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2 THE SAN FRANCISCO .CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1896. saloon-Keeper, as he wrenchéd the weapon from the outlaw’s hand, threw it out of the door to the drwbed of a creek just outside the doorstep. he'did- this, the robber disengaged himself and rushéd from the saloon. Before going to the door, Sanguinetti had placed a 38-caliber revolver in his hip pocket. In the struggle with the robber, he had lost this. He was exhausted and so bruised from his beatine that he could scarcely crawl. As he put out his hand to raise himself up, it touched the pistol that had fallen from his pocked. He seized this as a drowning man does a straw, and it proved his salvation, for a moment later the man who had assailed him entered the door again. He had recovered the pistol | thrown inio the creek bed. *This is the lasttime you will ever take a pistol away from me,” the bandit said, advancing on the still prostrate form of the Itahan. Sanguinetti could scarcely turn over to face the outlaw. Asthe rob- ber advanced again he raised his pistol and took deliberate aim at the exhausted man. Sanguinetti had his weapon in his hand, and pointing it quickly at his assailant fired. The bullet struck the robber just above the heart, and he fell back on the | steps of the saloon. Sanguinetti was still on the floor, but he succeeded in crawling ; over to the bar and rising to his feet. Then he walked over to the door and placed the bar back in its position to lock it, as he did not know then that he had killed his man. He went into the bed- room and washed away the blood that had | clotted in his hair covered his face. Then he sank upon the bed from exhaus- tion. The terrible fight for life haa com- | pletely unnerved him. | Shortly after 4 o'clock this morning he aud at first was afraid to go out- uilding for fear that the robber | was lying in wait for him. As he un- | barred the door of the saloon he saw the man who had assailed him the night be- fore ; on the porch. His legs were on the veranda, while his body was lying | head downward upon the steps. The! mask was still upon his face, and the re- | volver with which he had intended to kill Sanguinetti was grasped in his right hand. The saloon-keeper saw that his assailant of tbe night before was dead, and though he could hardly maove, as the result of his encounter with hte robber, he crawled best he could over to the home of a neigh- bor, Mrs. Carroll, and had one of her sons | drive him into Tracy. There he told of the killing of the masked robber and gave | himself into the custody of Constable | Maurice Byrnes. The constable brought Sanguinetti to this city to-day, and he was placed in jail | here as a witness. The Distric Attorney | offered to let him go, after hearing his version of the affair, as he is a manof | known veracity, but he preferred to re- | main in jail until after the inquest on the | side the as body of the man he had killed. i anguinetti was attended by Drs. Clark and Gibbons. It was found that he was | black and blue all over his ‘body, where he had been beaten by his would-be slayer. His eyes are blackened and his scalp is torn nany places, where the butt of the revolver aescended upon it. He is now swathed in bandages and awaiting the re- Itof the inquest to be held to-morrow. afte Devuty Coroner Jory went to the scene the shooting early this morning, and ned at 7 c'clock to-night with the He found it lying in the position that Sanguinetir bad described, with the revolver grasped in the right hand of the noon. dead man. When Sanguinet rst de- | scribed his assailant to the officers on his | ival here this ‘morning they were cer- n that the robber was Dunnam, the San | Jose murderer, as his height and weight | answered the description perfectly. When he was brought here to-night it was found | that thi s a mistake, as a number of | the residents of Tracy identified the robber | as & men nam d Anderson, who had | worked about that place from time to time. He isof about Dunham’s age and wears a light mustache, besides having a beard of about a week’s growth;. but there | are a number of people who are confident that thedead man is the Anderson who up to a short time ago worked at Tracy. HERCE BATILE 1N CAETE The Turks Succeed in Relieving the Besieged Town of Vamos. At Reimo the Fighting, Burning and Pillaging Continue—Consuls Ask for Warships. ATHENS, Greece, May 3L—Advices have been received here to the effect that | Abdullah Pasha after fierce fighting has | succeeded in relieving the town of Vamos, which was besieged by the Christian in- surgents. LONDON, ExG., May 31. — The Daily News will to-morrow punlish a dispateh | from Athens saying that in relieving Vamos the Turkish troops first carried | Tsivara after a bloody fight. The position | in the Canea district is serious. At Reimo | the fighting, burning and pillaging con- tinue. The consuls at Heraclion have asked that warships be dispatched to that place. S R o REJOICING IN THE TRANSVAAL. Widespread Joy Over President Kruger's | Magnanimity in Releasing Reform Committee Prisoners. _ [ ‘LONDON, Ex6., May 31.