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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1900. 7 THE ERIE IN EARNEST IT IS BACKF.D IS ITS DIFFEIIKXTIAI FIGHT HY OTHER ROADS. Steamnhlp Line rtrfnalnK Railway Ofllrlal Tree Tranaportntlon General and Personal Notes. In railway passenger circles a report Is current that an effort, originating with the differentia lines, to arbitrate the question of excess fares and differentials under consideration. The fact came to light over a discussion by the other differential roads as to tr.klng the same action that the Erie withdrawing from the Joint passenger committee agreement.

A gentleman who well understands the situation rays they will not withdraw at present, the reason for this delay In action being that they propose to allow the Erie to fight out this question with their silent assistance and their moral support, as they believe that one line fighting a question such as that Is as strong as fifty, if the one is in earnest, and few doubt that the Erie Is all of that. It seems to be the Intention of the Krie to proceed In its line of action, fighting the standard lines on excess fares, until It brings them to a point where they will request that terms of peace be made, and then It will propose that the entire question of excess fares and differentials be settled by arbitration, the discussion this tlm being on its merits. In some ways this attitude of the Erie is interesting, seeing that it was the one line which broke tip the former agreement to arbitrate, but in other ways it is quite natural, as at the time the Erie broke away from the agree- i atataA hat it rfiil so bcaus the standard roads were not acting in good faith. A New Style Enttlne. The Chicago Northwestern is now having built at Schenectady some interesting engines for fast passenger servfce, which, in several important respects, will be different from any now in use, and they will doubtless materially affect future designs of soft coal burning locomotives.

In accordance with the latest Ideas of firebox design. In the adoption of a more rational grate area and better shaped grate for bituminous coal, these passenger engines take rank with Mr. Delano's "Prairie" type engines, which are now being used with good results in fast freight service on the Chicago, Burlington Quincy. Twenty by twenty-slx-inch cylinders will be used and the drivers, four-coupled, will be eighty Inches in diameter and carry a weight of ninety thousand pounds. There will bo a four-wheel leading truck and a two-wheel trailing truck with outside bearings.

The boiler will be of the straight top type with about three thousand squaro feet of heating surface and" the firebox will be 102 inches long by 654 Inches wide, giving forty-six square feet of grate area. It. fc 31. Work ProBreisIng Hapldy. The promoters of the Cincinnati, Richmond Muncie Railroad now at Richmond arc greatly pleased over the rapid progress txsing mado in the construction of the road.

It was a comparatively easy matter to secure the right of way to the south and practically all of it has been deeded to the company for the seventeen miles south to the C. H. D-, which is the southern terminus. Very little litigation was necessary to secure the needed ground. Grading is now being rapidly done.

The engineers are locating the permanent line to the north, toward Muncie, and the right of -way is being secured in that direction. Personal, Loeal and General Notes. On June 13. 1S67. W.

R. McKeen was first elected president of the Vandalia line. One hundred and twenty roads earned In $55,003.701, an Increase over May, 1S33. of J. N.

Gethens has been appointed commercial agent of the Illinois Central, with headquarters at Chicago. A rn-nr nnhUsVprl in th Official tvi Guide, the New York Central controls 13.016 miles of railroad. Thirteen years ago yesterday the late Napoleon Ives purchased the Vandalia tinder conditions that created much surprise. W. F.

Coulter, commercial agent of the. Chicago Alton, and V. Martin, commercial agent of the Missouri, Kansas Texas, are in the city. J. II.

Crawford, Western manager of the Lackarafina fast freight line, will on July .1 be transferred to New York city as general Eastern freight agert. A meeting of the St. Louis Association of (Jcneral Passenger Ticket Agents, to take action on the aboliticn of bridge tickets, will be held on June 21. The east-bound tonnage out cf Chicago last week was tons, against 62.372 tons in the preceding week. Th Big Four carried S.6 per cent, of the freight.

The Ohio Falls car workn yesterday delivered to the Southern Indiana road two postal cars which are said to be a credit to the works in build and conveniences. "William Arbuckle. one of the veteran baggagemen on the Lake Erie Western, has obtained a leave of absence and will go to Denver for the benefit of his health. The managers of the roads composing the Union Railway Company held their monthly meeting yesterday. J.

J. Turner, general manager of the Vandalia, acted as chairman. J. II. Swcgman, claim agent of the Pittsburg.

Fort Wayne Chicago, has obtained a three weeks leave of absence. lie will married to-day and start on an Eastern trip. Prof. W. M.

