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2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1896. the advisability of killing Jack Little- field 2 *Yes, sir.” When asked if there were any others who had expressed a similar opinion the witness replied that there were fifteen or twenty. The defense attempted to show that it_was the universal sentiment of Round Valley that Palmer and Littlefield should be killed, and Sanders suggested to Post that ne supposed them all guilty and in need of hanging. Post said that about twenty-five of them certainly were, and robably would be hanged if the case had geen tried in Sacramento County instead of Trinity County, which is too poor to bear the expense of such a trial. “When you are Judge,” suggested Sand- ers. > “f think not,” said Post, “for I would be disqualified, as I most certainly have an opinion.” Th‘; witness told of a visit to the house of George White to solicit his support in procuring a lawyer to convict Littlefield for stealing his mule. He said, “White, I want you to stand in with me and get a Jawyer.” White refused and asked why be did not “do up” Littlefield. “You wouldn’t have any law out there to trouble you,” the cattle king declared. Witness Doolittle told of several in- stances when he heard conversations re- lating to the proposed killing of Little- field. Gregory hai told him at two or three places in Covelo and at the Red Mountain House that he had good back- 1ng to undertake the job, naming among his backersthe two Grist brothers, George E. White, Tom Henley, John Rohrbough, +Jim” Rebe and Captain Dingnam, Doo- little also had a conversation at Ukiah, in regard to killing Liitlefield, with Joe Gregory, Baylis Van Horn and Tom Hay- don. They stated that they were going to %do him up” by hanging him. Vinton wanted the witness to kil Palmer and Gregory. Haydon said that men that had done them the airt that they had ought to be shot down in their tracks any time they met them. Buck Lacock urged the ad- visability of killing Littlefield and Palmer. A half-dozen more, including John Cro thought Doolittle ought to kill “Jac Littlefield and Joe tregory. Cummius, the constable, also mentioned the killing of Littlefield, ag did George White and all of the Van Horns. £ Doolitule admitted that he had said that Littlefield ought to be killed. At this juncture, Judge Post notified the only woman spectator in court, wno had assumed the time-honored distinction of distributing bouquets among the prisoners, that some very plain languace was about | to be used, and if she did not wishto be | shocked she should leave the room. Then followed a bit of testimony regard- ing the manner in which Joe Gregory desecrated the grave of Littlefield—so bar- barous, revoiting and inbuman that a shudder passed over the auditors. Doolittie resumed his testimony con- cerning the threats against Littiefield. “And,” interrupted Lawyer Sanders, “you did not think that Mount Shasta would go into mourning if he was killed ? And you would not wear crape on your arm and go into mourning if he was killed ?” “[ don't know as I wou!d particularly.” “And you had not anything left for bim to steal, and therefore you were willing ior him to live?” +Oh, I did not want him killed over it.” “Did the Sheriff ask you to teil if you knew who it was who shot Vinton?” “Don’t know as he ever did ?"’ **Has be been 10 you to see who it was that shot one of our witnesses over there the other day—Mr. Sherman at Covelo?”’ This question brought on a discussion between the attorneys as to whether the witness was testifying for the defense or not. The witness said that no one had promised him money, provisions or re- ward as an incentive for him to testify for the pecple. He stated that he had earned his way to Weaverville in company with the Lone Ridgers, showing them where to camp on the way, hunting and cutting bee trees for tuem. He acknowledged that he had had trouble with Joe Gregory about three years ago. George White, Vinton, Thompson and Alec Perry, he continued, said there should be no talk before outsiders about the proposed Killing. When asked to name sorie of the White faction, he men- tioned Judge Spaulding, Alec Perry, Charley Hurt, the Englishes, Frank Thompson, *Jim’’ Rife, the Grist brotners, the two Rohrboughs, Captain Dingham, Tom Haydon, H. C. Simmons, Tom Hen- lev, Buck Lacock, Watkins and son, Handy and the Van Horns. “Have any of them been to the peniten- tiary for cattle stealing?'’ was asked. - “I guess they haven't,” was the reply. ‘They have been pretty close to it, though.” *‘Well, who?” “Tom Haydon for one, and I put up my money to save him.” Dan_McDonald was next calied to tes- tify. He said that in the early part of the summer of 1895, in company with Tom Haydon, Mrs Haydon and John M. Vin. ton, he had heard them talk of killing Littlefield. He said that Haydon came out of the kitchen to where they were sit- ting around the fireplace ana said: ‘i see Jack Littlefield over on the Wylackie range near the log cabin.” {:mon arose, went out with Mrs, Hay- don toward the north of the building snd returned, saying: ““That’s so; they are over there. Now would be a good time to hang ‘Jack’ Lite tlefield.” Mrs. Haydon asked: “What about little Johnnie Wathen ?’ Vinton replied: “Hang him to the next tree. Dead men tell no tales,” McDonald then left Haydon’s house in company with Vinton for Lacock’s house, where Vinton said to Lacock: “We have seen ‘Jack’ Littlefield and Johnnie Wathen on the Wylackie range to-day, and we were talking of going over apd banging him,” Lacock replied: “Well, it is not 100 Jate yet. I'll count them over and see who will go.” Among those chosen or counted were: Lacock, Vinton, Artie Watkins, Tom Hay- don, ¥red Lynch and tbe witness, Mc- Donald. The witness objected to ,bemg counted in, and Vinton remarked: *“No; don’t count him. He isn’t quite as game as the balance.” Buck Lacock said he had a white mare that would puil hard on a rope to hang Littlefield. On cross-examination McDenald testi- fied that Vinton had offered him $20 and a suit of clothes if he would kill Little- field and Paimer, and that he (Vinton) would furnish the Winchester and car- ridges. Rife had told him that if Greg- ory ever turned up missing *Jack” Little- field and Ves Palmer would hang within forty-eight hours. When the witness in- formed “Jack’ Littletield of the conspiracy to take his life Littlefield said he didn’t think anybody was cowardly enough to hang him. George Russell testified that Vinton had said that if he “‘could not get rid of him (Littlefield) by law he knew —— well how he could get rid of him.” THE BERTILLON SYSTEM. Thorough Test to be Made by the Way Department. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 24.—The army medical department will make a trial of the Bertilion system of identifica- tion. Itison the suggestion of an army #urgeon who believes that the method 1san improvement over the present practice of keeping track of deserters and other un- desirable characters who may attempt to re-enter the army. Army surgeons, how- ever, do not believe the French system will be an improvement over the prevail- ing practice. They fear that the liability to error is greater, especially where there is so much likelibood of carelessness on the part of operators. The War Depart- ment, however, has sent to Paris for a set of Bertillon instruments and a thorough examination will be made into the system. ———— T Reeceive Li Hung Chang. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 24.—Orders have been issued to the four troops of cavalry with the mounted band stationed ay Fort Myer, opposite this city, to leave for New Yerk ednesday morning by train to take part in the parade in honor | waukee beginning to-morrow. of Li Hung Chang. CONVENTION OF REPUBLICAN CLUBS Leaders Assemble for the League’s Ninth Annual Session, AFTER THE PRESIDENCY Many Men Anxious to Preside Over the Notable National Organization. MALPIN MAY BE RE-ELECTED. Now the League Is Self-Sustaining and Will Be an Important Factor in the Campaign. MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 24.—The indications to-night are that when the Na- tional Convention of Republican League Clubs 1s called to order in ninth annual session at 10 o’clock to-morrow morning by President McAlpin nearly every State in the Union will be represented. Dele- gations have been coming in all day and the hotels to-night represent quite an ante-convention appearance. Many of them have opened State headguarters at the Pfister and Plankinton and the can- vass for the presidency for the ensuing vear is being actively waged. This and the contest over the selection for the place for the next meeting are really the only matters of interest to engage the at- tention of delegates. There is nothing to show that the at- tendance of visitors from abroad will un- | duly tax the accommodations or hospital- ity of the city. Owing to the demands of the campaign and the hold.ng of several State conventions this weeks many public men and politieians, who would otherwise have been present, will not be here and the list of speakers arranged for the edifi- cation of the convention is notable chiefly for the omission of prominent leaders of party. The members of the National Committee located at Chicago in cbarge of the campaign—Messrs. Payne of Wiscon- sin, Dawes of Illinois, Durbin of Indiana ahd Cummings of Iowa—will be berein the morning and several of them will ad- dress the meeting Wednesday night. Ex- Bpeaker Spooner of this State is also ex- pected in the morning to take part in the convention, N The contest for president is still an open affair and no candidate is likely to go into the balloting with a commanding lead. Charles U. Gordon of lllinois, who.is be- ing championed by Committeeman Dawes, ana who, whether rightly or wrongly, is credited with being the choice of the N tional campaign managers, is the favorite to-night, with D. D. Woodmansee of Chio a close second. The latter has the support of the Ohio and Indiana delegations. General McAl- pin is credited with being unwilling to ac- cept another term, but his State delegation and other Eastarn men will urge his name upon the convention. It has been the volicy of the league to give its president a re-election. - Mr. Clarkson, Senator Thurs- ton and W. W. Tracy each served two years. A new candidate appeared in the field this afternoon—F. R. Conway of Iowa, president of the league of that State and the Public Printer of Iowa. The Hawkeye delegation has been credited as supporters of Nebraska’s canaidate, John L. Webster of Omaha, but at their meeting to-day decided to ask the honor of the presidency for their own State. There is no opposition to the re-election of M. J. Dowling as secretary. Half a dozen cities want to entertain the next convention—Portland, Or., Omaha, Nebr., New Orleaus, Boston, Chat- tanooga and Detroit. The choice will de- pend largely upon the outcome of the fight for the presidency. 