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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-13
DOG WAS CAPTAIN
New York Herald Aug. 6
ANDREW.


New York Herald Aug. s.
The sequel to the story that
was told last Sunday when the
steamship BourgoSne Of the
French line arrived at this port
with the crew of the wrecked
German bark Ernst on board,
was had yesterday when the
German oil tank steamship
Mannheim reached here, bear
ing with her the big Newfound-
land which had been rescued
from the Ernst a day after its
crew had abandoned the yes
sci.
AS has been told in the Her
aid, the bark was abandoned
when waves were beating high.
lit was as much as the men
could do to save themselves,
and the dog was left to its fate
Rescuers as well as rescued
thought that the wreck was on
the point Of sinking at the time
but apparently it was in no I'M
mediate danger of doing so, as
iii was still wallowingi with
decks above water, when the
: Mannheim sighted it on the
following day. The distress
signal which had attracted the
Frenchman was still flying, and
Captain Ockelmann hove his
vessel to a short distance from
the wreck. There was 70 sign
: OF life on board except the big
Newfoundland, which put its
paw on the railing and barked
;, frantically. A boat was lower
. ed and sent to investigate. a
= dangerous sea was running al
E the time, but the officer III
| charge managed to make hi:
r. way on board. The dog leap
!, ed and barked and &ied to as
) sure him that he was the onl!
$ forgotten thing on board :
= rorief investigation satisfied The
) officer that he was, and, ate
getting the dog INTO the BOAT
he set fire to the wreck, as
was a dangerous menance It
a navigation. The dog was chris
At tened Ernst by Captain Ocke'
to mann in honor of the vesse
" which came SO near drownin.
m him. He developed an enol
he nous appetite and a boundles
be thirst after being taken o
be board.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-13

There is no specific against
seasickness. All depends on
the constitution as to the du
ration of The attack. When
first going to sea a very good
plan is to tie a shawl tightly
around the waist and sit up
right on the cabin foor,. or on
deck, until the stomach has got
accustomed to the sea air and
the motion Of the ship.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-13

A novel way of illuminating
a tunnel has been devised in
Paris. Rehectors throw light
from many electric lamps six
teen feet above the rails to the
sides of the tunnel where it is
again reflected by FURNISHED
tin, a soft and agreeable light
The trains automatically turn
the current on and off in enter
ing and leayir Z the tunnel.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-13
NOT HALF ENOUGH SEATS.
Candidate Bryan Will Face
More Men Than Any
Other Candidate.

New OTk, AuS uSI o. nv
indications are that the Madi-
son Square notification meeting
next Wednesday night will be
The largest demonstration ever
held in New York. The Cleve
land meeting eight years ago
was a great outpouring, but
the Bryan affair will be much
larger. Nine thousand seats
have been reserved, and yester
day the managers scratched
their heads TO discover some
manner by which they could
accommodate the applicants for
seats. From all parts Of the
State requests are made for re-
served seats. Several kilograms
were received yesterday asking
for seats for parties of ten and
twenty, and the list of those
who have applied in New York
City is much larger than the
number Of seats to be given
away.
The requests of Tammany
men continue to pour III, and
nearly all be district leaders
have called to see about seats
for their organizations. Many
persons who have called at the
silver headquarters and asked
for seats are republicans who
intend to vote for Bryan.
The regular organizations
press and prominent guests vii
be taken care of first, aftei
which an effort will be made
, to attend to the individual re
quests, which are stacked III
by the thousands.
, The stand from which Mr.
Bryan will deliver his addres
will he on the Twenty-seventI
street side, built over tn
Twenty.seventh Street exit be
tween section o and p. Til
stand will be large enough {
h accommodate four or five pee
pie. The two sections lmme
e diately adjoining the speaker
> stand will be reserved for TIA
National committee and distil
guished guests. In front of Ih
stand on the floor Of the Garde
three hundred press seats, vii
ID tables, will be placed. III
railing will divide the pre-;
IS from the twenty-five hnndre
seats 10 be placed on the Hoo
The $500 seats will take u
one half OF the floor space. II
remainder will be for the crow
that have no reserved seat
BY placing the speakers stat
where il is and by protectiI
the press by stout railing,
is hoped 10 prevent the seen
of the Cleveland holificati'
meeting, where the crowd trlt
to reach the platform, and we
90 prevented only by the acti'
of the police.
There is no specific again
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-13
From and after June 18Th, 1896
regular passenger train will
run as follows:
Passenger Train between Browns
vile and Point Isabel in effect
on and after June Is.
REGULAR TRAIN.
EXCLUSION TRAINS.

