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8 nt of I Ls I II (Copyright, 1894.) New York, July 28. —They all say that the traveling American is not a fair speci men of his countryman in general. He is common; she is vulgar, and the impres sion they leave is as far unlike the real thing as a caricature is unlike a photo graph. So declare the more responsible men and women who come with letters of introduction to common friends in England, and who have therefore that private character to lose or main tain which the traveling American pur • sang—the nomad, knowing z and known of no one—has left behind him. It is this sense of irresponsibility which makes the whole difference be tween the vouched-for and the unknown —not only with Americans, but with globe-trotters of every other nationality. And if we take these cousins of ours as a text of what the irrepressible and irre sponsible traveler is alike, it is because they are the most numerous and the most übiquitous; and because, speaking our own language-with a difference— they are most easily understood and measured. As a rule these were nomads—these traveling Americans without per sonal responsibility—have no regard for their national dignity. They have come to have a good time, and they do not mean to be balked. They intend to see everything that lies on the prescribed tract; and to go everywhere marked on their comprehensive itinerary. Their see ing is of the most perfunctory kind—their going of tho most rapid order. They “do” Europe in less time than it takes a more leisurely Britisher to do one Italian city; but they are able to say that they have seen Chamounix and Derwent Water, Rome and Oxford, Rouen and and Nuremberg, Paris ana Vienna, and all that lies between their various halt ing places. The consequences, how ever, of their bird’s-eye view of things, their rapid transit and their superficial examination, is a kind of blouay kaleidoscope off memories wherein no single pattern stands detached and clear—no piace is vividly remembered— no picture, view or statue is rightly local ized. They confound Oxford with Win chester—Rouen with Cologne, Notre Dame with Strasburg cathedral; and as for such minor details as Honister Crag or Helvellyn, they forget all save the fact that when they drove over in the coach from some lake, unremembered now as to its name, down a lot of steep hills to an other little sheet of water, alike unre membered, they were drenched to the skin and sow nothing but vague forms of what the driver said were queer-named mountains, veiled behind dense clouds, or half-revealed through lighter mist. Still they can say that they did the English lake country, as in duty bound, giving two days to the process, which was a generous allowance. Sometimes these traveling Americans come in large droves of girls, under the chaperonage and couriership of a mature woman who has made the journey so often before that she is able to pilot her numer ous charges with exactness as to whato they have to do and prohibition as to what they need not see. Keen bargainer as she is, she gets- her cohort taken at “trade price,” and the saved margin adds hot inconsiderably to her lawful allow ances. A flock of from twelve to thirty, doves, settling for a couple of nights am the perches of a hotel, brings a certain amount of grist to the mill which makes It worth while to pare away even broad margins, and yet those noisy and self assertive Doves would be dear to the rest of the company at any price. They are an upsetting lot at the best of times; but when they come in. drenched to the skin disappointed and naturally cross, they “rsfee Cain” in a more than usu ally unpleasant way. They expect mir acles to. be wrought for their bene fit: and if they have to wait on the orderly action of time and natural pro cesses, they turn in their wrath and curse the national dilatoriness of the Britisher to his face. They will not al low that a heavy woolen ulster, satur ated through and through with a pelting rain of four hours’ duration cannot be dried and made tit to wear in an hour. They demand that it shall have been so dried and made fit to wear, and they must have it now on the instant. ’The sky has cleared; the rain has ceased; the > Sun has come out, and the lake and the mountains are there like an enchanted garden suddenly revealed. They must go out, and each has nothing to wear but a sodden saturated ul ster. They demand it and are refused on the plea of the garment being still im possible; and then the ruction begins The hostess has to hear a few strange words and see a few excited faces as trans-Atlantic energy encounters Anglo- Saxon sturdiness, and common sense de nies what impatience desires. The con troversy is generally settled by the will ful donning of the sodden garment, and the last snap-shots of the angry little woman as she stamps her small foot and hurls defiance at Britannia's name and head, dashing down to the lake in a coat which threatens rheumatic fever in every ' fiber. To the worst “forbidden” the traveling American woman pays no heed. When she sees a prohibitory notice she at once decides to disregard it, and to treat it with the contempt with which she thinks it deserves. She breaks down the fence and clambers over the barred and locked