The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 12, 1896, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, several years, and for the last two years we have been inseparable and constantly together. I met him by chance at his studio in San Francisco about two years ago, and we have been together ever since, This was just after his last visit to the old country. He was going fo Ger many again in April, and I was to accom- pany him. I am notas highly educated as Ballestrem, for he spoke seven languages, but nevertheless we were stanch friends, I have never heard n?uch about his family affairs and especially sbout his parenis. He was always very averse to relating any hing about them. “His sister he spoke of quite often, and he would receive letters from her regn- larly. He was very devoted to his sister, and spoke to me frequently about her. He was the heir to bis uncle’s vast estates. His uncle, so he tola me, was ex-president of the German Reichstag, and I think was president only last year, but I forget. His immediate family, however. was not wealthy, although titled. The Count was painting a large picture of Point Lobos, and had it nearly finished. This he would have taken back home with him. “I have been in America since 1868, and lived in San Francisco for several years. For two years I was engaged as head clerk in the law offices of John Tuller in San Francisco. I have a brother-in-law and also an uncie whoare both doctors and who reside in_ Stettin, Germany, at pres- ent. This is all I know about my friend, and ail I care to tell about myseli.” Jacinto Damaral and A. Machado, Por- tuguese lishermen, living about a quarter of a mile from Ballestrem’s house, were the first to hear of the killing. According to their story the tragedy occurred much later than 8 o’clock. ““We heard a shot fired, but it was about 9 o’clock last night,” they said. *“We had gone to bed and were awakened by hear- ing a shot. About a half hour atter the report of the gun Abiger came over to our house. Damaral went to the door and Abiger told him he had killed his partner and wanted some one to come over with him. Damaral would not go, but shut the door. Machado finally got up and saddied his horse, and on his way to Carmelito Gate met Abiger with a lantern. He said he was coming from Freitas’ saloon, but Freitas would not help him, and he asked me for God’s sake to go to town and get a doctor or some one. [ went down to the Hatton ranch and telephoned into Mon- | terey to Justice Michaelis and told him to come out at once. It was about 10:30 o’ciock when I relephoned to Monterey. ‘I then returued and went over to the Count’s house, where I found Abiger and his dog outside. I asked him why he did not go inside, and he told me be did not want to go in that bouse again until some one else went first. [ took hislantern and went inside the house. The sight was| borrible. The Count was lying all in a heap against one door, and everything was mussed up as if there had been a big row. I thought this was strange, for I had seen a great deal of the two men since their arrival at Point Lobos, and had never | heard a harsh word between them in the whole five montus they spent there. I asked Abiger how it all happened. “He told me apout the affair but:aid the Count did not speak at all aiter he shot him. I did not stay at the house long, but went home.”’ Justice Michaelis, who made the arrest, was a friend of the Count and Abiger. “I believe,’’ said Justice Micha hat I knew the Count better than any one in the neighborhood. I also knew Abiger quite well, and am sure the killing was an accident, pure and simple. I know that neither Ballestrem nor Abiger got intoxi- cated, but I believe that last night Abiger had too much of that sour wine in him and attempted to go hunting long after dark, to which, of course, the Count ob- jected, and a scuffie followed, It must | have been much later than 6 o’ciock when the shooting occurred, and nearer 9, from what. the Portuguese say. The gun used happenead to be mine. The whole charge of shot entered the Count’s left side, just under the arm, and went directly to the heart. 1don’t think it was willful murder at all, but an accident.” ‘When a CacL correspondent visited the hut of the Bobemian Count to-day he found pictures hf such mexn as Dunbam, Joseph Blanther, Durrant and others tacked up prominently on the walis in | Abiger’s room. The clay that the Count | was evidently molding at the time of the trouble was on the Kitchen floor. The whole place was more like a hermit’s abode than the home of a German noble- man. The Count’s larder was well supplied. On the table was a large demijohn of claret wine about half empty ana several glasses half filled were on the table. Among the Count’s possessions many let- ters from his sister and uncle were found. There was aiso one from his mother, writ- ten about a year ago and addressed to San Francisco. Count Ballestrem had been sojourning at Point Lobos Park for the pust five or six montbs. This was his second visit to Monterey, the first being made about two years ago. He th n camped on the Pacitic mprovement Company’s famous Seven- teen-mile drive and was engaged in paint- ing the sand dvnes of Monterey, the most favored spot for the many American as well as foreign artists who come to this neighborhood for subjects. Some of bis paintings of