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2 ee ————————————————— was in town he always visited him. Mr. Devlin said that he had no doubt as to the genuineness of the signatures, and supposed that the witnesses had attached their names on some occasion when they were all at Judge Hoit’s house. Mr. John B. Randolph was th n called to the stand. He is a cierk in the War De- partment, having been there for thirty years. He said that he was familiar with the signatures of both Gens. Grant and Sherman. He said that he was confident that their signatures as Se to the ed will were not genuine. “On cross-examination Mr. Randolph said that he first made a comparison of the signatures without being directed to do so by any one. In his opinion, it was a very poor attempt at Genera! Grant’s sis- nature, and he pointed out a number of the peculiarities in the general's handwriting that were lacking in the signature in dis- pute. The signature of General Sherman, he said, was also defective in some of its essentia! details. Mr. J. O'T. McCarthy, an elderly gentle- man, who styles himself an artist in pen- manship, testified that he was familiar with Mrs. Sherman's handwriting, having first seen it in 1577, when letters of con- gratulation were addressed to the pope. Mr. McCar son of Erin, whe re made to some of his statem » pald no atten- His conve went right aion: s tinged with a strong brogue, and as a witne. created great deal of amusement. Finaliy, Judge Bradley threat- ofr more ever, king him stop, oothly. The was that as Sher- sme Was <s went say, how isnatures of Mr: ened to find and then t best he ¢ compares ne man he had seen, the one on the alleged Will did noc uine. Henry nirty years a clerk ent, and familiar with Judge Hoit’s signature for tn He said ge never wrote Son the al stricken out, however, be- ation it developed not qualified to testi- a cause on at the fy on the s At this point midday recess. Mr. Holt Cross-Examined. the court took the usual After recess Mr. Wash. Holt azain took the stand and was cross-examined by Mr. Butterworth. He was questioned as to Judze H early lif, as he knew the facts of his career. The Inciients in connection With the’ witness’ first meeting with Judge Hoit were all zone over again. The witne: id that at the ol] homestead in Kentucky his w: Of this od about t and ) corsiderable m At one time wife $40,000 in b In th ¥ the b hoon was taken up, the cros: finally coming down to the judge's de funeral ar that wa: Material in to what cam tion. DEPARTS. The Mehinicy Meadgearters Trans- ferred to St. Louis. teh to The cLAND, un pulled of the that there was a the name of It proved to Hanna, and it was healed f Senator Red- fiehi Pr Vermont, Mr. Abner Me- York, General Osborn of Herr and Sy Hanna. ber from Ohio, joined Joseph Manley interests, pa William Hahn, mem- ing the would not partak a triumphal march journey which we and lots of ers may THE SANDY RING TRAGEDY, Sam Bodd Gives an Account of the Fatal Pight. euing Star, , June 9—Coming so on trage the murder iS has exc 1 the com- an wnusual degree. Samuel the foll attended h on Sun fence w nade “I ting alone on t was a started. It out 2 yards from the church. I heard a crowd hailooing ard went to them. “Tom Carter called Howard ‘Thornton a liar, and Howard 1 bim another. 1 saw Perry Alcorn and Archy Hopkins cem- ing toward the crowd. Aleern Where fa cory ig th dre Hopkins said to Thornton: “‘W going do wit that Be Struck Thernto: Thornton thr arm and cut Hopkins aer shoulder with half 2 rail and st ton ran, followed ry Alcorn, C. Hopk Aleorn grabbed Vik ne, ana with what I put on his head he eis away with m _ ON NGED ON SCAFFOLD. Execuiion of ers in Three Baslish Newsgat Murder- Prison, » known as the laurderers. 1 were con- vieted burgiariously entering . Muswell Loge, jowa, Muswell Hill, Pebru- ard murder Mr. Henry hapel m rer. Se in the arrang ments, baby farmer, con- Vicied of number of infants, will b ne place tomorrow. SO HEARING TOMORROW. J de Henderson's Advice Huxton Cas to in the ial Dispated *KVILI Hetders Star. By advice of n to the sheriff, no prelim- hearing il be given Neale and Iph, th used assins in the 1 case, at this place tomorrow, as ore arranged. The coroner’s jury eviderce at Gaither: m a verdict in will not be brought e is demanded by inary Pour-Cent Street ILWAUKEE, aa of the Wi -At a meet- last evening a J, there be- Thirty days’ ow the com- Maryland Piremen's Convention. Dispate eB cRLAND, J land s The fourth a men’s Associa tomorrow, e days. ate city on and will The city fs al- assuming a scene of great activity d tustie. Th ton will be opened t A x f 3} t Mayor Me en. About six re € ies from all tions of Maryland, Pennsylvania and st Virginia will be in attendance. delegates from the twen rze KE. Matth or the | ss, and Wallace Rice of the re the guests of M * THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES. Congress of the British Chambers of Commerce. ADDRESSED BY MR. JOS. CHAMBERLAIN The Advantages of a Closer Union Pointed Out. REPRESENTATIVE GATHERING LONDON. June 9—The third congress of © chambers of commerce of the British empire opened at 9 c’clock this morning in the Hail Grocers’ Company, Princesstrot, this city, with Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary of state for the colonies and honorary president of the congress, in the chair, ‘The splendid hall was filled with dele- gates from all parts of the empire, those of each colony being grouped under their own banner. Canada had two tables and the others had ore. The Canadian delegation was headed by Sir Mackenz!e Bowell and Str