Goss and Trof. Richard A. Smart, of Purdue University, are in Saratoga. X. this week, attending the national meeting of the Master Car liuild-cra Association.

One day last week 5,300 loaded cara passed through Eewiston Junction; on the Pennsylvania lines. This is said to be unusual freight business, even for the busiest sea-kjii of the j-ear. H. M. Pronson, assistant genrrai nassen ror agent of the Four lines, left last evening for Sandusky, his former home, whTC he will rest for a week.

His wife accompanied him. W. W. Wentz. formerly with the Rig Pour, now superintendent of the eastern dlvbion of the Jersey Central, is spending a few days in the city with friends, his wife accompanying him.

i. P. Eckman. Joint inspector of the Indianapolis district weighing and inspection bureau, returned yesterday from Boston, where he attended the meeting of the National Local Agents" Association. Th through sleeping car from St.

Louis to Mackinac Island via Indianapolis and Richmond is now in service nightly. A traveler can leave Indianapolis at 7:15 p. m. and -reach Mackinac at noon next day. Tickets sold at homeseekers' rates one fare plui 52 for the round trip to points in Idaho.

Washington. Oregon and British Columbia, on July 3 and 17 and Aug. 7, may be made first-class with stop-over privileges. The Chesapeake Ohio made less effort to secure business for the national Republican convention than did its competitors but secured its full per cent, of the travei from this territory and St. Louis and points west of that city.

An official of the road says reports of crop damage as respects Chicago. Burlington Sc Quincy are misleading. The Burlington is distinctly a corn road. and. according to the u-st information obtainable, the stand of corn In the Burlington territory never been excelled at this reason of the year, and gives promise of a very large crop.

Freight A pent Lanctot, of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, has selected Edward Dcrhcano to go to England to introduce there the Lehigh Valley's method of handling freight. A party of English railway and marine officials who lately Investigated the railroad's Buffalo terminals have determined that they want their business handled In the same way. R. B. Turner, general superintendent of the Cincinnati.

Hamilton Dayton, was In the city yesterday. He states that tlv com-Xany's business I still handsomely In cx-Ctss of that of June last year, especially Is thP ore traffic heavy. The company has received two large new freight locomotives from the Pittsburg locomotive works, and next week will receive two new switching engines. Four of the Cincinnati. Hamilton Sc Dayton engines are being rebuilt In the Indiana, Decatur Western shops at Indianapolis.

Nothing ha tended to popularize the use of the automobile In Washington more than the stroke of enterprise on th part of the officials of the reorganized Baltimore Ohio Railroad Company. A splendid system of automobile cab3 by that company Is now in operation in that city at regular rates. Arriving and departing passengers by that road are transported from and to the depot in the cabs. This system is to be extended by the company in the rear future to New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg. Cincinnati, Chicago, St.

Louis and other prominent cltie3 on tlu line of the road. Managers of the ocean steamship companies are drawing the lines closely in the matter of free transportation to railroad men during the Paris exposition. There is every indication that the capacity of all the lines will be tested, and requests from railroad men are. met with this as an explanation and the statement that the issuance of the transportation would be Just so much loss to the company. Executives of great trunk lines have asked for transportation favors for officers of their roads, and have not only failed to get it, but requests for half-rate tickets have been met with refusal.

William It. McKeen, now located at Platte City. in the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad, was one of a party which enjoyed the unusually fast ride over the Union Pacific Railroad one day last week. The train made a run of 12S miles in 128 minutes, with two stops. The Union Pacific Company will receive during the months of July and August sixty new com-pound engines for its system, which is the largest order ever placed in America for these engines.

The compound engine is a favorite with Mr. McKeen, and It was through his influence they were first introduced on the Vandalia. J. G. master mechanic of the west division of the Michigan Central, has been relieved, and Daniel F.

McBaln. traveling engineer for the same road between Chicago and Detroit, named to succeed Mr. Riley. Mr. Riley held the position of master mechanic, with headquarters In Chicago, for about twenty-five years, and previous to that was master mechanic for the Michigan Central on the Bay City division, lie began his railroad career with the Michigan Central nearly half a century ago.

Mr. Riley Is nearly seventy years of age. Mr. McBaln was an engineer on the Michigan Central for several years before being promoted to traveling engineer. Nashville gossips are authority for the statement that there will be no absorption of the Nashville, Chattanooga St.

