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ESTABLISHED 1887.
MURPHEY TO HOWELL
Szmon Gives Evan the Lie
Direct
. SENSATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE
Both Men are Fighters When
They
RESULTS MAY YET BE SERIOUS
Triable Grew Out of Murphey's Calm That
Capttin Howell Had Told Him That Hines
Rec eired a Majority Over Atkinson in the
, Last Gubernatorial Election and the End
111 Not Yet.
Atlanta, Aug. 17.—1 n Saturday’s
Constitution Capt. E. P. Howell took
occasion to deny the statement made
M by Azmon A. Murphey in a speech at
Zebulon that he had told Murphey
that Hines received -a majority of the
votes over Atkinson in the last elec-
* tion.
In this afternoon’s Journal Murphey
publishes the following card:
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 17.
Evan P. Howell: ,
In your last Saturday’s paper, you
rush madly into print and denounce
me as having made, in my Zebulon
speech,* a false statement. Then, as
is the custom of your paper when you
misrepresent a gentleman, you close
your columns to him.
Immediately upon reading your
. Saturday’s card, while at Stone
Mountain, I wrote a reply to the same
and ■ sent it to the Constitution for
publication. This reply has not been
published by you.
When you received the communication
from the Messrs. Strickland of Concord,
informing you that I had made a state
, inent, in regard to you, which you con
sidered untrue, it was your duty, as an
honorable and brave man would have
done, to have found out from me wheth
< er er not I was correctly or incorrectly re
ported You preferred rather to parade
me through your columns as a falsifier.
Without mincing words let me say:
I did state in my Zebulon speech that
♦yol admitsed to me, in a conversation
soon after Atkinson’s inauguration, that
Hines polled more votes than Atkinson.
When you deny this statement, Howell,
you lie.
i You state what is absolutely un
true in your card when you say you
“have seen Azmon A. Murphey but
twice in two years until the August
convention.” I have seen and con
versed with you at least a half dozen
times during the last two years.
In this connection let me say fur
ther: Your personal organ, The Con
stitution has persistently and mali
ciously for years misrepresented me
through its columns. My name is
rarely ever mentioned in your paper
except to belittle and belie. This
must stop. From this time on I shall
hola you to a personal account for
any reflection upon me that appears
in your paper, and “damn be he who
cries ‘Hold enough.’”
My Atlanta address is No. 10 North
Forsyth street. My home address is
Barnesville, Ga.
Azmon A. Murphy
Both are men of courageous reputa
tion and a fight may be the result.
CORBETT IN NEW YORK.
The Heavyweight Pugilist Soon to Begin
Training For His Next Fight.
New York, Aug. 17.—James J. Cor
bett, looking fresh and in good condi
tion, though just from the train that
brought him from Chicago, is at the
Metropole hotel. He brings with him
“Dau” Hawkins, from San Francisco, a
125-pound boy, whom he is willing to
"match against any man iu the world of
that weight.
Corbett goes to Asbury park the last
of this week to train for his fight with
‘•Tom” Sharkey, which he expects will
' come off in October, if the club which
bids for the event completes the arrange
ments by that time.
“Reports that I was not in good con
dition when I met Sharkey in June are
all wrong,” said Corbett. “I was never
in better health and condition. Sharkey
is a great, big, strong fellow, and it will
take a man in perfect trim to whip him,
and I am going to do it. ”
Increased the Kate or insurance.
Savannah, Aug. 17.—The Southeast
ern Tariff association has issued au order
increasing the rate of insurance in Sa
vannah 25 cents on the SIOO. The new
•rate is to go into effect Aug. 8
This was due to faulty management at
the recent rice mill fire, it being com
plained that there was either shortage
of water or the water supply was not
properly used. There will be a strong
protest against this action on the part cf
the property owners, and it is doubt fu.
if the association can maintain the rates
for any length of time.
British Columbia’s Precious distal Output
Toronto, Aug. 17—Official returns
from British Columbia to the dominion
government show that in 1894 the ag
gregate value of the precious metals
mined in the province was $1,000,000.
