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2 THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1896-TEN PAGES. — = = —== self nator Day's admitted objection to Mudd’s candidacy ts due to his belief that the latter is building up an element of the republican party in Howard which may in time threaten his own leadership in the county. It 1s also reported that he expect- ed more recognition from Mr. Mudd during his rule as speaker of the house of dele- gates last winter. Senator Day does not expect to prevent Mr. Mudd’s nomination by the La Plata convention, but that does not effect his determination to oppose him. Senator-elect Wellington is in town look- ing up headquarters for the state central committee. Arrangements had been, it was thought, effected whereby the rooms used in the Bank of Baltimore building last year would have been retained, but opments have necessitated the seeking quarters elsewhere. PINGREE LEADS. The Michigan Republicans Trot Out Their Favorites. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., August 6.—The republican convention reassembled this morning at 9:30 o'clock, somewhat faded and bedraggled from the hot session of yesterday, which lasted until midnight. A final disposition was made of the St. Clair contest by seating both delegations, Biving each half a vote. The presenta- tion speeches for governor were made last night, and this morning supporting speech- es were made for Pingree and Bliss. The Bliss oratcrs made frequent references to Pirgree’s sulky conduct of two years ago, while the Pingree orators were concilia- tory, pledged Pingree’s support to whoever right be nominated and declared that he was both feet on the platform and jollied everybody generally. age, The first ballot was taken at 10:30 o'clock and resulted: Pingree, 33: Bli 286; O'Donnell, 83; Wheeler, 47; Aiken, 56; Co- nant, 2 5) On the second ballot Pingree received 358, Bliss 297 and O'Donnell 7% The Bliss gains came from Wheeler and O'Donnell. The unit rule was abrogated on a demand for a poll of a delegation, and under this ruling Kent gave Pingree 5 Votes instead of solid for Bl Third ballot gave Pingree, O'Donz.ell, 89; others, choice, 417. Pingree ballot. Bliss, 307 Necessary to a was nominated on the fourtn REED RENOMINATE! Hi» Supporters Predict His Nomina- tion for President. PORTLAND, Me., August 6—Thomas B. Reed was today renominated by acclama- tion for Congress by the republican con- vention of the first district. It is the tenth successive term for which Mr. Reed has heen nominated. In putting Mr. Reed in nomination Wilfred G. Chapman expressed Tegret that he was not the presidential cendidate of his party. “But,” he said, “we are proud to put aside feelings of dis- appointment, and we are new looking for- ward to the time when Mr. Reed will be- come the republican standard bearer, and a3 President of the United States will still further honor his district.” WISCON: REPUBLICANS. Scofield Passen Lafollete in the Bal- lot for Governor. MILWAUKEE, August 6.—The first bal- lot for governor resulted as follows: Ed- ward Scofield, 2492; Robert M. Lafollete, 281%: Emil Baeasch, $3; Ira Bradford, 31; Eugene Elliott, 4#%; C. E. Eastabrook, 6. Necessary for a choice, 342. The second Luliot resuited as follows: Scofield, 268%: Lafollette, 258; Baensch, Bradford, 862; Ellott, 31; Eastabrook, Su. The result of the third ballot was: Sco- field. ; Lafolette, 250; Baensch, 98; El- liott, Eastabrook, 3; Bradford, 22. Gold Men in St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, 2fo., August 6—A meeting called by the gold standard democrats’ ex- ecutive committee for the purpose of form- ing a gold standard club in St. Louis was held last night at Chatsworth Hall. Among these who spoke were ex-Minister to Swit- zerland J. O. Broadhead and Fred T. Leh- man. A club was organized with a membership of 200. An address was issued declaring that “the highest duty of patriotism and Partisanship in this campaign is to defeat Chicago ticket and platform. Their *sS Means disaster to the country, and the overthrow of the genuine democracy.” Maryland’s Gold Delegate. BALTIMORE, Md., August 6.—John FE. Semmes, a lawyer, of this city, has been appointed to represent the democrats of Maryland who favor a gold standard at the conference to be held in Indianapolis. Hi left for that city et today. Fusion in California. SAN FRANCISCO, . August 6—The Populist state executive committee has Is- Sued a manifesto to voters. The nomina- tion of Bryan is indorsed, but Sewail 1s oppesed and Watson is favored for Vice President. The address declares that if the populists receive honorable and. co- Operative treatment in state matters by the democrats it would favor zn honora- Ue union to defeat the republican party. _ CROPS IN THE West. Repo: = of Correspondents in Many of the States, CHICAGO, August 6—The following will @ppear in this week's Farmers’ Review: The Farmers’ Review has received re- Ports from {ts correspondents in Ilincis, Indiana, Ohio, Micnigan, Kentucky, Mis. sourl, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas on the condi. ton of spring wheat, oats and corn. Since the reports of one month ago the Spring wheat in Nebraska and Kansas has lest in condition. What has been harvested ha many places not come up to expec- tations. In Iowa the prospects are not so geod as the previous report, rust and rain having proved adverse factors. In Wisconsin the crop at harvest time is very poor, rust naving affected it in a go many localiti a In M'nnesota conditions are lower than one month ago, rust, chinch bugs and army Worms having cut down the yield. The conditions in the Dakotas are very similar, and the reports are poorer than last month. In Illinois the oat crop has suffered con- siderably during the last four weeks. Rust has teen destructive in its work. The wet Weather has also damaged greatly the oats in shock, causing the grain to sprout. Early planted oats seem to have done very well in a number of counties. From Indiana come numerous reports of ge amage resul from the drench- tug received by the oats in shock. Uhio reports heavy yield, but damage ar to that in Ind Ran the by rains has siderable, but less than in the tes previously mentioned. at crop in Kentucky has been se- fairly good condition, but. the ns h damaged it to some extent. The vat crop in Missour! ts poor, due i y to the ravages of rust. has harvested her oat crop, and ar