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I It ' i ' . s . r k ft - s z . i MECKLEEfBURG TIMES, OHAHLOTTE. THURSDAY WOYElvrBER 5, 1096. I8HE3 HIS KNIFE.' ajor (luthriv? Defies the IHe Hunters Who have 5old Out the I'opulUt j.i his t)svwr to Maj William A. u thric manly address to the -3P opulists to stand by their :pl t IIhI Aycr, People's i airimui, who is sacrificing "th ing to elect himself State &or, says: "Kcr these and other xvhich there is now neither time nor inclination to mention, it is tin tjalm and candid opinion of the State chairman that Major Guthrie 3ias forfeited all pght to the conti lonce of the numbers of the IYo 3le'd party, lie is. however, still 4he laity nominee, and his naim 'will appear on all the tickets issued pnnci party every Audi- reasons MCKINLEY MONEY HUNT8 COVER. 80HOOLCRAFT8 8A0 LIFE. Threc-tO'One Bets Can't Be Found In Chicago Now. Ciuoaoo, November 1 The McKinley money ut big odds sought cover last night. Hut one bet was made about tiny of the big hotels and that was on the state of Illinois. The McKinley people who have been blowing about three to one on the general result did not show up A few Bryan men offered to Left $60,000 In Bonds In a Chicago llotelniscry Caused by an Unfaith ful Wife. TjIR Nkws published u telegram last week telling of the finding of $60,000 of valuable securities in a trunk held by a Chicago hotel for a $28 board bill. The recurities are the property of John Lawrence Schoolcraft, a "for mer wealthy business man of Rich mond, Va. Possessions of the securities only take bets at 1 to 2, but even at this brings sorrow and snffeiing to the figure McKinley takers could not be owner, as it recalls a sad event m found. A telegram came last night from Louisville stating that the democrats there offend to bet $5,000 even on the result in that state but no takers rnnM tip foil nil hfrp The republicans billed Chicago iu envelopes at $1 a thousand, wit h American flas printed on paper was quickly ascertained that urn People's Paity State lleadquar iud bearing the pictures of McKir- it luf 11 Kit c& million in this city. ers. "A firm conviction of the Stah chairman is that the course of Muj dnthrie has be n such as will inak itimpussible for htui to receive the sulLagtrof the full mcmlership oi the People's party and here in ad Vance of election day, it is declared that the number of votes east foi 31 aj. Guthrie, as the People's part 33omime for Governor, must no" -sand cannot be accepted as au indi cation of People s party strength." Maj. Guthrie says in his repty 4hat he hps uothiug to fear from he pie hunters of the Populist par i;y, and issues a supplementary ad dress, in which he says: 4If my address is not based strict ly upon the declared principles and teachings of the Populist party, tiieu I am unable to understand those principles aud the purposes Xor which our party was organized, nd I have failtd to read aright th teachings of the Caucasian, and tht Progressive Farmer in the past. Vhen did it become a dectrine oi the People's party that principle should yield to expediency for the 4j.ntlic of office-seekers? Or when did it become a doctrine of our par ty that principles should not be dis cussed by the candidates on tht stump or by an address issued to the voters, without incurring tht a oetile criticism of a committeeman j: the party who happens to be a "candidate of another antagonistic party as well as of our own:- Or "when did .t become a doctrine of th:- Peoples party that we should aiiUjwn A livo enwr candidate for a eoid-bur randiilat - o It developed last night that the gave out the contract of posting their Mags to a non-union bill poster and all ihe labor unions in town are ir consequence up in arms. Hanua dit? this deliberately, but he is sorry fo it now aud even the repub 10am calculate on losing several thousand votes in this town as a result. LFn der, the pressure of a hundred tele grams Senator Tillman returned trom Iowa