gate. She enters the preserve in spite of the board threatening prosecution for trespass. She gathers souvenirs, if given that way, no matter to what damage of the plant or destruction of the sapling and she holds it as a general rule that the earth is neither the Lord's nor the pro prietor’s, but hers, if so be she wishes to profit by its fruits. In a city •ho is just as irrepressible. Does she hear of some private exhi bition to be seen only through the partial favor of tickets given by this official, or that accredited agent, she boldly disdains all necessity for such a pass, and presents herself unarmed but fully armored. In vain the janitor warns her of her irregu larity. She does not speak Italian, and her French is far below the standard of even Atte Bowe. She does not under stand what the janitor is saying. All she sees is that others are there, and she will know tho reason why if she does not add one to the throng. She knows that the door-keeper is at a disadvantage it is impolitic and impolite to make a rpw in a private gallery; and as nothing short of physical force can turn this resolute sightseer from her design, why the breach of dis cipline is not worth the scandal which to resent it would occasion. Hence, she is ultimately allowed to pass, with those expostulatory shrugs which, like hard words', break no bones, and, like ghostly threats, have no terrifying influ ence over one case-hardened and deter mined. Then she boasts of her prowess when she comes back to the hotel, and rouses in her less fortunate compatriots and shyer English cousins that demon of jealousy which is never wholly asleep in the female breast. This kind of woman is one to set the teeth of her more refined compatriots on edge, covering them with shame, while she affords infinite cause for sardonic amusement to others. Bold, aggressive, insensitive, pushing, she elbows her way through the world, careless as to whose feet she treads on—whose ribs she digs into—whose prejudices she shocks—whose sensibilities she wounds. She is doubt less good and true and pure, and has all those more sterling qualities which wear well in the home and family; but she is vulgar to the backbone, and knows as little of the sentiment of social modesty as she does of the differential calculus. She has but one end in view—to have a good time, and to see all that there is to be seen. How this is to be accomplished does not trou ble her, nor yet her daughters, who are her copies in all things, save that the pertness of youth takes with them the place of the aggressiveness of maturity. Those daughters indeed are fearsome creatures, in Italian towns where no well-conducted woman of any class is to be seen walking alone—not to speak of “le signorine”—they dash about the streets unaccompanied by mother, man or maid—unaccompanied even by each other. If they conform so far to the stupid prejudice of the effete world in which they find them selves, as to go in pairs down the hotel steps, they part in the streets. One goes to the Pincio while the other saun ters away to St. Peters; one scampers off to the Ponte Vecchio to stare at the 1 am / 4 A A < I*l ® ip, ir/Fi'K a Li I SHE TRAVELS THE ITALIAN CITY UN ATI IND ’!>. shops and attract every man’s attention, while the other disports herself in the Cascine, where she is looked on with sus picion by some and half-amused, half contemptuous wonder by all. What ad ventures befall them the world never knows. They keep their own counsel on these matters, and even when they fas ten themseives, "for a chat,” as they say, on some elderly woman or celebrated man, they confine themselves to the safe generalization of having "a lovely time,” and “Italy being just toosweet and fascin ating for anything.” The details of this enjoyment they judiciously keep hidden—- wherein they are wise. Another kind of American girl is that selfish and dominant young person whose “poppa” is allowed to be of use as a .cheque-bearer and trunk-packer, and whose “momma” fills the place of an up per servant. “Poppa” and “momma” nave not a word to say to the arrange ments of times, places, length of stay, or the rest of the circumstances of travel. It is all “when Amy has got through,” “When Charlotte feels like going.” The mother has no will of her own, and neither her convenience nor desire comes into the account. She may be fascinated by Capri and longing for a few weeks’ so journ in peace and beauty there; or she may loathe Naples and want only to turn her back on its noise and its not, its natural loveliness and its art-treasures alike. But Amy thinks Capri a one-horse old dog-hole, and refuses to stay another day after their first there; and Charlotte has fallen in love with the Chija and the thronged streets, St. Elmo.and the Bay of Baiae, and no power which the mother drudge can wield will detech her. In fact, the mother does not attempt to wield any power at all, but drags on in patient misery until such time as her predominant daughter anounces that she has got through now, and feels like going to-morrow. To us Englishwomen, who. in spite of our “revolted daughters” and their ill judging advocates, look on youth as the time of submission and maternity as the state of command, the predominance of the American girl, her forwardness, her