Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 21, 1896, Page 2

—— Ghe Herald, PTH ov THE NEWs. BYE. GRAND RAPIDS. - . KILEY. MINNESOTA Electricity is doing wonderful work, We have the trolley pulling millions, and here they’re commencing to draw people's faces with the telegraph. The value ef bicycle exports from Great Britain, whole or in portions, was last year a million and a half ster- ling. An electric boat has been constructed for the inspection of the famous sew- ers of Paris, it propels itself along by a chain lying in the bottom. ‘The sultan is constantly attended by a seryant who will lose his head in case his master is ever poisoned. The fellow who holds that job evidently be- lieves in the doctrine of “every man to his taste.” Don Carlos, the Spanish Pretender, is still handsome, but visibly older in face and manner.’ Those who know him say that he has now no thought of the Spanish or any other throne, and that the subject of pretendership is distasteful to him. A French *chemist has discovered that the eggs of certain species of fish are enveloped in veritable cocoons. Since the learned Frenchman began his experiments in this line (in 1894), he has found seven different species of fish that produce eggs from which a fine quality of silk may be woven. Floating beds of seaweed, which are often met with in mid-ocean, bave been observed to reduce the height of waves, like oil thrown upon the water. Taking advantage of this fact, a Frenchman has invented a thin cotton or silken net to answer the same pur- pose. It is said that an electric light plant in the West, which is not definitely lo- cated, is using flax straw successfully for fuel. The straw costs one dollar a ton, and two tons of it are said to be equivalent to one ton of the best coal. It can be burned in ordinary coal grates. Marchioness Li, wife of Li Hung Chang, is said to be very beautiful, and looks not more than thirty, al- though she is fifty. One thousand at- tendants and servants answer her beck and call. Her feet have been com- pressed until she 1s unable to walk more than a few yards at a time. A trip between London and Paris was recently made in 6 hours and 32 minutes. From London to Dover (78.34 miles) took 1 hour and 22 minutes; the passage of the Channel (25 miles) took 1 hour and 15 minutes, and the run from Calais to Paris (1853 miles) was made in 3 hours and 34 minutes, an average of 56.5 miles, excluding stops. According to “The Dairy of an Idle Woman in Constantinople,” the sultan of Turkey is a domestic man, very fond of his children, for whom he has a tiny theater, wherein they play small parts for the delectation of their papa. The principal bete noir of his majesty the sultan is the bicycle, which he de- clares is immoral and dangerous to the state. Admirers of Mr. Angus EvanAbbott's pretty book, “The Gods Give My Don- key Wings,” may be glad to have some particulars concerning this young au- thor. Mr. Abbott went to London about a dozen years ago to take charge of an important newspaper enterprise. He is a Scotchman by parentage, but spent his childhood in Canada and the United States. He is still under thirty years of age. Pneumatic tubes have many uses, but one of the latest is attracting a great deal of attention from its noy- elty. This is the tube for stacking straw. It is built in sections, and is controlled by metal straps, pivots and arms. The straw is drawn into the tube, carried through it with great ve- locity, and, by a turn-table and swing- ing arrangement, like a crane, is even- ly distributed on the stack. A statue of President Kruger will soon be erected in Pretoria. It will be forty feet high and will represent the Boer statesman in the quaint garb, tall hat included, which he affects on Sunday and special occasions. The statue, which will be of bronze, will be mounted on a pedestal and column of granite, and at each corner of the pedestal there will be a figure repre- senting a Transvaal burgher in an at- titude of defense. ‘The most momentous forgery on rec- ord was that which Clive committed when he put Admiral Watson’s name to the treaty between Meer Jarfier and the East India company, for the pur- pose of deceiving Omichund, the Hin- doo banker, who acted as intermediary between Surajah Dowlah, Nabob of Bengal, and the company. The direct result of this forgery was the battle of Plassey and the foundation of the Brit- ish empire in India EVENTS UF THE PAST WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORM. A General Resume 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 Busy People. Washington Talk. Morning Sun, Louisa county, Iowa, will be granted free delivery in ac- cordance with