The News and Obs a, *' r er.
VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 96
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STORMY TIMES AHEAD
POLITICAL LEADERS IN SOUTH
CAROLINA TO MEET IN 0
CONFERENCE.
GOV. EVANS' PRONUNCIANIENTO.
He Reviews the Deplorable Condition
of the State Under Carpet Hag Rule—
Denounces Judges Goff and Simon
ton and Says They are Trying to
Trample Under Foot State Rights—
Bat Declares That White Supremacy
Shall he Sustained.
Columbia, S. C., May 14.—The forces
of the political party in power are gath
ering here now to reach some decision
as to the course they shall pursue in the
coming election which, under Judge
Goff’s decision, must be held with an
open ballot.
Tillman and Irby and McLaurin and
all the leaders are here. Irby’s
State Executive Committee meets
to-morrow to take action looking to the
maintenance of white supremacy. Till
man is at the executive mansion in con
sultation with Governor Evans.
It looks now as if stormy times are
ahead. To-night the Governor issued
the following pronunciamento bearing
on State’s rights and Federal interfer
ence.
“Fellow Citizens:
“In 1865, after the most bloody strug
gle for principle in the history of the
world. South Carolinians laid down their
arms and accepted in good faith the re
sults of the war. The state was put un
der martial law and under the recon
struction act the ignorant slaves, whose
fetters had just been broken, manipula
ted by carpet baggers from the four
quarters of the earth, were placed in
entire control of our State government.
After a farce of an election for delegates
to a constitutional convention, the con
stitution which has been our organic
law since 1868 was adopted at the dictate
of General Canby. The conditions were
followed and the' results of placing igno
rance and vice m the control of the gov
ernment are known to all men. This
condition lasted until 1876, when the
oppression and misgoverment had ren
dered our people so desperate that with
one impulse they asserted their manhood
and overthrew the despotism of the car
pet baggers and resumed control of the
State’s affairs.
“While the constitutionality of the
reconstruction act was never questioned
by us because we were powerless to re
sist the question of State sovereignty,
within the limits prescribed in the con
stitution, its accordance with Southern
interpretation, has since been affirmed
by repeated decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States. That Court
even asserted that the States had never
been out of the union, thereby indirectly
declaring invalid the acts of Congress, re
admitting them after re-construc
tion. The right of a State to
manage and direct its interna
tional affairs, without National interfer
ence, is recognized throughout the Union
and it is no peculiar or special claim on
the part of South Carolina to exercise
that right so long as her State officers
and her General Assembly obey the con
stitution of the United States and the
laws of Congress. This is so well recog
nised that I do not propose to discuss it
further, but feel that we can safely rely
upon the integrity and patriotism of the
Supreme Judges to re-affirm and main
tain it.
“The people of South Carolina have
always been law abiding and respect the
constitution and courts of the United
States, bat when the Judges of these
courts wantonly invade and trample
under foot the recognized rights of our
people guaranteed by the Federal con
stitution, they have a right to assert
themselves and maintain their sov
ereignty and independence. This they
have ever done and will continue to do,
and will resist with all the means within
their power, usurpation and tyranny
of partisan politicians in high
places, who disgrace the judicial
ermine. We cannot, nor have we the
desire to resort to arms to resist his un
just decree, but we can and will expect
the united efforts of liberty-loving peo
pie to thwart the conspirators who are
plotting to overthrow our civilization.
In this struggle we confidently rely on
the sympathies and moral support of
lovers of good government and State's
rights throughout the Union. The sov
ereignty of the States, within their proper
spheres, is as dear to Massachusetts and
Ohio as it is to South Carolina, and the
principle cannot be struck down here
without receiving a mortal blow else
where.
“It is unfortunate that the passions
and prejudices excited by the war in re
gard to the negro should influence the
opinions and leelings of judges in deal
ing with this vital principle, but it will
follow inevitably that if this principle is
once destroyed, this country will be con
vulsed with a revolution for the restora
tion of tbe liberties of white men that
will far eclipse that other fatal struggle
for the emancipation of the blacks.
