Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1896, Page 1

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Terms: 13 cents per week; 25 cents for two weeks, or 50 cents per month. Invariably in ad- vance. Subscribers changing their address from one Post-office to another should give the last address as well as the new one. MAINE REPUBLICANS |THE committee's REPORT) THE FIGHT IN OHIO — Assembling of the State Convention at Bangor. HAROLD M. SEWELL IN THE CHAIR Highly Eulogistic References to Mr. Reed. KNOWS NO SECOND CHOICE BANGOR, Me., June 2—The Maine re- publican convention met in this city today. In calling the delegates to cider Joseph H. Manley, chairman of the state committee, named for temporary chairman Harold M. Sewell, whom President Cleveland In his first term appointed as United States con- sul to Samoa, but who subsequently be- came identified with the republican party. In the course of a long address, on taking up the gavel, Mr. Sewell said: “Tae republicans of Maine join their brethren of other states in presenting a candidate whose platform is already writ- ten—written when he declared that the proudest part of the proud record of the republican party is its devotion to sound finance; written in the record of his life, whose nom: cn nieans election, whose election means republican supremacy, not ar, but fer twenty-four years to t cnly the leader of our party, but tery a sullen and defiant ycracy hes been forced to acknowledge er of men. ot only a mas master of f. but a elf as er of men, er of him: ve known him, boy and man, among us. Master of himseif as the nation has known him, in the full glare of icity and the heat of party strife. Master of himself 2s the nation knows him toda: nee when silen onor, nor opene to have no mean > was named b: tn the i hich she crowned his magnificent manhood and aim regnant ameng men. He was named him, ed him to pre- legislative body of ‘on in its ghest gift e our pal at the tim y in our own. He was named by the heroic which compels events when he that body that its first duty to the ry was to learn to govern Itself; he the irons t fettered and shattered lents which violated the principle on ch all representative government must and which otherwise might have de- d the government itself. ervative without ccmpromise, brave rashness, urdaunted today as he een undaunied ever, I need not name He leads in your hearts, and there been no vacancy In that ieader: roken-hearted, you turned from ihe of Blaine, and in the full glory ord and the promise of illimitable broke pree achievements yet to come, you centered yur pride of state and party fealty upon as B. Reed. His name your chosen delegates carry to St. Louis, and to guide fon there they need only the in- on cf their hearts. at fate shall decree we do not know. his much we know: We know what these whom we are sent to serve {ded on our efforts, and not our one, but 10,000 demccrats of Maine, nd ready to burst the bonds of at the ballot box in response to that great name. And this is erough to know. We go to that convention with no second choice ix our hearts and only that name upon our Iips.”” Speaking further, Mr. Sewall sald: “What wonder that democrats run up and down the land proclaiming that their party is to give, what It has never given us before, a foreign policy that shall meet the a) 1 and aspirations of the Ameri- can_people. “God knows we need such a policy—an American policy commanding respect and self-respecting; a policy that shall put an end to the jeers and gibes of Europe, that rather than be great in history we prefer to have no history at all: a policy com- mensurate with our greatness as a great power, great in commercial and material but greatest of all in that we above and beyond this greatness count it all for naught in the assertion defense of principles the value of Which such greatness cannot measure. od knows, I say, we need such a policy: but as He ts just and merciful, by shame and humilation with which He has seen fit to chasten this people through the instrumentality of the democratic party, He will never lead us to seek such @ policy through the maintenance in power of a party whose conduct of our foreign relations has taught us the need of such a policy as we have never realized it before. “What, I ask of you men from every city and hamlet of Maine—what has become of at prosperity which made our state a ‘vel among her sisters, far more richly endowed by nature than’ she? What but gone with the advent to power of this democratic party. “Fitly did our faithful Senator excl as he stood in the Senate defending his State from the onslaughts of the Wilson bill, “Maine, like Bozarris, lies bleeding at every vein.” “Hardly worse could It have been for our People; far better It had been for some, since the demociatie tariff, had not an ax been laid to the trees of our forests, had devastation laid waste our fields, pestilence swept the hilis of our flocks and the ficcds of the Androscoggin dried at their springs, such has been the havoc wrought upon them by the democratic party. ““Man marks the earth with ruin, his centrol stops with the shore.’ Not so with the ruin the democratic party would work: they attacked the last people in our state who could withstand that attack, the last who deserved it; they attacked the toilers gnd the industries of the sea, those of our people who have stamped the name of Maine es a God-fearing and independent Face wherever they go, those industries without which our rock-bound coasts would not have been pressed by the foot of the ttler until a century after they were. t was injustice to our fishermen to put sh on the free list. It was scarcely less than a crime against our state to do so, for if there is a country on earth against which the interests of our state demand th rotective tariff should be used and without relaxation it is unnatural and unhappy remnant of British deminicn cn this continent, just be- yond our borders; ours geographicaily, ours historically, ours by the sacrifices of the men of Maine who fell at Louisberg and with Wolfe before Quebec. “And by the unbroken teachings of re- publican statesmanship while Canada chooses to indulge the sentiment that main- tains that line and cuts off from our po- sition as a part of a North American con- federation stretching to the eternal snows, she shall be made to know the cost of do- ing so, and shall not indulge that sentiment and at the same time be allowed to fatten off our markets.” —_—$___ Leaves of Absence Granted. Leaves of absence have been granted as follows: Lieut. W. R. Abercrombie, sec- ond infantry, for two months; Lieut. Jas. A Cole, sixth cavalry, for two months and nineteen days; Lieut. H. N. Royden, twen- ty-third infantry, one month's extension; im, Lieut. G. Lowe, fourth infantry, one month’s extension; Lieut. J. L. Hayden, first artillery, for two months; Lieut. F. G. Mauldin, third artiilery, for two months. The President's Objections to the River and Harbor Bill Answered. He is Said to Be Wrong in His Facts— Grent Loss if the Act Should Fail. Chairman Hooker of the House commit- tee on rivers and harbors today submitted a long report recommending the passage of the river and harbor bill over the veto of the President. The objections of the Presi- dent are reviewed in deta!tl All but twen- ty-seven of the 417 projects in the bill, the large number being alluded to by the Pres- ident, the report says were contained in previcus river and harbor bills. It is also claimed that most of the pro- jects were contained in the bill of 1890, up- on which the late Gen. Casey submitted a report saying that but eight were of lim- ited local benefit. It is also stated that the bill was prepared after careful examina- tion of the reports of engineers. The Pres- ident alluded to “improvidently planned projects,” but the committee asserts that provision has been made for prosecuting where there seemed a doubt concerning them, by modified projects, all to be done under the direction of the engineers. It is also claimed that the President is indefinite in his language in not specifying the ob- Jectionable features of the bill. President Uninformed. Replying to the assertion of the Presi- dent that there are appropriations for works which private parties have actually agreed to do, the committee says that the information upon which the President bases his knowledge is wholly without founda- tion. As to the cash appropriation of $14,- 000,000 the committee says that this is to spread over two and net expended in one fiscal year. It is also asserted that the Pri nt places the amount under the contract system about $2,000,000 higher than the bill, and that Instead of $20,000,- ooo being expended during the year ending June 39, 1808, as asserted by the President, the committee says that in case all con- tracts authorized were immediately entered into not more than $16,61 could be ex- pended in any one year. Smaller Schemes. The report also says that the President is in error In saying that there will be anotker appropriation for smaller schemes “not covered in tke contracts.” Answer- ing the charge of extravagance the com- mittee says that for the past six years the average expenditure has been $16,760,000, and estimates from the present bill and appropriations for 1898 and 1900 that the average expenditure for the next six years will be $13,100,000. The committee quotes from the report of Secretary Lamont in- dorsing the contract system in making river and harbor improvements ard recom- mending “the extension of that policy to embrace other wortny improvements.” Attention ig called to the fact that if the bill should fail, work upon hundreds of projects in course of completion would be suspended at great loss. The report coa- cludes that after a careful re-examination of the bill, the committee sees no reason why the House shouid recede from its ac- tion. A BASE BALL © RD. Reported Sale of the Franchise, CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 2.—A story to the effect that the Cleveland Base Ball Club had sold its franchise 1md that the players were to be divided up between Brooklyn and Indianapolis 1s circulated here. It was news at the office of Presi- dent Robison. “Both President Robison and Secretary Howard Robison are out of the city,” said the assistant secretary of the club, “but no such movement has been contem- plated, so far as I know, and I think I should hear of it about as soon as any one.”” Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 2—A story is published here today that the owners of the Cleveland Base Ball Club have sold the franchise and players to John T. Brush and John Byrne of Brooklyn and a Boston capitalist, whose name is withheld. The transaction is said to have been made in Boston yesterday, and the consideration is $100,000, according to the story current here. The only point of difference between the contracting parties was the important mat- ter of the consideration. The magnates had been negotiating for several days, and the figure offered was $75,000, but this was re- fused. Mr. Robison is reported to have answered that not one cent less than $100,000 would be taken for the team. This latter sum was finally agreed to. It is the intention to place the better part of the team, including Tebeau, McKean and Childs of the infield, all the pitchers and catchers and Burkett, and possibly MeAleer, In Brooklyn, the remainder, with the bulk of the Brooklyn team, being trans- ferred, together with the Cleveland fran- chise, to Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Western League team being transferred to Omaha. The reason for placing the Cleve- land team at Brooklyn is obvious. With such a team playing across the bridge from New York, with a poor team in the latter city, the bulk of the base ball patronage of the two cities would go to Brooklyn. Mr. Robison Is in New York today, but at his office there is no knowledge of the transaction. At the home of George Howe, vho is a league stockholder in the Cleve- land Base Ball Company, it was learned that Mr. Howe was in Boston. The Sa Secretary J. Howard Robison was seen by & Star reporter at the Ebbitt House to- day, and he declared in no uncertain lan- guage that the reported sale bore not the semblance of authenticity or truth. Cap- tain Tebeau of the Cleveland club also as- sured the reporter that so far as he knew there is absolutely no truth in the report. President Young of the National League was apparently surprised when informed by the reporter this afternoon of the re- ported sale of the Cleveland franchise. “I would probably be the first Cleveland Denied. per- son to be informed regarding such a deal,” said President Young, “and I- as- sure you most emphatically that I have not heard a word relating to the subject. Just a moment ago I was conversing with Sec- retary J. Howard Robison of the Cleveland club by telephone, and he did not refer to the matter. I consider the story sent out from Cleveland to be a fake, pure and simple, just as much so as have been all the stories published during he past few months in which Cleveland and Indianap- olis have been prominently mentioned. “Of course, I believe Mr. Robison would sell his franchise, as would any club owner ip the league, but I assure you his figure is high. There is one chance in 10,000 that the Cleveland club might be sold in the near future, but I do not think for an in stant that such a chance will materialize. —.__. The Massachusetts and Deep Water. Orders have been given to put the battle ship Massachusetts in commission on the 10th instant. She fs now at Cramps’ ship- yard, Philadelphia. She is the second of the new first-class battle ships authorized by Congress to go into active service. Her prototype, the Indiana, was the first. Capt. Frederick Rodgers will have the honor of being the first commander of the Massa- chusetts. The final payments on that ves- sel were made today. Struggle for Supremacy Between Silver and Sound Money Democrats. GOV. BOCKWALTER GIVES HIS VIEWS He Thinks Cleveland May Again Force Himself on the Country. THE FINANCIAL QUESTION Tho growth cf the silver sentiment among the democrats in Ohio 1s one of the remarkable things about the curious polit!- cal developments of this campaign. The fight for supremacy in Ohio is a contest between the silver democrats, headed by Gov. Bookwalter and John R. McLean, and the administration people, rather than be- tween the Bookwalter and the Brice forces. Attorney General Harmen, who 1s not a politician at all, and Gov. Campbell, who is not the sort of hard and fast ad- ministration man that Cleveland likes to rely on, represent the admiristration in as much as it is represented in Ohio politics by men of more than local reputation. Brice 13 not figuring 1nuch in the fight. Bockwalter and McLean have for a long tims taken very little part in _ politi Beokwalter, who is a rica man, has bee devoting himself to his business affairs and to travel mest of ihe time since he was the democratic candidate for governor, succeeding his term as licutena nor, and Mc).ean h: self entirely to b: ical field to i Interest in Their Activity. The activity of these two men, all of a sudden, has excited considerable interest. entative of The r had a long Bookwalter last evening. Bookwalter has spent much time in Russia, China, Japan, Indie and in the Europe familigrized mmself the world. He regards the present curious political situation in this country as not due entirely to local causes, and says that the great politics of the time is an internation and a race struggle for commercial and industrial su- premacy. Danger as to Cleveland. He says that in his opinion there is dan- ger of Mr. Cleveland forcing himself upon the country again, in spite of the sfive triumphs in the democratic party, and a!) the prestige the republicans have got through democratic failures. He thinks Cleveland has the power, through the use of Jingo sentiment, and may have the inclination to play upon the war spirit to maintain his supremacy tn the count “I am quoted in some pap sald M. Bookwalter, “as advocating nomina- tion of silver platform. In view of Cleveland's uncom- promising advocacy of gold it 13 needless for me to say that such a atultification would mean Gisastor to the democratic party. What might happen if, tn the near future, the public mind should become inflamed upon international questions now pending and the war issue spring forwar and (as is always the case) completel submerge and suplant all internal iss and questions is quite another matte! The Financial Struggle. Speaking of the financial str Bookwalter said: “I am opposed to the attempt to establish a single gold basis, as there 1s not, and can never be, a sufficient amount of that metal to carry on the rapidly developing business of the world. “When the late Brussels conference broke up it was a no less personage than Baron Rothschild who declared