these sand hills are excep- tionaily fine, and were taken with him back to the old country on the Couni’s last visit home, about two years ago, im- | mediately after he leit Monterey. These paintings now adorn ihe salon of his parents in Breszlau, Biiesi The Count was an officer in the German army, ranking as a lieutenant, and al- though he had been coming to America for the last sixteen years, yet under the German law, in order to hoid his office and also be heir to his uncle’s vast estate, he was required to be present at certain maneuvers of the German army at speci- fied times every two years. The Count would attend these maneuvers, and directly after they were over would pro- cure a leave of absence and sail for the United States. He was never naturalized here, for if that was done he could not claim his title or fall herr to the estate; yet it has always been remarked that in all of his studies, no matter how small or where located, the American flag was the chief wall decora- tion of his apartments. Only three weexs ago he presented to the McKinley and Hobart Club of this place a large cam- paign banner, which stretches across Alvarado street in front of the Republican headquarters. Aside from this he presented many pictures of McKinley in water colors and vaste to the prominent Republican can- didates of this county. Count, Ballestrem was a ‘black sheep” of the family, and that is the principal reason why he came 1o America so otten. Despite his shortcomings, he was devoted to his sister, and she was the only one on whom he could count as a regular corre- spondent. Of his family he would say very little, especially was this so of his mother; Lis uncle, also a Ballestrem, was his best friend. From him he was heir to the family estate. His sister was married since his Iast visit home and is now Frau von Adeisfeldt Durlach. She is living 1n Baden. About four years ago the Count was married, but lived with his wife only a little over a year, she getting a divorce on the ground of failure to support. She afterward married a man by ihe name of Bachman ana is now living on Howard street, near Tenth, in San Francisco. About the time or soon after ihe divorce ‘was procured the Count met Charles Abi- gerin Ban Francisco and formed a warm attachment for him. The two lived to- %olher until last night, and were always elieved to be on the very best of terms. Abiger was older than the Count, but was not nearly so wetl educated, though com- ing from an aristocratic German family. He came to America in 1868 from Ham- burg and has lived here ever since. His brother-in-law, a Dr. Reny, lives in Stet- tin, as also does his uncle, Dr. Herman Anseling. He is a nice-appearin; man, of rather low stature, black, sparkling eyes and black hair. He wears a Van Dyke beard. TO CUKE A COLD IN ONE DAy, Take laxative BromoQuinine Tablets. All drug- gists refund the money if it fails to cure. 205¢ ENCOURAGED BY MANY CALLERS Major McKinley Receives Cheering News From Visitors. States That the Candidate Will Carry Practically Insure Victory. TWO LIVELY WEEKS AHEAD From Various Sections Large De'ega- ticns Wiil Journey to Canton to Prove Their Loya ty. CANTON, Onro, Oct. 11.—Major Me- Kinley spent a very quiet Sunday. He was up bright and early, took a short walk, attended church in the morning and in the afternoon in company with Mrs. McKiniey he went for a drive and called upon his mother. 2 There were few callers. Murat Halstead and ex-Congressman Finley of Missouri, who have been here a few days, called to say good-by to Major McKinley before leaving for the West. Congressman Bou- telle of Maine, who assisted the major in yesterday’s great reception of delegatinns, left for a speech-making tour in the West last evening. To the correspondent for the United Associated Presses Major Mc- Kiuley said to-day that the arduous labors of the week which closed last night had not overtaxed his strength in any way. *'I teel well to-day and expect to be in excel- lent condition to assume my campaign work to-morrow. I think the next two weeks will be full of activity, and then I expect to rest until after election.” There are a gooa many visiters who came here yesterday still in the city. The Maryland delegation did not leave until this morning. Major McKinley received a great deal of encouragement from his callers yesterday and to-day. The Michigan men say that they expect to carry that State by a hand- some majority. The news which reaches. Canton from the South is ot a particularly agreeable nature to the Republicans. Major McKinley’s friends here now feel confident that he will carry Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Kentucky. This week will be a lively one. More than thirty delegations are already sched- uled, and the list is likely to be increasea by the addition of a dozen or fifteen more. The followine delegations are expected: Monday—Miners of the Monongahela Valley; workmen of Roscoe, Pa. Tuesday—Miners and mecbanics of the Lehigh Valley; Sandusky County Repub- licans. Wednesday—Cleveland old folks’ day; McKinley and Hobart Clubs of McDonald, Pa.; Cumberland (Md.) Republicans; swreetcar employes of Cleveland. Thursday—Citizens of Cambridge, Pa.; volitical ciubs of Allegheny County, Pa.; colored citizens of Blair County; Erie { County (Pa.) Repubican clubs. Friday—Veteran McKinley clubs of Bradford; citizens of Bedford, Pa. Saturday—Garfield Club of Louisville, Ky.; Chicago Republicans; clubs of Hunt- ington County, Pa.; Republicans of Blair County, Pa.; commercial travelers of To- ledo, Obio; commercial travelers of Co- lumbus, Ohio; miners of Perry County, Ohio; citizens of Ashtabula County, Ohio; Railroad Sound-Money Club of Jackson, Mich. ; Hocking Valley miners: employes of Oliver Bros., Pittsburg; McKinley and Hobart Workingmen’s Clubs of South Fork, Pa.; Old ¥Folks’ McKinley Club of Westerville, Ohio; Anti-Wilson Bill So- ciety of Baltimore. ARE CONFIDE. OF VICIOREY, Kepublican Leaders Say That McKinley and Hobart Will Win. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 1.—The Re- publicans are making an active campaign in Virginia. A list of the meetings planned by the State committee shows 260 already arranged for, with more to fol- low. Among the speakers assigned to duty in the State are Hoa. Z. K. Pang- born of New Jjersey, Colonel C. H. Deni- son, Colonel W. C. Plummer, Colonel F. A. Schlitz, Hon. C. Brainard Jr., and Major McKilvie of New York, Colonel James Fairman of Pennsylvania, and Ex- Senator Blair of New Hampshire. Benators Hale and Frye of Maine will speak in Lexington, Ky., October 26 and 27; Senator Hale, Bal'fidere, N. J., October 27, and in Dover, N. J., October 28. N. M. Meigs, a gold Democrat and ousi- ness man of Jacksonville, Fla., says he believes that the electoral votes of Florida can be secured for the nominees of the In- dianapolis convention if the Republicans can be prevailed upon to withdraw their electorul ticket and join the gold Demo- crats. He says from talks he has had with gold Democrats and others since he came to New York he believes that this will be done. Governor Griggs of New Jersey, from a trip through Hunterdon, Sussex and ‘Warren counties, three of the strongest Democratic counties in the State, said: I am confident that the Republicans will be succersful in this contest, which, to- gether with Morris County, composes Congressman Pitney’s district. The peo- ple are enthusiastic over Pitney. New Jersey will give at least 50,000 majority for McKinley and Hobart, and I shall not be surprised if the figures run beyond this total.” Hon. B. F. Jones of Pittsburz, formerly chairman of the Reputlican National Committee, said: *“EverythingtuatIcan see and hear from reliable sources is of the encouraging kind for Republican suc- cess, There is not the least doubt in my mind about Illinois, Indiana and Nebraska going for McKiniey. The prospect is cer- tainly getting better every day.” Hon. D. D. Woodmansee of Cincinnati, president.of the National League of Re- pubiicans, gave it as his opinion that the silver craze had spent its greatest force and is becoming less potent every day. He stated that Ohio was safe for McKinley by 75,000 majority. Nominee Wilson Withdraws. MONTGOMERY, Axa., Oct. 11.—Hon. H. A. Wilson, Republican nominee for Congress in the Fourth Alabama District, has written a letter declining the candi- dacy. He says the split in the Republican party and the extraordinary use of money by one who *is an alien to our principles’ makes it necessary for him to withdraw, because the Republicans cannot afford to send to Congress any one not in harmony with the principies of the party. Present Congressman W. F. Aldrich is the nom- inee of part of the Republicans” and in- dorsed by Populists, and to him Wilson’s card refers. St L Palmer and Buckuer at Detroit. DETROIT, Micn., Oct. 11.—Generals Palmer and Buckner, the nominees for President and Vice-President respectively of the National Democratic party, arrived here from Grana Rapids shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon on a special train. They were accompanied by the committee from this city, which escorted the nomi- nees from Lansing to Grand Lapids last evening. ‘L'hey were at once driven to the home of ex-Postmaster-General Dickin- son, whose guesis they wili be during their stay in Detroit. Many persons called on the generals during the afternoon and evening, but they denied themselves to ail of them. Both General Palmer and Gen- eral Buckner will speak at a meeting Lere to-morrow afternoon. g s Bryan Club formed at Corning. RED BLUFF, CaL., Oct. 11.—John J. Wells or Red Bluff addressed a Demo- cratic meeting at Corning last night, after which the preliminaries were taken for the oreanization of a Bryan silver club, A large number of names were signed to the roll. The meeting was under the auspices of the young men. It was called to order bw Bert Foster,and W. H. Samson was chairman, IRELAND DECLARES [T REVOLUTIONARY [Continued from First Page.