The advocate., 1897-06-02

that sugar stock went up several points
when the bill was reported
Mark Hanna was shocked the other day
when man who had stood in line for two
hours waiting for chance to see him, sim.
ply asked for few garden seeds. 1t was
the first request Of the kind, all Of the 9TH
ers being for offices.
The Federal Grand Jury has returned
indictments against the Trustees aud Com.
mandant OF the State Soldiers Home az
Marshalltown, Iowa They are charged
with violation Of the pension laws and
they are all Republicans.
The free homes bill which Oklahoma
people are trying to get Congress to pass
would enable settlers to prove up on land
without the payment Of the Government
price. It Is estimated that it would save
the people Of Oklahoma $l5,OOO,OOO.
Dispatches have stated that Mr.. Reid,
who was Tom WatSon's manager last year,
had become a gold-bug Mr. Watson says
that Reid is interested In some gold bearing
mining property, but that he does not much
believe In either gold or silver for monetary
uses, his choice being legal tender paper
currency.
The Frepch bimetalllsts evidently do not
know Mckinley as well as Americans do.
They hope to accomplish something in the
direction OF international blmetallism dur
ing his term which hope they will find to
be vain. In an address recently issued IL
is asserted that II England would favor
bimetallism it would be assured interna-
tionally.
The New York Herald says that McKin-
ley fears that the Cuban agitation Is a
scheme to force the country to a silver
basis. He and Mr., Gage, his Secretary Of
the Treasury, say that II there Is war
scare the gold reserve will vanish, and
that with silver majority in the Senate an
appeal to Congress would result in the
adoption Of silver.
A conference Of prominent Negroes has
just closed at Atlanta BY means of re-
ports and other sources of information it
was shown that the death rate among Ne
groes is very much greater than among the
whites. This, 1t is alleged, is due to the
lack Of attention from mothers to their
children because Of the necessity for them
to assist in earning a living for the family.
1t is hard to satisfy the Southern Mer.
curry Of Dallas, Texas. II complained be-
cause certain States were represented at
the last National Convention by delegates
based on fusion VOTE but 1t now wants
representation In the Nashville Conference
for Texas based on the vote on Governor
last year, although it is well known that
the Republicans voted for the Populist
candidate.
The Medicine Lodge Index calls atten-
tion TO the fact that when DeDs champiOned
the cause of labor he was imprisoned with.
out trial, but that when the sugar trust
broker was convicted Of contempt Of the
United States Senate he was given his own
time to 90 to jail and his cell fitted up like
a palace. But the men for whom he was
mere agent were allowed to go free al
though there was good reason TO believe
that they were guilty of attempting to COR
rupt legislation.
Russell sage, the New York millionaire,
has nephew living In a small town in
Illinois. He is a man Of good habits and
character who was unfortunate enough to
have his house burned down. AS he was
poor, he applied to his rich uncle for loan
Of $50, which was given, but only after the