Ihe Weather To-day: ! CAROLINA* | GENERALLY FAIR.
The News and Observer.
VOL. XLVI. NO. 133.
LEADS ALL NOHTOII CAROLINA MIES 1 lEIS Ml OKMIRI
IT IS HIS NOW TO
DESTROY 00 SAVE
The Eyes of France on Ger
many’s King.
HE CAN SAVE DREYFUS
TESTIMONY OF SOHWARTZKOF
FEN ALL NEEDED.
IT IS BELIEVED THE KAISER WILL ACT
First Official Testimony to Esterhazy's Guilt.
Labori Accuses Jouaust of Partiality,
and Cheers Drown the Gen
erals’ Murmurs.
Rennes. Sept. 0. —Tin* salvation of
Captain Dreyfus hangs on a word from
Emperor William. This is the general
opinion here tonight. If the Kaiser
consents to allow Colonel Scfcwartz
koppen, the German, military attache in
Paris in 1894, to testify before the court
martial, or to send a deposition, or, what
is considered still more probable, to al
low his deposition to be accompanied
by the actual documents mentioned in
the bordereau, then Dreyfus Is saved.
If the Emperor, however, decides that
it is not in the interests of Germany
for Colonel Sehwartzkoppen to intervene
then Dreyfus’ ease is hopeless and his
eondemnation certain.
Tonight the eyes of France are look
ing across the frontier to Stuttgart,
where the Kaiser is staying, and anx
iously awaiting his decision. He is in
the position of the spectators of a gladia
torial combat in the Coliseum in ancient
Rome, with Dreyfus lying at the foot
of his antagonist and watching whether
the Emperor points his thumb up or
down. At a late hour this evening lie
had given no sign either way, and
Frenchmen are waiting with breathless
interest the first indication of his will.
To all intents and purposes Emperor
William stands today the arbiter of the
internal ireaeo of Frame, for everyone
anticipates that King Humbert will fol
low his lead. This is probably the ex
planation of the delay. Emperor Wil
liam has gone to Wurteinburg from
Alsace-Lorraine, and King Humbert is
at Tufin. Communication between the
two monarchy is, therefore, somewhat
complicated, and. as they will undoubt
edly agree upon identical measures in
replying to M. Labori’s appeal, it is
possible that several days will elapse
before their decision is known.
The opinion generally held here is that
the Emperor and King liunipert will al
low Colonel Schwartzkoppen and Colo
nel I’auizzardi to be examined by a
rogatory commission and their deposi
tion's to be sent to Rennes with supple
mentary evidence from the originals ot
Esterhazy’si 'treasonable communica
tions.
The Amti-Dreyfusards are extremely
exasperated at what they characterize as
M. Labori’s “trick.” lie had long Iks n
seeking an excuse to invoke the interven
tion of the German and Italian sover
eigns, ami seized the appearance of Cor
liusehi as his opportunity, declaring that
the admission of the evidence of this
foreigner justified his application regard
ing Schwa rt z kopjK ii and Pandzzardii.
M. Labori insisted that the appearance
of ’(VriMisciui on the witness stand was
quite without precedent, but the Anti-
DreyPusards point m and with a cer
tain amount of reason that the counsel
for the defence were really the first to
introduce foreign testimony, as they
sunumoued the English journalist, Row
land Strong, on the question of Ester
hazy’s cwnfieessiion to haring written the
bordereau.
Anyway it can be, safely asserted that
the admission of Cemnse'hi as a witness
for the prosecution cianno as a veritable
godsend to the defence’, giving them al
most at the last moment a more or less
legitimate 'basis for M. Labori's appli'ca
tiotn to punmion the Gentian and Italian
attaches.
'Hie Anti-Dreyfusards assert that the
memliers of the court martial wi 11 ig
nore the affirmations of Colonels
Seihwnrtzk* pp<»n and Pauizaardi, ibecuuse
they recognize that the testimony of
these officers will be given by order, with
a view to save their own spy, but in
less prejudiced circles if is believed that
tile court cajimot disregard: 'the solemn
declarations of the two attaches wit li
mit giving rise t to a still more grave
situation in an internal ionial sense Ilian
now prevails.
