Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 24, 1895, Page 1

‘THE ESTABL HED JUNE 19, 1871, OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNIN CARLISLE 0N HONEST MONEY Eight Thousand People Orowd Into the Auditorium to Hear Him, OPENING OF THE MEMPHIS CONVENTION Becretary of the Treasury Discusses the Coinage Question Along the Lines Lald Down by the Cleveland Adminis- tration—Clty Crowaed. MEMPHIS, May 23.—Upward of 3,000 peo- ple were present at the Auditorium at 2:15 o'clock, when Chairman W. J. Crawford called the convention to order. While the gathering was effecting an organization and getting down to business the crowd gradually filled upNhe vacant seats, and by the time Secre- tary Carlisle began his address the hall was comfortably filled. Mr. Crawford, in his ca pacity as chairman of the committee of fif- teen appointed by the assoclated mercantile bodies of Memphis, under whose auspices the convention is held, called the mecting to order, Mr. Richard H. Clarke of Alabama pre- sented the name of Congressman Catchings for permanent chalrman in a neat and highly complimentary specch. This convention, said Mr. Clarke, was an evidence that the people do not believe in debased money and do not want to be draggel down to the level of Mex fco and China, The people represented in this convention believed in the just and equitable use of silver as a money metal, but they would not deliver the country to a syndi- cate of mine owners or place in jeopardy the business interests of the country because of a eraze—a condition of public sentiment which he likened to a prairie fire, which would feel upon chaff and soon burn out. The leaders in the silver movement were the men who had taken up in succession all the political and economic heresies t had been before the people in the past decale. The present out- ery he likened to the extreme doctrines ad- vocated by the populists in recent years, and their fallacies, he declared, would soon be burled in the Ocala warehouses, He had great confidence in the judgment and good sonse of the southern people. Two-thirds of the product of that section must be sold in foreign countries and paid for in the money of the world. The prices of their products were fixed in the markets of the world, where no American legiclation can put a fictitious value on silver. Mr. Clarke culogized Pres- fdent Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle, his remarks arousing the first outburst of en- thusiasm seen in the convention. The cheer- ing at the mention of the president's name was particularly hearty and portracted. In conclusion, he presented the name of Con- gressman Catchings for permanent chairman of the convention, lauding that gentleman's pure record on the money question and as- suring the convention of his eminent fitness for the position of presiding ofiicer. The se- lection of Mr. Catchings was made by an unantmous viva voce vote, and the congress man a pted the honor in a g eful speech. He eald: © NO SELFISH MOTIVES “Gentlemen of the Convention: There come times in the life of a man when words fail him when he wishes to express the emotions by which he fs moved. Such a time has now crossed my path. Could I live forever 1 could not sufficlently express to my friend from Alabama the impression which his warm words have left within me. “Gentlemen, in my Jjudgment no conven- tion ever assembled for a nobler or higher purpose than this. Brought together from al- most every southern state, coming from every walk in life, representing as you do all vo- cations, industries and conditions in life. I speak the truth that not a man has com here to advance a personal end or a selfish purpose. Believing the free and independent coinage of silver at the 16 to 1 ratio would be disastrous to all private and public in terests, we have laid aside our private affairs for the time to take counszel together how best to prevent it. The character of th delegates to this conventlon is far beyond the reach of taptious criticlsm and adverse comment. The body is composed of the grea mass of honest, intelligent, patriotic citi zens. If we are right, we are not only right now, but we are eternally right. We hav assembled to glve testimony in open church to the falth that is in us. We have been misrepresented from one end of the t the other; epithets have been hurled us. We have been charged with entrtaining views which we scorn and disdain. “It is sald, for instance, that we are mono metallists. Let us here and now place the Mo upon that charge. (Applause) It has bien said again that we seck to so contract the currency that prices will fall. Let us stamp that also as a lle. Let us pass a series of resoluticns that will be our declaration of faith and then challenge any man to put other words on our lips. Let us, when this convention shall have adopted thse resolu tions, adjourn and go to our hoaes with the determination to stand by them. Let us or anize ourselves into a movement militant and not quiescent, for, believing as we do, w would be recreant to our duty If we failed at all times to let our views be known. Let us nail our colors to the masthead and let the old ship go on her course regardless of the obstacles that we may encounter, havirg faith that with truth as our guid: we will reac our destination safely. ientlemen of the take heart at the fact that sanctioned by all the great people of this country outside of politica) life, Supross we adopted the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. It will bring about silver monc metallism pure and simple. When the simpl issue is put before the peopl ) not belleve they will be willing to put untry on a silver basis." The remarks of quently interrupted by applause. The following committee on r was named: Alabama, Richard H Arkansas, U. M. Rose; Misslssippl Percy; Louisiana, J. C. Morris; Texas, Hardin; Maryland, Dan‘el Miller; K John M. Atherton; Georgia, F. H &on; Florida Q. ¢ South George M. Trenholm; Missourl rge E. Z.eighton; Tennessee, Joseph Patterson. After the appointment of this committce Becretary Carlisle wis Introduced and began _bis address. QUESTION OF VAST IMPORTANCE. Mr. President and Gentiemen of the Con vention: 1 congratulite myself upon my good fortun in having the opportunity to appear before this large assemblage of southern business men, and I congratulate the people of the south upon thelr good fortune in being sble 1o send here so many real representatives of their great industrisl and commercial in- terests. 