The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 1

LARGEST MORNING CIRCULATION IN THE XXCVII. NEWS AND COMMENT. THE WEATHER. Indications for to-day, August 12, for Kentucky and Tennessee are: Fair in the morning, probably local thunder-storms in evening or night, variable winds, cooler Wednesday night. Mr.

Bryan landed at New York yesterday afternoon and was safely housed last night under the roof of Mr. W. P. St. John.

The reception of the candldate at New York was without Incident, so few people turning out to see him that even the active imagination of the Associated Press correspondent, who has been describing Mr. Bryan's trip Eastward, could not make an ovation of it. The features yesterday of the L. A. W.

Meet were the fast practice at Fountain Ferry Park in the afternoon and the "smoker" at night at headquarters. All the best racers in the country are now In training at the track. To-day. the unique features will be a freak parade and the watermelon feast. Maj.

P. P. Johnston, chairman of the Silver Democratic State Committee, has returned from conference with Chair-. man Jones, of the National Committee. According to Maj.

Johnston, Chairman Jones looks upon Kentucky very doubtful State and will make a hard fight for it. Two deaths from heat were reported yesterday in Louisville, and one in Jettersonville. The thermometer reached 97 degrees, and had its oppression heightened by an imminent ice famine. The Weather Bureau thinks it will become slighty cooler to-night. Chairman P.

P. Johnston, of the SIlver Democracy, is reported to have been in consultation with lawyers at Lexington as to the possibility of preventing the use of the name "Democratic State Executive Committee" by the National Democracy. it is reported that Chairman Jones thinks the Popocratic ticket has a fightAng chance in Pennsylvania, and will carry New York, Maryland and Connecticut. A big fight will be made for Indiana and Ohio. National League base-ball games yesterday resulted as follows: Louisville 6, Cleveland 6 (eleven innings); Pittsburgh 9, St.

Louis New York 8, Brooklyn Chicago 6, Cincinnati Baltimore 17, Washington 3. The Tennessee Republican convention met to-day. Samuel W. Hawkins will probably be nominated for Governor and H. Clay Evans placed in control of the party machinery, though three tacare at work.

report is printed by newspapers in the City of Mexico that British war ship has seized the Mexican island of Clarion, and that the British are preparing to seize other islands on the Pacific coast. National Democratic League, 200 strong, has been formed at Winchester, in opposition to Bryan. A weekly paper will be published during the campaign, the first number appearing today. The Popocratic National Committee decided to create a Campaign Committee of twenty-five. The Campaign Committee will select its own chairman, and will also locate the campaign headquarters.

The Omaha Bee is pressing Mr. Bryan about the report that he has been paid, and paid liberally, by the silver interests to travel over the country making speeches for the free colnage of silver. Campaign Chairman Sommers says he is going to take out an injunction to prevent the use of the name "Natonal Democratic party" on the ballots In November, It is announced that Mr. Bryan will read his speech from manuscript when replying this evening to the Notification Committee at Madison Square Garden. The sound-money Democrats of Scott county are organizing sound-money league to work for the promotion of true Democratic principles.

A scheme for a fusion electoral ticket In Iowa has been arranged at a conference of Popocrats, Populists and Silver Republicans. The sound-money Democrats of Oregon will hold a State Convention August 22 to select delegates to the National Convention. Ex-President Harrison will open the Republican campaign in New York city with a speech August 27. The negro National Democratic League is in session at Chicago. Eleven States are represented.

Sisney Conner was nominated for Joint Representative by the Jeffersonville convention yesterday. The sound-money Democrats of Alabama have called a State Convention for August 27. Three persons were burned to death with a building in New York yesterday. The Tennessee State League of Republican Clubs met yesterday at Nashville. Wood Dunlap has resigned the seat he never had in the Legislature.

The Murray Hill Bank, New York city, closed its doors yesterdax. The 10,087 LOUISVILLE, JOHN DOWLOUNG, 38 years old. BERNARD McCORMICK. JOHN McGONIGLE. JOHN TOPUCH, 1 day old.

JOHN MARSDEN, 36 years old. JOHN VEALL, 55 years old. JACOB SCHMER, 4 weeks old. JOHN O'LEARY, 70 years old. JOHN HOGAN, 30 years old.

JOHN McWALLY, 49 years old. PAT MULLIGAN, 48 years old. TERENCE ANDERSON, 64 years old. MARY FRODEL, 4 months old. MRS.

ELLEN MURPHY, 43 years old. BRIDGET MULRANEY, 12 years old. JACOB GROSS, 49 years old. MARY MARTIN, 38 years old. WILLIAM WILSON, 45 years old.

UNKNOWN MAN, 40 years old. JOHN PAASSE, 30 years old. JOSEPH EISPAMP, 31 years old. ANDREW SHERIDAN, 54 years old. CLARA NORTH, 2 years old.