1If that goes East the convention will probably go West, and vice versa. The business of the convention will probably be concluded at Wednesday’s session. Secretary Dowling reported to the ex- ecutive committee at a meeting held to- night the result of the year's work and the plans of the league in the present campaign. All the bills contracted for by the present committee, together with a iew small liabilities incurred by their pre- decessors, have been met, and a clean bal- ance sheet will be turned over to the sue- cessors. For the firsttime in the history of the National League the organization has been self-sustaining. The National Republican Campain Com- mittee has organized a league bureau as one of its adjuncts, and Mr. Dowling has been placed in charge at headquarters in Chicago. He will supervise the distribu- tion of all league literature and decide all matters pertaining to league work. As soon as practicable after the adjournment of the present convention a branch bureau will be established at headquarters in New York in connection with the work in that section of the country. Within the past year the organization of Republican league clubs has been extended into everv State and Territory in the Union, and represen- tatives will be present at this convention, Mr. Dowling stated, from every State and Territory except some of the Southern States, The reason for their absence, he said, was that the railroads in that part of the country refused io make special rates. There is at present in National head- quarters a list of every club in the United States, with the local organization. They pumber, Mr. Dowling stated, more than 20,000, and the average membership is up- ward of 100, indicating a total enrollment of over 2,000,000 voters in these organizu- tions. Under the auspices of the league a poll is being made, chiefly in the villages and towns, giying names and postoffice ad- dresses of bolters from the two parties— Democrats who have announced their in- tention to vote for McKinley and Repub- licans for Bryan. Mr. Dowling says the reports thus far received show that the Democratic bolters for McKinley oute number the Republican bolters for Bryan by about 25 per.cent. ——— PREOTECTION THE KEYNOTE. Farmers Now Look to the Tariff Tssus in the Campaign. CHICAGO, I, Aug. 2%.—Republican headquarters were visited to-day by many party workers and delegates to the con- vention of league clubs to be heid at Mil- Among ‘ them were Committeeman Stes! of Or- egon, Judge Bigelow of Nevada and Colonel George Stone of San Francisco, president of the Union League Clubs of California. The latter said that silver1s no longer the bugaboo, although it was three weeks ago, and that the farmers are beginning to look to the tariff issue in the campaign. They see in the money agita- tion an element of uncertainty that is bohnd to have a disastrous effect on busi- ness without promising anything like im- mediate relief. The coionel says the con- test in California will be close, but he be- lieves the State will go for McKinley. Judge W. S. Kenworthy of Iowa has been assigned to speak in Michigan from August 25 to September 12. The Judge has recently returned from Indiana, where he reports he found unbounded enthusi- asm for the Republican nominees. United States Senator Warren of Wy- oming and John T. Millillieu, secretary of the Nebraska State Central Committee, were also callers at headquarters. The number of railway clubs organized throughout the country now has passed the 10¢ mark, according to reports re- ceived here, e PRESIDENT WAKNER’S ADDRESS. An Appeal Issued to the Friends of Bimetallism, CHICAGO, Iir., Aug. 24.—President Warner of the American Bimetallic Union to-night issued -an address “To the friends of bimetallism in the United States.” He reviews the situation from a point of view favorable to free coinage and says the question should be carefully studied by every voter before he casts his ballot. The aadress continues: This cannot be done through the medium of the ordinary daily newspapers,for asa rule they are filled with catch phrases and appeals to special interests that are simply intended to prejudice and mislead. By far thgbest method of diffusing education upon this subject is through the medium of clubs and leagues or unions,. Buch organizations bring the voters together in compact bodies and enable them to collectively obtain at nominal rates the very best literature extant. This in turns leads to discussions, not only by speakers trom the platiorm, but between individuals. As are- sult the chaff is separated from the solid grain, the essential and material matter is sifted out of a great mass that really does nc. tcuch the essence of the question at all. The great con- test is now on and it can only be settled at the polls. Totheend that the decision may be right the American