Today’* public proceedings were mark
ed by threw important episodes. The
first was Generali /mrliiwlen’s admission
that the erasure and resitfitution of Es
terhazy's name in tlie Petit Bleu. could
not have tieen <p«*rpctraiteid by Colone!
I’icquart aiwl <coirtseqiwi!itly must be iar
t rib uteri to some one 'lnside the general
staff. 'Plic second was the deriaration by
M. I ’ideologue that the (secret dossier
contained a document which showed that
Colonel Sehwartzkr»iipen admitted his re
latfions with Eisterhlazy. and that
Seth win rt zkoppen., in the opinion o>f I’al co
logne, sent to Esteriilaz.v the identical
Petit Bleu for which Colonel Pieqnar.
was detained 10 months on a charge of
forgery. The third Was General Billot's
msinuafiou that Enterh.r/y and Captain
Dreyfus wore accompli' <■« which led to
an imipasriojK'd prote-A'iitiion on the part
of ffic accused and to a thrilling seem
lietweeai M. Labor! and Colonel Jouaust.
peeuMiikg iiu the advocate’s excited de
nnneiafion of Colonel Jonanst’s treat
ment of hinii, a deiitMieiiaftiioin tantamount,
to an nceuisait inn of open partiality.
General Zurlinden's admission that
Colonel l’icquart could not have perpe
trated the erasure in the Petit Bleu was
a startling incident.
Then the statement by M. Paleologue
that Colonel Schwartzkoppen had ad
mitted that it was almost certain that
the Petit Bleu was sent by him or
caused to be sent by him to Esterhazy,
caused a sensation, as being the first
official testimony to the treason of
Esterhazy. And it was certainly a
strong point in favor of Dreyfus, the
importance of which was immediately
seen by the prosecution and -shown sub
sequently in General Billot’s broad in
sinuation of complicity between Dreyfus
and Esterhazy.
From a spectacular point of view,
however, the great event of the sitting
was the battle royal between M. La
bori and Colonel Jouaust over certiain
questions which the advocate wished to
put to General Billot. M. Labori lost
control of himself under the influence
of his deep feeling of indignation and
his belief that Colonel Jouaust was de
liberately gagging him in the interest of
the military clique. His voice, which
at first resounded through the court
room, became choked with emotion.
The spectators held their breath as he
retorted defiantly to Colonel Jouaust’s
refusal to put the questions, his words
drowning Jouaust’s voice in an irresis
tible torrent, whose force was heighten
ed by his passionate gestures.
The following is a detailed report of
the proceedings:
The secret examination of M. Eugene
de Cernusehi. the Austrian refugee and
witness for the prosecution, occupied the
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NAME LLOYD LOWNDES
REPUBLICANS OF MARYLAND NOMINATE
THEIR STATE TICKET.
Platform Favors Gold Standard, Declares again: f
Trusts and Leaves Disposition of the
Philippines to Congress.
Baltimore, Md., Kept. G. —The .Mary
land State Republican Convention met.
at the Academy of Music today and
nominated the following State ticket:
For Governor—lion. IJoyd Dnvndes,
of Alleghany comity.
For Comptroller- Philips I*e Gold 8-
boroogh. of Dorchester county.
For Attorney General —Ex-<'nngross-
man John V. L. Findlay, of Baltimore
city.
The nominations were all made by ac
claim, vt ion.
The platform endorses the present Na
tional Administration, declares in favor
of the gold standard, in favor of sup
pressing the Filipino insurrection, the
disjMJsitiou of the Philippines* to be made
by Congress, and in favor of laws for
the suppression of trusts which create
monopoly.
THEY SPAR OVER PENSIONS.
Grand Army Men Rely on McKinley
to Redress Their Grievance.
