Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1895, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. ge PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennaylvanis Avenue, Ccr. 11th Street, by The Evening Star. Newspaper Oompany, 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. New York Office, 49 Potter Building, ee The Evening Star {# served to subscribers in the elty by carriers, on thelr own account, at 10 cents per week, or 44 cents month. Go) at the counter 2 cents each. iy mafl—anyWhere in the United maces or Canadu—postage prepald—50 cents F moni P%Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, §1 per year, with WieMeread atthe Dost Oflee at Washi D. fered at the Post Office ai fy . C., as second-class mail matter.) sany mall subseriptions must be paid in advertising made known rance, on application. ¢ Even No. 13,254. WASHINGTON, D. 0. TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1895—TWELVE PAGES. QUAY MEN SEATED|GRACELAND RESTRAINED/ THOUSANDS IN LINE|D'> NO Pennsylvania Republican State Com- mittee in Session. A SHORT BUT EFFECTIVE MEETING Leaders on Both Sides Express. ing Confidence. DELEGATES AND DOUBLES Sxcclal Dispatch to The Evening Star. HARRISBURG, Pa., August 27.—The fact that the leaders upon both sides of the contest between Senator Quay and the combine are claiming victory with such confidence ard apparent sincerity has aroused a suspicion among the conserva- tive men of each side that the opposing Managers are counting upon some of the same delegates; in other words, that some delegates are making promises to both factions, with a view to holding final alle- Biance to the side that at the last moment Seems surest to win. Acting upon this bellef, the respective managers are today making frantic efforts to clinch the dele- gates supposed to be wavering. “They are already whipped,” said Sen- ator Quay today, referring to his oppo- nents. “I have a majcrity on the very roll made up by Mr. Gilkeson, ff I can hold them.” “Why do you imply a doubt about hold- ing them?" he was askad. “Money,” was the laconic reply. Tha: ts the claim of one side; now hear the other. “We have whipped ‘them to a Stand still,” said Mr. Chris Magee, one of the leaders of the anti-Quay forces. ‘The fight is won,” said Gov. Hastings, and the Quay people are beaten already.” These remarks of the leaders might be taken as the stereotyped expressions of the necessary confidence of political man- agers, but the same spirit is manifested among the Meutenants and henchmen all along the line. There is no question as to the sincerlty of the claims of victory made by each side, and it is this fact that has awakened the suspicion that some of the delegates are playing a double game. Gain for Quay. The Quay people won a strong advantage by thelr maneuvering yesterday with re- gard to the state central committee, und there is no doub? their tactics strengthened their intrenchment. Mr. Gilkeson, chair- man of the state central committee, and candidate for re-election to succeed him- Self, proceeded upon his own motion and without the sancticn of his committee to make up a roll of delegates who should be entitled to vote upon the temporary or- on of the convention and upon his own re-el In doing this he did not have the c tials of any delegates, but acted upon his own personal information. It must be remembered that the seats of sates are contested, and spectacle will be presented of ontestees yoting upon their own Mr. Gilkeson acted thus for the primary teason that the state central committee, being favorable to Mr. Quay, might throw out some of the combine delegates if it should make up the roll. He also claimed to have a precedent for action in the course pursued by Mr. Quay when he was chairman of the state central committee Several years ago and also in the action of Mr. Cooper, now a Quay lieutenant, whea he was chairman. Yesterday seventy-one out of the 121 members of the state central committee assembled in the room which Mr. Gilkeson had chosen for this purpose, and requested him, as thetr chairman, to attend, call the meeting to order and transact necessary business. He declined, saying he had no business to lay before them and had not galled them to meet. They thereupon elect- ed a chairman pro tempore and proceeded to business. They appointed a committee on creden- tials, and that committee made up a roll, going through the pretext at least of ex- amining credentials. Of course, where there were contests they threw out the combine men and put in Quay men. Two Sets of Delegates. When the convention assembles tomorrow there will be two sets of delegates claim- ing the right to vote upon temporary or- ganization. One set was chosen by the chairman of the state committee, who, un- der certain cases of precedent, may be said to have had the authority to do so. The other was chosen by a majority of the state central committee, which, if it had been regularly called, would certainly have the right to make up the roll, but which assembled itself. 