New Orleans
Picayune.
, 1896-04-08
LOUISIANA
Helpless Negroes Shot for Wishing to
Register.

St. Louis. April IA special to the
Republic from New Orleans. SAYS: A
serious riot. growing out Of the regis
tration troubles, occurred in st. Lam
dry parish today. in which two negroes
were killed. six or seven others
wounded and many others whipped.
The supervisor of registration of st.
Landry, having established his head
quarters in Opelousas, the negroes be,
lieved the presence of troops there
would protect them from the regula,
tors. Or white supremists, who started
in large bodies for that .own. A party
of a hundred negroes left Grand Prai.
RE for Opelousas, but were intercepted
about half way by the regulators and
told they would not be allowed to
register. They attempted to pass.
when they were fired upon n two
others were given so Iashes each and
returned home. The affair created a
panic among the Opelousas negroes,
and only a few of them registered. A
large number of citizens of Opelousas
have asked that the militia be kept
there until after the state election.
April 90. but the Fohtenoi faction, or
white supremists, demand that the
state troops be removed at once There
have been 10 killed and 10 wounded so
far over the st. Landry political trou,
bles.
, 1896-04-08

The story is told Of an English mill
tia regiment whose reputation was
none Of the best, that on one occasion
a detective from Scotland asked to be
allowed to inspect the regiment to dis
cover if possible if a certain malefac-
tor were in the ranks. Permission be-
ing given, the detective. accompanied
by the a%djutant of the regiment, made
a tour of the various companies, front
rank and real rank. When the official
had got to the last man of the rear
rank of the ear company, he stopped
suddenly and gazed earnestly at the
rather embarrassed warrior. why,
you surely have made a mistake" ex-
claimed the adjutant, Indignantly:
why. you have pitched on the best
man in the battalion. He has been
with us for more than twenty years,
and he is our pattern soldier. His arms
are a mass Of ~good-conduct badges.
and he is the example Of all that is
best in the life of a soldier. You sure
ly do not know him." NO" replied
the detective, II do not-but ] know
all the others"
, 1896-04-08
GUN STOCKS.
The Best Made Of Long Seasoned WALNUT
and Fashioned BY Hand.


Gun stocks of good workmanship are
made of well seasoned walnut.
THAT piece of wood" said a gun
smith, holding up a heavy billet sawed
into a rude semblance of q gun stock.
may have been 30 years seasoning.
I've known the pile of wood it came
from these II years. The piece, as you
see it, is worth SO. 1t is English wal
nut. This piece that l am shaping was
worth II in the rough. 1t is German
walnut. The Brazilian walnut costs as
much as tl5 for a single billet"
Cheap gun stocks are made from
American walnut, which costs but II
trile in the rough, but is too porous fol
use in he hest guns. Gun stocks are
now turned ont by machinery, and thus
made they are cheap, The best are still
handmade, and it costs about $40 to
reduce the billet Of seasoned walnut to
the finished and ornate stock. Most
stocks are now made with the pistol
grip feature in addition to the shoulder
piece. Doubtless the stock as a whole is
a development from the pistol handle.
The traditional ornamentation is a Sc.
TVS Vi CToSstu IlDeS. GALLUP kuusIullIA
spend much time and care upon the
fasbioning of tho stock. After it has
been shaped to the right form it is fin
isled to II smooth and uniform surface
with laborious sandpaperinR. and final
ly shellackcd and rubbed down and pol
islicd after the manner of treating the
best cabinet made furniture. A gun
smith ma spend two days or more in
making Il stock. and a handmade stock
OF Brazilian walnut may be worth $25.
Fancy woods are not much used in
gnu stocks that are to be anything but
show pieces. Mahogany is too brittle for
the purpose, and rosewood is too heavy.
The finishing has to be OF a sort to re-
sist water, and hence ordinary varnish
is not used in polishing u well made
gun stock. There are comparatively few
guusmiths i'll tow that make q special
.ty Of handmade stocks, and those are
usually Germans. A gunsmith is occa-
| s~ionally asked to make an especially or
nate stock with carvings, and possibly
even inset pearl, ivory or gold. These
stocks are costly, but for practical pur-
poses they are less useful than the plain
stock of English, German or Brazilian
walnut.-New York Sun.
, 1896-04-08
ELECTIONS ELSEWHERE.
Colorado Towns Go Republican
Everywhere
BUT IN CENTRAL CITY.
kansas City Carried, Chicago Repub.
Iican by 10000 aud kaOsss
Towns Generally are for
the q. o. p.
BUT IN CENTRAL CITY.