1 am sure that nothing less than a full appreciation of the vast importance of the questions to be considered coald have mecured the attendance of 5o lacge 4 1 umbe of active business men upon 1his cecas on, an the fact that they have volunterily abandoned their usual avocations to particl pate in the proceedings of this eonvention encourages me to believe hat their efforts in behalf of a sound financ'al policy wili not cease when it has adjourned Mr. President, I do not think the impor- tance of the questions you are called to con- sider can be overestimated,or that the gravity of the situation can be overstated. The prop osition to revolutionize cur monetary system and thus destroy the credit of the government and the people at home and abroad, violate the obligations of all contracts, unsettle all exchangeable values, reduce the Wages of labor, expel capital from our country, and seriously obstruct the trade of our among themselves anl with the peoples other countries, Is ofe which challenges tl intelligence, patriotism and commereirl hot of every man to whom it is aldressed N matter what way be (ke real purposes and motives of those who make the proposition to legalize the free and urlimited colnage of silver at the ratio of 16 10 1. these are the cousequences involved in their scheme, and, my opinton, they ceunot be aveided if it In no part of the country convention, we should our views ar the chairman were fre lutions Clark Ler Rufu tucky, Richard x; Carolina e | form of colns, « will the consequence. more injurious to of such a policy prove the materlal interests of the people than in the undeveloped and progressive south. When the great civil war closed your Industrial system was destroyed, your commercial relations were all broken uUp, your cufrency was worthless, your farms were devasted, your mines were closed, your forests were untouched, your water power was useless and your rallways were un- safe and Inadequate, even for the MNmited service they had to perform; but your great natural resources were still unimpaired, and upon that foundation you have constricted, and are till constructing, a system of diyersi- fled industries and interstate and intercational commerce, which, if not disturbed by unwise experiments in financial legislaticn, must attract to your Sre- tion of the country all the active capital and skilled labor necessary to make it the most prosperqus part of the continent. Your magnificent deposits of coal and iron, your fertile soil, adapted to the growth of | cotton, sugar, and many other products | which no other part of the country will yield, | your unrivallea facilities for the manufac- ture of iron and ste:l, cotton goods, lumber, oll, furniture, and almost innumerable other articles which can be cheaply produced from the raw material® within your limits, con- stitute the clements of a marvelous growth and prosperity which nothing can prevent If the people of the south will continue to exhibit in the future the same spirit of conservatism and the same devotion to prin- ciple that have always characterized them in the past. The world has never witnessed a grander exhibition of courage and fortitude than was presented here when a defeated tacd impoverished people, without money or credit, and almost destitute of the tools and Implements necessary to the performance of { manual labor, went uncomplainingly to work to re-establish their social order, renew their | commercial relations, and reconstruct their | industrial system; and I am unwilling tu | believe that the ‘same people can now be o discouraged by a temporary business de- | pression, or so moved b to their | prejudi that they will y resort to | new and hazardous experiments with the | eurreney in which all their transactions must | be_conducted I do not charge that our fellow-citizens who propose to revolutionize our monetary system by a sudden change In the standard of value really desire to see the business of the country ruined, or even injured, or that they belleve an’ injurious ~ consequences would follow the” adoption of their policy but, in my judgment, the result would be most disastrous to the material interests of all the people in every part of the country, and, therefgre, 1 shall appeal to them care- fully to review the grounds upon which their opinions have been formed before it is too late to correct a possible mistake upon a subject of such supreme Importance to them- selves and to their posterity. It is not neces- sary to impeach their motives in order to answer their arguments, nor would it be wise or proper to underestimate the intellectual and material forces behind this great popu- lar movement in the south and west, a move- ment which now serlously threatens to_ dis rupt existing political organizations and re- form party lines; but, no matter what may be the motives or the present numerical strength of our opponents in this contro- versy, the merits of the policy they propose to inaugurate must be subjected to the tests on and experience, and if it is shown Impracticable, or fundamentally wrong in principle, we may be confident that it will not finally command the support of a ma- Jority of our people ADMITTED AND ESTABLISHED FACTS Before proceeding to the discussion of the main question presented, it may be advan- tageous to state as briefly as possible a few admitted or well-established facts having an_important bearing upon it. From the earliest times gold and silver have been used as money, not because there was at the b ginning any law declaring them to be money, but because, by reason of their limitsd and regular supply, their great value as compared with other things in proportion to weight and bulk, and their durability, they were more stable and convenient than any other commodily as measures of value In making exchanges, Consequently, these metals were used as money by common consent of the people for centuries before there was any iaw upon the subject or any coins in ex Istence; they passed by weight, and their values in affecting exchanges were deter- mined by the quantity of pure metal con- tained In each piece. Each metal had a dis tinct value of its own, and when it was used in trade neither the buyer nor seller troubled imself about the ratio between it and the other metal. The laws of tra fixed and regulated the actual and relative values of both metals in the purchase and sale of other commodities, just as they do now. They had been used as meney s:veral centuries before any government undertook by royal proclamation or statute law, to es tablish a ratio between them, and, when this character of legislation was first b gun the public authorities did not attempt to ostablish new values or