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POLICY ADOPTED COURTS'UM Thomas F. Ryan Talks After a Meeting of Leading Democrats at His Home Prior to Their De- parture for St. Louis New York, June 27. A number of fn-p'Ttant Democrats met tomgnt at home of Thomas F. Ryan ,on Fifth c;me .preparatory to moving on mc pt niocratic national convention at St. Louis. Mr. Ryan is a delegate from his ome state of Virginia. After the con- Serf HO e at Jir. njan s numc ne mui. "The Democratic candidate for presi ent uill be nominated at St. Louis and ot in New York city or any other city ff,?t. west, north or south. It is noi Jecfssary for. me o give the names of gentlemen with whom I have Iked.M , jjlr. Ryan admitted that one of the subjects' under consideration at the nference tonight was a highly inter ting: one growing out of the Republi n national convention at Chicago, id Mr. Ryan added: In the light of the Republican con ation the southern people have more stake in the Democratic convention meet at St. Louis than all the rest the people of this country. Without . i 1J 1 TV .3 e poutn mere wouiu ue nu jjemuciaiiu rtv. The delegates from that section I be true to themselves and their peo je should insist that all ' differences, hether personal or political, be subor dinated to the unification of the party ad the selection of a candidate who hi arouse the enthusiasm and fire the poes of Democrats everywhere. Suc ss means Continued white supremacy the soutjl with all it implies. It tans thatV the political faith of tHe ople of that section shall be changed ily by appeals to judgment and con ience as! to what, is best for all the iople of bur common country, and not rough federal laws dictated and en jrced by a centralized and politically stile administration, -at Washington, fn forced by the United States Mar- I when other methods no longer 'The feature which stands out in the iork of the Republican national con- fention." continued Mr. Ryan, "which" is just adjourned, was not its prear nged nomination of President Roose ?lt or the stand pat attitude on tariff, s real spirit is found in that deliber :e declaration about southern repre fr. tat ion, a spirit which foreshadows a jew force bill and makes inevitable a pncerted movement to revive all the til passions to which such an appeal made. XTntil recently this idea has id in it nothing more serious than was lvolved in the idle talk of a few hot eads or in the efforts of notorlety ;ekers to command a hearing. Now it ecomes the deliberate policy of a great arty which sees in it an opportunity to rge a : new weapon for pro n Ration of its tenure of power, jhis nolicv is adorted in de- noe of the uniform decision of .e courts from the lowest to the high- t. It sets at naueht the oreeents and ie example of the late President Mc- inley; Ijt believes the boast of the arty leaders that unity has come to e country and it overlooks entirely ie steady movements which have pro moted with so much efficiency the ih ustrlal development of the south now "oognized as so vital to the future Towth of the whole country. Instead f something to typify these tendencies V" bloody shirt buried since Marctt, , -is resurrected as a party banner. "The south," Mr. Ryan said -in conclu- fWi, 'is to hp conp-rntnlntPfl that Sen- Oorman is on guard in the Senate pi that John Sharpe Williams of Mls- i?s'PPi has behind him in the House J1C- 1; icrut st organized and the ablest Dem c minority since the war." Army Vacancies Washington, D. C, June 27. The as tenrnent of a large class of West Point -aduates to regiments in the army has t filled all the vacancies and it is Fifteen Scalded to Death Penned in roller Burst on French Crui ser Durance, and None Could Go to the Res cue on Accounnt of v Blinding Steam Francisco, Cal. , June 27. The pamor Mariposa, from Tahiti, brings (e'v of thG scalding to death of fifteen ei who were penned in the boiler Om nf w tti i. k , c jrxcxiua cruiser, uurance Jroi t p on her way tar? apeete to Noumea recently. The Vat y realizd the men's fate, " o.c niCTIJ. YVI11M3 f iLTl r? M . uumr ameers and men of the IN DEFIANCE FO Mi RULING on the Political Situation probable that there will be about twen ty to be filled by - appointment from civil life. 