The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1895, Page 6

mes it _THE WASHINGTON BEE. TUG OF WAR AT AMSTERDAM TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT RE- PUBLICANS HOLD A CONVENTION. Slobart Kram, of Schoharie County, Philip | Keck, of Fulton and Stafford Moshier, of Canajoharie, the Leading Candi- Gates for the Senatorial Nomination— Mr. Krom Expects to be Benefitted by the Factional Fight Among the Other Delegates — The Convention Meets at Noon To-Day. Amsterdam, Sept. 10.—It is beleved there that the convention which assem- | bled at 1 p. m. to-day to nominate a Re- publican candidate for Senator from the Dwenty-seventh district will engage in © tedious tug of war. As has been pre- viously, stated, Montgomery and ‘Scho- harie counties are each represented by seven delegates, with Fulton and Ham- iiton together having the same repre- eentation. Schoharie comes instructed to stand by Hobart Krum to the very last, and the situation in the Fulton- Hamilton delegation, who are for As- semblyman Philip Keck, is the same. The Montgomery delegates, after a fight fn the county convention, in which As- semblymen Gardiner was defeated, are supposed to represent Stafford Moshiez. There is a bitter rivalry of long stand- ing between the Montgomery and the Fulton county organization, dating back to the time that Harlan P. Kline, ‘who was nominated for State Senator efter a bitter fight in the convention, was defeated at the polls. It was charged et that time that the Fulton county Republicans organized a revolt nd openly peddled the Foley ticket, folded up in the otherwise straight Re- | publican ballot. Kline was very popu- jar in this county, and his defeat ran- kied the local Republican ieaders. Krum’s friends expect te be benefited by just this feeling, and are looking for a final break of the Montgomery delega- tion. On the other hand, Keck’s sup- porters are declaring that after a rea- sonable amount of balloting they will carry with them four of the seven Montgomery delegates. They are not giving out their names, it istrue, but the politics that dominated the late conven- tion of this county is supposed to be so well known that some of the Amsterdam people are naming F. B. Englehardt, of St. Johnsville; George ‘Van Buren, of this alty, as the men who ae at last decide the nomination of 3 the ether three delegates from this coun | ty, Joseph Moore and Keller Edwards, of | fort Plain, and Willis Bullock, of Cana- | — are éxpected to remain firm for | loshier. Aiark horse, but neither the Keok or the | Krum men will be first to accept gyoh g compromise. In other words, tf thi is to be any arrangement of that sort it will follow only after oytside influence from 4nfiuential quarters have enlisted. cbart Krum was first in the field, his pg- presentative, ee ¥ the County Committee TS at, arrh evening. The delegation remained in Al- Dany last might and reached here at 8:48 a.m ‘The Fulton-Hamilton delegates ar- rived at 8:14 this morning. They all made the Hotel Warner their headquarters. It is in the parlors of that hotel where the convention is being held. The Senatorial Committee met prior to the hour fixed for the convention. It oom- prises H. G. Dewey, of Fulton-Hamilton; Leonard F, Fish, of Montgomery, and J, #. Crandall, of Schoharie. Promptly at 1 o’clock the convention ‘was called to order by H. G. Dewey, of Fulton county, the chairman of the Senatorial Committee. Att the roll-call every delegate named in the respective county conventions responded. The delegates are as follo Schoharie, W. E. Bassler, A. L. Hain L. W. Baxter, Addison Hagadorn, O. F. Plank, C. E. Nichols, James n Vechten; Fulton- Hamilton, J. J. P. Argersin- ger, G. P. Fenton, W. B. Colins, D. S. Decker, H .R. Wheeler, B. Dempster; Montgomery, Keller Edwards; Joseph Moore, G. L. Davis, F. P. Englehardt, Willis Wendell, Cornelius Van Buren. Amorig the leading Republicans who are present from Schoharie county are: c. H. Wieing. E. B. Hard, editor of the Cobleskill Times; H. G. Tenant and James Houck, ex-chairman of the county committee. Fulton and Hamil- ton county are represented by Deputy Internal Revenue Collec- tor Robert Humphry, M. T. Button, Hilts, A. N. Scott, M. L. Getman, Super- intendent of the Poor Knox, Oliver Getman, W. Filmore, Cyrus De J. M. Russell. Montgomery county is largely repre- sented. There are p: nit: Dunn, W. E. Diefendorf, G F. E. Bakeman, A. J. Devoe, ex-Postmaster of Fort Plain William Yerdon, Eugen Snell, J. D. Beckwith, William Scharff, M. F. Merritt, E. Kyser, H. E. Shimmerman, C. Scott, H. C. Wood, William Clark, J. P. Grant, Hon. J. D. Wendell, H. A. Diefe: dorf, E. Rebell, H. Stichell and Distric Attorney Leonard F. Fish. Permaaent organization was not ef- fected until after 2 o'clock. George P. Fenton, of Fulton county, was chosen chairman. eke on MOUNT FUMI YAMA TURNS VOLCANO. Indications Point to an Eruption in a Short Time. Wancouver, B. C., Sept. 5.