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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

II IS a shame that our yard measure, our
foot measure. our inch. our pounds and
ounces. our gallons. quarts and pints should
be the same as those of England. To para
phrase slightly the eloquent language OF
Mr.. Bryan. Seventy millions of free people
and measures OF their own and not depend
on any foreign nation TO run their govern
mauf I.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

TIL Journal trusts that Mr.. Overstreet
will pay no attention TO the swagger of the
ridiculous person whom the Popocrats nave
has proved his ability to discuss the issues
OF the canvass In an able manner. He en-
Joys the respect of all intelligent men in
the district of both parties. For these
reasons he has nothing to gain by paying
any attention TO Mr.. Cooper. whose nomi-
nation is in the nature of a burlesque.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

Mr.. Bryan's nippant aliusion to "minis-
tiers who are I'm the business OF ministry
merely for the money there Is In II" was
characteristics OF the man. The only rea-
son he could see why ministers should
favor sound money Is that 'rh gold stand
ard makes hard times. Hard times drives
men out Of employment. Idieness is con-
ducive 70 crime. Therefore the gold stand
ard. By increasing the amount Of crime.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

The pensioner who has stood in fear of
Hoke Smith can but take delight In his
humiliation. Three months ago he was go
ing over the South preaching sound money.
Bryan was nominated on a Populist plat.
form the Secretary of the Interior swal-
lowed his brave words and was forced to
resign his Office Neither his flop nor his
resignation will save him. as he Is politi-
cally dead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

The vevay Qnd.) Reveille says that Of
twcnty-six. stockholders I'm the First Ma
tional Bank OF that place sixteen are wom-
en- and OF eighty stockholders in the Saw
ings Bank twenty are women. Against all
such women the Popocrat platform declares
war TO the knife.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

The platform adopted by the sound
money Democrats OF Illinois is so very
Democratic that no Republican can find
excuse for voting the ticket. 1t reafirms
the free-.rade heresies of the Cleveland
Democrrc nv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

Mr.. Billings took up his cup of what the
landlady called coffee. tasted it. shifted at
and set IL down.
Have you anything TO say against the
coffee. Mr.. Billingsy' asked the landlady.
NO, ma'am." answered Billings. Il never
sneak I'll of the absent"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27
seemed Reasonable Ia Him.

Il am just tired to DEATH began Mrs.
Whimper.
band.
why should you be-" asked the lady,
tartly.
las l said before. I amt. Some people
might be surprised at your continuing to
talk after you are dead. but / am not"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

1T Is bimetallism we want" say the Bry-
antics. But the Mexican Minister of FL
nance. who Is in New York, says that with
free coinage of silver bimetallism is i'm
possible. and he has been where 1t has been
tried. The intelligent silverites. the mine
owners. know that free coinage means a
silver basis for the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

The platform Of the Kansas sound-money
Democrats declares that ANY coin which
IS not worth as much without as with the
insignia of the mint is dishonest" That
IS true. and no amount of Populistic
clamor can change the fact.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

Can be found at the following places:
NEW ~YORk-windsor hotel and Astor Howe.
CHICAGo-Palmer House and p. o. News Co..
81 Ada ms street.
CINcINlSATI-J. r.. Hawley & Co., ia Vine
street.
IOUJSN HLLE-C. 7. Deering. northwest corner
OF Third and jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co. 3s6 Fourth avenue.
ST L~OUIS-Union News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON. ID. Riggs House. Ebbitt
House. Wizards Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange. Fourteenth street. between
Penn. avenue and r street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

The Sentinel tries to Justify its conspicu-
Gus publication of a forgery attributed to
Abraham Lincoln by saying that ii was
quoted by a renegade local Republican in
a recent free-silver speech. So 1t was, but
that did not made 1t genuine. 1t is a rank
forgery. and no person of ordinary intell.-
rence need remain IN doubt OF the fact.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

Never did a greater change come over a
political coterie than that which has turned
the cock-sure Matthews push of last
June into a spiritless crowd from whose
faces hone has already gone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27
The Cheerful Idiot.

THAT orchestral recital" said the musical
boarder, that / attended last night was
something awful"
Perhaps said the Cheerful Idiot, per
haps the conductor had a bat on"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

Every time Mr.. Bryan speaks he strength
ems the conviction of the plain. practical
people OF the country who are not in pur-
suit Of politics as a business that he is not
Mt to be President OF the United States.
The most conspicuous feature Of his recent
addresses is their shallowness and the evil
dence which they afford that he is a very
ignorant man even as a siiverite.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

Times are hard and business is depressed.
but there Is no country in the world on a
silver basis that is as prosperous as the
United States. even in this time of depres-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

increases the demand for ministers 10 put
down immortality" He cannot see that
there is any question Of ethics or honesty
involved.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27
Rry.

