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COMMISSIONS TO AGENTS.
mrOIlTAN'T DECISION I1Y TIIE
A> (NTElt STATE COMMISSION.
• te Law was DJtended *° Inter-
' wlt h Each Hnilrond Company’s
j, auag cmentofItsOirn llusl-
neM-SynopsUof Decision.
THE MACON WEEKLY TELEflRAfr.fi. TUESPA1 MORNING, JULi 26, 1887,-TWELVa PAGES.
Oonimeree Commission to-day ren-
. , decision coveting tbreo cases
t the Chicago and Alton road against
.L.Peoafytvauia Bailroad Company and
S Rock Island road, growing ont o£ tho
(■ al of the defendant companies to sell
Keb tickets and cbeok through baggage
, t the oomplainant s lines, because com-
JlJnsats rctused to j oin in an agreement
l ibclish ticket commissions. The com-
Sunt is dismissed. Commissioner Morri-
mSifd a dissenting opinion.
The following sjnopBis oontains tho more
tacoitant points of tbo opinion, whioh is
•Trilong: The complaints in these oases
mfonnded npon tho third section of the
let to regulate commerce, and charge viola-
Soes of that section by the defendant oom-
" its in tefnsing oertain facilities for re-
Eitog, forwarding and deliv- ring pasaen-
B to complainant’s lines, consisting of
Lough or coupon tickets, which being af.
Led to other aDd competing companies
‘ „ complainants allege, nndne and nn-
asonable preference to those companies.
Th e material facts found by
tin commission, recited at length in the
cpinion, show that for several years prior
ij the time when the aot to regulate corn-
B «rce took effect, substantially all railroad
(OdimDies of the eonntry, inclndino <*>m-
ducacts and defendants, paid commissions
SuPng in amount from two dollars to five
tfars a ticket to ticket agents of other
^fames by whom through tiokets were
iold. The defendant companies and some
liters for about two years have made earn-
«. efforts to abate the practice of paying
(oamissions. The testimony showB that
lecommiesions paid on through tickets
sre usually amounted to from 20
j 25 per cent, of the reooipta
iom each sales and that the
Jtcial reports of the companies
tut concealed this expense, and only
bored the receipts from passenger tickets
liter deducting the commissions. Abont a
tooth before the sot to regulate commerce
bicjms operative the defendant oompanies
to abolish the commission bnsiness alto-
tether. With this end in view they sent
printed circnlars on or abont the 15th of
;i March last to their conneating eompa-
tin, expressing their willingness to aot ob
igents in tho sale of through tickets, and
Biting the nature of the agreement re
quired, The circular of defendants
eent.inod a condition prohibiting the pay-
neat of commission by other companies to
their agents. The complainant oompanies
received these circulars and refused to en
ter into the agreement proposed, claiming
the right to continue to pay commissions
lo ageats of defendant companies npon
their sales of through tickets. A large pre
ponderance of the companies to which these
circulars were addressed assented to the
propositions they contained and signed the
■greements to mako them effective. On
account oi the refusal of complainant com
panies to disoontinne the payment of com.
niuioni to agents of defendant companies,
defendants, after the lib of April last, ro-
lased Ip sell through tiokets over oomptaln-
inl'a road from Chtosgo and St. Lonis to
Hiaiu City, and still refuse, solely for those
rtuoai. On theBO facts tho complainants
Her (hat defendants refuse to afford them
naiooable, proper and equal facilities for
receiving, forwarding and delivering pass
engers, sad give nndne preference to com
peting roads in contravention of the provis-
nni of the aot to regulate oommeroe.
The defendants deny that they have the
eiclasive light to control their egents,
to fix the amount of their compensation
ud to pay it themselves; that the pay
ment of commissions by other com
panies is demoralizing to their
igents and often leads to discrimination to
pvsengers, for roads paying large commie-
iion«, by a division of the commission be-
tieen the agent and passenger, that the
tommissions consume a considerable per
tentage of the revenae trom the sale of
Itiengb tickets; that without commissions
all connecting roads stand on a basis
d. pqnality and passengers protect
their own routes uninfluenced by agents
laving an interest in the form of oommis-
tionsm persuading them to choose some
particular route.
The opinion holds that tho statute docs
ut divest a railroad company of the exclu-
jive right to control its own internal at-
nira, to employ its own agents, to regulate
•lair duties, and to pay them such oompen-
•ation as it may deem proper. The right
«f ownership of railroad property, with the
power oi control over employes and man
agement of the property, is as absolute
aider the act aa before its passage. The
ngnlation of commsree between the States,
rfiteh is all that the act contemplates, does
aot involwe a community of property or joint
control of subordinates among the several
companies that honor through tickets. The
c«>P irate powers of evory company for the
administration and governing purposes
vtthin its prescribed sphere remain nnim-
Paired. With the legitimate exercise of
these powers the commission have no oon-
carn and no right to intermeddle. For the
proper government of their own snbordb
aatea the itfendani oompanies have forbid
thtir agents to re
commissions from other
Morrison's disskstinq orixios.
Hr. Morrison, in his dissenting on'in'm,
Bays: I dissent from the views of mv asso.
