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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-11

the evening II was frequently interrupted by
spontaneous bursts of applause as the speaker
exposed some fallacy Of the so-oalled arguments
for free silver. At it's close il was fallowed by
a demonstration that left no room for doubling
that sthe ex-senator had completely won MS
audience-that his speech was genuine trl-
umph
After Mr.. Miller had finished. the audience
sang:
Mine have the rising OF the great Mckinney
host.
They sang II from their hearts too
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-11
THE COST OF PRODUCTIO

In his speech OF acceptance the candidate OF the
Democracy said:
'In reply to the argument that improved machin-
cry has lessened the cost of producing silver it is
sufficient say that the same is true OF the pro-
lie might have added that the same Is true of
everything else produced by the aid OF improved
machinery for the Introduction or machinery has
,norLnd - completc revolution in methods Of pro-
dmction and in prices The improved machines have
,~;ecst and their introduction has worked a total
change in commerce trade and transportation Not
long since in city not far from here the streecar
cmnnnnies introduced electricity on their lines and
200 skilled mechanics. who had been engaged IN
shoeing for the streetcar companies laid their
hammers down on their anvils. quenched the fires
Of their FORCES and walked ont tho street to be"
gin life anew. Many Of these men were too od TO
Dick up other trades callings. and IN any event
il required some time for them to lind other Occu-
pations and when they did obtain situations IT
was Al reduced WAGES. As horses oers they re-
compete win the newly landed Immigrant at wages
running from 20 cents to 81 20 day. am not hnd-
ing fault with machinery but am simply showing
what it has done to displace labor 70 level prices
labor Icy the machine reduces the mechanic. VINO
trade which would enable him to earn good
wages. 10 the level so far as wages are concerned
Of the unski.ed laborer, and the unskilled work
men Of this land have been brought face to face
with mil ions of immigrant competitors. The young
and when crowded out Of hts place Of employment
by the immigrant he takes the adze. the saw or
nhi or athc-shier from he hand Of The
machinis: the trowel and square from the hand Of
lower wages than the skilled workman. whose place
he occupies. formerly received. The on-sweeping
tide of immigration, ENGRAVING degraded habits
upon our civilization, makes II Impossible for a.
workmen In cities and towns to receive the fun.
inst reward for labor done and every newcomer
yho ,ilspaccs an American workman at lower
wages deprives the farmer Of his legitimate market
IN The extent which the wages are reduced Here.
hon are two cause s-thc Introduction of improved
machinery and immigration which combine 10
lover the prices OF products and deprive the farmer
~ his market. and the crime OF 1913 has had
nothing 10 with either one WHAT remedy docs
,.I.t f.rf off.
fairs That IL recognizes such condition y True
Tor II contains % plank calculated 10 lead NE un-
thinking into the belief that they would ABOLISH one
OF these evils II reads . o,.,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-11
MANUFACTURES OF DOLLARS.


DO you believe that Government will allow
the individual first coin his silver bullion into
silver dollars and then issue silver certificate 10
the people based upon his silver dollars? II seems
to that that is placing too great strain upon
our creduity Free and unlimited coinage means
that | may drive "A WagOn-lOad carload OF sill
yer 10 the mint and the Government VIII be
obliged manufacture II into dollars for mo.
There be no discrimination In favor Of ind-
viduals. corporations or business concerns domes-
tic or foreign. mnts will be open to the word
as well ports open TO Imports. If tn"
Government were buying the silver bullion. could
get IL for - cents and stamp II dolnr We.
the people would make something II for a short
time, and the Government could issue silver Ger
tincatc In lieu Of the dollar but have nothing
further to say about II when open the minis TO
free coinage. and once opened the combined iniu-
ence Of the OF silver bullion OF the United
States and the world Will be eXerted TO prevent the
closing % the minis 10 free coinage. While We are
damning Wal Street let not forget that under
free and unlimited coinage an English manufact-
urer may bring two hundred and nifty thousa nd
dollars worth OF silver bullion to mint have II
coined into five hundred thousand dollars and buy
up the factory OF the ruined American mamie IT
urer with a commodity which We have doubled in
price AT our mint without asking for the aid or
consent Of any other nation" Are We fools 20 try
the doubtful experiment Of silver monometall lsfn
when the certainty of cnriching foreign silver own
ers lights the heavens Before u.s.
What about labor with the Nation a silver
basis instead OF "A gold basis? one silver dollar
then VIII buy but half what II will now. and the
work two days I'm order to purchase as much for
silver dollars as he now obtains for one dollar
OF god OF silver, OF paper based gold. This
Natcn needs silver side by side with gold. and sill
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
TOTAL RAINFALL D. INCHES
STATISTICS ON TEMPERATURE
AND PRECIPITATION.
Madison, September 3