Bimetallic Union strongly urges the formation of silver clubs and leagues in every State, county, eity, town and school district in the Union. President Warner pledges his organiza- tion to aid in the work of organization and education to the best of its ability, pro- viding free such literature as can be so furnished, and all that necessarily involves expenses will be provided at cost. Detailed instructions as to the plan of organization will be furnished on applica- tion to the main office of the union at 134 Monroe street, Chicaro, or to the branch office, Bun building, Washington, D. C. WEYLER'S LATEST DECREE Prohibits the Grinding of Sugar and Gathering of the Coffee Crop. Prisoners of War Still Being Shot. ‘While Insurgents Continue to Wreck Trains. HAVANA, Cusa, Aug. 24,—The decree which it is said Cuaptain-Gencvral Weyler will shortly issue probibiting the grinding of the coming sugar crop will also forbid the gathering of the coffee crop. Felipe Espanola Traviezo, a prisoner of war, was shot at Matanzas to-day. A military train, baving on board the Spanish column under command of Colonel Ceballos, came into colltsion to- day at the station at Guanaba, in the province of Matanzas, with a freicht train, A number of the cars were shattered and the Jocomotive of the train bearing the soldiers was wrecked. Twenty soidiers were injured. The engineer of the mili- tary train was ‘arrested on suspicion of being responsible for the accident. A party of insurgents attempted to de- stroy a vpassenger train at El! Palmo, Province of Matanzas, by exploding dvna- mite beneath the cars. Fortunately, how- ever, no one was injured. It is said that a train was derailed to-day between Jovellanos and Colon, but no details of the affair can yet be obtained. —_—— General Cameron Resigns. OTTAWA, Oxt., Aug. 24.—Major-Gen- eral Cameron, commandant of the Royal Military College at Kingston, has resigned. Many complaints have been made of the manner in which the affairs of the college have been conducted, and General Cam- eron, who is a son-in-law of 8ir Charles bject of arlia- It has always been understood ment. that a change of Government in Canada would mean the general’s resignation. MR AR In a Mexzican Jail. PIEDRAS NIEGRAS, Mexico, Aug. 24.—There is considerable excitement among Americans over the imprisonment of Jerry McCarthy, the well-known Ameri- can passenger conductor, employed on the Mexican International Railroad. Mec- Carthy’s train ran over and killed a Mexi- can two months ago. Abont ten days ago McCarthy was arrested and placed in jail, charged with being responsible for ‘the accident. Bail is denied him and he must remain in confinement until after trial, Catholics of Germany. BERLIN, GErMANY, Aug. 24—The forty-third general assembly of the Catho- lics of Germany began to-day in the great hall of the Fredenbaum at Dortmund. When the congress opened thousands of Catholios were present, including most of the Centrist members of the Prussian Landtag and the German Reichstag, Dr. Batchen, the leader of the Centrist party 1n the Reichstag, delivered an address in which he forcibly advocated the main- tenance of the principles of the party. S S Planters Between Two Fives. MADRID, Sparx, Aug. 24.—A dispatch from Hdvana says that General Weyler, having learned that a number of planters in Cuba had made arrangements to pay the insurgents certain sums of monsy n order that they shall not be interfered with in the work of gathering the coffee crop, is aboutto issue a decree ordering a suspénsion of the gathering of erops. Dr. Gallagher Is Coming. LONDON, Exg., Aug. 24.—It is learned by the United Associated Press on official authority that Dr. Gallagher, the Irish- American dynamiter, will be released from prison within the next ten days and will sail for America without delay. —_—— Death of an English Baronet, LONDON, Exa., Aug. 24.—Charles Fred- erick Cooper Ponsonby, second Baron de Mauly, died at his seat, Lonigford House, Lechiade, Gloucester, ‘to-day: He was born in 1815, ———— Spanish Re-enforcements Bail. BARCELONA, Srary, Aug. 24.—~The first batch of re-enforcements for the Bpanish forces to be sent irom here sailed ! forthe islan | to-dnw, - ‘ BRYAN'S WIND 1S NOT EXHAUSTED. Always Wants to Speak Whenever a Crowd Gathers. HE S0 CANDIDLY ADMITS One Short Speech in Which the Boy Orator Says Money Is the Issue. JOURNEYS ON TO WINNISOOK. A Little Reception at the Ledge That Gladdened the H art of the ‘Wanderer. UPPER RED HOOF, N. Y., Aug. 24— Mr. and Mrs. Bryan left. Upper Red Hook for Winnisook Lodge, in the Catskills, at noon to-day. They drove in a carriage as far as Rhinecliff, where they crossed the river to Rondout and took the train for Big Indian station. Tuey were accom- panied to Rhinecliff by their hosts, Mr. and Mrs, E. C. Perrineil. KINGSTON, N. Y., Aug. 24.