8 re “‘ diffidence, fer tho reason
that this question ia presented both ns a
question ot law and of railroad ethics or
morals. I would not willingly delay reform
in railroad administration, nor hinder de-
fendama in any well-meant effort to reform,
i8 » th0 . measuro of its present
effort, for it only exacts from
companies with connecting lines
tbat they shall discontinue the offer of com
missions to its own while they offer them to
agents of all other companies. Tho pay-
ment of commusions may be subject to
such abuse as to demand discontinuance,
but until declared illegal they should not
be made to excuse common carriers from
the performance of obligations to the pub-
llo, to enforce which obligation was tho
object of the law creating this commission,
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Presidentafc Work Again—The Tax on
Sumatra Tobacco.
Washington, July 20.—The President
and Mrs. Cleveland, Secretary and Mrs.
Fairchild and Col. Lamont arrived in
Washington at 9:30 o'clock this morning.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland proceed
ed directly to the White House, and the
other members of tho par y went to their
respective homes. They are all in good
health, and enthusiastically sn>akof their
tour. Though somewhat tired, the Presi
dent went to work soon after reaching the
White House. Most cf the day was devoted
to considering the mail which aconmnlated
during his absence. He was assisted in this
duty by Col. Lamont. Seoretary Fairohild
spent the day at home and will resume his
duties at the Treasury Department to-mor
row.
Assistant Secretary Maynard to-day gave
a heating to representatives of the im
porters ot Snmatra tobacco and growers of
domestic lent tobacco in regard to the gen
eral question of the proper method of de
termining til, datable valns of .Snmatra to
bacco. Mr. Shooeder, of New York, repre
senting the importers, asked that the pres
ent regulations of the department requiring
a close inspection of all bales bo modified
so that all packages which do not contain
85 per oent, of wrappers be admitted at the
rate of 35 cents per ponnd. Mr. Laehen-
bach, of Now York, representing the leaf
tobacco board of trade, argued that the de-
S utuient insist on its former ruling that
umatra tobaoco wrappers; no matter how
paoked, shall be assorted and made o pay
duty at a rate ut 75 eeota per pound. V,’. H.
Hensei, af Lancaster, Penn., representing
domestic growers, contended that Congress
intended to impose a tax of 75 cents per
pound on all Snmatra wrappers, and
that Sumatra tobacco ia never
imported for other than wrappers,
except to evade the law. Argu
ments were made by other representives
of both interests.
The importers asked the department to
instruct appraisers to make their appraise
ments in such manner that packages, in
stead of leaf, shall practically be the unit of
appraisement; that if a package contains
less than 85 per oent. of wrappers, the whole
bulk Bhali pay the lower rate of dnty. The
hearing lasted several hours. Assistant Sec
retary Maynard took the question under
advisement, and promised to give it careful
and thorough consideration.
habvet'b long bkntxnce.
Oscar J. Harvey, tho treasury department
forger, wus arraigned lu the Dintnct Crim
inal Court this afternoon, and pleaded gntti,
to the charge Bet forth in the indictment.
He was sentenced by Judge Montgomery to
twelvo years imprisonment I at
hard labor in the Albany
penitentiary. In passing sentence Jndge
Montgomery said that while the situation
of the prisoner's family appealed to him,
the protection of soolety was to be consid
ered, and an example mnst bo made. There
was bat one way to stop crime, and that was
to pnnish it. The prisoner bad robbed the
S overnment, not through sudden impulse,
ut through a sebeme pursued for monthB.
The reasons urged for a lenient sentence
were matters for the consideration of the
Executive. He himself could do no less
than sentence the accused to twelvo years’
imprisonment, three years in eaeh count of
indictment Tue prisoner received the sen
tence with otmpomre.
3
companies, and directed them not
Jo sell tickets over the roads of companies
refuse to recognize this corporate &u-
Jfioruy but insist on .nbsidizing sgenti. In
Jt«e directions the defendants have not
jjaoacended their reasonable rights. One
pataon or corporation has no right to inter-
“te with the employes of another, and the
autute does not disturb this old and sound
Pnnciple.
Tbs defendants might rest npon their
Jtfibt lo control the official conduct of their
«»n igents, but they go further and show
y evidence the proctiasl effects of eommls-
•tons, sod that their natural and usual
tendencies are abusi s. It follows from
“cae views that the defendant oompanies
Inhibiting their agents from nc-iving
ommUsione and in refining to sell through
5f" n « the roods of compialnsots
d»f * , y on paying oommUsions to
ik- Lant * •dents, have not contravened
JJJc.prorUions of the act. Tho defendants
"••onsbjy and fairly offered to afford all
jJ**onabls, proper and eqaal facilities for
“• rectivlng and delivering of pas-
Ser* t 0 ami f*om their tev-
wiik“ n f* and the** connecting there-
d not dW.iminste in any re-
r*«»i.j , en ,nch connecting lines. In
jWWng tbs cessation of commissions to
«egents, when entering into business
trndUn e . m,n ** *llfc connecting road, do-
hu IS 1 on *7 demanded what was reasons-
rtfnui , p,0 P® , > end complainants by their
on in!k . from paying eommisaiona
HI, usaed by defendants, volunta- per
He „ °ded themselves from tho reeacna-
th ' p , , ® p « r “d aqusl foeillti a off - 1 •»
common with all Aiii«* mi
OHIO DEMOCRATS.
