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VOL. XXVII. A fair-faced woman found a whitened skull Amid a ruined garden’s tangled bed. Sho placed it on a rose-twined pedestal And thus to it she said: •‘Grim relic of some far-forgotten time. Whose flesh hath blossomed in such fair decay, I pray thee tell, In what sweet summer clirae Dost thou reside to-day? i THE FACE IN THE GLASS. JACK, I really! , don’t think I can ca bear that ward robe where it is, "w. with the long glass M \ just opposite my H - ) bed. I know I _‘sS'V-V have night mare. Do yo it think it could be moved?" 'X hesitated and ’Sft? >, murmured some *„ thing about the troublo of having the furniture moved in a hotel, etc., while handing my wifo the English letter I had bronght upstairs for her. She had been lying down after our journey, and now eat up on the bed to utter the above re marks about the wardrobe. She was very pretty, that little wife of mine, w ith her curly, tousled head, and the faoe that sleep had flushed to a soft rosy-pink—very pretty, and so ludi crously, ludicrously young to look at. Her letter did not oocupy her long. She looked at me again. “Jack, darling, yon will have that wardrobe moved, won’t yon? If I were to wake in the night and see my own face iu it, 1 should bo horribly frightened. Do have it moved, .Tack, dear!’’ She knew perfeotly well, lit tle witch, that if she Bpoke to me like that, and looked at me pleadingly out of her pretty eyes, she would got ex actly what she wanted—and, of course, sho did this time. The ward robo, which had boeu placed precise ly opposite one of tho two beds that jutted out from the wall between tho <loorj[and window, was now moved to tho corner near the window itself, so that, although from the beds we could still catch a glimpse of the glass, we could see nothing reflected in it. We were staying in a big, pleasant hotel, the locality of which matters little. We found many pleasant folk among our fellow guests, and wo had really a delightful evening, spout chiefly in sitting upon tho terrace which overlooked the very lovely garden of the hotel. The delioious scents of the many flowering shrubs filled the air with exquisite fragrance’, the fresh breeze blowing softly round us seemed to come straight from the great range of mountains along the horizon, giant shapes, dim and misty, outlined against the pale green of the evening sky, where the stars were cr rniug out one by one. Tt must have been very late before w’e reluctautly draggod ourselves in doors, and went up to onr room. Just before putting out the light, I opened the Venetians outside our window to breathe the heavenly air once more. It was a still, starry night. The pardon below me wak quite dark, and the dim mountain shapes could no longer be seen. The nightingales in the bushes sang and sang as if they could never sing enough, and to the music of their Bong, with a deep undercurrent of the bull-frogs’ em phatic voices, I fell asleep. I slept the sleep of the just, as I usually do, and, I should think, must have boen asleep for some tiino, wliou, suddenly, a flash of light be fore my eyes woke me. My first im pression was that it must be light ning; my next, that my wifo had turned on the electric light over our heads. But, as I woke up fully, I realized that the room was dark; from the bed next to mine I could hear quiet breathing, showing, bo yond a doubt, that my wife was asleep. , But—but—. sat up in bed and stared; for the long glass in the cup board, which had been moved that afternoon, was entirely lighted up. As I have said, this cupboard now stood nearer to the window than it had done before, and, though it was not opposito my bod, the light upon the glass had evidently flashed into my eyes and awoke me. But where in the name of fortune had the light cemo from?" I rubbed my eyes, I leant n little out of bed, as X tried to persuade myself that some light from outside must be reflected in the glass, though I knew perfectly well that this wa3 impossible, for not only were the Venetians closed, but tho curtains inside the room were also drawn. Then I tried to think that the light came through the keyhole of a room openinginto onrs; but this was a still more fallacious argument,’'for the door in question was on tho farther side of my wife’s bed, and nothing could by any means have been reflected from it into that glass. “Well," I thought, “lam the vic tim of a most extraordinary optical delusion!” For, whilst I sat np in bed and started at it, that glass re mained steadily lighted np! “I shall get up nud see if it is some thing outside the window.” I mut tered; and, creeping very softly out of bed. I drew back the curtains and gently opened the Venetians. Every thing in the garden was absolutely still, and pitch, pitch dark. Not a sign was to be seen in any direction of a light of any sort or kind, and even the stars were blotted out by great black clouds. I turned back toward the room. It, too, was