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2 » THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1896. battle, had forty prisoners shot on the field, including armed insurgents. Suarez Incian, the assistant press censor at Havana, was severely reprimanded by Captain-General Weyler and temporariiy relieved for having neglected to blue pencil a paragraph in a newspaper inter- view with General Bernal upon the latter’s arrival in Havana after his fight with Maceo at Tomas del Negro. In the para- graph mentioned Beraal admitted having dispatched twenty-two prisoners upon the field there to avert the possibility of their subsequent escape. Maceo is reported to have reached Baca- a and to be re-entrenchedin strong ns there. General Gonzales Munoz is at Bahia Honda, on the north coast, preparing to make an attack upon the rebels’ stronghold with 6000 men and twelve guns simultaneously with other columns from the interior. Itisnotex- pected that General Weyler will leave Havana, as he says he has full confidence in Munoz’s ability to dislodge the enemy. —_————— SPANISH TROOPS EOUTED. Philippine Insurgents Just as Active as the Cubans. MADRID, Spars, Oct. 15. — General Blanco, captain-general of the Philippine Islands, reports the repulse by insurgents of 400 Spanish troops who had been sent to assist an outpost at Talisay. The troops lost eighteen killed and twenty- three wounded. Two battalions after- ward rescued the outpost. The rebels oc- cupying Talisay compelled General Blanco to altar the route of his advaace, moving toward Lipa Catangas, to stop the ad- vance of the insurgent NINL-HOUE DAY. FOR 4 Favor Shorter Work in Printing Offices. COLORADO SPRINGS, Coro., Oct. 15.— The main business of the International Typographical Union Convention, which is now being held in this city, is practically concluded. Three long sessions were held to-day and the net result was the election of officers of the organization for the com- ing two years. At the morning session of the conven- tion the shorter day proposition was taken up and discussed at full length. The committee which had been appointed earlier during the convention to investi- gate the matter submitted a report. The report recommended that a nine- hour day be instituted throughout the en- tire jurisdiction of the International Typo- graphical Union, and that the entire body of members of the organization have a tax of 1 per cent levied upon them should op- position be met with in carrying the new rule into effect, in order that there would be a fund available. Mr. Murphy of New York City drew up an amendment to the committee’s report in the shape of a resolution that the union has not the right to stipulate the assess- ment, but that the subordinate organiza- tions govern themselves in this matter. The resolution was later adopted and pluced as an amendment to the commit- iee’s report, The nine-hour day proposition includes only the book and job printing establish- lishments, the committee deeming it poli- tic to exempt the newspapers for the pres- ent. The election of officers resulted as fol- low: President, W. B. Prescott; second vice-president, Hugo Miller of Indianap- olis; seeretary-treasurer, John W. Bram- wood of Denver; delegatestothe American Federation of Labor, Frank Morrison of Chicago, Daniel J. Sullivan of New York and Edward Hirsh of Baltimore. First vice-president, Theodore Perry of Nashville, Tenn.; trustees of Home at Colorado Springs—L. C. Shepard, Grand Rapids; James J. Dailey, Philadelphia; Thomas McCaffery and J. W. White of Colorado Springs. James Griffon was a close second in the contest for the presidency, getting a vote of 54 against 63 for Prescott. Griffon was the caucus nominee. Syracuse, N. Y., was the successful contestant for the next convention of the union. sl PERSIA’S NEW SHAH. Compositors Musaffer-ed-Din Mirza to Be Enthroned With Great Pomp. TEHERAN, Persia, Oct. 15.—The cor- onation of the new Shah, which will soon take place, will be one of the most memor- able events that has occurred in this part of the East for many years. The new Sbah gets his place by virtue of the assassin’s builet. On May 1, last year, Shah Nasr-ed Din was killed while driving in a carriage to the tomb-mosque of Shah Abd-ul-Asun, a place of pilgrimage at Te- heran. The assassin was a follower of the sect of the Babis. His successor is not his elgest living son, but a Prince three vears younger—Musaffer-ed-Din Mirza— who was selected as Crown Prince when he was still 5 years of age. Prince Mus- affer was Governor of the province of Azer- baijan, on the Russian frontier, and re- sided in the capital, Tabriz. Hitherto he has distinguished himself by his faney for artillery, but in other branches of educa- tion he is behind his brothers. The suc- cessor to tke throne is well liked by the peopie, but he has no friends among the powerful court society. o B S THE COLOEADO MIDLAND. An Interesting Circuiar Issued by the Reorganization Committee. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 15.