new ratlos, but accepted those already fixed by the laws of trade and the custom of merchants. Coins were madé, not for th> purpose of attempting to add anything to the intrinsic chang:- able value of the metal contained in them, but for the purpose of attesting, by public au- thority, its weight and purity, thus avoiding the delay and unc:rtainty reslting from the practice of welghing each plece as it passed from one another. That the coinage of the metals does not now add anything to their actual value in the commerelal worid is conclusively proved by the facts that, in all the great transactions between the people f different countries, the coins are accepted only at their bullion value, determined by their actual weight and fineness, and that bullion itself is still used in making pay- ments, just as it was thousands of years ago Whatever effect legislation upon the ratios, connection with legal tender laws, may have had upon the use of the two metals in the payment of antecedent debts, It has nev:r hid o slightest effect upon the actual or rela v> values of the two metals in national or international trade. For many centuries, even after the commerce of the world had grown to enormous proportions, the propriety of making any given quantity of bullion, or any particular coln, a legal tender was not even suggest:d, and up to the present tim there is no legal tender in international trad Whether payments are made in gold or stive ins, or i gold or silver bullion, actual in trinsie value determines the amount or quan ty to be delivered, no matter whit may b he le ler laws of the different coun tries, matter though they may have the same or different ratios of value between the metals within their respective limits, The law .of France, for instance, plac's a higher value upon silver relatively to go than Is placed upon it by the laws of the United States, the French ratio being 15% to 1, and ours being 16 to 1, but if sixteen pounds of our silver, coined or unco.nid, were sent to that country to be used in the pay ment of a debt or in the purchase of commod- Ities, it would not be accepted at the ratio of 16% to 1, or at the ratlo of 16 to 1, as compared to gold, but only at the ratio of about to 1, which shows that neither our ratio nor the French ratio has any eff-ct whatever upon the val or purchasing power of the ‘metal itself Coinage Is free i Mexico, and the dollar, which s full legal tender, contains 377.17 grains of pure silver, while our dollar con- tains only 371.25 grains of pure silyer; yet Mexican silver dollars are sent into the United States and other parts of the world and sold at the price of the bullion contained in them which is about one-half r nominal or legal value in their own country. Th> legal tender laws affect the debt paying power of the coln itself in the country where the laws prevail, but the laws estiblishing ratio do not affect the value of th> metal contained in the coins either at home or abroad, be- cause it is the metal that fixes the vaiue of the coln, and not the coln that fixes the value of the metal, CREDIT STEPS IN. For a long tune, duringithe early of the world, and even age, gold and silver, In tiluted history during the mediseval bullion or in the almost the entire amoig the pe ven in the nations most zdvinced in trade and c.v'liza tion, and, cons quently, the quan‘ity of thewe | metais that conld be procured aad kept in use wae & question of far grester importance then thwa 16 uow or ever can be In the fature. When lile and propsrty had bien (Ucatinued on. )1&. Page) READY TO FORCE HER CLAIM Colombia in Barnest in Asserting Dominion Over the Moequito Country. DATES BACK TO TH: SPANISH RULE Was Attached to that Country Seven Years Before the War of Independence ~Have Never Walved Thelr Claim, (Copyrighted, 1595, by the Assoclated Presa) COLON, Colombia, May 16.—As exclusively cabled to the United States to the Associated press today, the government of Colombia is preparing to set forth in detail the claims of this republic to the Mosuito territory. jeneral Renjifo, secretary of the Colombian legation at Washington, who has been fight- ing for the government against the rebels in the interior, left here today on board the steamer City of Para and will take this cor- respondence to New York. Colombla bases her claims on the follow- ing facts: Under a royal order of the king of Spain in 1803, his majesty anneved the Mosquito coast to Santa Fe di Bogota, and when Colombia gained her independence, in 1810, she became the rightful possessor of the Mospuito coast, assigned to her by the principle of utl possidetis, “as you possess,” (the basis or principle of a treaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of what they acquire by arms during the war), and exercised dominfon over that territory up to 1824, Even in the treaty between Colombia and the Central American states the former did not relinquish her claim to the Mosquito_territory The Colombian government is busily oc- cupied in collecting a forced loan of $1,000,- 000 to cover the expenses of the late political troubles and to prepare for any emergency. WILDE AFRAID OF Turned His Face from Him in Court to Avoid His Gaze. LONDON, May 23.—The OId Bailey court was again crowded today when the trial of Oscar Wilde was resumed. Wilde entered the court room looking haggard and stood for some time at the foot of the jury box con- versing with Rev. Stewart Headlam, one of his bondsmen. They were joined by Lord Douglas of Hawick, whose eye s still d scolored as a result of his encounter with his father in Piceadilly, for which they were both bount over yesterday in $500 to keep the peace. Tho marquis of Queensberry was zlso in oourt, looking jaunty and confident. He watched Wilde closely and paid great atten- tion to the evidence. Wilde, it was noticed carefully avoided the gaze of the marquis Wille, Lord Douglas of Hawick ani Rev Stewart Headlam remained in earnest con versation until the judge took his seat. They listened attentively to all the testimony fur- nished, evidently weighing every word ut tered as studiously as counsel on both sides. The earnest conversation of the trio was an incident which attaracted much attention and was con {derably ccmmwented upon, When the case was reopened the evidence furnishel at the previous trial was repeated in detail, no new points of any imj o'tance being ma e. ir Bdward Clarke, counsel for Wilde, re- wed in full length the evidence furnished by his client when the latter was cxamined upon the oceasion of ths trial of the Marqui of Quiensberry on the chyrge of libel. This occupied several hours, at the expiration of which time Sir Edward Clarke address:d the jury on behalf of Wilde. At the conclusion of the day's procezdings the trial was adjourned until tomorrow. SAOT BY A CUBAN TEUE MARQUIS MARTL GuIbDE Rebels Mado & Desperate, but Futlle Ef. fort to Recover s Budy. NEW YORK, May 23.