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Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
MR. BRYAN'S INCOME.
SAYS HE NEVER RECEIVED MONEY
 FROM LANDOWNERS.
An UReQaivec@i Denial of Senator Thur~- t"n'. Alleged chsrx~s-ch.il.awe se th. Republican National commi,tee-s.y. He ts Prepared to Earai.h PreeG.

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 UPPER RKp HooK, N. Y., Aug. Ia- William Jennings Bryan, for the first time since Senator John NJ. Thurston, ns ai. legged. declared him in the employ of mine owners, made an official denial, coupled with a challenge to the national Repub- lican committee to come out In the open and accuse him or forever be silent. Mir. Bryan's attention had been called to the controversy between Senators Thurxton and Stewart, and he determined to sct,le tho matter If possible. He therefore de- mands an open charge, which he says he will refuto with details of his private life aiA his financial affairs or silence. He said:
 "I have already denied this charge on several occasions, but the reitersiion of it by Senator Thurston, a distinguished rcs- ident of my own state, justifics mo in am swering it again. 1 have never at any time or under any oiroumstapocs been In the employ of any mlncowners, individually or collectively, directly or indirectly, nor have ever been In tho employ of or paid by any bimstallic league association. Aside from my editorial salary of about tl50 per month paid by the Omaha World Herald and small amount derived from the legal profession, my Income since my rotireznent from congress has been derived entirely from lectures before Chautsuqnas, lyoeum and lecture bureaus. which have usually paid me a fixed sum, and from con tributions made by the people of the local ities whore l have spoken. In some in- stances have received nothing ns all. In most cases I have received mor~ than enough to pay travelling expenses. In only two instances. I think. has my oompen.~- ton exoecded tio0, and those instances it was about teo0 at once place and about $500 at the other. The nrst platform on which l ran for congress. in 1890. before was known politically outside of my state. oon- tained . free coinage plank. and my Rcpub- iican opponent that year was an advocate of frcc colnagc-
 "In the campaign of 1899 again ran on a free ooinage platform. In 1894 | again ran on trce coinage platform, and my opponent for the senate, MT. Thurweon, while opposing unlimited coinage st 10 to l. insisted that he favored binetailism. wrote the frce coinage plank on which ran in 1890 and the free coinage planks in the Nebraska state platform in 1891, 1894 and 1896 and tried to secure the adoption of free coinage blanks Nh the state platform in 1899 and 1898. only men ton this to show that my advocacy of frcs silver Is not of rcocnt date. Having made this answer to MT. Thurston's lcster. shall hercatter take no notice of individual or newspaper comment on this subject If tho Republican national oommittee will say officially that have ovcr been employ ed to deliver speeches by any mineown- CT, group of mincowners or by any as sooiation supported by mineowncrs, am ready Co make special showing la detail of all money .rccoived hy me for speech making"
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
GAIL HAMILTON DEAD.
The We'll Known Writer P...c. Away st
 Her Home In Mass.chusetts