—Reaching Rhinecliffe at 1:30, Mr. and Mrs, Bryan were met by Charles A. Schultz, repre- senting the Winnisook Club. At 2 o’clock the party crossed the Hudson to Kingston Point on a tug, and the candidate was greeted at the landing by several hundred people, who so effectually barred his pro- gress that quite a struggle ensued before be could reach the Ulster and Delaware train waiting to take him to Big Indian. A special car had been attached to the train, and stunding on the steps of tkis Mr. Bryan, in response to loud calls, made a short speech. He said: Inever see people gathering together with- out wanting to make a speech. I beifeve I represent the best interest of the American people. Ibeiieve in platforms—platiorms not 10 get in on, but platforms to stand on when you getin. I believe the money question is the paramount issue of this campaign. I want you to study the question, and when you study remember there are some people who firmly beiieve in the gold staudard. {Voice in the crowd, “That's good.”] If you believe in bi- metallism you ought to believe in it to the ex- tent that you will vote with those who want to bring it "about. No political party has ever declared for the gold standard. The man who advocates the gold standard in this country is & man withouca party, and the man who thinks the gold standard is a bad thing, but that this Nation must suffer under it until some other nation comes to our relief, will be aman without a party after this election if I am anything of a prophet. We must make politics a business this year. A man who has & large business is as much interested in it as & man who has a small business, It is all you have and you have as much right to protect your small interests as other men have (o pro- tect their large interests. But I must close, for if I take much longer I will have made a speech. The people were very enthusiastic and cheered frequently. They shouted a hearty farewell as the train started, About forty people were waiting to receive Mr. Bryan at the Kingston station. They shouted for a speech, but the candidate 8l.00k his head, “I am going to speak for a feyy minutes here to-morrow,” he told them, “and therefore will not speak any to-day. Iam glad lo see you.” Most of the crowd took the last remark for an invitation and pu-hed forward to shake bands with the nominee. The bandshaking was lively until ex-Assem- blyman John D. Cummings, standing be- side Mr. Bryan on the platform, followed the announcement that the nominee would speak at the Kingston Town Hall at 1 o'clock to-morrow afternoon with the statement that Mrs, Bryan was pres. ent at the opposite end of the car. Then there was a rush in Mrs, Bryan’s end of the car, and until the train started at 2:30, she divided honors with her husband. A large crowd was gathered at Big In- dian and everybody seemed to be enthu- siastic. The nominee was conducted to the porch of a hotel and here he made a few remarks, which seemed to please most of the crowd. At places all along the ten miles of rough road from Big Indian to ‘Winnisook Lodge people were gathered to see the Democratic candiaate. It was 6:30 o’clock this evening when Mr. and Mrs. Bryan, under escort of Mr, Schultz and Mr. Preston, ex-examiner of State Banks of New York, reached Winni- sook Lodge, after a long drive over moun- tain roads from Big Indian. They had greatly enjoyed thedrive, and the warmth of their reception by the members of the Winnisook Club, their wives and fam- ilies, made it ull seem like a home- coming instead of greeting in ‘‘the ene- my’s country.” Major Hinckley, Mr. Benedict, Mrs, George K. French of Washington, Mrs. Schultz and others re- ceived Mr. ana Mrs. Bryan as they alighted from their carriage in front of the ‘Winnisook Clubhouse. The bevy of so- journers gathered there gave the club yell and the candidate and his wife bowed their thanks. Then Mr. Benedict and his daughter, Mrs, French, took them in charge and conducted them to the Bene- dict cottage. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan had supper in the clubhouse with their many hosts, and later in the evening they were entertained there informally. —_—— BUGGESTING A FLATFURM, National Demoorats steceive Pointers From Many Sources. e INDIANAPOLIS, Isp., Aug. 25.—The platform of the National Democratic narty isin course of formation. Chairman By- num of the executive committee has a stack of letters from some of the most prominent Democrats in the country mak- ing suggestions on this subject, and some of them have forwarded complete drafts of platforms embodying their views. Thege be will turn over to the resolutions committee to be appodinted by the con- vention in order that it may have the ben- efit of them ip drawing ,u& platforms. In a letter concerning thie sudject Abram 8. Hewitt, ex-Mayor of New York, expresses himself thus: “My view is substantially that there is but one issue to be represented to the peo- ple of the United States. The Democratic convention at Chicago made a distinet declaration of war upon the constitution of the United States. The issue, there- l9r|. is not financial or economic, but it concerns the perpetuity of republican in- stitations. In the presence of this issue all other questions sink into insignificance, just as they did when civil war threatened the existenco cf*h» Government. Ithink, therefore, that the censtitution should be made the promineni if not the sole topic for consideration. It seems to me that the people can be made to see that the bulwark of their liberty is assailed in its most valnerable point, and that the over- throw of the constitution will lead first to anarchy and then to despotism."” 2 8. 