WILLIAM KING, 54 years old. JOHN CAMBELLMAN, 40 years old. THOMAS BURNS. CHARLES DILLMAN, 7 months old. SOPHIE BRANNON, 34 years old.

GEORGE TULLMEITER, 54 years old. JAMES CAMPBELL, 73 years old. UNKNOWN WOMAN, died at Bellevue Hospital ED. HILDERBRANDT. 34 years old.

JAMES CASSIDY. 25 years old. FRANCIS MOONEY. SAMUEL HORRISSEY. FREDERICK POTROWSKY.

THOMAS PAWERS, 34 years old. CHARLES FLANNIGAN, 3 years old. THOMAS CRAMER, 37 years old. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, 30 years old. WALTER SEDGMONDO, 37 old.

GEORGE SEYER, 10 years old. JAMES FINNEGAN, 47 years old. PAT. BRYAN, 25 years old. JACOB AULT, 29 years old.

ROBY SAYERS. AUGUST WYDORF. JULIUS ARMIS. JOHN McGEE. JOHN MURPHY, 50 years old.

LEO C. MAYER. CHARLES HELSTREITCH. CHARLES S. HALLETT, 40 years old.

JOSEPH JEKELKA. HENRY WOLF. NELLIE DELANEY. DANIEL LYONS. LOUIS OCHLIN.

UNKNOWN ITALIAN. JOHN GOOD WIN, 45 years old. ANDREW TITMAN, 46 years old. CHARLES RITZENTHAL. THOMAS WIND, 35 years old.

LOUIS PRUMEIER, 31 years old. WILLIAM KNIGHT, 47 years old. CHARLES STEPHENSON. PATROLMAN PETER F. KANE, of the Morrisiania Station.

JOHN C. KOHOE, 41 years old. HERMAN LUDWIG, 22 years old. DIEDRICH PRUSHEN. thirty-three years old.

UNKNOWN MAN, prostrated at 2001 First avenue. HENRY McKANN. JOHN TAAFE, thirty years old. PAT O'NEIL, thirty-eight years old. CARRY KERRIGAN.

MARTHA DONAHUE. twenty-nine years old. JOHN W. HAGGERTY. NELLIE WILLIAMS, 30 years old.

WM. HAMILTON, 23 years old. JOHN LEARY, 70 years old. MARY HART. years old.

L. ZIMMERMAN 65 years old. JOHN YOUNG. $6 years old. JEREMIAH WILLOUGHBY.

BROOKLYN. PATRICK CALLOP, 27 years old. MARY FAWCETT. 30 years old. CHRISTOPHER KUHN, 38 years old.

DIETRICK STOPKFISH, 50 years old. WM. LYMAN, 41 years old. JAMES KING, 36 years old. MRS.

VICTOR KOSKEY, 38 years old. LIZZIE TARKIN, 40 years old. JOHN J. MITCHELL, 38 years old. GEO.

VALENTINE, 35 years old. MICHAEL GRIFFIN. MARTIN SCHAAMBARTER, 36 years old. ROSE FITZSIMMS, 65 years old. MARY CHAPMAN, 58 years old.

JOS. STEHLIN, 40 years old. Unknown man. MATTHEW MITCHELL, 56 years old. THOS.

M'SWEENEY, 30 years old. In Jersey City there were twelve deaths and twenty-eight prostrations. On Staten Island fourteen deaths and nineteen prostrations. Newark nine deaths and twenty prostrations. Long Island City five deaths and thirteen prostrations.

Paterson four deaths and sty prostrations. Hackensack two deaths and re prostrations. Pasaic three deaths and six prostrations. Hoboken seven deaths and sixteen prostrations. Trenton three deaths and six prostrations.

The total prostrations in New York and Brooklyn is estimated at 200. SUFFERING IN CHICAGO. Thirty Deaths and Scores of Prostrations- -Eight Hundred Dead Horses in the Street. Chicago, Aug. good breeze tempered the heat to the suffering people of this city to-day, although the thermometer registered 92, being only one degree lower than yesterday.

The deadly effect of the high temperature, however, continued and thirty fatal cases of sunstroke was the record at midnight, with the list still incomplete. About fifty cases of prostration, more or less serious, have also occurred. A shower at 7 o'clock sensibly cooled off the atmosphere, but only for a short time. The weather man promises cooler weather to-morrow and probably a permanent change. The number of persons driven insane by the heat will probably never be known, but its effects in that direction may be estimated from the fact that during the week twenty-elght persons have been locked up in the detention hospitals, all of whom had been driven crazy by the heat.