Candidate* llafora TJielr Convention for
the Gubernatorial Nomination.
Cleveland, July 20.—The Derrooratio
State Convention, which meets hero to.
morrow morning at 10 o'clock, will nomi
nate candidates for governor, lientennnt-
governor, and attorney-genoral, treasurer of
the State, auditor of the State, two judges
of the Supreme Court, and members of the
board of public works. The 688 delegatee
have all arrived and tho candidates are all
on the ground. The principal contest will
bo for Governor. The candidates for this
office are Congressman James E. Camp
bell, of Ballet oounty; Thoe. E. Powell,
of Delaware county, and Congressman
Martin A Foran, of Coyabogo county.
Geographically they come from tho sonth-
ern, central and sorthorn portions of the
State respectively. Powell seems to be in
the lead, though his stock has fallen some
what since the arrival this afternoon of
Campbell and two hundred followers from
Southern Ohio. Foran consented to run
only veslerday, but his boom has grown to
considerable proportions since then.
Basalt of the Kldwell Murder Trial.
Alixandbia, Va , July 20.—The jnry in
the esse of Douglas Kid Well and fonr com
panions, charged with the murder of Geo.
Weitenbaker, brakeman on a railroad be
tween this place sad Wa.hinoton. to-day
returned a verdiot of guilty of involuntary
manslaughter as to Douglas Kldwell and
not gnilty as to the others. Kidwell was
sentenced to pay a fine of five dollars and
be imprisoned in jail for three months.
Tte five men wor* put off the car* by the
trainmen for disorderly conduct, and in the
fight that occurred Weitenbaker wast struok
in the stomach b T a rock thrown by Kidwell
and instantly kilied. The defenoe claimdd
that their ejectment was unjustifiable, and
that the brakeman was killed by a atone
thrown at another trainman to protect
themselvas from assanlt
common with all other conned
Hie complaints are dismissed,
riaiim IlC o r M?f* M . C *P* Commissioner Mor-
aaier. '
an by Commissioner Bchoou
Death of a Georgian In Cincinnati.
Cincinnati July 21 —Frank J. Taylor,
of Georgia died last night st the Palace
Hotel in thie city from the effect of heat.
He was formerly a journalist, serving cn
the Commero.sl-Gsxstte, of this city, and
the St. Louis Globe Democrat. Lster he
was nrivals secretary for the ovangelUtbam
Jones, Mi?at the time of W. death was a
circuit court stenographer in Georgia.
Harper** Female Clerk Arre*ted.
Pim'innatl July 21.—Miaa Joaie Holmea,
who w»« exchange clerk of the late Fidriily
National Bank, and whose suits and con-
snitatiDDri with H§rper, late vice-preaident
of thi bank cAU^ his’ removal to the Day-
ron jsiVto-day “ryed with . wamnt
charging her with aiding snd »be llng Har.
perin bis Illegal conduct, lot which he is
^ithy trial
Sentence.
b.v.nWab July 20.—^Thomas J. Fogarty,
SAVANJon,. J ^ diaggLt, was
Wb ° .u tfn rears lo Uhe penitentiary
byJtffige'Adams in the Superior Court.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO DEAL
ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PRESI
DENT ROBERT GARRETT.
Tlio Syndicate Which Proposed to Buy the
l*<>s»d I’uIIh to Comply with Its En
gagement* and tho Deal Is
Ended—The Centrals
Philadelphia, July 20 —The Record will
to-morrow publish the following:
Elueron, N. Y. f July 20.—Hon. Wm. M.
Kingerly, Editor of tho Record, Pbiladel-
pbia 1), nr Sir: In n p'y to lunrcoMnnitli
inquiry as to the real negotiations called by
the prrst “Ibe Bsltimoro and Ohio deal,” f
beg to say that all such negotiations are ter
minated. The syndicate which wsb to
acquire a large block of stock of the Haiti
more and Ohio Railroad Company in such r
way as was believed would bo beneficial to
nil parties and railroads concerned, did not
at the appointed time comply with their en
gagements, and all arrangements or nego.
tuitions with them are now ab
solutely at an end. I have not
pnrch&sed the stook of Johns HopkiDS
University, as stated in some of the news
papers. I had an option npon that stock,
as also npon that of several others, but I
have not exercised these options, nor do I
intend now to do so. The statement made
in some of the papers that I purchased large
blocks of Baltimore and Ohio stock is a mis
take. As I have stated, I bad options, bnt
circnmstancfH rendered it unnecessary to
close them. The Baltimore and Ohio
Rtiitoad Company, its properties, in
cluding its large telegraph system, and
the ownership of ita stock remain now
as they wi re at the opening of the nego
tiations. The widespread pnblio interest
whioh these negotiations have excited, and
the many false and foolish rnmois to which
they have given rise; justify me in depart
ing from my usnnl course and makiDg this
formal statement of their final termination.