yesterday. He was im mediately led by the local committe to speak to 10,000 .Russian Jews The South Carolinian captured tht full outfit When he concluded every man in the hall was yelling fo) Bryan in the best English at hi command. List night Tllmt spoke to great audiences out t th stock yards. He will continue i. Chicago up to the night before th election. his life which he has been trying to wipe out for years and forget. When the bonds were found at the Saratoga Hatel one day last week Mr. Schoolcraft was at that time earning his living by address- It the bonds belonged to him; he had the hotel check for the trunk in which hey were discovered; he had a re ceipted bill for his board there. Schoolcraft, with $00,000 at his command, keeps up the drudgery of iiltlressinsr envelopes to earn his daily bread. Schcolcraft himself declines to discuss his life story After persistent questioning he would only sav: "Xo man on earth has suffered more than I. Many have wronged e, but I hold enmity against no living person and try to follow the A 8ERI0U8 ACCIOENT. TALK ABOUT "80UND MONEY " Two Freights Collide Near Lexington and Several are Injured. The Tracks Cleared. Present Financial System on Gold Basis Anything but Sound. The sheerest claptrap is the call There was a freight wreck on the ing of the campaign for gold one fo Sou 'hern this morning about four "sound, money." Our preseit sys- miles from Lexington, which result- tern is anything but sound It is I'd rather seriously. One of the one of the rottonest possible. In the freights was bound fox Danville and fii-gt place here is one coined dollar another coming this way, according 0f the United States, confessedly to the most reliable information, WOrth 100 cents and another worth .. . t 1 1 -i . i m . . . . . when they met ana coinaea 4 wo but 53. Here is 1,000 millions of Salisbury men, Jim Menius and gjiver and paper afloat which the John Brown, were badly hurt. government undertakes to redeem in Menius was standing on tnetop 01 g0ia, with only 120 millions of gold tnecauoose wueu wo awiucui- w,- t0 ao it witn, ana nalr 01 that bor- curred and was thrown tnrougn tne rowed. caboose to the floor and badly mash- ye venture the prediction that as ed up. He was brought home this goou as election shall be over, with- afternoon, and is now resting very out regard to which side wins, the comfortably. Brown's leg was banks which have lent sold to the DrOKen ana ne susiaineu several Treasurv to tide over th? rnlit.,Vl niYtav cHVt ininr:pfl. rrVP rnilrnnfl Ti i ti p W 0 This i3 the thousands at They have no does not. rd.-.u ' 'oi -.viir ii yti(.u., thain . owuuiacn anrt "lQetn. A 1 men, as usual, are very reticent about the affair and will give 110 particulars. Capt. Ryder came through this morning with a crew, going to the scenes of the wreck. The vestibule was delayed until 12:30 and the local, which is due at 10.15, did not arrive uutil 1:15. The World wired for further par ticulars of the wreck but had receiv ed no replv up to 3 o'clock. Salis bury World. crisis will quickly call for it again and then instead of 120 millions of real mney to support the 1,000 mil lions of representative monty there will be less than half that sum The continuance of the futile experiment of maintaining a gold standard with no refources of gold to do it with can only keep the country in a con stant condition pf panic and perpet ual bard times. a course of li,';' them It also purjflJS 0100a, cures that disrr " 0 S internal n!sPry iccunij ami bniM 1 yandeffieionyre!ieS N turns and euros nr-rvou w , SpeW .most ,a0B- oars 4 1 1 aParilb Ta thp &at ir. t.. . . .,vnl iir I'-Trn.r,, 1 "v t,ie trs 1 11 h; -iom Hood's Pills . Ml otill m thfi P,. on- . residua and 'oagrets? Who lis attempted. for C i 1 or wHi now attempt, to explain and justify by the honored teachings and dtclaraticns of the People's ' party .,,,.1 ! : : . r. . - ouuu a giai iug inconsistency. Must man lor the sake of office utterly 'aiaiegaru ana ignore the principle or lis party and! the well-known Wishes of the rauk and he of the -utt-rs of party? I have advo " cd . it ;he principles of my '; itcu -. its platform, ioL-.i. 1 have' to the tlity, -j ju with all my iHJWe4. . ,o:eJ to enforce these principles aud add strength and Jpower to our cause. 