THINGS WENT WRONG
AND SO THE BATTLE OF LIFE
WAS GIVEN UP.
A Prominent BatioeM Man of St. Joseph
. Mo.. Become Disheartened and Des
pondent Over Business Keverees and to
End .r "rouble Resort to Poison and
Pistol Ho Dies In a Bath Tnb A
Leader In Society.
Death at His Own Hands.
Kansas Citt, .Mo., Aug. 24. J. W
TValker, a prominent business man of
St. Joseph, Mo., committed suicide in
his room at the Midland hotel some
time yesterday. He came to the ho
tel about 10 o'clock yesterday morning-,
registered and went directly to his
room. Nothing- more was seen of him
until 10 o'clock this forenoon, when
the door of his room was forced and
he was found dead. From all indica
tions he had taken a large dose of car
bolic acid and then shot himself be
hind the right ear with a 33-caliber
revolver.
On a dresser, at the foot of the bath
tub, sat an empty glass and a bottle,
which had contained carbolic acid.
Mr. Walker's clothes were on the floor
by the bath tub, while he reposed in
the tub on his back. A pistol lay at
his right side. There was an ugly
wound just behind his right ear. liis
lips were blackened by being burned
with acid.
Dr. W. S. Wheeler, deputy coroner,
who viewed the body, gave it as his
opinion that Walker first took the car
bolic acid and then shot himself.
Mr. Walker was a brother of S. A.
Walker, who was cashier for the
Schuster & Hax bank, which failed
about one year ago. lie became trus
tee for the Schuster estate and was a
member of the firm of Steele fc Wal
ker, wholesale grocers, which also
failed about one year ago. From all
that can be learned Walker came to
this city yesterday morning1 from Sa
vannah. Ind. Ter., where he had been
encaged in opening- up a mine, lie
left home three weeks ago in company
with his son, Henry Walker. Young
Walker returned to St. Joseph last
Tuesday and told his mother that his
father would be home in a few days.
Mr. Walker left no letters to ex
plain why he took his own life. His
business reverses are supposed to have
had a great influence in that direction.
Mrs. Walker said she could give no
reason for the rash act.
TO HELP THE REBELS.
General Jo Shelby Son Organizing an
Exprditton to That Country.
Kansas City, Mo. Aug-. 24. Orville
D. Shelby, son of General Joseph
Shelby, who led the expedition to
Mexico to help Maximilian at the close
of the war, and who is now United
States marshal for the Western dis
trict of Missouri, is at the head of a
movement here to organize an expe
dition to Cuba to heip the insurgents.
Orville Shelby said to-day: ''Yes. I
am going to Cuba, and the expedition
is already partly organized. I did
have hopes that the matter would not
get into the papers, but see no use iu
making a stir about it. However, it
cannot interfere with the determina
tion of our men to o. The govern
ment will certainly not step in until
we assume a tangible form, and that
is just what we do not propose to do.
We are going to Cuba, and the means
will be provided for so doing."
FRANCE HAS WEAKENED.
Minister EoitH to be Allowed to See
Kx-Conul Waller.
Washington, Aug 24. Acting Sec
retary, of State Adee authorizes the
statement that information ha-been
received from Ambassador Eustis in
response to urgent instructions cabled
him some three weeks agi that the
record of the proceedings and evidence
in the court-martial of Mr. Waller at
Tamatave, is expected to reach Paris
toward the end of this month. Mr.
Eustis alo reports that access to Mr.
Waller had been accorded to him after
repeated and urgent requests made on
the reiterated orders of the depart
ment of state. The department not
having- been advised whether Mr.
Eustis has taken advantage of
this permission to delegate to
competent deputy to visit the prison
near Clairvanx, where Mr. Waller is at
present confined, and confer with him,
Mr. Adee had instructed him by tele
graph that he should do so at once, if
not already done. Mr. Adee adds that
this result, reached after repeated tel
egraphic instructions, shows the con
stant activity of the department in
Mr. Waller's case, and it is hoped that
the production of the evidence before
the court-martial will enable th de
partment to forma judgment touching
the conviction of Mr. Waller. The
international right of this government
to demand the evidence upon which
conviction was reached, in order that
it may better determine its action in
the case is unquestionable, and is for
tified by abundant precedents.
