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JUNE.
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Cellar c flinty people are clamoring
for township organization.
Bloomingt n has a itun club composed
of eleven tneai tiers, all of t hum believe
they can hoot.
Many fields of oats and wheat near
Gibbon are badly mottled with wilfl
mustard. I'ull it out by the roots.
Judge A. X. Sullivan and wife of
Plattsmou'h lately celebrated the
twenty-fifth anniversary of their ni.ir
na.'e. Harold Mile?, an o'd Krai rice boy.
has passed a creditable examination
and entered the naval academy at Ae
DajRilia. Paul Sanh z of Bayard has started the
experiment of We raising. Ue received
his initial "colony" the other day from
Colorado.
Cheyenne county hrealia the record.
Hail stones fell there the other day as
large as teacups. Ho Bays the Hayard
Transcript.
Notice has been served on the lioys
in the Union Pacific chops at Grand
Island that 110 work will be done on
Fridays until further notice.
The editor of the Curtis Courier ad
veriiHes for some spring chickens on
subscription. He must intend to break
np training for hard times.
The rec.nl circus at Fairbury ha1
the usual complement cf fakirs and
victims. Several of the latter recov
ered their lost v.ad.1 by legal process.
A young man named Mine Mugin, of
EuHtis, left home very suddenly to
avoid having :o marry a young lady
who loved him more than he desirrd.
Dr. J. 8. Emigh of Red Cloud has just
finished a comfortablo brick cyclone
cave. Most any kind of a cloud lurnish
es him an excuse for repairing to it
DOW.
Horace Hill of Superior has a badly
swollen hand. About a week ago a
rooster flew at biin and imbedded one
of its spurs in his third finger and the
wound is slow in healing.
The Wausa Enterprise-Herald thinks
the people who laHt year prayed for
rain ought to remember this year to
acknowledge the favor so bountifully
bestowed.
Marion Vincent and Sherman Le
master of Valley county recently had
a battle at close range, and Vincent
now mourns the loss of one tar. Le
master bit it off.
A sad case of "drunk and disorderly"
is reported from the village ol .Moan,
where no liquor is sold. It must be
shipped in in original packages direct to
the consumers.
1 A few of the business men of Heaver
Crossing were somewhat lewildred at
the action of two tramps that came to
town and had some tools repaired at
the blacksmith shop.
There are different ways to provide
for old age. One of tho shrewdest
financiers in Gordon has a hand organ,
car. fully stored away in a bank vauli,
in keeping for a "rainy day."
David E. Jones of Platte county will
be taken to the asylum. He labors under
the hallucination thai some one wants
to hang bim and the constant fear he
manifests renders life a burden to him
arid his friends.
The petitions to the Grand Island
tchool board respectfully requesting it
to reconsider the action on cutting
down the teaching of music and draw
ing, German and Latin, are being very
numerously signed.
Alma has an amateur dramatic club
which the Record claims is equal to
professionals. They played "The Pri
vate Secretary" recently and now the
people of Alma think they can perforin
anything they nndertake.
Red Cloud printers are kicking be
cause the Fourth of July celebration
committee decided to have its poster
work done in Lincoln. They think that
with four printing houses to choose
(rem it could be done acceptably at
home.
We never could understand, says the
Deabler Citizen, why a road oversee r,
when he puts in a drain box, sets the
lop of it from two to six inches higher
than the road level, unless it is to jolt
the back teeth out ol those riding over
them.
It is just fourteen days from the tim
a new moon appears until it is full. It
is just one hour from the time some
men strike Gordon, says the Journal,
until they are full and they have been
known to be full several times in
month.
Hamuel Hogg of Hampton is in hard
lines. His team ran away and when be
wet finally thrown from the carriage,
he didn't do a thing but land on 1
bathed wire fence. He was cuf up tnd
will be long time recovering.
Falls City people think they have th
W baseball team in the state. The
team has greet record eo far, end with
ihi support th people ere giing It,
bids fair to make a reputa Jor to' itaelf.
Clark, one ol the pitchers wil probably
U in the Western asoci ti m ne-., vet r.
HEADY FOR THE STRCCCLE
Republicans at St Lcnis Lager to
Plunge Into the Smoke.