There are about 800 dead horses still unremoved on the streets, the city being unable to secure sufficient assistance to cart as many away as daily succumb to the heat. The Mayor has issued an order guaranteeing $10 to any one who will remove one of the cadavers. Among the deaths by heat reported are the following: Ernest Dohse, Jennie Little, Myrtle Brinchoen, Nicholas Newberg, W. Wojechowitz, Edward Hanner, Ausen Butschalk, Fredk. Krohne, Marie Hammerstein, John H.

Rohe, J. J. John Nealan, Henry Dittlinge, William Ticson, Vicente Sladky, John M. Garry, James Kuting, Jos. Devorak, Christian Strimm, Jas.

Keating, Peter Nelson, Vincent Sladky, Anton Gutschke, Henry Dittlinge, Ellen F. Berg, Jas. Gorman, W. Wayscechowski, Ernest Dohse, Mrytle Brinchru, Robert Dugurd, Christian Strom, Maria Hammerstein. Peter Nelson, Morris Newman, H.

J. Peck, MORE VICTIMS AT ST. LOUIS. Five Persons Succumbed During the Day--Many Prostrations. St.

Louis, Aug. The thermometer mounted upward again to-day and came within three points of the highest registered thus far this year. At 5 o'clock the Government record was 97 in the shade, and since then on a decline. There very little breeze stirring and the atmosphere is stifling. Many prostrations have resulted, and the city dispensaries and hospitals are again feeling the effect of the rush.

Up to o'clock to-night twenty cases of prostration were received at the central dispensary, and many more at the north and south branches. A number were sent direct to the City Hospital, and all the more serious cases collected at the dispensaries were also conveyed there. Other victims that were cared for at (Concluded on Eighth Page) Conrier-Tournal. AUGUST 12, 1896- gates from this State to the National Democratic Convention at Indianapolis. These men are among the most prominent persons of the State, and will devote their time until November in the Interest of the National Democratic party, SOUND MONEY IN CONNECTICUT.

Col. John R. Fellows Will Address the Democratic Convention at New Haven. New Haven, Aug. 11.

-The goldstandard State Democratic Convention will be held here to-morrow night, and the committee in charge has received assurances which promise a large attendance. United States Commissioner Wm. Wright is secretary of the Executive Committee. The speakers will be Col. John R.

Fellows, of New York, and exCongressman Lewis Sperry, of Hartford. It is probable that delegates to the gold-standard convention at. Indianapolis, September 2, will be chosen. NEGRO, NATIONAL LEAGUE. From Eleven States In Conference In Chicago.

the Northern Pacific railroad. IN FOR REORGANIZATION. Sale of the Southern Land and provement Company Property. Chicago, Aug. 11.

-Representatives from eleven States of the Negro National Democratic League met here today. Temporary organization was effected, with A. K. Manning, of Indianapolis, chairman; J. A.

Clark, of Chicago, secretary, and W. T. Scott, of Cairo, chairman of the Committee onCredentials. The League then adjourned until 10 a. m.

to-morrow. Action will be taken on the indorsement of Bryan and Sewall, and it is believed that the nominees will be approved. C. H. J.

Taylor, Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, sent his resignation as President of the organization on the understanding that the colored Democrats would indorse Bryan. Among those present are: C. H. Willjams. wealthy cotton planter of Texas; J.

Milton Turner, ex-Minister to Liberia: W. T. Scott, of Cairo, one of the founders of the organization, and C. A. Ridenout, of Seattle, attorney for Pineville Aug.

(Special.) -J. W. Buchanan, special commissioner, sold to-day at public auction in this city, under a decree of the court, all the lands and properties of the Southern Land Improvement Company, situated in this city and county, consisting of town lots in Pineville, electric-light plant, hotel and about 16,000 acres of fine timbered lands and also the West Virginia, Pineville and Tennessee railroad. The price was $100,000, and It was bought by Mr. H.

V. Loving for the National Coal and Iron Company, a new corporation, whose stockholders are the holders of the mortgage bonds. HOLE IN HER HULL. Steam Schooner Comes Near Sinking In the Pacific. San Francisco, Aug.

The steam schooner Point Arena, bound from this city to Mendocio, went on the rooks at midnight near Point Beyes. The Captain, Andrew Johnston, her master, was on the bridge when she grounded. He began at once to back her, and within ten minutes she was free of the rocks. As soon as the vessel was loosened the water began to rush through a hole in her port bow, just forward of the forward hold. Capt.

Johnston headed for this city, and came up under a full head of steam, the pumps being kept in action all the while. By the time she reached the Mission-street pier, where she was docked, there was four feet of water in her forward hold. READY FOR SIGNATURE. Agreement Affecting Diamond Match and New York Biscuit Stocks. Chicago, Aug.

