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INVESTIGATING OUR BEER.
A DIRECTOR OF THE BREWING
SCHOOL OF GHENT HERE.
He Says Our Production is Better
Than the Common Beer of
His Country.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-Washing-
ton has recently been visited by several
investigating experts, representing for
eign Governments, who come to study
features of our Government or of our
Won Laer of Belgium, Director of the
Brewing School of Ghent.
Il was authorized he says, ito visit
America and make a thorough inspec-
ton of your breweries, which l have
about accomplished. My trip has been
satisfactory and / have seen much in
the great plants at ST. Louis, Milwau-
kee, Cincinnati, Buffalo and other cities
that will be of great use to me in my
work at home. The school of which
l am Director is supported by the Gov
ernment the Province, the city and the
brewing association, each defraying a
part of the costs of its maintenance.
Belgium takes the lead as the greatest
beer drinking country of the world.
Though a little Government, it's brew
cries turn out yearly 100000 barrels
OF beer, and as that does not supply
the demand we have to import a guam
tity from Germany and England. 1t
in France, and our public houses keep
open all night long to afford the peo-
pie ample opportunity to slake their
thirst May be that is the reason we
consume so much more per capita than
the people of the United States. The
Belgian breweries are taxed on the
amount of malt used and not by the
barrel as in this country, which is,
think, a somewhat better method"
DR.. Won Laer speaks highly of Amer
lean beer 1T is for the most part
made of wholesome material" he says
'.and generally is better than the COM
mon beer of my country. I did not like
the sort you produce when / first tried
it. but though only n few weeks in this
country, I have grown excessively fond
OF it, and when 1 return home shall tell
my people of its excellence"
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MULLINS REPORT ON SAMOA.
THE GOVERNMENT HAS DECIDED
TO PUBLISH 1T.
He Holds the Berlin Treaty to be a
Failure and a Farce From Which
No Credit EnSueS.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16-The State
Department has resolved to publish the
report of James H. Mullen, ex-Consul-
General to Samoa, upon the govern
ment, commerce, products and people
of that country, which has hitherto
been held as confidential, and it will
appear in the August volume of con-
sular reports now in press. The report
was submitted to the department in
September, 1895, when Mr. Mullen re-
signed his office, and was the express
sion of his views after a years stay in
the country. 1t is a lengthy document,
comprising nearly 100 printed pages,
and is valuable and interesting from
almost any point of view.
Mr. Mullen explains one reason for
making the report was the receipt by
him of a large number of letters of in
quiry from persons in the United
States, who, persuaded by roseate and
misleading reports, express themselves
as anxious to leave the United States
with all it's opportunities and advant-
ages to make their homes in these
islands, where they falsely suppose a
living can be had without exertion and
large profits await the application of
ordinary industry or enterprise. AS a
matter of fact, he says, the expense of
living in Samoa is two or three times
as great as in the United States OF
the workings of the Government under
the treaty, the writer says the real
merits of the situation, hazed in con-
fiicting reports, biased by divergent in
terests, viewed from widely separated
standpoints, is not to be clearly under
stood at a distance.
Mr.. Mullen reaches the conclusion
that the Berlin treaty is an utter and
unrelieved failure, and the surrender
ing of an iota of American right or
ing to maintain the rights of the people
the United States should put an end to
an arrangement under which a farce is
perpetuated from which no credit en-
sues
The report contains abundant in
formation regarding Samoa and its in
terests, some of the figures being rather
surprising. It's entire trade in 1894
amounted to less than $780, 900; the to-
tai Government and municipal revenue
was less than $1,000, of which thirty
two Americans registered at the con-
sulate paid but S557; customs dues
were 300. The population of the
island is estimated at $4,000. Apia,
the principal town, has S26 inhabitants
and is without a wharf public school,
u fire engine or foot of sidewalk.
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AERONAUT KILLED.
His Wife and Child Witness His De-
scent and Death.

QUINCY 0n), Aug. 16 - Frank
Jacobs of Cincinnati, balloonist, made
his one hundred and fifth and last as
cension at Baldwin Park this evening.
Jacobs and a local aeronaut, Ed Dud-
ley, were to give a balloon and para
chute exhibition. The balloons were
cut loose together, and when 80 feet
high Jacobs balloon burst Jacobs cut
loose from it with his parachute. The
parachute failed to open and Jacobs
shot downward at a terrific rate of
speed. He struck the ground feet first.
and was picked up in an unconscious
condition and carried to the show tent.
where he died half hour later. Both
legs were horribly mangled and his
neck and two ribs were broken.
Jacobs wife and child We're among the
spectators.
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A STILL RAIDED.
The Proprietor Admits He Made
Brandy, But Sold None.