Sa rd Fleming. The gallery was fill- ed with ladies. Albert K. Rollit, M. P., president of the London chamber of commerce, welcom- ed the delegates at the head of the stair- Mr. Chamberlain was accompanied by a 2 ef notable cclon'sts and agents general, including Sir Henry Brougham Lord Knutsford, the Earl of Jerse: Sir George Baden-Powell and many others. Mr. Chamberlain was enthusiastically cheered as he officially welcomed the dele- Among other things he sa‘d he was dat every fresh indication of the unity of the empire, upon which all their hopes. The omens, dded, were naver more favorable, and usted their deliberations would result advance toward the goal to which patriotic aspirations tended. Continu- Mr. Chamberlain remarke he existence of this congress is evi- derce that we have to a great extent an- nihilated space and that further knowledge tend to a complete agreement he- tween the colonies and the mother co} The same note for closer union rings i all the resolutions, but all the proposals are dwarfed into insignificance in compari- A with the proposals to secure the com- ot the empire. al union ‘Such a commercial union will necessi- tate a council of the whole, to which will be rearitted all questions of commercial 1 which the whoie empire is inter- ed. But this is not all. Imperial defense will also come within the deliberations of the council of the empire, and this question the fa problem with which we . there has been a deat of the British fr tel by the colon’ end the proposal of the co protecti ts been rejected by Great Britain. ve must find a third course Ss, will be proposal.” dwelt upon the tion of the Toronto board of trade, urges that “the advantages to be ob- tained by a closer union between the va. rious portions of the Pritish empire are se to justify an arrarrement as sible of the nature of a Zoll- verein, based upon prin change of cemmere> w consistent with the tariff require- ts incident to the maintenance of the local government of each kingdom, do- minion, province or colony, now forming part of the British family of nations. said that the adoption rlan would establish immediately sclically free trade throughout the while leaving the con ing par- Teck. th amberilain nm make their own arrang in recard to duties on foreign goods, exer that the essential ¢ n of the proposul was that Britain wouid consent to °$ on nia articles vedneed in 5. ion of was port it would not be refusal upon the part a. The honor: the re: met of with a Great y presilent also touched upon s adopted by other chambers throughout the empire, of which that of Montreal chamber is a fair is says: order to extend the exchang, ption of the home staple pri part of the British empire, a erential duty should be adopted by the nperial and colonial goverrinerts in favor he Rome productions against the im- 1 foreign article: these resolution: All the cong! were presented to Ss in printed form. Mr. 3. Osler submitted the resolution of the Toronto board of trade, which waa first on the pr by the Mara 1, and it was seconded of Loadonderry. Mr. Don. mit amended it by recom- mending that steps be taken by the govern- ment to secure an interchange of opinion on the subject between Great Britain and er governments of the empire. Nearly every chamber of commerce of importance in the British empire is rep- re i in the congress, and those not able to send deleg.tions have indorsed the movement in one way or the other, looking to th Ment of a consultative im- jal ¢ to pass upon matters con- rected with the trade or finance of the em- pire, as well as with its defense. a Decorating Confederate Graves tal Dispateh to The Evening Star. AUNTON, Va. June 9—Today the thirty-fourth anniversary of the battle of ublic was celebrated here as the lecking the graves of the 2,000 dead buried in Staunton Thorn- rese cemetery, removed from the fields of Pert Republic, Cross Keys, Piedmont and Dowell, A long procession of civic cieties, confederate veterans, the Stone- wall Brigade Band and local militery and the Shenandoah Valley soldiery, under Col. B. Roller, led the way to Thornrose. * monument was wreathed with battle flags, wrought by J. t Chapter of Daughters of the ered over the graves. Conrad Fauntleroy, a niece of ‘olicitor General Holmes recited Father Ryan's “Furl That T:annet Prayer was offered by the Rev. - L. Wood and Judge R. T. W. Duke of Charlottesville delivered an eloquent. and patriotle oration. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. PETERSBURG, Va., June 9.—Since the war the 9th of June has been observed as memorial day, as it commemorates the first attempt made by the federai ermy to cap- ture this city. The observance today con- sisted of a parade of the Petersburg Gra: A. P. Hill Camp of Confederate Veterans fire department and_ civic societies. Gen. Cullen A. Battle of North Carolina, an offi- ver in the army of northern Virginia, made en address, in which he said: “It is glorious to die for one's country. Better, a thou- sand times better, to have crossed over the river with Jackson than live to be an apologist of the cause for which he died.” r Ex-Senator Moss, to The Evening Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 9.