—By the Em- press of China advices say that, accord- ing to Japanese papers, Mount Fugi Yama is expected to become an active volcano shortly. Smoke has been emitted freely of late and the sand in the vicinity is hot enough to cook an egg in a very short tims. The locality is known to have been volcanic, and for years past smoke has been emit- ted. The thermometer registered 92 de- grees in the ground, stones being heated to such a degree that they cannuc be touched. ____»—______ LI HUNG CHANG HAS A BANQUET. Cnolera’s Ravages on the Increase in Japan and Corea. Vancouver, B. C., Sept. 5.—Advices from the East by the Empress of China say that, on August 21, 827 fresh cases and 498 deaths frém cholera were report- ed im Japan. There Were twenty cases end fourteen deaths in ‘Tokio and four cases and two deaths in Yokohama. Cholera is also spreading in Corea. The Foreign Office has recetved word that on August 24 the Chinese prisoners from Japan were handed over to the Chinese authorities at Shinijo and the Japanese officers in charge were enter- tained at a banquet by Li Hung Chang. Davis, of Fon- | da, and Willis Wendell and Cornelius | Some of the delegation, in the | forty four interest of harmony, are talking about a | pore oe | ing feature of 7 KILLED AT LOUISVILLE | CAISSON OF THE FIRST KENTUCKY | ARTILLERY EXPLODES TO-DAY. | pet Battery B was Firing the Morning Salute tothe Grand Army Veterans When the Explosion Took Place—Caps Dropped on the Friction Primer of the Pieco—Two of | the Bodies Blown Over Housetops—Great | parade of the Encampment Takes Place : To-Day on Southern Soil—Distinguished | Confederates Ride in Front of the Line— | Striking Features of the Parade. Louisville, Sept, 11—A horrible acci- ' dent, resulting in the death of seven and | the wounding of several members of the | Louisville Legion, occurred shortly after 5 o'clock this morning, caused by the ex- | plosion of a caisson. | The accident occurred on Broadway, between Third and Fourth streets, where the First Kentucky Artillery were sta- tioned for the purpose of firing the morn- ing salute. Eye witnesses to the accident say that the explosion was caused by dropping the caps on the friction primer of the piece. Two of the bodies were blown over the housetops and were horribly mangled. Two horses attached to the cannon were horribly mangled. All the killed were members of the First Ken- tucky Artillery of Louisville, which has always been considered the finest in the State. Those killed are: Corporal Al. Robinson. Privates Charles Oestrich, Charles Woods, ——— McBride, Hutchin- son and Howard Irwin, and the driver, William Adams, colored. The wounded are: Fred. Copen, bad- ly burned, and William Hobbs, not seri- ously. All the men except the colored man were members of Battery B and resided in Louisville. As soon as the accident occurred the city ambulance was called and the wound- ed were taken to the Northern Infirmary, where their injuries were attended to. I‘ is feared that Copen will die. The whole left side of his face was blown off. Eves If he should recover he will be blind and horribly disfigured. The colored driver fell porch of a residence, full: the place where the explo: occurred. It is believed that body of Private Hutchinson was blown to pieces, as it has not yet been found. A hook and ladder truck of the city fire department was call- ed and with ladders every house top in the vicinity was searched in vain for the missing body. But on nearly every house: on the front 800 feet from top was found portions the bodies of the unfortunate young The battery was on way to Phenie Hill for the purpose of firing a me, es 8. were y-six ywder 2 tse calss&h, ae 2 28, Samo oe eons of thi wee! parade ie even! of the twenty-ninth Shoda Encamp- ment of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic, as it had bee: ormer en- n of penpments. Along miles of bunting end ami hundreds of pucbpends) of chi citizens thé comrades once more marched on Soutliern soil. No contrast could be greater than that of the reception of the gateway of the South to-day to the op- Position at its portals. Only one thing could have added to the impressive grandeur of the de! stration. The picturesque display of red, white and blue electric lights across all prominent streets and on many buildings that had been admired so much by the visitors could not contribute to the glory, of the day. The