A BOYCOTT OP BANKS
-GENERAL MASTER SOVEREIGN
V ISSUES HIS ORDERS.
Kahilis of Labor Instructed to Kef ase to
Receive National Hank I'aper Money
After September 1 Farmers Alliances
nd Others Asked to Assist Canstlc
Arraignment of the Banks Obeyance
of the Order Obligatory.
A National Bank Boycott.
Washington, July 20. The Times
prints the outlines of a manifesto to
be issued by Master Workman Sov
ereign of Kni?hts of Labor for the
boycott of all national banks. It will
be addressed to the Knights of Labor,
the Farmers' Alliance, the People's
party, reform clubs and kindred so
cieties, reciting "the wrongs of the
toiling thousands and their suffering
at the hands of the money making
power" and calling for a boycott of
national bank notes in all dealings be
tween individuals. It is to go into
effect September 1.
The manifesto declares that "the
national banks are responsible for the
destruction of the greenbacks, the pay
ment of the bonds in coin, the funding
act, the demonetization of silver, and
all the corrupt financial legislation for
the past thirty years; that they have
iovcotted and discriminated against
every kind of money that promised re
lief to the debtor class and prosperity
to the industrial masses; that they are
boycotters of the most cruel and
merciless kind. This boycott, it con
tinues, will precipitate the great con
flict with people on one side and banks
on the other, and the issues will be as
sharply drawn as in the struggle of
Jackson with the old United States
bank. The struggle of ls9G must re
sult in victory for the common people
or the hope of American liberty is lost.
'Boycott the national banks," it says
in conclusion.
Mr. Sovereign emphatically says
that it is obligatory on every knight
to obey the order. "Not only that,"
he declares, "but we expect similar
orders to be issued by the heads of all
sympathetic organizations.'
ALL BRIGHT AGAIN.
Comptroller Eckels on the Signs of Pros
perity Dae to Sound Policy.
Chicago, July 20. James C. Eckels,
comptroller of currency, who passed
through here yesterday on his way to
Ottawa, Hi., said: "Coming through
the iron districts of Pennsylvania I
was astonished at the activity. From
narrisburg to Pittsburg our train
seemed to be running through a line
of coke furnaces aud steel mills, every
one of which was in active operation
the scene that told stronger than any
words of industry and prosperity.
Last week Bradstreet's reporied
that 1,000.000 wage earners had haa
their salaries increased within the past
fourteen days. I attribute this won
derful improvement entirely to the
confidence that exists in the financial
policy of the present administration.
The placing of the last loan of the gov
ernment by the New York bankers
was a marvelous piece of financiering.
All these things count hard for a basis
of sound money, and have pricked the
free silver bubble until it has about
collapsed.'
"What is your opinion regarding the
two great political parties declaring
for silver in their national conven-tion-?
"Reports that come to me from the
great financiers of the country, and I
am sure that they ought to Know, are
to the effect that there is nothing to
all this free silver talk, and every day
goes to prove practically, not theor
etically, that the basis of sound money
is the only one that will stand. I
don't believe either the Republican or
Democratic party will attempt to in
dorse free silver, for it will be a dead
issue before the national conventions
are held."
MAY FIGHT AT GALVESTON.
Dan Stuart Is Considering a Proposition to
Bring the Big Go Off on an Island.
Dallas, Texas, July '20. Galveston
Irishes the Corbett-Fitzsimmons glove
tontest pulled off on that island. The
capitalists and business men of that
?ity have appointed a committee to
;ome to Dallas and make a proposition
V President Stuart of the Florida
-Athletic club. President Stuart said
Uiat Galveston's proposition was a lib
eral one, including ground and build-
ng free, and that he would go there
Saturday to see about it. lie says
there is strong opposition to the fight
it Dallas, threats having been made to
Stop the construction of the amphi
theater by injunction as soon as it is
begun. The contracts for the fight,
Stuart says, read "Texas," and not
'Dallas," and there will be no compli
tatioj in a change of location.
Faro Bank Held I' p.
Wallace, Idaho, July 20. Two
masked men held up a faro bank in
Fred Steer's saloon yesterday morn
ing. The bank had just closed and
the proprietor was cashing up when
two masked men entered the saloon
and ordered all hands up. The rob
bers then took all the money, about
40,, and walked out. Several shots
were fired after them, but they dis
uppearfed in the darkness.
