davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening journal., 1896-05-07
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS.
They Declare Themselves In Favor OF Mo
KiDicy Tor President.

hlultI lof AFthldeIts
SACRAMENTO, May 7.-The MoKinloy
enthusiasts completely captured the Re
publican state convention, although the
district delegates elected from the Fourth
congressional district were unpledged and
were avowedly Allison supporters. The
Fifth district delegates will probably bo
OF the same political complexion. but the
other IA are bound to Mckinley by tho
strongest pledges that could be framed.
The following resolutions wero adopted:
Resolved, That tho Republicans Of Cali
fornia, while recognizing the earnest
worth and fitness OF each of the distin-
guished statesmen OF their party whose
names have boon mentioned as aspirants
for the presidential nomination at st.
Louis and while pledglng in advance the
electoral vote OF tho Goldon state to tho
Republican nominee. whoever he may DO,
hereby declare that the emphatic senti.
ment Of California Is in favor OF the nOm-
inatlon OF that wise and able statesman.
the pure and unsulliod patriot that true
and loyal American. that peerless cham.
pion of protection. William Mckinley OF
Ohio. and the delegates from this state
are hereby directed and instructed to
work and vote for the success of the said
William Mckinley as long as there is a
reasonable prospect Of his nomination.
Resolved That we commend the course
Of our delegates In congress in opposing
the proposed funding schemes Of tho Pa
cific railroad companies and urgo that the
latter be compelled to settle their indebt
edness in some reasonable and business
like way, so that the government shall
foreclose its liens upon and take posses
sion Of the properties
The convention came out squarely for
silver in the following declaration, which
was enthusiastically adopted:
''We favor the free and unlimited coin
age OF silver at the ratio of 16 to ! and the
making OF silver as well as gold a legal
tender In payment of all debts, both pub
lie and private
For delegates at large the following
were elected on the first ballots John ID.
Spreokels and George "A. Knight, San
Francisco; u. S. Grant, Jr.. San Diegoi
J.. A. Sheldon Los Angeles. @. i. Crock
or and Irving NJ. SCOTT were nominated
for presidential electors at large. John II.
Lynch was nominated for lieutenant gov
ornOr.
Evening journal., 1896-05-07
UNDER MERIT SYSTEM.
President Cleveland Approves the New
Civil Service Regulations.

President Cleveland Approves the New
Civil Service Regulations.
WASHINGTON, May Almost 80, 600
government employees were brought with
one sweep under the protection of the
civil service by the issuance of an order by
President Cleveland making a general re-
vision Of civil service rules. The order is
the most important since the inaugurn-
tion of the system moro than a decade
ago. IL takes effect Immediately. Its prao-
tical extent Is the classification of all gov
ernment employees below the rank of
those sub oot 20 nomination by the pres
ident and confirmation by the senate and
above the grades Of labOrors or workmen,
with a few exceptions The order has
long been in contemplation, and its
promulpation is the result Of an immense
amount OF correspondence and conference
between the president, the civil service
commissioners and the heads of the vari-
Gus departments. The new rules add
20 800 positions to the classified list in
creasing the number of classified positions
from 90, 736 TO 50, 1855. The number Of
classified places which are excepted from
examination has been reduced from 2. O99
to 775, being mainly positions as cashiers
in the customs, postal and internal reve-
nuo services. Indians employed in minor
capacities In the indian service are neoes-
sarily put in the excepted list. Almost all
Of the positions in Washington which have
heretofore been excepted have boon in
clrdod in the competitive list. The only
classified positions In Washington which
will be excepted from examination under
the new rules will be private secretaries,
confidential clerks mot excepting two) to
tho president and to tho head OF each Of
the eight executive departments. No po-
sitions will hereafter be subject to nom
competitive examination except in the
cases Of Indians employed in teaching
copacitv an tho Indian eprvico
Evening journal., 1896-05-07
rcnnessee nemocrnts.