selfishness, and her total lack of all that we mean by girlish shyness or maidenly modesty, are so many personal phenom ena to which we never accustom our selves to the point of indifference. They come as a perpetual surprise—a strange revelation of manners—a kind of topsytur vydom of relations which always breaks upon us with the same sense of ugliness. Wo wonder how the mother can accept that humiliating position of a supe rior kind of upper servant, how she can conscientiously minister to her daughter's selfishness by her own painful subservience; how she does not see that in this forfeiture of her natural place and the authority she is bound to THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY, JULY 30, 1894. exercise over her children lies in no merit, no grace of goodness, no shining example of “altruism” but that is on the contrary, the feeding of a fault which is her duty to prune and check —the very creation of an immortality by her own. weakness of consent. The American girl is not the ideal of her sex. Her flirting may in some sense be innocent, but it is too pronounced and too evident for grace or beauty. Her want of shyness may be less embarrassing than the “giggle, blush, half-pertness and half-pout,” of the typical bread-and-butter miss, but it is none the less the aggres ive side of self-consciousness. She has lost the more distinctive charms of cal low youth without having come to the ripeness of maturity; and though later on she developes into a charming woman, as a girl she is as undesirable as her young brother—than whom the world holds nothing more objectionable. We suffer many things from the travel ing American, but all we suffer elsewhere is as nothing compared to the affliction of the traveling American boy. His loud ness, his greediness, his uncouthness and insubordination, his want of the very ele ments of good manners and the—to us— criminal indulgence and supineness of his parents—all make him one of the most unbearable beings on God’s earth. Yet here again we are bound to say, that a very fine and charming man grows out of this formerly detestable boy; and time seems to have some hand of magic power by which beauty is produced out of ugli ness. All our traveling American are not of the destestable nor yet of the ridiculous type. Certainly, every now and then we come across some rough home-spun suc cessful operator or farmer, who talks as the humorous books make an American talk, and by the quaintness of his diction and the nasal twang and drawl we all know so well, excites a laugh the moment he opens his mouth. But then he has such a fund of sound common sense, and is so free from the prejudices and red-tapeism of the old world, as to be a noteworthy companion. To be sure he shocks our insular ideas of fitness, and tramples under foot our tender little flowers of caste and class respect. One of them —and a right good fellow he was—used to lament the criss-cross action of fate in that “Your Beatrice was not married to our Jimmy.” That was what should have been, and then “we’d have whipped creation.” The two were Princess Beatrice and James Gordon Bennett. The queen he always spoke of as “Your old woman" and he ad jured some strange power to attest his affirmation when he declared that if she had belonged to them they would have pensioned her off long ago and put a new figurehead in her place. He made fun of everything he saw and ridiculed “them old Roman ruins” without mercy.. If those old ruins had belonged to them— those broken fragments of aqueduct, those crumbling baths of Caracalla, that uninhabitable wreckage of the once grand palaces of the Caesars, he said they would have carted them off long ago and put up brand new buildings in their stead. “Keeping a lot of useless old stones,” he used to say with not unamiable contempt, penetrated as he was with the sense of living human needs—steeped in the nine teenth century man’s belief in the In finite advancement of the present over the past. What a contrast to him is that slightly effeminate and carefully-groomed young mart fresh from Paris, where he has been studying pictorial art and learning that other art of contempt for all his national 1 lf e! His hair is carefully parted ,in the middle and bis mustaches are as carefully waxed and twisted. He wears the most faultless garments; and the large bow of his soft, silken tie is a miracle of aesthetic coloring. His fingers are covered with rings, and there is a suspicious glitter in the shadow cast on his arm by his long white cuff. His appetite is fastidious and his manner of living exclusive. He dis dains the common table, and has , his meals apart Oat a little round ■ “sulky” set in the embrasure of the win dow from which point of vantage he surveys the vulgar herd eating in com mon, as some high-bred stag-hound might survey a troop of Gaderene swine. It would be impossible to put more disdain : into a human face than he manages to throw into his; impossible for a man to express more clearly his exalted estimate of himself and his corresponding con tempt for others, than does our Frenchi fied American artist-dude, as he sits there in solitary state, dissatisfied with the menu aud satirical over the wine. But they are not all men and women to laugh at or even to