Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1896, Page 2

LATE NEWS BY WIRE Convention of the Confederate Vet- erans at Richmond. CHICAGO'S ACTION ACKNOWLEDGED Gratitude for the Erection of the Monument. THE CITY THOUSANDS IN RICHMOND, Va., July 1—Gen. Gordon called the convention of United Confeder- ate Veterans to order this morning. An immense crowd was present. Prayer was offered Bishop Newton, and then the committee on 2redentials reported $50 camps represented by delegates. Mr. G. D. Lee offered a resolution, which was adopt- indorsing the movement started by Lee mp of Richmond looking to a general or- ganization of Sons of Veterans, and piedg- ing the Union Cenferedate Veterans to the ed, Kydd Douglas offered the follow- “The United Confederate Veterans, as- led in annual reunion at Richmond, mindful of their dead comrades, wherever they may be, and holding in &rateful memory all those who do them henor, desire to express to the city of Chi- cago their mos: grateful acknowledgments of the broad-minded liberality of its people in the erection and ration of the lofty monument over the 6,000 of our dead who rest within its protection, and the boundless hospitality with which It receiv- ed all confederate soldiers who attended that dedication. ‘Our thanks are given without stint to every army veteran, soldier end citizen of that great city who participated In that memorable scene. May the monument there Hfted up stand through the ages as @ perpetual reminder that its dedication was the final triumphal scene of a great war. commemorative alike of the heroic dead it henors and of reunited peace and friendship between north and south. The resolution was seconded by Gen. Lee and was unanimously adopted. J. L. M. Curry made an eloquent address. While he was speaking James R. Herbert Camp of Baltimore came in with its band playing “Maryland. The Marylanders were received with great cheers. A motion to restore the De- partment of the North met with opposi- tion, and the chair ruled the motion out of order. The Daughters of the Confederacy, Virginia division, voted unanimously to Join the United Daughters as a grand di- Vision only It is estimated there are 10,000 veterans in the city today attending the reunio: ‘There ts little doing teday outside of th convention proper. Tomorrow will be r stor of the J laid, and there wii ans aad civic Dispatea RICHMOND, V Richmond teday ! in the city over 40,000 ot crowd that de in its } o Evening Star. July 1—The crowd in compared in size to the ds have emptied pple, to say nothing came by other mean. el more nandsomei ory and with t big auditorium, where the v3 alone are used, the impartial in the than ev pi of t m manic This cert of ev tend the cor Auditorium, nd th. s. ial invitation, wii tend the ball ady sors of the con States and their s of honor. pontenee iCHMOND, train ¥ of The Evening Star. Va., July The gpecial ring the large party of Washing- to four sections, all mond last even- torians was di of which a ire The of High School Ca- 3 in all, with the Con nization the | were t to Z . beirg h section of the train. which depot abs hour beh @ som ach in evidence. cadets was as- er, each in line hed to his e stuck un- ters were reached emse commis ariat, around the corner, and per a sul fe n rows ¢ layer of Wilson is looking on, but his AT GRAY GAB! Arrival of the President at His Sum- mer Home. ARD'S BAY, Mas: y with her ow E.*C. Ben- esident Cleveland on board, today Mr. veland the Oneida ha ceeded at ¢ peared to b from the elastic having enjoy landed immediately after me to anchor, and pro- Gray Gable in the best of he wharf to house wit He expressed him 1 his trip very much. The Imprixoned Mine WILKESBARRE, Pa., July 1.—The sixty or more men in the cwin shaft at Pittston have been imprisened for four days, and still there ne Udings of them. ee eee Con in Must Apologize. second time the Colombian gov- has been called upon to apologize for the outrage alleged to have been com- mitted on the crew of the schooner George R. Whitford of New York. According to the story, this vessel, which is engaged in the coastwise trade, while off Manzillo Point, on her way from Porto Bello to Carthagena, March 31 last, was the Colombian ¢ voat Gen- eral Co . and ordered to lay to, not- withstandi that the American flag was floating in plain sight. A Colombian officer came aboard and John Hendricks, the master of the . showed him the ship's papers. This of its purpose, fer he was ordered il his schooner to Colon. There tre captain made an attempt to go ashore to visit the consul, but permission was denied him, and it was not until after considerable that he was allowed to leave the To Go to Paris. ‘The Secretary of the Navy has selected Assistant Engineers B. K. McMorris and J. M. Hudgins to take a course of .nstruc- tion in engineering at Paris, and they will 0 to that elty in the fall. THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, JULY~1, 1896—TWELVE PAGES. MEETING OF THE NOMINEES Mx. Hobart Pays a Visit to Major Mo- Kinley. They Have a Quiet Conference— Many Citizens Call and the New Jersey Candidate Speaks. CANTON, Ohio, July 1—Gov. McKinley drove to the Fort Wayne station shortly after 10 o’clock this morning to personally meet and greet his invited guest today, Garrct A. Hobart, who wired yesterday from his home in Paterson, N. J., that he would call on the governor today. There was a large crowd of people gathered at the station to witness the meeting of the two distinguished men, although the affair was informal in every respect. Gov. McKinley quickly extended his hand and stepped brightly to the car step, and recognition was equally prompt on Mr. Hobart’s part. Maj. McKinley took hm iy the arm, and they walked side by side