NASHVILLE. May Tho Democratic
convention OF Tennessee TO nominate cir
cult judges was in session but seven min
utes. The inoumbents, Judges 5. +. Wat
son Of Sumner, NJ. Nj. NELL Of Gibson
and r. M. Barton Of Hamilton were re-
nominated. Great interest centers IN the
gubernatorial convention this afternoon.
There is little doubt that Ex-Governor
Robert I. Taylor will be nominated and
that the convention will declare for silver.
Evening journal., 1896-05-07
omcer and prisoner shoot Each other

Omcer and Prisoner Shoot Each other.
LOUISVILLE. May 7.-Private Police
man Charles Sales arrested Charles Boyso,
colored, at the race track for shooting
craps and started to the central station with
the prisoner on a crowded street car. On
the way in Boyse broke from the officer
and ran. Both men pulled their revolvers
and hegnn firing Boyse was shot through
the arm. Sales was shot in the eye and
under the chin. Both men viii probably
die. Mr.. James Camp, manager OF the
Grand Opera House and his wife, were on
the car. Mrs. Camp was shot In the side,
the ball striking a corset stay, glancing
and making only a flesh wound. Mr..
Camps hat was pierced by bullet and
the motorman was wounded In the heel.
Evening journal., 1896-05-07
set a panee Hall on FIre.

MADRID. May 7.-During a dance at
Alosno. province of Huelva some mis-
creant set fire to the building Six per
sors were burned TO death, and many were
injured while trying to escape from the
flames
Evening journal., 1896-05-07
punIshment 10 Dc Made Iieht.

JOHANNESBURG, May THE Digger's
News says that the sentences imposed up
on the convicted members of the reform
oommittoe will be reduced to nominal
fines, that part of the sentences prescrib.
ing Imprisonment and subsequent Danish
ment being revoked.
Evening journal., 1896-05-07

Weather Forecast.
Fair; ,easterly winds and slightly
xyaruear
Evening journal., 1896-05-07
Knapp Reaches ConstantinopIe.

CoNsTANTINoPLE. May 7.-Rev. George
p. Knapp, the American missionary who
was expelled from Bitlis by the Turkish
authorities, has arrived here In good
health -.
Evening journal., 1896-05-07
North nIed Of srncone

LONDON, May THE inquest held over
the body or Colonel John IT, North, the
Nitrate King, who died suddenly In the
office OF the Guiana syndicate, showed that
his death was caused by syncope.
Evening journal., 1896-05-07
"THE TRIUMPH OF Lowe

IA nAPPY, FRUITFUL MARRIAGE"
Every Man who Would Know tho
Grand Truths, tho Plain Facts. tho
New Discoverics Of Medical Science
as Applied TO Married Life, who
Would Atone FOR Past Errors AMI
Avoid Future Pitfalls, Should Secure
tho Wonderful Little Book Called
"Completc Manhood, aud How 90 At
tain IT,"
"Here at last "a information from lasA
medical source that must work wonders with
this generation Of menn
The book fully describes a method bywhich
to attain fun Nigor and manly power.
A method by which TO end all unnatural
drains on the system.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-15

whose name was subsequently given to
the chairman as Mr.. Egan of New York,
made coarse remark which he coupled
with an allusion to Mr.. Lauterbach's race.
When the next contest was called and
Mr.. Lauterbach was again admitted Com
mitteeman Yerkes of Louisville, who was
not in sympathy with the side represented
by Mr. Lauterbach, called the attention of
Senator Carter to the circumstance and
uttered an indignant protest against the
sessions of the committee being dIsgraced
in such a manner. Chairman Carter in
sisted upon the name OF the offender
beng made public and when this was done
called it three times and awaited a re-
sponse. None came, and he explicitly de-
manded:
us Mr. Egan in the room?'
Again there was no response and Gen.
eral Coils, the Commissioner of Public
Works Of New York, who was one of the
contestants IN the case, mounted chair
and after scanning the assemblage vouched
for the fact that the offender was not in
the room. Chairman Carter accepted the
assurance and notified the doorkeeper that
under no circumstances was Egan again
to be admitted.
Subsequently, in closing his argument
on the pending case, Mr.. Lauterbach took
occasion to refer to the indictment and to
say that no question of race prejudice
/ should be allowed to enter into the adjudi-
cation OF any case with which he was
identified.
! This suggestion was resented in a taunt-
ing and sarcastic tone by Mr. Spooner,
who appeared for Coils side. He charged
Mr.. Lauterbach with performing 1.-The
/ baby act in referring to his race, insinu-
ated that his organization and leadership
were repudiated by the Hebrews of New
/ York, and cited as proof that the Coils
/ side was not antagonistic to the Hebrews,
the fact that one of those who was promi-
nently identified with it was himself an
adherent of Judaism.
There was considerable talk to-day that
| the defeated faction in the Fifteenth New
York contest would seek rehearing at
the hands of the National Committee to-
morrow, but up to a late hour tonight
nothing definite regarding their intentions
could be secured from the friends of
Messrs. Murray and Friedson, who were
turned down. When a suggestion con-
corning hearing was broached to group,
of which Congressman Quigg and a West
ern Republican sitting IN the National
Committee on proxy were members, the
latter said emphatically that it would be
policy for the Platt leaders to let matters
remain as they were and await action by
the committee on credentials.
1t was definitely announced tonight
+ that a rehearing would be asked by the
instructed Reed delegates in the Sixth
Tayae Distriot w N MonO1aId (ooloradN
and E. 81. R. Green, the latter son of
Mrs. Hetty Green of New York and
National renown. The contestants did not
arrive in st. Louis until this morning and
the case was decided by the committee en-
tirely on affidavits. 1t was reported to-
night that Mrs. Hetty Green would arrive
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-15