experiments now being made by the department for the estab- lishment of such delivery in rural dis- tricts. A satisfactory outceme is shortly ex- pected of the negotiations with the United States and Germany for a re- vision of the customs tariff of Tunis, by which the most favored nation treatment will be accorder to them. There have been many desertions from the ships of the North Atlantic squadron since the vessels have been undergoing repairs at the Brooklyn navy yard. So great has the number been that shore privileges are granted to but few. Senor Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish minister, would not be interviewed concerning the report published in Washington that he was to be recalled, but sent word to a reporter that there was no truth in the report, which also was not credited at the state depart- ment. People in Print. Charles Francis Adams has given to the Adams chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution the house at Quincy, Mass., in which John Adams was born, Col. William E. Potter, one of the pest known lawyers in New Jersey, died after a prolonged illness. He was one of the six officers detailed to deliver the colors surrendered by Lee’s army to Secretary Edwin M. Stanton at Washington May 1, 1865. William Osborne, a railroad con- tractor of national reputation and founder and president of the Atchison (Kas.) Savings bank, died at Water- ville, N. ¥., aged eighty-seven years. He left a large fortune, accumulated through railroad construction and benking. D. P. Thompson of Portland has just arrived at San Francisco on the steam- ship City of Rio Janeiro from Japan. Thompson, who is an ex-Uxited States minister to Turkey, having served there during 1892, has spent several weeks in observation aud recreation in the mikado’s domain. Dr. A. H. Landis of Logansport, Ind., died at the advanced age of seventy- five years. He was the father of Kenesaw M. Landis of Chicago, who was secretary to Secretary of State W. Q. Gresham, and also of Congress- man-elect C. B. Landis, of the Ninth Indiana district. Mrs. Elmira Forbes, aged ninety-six, died at the home of her daughter in Cincinnati, O. She was the oldest woman residing in Anderson, Ind., and had survived almost all of her off- spring. She was born in Boston in the lirst year of the century, and her after life was synonymous with the history of Indiana. Robert Pecongea, the leading mem- ber of the remnant of the celebrated Miami Indian tribe, dropped dead at his home near Lafontaine, Ind. De- ceased was a grandson of the famous old Miami chief, Me-Shins-Go-Mesia, and a brother of William Pecongea, who in 1872 was appointed chief by President Grant. He was fifty-two years old. Accidental Happenings. The boiler of Roderick Baker’s steam mill in Perry county, Ky., exploded. The dead are Roderick Baker and Jack Francis. Warran B. Mason, a commercial trav- eler, died in Chicago from the effects of his folding bed closing up on him. His back was broken. The plant of the Boston Bridge com- pany, situated at Cambridgeport, Mass., and covering an area of three acres, was almost entirely wiped out by fire to-day with a loss of about $100,000. The British steamer Avonmore, Capt. Duncanson, from Galveston on Oct. 20 via Norfolk on Oct. 27 for this port, has signalled off Point Lynas that her cargo in the forehold is on fire. County Treasurer Burrus, who was Injured in the reviewing stand acci- dent, together with Vice President Stevenson and others, on Governor's day at the Iowa semi-centennial cele- bration at Burlington, died last night of his injuries. Incendiaries fired James Abbott's house at Hamlin, Va. Cora, his daught- er, aged twenty, was burned to death. She was recently acquitted of the al- leged blowing up of ‘Squire Vance’s house with dynamite, killing one and injuring another. Crimes and Criminals. Clara Jobnson of Toronto Junction, Ont., went to Quincy, IIL, in response to a matrimonial advertisement. ‘here she married Harry P. Warwick, who secured what money she had and then skipped out. Nelson Ricks, the colored coachman employed by D. HE. Bennett, at Wau- kegan, Ill., was attacked violently with hydrophobia. He was taken to Chi- cago for treatment at the Pasteur in- stitute. Rev. W. Johnson, colored, bishop of the Independence M. Wi. church at Fort Scott, Kas., was convicted of per- jury. In attempting to secure an in- crease in his pension he endorsed his own pension papers with the name of Dr. Wyatt Hogan. Danitl J. Greenwald, a preacher in the Reformed church, was found hanging in his barn at Bonner Springs, Kas. He had become de- spondent over business affairs. He had a wife and eight children. Because