Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1896, Page 13

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OGRAITS Two Drug Stores, 18 33) FF mb3e-28 ut. THE M’KINLEY BOOM Efforts to Be Put Forth tc Oheck: Its Course. 5 The Pettigrew Incident in Dakota and Its Significance in the Present Situation. The leaders of the anti-McKinley forces are beginning to show signs of real activ- ity. Though they speak lightly of the Mc- Kinley boom, and profess to feel no un- easiness, it is evident that they are se- riously concerned lest the impetus which that boom has got skould carry it far be- yond the point where they have counted on its coming te a stand. The manner in which Senator Pett'grew, according to the press dispatches, was compelled to declare for McKinley and sound money before the South Dakota convention is regarded as an instructive example of the strength of Mc- Kinleyism in the west. Though the num- ber of delegates Involved in that conven- tion is not great, it is regarded as signifl- cant that the McKinley forces should have been able to overthrow both the silver forces and the combined strength of the other candidates. The question was pre- sented with tolerable clearness whether high protection or free silver should be adopted as the cure of the present depres- sion. The silver sentiment in South Da- kota is regarded as strong. That state bas been counted as one that m‘ght refuse to support the republican nominee on @ gold platform. Yet from the action of the convention !t appears that the protection sentiment is strong enough even to over- come this, and that McKinley is accepted as the embodiment of the idea. ‘Tariff and Silver. This suggests the possibility that in all those states where there is a pretty evenly balanced fight between the silver and the arti-silver forces high protection will have to be adopted by the anti-silver men, as opposed to the cry for silver, and this will naturally tend to put McKinley to the front. ‘The declaration of the extreme silver men that there shall be no tariff legislation with- out free silver helps to join the issue. The McKinley Boom. ‘The policy of the anti-McKinley forces has been to let the boom of the Ohio man have its run. It has a little overrun the time allowance, however, and ways and means te check it are being carefully cons'dered. There is a practical interchange of con- fidences between the friends of the other ndidates, and a general co-operation is aimed at. The leading spirits in the anti- 3 are experienced politicians and are not disposed to regard the tide that for the Ohio candidate as ‘Serous as it seems to the unpracticed d. They confidence that they can prevent ley’s nomination, but they see some danger of the strength of the Ghio man being overestimated in doubtful sections, thus causing some delegates to try to join the procession in order to be on what they may think to be the winning side. ‘The secret of the disposition to have an adjournment of Congress not later than the 15th of May Is that the friends of Reed and Allson are anxious to get into the field to combat the McKinley forces. ri METHODIST CHURCH SOUTH. Report on Work in the Washington - District. ‘The Baltimore annual conference ofs the Methodist Episcopal Church South, at Rearoke, Va., yesterday, in session in the Greene Memorial Church, transacted a great deal of business, including the re- ports of presiding elders and the passing of the characters of the young ministers of the first year. Rev. Rumsey Smithson, presiding elder of the Washington district, reported that in this district during the year the church advanced all along all lines. Collections increased. He recommended the organi- zaticn of Epworth Leagues. They needed more churches of the denomination in Washington. A District Epworth League had been organized. The annual report of the Woman's For- eign Missionary Society was approved. It showed that the Conference Society has 1.641 adult and 855 junior members. The society raised during the year $3,528.71. Last night prominent ministers preached in each of the Roanoke Methodist Episéo- pal churches. FRENCH TAXATION SCHEME. The Principle of the Government's Proposal Indorsed. The French chamber of deputies, by a vote of 286 to 270, last night indorsed the principle of the government's proposal of an income tax, but referred the details of the scheme to a committee. The income tax proposal has been intended as the central feature of the plan of the present government, and it has been believed ex- tremely doubtful whether its proposal could pass the legislature. The action last night is in the nature of a compromise | indorsing the principle of an income tax, but throwing aside the details of the gov- ernment scheme. Recast to this scheme, incomes of less than Up to 5,000 francs the vate of the tax was fixed at one per cent. Between 5,000 francs and 10,000 francs, at two per cent; between 10,000 francs and 20,000 francs, at three per cent; between 20,000 agd 50,000 francs, at four per cent, and above 5#),000 francs, at five per cent. ‘These pregressive rates for the tax were to apply only to the excess of income over the sum coming under the next