Found Gnilty of Murder. v
Erik, Kan., July 0. Ed Anderson,
who confessed the murder of Swan
Peterson June 5, was found guilty of
murder in the first degree. Ander
son's attorneys made an able plea of
insanity, but . the jury returned in
forty minutes with the verdict.
Mexican Strikers Seize a Town.
City of Mexico, July 20. The 200
miners employed at Corrodeloro, state
of Mexico, yesterday rose in-revolt
against their employers, and taking
refuge in a neighboring town fortified
themselves and are now defying the
authorities. The manager of the mine
fled
A Maniac Heir to Thousands.
Nevada, Mo., July 20. William Bu
ford, a private patient at state asylum
j- Ko. 3, here, from Saline county, has
become heir to a fortune of 540,000.
He has been an inmate of the institu
tion about six years.
MORGAN IS FOR SILTCR.
The Alabama Senator Delivers a White
Metal Address.
Griffin, Ga., July HO. The Btreeta
of this little city were thronged at an
sarly hour yesterday morning1 by
;rovds from the country and sur
rounding towns. All came to attend
the bimetallic state convention, called
by the Spalding County Silver league,
and to hear Senator John T. Morgan
of Alabama speak. United States Sen
ator Patrick Walsh of Augusta was
made permanent chairman of the
convention.
Senator Morgan began by saying
that he came to the meeting as a Dem
ocrat, in Democratic harness, and by
the authority of the settled creed, to
advocate Democratic principles as old
and as sound as the great national
party. Then he went on to extol sil
ver, arguing for its restoration, and
closed with a tirade against the
"sound money" men.
'I am here," he went on, "as a disci,
pie of Jefferson, Madison and Jackson
and many others of the consecrated
fathers, to speak in defense of an act
of congress that was approved by
George Washington in 1792 for the free
coinage of silver; which was re-enacted
in 1S37, and was approved by Andrew
lackson, president of the United
States, and was stabbed below the fifth
rib bv John Sherman in 1873, and was
left for dead."
Continuing, he said that Mr. Sher
man's law of iS73 was such a death
blow to silver as a money metal that it
seems marvelous that silver has in it
enough life left to take up its bed and
walk. "But," he said, "it is moving to
the front with uplifted head and vigor
ous step again, in union, if not in full
harmony, with gold, and the parade is
so inspiriting that even Great Britain
is keeping step to the music of the
union.
Referring to the record of the vote of
Senator Hill of New York for free
coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1, Senator
Morgan said the vote was cast in a
Pickwickian sense. "Such a way of
voting,"' he said, "may be in vogue in a
state where the Democratic party is
divided into 'snapper' and 'anti-snapper'
factions; where one leader 'snaps'
and the other leader 'anti-snaps,' and
between the two the party is consigned
to Jonah's quarter's in the belly of the
Republican whale. If Mr. II ill was
forced into such a voyage by the anti
snappers in 1892, it may be safely cal
culated that he will kick himself on
shore again in due season."
Speaking of Secretary Carlisle, the
senator said he was not chosen as a
cabinet officer until he had changed
front on the silver question. "His
conversion was not like that of Paul,
who espoused error, was made blind,
and then saw the truth and embraced
it; but like that of Aaron, who saw
the truth and became blinded to it
and espoused the darkness of Egypt
typified in a golden calf."
" Mr. Morgan combatted what he
termed "the false issue invented by
Mr. Sherman and adopted by Mr.
Cleveland; that it is the duty of the
government to preserve the parity be
tween the metals by adjusting their
coinage to meet the fluctuations in
their commercial value. "England,"
he said, "wanted gold teeause she was
the largest creditor nation and killed
silver to get rid of this p rity issue."
Speaking of the S100,u00,0u0 gold re
serve, he said: "It was a sort of 'jack
pot' put up by Mr. Sherman that has
kept up the gambling in our money.
It was never needed to give strength
to the United States. A country that
has paid in debts and interest more
than S3, 000. 000,000 in thirty vears could
not need the support of 100,000,000
deposited in the treasury to support its
credit."
RAIN DAMAGE IN IOWA.
A Cloud Burst Near Iowa City Causes a
Flood and a Train "Wreck.
Iowa City, Iowa, July 20. Four and
one-half inches of water from a cloud
burst north of this citv lasu night
caused great damage to crops. Five
hundred feet of the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids and Northern track were
washed out.
Ralston creek went out of its banks
and carried off bridges, sidewalks and
fences. Several families waded out of
their houses in four feet of water.
