WHtRE THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WILL MEET
EXPOSITION BUILDING AND COLISEUM AT ST. LOUIS.
The seating capacity of the St Louis Coliseum for the Democratic Na
tional Convention has been fixed at 10,840 , which includes delegates , alter
nates , representatives of the press , invited guests , officials of the convention
t .and the general public , who will be admitted by ticket „
The arena floor will be so arranged that the delegates , in number 950 ,
will be seated directly in front of the platform. Behind them will be the
050 alternates. The more prominent guests and the party leader will have
seats on the platform , where there will be places for 434. The boxes will
seat 420. The general tickets of admission will be for the balcony and
the gallery.
Each member of the National Committee will have at hig disposal one
box and. ten general admission tickets. Each delegate will have his own
ticket of admission and three general tickets in addition. Each alternate
will have one ticket Provision will be made for 352 working newspaper
men , 350 additional newspaper men.
DAY OF DEATH.
Sunday Gives Appalling List of Fatali
ties All Over the Conntry.
Death reaped a harvest and many per
sons were maimed or sustained painful
injuries as a result of innumerable acci
dents throughout the United States Sun
day. In several of the appalling fatali
ties that are recorded speeding automo
biles containing pleasure seekers were
suddenly transformed into'rapid death
conveyances. The trolley car was also
on active death-dealing agent and the
elements plunged many others to then-
death by the capsizing of row boats and
yachts on inland lakes and off the At
lantic coast , where thousands bent on a
aay'a outing risk their lives in a similar
way each-Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Dixon , La
Grange , 111. , were instantly killed and
their automobile in which they had been
riding reduced to a mass of twisted iron
and splintered wood when a speeding
electric car on the Aurora , Elgin and
Chicago Railroad ran them down. Horror
ror was added to the accident by the
explosion of the gasoline tank of the
wrecked automobile. Flames enveloped
the bodies as they were huried through
the air and the clothing was burned from
them.
Five persons were drowned on the bar
off 47th street , Brooklyn , by the over
turning of the sloop yacht Elsie and
Katie in a heavy storm that swept over
] STew York. Eight others who werfe on
the yacht were rescued. During the
same storm in Jamaica bay two men
were drowned.
In East New York one house was de
molished , while two were unroofed. The
wrecked iniilding was a three-story brick ,
nearly completed. Seventeen young men
caught in the storm had taken refuge
within. A moment after they entered
the lightning struck the building. A gale
nvhich followed left the structure a mass
of wreckage. One youth was caught
between heavy timbers and badly crush
ed. The ot'iers , although muc-li bruised
and cut , were not seriously hurt
CALL CONVENTION TO ORDER.
Ex-Senator James K. Jones TVill Open
Great St. 3Lonis Gathering : .
Former Senator James K. Jones will
call the SL Louis convention to order ,
dntv and honor comes to him be
cause he is chair
man of the national
Democratic commit
tee. It will probably
be his last appear
ance on the political
stage for a long
\ time.Troubles
Troubles in his
X State in which he
was opposed by
Gov. Jeff Davis and
* ex-Gov. J. P. Clarke
j. K. JOXES. place him in a
< rtate of eclipse , much to the regret of
liis circle of friends both in and out of
Congress. Last fall Clarke succeeded
Jones in the Senate. The latter is' now
practicing law in Washington , D. C.
Jones was the manager of both the
Bryan campaigns and was the leader of
lis party in the Senate. Since his re
"
tirement" Gorman , who came hack last
fall , is the leader. Jones was a private
aoldier in the Confederacy and after the
war lived on a plantation until 1S73 ,
when he began the practice of law. He
was a candidate for member of the isth
mian canal commission , and had strong
support , even among Republicans , but
failed to get the appointment
GIRL FIXES NOOSE.
Then I/cads Horse from Under lornch-
crs' Dangling Victim.
Starling Dunham , a negro , wanted on
the charge of attacking the 14-year-oid
daughter of John Wilson , a white man ,
two weeks ago , and also three young
-women named Dunn , was hanged in the
public square at Eudora , Miss. , by a
snob.
snob.The noose was placed about the ne-
.gro's neck by the little Wilson girl , who
\ positively identified him as her assail-
- < ant. The negro was then placed upon
the back of a horse and nt a signal from
the leader of the mob the little Wilson
.girl led the. horse from under him.
Over 3,000 persons , white and black ,
witnessed the hanging. Members of the
mob declare the lynching as orderly as a
legal execution. After being assured that
the negro was dead the mob cut down
the body and turned it over to the rela
tives for burial.