that general coni- mercial end financial ruin would follow, if the world were thrown on a gold basis. “While it has been the habit uf the west- ern world to regard the people of the orlent as fixed and imbedded in lethargy and in action, as incapable of development in a cord with modern ideas, it has long been evident to observant tr is not the case, but, on the contrary, the is in the populous cast a latent energy and capacity for development and growth on western lines and ideas well nigh illimit- able. the veland on a war and free es gle, Mr. Japan and Russia. “What is there in the talk of Japanese encroachment on our trade?” “The recent rapid advance of Japan, startling no less in its suddenness than in its evidence of permanence, suggests what can and what will probably occur ariong 700 or 800 millions of other peoples pos- sessed of equal powers of expansion and absorption. It has been an {dea current until recent years that Russia was a semi- barbarous, bankrupt nation, incapable of advance on the more modern lines. Within a few years we have witnessed a display of her most marvelous capac for growth and expansion. She has not only sud sprung to the front as an agricultur tion of such importance as to stand as an everlasting menace to our own nation in European markets, but she has become the projector and builder of the most g' gantic railroads on the globe, and In sun- dry other directions in the world of indu: try and trade is giving evidence of a quick- ening in commercial and industrial life. “Such has been her recent growth in trade and commerce taat even now she is making alarming inroads on 2ur goid sup- ply to increase her monetary facilities con- sequent upon this sudden enlargement of her home and external trade. As Russia has but little over 400 millions of available gold, it would require an additional two billions of dollars to supply her with the same per capita amount possessed as an average in England, France and Germany. To supply this and to meet the wants due to her increase of population would require the complete absorption of the entice pres- ent output of the world for cver tweive years, leaving nothing to ve used in the arts, The Development of the West. “Suppose China, with her population of nearly 6500 millions, Persia and other Asiatic, nations were to imitate the ex- ample of Japan and Russla—where will the requisite volume of money come from to meet the vast necessities thus created? To realize what a stupendous absorption of capital will occur when Russia, China and Japan alone are once in the full tide of de- velopment, a glance of what has happened in the western world in contradistinction to the orient in the short space of fifty years will show. With a population of less than 350 millions, they have within that time, built over 400 thousand miles of rail- roads, absorbing nearly forty billions of money; they have absorbed over four bil- lions in steamships, have constructed vast systems of telegraphs, and other electric appliances; have developed cities by the hundreds, and lands by the millions of acres, and in scores of other directions have employed and absorbed capital, the gross sum of which staggers the mind in its effort-to compute. If this has been done within fifty years by nations in the west whose aggregate population does not much exceed 300 millions, what may we not ex- pect to occur in the next fifty years among nearly’ one billion of people in the east, with their accumulated industrial forc ard wealth of thousands of years? If Gold Were the Only Standard. “Buppose gold were made the sole mone- tary basis of the world, and that Russia, Japan and China alone (we* will leave out India, with its population of 280 millions), with nearly 650 millions of people, were to so expand their trade and imdustries in the next fifty years as to require even the low per capita amount of ten dgllars of gold. This would require nearly se¥en billions of dollars, or an amount of gold equal to what the world has succeeded in’ accumulating in 6,000 years. “With such a probable development of oriental countries in the near future, does it not become problematical] whether all the gold and s'lver combined‘ can meet the vast monetary demands thus created, and that they may not be forced, along with other western ideas, to adopt that peculiar financial one of fiat money which our rapid development through the past half century forced us to resort to in order to meet cur monetary requirements?” HE WAS FOUND DEAD Body of Daniel §. Pickrell Discovered Under a Tree, Death Came During the Night— Natural Causes for the Sad Affair—His Family, Daniel S. Pickrell, a member of the family of that name in Georgetown, was found dead this morning beneath a huge oak tree near the line of 234 street, ju: north of Florida avenue, and his body nt to the morgue. Annie William colored woman wh street, found his body there. She vw passing along the street at the time and saw the body beneath the tree. It was only a few minutes after 7 o'clock, and she supposed the man had probably slept the! all night. She could discover no signs was unable to see his face, fc on that his hand had been thro carelessly over it as if he had fallen asleep and had put it there to protect him from the dew. Not being satisfed whether he was dead or alive, she walked near and then discovered that his body was motionless that death must have claimed hin She made a report of what she had seen, and the police patrol wagon from the third precinct was soon upon the scene, Police- pa 0 lives at No. 1518 21st co im man Parham w f the wagon, with Driver Wal y found the body in such a twisted posifion