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ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS
Reform Press Comment and Items of
Interest to Alliancemen Everywhere.
L. F. Livingston, as chairman of the
committee on constitution at Indianapo¬
lis, made a good fight for economy and
the reduction of running expenses by the
National Alliance.
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The Clinton Caucasian is not surprised
that the piers should misrepresent und
Wall street give money to check the
Alliance, since they saw 5,000,060 voters
represented at the Supreme Council at
Indianapolis*
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The Iowa Tribune and several smaller
papers have combined. The total circu¬
lation is 11,520 copies. It has an able
corps of editors and will make things
hum for the alliance in that State. Gen.
J. B. Weaver is one of the editors.
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It is reported that Hall, McAllister &
Co., the anti-Sub-Trrasuryites, have
indefinitely postponed their convention
at be the Memphis. We thought little that would
outcome of their blowout.
They had better hire somebody to kick
them across the country now.—Progres¬
sive Farmer.
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The Progressive Former says: Accord¬
ing to tome of the papers a few sub¬
alliances in Georgia have disbanded.
Nearly iwo thousand have not disband¬
ed. But still a few will fall from grace.
If you would give some people a pass to
heaven they would light their pipe with
it before they got two hundred feet from
the earth.
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The sub-treasury plan was adopted in
the national meeting unanimously by a
rising vote. This is evidence that the
Order is not divided, but to the contrary
is working together with a unity of ac¬
tion that will sooner or later briDg suc¬
cess. Such a unanimous indorsement af¬
ter the past year of mendacious opposi¬
tion speaks volumes for the completeness
of Alliance education. Let it be contin¬
ued vigorously during the coming year.
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The following are the officers of the
South Dakota State Alliance, selected at
its recent meeting: President, H. L.
Loucks, re-elected-; first vice-president,
A. V. Van Doren; second vice president,
A. T. Adams, re-elected; secretary treas¬
urer, S. M. Harden, re-elected. Execu¬
tive Committee—A. Lawrence, H. W.
Smith, and S. J. Hoffman. Delegates to
Supreme Council—II. L. Loucks, J. R.
Lowe, M. M. Frice; alternates—F. F.
Meyer, J. E. Kelley, and J. W. Hardin.
The Alliance Herald (Montgomery,
Ala.) says: This country is in the throes
of a money famine, and the masses of the
people can realize no prosperity until it
shall be relieved. How this relief shall
come and how it shall be secured, are the
questions for the publicists of this coun
try to settle. The Republican idea is to
reduce the volume of currency. The
Cleveland idea is to destroy the “dishon¬
est money,” which means the same thing.
The masses of the people do not embrace
either of these remedies, for they are not
remedies, but aggravators of the malady.
It would seem to be monumental cheek
for any set of men to offer this remedy to
an intelligent leadingjideas people, political but these are the
two as panaceas for
the ills from which the body politic is
suffering. It requires very little percep¬
tion to realize that the demand is not
met and can never be fulfilled by either
of these remedies.
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The Alliance Sentinel (Rogers, Ark.)
says: The people are in the midst of a
revolution, and revolutions never go back¬
ward, in the midst of a com[ aign, which,
if successful, will result in tbe good of all
the people. Hence, there is no place to
halt now until the race is completed. If
the Alliance is successful good govern¬
ment will be the result, but if bossism
should overthrow the Alliance and fasten
its fangs upon the vitals of the govern¬
ment, in the future as in the past, consti¬
tutional government, so far as tbe Union
is concerned, will be at an end. We are
not an alarmist, but simply call the at¬
tention of the people to a fact. It would
be best for tbe people to look the sur¬
roundings fully and squarely in the face.
Let the people be honest and truthful
with each other; in fact they can not af¬
ford to be otherwise. This is a time of
governmental peril, and the people
should act wisely iu the premises.
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COLD FACTS.
