Eau Claire Leader (Newspaper) - July 22, 1896, Eau Claire, Wisconsin WEDNESDAY 22 TWELVE PAGES how half empty but the other will buy if you will only look itr All that is Clothing Shoes Bryan Managers at St Louis Do Not Want Support of Extremists Claim They Will Be Able to Con trol the Convention For Endorsement Towne Declares Himself in Favor of Bryan Weaver For Tem Chairman Hats And Gentlemens Furnishing Goods has been put down so that every article will be yours by August 1st Hon I B Stevens Says Bryan and Sewall Will Undoubtedly Be Endorsed The Platform Will Probably Con tain Nothing But the Finan cial Plank An Address Will Then Be Issued to the People Appealing For Support I NILS CO 202204 North Bars tow Street Captain Nash of the Herbert Fuller His Wife and Second Mate A Michigan Fanner Kills His Three Chil dren and Himself DRYDEN Mich July Swayne a farmer about old living near here killed his three small children set fire to his house and then blew Bis own brains out His wife died a short time ago and it is thought that this deranged his mind Murdered in Their Locked Up at Halifax Await ing Trial A Michigan Farmer Kills Three Small Children and Himself if possible by breeding dissen sion among them and by paying some of the leaders to be traitors EVIDENTLY Tried to Kill Himself WEST Wis July a prisoner in the city jail on a charge of drunkenness tried to hang himself with his suspenders He was resuscitated A DOZEN DROWNED ST Louis July dark dismal day The dull leaden clouds drizzled and the convention city was and dripping But the rank and file of the Populists who are early to bed and early to rise were astir before 6 oclock and about the hotels discuss ing the situation and initiative and and tax and silver The corridors of the Lindell hotel were crowded before 7 oclock and the ora tions at headquarters of the middle of the road men at the Laclede had be gun before that hour The leaders of course were late in putting in an ap Bryan Managers Were Jubilant The Bryan managers were in a jubi lant frame of mind They confidently claimed that they had passed the Rubi con and that their control ol the convention was practically as sured There are conditions and de tails yet to be worked out but they be lieve they have won the main victory the nomination or endorsement of the Chicago ticket The attempt of some to throw over Sewall and nominate a Populist for vice president has been de by the stand taken by Bryans friends and the positive answer of Chairman Jones of tho Democratic national committee that such a tiling could uot bo considered and would not be tolerated Hope There Will lie a Bolt they now claim the victory they believe there will be a bolt of the radicals and paradoxical as it a bolt of tho extremists is what gome of the most level headed say they desire The Democratic managers cer tainly are not averse to a split which will carry out of the convention the ex treme men They claim the allegiance of some of these men would do ticket infinitely more harm than goed The battle of course will come on the floor of the convention and no one now doubts that there will be a generous dis play of bitterness and bad blood The national committee will wrestle with the question of organization during f he day The Bryan men have put for ward General Weaver for temporary chairman This is a shrewd move They do not believe the will care to make a light against their lati standard bearer ST July The Hon I B Stevens member of the executive com of the National Silver party has arrived in the city Speaking of what tho silver party will do he said Our party was organized to unite all silver voters for the campaign of 18 regard to past party affiliations We started by asking them to lay aside temporarily their views upon other pub lic questions and to unite in one su effort to settle tho money ques tion t his year Our convention will bo largely composed of men who have be party ant who have been easily persuaded to join our ranks t IIP reason do have to their convictions upon other political questions but sim ply subordinate them to tlie money Highest of all in Leavening U S Govt Report ABSOLUTELY PURE in A Single Plank Our convention will nominate Brynn and S wall substantially tho financial plank of the platform which will probably be the sole plank of our and then an address will probably be issued appealing to the people to hold in abeyance their opinions on other questions and join with us in restoring the money of institution We will bo a power ful factor in tlie Western and Middle states in uniting the silver voters The members of party undertook this work from motives of patriotism alone they want no offices therefore they have no trades or conditions to them silver convention will probably complete its work by Wednesday night The party has a school district organization in all the Middle and Western states It will bring to the support of Mr Bryan hun dreds of thousands who do not wish to vote a Democratic ticket or join that party but who with us upon tho money question JONES AND PETTIGREW a majority of the representatives pres ent of the practicability and advisability ot the plan as a large majority of them were in hearty sympathy with hiin They represented that they had made a canvass of then respective delegations and that there would be no defection in the entire South when tho question should be sprung in the convention Claim Nearly a Majority When the meeting adjourned the claim that 658 votes would be received for this plan south of Mason and Dixons line This approaches very near a majority of the convention The attendants were sure that the addi tional votes necessary to put the scheme through would be secured They hud they declared already received assur ances of support from a sufficient num ber of New England delegates to assure success Tho delegates present at the meeting refused to indicate a preference for vice president nmd declared that in have not bwu discussed They were only agreed