laugh with. As has been said, some are delightful; and among the pleasantest reminiscences of foreign travel aud what it has brought, are memories of certain Americans mot with by the way. Surely that tine-look ing soldierly general, who served with so much distinction in the great war, was never one of those rude boys wo have just seen “banging” about the drawing room, speaking at the top of his voice at the table. tr.yirg to swarm up the marble statue in the garden and generally misbe having. Surely this dear wife of his. so bright and womanly, so loving and effi cient. was never one of those selfish girls whose sole thought was for her own plea sure, and never a side glance to her mother’s. As little could she be one of the queer “grass-widows” who abound abroad—those pretty, well-dressed, free mannered married young women,who have left husband and child behind them in America, and w ho profess unbounded love for both and infinite weariness ’and long ing for a reunion, which does not prevent their sitting out in the garden to a late hour of the night in close confidential talk with a handsome well set-up-English officer, taking out his ifrave of absence in foreign travel. These “grass-widows” who have come to Europe on lengthened visits for their own pleasure, yet who continually speak of the husband as cthe one being they most adore, are a common feature in the travel ing American world, and they are diffi cult to locate. Who are they? What are they doing herd alone! Why have they left their own home and belongings in this strange irresponsible way? We are bound to say that, if they are undesirable acquaintances, they mask the inner fact under an outer appearance of such guile less boldness and the very simplicity of innocent assurance, as to put Mrs. Grundy into a tight place. For it would almost seem as if her code of morals were simply criminally suspicious: and that to con demn these artless innocents were to show herself of a corrupt and unclean imagination. We repeat again, they are difficulties; and no one knows how to deal with them. Good soldiers are matched by good scientists, by bright literary men, by cul tured artists -, and the pushing vulgarian, with the doubtful little grass-widow and the weak-willed mother, are crowded out by the sweet and pleasant woman who makes the day of her association one of jubilee and testa. A nice American wo man is one of the most delightful beings in the world. So is the man, when of the true sort. They are so frank, so cordial, so responsive, so wide-minded—they have so much mental freshness and so much moral strength—they are so full of corn toon sense and sc free from prejudice, as to make social intercourse with them a matter of the purest pleasure. No one who has ever foregathered with such as these can forget them; and were it not to make this paper a mere “directory,” a list of names could be given of Americans met with abroad, whose temporary friendship made one of the most charm ing of travel, and whose de lightful personality has cast, as it were, a halo over the whole nation. E. Lynn Linton. DUEL AT A WEDDING. The Romance of a Nebraska Cattle Town in the Early Seventies. From the Chicago Mail. The dispatches not long ago announced the death of Al Dickenson, which unim portant event occurred from an overdose of bad whisky procured and absorbed in an obscure town of Oklahoma. The sim ple announcement of this vagabondish character's passing away probably created no interest outside of his imme diate family connections, and yet I re member the time when Al Dickenson’s name appeared in the columns of every daily newspaper of the United States, and nearly all the papers thought the tragedy with which he was associated of such importance that immense and sensa tional headlines preceded every article bearing upon the subject. To make the story intelligible, it is necessary to dive down into western history of twenty-four years ago. At that time the supposedly fertile republi can valley, covering a vast area in South ern Nebraska and Northern Kansas, was receiving an influx of settlers from every section pf the civilized glebe, and, as in all instances of a similar nature there was a general distributing railway point from which all supplies were drawn and from which emanated enough gory en counters each month to build up a dime library on the blood-and-thunder order that would net the founder of the same an unlimited fortune. In 1870 to 1874, however, Lowell was a typical western town, more like Lead ville of a few years later than any town I recall. The United States land office was there, and it was the jumping-off place for the land of promise some sixty miles away. Half a million head of Texas cattle were shipped from there every season, and from two to a dozen herders bit the dust .