The agreements under which Diamond Match and New York Biscuit stock is to be deposited with the Northern Trust Company, as trustee, are ready for signature. The exact terms of these agreements will not be given to the public until the signatures are received and this stock is ready for deposit. They provide, however, their stock shall be placed in the keeping of the trustee for a period of one year, and the banks and capitalists who own them are to be given nonnegotiable receipts for the stock deposited. TWO BOYS DROWNED. Perished Before the Eyes of Their Father.

Middletown, Aug. 11. George and Isaac Ferguson, aged ten and eight years, respectively, were drowned while wading in the swift Wallkill river. Their, father was unable to swim and saw both of them drown. One of the bodies was recovered.

TO SUCCEED J. C. C. BLACK. William H.

Fleming Nominated For Congress From the Tenth Georgia District. Sandersville, Aug. The Democratic congressional convention of the Tenth district, in session here to-day, nominated Wm. H. Fleming to succeed J.

C. C. Black in Congress. Mr. Fleming is a prominent lawyer of Augusta, and has served several terms in the Georgia House of Representatives, of which body he was Speaker.

The Tenth is the district formerly represented by Thomas E. Watson, Merchant Tallor Fails. Chattanooga, Aug. J. Walsh, merchant tailor, this morning made an assignment, naming J.

H. Crabtree as assignee. The liabilities approximate $2,000. Populist National Committee. Washington.

Majority Continues to Grow. Raleigh, N. Aug. Senator Butler has called a meeting of the National Populist Committee to be held at Washington next Tuesday to decide upon the immediate opening of headquarters at Nashville, Aug. (Special.) Official returns from forty-nine counties give the Democratic candidates for Court of Chancery Appeals 72,819, Republicans 44,936.

-MORE THANDouble the Circulation OP ANY OZZIER Morning Paper In Kentucky. NEW SERIESHUNDREDS Added To the List of Heat Victims. DEATH RATE UNPRECEDENTED. Two Hundred Died In New York and Brooklyn. THIRTY SUCCUMBED IN CHICAGO Eight Hundred Dead Horses In the Windy City's Streets.

NO FACILITIES TO REMOVE THEM From Other Points Come Fatalities and Prostrations. RELIEF PEOMISED TONIGHT New York, Aug. Another day of fearful heat which is oppressing this section has added a page of fatalities and suffering more remarkable than its predecessors. In New York city, in Brooklyn and all the adjacent towns and throughout the States of New York and New Jersey the day's reports of deaths and prostrations overshadow the record of any other day in many years. In this city alone the death list for twenty-four hours, footed up at midnight, contain more than 100 names; Brooklyn adds about twenty to the list, and the heat's victims in suburban town bring the total to 150.

Men and women walking along the streets have dropped in their tracks and died before physicians could be summoned, and horses have died as though stricken by a plague. Many factories have been closed, and outdoor workers have been compelled to. drop their tools and find shelter during the hours when the sun was at Its height. Particularly among -policemen and letter-carriers has the suffering been intense, and many have been compelled to stop work from both forces. Along the business streets men have walked with umbrellas over their heads, with coats on their arms and fans in their hands.

The hospitals of this city are crowded to their full capacity, while the doctors and nurses have been kept at work night and day, until many of them have succumbed to the strain. The Department of Public Works has come to the relief of the tenement house districts, and forces of men with hose carts are patroling the streets of these sections and flooding them with water from the corner hydrants. Men, women and children rush in groups under the streams from the hose, and the night scenes among the tenements as the relief parties make their rounds are unprecedented. Unless to-morrow night brings relief, many prostrations are looked for in the Madison Square Garden meeting, and preparations are being made for a special force of medical men and for special ambulances. The thermometer has for the past six nights fallen but a few degrees from the limits registered during the hottest part of the day.

The heat on Monday night held almost stationary at 81 degrees until 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning, and as soon as the sun began to ascend the thermometer did likewise, until all previous records for August 11 was broken. The highest previous record for August 11 was 93 degrees in 1891 and 92 degrees in 1892, while today it registered upon the top of the Manhattan Life Insurance building, where the Weather Bureau is situated, 93.5 degrees, and the humidity, which is tan worse than the boiling sun, stood at 70, and down on the streets it was not less than five degrees warmer. The official temperature, beginning at noon, was as follows: 12 noon, 90; 1 p. 89; 2 p. 93.5; 4 p.

93; 5 p. 93; 6 p. 92, and 7 p. 90, and up to midnight the temperature dropped but a few points, registering 85. Following is the revised list of deaths: deaths: THE DEAD.

KATE DRESSLER, 28 years old. ALEXANDER GUTHRIE, 40 years old. MORRIS GILLESPIE, 10 years old. EMIL ERDTMAN, 36 years old. PATRICK MENTON, 40 years old.

SOPHIE BRAND, 34 years old. JOHN J. HAGERMAN, 40 years old. MARGARET WALBRICK, 29 years old. AUGUST BLOZER, 36 years old.