'There are seventy-eight va cancies in the grade of second lieuten ant after deducting the assigned grad uates. Of the vacancies thirty-nine are in the infantry, ten in the artillery and 29 in the corps of engineers. A lartfc part of these vacancies will be filled from the list of army candidates now under instruction at Fort Leavenworth, but after allowing for all the present conditions it is thought there will be room for 20 appointments from civil life. .... NRAIDIG STILLS BY WHOLESALE : Valuable Apparatus Destroy ed Near Hunting Creek. Asheville, N. C, June 27. Special. Reports of numerous raids, by revenue officers have been received here. One of the most important of these raids was made by -Deputy Collector Hard ing near Hunting Creek, where he lo cated and destroyed a valuable appa ratus, 3,000 gallons of beer and a quan tity of liquor. Other raids by the revenuers result ed, in the destruction of several stills and over 2,000 gallons of beer. OFF COMES THE LID . . ; Accused'lWiH the Bpodiing in Sti Louis ' St. Louis, Mo., June 27. A. sensation was sprung in Judge McDonald's divis ion of the criminal court this morning when Edmund Bersch ,one of the In dicted members of the house of dele gates combine .entered a plea of guilty through his attorney Thomas J. Rowe to boodlihg in connection with the city lighting deals.' Attorney Rowe asked Judge McDon ald to defer sentence for a few days and the request was granted. The next sensation that was sprung in connection with the famous case was the postponement to' July 11 of the trials of Charles F. Kelly and Charles A. Gutke, when they came up before "the court In the afternoon with the un derstanding that when they re-appear the defendants will plead guilty to the charges against them. The postpone ment was taken, it is understood, with the object in view of permitting the two .accused men to appear before the June grand jury which will reconvene Tuesday and tell all they -know about the boodling cases in which the entire county has been interested. It is whis pered that this determination of the accused men is due to the fact that cer tain support which has until now been back of them has now been withdrawn, and they will give evidence that may result in the indictment of several prominent men. ' ' rsm- . Dissatisfied With Hayti " Berlin, June 27. Germany, like France, is dissatisfied with the excuses offered by Hayti for the stoning of the German and French ministers by the ; Haytien palace guards, and - will send a war ship to enforce adequate satis faction.. Germany ; will act in accord with France, and" will go no further than the latter. Complications are not expected, it being merely an affair of honor. Boiled Room crew who were on deck knew that their comrades were: dying, down 'below, it was, not in their power to do anything but wait until the end came. One of the boilers of the cruiser had exploded and had filled the boiler room with superheated steam that meant doom for , every man in . the: compartment. Those that started to the rescue were driven back, blinded. The shrieks of the men dying in - agony came up to Uhem with a cloud of killing steam, but not a man could go until many minutes had passed, and then all of the fifteen who were in the boiler room at the time of the explosion were. dead',- every man scalded almost beyond recognition. The iast reportsreceiyed.by JFrench offi cials , at Tahiti were to the i effect that the war ship had made Noumea In safety, - and that Captain Roser ,who was prostrated by the disaster, was on Says Tariff Question Must Occupy a Large Place in the Canvass He Does Not Think Conven tion Will Nomi nate Him Princeton, N. J., June 27. In an In terview with a representative of the Public Ledger ex-President Grover Cleveland expresses the 'opinion that the question of tariff adjustment must certainly occupy a large place in the canvass ;that the question forced Itself inevitably upon the statesmen of the nation, and that whether it" should be met or not was not therefore dependent upon their will. He,, criticised the vagueness of the Republican promises as to the political future of the Filipi nos and characterized Elihu Root's speech at the Chicago Republican con vention as an exceedingly "adroit" ar gument. He would not touch upon the foreign policies of the government. He con firmed the approval already expressed by him of Parker and Olney as aspi rants to the presidency, but he took es pecial pains to disclaim any idea of in fluencing the choice of the Democratic national convention ,or any thought that his influence could avail in that particular. To the question bluntly put to him: "If the Democratic national conven tion again nominates you for the presi dency, would you accept?" His first answer was a pantomime. He vigorously shook his head and lifted Fire Started in Barrel of Salt Hay Sdvs Expert Strong Head Wind Drew the Flames Through Open Hatchway of General Slocum Coroner's Inquest on Water New