— The reorganization commaittee of the Colorado Midland Railroad has issued a circular to bondholders, stating that the disturbance in money and the feeling in England againsi American bonds made it unwise to submit a plan of reorganization. So to keep the present agreement in force the consent of certificate holders to an ex- tension to June 30, 1897, is asked. The Colorado Midland Railroad Com- pany reports for the year ending June 30, 1896: Gross earnings, $1,906,280; operat-~ ing expenses, $1,34 net earnings, $558,067; surplus, $413,052% The increase in revenue is mainly due to free inter- change of traffic with connecting lines and to a revival of mining industries in the State of Colorado. — - — DRINK AND JEALOUSY. D. Harry Pollars Shoots a Girl and Himself. CINCINNATY, Omnio.,, Oct. 15. — Last night D. Harry Pollars of Cripple Creek, Colo., shot and fatally injured Cleo Rus- sell, 18 years of age, and then shot him- self. Pollars died shortly afterward and the woman is dying at the city hospital. The crime was caused by drink and i;‘nlousy. Just before shooting the girl ollars drew a check on the First National Bank of Denver, with which to pay the juneral expenses. With the check he left an account-book on the bank, with the following note: ‘*This is too much. Uncle John, T. P. has caused all this. Would to God that I couid punish him.” = Evacuated Fort Sheridan. CHICAGO, Iin, Oct. 15.—The noted Fifteenth Infantry, Colonel R. E. Crofton commanding officer, which has been con- stantly before the public as the central figure in some affair or another for years past, evacuated Fort Sheridan to-day in accordance with the orders of the Secre- tary of War. To-morrow the fort will be occupied by the Fourth Infantry, from Washington and Idaho. The Fifteenth will be distributed among the posts at Fort, Bayard New Mexico, und Foris Grant and Huachuca, Ariz. 5 A Heavy Judgment. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 15.—~Judg- ment aganst the firm of Hexter Bros., manufacturers and wholesale dealers in clothing in this city, was entered to- for $81,000. : o BRYAN DELIVERS SITEEN SPEECHES Record of the Second Day of Campaigning in Michigan. Many Yellow McKinley Badges Encountered by the Travel- ing Candidate. RIVALRY BECOMES INTENSE. Demonstrations &nd Counter-Demon- strations Along the Route of the Nebraskan's Jcurney. GRAND RAPIDS, MicH, Oct. 18.— Three speeches in Grand Rapids rounded up William J. Bryan’s second day of cam- paigning in Micnigan. His field was the lower peninsula, beginning at the Straits of Mackinaw at daybreak. When he con- cluded his remarks at the last of the Lighly enthusiastic meetings here to- night he had added sixteen speeches to his unprecedented list. Ailthough the day was raw and dusty Mr. Bryan drew large crowds at every stop. Ason yester- day, he encountered many of the yellow McKinley badges that have caused him to indulge in tart comments several times. It was evident that the badges had been discributed through some concerted means, for they were nearly all alike, those at one town being similar in size and in pattern to those seen at another. They were noticeable particularly by their number at Traverse City, Cadillac and Eoward City. There was intense rivalry between the Republican and Democratic managers at Big Rapids in the distribution of McKin- ley and Bryan ribbons, but as all were white in color thé Bryan people seemingly made a better showing than their oppo- nents did. Some of Mr. Bryan’s audiences were very demonstrative, and all along the line of his progress he was well re- ceived from the time he began his speech- making to a crowd of early risers, just after daybreak, at St. Ignace on the west shore of the Straits of Mackinaw. Stops were made during the day at Mackinaw City, where Mayor Pingree, candidate for Governor of Micnhigan on the Republican ticket, shivered in unobtrusive attentive- ness among the crowd; Petoskey, Charle- voix, Bellaire, Traverse City, Cadillac, Reed City, Big Rapids, Howard City, Greenville, Belding, Iona, Walton, Man- ton and Lowell, and at all except the last three speeches were delivered by the nom- inee. The Grand Rapids meetings, three in number, far exceeded in attendance any of those addressed by Mr. Bryan en route. His biggest crowds along the way were at Iona, Big Rapids, Traverse City, Cadil- lac, Reed City and Belding, ranging in at- tendance from 2500 to 10,000. Altogether it was a very gratifying day to the candi- date in the numbers he drew and the en- thusiasm displayed. Whea the nominee’s train reached St. Ignace on the Straits of Mackinac at 5:30 A M. he found quite a large crowd of shivering veople waiting for him. Al though Mr. Bryan had not eaten his breakiast and was attired only in night- shirt, trousers and overcoat he made a good speech and was cheered vigorously. The special train was taken across the straits on a barge and reached Mackinaw at 7 o'clock. Here was another large audience o 2000 or more, including a crowd of excursionists. Mr. Bryan was more suitably attired for speech-making and made a vigorous address. No less than four brass bands were at hand and despite the early hour the meeting wasa great success. Mr. Bryan’s third speech was made at Petosky, where his train arrived at 8:25 and made a stop of tweniy minutes. More than 1000 people were in the crowd that cheered the nominee, when Mr. Hampton, the Democratic candidate for Congress in this district, introduced him. A number of men there wore badges in- scribed “*An honest dollar,”’ and noticing these Mr. Bryan said: “I want to address my remarks to those who are wearing those badges on which are written *An honest dollar.’ Ido not know whether they are intended to mean that those who wear them are in favor of a gold standard or free silver.” ‘‘Bixteen to one,”’ shouted some ome, and Bryan smiled and did not make further refer- ence to the matter. Several hundred people at Charlevoix heard a brief speech from the ‘‘greatest hero of the nineteenth century,”” as Mr. Bryan was called by the gentleman who introduced him. A short stop was made at Bellair, and Mr. Bryan spoke to about 300 people. At Traverse City, a lumber port on Lit- tle Traverse Bay, Mr. ana Mrs. Bryan rode to a vacant iot 1n the town, where the candidate, aiter an introduction by Mayor Davis, delivered a speech. The crowd was estimated at6000. Mr. Bryan said in part: In advocating free coinage I don’t mean to claim that I am infullible, but I do want you 1o understand that I believe what Isay, and that when I tell you that in my judgment there can be no prosperity in this country until bimetalllsm'is restored to the American ople I am telling what I believe. [Cheers.] Notonlyam1 telling you what I now believe but I am telling you what the Republicans used to believe, although they have now sur- rendered their convictions and permitted their party to act for them, instead of acting for themselves. Mr. McKinley stands for a financial poliey that intends to make money the Inaster and sll things eise the servant; hestands for & financial policy,that intends to make the property of the world cheaper than it was ever before by making ihe money of the world dearer than it was ever before. At Reed City the congregation that greeted Mr. Bryan numbered 2500, about the same as at Cadillac, and showed con- siderable entbusiasm during his speech. Yellow gave way to white in the way of the bndges worn by the gold people in the crowd that saw and heard the candidate at Big Rapids, and the Bryan supporters in tije town were not to{e outdone and they, too, had provided for the distribu- tion of the ribbons bearing the Nebraska man’s name. White was also the color used by the silver people, so nearly every- body in the audience of 4000 at Big Rapids had white insignia of political faith. The cheering was very hearty snd Mr. Bryan responded with a speech rull of fervor. Again was the yellow McKinley badges noticeable at Howard City, where Mr. Bryan’s audience numbered about 1500. All of the twenty minutes’ stop was taken up by the candidate's speech. Charles R. Sligh, Democratic Union Silver candidate for Goveraor of Michigan, with his wife and dauchter, joined Mr. Bryan there and accompanied. him to Grand Rapids. The 800 peoplée gathered at Greenville heard a short speech, Beld- ing, the location of the well-known silk manufactories, turned out at least 3000 of its inhabitants and residents of the vicinity to give Mr.- Bryan welcome. Four white horses drew his carriage to the speaking-place, and sixteen young women attired in white and silver shivered in the raw atmosphere in company with their comrade, whose dress carried out the in- tended typification of the ratio between the two money metals. Much enthusiasm was shown during th: nominee’s ad- dress. The largest crowd of the journey was . encountered at Iona, which was reached at 7:15. The street leading from woere the train halted to the courthouse, where Mr. Bryan spoke, a distance of more than 100 yards, was thronged with humanity, and when the candidate mounted the stand erected over the courthouse steps he faced a densely packed audience of be- tween 8000 and 10,000. Many bands had been engaged for the occasion and the half hour spent by Mr. Bryan there was as elaborate a display as be has had in any town of similar size. The enthusiasm was rampant. 7 At 5:45 the Bryan special, with a car containing -the Grand Rapids reception committee attached, left Iona for Grand Rapids. It stopped on the way at Lowell to let some people see the nominee and shout for him, and reached Grand Rapids at6:45 p. X From the time he reached Grand Rapids until he_escaped to his special train and went to bed Mr. Bryan was the recipient of a continuous ovation. A couple of thousand people were at the Aldina, Grand Havenand Milwaukee station when he arrived in company with Charles . 8Sligh and J. R, Whiting, respectively can- didates for Governor and Lieutenant-Gov- ernor of Michigan on the Democratic Union Silver ticket. A special trolley car took him to Cres- cent avenue, where he got into a carriage drawn by four white horses and was car- ried off in a roundabout way to avoid the throngs in the streets to Campau Square in the heart of Grand Rapids. An open- air meeting was scheduled there and it proved to be one of the largest ever ad- dressed by the candidate. A fair estimate placed the size of the crowd at 25,000. Mr. Bryan was well received. He was intro- duced by George Hummer, Democratic candidate for Congress in this (the Filth) district, and made a twenty-minute speech and then hurried off to the Powers ouse to address an enthusiasticaudience almost entirely composed of ladies, The women adherents of the Bryan and Sewall ticket in Grand Rapids had imitated their sisters of Minneapolis and Duluth and se- cured theopera-nouse for their exclusive u se. After leaving the Powers House Mr. Bryan went to Locerby Hall and made his third and last speech to the 5000 demonstrative people packed, jammed and huddled together there. W. F. Mc- Knight, who brought the Michizan deles gation over to Bryan at Chicago, pre- sented the nominee, and John W. Tom- linson of Alabama followed in a speech that was heartily received. When the night's ordeal was over Mr. Bryan went to the Livingston Hotel to get Mrs. Bryan, who bad been holding a reception there with Mrs. Sligh, Mrs. Whiting and other ladies, and together they were driven to the Union depot, where the Bryan special was in waiting. The train was taken to a siding out of town, in order that the can- didate and his party might pass