to the carriage, amid great applause by the crowd. Gov. McKinley and nis guest were driven quickly to tie former's home. Mr. Hobart was presented to a number of Gcv. McKinley's neighbors as the pair alighted from the carriage, after which they immediately retired to the library in the major’s home. It is not probable that either Gov. McKinley or Mr. Hobart will make any stumping campaign. ‘The governor never appeared in better health than when he greeted Mr. Hobart this morning, and he does not show the slightest fatigue after the constant and exacting czres he has had upon him for the past several months. It is probable that he will remain in Canton until ihe campz'gn closes and the election result is known. This evening the Ohio Christian Endeay- orers in convention will call, 3,000 strong, and give Gov. McKinley the Chautauqua salute. In a half hour after Mr. Hobart’s arrival a special train reached Canton from Medina, 100 miles distant, bringing hundreds of eitizens from that place to pay their re- spects to the republican nominees. in order to make train connections and fill engagements, Mr. Hobart took an early lunch with Governor McKinley, and left for Cleveland at 12:30 on the McKinley tlyer, Cleveland, Canton and Southern road. He Was escorted to the station by his host. Mr. Hobart will meet National Chairman Hanna there. Mr. Hobart had been at the McKinley residence but a half hour when a large Medina delegation, with bands and ban- bers, called. McKinley and Hobart were greeted with cheers as they, for the first time, appeared together on the same plat- ferm to speak. In reply to Judge Alfred Munison’s pre- sentation for Medina, Gov. McKinley re- sponded briefly, thanking the members of the delegation for their friendly visit and for their devoted and unwavering services to the republican cause. Mr. Hobart was called for, and as he stepped forward to the edge of the veranda there was more applause. The people were evidently delighted with his appearance. He said: “Major McKinley, gentlemen of Medina county and fellow citizens of Ohio: [ thank you for the compliment of this call, tut I must say at the same time that I am not gifted as our friend Major McKinley with the graces of oratory, nor with the grac to you. “TI think I should speak but briefly on this | eceasion, when my only business is to pay my respect to your most distinguished fel- low-citizen. But New Je gentlemen, feels very near to Ohio in these days. In that con m lately held in St. Louis there were no more con tant friends, inore devoted admirers to your Major Mc- Kiniey than were those deiegates from the state of New Jersey. “We feel, too, that we have s right to yo blage now-a-day ried for the rer New Jersey by a (Great applause.) “New Jersey greets Ohio t f Jersey will greet Ohio in November next With a majority of not le: than “I thank you, gentlemen, for the compli- ment of your call. I will be glad to meet as many of you as possible during the in- terval which you spend here today.” (Gre applaus Then. Lcth MeKinley and Hobart shook hands with hundreds of the big crowd. To Collect a Claim. A young woman, carrying in her arms an infant about a year old, called at the city post office this morning for the purpose of collecting from Uncie Sam's postal authori- ties the cum of $1,500,000 which she claims the Postmaster General owes her. Whetner her claim is for alleged services or not the Woman has not yet stated, but she insists that the money should be paid to her, and for that reason she came all the way here from Alleghany City, Pa. Mrs. Verona Butler, Bi i and svon to become a moth- ays that her husband, John rks for a dairy the money with which to pay and was perfectly willing for her nere. This part of her statement land Sanitary Otficer Frank, who s her case in charge, thinks she is of un- sound mind. This afternoon he to the A any authorities, the woman's Ausband, making inquiries about ner. If her husband is found and i willing to take his wife home she will be turned over to him r only last fall we n party the siate ad majority of 2 v es her name, is twenty- is doub’ = Well as to raighill’s Birthdny. The desk of Gen. Craighill, chief of en- ineers, was decorated today with a fir large basket of flowers in recognition the fact that it was the annive! birth. Gen. Craighill is sixty-t J ‘sold today, and h: bui one year more of aczive service. member of the West Point cla which in- cludec. ¢ Sheridan, Gen. shoticld and Gen. McPherson and other distinguished heroes of the war. He was ihe youngest member of the class, and he and Gen. Vincent, istant adjutant general, are the only members of it in active service at the present time. ee The Big Thread Combination. From the New York Tribune. The proposed combination of the thread nad Great B: in, which in- tended to result in a similar combination on this side, will mean the absorption of the lar: cotton thread houses of this country in the Coats Thread Company, the American agents for J. & P. Coats, who bought out the business of Kerr & Co. of England, and whose plant is in Pai Scotland. The nominal stock of the people has been increased from £5,750,000 to £7,500,000, and their new ordinary shares, which were formerly quoted at £10, have risen to and are expected on the other side to go still higher. The trust will em- brace, in addition to the Coats people, the firms of Jonas Brook & Bros. of 19 ‘Thomas street, George A. Clark & Bro. of 400 Broadw: and James Chadwick & Bro. (Limited) of 621 Broadway. Other houses to be included have not yet been selected. ries of er oo Naval Movement: The flagship Minneapolis arrived at Stockholm tocay on her way to Southamp- ton. The Dolphin is at Greenport, L. L., and the Raleigh is at New Orleans. The Essential