The Age-Herald, 1897-09-01

country decide to do battle with our common en;my they can count upon us to come to th? front and take our places, side by side with them and fight with them. "Never In my life have I been m --re hopeful than now. I am not gifted with great vissionary powers, but 1 can se - the beginning of tha end. When the people are r ady and that day Is not far off, my friends, there will be a spon spontaneous - taneous spontaneous uprising, the supr me court will be abolished, congress dispersed and the sacred rights of American citzens and American freedmen will be enthroned. I pi ad guilty to the charge of being rad radical. - ical. radical. I only wish you would allow m m'to - 'to m'to be more radical still. Support us, gentlemen of th - convention, and 1 prom promise - ise promise you wHl support the attempt to ah I I1sh - 1sh I1sh government by injunction and the Judges who Issue them. "On bearing arms I hop-, in the march of common intelligence, w - will reach a point where we will be able to settle these points without appealing to e-word and bullet. I cann- t tell, there are thousands of our f-llow citizens suffer suffering, - ing, suffering, and certainly this cannot last. "I will not stand a-jida and tell you to go ahead. I will be In front and tell you to come on. (Renewed cheers.) -I shrink from that bloodshed." and Mr. D?bs paused lmpresslv. ly, "but! f C.t's U nee s ssurv - surv ssurv to preserve th? lib rty and our i iahi s In that event I will shod the last drop of blood that coutses through my ve nt (Cu .breaks of cheering.) Plutocracy can not buy me; they may stnd m - to Jail; may ostrayVsc me or k ing m?, bur, la th - language of the revolu.tlcmary h rats. I' do not propose to part company with my seSf-respcct, ind-t-p-nde-n'ce and mar.hood. We n-o longe-.' hove a republic. The e Is no; a vestige of lit 1 .ft. The1 judicial y of this country has p'aeed a padlock on my independeniee-, forlVdden- me ;o walk < n public highways and destroyed all my rights." Mr. Mahone introduced n resolution calling upon all -the miners now -a; woik to Missouri, Iowa, Kan~ar?. Kfn-uckyar.d other fleld-s to quit work, and denouncing them on enemies to human li-be iy so 1 ng as they condnufd their work. The convention adjourned shor.ly be before - fore before 7 o'clock sto-e die. A KUOIKEJTTER MAIL First For the Gold Fields Will Leave in Two Weeks. ANOTHER POSTAL ROUTE - Proposed by the British Government, Which May Force the Development of the American Treasure Fields, Aug. 31. - The first letter mall to be dieipaith'hed from *this country to th-e K'lor-dyke region under the |i w reciprocal arrangement witih Canada, ef effected - fected effected by establishing an International exchange Uiween Dyoa and Caw.-on City, Willi be forwarded from Skaguay by a steamer Paving there Septemb r IS. From that time forward letter mall will go over the route r gularly o-mce a month. The last opportunity to tend njwipip rs and reading material generally Into the gold region until next spring will be af afforded - forded afforded by the "paper mail," the last of the season, which will be forwarded by steamer leaving San Francisco Septem September - ber September 5 "* Unofficial advices reached the post of office - fice office department that tihe British govern government - ment government Is contemplating another postal route Into the lOoudyke -region from the coast to be almost wholly within the Br t tish - ish tish territory. The entrance fr -m the ccaist is to be effected, according to the new plan by means of the Btl-nlke river, which has Its mouth on tihis United Etat-. s side of the line, but passage through which Is free to all. This scheme as tt Is beir.g projected Is for the British mall dairying vesd.lls to gio In ntoax Prlttoe of Wales island, up the Stlkln? river, thence, from -near Its head, a-bova Fort Wrangle, cross overland about 150 miles to Testin (or AkPtni?) lake, up the llo d dallnqua - allnqua dallnqua and Lives rivers to the "boom" district. Acting Poetmaster General Elialenberger an-d other officials were busy today going over thi? details of the new mail route from Dyc-a to Dawson City, made by agreement between this country and Canada, nml perfecting ar arrangements - rangements arrangements for the exchange scheme on the part of the United States. Reports have reached here that per persons - sons persons acquainted with the Alaskan gold situation generally believe that the Cop Copper - per Copper river valley will be the scene of great activity very soon. This news cr-mes to a personal way from postal authorltl s who have had an opportunity to inquire Into the matter. It Is based not only on the reported productiveness of the val valley, - ley, valley, but largely on the proscriptive m as asures - ures asures the Canadian government Is about to establish, taking every alternate claim and demanding 20 per cent, of th* profits. It Is understood, according to these re reports, - ports, reports, that the establishment of th? p 1 1Icy - Icy 1Icy would drive the prospectors across tho fine lata out territory and oo develop the fields wlthip the domain of the United States. , i

