Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 1, 1896, Page 6

The Herald. PITH OF TMB NEWS. BY E. C. KILEY. GEAND RAPIDS. - MINNESOTA If Great Britain forged the Schom- burgk line in Venezuela, no wonder it is referred to as imaginary. Princess Heleae, the Duchess of Sparta’s baby, is Queen Victoria’s twenty-second great-grandchild. Prof. Virchow has had a narrow es- eape, having been thrown down in the streets of Berlin by a ticycle.. Fort- unately, he suffered no severe injury. Congressmat. Richardson of Tenues- see is uralterably cpposed to woman’s riding the wheel. If she mst do so, he thinks bloomers the rational dress. Hon. Phil. Thompson of Kentucky is a fine horseback rider, and takes all his athletic exercise in that style. He thinks wheeling ideal exercise for women, ee “Hungry Joe,” the famous bunco man, recently released from a Balti- more prison, must report to the New York police every morning as long a8 he remains in that city. Captain General Weyler is not a suc- cess in preventing filibustering expedi- tions from landing in Cuba. Another ‘American outfit has safely landed there with men and munitions of war. The owner of Gcodwood Park—one of the prettiest places of the kind in England—is a practical farmer. In fact, the duke of Richmond is said to be more business-like than any other titled land-own2- in the country. France used to be tke champion maker and unmaker of cabinets, but Italy 1s becoming a good seccnd. The last Italian cabinet lasted three months. The present one will be lucky if it continues in office half that time. Juan Garcia, an aged Mexican, re- siding in New York city, is cutting a new set of teeth. He claims to be ninety-one years of age, and says that nature provided his mother with four sets of teeth duriug her life of 103 years. Pluiip Horton Bailey, who was elect- ed captain of the Yale crew of 1897 last week, is a sor of ex-Collector E. B. Bailey, of Windsor Locks, Conn. He is a member cf the class of '97, fully six feet in height and a fine ath- lete. The international arbitration scheme may hardly be said to arouse enthusi- asm among the British newspapers. They seem to labor under the appre- hension that by suck an arrangement England would no longer be able to have its own way to the same extent as heretofore. Which is very “Eng- lish, you know.” an —_____—_. A number of Indian boys who are students at the Lincoln ii.stitute, Phil- adelphia, have been very much intoxi- cated of late. Their taete for fire-wa- ter seems to be greater than their thirst for knowledge. At this rate a bichloride of gold treatment will have to be added to the curriculum. And now it is Mrs. Fleming, who was recently tried cn the charge of killing her mother, end was acquitted, who wishes to go on the stage. Here is a chance for some dramatic instruct- or to pull her arounc by the hair, thump her head on the fivor and put ber generally into an “emotional” con- dition. The somewhat eccentric South Afri- can prelete, Bishop Bousfield, has writ- ten to the newspapers asking some one to tell him how to rid St. Ninian’s church, Heidelberg and Pretoria ca- thcdral of plagues cf bats, with which both edifices are simultaneously afflict: ed. Mr. Herbert Spenser, the philosop- pher, had a terrible struggle to gain the ear of the public. On three occa- sions he was about relinquishing all his plans, when he was led to perse- vere by a legacy, which, in each case, came just as he was about on the point of despair. As the result of the visits of con- sumptives to Mentour, the earth, air and water are infested with the tuber- cle bocillius, and the once healthy peasantry are consumptives almost to @ man and woman. No more complete or startling proof of the truth of the once-derided germ-theory of disease could well be imagined than this. Within the last few years Massachu- setts has probably lost by death more citizens who have been governors of the commonwealth than any other state has lost in an equal period of time. The list is a very notable one, and in- cludes such names as Benjamin F. But- ler, N. P. Banks, Thomas Talbot, Alex- ander H. Rice, Oliver Ames, George D. Robinson, Frederick T. Greenhalge_ end Willam E. Russell. EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORM A General Nesume of the Most Im- portant News of the Week, From all Parts of the Globe, Boiled Down and Arranged in Con- venient Form for Rapid Per. usal by Dusy People. Washington Talk, The president has commuted to im- risonment for life the death sentences Epona upon the three Texans, John 0. Hall, Tom Davis and Taylor Hick- | man. They were to be hanged