4I to be faithful and zealous to the great principles of my party can denounced as treachery to" my j?arty, then I have mistaken and '-misunders'ood the manhood and in 'tegrity of the members of the Peo Iple's parry. I am willing for the people to judge between me and my -defamers, and abide the verdict of impartial history for the justifica tion of my public act3 and i'ejlara -ioas. J again repeat the warning iiiityou be careful to read all the -vjatnes on your ballots before khey aye-deposited in the ballot-box, and ' do so the more earnestly because I have now before me a printed ballot entitled "Straight Populist Ticket," vhich has printed on it the names of only the five Populist electors, vneu it should have the names of 'ihe eleven Brjau fusion- electors. This ticket has alrea ly bten.i;sued and circulated to deceive and mis lead the voters, but by what au bo ity or by whom 'I do not know. Is this a scheme of Mark llanna? Vnj.niVr that frit- old paving, that Eternal vigilance is the" price of -tierty, and be watchfu Associated Press on North Carolina. The Associated Press has the fol lowing review of the situation ii North Carolina: "There seems, in spite of fugitiv threats or scratching as to fusion ticket, to be a genera escence among the better of both Populists and that liryan will carry the o,uoo. The Hepubhcans claim th. State for McKiuley by 12,0o0. "Outside of intense suspicion af to electoral bogus tickets, the na tional campaign is practically ended. Hut the State contest is hotter thai; ever, and the fight unsurpassed. (itithrie's strong address against Renubl ican Populist fusion, as fh. Populist nominee, has modified tin elements of the situation the Dem ocrats claim, favorable for them selves; the republicans claiming the result iu their favor. In the mean time Watson's election is claimed b 15,000 by the Democrats, and Puis sell's by from 20,000 to 40,000 b Republicans. Hut all attempts at forecast are wild in the endless complication of forces in the State." Tribune. Bring flessages From Gomez. Key West, l a., Nov. 3. Colone J. M. Oitega, Major A. Cuspeireand Lieutenant Garcia and Felix Rioa. special commissioners from General Gomez to the Cuban junta in the united states, have arrived in this "Old Bill" as William Kinalev 97 oh the schooner Irena from mond, Va. The concern was nonn- is familiarlv called, wrs dentin Nassau. lar and made wouey fast. In those for the priesthood, but he preferred , Tne7 are thirteen days out from days Schoolcraft was a light hearted, sailor-soldier's life. Enlisting in tne camP of General Gomez, having i.. 7: 1.1 nfi! 1 . ... . 0 I Inft fl..kn J.L - 1 . - jvvsjucauiug man. nne isriusn navy, ne sailed the seas 1 VUU1 uu tne nignt or 1 ;; It IT' I am still in t and GLASS T 7 .1 ... .. 11 tue peopie are wise thev will there w th h.ti. r demand that the foolish experiment goods at the w J The Oldest Voter in Missouri Will oe stopped forthwith and a sound. ..... . Vote for Bryan. Safe sytem be returned to, under vmmng lealui V It seems that to William Kings - ,ney shall pass for what it i.i ,nnm,n,i ,..u ,i R? fii.i f u, i . xeaiiv worm ana no lo-sr r at a urmS " to me. mil to man.7 Had T thou ah t. mv nrestie of he no- the ohlpsh vntpr in ""'""tCu aiuc iei-roit n you want O j w - r - - past would be dug up in the connec the State, lie ws3 born iu the tion with the3e miserable old papers County of Limerick, Ireland, in the I would never have made any claim year 1780, and is now. of course, to them. May my secrets be buriei 116 years old. It is hard to con with my body." ceive of a life extending from the Ten years ago John Lawrence time of America's