V r I3 h xj iff -Mr J CANDIDATES GALORE HOT TIMES PROMISED AT THE CHICAGO CONVENTION Chances of Eastern Men for the Presi dential Nomination Not Considered Good Boies of Iowa a Slight Favorite Over the Others A Wide Open Kacc From present indications there Tvill be nnore excitement to the square into the Democratic convention at Chicago than ever before in the history of the party It will be a mighty clash between the silver soldiers of the West -and South against the golden warriors of the East This will be one feature of the -combat Astute leaders on the other side of the fence acknowledge that the fight will be short and bitter and that the sil ver legion will rule the roost Statisti cians have figured that the silver dele gnles will outnumber the others two to -one The feature of the combat which will -attract the gaze of the nation and which will bring out every ounce of fighting stuff in each and oveev will bo the free for all struggle for the nomination No presidential convention in the history -of the country was ever such an open af JCair as this promises to be There are more candidates in the field than ever be fore and the chance of one man is as good ns the next it would not be a surprising thing to those skilled in the way of poli tics if some man the blackest kind of a dark horse bobbed up at the eleventh iour and swept the convention like a yclone Many people expect this to lappen Chairman Harrity of the na tional committee is one of them That a Western man will gather in the nomination is practically conceded The South has some hope but the cooler heads -among the Southern leaders say the time is not ripe for a man south of the Mason and Dixon line to head the Democratic ticket particularly one who wears the Confederate button But a sturdy fight will be put up for the second place on the form Harrity is for gold but believes in standing by tfee platform first last and all the time His chances are believed to be better than those of any other Eastern man but few of the leaders are betting on the East these days Campbell of Ohio Boies of Iowa Mat thews of Indiana Morrison of Illinois and Bland of Missouri are considered to have the best chance with Boies a slight favor ite over the others Campbell says he is not out for the nomination but of course will accept if it comes his way Bland Matthews Boies and Morrison ac knowledge they are out for it and their adherents are preparing to make a gallant fight These four are singularly alike in many ways representing the sturdy in dependent aggressive Western type of manhood SILVER AT CHICAGO Table Showinc the Relative Strength of the Two Forces All the Democratic State conventions having been held it is possible now to construct a table showing the relative strength of the two factions of the party at the Chicago convention It is as fol lows Free silver Goia Alabama 22 Arkansas iq California n is coionmo 8 Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia 20 Idaho 0 Illinois 48 Indiana 30 Iowa 20 Kansas 20 Kentucky 20 Louisiana 10 Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi 18 Missouri 34 lontana o Nebraska 10 Nevada 0 New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina 22 North Dakota 0 Ohio 40 Oregon 8 Pennsylvania Rhode Island SSV SscHQyC S3 AiORRiS0 pFrj50t CANDIDATES FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION ticket and if the South succeeds in this the East will be shut out completely The West has the bulk of the candidates in the field as a glance at the following list thows A Tiong Inst Here are the names of the men who will be pushed by their respective friends for the nomination Claude Matthews silver Indiana James E Campbell the platform Ohio John M Schotleld the platform Illinois Henry M Teller silver Colorado David Bennett Hill gold New York William E Russell the platform Massa chusetts William Ralls Morrison the platform Illi nois Horace Boles silver Iowa Robert E Pattison the platform Penn sylvania Richard P Bland silver Missouri J C S Blackburn silver Kentucky Adlai E Stevenson the platform Illinois John Griffen Carlisle gold Kentucky Richard Olney gold Massachusetts William C Whitney gold New York John T Morgan silver Alabama Many of those in the above list are con sidered not to have a ghost of a show Secretarv Carlisles hopes were blasted by the defeat of the gold force in Ken tucky and the fact that the State dele gation goes to the convention as a unit for Senator Blackburn Of the latter it can be said that he does not take his can didacy too seriously He is one of the leaders who say that the country is not ready to vote for a man wearing the Con federate button He is a believer in Horace Boies and at the present outlook the