-hcboASOA4, SCplCA1USI y.
The weather story for August shows
a total of clear days IA, and cloudy IL
The maximum temperature was en-
August s, 80 degrees; the minimum, on
August q, was 81 degrees. The
winds wera chiefly from the south. The
total precipitation for the month was
2.4S inches, the maximum fall being on
August %, when SO inches fell. A
light frost was felt on the 23d.
In August, 1895, there were IA clear
days and II more Or less cloudy. The
prevalent winds were from the west.
The maximum temperature was on
August 9, SO degrees, the minimum So
degrees on August 20 and 81. The to-
tai precipitation was 2:0S inches, the
maximum falling on August 23, "A
inches. The subjOined table from the
Washburn observatory records
shows that the stories of the two
months differ most widely in relation
to temperature, the mercury being more
capricious for August, 1895, than dur
ing the month just past:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
HARMONY AND DISCORD.
Iishmen Flead for One While the
Other Reigns.

Dublin, Sept 4.-The Irish national
convention resumed its session at II
o'clock yesterday morning. Shortly
after the convention had been called
tC order Ie Rev. Father Flynn moved
the appointment of a committee of ar
bitration tC be composed of home and
foreign delegates, with instructions to
the factions.
7. P. O COnnor NJ. P, then took
the floor, and his eloquence aroused the
first breeze of the day. He read
Father Flynn's original resolution, sug-
costing that a committee be selected
from the ''~ree sections of the Irish
Iarliame ltary party to prepare a basis
Of union, which resolution has since
been amended and which was thought
tC have been written by Timothy NJ
Healy, NJ. P, himself. Mr. O'Connor
then attacked the "disruptionists VINO
are fighting the convention with every
dirty expedient.''
Mr. OConnor's attack on the Healy-
ties was received with deafening cheers
from the Dillonites and others, during
which Canon Murnane of London sue
ceeded in obtaining the floor and oh
jected 10 Mr.. O'Connor's language
which he said was defeating the OBJ
ject which the convention had in view
that of bringing about unity among
Irishmen Of all sections.
A scene of great disorder followed
and was continued until Canon Muir
name was ruled out of order. Mr.
OConnor then resumed his remarks
and declared that the only way to kill
dlssension was to crush it by the unit
ed delcrm. nation of an angry people"
and urgei the convention to give the
Irish lel:ers means of uniting the
Parnellites with the Irish party.
The discussion of Father Flynns ad-
dress, which was the first
test of strength between
the Oillonite6 and Healyites.
as long and bitter, and the resolution
was finally withdrawn in the interest
OF harmony.
Later the convention adopted resolu-
lions recording it's conviction that il
was of the first Importance that ma
tionalist representatives in parliament
should be reunited in one home rule
party, in which every supporter of tina:
policy would be cordially received an
treated according to his capacity IL
render service to the common cause.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
BIG WATER COMBINE
Neenah-Menasha Company Files Arti-
cIes of Incorporation.

Oshkosh, Wis, Sept. 5.-The Nee
nah and Menasha Water Power com
pany filed articles of Incorporation with
the register of deeds here yesterday.
This is the long-planned water power
of the lower Fox river. The company
is capitalized for 100000, and J. A.
Kimberly of Neenah is president.
This plan for controlling the water
originated in the enforced closing CT
the mills last year in order to save the
water for navigation purposes. The
water in Lake Winnebago fell far be-
low the crest of the Menasha dam and
the costly Fox and Wisconsin river
Improvement was in danger Of not be-
ing navigable by row boats The
United States shut off the water from
the mills for long time Now all the
users of water power at the outlet of
Lake Winnebago are in a combine and
each mill will get it's share of the total
while the level of Lake Winnebago
will be kept up.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10