“The restoration of white supremacy
in 1876 placed in office and in leader
ship of the affairs of the State, Wade
Hampton as Governor, and afterwards
as United States Senator, and M. C. But
ler United States Senator; Charles H.
Simonton, chairman of the Judiciary
Committee and leader of the House of
Representatives, later District and
Circuit Judge of the United States Court;
and John C. Sheppard, Speaker of the
House of Representatives, Lieut. Gov
ernor and afterwards Governor. In
1882. under the leadership of these men,
the Legielature passed the laws known
as ‘the election and registration acts’
designed to preserve white supremacy
and a white man’s government. These
laws worked admirably and up to this
proceeding no complaint has ever been
heard of their injustice, oppression or
criminality. The citizen who dared
raise his voice against them was de
nounced as an enemy of his State.
Those who were too young to hold office
and take part in such affairs, were taught
to respect these men as patriots, and
their handiwork as the palladium of our
liberties.
“This regime, becoming arrogant and
distasteful to a majority of our people,
and repugnant in their policy to our in
stitutions, was overthrown, and the peo
ple in 1890, by the election of B. R.
Tillman, as Governor, declared that it
was not their intention to create an oli
garchy when in 1876, they threw off tbe
yoke of the negro and the carpet bag
ger. Two applications have been made to
reverse this verdict of the sovereign peo
ple, but it has been sustained each time
with vehement determination. The re
form movement had nothing to do with
the election and registration laws. We
received them as a legacy from the ad
ministration of 1882. We have upheld
them as the acts of the people and as
constitutional means of self-preserva
tion. Some of these men who are re
sponsible for and who have eDjoved the
benefits and honors of office under these
laws, have turned upon their State since
their retirement. By an appeal to one
of the bitterest enemies of Southern civ
ilization—a politician who disgraces the
judicial ermine of the United States
Court and masquerades as a judge—they
have succeeded in having declared the
registration law unconstitutional, null
and void. The chief argument made
before him was the defamation of your
State and insult, if insult could come
from such a source, to your State offi
eers. Under this decree the doors have
been thrown open and the ballot again
placed in the hands of every man, white
or black, of the age of 21 years.
“The abuse and slander heaped upon
the State by the counsel for the plaintiffs
was only surpassed by that of the Judge
in his document styled a decree in
equity. But the pity of it, the humilia
tion and the shame of it, is yet to be
told. Besides this Jeffries on the bench
sat an old man, whose head was grey,
who had fought on the field of battle,
for States rights, who had been Speaker
of the House of Representatives of South
Carolina, and in whose handwriting part
of your registration laws exist in our
archives; there he sat, wearing
alike the judicial ermine, hearing
his State defamed, his comrades
in arms defamed as rebels and
his own handiwork adjudged a crime.
If the law was a crime, was he not the
criminal ? Should his head have not
been bent and his eyes moist with tears
of humiliation? Alas! they were not.
With a Mephistophelean grin on his
wrinkled tace he nodded assent to the
most infamous document ever emanating
from a court in equity, while the black
audience exclaimed: ‘A Daniel has come
to judgment; yea, a Daniel.’ The ex-
Senator who has been holding caucuses in
Columbia at private houses having the
ear of tbe court and ‘holding the foot of
the chancellor,’ returned to his home
feeling that his movements had not been
detected. But the responsibility shall
rest where it belongs. Let the people
not blame tne poor, lean and hungry
counsel who are barking merely for a
bone, but visit the sin upon the heads of
the arch conspirators.
“A crisis confronts us, an issue has
been thrust upon us without our will or
consent at a time when peace was hover
ing over the State. South Carolina is
enjoying an era of industrial improve
ment, factories are being built in greater
number than elsewhere in the South.
