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LEGISLATION RECOMMENDED.
Laws Which the Railway Brother
hoods Wish Enacted.

WASHINGTON, May u.-Mr H. r. Full
Ter. representing the five railway brother
hoods, consisting of conductors, firemen,
trainmen, engineers and telegraphers, to-
day submitted to the industrial commission
a voluminous statement in relation to the
labor conditions, together with recommen-
dations as to methods to be employed In
remedying existing evils. These recon-
mendations are: Legislation compelling
railroad companies to publicly post their
rules and rates of wages; to allow en-
ployes accused of any offense to know all
evidence against them, and. If DISCHARGED,
to give them in writing specific reasons
therefor; to do away with blacklisting by
making 1t unlawful for a railway company
to furnish the record of an employee to an
other company: to secure legislation for an
eight-hour day; to forbid the running of
Sunday trains on all interstate roads, ex-
cept in the case of relief and wreck trains.
and to allow trainmen to complete their
trips so as to arrive at home on Sunday:
to give employees of railroads the same
right to recover damages for injury as en-
joyed by those who are not connected with
such roads: to legis1ate out of existence
railroad relief associations. Pending bills
in Congress are suggested as remedies for
the of defective inadequate appli-
ances and misuse of injunctions Disputes
between employers and employees strikes
and boycott. arbitration and the various
causes affecting wages are also spoken OF
at length.
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In the event of the failure of Ahmed's pro-
posals the United States government will
resume negotiations with the Porte The
impression here is that Ahmed will not
succeed.
The Porte has presented a new note 10
the embassies. announcing its intention to
introduce octroi in Gallipolis. The object
of this movement, Ii Is believed. is TO es-
tablish precedent for the subsequent i'm
position of like duties in other towns. 1t
is expected that the embassies will again
refuse to assent. as the measure is con-
trary to the treaty.
WASHINGTON, May lit is understood
here that the Ahmed Pasha referred to is
vice admiral OF the Turkish navy. 1t was
reported that he was coming TO the United
States ostensibly to place contract for a
warship with one of our ship builders, but
actually to attempt to compromise the
claims of the missionaries under cover of
this transaction. If he Is actually coming
to the United States with the purpose of
arranging a satisfactory adjustment of
these claims the officials will meet him in
a friendly spirit, for they are by no means
disposed unduy to strain the present crit
ical situation in the Orient. Though chat
ing under the slowness with which the
Turkish replies are extracted, our Of
ficials feel that they have gained substan-
tial advantage in having secured with such
formality as will no longer admit of ques-
ton an absolute acknowledgment from the
Turkish government of its indebtedness on
account of these indemnity claims.
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RIOTING IN SPAIN.


MADRID. May 11.-There was serious
trouble at several places yesterday. grow
ing out of the anti-tax agitation at Va
lencia. Barbados were erected in the
streets, from behind which the mobs stoned
the gendarmes. On the latter endeavoring
to dislodge the rioters they were received
with rifle shots. and two policemen were
injured. The gendarmes replied with q
fusillade, before which the mob fed. The
rioting was particularly severe in BARGE
Iona, where a crowd threw up barricades
in the street and exchanged musketry fire
with body of gendarmes. Shots we're also
fired from the balconies and verandas of a
number of houses Several gendarmes were
hit A number of the rioters have been
arrested. Order has now been restored in
the city, but it is rumored that martial
law will be proclaimed there. At Seville a
mob threw stones at the building of the
military club. SCATTERING the windows and
the gas lamps. The gendarmes only sue
ceeded In dispensing the rioters after a
hard fight, during which several citizens,
two gendarmes. police inspector and two
members of the Municipal Guard were
wounded. force of infantry and cavalry
was summoned, which soon cleared and &C.
cupied the streets.
Disorders were renewed at Barcelona this
afternoon, but on a smaller scale than
those of yesterday. The gendarmerie dis
persed the crowd. The street-car and ON
nibus services are suspended.
Martial law has been proclaimed in the
provinces of Barcelona and Valencia. AT
Seville. where the shops are still closed,
the excitement continues. There has been
further resistance TO the gendarmerie at
Valencia.
Notwithstanding the solicitations of the
absence of the labor element in yesterday
manifestations at Barcelona,
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PRESENTED TO THE QUEEN.
Several Americans HOnOred at Yester-
days Drawing-Room.