0. Pickens, chairman of the National Democratic State Committee, returned to- day from New York, having been in at- tendance upon the meeting of the Amer- ican Bar Association at Saratoga. “I find in tife East,'” said he, *'a very-fa- vorable disposition toward the National Democratic movement, much more so than was the case two weeks ago. Idon’t mean by that that there were everany dangers of the Eastern States going for the Chicago ticket and platform, but they had a different idea irom ours how to remedy the situation. They believed that th2 proper thing to do was to rebuke the party by voting for McKinley elestors. But they are now beginning to realize that another organization is necessary to pre- serve the party in the Middle, Southern and Western States. 1t is uncertain yet what the regular orzanization in New York will do. They seem to be waiting for Hill to take a stand. I think that he will land in the Bryan camp, for I have never thought that we could count upon him. And, mark you, that wiil be the last of Mr. Hill in politics. Our movement there has the cordial support of the anti-snap- pers, or the Cleveland Democracy, and there is no guestion about the rank and file of the New York Democrats being op- posed to the Chicago ticket.”” ——— ARE EKINDLY RECEIVED. But Demoorats Will Not Grant the Re- quest of the Lndies. CHICAGO, Iy, Aug. 24.—Sound-money Democratic headquarters has been lively all day with visitors, the great majority of whom are here as delegates to tire State Convention to meet to-morrow at Battery D. During the afternoon a delegation of women, headed by Catberine Waugh Mc- Cullcch, called to ask the indorsement of Dr. Julia Holmes Smith, candidate on the Democratie ticket for trustee of the State University, The ladies were kindly re- ceived, but a deaf ear will be turned to their request. The State Executive Com- mittee held a session lasting nearly three hours, but declined to make public any- thing done. Another meeting was held in the evening, in which leading delegates from out of town were given an opportu- nity to assist in mapping out the pro- gramme for to-morrow’s eonvention. At the evening meeting the temporary organization was seuled/ upon with ex- Senator Lloyd Humiltonof Springfield as chairman. The platform will be a very strong document, coming out tlat-footedly in indorsement of the National adminis- tration and declaring for scund money. The probabilities are that General Black will be nominated for Govepnor, Chester A. Babcock for Lientenant-Governor and Edward Ridgeiy of Springfield for Treas- urer. A report that President Clevelarnd had written a letter indorsing the sound- money movement, which was circulated during the conference, evoked much en- thusiasm and the leaders feel encouraged over the outlook to-night, e STONE VISITS JONES. The Political BSituation Canvassed at Demoeratic Headquarters. CHICAGO, liL., Aug. 24 — Governor Stone of Missouri stopped over on his way home from the East this afternoon, and spent three hours in earnest conference with Obairman Jones at Democratic Na- tional headquarters. The political situa- tion was thoroughly discussed, but no de- tails were given out as to the matters con- sidered. 0l D, F. Shively, Democratic nominee for Governor of Indiang, accompanied by Mr. Fanning, candidate for Auditor on the same ticket, and Senator Leon Bailey of Indiana, aiso- called at headquarters. Other visitors were Secretary of State Hin- richsen of Illinois; General A.J. Warner of Obhio, president of tne American Bi- metallic Union, and J. A. Creighton of Omaha, a member of the Bryan notifica- tion committee, now on his way home. Secretary Walsh of the National Commit- tee arrived here to-day. —_— Will Not Name Watterson. LOUISVILLE, K., Aue. 2¢.—Kentucky will hardly name Mr. Waiterson for the Presidency at the National Democratic Convention. The delegates from this city have been instructed for ex-Governor S. B. Buckner for Vice-President, and it would be embarrassing to name candidates for both places on the ticket. His name will probably be presented by Iilinois. THIS WILL MEAN BRYAN'S' DEFEAT [ Continued from First Page.| regarded by Cleveland as an enemy to the administration. J The fact is that he will go into this fight with much more feeling than he has into any fight against the Republican party. He will regard it as his duty not to leave anything undone which might discourage the support of Bryan and con- tribute to bis defeat. The calculation is that by confining their efforts to the States named the third ticket will not draw many votes from McKinley, and that they will insure McKinley’s carrying Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, with a probability that he will also carry Ala- bama, Texas and perhaps Georgia. It is likely that members of the Cabinet will take the stump for the independent ticket. GENERAL HARRIES GONE. Sudden Death of an Aged Veteran Who Was Adjutant-General of the Fourteenth Army Corps. HOT SPRINGS, 8. DAx., Aug. 24.—Gen- eral Thomas H. Harries dropped dead from heart disease while takinga vapor bath at this place this morning., He was about 60 years of age and probably heid the highest military record in the Black Hills. He was commissioned adjutant- general of the Fourteenth Army Corps by President Lincoln, was Mayor of the city of Memphis, Tenn., and also military Governor of the city of New Orleans. He came to this place from Kansas City, where he has a daughter living, three years ago and for ove a year bas been a mem- ber of the Soldiers’ Home in this city. His remains will be taken to Kansas City for interment. s Accidentally Shot. ELGIN, Iii., Aug. 24.