veterans were the most interest- the parade, although everything that money or ingenuity could command in the way of warlike designs were added 4 the procession. The veterans had spent two 43: nd nights in camp fires and reunio in hunting up bunk mates and comrades, and in talking over old expe vice, but they say thi old tim formed a long, strong line of “Yank: in marching through Kentuc! while thousands of ‘“Johnni grew hoarse in cheering them along the way. And the ladies of Lou a parts of the § | joined in the t | The veterans showed the weight of and the effects of service while g to-day. It was the general re- mark that there were never so many old, lame and feeble men jn line, but they proudly kepi step and on they tramped, tramped, tramped, just as though they were the boys still “marching throug Georgia.” None of the old Union generals, arounl whom they gathered so fondly at formet encampments, and whose carriages they | cheered so lustily in former parades, | were here. The departments began form- | ing at an early hour to start the proces- jon promptly. At 9.30 a seoond salute was fired for the first grand division to form. At 10 a. m. the guns indicated that the escort was moving to the head of the column, and at 10.30 the salute signalled all of the ten grand divisions tomove. Under a proclamation from the Mayor the streets where the divisions formed and the entire line of march were cleared of everything, while the Louisville Legion, the Cadets .and Kentucky National Guard patrolled the streets, and there was no delay. M.unted police first cleared tthe way, follewed by a large de- tatchment. The parade was headed, some distance in fror: of the first grand division, by two ¢ inguished Con- federates on horse bazk, Chairman John H. Weller and Chairman W. R. Harrison. They did not wear the gray, but black Prince Albert coats, silk pants and red, white and blue sashes, the same as members of the citizens’ committee. 3 y nev till they get in line. And they scarfs and rosettes. Chairman Weller carried a very large flag, and stars and stripes were proudly borne by him. Chairman Harrison carried a very large white banner of peace mounted on a staff like the stars and stripes carried by his Confederate comrade. The two flags were alike in every respect except in the colors, one being all pure white. Among the features of the parade was Old Ned, the war horse, c +r forty years old, that has heretofore tramped with the boys along the line of march. Old Ned is now so feeble that he to-day rode on a float. The New Hampshire department carried a large eagle. The Ohio boys all wore buckeyes, the K tuckians had corn and crackers, and others bore the emblems of the States. i LR GES NSE te OO Lord Roseberry’s Horses Winner. London, Sept, 11.—The race for the St. Leger Stakes, at the Doncaster meeting to-day, was won by Sir Visto, owned by Lord Roseberry. Sir Visto was the winner of the Derby this year. = Captain of Former Cup Challengers Dead. London, Sept. 11.—James Ashbury, who took the yachts Cambria and Livonia to America in 1870 and 1871 respectively, tc | compete for the America’s Cup, is dead. They also wore red, white and blue: ' WOMEN CRIMINALS.” The Record They Have Made as Murderers Is a Bad One. Continuing bis discussion of the in- crease in the number of female crimi- nals in Europe and America, Dr. Hugo Muench, the eminent Berlin sociologist, said to a St. Louis repor- -ter: “The woman who captivated more men in a given time and spent more money in better style than any other in Paris was Miss Sutherland, a New York girl. Josie Mansfield was almost as notorious in the French capital as in the American metropolis. It was an American beauty, Miss Blackford, who eaptivated the Rus- sian Grand Duke and held him in ab- ject slavery for many months. And, go where you will throughout Europe, you will find the greatest swath in the way of high class crime is being cut by American women. Investiga- tion has shown me that the number of adventuresses in New York is some- thing startling—most of them made 80 by the necessities of American high pressure life. “In the more serious class of crimes women are on an equality with men. In one line of iniquity of the blackest description, poisoning, they surpass men. Poisoning has ever been a wo- man’s crime, both “in ancient and modern times. Jocasta, Catherine de Medici, Lucretia Borgia, the March- toness de Brinvilliers are familiar ex- amples in point. And in this coun- try, out of seventy-two cases of pois- oning, of which count has been kept | during the last nineteen years, fifty- eight have been attempted by women. To such an extent has poisoning by women been carried that