means of production and distribution for their private benefit, a fact again obvi obvious - ous obvious in the case of miners. "Whereas, appeals to congress and to the courts for relief are fruitless, since the legislative as well as the ex cu.ive and Judicial powers are under the control of the caci'.aHs: class, so that It has comd to pass In this-'free count.-y' that while cattle and siwine have a rlghh to the pub public - lic public highway, Americans, so-called free men, hBive not. "Whereas, our capitalists, a class as shown In the present st ike, ha:j armed, and has r.ot only policemen, sheriffs and marshals, but has ordered cut the mill milli - i milli tary for the purpose of enforcing govern government - ment government by injunction, suppressing lawful assemblages, free speech and the right to vhe public highway, while, on the other hand, the laboring men of the country are unarmed and defenseless, contrary to the words and spirit of the consl'u consl'u41 - 41 consl'u41 m of the Un ted Sta e \ Therefore, be it "Resolved, That we hereby set apart Friday, t'he 3d day of September, 1897, 33 'Good Friday' for the cause of suffering tabor In America and contribute .he earn earnings - ings earnings of that day to the support of oar struggling brothers, the miners, and ap appeal - peal appeal to every union man and every friend of labor throughout Vhe country to do likewise. "Resolved, If the strike of the m'ncrs Is no; settled by Sept. 20, 1897, and an announcement - nouncement announcement made to that effect, a g n neral - eral neral convention be held at Chicago, on Monday, Sept. 20, 1897, by the representa representatives - tives representatives of all unions, sections, brunches, lodges and kindred organizations of la laboting - boting laboting men and friends of their cuuce for the purpose of considering other means la the Interests cf .he,striking min miners - ers miners and laboring men. "Resolved, That the proper use of the ballot Is the best means for relief; the public ownership of railroads and telegraph is a most nec ssary rtform; that we protest against government by injunction. "Resolved, That no nation in which the people are totally disarmed can long remain a free nation and, therfore, we urge upon all liberty loving citizens to remember and obey article two of the constitution of the United States, which reads as follows: " The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' " Eugene V. Debs was called upon. His appearance was the signal for loud ap applause. - plause. applause. Mr. Debs said: "I believe the gravity of the Industrial situation in this coun country - try country Is well understood. It is quite evi evident - dent evident that delegates to his convention are quite cognizant that civil liberty is dead In America. I have said again and say again for the last time, that I have applied to the courts for justice and shall apply to them no more. The Amerlcn Railway Union expended $46, $46,000 - 000 $46,000 to have the question of civil rights tested In the supreme court of the United States only to be told that we have no rights that caplal was bound to respect. Shall we appeal to the supreme court again? No, we appeal to this conven convention - tion convention and to the country for an uprising of all the common people ^n every walk of life to beat back the courts and re reenthrone - enthrone reenthrone '.he rights of the American peo people. - ple. people. Labor Is enslaved. What shall we do? I pr-dlct, my friends, that we shall see the extraordinary spectacle of enslaved labor rattling Its chains and dancing to the music. From the justtde of the peace to the justices of the supreme court of the Uplted States, all the judicial power Is directed against labor. All the organ organized - ized organized sources of society are against labor, and If labor expects to emancipate It Itself, - self, Itself, laibor Itself must do It." "The time has not quite come to In Incite - cite Incite the p ipulaee," said Mr. Debs, shaking his list. "I serve notice to the plutocrats of this country that we are on the eve of a meeting in Chicago which will be attended by all branches of labor. That convention will take up these same ques questions - tions questions and will institute agitation and keep It going until this public conscience and public heart are aroused. Then will cortie suchf an uprising as the world has never seen. There is something greater in this movement than any one element can manage - the emancipation of labor. Th,eie is no division here. Each man 1s entitled- to his own opinion and Ms right to express it; each man to his .duty a* becomes That man. I am side by side with you. I am a trades unionist and a Socialist. (Tremendous cheering.) -"Whenever (he trades unions of this