The credit of the State ranks higher
than ever in its history, our bonds not
being purchasable at a premium of less
than ten per cent. The march of prog
ress is about to be stopped; the black
pall of negro domination hovers over us;
we must meet the issue like South Caro
linians. There are only two flags, the
the white and the black; under
which will you enlist? The one, the
white, peaceful flag of Anglo-Saxon
civilization and progress; or the
other, the black flag of the debased
and ignorant African, with the white
traitors, who are seeking to marshal the
negroes in order to gain political power?
It is fortunate that the issue comes at
this time when a constitution is to be
made guaranteeing white supremacy
once and forever. The Constitutional
Convention must be controlled by white
men, not white men with black hearts,
not negroes. The world must be shown
that we are capable of governing our
selves and that, constitution or no con
stitution, law or no law, court or no
court, the intelligent white men of
South Carolina intend to govern here.
Let the man who undertakes to
lead the ignorant blacks against
you suffer as he did in 1876,
and remember that eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty. I will not call the
legislature toget her. They can do noth
ing. An appeal will be taken to the
Supreme Court of the United States, but
under the red tape and technicalities
surrounding it, a decision cannot be had
in time to affect the election of delegates.
It must be a free, open fight. I appeal
to the sovereign people of South Caro
lina, the wisest and the safest and
purest tribunal, to protect their homes
and liberties. They have never failed
to respond to duty. The government of
the people must and shall be perpetua
ted, and we are ready to lead the fight
under the white man’s flag.
“Your obedient servant,
“John Gary Evans,
“Governor.”
RALEIGH, N. C.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 15, 1895.
MEDICAL MEN MEET
THE STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY
NOW IN SESSION IN
GOLDSBORO.
FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING.
The First Day’s Session Devoted to
the Hearing of the Reports o! Com
mittees and the Reading ol Interest
ing Papers on Professional Sub
jects—The Convention Will be in Ses
slouThree Days—The Meeting Held
in Opera House.
Special to the News and Observer.
Goldsboro, N. C., May 14.
The forty-second annual meeting of
the Medical Society of the State of Norti*
Carolina begins this morning at 10
o'clock at the Messenger Opera House in
this city. It will continue for three
days.
the convention was called to order by
Dr. W. H. H. Cobb, chairman of the
local committee of arrangements, and
tbe convention was led in prayer by
Rev. Stewart McQueen.
The address of welcome was delivered
by Dr. W. J. Jones, of this city, which
was responded to by Dr. C. J. O’Hagan,
of Greenville. Both addresses were of
a high order. At the close “of Dr.
O’Hagan’s speech the committee of ar
rangements made its report, and the
Society was called to order for the
transaction of business by the Presi
dent, Dr. J. H. Tucker, of Henderson.
The first business of the society was
the appointment of committees on Fi
nance and Credentials and a roll call of
the members. President Tucker then
read his annual message in which he
made some needed recommendations and
pointed out some matters requiring the
early attention of the society.
At the conclusion of the President’s
message Dr. W. A. Graham, of Char
lotte, chairman of the Section on Patho
logy and Microscopy made his report,
which was followed by voluntary papers
pertaining to this section.
Dr. A. R. R. Wilson, of Greensboro,
read his report on Materia-Medica and
Physiology which was followed by a pa
per by Dr. Albert Anderson, of Wilson,
on “Diptheria Antitoxine.”
After reports of several committees
and the disposition of some routine busi
ness, the convention adjourned until
3 p. m.
The afternoon session was devoted to
the section of anatomy and surgery.
Following is the programe for the after
rjAAH upofiinn *
Report of Chairman C. O'H. Laugh
inghouse, of Greenville, “Something of
Surgery, up to Date.”
“Non-Penetrating Abdominal In
juries,” Robt. S. Young, M. D., Coiifeord.
“The Anatomy of Hernia, with Refer
ence to Vacewon’s Operation,” R. H.
Whitehead, M. D., Chapel Hill.
“Anaesthesia.” J. G. Blount, M. D.,
Washington.
“A New Method of Applying Plaster
of Paris Dressing in Fractures,” H. A.
Royster, M. D., Raleigh.
“A Report of a Case of Chronic Puru
lent Otitis Media,” S. J. Montague, M.
