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BOUND TO HEAR HIM
Pennsylvanians Stood in Rain While
iln N mine Spoke
HONEY QUESTION IS PARAMOUNT
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Bryan Talks to the People of
the Keystone State
THE PEOPLE WANT MORE SILVER
The People Want the Fiunnc'at Policy ol
the Government Settled First of All,
Stay* the Democratic Candidate For the
i*re»ldency—Declares That There la No
r Hanger of a Flood of Silver
k Cnksiku Ph.. Sept. 23. —A large
stood here in fbe rain and listened
Ao Mr. Bryan for ?•> minutes. He said:
s air.i Ge:>t!en>»a.-
1 -shall not keep yo.i standing long in
the tain. [Cries ol "No matter, go on”].
In the short lime I have to speak to you. I
Want tediscuss political questions of im
portance. I d.sire to appear before you
and to say that if I am elected I will to
the best of niy ability carry out the prin
ciples the Chicago platform stands for.
[Applause], The chairman introduced me
as the candidate of a great political part y.
I call go a little beyond that. 1 was nom
inated by a great political party and then
two other parties, which were willing to
make the silver question the paramount
issue of the campaign, did the very re-'
markable thing of going outside of- their
Tanks to indorse a nomination already
made, and therefore I come to you as the
umniase for the highest office in the gift
■of the people of the world, the nominee of
three political parties agreeing that the
money question rises abovp all otherques
tious and. must be seft'ed before, other
•questionscan be. [Apbbin.se].
I believe that the mon-y niieftion is the
most impm: nit question whieli the Amer
ican people have been called on to pass
upon in time of peace since our national
history liegan. We have r.-:;'hed a crisis
in our monetary affairs. Our fin.im-ial
policy has b'-e:i run by a lew syndicates in
the interests of the moneychangers, ami
the question presented to your people is
i. hether the people shall take charge of
out government and run it in the interest
of the people. The Republican plat
form declares in favor of the mainten
ance of the present financial policy, and
that means the maintenance of the policy
in the manner in which it has been main
tained.
“■Sound Money” lltfl-eit
If the Republican policy is t >be main
tained, if gold is the only money which is
good enough to lie used to pay the notes
■of -tee bondholders, then this government
is to be run g>y those who believe in that
policy, r.nd must issue bonds in order that
they make money out of the people. [Ap
■plause]. No latiguagvrlto beautiful ver
biage can covet up its hideous meaning.
They talk about the sound money, but it
is the euphonious phrase used by those
who have not the courage to use the real
words describing it. [Applause]. They
talk aboikt honest hiouey. I warn you
that no people were ever competent to
bring honttt money who were willing to
■deal dishonestly with the people from
whom they expected votes. [Great ap
plause]. . They are not. willing to tell the
people what kind of money they mean
and how much money they want to have.
Our opponents are not willing to tell you
that they think this nation is big enough
to attend to ts own business, and yet they
say we must maintain our present finan
cial policy until the leading nations of the
earth join with us in substituting another
financial polioy. [Applause].
A voice: "How about Bismarck?”
Mr. Bryan: lam glad that you asked
me that. Prince Bismarck is admired by
jill our German-American citizens and re
spected by all our jieople, regardless of
their nationality, and Prince Bismarck
•declares that independent action in this
country will be salutary in bringing other
nations to adopt bimetallism. [Great ap
plause]. And I commend his words to
those p ople living in the United States
who believe that we cannot secure foreign
.action by waiting for it. He says we can
secure it lies, by taking the lead and let
■others follow; still some of our Americans
say that other nations must take the lead
and that we will follow. ,
People Waut Silver.
k Our opponents tell us that if we have
fctbe free coinage of silver that we are go-
Blng to have a flood of silver. I venture the
||Mksertion that the people in this audience
more accustomed to silver than gold
and a great many of them
rather be more accustoflied tosil
than they have been. [Applause], if
is anybody here who is afraid that
Vander free co tage we would have more
money than we knew what to do with. 1
liquid like to see him. [Applause], lam
willing to give the Republican ticket the
votes of those who have had too much
money if I can have those who have not
had enough. [Applause].
