The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 1, 1895, Page 1

MONROE DOCTFINE FOR CUBAIS DEMANDED. | Sympathizers Held Two Big Meetings at Chicago. o \ \ FOUR THOUSAND THRERE. Ringing Resolutions Ask That Recognition Be Given the Insurgents. STRUGGLE OF THE PATRIOTS. Many Reasons Urged for the Claim That the Island Rebels Are Belligerents. CHICAGO, Iri., Sept. 30.—Surrounded by patriotic mottoes, with the American flag as a background the Declaration of independence asa textbook and the spirit | of liberty as an inspiration, 4000 persons | 2d themseives hoarse to-night in the | ¢ of Cuban independence. There tvuld scarcely have been more enthusiasm bad the meeting been held in Cuba itself. Central Music Hall was not big enough | to hold all the sympathizers and there | was an overflow meeting in the anditorium | of the Young Men’s Christian Association | building. At both meetings the same res- k olutions were adopted and speeches were made by mea prominent in civi .Affnirs,J all of whom uncompromisingly favored | « the freedom of the island in the thralldom of Spain. The resolutions express sympa- | thy for the revolutionists, call upon the United States to recognize them as bellig- erents and ask other countries to join in i this demand. They begin with the best- B L . to continue the work begun at to-night's | two big assemblages. i Some of the mottoes on the walls of the two halls were: | I know not what course others. may | , but as for me, give me liberty or give | m@death.”’—Patrick Henry. | hen a long train of abuses and usur- | ons evinces a design te reduce the ! H ! known paragraph in the Declaration of In- | jish a Government under the protection of the dependence and end with a determination | United States, which will secure to their peo- 4 \ \ it is their duty to throw off such tu¥ernment.”’—Declaration of Independ- | mee. | “The moral progress of a people can { scarcely begin tili they are independent.”” ~Martineau. “There is, however, 2 limit at which for- nice ceases to be a virtue.” —Edmund Burke. “Phe history of +hn nresent strygoels ice “JFrepeated injusfice and usurpa- having one direct object, the ent of absolute tyranny over "’ —Declaration of Independence. ‘Where liberty dwells there is my ountry.”—Milton. “The God who gave us life gave us Iiberty at the same ' jme.”—Thomas Jef- ferson. Messages of sympathy were read from | Senator Cullom, Governor Altgeld, of Illi- | nois; Russell A. Alger, Mayor Pingree, of | le under absolute despotism it is their | [ cn‘ers and uproarious applause and the teraper of the audience was evident before ten} sentences had been completed. Dr. Gunsaulus was followed by Thomas B. BT_ an. Judge William J. Hynes spoke next. “I am| here to-night,” he began, “not as a Spaniard ora Cuban, but as an American, and to voice the sentiment of every Ameri- can who wishes success to Cuba in this straggle to free herself. For ten years she has made this struggle without an expres- sion of sympathy. Let them have that expression now as early as possible in this last fight and let them know that Chicago at Jeast is willing to do all in its power.” Congressman William E. Mason did not think it was much use to hold a meeting passing resolutions of sympathy with the Cubans when the United Staies turned its back on them. He thought as to the opinion so freely expressed that Cuba puld not rule itself, if it could not do so npw it never would be able to. Should | Spain be allowed to pinion its vietims for another hundred years? T is was followed by the reading by the seerctary of various letters and telegrams rece:ved, expressing sympathy with the movement. The most important of them | follows: UNITED STATES SENATE, WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 24, 1895.‘ 8ince I have been in the Senate of the United States I have introduced in nearly every ses- sion of Congress a resolution requesting the Presilent of the United States to institute nego- tiations with Spain for the independence of Cuba. The principles upon which our inde- pendence and our institutions are founded demand such action on our part, and we ought to give every proper encouragement and aid 10 other people, & majority of whom desire to assert their independence of the Govern- | ments of the Old World and to estabiish repub- lican institutions. I have had no doubt from the beginning of this insurrection, of its ulti- mate triumph, and I shall, when Congress meets, offer & resolution recognizing the in- surgent government in Cuba &s & belligerent power.