below what was expected two saxo, rop in Nebraska ts very light. In he damage reported last month lrought and hot winds, rust and rot- in the shock prevails. Visconsin reports fair yield, although t Las done much damage. Minnesota the crop has rusted badly. and has forced down the condition to a point not thought possible a month ago. The crop in the Dakotas 1s reported light. corn is still doing well, the late rains hav- atte generally benefited {t. Some tes report chinch bugs numerous, and 3ome counties of the west come com- ni of too little moisture, but these con- * are not thought extensive enough atly reduce the average for the coun- cure: Kansas —o vO MEET THE SOLDIERS. All the Candidates Expected to Kansas. TOPEEA, Kan., August 6—All the can- @ lates for President and Vice President will attend the old soldiers’ reunion at T a the last week in September. Ac- ceptances have been received from Mc- Ktriey and Bryan, and today Garrett A. cbart wrote he would be hers Invita- tions have been sent to Tom Watson and Arthur Sewall, and the populists and dem- ocracs pledge that they will both be here. —_——_ New Orleams Bank Feilure. NEW ORLEANS, August 6-—The Ameri- can National Bank failed to open its doors loday ‘The Era of Aicectors have decided te go 2 sto Leuidacon. LATE NEWS: BY WIRE Trish Land Bill Produces a Demon- stration. ee GEORGIA POPULIST IN CONVENTION Glaring Scandals in the Phila- delphia Council. NEWS OF THE DAY =e LONDON, August 6.—The members of the house of lords showed great interest today in the committee stage of the Irish land bill. There was a larger muster of peers present than was the case in any measure since the home rule bill. In fact, some of the lords had been so long absent from the house that their faces were not familiar to the doorkeepers, and several identifica- tions were rendered necessary. The public and press galleries were packed with peo- ple. In addition, there was a good attendance of peeresses, among the ladies being pres- ent the Countess of Dudley, the Countess of Mayo, Lady Wolverton, the Countess of Selborne, Countess Cowper and Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain. The forces of the peers were very un- equal. There was iess than # score of op- posing lords, while the Marquis of Salis- bury had a hundred untonist peers behind Mr. Gerald Balfour, chief secretary for Ireland; Mr. George N. Curzon, parliamen- lary secretary to the foreign offize:Sir Wil- liam Vernon Harcourt, their opposition leader in the house of commons: Mr. Hen- ry Asquith, the former home secretary; the Rt. Hen. John Atkinson, the attorney gen- eral for Ireland, and other leading mem- bers of the house of commons were also Fresent. ———— GEORGIA POPULISTS. The Largest Convention They Ever Held in the State. ATLANTA, Ge., August 6.—The largest and most enthusiast!c state convention the populists of Georgia have ever held was assembled today in the hall of the house at the state capitol. Delegates have been arriving for the past two days, and the streets this morning were sprinkled with the red badges of tHe peo- ple’s party representatives. The presence of Thomas Watson, the party's nominee for Vice President, added to the interest of the occasion, worked the enthusiasm up to as high a temperature as that of the weather. The preliminary caucus held at 9 o'clock practically settled the action of the con- vention on the gubernatorial nomination. Judge K. Hines and W. L. Peck, the can- didates of the “middle of the roaders,” flatly declined to allow the use of their names, leaving the field to the Rev. J. B. Gambrell, the populist-prahibition candi- date. ———— THEY TOOK STOCKS. Philadelphia’s Councilmen Proved to Be Bribe-Takers. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., August 6.—The senate committee that is inquiring into the municipal affairs of Philadelphia, which yesterday created a sensation by beginning an inquiry into the Mutual Automatic Tele- phone scandal, continued its investigation teday. There was a large crowd present in anticipation of even more sensational de- velopments today. Yesterday Julian C. Gale, private secretary of John P. Persch, treasurer of the Mutual Automatic com- pany, testified that David Martin, the re- publican leader of this city, and State Sen- ator Charles A. Porter, his associate in politics, had each received 1,525 shares of the company’s stock, par value, $76,750, and Mr. Martin also received certificates for abcut 3,000 additional shares, divided into small lots. Mr. Gale's testimony was cor- roborated by George A. Persch, the treas- urer’s brother. The investigation grew out of the sus- picious huste with which councils two years ago passed the ordinances granting rights to the Mutual Automatic Telephone Company In preference to older bills grant- ing similar rights to teo other companies. Newspaper charges were made at the time that small blocks of stock were given a number of councilmen to influence their action and that Messrs. Martin and Porter, who possessed great political influence, were each given 1,525 shares for ordering the passage of the ordinances. A joint commlitse of councils made an irvestigation socn after, but was unable to make a satisfaetory repurt, as the com- pany’s bocks were missing and Treasurer ard Promoter John P. Persch, Secretary Gale and Persch’s brother, a clerk in the cc mpany’s office, whe were away from the ity, could not be brought within the juris- tion of the cammittee. Gale and Persch testified yesterday that they remained away from Philadelphia, most of the time in New York and Trenton, at the Instance of Mr. Martin, who, they swore, paid them smail sums at intervals for keeping beyond the reach of the com- mittee. At the time of the council's investigation Mr. Martin appeared befere the committee and explained that although the stock stood in his name on the book, he had never scen It; he had, he said, agreed to buy it for $10 a share, but afterward declined to do so. Gale and George A. Persch both say that Mr. Martin received the stock, and gave them receipts for it. Books Shown, Senator Grady, who vigorously opposed the opening of the inquiry into the Mutual Autumatic scandal yesterday, was the on- ly absentee today. John J. Gilroy, secre- tary of the Guarantee, Trust and Safe De- posit Compeny, which acted as registrar ot the Mutual Automatic Telephone Company, was the first witness today. He produced the stock book of the company, which