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S VOLUME NSk 111, NO. 45. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1895. FIVE CENTS. BUTCHERY OF SEAMIEN Solomon Islands Head~- Hunters Massacre a Ship’s Crew. A CRUSADE OF BLOOD. White Residents Fleeing for Their Lives Before the Slaughterers. APPEAL TO ADMIRAL BRIDGE. A British Crulser Sent to Crush the Relgn of Terror In the South Seas. C., July 14.—After VICTORIA, almost a year’ ion of their barbar- i-hunters of Solomon deserted the plantations in a crusade of blood. The e in terror and mission- ng by every steamer to Aus- So terrible are the crimes e head-hunters that trade vzed and in despair the idents of the South Sea Islands led for protection to the Brit- mander-in-Chief in Australian al Cyprian A. G. Bridge. This that the reign of terror d be crushed in its incipiency, has un- aken the task, and the first-class cruiser Orlando was, when the steamer aleft Sydney for this port, prepar- each the ferocious islanders a salu- victims of the savages were company of the Sydney trading Amelia, Captain D. Kerr, his uel Smith, and eight or ten sailed in the Amelia from Ru- in the middle of April and have been missing, under circumstances Wfortunately leave no doubt as to te. When they failed to return to Rubiana in May, Nathaniel Wheatly of that place ganized a search for them, and suc- ceeded in picking up a part of the deck- house, the hatches and other wreckage of the Amelia in Blanch Channel. Then he instituted inquiries among the natives, and learned that some weeks before a raid had been made on the head-hunters on Rendova Island by Lur-Conga men, and that during the raid the trading schooner was met with and her crew dispatched without having a chance for their lives. The natives who gave the information said the schooner was stranded on a reef when the massacre took place, but Wheatly afterwards found this was untrue. The vessel was attacked in true pirate style, and after butchering all aboard the pirates looted the schooner and then sent her adrift, hoping she would speedily break up and no trace be left to point to the fate of those belonging to her. Captain Francis Guy, it will be remembered, met a similar fate in the same locality a year ago. Kerr and Smith had but recently pur- chased the Amelia, and were engaged in collecting copra for the Sydney market. Captain Williams of the steamer Keilio has reported to Admiral Bridge that head- g and other outlawry is on the in- and that upward of 200 men of Rubiana are now on a bloody expedition, baving promised to secure upward Jof fifty “trophies’ before returning to the island. 00 ULBIUB_EPHESII]ENT. Senator Sherman Declares He Would Not Accept the Nomination. Predicts That the Republican Party WIll Not Espouse a Double Monetary Standard. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 13.—A Herald special from Mansfield, Ohio, says: “No, I am not a candidate for the Presi- dency, and if all the people of the United States should join together and offer it to me [ would not accept the position. I am too old. No man of 72 has the right to under- take the work and responsibility which come to the chief executive of the United Btates. It is a position of wear and tear and it should have a younger man.” These were the words of Senator John Sherman, as we sat together in a little summer-house just back of his Ohio home yesterday. I had asked the Senator point blank the question as to whether he again would be a candidate. That was his reply. Itcame from his lips in firm, sharp and decisive tones, and I could see from the expression of his face that his Presidential ambitions had passed forever. “Who will be the Republican candidate for the Presidency?” I asked. “I cannot say. I have learned not to prophesy much as to the future. I can see no further into a millstone than any other man. What you ask of the past I will be glad to answer, but not as to the future. I can only say that we do not lack good can- didates. “There is Reed of Maine. His ability is beyond question and he would be accept- able to the Republican party. His locality is against him, however. There is Mec- Kinley. He is an able man and will make a good candidate. He will, I believe, have the support of Ol and I would like to see him nominated. Going further west, we find Senator Allison, a sound man and with a good record. He would make a good candidate and a good President. I think the situation is such that there is little doubt of our electing a President and a Republican will take his seat in the ‘White House in 1897.” ““What will be the issues?”’ ““They will be thestariff and the financial question. The Democrats have so tam- pered with the tariff that they can’t raise enough revenue to pay the Government’s expenses and this will have to be remedied. The silver question will come up in some share or other, and this will divide the ¥ i | Democratic party. 