- The Cubans have smong them many elements of distinguished successes. They are ve, patriotic and of a quick and sprightly nee, and with opportunity will estab- ple the blessings of liberty and good govern- ment. ¥ am, with very great respect, your obedient servant, WILKENSON CALL, United States Senator from Florida. SPRINGFIELD, IlL., Sept. 28, 1895. e that Spanish misrule, Spanish bru- :nd Spanish outrege should be driven he American continent. The nations long asserted the right to interfere for ose of suppressing any practice that shocks the moral sense of the civilized world, such as cannabalista and the slave trade, yot the cannibals do not torture their vietims and do not induige in wholesale slaughter, while in Cubs the torture is fiendish and the butchery continuous. We must end these horroreor also talk less about our Christian civilizajon. Besides, when viewed from a geograjhical and political or military stand- paint, Juba should be ours. Let our country firgt extand recognition, then s helping hand, sy Y3 Thare 3t UHOIL This @rng ila 1 ;g island of the world will become the gem ofthe seas, Truly yours, JoHN P. ALTGELD, SPRINGFIELD, 111, Sept. 30, 1895, The people of the United States strongly sympathize with the Cubans struggling to be free from Spanish domination. Our Senate should do everything consistent with natural honor in their behalf, 8. M. CuLLoM, DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 30, 1895. Fortunately we have a precedent that cor- responds very closely, if not exactly, with their case. 1n March, 1822, many of the pres- 1 - r /i3 ARTOLOME MASSO, WHO HAS ju gF AFFAIRS BY THE REVOLUTIONARY CHIEFTAINS OF CUBA, C BEEN PLACED AT THE HEAD \ of troit; Senator Call, of Florida; Mayor ostwick, of Jacksonville, ¥la.; Mayor idwell, of Cincinnati; Mayor Salmon- -, of Tampa, Fla.,and others. Nearly ry prominent club and organization in . city was represented on the list of vice- ssidents, which included also the best- nown business and professional men. Th mong the associations represented were he Loyal Legion, G. A. R., Confederate £ ssociation, Sons of the Revoiuiion and State Federation of Labor, Irish-Ameri- can, Scandinavian, German and Afro- American societies. Mayor Swiit presided at the meeting at Jentral Music'Hall. In opening the pro- ©edings be made no speech, but took oe- ¢ ‘jon to express himself as in full accord o ove speaker, Rev. Dr. Gunsaulus, a Spaniard, but he could not his own country in the face of toward the oppressed. The dawn ’s redemption was already break- bail a righteous revolution. A& nce made by Dr. Gunsaulus to the yity of the administration met with ent South) American republics, which had bean struggling with their master. Bpain, for free- dom, for many years, appealed to Presidemt Monroe to be recognized as nations. On March 8, of that year, the President sent a message 4 Congress, which in part I quote: “As soon as the movement assumed such steady and consistent form as to make the suc- cess of the provinces probabie, the rights t which they were entitled under the laws of nations were extended to them. Each party W2s permitted to enter our ports with its pub- lic and private ships and to take from them every article which was the subject of com- merce with other nations.” This message was a recommendation that the independence of those nations be recognized, their belligerent rights having been previously recognized by our Government. SBuch a bill was passed by Congress and became a law. It seems to me that what had been done pre- viously by our Government, €0 clearly defined by President Monroe as quoted, concerning the belligerent rights of those countses should now be granted to Cuba. She has made a magnificent struggle for liberty; has formed a rovisional Government; has been victorious n many hard fought battles with every ad- Vantage ag: her save that she is right. | trust and g?‘heueva she. will win her in- dependence, %oun truly, R. A. ALGER, JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Bept. 24, 1895. The Cuban patriots have my tulless sna “Wou are another—IEBeZaxam! THESE COUNTER ACCUSATIONS ARE BELIEVED BY THE READING PUBLIC WITH UNEXAMPLED TRUSTFULNESS. most hearty sympathy in their noble efforts to zee themselves from an arrogant and oppres- sive Government. May they succeed. W. M. BoSTWICK, Mayor. DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 28, 1895. Your meeting to express ympathy with the Cubans in their struggle for liberty and seif- government has my sympathetic approval. Certainly thej least our General Government ought to do in the premises is to accord bellig- erent rights to Cuba, which would be only fol- lowing the precedent set by Spaln in accoraing the same rights to the Southern Confederacy. Personeily X mv0r the'anrcxation of Guda. H. 8. PiNGrEE, Mayor, To the Rev. Dr. Barrows was entrusted the reading of the resolutions. In full they are as follows: =We, citizens of Chicago, gathered to express our deep sympathy with the Cubans in their brave struggle to secure for themsclves and their children the blessings of independence, liberty and self-government, present the following: | We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are en- dowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of gov- ernment becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a naw government, laying its foundations on such prineiples and organiz- ing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes, and, ac- cordingly, all experience has shown that mane kind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolish- ing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when & long train of sbuses and usurpa- tions, pursuing invariably the same object, evince a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for thelr future security. This historic declaration made by the found- ers of our Republic on July 4, 1776, was true then and it is to-day, For many unhappy years the Cubans have been most shamefully op- pressed and cruelly burdened under the yoke of Spanish rule, which has become intolerable. 