The Rocky Mountain flyer from the
west, on the Rock Island, was ditched
three blocks west of the Iowa river,
and one of the fireman's legs was
broken. The passengers were badly
shaken up. The raiU are washed out
between Iowa City and Downey.
There are no trains from the east or
west.
Ingalls Lone a Farm.
Atchison, Kan.. July 10. John J.
Ingalls has lost a farm. He owned one
near Kickapoo, and recently had a
chance to dispose of it. He took the
buyer down to see it, expatiating upon
its desirable qualities, and when he
got there he couldn't find the farm. It
had leen washed into the river five
years ago. And all during that five
j-ears he had been paying taxes on it.
Nine Iron Miners Entombed.
Iron Mountain, Mich., July 19.
Nine miners were entombed in the
Pewabie mine near here last night and
there is little hope of their rescue, for
slow progress is being made by the
rescuers. The cave-in occurred just
as the men were quitting work, the
timbers and ere pillars on the first
level giving way
A. Condemned Murderer Kills Himself.
Spokane, Wash.-, July 20. II. D.
Smith, a condemned murderer, made
an effort to escape from jail last night.
A number of people joined Jailer
Thompson in the pursuit, when Smith,
jumping into the river, sought to cross,
but the rapid current carried him back
to the shore. He was seized by one of
his pursuers, when he suddenly drew
out a razor and almost severed his own
head from his body, dying instantly.
A Denver Ex-OfflcLal Suicides.
Jexveb, CoL, July 20. David J.
Martin, ex-member of the fire and po
lice board, committed suicide to-day
by shooting himself in the head. He
was about 60 years old and was
formerly in the real estate business.
He was one of the commissioners whom
Governor Waite attempted to remove
and who insisted upon holding, their
offices until a decision had been ob
tained in the courts sustaining the
governor's action, thereby precipi
tating the city hall warfare last year.
Financial reverses and ill health were
a& causes
MRS. PEITZEJS STORY
EASILY MISLED BY INSURANCE
SWINDLER HOLMES.
fTronri to Which She was Subjected
The Three Children Taken From Their
Mother to be Educated by the Unscra
lons Criminal The Woman's Feelings
Math Worked On Lives to Identify
the Bodies.
The Pietzel Tragedy.
Chicago, July 19. Mrs. Carrie Piet
ze left late last night for Toronto to
identify the bodies of the two little
girls found Monday in the cellar of a
house there. The children, it is be
lieved are her own, and it is supposed
they were murdered by Herman
Mudgett or II. H. Holmes, formerly of
Chicago, now in jail in Philadelphia
for insurance fraud.
Mrs. Pietzel believes that the two
bodies found in Toronto are those of
her missing daughters and that Holmes
murdered them. She further believes
that the children " were in Toronto
when she was there searching for
them last winter. She is broken in
health and mind, the victim, she be
lieves, of a hypnotic influence exerted
by Holmes.
"Holmes, whom I had never met,"
said Mrs. Pietzel, "but once before the
death of my husband, seemed from the
time he asked me for the care of the
children until his final arrest to have a
peculiar influence over me. I felt con
trolled by him. lie had a sway over
me that I thought natural, since he
had been the intimate friend of my
husband. Besides my husband had
repeatedly told me that 1 could trust
him, that he was a good man, and that
he would always be true to us. The
children idolized him. There was
nothing that he could not do with
them. Again and again my husband
told me how much he thought of
Holmes and how honorable he was
until I came to the same opinion my
self, although at first I did not like
the man and told my husband so and
begged him to have nothing to do
with him:
"I saw my husband last on August
24, 1894. He had gone to St. Louis.
He was then heavily interested with
Holmes in whatever the enterprises
were they had on together, and I was
lying sick with my baby. I was very
sick. I could not go to Philadelphia to
identifv the body which they suspected
to be that of my husband. I could not
be moved. Holmes came to me and
Alice was taken East and she identi
fied the body. It was after that that
Holmes told me that the body
was not that of my husband;
that it was a bogus body made up
to look like him, and that if I
or the children said anything abont it
the insurance company would get hold
of us and we would be punished se
verely. I was very sick, and I be
lieved Holmes. He talked kindly and
offered to take Alice, Nellie and How
ard away from me and educate them.
He said that he would put them to
school and pay all of their expenses.
The children loved him, and I was
alone in the world and poor. I let
him take them, and they went away.