Thanking you lor the kindly terms tn
which you have been pleased to refer to the
Baltimore and Ohio Company and its future,
and acknowledging the correctness of your
judgment and that cf yonr friends as to
tbe propriety of making pnbiio this letter,
I am as ever, yonre very truly,
‘‘Korert Gabbett,"
THE CENTRAL SYNDICATE.
NewYgbx, July 20.—The conferences
between parties holding tho Central of
Georgia railroad continne, bnt none of
those present at the meetings will give any
information as to their pnrport. It is
stated, however, by brokers connected with
the management, that only tbe ohjeot cf the
meeting is to devise a way in which to mar
ket the stock. The syndicate which bought
tbe Central is said to have fonnd their load
too burdensome, and some of its members
are thought to be contemplating somo
scheme by which the syndicate can be re
solved, so as to enable them to secure the
stack. The whole clique is said to came
from high property owners.
E. M. Green, of Savannah, who has been
present at tbo recent conference of North
ern and Southern capitalists in this city re
garding the future operations of the Georgia
Central railroad, said to-night that no con
ference had been held to-day. He doubted
whether any immediate action wonld be
takta in lUo ti-altr-r. The recent COUfOr-
encea wore informal in character ram-r
than in the nature of decisive deliberations,
as had been stated. There was no ohange
In the situation,
Washington, July 20.—The New York
Times' railroad news column this morning
contains the following on the forigoiDg
subject: The capitalists who bought the
Central of Goorgia some months ago, and
whose movements have attracted u good
deal of attention in Wail street, have been
holding conferences in this city for a day or
two post Two or tbreo schemes of conse-
qucncc are under advisement, but the men
most largely interested exerted themselves
to wrap all their proceedings in mystery.
Attending the meeting are: Gen. E. I*.
Alexander, the Geor H ii Central's president;
Henry Bium and E. Af. Green, of tjavan-
nah; C. H. Fbinizy, of Angueta;
Pat Calhoun and John 0. Gel-
boun, all interacted and prominont
Southerners. Among tho New Yorkers
giviog the conferences attention are Eman
uel Lehman, Alfred Sally, B. G. Rios aud
H. B. Hollins. The purpose of tbe oonfer-
enoe of capitalist* is to arrango acme plan
by which control cf tho company may be
pat into more tangibio shape than the
mero existence of the original purchasing
syndicate would provide.
‘ Pat” Calhoun and John 0. Calhoun
control the charter of the corporation
known as tho Georgia Investment and
Banking Company, which they have been
holding over to the syndicate, contemplat
ing an exebango of a controlling block of
the railrord stock for trust bonds and stock
of tbo Dew corporation. Tb'e would tie up
tbe ocntrel of the Georgia Central effective
ly. and at the same time make way for
profits through the marketing of the new
securities of the investment and banking
company. But for some reason it appears
that tbe Messrs. Calhoun have been unable
to oonvinee the other members of the syn
dicate that the investment snd banking
company was just what was needed.
Another projoot came up and was consid
ered yesterday, providing for the nee of a
charter Usacd in North Carolina for what is
known aa the Georgia Compauy. It prac
tically duplicates the investment and bank
ing company, bnt has some provisions that
are held to be "more weighty.” The isjko
cf the new Gwireia Company securities for
i xchonge with the syndicate's majority ef
Georgia Central railroad stock i) tbe chief
principle involved. Indeed, further con
ferences may result ia an entire ebangs of
base and even an abandonment of the whole
undertaking. The Southern men now here
are deeply interested, however, in eccom-
pliebing something definite without much
delay.
CuuDctU's Case Against the State Hood.
Chattanooga, July 20.—By order of the
Inter-Mate Commiietop, depositions were
taken in the cue of W. H. Conncill, col
ored, president of the 8tate Colored Normal
College at Huntsville, Ala., against the
Western and Atlantic railroad. Conncill
claims damages for ejection from a train of
that road near Dalton. The cue hu ex
cited great interest in this section snd the
result ot the inveatigation is watched with
great interest
Sunstroke* In l*UUbarge
Pitt.-ucbo, July 20.—The bested term
was broken to-night by a tremendous rain
storm, which bids fair Co continue all night.
The mercury touched 93 degrees this after
noon, bnt fell 2 degrees before 11 o'clock
ta-ni^ht Five fatal cues of sunstroke oc
curred during tbe day.
Most lUcellent.
*J. 1. Atkins. Chief of Police. Knoxville, Tenn a
writes. "My fealty end I ere beneCcUries ot yonr
most excellent medicine. Dr. King's new discovery
(or consumption; having found It to be all that yon
claim (or It. desire to testily to Its virtue. My
friend* tonhom I have recommended It, prates It
at every opportunity.”
Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption la
guaranteed to cars Cotwho. Colds Bronchitis
AMhme, itswep, and every egeettoo or Throat,
Chest and Lance. Trial bottles free et Lamar,
Bauhlnk Lamar's Drug Store. Large 8b», tl.eu.
A STANDARD OIL FIRE.
A Mtlllon Dollarn* Worth of Tiers, Tank*,
etc., at Constable Ilooh Destroyed.
New York, July 20.—By 0 o'clock this
morning tbe great fire at tno Standard Oil
Works at Constable Hook, N. J., which
broke out at 12:30, was under control.
