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ESTABLISHED 1887.
REPLIES TO BUTLER
Chairman Manley Writes a Letter Re
garding Fusion,
WANTS SILVER FORGE TO UNITE
Democrats and Populists For
One Cause
TO DIVIDE OUT THE OFFICES
*xpres.*e« the Hope That Nothing: Will Be
Allowed to Stand In the Way of Some
Just Arrangement by Which Bryan Will
Receive the Support of the Democratic,
Populist and Silver Parties.
Raleigh, Aug. 14.—Chairman Man
ley of the Democratic state executive
committee has replied to the letter of
Senator Butler regarding fusion. Sen
ator Butler proposed fusion as follows:
Electors—Democrats 6, Populists 5.
State Officers—Populists: Governor,
treasurer, superintendent of public in
struction. Democrats: Lieutenant gov
ernor, secretary of state, auditor, attor
ney general, United States senator.
Or Democrats: Governor, attorney
general, superintendent of public in
struction. Populists: Lieutenant gov
ernor, treasurer, secretary of state, audi
tor, United States senator.
Congressmen—Populists:First district,
Fourth district, Sixth dist-ict, Seventh
district. Democrats: Second district,
Fifth district. Eighth district, Ninth
district; Third district to be left open
for a free fight.
Judges—Each party one supreme court
judge.
County Officers—The two state execu
tive committees to use the good offices
to secure a fair and honorable division
of county legislative candic ites between
the two parties on an equitable ration
similar tc the above division of the state
and congressional offices.
The Democrats had only proposed
fusion on the electoral ticket.
Mr. Manley, in his reply, says he re
gards the memorandum from Senator
Butler as private and did not submit it
to his committee. He said:
In further answer to your communica
tion I would respectfully say that the ex
ecutive committee of the Democratic party
made this proposition for electoral fusion
in perfect good faith and we still express
the hope that our inability to come to any
satisfactory arrangement to the extent
and in the manner you propose will not bo
allowed to stand in the way of some just
arrangement by which Mr. Biyan, the
nominee of the Democratic, Populist and
Silver parties should receive the united
support of these organizations. The fail
ure to have one electoral ticket for Bryan
may resulj in McKinley receiving the en
tire electoral vote of North Carolina, al
though he receives many thousands less
of the popular votes at the polls than re
ceived by Bryan. It may be that the loss
of the electoral vote or North Carolina
will result in the election of McKinley and
the fixing of the gold standard upon the
people for four more years. It was to
avoid the possibility for such a result that
the Democratic executive committee made
Its proposition of July 31 for electoral fu
sion, presenting it in a more definite shape
at its meeting on Aug. 10, and now again
presses its acceptance upon you.
There is also a warm and sincere desire
on the part o f the Democratic party that
the prospect of the reform legislation de
manded in the Chicago platform and reit
erated in the national platform of the Peo
ple’s party, in the event of the election of
Bryan, shall not fail because of the want
of a majority for silver in the national
house of representatives, and to that end
every effort on the part of all parties be
lieving in silver should be directed to the
defeat of the gold standard candidates in
every congressional district in the state,
and if, before the time of the election of
any congressional district, there should
be running for congress two silver candi
dates, the representatives of our respect
ive parties and the division of the silver
vote thus brought about would make
probable the election of a gold standard
candidate, I believe it would become our
duty in some honorable way to meet the
situation so as to prevent this result.
COTTON BOUND WITH WIRE.
The Board of Directors of the Charleston
Eichange Adopt a Resolution.
Charleston, Aug. 14.—The board of
directors of the Cotton Exchange met
and adopted the following resolution in
regard to the bale of cotton bound with
wire, which was sent here to be tested
a few days ago:
Resolved, That the bale received w r as
tested and stood the strain of compress
ing; that so far as the exporting of cotton
with these wires is concerned, this ex
change cannot pass an official opinion in
the absence of a majority of the export
ers from the city, but as far as we cm see
at present we think the cotton baled in
this way will be received by exporters,
provided the cotton is uncompressed and
is wired as the sample bale sent us for in
spection.
The Town of Kama Completely Submerged.