—The demo- cratic county convention of Anne Arundel ccunty met today and passed resolutions in favor of ex-Senator Moss for Congress. as The police of Barcelona h: tured the man who threw the to a rel! ST. “a Conrad, ave not cap- dynamite in- us procession on Sunday, but they have captured anarchistle literature to prove the existence of a widespread plot to create a reign of terror in different Euro. pean centers. Judged by Their Associates. Advertisers in The Star are pleased with the company they are in. They know it is a bene- fit to be with the live, successful merchants and the successful ones are all in The Sr. A reputable advertiser knows that it does him no geod to be found in poor company. ILATE NEWS BY WIRE ELECTRICLIGHT PROPOSITION The House Amendment Brought Up in the Senate This Afternoon. Mr. Teller Asks Positive Instructions —Mr. Gallinger Criticises the Dis- trict Commissioners, Just before 2 o'clock this afternoon the Vice President laid before the Senate a message from the House announcing that the House had agreed to an amendment in the District appropriation bill, which is rew in conference, relating to electric lighting, a full statement of which appears elsewhere in The Star today. The leyisla- tive status of the question was this: Yes- terday evening the Senate adopted the re- port of the conferees announcing the dis- agreement, and had asked the House for a further conference; the House had granted the request of a further conference, but had made a decided change in the text of the bill; the Senate was,therefore,confronted with a new matter upon which action was necessary, unless the Senate should throw upon the cenferees the responsibility of accepting or rejecting the new proposition ef the House. Decisive Instructions Wanted. Mr. Faulkner suggested that the Senate disagree with the proposition of the House, which would place on the conferees the necessity of conferring about that matter. Mr. Teller, one of the conferees, thereupon explained that this whole matter had been carefully gone over in conference, and he hoped that the Senate would act upon the House amendment in such a decisive way as to give the conferees instructions. Tte told how this same matter had once before heen before the Senate on an amend- ment, which was ruled out on a point of order, but that the conferees had striven with each other, and the amendment num- bered 39 which it was proposed to supplant by Mr. Piiney’s provision. Mr. Teller said that this amendment brought up the whole question of permitting the erection of poles outside of the fire limits of the city, and that very decided protests had been’ received from the citizens of Mt. Pleasant and oth suburbs against any legislation that would permit overhead wires in those sections. Commissioners Criticised. Mr. Gallinger took the floor, saying that the present was probably as good a time as would present itself for a gencral discus- sion of the questions involved in S$ amend- ment. He had already placed himself on record, he went on, against the proposition to permit a rival electric company to enter the 1 et to compete with the company already in existence, and he was more strongly in opposition to that idea, now that an effor® was being made to secur sueh legislation by indirect means. “We had better talk plainly about this | matter,” sald Mr. Gailinger. “f distike to | be put in attitude of critictsing the | Commissioners of the District. it is well | Known that I have no very great regard! for th ent form ot sovernme in the ft b District of Culumbia, ike the form of s nd that I e: over hy | nh im- poses on the nation on of ex- benses of the District and creates a board of three Com loners, no one of whom except perhaps the Engineer Commissioner J is ever appointed from outside of the Dis | trict of Columbia. In view of ali c cumstances some eriticism of the Commis- sicners will probably be nex sary.” The Local € pany Defended. Mr. Gatlinger read from a morning pa- | per certain statements in regard to the pro- posed legislatia n he said he could not he gave to but show the possible scope of the legislation. accept, which He called especial attention the fact that there has ne: any ¢ plaint of the service ices of United States tric Lighting Compa. which, he admitted, may have receiv More than ft shouid for its product, a tnay be a monopoly, but that yet no fault had ever bi against it. He ie- Viewed the facts in regard to the change from overhead to the underground sysiem, nd noted that th most exe clusively owned sof Washington. Congress, he houll hesitate betore rernlung @ Hew company to come in, es- liy i new company wholly ‘rep- | capital, and is backed by a thy syndicate controiling a mon- opely such ‘as the people of the District ot have never encountered. Mr. Gallinger scathingly criticised the proposition to put into an appropriation bili legt n that would practically charter a new company with overhead wires to compete to a large extent with the cxist- ing company, and he declared that such a bill was no place for that form of legis- lation, especially as the very proposition, he claimed, was ruled out of the Senate on a point of order. Do It Squarely, if at All. “It is now proposed,” he went on, “to bring it out again by some sort of legisla- tive legerdemain. If we are to incorporate a new electric light company let us do It in the regular way. The proposition to give these increased privileges to that new company is now before Congress, I under- stand that the bill, however, has not even been reported from the House committee | Whereas in the Senate a minority report has been filed against it. If anything is to be done let it be done in a Straightfor- ward, manly way, and not in an utter dis- regard of the rules of both houses, and an equal disregard of the rules of equity and justice which should actuate Congress in dealing with all such corporations. “Only two or three years ago the Dis- trict. Commissioners entertaine:| very same views that I now hold, adverse