days Drawing-ROOm.
LONDON. May 1.-THE third drawing
room of the season was opened by the
Queen in person at Buckingham Palace
to-day. 1t was exceptionally bril-
liant function. The royal circle was large.
while the diplomatic and general circles
were unusually well attended. Bright
weather prevailed and immense crowds
about all the approaches of the palace
warmly welcomed the royal personages as
they arrived. The United States ambassa-
dor, Mr.. Choate, the second secretary of
the United States embassy, j. r. Carter,
and w. r. Bayard Cutting, of New York,
the newly appointed private secretary of
Mr.. Choate, were present. In the absence
of Mrs. Choate, Madame De Staal. wife of
the Russian ambassador, presented the
four American ladies = Mesdames Clover,
w. r. Bayard' Cutting and Won Gersdorss
and Miss Justine Cutting-in the diplomatic
circle. Mrs. Prescott Butler, wife of the
law partner of Mr.. Choate, Miss Butler,
Mrs. Thomas Reilly and her daughter,
presented in the general circle. The Queen
was then wheeled into the throne room at
3 p. m, accompanied by the Prince and
Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess
of Connaught and other royal personages.
After receiving the ambassadors and their
wives and several debutanteS her Majesty
left and her place was taken by the Prin-
cess of Wales The dresses worn on this
occasion were of the most subdued colors.
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PROBABLY WILL STRIKE.
Kansas City Street Car Men I'm Confer
ence-Statement Of Position.

Kansas City Street Car Men In Confer
ence-Statement Of Position.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May u.-There is
every indication that employees of the
Metropolitan Street-railway Company will
so on strike tomorrow morning. The men
are holding a secret meeting tonight, 60
ing to their hall as soon they take their
cars to the barns. AT midnight it is stated
that the men on three lines have voted not
to take out their cars tomorrow morning.
Union men claim that about 800 men of the
Metropolitan employees belong TO their
union and that they have many sympathiz-
ers among the others. The company claims
that but $50 of the employees are members
of the union.
Harry Bryan, national organizer, who is
said to have engineered the recent Cleve-
land strike, and who organized the local
union, said to-day: I'VE wanted to avoid
strike if possible, but the boys are in
good shape to carry on a strike. The de-
mands We make are all practicable. We
ask - cents an hour for men who have
worked less than year and 20 cents after
ward. The demand that the men work
ten hours and that they do 1t all in twelve
hours is to do away with the company
keeping the men around their headquarters
so many hours idle
President Holmes said to-day: IT have
been assured of ample police protection.
We have large number of men in our
employ who have been with my brother
and myself for fifteen or twenty years,
not one of whom has made any complaint,
and many have given me their personal
assurance of their satisfaction with the
treatment they have received and pledged
themselves to stand by the company at
this time. So many men are with us that
it will not be possible for strikers to sue
coed in tying up our lines. During the
last few days a hundred former employees
have offered their services"
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TOWNE WELL PLEASED
THINKS HE HAS BEEN GREATLY
HoNoRED By FUSION PoPULIsTs.
sAIcre Names" a Powerful Factor I'm
Influencing Political Action
Interview with Hanna.