Louis on July 5 by the Louisville Nashville, and one of the latest telegrams on the subject is to the effect that President Thomas, of the Nashville Chattanooga, says there is no foundation for the original story on this subject, further than that some of the minority stockholders of his company had urged objection to the lease of the Tennessee Midland by the Louisville Nashville to his road, on the ground that the property is not a revenue producer. This i now the Memphis Paducah division of the Nashville, Chattanooga St. Louis. Instead of a traffic decrease of any consequence, as has been reported of various railroads, the Baltimore Ohio is now experiencing a substantial movement that is keeping all Its motive power and train forces moving constantly. A heavier movement on the Pittsburg.

Wheeling Con- ncllsvllle divisions could not be handled with facility. Last week six heavy compound freight locomotives were received from the main line, and this week ten additional large freight engines will be received, which are Just out of the Baldwin locomotive works. About ten days ago nineteen of the Pittsbunr division engineers were sent to the Connellsville division to help handle the traffic that is being created along that section of the road. Necessitated by the new additional motive power that is being added, a number of the firemen of the road have Just been graduated as engicemen and given runs. i INDUSTBIAI AFFAIES.

Many Warehouses Are Golnsr l'p Factories Are' Dnsy. Present indications are that South Delaware and South Pennsylvania streets south, of South street will in a few years be lined for some squares with warehouses. The big warehouse of the Stewart Drug Company 'is about ready for the roof, and in the last year a number of other warehouses have been erected on the streets named, and in each case are built up to one of the sidetracks in the M. I. yards, making It very convenient for loading and unloading Into the warehouses.

The buildings already erected and projected give quite a business air to that part of the city. The Nordyke-Marmon Company has Its new buildings completed and now has the largest floor room of any manufacturing Industry in the city, and but few concerns carry more men on their pay rolls. The Parry Manufacturing Company, now that it has been granted the right to lay tracks across streets in West Indianapolis to reach its new grounds, will at once commence grading the road, which will be one-half mile in length, having already made, arrangements with the Belt road company for Its connection. The works were never before so pressed with orders, and one of the proprietors says they must have more room than the present buildings give them that they may increase their production. The railroad shops are still working full complements of men and on full time, which Is unusual in June.

Equipping freight cars with automatic couplers and airbrakes is furnishing a good deal of work to the shops. During the rush in business of several months past both cars and engines were damaged to such an extent that repairs are heavy. SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING To Take Action on the "Water Company Stvltcli. President Crall has called a special meeting of the City Council to-morrow night to take action on the ordinance granting permission to the water company to lay a switch across the Crawfordsvllle road. The ordinance was reported upon favorably by the railroad committee at the Council meeting Monday night.

The Contract Withdrawn. The contract made letwcen the Board of Works and Charles Stuckmeyer, representing the Indianapolis Clean Street Company, has been withdrawn from the city clerks ofllce, where It was taken to be referred to the City Council last Monday night. It is believed the Board of Works will not submit the contract for ratification until the present agitation against it subsides. It has been ascertained that the Indianapolis Clean Street Company was not incorporated under the laws of Delaware until May 7, 1900. some time after other applications had been sent to the Board of Works for a similar franchise.

Company Satisfied. The directors of the Indianapolis Water Company have refused to accept the offer made by the Board of Public Works to be embodied in the new contract with the company. The board made a proposition that the fire hydrant rental be reduced from $30 a year to $42.50 and that other water for the city be free. The directors say the revenues of the company will not permit such a contract. The board will make another proposition.

Horse r.ntnngled In Barbed Wire. The bicycle police yesterday morning found a horse entangled In a barbed wire fence near the pesthouse. The animal was suffering from many cuts and had evidently been there for many hours. J. B.

Clements, of 23 West Twenty-eighth street, claimed the horse and said it had been stolen from his barn Saturday last. A phaeton belonging to M. F. Gordon, of Huron street, was found in Fall creek and Mr. Gordon's harness was found in a cornfield near tht Lewis Sclionnker Dies.