showed 6,000 shares Nad been issued in the name of John P. Persch, treasurer of the telephone company. The book afterward showed this stock cut fhto blocks of twen- ty, and six in the name of Julian A. Gale, secretary of the telephone company, and 1,525 shares each in the names of David Martin and Senator Charles A. Porter. William Hopple, a lawyer, testified to being handed by Gale two powers of at- torney for 1,525 shares each. He declined to use them and handed them back. Wit- ness, being shown photographic copies of two proxies, said they looked like the ones handed him by Gale. These copies, it is sald, bear the alleged signatures of Messrs, Martin and Porter, and later in the inves- tigation witnesses are expected to testify to the genuineness of the signatures. J. Hibbs Buckman, a young lawyer, told the committee he received a share of stock as his fee for getting a charter for the company. He said he was a director of the company, but knew nothing about It. On onc occasion, subsequent to the airing of the company’s affairs before councils committee, he went to attend a meeting of the directors in Camden, and was forced to leave the 100m. pei MR. HANNA LEAVES NEW YORK. Vice Presidential Candidste ‘Hobart Left in Charge. NEW YORK, August 6.—Chairman M. A. Hanra of the republican national commit- tee announced teday that he was going away this afternoon at 4:30 over the Penn- sylvania railroad. He will stop for three or four hours in Philadelphia, and then go on to Cleveland and closeup his headquarters there. Thence, he said, he would go to Chicago for a week. and return from that elty to New York. In the absence of Mr. Hanna headquarters will be in charge of Vice Presidential Nom- {nee Hobart and General. Osborne of Bos: ton. Powell Claytor. has sent invitations to ex- President Harrison and various Senators and Congressmen to take part in the cam- paign. No answer has yet been received to the letter of Chairman Hackett of the state committee asking General Harrison to make the opening speech of the cam- peign in this state. ‘ < VACANCIES TO: BE FILLED. Examinations Announced by the Civil Ser- Qualifications Will Be Ascertained of Men Whe Want to Be Saw- vers an@ Selentists. The civil service commission will hold an examination on August 27 to fill a vacancy im the position of sawyer at the Colville agency, Washington state, at a salary of $900 per annum. This examination will be held in connection with other examinations on the same date for the Indian servic The subjects will be orthography, penman- ship, copying, arithmetic. and practical questions. Each applicant will be examined at the nearest point to his home at which the commission has a competent board of examiners. Persons desiring to compete should write at once to the civil service commission for an application blank. Nautical Alm: ce Assista An examination will be held September 3 to fill a vacancy in the position of assist- ant In the Nautical Almanac office at a sal- ary of $1,200 per annum. Twelve hours will be allowed for the completion of the examination—seven hours on the first day and five hours on the second day. The sub- jects will be algebra, geometry, trigonom- etry, analytic geometry, differential and in- tegral calculus, logarithms, spherical as- tronomy and theoretical astronomy, the last three subjects to be taken on the second day of the examination. Persons desiring t> compete in this examination should write at once to the civil service commis- sion, Washington, D. C., for an application blank, and should file their applications im- mediately. Arrangements will be made to examine each applicant at the nearest point to his home at which the commission has a competent board of examiners. Physicist for Agricultural Depart- ment. ‘i The commission will hold an examination commencing at 9 a.m., August 28, to fill a vacancy in the position of physicist in the division of soils, Department of Agricul- ture, at a salary of $1,400 per annum. The subjects of the examination will be the regular clerk-copyist subjects and in ad- dition physical chemistry, with special reference to the nature and properties of solutions; general physics, with special ref- erence to electricity, heat and mechanics, including methods of measurement; mathe- matics, analytic geometry, differential and integral calculus and the solution of differ- ential equations ordinarily occurring in physics; German and French, translation of scientific German and French into En- glisn. The technical subjects will be weighted 75 per cent of the whole examina- tion. Arrangements will be made to ex- amine applicants at the nearest point to their place of residence at which the com- mission has competent boards of examin- ers. Those desiring to compete should ob- tain application blanks and file their ap- plications with the civil service commission Washington, D. C., at the earliest date possible. Superintendent of Construction. The United States civil service commis- sion will hold an examination, commencing at 9a.m., August 20, to establish a register of eligibles for the position of superintend- ent of construction from which vacancies may be filled. A vacancy now exists at Scuth Bend, Ind., the compensation for which is at the rate of $6: per diem, Sun- days excepted. The subjects of the exam- ination will be letter writing, practical arithmetic, including calculations, and prac- tical questions on materials and construc- tion. The examination will require eight hours for its completion. Applicants may be examined at points nearest to their homes where the commission has competent beards of examiners. —_—__+e+ THE COCKING MURDER. Why the Man Who Was Lynched Committed the Double Crime. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. LA PLATA, Charles county, Md., August 6.