entirely dark —with the exception of the glass, which was still brilliantly lighted from top to bottom. THE QUESTIONER, “And, having lived, untold life’s mys tery, And, having loved, reveal the how, and why. And, being dead, unveil eternity, And all tt means to die.” There came no whisper from the lips ei death. The hollow eyes stared at her vacantly. Perhaps it had tdrgotten love, and breath, rerhnps—eternity! —Albert Bigelow Paine, in Ufa. But, all at once, I notioed an ex traordinary circumstance. The glass did not reflect the stove and chair which were the only objects now in front of it, neither did I eee myself mirrored in it. On the contrary, I saw in it only a bed and in the bed lay a form—a woman’s form, I conld see quite plainly how her black hair was tossed about ou the pillow iu curly disorder. "It seems queer,” I said to myself, with, I must confess, a very weird aud uneasy sensation; “deuced queer!” I should like to have done some thing—turned ou tho light, rung a bell, or, in fact, done anything but what I did do, staud there rooted to the spot, with fascinated eyes fixed ou that glass. Where the diekeus did that bed come from? And who was the woman in it? It was not my wife, that I could swear, for her hair was fair and fluffy, and that woman’s was black as night, Then, as I watched my hair literally stood on end with horror. I believe I was shaking with fright, for I saw that figure sit bolt upright in bod, a look of suoh wild terror in her faeo as I shall never forget—never to my dying day. Her eyes fixed on some thing I could not see, grew strained and staring, in a perfect agony of fear and horror. I saw her opou her mouth as though to say something—to cry out—l thought it was. I saw the flush of sleep fade from her cheeks, leaving au ashy whiteness in its place. Then she threw out her hands with a pas sionately pleading gesture toward something that was coming to her—a very agony of appeal iu her every movement. And at that moment- there came into the blaze of light a tall man's fig ure. Ho seemed to come from the end of the bed, as though he had en tered the room by a door immediately opposite to it. (In a flash of recollec tion I remembered a third door in our i room, opening .“recti/ Ajposilo my wife's bed.) 1 could not sob the man’s face; lie was dressed iu some sort of a dressing gown, and in Itis uplifted hand he held a knife. He paid not the slightest heed to the agonized ges tures of tlie woman. He simply ad> vauced to the head of the bed with great strides. The woman crouched back against the pillows, her poor lit tle bauds pitifully beating against his shoulder, but he seemed utterly re gardless of her terror or of her ap peals. He pressed her back—farther, farther back against the pillows, and T saw her white, upturned fnco gleam in the fla-diing light. I could see the fearful, deadly terror in her dark eyes as suddenly he raised the great knife in one hand, holding the other over her mouth—to stop her screaming, I suppose. But he did not, ns I expected, plunge the knife deep into her heart. No, he lifted the pillow, like another Othello, and pressed it down, down upon her, till I felt as if I myself was being suffocated. Then ho lifted it up again, and laid her down, and as he did so and turned away, laying the knife beside her on the bed, I saw liis face—a dark, evil, devil's face. It seemed to glower at me out of the brilliantly lighted glass jujt for a sec oud, and then 1 saw his every feature —the black, evil eyes, the hard month, the low forehead, over which a straight lock of hair fell. I saw how ho lifted his baud to pash the hair out of his eyes—and then, all nt once, the light faded out of the glass and I could see no more. The room was in darkness, and, sick with horror, shivering with a hor rible dread, I crept, into bed again. I did not sleep another wink. I could ! only lie and puzzlo over the gruesome thing I had seen, and speculate over and over again as to its cause and ob ject. But I arrived at no solution, and never in my life have I been so thankful as I was that morning to see the gray dawn steal through the Ve netians and to hear the birds calling to each other in the garden below. My wifo remarked pn my appear ance, which was certainly no: alto gether festive. Avoiding ns best I could my wife’s anxious questions, I dressed hurriedly, being above all things anxious that she should never know of the horror I bad seen in that hateful glass. I went downstairs ns soon as I could, aud sought out the owner of the hotel. He was not a master of my lan guage, but, fortunately, I am familinr with his, and I asked him quietly, but with a good deal of lordly severity, to explain my extraordinary experience of the previous night. I think he meant at first to deny all knowledge of the phenomenon; but he had turned visibly pale at my al lusion to it, and obviously knew all that was to be told. And, with a little more browbeating, I got it out of him. He