the night undisturbed. Strangely enough, Mr. Bryan’s speech to the ladies at Powers Opera-house to- night was the most important aelivered here. It contained some new material, and was noticeable for Mr. Bryan’s criti- cism of Messrs. Ingersoll, Halstead, Car- lisle and Harrison. He said, in part: You will remember that a few years ago there was & greatdeal of talk about a char- acter. Idon’t know whether I ought to call it a charscter or two characters, but it was Dr. Jekyll ‘and Mr. Hyde. You will remember that the same persons ap peared at different times in different characters. One_ time the man was & good man—benevolent, kindly dis- posed. Atanother time the same person wasa mean man—a villian, seekfng to take human life. My friends, we have the character of Jeykil and Hyde illustrated well when we come to discuss the silver question, because we can cite you a number of men who have been both Jeykll and Hyde. We can cite you a number ot men who nave been kindly disposed and interested in the public welfare at oue time, and who, at an- other time, have been supporting a system that means more misery, according to Mr, Car- lisle, than all the wars, pestilences and famines that have ever occurred in history. [Applause.] 1wantto call your attention o iwo or three persons who have said one thing at one time and another thing at anotber time on this money question. Our opponents have been able to bring into this campaign all the movable guns in the country. They have enlisted on their side, and are sending out over the country & great many pleces of large artillery, und one of the ablesi speakers (hey have sgnt out is Colonel Ingersoll, who brings to this money question his great®bility asan orator. “Mr. Ingersoll is now using his great weapon, ridicule, against silver. Let me show you what he once said on the other side of the question and he will have to talk a long while beiore he can answer what he has said on our side, and I think it is fair for us to assume that we still have with us all of those who have not been able to answer themselyes. Here is what he said in a speech some vears ago to farmers: ‘“For my part I do not ask any interierence on the part of the Government except to undo the wrong it has done. I do not ask that money be made out of nothing. 1do not ask for the prosperity born of paper, but I do ask for the remonetization of siiver. Stlver was demonetized by fraud. It was an imposition upon every solvent man, a fraud upon every honest debtor in the Urited States. It assassinates labor. 1t was done in the in- terest of avarice and greed and should be un- done by the honest men. The farmers should vote only ior such men as are able and willing to guard and advance the interests of abor.” y friends, that is what he said when he talked to the farmers some years ago. What he said then was true; it is true now. Now you will notice that one of the most distin- Buished journalists of the day, one-of the most eminent men in his profession, Murat Halstead, is doing all he can to maintain the gold standard in this country. On the 24th of October, 1877, Mr, Halstead sald: “This Brit- ish goid policy was the work of experts only. Evasion was essential to succeed in 1t, and possibly becaus® coin was not in circulation and being out of public view, could be tam- pered with without attracting public atten- tion. The monometallic system of the great creditor nation was thus imposed upon the great deblor nation without debate.” The monometallic system of the great credi- tor nation was thus imposed on the debtor Nations of the world because the United States 15 a debtor natfon, and Mr. Halstead calls it & British policy. It was a British policy; it is a British policy to-day and all we ask is to replace a British policy with an American financial policy. In unother place in his letter he explains the ad- vantage of bimetallism. He says: “The metals support and regulate each other. The two afford adequate basis for an abundant currency and neither canbe ‘cornered’ in aid of the speculative schemes that are oiten pre- pared.and always opposed to the general wel- fare”” And sgain: “If one metal rated ac- cording to the fixed ratio becomes demone- tized toe option of paymentin the cheaper coin makes a demand for it, that enhances its value and the money unit issubject to siighter fluctuations in comparison with commodities than is found in but one metal. Copper and steel lufelher in the compensation balance- wheel of & chronometer and perfectly measur- ing time through all temperatnresdllustrates the prineiple.” So that Mr. Halstead at that time understood that the gold standard was a British poticy and he understooa the advan- tages of the double standard. John G. Carlisle, who to-day stands as the representative of those Democaats who believe in the gold siandard, spoke on this subjest in 1878. In that speecch hesaid: *This contest must not cease and will not cease until the in- dustrial classes are fully and finally emanci- pated from the heartless domination of syndi- cates, stock exchanges ana combines of mohey- grabbers in this country and in Europe.” He went even further than that. Hesaid: “We will pass measure after measure of reijef, and if the President vetoes those measures and we cannot pass them over his ve:o, we will put them in the appropriation bill with tne dis- tinct undersianding that if the people can get no relief the Government shell get 110 money.” Do you know of any more emphatic condemna- tion than that? And yet that heartless domi- uation still