that they were satisfied that the had died in agony. In his hi of weeds th. while sufferin nse pain. When the body reached the morgue there no one there to identify it, but an in- nce paper of the Anglo-American Sa and Trust Company contained the name of the dead man. Inquiry was mac at the office of the company, and Mr. Ha wood, a friend of the family, went to the there were small bits had evidently grabbed morgue with the sister-in-law of the d © 1, The latter remained in the while the former went into the li structure, der 1 of the lat yland, and a con cf Col. ent citizen of North ¢ 2 nan was a Vic! also suffered an afte e has been drinking , and had net lived with his eet for several months. one of the de; hildren are living with troug drink, tion of the hea of Is wife at 11 His wife ts a ments, and her two her. Recently he has lived at the house of his er-in-law r Izth and O stré northwest, and had also spent some Hitt time at the ho; Wilson, in Georgetown. ‘oroner Hammett was notified of his ath, and as his friends are satisfi his death resulted from natural ca inquest is likely to be held. Hi of his death this afteraoon, and hi will probably be turned over to his His wife moved from 11th @ short time is death, e of his sister, Mrs. Capt. bedy wife or sister. street to Kingman place on}: ago, and she was notified of THE VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS. Interest Felt in the State Convention to Be Held Tharsday, The Virginia state democratic convention will meet at Staunton on Thursday. The convention, it is agreed, be one of the most important in the history of the state. It has been conceded for some time that the convention would be overwhelmingly for silver. Representative Otey will leave tomorrow for Staunton. Senator Daniel will also be present. Mr. Otey sald this morning that the silver men would have, in round numbers, about 1,800 delegates in the convention, and their opponents abeuc 200. It is practically settled that Senator Daniel will head the delegation to Chicago and that the unit rule will be adopted. The other three delegates-at-large haven't been decided upon. Mr. Otey’s name has been mentioned, but he will the convention not to send him, as he has good reasons for not wanting to go. The name of Senator Mar has t n mentioned, but it is said that he will ask his friends not to present his name. He is not fully !dentified with forces and would obey the tn- of the convention, if sent to Chicago, but doesn’t want to be placed in that position. The convention, it is admitted, will adopt strong resolutions in favor of the restora- tion of silver. There will not be much of a fight by the gold men over the resolutions for free coinage, but, it is said, they will bitterly oppose the adoption of the unit rule. - ———————_- e -_____. Personal Mention, Commander C. A. Converse of the navy has reported here for special duty in the bureau of ordnance. He is at 1613 New Hampshire avenue. Lieut. W. L. Rodgers, U. S. N., 1s in the elty on leave of absence. He-ts at 1733 K street. Secretary Lamont has returned to the city. Lieut. A. C. Ducat, twenty-fourth infan- try, is in the city on’ leave of absence. He is at 1105 H street. Minister Quinby, who 1s home on a vaca- tion from his post at The Hague, was.on the floor of the Senate today. Captain John G. Bourke, third cavalry, is reported to bo ‘serfously ill In Chicago. The nature of his malady is not stated, but it 1s understood that it will neces- sitate an operation, es Naval Cadets Appointed. Appointments as cadets at the Naval Academy have been made as follows: Hen- ry T. Strong, Pittsfleld, Mass., ‘with John G, Hyland, Holyoke, Mass. as alternate; William M. Robertson, Deerbrook, Miss., alternate; Ward Wortman, Helena, Mont. a Northern Pacific Reorganization. The House judiciary committee today de- cided to report to the House the subcora- mittee resolution for the reorganization of the Northern Pacific. Amendments were made to compel the reorganized company to pay all debts of the company and claims against it, and to prevent ‘the company holding @ mqnopoly of timber and tron on ils grant lands. Delegates Selected. - | The American branch of the Women’s In- ternational Peace League has selected Mra. Mary F. Ormsby of this cify, president of the American branch, and Mrs. Lacey Green Leach, a relative of Vice President Stevenson, as delegates to the tnternational congress for wamen’s work at Berlin, Ger- many, from September 19 to 26 of this year, HE ENDED HIS LIFE John T. Price Puta Bullet Through His Head. DESPONDENT OVER MONEY TROUBLES pe In Business Here for About Thirty Years. ——_+-—_ FINDING THE BODY John T. Price, who has been in the livery stable business here since 1866, ended his Iife last night by sending a 32-callber bul- let into his brain. He committed the act in his room at his home, No. 210 Indiana avenue, but his body was not found until breakfast time this morning. Despondency because of financlal troubles and sick- ness and the use of intoxicants are the causes. The deceased was well known in Alexandria and Baltimore, as well as in this city, having becn born in the Virginis city. Long before the war Price kept a saloon and hotel in Alexandria, facing the river. ‘This place was a famous Sunday resort for Washingtonians, and was regarded as the best hotel and saloon in the ancjent city at that time. When the war was over he concluded to give up the saloon business and come here to open a Hvery stable. in ‘66 he came here and was,one of the most suce sful liverymen here for many years. But he w n extravagant man, and did not seem to realize the value of money. He lived high and