lower rate; tkat is to say, a millionaire would have his income divided into five heads, each taxed at a different rate. - The abolition of the present house tax, th it was calculated that 6,500,000 persor~ “would escape direet taxation, was also involved in the scheme, while it wae estimated that the new would apply to 1,500,000 people, two-thirds of whom would pay less than they have been paying under the house tax. —————— COMMODORE’S ARMS LANDED. Owen Confesses That the Expedition Was Successful. Edward Owen, cne of the ¢rew of the Commodore, confessed to the Spanish con- sul at Charleston, S. C., yesterday that all the stories about flinging the cargo’ of ammunition overboard were false. He said that the Commodore went to Cuba and that the arms, six boat loads, were landed in the province of Santa Anna. The firemen, he says. were promitsed More money to keep their mouths shut when they should reach port, but had rot been paid, and so he made this state- ment to bring the managers of the Commo- dore to their senses. ——__ -+e+___ A Lecture on Italy. - An interesting and instructive lecture on Italy was delivered last’ evening at the rocms of the Washington Club by Prof. Ckarles Sprague Smith. The lecture was Mlustrated by means of handsome stereopti- con views, and the beautiful land received every compliment that could be passed upon it. The lecturer started at Berne, in Swit- zerland, and conducted his audience through an interesting trip through the principal points of interest, and stopping at the Bay of Naples. A large audience-was present. THERE WAS A SPLIT. McKinley Men at Aastin, Tex., Held a Separate Convention. The republican convention which has been in session at Austin, Tex., since Tues- day adjourned sine die yesterday after- noon after having narrowly avoided a fa- tality and having a split. About 1 o’clock, the committee on creden- tials putting in an appearance, the conven- tion was called to order. Chairman Cuney erganized the convention, with the Reed- Allison men in charge. The conyention adopted a platform along the regular lines, the currency plank of which read as follows: “We reaffirm the historic adherence of the republican party to sound finance. We demand an honest dollar of greatest pur- chasing power for every class alfke: the largest issue of gold, silver and paper com- patible with security and the requirements of trade, all of equal value, interchangeable, one for the other, every dollar resting on gold as money of final redemption. “The republicans of Texas declare this to be in their deliberate judgment the only basis for a large and liberal circulation of money, and for the maintenance of univer- sal confidence.” Delegates to St. Louis. The convention then elected the follow- ing delegates to the St. Louis convention: N. W. Cuney of Galveston, Allison mai W. R. Makemson of Georgetown, Reed man; E. H. Terrell of San Antonio, Allison H. Ferguson of Richmond, Reed ; alternates, W. F. Gross, D. C. Kolp, R. B. Smith; electors, G C. Clifford of San Antonio and Eugene Mar- shall of Dallas. Hardly had the vote on the selection of electors been announced than the long-an- ticipated row was in force. As the chair declared the men elected, a burly delegate came plowing through the jam, pushing mien in front of him as if they were so much chaff, and in his wake came half a hundred followers, greatly excited. They gave every evidence that they intended to capture the speaker's platform. The spectators and the crowd on the stand made frantic efforts to get out of their way, but all to no purpose. They clambered upon the stand in an in- stant, and there they were confronted by Cuney and his followers. The first negro to reach the stand made a lunge at Cuney’s head with his fist. As he struck he found himself confronted by a big revolver in the hands of another negro. In an instant the platform was a scene of wild chaos. Excited negroes swayed to and fro for twenty minutes before an armed force: of policemen could quell the riot. It was then discovered that no one was dangerously hurt, although one or two of the white delegates, as well as a negro or two, were bruised considerably. As soon as orler could be obtained the convention, after disposing of a few minor matters, a journed sine die, without issuing any in- structions to the St. Lous delegates. McKinley Men Organize. Immediately after the regular convention adjourned the McKinley faction took charge of the hall, and, organizing their convention in due form, elected the follow- ing delegates to St. Louis: Delegates, John Grant of Sherman, Frank Hamilton of Austin, S. L. Smith of Colorado and W. E. Davis of Fort Worth; alternates, E. D. An- derson, W. H. Love, R. G. Collins and Rich- ard Alien. The electors named were E. P. Hunt and A, H. Caldwell. ‘This convention did not consider a plat- form, but adopted resolutions indorsing Mc- Kinley for President, and instructing the delegation to vote for him as long as his name was before the conyention. Indorsed Col. Lamb. : Special precinct meetings were held in Norfolk last night under a call of the chairman of the republican city committee. Every precinct indorsed Col. Wm. Lamb as chairman