} chase no more than the half dollar? And why will farmers receive even nominally a muth higher price than they do now ? The best market of the farmer for the produce is his own country, and if his own country is impoverished, if factories are closed, if labor- ers in cities are penniless, the farmer will re- ceive but little for his harvest. Men on salaries will scarcely hope to have their salaries doubled even if nominally, and then, their salarfes, such as they may be, will have only half the purchasing power they have to-day. Those who owe debts payable, principal or interest, in gold will receive the same salaries as to-day and their salaries will have but half the debi-paying power which they have to-day. But those who owe debts not payable in gold? Well, if the country is ruined where will they find even silyer to pay their debts in silver? The only men benefited—and they are few to-day, and it is scarcely worth while to bring eround a revolution in the couniry to benefit them—are the debtors who have to-day gold on hand, and who by free silver coinage will have their store doubled in nominal value and will be enabled to reduce their debts by one-half. And for those the gquestion remains—is it honest? It is a delusion to imagine that sil- ver will circulate so plentifully tnat it can be hed easily by all a that the gquantity will make up for the lack of value. Ifsilver bul- lion does not increase in commeccial value silver will not be produced in quantity, and as owners of silver will not part with it, ex= cept in exchange for commodity or labor which they deem useful and valuable, if the business of the country is not prosperous the people will get very little or no prefit from mintege, But—and here is the popular argu- ment in faver of free coinage—we have had hard times under the gold standard. That is true, and what is also true, that under the silver standard we shall have much harder times. It is the great failacy of the day to be attributing our hard times to the gold stan- dard. The craze for free silver asa cure for hard times js explicable on the same theory thata man who has been & long time sick despite the atieative care of expert physicians will call for any quack who advertises to cure all the ills of humanity. Hard times hsve come turough the severe and resistless working of economic laws—which go their way in spite of legal enagtment of parliaments or con- gresses. Our hara times have come from the general competitfon with the countries of the whole globe into which we are.forced by cheapness and facility of transportation, from over production in past years, from extrava- gance during good times and from our own social and political agitations. One of the chief causes of hard times to-day is this agi- tation for a radical change in the currency of the country. It the American people put down by an overwhelming majority this agi- tation—bury it out of sight—one of the chief causes of “hard times will be out of the way. Other causes may remain more orless. That of general competition with «ll the nations of earth must remain. Good times, however, may be expectgd to come brck surely, if only gradually. The overproduction that glutted our markets has been used up. Capitalists are anxious to do somethiug with their money —if it can be Invested safely. Our wondrous natural resources invite investments to de- velop them, and eonfidence restored the out- look is bright. The essential thing is con”- dence. To-day it is confidence that is needed more than an increase in the volume of the currency. The volume of the currency is large enough. To increase it fictitiously ceriainly will not help us. Ninety per centof the busi- ness is done without currency—by checks and draits—of which tne foundetion is confidence. Those who suffer from hard times—and there are many—must hearken to reason, silence passion, turn away from delusive remedies and the country wiil be sgain put on the road to prosperity. 1 ask ‘is it honest to try to pay debts with half the money we received when we con- tracted them? The National and private debts contracted upon a financial system, such as those who loaned money. gave it at a certain commercial value and believed, as they could notat the time have helped dofug, that they would receive it back at the same commercial wvalue, should be paid in values of that same financial system. That the great American Republic will, as & Nation, declare to the world that it will now make & law compelling its creditors to be satisfied with half, or & little of the money they loaned, goes on record in the eyes of the world as a broken-down, bank- rupt, repudiating Nation, it is not possible to believe. No one will say in justification of such & possibility that America is compelled by National poverty to do so; then noone should be able to say she thinks of doing so. There are & hundred aspects of this question which I donot touch upon. I merely throw out some few thoughts which show reasons for my present political faith, and which may be of some benefit to others in forming their own judgment. Imay, of course, be mistaken, tation as the great test of universal suffrage and popular sovereignty. Can the people de- fend public honor and the institutions of the country at the polls as they have done on the field of battle? Can they be so calm ana de- liberate in their judgment, so careful to weigh all things in the scale of reason and to avoid all rash experiments that they can be trusted with the settlement of grave social and politi- cal problems? That is the question. that is be- fore us at the present moment. D. GATHERING UF COMPOSITORS. Important Matters to Be Considered by the International Union. COLORADO SPRINGS, Coro., Oct. 1L.