Congressional districts its represe entation shall
be sscertained by dividing the electoral vote
for the entire State by 1000. Hereafter each
National Convention shall fix the ratio OF rep
resentation for the succeeding National Gen.
venGon.
If this plan should be adopted it would
effect reduction of 70 votes, as follows:
Alabama 9, Arkansas 6, Florida 2, Georgia
II, Idaho l, Louisiana 6, Massachusetts 2,
Mississippi Z, Nevada 1. North Carolina 5,
South Carolina Z, Tennessee 4, Texas 9,
Virginia and Wyoming 1. 1t would add
SO votes to New York, 81 to Pennsylvania,
SO to Illinois, 46 TO Indiana, "a to Missouri,
and TO other States in like proportion,
making net gain of 121.
George P. Englehardt, one of the Chi
cago Mckinley leaders, will offer with the
Endorsement of the Illinois delegation the
following resolutions:
RESOLVED, That we condemn the existing
tariff as Illegal pernicious and demoralizing,
in that it fails to provide adequate revenue for
the necessities of the Government, opposes the
welfare of American industries by depriving
the people of the protection which, under Re-
publican auspices, ruled with such benefcent
power, imperils the credit of the Nation by
depletion OF the gold reserve occasioned by de-
ficient revenues and undermines popular con-
idence in the stability and integrity of our
currency system, resulting in destructive
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-15
PLATFORM PLANKS.
Illinois Offers a Gold and High
Tariff Resolution.

Illinois Offers a Gold and High
Tariff Resolution.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 14,-Many of the
State delegations caucused during the
day and selected their chairmen and made
assignments to the respective committees
on resolutions, credentials, etc. Some of
them also adopted planks which they pro-
pose to offer in the convention. The
Pennsylvania delegation, with the ap-
proval, it is said, of Senator Quay and
Governor Hastings, adopted the following:
ResoJUed That district representation in fu-
ture Repp blican National Conventions shall be
based upon the vote cast in each district for
the Republican electoral ticket at the preced-
ing Presidential election; pro vided, that each
district shall have at least one delegate, and
each State shall have four delegates at large.
The ratio for district representation in the con-
vention of 1900 shall be one delegate for each
1000 Republican votes polled this year for the
party electoral ticket, with an additional dele
gate for a fraction exceeding half thereof.
In case any State entitled to more than one
m ember OF Congress has not been divided into
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-15

! of the case, that no one could misunder-
! stand what the Republican party intended
to do if 1t should come into power. 1t is
also understood that Chauncey Depew in
dorsed the plank submitted by Mr..
Hanna as being very strong and thor
| oughly satisfactory to the East.
| Mr.. Platt still insists that the word
"gold" must appear in the financial plank
of the platform. Nothing else, he says,
will satisfy the East.
"Will the East not be satisfied with a
declaration to maintain the present stand.
| ard and against free coinage of silver at
any rstio2' Mr.. Piatt was asked.
THAT is not strong enough" responded
Mr.. Platt. 1--WE must have gold, gold in
the platform. There must be no mstak-
ing the party's position on the money
question"
Platt has been in conference all day
with representative men-"not Mckinley
ties, however" he was careful to explain
with reference TO the financial plank. He
found gratifying responsiveness to his
nsistence that the platform should declare
for the single gold standard. They are
here from the Dakotas, Indiana, Illinois
and other Western States which are known
to be saturated with silver sentiment.
These conferences encouraged him TO be-
lieve that a majority of the convention
viii not only favor the gold standard, but
will urge a declaration for it,
The anti Mckinley men at the Illinois
headquarters are greatly exercised over
the report that the eighteen uninstructed
delegates from that State are likely to
join their associates and vote as unit for
Mckinley. Fourteen of these gentlemen
were known to be opposed to the Ohio
candidate, but were not hampered by their
district conventions with instructions. 1t
now appears that the Mckinley sentiment
in their localities is so strong that not
only have they nothing to gain by Oppose
ing it, out everything to lose. This is the
intelligence which prominent local Re-
publican brought to st. Louis to-day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-15