to granting similar rights to a proposed new company. The Commission then stood to protect the existing company, and said that it was bad policy to permit new com- panies to endanger the revenucs of exist- ing local @orporations. The Commissioners seem to have changed their minds on this question. I have not changed mine. | “in conclusion, Mr. Gallinger reed a let- the { ter, written today to the conferees on th: District appropriation bill by the president of the United States Electric hting Company, against t ment. Mr. Harris Defe: Mr. A. A. Thomas, protestin.: ne adoption of the House amend- ds the Proposition nator Harris followed Senator Gallinger avith a defense of the House proposition. He twitted Mr. Gallinger with having anged his mind on this questicn, and read from the Congres sionul Record in 189: to show that Mr. Gallinger had in that year advocated legislation favorable to the Potomay Electric Company. He then went on to show how some legislation was nec- essary to give to the people living in the suburbs means of illumination, especially those whe are not now reached by the gas mains, and in a characteristic manner he sustained the majority report recently filed by him from the District committee, ad- vocating the passage of the Potomac Elec- tric Light Company's bill. Pitney Amendment Rejected. Just after 3 o'clock, o»..motion of + Mr. Teller, the Senate rejected the Pitney amenément, and sent the bill back into conference with that amendment pending as the House proposition. —-o_____. APPROPRIATION BILL. DISTRICT An Agreement Expected to Be Reach- a Today or Tomorrow. Mr. Grout, one of the House conferees on the District appropriation bill, this after- neon at 3 o'clock stated that the House conferees were expecting to be summoned at any time for further conference on the bill. Mr. Grout seemed to think that an agreement would be reached this afternoon or tomerrow morning. --e-—____ Captain of the Watch. P. S. Talbert of Lexington, Ky., has been appointed captain of the watch, Treasury Department, vice 8. K. Radford, appointed captain of the watch at the bureau of en- graving and printing at an increased sal- ary. ° Two Congressmen Renominated. PITTSBURG, Pa., June 9.—At the Alle- gheny county republican convention today Mr. John Dalzell was renominated for Congress for the twenty-second district and Mr. Wm. A. Stone for the twenty-third district. SHERMAN’S STATUE|°R- KE The Recent Award Discussed in the] Senate Today. RESCLOTION TONVESTIGATE DEFEATED Works of Att in the National Capital Criticised. MATTERS IN THE HOUSE A supplementary deficiency bill, covering mileage of new members of the House and other minor items, was passed by the Sen- ate today. It is the last of the appropria- tlon bills to be passed and sent to confer- ence. The Vice President announced his signa- ture of the post office appropriation . bill, the last formality before its delivery to the President, House bill was passed authorizing the Attorney General to select a site and so- cure plans for a federal prison on the military reservation at Leavenworth, Kan. The Sherman Statue Award. The resolution of Mr. Wolcott of Colo- rado, introduced yesterday, requesting the Secretary of War to suspend the execution of the contract for an equestrian statue of Gen. Wiliam T, Sherman until the Senate brary committee had investigated the circumstances connected with the award of the contract and had reported at the next session of- Congress, was taken up. Mr. Wolcott reviewed the circumstances of the award, and said an inquiry was es- sential cither to right the wrong which had been done or to demonstrate to the public that the award had been rightfully mad The Senator explained that the circul calling for designs expressly limited the competition to American artists, and stated that & committee of the Society of Ameri- can Sculptors would pass upon the merits of designs, From the twenty-six models submitted the committee of American sculptor an award, but this was disreggrdcd commiilce of the Army of the “Tenne: who gave the award to Carl Rohl-Sinit thus “boosting him up’ from the tenth place in the compctiticn to the first pl It was a flagrant disregard of justi the Senator, and a on which sculpt submitting their models, A Mr. Wolcott, 1 capita graced by statues and bronzes wh disgrace to the end of the n ccntury, The parks of Washington degraded by representations Place there, as: a 3 evred their comunission through been were Mr. Wolcott apostreph art bolical ef truth and justice, and urged that the bronze of this hero should net be mude @ monument of injustice and bs he Mr. Allison Defends the Award. Mr. Al wa) insisted that the Army cf the ee retained the right to meke a final determination on models. The culptors’ clety .ac an ad- visory ty. The to the report that one of the committee of sculptors, Mr. St. Gaudens, wa: open ard avowed enemy of Mr. Rohl-S man who recelved the reward, latter bad used the St. Ga Sherman in making his des Allt- son ared that the old comrades of Gen. Sherman were best qualitied to select t Te rapac Se rodel which truly marked his 1 The Senator protes y would c would ca! tists to bel! ind have no artiste § 1 that the old comrad of Atlanta would be able to which would be rot only an at 5 cognizable nan h Mr. Mill xas) referred to his service on the cormissions to select tues of ‘ Logan. In each case he to accept the conc: ns of the fam- tite d had insisted th: uld be co Wolcott Mr. dded a tinal piea ag: the disfigurement of the national cap by ily statues, whereupon Mr. i be no a ng to the un- successful y remarked