LONDON, Aug. 26.-The death OF Leopold
Herr. OF New York. the father OF DIR.
Cornelius Herr. OF Panama canal fame.
Times. occurred at B-ournemouth, where
MIR. Herr was visiting hts son. His death
In order to remove "A stone from his bla6-
der. He intended to return TO New York
en- Saturday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27
OUT OF POLITICS.
Senator Gordon VIII Retire tn Pri-
vate Life mt End Of His Term.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 26.-Gen. j. b. Cor
don, United States senator from Georgia.
was seen to-day just before his departure
for Saratoga, where he is to lecture before
the summer schools. General Gordon said
that he must decline &c be interviewed on
politics or on the financial issue now before
the people; that he was practically out of
politics. and would absolutely retire from
political life at the end of his present term.
The General evinced considerable indigna-
ton at the wrong which had been done him
by a publication which purported TO be an
interview with him. printed some weeks
ago. In reference to his future he said:
while l hope for a good many years yet
of active work, IL is absolutely necessary
for me to give more thought and time TO
my personal affairs than l have been able
to do for the last twenty-five or thirty
years" He added: "Of course. / shall not
lose interest in public affairs. but / feel that
l can do more good in another field. We
all have our spheres of labor. and IL L have
any mission IL is in an effort to unite the
people Of the different sections, irrespective
OF parties. in closer and more cordial rela-
tions. ] trust that i have done some serv-
Ice TO the country by such efforts in the
past; and propose TO continue in that line
to the end
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

The free coinage of silver cannot give the
farmer five thousand consumers, but a re-
turn to the Republican policy can give
him as good as ten millions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

Mr.. Bryan need not have been TO the
trouble to read the sound-money Demo-
Gratis out of the party. since Governor
Matthews did It two weeks ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

The free and unlimited coinage of lies
has collapsed as surely as will the scheme
Of the free and unlimited coinage of silver
later on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27
A Little Blunder.

Indeed. Miss Rox. you are the only girl
l ever loved" began the young man who
was trying TO propose to the elderly hsiress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

All the great political speakers Of the
country are on the side of sound money,
either Republican or sound-money Demo-
Gratis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

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TO THE POINT.
Concluded from First Page.)

so many of our WOODEN factories been sus-
pended as now. The Republican party can
be relied on TO correct these great wrongs
gross.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27

II suppose you have had hat sort OF thing
said to you for the past twenty years, but
in this instance2'p 1n5sEF3IE q
sSirt"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-27
The Monocacy Not Lost.

WASHINGTON Aug. pa dispatch
from San Francisco says: "A report that
the United States ship Monocacy has been
lost at Tien-Tsin. China, has been re-
ceived here in a letter from a man-of-wars-
man on the Yorktown. now lying at Yoko-
hama. The letter bore the date of Aug.
3 and read: News mas just reached us OF
the lost of the Monocacy, but there are no
particulars further than that there was a
landslide or an earthquake"
The Navy Department declares the above
story TO be absolutely without foundation.
The vessel at present is in the River China
and the water in that stream has been so
low for some time that the Monocacy has
been stuck in the mud. This fact may
have given rise to the rumored loss.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-16
SCANT HOPE FOR MILTON.
Little Can be Done for Him Under the
Terms of Our Treaty with spain.

Little Can be Done for Him Under the
Terms of Our Treaty with spain.
WAsHINGToE, May 10.-It is UNDER
stood that the friendly offices which the
state department is exerting in behalf
of Mr.. Owen Milton, of Kansas, SEN
fenced by court-martial to be shot in
Cuba. are limited to the complaint that
the decision was reached in a sum-
mary manner, without giving any OPP
p~ortunity for defense and too hastily
to examine into all the circumstances
of the cases. The effort now being
made at Madrid and Havana is there
fore to be in the line of securing a de-
Law of execution for insufficient time to
permit such an investigation of the
Competitor incident as is demanded in
the interests of humanity.
1t is not thought that any attempt
will be made to ecurc a civil trial for
Milton or any of his associates who
may be found to be bona fide Ameri-
cans, the treaty under which such
transfers of jurisdiction have been
hitherto made appearing to have no
bearing in the present instance. The
first article of the protocol between
the United States and Spain, signed
January IL, 1877. concerning judicial
procedure, provides as follows:
No citizen of the United States re-
siding in Spain, her adjacent islands or
her ultramariue possessions charged
with acts of sedition, treason or con-
spiracy against the institutions. the
public security, the integrity of the
territory or against the supreme gov
eminent, or any other crime whatso-
ever, shall be subjected to trial by any
exceptional tribunal, but exclusively
by the ordinary jurisdiction, except in
the case of being captured with arms
in hand
Under this article many Americans
resident in Cuba in the past year have
had their cases transferred to civil
courts through the Intervention of
Consul-General Williams, but there
does o appear to be the slightest
ground for claiming Milton to be a
resident of Cuba, and the article
I, cannot, therefore, be made to apply to
him.
The same protocol, however, which
was negotiated by Caleb Cushing, pro-
yides that those taken with arms in
hand, as excepted in the article
quoted, shall be tried by ordinary coun-
ell of war, shall have counse! to de-
fend them and the right to compel the
! attendance Of witnesses. This also re-
, lates only to residents.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-16
QUEER RULINGS
OF Milwaukee Judge Set Aside and =
New Trial Ordered.