—The killing of Jim Irwin at Allen’s Fresh last week has renewed interest in the Cock- ing tragedy, and some of the residents of the courty, who were anxious to know of Cocking’s murder, learned for the first time the cause of the double tragedy. Capt. Smoct, who knows as much of the case as dces any other resident of the county, re- called the circumstances of the affair. He was one (f the first to reach the Cocking house from here, and when he had learned of the facts he reaclred the conclusion that the Hill Top murderer was the guilty party. Since the commission of the crime and the exceution by lynchers of the merchant, it has developed that the Englishman had a gcod motive for the-ezime. About a year before the double tragedy was committed a colored man nained “Button” Neal dis- appeared, and when inquiry was made Cocking, in the presence of his wife, said he could-find the body. Walking down to Nanjemoy creek Cocking, with a rake in his hand, said: “I can find the body.” He drew his rake through the water, but the body was not there. “It’s here,” he said, and a second drawing of the rake through the water had the desired results. “But- Neal's body came to the surfade! sepk: Cocking had killed the colored man by throwing him in the creek and drowhing rim. This was all known by the Hill Top merchant's wife, and it was for fear of expesure of this case that he murdered jis wife and sister-in-law. Because of their unpleasant domestic re-+ lations, Cocking had ill treated his wife, and on the 23d of April, while abusing his wife, she was heard to say, “If you don’t let me alone I'll tell about ‘Button’ Neal's murder.” ~ ‘They were in the room directly in rear of the store at that time, and Cocking threat- ened to kill her, and pursued her to the store. There were two ladies there at the time, and they heard what was said, as‘did Miss Miller, his sister-in-law. It is general- ly thought that Cocking had a weapon, probably a hatchet, in his hand at that time, and would have murdered his wife had it not been that the two !adies were in the store. His wife's statement caused him more uneasiness than he could stand, and that night he did the double killing. When the wife had been killed, it was necessary to end the life of the sister-in-law, for she knew almost us much of the occurrence as did the wife, and so her life was also ended: When Cocking had been placed in jail and it was the universal opinion that he was guilty, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Miller, expressed her belief in his innocence, be- cause of the children, but when a change of venue was demanded and statements derogatory to the character of the (lead wo. man were made to cause public sentiment in St. Mary's to favor the prisoner, Mrs. Miller surrendered her opinion, and the lynching followed. —— A VENTURESOME ENGLISHMAN. He Claims to Have Been on the Three Friends’ Expedition. Spe-lal Dispatch to The Evening Star. F RICHMOND, Va., August 6—Arthur Vi- van of Liverpool, England, arrived here from Newport News today. He claims ‘o have been one of the Three Friends’ -rew who was sentenced by Weyler's court-mar- tial to be shot, but escaped from Cuba not lorg since, by jumping from a prison tow- er ten feet into the sea and reaching a vessel bound for Brunswick, Ga. where he was landed. From there he came to Newport News. He applied to the English vice consul here for aid, but being without Papers of identification, and being in a state of intoxication, he was placed under arrest pending investigation. He claims to have beén with Gordon on the Nile, and that he deserted the Queen's Guard to fol- low the sea. He shows full knowledge of the Three Friends’ exposition to Cuba and the eubsequent events. — ‘The Gold Conference. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., August 6—The mewspxper correspondents, notably from the east, constitute nearly all the arrivals tcday Zor the meeting temorrow of the pro- visional national committee of the gold standard democrats. Ex-Congressman Bynum ts overwhelmed with mal! and tolegranis today, indicating tla attendance temorrow than he ex- -tion af questions -of fa chaye been,evidences: in the past week that will discount the actual poll, in a campaign involving so many new uncertainties, any development fmoney and credit situation ‘ary marked shortening of credits. In the t week, while there have been resump- te August I, yhé!Bcale of the new buying hi not asst ap ‘hat’ operations Te Ame rgust will be F tannia, Satanita, Corsair and“isérde started | at 10 o'clock this morning tn the order “named, with a strong easterly wind blow- | presented by the inhabitants of the town A GOLD. TICKET Plan of Mé. Cleveland and His Seo- retaties Who Support Him. f. Die Se Will Fugnish an Escape for Dem- ocrats Opposed to Bryan. TO AID M’KINLEY’S ELECTION It is believed that the conference between Mr. Cleveland and those members of his cabinet who are not going to support the Bryan ticket will result in a declaration in favor of an independent gold democratic ticket. It has been understood all along that Mr. Cleveland was wavering between the nom- ination of a gold democratic ticket and ‘he direct support of McKinley: No conceal- ment is made of Mr. Cleveland's desire to have such a, course followed by the gold democrats as will best contribute to the success of McKinley. At first blush he was fevorably disposed toward the idea of a new ticket a§ a means of defeating Bryan without giving direct support to the cham- pion of high protection. But it is under- stood that arguments were presented which half convinced him that the weight of his influence should be thrown to the direct support of McKinley, as the most effective way of attaining the object in view. Among his friends whose advice he is in the habit of taking into account opinions have differed, and it has been difficult to secure harmony of action. The question has been canvassed very thoroughly, and meanwhile the advocates of @ new ticket have been actively at work preparing for @ convention, No Public Declaration Expected Now. It is believed that Mr. Cleveland has now practically concluded on his course and that he fs waiting only to confer with those of his cabinet who are thoroughly in sym- pathy with him and to consult with some other prominent Cleveland men-before giv- ing his approval of the proposition to nom- inate a gold democratic ticket. No one can Say now for certain how or when he will make his position known to the public, but the belief of those best informed as to his state of mind is that he will not as yet do more than give certain leaders who are close to him to understand what his posi. tion is, so that they may act accordingly, and that he will not take the public fully inte his confidence until the campaign is well on. It is not believed, though he may act under sudden impulse, that he will take the occasion of Bryan's notification to write a letter defining his position. It is not expected by those who ought best to be able to judge, that he will make any pub- Mc declaration before the middle of