FAVORABLE TO THE GOLD STANDARD
kuch U the Kntlaietit mm Kspreeeede.
Mjtnj Turrrd Dowu.
Pt Lotis, June 11. Gold has car
ried the day. This assertion, made
through the United press by Senator
Henry Cabot L-xlge at an ear'y hour
yesterday afternoon, put a new phase
on the finai.cial situation and over
turned several of the plans which had
be'n formed by thife who expected a
different result. Mr. Lodge figured that
twenty-two out of the forty-five states
now forming the union hail each se
lected a member of the committee on
resolutions; favorable to the gold stand
a-d and that two or three western
states were likely to follow suit, thus
insuring a clear majority.
The Ohio men somewhat reluctantly
recognised that Mr. Lodge as creak
ing by the card. George A. Kohertsou,
editor of the Cleveland Recorder, who
has made a specialty of fashioning the
views of the Ohio lenders on this mat
ter, saw ex-Secretary Foster and asked
him if he did not know that the jieople
all through northern Ohio weie for
nlver. He replied: "The people of
Ohio are republicans and they will
stand by sound republican doctrine.
Free silver is a heretic and they do not
want it."
General C. H. Grosveno- who is re
garded as almost the mouthpiece of
McKinley, aid : "The plat for n will lie
ell right. There will le no occasion for
the east to complain on that score. It
will be discussed a good deal more,
but it Is practically settled that the
declaration will be for gold;" and even
Mark Hanna could not dispute the fact
that the gold standard plank was in the
ascendant.
It is somewhat singular that Illinois,
which turned the scale in favor of Mc
Kinley by instructing for him instead
of for Culloni, took a leading part in
shaping the course of the middle wes
ern states yesterday by adopting a go d
plank by the decisive vote ol forty-two
to six.
The action of the Idaho state delega
tion may perhaps be significant of an
Intent to bolt. It selected all I he usual
officers appointed by state delegations
except some one to wait upon the
nominee for president and vice-president.
Beyond this and the exceeding
1 ift money plank adopted by the Io
delegation, who favored "gold, silver
ind paper kept on a purity by the en
actment of laws to accomplish it,"
there were no very significant financial
features in the meetings of the slate
delegations which occupied much of
the day.
MANY Tt'KKE DOWN.
In the selection of national commit
teemen for next year, however, matir
men of national repute were turned
down. William M. Hahn, so long e
potent factor in Ohio politics, disap
pear! from the list, as does also the
equally well known Gen. Jamps 8.
Clarkson of Iowa, and ex-Pres dent
Harrison's friend, J. N. Huston of
Indiana. Chauncey I. Filley of Mis
souri sustained another defeat at the
hands of bis old opponent, Mr. Kerens,
and Col. William I.amb, chairman of
the state committee of Virginia and
leader of the Reed forces in that state,
was compelled to retire from the na
tional committee in favor of a gentle
man holding different views. The cane
of Joseph H. Manley of Maine is still
held under advisement by his delega
ti m with an intimation that they will
probably consider his recent offense in
giving up the Reed ship as one of the
head rather than of the heart and will
continue him in his committee mem
bership. Yesterday's proceedings seem not
only to have settled the financial plank,
but the tariff plank, also, ol the next
national republican platform. A sketch
of the proposed tariff provisions, which
it is said was either drawn up by Ma
jor McKinley himself or was submitted
to him for approval, - proposes an in
crease of duties all along the line suf
ficient for the needs of the treasury
and the re-imposition of protective
duties on wool and sugar. The first
four paragraphs of the platform are
devoted to a denunciation of the demo
cratic policy, to which if ascribed the
aommercial and industrial depression
that baa prevailed during the last three
years, and a laudation of the republi
can policy of protection which had pre
vailed for thirty years previously.
There is a strong recommendation for
the renewal of reciprocity agreements.
There is also a recommendation for the
imposition of 10 per cent duty on im
porta in foreign bottoms as foreshad
owed in Governor Foraker'a statement
published yesterday morning.
The language of the platform is de
scribed as forceful, alliterative and full
of catchy phrases inch as are calcu
lated to bring down the house.
