Portsmouth Daily Times (Newspaper) - August 25, 1896, Portsmouth, Ohio THE DAILY TIMES Only in OHIO f-1 PORTSMOUTH OHIO TUESDAY AUGUST 25 1896 PRICE ONE CENT POLITICAL Letter of Acceptance to Be Made Public Thursday Hamilton Assurances Tnat Platt Will Not Accept tne Nomination to THE fair followed by bowers on the lakes Wednesday Warmer Wednesday morning VERY QUIET AFFAIR Governor of Xew York and Will Bis In California By Telegraph to IUE TIMES Cauton August Garrett A tart candidate for Vice-President and H H Kohlsaat editor of the visited Major today They consulted over the letters of acceptance They will not be until Thursday HAM FISH Tom PJatt Say He Be 11 By Telegraph to THE TIMES Saratoga N Y August Platt has again refused posi lively to allow the use of his nami for the Republican nomination for gov ernor He said he would not accept He gave this positive notice to Hamil ton Fish and told him to go ahead with his battle for the place Mr Fish the leading candidate with Platt out o the race One liy Telegraph to THE TIMES San Francisco Cal Aug between the silver of this state is complete The agreement gives five electors to the Democrats and four to the Populists OHIO POPS THE WEATHER PROPHET Was the Wedding of Gertrude and Hurry Payne Whitney at Newport Tills Morning By Telegraph to THE TIM SSL Newport R I August wedding of Miss Gertrude and Harry Payne Whitney took place his morning at the Vanderbilt summer residence It was a very simple affair A PRIVATE BANK Failed ana Then tbe Junior ner Killed Himself and Wife Preferring Death to Die grace nud Horrible Tragedy at 11 Michigan Early Thin Crimes and Casualties of tne Day By Telegraph to THE TIMES Lowell Mich August community was shocked this morning by a horrible tragedy Yesterday a on account of the illness of Mr j private bank closed its doors the derbilt Only about fifty persons were present Miss Vanderbilt is the young- st daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt head of the Vanderbilt family and the groom is the only son of Mr William C Whitney REPUBLICAN CLUBS Convened m Annual at Early This Morning By Telegraph to THE TIMES Milwaukee Wis Aug National League of Republican clubs met today The welcome addresses were made by the Mayor and others D D Woodmansee of Ohio a brief but telling speech President then ered his address ure being a bad one This morning attachment papers were gotten out on he property of members of the firm When the officers approached the dence of Church the junior City but will be in Cincinnati about member of the firm he closed the doors September 6th Farley wrote to his of his home and locked the officers out mother asking her to meet him on that Securing a revolver he called his wife date He says he has saved about into an upstairs apartment and shot which he wants to give her her wounding her fatally He then TOO BAD Pennsylvania Gold Standard Democrats Like Bryan Convention Will Endorse Bryan and By Telegraph to THE TIMES Springfield O Aug is be- now that the Populists in state convention will endorse Bryan and Watson Populists here say that the endorsement of would disrupt the party Gold Deinocratp By Telegraph to THE Boston Mass Aug gold Democratic convention met to adopt a platform and choose gates to Indianapolis J Russell Reed is the temporary chairman of the con- vention Mrg Bryan Gut FlowxrB By Telegraph to THB TIMES Summit N Y Ang 25 and Mrs Bryan reached here at Mrs Bryan received flowers from admirers The Platform on He Stands or the Convention Which Nominated They Claim That the Convention Wax All While of Course Ars A Si Right HAS TURNED UR AGAIN Farley Bobs Up After Four T eai B Wandering About the Now In Now York City Colored people of the city will re- member Preston Farley a promising young colored lad who left Portsmouth about four years ago The boy wanted to see the world so one day he left his home at 149 East Tenth street and failed to return Daring the four years that have passed his mother Mrs Mary Parley has not heard a word concerning him or his whereabouts Yesterday however she received a ter from Preston He has led a rather nomadic of life and has all over the country from Maine to fornia For some time past be has been traveling with a negro minstrel show as one of the leading comedians j The company is now in New York deliberately blew out his own brains The officers broke down the doors of the house and found them weltering in their own blood lying side by sMe CONTINUED LUNDY DISMISSED Frank The Cincinnati