DULUTH, Mimi, May n.-Charles A
Towne makes the following statement with
reference to his nomination for the vice
presidency by the Sioux Falls convention:
ut was my Judgment that the Sioux
Falls convention should appoint a confer
ence committee to meet with similar COM
mittees from the Democratic and Silver
Republican conventions at Kansas City, on
int; the vice presidential nomination. This
opinion was freely communicated TO promi-
nent members of the convention, both be-
fore 1t was assembled and while II was In
session. In the exercise OF Its discretion,
however Ii decided differently. When the
conclusion was reached to nominate a cam
didate the unanimity and enthusiasm with
which the convention named me, is, OF
course. exceedingly gratifying. 1t must be
remembered that many OF the strongest
men In this country were members OF this
convention, which was composed OF the
wise and conservative majority of the Peo-
pies party, whose devotion TO the great
cause in which all the reform parties are
enlisted nobody can question. The indorse-
ment Of such body is high compliment
and / deeply appreciate IL. Moreover, IL
sets an example of unselfshness at this
juncture that ought not to be without good
influences. Neither Mr.. Bryan nor myself
belongs to the Peoples party. To be sure,
such consideration may seem unimpor-
tant when men are engaged in a great con-
test against the same evil tendencies in
the government; but mere names are still
somewhat powerful in influencing political
conduct and we must render all praise to
the convention which thought only Of the
principles at stake.
Harmony and cooperation are essential
this year among the Democratic, the Peo-
pies and the Silver Republican parties. To
preserve their combined strength of 1896 is
the first desideratum. The next is to go
into the camp of those who then opposed
and get recruits. If the nominations at
Sioux Falls are placed before the country
with all reform parties behind them. they
will. In my opinion, be ratified by the peo-
pie of the Republic in November.
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Governor Tanner declares he is not a
candidate for united States senator or for
any other Office. sf
Mai Gen. II. G. Otis. editor of the Los
Angeles Times, has been acquitted of the
charge of assaulting w. r. Ream, a re-
porter.
Frank L. Lully, director of private banks
at Rockford and at Cedar Springs. Mich,
and a banker for twenty-five years, filed a
trust mortgage yesterday for $4,000. Hun
dreds of farmers and citizens are affected.
A battalion. composed of go members Of
the Fourteenth United States Infantry, ar
rived in Detroit yesterday. after a long,
wearying journey from the Philippine
islands, where they had been in active
service
The steamer Monarch has sailed from
New Orleans, for Cape Town. Africa. with
1,500 mules, and the steamer Corinthia has
cleared for the same port with 1,450 mules,
all the animals being consigned TO British
army officials.
Governor Scofield, of Wisconsin, who has
been talked of considerably as a possible
candidate for the vice presidency, in an in
terview yesterday not only stated that he
was not candidate. but strongly favored
Henry c. Payne for the place.
H. H. Norie, manager of the Union Bank
of Scotland. was found dead yesterday at
his home In Edinburgh. His head was half
blown away by gun. Apparently he COM
mitted suicide. His action is attributed to
the fact that he had been suffering from
influenza.
The New England Telephone and Tele-
graph Company yesterday filed with the
New York secretary of state certificate
of increase of capital stock from SIS. 000. 900
to SIC. coo 900. The amount of capital stock
actually paid In is SIS. 1884, 100. and the
amount of It's debts and liabilities $3.50, 600.
]. S. Estes shot and probably fatally
wounded DIR. j. .. Cook. at Pine Blum.
Ark. yesterday. Samuel Flies. a by
stander. received a wound in the leg from
Estess revolver. The shooting Is the re-
suit Of q quarrel Of long standing. Estes
u brother Of 2 n. Estes. prominent
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Many Minor Collisions Between P0-
lice and Strikers, One Mob Being
Fired on without Casualty.
CLUBS WERE USED FREELY
ATTACKS ON CARS DEFEATED BY
USE OF THE LOCUST.
Kansas City Situation IL Growing
Critical-Statement Made by Both
Sides to the Controversy.

ST. LOUIS, May 11.-Affairs in the street.
railway strike to-day showed complete
reversal of the conditions prevailing yes
terday The day opened quietly. but later
reports began to come in of renewed riot
ing in various parts of the city. In one In
stance the police had fired into crowd
and in others used their clubs on those
who attempted to interfere with the run
ming of cars. While rumors of casualties
were rampant during the day, up to $3.50
o clock tonight none of a serious nature
had been corroborated. The Suburban sts-
tenn ran all sts cars under an escort of po-
lice So close was watch maintained by
the force that practically no disturbances
occurred on its lines The Transit Com
pany started cars on a number of its
branches, and, notwithstanding the ample
police protection afforded. trouble cropped
out in various directions.
Two cars were taken out OF the station
at Geyer and Jefferson avenues and started
for Carondelet at o'clock. Three hundred
striking employees of the road and their
friends were around the sheds at the
time. and when the cars came out rush
was made for them in an attempt to pull
the motormen off the cars. The crowd was
forced back by the police and the cars
proceeded on their way without further in
reference
A number of men attempted to board one
of the cars on the Compton Heights divi-
sion it rounded the corner of Vandeven-
ter and Park avenues, about 2:30 o'clock.
The policemen who were on the cars used
their clubs on the heads of the first of the
crowd who reached the car and the rest of
the crowd retreated. The affair occasioned
considerable excitement and a dozen
mounted policemen were promptly sent to
the scene from other parts of the city.
AS a Park-avenue car was going into
town, at $3.50 o'clock, at Park and Missis-
sippi avenue, a crowd of about two hun
dred and fifty persons assembled at that
corner and began to stone ii. The police
men on the platforms fired several shots
over the heads of the crowd without stop
ping the trouble and then fired directly
into the crowd So far as known no one
was hit. The car was detained five min
utes; then 1t started again on its way into
the city.
An attempt was made to cut the wires at
Magnolia and California avenues but was
unsuccessful, the men being driven off by
the police. A number of arrests were made
during the day.
The Suburban lines were literally patron
lied, but the public could not pluck up
courage to take advantage of the facilities
offered by the Transit Company, and, as a
consequence. very few fares were rung up.
Flora Siegfried, the young woman who
was reported killed by brick thrown at a
street car last night, is alive and may re-
cover
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| Loss to Agriculturfsts I'm the Province
of Bombay Alone VIII Reach
Fifteen Millions.
MILLIONS OF CATTLE DEAD
MEN AND WOMEN EMPLOYED TO
DRAW CARTS ON THE ROADS.
Turkey I'm No Hurry to Pay Ameri-
can Claims-Riots In Spain
victoria's Drawing Room.