H. P. Jenney, an attorney, neglected his wife for the society of Miss Louisa Roy, whitecaps visited her father’s house at Capac, Mich., and maltreated her in a shameful manner, notwithstanding her strenu- ous denial of wrong-doing. whose trial for the la: will be cominenced befo ker, has, as alleged, & crime, implicating several 4 business men, He 1efused te deny the rumor. M. K. Holly, a member of the t of education and secretary at local lodge of the Woodmen of World, disappeared from Atchigor Kas., leaving his family a note that his body would be found in the rive Holly was seen alive and positively identified in Kansas City afterwards. It is thought he may be a defaulter. A dispatch from Lordsburg, N. M., says that Deputy Sheriff Frank M. Galloway met death at the hands of a party of fellow officers while camped on the trail of a party of bandits. Galloway was mistaken for a desper- ado and shot down by his companiors, who believed their camp was about to be attacked. Andrew Jackson, aged twenty years, a colored convict in the penitentiary at Baltimore, Md., was shot and killed in the prison by John B. Wollering, a deputy warden, whom he was about to attack with a shoe knife and hammer. IRISIS ON IN CUBA WAR MUST BE SETTLED S)0N iE WAY OR THE OTHER, ee = Threatened With a Re- » He Soon Whips the In- esident Cleveland Is for Definite Results Be- in His Message Con- \ cc. ning Cuba. Washing..n, Noy. 18.—It is learned here on authority that the Spanish government has given Gen. Weyler to understand that he must push his op- erations against the insurgents ag- gressively and vigorously. Unless he soon achieves a decisive victory over the Cubans it is believed he will be recalled. Gen. Weyler, it is under- stood, is aware of the alternative, and his present campaign in Pinar del Rio is expected to result in an engagement that will put a new aspect on the Cuban situation one way or the other. Warden Writer saspended Wollering | The campaign, therefore, has become and placed him fortally under a st. to him a personal matter, and with the ‘The shooting was done in the shoeshop | knowledge that his prestige and rank in the presence of 115 prisoners, and| are at stake, the Havana cables are created great excitement. From Foreign Shores, ete cee was in Paris he re- ceive , telegrams, aggregating 1,350,000 words. is . Prince Mestchersky’s newspaper, the Grazhdnin, has been suspended for a month by the Russian authorities. The British steamer Strath Clyde, from Calcutta for Galveston, is ashore in the river. The South Australian House of As- sembly passed the second reading of the government's bill to restrict its im- inigration of colored races. Khalid Bey, president of the crim- inal court at Constantinople, has been appointed to replace the dismissed vali of Diarbekir. President Zelaya of Nicaragua has issued a decree making lard duty free from October to April. Flour and corn, | received before Dec. 7. watched with interest for news of more important battles than the skirmish and guerilla fights that have come by way of them. It is the hope of Gen. Weyler that he will he able to score a decided victory before the as- sembling of congress, Dec. 7. Spain fears adverse action by that body soon after it meets and has urged Gen. Weyler to demonstrate his ability to crush the rebellion within the next two weeks, if possible. In view of the fact that Spain is now making a strong and almost su- preme effort to subdue her insurgent colony, and that a crisis apparently is at hand, the president will delay writ- ing that part of his forthcoming mes- sage on the Cuban situation until the last moment before the meeting of congress. The position the administra- tion will take with reference to Cuba in this message of the chief magistrate will be largely determined by the news Should the which are scarce, are also made free of | news be favorable to the success of duty. The British steamer Avonmore, Capt. Duncanson, from Galveston, on Oct. 20, via Norfolk, Oct. 27, for Liverpool, has signalled off Point Linas that her cargo in the forehold is on fire. the Spanish army it is probable that the president would continue to pur- sue his policy of ron-interference; should it, on the other hand, be dis- tinetly favorable to the insurgent cause, and especially if it should hap- pen that Weyler were defeated. Mr. Belgian Flemings are much pleased | Cleveland, it is believed, would no because the Count of Flanders’ son, Prince Albert, the heir presumptive to the throne, recently delivered a speech in Flemish before the Ghent academy. The Cotton exchange at Bremen has decided to contribute $7,500 to send a commission of experts’ to’ Eastern Asit longer hesitate to recommend the recognition of their rights as belliger- ents, or some other action equally un- desirable to Spain. Fighting in Cuba. Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 17 —Cipher dispatches just received from. Havana with instructions to report upon the] report a fierce battle in progress in demands there for industrial and com- mercial products. Pinar del Rio. It is believed Maceo and Weyler have met. The report of Complaints are frequently made by | firearms have been almost incessantly traveling American bicycle riders tour- ing through Germany, of the obstacles and delays caused by the very rigor- ous laws governing the use of bicycles on the public roads in that country. While counselling the American mis- sionaries to remain at their posts in Anatolia, the United’ States minister, Alexander W. Terrell, has induced the removal of the children of the mis- sionaries to places of safety. The Bremen cotton exchange has de- cided to contribute $7,500 to send a commission of experts to Eastern Asia with instructions to report upon the demands there for industrial and com- mercial products. Owing to the decision of the Belgium council of ministers not to submit to parliament the military reorganization scheme drafted by the minister of war. Gen. Brassine, the latter has resigned, but his resignation has not been ac- cepted. A dispatch from Berlin says that as a result of a visit to the Krupps’ ord- nance factory, Emperor William has ordered that all German men-of-war shall henceforth be armed with 15, 21 and 24-centimeter quick firing guns, in addition to the ui “heavy artillery: The Paris Fatin announces that Sid- ney Odanna has arrived in Paris and intends to bring an action in the French courts against the German em- bassy. claiming 37,650,000 francs dam- ages. Odanna has just finished a term in prison in Berlin on a charge of in- triguing to bring about a war between France and Germany. He contends that he was unjustly sentenced. Otherwise. heard for several hours. No details of the engagement are given other than the statement that the most decisive engagement is being waged. Last defi- nite news of Capt. Gen. Weyler located him at Oleaye, within a few miles of Maceo’s intrenchn ents, where the bat- tle is waging. The dispatch adds: “Insurgent forces are well located in the hills, and are pouring a hot fire into the Spanish troops, which have been repeatedly driven back in at- tempts to capture the Cuban strong- hold. The insurgents have the ad- vantage of position, being at a great elevation, but the Spaniards are mak- ing a most desperate attack. From a distance it looks as if several towns were in flames. The sky is iighted up by the constant fire of the artillery. Whether or not Maceo himself is di- recting the insurgents’ tactics cannot at this time be learned.” Loan for Spain, Madrid. Nov. 17. — The government loan of 250,000,000 pesetas has been greatly over-subscribed. The sum of 350,000,000 pesetas has already been subscribed, and reports from numerous towns in the provinces have still to come ip. The Bank of Spain has been obliged to, open twenty special coun- ters in Madrid, owing to the crush of subscribers, numbers of whom were ouly. fait uy mubecriDe a single bond. pitalists in Havana sul i t- 000,000 pesetas. bret 2 According to Spaniards. avana, Nov. 18. — Details just hand show that there has boa pavers fighting in the eastern portions of Puerto Principe, in the neighborhood of Cascorro. Gen. Castellanos arrived early in the month and fought the in- surgents in eight separate engage- he thirtieth anunal session of the} ments,and then returned to San Mi- National Grange Patrons of Husband- ry began at Washington, D.C. Fighting for a purse at Galena, Kan., Patsy Purtell of Kansas City knocked out James Ferns of Wier City, Kan., in three rounds. The large general merchandise house of Munseheimer & Daube at Ardmore, I. 'T., executed a deed of assignment. The liabilities will exceed $100,000. uel, where he got into new and hot fights with the rebels. The latter de- veloped in more numerous force than ever, under Gomez, Garcia and other leaders. Castellandos, according to reports received, swept the rebels with heavy loss. BOY MURDERERS. The assets are considerably in excess | waiam Campbell and Frank Bar- of the liabilities. A great brick plant is to be estab- lished in proximity to San Francisco which will add materially to the city’s manufacturing interests and through new methods may Jead to a revolution in that important industry. The citizens of Denver and of Colo- rado will extend such a reception to William Jennings Bryan on Noy. 24 as has been equaled in the West only