—The World's copy righted special from Ha Jose Marti was shot by a Cuban guide named An tonio Olivia, who was with the government troops. Marti, at the moment, was address ng his followers, revolver hand. He wa: hit by tow bullets, the first wounding him in the chest, the sceond in the neck oral Gomez and Marti had set out with 700 men to attempt an invasion of the Camaguay dis trist of Puerto Princive province. The rebel had charged the government troo, fifteen times w machetes. When the guide sho Marti they made desperate efforts to secure the body. Gomez fell off his horse. The rebels carired him off. Fourteen bels wer killed. One was an American. he govern ment loses incuude one sergeant, one bugler and five privates killed, and six wounded The government trops captured thirty horses with saddles. The operations were directed by General Salcelo. WASHINGTON, May 23.—Official confirma tion has been received here of the death of ieneral Marti, the Cuban leader, in a battle with the government troops. Marti's death is regarded as the most important event sine General Campos began his campaign. Marti is personally known throughout the United States, as he had long sertved as president of the Cuban party in this country. He had passed much of his time in Washington, his last service here being as ad elegate to the panaemrican monetary conference. The pa pers found on Marti are expected to result in imrortant developments, as he was in per- sonal correspondence with sympathizers In the United States who have thus far eluled ietection, says: TREATY PROCLAIMED Incompetence of the Leaders Madte a Con- tnuance of the War Fatile, LONDON, May 23.—A dispatch from Tien Tsin to the Tin that an imperial proclamation has issu announcing the ratification the treaty of peace b tween China and Japan. It Is declared that ply pondered over the ad vice which has been offered to it the war rather than surrender, but demanded a decision as no vietory had been obtalned on sea or land, owing to the in mpetence of the leaders, who had only bee able to recruit the rabble. proclamation says, were mena The country was In a terrible condiiion now. The proclamation then goes on to sz ould we permit alarms to disturb the dwelling o her sacred majesty? Heaven had not witbheld his augury. The sea oyverflowed th» coast and camps were submerged.’ SIGNING OF THE o5 says he government de to continue the crisis Vandis Murdere s ~entenced. FLORENCE, May 23.—The trial of seven anarchists charged with the murd:r in July last of Signor Bandi, editor of the Gazette Livornesse of Leghorn, was concluded yester- day. The murder was committed on t(he tay esident Carnot of France was assassinate ignor Bandi had written strongly men of Cesarlos type and it was generally supposed that the motive of the murder was to avenge the anarchists. The crime was committed by a man named Lucchesia, who was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for thirty years. It was also found that a man named Romiti had been the Instigator of the crime and he was yesterday sentenced to imprisonment for life at hard labor, One Franchi, who was found to have becn an accomplice of the crime, received the same sentence a L hesi of thirty years' im prisonment. The others were acquitted Gr ek Villages Destroyed by Farthquikes LONDON, May 23.—The Standard has still further advices from Athens of the recent earthquakes, from which it appears that thelr most disastrous effect was felt In the south- west portion of Epirus. Intelligence has bean ecelved in Athens of the destruction of seven villages in this locality and fifty daths are already reported Porie Must Lunugarate Koforms, BERLIN, May 23.—The Kolnische Zeitung ays that If the Porte rejects the reforms ropos. d Ly the powers @ Europ an conferenc: il be convoked. BOYCOTT OF UNION STUDENTS T h Determined 1o Make the Warfare on t Outlawed Seminary Effective. PITTSBURG, May 23.—~The devotional services of the Presbyterian gemeral assembly at the opening of the seventh day of its session were conducted by Rev. Irwin M. Muldrow, a colored miuister from Cheraw, Overtures were presented with regard to the young people’s sofeties in the separato churches amt the whole matter of thelr government was referred to a committee of nine, which was instrueted to report to the next assembly. An attempt stated clerk down. Secretaries of the various boards of the churches were allowed to become ministers of churches, he question of the relation of the students of Urion seminary to the Presbytery of New York came up on an overture from that body. A long opinfon was read and it was recommended that the Presbytery of New York be instructed and enfolned not to receive students who are pursuing or who propose to pursue their studies in seminaries not approved by the general assembly. This motion was carried by a large vote and in announcing the result Moderator Booth said that the New York presbytery would note the instructions given by its superior authority and would obey its orders. The opposition to this action was declded, but insufficient to affect the vote of the assembly. The day of prayer for colieges was fixed for the second Sunday in January. A move- ment to reduce the ratio of representation in the assembly failed to rece ve support. Proposals of several presbyteries to secure a reduction in the expenses of the assembly and a change from annual to biennial or triennial sessions were made special orders for Friday moraing. An elder, who sald that he desired to go home Monday, moved that the time given to speakers thereafter be limited and that secretaries of boards be allowed fifteen minutes and others five. This will visibly shorten the length of the session and will cut off full debate. Judge Willlam H. Jessup then took the floor to read the report on systematic beneficence, sctting the work of the church during the year to the fous benevolent purposes of its missionary and other boards. He was followed by Dr. Rufus Green of Elmira, N. Y., secretary of the committee. PITTSBURG, May 23.