York, June 26. The coroner's Inquest into the General Slocum dis aster was conducted today almost en tirely on the water. The jury, the district attorney, Garvan, Coroners Berry and O'Gorman and several wit nesses went aboard the police boat Patrol over the course taken by the steamer on the day she was burned. Then they visited what is left of the General Slocum and heard former Fire Marshal Friel give an expert opinion as to just where the fire started. Mr. Friel said in regard to the com partment where the fire started: "I found in that compartment three barrels of straw in some of which glasses were packed, a number of bar A DARK HORSE SAYS TOM JOHNSON Cleveland's Mayor Predicts v Deadlock Between Park er and Hearst Washington, June 27. Special. May or Tom Li. Johnson of Cleveland pre dicts a deadlock between the Parker and Hearst forces at St. Louis, with the result that k dark horse will get the nomination." 1 In support of his view that neither of the leading candidates can win the prize, Mayor Johnson said: "The conservatives will not have enough votes to control, and the radit cals cannot win' out in the convention with the present candidates suggested. I believe a dark horse, who can draw from both factions, -will be named. Surely no other candidate would stand a show of being elected. "In-my opinion,, Judge Gray of Dela ware would be preferrable to any man yet named, though I favor Joseph Folk, of Missouri. I doubt very" much if he will allow "his name to be mentioned, however." The mayor said that there was no danger of Bryan bolting and that if the Nebraskan joined forces with Hearst he would probably have power enough to dictate to a large degree the action of the delegates. , . Bryan at St. Louis Lincoln, Neb., June 27. William - J. Bryan will appear as one of the 'orators of the day at a celebration July 4th on the exposition grounds at ' St. Louis. An invitation to that effect reached him today from President Francis - of the World's Fair and the Nebraska Board of Fair Commerce. Bryan accepted im- JjxLadlatelx. - falteiiir Poult his hand deprecatlngly. Then he ex claimed with, rapid utterance: , "That will not happen; that will not happen, so there is no use talking about it." . . "I - am out , of political affairs," he continued. "I have . said it so often that it ought to be well understood." Asked what he thought of the sug gestion that the Democrats would do most wisely to take their candidate for vice president; f rom one of the southern states, the ex-president dictated the following: "I must decline to enter into any dis cussion of politics at this time. It can not be possible that my opinion on any question that" is about to be involved in .the , national canvass can be mis understood. I do not expect to be con cerned ; actively in the plans that are now occupying the thought and effort of the Democratic managers, and it is quite proper that I should be out of that account, inasmuch as I consider myself as absolutely retired from politi cal activities." ' "Do you think, .Mr. Cleveland, that the tariff question Will be of prime im portance in the campaign?" "I have no objectionWo saying," re plied the ex-president, with marked emphasis and deliberation, "that, in my opinion, whatever else happens, the question of tariff adjustment cannot fail to occupy a large place in the po litical discussions of the present can vass. The few evasive and grudging words contained in the Republican plat form, in a half-way fashion permitting Republican followers to exercise inde pendent thought on that subject,' in combination with the insistence of the Democratic party, in season and out of season, upon tariff changes, it seems to me, will certainly bring this question to the front in a most important way." rels and cans of oil and this barrel (pointing to a partly burned barrel) contained salt hay. and in it the fire started. It smouldered for a while, then blazed up and burned until what ever dry hay. there may have , benjn the barrel was consumed. The hatch ta the compartment being open and there being a strong head wind the flames were drawn up through the hatchway and communicated to other parts of the boat without spreading in the compartment where the fire started." More testimony was heard In regard to the bad life - preservers and the course the boat took after the fire was discovered. The district attorney had received many letters to the effect that there was a fire on the Slocum the day be fore the disaster and expressing the opinion that the fire had been allowed to smoulder for twenty-four hours. Af ter some Investigation District