Last year the value was $5,038,375, and
this year the output will be greater,
judging from the three months ended
July 15, when the estimated value of
izold smelted and shinned was $1,750,000.
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
' ABOUT ARBITRATION.’
London Papera Comment on Statement)
Made by Balfour and Salisbury.
London, Aug. 17.—The statement con
cerning arbitration made by the Mar
quis of Salisbury on last Satarday, when
he was installed as lord warden of the
Cinque ports, is attracting widespread
attention here. The Times, Daily News
and Daily Chronicle, in editorials, com
ment upon the importance of the pre
mier’s statement of Saturday, and the
Pall Mall Gazette concludes a column
leading artic.o on tho same subject with
the following remark:
“Mr. Balfour’s and the Marquis of
Salisbury’s arbitration statements have
caused uufeigned satisfaction to thou
sands of members of our common Anglo-
Saxon stock on both sides of the At
lantic.”
The remarks of Balfour alluded to by
the Pall Mall Gazette were made on
Saturday at the closing of parliament.,
He said the government was still con
sidering the latest proposals of Secretary
Olney which, he added, was opening
the way for an equitable and early set
tlement of the dispute. The statement
was received with tremendous cheers.
The St. James Gazette says that the
country will receive the arbitration news
with the greatest satisfaction, but fur- I
ther on the same paper remarks that it I
refuses to believe that the Marquis of |
Salisbury will be so feeble as to yield to
Secretary Olney’s demand for the in
clusion of the settled districts of Vene
zuela in the arbitration scheme.
The Globe, while completely indors
ing the arbitration movement, remarks.
"The new arrangement, whatever its
details, should certainly be defined in
the most exact terms and the cases
which lie in and without the Monroe
doctrine. ”
RIOTING AT BELFAST.
A Mob, Armed With Spears. Makes an At
tack and Many Are Injured.
Belfast, Aug. 17.—Serious rioting.
occurred here in connection with the
Nationalist manifestations in favor of
granting amnesty to the Irish political
prisoners. There were several proces
sions of Nationalists through the streets
as a beginning and they finally were
merged into a large procession, headed ;
by bands, men armed with spears. The
procession attracted immense crowds of
people and stone throwing commenced.
This served to engage the Nationalists,
and their bandsmen attacked the crowd
with their spears, wounding many peo
ple. The police charged the rioters and
used their batons freely, with the res dt
that several persons were hurt before
order was restored.
The rioting caused tho greatest ex
citement throughout tho city and further
disturbances were feared and it is be
lieved will occur if tho demonstrators
carry out their threat of returuing iu
very much greater strength and march
ing in procession throughout the main
streets of Belfast. The police, however,
are taking steps to make a display of
force calculated to prevent any further
serious rioting, and, if necessary, the
military will be called upon to assist the
constabulary in maintaining order.
ABIGAIL DODGE DYING.
The Famous Writer Sustained a Stroke of
Paralysis While at Breakfast.
Hamilton, Mass, Aug. 17. —Abigail
Dodge, better known as Gail Hamilton,
the writer who has been ill at her homo
here for some time, is much worse and
it is stated that serious results are feared.
Miss Dodge sustained a stroke of pa
ralysis while sitting at the breakfast ta
ble Sunday morning. She fell from her
chair and was picked up unconscious
and has remained so ever since.
The serious turn of her illness was
not made public until Monday morning,
when Dr. Thayer of Salem was hastily
summoned by the report that Miss
Dodge was dying.
At 9:30 o’clock Dr. Thayer stated to a
reporter, if the Associated Press that it
was doubtful if Miss Dodge could sur
vive until the afternoon.
OPINION OF AN EXPERT.
R. M. King Says the Cotton Crop Will Be
Under Seven Million Bales.