Lewis Schonaker. of 412 North New Jersey street, who had both legs crushed Monday afternoon at Twenty-first street and the Big Pour tracks, died about 5 o'clock yesterday morning as a result of his injuries. THE GROCERS ORGANIZE OFFICERS KLECTCD AT MEKTIXU IICLD AT BOARD OF Objects of the Association Set Forth A Committee to Call on Wholesalers. The Indianapolis Retail Grocers Association is the name of a new organization which was formed in, the assembly room of the Board of Trade last night. The objects of the association are principally the promotion of a feeling of good fellowship among the men engaged in the dispensing of groceries at retail and to correct certain evils which have become so prevalent as to seriously threaten the welfare of the business.

Last night's meeting was called by a committee which was appointed at a similar meeting held in the Stevenson building about five or six weeks ago. The committee was, composed of A. B. Robin- son, N. A.

Moore, W. S. Day, John Shea and 31. E. Shortemeier.

About thirty grocers attended, and the organization was started with the election of W. S. Day as president, Charles Buddenbaum as vice president and E. E. Heller as secretary.

It was the under-j standing that these officers are to serve until the organization is completed by th drafting of a constitution and set of by-' laws, which are to be submitted at the; meeting which will be held Tuesday night of next week in the Board of Trade build- Ing. The committee appointed for thte purpose is composed of John Groom, John; Shea, A. Moore, G. S. John Q.

Schad, Charles Taylor, J. W.j Thompson, A. B. Pobinson and Shortemeier. An interesting letter.

was read. O. P. Holman, one of the officers of the Minneapolis Retail Grocers' Mr. Holman stated that his association is flourishing in a most gratifying manner, due chiefly to the fact that it has the hearty co-operation of the wholesalers, who, he said, refuse to sell to a retailer found guilty of violating his agreement with the retail association.

A motion was carried at the meting last night to appoint a committee to visit the Indianapolis Jobbers' and seek to interest them in the new organization. John Mesler, C. P. Volken-ing and John Shelley were selected to do this work. In was stated in the meeting last night that many of the objectionable methods of the former association of retail grocers, known as "The Retail Merchants' Association." will be done away Among the suggestions made on this head was that the old association made itself disagreeable to the jobbers by persistently begging them to give, prizes to be used as "drawing cards" for picnics given by the association.

The men interested in the new organization declare that it shall be self- supporting and that it shall be so conducted as to add to the dignity of the grocery business. FIRST SESSION. (CONCLUDED FROM FIFTH PAGE.) to preserve the Union should be continued or whether they should be abandoned and other measures attempted, have questions so vital been presented to the American people for settlement. Their decision must determine the maintenance or the degradation of both our national credit and our national honor. A Democratic President could paralyze the operation of the new currency law as effectively as if it were wiped from our statute books.

A Democratic victory would infuse new life Into the Tagal insurrection, cost us the lives of thousands of our gallant army in the Philippines, impair or destroy our prestige, if not our power, in the islands, make us a byword among the other great nations of the world and obliterate our Influence in the settlement of the vital questions certain to arise when China shall be opened to foreign commerce. There is little room for fear. The farmer and the artisan in their day of prosperity still remember the impoverishment and blight of Democracy, and the Chicago has no allurements for them. Our national honor is equally Tho American people are neither poltroons nor pessimists, and they will not signalize the dawn of the new century by the surrender of either convictions or territory. Every soldier back from the islands, and they are In almost every hamlet Jn the land, returns an advocate of their retention.

Our dead are burled along the sands of Luzon, and on its soil no foreign flag shall ever salute the dawn. WAY IS NEW BUT NOT DARK. Whatever may be in store for us in the new and unbeaten track upon which we arc entering, we shall not be found "with the unlit lamp and the ungrlt loin." Our way is new, but It 13 not dark. In the readjustment of world-conditions, where, we must take our place with the other great nations of the earth; we shall move with caution, but not with fear. We seek only to lift up men to better things, to bless and not to destroy.

Tho fathers of the Republic accepted with courage such responsibilities as developed upon them. The same heavens bend over us, and the same power that shielded them will guard and protect us, for what we seek is to build still more firmly, always upon foundations of probity and of virtue, the glorious edifice of the Republic Wo stand at the dawn of the new century. Before it ball have reached its meridian the youngest here will have passed beyond this life or beyond the sphere of usefulness. New will step into the ranks as we fall out. This very year thousands of young men will for the first time exercise the right of citizenship and cast their ballots at the national election.