Sept. € next. Edward B. Webster, the young navy paymaster who was recently court- martialed at Mare Island and found guilty of a charge of embezzlement, floes not intend to abide by the judg- ment of the court. He will appeal to President Cleveland. People in Print. Rev. D. Halsey W. Knapp, well known Baptist, died at his home in Brooklyn, aged 77 years. Gen. Joshua Siegfried, aged 64, died at Pottsville, Pa. He was prominent among the veterans, the capitalists, and the philanthropists in his state. Ex-Goy. J. H. Williams died at his | home in Augusta, Me., at the age of 84. | For nearly fifty years Mr. Williams had held various positions of public | trust, having been United States sena- | tor, president of the senate and gov- | ernor of the State of Maine. Prof. Bernard Moses, who occupies the chair of political science at the Uni- | versity of California, has been offered a similar chair at the University of Chicago. Prof. Moses has been con- nected with the University of Califor- nia since 1875. Adolphe Ebeling, the German writer, Is dead in Cologne. He was born in 1827 at Hamburg. After graduating at Heidelberg he made a voyage to Bra- zil and returned to France. He taught the German fanguage in Paris until the war of 1870, when he lived in Dussel- dorf, in Cologne, and after the peace, In Metz, where he was intrusted with the direction of press affairs. Casualties. Frederick McNickalas of Marinesco was run over and killed by an ore train near Marinesco, Mich. He leaves a wife and family Southern Kansas and Southern and Western Missouri have experienced | the heaviest rains for years, and con- | siderable damage will result. Fred. C. Harnsen of Warsaw, Ind., while assisting in a bam-raising, was killed by a falling 1after. His brother met a similar death four years ago. Joseph Gorman, forty-nine years of age, of Barberton, Ohio, swallowed several tacks. They could not be dis- lodged, dysentery set in, and Gorman hed in terrible agony. While driving a horserake near Ed- inburg, Ind., Fenten Wright fell upon the farm implement, when the horse | bolted, and Both of his eyes were | gouged out. To quell a riot in one of the corridors Jailer Richardson of Geneva, IIl., fired a shot at the ceiling, which is made of heavy metal plates. The ball glanced and struck Joseph Allen, a prisoner from Elgin, killing him instantly. The body of the man drowmed at Al- legan, Mich., while trying to escape arrest for assaulting a girl, has been identified as that of M. M. Stevens of Grand Rapids, Mick. A verdict of su- icide was rendered. A disastrous railrcad wreck occurred on the Chicago & Texas railroad, one mile south of Murphysboro, Ill. A trestle over Big Muddy creek gave way, and one passenger coach was ditched. Twelve persons were injured, two of whom muy die. James Cra ston, proprietor of Cran- ston’s mills at English, Ind., was killed by a boiler explosion. He had | run his mill all night, in the absence of the engineer, who declared that Mr. Cranston should act as engineer one niglit while the engineer should enjoy a holiday. Two children of Ira Reese were bur- led alive near Fowler, Kas. They were playing under a sand bank, when it suddenly gave way. ‘The accideur was witnessed by their father, but they were dead when he dug the sand away from them. The girl was twelve years | old and the boy six. Lawrence Murphy, aged twenty-sev- en. a featherweight boxer of Saginaw, Mich., boarded a moving freight car | on the Lake Shore road ‘at Toledo. While standing on the car he was struck by the Fassett street bridge and knocked nuder the wheels and his head completely severed from his body. . The medical examination of the body of William Metcalf, the farmer killed by lightning near Kokomo, Ind., re- vealed a curious state of facts. It was found that nearly every bone in his bedy was burst, all of them being shattered and reduced to small splint- Abeta burning or laverating the flesh, Naylor’s opera house at ‘Terre | Haute, Ind., built at a cost ef $390,000, about thirty years ago, was destroyed | by fire. The opera house was oceupied by Espenheim & Albrecht, dry goods. The Cincinnati house, recently built at a cost of $50,000, and two buildings adjoining were also destroyed. The loss is $400,000. Evil Doings. George Grant and David Cook, farm- ers of Columbia, Mo., quarreled over religion, and the latter was shot in the abdomen. Missouri university profes- sors will search for the bullet with X rays. Bob Heth, the outlaw, who, when pursued by a posse of farmers, shot one of them. Charles Ford, whose house he had just robbed, and seri- ously injured several others by