Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 11, 1900, Page 2

The Lievald--Review. BE, ©. Kiley T J. Austed, KILEY & AUSTED, Editors and Publishers. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA, —_——— “At Annapolis, Md., the women wno ‘pay taxes appeared for the first time as voters a few weeks ago. Of the 679 votes cast only twenty-two were by women, The managers of Glasgow's Exhibi- tion of next year will have a big job distributing the space without hurting international susceptibilities. The ap- plications for floor-space are already 40,000 feet beyond the accommoda- tion. Overhead trolley system not only damages underground pipes, but it also injures trees. Wherever a cable touches a branch it rapidly decays and the tree eventually dies. Serious com- plaints of this nature are made at Bay Ridge, N. Y. Collis P. Huntington, now that he has bought out his associates in the Southern Pacific railroad, is sole own- er of a system embracing ferries, terminals, river and ocean steamboat lines and 7,600 miles of railroad, rep- resenting $350,000,000 of securities and annual earnings gross of $60,000,000. Four hundred elk teeth were sold in Spokane, Wash., the other day for $1,000. The demands,of the members of the Order of Elks and the growing scarcity have increased the value of the teeth. Fourteen years ago a Mon- tana man paid only $80 for an Indian headdress than contained 800 elk teeth. Last year a similar head-dress containing only 280 teeth sold for $200. Sig. Constantino Maes, the Italian archaeologist, says that 3,000 bronze tables, constituting the records of Rome from its foundation to the time of Vespasian, are buried in the marsh at Ostia, near Rome, having been car- ried to Ostia after being rescued from the fire which devoured the capital in the year 69 of the Christian era. Sig. Maes suggests that the marsh should be completely drained in order to re- cover this historic treasure. A Chicago physician has invented for himself a house which he claims to be absolutely noise-proof, that is protected thoroughly against the in- trusion of street dins, which persist in spite of the existence of an anti-noise ordinance. He has stuffed all the cracks about the doors and windows with strips of rubber, and in order to admit the air has perforated these with zigzag holes. The soind waves are said to die out by repeated refiec- tions in the crooked passages. Scientific research has just destroyed an interestiag piece of ancient history. For centuries Pharsala, in Southern Thessaly, has been regarded as the scene of the famous defeat of Pompey, which gave the dominion of the world into the hands of Caesar. According, however, to the “Messager” and the “Journal d‘Athenes,” Capt. Dousmais, of the Greek Engineers, after an ex- haustive study of the ancient battle fields of ‘Lhessaly, ‘affirms that beyond question the battle between Pompey sand Caesar.was not fought at Phar- sala, but near the modern Karditza, which is about 50 miles to the north- west. When prosperity and philanthropy go hand in hand, the progress of a country is beyond question. Germany is advancing in a business way. Her trade operations show increasing ca- pacity for planning and fuller scope in performance. But with the devel- opment in material things is noted an increase in gifts for the benefit of schools, libraries, charitable institu- tions and other objects. The provision of corporations and private manufac- turers in aid of employes is a further token of a keener sense of responsi- bility for the proper use of wealth. The world abounds with articles marked, “Made in Germany.” Let not the world forget the good deeds which may be labeled—‘‘Done in Germany.” The writer of a short story in the Century Magazine has invented two phrases that may find a permanent place in political slang. Party plat- forms do not always express the real sentiments or the intentions of those who subscribe to them. It is easier to promise than to perform the prom- ise. This writer speaks of a “weasel word” as one that sucks the meaning out of another which is beside it, just as a weasel sucks an egg, leaving only the shell. ‘Weaseling,” he says, is highly expedient because one class of voters will like the weasel, and the other the word that has been weaseled —the egg. The other phrase is “the stained glass plank.” Glancing through the window at one point a dog looks yellow, while at another he is green, and not until the window is