of the state executive committee and as delegate-at-large to the St. Louis republican convention, and indorsed Gen. V. D. Groner as delegate from the second congressional district to the republican na- tional convention. Resolutions were adopt- ed deprecating any instructions as to any presidential candidate. Gen. Manderson’s Dental. Gen. Manderson has formally. denied the report that he would be Secretary of War if McKinley is the next President, and that this was the price of his present silence in Nebraska. “It's not customary for one to make up one’s’ cabinet before one is elected or even nominated,” added the general. “There is nothing to the rumor at all, and it's not deserving of the least attention.” West Virgitiia McKinley Delegates. The republicans of the third congres- sional district of West Virginia yesterday chose two delegates to represent the dis- trict in the national republican convention at St. Louis. The delegates favor McKin- ley, protection and sound money. +00 WANTED IN FREDERICK. Alton Miller, Charged With Being a Defaulter, Arrested. Last evening about 8:30 o'clock a tele- gram was received at pelice headquarters asking for the arrest of Alton Gregg Miller, an alleged defaulting employe of the Cen- tral National Bank of Frederick, and thirty minutes after the dispatch was put on the wire in the Maryland town the alleged de- faulter was in custody. The dispatch was signed by State's Attorney W. H. Hinks, and gave the information that writs had been issued for Miller on charges of em- bezzling two amounts of money—$500 and $1,000—on the 16th of December. Detectives Horne, Helan and Weedon were at headquarters when the dispatch was received, and they located Miller at the Hotel Johnson, where he had regis- tered his own name and had made no ef- fort to conceal his identity. He was soundly sleeping in room 120 when the offi- cers called on him and notified*him that he was under arrest. “I won't go tilt morning,” said the man, who seemed to be stupetied, as if he had been on a protracted spree or had been un- der the influence of some drug. But the officers informed him that he would have to go with them, and so he put on his clothes- very reluctantly and went with them to headquarters. State’s Attorney Hinks said in his dis- patch that Miller dressed well, but his clothing showed signs of rough wear, and he did not. present the gentlemanly ap- pearance indicated. To the officers the prisoner seid he knew what he was wanted for, and said he was foolish for not having returned to Frederick yesterday. He has been in Baltimore and this city several times since he left Frederick, and has had employment in Baltimore. Miller is about thirty years old, and when arrested he had no money on him. He is a good-looking man, but, as already stated, his condition is such that he does not ap- pear natural. He expressed a willingness to return to Frederick, and the authorities there were requested to come for him as soon as possible. ——__ Corpse Found in a Trunk. The badly decomposed body.of a man was found yesterday in a trunk bought at an auction in Wakem & McLaughlin's warehouse, at i04 North Water street, Chi- cago. As soon as the discoveyy was made the men commenced to search for some- thing that would indicate where the box had come from, or by whom {t had been owned. On the top was written, “G. M. Morgan, 166 Jefferson court, Chicago.” Nothing else was found to establish former o"The police have tak th e pol ve en up the matter, ‘but. ther® seems to he little chance of their doing anything with the case. The undertaker wh® took charge of the body said that some material intended ‘to hasten decom- ion ‘had been thrown upon the~ when it was placed in the box, and it had done its work well. - ~ FLORIDA FEATURES A Handcuffed MurdererJumps From a Moving Train, CHASED WITH A TBRRIER DOG Hard Shell Baptists and'the Cere- mony of Foot Washing. see Ss HOW AN INQUEST WAS HELD Staff Correspondence of The Evening Star. TAMPA, Fia., March 24, 1896. United S'ates Deputy Marshal Donald Mc- Kay 1s one of the best known men in southern Florida. He is tall, wiry, brown and handscme. His keen eyes are blue as the sky, and’ an iron gray mustache and imperial give him a military appearance. Business took Mr. McKay up to Sanford Tuesday, and while he was there he was asked by the sheriff to take a prisoner named Holland back with him next day as far as Bartow, were he was to be tried. McKay acquiesced, and Wednesday morn- ing, with Holland hardcuffed, and his hands before him, took the train south- ward. What happened after that I will let Mr. McKay tell. “I didn't know what Holland had been arrested for,” he remarked, “or I'd have been more careful with Fim. As it was, I thought he was going to be tried for some misdemeai or, and put him in a seat where I could keep an eye on him. As we got near Bartow—about two miles away—Hol- land said he wanted to go to the wash room, and I went with him, standing out- side of the door. He was handcuffed, of course, but that cut no figure in his de- termination to get away, so what did he do but pusk up the window and dive out head first. A brakeman on the platform saw him go and