Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 11, 1896, Page 3

ia _Ruede Island - South Carolina HILL DOWNED FIRST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION, “The Fight Between the Gold and Silver Men Begins Immedintely After the Prayer — Silver Men Present Senator Daniel's Name for Temporary Chairman and He Is Elected Over Senntor Hill by a Vote of 556 to 349. Chicago, July 8. — There were lively Scenes outside the hall ,at tue opening of the Democratic convention, and the army of subordinate officials con- tributed largely to the disorder. They formed a long line four abreast to gain-ad- mission at a single entrance where several excited men were distributing the badges and emblems of official authority. Mean- while the doors were barred to the public and the stalwart policemen on guard said no one would be admitted until the last of- i at his post within, At best the s could not receive more minute, or 1,000 an hour. ty of the small hall is just ut would take a full hour, with tiscipline, to pass the great crowd the doors. ‘The belated stationing officers promised to make it im- le to get the people inside the hail by e time the convention met. At 11 °o kk the line of officials stretched four abreast for 100 feet and a need at a snail's P The women holding admission tic were especially indignant at not get- in. They stood in the streets hoist- ing their umbrellas to keep off the shower ers which filtered from the ele- id every time a train thundered were many reports of minor acci- a result of the crowd at the doors. or Harris of Tennessee was handled and it was said was knocked down urging mob. Senator Berry of Ar- who has but one leg and walks , Was jammed against a wall crutch wrenched from his hand, It is about time,” said Senator Jones of Arkansas, “that we had a permanent offi- cial as sergeant-at-arms who could prevent such outrage The Convention Opened. The gavel fell at 10 minutes before 1 up- on a hall that had a dozen rows of empty at the edges furthest from the plat- The appearance of Chairman Har- as he stepped forward to the desk, 1 in a slate-colored summer suit, pro- round of applause from the Eastern tes, reinforced by many of the silver men and Western men. When “Mr. Har- rity commanded the convention to be in order, his voice easily carried over the tumult to the furthest corner, testing the acoustic qualities of the hall with most sat- isfactory results. The figure of the chair- man faced the assemblage for several min- i the ushers swept the aisles knots of conferring delegates. “Gentlemen of the convention will rise for the prayer,” the chairman said, and here was a clatter of chairs as the body in the center of the hall came up to its feat with considerable confusion. The chaplain was a young man, hardly thirty years old, with a smooth-shaven, clear-cut face, and wearing the black cleri- cal coat battoned to his chin. He held in his hand a roll of typewritten manuscript, which after a moment be laid on the desk and picked up slip by slip, reading from it the prayer as he could do without excit- ing comment, as a representative of the Episcopalian chureh. Cheers for Hill. As the convention seated itself, Chairman Harrity stepped forward, and, with a sharp stroke of tie gavel, announeed in ringing tones the selection of Senator David B. Hill for temporary chairman. ‘his an- ement was what the gold men were ig for, and with a shout they leaped to their feet, and with waving arms they shouted ovt their approval. Among the spectators, also, there was a cheer of 2p- robation. Seme enthusiastic delega led “three cheers for David B. Hill they were given with a will. an¢ Senator Sheern of Ind > announced ted down. is the pleasure of the conven- ‘ked Mr. Harrity, calmly, as if he know of the storm which was to had qui “Wha tion did not follow ton, the member of the nitional rom Arkansas, arose. Every si and every spectator In the hall that the gage of battle was te be down, and they rose to a man and soon as he announced that to present a minority report stration that followed the an- nouncement of the selection of Mr. Hill's name was ag a breeze compared to a cy- clone. The G00 odd delegates practically mounted their chairs and cheered, while from ten thousand throats In the audience came a hoarse roar of approval that sounded Hke a roll of thunder. For over three minutes the demonstration continued, and it was re- | newed at several points as Mr. Clayton read the minority report, nominating Sen- ator Daniel. Mr. Clayton then read the minority report as folloy The Demoer: c tional Conven- The undersigned, members of the national committee, respectfully recommend that the name of Hon. John W. Daniel of Virginia be substituted