— The forty-third ses=ion of the International Typographical Union opens in this city to-morrow, with a large attendance of members.. This is the first fime that the session has been held in two years. The delegates have been arriving for several days, and are being entertained by the local union and citizens. The present session will be of especial interest to the printers, as the Childs-Drexel Home for the care of lndi&;‘nt members of the craft is located here. This aiternoon the visiiors picnicked at Cheyenne Canyon. Among important matters to be con- sidered by the union is an out of work le‘l:;me n}d the qt?n“uol'tl I}f fl:l':\g away with regular mee! aving the sessions subject 10 gall o HELEN GOUGAR'S SUNDAY SPEECH Answers Gold Arguments Advanced by Chicago Preachers. Considerable Abuse Injected Into Her Harangue for Free Silver. HAD TO BREAK INTO THE HALL Vituperative Language That Suited Those Who Forced an Eatrance Into the Piace. CHICAGO, Irr., Oct. 1L.—Mrs. Helen Gougar of Indiana spoke at the People’s Institute this afternoon in answer to ser- mons recently delivered by local preach- ers in advocacy of the gold standard. The meeting was callea for 2 o'clock, but at that hour the hall was still locked, and the trustees announced that they had rented the hall for church purposes, and refused to allow it to be used for political purposes on Sunday. Theannouncement, in view of the fact that the committee in charge of Mrs. Gougar’'s meeting had paid rental charges and had a receipt for the same, caused much excitement. Many ladies were in the crowd crushed against the inner doors, and they were hurried to the rear and preparations made for testing the question by force. Just at that mo- ment a young man in front forced the doors, and the crowd, with a cheer, rushed in. It was reported that the police had been sent for, but there was no atiempt to oust the audience. 9 Before beginning her address Mrs. Gougar requested the assemblage to sing “America,” which was done with a will. She then referred to the sacredness of the day, and said it was time the people ob- jected to confining politics to the saloon and the devil and took it into the church and the home, She had no apology to make for speaking on this great question on the Sabbath; the preachers themselves had set the example. Mrs. Gougar drew a picture of an imag- inary town where no money was used, but in its stead black and white horses, and drew a parallel between the demonetiza- tion of silver and the “de-horse-itation’” of the white horses by the owners of the black animals, and the train of evils that followed the sending of these black horses out of the country and thus compelling the payment of taxes and all other charges in white borses at a valuation arbitrarily fixed by the “biack-horse trust.” Mrs. Gougar carried her parallel even to the issue of bonds and the attacks of the financiers and preachers npon those who wished to ‘‘undehorseatize’” the white horses, who were termed ‘anarchists,” “repudiationists,’”’ *‘nobos,”” etc. The ap- plication of the story was readily made by the audience and heartily applauded. The speaker then turned her attention to Bishop Newman and Rev. Dr, Hillis, who had spoken from their pnlpits in favor of the gold standard, and paid her respects to Rev. C. H. Wolston, a Phila- delphia Baptist preacher, who recently wrote a letter demandiug that the debts of his church and his own salary be paid in gold, in the event of tne adoption of free silver, which he stigmatized as ‘“‘tue devil’s dollar.” The clergy, she declared, were, as a rule, the best paid workers in the cities, and are not in a position to know the wants of the poor laboring classes; they belonged to the same class who crucified Christ and who supported slavery, claiming it was sanctioned by divine injunction and precept. There is not an argument now used by the gold standard people, she declared, that was not used by the advocates of Luman slavery. Taking up Dr. Hillig’ sermon, she de- clared that if as he claimed there cculd be no such thing as a double standard, then the gold men were the guilty innovaiors, as the original money metal was silver and was recognized by the American con- st:tution as such. Forty trainioads of people had in one day recently been taken to Canton to *“‘wiiness a porch dance.” Presidents elected by “running free rail- road trains” will not oppose legislation favorable to corporations and trusts. Her understanding of the ‘‘over-production’’ theory of the Republicans was that *“‘the harder we work and the more we produce the poorer we get.” Yet statistics show that every year 10,000 children die in New York City of starvation. She said it was a shame and disgrace to the Christian church that any minister of the gospel should assist the mone, wer in its ne- farous work, and said they were doing more harm than their efforts for good could overcome among the pesople. Quoting Senator Sherman, she charac- terized him as one of the three great traitors in_American history, Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis being the others, and asserted that no man could have acquired his great wealth while serv- ing the people in Congress at a salary of $5000 a year and living at an expense of $10,000. Blaine, had he lived, would be con- sidered an anarchist_and repudiationist of the worst kind, and McKinley’s speeches, “before Mark Hanna took hold of the string,” showed him to be one of the lead- ing repudiationists of the world. In answer to a suggestion that McKinley had been converted, Mrs. Gougar said: *‘Yes, he’s been converted, because he woulf‘ rather be President than be right.” MecKin| and Cleveland were pro- nounced ‘“financial twins’; the banks were denounced for their gxercise of tyrannical power; the gold papers of Chis cago were declared to be owned by English %ndicalos and the rum power; Colonel . C. P. Breckinridge, candidate for Con- gress on a gold platform, was bitterly as- sailed as the *‘Prince of Immorality'’; McKinleK W d to be supported by the English brewers and the American whisky ring, with whom the gold preachers had allied themselvesin his support, and the Louis Convention was said to have been marked by more drunkenness, de- bauchery and licentiousness than any previous convention ever held in America. Mrs. Gougar was frequently interrupted by bursts of applanse and was given quite an ovation at the conclusion of gor speech. A S SILENT FOR A SINGLE DAY. After @ Hard Week of Talking Bryan Takes a Rest, ST. PAUL, Mix~., Oct. 11.