' Whisky Trust Alive A pain.
Albany, N. Y., Aug. 24. The reor
ganization of the Whisky trust was
consummated yesterday in the incor
poration at the office of the secretary
of state of the American Spirits Man
ufacturing company with a capital
stock of 35,900,0X,"for "distilling- and
dealing in spirits, including the distill
ing, redistilling- and rectifying of high
wines, alcohol, spirits, gins aDd whisky
and malting and dealing in malt."
REMOVAL CALLED FOR.
Librarian Spofford May Be Displaced
for His Shortage,
Washington, Aug. 24. Secretary
Carlisle has ordered the forwarding; to
the president of the report of William
E. Meyers, exper, treasury accountant,
in the case of Ainsworth R. Spofford,
the venerable librarian of congress,
and has recommended that Mr. Spof
ford be removed, and that proper
s.e.s be taken to recover the full
amount of the deficit of 35.000 fouaci
by Meyers
WOMEN AS INVENTORS.
Many Interesting Facts Sst Forth by a
Late Patent Office Report.
Washington, Aug. 24. A pamphlet
published by the parent office gives a
list of the patents issued to women.
This shows that the office was estab
lished in 1790, but the first patent is
sued to a woman was in 1809 to Mary
Kies, for a method .of weaving straw
with silk or thread. Six years later
one was isued to Mary Brush
for a corset. It was not un
til 1923 that more than one patent
per year was issued t5 women. In
l8f2 only fourteen patents were issued
to women, that being the largest in
any year up to that time. The war,
however, developed the inventive
genius of women and the annual num
ber of patents issued to them increased
rapidly. Many of them were for in
ventions for either fighting or nursing
dev.ces. The annual issue increased
steadily year by yea. In 187J it was
sixty, in 1330 over ninety-two, in 18V0
over 200, and in 1893 over 300. From
1309 to 1863 women's inventions aver
aged thirty a year; from 188 to 1S92,
230 a year and sine" 189:!, 230 a year.
The pamphlet gives a classification
of women's inventions. This shows
that wearing apparel leads the list
with 160 different patents in thirty
months. Then comes cooking- utensils
with 100 inventions, furniture with
fifi.y-five, heating- and washing- or
cleaning- apparatus with forty odd
each, sewing- and spinning- devices and
building apparas with about
thirty each, educational, medical
apparatus, toys and trunks, about
twenty each. Women have tried
their inventive faculties also on baby
carriages, barrel and bicycle attach
ments, printing- and bottling appar
atus, boxes and baskets, clocks, flowers,
horseshoes, motors, musical instru
ments, plumbing- aud preserving- de
vices, screens, stationery, theatrical
apparatus, toilet articles and type
writer attachments. Few of the patents
issued to women were for entirely new
creations. Excluding- those especially
concerning women's work, nearly all
the other patents were for attach
ments to some previously existing de
vice. WAR OF EXTERMINATION.
Spai iar is Accused of .Atrocities and In
Htirgents Bitter.
Key West, Fla.. Aug-. 24. Reliable
advices from Cuba indicate that the
Spaniards in their efforts to suppress
the rebellion are perpetrating atroci
ties almost as terrible as those at
tributed to the Kurds in Armenia. A
few days ago Captain Garrido, a
Spaniard operating with -00 men in
the province of Santiago de Cuba,
found a hospital in which nearly 10
wounded insurgents had taken refuge.
He ordered the helpless men to be put
to death in the most cruel manner. He
refused to allow thera to be shot, but
made his soldiers chop up the victims
with swords. This, with the killing' oi
Captain Domingo Mugica at Matanzas
July 20, has greatly in named the peo
ple against the Spaniards and many
leading- Cubans heretofore loyal to
Spain are now joining the insurgents.