The safety of this Republic must ever rest in "the courage of young hearts and the vigor rf a noble manhood." Youth is buoyant and hopeful, no snarling criticism, or gospel of a little America, or prophecy despair, will find response from hearts that beat full and strong with courage and with faith, and whose creed it is that "God's in Hl3 heaven. Airs right with the world." Whatever else in the past has suffered change or decay, the Republican party, which for forty years has been identified with everything ennobling and uplifting in our history, was never as vital, as virile and as vigorous an to-day. And the heritage we shall transmit to the new century, to the coming generation and to their children, and to their children's children, shall be a record clean and untarnished, an. unquenchable faith in free institutions, an unalterable belief in the patriotism of the people, and an undying love of liberty and of country. HOW THE SPEECH WAS RECEIVED, Senator Wolcott has a clear, resonant voice, which penetrated to the furthest recesses of the lie.

speaks, however, with much rapidity, and this, perhaps, somewhat spoiled the of his But the thousands before him were in thorough sympathy and he had no difficulty In striking a responsive chord. When with outstretched arm he predicted the triumphant election of the Republican ticket in November the audience surrendered, and when he first mentioned President McKln-ley's name he could not proceed for a minute owing to the demonstration. As he rehearsed tho history of the four years of 'Republican administration, the prosperity which had blessed, it. the victories it had won. the glorious outcome of the Spanish-American war; the campaign of misrepresentation in connection with the Philippines which its enemies had Inaugurated and which it had met.

the convention repeatedly broke into applause. It was a keynote speech, covering the legislation which had been placed on the statute books and Its deepest note was the prosperity of this country and the legislation which had made its continuation possible if the present administration was continued In power. That was the theme to which the demonstrations of the convention clung. When he said that the old issue of the Democrats was dead and that they were driven to find new issues in a war which they had been most anxious to precipitate, the contention arose and applauded, but the outburst was even greater when he declared that the division among the Republicans of the East and the West on the financial issue was a thing of the past and that those who had left tho party four years ago in the West were returning on the issue of expansion. The first mention of expansion was also the signal for a.

demonstration. Senator Wolcott paced up and down along the front Of the platform as he proceeded and several times he consulted his notes. He is not at his best In a prepared speech, and his admirers were, possibly, a little disappointed. The Indiana delegation led the applause when Senator Wolcott announced that the thieving postoffice officials in Cuba would be hunted down. Probably the greatest demonstration occurred when he said that we would establish law and order in the Philippines and that the last thing to be considered was to give up the islands.

The delegates got on their feet and cheered when he declared that our soldiers were buried in the sands of Luzon and we would never give up the soil that held our dead. He spoke an hour and ten minutes and as his brilliant peroration closed there was another enthusiastic demonstration of approval, delegates standing on chairs and waving hats. fans, umbrellas and handkerchiefs, while at the same time the band added the enlivening strains of a patriotic air. ROLL -OF STATES CALLED. Names of Members of Committees Announced Gov.

Taylor Reeognlied. Mr. Wolcott received many hearty hand-Shakes from those about him and then turned to the business of the announcing the long list of secretaries and officials previously agreed upon. Following is list of temporary officers announced: Temporary Secretary Charles W. Johnson, of Minnesota.

Assistant Secretaries John R. Malloy, of Ohio; John R. Beam, of New Jersey; Lucien Gray, of Illinois; Gardner P. Stick-riey, of Wisconsin: James F. Burke, of Pennsylvania; W.

B. Bochman. of Tennessee; Warren Bigler, of Indiana; John P. Royce, of Kansas; F. S.

Gaylord, of Connecticut. Reading Clerks1 Dennis E. Alward, of Michigan; E. L. of Ohio; James H.

Stone, of Clerk at I'resldent'a Desk Asher G. Kings, of Maine. Official Reporter M. Blumenberg, District of Columbia. Tally Clerks J.

C. Potts, of New Jersey; George B. Butlln, of Nebraska. After the, announcements there was a momentary lull, and then Mr. Wolcott, gazing out at the assemblage, said: "Governor Taylor, of Kentucky, is recognized." Every eye was' turned toward the center of the hall, where a gaunt, black garbed figure with the swarthy, face of an Indian stood with a paper In hand awaiting a pause in the hurrah which his name had evoked.

"Come to the platform. Governor. They want to see you," called out Mr. Wolcott. This much discussed man of Kentucky moved up the middle aisle to the platform, receiving a cheer as Senator Wolcott advanced to greet him.