D., Winston.
“Surgical Technique,” J. W. Long,
M. D., Richmond, Va.
“Cases of Hypertrophic Nasal Catarrh,
Treated by Electrolysis.” “Case of Ma
lignant Tumor of Knee Joint.” “A
Case of Complex Error of Refraction of
Eyes.” Francis Duffy, M. D., Newbern.
“Corneal Ulcers.” W. H. Wakefield,
M. D., Charlotte.
“A Case of Multiple Perforation of
the Small Intestines.” R. H. White
head, M. D., Chapel Hill.
Voluntary papers in this section.
THE STATE DENTAL SOCIETY.
It* Twenty-First Annual Meeting in
Session at Salisbury.
Special to the News and Observer.
Salisbury, N. C., May 14.
The twenty-first annual meeting of the
North Carolina State Dental Association
met here at 11 o’clock this morning.
By permission the meeting was held in
the Y. M. C. A. hall to day. The exer
cises were opened with prayer by Rev. J.
Rumple, D. D.
The morning session was taken up in
routine business. Dr. H. D. Harper, of
Kinston, is president, and Dr. J. E.
Wyche, of Greensboro, is secretary.
In addition to an unusually large at
tendance of dentists of the State, several
prominent dentists of other States are
here as visitors. Among them are Prof.
L. W. Cowarden, of the Richmond Den
tal College. Richmond, Va.; Prof. Frank
Holland, of the dentists’ department of
the Southern Medical College, Atlanta,
and Prof. J. 8. Thompson, of Atlanta
Dental College, Atlanta. Other arrivals
are expected to-night.
At the close of the morning session,
the meeting adjourned until 3 o’clock.
The afternoon session was devoted to
reading and discussing reports and was
deeply interesting.
Tonight a splendid reception and en
tertainment wa3 given in the Opera
House.
Following w r as the programme:
Address of Welcome, Theo. F. Kluttz,
Esq.
12th Khapaodie, Liszt, Piano Solo,
Miss Bessie K rider.
Response to Address of Welcome, Dr.
V. E. Turner, Raleigh.
Annie Laurie, Quartette, Dudley Buck,
Mesdames Boyden and Raukm, aud
Misses White aud Shober.
President’s Annual Address, Dr. H.
D. Harper, Kinston.
Mia Piccirella, vocal solo, Theo Mar
zials, Miss White.
Mazurk, piano solo, Godord, Miss
Wallace.
By an agreement made at the last
meeting of the society by Dr. J. F. Grif
fith here the president's address was de
livered to night instead of the usual
time.
The society will be in session Wednes
day and Thursday. To-morrow will be
the most interesting day of the session.
The occasion promises to be the largest
dental meeting ever held in North Caro
lina.
JUDGE EWART SWORN IN.
An Interesting Case in the United
States Circuit Court at Asheville.
Special to the News and Observer.
Asheville, N. C., May 14.
H. G. Ewart was sworn in at Hender
sonville yesterday as Judge of the Circuit
Criminal Court.
Miss Beulah Brewster Pack, daughter
of George W. Pack, a wealthy citizen of
Cleveland, 0., who spends part of each
season here, will be married Thursday
at Trinity church to Phillip Ashton
Rollins, a New York lawyer. "t
An interesting case is on in the Igni
ted States Circuit Court, now in ses
sion here, Judges Simonton and
Dick presiding. The government and
three members of the eastern band of
Cherokee Indians seek to perpetually
enjoin the Dickson Mason Lumber Co.
from cutting timber from a thirty five
thousand acre tract in Jackson and
Swain counties. The timber was original
ly sold to D. L. Boyd by the Cherokee
Band, but the government contends that
the Indians are wards of the govern
ment and had no right to make the con
tract with Boyd.
THE KING’S DAUGHTERS.
The Stale Contention Now in Session
in Newbern.
Special to the News and Observer.
Newbern, N. C., May 14.
The State convention of the King’s
Daughters began in Centenary M. E.
church to-night. The following is the
programme for the meeting:
Music.