Kentuckians will get down to busi ness for the Iowa man If the second place on the ticket goes to a Southern man Senator Blackburn is considered to stand as good a chance as any one Sen ator Morgan of Alabama whose posi tion is much the same as that of the Ken tucky statesman will get a goodly slice of votes on the first ballot but he is not banking heavily on the nomination The Easts Poor Show Ex Secretary William C Whitney has refused to be a candidate although a great many of the Eastern delegates would stand ready to fight for him at the drop of the hat Senator David B Hill has currency views which the silverites would never accept and the same can be said of Secretary of State Richard Olney of Massachusetts The Bay State has a candidate in ex Gov William E Russell who leans toward gold but who would probably accept the platform on the cur rency question Ex Gov Thomas E Pattison of Penn sylvania the candidate of William Har rity chairman of the national committee is a gold man but would accept the plat- South Carolina 18 South Dakota Tennessee 24 Texas 30 Utah 6 Vermont Virginia 24 Washington 8 West Virginia 12 Wisconsin Wyoming 0 Territories 12 Totals 504 CONDITION OF THE CROPS 12 6 8 12 10 30 28 18 8 20 G4 8 24 342 Winter Wheat Harvest About Ended and Corn Looking Well Reports as to the condition of the crops throughout the country and the general effect of the weather on the growth cultivation and harvest of the sSine were received at Chicago as follows The favorable weather conditions of the previous week have continued under which rapid progress has been made in the cultivation of crops especially corn and the harvesting of winter wheat which is now well advanced in the more north erly districts and is practically finished in southern sections Corn has made good progress during the week and the general condition of this crop is very sat isfactory It is now being laid by as far north as Missouri and Central Illinois In the States of the Central Mississippi and Lower Mississippi Valleys where during the first half of May cultivation was much delayed and the crop very grassy the fields are now mostly free from weeds In Texas Louisiana and portions of Arkansas and Mississippi corn has suffered from drought particularly in Texas where much of the crop is too far advanced to be relieved by rain In Tex as and Louisiana cotton continues to suf fer from drought and complaints of injury from lice are numerous from the eastern portion of the cotton belt A marked im provement is reported from Florida In Arkansas the crop is making slow growth but is clean and well cultivated In Mis souri it is looking well but fields are very foul Cotton is now in bloom over the northern portion of the cotton region To bacco planting is about completed and the reports indicate that this crop is in very satisfactory condition Kentucky Ten nessee and Ohio report good grpwth dur ing the week In Southern Virginia to bacco is in bloom and some mas been topped in North Carolina j A Vancouver syndicate has ust com pleted negotiations for the purchase of ten rich claims accidentally disrovered in Gayuse Creek in the Lillooet district by a half breed while hunting mountain sheep a few days ago f HOPE FOE FARMERS PROSPERITY IS IN STORE FOR TILLERS OF THE SOIL Wheat to Yield Heavily Total Larger than the Average for Sixteen Years West Chiefly Affected Outlook Par ticularly Good inMisaisiippi Valley Comparison of Crop Values There is hope for the farmers The year 1800 promises to bring them rather better returns for their labor than last year and better than the year before The wheat crop of the country is sure to be the largest since 1852 and larger than tlie average of the last sixteen years This years wheat crop is unofficially estimat ed by the Department of Agriculture at 475000000 bushels -This has been ex ceeded only six times since 1880 In mill ions of bushels the crop was as follows for the years named 1880 49Sil880 1881 38311800 1882 504 1891 1S83 4011892 18S4 1885 1SS0 1887 1888 512 357 4r7 430 415 1893 1894 1895 1890 490 399 011 515 390 400 407 475 The importance of the wheat crop to the farmer is not p mucn in tue luim jhiu as in its market value According to the present outlook the value of this years wheat crop will greatly exceed that of the last three years The Department of Ag riculture does not presume to estimate the prices of any commodities in advance of the market but unofficial information is to the effect that the average value of wheat this year is likely to be about 57 cents against 51 cents last year 49 cents in 1894 54 cents in 1893 and G2 cents in 1892 If the estimate of 57 cents for this years crop be borne out by the market quotations during