1don’t believe it will | greatly injure the Republican party.” “‘Will the Republican party ever espouse | the cause of a double standard?” I asked. “I think not,” replied Senator Sherman. ; “You can’t have two standards of money. | You may have gold, or you may have sil- ver, but you cannot have both as standards. At the present value and fluctuation of sil- ver I don’t think there is any danger of the people choosing 1t as our standard.” —_——— S0DA WATER 18 SOLD. One Beverage With Which Sunday Thirsts Can Be slaked in Gotham. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 14.—This city | passed through another arid Sunday to- day, and from the low, deep groaus emit- ted by the enforced ‘*drys” it is a mistaken idea to suppose that the people who want their Sunday drink are getting used to the prohibitive state of affairs. However, it is certain that to-day was a counterpart of ifs predecessor since the Roosevelt fiat went forth, and there is every indication that its successors will be the same. Since the decision of Judge McAdam, rendered a few days ago, in which it was held that the sale of soda water on Sunday was illegal, there has been much specula- tion as to the course the police would pur- sue in regard to that kind of trafic: The druggists and soda-water dispensers, how- ever, were not interfered with to-day, and the soda fizzed as merrily as ever. LOST O 175 TRAL TR, The Yacht Arctic Goes Pown and Three Men Are Drowned. The Owner of the Vessel and Its Bullders the Victims of the Disaster. SOUTH HAVEN, Micr., July 4.—A yacht disaster occurred to-day two miles out of this port. Three lives were lost, H. 8. Tisicorth, the owner of the yacht Arctie, and Coates & Stillson, the members of the firm who built it, meeting their death. The Arctic was launched last Tuesday in the yards of the firm in this city. To-day it was decided to take the boat to Sauga- tuck for a trial sail. There was only a fresh breeze blowing and an easy, enjoy- able trip was expected. All went well un- til the boat was two miles ous from here. Observers from the shore report that they saw the yacht suddenly roll over, keel up and sink before any of the victims had a chance to keep afloat by clinging to any- thing. The life-saving crew was at once notified and pulled its boat with all speed to the scene. It was too late to pick up anything except a cap belonging to one of the drowned men. MRS, CHASE DESTITUTE, Her Home Is Gone and Her Household Goods Are Mortgaged. Edgewood, the Beautiful Estate of the Late Chlef Justice, Lost to His Daughter. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 14.—A Wash- ington special says a temporary stay granted by a District Judge is all that stands between Mrs. Kate Chase and a chattel morteage foreclosure of all her household goods. Edgewood is already gone and the trust company which fore- closed the mortgage has notified Mrs. Chase to surrender possession. Salmon P. Chase, Governor, Senator, Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Jus- tice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died twenty-two years ago. In every public position which he occupied he was a leader. To him was due the forma- tion of the National bank account. Asa Senator from Ohio he originated some of the most important legislation of his day. Though millions of dollars passed through his hands he died comparatively poor, leaving Edgewood, with its priceless associations, to his daughter, Mrs. Kate Chase. Misfortunes have come to her. Her eld- est daughter, KEthel Sprague, is on the stage with Richard Mansfield’s *‘Portia’’; the second daughter has taken a position as governess; Nettie, the youngest, is an invalid, requiring constant attention. Mrs. Chase has been assured that in case she is able to raise sufficient funds to re- deem the estate it will be again restored to her. She is now in New York making an effort in this direction. She writes to in- timate friends in Washington that she is almost exhausted, mentally and physi- cally, and despairs of success. o en STEAMER AND HOTEL BURNED. 4 Disastrous Conflagration Raging at ZLewiston, N. ¥. BUFFALQ, N. Y., July 15.—A special to the Courier from Lewision, N. Y., says: Shortly before 1 o’clock this morning the steamer Sibola of the Niagara River line, lying at the Lewiston docks, in the rear of the American Hotel, was discovered to be on fire. * The fire spread with great rapidity and soon enveloped the steamer and spread to the dock and the large hotel. The Ameri- can Hotel has been burning for an hour, but owing t0 its massive construction the flames made slow progress. There is no doubt that it will be totally destroyed. The inmates all escaped. It is believed that the crew of Sibola, numbering about fifty people, have all escaped. The fire threatens at this moment (2:15 A.3.) to destroy the Anglers’ Retreat to the south of the hotel and the New York Central depot, almost direct ly across the street to the east of the American, and several buildings to the north of the hotel. The Sibola is adrift in the river and is stéll afire, but burned almost to the water's edge. Sl g 4 DUEL WITH KNIVES. Two Kentuckians Literally Hack FEach Other to Picces. LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 14.