was a steady drinker, nd, according to statements of his near ends, he spent considerable money in sale ons. His firs wife was an Alexandria lady, and they had three children, a daughter and two sons. Some time afier the death of his first wife he married a Miss Kirk- , whose father was with the firm of Francis Denmead & Sens, malt dealers, in Baltimore, and who lived on High street in the monumental city at the time. Two children, girls, were born to them, and one of them, Blanche, who ts fifteen years oid, was at home last night when her father kil himself. P act was not much of a surprise to the members of his family. He had been sick in bed two s, and had been able to be out only about t ys. His finan- vial troubles bothered onsiderably, and he had not been employed since he old his livery stable on 6th street two or three years ago. The Fatal Act. The svicide was no doubt premeditated. Price had frequently intimated that life was a burden to him, and that he had con- cluded to leave this world. His conversa- tion daring his periods of despondency ways indicated that his mind dwelt upon ending his life, and although his conversa- tions were of this nature, the members of the family did not really believe he meant what he sald. Sunday he called on Mr. Devlin, the gunsmith, and asked him to ex- une his little “Young American” pistol. Several years ago he had purchased the weapon from the dealer, but he feared it was not in working order, and so he called to make sure that when he pulled the trig- ger the Weapon would do its deadly work. He probably intended to end his life that night, but his nerve failed him, and he postponed what was to he the last act cf his life, Yesterday he did not scem particularly lespondent. During the day he took sev- eral strolls about the vicinity of his father- i 's home, where he lived, and in the evening he went with his son John and called on his married daughter, who lives on B street southwest, and returned home about 10 o'clock. Father and son separated when they got inside the door, and the former went to sleep in his daughter's room on the third floor. The older daughter had gone to Bal- timore on a visit, and little Blanche, being afraid to sleep al in her room, had taken her father's place in bed with her mother, When the father and son had sald good night each went to his room, and that was the last time the father was seen alive. Just what time the unfortunate man ended his life ts not known, but his father-in-law heard the noise of the pistol shot. While he heard the nose, he did not know it was made by a pistol, and so he paid no atten- tion to it. The Body Found. This morning about 7:30 o'clock, when the breakfast bell rang and Price did not ap- pear, his wife went to the upper landing and called to him. She heard no response, and, thinking he was still asleep, she went to the landing above and repeated the cal. Still there was no response, and then she went to his room. The door was unlocked and she opened it, only to see the form of her husband. He was undressed and un- der cover in bed. In his hand, which rest- ed across his breast, was the little pistol, while a blood stain on the pillow indicated that a tragedy had been enacted. The wife, very much alarmed, made an outcry, and her father and stepson were soon in the room. They found a bullet hole in the skull behind the left ear, and death had claimed the victim several hours before. The police were notified and the room was thoroughly searched, the officers and members of the man’s family thinking the suicide had probably left a letter giving the cause of his rash act; but no letter was found. Undertaker J. William Lee prepared the body for burial, and Coroner Hammett, who was notified, will probably give a cer- tificate of death from suicide. The body will probably be taken to Alexandria for interment. Precinct Detective Hartigan, who made the search of the room for a note from the suicide, learned today that the deceased had told the clerk at the Tremont House that he was going to commit suicide be- cause he had no money and was tired of living, ———>__ A SUMMER RESIDENCE. Bill Introduced to Purchase a Site for the President. The following bill was introduced in the House today by Representative Denny: For the purchase of a site at Congress Heights, D. C., to be used as a summer residence for the President of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enact- ed by the Senate and House of Representa- tives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that the government of the United States is hereby authorized to purchase eighteen acres of a tract of land at Congress Heights, including that portion known as “Wilson Park,” over- looking Washington, Maryland and Vir- ginla, for the purpose of protecting the timber growth, to be used as a government park, and also as a summer residence for the President of the United States, and that the sum of $100,000 is hereby appro- priated for the purchase and improvement of the same. ——_—__-e-—____ To Resume Business. The First National Bank of El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, which suspended pay- ment May 18, 1896, having fully complied with all the requirements imposed by the controller of the currency, and its capital gtock being now unimpaired, has been per- titted to reopen its doors for business. | claims GENERAL DEFICIENCY - BILL Large Number of Items Upon Which Agreement Has Been Reached. Many Are of Local Interest—Those SUN in Dispute — The Presi- dent’s Probable Action. In the conference on the gereral deficien- cy appropriation bill, a partial report from which was made to the Senate, no