4 As a matter of fact both actions were technically irregular. Deciding the matter upon equity and common sense, which side is justified? The matter is important because the few Yotes at issue between the two rolls may decide the choice of temporary chairman. He will appoint the final committee on brie and this may decide the con- ane between Mr. Quay and the great com- ine. Commiticemen in Session. Today the seventy-one members of the state central committee who called them- selves in session are holding a meeting, purporting to be the bona-fide committee. In the next block sits Chairman Gllkeson, claiming that the state central committee is not in session because its chairman has not assembled {t, and he says he will not call a meeting. Chairman Gilkeson some time ago rented the opera house in which state conventions have always been held. He took the pre- caution to rent it in his own name. He has the key and is determined not to be ousted from possession. Mr. Gilkeson said to the writer to that tickets of admis- sion to the convention hail would be issued by him. “We shall give tickets to all the delegates who appear on the roil made up by me, and to no others. Unless I change my mind about it, contesting delegates will not be admitted until their 3 are decided by the convention. If the other people think can crowd in and take possession of the opera house they will find themselves h mistaken.” It is understood that the chairman, sup- orted by Gov. Hastings, Chris Magee and Yave Martin, has arranged police protec- e tion for the convention hall that will be military in its methods and so strong nu- mericaily that the most persistent Quayite shall not be able to break through the bar- ressman Jack Robinson, Quay's alert nt, who will be temporary chair- man of the convention if his side organizes, the police will not be able to keep the tor’s friends out of the hall. The Quay Program, “Our program for Wednesday is a very simpie one,” he said. “Gilkeson will call the convention to order, but we shall be there. We do not intend that there shall be two conventions if we can help it. With- Mr. Gilkeson’s right to 2 up a roll of the cony or even ‘all the convention to meet at any par- ticular pl are willing to go wher- ever he If he attempts to foist upon the convention his roll of delegates male up some ago without taking any evidence or Fear any before a single credential was presented to bim, we shall protest. It will then remain for the convention to decide whether or not Continued on Third Page.) arguments, and Lot Owners Object to the Removal to Woodlawn. Action Taken in Court Toduy — The Case Will Be Heard Early Next Month. Upon the petition of Harrison Davis and eleven other lot cwners in Graceland ceme- tery, Judge McComas today signed an or- der restraining the Graceland Cemetery Asscciation from removing any bodies buried In lots owned by the complainants and other lot owners without their con- sent. The association was also restrained from removing or defacing any slabs, monuments, sepulchral devices, fences or ornaments placed on said lots, and from in- juring or removing any trees planted thereon, or in any way disturbing or alter- ing the character of the cemetery. The association was restrajned, too, from sub- dividing and platting into building lots, streets or alleys any portion of the grounds now embraced in the cemetery, and from selling the same cr any part thereof, ex- cept for purposes of sepulcher. The otder was made returnable on the 9th of next month, until which time, or until the fur- ther order of the court, the association is restrained 98 above stated. The complainants state that the associa- tion was Incorporated September 80, 1871, and on the-16th of October, 1871, acquired title to a tract of about 30 acres fronting en the Benning and Bladensburg roads and Boundary street. They assert that they } acquired a fee simple interest in their re- spective lots, and charge that the act of Congress of August 3, IS, to prohibit the interment of bodies in the cemetery pro- vided for the removal of bodies by the as- sociation to some other suitable public cemetery or cemeteries at its expense, and for a pro rata distribution of the proceeds of the subdivision and sale of the tract among the various lot owners. It ts also charged by the complainants that without the consent or authority of the association several of its board of officers, together with other persons, formed a private cor- poration, known as Woodlawn Cemetery Association, which latter association pur- chased a tract of twenty-six and one-half acres a quarter of a mile from the Mary- land line, and about three miles from Graceland cemetery. The approach to this second cemetery is, the complainants say, over a difficult road, requiring a two hours’ journey from the center of the city. To this cemetery, it is charged, the defendants are removing the dead buried in Graceland cemetery, with- out the knowledge or consent of let own- ers in the latter cemetery. The further complaint ia made that the defendants will not bear the expense of removing bodies frorh Graceland to any other but Woodlawn, and the distribution of proceeds directed by the act of August 8, 1804, is complained of: as ‘unfair and un- just, the constitutionality of the act itself being attacked, on the ground that it at- tempts to deprive lot owners of their land without due notice and process of law. = NEWS FROM MINISTER DENBY. A Commissioncr to Co-Operate With Consul Hixon in the Inquiry. The department is in receipt of a cable- gram from Minister Denby, in which he states that In response to a request made by him to the Tsungli Yamen, the Taotal Hsu Hsing-i has been sent to co-operate with Consul Hixon in investigating the Kutlen riot. The rank of the commis- sioner, who is an intendant of circuit (Tao- tai) 1s, by treaty, equal to that of the con- sul. It is supposed at the department that the name of this officer may have been altered in transmission over the cable, and it is possible that the name should be Hau Yung-i, a well-known metropolitan officer, who for many years was vice president for the board of works, and has also been of late years a minister of the Tsungli Yamen. Should, however, the department be mis- taken in this, the person appointed ap- pears, from his name, to unquestionably belong to the family of this well-known minister. The wording of Mr. Denby’s cablegram leads the department to believe that this commissioner has been sent from Peking, end it is inferred that Minister Dendy has given ample instructions to Consul Hixon, and that he is enjoying all the facilities necessary to carry out his instructions at Kutien. ——_____+ e -______ EXPERIMENTAL GRASS GARDENS. Native Varieties Are Being Driven Out by Worthless Foreign Species. Considerable importance from an agri- cultural standpoint attaches to a circular cn experimental grass gardens, which has just been issued as the first publication of the agrostology division of the Agricultural Department. It discusses general grass conditicns in the country, and says “‘the American has been a@ grass Killer every- where.” Our native grasses and clovers are being driven out by foreign species, and the assertion is made that enough money has been spent by Aniérican farm- ers for worthless fodder plants from for- eign sources to more than pay the expenses of the whole department for one year. Voicing the views of Secretary Morton, the general grass conditions in the country are summed up as follows: The amount of money invested in the cattle Industry Is reckoned by the hundred million dollars, and every dollar of that value is absolutely dependent upon the question of forage. Strip our broad acres of their grasses and clovers, and instead of receiving millions of dollars for the meat products sent to foreign lands we would have to pay out money for them. The cat- tle industry and the wool industry are de- pendent upon the question of grass. ‘The rative western grasses are being rapidly driven out to make way for the worthless weeds that civilization and seanty cultivation bring with them. Al- ready the buffalo grass and the mesquite have disappeared from a large section of Kansas and Nebraska. Acres that were once covered with these most nutritious species are now occupied by weedy kinds, and their value as pasture and hay lands is constantly diminishing. Similar destruc- tion of grasses has followed the cultiva- tion of cotton in the south, and of tobacco and hoed crops generally in sll sections of the countr; o— Whnt Are Dutiable. Assistant Sccretary of the Treasury Wike has decided, in a letter to the col- lector of customs at Suspension Bridge, N. Y., that according to a decision niede September 2, 1887, only forelgn materials actually used by the Niagara Falls Sus- n Bridge Company on the United shore are dutiable, and that the foreign materials used on the construction of a bridge on a river up to the shore end are exempt. He also decides that the tools, implements, &c., used in the construction of a bridge can be kept on United States territory in charge of a customs officer, and if returned eventually, are exempt from duty. 2 Waiting for Information. The work of investigating the accounts of Librarian A. R. Spofford has been prac- tically suspended pending the receipt of certain information which the Treasury Department has asked the librarian to furnish. Several days have elapsed since this information was called for and it is expected that it will soon be received ty the department, when the investigation will be continued. Grandest Pageant in the History of Boston. PARADE OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR Honor Accorded District Commanderies. Unusual HOLIDAY AI THE HUB ———— Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. BOSTON, August 27.—The District com- manderies: were astir at an early hour this morning, in anticipation of the grand parade. Orders to fall in were given at 8 o'clock, and by 9 o'clock all were in their several positions in the vicinity of the Hotel Vendome, where the first division, to which they had been assigned, was to form. First in procession after the chief marshal and aids came Boston Com- mandery, acting as escort to the officers and members of the Grand Encampment, who were in carriages, Detroit Command- ery serving in a like capacity for Most Eminent Grand Master Hugh McCurdy of Michigan. Immediately following the car- riages came commanderies holding char- ters direct from the Grand Encampment. It {s unusual to give these independent commanéertes this honor, but inasmuch as the bulk of thelr membership is in the District of Columbia, the local committee arranging the parade thought it would be @ neat compliment to pay to the fraters of the national capital, in evidence of appre- ciation of the part taken by the latter in the entertainment of the triennial conclave of 1889, c Washington Commandery, No. 1, was headed by the Mt. Pleasant Field Band, and it is needless to add that the little fel- lows fairly captured the town by their ex- cellent marching music and their maneu- vering. They wore bright new uniforms and bore themselves in a becoming man- rer. Washington Commandery in black unl- forms presented a magnificent appearance. Their marching was especially fine. The commandery, in the absence of Eminent Commander Holt, was in charge of Gen- eralissimo Samuel C. Thompson. Columbia Commandery had engaged Ger- mania band of Boston to furnish its music and made one of the finest displays in its history. Improvement in their marching wes noticeable. Potomac Commandery. also excelled lis former records in point of numbers, and De Molay never looked better, mounted on fine-looking chargers, After completing the line of march, the District commanderies repaired to their quarters for lunch, after which they re- turned to Blacksione Square to assist Bos- ton Commandery in escorting officers and members of Grand Encampment to Ma- sonic Temple, where the sessions of tri- ennial conclave were to begin. Altogether it was a long march, but the District fraters, enjoying the distinction accorded them, withstood the fatigue like veterans. ‘The District of Columbia was still further honored by having one of its citizens, Sir Harrison Dingman, as commander of the eleventh division of the parade. His chief of staff was Captain Simeon H. Merrill and his aids, Allison Nailor, W. Andrew Boyle, Albert Cottle, George E. Carson and Andrew W. Kelly. This division was com- posed of some of the most noted command- eries of the