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(From the Detroit, Mich., Journal, Aug. 4, 1S97.)
CAMPAIGNS OPENING!.
.. V V* f •*' _
HOT ViMES IN OHIO, MARY
,llAND AND NEW YORK.
Outlook for Republican Success fa
RelUlit,—The Moat Danger Lin In
Over Confidence and Failure to Oct
oi»V an Knlhnelacllc Vote.
‘ (Washington Letter.)
With the month of September comes
an awakening in the political cam
paign in the various states and an in
creased Interest in prospective re
sults. *
' * V. to Ohio, Iowa, .Nebraska, Kentucky,
Maryland, New York, New Jersey and
Massachusetts there 1 arc * interesting
elections, important in one way or an
other in their relation to national ppll
^fied. In Ohio a Senator is to be elect
ed by the legislature to be chosen, in
Iowa there is to be chosen a portion
of the legislature which will two years
hence elect a successor to Senator Gear,
in New Jersey a part of the legislature
which elects a successor to Senator
Smith is to lie chosen, In New York
the political complexion of Greater New
York City for an Indefinite term is to
be determined, in Maryland a legisla
ture which Is to select a successor to
Senator Gorman is to be elected, while
in Nebraska and Kentucky the curren
cy Issue has drawn the line sharply
between the flat heresy and the sound
money men, of whatever former party.
Naturally,, information from all these
states drifts to Washington. Mem
bers of congress and politicians come
and go and from them is had the best
Information on the situation as to their
own states, and a consensus of the gen
eral situation .may thus be formed.
.That the outlook for the Republican
success Is good everywhere goes with
out saying. That there is still danger
to the party, however, In every state is
Vi equally true. ....
Ranger in every state? Yes. Dan
ger In Ohio, In rock ribbed Iowa, in
prosperity blessed Nebraska, In Ken
tucky, Maryland, New York—every
. where.
Why? Because there Is too much
confidence. Because the Republicans
arci throwing up their hats, and saying.
We've got It all our own way this
time boys.” Because there Is danger
that the belief that the farmers and the
workingmen are employed and happy
la going to lead too many Republicans
to neglect their duty. That the drift is
all in the direction of Republicanism
is trufc That the people see that Bryan
apd.hfe sliver party made a deliberate
, effort to deceive them last year is un
doubtedly a fact. But the Democrats
< are not asleep—they are active, vig\
lanf~ and they are'conducting a 8tm
i > bul* *°r votes that will surprise the
Republican leaders unless they are
\ awake and plan to arouse -every man -
x »n< get? him enthusiastically into the
' *8ht,.„» the tide is all running in the
right. <)rtectlott, but this very fact is
llubte to lead to neglect on the part of
some Republicans and to dissensions In
fc the party ranks elsewhere. And in this
there is danger.
% Ohio, f'
From Ohio comeB word that the
Beifchcrats are trying to run away from
their platform, made only two months
ago" This ie not surprising, tor sliver
has fallen 15 p»r cent in value even in
that short time. On July 10 one ounce
of a^fer was worth in New York 60.6
cents. Now It Is worth only 62 cents
and still falling. No wonder that they
are ashamed of their platform and
want to get away from It when in two
months after Its enunciation the metal
whlgh It advocates as money falls 15
per cent in value. That the Repub
of th* 8tate will not let them
get $way from it goes without saying—
. • M they are wise. That they win sweep
' tfce »t»te now that they have the enemy
i *«o the run also goes without saying—
If‘they are not too confident.
Maryland.
’f'factional fights in the Repub
lican rknks being now over there is
.. «ood reason to hope that the party
Will fall into line and with the aid of
J-.V too gold Democrats and anti-Gorman
'if- win tha,fight for the legislature
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It Is now generally conceded In Mary
land that Oorman. say whatever he
will, would vote with the silver men
In the Senate. This being the case the
sound money Democrats in the State
are Inclined to again co-operate with
the Republicans, as are also the strong
element which can only be described
by the term ‘‘anti-Gorman."
New York.
While the light In New York relates
to the mayoralty, it Is for a first mayor
of the second largest city In the world, !
and to determine whether or not Tam
many shall control Greater New York.
And If that splendidly-managed politi
cal party does get control of that great
organization. It greatly endangers Re
publican prospects in the entire state
indefinitely. So It is probable that the
Republican party In New York City
will decide to support Seth Low, nomi
nated by the “Citizens” organization.