thrown open can you actually see~what the dog is like. Of course windows are ‘not made of “planks” which one can look through—but let that pass. Chief Wilkie of the United States se- eret service has received from the Penn National Bank of Philadelphia one of the most dangerous counterfeit $20 notes that have appeared in a long time, and second only tq the celebrated $100 Monroe head silver certificates, ‘the character of which the treasury ex- perts were for some time unable to def- initely determine. The note is of the weries of 1880, check letter A, plate number 7, Tillman register, Morgan treasurer. It is a trifle shorter than ee From the Capital. Shipbuilders have been invited to bid on armored cruisers. The government crop report for last week showed distinct gains, An equestrian statue of Gen. Logan is to be unveiled in Washington about Christmas. Ex-Gov. Wolcott of Massachusetts has accepted the appointment of am- bassador to Italy. The. secretary of the interior has ap- pointed Eugene McComas of Illinois a specia! Indian agent, at $2,000 per year. Secretary Hay announces that, under no circumstances, will the surrender of the ministers prevent an advance on Peking. Arrangements have been practically completed for the purchase from Spain of two Philippine islands accidentally omitted in the Paris treaty. ..The revenue cutter now under con- struction at Richmond, Va., and in- tended for service on the Great Lakes, has been named the Macinac. A general election will be held in Cuba on the third Saturday of Septem- ber, to elect delegates to the conven- tion to be held at Havana. Commissioner of Patents Charles H. Duell, of Syracuse, N. Y., contemplates resigning at an early day, to devote his entire time to his private business. Census experts expect a reduced ra- tion of increase, probably not over 20 per cent. Chicago’s population may be 1,767,239 and the mainland of the United States 75,000,000. “Alaska is destined to be a wonder- ful mining country,” says United States Consul McCook, at Dawson City, in a letter to the state department. The Tanana district, he says, is creating a stir, and is dividing honors with the Koyukuk country. Surgeon General Wyman of the mar- ine hospital service, states that a ca- blegram from Assistant Surgeon Mohr, at Bocas Del Toro, United States of Colombia, shows that three yellow fe- ver cases have appeared there. There has been one death. Crimes and Criminals. Chicago bucket shops were raided and many arrests made. Otto Pennington shot and killed his wife at Owasso, Iowa. Will A. Dawson of Lodi, Ill, killed himself because of sickness. Dr. James O. Gray of Philadelphia committed suicide at Washington. Lightning rod men are working new swindling schemes at Baraboo, Wis. Fred Brown was arrested at Bel- grade, Gallatin county, Mont., for lar- ceny. Ex-Director Rathbone of the Cuban postal service, has been arrested on four charges. An attempt was made to rob the Pi- oneer Limited train on the Milwaukee road at Sparta, Wis. Charles Johnson killed himself at Jol- jet because he had not heard from his wife in three months. Nick Haworth of Farmington, Utah, is ordered shot for the murder of Night Watchman Sandall. Henry Bliss of Park Rapids, Iowa, pleaded guilty to the charge of assault with intent to kill. The body of Louis Belfi, a hunter, was found near Merrill, Wis. It ts be- lieved he was murdered. Harry Bliss of Rock Rapids, Iowa, killed Miss May Rolph with a hatchet. Jealousy was the cause. John Schroeder has been arrested at Milwaukee, charged with deserting his family at La Crosse, Wis. Miss Edith Biggs killed: herself at Fontanet, Ind., because her lover, T. Huly, would not marry her. The night operator at Isinours, Iowa, was bound and gagged by two men and $28.75 taken from the cash drawer. A deputy collector of revenues for New York City was arrested in Chica- go, charged with embezzlement. Dr. Chauncey E. Richards of Fond du Lac, Wis., who shot some hair out of a Chinaman’s head in a discussion of the Boxers, has been held for trial at the November term of court. William G. Land, a Chicago travel- ing man, committed suicide at Dallas, Tex., by shooting himself through the | Wis., heart while in the rear room of a sa- loon. Despondency is supposed to have been the cause of the suicide. In a Personal Vein. Ex-Congressman E. E. Meredith is dead at Manassas, Va. John Clark Ridpath, the historian, died in New York. William Cramer, a well known Ger- man inillionaire