My. friends, our opponents have been
trying to appeal for the votes of the labor
dng men. I will call your attention to the
fact that the laboring men of this coun
try, through their organization, have de
clared in favor of the free coinage of silver,
because the laboring men know that the
gold standard destroys opportunity of em
ployment and that the gold standard
makes idle men, who beg for the chance
to work in order to support their families.
Our opponents propose a rising stand
ard. a dollar that goes higher every day,
and Hint means bard times. I challenge
you tosuow when hard times were a l>en
rftit to the laboring classes in-the history
of the world. The Republican party pro
poses a continuance of the financial policy
that makes h ird times. All those who
love hard times ought to vote for the Re
publican ti.-ket, ami all those who are
tired of hard times have got to vote for
■our tick'l if they expect any relief. [Ap
plausel.
My fri n's, for your benefit and my
’ own. I c.- not speak longer. [Cries of
• Keep it u.>, go on”]. I l>eg you to make
business out of politics this year and re
gardless of threats and intimidation to
make your ballot represent exactly what
you want it to, and if you need relief ami
are not willing to use the ballot to secure
relief you have nobody to blame but your
selves. [Great applause],
A Tragedy Near Selma.
Selma, Ala., Sept. 22.—Richards in
Armstrong was shot and almost in
stantly killed by Thornton Goldsby, ten
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
THE ROME TRIBUNE, ROME, GA., WEDNESDAY StiPTEMBE
miles north. ot Selma. The two mien
were walking along the public road en
route to a protracted meeting. Parties
near by heard a and found
Armstrong lying iu the road with a
pistol wound in his breast. They lifted
him up and he lived just long enough
to say: "Thornton Goldsby shot me."
Goldsby fled and has not been captured.
There were no witnesses to the tragedy.
The men have bee ft close friends for a
lonfj time.
FUSION IN NORTH STATE.
Democrats Name Five Electors, Popullstf
Five and the Silver i’arty One.
Raleigh, Sept. 22. —The Democratic,.
Populist and Silver parties have agreed
to fuse on a Bryan electoral ticket in
North Carolina, the Democrats naming
five electors, the Populists five and the
Silver party one. This union of all the
silver elements, it is claimed, insures
the state to the Democratic ticket by a
large majority.
James B. Lloyd of the Populist state
committee proposed that the Populists
and Democrats take five each and give
one to the Silver party. It was frankly
said by the Democrats, whose commit
tee met at 8 o’clock, that they would
not accept any modification of their
original proposition.
The . Populist state chairman tele
graphed to each elector named by that
party asking if he would abide by any
action the committee might make. -All
replied yes.
The Progressive Farmer, the organ of
“the National Fanners’ Alliance, is
against a division of the electors. The
leading editorial says:
"Woe to the*Democratic or Populist
committee if they attempt to cast the
electoral vote for that arch goldbug, Ar
thur Sewall, and this will be done if the
Democratic proposition is accepted. If
the Democratic committee has power to
give Watson five electors it has power
to settle the trouble by giving him all,
and this the Populist committee should
insist upon. Give Watson with Bryan
or else Norton and Watson will be the
ticket.”
The chairmen of the railway commis
sions of Georgia and South Carolina are
here to confer with the North Carolina
commission.
TROOPS AT LEADVILLE.
Their Presence Has a Quieting: Effect oh
tike Turbulent Miners.
Leadville, Colo., Sept. 23.—Over 1,-
000 members of the National guard for
the state of Colorado, under command
of General Edgar JJ.rooks, are now on
duty in this erty. Some of them are
doing guard duty at the Maid of Erin
and other mines, where attempted de
struction of property is apprehended,
but the main body is encamped near the
Denver and Rio Grande railroad depot.
The streets are filled with idle men
who are excitedly discussing the situa
tion, but no violence has been done since
the attacks on the Coronado and Emmett
mines, in which it is now known that
at least six men were killed. 'No at
tempt has yet been made to resume ope
rations in any of the mines that have
been, closed in consequence of the strike,
but as it is believed that the miners are
desirous of returning to work, some of
the mines will soon be opened under the
protection afforded by the presence of
the troops. •
PROMINENT WAN SUICIDES.
E'lson Keith of Chicago Throw. Hlmwlf
Into the lake While Temporarily liimm.