—The general assem- bly of the United Presbyterian church began its business session at 8 o'clock this morning in the Sixth church, East End. After de- votional exercises Rev. J. B. McMichael of Monmouth college, Illinois, was elected mod- erator by acclamation. Thig is the first time in the history of the churth that this has been done. Rev. Willlam B, Reed and Rev. A. J. Wallace were re-elected clerks. A com- mitte> was then appointed to extend con- gratulations to the Presbyterian general as- sembly. The rest of the session was taken up with hearing the reports of trustees of the assembly and the women’s board. SHOT HER HUSBAND AND HERSE to reduce the salary of the of the assembly was voted LF Jealonsly leads Mrs. Anoa Annabel Commit a Terrible Crime. CHIGAGO, May 23.—Mrs. Anna Annabel of 6416 Ellis avenue tonight shot and killed her husband and then Killed herself, The tragedy was the result of jealously on the part of Mrs, Annabel becauss of the alleged attentions shown by her husband to a young woman. of Davenport, Ta., who had nursed him through an illness contracted while he was on'a visit a short timeago to hiePironts) who live in the Towa city. Mr. Anuabel was janitor of the Nyack flat ‘building on Eilis avenue. There were no witnesaas of tha tragedy, but the daughter, Myrtle, 13 year of age, who was reading in a room adjoining that in which the shooting took place, heard her father and mother engaged in an argu- ment. This b:came heated and then came two shots. She ran to the dining room and saw her mother standing mear the stove with o revolver in her hand, while the body of hev father lay on the floor. Her mother se:med self-possessed and calmly said to her ‘Myrtle, 1 have shot your: father; go get a physician.”” The girl immddiately started to leave tha house to carry out her mother's sommand, but before she reached the streed sheh eard another shot. 8 turned back the kitchen. Her mother lay near thesto ey n the floor. The girl rantout for help and was met by several men who had heard th shooting. When the kitchen was reached both the woman and man were dead. Ernest Annabel was a Brother of Mrs. mer Bryson of this city, who lives at South Twenty-ninth street! Bryson s th wgent in Omaha for the Flalschman com pany and also vice president of the Omaha an and Building asssciation. to El 629 FIGHT FOR USELESS ~ MINE ‘ong Legal War for the Privilege of Spending n Fortune in Pumping. DENVER, M2y 23.—In the suit over the c-lebrated Bassick mine at Quiride, near Sil- ver Cliff, in Custer county, in the United States court, Judge Riner' has found for the plaint'ft, Joseph Staples, ‘and held that the defendant, Dennis Ryan of St. Paul, now in possession, was not entitled to hold the prop- erty. The mine formerly belonged to the Bassick Mining company. The last year it in operation it produced over $900,000. stockholders became involved In a row g themselves and the result was that in the property was sold under ex:cutions. The plaintift in this suit, Joseph Staples, claims the property under one judgment and the defendant, Ryan, now in posession, under another judgment. Judge Rin r's decision places the title in Staples. The mine is now under about 1,200 feet of water and it ted that it will cost to put the properly in fon betwe'n $100,000 and $150,000. n leaves the property still in the Ryan upen, big filing a bond with which will be dono as soon as pos- sible. The case will be appealed. In the suit of Quincy A. Shaw agalnst Murray M. Kellogg in #ie United States court to cject defendant from ten @eres of mineral land, called Bastern Stsr mine, in Ba grant No, 4, in the San Luis valley, a jury under directions of Judge Hallett, returned a verdict for the defendant.” The land depart ment has frequently deeided that when the title passed the land was not known to be mineral and therefore full title had been conveyed to the owners of.the grant. The is hands of Mr. the court ox ror ORE HONEST MONEY, Repub'ican State Leagne Tables Free Sliver Resolutions. PORTLAND, Ore,, Mpy 23.—The Oregon League of Repubilean Clubs 4s in session in this city with over 1,000 delegates, repre- senting 204 clubs, The: meeting was called fo the purpose of selecting delegates to the national convention at'Cleveland, O. Th ticket nominated to urge'freeeoinige of silver at Cleveland was defested and a delegation favoring the maintemance of the present at titude of the party on the financial fuestion will be rent. A resolution was submitted to instruct the delegates to demand a free silver resolution at Cleveland, but it was tabled with great enthustagm, ——— T0 TAKE UP BRIBERY, of Corraption Agalnst ators to Be Iovestigate JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May 23.—Judg Shackelford of the Cole county circuit court created a great sensation today in his charge to the grand jury. He instructed the jury to investigate the charges which have been made as to the members of the legislature having accopted bribes, and the allegations In the prees that they have beer corrupt generally. The jury s also called upon to look inte the bribers’ side of the question 20 that both may be punished. | The jury will investigate the charges. JURY Charge Missouri 24, 18935. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS — BECK EVICTING SETTLERS Indian Police Riding Over the Reservation @iving Notice, NO FORCE BEING USED BY THE AGENT Any Attempt to Kemove the Cattle from Kelley's Pasture Is Expected to Pro- voke Trouble — Farmers Not D.starbed in Their Work. PENDER, Neb., May 23.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Information reached here late last evening to the effect that Indian Agent Beck had positively commenced the ejectment of settlers occupying the lands of the Flournoy company on the Winnebago reservation. 0. E. Arderson, Peter Bloome and Willlam Berg, residing in the vicinity of Wakeflell, Neb., were removed yesterday afternoon by sixteen Indian police, armed to the teeth. J. F. Myers, secretary of the Flournoy company, was on the reservation all day yesterday and says he encountered ten police in several places, who informed him_they were simply In search of catile. Captdin Beck has also served notice that other settlers must go and will continue evictions today and tomorrow. H. L. Wood drove into town this morning with his fawily, household goods and stock, having been requested to move off by the Indian police and notified that he must farm the land under the direction of Agent Beck or not at all. It was thought there would be an attempt to put off the cattle in Dick Kelley's pasture this afternoon, but it has not yet been attempted. 