Attorney Garvan found that the day previous to the accident the Slocum had taken out the St. Paul's Lutheran church sun day school, of which the pastor was the brother of the Rev. Mr. Haas of St. Marks. J r WASHED THROUGH PIPE INTO RIVER Huge Pipe Flooded While Be s ing Cleaned 34 Drown ed, 17 Missing Kingston Jamaica, Junue 27. Thirty four men were drowned and seventeen are missing as the result of the acci dental flooding of a large pipe lead ing from the electric power house at Bogwalk today. Sixty-seven men were engaged in cleaning the pipe w;hen through' some accident, water was turned into it and the men were washed into the river. Sixteen of these were known to have escaped. At the Naval Hospital Norfolk, V., June . 27. -It? was an nounced at the Naval Hospital here to day that seaman F. K. Fransen. who broke his back on the battleship Tex as in Hampton Roads Saturday, is: still alive, but it is feared he cannot re cover. Fransen was injured while en gaged In assisting In the hoisting of a steam cutter on the Texas. . Relatives in, Columbus. Ohio, not hav ing claimed the remains of Geo. B. Womer, fireman on the United States torpedo boat Biddle, , who died at the Naval Hospital as a result of burns re ceived on the Biddle Friday, the body will be buried with naval . honors in the hospital cemetery here this after noon. The Loomis Mystery London, June 27. The opinion of those who' are investigating the mys tery attending the disappearance from. th steamer Kaiser Wilhelm of Mr. Kent Loomis a brother of the Ameri-JYork HEN IGHT F SKY ROCKETS AMD Three Killed and Eight Glare and Deafening Diamond Fireworks Company in Philadelphia can assistant1 secretary of state, in clines to the belief that he fell over board when the steamer was nearing Plymouth or while she was at her an chorage there. The officers of the steamer are positive that he did not land at Plymouth. Mr. Loomis had been drinking heavily the day before the Kaiser Wilhelm - arrived, and after the captain's dinner in celebration of the vessel's record-breaking passage, he was badly intoxicated. There is not the slightest basis for the rumor 1 from New York that Mr. Loomis was J mur dered by acquaintances on the vessel. SOME BIG BETS ON CLEVELAND . . . . . Ex-Mayor Van Wyck Wagers $2,000 London, ' June 27. Ex-Mayor "Van Wyck of New York and J. W. Cox be came involved in a heated discussion of American' politics in the smoking room of the Carlton" Hotel today, and it ended by Mr. Van Wyck betting Mr. Cox $2,000 that Mr. Cleveland, if nomi nated by, the. Democrats, . would be elected. Mr. Cox, who is' still an ar dent Bryan man, challenged other of fers, whereupon J. F. Carroll and J. M. Shaw each wagered $4,000 with Mr. Cox on Cleveland's election. lCr. Cox had previously bet Mr.' Van Wyck $4,000 to $400 that Mr. Cleveland would not be nominated. - Mr. Van Wyck told a cor respondent he was convinced that Mr. Cleveland is the only man who can dis place sufficient Republican -yotes to in sure a Democratic victory. He believes that the pendulum wiir swing strongly in the direction of Mr. Cleveland, and that, if the convention does not nomi nate Judge Parker on the secorjd bal lot, which Mr. Van Wyck does not ex pect will happen, Mr. Cleveland wi 11 be chosen as the presidential nominee of the Democratic party, in which case Mr. Van Wyck does not believe that Mr. Cleveland will refuse the nomina tion. Mr. Van Wyck said that his trip was entirely one of pleasure,' and the most pleasant feature about it would be his meeting Croker again at Wan tage, whither Mr. Croker will shortly return from Dublin. He added that they would of course talk politics, but when asked whether the report was true that he would try to induce Mr. Croker to return to the leadership and re-establish harmony in Tammany Hall, Mr. Van Wyck said: "I am here strictly for pleasure. I do not know whether Mr. Croker has any intention of returning to America. Only he. himself . can tell." Mr. Van JWyckr has visited Ambassa dor -Choate. He will dine at the em bassy on Wednesday. TAB HEELS AT YALE Mims of Durham, Harland of Asheville, Take Honors New Haven, Conn.,J'une 27. Special. Among the honor appointments for Yale commencement announced today are Stewart, Lee Mims of Durham, N. C, philosophy and oratory, highest honors; Francis Edwin Howland of Asheville, N. C, oratory, second highest honor; Stewart L. Mims, honors in history for two years work. Weql thy Goldsbpro ISirpter a Suicide in New Ybrk George A. Oyerbaugh Found Dead in Bed at His Board ing House With Car bolic Acid Bottle Beside Him New York, June .27. George A. Over