Philadelphia. Pa., Sept. 6.—The Grand
Army encampment today elected Senior
N ice Commander in Chief, \V. (’. John
son as Commander-in-Chief to serve the
uuexpired term of two days of the late
Colonel Sexton, and selected Chicago
for the next annual encampment. The
day's proceedings included also numer
ous addresses and reports and <u signifi
cant sparring over the report of the
Committee on Pensions. This report
was held in the greatest secrecy. It
complains of the construction of the
Act of 1890 for the relief of the Civil
War. veterans and their widows and or
phans not conditioned upon (evidence
of service disability. It says the origi
nal con ot ruction of this was obligated
in 189a by unjust and arbitrary rules,
blit expresses the confident belief that
President McKinley will take measures
to bring about a different ruling in the
future. It asks that the limit of in
come sufficient to debar widows be put
at not less than $250 a year, and that
other rigid conditions be revoked. It
repudiates the charges of inflation of
the pension rolls by fraudulent claims
and challenges such assertions. The
report was discussed four hours today,
many delegates favoring i mine ilia te
adoption, but the committee was finally
instructed to submit it again tomorrow
with recommendations and resolutions.
The annual reports show 287,1)81 mem
bers in good standing on June 30th;
losses by death aggregated 7.994, and
that 1,072 deserving sick and maimed
are not receiving pensions. A plea
was made for Government attention to
0,082 soldiers’ graves unmarked.
The National Association of War
Veterans voted overwhelmingly against
admitting Spanish' War Veterans to
m embers hip, and two delegations from
New York city and Newark, N. .1.,
bolted and threaten an opposition asso
ciation.
BISHOP MOORE PARALYZED.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 0.- Right Rev.
Bishop Moore, of the Diocese of St.
Augustine, Fla., was stricken with
paralysis at the cottage of l>r. O’Malley
at Harvey's Landing, yesterday. The
Bishop lias been in the Scranton Dio
cese for the past mouth, soliciting funds
for tlie rebuilding of his cathedral in
St. Augustine. The stricken prelate was
removed to St. Mary's Parochial Resi
dence this city today, and the Vicar
General of the St. Augustine Diocese
notified. The Bishop was tonight resting
comijjj raldy.
Woman is a eerature of moods and
after she gets nmirried it is usually the
imperative mood.
ItALEIGII, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1899.
"HE KNOWS IN HIS
SOOLTHATHE LIES"
B, S, Sheppard’s Reply to
C. M. Bernard.
INFLUENCED BY NO ONE
THE ATTACK HAD NO POLITICAL
SIGNIFICANCE,
FROM THE WRATH OF AN OUTRAGED MAN
Bernard, Flying, Knew the Cause of the At
tack, and the Words of Denunciation
Were Heard by Many
By i tinders.
Greenville, N. C., Sept. G. —( Special.V—
After reading in yesterday’s papers the
statements District Attorney Bernard
made relative to the. attack on him Sat
urday night, your correspondent had
another interview with Mr. B. S. Shco
pard, who gave the following for publi
cation:
“1 do not intend to dignify a dirty,
mean wretch like Bernard with u news
paper controversy, but I will not allow
him to create the impression, as he is
seeking to do, that my attack upon him
was instigated or encouraged by his
personal or political enemies. I solemn
ly assert upon the honor of an 'inno
cent and injured man that no human
being had any information or intimation
that I intended to attack him, and lie
knows in his guilty soul he lies when tic
says tht' act was instigated by his po
litical and personal enemies. He also
knows he lies when he says that I did
not denounce him tit the time 1 fired
upon him as the destroyer of my home.
There were numbers of persons, black
and white, standing near him, who heard
it and will so testify. But he did not
need me to tell him the cause of tlie
attack. In his black and guilty heart he
knows the cause, and when he was
Heeing like a cowardly cur he knew he
was fleeing from the wrath of an out
raged man.”
As further evidence that Mr. Sheppard
was not “intlueneed by personal and po
litical enemies of Bernard's” to make
the assault, he showed a letter from his
son, who is off at school and who has
not been in Greenville in four years.
This letter was dated the 4th ilist, and
in part reads as follows:
“Dear Father:
“1 read this morning in the News and
Observer that you had shot at Claude
Bernard. It was no more than I had
expected. Write me . and tell me all
about it. You ought to have practiced
shooting before you tried your hand.
The paper said that all the p«*ople re
gretted was that you missed your mark.
What did they do about it, and where
is (.Maude Bernard now? I was mad
when I heard about it, that you did not
kill him.”
Numbers of parties at the depot at the
time of the shooting say emphatically
that Sheppard did accuse Bernard of
mining his home. Your correspondent
was present at the trial before the Jus
tice and heard Sheppard face him with
the charge while Bernard wias on the
witness stand. There are many other
false things in Bernard's statements.