apologized most humbly and pro foundly for having put us into that room; but, as he explained, the hotel ; was so full that it was unavoidable. He then went on to tell me that, some time before, an Italian lady and gentleman, husband aud wife, had oc cupied the room we had slept in, and the next one to it, whoso door was op posite to my wife’s bed. On the morning after their arrival the hus band bad roused the whole hotel, de- THOMSON, GA-, TIdBIAY AUGUST 22.1890. claring wildly that his wife had beeu murdered which Upd, indeed, proved to be the case. There lay the lady, stone dead, a knife beside her ou the bed—one of the hotel knives, my host explained in an injured voice —aud her husband nearly mad with grief and horror. But the strango thing was that, though tho knife lay there, no sign was visible of its having been used. The poor lady had evi dently beon suffocated. The hus band, who had slept in tho room next to his wife’s said that the door be tween their rooms had been open all night, but he sworo he had heard no sound. How the murderer had come, where he had vanished to, and above all, why he had murdered the poor, iuuocent lady, remained profound mysteries. "Do you mean that the murderer is still at large?” 1 asked the hotel keeper. He nodded. “Well, I could identify him any where,” I said, sharply. The man looked at me keenly. “You saw, sir—you saw?" he stam mered. “I saw the whole thing, from be ginning to end, in that infernal glass,’’ I replied; “the whole ghastly per formance. Has no one over seen it before?” Mine host crossed himself rapidly. “It has been seen before,” ho an swered; "but uo one has ever seen it all. The lighted glass— ye3 —and a lady, tho lady in tho bed—and a man who enters. But, then—no olio has ever dared to stay to faoe all the hor ror through. No ono ever saw tho mail's face. They have all fainted or run away—or what not. Y’ou saw his face, sir?” he ended, incredulously, “As plainly ns I see yours,” I said; “If ever I nee it in real life I will lei you know.” We movod our room that night, ou some plea I gave my wife—l forge# now what it was—aud a few days later we left the plaoe, and I must confess, honestly, I was not sorry to e- But fato works strangely sometimes. Six months later, my wifo was con valescent after a severo illness, and the doctors insisted on my taking her to this very place again. 1 suggested many other localities. But, no; thero she must go, and nowhere else. So, back wo went, and found it very charming, even- in winter; steoped in sunshine, fresh and sweet, with olear, dry air and deep-blue sky. Wo hnd been there a week, and my wifo and I were sitting at our small table in the great dining-room waiting for lunch, when tho door behind us opeued and someone came in. “Oil, what a hj. I'nl-lookihg mail!" my wife exclaiined, and 4l saw her shudder. I glanced around,.and, by .Tove! I shuddered myself, for, walk ing down that dining-room, with a brazen, jaunty air, was tlie very man whom I had seen in the glass murder ing the poor lady. Without a word, I bolted out of the room and breath lessly rushed to the bureau, where the master of the house looked at mo as if 1 were a lunatic. “Tho man is here!” I said, as soon as I could speak. “What man?" he nakqd bewildered. “The man who murdered the lady in that room whoro tho glass is. Como quickly; I will show him t you.” I think he still thought mo mad, but he reluctantly followed mo to the dining-room door, and I poinied cau tiously down tho long room to a table at the other end, where the gentle man iu question was placidly begin ning his soup, "Thero,” I said; “there he is, sit ting at the table!” “But, no, sir, no!” gasped my com panion; “you are mistaken. It is impossible; that is tho lady’s husband. Ho cornea here every year to lay flowers ou her grave.” “Oh, does he?” I answered, sav agely; “then tho more devil he! That is the man who murdered her. J swear it I” ****** And he was the man. Other little bits of evidence cropped tip, and in tho end tho miserable orea ture confessed to the deed. It was some story of fiendish and impossible jealousy, and of awful, ungovernable temper; but the details have escaped my memory. One carious fact remains, or, perhaps, two facts. One is that from tho day the villain confessed his deed the ghastly tragedy iu the glass was never again enacted. The other is that, from that day to this, I have never either cared or dared to sleep in a room where a long glass faced my bed.