country, including California and Golden Gate of San Francisco and Wisconsin, No. 1, of Milwaukee, also the grand commanderies of California, Tennes- see, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Georgia. Emioent Sir Fred G. Alexander repre- sented the District of Columbia on the staff of Chief Marshal Lawrence, and Wil- liam Messervy was one of that official's aids. A petition of thirty-three sir knights of the District of Columbia will be presented to the grand encampment asking for a charter to organize a new commandery to be known as Orient Commandery, which will meet in the new lodge room of Naval Lodge on Capitol Hill. A petition to nom- inate Alexander McKenzie as eminent com- mander, Jesse W. Lee, jr., as generalissimo and Dr. George C. Ober as captain will also be presented. It is believed there will be no opposition to the new commandery. Colonel M. M. Parker is here in attend- ance upon sessions of the conclave. BOSTON’S GRANDEST PAGEANT, The Parade of the 25,000 Knights Templar Today. BOSTON, Mass., August 27.—Seven hun- dred and fifty thousand people saw the pa- rade of over 25,000 sir Knights Templar to- day and with one accord pronounced it the grandest pageant ever witnessed in Boston. People were everywhere, in streets, on sidewalks, on the roofs of buildings and street cars, clinging to tops of telegraph poles, whenever the vigilance of the police and linemen was relaxed for a moment; in wagons and drays filled with seats in the side streets, and on hundreds of grand stands, large and small, along the route. The clear skies and hot sun of the past two days had given way to heavy clouds, but finally the sun broke through the clouds vigorously endeavoring to drive the mists away. Although the majority of the sir knights spent last night, until a late hour, enter- taining friends or being entertained, they were astir early this morning. ‘Trains from every direction brought thousands of uniformed Templars and their friends to swell the host. At the de- pots the crowds were of almost suffocating density. From every state, commanderies began to arrive at an early hour, and thousands of spectators came with them. The streets near the depots echoed with the din of scores of bands and the tramp of arriving knights and their escorts. The railroad men were completely overwhelmed by the magnitude of the crowd. Practically a Holiday. Everywhere within a radius of twenty miles of the state house the day is prac- ically a holiday. Most of the factories in nearby cities are closed and the operatives helped to swell the crowds to watch the procession, The police appointments were well nigh perfect. Shortly before the parade started platoons of officers cleared every strect through which the sir krights were tu pass and roped them off, and until the last divi- sfon had passed no traffic of any kind was allowed on those thoroughfares. The lines" of the parade were formed In thirteen divi- sions in a column of double sections. At 9 o'clock the commanderies of the first division began to gather on the south side of Commonwealth avenue near Berk- ley street, and at about the same hour the other divisions began to take up their po- (Continued on Third Page.) The Potomac Dragged for the Body of a Supposed Drowned Man. Singular Result of an Accident on the River Front—Boats Have a Smash-Up. An accident occurred on the river front this morning that was believed for some time to have resulted in the death of a col- ored man named Izell Peel, a seaman em- ployed on the schooner Murray Vandiver of Crisfield, Md., which was lying at Sher- iff's wharf for a load of coal. Peel was out at the end of the Vandiver’s jib boom putting a tarpaulin over the furled flying jib to keep the rain from soaking it. The City of Richmond was at the next dock south, headed up stream, with her bow but a few yards distant from that of the schooner. It was shortly after 9 o’clovck and the steamer’s gangplanks had been drawn in preparatory to her starting for Colonial Beach. Suddenly she steamed out and there was a crash as her wheel house came in contact with the boom of the Vandiver, upon which Peel was perched. The boom was broken off short and the wheel house badly wrecked. The Richmond did not stop, but proceed- ed up the river, where she turned and went on her way to Colonial Beach, There was immediately great excitement on board the Vandiver and among the river men and stevedores in the vicinity,as it was thought that Peel had been knocked overboard and drowned. The crew of the police boat were quickly on hand in small boats and began to drag the river bottom for the body. After pur- suing this arduous work for over an hour @ message was received from Alexandria saying Peel had fallen on board the City of Richmond and had been taken to the Vir- ginia town, whence he would be sent back to Washington on the ferry boat. Peel's only injury was a bruised hand. The river men were very indignant when the accident first occurred, and claimed the pilot of the steamer was entirely to blame for the trouble. ————__. INSECT LIFE. The Monthly Entomological Bulletin Has Been Discontinued. “Insect Life,” the monthly entomological bulletin issued by the Agricultural Depart- ment, has been discontinued, and two series of bulletins will take {ts place. This ac- tion 1s the outcome of Secretary Morton's plan of weeding out all publications deem- ed too long for practical purposes or lack- ing in general interest, and of reducing ex- penditures. A new series of general bulletins will.be begun, comprising short reports on special observations, and the miscellan=rvs results of the work of the division In practical and conomie lines and in directions of general interest, thus including in the main mary of the classes of articles which have been published in Insect Life. Thé second reries of bulletins, published at Tarer intervals, will