of New York, is dead. Lewis Cass Vandegrif, a prominent attorney at Wilmington, Del., is dead. Edward E. Poor, ex-president of the National Park Bank, New York, is dead. Benjamin Armstrong, the oldest white settler on Lake Superior, is dead at Ashland, Wis. The death of Judge Fitzwilliam H. Chamber, a prominent lawyer of De- troit, is reported. Lewis Harvey Finney, private secre- tary to Secretary Long, is dead at Warm Springs, Va. Capt. John Little, of the subsistence department, died of typhoid fever at Governor's island. Congressman John S. Little was re- nominated by the Democrats of the Second Arkansas district. Charles Mason, the oldest engineer in the employ of the Chicago &»North- western railway, is dead. George Daniels, United States consul at Hull under President Harrison’s ad- ministration, has died in London. Dr, S. A, Knopf of New York was awarded the prize of 4,000 marks at Berlin for the best essay on tuberculo- sis, W. H. Brooker, president and gen- eral manager of the Sabine Pass & Northwestern road, died of apoplexy Foreign. A Norwegian fleet will visit Kiel by invitation of the kaiser. Rain continues to fall in India, and crop prospects are good. The celebrated convent of Ocopa, at Lima, Peru, was destroyed by fire. Lord Salisbury says that he does not apprehend that England will be invad- ed. Owing tu serious anti-Semitic riots Odessa is reported to be under martial law. Irish Nationalists recently met at Cork and suggested a revolt against England. The Cuban press approves the con- stitutional convention and election of delegates. All United States troops will leave Cuba with the exception of 5,000 for garrison duty. The Nicaraguan government has seized the property of the Maratime Canal company. Documents are said to have been dis- covered in Pretoria implicating prom- inent Englishmen who have agitated in favor of the Boers. At Emperor William’s special invita- tion a Norwegian squadron of three vessels will visit Kiel on Aug. 17, re- maining there a week. Mexico has granted a valuable irri- gation concession to A. J. Streeter of New Windsor, Ill., for the famous Fu- erte River valley, in the State of Sin- aloa. t Pope Leo is said to be disinclined to protest agairist the accession of Italy’s new king, thereby seeming to be ready to relinquish the papal claim to the throne. Princess Cantacuzune, granddaugh- ter of the late Gen. Grant and daugh- ter of Brig. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, U. S. A., gave birth to a son weighing eleven pounds July 27. The young duke of Albany, son of Prince Leopold, succeeds to the duchies of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, under a two-years’ regency. Deceased Duke Alfred escaped a lingering death from cancer. if King Humbert was assassinated at Monza, Italy, by Angelo Bresci, a Tus- can, who shot him three times, one bul- let piercing his heart. He was return- ing from a fete in his carriage, amid the cheers of the crowd. The assassin was with difficulty saved by the police from the fury of the populace. Casualities. William Gillespie of Chicago fell from the new high school building at Joliet, breaking an arm and two ribs. A passenger train collided on the Baltimore & Ohio, near Cumberland, Md. Five passengers were injured. Michael Laskowski was killed at Mil- waukee while leaning out of a trollty ear, his head striking a trolley pole. Earl Harris, aged sixteen, and Harry Whelpley, aged fifteen, of Muskegon Heights, Mich., were drowned in Mona lake. Halver Lund, a prominent Swedish contractor of Boone, Iowa, was thrown from his wheel by a runaway team and killed. : Harry Sanborn, aged twelve, of Mid- dleport, Ohio, was accidentally kilied in a trap set for a burglar by: his father. Mrs. Henry Plumley of Spring Val- ley, Wis., tried to stop a team running with a binder. She will die from her injuries. Alexander Rogers, a telephone line- man at Anderson, Ind., was killed by contact with a wire connected with an are light. The steam yacht Roberts, one of the finest on the lake, was totally de- stroyed by fire off Put-in-Bay, near To- ledo, Ohio. One man was killed and nine injured in the wreck of a Buffalo Bill Wild West show train near Milwaukee Junc- tion, Mich. Miss Theresa Blake, daughter of Hoffman Blake, a retired banker of Boston, was killed by being thrown from a horse at New Rochelle, N. Y- Theodore Anderson of Spring Valley, was blown up by twenty-five pounds of giant powder and thrown