• almost every month. It was one of this number of the genus homo that was responsible for the wild and reckless career and final death of Dickenson, and it was all about a wo man. < Lowell, Neb., started by the Burlington and Missouri railroad, and named in honor of Percival Ltfwell, then a promi nent official of the aorporation, was the base of supplies for “he valley. Lowell was 171 miles west »of Omaha, and lo cated just at the foot of the great sand hills district. laowell at present is scattered over the wide world, and as a town is entirely obliterated, nothing re maining to remind the traveler of life and activity, sorrows and joys, crimes and worthy deeds, but a water tank from which freight engines draw the neces sary article to create steam. “Dick,” who was an educated fellow, a civil engineer from Boston, and of excel lent family, fell in love with Helen Grat ney, the beautiful daughter of the post mistress of Lowell, and rumor had it that the young couple were to be married. In the meantime, Asa Love, a Texas cattle king, appeared upon the scene and offered both hand and fortune, including a herd of 40,000 Texas steers, to the fair Helen. “Dick” had no money, but he was a dash ing, handsome chap, and he won the day. Love pursued the usual course of his class and got beastly drunk, after which he be came very violent, and threatened to shoot Dickenson on sight. The latter’s friends, including the dis trict judge, a half dozen lawyers, all the county officials and a number of leading business men, persuaded the successful suitor to take a trip home. But Boston was not Lowell, and “Dick” couldnlt give up the wild life and the dark-eyed beauty of the plains. So he returned and de clared himself. The intervention of friends, however, patched up the trouble, and the two in terested parties consented to meet in the Gratney parlor one morning, shake hands and allow the unfortunate damsel who had caused all the trouble to make an irrevocable choice between the men—the unsuccessful one to go away forever and leave the happy couple unmolested. A minister, the mayor of the “city,” an editor of a local paper, the district judge and one or two more outsiders were pres ent to witness the nuptials that were to follow. Both men surrendered their six-shoot ers to the postmistress, and the reconcili ation was effected. Helen selected the Boston boy, and apparently everybody was satisfied, when an altercation be tween Love and Dickenson broke out. Love, who had concealed a pistol in his shirt, first attempted to pull the weapon and kill his successful rival. But “Dick” had seen enough of western life not to be caught napping, and to the astonishment of everybody in the room, reached down in the leg of his right boot, pro duced a short 44, fired quickly and awaited results. The shot struck Love in the mouth, but it did not floor him. He frantically endeavored to pull his gun, but failed. Dickenson fired the four remaining shots, two of which penetrated the cattleman's heart , and the balance striking him in the abdomen. Now comes the most startling part of this melancholy tragedy. Love made a lunge for his slaver, and grasping the empty revolver fronnhis hand, struck him over the head and repeated this unheard of onslaught until both men were com pletely exhausted. Then, with a gasp, Love fell dead, the post mortem corre sponding with the above details. Dickenson recovered from the dreadful shock in the course of time, but he never married the girl. Instead, he became a wanderer, drunkard, gambler, vagabond and a frightful example to the world. His death doubtless relieves his friends, and certainly removes a man who must have prayed for the destroyer a million times. A little Tioga boy, who is much inter ested .in marine matters, asked his mother if they had dog watches on cat boats.—Philadelphia Record. Mr. A.—“ Just look at that dolt of a Lehmann; what a charming young wife he has got! How true it is that the big gest fools always marry the prettiest girl.” Mrs. A.—“Oh! you flatterer!”— Gartenlaube Kalender. BLOODY WORK IN THE RING Billy Smith and Tommy Ryan Fight 20 Savage Rounds. It Was a Battle for Points and Was Won by Ryan—The First Blood Drawn in the Seventh Round by the Victor—Smith Badly Used Up and Narrowly Escapes Being Knocked Out. Minneapolis, Minn., July 26.—The 20- round welter weight fight for the cham pionship, between the mysterious Billy Smith of Boston a«d Tommy Ryan of Chi cago, took place at the Twin City Athletic Club before fully 4,000 people to-night. Both men were in the ring together at 9 o’clock, the scales being placed in the centre. Both mounted in fighting cos tume with the weight placed at 142 pounds, and neither lifted it. Tom West, Solly Smith and Ted Alex ander acted as seconds for Smith, while Jerry Murphy, Harry Baker and Prof. Lewis acted in the same capacity for Ryan. Joe Choynski was chosen referee by both parties. SHARP FIGHTING FROM THE START. The fight began at 9:15 o’clock. The fighting was rather sharp from the start. First blood was announced for Ryan in the seventh round. Up to and including the seventeenth round honors were about easy, but toward the close of the eighteenth round Ryan got in a ter rific left hander on Smith’s nose which sent him to the ropes. Ryan followed up his advantage, and Smith fought to keep from going out. It was give and take in this fashion for the balance of the round, Ryan getting much the best of the in fighting, and plainly nad Smith going when the bell rang. The nineteenth opened with Smith bleeding profusely from his nose, but full of fight. Ryan was much the stronger, and after coaxing Smith on for the first half of the round, took the initiative for the first time during the fight and did his best