Scripture Lesson and Prayer.
Address of Welcome, Miss May Hendren.
Response, Miss Bason.
Music.
Annual Message of State Secretary,
Mrs. Hamden Smith, of Raleigh.
Music.
Remarks from Mrs. Isabella Charles
Davis, of New York.
Doxology and Benediction.
A large number of delegates have al
ready arrived from different parts of
the State and others are expected to
morrow’-.
ANOTHER NEW COTTON MILL.
It Ha* $50,000 Capital and Will Be
Established at Franklinton,
Special to the News and Observer
Franklinton, N. C., May 14.
The Sterling Cotton Mill was organ
ized here to-day with fifty thousand dol
lars capital. All the stock has been
taken and orders tor the machinery
placed.
John F. Cannady was elected Presi
dent, Col. Wm. F. Green, Vice-Presi
dent; S. C. Vann, Secretary and Treas
urer. The directors are : J. G. Stain
ton, L. L. Cannady, N. Y. Gully and W.
L. McGhee.
The building will be put up at once
and the mill will be in operation by Oc
tober.
Mr. W. C. McGhee says another cot
ton factory will be put in operation
within twelve months after this one
starts up.
George N. Ball, who lived six miles
west of this place, dropped dead in his
tobacco plant bed yesterday, the 13th.
Mr. Ball was about 60 years ol 1.
C. 8. Williams is building two new
store-houses near the depot.
School Closings in “State of W ilkes.”
Special to the News and Observer.
Wilkesboro, N. C., May 14.
The commencement of Moravian Falls
Academy, which occurred on May 10th,
was largely attended, and the address
was one of the finest ever delivered in
the county. The orator was Hon. Chas.
McKesson, of Morganton.
Dr. 0. C. Hubbard and wife, of Worth
ville, is visiting here.
C. E. Turner, a rising young lawyer of
Durham, delivers the address at the close
of Prof. Nicholson’s school here, May
22d.
COLLISION IN A THICK FOG.
A Lumber Laden Schooner Run Into
By a Steamer.
New York, May 14 -The Atlas Line
steamer Alleghany arrived this morning
from West Indian ports having among
her passengers Captain Summers and
seven of the crew of the American
schooner, John W. Hall, Jr., who came
on board the steamer at Fortune Is
land.
Capt. Summers says he sailed from
Newbern, N. C., May 3rd, with a cargo
of lumber for New York, and ou May 5,
in latitude 36.50, longitude 74.07, at 2
p. m., during a thick fog, the schooner
was run into by tho steamer Alene, and
cut to the water’s edge.
One Killed and 23Injured.
Silex, Om., May 14.—At 8 o’clock
this morning the South bound passenger
train ou the St. Louis and Hannibal
Railroad struck a broken rail about two
miles north of Silex and derailed the en
tire train, killing one person outright
and badly iujuring 23 others.
CONVENTION CLOSED
THE SOUTHERN BAPTISTS MAKE
AN END OF THEIR WORK
IN WASHINGTON.
THE WORK AMONG THE NEGROES.
Report* ol the Home Mission Board
in Reference to What has been done
By the Baptists Among the Colored
Population»The next Meeting of the
Convention to be Held at Chatta
nooga, Tennessee—There were 901
Delegates Present.
Washington, D. C., May 14.—The
first business of the fourth and last days
session of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion after devotional exercises, was the
report of the committee on time and place
of next meeting. It was recommended
that the convention of 1896 be held in
the First Church, Chattanooga, begin
ning on the Friday before the second
Sunday in May; that Rev. C. A. Stakely,
of Washington, preach the annual ser
mon, with Rev. C. Durham, of Raleigh,
N. C., alternate. Rev. F. S. Yeager, of
Chattanooga explained the terms of the
invitation—duly accredited delegates
will be entertained at the homes of the
people. The report was adopted.
The report of the committee upon so
much of the report of the home mission
board as related to work among the col
ored population, was make by Rev. A.