LONDON, May 11.-Sir Francis MacLean,
chief Justice of Bengal and chairman of
the famine relief committee, cabling to the
lord mayor of London. Mr.. A. j. Newton,
whose fund reached 4230,O00 to-day calls
attention to the fact that this is the
moment when money is most urgently
needed to assist the peasantry with seed
and cattle for ploughing in view of the
coming monsoon.
The latest mails from India give addi-
tional details of the calamity which has be-
fallen the brightest jewel in the imperial
crown" A correspondent. writing from
Nagpore, capital of the central provinces,
on April 20, says: cit is impossible to con-
vey by means of mere figures any adequate
idea of the paralyzing effect of drought
such as India is now experiencing. We can
lump together statistics showing the actual
loss to the government. This, however.
takes no account of the further loss of the
great mass of agriculturists. who have ex-
hausted every resource in the struggle for
existence. and who have been left penniless
and deeper in the tolls of the usurer; of the
lands which lie fallow for need of the
plough and cattle, of stagnation in every
branch Of trade in consequence of the
blight which overlies the land. The net
cost to the government will be eight and
a quarter millions and the value of the
wheat crop destroyed is eight to ten mil
lions sterling. and the cotton crop seven
millions, while the great oil seed crop is
nonexistent outside of Bengal, the north
west provinces and Dude. On moderate
computation the cultivators of Bombay
province have lost fifteen millions on food
crops and three millions on cotton.
More serious and more far-reaching than
the destruction of the crops is the awful
mortality of cattle. In the Ahmedabad dis
trict the splendid Guzerat oxen have per-
ished by the million and men and women
are playing the part of beasts of burden,
dragging the numbering carts along the
rough country roads. Given fair season
the Indian peasantry will recover from the
effects of the famine with rapidity little
short of marvellous. But, two conditions
will this year test their recuperative
powers to an unusual degree. First, the oc-
currence of the second drought before the
traces of the previous one had been elimi-
mated. Second, the unprecedented mortality
among the cattle On a Sanguine estimate
six years must elapse before the central
provinces return to their normal conditions.
In the Deccan ii is the same case, and at
Guzerat and Rajputana the interval will
be even longer"
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SECOND PLACE Is OPEN.
Hanna Says Convention VIII Name
McKfnley's Associate ON Ticket.