1f the fathers of American Independence were justified in casting off the oppressive dominion of Great Britain, the Cuban patriots of to-day have far greater justification for their attempt to overthrow the tormenting, impoverishing, heartless tyranny of Spanish Government. We desire publicly to express our indigna- tion in this year, 1895, the spectacle aspre- sented in shiploads of soldiers sent across the ocean to America, “the land of the free,” to shoot down in cold blood e eourageous people who simply desire to govern themselves. Our indignation is furtheraroused at the un- speakable cruelty of the Spaniards toward the Cubans in this struggle. Death seems to be the penalty meted out to all Cubans captured under arms, and even thoss-furnishing medi- cines to the so-called rebels are to be ruthlessly shot. F We glad to notice that the course of the Cubans appears to be more humane, and we take this opportunity of congratulating them upon the remarkable progress they have made in spite on the terrible odds against them. We believe it to be the privilege and duty of the United States Government to recognize the rights of the Cuban revolutionists as bellig- erents as soon as possible on being so requested by competent Cuban authority in accordance with international law. Buch action of our Government we deem due to the Cubans and to the cause of universal liberty. While disavowing all bitterness of feeling on our part toward the people of Spain we never- theless believe that it is our duty and privi- lege at this time, as citizens of this free Repub- | lic, thus to express our heartfelt sympathy with our Cuban neighbors, living upon an island which nature has made a paradise, but which the ernel methods of the Spanish Gov- rnment have done so much to despoil. We espectfully urge our fellow-citizens through- ,but this country to assemble in mass-meeting diffuse information and thus arouse, or ther deepen, th mpathy of our whole peo- le with the Cubans in their heroic attempt to t off the yoke of oppression and to achieve at independence and freedom which are the t highways to happiness and prosperity. ‘e also urge the press and the pulpit and afar, with voice and prayer, to continue their bilp to the righteous cause of men who are brively fighting for home and uative l1and. eespectfully, but urgently, appeal to the ns of all repubiics in the three Americas to §ive emphatic expression to their sympa- th{with the strugglin, nak- ople who a; ¥ jor &M 1ndepel:d:‘noe ingsuch a gallant fight ON LAKE AND OCEAN. Reported Loss of Sev- eral Craft in Rough Weather, e STORM AND DISASTER. The Schooner John Raber Driven Ashore and the Captain Drowned. OTHER VESSELS IN DISTRESS. At Cape Henry the Steamer Mar- garet, Which Went Ashore, Is a Total Wreck. WHITING, Isp, Sept. 30. — The schooner John Raber, lumber laden, from South Chicago to Michigan City, went ashore at Dune Park, eighteen miles below here, late this afternoon. The following were drowned: William Johnson, captain and owner of the boat, and an unknown sailor. 1t is reported late to-night that the body of another sailor has come ashore three miles east of here, but this is not confirmed. The Raber had a crew of nine men. She left South Chicago at an early hour this morning. The sea was ugly. The Raber held up well until opposite Dune Park, which jsat the very foot of Lake Michigan. Here the sea was terrific and the vessel labored heavily. Captain Jobnson has managed to keep his boat in her course until this point was reached. Here a strong wind from the north was felt in all its force and in a few moments the boat was out of the beaten path. + SAULT STE. MARIE, Mics., Sept. 30.