The insurgent leaders, it is said.
have resolved to retaliate for thee
butcheries, and will put to death all
Spanish prisoners and order that no
orisoners be taken hereafter. They
think that the putting- to death of
Mug-ica indicates Spain has resolved on
a "no quarter" campaign. Mugica was
captured about three miles north of
Jovellsnos, aod was shot as a traitor
to Spain. He was about 23 years old
and came of one of the best families in
Matanzas. A private dispatch re
ceived here states that he die. I like a
hero shouting- "Vive Cuba Libre" as
the Spanish soldiers tired.
The insurgents are now in possession
of that part of Cuba lying- between
Colon and Cape Maysi. The town of
Santu Spiritu is almost completelj' de
serted, every able-bodied man having
joined the insurgents under iloloff and
Sanchez.
Prussic Acid Kuds fnhapplnesa.
St. Loris, Mo., Aug-. 24. After
writing a note, in which she said that
she was tired of living in darkness and
without friends, Miss Charlotte Field,
stenographer for the Tilden Chemical
company, swallo-ved prussic acid Wed
nesday nihtand was dead when found
yesterday. She wa. a leading- bicycle
enthusiast and was well likevt in soci
ety. She tried to kill herself in May,
1S94, but failed.
Fleeing; From Huge Fire.
Spokane, Wash., Aug-. 24. -Rait
which fell on Tuesday and Wednesday
temporarily checked the forest fires,
but yesterday the flames broke out
afresh. Many campers and prospect
ors who have been out in the forests
are arriving here. All tell of being
overtaken by the fierce rush of flames
and compelled to flee for safety.
Cteneral Fry Not Deaa
Topeka, Kan., Aug. 24. Word wah
received from St. Louis yesterday that
"General" Fry was in St. Louis and
that he had been married on Wednes
day. The barber Bullier, however,
still sticks to his assertion that the
man killed on the Rock Island, whose
body is at the morg-ue, was the Coxey
army leader.
Killed by Bandits.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 2. De
tective Georg-e W. Powers was shot
and killed this morning- on a Lake
Shore train, by two men whom he was
attempting- to arrest on suspicion of
being- the Fennville train robbers.
The bandits jumped off and made their
escape.
Hcotch Manufacturer Will Fight.
Dundee, Aug. 24. It is estimated
that 25,000 millworkers are out on a
strike. The manufacturers met this
afternoon and signed an agreement
not to advance waeres under the penalty
of $2,500 for a violation of this agree
ment. CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Since cholera has appeared in Japan
16,000 deaths from the disease have oc-
! eurred.
PostofSce receipts for the . thirty
largest cities for July show an increase
: Of 5343,000.
'TWAS ALL ONE WAY.
CONVENTION OF NEBRASKA'S
SILVER DEMOCRATS.
few Present to Disturb the Harmony of
the Situation C. J. Phelps for the
Supreme Court and Dr. Blackburn of
Holt County and Robert Kittle for
Regents None of Bolting: Fame Given
a Beat The Administration Sat Upon
What the Platform Sets Forth.
Debraska Silver Democrats.
Omaha, August 23. The state con
vention of free silver democrats was
held here yesterday. The convention
was called to order by Chairman
Smythe. Hon. F. M. Davis of Beatrice
was elected as temporary chairman.
Frank J. Morgan of Cass and N. P.
Kelson of Dodge were made temporary
secretaries, and afterward were made
permanent.
Some vacancies on the state central
committee were filled as follows: R.
G. Hall was appointed to succeed J. D.
Carson of York. J. C. Kesterson of
Fairbury was relieved and George H.
Clarke of Diller named to succeed him.
G J. Fuhrer of Clay county was left off
and his place filled by E. W. Hurlburt
of Aurora. J. W. liullard of North
Platte was selected to succeed J. J.