agree- ment was reached on the amendment pro- viding for the payment of the sufferers from the Ford’s Theater disaster, which was in- serted in the Senate. The House receded from its opposition to the amendments in the same section paying Mcsers. Brook- shire and Pigsott as members of the com- mission $210 and $90, respectively, for serv- ices subsequent to the expiration of their terms as members of the House. The Senate receded from its amendment appropriating $1,800 to pay the physicians to the poor for vaccination services ren- dered in 1694, and the item goes out of the bill. The amendment relating to the rent of District offices was 1ccepted after the amount had been cut down from $1,895 to $1,804. The House receded from its disa- greement with the amendment appropriat- ing 0 for the rent of the Miner school building, and also accepted the following amendments of locai interest: $2,010 to re- P jarm bexes destroyed by electric 30 to pay J. W. Anderson, pointed referee by the Court of authorizing the Commissioners Lo rules and regulations for the government of the smallpox hospital; amcunts : eces- sary to pay the judgments awarded to Isaac S. Lyon, John Stuckert, Mary Stuck- Louisa Mohler, James MeCandlish. The Senate receded from it providing for the payment of the assistants and deputies to the United States et attorney for the District out of the fe of his ‘office to a total amount not ¢: ceeding $1,400 a year, and it also gave way by surrendering the amendments which increased the amounts to be paid to A. S. Worthington and Samuel Maddox for special services in connection with the highway act from $1,000 to $2,060, The amendment appropriating $14,548.28 to pay Emmart, Dunbar & Co. for old work done for the District ts still in conference, The important of the amend:nents on which an agreement was announced were the following, which remain in the bill: Appropristing $1,542,979 to pay claims Southern Pacific Railroad Company, $1,137,082 to pay judgments of the Court of Claims, appropriating $8,750 for Mrs. Eliza Gray, widow of Minister Isaac P. G 36, for the final of on account of the world’s fair, $4 000 for the construction of sampling works for assaying imported silver-lead ores, $1 600 for purct ase of land adjoining the Philadelphia post office, $125,000 for strengthening the flocrs of the appraiser's warehouse at New Ycrk, $24,000 for horses for cavalry and artillery, $0,000 for the ayment of the traveling expenses of ar- officers, $56,754 fer the support of pris- oners of United States courts, $25,000 for miscellancous expenses of United States courts, $176,134 to pay clerks of members of the Howse, $5,000 for the expenses on both sides of the Du Pont contest for a seat in the Serate from Delaware, a sufficient amount for the payment of certain claims certified to be due by accounting officers of the T ry Department. Still in Dispute. The principal {tems still in dispute are the following: Increasing the appropriation for the customs service frem $81,000 to $1,100,000, $73,104 to pay certain certified claims, $69,558 to pay loses sustained by the Richmond locomotive and machine works in the construction of the battle ship Texzs, $s to pay the Portland company ca erccunt of the gunboats Aga- wam and Pentoosuc, to pay the claim of W. S. Grant for army supplies furrished during the civil war, increasing from $0,162 to $104,861 the allowance on account of contests in the House of Rep- resentatives. Probable Executive Action. The indications are that the general de- ficiency appropriation bill will not receive the President's ature, owing princi- pally to his objections to the items ap- propriating a million and a half dollars for the payment of French spoliation and Bowman claims. It is probable, however, that the bill will become a law without his signature. It 1s presumed that Con- gress will pass the bill and aasourn soon atter sending it to the Presiden: so that o secure a recasting of the measure by the omission of the objectionable features it might be necessary to call an extra ses- sion. The President does not desire to veto the bill, because of the absolu cessity of many other items of appropria- tion carried. amendment ———_+-2+—________ BRITISH AT CORINTO. Slow Transmission of Isthmu From the Associated Press dispatches the government has received its first news of the landing of United States and British naval forces at Corinto early last month. It had been briefly informed through Com- mander Hanford ef the Alert thai he had found it necessary to take measures to proteet the property of Americans in the custom house at Corinto, which was en- ws From the dangered through the disorders incident to the collapse of the attempted rebeilion. Further than that, however, nothing could be heard from the Alert because the ship was cut off from commenication by cable. However, a dispatch got through from Commander Hanford on the 27th of last month, saying that all was quiet at Corinto and that he was about to leave with his ship for La Liberdad, Salvador. There is no question of the approval of the act of the naval commander by beth the State and Navy Departments. ——_-e. TILLMAN’S STUMPING TOUR. He Says He Will Not Accept Second Place on the Ticket. Senator Tillmaa has accepted invitations to speak at Columbus, Ind., on June %, and at Grayson, Ky., on June 11. He will prob- ably speak at Lebanon, Ind., after he goes to Kentucky Senator man is wearing a Bland badge. This suggests a conversation had with the South Carolina Sengtor a few days ago by a friend. Tillman was asked if he would accept second place on the democratic ticket at Chicago. He answered very positively, it