Kansas City, NO.. April AFTER a
campaign filed with unusual strife.
and in which parties were split from
center to circumference, the city cleo
tion today passed off as peacefully as a
May party. The polls were open from
. to 5 and the largest vote of 'years was
polled. Blu one man was arrested for
illegal voting.
A. P. A. and anita. P. A. was the
principal issue, with a side issue of re-
form government. The novelty raj
presented of a republican ex-mayor,
Henry C. Kumpf, prominent banker.
running for that office on an independ-
ent-democratic ticket. With him IN
the ticket were politicians from both
old parties. On the republican ticket.
James NJ. Jones led a strong fight for
the A. P. AS, as the regular republican
nominee. Jones is police judge and II
young lawyer. very pronouncedly in
favor of the A. P. A. principles. The
remainder OF his ticket was mongrel,
as that of his leading opponent. John
s. Crosby. who headed the peoples
ticket, cut but little figure. The re.
turns are coming In very slowly. but
at midnight 1t is conceded that the re-
publican A. P. A. ticket has been elect
ed. Returns have been received from
So out Of SO precincts. and these give
Jones, the republican and A. P. a. car.
didate, a plurality Of 1903. Jones is not
running ahead Of his ticket. and it is
estimated that the complete returns
will show the election of the entire re-
publican ticket by about 1000 plurali-
ty. The populist vote is very light.
, 1896-04-08

The primary meetings Of the various
precincts Except Laramie) for the
election of delegates to the county con-
vention will be held on Saturday, the
25th day of April, at 2 o'clock p. m. at
the several polling places established
at the last general election.
The primary meetings in the City OF
Laramie will be held at 8 o'clock p. III.
of said late as follows:
The primary meeting in the First
ward will be held at the city hall and
will be called to order by John H. Sy-
mons
The primary meeting in the Second
ward will be held at the court house
and will be called to order by E. B.
Davies.
The primary meeting in the Third
ward will be held at the new hose
house in said ward and will be called
to order by N. C. Peterson.
The said primary meetings in Lara
ME will be held under the provisions
of an act of the legislature OF the State
Of Wyoming entitled. IAN act concern
ing primary and public political meet
ings." approved January Z. 1891.
1t is recommended that no proxies
be allowed unless held by residents Of
precincts represented.
All republican electors and voters
without regard to past political anil
atoms, who believe in republican prin-
ciples and endorse the republican poll
cy are cordially invited to unite under
the call in the selection Of delegates
to the county convention.
l.. s. BARNES,
ELMER T. BELTZ, Chairman.
Secretary.
, 1896-04-08
A MESSAGE PROBABLE.
President Cleveland and Olney
in Consultation.
ON THE CUBAN QUESTION.
Measles Anon. the Children of the
white Hou~e-Cnbinct Needing
Postponcd-GucssinG on
the Future.

Washington, April 7.-Secretary Oh
ney called early at the white house and
remained in close consultation with
the president, undetered by the notice
that had been sent to the other mem
bers to the feet that there would be no
cabinet meeting today. There is rea-
son to believe that the meeting would
have been postponed regardless of the
appearance of the measles among the
children at the white house. in order
to afford the president an opportunity
for private deliberation with the chief
member of his cabinet, for there was a
story current, and. it is believed. well
founded. to the effect that the two were
engaged in the preparation of Il special
message to congress.
Of course, this was Immediately as
sumed to relate to the Cuban situation,
and to be an exposition by the presi-
dent of the actual state Of affairs on the
island. as revealed in the reports of the
United States consular officers and
other trusted sources Of information.
There is a resolution before the presi-
dent. passed at the instance of Senator
Hoar of Massachusetts. calling for this
information.
1t is reasoned that the president. in
transmitting the information asked,
may feel it his duty, in view of the
overwhelming majority by which the
both branches of congress-. to come u
with a plain statement of the reasons
that influence him in preserving I'M
moved the position he has assumed to-
ward the insurrection in Cuba showing
from the best obtainable information
that has reached him, that regardless
ly for the insurgents, he is absolutely
bound by the facts as he sees them, by
precedent. and by the dictates of inter-
national law. to persist in his attitude.
This view of the matter. of course,
applies only so long as the president is
left free to decide upon the course to
be followed by the government, since
it may be that he would take an entire.
ly different view of the matter if con-
gress should send to him a joint reso>
luton embodying the features Of these
concurrent resolutions, and assumed
that by doing so the legislative branch
had taken the direction of the matter
out of his hands.
While it is thought likely the presi-
dent may send in a message to con,
gress in transmitting the Cuban infor-
nation requested, it is not certain that
this message will be more than a for,
NAL letter of transmittal. There are
good reasons why the consular reports
should be handled very ~guardedly,
since our consuls have to continue res.
ident in Cuba, and the work on which
the president is believed to be engaged
may be in the nature of a statement of
facts or summary of the main features
OF the confidential consular reports.
, 1896-04-08
THE VIEW.
1t Says That Grover Cleveland is the
Logical Candidate.