New York, Aug. 14.—A special to
The Herald from Panama says: Pas
sengers who have just arrived here by
the steamer Newport, from Central
American ports, reports that the town
of Rama, on the Atlantic coast of Nica
ragua, was completely submerged dur
ing 40 hours by the overflowing of the
banks of the rivers Siqua and Rama.
The waters rose to the height of 43 feet
above the level of the river banks, and
the flood did damage to property esti
mated at $1,000,000. Rama exports a
treat quantity of bananas to the United
tates, principally byway of New Or
leans.
The “era of Bithyni a, ” extensively
employed not only by the Bithynians.
but by the people of the neighboring
states, dated from their revolt from
Macedonian rule, B. C. 288.
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
GUTHRIE FOR GOVERNOR.
North Carolina Populists Tut Out a Full
State Ticket—The Platform.
Raleigh, Aug. 14.—The Populist state
convention was culled to order at noon
by Senate. Butler. All counties were
represented, and there was but one con
test. L. O. Caldwell of Statesville was
made temporary chairman. After the
appointment of committees the conven
tion took a recess. After recess Con
gressman Harry Skinner was selected
as permanent chairman and the plat
form was adopted.
It reaffirms the national platform, and
as to state matters, indorses the present
county government and election law,
calls on the governor to exercise the
power reserved by the state to make all
United States coins legal tender and
pass an appropriate law, such coins to
include trade dollars; forbidding gold
notes being taken; pledging the contin
uance of 6 per cent interest; pledging
further aid to public schools and more
competent supervision of them; declares
for an unpartisan judiciary; favors re
formatories for young criminals; con
demns the Democratic administration
for failure to execute the antitrust laws;
favors low and equitable freight rates
and aid to the trucking industry; con
demns the secret methods of the lease
of the North Carolina railway to the
Southern railway by the Democratic
party; calls for legislation forbidding
charters to lines of railway competing
with the present main lines, and calls
for a reduction of the salaries of state
officers.
W. A. Guthrie of Durham was nomi
nated for governor on first ballot.getting
797 votes, and Cyrus Thompson 322. An
intensely dramatic scene followed when
Senator Butler rose and placed in nomi
nation; for lieutenant governor Oliver
H. Dockery, who was defeated by D. L.
Russell as the Republican nominee for
governor.
Congressman Skinner declared he
would not submit to Dockery, and that
he opposed nominating any Republican
or Democrat now that the “middle-of
the-road” policy had been agreed on, and
that Butler’s plan was to divide the Re
publican vote and put in the Democratic
electors. Cyrus Thompson then at
tacked Butler, saying that he would not
submit to Dockery’s nomination; that
Butler had been trying to force the Re
publicans. Thompson said he had fa
vored fusion with the regular Republi
cans. Skinner said if there must - bo
fusion with the Republicans, it must be
with the machine and not with a rebel.
Butler remained cool.
Dockery was nominated, and the ticket
was completed as follows: Secretary of
State —Cyrus Thompson. Treasurer—
W. H. Worth. Auditor —Hal W. Ayer.
Superintendent Public Instruction—C.
H. Mebane. Attorney General—Z. V.
Walser.
THE JAPS ARE AMBITIOUS.
Trying to Fxcel lu the Manufacture of Im
plements For Naval Warfare.
San Francisco, Aug. 14.—The steam
ship Coptic brings news that the Japa
nese are endeavoring not only to catch
up with the leading nations of the world
in manufacturing industries, but to ex
cel all the rest of the world in the man
ufacture of implements for naval war
fare.
About the time the Coptic left Yoko
hama it was learned from good sources
that the government had arranged for
the building of a floatilla of gunboats
to develop the extraordinary speed of 40
miles an hour. The vessels are to be
driven and lighted by electricity, the
twin screw propellers to be placed not
right aft, but only a little abaft amid
ships. The boats are to be wholly or
partially submergable, and to make this
process easy there will be little more
than mere hull, devoid of outwork of
any kind.
It is believed that the new class of
war vessels will be designed entirely as
an attempt to embody the principle
which has been advocated by so many
naval experts of putting into a small
compass such extraordinary speed and
fighting power as may cope with really
big warships. Whether or not the Jap
anese navy department has reason to
feel assured that it has advanced mere
experiment in this direction, it is not
known.