Point. Shrewd and successful adver- tisers know that a bogus, fake circulation, given away or sold at a nominal jigure and predes- tined to the gutter, ash pile and’ garbage dump, does not bring results. Advertisers pay for profitable results and to get them they know that a home circulation is essential. That’s why the ad- vertising columns of The Star are a daily directory of the suc- cessful business men of Wash- ington. of diction that will permit me to talk | no} Democratic Delegates Will Leave Saturday for the West. MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR SILVER No Action Taken Toward Sup- porting Any Candidate. THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE a The District delegates to the democratic convention at Chicago are packing their grips and lining their inside pockets with the necessary currency preparatory to leaving for the windy city 1ext Saturday. The delegates and alternates will travel in a special car, attached to the train leaving here over the Pennsylvania rall- road at 7:10 in the evening, and it is ex- pected that a number of local rooters will go by the same train. The headquarters of the delegation will be at the Palmer House, but the delegates and alternates will be scattered regarding their dorvicile, several of them having invitations to stop with friends in Chicago. Chairman BE. L. Jordan and Mr. John Boyle were met by a Star reporter this morning. Mr. Jordan was asked how he stood on the money question, and did not hesitate to proclaim himself for silver. Mr. Boyle Was none the less emphatic. When asked who would secure their support for the nominaticn, both gentlemen said that they had not given that questicn much thought. They were for the platform first, and would then work to get a man put on it who would win the November contest. They both declared also that they were not aware of any action having been taken by the delegation regarding the candidacy of Mr. John R. McLean. To Be Settled in Chicago. “The question of selecting a member of the democratic national committee from the District,” said Mr. Boyle, “will be set- tled after we get to Chicago, and it fs al- most a certainty that this will not be done until after the presidential nomination is made.” it is understood that Mr. George Killeen, replying to a query from a western news- paper asking his stand upon the money Question, replied that he was for the free coinage of silyer ata ratio of 16 to 1. ‘The National Committee Problem. The announcement that the delegates would demand a declaration from the candidates for the national committee membership of their financial views, which was published in The Star Monday, is now regarded as opening a new field of speculation concerning the question. It can be stated with almost positive as- surance that neither Mr. Gardner nor Mr. Norris, who are regarded as being on even terms in the race for the place, will submit to being catechised on the ‘subject, al- though it is pretty well known that Mr. Norris is opposed to silver, while Mr. Gard- | her favors its recognition to the extent at least of the free coinage of the American product at 16 to 1. In this case it is sald that the District delegates will look around for another name to present as that of the national committceman, and that of Mr. William Dickson is most generally men. tioned as a probatilizy. The delegates are all friendly to Mr. “ckson, and should he desire the place he could doubtless get it. But Mr. Dickson is wuderstood to have no aspirations in that «direction. He announced before the spring cchvention of the party at the Academy of Music that he would not again actively er gage in po and it was only his po: | tive declarations, frequently reite that prevented that convention f ing him to Chicago by a practleall unan- imous vote. Indeed, so fearful was Mr. Dickson that his name would be sprung on nvention despite his per: appeals that he wrote a letter, which was in the hands of Chairman Kalbfus, to be read in cese he was nominated. The same reasons prevented his going to Chicago are ved to be equally as strong against becoming a national committeeman. With the financial views of Messrs. Norris and Gardner unsatisfactory to the delega- tion, therefere, and Mr. Dickson opposed to accepting the place if proffered to him, the delegates may look among themselves for a man, and then it is believed there will be a battle royal between Mr. Jordan and Mr. Holmead. Mr. McLean's Candidacy. The lack of knowledge on the part of Messrs. Boyle and Jordan respecting a fa- vorable attitude of the delegation toward Mr. John R. McLean is not, it is sald, ared by the other members of it. Mr. Morgan will support him without question, and so, it is asserted, will the other three. Mr. M an’s candidacy for the first place on the ticket is now accepted by politicians of all shades of democratic opinion as an absolute fact, and the discussion of Mr. Mc- Lean in this connection is said to be not contined to Washington by any means, Mr. McLean and His Candidacy. Some of Mr. McLean's supporters expect him to gain the vice presidential nomina- tion in the event that he is defeated for the presidency. We are going to support McLean for first plac aid one MeLean boomer, “but I am setisfied that Bland will be nomin ed. This will give McLean second place on the ticket, because the Bland forces are very friendly to McLean. The latter has | dene as much as any man in the country for silver. He has been working for it since he was twenty-three years old, and has spent thousands of dollars for it. He has spoken in many states in the interest of the white metal. There is no use trying to tell all he has done.” It May Mean Much. The suggestion that there will prob- ably be a