For unless all those opposed to Tam
many and free silver combine on one
man they cannot win. By refusing to
so unite they give Greater New York
and probably New York State over to
the Tammany-Silver Democracy Indefi
nitely.
GEORGE H. WILLIAMS,
Industry of the Smuggler.
It is amusing to observe the efforts
of our free trade papers to stimulate
the industry of smuggling. It seems
almost as If they were subsidized by
European shopkeepers. It is true that
there may be some loss to those New
York papers which cater to foreign ad
vertising patronage. But a good, rush
ing American business should promote
more American advertising, and it
stains to us that the Democratic news
papers would be Improving their own
business prospects rather by encourag
ing Increased patronage for American
stores than-by the advocacy of a policy
that enriches only the British shop
keeper and stimulates smuggling.
There Is no accounting for taste,
however. '"And the more the English
papers are bewailing the loss of the
American retail trade, so much the
more clamorous does the “smuggler's
ring" of our Democratic newspapers
become against a policy that must in
crease the wholesale and retail trade
In our own cities, as well as add to the
employment of our own people. The
patronage of American department and
dry goods stores might well be diverted
to those papers that* advocate the pat
ronage of American stores, rather than
the purchase of goods in Europe. The
latter course decreases our home trade,
Involves smuggling and the robbery of
our national revenue, yet It is actively
supported by “the smuggler’s ring" of
Democratic free trade papers, which
are so liberally supported by the ad
vertising of those very American stores
which they are endeavoring to ruin in
their news and editorial columns.
The Benoit of It.
Let 1b not be forgotten that the
United States have been dabbling in
this game of protecting native indus
tries for more than a hundred years.—
Edinburgh Scotsman.
Hence the enormous growth in our
manufacturing enterprises: also in our
agricultural interests which, necessa
rily. expanded in proportion.
A Chinese paper estimates that the
victims of the plague in Foochow this
; vfe.r will not fall short ot 40.C00.
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REPUBLICAN NOTES.
Those wretched Ohio editors will not
stop talking about John McLean’s gold
bond.
The silverites insist that the rise in
wheat is due to scarcity only. But
how about wool? ,
The farmers are rapidly getting back
the $80,000,000 which they lost in the
value of their sheep under free trade.
Bland, Tillman and Bryan admit that
there is "temporary” prosperity. A'
year ago they said even that couldn’t
come without free coinage.
The Democrats have laid aside their
usual cry about increased prices under
the new tariff law. They see that low
tarifT is no longer popuar, even with
their own people.
Speaking of the “growth of exports of
manufactures under free trade,” will
the Democrats claim the recent foreign
sales of American tin as due to their
non-proteetlve theory?
People who are wondering what the
Democrats will find for an issue in 1900
should postpone their worry, as there
may be no Democratic party by that
tiipe, the way things are going.
Why don’t Prof. Debs and his asso
ciates call on the framers of the Wilson
law to help out the miners? It was
clearly the reduction of the tariff that
caused the reduction in the miners’
wages.
Oh, by the way, have the Ohio and
Iowa and Maryland and Kentucky and
Nebraska and New Jersey and New
York Democrats forgotten about the
tariff? They seem to be strangely
silent on the subject.
“Because It is my deliberate judg
ment that the prosperity of America Is
mainly due to its system of protective
laws, I urge that Germany ‘ has now
reached that point where it is nesessary
to Imitate the tariff system of the
United States.”—Bismarck.
Mexican workmen, who get less than
half what those of the United States
get, are having a hard time now that
they must take their pay In 40-cent dol
lars. The American carpenter gets
$2.50 per day in good 100-cent dollars,
while the Mexican carpenter gets $1.25
,ln coin worth 40 cents on the dollar.
The real value of the $1.25 which the
Mexican gets Is just 50 cents, against
$2.50 which the American carpenter
gets.
Uncle Richard Bland says the rise
In wheat is due to scarcity, and that
the silver question has nothing to do
with It. Is it not possible, Uncle Rich
ard, if high prices are produced by
scarcity and have no relation to silver,
that low prices were due to plenteous
ness and also had no relation to silver?
It’s a poor rule that doesn’t work both
ways. Uncle Richard. We all know
that wheat was plenty and the cost of
producing it much less than ever be
fore.
The statistics of the cotton crop for
last year show it to have been 8,757,964
bales. It has been sold for about $350,
000,000, or something more than the to
tal volume of the greenback currency.
This is more than five times the. value
of the annual silver product of the
country. What folly is It then for cot
ton growers to think that their pros
perity depends upon “doing something
for sliver,” when all the silver pro
duced in the country would not buy
one In five of their cotton bales!—New
York World (Dem.).