Chicago, Sept. 22.—Edson Keith, for
30 years one of the prominent and influ
ential citizens of Chicago, threw him
self into the lake at the foot of Thir
teenth street while temporarily insane,
as a result of chronic dyspepsia and in
somnia.
He disappeared from his home at
1906 Prairie avenue about 6 o’clock Mon
day morning, bnt no indication of his
fate was discovered until Tuesday morn
ing. Although search was made for
the missing man all day Monday, the
evidence of Mr. Keith’s absence -was
not discovered by his family until Tues
day morning. So conclusive were they
that they abandoned all hope and the
lake was dragged-for his remains. The
family and friends of the dead merchant
hnd recently grown apprehensive re
garding his physical condition, and the
discovery made Tuesday morning came
with paralyzing suddenness.
In the light of the sudden tragedy it
is recalled that Mr. Keith had been for
several days peculiarly depressed in his
mental views, and there is no doubt that
temporary insanity had followed his
long ihonths of sleeplessness and aggra
vated dyspepsia and that the victim had
found relief in the nearby lake.
The victim is best known as the head
of the wholesale millinery firm of Ed
son Keith & Co., but he was also a
member of Keith Bros., wholesale hats,
and of Keith & Co., elevator owners.
Ho was 03 years old.
Over Two Million Dollar. For a School.
Chicago, Sept. 22.—The University
of Chicago has just received another en
dowment, the richest, perhaps, ever
made in the state of Illinois. The
money is not to be expended in Chicago
but in Peoria. Mrs. Julia Bradley, an
elderly woman of Peoria, has bestowed
all her immense fortune, estimated at
more than $2,200,000. upon a school to
be built in Peoria. Active work has al
ready begun.
The World’s Pacing Record Broken.
Richmond, Ky., Sept. 22. Louis
Naele’s yearling pacer Time wood broke a
world's record here by reeling off a half
in 1:12 flat, over a half mile track, in
easy fashion. The cqlt will be sent
against the official record, held by Belle
Acton, during the Lexington meeting
CUBANS ARE CRUEL
•>
Maceo’s Band Said to Bj Hi Tieating
Helpless Woman.
PASSENGER TRAINS BLOWN UP
A Message to the Herald From
Pinar del Rio
WEYLER HURRYING hE.NFORCEMENTS
Rebel* Are Completely Overrunning the
x Western Part of the Island, Burning
and Assassinating; as They Go—Weylct
Sending Reinforcements to Stop the De*
st ruction of Life and Property.
New York, Sept.' 22. —A dispatch to
The Herald from Vera Cruz, Mexico,
says: A correspondent iu Pinar'del Rio
declares that Antonio Maceo’s rebel
band are completely overrunning west
ern Cuba, horning settlements, assassi
nating all pacificos and ill treating help
less women. They blow up passenger
trains and bridges with dynamite, de
stroying other foreign,and native prop
erty, burn tobacco fields and cut down
coffee plants and desolate the country.
The sun is obscured with smoke by day
and the heavens are lighted by burning
of fields at night.
General Weyleris hurrying reinforce
ments to the province to check the de
struction.
Letters received from Santa Clara
and other central Cuban tovftis assert
that Captain General Weyler’s amnesty
decree is a farce. Cubans surrendering
and expecting the amnesty therein as
sured, though received by the Spanish
military outposts with open arms hnd
temporarily liberated, are invariably re
arrest.-d within a fortnight as spies, in
cendiaries, tried and convicted by a
drumhead courtinartial and shot. It is
also alleged that the major portion of
the prisoners of war taken by fofee are
being unceremoniously dispatched by
the roadside, the Spanish commanders
afterward reporting their fate as being
due to an attempt to escape.
BANKERS MEET IN ST. LOUIS
Delegates From All Farts of the United
State. Are In Attendance.
St. Louis, Sept. 22. —There assembled
in the Olympic theater here the repre
sentatives of more wealth than ever be
fore camo together iu a city at one time.
It was the first session < f the twenty
second annual convention of the Ameri
can Bankers*" association. Delegates
were present from all parts of the coun
try, representing the most prominent
banking institutions whose capital is at
least $1,000,000,000.
