THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE: ERIDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1896.
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CALL FOE EEPUBLICAN CONVENTION,
The republican electors of the several precincts
of Lincoln county are requested to select dele
gates to meet in convention in North Platte on
April 4(h, 189t3, at one o'clock p.m., for the pur
pose of selecting eleven delegates to attend the
State delegate convention to bo held in Omaha
April lath, and to select 11 delegates to attend the
congressional delegate convention to bo held at
Broken Bow April 13th, and for the transaction of
such other business as may properly come before
the convention.
It is recommended that the primaries be held
March 28th, between the hours of four and six p.
m. in the city, and between the hours of four and
nine p. m. in the country precincts. The basis of
representation is one delegate for each precinct
and an additional one for each twenty votes and
major fraction thereof cast for T. L. Norval in
1893. The several precincts are entitled to repre
sentation as follows, to-wit:
North Platte No. 1 5
North Platte No. 2... .9
Norlh Platte No. 3 .... 5
Antelope 2
Ash Grovo 2
Baker 1
Lemon.. . 2
Maxwell 3
Medicine 3
Miller 2
Mylander 1
Myrtle 1
Kijhols 3
Nowell 2
O'Fallon 3
Blrdwood 2
Blaine 1
Brady Island 2
Hucnannn 2
Circle Hill
i C!attr - ' . 1
Peckliam 1
fTL.vuii-.voofl 2
Plant . 2
Potter 1
Ritner 1
Sellers 1
Somerset 1
Sunshine 1
Vroman 1
Walker 1
Wallace 3
Well 1
WhitUer 1
Willow 2
Total 93
UOX 1
Crockett 1
Deer Creek 2
Dickens 2
Fair view 1
Fox Creek 2
Garfield 1
Gaslin 2
Hall 2
Harrison 1
Hinman ....2
Hooker 1
Kem 1
Kilmer 1
G. C. McALLISTEll, Chairman.
G. C, STODDARD, Secretary.
EEPUBLICAN PRIMARIES.
FIRST WARD.
The republican primaries for
North Platte precinct No. 1 will be
held in the First Ward hose house
on Saturday, March 28th, 1896,
between the hours of 4 and 6 p. m.,
for the purpose of selecting five
delegates to attend the republican
county convention to be held at
North Platte, Neb., on April 4th,
1896.
John Sorenson,
Committeeman.
SECOND WARD.
The republican primaries of
North Platte precinct No. 2 will be
held in the Second "Ward hose
house on Saturday, March 2Sth,
1896, between the hours of 4 and 6
p. m., for the purpose of selecting
nine delegates to attend the repub
lican county convention to be held
at North Platte. Neb., on April 4,
1896. W. T. Wilcox,
Committeeman.
THIRD WARD.
The republican primaries for
precinct No. 3, North Platte, Neb,,
will be held in the Third
Ward hose house on Saturday,
March 28th, 1896, between the
hours of 4 and 6 p. m,, for the pur
pose of selecting five delegates to
attend the republican county con
vention to be held at North Platte,
Neb., April on 4, 1896.
C. P. SCHARMANN,
Committeeman.
Has the Meiklejohn boom for gov
ernor, which was started oft with a
flourish of trumpets, suffered a
collapse? Up in this section of the
state nothing lias been heard of it
for some time.
It is said that the cost of each
duck killed by President Cleveland
is $100, aud that Uncle Sam foots
the bill. But Uncle Sam will not
be called upon to foot these bills
much longer Bill McKinley is not
a duck hunter.
The Omaha Bee looks with dis
favor upon the movement looking
to the construction of a railroad
from Sioux City to North Platte.
The Bee is not working for any
thing that does not tend to build
up Omaha, and this the proposed
road would not do.
In deference to the public senti
ment of Minnesota, which is
strongly for McKinley, Senator
Davis has dropped out of the presi
dential race. In Texas the senti
ment is evenly divided between
McKinley and Allison. The New
York state convention held Tues
day, most heartily endorsed Gov
ernor Morton for president, but
this of course was expected. Mc
Kinley, however, will have several
delegates from congressional dis
tricts in New York.