struggle for inde- Shoolcraft, then a vigorous, hand- pendence down to the present At some man of , twenty nine, was a that time Wellington and Napoleon member of the brokerage firm of were young students. Campbell & Schoolcraft, af. ttinh "Old Bill " as Wil --re and bed-bug extern your wants. J- J- KZF.LL N. ( I can --eSe street,! ilervou Mrs. Schoolcraft was of the with Nelson and witnessed the the 20th ultimo small boat dp luc UJ" uiumo in a ( most beautiful and attrartivp wnmtn feat of the Frpnrh f Tf-iF ana lanaed at Nassau several dav the J m. i 1 At.AA vj ii w. ui ii wi. 7. i f 'i iir ii i in i i i it ii ill 2 i i in Mr ill no iro i " - ut luii iv i ij n.M u h iiii iiiui I acqui leader in societv. Oup dnv Iipp Hn. ?apempnts norninsr f ha Vr0nni, schooner Irene to this o.tv Thxr L IlltrtPliirji! I 1. 1 , . . V I f- . . - I 4.1 l t - J 1 .v,,. rjauei awoke to the fact that a lawyei Napoleonic wars. An ardent ad s,ate CDfc uerais Serahn Sanchez I'eniOCrat.' name el Stein, whn h-iA hoar ,.4 mirpr nf VannlaAn l, ), I and Calixto Gaania nro nrifk n.an. Is . V i t - -..v. v i . . ..vy.v ui. iimiig HU I - vuvuj OltttP il his nlAsnet .1 i l x ill., T .1 . 1. i . i . . I I ri rn trr u K 1 f r . f ... I - - - t o i.v I I - -- v. mil 1 1 v i in ii mi ' i-- .i.vu. i ii s Debilk DR E. C. WFST'S - - w 7 I 'irfl I i I Lai Iu HIP n ma ma m m a m. HI-KVI- Anil khA N T D A 1 TUP AnAI.laa . inc uniti.nL, ALL OTKERS IMiTaT'flM Sam Jones Not a Drawing Card. Sam Jones' lecture was not j financial success Saturday night. Ouly about $145 was taken in while the expense was 50 or over Otherwise it was a succejs. Sam, however, is a frood nn- h donated 75 of his share to the la dies of the Ctlltpna-rv maincd over and preached yesterda morning, when he "raised a co' lec tion" from a congregation of 1,500 or l,8(JU neon a h don't know, but probably enough to even up the loss on the lecture. bam is a whole team. Whilp parts of his Sermon were sublime we- see no reason for changing the opinion expressed when he was hen before, to wit: that he is an enter taining aud brilliant man. but tha' people who ask others to hear hin, should not object to circuses, min strels or even hih kickers If you can stand his "vivid" joke? you can staud anything. To use one of his expressions, if he dou't make you -'puke like a buz zard," you are in no danger at a show even at a French comic opera. Greensboro Kecord. quests, had robbed him of his wife's affections. The affair had gone toe far to admit of reconciliation, and. with a broken heart, Schoolcraft lef? her. On leaving home Schoolcraft'? main purpose seemed to be to rPt nd of his in ney as rapidly as possi ble To an intimate friend 1 e said that he wanted to scatter his fortune so that his wife could get none of it. Finally he wound up at Albu querne, N M., where on what he considered to be a sure losing ven ture, he accumulated uj ward of 5100,000 in realty. This, like hi- onier realty, fechoolcraft purposelv allowed to be sold for taxes. Kail wats and other corporations in which he held Jarsre . interests w r, at the death of the great French-. man. Mr. Kmgsley was wounded at the feige of Sebastopol; indeed, he carries many scars upon hi body. "Old Bill" Jealous Kustand's Crime. Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 3 terrible traredv -Jealousy caused a at Georgetown, O., tif this citv, all the three miles west Parties lifMlicr T'l 7 1 ?rou! heeling. Soott Linton shot "Dot" Gray a -ccsident of 3 house of ill fame, who 4? said to have been his wife, and iIjj Wi'lliam Metzger, with whom he jdiight her. With both lying at -:ils fett he fired a bullet iato his vi; brain and died almost instantly. The girl will probably recover, -;-but Metzger will die, the bullet : jascing through his liver. 