Your correspondent alone is the author
of every telegram sent to the press from
Greenville bearing upon the matter, and
is in a position to substantiate every
word that lias l»een sent.
DEAD AMID ALASKA’S SNOWS.
Seven Members of a Scientific Prospect
ing Company of New York.
Seattle, Washington, Sept. (I.—Otto
Thews, of Primrose. lowa. >who Hi as ar
rived here from Copper ltiver, Alasikta.
brings news coanfuriuimg the reported
deaths of seven mcu.lbers of the scientific
prospecting company, Os New York.
The dead are: Earnhardt, Miller, Al
lormnn, Schul'tz, Peter Siegel, Biutncr
aml Buifnigia rt mer.
George Hooker, anot her niiemlber of tlhe
party, gelt out alive, limit is badly crippled
with scurvy, which can lied aiwiay the
miajoinity of his companions. ißuuinrgart
iiiar went out hunting and was mover seen
again. The most affecting tin so was that
of Butnoir, who was driven insane by his
sufferings. IJiis weak comipauuioiis had
to strap him dawn, 'but even then they
courtd not restrain him. One miorning
'Thews, whose camp was near, f»un l
Bnther sitting out in the miUw with his
clothes and hat off. The thermometer
was 45 degrees below zero. But nor was
taken inside, but he died in a few hours.
Thews also brings a gruesome story in
connection with the find Os (the remains
of a jeweler named Smith, who perished
las! Novemils ron Yuhh*z Glacier, Every
exposed portion of the body htad! born cati
on by ra veins.
TH E COTTON LOSS OP TEXAS.
Galveston, Texas, Ke|ii. G. —The News
will print tomorrow a report of the cot
ton cron otf T' xas and the tonrlitories
made up of 385 reports of an average
date of September 3i'Ji. covering 154
Texas counties, and 23 points in tin- In
dian and Oklahoma Tertriltonuis. These
reports indicate ta decrease iTi the yield
of Texas of 33.8 par cent, mud for Texas
until the territories of 37.5 §*er cent,
brought caused most of the loss.
ESTABLISH A REPUBLIC.
Then, Says Bryan, Let Them Work Out
Their Own Destiny.
Sam Francisco, Cab. Sept. G.—William
•L Bryan at Woodward Pavilion, tonight
stated that ho did not favor the with
drawal of our troops from the Philip
pines before a stable government Is es
tablished 1 .
Mr. Bryan during his address said he
believed that our Government after es
tablishing the Philippine Republic should
extend to its people the same protection
that it is mow giving to the Republics of
Souith and Central America —protect ion
from outside interference and unham
pered freedom to work out their own
destiny.
TRADING CO. CHARTERED.
Will Carry on Trade Between United
States and Foreign Countries.
Norfolk, Ya., Sept. G. —The Eastern
ami Southern Trading Company was
chartered here today with a minimum
capital of $590,000, and a max ini urn of
$1,000,000 to carry on a general im
porting and exporting trade between the
'United States and foreign countries.
Hippolyte L. Hardy, of New York, is
President; Charles S. Knight and
Charles R. Ilebnrd, both of New York,
Secretary ami Treasurer in. the order
named.
BRITISII STEA MER ASIIOIIE.
Key West, Fla.. Sept. G. —The Brit
ish steamer Hannah M. Bell, Captain
Storm, from Pensacola, September 2nd,
for Venice, with a cargo of cotton, is
reported ashore tat Marquesas Key, near
here.
ELEVEN DIE IN WRECKS
SEVEN IN DINGESS IUNNEL ON NORFOLK
AND WES’ERN ROAD.
Four at Miller's StafTon on the Erie. Those on
the Latter Road Killed at an
Open Swi ch.
Williamson. W. Va., Sept. 6.—Seven
persons were killed by a freight train
wreck today in Dingess tunnel on the
Norfolk and Western railway.
The dead are:
FRANK R. ARCHER, brakeman.
CHARLES BOOTH, brakeiuan.
JOHN CHAFFIN, fireman.
Four tramps, names unknown.