The Republicans have been increas
ing rapidly in numbers and influence
In all the states of the south, particu
larly in those on the southern border,
with the excaption of two, South Caro
lina and Mississippi, in which, by con
stitutional provision, there is a large
disfranchisement of colored voters.
The chief cause of this change 1b the
growth of the Populist party, which is
a white man’s party, and has with
drawn many voters from the Demo
cratic candidates without getting many
recruits from Republican ranks. In
no Presidential election since the close
of the civil war have the Republicans
polled so large an electoral vote In the
. southern states as they did last year.
Mr. McKinley received twelve electoral
votes in Kentucky, eight In Maryland,
and six in West Virginia, which, with
three In Delaware, make a total of
twenty-nine in what was formerly the
solid south. In three states—North
Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee—the
contest between the Democrats and the
Populists on the one hand and the Re
publicans on the other was very close,
and the severance of friendly political
relations between the Democrats and
the Populists In these states makes
more probable than heretofore Repub
lican success.—'New York Sun (Demo
ratic).
British BaHineu Crippled.
It must be remembered that for some
years to come our trade with the
United States will almost certainly be
greatly crippled by the new tarifT, and
as buslQfgs men it is our obvious duty
to see what expansion is possible in
other directions to make up for the
partial clcsiHg of the American mar
kets. — Warehouseman and .Draper,
London.
All classes of the British dally, finan
cial, commercial and trade papers are
unanimous in explaining how an
American protective tariff does protect
A’Vr*can labor and industry, it will
be hard work tor the free traders to
disprove these statements K the cax
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MR. BRYAN ON WHEAT
THE MOST ETAS1VE MAN EVER
IN POLITICS.
Speeches that Are Cnneplcaoas for Con*
tndletions, IneeasletenclM and Lack
of Harmony — Wrung in HU
Facts and Weak In HU Logie
—Honest Dollar’s Hleislng.
He Blows llot end Cold.
Kansas City Journal: In the course
of his syndicate letter to the press last
week W. J. Bryan used the following
expression:
“Wheat has risen because the foreign
crop has been exceedingly short. Bi
metallists contend that the law of sup
ply and demand is universal.
“We were told last year that an ap
preciating dollar was a national bless
ing, and yet within a year the entire
republican press is in ecstacy because
the purchasing power of a dollar has
been to some extent-decreased.
“A large past of this money comes
from abroad. Wheat is not only
higher, but more of it is being ex
ported. If we had enough money in
this country, an increase in the vol
ume would be an injury.
“If an increase in the volume of
money, secured by the exportation of
higher wheat, gives cause for rejoic
ing, is it not evidence now that we
have an insufficient quantity?”
Mr Bryan is certainly the most illu
sive and evasive man who ever entered
public discussion. A collection of his
speeches would be chiefly marked for
the contradictions, inconsistencies and
lack of harmonics which they contain.
He has flickered around on this wheat
discussion until no man can tell just
where he stands or what he believes.
In one breath he declares that wheat
has gone up on account of the short
crop abroad, and in the next he asserts
practically that the price of wheat has
not changed, but that the value of the
dollar has gone down, and draws the
conclusion that wheat might be kept
up forever independent of the crop
abroad or anywhere else simply by
enlarging the volume of the currency.
Mr. Bryan speaks falsely when he
says the republicans claimed in last
fall's campaign that an appreciating
dollar was a national blessing. The
republicans claimed in that campaign
os in every other of recent years that
an honest and stable dollar was a na
tional blessing and that a debased cur
rency would become a national curse.
He says the republicans are in ecstacy
because the “purchasing power of the
dollar has been to some extent de
creased.” As a matter of fact, the re
publicans are in ecstacy because the
law of supply and demand has en
hanced the value-of wheat and other
great staples, and because this advance
has not been attained by circulating
an inferior sort of money. It may be
possible that the free silver advocate
believes the dollar has fluctuated every
time a cent has been added to or taken
from the price of some product, but
this is not the view taken by most
students of finance and production.
But what we more particularly start
ed out to show was the audacity of Mr.