At this time and all other times
Holmes acted to me like a gentleman.
He constantly kept me under
the impression, though, that I and the
children were to be mixed up with the
bogus body which he said was found
in Philadelphia. He aid Pietzel was
still alive, and that 1 would see him
aea id when this trouble was over. He
wished, though, to save us from ar
rest. After the three children were
gone I moved about the country. I
began to worry about the children. I
wanted to see them and wished to
know where they were. Holmes
always put me off with. the story that
I must keep quiet until the detectives
stopped their work.
"When he took me to Detroit it was
he who registered me there as Mrs.
Adams. He told me so when he came
up to the room where Dessie, my oldest
daughter, and I were. I told him he
did wrong to put my name down
wrong, but he explained that the de
tectives must be kept off of the track
and that I was protecting my
huband by this. I finally
heard the children were at To
ronto, and Dessie, I and the babj
went there alone to search, but without
success. Since then I have been work
ing for the location of the children
with District Attorney Graham of
Philadelphia, Mr. Geyer, the detective,
of Philadelphia, and the officers of the
life insurance company have done all
in their power to aid me. You must
understand that when my children
were first really raisi ng I was locked
up and could not communicate with
any one. I was not allowed to see the
newspapers nor receive mail. In
Holmes' trunk there was found a letter
from my daughter Alice to me, which
never reached me, showing that my
mail was intercepted. Since I have
had my freedom the Philadelphia au
thorities and the insurance company
have worked to bring my children
back to me, and I have aided them so
far as I could.
"When 1 gave the children up to
Holmes in St. Louis I was too sick and
trusted him too much to pay careful
attention to what I did. He told me
to go home to Galva. to recruit there
with my parents and he would keep
the three in tchool. When he took me
to Detroit, and I supposed we were be
ing hounded by detectives, Holmes
paid most of the bills. Sometimes I
was compelled to pay my own ex
penses. I believe Holmes intended to
kill me. I think he meant to kill me
in Burlington, Vt , but he must have
lost his nerve, or he still had the chil
dren on his hands, and he hesitated. I
cannot give any other explanation of
why he spared my life. lie intended
to kill my entire family.'
General Campos Wins a Victory.
Madbid, July 19. Captain General
Martinez de Campos has cabled to the
home government that the insurgents
in the a is trie t of Bayamo, province of
Santiago de Cuba, have been scattered
after suffering severe loss. Many of
the insurgents were killed and
wounded. General Ganto Cildes was
killed and three officers wounded.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Five have died and two of the con
gressmen elected last fall have resigned.
NEBRASKA WILL BE THERE.
An Appeal From Commissioners to the
Atlanta Exposition to'County Boards.
Lincoln, July 19. The Nebraska
commissioners to the Cotten States and
Industrial exposition are not disposed
to lie down under any adverse decisions
of the attorney general or county at
torneys in regard to the right legally
of counties to make appropriations for
a state exhibit at the exposition. It is
argued that counties have the right to
make a county exhibit anywhere in the
United States. All that is necessary is
to label the exhibit with the name of
the county. A group of these counties
would make a splendid snowing at At
lanta next September. AN ith this end
in view the commissioners have issued
a circular addressed to the commission
ers of each county in the state, setting
forth the objects of the exposition ana
the advantages that will accrue to Ne
braska from representation at the
show. In reference to money the cir
cular says:
"No appropriation for defraying me
expenses of making such an exhibit
having been been made by the legisla
ture, it will be nessary to appeal to the
patriotism and business judgment of
the several county organizations for
such funds, by an appropriation of a
sufncient amount to have" their coun
ties properly represented at Atlanta.
e therefore respectfully asK ana so
licit your honorable body to appropri
ate from your county funds, for the
purpose above set forth, an amount not
to exceed 1 cent per capita of the popu
lation of your county, or any such
other amount as in your judgment may
seem best. The amount so appropriat
ed will be used only for the actual ex
penses necessary to collect, maintain
and properly display the products of
the state, and any person having con
trol of these funds or their expen
diture will be required to furnish a
good and sufficient bond, and also to
report to the governor for approval and
publication an accurate, itemized ac
count of all expenditures with proper
vouchers to cover the same. For
Nebraska to make and maintain a
proper exhibit will require the expend
iture of about S10,000. We respectfully
urge you to take prompt action in this
matter, as the time is short in which to
gather and arrange an exhibit which
will do justice to the state. All money
appropriated or contributed should be
made payable to and forwarded to Gov
ernor S. A. Holcomb, Lincoln, Neb.