Want the Free Port of Greytown Abolished.
New Yobk, Ang. 14 —A special to
The World from San Juan del Norte,
Nicaragua, says: Senor Don Guerrere,
late minister of war,has been instructed
by a committee composed of F. A Bellas
and four others of this city to present a
petition to President Zelaya to abolish
the free port of San Juan del Norte
(Greytown), and declare average duty
on imports of 20 per cent advalorem.
Bellas is the sole owner of the only
steamboats on the Lake Nicaragua and
the San Juan river. The treaty made
at Managua in 1880 between Nicaragua
and Great Britain provides that San
Juan del Norte shall be a free port. The
British and German merchants in the
town have refused to sign the petition.
Chautauqua Board of Trustees Meet.
Chautauqua, N. Y., Aug. 13.—At the
annual meeting of the Chautauqua
board of trustees, the following trustees
were elected to serve for the ensuing
four years: Bishop H. Vincent, Messrs.
William ,M. Clark, E. G. Dusenbery, O.
D. Firstone and Wihiam H. Short. The
vacancy caused by the death of H. A.
Massey of Toronto, Ont., was filled by
the election of his son, Mr. Chester Mas
sey of Toronto. The Hon. Wilson M.
Day of Cleveland is the other member
of the board.
A North Carolinian’s Sentence Suspended.
Washington, Aug. 14.—The president
has suspended sentence of five years in
the penitentiary imposed upon Frank
Pruner, convicted of counterfeiting in
western North Carolina, pending fur
ther investigation of his case.
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THE ROME TRIBUNE, ROME, GA., SATURDAY AUGUST 15, 1896.
LI’S LIFE IN DANGER
China’s Aged Viceroy Threatened
With Death.
WILL NOT VISIT SAN FRANCISCO
Threatening Intrigues Formed
Against Him
TO DEPOSE OR ASSASSINATE HIM
Celestial* of the Golden City Charge the
“Grand Old Man” of the Fast With Trait
orous Conduct In Connection With the
Recent War and Plan to End His Earthly
Existence.
San Francisco, Aug. 14.—Li Hung
Chang, China’s aged viceroy, is threat
ened with deposition, if not death. A
few days ago the telegraph conveyed the
information that the diplomat had found
it an urgent neressity to cut short his
American tour. The message also said
this was mainly due to the reason that
he had been advised of the threating
political intrigues at home, and that,
after a short stay in Washington, he
would hurry home via Victoria, B. C.
That Li Hung Chang should avoid
San Francisco, the eastern mecca of his
race, seejns strange, but may now be ex
plained. For several days the dead
walls of Chinatown have been illumi
nated with bright posters, proclaiming
the purposes of a new society known as
"Hing Chung Wee,” and calling upon
all patriotic Chinamen to acquaint
themselves with the principles of the
new order and lend it their moral,
physical and financial support.
The circular complains in the bitterest
tones of the influences brought to bear
upon the emperor by corrupt officials
and special reference is made to the vice
roy. He is charged with traitorous
conduct in connection with the great
war with Japan and incidents cited at
length to show that Li Hung Chang’s
relations traded their honor for Japan
gold during the war.
Members of the local Chinese colony
entertain a bitter hatred for Li Hung
Chang. The present political move
ment has increased this hatred and
those who pretend to know the state of
affairs in Chinatown declared the vice
roy would certainly be killed if he camo
here. It is believed that Li Hung Chang
has been fully advised of this fact and
proposes to avoid San Francisco for this
reason.
THE CONDITION OF FRUIT.
August Report of the Agricultural De
partment—Peach Crop a Failure.
Washington, Aug. 14. The agri
cultural department’s August report of
fruit conditions is as follows:
Apples—The general condition has ad
vanced from July from 64.6 to 65.7,
indicating a condition of sustained crop
prospects. The acreage and average in
cludes all kinds of appless and all sec
tions of the country, important and un
important as producers, and the state
percentages must be used to determine
the outlook for particular commercial
apples. Notwithstanding a general con
dition of 64.6 in July, which was low as
far as the crop the country over was
concerned, it was specially stated that
prospects for excellent crops continued.