continues. In 1889 Benjamin Harrison was elected President, and in his platform I find these words: “The Republican party is in favor of the nse of gold aud silver ss money, and con- demns the policy of the Democratic’adminis- tration in its efforts to demonetize silver.” There is a Republican candidate for the Presi- dency elected on a platform which condemns the previous administraticn on the ground that it had atiemoted to demonetize silver, and yet this condemnation of Cleveland was infinitely worse than the first one so far as the money question was concernsd, and yet the President who was elected on a platform de- nouncing Mr. Cleveland’s former administra- tion is advocating the election of IR!Publlcln candidate who indorses Mr. Cleveland’s second financial policy. [Applause.] et ity MORION ROANTS BRYANITES. Turns the Tables on the Men Who Dared to Criticize Him. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 15.—Secre- tary Morton has expressed himself in caustic terms to the managers of the Democratic campaign. The difficulty arose out of tne alleged issue of a bullul.in from Democratic headquarters charging the Secretary of Agriculture with permitting the employment of his em- ployes during office Lours in addressing gold standard campaign circulars and sending them out under the frank of Sen- ator Caffery of Louisiana. Thisstatement being shown to Secretary Morton he de- nounced the author of itas a willful liar. Then, speaking of what he called “Bryan Democrats,” he added : The finance which they teach is entirely Con- federate fiat. In the Southern Confederacy the same leaders wiio are now in command of the picket guards for free s'lver at 16 to1 were leading financiers. And Harris, Pugh, Morgan and the other Confederate generals now in command of Bryan’s campaign seem to desire to accomplish by false fnance that which the failedy to bring about by arms— National dishonor and disgrace. Secretary Morton furiher proauced the following letter, which he said had been adiressed to all the postmastersin Ne- braska: OMAHA, Nebr., September 15, 1896. Dear Sir: We address this letter to you, knowing that you are one of the leading Dem- ocrats of your county, and_believing you have the success of our party at heart and desire to aid the election of Bryan and Sewall. In order o overcome the nominal Republican majority in this State the committee must have funds with which to perfecta thorough organization. We can expect no aid from tbie National Committee and have no funds in hend now with which to begin work. We urge you to make &n earnest_effort among your iriends to raise the sum of $100, to be used by the com- mittee in defraying the necessary expenses of the camprign. " If you cannot raise thissum atonce will you not guarantee the committee that the Democrats of your vicinity will con- tribute the amount required by the 10th of October? This _committee has no enemies to punish and will appreciate and gratefully remember the kind assistance of those Democrats who come to the aid of our party im its hour of need. Our success in the Nation is assured. Let each of us do our part to carry Nebraska by a large majority. Do not fail to write us at once. Yours truly, z JaMES C. DAHLMANN, Chairman. LEE HURDMAN, Secretary. “I should Jike to have our Democratic friends know,” added Secretary Morton, ‘‘that this same James C. Dahlmann, who asks for these funds, was formerly a gold Democrat and wanted office under the present administration, but was turned down for personal reasons.” & e STEVENSON ON THE sTUMP., First Campaign Speecli Made by the Vice- President. MIDWAUKEE, Wis, Oct. 15.—Vice- President A. E. Stevenson addressed an audience of about 1500 people at the Dav~ idson Theater this evening. Several thou- sand people were unable to gain admis- sion to the theater, and as the street in front of it had been torn up, no overflow meeting could be held. On the stage were over 700 of the leading Democrats of Wisconsin, among whom were many prominent Federal office- holders. Mr. Stevenson was introduced by Judge Mallory, an old-lihe Democrat, who has been prominent for years as a silver advocate. The Vice-President was treated to a great ovation on being introduced. Mr. Stevenson was referred to by one of the speakers who followed him as the Demo- cratic end of the present administration, s sentiment that was loudly cheered. This was the first campaign speech de- livered by the Vice-President in the pres- ent contest outside of his own State. Mr. Stevenson said that an axiom of Napoleon had been, *‘All for the people, nothing by the people.” The axiom of Thomas Jei- ferson had been and was the living faith of the Democratic party for 100 years: “All for the people and by the people.’” [Tremendous applause and cheers.] Con- tinuing, he said: “I make no question as to the honest conviction of those who give their honest support to the ticket nominatea at Indi- anapolis. Thefact remains, however, that the contest for the Presidency rests solely between Biyan and MeKinley.” The speaker then asked whether the public interests would best be served by the success of the Democratic party or the return of its great antagonist to power. He called attention to the fact that for thirty years previous to the election of President Cleveland there was not a single moment when the Democratic party con- trolled the Presidency and the Senate and House at the same time, and therefore all the legislation which has brought on its train financial disaster must be laid at the doors of