Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1896, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 189¢6—TWELVE PAGES. LATE. NEWS BY WIRE Thousands Pouring Into Columbus to Hear Bryan. GREAT ENTHUSIASM AT CLEVELAND Quay Gone to New York to See Mark Hanna. CALLING ON M’KINLEY eon eee CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 1.—The Bryan party started fer Columbus over the Big Four road at 10:45 o'clock this morn- ing. escorted by a delegation of capital city politicians, who came here yesterday to at- tend the meeting. Before leaving the city Mr. and Mrs. Eryan held a short reception at the Hollenden. The first persons re- ceived were thirty or forty members of the Bryan Club of Republicans. In that party were Judge S. C. Parks, a delegate to the republican national convention of 1856, a life-long friend ef Lincoin, who appointed him to the supreme bench of Illinois in 1862: Judge J. H. Macmath, who was ap- poited minister to Morocco by President Lincoln: Col. J. F. Herrick and ex-Senator W. P. Hackney, formerly of Kansas. Big crowds followed the party from the hotel to the railroad station. The train will ar- ttre in Columbus about 2:30 p.m. Crowds at Columbus. Dispateh to The Event ‘OLUMBUS, Ohio. September 1.—Enor- mcus crowds ar: pouring into the city this morning, and the prospect is that the Bryan meeting this evening and tonight will be the greatest gathering of the kind ever seen in this city. The state fair and the unusually low rates offered hy the zail- roads nave, of course, conduced t> this, but “if the large number of people here now wearing badges snd hats that indicate their allegiance to free siiver is any indica- tion, the vote for free silve> in Ohio this fall will be a large one. A train from Logan and the Hocking Valley this morning brought in 300 silver hats from Westerville and small towns on the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus road. ihree hundred came in this morning. These were special trains. Regular trains brought in large crowds also. Word from Newark says 1,800 are coming from that city. The Arrival. The reception committee with Mr. Bryan will arrive at p.m. The party wil! zo at cnce to the Chittenden Hotel, which wiil be Mr. Bryan's headquarters while here. The meeting will be held at 7:4) p.m. on the east front of the state capitol. Allen W. Thurman will preside, and short spee ¢s will also be made by him and by Johr J. Lentz, democratic candidate for Con- sress here. The Bryan party will leave for Springfield, Urbana and Toledo at a.m. emorrow. Sp Star. ——— A QUIET CONVENTION. Business-Like at I thering of Delegates janapo Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. INDIANAPOLIS, September 1, 1896. No shouting or other noisy demonstra- tlon has as yet manifested itself as a fea- ture of this convention. But one band of music has yet appeared. About noon the Florida delegation marched down Illinois street with a Cleveland banner, bunches of palms and a band. In the corridors of the principal hotels this afternoon were only small groups as- sembled. There was no sort of demonstra- tion chservable and very few persons seemed to be engaged in argument. The assemblage is as business Itke and orderly as if tt were merely the gathering of the directors of some big business institution. ‘There is nothing yet that looks at all like a political meeting. Few badges are worn, and no ioud talk is heard, even where the larger groups are found. he Wisconsin p2ople are pressing Bragg earnestly, and the friends of Watterson are active, but there is no hustling and declamatory canvassing being done. The principal men in the western delega- tions all report that the silver sentiment in their sections is on the decline. Indiana, Ohio and Illinois are claimed for McKinley by large majorities. The fig- ure’ for Ohio is put at 100,000. In the states further west but small majorities are claimed. Members of the Kansas delegation say that McKinley will carry that state by a few thousand. They say that it may be deemed wise not to run a third electoral ticket there. The gold democrats may simply campaign on their platform. In Texas it is said there may be no electoral ticket put in the field, and the populists, wold democrats and republicans may make a sort of fusion so as to unite their forces against the Bryan ticket. The question of running electoral tickets for the gold demo- cracy is to be determined by each state, ac- cording to the iocal conditions. It ts thought that in most states the tickets will be put out, but in some, where It might hurt McKizley, they will not put up a ticket. J. P. M. ge IRISH NATIONAL CONVENTION. Am Effort to Secure Unity of Action and Aim t. ISU, by the Associated Prews.) . September 1.