In the present report the correspondents
confirm their earlier judgments as to
quality and add gratifying information
as to the respective high quality of the
fruit.
Beaches—Bresent returns show a gen
erally good condition. Os the commer
cial states the best prospects are still
found in Delaware, Michigan and Ohio.
In New Jersey, Virginia and Georgia
and California present conditions indi
cate less than half a crop. In Delaware
the early crop was nearly ruined by cir
culio and “yellows” and fruit on the
trees is badly stung there and in Mary
land, though a fine product is expected
from the mountain orchards of the lat
ter state. In Michigan and Ohio excel
lent crops are indicated.
Grapes —The condition of grapes is
generally high. Some complaints are
made of rot, due to excessively moist
season, but seemingly not extensive
enough to much affect the general con
dition.
RAINS IN NEW YORK STATE.
The Backbone of the Hot Wave Broken.
Only Seven Deaths Reported.
New York, Aug. 14.—There is every
indication that the hot wave which has
made itself so disastrously felt the last
two weeks, is passing off. Rains Thurs
day night and Friday forenoon have
lowered the temperature, and but for
the fact that the atmosphere is heavy
and humid the people of New York city
and vicinity would be able once more to
go about in comfort. An improvement,
however, is manifested in the fact that
up to 10 a. m. only seven deaths caused
by heat had been reported at police
headquarters. The names of those vic
tims were:
Felix Arndt, aged 32 years.
Edward Pepper, 28.
William Wilson, 50.
A Swede, known only as ‘ ‘Dupied. ”
Edward Dell, 38.
Margaret Robbs, 48.
Agnes Eckel, 35.
Chief Sainory Makes an Attack.
Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast Col
ony, British West Africa, Aug. 14.—1 t
is rumored that Chief Samory has at
tacked the Inkoranza country, north of
Koomassi, capital of Ashanti. A de
tachment of Haussaa has left here under
sealed orders.
(WHY NANSEN FAILED
Didn’t Have a Sufficient Number of
Dogs and Canoes,
THE ARTIC EXPLORER TALKS
His Vessel Was Drifted Toward
Spitzbergen
WHERE HE EXPECTS IT TO LAND
fintlt a Stone House on the North Coast ol
Franz Josef Land and Lived There the
Whole of Last Winter—Although the
Pole Was Not Reached, Valuable Scien
tific Results Were Obtained.
Vardo, Norway, Aug. 14. —Dr. Nan
sen, who has just returned from his
polar expedition, says that the Fram
drifted w.th the ice in a westerly direc
tion to 84 degrees and he expects the
vessel will eventually arrive at Spitz
bergen. He adds that wherever they
penetrated they found the ice broken.
Large patches of water were also found
3,800 metres deep. Below the depth of
190 metres the water was appreciably
warmer, probably owing to the gulf
stream. Rocky scares of which the ex
plorers had no previous knowledge pre
vented their entrance into the Olenek
river for days.
In consequence of the scarcity of dogs
with the expedition. Dr. Nansen was
compelled to turn back at 86.15. He
adds that if he had been provided with
a sufficient number of dogs and canoes
the pole would have been reached.
The land voyage was most arduous,
but extremely valuable scientific results
were obtained. In the autumn of 1895
Dr. Nansen reached the north coast of
Franz Josef land and built a stone house
in which he lived the whole winter.
The Jackson-Farnsworth expedition
arrived at Franz Josef land the follow
ing spring.
Mr. Jackson met Dr. Nansen in Juno
on the ice floes of Cape Flora. Mr.
Nansen was surprised at the presence of
explorers on Franz Josef land, as he
himself had been living in a hut quite
close to one of Jackson’s stations for a
long time.
Melville Doubts Nausea’s Story.
Washington, Aug. 14. Without
questioning the accuracy of the reports
' that come by cable from Norway, an
j nouncing the return of the arctic ex-
I plorer, Nansen, safely from his novel
I and adventurous voyage in the Fram,
Commodore Mellville, engineer- in-chief
of the navy, who was a member of the
ill fated Jeanette party, which served as
the pattern for Nansen in his attempt to
reach the north pole, holds that the re
sult of the latter's voyage, as now un
derstood here, clearly proves Nansen’s
ths ory of the polar drift to be ground
less.