PARTY LEADERS ARE CRITICISED Gov. O'Ferral Talks Plainly on the Dem Democratic - ocratic Democratic Situation. NO SUPPORT FOR NOMINEES Under Present ConOjns Forthcoming From the Yirg>^ White House. DENOUNCES AN AND DANIEL / - The Latter For insistency, the Former For Arranging',^itump the State For a Populist Four Years Ago - De DeFends - Fends DeFends His Position. Washington, Aug. 31. - The Foot will tomorrow print a lengthy Interview with Gov. Charles T. O'Ferral, of Virginia, who last fall declined to support the nominees and platform of the Chicago convention and who is the recognized head of th gold democrats In Virginia. Gov. O'Ferral talks with plainness as to his present position and his future action. He anTeunees his determina determination - tion determination not to support, under present condi conditions, - tions, conditions, the democratic state ticket recently n minated at Roanoke and gives his reae sons for reaching this decision. He criticises hi emphatic language the tone of the Raders at that convention, indorsing the Chicago platform, and also pays his respects to the free silver dem democrats - ocrats democrats who have made him a target of abuse, claiming that they have tak-n advantage of his position, knowing that he could not answer them, and charging them with attempting to seek notoriety, through hurling epithets at him. He rei rates his charge that Bryan had made every arrangement to enter the state in 1893 and make speeches In be behalf - half behalf of the populist who was running for gov error against him and gives ad additional - ditional additional evidence to substantiate his as assertion. - sertion. assertion. He speaks of Senator Daniel as having supported in the senate a res resolution - olution resolution indorsing Cleveland's action as re regards - gards regards the Chicago strike and yet voted In the committee on. resolutions In Chicago denouncing Cleveland for the very act which the s nator had previously com commended. - mended. commended. Gov. O'Ferral also defends his course in ordering out the militia to prevent iynehlngs and calls attention to the fact that, although there were sixty-two lynch lrgs in the state from 1880 to 1894, there have only been two during his admin administration. - istration. administration. Ho says he lias no apologies or regrets for his course In politics and Intimates that if Bryan Is renominated on a platform similar to the one adopted at Chicago, Virginia may go republican in 1900. ALABAMA'S CROPS. A Splendid Showing For All the Farm and Orchard Products. Special to The Age-Herald. Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 31. - Commis 31. - Commissioner - sioner 31. - Commissioner of Agriculture Culver gave out tonight some official facts as to this year's crops In Alabama. He says the Cotton crop this year as compared with last is now 85 per cent, with the average failing dally on account of rust, too much rain and boll worms. Cotton Is opening rapidly and being gathered promptly but Ilttl- is being marketed. The best crop of wheat known for years has just been harvested. Spring oats were a failure, but the fall sowing Is very promising. Ther? Is good promise for th- t'/bacco crop and the hay crop Is excellent, the average this year being a fourth larger than, ever before and the yield being sufficient to supply all local d-.mands. The Irish potato crop Is the best in years and the corn crop is 102 per cent, with a decrease In acreage of 5 per cent. Sweet potatoes are about an av rage. The sugarcane and s- rghum crops are are10 - 10 are10 per cent, above last year. Labor Is reported plentiful and contented. Stock Is doing exceptionally well this year. The fruit crop has been good except excepting - ing excepting as to pears which are generally re reported - ported reported as suffering from blight. ItHiiIrlilnc AiiarclilAfn. Madrid, Aug. 31. - The Spanish govern government - ment government Is formula 11 :£ A plan to bring about tt-c- banishment of all anarchists from Spain. It Is etnounoad here that anmcih anmcih1- - 1- anmcih1- ts will no longer be allowed to lanld lit England aid that, therefore, the govern government - ment government of Spain must deport them.

PRAY DO HOT TRY FOR MOTHER'S SAKE Handsome Female Suicide's Appeal to Be Buried as an Unknown. AND ANOTHER UNFORTUNATE May Have Sought by Death to Wipe Ont Disgrace. WAS INDUCED BY A GAY LOTHARIO -- Her Identity Clouded in Mystery-Without a! Clew to Unravel the Tangle - Initials Marked on Her Linen May Be of Some Assistance. Chicago, Aug. 31. - A handsome young woman, whose name 1s unknown, killed herself rhts morning in lie Victoria hotel, where she was a guest. The suicide was evidently carried out with the utmoe; de deliberation, - liberation, deliberation, as the yo-ung woman bad tvl tvldien'.'ly - dien'.'ly tvldien'.'ly slept In. the bed during the night, taken a bath in the morning, made up t'he bed, and then, swallowing morphine, lay down -to die. At 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon she entered the ho.el and informed the clerk that she was on u long Journey, and wished t-o remain in Chicago for a day for the purpose erf resting. IShe paid for her room In advance, as she had no baggage, and registered as Mies Blanche Wilson, New York City. She requested Ilia, if she foiled to rise early in the morning she 'be allowed bo sleep, as sh was very tired. IShe was shown to her room anil that was the last seen cf her alive. After repeated knociks had failed to arouse her tho room was forced and she was found dead o-n the bed. She was clad only in a night lobe. A vial which had con contained - tained contained morphine was on the (bed, and on a chair was her colthlng folded r.-eat'y. The dress and linen were of expensive mate-rials. Sealed in -an envelope which bore na address a note was found on the table. It read as follows: "To whoever it may b^: Please do not try to find out anything about me. I beg and pray of you as a favor to a dy dying - ing dying woman. For Our Ruler's sake do not try. I do not care what you do with my body. R. member, please, do not try for my mother's sake." There was no signature to tho not;. It was penned In a small feminine hand and the formation of the letters indi indicated - cated indicated that the hand which held the pen - trembling. The bed had evidently been made up hurriedly after having been slept in and the woman had evi evidently - dently evidently taken a bath and dressed her hair carefully before taking the poison. On her hand was a plain gold ring and In Inside - side Inside was engraved, "A. M. E." In a bundle of four collars, two were marked "L, H. G.," one "L. M. G." and one "L. M." The collar she was wearing was marked similarly to on- in the package, "X.. II. G." DUE TO CROPS. New York's Leading Banks Shipping Millions to Move the Farm Products. TTew York, Aug. 31. - A canvass of the leading banks in this city shows that large sums of money are being shipped daily to help move- the crops. One of Ihe deposit institutions here has sent $100,000 since the middle of last week and orders ar:- still coming in. The sub subtreasury - treasury subtreasury at this city has not had as many currency orders as was usual, but this is ascribed to the lateness of the crops In the southwest. Altogether It Is estimated that fully $5,000,000 of crop money has br.gn shipped from this city the past fortnight. The southern creditors are In better shape just now than they have been in several years and the- general c-utlook In that section and the southwest as viewed from here is unusually bright. "breaking recordsT American Steamer St. Paul Lowering the Best Previous Performance 2 1-2 Hours. Southampton, Aug. 31. - The American line steamer. St. Paul, Capt. Jamieson, from New York for this port, was report reported - ed reported passing Sicily at 4 o'clock this evening. The St. Paul has again reduced her time between New York and Southampton, lowering the record tpade last trip by ber

St. Louts, Aug. 31. - The committee on resolutions of the convention of labor leaders completed its task this -morning and at 10 o'clock the fo.lowing platform was presented to the convention and finally adopted. / The platform as presented reads as fol follows: - lows: follows: . \ , "The fear of the watchful fath ra of the republio have been justified. The judiciary has become supreme. We w.t w.tness - ness w.tness a political position absolutely new in the history of the world, a republic prostrate ait the feet of judges appointed to administer the laws. They acknowl acknowledge - edge acknowledge no supperlor on earth and their despotic deeds re-ca'l Milton'st warning to his countrymen, who bids a man rule over him above law, may bid as well a ravage beast. "Under the cunning form of injunc injunctions, - tions, injunctions, courts have assumed to enact criminal laws and after drawing thus to themselves the power of legislation have repealed the bill of rights and, for violations of these court-made laws, have denied 'the accused the right of trial 6y L 1 jury. The exercise of the commonest rights of free men, the right of a sembly, the right of free speech, the right of traveling the public highways, haye Iby legislation, under the form of Injunctions, been made a crime and armed forces dis disperse - perse disperse as mobs people daring In company to exercise these rights. At Its last term the supreme court of the United Stat s decided hat the thirteenth amendment, forbidding Involuntary servitude, Is not violated by arresting a seaman, Impris Imprisoning - oning Imprisoning him until his vessel Is ready to leave port, and then forcibly putting him on board to serve out the term of his contract, a decision under which the old fugitive slave laws may yet be revived and striking laborers may be seized and returned to the service of their masters. Having drawn to them themselves - selves themselves all the powers of the federal gov- - ornmerit untfl congrefsea and presidents may act only by Judicial permission, the federal Judges have begun the subjuga subjugation - tion subjugation of sovereign sitgtes so that unless a check is soon put upon the progress of usurpation, In a short time the absolut absolutism - ism absolutism of federal judges will exist anywhere over any portion of American soil. "The pending strike of coal miners, starved to feebleness by their scant wages and by arduous and dangerous toll, the pending strike for the right to be fed enough to make labor possible, has been prolific of judicial usurpation showing the willingness of judicial des despots - pots despots to resort to the most shameless' de defiance - fiance defiance of decency as well as of law and humanity, in order to enable heartless avarice to drive Its hungry serfs back to faint and die at their drudgery, and there remains today not one guaranteed right of American citizens, the exercise of which Injunction has not somewhere made a crime by these perversions of constitutional liberty. "We have met here In council together and have come to the following conci concision, - sion, concision, that: "Whereasi, the present strike of th* coal miners has again demonstratefl the fact that our so-called liberty Is not free freedom, - dom, freedom, but is a stupendous sham, under which millions are degenerating while: hundreds of thousands of men, women ' and children are starving In hovels and on the public highways, j "Whereas, this condition has become permanent for a long and ever Increas Increasing - ing Increasing Humbler of our population as long as we permit a comparatively small class of legalised exploiters to monopolize the

WEAVING THE FATAL WEB Witnesses Give Strong Testimony Against Luetgert. HIS DOMESTIC TROUBLES Told to a Neighbor Are Repeated From the Stand - Night Watchman Bialk De Details - tails Details His Movements. Chicago, Aug. 31. - Three witnesses were placed on the stand by the prosecution in the Luetgert trial to today. - day. today. Probably the most important wit witness - ness witness of the three was Frank Bialk, night watchman at the Luetgert sausage fac factory- - tory- factory- Bialk, who Is a German, 42 years of age, was a trusted employe of the defendant, for whom he worked several years. His testimony, which he gave In German, bore directly on the movemtnt the defendant during the night of May 1. He also reported how two bottles, which he called caustic potash, were stored on one of the upper floors of the factory and were shortly before May 1 taken to the basement, where the bottles were emptied Ito the vat and dissolved by steam. The other witnesses were Charles L. Melander, a. photographer, who identified several views of the Luetgert factory, ar.d Mrs. Agatha Tosch, the wife of a saloonkeeper. Mrs. Tosch was frequent frequently - ly frequently In charge of her husband's saloon, and had several conversations with Luetgert regarding the disappearance of his wife. She had been regarded as one of the state's strongest witnesses, being one of the few who saw smoke issuing from the factory the night Mrs. Luetgert dis disappeared. - appeared. disappeared. She swore that Luetgert had urged her to say nothing about the smoke, ns It might get him in trouble. The witness detailed that Luetgert had related his domestic unhappiness, and had told her of the contempt with which he regarded hie wife. He had, she said, told her husband that his feel feelings - ings feelings against his wife were so bitter that he could crush her. Witness also told that Luetgert, on May 1, and on another occasion, had told her that he felt like killing himself, and would do so If It were not for leaving his little children. Before taking of testimony began to today - day today attorneys for the defense asked the court to compel the state to set forth by what means, according to the theory of the prosecution, the life of Mrs. Luetgert was taken before her body was placed tn the vat. The indictment contained twelve counts, but did not state the man manner - ner manner of Mrs. Luetgert's death. The court decldtd that the state was not bound to specify the means of death. Watchman Bialk will resume the wit witness - ness witness stand tomorrow. Expedition Abandoned. Chicago, Aug. 31. - Spanish Consul Go Gominez - minez Gominez thinks that the proposed army of volunteers, numbering 200 men, and three car loads of gunaland ammunition, which was to leave this citytoday for Cuba, has been albandoned. It is said the ex exposure - posure exposure of the movement in the Chicago Times-HeraJd has thrown Into Chicago a score of Spanish detectives and secret service mer» u I , k.._ , 4\

when she b-:at her previous best per performance - formance performance eastward. She has probably lowered her record below that of her last trip by about an hour and a half and has beaten the best previous p rformance by about two and a half hours. The St. Paul sailed from New York last Wednesday, the 25th, clearing the bar at 11:33 a. m. and the lightship about twenty minutes later. Allowing ten. hours (the usual time from the Sicily Islands to here) her passage will he about 6 days, 12 hours and 7 min minutes. - utes. minutes. Although not the best Southamp Southampton - ton Southampton time made eastward, which Is held by the Hamburg liner Fuerst Bismarck, and Is 6 days, 10 hours and 55 minutes, she ought to i>ach It and surpass it. The distance the St. Paul will have traveled is about 3,065 miles and the average sped last trip, the record of which is just broken, was 13.50 knots. [McLMJRIN WONI The Senatorial Contest Resulted in a Victory fcr the Present Representative. Columbia, S. C., Aug. 31. - A light vote was polled in the senatorial primary in South Carolina today, probably not ex exceeding - ceeding exceeding 60,000. Last year in the contest between Judge- Earle and Gov. Evans, 86,000 votes were polled. Senator 'McLaurin, ex-Gov. Evans and ex-Senator Irby were the candidates to today. - day. today. They had. canvassed the state and the public has been made thoroughly conv rsant with their views. The lat latest - est latest returns covering all accessible points give McLaurin 19,862; Evans, 6,230; Iftoy, 3,570, a majority for McLaurin of 10,252. This may not be materially increased, but it is too great to be p"ssibly absorbed by any r turns from the back districts jet to come.

LABOR LEADERS GROWDESPERATE Wild Scenes of Excitement Witnessed in Their Con Convention - vention Convention Hall - Severe Arraignment of the . Branches of the Government in the Platform Unanimously Adopted EUGENE V. DEBS WAS STRONGLY VEHEMENT In His General denunciation of the Courts ; Govern Government - ment Government by Injunction and Other So-Called Ini Iniquities - People - quities - People Iniquities - People Are Called Upon to PREPARE FOR DAY BLOODSHED