Mcintosh. Complaints were also made
against Jerry Ferrell of the Twenty
eighth district, and the state commit
tee was authorized to name his suc
cessor. In the Lancaster delegation
Patrick McGeer was relieved and M. D.
Welch named in his stead. Frank Con
ley of Callaway was named to succed
Bartlett on the committee from the
Fifteenth district.
The following nominations were'
made: Judge of the supreme court.
C. J. Phelps of Colfax. For regents of
the state university. Dr. Blackburn of
Holt and Robert Kittle of Dodge.
PI.ATFOKM OF THE CONVENTION'.
We, the democrats of Nebraska, in
convention assembled, reaffirm our
faith in those principles written in the
Declaration of American Independence
and emphasized by Jefferson and Jack
son, namely, that all men are created
equal; that they are endowed, by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights,
among which are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness; that governments
are instituted among men to secure
their rights, and that governments de
rive their just powers from the consent
of the governed, and we demand that
all of the departments of the govern
ment, legislative, executive and judi
cial, shall le administered in accord
ance with these principles
We attirm the declaration made by
the last democratic state convention
held in Nebraska on September 2C, 194.
We believe that the restoration of
the money of the constitution is now
the paramount issue before the coun
try, and insist that all parties shall
plainly state their respective positions
upon this question, in order that the
voters may intelligently express their
preference. We. therefore, declare
ourselves in favor of the immediate
restoration of the free and unlimited
coinage of gold and silver at the pres
ent legal ratio of 10 to 1, as such coin
age existed prior to IST.'i. without wait
ing for the aid or consent of any other
nation, such gold and silver coin to be
a full legal tender for all debts, public
and private.
We send greeting to our democratic
brethren throughout the union who
are making such a gallant fight for the
restoration of bimetalism and congrat
ulate them upon the progress made.
We deprecate and denounce as un
American and subversive of the princi
ples of free government any attempt to
control the action or policy of the
political parties of this country by se
cret cabals or organizations of any
character, and warn the people against
the danger to our institutions which
lurks under any such secret organiza
tion, whether bused on religious, politi
cal or other differences of opinion.
Recognizing that the stability of our
institutions must rest on the virtue and
intelligence of the people, we stand, as
in the past, in favor of the free com
mon school svstem of this state, and
declare that the same mnst be perpetu
ated and receive liberal financial sup
port, and that the management and
control of said school system should be
non-sectarian and non-partisan.
The democracy of Nebraska approves
and commends the declaration of Pres
ident Cleveland in the past in condemn
ing the pernicious activity of incum
bent of federal offices under the
government in attempting to control
the policy and nominations of their
parties, and we hereby recommend the
renewal of t'e policy of his first ad
ministration in that regard.
We affirm the uncompromising oppo
sition of the democratic party to the
fostering aid by the government, either
national or state, of chartered monopo
lies, and declare it as the policy of the
party from the daj's of Jefferson and
Jackson to watch with the utmost jeal
ousy the encroachments of corporate
power, and we are in favor of. such leg
islation as will insure a reasonable
control by the state, of corporations
deriving their powers and privileges
from the state, and especially the regu
lation of rates for transportation by
the railroads of the state.
This minority resolution by Mr. Ryan
of Hall county, was buried by an al
most unanimous vote:
We commend the administration of
President Cleveland as being- able, pa
triotic and honest, and reaffirm the
platform adopted by the democratic
national convention at Chicago in 1S92.
After authorizing the state central
committee to remain in power for an
other year and to fill vacancies on the
ticket and on the committee, the con
vention adjourned without date.
NOT WITH TAMMANY.
The Executive Committee of the State
Democracy Will Keep Up the Fight.
New York. Aug. 13. At a meeting
of the executive committee of the state
Democracy the following resolution
was adopted:
Resolved, That it is the sense of the
executive committee of the state Dem
ocracy that the members of this organ
ization shall not participate in any
primaries conducted or overseen by
Tammany hall inspectors or held under
the auspices of that organization.