There was momentary silence as the convention waited, apparently expecting a speech echoing some of the dramatic Incidents in Kentucky. But instead of that in piping voice Governor Taylor seconded the nominations of the various officials who had been announced, and this done left the stage. The nominations were made unanimous. "Mr. Payne, of New York," announced the chairman, and again all eyes turned to the center of the hall, where this time the silver-topped form of the chairman of the ways and means committee was seen.

He moved that the rules of the last convention prevail until other rules were adopted, and this prevailed without dissent. The call of the roll of States for the submission of members of the various committees then began. It proved a tedious process and the convention was virtually in recess as the names were handed in. While the lists were being brought to the stage Governor Roosevelt was holding a regular levee In the pit. Delegates moved toward him from all directions.

Ex-Senator Quay was Ohe" of ''thAse who greeted him warmly. The New Mexico delegates, with broad sombreros, climbed over chairs In their eagerness to get to him and shake his hand. Chauncey Depew and the other big guns of the New York delegation were ignored. People leaning over the rails of the pit watched his every movement, and many of the delegates stood on their chairs and watched the crowd eddy around him. THE COMMITTEES.

When order had been restored after the confusion incident. V) Wolcott announced that the secretary would read the lists of the various committees. These committees, he announced, could meet immediately after the adjournment of to-day's session of the convention. The members of the newnatlonal committee and the committee on. resolutions are given below: National Committee.

Arkansas Powell Clayton. California W. C. Van Fleet. Colorado E.

O. Wolcott. Connecticut Charles F. Brooker. Florida John Long.

Georgia Judson Lyons. Idaho George L- Shoup. Illinois Greame Stewart. Indiana Harry S. New.

Iowa Ernest Hart. Kansas David Mulvane. Kentucky John W. Yerkes. Louisiana A.

T. Wlmberly. Maine Joseph H. Manly. Maryland Louis E.

McComas. Massachusetts G. V. L. Meyer.

Michigan William II. Elliott. Minnesota Thomas Sheveley. Mississippi H. C.

Turley. Missouri Richard C. Kerens. Montana William II. De Witt.

Nevada P. L. Flannagan. New Hampshire Charles T. Muns.

New Jersey Franklin Murphy. "New York Frederick S. Gibbs. North Dakota Alexander McKenzie. Ohio George B.

Cox. Oregon George A. Steele. Pennsylvania Matthew S. Quay.

Rhode Island Charles Bray ton. South Carolina E. A. Webster. South Dakota J.

M. Green. Tennessee Walter P. Brownlow. Vermont James W.

Brock. Virginia George K. Rowden. Washington George II. Baker.

West Virginia X. B. Scott. Wisconsin Henry C. Payne.

Wyoming Willis Vandevantcr. M. Griffith. Indian Territory William M. Millett.

New Mexico Solomon Luna. Oklahoma William Gaines. District of Columbia Committee on Resolutions. Alabama J. W.

Dimmlck. Arkansas C. W. Rix. California Chester A.

Roell. Colorado C. C. Connecticut W. E.

Seoley. Florida Walter G. Robinson. Georgia 11. A.

Rucker. Idaho W. B. Illinois Martin B. Madden.

Indiana Charles W. Fairbanks. Iowa George W. Banks' -M. A.

Lowe. Kentuckj W. S. Louisiana Emile Kuntz. Maine Frank C.

Payson. Maryland T. C. Noyes. Massachusetts Walter Clifford, i Michigan Edward N.

Dlngjey. Minnesota Cushman K. Doris. Mississippi John R. Lynch.

'Missouri D. P. Dwyer. Montana Thomas E. Carter.

Nebraska E. Rosewater. Nevada O. J. Smith.

New Hampshire J. G. Galling-. New Jersey Frederick P. Olcott.

I New York Lemuel E. Quigg. North Carolina J. H. McNamee.

North Dakota-P. J. McCumbcr. Ohio Joseph B. Foraker.

Oregon John D. Allen. Pennsylvania Boise Penrose. Rhode Island Charles R. Brayton.

South Carolina E. J. DIckerson. South Dakota C. G.

Bennett. Tennessee Foster B. Brown. Utah George Sutherland. Vermont L.

M. Reed. 1 Virginia S. Brown Allen. Washington J.

M. Ashton. West Vlrglnia-E. H. Flynn.

Wisconsin J. B. Treat. Wyoming T. W.