1f the at- tempt is made there will surely be blood- shed, as Kelley has threatened to shoot the first redskin that comes inside of his pasture for that purpose. He is a daredevil sort of a fellow and likely to make his threat good. There is no excitement here whatever, as it is not generally believed the agent will use force. Those who have been ousted by the police were merely told to get off, and when they refused were not molested. On the reservation quiet prevails, the settlers are all busy putting in corn and performing their duties as unconcernedly as though they held title to thelr farms in fee simple. RUSH FOR THE KICKAPOO More Orderly Than that Which Went Into the Cherokee Strip. OKLAHOMA CITY, May 23.—All night long last night the road to Sweeny's bridge on the edge of the Kickapoo country was crowded with horsemen and vehicles. The dust was stifling as the horses dragged through the deep sand and stumbled over the roots of trees in the road. The crowd had filled up the yard at Sweeny's bridge and extended back along the road for a mile, At Sweeny's bridge is @ road house, where tra across the country stop to feed horses. The yard is large and fenced in, and forms a sort of culdesac, with a narrow outlet leading down to the bridge. The yard last night was a solid jam of vehicles and horsemen. Men slept sitting in the seats of their wagons, while their horses stood up or lay on the ground on either side of the wagon poles There were buggics and covered wagons, sulkles and every kind of vehicle, including ox carts. Not much sleep fell to the lot of the people. Young men drank from their flasks “and sang boisterously, dogs barked and horses whinnled, mules brayed and men called back and forth. It was a nightmare of noises. Up and down the river the light of camp fires skone through the trees, redden- ing the follage. The wind blew cold out of the north and it was an uncomfortabie night to be out without an overcoat or blankets, and many of the men sat all night in their short sleeves or moved among the wagons. There were several fights to enliven the night. When day broke everybody got out to cook coffee and hitched up to await the race at the hour of noon. Down the river for miles the boomers were camped on the edge of the bluft down to the water of the North Canadian. Their rush will be most danger- ous. Down an eighteen-foot embankment across the river, in many places too deep to ford, up the bank on the opposite side through a belt of timber and then across the famous Kickapoo flats for the claims. There are many wire fences around the allotments which will have to be cut or jumped. Before the hour of noon many crossed over the river and entered the country, and their names were jotted down by the honest home- seek who obeyed the law and walted These galloped along the roads over the rise and far out on the plateau Sharp at noon at least 15,000 men, with a large number of women, made the grand rush from all sides of the Kickapoo reserva- tion for the 450 odd claims open to white settlers, In less than an hour after there were scores of contestants on each of these claims in addition to the sooners who had aiready taken possession of the lands long coveted by them. The scenes at the opening were precisely similar to those at previous openings. There were the mad rush, the wild yelling and the mishaps more or less serious, So far as is now known no lives were lost in the race, but it is too early yet to hear from the in- terlor of the new countr P INCREAS. IN 118 DEFICIT. inary Report of Union Pacific me and Exp nditures. NEW YORK, May 23.—A preliminary re port of the Union Pacific system for the 1894 shows: Gross earnings $23,234,054, crease $4,60. perating expenscs §16 8, decreas 078; net earnings $6,475 6, decrease 3,470,013; total net $6,380,169, decrease $3,308,607; charges $10, $324,179; deficit $4,008, 1,428, The percentage of operat & expenses and taxes to gross earning were 75 per cent, against 68 per cent in 18923 The gross earnings per mile decreased $9 in 1804, operating expenses decreased $ and net earnings decreased $629 per mile. The report of the Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern for the year ended December 31, 1894, shows: Gross earnings, $5,046 decrease, $814 952, Operating expenses, §3 707; increase, $111,562. Net carnings, $1,372, 975; decrease, $926,514. Tot income 5 decrease, $1,5627 3 Char 3 Deficit, $1,! In the land de partment there was a deflcit of $296,540. against a_deficit of $122,901 in 186 The balance of credit to the land and trust in come account on December 31, 1894, $24,455,72 129, BIG MUDDY LANDS Crowd Preli n- ncome decrease net was GROWING RESTLESS fiver Agaln Evcroach ng Upon Ne Soll and Trouble Muy Ensue, DECATUR, Neb., May 23.—(Speclal)—The Big Muddy is again playlng havoc among the farmers on the Nebraska side, opposite this city. It is conceded here that at least one- third of the original townsite has washed away. Two prosperous farmers, O'Rourke and Evans, have lost large portions of their farms. At the Evans farm a man may sit on the back porch of his house and easily cast & fish line into the river. BLAIR, Neb., May 23.—(Speclal.)—The Mis. stour river is exhibiting premonitory symtoms f going on its anhual June rampage. The railroad company s pushing work in an effort 1o protect the approaches to the Blair bridge. The river shows some Indication of a sire to slightly swerve from its course and the railroad company Is making extra efforts to prevent such an occurrence. A work train in charge of Charles Hole is being used to haul stone and brush to the river bank and @ large force of men is employed in :onstructing the ripraps. o — Henry Diston Liereases W PHILADELPHIA, May 23.—Henry Diston & Co., saw and file makers, notified their 1,700 employes yesterday that thelr wages | Would be increased 10 per cent. TEMPEST IN THE WHEAT PIT Chlcago Brokers Knjoy & Milarious Time on the Board of Trade. CHICAGO, May 23.