CHICAGO, May 9.-The United States
court of appeals, by a decision rendered
yesterday, in the damage suit OF Miss
Maria Cahill VS.. the st. Paul railroad
for loss of both feet in a crossing acct.
dent, reversed the decision of Judge
Seaman, of Milwaukee, which was
given for the company under remark
able circumstances.
The court instructed the jury to
bring in a verdict for the company be-
cause the woman was on a railroad
crossing and a t~respasser. One after
another the jurors arose and refused
to return such a verdict after hearing
the evidence.
The judge directed the jury to re-
tire, and when they returned 1t was
with a verdict of $4,000 damages fol-
Miss Cahill, The verdict was set aside
by the court and, under protest, the
ju-y entered one for the company, ex'
cept Julius Il. Clayton, who told the
court he would rather rot in jail
than do so. To save the juror from
Jail the plaintiff allowed the verdict
for the company to stand and al a1-
peal was taken. The court of appeal:
gives Miss Cahill 4 new trial.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-16
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

IL the senate. on the 9th. the greater
part of the days session was taken up
in discussion of the river and harbor
bill with reference to the relative ad-
yantares OF Santa Monica and San Pc
dro as d location for a deep-water har-
Dor. After the rive- and harbor bill
was laid aside, 30 bills. u~nobjected to
on the calendar, were taken up and
passed. \ joint resolution was offered
by Mr.. Dubois idaho providing that
no government bonds shall be issued
under any existing law until the pres
ident shall have communicated to con-
gress in 4 message the facts showing
the necessity for such issue and unit!
congress shall authorize t......The
house was not in session on the 9th.
Mr.. GUILLERo Luis, a business man
of Havana, lately arrived in Washing
ton. says that Cubans, Englishmen.
Germans, Frenchmen and representa-
| tives of all nationalities in Havana,
deuouncc President Cleveland as ii
moral coward, an accomplish of Wey-
Ter. and as much responsible for the
atrocities and b%rutalitieS of the Span
iards as Weyler himself. This feeling.
Mr.. Luis SAYS, does not extend to the
people of the United States, whose
sympathy with the patriots is most
gratefully appreciated.
PUERTO VETO. the capital of the
province of Manabi, in Guayaquil,
was entirely destroyed by two earth
quake shocks on the night of the eth.
The shocks were succeeded by floods,
i~nundating the city. Many lives are
said to have been lost.
THE coroner's jury investigating the
murder Of Elsie kraglo, near the Zoo
logical park in Washington city rem
dered q verdict. on the 9th. hat she
met her death at the hands of Irving
Ford. the negro in custody. who con-
fessed to the deed.
HEBREWS OF every belief and a
goodly sprinkling OF Christians. filed
Temple Emanuel, in New York city.
at the special memorial services Tor
the late Baron Maurice de Hirsch on
the 10th.
THERE were % cases of cholera and
I6 deaths from the disease reported in
Alexandria, Egypt, On the 10th. On
the sameday three cases were reported
in Cairo.
THREE valuable trotting stations
were burned to death in the riestruc-
ton by fire of the stable of ]. ".
Double at Fort Wayne, Ind, on the
10th.
THE 25th anniversary of the signing
of the Franco-German treaty ,f peace
at Frankfurt. was celebrated by the
Germans on the 10th
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-16
WILL EXECUTE THE AMERICANS
In Accordance with the Court-Martiai
Sentence, Notwithstanding Mr.. Oiney's
Protest. At Least That Is the Unverified
Report-A British subject Involved Too