Arizona C. H. Ackers. Indian Territory A. F.

Parkcrson. New Mexico E. A. Cahoon. Oklahoma J.

Tate District of Columbia The clerk read the list in a voice which did not carry fifty feet from the stage and the spectators who usually applaud the name of the popular party leaders, as they are called, were denied this pleasure of paying tribute to their favorites. Not a single was applauded. When the lists had been read. Representative Cannon, of Illinois, was recognized to move an adjournment until to-morrow. DR.

LEVY'S BENEDICTION. Rev. Edgar M. Levy. D.

of Philadelphia, who delivered tho invocation at the first Republican convention in this city forty-four years ago to-day, white haired and feeble, delivered benediction on the convention. He said: "Almighty Jod. our Heavenly Father: How excellent is Thy name In all the earth. The whole world is full of Thy glory. Unto Thee do we lift up our hearts in humility, love and praise.

We give Thee most hearty thanks for our personal, social and national blessings. Thou hast cast our lines in pleasant places and given us a goodly heritage. Thou hast not dealt so with any other people. Because of Thy favor our land Is even now smiling with fertility and beauty; our cities and towns are filled with the hum of Industry, and our country places with the songs of happy reapers. Thou hast given unto us wise rulers, brave defenders on land and sea.

and Just and equal laws by- which every man may, sit under his own vine and fig tree with none to molest or make him afraid. "We thank Thee for the coming together of this august assembly of representative men from all parts of the Nation, and for that great convention held in this city so long ago, and which first flung the banner of universal freedom to the breeze of heaven. We praise Thee, Lord God of Hosts, that this banner remains unstained and undlmmed. the proud reminder of past achievements and the hope for all time to come. "We thank Thee for our honored President, for his wisdom, discretion, manly courage and unblemished character, and we beeseech of Thee that his life and health may be precious In Thy sight; and.

as Thou hast, in Thy goodness, given him, to us, so, if it please Thee, let the years' of his administration of our government be prolonged. Bless those associated with him in authority. May they ever be found on the side of Justice loving pace. but never counting life itself ftoo dear to sacrifice for the defense and advancement of the Nation's honor nnd welfare. "Save us, Righteous Father, from forgetfulness of Thee, from all pride and vain glory.

Let not the profane, the self-seeking, or the promoters of strife and discontent rule over us, but only such as be a terror to evil-doers' and a praise to them that do well. Let our currency neither be impaired by Inflation nor diminished by hoarding. Let the rich among us use their wealth with moderation and as a benediction to others. Let the poor, by Industry and temperance, become rich. Let there never be among us an aristocracy either of color, wealth only of intelligence and goodness.

Fill our land with truth and righteousness, with school-houses and temples of worship, with Godfearing men and virtuous women. Let the example of our free institutions enlighten and bless the whole earth. "And now, we commend to. Thee, God. the deliberations of this convention and all the issues thereof.

Bless the presiding officers with all sufficiency of wisdom and strength, and preserve all the delegates from sickness, accident and death, and permit them to return to their homes conscious of having discharged their duty to God and their country. And the glory shall be unto the Father and unto the Son and unto the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen." The whole convention arose to receive Dr. Levy's blessing, and then, at exactly 3 o'clock, the convention adjourned until noon to-morrow. JWEW "PIVOTAL STATES.

Distinction of 3Vw York and Indiana Uns Ceased In This Regard New York Sun. It has been pointed out frequently by students of American national politics that New York and. Indiana are two States which have oscillated between the two parties for many years. Indiana was Republican in 1S72. Democratic in 1S76, Republican in 1SS0, Democratic in 1SS4, Republican in 1SSS, Democratic in 1S92 and Republican in 1S06, on the electoral ticket, while New York, going back further, was Republican in'l6i.

Democratic In 1S68, Republican In 1ST2. Democratic in 1S76, Republican in JSS0, Democratic in 1SS4. Republican in 18S8. Democratic in 1S92 and Republican In 1SD6. On the.

showing it would appear that the two States of New York and Indiana, one in the East and one in the West, were important if not pivotal States in national elections and that by a study of political conditions in them a view of the probable results of a campaign would be attained. This view of the case, however, does not take Into consideration the fact that the uncertainty of these twp States does not arise from ordinary, but from exceptional, causes. They have been abnormally favored in nominations by the two parties, the Republicans having had an Indiana candidate for President in" 1SSS and 1S92 and the Democrats having gone' to Indiana for their vice presidential candidate in 1876, 1SS0 and 1SS4. In 1S72 the Republican candidate for President, and in 18S4 the Republican candidate lor Vice President were chosen from Illinois. Indiana's western neighbor, and the Democratic candidate for Vice President came from Illinois in 1S92.