—The sweet balm of rest has been William J. Bryan’s to-day, after his hard week through the South, Middle West and Northwest. He was up bright and early this morning to meet Mrs, Bryan on her arrival here from Lincoln, and at L1 o’clock they went to the Central Presbyterian Church together and ‘heard a sermon by Rev. Mr. Beattie of Mankato. The church was well filled with veople who came to see the cand idate and his wife. Most of the afternoon Mr. Bryan received caliers, including Senator Wilson of ‘Washington, who bolted the St. Louis nominations and platiorm; Senator Ben Tillman of South Carolina, Who was pass- 1896. ing through St. Paul; Ienatius Donnelly ana Representative Charles A. Towne, who abandoned the Republican party and declared for Mr. Bryan, Mr. Towne has a hot fight on his hands in the Duluth Con- gressional district and Mr. Bryan is going up there Tuesday to help him. A general outline of Mr. Bryan’s pro- gramme for the remainder of the cam- paign has been made out. It isas follows, subject tochange: Minneanolis to Duluth, Tuesday, October 13; Wisconsin and the northern Michigan peninsula, Octo- ber 14, speaking at Marquette in the even- ing; from Marquette to Grand Rapids, October 15; Grand Rapids to Lansing, October 16; Grand Rapids to Detroit, Oclober 17; Detroit Saturday night and Sunday; through Ohio October 19 and 20; through ndiana October 21 and 22; 1lli- nois from October 23 to 30, going as far south as Cairo,and spending the 28th, 29th and 30th in Chicago; leave Chicago at 10:30 p. M., October 30, for Council Bluffs, Iowa, and speak there on the afternoon or night of the 38lst; Sunday, November 1, probably in Omaha; Monday night, November 2, will end the campaizn some- where in Nebraska, probably at Kearney; election day, Lincoln. bt DISCHARGED THE SILVERITES. Dugald Crawford Does Not Want Anar- chists in His Ewmploy. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 11.—Dugald Craw- ford, sole owner of one of the largest de- partment stores in St. Louis, is an ardent admirer of the gold standard. Recently hie caused a canvass of his employes to be made and found many of them free silver men. Yesterday morning he oalled twelve heads of departments before him and told them they were no longer in his emply, explaining that he did not want any anarchists to breathe the air of his establishment. *‘Spread the news throughout the city,” said Klr. Crawlord; “let it be known as far and as near as you choose that you are discharged because you are in favor of free coinage of silver."” The publication of the above story this morning, with & mass of con'radictory in- terviews, caused much commoticn. The labor unions took up the matter at their weekly meeting ana Mr, Crawford was ex- coriated. The indignation crystallized in the ap- pointment of a commitiee from various unions who will call an indigration meet- ing for some evening this week to give ex- pression to the workingmen’s views on the watter. FIEACE ATLANTIC GALES, Cousiderable Damage Done Along the Coast, at Sea and Ashore. Vessels Blown Ashore, and There Are Evidences of Other Disasters Among Shipping. LEWES, Der., Oct. 11.—The schooner Luther A. Roby, from Bchiverio, N. 8., consigned to Souder & Co. of Philadel- phia, with plaster, came ashore atday- break this morning, in the heavy northeast gale, below the point of Cape Henlopen, and almost immediately went to pieces. Three of the crew were lostand five saved. Since yesterday a fierce northeast gale has been blowing along the coast. The life- saving crews have been on the alert and alllast night patrolled the beach on the lookout for vesssls in distress. In the early dawn the schooner was seen driving toward the beach. The life-savers hast- ened toward the spot sne waa heading for, but she strnck before they came opposite to her. The wind is blowing a fearful gale from the northeast to-night and the tide is piling up on the shore. It is feared that at high water to-night the life-saving stations on the shore may be swept away. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 1L.