The hay growers of the Platte
valley, who are "kicking" about
the low price of hay, should know
that the rate of duty on hay under
the McKinley tariff was 54 per ton.
In the year following the enactment
of that law, the importation of hay,
the principal part of which came
from Canada decreased about 300
per cent. The Wilson bill repealed
the four dollar a ton rate established
by the McKinley law, and in its
place put a duty of 20 per cent ad
valorem, which amounts to about
$1.60 per ton. So the present rate
ot duty on hay under the Wilson
law is only about one-third what it
was under the McKinley law. The
result is the enormous increase in
the importation of hay. To this
heavy importation is largely due
the low price of hay, and here is
one forcible illustration of how a
low tariff effects the producer.
The McKinley forces in Nebras
ka are standing firm, and no influ
ence of any nature can cause a
break in the ranks, or lessen the
confidence of the rank and file in
the great apostle of protection and
prosperity to the workingman.
The nomination of McKinley will
command for the republican party
ot Nebraska ten thousand more
votes than would be cast for any
other nominee of the St. Louis convention.
Professor Moore, chief of the
national weather bureau, has de
cided, after long and careful obser
vation, that the drouth period
comes once in every nine to- fifteen
years, lasts one or two years when
it comes, aud is always succeeded
by several years of normal moisture
and an era of bounteous crops.
Let us hope that the Professor is
correct and that the failures and
partial failures of crops in Nebras
ka for several years past are to be
followed with unusually large har
vests.
CoaCErnino the
agreement be-
elements in this state, John L,
Webster says: "It was specifically
stated and understood between the
representatives of General Mander
son and the friends of McKinley
that the delegation to the national
convention should be composed of
sixteen original McKinley men.
Taking this understanding in con
nection with Thurston's letter as
modified, there is not much occasion
for McKinley's friends to have any
feeling ot alarm. The long and
short of this matter is that it
makes McKinley the first choice of
the Nebraska delegation; and amply
protects McKinley. If McKinley
conuot be nominated, we ought to
be willing to support General Man
derson. With this view of the case
is it not better to gracefully accept
the situation than to engender fac
tional strife?"
MCKINLEY'S PLATFORM.
From the speech ot Gov. McKinley
before the Chicago Lincoln Club on
Lincoln's birthday:
No one need be in any doubt about
what the republican party stands
for. Its own history makes that
too palpable and clear of doubt.
It stands for a reunited and re
created nation, based upon free and
honest elections in every township,
count", city, district and state in
this great American Union. It
stands for the American fireside
and the flag of the nation. It
stands for the American farm, the
American factory and the prosper
ity of all the American people. It
stands for reciprocity that recipro
cates and which does not yield up to
only country a single day'slabor that
belongs to 1 he American working
man. It stands for international
agreements which get as much as
they give, upon terms of mutual
advantage. It stands for an ex
change of our surplus home pro
ducts for such foreign products as
we consume but do not produce.
It stands for the reciprocity of
Blaine, for the reciprocity of Har
rison, for the restoration and
extension of the principle em
bodied in the reciprocity pro
provision of the republican tariff
of 1890. It stands for a for
eign policy dictated by and imbued
with a spirit that is genuinely
American, for a foreign policy that
will revive the national traditions
and restor the national spirit which
carried us proudly through the ear
lier years of the centur'. It stands
for such policy with all foreign
nations as will insure both to us
and them iustice, impartiality.
fairness, good faith,
honor. It stands for
Doctrine as Monroe
dignity, and
the Monroe
himself pro-
claimed it, about which there is no
division whatever among the Ameri
can people.