In the opinion of Commodore Mel
ville, Nansen has only closely paralleled
the celebrated voyage of Wyprecht and
Bayer in the Tegetuoff, and has followed
their drift. The Tegethoff rounded the
north point of Nova Zembla with the
intention of traversing the north coast
of Siberia. Her commanders got in the
ice and drifted north and east, while
the gulf stream favored in the early
fall. Afterwards, when the stream lost
its force, they drifted south and west,
bringing up on Wiltsee island, one of a
small group to the southward of Franz
Josef land. During the winter their
ship was crushed and in the following
summer they escaped in their boats and
were picked up off Cape Nassau, ono
of the headlands of Nova Zembla.
Nansen, Commodore Melville points
out, has had a very similar experience.
He did not enter the ice on the side of
the polar basin, where he was picked
up, so his trip fails utterly to prove that
a current exists that may be relied upon
to carry a ship across tho polar waters
and bring it down on the east side of
Greenland.
As a matter of fact, he was last heard
from, according to Commodore Neville,
eastward of Nova Zembla, and he has
just drifted northward and back again.
This is precisely in accord with the
judgment passed upon Nansen’s theory
before he undertook his voyage, by Com
modore Melville, who carefully calcu
lated the probable drift in the arctic re
gions, north of the New Siberian islands,
from the experience he had with the
Jeanette. 1
As to Nansen’s course, he says that
while it is not known exactly just where
he entered the ice, he doubtless entered
northward of Nova Zembla, and this
would give him just the right drift to
emerge where he is reported to have
been picked up.
Took the Jackson Expedition Supplies*
London, Aug. 14. —The Jackson ex
pedition is safe at Franz Josef land.
The Windward left the Thames on June
10 to take supplies to the Jackson expe
dition and not to bring him back, as gen
erally believed and currently reported.
The Windward is understood to have
accomplished her task, and, presumably,
found Dr. Nansen with the Jackson
party. The commander of the Wind
ward telegraphed from Vardo that Jack
son was met and relieved. Dr. Nansen
was in Franz Josef land last June.
Terrell Looking After Americana.
Constantinople, Aug. 14. United
States Minister Alexander W. Terre’l
has demanded the immediate release of
six Armenians, naturalized Americans,
who are imprisoned at Aleppo. In do
ing so, Mr. Terrell intimated that any
further imprisonment of American cit
izens would not be tolerated.
CHICAGO WILL BE CHOSEN.
Question of Locating Democratic Head
quarters to 15© Settled This Week.
Washington, Aug. 14. —There was a
rush of visitors at the Democratic head
quarters during the day, including Gen
eral A. J. Warner of Ohio, chairman of
the Bimetallic league, Representatives
Fithian of Illinois, Swanson and Jones
of Virginia and Mr. Bough, the Demo
cratic candidat for congress in the
Fourth North Carolina district.
Chairman Faulkner said the question
of locating national headquarters would
be settled before the week closed, but
he had no information encouraging to
Washington’s claims. General Warner,
who had just come on from New York,
said that the campaign was to be waged
in and around the states near Chicago,
and that Chicago would be the center.
He said there was no definite decision
up to the time he left. The personnel
of the executive committee, which is
about to be named, is attractwg much
attention. General Warner that
while he had no direct information, he
believed Chairman Jones would include
ex-Representative Kerr of Pennsylva
nia, George Fred Williams of Massa
chusetts and Mr. Troup of Connecticut
on the committee.
Mr. Bough of North Carolina says that
the reports as to the Populist convention
in that state indicated that there would
be a three-cornered fight, in which
event, he says, the Democratic success
would be made more easily. He says
the Populist of North Carolina would
vote for Mr. Bryan.
Mr. Swanson is here to secure cam
paign literature and speakers for Vir
ginia. He says there is unparalelled in
terest in the rural districts in Virginia,
and that the campaign will open in
earnest on Sept. 1.