Denison, Tex., Aug. 17. —R. M. King,
the cotton expert, and who lias a corres
pondence with the entire cotton belt,
has issued the following bulletin:
In North Texas not over one-third of the
area has been visited by rains at all, and it
is safe to say not one acre in 100 has had
enough to suffice for the present needs of
the plant. Notwithstanding the recent
showers, we do not hesitate to advance the
opinion that the great “monster” crop of
ISO thjt was to be, has surely miscarried,
and the crop that was sold in May and
June fora 10,000.000-bale crop will be un
der 7,000,000 bales before the last of Sep
tember, and we will probably see the bulk
of the North Texas crop ready for the
market, if not sold.
A Chicagoan Kills His Wife.
Chicago, Aug. 17. —In a fit of jeal
ousy, Charles Nelson shot and almost
instantly killed his wife in their home,
918 Northwestern avenue. He shot two
bullets in the woman’s left breast. The
murderer then turned on their 3-year
old daughter and shot at hey. The bul
let struck the right side of the temple,
but glanced off, inflicting £tily a slight
wound. The little girl was stunned,
however, and fell to the floor. Nelson,
supposing she was dead, too, fled from
the house, but was arresfSti a few min
utes later.
The Elevated Railroad Lost Money.
New York, Aug. 17.—The annual
report of the Manhattan Elevated Rail
road company shows a decrease of $253,-
633 in net earnings, and an increase in
deficit of $399,950. '
THE HOME TRIBUNE, ROME, GA., TUESDAY AUGUST 18, 1896.
REPORTS ARE FALSE
Turks Not Guilty of Pillaging, Says
. a Mussulman,
SITUATION ON ISLAND OF CRETE
A Herald Special From the
Town of Canea
EXPLAINS THE PRESENT SITUATION
Chousfteln Bey Declares That Mussulman.
Prefer Death to Living Under Conditions
Which the Christian Deputies Seek to
Place Upon Them—War the Only Solu
tion—The Powers May Withdraw.
New York, Aug. 17—A special to
The Herald from Canea'says: Chous
sein Bey, the Mussulman deputy repre
senting Canea, says:
“We most sincerely hope that the
sublime porte will not accept the propo
sitions made by the Christian deputies.
We Mussulmans would rather die than
live under the conditions they seek to
place upon us. I deny, aud we all deny,
that there is any truth in the stories cir
culated by the Christians that our sol
diers are guilty of pillaging. There are,
and are to be, reprisals, but Mussulmans
are losing just as much as Christians.
“If we are left to ourselves we can
settle the whole matter in, say three
months more. In Athens the members
of the Cretan committee said that all
they wanted was to be left alone by the
Turks so as to be wiped out of existence.
From the opposing parties,’ therefore, it
would appear as though the powers
were unwelcome and that Christians and
Turks alike would prefer to be allowed
to settle their differences as best they
might between themselves.”
The archbishop primate was asked
whether he could see any solution with
out war. He answered: “I fear not, un
less there is a favorable reply from the
porte to the just demands of the Chris
tian people. There is too much bitter
ness existing between Christians and
Turks for animosities to be smoothed
over.”
The archbishop parried a suggestion
that such an attitude was contrary to
Christian teaching. Regarding the pos
-1 sible withdrawal of the powers, he said:
“Naturally,as the powers enter unasked,
we have the right to expect that they
will accomplish something for us; but
the idea that when they have prevented
Greece from helping us, they should
desert us and leave us to the mercy of
the Turks is grossly wrong, and I can
not think that they would do so.”
When he was asked what would be
the probable results of war, his reply
was:
"With the help of God and being left
to ourselves, we would manage right.
So long as the powers leave us alone and
Greece continues to supply cartridges
and rifles we can hold our own. As for
myself, I do not propose going away,
but remaining where duty calls me.”
Wheu this conversation was over the
archbishop, whose title is Timotheus,
Metropolitan Primate of Crete, and
Exarch of all Europe, paid a visit to his
refugees. He still has 300 housed in the
school of archbishopric.
AGAINST FREE SILVER.