AUGUST LAGRANDO, 53 years old. GOLAS KRITTA, 61 years old. MICHAEL O'TOOLE, 35 years old. PATRICK ASCH, 51 years old. MICHAEL RORITY, 53 years old.

HERMAN ADELHOFF. 10 years old. EDWARD McQUIRK, 37 years old. CHARLES PHILIPS, 48 years old. LOUIS SIEGERT, 70 years old.

CHARLES KRAMMER, 49 years old. ROBERT STOLLENBERGER. BRIDGET O'HARA. JOHN SCANLON, 10 years old. CHARLES PLUMPP.

CHARLES McDONALD, 35 years old. ANNIE GEORGE DILLON, MARCH, 40 40 years old. JAMES LUSZKE. HENRY GROSSEL. E.

F. BOYLE. ALICE ERNEST. MICHAEL DUFFY. E.

KRITTLER. R. FITZGERALD -NO. TEN PAGES COATS OFF. Clark County Sound-Money Men Mean Business.

DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE FORMED And Plans Laid For a RedHot Campaign. SCOTT COUNTY LINE TOO Will Also Form a League and Get To Work. GOOD MEN AT THE HELM Winchester, Aug, A large number of the best men and Democrats of Clark county will not support Bryan and Sewall, and a National Democratic League has been formed. Over 200 signatures to this list have been published and the leaders of the third party movement claim that the ticket to be named at Indianapolis will get 600 to 700 votes in this county or a third of the Democratic votes. A few of the Democrats will vote for McKinley, but most of them will not vote for the Republican under any circumstances.

The league will publish a weekly paper here during the campaign, the first number of which will be issued to-morrow. It will be called the Jeffersonian Democrat. It will be a red-hot sound-money paper. Judge Rodney Haggard and other speakers will canvass the county in the interest of the National' Democratic ticket and branches of the county league will be organized in every precinct. The following county committee has been appointed: D.

C. Lisle, chairman; B. R. Jouett, secretary; Col. H.

P. Thomson and J. D. Simpson, county-atlarge. V.

W. Bush, for Fairfax precinct; B. R. Jouett, Winchester precinct; Dr. M.

S. Brown, North Winchester precinct: Dr. J. N. Rankin, Courthouse precinct; H.

Talbott, Ecton precinat; James Holley, Stoner precinct: H. A. Rogers, Wade's precinct; J. Harvey Hunt, Sphar precinct; C. C.

Curry, Kiddville precinct; Sam Berryman, Goode's precinct; Waller Quisenberry, Germantown precinct; H. B. Browning, Hayden Corner precinct; R. L. David, Ford precinct; Judge Geo.

B. Nelson, Renick precinct; J. Matt. Moore, Pinchem precinct; Chas. Oliver, Allansville precinct.

MORE INJUNCTION TALK, But the Silverites Concluded to Do Nothing at Present. Lexington, Aug, P. P. Johnston, Chairman of the Silver Democratic State Central Committee, returned from Washington today, where he had a conference with Chairman Jones, of the National Committee. He says Senator Jones is hopeful of electing Bryan and that one of the strongest fights will be made in Kentucky, as he considers it a very doubtful State.

A fight will also be made in Indiana and Ohio, but Senator Jones and other members of the National Committee think Illinois and the Southern and Western States will be able to take care of themselves. Then there will be strong fight made in the States of New York, Maryland, Connecticut and Penn. sylvania. The National Committeemen hope to carry the three first named States, and they think they have a fighting chance to carry Pennsylvania. Maj.

Johnston did not divulge the plan of the campaign for Kentucky, but it is evident that it will be an aggressive one in every sense of the word. As an instance of this it was proposed here today to take out an injunction against the members of the National Democratic party to restrain them from using the words "Democratic State Executive Committee" when it is meant thereby to designate the new State Executive Committtee chosen at the Louisville conference. Maj. Johnston was in consultation for several hours with some leading lawyers as to the advisability of getting out this injunction, but it was finally decided not to take any action at present. Maj.

Johnston thinks that while the name of the new committee is misleading it will not deceive many of the silver Democrats and that no serious harm will come of it. TAMMANY BOLTERS. Plenty of Them In Spite of Omcial Action. Lexington, Aug. L.

V. Harkness, the New York millionaire, who has established a large trotting horse breeding farm in this county, reached here to-day from New York. He says that all the talk about Tammany going to support Bryan is wrong. That a large percentage of the members of the organization will not only refuse to vote for the Chicago nominees, but will actually cast their suftrages for McKinley. He says that thousands of Democrats throughout the State of New York have repudiated the Chicago platform and the nominees and will vote against them.