the remainder of the year the total value of the 1890 wheat crop will be 270000000 The value of the wheat crops of recent years as given by the Department of Ag riculture i na follows 1S92 S3220000001 1895 23S000000 1S93 213000000 1S90 270000000 1894 2200000001 These figures seem rather small com pared to those of 1891 when the total value of the wheat crop was 313000 000 and when the value of the corn crop rose to the enormous total of 830000 0Q0 the greatest value ever known for that crop in this country Though 1S9G cannot by any possibility be such a boom year as 1891 was nor yet quite as good as 1892 it promises to yield much better results for the farmers than 93 94 and 95 The wheat outlook is par ticularly good in the Western States taking them as a whole Enconrajjing Harvest Reports Reports from the winter wheat harvest now in progress are very encouraging The wheat acreage is givei by the De partment of Agriculture a follows WINTER STATES California 3011000 Kansas 2G84000 Ohio 2422000 Indiana 2294000 Illinois 1900000 Missouri 118 S Pennsylvania 10000 Michigan 1oRS Other States GblSOOO Total winter area 22794000 Total last year 22009000 SVKING STATES Minnesota 3200000 North Dakota 2530000 South Dakota 2403000 Nebraska 1224000 Other States 240S000 Total spring area 11S25000 Total last year 1143S000 The net increase in the combined acre age is 572000 acres or the total of 34 619000 for 1890 against 34047000 last year The condition of spring wheat indicates a prospective yield that closely approxi mates a full or normal crop the average for the country being 999 per cent The average for the year 1895 was 978 Av erages for the principal spring wheat States are as follows Minnesota 92j South Dakota Ill Wisconsin HOj North Dakota 103 Iowa 103 Washington SO Nebraska 105 Oregon 95 The percentage of the combined win ter and spring wheat acreage is 1017 and the condition of all wheat is 87G As yet the Department of Agriculture has no official returns on the corn crop but unofficial advices indicate a normal crop probably equal to last years large yield of 2151000000 bushels Prices are stiffening up a trifle and the outlook for a greater total value than last year is counted good The outlook for oats rye and barley is good and in the Southern States there is a renewal of confidence in the future on account of the fine out look for cotton STOLE TO G R ATI FY TH EI R VAN ITY Two Girls Who Have Brought Dis grace Upon Their Family Georgiana and Florence Brock aged respectively 20 and 12 are the extremely handsome and innocent appearing daugh ters of Henry Brock the head of a New York commercial agency They have been arrested for stealing 4000 worth of OEOPGIE BROCK FLORENCE BROCxv gowns and laces from the handsome row of houses in which the Brocks live in New York The roofs of the fourth floors down the whole row are joined so it was an easy -matter for the two sisters to enter the windows of any house in -the row The case is most remarkable on account of the prominence of the family and the fact that it was not necessary for the girls to steal to replenish their ward robe The parents are heartbroken over the affair The friends of the family say it was only a girlish freak but the police claim that the girls are skilled thieves and lied brazenly when confronted with the evidence of their guilt Gwyn Puckett colored who assaulted 0-year-old Bessie Lee was takenfrom jail at Danville Ala by a mob and hanged SAVED BY A FAITHFUL DOG Henry Hohlt May Thank His Bulldojr for Driving Off the Buffalo The next time that Henry Hohlt goes out to interview his herd of buffaloes at Lincoln Park he will probably gaze at it through the cracks of the fence and not run the risk of having his epi dermis perforated by a pair of bovine horns The other afternoon he donned a suit of cowboy clothes cut by a pat tern approved by Texas Jack Crawford when he was here Then he mounted a fiery mustang and entered the in closure where his buffaloes are kept to drive them into a corral They object ed vigorously but Henry was not to be bluffed One old bull was particularly pugnacious and insisted upon making life a burden for the mustang Several vigorous lunges at the mustang were avoided by the sensible animal with dispatch A bulldog belonging to Mr Hohlt had been viewing the trouble from afar Finally he seemed to have decided to take a hand so with a run only par alleled by that celebrated spurt made by Salisbury last fall at the same park he caught the bull by the nose and performed a few revolutions around his head as the old fellow gave it a twirl or two for luck Having shaken the dog loose the animal made a wild dive for him He missed his prey and then started for the horse