PUH'GHED THROUGH THE CARS
Meadville, Pa., ‘Kept. 3.—-An open
switch caused a wreck on the Erie rail
road at Miller’s station, a short distance
above this city today in which three
Mitidville men were killed and one in
jured. A tramp was also killed and
another injured.
A west-bound freight train had taken
the siding to allow train No. 5, vosti
buled limited New York-Chieago ex
press, to pass. The switch was left
<ipi 'ii and the passenger train ran into
the rear end of the freight iait the rate of
60 miles an hour, ploughing through
the freight ears.
THE IOWIA BOYS COMING HOME.
Less Thant 300 of the Regiment on Duty
at Cm* Last. ,
Manila. Sept. 3.—5:50 p. m,—The lowa
rvgiuumt, the last of line volunteer or
ganizations on duty in the Island ot
Luzon, has been withdrawn from Calu
lut to barracks at Caiman, prcpairaitory
to departing for home. The number who
will sail is SOG. Less thiiaii 300 of the
regiment were left on duty at the front:
when the order came for their relief, 400
being on the sick list. This regiment
has undergone fUainl outpost duty for
three months, during whQeh it has been
very much exposed to the rain. Se.-enty
five members of the regiment have re
enlisted. Although the lowa us partici
pated in some of the hardest fighting be
tween M alohas and Sam 1* cm undo, not
one of them was killed in buttle. Thir
ty-tiune inem'lM’rs of tin- regiment, how
ever, were wounded, and nine died of
disease.
The iinsurgents continue to intake de
iirnnst rat ions itn the vicinity of Imm . Tin*
American outposts wiere oblige I to fire
volleys the past three nights.
Mail advices from Zamboanga report
that the town has been practically de
serted.
The facts comctn'iniing Ihe recently re
ported fighting lietweeni Dato Muu.li and
ihe ansurgonts are that the insurgeiGs at
tacked a village in the Diato’s dcniliiiiioiis
on noighbor’ing islands, killing two of the
viil'laigcrs. The Date's men suiisetjuemly
drori* off the insurgents', of whom sev
eral were killed.
Tihe recent 'issue of Filipino paper mon
ey amounts to $3,000,000. The accept
aitce of t his issue is inbwle ofldilatory, a.nd
tin* t ills are made (redeemable in three
years.
The insnipgciiiits have called upon
property owners in tihe initorior to supply
gratis to the insurgent army carts, horses
and cattle.
WILL BE IN DEWEY PARADE.
New York, Kept. G. —Genftra! Roe, wiio
lias change of the Dewey Day lat.'J pa
rade. has received ap|dica;tions for pi aces
in the line from about 0,000 soldiers
from other places, among them the fol
lowing:
Eight companies from 'I 'exas, one from
Joe ksirn, Miss., two baittalimns from
Georgia, one eompany from South Cla.ro
linia, and twnfennupaiifies of the Mississ
ippi! Rifles.
A but ton less whirt is a new inventiov
It was probably invented by a wifeless
> man.
IT WILL RESULT
IN AN ULTIMATUM
The Meeting of the British
Cabinet Council,
THE BOERS MUST YIELD
OR ENGLAND WILL AT ONCE DE
CLARE WAR.
PARLIAMENT SHOULD BE CONVOKED
And War Supplies Voted. This is Hie Times’
Opinion, and it Adds That Further
Delay is Dangerous. Receiving
Transvaal’s Reply.
London, Sept. G. —Today's news sheds
no new light on the Transvaal crisis.
The signs whlieli the English aim acus
tomed to see just previous to a war con
tinue, and firman these any mmnb"r of
sensational deductions may be drawn.
General opinion tends to tihe belief that
the Cabinet council will result in an nl
tiiuatnin followed by ;;m immediate
backdown of the Boers or the Imme
diate commencement of hostilities by
Great Britain.
The Standard referring 'to an abstract
eif tlie reply of the Transvaal Govern
ment to Mr. Chamberlain as given out
by the Transvaal agent in Brussels, says:
“The dCspatch is a positive insult tk» the
British Government. Clearly we are
wi t bin measurable distance of an ult i
m at uni.”