—The Johannes- | burg Standard telegraphs that the release of all the members of the Reform Com- mittee with the exception of Messrs, Rhodes, Hammond, Farrar and Phillips, the four leaders, who were originally con- ied to death, has caused widespread “joicing in the Transvaal and elsewhere South Africa. The members of the inesburg Exchange sent a telegram sidert Kruger expressing to him armest thunks for his generous ac- ch they declared would have a ial effect throughout South Africa. ch adds that confidence is felt resident will extend his gener- ¥ to the four leaders who are still in un. of fifteen years' im- prisonment ——— TO ax> LGASCAR. A French Move Whnich Concerns England and the U -ited States. PARIS, Fraxce, May 31.—The Cabinet has decided to submit to the Chamber of Deputies a bill declaring Madagascar a French colony. This measure will enable the French Government, according to pre- vious agreement, to abrogate the treaties now existing under which the United States and Great Britain enjoy & special economic regime in the isiand, Preferred Death 1o Captures MARYSVILLE, Kaxs., May 8L.—While the two were working in a fieiq yesterday, George Mock killed bis wife with a hoe after a quarrel and fled. A crowd sterted in pursuit of him. Seeing that he was about to be overtaken, he cut his throat. | Salonica, and an equal number are on the | of Prince Bismarck, blames England for | Embassador to Italy and Embassador at WAR OVER CRETE A POSSIBILITY, The Situation Engages the Serious Attention of Germany. ITS MANIFOLD DANGERS Concerted Action Urged to Pre- vent Turkish Occupation of the Island ENGLAND IS AGAIN CENSURED. Bismarck’s Organ Accuses Her of Inciting the Revolt ani Suggests a Way to Suppress It. BERLIN, GErMANY, May 3L.—The situ- ation 1n Crete is engaging the most seri- ous attention of the German Government and greatly absorbing public interest as involving manifold dangers to the peace of Europe. Itisan open secret that the Government, in the event of any radical change taking place in the relations be- tween the island of Crete and the Porte, will support a proposal for the union of the island with the kingdom of Greece. In the meantime the question of the an- nexation of the islana of Crete to Greece | is not one in which the Dreibund is vitally interested, though communications .have | passed between the Governments at Ber- lin, Rome and Vienna tending toward con- certed action on the part of the Dreibund powers in behalf of Crete, and the Greek Government has acked the Government of German to join Greece in exerting. pres- sure upon Turkey against the latter’s throwing large reinforcements of troops into the island with a view of wiping out the Cretan revolt by sheer force of num- bers. ‘What Greece most wants at present is that a sort of truce shall be established bevween the Turks and the Cretan rebels while the European powers confer as to means of a final settlement of the Cretan question. At present the force of Turkish regular troops on the isiand is 7200 men, and 1800 additional troops about leaving eve of departure from Smyrna io re-enforce them, Opposing this force there are now over 20,000 Cretans under arms, and they are being rapidly strengthened by Greek volunteers who are well armed and possess ample supplies of provisions and amuni- tion. Thus force is able to hold the entire island against the Turks with the excep- tion of the fortified towns. In an article discussing the immediate outcome of the Cretan trouble, the Vossi- sche Zeitung recommends t e appointment of a Chnistian Governor for Crete who shall administer the public affairs of the island under the supervision of a commissjoner, who shall be an European. \ - The Hamnburger Nachrichten, the organ inciting the rising of the people of Crete, and suggests that the European powers settle the Cretaa questions concurrently with the Egyptian question in a way which will defeat the aims of the English Government. Among the officially inspired Austro- Hungarian newspapers the Pesther Lioyd expresses the same opinion as that ad- vanced by the Vossische Zeitung, and de- | clares that there must be a root and branch reform of the public administration in Crete without delay. The Austrian clerical organ, Das Vater- land, expresses its understanding that the European powers desire that Crete shall be retained as a part of tbe Turkish empire; nevertheless, the