contain the results of the purely scien- tific work of the office force, will consist largely of monograpkic papers, on groups of North American insects, and will be dis- tributed only to libraries and to werking entomologists. The other series, however, will be distributed generally. Insect Life was recently characterized, by Nature as the “premier of entomological bulletins,” accompanied with the suggestion “that the results achieved by American workers should lead the English government to a more generous recognition of work in economic entomology.” ASSURANCES OF SECURITY, The Porte Promises That for Ameri- can Citizens at Tarsus, A cable was received from Minister Ter- rill at the State Department today saying: “The porte gives emphatic assurances of security for American citizehs at Tarsus.” No doubt is expressed as to the Turkish gov- ernment doing all it can do to protect American citizens, but with the best inten- ticns the government fs not always able to restrain the lawless bands and marauders in different parts of the empire. Up to the present time the Turkish government has acceded to all requests presented by Min- ister Terrill, and has shown a willingness to carry out the promise conveyed in the dispatch received today. ° The Hot Springs. J. W. Little, the superintendent of the Hot Springs reservation, has made his re- port to the Secretary of the Interior. He says there were 155,000 people who took the baths there last year, There aro now 507 tubs for bathing, and the uniform charge is abcut thirty cents. Much work has been done on the roads in the reserva- ticn during the year, and more Is _pro- jected for the coming year. The new hotel is completed and is one of the largest and best in the United States. During the year the much-contested matter of leases was practically straightened out. To Ventilate the Amphitrite. Past Assistant Engineer F. W. Bennett of the Amphitrite was at the Navy De- partment today consulting with the en- gircer and cozstruction bureaus regarding a plan to vertilate this ship. Since he has been aboard the monitor he has devised a plan which has resulted in cooling the of- ficers’ quarters of the ship about thirty de- grees. This plan will ke incorporated in a general arrangement of the changes that are to be made in the Amphitrite. CaS Pensions Allowed. District of Columbia.—Relssue, John M. Sanford, Washington; George W. Wells, Washington. Maryland.—Renewal and increase, Leon- ard W. Huff, Western Port, Allegany; in- crease, George Plyer, Plyer, Montgomery; reissue, Thomas McDownell, Baltimore, Baltimore. —_——_+ e+______ Fourth-Class Pogtmasters. Seventeen _fourth-class postmasters were appointed today, twelve of whom were to fill vacancies caused by deaths or resigna- tions. ——__—__-e.+____. The Case of Mr. Eustis. PARIS, August 27.—The Figaro says it 1s authorized to declare that there 1s no ques- tion of recalling the United States am- bassader, Mr. James B. Eustis. aS Government Receipts. National bank notes received for redemp- tion today, $269,720. Government receipts— From internal revenue, $274,318; customs, $301,989; miscellaneous, $135,836. ~ Mr. Carlisle's Return. Secretary Carlisle arrived here today, and was at the Treasury Department. - Attempted Train Wrecking Failed. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., August 27—An at- tempt w@s made last night to wreck the west-bound Southern Pacific train fifty miles west of Houston, The engineer dis- covered ties piled across the track, and luckily he was able to bring his train to a standstill, without damage éither to the train or anybody aboard of it. It is thought the design was to wreck and rob the train, Will He Go to the Support of Gen. Hardin? HIS PLATFORM §=1S REPUDIATED Hardin Will Work the Rural Dis- tricts Against the Cities. A FORMER EPISODE Secretary Carlisle is expected back to- night, and will probably be prepared to an- nounce his program with regard to the Kentucky campaign. Will he go to the support of Gen. Hardin now? Can he do so in the altered circumstances of the past ten days? In that time Gen. Hardin has repudiated the platform dictated by Mr. Carlisle at the Louisville convention, and in turn has himself been repudiated by the two leading democratic newspapers of the state. The Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Post have withdrawn their support from his candidacy. Both indorse the Carlisle financial policy. Will the Sec- retary ally himself with them and let Gen. Hardin slide? The Situation Embarrassing. The question is important, the situation embarrassing all round, Mr. Carlisle's voice {s a mighty one at home. The man for whom he lifts it always gets votes in return, But how can he lift it for Gen. Hardin? How can he take the stump for a candidate who refuses to accept the Carlisle interpretation of the Carlisle platform? And should he fail to take the stump, what would that action cost the democratic Ucket? Other people may despair, but Gen. Hardin thinks he is going to win. And Senator Blackburn agrees with him in terms of emphasis that do not often get into cold type. Their reliance ts believed to be on the personal popularity cf the candidate, and the way in which ir will be possible to present the question in the rural districts. The democracy is stronyest in localities re- mote from the rallroal and telegraph lines, and there Gen, Hardin will be made to ap- Pear as the victim of an essault by city bankers and merchants. The country peo- ple will be told that he is being attacked for refusing to abandon his conviction: and that they shonld raily all the mor2 thuslastically to him because of the fact that those convictions are decided by the town people as tne creations of the country. A Former Episode. And not unlikely, it is thought, General Hardin is recalling an episode in Kentucky politics which occurred only about twelve