NEW YORK. May 1.-THE Herald pub
fishes the following statement made by
Senator Hanna last night: 1.-THE selection
of a man for the second place is open, and
always has been, and will remain so till
the convention shall have made it's choice.
There has been much discussion of differ
ent men for the place, which is proper. but
when it is said that any particular man
has the preference 1t is a mistake. Gov
ernor Roosevelt will not be nominated for
Vice President and has not been discussed
by those who can speak for the admins
tration. What has been said about him
has been purely speculative. from sources
unacquainted with the facts. The asser-
tions made here and there that the Pres
ident is concerning himself with the choice
Of his associate on the ticket do him injus-
tice; he has invariably declined to take any
part, notwithstanding overtures from many
different sources by his own friends and
friends of the men put forward. 1t would
be manifestly inappropriate for him to
take part in such a movement. 1t can be
said with authority that the vice presiden-
tial nomination will remain open until the
assemblase of the convention. A number
Of names have been brought forward and
no doubt each gentleman will develop
strength. There may be some ballots be-
fore the selection can be made. but you can
rest assured the man put on the ticket will
be the man the majority wish TO have
there. This will be fair to all.
'I have yet to hear from any source
within the lines of the Republican party
even ripple of hesitation regarding the
denomination of President Mckinley. The
past four years have given rise to new
issues. There will be bold declarations on
these. Four years ago we were practically
a hermit nation, isolated from all world
forces which promote industry, trade and
commerce. Our manufacturing capabilities
and facilities were beyond our own needs
The home demand was enormous, but the
manufacture for home demand does not
add to general wealth. Foreign demand is
what adds to our stock of wealth estimated
in coin. The war with Spain, through wise
counseis in the executive officers and the
warlike spirit of the army and navy and
people, was brought to such a prompt and
satisfactory conclusion that 1T not only
opened the eyes of the world to our in
vincible fighting capacity. but to our mar
velous advance in manufactures. II ex-
tended our territories, broadened our pro-
ductive capacity and extended our domestic
markets among people whose trade had
been a bone Of contention among Euro
pean nations for centuries. The Repub-
lican convention, In its platform declara-
tons. will have to meet all these new prob
lens of public policy by taking advanced
grounds"
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SAN FRANCISCO. May 11.-Mail adj
vices from Yokohama say the big fire at
Fukin, Japan, on April Is. burned 1000
houses, including thirty temples and all the
principal buildings. Sixteen persons per-
ished and a hundred were injured. The
loss is 100000 yen, or about 81, 500 900 There
was but small amount of insurance.
The arrival of Admirals Kempf and
Remey, of the American navy, April 49,
was the occasion Of a great naval demon
stration.
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SIOUX FALLS, s. D., May 1.-THE Pop.
ulist national committee met here to-day
and organized by the election of the fol-
lowing officers: Chairman, Senator Marion
Butler, of North Carolina; vice chairman
J. H. Edminston, of Nebraska; treasurer
w. d. Washburn, of Massachusetts; secre-
tary, j. A. Edgerton, of Colorado. The
new executive committee is as follows
Gen. j. B. Weaver, of Iowa; Senator Will
liam " Allen. of Nebraska; j. w. Breiden.
thai, OF Kansas; Eugene Smith, of Chi
cago; E. v. Way, of Arizona; T. Tracy. OF
Texas; Robert Schilling, of Wisconsin
Major Bowler, of Minnesota; DIR. c. T.
Taylor, of Pennsylvania
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CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE

NNOI>Ct1cDI<D = 4eC.n fAkSol IA0EI
licensed or not What's the USE therefore
of all this pother about license?
i went yesterday to call on Rev. James
Hill. ID. D.. who lives here. He went from
behind the counter in Indianapolis as a dry
goods clerk into the Indiana Conference in
1888. His career preacher has been
one OF marked success. filling many impor-
tant charges In Indiana and Ohio. He was
pastor OF old Wesley Chapel. Indianapolis
forty-three years ago. when the fight was
on which resulted in eighty-one leaving
that church for other churches because
family sittings were tolerated and choir
singing. He is very feeble now, having
been partially paralyzed for two or three
years He has a comfortable home with
IFS daughter and suffers little or no pain
though quite helpless. His sight and hear
ing are unimpaired. but he talks with diff
fculty- His mind seems TO have failed in
no degree and his faith and hope are
extatic. T. A. G..
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WOMAN QUESTION POSTPONED.
Delegates Were Ready for the Fray
but the Matter Went Over.

CHICAGO. May 11--Anticipation of a
spirited debate on the woman delegate
question brought out the largest crowd to-
day that has yet attended the Methodist
General Conference. Over night all three
OF the contendIng factions had Furnished
up their arguments and a great tilt In
polemics was confidently expected. The
veterans. who oppose the admission of
women TO the annual conference on scrip
tural grounds. were ready for further ag-
gressive warfare. Other pastors. however.
Who favor the admission OF women were