to put Smith out. The latter fought back blindly, but without effect. Smith was knocked to the floor twice, but as the gong rang came to his feet, and the call of time just saved him. THE LAST ROUND. The last round Ryan started in with de liberation to put Smith out at long distance. The latter was still strong enough to fight back, but could hardly see to try to save himself. The men were clinched a good share of the time during the round aud both very weak. Smith being hardly able to stand. When time was called, the men were both striking at each other blindly. Smith was in much the worst condition—out of bfeath and nearly blind. His face was covered with blood. He, however, was not out, but was on his feet, fighting back when time was called. As far as the round itself was concerned, honors were almost even, despite Smith’s condition. Referee Choynski said in giving his de cision: “This tight was for points to last twenty rounds, and I give my decision m favor of Ryan.” The decision was greeted with cheers, and was of course unquestioned. Smith was in a badly battered condition at the end of the tight, but within five minutes walked to his dressing room gamely. GOTHAM’S POLICE SCANDAL. A Captain and Two Wardmen Dis missed From the Force. New York, July ‘26.—The trial of Capt. Doherty and his former wardmen, Hock and Meehan, on Mrs. Augusta ,Thurow’s charges of extortion, was concluded to day. All the testimony was concluded at 3:30 o’clock and the police com missioners retired to deliberate. At 5 o’clock they returned and delivered the verdict. It was that all three officers were guilty as specified. They were im mediately dismissed from the force, and the commissioner announted that Supt. Byrnes had been directed to pre fer charges against the sergeants who accepted Mrs. Thurow’s bonds, and against Officers Meyer and David J. Mal lon for general neglect of duty and con duct unbecoming an officer, and that the accused officers should be suspended from duty pending trial. The council for the dismissed officers announced that they would apply to the supreme court for the reinstatement of their clients. ROTTENNESS AT TOPEKA. Topeka. Kan., July . 26.—County Attor ney Setlfbrd sprung a sensation here this afternoon by instituting proceedings to put out of office Chief of Police W. C. Lindsey and Police Captain P. N. Gosh. The case is based on an affidavit made by J. H. McWilliams, who has been keeping a club room here. He states in the document that he has repeatedly paid money to the police officers named to insure protection in selling liquor. In the affidavit the names, amounts and places are given, and it also involves other police officers. All the of ficers owe their appointments to the board of metropolitan police commissioners, ap pointed by the governor. (U ?’• /’m * / / C\ V /I* </ / ziJC/ Wf 1 7 . u4/'\< BAD COMPLEXIONS Dark, yellow, oily, mothy ski 3, pim ples, blackheads, roughness, redness, dry, th in, and falling hair, and simple . baby blemishes prevented and cured by the celebrated vSOAP £ The moat effective skin purifying and beautifying soap in the world, as well as purestand sweetest for toilet, bath, and nursery. It is so because it strikes at the cause of most com plexional disfigurations, viz.: the CLOGGED, INFLAMED, IRRITATED, OVERWORKED, Or SLUGGISH FORE. Sold throughout the world. Pottkr Dana and Chem. Cobp., sole proprietors, Boston, ssj* “All about the Blood,tikin, Scalp, and Hair,” mailed free. BAKING POWDER. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report h ITWr' Powder AStOM)TEI» PURE EZETA COMING TO FRISCO. The Bennington Ordered Home From La Libertad. Sickness Among- the Grew Rendered It Imperative That the Ship Should Be Recalled From the Tropics—-Sal • vador Notified That the Statue of the Refugees is Unchanged A Chance, However, That They May Gain Their Liberty at San Francisco. Washington, July 26.—The navy depart ment is advised that the Bennington sailed from La Libertad yesterday for San Francisco via Acapulco with Gen. Ezeta and three other refugees on board. The sailing of the Bennington from La Libertad for San Francisco was a care fully guarded secret in the state and navy departments, extraordinary precautions having been taken to keep the news from the public. Secretary Herbert this afternoon, when questioned about the matter, said it was true he had been compelled to order the vessel home, but he had notified the con sul at Salvador that the status of the four refugees on board the vessel was in no way altered, as the United States had not yet determined whether they should be surrendered or not. It was understood that the question was considered at the cabinet meeting on Tuesday, when Secre tary Herbert explained that considerable illness had occui-red on the Benning ton, that her surgeon had’been prostrated with malarial fever, and had Deen unable to attend others who were ill, and as the repairs to the Charleston would not enable that vessel to relieve the Bennington until the second week in August, it seemed necessary to bring the ship away from the tropical coast at once. NEVER FREE FROM ILLNESS. The Bennington had been at La Lib ertad since Mffy 21, and during her two months’ stay there had not been free from illness aboard a single day. In