pulled the bell. rope and hal- loosed to me. The train was running eigh- teen miles an hour when Holland left it with a header, and had slowed to about half that when I jumped, and turned a somersault. I started back expecting to find a dead or badly dislocated prisoner, but found nothing. A man named Beckford lived close by and I summoned him as a posse. He had two horses, one a big lum- bering beast, and the other a pony, and a Uttle terrier dog. Beckford sald there would be no trouble getting the man, because his dog would track him. I didn’t think the dog could track a cat, but wanted Beck- ford and Lis horses, and thought the dog might as weil go along for company, any- how. “Weil, we returned to where Hoiland had ploughed up the sand when he hit the ground, and Beckford stuck the dog’s nose down into the place and rubbed it in and told him to ‘Hark to it.’ The dog threw | up his head, gave a good sniff or two, yelp- ed a ccuplo of times and_ started off through the woods and__ scrub with us after him. Beckford was in front on his pony and I was close behind on the big horse. We serambled over stumps and up against trees, and once Beckford's pony spraddied a sapling that came back and nearly knocked my lex off. Pretty soon the ground grew swampy, and in several places the water was waist deep. Ijthaught the dog would lose the trail here, but he wouid just stop a minute and then swim in and bite and chew at the grass and briers grow- ing out of the water. Then he would scramble out and scamper on Rose down. After three miles of this sort of thing, Hol- land, who had evidently heard the dog, began to double, and in one place he ran around in a pergect fig- ure eight. When the dog reached this he nearly broke himself in half following It. Half a mile further on we ‘spied Holland and he surrendered. We took him ifito Bar- tow, and singular as it may seem, he was not injured, save for a bruise on his shoui- der, where he had hit the ground when he jumped tead first from the car window. When I handed him over to the jailer I found that he was a murderer. He killed a man named Walker last Noyember, and had been removed to the Sanford jail for safe keeping, owing to threats of lynching. He had been indicted for murder in the first degree, and the case against him was complete. “When I was leaving he said; ‘Cap'n, I'm mighty sorry to have made so much trou- ble for you, but I wan{ed to get away mighty bad.’ He must have, to jump head first’ from a running train, with his hands locked in front of him. But they ought to have told me at-Sanford what he had done and then I'd have locked him to me, and be dern if he'd a gone out of any window. I'd like to have that dog, though. The way he swam and bit briers t6 keep the trail was a caution, I tell you, apd he never faltered once for more than a_ minute. Beckford said he foliowed deer the same way, takirg the scent from the growing things in the swamp when the water ‘was deep.” Foot-Washing Revivals. There are meny genuine Ward-shell Gap- tists In the lower part of ‘Florida among the “cracker” population, and they are es- pecially thick in the section from Orlando to Lakeland. They follow all the most primitive customs of their creed, and the ceremony of foot-washing is faithfully ob- served. An itinerant preacher who Is con- sidered great in this particular branch of their doctrine Is now in the neighborhood, and has been holding foot-washing re- vivals, as they are most commonly culled, in various meeting houses. The ceremony fs solemn and sacred to those who partici- pate, but one need not be a scoffer to find it difficult to restrain his risibilitiles when he is a witness to it. After the meeting is begun with prayer and song, a tin tasin is brought in, and the preacher, tying a towel around his waist, kneels hefore the chief elder of the church. The latter then pro- ceeds to take off his shoes and stockings and places his feet in the basin, ‘where- upon the preacher procecds to wash them. The more enthusiastic the preacher is the more industrious is. the scrubbing that en- sues. When he concludes this part of the process, he unties the tow2! ait dries his brother's feet, which are at once “socked” and shod again. Then both men“rise and shake hands ard the preacher takes the seat and his feet are washed if turn by the cther. Then all the other members of the congregation follow sult. ‘he men wash each other's feet and the women the feet of their sisters, the only difference being that the women cunclude their Javatory de- votions with a kiss instead of a handshake. Maybe there is somethtag in-this life in the wilderness that causes peojite to follow their religious bent with such intense en- thusiasm. ‘There can he found newhere else, probably, such extreme fervor as ex- ists among the colored Methodists in the same section of Florida: The shouting of the Virginia ard Carotina negroes of ‘the same persuasion is almost a whisper com- pared with that of those down here, end when it comes to the jumping part, it is not to be mentioned in the game connec- tion. The Holy Dance. Colored Methodists have a canspmeeting early each summer at Ward Greve near Lakeland, and at {ts