years ago, when the state democratic com- mittee undertook to discipline a candidate for an important state office and got the worst of it. A rofstering fellow, but per- sonally very popular, had secured the nom- ination for clerk of the court of appeals. The office being one of the most lucrative in the state, the nominee was “in a state of exhilaration,” and in a few days ap- peared in Louisville to celebrate his suc- cess. He proceeded to do this In a mo: unseemly way, and a great scandal re- sulted. The state committee was advised te take the man off the ticket. It held a meeting wiih that end in view. The dis- cussion was most animated. Some of the members of the committee went so far as to offer the place to one of the nominee's unsuccessful. competitors before the con- vention. But in the end it was decided that the committee could not displace the nom- inee, and the canvass proceeded with the man’s name at the head of the ticket. He was elected by nearly forty thousand ma- jority over his republican opponent, who was a man of refinement and the highest capacity. The democratic candidate ef- fected this simply by going among his friends in the country—he was from one of the back counties himself—and telling them that the rackets had been gotten up by a dudish ret in Loufsville unable to appre- ciate the solid and other comforts of a plain man’s simple celebration. That set- iled it. The country came to the polls irresistibly strong, and Louisville and her dudish set were roundly rebuked. There is a Difference. There is as much difference between the two situations as between the two men. General Hardin is a man of fine personal bearing, and he is arraigned on a question of principle. But the episode quoted shows how successfully the country can be played against the town in Kentucky, and if by a free-handed fellow under a moral cloud, why not by a gentleman of dignity and the best connections on an issue cn which he js claiming not only sincerity, but consistency? —————_——_-o+____ SETTLERS MUST MOVE. An Order That Will Cause 1,500 to Lose Their Homes. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., August 27.— Consternation has been caused in this and adjoining counties by the appearances of an army lieutenant and a squad of men with instructions to all settlers on govern- ment reserves to vacate the same before September 15 or be removed by the troops. This move is the cutcome of a recent order of the War Department, and it is con- servatively estimated that 1,500 settlers will lose their homes. In early days when the settlement of Washington was beginning the government took occasion to set aside much valuable land on which it was intended to establish the Indians. These reservations on the part of the government exceeded the needs of the occasion, and as it never made an at- tempt to take up the lands many ploneers settled upon the tracts, which, by intelM- gent cultivation, have been developed into the finest farming lands in the state. It is feared here that trouble will ensue should the govern nent attempt to forcibly take from the settlers the homes which they have built by many years of toil. It was claimed by some that this action of the department is simply prelimin: to the extensive and much-needed fortitication of Puget sound. Notking is known at the War Depart- ment of the eviction of squatters from the military reservations in the state of Washington. Officials say that the army regulations require the commanding gen- eral in each department to prevent tres- passing, and it is assumed that Gen. Otis, in command of the Department of the Co- lumbia, has undertaken to remove the squatters in Washington. He has not, however, made any report on the matter. ——_——.—__ Triple Killing in Montana, ST, PAUL, Minn., August 27.—A Pioneer Press special from Butte, Mont., says: Word wes received here of a triple killing which occurred at Sweet Grass, on the in- ternational boundary. Sunday William Long, a cowboy, who is also said to be a whisky smregler, killed a mounted police- man named Richardson. The two men met near the Middle Butte of Sweet Grass, had several drinks, got into a row, and the kill- ing resulted. After the shocting of Rich- ardson oy 3 went to C. B. Toole’s ranch, where he is alleged to have killed Ira Brown, foreman of the sheep ranch. The latter, Lefore dying, shot Long, killing him almost instantly. Long’s mother lives in Los Angeles, Cal. TWO CENTS. His New Commission as Minister to Mex- ico Arrived This Morning. It Ends a Legal Complication—No Sur- prise by the Politicians, for This Action Was Expected. ‘The White House mail this morning bore the commission of Matt W. Rensom to be United States minister to Mexico. The commission was dated August 24. This ends a legal complication by which Minis- ter Ransom, after several months’ cervite at his post at the City of Mexico was de- clared ineligible to fill the office to which he had been appointed prior to the exptra- tion pf his term as United States Senator. It was held by the treasury accounting officers that he fell within a constitutional inhibition against the appointinent of Con- gressmen to offices created, or whose emol- uments had been increased during their service in Congress. It has been generally understood that Mr. Ransom would be promptly reappoint- ed and the slight delay which has oc- curred presumably has been for the pur- Pose of definitely ascertaining that there were no more legal or other obstacles in the way of renaming Mr. Ransom to the Mexican mission. The only reasor that has been suggested that might have operated against Mr. Ran- som’s reappointment was the report that gained currency when the Senator was first named for the lucrative mission in Mexico, in effect that the President really desired that Mr. Wilson, who had done such good work a3 chairman of the ways and means