Sep- tember. His idea is said to be that the gold democrats ought to organize so as io make their éfforts effective in accomplish- ing the deteat‘of Bryan. The consideration wnich is ‘expected to turn the baiance in favor cf the nomination of an independent gold ticket is that such a ticket will draw th> support of gold democrats who cannot under any circumstances be led to vote for McKfiiley,'and many of \.hom would yote tor Bryan if given but the one choice, while, on the other hand, those ‘who are willing to vote for McKinley can and will do so even if there is a democratic gold ticket in ‘the field. _ Idea Of the Nomination. The nomination will not be. made with the idea that it will be binding on any democrat to, sppport it if he thinks he can better serve fe cause, by, voting directly for McKinley, ,but it will-merely furnish a means ofjescape from thé support of Bry- an for suth‘a$ cannat ‘tring themselves to vote for the ¢hampion of protection. The belief that ME Cleyefand has fallen in with thie idea is strengtheged by the fact that men’ Who it'ts quite certain would not act in the matter’ without first constlting his wishes ani being assured that the move- ment was going to culminate in some defi- nite dction }ave, after deliberation of the question, aad, presymably, after consulting him, taken off their coats and gone earn- estly into the work of organizing for a gold democratic conventign. It is believed that, after lending his ap- proval to the nomination of an independent ticket, Mr. Cleveland and all the forces which he can control. will exert their influ- encé to throw as strong a democratic vote directly to McKinley as. possible. Ss FAIR WILL CASE, The Real Trial is Now Under Hend- way. SAN FRANCISCO, August 6.—After months of skirmishing and sparring for po- sition among the army of attorneys in- volved, order has been finally secured in the Fair litigation, and the trial of one“of the greatest will contests in the history of the United States is now at hand. By. an order issued by Judge Stack yester- day, the merits of the so-called pencil will, the document produced by Mrs. Nettie R. Craven as the last testamentary disposition by Millionaire James G. Fair of his mil- Mons of money and property, is to be decided at once, and legal bickering on the part of the lawyers will give way to a determina- and issue. Fair has been dead almost two years, but At.was mot until today that a detinite nove in the complicated legal fight was made. Where have been motions and counter-mo- tions, demurrers and cross-complaints, and all the other endiess tactics for ‘which law and lawyers are famous. Some twenty mil. Hons are involved in this, the biggest law- suit of California, and almost as many en- deavors have been made to postpone the final trial of the case.A will has.been stolen from under the very nose of the court clerks, and a second will filed. A widow has arisen by virtue of her assertion that she was mar- ried by contract to the mining king, to claim @ million and a-half dollars of his property, and has tiled deeds to substantiate her claim. Charles L. Fair has disputed Mrs. Craven's claims. George A. Knight thinks he can win a case for his client, and disable Mrs. Craven and her claims in sixty days. But others doubt Knight's ability to settle the question so quickly. —— The Irom. Trade. CLEVELAND, Ohio, August ¢—The Iron Traue Réview this week will say: There the wav@ ofivapprehension over the un- known and natlratly exaggeraied extent of the free=silver - sentiment is subsidin While it t#not to be expected that business Sxfomsble to.s0und money will aif confidence and keep tile from getting The iron trade, 38 a whole, hag stood veil sell {bp stent iret put upon st throughoi year, an n_meas- curably ‘fi “failures! Buen é iké other lines, it wor disastrously affected by elp to dust Worse. ns of mills that had taken business in July oa the promise that they will start up pes t re than spaamodic. COWES, August 6—Allsa, Caress, Bri- ing,-in the race for the town prize of £100, of Cowes, for all yachts of not less than thirty tons belonging to any recognized yacht club, over the queen’s course. Ailsa won, beating Britannia by six minutes, and beating Satanita by six minutes and thir- ty seconds. s Lit Hung. Sees Ships, PORTSMOUTH, August G—Li Hung Chang inspected the dock yard here this ‘morning and was entertained at lunch at Admiralty. House. Shenae ae ew ge THE TWO COMMITTEES FINANCE. AND TRADE Another Railroad Train Poll to Offset the One Mentioned Yesterday. Chairman Faulkner's Talk om the Fasion of Populist in the South. “I noticed in The Star yesterday,” said one of the officials at the republican con- gressional committee headquarters today, “an interview with a democrat, in which he cited as an example of the difference he- tween the republican and democratic vote in this country on the silver question a case where a poll of the railroad train had shown @ majority of the occupants of the Pullman cars as being in favor of McKinley and gold and a ntajority of the day-coach passengers as favoring Bryan and free silver. “I received a little paper from Nebraska this morning, Mr.Bryan’s home state, called the Herman Review, and find in the local column the following paragraph: ““A vote was taken on the train between Blair and Herman Monday night by Al. Smith, a Burt county cattle man, to ascer- tain the vote for President. The vote stood 31 for McKinley and 2 for Billy Bryan.’ “I don’t know whether that train was a cattle train or not, but it was evidently a local train, and it is not likely there were any plutocratic passengers aboard. I think that this occurring in Mr. Bryan's home state discouats the test of the democrit cn the Cincinnati express, as related yester- day, and gives us some credit to the good side of the account. Tell them te bring on their next straw.” Daily Shipments of Documents. ‘The shipping rooms of the republican cen- gressional commitice on I street present a busy scene these days. Sixty clerks are busily at work there, and a half million of documents has been established us the reg- ular quota for shipment. The demand con- tinues unabated, and Congressmen are pouring in immense orders for literature to be supplied their districts. Representative Wanger of Pennsylvania, who was recently renominated for Con- gress by the republicans of his district, Was a caller at republican headquarters to- day. He came down to arrange for