1--we BviIe every Saturday at 5.p. m.
Sunday y ga. m.
), Pt.Isabel - 4-p- H.
Excursion tickets are good until Mon
day mornings train,
accumulation cards, good for thirty
first class, round strips transferable
to members of ones family good unit
September Goth 1896, will be sold for
S25. 90 Mexican coin.
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WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE.
UNUSUALLY GLOOMY IN SPECU-
LATIVE CIRCLES,
Owing, Principally to the Feeling That
the Financial Future is Still
Very Uncertain.

NEW YORK, July 1S.-R. G. Dun &
Co. say in their weekly review of trade:
Failures for the week have been 26S in
the United States, against 23S last year,
and 30 in Canada, against 80 last year.
Disapproval of the action at the Chi
cago Convention has had some influence
in the markets the past week, but a far
more important factor has been the feel
ing that the financial future is still un-
certain. This acute attack of doubt,
coming at a time when business is for
other reasons seriously depressed, has
made the week unusually gloomy in
speculative circles. The average price
for sixty active railroad stocks has de-
clined from S47 % to $44 76 per share
and the average of trust stocks from
SAT 80 to S44 76 per share.
The wheat market has been remark
ably we'll supported, in spite of a very
favorable report by the Government,
and prices are a shade higher than a
week ago. Western receipts of wheat
have been 3,5SS,60 bushels, against
l ,4S5. 800 for the same week of July last
year, and Atlantic exports. flour in
! cluded has been 1,1S5,9OO bushels
against only 547 ,01S for the same week
last year.
Cotton has fallen about a half cent in
options and one-quarter in spot prices,
because the men who were sure there
would be a cotton famine in July and
holding large quantities have changed
their minds.
The wooden manufacturer is waiting,
and as new orders are exceedingly slow
the sales of wool at the three chief mar
lxl+e- +la c.1lx
pounds. transactions at Boston being
reported the lowest ever known at that
market.
The output of pig iron July 1st was
greatly decreased, and yet stocks are
rapidly accommodating. those held by pro-
ducers, not including the great steel
companies, amounting to S15,S12 tons,
an increase of % 929 tons for the month
of June, or about 1000 tons per week,
which indicates a consumption Of less
than 113, 900 tons. Considering the fact
that the accumulation of the steel COM
panies must be large, the consumption
is undoubtedly smaller than it was a
year ago. The demand for finished pro-
ducts of iron and steel is extremely mar
row, although one considerable building
contract is reported, 5000 tons for San
Francisco building. with a few smaller
contracts. But in bars the combination
has found itself unable to maintain
prices, and there are renewed reports that
the great decrease in sales of nails will
force a reduction in prices August 1st.
Bessemer pig has not changed. The
average of iron and steel prices is the
lowest since year ago.
The manufacture of boots and shoes
Is weakening under the effort to secure
an advance in price, although most of
the works have orders for some time
ahead. But the demand is very light,
and nearly all the shops would have to
close If dependent on new orders
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isfactorily. But I believe that with |
careful and considerate di-c,,esion there |

isfactorily. But I believe that with
careful and considerate d'rc'.esion there
will result an "A aereemer ie anti
gold forces of the cou snich shall
tell at the polls against the candidate of
the gold-standard policy and in favor OF
one candidate upon a free-silver plat
form
Toward midnight Chairman Taube-
neck, in company with Senators Stewart
and Peffer, "Clycone" Davis of Texas
and other leaders, went into private
conference. Mr.. Taubeneck said he had
no expectation that any definite pro-
gramme or agreement would be the re-
suit of their talk
The annoying complications over the
fund contributed by the Business Mems
two conventions was happily adjusted
tonight. The $4,000 fund was turned
over to the Peoples party Chairman
several days ago by the Business Mems
League, this being an acquittal Of their
contract The National Silver party
thus found themselves without funds or
guarantee of expenses. To meet this
exigency a score of prominent citizens
tonight subscribed to a fund to pay the
Silver convention expenses. DR.. Mott,
Chairman of the Executive Committee
of that party, thus protected, is COM
pleting his arrangements for the at
tendance at Music Hall.
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GOLD DEMOCRATS.
Advice to Sound Money Men in the
Various States.

CHICAGO, July 1S.-Summing up the
result so far of the address issued to the
gold Democrats of the country, Henry S.
Robbins, the leader of the local move
ment, said to-day to the United Press:
The large number of urgent letters
and telegrams received from Democrats
all over the country emphasizes to Us the
necessity and wisdom of a third ticket.
Except in a few instances these are
from individuals. This sentiment must
be crystallized into some kind of State
organization before any effective steps
can be taken towards deciding upon or
calling another convention. The sound
money leaders of the other States should
call together for conference the repre-
sentative sound money Democrats of
their States, as has been done in Mis-
souri,, and Minnesota The question of
a third ticket should be considered from
a national and not from a local stand
point.
1T is probable that at a meeting of
the Executive Committee Monday steps
will be taken to call general caucus of
representative gold Democrats from all
States which are so disposed, and upon
the result of this conference will depend
the new convention. The meeting will
no held here >"
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FREE SILVER COINAGE.
Harmful Effects 1t Would Have Upon
the Business Interests.

NIAGARA FALLS On. W. July 1S-
The following resolutions were adopted
to-day by the New York State Bankers
Convention:
we declare that the bankers of this
State have not selfish or class interest ir
the establishment of any particular
kind OF money as currency, nor are we
benefited as class by the maintenance
OF one metal as the standard to the ex-
clusion of others.
The chartered banking institutions
OF the State of New York are indebted
to the public at large in the form of de-
posits subject to check i'm the sum of
Sl,Sq q,OO0,o 900, while the public are in
debted TO US in the form of loans and
discounts in the sum of 81. 261 900 600
Being debtors in this very large amount.
without payables largely exceeding our
receivables, We believe the part of wis
dom and the part of honor for the
United States is to maintain the pres
ent gold standard of value We believe
1t would be criminal to join China or
Mexico upon the silver basis.
I'm all countries where the GOLD
standard prevails both gold and silver
The record-union., 1896-07-19
TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
r. ID. Wrenn Wins the Championship
of Canada.

QUEENS ROYAL, NIAGARA FALLS
(Ont), July 1S-The finest tennis ever
witnessed on Canadian soil was that
seen this morning when the ladies' finals
and the decisive match in the mems sim
giles for the Canadian championship
cup were played. In the ladies' match
Miss Bessie Moore champion of the
United States, met Miss Atkinson, the
eX-champion. 1t was the prettiest game
Imaginable, and Miss Atkinson turned
the tables on her conqueror of a few
weeks ago by winning the Canadian
championship three sets to two, after a
very hard fought battle The score was:
4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 2-6, e.
r. ID. Wrenn, ex-champion of the
United States. is now champion of Can
ada. This morning he won from Fischer
in three straight sets--6-1, 6-3, 10.
Although Fischer endeavored to set
hot pace. Wrenn favored everything,
and showed magnificent form. The last
set was very close, but at critical points
Wrenn was found not wanting
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RACES ON EASTERN TRACKS.
THE OPENING DAY AT DETROIT
DRAWS A LARGE CROWD.
w. w. p. Wins the Free -fOr-AIl
Pacing Event Winners at La
tonia, Aqueduct and St.Louis.

DETROIT, July 1S.-This was the
opening day of the Blue Ribbon meet
ing. The crowd was large and the
track fair
Twotwenty- trot purse $4,000,
Dick Hubbard won, Copeland second,
Quality third Best time-2:13
Two-twenty-five pace, purse 50. 900,
Dan @. won, Fairview second, Mrs. 10
third Best time-2:12.
Free-for-all pace, mile dash, purse
$1,000, w. w. P. won, Frank Again sec
ond, Rubinstein third. Best time
2;0515.
AT LATONIA.
LATONIA, July 1S.-Three- -fourths of
2 mile, Allegra won, st. Helena second,
White Oak third. Tim@1:15
One mile Anna Garth won, Hotspur
second, Japonica third. Time-1:43.
One and one-eighth miles, Captive
won, Howard Mann second, LobenguIa
third. Time-1:5 :5514.
One and one-eighth miles. First Mate
won, Ramiro second, Loki third. Time
1:54%
One and one-sixteenth miles, Irby b.
won, F. F. V. second, Abe Furst third.
Time-1: :Osal.
One mile, Aimee won, Cuticlene Sec
ond, Salvable third. Time-1:42
AT AQUEDUCT.
AQUEDUCT, July 1S.-Half-mile
Salaire won, Full Speed second. Edna D.
third. Time-0:49%.
One mile. Royal II. won. lambert sec
end, Van Brunt third Time-1 49,
Three-fourths of a mile Zanone won.
Premier second, Marsian third. Time
1:15.
Fiveeighths of a mile, Sunny SIope
won, Our Johnny second. Robbie w
third. Time-1 :0314.
One and one-eighth miles. Flames
won, Connemaugh second, Satinella
third. Time :5615.
AT ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, July 1S.-One mile. Fan
Claire won, Charley Mcdonald second.
Mountain Quail third. Time-1 :45H.
One mile, Schiller won, Pelleas second.
Mrs. Bradshaw third. Time-1 :42sl.
Nlne-slXteenthS of a mile. Rlitzen's
Sister won, Oman Wood second. Juanita
third. Time-0:55%.
Thirteen-sixteenths of a mile. Nick
won, Laureate second, Nav Thomson
third Time :2015.
Three-fourths of a mile, Auuina won.
lamar II. second, Jack B. B. third
Time-1:14
Three-fourths of a mile, Harry Duke
won, Sligo second, Johnny McHale
third. Time-1:14.
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The Pro Srty Loss Nearly Half
Million Dollars.
Terrific RainstOrm at Kansas City,
the Water Gauge Showing Five
Inches in Twenty-Four Hours
Levee Streets Turned Into Mill
Ponds and Hillsides Into Roaring
CataractS.
Cataracts.