that there ne sion of disfigurement, ow approval given to the he qualifie model by those capable of judging. Resolation Defente A vote was then taken on tie resolution, and it was defeated without the formality of a yea and nay vote. Senator Sherman was an_ int listener throusshout the discussion, but took no part in it. TNE HOUSE. When the House reconvened this morn- ing at 10 o'clock the legislative day of Sat- urday was still in .xistence. There was a fair attendance of republicers, but the denocratic benches were a. barren wast Less than half a dozen of the minority were on the floor, This refvsal en the part ef the democrats to attend the session grew out of the determfuation of the majority to consider the contested electicn case of Aldri st. Underwood. A Call of the House. Mr. MeMillin (Tenn.), in explanation of the action of his side of the House, said that the democrats did not consider it to be their duty tg attend the clesing hours of the session to help furnish a quorum for the purpose of un ; another dem- cerat. The pending question today was th motion to lay on the table the motion to reconsider the vote by which the House de- cided to consider the election case. Th vote resulted Us to ig present an declining to “ a totai of 1 present, 31 1 quorum, to break the i. which the majority a cail of the Hovse was o dered. The doors were cicsed and th srgeant-at-arms was directed to bj i absenices. z The Tucker Rule Invoked. ‘The Tucker rule adopied at the beginning of the session was invoked for the first time. It compelicd members brought in by the eergeant-at-arms to vote on the pending question. The motion was car- ried—130- ‘The Speaker counted four members as present, but not voting. Mr. McMillin attempted ‘to make the point of order that the report in the elec- ticn case was not signed by a majority of the members,of the committee and there- fore did not consiitute a question of priv- ilege. The chair-ruled that if the point of order had merit it came too late, as the House had decided to consider the case. Mr. Daniels. (N. Y.) addressed the House in favor of -seating the contestant, Mr. Aldrich. He gave notice that he would demand the previous question at the ex- pivation of fifty minutes. Underwood had 1,156 majority on the face of the returns. Fraud and intimidation were charged and the majority found tat Aldrich received in fact a majority of 220. The minority admitted that the returns were incorrect, but claimed that the corrected returns still gave 1,038 majority. After the debate, had run for half an hour it was decided to prolong the debate wo hours on a side. ‘Sh "“onderwood, the contestee, spoke for an hour in his own behalf. Frauds in the South. Mr. Linney (N.C.),in supporting the cause of the contestant, gave a picturesque de- runciation of the election frauds which, he said, were practiced in the south by the democratic organizations. He argued that the only place where the wrongs committed could be corrected was in the House. To attempt to secure justice from the local courts, he said, would be as futile as at- tempting “to shoot the horns off the moon = ay “itr. ‘staltings (Ala.), who defended Mr. Underwood's right to the seat, denounced Mr. Linney’s remarks as “the dirtiest abuse of his own section ever delivered by a white man.” In orde confronted RR'S DUTIES His Authority Restricted at the Emer- gency Hospital. Action of the Medical Staff at a Meeting Held This Afternoon— The Fenwick Case. Dr. James Kerr was virtually shorn of all his authority at the Emergency Hos- pital by the action of the staff of the in- stitution, of which he is a member, at a meeting held in the board room of the institution this afternoon, All emer- gency cases, for which the hospital was distinctly created, were removed from un- der his control and he was assigned to surgical diseases, which will confine his duties entirely to surgical dispensary work. The differences between Dr. Kerr and the other members of the staff are too well known to need repetition here, but the culmination came Sunday, when Dr. Kerr was charged with unprofessional conduct, in interfering with w patient in a depart- ment over which he had not the most re- mote authority or control. The Case in Point. George Fenwick, a boy suffering from chronic herria, was taken to the hospital and placed in one of the beds in the ward devoted to children’s diseases, which are under the supervision of Dr. W. H. Hawkes. Fenwick was to be operated vpon last Sunday, and was put to bed Friday, so as to be prepared for the ordeal. Sunday morning Dr. Kerr, who was in charge of the surgical department, ordered the boy taken out of bed and sent out of the hospital, and upon the refusal of the nurse and the superintendent to carry out his directions he secured the services of the janitor, procured the clothing of Fen- wick, and, after seeing that he was dressed, took him out of the institution and sent him home en foot. The Staff Indignant. Each member of the staff declared in un- measured terms his indignation at the course pursued by Dr. Kerr, and at a meeting held Sunday night Dr. Kerr's resignation was demanded. Jie declined to do this. The staff thereupon determined to take uch action as to prevent Dr. Kerr again att purg to exercise authority they claimed he was not entitled to, and at the meeting this afternoon this intention was carried out. There were present Drs. Swan M. Bur- nett, president of the staff, in the chair; W. H. Hawkes, George Gyrd Harrison, T! M. Murray and E. 1. Tompkins. Dr.’ H. L. E. Johason was unavoidably detained, but declared his accordance with any ac- tion the meeting might take. Dr. Kerr was present when the meeting was called to order, but shortly withdrew, and when his presence was requested and he was sent for he was not to be found, and the de- liberations were continued without him. Dr. herr's Appointments Rejected. After some preliminary mattors were dis- pesed of, the question of confirming the nomination of br. Kerr's assistanis for the cyrrent year was taken up, and the follow- ing were rej 5 Drs. Parker, Nash, Hasbrouck, French, Maddox, Watkins, Heinecke and funt. The following we:e confirmed: Drs. V. B. Ja gon and G. Dutt Lewis. The committee on the assignment of ihe diseases to be treated in the institution among the members of the attending staff ng to article 10 of the by- nen a report, which’ said wency "3, medical and 5 nail be treat- under the dire of executive offiver by tants appo! by the fl he report was unanimous: The sta appointed as as to the executive offi who is Dr. t this month, and who will have of all emergency cases, includes Drs. W. P. Kerr, Arthur Snyder and John Van Rensselaer. ; Fenwick, who was sent home by Sunday, was mitted to the today, and will be operated on under the supervision of Dr. Hawkes in a Gay or two. Dr. Hawkes as a Surse Mr. Norman H. Camp writes to The St “I see by Dr. Kerr's interview in th evening's Star (June §$), that it is stated that ‘If there was to have Leen an opera- tion performe it would have been rather su the least, tor Dr. Hawk 1 it, 1 ent admirer the claim that he was a sur, relation to Dr. Hawkes ng to one, at least, of ‘his he win- ter of 1882 Dr. kes_perfc don me the delicate operation of excision and re- section of the right great toe joint. The bon’ cut out was over an inch in jength, the great toe was set back, and the con- nection so well arranged that on healing I could move the great toe at will, I re- gret not being well up in surgical terms, so I could worthily describe this operation, at that time the eleventh one of the kind that had been performed in the United tes, “Dr. O'Reilly, physician to President Cleveland, and Hospital Sieward Ma are witnesses to the truth of what I and Surgeon A. C. Girard of the Unite: States army, after an examination, told me in is~l that the operation had been beautifully performed, the only fault being that I had begun using my foot too soon, This was my fault, and, I remember, against Dr. H es’ advice, “After my experience with the doctor it certainly sounds queer, to use no harsher term, to hear a professional brother call him ‘no surgeon. Se Repeblican Convention History. A timely and useful hand book is “All the Republican National Conventions,” which has been compiled and edited b; Henry H. i ex-journal clerk, House of Re ives, and author of the “Digest and Manval of the House of Rep- resentatives, U. There does not appear to be anyih sential lacking in this pamphlet. It con- tains careful! and accurate sketches of the | ten conventions, and the platiorms and ta the votes. The figures have been verified and the probabilities of error reduced to a minimum, The popular and electoral votes by states, with other intersting political Gata are included in the 123 pases of fac’ Valuable at ail times as a rezerence work, it Is especially valuable now. It js for sale by Robert Beall. — She Was Stabbed. This morning about 8 o'clock Catherine Shreeves, colored, twenty-five years old, who lives at 406 Oak street, was sent to Freedman’s Hospital for treatment. She was stabbed in the left side, so the police report, by Frank Brcwn, who has not been arrested. presents therewith at Ee, To Be Presented in the House. So soon as the contested election case is dispesed of In the House this afternoon Mr. Babcock will present to the House the agreement of the conferees on the Ecking- ton railroad m4tter. It is expected, al- though it fs not certain, that the agreement will go through without any great amount of opposition. —— Small Blaze, Considerable excitement was occasioned in the conter of the city about 1:43 o’clook this afternoon by a report that Kernan’s Theater was on fire. Several steam fire engine companies hurried to the scene with their apparatus, but ar investigation showed that the fire was corfired to a pile of rubbish in a small wooden shed in the rear of the theater on B street. The blaze, which it was thought was cavsed by spore taneous combustion, was extinguished by the firemen without using their aS ees Collecting Money, Chief Parris of he fire deparment said this afternoon that a woman, unauthorized, has been collecting money in the neighbor- hood of Eckingion, claiming she was get- ting it for Mrs. Mulhall, widow of one of the victims of the recent fire. The woman he says, promised to make returns of her callections several days ago, but she had rot yet made a report. He says he hopes she will be given no more money. a FINANCE AND TRADE Fractional Concessions Throughout the Speculative List, WAITING FOR THE ST. LOUIS PLATFORM Sharp Decline in Sugar the Most Noteworthy Feaiure. GENERAL MARKET REPURTS ——— Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, June 9,—There were few incidents tn today’s stock market capable of relieving the monotony established by its immediate predecessors. Fractional concessions predominated in all depart- ments, increasing skepticism as to the po- litical outlook bringing latent pessimism | to the surface. Activity would have been disadvantageous under the circumstances. Washington advices contained no desira- ble facts, and the presumption prevails that edjournment has been delayed too long te operate as an incentive to