Two large warehouses, three immense
tanks, four big dooks and ovir ten thou
sand barrels of oil were destroyed. At one
time it locked as if tho office, several ware-
houses, more tanks in tbe neighborhood, a
large brick store house, docks along tho
river front and the manufactories of the
Bayonne Chemical Works, tho Oxford Cop
per and Sulphur Company, and the Stand
ard Match Company and tho largo lumber
yard of A. W. Booth ,t Bro., would be de
stroyed. The Standard people, seeing their
danger, telegraphed to their works at Green
Point for *aei«tanoe. Five powerful tugs
w.re sent from that place, and they ar
rived at OoDBtable Hook at half
past 1 o'clock. Though tbe firemen kept
throwing powerful streams upon it, the
tanks, which were ail that separated the
large frame warehouse, also osed as a coop
erage, from tbe dames, also canght fire and
were seen blazing. About half an hour the
firemen kept the destroying clement from
crossing the dozen feet tbat still intervened
and they might have eavrd tbe threatened
building bad not a pipe at tho base of a tank
bnrat and hurled the burning fluid up
ggainst the structure and fired it As it
was stored with inflimmable material, it
was epeetiily lieked ap by the flames, which
then got beyond control and swept down
toward the river. At the docks thero had
beeD a large number of vessels. These had,
however, been towed ont into the stream,
but none too soon. First one
pier took fire, then another and another,
until fonr large piers were in fltmes,
casting a iorid glare upuu the waters oi
New York bay. By this time tnge bad
arrived 8nd they fonght tho fire from tho
water. Eech ot them threw several streams
npon the burning piers, and it was only tho
efforts of the men on the docks tbat checked
tbe spread of tho flames and saved the fac
tories and lumber yards along tbe water
front. On tho InDd side the fire had also
be n got under control, and tho office, store
honso and neighboring tanks were saved.
The Standard people estimate tbelr loss at
abont $1,OGO,(KIO, There was no insurance
The Btandard Oil Company atatof that
the loss by Are at Constable Hook last
Digkt is not over $100,000, earlier state
ments being greatly exaggerated. The
company has nn insurance fuuu of its own.
FIBK IN CINCINNATI.
. Cincinnati, July 20.—Briggs Swift's old
pork bouse, on the northwest ooruer of
Ninth and Sycamore streets, which was re
cently remodelled for manufacturing pur
poses, burned this forenoon, involving a
loss of (150,000. Tho fire started in the ice
cream fretzer factory of the Gooch Freezer
Company, which occupied the first and sec
ond Btories of the tonr-story structure.
Their place being filled with dry lumber tho
fire immediately communicated to tho whole
bnilding, Tbe entire fire department was
called out aud Buccecd*d in saving
adjoining bniidiDgB. Other oconpanta of
the bnilding were Wrigley Bros., manufac
turers of paper boxes, and the White Star
Laundry. All were completely burned ont.
Of the three hundred employes in tho
bnilding whon the fire started, all succeeded
in escaping withont injury, bo far as known.
There is a rumor tbat one girl is missing,
but it cannot be verified yet. The losses
are as follows: Gooch Freezer Company
•76,000, insurance $14 000; Briggs Swift
*30 000, fully insured; White Sta' t.snndry
$25,(11)0, insurauue »jo,ooo; Wrtgley dig—
$15,000, insurance $6,000.
A DRUNKEN DESPERADO,
lie Dents Ills Wife to Death nntl Fatally
Wound* Ills Sod and an Officer.
FtTTSBL’RO, July 20.—A special from Oil
City, Pa., says: Shortly before 12 o'clock
Inst nigbt John McNierney, a laborer, bent
bis wife to death, fatally shot his aon John,
ogeil 21 years, for interfering in behalf of
Lib mother, and then shrt Officer James,
who tried to street him, in tho groin. Offi
cers Wareden and Henderson then came to
tho assistance of James, and soon brought
the desperate man down with a shot through
Ms back. Officer James aDd yoneg Mi-
Niorney’s wonnda are fatal. Tho wound of
MoNierney is not necessarily fatal. Tboro
was no witness to the affair except tbe aon,
who Is unable to speak. McNierney is said
to have been intoxicated at the time, and
from all that can be learned was abusing
bia wife when his son went to her assist
ance:
PrrranuBo, July 20.—A telegram from Oil
City says that John MoNierney, Jr., and the
officers, vi dims of ihe tragedy at that place
last night, and John McNierney, the mur
derer, who was shot while resisting arrest,
all died this morning. Mrs. UcNiernoy
died last night
A Great Hall Storm in Indiana.
CffiCAOo, Jot) 20.—A Times' special from
Wabash, lad., says: A gennino hail cy
clone poieed through tho northern part of
tbe county yesterday, doing an immense
amount ot damage. The etorm came from
tho west tbrengh Miami county, and cross
ed the Lake Erie and Western railway at a
point between Denver and Peru. Ita path
through this county wu from two to three
miles, end ia that space no vegetation es
caped. The hail fall was phenomenal.