committee of the House of Representa- tives, should he given the place finally al- lotted to Mr. Ransom, but that the sena- torial indorserents-of the latter were so numerous and influential that they could not be ignored with good policy. Mr. Wil- scn was in pcor health, and the small amcount of work and large salary—$i7,000 per annum —of the post of minister to Mex- ico would have been more agreeable to Mr. Wilson than the postmaster generalship. But Mr. Wilson having been provided for there was no reason to believe that Mr. Ransom would not be reappointed, as he has done nothing to prejudice his case and any neglect to reappoint him would have implied a rebuke. Mr. Ransom will have to wait for his salary, which has accumulated since his accounts were held up, until his reappoint- ment, until a special act of Congress is passed allowing it. There is no doubt that this will be done promptly. Mr. Ransom ™may not leave for Mexico for some time, as he has not fully recovered from sn at- tack of Illness which he suffered while there, but it is fully believed that he will resume his duties at the,Mexican capital. —_—_+e+___ STREET EXTENSION. Remaining Sections Liable to Be Sub- mitted Together. From all appearances the Commissioners will sebmit to the highway commission the remaining three sections of the street ex- tension plan together. The engineers at the District building have about completed the second and fourth sections. Frederick Law Olmstead, the landscape engineer, has charge of the third section, and, it is under- stood, will prepare all maps in connection therewith. When he submits his study of the third section the other two sections will be completed, and then the Commissioners will make one grand swoop and clean up the whole matter of street extension as far as they are concerned without delay. With reference to the second section studies, large scale maps have been pre- pared and may now be seen upon applica- tion, showing how the proposed extensions cut into property in the outlying suburbs. There are no bad features in this section, and little trouble is anticipated in the way of complaints from affected property hold- ers. The fourth section, which embraces all that portion of the District across the East- ern branch, while topographically difficult, will be comparatively easy to settle. Most of the trouble is anticipated across Rock creek in the third section. Here the to- ography of the country makes straight ex- tensions practically impossible as a rule, end whatever differences arise will be, it Is believed, upon the subject of the char- acter of the streets, whether they shall be curved or straight. Within a month, it is understood, the maps will all be ready. ——__ BACK TO THE FATHERLAND. Arrival of the German-American Veterans at Bremerhaven, BREMERHAVEN, August 27.—Tne Ger- mzn-Americar war veterans were accorded a warm reveption on their arrival here by te Veterens’ Association of ihts city, and by delegations from other veteran associa- tions from different parts of -3ermany. President Hinsch of the Uricn of Com- rades-in-arms met them on beard the Ful- da, aud grected the visitors in a brief but powerful address. Tne Americans then lanied at the qiav, where veterans were assembled with the hand of the murine ar- tillery on their right. Tne visiting veterans were marshaled opposite the others, and Herr Bock, president of the lower Weser district, made a patriotic and enthusiastic speech, concluding with calling for ch2ers for the emperor. ‘The Marine Band then played the national anthem, and the veterans joined in ihe words, Herr Schmel afterward responded for the Americans, and called for cheers for Bre- merhaven, which were heartily given. The different veterans’ associations then marched to Llovd Hall, where the Ameri- can representatives handed to the presi- dents of the German associations the Amer- fcan medals. The visiting veterans left Bremerhaven at 8:30 p.m., after receiving commemorative medals struck for the oc- casion by the senate. —— DRIVEN AWAY: BY INDIANS. The Report Brought to Spokane by Settlers. SPOKANE, Wash., August 27.—Trouble has again broken out between Kalispee! In- dians and settlers along the east side of the Perd d'Orielle river in Idaho, over the dis- puted possession of what the Indians claim is their reservation, but which is, in reali- ty, government land. A large delegation of white evttlers came to this city today and state that they were driven off from their farms by Indians, who threatened them with death if they dared return. The redskins forcibly took possession of the homes and property of the whites, and told the latter that such were their instructions from the Indian agent, Budd. The settlers are preparing to go back armed and in force and drive the Indians out of the neighborhood. The Indians are ugly and the settlers determined «nd serious, — Raising the Reindeer. PORT TOWNSEND, Ore., August K. Jeltman of Madison, Wis., who tock the party of Laplanders to Port Clarence to take charge of the government reindeer stations in northwestern Alaska, has ar- rived here from Alaska. The government now has about cne thousand head of rein- deer, and they are increasing. The cutter Bear brought over this season 130 head from Siberia, most of which ave in poorer condition than the Alaska deer. The herds mereased 300 head and only eleven died. These stations are supplied with the fol- Icwing number of deer: Cape Prince of Wales, 210; Port Clarence, 500; Cape Nome, T FIND HIM|CARLISLE’S PROGRAM|R: RANSOM APPOINTED/MONROE DOCTRINE Secretary Olney Will Insist Upon Its Full Enforcement, HE INSISTS - UPON ARBITRATION Great Britain and the Venezuelan Boundary Question. A CHANGED FOREIGN POLICY It 1s understood that Mr. Bayard, the American representative in England, has been instructed to make a strong presenta- tion of the attitude of this