in the committee report for that of Hon. David B. Hill of New York, and that Hon. John W. Daniel be chosen temporary chairman of the con- vention.” (Signed) Henry D, Clayton, Alabama; ‘Thomas McRae, Arkansas; M. F. Tarpey, California, C. 8. Thomas. Colorado; Samuel Pascoe, Florida; Clark Howell, Georgia; S. C. Hilliard, Idaho; C. W. Blair, Kansas; Arthur Sewall, Maine; D. J. Campbell, Mich- igan; A. J. Davidson, Montana; R. J Keating, Nevada; F. HR. Busby, North Carolina; W.. ©. Leistikow, — North : : Donaldson, South | Car- J. Otey, Virginia; W. L. Wyoming; James L. Norris, nnon, Arizona; H. B. Fer- Mexico: T, M. Richardson, a: J. W. Burton, Utah; R. L. Owen, Indian Territory. As he concluded with an emphatic demand 2 roll call on the proposition, the sil- men again cheered wildly. The Vote in Detail. Following is the vote of states: ate’ Votes. Danfel. HiIl Florida Georgia Idaho AUinols Indiana ! vtan ... Iowa Kansas 20 Kentucky . 26 Louisiana 16 Maine . 12 Maryland 6 Massachusetts . 30 Michigan .. 23 Minnesota . 8 Mississippi 18 Missour! 184 Montana . 6 Nebraska 6 Nevada .6 New [aiupshire 8 New Jersey . 20 New Mexteo a3 New York . 72 North Carol 22 North Dakota . . 6 Ohio ... 8 vuregon nae 8 Pennsylvan! fet 3 8 24 :30 { the supreme court of the 6 6 8 ose 24 23 7. 38 5 West Virginia . 12 9 Wisconsin 24 see 6 6 2 on 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 905 556 Not voting, ew York). Danial Speaks. When order was restored Mr. Harrity said: “Gentlemen of the convention, I have the honor of introducing as your tem- porary chairman, the Honorable John W. Daniel of West Virginia.” While the dele- gates and everybody else in the house was yelling and cheering, Chairman Harrity passed the gavel over to Mr. Daniel, who took it and spoke as follows: Mr. Chairman of the national Democratic convention: In receiving from your hands this gavel as the temporary presiding officer of this convention I beg leave to express a sentiment which I am sure is unanimous that no national convention was ever pre- sided over with more ability or with more fairness than by yourself (cheers and cries of “Harrity, Harrity’*. I can express no better wish for myself than that I may be able in some feeble y to model my con- duct by your model and to practice by your example. (Cheers.) The high position, gentlemen, to which you have chosen me, involves both a great personal honor and a kéen responsibility. For the honor, I thank you. The responsibility I would be wholly inadequate to bear, ‘and I depend upon your gracious ald to make it easy and its burden light. That aid I confidently invoke from you for the sake of the great cause under whose banner we have fought so many battles and which now demands of us such staunch devotion and such loyal service. I regret that my name should have been brought in even the most courteous and serious complication with that of my distinguished friend, the great senator from New York. (Applause.) But the very fact that I have permitted it to be done refutes the suggestion that has been tm- providently made on this floor, that either I or those whom I have the honor to represent would ever heap indignity upon that brave and tlustrious head. (Great applause.) No candid, no dispassionate judgment, gentlemen, can never misinter- pret your meaning. The senator from New York himself knows, and as I know, and as you know, that there is no personality in the preferment which bas been given to me. He must know, and the great country that watches tliese proceedings must know, that it is soiely due to the principle that this great majority of Democrats stands for, and that they know I. stand with them. (Applause.) And that it is given in the spirit of the instructions received by these representatives of the people from the people whom all Demo- crats will ever bow to as the purest and original source of all power. The birth of the Democratic party was co-equal with the birth of the sovereignty of the people. It can never die until the declaration of American independence is forgotten and that sovereignty is crushed out. (Great applause.) Became Poetical. I am happy, gentlemen, to know that the majority in this convention is not personal, neither in any sense is it sectional. It blends the palmetto and the pines of Maine and South Carolina. It begins with the sunrise in Maryland and spreads thto a sunburst in Louisiana and Texas. (Ap- plause.) It stretches in one unbroken col- umn across the American continent from the Atlantic shores of the Old Dominion and Georgia and it sheds its silvery beams over the golden gates of California. (Ap- plause.) It sends forth its pioneers from Plymouth Rock and waves over the golden wheat fields of the Dakotas, It has