some literature and to talk over the situation with Vice Chairman Apsley. Mr. Wanger admits that there is considerable silver sentiment among certain classes in Penn- sylvania, but he says that the rank and file of the republicans are loyal to party, and will hold party interests alove silver. Mr. Wanger ridiculed the idea ad- vanced by Representative Mutchler that the democrats would increase their repre- ntation in Congress from Pennsyivania. ‘The democrats now have two. Congressmen from the keystone state, and even if the should double that, which is not at ail likely, he thinks, they would still fall short of their old-time representation, when seven democrats in the delegation were censidered a small number. What Senator Faulkner Says. Senator Faulkner, chairman of the demo- cratic congressional committee, is not at all worried over the claims of the republi- cans that there is chance of the populists fusing with them in the south, instead of with the democrats. “Why, it doesn’t stand to reason that the populists would go with the republi- cans in this campaign,” said Senator Fatlkner to a Star reporter today. . “The republican party is on an avowed gold basis. These populists left the two old parties on account of their devotion to silver, and it is not at all likely that they will get back into the republican camp. They are very likely, however, to go to the democratic camp, from which a ma- jority of them came, because now the Party has espoused the financial system which they advocated and which their fail- ure to get heretofore caused them to leave the party. “Some of the leaders may fuse with the republicans, but they cannot drive the rark and file of the populist party into such a combination. Those peopie are men of strong convictions, earnest, deter- mired and honest in their ideas, and they will not be driven back into the republican ranks by a few of their leaders.” IN ILLINOIS. Ex-Representative Downing Says the Silver Feeling is Spreading. Ex-Representative Downing, who was the cnly democrat in this Congress from Illi- nels, and who was unseated in a contest, is row the democratic nominee for secretary of state in Hlinois. He has been in Wash- ington for two days, and left this afternoon Tor his home. Speaking with a Star re- pcrter before his departure, he expressed the greatest possible confidence in the democrats carrying Iilinois, both for the state ard the national ticket. “I have never,” he said, “seen such a situation in politics. The silver sentiment is growing and spreading all over the state of Illinois. The feeling is intense. Everybody is talk- ing politics, and the people are terribiy in earnest. The small merchants, the farmers and men in all classes of business where they make a living from their own toil are nearly all silver men. A large number of. men in extensive commercial enterprises and even some of the bankers are with us. Of course, most of the bankers and big moneyed men are against silver, but the strength of general sentiment in favor of silver is wonderful. I do not see how we can lose the state. The normal republican plurality is about twenty-five thousand. ‘The populist vote is about sixty-four thou- sand, and the prohibition about nineteen thousand. Bryan will get ninety-five per cent of the populist vote, and a very large share of the prohibition vote, besides get- ting a very large vote from the labor and farming element which the democratic ticket has not heretofore had.” ————— 'S HER BABY BOY. w Mrs. Mattie Foerstch to Help Her. To regain possession of her little child, a boy of two years of age, Mrs. Mattie C. Foertsch tiis afternoon filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus against her hus- band, Charles Foertsch, who is said to be employed in the bureau of engraving and printing. In her petition Mrs. Foertsch alleges tnat on account of the habitual drunkenness and gross and intolerable cruelty of her hus- band she was recently compelled to leave him and take her two children, one a girl of three and a boy of two years, to her mother's residence, 1236 414 street. | Yester- day, she further charges, her husband en- ticed and took away from her custody and care the little boy. : ¢ The child, she explains, is still nursing, and his fathex, she complains, refuses to allow her to see the child or have access to it. ‘Therefore Mrs. Feertsch prays that her husband be commanded to produce the child in court, and that it then be restored to her custody and care. Mrs. Foertsch’s counsel, Messrs. Obear & Douglass, pre- sented the petition to Judge Cole, who di- rected that the writ issue, commanding the child’s father to produce it in court before s the Courts him at 11 o’clock tomorrow moraing. ——_—_ Overcome by the Heat. Charlea J. Morrison, a white man, twenty- two years of age, and a bricklayer by tradé, while riding along New York avenue on the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home rail- come Ly the heat and fell from the car. come Dy the heat an dfell frc.n the car. One of the wheels ran over his arm and crushed it badly. He was taken to Freed- mun’s Hospital in the police ambulance. About 5 o'clock yesterday Joseph A. Lyles, colored, while at work unloading vessel at one of the: wharves, waa over- c¢me by the heat. He was taken to his home, 2613 Dumbarton avenue, in a patrol wagon. ‘ ——— Personal Mention. Captain Lewis Smith, 34 Artillery, ts visiting friends at Washington barracks. Mr. William Howell, private secretary to Assistant Secretary McAdoo, has gone away on his vacation. Attorney Genera! Harmon left thjs morn-' ing for a few days’ visit with his family at Bay Head, N. J. Mr. Willis G. Moore, chief of Substantial Decline in All Speculative Lines. LONDON ADVICES WERE FORBIDDEN Upward Attempts Had No Back- ing. WHAT WAS DONE es Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, August 6.