All the talk among the advanced sil
ver men last night is to bolting after
their minority Iree tllver report from
the committee no resolutions is voted
down, at it will be, ol course.
Not Law.
Wasuikotoi, D. C, June 10 The
resolution introduced by Senator
Allen extending time one year
lo which the settlers on the Otoe
and Missouri lands may pay for the r
lands failed to become a law for the
reason that the president has refused
to eign it. It is said that the chief
executive takes the view that he has
authority to sign the bill within ten
days of the day of passage even after
vmvrMM bis sdiourned.
PUUIIMttty f Ml 1 u,
Pt. I.oi is, June l'J Alter a t-n
h ,ur'l sett ion in torn I heat and dis
tressing ooice the eleventh nut nal
republican convention nominated a
ticket pre-ordained from the first by
the Ohio political managers w ho prac
tically controlled the gathering and
named William McKinlev of Ohio and
Garrett A. Ilohart of New Jer-ev for
president ari l vie-president respect
ively of the United States.
No effort waa put forth to Cftrry out
ihb much talked of purpose oi coiiii r
ring the second place uion Go. Levi
P. Morton. Mr. Ilohart went through
on the first ballot w ith many votes to
(pare, just as toon as the word was
I assel round, after McKinley had been
safely landed, that Mr. McKinley 's
friends desired the election of Mr.
Ilohart.
The chief supporters of the other un
successful candidates for t tie presi
dency, Mr. I.dge for Red, Mr. Hep
burn for Allison, Governor Hastings
for Quay and Mr. Depew for Morton,
came out in ring ng l.ttle speeches
movir.g to make McKinley 'a nomina
tion unittiimous and pledgii g him the
loyaL support of their respective states.
When to these assurances Mr. Piatt
added his tiersonal promise of friendly
co-operation the cup of happiness of
the McKinley men whs full.
Mr. Depew was at ids best in moving
to make McKinley's nomination unani
mous. He happily said hi felt he was
now nominating a inner. Itwasquine
evident he did not feel in the same
frame of mind w hen be placed Mr. Mor
ton in nomination, for he, most usually
for him spoiled one of his best points.
When leading up to what it was sup
posed would evoke a burst of applause
for P.laine, he inadvertantly substituted
the name of James A. Garfield for James
G. Blaine and was ignoniiniously cor
rected by the bystanders.
Another amusing little slip was per
pert rated by the permanent chairman,
Senator Thurston, who, by the way,
made a most excellent presiding officer.
The incident clearly showed the way his
mind was running. When nominations
for vice-prt sident were called for and
Judge Fort took the stand, the chair
man introduced him as "Mr. Ilohart of
New Jersey," the man whom the Mc
Kinleyites had determined to nomin
ate. When the laughter thie blunder
occasioned called hit attention to it, he
adroitly passed it off by saying: "Mr.
Ilohart of New Jersey will now be nom
inated by Judge Fort."
Whatever enthusiasm was lacking in
the early daya of the convention was
supplied when the nominations were
made. A more boisterous scene of
yelling, plume and banner waving and
other manifestations of ecstary has se -dom
lieen hear' or seen than that
which for nearly half an hour occupied
the convention after the nomination of
Mr. McKinley.
To ha GarrUntieil.
Wasiiinoton, D. C, June 19 By an
order issued at the war department yes
terd the new army post, Fort Crook, Neb.
will be garrisoned before the beginning
of the next fi.-cal year. The entire
Twenty-second regiment of infantry will
be transported from the various posts
in the department of Dakota to Fort
Crook. The Second infanlry, which
has been stationed at Fort Omaha, will
be scattered among the posts in the de
partment oi Dakota and Fort Omaha
will be abandoned. The change of base
for the Twenty-Becond will be a most
welcome one. It has been moved
around from post to post in the various
departments in the west and headquar
ters have been at Fort Keogh, Mont.,
for the past sixteen years.
Ielx Talk! War.
Philadelphia, June 19. Eugene V.