—The northeast storm that has been traveling along the Atlantic coast struck this city this morning, and in connection with an excraordinary high tide has done consiger- able damage. Two of the three piersalong the ocean front have sustained the greatest damage so far. About 200 feet of the iron pier at the foot of Massachusetts avenue have been battered away. A section of the wrecked schooner Met- calfe, which was lying near the pier, was broken by the surf and for an hour or so it rounded with terriffic force against the piling of the pier. The piling withstood the battering at first, but at last the mid- dle section went down with a crash. The mass of wood from the wreck is still float- g along the beack front and more dam- age may be done by it. ‘The center of the pier at the foot of Texas avenue has partially given away. It is expected that the weakened pari will go out to sea before morning., The bulkbead at Chelsea has beeh destroyed. Railroad travel on the Camden and Atiantic Rail- road has been suspended, owing to the high water on the meadows submerging the tracks, The entire force of the life-saving station is out to-night on the beach watching for any ship in distress. : The cottages on the meadow side of the city bave been surronded by water all day and the ocoupants have been compelled to use boats to get to and from their homes. The wind reached a velocity of fifty-miles an hour to-day. Many railroad ties are floating in on the beach to-night and it is pelieved they indicate the wash- ing away of the trolley railroad on Brig- antine Beach. VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass,, Oct. 11— A northeast gale nas prevailed here to- day and it is increasing in force to-night. The tug Mercury arrived from Boston. No shipping disasters are reported in this vicinity. The tugs Plymouth and N. and ‘W. No. 1, with barges and a small fleet of coasters, are harbored here. NANTUCKET, Mass., Oct. 11.—Informa- tion of what may have been another ocean tragedy was obtained yesterday, when James 0. McCleave picked up on the south shore a bottle containing the following hastily scribbled note on a leaf of a book: September 16. We are oft Nantucket twénty miles, and are about to sink. Please notify my wife, Mrs, Mary Frazer of Gloucester. JOHN C. FRAZER. ‘We will never reacn shore alive. Good-by. The gale increased steadily for the past twenty-tour hours, and is plowing a hurri- cane to-night. Small boats are being sunk at their moorings, but shipping was so thoronghnly warned in advance that no other wrecks are aaticipated. A small feet of vessels anchored off Sankety Head last night, and made for this harbor this morning. One three-masted schooner is anchored in the sound near Great Point, and is in a dangerous position. GLOUCESTER, Mass., t. 1L.— The schooner Alsatian, sixiy-nine tons, from Bath, lumber-laden for Boston, capsized off Baker Island this afternoon and is a total loss. The crew was saved. & SEA ISLE CITY, N. J., Oct. 1L.—The gale has nged witn great fury here to-day and to-night. The meaaows in the rear of the city are flooded for miles and as far as the eye can reach there is only a foam- ln{ sea, 'he avenues and streets are inundated by heavy breakers that are washing in all e upper end of the city. A ship’s yawl-boat, bottom up, was seen at sea this afternoon, which 1 to the fear that some vessel has foundered. Many small yachts have been badly dam- ed. WLONDON, Exa., Oct. 1.—A northeast gale is prevailing. The Danish steamer Scotia has gone ashore at St. Abba Head, on the east coastof Scotland. The crew ‘was rescued. The schooner Caramel has foundered in the Mersey. Sixof hercrew weredrowned. In many places the gale is accompanied by snow. A sailing vessel engagea in the coast- wise trade was wrecked to-day in Colwin Bay, Denbyshirs, Two of her crew were drowned, N THE REALM - OF THE RAISER Pro-Armenian Movement of Germany Makes Little Progress. Czar Nicholas to Receive the Of ficcr Who Was Presented to the Sultan. THAT COLD FROST IN PARIS. Indignation Among Diplomats Who Were Ignored in the Important Festivities. [Copyright, 1896, by the United Associated Presses] BERLIN, Geemaxy, Oct. 11.—The lull in the excitement over affairs in the east continues, the newspapers having decided to await developments which are expected to follow the departure of the Czar from France before resuming their campaign of agitation. It is understood that the Czar will shortly give an audience to General Grumb- koff, the German officer in the Ottoman service, who is the bearer of an autograph letter from the Sultan to the Kaiser. Gen- eral Grumbkoff is accompanied by the Sultan’s Ambassador, Ghalib Bey, who will also be received by the Kaiser. The mission of General Grumbkoff, according to the semi-official Berlin Post, is one of great political importance. In the mean- time an interview with General Gramb- koff appears in a Berlin paper, in which tne Turkish commissioner vig- orously defends the action of the Sultan and the leading Turkish, officials, contend- ing that no man occupying the Turkish throne would fulfill the demands of the powers unconditionally. The Sultan of Turkey, he maintains, must always take into consideration the/probable effect of the fulfillment of such demands upon the Mobhammedan populace, otherwise there would be great danger of Moslem fanati- cism leading to annihilation of the Chris- tians in the empire. “Abdul Hamid,” the general says, is a wise man and in all his actions he invari- ably looks carefully forward to the prob- able or possible result. If the Sultan could follow his own desires Turkey would be a happy country, but his most excel- lent aspirations are fettered by empty pub- lic coffers. The true reform which is needed in Turkey is financial assistance; perbaps administered under a control similar to the administration of Egypt, | but as there is no money there can be no reform.” The