New York, Sept. 5.-R. G. Qua
weekly report says there is a distinct
increase Of confidence, due largely to
the continuing and heavy imports Of
sold which have put an end to money
anxiety; also to political events, which
are closely watched. While this conf
dence has not yet started more mills
and factories than are closing for want
Of work, it crops out in the heavy spec
ulative purchases of pig iron, wool and
other materials by experienced men
who believe that a revival of business
is not far off, and for the first time in
nearly two months a slight upward
turn appears in the prices of manufac-
tured products. Wheat had suddenly
risen week ago, but reacted with bet
ter crop news until Thursday, when
another advance came of one cent,
making the net decline for the week
rs. The western receipts have con-
tinued large, an increase since July l
of about twelve million or thirteen per
cent. Atlantic exports are also large,
making a gain of 90 per cent. Corn
has reached at Chicago the lowest point
ever touched, 20 cents in 1861, and
again broke all records here, declining
to 255s at which it closed. After many
weeks decline the average price Of
iron and it's products was the lowest
since July l of last year. The heavy
speculative purchases of bessemer at
the west, and for southern iron here,
has so strengthened the market that
bessemer at Pittsburg commands Sill
25 and grey forge $3.50.
The various associations have not re-
duced the prices, believing it would not
stimulate the demand at present, which
is extremely narrow and shows no i'm
provement Tin is weaker at $13.15
for September; bids at s10.37 are solic-
tied for lake copper, while lead is
firmer. No gain yet appears in the
demand or prices of wool, but marked
speculative buying shows a belief that
prices will improve. Sales for the
week are 4,337 800 pounds, of which a
half million is foreign. Failures for
the week are ga in the United States
against 1856 for last year.
Bradstreets' weekly report says that
there is better feeling among whole
sale merchants over the prospects of
the autumn trade in seasonable goods.
This extends some to industrial lines,
notably iron and steel. Chicago sales
in iron for the week were larger than
for all of August. Pittsburg sales
were also larger and prices are better
on the outlook. At Detroit, Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Kansas City, Omaha, Mil
waukee, Duluth and Minneapolis there
is no change from the dullness and
conservatism which marked preceding
weeks. Exports Of wheat, flour, in
cluded as wheat, from both coasts of
the United States and from Montreal
this week were 3,369,S62 bushels
against 1921 900 last week and $780,
600 the first week in September a year
ago.
The total bank clearings of the
principal cities of the United States
for the week were 1927 oil, 1874, a de-
crease of 10 per cent. compared with
the corresponding week Of last year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
FUSION IS ALL OFF.
West Virginia Democrats and Populists
Are Unable to Agree.

Wheeling, w. Va, Sept. 5.-The fu-
sion between the democrats and popu-
lists of this state has been declared
off at Clarksburg after nearly thirty
six hours of frUitless endeavor be
tween the committees to get together.
The populists absolutely refused to
support Gen. Watts, the democratic
candidate for governor, and would rot
surrender Watson for Sewall
on the electoral ticket. They
selected two pouplists at large and
nominated N. w. Fitzgerald for gov
ernor in the place of Ralph Snyder
After much discussion and various Of
fers from either side, both committees
adjourned, it being understood the
populists will keep in the middle of
the road"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
REGENTS IN SUPERIOR
Ready for the Dedication of the Normal
School On Monday.

West Superior, Wis, Sept. 5.-The
members of the state board of normal
regents are III the city to be present at
rCmorrows dedication of he new Su-
perior normal school, now complete and
ready for it's formal opening next Mon
day. Among the speakers who have
accepted the invitation of the commit
tee on arrangements and will make
short addresses are: Gov. William H.
rpham, Ex-Governor W. R. Merriam
of Minnesota, Maj. Edward Scofeld of
Oconto, the republican candidate for
governor; Dennis Gardiner of Platte
vile, A. Z. Thompson of Oshkosh and
J. ] Fruit Of La Crosse, members Of
the board of normal school regents; J
@. Emery, state superintendent of puo-
lie instruction; Duncan J. Mckenzie,
state railway commissioner; Secretary
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10