blows from the butt end of a gun, was cap- tured at Joplin, Mo. James French, an Italian of Rock- ford, Il., murdered his wife by shoot- ing her eight times and then escaping from the crowd that had gathered to seize him, shot himself in the head and sprang into the river. He was res- ; cued by the police and still lives. Near Huntington, W. Va., A. J. Call and Nettie, his' daughter, living ou a shanty boat, were murdered by Etta Robins. The woman was in a. fury and attacked her victims with an ax, with which weapon she also wounded several children on the boat, some of whom may die of their injuries. President Cleveland has commuted to imprisonment for life the death sen- tence imposed upon three Texas boys —John C. Bail, Tom Davis and Taylor Hickman. Davis and Hickman are In- dians. Leniency is granted because of their youth. In the United States supreme court of Santa Fe, N. M., Judge Laughlin sentenced J. A. Peralta Reavis, con- victed of conspiracy to defraud the government in connection with the Peralta land grant case, to two years’ imprisonment and a fine of $5,000. Mrs. Louise Foltz, wife of Richard D. Foltz, committed suicide at New- castle, Pa., by taking laudanum. Mr. Foltz then made a desperate attempt to kill himself, but was prevented. Mrs. Foltz was a sister of James J. Davidson, Republican candidate for congress. Her brother married a daughter of Senator Quay. Charles Miller of Floyd county, thir- teen miles from New Albany, Ind., who had quarreled with his wife for several years, owing to differences on religious topics, killed ber with a rifle, after which he shot himself dead. He was forty-eight years old and she was five years his junior. They left sev- eral children. H. D. Smith, 2 coal operator, kiiled himself at Rockville, Ind., with a re- volver, the ball passing entirely through his head. Death ensaed in |less than an hour. Mr. Smith was at one time a wealthy coal operator in Clay county, and later a resident of Terre Haute. He was about 70 years old. Suffering induced by an attack of grippe is assigned as the cause of | the suicide. From Foreign Strores. It is rumored that M. James Tissot, the English painter, when he has quite completed his plan of illustrating the gospel by water colors, will enter a Trappist monastery. A set of large drawings by Thacke- ray, made for the album of his friend, Mrs. Robert Bell, and described by her in Harper's Magazine five years ago, will be sold in London shortly. Ladies in London and the South are now decorating their bicycles with flowers. The idea really comes from Italy, where the front part of the little victorias on the Pincian or in the Cas- cine are crammed with gay blooms. Mme. Bernhardt, after playing a fortnight’s engagement in London, will go to Belle Isle for six weeks of rest. Then, after a round of performances at watering places, she will return to Paris for the opening of the season. The German empress possesses a unique tea service. The tea tray has been beaten out of an old Prussian halfpenny, the teapot is made out of a German farthing, and the tiny cups are made from coins of different German principalities. It is computed by a statistician of the curious that Queen Victoria’s hand, which is said to be a handsome one, has signed more important papers and been kissed by more important men than the hand of any other queen that ever lived. Dr. Frederick B. Power, the distin- guished American chemist, formerty in | charge of the department of pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin in Madi- son, was given a banquet in London, on his appointment as director of the Wellcome Research laboratories. Dr. W. Walsham How, bishop of Wakefield, Eng., announced recently that he had burned one of Thomas Haydy’s novels, in order to mark his disapproval of it, and now numerous good cane people in his diocese are reading the novel in question to see how bad it is. J. Israel Tarte, the new minister of public works, whose exposure of the fraudulent: way in which government contracts were manipulated in Cassada led to the retirement of Sir Hector Langevin-from the Dominion cabinet and the imprisonment of Thomas Mc- Greevy, is now making a thorough in- vestigation of the evidence Sir Charles Tupper and his late ministers left-be- hind them when they vaeated the treasury benches. He believes startling disclosures will result. Miseelcneous. Mr. Wishard’s American horse, Wish- ‘ard, three years old, had a walk-over in the race for the Apethorpe welter plate at Huntingdon, Eng. The celebration of the 100th anni- versary of the city of Cleveland began with chimes of bells and religious