Communications should be addressed to
H. S. Uotchkiss, secretary, Lincoln,
Neb
HORR-HARVEY DEBATE.
Mr. Harvey Charges Corruption In the
Passage of the Law of 187S.
Chicago, July 19. The Horr-Harvey
debate to-day opened at 11 o'clock in
stead of 2 o'clock as heretofore. The
subject under discussion was what Mr.
Harvey had characterized in his book
as the "crime of 1873" the demoneti
zation of silver.
After some miscellaneous sparring,
Mr. Harvey charged corruption in the
passage of the act for the demonetiza
tion of silver, and Mr. Horr repudiated
the inference that the citizens of the
United States were all corrupt. He
declared that it was not true that every
man had his price. Members of con
gress were as honest as the average
American citizen. He knew whereof
he spoke, for he had been a member of
that body himself.
Mr. Horr then took up the history of
the demonetization act, showed the
staires throucrh which it had nassed
I and declared that its final enactment
' a ill ' . , 1 . . . m
was not uuiu aner it naa ut;n Deiore
congress for nearly three years.
Mr. Harvey then returned to the
attack upon the honesty of legislators
throughout the country, including
members of congress and of the Illin
ois and Colorado legislatures. This
venality was sapping the foundations
of the government as it had sapped
the foundations of and destroyed
every republic of the past.
Mr. Horr again returned to the de
fense of the honesty of the American
people.
Mr. Horr then spoke of the demoni
tization of silver in 1816 as the result
of experience in the use of the double
standard. In 1S71 Germany adopted
the gold standard and threw on the
market 5300,000,000 in silver. It was
this that set the world to considering
the silver question not any gold bug
conspiracy. The financial policy of no
great nation was ever dominated by a
conspiracy.
This closed the debate for the day,
except the answering of questions by
the disputants propounded by members
of the audience. The attendance was
not large, but was appreciative and
generous and impartial in its recogni
tion of telling points.
BOTH SIDES READY.
The Celebrated Taylor Case Will Be
Called Some Time Next Week.
Carrollton, Mo., July 19. At 6:30
p. m. the Taylor brothers were brought
into court, and Mr. Bresnehan said the
state was ready for trial. Colonel
Hale, for the defense, said they did
not want a continuance, but that they
had three or four witnesses in Linn
and Sullivan counties who were sick,
and that they wanted an order from
the court to take their depositions.
The court granted the order and the
defense answered ready for trial. The
court ordered a special venire of 300
men from which to select a panel of
forty, and the sheriff was instructed
to have them in court Monday next at
1 o'clock. The court also instructed
the sheriff to allow no one to assist in
getting the venire except regularly
sworn deputy sheriffs. This will make
the case come up for trial about Thurs
day. gash and Door Prices Raised.
Oshkosh, July 19. The National
Manufacturing association and the
Northwestern Sash and Door associa
tion, at a meeting held here last night,
decided to raise prices 20 per cent to
partly compensate for the advance in
glass.
Police Reform In Omaha.
Omaha, Neb., July 19. Twenty-five
political and sectarian policemen agi
tators have been discharged, and the
edict has been issued that policemen
must not let political and religious af
fairs interfere with their duty as
officers.
THIS FOR SOLDIERS.
THREE IMPORTANT DECISIONS
HANDED DOWN.
The Law Forbidding the Pension Com
missioner to Reduce Pensions Does Not
Apply to Cases Acted on Before Its
Passage As to the Thirty Days Notice
The Pensioning of Children.
Late Pension Decisions.
Washington', July 18. Assistant
Secretary Reynolds has rendered three
decisions in pension appeal cases. In
the first he holds that while the com
missioner of pensions is forbidden by
law to suspend payment of a pension
pending proceedings to annul or re
duce it, nevertheless, in case such pen
sion is annulled, all unpaid pensions
apparently accrued at the date of the
annulment becomes illegal and must
not be paid.
In the second case the secretary
holds that the law forbidding the com
missioner to reduce pensions without
thirty days notice does not apply to
cases acted on before its passage.
In the third case it is held that as
the act pensioning the children of a
Bailor who are under Id years of age
expressly provides that the pensions
6hall begin from the date of the filing
of the application for the pension, a
claimant who was over 16 years old
when the act was passed has no claim
for pension at all.