Secretary Gardner of the Democratic
congressional committee is back from
the meeting in New York. Mr. Gard
ner states that several clubs are being
formed independent of the national as
sociation of Democratic clubs, and that
steps are being taken to effect a na
tional organization of these silver clubs.
MR. BRYAN TO TAKE A REST.
Presidential Nominee Will Spend a Few
Days at Irvington-on-ilie-Hudson.
New York, Aug. 14.—Mr. Bryan ap
plied himself Friday forenoon to dis
posing of three days’ of accumulated
mail correspondence. In this work ho
had the assistance of Mrs. Bryan. Mr.
and Mrs. Bryan will leave Saturday for
Irvington-on-the-Hudson, where they
will remain until Monday next as the
guests of John Brisbane Walker, editor
of The Cosmopolitan.
From Irvington they will proceed to
Upper Red Hook, where they will be
entertained by Mr. and Mrs. E. 0. Per
rine for about a week. Mr. Perrine was
formerly Mr. Bryan’s schoolteacher.
For a week or two longer Mr. Bryan
will rest, except for the preparation of
his letter of acceptance. It is expected
that he will speak at Buffalo on Aug.
27, and at Erie, Pa., two days later.
Among Mr. Bryan’s callers during
the day were Congressman Sulzer of
this city, National Committeeman Jack
son of Tennessee and Mr. and Mrs.
Richardson of Vicksburg, Miss.
It is understood that Chairman Jones
of the Democratic national committee
will go to Washington at once. Senator
Jones, Governor Stone of Missouri and
Vice Presidential Nominee Sewall were
in conference during the day.
Mr. Sewall will leave for his home in
Bath, Me., in a day or two He ex
presses himself as entirely satisfied with
the way events are shaping themselves
for the Democratic ticket.
A Prominent Nebraska Farmer Suicides.
Beatrice, Neb., Aug. 14.—John Ko
kak, a prominent farmer, aged 25, liv
ing near Virginia, committed suicide
Thursday night. He burrowed into the
center of a straw stack, set fire to the
straw and then shot himself through
the heart with a revolver. The coroner
was summoned to the scene Friday
morning. A brother of tho deceased
states that the man has been keeping
company with a Miss Hubka and was at
her house Thursday night, when he left
the girl a letter. What it contained is
not known, but as soon as she read it
she summoned her two brothers, and
when they went in search of him soon
found the straw stack in a blaze and
heard the report of the revolver that
ended his existence. The body was
burned to an unrecognizable mass.
Bandits Ambushed the Posse.
Tucson, A. T., Aug. 14.—A dispatch
from Benson reports that the bandits
who last week raided the International
bank at Neagles ambushed Sheriff
Leatherwood and posse near the Mexi
can line. Frank Robson, United States
line rider, one of the posse, was killed.
The bandits have gained additional ac
cessions to their ranks, and the posse is
now returning home, bringing the body
of Robson with them.
Two Hundred Persona Drowned •
London, Aug. 14.—A special dispatch
froih Bombay says that heavy floods
have been caused by the rising of the
river Kistnah. Immense damage has
been done and thousands have been ren
dered homeless. At one place a river
boat capsized and 200 persons were
drowned. Several miles of the Nizam
railway have been washed away.
George Cumpbee’s Slayers Released.
Lafayette, Ala., Aug. 14. The
habeas corpus proceedings in the case of
the Trammel boys and Lee Grady,
charged with the killing of George
Cumpbee at Five Points last week, ended
here by the probate judge granting bond ,
in the amount of $2,000 to Millard and '
Lee Trammel and releasing Byron Tram- I
mel »ad Lee Grady without bond. 1
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TRIED WRECK TRAIN
Boys Wanted to See the Cars Roll
Downed the Bank.
BLOCKED THE RAILS FOUR TIMES
They Had Read of Hildreth’s
Bloody Wreck
AND TILED TO IMITATE HIS DEEDS
In Three Instances They Failed to Accom
plish Their Purpose au:l on the Fourth
Trial Were Caught In the Act and Put
Under Arrest—The Ringleader Only Fif
teen Years of Age.