Scpitemlier 7. —(4 a. m.)—-Thc
CMo.i’ial Office officials were busy
until after 3 o'clock this morn
ing. 1 HspaUehes have been i is- iig by
special messengers I'.efWM m the Qwfo
and Lord Sab.dmiy for tire last few
days.
The Times advisiss the Goverunieirt to
nimvoke Faritsat ininn’d atHy if nec
essary, ho Vote the nnHiksl supplies, add
ing that “a further loss of time may he
dangerous and hunti'lintim.g."
Mile (’apt Town corn-pmidem;: of tin*
Daily Mail says that three days ago J.
11. Hofnieyer, the Afrikaiub r leader in
•Cape Colony, telegraphed President Kru
ger, warning him that unless he complied
'with certain speiLticd com'.’.tacos war
would be inevitable. Mr. Kruger rep Med.
prk ‘lir'ising compliance.
Early ithite micruing the C< Jonial Office
began to reo m» the rcp'l.v < f t ie Tnih>
vaal <iovermiHiit direct. Mr. ( hamber
lain on bring rcines'ted to make a slat*'
micii't declined to do so until after the
Cabimt'i couneLl tomonrow (Friday.)
Joiliajinesburg, Sept. G. —At a meeting
olf tin* War <’onVmis h n held ai! tin* fort
today a complete scheme wials drafted, it
is s'aid. for protecting and 'provisioning
the town in the event of hostilities.
(’omantmder YJljoen, of the Transvaal
ferees. says. t.. ‘at miairt.ial law* will be
pro'HaiiitW'd hntmediately on the receipt of
an n'ltirniatinn from (Treat Britain.
l’rctoria. Kept. 3.—The latest reply <»f
the Tramsvstill Ropuhliic to the Butish
<b tuands 'hints been pcblishcd. In this re
ply regret is expressed that the prop<i
s.ills of Great crit.-rn an* umeceidable.
‘line Transvaal (Tovci tinvnnt aiini’ts Great
Bril a ill’s right's under the < on ven lion <A|
Lratei nataonal law to proitedt her saUbjocts,
but denies a claim of suzerainty. The
reply agrees to a further confenniice re
gaidling the franchise and reproscnitatiiui.
M fie Times prints a long Cape Town
dispatch from Mr. 'Moiieypeiiny. its
.Jonaninosiburg corrosiMMidonlt. descrubiiiir
tihe steps 'which led to his flighit.
(’oiriiriHimting on the general 'i'tUatiou
Mr. Moneypenny reimiarks:
“Further 'uegot iatin'g aand dalliance will
only make Great Britain liidiicnloiis and
fall'll. The only way to avoid war and
to setllo the affair is to doncind <Li.sarin
meilit land make a military dem *n-Iration
to enforce it.’
KILLED ON THE RAIL.
A Terrible Accident on the Norfolk and
Western.
Roanoke, Sept. 3. —One of the most
serious accidents in the history of the
Norffflk amt Western occurred this
morning near Narrows, a station on tin*
Radford division. Two coaches of an
enstbouml' passenger train jumped tin*
track and rolled downi a thirty-foot cm
bankmeot. Two persons were killed
and twenty-eight more or less Injured.
The dead:
A. B. LUCK, a contractor, of Roanoke.
AN INFANT, name unknown. Blue
field. West Virginia.
All the injured will rtsover. Their
wounds are montly cuts and bruises.
They were able to be moved and some
continued on their journey. A party
of eight were brought to Roanoke to
night and received the necessary medi
cal attention.
It is said the spreading of a rail
caused the accident. A wrecking train
with physicians from Roanoke was sent
to the scene of the wreck this noon.
Traffic was delayed only a few hours
on account of the w reck.
A KEY WEST TUG SHUT OUT.
Charleston, S. C„ Sept. G. —The United
States tug Naze ascot, from Key West,
reached Fort Royal Monday evening.
She had twenty-one persons lalioanl, and
although there was no sickness among
the passengers, none of them, were "al
lowed jo land, and she was ordered to
Sanojo immediately.
VE CENTS.
PUT 9
&
('(Ms'’ N ON THE B. AND O.
Fifty Persons Injured in the ( rash —<
None Killed.
Ooityiellsville, Pa., Sep.it. G. Probably
fifty persons were injured in a rear end
collision on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad tonight at Connollsville sta
tion. The presence of mind of Engin
eer John Haggerty saved the lives of
many.