The convention will be in session three
days, during which time there will be a
general discussion of the reports of va
rious committees and of matters per
taining to banking
The first day’s session was taken up
with matters of a routine nature.
Wednesday there will be a call of
states, when brief statements will be
made by delegates on the general condi
tion of banking in their various locali
ties. Following this will be a discus
sion of at least 20 practical banking
questions.
On Thursday, the last -day, officers
for the ensuing year will be elected and
installed. The remainder of the day
will be given up to the discussion of the
clearinghouse questions.
Elaborate arrangements have been
made for the reception and entertain
ment of visiting bankers. The entire
northern portion of the Planters’ hotel
parlor floor has been fitted up as the as
sociation’s convention headquarters. In
addition, the Noonday, University,
Mercantile, Country and Jockey clubs
have b»en thrown open to the delegates
and their wives, the badge of the asso
ciation entitling its wearer to a mem
bership privilege.
TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN INDIANA
A Man Cuts the Throats of His Wife aud
Child and Hangs Himself.
Indianapolis, Sept. 22. - Charles
Pfeifer, a telegraph operator, employed
by the Indianapolis belt road, was found
hanging dead to his doorway at his
home in Brightwood. In the house his
wife and child were found dead. Pfeifer
had cut their throats and then hanged
himself.
Pfeifer was 22 years old tHid had been
married three years to Jane Kirk. She
was 19 years old. They had lived hap
pily, and no one suspected that there
was trouble pending. Tuesday morn
ing Mrs. Pf ’fer’s mother went to the
house, unsuspecting evil. When she
opened the door, she discovered the three
dead bodies. The child was two years
old. Pfeifer had been employed by the
Belt road four years and had a good rep
utation.
Professor 8. W. Averett Dead.
Selma, .Ala., Sept. 22. Professor
Samuel W. Averett, president of the
Judson Female institute, died here.
He was a native of Virginia, was edu
cated at Annapolis and served in the
United States navy. When the war
broke out he enlisted in the confederate
army and served with distinction. Af
ter the war he was connected with the
Roanoke, Va., Female college, and in
1889 was elected president of the Jud
son institute, the leading woman's col
lege of this section.
Death ot an Indian Ag«>nt.
Washington, Sept. 22.—Peter Galla
gher, Indian agent at Warm Springs,
Or., is dead. ■ ;■ •:
FINE MAIL SERYICE
Nearly Eigtty Thousand Postoffices
In Operation.
MR MAXWELL’S ANNUAL REPORT
There is a Considerable In
crease of Offices
SMALL NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS FILED
The Fourth Assistant Postmaster General,
In His Annual statement of the Work-
Inks of Hie Department, Says Postal Em
ployes Lose Only One Piece of Hall In
Every 111,254 Handled.
Washington, Sept. 22.—R. A. Max
wells fourth assistant postmaster gen
. eral, has made his annual report to the
postinaster general for the year ending
June 30, 1896. The principal divisions
of the department under his care are
appointments and inspectors. The re
port shows that the total number of
postoffices iu operation in the United
States was 70.560. Os these 66,725 are
fourthclass offices and 3,635 presiden
tial, au increase over the last fiscal year
of 206. During the year 2,046 postofficcs
were Established and 1,750 discontinued.
The total number of appointments for
the year was 12,090, and total number
of cases acted upon, 15,532. Under in
structions from the postmaster general,
141 fourthclass aud 32 president al offices
have been consolidated with the larger
ones during the past four years, for the
purpose of giving the patrons of the
smaller offices better mail facilities. Os
these 173 offices, 60 were in Illinois, 28
in Maryland, 25 in New York, and 12
in Massachusetts.
Mr. Maxwell commends the work of
the postoffice inspectors. The report
shows that the total number of com
plaints of all classes received during
the past year aggregated 108,037, and
the number of cases disposed of
amounted to 100,205.
Small Number of Complaints.
The number of cases treated during
the last year shows au increase of 3,254
casaa over the year previous. The num
ber of complaints received during the
year relating to registered mail was
5,817. Only 24 complains were received
of carelessness in the handling of this
matter by postal employes. Particu
larly noteworthy is the fact that the em
ployes in the postal service handled dur
ing the last fiscal year 13,851,000 pieces
of registered mail with the loss of only
one piece in every 16,254.