by the remarkable demonstration signal- izing the return of Senator H. M. Teller from the St. Louis convention. The dead body of Justus Seward, «n old man who had resided in Dubuque county, Iowa, since 1850, was found on the road. He had been working for a man named Evans for many years. He was a nephew of the statesman, Wil- liam H. Seward of New York. An early love affair unbalauced his mind. Farmers of Nebraska are complain- ing that the heavy snow will seriously interfere with the husking of the corn, and much wheat threshing which has been delayed in Nebraska. This also applies to South Dakota, Northern Kansas and Eastern Colorado, where the snow is quite heavy. A new order went into effect in the Boston police department whereby pa- trolmen are forbidden to lean against a building, wall or post. When obliged to stop walking they must stand at léast six feet from any upright struc- ture like those named abeve. The or- der does not say what they shall do in case of fire, murder or robbery. rett Sentenced for Life. Ellendale, N. D., Nov. 18—Th = trict court, Judge Lauder peeaane has been occupied for the past week in the trial of William Campbell and Frank Barrett for the murder of John A. Brown of Oakes. The evidence was very voluminous and purely circum- stantial. The jury, after being out thirty hours, returned a_ verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, and the sentence was life imprison- ment. Campbell came from Waseca, Minn., and Barrett from Pittsburg, Pa. They are seventeen and eighteen years of age, respectively. Much sympathy is felt for the parents and sister of young Campbell, who were with him during the trial. A stay of proceedings for sixty days has been asked in wnich to make a motion for a new trial or appeal to the supreme court, and the court has taken it under advisement. Baggage Burned, - New York, Nov. 18.—Fire broke out in the package room of the Grand Cen- tral depot in this city early to-day. Before the flames were extinguished all the packages in the room had been either scorched by the flames or; soaked with water so that the articles must have been entirely ruined. Until the passengers to whom they belonged present their claims the amount of the loss cannot be estimated, but as there were hundreds of bundles, hand bags and other packages, it is likely that the total amount will be large. DEFECTIVE PAGE _eeraaei A Tae: | MM, ONAN TALKS He Wil Keep up the Fight in the In- trest of Silver. Kansas City, Nov. 18. — William J. Bryan passed through here this morn- ing from his Nebraska home to St. Louis. From St. Louis he starts out on a hunting trip through Southern Missouri, and will be accompanied by a number of state officials, including Goy. Stone. Mr. Bryan spent the lit- tle time he had between trains in walk- ing about the streets and was an ob- ject of interest tg every one whom he passed. He was feeling especially well, and to a reporter talked interest- ingly of his intended campaign until 1900, and expressed his belief that the Democratic party would carry the ban- ner of free silver into the White House four years hence. Mr. Bryan refused to discuss the pos- sible favorable acts toward silver of President-elect McKinley. He talked freely, however, and in reply to numer- ous inquiries put to him by reporters, said, among other things: “The administration’s idea of civil service is a full permission for all of- ficials to do whatever the administra- tion wants them to do. The Democrats who worked with and supported the Republican party in the last cam paign will be gladly welcomed again into the ranks of the Democratic party but only as silver Democrats.. The Democratic party is now a Silver party. There cannot be two Demo- cratic parties. “The charge that grieved me most, and was unjust, was that I had de- serted the Democratic party in 1892 and voted for Gen. Weaver. Those who made the charge knew we had fusion in Nebraska and that I acted upon the recommendation of the chair- man of the national Democratic com- mittee. These n will find it very hard now to accuse me of not being a Democrat. I am not ready to make my future plans public. I do not in- tend to lose my residence in Lincoln. I will lecture some. I will engage in nothing that could invalidate my po- sition as the head of the silver forces.” In reply to the question as to his present opinion of the New York speech episode, Mr. Bryan said: “I still believe my judgment was right. I was urged by many leaders, when I reached New York, to make a fiery ex- temporaneous speech. But I was not aiming for that audience alone. I wanted to reach the whole country with a complete exposition of our Judge McConnell