J. S. Thomas, of South Carolina, it
stated that some work had been done by
the board among the negroes in Ken
tucky, Georgia and Texas and that in
some respects the work had been satis
factory. “The board is anxious to do
more tor the negroes but there are so
many peculiar embarrassing problems
that the work has been necessarily slow.”
The committee emphasized these
points:
1. The board will not undertake work
among the negroes in any State unless
the State boards of white Baptists are in
sympathy and co-operate with it.
2. It will not undertake work in any
State unless the members art agreed
among themselves upon tbe work to be
done.
3. The colored people should be en
couraged to pay a part of the salary of
every teacher and missionary laboring
among them. The best thing that can
be done for them is to encourage them
to self support in their church building
and mission work. An extensive work
cannot be done among them as long as
Cuba, New Mexico, Louisiana, Florida,
and perhaps other States so sorely need
all the help we can give.
4th—The best work that can be done
among the negroes is educating their
ministers rather than evangelizing them.
sth—The Southern Baptists are in
sympathy with the efforts* of generous
hearted people North and South, who
have given money to establish schools
and colleges in the Southern States for
the negroes.
6th—We hope that the agreement
reached by the joint committee at For
tress Monroe will bring the colored Bap
tist schools, established by our Northern
brethren, nearer to the hearts of South
ern Baptists. We are assured that
these schools have been a great blessing
even without our active co-operation,
and that with our hearty sympathy and
co operation they will accomplish far
greater good.
7. In view of the continued needs of
the negroes and of the pressing needs of
our mission fields at home and abroad,
and in view of the liberality of our
Northern brothern and the interest they
have shown in the education of the ne
groes, we assure our brethern of the
North that wo shall be glad to see them
contribute thousands for the education
and evangelization of the negroes, and
thae in this good work they will have the
co-operation, sympathy and help of our
best and wisest brethern. For, while
we are interested in this great work, and
are fully persuaded of its importance,
we are unable at present to do for it as
its needs demand.
The committee on nominations re
ported names for membership of the
several boards, and they were elect
ed. Kev. Mr. Holt, trom the committee
on enrollment, reported that the mem
bership of the convention consisted of
813 delegates on the financial basis and
402 representatives from district associa
tions; total, 1,215. There were present
762 delegates of the first class aftd 142
of the second class; total,* 904.
A resolution submitted by Rev. J. J.
Hall, of Norfolk, Va., at the request of
the International Peace Congress, re
commending the establishment of a high
court of arbitration among the nations,
was adopted.
Rev. M. M. Vann, colored, President of
the American National Baptist Conven
tion, was introduced as the man who
occupied the highest position iu his race,
and that he would occupy but a minute of
the time of the convention. When the min
ute was up Dr. Vann said he hated to let
his audience go, for he seldom had such an
opportunity. (Laughter). He said the
colored people were intensely Christian
and intensely Baptist, and that what
they lacked in knowledge and sanctified
intelligence they propose to make up in
zeal. The white Baptists, he believed,
needed to exercise more zeal. Since the
Emancipation proclamation, out of
4,000,000 colored people liberated then,
a million and a half had been brought into
the Baptist church, while out of 50,000,000
white people, and after 200 years of
work, but a few more have united with
the same church. Dr. Vann created a
deep and favorable impression upon the
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
| convention, and was listened to for a
1 quarter of an hour.
The fraternal messengers were
appointed to the Baptist anniver
’ saries in session at Saratoga in June,
and the National Baptist Convention at
Atlanta, Ga., in August.
The Convention then adjourned sine
die, with the singing of the hymn, “Blest
Be the Tie that Binds,” and prayer by
Rev. Mr. Waters.
SUN’B COTTON REDORT.
! J
I Bull* Took a Turn at the Wheel and
Liverpool Was In Their Favor.