Debs, president o' the American rail
way union, signalized hiH first appear
ance in Philadelphia by delivering two
scathing diatribes at labor nieetings he
addressed yesterday. He unhesitating
ly scored the highest legislative and ad
ministravative bodies in the land, in
cluding the president, congress, tho su
preme court and federal courts, and in
conclusion declared : "If it is necessary
for us to go to war to preserve our rights
let us go to war. I would rather have
the necessary change from the existing
order of things accomplished peacefully
and constitutionally, but I insist upon
the change. As lor myself I would
rather die with a noose about my neck
or be shot to death than die a slave."
A langruit llnlilt.
DxadhooI), 8. D., June 19. Matt
Matteson, a miner in the Homestake
at Lead City, met with an accident
which will probably result in his death.
He was carrying a stick of giant pow
der in his bootleg, a habit miners have,
when for some reason it exploded.
The fleeh wat stripped from the bone,
the ankle and the thigh, and the bone
shattered and broken almost its entire
length.
James Wobben was fatally injured
while at work in Wasp mine No. 2, Yel
low Creek. He was engaged in break
ing ore In a tunnel, when a mast of rock
fell from the roof, burying him. Hit
chest wat crushed in and he 'received
other injuriet.
Muincra H tor jr.
Ti kis, June 19. Ruinori are being
persistently circulated here that the
Marqult de Mori who, it waa recently
stated, had ttarted for the Soudan for
the purpose of renewing filendly rela
tione with certain Arab chiefs with the
idea of obstructing the British expedi
tions, bat been assassinated by 8noustii
tribesmen and that thirty of bit follow
ers have alto been killed. The scene ol
the maeaacre, according to these reports
is a point thirty ml let south of Tripoli.
IUPURTAM U'iir L.tNf
t. Louii Beady for the Katiotal
Derby.
TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLAR PURCE.
A New IVIirrl FiTorlre Who Can
Kl.le.
St. Loris, June 20. The premier
eyent on the American turf will be
brought off today at the fair grounds
track, when the national derby, guar
anteed worth $:iO,0i0, will be raced for
by a splendid field of track ari.-toerats.
Mike Dwyer arrived yesterday morning
with his two cracks, Ben Brush and
Ben Eder, and Byron McClelland
brought in Prince Lief and Nimrod.
Ben Brush and Prince Lief are given
top weightB, 127 pounds, while Don
Carido and Argentina are burdened
with only 119 and 117, respectively. All
the others are imposted 122 pounds.
Ijist night it appeared that ' Dyer's
entry, the two Bens, will get to the post
favorite, with Lief and Loki well
played. The betting will be lively.
In recent trials, the derby distance,
one and a half miles, was covered by
Lief in 2:35, Eder in 2:372' and by Ben
Brush in 2:41, though each was under
diff rent track conditions.
A Near Wlieel favorite.
Dknvkh, Colo., June 20 0. B. Haeh
enberger, the comparatively green bicy
cle rider, won the twenty-five mile
match rare against W. W. Hamilton,
the hero of many road and track races,
on the, one-third mile track of the Den
ver wheel club yesterday. Time,
1:07:17.
Ever since Hacbenberger won the
Decoration day road race la--t year upon
an old and heavy wheel he has been a
hot favorite with the Denver pt ople,
and he hae gradually come out of ob
scurity and has had some training. The
wheelmen, however, bad steadily main
tained that Hamilton, with his exper
ience at track racing and years of train
ing, would prove the best man in a
track race, and after months of discus
lion and careful preparation the two
men wers brought together yesterday
under the most favorable conditions.
B6th road wheels of eighty gear and
were in the best condition for the great
est effort to be made. Tfcey were start
ed from opposite sides of the track and
the race was swift from the start, the
first five miles being mada in 11 :52, the
first ten in 24 :16, the record for the dis
tance. Hamilton led for five mile?,
when his opponent passed bim, and
after that Hachenbarger seemed to be
able to spurt or drop behind as he pleas
ed, and finished one lap ahead. Six
thousand people saw the race.
The one mile professional, paced race,
was run by C. I. Himetreet in 2:07 1 5.
This is the fastest time ever made on a
track paced by a single wheel. The
other events were a one mile novice,
won by J. II, Spencer, and an amateur
two mile invitation, won by R. D. Gam
mon In 4:47 4-5.