Austrian offictals appre- hend that the breaking up of the Turkish empire may begin with the sevaration of Crete from Turkey Since the first announcement in the middle of February last of the complete discord between Emperor William and M. Herbette, the French Embassador, the Emperor has adhered to his determina- tion not to meet the Embassador perso n- ally until he should call to present his letters of recall, which he did last Tues- day. The meeting between the Emperor and M. Herbette was a formal affair, which marked the ending of an extremely disagreeable episode. The Cologne Gazette, in a very cour- teous article upon the withdrawal of the plain-speaking French diplomat from the | German court. says that in leaving Ber- lin M. Herbette can feel assured that the German officials will render full justice to the activity which he has displayed in the direction of maintaining peace. M. Herbette will retire permanently from the field of diplomacy and return to his scientitic studies. The Marquis de Noailles, formerly French Minister and Constantinople, who has been appointed as M. Herbette's successor? is a trained dipiomat of high birth, with the personal style of a well-bred gentleman, and al- ready commands expectations of success in court and aiplomatic circles. Since President Thiers sent him to Washington as Minister of France to the United States in 1872, the Marquis de Noailles has had a good record until 1886, when he left the diplomatic service at his own request, his retirement being associated with his dis- pleasure at the edict issued by the French Government banishing the Orleans family from French territory. The Hamburg Correspondenz says that the nomination of the Marquin de Noailles to be French Embassador to Ger- many constitutes a triumph for the policy of M. Hanotaux, French Minjster of For- eign Affairs, over that of the late radical Ministrv of France, who wished to senc to Berlin a democratic Embassador. The German Foreign Office getting wind of this, the paper says, contributed on its side to | compel the: French Government to aban- don the idea. The presence of the Mar- quis de Noailles in Berlin, the Correspon- denz cor:tinues, will prove the intention of France, without sacrificing any of her old projects of revanche, to maintain relations with Germany through an Embassador whose social position will enable him, 10 inform his Government of the tendencies of the policy of Germany in a superior way to that in which M. Herbette was ever able to do. By the retirement of M. Herbette, who was the senior of the diplomatic corps, Count Lanza di Busca, the Italian Embas- sador, becomes the doyen Embassador, but as the Count is a bachelor, the wife of M. de Szogyeny Marck, the Austrian Em- | spondence was due to Mr. Olney for the | near where the body sank ” 5 bassador, who # ‘next in the rank of se- niority, becomes the doyenne of the dip-- lomatie hody# and will' make all the pre- sentabions of foreign ladies to the Empress at courths . % The cgse of Louis Stern of New York, who forfeitéd his bail ©f 10,000 marks nn- der convict having insulted Baron von Thuengen, deputy commissiener of the Spa at Kissingen, last summer, has oc- cupied a great deal of attention since the publication of the correspondence on the | subject which passed between Baron von Thielman, the German Embassador at Washington, and .Hon. Richard Olney, Secretary of State. The home papers have assumed that the publicatiou of the corre- purpose of causing inconyenience to Baron von Thieiman and bringing about his re- tirement, but it has not occurred to them that the correspcndence was published in the ordinary course of things, with no pos- sible bias behind its appearance apart from the utterances of an irresponsible press. The position entertained in the Foreign Office is that Stern did not exhaust the ordinary legal means at his disposal to obtain a reversal of his sentence and that he asked the State Depariment to inter- fere in his case before he had gone to the end of his legal 1esources, thus causing trouble all around which could bave been averted. Dr. Chrysander, Prince Bismarck’s physician,has informed the Silesian de- vputation} who has arranged to call upon the ex-Chancellor and pay their respects | to him, that the state of health of the Prince is such as to render it desirable that the reception of the deputation be postponed. The dates of the reception has therefore been fixed for June 6. | Mrs. Edwin Ubl, wife of the United | States Embassador, is about to begin a ! serics of receptions, which will be held | at her residence in Thiergarten Strasse, The Emperor has telegraphed the Czar a message of sympathy and sorrow at the unfortunate disaster upon the occasion of the fete upon the Hodynsky Plain at Moscow