BLOW TO FAVORITISM.
President Cleveland Makes an Important
Ruling Regarding Promotions.
Washington, July lo. The presi
dent has just promulgated a new rule
modifying the old customs rule of the
civil service, the effect of which is to
greatly limit the number of promo
tions in classified customs districts,
except after appropriate examinations.
The necessity for the change in the
rules arises from the fact the exten
sion of the classification in the cus
toms service on November 2, last, over
positions paying salaries of less than
&JOQ opened the doors for promotion of
many persons who had entered the
service through personal political
favoritism. The old rule . would per
mit these persons after they were
brought into the classified service to
be advanced to many of the best pay
ing positions in the office without ex
amination. Under the new rule pro
motions can be made only to a limited
extent without examination, and no
promotions can be made from one
grade to another without an appropri
ate examination.
CROP CONDITIONS.
Report of the Weather Bureau for the
"Week Ended July 15.
Washington, July 18. The weather
bureau, in its report of crop condi
tions for the week ended July 15, says:
Drouth has been broken in Iowa and
partly relieved in Wisconsin and South
ern Minnesota, but continues in Ohio
and with great severity over the South
ern half of Michigan. Excessive rains
have delayed threshing in Missouri,
Kansas, Northern Texas, Kentucky
and Tennessee, and caused grain in
6hock to sprout. ,
Corn needs rain in Ohio, Northern
Indiana. Southern Michigan, Wiscon
sin and South Dakota, and would be
improved by rain in Nebraska, where
the blades are Wginning to roll. In
the Southern states the finest crop of
corn for years is promised. Frost on
Tuesday morning caused slight dam
age in Wisconsin.
OKLAHOMA VIGILANTES.
People of Pottawatomie County Forced
to Form Protective Leagues.
Perrt, Ok., July 18. A call has been
made by 100 citizens of Pottawatomie
county for the lawabiding citizens in
each township to meet and form law
and order leagues to protect the people
from thieving, which has become ex
tremely great in the county, which is
located in the southeastern part of Ok
lahoma, and is nearly surrounded by
the Indian territory. The people are
very much aroused, and twenty law
and order leagues were organized,
whose object is to thoroughly rid the
county of horse and other thieves.
A TRAITOR'S END.
ulclde in Public Follows the Betrayal
of Port Arthur.
San Fran Cisco, July 13. The ease
with which the Japanese captured
Port Arthur during the recent war
with China is explained to some ex
tent by an article in the Japan Gazette,
which arrived on the last steamer
According to this the commander of
the Chinese forts was a native of
Japan, who had acquired favor in
Chinese councils through a long resi
dence in the flowery kingdom. He in
tentionally caused the shots from the
guns to be misdirected so they would
fall short of the Japanese warships.
Having betrayed his adopted land for
the land of his birth, the disgraced
commander appeared before the victo
rious Japanese and acknowledged his
treason and committed suicide in their
presence.
Missouri and Kansas Naval Cadets.
Washington, July 18. The follow
ing persons have been appointed ca
dets at the Naval academy: L. C
Broughton, Marysville, Kan.; Frank E.
Rockwell, alternate. Junction City,
Kan.; C. P. Huff, Butler. Mo.; E. B.
Larrimer, Wichita, Kan. ; E. J. Sadler,
alternate, Sedan, Kan.; R. D. Scott,
alternate, Marysville, Kan.
Blackburn's Candidate Nominated.
Lkxington, Ky., July 18. Senator
Blackburn, after a sharp light, secured
the nomination by the Democrats of
this county, of three staunch support
ers of himself for candidates for the
legislature. Blackburn was greatly
elated over his complete victory.
Twenty-Fire Tears In Office.
St. Louis, Mo., July 18. Philip II.
epp, one of the best known poli
ticians in St. Louis, died at his heme
this morning of paralysis. He had
been continuously in public service for
over a quarter of a century.
OP1UM F,EN1TC onvention
They Sleet to Oppose a Bill Pending lr
the Massachusetts Legislature.