COLISEUM COLLAPSED.
The Great Amusement Structure at Chi
cago Comes Down With a Crash.
Chicago, Aug-. 23. The Coliseum,
the larg-e building- lately erected on
the site where Buffalo Bill had his
shosv during the world's fair, collapsed
last nig-ht. The building was an im
mense affair, and was to have been
opened with the Barnum & Baily cir
cus within a few days. It was also
intended for use during conventions.
A force of 200 men had been working
on the building- night and day, but as
the accident happened during- lunch
hour, when all the men were absent,
nobody was hurt. The building1 is a
total wreck and the loss will reach
between 5160,000 and $180,000. Had
the accident happened an hour before
or a few hours later, the loss of life
would have been frightful.
UNCLE SAM ACTS.
f eremytorr Demand on France for Ejc
Consul Waller Release.
Washington, Aug. 23. There is
good authority for the statement that
a peremptory demand will be made by
the United States upon France for the
release of ex-Consul John Waller and
that satisfactory indemnity will be re
quired for his arrest and imprison
ment, with a probable request for a
commission to determine Waller's
rights in Madagascar. The discussion
of the case between the French and
American diplomats has reached a
point where there is little else for the
United States to do, owing to the fact
that repeated requests for a copy of
the charges and testimony upon which
Waller was convicted have not been
furnished by the French g-overnment.
BALFOUR'S SILVER VIEWS.
In Favor of an International Agreement
But Not at All Ilopcfia,
London, Aug. 23. In the house ol
commons, to-day, the first lord of the
treasury, the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour,
replying to Sir John Long, Liberal,
who asked whether he would advise
the government to invite an inter
national monetary conference, said:
"I am always and have been in favor
of an international agreement, but I
have not the right to pledge my col
leagues and I don't believe an inter
national agreement would result from
an international conference."
ItiK Telephone War On.
Kansas Citv, Aug. 22. A big tele
phone war is raging in Kansas. It is
between the tremendous Bell telephone
trust, known out here as the Missouri
and Kansas telephone company, and
the Harrison Industrial telephone
company. The battlefields are princi
pally Topeka, 'Leavenworth, Wichita
and Salina. The bubbling cauldron of
war has even run over into St Joseph
and Carthage in Missouri. In Kan
sas City there is a hint in the air that
some of it will come this way. In
Wichita the Missouri and Kansas com
pany has just offered telephone service
at S.10 for residence and S for busi
ness houses for a year. In Salina tele
plone service is said to be piven awav.
A Minister Stabbed.
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 23. L. M.
McQueen, who claims to be a Baptist
minister from Memphis, Tenn., went
to police headquarters last night to
have a deep wound in his breast sewed
up. He told the police that he was
walking along Sixth street when a
colored whom he claims he does not
know, ran up and plunged a knife in
to his breast. The woman ran down
an alley and escaped. McQueen claims
that he never saw the woman before
and does not know why she stabbed
him.
Chicago Divorce Held Void.
Chicago, Aug. 23. Alfred Cox, a
leading Chicago photographer, left
England in 177 and in 194 secured a
divorce here because his wife refused
to leave England. Then he was mar
ried to Miss Bullman of Detroit. Re
cently the English woman applied for
divorce, having heard of Cox's second
marriasre, and Sir Francis Jeune
granted it, declaring Cox to be a big
amist and holding the Illinois divorce
to be illegal under the Engiish law.
Beheaded by a Train.
Fokt Scott, Kan., Aug. 23. James.
Mitchell, the 19-year-old son of J. II.
Mitchell, a real estate agent at Hor
ton, left home Sunday and came here
from Kansas City yesterday on his way
to Memphis. Soon afterwards he was
beheaded by a train. lie had just fin
ished his trade as a machinist in the
Rock Island shops at Horton. A young
man named Penrod from Kansas City
was with him when he was killed.
The Sedalia Company the Victor.
