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I TOTAL VOTE. 617 1-3 115 103 vH <M 2 14 2 1 . 1 1 Re cast 9091-2 ps d be the rules the be suspended made nominee by 1, of Virginia, seconds the Ibio to make the nomination was carried. lower seconded the motion omination unanimous. Mo a at 2 o’clock p. m. Thurs ed. PHE VICE-PKE8IDENT. ) DAT—THURSDAY, ffld closing session of the cratic convention was cai I— 2:43 p. m. Thursday. The °t promptly down to the left for it to transact—the i vice president. Gray, Stevenson, of Illinois; isconsin, were presented. 18 nominated on the first W IT WAS DONE. Wilson hammered the con der at 2:45 o’clock, and ! Green, of Iowa, offered aiD S the convention. The aeeches nominating a can e president was begun at '■ Arkansas yielded to In )a : E. Lamb took the e !n Domination Governor w a 4 / » m : ./jffiiSS! ff « / % a £ rc M if I i Grav. Colorado, next in tUe roil of states, was called and gave way to Illi¬ nois which state sent to the platform ex Congressman Worthington, who present¬ ed the name of Hon. A. E. Stevenson, of Illinois, in a stirring speech. Connecticut sent up Delegate Yance to second the nomination of Gray, of In¬ diana, and Idaho spoke for the Hoosier. Iowa was called, when her chairman arose and said: "Iowa, gentlemen, has no candidate for the second place. It is the wish of Gov. Boies and this delegation that his name shall not be presented for the vice presidency.” fifteen-seconds Delegate Scott, de- of Kansas, in a sentence, te V wm . ’•i > (Hi * Y4 - - A m WSi /\y\ r. m & yifr m III iH i m ]£t / - WILLIAM C. WHITNEY, OP NEW YORK. dared that practical politics demanded Gray in the second place. Young John S. Bhea, of Kentucky, was sent up to second Mr. Stevenson’s nomination in behalf of a part of the delegation. His speech was roundly cheered. Edwin Euhl went up to the platform to speak for Michigan. He presented the name of Chief Justice B. Morse, of the Peninsula State. New York being called. Gov. Flower arose and announced that New York had no candidate to present. North Carolina seconded the name of Stevenson, and then there was a skip a’ong the states in the roll until Texas was reached, and its voice was lifted for Gray. John Goode, of Virginia, got on his chair and sent up his indorsement of Stevenson. Wash¬ ington announced for Gray. Then came up Delegate Bragg, of Wisconsin, to put up the name of John L. Mitchell, of that state. Oklahoma came under the Steven¬ son umbrella, and Alabama, which had passed at the end of the roll, came up with a second for Morse, of Michigan. CALLING THE STATES. Then, the nominations being conclud¬ ed, roll call was begun. Alabama led off with a skip for Morse. Gray. Arkansas California came in with her sixteen for split squarely in the middle—nine each for Gray and Stevenson. Illinois’ forty eight plumped into the Stevenson bas¬ ket, but Iowa first stirred the crowd. “We cast our solid vote for Henry Wattersoo,” said the Chairman,and there 79 Y<>1 W ARTHUR T. GORMAN, OF MARYLAND. were cheers. The biggest breeze of the roll call swept the convention when Gov ernor Flower stood on his feet and stated that New York was solid for Stevenson—seventy two votes. The breeze grew to a gale of applause. It subsided only to rise again when North Carolina stepped into the Stevenson col¬ umn. When Ohio shot out thirty-eight of her forty-six votes for Stevenson the excitement grew, and when the Key¬ stone State dropped sixty-four votes into the hat of Gray, a counter current of cheering caused a cloudburst of confu¬ sion over the convention floor. Wiscon¬ sin cast her twenty-three votes for John L. Mitchell. When the roll was finished the figures showed for Stevenson 402 and Gray 243—no choice. GOING TO STEVENSON. Then began changes. Iowa first came into the Stevenson camp, Montana next, foBowed by Nebraska. Ohio got into line amid great cheers. Missouri climb¬ ed over the wall, Georgia was close be¬ hind, and Kentucky came next. It be came __only a question of time, and when a two-thirds vote for Stevenson had been obtained the nomination was an¬ nounced. closing scenes. The usual resolutions of thanks to the officers were passed, and the national oommittee nomination were made. Gen oral.Pair,ck Collins, of Massachusetts, thentook the nlatform and moved ;thet the the democratic committee should, at next £ ,r „ 1 convention, provide alternates, accom roodations - ly for delegates, but for r no nr'Si ■ oimal '/ committee, no t wes demanded in view of ■>.