Her Home In Massachusetts
 HAMILTON, Mass, Aug. 1S.-Miss Mary Abigail Dodge Gail Hamiltonl Is dead. The cause of her death was paralytio shock. This was the second shock from which she had suffered, the first having occurred about year ago, and from which she had apparently fully recovered.
 Miss Mary Abigail Dodge, writer, biog- rapher and controversialist widely known under the pen name of Gall Hamilton, was a native of the town in which she died, having been born here in 1880.
 In lS6S-7 she was ono of the editors of Our Young Folks. a magazine for ohii- dren, published In Boston. From 1870 un- til little over year ago she had lived most of the time with her cousin, Mrs. James G. Blaine, in Washington. In course cf this daily contact with the Blaine family Miss Hamilton was led into a very close friendship with Mir. Blaine, and at the death of tho latter she became his literary executor. being In possession of all his papers and documents of value to her as his authorized biographer. She was engaged, as frequently as her health would permit, on Mir. Blaine's biography from the time of his death until her ill., ness of last year, and, it is thought, her un- tiring devotion to the work was instru- mental in bringing about that prostra- tion.
 Gail Hamilton was a frequent contribu. tor to prominent magazines and her pub lished works, written in witty and az grcssive style, consist largely of selections from her contributions. Her books Include Country Living and Country Thinking, l" "Gala Days" New Atmosphere and Stumbling Blocks" "Skirmishes and Sketches. Rod Letter Days In Apple thorpe and Summer Rest, ""wool Gath ering, " woman's Wrongs" "A Counter Irritant Battle of the Books, "wom- ans Worth and worthineSs, ""Little Folk Life" "Child World" Twelve Miles From a Lemon, "Nursery Noonings, "Sermons For the Clergy, l" r" First Love Is Best What Think Ne of Christi" "our Common School System, Divine Guidance, v" Memorial to Allen w.Dodge' and "Insuppressible Book"
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
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NKw YORK, Aug. ia.-The intsrestinx announcement is made that Miss pattie Watkins, colonel commanding the New York and New Jersey regiment of Bal linston Booths voluntccrx. will marry Frederick A. Lindsey, stan captain, ix charge of the volunteerw' trado depart mont The wedding will take pisoe In Carnegie hal on the evening of Sept. s. Commander Booth, assisted hy Mrs Booth, will offioiate. 6rcst preparations for the wedding arc being made by the officers and soldiers of tho Volunteers, as it will be the first function of the kind held under the direction of the new organ ixation.
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
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BERLIN, Aug. 1o.-Newspapers here oon- tinue to comment In severe terms upon the dismissal of General Bronxart von Sohsl- lendorff, the Prussisn minister of war. The National Zeituns says, Several lead ing generals have refused the post vacsssd by General Bronsart von Schelleudorn. " The Vossisohe Zeitung says; The absence of stable government must prove of great detriment 90 far as Germany's foreign relations are copoerned. No foreign sov- ercign or statesman will be willing to begin important negotiations with n chanellox likely to be r~n,ovcd at any moment "
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
Tryinx to Persuade Romero to Stay.

A movement is on foot in the Ameri- can colony in Mexico to induce Senor Romero the Mexican minister to Wash. ington, to withdraw his resignation. on the ground that he is the best and most acceptable minister Mexico ever had here It is believed that the difficulty, which was caused by an article on the Guatemalan boundary question pub lished by an official journal. will be smcothed over, as the Mexican govern ment is anxious to retain his seryices
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
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WASHINGTON, Aug. ia.-Chairman Mar lon Butler of the Populist national com- mIttee has made the following annource- ment; "The Peoples Party ticket, ss named by the St Louis convention, Ia Bry- an and Watson, and that will be the P~o- ple's Party ticket until the polls are closed in November. Mr. Bryan Is as much our candidate as Mir. Watson Is. As far as this committee has power it will strive just ss hard Co elect ono as to slcot the other and will leavc nothing In it's power undons so help either or both. But it will not sacri- foe one in tho interests of the oshcr !"
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
ID. c,.r,. u,s.r Arr~.s

PrrrsBuRe, Aug io.-Jean Psstcur. alias Count de Gloria, who was arrested in Nov York, Is wanted here on charge of lar oany, made hy Mrs. A. M. KearnS with whom he boarded. The count was n music teacher and had many pupils herc. He lcft Mrs. kcarns' boarding house owing ts a dispute. and she says he took a lot of val. uable music belonging lo her. Regulation papers have becn prepared. and sn officcr from Pittkburg will arrive In New York today to bring the count back to Pitts-
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
THE DAUGHTER.

Thereis one I miss-a little questioning maid That held my finger. trotting by my side. And smiled out of her pleased eyes open wide, Wondering and wiser at each word said. And must help her frolics if she played, And must feel her trouble if she cried: My lap was hers past right to be denied; She did my bidding, but more obeyed. Dearcr she is today, dearer and more; Closer to me, since sister womanhoods meet. Yet. like poor mothers, some long while bereft, dwell on toward ways, quaint memories left, I miss the approaching sound of pitpat feet, The eager haby voice outside my door.
 -Augusta Webster.
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
One or the Other.

"It's hard to give satisfaction, D." said the new congressman wearily.
 Its very difficult to tell what people are going to say about you," assented his wife.
 "Yes. But it's pretty sure to be one cf two things-they'll either say you re extremely ordinary or else that you re a freak. Washington Star.
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
A Bond.