improvement. The announcement of the St. Louts plat- form is more important than all the expect- ed developments of the near future, aad intervening events are likely to attract but passing notice. The market will be benetit- ed by this document in direct proportion to the neglect of silver. A straddle will de- ceive no one but the instructed delegate frem a silver state. The market for foreign exchange was re- ported to be firm under a somewhat re- vulate] statements of } duced supply of bills. The larger fore ign houses, while generally expecting a re- sumption of specie exports, have made no arrangements for such action as yet. Poll- | lies are credited with effecting the trans- | actions in tal business fur reasons ailing locally. in American Su: A sharp declin: the most noteworthy feature of the liberal line of long stock being marketed for Bar was | day, a | the account of a broker frequently used by inside interests. An accident to the gentie- man in question, which may possibly pre- vent his active’ participation in 1088 for the time being, was assigned as a mo- tive for the mo: nent, 2 Coal and Iron was weak, under to be @ liquidation of long No unusual developments were assigned in explanation of the dc cline, In the railroad list the Northern VPecitic were promin a chines from the opening level. The n: y for the payment of a second i t of the recent ments suffic ins this movement. In the Grange concessions ranging from \ to 4g cent were recorded. The sudden "kK In Wheat detracted from the feelir of confid >in declarati Manhattan and the ex tion of + Union torn i the 2 and insignificant | trading of last as extremely Gu character. railroad list almost uniformly re- do net declines for the da especially weak during | zdown under the pre c { under a volume of business } j evenly divided between the two accounts. | —_——— FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The following are the opening, the highest end the lowest and the closing prices of the | New York stock market today, as reported by Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exchange. Correspondents, Messrs. | Moore & Schley, No. 80 Eroadway. | Open. High. Low. Close American Sugar. : <i American Sugar, 14 American T hs “1a | } Balto. & Onio. Canada Soutiern’ 50g Canada Pacitic fea esapeake & by C8 SLL ‘opolitan Traction. Manhattan Elevated. Micaigan Central Missouri Pacitic. National Lead Co...2. 1. National Lead Co., Pid: U.S. Leather, Pid, New Jersey Central. New York Central 21211 NY.& N. Eng. Cia. .X. C78 St. Louis Northern Paci Northern Pacitle North American. Unt. & Western. Facile inila. & ra Pullman Pal. Car G3 mig Syutuern Railway, Pid. 2M Paiia nneee texas = cs Tenn. Coal & iron. ; Cuion Pa Wabasi.. Wabash, Wheeling & ing & 1 1m Union ‘Tel Wheei Wes t ‘eS ca 6 Washington Stock Exchange. regular Ice, Taz 112 o'clock m.—Great stered, coupon, gold Gs, *% bid. ropolitan Ri Railroad . Belt Railroad ington Ra ud Columbia Railroad 6: Washington G Miscellaneous Bonds. road bid conv. 22 bid, 1 SI So asked a. d. bid, 96 bid, 100 a: 13% asked, r. A, Gs, 112 bid. Washi Company, ser. B, 68, 118 bid. ston Gas Company conv. 6s, 199 bid. Chesa- peike and Potomac Telepnone 5s, 100 bid. American Security and Trust 5s, F. and A. loo 104 asked. American Security an. Trust 5s, A. and O., 10) bid, 101 asked. Washington Market Company Ist 3, 109 bid. Washingten Market oCmpany imp. 6s, 109 bid. Washington Market Company ex- ten. 63, 109 bid. Masonic Hall Association 5s, 106 bid. Washinton Light Infantry ist 6s, 95 bid. National Bank Stocks.—Bank of Washing- ton, 275 bid. Bank of Republic, 210 bid. Metropolitan, 285 bid, 300 asked. Central, 280 bid. Farmers and Mechanics’, 18) bid, 192 asked. Second, 133% bid, 137% asked. Citizens’, 130 bid. Columbia, 125 bid. Capi- tal, 117 bid. West End, i07% bid, 110 asked. Tradets', 97 bid. Lincoln, 105% bid, 106% asked. Ohio, 85 bid, 95 asked. Safe Deposit and Trust Compantes.—Na- tional Safe Deposit and Trust, 115 bid, 120 asked. Washington Loan and Trust, 120 bid, 125 asked. American Security and Trust, 141% bid, 146 asked. Washington Safe Deposit, 51 bid. Railroad Stocks.—Capital Traction Com- pany, 73 bid, 75 asked. Metropolitan, 116 bid, 11§ asked. Columbia, *50 bid. Bel 80 asked. Eckington, 20 bid. Georgetown and Tennallytown, 6 bid. Gas and Electric Light Stecks.—Washing- ton Gas, 45 bid, 47 asked. Georgetown Gas, 40 bid, 50 asked. United States Electric Light, 120 bid. Insurance Stocks.—Firemen’s, Franklin, 87 bid, 45 asked. Metropolitan, 75 bid. Corcoran, 50 bid. Potomac, 63 bid, Arlington, 13) bid. German American, 165 bid. National Union, 10 bid, 14 asked.” Co- lumbia, 11_ bid, 14 asked. Riggs, 8 asked. People’s, 5% bid. Lincoln, 7% bid, 5% asked. Commercial, 4% bid. ‘Title Insurance Stocks.—Real Estate Columbia Tite, 30 bid. Title, 103 bid, 110 asked. 5% bid, 6% asked. Washington Title, 8 bid. District Title, 6 bid, 10 asked. Telephone Stocks.—Pennsylvania, 38 bid, 50 asked. Chesapeake and Potomac, 5%, bid, 60 asked. American Graphophone, 8% bid, 9% asked. American Graphophone pfd., 10% bid, 14 asked. Pneumatic Gun Carriage, .20 bid, 25 asked. Miscellaneous Stocks.—Merganthaler Lin- otype, 124 bid, 128 asked. Lanston Mono- it type, 7% bid, 8% asked. Washington Mar- ket, 12 bid. Great aFils Ice, 120 bid, 130 asked. Lincoln Hall, 9 asked. Ex. div. —.___ Grain and Cotton Markets. Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., 1421 F street, members New York stock exchange, ccrrespondents Messrs. Ladenburg, Thal- mann & Co., New York. High. Wheat—July... ls, Sept! Bi 2s 20% is 18% 1 mT 4220 4: 437 3 0 pee Te Month, p2a. July... 74 August... 