ser- vices. Pittsburg’s Civic club, which planted |the potato patches near that city for the poor, on the Pingree plan, has created a sensation by filing a Dill j against the city for the work. The cricket team from Havreford col- lege, Pa., played the Charter House pu- pils’ eleven near London. At the con- | clusion of the first innings of the Char- ter House players eighty-two runs had been scored. The body of John Linderman, at one time a prosperous farmer of Decatur. Mich., was found by the roadside in a badly decomposed condition. His death | is supposed to have resulted from ex- posure. After several months of agitation a strike of the various organizations con- stituting the Brotherhood of Tailors was deelared in New York. It will in- volve about 12,000 workmen in New York, Brooklyn and Brownsville. The first part of the brief prepared by James J. Storrow, of counsel of Venezuela, in connection with Mr. Schruggs, the legal advisor of that gov- ernment, has just been completed and submitted. Charles H. Warren, after a continu- ous service of fifteen years with the Great Northern railroad, the last two of which was as its general manager, has laid down the harness and for a time at least will retire from active service with the company. Prof. William R. Brooks, director of the Smith observatory at Geneva, IIL, while observing the moon, saw a dark round object pass across the moon in a horizontal direction. Prof. Brooks believes it to have been a meteor, too far removed from the earth’s atmos. phere to become ignited. The observa: an is entirely new in astronomical an- WIND AND WATER ANONTER BAD STORM SWEEPS (VER PENNSYLVANIA. In Pittsburg and Allegheny at Least Three Lives Are Lost and a Large Amount of Property Is Destroyed —Much Damage Reported From a Number of Towns in the Imme- diate Vicinity. 7? Pittsburg, July 29. — A wind and rain storm of unusual fierceness vis- ited this city to-day causing th» loss of at least three lives and doing immense damage to property. Several dwellings were completely demolished snd others partially wrecked. Eight or ten churches had their roofs blown off and otherwise damaged. Tele- graph, telephene and electric light poles were snapped like pipe stems, mixing the wires in an inextricable miss. Fierce lhghtning and high winds accompanied the storm, or rath- er, two storms, for Pittsburg end All2- gheny was the meeting place of one storm from the west which came up the Ohio valley and erother from the east which followed the ccurse of the Allegheny river. Such a battle of the elesnents is rarely witnessed. In East Pittsburg and Wilmerding hail fell in large quantities, some of the stones being large ones. In the first five niinutes of the storm .5$ of an inch of water fell and the wind reached a velocity of thirty miles an hour. Later another stem, almost as fie-ce as the first, came up and .68 of an inch fell, making a total of 1.38. The rivers are now rising ard another flood is expected. Among the casual- ties reported is an accident to the camp of the Eighth Ward Hunting and Fishing Chib of Allegheny. The club was at its camp in Sugar grove, about four miles up the Allegheny river when the storm came up. The members say it was A Genuine Cyclone. The trees in the grove were broken and twisted as thcugh they were weeds, and one large sycamore thirty feet in cireumfererce was snapped off near the ground and fell upon the tent of the campers, killing almost in- stantly John Figus, broke the back of George Miller, who will die, and seri- ously injuring Thomas O’Connell, Charles Kosack, Jacob Metz, Frank Ott and Harry Hadley. On Greenfteld avenue, in the East end, Joseph Ashfelder was killed by 2 sign being blown down, striking him on the head. In Sharpsburg W. L. Norr was killed by the roof of a house being blown dowr on-him. At McKee’s Rocks, where Prof. Ge- rodette, curator of Carregie museum, had a gang of men at work digging up an old Indian movnd in the interest of science, lightning struck a tree under which the party had taker -efuge, shocking one of the laborers, an old man, iato unecrsciousness, also a young mnan by the Lhame of Pool, son of a college professor, both of whom will probably die The result of the storm in property damage has not all been gathered in, but it is known that all tarough Alle- gheny, the South side and the East end, many horses were unroofed, signs blown down and windows brok- en. Along Penn, tcward Homewood, where many fine suburban mansions are Iccated, the splendid lawns are completely destroyed and the beauti- ful shad» and orramental trees ruined. It is estimated that $100,000 