in a case of so-called mysterious poisoning the de- tectives turn to look for a female, and seldom turn in vain. “As murderers, women have in the nineteenth century been making a bloody record. Account for it as phil- osophers or moralists may, the facts seem to show that since woman has asserted her rights to struggle for her- self with the world on the same terms as man she has likewise struggled violently, and often murderously, with men and women. The number of mur- feresses in the nineteenth century has been as great as the number of hero- ines. Nor have the murderesses been confined to the under class, outside, as | It were, of the restraints of civiliza- tion. On the contrary, there have been more murders or killings com- mitted by women in large cities, or civilized communities, than on the frontiers or border lands. Women know very well that in America, at least, there is a sentimental prejudice against hanging one of their sex, and, with their characteristic cunning, they are taking advantage of this fact.” » Sham Knowledge. It is easy enough to learn what the gypsies would call the “patter” of yarious professions. Ope can dis- course learnedly, on leaving a concert hall, concerning the value of the music he has heard; or he may criticize a picture, with’ the proper reference to “foreshortening,” ENS: “mid- dle-distance,” and the rest of it.” “It is a fine poem; yes, a very fine poem,” said a would-be critical friend to an author, “but you will excuse me for saying I don’t think you have a perfect understanding of the sonnet form. The pause hardly comes in the tight place.” The author bowed and smiled mer- rily; and afterwards a common friend said to him: “You seem to take criticism very cheerfully, Fred.” “Bless you!” said he, criticism, but ‘t amuses liver it. The poem he about isn’t a sonnet at nineteen lines.” Agassiz was once asked what he thought of an attack made on_ his scientific position by a certain scholar and thinker who had a book knowl- edge of the different theories advocat- ed by the representatives of science, and decided that Agassiz must be ranked in the second or third class. He burst into a roar of laughter. “Why, just think of it,” he said, “he undertakes to fix my place among zoologists, and he is not a zoologist himself. Why, he has never even been an observer!” It often happens that the men who really know a subject from beginning to epd, so far as a human being may, are those who have least time to talk about it. So there are long silences to be filled by the people who are con- teint with seeming to know, and few of them have the self-control to resist the temptation. “that isn’t Tom to de- was talking all, It has A Tariff Effect. « The young woman’s father was one of those men who talk tariff so much that in time they learn to disregard the comfort of their families and talk it in the home circle. Thus it was that the girl knew as much about the tariff as she did about housekeeping. Yet she found time in the midst of her political economy to have a couple of real sweethearts, not to speak of a host of fellows who wanted to be. Of the two favored ones, one was a farmer’s son and the other was a swell youth from the city. This lat- ter she in time chose as the one, and when her father heard of it he called ber before him. ; “So,” he said, “you have thrown over this excellent young farmer and chosen a city dude?’ “Yes, papa,” she smiled. t “Well, I don’t like it, and I want to know your reasons for doing it.” ; “They are plain enough,” she re- | spondea promptly. “I have heard you talk tariff until I am thoroughly con- vinced that the only kind of protec- \tion I need in my home industries »xcludes the raw material and admits the finished product.” A Curiosity of the Law. Additions to rented premises, when made by the tenant, should never be fastened with nails, but with screws, says a St. Louis lawyer. The reason for this lies in the fact that should he wish to move away and take with him the boards and other lumber com- posing the improvements he has made be can simply draw out the screws and take the planks. 