combination of the Mc- Lean and Bland forces at Chicago is very inierestirg at this stage of the game. It may mean much to the political fortunes ot both. It will at least be important to Bland. If there is no change in the sug- gested program, Bland will, after a balict cr two, get the forty-six votes of Ohio. They wiil be thrown to him by the Ohio supporters of McLean to get the Bland support for the Ohio man for the vice presidency. Arguments of the McLean Men. The McLean men will argue to the con- ver.tion that the nomination of their man will give the democrats a chance to carry Ohio; that it will insure a gocd check for the campaign fund, and that it will strengthen the ticket in many ways. It will be argued, it is said, that the nomina- ticn of McLean and Bland or of Bland and McLean would be the right thing for the alleged doubtful states of Ken- tucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana fi Missouri. These are the states, it is urged, whera the democrats must win. Both Pland and McLean are personaily known in those states, and stand well in that section, These arguments and the many others to be used will have great weight, it is ex- bected, and they will do much to bring about the nomination of the proposed ticket. If Bland can get the solid vote of Obio and Illinois by a trade of some kind, it is said he can easily bring around suffi- cient other votes. It is intimated that this ccmbination would suit Governor Altgeld, and it is alleged that he is now playing that combination or one very much like it. Kentucky's delegates might fall in under this schedule, it is said. Mr. Wilkins in Charge. Ex-Congressmar. Beriah Wilkins of tne Post, who is to have charge of the Mc- Lean boom at Chicago, left here this af- ternoon for thc convention city, accom- panied by Ike Hill and other friends of the Ohioan, all of whom spoke cheerfully of the outlook for their favorite. ee Escaped Lunatic Captured. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., July 1—Jdhn Dunn, the lunatio who escaped from the asylum in this city several weeks ago, was captured In the mountain ten miles east of here last night. He was so viclous that it took a number of men to lodge him again in the institution. READY FOR. CHICAGO THE VCE: PRESIDENT Peculiar Position in Which Mr. Stevenson 5 is Placed. He Has Observed Silemce Because of His Administration © tiom-—Wow Sidetracked. \ec= GC Vice Presidept Stevenson, now on his way home, is denying himself to interview- ers. He sends back word that he has noth- ing to say about the Chicago convention, or about any phase of the political situation. Some of his friends are not so mute. They consider that he has been badly treated, and they do fot kesitate so to declare. A Sarprising Position. Mr. Stevenscn’s position has for some time excited surprise. The wonder has been general why he did not ally himself openly with the silver cause. He has al- ways been a silver man. In fact, he was for a season the hope of a certain faction of the friends of silver. The principal rea- son assumed for his silence was that as a sort of half-brother of the administration he did rot think it proper to lead a move- ment against it. He differed with it on the financial question, but doubted the seem- liness of his taking the field and urging on a flat repudiation of its policy and perform- ances. Advised by the Leaders. It is stated now that in adopting his Policy of silence Mr. Stevenson had not only the Indorsement, but the more positive encouragement of some of the silver lead- ers. At that time the prospects were not overly bright for silver. A compromise was us much as was expected. The cal- culation was that the gold men would muster fully one-half of the convention, and that both a compromise platform and @ compromise candidate would result. Mr. Stevenson was to save himself for this emergency. The silver men would accept him because of his well-known views, and the gold men would accept him because of his position and personal popularity. And so the days went by without any word from Mr. Stevenscn to indicate wheth- er he was for or against silver in this battle. A Sndden Change. Then came a change in affairs, as sudden as it was radical. Silver began carrying everything before it. Compromise talk died out utterly. Silver was to rule the roost at Chicago. The gold men were not to be al- lowed to have a voice either in writing the platform or in naming the candidate. Can- Gidates for the presidential nomination from among those who had been active in the primaries began springing up. Men never before considered as presidential quantities ran up lightning rods and began courting the Chicago belt. All compromise men as well as all gold men found them- selves out of the line of calculation. Silver, active and pronounced, was on the cards for control at Chicago, and nobody but a man who had been outspoken for silver all through this latest fight might hope for nomination by the convention. Found Himself Side-Tracked. In this way, ‘as the story goes, Mr. Stev- enson has found himself side-tracked. He is no longer consulted, nor is his name now on the popular list of the availables. He is without influence in his own state. A man of the name of McConnell, with only a local reputation, is put forward by Gov. Aitgeld, who contrcls the state machine, as the candilate of HMlinois. Both Mr. Stev- enson and Colonel Morrison, veterans of many fields, and’ men of national aim a: are set aside without ce One Caase of Bitterness. What emliiiters the friends of Mr. Stey- enson is that some of the men now shouting the loudest for this other candidate or that were only # short time ago supporters of Mr. Stevenson and among those who con- sidered that his attitude was a