Under the above heading tho National
Economist, in its last issue, says: “The
hurrah existence of the Alliance has
passed and gone. Further growth and
progress must be the result of cold-blood¬
ed calculation and vigorous education
upon correct economic principles. The
excitement and enthusiasm which always
wait upon new conquests must give way
to that cool deliberation which alone can
hold and develop the fruits of victories
already won. Such changed membership. conditions
will be the crucial test of
It will disclose who are the true reform¬
ers, and who are only time-servers; who
have joined tho Oraer for the good of
the human race, and stand ready to make
personal sacrifices in that endeavor, and
those who come in for personal gain or
lack the courage of conviction. Even
now this process of realignment
U going on. Nine-tenths of the
criticisms and objections to Alli
ance doctrines and methods come from
those seeking an excuse to avoid further
resDonsibilitv in alliance reform, and
th> same time make their return to old
pa ty allegiance as easy ns possible. The
o d politicians have played tho waiting
g' nv% the most dangerous of all, and art
j t now doing some effective work.
E p rience has taught them not to ex
i end their strength in fighting a reform
‘luriDg the hurrah and excitement of its
first appearance, but to wait until the
inevitable settling of conditions comes
about and then begin operations in earn.
e-t. When this stage in all reforms is
r*ached there is sure to be found
diff rentes of opinion in regard
t > methods, disappointments in re
g 'o official preferment, jealous
mercenary real motives, fancied auu injuries. plottings All to
revenge or
thi* discord and bitterness is utilized by
t!>« and politician to discover the traitorous
ambitious. When found the work
of disruption and ultimate destruction it
undertaken with a cool, deliberate calcu¬
lation that has seldom failed. Indica¬
tions of this kind of work have been in
the pust to a limited extent, but will in¬
crease, no doubt, rapidly in the immedi¬
ate future. A presidential election is
near at hand wh : cb always brings out the
shrewdest and most unconscionable po¬
litical methods. Besides this aro hard
and individual selfishness is still met with
in the human family. All the wiles of the
politicians, the brutalizing system of the
corruptionist fluence end the fetish in¬
which waits upon party
•ies will be used to their ut¬
most to induce members to leave the
Alliance and tall into line with the old
parties. When one is found willing to
comply his name is givi-n out in the press
and for the moment he is seemingly a
hero. Such methods, it can not be de¬
nied, 'will prove successful in many
instances and each will be magnified in
order to induce the belief that a general
stampede is eminent. Desertions of this
character, if considered in their true
light, are a benefit pure and simple. It
is a separation of ti e real from that
counterfeit that strengthens instead of
depletes. The difficulty lies dot so much
in the discouragement which follows the
loss of such members as in the knowledge
that human nature is so frail and manhood
so these easily turned into merchandise. Some
of conditions confront the Alliance
at the present time. There are no more
States to organize, or but few at least.
The opposition is contending for every
foot of territory with a mendacity never
equaled. The press has been subsidized
until it is a unit its contest against the
Order.”
Corporations, trusts aud monopolies,
with all the cunning and craft that
money can purchase, are seeking to de¬
stroy its power. Both political parties
are uniting against it, and the whole
power of government is being used in
the same direction. To retain the pres¬
will ent membership under such conditions
be a task of no little magnitude.
To meet this opposition squarely requires
courage of the highest type. There is
no room for cowards. Brave men and
true umph women can alone bring ultimate tri¬
to Alliance principles. The com¬
ing year is full of danger, hard work and
many discouraged disappointments. Instead of being
let each resolve anew to re¬
double all previous efforts to serve the
order by defending its principles and
aiding those who are engaged in the
work of education. A uniud effort of
this character would strengthen the weak,
convince the doubting, and bring defeat
and confusion to the opposition.
CHILEANS ARE SURPRISED
That We Should Consider the Murder
of a Few Sailors.
A San Fraucisco dispatch of Wednes¬
day says: Correspondence of the As>o
ciated Press from Santiago, Chili, under
date of November 21st, says the feeling
against Americans is so strong that ever
since the congressional party came into
posed power a majority.of the people are dis¬
to regard the killing of the fe.w
American sailors as a very trifling affair,
aud express much surprise that the
United States should have taken official
notice of the matter. The reports of the
intendente of Valparaiso say there were
2,000 men engaged in the “sailors’ ”
fight. He gives this figure to show that
the police were powerless to quell the
disturbance.