will hard- ly cover the loss in this locality alone. Reports from the outlying towns tell of much damage to houses and other property, but no lives lost so far as known. Struck by Lightning. In Allegheny twelve persons were struck by lightning. They are in the hospital and considered by the phy- sicians to be in a critical condition. Their names are Abner Hayes, freight receiver for the Fort Wayne railroad; A. M. Bennett and three children; Au- gust Snedz, his wife and their four children. In Pittsburg reports of damage to property is still coming in. On Wash- ington street ten houses, a machine shop and church were blown down and completely ruined, but fortunately no one was injured. The row of houses belonged to the Daniels estate and had been condemned and tenants re- moved from them. The Centarry M. FE. church on Kirkpatrick street had its roof and steeple carried away by the wind, the bells from the tower be- ing thrown to the ground and broken. The roof of the Jchn Wesley chapel, A. M. E., was torn away and carried 200 feet. The Pittsburg high school and Holy Ghost college suffered, but are not badly damaged. Returns from the different sections of the two cities show twenty-five or thirty people in- jured more or less by falling trees, roofs, signs, etc. Insurgente Killed. Havana, July 29. — During recent skirmishes in the province of Pinar del Rio and Santa Clara the insurgents left eighteen killed on the field, among the dead being an American, and re- tired with their wounded. The troops had one officer and twenty soldiers wounded. Maj. Ygllsio has dispersed an insurgent force at Congo mountain, province of Matanzas. He captured the enemies’ camp and destroyed a hospital used by the insurgents. The latter had five men killed and the troops captured two prisoners. Killed by Hail. Scotland, S. D., July 29.—A very de- structive hail storm passed over a section of country six miles west of here yesterday, totally destroying the crops and doing great damage to live stock and buildings. Two children are missing and are supposed to have been killed by the hail. Rhodes Will Confess. London, July 29.—The Daily News says that it hears that Cecil Rhodes intends at the earliest possible oppor- tunity to attend the parliamentary committee which is to investigate the Jameson raid and to fully disclose everything he knows about the raid. Spanish Loss Is Heavy. . Havana, July 29.—An important en- gagement has been fought between Gen. Linares and the insurgent forces under Calixto Garcia, in which the Spanish losses were admittedly heavy. HE MAY WITHDRAW. May Decline to Run as a Populist. St. Louis, Jnly 29.—Chairman Jones, of the Democratic national commit- tee arrived at Jefferson City to-day and sent for Gov. Stone. They were in conference several hours, and it is said they considered the matter of withdrawing Bryan’s name from the Populist ticket. The affairs of the People’s party are now in the hends of Senator But- ler of North Carolina, the new chair- man of the national executive com- mittee. To-day the nine members of the retiring Populist executive com- mittee made a formal settlement with the new committee. ‘Chey turned over to Chairman Butler and Secretary Edgerton all the money on hand and their accounts were approved. Very few of the new members remained in the city for the meeting. They au- thorized Chairman Butler and Secre- tary Edgerton to audit the accounts and hastened home to prepare for the campaign. The Silver party has e tablished a temporary headquarters in the Corcoran building, Washington, Future events will determite whether cr not it will ve continued there. Vice Chairman Stevens, wno will have act- ive charge of the headquarters and who will relieve Chairman Lane of much of the work connected with the coming campaign, will leave for the capital city in a short time. It is ru- mored that the Populist national ex- ecutive committee will also make its headquarters in that city, but Chair- man Butler refused to either confirm or deny the statement. The selection of headquarters has been left to him and a decision in that maiter will probably not be made for several weeks. Charles B. Lane, chairman of the Silver national committee, has left for his home in California. He will stop at Lincoln, Neb., and hold a con- ference with Bryan. While it has not yet been definitely decided, there will probably be no formal notification of Bryan by neither the Populists or the Silver men. It was learned from a prominent Western member of the Silver national committee that it is the intention of both the Silver and Pop- ulist committees to waive the