the terseness of the plank and unequiv-
ocaliy indorsed its sentiment. Those who
favor Mr.. PIatt's plank have strong hopes
of persuading the convention that its adop-
tion is essential to the perpetuity of the
Republican party.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-15

PERRY CARSON, A PROMINENT COLORED REPUBLICAN.
him,
National
with
of the friends
4th 1889 when everybody
worship Perry
marching delegations
the
Country Blaine"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-15


in good dhmoH knows to hdh
k i no hi shsqurth t
eproduto efrom ms sIat ek b JKaher
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-11-19
CONVERSATIONS.

The principal part of a Kaffir's re-
ligion consists in singing and dane
ing.
The city Of Florence, Ala, has re-
Gently paid $125,OOO for the water
works.
Mrs. Walter Wilkinson, who Is said
to be the only woman commercial tray
eler in Great Britain, is visiting in Chi
cago.
The natural food of the horse Is
grass; there is nothing else upon which
he will grow SO large, keep 80 healthy.
or live so long.
Canny-Is Miss Wilbur at home?
Norah-No, sorr. Well-go up-
stairs and ask her when she will be at
home. Norah (going)-Yis, sorr.-Har-
per's Bazaar.
A man In Lawrenceville, Ca, recent
ly sold his horse for rs cents. He had
put it up at auction once before, but
as he could not get even that sum for
1t, he did not sell.
A gang Of tramps has been living
very comfortably in Benton Harbor,
Mich. They have fixed up a deserted
mill with beds and fire, and expect to
spend the winter there.
Princess Pauline de Metternlch, who
used to set the fashions in Paris under
the second empire, has received the
grand medal and diploma Of honor for
fat cattle at the Budapest exhibition.
A mathematician has computed the
movement of a bicycle riders feet
while working bicycle, and has DEM
onstrated that it requires less exertion
to travel fifteen miles on a bicycle than
to walk three miles.
The heart of the common oak begins
to rot at about the age of three hum
bred years. The holly oak Is longer
lived, and there is specimen of this
tree, age AIS years, in existence near
Aschaffenburg, Germany.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-11-19
High Art and Its Dodros.

A well-known Partisan portrait
painter was not always the receiver Of
such handsome honorarlums as are
now paid for his portraits. Time was
when he lived in a common lodging
house near the Pantheon.
Necessity is them other Of invention;
but how to induce a discriminating
public to climb seven pairs of stairs?
He put up q placard on the basement
Of the house:
Portraits taken here; only ten
francs; studio on the third floor"
When the wouId-be purchaser had
arrived at the studio designated, no
found himself confronted by a placard,
"Ten-franc portraits; the studio has
been removed to the fifth floor"
After much putting and painting the
fifth door was reached where new bill
met the inquiring eye:
"Ten-franc portraits; the studio has,
owing to rebuilding Of the premises,
been temporarily removed to the sew
enth floor"
Having suffered so much the victim
did not mind suffering more, and the
aspiring artist got another customer.-s
odds and Ends.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-11-19
Liquid Air Apparatus.

Everything concerning power is un.
usually interesting just now in view
Of the improvements in machinery and
motor apparatus Of all sorts. The new
est achievement in this line is strictly
scientific, and simple as well. 1t is
thus described: "a powerful engine
congresses air, which is cooled as far
as possible by ordinary refrigerating
methods, and passed into a spirally-
coiled pipe over one hundred yards
long, this pipe being enclosed in a sec
ond spiral. BY means Of a throttle
valve at the end of the inner spiral,
a certain proportion of the compressed
air is allowed to expand in the space
between 1t and the outer pipe. Thus
the stream Of compressed air from the
pump is cooled by that portion which
has been allowed to expand, and arrives
at the throttle-valve at the end of the
same In colder state than the portion
which preceded 1t; consequently, it
reaches a still lower temperature on
expansion, cooling yet more powerfully
the advancing stream in the inner tube.
BY carrying this cumulative cooling
effect sufficiently far, the circulating
air is at last brought down to it's criti-
cal point and liquefies, after which a
continuous stream Of liquid air ia mere
ly question Of engine power"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-11-19
OF Ros% there was not a sign. An
open window tina. led out on court
yard showed the path he had taken.
NAMsRN,s THROWING STICK.