—Wheat sold today above 80 cents per bushel, and predictions are now made that the price will soon be up to $1. This morning one of the greatest crowds that has been seen for many a day was packed In the galleries of the Board of Trade. It was a certainty that the wildest scene so far in the present activity in wheat would be precipitated when the day's business was begun. The visitors were not disappointed The curb or outside trading preceding the opening of the board made it definite that wheat would open In the neighborhood of 3 cents higher than the cent closing price of last night. In two'or three minutes pre- ceding the bell the pit was filled up to over- flowing with the clerks of the brokers and the brokers themselves, who felt the ne- cessity of their presence at such an exciting battle as was soon to be on between the bulls and bears. The bell rang, and its echoes were drowned in a roar from the pit that filled the great room until it seemed that sound was coming from every side of the apartment The deafening howl apparently came no more from the wheat pit than from the furthermost corner of the cefling. The eyes of the visitors stood out and every man and woman leaned forward with gaze riveted on the wheat pit, where the wildest excitement prevailed. Bareheaded and with perspiring faces the crowd of traders pushed, shoved and struggled fn the mass, surging back and forth across the bottom of the pit and upon the steps like caged wild beasts. The un- trained ear could not detect a single intel- ligible sound, but the bears heard all too plainly that 80% cents was bid for July wheat, which closed last night at 77% cents. The impression scemed strong with the general public that wheat was good for §1 and many are holding out for that price President Baker of the board said that wheat would soon be cheaper at $1 than it is now at 80 cents and that it is cheaper now at 80 cents than last winter at 50 cents. Traders, however, were by no means unanimous in accepting President Baker's roseate views However, the change of front by Linn Cudahy and other chronic bears has greatly increased the confidence of the bulls, and there seems 1o limit to their expectations, The rumors that a big short had failed to respord to margin calls had considerable effect, as it was supposed that such shorts were being bought in. This tended to in- crease what would in any event have been an_exciting market. The trading was enormous. It was esti mated that probably 200,000,000 bushels were sold during the trading hours. y broker in the pit had his hands full of buwng orders, all from out-of-town specu lators. It was not the country dealer only this time. Wall street found out that wheat is a “good thing—push it along” and orders from New York came here by scores The difference between the New York and the country orders was that the Gotham speculators generally named the price at which they desired to invest their money while the country dealers put no limit on the transaction and their telegrams simply said, “Buy wheat.” There was a slight flurry, causing an advance in quotations when ‘houses with which J. O. Schwartz had deals began to buy wheat for his account b cause he had failed to put up margins which were called on him last night. hwartz promised today to make good his margius as soon as the banks opened, but he did not do so. Not only this, but he went on the board and bought wheat today. The market took another bulge shortly after noon today and soon sold up to 82 cents. Al the news was bullish in the extreme. The market was very nervous during the last hour, July selling at 81 cents to R1% cents and was very erratic finally closing at a decided slump, last fig ures belng 78% cents for July. The clos ing price was not, however, the lowest of the day. The market had previously touched 8% cents. J. C. Schwartz, who has been a sensational plunger In corn and wheat for a year, fafled to respond to margin calls made yesterday afternoon and did not pay his debt balance the clearing house. The buying in of wheat which he was short by the firms with whom he had traded caused the rise In July to 81% cents from around 805, whers It had dropped to, after the big bulge and several minor but yet considerable fluctuations. He fore the excitement attending the covering in of Schwartz's line of 500,000 bushels or sc subsided the prices awelled to 82 cents It was In the last ten minutes that the phe nomenal slump in wheat occurred. July broke from 811 cents to 78% cents nd of the market was a grand slide for last night's figures. From 82 cents, the high point of the day's trading, prices declined swiftly and steadily to 7814 and the close was at 781 for July. Despite the 3%-cent break, however, the closing was at 1% c.nts advan-e over last night's last price. The decl'n s wer due solely to heavy taking of profits by hold ers, largely local professionals. The country was a consistent buyer right up to the finish and it s said very little realizing was done by outsiders. EXCEEDED EIGHTY-FOUR 1% NEW YORK NEW YORK, May 23.—The excitement at the opening of the wheat market today ex- ceeded anything seen in the present ad- vance, It was a wild tumult of buying, with almost a total disregard to prics, so that Ju'y opened from 83 to 831 cents at the same mo- ment. This represented a rise of 3 or 3% cants from the official close of yesterday and 1 or 1% cents ovor the curb price. After jump'ng up to 83% cents the price lost 1 cen , when it _swung back again, advancing to 8414 Transactlons went far ahead of any y yet, amounting to 18,000,000 bushels be fore 11 o'clock, which is almost unheard of Most of this business was done during thy first hour. The excitement at the opening was intensified by the reported covering of a big Chicago short who sold a large line of wheat Jast night and when the market was put up n him h:d difficalty in g tUng margins, Tuis morning the private wires said he was buy ing in his wh and the Chicago market jumped 1 cent a bushel between sales The bulls are killing the bears as possible the districts west, wheat he ravages of chinch bugs, Hes sian flies and army worms and the blight o frost. The bulls are talking drouth and the bears seem too far gone to set up any cpposi tion, RISE CONSIDERED LEGITIMATE ST. LOUIS, May 23--The unprecedented rise in the price of wheat on the St. Loul exchange, which begun several days agc continued today amid much excitement. N red, July, which closed Wednesday , opened this morning at 81% conts and jumped almost immediately to 831 cents There was lots let go at that figure and the market sunk to 82% cents. The edge wore off afier that and offerings were few, bul were snapped up as soon Aas utte 1 Frost hinchbugs and drouth are at the bottom of the boom in prices. The best informed operators scout the idea of a speculative bulge. They #ay the shortage of the visible supply is the legitimate ground for the ad vauce. Cash wheat old at 80 cents and more, This s a remarkable advance, as ten months ago it touched bottom at 47% cents Flour is advancing proportionately with wh The country peculators, and strange to say, the, professional traders, are on the long side. There was plenty of wheat offered this morning and a good many deals closed out. As much as 20 cents to 30 cents per bushel was realized on some deals. e Auti=Treat B Passed, LANSING, Mich., May The house to lay passed by a vote of 75 to 17 and gave immediate effect to the Waite *an g bill. It prohibits the purchase spirituor malt, brewed, fermented vinous uors for another by the drin and sale thereof to a person to be given tc another as a treat Th fast as in where Drowne. EFFIN 2.