The Preside** *" of the K. C., P. & G. Rail
road Tries to Influence His Employes.
Kansas City, Aug. 17.—A. E. Still
well, president of the Kansas City, Pitts
burg and Gulf railroad, is the first em
ployer of any large number of men in
this vicinity to begin an active and open
political campaign among the men
whose labor he hires.
Sunday all the railroad shopmen in
Pittsburg. Kan., Kansas City, and other
intermediate points, besides many other
places on the road, altogether number
ing several hundred, were given a holi
day and free transportation to Fair
mount park. When they arrived there,
Mr. Stillwell appeared before them in
the auditorium and delivered an able
address of his opinion on the “free sil
ver craze,” as he termed it. Mr. Still
well declared that the free silver agita
tion had done more harm to the labor
ing man —had taken more bread out of
his mouth—than the civil war.
He assured bis employes that they
could never see any free silver men at
the head of any great enterprises that
develop the country and give work to
the laboring men. He urged • his em
ployes to cast their ballots in favor of a
policy that would not drive capital away
from the country.
Minister Matta's Wound Proved Fatal.
New York, Aug. 16.—A special to
The Herald from Valparaiso says: Senor
Matta, Chilian minister to Bolivia, died
as the result of a wound in the spine.
Before he expired ( he declared that the
assault upon him was due to personal
vengeance. Jose Cuella, who shot him,
delivered himself up to the police. He
said he killed Matta in self defense.
Comptroller Eckels Declares Dividends.
Washington, Aug. 17.—The comp
troller of the currency has declared div
idends in favor of the creditors of insol
vent national banks as follows: Ten per
cent the First National Bank of John
son City, Tenn.; five per cent the Liv
ingston National Bank of Livingston,
Mon.; ten per cent the National Bank
of Kansas City, Kan.
An Irish Political Prisoner Released.
London, Aug. 17.—Thomas Devaney,
tho Irish political prisoner, was released
from Portland prison Monday.
DONS WANT DAMAGES
Spanish Givernment Presents a
Series ot Claims.
TOO MUCH HELP FOR THE CUBANS
The Report Has Been Carefully
Prepared
WILL THIS AROUSE THE STATES?
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Indemnity Sought on Precedents Estab
lished by This Country In the Alabama
Case—London Papers Think Uncle Sam
Will Have to Yield to the Demand,
More Talk of Annexation.
Washington, Aug. 17. —The Spanish
government is preparing a bill of dam
ages to be presented to the United States
on account of the numerous expeditions
alleged to have gone from our shores to
the relief of the Cuban insurgents, and
in support of its claim to reparation in
tends to invoke the precedent established
by the United States against Great
Britain in the celebrated Alabama claims
awards made by the Geneva arbitration
tribunal.
Reports have heretofore been circu
lated that Spain, at the proper time,
would present a series of claims on ac
count of the use the insurgents had
made of the United States as a base of
supplies for hostile operations in Cuba,
but these were nothing more than ru
mors until Saturday, when the govern
ment officer received copies of a report
to the Spanish legation made by its
legal adviser, Calderon Carlisle. The
report is handsomely printed in pam
phlet form, and with its five appendixes
makes a book of more than 300 pages.
It is entitled, “A report to the Spanish
legation with reference to the legal as
pect of hostilities committed by vessels
specially adapted, in whole or iu part,
within the United States, to warlike
uses, and by military expeditions and
enterprises carried on from the territory
of the United S ates against the Span
ish dominion in Cuba during the pres
ent insurrection.”
The report evidently has been pre
pared with great care and under special
instructions from the Spanish govern
ment. Detailed accounts of the most
notorious alleged filibustering expedi
tions are given. The five sets of appen
dixes include neutrality proclamations
issued by various presidents from Wash
ington to Cleveland; citations of all the
laws ever in force ui the United States
bearing on the dealings with foreign na
tions; changes to grand juries on the
subject of neutrality made by Chief
Justice Jay and Justice McLean during
the rebellion in Canada in 1838, and
Justice Campbell iu 1855, when the’e
were filibustering expeditions against
Cuba. The case of the Itata during the
Chilian war is mentioned, and the ac
tion of the department of Justice is
cited to show that the vessel was sub
ject to condemnation.