—Miss Bernice Stringer was accidentally shot and fatally injured last evening at 11 o’clock. Mart Aldrich, an emplove of the main office of the watch factory, was spending the even- ing with her, and had a revolver in his pocket. While she was examining the weapon it was accidentally discharged, the bullet striking her in the breast. EXPRESS TRAIN - BADLY WRECKED, Over a Score of Passengers Are More or Less Injured. FOUR OF THEM MAY DIE Running Forty Miles an Hour When the Disaster Oc- curred. SCENES OF WILD CONFUSION. Clouds of Steam and Smoke Add to the Terror of the Pinioned Unfor tunates. PITTSBURG, P, Aug. 24 — The through express train from Cbicago on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad, which was due in this city at 12:35 P M., was wrecked at Valencia, a small station twenty miles west of here, at 11:30 o'¢clock to-day, and more than a score of passen- gers were injured, four of whom may die. Just before the passenger train reached that place there was a collision of freight trains, which threw a number of freight- cars onto the main track, and the express train, coming along at the rate of forty miles an hour, plunged into the wrecked freightcars. Nearly every car of the ex- press was wrecked, and the escape of the passengers from instant death is re- markable, The injured: Mrs, W, B. Marsh, Tal- mage, Ohio, skull fractured, will probably die; Jobn Curry, Pleasant Hill, Pa., lower jaw fractured, throat cut, will die; Mrs. J. W. Morse, Lodi, Ohio, lower jaw, cheekbone and collar-bone fractured, re- covery doubtful; Miss Mary Bennett, Al- legheny, Pa,,zerious contusion of left tem- ple, nose cut aud bruised; Mary Bennett, head cut and face bruised; Walter Smith, Akron, Ohio, scalp wound; Mrs. E. A. Cramer, Apollo, Pa., serious scalp wounds; Beile Cramer, injured internally ; Grant Culbert, Allegheny, Pa., right fore- arm fractured, face and scalp wounds; Jennie Cramer, slight scalp wounds; D. B. Schantz, Harmony, Pa., scalp wound and spinal cord injured, not serious; G. D. Huston, Newcastie, Pa., scalp wounds; E. J. Smith, fireman, Beaver Falls, Pa., scalp wound and ankle sprained; J. B. Weakerling, Newcastle, Pa., leg bruised and scalp wound; Miss Jennie Smith, Ve- rona, Pa., face and head badly cut; J. C. Miller, engineer, Hazelwood, Pa., leg badly sgucezed; L. L. Gray, express messenger, Allegheny, - Pa., nose broken and hand and wrist 1n- jured; Dr. J. T. Tierney, Sharpsburg, Pa., serious scalp wound; J. Edward Crill, bag- gage-master, side ard face injured; Mrs. C. F. Hyle, Evans City, Pa., head badly cut and oruised; J.W. McMillin, enzineer, Bennets Pa., both feet cru:hed; Charles 8mith, fireman, Bennett, Pa., ankle sprained and head badly cut. The injured were brought to the Alle- gheny General Hospital by a special train. The Chicago express train does not stop at Valencia and was running at about the rate of forty miles an hour when the engineer first discover:d the obstruction on the tracks. He reversed and applied the brakes, but though the: speed of the express was diminished somewhat it struck the freightcars on the main track with frightful force, and the freightcars and engine rolled in a mass of torn wood and iron over an embankment into the ditch below. The engineer and fireman of the express, when they saw that a collision was inev- itable, jumped and escaped with severe injuries. The tender, mail, express and passenger coaches piled up over each other and rolled down the embankment on the wrecked engine and freighicars. Clouds of steam and smoke from the disabled en- gine enveloped the scene and added to the distress of the injured pinioned in the wreck, who feared the debris would take fire and burn them alive. Meanwhile, those of the express crew and passengers who were not injured, the crew of the freight train and people of Valencia who were near at hand when the accident ocourred, rushed to the aid of the injured, and a special trajn with surzeons was at once dispatched from Allegheny to the scene of the wreck. The freightcars, which were struck by the express, were heavily loaded with long iron piping. These heavy iron tubes were hurled with great force through the sides of the day coaches, and most of the fatal injuries to passengers were produced by them. —_— GO0D SPEED OF THE BROOKLYN In a Preliminary Practice Trial the Cruiser Goes Almost Twenty-One Knots an Hour. BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 24.—In the pre- liminary or practice trial to-day the cruiser Brooklyn developed an average speed closely approximating twenty-one knots. There were, of course, no official figures which could have any impartial or valuable bearing. Watches were held by all the officers aboard, and also by those members of the Government trial board, and close calculations were made from bno{.‘w buoy in the run of eighty-three knot A comparison of these different figures showed an agreement that the cruiser had averaged a few one hundreths less than twenty-one knots. The computations ranged from 20.25 to 20.99, the majority, however, settlinz on 20.97, The trial was made over the Government official course from off Cape Ann, Mass., to a point off Point Porpoise, Me,, and return. The' mensured distance between the two points is 4134, thus making the full run cf e ghty- three knots, including the turn. Eawin 8. Cnn\}), aiter the return to-day, expressed himselfas entirely satisfied with gl:ksb;h“::& cfi the cruiser, but would 0 prediction as to the possibilities of the official trial on Weunend‘:;. —_———— Collapse of & Bank, CHICAGO, Itt., Aug. 24.—Unable to meet its obligations in the clearing-house on Saturday, the Haymarket Produce Bank early this morning made an assign.’ ment to Charles L. Boyd. A large major- ity of the custom ‘rs of the bank come from the garden-truck farmers, and their losses are considerabi: g iiinie going to ruin. While the old building was in course of destruction the villagers possessed themselyes of mementos in the ape of wood, nails and pieces of stone. any of the old nails haye been converted into finger-rings. SON AND DAUGHTER SLAIN. An Atrocious Crime Committed by an Un- known Assassin in Milam County, Texas, CALVERT. Tex., Aug. 24.—News has just bern received from Milam County of one of the most atrocious crimes ever com- mitted in the central part of Texas—the as- sassination of the son and daughter of Martha McCullough. The couple were sitting on tbhe porch talking together in the cool of theevening. Suddenly the sound of a rifie shot was heard, and the two who had just been talk- ing together fell to the floor of the porch. Assistance was summoned at once, but lit- tle could be done. A rifle ball had passed through the neck of the son, killing him almost instantly. The ball then passed into the body of the daughter. She lin- gered for several hours, but died during the night. There is no suspicion as to who com- mitted the deed. Great indignation is felt by the neighbors of the McCulloughs, and if the murderer be caught he will be dealt with summarily, A search has been made throughout the neighbornood, but 80 far it has been wholly without resull. There is a theory that the shot may have been accidental, but this theory is scouted by those in the neighboorhood, who do not believe that a chance hunter would bave so quickly and completely dis- appeared and ieft no trace behind him. It is generally believed, however, that the killing of the girl was acoidental and that thie assassin aimed at her brother. Rk i HURT BY A MAD HORSE. Desperate Fight With a Nag That Was Bitten by a Dog, BLOOMFIELD, N. J., Aug. 24.—Wallace Lyon, proprietor of the Washington Hotel in the Brooklyn section, was bitten se- verely by a horse yesterday afternoon. Lyon entered the stall to feed the animal, and it suddenly gave a scream of anger and fastened its teeth in his back near the left shoulder. At the same time the horse kicked at him with his forefeet, Lyon struck the horse on the head with a wooden measure over his right shoulder until the animal loosened his hold, and he then sprang out of the stall as the horse tried to bite him again. He went to the hotel, and with a farmhand retnrned to the stable and found the horse frothing at the mouth and tugging at its bhalter. He at once got a rifle and shot the mad beast. Lyon says that about four months ago the horse was bitten by a dog on one of its hind legs, but he thought little of it at the time. The wound was cauterized. S st Into @ Keceiver’s Hands. ANDERSON, INp., Aug. 24.—The]Union Steel Com y was placed in the hands of a receiver %to-night, Thomas K. Akin of of Alexandria, Ga., gave the necessary bond, with the Union Trust Company as surety, and is now in charge of the plant. The company is capitalized at $1,500,000, | and claims to bhave $1,000,000 invested in stock, and a plant at Alexandria which eovers thirty acres. e T e Andrer’s Aerial Voyage Abandoned. TROMSOE, Noeway, Aug. 24.—Profes- sor Andree has arrived here from Daues Island, Spitzbergen, on board the Virgo. He has abandoned this vear his idea of crossing the Arctic region in a balloon, the season having become too far advanced to justify an ascension. The Gold Keserve 8till Dwindlas. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 24.—The treasury gold reserve declined to-day to $102,649,206. The day’s withdrawals at New York were $241,000. e S —— NEW TO-DAY. EAGLESONS BIG FACTORY SHIRT SALE ——AND— SUMMER UNDERWEAR CLEARANCE SALE. BIG REDUCTION IN PRICES. 748 and 750 Market Street. 242 Montgomery Street. Los Angeles and Sacramento. DR. MCNULTY. Tm! WELL-KNOWN Afl Rl ABLE SPE. clalist treats PRIVA' CHRONIC AND ERVOUS DISEASES OF MENONLY. He stovs : cures secret Blood and Skin Diseases, and Swellings: Nervous Debility, Impo: and other weakaesses ot Manhood. of Yoush and shete ; Falpitation of the pondency and other ho descril troubie. Patients cured st Home. Blaine’s Old Home Torn Down. WEST BROWNSVILLE, Pa., Aug. 24.— The old house in which James G. Blaine Was born and spent his boybood has been torn down. For many years it had been Tessansble. s, 5 confidential.” Call on or P. ROSCUE McNULTY, M, Kearny St., 8an Francisco, 't your discase oi he sirests o m-’- ‘cappers or steerers for swind deily; 8:30 to 8:: ings. Sun. 05’1: Ogummcfll. address D., Oal.