—The first session of the Irish national convention opened at neon today in Leinster Hall, which was well filled with delegates from Ireland and reat Britain as a rule, but the United States, Canada, Australia and South Africa are represented by a number of delegates. The convention was caleld to order promptly at noon by Mr. Justin McCarthy, M. P., who nominated the most Rev. Pat- rick O'Donneil. D.D.. bishop of Raphoe, for permanent chairman. The bishop was unanimously elected, as arranged last week, amid the wildest applause. Bishop O'Donnell then read a message from the pope. in which his holiness pray- ed that the Irish leaders might end their dissensions. The chairman then specially welcomed the delegates from the United States and Canada, and delivered an address ding for unity. —— AT SEA GIRT. able Work by the Marksmen rom the District. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. TATE CAMP. SEA GIRT, N. J., Sep- tember 1.—When the 200 yards stage of the regimental interstate match was con- cluded shortly after 1 o'clock Georgia's big team was somewhat ahead, its total being contributed by six men, ten shots per man. * Close fololwing is the District Engineer Corps. with 2 while the teams of the second and_first District of Columbia are nearly even, with 216 each. fm the company match the second team of company A, Engineer Corps, is to the frent with 207 points. The first team of the ting Company B, 6th Battalion, se- cured 19) at 20) yards. Company A of the 6th, 177; the Cycle Company, 155. In the carbine match the team from Trooy A ‘put up 211 points at both ranges. ‘The 500-yard work of Georgia and the Engineers will be most exciting, and is cer- tain te be witnessed by a big crowd of riflemen and visitors. Then will follow the skirmish, and that is where the match will he lost and won. ooo Transcontinental Relay Riders. SAN FRANCISCO, September 1.—The Ex- aminer-Journal relay courier arrived at Sutherland, Ne from’ Paxton, at 8:45 this morning. The total distance traversed {3 1,561 miles in six days, twenty hours, forty-five minutes, a loss of five hours and twenty minutes on schedule time. SHOOTIN me company get- ee SESE EEE EE EEE ATTEMPTED HER LIFE A Young Girl Today Takes' a Dose of Landa- num. Prompt Medical Attention ts Given and She is Deelared to Be Out of Danger. The usually quiet neighborhood in the vicinity of 4th and K streets southeast was somewhat aroused at 8 o'clock this morning, when the fifth precinct patrol wagon, with Sergeant Mulhall and two po- licemen, approached at a rapid pace and drew up in front of 1002 4th street, a one- story frame dwelling, with a neatly kept flower garden in the front yard. The po- licemen entered the house, and a few min- utes later reappeared, bearing on a stretch- er a young woman, who, from all appear- ances, was dead. The party entered the wagon and drove off at a gallop toward Providence Hospital. The report soon spread about the neigh- borhood that Minnie Crouse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Crouse, had ended her life by means of laudanum poisoning. The rumor was correct in that the young wo- ™man swallowed the drug with suicidal in- tent, but assistance promptly rendered soon brought her out of danger, and she will probably fully recover in a few days. The incident brings to light a decidedly interesting story. Minnie Crouse is twenty- two years of age. Her parents own a small truck garden farm just outside the city limits, which constitutes their means of livelihood. The produce raised on the farm is disposed of from a stand in the Center market, which is personally conducted by the parents of Minnie. They are in the habit of leaving their home at an early hour every morning, and spending the greater portion of the day looking after the market stand. For a long time past, so say those in a position to know, Minnie Crouse has been receiving the attentions of William Sipple, a son of John H. Sipple, a armaker, who Tesides at 408 L street southeast. Sipple is about thirty or thirty-two years of age, and, according to his own declarations, is a private detective. Sipple, it seems, has not been regarded with favor by Mrs. Crouse, the mother of Minnie, but has been on slightly better terms with the father. Mr. and Mrs. Crouse this morning, as usual, left at an early hour for their stand at the market. When they departed Minnie had rot awakened. Shortly after Ww o'clock, however, a small boy, supposed to be Sipples’ brother, called at the house and left a note written on a small scrap of pa- per for Minnie. This note stated that Will had made up his \d to leave the city, and in answer the girl wrote that if that was the case she would end her life at once. A few moments later Sipple hurried toward the house. The front door was locked, but on looking through the window he saw Minnie lying in bed. She said to him that he would find a note on the window sill. Sipple picked up a piece of paper which stated that his sweetheart had swallowed a dose of laudanum. Just as he glanced up again she fell back on the pillow, ap- parently unconscious. Sipple, after noting @ small bottle by the bed side, hastened 10 the drug store of Charles Hawkins, at the corner of 4th street and South Carolina avenue, a block away, and there purchased an antidote and requested the druggist to telephone and notify the police of the oc- currence. As