usual formal notification and on Aug. 12 hold a ratification meeting in New York at which Bryan’s nomination for the presidency will be announced. Bryan MANIAC AT LARGE. Lax Insanity Regulators May Result in Murder, Iowa Falls, Iowa, July 29. — Frank Pierson, in a fit of insanity, cut the throats of his aged father and mother and then opened his own neck at their home in this city at an early hour this morning. Before beginning his work the mant- ac had started a fire in a trunk filled with combustibles in his own room upstairs, with the evident intention of cremating the bodies of his intended victims. The weapon used was a razor, with which he first cut his father, but he only succeeded in mak- ing a slight flesh wound on the neck. He then caught his mother with his left hand and drew the razor across her neck, cutting a deep gash from ear to ear to the middle of the neck. The lunatic then cut his own throat from ear to ear, partially severing the windpipe, but, strange to say, is still living, though the surgeon considers his recovery doubtful. The mother is in a precarious condition through loss of blood and nervous prcstration, but hopes are ontertained of her recovery. The younger Pierson was but re- cently discharged from the asylum at Independence as cured, but is un- doubtedly insane. Albert, a brother of Frank, committed suicide in Chi- cago last spring. Doolin at Work Again. Wichita, Kan., July 29.—In a lively gulch several miles west of the vil- lage of Lacy, in the northern part of Oklahoma Territory, the regular mail stage was held un to-day by a band of outlaws who rifled the express and mail sacks, taking all the registered letters and all the valuables carried by the two passengers in the coach. There is little doubt that the robbery was the work of the reorganized gang of “Bill” Doolin, the condemned mur- derer and outlaw who esceped from jail at Guthrie several weeks ago with a dozen desperate cutthroats and robbers. A big ferce of United States marshals has been in pursuit of the outlaws ever since their escape. Gold Reserve Growing. Washington, July 29.—The bankers are making good their promises in the matter of turning in gold to the treas- ury, and to-day the reserve was swelled by the additicn of $1,145,000 in coin, $400,000 coming from Boston, $250,000 from Chicago and $405,000 from New York. There was drawn out to-day $129,100 in gold coin and $5,400 in gold bars, leaving the re- serve standing at $105,073,919. Board of Public Works Abolished. St. Paul, July 29.—Mayor Dovan to- day signed the ordinance abolishing the board of public works, and before the end of the week he will name the man who is to fill the position of commissioner. ‘The appointment will probably be John Copeland. An effort is being made to have the appoint- ment postponed for a time until the law can be tested in some wav, but Mayor Doran will uot de this. Bad Mill Fire in Preston. Preston, Minn., July 29.—A serious loss by fire occurred here Saturday night when Conkey Bros.’ flour mill was entirely destroyed. Loss, $15,009; insurance, $5,000. Hobart a Golf Player. Plattsburg, N. Y., July 20.—Hon. G. A. Hobart has joined the Hotel Cham- plain Golf club and is an active player of the game. Millais Dying. London, July 29.—It is announced that Sir John E. Millais, the president of the Royal academy, is now in such a critical condition that he is unable to take nourishment, and that the end is only a question of a few hours. Improving the Big Muddy. Washington, July 29. — Col. W. A. Jones, in charge of the improv2>menta on the Missouri river between Great Vallis, Mont., and Sioux City, Iowa, reports that $25,967 were expended during the year. BRYAN BOLTS IT HE WILL NOT SUPPORT THE POPU- LIST PLATFORM. The Democratic Nominee Declares That He Will Discuss Only the # Issues Outlined in the Chicago Platform—The Populist Conven- tion Leaves the Situation a Littel Uncertain. St. Louis, July 2! The rejection by the Populists of the Democratic nomi- nee for vice president, the nomination of Mr. Watson for that position and the nomination of Mr. Bryan after the Democratic nominee had stated that he did not want the nomination without Sewall, have made a peculiar situation. None of the wiseacres pretend to predict what the result will be. Wheth- er a fusion can be arranged or upon what basis, is, of course, speculated upon. The shrewdest of the political observers, and those who are most anxious for a union of the silver forces, can see this result only in the withdrawal of one of the vice presi- dential candidates. There is, as there has been for some days, talk of Sew- all’s