LITTLE ROCK (Ark), July 1S.-The
town of Malvern, Ark, at the junction of
the Hot Springs Railway. was almost
entirely wiped out by fire early this
morning.
Malvern is a little city of about 5000
inhabitants. Only three business
houses remain. The total loss is va
riously estimated at from S30o, 900 to
S400,OO0, only a small portion of which
is covered by insurance. The burned
buildings include the railroad depot,
two hotels. the bank and all the princi-
pal business houses in the place.
The fire was incendiary, and three
men are now in custody, having narrow
ly escaped lynching. The blaze broke
out about midnight in three different
places, and as there was no apparatus
nothing could be done and the fire
burned itself out. The principal losses
are E. A. Adams, $4,000: Hughes &
McSay, $25, 900; w. L. Cooper & Broth
er, $4,000; II. A Butler, $4,000; II.
Barnett, $500; Powell Garden, $4,000;
K. Clary, 81, 500; A M. Duffie. $4,000:
Rhoden & Miller, $4,000; E. Emerson,
$1,000; Bank of Malvern, $4,000: J. Z.
Chamberlain, $4,000.
SnerlII fltZhuSh OF Malvern and posse
arrived here tonight with the three in
cendiaries Their names are Case Will
Jams, colOred; r. A. Miller and Eugene
Ingraham, white. These men were
placed in the penitentiary for safe keep
ing. Sheriff Fitzhugh says the trio
would have been lynched this afternoon
by the infuriated citizens of Malvern
if he had not removed them to Little
Rock.
A dispatch received here late this
evening states that one of the gang had
been lynched. but the Sheriff says the
report is not true.
Williams says he came from ST. Louis.
while the others claim Little Rock as
their home. Miller made confession
duplicating himself, Ingraham and
Williams
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INDIANA DEMOCRATS
Ratify the Nominees of the Chicago
Convention

INDIANAPOLIS, July 1S-The In
dianapOlis Democrats held a ratifica-
tiOn meeting tonight which was pre-
sided over by Governor Matthews
There were about 1000 people in at
tedance, and Governor Matthews was
given an ovation when he was intro
duced by Chairman Holt of the State
Central Committee Holt had been a
gold Democrat, but declared from the
platform that they were all Democrats
and bowed to the ma jority.
Governor Matthews said in part: Il
assure you there is no room for feelings
of regret, discomfort or dissatisfaction.
The platform adopted and the ticket Sc
lected are both good, and to both 1 give
and want you to give, cheerful allegi-
ance and most hearty support
Speaking of the character of the con-
vention, he said: 'It was not a gather
ing of anarchists, traitors, repudiators
or sectionalists, as our Republican
friends in the frenzy of fear proclaim,
but a coming together of patriots,
alarmed for the welfare of their coun
try; of honest, earnest men, animated
by a great cause and of American cit
liens cherishing their rights and 1iber-
1t is this year suprernely the peoples
fight; their struggle against the most
miserable and debasing enslavement
that can be conceived by man.
Despite the nearly unanimous oppo-
sition of the metropolitan press of the
entire country, knowing the ungrateful
crusade against it by certain hired men
protesting to be Democrats, aye, even
claiming to be Democratic leaders, but
in truth Hessians in the camp; in des-
pite of the cry of alarmiSt or the sordid
appeals of avarice and greed, the great
cause has grown and will continue to
grow"
Senator Turpie and ex-Secretary Of
State Meyers also spoke. The latter was
one of the leaders of the gold faction.
He had, he explained, changed his views
to agree with the majority In the
course of his speech he declared that
they would send Matthews to the Sen
ate for the next four years, saying
nothing about voorhees,.
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Driving Club track furnished excellent
sport for 1000 spectators to-day. The
Morgan & Wright triplet team went
against the worlds record of POI for
one mile, and cut it down five seconds,
leaving the record at 1856. Summaries:
Professional, one mile, 2:20 class, j. j.
Blouin of Detroit won, Fred Hicks of
Bay City second, E. c. Johnson of Cleve-
land third. Time-2:13 1-5.
Professional one mile open. Tom
Cooper won, Owen Kimble of Indianap-
Oils second, E. c. Bald third Time
2:10 2-1o
Professional two-mile handicap II. G.
Clark of Denver 600 yards) won. f. C.
Johnson 600 yards) second, c. d. Will
son of Bay City QS0 yards) third. Time
-4:22 So.
LONDON, July 1S.-At Catford to-
day the American bicyclist Johnson rode
a mile in 1:44 1-5. He was paced by
tandems.
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TERRIFIC RAINSTORM.
Five Inches of Water Falls i'm Twenty
Four Hours.