James Yeakley , aged 16 , shot and kill
ed Pearl Ycaldcy. aged 15 , his cousin ,
aear Bethel Church , Mo. The boys were
Smntftg and the accidental discharge of
a gun in the hands of the elder boy re
sulted in the instant death of his rela
tive.
HOW CONVENTIONS NOMINATE.
Each Great National Party Assembly
Makes Its Own Rules.
Each national party convention makes
its own rales of procedure. Practically
one convention exercises no control over
the succeeding one. Yet precedent gov
erns every convention to a large extent.
One custom , dignified by long usage , was
followed for years in the gatherings of
both parties the recognition of thj right
of the majority of delegates from a
State to control the vote of the whole
delegation. This is known as the "unit
rule. "
The Republican convention of 1S7G
abandoned the practice by permitting a
minority of the delegates from one State
to vote against the candidate preferred
by the majority. The convention of 1-SSO
formally adopted a rule that if there
were any exception taken to the an
nouncement of the vote of any State the
roll of delegates from that State should
ho called and the result thus obtained
should be recorded. This rule was Un
successfully opposed by the New York
delegates who favored Gen. Grant , and
desired that the anti-Grant delegates
from New York should not be allowed
to vote their sentiments.
The Tammany opponents of Cleveland
in the New York delegation to the Dem
ocratic convention of 1S84 tried to se
cure the adoption of a rule which would
permit them to vote as individuals in
stead of in a unit , but failed , and the
unit rule still prevails in the Democratic
convention.
The Democrats have another rule , dat
ing from 1832 , which has withstood the
attacks of its opponents for seventy-two
years. It provides that the vote of two-
thirds of the delegates shall be neces
sary to nominate. In the Republican
convention a majority suffices. The op
ponents of the nomination of Martin
Van Buren insisted on the adoption of
the "two-thirds rule" in 1S44 , and al
though Van Buren had a majority on
the first ballot , he could not obtain the
necessary two-thirds. James Iv. Polk ,
the first "dark horse , " was sprung on
the convention in accordance with a pre
arranged plan , and was nominated in a
stampede.
Tuesday after the first Monday in
November was fixed as the date for the
election or appointment of presidential
electors by act of Congress in 1845 , and
the law took effect for the first time in
1S48. Prior to that time each State
fixed its own date for the election of
electors. The framers of the constitution
did not contemplate the selection of
presidential electors by popular vote. In
the early part of the last century many
Stales chose electors by the Legisla
tures. South Carolina continued that
practice until I860.
After all , the best hot-weather advice
is to keep cool.
Clear the lecture platform for action.
Perdicaris is free.
It is going to be a great summer for
the lemonade man at Oyster Bay.
Kuropatkin might like to retreat if
he had a good recipe for doing so.
Travelers in Morocco should be com
paratively safe until Raisula needs some
more money.
If potatoes go much higher we can
partially imagine the feelings of the people
ple of Port Arthur.
Dowie may not have found his trip
abroad entirely enjoyable , but some of
the people at home did.
St Louis is starting in early with its
fires of world's fair buildings. Chicago
was slow in that regard and as a consequence
quence has been having them ever since.
It must puzzle Perdicaris to decide
whether he can capitalize himself to best
advantage as a lecture platform attrac
tion , a series of magazine articles or a
melodrama.
"Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead" ap
pears to have done the business. There
is no use temporizing with outlaws pro
vided you have the power to bring them
up with a ohort turn.
Women * are aiding ha the defense of
Port Arthur. Doubtless they stick their
heads causiously over the breastworks
and call the Japanese mean old things.
This should help some.
The judge who recently sentenced a
man to a year's imprisonment for steal
ing a mattress would * have made a suc
cessful St. Louis hotelkeeper. It seems
to he a pretty stiff price for a bed.
RUSHTOTHEROSEBUD
THOUSANDS OF LAND-SEEKERS
CAMPED AT BONESTEEL.
Grows from One Store to a City
of Thousands Ground Itents Are
Enormous Gambling of All Kinds
in IJ'all Blast.
lionesteel ( S. D. ) correspondence :
There was a time when all roads led
to Rome. It is changed now , and they
all lead to Bonesteel. And from the
looks of this town , the very newest of
the entire great West , every one has
taken to the road that leads , by the
way of Bonesteel , to the Rosebud In
dian country , which has been thrown
open for settlement.
Miles and miles before the trains ,
which are crowded to their utmost ca
pacity , come within sight of the town ,
the would be settlers on horseback , in
wagons , and some even on foot , may
be seen wending their way along the
old Indian trail which , in later years ,
was made ifito a government road ,
bent on reaching Bonesteel.
In the town proper hundreds of these
seekers after Rosebud lands are camp
ed in tents and wagons , while still oth
ers are gathered in the dozens of frail
rooming houses which have been has
tily thrown together. Two years ago
Bonesteel consisted of one lonely coun
try store. Two months ago it was a
thriving town of 1,000 , with a number
of good , substantial buildings. To-day
it is a city of thousands , most of whom
are living in tents.
Saloons there are and gambling dens
galore. Never in the palmy days of
Deadwood was gambling more rife
than in Bonesteel. About every game
ever invented can be found in one or
more of the many public resorts. There
are fifty pouicemen. ten of whom are
MAY DIG 14-fOOT CHANNEL
FROM ST. LOUIS TO CHICAGO.
A 14-foot waterway , connecting St.
Louis and Chicago , to permit passage of
heavy-draft lake vessels , is projected by
the United States government by utiliz
ing the Mississippi and Illinois rivers
and the Chicago drainage canal. Surveys
have been made and maps drafted by
the corps of engineers located at St.
Louis and Chicago , and the reports of
the surveys are about to he forwarded to
Washington. The surveys are for a 14-
foot channel , which will allow the large
lake grain and ore whalehiicks to reach
St. Louis , as well as some of the pns-
ROUTK OF PROJECTED WATERWAY.
honger steamers. The average draft of
the lake boats is twelve feet.
In the projected route the Mississippi
is utilized to the mouth of the Illiaois
river. The channel continues up the Illi
nois to a point above La Salle , where it
runs into the old Illinois and Michigan
canal , which is completed and in opera
tion from Hennepin to a point near Chi
cago. After following the Illinois and
Cincinnati Post.
United States marshals. In addition ,
there are three companies of United
States troops from Fort Niobrara , who
assist in preserving order.
Ground Rents Enormous.
Ground rents are something awful
in this town. James Coyle owns a
small lot on Main street. Three weeks
ago he valued the lot at $2,000. Six
months ago it was worth probably
$100. To-day Coyle asks $3,200 for the
ground rent for the next sixty days ,
any building erected to remain on the
lot when it is returned to him. And
he will get his price , too.
A five-room residence is rented for
the next two months at $150 a month.
A small space , 5x12 feet , between two
stories , is rented for $70 per month.
Dave Forbes rented a corner lot for
$300 and erected a $150 building there
on. He is now offered v 0 for his
bargain.
According to several professional locaters -
caters Oklahoma will probably furnish
more would be homesteaders than any
State in the Union. Michigan and Wis
consin come next , while Iowa and Illi
nois will also be heavily represented.
Minnesota and Nebraska will send
large quotas , and numerous inquiries
have been received from Kansas. In
fact , those states which were settled
by homesteaders originally , are send
ing their young sons and daughters to
settle the Rosebud country. They know
what the free homes did for the older'
states , and will repeat the operations
of the law out here.
Of the far Eastern States Massa
chusetts probably leads , with both New
York and Pennsylvania as close sec
onds.
onds.A
A large number of women school
teachers are coming from Nlew Eng
land. States , having arranged to take
in Bonesteel and the St. Louis expo
sition on their vacations. Those who
are successful in drawing desirable
claims will probably never return to
their old homes except on visits.
Joaquin MigueP Artal , who. on April
12 , attempted to' assassinate Premier
Maura , was tried in the assize court in
Barcelona , Spain , found guilty and sen
tenced to seventeen years' imprisonment.
Michigan canal it makes connection with
the Chicago drainage canal , which it fol
lows to Chicago , and finds its terminus
in Lake Michigan.
At present the government is building
a canal from Chicago to the Mississippi ,
but it has only' a seven-foot channel ,
which does not permit navigation of
heavy draft steamers. It is known as
the Illinois and Michigan canal. Work
was started on it in 1890 , and still con
tinues , more than $7,000,000 having been
expended. It is completed from Chicago
to a point west of Hennepiu and from
Rock Island , its western terminus , east
for about fifteen miles. In the surveys
of the new route this canal has been
used from Hennepiu to the Chicago
drainage canal.
The railroads of the Southwest have
made a rate of one cent a mile for men
going to the harvest fields of Kansas.
Manuel Quiutana has been elected
president of the Argentine republic and
Fimieroa Alcorta has been chosen vice
piesident.
Cardinal Satoli was welcomed to
America by more than 700 Catholic cler-
gj men and laymen at the residence of
Archbishop Farley.