stated, the patrol soon reached the house and the girl was taken to Providence Hospital, where the poison was pumped frcm her stomach and she was soon de- clared out of danger. Sipple aiso went to the hospital and there appeared greatly worried. Shortly af- ter, the girl’s clothing was sent for and it was expected tnat she would return to her heme today, although at the hospital it was stated that she would not be permitted to leave for several days at least. Up toa late hour this afternoon the parents of the girl had not visited the hospital. At the drug store mentioned a Star re- porter learned that no laudanum had been sold to Minnie Crouse, but that Wiil Sip- ple had been in the habit of purchasing the drug there, and August 19 he secured @ quantity. — NORTH CAROLIN. A’S PUZZLE. enator Pritchard is Hopeful of Re- publican Succes Spectal Correspondence of ‘The Evening Star. RALEIGH, N. C., August 30, 1896. Democratic State Chairman Manly said yesterday: “You know perfectly weli the Present state of affairs can’t continue. He declined to go further and explain. But it is In the air that there are startling po- litical changes just ahead. What the democrats desire is the division of electors. So, when a day or two ago they nominated an elector in the first district, they an- nounced that he was ready to come down So a populist could be put up, If that was thought the best way of advancing the in- terests of the cause of silver. The populist committee will probably meet soon. It is called upon to clear up the case as to the nominee for attorney general. The convention declined to in- derse Walser (republican), even though Senator Butler nominated and pressed him, but left that matter to the committee. Walser is for McKinley. So is Senator Pritchard. So are all the republicans, an4 they are all for gold. The populist state chairman, Ayer, said to The Star corre- spondent: “Say plainly that the populists do not indorse any man who favors the gold standard.” When his attention was called to the fact that it was stated In an address issued “by Gen. D. H. Abbott, chairman of the republican committee of the first district, that the populists there had indorsed Senator Pritchard, Ayer said: “You saw it published that the populists of the eighth district had indorsed R. Z. Lin- ney, republican, for Congress. Now what I desire to say is that it was not a regular populist convention which did this. It was only a gathering of people calling them- selves populists.” It is entirely reasonable to infer that the populists will repudiate both these so-called “indorsements. Republican Chairman Holton gives 000 as the official estimate of the party’ strength. Chairman Ayer’ will only give the populist figures as made up last April from returns from county chairmen—ts,- 000. Democratic Chairman. Manly, whose reticence is remarkable, declines to give out any figures at all. The populist candidate for governor de- clares positively that such a thing as the division of the electoral ticket with the democrats is now at an end, ‘and that the only thing to be done is to take down Sewall and put up Watson, so far as North Carolina is concerned. Chairman Butler's avowal of a desire that Sewall and Watson should both come down and that Walter Clark of this city should be put up as Bryan's running: mate, naturally aroused considerable interest here. It is no secret that Clark expected and greatly desired the nomination for the vice presidency at Chicago and he would be glad to be put up for the place now. There are a score of different views among democrats. Some are deeply re- gretful that entire fusion with the popu- lists was not arranged; others swear that had such fusion been arranged they would have religiously abstained from going near the polls. Many say they hope to see electoral fusion yet arranged. Some are willing: to see this extended further, to the congressional ticket. And there are those who say that the most important of all is fusion on the state ticket—to beat the re- publican nominee. All these desirers of fu- sion are really making a confession of weakness, that and nothing more. But any idea of such a thing as a state fusion seems at an end. Senator Pritchard, while here yesterday | on his return from Newbern, where he spoke, said he had been told the party was disorganized in the east, but found quite the contrary. He declares he never saw it more united. Chairman Holton, who was with the Senator, added: “You can say our People are in line. For some time we were a little at a loss what to do and worried about the silver question, but now, as I tell you, we are all in line.” “That is en- tirely true,” said Senator Pritchard. Gen. W. R. Cox is here and says the situation in the state is so puzzling he doesn’t know what to say. —_—— Suit Begun. Lily A. Godfrey today filed a bill in equity against Stephen Dutton and others to vacate title to lots 1, 2, 3 and 66, square 134, and lot 40, square 92. Attor- neys H. P. Blair and H. W. Garnett rep- resent the complainants. NOT WORRIED BY IT The Democrats and