New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-09
THE PASSING THRoNG.

Virgil P. Kline. a veteran attorney and stall
wart- dyed-in-the-wool gold Democrat, OF Cleve-
land, Ohio is az the Hoffman
OHIO DEMOCRAT House. Asked If Tom JohE-
CONDEMNS son and his methods had the
JOHNSON. approval OF the old line Ohio
Democracy, he replied with
earnestness There will be emphatic protest
election time There is too much froth-tOo
much that is ephemeral and unstable. There are
those who believe that genuine Democratic princi-
pies mean something. and they view with regret
az least this labelling the party with doc
trines u is a strange spectacle to see platform
freightod with suggestions as TO the evidence that
should be pertinent in personal damage cases. The
on questions Of national character were the mate
We have truly fallen evil times"
Colonel Jack Chinn. Of Harrodsburg KY who
vas the intimate personal friend OF Governor
GoebeL and his side when
KENTUCKY he shot on January %. 1900.
COLONEL on is at the Gilsey. He is not de-
POWERS. monstrative IN his declarations.
but he IS much I'm earnest when
he appiauds the finding OF the jury that convicted
Caleb Powers. and, said the colonel yesterday: 81
shall be al Frankfort the day in November
that Powers pays the penalty the scafold
shall have a front seat at the hanging, and shall
keep close tab on the proceedings. have been a
WlIness IN eight trials 81 the men charged with
the killing OF Goebel. / know the sentiment OF
conyictlon ~ Powers Justice is done though it
was long delayed"
william OLeary. a long established art dealer in
Detroit who was al the Imperial on Sunday had
just returned from d season of
NOT DOWN summer outing in Canada. in the
IN THE Of which he had excit-
ITINERARY. ing experience. He sccompa-
MED by c. Tlackner. OF No.
Twenty-oighth-st. this city, who seconds the re-
ctsl OF the Detroit man I'm every particular. The
story Of Mr.. O'Leary has 10 do with the strand
Of T4r-, 81
Richeieu and Ontario Navigation Company, on q
rocky reef In the Sagaenay River the night OF
August H. when passengers and crew, numbering
SlS narrowly escaped being drowned in their berths
al their posts at midnight. 'Our boat" said Mr..
OLcary. which left Quebec at O'Clock in the
morning reached TadOusac where the ssguenay
flows into the St Lawrence, in the evening. and we
waited until II o'clock that night before starting
up the Saguenay that might have the benefit OF
Vac" s @qgd SSfB Us over f9s o Of th
left the lights Of TadOusac behind and all the pas
seTEere had turned Ia. and certainly most of them
aster caEe Our pilot had lost his reckoning We
were fully, i've hundred feet out Of our proper
hole I'm the huh Of the boat big enough admit
the after cabin and staterooms quickly filled
with water"
THE occupants escaped only with their lives by
expeditions work They had no time 10 get their
belongings ana men. women and
SHIP children fed from the food OF
AND MA boats machinery had been dam
RooNED on aged, and in a very few minutes the
LEDGE. electric lights were out and the
whole scene was in darkness The
river each side is walled between the Palisades.
and log obscured the sky PandemOnium Teigued;
women were screaming and little children crying.
The boat was without single lamp. lantern or
candle for emergency and with an utter alb
sence OF any discipline IN the crew. the situation
was deplorable. The captain completely lost his
H-fu
state OF mind he crying Mon Dieu! Mon
Dieu" and doing nothing 10 meet the exigencies of
The situation. one Of the nfeboats had been dam
aged and in another that was lowered eleven OF
the crew got away The captain afforded the dis
comforting assurance that II the boat broke away
from The rock on which It hung ell board would
go down IN six hundred feet Of water The pas
sengers found their own expedent for getting OF
The vessel one. DR.. Prophet. OF Providence. let
himself down the steamers side hand over hand on
hawser and made one end fast 10 rock. With
the other tied the rail. Il became the life line.
Women and chiiaren IA scanty attire were lowered
furnjture they waited Tor day break The purser
went at O'Clock in one of the boats 10 Tadousac.
and $3.50 a tug took the marOoned passengers TO
fan.ished party was bread thrown from the steam
er's gangway. We continued our trip to Chicou-
party made early tracks fo- then various-tomes,
satisfied with what they had experienced on the
saguenay."
JOhn W. Kennedy. OF chicago. an actiNc MEMBER
OF the Marquette Club is at the Hotel Imperial.
where he spoke Illinois Repub-
GOVERNOR ncan politics yesterday: Governor
YATESS Richard Yates is his own most en-
PROSPECTS. thusasjic supporter for renomEa-
ton. but ! think that he will not
be able 70 secure that coveted Endorsement OF his
administration The contest. as It now very clearly
appesrS Il this distance IN advance OF the con-
veution, viii De one in which Colonel Frank Loudon
the able and popular young lawyer. who won
frnnortnnt success when he became the son-in-law
of tire l1tc George ". Pullman. VII play an i'm
rortant part. He VIII Try conclusions with Charles
fDeueeu. whose career az Prosecuting Attorney has
leen ! vigorous and fearless campaign against
vii doers He has always sustained a close rel2-
ton 20 the regular party organization but withal
has been REGARDED a. a clean and capable Official
g3ofb mon are regarded admirable timber. and
ne friends OF one are m a great many cases the
f-ies-ss III both. II Is considered that whichever
A. ehIe 10 command the choice Of the convention
VIII ierd strerg 9Th % the national ticket and SO
"a as sentiment IN Illinois Is concerned, Roose-