The Wiborg case, recently decided by
the United States supreme court, is also
cited and referred to as one solitary con
viction obtained in the United States
since the beginning of the present Cu
ban insurrection. The attorney says
that it is thought proper to show, from
the case of the Geneva award against
Great Britain, what the United States
expected of a neutral nation, and also
to recall the attitude of Spain toward
the United States during the civil war.
England Thinks We May Get Cuba.
London, Aug. 17.—The publication in
The Times this week of a sensational
letter from its Havana correspondent
may be accepted as very significant of
English opinion upon the possible an
nexation of the island by the United
States. While The Times permits its
correspondents much liberty, such frank
expressions as are in this letter would
never have been suffered in its columns
had not the editor regarded them as re
flecting not only the public but the offi
cial sentiment in Great Britain. The
correspondent not only declares that the
Cuban sugar and tobacco planters can
have no hope of recovery from their
present desperate situation while under
Spanish rule, even if the rebellion is
ultimately crushed, but that their only
real hope is in annexation.
“Free Cuba,” he writes, “may be a
very good catch cry in the United States,
but it does not commend itself to the
business people in Cuba, who have
heavy interests at stake and are depen
dent for their future on the material
progress anil prosperity of this country.
For such as these something very much
more definite is necessary than this
vague freedom.”
Further on he adds:
“Spain will do well to consider the
facts of the case if any arrangement is
proposed for the purchase of the island
by the United States.”
An American Executed In Cuba.
Key West, Aug. 17. —J. M. Goviu, of
a prominent family of this city, has re
ceived a letter announcing (he death of
his brother, Carlos, near Jaruco, Cuba.
Carlos left here about a month ago on
tho Three Friends expedition as a im
porter for a local newspaper. Shortly
after his arrival in Cuba he was cap
tured, with several others, aud the latter
says that when he informed his captors
that he was an American citizen they
immediately ordered that he be executed
with a machete.
Mr. Goviu is the son of Manuel Go
vin, who was a prominent politician
during President Grant’s Administra
tion. He served as American consul at
Leghorn. Italy, and as collector of in-
ternal revenues at tins port, ne was
also well known in Jacksonville.
Loudon Papers Comment- on the Bill.
London, Aug. 17.—Th<i evening news
papers comment at length on Spain’s
bill for damages against the United
States as a result of fitting out in Amer
ican ports of filibustering expeditions
destined to Cuba and the decision ar
rived at in the case of the Alabama.
The Glebe says:
“The United States’ acceptance of
the Geneva award makes it absolutely
impossible for them to repudiate their
liability under the present circum
stances with any show of reason or
justice.”
PANIC ON BOARD A SHIP.
Gigantic Waterspout Terrifies Over Four
Hundred Italian Immigrants.
New York, Aug. 17.—As the steamer
Neustria, from Naples, with over 400
Italian immigrants ou board, was near
ing this port a gigantic waterspout
swept by the ship, while deafening
thunderclaps smote the ears of the ter
rified immigrants and flashes of light
ning made the sky appear like a liquid
sheet of flames. A terrific thunderstorm
raged for an hour, and at 7 o’clock there
arose on the ocean’s surface, two miles
west of the steamer, a big cone of water
with a yeasty mass of foam at its base.
The cone had formed directly beneath a
black, overhanging cloud that seemed
to reach downward like a huge finger.
Not a drop of rain had fallen and not a
breath rippled the ocean’s surface.
The passengers were stricken with
terror as they watched the great cone
reach upward and join the overhanging
finger of black mist, forming a column
of swirling, seething water fully 30
yards in diameter at the base and 4 feet
thick in the center of the column. At
the top it spread out like an immense
umbrella. Thus it came careening to
ward the Neustria and the fear stricken
passengers at last found voice in one
great wail of despair. Many fell on
their knees and prayed. Others fainted.