wise one. But with the rising tide they have swept ast him, and ate now ignoring him. They are either candidates themselves, or man- agers of the c-ndidacies of other men. Gis Aa SS an POSTMASTERS APPOINTED. Several Removals and One for Short- age in Aecounts, New Jersey- Michael A. Devine; Bridgeton, Charles H. Pierson; Dover, George McCracken, and Red Bank, William Pintard. New York—Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, Chas. W. Anderson; Highland Falls, John E. Bren nan; Mechanicsville, Norman W. Kels Northville, Albert J. Smith, and Schoharie, Charles L’Amoreaux. All but three of these changes, made just before the President's departure for Gray Gables, were to fill vacancies caused by commission expirations. The exceptions are Auantic City, Dover and Bridgeton, N. J., where the postmasters were removed. At Atlantic City Postmaster Richard W. Sayre, who has been in office since July 9, ISM, Was recentiy charged with a heavy shortage in his accounts. An investigation by the department followed, and the sum- mary removal follows close after the in- report. oe West Point Cadets Appointed. The President has appointed the feliow- ing at-lerge to West Voint to enter the class beginning June 1, 1897: Henr: E. Mitchell, son of the late General William G. Mitchell, United States army, who died in active service, with Frederick Mears, son of the late Lieut. Col. F 4th United States Infantry, active service, as alternate; Williams, scn of Maj. Chas. United States army, nnis, son of Capt. Wm. Ennis, 4th United States Artillery ,as alternate; and to fill the ya- cency in the cadetship for the District of Columbia, Joseph Fountleroy Barnes, grandson of the late Gen. Jos. K. Barnes, United States army, with Wm. L. English, son of the late Lieut. W. L. English, 7th United States Infantry, who died of wounds received in action with the Nez Perces Indiars, as alternate. So ‘The Forestry Commission, Prof. Wolcott Gibbs, president of the Na- tional Academy of Sciences, has written a letter to Secretary Hoke Smith about the early departure of the government forestry commission to the field, in which he says: “I have the honor to inform you that the members of the forestry commission, ap- pointed at your request by the president of the Nauonal Academy of Sciences, will leave for the west on or before July 2, and will at once ‘enter on their duties. ederick Mears, died who in the commission’ will be cf an inestimable benefit to ¢ountry, and that it will justify the opinion which the public has, from the In¢ption of the pian, entertained of the wise: furesight and patriotic spirit which you ave shown in its conception and advancement.” SaaS Lottery and Fraud Orders. The Postmaster General has issued a lot- tery order jagainst Albert Jarmulowsky, Schau Schweneke and Schwerdfeger, at Schwerin, in Mecklenburg, Germany. This is supposed to be,another alias of the Ham- burg lottery, which has been giving much trouble to the Post Office Department by flooding the ‘country with its circulars. A fraud orfer diso has been isued against the Indestructible Pile and Pier Company, the Ratiway’ Doék and Construction Com- pany, and G. W. Dunn & Co. of New York city. The concern is alleged to be operating an extensive bogus stock jobbing scheme. 1 e Towed Into Port. HALIFAX, July 1—The steamer Mo- hawk has put in here with the Wilson Line steamer Rialto in tow. The latter has a broken shaft. She sailed from Newcastle, Eng., June 10. Found Unconscious. A middle-aged colored man, supposed to be Robert Jackson, a harkeeper, was found late this afternoon in an unconscious con- dition on Virginia avenue between 2d and 2a streets. He was removed to the Emergency Hospital, where the physicians experienced some difficulty in diagnosing the case. The man is supposed to be suffering from either apoplexy or uraemia, I have ; every reason té& believe that the work of j | $189,694; miscellaneous, 371,6¢ PUTTING UP TENTS|PEATH OF MRS. STOWE/FINANCE AND TRADE Covering the White Lot With Aores of Canvas, PREPARING FOR THE CONVENTION Responsibility for Speakers’ Ut. terances Disclaimed. THE OFFICIAL PROGRAM a Tent Endeavor, one of the three large meeting places on the White Lot for the Christian Endeavor convention, is being raised in position this afternoon. For two days the preparatory work has becn going on. Poles were erected Monday and yes- terday, and this morning gangs of work- men were busily engaged in spreading out the sections of canvas in order and lacing them together. Each tent is made up of twelve pieces of canvas and weighs several tons. There is a ton of rope about each tent used in the rigging and guying and lacing the sections together. There are three stiff, strong cen- ter poles and several more quarter poles, upon which the canvas is stretched. ‘Tent Endeavor is the one nearest 15th street. Tent Williston is opposite, near the lith street entrance to the White Lot. Tent Washington will be placed at the southernmost portion of the ellipse, just opposite te the roadway leading into the Monument grounds. The main entrances to each of the tents will be from the road- way that encircles the White Lot, and the platforms will be at the opposite ends, to- ward the center of the ellipse. This afternoon Contractor Martin’s men were hard at work fitting together the sec- tions of canvas for Tent Williston and lacing them together. It is probable that this tent will be erect:d tomorrow, and possibly, also, Tent Washington. Advance sheets of the official convention program and music have been received at headquarters. The volume makes 112 pages, fifty-six devoted to the detailing of the events of convention week, and the re- mainder containing the music which will be sung. All but five pages of the music