Silver Men Pooh-Pooh the Gold Convention. NO EXCITEMENT OVER INDIANAPOLIS Committeeman Richardson Says They Can't Carry a Precinct. BYNUM’S LARGE CLAIMS A wonderful amount of apparent indif- ference is manifested around political head- quarters here as to the convention of na- tional democrats which assembles at In- dianapolis tomorrow. If anything, the re- publicans are watching the movements of the gold Jemocrats with more real interest than the allied silver forces a block below on the same street. The leaders of the silver forces claim have discounted the defection of the gol democrats long ago. They say that when the Chicago convention declared for silver and nominated Bryan they knew there would be a bolt. They took all that into consideration when they acted. They al- lege that the movement has not been any larger or of any more importance or -power than they anticipated. It matters little to them, they assert, what is done. No ac- tion that is taken will affect their confi- dence in the result of the election. Effect on the South. The position of the republicans ts that they cannot bs hurt by the convention, and they do not know whether they can be helped to any great extent—that is, the beneficial results will not be general. The hope of the republicans is that some man will be nominated who will be acceptable to the large element of southern democrats believed to be backing up the new move- ment. There is a feeling among republican leaders that the right kind of a ticket at indianapolis might play havoc with the democratic party in a number of southern states, In Louisiana there is a wealthy and in- fluential faction of the democratic party which will support a strong nominee. In Florida there is almost the same kind of an element. If gold democratic electors could be put out in these states and in- dorsed by the republicans and other anti- silver elements, the expected result might be changed. Hints of Fusion. There are floating hints that in several states where the gold democrats have made @ good showing Chairman Hanna would be willing to advise the republicans to with- draw and support the gold democratic elec- tors, or fuse with them. It is hinted that he might do this in the two states named, |,28 well as in Texas, and probably in Ala- bama. Chairman Hanna {s well aware that the conditions are such that those states would not permit republican electors to be elected. Looking at it this way, he might agree to let the gold democrats run the whole thing, hoping that they would succeed. if such a plan could be put into opera- tion and should be successful, it would be in line with the belief of some of the silver leaders that the hope of the gold demo- crais is to hold the balance of power In the electoral college. The silver men look upon this as a remote possibility, but they have such notions in their heads. The claim of Representative Bynum that the gold democrats would carry Loulsiana, Florida, Texas and Kentucky may have been based on some idea of such a plan as has been outlined. At any rate, his claim has received attention. They Talk About It. It was in reference to Mr. Bynum’s claim that a Star reporter talked to some of the leaders at headquarters today. Secretary Mercer of the republican con- gressional ccmmittee said: “I have not given the matter enough thought to talk about it. I do know, however, that the romination of a man like Henry Watter- son might cut a big figure in several south- ern states. He is an old-time democrat, and the old-timers would fiock around him. He is popular and brainy; in fact, he {s one of the great men of the south at this day. Chairman Faulkner's Views. Chairman Faulkner looked upon the claims of Mr. Bynum as amusing, and said: “We will have not less than 100,000 majority in Texas. We will have from 25,000 to 40,000 in Louisiana. Florida will ge democratic by the usual majority. The same element which has always fought us in that state is doing so now, but will have no more success this time than before. We have received many additions in Flor- ida. In Kentucky we will have a hard firht, but as the question has resolve itself into McKinleyism or democracy, we have ‘absolute confidence even in Kentucky. The nomination of Mr. Watterson might add some votes to a gold ticket in that state. “Democrats are realizing every day that the movement of bolting democrats is in accordance with the judgment and views jof Mark Hanna, who is managing the cempaign for Major McKinley, and that a vote for a bolting democrat would be a half vote for McKinley. The impression is becoming strong that there {is not one leader in this independent bolting move- ment who will vote for his own nominee. The ticket will be put up simply to catch the unsuspecting and those whose stom- achs cannot stand McKinley.” Can’t Carry a Precinct. Representative Richardson said: “Why didn’t Mr. Bynum include Mississippi, Ten- nessee, Georgia and South Carolina in his claims? He could have done so with as much likelihood of his prediction proving true. As a matter of fact, I do not