Still the waterspout rushed toward them
with a noise like that of a million buzz
saws.
But as it neared tho ship its course
was changed slightly and the water
spout, seething and buzzing as it went,
swept by not more than 200 yards off
north of the starboard line. The pas
sengers screamed as the column passed
by and then laughed and cried and
hugged one another in joy when they
realized the danger was past.
LUNDEY USED HIS KNIFE.
A Prominent Cincinnati Attorney Fatally
Stabbed a Cleveland Man.
Cincinnati, Aug. 17. —Frank S. Re
thacher of Cleveland, brother of the
I Rethacher who was burned to death
here last Thursday, and who came here
to attend his brother's funeral, was re
ported to be dying at the Cincinnati hos
pital at b o’clock Monday morning from
a knife wound in the abdomen.
He was found in the street after mid
night at the head of the Mount Auburn
inclined plane and taken to the hospital.
I Before becoming unconscious he said
that he had had a quarrel with Attor
ney Charles Lundey and that Lundey
had stabbed him. Lundey was arrested
'at his house, not far from where Ret
hacher was found. In front of the
; house was Charles Rethacher, a brother
of the injured man. He was abusing
■ Lundey aud was also arrested.
I Lundey said he acted in self defense,
. that the twoßethachershad abused him
on the street car until he went to the
platform. He got off the street car,
, when they followed, attacked and
I knocked him down. Then he used his
knife in self defense. The Rethachers
I had a grudge against him ever since he
, defended one of them in a divorce suit,
| which was compromised.
CAPTAIN GOSLEN KILLED.
I
Well Known North Carolina Republican
Thrown From an Electric Car.
Raleigh, Aug. 17.—Captain J. W.
Gosleu, editor of the Union Republican,
the organ of the Republican party in
this state, met with a fatal accident op
posite his home iu Salem. He stepped
. from a street car before it stopped and
; was thrown violently on the macada
mized street. His head struck a stone,
I which produced concussion of the brain.
,He died at 5:30 o’clock. Captain Goslen
I was 55 years old, and was a gallant sol-
■ dier during the war. He was promoted
from a private to captain. After the
! war he taught school until 1872, when
ihe assumed editorial management of
I The Republican.
The directors of the insane asylum
, here have ordered the building of an an
’ nex to the male ward, to accommodate
80 patients. There ale many urgent de
i mands for admission.
The rains of the past six days, though
not general, have resulted in marked
} benefit to crops in many sections. In
! some sections drouth continues and
streams are low and wells failing.
Southern Will Not Buy the N. & W.
Greenville, S. 0., Aug. 17.—Presi
dent Samuel Spencer says that the
i Southern will not buy the Norfolk and
! Western. “There is not the remotest
' possibility that we will buy it,” said he,
i when asked about the report. “The
Southern has no idea of purchasing the
property at the receiver’s sale, aud is
not seeking its control.”
Four Thousand Men Strike.
New York, Aug. 17.—A special to
The Herald from Buenos Ayres says: A
big strike has occurred here in which
four thousand men are taking part. The
men demand a working day of eight
hours.
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DYNAMITE EXPLODES
Three Men Killed ano Fifteen Seriously
lijured.
SEVERAL BUILDINGS DEMOLISHED
It Was started in the Summer
Kitchen
AND THE CAUSE IS UNKNOWN
One of the Victim*, an Employe of the
Pennsylvania Telephone C ompany, Was
Blown Through the Side of a House.
Unfortunate Man's Legs and Head Not
Yet Found.