SCOTT COUNTY, TOO. Vigorous Movement Under Way In Behalf of Honest Money. Georgetown, Aug. A sound-money league is being formed in Scott county and the movement is a very vigorous one. The following paper is being circulated and is receiving signatures in various parts of the county: We, the sound-money Democrats of Scott county, believing that the Chiplatform is contrary to all the most Important political principles for which, PRICE THREE CENTS LOOKS FUNNY.

Bryan's Position Not Satisfactorily Explained. HIS WORK FOR SILVER. His Heavy Lobbying Expense Contrasted With His Income, WHICH WAS INSIGNIFICANT. He Must Have Been Well Supplied With Funds. WHERE DID THEY COME FROM? Omaha, Aug.

(Special.) -The Bee to-morrow morning will contain the following editorial under the caption: "WAS BRYAN RETAINED." "The American people believe in fair play. They do not believe that all is fair in politics, as it is said to be in love and war. Every American citizen who aspires to public office must, however, be prepared to have his career and record examined from beginning to end and subjected to the most rigid test of integrity and capacity. If this applies to men who present themselves for elective positions of ordinary honor and trust how much more must it be applied to men who seek elevation to the highest office within the gift of the nation? William Jennings Bryan is now before the American people as the standard bearer ct the united silver forces. He has publicly declared that the nomination came to him not on account of any individual merit, but by reason of a peculiar combination of circumstances.

What was this combination? Was It made for him or was he made for it? Was he exalted for his unselfish devotion to the people or because he had proved his loyalty to the cause of silver as represented by the associated silver mine owners? "The Rocky Mountain News, published at Denver as the recognized organ of the silver bullionaires, has taken trouble to print statements from score of mining kings and promoters of mining schemes, denying that they had paid anything to Mr. Bryan for his services as silver agitator. This, in itself, must impress Intelligent men with the suspicion that Mr. Bryan needs a vindica tion. Nobody ever charged Bryan with being in the pay of these particular men.

A thousand men might swear that they never heard Mr. Bryan make a prohibition speech, but that would be no proof that he never made one. "The inevitable logic of the particular combination of circumstances under which Mr. Bryan has for two years been employed exclusively as an advance agent for the silver kings is that he has been retained and remunerated for his services. Everybody hereabouts knows that Mr.

Bryan has had no income except from his own earnings. His law practice has always been insignificant. His editorship of an Omaha paper was nominal. He performed no work for the paper beyond a few casual contributions, and the paper was not in position to pay salary to any one who did not earn it. Without means of support and with no capital to draw from, how was it possible for Mr.

Bryan to travel tens of thousands of miles from one end of the country to the other in his speech-making tours and to spend weeks at Washington lobbying for the silver interest without a retainer? With what did he buy several thousands of dollars' worth of stock in the Omaha World-Herald if not with the proceeds of his free-silver agitation? "Nobody pretends that Mr. Bryan would have been committing a crime if he did accept a retainer from the bonanza syndicate or Bimetallic League, which has notoriously retained other gifted orators and statesmen. As a lawyer Mr. Bryan has a right to take all the retainers he can persuade people to pay him. The only point of public concern is whether or not the silver candidate for the presidency of the United States has always been an unselfish and unbought champion of legalized ALABAMA CONVENTION CALLED.

No Time Lost Getting Down to Work. Montgomery, Aug. (Special.) -A conference of the Central Committee of the Sound-money Democratic party in Alabama was held here to-day. A State Executive Committee was selected, and August 26 was chosen as the date for holding the beat meetings in the different counties, and August 27 was determined on as the date for the State Convention. The delegates from the different sections of the State reported sentiment favor of the new movement as growing rapidly.

Capt. J. M. Faulkner, of this city, delegate from Alabama to the conference at Indianapolis, who was appointed by that meeting to direct the organization of the entire South, advised with and encouraged the local managers, who have been greatly encouraged by the recent addition of such men as Speaker Clark and ex-Gov. Jones.

WEST VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS To Name Delegates to the IndianapoHis Convention To-day. Huntington, W. Aug. (SpeciaL.) Col. Z.

Vinson, George F. Miller, nephew of Joseph Miller, Collector of Internal Revenue: Ely Ensign, Mayor of Huntington, and President of Great Ensign Car Works; J. K. Oney and several other prominent Democrats left here to day for Wheeling to attend the conference of gold Democrats to-morrow, and also to assist in selecting delethrough life, we have been contending, and resolving to remain true Democrats and not be transformed into Populists, do hereby declare that we are unalterably opposed to the Chicago platform and to the election of Bryan and Sewall, and we agree to form a league to work for the promotion of true Democratic principles. There are already sixty signers in Georgetown, and the sound-money men expect to have 400 or 500 soon in the county.