—Meager details have been received here of a desper- ate cutting affray in Shelby County in which two young farmers were literally hacked to pieces. Both will die. The victims are Isaac Huffman and Marshal Garner. Huffman owns a farm, and Garner latel came from Tennessee to work on an RJ: joming farm. They had an altercation to-day from some unknown cause and both men drew knives and began slashing at one another. They only ceased cuttin, when they were so weak from loss of bloog that they could no longer stand. HEALEY'SBOLOWORDS Liberal Whips Accused of Bargaining for’ Seats. A BLOW TO THE PARTY. One Factor That Aided in the Tory’s Overwhelming Victory. IRISH VOT¥RS SUSPICIOUS. Made to Belleve That the English Home-Rulers Are Traitors to Their Cause. LONDON, Exc., July 14. — The worst of all the misfortunes that have over- taken the Liberals and homerulers in this campaign, or, in fact, since the retirement of Mr. Gladstone, has been the disclosures made by Timothy M. Healy concerning the relations of the Lib- eral whips with the anti-Parnellite leaders. Every Liberal and every McCarthyite de- plores these revelations, and the feeling is widespread that all of the power which the priesthooa usnally exerts over the Irish electors, or all of the power which they are capable of exerting, will fall very far short of counteracting the baneful influence of Mr. Healy’s disclosures. At the conven- tion of the Irish National party, held at Omagh, a short distance from London- de-ry, this week, Mr. Healy related how Thomas E. Ellis, the principal Liberal whip, through the Hon. Edward Blake, formerly Premier of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, bargained with the anti-Parnell- ites for four Irish seats, giving £200 a year for each seat, on the condition that they should be regarded as Liberal and not Irish Nationalist seats. This transaction, assuming that it actu- ally occurred—and there is no doubt that it did—was not at all out of the ordinary line of Irish party dealings. Indeed, the practice is common witb all of the factions. The money of both the Unionists and the Liberals was wanted to assist in defraying the expenses of the registration of electors and otherwise securing the Irish seats,and neither Mr. Ellis nor the anti-Parnellite leaders considered the arrangement as im- plying the sale of the home-rule vote. If such a question had been involved there certainly would have been no bargain, as neither party would have entertained such a proposition for a moment. But Mr. Healy, knowing this full well, knew also how to distort that matter in the eyes of the public so as to inflict a terrible blow to the National cause to gratify his hatred toward his personal opponents in the Irish parliamentary party. The bick- erings between members of the Irish party have been vrevalent coeval with the party’s existence, but it has remained for Mr. | Healy to depart from the custom of fight- | ing out personal feuds, man to man, and to use the party which made him as a weapon in a losing scrimmage. No explanation was given by Mr. Healy of the manner in which the whips, who are the custodians of the party funds, are ac- customed to distribute the money; nor can any explanation that might be made now dissolve the public suspicion that elector- ates are commonly bought and sold, the same as Fotntues or any other commodity. Mr. Healy’s stab has reached the public hearr, and Unionist organs are jubilant over the incident. They revel in” the in- dulgence in disingenuous ranting over the ‘‘outrageous practice of trafficking in seats,” and demand the immediate dismis- sal of Mr. Ellis from_his official position. Although Mr. Ellis disclaims any connec- tion with any contract with the anti-Par- nellites, and notwithstanding the fact every man whom Mr. Healy has sought to befoul has been able to show clean hands in the affair, the incident had the effect to throw several seats to the Parnellites and paralyze the Irish vote in the great industrial centers in Great Britain, where that voteis expected to turn the balance of power. The Irish voters in these centers have already become sus- picious of the English home-rulers, and are now in the last stages of disaffection | over this episode in the prolonged warfare | within the Irish party, which threatens | finally to shatter the Nationalists into mu- tually destructive factions. CANCELS ALL ENGAGEMENTS. It 1s Said Harcourt Wilt Retire From Politics. LONDON, Exe., July 14.