Tbe stones were a! tho aize of hen's eggs,
and coaid be gathered up by the bushel
after the storm A great number ot fine
forest trees was broken off and piled up in
interminable moss. Not a field of grain
escaped destrnction in the pathway of tbe
storm. Corn was riddled aud stripped of
ears ami ei ks. Oats were thr&sbed ont and
tho stalks driven into the earth. Apples,
melons, gr.pes and all small fruits and veg
etables were cut to pieces and nothing can
be saved.
Harper tn the Dayton Jail.
Datton, July 2).—F. L. Harper, vice
pr- client of the Fidelity National Bank of
Cincinnati, was brought here at ten o'clock
last evening. Harper came in charge of
Deputy United States Marshal Costello, ac
companied by Mrs. Harper, their child,
their son-iD-l»w, Harris, and Harper's sis
ter, Mrs. Matthews. He was locked np in
onu of tb>‘ common cells, where are also
another United States prisoner and three
noted thieves. He wiil bo subject to the
prison rules aud strictly held in jail ward
Na 2, and v ill be locked up ntS pt m. la ml
steel cell. In tbe daytime be will be allowed
the range of tbe eorridor of tbat ward only,
Mrs Harper and child and the rest of her
party are at the Phillips house, serosa tbs
street from the jail.
Three Ben Kitted by a Tree.
CniCAoo, July 20.— A news special from
Terre Haute, Ini, siys: Andrew Williams
an 1 Robert Wcot were killed and Robert
Williams, brother of the first named,
fatally injured by s tree falling on their
buggy yesterday afternoon fifteen miles
south nf hero as they were returning from
a funeral.
A Great Itace al Detroit.
Detboit, July 21.— .’Jtrry Wilkes, the
trotter, and Johnston, tlxe pneer, raced this
afternoon for a parse ot $3,M). Tbe rice
wu the c* st three out ot five. Johnson hiv
ing driv n to h wagon and Wilkes to hu
nt ei Johnson took the first two hr-att and
Wilkee the List three. Time, 2:16,2:14),
2:18), 2:21'}.
OR GOVERNOR, OF OHIO. |; intyi,f ■ l ' llw ® 0 » d h cUiz i nsto D' di V fd r noiDff
to a minimum the evils resulting therefrom,
I nnd to thin end favor the submission of an
emend me at to the constitution providing
for the license of such traffic.
Nominations for Governor were then
called for. Hon. James E. Neal, of Butler
county, nominated Congressman James E,
Campbell, of Hamilton; Charles W Parker,
of Cincinnati, named Thomas E P 11, ot
Delaware. Congressman Mart n s Koran,
of Cleveland, was named by E M. Hinsley,
of Cuyahoga. On the first ballot there was
eo choice. The vote on the second ballot
was: Powell, 350$; Campbell, 251$; Foran,
THOMAS E. POWELL NAM ED BY TIIE
DEMOCRATS.
The Full Ticket Quickly Nominated— 1 Tli
Platform Declare* for Lower Tariff
Duties ami the Upholding; of
IJi»- Ulii-ky IJiLg - .
Cleveland, July 21.—Tho Democratic
State convention was called to order at 11
o’clock this morning in Muaio Hall by
Henry Bohl, of Miretta, chairman of the
State executive committee. Notwithstand
ing tbe fact tbat tho temperature stood at
83, at least 3,000 spectators, many of them
ladies, were present. Senator Henry B.
Payne entered tbe hall jaat before tho oon<
vention opened, and was loudly cheered.
There was no temporary organization, and
Hon. ueorge E. osuey, of Tifilu, ui uuw
took his permanent Boat as chairman.
In his r-peech Mr. Seney said there were
no quarrels in tho Democratic family.
Every Democrat seemed to know who
wonld be his candidate in 1888, and all
were satisfied. [Applause.] He eulogized
c-x Senator Tbnrman, saying that he wonld
not have the bonorod office of Governor.
After speaking of the various candidates for
(ii»vt rn r, in-Mini itii wm m t imru.mij in
the Republican party. Every tomahawk
and scalping knife, he declared, was shar
pened for the fight At Toledo next week.
HU reference to tho Presidential contest
between Blaine and Sherman was applauded
Referring to Cleveland's administration, he
said that so well had its power beon used that
now it has little, if ony, oppoeition, except
from thoso who expect to ask favors from Li.e
Republican party. Ahnnt oivil service
reform, he said: "While the Damoorats
give tbe administration hearty support,
there nro many who would feel better satis
fied if cSU Republicans remaining in office
were promisoously turned out, and their
places filled by Democrats. As to this fea
ture of the situation tbo resolves of this
convention ought not to be uncertain in
meaning or Bound. If we believe that
Democrats instead of Republicans should
assist a Democratic President in’administer-
ing the government, let us have tho courage
of our oouViotious and here now so declare.
If it bo the civil service law that keeps Re
publicans in and Democrats out of the pub-
lio service, let us have the courage of our
convictions and here now bo declare."
Referring to pensions, he declared that
the Democracy bad increased the pension
of Boldiers' widows from $9 to $12 per
month. Q s party, ho said, had put 41.UOO
new pensioners on the rolls. Respecting
private persons, he slid Grant approved 485
of these bills; Hayes, 203; Garfield and Ar
thur, 137, and Cleveland, in two years, 803
Tho platform was here reported and
adopted without a dissenting vote.