believe that the gold democrats can carry a voting precinct in this country. I do not call to mind one polling place they could carry. There is no interest in what the conven- tion does, anyway, any more than the in- terest which attaches to a gathering cf men in any section of the country.’” Lawrence Gardner Laughs. Secretary Gardner laughed in his jovial way at Mr. Bynum’s claims, and said the democrats were not worrying themselves about lesing any of the states named. “The people of the country will under- stand perfectly before the election,” he sald, “that the purpose of this whole thing is to elect McKinley. Therefore, it will not fool anybody. It is not the intention of that convention to nominate a man from patriotic motives. The whole thing is a political game in the interest of the republican candidate, and anybody can see through it.” Secretary Diffenderfer of the silver party said it was a matter of indifference to his party what the convention did. He did E expect to see Bryan defeated by any- thing done at the convention. The fight was too well understood and the lines too closely drawn for the gold democrats to make any impression or dig a hole in the democratic party. ‘There is as much chance for them to carry the mountains of the moon as there is tocarry a single state,” he said. Mercer's District. For a short time today Secretary Mercer of the republican congrcssional committee let his mind get off national politics and wander to his own district in Nebraska. Mr. Mercer received a telegram, saying that the silver element of his district had been unable to get together for fusion, and that several candidates for his place would probably be the result. Judge Gregory, an old-time republican, and a resident of Omaha, was nominated by the silver repub- licans. The democrats nominated Ignatius Dunn, a young Irishman of the same city. The populists have not decided what they will do, but if they put a candidate in the field that will make three. The prohibition- ists may follow. Mr. Mercer has never dcubted his election, but is more certain than ever, with so many candidates in the field. Representative Hull, who is doing hard work at the committee headquarters, want- ed to go to his home tonight, but Chair- man Babcock refused to part ‘with him at present, and he will remain here longer. Mr. Hull is not worried about his district, which has a normal republican majority of about 2,500. The combined silver forces in his district hi united upon Frank W. Evans, a free silver republican and a lec- turer well known in that state. Mr. Evans is also a prohibitionist. The Kentucky Outlook. Gen. P. Wat Hardin of Kentucky is ex- pected here this afternoon for a conference with Chairman Faulkner of the democratic Congressional committee and other demo- cratic managers.‘The object of Gen. Har- din’s visit ts not?atinounced, but it is said that the Kentucky situation {s not as pleas- ing to the democrats as is desired. They talk confidentially, but at the same time acknowledge t! they will have to fight hard to win in that state. Next to Sena- tor Blackburn, Gen.-Hardin is the idol of the sliver men Of that state, and is sup- posed to know the sftuation fully. His ad- vice is needed and will be given. West Virginin Work. Gen. C. C. Watts, the democratic nomi- nee for governor of West Virginia, accom- panied by Stewart W. Walker, nominee for attorncy general of the same state, was a visitor at democratic headquarters and talked with Chairman Faulkner for some time. They spoke confidently of dem- ocratic success in that state to all who made tnquirfes about the situation. Joseph Button, secretary of the democratic state committee of Virginia, was another caller. He has been put in charge of the organiza- tion of clubs in that state. Sam Small,who has been speaking for the democratic tick- et in Illinois, and who is booked for speeches throughout the country, reported to Chairman Faulkner his views of the sit- uation in Illinois. Populist Clubs. The organization of clubs bythe other Parties has started the populis:s along the same line, and Secretary Edgerton is today formulating a plan to begin the organiza- tion of clubs throughout the country, to be members of the ‘National Association of People’s Party Clubs,” and of which Mr. Edgerton himself will be at the head. The only organization anything like a club method. which has ever existed in the populist party, under ofilcial guidance and recognition, was the Industrial Legion, which had the approval of the party four years ago, but which was not approved at the last convention. Mr. Edgerton will send out an appeal to legions, alliances and labor organizations to unite under the new organization. ‘The plan for the organization will be sent to the populist state committees, wkich will appoint state organizers, and in this way the work will be done. The state committees will report to Mr. Edgerton. AGAIN PLAYING THE COLTS Throng at National Park to See the Ee Game The Chicago Boys Play a Splendid Game, With the Senators Right Up on Their Mettle. Another, large