baugh,, 64 years- old, a wealthy broker of Goldsboro, N. C.,; ended his life to day by drinking carbolic acid in the room he occupied in the boarding house at No. 138 west forty eighth street. At the . house a mysterious silence is main tained as to the circumstances pre ceding the suicide, and the police have been able to learn nothing V about the facts. Mr. OverbaughTcame to New at the solicitation of hia friends, A FUSILAD BOMBS Injured Amid the Awful Explosions at the Philadelphia. Pa June 27. Amid the flashing of skyrockets, the glare of bursting bombs and a continuous series of explosions, three persons were kiUed and eight were injured today hi the three-story brick building at 826 Arch, street occupied by the Diamond Fire works Company, j For fifteen minutes ' the explosions' shook the surrounding buildings, jets of flame flashing from the burning struc ture as if it were a heavily armed fortress engaged in. a desperate de fense. Panics occurred in several stores near by, where hundreds of girls are employed. A street car stopped direotly in the line of the fire of rockets that were filling Arch . street. The passengers fought , furiously with the conductor and motorman for a chance to escape. Men, women and children were fleeing from the zone of bombardment in all directions. Then came a gallant fight of the fire men, and-soon the sickening spectacle of limp, disfigured bodies being carried down the ladders from the third floor. The scalp of one woman victim had been half torn from her head by a rocket stick. One fireman, - half ex hausted from carrying two bodies down a long ladder, lost his hold as a hose burst and he fell crashing to the pave ment in full view-, of thousands of spec tators. The list of dead includes Lena Simp--son, aged 20; O.. Berman, 27 years old, and Oscar Jenovitch, SO years. Eight other persons were severely injured. The second floor of the building was vacant, a prospective tenant waiting until after the Fourth of July to move In. The third floor was occupied in part by the French Hat and Bonnet Company. The origin of the fire is a mystery, and is as yet ascribed by the Inspectors to feponaneous combustion. Late tonight the inspectors were 'ex pressing a strong desire to Interview David Zeeisler, junior member of the firm. He is missing. At the sound of the first explosion a dozen or more customers who were in the sales room . at . the time, and most of the employees of the establishment. Including a number of, women,- made their escape by, rapid flight, although a half dozen of the girls who had fainted from fright had to be rescued by 'fire men and citizens. ' Employees in neighboring buildings were so badly frightened that many jumped from windows, but fortunately few of these were severely and none fa tally injured. s The firemen pursued their work through a hall of fireworks and fvere in some Instances seriously burned. Judge Hargis Injured Jackson, Ky., Jne 27. County. Judge Hagls,, noted- aa tjhe alleged leader of the Hargis faction in the late Hargisr Cockrlir f eaidV met with a serious and perhaps fatal injury today by being thrown from his horse while riding to call upon his, aged mother. His shoul der was broken and he received 'Inter nal injuries. Because of : this accident the hearings of Anse Short for complici ty, and James Salyers, accused of tha murder of Mack White, were continued. Escaped BobrikofF's Fato London, June 28. A dispatch to . thl Daily Mail from Odessa says that Gen eral Tohertkoff, governor of Poland, escaped death th day previous to the assassination of General Bobrikoff, gov ernor of Finland, by the timely dis civery of an infernal - machine in hia room. : , Mr. and Mrs. Jeff cut and; their son, William Jeff cut, who live in the forty eighth street boarding house,. The broker had been suffering from a ner vous affliction for a number of years and Mrs. Jeff cut endeavored: to convert him to. Christian science. ; He had tried Christian science, however, and got no relief through it. He was Bitting on the front stoop of the house last night' discussing Chris tian science and suicide with young Jeff cut. He remarked that he thought any one that killed himself by aid of carbolic acid was a fool, Then he went to bed. He was found today dead, on his . bed, & small bottle that had con tained carbolic acid beside him. The police say tharfc. stains of what seem to be carbolic acid, have been found on the stoop of the house. Inquiries, how ever, failed to account for the stains. Mr. Overbaugh was a bachelor and said tQ e yerj; .wealthy 'A
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