is said, that he would not. Laws Without President's Signature. Five pension bills became laws today, under the constitutional limitation, without having received the approval of the Pres- ident. They provide pensions for Kather- ine S. McCartney, widow of Capt. W. 1. McCartney, first Massachusetts artiller: Catherine Smith, widow of James Smith. sixteenth Indiana volunteers; Russell Reynolds, late 130th Ohio infantry; and i creases of pension to Annie E. Colwe widow of Thomas W. Colwell, second Ohio infantry, and Kate Grant, widow ef Capt Charles E. Grant, fortieth New Jersey in- fantry. — What a Recount Shows, The recount of votes from the cuntested precincts of the sixteenth Illinois district is rearly completed ard indicates that Riraker (republican) will secare the scat eld by Downing (democrat). The last precinct counted today shows a gain of 2% for Rinaker, which, with previous gairs, gives him'a pluraiity. ABOUT TWO BOOMS Stevenson Now Being Used to Kill Of Morrison. NO COMPROMISE §MAN WANTED Men Want a Candidate Solidly 16 to |. Silver TAGE OF A BOLT The silver democrats are assuming and the gold men generally conceding that the 16 to 1 policy will prevail at Chicago. On this assumption there is much activity among the friends of the several possible candidates to get them in the fie boom for Vice President Stevenson, which is supported in the Senate, is meeting with considerable opposition in the House. Though some of the Senators who are working for Stevenson are among thc most radical silver men, this does not satiszy all the silver men that Stevenson is firm enough of their faith to make a suitable candidate to stand for silver alone. They object to his lack of activity in the in- terest of silver, and say it not enough that he should favor silver passively; they want is a candidate who has won fame as a silver champion. The boom, howe appears to be more at firs might ng made with some adopted as the Senate of cons! r a lon vens lieved that Morrison that the silver lend- infivence are | the men who off and coulé Vice President. g that has 4. very dec! cor promise, platform, either as to ca’ Morrison's Attitude. Morrison stands in the attitude of an “available” comjromise candidate, who, being a gold man, would approve silver legislation. In the fear that, having many friends among the silver men, he might de- velop great strength if supported by the gold minority, the radicals want to get him off the track. The most cbvicus way to accom, is to boom Stevenson as the Iliz . 5 i the fact that Steve has many fi Senate has given the § sudden start. Many whc the Vice President off Morrison are fearf son might develope too muz! a quiet but v earnest counteraction has been started. The great fear of the radicd a man of not very pronounced views selected as a candidate his inf e will be exerted toward harmonizing the party by softening down the silver They want a man whose name, is that if of the platform, wo: stxteen to one, and who woul any temptation to make fr: . other side. Today the word eing pass- ed from man to man that there mus compromise, no conciliation. Talking Boies. Most of those who do not take to the Stevenson idea are talking Boics. There is more talk of the Iowa man than any one else. There has developed a movement for Teller, which is e serious than the idle gossip which has been indul; in hereto- fore. The discussion of a bolt at the C! convention has now turned on the pro’ of what the gold men will do. Th men are trying to confound the tion pecple with their own t be no inistra- arguments against bolting, but the silver men prefer defiance to conciliation. The Geclaration of Mr. Harrity that ist stand by the no mat- convention dc ng re- peated by Hill, , Ta and the rest of thi demoer > Sen- ate, but none them %e ve that the voters can be held against their convie- tions on this questic = in = DEPARTURE POSTVONED. The Visitors to Nashville Will Not Return Until Thursday, Special Dispatch to The Evenin NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 2.—Owing to rain yesterda which delayed the centen- nial dedicatory exercises until late in the afternoon, the departure for home of the party of Washington correspondent the members of the District cente commission has been postponed tw fcur hours. The train will Nashville late to tomorrow morning at ¢ able ihe party to visit Lookou The train due in Washir o'clock Thu: rning. The citizen hville ha the Washin; Visito Hubbard rict commission, made a } dress at the dedic afternoon. This was the only departure from the regular program, and was made as 2 compliment to Mr. Hubbard and the District of Columbia. —— A GRATIFYING REPORT. Address of Prexident Lee of the Travelers’ Pre Association. TERRE HAUTE, Ind, J 2.—The Travelers’ Protective Association cf Amert- ca assembied here in seventh annual co: vention today. The address of John A. Lee, national president, shows that the organt- zation has grown in numbers and extent of territory, now con ising thirts-two divisions, 110 municipal post orgs and 11,0% mem ‘The ¢ :2¢ Shows a handsome in- MRS. PLEMINGS DEYDNSET It Will Be Cinimed Her Mother Com- mitted Sulvide. NEW YORK, Je ination of a wit the ex- pected to show t amitted suicide. Counsel that It could san habit first intime which would be followed by stene Fleming. AT GRAY GABLES Arrival of the residents Servants at the Seashore, BUZZARD'’S BAY, Mass., Ju ident Cleveland’: servants, r taggage and the horses reached Gray Pres- of his Gables this forenoon. They were in charge ot Sinclair, the steward ef the Presdeut's household. M Cleveland and the chil- dren are expected to arrive the last of the week.