Tmde Kevlew.
New York, June 20. R. G. Dun &
Co. will say in their review of trade:
Failures for the week have been 276
in the United States, against 228 last
year, and twenty-eight in Canada
against thirty-one last year.
There are continued signs Oat a
gain in business has begun. Stocks
have gone higher than they were after
the artificial break ten days ago.
Wheat and cotton are in better demand.
There Is more confidence in monetary
circles and the tendency toward shrink
age In great industries seems in some
measure at least to be checked. While
the outcome of the democratic conven
tion is uncertain and the great crops
are not yet wholly beyond danger, a
sure and Btrong improvement could
hardly be expected, but the tone in
business circles has grown distinctly
more hopeful. Clearing bouse ex
changes for the past week are 3.4 per
cent less than in 1893.
The boot and shoe industry not only
holds its place as the most prosperous
of the great industries, but reporte
some gain both in order and prices.
Textile manufactures do not gain.
There is rather more bopefullness,
which is felt in the arrest of the de
cline in wool, Prices average no lower
than June 1, and sales do not decrease.
Manufactures await orders which
clothiers hope for soon, hut are not yet
ready to give, and the only changes
in prices are declines of 5 t 10 per cent
in some very low grade goods. The
only change in cottons is a reduction in
bleach shirtings and standards to the
lowest price ever resched, though the
change discloses no weakness, but a be
lief that the time has come when Bales
can be effected by reduction, and large
tales are now reported. Stocks of deal
cre are bound to be so low that rcplen
itbment would now make a great change
in the condition of the industry.
The waiting in iron and steel brings
a tlightly lower average of pricet, the
lowett since April 1, and only 1.8 per
cent above the lowest of the year,
though the combinations make no
change in quotations.
Wrrnt laauari.
Philadelphia, June 20. Warrante
lor the arrest of Captain Dickman of the
iteamer Laurada and Col. Emilio Nunez
the Cuban leader, were lnued today
charging them with taking part in a
filibustering expedition to Cuba on that
vetsel. The Laurada arrived here a
few days ago from a southern trip and
It wat on thit voyage that the offense it
alleged to have been committed. Cap
tain Dickman wat arrested thit after
noon, and held in $1,000 bail.
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t 1 " is, June 17. The first res
t 11- eleventh republican naticn
I 'invention, wi.ich ntened shortly
-11 -o i yehierdav' in the hall erected
'lint pilrp e by tiie patriotic citi
: n-'fM I.'mim, wan not relievi I by
11 i h nt uj lift 1 lie interior
i v-iitim aoi'V thu level of moiiot
111 v, winch hara.-ti r.zd the exterior
,1 ti,.. ,..:) 'i-.;.. T' ere was an immense
M.blage. a greai waving of fans in a
.01 rni hc. . an liou ' or so of prepared
ratorv, tue deliverance of which failed
0 reach more than one-fii'h of the vast
udienoe and a piompt adjournment to
1 1 m reports of the. commitee on
tr' e itials and platform. Other com
mi I u-ei ere, of course, appointed, but
the-ie two were the only ones upon
which pul lie interest centered.
The credentials committee early made
i,a. ifest a purpose to puss off the night
in a il scuseion ol th Delaware and
r xas cases, which were speriuVallv re
f -rred to their adjudii a' ion by the na
tional committer. I i each of these
c - 'tie rielcgate-'-at-'arge fia 1 heen
excluded, the national committee l"-i- g
unwilling to decide between the ( n
tenuin fictions. In the D.-ieware case
Senator Thurston's open denunciat'on
ol Mr Vldieks comolicated mutters.
In the Texas c ititest was involved the
legitimacy of the new ''lily white"
movement, which is perplexing lepuli
cau organizations in the south. The
action of the committee in setting apart
three hours and a half laHt night for
the consideration of these cases is taken
as an indicaiion that it will confine its
attention to matters specifically referred
to it and let the other contests stand as
settled by ths national committee.
THE PROBABLE OfTCOMK.