BEATRICE (Neb.), Aug. 16.-Revenue
officers descended on the home of John
Rowallsl1i, a resident of this section for
many years, and arrested him on the
charge of operating a still. In the base
naent of the house was found the rem
nants of a distilling plant. The accused
made no defense, admitted having made
fruit brandies, but claimed he never sold
any. This is refuted by the officers,
who claim to have evidences showing
how and where he sold his product.
Rowallski has always been a puzzle to
the local police, who observed that he
never toiled but apparently lived in good
circumstances. In addition to the still
were bottles labelled with names of diff
ferent fruits
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Perry County, Alabama, Devastated
and Crops Destroyed.
rlany Persons Killed, But Only Meager
Details Received-Three Persons
Drowned Near rlobile-Spanish h
Gunboat Supposed to be Patrolling
the Coast of Georgia-The Cotton
Crop of Texas Much Diminished
by Lack of Rain.

MOBILE (Ala.), Aug. 16.-News of a
deadly cyclone that passed through
Perry County, Alabama, Thursday, was
received to-day by the Herald" About
) o'clock in the afternoon it became
very dark. the barometer began to fall
and heavy rain descended. A terrific
wind caused trees to be hurled high in
the air, while the strongest houses We're
shaken from their foundations. Twelve
negro and three white men, names un-
known, are known to be among the
killed, and many others were killed. The
list of dead may be greatly increased
when news is received from other places
in the country.
The meagre details given above are
from Augustine, sixteen miles from the
nearest telegraph station. The cyclone s
path was through the interior of the
county, which cannot be reached by
wire. Hundreds of farmers lost their
entire crop by the wind and rain.
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SPANISH GUNBOAT.
One Supposed to be PatroIIing the
Coast of Georgia.

SAVANNAH (Ga), Aug. ia
special to the Morning News from
Brunswick, Ga, says:
Either a Spanish gunboat or Ameri-
can man. of-war is patrolling the coast
of the Brunswick customs district
Smoke from a large steamer was seen
about noon by visitors to ST Simon
Island and later the shape of a large
vessel, generally supposed to be the
Spanish cruiser Alfonso, was discerned.
The fact that it is not positively known
whether the Brunswick tug Dauntless
made her escape to sea with the ex-
pedition which left the Satila River
bridge Thursday morning last, makes
the interest created by the appearance
of this warship thrilling and causes
much excitement
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HANNA ELATED.
He lmparts Encouraging News to
TlajOr rlckinley.

CLEVELAND (O), Aug. 16.-Major
Mckinley spent the entire day at Ma
tional Chairman Hannas home on the
lake shore. Mr.. Hanna arrived from
Chicago early this morning and several
hours were spent by the Major and his
manager in close consultation. Mr.
Hanna. now that he has heard from
every State in the Union as to the ex-
act condition of affairs, is highly elated
over the prospect and his encouraging
news put the Major in the best of spir-
its to-day. In the afternoon Colonel
Myron T. Herrick Joined the confer
ence. Mr.. Hanna will leave for New
York tomorrow, and Major Mckinley
will return to Canton early in the morn
ing.
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And is the Dinner Guest of John
Brisbin Walker.
His Letter of Acceptance to be Writ
ten at Upper Red HOOk-He Has
Promised to Speak in St. Louis
and Baltimore Populists
May Not Support Him, and the
Democrats Are for WatSOn-COIO-
radO Democrats IndOrSe Teller and
VIII Assist to Reflect Him.