- " ' Miterruption* that are possible ■iiu ;,ave been.demonstrated. The reso .til GU w<«» ,-t-ferred to the executive com- mittee of the new national with an affirmative recommondaion. At 5:20 o’clock the convention ed sine die. A FEARFUL CRASH. A Rear End Collision in which People Are Killed. Dispatches from Harrisburg, Pa., briDg news of a terrible disaster on Pennsylvania railroad in that city. western express on the Pennsylvania read, leaving New York at 6:3U p. m. »nd Philadelphia at 9-.20 o’clock, is due in Harrisburg at 12:15 o’clock a. m. Saturday morning, however, it several and minutes late leaving Philadelphia, time had not made up lost when reached Harrisburg. It was made up ODe baggage car, one express car. day coaches and the private car of Westinghouse, the Pittsburg iuveutor the airbrake. As the train rolled Harrisburg it stopped a few minutes Dock street, east of the station, to some shifting in the yard, a flagman ing sent back to signal the second sec¬ tion, which was called following close the behind. He was soon in and train but started when the second section dashed around a sharp curve a few yards away. Then came horrible immediately grinding crushing sounds and injured the groans and shrieks of dying passengers were heard. It was awful moment and the wonder is that many escaped from the terrible wreck. It was but a few minutes until the trial establishments in South supplied an army of willing men and did all in their power to rescue imprisoned men, women and and alleviate their sufferings, firemen aod police force, under Fritchey’s direction, also did service and assisted in getting the in¬ jured to Physicians the city hospital and as soon as sible. surgeous were also summoned and labored throughout the night to relieve the pain of the bruised and lascerated passengers. LIST OP THE KILLED. The total number of dead thus far eleveu, as follows: Robers S Raymond, Columbus, O.; E. M. Whitlock, Arlington street, Cleveland, O ; Daniel Mason, Hagerstown, Md.; Rev. D. D. Costa Pomeren, 3611 Hamilton street, Philadelphia; Mrs. Uriah Hebner, Nor¬ ristown; Winfield Hebner, her son, aged 17; Prof. G. L. Smith, of Charles E. L. Fee, of Alleghany City; Richard Adams, Harrisburg and Miss Lizzie Blair of Philadelphia. found, An unidentified body was sup¬ posed to be that of a telegraph named Clark, of Altoona. The railroad authorities have issued the following statement: “The cause the accident has not been fully investiga¬ ted, but indications are that the engineer of the second section approached block at Dock street, Harrisburg, having his train under proper control uu dev the rule.” POLITICIANS IN STRIPES. Jersey City Election Inspectors Sent the Penitentiary. A dispatch from Jersey City, N. J., Bays: The Hudson county courtroom crowded Tuesday morni ig with cians, officials and convicted inspectois who had been ordered to pear in the court, their convictions ing been affirmed by the court of When Judge Lippincott opened twenty prisoners answered to their Twelve of them have eighteen months eight serve in the state prison and nine mon hs in the peniten iary. failed to appear. Judge Lippincott the prisoners that as their cat viction had been affirmed by the higher court there no alternative but for the sheriff to convey them forthwith to prison, to which had been sentenced. The court also nounced that if the convicted who were absent did not appear in at once a bench warrant would be issued for their arrest. The sheriff then took charge of the party. Some of the ers have been for years active ward poli¬ ticians in Hudson couuty and their final commitment as convicts to serve out theii terms is a severe blow to their friends. Many of the prisoners are married have respectable families. Every effort was made to save them from being forced to don the convict’s garb. GLADSTONE PELTED. Struck in the Eye by a Woman Who Threw “For Luck.” A London cablegram says: Mr. Glad¬ stone, in a speech at Cherter Saturday night declared that his opponents were fighting with weapons ol intimidation, invention and religious bigotry, and that for the first time in our history the prime minister was a firebrand in the land. On his way to the meeting Gladstone was struck in the eye by something thrown at him. It was subsequently revealed that his assailant was a woman, At the con elusion of bis speech he was forced to consult an oculist and went back to Ha warden with his eye bandaged. It is re¬ ported that the woman who threw the missile at him said she threw it “for luck.” _______ The “Catherine” Conspiracy Cases. The trial of what are termed the “Catherine conspiracy cases’’ begun in the United States district courti Mo bile, Ala., coloe ; 1890, <*rnmlle Burnett,, , Ala wa as appointed postmastar at Caffietiae. The white citizeas obtected m hun and urgedl him not to tan* the office, but he qualified in month December he ; resigned, f °\ ^a And it it 13th of that caused is alleged that the resignation was by force and intimidation on the part of twenty or more white men, a numbe* of whom weie indicted for conspirav.y. SEWS liN GENERAL. Happenings of the Day Culled from Oir Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches. WHAT IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUR OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OP INTER¬ EST PROM FOREIGN LANDS. The First Natioual bank, of Erie,Kas., was closed Saturday bv the bank exam¬ iner. The