As a matter of fact there was not any¬
where near half that number, and the
police found ample opportunity to stop
the trouble. For some time following
the attack there was a strong feeling
among the crew of the Baltimore, and
the men would have liked to send another
party ashore better equipped. Of thirty
six American sailors arrested at the time
of the fight, not one had a weapon more
formidable than sailors’ jack-knives.
Tbe correspondent says President
Montt has given no special indication of
any sympathy with the general ill feeling
in Chile against the United States. Iu a
recent interview with an Associated
Press correspondent, he expressed the
hope amicably, that all dificulties did would believe be settled
as he not the
people of either nation desired
trouble. He also expressed disap¬
proval of the accusations and insinu
tions made against the American minis¬
ter by certain Chileans in the United
States, professing to speak for the Chil¬
ean government.
PLUMB’S WEALTH.
The Dead Senator’s Private Estate at
Least a Million.
A dispatch of Since Thursday the death from Emporia,
Kansas, says: of the late
Senator Plumb there has been a great
deal of speculation as to the dimensions
of his private estate. Colvin Hood, bus¬
iness associate of Mr. Plumb, and one of
the executors of the will, states that the
estate, at p very conservative estimate, is
trained at. m 1 OOO OOO
HUNG TO TREES.
The Fate of Bob Sims and His Gang
iu Alabama.
A dispatch <>f Thursday from Mobile,
A’a , says: Th re inon lis ago Bob Sims,
leader of the co religionists in Choctaw
county, all in t m no gbborhood ol Wo¬
mack Hill, v at arrested for running an
illicit distillery, which he claimed he had
divine authority to run. Two of hi
bmthers, fellow believers, lescued him,
killing a bystander and wounding a dep¬
uty in charge. One of the brothers was
killed. Si ns ami the other broth*r es¬
caped, ai d have been hunted for flight vigor¬
ously ever since. Wednesday Bob
Sims and hisguug reappeared in Womack
Hill and attacked tbe house of John
McMillan, who has been a member of tlie
pursuing posse. A ll o’clock at night
seven of the Sims juang, all armed with
Winchesters, fired into McMillan’s house
and shot the occupants as they r.m out.
Fluellen Ufzen was shot, but not mor¬
tally wounded; John Kennedy, McMil¬
lan’s father in-law, was killed; John
McMillan was shot three times and will
die; Mdian tbe twelve-year-old neice of Mc
was > killed; the ten-year-old ne¬
phew whs shot in tbe house and burned;
Miss McKenzie Shorter, boarding at Mc
M Han’s, was shot twice in the neck;
Chat ley Ritzey escaped unhurt. They
then opened McMillan’s s'ore and robbed
it of what they wanted and left it lighted
up and open, scattering shoes along the
road.
PURSUING THE OUTLAWS.
After the slaughteran alarm was spread
and Sheriff D. V. Gavin and po-se started
in pursuit of tbe desperadoes. They were
found and surrounded in Sim’s old home,
six miles from the scene. Knowing that
the cabin was provi-ioned with articles
plundered from McMillan’s store, and
also that Sims and his men would not
surrender without a fight in which the
as-aulting party would suffer severely,
the sheriff telegraphed Governor Jones
lor a detachment of artillery, his purpose
being to overawe Sims by a display of
force, or to blow the cabin to pieces.
The governor ordered Colonel Price Wil¬
liams, commanding the First regiment of
state troops, to respond with a detach¬
ment and one piece of artillery! :
The troops left Mobile at a quarter of 3
o’clock Saturday morning, and reached
Shubata, Miss., at 6 o’clock. At half¬
past 9 o’clock, the soldiers were er. route
for the scene of action in Choctaw coun¬
ty, Ala., twenty-one miles distant.