Its DisasvSry Led Him to His Fruitleaa
JOuziley in Search OF the Pole.
1t is not generally known that among
the facts which induced DR.. hansen to
undertake his expedition to the north
pole was the discovery OF little piece
of wood called the throwing stick"
Prof. ]. Murdoch explains what
throwing stick" is, and how 1t led
DR.. hansen to believe that there was
steady current flowing across the pole.
He defined throwing stick" to be o
continuance for casting javelln or
harpoon, which is employed by various
savage races, such as the Australians.
some South American tribes, and es-
pecially by The EslIimos.
The patterns OF different countries
differ from one another, 30 thc4 con-
noisseur can say whether a particular
stick" belongs to Greenland or Hud-
son bay or Alaska, In 1885 curator
of Norwegian scientific society found
a throwing stick" among the DRIFT
wood at Godthaab, Greenland, differ
ent from those used In Greenland, but
similar to those used in Alaska, and
practically identical with implements
employed by natives living near DO.
ring strait The dlscoverer. DR.. Ring,
set himself the work Of finding out
how 1t had reached Godthaab. II was
evident that 1t had not drifted by way
Of the Northwest passage, for that way
is barred by such a network of islands
that the stick would undoubtedly have
stranded long before 1t reached Green
land.
The only reasonable explanation no
could give was that the stick must
have drifted with the current that sets
north through Boring strait into tho
Arctic ocean. On the north Of the
strait the current moves steadily west
ward. There the stick must have met
the current that sweeps down between
Iceland and Greenland, and then
turned northward again around Cape
Farewell, This theory appealed to DR..
Nansen, and ultimately led him to form
his adventurous plan Of trusting his
little vessel to the current which he
believed would carry him over the pole.
New York Journal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-11-19

head hunters still haunt the deep forest
are cannibals. The Dyak medicine men
are very old fellows and dress in queer
costumes, made Of grasses and the
feathers of wild birds. Realizing that
they must die some day the aged sor-
cerers take two or three promising
young Borneoans and initiate them in
to the secrets Of the medicine mans
duties, so that when they grow up they,
too, may hold the high places of the
wise men in their tribe It is in one Of
these elevated bungalows that the med
icine man keeps school for his class Of
Junior sorcerers. What takes place
within the reedy walls of the medicine
mans hut no one but himself and his
young pupils can know. What awful
secrets are revealed to the black little
students Of occult art are never re-
peated, on pain Of death. The man
witch is usually hard master, and
his pupils soon learn to fear and re-
spect him more than, any public school
scholar of ear land ever dreams Of fear
ing or respecting his school principal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-11-19
MeteorIc Showers.

Every year the earth passes into
what is known as the meteoric belt,
and extensive preparations are being
made for observing the conduct of the
expected shower Of meteors which is
due in November This modern exhi-
bition is believed to be due to the
earth's crossing belt made up Of
minute bodies, the precise character Of
which has not been ascertained. The
earth goes into this path about the
18th or 18th Of November. These or
bits are supposed to intersect during
November, 1899, or November, 1900. It
is believed that the belt is about one
hundred thousand miles wide, but as
the earth passes through 1t in an
obique direction, only about four or
five hours are occupied in the fight.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-11-19
ANCIENT FORKS.

lieved to be work of the close Of the
sixteenth century, is the second of our
examples. 1t is surmounted by the
figure of fool or Jester, who holds a
saw. This figure is jointed like child's
doll, and tumbles about as the fork is
used, while the saw slips up and down
the handle, 1t proves that the fork
was treated merely as luxurious toy.
Indeed, as late as 1862, Heylin, in his
Cosmography, treats them as a rarity:
"the use of silver forks, which is by
some Of our spruce gallants taken up
Of late" are the words he uses. A fork
of this period is the third Of the exam-
pies here given; 1t Is entirely Of silver,
the handle deliberately engraved with
subjects from the New Testament. In
conclusion, it may be observed that the
use Of the fork became general by the
close Of the seventeenth century.