Lawyer Who Killed Rothacker Goeit Free By Telegraph to THE TIMES Cincinnati O August Lundy the attorney who stabbed killed Frank Rothacker of Cleveland last Sunday night was dismissed in police court today on the grounds of self-defense Rothacker and his brother attacked Lundy when he waa on his way home and he stabbed Prank He died in a few hours Lundy is a well known lawyer HIT AN ICEBERG Four Arrested by Deputy Fish Kelley for ing HIM law Deputy Game Warden Kelley and Constable Rood went up to Lucasville today and brought down four alleged violators of the fish laws They were John Berthold Newt Martin Ollie McWilliams and Thos Martin The and charge against them is fishing in the Scioto river with nets They were j taken before Mayor Row and pleaded not guilty The trial continued indefinitely the defendants being re- leased on their own recognizance Theo K Funk was engaged as their Kelley says there are two more violators of the fish law to tx arrested at Lucasville SURROUNDED BY FIRE And Unless Ruins Come Soon the City Will be Destroyed Vancouver B C Aug fires with unabated fury in the of British Columbia New Westminster is surrounded and as firemen cannot be at all places at once it is feared some parts of the city will be destroyed the in spite of them At the laby city limits at Eighth avenue at the city limits mid on tho Pitt river high road are ing- out to the city from every part of he compass and should rain not come nd should wind in the wrong can save portions of he city from destroyed by fire The farmers of the of Westminster district met Saturday in large numbers and decided o unite in both the visional and federal governments to leepen and dyke tho river The most speakers stated that this must be done or all ranches along the valley subject to Hoods would be to the tax collector As wheat frown on this land took first prize with ill the world in competition at the world's fair such a sequel to the floods would be disastrous to the whole province DR LARGEST DAMAGE SUIT EVER BROUGHT IN FRANKLIN COUNTY Conspiracy Charged to Prevent the Sale of In This and Other States SUCCESSOR HIS NAME IS FRANCIS AND HE HAILS FROM MISSOURI He's a Gold Man and in Harmony With the graphical Sketch By Telegraph to THE TIMES Philadelphia August form of the gold standard Democratic convention denies the authority of the Chicago convention to impose on crats of Pennsylvania any obligation to support candidates whose declarations aud platform on which they stand are at variance with the vital principles of the Democratic party of the country as heretofore declared It goes on to the Chicago convention for ting aside the choice of the national committee for temporary chairman for unseating Michigan delegations for de- claring in favor of demonetizing gold by the unlimited coinage of silver for its attack on court for its refusal to endorse the present tration and its encouragement of lessness rebellion and anarchy The convention was called to order by Wm N Singerly and Jno O let was made permanent chairman Tne Steamer Moldavia Wrecked Off Nova Scotia and Her Crew Took to the Boats Ky telegraph to TsH New York August and twenty-two of the crew of the British steamer Moldavia bound from Cardiff to Halifax with a cargo of coal were picked up at sea in three open boats by the steamer sia The Moldavia had struck an berg and sunk barely giving time for the crew to lower her boats They had been drifting about for some time and were out of provisions They suffered intensely from lack of water lng Child Albert the little five year old child of Geo Balmert of East Tenth street wandered away from home this ing He was found about 1 o'clock on North Waller street PACIFIC WRECK San Francisco Cal Aug jcial from Missoula Mon says bound freight train No on the Northern Pacific railroad was wrecked one mile east of Horse on the 1 Rocky mountain division and four train hands lost their lives Full details of A COMING WEDDING Wood ford for Permanent Chairman By Telegraph to THE TUCKS Saratoga N Y August committee on permanent organization has chosen General Stewart ford for permanent chairman of the Republican state convention Tom Roed Spoke KT to TSTB TIMES Orchard Beach N Y August Thos B Reed delivered a speech here today before a large audience on the political of this campaign K OF P'S WELCOMED A CUTTING SCRAPE Cleveland by mayor and the Committee on Arrangements By Telegraph to THE Cleveland O August every supreme representative to the Supreme Lodge K of P was pressent