Its strongholds in Alabama and Mississippl, and its outposts in Minnesota, Florida and Oregon. (Applause.) It sticks like a tar- heel (applause) down in the old North State, and it writes 16 to 1 on the saddle- bags of the Arkansas traveler. (Loud ap- plause.) It pours its rivulets from the mountains of West Virginia and makes a great lake in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Utah, Ne- vada, Montana and Colorado. It stands guard arourd the national capital in the District of Columtia (cheers), 9nd it camps on tho frontiers of Oklahoma. It sweeps like a prairie fire over Jowa and Kan and puts up a red light on the confines of Nebraska. It marshals {ts massive battal- icns in Ohio, Indiana, Iliirois and Missouri. Last. but by far not least, when I see this gvaud array of -the British gold standard that vas recently unfurled over the ruins cf Republican promises at St. Louis. I think, toc, of the battle of New Orleans, of which it was said “There stood Jo n Bull tn martial pomp, but there was another Kentucky.” (Ap- s2use.) Brethren >f the East, there is no South, there is no North, there is no East or West in this uprising of the people for American emancipation from the conspir- acy of European kings led on by Great \Britain which seeks to destroy one-half of tke money of the world. to make American manufacturers, merchants, farmers and me- chanics mere hewers of wood and drawers of water. There is one thing golden which permit me, in the same good humor which has characterized your conduct, to commend to you here. It ts the golden rule to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Forget noz the greed of devils and that an absolute acquiesence in the will of the majority is the vital principte of the re- public. Democrats as you have been. Dem- I trust you will ever be, acqui- cefully in the will of this great mejority of your fellow Democrats, and only ask to go with them, a> they have often gone with you. (Applause.) Do not forget, gentlemen, tat for thicty years we have supported the men that you have named for president—Seymour, Greeley, Tilden, Hancock and twice Grover Cleve- land. - Do not forget that we have submitted cheerfully to your compromised platform and to ycur repeated pledges of bimetal- lism, and haye patiently borne repeated disappointments as to their fulfillment. Do not forget that at the last national con- vention of the Democratic party in 1892 you proclaimed yourselves to be in favor of the use of both gold and vilver as the stand- ard money of the country, for the coinage of both gold and silver without discrim- inating against either metal, and that the question left open was the ratio between the metals. Do not forget—and I refer to the fact in no inferlor sense—that just four years ago, In a Democratic convention in this city, the New York delegation stood « solidly and immovably for a candidate committed to the Free and Unlimited Coinage of silver and gold at a ratio of 16 to 1; and if we are still for ft, let it not be forgotten that we owe it in some measure: to their teachings. (Applause.) That we owe you much, gentlemen of the East, is readily ac- knowledged and will be ever most grace- fully remembered. We owe you much, gen- tlemen of the convention, and for what we owe you of the East is the force bill and the McKinley bill and the Sherman law, the triple infamy of Republican legislation. The first was aimed not more at the South than at the great cities of the East, and chief among them the great Democratic city of New Ygrk with its maguificent patron- age. That: dill got its death blow in the senate, but there was not a single Demo- erat in New York or New England to vote against it. If you, gentlemen, have helped to save the South it also has helped to save you in the East; but whether the South should saved or not those great Amer- jean Republicaa senators from the West, Telicr and Weleott avd your Jones anil your Stanford of California, sank their par- tisan feeling on the order of their patriot- ism and came forward to the res.ue of American institutions. Favors an Income Tax. So far as revenue to support the gov-— ernment is concerned, the Democratic par- ty, with but a slender majority in the sen- ate, was not long providing it, and had uot United States reversed. its settled doctrine of one huu- dred years, the income tax Incorporated In the tariff bili would long since have abund- antly supplied ic. Respecting finance, the Republicans, Populists and Democrats, while differing upon almost all other sub- ejects, had united in 1802 in declaring for the restoration of our American system of bimetallism. By Republican and Demo- eratic efforts alike the Sherman law was swept from the statute books, the eager- ness to rid the country of that Republican incubus being so great that no prudent effort was made to provide a substitute. In the very act by which the Sherman law was repealed it was declared to be the policy of the United States of America to continue the use of both gold and silver as standard money and to coin them into dollars of equal intrinsic and exchange- able value. The Republican party has now renounced the creed of its platform and our national pledges, and presented to the country the issue of higher taxes, more bonds and less money. It has proclaimed at last, throwing away the disguise, the British gold standard. We can only expect, should they succeed, my countrymen, a specimen of panic anda long prolonged period of depression. Do not ask us, then, to join of their propositions. Least us not to join them upon the tion and fight a sham battle over settled tariff, for the money question is the para- mount issue before the American people, and it inyolves trae Americanism more than any economic issue that ever was presented to a president at a presidential election. The existing gold standard— whence comes the idea that we are upon it in every Democratic platform of 1892, and the promise to hold both gold and silver has been not from the Iast en- actment of congress on the subject, which in repealing the Sherman law, pledged the whole country to the continuance of the double standard; not from any statute whatsoever now in force in the United States. No, we are not upon any gold standard, but we have a disordered and miscellaneous currency of nine varieties, three metal and six paper, the product, for the most part, of the Republican legisla- tion, rendered worse by the treasury prac- tices begun by Republican secretaries, and, unfortunately,, copied by their Democratic successors. (Applause.) ‘Then consider these facts, gentlemen: The federal, state and municipal taxes in this country are as- sessed and paid by the standard of the whole mass of morey in circulation. No authority has ever been conferred by congress for the issue of any bonds pay- able in gold. The provision made by the Bland-Allison act of 1878 added to our circulation some three hundred and fifty millions of stand- ard silyer money, or paper based upon it, and all that mass of silver money is sus- tained at parity with gold by nothing but the silver in it, and the legal tender func- tions imparted to it by law, (Applause.) We have no outstanding obligations in the United States except the small sum of for- ty-four millions of gold certificates which are specifically payable in sold, and they, of course, should be so paid. |All of our specie obligations are payable in coin, which means silver or gold at the govern. ment’s option, or in silver specifically and only. There is more silver and paper based upon silver In circulation to-day than there is of gold or paper based on gold, and that the gold dollar is not the unit of value is demonstrated by the fact that no gold dol- lar pieces can now, under our laws, be minted, If we should go upon The Gold Standard we must change the existing bimetallic standard of payment of public debts, taxes and appropriations, saving alone those specifically payable in gold. As we have twenty biillons of public and private debt, it would take more than three times all the gold in this country to pay even one year’s interest upon it. Should we be com- pelled hereafter to contract the cutrency by paying off five hundred millions of green- backs and Sherman notes in gold, which would nearly exhaust the e ‘e American stock in and out of the treasury, the same policy would require the three hun- dred and forty-four millions of silver cer- tificates should be paid in gold also, as foreshadowed by the present draft upon the country’s stock of gold. This means an increase of the public debt by tive hundred millions of dollars, with the prospect of three hundred and forty-four miilions more. The disastrous conseguences of such a policy are appalling to contemplate, and the only alternative suggested to fight for before the people is the free coinage of sil- ver at the ratio of 16 to 1. (Cheers.) And the complete restoration of our hereditary and constitutional system of American money. We pray you, no more. makeshifts and straddles. ‘Vex not the country with your prophecies of smooth things to come from the Britisa Republican propaganda, them in any of all, asic money ques- the honor here mrcatal this great Am the ever established by wan, with iore terri- tory more productive energy tan Great Britain, France and Germzny combined, without dependence upon European na- tions. for anything that they produce, and with European nations dependent upon much that we produce, is tully cas»ble of restoring the constitutionei wovey system ty with each fathers in (Applause.) 