yesterday when upward of a thousand men, women and children were crushed to death. A meeting of the German Colonial So- ciety was held yesierday at which it was | resolved to petition the Reichstag to grant credits for an increase in the strength of the navy upon the ground thatthe navy | as it is at present constituted is inadequate to protect the expausion of the German colonial possessions. Prince George of Cumberland, son of the | Duke of Cumberland, who recently under- | went an operation at Gmendun fer the re- moval of an abscess in the thigh, is still in a critical condition, hopes of his re- covery being slight. The Berlin dentists who were graduated from the American College of Dentistry held a meeting yesterday and decided to form an organization which is to bein- corporated. MOONSHINER TRAGEDY. A4 Daring Detective Kills His Man and Loses His Own Life. LEXINGTON, Ky., May 31.—Thomas Hollifields, one of the most daring de- tectives in Eastern Kentucky, was killed by a moonshiner named Adams, whom he was trying to arrest yesterday. Adams also suffered death. Hollifields and an- other official located Adams in the house of his father and went in to arrest him. The “*shiner” ran out the back way and | was shot by Hollifields. The father, who | had secreted himself behind a door, then | fired at Hollifielas, a load of buckshoz[ taking effect in his back. | e — | CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE. | Result of an Inquiry Into the Harlem River Disaster. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 3L.—Miss Liz- | zie McKeon, one of the party thrown into the Harlem River last night by the col- | lision of the steam launch Ben Franklin | and transfer-boat No. 5 of the New Youk, | New Haven and Hartford Railroad, died at the Harlem Hospital to-day. The body | of Kate Murray, who was drowned at the | time of the accident, was recoyered to-day | The body of | Mabel Wolfe, who was also drowned, has | not been recovered. Frank McHugh, en- | gineer of the Ben Franklin, was taken | before Coroner Dobbs to-day and was sent | to the Tombs in defauit of $2000 on a charge ‘ [ | of crimiual negligence. e Mangled by a Blast. WATERLOO, Iowa, May 31.—By the l premature explosion of powder last even- | ing, Fred Burmeister and Julius Burmeis- ter were fatally injured. Fred Burmeister | had both eyes blown out and both arms had to beamputated. Julius Barmeister’s right arm was badly burned and one eye | was blown out. Both men will probably | die. They were blasting bowlders. Both | are single. | this mornir | made 17, HONRS WO AT STOCKTON Olympic Club Marksmen Are Champions of the State. VICTORS AT THE BUTTS. The California Target Association Cup Will be Brought to San Francisco. SHIELL'S CLEVER SHOOTING. Captures More Prizs Than Any Other Competitor—Los Angeles Wins a Tie. STOCKTON, Car., May 31.—The second day’s shoot of the California Inanimate Target Association’s tournament was more successful than the first. The grounds at Goodwater G were crowded from earty 1 late at night. The day was perfect fir ,tod shooting, but in spite of this factjin tpp team shoots the scores did not reach the marks made yesterday. Crowds were coming to tae grounds and | going from them all day and fully 5000 | people must have witnessed the shoot be- fore the last trap was pulled at dark this | euening. One of the first events of the day was the shoot for the Golcher trophy, which was scheduled as the fifth event. Besides the trophy for the man making the high- est score, there were seven money and sev- eral merchandise prizes. In this event good work was done by Fanning of the | Oiympics, Trombone (W. H. Seavers) of the Reliance, and Stiell of the San Joaquin | Gun Club, they tieing with twenty birds | each. In the shoot-off Fanning made seventeen, Trombone eighteen and Shiell sixteen, giving the trophy to the Reliance man. the shoot-off of the tie between the team from the Stockton Athletic Association and the Los Angeles Gun Club. Yester- dav both teams made scores of 102, and to- day thousands of people stood outside the ropes to watch them decide the mastery. Following is the resuit of the contest that gave the trophy to Southern California. Los Angeles Gun Club— Ralphs 19, Van yalkenberg 15, Leighton 19, Mason 17, Chick 8, Parker 17. Totai, 105. Stockton Athletic Association—Winders 14, Gail 14, Schaefer 17, F. Merrill 20, Haas 16, Hauxhurst 18. Total, 9. Nexi of interest was the shoot-off of the ties for the ‘‘Gold Dust” and the E. T. Allen trophies. There were three who tied at twenty birds each for the first- named trophy vesterday—Chick of San = | Diego, Haas of Stuckton and Barney of | Ritchie fourth. To-day Chick the Lincoln Gun Club. Haas 16 and Barney 17. Chick and Barney again shot, Chick scoring 17 and Barney 15; so Chick takes the “*Gold Dust’’ medal this year. Last year it was heid by Shiell of Visalia, who did the best all-around shooting of the present tournament. The Olympic Gun Club won the State championship cup of the association. Following is a summary of the ecores made: san Joaquin Velley Gun Club—Wood 16, Rice 17, Shiell 18, Fox 16, Armitage 16, Mc- Veagh 14. Total, 97. i Olympic Gun Club—Fanning 20, O. Feudner 18, Webb 16, Naumenn 16, W. Goleher 15, Haight 15. Total, 100, (»\_‘I-ilul City Gun Club—Upson 11, Ruhstaller 12, Thomas 15, Newbert 17, Yoerk 14, Nicolaus Total, $2. 