TARRYTOWN On. Y.), Aug. 16.-The
brighter side of a candidates life was
experienced by Hon. William J. Bryan
to-day. He passed perhaps the pleas
antest Sunday since his nomination. In
company with General Samuel Thomas,
the New York capitalist and promi-
nent Republican, Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan
attended divine services this morning
at the First Presbyterian Church in
lrvington. .. J. Smith took the nomi-
nee driving in the afternoon. Mrs.
Bryan, Mrs. Smith and Mr. Sewall
were in the party. They visited scenes
of historic and legendary interest in
Tarrytown and vicinity, including the
bridge where, according to Washington
Irving, the headless horseman threw
his skull at Ichabod Crane. They
alighted at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
and visited the grave of Washington
Irving. In addition to Mr.. and Mrs.
Bryan and Mr.. SewaN, John Brisban
Walker had as guests at dinner this
evening Albert Shaw, editor of the
Review of Reviews" whose summer
residence is at Irvington, and w. r.
Hearst. Several friends and neigh
and and Mr.. Sewall to-day Part of the
journey tomorrow to Upper Red Hook
the place where Mr.. Bryan will write
his letter of acceptance, will be made
by boat up the Hudson. If it can be sc
arranged the Poughkeepsie boat will
stop at Irvington for Mr.. Bryan and
his party, and the trip as far as Pough-
keepsie will be made by that means
Otherwise the party will board it al
Yonkers.
The boat is due at Irvington about
":3O a. m. Mr.. Bryan confirmed to-
day the dispatches from ST. Louis and
Baltimore that he had promised tc
speak at those places, but said the
dates had not been fixed. Mr. Bryan
stated that he is not yet ready to give
out his itinerary for the campaign.
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TEXAS COTTON CROP.
Lack of Rain Has Reduced it About
One-Third.

DENISON (Tex), Aug. 16.-R. NJ
King, the cotton expert, and who has
correspondence with the entire cotton
belt, has issued the following bulletin:
In North Texas, not over one-third
of the area has been visited by rains
at all, and it is safe to say not one acre
il 100 has had enough to suffice the
present needs of the plant.
Notwithstanding the recent showers
we do not hesitate to advance the opin-
ion that the great monster crop of '96
that was to be, has surely miscarried
and the crop that was sold in May and
June for a 10000, 900 bale crop will be
under 1000, 900 bales, and before the
last of September we will probably see
the bulk of the North Texas cotton
ready for the market, if not Sold
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UNIFORM LEGISLATION.
Conference of the State Commis.
siOners Held at Saratoga.

SARATOGA On. Y.o, Aug. ia con-
ference of the State Commissioners on
uniformity of legislation will be held
at the Grand Union Hotel tomorrow
Twenty-nine States and one Territory
are represented in the movement, with
S. M. Cutcheon of. Detroit, Mich, Presi-
dent; l.. w. Brewster of Connecticut
Vice-President; f. j. Stimson of Bos-
ton Secretary, and A. E. Henschell Of
New York Assistant Secretary. AT a
session held yesterday a code of conf
mercial law was discussed.
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some UNUSUAL ECONOMICS.
IMPRISONMENT OF ARMY AND
NAVY OFFENDERS SHORTENED.
Orders Issued by President Cleve-
land Regarding Reductions
in Rank.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16-UnusuaI
economics seem to be exercised by mill
tary and naval officials. Last week AS
sistant Secretary of the Navy McAdoo
| remitted eleven months of the years
Imprisonment which was imposed upon
Machinist Dunphy of the ram Katha-
din, dismissal to follow, on the ground
that it was too expensive to keep him in
prison that long.
General orders just issued by General
Otis, in command of the Department Of
the Columbia, seem to show that the
| same policy is to be followed in the
army. Two soldiers were sentenced to
! dismissal following a years imprison-
ment for desertion. Reviewing the re-
| port of the court martial, General Otis
| approves the sentence after reducing the
term of imprisonment six months.
| Similar remission of punishment is
| also made by General Forsythe, De
partment of California. Orders from the
| same headquarters relating to the
| transfer of horses and mules from one
| point to another require the transfers
| to be made without cost for transporta-
! ton.
| The following order has been issued
| by the President:
Executive Mansion, Washington D. c.
Aug. 10, 1896.
| To the present schedule of punish
ment for enlisted men established under
Act of Congress, approved September
y, 1890, as announced in executive
order of March 20, 1895, as promul-
gated in General Orders No. Is of 1895,
from the headquarters of the army, is
added: First class privates of engi-
neers and ordinance may be reduced to
second class privates of those corps re-
spectively, in all cases where for like
| offenses on the part of the non-com-
missioned officers their reduction in
grade is now authorized.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
| Major General Miles has promulgated
| the following:
BY direction of the Secretary of War
| the issue of full dress uniforms to hos
pital stewards, acting hospital stewards
and privates of the hospital corps will
be discontinued and an equivalent al
! lowed in money value of white cotton
duck clothing will be made instead.
The First Infantry has been concen>
| tIated in full force at the Preside of
| San Francisco and is now marching to
Santa Cruz where it will arrive on the
| Goth instant for months instruction
| in evolutions of the regiment.
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'I would be the last man in the world
to assail the character of Mr.. Bryan.
have not done so in any instance, or
by any word of mine. Mr.. Bryan is the
candidate of a great party. 1t is not
just to the American people that
charges of this kind should go unan-
swered. He is the man and the only
man who can make definite and con-
elusive answer"
Mr.. Thurston suggests that Senator
Stewart turn his batteries upon those
reputable editors and newspapers MAX
ing the charges"
In conclusion, he says: 1.-THE Ameri-
can people, however, can best judge as
to whether or not the contributions for
the circulation of silver literature have
been small if you will submit to a de-
tailed account: and as you say that
these misunderstanding to the
American Bimetallic League and
American .Bimetallic Union-for which
you stand as sponsor, can account for
all the money received and the use
made of it. l hope you will not longer
delay in publishing your itemized bal
ance sheet. / have no doubt it would
be very interesting reading and be
greatly appreciated by a waiting pub
lie. Permit me to suggest that |
know of no possible reason why the BIZ
metallic League and it's contributors
should not employ orators or distri-
butte literature. l concede that en-
ployment by your union is honorable,
providing it is open and avOwed, so
that people whose interests are so vi
tally at stake may know in whose be-
half they are appealed to.
Il now hope, my dear sir, that you
will frankly acknowledge the undue
haste and stupidity with which you
have misrepresented me in this mat
ter, and 1 sincerely trust that you will
Immediately transfer to that great
Democratic journal, the Chicago
Chronicle the honor of an opportu-
nifty to substantiate it's editorial
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NEW WORK.
The Salvation Army to Have a
Woman's Cavalry Brigade.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16-Staff Cap
tain Blanche Cox of the Salvation Ar
my has entered upon new style of
work, to be conducted by the "Woman's S
Cavalry Brigade" The members of
the brigade, seven in all, will make a
two months trip through Maryland,
the Virginias and Delaware in a coach,
provided with all the necessary access
series to the peculiar style of meetings.
They will stop first at Washington
Grove, where they will meet Mr.. and
Mrs. Booth-Tucker, the new command
er of the army in the United States,
who will conduct the meeting to-mor-
row and dedicate the coach. A trip of
more than 1000 miles has been planned
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RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
Pennsylvania Bankers Will Help to
Maintain the Gold Reserve.