New York, May 14. Cotton rose Bto
9 points, then re-acted and closed steady
1 at a net advance of sto 6 points, with
sales of 122,900 bales. New Orleans
advanced 8 points and then lost 2
! points of this. Liverpool opened 1-2
1 a point lower, but recovered this and
advanced 12 a point and closed
| very steady, though the spot sales
: there were only 6,000 bales. Spot
‘ cotton in Liverpool was easier, but
1 without quotable change. Manchester
was quiet and steady. Spot cotton here
1 was 1-16 cent, higher, with sales of
eighty bales for spinning. Port receipts
thus far this week 17,048 against 25,796
. thus far last week. The Southern spot
markets were quiet. Charleston de
' clined 1-8 cent. New Orleans receipts
1 to-morrrow estimated at 5,000 against
! 1,140 last Tuesday and 448 last year.
To-Day’s Features.
The bulls took a turn at the wheel to
day and their steering was towards the
upper waters of the bullish country,
as a matter of course. They had Liver
pool in their favor. That market un
doubtedly disappointed the bears. It
showed a small advance where certainly
none was expected, though it is true
t that the spot market was dull and woak,
and that Manchester was quiet. Still
i Liverpool bought freely here, mainly be
cause of a rumor that Neill Brothers of
New Orleans would issue a bullish crop
circular to-morrow. The continent was
buying not only at Liverpool but here.
Spot cotton here is stronger, the ex
ports from the ports were treble the re
ceipts, shorts were covering, and not a
few bought on the belief that cotton
is a purchase at present prices. Ger
man houses sold, but their selling did
not cheek the advance. Inman, Swan
& Co. sold pretty feely, but the market
took the cotton without a tremor. Some
think cotton ought to respond to the
bullish conditions generally observable
throughout the world of trade and specu
lation. At any rate it has many friends
who believe that best prices for cotton
are still to be attained.
THE FIGHT IN ILLINOIS.
All th; Gold Men to be Read Oat of the
Democratic Party.
Chicago, Ills., May 14. — It is learned
from an authoritative source that the
leaders in the free coinage movement
within the Democratic party of Illinois,
who possess the machinery in the State
and Cook county, intend to read out of
the party every man who does not sub
scribe to the doctrine of free coinage of
silver.
The plan is to be put into execution at
soon as the State convention at Spring
field has adopted a free siver platform
and made it one of the cardinal princi
ples of the party. The State and Cook
County Central Committees are to be re
organized on these lines. This will be
done to give the silver Democrats
exclusive control of the organization
’ which will dictate at primaries and con
-1 ventions in county, city and State.
It is also proposed by this means to
make sure of sending a solid free silver
delegation to the next National conven
tion. The members of the honest money
league are to be declared outside the
path.
Fatal Explosion on a Steamer.
Detroit, Mich., '’May 14.—Last even
ing, while the river steamer Unique,
bound up, was in Lake St. Clair a tube
in one of her boilers blew up, instantly
killing Anthony Case, a coal passer, and
probably fatally injuring John Plant, a
fireman. George Robinson, the en
gineer of the steamer, who was sitting
on the port rail, was knocked overboard
and drowned. There were forty passen
gers on board.
BASEBALL YESTERDAY.
At St. Louis:
St. Louis, 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 x—6
Brooklyn, 00020000 2—4
Batteries: Clarkson and Miller; Lucid
aud Dailey.
At Chicago:
Chicago, 0 0 000001 0— 1
New York, 1042 0 3 3 1 x—l 4
Batteries: Terry and Donohue; Rusie
aud Farrell.
At Cincinnata:
Cincinuati, 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 o—s
Baltimore, 10100000 o—2
Batteries: Dwyer, Parrott and Spies;
Heffer aud Robinson.
At Louisville:
Louisville, 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 o—4
Washington, 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 x— 6
Batteries: McDermott and Welch;
Stockdale and McGuire.
At Cleveland:
Cleveland—Boston postponed on account
of rain and cold weather.
At Pittsburg:
Pittsburg—Philadelphia postponed, raia
and cold weather.
Carnegie Advances Wages.
Pittsburg, Pa., May 14.—The Car
negie Steel Company limited, employing
nearly 15,000 men, to-day decided to ad
vance wages 10 per cent.