OF State Henry Casson, Congressman
John ]. Jenkins Of Chippewa Walls, E.
D. Coe of Whitewater, president of the
board Of normal school regents. The
local speakers will be: Assemblyman H.
c. Sloan, Regent Frank Ostrandar,
Senator Thomas B. Mills. ex-Mayor E .
9. Kennedy, H. H. Grace, Frank A
Ross, Postmaster Thomas F. Scion and
l. c. Mcneil, the president o. the new
school. Letters of regret have been re-
ceived from eX-Gov. W. D. Hoard Of
Fort Atkinson, Senator John C. Spoon
er. John Hume and Gabe Bouck CT
Oshkosh, Senator William F. Villas Of
Madison and John NJ. Ewing of Mil
waukee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10

ident of the association; Secretary
John F. Victory, of Washington, D. c..
and many other orators.
Thursday evening the local branch
will tender the delegates and visitors a
banquet at Landlords pavilion, at Reeds
lake. Among the officials who will be
present at the banquet and respond to
tCasts are Postmaster General Wilson,
Postmaster Thomas Carroll. Mayor
LathrOp G. Stow, Senator julius Caesar
Burrows of Kalamazoo, Congressman
William Alden Smith, Colonel George
G. Briggs and William H. Anderson,
president of the board of trade.
The National Association of Letter
Carriers was born in Milwaukee in
August, 1889. It's primary object was
TO secure increased salaries for the
carriers, and its labors during the first
years OF its existence were chiefly to
that end. At the Boston convention
in 1890 fifty cities were represented
The drafting of an insurance plan was
the main work done, and the Letter
Carriers Mutual Benefit asso-
citation came into being. The
convention met in Detroit 1891,
and at that time embraced 235 cities
and 100 :n"mbers The equalization
of salaries and the extension of civil
service rules to all free delivery of
fees were the most important matters
which occupied the mind of the delega-
tiCn. At the Indianapolis convention
il 1892 the number of branches repre-
sented was 344. The benefit associa-
ton matters occupied most of the time
ard the graduated rate of assessment
was substituted for the level rate In
1893 the carriers met at Kansas City,
and it was there that the extension of
the civil service to all offices was
brought out, and afterwards, by the
work of special committee, carried to
its present usccessful state. Cleveland
entertained the delegates TO the fifth
annual convention, and Philadelphia
was the meeting place last year. The
officers of the national association are
as follows: Richard f. Quinn of Phil
adelphia, Penn, president; James Ar
kinson, Fall River. Mass, vice presi-
dent; John F. Victor, Washington, ..
c., secretary. Alexander Mcdonald,
Grand Rapids, treasurer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
LETTER CARRIERS.
NATIONAL CONVENTION
OPENS IN MICHIGAN.
Born in Milwaukee in 1889, the Organ
iZatiOn Has Grown
Much Since.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Sept. S.-This
city expects to entertain more visitors
this week than ever before, as the in
dications point to an unprecedented at
tendance of delegates and sight-seers
at the convention of the National AS
ISOLATION of letter carriers which
beginning yesterday will continue
through the entire week.
The convention has been occupying
the attention of the carrier force of
nearly every city in the United States,
and especially of those forces which
will attend the convention in bodies
for the purpose of participating in the
parade. Most all the free delivery Of
fees in Michigan will send their en-.
tire forces. In all there will be about
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
JUST FOR CHINESE.
Ii Hung Chang Visits Washington and
Is Cordially Received.

Washington, Sept. 5.-Elaborate
preparations were made by Minister
Yang Yu for the reception of the high
est representative of his exalted en-
peror. The mansions that form the
legation were decorated in magnificent
style. After Ii Hung Chang received
the greetings Of the minister and
household, he and Yang
Yu retired to private
conference, which was somewhat cx-
tended Then there was a general re-
ception and fraternizing between the
visiting foreigners and the members
of the legation and at noon the
viceroy and his suite were entertained
at luncheon in the ballroom. None but
Chinese were present.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
BOILED DOWN.

Eleven firenen We're crushed to death
at Benton Harbor, Mich,
The Sons Of Veterans have begun
their convention at Louisville.
Musgrove and Cling Mars, the muir
derers of Sheriff Rogers, were Iynched
at Glencoe, MINI
Ii Hung Chang, at Niagara Falls, had
his first experience with electricity,
and it was not a pleasant one.
The Northwestern Scandinavian
singers have cut loose from the United
Scandinavian singers of America.
Dr.. George B. Brown Goode, the
principal authority on fish and fisheries
in America, is dead in Washington.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
TOOK A YOUNG WIFE.
A 35-Year-Old West Superior Man
WEEDS a Child.

