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MEETING OF BIMETALLISTS
Ohio Valiev League Holds Its Third Annual
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Convention In Louisville.
MANY PROMINENT CITIZENS ATTEND GATHERING
Among the Speakers Were W. J. Bryan, Ex-Governor
Altgeld and President Tarvin.
The Ohio Valley League of Bimetal
lic Clubs, comprising the states of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky,
began its third annual convention in
Louisville, Ky., Wednesday. Mc
Catiley’s theater, the scone of the gath
ering of tho white metal hosts, was
profusely decorated when the conven
tion was called to order at 2:30 o’clock
in the afternoon.
A likeness of William J. Bryan was
suspended from the fly over tho
er’s stand, while pictures of Thomas
Jefferson and Andrew Jackson hung
from the two upper boxes, Tho na
tional colors in flags and bunting com
pletely covered the walls of the the
ater, presenting an inviting and artis
tic appearance, while a brass band
played the national airs at intervals.
Prominent among the delegates and
visitors were men whose words have
been of national significance, and what
was lacking numerically was seemingly
supplied by tho alimented enthusiasm
of those in attendance, for when Pres
ident Tarvin, of tho Bimetallic League
began his annual address the lower
floor was only comfortably filled,while
the balcony was only partially occu
pied and the gallery entirely deserted.
The boxes were occupied by ladies,
wives and daughters of the delegates.
But os the convention progressed the
crowd increased until perhaps 1,000
people were in tho theatre.
Called to Order.
The convention was called to order
at 2:30 o’clock by Chairman Semonin,
of the local committee, who intro
duced Mayor Weaver of Louisville.
He extended a hearty welcome to the
visiting delegates, 1 told them that the
key to the city was in their possession
and that their work would be well done
if they indorsed Bryan for president
in 1900.
At the conclusion of his address,
Judge J. P. Tarvin, Covington, Ky.,
president of tho bimetalic league, was
introduced and spoke at considerable
length. His remarks were at times re
ceived with the greatest enthusiasm,
a re-affirmation of the Chicago plat
form, or an indorsement of William J.
Bryan as the presidential nominee be
ing the signal for vociferous applause.
President Tarvin's speech was of
more than passing national signifi
cance, as it presages what is to hap
pen, if a tenor of the delegates assem
bled is a fair criterion of the senti
ment prevailing in their respective dis
tricts, for when he declared that
bimetallism and the free coinage of
silver at the ratio of 1G to 1 as was
enunciated in tho Chicago platform of
1896 would be tho paramount issue in
the presidential campaign of 1900 re
gardless of the efforts to have the
question of trusts supplant it, it met
with an outburst of applause that in
dicated an overwhelming approval of
the speaker.
FollowingJudge Tarvin, Congress
man Janies M. Robinson, of Indiana,
made an impromptu speech. In re
ference to the coming campaign of
1900, the speaker said that it lay with
the democratic party to name the vic
tor and that they would make a great
mistake if they did not select Mr. Bry
an. The votes which Mr. Bryan got
in 1896, ho said, were only pledged on
the part of the voters to carry the
standard of bimetallism to a triumph
ant finish in our next national election.
These pledges, he said, were still fresh
in the hearts of all champions of the
silver cause and needed no reiteration,
The delegates were late in
bliug for the evening session, and
was after 8 o’clock before the conveu
tion got down to business.
President Tarvin introduced the
Hon. Flavius J. Van Yorliis, of
apolis, whom he said had given forty
years of his life in defending the
A CANNON “BOOM.”
“Honest Uncle Joe” To Be Republican
Cnndidate For Speakership.
Information has been received iu
"Washington by a well known western
congressman to the effect that the Illi
nois republican delegation may have
to abandon Mr. Hopkins and take
“Honest Uncle Joe” Cannon as its
candidate for the speakership. The
unexpected strength shown by
Henderson in Wisconsin has bad a
very depressing eflect upon some of
the Hopkins boomers.
The reasons assigned for tho bring
ing out of Cannon are supposed to be
national in their character.
RECEPTION TO WHEELER
Given at Union Club Iu Boston—Promi
nent People Present.