that Mr Sow alls name should come off tlie ticket and that a Southern Populist should be given the place this point tUey de clared there would be no yielding RESOLUTION OF CYCLONE DAVIS Election Menus of i ST Loris July Davis has prepared and will the Populist con vention to adopt tho following resolu tion Whereas McKinley and the Republi can party represent the standard and tho perpetuation of which means that the national banking system is to be rechartered years and that our national debt is to be refunded and made a gold instead of a coin debt and tho bonds run years HALF THEIB GOLD New York Bankers Will Contribute to Government NEW YORK July of the informal agreement of the tional banks of this city to protect treasury gold they met again to con sider the situation In an informal way bank officials generally confirm the reports that the banks are to turn into the subtreasury aa amount of gold extending to afc least half of their holdings It is un that President of the National bank several other officials favor holding all their gold at the disposal of the department The directors of National city bank met and agreed to contribute in gold as the bunks share towards treasury reserve replenishing PLATFORM SUITS HliT Ex President Harrison Will Take Stump for Republican Success July special to says first authoritative political statement from General Harrison pince tho St Louis convention was given out the evening just after he had finished packing his effects for a to the New York mountains where lie will spend the summer He said I have been so busy with magazine articles and business that it will be impossible for me to take any active part iu the campaign before some in October I cannot allow myself to be quoted on the issues without thor ough preparation but I desire to say that I was pleased to see tho Republi can convention take tho simul it Hound money I believe in the platform and earnestly desire party tne success of VERY COUNTERFEITS Two New Silver Certificates by tlie Department r July Two TOWNE FOR BRYAN HALIFAX N S July The bark entine Herbert Fuller Captain Nash from Boston July 8 for Rosario has put in at Halifax Thors had mutiny on board during which the captain his wife and the second had been killed in their occurred in the night The first officer was on watch and knew nothing the affair The murderer or murderers crawled aft to the cabin and descended and with axes chopped their victims to death Upon the arrival of tlie Larken tinc all her crew were taken off the vessel and locked up i the police station here to await trial WAR IN CHINATOWN The See Yup and Sain Yup Companies Have a Hig Fight on Hand SAN July is in a furore of excitement War has been declared among the factions of the See Yup company and the murder of Lee Ti on Monday is only an incident of a feud which is not expected to end until more blood has been shed A price has been placed upon the head of two of the most influential merchants in the district Their entire families have been placed under the ban and the hatchet men have been promised heavy reward to accomplish their work The Chinese consul has seen fit to espouse the cause of one of the factions The members of the Kung How asylum and of the Chinese Merchants Exchange have taken an antagonistic position in the quarrel The Chinese police have announced their intention to allow tho fighting o settle their without inti and a feeling of almost dread pervades the quarter Men much more important than Lee Ti will be dead it is believed before the fight is over The See company succeeded in absorbing much of the local trade of the Sam Yup company Tlie Sam seem determined to destroy the See Disastrous Results of a Flood Down Kentucky FRANKFORT Jty July Boss Blue reports that he is unable to get across the creek owing to the bridge being washed away Parties living on the other side of the creek threw a rock across with a card tied to it on which was written Bradley wife and five children washed away and drowned 31 rs Bryan toll gate keeper widow three children washed away snrt drowned Dan Moore late candidate county judge missing Bridges on Short Line washed away It is believed more lives are lost CAUGHT IV SHAFTING Blind Hoy Probably Fatally In jured at N D July blind beggar and his boy of resting in the rear of Brooks Bros elevator when in some way the boy was caught in the shafting that communicates power to tho elevator When released his head was badly cut and his legs were broken in several places one be ing almost whipped to pieces One leg was amputated and recovery is possible Drowned In Lake PARK RAPIDS Minn July Joseph Elliott of Minneapolis and Miss Ball of Eagle Bend were drowned in Bemidji lake A party of six young people were out in a boat when a severe storm in the nature of a cyclone fame up One oar brolie and the boat was overturned with the above result Tin others clung to the boat and wero saved The Minnesota Congressman in ST Louis July Towne of Minnesota one ot the silver Republican who walked out of the St Louis convention is here He has been lioth Are at St Louis Working for Kn of ST July Petti grew of South Dakota and Senator Jones of Nevada have arrived here The former came direct from Manitou Springs Col where the Republican silver senators held their conference and whence they issued their mani festo to support Mr Bryans Whereas This system is to be fastened upon the country foreign nations under a false pretense of an interna tional agreement which means the ulti mate enslavement ot the pre vent this measure and to secure Mr KU fur us our go wo pledge ourselves to with counterfeits of United States silver the Democrats on one set of electors in have been discovered by each stale treasury department The first This is the sentiment of the of series of cheek letter C the road Populists by J Fount register and I treasurer and having a opposed to trait of Stanton The second a ST Lor is July Tho Georgia del series of 1801 check letter B signed has