Dr. Arthur Yager, who has been appointed chairman of the committee for this county, has called a mass convention to be held at the Court-house in this city on Saturday next to select delegates to the State Convention to be neid at Louisville on the 20th Inst. MASS-MEETING CALLED Of the Sound-Money Men of Franklin County For Saturday, Frankfort, Aug. (Special.) The following self-explanatory call was issued this morning, and signed in their own handwriting by those whose names are attached thereto: Notice of Democratic mass-meeting for sound money and against Populism. On Saturday, August 15, 1896, at 2 o'clock solar time, at the court-house of this county, there will be a mass-meeting of the Democrats of this county who adhere to Democratic principles and are opposed to the declarations and doctrines of the recent Chicago convention, and to the election of Bryan and Sewall; at which massmeeting there will be chosen delegates from this county to the Democratic State Convention to be held in Louisville on August 20.

All Democrats who adhere to Democratic principles and are opposed to the decJarations and doctrines of the recent Chicago convention, and who are opposed to the election of Bryan and Sewall, are invited and earnestly urged to attend said mass-meeting on the above date (August 15, at 2 o'clock p. solar time). By crder of the Democratic State Executive Committee: J. A. Violett, chairJ.

W. Gaines, man; Jim Clay McDaniel, W. A. Heward, John Porter, Jas. R.

Ely, Thomas Kessler, Thomas H. Hines, Wm. Bryant, W. H. Lewis, James G.

Brawner, J. M. Brown, Ben. F. Head, Lawrence Hannen, Stephen Black, S.

A. Thomas, County Committee. Geo. Green, Several of the committeemen whose names are appended are those who were reported (by free-silver men) to be protesting against their appointment as County Committeemen, and to be denouncing the chairman for the unauthorized use of their names. As soon as the County Committee was announced silver men did crowd around them and try to persuade them by pleas and threats that they could not afford to serve.

But they represent the county's best constituency, and what has hitherto been considered its best Democracy, and it takes a good deal to change them when their minds are made up that they are right. The same class of men are organizing the sound-money Democratic clubs of the county, the same kind of men will attend next Saturday's mass convention, and will make up the delegation who will be sent to the State Convention. Shortly after the foregoing call was issued the following dodger appeared on the streets and out in the county: Democrats: The meeting advertised for Frankfort, August 15, is not a meeting of Democrats, but of bolters, and is intended to aid the Republican ticket. No true Democrat should give either aid or comfort to such deserters and traitors to the party. THE FRANKFORT BRYAN AND SEWALL CLUB.

TRIMBLE'S CALL Will Probably Not Meet With a eral Response. Frankfort, Ang. The indications are that the call of Executive Committeeman Trimble for a meeting here to-morrow week of the Democratic Seventh Congressional District Committee, will not be heeded by any of the old county chairmen, who deny that they and the committee that elected them have been removed. It is probable that these will not go to the meeting and that the latter will be a silver affair, which will call a convention for the nomination of one of the free-silver candidates. What the course of the old committees and their county chairmen, who really make up the district committee, will be remains to be seen.

It is believed that they and the sound-money Democrats will indorse, if not nominate, Breckinridge; that the Republicans seeing that Breckinridge will get the sound-money Democratic and many free-silver, secret-ballot votes, while the silver candidate divides the whole vote with him, will nominate as heretofore and probably win. The latest scare among the free-allver Democrats is that the sound-money men, claiming to be the real Democracy, will demand the use of the rooster emblem, and will be allowed it by the Republican State officials, who are in sympathy with them. This probably means a hard-fought lawsuit in the fall. Evan Settle's Dates. Versailles, Aug.

The Hon. Evan E. Settle was in Versailles to-day in consultation with his friends, and arranged a list of appointments for speeches in this county during the early part of September. Mr. Settle said that he was constantly receiving encouragement from unexpected sources, and was pleased with his prospects.

He speaks at Georgetown next Monday, the 17th, and at Lagrange Monday, August 24. White and Colson In Adair. Columbia, Aug. Republican primary to be held in the Eleventh district next Saturday 19 growing in interest. Both Colson and White are now in Adair county making strong efforts to get out their strength.

White speaks at Cane Valley to-morrow and Colson at Edmondson to-morrow night. In Adair county Colson evidently has the call, and will carry the county by a good majority. It is said in Casey and Wayne White is strong. Colson claims Metcalfe by a good majority. White-Colson Campaign.

Middleburg, Aug. (Special.) The contest between White and Colson for nomination for Congress in the primary on Saturday is getting hotter and hotter, In the beginning Colson was tar in the lead in this county, but the general impression is now among the pollticians that White will carry the county by a handsome majority. Friends of both men are working hard, and the majority in the whole district will be small. Wants a Divorce. Lexington, Aug.

(Special.) Mrs. Annie Gibbons filed suit for divorce from her husband, Thomas M. Gibbons, here this afternoon. The defendant lives in Boyle county, and his wife charges that he deserted her here three years ago. Once Famous Comedian Dead.