—William Ver- non Harcourt, ex-Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, who was defeated yesterday in the election at Derby, had many engage- ments to speak at political meetings in the Midland counties this week. He has can- celed ‘all of them, and this afternoon re- turned to London. It is reported that he will temporarily retire from politics. TO CONTEST DOUBTFUU SEA1S. Irish-Americans Will Send a Fund to Their Home Party. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 14.—At a meet- ing of the New York Council of the irish National Federation to-day, Jeremiah' B. Murphy presiding, these resolutions were unanimously adopted: WHEREAS, The return at the present election ofalarge and compact Irish party is of para- mount importance for the advancement of the social, commercial and financial interests of Ireland and the attainment of home rule or legislative autonomy, Resolved, That we urge all those citizens of New York, whether or not of Irish birth, who love justice, liberty and humanity,to con- tribute to the Irish party that moral and finan cial support in this crisis which will enable it to contest every seat in Ireland where it is pos- ssble to elect a Nationalist. It was announced at the meeting that in answer to circulars sent to various cities there had been received promises of $5000 from Boston, $117 from Baltimore, $200 from Manchester, N. H., and $2000 from Philadelphia. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS. Various Causes Ascribed for the Defeat of the Liberals. LONDON, ExG., July 14.—The Daily News, the Liberal organ, will, in its issue to-morrow, ascribe the Liberal defeats in Manchester and the vicinity to the elect- ors’ selfish views of the collection of cotton duties. The paper admits that the defeat of Sir William Vernon-Harcourt is a great disaster, and ascribes it to the prominence he gave the local vote. The Standard (Conservative) will say: “Never has a general election opened more propitiously for the Unionists.” The Chronicle will ascribe the Liberal defeats in the north to Mr. Chamberlain’s unscrupulous tactics three months ago in raising the question of the Indian cotton duties. FOUGHT BLATE AT Sl An All-Night Battle With Fire on the French Liner La Normandie. Passengers Remain Qulet and Orderly and the Flames Are Finally Conquered. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 14.—The French liner La Normandie, which ar- rived from Havre this morning, had a decidedly eventfal voyage. Just afver her departure from Havre one of the firemen, Francois Le Flem, was in- structed to open one of the coal bunkers. He did so, using a naked light. As soon as the hatch was opened there was a rush of gas, which instantly ignited from the lamp flame and exploded with tremendous force, instantly killing Le Flem and doing more or less damage to the bunker fill- ings. Le Flem was only 19 years old, and was a native of Brittany. He was buried | at sea. On July 9, just after the passengers had seated themselves at dinner, fire was dis- covered in the forehold and a fire alarm was instantly sounded. The crew ran to the fire stations and lines of hose were stretched along the deck. The passengers were quiet and orderly under the circumstances, and there was no panic. Officers and crew worked all night long and towards morning had the fire well under control. At 9 o’clock on the morning of the 10th the fire was entirely out. The passengers, headed by Thomas 0’Connell, James Campbell, Mrs. Henry M. Saunders and J. Bussat drew up a set of resolutions thanking the officers and crew for their bravery and energy. La Normandie made port without any further incident. On July 6, off the Lizard, the St. Louis passed in sight of the French steamer, and quickly drew ahead and out of sight. ————— GIVEN ONE HUNDRED LASHES.) Alleged Immoral Persons Punished by a Kentucky Mob. LOUISVILLE, K¥., July 14—A mob of several hundred people called at the Owsley County Jail at Booneville yesterday, and, @'ter taking three alleged immoral persons from the jail, gave each 100 lashes on the bare back, afterwards returning them to the jail, where they will remain until tried'at the regular term of the Owsley Circuit Court. The victims were Cora Pace, colored, and Mary Hundley and Louis Stewart, the latter two whites. The mob also posted notices at the doors of a number of offenders that they would be visited in a like manner. SHOWS GREAT SPEED, Splendid Run of the De- fender in a Trial Race. THE VIGILANT BEATEN. Left Far Astern When the Win- ning Sloop Finished the Course. ISELIN IS WELL PLEASED. After a Few Finishing Touches, the Flyer Will Be Ready to Meet All Comers. PROVIDENCE, R. I., July 14.