Confers With Gov. Allen, Bismarck, N. D., Nov. 18. — It will soon be known whether Kent, now under reprieve in the Fargo jail, will be hanged or sent to the penitentiary for life. The unusual spectacle of a judge who has sentenced a man to death appearing before the chief ex- ecutive of the state asking a commuta- tion of the sentance has attrtcted attention. Judge McConnell arrived from Fargo this morning and was con- sulting with the governor and State’s Attorney Voss during the entire day. Voss is decidedly opposed to executive interference, but the general opinion is that the sentence will be commuted. Judge McConnell began his plea by quoting his telegram to Gov. Allin last week, as follows: “That the writing in the black book should be so minutely written before- hand, the absence of rlichman on hoth trials, and a possibility of his tamper- ing with the black book, and the lack of Kent’s motives are some of the things that caused me often to hesi- tate and doubt. Many things o cur- ring on the trial prejudicial to th: de- fendant, it is hard to tell their weight on the jury in fixing the death pen- alty.” He then reviewed the case at length on these lines, and closed by saying that there was such great room for doubt at to Kent’s guilt that justice demanded that the sentence be com- muted to imprisonment for life. It is thought here that Gov. Allin will commute the sentence. Fargo, Noy. 18.—The strain on Kent is beginning to be manifest, and to- day while .a conference. is. being held in Bismarck, and his life trembles in the balance, he appears extremely nervous. He expresses confidence that the governor will commute the sen- tence. Kent is said to have given it out that he would never walk to the gallows, and if the governor decides that he must hang he will have to be earried from the jail to the grim in- strument of death in the inclosure in the jail yard. Strychnine Caused Engel's Death. Milwaukee, Noy. 18.—There is little doubt now that Col. Fred Engel, who was a member of Gov. Upham’s staff, committed suicide. The post mortem shows that there was strychnine in the stomach, and the physicians who conducted it reported to the coroner that he died of poisoning. Col. Engel did not tell his wife of the trouble he had with his employers, but he con- fessed to a friend that he was short to the amount of $300. He said that he had been out of employment for some time, that his creditors were pressing him, and that he took the money so that his wages would not be garnisheed, intending to return it as soon as possible. In the meantime the shortage was discovered and he was discharged. He said that he could not tell his wife, and that he would kill himself. His father, who is a well-to- do citizen of Kenosha, will take the body to that city for burial. Cincinnati, Nov. 18.—J. P. Carpenter, one of the largest lumber dealers of this city, and a resident of Covington, Ky.. and D. H. Lyons, a prominent architect of this city, were killed to- day. They were walking on the tracks of the Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern railway, talking about business when they were caught by trains going in opposite directions, and in their con- fusion were killed. Reed at Duluth. . Duluth, Nov. 18—Tom Reed was th guest of Duluth for a time yesterday. He came from Winnipeg, accompanied by Congressman Aldrich of Illinois and his daughter. The speaker is on his way to Washington from his cam- paigning tour of the coast. Berth for Forman, Washington, Nov. 1/ ~The president has appointed William H. Forman, ex- congressman from Illinois, to be com- missioner of internal revenue, to suc- ceed Miller, resigned. BUTLER TO WATSON | LETTER WRITTEN BEFORE ELECTION: JUST MADE PUBLIC. The Chairman of the Populist Na- tional Committee Wrote Asking Mr. Watson to Strike From His Letter of Acceptance a Request That Populists Refrain From Vo- ting for Sewall Electors. Washington, Nov. 17.—In view of the fact that the letter of Tom Watson, aceepting the vice-presidential nomina- tion of the Populist party has been published, Senator Marion Butler to- day made public his reply, written Watson’s letter was re- ceived, in which he took exception to its tone. The reply is as follows: “Washington, Oct. 26.