"Yes," said the Cumminsyille sage, "I don't doubt that having fought in the same regiment is calculated to bind men together firmly. and So is mem bership ip the same lodge, but for real. heartfelt sympathy gimme two fellows who have the same kind of rheuma. tism. ''-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
RICH SOCIETY BELLIES
THE BRIDESMAIDS OF MISS vANDER-
 BUT ARE GREAT ACTRESSES.

The Costumes of the SIX Young Women Who wn Assist at the whitney-vas- derbilt Suptials Made In Paris-Ths Ushers Selected.
 NEW YORK, Aug. ia.-The bridesmaids selected by Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, who Is to be married to Henry Payne Whitney at Newport next Tuesday, arc, with one exception, great helresses. The prospective fortunes represent many mil lions. It Is expected Miss Gladys Wander bilt, the younger sister of the bride, will attend her as a flower maiden. She is a pretty girl, in her fourteenth year She Is heiress to at least s5, 000 GOO and will probably have double that amount
 Miss Emily Vanderbilt Sloane and Miss Lila Sloane are first cousins of the bride They are the daughters of Mir and Mrs. William Douglas Sloane the latter sister of MT. Cornelius Vanderbilt Tho Misses Sloane are extremely public spirited. Miss Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Is the president of the A. B. O., or Antihasement circle. a charitable organization. Her sister like wise contributes work and money to the A. B. -C,'s
 Mrs. William Douglas Sloane inherited from her father, the late William II. Van
 
 said to have Increased enormously. It will be divided between tho five children some day, as will the wealth of the head of the family. It Is quite safe to put the Misses Sloane down as heirosses each to t9, Oo0 900.
 Miss Amy Bend, who has been the guest for some time of the Sloanes at Kim Court, will he bridesmaid. Miss Bend Is not an heircSs in the largest sense of the term. She is one of two children of Mir and Mrs. George H. Bend. Miss Bend Is favorite niece of a rich bachelor, Isaac Townsend, and an elderly spinster sister of his, Miss Amy Townsend.
 They Have Fabulous Prospects,
 The impression is that there arc no greater heiresses in America than the Misses Gerry. Their parents, MT. and Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry, arc said to be the 500 ond greatest real estate owners in this city. Mss Angelica Gerry will no doubt have fortune of SIS, 900. 900. She will bo a bridesmaid for the first time at the Whit ney- Vanderbilt wedding.
 Miss Minnie Taylor Is included In Miss vanderbilt's list. Miss Taylor is likely to come in for $7, 900, 900.
 Miss Edith shepard, another brides maid, Is one of the brides pretty cousins and will herself be married in November to Ernesto G. Fahri. Miss Shepard's for tune will equal that of her cousins, the Misses Sloane, her mother, Mrs. Elliott F. shepard, being n sister of MT. Cornelius Vanderbilt
 Miss Gertrude Vanderhilt's six brides. maids will bo beautifully arrayed at the wedding. Their costumes have all been made abroad and have just come over with that of the bride
 There will be but few absentees among the Vanderbilt relatives at this wedding. These will. however, include Mir and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr, md Mir and Mrs James A. Burden, Jr, who arc now abroad
 President Cleveland. it Is said, will come from Buzxards Bay to attend the wedding.
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
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Coats-Stannscr has habit of reading his latest poems aloud to his friends Notcs-How much money docs that co@s hims
 Coats-I don't quite apprchcnd you Notcs-MhAt, doesn't he pay hts borcdf Now York Sunday World
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
Rhode Island DcmoorHts.

PROVIDENCE, Aug. la.-John K. Conly, secretary of the Democratic state central committee, issued a call for convention to be held In Music hall here Aug. 90 for the selection of presidential electors
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
Delaware Democrat. Nemln.,sa.

DOVER, Dol, Aug. ie.-Tho Democratic state convention in session here nominated the following; For governor, Ebe W. Tun. nel of Sussex; congressman, l.. Irving Handy of Newcastle; electors, John H. Roncy of Newcastle, John Harrington of Kent and Paynter Frame of Sussex.
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
Great Ioss fxr lire In Paris

PARIS. Aug. l9. A fro at the Mont pellier Industrial exhibition destroyed the most valuable pictures and some of the most important papers in the archives Montpelier university was also burned, the damage being estimated at SEQ, GOO. There are rumors thsx the fire was inoen- diary, and anarchists arc supposed to have started the oonflasration.
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
An oh,iau. Ernl.n.,lan.