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THE CAPITAL STOCK of this company is $50,000, divided into 5,000 be paid for in cash before a certificate date of first payment. TD to sell Stock. Apply to office. R.H. KEY, Treas. Agent. A LION TAMER. Wo Cousiaers the Bear the mest Danga, ous Animal to Handle. Before his departure for Europe, ¢ oecame quite well acquainted With William Philadelphia, and foung hi a cheery, light-hearted little man, a unpretentious as possible, ang able to explain the mysteries o¢ hig art more clearly than any trainer [ have met, And, indeed, he ought to nave some special knowledge of tigers and lions, for he was born thir ty-Rine years ago in a small menagerie owned by his father,’and has been trainiy wild beasts all his life. Not only wa his father a showman before him, by, both: his grandmothers were show. women, the one making much mo by exhibiting through Europe a dlack man brought from Africa, and th other doing equally well with a tai, ed walrus in Russia. Philadelphia’s great-grandfa a resident of Philadelphia, w lived until middle life. His Jacob Meyer, and he was a J. ing emigrated to Germany, to lish himself in business, he f prudent to change his name <« count of the prejudice aga and he called himself Herr Phi phia in memory of the city whi been his home. So it come: many’s most daring lion-tamer strain of American blood in although he speaks but littl Philadelphia’s body is cove sears, great and small, made b; claws and teeth of numberle beasts. He met with his firs accident in Odessa at the twenty, when a Russian bear bit him twice on the left leg, the first time gouging out a big piece from the fleshy part of the thigh, and the seg. ond nearly biting away his knee. The cords and muscles were so injur to cause a permanent stiffne: joint and recurring twinges « at certain changes in the w Philadelphia was three mont the hospital after this experien then was three months oD crutches, At another time, when he w: 3eventeen, a Russian bear held by the throat for five minutes another bear fastened his fz forearm. Although he has ten and scratched by almost ies of wild animal, he con: the bear much the most da beast to train, and this because superior intelligence. “Why,” he said, “if you whip a he will remember it forever and square with you some da ‘leve land Moffett in MecClure’s Magazine. Her First Dinner. ” said the young wife ten- derly, as she kissed him good- pre- paratory to his going downtow he cook is taking a holiday to-day and the dinner you will get when you come home will be entirely of my own cook ing. It will be my first, Charlie, and Won't it be lovey?” She twittered softly at the thought, and Charles turned his face away so she could not see the lines upon it, for he loved this wife of his, and would oot for worlds do or say aught to wound her feelings. “Delightful,” he responded. stroking ber sunlit hair; “and I'll bring those good friends of ours, the pastor and the physician, along to be with us.” “Oh, Charlie,” she exclaimed, “don't bring them; bring some of the young fellows.” “Td rather have them,” he said. “Now, dear,” she pouted. “why not Jo as I want you to do? Why do you want them?’ Charles hesitated a moment, and then took her hands in his own cares ecause, sweetheart,” he explained, “this is your first effort. and I'd feel s« r in my mind if they were "—Detroit Free Press. The Thirteen Superstition. The inevitable me up in a co thirteen super: jon ny of which I y. In my foolish — super: been knocked out so often th: rather enjoy sitting down to 4d ith thirteen. Once I sat at t with Sir Arthur Sullivan, the ¢ ooser, as host. There were covers, it was the 13th of May the occasion w: the thirteenth formance of Sullivan and Gilbe “Iolanthe.” Of course nothing of it. Another time I dined v Thursday Club, of Philade roadside inn on the Wiss was discovered that there were teen at table, and, one of the p being superstitious, the landlord isked to come in and make the f teenth. He did so, and the result that he and not one of the thi lied before the year was out. 1 the nearest I ever came to hav verification of the superstition wi my observation—Major Handy iz Chicago_Inter-Ocean. An Odd Crusade. Mrs. Annie Besant’s eloquence sincerity’ have produced somet like a revival of Hindooism 2ver she has gone in India—a r apon the ancient basis rather ti the modern principles now geu y adopted by Hiudoo reformers selves. The Christian missions are girding on their armor agait perfervid protest im favor of as against Western forms of ‘I plead to you for your old runs one of the quotations from 5 preaching. “Be not ashamed of the sncient worship. Be not reer to the ancient faith.” It is by such 4p peals to the national sentiment most great movements have been itiated. By her eloquent use of Mrs. Besant has succeeded im stirrine the hearts of her audiences to depis never reached by a Western prope tandist in India—London Times. 4n Oda Regiment. In the Russian army there is oe particular regiment of infantry of the guards, formed by Emperor Paul, the men of which are recruited not %? much with regard to their height °° the color of their haft and aa of this particular regir of the same shape, they present on ~ what startling. , \\