Show WESTERN PRESS has held its regular meeting ble eting A readjustment WILL BE MADE william willlam henry smith fop twenty three fears tears manager will retire as soon as TP complications are settled DETROIT midi nov 0 30 O the regular annual meeting of the tile western associated socia ted press was held here today with the largest attendance ever had great interest centered in the meeting on oil account of the agitation pervading press circles throughout th hout tile country and and the tendency toward new combinations the membership of the western associated divided as botho to the best policy tour to pursue sue and on oil this account the plan for or a readjustment proposed bythe by alio special committe appointed to formulate one was antagonized by some of the tile members who thought it wiser to adhere to the policy that was i vas successful for many years those were led with ability by air II 11 IV patterson of chicago sir mr D 1 M I houser of st louis mr W J murphy of minneapolis mr scripps of detroit and a nd mr S D de young of san francisco A very full discus discussion ion was had extending 0 over ver three days here and in chicago and every very e interest interest involved was accorded a hearing good feeling prevailed and the res result alt was the approval of the policy r recommended by the special committee commit tee on reorganization in which there was practically a unanimous acquiescence 31 mr victor rVictor F lawson chairman of the executive committee mado made a fu full 11 report of the work vork done don e for the past year year which was unanimously approved the file report of the general manager showed the affairs of the association to bein bo in a prosperous condition and its business rapidly increasing the old board of directors was elected reelected re as follows albert J barr of the pittsburg p post W A collier odthe of the memphis s appeal avalanche M 11 II deyoung of the san francisco chronicle frederick driscoll of the st paul pioneer press charles W knapp of the tile st louis republic victor F lawson of the chicago 1 news and eugene I 1 II 11 1 perdue of the cleveland leader in making his report the general manager announced his purpose to retire from active journalism as lie felt he lie had earned the rig right ailt to a few years of leisure subsequently a committee was ap p painted to draw up resolutions bearing upon mr air smiths The following report was made unanimously ad adopted and directed lo 10 be spread upon tho tile minutes the committee was requested to havo a copy engrossed signed by the offic officers and cor sent to mr smith tile western associated pross press learns WUL regga egret I 1 that hak william henry 1 its I 1 in manager nag e f intends to withdraw from active newspaper work lie ile became connected with this association in an official ca vacily november 1st ast 1869 and lias has continued with it to the present time during his twenty th three tee years of service t alie e annual business has developed from front to and from daily to and daily with only 5 or 10 per cent increase in cost to our members over nine millions of dollars have been expended under his supervision and every nickel accounted for the association now desires to express to mr smith its appreciation of gess his eminent services and liis his sterling integrity teg rity and to extend to it him im the cordial good will of all ita its members 11 Sig signed pled charles P taft washington I 1 II lesing esing eugene M oncil oneil committee tho tile pres president idelt announced that the tile general manager had consented to give his help to the board until the present complications were settled and this bubi ness put upon a satisfactory basis which was received with applause the board of directors organized by the election of the fol following lolin g officers president president lion iron william penn pen n nixon 0 of the chicago inter ocean vice president charles P taft of the cincinnati times star secretary 11 II E baker of the detroit free press treasurer lion iron george schneider president of the national bank batik of illinois executive committee victor F lawson frederick driscoll Dris driscoll coil and 0 W knapp general manager william henry smith the tile members will return to chicago o tonight to complete the work of re reorganization in that city A RUMOR the R G W has no intention of SellIng out to the S P DENVER col nov 30 attention of assistant general manager smith in the tile absence of president Pies ident riF dod dodge dode e of the rio grande western railroad las has been directed to the rumor circulated this in morning orn ingin in which it is claimed tile southern pacific and santa fo roads w were ere red liot hot after western road and wanted it very much because it would give cither either one other of these corporations s a direct outlet from the east to the coast via salt lake and O ogden oden den mr tr smith says there is not alie slightest truth in tho tile report and tho tile grand western is too good paying concern to bell sell MONETARY conference NCE LABORS special committee considering tho the plans submitted BRUSSELS nov 30 the committee of twelve appointed by the international monetary conference to report on the proposals submitted by rothschild bat yesterday for eight hours with only a short interval for luncheon the members have arranged to give exclusive attention to tho tile work of the tile committee so as to bo be ablo able to present an exhaustive report to the conference several experts not delegates to the conference have offered to give evidence on tho the production of precious metals and other points delatin relating re latin q to the deliberations but tho tile coin committee cittee declined to hear witnesses on any side of the questions it is understood the committee takes as tho the il nearest earest approach to accuracy the statistics prepared by ottomar especially for the use of the conference giving givin estimates compiled from the latest tia date to of the monetary stocks of the world and alie production and consumption of gold and silver I 1 senator jones ono one of the american delegates lias has prepared a special statement ot of the consumption and production of silver the committee has consented to request tho the danish delegate C F Te itjen to submit his plan as an addendum to the rothschild plan is a mono he Ile proposes the coinage of silver of five franc fratic I 1 four shil hilling lingor or dollar pieces according to the tile price of silver ili in tho the year ear previous to the adoption of the international agreement with a of 10 per cent he ile also proposes the tile appointment of a permanent Iler manent international commission to fix 11 x the tile initial klic price e should tile price of silver fall to 5 per cr cent below the tile coin coinage rates the tle commission will have authority to fix a new rate and order the rc coinage of the pieces these coins coins