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JOHN Y. McKANE.
The death of John Y. McKane removes one of the most remarkable polit
ical characters ovor known to local politics in New York Btate. He was born
in the County Antrim, Ireland, August 10, 1811, He lived in Ireland until
he was about four years old, when the McKane family immigrated to this
oonutry and settled at Sheepahead Bay, Long Island. McKane did not
smoke or drink. He was a hearty, rugged, blue-eyed man with Scoteh-Irish
blood in his veins, who did not know what it was to become weary either of
work or of political turmoil. As a boy he dug clams on the beach in summer
and went to the village school in winter. He worked at gardening and other,
odd jobs until ho was fourteen, when he was apprenticed to a carpenter. He
learned the building trade and laid the foundation of his wealth at this bus
iness. MoKane always did what he pleased with the vote of Gravesend. In
1893 McKane was m the height of his power. William J. Gaynor, after carry
ing on a fight against the McLaughlin Democracy, became a candidate for
Justice of tho Supreme Court. He made a demand on McKaho for a copy of
the registry lists of Coney Island. They were refused. Ho said over the
telephone ou Ootober 30, 1893: F - Mr. Gaynor will find out that if he wauts
to get along with me the easiest way to do is not to fight me.” As a result
of the fight McKane became a convict iu Sing Sing, and William J. Gaynor
became a Justice of the Supreme Court. MoKane served his term, which,
with rebate for good behavior, was shortened to four aud a half years. He
was released from prison April 30,1898.
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Ponoe, Po tc Rico.—The hurricane,
sad as is the havoc it wrought, great
as is the misery it cansed, has ac
complished in a day what would have
taken diplomacy years to bring about.
It has taught the natives that the
Americans are their real friends. The
Americans, by their prompt and gen
erous asaistufioe, have wiped out all
lingering prejudices. than
Porto Rico suffered more auv
As regards tho actual financial loss
to the island occasioned by tho hurri
cane, estimates vary. So far as I can
figure it out the loss to tlio whole isl
and will amount to about seventy-five
million pesos, or more than $30,000,
000 .
This amount,covers damage to build
ings aud machinery, damage to ware
houses and stores of coffee, tobacco
and augav; damage to this year’s cane,
coffee und fruit crops, including esti
mated loss on the next threo years’
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SOUSE IN PONOE DEMOLISHED BY I1IE
HURRICANE.
oilier colony by the hurricane of
August 9. Every distriot in the isl
and has been devastated. Thousands
of Ironies have been ruined, aud crops
upon which the whole population de
pended for subsistence have beeu
laid waste beyond retrieve for at least
three years.
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STREET IN ARECIBO. FOltTO RICO. DURING THE HURRICANE, SHOWING
HEIGHT OF WATER ON THE HOUSES.
Porto Rico to-day is as barren as
was Cuba at the close of 4ne insurrec
tion. Here, iu Porto Rico, field's that
were once beautiful with waiving eanes,
hillsides but a few days ago covered
with the green cofl’ee and banana trees
now presout a hare and sorry view.
Homes that sheltered happy families
have been washed away. The vil
lages are crowded with BhelterleSs
people. to-day number about
The homeless
one-third of the whole population of
the island..
I have passed through every dis
trict from the capital to Ponce, aud
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wrecked' cafe in plaza adjoining custom house, tonce.
often ridden for miles without seeing
a house left, standing. Where the
houses withstood the wind the roofs
were gone and furniture and clothing
were ruined by the rains.
It is tho well-to-do who are, perhaps,
to be the most, pitied, Beautiful
haciendas aud powerful sugar factories
were laid as low as the native’s shack,
crop; damage to live stock, aud dam
age to railways aud shipping. It does
not cover the loss sustained by the
Public Works Department, which ......... will
be heavy; uor does it cover the loss
to the island of capital that was con
fidently expectad to seek investment
here this winter, aud which may now
be frightened away. is,
The loss of growing crops be-
yond question, the most serious item
iu tho island’s list of misfortunes,
Everything has l>een more or less de
stroyed. What the hurricane left the
floods carried away. ihe mango,
bread fruit and a vocal e trees, upon
■which the natives depend to a great
extent for subsistence, have lieeu
swept hare or broken down. Only
the most sheltered banana groves are
left standing. The coffee crop is
wholly ruined, and all but the small
est of the trees have been destroyed.
A coffee plant takes five years to ma
ture. The half ripe orange crop is *u
the ground. A few cane fields have
escaped, but with the factories de
molished these are only valuable for
fodder.