In tbe meantime Sheriff Gavin on Christ¬
mas morning sent to Bladen Springs for
cannon. When Sims heard of this prep¬
aration to blow his strong-hold to splin¬
ters, he looked at his women folk and his
lieait misgave him. He begin to parley
with the sheriff At 2 o’clock he said he
would surrender if the posse would do
him no injury, and' if the posse would
protect him from mob violence. At first
the proposal was flatly refused, but the
fact that there were women in the house
was a strong point iu favor of mercy to
the inmates, so that at last the terms of
Sims were accepted. At 4:30 o’clock the
outlaws laid oown their arms, and came
out of the house. The posse were aston¬
ished to see that, instead of seven des
peiate outlaws, there were only two men
and a boy, as follows: R .bt. Sims,
Thomas Savage aud Young Savage, a
nephew of Sims. Four women—Bob’s
wi'e and three daughters—came ou f , also.
The others were at once iroDed aud placed
in a wagon. The women were placed in
a second wagon and under guard. At 5
o’clock the precession started to Butler,
the county seat of Choctaw county, al¬
though it was feared that they would be
mobbed on the way.
As showing the temper of the people of
Choctaw it is said that John Savage, who
was arrested the day before Christmas on
the charge of being a member of the
Sims gang, was hanged to a tree at 10
o’clock the same
THEY WERE LYNCHED.
A later dispatch states that while the
posse in charge of the Sims party were
enroute to Butler Friday night a mob of
Choctaw men overpowered the posse and
hanged the three men—Bob Sims, Tom
Savage and Young Savage. It is report¬
ed that another of the Savage boys was
hanged at the same time.
When the guard moved off with Sims
and the three Savage men—for there
were three of them, namely, Thomas
Savage and two boys, sons of Con Savage
—there remained behind the greater part
of the posse that the sheriff hud attracted
to the scene, and these immediately held
a consultation, and, after debate, decided
it would not do to peimit the desper
uues one cnance or escape. »o tney set
out in pursuit. On the way they met
Con Savage, another of the Simsites,
and without any delay he was strung up
to a tree. This is the man reported
hanged on Christmas eve. Later the
guard was overhauled, but made no re¬
sistance. Sims and the other three were
taken back to the tree upon which Con
Savage had been hanged, and four ropes
were quickly adjusted to the branches
thereof. The nooses were quickly ad¬
justed and the four desperadoes were
launched into eternity.
YELLOW FEVER IN BRAZIL
Is Epidemic and Makes Fearful Havoc
Among the People.
Advices have been received at London
that the ravages of yellow fever in Brazil
are growing heavier daily. People at the
various ports are well accustomed to the
presence of the disease, but so severe and
fatal are its attacks now thata widespread
panic has seized upon them. All those
who are able are fleeing to the mountains
for safety.
Theodore B. Flegler, an old sailor of
the Monongahela, now living in the Sol¬
diers’ Home at Norton, Conn., is to receive
$30,000 as his share of prize money won by
Admiral Farragut.’s squadron during the
war.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Cf Brief Items of Interest From
Various Scurces.
The gtip is becoming epidemic in New
York. Twelve deaths were reported
Thursday.
Dr. R. A. Kinler, a prominent surgeon
of South Caiolina, died iu Charleston
Wednesday.
A lire in New York Wednesday dam¬
aged the scale factory of John Chatilton
to the extent of $40,000.
A collision occurred Thursday near
Cuernevaca, Mexico, on the Southern
railroad, resulting in the death of twelve
persons.
On Wednesday, revenue inspectors in
New York seized valuable paintings,
owned by Colonel A. Gross, on the
charge of smuggling.
The total number of postoffices in the
United States is 65,007, being the high¬
est number ever reached. About three
hundred are presidential.
Reports indicate of Thursday from the north¬
west that it is snowing over a
wide area, extending from northwest ter¬
ritory southward to Montana.
Ten deaths from grip were reported to
the board of health of New York Friday
as against twelve on the preceding day.
Six were in tenement bouses and four in
private houses.
A Washington dispatch of Friday says :
The navy department has been officially
informed of the arrival of the United
States Cruiser Boston at Valparaiso,
Chile. Orders have been issued to the
commander to proceed to San Francisco.