— The steamer Schuck arrived down this afternoon and reports that while lying in shelter in Copper Harbor the City of Yaris came in and went ashore. The steam barge Birkhold, towing the schooners Chester B. Jones and Elma, all lumber- laden, Baraga to Ogdensburg, lost her con- sorts oft White Fish Point yesterday morning. The Chester is at anchor three miles off White Fish Point. The Elma is reported as foundering with all hands lost in Munising Bay. The Birkhold is safe under Grand Island. The other consort, the Commodore, is waiting here for her. The tug Bointon has gone to White Fish Point to try to rescue the Jones. Her crew has probably been taken off by the Vermilion Point life- saving crew, which went to her this morn- ing. The only names of the crew aboard the Elma obtainable here are: Captain John Thurston, wife and child. The terrific nortbwest gale which has raged here for two days doing great dam- age to shipping continues. Reports of yes- sels ashore and stranded, owing to the steady gale driving the water southeast- ward and intelligence that all kinds of wreckage is coming ashore north of here, are heard from various points, It is re- ported that two large steamers are ashore at Kewaneehaw Point. The captain of the Schuylkill which ar- rived from Duluth this morning said he could not make out who they were, but thought they were the Matoa and Masaba belonging to the Minnesota Company and valued at $200,000 each. The steamers cleared from Two Harbors yesterday for Cleveland, loaded with iron ore. The point where they are aground is said to be the most dangerous of any on the whole chain of the lakes. From White Fish Point comes the report that a schooner is flying signals of distress. Two tugs have one to her rescue. $ At Shell Drake the barges Karney and Lillie May of the Nelile Torrent tow are ashore and total losses. Twenty boats are anchored between here and Iroquois Point, and above the en- campment several large steamers are awaiting an abatement of the gale. Near Manistique wreckage has been com- ing ashore since Friday. About ten miles east were found pieces of a table and bed and part of the cabin from aschooner. The wood was paintea white. This is probably what is believed~to be the pilot- *| Lduse of & steamer, as originally reported. Although nothing could be found with & name on it, it is thought that the wreck- age is from the schooner which went to Ppieces near St. Ignace. NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 30.—The steamer Margaret, reported ashore near Cape Henry, isa totalloss. The vessel was on her way to Tampa, Fla., to run excursions between that place and Manatee River. At 11 o’clock to-night the wind at Cape Henry is blowing a northwest gale of thirty-six miles, and the steamer can hardly stand it through the night. She has broken in two and is now breaking up. The entire crew are now csmped on the beach, four miles north of Cape Henry life-saving station. Among them is pretty little fourteen-year-old Bertha Mosier, a niece of Mate Fischler. GLASGOW, Scorvaxp, Sept, 30.—The British steamer Wallachia, bound from this port for Trinidad, struck on the rocks on Beacon Perch, in the Clyde, yesterday, then bounded off and sank. All on board were saved. WAS SHOT FROM AMBUSH John Emarine of Omaha Fired Upon While After His Children. While Going to the House of His Divorcea Wife He Was Waylald by an Assassin. OMAHA, Nxsr., Sept. 30.— John Emarine was shot and severely wounded about 7:30 o’clock at the home of W. K. Eames, father of Emarine’s divorced wife. The wounds he received may prove fatal. Emarine was married several years ago to Miss Eames. They had two children. After their marriage Emarine, who had renounced his former intemperate habits, began drinking heavily again. His wife was finally compelled to leave him and seek refuge in the home of her parents. Emarine approached the house yesterday and avowed his intention to take his children. According to Emarine’s state- ment to his physician, Dr. J. M. Barstow, he was approaching the barn from the road when suddenly, without warning, some person whom he could or did not see fired both barrels of a shotgun at him from a distance of about thirty feet. The location and direction of the wounds indicate that the person who fired must have stood slightly forward of Emarine, but almost directly to his right. The shot were small, but there were plenty of them. The first charge apparently struck Emarine on the right arm, the bulk of the load entering about the elbow. Several of the shot entered the abdominal walls and 1t is feared that some may have penetrated the stomach. His recovery is doubtful. e e EXCOMMUNICATION OF A PRIEST. Aftermath of the Formation of a New Polish Church. CHICAGO, Ini., Sept. 30.—Rev. Father Anthony Kozlowski, the priest of the Polish Catholic church of All Saints, has been excommunicated. Father Ko- zlowski is the priest who was in 8t. Hed- wig’s Polish church last winter, and who, with a large part of the cougregation, seceded and formed the new church of All Baints. Yesterday in all the Polish churches the order of Archbishop Feehan excommunicating the priest was made public. In spite of this edict the church of All Saints was open yesterday and mass was said. The congregation was present in | Alexander PRICE FIVE CENTS CHINA YIELDS TO ENGLAND'S ULTIMATUM. large numbers, too. Everything was most orderly, although quite a crowd stood about the door all day discussing the action of the Archbishop. RESCUED BY FIREMEN. ZThree Women Carried From a Burning Building in Time. CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 30.