Ohio furnished one or other of the parties with either a presidential or vice presidential candidate In 1S76, 1SS0, 1SS8 and 1S96. The politics of Indiana are to a great extent controlled by the sentiment of the voters in the two neighboring and more important States of Illinois and Ohio, and it need be no occasion for surprise, therefore, that the special efforts made by either party to secure success' in Indiana should have had the effect of keeping that State for a number of years In the very doubtful column. New York, though less influenced than is Indiana by the nomination to elective office of candidates resident within Us borders, had a presidential nominee on one of the party tickets in 1868. a President and Vice President In 1S76, a President and Vice President in.lSSO, a President in 18S4, and a President and Vice President in 192. Changed political conditions, arising from the admission of new States and the larger representation of Western commonwealths, as well as from the new lines of political division In the United States, have deprived New York and Indiana of their former distinction as pivctal Statt and in the presi dentlal election of 1S36 the two closer States In the country were Kentucky, overwhelmingly Democratic for many years, und South Dakota, admitted Into the Union as a State in 1SW.

Two other close States in the presidential election of four years r.go were Kansas and Oregon, and two rrobabh uncertain States this year are Maryland and Wyoming. There ore no longer in Important doubtful States any preliminary elections, such as formerly made Pennsylvania and Ohio and Indiana pivotal States. Rhode Itland. Vermont and Maine, which s.re reliably Republican, hold state elections in advance of the national contest, find Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama, which are just as strongly Democratic, hold their state elections In April, September and August, respectively, but the withdrawal of the uncertain States from the list of those in which iisputed state contests were held in advance of the general election, has restored to a creat extent the political equilibrium between the States, so that a vote counts as much in one as another, and as shown in the present consideration of the names of vice presidential candidates by the two parties there Is no undue preference for any State. CAt'SE OF THE FAMIXE.

Why It Is that I ml I a Is So Terribly Afnicted. Review of Reviews. India Is a country not quite half as large as the United States, with four times its population. These SOO.OW.OOO people must be fed from their own as there is. relatively, no manufacturing resource to buy food with.

There are parts of India with a population of 1,000 people to the square mile; and there are millions upon millions of farm laborers, vagrants, gypsies and nondescript classes, whose means of living, even in times of plenty, are inscrutable. In a normal year the country, as a whole, produces a little more food than is actually necessary to-support Its people. But the crops are dependent on the monsoonsthe southwest monsoon in the beginning of summer and the northeast monsoon In the winter. If these periodic rains are late, or are insufficient In quantity, trouble comes, and the spring and winter crops of wheat, barley and pulses in the north, and of rice and millets In the south, begin to suffer. When the monsoons fall absolutely, there is destitution in the affected district, and when a persistent succession of failures and partial failures occurs, there comes a- great and terrible famine, like that the country Is now groaning under.

Since the first, great famine of which there are records devastated the land in 1770, when 10.000,000 perished in Ren-gal alone, India has scarcely passed a decade free from scarcity of grain in one district or another. The Rritlsh government expects a drought about twice in every nine years, a famine once in every eleven or twelve years, and a great famine like the prsent about twice in a century. Otis Fox. a Knox College student, and Miss Nina Wilcox, prominent In society, were killed by the cars while driving across the track at Gaiesburg, 111. BOILS and ytdilflMlu) These unwelcome visitors usually appear is making an extra effort to free itself from the many impurities that have accumulated during the wiuter months.

Carbuncles, which arc more painful and dangerous, com? most frequently on the back of the neck, eating great holes in the flesh, exhaust the strength and cftcu prove fatal. Boils are regarded by some people as blessings, and they patieutly and uncomplainingly endure the pain and inconvenience under the mistaken idea that their health is being benefited, that their blood is too thick anyway, and this is Nature's plan of thinning it. The blood is not too rich or too thick, but is diseased is full of poison and unless relieved the entire system will suffer. The boil or carbuncle gives warning of serious internal troubles, which are only waiting for a favorable opportunity to develop. Many an old fore, running ulcer, even cancer, is the result ot a neglected boil.

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