It stands now, as ever, for hon
est money, aud a chance to earn it
by honest toil. It stands for a cur
rency of gold, silver and paper with
which to measure our exchanges
that shall be as sound as the gov
ernment and as untarnished as its
honor. The republican party
would as soon think of lowering the
flag of our country as to contem
plate with patience or without pro
test and opposition any attempt to
degrade or corrupt the medium of
exchange among the people. It
can be relied upon in the future, as
in the past, to supply the country
with the best money ever known,
gold, silver and paper, good the
world over. It stands for a com
mercial polic' that will whiten
every sea with the sails of Ameri
can vessels flying the American
flag, and that will protect tht flag
wherever it floats. It stands for
a system which will give to the
United States the balance of trade
with every competing nation in the
world. It is for a fiscal policy op
posed to debts and deficiencies in
time of peace and favors the return
of the government to a debt-paying
policy and opposes the continuance
of a debt making porcy"
Japan will expend sixty million
dollars this year in strengthening
her navy. This will place the Japs
in good fighting condition.
Highest of all in Leavening
Absolutely pure
TOLD EJAEEW WORDS
EVENTS OCCURRING IN ALL SECTIONS
SUMMARIZED.
Happenings From Home and Abroad Re
duced From Columns to X.iues Bvory
thinjj but Facts Eliminated For Onr
Readers' Convenience.
Friday, March 20.
Sheriff Daggott was fatally shot, Con
Btablc Heed wounded and a train robber
named Daniel McCole killed in an attempt
to hold up the Southern Pacific express
near Tulare Kentucky Republicans
held a love feast at Loui3villo and pledged
support to Bradley for President
Colonel Tom Ochiltreo is seriouslyyjll-4tt
New York Masonic &!Tan& other
of $325,000 Burlington mixed train
wrecked at Carrollton, Mo. Passengers
were badly shaken up Mr. Coomoi
presented to the house committeo on Pa
cific railroads the draft of a bill outlining
his plans for the building of the Sioux
City branch to North Platte New
Mexico statehood bill favorably reported
to the senate Judgo James E. Lincoln,
a descendant of the martyred president,
died at Liberty, Mo. A telegram
authorizing the seizure of tho filibustering
steamer Bermuda has been sent to the
treasury department to all collectors of
customs along the South Atlantic coast
A national arbitration congress has been
called to meet in Washington April 23-33
Secretary Carlisle will doliver a non
partisan address before the laboring peo
ple of Chicago on April 15 Tho Mani
toba legislature has adjourned till April
16 Secretary Hoke Smith and ex
Speaker Crisp havo arranged for joint de
bates on the financial question at a num
ber of places in Georgia during April
The scheme of adding the latest weather
forecast to the regular postmarks on
letters will be commenced by the post
office department July 1 Mrs. Holman,
wife of ex-Congressman Holman of In
diana, died suddenly at "Washington
Sam Teaguc, a halfbreed Indian, shot and
killed Simon Barnes near Joplin, Mo
A number of unknown persons hanged
Governor Bradley in cfligy at Danville?
Ky. Frank Jones, the most daring of
stock thieves in central New Mexico, has
been arrestod in Grant county. New
Mexico The home of J. J. Bowman, a
farmer living near Hennessey, O. T.,
caught fire and his wife, imprisoned in
the garret, was burned to death
American glassworkcrs are in great de
mand in Mexico by American manufac
turers. As high as $400 a month is paid
to good men. But good men are opposed
to the heat Captain Hughes of the
Texas rangers recovered 2,503 sheep stolen
from the ranch of S. W. Pipkins ;tt Van
Horn, Tex. The sheep were stolen by
Mexicans.
Saturday, March 21.