King Etlward has conferred on Mme.
Mclha the decoration for science , art and
nui-sif. She i& the first woman on whom
it has been heatowed.
Charles Gennott of Forest City , Mo. ,
a harnessmaker , was drowned while at
tempting to swim across the Tarkio. He
tied a gig to his body and it caught on to
some driftwood.
The union stone masons' Buffalo , N.
Y. , have declared their strike off. after
six weeks' idleness and have returned
to work at the old scale of wages.
An unknown man- was killed by the
nest-bound Missouri Pacific train at
WintOn , nehr Higginsville , Mo. The
body bore no marks of identification
when removed from the track.
F. M. Baker , a prominent grain deal
er , member of the Hall-Baker Grain
Company , of Kansas City , and of the
Baker-Crowell Grain Company of Atchison -
chison , died of Bright's disease at his
home in Atchison , Kan.
LOOTS AOBOEA BANE.
CASHIER JACOB H. PLAIN ADMITS -
MITS FAKING 890,000.
German-American National Institu
tion of Aurora , 111. , Victimized by
Embezzlement of Trusted Emjiloyc
Money Lost in Speculations.
Ninety thousand dollars has been
embezzled from the German-American
National Bank , Aurora , 111. , and Jacob
II. Plain , cashier , has been arrested ,
charged on his own confession with
having taken the money. Three years'
reckless speculation carried on with
the bank's funds while he was known
iu Aurora societj- and business circles
as "Honest Jacob" is given as the
cause of Plain's downfall. Confront
ed with the facts of his defalcation ,
the cashier admitted it promptlj' , turn
ing over what property he had and
telling in detail in what deals he had
lost.
lost.Notii
Notii * < if the embezzlement posted
on the bank door at first was not be
lieved. Plain's reputation induced
bank patrons to consider the notice a
joke. When crowds later surrounded
the bank , the officials prepared to meet
a "run. " After announcing the em
bezzlement the notice read :
"Thirty thousand dollars of the to
tal embezzlement by Plain has been
made up by John Plain , his father , and
M. E. Plain , his brother. Eight thous
and dollars has been turned over by
the defaulter himself. The balance of
the $90,025 loss has been charged off
from the surplus and undivided profits ,
leaving the entire $100,000 capital
stock of the bank unimpaired. "
"Yes , I took the money. If I were
to live my life over again I would
shun speculation as I would fire. I
was ruined as thousands of others
have been ruined , without an evil
thought in the world. "
This Is part of Plain's confession af
ter he had been arrested. First sus
picion of the embezzlement was
aroused five weeks ago , although for
three years Plain by a system of re
cording fictitious notes , or notes that
had been paid but not destroyed ; by In
cluding in the bank's assets bonds
nvned by depositors and by manipu-
ating the adding machine at thp bi
ennial examination of his accounts
iad been systematically robbing the"
Dank.
He was under $10,000 bond and is
: he son of the bank's president. Since
May 24. when the defalcation was dis-
pvered , bank officials have been busy
straightening out" the accounts. That
Jay Examiner C. H. Bosworth visited
the bank. After footing up a column
Df figures Mr. Bosworth turned to
Plain and said : "Jacob , there's some-
: hing wrong here. "
Plain , pretending first not to under
stand , finally admitted the crooked
ness.
"There's $40,000 short here , and
maybe more. " said Plain. Then he
showed where $22,025 more was miss
ing. Finallj' by his own directions it
was figured out that he was $ ! ) u,025
short. Directors held a hurried meet
ing , at which the father of the cashier
begged that his son be spared dis
grace. M. E. Plain , another son. was
niU > cihi : M- . Later it was found that
it would be impossible to avoid pub
licity. President Plain 'said he was
willing that a public statement should
be made.
J. P. Morgan is constantly adding to
his large London gallery of paintings.
Hugh McLauglilin , Brooklyn's veteran
politician , has collected 1,024,000 stamps.
President Woodrow Wilson has writ
ten the introduction to the "Handbook
of Princeton. "
President Roosevelt is credited with
having shaken hands with 1,200 people
in twenty minutes.
Joseph Jefferson'says lie was hissed off
the stage once. He was 4 years old and
tried to sing "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner. "
Frank Eddy , first native horn Con
gressman from Minnesota , would like
to be the first native Governor of that
State.
J. T. Rider , a blind piano tuner of
Humphreyville , N. Y. . can take a piano
or organ apart and replace every piece
correctly.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale _ chaplain of
the United States Senate , thinks mem-
3ers of Congress are miblic spirited and
svork hard.