At Boston, Mass., Wednesday, Gen
eral Joseph Wheeler was tendered an
informal luncheon at the Union club
by Governor Wolcott. Among those
present were John D. Long, secretary
of the navy, Richard OIney, former
secretary of state, and Josiab Quincy,
of Boston. ‘
mayor
ciples as enunciatod by the republican
party. heartily
The Indiana stateman was
cheered when ho arose to address the
convention.
Tho speaker at once entered into a
discussion of the financial question,
saying it was tho problem of progress
and of liberty. It is a question of the
greatest moment, lie said, to tho peo
ple of this republic. He reviewed the
question from its inception, touching
on the evils, which, he contended,
j following a concentration of money
power, which, he said, was reaching
out to get absolute control of the gov
ernment.
Ex-Governor J. P. Altgeld, of Illi
nois, was presented. The greatest en
thusiasm prevailed when the Illinois
statesman arose to address the conven
tion, the delegates rising to their feet,
waiving their hats and cheering lus
tily. Altgeld . the .
While Governor was in
midst of the discourse Mr. Bryan
reached the theater. After the spoec
had been concluded the distinguished
visitors repaired to the Galt House,
where a banquet of the Young Men’s
Democratic Club of Louisville was
given to James Tarvin, the president.
To attend this and to respond to the
toast, “The Democratic Party,” Mr.
Bryan had made a special trip to
Louisville two days earlier than he ex
pected.
Tlio Banquet.
At the conclusion of the banquet,
and with chairs a-tilt and cigars glow
ing, the guests sottled themselves to
listen to the feast of oratory that was
planned for the occasion. In response
to the first toast, “The Ohio Valley
League of Bimotallic Clubs, ” Judge
James P. Tarvin, president of the
league, responded. Hon.
Following Judge Tarvin, the
William Jennings Bryan, who had ac
cepted a special invitation from the
clubs to be present, was introduced to
the assembled guests. His subject
was “The Democratic Party.” A tur
mult of applause greeted him-as he
arose, and amid the fluttering of hand
kerchiefs and the clapping of hands he
was escorted to a chair in the center of
the dining hall. He spoke in substance
as follows:
“I am not here to make any extend
ed remarks. The committee has ar
ranged that on Friday I may tell all I
know, and all that I may learn be
tween now and that time. I am in
need of rest, but I willingly join in the
tribute to the Ohio Valley league and
the Young Men’s Democratic Club.
In the campaign of 189(1 we were com
pelled to rely on the new men because
of the desertion of the old men, but
as the darkness brings out the stars,
so did many new ones appear all over
the firmament.
“You have asked me to respond to
tho toast, ‘The Democratic Party.’ A
party is merely a business organiza
tion composed of individuals who
think alike and act alike in order to
bring into operation certain fixed be
liefs. If unity of purpose determines
a party, the democratic party is cer
tainly entitlod to be called one. Its
purpose is to carry the government
back and place it on the principles ex
pounded by Thomas Jefferson with
the maxim ‘equal rights to all, special
privileges to none’ firmly grounded in
every branch, legislative, executive
and even judicial.” platform,
Referring to the Chicago
he said:
“It was not written for one cam
p*ign. It will live and it will out
live those who sit at the tables here
tonight.”
Referring to the defections from tlie
party ranks iu 1896, he said that the
party was stronger for them, but that
j tho door was opeu for the return of
the penitent.
STATE CAPITAL BILL KILLED.
Florida Legislature Reject* Measure
Abandoning Tallahassee.
The event of the day in the Florida
legislature Tuesday was the over
whelming defeat in the house of
Clark’s bill to move the state capital
from Tallahassee. The measure re
quired threo-fiftlis vote of the whole
j house for its passage, but received 39. the An
j decided minority of 26 to
amendment to the constitution with
j the same end in view was defeated at
| a moval previous agitation session. and This the ends legislature the re
now proposes to spend $50,000 im
proving the present state house.
WEALTH IN TIN CAN.
Workmen Find 820,000 While Tearing
Down Old Buiuding.
At Portsmouth, O., "Wednesday, a
tin can containing $20,000 in gold was
found by workmen engaged iu tearing
down the meat shop belonging to the
estate of Philip Multer, who died
over a year ago.