—The Sketch. Ever Untidy For Doty. It is told that, a telegraph operator at Springfield, Mass., was kept at his post of duty for many hours receiving special news. After losing two nights’ sleep, he was relieved from duty to get some rest. He went to his room at the hotel, aud soon was fast asleep. When the time came for him to return to his instrument, he conld not be awakened. Loud pounding on the door did not result in arousing him. An operator then, with his knife handle, tapped “Springfield” on the door, in imitation of the clicking of tho instrument. At oneothe sleeping operator sprang from his bed, and was soon ready to continue his work. His Antecedents Were Immaterial* Max O’Reil relates that while he was teaching an English school a lady wrote to the head-master. “Dear Sir: It is our intention to place our boy under your care, but before doing so we would like to know what th* social standard of your school is.” To which the head-master replied: “Dear Madam; So long as yonr boy behaves well aud his fees are paid regularly, no inquiry will be made about his an tecedents.”—The Argonaut, KATE i$ SB® For Meeting of Agricultural Com missioners South ern States, Tke convention of oouiuiissioners of agriculture from the south in slates has been called for September 20th at New Orleans. This date was agreed upon by Commissioner O IS. Stevens, of Georgia, Tuesday, aftev an under standing with the different agricul tural officials of tho cottou-produciog states. The convention has been called by the agricultural department of Geor gia to consider the cotton outlook and discuss plans catenated to better tho staple product of the south. It will be the first, meeting of tho kind over called and tho most distinguished gathering in many respects over as sembled lo undertake iho betterment of agricultural interests. Not only is it. proposed to discuss the uniform nud final classification of cotton, but to tnke np nil other prop ositions that look to tho general good of the farming element. The movement locall the convention was started by Commissioner Stevens in the past spring. Colonel Stevens recognized that if anything substan tial was to bo done in the way of leg islation for tho farmers of the south it should he started al once. lie communicated in time with the commissioners of agriculture of all the southern states and obtained from each of them au endorsement of his plan for an interstate cotton conven tion. The program of the convention lias been practically mapped out for the first day. Commissioner of Agricul ture Tjeon Jastremski, of Louisiana, has been asked to act as temporary chairman of tlie convention and will be called upon for the opening address. The Governor of Louisiana Ims been requested to address the meeting the first day, and his address will he re sponded to by Governor Candler, of Georgia. Governor Candler is in hearty sym pathy with the movement that Ims prompted the call of the convention and accepted thcHnvitation Tuesday to be present amt .qieok iu behalf of the visiting commissioners. It is probable fluff both Commis sioner Stevenivtad-Assistant Commis sioner Wright preefent to rep resent both officials will go "Spared v : fq; some pi fin to t>he <• > vj*ntioii t)u v liii _in view tho inter e-U the far/- y By calling the convention of oom mWionerH it is hoped that whatever relief measure is indorsed it can lie made uniform throughout the south. 1* is realized nt that any law such as tlie pgssnge of n uniform class ification act by the legislature of any state would fail of its effect in case tho measure was not adopted uniformly by tbo legislatures of all the cotton producing states. It is tlie opinion of Commissioner Stevens that something will result from the meeting of permanent good to tho farming element of Georgia and of the south, and with this belief he lias determined to bo present at tlie convention and do idl iu his power to bring about prosperity in tlie southern states. MUKHIN IS OUTLAWED. Prnildtnt of Antl-Somltn I.rrvgtto Still Iliirrlriiilnrl In If]* Domicile. A rfpcciftl from Paris says: The war rant for the arrest, of M. Guerin, pres ident of the Anti-Semite League, who witli sympathizers, has been barricaded since Saturday last in the offices of the league, lias been placed iu the hands of Magistrate Fain e. Guerin is now regarded as an out law in a state of rebellion since bis notification of the issue of the warrant. He cannot claim the right of a citizen of exemption from arrest from sunset to sunrise and the persons guarding the headquarters of tlie league, num bering about forty, are in the same box. Strict order:; have been given to ar rest every one attempting to enter or leave the building. The prefect of police is still await ing orders from the government in re gard to the action to be taken against Guerin. The leading Jews of Europe are arranging for a meeting in Switz erland to form an international associ ation for their defense and to protect the Jews in France after the Dreyfus courtmartial is over. CANAL HILLS DEFEATED. Kinperor William's Pot Mpaty*re In I.out 1 n I'riiHDian Pitt. The lower house of the Prussian diet Thursday by a vote of 212 to 209 rejected the second reading of tho Dill relating to the Dortmund-Bhine canal and the completion of the Dortmund- Emß canal. Tho lower house also de feated the central canal bill by a vote of 228 to 126. Strikers Refuse Offer. At a meeting of striking coal miners