all that time the Salvadorians seemed unable to form a stable government which could be recognized by the United States. The Bennington has run short of coal and stores, which were, however, on the way to her, but could be intercepted at Acapulco. The cabinet decided that she should be brought home at once, and that Gen. Ezeta and the other three refugees could be transferred to the Charleston at San Francisco, and immediately sent back to be delivered to the local authorities as soon as proper judicial proceedings against them could be assured. This scheme of sending the refugees back, it is thought, will depend entirely upon the action of any United States judge in case Gen. Ezeta and his com patriots on the arrival of the Bennington at San Diego or San Francisco apply for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that they are retained on board the ship against their will, no charge being preferred against them. In the opinion of competent law yers in the state and navy departments the United States could not resist such an application, and any court would release 'the men. The departure of the Benning ton for home is therefore looked upon as the end of a situation which has been ex tremely embarrassing to the United States for over a month. • CLEVELAND INDORSED. A Congressional Convention Stands by the President. Ocean City, Md., July 26.—The demo cratic congressional convention was called to order by Lloyd Wilkinson, chairman of the state central committee for Worcester county and local appraiser for the port of Baltimore. Capt. Isaac H. White of Wacomo county, was elected chairman, and Messrs. Mitchell and Carrington Secre taries. Mr. Carrington introduced a resolution expressing sorrow at the death of Repre sentative Robert F. Brattan, which was adopted by a rising vote. Mr. Olin Bryan introduced the follow ing: Whereas, It is the duty of the democratic convention of the First congressional district to clearly deline its position upon the vital and paramount questions which now so deeply concern the democrats of this district and directly affect every fireside in her borders; therefore, be it Resolved. That we do heartily indorse the national platform as adopted in Chicago, and renew our unfaltering allegiance thereto. The Democratic party of the First congressional district of Maryland heartily and unfalter ingly indorses the course of that true patriot, the President of the United States, Grover Cleveland. for his manly and uncompromising tight for tariff reform as enunciated-at the national conven tion. and renews its vows of fealty to the democratic principles contained therein. It demands honest money, the adequate protec tion of the rights of the laborer and employe, a reduction of taxation to a minimum and a tariff for a revenue sufficient only to meet the expenses of the government economically ad ministered in all its departments. The democrats of this district demand that the nominee of this convention shall be in full accord with the President on party prin ciples and give to him unconditional support and shall be sound on tariff reform, as the people are in no condition of mind to tolerate nominees who will not actively support the democratic principles. The resolution was referred to the com mittee and the committee took a recess. BRYAN’S RESOLUTION BEATEN. The convention reassembled at 3 o’clock p. m. The committee on resolutions rejected the one offered by Mr. Bryan bj a vote of 6to 2, and presented in place thereof a resolution making no mention of the President or any one else, but only assert ing belief in the principle of tariff reform, and urging the passage of a tariff bill of some sort. The minority of the committee reported Mr. Bryan s resolution, which was re ceived with enthusiasm by the large crowd present. Mr. Bryan spoke in favor of his resolu tion. It was then laid on the table by a vote of 23 to 7, after a lively debate, and the majority' resolution was adopted by a vote of 33 to 7. ■ln his speech, Mr. Bryan eulogized Mr. Cleveland, and spoke in the severest terms ' of the people who had betrayed the party. The chief antagonist of Mr. Bryan was Charles S. Carrington, Senator Gibson’s law partner. The greatest confusion pre vailed, and the crowd, which was several hundred strong, yelled and hissed. Joshua Mills was nominated for the Fifty-fourth congress on the first ballot and W. Laird Henry for the unexpired term in tne Fifty-third congress. There was no enthusiasm over the nominations. Congressman Brown Renominated. Raleigh, N. C., July 26.—Hon. W. H. Brown of the Eighth congressional dis trict was nominated yesterday at Wilkes boro to succeed himself. CHINA AT WAR WITH JAPAN. Corea’s King Seized by the Japanese. Chinese Transports Sunk. London, July 27, 2 a. m.—The Central News has this dispatch from Shanghai: “War has been declared between Japan and China. The Japanese have seized the King of Corea and hold him prisoner. Eleven Chinese steamers are on their way to Corea. Most of the troops aboard them are coolies armed with bows and arrow's. Some Chinese steamers which have arrived at Corea have been prevented by the Japanese from landing troops. It is reported that the Japanese artillery sank several of them.” MINISTER TATENO RECALLED. Washington July 26.