crowd assembled at Na- tional Park this afternoon to witness the third and fourth game between Chicago and Washington. It,being ladies’ day about 2,000 of the fair sex were present. Anson sent his new pitcher, Briggs, into the box, and Norton, although reported sick, was selected as the twirler for the Senators. In the first inning, for both sides, the play was “one, two, three and out.” Chicago got a man over the plate in the second in- ning. % Anson went to first base on balls with two out. McCormick, the next batter up, hit a long fly to Brown, who made a rank nuff, Anson coming all the way home. In the Senators’ half of the second inn- ing Brown made a beautiful two-bagger on right fleld foul line, but was thrown out at third trying to make three bases on the hit. In the fourth inning Anson and his colts went at Norton fn a véry business-like Manner. Anson went to first on a hit and Ryan walked to his base on balls. Pfeffer then came to the bat and made a beautiful three-baager on right field foul lin coring the two runners ahead of him. McCormick then followed, with a two-bag- ger to the right, scoring Pfeffer. MeCor- mick crossed the plate on Briggs’ single and Lush’s wild throw home from right. Briggs made a nice steal to third and scored on O'Brien's muff of a short hit to right field. The score at the end of the fourth inning was: Chicago, 6; Washing- ton, 0. In the fifth inning King took Nor- | ton’s place for the Washingtons. - > REPUBLICANS ARE SPLIT. Mr. Addicks of Delaware Says There Will Be No Compromise. Special Correspondence of ‘The Evening Star. WILMINGTON, Del., August 31, 1898. It 1s now almost certain that the repub- licans of Delaware will go into the com- ing campaign with an irreparable breach in their ranks. For several weeks past the national committec has heen negotiat- ing with the leaders of both the Addicks and anti-Addicks faction with a view of effecting a compromise on the electoral ticket, but their efforts to secure an ami- cable agreement between the waging fac- tions have proved fruitless. Chairman Stansbury J. Willey of the Addicks re- publican state central committee, accom- panied by Mr. Addicks and several other leaders of the Addicks faction, visited the national committee in New York this week and laid before them their side of the dis- pute, which has caused so much trouble i? Delaware in the last year. After listening intently to them for more than hour Chair- man Hanna asked Mr. Addicks if he would not be wi g to compromise a litle bit, but Mr. Addicks refused to yleld an inch, and the national committee was obliged to withhold a decision in the maiter until they could make a more careful investi- gation into the state of affairs existing down here. To make this investigation it is believed that certain members of the committee will come to Delaware and go over the situation carefully without the aid of either faction. Mr. Addicks, who aspires to a seat in the United States Senate from Delaware, is delighted with the situation. In an in- terview today, speaking of it, he said: “There will be no compromise of any kind. It will be a fight to a finish, and 1 am glad of it. The time has come when the ma- jority of the republicans of Delaware will say who will be thelr nominees, and who will be their leaders. The Higgins faction comprises but 4 per cent of the republicans of Delaware. The ticket med by my friends at Dover js the only regular re- Publican ticket in tho field, and it will stay there no matter which way the wind blows. The nationat.committee has heard our side of the question and I have no ap- prehensions that ft wf!! treat us unfairly. We propose to gd Irito this fight to win, and we have every réason to believe tha: we will carry Delaware this fall against the democrats and the Higgins republi- cans.” The Higgins” cee, republicans are preparing for a vigorous campaign against Addicks, They are just as;much ‘letermined to fight the thing out as Addicks and his friends, and although they fayor a compromise for the sake of saving the electoral ticket for McKinley, they are not disposed to ac- cept the terms which Addicks offered. > THE BRYAN: MEE’ ING, Meeting of the Committees Last Night to Arrange for It. The arrangements for the local Bryan ratification meeting, at which the candi- date will speak, are making slowly, but will be perfected by the time it arrives, it is said. A meeting of the committees hav- ing the matter in charge was held last night, but nothing definite in the way of a program was erranged. One of the questions discussed at the meeting was that of admittance to con- venticn hall. The committees look for a big audience, and they are in doubt as to how to handie it. One proposition has been made that half of the seats be filled by tickets and the other half by free admis- sion. Nothing was done, however. Meet- ings of the committee will be held fre- quently until all the details are arranged. SS An Alleged Libel Charged. George W. Haynes today, through Attor- neys’ Obear and Douglass, filed a suit against the Washington News Company and Walter C. Duff, manager, claiming $50,000 damages because of an alleged libel. | also about Pacific steamship affairs. GRATITUDE TO CHINA |WHY KANSAS SUFFERS An Address to Li Hung Chang by - Thirty Clergymen. PROTECTION OF ‘THE MISSIONARIES Violence Never Connived at and Often Prevented. a THE AMBASSADOR’S REPLY NEW YORK, September 1.