In Accordance with the Court-Martiai
Sentence, notwithstanding Mr.. Olney's
Protest, At Least That IL the Cnveriied
Report-A British subject Involved Too
HAVANA, May 10.-The report
reaches here from the United States
that Capt.-Gen. Weyler has notified
Secretary of State Olney that the
Americans captured on the schooner
Competitor will be executed in accord
ance with the sentence of the court
martial which tried them, despite the
protest OF Mr.. Olney. 1t is not known
here that the captain general has done
anything of the kind. The only thing
that he has said about the case is that
Consul-General Williams has presented
a claim that the Americans should be
tried by a civil tribunal, as they We're
not bearing arms when captured. II
is believed that the matter will be de-
cided at a cabinet meeting to be held
in Madrid.
The British consul has presented a.
claim in favor of Kilda, the English
man, who was captured ON the Com
petitor. Great secrecy has been OBJ
served regarding the proceeding n the
case and the fact that the men were
sentenced to death has rot been made
generally public here.
On Friday last rebel bands invaded
the town OF Hoyo Colorado, Is miles
from Havana, and burned 15S houses
including the town hall. !
Cornelio Alvarez will be shot al CO.
Ion, province of Matanzas, this morn
and at the same time sentence of
death will be executed on Jose Blanco
Alfonso, in the Cabanas fortress here,
Both men were convicted of the crime
of rebellion.
Nine political prisoners were de-
ported to Spain yesterday. Gen.
Pando sailed on the sane steamer,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-16
ONLY A CORRESPONDENT.
The Mission of Milton. the Kansas Boy, to
Cuba.

Cuba
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May 10-In
reference to Milton, the Kansas boy
condemned to death by the Spaniards,
the following dispatch was sent to
Secretary of State Olney yesterday
afternnoOn:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May 9.
Hon. Richard Olaey, Secretary State, flashing
ton:
Milton, who was captured by the
Spanish authorities on board the Com
petitor and condemned to death, left
Key West as a newspaper correspond
ent, hoping to consumnate plans for
furnishing reliable news to the corre-
spondents of the Florida Times Union
at Key West, who, in turn, were to-
transmit such reports by cable to the
Southern Associated Press and United
Press through the medium of this pa
per. He must have had with him at
the time of capture credentials show
ing his connection with the Times
Union as its duly authorized represent
tative. Such a letter was furnished
him by me.
l send this information to assist yout
efforts in behalf of young Milton.
I. 4. STOCKTON,
General Manager Florida Times Union.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-16
puN's COMMERCIAL REVIEW

Heavy Exports of Gold Cause No Monetary
observation-disclosures In the Future
Reyfves and Points to Better Things TO
Come. Although Neither the Volume OF
Business nor Prices Obtained are at Pres
emit satisfactory.
New YORK. May Or 6. Dun & Co,
In their weekly review of trade this
morning, say:
The export of 81, $50, 900 gold this
week have produced no monetary dis
turbance, and this is at once proof OF
the soundness of financial conditions
and of the prevailing confidence in
better things to come. 1t does not
natter whether the gold is required
for Russia or anywhere else, it would
aot go from this, rather than other
countries, if there were not balances
20 meet.
Much of the hesitation at present is
due to temporarily reduced demand in
some industries and in iron n steel,
the power of the new com inations Is
being generally tested by refusal OF
orders, so hat production exceeds con-
sumption, but the low consumption
exceeds new buying. The general ir
regularity of prices and slack cases
of demand for finished products does
not prevent the marking up of prices
by combinations, but are large ly due
to doubt whether such prices as are
fixed can be maintained. Pig iron is
weaker at the east and also at Pitts.
,burgh; tin steady and lead slightly
lower, and American tin plate 80 cents
below foreign.
For textile manufactures, the situa
ton is trying. Cotton mills have e
fairly active demand, though not equal
to their normal output. and for many
months have been accommodating goods,
hoping for better things, SO that some
are now stopping; although the de-
mand for good grades with higher
prices for cotton, has helped to a
small advance in prices. Print cloths
are an eighth higher, but some other
grades nave declined, so hat the av-
crage of all quotations is slightly
lower.
Wooden manufacturers find prices Of
wool sagging both here and abroad.
The decline with London reaches
about six per cent, while the average
of quotations by Coates Bros, Phila-
delphia. was nearly n per cent.
lower May L. and prices have been fur
Their reduced by concessions to clear
off stocks.
At the west traders are buying much
above the parity of seaboard prices,
and many growers are refusing to sell.
believing that the upward squirt of last
year will be repeated. Sales for the
week have been less than half a week s
full consumption. Mems woolens
show no improvement, but there is
more active buying in ~iannels. and
the demand for fancy dress goods is
encouraging, though for plain goods ii
Is but moderate.
Cotton speculation has lifted the
spot price to s.31 cents and profits
have been realized from the men who
have sold cotton they did not own, but
it is still the fact that the outlook fol
next falls crop is unusually favorable.
while stocks here and abroad exceed
all possible demands until Septem.
Der 1.
Failures for the week have been 23s
in the United States, against 227 last
year, and "a against 81 in Canada last
year
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-16
ETCHINGS.

Edison row claims that the Y ray is
d sound wave and its photographs are
simply shadows of sound vibrations.
The Dominion of Canada contains 81
t56,3s3 square miles; the United States
contains 3,5G1. 900 square miles.
The astronomical difference in time
between London and New York is 4
hours, Sc minutes, &c seconds.
Careful scientific observation shows
that the average speed of the transmits
sion of an earthquake shock is JIG 900
feet per second.