A New York dispatch of Wednesday
says: The condition of Cirus W. Field
is considered more hopeful to-day than it
has been for some time. He was able to
sit up and take a little nourishment. His
family now has no fears of any immediate
danger.
The first twelve-inch gun ever made
at Washington naval ordnance foundry
was tested at the proving grounds at In¬
dian Head, Md., Wednesday. Success¬
ful results were obtained, both from the
rifle and pneumatic carriage, upon which
it is mounted.
Saturday was the 115th anniversary of
the revolutionary b<ttle of Trenton, N.
J. Gov. Abbett laid the corner stone of
a monument and to the memory of Washing¬
ton the continental troops who
crossed the Delaware and surprised aud
routed the Hessians.
At Camden, N. J., Saturday, A. Holt,
publisher of the Echo, a religious journ¬
al, issued in that city, was fined $1,000
for cont mpt iu publishing a statement
r< fleeting on the court. He was com¬
mitted to prison until further orders of
the court are made.
Wednesday’s dispatches say that Walt
Whitman is reported to be growing
steadily weaker. The doctors report that
they are waiting for the end, which may
come at anv hour, or which may be de¬
layed for several days yet, ow’ing to the
vitality of the aged poet. He takes but
tittle nourishment.
A cablegram of Wednesday from Paris
states that Jules Simon, the distin¬
guished French statesman and author,
who has bi-en critically ill for some time
past, is dying. His last appearance in a
Dublic capacity was as president of th<'
international emigration conference
recently held in Paris.
A cablegram from Rome, Italy, says:
While midnight mass in celebration of the
Christmas festival was being performed
Friday morning in a church in the city
of Valencia, four bombs were exploded
in the edifice in rapid succession. The
congregation was, for the time, paralyz¬
ed by fear, and a number of lights
burning in the church were extinguish¬
ed.
A New York dispatch of Thursday
says: John G. Roth, the crank who at¬
tempted the life of Rev. Dr. John Hall,
was put on the stand. He told a ramb¬
ling and incoherent story of conspiracy
to keep him forever in poverty, and
claimed that Dr. Hall was at its head.
The whole of his tale of woe was that ol
a madman at bay, and his counsel had no
difficulty in satisfying the jury as to the
prisoner’s insanity.
RIOTOUS MEXICANS.
Tlie People Object to the Closing: of
Their Monasteries.
A dispatch of Thursday from the City
of Mexico says: A district judge recent¬
ly issued orders to the police and troops
for clossng four monasteries in Pueblo
on the ground that the maintenanc3 of
these institutions is contrary to law.
Upon carrying out the judge’s orders the
people revolted and a fight between the
people on one side and the police and
soldiers on the other followed, during
which one person was killed and four
others wounded. Accounts of the affair
are conflicting. The clergy on one hand
assert that they were torn from the altars,
leaving the sacrament exposed, dragged
through the streets by troops and sub¬
jected to many humiliations. The popu¬
lace rose en masse and < ffered considera¬
ble resistance to the troops, crying:
“Viva la religion; death to the Masons.”
Twenty-five priests were arrested. Pu¬
eblo is in a state of intense excitement.
For the first time in fifty-six years a mils
der has occurred in Iceland. The population
is 66,000, but the island has no use for jails
aqd has caused criminal courts. The recent murder
as much excitement as would be
felt in the capitals of Europe over a general
war* ,
DUN’S REVIEW
Of Business for the Week Ended De¬
cember 24 th.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the six days ended
December 24th, reported to R. G. Dun &
Co., number for tho United States 257,
and for Canada 35, a total of 292, as
compared with a total of 835 lust week
and 320 the w< ek previous to las'. For
tho corresponding week of la-t yeur, tho
figures were833, representing 303 failures
in the United States and 80 in the Do¬
minion of Canada.