—Firemen res- cued three persons from a burning building at 147 South Halsted street this morning at 3 o'clock. They were Lizzie Disbey, Lizzie Marks and Bertha Meyers. E. Marks, pro- prietor of a barber-shop at that number and who lived with his family m the sec- ond story, could not be found and it was feared he had perished in the flames. The flames were discovered in the saloon ad. joining. An explosion was heard and smoke and flames came bursting from the front of the building. A man was seen running away from the place just before the explosion and it is thought the fire were of incendiary origin.. The loss wiil reach $10,000. WILL HARNESS LIGHTNING. McAdie Coming Here to Assist Forecast Official Hammon. | Given Increased Facllities to Prose~ cute His Most Important Investigations. WASHINGTON, D..C., Sept. 30.—Chief | Moore and the Weather Bureau officials gave a farewell banquet to-night to Alex- | ander McAdie, who was recently ap-| pointed assistant forecaster at San Fran- cisco to aid Professor Hammon. McAdie leaves to-morrow, and expects to report for duty on October 15. For some time he has been engaged in a series of experi- ments, investigating lightning, elec- | tricity and clouds. The decisive reason | for sending him to the coast was to give him increased facilities under new con- | ditions to prosecute his investigations. It | is expected that his observations will be printed in the form of a rerort in due | time. Hy | takes with him Government | appliancet, used here in his investigations, and to these will be added facilities at the Lick Observatory. In his speech to-night Chief Moore pre- dicted that McAdie would in due time harness 2 bolt of coast lightning and analyze the same, showing how much rainfall it could produce, how much it could contribute to a cyclone or windstorm and utilize electric storms in transmitting weather signals hundreds of miles seaward for the benefit of shipping interests. In- creasea facilities, including apparatus and appliances, are to be furnished the San Francisco office, and more work in the! ltne of compiling information covering the coast is to be done at that point. FIRED THE WRONG BLAST, Five Men and a Boy Killed by Premature Explosion of Powder. Two Others Who Took Shelter Under a Ledge of Rocks Were Serli- ously Wounded. INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Sept. 30.—A premature explosion occurred in a rock quarry seven miles northeast of Indepen- dence at 6 o’clock last night, five men and | a boy losing their lives. Appended is a list of the dead : Miles Mc- Tiernan, contractor; Thomas Ferguson, 14 years old, son of John Ferguson, a farmer; Dan Rogers, Pat Welsh, Charles Truett and an unknown Italian. All the dead except the boy were from Kansas City: In addition to these John Ferguson, father of the boy killed, and Joe Fleming and an unknown Italian were se- riously injured by flying rocks, but it is thought that all of these will recover. Two blasts were set just before quitting last night, one on top of a large ledge of rocks, the other much higher and further up the side of the hill. They were to be touched off with wires from an electric battery. The men took refuge under the ledge of rocks immediately beneath the first blast, intending to touch off the one higher up. By a mistake the blast over the ledge was fired first. The explosion tore loose the whole ledge of rock and an immense mass fell forward upon the men. All of the bodies were recovered during the night except those of McTiernan and Truett, which are still beneath the mass. McTiernan was at the head of the Kansas City Construction Corapany, the. leading firm of its kind in that city. e e SWINDLED POOE PEOPLE. Disappearance of the Manager of an In- surance Concern. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 30.—A. B. Hintz, manager of the Omaha Life Asso- ciation in this city, has disappeared and scores of people who are insured in the as- sociation have been calling at the office in the Temple block since he locked it. Most of them were poor people, who said they were insured in the association for sums varying from $100 to $1000, for which they paid dues from 20 cents to $2 a month. The association has collected thousands of dollars from the poor of this city and adjacent territorry, whom its solicitors have induced to insure in the association. Its plan has been to seldom pay a claim without & contest, which, if necessary, is carried into the courts. Their business 1s nearly all done with the poor, whose igno- rance of insurance methods and laws per- mits them to be readily ‘bluffed” when they have aclaim. LARGEST EVER TRANSPORTED. A Big Coast Defense Gun on the Way Here. OMAHA, Nep., Sept. 30.