The wholesale, indiscriminate dis
tribution of food is being stopped,
else the whole population would be
come pauperized. In all ceutres I
visited rations are now being dis
tributed to the old ond infirm aud to
young children, To all able-bodied
adults is offered work, At first this
course of action cansed some com
plaint, but now the plan is beginning
to work well, and the poor are all the
more independent, and better con
tented for it.
The first care of the military authori
ties has naturally been for the troops.
In Ponce the$5000granted by General
Davis to the commander has been
spent in cleaning up in and around
the quarters. At eveiy country station
the troops are living under canvas.
In most cases the barracks have been
blown down. At Aibonito not one
wall of the whole barracks is 16ft
standing. The soldiers lost every
thing they had, and those in the hos
pital bad a narrow escape with their
lives.
The barracks collapsed during the
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first hour of the storm. Fifteen min
utes after the walls had toppled in the
men, who had even formed ranks out
side in the pelting rain, had appointed
a delegation to wait upon Captain
Wheeler to ask permission to render
assistance to the town. The captain
joined his men. Without a thought
of their own loss, without thought of
any danger, the whole troop crossed
the swollen river between the barracks
and the town, aud were soon engaged
in the work of rescue, dodging pieces
of flying zinc or rushing into tumbling
houses.
On the night of the hurricane I was
sleeping on my own plantation iu the
rdistrict of Bayamon, about ten miles
from the o’clo*ck capical. At about half-past
seven Tuesday night my cap-
itaza, or head nlau, came to the door
aud reported that the Government had
sent out notice that a hurricane was
approaching, via St. Thomas. Like
many others, I did not give full cred
euce to the warning. At half-past five
tho wind was blowing thirty miles an
hour.
Daylight was long in coming, for the
sky was inky black. Wbeu dawn did
come w’6 could be sure the storm w’as
not far away, and everpthing movable
was ...... taken in. . Tenants began to run
to us for shelter aud we took them
iu also.
At half-past seven o’clock the storm
began iu earnest, and in half au hour
it was impossible to stand against the
wind. We had braced aud tied down
the roof as beat we could, but one sin
gle puff carried away all our stays. In
half an hour our roof was gone and
the rain pelting iu. At ten o’clock the
wind was blowing seventy-live miles
an hour. Once we made a sortie, and
rescued a w ( oman aud two children,
but lmrdly had we got them iuside
when the house began to creak and
groan, and we sought the open. Dodg
ing flying branches of trees and stray
bits of timber, we crawled along the
lee side of a penguin feuoe to a shack,
sheltered behind a bill,
It was half-past twelve before the
storm was over and we could venture
forth. Our house, we found, had not
blown down entirely; but the wooden
walls were slanted at au angle of thirty
degrees. Tho roof was completely off
and everything inside absolutely
ruined by the water.
It was two days before we could
cross (He river to get to market. Every
peasant’s hut for three miles around
was down. Four hundred houses on
the outskirts of Bayamon were piled
up in the public road. The railroad
running to San Juan had beeu com
pletely washed away. The highways
were blocked with rubbish. It was
two days before supplies of bread
reached the town. In the interim the
people lived ou half ripe fruit.
MUST RESTRAIN
ALL COMBINES
Outcome of the Convention Held
Under Saver’s Call.
STRONG RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
Capital Invested Legitimately
Should Not Be Interfered
With.
After two days of speech-making
at St. Louis, the governors, attorney
generals and other state representa
tives adopted resolutions outlining
the legislation needed to control the
so-called trusts and combines and ad
journed sine die Thursday night.
The resolutions embodied were
agreed to after a long session of the
committee on resolutions. So widely
divergent were the views presented
for its consideration that it was after
midnight when the committee was able
to arrive at any conclusion. The whole
matter was then referred to a sub-com
mittee, composed of Governor McMil-
1 in, of Tennessee, aud Attorneys Gen
eral Smith, of Texas, and Campbell,
of Colorado, to pnt into proper shape.
Governor McMillin, chairman of the
committee on resolutions, presented
the report of that committee.
In presenting the report of the com
mittee on resolution, Govornor Mc
Millin said he was aware of the fact
that the trusts and combinations in
restraint of trade are in a de
gree dependable upon federal, state
and municipal governments for their
continuance. He believed it was in
cumbent upon the national, state and
municipal governments to restrain the
operations of these trusts and combi
nations.
“The situation and perhaps the ef
forts of the conference are misunder
stood,” the speaker contined. “It is
not the object of this conference to
crush corporations, nor to interfere
with capital in any legitimate form.