Bryan m inventing conditions and sta
tistics to prove his theories, and it
would be impossible to do this in bet
ter form than by quoting from an arti
cle in the New York World, published
on the same day that Mr. Bryant’s syn
dicate letter appeared. In the extracts
quoted above it will be seen that the
boy orator speaks of the great volume
of money coming from abroad as large
ly responsible for the iucreased prices,
and to this the World responds as fol
lows:
“But in the last eight months, during
which the advance in prices occurred,
we have received no money balance
from abroad. On the contrary, we have
lost heavily. From January 1 to Sep
tember 1 the net gold exports were
$24,788,179. This is a loss of $1,273,059
more than in the corresponding period
last year. During the last fiscal year
our net loss of silver coin and bullion
was $50,050,301.
“Nor has there been an ‘increased
volume of money’ during this period.
The amount of money of all kinds in
circulation March 1, according to the
treasury estimate, was $1,675,094,953.
On September 1 there was $1,665,680,
698—a shrinkage of nearly $10,000,000.
“Yet there has been and is money
enough for all the demands of business.
The crops are being paid for and moved,
debts by the million cancelled and the
wheels of industry started in all direc
tions, not only without any success of
free coined silver at 16 to 1, but with
an actual diminution in the visible sup
ply of the money we have.
“It is chiefly a question of confidence
and of the safe and profitable use of
the money that has been hidden or
hoarded. Mr. Bryan is wrong in his
facts and weak in his logic.”
Sorry for Political HlulMdi.
A writer in the Pawnee Republican
teTls a characteristic story of conver
sion from Bryanism that came to notice j
the other day. Going through the court
house square a well known and quite
thrifty farmer commenced to smile and
hold out his hand for a shake. -It was
such a vigorous, old-fashioned, glad
handshake that there was evidently
something back of it. “Well,” said he,
“1 have sold part of my wheat. Had
sixty acres this year and it went thirty
two bushels. I have just sold 1.250
bushels and got money enough for it to
pay off the $1,000 on my farm, princi
pal and interest, and have about 700
bushels left. Last fall I felt pretty blue.
1 raised over 3,000 bushels of corn and
when I got ready to sell it they would
not agree to pay more than 8 cents a
bushel. Had about 400 bushels of wheat
and sold what I could spare of it for 38
cents. I got pretty grumpy and the
free silver fellows talked so much
about what free coinage would do for
silver and wheat and everything else
and got me rattled, and, to tell the
truth, I went off and voted for Bryan
and free silver, but if the good Lord
will forgive me I will never be su6h a
blamed fool again. Confound it! I knew
we always had good times when the
republican party was in power and I
knew, too, that the pop ideas were a
humbug and their leaders a lot of sore
head office seekers and rattle-brained
adventurers, hut I thought there might
be something in that notion that silver
and wheat had always gone up and
down together, and I thought I would
try it anyway. Hereafter youeancount
on me to stick to the republican party,
ao matter what happens, nor what any
body may say. I always did think it
was the best party and never really
intended to leave it, but I got weary
i and rattled and made a fool of myself.”
■IlfMt Humbug of AIL
Lincoln Journal: Senator AJutz, ol
tlie legislative investigating committee,
has turned out to be the biggest hum
bug of all tile pop humbugs who con
stantly cry out for fairness. On the
floor of the state senate Mr. Mutz was
heard almost daily appealing for “fair
ness.” In debate he used a voice full
of pathos and tears and pleaded for
fairness and honesty. “Is this fair?”
was a favorite interrogation with him
when driven to bay. Sometimes he
modified the question and wanted to
know if certain things were “honest.”
Visitors to the senate chamber often
heard Mr. Mutz sending tear-drawing
appeals almost to the throne of grace
in behalf of “fairness.” But he “pro
tested” too much, and there was no
■surprise when it became known that
he had gone over the books of Profess
or Gillespie at the Omaha institution
and reported a shortage of over $1,000
without so much as calling on Profes
sor Gillespie for a consultation or expla
nation of any of the disputed items
which the investigators show by their
own report they did not understand.
But nothing would be thought of this
had not Mr. Mutz pledged his word that
after he had gone over the accounts
covering nineteen years he would call
in Professor Gillespie and go over the
records with him. A copy of the re
port was also promised Professor Gil
lespie, but it was not furnished. The
governor and investigators admit that
Professor Gillespie has not intention
ally kept incorrect accounts, yet by
their action they sought to brand him
as dishonest and refused to give him
an opportunity to defend himself. In
the oft repeated word of Mr. Mutz, “Is
this fair, is this honest?”