1776 declared our a dependence of all the world, so t ais the great Democratic party, fouvded by Vhomas Jef- ferson, the authey of the & peared here in Chicago t cial independence of the United States of g! other nations and so invoke all true ricans to @ ‘oy their suffrages at the polls, that our country may be placed where she by right belongs, as the freest, as the foremost, as the most prosperous and happiest nation that ever blessed the life of mankind upon this globe. Cries for Hill Are Unheeded. During the progress of Mr. Danicl’s speech Senator Tillman of South Carolina and Jones of Arkansas moved around and conferred with the silver leaders of several of the delegations, tiov. Altgeld, of Illinois; Gov. Stone, of Missouri; Senator-elect Money, of Mississippi; Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, and others were consulted. The gold leaders awaited the next move + the silver men with seeming imperturba- Hlity. When Mr. Daniel finished and announced that the convention was ready for business there were loud. cries for Hill. The New York senator sat quietly eating a sand- wich and showed no dispos ticn to respond. Senator Jones of Arkansas arnounced that on behalf of the silver deiegates in the con- vention and at the request of many of them, he would move the adoption of a resolu- tion. The resolution extended the thaaks of the convention to Chairman Harrity for the impartial maaner in which he had pre- sided over the convention. It was adopted vnanimously, as was another resolution offered by Senator White of Cal'fornia, mak- Ing the rules of the Fifty-third House of representatives govern the deiiberations of the convention. The roll of states was then called under the customary practice and the selections for membership on the various committces were announced. The delegates and spec- tators began leaving rapidly at this junc- ture, as it was well understood tkat the convention would immediately adjourn. Gen. Finley of the Ohio delegation protested against the selection of committee members by contested delegations, but Chairman Dan- iel ruled that until the permanent organizi tion was perfected the temporary roll w: respected. At 4:43 p m., on Senator Jores’ motion, the conventicn adjourned intil to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. Cable Magnate Dead. London, Juiy 8. — Sir John Pender, the well known cable magnate, head of the Eastezn, the Eastern Extension, the Cape, the Anglo-American and other cable com- panies, who has been {ll for some time past, died to-day. He was born in 1816, was onv of the original directors of the first trans-Atlantic cable companies, and was 3 Instrumental 'n causing the building of the — Great Eastera. MINNESOTA’ NEWS. Interesting Heppenings in the North Star State. Rust is ruining the wheat erop in snd around Frazee. The Monarch elevator at Battle Lake caught fire and was burned. ‘Three men were killed and two dan- gerously hurt in a mine at Ely. The state Prohibition ccnvention was held at Minneapolis. ‘The Minvesota Epworth League con- vention was held at Waseca. S. M. Owen was nominated for con- gress in the Fifth district Populist con- vention. Three thousand people attended the funeral of Sheriff Rogers, murdered at Glencoe. The board of directors of the Minne- sota state tair have arranged an at- tractive programme. James Brannot was caught in a belt in McCarthy’s saw mill at Kilkenn; and had his right arm torn off. { John S. Koch committed suicide at St. Paul by throwing himself under the cars of a moving traia. James E. Granger, secretary of the Stone-Ordean company, met with a mysterious and painful accident while horseback riding at Duluth. Two tramps who had assaulted a farmer near Hutchinson, are soaking in oil there in an effort to rid them- selves of coats of tar and feathers ad- ministered by citizens. Willie, the 17-year-old sond of Val- entine Salonek, was found dead in an old well on his father’s farm near Mel- rose. Foul play is suspected. There will probably be an investigation. George Stewart, the well known liv- ery man of Stillwater, was badly in- jured recently. His horse ran away, throwing him out on his head. His condition is very serious. The barn, machinery sheds and gran- ary of James Cashman, a farmer liv- ing near Carnelian lake, near Stillwa- ter, were burned, evidently set on fire by a revengeful tramp who had been refused shelter. Less about $1,200, with an insurance of $700. The nine-year-old son of Henry Rischmiller, a prominent farmer living three miles from Arlington, was killed by lightning. He was loading hay on a wagon with another boy