Many of jin* injured continued on
their journey and their names could not
Ik* learned.
The first section of Train No. 5, and
Aii emigrant special of eigirt Wagner
sleepers ran into the rear end of the
Cumberland accommodation. Both trains
were westlKiund. Engineer Murray, of
the emigrant train lost control of his
engine, the air brake refusing to work,
and crashed into the rear end of the
accommodation, which was standing in
front of the station and was crowded
with passengers. Engineer Haggerty
who was oiling his engine, threw the
throttle open upon seeing the runaway ,
train coming. The accommodation train ’
lurched forward but not quick enough
to escape a collision, Tlie- crash was
terrific. Two coaches of the accommo
dation; were wrecked, the rear end of
the last one being crushed as though it
had been an egg shell. None of tip*
passengers on the through train were
severely injured.
BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
Washington, Sept. G. —President Mc-
Kinley and party arrived from the G. A.
R. encampment at Philadelphia at 7:30
o’clock this morning. The trip home
was without incident, and all seemed in
excellent spirits.
ENDORSEGOLDSTANDARD
RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE AMERICAN
BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION.
They Declare that These Resolutions Will Stay
the Hands of the Members of
Congress.
Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. G.—Walker
Hill. President of the American Ex
change Bank of St. Louis, will be
chosen as the utixt President of flu?
American BankerM* The
nominating committee so decided at its
meeting today. Mr. Hill has been
President of the Association during the
past year.
Alvah Trowbridge. President of the
North American Trust Company <>f
New York, will Is* recommended by the
committee for First Vice President.
The nqiort of the Committee on Edu
cation was presented by Chairman W il
-1 km) C. Cornwell, of Buffalo.
General Whiting, of Alabama, intro
duced a resolution which wa* passed,
recommending that tlu* Committee on
Education be continued and that it i» •
instructed to present to the Executive
Council a plan for the organizatioir of
such an institute as that ill London, de
scribed by Mr. Cornwell.
Robert McCurdy. Chairman of the
Committee on Credits, presented his re
l>ort.
At the close of the reading of’the re
ports, E. O. Leach, of New York. Vice
President and Cashier of flu* National
Union Bank, got the recognition of the
Chair, and in a brief speech, presented a
set of resolutions which endorse the gold
standard. Mr. Leach said that
resolutions would stay the hands of the
members of Congress.
Mr. Loach moved the adoi*ion of the
resolutions.
Colonel Myron T. Herrick, of Cleve
land. in an enthusiastic speech seconded
the motion.
The resolution were voted upon by the
assembly and unanimously adopted.
A REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS. \
Washington. Sept. 3. Arevolutionary
movement is mow in progress in Vene
zuela. The information has come to the
State Department from an unofficial
source but one believed to oe trustwor
try.
The Navy Department today sent or
ders to tin* Detroit which bus just ar
rived at Philadelphia from New York
to proceed at once to lgtguayra. Vene
zuela. She will coal and start, on the
voyage in the course of two or three
days. The Detroit should make the
run to 1 aiguayra inside of ten days.
The presence of an American wan-lhip
may have a good effect in maintaining
the confidence of the resident Ameri
cans and other foreigners in their safety.
The extent of tin* disaffection is not
known here, though it is said that ever
since tlie last election there iiave liern
unitterings on the part of a defeated
candidate and his friends.
HALF A MILLION BALES SHORT.
Atlanta. Ga.. Kept. 3.—Commissioner
of Agriculture O. B. Ktevens, who re
turned to Atlanta today aft *r an in
spection of the crops throughout Middle
and Southwest Georgia, states that cot
ton will be at least half u million bales
short, and that in order to realize 75
per cent, of the crop of 1899, conditions
will have to remain favorable for some
time to come.
NO DANGER AT NJJSW ORI.UVNN
Washington. Sept. 3. A dispatch Inis
been received from tin* commanding
officer of the garrison at New Orleans,
saying the situation there is not serious,
and unless the yellow fever lavomes
more of a menace than at present he
does not 'believe it is advisable to move
the troops. Acting tqioii this suggestion
the order for removal has been held In
u bey mice.