Politics Mot Public WeaL
Seward Reporter: The populist gov
ernor has removed Prof. J. A. Gillespie,
for twenty years superintendent of the
Nebraska.school for deaf mutes, and
appointed in his place a man named
H. E. Dawes, formerly a sub-contractor
at the blind asylum. Professor Gilles
pie is the originator of the auricular
system for deaf mutes, and is a man
of international reputation. Without
doubt he has done more for bettering
the condition of those unfortunates
who can neither hear nor speak, than
any other living man. His place was
wanted for a pop, and Governor Hol
comb Ignored his splendid services to
the cause of humanity, and put in a
man _ who has never had any special
training at all for this highly impor
tant and difficult work. In order to
get a pretext for the removal of Pro
fessor Gillespie, an investigation was
made of the accounts of the institu
tion. The investigators could not find
that the superintendent had ever con
verted one cent of the funds of the in
stitution to his own use, but they re
ported that in the course of the twenty
years about $1,900 had been expended
for other items than those for which it
was specifically appropriated. This
was enough to give the governor the
chance wanted. The matters referred
to might have been shown to be errors
in bookkeeping, but the superintend
ent was given no chance to explain. It
was a cowardly act, and shows besides
that the governor and his associates
are more anxious to put their political
friends on the pay roll of the state
than they are to have efficient men at
the head of the state institutions.
A Striking Parallel.
Louisville Courier-Journal; Thirty
years ago the hero of the hour was
Brick Pomeroy of Wisconsin precisely
as the hero of the hour today is Billy
Bryan of Nebraska. A grapic parallel
might be drawn between the two.
Brick Pomeroy was a journalist—of a
kind. Billy Bryan is a journalist—of a
kind. Brick Pomeroy had a voice like
a fog-horn. Billy Bryan has a voice like
a fog-horn. Brick Pomery was for
cheap money and plenty of it. Billy
Bryan iB for cheap money and plenty
of it. Brick Pomeroy irradiated the
region about La Crosse and made it the
business of his life to set the Mississip
pi afire at least once a fortnight. Billy
Bryan irradiates the region about Oma
ha, and makes it the business of his life
to set the Missouri afire, if not once a
fortnight, yet semi-occasionally as the
needs of the republican-populist fusion
of which he is the head center, seem to
require. Brick Pomeroy had none of
the vices of a gentleman. No more has
Billy Bryan. Billy Bryan, like Brick
Pomeroy, is going to rescue the people
(with a very big P) from the money
power, and he is pledged to ride down
Wall street like a cyclone and to plant
the flag of free silver “an’ sich,” on the
dome of the capitol at Washington;
how very, very , like Brick Pomeroy,
who, thirty years ago, did all these
things in his sleep died a pauper—
“Unwept, unhonored and unsung.”
Won Away From Willie.
Chicago Tribune: The Nebraska state
board of agriculture announces that
there are yet in the hands of the farm
ers of the state 100,000,000 bushels of
old corn and 50,000,000 millions in
cribs. They have 250,000,000 bushels
of new corn now safe from bad weather
or frost. Out of the late corn, which
has been somewhat injured by hot '
weather, they will save from 25,000,000
to 50,000,000 bushels. The farmers have
also raised 75,000,000 bushels of wheat,
rye, oats, barley and flaxseed. This
makes a total of about 500,000.000 bnsh
els of grain of all kinds, of which about
350,000,000 millions will he shipped out
of the state during the next twelve
months, and will be paid for in honest
gold money. It is not strange when
the exports of the" state are so great
and bring as good prices as they do
that Nebraska farmers should be pay
ing off their mortgages and losing in- 1
terest in Bryan and his free silver
delusion.
More PI. for Patriots.
Kearney Hub: Gov. Holcomb has
been playing a game of politics now
with the institute for the deaf and
dumb at Omaha. At the last session of
the legislature a law was enacted to
enable the populists to gain control of
the institution, which has been con
ducted successfully for many years by
Prof. Gillespie, one of the most compe
tent persons in that line in the United
States. Holcomb’s excuse for remov
ing Gillespie and putting in his place a
populist who is not competent for the
position are not worty of the executive
of a state, and he ought to brush away
all pretenses and say that be has been
actuated entirely by poliUeal motives.
POLITICAL, ALLIANCE.
HENRY CEORCE FOR MAYOR
NEW YORK.
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Gold Democrat* Split on the Tammany/
Ticket—Ex'Congreiatnan John De
Wltt Warner Head* a Unit to
8eth Low—The Situation
Complicated.
Henry George For Mayor.