shall be legal tender internationally binka banks to keep them as a reserve against notes and have chiv hiv 0 the right to demand gold in exchange for them at any time from from the government issuing the tile particular coin held tile members member of the committee de cloirec eliat their proceedings must be kept kelt completely complete lv private an ate until deli nite decisions are attained they will not communicate to the dele delegates not belonging to the committee the ilie progress s they are making in their discussion TRIPLE ALLIANCE IN EUROPE austria germany and italy enter into promise of mutual aid PARIS nov 30 A paper called the journal recently published printed today what w hat purports to be a text oi of the I 1 latest test triple alliance treaty between germany germa n austria u s tria and italy according t to i it t germany e r m any and austria bustria agree to aid humbert in in carrying ou out t his external and colonial policies poli cites reco recognize anize ins his rights and that rome is to bo be considered the capital of italy germany and italy aromise promise to aid austria in ili her fore foreign i policy ley in more to especially regarding igna t the question u estion of the balkans Bil Bal mans A austria us tri a an and abaly italy promise aid to germany in carrying out her foreign policy pol icy each of the contracting parties agree to aid the others through diplomacy and by material assistance on oil land and water w ater to keep the armies armies ona on a war footing during the period of cordial understanding tho the document set forth at length how the broo troops pa of each of tile parties arties to the alliance allian m may a y war bo be mobilized il in the event of war b between e t we an any one ot the countries with I 1 russia lussia or trance france in case germany or austria get into trouble with russia they w wi ill I 1 1 make inake a concerted concer ted attack on that co country and if franco france attempts to take a hand rl italy will march against lier her in ili case of conflict between germany and france italy is is to do the same and austria is ty kee keep an ili eye c 0 on russia in case of condic conflict t between italy and france germany will act jointly with italy while austria holds down the russians in conclusion tho the contracting bodies promise and swear on their honor to maintain tho statue and peace of europe HORRIBLE MANGLING struck by a train and carried in pieces into tho the station N Y 30 As william conklin and wife edward laward blanchard Ulan chard and wife and mrs maggie fg gio pitta pitts were returning from a drive this evening their wagon was struck k at tho the pennsyl pen ansyl vania inia avenue crossing on tho eric road by an erie eric vestibule train running at a high latoof rate of speed the tile engineer says ho ile did not know he lie had struck anyone any olic and the first known of tho the accident by the trainmen waa was when tile train halted at the station nearly half a mile distant As it drew into the rotation r station the lococo tiva be bore 0 on the pilot the tile ghastly ghastly ye remains mains of three crushed an and mangled bodies they the were thoo those of mr and mrs irs blanchard and mrs N conklin Oon klin the w agon wagon w wits as scattered along the road in the ditch the body of mrs pitts and the mangled remains of wm will conklin who was still alive were kicked picked up about a hundred bards from t the to scene of tile accident there is great indignation over ov er tile fact that tho the railroad crossing ili was not protected AT THE NICARAGUA convention officers elected and the objects of ol tho the 1 mooting discussed na naw 2 ORLEANS nov 0 SO O the national convention in in the interests of the nicaragua aragni canal opened liero here today the convention is is the outgrowth of a movement inaugurated on the coast in response to tho the desire of commercial bodies of san francisco governor markham last march called on tile governors of various states to ap appoint ill t delegates to a convention to bo be held lie rd at a t bt st louis to consider neider co the means of forwarding the work under national auspices that convention met last juno and before closing adrane arranged d for the present convention the general idea is to induce congress rees to recognize acco nizo the canil canal company ty by guaranteeing its piper paper and extend government protection over it to prevent any further inter ferene ili in its management agen tent detrimental to american interests te rests the tile course is urged not attlio instance of the canal company which li thinks it can raibe the necessary amount for the construction a hundred million dollars but on oil the gen get I 1 cral ground that this country should control its management A bial to that end is now low pending in in congress the convention promises to bo ile a large and re one VI II 11 II 11 smith of this city cita was elected secretary of the convention at tho the afternoon session reports of the different committees were adopted alares all resolutions offered will go to the committee on resolutions w without deb debate ate judge jones of little rock arkansas delivered a lengthy address reviewing tho the car al question question lit ironi 0 alie international standpoint an evening session was held judge II 11 M estee of california spoke at length lie ile reviewed the growth of the tile idea of the constructing of a canal a across er OSS the isthmus limus from front the earli earliest st inception ili in the sixteenth century and laid great stress upon urn the importance attached to the project act b by the nations of europe particularly particularly zy by great britain he ire cited the utterances of eminent americans who supported still arted the plan and eaid said now it is regarded feld by the leading men of both poll political oli tic il parties as an all important work 11 its ts construction would be a national glory its failure a national defeat he give ave a summary of the provisions of the fill bill introduced by senator morgan of alabama to extend government aej aid to the enterprise and concluded willi with the statement that the construction of tho the canal was a matter of natio national nl honor if it was not built with american capital it would bo be built by foreign capital and that meant to this country the isolo tion of an important 1 section in caso case of war and a loss of commerce in time of peace W B gaball spoke on behalf of tho the delegation from tho the district of columbia urging that an influential delegation be sent went to washington to urge upon congress Con co agress gresa the importance of the project a and n the necessity for action S A jones of florida depicted the advantages of the canal from a southern standpoint letters utters were read expressing interest iu in and sympathy with the work of the convention from many prominent men tho the traffic association and others |