convention of the silver league at Reno, Nev., adopted resolutions sending delegates to the Omaha and Montana conventions. The eleventh international convention of Christian Endeavor will be held in Madison Square garden, New York city, July 7th to 10th. A cablegram of Sunday from St. Pe¬ tersburg, Russia, says: A total of 164 ca=es of cholera are reported at Baku during the one week, with seventy deaths from disease. T. Clarke Oliver, the marine painter, died at Amesbury, Mass., Friday, aged 68. Some of his works are widely known, particularly the “Kearsage,” copies of which have been made in steel. A Boston dispatch says: Hon. J. G. Blaine arrived Friday afternoon on his way home after the burial of his son. He was accompanied by his wife, and Miss Harriet Blaine. He departed on the 7 o’clock train for Bar Harbor. Dispatches from the City of Mexico state that the first series of elections for the presidency was held Saturday. Quiet prevailed throughout the country. There was no opposition to the Diaz ticket. The final decision will be given July 3d. At the Nevada state silver conven¬ tion held at Reno Friday three presidential electors were nominated,and during the session George McReady, an ex-congressman and the democratic nom¬ inee for congress, fell dead at the close of his speech. A Chicago dispatch of Fridry says: The committee to notify Grover Cleve¬ land of his nomination will visit Buz¬ zard’s Bay to perform that duty about July 11th. The committee will then proceed to Bloomington, Ill., and notify Genera! Stevenson. A special of Sunday to the Washing¬ ton Post from Denver, Col., says: Edwin' J. Ryan, who absconded from this city with $80,000 of the United States Ex¬ press Company's city. money, has been ar¬ rested in that The stolen money has been recovered. George M. Breidner was arrested Tues¬ day charged with embezzling $34,000 from the firm of Wetz, Beidler & Co., drygoods merchants at Baltimore. Breid¬ ner was the head bookkeeper for the firm when his accounts showed a shortage. The republican state committee was in session in New York Tuesday and re¬ elected Wm. Brookfield chairman of the state committee, and elected Charles W. Hackett, of Utica, chairman of the exec¬ utive committee in place of Gen. James W. Husted. At Boston, Mass., Sunday night, the passengers of two electric cars in different sections of the city became panic-stricken by the cars taking fire and jumped into the street while the cars wire running at high speed . Thirteen persons were in¬ jured, thee of them seriously. A Paris cablegram of Friday says: A clerk named Greiner, employed in the office of the keeper of the general nation¬ al archives has confessed that in return for bribes paid him by Germany and Italy, he has supplied the authorities of those couatries plans of the coast defense of France. A New York dispatch of Friday gives the total visible supply of cotton for the world at 3,527,888, of which 2,869,188 is amount against 2,485,953 and 1,861,55® respectively Dst year. Receipts at all in¬ terior towns 8,447, receipts of plantation 8,629. Crop in sight 8,901,177. A Chicago dispatch says: Two thous¬ and homes at Ravenswood and Gross Park were suddenly invaded with water Friday night. The territory bounded by Roscoe boulevard, Jackson street, West¬ ern avenue and the Chicago river were converted into a vast lake within two hours. A cablegram of Tuesday says: The recall by the United States government of Captain Borup has had a good effect at Paris. M. Riboi has written a note to M. Naguet saying that all is settled in such a manner that it is not necessary to ask any questions in the chamber of dep¬ uties. A telegram from Seattle, Wash., says: The entire stock and building of Scwaba cher Bros. & Co., on^- of the largest mer¬ chandise dealers on Puget Sound, were destroyed by fire Tuesday night. The loss on the building is $80,000. The firm carried a stock worth $320,000, of which nothing was saved. A special cable dispatch of Saturday to the New York Herald from Valparaiso announces the death of Senior Don Man uel Antonio Matta from appoplexy. Pres¬ MoDtt has decreed him a public funeral in the full honors, since Matta was minister of foreign, affairs at the time of the Baltimore embroglio. A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch of Tuesday says: The Amalgamated Association has abolished the rule requiring two This weeks’ shut down in July for repairs. ac¬ tion is favorable to the manufacturers, and, it is expected, will result in the im¬ mediate signing of the scale at City. Joliet, Irondale, St. Louis and Kansas Advices of Tuesday from Ottawa, Ont., state that at Saturday’s meeting of the Dominion cabinet, the threatened re¬ taliation by the United States govern¬ ment in the matter of canal tolls was _ discussed and a proposal forwarded the United States government offering to concede much of President Harrison's claims. A Washington dispatch of Tuesday says: eral Captain James