• New York, Oct. 2.—The Democratic
alliance, made up of free silver organ
izations, will meet to-night and nom
inate Henry George for mayor. A
letter from Mr. George will be read, it
is announced, accepting tho nomina
tion. Members of tho alliance have in
terviewed Mr. George' and tiiey say
he promised them ho would accept. At
a meeting of the Populist leaders it
was agreed to indorse the candidates
of the alliance.
The gold Democratic city conven
tion, led by ex-Mayor Grace and
Scott, will meet in Cooper Union to
day and indorse the Tammany ticket
in consideration of the nomination by
Tammany of Francis M. Scott to suc
ceed Justice Andrews od the supreme
court bench, and other places for the
organization, but there will be resist
ance to the indorsement in the con
vention and a bolt will follow
and the strength of the National
Democratic organization on election
day will go to Seth Low. Ex-Eepre
sentative John Dewitt Warner, who
has been a leader in the council of the
National Democratic party, will head
the revolt. In an interview he said:
“I’m afraid the national Democracy
may support Van Wyck so far as the
New York county delegates are con
cerned. The vote will not be unani
mous, but I doubt if there will be
enough to prevent it.
X
TR1PPLE STAGE ROBBERY.
Two California Bandits Held Cp Three
Stages Within a ,Few Minutes.
Milton, Cal, Oct. 2.—Shortly after
1 o’clock yesterday afternoon, three
stages traveling from Angel's Camp to
this place were held up bv two masked
highwaymen aud robbed. The first
stage, a two-horse vehicle, was stopped
by tbe robbers in a narrow defile, and
its passengers, two men and a woman,
compelled to dismount and hold up
their hands while they were searched.
The robbers secured about $75.
Fifteen minutes later the second
stage, the regular four-horse vehicle,
came along and the driver was or
dered to halt. As he did not pu’l up
fast enough, the robbers shot one ot
the leaders and killed one of the pole
horses. The robbers fired one shot
with a rifle into the hood of the stage.
The bullet struck one of the male pas
sengers in the arm and passed on into
the side of another man who sat be
side him. The only other passenger, _
a woman, escaped injury. The two
were compelled to hand over thw
money, about $10*1. 1 pL
The robbers then disappeared into
the brush, but emerged a few hun
dred yards distant and held up the
third carriage. After relieving the
passengers and driver of their purses
the robbers decamped with Wells
Fargo & Co.’s box, which,, however,
contained nothing of value.
A BRIDE ENDS HER LIFE.
lira Lena Biploy Watora of It Louis
Hang* Herself—A Pathetic Note.
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 5.—Mrs. Lena
Bipley AYaters, a bride of three
months, committed suicide’ to-day by
hanging herself at the home of her
sister. She left a note reading:
“May heaven forgive me, as I never
meant to do wrong. Goodbye to kind
brothers and sisters. My watch to
Lou.—Lee.”
Lena Bipley was married to Edward
Waters the latter part of last June.
The bride had a number of relatives
and friends in St. Lonis and the wed
ding was a large one. The couple
had not lived together since the mar
riage. Further than this no reason is
known for the deed.
DRYEST ON RECORD!
No Good Rain* lo MI**onrl Sloe* July SB
and Vegetation la Dried Up.
Columbia, Mo., Oct.;2—The monthly
report of the Missouri weather service
shows that August and ’ September
combined have been tbe dryest months
in the record in the state. There has
not been a good rain since July 25. All
kinds of vegetation has dried up.
Mlddle-of-the-Koader* Against GllcIc.
Atchison, Kan., Oct. 2.—Bobert
Tompkins, Dick Lane and other Atch
ison Populists who arc against fusion,
will start a paper to fight ex-Governor
George W. Ulick, fusion candidate for
state senator from Atchison and Jack
son counties. The anti-fusion Popu
lists have been turned down at every
Populist meeting.
James T. Drummond Dead.
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 2.—James T.
Drummond, a prominent and wealthy
citizen, and president of the Drum
mond Tobacco company, of this city,
died here yesterday as the result of a
complication of kidney and other
troubles resulting from grip. Mr.
Drummond’s wealth, aside from his to
bacco plant, is estimated at $3,000,000!
The Mayor of Mexleo Resigns.
Mexico, Mo., Oct. 2.—Mavor B. C.
Johnson tendered his resignation to
tbe council this morning and it will
lively be accepted at the next meet
ing. He is an assistant in the state
treasurer’s office in Jefferson City.
Miss Whitney Invited to St Loot*.
Topeka, Kan., Oct. S.—Miss Whit
ney has accepted an invitation to at
tend the Veiled Prophets ball in St.
Louis as the guest of the general com
mittee.
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