How is it." shc said thouRhtfully, "that such sccdy looking people can afford to own bicyelest"
 By looking secdy." " he answered re~di- y.-Chicago Trtbuna
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
Famou. Song Writer Dead.

PORTLAND, Me, Aug. la.-Professor C. Nicholas Crouch, the famed author of Kathleen Mavourneen,' died in this city after long Illness. His age was ss years and Is days.
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
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NEWPORT, R. l., Aug. i9.-Harry Payne Whitney has selected his ushers for his wedding with Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt next Tuesday. They will be Frank L. Polk, R. l.. Cottonee Alfred Vanderbilt, brother of the bride; c. c. Baldwin and D n MacNIiiian
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20

Here is the real root of this conspiracy. NIT. Bryan did not create it. No man can create movement like this. The forces that created It are active and have been working in 1000 divergent directions. MT. Bryan, representing this theory, is but like drop of water on the irest of the wave, more conspicuous. but no more important than the millions of drops that form it's base. The Parulist movement Is the attempt of these professional farmers, of these men who are unwilling to share wi h the laborer, to appeal to their greed. He is an rneny of public order. he is obstacle to progress. He is conspirntor against the peace and prosperity of the industrial masses of tho country.
 have said that the laborer is the object of this conspiracy. and he is. But let no man i'm agine that if they are successful the injury would all be borne by the man who works with his hands. He would be the last to suffer and the last to recover from its effects. But the shock to civilization which would ensue from such a breach of public and private faith would be irreparable. Its effect no man could measure from an experience of the human race. We cannot ten to what degree it would paralyze industry. If were asked to define civilization. I sheAld aax u Yas "tndustrial
Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20

The Costumes of the Six Young Women Who wni Assist al the whitncy-van- derbilt Nuptials Made Ia Paris-The Ushers Selected.
The oasis., 1896-07-04
AoaNARD.

A certain outfit who have always been ready to tear down with glee any one in Nogales they could not control are circulating with malicious but i'll advised satisfaction q report that George Christ, Sr., "has lost his place with the National Republican League.' Mir. Christ had no such place Co 'lose.' The work MT. Christ was employed to do expired by limitation on the first of June, and the gentle man Is now in the same work for the National Republican Committee. As financial agent for the Republican League 1t was Mir. Chrsts business to gather subscriptions to the funds or the organization. The work was com mcnced in November last in order to have it all done and out of the way before the national committee, named by the national convention, should be in the field for funds. Mir. Christ was SO successful in that work that the committe secured his services for the same work. in which he will be busily engaged until November.
The oasis., 1896-07-04
 WILL BENEFIT ARIZONA.

All Arizonans are agreed that state hood is what is most needed. The silver question has been stumbling block in the way of admission, for the eastern states will not listen to ad- mission into the national legislature of more votes for free coinage of sil- yer. With settlement of tue silver question, one way or the other, that objection will be immediately re. moved. If the democrats win on a silver platform they will not hesitat e to admit; and if the republicans win on their bi-metallic platform they will be equally ready to grant admission, for in that event the platform adopted atSt. Louis will be the national policy, and the admission of more silver votes will not be the bugbear of the past. It is good for Arizona that the issue is now made.
The oasis., 1896-07-04
SILVER AND SPECIFIC CONTRACT
 LAWS.

Suppose the advocates of free silver should carry the day in November electing president and congress who would enact free coinage of silver and make that the monetary policy of the United States? Then suppose the New England states,N New York, Pennsylvania, and other great com merciaI states should enact specific contract laws by which all business transactions in and with the people of those states should be liquldated with gold and gold only-just as California and Nevada did in the war times when greenbacks were constitutional money? And suppose that under those specific contract laws the people of those states should refuse to take silver except at it's bullion value, as at present expressed--just as the peo- pie of California and Nevada refused to accept geenbackss Where would the silver producing west be it's business transactions with the east, and how much good would it do the silver indus try: Such specific contract laws have been declared constitutional, and would so again be. They would serve to keep the business of the east upon a gold basis. We might go to silver basis in the west, but to do business with the east we should have to buy gold exchange at heavy pre- mium, just at Mexico now has to do.
The oasis., 1896-07-04