New Canaan, Conn., Aug. 14.—Three
boys accused of four attempts at train
wrecking are under arrest here. AU.
of them belong to good families. It is
supposed that they had read of the
bloody work of Johnny Hildreth and
his three companions, who wrecked the
limited fast mail at Rome, N. Y., in
November last.
A rotten railroad tie was placed on
the trav* a week ago Monday on the
New Canaan branch near Talmadge Hill
depot. The heavy drivers of the engine
on the 6:35 p. m. down train caught the
obstruction, but crushed it into splinters
without damage to the train. Two
ni.hts after a big boulder was rolled
against the outside rail of the same
track. The same locomotive crushed it
and the train passed on in safety. Sev
eral ties were lashed to the track when
the train came along on Friday night,
but the engineer slowed up when ap
proaching the spot and prevented an
accident.
Detective Dennis Doyle was detailed
last Saturday to apprehend the would-be
trainwreckers. He camped out nightly
in the bushes in the vicinity of the at
tempted wrecking, a point where the
roadbed is elevated on a 15-foot em
bankment. The detective’s vigilance
was rewarded Thursday night.
Between 6 and 7p. in. he was sur
prised to see William Gaynor, the 15-
year-oldson of John Gaynor, a respected
resident of New Canaan, come upon the
scene lugging a heavy tree limb. The
lad was in the act oi arranging it be
tween the rails for a fourth wreck when
Doyle pounced up n him. He was taken
to the Stamford jail on the next train.
“I wanted to see the train roll down
the bank,” said the boy, when plied
' with questions.
Robert Murray, aged 12, of Oxridge,
and Charles Robert, aged 12, of New
York, a cousin of Gaynor, who is visit
ing him, were found in the vicinity of
the bank and arrested. They admitted
placing a tree limb on the track for fun,
but denied that they had placed the ties
or the big rock there. The two 12-year
olds were turned over to the Stamford
police, but were subsequently paroled
in the custody of their parents.
Young Hildreth and his companions,
who are now in prison, were arrested
Nov. 19 for wrecking the New York
Central fast mail train at a point three
miles west of Rome at 4:25 o’clock in
the morning. The eldest of the wreck
ers was 19 years of age. All of
them weakened when arrested and con
fessed. Two persons were instantly
killed in the wreck and a dozen more
were seriously injured. Hildreth got a
life sentence and his chums 40 years
apiece at Auburn prison.
YOUNG HOWARD IS A HERO.
Although at the Point of. Death. He Pre
vented a Wreck and Saved Many Lives.
St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. 14.—An in
quiry has been received here from the
office of the United States consul at
Juarez, Mexico, (concerning James F.
Howard, a young man well known here,
1 who is reported to be lying unconscious
in a hospital at Juarez with two bullets
in his body.
| Private telegrams received here state
that on Wednesday evening Howard
started from Juarez to the City of Mex
ico. A short distance out of Juarez he
became involved in a difficulty with
several Mexicans, who attempted to as
sault him. In a desperate fight that
followed, he shot three of them dead
and escaped, though he himself was
badly wounded.
Later the same night, although al
most faint from loss of blood, young
Howard saved the Mexican Central
train, southbound, from a wreck, appa
rently planned by the gang of Mexicans
which he had fought. He had learned
that some one had removed the rails a
half mile ahead where the road turned
a curve some distance away. Howard
set fire to his coat and, as best he could
in his weakened condition, waved the
flaming garment across the track.
On the arriving of the train Howard
was taken aboard, and in his semicon
scious condition told the trainmen the
facts. The rails had been removed for
two lengths and placed across the track.
Robbery was evidently intended. How
ard has been unconscious since then.
He had been shot in two places and dan
gerously wounded. The Mexican Cen
tral officers are doing all possible for
him.
A Spanish Cruiaer After the Lnuratla.
Philadelphia, Aug. 14.—1 t is stated
in this city that the Spanish cruiser
Reina Mercedes has started northward
along the Atlantic coast in quest of the
Laurada. The filibusterer sailed a week
ago, bearing a portion of one of the best
equipped expeditions that have gone to
the insurgents’ aid. A number of arms
are to be transferred to her at a distance
of 100 miles off the Florida coast from a
swift tug, which sailed out of Tampa
Tuesday night.