Senate committee on territories agreed
to report favorably the bill for the admis
sion of Arizona Immense damage was
done by a hurricane which pase:i over
Hart's creek valley, West Virginia
Americau mission near Shanghai was
raided by a band of robbers. Rev. Rufus
Bent was shot in the thigh and seriously
cut in the haad. They secured 300
Two-thirds of tin offices will bo placed un
der the civil service House passed the
Bayard resolutions of censure by a vote of
181 to 80 England aud United States
resumed direct negotiations respecting the
Venezuela boundary dispute, and are al
most certain to reach a satisfactory agree
ment through diplomatic channels
Mandcrson and McKinley forces ifo Ne
braska have reached a compromise, the
Mclvinloyltes agreeing to present the uamo
of Mr. Manderson to the St. Louis conven
tion unless, in their judgment, it is appar
ent that McKinley will be nominated
Senate committee on elections reported
favorably the joint resolution proposing
an amendment to the constitution
providing for election of senators
by direct vote of tho people
The University of California athletes havo
decided to send a team to New York May
22 to meet Yale and Princeton Frank
Perry stole two loaves of bread and can of
honey from a farm house near St. Joseph,
Mo., and got five years in the penitentiary
David Coulter, who shot and killed 15-year-old
Edward Illston near Topeka,
Kan., in October last, has been sentenced
to 21 years in the penitentiary Crockett
Bragsdale, bookkeeper foe the First Na
tional bank at Hannibal, Mo., has been
arrested, charged with embezzling ?200
John A. Knight, carrier of the Fifth
Avenue Savings bank at Columbus, O.,
has been arrested, charged with having
embezzled $80,000 Albert Chevalier, tho
famous English coster singer, has arrived
at Now York. He will visit Boston, Phil
adelphia, Chicago, St. Louis and New Or
leans Tho first cycle show every held in
Kansas City opened auspiciously and will
be an annual affair Lieutenant Gov
ernor R. E. Moore has announced that ho
would not bo a candidate for governor ot
Nebraska The Merrimao mills at Low
ell, Mass., which employes 2.G00 people,
has closed for one week The Choctaw
nation Republicans indorsed William Mc
Kinley for president General Neal Dow
celebrated the find anniversary of his
birth at his home in Portland, Me.
Chile is fortyfying her coasts Missouri
Republicans will hold two conventions,
the first at St. Joseph, May 27, for election
of delegates to St. Louis and for nomina
tion of state officers at Springfield, July 22.
Monday, March 23.
William Q. Judge, president of the
Thcosophical society, died in New York
Clearwater won the pool champion
ship from Keogh at Pittsburg Owing
to discensions in the British cabinet over
tho Soudan advance. Salisbury maybe
asked to resign in favor of Loitl Lans-
downe William Hartman shot and
killed his wife and himself at Omaha
Swedish parliament advanced the
duty on smoked pork In a riot between
nonunion men and strikers at the Indian
apolis iron works, William Watson, Wal
ker Davis and Hook Lee, bystanders, wero
shot and a number of persons injured by
flying stones and bricks A. P. A. ex
ecutive council announced its intention to
enter national politics Big copper
smelters at Pittsburg burned with loss of
$1,000,000 Largo mass of documents
sustaining Venezuela claim was sent
to the boundary commission
Settlers in the sand hills of Nebraska aro
protcsung against Androws' arid land
bill Cohn Brothers of La Porte, la.,
wero indicted for arson Wife beater
John Winders was hanged by Whitecaps
in Todd county, Ky. Peace commis
sion has commenced negotiations in Nicar
agua O'Brien, tho New York bunco
man sentenced in Paris to penal sorvitudo
for life for tho murder of Waddcll, has
appealed Agrarians in the Prussian
diet demand that the import of American
cattlo be absolutely prohibited Mr, and
Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
Mrs. Booth-Tucker sailed from Southamp
ton for New York. J. E. Chcslcy, a
farmer residing at Cisco, Tex., ended his
life by shooting himself in tho stomach
The loss by fire at tho Pennsylvania
Manufacturing company's plant at Na
trona is estimated to be about 200,000
A bad fire broke out at Passaic, N. J., and
the firemen wero powerless, owing to the
water being frozen. Thirty families wero
rendered homeless Because he could
not procure employment W. P. Goodman
of Bloomingtou, Ills., took morphine at
the Hotel Normandie, Lima, O., and
died At Memphis the Anderson-Tullcy
box factory, one of tho most extensive in
the country, was partially destroyed by
fire. Loss about 525,000 M. T. Lindsey,
a veteran of the civil war, committed
suicide at Corvallis, Or., by sending a
bullet through hisbrain. -.Hamas'
ondanQyop nancTal straits.
ue-
Tnesday, March 24.