—Li Hung Chang was presented with an address this morning by thirty ministers representing the Methodist Episcopal (north and sout), Baptist (north and south), Presbyterian (north and south), Congregational, Pro- testant Episcopal and Reformed churches. These churches maintain 733 missionaries in China, of which ninety-seven are medi- cal missionaries. The address to Earl Li was quite long. After reciting the fact that the American missionaries in China have always been granted just and even gencrous treatment by the impezial government of China, and expressing gratitude for this course, it concludes: “While we send missionaries to China we are not unmindful of our duty to those of your people who have come to cur own shores. They have in many Instances been rudely treated by certain classes amengst us, mostly immigrants from other lands, but our Christian people have uniformiy shown them kindness. They have been gathered into Sunday schools and evening schools; their rights have been defended in the courts and many times have depu- tations from missionary boards and other benevolent societies petitioned our govern- meut in the interest of just lesislation for the Chinese. Were you to visit our Pacific coast you would observe with interest the homes and refuges which, with the co-operation of the Chinese consul general, the Christian women of that coast have provided for un- fortunate Chinese girls, who have bee sold into the most debasing slavery. W believe that all these best impulses of phil- anthropy which lead our people to forget all divisions of nationality and of race, and to stretch out their arms in true brotherhood to your people, whether here or in China, are the direct fruits of the teachings of the divine founder of Chris- tianity. Having, through the trifluence of the Christian faith, received so rich an in- heritance of blessing, we feel constrained in gratitude to God to regard ourselves as debtors to all men. For this reason we strive to proclaim to all lands the know! edge of our divine teacher and only Savior, Jesus Christ. The Ambassador's Response. The ambassador responded at once as follows: “Gentlemen: It affords me great pleasure to acknowledge the grateful welcome to this country offered to me by you as the repre- sentatives of the various boards and so- cieties who have engaged in China in ex changing our ideas of the greatest of all truths which concern the immortal des- tinies of men. “In the name of my august master, the Emperor of China, I beg to tender to you his best thanks for your approval and ap- preciation for the protection afforded to the American missionaries in China. What we have done and how lietle we have done cn our part is nothing but the duties of our government: while the missionaries, as you have so ably expressed, have not sought for pecuniary gains at the hands of our people. They have not been secret emissaries of diplomatic schemes. Their la- bors have no politicai significance, and the last, but not least, if | might be permitted to add, tney have not interfered with or usurped thé rights of the territorial au- thorities. “In a philosophical point of view, as far as I have been able to appreciate, Chris- tianity does not differ far from Confucian- ism, as the golden rule is expressed in a positive form in one, while it is expressed in the negative form in the other. Loxi- cally speaking, whether these two forms | of expressing the same truth cover exactly the same ground or not I leave to the in- vestigation of those who have more philo- scphical tastes. “It is, at the present, enough to cox clude that there exists not much difference between the wise saying of the two great- est teachers, on the foundations of which the whole structure of the two systems of morals is built. “As for the material part of our consti- tution, your societies have started ho. pitals and dispensaries to save not only the souls but also the bod'es of our coun- trymen. I have also to add that in the time of famine in some of the provinces you have done your best to the greatest umber of the sufferers to keep their bodies and souls together. “Before I bring my reply to a conel I have only two things to mention. first, the opium smoking, being the est curse to the Chinese population, your societies have tried your best to eradizate and to stop the craving for the cpium. “I have to tender, in my own nami best thanks for your most effective prayers to God to spare my life when it was im- periled by the assassin’s bullet, and for ur most kind wishes you have just now s0 ably expressed in the interests of my sovereign, my country and people.” At the close of the formal address, the ambassador engaged in conversation with