at Middlesboro, Ky., Thursday after noon, they decided not to accept the offer of the operators which was a 10 per cent raise. They demand 12$. COAL IS SCARCE. The ClmttnnooKtt Dolsr* Put Up Price Ten Out* n To Chattanooga coal or ganized an association of the existing scarcity of all the mines of the district of regulating the price in that section. Thursday the gave notice of an increase on the ton and notified that they could take no 1 future delivery at present I TILLMAN AFTER THE WHITECAPS Carolina Senator Says They Are Rankest Cowards. “TOLBERTS THE ROOT OF EVIL.” Fiery Speeches at Farmers’ Insti tute Ateeeting In Green wood, S. C. Senator Ben Tillman was the speaker at tho farmers’ institute held at Green wood, S. C., Wednesday. At tho very beginning of bis talk he pitched into the whiteeappors, who have beeu tor* rorizlug a portion of that, section for the past ton days, whipping iuofieil* sivo negroes. . Tho senator calls them white cow ards and said they were a disgrace to tho county, lie thought if the Tol berts, the republican party leaders, were still stirring up the negroes they ought to bo dealt with. Tf you want to uproot the evil and kill tho snake, go kill thoTolbers, but don’t abuse the poor, innocent black wretches. “The yaukecs,” Raid the senator, are watching us closely and the eyes of the whole world are now on tbo race problem in the south. They will take advantage of everything of this kind to abuse tlie south. Von are just play ing into the yankee’s hands. They nro wanting to cut down our represen tation in congress because of our new election laws, but otherwise there is little better feeling now between tho two sections, but this sort, of thing will arouse bad feeling. Why, just look at that Jewett woman coming down her* and taking away tho nigger postmaster’s family. She comes from Boston,' tho head and center of all dev ilment. Tho. yankees are ready to take up any such deviltry as this whitecap ping business, and you people ought to put a stop to this.” The senator talked largely about agricultural affairs, hut later got into national politics and denounced tbo Philippine war, sarcastically scorning McKinley’s benevolent assimulatiou. “I have not asked for any army ap pointment,” said he, “because T don’t think any decent niun ought to engage in this outrageous war.” The senator bragged about his part in the armor plate hold-up, and be fore lio closed lie made bis usual at tack upon tho nowspapers. Congressman A. 0. Latimer, who represents tho Greenwood district, was the other speaker. It war tlie contest of Latimer’s seat by B. It. Tolbert that caused the election riots at Phoenix last, November. He did not refer to the present race trouble, al though he took occasion to attack tho Philippine policy. IS<*KK4><l For Vindication of I.rtw. In the afternoon a mass meeting was hold to denounce tho whitecap ping. The prosecuting attorney of tho circuit made the opening speech and the sheriff followed. They begged for the vindication of tho law and the sheriff said ho would arrest anybody if he only know who to arrest, but he declared his inability to find out who was at t he bottom of tho troublo. Others spoke on tho Fame line, but Bob Cheatham, ' who was ono of the election managers at tlie Phoenix box last November, when Ethridge was killed by the negroos, exploded a bombshell, lie cried excitedly: “I’ve got a remedy for the trouble. Drive out tho Tolberts and whites and negroes will live together peacea bly. llid the country of tlie Tolberts and you’ll stop the trouble. I’ll lead the crowd to rid the country of even tlie name or leave my wife a widow.” Cheatham’s fire-brand talk was ap plauded, but it was evident that the majority were against, him, not believ ing that politics is the cause of this disturbance. A man in shirt sleeves arose, and vehemently begged bis neighbors to help him. His farm bad been visited and all the negroes driven off by tho whiteeappors. His wifo is sick from the excitement caused by the raids. Ho has 175 acres of land iu cotton and can’t get a negro to pick it. Even a well-digger ho had temporarily em ployed bad been warned not to work for him. The speaker was P. B. Brooks, who is an industrious farmer living not throe miles from the courthouse. Resolutions denouncing the white cappers were adopted and a committee was appointed to investigate the trou ble and report to another mass meet ing to be held iu the disturbed sec tion. The negroes are still taking to the woods at night and many of them have left their homes for good. It is believed that political troubles have caused tho disturbance, as the negroes have been quiet since the No vember riots. ENLISTED AT ARE OF SIX. South’s Younijcat; Dofondor During tho Civil XVnr Die* In Mobilft, Ala. James T. Palmer, the youngest en listed man on the Confederate side in the civil war, died at Mobile, Ala., Monday night. 