Attention is called to the fact that
the general public could prevent losses
in ordinary mail matter by being more
careful iu addressing and stamping
mail. Complaints to the number of
64,613, affecting the ordinary mail, were
received during the year; 31,843 re
ferring to letters and 29,060 to packages.
This shows an increase of 1,572 oyer last
year. Os the total of complaints re
ceived 41,436 have been investigated,
and of this number it is sboikn that loss
occurred hr 8,153 cases, a proportion of
one in five of the total number of com
plaints investigated.
Mr. Maxwell points out that there
has been a decrease in the number of
postoffices ami mail burglaries and rob
beries, owing to the arrests of many des
peradoes engaged in the business. Dur
ing the year there were 2,074 arrests,
of which number 158 were postmasters,
55 were assistant postmasters, 43 were
clerks in postoffices, 14 were railroad
postoffice clerks, 134 were lettercarriers,
49 were mailcarriers, and nine others
were employed in minor positions in the
postal service. Four hundred and sev
enty postoffice burglars were arrested,
while the remainder of 1,225 were per
sons not connected with the postal ser
vice who were arrested for various
offenses against the postal laws. Os
this-number, 1,108 cases were disposed
of in the United States courts and 38 iu
the state courts. Six thousand, one hun
dred and thirty of the cases handled by
the inspectors referred to violations of
the postal laws and regulations, the
largest number of them relating to the
mailing of scurrilous and obscene mat
ter.
During the year there were 18,563
complaints treated affecting foreign mail
matter. Os these, 8,750 related to reg
istered matter and 5,574 to ordinary
matter.
Quite a portion of Mr. Maxwell’s re
port is devoted to notorious cases, where
arrests have been made. He makes sev
eral recommendations, mainly for more
stringent laws for the protection of the
mails.
KEEPING THE WIRES WARM.
Two San Francisco Athletic Clubs Wa»|
the Corbett-Sharkey
San 'Francisco, Sept. 22.—Saturday
night last, Manager Groom, who wat
slightly nettled because au offer of $lO,-
000 telegraphed to Corbett and Sharkey
a week previous had been treated with
what savored of silent contempt, sped
another couple of messages over rue
wires warning the big bruisers that the
National club’s offer would only remain
open a week longer. Groom has just
received a dispatch from Corbett stating
that if the c;ub would p >st the amount
of the purse in responsible hands with
the understanding that Corbett and
Sharkey were to receive the full amount,
whether the fight took place or not, the
offer Would be accepted and the fighters
would come here without delay. Cor
bett mentioned that Sharkey and him
self had decided to box their teu rounds
on some date between Nov. 20 and 30.
While Groom was on a still hunt foi
his associates in the fight-promoting line
*o. lay Corbett’s cpggestiuns tefore them.
{ 23, 1896.
je was Shown ah evening jsapet f wA’’,!)
contained an article setting forth that
Mr. Ellinghouse, representing the Eu
reka club, had secured from the super
visors a permit for the Corbett-Sharkey
contest. It stated in the articles that
the fighters should accept Ellinghouse’s
offer of $12,000 for teu rounds and that
the fight would take place on Thanks
giving eve.
Groom did a bit of telegraphing on
his own account. He wired Corbett to
know if the news aneut the Eureka
offer was true. If it was, he said that
of course the National club dropped out
as a bidder, but that if Corbett still de
sired to accept the National’s offer, the
demand iu the matter of placing the
SIO,OOO iu responsible hands would be
complied with.
In regard to the Eureka’s club’s trans
actions, Mr. Stockwell said:
“We have been negotiating with Cor
bett for the past ten days. Some days
ago we sent him a telegram offering
$12,000 for a contest between hi to and
Sharkey. The next night he wired an
acceptance and we forwarded him a
letter containing full particulars as to
date and the number of rounds. We
suggested ten rounds and Thanksgiving
eve as the date, and so far as we know,
our proposition is acceptable to Corbett
and Sharkey. Corbett certainly tele
graphed us his acceptance and I hardly
see how he could have accepted any offer
since that. ’ ’
BUTCHERY WILL CONTINUE.