today Chairman Dunn of the com- on arrangements and Mayor made addresses of welcome fo which Supreme Chancellor Richie responded on behalf of the Knights Got a Bijj By Telegraph to THE TutKa Columbus O August coal contract for the coming year for the Wind asylum has been let to Taylor Williams of Columbus for ton Williams waa an old Portsmouth The Markets Today t Telegraph THE TIMES Chicago August active 32.65 3.60 cattle steady ves sheep steady At the Matthews Picnic and Dance on Knn Saturday There was a lively cutting scrape on the West Side Saturday afternoon It happened at a picnic and dance given by Frank Matthews on Rnn A citizen named Henry Cochran re- fused to pay for dancing and when A J Matthews brother of the man who gave the dance attempted to collect the money Cochran struck at his throat with a knife Matthews threw up his hand warding off the blow An awful gash was cut in his hand severing the ligaments and an artery Cochran sturck at him twice more with the knife inflicting slight flesh wounds in the breast Constable Double who was present interfered and arrested Matthews hand is in bad shape SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED Mr Samuel R Crawford and Florence to Be Wedded tember Invitations were sent out today an- nouncing the marriage of Miss Delia Florence Smith and Mr Samuel Robert Crawford which will take place at the residence of the bride on East Ninth street Miss Smith is the daughter of Mr and Mra William A Smith and is a popular young lady in social circles j Mr Crawford is connected with the freight office of the N W railroad in this city and is one of the cleverest young men in Portsmouth He came to Portsmouth several years ago from West Union A New Divorce Salt vs Edward Reyborn is another petition for divorce filed in the clerk's office today The couple were married December 1881 The plaintiff sets forth in her petition that for more than seven years the de- fendant has continued to disregard his marriage duties He has been absent from her for that length of time ing which she has been compelled to support herself She asks for absolute divorce Alex Woodrow is attorney or the plaintiff the accident are lacking and it is not known if there is a further loss of life The train left Missoula charge I of Conductor Clem When opposite the mile board just east Horse Plains a 1 huge several hundred feet long the entire train into Delia fci pork r ver The victims were all instantly killed Their bodies have been recovered It is posed the slide was caused by settling of quicksand The road is still and the railway officials are details of the wreck BRAKE FAILED TO WORK Frederick City Md Aug were more or less injured by e brakes of a trolley car failing to ork Sunday evening on the steep incline on the Frederick and Middletown electric road The car started from Braddock Heights at 7 o'clock There were 100 on the car many more than it capacity when the start was made The man applied the brakes but they ed and the speed of the car rapidly in- creased Just before a trestle over a ravine fifty feet deep the car gave a lurch the motorman tried to reverse but the trolley slipped the wire and he was powerless lie called to the passengers to hold for their lives The next instant there was a crash as the car bounded from the rails and turned over The people were piled on top of one another in the muss of wreckage Many persons who had seen the car tearing down the mountain hurried to the rescue and the bruised and maimed passengers were removed to their homes Buzzard's Bay Mass Aug ident Cleveland announced Monday night that David R Francis or of Missouri had been appointed of the interior vice Hoke Smith resigned and that he will assume tho duties of his office September 1 David Rowland Francis the new cessor of lion Hoke Smith as secretary of the interior was born of Irish parents in Richmond Ky Octo- ber 1 1850 Supplementing his com- mon school education in Kentucky ho graduated from Washington university in this city in 1895 with the degree of bachelor of arts After three years apprenticeship in commercial life he I organized the D R Francis Hro Commission company is still one of the leading firms operating at the Merchants exchange In 1883 he was elected vice president of the exchange and the following year was chosen president lie has been a Democrat and in 1884 was a delegate to the convention that nominated Mr Cleveland for president The following year he was elected mayor of St Louis by majority