arrived here Mr H P by J Fount register and IX N Morgan treasurer and having a pic ture of counterfeit printed from etched plates and ore poor productions The portraits work and small lettering are bad being much blurred and A Disappearance Smith who has been employed in a livery stable here i missing He came from Lyndon Ills with his wife and four children who are destitute Woolen Burned CHATFIELD Minn July T Booths woolen mills were destroyed by fire Loss insurance The fire started from the picker Nothing except the goods was saved CONGRESSMAN CHARLES A in Minnesota since the Chicago conven tion and has addressed there large sil ver meetings The silver movement in Minnesota gaid he is growing by leaps and bounds Among the Republicans I was amazed at the widespread tion in favor of silver I appreciate very highly involved in the suggestion of my name said Mr Towne in answer to a question but an independent nomination in my opinion is cable should be endorsed I for Bryan Mark in CHICAGO July Hanna rived in Chicago during the day national Republican headquarters to be opened as as I ho committee makes up its imul to JOHN P JONES tion Senator Jones the East where IKIS been since the ad of Congress Senator Jones is a delegate to the silver convention He was a member of the last interna tional monetary conference and is one of the most eminent in the United States if not in the world He was most cordially received Both sen ators are laboring in Bryans interest SOUTHERN DELEGATES ar nl an advantages offered of the various Indian Educational Association ST PAUL July The convention of the Indian Educational association opened in the hall of representatives in the state capitoL There were about 160 people present The meeting continue during the week Plan Proponed by Senator Boded 111 For Bryan and ST July quiet meeting took place in Senator Butlers room in the horel which will in all probability have a most important bearing upon tint Populist convention Indeed if the claims of thoso who were present aro realized it will have the effect of creating consternation in tho ranks of the Brym and follow ers Thr meeting was composed of representatives from of all of the states south of the Mason and Dixon line question under dis cussion was the adoption of the plan to endorse Bryan and place upon the ticket with him a Southern Populist This plan it developed had originated with Senator Butler and he urged its adoption as the only means of uniting the silver forces and preserving the autonomy of the party He found little difficulty in convincing Blunt a leading member of the delega tion said it would impossible to bring the delegation to the support of Bryan and Bewail The Populists of his state would he said construe the endorsement of the national Democratic nominees as an endorsement of Demo cratic methods in Georgia state politics and it would be impassible to reconcile them to the coarse ST Loris July At a meeting of the representatives of the National Re form Press association which claims to have 13100 papers in the country the middle of the road men had a large majority and adopted a strong resolu tion in of preserving their organi and keeping in the middle of the road More July is thought that the object in widening tho Great Falls and Canada railroad to standard guage is twofold First to secure a more extended market for Lethbridge coal in Montana and secondly to cap ture a share of the Montana cattle J The Canadian Pacific Railroad company refitted up all their stock trains with air brakes and intend to give a fast service from Northwest to the sea board Army in tlie Corn irv la July army worm is devastating grain fields in this county They have been confining them selves to the oat fields but now they are making for the corn and they liter ally destroy it Farmers are fighting them by tho old process of burning their oat fields crop and all also by plowing a deep furrow around their corn fields and crushing the worms by dragging a large post through it i Found the Lout Roy Wis July Webers the boy who was lost in the j woods Saturday has been found He wandered about five miles away from tho original berrying point Over 500 people were scouring the forests in search of tho boy Kentucky Fusion I PADUCAH Ky July list state convention by a vote of 240 to 107 adopted a platform strongly oppos ing the plan to the national con volition of the party endorse ticket and platform L v Taylor was chosen temporary v lairman and the proceedings were to enable the to take an eaarly evening train for St Louia Awarded FOND DU LAC WiB July Wisconsin closed with the awarding of prizes wreaths and di Tlie paper is also poor a few peces o Bilk thread have been through it The most careless handler it is said should readily detect counterfeit notes IN THE M ATA PC HILLS Sir Frederick Forces H living a CAPETOWN July fco a dispatch from just re here Sir Frederick who left on Friday to be able to strike a decisive against tho came up tho hostiles in the Matapo hills oca Monday He them at and severe fighting continued until nightfall Firing had been when the dispatch was sent Tuesday morning N P Completed MILW July 2 1 The arguments on the mot inn of the Seattle tion committee to restrain the Pacific distribution until theur rights are have been com A decision is not expected im mediately It is likely to be down before the sale however A HXO tion to confirm the sale will be Monday Celebrating at O July 2l The tennial celebration of the first settle ment in the Scioto valley has here and will continue all week Post master General Wilson and Governor will be among the speakers Chillicothe was tbe first capital of Whipped the Terrible Swede MEMPHIS Teiin July 21 ODonnell and John Lawson the Ter rible Swede met here in a finish fight and the Swedes seconds threw up sponge after 28 rounds of fighting last ing 1 hr and 51 In the earljr part of the fight clearly dem his superiority as 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