Cincinnati, Aug. Thomas Hampton, a once famous Irish comedian, died at the City Hospital last night, aged sixty-three years. He was born in Pittsburgh, and was the author of the great play. "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh." BRYAN Finally Arrives In "the Enemy's Country," AFTER AN UNEVENTFUL DAY. His Throat Was Sore and He Did Not Speak.

BLAND DID IT FOR HIM. To Be Notified Af Madison Square To-Night. MAY READ HIS SPEECH. New York, Aug. Jennings Bryan stepped upon the soil of the Empire State to-night for the first time since his nomination for the presidency by the convention at Chicago.

It was an event, both in his career and in the general canvass for the presidency of no small moment. It was practically a step into the section of avowed opposition to his candidacy; an opposition not on party lines, but said to exist within the party under whose emblem he looks victory in November. The crowd that gathered at the Jersey City station of the Pennsylvania rallroad to greet the Bryan party was not as large as had been expected, thousand people, in all, probably paying their way to the ferry-house in order to see the candidate from the West. Awaiting the arrival of the train the crowd amused itself by watching Chairman Jones, Vice Presidential Nominee Sewall, Wm. P.

St. John and National Committeeman Tomlinson, of Indiana, eating a modest repast in the railroad restaurant. A large majority of the crowd had purchased ferry tickets, entitling them to passage to New York city and it was evident from their actions afterward that they all expected to ride on the same boat with the Bryan party. When Mrs. Bryan alighted Mr.

Tomlinson took her in charge and hurried her along the private passageway which the police had laid out for the party to go through. She was hardly noticed by the crowd and took the first boat out of the slip, while her husband and the remainder of the party followed behind to second boat. To gO distance of Jess than hundred feet it. took the party some fifteen minutes or more. The police threatened with their batons and hustled and jostled people to clear a passageway.

The mob was good natured but insistent. and demanded in anything but dulcet tones that Mr. Bryan should speak. He smiled and shook his head in refusal and then the crowd called for Sewall. Finally the police made a way, and the party reached the boat.

They went upstairs into the pilot's cabin, while at least twothirds of the great crowd surged in upon the lower deck, and as the ferry piled its way to the Desbrosses-street alip kept cheering the candidate. When the boat reached the dock in New York, Capt. Cross, with a cordon of police, held the crowd aboard the boat for a few minutes while Mr. Bryan, Mr. Sewall' and the remainder of the party entered carriage in waiting.

When they got outside the ferry gates they found at least 500 more people awaiting, and, although the police made all dillgent effort to allow the carriage to proceed, it was stopped several times, the last time being when the horses, annoyed or scared by the applause and shouting, balked. Besides Mr. Bryan and Mr. Sewall, Chairman Jones and Mr. St.

John occupied the carriage. The National Chairman became little frightened at the behavior of the horses and left the carriage. The remainder of the party sat quietly until the animals were ready to proceed. At Mr. St John's house on Thirty-fourth street there was another gathering of citizens who applauded vociferously.

At Mr. St. John's house visitors were stopped at the door by policemen, and nobody was allowed to see the candidate until 10 o'clock, when he simply told the newspaper men how he would deliver his speech. Mr. and Mrs.

Bryan, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bland, Mr. Sewall and Mr. St.

John dined at 10 o'clock. Mr. St. John gave out to-morrow's Itinerary. At 11 o'clock Mr.

Bryan and his wife will hold a reception on the Fifth avenue stoop of the Windsor Hotel and will receive the people, but not shake hands with them, his arm and hand being tired and sore. His voice is also in bad condition, and he will not be able to make remarks until he speaks in the evening. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon Mrs. R. P.

Bland and Mrs. Bryan will receive the women of New York at the Bartholdi Hotel. Mr. Bryan will rest all the afternoon. His speech is finished and will be read from manuscript.

After the meeting at the garden he will speak from the balcony of the Bartholdi. Mr. and Mrs. Bland, Mrs. Bryan and Mrs.

Stone, of Missouri, will occupy a box at the StadIson Square meeting. THE DAY'S JOURNEY. Mr. Bryan's Throst Was In a Bad Way and Mr. Bland Did the Talking.

Pittsburgh, Aug. The Hon. William J. Bryan and party left Pittsburgh at 7:30 o'clock this morning on the day express over the main line of the Pennsylvania rallroad and continued their journey eastward. It was an early hour to start after having retired so late last night, and another hard day's work was begun by the Chicago nominee.

The Pittaburgh Reception Committee, headed by Chairman Howley, called at the hotel at 7 o'clock, and five minutes later the procession started for Union station. There was no brass band to speed the parting guests, but a good-sized crowd had gathered in front of the hotel to catch a glimpse of the Orator." He looked tired and sleepy, and it la (Concluded On Fifth Page).