New York. April THE World
will print a double-leaded editorial
tomorrow in which it will ask whether
the logic Of the political situation thai
led the republican masses to support
Mckinley will not compel the nomina,
ton OF Cleveland by the democrats.
The paper says: The World does not
assert that this is SO, it raised IA ques-
ton. 1t invites public discussion of it.
So far as the World is concerned in
this matter. it is entirely impartial,
judicial and impersonal. 1t has no
special Partially for Cleveland per-
sonally. as he will probably admit. 1t
has nothing to take back. But the
question is not of the past, it is a ques>
ton Of the future. Upon issues of the
present and futa'e. not of the past,
the World is just as free and sincere
in suggesting that Mr.. Cleveland seems
to be the only logical candidate as it
has been fearless and faithful In ad-
monition and criticism whenever it
has believed him to be wrong.
, 1896-04-08
CALL FOR REPUBLICAN COUNTY
CONVENTION.

Headquarters Albany County Re-
publican Central Committee.
Laramie. Wyo., April S,1S96.
To the Republican Electors Of Albany
County.
Notice is hereby given that the re-
publican county convention will be
held in the City of Laramie on Satur-
day. the I'd day of May, 1896, at 2
o'clock p. m, for the purpose OF Sc
lecting II delegates to represent AL
bany county in the state convention to
be held at Sheridan. Wyo. on the rith
day Of May, 1896, for the purpose of
electing delegates and alternates to the
national republican convention to be
held in st. Louis, Mo-. on the 18th day
of June, 1896, to nominate candidates
for president and vice president OF the
United States.
This convention will be composed Of
6S delegates, divided among the vari-
GUS precincts as follows:
, 1896-04-08

The cat is called a kat in Danish and
Dutch, katt in Swedish, chat in France
and the most Of its dependencies, katti
OF katie in German, catus in Latin, gat-
to in Italian. cato in Portuguese and
Spanish, kot in Polish, kots in Russian,
keti in Turkish, cath in Welsh. kath i'll
Cornish. catua in Basque and gaz or
KATE in Armenian. Mr.. Harrison, tho
great English authority on cats, says
that there are not q dozen languages or
dialects known that spell the word cat
without beginning with the letter C. k
OF 9. The native Australians and thosr
Of Mexico had no words for the name o.
domestic felines. st. Louis Republic.
, 1896-04-08

"Now, look here said the professor
10 the Infatuated bull, You are my su-
perior in strength. l am your superior
In mind. Let us arbitrate this matter
and see which should by right have the
better Of our controversy"
"Oh. no" replied the bull. Let's
toss up for it."
Later. The professor lost.-London
Tit. Bits.
, 1896-04-08
A FATAL FALL.

Carbon. Wyo., April About a
week ago James. the 10-year-old son
of ex-Sheriff Jens Hansen, fell from a
wagon and sustained injuries which at
the time were thought to be only slight.
but it developed in a few days that the
boy had been internally injured and
that he was in a serious condition. On
Sunday the boy was taken to the Min
ers' hospital at Rock Springs, accom-.
panied by Mrs. Hansen, his mother.
Yesterday a telegram was received here
that the unfortunate lad had died
shortly after their arrival at the hos
pital. The remains were brought here
last night and the interment took place
today.
, 1896-04-08
AFTER THE POPS.

Leadville, Colo, April while the
only returns as yet received from the
city election today are from republican
precincts they show nearly double the
majorities obtained by republicans in
the same precincts last year. II the re-
publican gains continue throughout
the city most of their candidates will
be elected, although betting thus far
has been steadily in favor Of the popu>
lists.