Fully 300 Chinese opium-smokers
representing New England, assembled
themselves at 24 Oxford street Friday
night for the purpose of finding ways
to stop the Quinn bill, which is novs
pending before the General Assembly
says the Boston Herald. The meetini
commenced at 8 o'clock and lasted un
til after midnight " Every member
seemed to be talking at the same time
and consequently, there seemed to be
more speakers than listeners. Reso
lutions were passed that a petition be
sent to the Assembly, asking that il
Mr. Quinn wanted a bill to pass against
the smoking of opium, an exception be
made in favor of the Chinese com
munities. "There is no man under God's crea
tion that knows the hardships which
smokers endure," said one of the dele
gates from Hartford. "If Mr. Quinn ii
an intelligent and free-minded gentle
man he should take conscientious con
sideration before he made such a law
as would stop a person from smoking
when the smoker has had the habit
for thirty years."
"We are bound to smoke, anyhow,
whether we have the right or take it
for granted," said another smoker from
Providence, R. I. "We committed the
sin before the law was made and we
are compelled to sin after the law is
made. We must either sin or we must
stop living."
The most interesting remarks
throughout the meeting were made by
Li Sam, who carae to the convention
as a representative from New Bedford.
He said: "People who do not smoke
will never know a smoker's troubles. 1
had the habit grow into me for the
past thirty-seven long years. I have
tried and tried again to stop smoking
but my strength failed me. At last 1
gathered up my nerve to try again fcr
the last time. I decided if I failed tc
do what I pledged I would die a fiend.
Two weeks ago I stopped smoking for
twenty-four hours. My dear fellow
men, there are not enough words in
Confucius' dictionary to tell you how I
felt. I had rather have all the devils
in the great hell torment me than to
take the right of smoking away from
me. We smoking men do not ask the
people to encourage us, but we would
ask the public pity."
HOW MUCH FRANCE DRINKS,,
One of the "Things They do Better
Over There,"
Paris i3 mainly a wine-drinking
town, but, like Marseilles and Lyons,
does not consume so much as many of
the smaller towns, though when ex
amined in detail the provisions seems
to be on a sufficiently generous scale,
says Chambers' Journal. In Paris the
annual rate per head is 340 pints of
wine, 16 of cider, 21 of beer and rather
over 12 pints per head of spirits. In
whisky-drinking Scotland the annual
rate per head of whisky consumption
was, in 1S92-3, just a little over 122
pints little more than the proportion
of spirits demanded by the Parisians,
without regard to the large quantity
of wine also required here for their an
nual wants. In view of this, it is
strange that travelers still report that
drunkenness as we unfortunately
know it in Great Britain is a thing of
very rare occurrence. The Parisians
are represented as temperate drinkers,
though they drink just about as many
glasses of spirits as the Scotch (the
largest consumers of spirits in Britain),
besides nearly 30 times as many glasses
of wine as they do of spirits, not to
speak of a fair allowance of cider and
beer! And at Cherbourg the inhabi
tants take two and three-quarter times
as much spirits as the Scotch, not to
speak of cider, beer and wine. As it
is to be hoped and presumed that wom
en and children have little or nothing
to do with the figures for the consump
tion of spirits, and as very many men
take none at all, some folks must take
pretty large doses. If French topers
can, without visible and unpleasant
consequences, carry such quantities of
liquor, this must be one of the "things
they do better in France."
The Fingall Succession.
The Earl of Fingall, recently givei.
much newspaper prominence in Lon
don, who is the head of the great Irish
house of Plunkett, has been one of the
sufferers through the depreciation of
Irish property, and about a couple of
years ago was compelled to sell to a
New York merchant, bred as a peasant
on the Fingall estate, his ancestral
county seat, Killeen Castle, in County
Meath. Lord Fingall is quite a young
man, being 35 years of age, and he holds
the hereditary office of State Steward
to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Hav
ing no son, but only a little girl 2 years
of age, his earldom, which is one of
the oldest peerages in Ireland, will.
after his death, pass to his uncle, for
merly an omcer in the armj but now
a Roman Catholic priest engaged in
missionary work in those very gold
nining settlements of Australia which
have proved so disastrous to hi3
nephew; and after the missionary's
death the earldom will pass on to Sir
Francis Plunkett, now British Envoy
at Brussels, and who, like so many
other foreign diplomats, has married
an American girl, the daughter of Mr.
Charies W. Morgan, of Philadelphia.
London American.
Unexpected Kindness.
One cannot curb a little innocent
curiosity as to what would be the feel
ings of a good Portland woman if sha
knew of the officious kindness of ona
of her relatives. She is quite advanced
in years, a:ad, during a recent illness,
this relative went to an undertaker and
paid all bills for the funeral expenses
in prospectus. The lady is now abls to
do her own household work.