—The big sloops, Defender and Vigilant, met outside off Newport, between Beavertail Light and Point Judith to-day, and although the wind was not very strong there was some very interesting work done by both boats in the few hours’ friendly brush. The Defender and Colonia were towed down to Newport from Bristol in the early morning, and both dropped their anchors at 8 A. M. in the outer harbor, west of the torpedo station. The tug Aquideneck was sent for by Mr. Iselin Saturday, and she lay at Bristol all night in order to bein readiness this morning. The Vigilant arrived off Newport shortly after the Defender and made her way through the channel vast Fort Adams, but slowed her pace, waiting for the Defender to get under way. The latter boat hoisted the mainsail and then the anchor was taken to the bow. Her jib and staysail were soon set and she was away on the port tack, heading toward the eastward, with a good breeze from the northwest. She tacked once or twice, working a short distance to windward, and was then kept hard off before the wind with sheets off, passing close to the shore off Fort Dump- ling. The Vigilant was running along by Castle Hill, while the Defender was a couple of cable lengths astern, bowling along at a good rate of speed and gradu- ally picking up on the Vigilant. On board the Defender were C. Oliver TIselin, Woodbury Kane, Herbert C. Leeds, J. B. F. Herreshoff, the designer, and a friend of Mr. Iselin. Captain Haff was at the wheel, watching every point. The de- signer was hanging on the lee preventer backstay, watching closely the light sails, to see if they shivered in the wind. The private signal of C. Oliver Iselin, the syn- dicate manager, was flying from the top- mast head. . The parties who were on board the Vigi- lant were the manager, E. Willard; John 'W. Sawyer of New York, the sailmaker, and C. H. Wintringham, who designed the recent changes in the Vigilant. The two latter gentlemen came on from New York the previous evening in order to go on board to observe how she got along in her new form. A large fleet of both steam and sail vachts followed as closely as possible the two white-winged racers as they sped along before the northwester breeze. The wind was holding well while the yachts were moving down the narrow channel between Mackerel Cove and Cas- tle Hill. It was now 11 o’clock and the Defender had been under way an hour when it was seen that the Vigilant was rigging out her spinnaker boom to starboard, the booms of the boats being to the port. Inthe fleet of boats that followed were the naphtha launch Jennie C filled with newspaper men and the tug Aquideneck with another eontingent of press reporters. The Vigilantappeared to be well ahead of the Defender,having been under way earlier in the day and in order to give her adver- sary a chance to catch up with her, she hauled sharp on the wind a few lines until the Defender was nearly abreast of her. The Vigilant spinnaker of silk and cotton was hoisted at 11 A. », and immediately broke out of the stops. When set it ap- veared rather full and did not hold the wind in good form. Ten minutes later the De- fender’s spinnaker boom was rigged out to | starboard and the sail set up in stops, the men working like beavers to accomplish the work. Both boats were off Beavertail Light at 11:15. The Defender was a trifle ahead of the Vigilant, having edged her way up on her, although her spinnaker still hung in the stops. Both boats had working top- BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 19800. ¥ [#rom the Paris Illustration,] n sails set and the wind was blowing squarely over their taffrails as they began to draw away from the land. There was no sea rolling outside to speak of, only a gradual ground swell heaving in. This was accounted for by the wind being off the land during the night. The day was all that was wished for as far as pleas- ant weather was concerned. The wind blew about ten or eleven miles an hour and it was predicted early in the race by old salts that there would be a change before long, as the indications pointed to the wind coming from the southwest. It was now 11:20 o’clock and the De- fender broke out her spinnaker to star- board a short distance off Beavertail. The boats were within a short range of each other and the race was commenced. The Defender’s spinnaker was taken in almost immediately after, but a man was sent aloft and it was reset in less than five minutes, whatever the trouble was having been remedied. 