—Opening prices his morning were fractionally lower, as the result of the declining tendency of the London market, as indicated by early cables from that center. Foreign sales of St. Paul and Nashville were conspicuous during the morning and encouraged a sharp attack on prices by the professional room element. The absence of support was suc- cessfully taken advantage of by the larger traders to force subsianital declines in all departments. The depression at the close of the noon hour varied from 2 to 2% per cent. Bur- lirgton was the focus of the attack, skep- ticism as to its ability t« maintain its pres- ent dividend rate making it particularly vulnerable at this time. Further weakness in the industrial department, under the leadership of Sugar, was a disturbing fac- tor, but the fluctuations were less violent than those recorded in the investment se- corities. Western Union, Northwestern and New York Central responded almost will- irgly to the prevailing sentiment. The bulk of the day’s transactions may be credited to an extension of the short account. The recognized leader of the pessimistic following was personally a llb- cral seller of all active issues. The motive for this action was ascribed entirely to a general recognition of the lack of sup- port, and not to any new adverse devel- opments The pclitical situation has im- proved within the last few days, if it has changed at all, but the fear of what may be can aways be revived to the great prejudice of stock p: The owners of money are disposed to consider It more desirable than either the curities or commodities now offered for ale, and are unwilling to exchange it for investments the value of which may_be- come subject of future legislation. If a sound money victory is recorded at the polis next November funds now lying idle may be employed to such decided advan- tage as to fully recover the losses incident to such present idleness. This is tte conservative view, and the only cne worthy of consideration by the average operator. Meanwhile, however, the professional trader will make his own market, profits and losses being confined to the room, and alternating in a way which may bring temporary profit to all interest- ed in such manipulative enterprise. The market for foreign exchange is re- ported to be unchanged as to the volumes of actual business, but rates are inclined to recede from the recent high level. A more active demand for money was report-i during the day, loans being made up to 3% per cent. Rates do not advance signi cantly, however, owing to the restricted character of the demand, even though an active tendency is reporied. Some liguidation in Burlington was no- ticed during the afternoon in anticipation of the actual nbandonment of the present dividend rate. The discovery had an ad- verse influence on the entire list, and re- sulted in the extreme low level which pre- ceded delivery hour. The rally subsequent to this period was due entirely to a cov- ering of short contracts, and extended to % of 1 per cent in some instances. The market price of silver bullion contin- ues almost stationary, a decline of 1-8 per cent being recorded from last night's clos- ing level. Confidence in a triumph for the white metal has not yet taken the form of buying the commodity for a guaranteed advance of more than 30 per cent in the event of silver legislation establishing the populistic ratio. ‘Trading at the close of business was un- changed in character, prices rallying slight- ly on insignificant purchases to cover early sales. ——.___ FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The following are the opening,the highest and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today, as ~eporte? by Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exchange. "Correspondents, Messrs. Moore & Schiey, No. 80 Broadway. Open. High. Low. Close. American Sugar........ 10° 102%; 100% 100% American Sugar, Pid... 96 95° 96 96 American Tobacco. SIX STH BB BT American Cotton Oil. 5 : Atchison... Baltimore & Canada Pacific. Chesapeake & Ohio. ©. C. C.& St. Louis | go, B. & Q.. zo & Northwestern go Gas, si CM. & St. Paul & St. Pani, Pfd..: zo, R. 1. & Pacific! Consolidated Gas. Del., Lack. & W. Delaware & Hudson... Den. & Rio Grande, Pid. Dis. & Cattle Feeding. Erie. General Electric. Minois Central... Laclide Gas. Lake Shore Louisville & Nashville Metropolitan. Tractio. Manhattan Elevated. Michigan Central. Missouri Pacific. Natfonal Lead Co. 2.1) National Lead Co., Pd. New Jersey Central New York Central Northern Pacitic. Northern Pacific North American Ont. & Western. Pacific Mail. Phila. & Reading Puitman P. C. G Southern Ry., Pfd. Phila. Traction Texas Paciti ‘Tenn. Coal & Iron . Union Pacitle. S. Leather, Pfd Wabash, Pfd. Wheeling & - Wheeling & L. Eri Western Union T Silver. timore Markets. Md., August 6.—Fiour dull, 23.446 “barre ports, sales, 150 barrels. t_ dull ~ GL ya61%; G2; wt > J. STasTh 3 export: 16,000 busbels; stock, 1,381,628 bushels: sales, BALTIMORE, une 16,208 Spot 000 bushels—southern Wheat by sampie. 6ox6atg; Ns do. on grade, | GUtsa Corn month, 29% 29% bushels corn, 30; do. yellow, 30231, white weste-n, 29a30; No. 2 mixed do., 595 bushels: exports, 50,000 bu . Rye quiet and y—) 414135; Western, 35a35%%—exports, none *80 bushels. Hay firm—cholce timoth: Grain freights firm—steam to Li $16a$816.50. pool. per bushel, 214d. “August: Cork, for orders, ber quirter, 28. 9d. August and September. Sagar strong, unchanged. "Butter steady, unchanged. Exes weak, unchanged. Cheese firm, ul-changed. Whisky unchanged. Washington Stock Exchange. Sulev-regular call—12 o'clock m.—Mergenthalor Linotype, 3 at 11 Government Bends.—U. S. 44, Tegistered, 106% Did, 107% asked. U.S. da, coupon, 106% bid, 100% kod. t's 2% bid, 113% ‘asked. 8. 48, 1 8. Sa, 110 bid, 111 asked. District of Coinm' Bords.—20-year Fund. 5s, 104 bid. 30-year Fund. gold Gs, 110 bid. Water Stook cui is, 1901, 110 bid.” Water Stock cur- reney 7s, 11 110 bid. Fund. currency 3.655, 112 ask -d. Miseellancous Bonds.—Metropolitan Raslroad 3a, 105 bid. Metropolitan Railread conv. Gs, 120 bid! ‘Columbia Railroad Ga, 112 arked. Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- 100 bid. American Security and Trust 5a, cad 0» 100 bid "Wasliingcou ‘Market Coe and O., 5 ton Mat = Selig tacies ces nme on z “ Hall Association 5s, 14 ry F & E E Mis « % Kekingt orgetown and Tennallytown, 25 asked ts aml Electric Light Washington € United States ks. —Firemen’s, F Metropolitan, G8 bid) Corcoran, 5 bid bid Arllagton, 125 bid. German. ‘an, 0 bid. National Union, @ bid Co. lumbia, @ DIL Riges, 7% bid. People’s, 5 bid, 6 asked. Lincoln, 8 asked. Commercial, 5 asked Title Insurance Stocks: i Ketate Title, 110 ask. Columbia Tithe, 6 asked. Washington Title, 3 bid, trict Title, id Telephone Chesapeake and Potomac, 60 ask, Fraphophone, $y bid, 54 asked ‘riage, 10 bid, 25 asks cks, Ascel M ttmier Linotrpe, 115 ma, Lanston Monotype, 8 hut, 5 asked. Great Falla Too, 120 Norfolk an . High. Low Whoeat—Sept BR 58M S Dee. Om ba Corm—Sept B ay Doe. 24% 3S Oate—Sept 18% 17h Dec is oime Pork —Sept 6 ow Jan. 740 Toz Tant—Sepi Ba 2B an. Ss se Ribs Sept 300 Baz Jan. 3 352 Month. September October. Now -mbei Dovember Carryt Washington Steamboat, $0 Asked: correspondents Messrs. Ladenburg, Thal- mann & Co, New York. ly Inangarated, The New York harbor postal transfer ser- tugs Mi ——— day. ‘The re- tons of the postal officials, and they are has been so far demonstrated in t Harbor transfers were made in Now York Girect to raitway lines of such mail as transferred without going through the New This consisted of about one-third of the made a difference of two and a half hours than after office hours. The mail reached did on the regular run, the mail being de- 1 street, members New York stock exchange, Similar gains were accomplished for all the large cities and the Mexican mail will reach the City of Mexico twenty- four hours earlier than formerly. This lat- ter is of importance on account of the fart Grain and Cotton Market. vice was inaugurated yeste Sanguine of even greater time saving than transportation throughout the from the transatiantic steamers by comes from Europe pouched so 4s 10 be York post office. total mail matter brought from abroad. in the mail for Philadelphia, getting It new milday letter carriers’ trips rather Buffalo six hours earlier than it formerly lvered by the first letter carriers’ :rip in that our postal service handles nearly the Furntshed by W. B. Hibbs & Co., 1421 F sult is viewed as fully me ng the expecta- Even in this crude ‘xperimental way it over in time to be delivered by one of the morning rather than by the one at entire European mail for the Mexican peo- ple, of Charles County = Enjoyable Time. LA PLATA, Charles County, Md., August —The town hall here last night was the scene of a gathering of society people from all parts of the county, the occasion being a ball given by the young ladies and gen- tiemen of this place. The large hall was brilliantly lighted, and the gay costumes and pretty faces made it a scene of love- Iiness such as has not been seen here in many months. A committee of four young men had charge of the gay affair, and dur- ing the intermissions served refreshmenus. Besides residents of this and adjoining ccunties, a number of Washingtonians came down and enjoyed the evening's en- tertainment. Among those in attendancs Were Mr. and Mrs. George W. Cross, Mr and Mrs A. Posey, Mr. and Mrs. J. De Walloch, Mrs. W. Shields, Mrs. Dr. de Rhodo, Mrs. A. W. Neale, Misses Mattie and Amelia Brooke, Anna Johnson, Mollie Ham'lton, Hattie, Nellie, Neale, Gissie and Pearson Chapman, Florence Temple, Edith Cox, Cecile and Agnes Warring, Natalie Jenkins, Dodie Mills, Amelia Smoot, Mary, Eliza and Bettie Barber, Lucy Cox, Katie Howsird, May and Edith Hamilton, Nannie Brent, Adele Edelin, Blanche and Edith Mudd. Leila and Memi Matthews, Frederica Brown, Cecile Chapman, May Mitchell, Tillie Digges, Nettie Boorman, Bertha Green, Ncrma Huntt, Harrison, Edith Cogsby, Mamie and Gracie Bowling and Messrs. Robert. H. T. and Chapman Hon- ser, G. W. Cruikshank, Howson Mitchell, Norbert and Albert Bowling, Harry Turner, Fabian Perry, W. W. Ware, 8. J. Smoo Neale and J. T. Hamilton, Ernest Towso Alex. Hamilton of Washington, D.C.: H.C. and Pinckney Hawkins, Lemuel Witmer, Baltimore, Ray Adams, Washington, D.C.; B. T. Davis. > — Naval Movements. The Marblehead has arrived at Palermo. The Minneapolis has left South Queen’s Ferry for Gravesend. The Michigan has gcre from Milwaukee to Detroit ee Sulit for Accounting and Receiver. Michael Ryan, claiming to be a@ creditor by decree in chancery of Liewellyn G. Estes, today filed a bill in equity against Mr. Estes and others to enforce the said decree of $2,000, less $584.08. The coim- Plainant asks for an accounting and «is- covery, and that a receiver be appointed to take possession and control of the prop- erty and effects of Mr. Liewellyn in the Natural Plant Food Company, the Am: ican Fertilizer Company and the American Drug Company. Mr. Ryan, who is repre- sentel by Attorney Charles W. Stetson, aiso asks that Mr. Llewellyn and others be enjoined as to a note alleged to have been given him (Ryan) by Mr. Liewellyn. ———— Heat Followed by Storm. MILWAUKEE, Wis. August 6.—Dis- patches from all cities in Wiscansin and northern Michigan tell of extreme heat foliowed at several points by severe wind and thunder storms. The temperature ranged from 96 to 102 degrees. At Racine A. P. Erickson, aged sixty, was prostrated and died. Mrs. J. Ramsey was also prostrated and is in a critical con- dition. Two persons were overcome in Milwaukee, but there were no deaths. In this city outdoor work was largely sus- pended, and at Marine intense heat caused the closing of many factories. The storm last night was severe in northern Wiscon- sin and northern Michigan. At Escanaba the Chicago and Northwestern viaduct, 400 feet long, was demolished. Damage to buildings and crops is reported at many other places. > Attempted Train Wrecking. Sp>al Dispatch to The Evening Star. SEVERN, Md., August 6.—An attempt at train wrecking was made near Dorsey's, on the Baltimore and Ohio road, last night Shortly before the track walker had passed around a curve a party noticed that several heavy ties had been placed on the track and, running to the station, gave the alarim and, a danger signal having been shown, the ‘obstruction was removed but a short time before a train was due. > Disfranchisemeat im Oklahoma. PERRY, Okla, August 6.—The final de- cree in the citizenship case has been pro- mulgated from Okmulgau, the capital of the Creek nation, as it has been handed down by Judge Adams, chief justice of the supreme court of the nation. It strikes from the rolls of citizenship of the nation the names of over 1,709 negroes. CEE ROE, Cotton Brokers Fail. NEW YORK, August 6—Stephen R. Post and 8. Michelbacher announced to the cot- ton exchange today their inability to con- tinue. Mr. Michelbacher says all his con- tracts are covered, and his suspension is only temporary. een iae ois Mrs. Lease to Speak. NEW YORK, August 6—At democratic national headquarters It was stated today that the principal speakers at the meeting of workingmen in Cooper Union on Moa- will be Mrs. Mary E. ot Kansan, George Fred. Williams of Magee, chusetts and Joseph R. Buchanan of New Jersey. aie ieee A white tramp was burned at th: Franklin partsh, La., for omtrag: murdering @ vervunt gil.