conclusion they par- ticipate in what is known ag ‘the holy dance. The newly-converted. are the chief performers in this ceremony,\and*they are Indian-like in the perseverance with which they. continue it. The dance begins by two or three hundred men and women begin- ning to walk, in’ ‘sirgle: file, a circle, praying and singing... ‘the. pace grows faster andthe. voici ise higher, At last-all-restraint-is thrown off and the dance kecomes a wild series Gf centortions and a deafening chorus of shouts and song. iden and women fly into ‘the air, waving their arms and shrieking and crying. The Weaker soon are overcome and are rm moved, so the circle lually grow smaller, But all who have commenced continue the Jance uniil they can neither manage thei> muscles or utter a sound save that of heavy b thins, I saw a lean and cadaverous darkey who was the proud possessor of a fourtecn-hour record in the holy dance—that is, he had kept the enormous exper.diture of pnysical ergy necessary to undergo the exp for that length of time. 1 thougat that a howling dervish might well make an hum- ble salaam to such an Individual I was fortunate encugh to w anoth- er illustration of primitive metiods in Florida. ©. f. Boswell was then the may- or of Lakeland, in Polk county, ahove Tampa some forty miles. ‘The mayor in Florida towns acts as coroner for the surrounding territory, and one night Tos- well was notified that the dead body of a man was lying by the tracks of the Plant system, several miles below Lakeland. The mayor immediately summoned a coroner's jury and pre-empted a “crank” car. also secured a coffin from the undertaker and had it sent in a wagon under charge of two negroes by road to the point where the holy lay. With these preliminaries com- pleted, the crank car was boarded and two of the jury propelled the vehicle rapidly down the tracks, Arriving at the spot where the body lay, torches were lighted and an inquest proveeded with. It was a weird, spectral scene. The tall pines stood up lke silent sentinels, and the Spanish moss hanging down and swaying in t breeze seemed like funeral d: ries whic nature in pity had provided for the poor, friendless wretch who lay silent and cold below. There was nothing on the person of th dead man to identify him. The only goud pocket in his tattered clothing helda sv: pender buckle and three copper cents. Nor Were there any bruises or marks upon the bedy to denote foul play or accident. It was that, evidently, of a wanderer who had laid down in the wilderness by the side of the fron path that civilization had pushed through it and breathed his last. Never was there a more fitting dying place for a homeless one, never a more proper burial spot—for he was buried there. The jury found a verdict that an known man had died from natural causes in section No. so-and-so of Polk county, Florida; the mayor-coroner recorded the verdict, and the jury lifted the body, straightened the stiffened limbs and rever- ently laid it in the coffin. The two ne- groes quickly dug a grave in the yielding sand and then neaped it back again on the lox and body, while the pine-knot torches flickered and fluttered and made the w: ing gray moss above seem like witches hovering over a prospective gathering place in which to hold high revels. The jury and mayor and.spectator boarded the crank car and sped back to Lakeland, and the men who worked the levers struck up “We won't go home until mornin; CLUSKEY CROMWELL. ets The Proposed Sunday Law. To the Editor of The Evening Star: I read in The Star of Saturday the state- ment of John H. Elliott as to why the pro- posed Sunday law should be passed by Con- gress, and I thought perhaps your readers would be interested in a few statements by those who respectfully dissent from the views held by that gentleman. There are some things which Mr. Elliott fails to state, that in fairness ought to be. stated. The act of 186f was never signed y the mayor, and perhaps for very good reasons. The acts prohibited by this act and the present proposed law are not crimes in themselves, but are laudable and right— here is the Ist, “It shall be unlawful for any person to open any place of business or maintain any stand for the sale of any ar- ticle or articles ‘of profit.” They prohibit any putlle playing of foot ball or base ball, or any kind of playing sports, pastimes or diversions. All these are encouraged in the community, and all of them conduce to the good order of society. Now, when and why is it proposed to prohibit these? On the first day of the week, commonly called Sun- day, and for the reason that the day is re- garded sacred by a portion of the people of the community. This Is the best reason in the world why Congress should have noth- ing to do with it. The reason is purely a religious one, and one with which Congress has no right to deal. Mr. Elliott speaks of his constituency in the District. Shall even a majority have the right to have their re- ligious sentiment enacted Into law? Why, then, do we complain at the treatment of Christians in Turkey? A much larger con- stitneney than ke represents has expre itself on the question of religious legislation by the fifst