twenty feet. He was not seriously in- jured. ‘The Misses Plummer and their grand- mother, Mrs. Beach, were driving in Virginia, Tll., when the horse ran away and probably fatally injured Mrs. Beach. , — Domestic. Corbett and McCoy have signed arti- cles to fight on Aug. 30. The Drum Lummon gold mine at Marysville, Mont., has been closed. Rural free delivery of mail will begin at Black River Falls, Wis., Aug. 15. The weekly trade review shows that the business outlook is encouraging. O’Brien and McFadden, lightweights, fought thirteen rounds, the former be- ing defeated. The Peary relief steamer is expected to make slow progress northward on account of the ice. The importation of a large number of negroes into Donovan, Mo., nearly pre- cipitated a race war. The annual reunion of the Spanish War veterans will be held at Chatta- nooga, Tenn., Oct. 7-15. ‘The transport Hancock left San Fran- cisco for Taku, China, with four bat- teries of the Third artillery. The Iowa Republicans nominated a partial state ticket, W. B. Martin being named for secretary of state. The Russian cruiser Variag, built at Philadelphia, exceeded contract speed on her trial trip, making twenty-five knots. . The law requiring railroad compa- nies to equip their cars with air brakes and automatic couplers, has gone into ; , the genuine, but the most notable de- | at a boarding house in New York. effect. fects aye in the portraft of Mamilton. |KRUGER WILL QUIT}. IF GIVEN ASSURANCES AS TO HIS FUTURE. Harrismith Has Surrendered to Gen. Macdonald — Fighting at Elands River—Lord Roberts Thinks That the Garrison There Has Been Re- lieved — Chamberlain Says South African States Will Be Governed by Foree—Later Self-Government Will Come—Peace Parties Would Expel Kruger. Pretoria, Aug. 8.—it is stated posi- tively that President Kruger is willing and anxious to surrender provided a statisfactory promise is given as to his ultimate destination. Govern by Force. London, Aug. 8.—The secretary of state for the colonies, Mr. Chamberlain, in the house of commons, said he had already made himself acquainted with the views of Canada and Australia in regard to the main points of the South African settle- ment. They were completely in accord with her majesty’s government as to the necessity for the annexation of the Or- ange Free State and the Transvaal to the British empire and the establishment of a government supported by a military force, with the ultimate extension of rep- resentative self-government. Harrismith Taken. London, Aug. 8.—Lord Noberts reports to the war office under date of Pretoria, Aug. 6, as follows: Harrissmith surrendered on Aug. 4. Th eneighboring country seems to be quiet. $ Kitchener is with th eforce south of the Vaal river. He was joined yesterday by a strong detachment of Brabrant’s Hores and the Canadian regiment. The Boers attacked the garrison at Elands river on the morning of Aug. 4. Information was sent to Carrington, who was on the way to Elands river. Ian Hamilton, who reached Rustenburg yesterday, reports heavy firing in the di- rection of Elands river. To-day the firing seems mor edistant, which looks as if the /Elands river garrison had been relieved and was retiring towards Zerust. Cape Town, Aug. 8.—Railway communi- cation with Natal has been re-established by Gen. McDonald’s capture of Har- rismith. Would Expel Kruger. London, Aug. 8.—A special to the Daily Telegraph, dited Lourenzo Marques, Mon- day, says a Frenchman who has just ar- rived from the Boer front confirms the telegrams describing the piliahie charac- ter of the Boer position. Botha’s commando, which was original- ly 750 men, now numbers only 63. Other commandoes have been reduced in lik eproportion, owing to desertions. The remaining Boers are divided into two par- ties—one for peace, the other for war. The peace parties are stronger and a revolu- tion is imminent, which may result in the expulsion of Kruger from the state. BRITISH WAR LOAN. Explanation by the Chancellor otf the Exchequer. London, Aug. 8—In the house of com- mons to-day ‘Benjamin Louis Cohen, Con- fervative, asked the chancellor of the exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the reason of the early closing of subscrip- tions for exchequer bonds. The chancel- lor said the lists were closed as soon as the bonds had been subscribed for. He had received an offer from-an Anglo- American house to place half the issue in America on the same conditions as is- sued here. This, he