Great Britain Leaves the Americans to the
Mercy of the Sultan.
London, Sept. 22. —Mr. John Lowles,
member of parliament for the Hagger
stou division of Shoreditch, was the
principal speaker at a meeting called ic
express sympathy with the Armenians
aud to impress upon the government
the necessity for taking steps to prevent
any further massacres.
The jingoes called the meeting by the
distribution throughout the Shoreditch
and its vicinity of placards headed by a
bloodred cross, below which were the
words "Abdul Hamid, Murdferer and
Maniac;” ,
Lowles, who is a Conservative and an
ardent imperial federationist, and is be
lieved to have the ear of the govern
ment, promptly threw cold water over
the war enthusiasts and also incident
ally definitely defined the position of the
government in the matter.
Mr. Lowles began by stating that he
was authorized by the-foreign office (of
which the Marquis of Salisbury was the
bead, as well as being premier), to say
that Great Britain at the present mo
ment is confronted by an agreement be
tween three great central powers of
Europe, that if Great Britain attack
Turkey alone, no matter on what excuse
or pretext, It would mean an European
war.
The statement caused quite a sensa
tion and a number of vigorous protests
against inaction upon the part of Great
Britain were made by the hotheaded of
the assemblage. But the levelheaded
portion of the community were in the
majority, and when the meeting ad
journed Mr. Lowles had succeeded in
impressing upon his audience that dis
cretion, under the present circumstan
ces, is a far better policy for Great Brit
ain than a useless display of valor which
might within a very short time place
the very existence of the British empire
at stake.
JUDGE GOBER ATTACKED.
Steve Ryan Used a Riding Whip Upon the
Man Who Sent Him to Jail.
Atlanta, Sept. 22.—Judge George F.
Gober of the Blue Ridge circuit was as
saulted here by Mr. Steve Ryan. The
latter used a riding whip and the former
was badly cut about the face and head.
Judge Gober defended himself with an
umbrella aud raised a large lump on
Ryan’s head. The two men fought fu
riously for over a minute, when they
were separated.
The affair is thought to have been
the result of Judge Gober’s ruling in
Ryan’s case a few ye rs ago, whereby
the ex-merchant was sent to jail for 13
mouths for contempt of court. Ryan,
however, denies this, saying the reason
he made the attack was because the
judge had recently referred to him as a
d—n scoundrel.
To Examine Silks Freo of Charge.
Washington, Sept. 22.—T0 remove
ground for complaints that have be
come numerous, that raw silks deliv
ered at Japansee ports were not up to
the standard iu fineness or weight, the
Japanese government has established
conditioning houses at Yokohama and
Kobe, where silks are examined and
certified free of charge. These houses
were opened with much ceremony and
among the speakers was United States
Consul General Mclvor, who reported
the facts to the state department.
Contracts For iwo'New steamers.
Washington, Sept: 22.—United States
Consul Piatt, at Belfast, Ireland, re
ports to the state department that the
Atlantic Transport Steamship company,
whose stock is owned principally in the
United States and whose Vessels ply be
tween New York and London and Bal
timore and London, have contracted
with Harland & Worlf of Belfast for
two twinscrew steamships with a freight
capacity of 10,000 tons each and accom
modations for 250 passengers. They
must equal the best Atlantic liners, to
be completed in one year, and cost $150,-
000 each.
An American Ship Aground
| Shanghai, Sept. 22.—The American
, ship Luzon, Captain Park, which left
' New York on May 12 for this port, pass
ing Anjer on Aug. 18, has grounded on
j the bar at Woo-Sung. It is probable
that she will be floated after she has
been lightened, but must be drydocked
before putting tp sea again.
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CZAR IN SCOTLAND
Autocrat ot All the Russias Reaches the
City if Leith,
RECEIVED A HEARTY WELCOME
The Rain Was Falling Heavily
and the sky Was Forbidding
THE POLICE WERE VERY CAUTIOUS
The People Turned Out In Great Number!
to Greet His Imperial Mujesty—Uupre*
cedented Precautions Being Taken by ths
Authorities For the Protection of ths
Royal Party.