West Superior, Wis, Sept. 2.-Quite
sensation was caused among resi-
dents of Superior when it was learned
that Eta Mansfield, the 13-year-old
daug lter of Edward Mansfield, residing
at tie east end of town, had been Sc
cretly married to a man named Fobe,
aged about 35 years. Mr.. and Mrs.
Mansfield kept boarding house OF
Mettleton avenue, near Fourth street,
where Fobe has resided for the past
year. During the past three months
Mrs. Mansfield noticed that FObe was
winning her childs affections and
few days ago she ordered him to leave
the house. Saturday evening he called
at the house, apparently to get some
thing he had forgotten, and about al
hour after the girl was missing. 1t
was ascertained that she had been
married to Fobe by Justice E. r. Otis.
Immediately after the marriage the
couple took the night Omaha train and
nothing has been heard Of them since.
The little girl is cripple and for near
Iy year was an inmate of a hospital
at st. Paul.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
HIS MIND A BLANK.
Gallagher, Noted Irish Politi-
cal Prisoner, in America.

New York, Sept. 5.-Dr. Thomas
Gallagher, the liberated Irish political
prisoner, arrived yesterday. He is
much broken in spirit and his mind is
totally unbalanced. He was welcomed
at quarantine by a number of his old
friends who came in a special boat, but
he failed to recognize them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
WOULDN'T DIE WITH DARKIES
Murderer's Request Not to Be Hanged
With Negroes Is Respected.

Paris, Tex, Sept. 5.-Friday morn
ing George L. Wheeler (white) was
hanged for the murder of Robert Nc
Cabe in the Chickasaw nation June u,
1895. After the removal of Wheeler's
body, the trap again was adjusted and
Silas Lee and Hickman FreeIand, the
two negroes who murdered Edward T +.
Canady, Jefferson Maddose, Paul APP
plegate and an unknown man on a
shanty boat on Head river November
IA, 1895, were placed upon the gal
lows. The negroes were hanged sep
rately at Wheeler's request.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
SEWALL IN TO STAY.
Vice Presidential Candidate Says He'll
Not Withdraw

New York, Sept. 5.-The CONNER
merciaI Advertiser prints the follow
ing dispatch from Bath. Me:
Editor of Commercial Advertiser
Any statement or differences that l pro-
rose to withdraw from the democratic
national ticket are without foundation.
never had, nor have not now the re-
hottest intention Of doing so. (Signed)
Arthur Sewall.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
BISCUIT COMPANY REoRGANIzEs

Chicago, Sept 5.-The management
of the New York Biscuit company, re
organized yesterday. The directors of
the company accepted the designations
of G. T. Smith, G. H. Moore, G. P.
Johnson as directors. Two of these
vacancies were filled by the election Of
George H. Webster and James D.
Mason. The board also accepted J.
H. Moore's resignation as second vice
president and George P. Johnson's as
treasurer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
SPANS TROUBLES DEEPEN.
Conspiracy Of Widespread Ramifca-
tons in PHILIPPINE Islands.

Madrid, Sept S.-A thousand insur-
gents have invaded Sanisdro, the prov
ince Of Neuva Feija in the Island Of
Luzon, the largest Of the PHILIPPINE ISL
ands, and imprisoned the governor and
other officials and committed many out
RACES. The official dispatch from Gen.
Blanco, governor general of the Phil
Iipine islands, announces the discovery
Of fresh conspiracy against the Spanish
government, and adds that a new plot
has been uneerthed, widespread in its
ramifcations The first reinforcements
arrived to the PHILIPPINE islands from
Mindana islands.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
IN A CHICAGO MAD HOUSE.
William Engleky, a Waterloo Farmer
Who Attempted Suicide.

Chicago, Sept. --Chief-of-Police
Badenoch may be called upon to inves-
tigate matters surrounding the incar-
ceration in the Dunning insane asylum
of William Engleky of Waterloo, Wis.
Engleky is a farmer, 40 years old. Some
time ago he is said to have attempted
suicide by cutting his throat. He was
brought to Chicago by two doctors OF
Waterloo, Wis, and was taken to the
Augustana hospital The wound healel
and last Tuesday DR.. Thorpe took the
man tc the Dunning asylum, it is said
The attendants at the Nugustana hos
pital say they do not believe Engleky
was insane.