The family decided to tear down his
place of business, ostensibly to
erect a new block and the money was
found.
BAMS WILL ECONOMIZE.
Ncveral Institution* In Savannah, Ca.. to
Reduce Capital Stock.
I Several of tho banks of Savannah,
Ga , are preparing to reduce their cap
itai stock as a step in the direction of
economy. .”±‘4 Ifa a few days the ©avan
tion will be made to the secretary of
state for a charter amendment which
I bilityis it will be reduced to $200,000.
The Southern Bank and the National
Bank is contemplating doing the same
thing at an early date.
The cause of the desire for reduced
I capital stocks seems to be the in
creased taxation a large stock entails
upon a bank. A bank with a small
capital stock can do as much business
, almost as one with a larger stock and
do it cheaper. A bank with a small
stock can borrow from the east,all the
currency required to tide it over cer
tain periods and does not have to pay
such heavy taxes for its use.
A bank official, in speaking of the
matter, said that he knew of one
banking bouse in Savannah where the
taxes for 1899 were but $300 below the
salary list. This is a clear indication
that the taxes, both city and state, are
too high, he stated, and there should
be relief from some point.
REWARD IS OFFERED
For Information As to the Fate of John
A. Benedict. *
A special from Greenville, S. C.,
says: Thursday was another day of
ceaseless but futiie searching for the
missing John Benedict. There was
abBoluteI no dbW discovered,
Two hundred dollars reward has
been offered for any information which j
may lead to the finding of Benedict,
deader alive. Placards to this effect
are being posted in all of the country
about Greenville. Thursday afternoon
Dr. Benedict, a brother of the missing
man, and Dr. White, with several as
sistants, scouted the couutry along the
similar party under the leadership of
Hon. Bob Gantt worked down to
Greers from Spartanburg.
At every cross roads and almost at
every farmhouse copies of the proclam
ation of reward have been left. At the
same time a lot of them have been sent
to Spartanburg for distribution along
the line from there to Columbia.
SOUTHERN CONTROLS ROAD.
The Mobile and Birmingham Road Is
Merged Into the Great System.
On Thursday the Mobile and Bir
mingham railroad extending from
Selma to Mobile, 165 miles, passed
into the hands of the Southern rail
way, under a ninety-nine year lease.
The road will be made a part of the
Anniston division with headquarters
in Selma.
Mr. Frank Browder, general freight
agent of the Mobile and Birmingham,
has been appointed division freight
agentof the Southern, with jurisdiction
from Rome to Mobile, Selma to Merid
■ian, Selma to Akron and Selma to Bir
mingham. J. A. Maryman, general
agent at Selma, will be transferred to
Mobile and Mr. J. W. Hunter, chief
clerk to Division Freight Agent Green,
of Birmingham, will succeed Mr. Ma
ryman at Selma.
The acquisition of the Mobile and
Birminghom gives the Southern the
short line from the Birmingham dis
trict to the gulf and it is anticipated
that the road will do an immense bus
iuess.
NEGRO BRIDE JAILED
While Her White Husband Is Hiding
From Oflloers.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
The colored bride and the preacher
that married lie# to Geo. Hamilton,
white, have been arrested in Green
ville. Hamilton was a member of the
Fourth New Jersey regiment,stationed
at Greenville. Aftev going home he
came back to Greenville and made his
headquarters at the home of Marion
Love, a negro. He then married Me
lissa Love, daughter of his host,
against the laws of South Carolina.
The negroes in the neighborhood were
jubilant. A warrant was issued for all
the parties. ’ Hamilton has hidden
away, but the bride is in jail and Rev.
Thomas Minus, the preacher, has
given bond for appearance at trial.
MEMORIAL DAT AT MANILA.
Bronzed American Trooper* Pay Tribut*
To Dead Comrade*.
A special from Manila says: Memo
rial day was celebrated Tuesday at
Battery Knoll, where Scott’s guns
were planted against the Filipinb
trenches in the first day’s fightiug at
Manila.
Nearly 300 soldiers lie buried there
on a bleak mount.