amendment to the National Con- stitution—“Congress shall make no law re- specting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” The proposed Sunday law would both create an establishment of religion and prohibit the free exercise of the same. It proposes to recognize the sacredness of at lest one Christian institution, by creating-crimes out of virtues, when per- fcrmed on the religious day. It also pro- Poses to tolerate those who dissent from the views of the ruling class, in the mat- ter of the particular day to be observed, which act of toleration may be withdrawn at the discretion of the power so enacting. Does not this prohibit dissenters from freely exercising their religious belief? Suppose tho tables were turned, and those keeping another day of the week were in the majority, would the people who are row demanding the Sunday law deem that they were enjoying liberty while they were even required to uniformly observe the Gay of their choice, in order to be exempt from the operation of a law requiring the ebservance of Saturday? Evidently the framers of the first amendment had in mind just such an emergency as we now have before us. It would have been easy te have written the amendment so as to prohibit the establishmert of any church. In that cass every Institution of the Chris- tian, or any’ other religion, having a ma- jority of erents, might have been cs- tablished by Congress; and the adherents of all others would have been deprived of the free exercise of theirs in consequence of the establishment by law of the views of the majority. - Our fathere built wiseiy; let us who be- Neve in the Christian religion be content with liberty. The Christian religion is either a power in itself or it is of no value. In the first centuries Christianity made its way in opposition to the laws of the most powerful nation on earth, and can it not its own in a land of freedom? Mr. Elliott seéms to imply that when it becomes known that the act of 1864 has been declared invalid, the people having stores and. shops and stagds will all open on Sunday, and, therefore, it is neces- sery for Congress to enact this law. These are not criminals, but people that hate crime, and that by the establishment of peaceful purstiits seek the gocd order of scciety. . d who can say that their ideas of sacred things are not as exalted as those of the rverend gentlemen who are so anxious to regulate the religious observance of Sunday by law? Let Congress go on with its work of repressing crime, not cre- ating it. And let the church go on with its work of pointing out.sin, and pointing men to the Savior from sin. ALLEN MOON. up a The Theta Delta Chi. At the Shoreham last evening there was a banquet which ushered into being a ew charge of the eastern fraternity of Theta Delta Chi. The actual constitution was held earlier in the day. The rew charge will be known as Chi Deuteron, and is camposed exclusively of students of Colum- bian University. Representative James McLachlan of California presided at the banquet. ——__ * A Reception. Past Department Commander Marion T. Anderson of the Grand Army of the Re- public last evening tendered his comrades of Lincoln Post a reception. The veterans assembled at 7th and T streets and march- ed to the home of the host, 471 Florida ayenue, which was appropriately decorated for the occasion. During the evening renii- miscences were exchanged and refresh- ments served in ‘bountiful profusion> Many prominent Grand Armiy men, other than the members of Lincola Post, were in at- tendance, A MELODIOUS CONVENTION Arrangements for the Gathering of the Musicians’ League. Meetings to Be Held Here Beginning April 7—Questions to Come Up for Discussion. Tuesday, April 7, the annual convention of the National League of Mus‘cians will begin in this city at Willard Hall, and con- tinue In session for five or six days. The convention promises to be one of the most interesting in the history of the league, and delegates representing every section of the United States are expected to be in attend- ance. The present officers of the league are: resident, Alexander Bremer of New York; vi presidents, H. D. Beissenberz, Indian- is, Ind.; George Nachman, Bait: retary, Jacob Beck, Cape May, N. J.; me: bers of executive board are: First district, Harry Asmus, Buffalo; second district, C. h, C , Chicago, Ill; fifth district, Samuel ‘Treloar, Butte, Mon. There has been some talk among the del- gates as Lo who will be the officers for next year, but not much has been settled in that H. direction. Mr. Bremer will, it is said, be a candidate for re-election. Delegate Miller of St. Louis is prominently mentioned for the place, and Second Vice President Nach- man of Balt:more Is looked upon as a dark horse in the race. Mr. Nachman, however, does not aspire to anything above the first ¢ presidency, and for this position he will not have any opposition. : The sharpest fight of the session will, it is expected, be for the secretaryship. Mr. Jacob Beck, the incumbent, has held the office for five years, and is a candidate for re-election, but it is understood that Mr. Drach of Chicago also wants it, and it is thought their chances are about