is printed with the notes, as well as the words. The last page contains national and international hymns, America, God Save the Queen, Professor Huntington's inter- national hymn, beginning “Two empires by the sea, two nations great and free,” and the convention welcome song by Carl- ton Hughes to the tune of America. Every service to be held during the week is noted in the program, together with the leader selected, and those who have ac- cepted invitations to make addresses. The number of minutes allotted for every por- ticn of each service Is also stated. The fol- Icwing note of explanation is printed on the title page: “Since this is an international as well as an intersectional and interdenominational convention, it 1s confidently expected that no speaker will transgress the rules of Christian courtesy or will give cause for offense to dalegates of other nations, other sections, other creeds and other races than bis own. Nevertheless, it is manifestly im- possible for the convention or for the En- deavor cause to be responsible for every ut- terance of every speaker among the thou- sand or more who will have part, and it disclaims all such responsibility. It is also believed with equal confidence that no au- ditor will take offense where offense is not intended, but that all will exercise the charity which ‘is not easily provoked’ and which ‘thinketh ro evil,” and in all matters throughout the convention will manifest the genuine spirit of Christian Endeavor.” The First Sessions. The first services of the convention are to be held just one week from this evening, ard are known as preliminary meetings, for the formal opening of the convention aces not occur until Thursday morning, when Dr. Clark’s annual address ard Sec- retary Baer's annual report are to be read. The Wednesday evening mcetings will be held simultaneously in twenty-two churches of the city, and the gereral topic for the evening is “Deepening the Spiritual Life.” Two short addresses will be made at each meeting, followed by a quiet hour, a sort of prepar: tory consecration service. These Wedresday evening meetings will be op-n to the general putlic as well as delegates to the ecnvention, and it ts the carnest de- sire of the officers of the United Socie: Who Fave prepared the program, tha Washingtonians generally shail attend these servic While those who are not delegates to the convention will be welcome at every service during the week if there 1s room for them after those who have journeyed hundreds and thousands cf miles | to be present e been seated, yet there are occasions where citizens are especially urged to crowd the meetings. The Wed- nesday night services belong to this class. S of the most prominent speakers who will attend the convention will make ad_ dresses, and as twenty-two such meetings are to be held simultancousiy there will be plenty of room in churches conveniently Iccated for residents in every section cf the city. i The Chorus Rehearsal. Section B of the convention chorus gave its public rehearsal last night in Central Hall. It was an artistic success, and spe- cially gratifying to those who were anxious to determine to what degree of proficiency | the Christian Endeavor chorus has been brought. Messrs. P. P. Bilhorn and Charles S. Clark were the conductors. Mr. Bilhorn is one of the leaders selected for the con- vention services. He came to the city Sat- urday evening and has spent part of his time while herve rehearsing the male chorus that has been organized to lead the sing. irg in a meeting to bo held exclusively for men. He met with section B Monday even- ing for a brief time in order to get ace quainted with thos> whos: singing he di- rected last night. He is very popular with the chorus, is magnetic and attractive, and gets splendia work from the singers. A great deal of genuine sympathy has been expressed for him, as during his absence from home the sad intelligence of serious illness in his wife's family was telegraphed him, and it was only after the most stren- uous urging that he consented to remain in the city and conduot the public rehearsal. It will be pleasant news to the chorus members to learn that last night, before he left for Chicago, he was informed that a favorable change had been noted in the sick one’s condition, and the chances for recovery were encouraging. In response to a unanimous request by the members of section B, Mr. C. S. Clark, chairman of the convertion musie commit. tee, assisted Mr. Bilhorn in the rehearsal last night. Together they sang a duet, and the chorus was assisted in the program also by Miss Alice Kimball, with a vocal solo, and Mr. Charles H.’ Henney, who played a solo on the euphonium. The more than one thousand vocalists who participated in the concert completely filled the large platform at the end of the hall, the gallery above, and overflowed into seats and aisles in front and below. They made an attractive scere, the ladies all in white and without hats, against which were banked the dark blocks of basses and tenors. Conyenticn songs and anthems were heartily sung—sung with spirit and shading—sung with sentiment and expression. The convention music has a ring and rhythm to it that is catching, and the songs selected are fast becoming popular among citizens as they have al- ready become with the members of the cho- rus. Tonight section D of the chorus will sing, Mr. E. O. Excell of Chicago being the con? ductor. Mr. Excell is Known by name all over the country as a musical composer and director. His first appearance here last Monday evening created quite a fu- rore, and he was enthusiastically ap- plauded. Then he ted only one number tonight he will be in charge of the entire program. Doubtless many who have al- ready heard the other s or the cho- rehearsal, partly for the purpose of watching Mr. cell's methods. i >. Government Reccipts, National bank notes received for redemp- tion today, $25 rreme~t rece'pts From internal revenue, $601,519; customs, o- —_ ing Better. NEW YORK, July 1.