—G0z0 Tateno, the Japanese minister, has been recalled and will present his letter of recall to the President this week, so as to start for Japan on Monday. The term of service of the Japanese diplomatic corps at one post is three years. Mr. Tatena has been in the United States nearly four years. He will probably be transferred to one of the European legations. He will be succeed ed as minister to the United States by Mr. Kaneko, who was educated in this country. Mr. Kaneko graduated at Yale and wasastudentof the Cambridge,Mass., law school. He is now vice minister of ag riculture and commerce. CAUSE OF THE RECALL. Tokio, July 26. Gozo Tateno, the Japanese minister to Washington, has been recalled to Japan, and Mr. Kukino an experienced diplomat, has been ap pointed to succeed him. This change is made on account of dissatisfaction at the manner in which Minister Tateno has conducted the negotiations with the Washington government looking to a modification of the extra territorial treaties. THE CONVENTION. London, July 26.—1 n the House of Com mons to-day Sir Edward Grey, under foreign secretary, was questioned con cerning the differences between China and Japan. In reply he said the conven tion between China and Japan concluded in 1885, stipulated that In the event of any grave disturbances in Corea, the two powers were at liberty to send troops to that country to restore order. Upon the outbreak of the recent rebellion in Corea, both gov ernments sent troops to suppress it, and consequently the relations between the two were critical. Her majesty’s gov ernment, on July 19. he said, had wired the governments at Berlin, St. Peters burg and Paris, inviting them to send in structions to their representatives in Tokio and Pekin to join in endeavors to avert war. The governments mentioned had sent instructions in accordance with the request. The foreign office, he said, had no information that any hostilities had occurred. PATRIOTIC JAPS AT FRISCO. San Francisco, July 26.—A committee representing the Japanese residents met at the Japanese consulate last night, and it was decided to make immediate efforts to raise 810,000 to assist their government in carrying on its war with China. The San Francisco Japanese are prepared to form a brigade, arm the men with American rifles and go to Japan at their own expense, if their services should be needed tn the conflict. All the members of the Japanese colony will be assessed to raise funds if war is declared. ? TARSNEY’S ASSAILANTS. Six Men Under Arrest for the Outrage in Colorado. Denver, Col., July 26.—Six men have been arrested for complicity in the tarring and feathering of Adjt. Gen. Tarsney at Colorado Springs—three in this city and three at the Springs, and more arrests are to follow’. The prisoners here are John A. Ragan, who was turnkey at the jail at Colorado Springs on the night the outrage was committed, his brother, Michael Rdagan, and ex-deputy sheriff of El Paso county, and “Shorty” Allen, alias Thomas Gordon, who was one of Sheriff Bowers’ army of deputies in the Bull Hill warfare. Allen is said to be the man who poked the gun in Adjt. Gen. Tarsney’s face at the Aloma hotel and applied the tar and feathers to his per son. The three men arrested at Colorado Springs are J. J. Mullin, son of a wealthy Boston mine owner, and a prominent so ciety man, Herman Bebbeck, who was a deputy sheriff during the Cripple Creek trouble, and Eugene Kinney, one of the hack drivers who took the party of masked men with Adjt. Gen. Tarsney to Austin Bluff. It is said Chief of Police Armstrong of this city has succeeded in unravelling the plot against Adjt. Gen. Tarsney, through revelations made by ex- Deputy Sheriff Parker of Ei Paso county. According to his story the plot was ar ranged in the jail. ■ — ■ r i jin -- - - - —■" ' V CORN SHRIVELLING UP. Incalculable Damage to the Crops in Missouri, Kansas and lowa. Kansas City, Mo , July 26.—For the past three days intense heat has pre vailed all over this section. No rain has fallen for two weeks and corn crop in some places has been ruined and unless rain falls very soon the re mainder will shrivel up. The thermometer at Dodge City yester day was 106“ in the shade, and in this city at 1:8Q p. m. to-day 96“ was registered. The damage to corn in Western Kansas is believed to be‘incalculable. Much the same condition prevails in lowa. A TUG IN FLAMES. She Was Owned by Capt. R. G. Ross, and Valued at SIO,OOO. Jacksonville, Fla., July 26. —The tug J. E. Stevens was burned to the water’s edge this morning while at her wharf at Mayport. The tug was engaged in jetty work at the mouth of the St. John’s. She was owned by Capt. R. G. Ross, the jetty contractor, and was valued at 810,000, The tug was partially insured. Tillman Defies the Alliance. Columbia, S. C., July 26.—At the Orangeburg campaign meeting, to-day Gov. Tillman referring to the determina tion of the state alliance to apply the yard stick for senatorial and legislative candidates defied the alliance and said they could trot out a hundred subtreasury horses and if he didn’t the whole crowd he was a '‘nigger.” He called on the audience to apply the Tillman yard stick instead, and on a hand primary all the votes were in the governor’s favor. There were 500 alliancemen present.