qpuntry with relation to the boun dispute between Great Britain and enezuela, Great Britain, it is said, 1s to be given, or already has been given, to understand thag this country looks with disfavor upon any en- croachment upon the Veni territory, and it is the feeling of the ident that the dispute should be speedily submitted to arbitration, Still Holds to the Monroe Doctrine. This is understood to be, not a 1o- tory suggestion, but a notification it the administration still holds to thé doctrine enunciated by President Monroe. It is held that the attitude of the administration in regard to England’s enforcing indemnity from Nicaragua, where it was \ded there was no encroachment on the Monroe doc- trine, strengthens the hand of this ern- aod - Saeling. with a case where the Policy o' ‘onroe is actually disregarded. There is said to be very strong hopes that England will be induced to submit Ven- ezuelan matter to arbitration, thor that May result in the loss of territory claimed by her. The dispute, which has extchded over many years, appears to it very little prospect of satisfactory settlement except through the United States Invoking the Monroe doctrine as an excuse for in- sisting upon an arbitration, Secretary Olneyte Policy, From intimations given out, it appears that Mr. Olney has inaugurated a policy in relvtion to fcreign affairs which ts Mable to attract attention; that be intends to stand by the Monroe doctrine and te look more closely to the interests of Anferican citizens abroad. It is said that on the lication cf correspondence in_ the claim matters, which will probably be for by the Senate soon after meets, it will be disclosed that Mr. handied that case with peculiar firay and that the Spanish government was plain- ly given to understand that a radical course would be pursued if settlement were not promptly made. A gentleman who; for scme years, has been having trouble with one of the South American governments over matters of no great public importance, but where his rights, it was claimed, were being encroached upon, told a Star reporter that the Secretary of State had acted so Vigorously that a prompt settlement promised. He said that he knew that in all similur cases the depart- ment is now applying a firm policy. A Cause for Gratification. Muck gratificationis expressed at the at- litude of the British press toward the action of France in the Waller case, and it is said that the most recent developments in that case indicate an entirely satisfac- tory settlement without much greater de- lay. From all that can be learned, there ap- pexrs to be an entire reversal of the for- eign policy of the administration, which has called for harsh critic'sm from most_ every section of the country, and from sources regardless of party association, — SHOT IN A DUEL. American Faces a Spaniard on “The Field vf Honor.” GUADALAJARA, Mexico, August 27- George S. Morris, an American mining man, was shot and wounded in a duel at Ameca, a town west of here, by a Spaniard ramed Jose Salsazar. The two men had @ quarrel over a business deal, and the Spaniard issued the challenge to fight a duel. Morris accepted, and seconds were chosen. The fight took place on the out- skirts of the town, and at the first shot Morris received a bullet in his breast. He was carried from the field. A strong effort has been made to keep the affair quiet, as the opposition of the authorities to duels is very pronounced. No arrests have yet been made. Morris came to Mexico two years ago from Penn- sylvania. An ——._—_ WILL MEET AT ATLANTA. The New England Cotton Manufac- turers to Go South. BALTIMORE, Md., August 27.—For some weeks past R. H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers’ Record of this city, has been endeavoring to induce the New Eng- land Cotton Manufacturers’ Association to hold its next semi-annual October meeting in Atlanta. The vote has just been taken by mail, and Mr. Edmonds received word this morning that it is in favor of Atlanta. This will take into the south the largest number of New England cotton mill men who have ever been in that section, as the association is composed of about 400 mem- bers, representing every leading cotton manufacturing enterprise in New England. The aggregate capital invested in mills rep- resented by these gentlemen is upward of $300,000,000, —_—_—_ AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION. Leading Jurists Addressed by James Cc. Carter. DETROIT, August 27.—An intellectual- looking assembly of 300 leading jurists and members of the bar was present in ¥. M. Cc. A. Hall at 10:30 this morning, when President James C. Carter of New York called to order the eighteenth annual con- vention of the American Bar Association. After thanking the Detroit representatives of the profession for the cordial receptions tendered the visitors, the president read a short list of the most noted jurists pres- ent, who were invited to seats upon the platform. President Carter then proceeded with the reading of his address. ——_—_ MET IN A FIERCE FIGHT, Four Killed in a Battle Between Two Factions. NASHVILLE, Tenn., August 27.—A Bris- tol, Tenn., special to the Banner says: A bloody war between two factions, resulting from a long-standing feud, has been fought in the Cumberland mountains seventy-five miles north of here on the Virginia and Kentucky lines. A number of Boyd rela- tives and Thomas relatives, with Winches- ters, met at an illicit distillery, where the battle began. Four men, John Boyd, Wil- cox, Will Thomas and Floyd Thomas, are a , and severel are wounded. es The Infernal Machine Letter. PARIS, August 27.—The police have defi- nitely ascertained that the letter, or in- fernal machine, which exploded in the office of Baron Aiphonse de Rothschild on Saturday afternoon, severely injuring his confidential clerk, M. Jodkowits, was post- ed in the city.