L. Taylor, ex-gen¬ passenger agent of the Richmond and Danville, has been appointed honorary commissioner of the world’s fair in Eu¬ rope. Colonel Taylor’s residence in the future will be in London. He will lik£ wise be the general European agent of the great Pennsylvania Central railroad system. Dispatches of Tuesday from Oklahoma City state that an organized effort is ing made by the white residents of the town of Noiman to drive all of thi negroes out of that place. Warning! have been sent to the negroes advising them to leave in the next ten days or to suffer the consequences. It is feared serious trouble will result. Dispatches of Tuesday from Burling¬ ton, la., state that the Mississippi river is rising steadily at the rate of half an Inch an hour. Mills have been ci mpein u to close and piles of lumber, as well ns buildings, have had to be anchored. The river about the city is twenty miles wide, having spread out over the low¬ lands of Iowa and Illinois to that extent. olutions A Philadelphia dispatch says: The res¬ introduced by Frederick W. Long, at the meeting of Typographical Uuion No. 2, a week ago, were ta iled at a special meeting Sunday. They de¬ nounced the action of the committee of Typographical York, Union No. 0, of New in endorsing the candidacy of Whitelaw Reid for vice president, and called upon the republican party to with¬ draw his name. The Indiana republican slate conven¬ tion met at Fort Wavue Tuesday. Gov. Chase was renominated on the first bal¬ lot. The platform embraces thirteen planks. The only reference to tariff or silver is found in the first sentence, which says: ‘‘The republicans of Indiana here¬ by approve the declaration adopted by the republican national convention at Minneapolis.” entirely ignored. The liquor question is A Baltimore dispatch says an order was signed by Judge Bond Tuesday author¬ izing the receivers of the Richmond and Danville company to issue receivers’ cer¬ tificates to an amount not exceeding $100,000. The money will be used to pay the operating expenses of the Rich mond ana Danville prior to the appoint¬ ment of the receivers, and car rentals and interest obligations of the leased lines. The receivers expect to pay out about Beven hundred thousand dollars during July. A cablegram of Sunday states that de¬ tectives have started from Bum for Lou¬ don to arrest the anarchists, Francaband Meunnier. It is now proved that these men were the perpetrators of the explo¬ sion at Very’s restaurant, in Paris, April 25’h last, Very having delivered Rava chol up to the police. Both men were arrested at the time of the explosion, but were subsequently released from a lack of proof. An anarchist named Bricon, who is now in jail, furnished proof of their complicity in the explosion. A NEGRO NATIONAL PARTY Organized in Texas—Will Put Out Candidates for Every Office. A dispatch of Tuesday from Ban An¬ tonio, Texas, says; Gualoupe county to¬ day saw the birth of a new party op¬ posed to all the old parties. Under a call issued by B. Berry, a large number of negroes assembled in mass meeting and perfected a permanent organization, with Berry as chairman, and adopted a platform calling for negro nom¬ inations for every office in the gift of the American people from presi¬ dent down to constable. It recites that democracy African; is inherently opposed to the that republicanism ia false to him and that there is no hope for him in the people’s party. He is the rational balance of power. Delegates in every voting precinct were duly appointed and a convention called for the 22nd of July. EARTHQUAKE AND VOLCANO Cause a Reign of Terror Among the Mexicans. Dispatches of Monday from Guadala¬ jara, Mexico, state that the people of that place and surrounding country have been in a state of terror for the past two days on account of repeated shocks occurred of earth¬ Jfn quakes. I he first shock on day night, lasting eighteen seconds, t&e vibrations running from southwest to northeast. At daylight occurred, Saturday mor % ing .a second shock cau3i great disaster. completely No less wrecked. than 100 Several buihj. ings were seriously injured, but persons were none killed. Since then several shocks hate been felt. The Colima volcano, south of Guadalajara, is in active eruption and throwing out great volumes of sulphurous smoke and lava. POPULAR BURGLARS. The Escapades of two Well Known Cit¬ izens of Cedar Bluff, Ala. Cedar Bluff, Cherokee county, Ala., ha 3 been afflicted with mauy burglaries. Monday night Burnett Brothers were oa guard at their store when a burglar came up, pulled off hia shoes and began to enter. A load from a shot-gun laid him out, and the other burglar opened fire on them. He was secured before doing any out damage and the two burglars turned to be well known and poular citizens by the name of Joe and John Wilson. Joe, who fell mortally wounded, belonged to the same Masonic lodge with Burnett Brothers, whose store he had robbed three times before.