James W. Eldridge of Hartford owns
Jie favorite saddle of Jefferson Davis.
The latter used it during the greater part
Df the Civil War.
Henry C. Moore of Corinth , Miss. , has
shot more than 1,000 elephants , and has
the finest private collection of zoological
specimens in the world.
President Eliot of Harvard , for the
first time in thirty-five years , delivered
a lecture in the regular college course
the other day in the absence of a pro
fessor of philosophy.
Bishop Daniel Goodsell , the new Meth
odist head for New England , bears a
close resemblance to the late Phillips
Brooks. He has officially visited many
foreign countries and is well known as
an author.
The Rev. Dr. John Wright of St. Paul ,
Minn. , has recently given the Union Col
lege library a copy of the third edition
of the Saur Bible , published in Germantown -
town in 1770. It was the first Bible
printed in America in a European lan
guage. Nearly all the copies of this edi
tion were destroyed by the British troops
when they occupied Germantown iu 177G.
THE : WEEKLY
One Hundred Years Ago.
The Governor of New Hampshire're
fused to sign the bill the Legislature
had passed agreeing to the amendment
to the constitution , adopted by two-
thirds of the States.
At a' meeting of the chiefs of the
Seneca Indians at Buffalo , N. Y. , one of
the tribe was accused of the practice
of witchcraft and executed.
The Legislature of Massachusetts of
fered a bounty for the encouragement
of the cultivation of hemp in that
State.
i
Seventy-five Years Ago.
The Board of Aldermen of Boston re
fused to allow the Tremont Theater to
be open on the Fourth of July , that
day being Saturday.
Commercial affairs in Turkey were
in a distressed state owing to the seiz
ure by the Sultan's order of all camels
bringing produce to market and con
veying supplies to the people of Con
stantinople.
The courts of Georgia , in order to
prevent gambling in the State , ordered
that heavy fines should be imposed for
such offense.
Fifty Years Ago.
The law forbidding the intermar
riage of blacks and whites was abro
gated.
The Sioux war began.
The American Geographical Society ,
founded in 1852 , was chartered.
A military insurrection broke out in
Spain. Madrid was declared in a state
of siege.
Eight Russian ships sailed out of
Sevastopol and attacked the allied
naval forces.
The estimated distance of the sun
was reduced by Hansen.
Forty Years Ago.
The arrest of two mail drivers at
Mankato , Minn. , disclosed that exten
sive pilfering from the mails had been
carried on for a long time in that
State.
On the Chicago Board 370,000 bush
els of wheat sold for prices ranging
from $1.83 to $1.03 per bushel.
The constitutional convention of
Maryland passed a measure freeing all
slaves and prohibiting slavery in the
future.
Kentucky , along the Ohio River in
the vicinity of Lexington , was overrun
with Confederate guerrillas.
Major General W. S. Rosecrans di
rected the people of Missouri to organ
ize home guards for protection against
Confederate guerrilla raids.
Thirty Years Ago.
The corner stone of the Chicago post-
office and custom house was laid.
Fourteen persons were killed and 100
injured when the floor of the Central
Baptist Church of Syracuse , N. Y. , in
which a strawberry festival was in
progress , gave way.
The postal convention between
France and the United States was pro
mulgated.
A two days' battle at Cheloa , Spain ,
resulted in the defeat of 10,000 Carlists
by a Republican force half as large.
General Concha , Republican , killed.
Contracts were closed at Milan for
equipping the railways of upper Italy
with American made palace cars.
A jury of prominent physicians in
New York was gotten together to de
termine how far blood poison contrib
uted to death from hydrophobia.
Twenty Years Ago.
The Builders and Traders' Exchange
of Chicago opened , with headquarters
at 159 La Salle street.
The heirs of Richard Wagner re
fused an offer of $250,000 from an
American for the exclusive rights to
"Parsifal. "
A bill to incorporate the national en
campment of the Grand. Army of the
Republic was introduced in the Na
tional Senate.
The grounds of the Washington
Park Driving Club were opened to the
public for the first time.
The third general council of the reformed - *
formed churches ( pan-Presbyterian )
opened in Belfast , Ireland.
Ten Years Ago.
Francois Sadi-Carnot , President of
the French Republic , was assassinated
in Lyons by Cesare Giovanni Santo.
The strike ordered by the American
Railway Union against the Illinois
Central spread to other roads running/
into Chicago , and the greatest railway
tieup in American history was on ,
Casimir-Perier elected President
M. - was
ident of the Republic of France to suc
ceed the murdered Carnet