144 September. G38 October. O84 —_——> Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, June 9. Flour inact ve, unchanged ipis, 7.88% barrels; shipments, i72 barrels; 0 barvels. Wheat weak Did; July and August . 7.000, 0. 2 shipmes peo Dutslvel 200,158 bushels.’ Iye quiet an’ sien heathy —reesipis, 3,014 bush Dushele. Hay rm," good. d mand for” choice— ch timothy, $17.00. freigits dull, es only mode aged. Rutter 2: do. inaitetion, 13 Viall; store packs Checke steady Worth a Small Fortune—Tree Said to Be the Largest Ever Known. From the ti Enquti The largest walnut tree or tog in eastern Kentucky, and perhaps in the world, still lies on, the mountain side four or five miles from this place, and is as yet unsold, al- though thousands of the same kind have been taken from these parts. ‘The tree, in- deed, is quite a giant, and is worth a good sum of money, and would have been mar- keted long ago but for the location, being far upon the mountain side above the cele- brated “yellow rock” cliffs, almost out of reach of anything. Fifteen y: fore the worth of wal known in this country, hunters located a swarm’ of bi less its massive branches, and obta ; sion from the owner to it to the ground. It took good axmen one whole y to lonsen it from the stump. The by were found to be pouring from a large 1) or branch 100 feet from the groun branch itself being almost as lar of the trees growing Sey ounds of ¢ tak limb. Tt Y ce. and from ac tual measureme: nine f in dia where it was from ti actly 100 feet to th rst lit on the log fs 5 inches thick, a the onl; f decay the falling of « me yea g0 Philadelphia capit undertoo rchase ihe log, and off the ow: fine farm ne blue grass par ucky for it, but. from t trade. Now from Wa the lo; rave ques oon p sui . it it fron he impenct will pay a hands; if they shou'd buy ill move above Wao English London Correspondence Ph Iphia Times, In the morning, from 10 til » bout Achilles’ statue clus: greatly ow in famous Rotten Row. in England to me a he majority of th have no sort of st and whobby” in the management of their me ciines. Onee in a while you see a sm well set-up girl wire coat does wrinkle at the back and whose skirt dors hat on either of ber wheel, but is a rare cireurm . Most of the SSCS strike me being bad made— they nm to want finish. —fngltshwomen, in my opinion, s uve dieyeling to Americans and Frenchwe and stick h unequi ise hat of nglis be she pretty ale or mi aged, alw ona She seems rt of the and is just as i Well-eroomed and dainty looking on Kerseback as she is disheveled and badly put together cn a bicy wee - Once President. Fiom the New York Sun. A young English reporter York paper, who was Rutherford B. Hayes on the one of his visits to the metropolis, from a New terview of led casion affo a good story. Mr. Hayes had at thet time left the White House and was a private citizen. The reporter was a new importa- tion, very green about things American and with only a hazy idea as to Mr. Hayes’ identity. When told to interview th President on the subject of chicken rais he repaired to the hotel where the dis- tinguished visitor wes stopping. Mr. Hayes received his visitor and chatted with him for half an hour on various sub- jects, and among other things he assured visitor, laughingly, that he ha into chicken raising as a business. ose to go he said the w: Hayes, I want my report to be and w you mind telling of what you were ¢ I sident?” “Of the United States, sir i Mr. Haye and when the Englls' arrived at b office he told the city editor that Mr, Hayes was a great wag. ee vee County Prisons in From the Boston Transcript. There are twenty-one the state, with more They are under the control of the boards of county commission of the several counties, and there is no unifori in management. The Massachus' on has presented to the le for siate control of the ¢ The bill leaves the pre in power, but puts the control in th of the board of prison commi relie he counties of ull spousi the state paying ex- pen The greatest advantage claimed for this system is that it makes it pos-ihle to classify the prisoners. Lack of classifi- is one of the gravest evils of the present system. ¥ prisoners of all gra te In a recent visit to one of the county four boys were found in direct con- tact with haritem and degra led criminals. There is no way of separating them as the institutions are now m. for v are not enough of this class in any insti- tution to put them by themse see The Luxury for Newspaper Men. Harold Frederick in the New York Times, There are 320 journalists, including Rus- sians, who will enjoy official recognition in the work of describing the coronation of the czar. The English correspondents at Moscow are dumfounded at the extraordi- nary and unexpected way in which the for- eign press fs being taken cara of. Splendid club premises have beeen ex ed for their use, with servants in t al liv- ery, and a staff of clerks and who all speak English, French and Germ. One gathers only vaguely from the reports that refreshments are free at this admir- able place, but t mention is made of the fact that gratis ticke ra st and theaters are provide has a newspaper man it before. was river at Va., y! mer America reports having left at Port Antonio, Jamaica, the filibuste steamer Laurada. < Ex-Postmast2r General Wanamaker was yesterday defe: by State tor Boles Penrose in the test for senatorial dele- gates in Philadelphia. Fditor William L. Loyal! has decidea not to deliver his lecture criticising Gen. Long- street's conduct at Gettysburg during the coming reunion at Richmond.