11c was powder monkey on the Confederate steamer Morgan, commanded by Captain Fry, of Vir ginias fame, and served in the terrific action off Fort Blakely, Mobile bay, 1800, being then six years old, OVER SEVEN MILLIONS. An Estimate of Damage Done By Recent Great Floods In Texas. E. 8* Holmes, Jr., an expert of the statistical bureau of the department of agriculture at Washington, has just completed a report to Chief Statisti cian Hyde of that dpavtment, embody ing the results of a tour of tho flood devastated region of Texas, and mak ing a careful estimnto of the damage done, the aggregate of which he places at $7,‘114,000. The report states that the greatest damage was in McLennan Falls, Mi lam, Robertson, Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Washington, Waller, Austin, Fort Bend and Brazoria counties. The number of farms submerged is estima ted nt 8,100, with a total area of about 1.380,000 acres under cultivation; 339,- 000 acres being in cotton, 121,000 acres in corn, 10,000 acres in sugar cane and 28,000 acres in other crops, with a total production in sight equivalent to about #7,950,000. Although nearly 90 per cent of the total loss occurred in the destruction of or injury l to tho growing crops, the damngo to farm property and the losses of live stock, etc., amount to the largo sum of $884,000. The land itself is damaged by washing and pul leying to the extent of over $200,000, but of this loss about ouo-lmlf is esti mated as offset by the increased future productiveness resulting from tho al luvial deposit left by the flood. A conservative estimatoof the actual destruction includes about 227,000 bales of cotton, representing at an average price of 1$ cents per pouud, about $5,100,000; 4,400,000 bushels of corn, worth at 20 cents per bushel, $880,000; sugar enno to the value of $855,000 and other crops estimated at $335,000, a total loss to standing crops of $0,570,000. The addition to this amount, of the loss to farm property raises the total to $7,414,000, or about $74 per capita of the population of tho district, which is estimated at 100,000, negroes largely predominating. CHURMAKERS WIN FIUHT. Aflrr n I, our; Stiug;|£iA In Tnmpn tho Manufacturers Concede Demands. After a combined strike and lockout, lasting five weeks, during which time twenty-two cigar factories in Tampa, Fla., were closed and six hundred cigar makers idle, the differences between employees and employers were finally Bottled at a conference held Monday. The result is a complete victory for tho employees. The manufacturers grant ed every demand made upon them,and tho changes mado obligatory by these concessions, will amount to virtually* a revolution in the methods of pro ducing clear Havana cigars in tho United States The cigarmokers demanded the abolition in each factory of tho scales for weighing tho “fillers” issued to them. This was tho main point at is sue. Under the now rule, no check will be kept upon tbo material issued to tho men for making into cigars. Another demand was that all facto ries adopt a uniform scale of wages. Hitherto each factory had its own scale, aud the cost of production of the name grade of cigars varied consider ably in each house. This bud its effect on wholesale and retail prices. Here after tho w'orkrnen who makes one grade in one factory will receive ex actly the same pay as one who makes the same grade in another. There were a dozen minor demands and the workmen return to their places with everything their own way. MAYOR RIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE. Atlanta City Council Calls Off Proposed Investigation. Before tho Atlanta, Ga., city coun cil Monday afternoon Mayor Wood ward made a statement in which he promised positively that his indiscre tions should cease, and that if he erred again he would resign. Acting upon this promise tho coun cil reconsidered its action in appoint ing a committee to investigate the charges against the mayor. Thero was only ono vote against the motion to rcconsid* r, and that was tLe vote of Alderman Mayson. Mr. Mayson, who was the chairman of the investigating committee, opposed giving the mayor another chance. The reconsideration by council puts a stop to tho proposed investigation of the mayor’s conduct and practically ends the entire matter. FIVE ASSAULTS IN ONE DAY. IS: titiil Crimes Kxclte Little Hock to Wild Filch of Excitement. Five Brutal assaults by a negro on white women occurred in Little Ilock, Ark., in twenty-four hours. It is gen erally believed that all these crimes were committed by the same negro, but four suspects have been arrested, and if the right man can bo postively identified ha may receive summary punishment. The four negroes an swer the description given by some of the victims. They are Ed Wright, Joe Gardner, Will Morgan and James Randle. Wright has been positively identified by Mrs Kennedy as the man who assaulted her. DOMINICAN REBELS ROUTED. Government Force# Make Short Work of the Follower# of Jlmtnex. Dispatches from Puerto Plata, Han Domingo, state