The object of these resolutions is not
to crush either corporations or to de
stroy capital, but to regulate them, so
as to meet the fair demands of all the
people.
“This is the purpose and this is the
object we bope to accomplish. The
organization of trusts and combines
within the last two years is the occa
sion and authority for our presence
We are seeking to ascertain a
f–r the curtailment of
what is apparently menacing evil, aud
the accomplishment of this object can
be effected through the independent
action of the citizen. We have the
best land in the history of man.
“We furnish the world with thirty
one per cent of the manufactured ar
ticles of the world and thirty-two per
cent of all the banking. In the mat
ter of agriculture, notwithstanding
Great Britain, Russia and other coun
tries, we feed the world. This agri
cultural class is not organized aud
cannot be organized into trusts or
combines and must be protected
against other interests which can
combine.
“The industrial and other impor
ant interests are combined to con
trol the wealth of the country in the
hands of a few and by these means
the sweat aud toil of the millions is
controlled. Our object is to prevent
this. Corporations are necessary in a
proper degree to the successful con
duct of business, but they should not
be so managed and controlled as to
destroy business. It is not proper to
place the commerce of this great coun
try in the hands of three or four peo
pl 0 “ n( l thereby control the labor and
destiny of the republic,
“When all these industries are
combined into one band for the man
nfacture of a given article, they paral
yze labor without extending sufficient
; protection. It is oue of the objects »f
this conference to correct this condi
tion of affairs.
< 4 Within recent years, I think less
than two years, not less than 200
trusts have organized with a capital
of $4,25(1,000,000. . If all the gold
drawn from the earth could be mar
shaled into one sum it could not pay
the obligations of these trusts; if ail
s plied '\ ver it taken could from not the cancel earth the was obliga- ap
tions of these combinations,
Iu concluding, tho speaker claimed
| that the interests were so vital as not
j to be of purtisan character, but con
i tended tint a prohibitive tariff bad
much to do with the creation of trusts,
using the sugar trust as an illustra
tion.
Resolutions thanking Governor Say
ers for his efforts in behalf of the con
fereutm were adopted before delaring
the conference adjourned.
Miners Raise < nin In Arkansas.
Mail advices show that a reign of
terror exists in the coal mining dis
tricts of Sebastian county, Arkansas,
where strikes of the miners continue.
WHEAT CAUSED FAILURE.
Biff Chicago Finn Forced to the Wall
With Heavy Shortage.
The firm of Barrett, Furnum – Co.,
a wealthy and influential board of
trade concern at Chicago, failed Thurs
day. The firm had sold short for sev
el days, plunging in the expectation
that the New York stock panic would
end in Uj break in wheat. The short
age of the firm is varidusly estimated
at from four to five million bushels of
the December option.
RERUN MAKES STATEMENT.
Declaros Hi« Innoc/Miee of the Murder of
Foarl Knott.
Great interest has been manifested
in the Kerlin cise, on trial in Fayette
ville, Ga., on ac mint of the promi
nence of Kerlii, and it being oue of
the most heinous crimes ever commit
ted iu Fayette county.
Kerlin made his statement in court
Thursday. He said he was not guilty
of the charge. That on the night of
April 13th lie got his father’s buggy
to go to his son-in-law’s, Linsey But
ler, after his wife; that his mule got
sick on the Jones hill and he had to
return home before be went to But
ler’s; that he went to Senoia next
morning, returning a (Afferent route.
He said he was out buying cows,
and that was the reason he went in the
direction of the river on the 17th and
18th of April. He said he was excited
and did not remember what be told
Minter; that there were threats of
lynching him, and went there to get
his advice about leaving the commun
ity.
He told the jury this was the only
ease he ever bad before a jury, and
that he had often been on the grand
jury iu the county, and had never of
fended any one in his life.
Kerlin asserted his innoocent several
times in his statement, and made a
rambling statement of about thirty
minutes.
The defense put up no witnesses,
depending entirely on the weakness
of the state’s case.
MACVEAGH DENIES REPORTS.
Carter’s Attorney Says He Is Not To Re
ceive exorbitant Fee.
The following letter from ex-Attor
Dey Geneial Wayne MacVengh ex
plains itself:
To the Associated Press— I beg to
be permitted to correct, through the
Associated Press, two new misstate
ments which 1 am sorry to find the
enemies of Captain Carter have in
vented and put in circulation in differ
ent newspapers during my absence in
Europe. One is that he has paid mo*
a retaining fee of $10,000 and the
other is that he has agreed to pay the
additional sum of $50,000 or more in
case of his acquittal. I only desire to
say that both these statements are
sheer and absolute falsehoods, with
out a particle of foundation or excuse
for either of them. Yours truly,
Wayne MacVeagh.