THE PLATFOBM.
Tho Democratic party of Ohio in con
vention assembled proclaim its hearty and
unqualified indorsement of the honest,
patriotic and eoonomio administration of
President Cleveland. We demand each
jadiciousredaction of the present burden
some taxes as shall result in producing a
revenue sufficient only to meet the expenses
of an economical administration of tho
government, the payment of liberal pen
sions to Union soldiers and sailors, and tho
payment of interest and pnnoipal of
the debt; .if •'•qaagary we
favor aucti reductions of the in
ternal revenue, except on liquors,
no —ni movent the accumulation of a sur
plus in the national treasury, and dtnounoo
any attempt to abolish tbe tax on liquors
for tho purpose of keeping up the present
ULjnst, unequal and onerous tariff system.
We call attention to and affirm as sound
doctrine and policy tho following emphatic
and patriotic laoguago of President Cleve
land: "Oar publio domain is our national
wealth, the earnest of our growth, and tho
heritage of our people. It should promise
limitless development and richest relief to
crowded population, and homes to thrift
and industry. Theso inestimable advan
tages should be jealously guarded, and care
ful and enlightened policy on the part of
the government should secure them to tho
people.” We demand that all lands o' tho
government to bo held for actual settlors
who are citizens of tho United States, and
for those who declare their intention to be
come such.
Wo aro in hearty sympathy with all peo
ple struggling to free themselves from the
environment* of despotism, and especially
does the long and gallant struggle for the
priceless boon of home rule and tbe rights
of manhood evoke oar warmest applanso
and command our heartiest good wishes for
speedy success.
Labor being tbo chief factor and great
conservator of frank and liberal institu
tions, should enjoy its lull shoro of tho
common benefits derived therefrom. There
fore wo favor such restraints of centraliza
tion and encroachments of corporate
power os will bring tbe best possible pro
tection to honest labor and at tho same
time conserve tho interests of honestlv em
ployed capital. Wo favor such legislation
on the question of immigration ns will pre
vent the landing, for permanent reaidenco,
of aliens who are not willing to declare their
intention of becoming citizens of the Unitod
States. We declare onr oppostion to tho
importation of contract labor, and we de
mand tbe speedy punishment of all persons
inciting to riot aud revolution against re
publican institutions.
Wo denounce tho present Republi
can State administration as weak,
partisan, personal and unbusiness
like. We call upon tbe people of Ohio to
tarn ont of power a Btato government
whose only apparent mission is to augment
expenditures, multiply oinces, croate ue-
ficieuoes and increase taxation, with bank
ruptcy of the treasury as the result We
denounce the late Republican Legislature
for its cowardly aud hypocritical alliance,
through an intrigue with the Republican
board of works, and RepobJcan Attor
ney-General, in a scheme whereby millions
o. dollars’ worth of property of the State
to bo transferred to corporations inter
ested in creating a monopoly of transporta
tion withont the State or people thereof re
ceiving any benefit therefrom.
We demand the fullest safeguards for tbe
ballot box, punishment of all who seek to
corrupt it, and the enactment of a law mak
ing it a felony for corporations, capitalists
or employers to intimidate or attempt to
control the political action of their em
ployes.
We favor home rule in the management
and control of municipal afffdrs, aud de
nounce the p&rtid&a acts pissed by the
late Republican Legitdatnro to Hnbserve
the interests of scheming politicians, and
wo demand the repeal of all laws which de
prive electors of the exercise of their con
stitntional privileges.
The commercial and indnitrial interests
of the State requite that the equal use of
transportation facilities be secured to all on
equal terms, and we demand that favoritism
by common carriers and the employment of
corporate franchises to foster monopolies
ana oppress tho people be prohibited t\
Jaw, and that pool*, c;arbitrations, trus»ts oi
conspiracies to corner or forestall the mar
ket and to fetter or crush free competition
be suppressed by leginUtion.
Wu declare in favor of the taxation oi
the liquor traffic, and believe it to be the
Rowell’s nomination was then made
unanimous. The total vote was 658.
D. G. Coolman, of Portage county wag
nominated for lieutenant governor by accla
mation. After one ballot had been taken
the other two caudidateH withdrew.
For judge of the Supremo Court, long
term, L It. Crutchfield, of Holme* county,
was nominated by acclamation. For judge
of the Supreme Court, short term, Virgil P.
KUne, of Cleveland, defeated ex-Congress
man John S. Loedom on the first ballot.
An attempt was made to force through
the renomination of Emil Keiswetter, of
Franklin county, for auditor of tho State.
A storm of noes arose, but Chairmui
Seney declared the motion curled and
the nomination was made. Several
delegates attempted to protest, but al’ were
ruled out cf order. Finally Jo tin McBride,
of btarke county, declared that if Keiswet-
ter was nominated in tho unfair manner
proposed ho would take the stump against
him. Keiswottcr then announced that he
w’anted no unfair ndvantuge, and that ho
was willing to go before the convention on
even termH with othir candidates. This
induced the chairman to oall for further
developments. Joseph G. Curley, of
Champaigno county, was then named. A
nomination of Keiswettor.