added, assured the success of the loan. But there was an- other reason. Last Thursday the reserve of the Bank of England stood at the lowest point for years and he was ad- vised that great relief might be afforded here by the movement of gold from the United States if a large part of this loan (£10,000,000) was taken there. In sub- stance the chancellor said: “When I made the usual confidential inquiries to ascertain whether the pro- posed terms were likely to be attractive, I received such very moderate encour- agement that I accepted an offer already made to. me by a leading Anglo-American house in London to place half the issue in the United States on the terms I had decided to offer it here. This part of the issue was already taken when the loan was issued in Great Britain. I re- gret any disappointment caused by the early closing of the lists, but I hope it may to some extent be mitigated by con- sideration of the very important points I have just mentioned.” It is understood here that the chan- cellor of the exchequer has allotted STREET CAR BLOWN UP. Dynamiters Again to the Front at St. Louis, - St. Louis, Aug. 8—After a pause 0% five days dynamiters have commenced again to place explosives on the tracks of the St. Louis Transit company. Bellefontaine car was blown up iz North St. Louis yesterday. It is the first case of daylight dynamiting since the strike commenced. The explosion was terrific. Allof the windows in tha car were shattered, the forward trucks were broken and a hole the size of @ bushel basket was blown through t floor. There were no passengers o~ the car and neither the conductor nor, the motorman were injured. Wome along the line had been warned not to ride on the cars as they would ba plown up. 4 SHARKEY SUCCUMBS TO CUPID. PEAT Pogilist’s Engagement to Belle of Sheepshead Bay Announced. New York, Aug. 8.—The engagement was announced from Coney Islalnd yesterday, of Tom Sharkey, the pugil> ist, to Miss Jennie Tuttle, known as the belle of Sheepshead Bay. American Students Arrested. Berlin, Aug. 8.—Eight American stud dents of the University of Munich were arrested in the gardens of & brewery at Loewen because they had created a disturbance and roughly handled the waiter. : Arrested om Suspicion. Hugo, Colo., Aug. 8.—Frederick Mer- rick was arrested in Elbert county on | suspicion of being one of the Uniog Pacific train robbers. A posse is after another man thought to be Merrick’s ‘3 { ‘eavy Losses North of Courtenay— Stock Beaten to Death. Jamestown, N. D., Aug. 8.—News of numerous losses by Saturday’s hail storm are reaching the city and indi- cate that the damage was much great- er than at first thought. The storm seems to have originated near Pingree and traversed a strip of country in a northeasterly direction, passing north of Courtenay, into Griggs county, thence through Steele, Traill and Grand Forks counties into Minnesota. Stock were injured and in some in- stances killed by the heavy hail stones. Hans Nelson lost two colts and a horse on his farm near Courtenay. August Albrecht’s house was blown to pieces. Fortunately no one was in the building at the time. North of Courte- nay crops were good and farmers were cutting their grain. The path of the storm was through this district and nearly all the losses are total. The grain was literally beaten into the ground. One farmer had just started four binders in his field, but the hail destroyed it completely. DASHED TO DEATH. Aeronaut Drops From a Height of Half a Mile. Ottawa Beach, Mich, Aug. 8—Johnnie Dew, an aeronaut of Grand Rapids, met a terrible fate while giving an exhibition here. His balloon had reached a height of nearly half a mile when the performer began his descent. His parachute did not open for a few seconds and when it did spread he had gained such momentum that ‘the sudden resistance gave him a violent jerk. He slipped from the trapeze and having no lifeline was dashed to death in the lake below. There was but one foot of water where Dew landed and every bone in his body was broken by the fall. Dew was but nineteen years old. This was the fortieth ascension he had made during the last two years. INVENTED NEW POWDER. South Dekota Man Secures Patent on a High Explosive. Kimball, S. D., Aug. 8& —J. A. Stransky, a resident of Pukwana, has just received a patent on smokeless gun- powder, and has declined an offer of $40,000 for the patent right. Mr. Stransky has been working for the last nine months on his