—Hcn. Thomas . Watson, Thomson, Ga. Dear Sir: Your letter of acceptance was re- ceived Saturday night. It had been delayed in the postoffice for want of sufficient postage. You, in effect, ad- vise Populists not to support the joint eleetoral tickets that have been ar- ranged in a large number of states. Is ft possible that you fully appreciate the effect of such advice? At least, upon reflection you must know that if enough Populists should follow such advice it would mean the defeat of Bryan and the election of McKinley. Besides, if your advice should be fol- lowed by enough Populists the Peo- ple’s party would not have a single elector in the electoral college. In the states where we have joined electoral tickets, we will get e y elector that we do get; and, besides, it is in those states where we will get the bulk. it not all the People’s party congress- men. In your state, and other states which have followed your advice against electoral tickets, we will not get a single elector, and I fear not many congressmen, if any. You cer- tainly cannot mean, however much you may have favored a middle-of-the- road policy in the beginning, to advise our friends to do that which at this time would be the most effective agency in placing in power McKinley and his backers—the trusts and mo- nopolies. Can any personal or party injustice, however great, justify its being responsible, either directly or in- directly, for placing in power the stoekjobbers, monopolies, trusts, the British gold ring, and all of the com- bined robbers of the people and ene- mies of good government? “In the name of outraged and suf- fering humanity, whose prayers to-day go up from millions of homes for Will- jam J. Bryan in his heroic and marvel- ous struggle against the minions of corporate greed and the hellish gold conspiracy, let us sink every other con- sideration and hold up his hands and do the full duty of Americans and patriots. Let us remember that it is a suffering people and a betrayed re- public, and not Democratic politicians that to-day call for our help and de- mand our services. Bryan will be elected and the government redeemed if every patriot does his duty. Let us do ours. Therefore, I beseech you to change at least that part of our letter which gives advice which, if followed, would surely help the common enemy. If you do not, then you. yourself, must assume the responsibility of giving such a document to the public at this time. Yours truly, = —‘“Marion Butler.” * INDIAN LANDS. x They Cannot Be Sold Without the Government's Consent. Chamberlain, ®. D., Nov. 17.—Com- missioner Lamoreux, of the general land office, has made a decision in a local cage that an Indian can relin- quish an allotment only by consent ander the direction of the Indian de- partment. Until a relinquishment is delivered to the land office it is subject to withdrawal by the Indian or by the secretary of the Interior; like a deed, it takes effect only upon delivery, and, Ike other«: relinquishments,..must. be filed with the local land office or with the general land office to constitute a delivery to the proper officers. In the case at issue it was filed with neither, and the general land office had no of- ficial knowledge of the existence »f the relinquishment until over four months after it had been acted upon by the acting secretary of the interior. The eommissioner contends that in consent- ing to the relinquishment the secretary acted only as a trustee for the Indian, and that the commissioner of Indian affairs could only act in a like capac- ity; such acts in no way restored said lands to the public domain. ae INDIA’S FAMINE, The Shipment of American Maize Is Urged by a Missionary. London, Noy. 17. — A correspondent telegraphs to the Times from Allaha- bad, India, as follows: “Distress is beginning to be felt in the ceded dis- tricts of Madras. Rey. Mr. Campbell, a British missionary, writes from Cud- dapen urging the importation of Amer- ican maize which, he says, ‘is half the price of wheat and would find a ready sale in our up-country villages.’ It is grown in many parts of the ceded dis- tricts and from its resemblance to cholam would be preferred to either rice or ragi, while it could be sold much cheaper than any of the Indian grains. If the government will not undertake such a work surely there are merchants in Madras prepared to ben- efit the public with a prospect of a fair profit. Maize would also find a ready sale in upper India.” This correspondent also quotes article from the Pioneer dealing the drouth. It expects a good rai from the latter half of December’ o! ward, but none before that. Venezuela Treaty. Washington, Nov. 17. — Senor An- drade, minister to the United States from Venezuela, has gone home. He has taken with him a copy of the treaty between Verezuela and Great Britain for the arbitration of the boundry dispute, togeiber with a copy of the agreements signed by Secretary Olney and Sir Julian Pauncefote, which was preliminary to the treaty wetween the countries actually in in- terest. Senor Andrade will urge his government to accept the treaty at once, fs Ag —— yh AE gg