The ticket was completed as follows:
Treasurer of the State, Gsorgc W. Harper,
of Greene county; Attorney-General, Wm.
H. Leet, ot Ottawa count) ; mcintu r of the
board of public work*, Peter J, Murphy, of
Batler county.
Tho convention then adjourned sine die.
Cincinnati, July 91,—'Thomas Edward
Powell, nominal d to-day at Cleveland, is
43 years old, ne i* of Welsh descent and
was born at Delaware, Delaware oounty,
Ohio. While a student at the Ohio Wes
leyan University in 18CI he enlisted as a
privato in an Ohio regiment and served
fourmon.h*. Subsequently he graduated,
uuu unviiig nt<5dit-tl With Col. W. H. lived,
formed a partnership with him. His polit
ical caieer began in 1373, wheu Iih wmm a
speaker for Greely. In 1875 he
was nominated for Attorney-General
and had the distinction of defeat by a
smaller majority than Governor William
Allen. Coutrary to his wishes he wu* nom
inated for Congress in 1832, and though
defeated by General Jama* y. Robinson, bo
reduced tho Republican majority to 400.
Iu 1884 he headed the Democratic electoral
tiokot, and in 18S5 ho served ns chairman
of tho Democratic State committee. Dur
ing the past fonr years he has had a law of-
fleo m (’olnmb.i j, Ohio.
TIIE CATTLE TRAIL ABANDONED.
Texas Must Hereafter Hutclier and Hhlp
It* Own Herd*.
St. Louis, July 21.—A special from Den
ver says cattle mon who huve their herds
going north on the great <• Utlo trail have de
cided upon a move which will face about
50,000 head now on the trail und drive them
back into Texas. The reaaon for bo doing
is because there is absolutely no market for
cattle. Tho meeting at which this deci°ion
arrived at was held Tuesday night in
tho rooms of the Cattle Growers’ Associa
tion, Among tho cattle men
sent were H. 0. Tardy, cf
Tex , and agents representing
the Siunson Cattio Company of Texas. Of
the cattle-xow on tho trail 20,000 head have
olready ent«- e <l Wyoming and 50,000 are re
ported in tin vicinity of tho Arkansas
river.•• Yestordoj the oattlemen went to
lingo Cals to meoitho superintendent and
captains of drives to inform them of the
action taken and to vivo them orders
for the roturn drive. This action
practically removes fri* n existence
forever tho long used "cattle ir«ir for the
transportation of cattle. Hnoh a duanion
was only made after it became apparent
that no remedy could be depended upon.
The c&nso of trouble lies principally in the
cxagnraU-d rnturo of information affecting
the stock market. It was thought that tbe
bard winter made cattle scarce in Wyoming,
Montana and Dakota, nnd it was not 1< urn< d
that Wyoming wanted no cattle whutev.-r
nntil tbo hords were started. For fourteen
years oattlemen have used tho trail to the
Northern markets, without a poison’s inter-
mission, and many million dollars woith - f
cattle have passed over it. The trail
begins 200 miles south of Fort
Worth and takes a straight lino fo
Wyoming, entering Colorado near we t
Loi Animas. Tho trail was established iu
1863, and tho cowboys had to tight thnr
way through hostile bauds of Indian* for
th»* fir.-t Mi-wral years. I-tit year 3<J<>,000
cattle wero driven over the trail. Tbi*
year bnt 70,000 have beon started and tw v -
tbirds of these aro being turued bask.
Theodore Ives, of Fort Worth, declares
tbo act disastrous, and that tho failure
to get cattle to market will have the efft ct
of patting $200,000 worth of beef back into
T< xis, which is already overstocked, thus
driving prices down to ruinous figures. It
may cause a number of failures.
Gapt. Cutler thought th^re would be no
more shipments of cattle by trail. Text*
will have to* consumo her own cattle. In
other words, the cowboys will have to es
tablish packing houso*, do their own
killing, and make their own ship
ments. The settling up of the western
eonntry is what has played the mischief
with ruining cattle in large herds. The trail
has gradually been growing narrower nntil
last year it was bat three miles wide, aud
this has been thrown open to settlement.
STANLEYS EXPEDITION.
London, July 91,—A dispatoh from St.
Thomas, West Africa, says; The W<**t Af
rican Company ha* rec ived a report that
Henry Si. Stanley, the Afrioxn explorer,baa
been shot dead by native* with whom Li*
expedition wo* fighting In order to obtain
supplies. Another account says that the
sLainer on which Stanley was proceeding
to the relief of Emin Bay was sunk, and
that the explorer whs drowned. The re
port of Stanley's death unlimited from a
missionary at Matadi, who receive 1 it from
a native from the up country. No dir. ct
message has been l.ceived from tno expe
dition.
The rumor regarding the death ot Stanley
U discredited here. Vho Ut«-*t authentic
news from him was from Aruwimi, and
was Hunt under date of June 21. It would
be impossible f >r a native to reach Matadi,
and then St. Thoma* since that time The
iistanc» between Matadi and Aruwimi alone
is a thousand miles, through tbs roughest
country.
A Deputy Tex Collector'* S.roke of I.urk.