MOUNT BLAMES BROOKE.
Governor of Tndinnn .Scores tile Former
Commnnder of Chlckamaugs* Park.
Governor James A. Mount, of In
diana, in an interview at Chattanooga
Thursday stated that Major General
John R. Brooke was alone responsible
for the immense amount of sickness
in Chickamauga park last summer
during the time the soldiers were en
camped there,
He says General Brooke made no
effort to protect his men and that he
alone is responsible for those horrible
conditions,
He says that Tennessee and Georgia
were roasted all over the Union about
the paik conditions, when they did
everything to remedy them possible,
but were prevented by the tyranny of
the general commanding.
NEBRASKA REPUBLICANS MEET.
State Convention Held In Omaha and
Harmony Prevailed.
The Nebraska republican state con
vention at Omaha Thursday was one
of the most harmonious gatherings
ever held by the party in the state. M.
B. Rease, of Lincoln, was nominated
for supreme judge, and E. G. McGil
ton, of Omaha, and William B. Ely, of
Ainsworth, for regents of the state
university on the first ballot.
The platform indorses President
McKinley’s foreign policy, and his ad
ministration, adheres to the gold
standard and opposes trusts and com
binations having for their purpose the
stifling of competion and arbitrary
controlling production or fixing prices.
RESIGNATION DEMANDED.
Governor of Maryland Is After Chairman
Wellington’s Scalp.
A Baltimore dispatch states that the
Maryland republicans are at war and
Governor Lowndes, who is a eandii
date for re-election on the republican
state ticket, has demanded the resig
nation of United States Senator George
S. Wellington as chairman of the re
publican state central committee and
it is understood that. Senator Welling
ton will comply at once with the gov
ernor’s request.
SIX KILLED OUTRIGHT
In Collision Between Freight, ami I’ns
senRer Trains -In Colorado.
A special from Denver says’ Six
passenegers were killed outright and
live injured, one perhaps fatally, iu a
collision on the Denver and Rio Grande
railroad at Reno siding, near Florence,
Saturday evening. The trains in col
lision were the Phillips- Judson excur
sion from the east aud the cast-bound
fast freight.
Tho excursion train had run from
Chicago over the Chicago and Alton
and Missouri Pacific railroad and was
turneiUpver to the Denver and Rio
Grande at 2 p. m.
CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT.
Tlie Y'og master at 'Worth, Ga., Arrested
By an Inspector.
John M. Scoville, the postma’ster at
Worth, Ga., was carried io Macon
Friday morning by United States
Deputy Marshal George White to an
swer to the charge of embezzlement
of the postoifioe funds. On Thursday
morning Postoffice Inspector Ifoller
went to Worth on his regular inspec
tion tour, not knowing; that anything
was wrong with affairs of the office.
«* The Prudent Man Setteth
His House in Order ."
Your human tenement should be given
even more careful attention than th
house you live in. Set it in order by
thoroughly renovating your -whole sysien,
through blood made pure by taking
Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Then every organ
'will ad promptly and regularly.
Diamond Drills.
The carbons used in diamond drills
are not real diamonds as jewellers un
derstand the word. They come from
Bahia State, Brazil. To reach the
field one goes by boat and rail to Ban
deira, thence on mule back into the
mountains called Sierra des Lavras
Dlanaantiuas. The carbons are found
in river gravel and also in a clay
stratum in the mountains.
Con'i Tcfcacco Spit and Stneka Your Life Awav.
To quit iobaooo easily Rnd forever, bo ma*.
net.c, lull of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To
Bao. the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, 50c or $1. Cure gimran
reed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York.
A $30,000,000 Iron trust has just been
formed iu Nova Scotia.
Supreme Court Decisious.
Chief Justice Bleckley, of Ua„ has tried Ty
uer’a Dyspepsia Remedy. 14.—Dr. Hl» decision: Chas.O.
“Atlanta. Ga.. March Tyner, using!
Atlanta. Ga : f have need, and am now
Tyner’s Dvepepsia Remedy. It Is a mental as
well as a physical elixir. With Us aid and a pair
of speotacles I can frequently see the law In
spite of unsulvafile or too much diet. Logan E.
BLECKLEY.” Price 60c. a bottle at all druggists;
or sent for price, express MIteheH8t.. paid, by Tyner Dvs
pepsla Remedy Co., 45 Atlanta, Ga.
New York’s debt is two hundred and fortv
million dollars.
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