Sedai.ia, Mo., Aug. 23. So grea.
was the rivalry for the prize offered at
the last encampment of the Second
regiment, N. G. M., to the company
passing the best inspection, that the
decision was reserved by Captain
O'Conner of the Eighth cavalry, U. S.
A. A letter was received to-day from
Colonel William Coffee, at Carthage,
announcing that the prize had been
awarded to Company D of Sedalia.
The Deficit Still Quite Large.
Washington, Aug. 23. The expend
itures of the government for the first
two-thirds of the present month ex
ceeded the receipts by 57,009,293. but
only SI, 250,003 remain to be paid on
account of pensions, and the treasury
officials estimate that the deficit will
be reduced during the next ten days
tc about S3, 000,000. The excess of ex
penditures over receipts last month
was $3,478,3oG.
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Civil service has been extended to all
printers in all departments of the gov
ernment. Minister Ransom's friends are said
to be afraid that he will not be reap
pointed to the Mexican mission.
Another holder of a government of
fice has voluntarily resigned. He is
Postmaster Korn of Tekema, Neb.
The republic of Mexico is making
great preparations for entertaining
the International congress of Americans.
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
THE DEMOCRATS NAME CAMP
BELL FOR GOVERNOR.
The Convention Declares for Souad Money
Senator Brlce Slakes a Srto n gO pen
log: Address In Which He Has Good
Words for President Cleveland The
National Platform Reaffirmed Camp
bell Protests Against Nomination.
Ohio Democratic Convention.
For Governor Kx-Govb&wo JAxas E.
For Lieutenant Govsrnor Jomr B. PxA.lt.BT
I Cincinnati.
For Supreme Court Judge W. T. Uookit
and W. B. Shobeb.
For Attorney General Gxo&QB A. FaZS
BANES of Columbus.
Springfield, Ohio, Aug. 22. It was
10:30 o'clock when the chairman of the
Democratic state committee, M. A.
Smalley, called the convention to or
der. Prayer was offered by Professor
8. F. Breckinridge, after which Sena
tor C S. Brice was introduced as pre
siding officer of the convention.
In opening, Mr. Brice appealed to all
Democrats to forget past and present
differences and, remembering only the
disastrous dafeat of last year, to unite
in re-establishing the Democratic par
ty in its old position. He reviewed the
conditions last fall and then declared
that the party was no longer pros
trate, that panic and fear had passed
away and the beneficence of Demo
cratic legislation was producing good
effects and that the American people
would soon reward the Democracy for
its great services to the nation. He
declared that the three great promises
made in 1892 had been fulfilled and
home rule, sound money and tariff re
form had been granted to the country.
"But, gentlemen," Mr. Brice went
on, "there is another question in which
great interest is felt, about which
there is great difference of opinion
and concerning which we may hear
more in this convention. I come to
urge the party in Ohio to stand on the
platform of 1S92 on the money ques
tion, to let the currency remain as it
now is, and not to change our ground
without full deliberation at a national
convention, and a deliverance from
that body.
"You and I have possibly differed
from Mr. Cleveland at some time and
in some things, as it was our right,
our privilege, our duty to do so, if we
were conscientious in doing so, but
taking him by and large he is the
greatest statesman and party leader of
his time. His Democracy, his honesty,
his integrity and his continued atten
tion to business, which constitutes
genius, have never been excelled, and,
in my opinion, Democratic success in
1S92 was largely due, as Democratic
success in 1390 will also be largely due,
to the character of our Democratic
president and to the high plane upon
which he has sought to place his party
and his administration. Do not under
stand me as suggesting the candidacy
of President Cleveland for re-election.
Ko such question is now before us."
The senator was loudly cheered
when he was introduced and frequent
ly applauded as he proceeded, especial
ly in his reference to the indorsement
of the platform of 1892, his pronounced
opposition to free coinage and his
eulogy of President Cleveland.
The hfty-nine Brice delegates from
Cayuga county were uns-eated and the
antis seated by a vote of 307 to 339.