13. Reliance—Cadman 13, Gross 12 Tubbs 12, 5 =) The chief inferest of the day centered in Trombone 16, Ingalls 16, Baker 16. Total, 82. Eureka Gun Club—Pluke 15, Russ 14, Kelly 14, Williams 13, Gamble 11, Blaine 16. Total, 3. Garden City Cyclers—Carroll 15, F. Coyken- dall 12, Holmes 13, Anderson 15, R.Coyken- dall 16, Heidelberg 17. Total, 88 Stockton Athletic Association—F. Merrill 16, Winders 13. Schacfer 14, Gall 11, Haas 15, Hsuxhurst 17. Total, 86. Antioch Gun Club—Durst 17, Ross 16, Dur- ham 19, Proctor 14,Romfree 14, Taylor 12. Total, Siockton Gun Club—C. Merrill 18, Balkwell 19, Ellis 16, Payne 15, Jessen 14, Loujers 15. Total, 97. Empire Gun Club—Young 12, King 16, Bil- lington 17, Andrews 12, Winning 18, Quinton 19. Total, 94. Lincoln Gun Club—Bruns 16, Karney 14, Barney 16, Murdoch 15, Flickinger 18, Daniels 14. Total, 93. Amador Gun Club—Esola 13, Whitfield 13, Proctor 13, Voorhies 16, Solari 12, Jarvis 17. Total, 87. Los Angeles Gun Club—Mason 15, Chick 18, Parker 18, Leighton 16, Van Valkenberg 15, Ralphs 17. Total, 99. Spooubill Gun Crub of Sacramento—Fitzger- ald 16, Steiger 13, Chapman 18, Soule 12, Damm 11, Eckhardt 15. Total, 95. The third event of the day was the shoot for the individual championship of the California Inanimate Target Associa- tion. Sensaboy broke 20 straight birds and took the championship medal. Chick took the second prize' of $25, and Heidel- berg (Dr. Barker) secured third place. Hauxhurst of Stockton made a fine showing in all of the shoots, as did Frank Merrill, the youthful member of the Stockton Athletic Association’s team. In the team shoot yesterday for the Overland trophy Le made 20 straight birds,and in the shoot-off to-day made another run of 20. The best all-around shooting was done by Sniell of the San Joaquin Valley Gun Club, who took away more money prizes than any other man upon the grounds. The honors of to-day’s shoot were di- vided between Fanning of the Olympics, who did first-class work; Shiell of Visalia, Trombone of the Reliance Club, Frank Merrill of the Stockton Athletic Associa- tion and Sensaboy of Visalia. Trombone of the Reliance Club did great work with his Winchester and made some clean scores. He thinks that he was defrauded out of one bird apa that he should have been piven a tie with Sensaboy for the in- dividual championship of t! e State. Last year he was the winner of this medal. On the whole the tournament was well managed and the committee, headed by Charles Haas of this City and President | Allen and Secretary Schaeier of the asso- ciation, deserves great credit for the man- ner in which it arranged to accommodate | the crowds of shooters who have faced the | traps for the past few days. Never before |in the history of trap-shooting in this | State were there so many entries as in the tournament that closed this evening, and there has never been a meeting,of the men who break bluerocks that was as success- fully conducted as this shoot of the Cali- fornia Inanimate Target Association that has just ended. The club members who remained in town sat down to a banquet in the Yosemite | Hotel to-niznt. hey were a merry | throng, ana there was not one who left Stockton but who was well pleasea with the twodays of sport in this city. e oS FRESN(O’'S CYCLING MEET. Farmer Wins the San Joaquin Falley Ten-Mile Handicap. FRESNO. CaL., May 31.—The ten-mile bicycle handicap, open to all wheelmen in | the San Joaquin Valley, was run at the fair grounds to-day in the presence of a large crowd. The following were the | starters: W. A. Decker, R. G. Bar- {ton and R. Heriot, all of | Fresno, and J. W. Bell, Visalia, scratch; | Baker, Visalia, 640 yards; J. Hertwi K, Kresno, 650 yards; Ed Myers, Visalia, 660 yards; Buker, Fresno, 670 yards; Ritchia, Hanford, 630 yards; Ed Hertwick, Fresno, 840 yards; Locan, Fresno, 860 yards; A. | Hoag, Fowler, 920 yards: Farmer, k¥resno, | 920 yards; Hanberger, Fresno, 1080 yards; Johnson, Fresno, 1100 yards. | Farmer won the race by a little over a | foot from Hoag. Johnson was third and Decker won the time prize in 28:48, with Barton second. Eu ertwick, who looked like a winner, was ruled out early in the race. Jhinese race, one mile, was won by Sam Sue against four competitors. 