—Charles Wiley, aged 20, Katle Johnson, aged 15, and Maud Meyers were drowned in Lake Kon RkEa, 'wo miles west of this cily, by the capsieing of thelr boat. Three Others in the boat were rescueds —_— NRS. NOTSON FOUND Mystery Surrounding Her Dieappearance is Oleared Away Completely, MUDDY MISSOURI GIVES UP ITS DEAD Dark Tragedy of a Woman's Life Disoloeed by the Turbid Stream, MOTHER AND CHILDREN DIE TOGETHER Bodies of the Three Found Clotely Bound by £traps and Cords, DISCOVERED BY AN IOWA FARMER Dark Mass Flouting in Midstream Proves to Be the Remains of the Long Misslog Ida Kemington iler Bables. The dark and muddy waters of the Mis. sourl river have given up their dead and all of the mystery connected with the dis appearance of Mrs. Ida Remington Notson and her two children, Morrow, a boy of 6, and Dora, a girl 6 ycars of age, has vanished and become as clear as day. Yesterday afternoon all threo of the bodies were found, lashed together, floating in the river, everything pointing to one con- clusion, that of a double murder, followed immediately by the suicide of the murderer. Yesterday the three bodies were removed from the river and taken to Undertaker Es- tep's rooms in Council Bluffs, where late last night they were identified by Mr. Talmage, a nephew of Mrs. Cook, the mother of Mrs Notson. This morning they will be brought to this city, to be immediately interred in the family burial lot in Prospect Hill ceme= tery. The sudden and unexplained disappearance of Mrs. Notson and her two children oc- curred on December §, 1894, During the early morning of that day she left the homo of her mother at 716 South Thirtieth street, saying that she was going to call upon her dressmaker and that she would not return until evening. Before leaving the house she went to her room and took from her trunk a small parcel. The parcel contained a small rope, which a few hours later played a part in the tragedy which was enacted. This rope had been picked up in the street by the little girl some time before. She showed it to her mother, who told the child that she would put it away, as some time it might be useful HER LAST CONVERSATION. Taking her two children with her, Mrs. Nctson went to the home of her dressmaker, who resided in the vicinity of Fourth street. and Poppleton avenue, taking dinner there. and remaining until late in the afternoon. While there Mrs. Notson gave the woman a dress, telling her that she and the children would soon go where they would not need clothes. The remark was considered in the iture of a joke and caused a burst of aughter to pass around the room. Upon getting ready to leave the house Mrs. Not- son bid the members of the family goodby and remarked that it might be some time before they all met again. The little chil- dren looked back as they passed out of the loor and said that they would come if their mother did not. After leaving the house on the bottoms it 1s presumed that Mrs. Note son led her children along the bank of the river to a point opposite Riverside park, and that there she made the fatal plunge into the river, for after her disap- pearance the handle of a shawl strap and a woman's bat were found upon the bank of the river, while the footprints of a woman and two children led down to the water's edge. Mrs. Notson aid her homo that night and the next day a search was In- stituted, though nothing could be learned of her whereabouts. A man who had been work- ing In the park had seen a woman golng toward the river, but not being interested he had not pald any attention to where she went, From that time until yesterday the disappear= ance of the woman and her children had been a decp mystery. There were many who maintained that she had killed herselt and ner children, while equally as many insisted that she had, for reasons best known to her- self, left the city and was Keeping her wherea abouts concealed. EVIDENCE AGAINST SUICIDE. This theory was borne out by the fact that in the sand clcse to where the foo!prints were found were marks thet indicated that a boat had been pulled up to the shore and them pushed back iuto the At a point al- most opposite and upon the Iowa shore were tracks of a horse and buggy. Putting > things together there were many people who were of the opinion that according to & prearranged plan the woman had met some nan who had taken both she and her children away to some place of concealment, and in the course of tima they would be located Some years ago Mrs. Notson married, but a separation followed, Notson going to Chicago, where he became a street car driver, A little more than a year ago he was in Onaba and an ffort was made to bring the man and his wife together. The efforts were in valn nd soon thereafter he returned, though he ponded with her at regular Intervals, who were of the opinion that the woman was ailve urged that Notson had again to this part of the country and by an ngement he had met his wife and that with their children they had gone away to- gether. *eople who held to the theory thag th> woman was allve nsisted that no mother could be so heartless as to take the lives f her two innceent children, even if she con- templated the destruction of herself. Many clues wera established and worked, but none developed any results. The river was dragged while telegrams were sent to all parts of the country. SHE CARRIED INSURANCE. When the woman disappeared she had upon her life Insurance aggregating $2,000, carried by the Massachusetts Mutual, made payablo to her estate. In addition to this amount she had carrled $4,000 additional, but by falling to pay an assessment of $1.25 she had allowed her policles to lapse. Something like a year ago she made a will, naming John Rush as the executor and bequeathing all of lier property to her children. During the lat- ter part of last November she wrote a letter to Mr. Rush, telling him that in the event that both she and the children died she wanted the polley collected and all of her lebts pald. She added that If there was & surplus it was to be paid to her mother, Mrs, e I\k few weeks ago sult was commenced to recover on the insurance poilcy, but as the company, the defendant fil:d an answer, al- ging as a defense (hat there was no proof tending to show that the insured under the terms of the policy was dead. This ended the prosecuii~n and thers $%= Jio> rested, FOUND FLOATING IN THE RIVER. Yesterday ncon Graham Nash, tenant o8 some days not return to stream. the