ATLANTIC CITY IN. j., Aug. 10
At meeting of the Council of Admin
istration of the Pennsylvania Bank
ers' Association held yesterday, the fol-
lowing was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this council earnest
ly recommends that the banks and
bankers of Pennsylvania, as a high
patriotic duty, follow the example OF
banks of New York. Philadelphia,
Boston and Chicago and deposit at an
early day part of their holdings of gold
with the Treasury of the United States
in exchange for legal tender notes, to
assist the Government in maintaining
the gold reserve intact"
The record-union., 1896-08-17
EXPRsSsMEN's STRIKE.
The Strikers Quit and Men Engaged
to Take Their Places.

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-The strike of
the employees of the Adams Express
Company continues in this city and Jer-
sey City, but everything was quiet
about the yards and Offices of the con-
cern to-day. The strikers held no meet
ings at their headquarters in this city
and none of them gathered there in
the course of the day At the offices of
the company Superintendent Miller
gave out statement in which he said
that the company had engaged $50
bright and intelligent young men to
take the places of the strikers.
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to cover the cities and towns where the
army has not been planted.
STRIKE THREATENED.
New York Painters Ordered Out, But
Some Nav Not Go.

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-The painters
threaten to strike to enforce the pay
ment of the union scale of wages OF
S3 o0 a day and eight hours work, and
the strike may begin tomorrow.
There are four or five painters unions
in this city-the German painters, the
operative painters, the decorative paint
ers and New York progressive paint
ers, and all are controlled by an Execu-
tive Board which has issued the order to
strike.
The German painters, of whom there
are about 200, are opposed to any strikes
at present, as they say the times are
not propitious for such action and they
have called upon the members of the
Executive Board to resign
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DROWNED BY THE TIDE.
Two Women and a Man Swept to
Death Near Mobile.

MOBILE (Ala.), Aug 1.-two men,
Arthur Walker and Robert E. Lee, and
two women, Viola French and Margaret
Curry, We're with a picnic party that
went to Dog River early this morning
to spend the day. While in bathing at
the mouth of the river, Walker and the
two women were swept off their feet by
the tide and all We're drowned before
the eyes of Lee, who was powerless to
render assistance. Lee swan with the
tide and after a desperate struggle of
thirty minutes was rescued alive.
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FELL FROM A CAR.
A Prominent North Carolina Editor
Killed,

WINSTON On. CO, Aug. 16.-Captain
J. w Goslen, editor of the ''Union Re-
publican" the organ Of the Republican
party in this State, met with a fatal ac
cident this afternoon. He was returning
from the Postoffice with his mail in the
street car and attempting to step from
the car before it stopped was thrown
violently on the macadamiZed street.
His head struck stone which produced
a conclusion of the brain and caused his
DEATH Captain Goslen was 90 years of
age.
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Lies in Soft Mud.