that the government forces commanded by General Escabaza have defeated the insurgents. The rout was almost a massacre. The wounded on both sides are numerous. The engagement is considered by tho government as decisively ending the Jiminoz uprising. NO. 30. “SILVER ISSUE NOT DEFUNCT” Says Hon. W. ,1. Bryan, and Will Not Be Abandoned. GOSPEL OF Hi TO 1 EXPOUNDED. A Largely Attended Democratic Love Feast Is HeJd at Des rioines, lowa. Des Moines, lowa, was full of dem ocrats Tuesday night to attend the democratic state convention and listen to W. J. Bryan, General W. B. Weav er and others expound tlie gospel of 1C to 1, anti-imperialism and anti trust views. Two great meetings were hold during the evening, the main one at the tho Auditorium, where W. J. Bryan spoke to 5,000 people, and the other at the tabernacle, where Gen eral Weaver held forth for an hour, until Mr. Bryan came from the first meeting. Some 15,000 persons con gregated at tho tabernacld, and the two buildings were not great enough to accommodate tho throng. Mr. Bryan, in beginning his ad dress, reviewed the record of tbo re publican party, accusing it of putting the dollar abovo the man. He' then took up the silver question, saying prosperity did not set iu until six months after the election, wlieu tho Klondike gold mines began to increase the supply of the yellow metal. The republicans who claim that times are better because the balance of trado is in favor of the United States give away their own position and ad mit that the democratic view of the quantitive character of money is cor rect. The financiers of England con trol the English government, through England the rest of Europe, and through Europe tho United States. Ho said: “The 0,500,000 democratic voters of the democratic party in 1890 were for silver. The 7,000,000 republican vot ers were for a platform which called for international bimetallism. Only the Palmer and Buckner voters were for the gold standard, sny less than 1 per cent, yet Iho lowu republican platform goes a step farther and ia mainly for gold alone. Moreover, the republicans threaten to retire ‘tho greenbacks, though they have never been before the people on that issue.” Mr. Bryau closed liis speech by a lengthy discussion of imperialism. The difference, he said, between a re public and an empire is this: “A republic needs an army of 25,- 000 for 70,000,000 people; an empire needs four times that large an army, when 10,000,000 population is added. This suits the young men who get fat jobs in tho army, but not the people who pay the $1,500,000 a day needed to maintain the soldiers in the Philip pines.” Mr. Bryan gave figures to show that England and other nations do not col onize rapidly aud said that with twenty people to the square mile ii. America, and sixty to the mile in tho Philip pines, there is no opportunity there. Even if we should succeed in killing off' all tho natives, you cannot get young Americans to go there—they prefer to live in this country. The profit will not be equal to the cost and the profit will not go to the right peo ple, but to investment, syndicates. Even if any man is willing to trade for pottage, and does not have a taste for birthright, he had hotter investi gate the potfage. If the Tagalos are largely Christians and our native al lies nro largely Mohammedan, wo ought to ask the suit an to help uo sub due the Christian insurgents. “This government ought to make a declaration of good intentions toward the Philippines, a l ' it did toward Cuba. The president ought to have done so, or if he did not have the power, should have asked congress for it. Now he might call a special session to ask for the power. Cleveland called a special session to repeal tlie Sherman act and McKinley called one. A special ses sion now would cost much money, but not nearly sc much as tlie continuance of tho war.” VAN WYCK SAYS NAY. New Yorker Will Not 150 (!nnillduti l For Fro*ld ont iI Nomination. A New York dispatch says: The boomers of Augustus Van Wyck for the democratic nomination for the presidency are quietly leaving Sara toga, where they have been gathering for several days, and Are. temporarily taking quarters at the Hoffman house, in New York city. Here they will hold a conference the latter part of tho week. Judge Van Wyck refused to make any statement for publication, but lie made it known through a friend that he would not under any circum stances permit the use of his name in any section of the country as candidate for the presidential nomination. ASSASSINATION PREMEDITATED. French Plotter# Finding Forgeries In ndrqunlo Iteisort to Other Mean#. Joseph Reinaeh cables the follow ing statement to The New York Journ al and Advertiser from Rennes,France: "The shooting of Labori will warm up tho atmosphere of tlie court, as it has disgusted honest men. “The attempted assassination is not the outcomo of a weak mind; it is part of a general plan, is cold-blooded, premeditated and paid for.”