Prophesying is peculiarly a profes
sion in connection with a body that
hue Hliendy undergone bo many li-ht-ning
changes' as have come over the
course of this conventions but this
a ems to be the program. This is to
pay, 'o decide the Iielewar and Texas
cases and the few disputed district
cises in New York, Ca'ifornia and ome
other states which have been in terms
referred to the credentials committee
by the nat on il committee, anil then by
a tweenirw omtrhiis resolution 'o adopt
the temporary r II Call as the perma
nent one in n'l i tfier contests. Mich a
pln , il 'adopted, will, of course, elicit
strong opp silio;. from dissntisfiei) con
testants. It-it as few of them will have
pokesmen on the Hoor of the conven
tion, they will probably have to air
t.tieir grievances on the outside.
TAIL OF THK TICKKT.
Asi 'e from the work of thse com
mittees the curious movement s'arted
to force I-evi V. Morton into the po
sition of tail to the McKinley kite be
fore his name has ever been laid be
fore the convention for the higher of'
fice, to which his state has nominated
him, engrosses attention The facte
in thit matter, carefully verified, seem
to be about as follows :
Certain New York republicans (not
Including Mr. Piatt) repeatedly visited
Mr. Hanna'e headquarters yesterday to
solicit that gentleman's c -operation in
biinging about the nomination of Gov
ernor Morton. Mr. Hanna in tu n
questioned these gentlemen as to their
knowledge of Governor Morton's in
tentions. He referred them to the
governor's te'egram to Mr. Depew Sat
urday last, in which he stated without
i.ua ideation that he would not take
the second place on the ticket. In
these circumstances Mr. Hanna de
sired to know what reason these gen
tlemen had for believing that Governor
Morton had so suddenly shifted lrt
position.
To th"se inquiries an equally frank
reply was made. They had no assur
ance from Governor Morton that he
would accept, but they were eo satis
fied 1 e would not decline the honor il
it were given to him that they felt no
hesitancy in securing his nomination,
knowing that he would not run counter
to the convention's wishes.
Mr. Hanna thereupon informed hit
v sitort that he was taking no hand
in the contest for the vice-presidency.
He was here, he said, to name Mr. Mc-
Kinley as president. In this view of
the ca-e tie dia not tiunic 11 aavisaoie
to embarass the candidate's chances by
taking part In the contest over the sec-
ond place. He did not hesitate to say, cious murder was committed in thit
however, that so far as his individual ( city Monday night, the victim, Mist
preference was concerned it inclined to Jennie Walters, dying yesterday morn
Mr Hobart of New Jersey. ing in agony. Milton B. Wells, the ac
It waa openly stated last evening ; cused murderer, ie in the county jail at
that Mr. Piatt was in receipt of a die- Goehen. The families live in adjoining
pat -h from Governor Morton which houses and are prominent. According
stated in effect that so far as the vice- J to Mies Walters' ante-mortem state
presidency was concerned, he was injment, Wells, who recently became a
the hands of hia friends, but in which widower, called her to hit house and
he failed to declare in so many words when she entered be threw kerosene oil
what action he would take if the con- over her clothing, igniting it at quickly
Ti'ntion ebould name him. Informa- as possible afterwards. Then he is ac
tion reached the United prest last even- j ensed of shooting tbe burning woman,
ing that some of Mr. Morton't friendt The young woman escaped to the
w ho have been working up an interest veranda of her home, where she fell ex
in his behalf, yesterday cabled Mrs. I hausted, bleeding and ablaze. The
Morton, who is in Europe, to use her
n . . 1. 1 . !-
lnnuence wuu uie ituvcmur w una orv
ond place. Her reply, received at a
late hour yesterday aiternoon, contained
an emphatic negative, the substance of
the dispatch being that she wished him
to have the first place or none.
Two Women Thlevea Captured.
St. Looie, June 17. Dora Donnegan
and Jennie Monroe, said to be two of
the moet expert thieves in the country,
were arrested Just as they were prepar
ing to enter the Planters hotel by De
tective McCarthy of Chicago andO'Con
nell of St. Louis.
' The woman had their baggage with
them and apparently intended to regis
ter. Dora Donnegan wat convicted ol
1tn Hiemnnrli in Ohicsffn and sArved
' a term in Joliet.