the Republican party. He referred to the *‘enforced idleness and the wrecked fortunes” which foliowed the demonetization of silver in 1873. and then proceeded before takingup the silver question to say a few words on the tariff, and asked his hearers if they were ready to return to the schedules of the McKinley law for the most unjust_tariff schedules known to our history. He claimed that the victories of the Democratic party in 1890 and 1892 were the resuit of the revolt against the McKinley law. He then took up the monetary question and quoied McKinley, Carlisle, Blaine and other economists to show that the Republican party had never dared to de- clare unqualifiedly in favor of the gold standard until 1896. His peroration wasa splendid encomium of the Democratic party.which he said had existed ever since the constitution was adopted. fa L S e A WATSON’S LEITER MAILED, Accepts the Nomination for the Vice- . Presidency From the Populists. ATLANTA, GA., Oct. 15—A special .from Thompson, Ga,, tc the Constitution says Thomas E. Watson has mailed his letter of acceptance of the Populist nomi- nation to Senator Marion Butler at Chi- cago. Senator Butler is exvected bere to- night and he will not get the originai let- ter until he returns to Chicago. Mr.Wat- son has not given out the contents of his lenelr. but says that he has putitin the m ail. Mr. Watson’s threat is improving. His physician says that there is_absolutely nothing the matter with Mr. Watson ex- cept a trouble loca! to his throat and it will be well in a few days. He savs Wat- son must not make any more speeches for some time to come. TOPEKA, Kaxs., Oct. 15.—The follow- ing telegram was delivered to Ape Stein- berger, secretary of the Middle-of-the- Road State Committee to-day: THOMPSON, Ga., Oct. 15, 1896. Abe Steinberger: Ulcerated throat will pre- vent my keeping engagements. I regret this. The middle-oi-the-road Populists all over the Union have my sympathy and admiration. They have been sold out and their party made a footwat for Democratic politicians to wipe their feet under the hypocritical pretense of patriotism. The fusionists have sbandoned principle and gone into a mad scramble for the pie counter. If Bryan is aefeated it will be the fault of the tradersin his own rty and onrs, who have ignored the St. Louis compromise and tried to force the Populists to vote for Sewall, the bondholder, National banker, cor- poration plutderat and “gold clause miliion- aire.” THOMAS E. WATSON, WL B WATSON ON THE WARPATH. Editorially Roasts Democratic Managers and Senator Stewart. CINCINNATI, Oxro, Oct. 15.—A special to the Post from Atlanta, Ga., says: Thomas E. Watson says editorially to- day that it looks asz the Democratic managers wish to defeat Bryan or eise they woefully lack wisdom, having done all they could to drive away the Populist vote. z *‘Pie has been plentifully dished out to vie-hunters,” says he. “In_North Caro- lina, Kansas and Colorado Populist prin- ciples have been ignored and the National ticket set aside.. Bryan is being slaugh- tered by his own managers. They are sacrificing him to Eastern money powers as represented by Sewall and their own desperate determination to wreck tie People’s party.” Another editorial roasts Senator Stewart of Nevada, saying he was a party to ‘‘the crime of '73,” and calling him “the Breck- inridge’’ of the Senate. —e Fusion in the Fourth. CHICAGO, Irn., Oct. 15.—Fusion be- tween the Democrats and Populists has been effected in the Fourth District by which George E. McGrath (Pop.) will withdraw for James McAndrews, the Dem- ocratic nominee. D. W. Muils is the Re- publican candidate in this district. - LONGEST BASE LINE ON EARTH Completion of the Most Stupendous Geodetic Survey. After Fifty Years’ Work the Great Transcontinental Arc Is Established. IT COST ONE MILLION DOLLARS. But the Government Officials May Expect Congratulations From the Scientists of the World. WABSHINGTON, D C., Oct. 15.—The Coast and Geodetic Survey has just con- cluded its labors in the field upon the most stupendous geodetic survey undertaken in any country, and whith gives to the United States the longest base line upon which to establish subsequent surveys in existence in the world. Itis known as the transcontinental arc and lies along the 39th parallel of latitude, extending from ocean to ocean. Its eastern end is at a point on the Atlantic ten miles south of Lictle Egg Isiand lighthouse, below Cape May, and its western end is six miles north of Point Arena lighthouse on the Pacific, above San Francisco several miles. According to the radius of the 39th par- allel, as given by Bessel, the famous as- tronomer of Kingsburg, Germany, who first calculated the diameters of the earth and measured the distance from the earth to 61 Cygni, the nearest fixed star, the leigth of the are, as measured by the Coast and Geodetic Survey officials, is 111 feet in error, and according to the radius of the same parallel, as fixed by Sir Andrew Clarke of Glasgow University, the error is 984 teat. But General Duffield, superintendent of the survey, declares that these variations from the heretofore established standards show error in them and not in the calcula- tion of his scientists. By the measure- ments made on the line and which have been aggregated in the office here the arc at sea Jevel for the entire distance, that is following the curvature of the earth’s sur- face, is 2625.8 miles in length. The estab- lishment of the radius of the thirty-ninth parallel from those measurements is a matter of future