The report of the committee on per
manent organization to continue the
temporary officers was adopted. This
was made by Judge J. G. Meiser, a
free silver man, who put the motion
and congratulated the free silver men
that they controlled the convention for
the minute that he presided.
Senator Brice returned his thanks
for the double honor conferred on him,
after which the report on rules and
order of business was adopted.
Ex-Congressman Frank Hurd, as
chairman of the committee on resolu
tions, offered the majority report,
adopted by a vote of 19 to 2 of the
committee, as follows:
The Democratic party of Ohio, in
convention assembled, points with
satisfaction and pride to the wisdom
of the action of that party in the last
two years and the results accomplished
according to its promises, to-wit: The
repeal of the Republican legislation
known as the Sherman law, the un
american federal election law and the
McKinley law, from which repeals has
resulted returning prosperity to the
country to such an extent that even
the Republicans are obliged to recog
nize the same. We congratulate
President Cleveland that his efforts
in favor of the repeal of these vicious
laws and the upholding of the credit
of the country have been successful.
We congratulate our senator, the Hon.
Calvin S. Brice for the earnest and
effective support he has given to the
president in these matters. When we
consider the fact that the Democratic
party received from the Republicans
in 1S92 a bankrupt treasury, that it in
herited from them the vicious cur
rency and tariff laws which had
prepared and finally produced the
panic of 1893. we insist that it is en
titled to the thanks of the people for
the courage with which it has attacked
and repealed these laws.
We reaffiirm the following portion
of the seventh plank of the platform
of the last national Democratic con
vention: "We hold to the use of both
gold and silver as the standard money
of the country, and to coin of both
gold and silver withont discrimination
against either metal or charge for
mintage; but the dollar unit of coin
age of both metals must be of
equal intrinsic and exchangeable
value, or be adjusted by international
agreement or by such safeguards, of
legislation as shall insure the mainten
ance of the parity of the two metals
and the equal power of every dollar at
all time3 in the payment of debts, and
we demand that the paper currency
shall be kept at par with and redeem
able in such coin." We insist npon
this DOlicy as especially necesary for
the protection o farmers an 1 labor
ing classes, the first and most defense
less victims of unstable money and
fluctuating currency.
the free silverites beaten.
. Judge Patrick, from the committee
on resolutions, offered the following
minority report:
"We urge the immediate restoration
of the law providing for the free coin
age and full legal tender of both gold
and silver coins without discrimina-
tion'a'galnst either metal as provided
in the constitution and without wait
ing the assent of England or any other
foreign nation."
The resolution was defeated by a
vote of 525 to 270.
General E. E. Finley of Bueyrus
offered a resolution for the endorse
ment of the Monroe doctrine in
Venezuela and Nicaraguan cases. Ex
Congressman Follett defended Presi
dent Cleveland as favoring the Monroe
doctrine and being amply competent
to defend it, and Finley insisted that
any encroachment on American soil
should be met by a declaration of war.
Ex-Governor Campbell made a most
rigorous speech for the Monroe Aoo
trine and insisted that when the reso
lution had been offered it should be
adopted.
The resolution was adopted.
When nominations were called for
Mr. Campbell took the floor to head off
the calls for himself and to present the
name of Judge Hiram D. Beck of Cin
cinnati for the nomination for gov
ernor, lie was interrupted by Dr.
James A. Norton, who presented a
motion to suspend the rules and nom
inate James E. Campbell by acclama
tion.
Mr. Campbell protested and raised
points of orderamid the wildest scenes
of cheering and yelling for CampbelL
oeoonas of tne nominatinn of Ca mo
bell rolled in, and Chairman Brice in
sisted that the motion of Dr.
Norton to suspend the rules
and the nomination of Mr.
Campbell was in order. The motion
of Dr. Norton was put, and carried
with a great whirl of enthusiasm and
the chair declared Mr. Campbell the
nominee for governor. He accepted in
a few words
John B. Peasley was nominated for
lieutenant governor by acclamation.