when struck. The other boy was not hurt. The Le Sueur summer sehool opened with a large attendance. Prof. Edgar L Porter, superintendent of the Worth- ington high school, is in charge, with Miss Kate Kenealey of St. Paul as as- sistant. M. C. Carten, a stranger, and prob- ably a tramp, was killed north of Fer- gus Falls by the Great Northern freight. He was struck on a bridge. He had a union cigarmaker’s memo- randum book in his pocket, and was about fifty years old. Burt Hillman, the man who assault- ed and robbed the 11-year-old son of Sheriff Jensvold at Granite Falls, was taken to St. Paul to prevent a lynching. He narrowly escaped being killed, his life being saved only by the prompt action of the sheriff. It is now be- lieved the boy will die. Roy Phelps was drowned in the St. Louis river at Duluth from a sail boat, and his three companions had a nar- row escape. In some way the boat filled and in the darkness it was not noticed until just before it sank. Phelps was 25 years old, an electrician and unmarried. Two forged checks of $50 each upon the Imperial Mill company of Duluth have turned up which were uttered by Herbert Coates, a2 young man lately employed by the company, and who is now missing. Both were cashed by clothing stores. Coates is 20 years old and has been traveling with swift com- panions. Henry Bornt, the young man shot by Clarence Crook at Amboy, June 8, died after an operaticn to probe for the bul- let. Crook wus keeping company with Bornt’s niece and the latter objected, which resulted in the above tragedy. Both parties were wealthy and re- spected citizens of Amboy. Crook is in jail at Mankato. His hearing is set for July 7. The Mankato city council granted a fifteen-year franchise to the North Cen- tral Telephone company and the Blue Rarth Valley Telephone company. The former intends to commence work next week. Its rates are limited to $24 and $18 per year for residence and business houses. A telephone war is likely to ensue, as the Northwestern already oc- cupies the field. Bernard Nellis was shot and killed by John Adler at St. Paul. Adler seems to be crazy, having a netion that every- body is trying to insult him. The men had some trouble last winter and words passed before the shooting. Ad- ler was arrested. He had tried to do some promiscuous shooting before kill- ing Nellis, saying everybody that pass- ed was jeering at him and insulting him. Conductor W. A. Bartlett, on the C., M. & St. Paul road, was killed three miles east of Wells. He left Wells ith his train at 10:45 p. m. After tarting the train run to Albert Lea, where he was missed. Running back slowly with engine and caboose, his mangled remains were found. It ap- pears he either fell from the top of the train or was thrown off by tramps. His home was in Austin, where he leaves a wife who is an invalid. Fire destroyed two warehouses be- longing to J. A. and K. G. Ramberg situated on the railway reservation just opposite the depot at Rush City. Two freight cars standing on the track in front of the warehouses were burned and the depot was saved only by hard work. It was on fire a number of times. The buildings were to have been moved soon, as the railway com- pany have ordered everything move from its reservation, on the east side of the track. The loss is not estimated yet. Resent “] suppose,” said the man, trying to be chummy, “it doesn’t hurt your glass eye when you get anything in it?” “Does it look as if it would ever be likely to have a pane in it?’ responded the other, frigidly. And he gave the glassy stare.--Indi- anapolis Journal. © _ IE Ge rect EABLET SS Ee ee I cme a hi A SA 8 RTP UE AM IR ler es UU Ss A nS WORD FROM CUEVELAND. Me Again Takes Occasion to Discuss the Financial Question. New York, July 7. — At Tammany’s celebration of Independence day the following letter of regret from Presi- dent Cleveland was read: “I regret that I am unable to accept the courteous invitation I have re- ceived to attend the celebration by the Tammany society, of the 120th anni- versary of American independence. The situation that confronts the coun- try and the Democratic party at this time invests with unusual impressive- ness this commemoration of our be- ginning as a nation. When, as appro- priate to the occasion, our stupendous advancement is recalled, the facts should not be overlooked that our prog- ress has not been by chance, but is the result of a wise observance of the monetary laws that control national health and vigor; and while we con- template with pride the commanding place we occupy among the nations of the earth, we should not forget that this has been gained only through a jealous preservation of financial sound- ness, and a careful maintenance of un- suspected