voluntary withdrawal, but after the stand Mr. Bryan and Senator Jones have taken this is not consid- ered probable. It is strongly inti- mated that Watson may be induced to withdraw in the interest of such a union. It should be said, however, that this is intimated by those who wish it most. By conferring upon the national Populist committee plenary powers, those who are so earnestly striving for an actual consolidation of the strength of the silver forces cre- ated the machinery by which any sort of terms can be arranged. But what will happen the future alone can tell. A man who read the telegram from Mr. Bryan to Senator Jenes gives the following as the substance of the docu- ment about which there was so much talk and excitement during the la day of the Populist convention. Wha’ is subjoined may be relied upon as being substantially correct: “Considering all the circumstances and conditions,” wired Mr. Bryan, “I have concluded that the Populist con- vention should not consider my name for the presidency, but if it determines to nomjnate me notwithstanding this declaration, that there may be no mis- understanding, I desire in advance to say that I shall not during the cam- paign discuss any other issues than those outlined in the Chicago platforia. I desire, above everything else, to be instrumental in having enacted into the laws of the United States the free and unlimited coinage of gold and sil- ver at the pr nt ratio of 16 to 1 without awa ig the consent of any other country.” Mr. Bryan Talks. Lincoln, Neb., July 2/.—Mr. Bryan said to-day: “I appreciate the desire manifested at St. Louis to consolidate all the free silver forces and regret that they did not nominate Mr. Sewall also. He stands squarely upon the Chicago plat- form, and has defended our cause against greater opposition than we have had to meet in the West and South. The Populist platform is on many questions substantially identical with the Chicago platform, however, and indorses some policies which I do not approve of. All I can say now is that my action will depend entirely upon the conditions attached to the nomination. I shall do nothing which shall endanger the success of bimetal- lism nor shall I dd anything unfair to Mr. Sewall.” “Assuming that the acceptance of the nomination by you would be un- fair to Mr. Sewall,” was asked him, “how could conditions shape them- selves so as to permit you to accept?’ The question was adroitly evaded by the jocular remark tbat if all things now perplexing were made plain it would be an_ infringement upon the field of journalistic conject- ure. When the complications that seem imminent because of the seeming necessity of putting up two sets of Bryan electors in the case he remained the candidate of the Populist party were referred to Mr. Bryan replied that this was one of the difficulties which time must be trusted to remove. Mr. Bryan was seemingly as cheerful over the situation as he was when he received information of his first nom- ination at Chicago. NATIONAL COMMITTEE, Senator Butler of North Made Chairman. St. Louis, July 28.—The Papulist na- tional committee held its first meet- ing. After quite a_ spirited contest Senator Butler of North Carolina was elected chairman, receiving 65 yotes on the second ballot. The other men who were placed in nomination were Senator Allen of Nebraska and Gen. Weaver of Iowa. J. E. Edgerton of Nebraska was elected secretary and M. C. Rankin of Indiana treasurer. The following, with the chairman, sec- retary and-treasurer, were elected members of. the executive committee: J. R. Sovereign, Arkansas; G. F. Washburn, Massachusetts; E. F. Tay- lor, Pennsylvania; H. W. Reed, Georgia; J. W. Breidenthal, Kansas; John S. Dore, California. It is prob- able that the headquarters will be in Washington. Carolina A-Feminine Bolter. Fargo, N. D., July 28. — Emma F. Bates, present state superintendent of public instruction, who was turned down by the Briggs combination at the Grand Forks cervention, eame down this morning, °° upexpected announce +t that she in- tends being an independent candidate for state superintendent this fall. ’ Saengerfest Ended. Dubuque, Iowa, July 28.—The sey- enteenth biennial saengerfest of the Northwestern Saengerbund closed to- day. At the morning business meet- ing Moritz Herring of Milwaukee was elected president; Arthur Josetti, Chi- cago, vice president, and John Wunder of Davenport, secretary. The other officers will be elected at the next meeting of the bund. Davenport was selected for the next ‘fest in 1893, anes Frederiz Errazuriz has been President of Chile. Series ‘has made the #«