1t was the first time the spinnaker was set and it looked well from every standpoint. It wasa better fit than the Vigilant's spinnaker, not being too full, vet enough to hold the wind well. It was once more taken in,a piece of rope having been afoul of one ot the blocks, but in nearly an instant it was again spread out to the breeze. At 11:25 the Defender in running down to wind had gained a length on the Vigilant, the course of both boats being south to west, the wind still blowing at the rate of ten miles an hour and the con- testants within a cable’s length of each other. The Vigilant’s tender, the steamer Aeronaut, was hovering close by in case she was needed. The boats went down the wind handsomely, and at 11:35 were off Narragansett Pier, neither showing | any advantage. The sailing yachts by this time were left far astern and there were only five steam yachts that kept close up to the big boats. The view of the racers as they glided through the water with spinnakers set was a beautiful one, and something long to be remembered. The Defender left hardly a ripple in her wake, and she simply rolled over the surface of the ocean without any fuss or trouble. The wind, which was holding on well during the forenoon, began to drop at 11:45 and the impression among the yachtsmen was it would die out altogether. Itwasa very close race, so far, the racers keeping the same distance away from each other as at the start, the Defender in the lead. Eight bells were struck on board the Defender while stili off Narragansett pier and holding a lead over the Vigilant. The stretching of the Vigilant’'s spinnaker in the breeze did not appear to make it set any better, as it shook in the wind contin- ually. ‘When between Narragansett Pier and Point Judith the Vigilant headed a little more to the westward, which brought her nearer the Defender, the wind being nine | or ten miles an hour. A movement was then made to take in the spinnaker aboard the Vigilant. A man was sent aloft and he sail was housed at six minutes past 12 o'clock. It was evident by this movement that Mr. Willard wished to try other tactics, as they had been racing about an hour, the Defender holding a short lead to the last inrunning before the wind with mainsails, topsails, spinnaker and balloon jib 'sails. The Defender then followed the Vigilant’s move and took in the spinnaker, the boom being unshipped in the course of a few minutes. The crew of the Defender worked quickly and was very active i responding to orders. The new boat’s jib was hoisted in stops, and the racers began to haul up on the wind near Point Judith, booms to port and heading west by north. The Defender surely gained on the Vigilant with the wind abeam. The sheets were hauled in on board each boat until they were sharp on the wind and heading west. At 12:10the Defender was headed upinto the wind and her halyards swayed up all around. It was now arace to windward and it was very exciting. There was no question now that the Defender was walk- ing away from the Vigilant, as she was beating her doing windward work, besides leaving quite a gap between each, which was noticeable every moment. Of course a small allowance should be made on ac- count of the Vigilant being further to lee- ward when the boats were hauled on to the wind. At the same time the Vigilant was doing nobly. The new sails of the Defender, which had been stretched during her spins, set well in every part and hardly a wrinkle could be seen in any of them. They fitted like a glove. The run before the wind was about eight miles in length. The racers were heading well up along the shore abreast of Narra- gansett Pier, and the wind, although not strong, was good and steady, the Defender outdistancing the Vigilant, although the latter boat showed up in splendid style. At 12:24 o’clock the Defender’s forestay sail was set, the Vigilant's staysail and jib going up at the same time. Both boats were now sailing close to the wind, but the Defender had gained on the Vigilant fully a quarter of a mile in twelve minutes and was edging up into the wind. The De- fender’s balloon jib was taken in at 12:26 o’clock and the baby jib top sail sent up instead. The turn was taken up with the wind to sway the halyards of the Defender at this point. The Vigilant’s balloon jib was taken in and stowed away, while everything was drawing splendidly on board the Defender, which helped to send her along at a good gait, rendering it almost impossible for a steam yacht to keep up with her notwith- standing that the breeze was far from be- ing all that was desired. There was a slight gain noticed in the speed, and the race did not last much longer, as both boats tacked, and as the wind was dying out the Vigilant kept off around Point Judith, the Defender heading for Newport. Captain Haff, in an interview. said that the Defender is as stiff asa church, and | will carry the canvas required. Her work to-day -proves that she is a good, tight weather boat, and Mr. Iselin was fully pleased with her performance. He says the programme, as laid ouat at present, is a sail to-morrow afternoon, afterward going up to Bristol to finish the work on her, which is expected to be completed by Tues- day. On Wednesday there will be another trial, and then she will be taken to New York for the completion of the tuning up, and will be entered in every race possible in order to give the crew plenty of prac- tice. b Three Thousand WUl Strike. BELLAIRE, Oxio, July 14 —Three thou- sand coal miners in Ohio Courty, W. Va., will quit work to-morrow and ask for an advance of wages from 51 cents to 60 cents per ton, OPEN THE CAMPAIGH, The Republican Women of Utah Issue an Address. CLUBS TO BE FORMED., Ready to Fight for the Suc- cess of the Party of Progress. PLAN OF ACTION MAPPED OUT. The First Gun Fired In an Enthus= lastlc Mass-Meeting at Salt Lake City. SALT LAKE, Urag, July 13.