TWO TURBULENT TEXAN'S
arant and Cuney Talk to the Creden
tial Committee.
FIERCE FACTIONAL- FIGHT
Grant Ctven the orotinri-
Other Contents
seltlrtl.
Pt. Loiis, June 17. The credentials
somuiiitee resumed its session at the
Sew Jersey headquarters at 10 o'clock,
t ie contest between the Grant and
Ciii.ey factions for the four delegates at
lare from Texas being immediately
Uk n up. The claim of the "lily white"
faction to representation from Texas
was deferred until the Grant-Cuney
case as settled. Under the order of
business yesterday forty-five minutes
wa given each side. General Gros-
v -ii t of Uhio opened for trie Grant tac
tion, basing his argument principally
on usurpation of power by Chairman
Cuney of the Texas convention.
E. H. Terrell appeared for the Cu
ney faction and John Grant presented
his own case. Dr. Grant presented the
mcord of the Second convention show
ing that 641 members of the first con
vention answered to the roll call in the
second convention. Thit was denied
hy the other side. Mr. Cuney closed
the argument in a ten minutes' speech.
At 12:20 the debate waa closed and
the committee went into executive ses-
eion. A motion to allow forty minutes
deoate before taking a vote was de
feated 20 to 21. Then a motion to pro
ceed to an immediate ballot was car
ried 22 to 14.
Judge Thompson of Ohio moved the
seating of the delegation headed by
John Grant. Mr. Sutherland of New
York moved a substitute that the dele
gation headed by Mr. Cuney be settled.
The substitute was loat ayes 16, nays
29.
A motion to give the lily whites, who
were ruled out by the national com
mittee, a hearing was voted down.
Tbe resolution presented Tuesday
that the temporary roll presented by
the national committee be made the
permanent roll of the convention with
the exception of Deleware and Texas,
which would be made, wat taken up.
A resolution adding the Twelfth Mis
souri district to those to be beard was
introduced.
Congressman Thompson objected to
the consideration of the Missouri case
on the ground that if one was heard
tbe committee could have 1.0 excuse
for not hearing all the cases that weie
heard by the national committee, and
said that it would take two weeks to
hear them.
The committee was about to take a
vote on the question of adopting the
remainder of the temporary roll at
prepared by tbe national committee
when Mr. McCamant of Oregon made
a vigorous appeal fur the bearing of the
contest between the Filley and Kerjns
factions in Missouri, taking the ground
tbet it differed from all other conteste
and that to ignore it would jeopardize
the prospect of republican success in
Missouri.
Mr. Knight of California, where there
is also a contest, opposed hearing any
further cases.
Congressman Hepburn of Iowa then
moved to take up the contests on the
delegates at large from Louisiana, the
Ninth district of Texas and; the Fifth
district of Georgia. An interminable
debate followed. Tbe motion waa lost
on a viva voce vote.
The roll call on the original resolu
tion to adopt the temporary roll as the
permanent one, resulted in ayes 31,
nays 18, and all further contests were
shut out.
Chairman Fort was authorised to
report to the convention at 2 p. m.
that. t.Vift tftmnnrftrv mil nreriaff-pri Vw
, the nfttional conlmittee adopted at
, tbe permanent roll and that the namet
I . Hiin(,. f.HiPfttPH from nBiBWa
j and the Grant delegateg from XexM u
Atruclous Murder.
Elkhart, Ind., June 18. An atros
. flames were quickly emothered by per-
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buuo biu.iqu jj wu? buvuuu.
attracted by the shooting. Ia
some unknown way, Welle' bfiute at
the tame time began to burn and the
rear part wat destroyed. Mitt Walter
wat popular and pretty and her dra
matic reputation waa more than local.
California Democrats.
Sacramento, Cat.. June 18. The
democratic state convention reassem
bled at 10 o'clock yesterday morning
and after effecting permanett organisa
tion adjourned until 3 p. m., when a
further adjournment wat taken until I
p. w. in order to enable the platform
committee to complete ita labort. Tbe
Fourth congressional democratic die
trict hat renominated Jamet Q. Mag
uire of San Francisco for con i rest man.
. The Seventh dittrict hat nominated L
J Maddui of Stanislaus).
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