0 Jlitzger and the girl went to the Shrmie of her parents Sunday night "sacd Linton hearing of it followed. &Ie found them together and witL at words f red. Holding the Corpse for Charges. The body of Fletcher Hanner, who was killed in Pennsylvania last Sunday, mention of which was made in these columns Tuesday, arrived here last night by express. His father and a number of friends mei it here but the charges were $37,50 and the company declined to turn the body over until the amount was pam. The father is a poor man and didn't have the money; neither did his friends, so the body remained at the depot and was there this morn ing. The parties who shinned it guaranteed the charges, hut hv they should have sent it bv pvnrpCa is a mystery. They could have pur chased a first class ticket and sent it as baggage. Mr. Hanner and his friend turned to their homes in the countrv without the corpse last night -Greensboro Eecord. dissolved or went but he made no himself; personal obligations of sol vent nrms and individuals were al lowed to outlaw. Thus it happened that one da about two years ago John La wren re Schoolcraft, ex-m:llionaire, landed m Chicago, with but a few dollar in his pocket and began to earn his living by actual work. In the bottom of his trunk al this time, however, lay overlooked and forgotten, the big feather wallet, containing $00,000 in bonds, just a he had plaetd them in it years be fore on leaving Richmond." Schoolcraft at thirty-nine bears no trace of having been a prosperous business man and a society favorife. He is still dignified in manner. Vmt he has aged bevond his veas nnrl )i;u face shows signs of the deen suffer : i i i . . i " ing ne naa passed through. Tlis attire is in keeping with his chean occupation, aud he lives well within his income of $1 a day. Greater Than the Giants. Great is Mr. Hanna, to be sure greater than all the sriant of h;a party. He settled on his plan in his office and "steadily pursued it" without c9D8ult;ng them, and forc ed it on them, aud has made them pursue it with him. Pie nominated Maj. McKinley and compelled them to nominate him, and has since kept McKinley at home, while employing them to traverse the country from end to end and from side to side, and canvass for his election. ChariPa. ton News & Courier. once deeerted frnm the English navy, and lent his aid to the Americans, under General Jackson, at New Orleans He has seen many of the notables of this century, including Napoleon, George i v ., ictoria, the English Admirals and William I. of Germauy. In spite of his 11G years, "Old Bih" enjoys good health, and earns his hving by digging wells. Though sumewruii oent, he hardly shows hit great age. He says that he is euti tied to a pension of a shilling- a day from the Euglish Government, but he prefers to live in Missouri and 1 j j . . mi ii 1 1 iiriri utp Tc i t-,n & : t . by authorized brents o:;I, . , " n-u" 5? ev Dizziness. Wakeful n,.; i-; , , u. . ...V ?! report that General Kabbi has ioined Sffl. JA& .Omez With 3,000 Spanish troops, fol Errors, or Excev,: U -V-of tI.WS and are all well and in the best of itZ spirits and confident of ultimate sue i0'1' coast for New York. "rieoniydii v.vvua i oie-i " or i ; v riyi 5"Red Label Special, Extra S renoth. 'or Imtiotennv. I.f; -111 rower, i.,t .M.-miioud, Sterility or Barrt-r.riesF., 1 a ro.:: six f.r si. wirhAi . - ' vttv -v written jruaranteey VI eT. cure ?n .) ax- 5 a-t store - ' T J -crwnc or by v--' AfT DR. S. L. Drnggists mio nauKrup'cy. uig wens tor a living rather than effort to nrotrci spend his davs i .