—The Union Pacific took West to-day one of the big coast defense guns which the Government is placing on the California coast. The gun weighs seventy tons and requires three specialiy constructed cars to convey itacross the continent. Three months of daily toil will be required to mount it, as ‘masonry has to be constructed for it. This isthe largest that bas yet been trans- ported anfl will be used to” guard the en- trance San Francisco harbor at the Golden’ te. | has published an Ready to Accede to All the Demands Re- cently Made. VICEROY LIU DEGRADED. For Failing to Protect Missions He Is Stripped of Rank and Office Forever. THIS A WARNING TO OTHERS. Leaders, gf the Attack at Swatow Arrested and All Implicated to Be Punished. LONDON, Exa., Sept. 30.—The Govern- ment has received information that China has yielded to the pressure of the British ultimatum by degrading the Viceroy ot 8zechuen and acecording in full the other demands of Great Britain. A dispatch received at the Foreign Office says that the Chinese official gazette imperial edict an- nouncing that the Viceroy of Szechuen has been stripped of his rank for failing to protect the missionaries and will never again be allowed to hold office, so that his case will serve as a warning for all future time to officials who may be disposed to do wrong. The decree also denounces the subordinate officials of the province | who failed to take proper action for the protection of the missionaries. The Times will to-morrow print a dis- patch from its Berlin cortespondent saying that China has informec Germany that the leaders of the attack on the German mis- sion have been arrested, and that meas- ures will be taken to capture the others implicated in the outrage. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 30.—The State Department was advised by Minister Denby that Viceroy Liu = had been dpgraded by an imperial decree issued to- day. The abstract of the decree cabled by Mr. Denby shows that the responsibility for the Cheng-Tu riots in the province of Szechuen rests with the officials, that Viceroy Liu was exceedingly careless and took no notice of the riots and made no at- tempt to stop the outrages; that he is de- prived of his office and never again will be employed. Other officials are also to be punished. The American commission will proceed, notwithstanding this aetion, to conduct its investigation of the riots. The Secretary of the Navy was to-day advised that Lieutenant-Commander Johun P. Morrell of the Baltimore had been substituted for Lieutenant-Commander Barber as a mem- ber of the commission, the latter being ill. The other members of the commission are Consul S. P. Read and Fleming Cheshire. Additional demands are understood to have been made by the Brilish and American Ministers, and if they are complied with, a long step in the right direction of reform in the province of Szechuen will have been taken. These Ministers have, it is understood, made ademand that all examinations for pro- motion in and appointment to office shall cease in the province for three years. This is intended as a blow to the officeholding class, from which source emanates all the alleged information cried among the na- tives for the purpose of inciting them to commit outrages. The Asiatic squadron, which has been concentrated at Chee Foo, has dispersed. The flagship Baltimore has gone to Na- gasaki, the Yorktown to Chemulpo and the Concord to Shanghai. TOER BRICE. Free Silver Democrats of Ohio. Have Thoroughly Organized. CLEVELAND, Oxo, Sept. 30.—On Fri- day of last week the Democrats of Ohio who believe in the free and unlimited coin- age of silver met in Columbus on the call of Allen W. Thurman, son of the old Ro- man, and held a secret anti-Brice caucus, To-day the cat is out of the bag through the utterances of Judge E. J. Blandin of Cleveland, who was present. It was de- termined to take an enrollment of the free- silver Democrats of the State and keep a book containing their names. Commit- tees will be appointed in every Congres- sional district, who will constitute an ex- ecutive committee and who will select sub- committeemen for each county. These last named will in turn select township committeemen. Free silver will be preached from the platform and in private. The great object is to defeat Senator Brice in his hopes to be re-elected to the Senate, and to secure the control of the Ohio dele- gation to the Democratic National conven- tion. Incidentally a blow will be given to ex-Governor Campbell, who has a Presi- dential bee in his bonnet, and who is ' groomed by Brice. Brice is bending every * nerve to elect a Democratic Legislature, which will return him to the Senate. Blandin himself would like right well to be a United States Senator. S i George H. Fail mt Dead. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. L.—George H. Vaillant of New York City, late vice- president of the New York, Lake Erieand Western Railway, died yesterday at a private sanitarium at Bristol, R. L., from a complication of diseases following the lo- comotor ataxia. For Pacific Coast Telegrams see Pages 3, 4 and 5. SMOKE La Belle Greole CIGARS, 3 for 28¢--10c Straight--2 for 250 ASK DEALERS FOR THEM. RINALDO BROS. & CO., Pacific Coast Agents, 300-1)2 BATTERY ST., S. F.