The holiday trade is not always a just
measure of the prosperity of tbe people,
nut it is satisfactory to know that at most
points it is unusually large this year. It
indicates that the people feel able to ex¬
pend more liberality than usual, aud it
returns large outlays to the manufactu¬
rers of holiday goods. The general
trade'this season is unusually light, the
merchants being engaged in taking
stock, but at many points it is reported
larger than usual, and even larger than
last year.
The volume of tiade measured by the
clearings at the various cities, outside of
Now York, was 6 per cent more than last
year tor the first half of December, and
la'er reports show nn increase of about 9
per cent. The movement of products
continues extraoidinary. Reports from
cities other than New York show less
complaint as to collections, and a large
trade in piogress. At Baltimore trade in
clathing, dry goods, and boots and shoes
is go. d lor the trade season. At Philadelphia,
the jewelry is unusually busy, the
grocery trade light, but equal to last
year’s, Trade in tea, coffee and sugar
fairly active, and in chemicals quiet and
steady; while tobacco, liquors aud wool
are Southern quiet. cities cheerfully
report less
than the others, the low price of cotton
causing the dullness. The great rindus
tr es close the year with more than the
usual activity, even woolen mills having
orders enough to keep them fairly em¬
ployed, and a number have recently
s arted but none shut down. Cotton
manufacturers find a good demand and
numerous enlargements of plan's are re¬
ported . orders 8hoe factor lacking, es are complain that
the usual are aud yet they
are fairly active. Paper mills are busy
and making many additions of machinery
and buildings.
Iron manufacturers have been turning
but more pig than ever before, though
some works stop for the . holidays, and
tlie tone of the market is stronger, with
rather more demand for finished products.
Speculation continues moderate, wheat
having risen ljr cents, with sales of 13,
000,000 bushels, corn having declined 1
cent, and oats a fraction. Coffee un¬
changed, oil -J a cent higher, and pork un¬
changed.
COTTON STILL LOWER.
Cotton has dropped a sixteenth below
8 cents, with receipts from the plan¬
tations exceeding last year’s to
date by 556,000 bales. The very large
output of coal leads operators to expect
lower prices. Money is plenty and cheap,
a id there is a general feeling that tie
favorable conditions will continue tor
some months.
LESS COTTON.
A Movement in Mississippi to Reduce
Acreage.
A meeting of planters, merchants, fac¬
tors and others interested in the produc¬
tion of cotton was held at Greenville,
Miss., Wednesday. State Auditor W.
W. Stone, one of the largest planters in
the delta, called the meeting to order,
and introduced the following resolutions,
which, after full discussion, were unani¬
mously adopted:
Resolved, That we, the plasters and
cotton factors of Washington county,
lecognizing the intense financial strain
and absolute distress which now hangs
like a pall over the cotton producing
country, growing out of overproduction
under the present management, and that
in the future we see no hope for us ss
producers unless some radical remedial
changes are made in the system now in
vogue among the planters and merchants,
to the end that less cotton be raised or
the production be cheapened.
NEW POSTAL CARDS.
Issued from the Postoffice Department
at Washington.
Two new sizes of postal cards went into
effect Tuesday. The postoffiee depart¬
ment issues them to postmasteis, to be
known as “A” and “C” cards resp;ictive
ly, in addition to the “B,” the one.now
in current use. Tbe A will be of fine
quality of loft-dried paper; the C of a
strong, finely fiuished jute paper. The
former will be nearly gray in color and
2 15-16 by 4jj inches in dimension, with
a portrait of General Grant in the upper
right-hand dark corner. The The card will be
printed in blue. C will be
light manilla, like the 3j(xG£ inches, designed
very much other new card. Post¬
masters will not be permitted under any
circumstances to redeem postal cards in
the hands kind for of another. the public, nor to exchange
one
FOR DEEP WATER.
A Petition to Congress Endorsing Sa¬
vannah’s Scheme.
The first movement in congress
the appropriation of $3,000,000 made iu the to
Savannah harbor was senate
Wednesday. It came from Missouri, and
was in the shape of several petitions board of
fered by Mr. Cockrell, from tire
trade and the Commercial Club at St.
Joseph. They endorsed
scheme, and petitioned recommended. eongiess to
priate the amount
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