—Gen. Pierce M. B. Young, United States ister to Honduras end Guatemala, who is a patient in the Presbyterian Hospital, is reported today to be much improved. The Famous WNovelist Passes Away Today. The Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin— a Liter- Her Long Career ary Labors. HARTFORD, Conn., July 1--Mrs. Har- ret Beecher Stowe pass2d away at her res- fdence in this city. At her bedside were three members of the family, Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker; her husband, Dr. Hooker, and Harrlet Stowe, a daughter of the au- thoress. Throughout the forenoon the friends of Mrs. Stowe were gathered in the room _ waiting for the end. Death came without a struggle and the end merely appeared to be a final continuance of the unconscious state into which Mrs. Stowe lapsed on Monday. The arrangements for the funeral have been but partially completed. The services in Hartford will be private, and interment will take place in Andover, Mass. Harriet Beecher Stowe was stricken with congestion of the brain and paralysis Fri- day. She was not confined to her bed un- til Monday. She grew rapidly worse Mon- day and in the afternoon passed into a state of unccnsciousness. Mrs. Stowe was eighty-four years old two weeks ago last Sunday. At that time her health was feeble, but she was seen sitting on the porch of her house in Forest street every pleasant day. Harrlet Beecher Stowe. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is doubtless the best known of American women in the field of literature. Her great work was “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” but in addition to that masterpiece she produced a great quantity of lterature, her works num- bering nearly half a hundred. She was born in Litchfield, Conn., June 14, 1812, and thus lived to be over eighty-four years of age. She was the sixth child of Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, and a sister of Henry Ward Beecher, the famous Brooklyn preacher. Her mother died when she was four years old, and the child wus placed under the care of her grandmother at Guildford, Conn. Her father married the second time, and her education was | then centinued at tae Litchfierd Academy. Her father was a man of wide learning and a great lover of classical literature. He encouraged his children to read the same grade of books, and at about nine years of age Mrs. Stowe read Byron's “Corsair.” During ber young girlhoo¢ the slavery question was being agitated throughout the north, and her father, an ardent abolitionist, made his sensitive child an enemy of the system, even ‘n her youth. When she was thirteen years of age she went to riford to attend a school established by her eldest sister, where she studied Latin and other sub- jects, and at fourteen she taugit a class. In 1832 she and her sister rerroved with their father to Cincinnati, where Dr. Beecher assumed the presidency of Lane Theological Seminary and the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian Church. It was m Cincinnati that Mrs. Stowe did her first Hterary work, which consisted of | the compilation cf an elementary geo; raphy, extensively used in the lower grades of the schools. She was engaged at the time with her sister at teaching, and in January, 1836, she married Rev. Calvin Ellis Stowe, who had been a professor of Greek a Dartmouth, but who was at that time pr: r of sacred literature in the Lane Thoolovical Seminary. His first wife had died in 1334. The residence of Mr. and Mrs. Stowe in Cincinnati brought her into closer contact with the slavery system than she had been in New England, end she made frequent trips into the slave states and acquired a minute knowledge of the southern life that left its mark on her subsequent work. Fugi tives from the south were frequently she! tered in her house, and were assisted by her husband and brother to escape to Can- ada. During the riots of 1836, when free ne- groes were hunted Ike animals in the strects of Cincinnati, the Lane Seminary and the residences of the abolitionists were only saved from destruction by their dis- tance from the city and the impassable condition of the reads. In 1850 Mr. Stow was appointed to a professorship at Bor doin College, and the family removed to Brunswick, Maine. Mrs. Stowe was con- vinced that the time had come for her to utilize her knowledge on the slavery que tion and to volce her strong sentiments, and to this end she wrote “Uncle Tom’ Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly.”” Mrs. Stowe had no anticipation of the enormous success that awaited her book, which, indeed, was not widely read at the beginning. It was first published in the | ational Era at Washington. running as a serial from June, 181, until April, 1S5 It was published in book form in Bost« in 1852, and In the first five years follow ing {ts appearance nearly half a million copies were sold in this country alone. During this period pcinted to a chair at Prof. Stowe was ap- he theological semi- nary at Andover, and remo’ thither w y Mrs. Stowe's book brought upon her the eritic:sm and conéemnation of the s and the friends of slay the and in 1S Tom's Cabin,” ments in that year sh. she wrote ’ > corroborative of her state- great work, and the sa’ published a children’s s upon the same plot. Si ime up to a comparaiiveiy few ago Mrs, Stowe has be an active contributor to | American li The suc of “Unele Tom's Cabin” in- d her to devote herself entirely vo | ng. with the result that there was an | almost cor nt succession of works from h dof over a quarter of | ature. a 21 § visited England in 185% and again a few years later. In IS6S she bee: : with Donald B. Mitehell | the periodical know . published ir as her direction that her biogr: suld be written by her son, the Charles Edward Stowe, pastor of che W sor Aven Presbyterian Church, in is ford, Conn. Hearth and Home. It — Coinage for June. The montiily statement of the director of the mint shows the coinage at the United States mints dur! a follows: Gold, inor coins, $22, A Pythin The local Knights of Pythias will he -e- = nm Field Day. id day July 30, at the International Park. | They will have a drill, which will be the | feature of the program, w there will be | three or four bicycle races, a quarter: run, a 100-yard run and an obstacle ra A committee of the Knights has been ap- pointed to arrange for the affair. ——— An American Horse Wins. Enoch Wishard’s American horse Helen Nichols won the Visitors’ Plate from eleven | starters at Newmarket vesterda The Visitors’ Plate (handicap) is of at six furlongs. Porte Bonheur was secon? and Mr. T. Hoodless’ Crawley was third, etal Grain and Cotton Markets. Farnished by B. Hibbs & Co., street, members New York stock ex corresponder . Ladenburg, main & Co., » Month. August. pirember rIMORE, jail and n family, wheat lower barrels; and) month, ber, 61, —receipt! K. 452,089 bush 37288 Western. 0. S71 bushels 18,094 bushels. “Hay qui choles timothy, $1 Grain freights firm—steam to Liverpool per bus! 244d.a2 co orders per quarter, 28. be a most undesirable event, in Declines Through the Speculative List. oa ees FOREIGN HOUSES BOY MODERATELY Rumors of Big Gold Shipments Discredited. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS > Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, July 1—The course of prices in today’s stock market was uniformiy destructive to value: clines varying from 1% to 3% per cent being recorded at ail points of ac- tivity. The general absence of support- ing orders was again a noticeable feature of the trading rp declines in Manhat- tan and Northwestern emphasized the weakness elsewhere, and inspired new sell- ing for both accounts. LAquidation was prorounced at times, the laste to lighten rezponsibility being suy rior to the desire to realize good prices for the property sold. The occasional covering of short contracts was practically the only Luying of consequence. London's prices were about on a parity with our closirg, and failed to encouraze any demand among local operators. For- eign houses bought moderately, .as here- tefore, but the street was disposed to be skeptical 2s to the genuineness and wisdom of such purchases. The engagement of a moderate amount ef gold for export by tomorrow's steamers added to the disinclination to trade in the interest large engagements of gold for shipment by Saturday's steamers credited by responsible f of higher prices. Rumors of were generally dis- eign houses, but influence on prices had felt. It is too early to predict accurately on this point, but the fulfillment of present predictions would few of the prevailing Prcnounced nervousness frcm other causes, Activity in American Tobacco, resulting from a variety of rumors relative to the divideré on the common stock, had a terdency to intensify the uncertainties of the situation. The declaration of the d'v- idend on the preferred stock and no ac- tion whatever on the common we report- «a during the last hour, a rally following the covering of early sales. A iarge volume of bus’ in sugar on a declining scale was again a conspicuous feature of the day's development in the in- dustrial departments. Around delivery hour the market rallied rtionally, but the general character of trading was unchanged. The silver ex- periment is to be undertaken without in- now cumbering obligations ba: on a gold standard, if undertaken at all. Ry ceducng speculative and investment liabilities to a minimum, attention can Le devoted exclusively to the perpetuation of nt currency standard, without the ce arising from an adopted market tion. Preparations are beir that may happen in a necessity. This proce Within a few days, an given to the less extrem, made for the worst dvance ef the ac should t at View of the pros- pect. The election f will be ni to determine ‘curately the real significance of values, and conservative trading alone be engaged in meanwhile. > — FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The following are the opening, the highest and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market to as reported by Corsen & Macartney, members New York stock exchange. Correspondents, Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Broadway. Open. High. lag 111g 4, Amertean Sugar. American Sugar, Pid. American Tobace 100% 3 2 2 ery 95 1Big Chicago Gas, Cfs C. M.& St. Paul. General E lilinow Central. Lake Shore re tissouri Pacitie National Lead ¢ National Lead Co.. U.S Leather, Ptd Centra ventral. NY.&N. Eng. Cts \.C. & Si. Louis, n. American & Western. Pullman Pal. Car cling & 1. brie, Pfd Western Union 1 : oy nee. Vest End Na. Ws; 10 at TB 14 bid Columbia, 1 10S bid, 111 bid, 108 asked rust Comp asked |. Grorget 114 bid, 1 bid. Pravktin, 3 d Corcoran, 5 bid Potomac, 130 bid rman. American Umon, 10 bid, 14 asked. Columb asked. Riggs, 7! id, SY asked, vit 100 . 6 ask: an Graphop Pueumatic Gun neous Stocks. — Mergentha 1224 asked. Lanston q shington Market 2 asked. Lincoln Hall, 90 roan ee Major Halford injured. DENVER, Col., July 1.—Maj. E. W. Hal- ford, who was President Harrison's private secretary and is now paymaster of the United States army stationed at Denver, has sustained a compound fracture of his right leg by falling from a bicycle,