IS THE first round of legal battle for control of the board of control Governor Franklin's administration has secured the decision Of the referee Judge Baker that eminent jurist having decided on Monday that Mir T. J. Wolney is the lawful citizen member of the board. and that MT. NJ II. McCord, the appointee of Governor Hughes, k not. On the same day he rendered d similar decision in the case involving the territorial treas urership, Mir. P. l. Cole, being politely requested to yacate in favor of Tom Parrish But the supreme court has yet to take shy at both propositions. And the business Of the people can wait.
The oasis., 1896-07-04

PheniS Herald: ETHER the United States needs minister to Mexico or it doesn't. If 1t does, somebody should be sent there who will spend at least one half of his time at his post of duty, which is more than Ex- Sen ator Ransom, of North California, has done. He was appointed to the posi- tion at the expiration of his term in the senate, March, 1895. Since then he has spent considerably more than one-half his time in the United States. He has been back three or four times. and upon each occasion has made a prolonged stay at Washington and at his home. He was presumably lon leave" upon each of these trips; but his worship of MT. Cleveland is not a sufficient reason for granting him so much time for which the public pays him his salary, and there seems to be no other. He is now in Washington.
The oasis., 1896-07-04

Or THE 9s7 German newspapers in the United States 953 are pronounced and open in their hostility to free coin age of silver by the United States in- dependently of other nations, and they all support the republican ticket aud platform. The vote of which thep are representative is the balance of power in Missouri, Illinois, Wiscon- sin, New York and number of other states.
The oasis., 1896-07-04

CALIFORNIA, with all the rest of the states, has stringent laws against prize fighting. Yet at the fight be- tween Corbett and Sharkey, in San Francisco, last week. the audience in- cluded judges of the supreme bench, prominent lawyers, merchants, phy sicians and leading citizens generally. If the law making prize fighting a felony is in earnest why don't 1t make accessories to the crime all who at tend? But for the gate money prize Sighting would never be.
The oasis., 1896-07-04
AN ALLEGED marriage contract be-

AN ALLEGED marriage contract be- tween the deceased millionaire, James G. Fair, and a widow to whom he had deeded considerable property, has ere ated a sensation in San Francisco. The way California milllopaires have scattered about secret marriage con- tracts is positively scandalous. The The law legaliziug such contracts is likewise a scandal and should be re- pealed If d man and woman are ashamed to acknowledge each other as man aud wife before witnesses and with due ceremony they should pot receive protection of the law
The oasis., 1896-07-04
PARTIAL REPUDrATIoSs Noi

Do not those who so streuuously ad- yccate the immediate free coinage of silver realize that in the twenty odd years that have elapsed since demone- tization of the white metal there has been contracted vast volume of financial obligation upon the basis now existing which cannot be settled outright and oifhand upon free coin age basis without working an irrepar- able injury to thousands who have invested their money of the existing standard in gold faith, and who would be literally robbed by the sudden sub stitution of another standard? Take, for instance, the school bonds which have been authorized throughout the United States in the past five years, and sold They aggregate millions Of dollars. 4 large proportion of those bonds were bought with trust funds money in savings banks, etc. and the poor people for whom they were bought gave their money in gold, with the present purchasing power of that metal. A sudden rehabilitation of silver as d money metal would as sud denly reduce the purchasing power Of gold. Then the holders of such securities, who had parted with their gold at one level of purchasing power would, at maturity of their bonds, be returned gold at lower level of pur- chasing power. In other words the gold for silver returned them would not buy as much of the necessaries and conyeniences of life as the gold with which they parted when they took the bonds although doubtless the same in weight and fineness. Would such a settlement of those obligations be fair and just, and hon. orable? Honestly acquired and relin- quished values to the amount of many millions of dollars are involved in this proposition. In returning to bi-me- talllsm the rights of innocent invest OTIS which have accrued under the present system should be preserved inviolate. Anything else would be partial repudation. To accomplish the transition to the old standard without such partial repudiation will prove problem which willrequire all the financial wisdom of all the great commercial nations of the world. No one, nor two, nor three of them can do 1t alone. That is why the republican party which is always right stands for return to bi-metallism by inter- national agreement.