equal. Business of much importance to all the members will occupy the attention of the convention. Principal among the matters to be brought up will be the death benefit law. It was at the convention held in Cleyeland last year that a committee ap- pointed to consider the matter reported 1avorably on the adoption of a compulsory a benefit, which was afterward adopt- st spended ground that the law wa The disputed law Is as follow: Geath of a member in good standing it shall be the duty of the secretary of the local Gin whose jurisdiction the deceased was a member) to notify the secretary of the leazue of such death, forwarding the prop- 1 vouchers thereof. ‘The secretary of ague shall then notify all the locals, transmittting with such notification the t due by the local for such death, don a per capita of 2 cents for each mber, according to tbe preceding” re- each local must be rer of the league within receiving notification of nt under penalty of suspen- sicn of the delinquent local. : “The secretary of the league shall draw an order on the treasnrer in favor of the local of which the deceased was a member the amount due, who shall pay the of the deceased or his ives forthwith.” Another be upon the much- mooted question cf iniversal membership, which hes been a bene of contention for the past few years. It is understood that nothing will be said during tLe convention about the propriety of an affiliation with the American Fed- eration of Labor. question was fully discussed at the Cleveland convention last year, and decided adversely. The contro- versy now going on in New York between “The amount paid to the tre legal repr Local No. 1 and the labor unions will be discussed, but it is doubtful whether the league will t: a action in the matter either one other. : The members of the Baltt: tnite with those of the Washington Local in the entertainment of the delegates to the conventicn, and it is the intention of both to give their guests such a good time that ihey will never for; it. An attractive pregram of entertainment been arranged for the beneiit of the visitors. It includes a social session at Willard’s Hall and banquet at Willard’s Hotel, with a trip down the Potomac river to Mount Vernon. On the occasion of the sccial session it is expected that there will be present 150 visitors from Baltimore alone. The object of the National League of Musicians is tO better the general welfare of the profession throughout the country, and they convene once a year to elect officers and legislate for the good of its member- ship, which now numbers over 20.440. The league was organized March 8, 1886, at the Grand Hotel in New York by delegates ap- pointed for the pu from musical or- ganizations in the cities of New York, Phil- acelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston and Milwaukee. —— ARCHITECT EDBROOKE DEAD. He Designed the New City Post Office Building. W. J. Edbrooke, under President Harrison's administration, is dead at Cnicago. He supervised all the buildings at the world’s fair designed for government exhibitions. Mr. Edbrooke drew the plans for the Washington city post office building, now in course of con- struction. His handiwork was also seen at the Atlanta exposition. He bore off the honors in both designing and building the state capitol building at Atlanta. Among his most notable works are the Notre Dame University structures at South Bend, Ind., and the Tabor Grand Opera House at Denver. ———— Axkn to Be Absolved. A bill in equity has been filed by Brainard H. Warner against the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society,-W. H. Jenks and othe! to restrain certain proceedings for the collec- tion of interest guaranteed by him. In Au- gust, 1892, Mr. Warner states, Wm. E. Prall wished to borrow $45,000 from the Philadelphia society and $5,000 from Mr. Jenks, representing that if Mr. Warner would guarantee the payment of the in- terest he would have ro difficulty in secur- ing the loans on lot 4, square 85, on part of which stands the Hotel Arno. ir. Warner also says that Mr. Prall represented that there was a perfect title in him, whereupon he became responsible for the interest. But Mr. Prall misrepresented the matter, says Mr. Warner, and subsequently, he charges, the property became the subject of litiga- tion between the trustees and others. Mr. Warner asks that those proceedings for the sele of the property be pushed to a close, and that a threatened suit against him be restrained. He also prays to be absolved from responsibility for the interest, on the ground that the property is amply sufficient. Attorneys E. H. Thomas and Henry E. Davis represent Mr. Warner. Given Damages. The jury in the case of Richard L. Eliott against the Balt:more and Potomac Rail- road Company, on trial before Judge Mc- Comas in Circuit Court No. 2, has awarded him $5,000 damages. The plaintiff was a brakeman in the employ of the road, and January 5, 1800, had his foot and hand crushed in coupling cars. The accident, he claimed, was due to a defective couplinz, and he asked $15,000 damages. He was represented by Messrs. Birney & Birney. 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