overcoming a former Republican of pal reform nourished under his In 1888 he was elected ernor of Missouri by one of the est majorities ever achieved by his party in that state and his wise con- duct of the office is still a criterion Prior to the Chicago convention of this year he was prominent in the ranks of the sound money men and took a ing part in the effort to beat back the rising tide of silver agitation In 1876 Mr Francis was wedded to Miss Jennie Perry of St Louis daughter of John D Perry president of the Laclede tional bank Six boys were born of this union Columbus O Aug of the largest damage suits ever filed in this county or perhaps in the state was placed on record in the courts of this county Monday The tion grew out of the manufacture and sale of The suit is for damages and is by the A J White Com- pany limited Paris Franco against Frederick Amos Dye 11 G Eecles A G Charles T P Fennel J C Culbertson Albert T Scott and Samuel W partners in trade under the firm name of and style of Scott Brown The petition states that the plaintiff is engaged in the manufacture and sale of drugs and among the cal preparations it has secured tho sole to manufacture and sell a as It cites that McNeal is the dairy and food for the state that was a deputy commissioner vras an inspector Dyer was an attorney for the department Fonnell was a chemist for the department and Culburtson was the editor of the Cincinnati Lancet Clinic while Scott Browne are en- gaged in the drug business The plaintiff bases his grounds for action on an alleged conspiracy be- tween the to prevent the sale of in this other states by it was a fraud and that the manufacturers were annually bing people of large sums of money The plaintiff claims that is not nu injurious preparation but on the contrary possesses rare curative properties and is prepared under the supervision of a skilled chemist and m accordance with a formula which has ever been and is still followed in its preparation It is further charged that in order to assist in the execution of the con- the defendants caused to be la t tho United States copies of the Cincinnati Lancet the article and in July they caused to bo published in paper issued in New York nati and other cities articles of a libel nature reflecting on in that the statement was made that ifc had uo merit as a medicine or food and was dangerous to health and that its sale was an imposition on the public and it is further charged that the de- fendants induced Charles P to make a false analysis of and that the analysis was published throughout the United States and that in order to carry out the conspiracy the defendants induced Deputy Food Commissioner to make affidavits on which parties in Cleveland and Cincinnati who are the article were arrested and prosecuted before justices of the peace The plaintiff claims that on account of these publications the sale of kola has been greatly reduced and that he has been deprived of the profits that would have resulted had it not been for these statements TO RETURN TO ATLANTA Syndicate Wilaon Rev Syndicate Wilson the famous who has been creating a iu Southern Ohio has finally arrangements for a camp meeting in Portsmouth He will open J Athletic park on Saturday evening 5th and will conduct the for several weeks both after- and evening In the past twelve is Rev Wilson has had over at his meetings the moat beautiful winter a broad Scotch edge and a Call and see them WINTER Said Tnat City Solicitor Woodrow Refused to Get Oat That In- junction Until Too Late It has developed that City Solicitor Woodrow was strangely neglectful of hia duties in connection with that in- junction to prevent the extension of the water works pipes outside the tion The morning after the council had ordered Mr Woodrow to prepare the injunction Mr Woodrow informed Mr Geo Berthold in the presence of several gentlemen that Council was a set of fools to order such a and that he did not propose to do it Mr remonstrances had no New Diphtheria Cases Two new cases of diphtheria -were reported this child of George Hancock Cemetery Hill and a child of J E Clark 185 East Eleventh street This makes twenty-three cases in the city Of these seven are under the care of physicians while sixteen cases have been discharged but the still up Cottage Contractor I B Smith has begun work on the foundation of a new tage on East Tenth street above nere The cottage is being built for A T Nole A Henley Meeting There will be a public political ing at the Henley