The latter stum bled and fell precipitating his rider to the ground and rendering him uncon scious The bull then attacked the horse and killed him The dog appeared to realize the posi tion occupied by his unconscious mas ter He attacked the bull in front and rear so persistently that the animal turned his attention from the horse to the dog a -wild chase followed in which the dog gave one of the prettiest exhibitions of racing ever witnessed While the bull was engaged in follow ing his little tormentor some assistants of Mr Hohlt saw his predicament and hastened to his rescue He was still unconscious and they were compelled to pick him up and carry him to the park house After restoratives had been applied he was brought to the city He is at his home on South Eleventh street under the care of a physician For tunately no bones were broken but he has some large and painful bruises on his person which will keep him in bed for several days He was so sore last night that he was unable to lift a cup of coffee to his lips Mr Hohlt attributes his escape to the fidelity of his dog which made it so interesting for the buffalo that he was unable to dispatch his master when he had hiui down Nebraska stnte Journal Modes of Warfare Prohibited The laws of war as at present formulated by civilized nations forbid the use of poison against the enemy murder by treachery such as assum ing the uniform or displaying the flag of a foe the murder of those who have surrendered whether upon conditions or at discretion declarations that no quarter will be given to an enemy the use of such arras or prejectiles as will cause unnecessary pain or suffering to an enemy the abuse of a flag of truce to gain information concerning an en emys positon all unnecessary destruc tion of property whether public or private They also declare that only fortified places shall be beseiged open cities el Villages not to be subject to siege or bombardment that public buildings of whatever character whether belonging to the church or state shall be spared that plundering by private soldiers or their officers shall be considered Inad missible that prisoners shall be treat ed with common humanity that the personal effects and private property of prisoners excepting their arms and am muniton shall be respected that the population of the enemys country shall be considered as exempt from partici pation in the war unless by hostile acts they provoke the ill will of the enemy that personal and family honor and the religious convictions of an invaded people shall be respected by the in vaders and that all pillage by regular troops or their followers shall be strict ly forbidden Cincinnati Enquirer Donlcling Agreed with the Butcher -Gen Grant while walking out in the suburbs of Washington frequently met a butcher driving a horse to which he took a strong liking After much negotiation he bought the animal and had it taken to his stable where one day Senators Conkling and Jones were invited to look at the new purchase Well gentlemen how do you like the horse asked Grant after the animal had been inspected How much did you give for him Mr President asked Conkling Four hundred dollars Id rather hare the 400 than the horse rejoined Conkling Thats what the butcher thought coolly remarked Grant puffing out a cloud of smoke put him back into the stall John Refused to Cut His Hair Occasionally even a pauper has jus tice done him under the laws of the British empire A dependent pauper one Ferris was recently sentenced by a Dqwnpatrick Ireland magistrate to imprisonment for a month at hard labor without the formality of a public trial Ferris effenae was a refusal to cut another paupers hair Upon his release Ferris brought suit against the magistrate for damages for false im prisonment and a jury awarded him a of 300 Men Are Curious It is queer said Mrs Bloocher that a man can take enough interest in his wifes letters to open them but not enough to mail them Men never become too old to act like boys when half a duzn of them get to- gether in idleness v Ml IfM C 11 JKfby Polo on tricycles is the latest Paris novelty in sports The hardest precious stone after the diamond Is the ruby The Carlton Club London has about 4000 members and is the richest in the world Boston has just discovered that it has streets to the number of 550 with names duplicated Princess Helene the Duchess of Spartas baby is Queen Victorias twenty second great grandchild Negus Meneliks queen has turned an Italian private who can sing Neapoli tan songs into a court favorite The smallest bird known to the orni thologists is the West Indian humming bird It weighs but twenty grains Three steamers arrived at Juneau Alaska during one week in April car rying 404 passengers for the gold dig Tings The exact distance from the equator to either the north or south pole is 6000 miles when measured along the surface History tells us that Galileos first telescope was an old piece of lead wa ter pipe with spectacle lenses glued in each end Gold can be beaten 1200 times thin ner than common writing paper One ounce of that kind of gold leaf will cover 1400 square feet Spiders always come out of their holes shortly before a rain being ad vised by their instinct that insects then fly low and are most easily taken The people of New York drink 500 000 gallons of whisky a year The con sumption of beer in New York City in a single year is 160000000 gallons In the St Petersburg aquarium there are fishes that are known to have been there 140 years and according to Prof Baird a pike can live four centuries A chemist advises that canned fruc be opened an hour or two before it is used It becomes richer after the oxy gen of the air has been restored to it The reddahs or wild hunters of Cey lon mingle the pounded fibers of soft and decayed wood with the honey on which they feed when meat is not to be obtained Once more the proposal is to be made In Parliament for the abolition of the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the establishment of a royal resi dence in Dublin Goldthwaites Geographical Magazine is authority for the statement that the temperature of the earth 200 miles be neath the surface is probably 18000 de grees Fahrenheit On a farm twelve miles from Lititz Pa the custom still prevails of carry ing grain to the mill ne over the right shoulder of a horse with a big stone on the left side to balance it According to official returns the Goer male population in the Transvaal is 25000 while the male uitlander popula tion is calculated by those acquainted with the country to number 40000 It is stated on good authority that about 200 gamblers and all around toughs have recently arrived in As toria Ore from Portland and other cities from which they have been shut out Mrs Martha Beers a clever stenog rapher has invented a collapsible the ater hat which can be folded into a small and almost invisible compass while on the head by simply pulling a string The loving cup of spiced wine which is sometimes handed around at mansion house entertainments had its origin in the custom of Saxon forefath ers to drink each others health in a wassail bowl A duplex electric car has been invent ed and the agent of the affair wants to locate the factory at Nashua N TI The car is made so that on fine days it Is open while on wet days it can be converted into a closed car A London court recently condemned to three months imprisonment a man who had supported himself fifteen years by means of begging letters Over I 500 of these were found in his room He had squandered his wifes property worth 75000 A trade union which blacklisted the men employed by a London firm of builders during last rears strike has been permanently enjoined by the court of appeal from continuing the practice and ordered to pay 500 dam ages to the employers Coal mining is paying one pgrty of miners in the Yukon country better than gold mining paid them A find of excellent coal was made recently w the Forty Mile Creek district and with wood at 12 and 14 a cord the coal mine is an excellent pay streak Enormous tracts of Africa especially the region between the Kongo and Snari basins and much of the area en closed by the great northern curre of the Niger remain unexplored There is also unappropriated territory to the extent of 15S439S square miles A gray African parrot owned by a family in Proridence E I has a vo cabulary of 140 words and can imitnte the sound of a clanging bell with as tonishing clearness It is believed to be at least sixty years old and has been in the possession of one owner for twenty seren years New X rays possibilties were sug gested by the President of the London Camera Club who in his address an ticipated that announcements of en gagements in the morning papers would one of these days conclude with an intimation that the photographs of the skeletons had been mutually ex changed Surely it was desirable that everybody should be tested 83 3j whether they were sound In limb be fore entering the married state At the first London levee of the rea son the company were nearly stifled by the Intolerable heat of the statO apartments at St James palace and the atmosphere of the throne room was so oppressive that a member of the royal household who was In waiting actually fainted Interesting catacombs with weil pre served mural paintings have been dis covered at Kertch in the Crimea the ancient Panticapaeum Although tna vaulting shows that they must have been built after the Christian era the subjects of the paintings are pagan representing Pluto Demeter and Her t nes The position of the Clyde ship-building industry is most satisfactory work sufficient to keep the jards engaged to1 the end of the year having been book ed Since December seventy three ves sels of 142000 tons hare been launched j Ad trade difficulties hare been adjust j ed and steel makers are running doublo shifts Mrs L A McGrath of South Wood- stock Vt is the owner of a singing canary 21 years old which has sung all his life and now though so infirm from age that it cannot reach its perctt or sit on it when placed there it sits oa the floor of the cage and pours out the clear sweet strains of song from morn ing till night Short hours for workingmen is a phrase that means different things la different countries In the German Par liament the ministers hare just beea defending themselres for cutting oa kers hours of labor down to twelve In Britain Canada and the United States some are striring to hare eight hours as the limit The mountains of the moon are lm mensely larger in proportion than thosa of the earth The moon is but ona forty ninth the size of the earth but Its mountain peaks are nearly as high Twenty two are higher than Mont Blanc which is within a few feet oi three miles high The highest is a little more than four miles and a half Worlds shows of some kind ara being or will be held in thirteen places this year at Odessa Genera Berlin Kiel Cannes Mons Bouen Johannes burg Brisbane Para Namur Paris and the City of Mexico There will bo exhibitions at Brussels and Rio Janeiro next year at Amsterdam and Sao Paulo in 1S9S and at Adelaide in lfatj Sheep delight in the short grass ana peculiar herbage of hill pasture and bare downs and the mutton produced in such pastures and by the breeds most suitable to them is of superior quality to that of the large fat sheep fed on richer soil The multitude ofj tiny shells so often found on erery footf of down turf is also rery efficacious int fattening and nourishing the animal Baron de Hirsch died in a fit of anger at haring been swindled according toi ilus issinivy atrYazmandyi writing ta iC Figaro He had sold hiaj beautiful property at Sanct Johann oa the March on account of its dampness and bought the Ogyaka palace near Komom with the idea of turning it into a childrens hospital After spending 400000 on the palace without haring seen it he discorered that it was in a1 bog at the confluence of four rivers Nowhere in England is there to be found a library where political science is accorded a proper recognition or where the serious student of trative or constitutional problems can find the material for his work If such a student desires to frequent an efficient library he must betake himself to Bal timore where he can get what he wants at the Johns Hopkins Univer sity An endearor is at last to be made to remedy this under the direction of the London School of Economics and1 it is contemplated that a fund of 50 000 will serre to initiate the sehern A quaint reminder of bygone times and institutions is found in a bill which j has just passed from the Committee on Claims to the House calendar for the relief of John F McRae It proposes to make good to Mr Mcltae some losseaj he sustained in 1850 when he was a United States deputy marshal in at j tendance at court in Sarannah During that year the ship Wanderer landed a cargo of African negroes on the Geor j gia coast and an attempt was made to smuggle them into the interior and sellj them as slares McRae seized thirty- six of them and kept them at his owai expense for fourteen days while their j final disposition was under adrisementi Probably owing to the confusion caused by the war this claim was nerer pre- seated to the treasury for payment buti It arises now like a ghost from the gKYe of the dead past to recall to the menrfy s the American people tiioj fact that the African slare trade was once a form of smuggling on our shores j Scenes and Posters See the man Is the man wild of eye and dishereledj of hair The man is wild of eye and dishereK ed of hair Perhaps the man is about to make ai scene Ah no The man is an artist of the modern school which nerer makes scenes merely posters Detroit Tribune Hard on Inform ers Informers stand a slim chance la Georgia according to this unique para graph Any person driving orer this bridge faster than a walk shall if a white man be fined 5 and if a negro receire twenty fire lashes half the penalty to be bestowed on the inform er Atlanta Constitution Synonyms Critic What do you mean when you speak of the flow of inspiration Poet I mean that I am thinking oJT the current coin Exchange