calculation. The vastness of the work justaccom- plished cannot be appreciated by the un- scientific mind. It was inaugurated by the survey nearly if not quite half a cen- tury ago, Progress upon it has been spas- modic, but some work was done every year since the beginning. It has cost the Government about $1,000.000, but the ex- penditure is said by the officials to be fully justified by the importance of the project. Russia and China are the only other countries on the globe where a base line of anything like equal magnitude is pos- sible, and in neither one is it likely to be surveyed for many years. The longest base line heretoiore surveyed was that in India, running north and south abouta thousand miles in length. European scientists have been greatly interested in the progress of the American arc and its completion will doubtiess be the occasion of the receipt by the geodetic survey offi- cials of many congratulations from abroad. NOT GOING T0 CENTRAL AMERICA The Oregon Merely Ordered to Santa Barbara for Gun Trials. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 15.—A re- port reached Washineton to-day that the French war vessel Duguay Trouin, now at San Francisco for dockage, had been suddenly ordered to Central America, and that the United States ship Oregon would follow her soon after her gun trial trip. 1he CaLn correspondent saw Navy De- partment oificials to-day, one of them said: “There is nothing to call our vessels to Central America. The only affair that threatens any. sort of international difficulty, is that affecting the American missions in Peru, and that is not regarded as of any importance. Besides the United States sKlp Marion is now off Iquique and complelenr to take care of Uncle Sam’s people.” 3 Admiral Ramsey, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, was then seen by the CaLn correspondent. He stands next to Secre- tary Herbert in authority. He said: *‘The Oregon will not be ordered to Central Ameriea. Not much. This report proba- bly arose from the fact that she is going to Santa Barbara for gun trials.” G L Sergeant Hessler Retired. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 15.—Louis C. Pember, Battery A, First Artillery, now at Fort Hamilton, N.Y.,is trans- ferred to the Fifth Artillery. He will re- main at Fort Hamilton to await the ar- rival of the Fifth Artillery, when he will be assigned by the regimentai commander to the battery taking station at that post. Commissary Sergeant John Hessler, now at Angel Island, California, is placed on the retired list by order of the Secre- tary of War upon his own application. EERTO A Union Veteran League. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 15.—The Union Veteran Legion to-day elected the following officers for the ensuing year: National commander, John P. Donahue, Delaware; senior vice, W. R. Wortersm, Philudelp‘hia; junior vice, J. H. Carpenter, Reading, Pa. = Columbus, Ohio, was se- lected as the place for the next meeting. The afterncon was spent in a trip to Mount Vernon. $ S R The National Deficit, WASHINGTON, D. €., Oct. 15.—The first half of October sho ws a deficit of §$5,- 739,873, and for the fiscal year to date of $30,934,009. The total receipts for the fiscal year to date have been $91,175,670 and the expenditures have ageregated $122,509,679. The receipts for the month of October to date have besn $12,400,120 and the expend- itures $18,140,000. ek g f e Surgeon Lamilton’s Resignation. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 15.—The telegraphic resignation of Dr. John B. Hamilton as surgeon in the Marine Hos- Piul service, telegraphed from Chicago ast night, was forwarded by the President to-day to Secretary Carlisle with instruc- tions to mnotify Dr. Hamilton that it had been accepted, to take effect at once. ZLieutenants Promoted. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 15.—The Preeident has made the following appoint- ments in the army to fill existing vacan- cies: To be captain and assistant quarter- master—Lieutenant Arthur Murray, Lieu- tenant Daniel McCarthy, Lieutenant John T. Knight. To be captain and commis- sary officers of subsistence—Lieutenant William H. Baldwin, Lieutenant David L. Brainerdy. e MILITARY TRANSFERS. Third Artillery Ordered to the Depart- ment of California. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 15—The Secretary of War to-day directed the com- mander of the Department of California, at the instigation of the Interior Depart- ment, to rémove the United States troops now stationed in the Sequola and General Grant parks to other posts in_the depart- ment on or before the 1st of November. The Secretary ot War has ordered the following disposition of the commands of the Third Artillery, now stationed in the Department of the ‘Ean, but under orders to join the‘Dapartment of California: The colonel, headquarters, one major and three batteries to Angel Island in San Francisco harbor; one major and two bat- teries to Alcatraz Island in the same bar- bor; one battery lo Fort Mason, same harbor; one major and one battery to Fort Canby, Wash., and the lieutenant-colonel and four batteries, including the two light batteries to the Presidio, San Francisco. In addition the colonel, headquarters and four companies of the First Infantry, now stationed at Angel Island, are transferred to the Presidio. The disposition of the batteries and the majors for the postin San Francisco harbor is left to the com- mander of the department. ol Srmaci NOT XET SEILTLED. The Venezuelan Commission Unable to EReach an Agreement. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 15.—Re- specting the report that the Venezuelan Boundary Commission had practically de- cided the matters submitted to 1t in favor of Venezuela, 8. Mallett-Provost, the sec- retary of the commission, said to-day: “The statement that the Venezuelan Boundary Commission has come to a de- cision sustaining the claims of Venezula in the boundary dispute between that country and Great Britain is entirely with- out foundation. The commission is not yet in possession of all the facts necessary to form a definite judgment, and will not be until the return of Professor Burr from Eurcpe, about the end of this month. He is to bring with him new and important historical information, which must be carefully examined before any decision can be arrived at.” CONDUCTS HS OWH CIS Price’s Appeal to the Supreme Court Admitted by Chief Justice Fuller. This Is a Condition That Has Existed but Once Before in the Tri- bunal’s History. WASHINGTON, D. ©., Oct. 15.—A case was docketed in the Supreme Court to- day under conditions that have obtained but once bejore in the history of the court. Warren E. Price, a bookseller of San Francisco, was convicted in the District Court for the northern district of Cali- fornia of using the mails for the purpose of advertising obscene books and sen- tenced to pay a fine 6f $500 and to be imprisoned for eighteen months. He appealed the case to the Supreme Court of the United States last spring, but it could not be docketed under the rules of the court for the reason that the attorney was not a member of the bar of the Su- preme Court of the United States. He ad- vised his ciient, however, that the case could be docketed upon his personal ap- pearance, and Price offered this. But that was rejected by the clerk under the rules. On Monday last Solicitor-General Con- rad moved the court that the case be docketed and dismissed for failure to prosecute the appeal. To-day Chief Jus- tice Fuller announced that the motion to dismiss would be overruled, and the clerk was ordered to docket the case. Price will be allowed to prosecute it in propria per- sonze, On Monday next the Government will move to advance the case for an early hearing. AR N L1 T0 SUCCEED BEARDSLEE, Commodore Miller of the Boston Navy Yard Will Probably Be Promoted. NEW YORK, Exg., Oct. 15.—A Tribune special from Washington says: There is much talk among naval officers regarding the successor of Admiral Beardslee, com- mander-in-chief of the Pacific station. The impression prevails that Com- modore J. N. Miller, the command- ant of the Buston navy-yard, will be assigned to this duty. e is the senior officer of his grade, and has not been at sea since 1892, when he was a captain. He is entitled to a com- mand afloat, and should exercise this authority before he is advanced to the highest grade of the navy. Another officer also spoken of for the place is Commodore George Dewey, for- merly of the Portsmouth navy-yard. He has not been #t sea since 1888, He is anxious to have a command commen- surate with his rank, which entiiles him to the control of a fleet. —— Can Be Beaten in Kans CHICAGO, Inn, Oct. 15. — Chairman Hagan of the” Kansas committee of the National Democratic party wrote to National headquarters asking for speakers on account of the inroads which the gold sentiment among the Democrats hadgre- cently made upon the silver forces of that State. He predicted that with an extra- ordinary pull for Palmer and Buckner, Bryan could be defeated in Kanshs an Populism given a crushing blow. ey e Shot at a Political Meeting. CANNELLTON, Ixp., Oct.15.—Ed Bas- singer shot and killed Emery Miles and wounded Joel Dixon at Adyville about sundown yesterday. Democratic arid Re. publican meetings were beidg held to- gether, and Bassinger was yelling for Bryan, while Miles and Dixon were shout- ing for McKinley. This led to a row, and the shooting followed. Bassinger is in jail, ana a mob threatens him. S R A Receiver for Eose Coghlan. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 15.—A receiver was appointed to-day for the property and assets of Miss Rose Coghlan, the actress, on motion of counsel for Herbert E. Boyn- ton, assignee for F. C. Smith G Co., jewel- ers, of Detroit, Mich., who recovered-a judgment against the actress for §500, the value of a diamond ring which Miss Cogh- lan had purchased for her husband, John T. Sullivan. - Breckinridge May Be Chosen. FRANKFORT, Ky., Oct. 15.—A conven- tion of representative Republicans from each county of the Seventh District will meet here Wednesday to nominate a can- didate for Congress and 1t is not improb- able that W. C. P. Breckinridge will be chosen. —_— Treasury Gold Keserve, WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 15.—The treasury gold reserve at the close of busi- ness to-day stood at $122,656.090. The dey’s withdrawals at New York were $774,400, one lot being $600,000. No ex- g{:n-‘tlion is given for the heavy with- wals. Apn—— Buicide of a Defaulter. DENVER, Covo., Oct. 15.—Charles Hard for many years confidential bookkeeper of the firm of Ballin & Ransohoff, shot him- self dead this morning. The firm asserted that Hard was a defaulter, WhY RAMBUSCH SUDDENLY FLED Was a Defaulter to the Extent of Half a Million. Confessicn of Many Crimes Made by the Missing Man in a Letter to His Wife. SAID HE WOULD END HIS LIFE. Series of Daring Forgeries and Pecue lations by Juneau’s Most Promi- nent Business Man. 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