KANSAS CITY, July 1S.-Kansas
City had cause for self f-congratulation
to-day in the fact that she was founded
upon rock. Nothing else could have
withstood the fury of the rainstorm
which beat down upon the city with re-
morseless fury, turning the level streets
into mill ponds and the hillsides into
roaring cataracts. From shortly after l
o clock in the afternoon until ., and
then after a short intermission until
late tonight, the rain was terrific and
unprecedented. When the Weather Bu-
reau closed at s p. m. 4.02 inches of rain
had fallen. The rain continued with un-
abated fury until nearly midnight.
When the gauge is examined in the
morning it will show over five inches in
the twentyfour hours. This will break
all previous records for the same length
of time.
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STOLEN BONDS.
A Chicago Man Accused of Having a
Lot of Them.

CHICAGO, July 1S-Edward B.
Smith, proprietor of the Road House at
Il3 Fifty-first street, was arrested at
noon to-day charged with receiving
900 worth of bonds stolen from
Christopher Schrage of Ill jefferson
street on the night of March 24th. Out
of 500, 900 worth of bonds stolen, S27,-
$50 have been recovered.
Sleepy Burke was placed under ar
rest this afternoon, together with Chris.
Strook, alias Red Chris" Jake Nc
Lean, Joseph Gordon, Ed Smith and
Barney Hunt. All were arraigned for d
preliminary hearing and placed under
heavy bonds. But one of the thieves is
vet at large
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circulate as money. In all the countries
where the silver standard prevails there
is no gold in circulation as money. The
free coinage of silver means the repudi-
alton of 90 per cent. of Indebtedness.
This would be true only of existing
debts. The sagacious instinct of trade
would correct this wrong as to future
contracts by doubling the price of COM
modities. Hence the free coinage of sill
yer at the ratio of 16 to l means great
initiation of prices without any increase
of values.
Just IN proportion to this imitation
would the purchasing power of dollar
be decreased. II means a silver basis
and silver monOmetalliSm. 1t means
that the $500, 100000 of gold now in cir
culation would go to premium would
cease to circulate as money and become
a commodity simply, whether coined or
uncoined. 1t would produce a violent
contraction of the currency to the extent
to which gold now in circulation ceased
to circulate as money. 1t would not only
unsettle, but would thoroughly demor-
alize business. All classes would suffer.
These would suffer most who are least
able to take care of themselves; that is,
the laboring classes. TheScrushing eff
feet upon business would be equaled
only by the demoralizing effect upon
public morals and the public sense of
honor, lowered and Inundated as they
would be by such an act of reputation
''We believe it to be the duty of all
good and patriotic citizens to unite their
efforts in preventing such calamity.
We believe it to be the duty of the Gov
ernment to maintain the gold standard
and preserve the parity of all forms of
currency which it allows to circulate as
money. We believe this to be indespen-
sable in order to protect and foster the
industries of our citizens and preserve
to the United States the paramount po-
sition which she occupies in the sister,
hood of nations
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FOR SOUND MONEY.
The "RaiIway Age" Will be Con-
verted Into a Political Organ.

CHICAGO, July 1S.-The Railway
Age" after twenty years of strict alb
stention from interference in politics,
announces that for the coming cam
paign it will be converted into a politi-
cal organ in behalf of sound money"
1t appeals to railway employees of all
classes throughout the country to join
in the campaign and organize
WILL NOT SUPPORT BRYAN.
LOUISVILLE (Ky), July 1S.-Hon.
Charles r. Long, formerly Chairman of
the Democratic State Central and State
Executive Committees, announces that
he will not support the ticket nominated
at Chicago. He thinks Kentucky is a
doubtful State