LONDON, Aug. 16-Later advices
received here state that the British
steamer Gaelic, Captain Pearne, from
Hongkong August .ith for Yokohama,
Honolulu and San Francisco, which
was reported aground yesterday at
Shimonoseki, Japan, lies in a soft mud
bank, with twelve feet of water in her
forehold A steamer is assisting her.
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FIREMAN KILLED.
A Trolley Car Strikes the Truck
While Going to Fire.

BUFFALO On. ", Aug. 16.-One fire.
man was instantly killed and three 9TH
ers seriously injured early this morning
in collision between No. 8 and Syca-
more-street trolley car. The truck was
on it's way to a fire on Leopold street,
and while crossing the street car tracks
at Woltz avenue was struck by the 'ar.
Ladderman John Fielark was insta ltly
killed and Michael Rosenberg, Charles
Schomerstein and Fred Jockey were
badly injured. The Coroner has not yet
fixed the responsibility for the accident
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MAN AND WIFE KILLED.
They Were Struck by a Train While
Walking on the Track.

BROOKLYN, Aug. 16-About half
past 8 o'clock tonight while Mr.. and
Mrs. Thaddeus K. Martin, aged 80 and
40, respectively, were walking on the
Prospect Park and Coney Island Rail-
read tracks at Kings Highway, they
were struck by a south-bound train and
instantly killed. 1t is supposed that the
headlight of the locomotive dazzled Mr..
and Mrs. Martin SO that they failed to
discover which track the train was on
until too late. The engineer and con-
ductor of the train have been placed
under arrest.
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Two Girls Killed by Lightning.

a heavy thunderstorm this morning
three little girls were crossing the river
in rowboat on their way to Sunday
school, when lightning struck and killed
two of them and rendered the other un-
conscious. They were all under IL years
of age. The two killed were named
Lindsay and Ellis.
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Four Men Killed.

GRAYSON (Ky), Aug. 16.-At a
church meeting on Little Sandy, in Ell
|liott County, twenty miles south of this
place, four men were killed and two
wounded yesterday near the fair
grounds. A man named Spicer was
selling whisky and large number of
horse traders got into fight, in which
two Harrison brothers and two Whit
brothers were instantly killed and two
others, names unknown, wounded, one
seriously and the other slightly.
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Shot by His distress.

JACKSONVILLE (Fla), Aug. To-
p. r. Lines, a saloon-keeper, was shot
and killed at midnight tonight by Mrs
G. Z. Rentz. Mrs. Rentz was divorcee
and a liason existed between her and
Lines. The woman shot the man twice,
once in the neck and once in the breast.
She claims she shot in self-defense.
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Capsized and Drowned.

BROOKLYN, Aug. 16.-John Mauer
and a party of seven friends went sail
ing in catboat this afternoon, and
when off Robbins Reef the boat cap
sized. Six of the occupants were picked
up by passing boat, but two, named
Shey and Linderman, were drowned.
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TORNADO IN NEBRASKA.
1t Devastates Section Two Miles in
Width.

SYRACUSE Neb.), Aug. 16-A
storm of wind, hail and rain from the
northwest struck this section of the
country with fearful force about $50
p. m. Saturday. Trees. barns. outbuild-
ings, window glass, fruit and corn is
one-third destroyed The track of the
storm was about two miles wide and
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Mayor of McKeesport Dead.

M'KEESPORT Pa), Aug. 16.-James
Zander, Mayor of McKeesport, died at
2:45 this afternoon. He was taken i'll
last Wednesday afternoon with peri
tonitis. A surgical operation was per-
formed this morning to save his life,
but he failed to rally. He was formerly
a rolling mill heater and was elected
Mayor in 1894, after serving as Presi-
dent of the Common Council.
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Americus Symmes Dead.

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Americus
Symmes, son of John Cleve Symmes.
died in Louisville to-day. aged So John
CleVe Symmes invented the theory OF
an open continent land around the Pole.
which he called Symmsonia. This land,
ne thought, had temperate climate