—The Re- publican women of Utah have fulhlled their campaign promises of last fall by step- ping boldly into the political field and is- suing an address to ‘their sisters through- out the Territory. The old Federal court- room was well filled with ladies last night. Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells, who has worked for years past in the cause of equal rights for women, called the meeting to order, and among those present on the platform were: Mrs. Isaac Trumbo, Mrs. Margaret Blaine Salisbury, Mrs. C. W. Bennett, Judge Bennett, George M. Cannon, Hon. Charles Crane, chairman of the Republican Territorial committee, and others. Rouse ing Republican speeches were made by Messrs. Bennett, Crane and Cannon. Mrs. Pardee read the address to the women of Utah. It was long, but elo- quent. After dealing with the important National issues of the party it contained the following words: “There should be organized immediately in each precinct in each county of the Ter- ritory Republican women'’s leagues, for the purvose of registering all Republican women in the precincts. The chairman of your Republican County Committee will furnish you on application plans and sug- gestions for organizing leagues, and the members of the county and precinct com- mittees will gladly render any assistance in their power in perfecting these organi- zations. “The success of the Republican party at the coming election will doubtless depend largely upon your activity in preparing at once for the possible exercise of your fran- chise in November, 1896. Every woman may be proud to call herself a Republican —a member of that party which stands alone in being able to boast, ‘I can look backward without shame, and I can look forward with exultation.”” A plan of campaign was mapped out for the women of the Territory, and the name “Utah Women’s Republican League” was chosen for the new organization. MRS. STEVENSON’S CONDITION. She Suffered a Relapse, but Soon Rallied Again. BLOOMINGTON, Inn., July 14.—The wife of Vice-President Stevenson, who was taken suddenly and seriously ill on Fri- day and was much better last night, had arelapse at noon to-day. She seems to be rallying again, and it is thought she will be much better by morning. A P Congressman Remann Dead. VANDALIA, IrL., July 14.—Hon. Fred- erick Remann, Republican Congressman from the Eighth District, died at his home in this city this morning at 1:35 o’clock after an illness of more than three months. His death was the result of a complication of diseases, the principal one being ner- vous prostration. Colonel Remann was born in Fayette County, Ill., in 1847, and attheage of seventeen enlisted in the army. Trade With Formosa. ‘WASHINGTON. D. C., July 14. —In view of the Japanese occupation of Formosa Mr. Jernigan, United States Consul-Gen- eral at Shanghai, has sent the State De- partment a report on the trade of Tamsui, the principal port of the island. Mr. Jernigan calls attention to the fact that our trade in kerosene oil nearly doubled during the past year, and most of the tea of Formosa is consumed in the United States. OTHERS recovering from the illness at- tending child- birth, ot who suffer from the Y effects of disor- ders, derange- ments and dis- placements of the womanly organs, will find relief and a permanent curein Dr. Pierce’s Favor- ite Prescription. Taken during preg- nancy, the *‘ Prescription”’ MAKES CHILDBIRTH EASY by preparing the system for parturition, th’ns assisting Nature and shortening “labor.” The painful ordeal of child- birth is robbed of its terrors, and the dangers thereof greatly lessened, to both motieer and child. The period of con- finement is also greatly shortened, the mother strengthened and built up, and an abundant secretion of nourishment for the child promoted. If THE MARRIED WOMAN be delicate, run-down, or overworked, it worries her husband as well as her- self. This is the proper time to build up her strength and cure those weak- nesses, or ailments, which are the cause of her trouble. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription dispels aches and pains, melancholy and nervousness, brings re- freshing sleep and makes a new woman of her. Mrs, ABRAM LYON, of Lorraine, Jefferson Co., V.., writes: “I had been aufl'erins from ulceration an fll? ive me up and sai ere was no help for me. At last, almost dis- cou 1Ibegan tak- 8 ing_Dr. Pierce's Faff vori Prescription! and took five bottles. 1t is three years since and I haveé not had .n‘y return of the trouble. I feel ites ful, and in fact, owe my life, {n: not think I should bave been alive now if I had your medisiag'!