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MEETING OF BIMETALLISTS Ohio Valiev League Holds Its Third Annual ^ ° 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. AROUND THE WORLD IN TI-jlRTY-TLjREE DAYS i AvS»A \ IQ / v I t\ * •jk RU5S!S\.a? REMEN AFRjca O if I * NORTH I PoUfr j m – <\ r # ■ ji c> \ tj/A / x -Brratrss*®’*—" rv UNITED 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........... Total 33 OOOOOGOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOOOO^ § nuumiK mm O o O o COMPLETELY CLASSIFIED. 8 c> An Ethnographic Map. O00O00O9OOOGC00GGOGOSOGOGO 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 7~ ' Jfcw/U jCAanuei "^T J '' J J AN ETHNOGRAPHIC MAP OF 9 THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS f SH0WINQ THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE ( taUntas'J. CAanaefc) tJ FKlXCiPAL XATITE T21 EES SCAU OF MIUS 0 50 100 IM 200 250 JU»,’ / ft ■\3JV4N I9LAN3*, i */ JIJAJUOJT WILCOXfw* lit lit Itorfu tf V [ <*> J )i l'****0* > £«'■<— D. a. BrCnUm, Dm* C. H'ortuttr, TItudm Iftilf, F. BlmntnlriU, Difmagsa *4 *• mndtthtn l * I Tinguianee boyaesj j | {Negrito* J Namta of Tribes ore lettored thus; Oarfrfanss tSZXSIf I/u if / E * t a p a n t * I JP CalingijfQajjdnes^ / , : 5 % \{ SJ / u mt o mu - • COflKEiltOfl t.'i :N UUMNO c. * SWa/ifyanrt ! MIHoOROJ ■ CALAMIANES c Tagbnniias –. ISLANDS , 'Z‘ ViMgano"' -25 ! * ? £ ( fettflfts £ {if o h. :• Tagbanuas o 0 s Palawan or \ jelfyopry v. Papuans CAOAY4KC9 Vsagan, r ♦ I /<y /• OHO j4 Puert© Princes* 9 > 3 l PARAOUA ISLA–ID DumoeW <o"‘ »»»<Q r>V;zt. "..... \ ManoOasL C. Su5ai iws % Ciruaf $ strx.tr sea Papuan if. tforot o »’» » o ; © r Sage boa «N \ ; 'b ^Moroo fju, ipg angatj—J^Htgrlibs) r £«mbd*ni n ao*no ' i \^4oiU» o.j O ^ Rubs » Nif» S/ TAW T»*'» • ■- >" • • i r , SO BINE O 9 * •’* ^CELEBES SEA : . \ m LoofiwJr Esr. trim GreenwkV^'' jr 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 / V Y ^ . M B; 4 n n I ■I '/ V } V 7 / /' { 1 / i X Vi , ■v > t y •i. it '• M i , : % 'j h >*■» i, m \ / 7 GENERAL MASCARDO. (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 „ 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 a l f /si A . •Gj ■ 1 ' flk w, t 4.V > i is HMt v V. VISCOUNTESS DEERHURST. 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.