The few soldiers who could be
spared from the trenches came to Bat
tery Knoll dusty- and bronzed, bear
ing flowers with which to strew their
comrades’ graves.
A silk flag was placed above each
mound.
GERMANY WILL DEFEND
Three Spanish Coaling Stations In Nc^vly
Pucliased Islands.
A Madrid Germany, it .
specia. says:
is announced, pays 25,000,000 pesetas
for the Caroline, I alos and Marianne
islands, Spain retains three coaling
stations, one in each group, and Ger
many undertakes to defend these sta
tions in case of war.
Germany, in addition, grants Spain
the most favored rational treatment in
Germany and iu the colonial islands.
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The world’s record for swift travel
around the world will soon be cut in
twain. Prince Hilkoff, Russian Minis
ter of Communication, stated at the
recent meeting of the European rail
way managers that when the new
Siberian railway is completed it will
be possible to travel around the world
in thirty-three days. At present the
best possible record is sixty-six days.
PRINCE HILKOFF’S TIME TABLE.
Days.
Ercmen, by rail to St. Petersburg .. V/i
St. Petersburg to \iadivostock ..10
J^^ancisco^to^NewYork.':? 10
4t£ 7’
j s t 0W y ork; t0 Bremen...........
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O o COMPLETELY CLASSIFIED.
8 c> An Ethnographic Map.
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A simple classification of the Philip- be
pine Archipelago’s population may
made with the assistance of the accom
panying ethnographic map taken from
Harper’s Weekly:
1. The Moros, or Sulus (Mohamme
dan Malays) occupy the small southern
islands, the southern and western
coasts of Mindanao, and the southern
extremity of Palawan. Their capital
is Sulu. As for their number, the
estimate in the Nouveau Dictionnaire
de Geograpraphie Universelle, by M.
Vivien de Saint-Martin, is 200,000 to
300,000.
;2. The islands of the central group
are inhabited chiefly by Visayans
'"Roman Catholic Malays). Of the
Visayans proper there are about 2,-
500,000; but if we include the cognate
tribes scattered from Northeastern
Mindanao to Mindoro and the Calami
anes Islands, the total number is prob
ably much greater,
3. The Tagals, Tagalogs, or Tagaios
i Roman Catholic Malays), from whom
Aguinaldo has drawn the larger part
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of his forces, inhabit central Luzon.
Their number is uncertain, though for
the present we may accept Saint-Mar
tin’s estimate—1,200,000.
4. Tribes of Malays, which are
numerically of less importance, are
not always clearly distinguished from
Tagalogs and Yisayans—e. g., the Ilo
canos, Pampangos, and Zambales of
Northern and Western Luzon, the
Bicols (or Yicols) iu the extreme south
. eas j. Lugou au j j tl adjacent islands,
i g u banos of Southern Cebu, etc.
Non-Malayan savages, remnants
r ,{ a n earlier population which was dis
placed by the Malavs, are widely scat
tered, and the common name “Indo
nesiens” is given to these tribes by
the writers, who regard them as repre
sentatives of a race which the Malays
drove into the mountains, somewhat
Prince Hilkoff arranges his thirty
three-day itinerary, Hil
In calculating this run Erince
koff estimates speed on the Siberian
railway at the very modest rate of but
forty-eight kilometers, or thirty miles,
per hour. Faster communication both
by sea and land will doubtless soon
reduce the ‘minimum time to thirty
days.
PRESENT 'time table.
Days.
New York to Southampton,^ . 6
Southampton to Brindisi..... - 3 %
Brindisi to Yokohama by Suez Canal..42
Yokohama to San Francisco. 10
San Francisco to New York. _ 4^
Total 66
as Saxon displaced Celt in the British
Isles. That famous band of the Igor
rotes who trusted to charms and bows
and arrows in the battle of February
5 were of this class. The accompany
ing map shows the names of a dozen
different tribes in Northern Luzon
alone, with others in Central Minda
nao, Northern Panay, and Negros, etc.
Little reliance can be placed upon the
estimates of the total number of “In
donesiens’,’ who have never consented
to stand and be counted. As an ap
proximation, some of the authoritives
have suggested 300,000 or 400,000. ,
6. Of the aborigines called Negritos
(little Blacks), or Aetas, only 10,000
or 20,000 remain. .Theyare “as near an
approach to primitive man as can any
where be found,’’says Professor Brin
ton; andthey are so far inferior in phy
sique and intelligence to the civilized
or semi-eivilized Malay or “Indone
sien” that they seem destined to dis
appear altogether before long.”
7. At or near the principal ports
are about 100,000 «Chinese, and per
haps 15,000 whites—not including
General Otis’s army.
The present distribution of the na
tive tribes has evidently been occa
sioned by successive waves of inva
sion. The aboriginal Aetis (Negritos)
as a less vigorous branch of the human
family, were unable to resist attacks
from restless and progressive neigh
bors. The first people from the main
land to appear as conquerors on a
targe scale may have been th6 so-called
Indonesiens; but these iu turn were
displaced, in the more desirable por
tions of the archipelago, by hordes of
Asiatics coming from the Malay Pen
insula by way of Borneo—the first
incursion being led by Tagals, and
the second by "Visayans. The third
and last wave of Malay invasion cul
minated about the middle of the six
teenth century, not far from the time
when the Spaniards arrived upon the
scene and established themselves in
the Yhsayas and Luzon.
The editor of the Dictionnaire de
Geographie Universelle estimates the
total population of the archipelago at
about 9,000,000, but fail3 to give con-
vinclng reasons for this opinion. J a
view of the statements which have
been repeated months, day that after the day for the
last ten population of 8,000,000 Philippi Uea
support a it to
10,000,000 persons, may not seem
that our question is too pointed if we
ask, How is this information derived?
A little scrutiny of figures given in the
foregoing paragraphs will show that
perhaps 5,000,000 or 0,000,000 have
been accounted for. Within a limit
ed area, conditions which allow half a
million of people to live ]by hunting
are not usually such as to allow 8 -
000,000 or 9,000,000 more to live by
agriculture and commerce. Why,
then, does it seem probable that the
population of the Philippines is A.
dense? How has it been possible to
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(He is the Philippine insurgent leader
who has most influence with the
savage tribes of the island.)
secure trustworthy information on this
head?—Marrion Wilcox, in Harper's
Weekly.
An American Girl’s Romance.
The news that the Viscountess Deer
hurst has just given birth to a son and
heir recalls her strange but romantic
history. As is knowu, the young
Viscountess occupies an enviable posi
tion in English society. She has been
twice received by Queen Victoria, and
she has won many friends by her
charming personality. She was first
known to English society as Miss
Virginia Bonynge, the daughter of C.
W. Bonynge, a California millionaire.
Virginia Bonynge became the inti
mate friend of Princess Christian,"
and was patronized by all of the royal
social leaders. Shortly after her
presentation she became engaged to,
an English nobleman, and after all
the arrangements had been made for
the wedding it became known that she
was not the daughter of Mr. Bonynge,
but the daughter of a California
miner who committed murder, by
name William Daniel. William
Daniel was an English gardener who
married a housemaid and emigrated
to America. The Daniels journeyed
from the East to Illinois, where they
began farming on a quarter section of
land, and it was during their sojourn
in this State that Virginia was born.
When a mere bade her parents started
for the Rockies. While in a
mining camp on the Pacific
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slope Daniel quarreled with a num
ber of reckless men and killed
his man. He was tried and convicted
and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Soon after Bonynge, also a miner, met
Mrs. Daniel and persuaded her to get
a divorce from Daniel, which she did,
and married him. Thereafter Virginia
became known as Virginia Bonynge.
The Bonynges prospered and became
rich, and eventually went to London
to live. When the facts of Miss Bon
ynge’s antecedents were made known
to the prospective bridegroom the en
gageinent was broken off by the scion
of the noble British house. The
Princess Christian, however, and re
mained the lair heiress’s friend,
she challenged her right of entre into
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the most aristocratic British society.
The chances are that Virginia Bou
ynge cared little for her first noble
love, for she soon forgot him and mar
ried the Viscount Deerhurst, who
loved her in spite of the fact that she
was the daughter of a miner and a
convict.
Bridgeport, Ohio, has issued bonds
for $70,000, with which to pave every
street in town.