Mrs. Drayton was granted absolute di
vorce from J. Coleman Drayton on tho
ground of desertion Charles M. Hayes
and E C. Smith were appointed receivers
of the Central Vermont road The em
peror and empress of Germany started for
Genoa Insurgents havo burned the vil
lage of Punta Rava, ten miles from Ha
vana British-Egyptian advance guards
occupied Akasheh without opposition
Mrs. Louisa Giddings, widow of ex-Governor
Giddiugs, is dead at Kansas City
Another filibustering expedition is
fitting out on the east Florida coast
Senato voted to send back to conference
tho Cuban resolutions Eighteen miners
were killed by an explosion of gas in the
Berwynd-White shaf c at Dubois, Pa.
Five hundred were made idle by tho burn
ing of the JoJiet branch of the Con
solidated Steel and Wire company
Matt Mootry, tho murderer, who wa? sen
tenced to hang on last Friday, lms con
fessed and will be hanged next Friday at
Georgetown, Tex. Tho announcement
in London, England, that a leading iron
firm has made extensive purchases of
Alabima pig iron ha caused considerable
comment Ex-Smoke Inspector Max
Hartog of Chicago was arrested, charged
with repreienring himself as a public offi
cer and obtaining money under false pre-
tenses With tho aid of X rays Thomas
Edison is said to have examined the work
ings of the various organ; of the
body of one of his assistants with his
naked oyc Rev. J. D. Thornton w3
advised not to minister to the people at
Sarin, Tex., but he persisted and was
taken from his church by a mob and se
verely beaten Judge Long's pension
case is to come up again before the su
preme court Sau Francisco authorities
arrested William Loughbridge for alleged
stealing of bond-? at Savanah, Mo.
Wednesday, March 2,7.
New York Republican convention in
structed for Levi P. Morton for the presi
dency, and the governor's boom was for
mally launched Court of appeals de
cided that Missouri has complete jurisdic
tion over Mi-Hsippi and Missouri rivers
along tie boundary of the state British
bark Alexandria wa towed into Sau
Francisco harbor in a badly burning con
dition Heat iJ still working havoc to
life aud property in Australia Lovcrn,
the leader of the California train robbers,
cut his throai in jail Natural gas has
been struck on a farm near Vincent, la.
Hillnnm insurance ca o is nearing the
end at Topeka Trial of Dr. Jameson
and fellow Transvaal raiders was resumed
in Bow street police court Burghers
are preparing for the supremo struggle
with England by arming to the teeth and
fortifying the T.ansvaal Firo destroyed
the better half of the commercial part of
Colon, with low of f 5,000 Two Spanish
columns made another teriiblo mistake,
opening fhc on each other at midday in a
cane field, killing 17 and wounding 90
Senator Davis has withdrawn from tho
presidential race. The Minnesota delega
tion was instructed for McKinley The
naval appropriation bill was reported to
the house. It carries $12,779,133 for in
crease of the navy. Work on four new
battlo.-hip and 15 torpedo boats is to be
commenced within 9J days.
Thursday, March 20.
Rev. Dr. Henry Satterlee was conse
crated as the first bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal diocce of Washington, D. C.