school house Friday night August Object to ize a Free Silver club and promote the cause of the Democratic party There will be able speakers present and a good time is anticipated Let body interested in the welfare of his country come and join in with us By order of committee Wedding Announced Cards are out announcing the ap preaching wedding of Rev John FJ Prior of Jasper to Miss Mattie B Fagan daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank M Fagan of 715 Court street The date of the wedding ia September 2d at high noon at the home of the bride's parents A Bicycle Thief Marshal Watkina received a telegram from Ironton asking him to look out for a bicycle thief Some fellow tried to sell a wheel to Stanley Prichard this morning but crossed over to Kentucky before the police were notified Back Cashier C B Taylor of the Ports mouth National bank and family re turned yesterday from a three visit to Mr Taylor's parents at Mad Lake county Ohio A HORRIBLE DEATH Met By a Sailor on the Docks at Ashtabula Ashtabula O Aug Jenkins a sailor about 45 years old employed in the Brown Machine com- construction fell from one of the new machines erected on the lake front docks a few minutes after commencing work this and met a terrible death Ife was climbing from the ladder to the top of the false work and hold of some scantling on of it to climb over them They were so near that they off with him Hoke Smith Will at Once Resume the Practice of Law Atlanta Ga tion of Secretary Hoke Smith will take effect Sept 1 Whether his successor will qualify on that date is not known Secretary Smith according to his present plans will leave ton on that day and go to Lincolnton N C where he will spend a few days with his family who have been there part of the summer After his short stay he will return to Atlanta and at once resume his law practice Judge John Pendleton has been ing- care of Mr Smith's legal affairs here the secretary's absence but contrary to impression he is not a partner Secretary Smith does not now contemplate active work in the political fight As he explained to several of his friends he regards his step in leaving the cabinet the strongest action that he could take in the interests of the regular Democratic nominees That he will later mine to speak in the interests of the ticket is possible Where did you get that and he fell backwards from the ladder the father of his son as he and struck on his head on the planked dock 40 feet below His skull was crushed in and his neck and left leg He came from Mobile Aln two weeks His family is in land but friends live in Chicago AWAY ON BUSINESS came shoes marching in with a pair of new and a naw hat said the urchin I bought my shoes at Lehman's and saved enough to buy the hat And IB went out to spread the news And the People Became Worried Over His Absence Chillicothe O ex- prevailed for at Waverly over the disappearance of Treasurer George 11 was reported that he had with a woman and taken some of the county's funds Preparations were made to blow open the vault in his office when he returned from Lima where he had been on business con- with his Pops to Notify Bryan New York Aug Herald special from Washington Con- the report accredited to T G Bateman the Populist nominee for governor of Maine that Bryan will be formally notified of his nomination by the Populists Senator Butler of the Populist executive committee said that no such notification would he made as Populists are not going by old party customs Well Known Railroad Man Dies Columbus O Aug was received in iis city Monday of the death of M J Becker engineer i estate agent of the Panhandle which occurred at evening I death closes an eventful career in railroad work as he spent 51 years of his life in railroad service anil that time he was chief engineer of the Panhandle for 29 Found in His Bed Cincinnati Aug D King a man of Philadelphia was found dead in bed at the Gait house Monday afternoon been dead six hours There was nothing to show that lie nad committed suicide and no papers of any kind were found Deceased was about 50 years old Sister Stella's Death Dallas Tex Aug Stella a sister of charity widely known as a builder of hospitals and for her works af charity died of fever here Sunday it the Catholic orphanage aged 56 years She came to Dallas two months igo to take charge of the building of a hospital In life she was garet a native of Brooklyn Highest of all in Leavening U S Gov't Report Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE
