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WATTERSONON WAR;
The Kentutky Editor Creates a Sen-
sation at a Banquet.
AMERICAN HEROES HONORED
it a Dinner Given to Consul General Col-
lins In London the Famous Kentuck-
ian Makes a Patriotic Speech—A
Thrust at Embassador Bayard.
LONDON, June 1.—The dinner given by
all of the ¢United States consuls in the
United Kingdom to Hon. Patrick A. Col-
line, the United States consul general
here, was a notable gathering. It was
considered a great compliment to an effi-
cient official And all the American consuls
located in Great Britain and Ireland wore
in attendance, except three who were ab-
sent from the country. Amongt se pres-
out were Embassador Bay'ai'd an the en-
tire stafi‘ of the embassy. Joseph Pulitzer
hi the New York World, SenatOr Hoar of
alsachusetts, Hon. S. E. Morse. consul
general at Paris and Hon Hannls Taylor,
United States minister to Spain.
An illumihated complimentary address
was presented to Consul Genera Collins.
Mr. J. E. Neal, United States consul at
Liverpool. presided. He propOsed as a
toast “The Guest of the Evmiing.” To
this toast General Collins made a fitting
response.
Mr. G. F. Parker, the United States
consul at Birmingham, preposed a toast
in honor of “The Diplomats.” To this
toast Em‘bassador Bayard and Minister
Hannis Taylor replied. , To the toast,
“Consular Service,” Consul General
Morse responded. ,
The speech of the occasion was that
made by Hon. Henry M. Watterson of the
Louisville Courier-Journal. It, in fact,
created a sensation. After several unmis-
takable allusions to Embassador Bayard,
Mr. Watterson began the main portion of
his address by replying to the statement
made by Hon. T. P. O’Connor, M. P., in
his paper, The Sun, at the time of the
Venezuela trouble. In this statement Mr.
O'Connor asserted that the south would
have to be reckoned with in case the Unit
ed States ventured on a foreign War. Mr.
in repelling the assertions
made by Mr. O’Connor in this connec-
' tion, said that among those who fought
50. well and valiantly during the “late un-
pleasantness,” as Well as Among their de-
scendants, there was but one feeling—a
feeling of thankfulness that God had laid
the weight of his hand upon the southern
Confederacy and preserved the life of the
American Union. ’
Says He Is a. Jingo.
Continuing, Mr. Watterson said: “I
confess that I am a jingo, but from Eng-
land I learned the lesson and got the cry,
‘Greatness and Glory for England!’ It
goes without saying and should need no
self seeking fiunkéyism,"eager for social
recognition, no resonant lip service, de-
lighted to have an audience and rejoicing
at the sound of its own voice, to impress
the intelligent Englishman with the truth
that no intelligent American desires any-
thing except the most constant and cor-
dial relations of friendship. This talk of
common institutions and‘a common lan-
guage is cheap talk. More than this, it is
in some respects misleading. Talk of a
common language did not prevent the
United States from going to war with
England on two occasions. Talk of com-
mon institutions, where conflicting inter-
ests are involved, is rather imaginary than
real. We are of a common origin and of
a common blood without doubt, and that
means that we are good fighters, who may
be counted. each to stand by his own.
War would certainly be a dreadful alter-
native, but there are yet greater evils that
may overwhelm mankind than war, the
obliteration of which from the human ex-
perience makes the emasculation of the
human species simply a question of time.
It was the heroic spirit of the Anglo-Sax-
on race that placed England where it is
today. Her warriors are no more forgot-
ten in her history than are her sages. To
the same martial spirit the American
Union" owes all that it is today, and upon
this idea the United States must rely to
maintain her position among the nations
of the World. -
Rule the \Vorld’s Destinies.
“It is certainly 'true that these two
great nations together occupy a position
strong enough to rule the destinies of the
human race, but they are not likely to
agree upon terms until theEnglishmen
find as much to thrill them with a feeling
of glory and pride at the tomb of Wash-
ington at Mount Vernon as the Americans
find'to thrill them with a similar feeling
at the birthplace of Shakespeare at Strat
ford-on-Avon.
“If, in recalling the heroic dead in
whose memory we now drink, I take leave
to hoist our national hunting a little high-
er than the Duke of York’s column; if I
also trail it in pious homage before that
élome where lie the the remains ,’ of Wei-
lington and Nelson, I certainly do not
mean to heard the lion in his den nor
twist his tail, when I remind Englishmen
that we, too, have in Sherman, Lee, Far-
ragut and Stonevvell Jackson Anglo-Sax-
on soldiers and sailors whom all Britons
should delight to honor.”
General Collins’ speech was received
with the greatest enthusiasm. His ad-
dress was filled with points of a specific
nature, largely relating to the character
of American consular representatives in
Great Britain. He alluded to Howard
Fox, present consul at Falmouth, whose
grandfather was appointed to the same
post by Washingtonhwhose father was ap-
pointed- to the same position by Monroe,
whose doctrine General Collins now be-
lieved was generally accepted here in Eng-
land. This remark was greeted with
cheers and laughter.
A Little Girl Murdered.
NEW YORK, June 1.——Mary Cunning-
ham. the 13-year-old daughter 'of Mrs.
Annie Cunningham, a widow living at
315 East Thirty-seventh street, Was found
dead in her mother’s rooms. A towel
tied tightly around her neck indicated
that she had been strangled to death. It
appears that the mother left the house in
the morning, telling her daughter to re-
main in care of the house and to 'do cer-
tain work around the rooms. Mrs. Cun-
ningham came home in the afternoon and
upon entering her rooms was somewhat
surprised that her daughter did not come
forward to meet her.' Upon entering the
first room back of the parlor she found
Mary lying on the floor with her head un-
der the bed. Pulling her intczview, she
was horrified to discover that there was a
,towel tied around her neck and that her
eyes were black and blue as if she had re-
ceived a severe heating. The tongue pro-v
truded from the mouth and was black and
swollen. A man named lildward‘llllcCorb
mick was arrested on suspicion. '
., Advertise in the Gaznrrn.
,. , Advertise in the Glzn'rra.
til some hours after that the extent of the
disaster became known and then it was
only inch by inch, as it wae.
“Hundreds of people have been injured
-on the Hodynsky plain,” was the whisper
which went around.
Then, it was, “It is reported that a great
many people have been killed in a rush
on the Hcdynsky plain.”
Later still it was announced that there
had been a serious catastrophe at the
grand banquet on the Hodynsky plain and
that 100 people were believed to have been
killed and injured. ,
And so the story was added to until it
became generally admitted that a most
serious disaster had occurred and that the
killed or injured would number more
than 1,000. ° _
Air Filled With Groans of Dying.
The passage between the various booths
became the scene of the wildest struggles.
Here it was that most persons Were kill-
ed. The air was filled with the shrieks oi
the wounded and groans of the dying.
Despite the very best efforts of the cos-
sacks and of the police, who unfortunate-
‘ly arrived too late to be of great service,
the crowd constantly increased. It was
a long time before the Hodynskyplain
could be cleared enough to allow the work
of‘rescue to proceed. During the afternoon
long trains and numerous vehicles passed
between the plain and the city, bearing
the dead and the injured. Many of the
injured were conveyed to the various hoe-
pitals, which were soon filled to overflow-
ing. Hundreds of persons who were
wounded, however. were remOVed to their.
own homes or taken to private residences.
Late accounts received from the scene
of the disaster are to the effect that 2,500
bodies have already been recovered. The
people are calm, but everywhere the most
profound grief is manifest. In public
places, where groups are gathered togeth-
er, all are discussing the calamity, eye-
witnesses describing in a graphic fashion
the despairing gestures of the panic strick-
ken thousands.
Among the dead found on 'Hodynsky
plain were ladies, evidently of high rank,
dressed in the finest silk and adorned with
the richest jewels. The police barracks,
to which the bodies of the dead were taken
by the authorities, are besieged with per-
sons searching fer friends and relatives.
The scenes at the barracks, where the proc-
ess of identification is going on, are ter-
rible in the extreme.
The disaster, it is now explained, was
due mainly to the absence of the police.
who had not yet arrived at the scene where
the festivities Were scheduled to take place.
Fully 200,000 persons of all ages and
conditions were gathered around the
booths, and began to force an entrance to
them. The authorities attempted to stem
the tide by handing out the gifts, but this
could not be done quickly enough to
please the mob. Those in front were
forced forward by reason of the pressure of
the crowds constantly gathering, and the
narrow streets betwuen the different
booths did not afford a sufficient mode of
egress. So great did the pressure finally
become that in spite of the efforts of the
authorities thousands were caught in the
passages between the difierent stalls and
compelled to die like rats in a trap.
MARK: M. POMEROY DEAD.
The Demise of 2 Once Prominent Char-
acter In Journalism and Politics.
BROOKLYN, J une. 1.-—Mark M. Pom-
eroy, better known as Brick Pomeroy, the
Well known newspaper man, died at his
home on Fifty-sixth street (Blythebourne),
in this city. He had been suffering from
Bright’s disease and heart trouble since
November last, and in January it was re
ported that he could not live more than
three weeks. He had been unconscious
for two days before his death.
Mark M. Pomeroy was born in ’Elmira
in 1833, and when a lad served an appren-
ticeship of three years in the office of the
Corning Journal. Later on he published
the Corning Sun. In 1857 he published
a paper in Horicon, Wis, to which he con-
tributed a number of sketches of Well
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MARK M. POMEROY.
known Wisconsin men, in an extravagant
vein, labeling them “Brick Dust Sketch-
es.” From that time until his death he
was known as Brick Pomeroy. During
the war of the rebellion Pomeroy acted as
correspondent of the Chicago Times.
After the war Mr. Pomeroy came to
New York and started a daily paper call-
ed The Daily Democrat, which prospered
for a time.
He went eventually to his old stamp-
ing ground at La Crosse, where he made
the La Crosse Democrat the national or-
gan of the Greenback party. During the
fiat money craze the paper became a valu-
able piece Of property. Although in sev-
eral of his ventures Mr. Pomeroy made a
large amount of money,_he spent it rapid-
ly, and, it is believed, he died compara-
tively poor. His last important Venture
was a project to tunnel the Rocky moun-
tains, through five miles of solid rock.
He was elected president of the company,
but after $7,000,000 had been expended
the enterprise was aban oned.
Mr. Pomeroy had lived a retired life for
several years. The wish of the deceased.
that he should be cremated. will be car-
ried out by his widow.
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People's Party Delegates.
TBENTON, June 1.--The following have
been selected delegates at large to the na-
tional. convention of. the People’s party:
Joseph R. ,Buchanan, Newark; E. A.
Wallace. South Orange; Thomas H. Proc-
tor and L. F. Fuller, Vineland. First
district, John Wilcox; Second district,
William B. Ellis; Third, J. M. Hayes;
Fourth, W. C. Barrick; Fifth, J. J. Cran-
dell; Sixth, Thomas McHugh; Seventh,
E. Pomeroy; Eighth, W. Terlinde. State
electors will be named at a convention in
Newark the first week in August.
More Troops For Cuba.
MADRID, June 1.—-lt is reported
that Premier Canovas del Castillo int ads
to send 100,000 men to Cuba for the pur-
pose of. suppressing the rebellion as soon
as possible.
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WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.“
THE women of Norway are subscrib-
ing money for national defense. '
TEN women have been appointed on
the list of census enumerators inuBOS-
ton. ’
MISS ELLA M. STEWART, of Columbus,
0., has been a successful commercial
travelerufor the last five years.
_THE Chicago Women’s club has ”de-
cided to admit colored women. ‘The
question will probably be brought up
at the next meeting of the Federation
of Women’s Clubs. - ” ‘
THE. empress of Austria, though no
longer a young woman, spends a. large
part of her time in study. She is de-
voting herself now to the Greek lan-
guage and literature.
Mas. ELIZABETH H. STICKNEY, of
Chicago, after giving a parish house to
St. James’ Episcopal church, in that
city, now has decided to build for the
parish a rectory to cost $20,000..
LADY TENNYSON has set to music
Tennyson’s poem, “Sweet and Low.”
She used to sing this song to her hus-
band, and he was very fond of it, so
she decided to perpetuate it.
Miss MINNIE GnnrnUDE KELLY has
been appointed secretary and stenog-
rapher at the police headquarters in
New York. She fills the places of two
men formerly employed, and receives
81,700 a year, thus saving the city $1,200
annually.
Mus. MARIE ROBINSON-WRIGHT, the
Mexican traveler and writer, received
the highest price ever paid for a. news-
paper article—820,000 in gold; a sum
which the Mexican government paid
her for an illustrated article on Mexico
in the New York World.
FACTS FOR FAR M ERS.
A WISCONSIN sheep breeder advocates
feeding grain to sheep ten months in
the your.
THE man who sticks to raising first-
class cattle and hogs, and does it with
good judgment, will find it reasonably
profitable.
AN Iowa. swine breeder says that a.
pig that has recovered from a. genuine
attack of thumps is about worthless for
breeding purposes. '
THE New York experiment station
has been making some practical tests
with cows as to the amount of water
they drink. It was found that during
lactation, or the milk-giving period, the
average per month was one- thousand
six hundred and sixty pounds.
. WOOD ashes make the best fertilizer
for crimson clover. Al though this clover
thrives on land that has been used until
but little fertility remains, yet it needs
plant food and gives the best results
when‘ manure or ashes (or both) are
applied.
IF the pasture is scant it can be made
to go further by herding and allowing
the stock to eat down a portion of the
field at the time. Even with hogs and
sheep this plan can be followed with-
out much extra labor. Movable fences
sometimes meet the purpose. .
,r' CH U RCH STATISTICS.
THE Independent Churches, of Christ
in Christian Union {number 294 organ-
izations, with 183 churches and 18,214
members.
THE United Brethren Church
in
Christ number 202,474, and own prop- '
erty valued at $4,292,043. They have
3,836 churches and 7 80 113.115.
THE Disciples of Christ claim 7,246 or-
ganizations, with a membership of 641,-
051. Their churches number 5,324, val-
ued at $12,206,038.
THE Christian church, south, has a
membership of 13,004, divided into 143
societies and owning 135 churches, val-
ued at $137,000.
THE Evangelical Adventists have a.
membership of 1,147. They claim 22
churches and have church property val-
ued at $61,400.
Tun reorganized Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints claims 21,-
7 73 members and owns 122 churches,
valued at $220,285.
THE Reformed Presbyterian church
in the United States and Canada has
one society, one church, valued at $75,-
000 and 600 members.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
GEORGIA’S fruit crop this year is esti-
mated to be worth $3,000,000.
A CANARY seed trust has been formed
in Marklane to control the price in
England.
IN some parts of Japan at a wedding
the bride, as a Sign of her subjection,
kneels and washes the feet of the
bridegroom after he has trodden upon
raw eggs.
A PABSEE sacred fire, which is burn-
ing in a temple at Leiguie, Persia, is
known to have not been extinguished
since the days of Rapiboreth, who lived
twelve centuries ago.
In curing torturing, disfiguring,
humiliating humor-s of the Skin,
Scalp, and 81095 when all else fails.
Sold throughout the world. Price, Cuviccm, 5%.;
Son, 25m Resumes-r, 50c. and 81. Form: Deco—
Ann Cnru. Conn, Sole Props., Boston.
W'HIOW to Cure Every Disilguring Humor,” free.
.IPiano Lessons.
as. GEORGE W. BRADLEY (dau hter
M ofthe late Wm.R.Nash.)si’ves e cent
and satisfactory instructions on the Piano at , ,
her home No. 198 Main street.
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