For supreme judges, William T.
Moonley of Mansfield and W. B. Sho
ber of Galia county were both nomi
nated by acclamation.
George A. I airbanks of Columbus
was nominated for attorney general.
Harry B. Keefer of Tuscarawas was
nominated for member of the board of
public works, and J. W. Cruikshank of
Troy for clerk of the supreme court by
acclamation.
ACCOUNTS IN BAD SHAPE.
Librarian SpofTord'a aiethods of Book
keeping Reprehensible.
Washington, Aug. 22. The report
of Expert Myers of the fifth auditor's
office, which has just been presented
to Secretary Carlisle, shows that Ains
worth R. Spofford, the venerable li
brarian of congress, is behind in his
accounts owing to bad methods of
bookkeeping.
In an interview Mr. Spofford makes
the following explanation of the mat
ter: "The whole difficulty springs from
the multiplicity of duties that have
been forced upon me. I have not had
time in connection with my duties as
librarian, to pay proper attention to
those attached to the office of register
of cop-rights. The two positions
should be made separate and distinct.
I have recommended this to the treas
ury department, but of course, they
can do nothing toward divorcing the
two offices without legislative action.
I shall recommend the same thing to
congress when it meets. In the press
of business it is true that my accounts
have become somewhat involved, but
I stand ready to make good any dis
crepancies that may be found by the
treasury officials. I offered a short
time ago to make up the deficiency of
522,000 that has been discovered,
but it is not correct to say
that that offer has been re
fused. I have received no definite
answer to my proposition. As to the
matter of 'search fees,' and their
illegality, it is a fact that there is no
special authority in law for collecting
such fees. But there is explicit au
thority in law for a charge for records
of copyright and copies of copyright.
The time of the clerk required in mak
ing the search is of value to the gov
ernment, and it seems to me only
right that litigants and others desiring
to use that time should be required to
ray for it. I calculated that about
fifty cents am hour was the value
of the time of my assistants who were
employed on this work, and I based
my charges on that calculation. Every
dollar that I have received from this
source and the requests for searches
have been very numerous I have
turned into the treasury. I have made
no distinction between these fees and
those received from , copyrights, and
have turned them all in as copyright
fees. That is all I care to say on the
subject " ,
CHEWED HIS OWN NOSE.
Horrible Scene In the Dunning; Aeylum
Described by a Doctor.
Chicago, Aug. 22. The investigation
of the county commissioners into the
management of the Dunning insane
asylum began yesterday. Thirty thous
and words of testimony were taken at
the first sitting. Toward the end of
the day's sitting came a horrible story
that in detail was more barbarous than
the story of the Pucik murder. It was
told by Dr. McGraw, resident physi
cian of Dunning asylum. It concerned
a battle between two mad men, who
had fought in the corridor of ward 2,
while Anderson, accessory to the mur
der of Tucik was on watch. These two
patients quarreled over some silly,
childish difference.
They came to blows. They tore at
each other's faces and rolled about the
floor while Anderson looked on. One
of them in the f renzy of a raving ma
niac, set his teeth into the face of the
other. He bit off his nose, and spat it
out on the stone floor of the corridor.
The maniac with whom this patient
was battling sprang away from the
death grip, fell bleeding and scream
ing to the floor, saw the flesh torn
from his own face, stuffed it into his
mouth and chewed his own nose to a
pulp and swallowed it. He said that
it would make it grow again, and An
derson looked on.
This was the sworn testimony of Dr
McGraw, resident physician at Dun
ning asylum. While it was being giv
en one of the commissioners turned
sick and pale. Jule Adams, one of the
committee, covered her face with her
face with her hands and clutched at
the arm of her chair.
At Cripple Creek, Col., every availa
ble space throughout the d. strict is
covered with flowing posters announc
ing the coming bull fight at (iillet.
Fifty carpenters are putting the finish
ing touches on the bull ring.