invention,and he has at last brought forth a product which trial has proved to be of greater penetra- tion than the Dupont powder and with less recoil. He claims that his powder can be made for 10 cents per pound. In color the new powder much resembles sawdust, and it is said that its explosive power is tremendous. POSTM/STER ROBBED. Held Up by Two Masked Men—Cash in Safe Overlooked. Dickinson, N. D., Aug. 8. — Dep- uty Postmaster A. F. Noble was held up by two highwaymen at New England, a small town thirty miles south of Dickinson, and robbed of $10—all the cash the postoffice- till contained. The robbers overlooked $500 in cash and checks contained in a safe in the same building. One of the highwaymen held a gun in Noble’s face while the other searched for money, after which they walked him half a mile from town, bade him good night, mounted their horses and left in a southwesterly direction. KASOTA ASSAULT CASE. The Salfers and Graves in Jail—The Latter Confesses. Kasota, Minn., Aug. 8.—Miss Edith Watson was taken to Minneapolis by friends, and will there be given the best of care. Joe Selfer, John Selfer and the hackdriver, Dick Graves, are in jail here on the charge of assault. Graves has confessed the story of the affair, although he claims that he was not a party to the assault, and insists that he heard no cries from the woman in the hack. TWO FIREMEN KILLED. Fatal Accident on J. J. Hill's New Yacht. Duluth, Minn., Aug. 8.—Reports just leaked out of a fatal accident on J. J. Hill's new steam yacht Wacouta Mon- day morning, whereby two firemen lost. their lives. The accident was due to bursting. of steam pipes while the ves- sel was in Washington harbor, Isle Royal. Samuel Hill and J. J. Hill's two daughters, with friends, were on the yacht. i Stepped Off the Bridge to Death. Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 8.—George Glover of this city while walking on the Northern Pacific railroad bridge, fell thirty feet and was badly injurea. He had stepped aside to avoid an ap- proaching engine and missed his foot- ing. He was picked up unconscious and takén to the hospital, where he will probably die. He has a wife and family. \ I Killed by a Train. Fort Dodge, Iowa, Aug. 8 — Section men on the Minneapolis & St. Louis at Lake Mills yesterday dis- covered the body of a negro of middle age, whose head had been crushed in by a passing train. Nothing was discovered as to his identity or as to how he came to his death. Unrequited Love—Suicide. Helena, Mont., Aug. 8 — Johy Copely, a miner, committed suicide by cut- ting his throat with a razor be- cause the woman he loved, Miss Pearl Stanton, would not marry him. He threatened to kill Miss Stanton, but could not find her. Indian Charged With Murder. Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 8 — W. G. Porter, assistant United States at- torney, has been notified of the arrest at Pine Ridge agency of Clayton High Wolf, a Sioux belonging at that bay hed on the charge of murder. Suicide Prevented. Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 8—Miss Mag- gie Lickband, eighteen years of age, jumped into the Sioux river because her lover, Carl Warring, was ‘‘mad” at her. She was rescued. The girl had left a farewell letter to Warring. Two Boys Drowned. Oshkosh, Wis., Aug. 8—Herman ang Willie Klabunde, aged 6 and 8 yearsy were drowned in Lake Winnebagq yesterday. boat and in attempting to swim ashore were exhausted, “i Be £ “"Phey_ were) carried qut in &. | NORTH DAKOTA’S inline TOWNE DECLINES IT WILL NOT BE A CANDIDATE FoR VICE PRESIDENT. | Sends a Letter to the Chairman of the Populist Notification Commit- tee Declining the Nomination ‘Tendered Him by the Sioux Falls Convention—Mr. Towae Goes Into the Questions Involved Very Fully and Gives the Reasons Which Have Prompted His Declination. ‘ Duluth, Aug. 8.