Mr. Piatt introduced a resolution in
the senate fur adjournment of congress on
May 2 Mrs. Davidson was acquitted at
San Francisco on the charge of extorting
5'J0 from Rev. Dr. Brown General
Thomas Lincoln Casey died suddenly at
his home in Washincton Turkey has
issued an appeal to France and Russia,
asking them to intervene in Egypt Tho
American Electric Heating corporation,
which includes all the companies of im
portance, has been formed at Boston
President Hippolytc of Hayti died of apo
plexy The spring rise in the Missouri
river has begun at Omaha Twenty
colonics of Dunkards passed through
Chicago on their way to North Dakota
It is understood the Burlingion has about
completed a deal for the purchase of tho
Omaha and St. Louis road Solicitor
Kelly has issued a circular to persons in
terested in tho land suits that tho Union
Pacific will look after their interests
Rcmenyi, the violinist, is seriou Iy 111 at
Davenport X crazed elephant kills her
keeper and runs looic on tho streets of
Chicago People of Moulton, la., peti
tioned Governor Drake to Imve his daugh
ter use water instead of wino at the
christening of tho new battleship Iowa
South Dakota litis declared for Mc
Kinley W. C. T. U. will hold its next
national convention at St. Louis The
Arkansas prohibition convention has been
postponed until May 6 Mrs. Hannah
Maonhall, aged 77, of Sedalia, Mo., is cut
ting a full set of teeth, both upper and
lower Samuel C. Ryan, manager for
the Walker Printing company at St.
Louis, Mo., lias mysteriously disappeared
A jilted suitor at Walnut Lake, Ark.,
shot and killed tho father and brother of
the girl he loved and was shot himself
H. L. Patten, champion and leader of ten
nis at tho Northwestern university, will
take up chemistry at the Chicago uni
versity. T
La Crosso lumber Yards Fire Swept.
La Crosse, March 25. Fire broke out
today simultaneously in the lumber
yards of N". B. Holway, close to tho
Milwaukee depot, aud also in the lum
ber yards of Hi Goddard, a mile above
Holway', spreading over across the
Freeh isiaud, where millions of feet of
iry lumber is piled. Over $1.00,000
worth of lumber was destroyed.
funeral of William Q. Judge.
New York, March 2. Funeral ser
vices over tho body of William Q.
Judge, late leader of the Theosophical
Bociety, were held in Aryan hall. The
services were for members only, and
the hall was crowded with thecsophists
from, this and other cities.
PABT OF A VICTORY.
PETTIGREW GETS ON THE SOUTH
DAKOTA DELEGATION.
Pledged Himself In the Huron Convention
to Obey JIcKinley and Sound aroney.
Texas for Allison and Kecd Senator
Davis Withdraws From the Ilace.
Hurox, S. D., March 20. The Repub
lican state convention "Wednesday de
laredfor McKinley for president and
reaffirmed Minneapolis financial plank.
Gardner of Rapid City was elected per
manent chairman, C. T. Bates of Sioux
Falls and P. C. Murphy of Brookings
were chosen secretaries. The election
of delegates by judicial districts re
sulted as follows: L. B. French of
Yankton, R. F. Pettigrew of Minne
haha, C. G. Sherwood of Clark, D. A.
Mizenerof Davidson, David "Williams of
Day, H. G. Meacham of Potter, "W. Y.
Lucas of Fall River and "W". E. Smead
of Lawrence.
Previous to choosing delegates a. reso
lution was adopted requiring all nomi
nees to go upon the floor and declare
for McKinley and sound money and not
not only to vote, but to work for sound
money. This "was to force Senator Pet
to express himself. The senator
stood in the center of the conven
tion hall when called upon to state his
position aud declared that he would
bow to the will of the majority; that
while he had followed a conrse which
the future seemed to justify, he was
willing now to go to St. Louis and com
ply with the wishes of the state conven
tion by voting for McKinley and sound
money. Directly after the adjourn
ment of the convention, seven of the
delegates hold a caucus, at which they
resolved they would not permit Senator
Pettigrew to go as chairman; neither
would they permit him to be upon any
committee at the national convention.
DAVIS OUT OF THE RACE.
Asl;s That His Name Ho "ot Considered at
Minneapolis Convention.