- . . - j-.mv uuvi uiiin this ittance. "Old Bill" is a firm believer in the. Chicago platform of the Demo cratic party, and will cast his vote forHryan and Sewall.St. Louis Hep ub lie. An English Threat. t-The rosition in the United State?. From an English Point of V ew." From the Lon- uun ieicgrapn, sept. 16, mm. One thing is certain, namely, that the English capitalists will never take their interest from the United states m a . uepreciaceu currency. That the adoption of a bimetallic, or. as it would become later on, a silver f C RDHH'Q for standard by America would practic- fcg PIlUll OThiw r ally mean the repudiation of their debt is generally accepted, and it is this sort of thing that leads to with drawals of ambassadors and declara tions of war. ALEXANDER & CO, h; d s-oie Affents. hurlitt. X. C. I .fRER SH' rc-nirdy being jeeted directly to tit seat of those diasrt of the (Bpiiito-lrinarj Organs, requires u change of diet. Cut guaranteed in 1 te 1 days. Entail plain pact ase. by mail, S 1.00 New Man and Old Woman. People going to and from the railroad station to-day saw some thing that is rather out of the ordi nary among the male members of the Concord population. Joe Smoot, an industrious colored man was hard at work at the wash tub, while his wife was attending to "house hold affairs." Concord Standard. By the eternal we will see which is to rule the monev or th. npnnU ? Andrew Jackson. i The Famine in India. Calcutta, Nov 2 -The arrival of California wheat at this port hat had the effect of causing a reduction in prices in some parts of the dis tricts affected by the famine it is believed that a total of 30 000 tons of wheat have been pur chased for importation into India The Government is doing every thing possible to alleviate the dia tress. It has employed 53,800 per sens on works which have bec-n ctarted in order to furnish work foi those who, without it, would proba bly starve to death. Theiffectsoi the failure of the crops are not felt as seriously now as they will' be later. The worst distress will k. ieu in tuemiaaie ot December. Fever in MiUc The Portland Neck Common wealth sm: "At the Health Con ftreuce m Charlotte two weeks ago there were some very interesting facts brought out about fever in milk. One case was cited where the cow had been kept in a lot where there were-all kinds of fiUh aud garbage which the cow had ac cess to. The other was where a cow was put in a dirty pasture tnrongli which ran wator sewer which water Aa cow drank month after month; and those who uranK nniK irom these typhoid fever." Arkansas Bank Fails. By Telegraph to The News. Washington, Nov. 4. The first National Bank of Garret, Kansas. la ieu coaay. Uapital 50,000, lia bihties $90,000, assets nominal. Ex aminer Stain by las been placed in charge of the bank. Jt Sold only by DR. 8. L ALEXANDERS CO., Druggists. nd AL-er.;s. Charl-.tV, X. C. The wife of Mr. Leonard We'ls, of Last Brimfield. Mass.. had nppn enf fering from neuralgia for two days not being able to sleep or hardh keep still, when Mr. Holdfn, tlu merenanctneresenthera bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and asked auegiveit a thorough trial -On meeting Mr. Wells the next da he was told that she was all right he pain had left her within two hours, and that the bottle of Pain Ba m was worth $5.00 if it could not -h?di?r ess' For sale at 50 cents i uocue oy s. h Alexander & Co., Druggists. DR. DR. FELIX L BUN'S Steel PfiDDjwjal fill nrfl rna oris French, sr.f, on tii rnarkr. by mail. Gt-rn . a I ard onlj J rfl ahleccrt r d only by H. L. ALEX AN I) R i CO Druggists and So!- Aeents. Ch trlo-.te S. C. FARMERS Bring us Your Hides our Tannery is now ready for Them. If you need anvthl: : - J w line come and sio us. n oar cows had coPYhrt IS99 WILL BMP THROUGH YOUK FIN inan out of any other :shn t ?k 'neh Harness, Co lars, Saddles, The bank is the union of the government and the a union far more dangerous i) Z Ulklnof iZe .?r ce' d that, nf nh,IW,k S 5er0"8 . tIlaD thinff bv ?hJ JO0 s Pnlhnnn 'K C. egeration ,to sav tht i. v 1 an ex" Ualhoun. r,h 3tti lDft; ts cbe&nnp u Bicycles, our Good advice: Never teTlhe honse on a journey without a bottle of Chamberlain Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. For sale by S ' Alexander & Co, Druggist! In fact evervthinc in j 0 consideration of will be fnnnri in nnr new line voomy justifies iu r" use. l.u.?jMoTi Fourth Street. wont Trj yo Jmuchef mmen It stock JiS la-ge Handbags, alwayj onSnd, 1,68 and no SHAW HOWELL CO. t I
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