public credit. The high and firm financial ground which we have thus far been able to hold should not be.abandoned, in the pursuit of a pol- icy never attempted without national injury, and whose bright promise of individual benefit has never been ful- filled. “If there is anything!in present con- ditions that impeaches experience and indicates that we can safely change our present high financial standard for the free, unlimited and independent coinage of silver, this should be made plainly apparent before such a radical departure finds a place in party creed. The tremendous consequences of a mistake in dealing with the financial question now pressed upon us as Dem- ocrats, should constantly make us thoughtful and solicitous. I am con- fident, therefore, that the voice of the Tammany society, always potent in party council, will not fail to be heard in warning and protest, on an occasion which especially inspires patriotism and at a time when the felicitations of our people appropriate to Independ- ence day are mingled with apprehen- sion.” ‘WISCONSIN WINS. Defeats Minnesota in the Eight- Oared Race at Minnetonka. Minnetonka, July 7. — Wisconsin wins. Time, 10:42. Distance two miles. The Wisconsin eight won a hard fought race over the Lafayette course at Lake Minnetonka from the Minnesota Boat club crew. The race was stubbornly contested from start to finish. The winning crew crossed the line fifteen feet ahead of the Min- nesotas. Both crews mistook the ex- plosion of a huge firecracker for the pistol shot at the finish and floated across the line. The Minnesotas were handicapped by the wash from one of the small steam launches that was fol- lowing the race. There were two keep- ing pace with the oarsmen at the left side of the course, on which side the Minnesotas were rowing. They were the Mabel Lane and the Victor. About an eighth of a mile from the finish one-of the launches mentioned steered ahead and so close to the Minnesotas that they experienced the full effect of the swells. The crew was obliged to change its course in order to es- cape the worst of the wash. It was just when the Minnesotas were pre- paring to make the final spurt, and the crew decares that they would have beaten the Wisconsins handily had not the steam launch interfered. As it was Bobland at No. 3 was pulling in waves that were washing over his out- rigger and the shell shipped several gallons of water. Despite the handi- cap the Minnesotas in the short dis- tance left gained more than half a boat length in the spurt and finished so close to the Wisconsins that it was almost impossible to at once decide which crew had won the race. The judges on the line, however, decided that the Wisconsins finished first by quarter of a boat length, which would be fifteen feet. Patents Issued. List of patents issued last week to Northwestern inventors: William Banwarth, Zell, S. D.. grain drill; Henry A. Baxter, Seattle, Wash., ear-mover; Frederick J. Burrucker, St. Paul, Minn., windmill; Elisha B. Cheaveland, Wash., bow-facing oar; Andrew E. Groden and T. Christen- sen, Minneapolis, Minn., saw-set; An- ton Knoblauch, Minneapolis, Minn., street car fender; Peter A. Larson, Ida, Minn., rotary engine; Frank W. Merritt, Daiuth, Minn., air compres- sor; Gordon & Ferguson, St. Paul, Minn., (trae mark) hats and caps; Washburn-Crosby Company, Minne- apolis, Minn., (trade mark) wheat- flour. ’. D. Merwin, patent lawyer, 910, 911 and 912 Pioneer Press Building, St. Paul, Minn. Sentenced to Death. Havana, July 7. — The band of La- cret, separated from the other Cuban forces, has been encamped near Al fonso Doce, in Mantanzas province. 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It appeared the manager had sole charge of the business for years, and in all transactions made on the floor of the Chamber of Commerce of Minneapolis that the actual delivery of the grain was eontemplated, and that the purchase and sale of grain for future delivery, either there or in Chicago, was a contract which could be enforced the same as any other. The public is apt to confuse the trading with bucket shops (which do not handle any actual grain) with reputable houses which do business on the various ex- ehanges, and the result is frequently ex- pensive litigation and heavy losses to the outside trade in addition to those made on the board of trade. This case lasted seven days, with able attorneys on both sides. It resulted in a verdict for defeud ant in every point in con:roversy. Li Hung Chang leaves magnificent presents of gold and jewels at all stop- ping places along his rexte. It is real- ly a pity that Li cannot spend more time in the United States on his way home. 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