Minneapolis, March 25. In the Min
nesota state Republican convention,
held Tuesday in Exposition hall, in
which Harrison was nominated four
years ago, Robert G. Evans of Minne
apolis, George Thompson of St. Paul,
Charles F. Hendry of Sauk Center and
L. P. Hunt of Mankato, were elected
delegates ' at large to the St. Louis con
vention and instructed to use all their
influence towards securing the nomina
tion of William McKinley, who presided
over the convention of 1892. The result
was not attained without a struggle,
though the victory of scientific politics
over state prido was decisive. The
withdrawal of the name of Cnshmau K.
Davis, authorized by a dispatch from
the senator at "Washington, removed the
only obstacles in the way of a complete
McKinley victory and by strange
chance, all but one of the delegates
chosen, C. F. Hendry, were strongly in
clined toward Davis before his with
drawal. Aside from the election, noth
ing of moment transpired except tho
adoption of a platform reiterating and
indorsing established Republican doc
trines and containing a strong sound
money plank.
NEW YORK FOR MORTON.
State Convention Indorses Him For Pres
ident Piatt a Delegate.
New York. Mareh 25. The Repub
lican convention has finished its labors.
The preliminary sparring that has been
going on for weeks ended the final bat
tle last night and the forces that have
been dormant for two years kept within
the state boundaries the honor of the
presidential indorsement of the greatest
state in the Union, the state casting tho
largest number of votes in the electoral
college. The indorsement goes to Gov
ernor Levi P. Morton. The delegates at
large will be Thomas C. Piatt of Tioga,
Warner Miller of Herkimer, Chauncey
M. Depew of New York and Edward
Lauterbach. The alternates will be
Hamilton Fish of Garrison, Frank S.
Witherbee of Port Henry, C. H. Bab
cock of Rochester and Daniel McMillan
of Buffalo. Tthe electors will be General
Benjamin F. Tracey of New York and
Edward H Butler of Buffalo.
Texas For Keed and Allison.
Austin-, Tex., March 26. The stato
republican convention did practically
nothing in the matter of selecting dele
gates to St. Louis at the daylight ses
sion. Early in the morning the McKin
ley men announced practically that they
had given up the fight and only wanted
a representation on the delegation. The
convention has now been called to order
for two days aud has as yet done noth
ing. Tho McKinleyites continue to
keep a bold front and say they will have
a representation on the delegation, but
this is not generally believed. It is safe
to predict an instructed Reed delega
tion, with one Allison man on it and
three Reed men.
lynched by Whitecaps.
Hopkinsville, Ky., March 22. John
Wiudors was lynched by whitecaps in
Todd county. "Windors was taken out
of his house on Friday night last by un
known parties, and not until last Tues
day was ho heard from, when his dead
body was found hanging in the woods
in Wildcat hollow. He had been a ter
ror to the neighborhood and had been
warned repeatedly to leave the country
on account of wife beating and general
misconduct, and failing to leave, the
courso of hanging him was adopted.
Prohibition Convention.
Pittsburg, March 26. Tho executive
committecof the national Prohibition
party met here to arrange details foi
the national convention which meeti
here in May. The chairman stated sat
isfactory arrangements have been made
for the transportation of the delegates.
A. P. A. In R!.a.
Washington, March 25. What is re
garded by its members as the most im
portant meeting in the history of the A:
P. A. was held here today by the ad
visory board of the order to outline pol
itical policy
UNSUEPASSED FACILITIES
are offered to passengers travelling
via the Nickel Plate Road to all
points east. Parties arriving in
Chicago in the morning via any of
the western roads can leave at 1:30
P. M., arrive at Cleveland the same
evening at 11:30, Buffalo the follow
ing morning at 6 o'clock and New
York at 6:30 P. M. and Boston at
8:45 P. M. Its rates are always the
lowest. Its roadbed is Perfet;. .a
train service that is unapproachable
and that affords all the comforts
available in travel.