2 cE Sy i Nanta COruz Team Defeated. SANTA CRUZ, CaL., May 3L—Man- ager Ely tried out three substitutes to-day | in the basebull game with the Oakland |league team. The result was that the | Oaklands wiped up the earth with the locals. The large crowd in attendance | was disgusted with the poor exhibition, | feeling that the local team ought to have | won from the visitors. The score was: Santa Cruz 3, Oakland 17. s e S Champaubert Wina the Derby. PARIS, Fraxce, May 3L.—The French derby was run to-day and was won by Champaubert with Champignon second and Trebous tnird. There were sixteen starters. The winner was ridden by Boon, ‘Gnlnmpignun by Pratt and Trebous by Arlen. | e e Lowers His Bicyele Record. LONDON, Exg., May 3l.—Michael, the “Little Wonder,”” has again lowered his | bicycle record for seven miles. . Yesterday at Olympia, Kensington, he covered the distance in 14 min. 3-5 sec., his time being two seconds less than that previously made by him. CRACK MARKSMEN WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE SEOJTING TOURNAMENT AT STOCKTON. NATIONAL SILVER PARTY CIRCULAR Strong Appeal to Friends of the White Metal to Organize. TO BREAK PARTY LINES A Political Conflict Such as Was Never Seen Belore Is Predicted. LINING UP FOR THE BATTLE' All Believers in the Restoration of Free Coinage Are Urged to Prompt Action. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 31.—The fol- lowing circular has been given out for pub- lication: HEADQUARTERS NATIONAL SILVER PARTY, ) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 30. § To the Friends of Silver : Since the iounding of this party on Januafy 22, 1896, the work of organizetion has been steadily but quietly pursued, and the country has been aroused to a pitch of excitement unknown sinee the Civil War. Silver is on all lips throughout the land. It is echoed and re-echoed from the gilded mansion to the lowly cottage. As each hour passes it becomes more ep- parent that a political conflict the like of which has fiever been seen before is just at hand. It must be clearly understood at once that party lines cannot withstand this conflict, and so far as the [riends of silver are concerned, they must not. The party leader who puts in bis time mend- ing party lines while the silver cause suffers will be relegated to & deserved seclusion. There is no time for composing differences be- tween the men who do not agree on this ques- tion. The only thing to be considered is how thdse .who do agree can get together. They who sy they are for free silver and atthe same time plead for tha unity of parties are not the friends of silver and the suffering peo- ple. The unity of old parties 1s the death of silver, as everybody knows, Those who 100k to coming years for a peace- ful settlement of this matter mistake the con- dition of the times and the temper of the peo- ple. There can be no delay. The conflict will not wait. The houf has come. The secret of success in this conflict consists in the lining up for the battle. Those who compose the line must be friends, striking the same blows for the same object. This breaks party lines, and party lines once broken will never be felt. The meeting of the earnest men on the 22d of January, 1896, marked an epoch and will live in history. The convention which grew out of it, to be held in St. Louis on the 22d of July, will undoubtedly be' one of the most im- portant conventions and notable gatherings ever assembled in this country. Upon the wisdom of its acts and that of the People’s | Party Convention, to be held at the same place and time, depends the vital question as to whether we can have a just settiement of this money 1ssue in our generation. If that issue | can be clearly presented to the voters of the United States stripped of all other political questions and under astandard and leadérship which will command the confidence of the | people it will win by an overwhelming ma- jority. Our friends are urged to push the work of organization with all possible vigor, giving no heed to those who advise waiting the action of the old parties that contain enemies as well 8s iriends of our cause, The power of our organization to defeat the ambition of the | Janus-faced politicians is being recognized by | all parties, hence clean-cut declarations for or against silver are the rule in the local conven- tions of the old parties this year. Our purpose is to unite for action all be- lievers in the restoration of free sliver and prosperity. This cannot be accomplished by inaction or delay on the partof our friends. The Republican party is committed to the gold | standard through the platforms of 80 per cent of the State conventions, and any straddle that may be made in its National platform will deceive no one. The Democratic party must not exvect the country to accept any canaidate it may name acquiesced in by the gold wing of that party. The question of vital importance is for free sflver men to name a candidate for President whose nomination will be readily acquiesced in by all believers in monetary reform. Friends of stlver, look to your interests and organize now, while the fruit is ripe for pluck- ing. Do not Waiton the problematical action of any party. . MorT, Chairman. —_——— REPLJES TO CORRESPONDENTS. The New XYork “ Times” Sums Up the Situation of the Democracy. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 3L.—The New York Times to-morrow will print replies from its correspondents throughout the Union to the following set of questions: Are the Demoorats of your State in favor of the gold standard or of the free coinage of sil- ver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 17 ‘What action will they take through their delegation in the National Convention? Will the Populists of your State fuse with the ggmncmlfi on a free silver Presidential candi- ate ? Would this combination carry your State? Do tie goid Democrats of your State fave separate gold Democratic candidate if the Chi- cago convention declares for free silver ? In summing up the situation the Times says: The replies show that the results of the con- tests thatare now assured will determine the complexion of the Chicago convention. The gold men will contest ninety-four silver seats in Illinois, Nebraska and Texas, while the sil- ' > who speak out in open hostility to the order. —_— SILVER DEMOCEATS JUBILANT, b The Sweeping Fictory of Free Coinage Men in Kentucky. LEXINGTON, Ky., May 31.—The free silver leaders are jubilant to-day over their sweeping victory throughout the State yesterday. Accurate figures on returns from the entire State show 670 free coinage deiegates to the Democratic State Conven- tion, against 240 for gold. The silver men carried every Congressional distriet in the State exeept the Fifth, which is the Louis- ville district. The western end of the State, including the First, Second, Third and Fourth districts, did not send a single sound money delegate, and for that reason the leaders, who have consulted with Sen- ator Blackburn, think it will be proper to make a Western Kentucky man chairman of the convention. The choice will prob- ably fall between ex-Congressman Good- night of the Third District and Congress- man Stone of the First. Senator Blackburn is disposed to be magnanimous. He said to-night: “This is no time for quarreling. The success of the Democratic party ought now to be the aim of every true Democrat. We have fought a good fight and we have won. We ought not to say an unkind word of our late opponents, nor censure {hose who came to us at the eleventh hour.” The friends of Carlisle and Cleveland are Dot so easily propitiated, for they say they vznl not vote for a free-silver candidate for President. They ovenly avow their pref- erence for McKinley or any other Repub. lican for President over a silver Democrat running on & free-silver platform. Senator Blackburn will probably be made temporary chairman of the conven- tion Wednesday. Hze is in splendid pirits to-night over his victory, and has received hundreds of congratulatory telegrams from all over the Union e A THROWS UP BOTH HANDS. Watterson Says Kentucky Is Now in the Republican Column. LOUISVILLE, Kry., May 31.— The Courier-Journal, in an editotial to be pub- lished to-morrow, throws up both bands as far as future Democratic success in Ken- tucky is concerned. It says the State is from now on in the Republican column. The editorial in pagt says: “They (the Democrats) have repudiated the only President the Democratic party has elected and seated for fifty years. They have repudiated the most dis- tinguished of Kentucky's living sons and the greatest Democratic intellect in the United States. They have spit upon the fathers of the party whose name and organization they claim; have proclaimed Jefterson an ignoramus, Jackson a con- spirator, Benton a knave and Cleveland a traitor. “For the faith handed down through a hundred years of giorious party history they have substituted a !ndprsjeclpd by every intelligent civilization on the globe, and for the exponents of that faith they have substituted such avostles of popu- lism as Stewart, such exhorters of social- ism as Tillman, evangelist of anarchism as Altgeld. “Saturday’s work makes Kentucky Re- publican for years. Before Satarday Bradieyism was dead, but Saturday made it possible for any Republican to carry Kentucky over a party which binds itself to the corpse of free silverism. The one | thing now for tne Kentucky Democracy is | that the Chicago convention shall not | ratify its stupendous blunder, and that chance seems ill too remote.” CLAKKSON USLY ILL. Succumbs to Over- Exertion After a Tour of the Country. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 31.—James 8. Clarkson of Iowa is seriously ill in his apartments at the Fiftn-avenue Hotel. Mr. Clarkson has been ill for more than two weeks, but his illness was not con- sidered of a grave nature, Yesterday, however, after what had appeared to be & period of sure recuperation, he had are- lapse and was reported to be in a danger- ous condition. Mr. Clarkson, who is the member of the Republican National Committee and the acknowledged manager of the Allison boom, returned ‘from an 8000-mile trip about the country & tew days before he be- came ill. - He was obliged, in fact, to come back from Washington, where he had yone to confer with Senator Quay and other mem- bers of the anti-McKinley combine. Owing to his illness a consultation of the antu- McKinley men was delayed for several days, but he was not strong enough to at- tend the meeting. 1t was said that had Clarkson been con- tent to rest quietly and refrain from undue exertion he would have recovered more promptly, but that he was not content to do this. At a late hour to-night Mr. Clarkson was said to be about the same. gyt s OFER AN EMBANKMENT. ME. Pittsburg Trolley Car Jumps the Track, Injuring Several Persons. PITTSBURG, Pa., May 3L—A trolley car on the south-side branch of the Sec- ond-avenue Traction Company jumped the track at Six-mile Ferry this afternoon. It fell down an embankment about fifteen feet and turned upside down, and the twenty-seven passengers were thrown into an indiscriminate mass in the top of the car. Ralph Clark of Mount Oliver re- ceived a broken arm; C. Bierman of South Thirteenth street had his shoulder-blade broken and the others escaped with minor Jinjuries. OUGH on the face - that is what the sarsaparillas and iodide of potassinm—mixed—are. When you want a good sarsaparilla that will cure constipation, liver complaint and affec- ver men will contest the eight seats of South Dukota. In these contests will be found the | balance of power. Neither the gold nor the | silver men can secure two-thirds of the dele- gates. A majority of 200 would be the limit. | It may be safely predicted that the Dewn cratic convention will not straddle the fina cial issue. Everilhing indicates that iv will | declare unmistakably for eYther gold or silver. In almost every State the issue has been made | between the silver men and the goid men. Moreover, the Democrats will recognize the financinl issue as paramount in the coming campaign. With them the tariff has become of secondary importance. It is doubiful if there will be a bolt of any | considerable dimensious from the National Democratic Convention. As to the silver men, they have announced their determination to nominate an independent candidate if neither party nominates a silver man. g3 sl e A SENSATIONAL SERMON. Catholics Are Cautioned as to Presiden- tial Candidates. FRANKFORT, Ky., May 31.—Father Tom Major, pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd, created something of a gensation in his sermon to-day. After reading a letter from the Bishop of this diocese directing the Young Men’s Insti- tute, a Catholic organization, to send let- ters to. Governor McKinley, Senator Alli- son and other Republican and Democratic Presidential possibilities asking them fora written statement of their sentiments in regard to the A.P. A, he said the time nad come when Catholics, in self-protec- tion, should know the sentiments of can- didates for office on this subject. He also asseérted that many Catholics who voted for Governor Bradley were now sorry that they did so. He predicted that but few of those to whom the letters are to be ad- dressed will give an answer to the query in tions of the kidneys take No gripe. TESTIMONIAL. The Edw. W. Joy Company—Gentle- men: Foralmosta year past I have been troubled with pains in my back and side from liver and kidney trouble; also head- aches, especially in the morning. I was astracted toward Joy’'s Vegetaple Sarsa- parilla by the startling testimonials in the daily papers, and, although prejudiced against such things generally, the testi- monials seemed so practical thet I was in- duced to try it, knowing that if it was rurely vegetable it could at any rate ao me no harm. After taking the second bottle my achesand pains disappeared and 1 felt like a new man, and am still taking the medicine, as it is very pleasant to take and acts as a gentle laxative. I cannot recommend it too highly. Yours truly, J. R. FOURATT, Chief Wharfinger, foot of Clay street, S8an regard to the A. P. A., but indicated that Catholics should affiliate only with those Francisco.