—Charles A. Towne, who was nominated for the vice-pres- idency by the Populist national con- vention at Sioux Falls in May, has sent a letter to P. M. Ringdahl, chairman of the notification committee, declining the nomination. Mr. Towne’s letter is lengthy and goes into the questions in- volved very fully. He details at length the considerations which have prompted him to decline/the nomina- tion. He says: “After mature consideration of all the factors involved that concern the welfare of the cause of political reform in this country and my duty thereto, I am constrained to inform you that I must decline the nomination tendered me by the Sioux Falls convention.” Speaking of the reasons which gov- erned the Democratic convention in declining to accept both Populist nom- inees, he says: “Geographical conditions, and the fact that in certain parts of the coun- try it was deemed wise to defer to a sentiment demanding that the candi- date should be a man already identi- fied with the Democratic organization, not only by holding its principles and advocating its cause, but also by name and profession, determined the selec- tion of Hon, Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois, a man of unimpeachable character and of ripe political experi- ence, . . . 3 When Mr. Stevenson had been nominated, what. was it my duty to do? My name had gone before the convention along with his, and I had been beaten. The nom- ination had been made decisively and with absolute fairness. The candidate chosen was personally unexception- able; his loyaity to our principles was beyond question, and his career had been a long exemplification of them. Manifestly it was my duty to support that nomination. . : . : I am expected to take a laborious part in the campaign. I shall, of course, ad- vocate the election of Bryan and Stevenson. The Democratic conven- tion, before which I was a candidate, nominated Bryan and Stevenson. The Silver Republican party, of which or- ganization I was the official head for nearly four years, has nominated Bryan and Stevenson. In what light should I appear before the American people if, while advocating the election of one ticket, I should be going through the form of running on another? . : . Consistency and candor in politics, therefore; my own self-re- spect; a proper deference to the Peo- ple’s party, and a sincere regard for the welfare of the cause of political reform in the United States, all coun- sel that I now respectfully replace in your hands the honorable trust which your great party committed to me in contemplation of a different complex- ion of affairs than that which has re- sulted.” Mr. Towne expresses profound sat- isfaction at the present attitude of the Democratic party and speaks enthusi- astically of the Kansas City platform, In conclusion he says: “Again the duty of carrying the ban- ner of the cause has been committed to that tried and trusted hand whose grasp has never weakened, which no fear can make to falter and no bur- den can dismay. The leadership of Bryan which could have redeemed a bad plaltform sanctifies a good one. It made memorable an unsuccessful contest. It will crown a victory with imperishable splendor.” MEDICAL SYSTEM CRITICISED. Miss Margaret Astor Chandler Sends Complaint From Manila. Washington, Aug. 8.—Miss Margaret Astor Chanler of New York has for- warded from Manila to the secretary of war a severe criticism of the army's medical system in the Philippines, al- leging that there is a lack of surgeons, lack of nurses, lack of medical sup¢ plies, including such articles as sheets, and asking that she be allowed 500 sheets for emergency distribution. Sec- retary Root referred Miss Chanler’s letter to Surgeon General Sternberg, who has been making a thorough in¢ quiry into the various points raised. He has completed and submitted to Mr. Root what is regarded as a comt plete refutation of the arraignment 0% the medical service in general and of the specific points of arraignment by Miss Chanler. The correspondence hast not been made out, but it is understood to be of rather spirited éharacter. FRIENDS, NOT ACCOMPLICES. Would-Be Assassin of the Shah Con- fronted by Valette. =, Paris, Aug. 8. — Sallson, the an- archist who attempted to assassinate the shah, was confronted by one Val- ette, supposed to be an accomplice. The two men rushed into each other's arms, but denied that they were ac- complices. SSS at Saha reo Barn and Stock Co! med. Stephen, Minn., Aug. 8—A terrific thunder storm passed over here. John H. Merdink’s barn, near here, was struck by lightning and seven horses, four calves and seven sets of harness consumed. Loss, $2,800; insurance, $800. pa ee é All Went Up in Flames. Elmira, N. ¥., Aug. 8.—A fire started in the sawmill of S. Alfred Seeley of Spencer, Tioga county, last night, and before it was placed under control hig _ mills, lumber yards, hotel and electric light plant were destroyed. i pak! y diy SS t r Giant Gripman Wins. Milwaukee, Aug. 8—Jack Rooney, the giant gripman of Chicago, defeated Jack Carkek of Wisconsin last night in a wrestling — h,