pro-Armenian movement in Ger- many is making little progress. Although the official wet blanket which has been cast over the movement wherever it has existed has not had the effect to quench the flame of agitation alto:ether, the movement itself bas not been seized with any degree of ardor by the public. Dr. Pepsius, the leader of the Armenian agita- tion, has been summoned to the Foreign Office and requested to desist from further activity in the matter, he being informed, it is understood, that as the movement was a strongly political and in no respecta philanthropic one, the Government could not countenance it. The Hamburg Nachrichten, the personat organ of Prince Bismarck, in iis discus- sion of the Armenian question, argues that the Armenians are rebels, while Ger- many and Turkey have the most friendly relations. Therefore, the German aiders and abettors of the Armenians are liable to punishment under the German crim- inal code. The circumstances of ignoring the entire diplomatic corps at Puris in the matter of extending invitations to the various fune- tions upon the occasion of the Czar’s visit to Paris, which caused feeling of intense indignation among the diplomats them- selves, is being much discussed in official quarters here, At the outset of the enter- tainment oi the Czar the diplomatic body only received invitations to the gala opera periormance, and were not asked to be present on the occasion of the Czar’s entry intothe city or attend the luncheon at the Russian embassy, the religious ceremony at the Russian church, the banquet at the Palace of the Elysee, the laying of the foundation-stone of the bridge Alexander 111, which was really the beginning of the reparations for the exhibition to be held n Paris in 1900, the visit of the Czar to Versailles or the periormance at the Come- die Francaise, After all, or nearly all, of these func- tions were over, the diplomats received invitations to attend the grand military review at Chalons, and the attaches of the various embassies and legations only ob- tained these in consequence of the remon- strance made by Count von Munster, the German Embassador, to the Foreign Otfice. It is possible that the officials of the Foreign Office did not relish the quarter from which ihe demand for invitatons to attend the great military spectacle of the review of the French troops came, for they promptly disclaimed any responsi- bility for the omission to send invitations, and referred the Embassador to the Eiysee Palace, from which quarter the invitations eveuntaally emanated. 2 According to a special dispatch to the Cologne (azette from St. Petersburg, Fresident Faure will not pay a visit to the Russian capital as has been suggested, but Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria will return the Czar’s visit to Vienna, and the Emperor and Empress of Germany may also visit St. Pelersburg concurrently with the Austrian Kaiser unless the unexpected accouchement of the Czarina should com- pel a postponement of the Imperial visit. The German Colonial Council will hold a meeting on October 19. The programme of the meeting embraces discussion of the colonial budget and the questions o7 slay- ery and slave trading, the military obliga- tions of settlers in Southwest Africa, the training of colonial officials ana the mat- ter of penal procedure regarding natives." In addition to the discussion of these questions the recent events at Zanzibar, including the matter of the removal from Zanzibar of the vsurping Sultan Said Khalib by a German warship will doubt- less geceive the attention of the meeting. The more extreme members of the Colo- nial Council rezard the removal of Said Khalib to Dares-Salam n important score in favor of Germany and against Great Britain, and are chuckling at_tue furious languace of the English jingo press in regard to the incident. The ex- tremists profess to regard the Said Khalib = affair as being fraught with most valuable results to Germany, and believe that something serious is imminent irom the facts that the British warship St. George, the flagship of the Cape and West African statlon, which sailed southward from Zan= zibar on September 24, nas been ordered to return to Zanzibar, and the cruiser Gibraltar, from Saionica, has been ordered to join hér, The Gibraltar is now passing thronzh the Su-zcanal. Colonel Trotha, commanding the Ger- man troops in German East Africa, bas had another engagement with the Wahehe tribe, with the result that he has com- pletaly routed them, making a prisoner of the Wahehe chief and carrying him off to Dares-Sulam, The Munich socialists have resolved to move at the socialist congress which met at Bieblichen, near Gotha, to-day that the congress hereafter meet only biennially, #és the results of the meetings are in no degree equivalent to the enormous cost of holding the congresses annuaily. Dr. Raffel, the German Assessorat Dares- Salam, German Kast Africa, who ias been proposed by an agreement between Ger- many, England and the United States for appointment io the office of President of the Mugicipal Council at Apia, Samoa, as the successor of Herr Schmidt, has made an excellent record during his term or ser- vice in German East Africa. He is kaown as a per.ectly equitable Judge, and is highly regarded by both whites and na- tives. 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