Leith, Scotland, Sept. 22.—The Rus
sian yachts Standard and Polar Stai
were sighted at the entrance of the
Firth of Forth at >2:30 a. m. and' the
news was immediately telegraphed to
the Prince of Wales, who was in charge
of the arrangements for the reception of
the czar and czarina, and who will ac
company the Russian visitors to Balmo
ral. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of
Coiiuaught, M. De Staale, the Russian
ambassador to the court of St. James;
Lord Rosebery and a number of high
military officers arrived at the jetty,
from Dahneny, at 11 o’clock, aud were
■.received by an escort of the Enniskillen
dragoons.
Rain was falling heavily and the sky
and general surroundings were most
forbidding, but, in spite of this, enor
mous crowds of people lined the way to
the docks and greeted the arrival of the
royal party with the greatest enthusi
asm. The Prince of Wales wore the
uniform of the Keife dragoons and the
Count of Connaught was iu the uniform
of the Scots guards. After inspecting
the reception room the royal party
joined the Duchess of Buccleuch and
the Countess of Lytton and embarked
on board of the steamer Tantallon Cas
tle. The steamer then proceeded down
the Firth in order to meet the czar aud
czarina.
The channel fleet, which lined the
Firth of Forth, saluted as the Prince of
Wales and t he royal party traversed the
Tines. The Russian imperial yachts, on
their arrival, were saluted by the fleet
aud immediately dropped anchor.
Welcomed to Leith.
The Tantallon Castle soon afterwards
ran alongside the Standard, the latter
having their Russian majesties on
board. The Prince of Wales, the Duke
of Connaught and M. De Staale went,
on board and welcomed the czar and.
czarina to Leith. The greetings ex
changed between the imperial travelers
and the British princes was most affec
tionate. The parly afterwards lunched
together on board the Standard.
Though the weather was far from be
ing all that could be wished for the re
ception, there was no mistaking the
fact that the people of Leith and its
vicinity had turned out in great num
bers, determined to give the imperial
visitors a hearty and genuine welcome
to the shores of Scotland. The whole
harbor was full of merchant vessels
from all parts of the world, and they
were all decked from stem to stern with
bunting and placed in the neatest pos
sible trim on l>oth sides of the water, so
that, after passing through the lines of
powerful warships, the progress of the
Standard up the Firth of Forth was
paradelike in the extreme.
The precautions taken afloat for the
protection of their majesties were un
precedented, it is believed, in naval an
nals. Picket boats, steam' launches and
torpedo boats of the smaller class, from
the warships Majestic. Magnificent, Re
pulse, Resolution, each detachment
commanded by a lieutenant, formed a
complete net ground the Russian im
perial yacht in order, ostensibly, to pre
vent the shore boats from crowding
about the Standard, but in reality to
prevent any possibility of an attempt to
commit a dynamite or other outrage?
The shore boats were in such vast
numbers on the water that there is no
doubt that the precautions taken by the
British naval authorities were war
ranted.
The precautions adopted ashore were
equally thorough, although few people
give more than a passing thought now
to the alleged dynamite conspiracy sup
posed to have been discovered by Scot
land Yard detectives. On the Tantal
lon Castle, ashore, on the train which
was to take their majesties to Balmoral,
at different olaces along the route, at
Ballate.r and about Balmoral itself were
picked members of the Russian secret
police and the most trusted members of
the czar’s nihilist detectives. Other
Russian deteriives were aboard the
Standard and they wore reinforeed on
landing hv a picked squad of the very
, best detectives, who will remain at
i tached to the czar’s service until he
leaves England.
Tlte vessels sped up the Firth of Forth
guided by the swarm of picket boats
1 through the lines of the British fleet,
nil the warships flying the Russian en
sign. As the Standard passed each war
ship fired the royal salute and the sail
ors manned the sides or yards, as the
case might be. as when on p trade and.
the bands payed the Russia a national
anthem.
I New York, Sept. 22.—1 tis announced
that John O. Sheehan, with 12 other
members of the state Democratic com
mittee, has just telegraphed John Boyd
Thacher, demanding his resignation
from* the head of the state ticket, on
the ground that his letter, issued last
Sunday night, is a stultification of the
platform adopted at Buffalo. Mr.
( Thacher, when seen by a reporter, re
fused to discuss the matter.