Lancaster, Pa., Aug. 17.—Three men
were killed, 15 or more injured and sev
eral buildings demolished by the explos
ion of 25 pounds of dynamite at New-
Holland, Pa. The Pennsylvania Tele
phone company is building a new line
in that vicinity and had stored the ex
plosive in the summer kitchen of the
little hotel. Early Monday morning
Charles F. Cannon, an employe of the
company, and one of a gang just about
to start to work, went to the summer
kitchen to get out enough dynamite for
the day’s work. In a few moments
there was a terrible explosion and one
side of the summer kitchen was blown
off. A big hole in another side had
blood and flesh on the ragged edges and
it is supposed that Cannon’s body was
sent through there. The unfortunate
man was blown to atoms, his stomach
having been found two blocks away
Up to a late hour neither his legs nor
his head had been found.
Frank Hammond Harrisburg, who
was standing just outside of the build
ing, had every bone in his body broken
and was instantly killed.
George Crossman of Steelton, a waiter
boy, was also standing near the build
ing and was so badly injured that he
died while being brought to this city.
Among those most seriously injured
are:
Mi 'hael Wade of New Holland, may
die; Frank Lewis of Lancaster, Frank
Peale of Scranton, David Hoffman of
Reading, Joseph Hahn of Allentown,
Walter Faesig of New Holland and
Phillip Lawrence, John Conlon, John
White and Robert Shirk of Lancaster.
The two outbuildings close to the
summer kitchen were badly wrecked,
as was also part of the hotel, while the
whole front of the large implement
store was blown out. The tin roofs of a
large number of houses were razed and
mined. The damage to property will
amount to a large sum. Just what
caused the explosion can only be con
jectured, as Cannon was the only per
son in the building when it occurred.
BRYAN LEAVES IRVINGTON.
Democracy’s Nominee Goes to Poughkeep
sie After a Rest of Three Days.
Yonkers, N. Y., Aug. 17.—William
J. Bryan and party, including Mr. and
Mrs. Bryan and Mr. Sewall, left John
Brisben Walker’s home at Irvington
Monday morning shortly after 9 o’clock.
At Mr. Walker’s request the people of
Irvington had refrained from making
any demonstration and there were but
few people present at the depot. The
employes of Mr. Walker's establishment
cheered the party as they left the
grounds.
The candidates, Mrs. Bryan, Mr. Wal
ker and Mr. Cutright, Mr. Bryan’s pri
vate secretary, took the train as far as
Yonkers and there took the Day line
boat to Albany for Poughkeepsie. At
Yonkers few people knew of their com
ing and there was no demonstration of
any lively character. The passengers
on the boat cheered the party as they
came across the gangplank.
The party will arrive at Poughkeepsie
shortly after the noon hour and from
there take the train to Barrytown, the
nearest railroad point to Upper Red
Hook.
Two thousand people gathered in the
deck at Newburgh, N. Y., to see Mr.
and Mrs. Bryan. When the boat Al
bany lauded, flags were waved and
cheers given for the distinguished Ne
braskan. Just before the gangplank
was hauled in, Mr. Bryan appeared at
the lower deck, hat in hand, and bowed
and smiled his acknowledgement of the
compliment paid hipi.
Many of the people went to Pough
keepsie from here on the boat to get a
good look at the Democratic candidate
for president.
Nansen Leaves For
Vardo, Norway, Aug. 17. —Dr. Nan
sen left here Monday morning on his
way to Christiana. It now develops
that the meeting between Dr. Nansen
and Jackson, the English explorer, was
the result of the barking of dogs. The
Norwegian and his companions were ex
ploring one day when they heard bark
ing, and following the sounds, to their
amazement they came upon Jackson s
camp. Vardo has been en fete and dec
orated in honor of Dr. Nansen’s return.
A Frankfort Paper Flops.
Frankfort, Ky., Aug. 17. The. Daily
Capital, for many years the official state
organ and adjunct of The Courier Jour
nal, comes out as a straight Republican
paper. The paper has recently repudi
ated the Chicago ticket and platform
and advocated the gold standard. A
change also occurs in tho management
of the paper, Assistant Adjutant Gene
ral Walter Forrester becoming editor
in-chief and Fred H. Roberts, private
secretary to Governor Bradley, associate
editor. _ .