those present, asking many questions. He is suffering from a slight cold which he cavght several days ago. Other Callers. After the representatives of the missio: ary socleties left, a number of the callers were admitted to the viceroy’s presence. Among these were Collis P. Huntington, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lauterbach, the Rev. Dr. Inglehart and Col. John J. Mc- Cook and & party of ladies. Mr. Huntington came to invite the vice- roy to go to the Pacific coast over the Southern Pacific railway, and he tendered the use of his own private car. The vice- roy said that he regretted that he could not accept Mr. Huntington's invitation, but the route for his return had been laid out by the Chinese government before he came to America. ‘There was, however, a very interesting conversation’ between the viceroy and Mr. Huntington, which may possibly have im- portant results in the future. The ambassador questioned the railroad magnate regarding railroad matters, are e tried to impress the American with ihe op- portunities offering in China for developing the country through the construction of railways there, and pressed Mr. Hunting- ton to pay a visit to China and to become his guest there. At 2 o'clock Earl Li was the guest of the Merchants’ Club at luncheon. —>—_— TOOK HIS NAME IN SIBERIA, Fannie Schwietchnekoff Applies for an Divorce. Fannie Shvietchnekoff today petitioned for divorce from Clona Shwietchnekoff, to whom she was married in Iraktzk, Siberia, “in the month before Easter,” 1884. The wifo charges that her husband shortly after their marriage commenced to treat her with the greatest cruelty, and frequently fublicly abused her in the vilest and most indecent language. She also charges that he has deserted her on four different occa- sions, the last time taking, she says, about $400 of her earnings. She asks that alimony and counsel fees be allowed her, also the continued custody of their child, Minnie, and that her husband be enjoined from in any way annoying and harassing her and from visiting her mother’s home, 120 G streot southwest, where she is at present residing. Her counsel is Mr. Campbell Carrington. ——.+ Early Morning Fire. At 6:30 o'clock this morning fire broke out in a house in Cabbage alley, near 2d and H streets northeast, occupied by W. R. Lozckoter. The fire spread to the houses on both sides, No. 125, occupied by Mrs. Mary McGraw, and No. 129, occupied by John Pa:ker. No. 6 Engine Company re- sponded to the alarm of fire and extinguish- ed the blaze. The three houses were dam- aged to the amount of $1,500, partly in- sured. A Newspaper Tells What is Wrong With the State. Why the Population Has Not Increas- ed—Her Politics and Candi- dates Reviewed. From the Emporia Gazette. ‘Today the Kansas department of agri- culture sent cut a statcment which indi- cates that Kansas has gained less than 2,000 people in the last year. There are about 125,000 families in the state, and there were about 10,000 bab‘es born in Kansas, and yet so many people have left the state that the natural increase is cut dcwn to less than 2,000 ret. This has been going on for eight years. If there had been a high brick wall around the state eight years ago and not a soul had been admitted or permitted to leave, Kanaas would be half a million souls better off than she is today. And yet the Lution has increased in population. In five years 10,000,000 people have been added to the national population, yet imstead of gaining a share of this—say 500,000—Kansas bas apparently been a plague spot, and ir the very garden of the world has lost pop- ulation by the ten thousands every year. Not only has she lost population, but she has lost wealth. Every moneyed man the state who could get out without great loss has gone. Every month in every com- munity sces some one who hes a little money pick up and leave the state. This has been going on for eight years. Money ts being drained out all the time. In towns Where ten years ago there were three or feur or half a dozen money lending con- cerns stimulati.g industry by furnishing capital there is now noie or one or two that are looking after the interest and principal already outstand:ng. No ore brings any money into Kansas any more. What community knows over one or two men who have moved in with more than $5,000 in the last three years? And what community cannot cou:t half a score of men fn that time who have left, tdking all the money they could scrape to- gether? Yet the nation has grown rich. Other stutes have increased in population and wealth—other ne‘gkboring states. Missouri has gained nearly two million whlie Kansas has been Icsing half a million. Nebraska has gained in wealth and population while kansas has gone down hill. Colorado has gained in every way, while Kansas has lost in every way fince 188s. What is the matter with Kansas? There is no substartial city in the state. Every big town rave one has lost in popu- jon. Yet Kansas City, Omaha, Lincoln, Louis, Denver, Colorado Springs, 5 Galia, Des Moines, the cities of the Da- kotas, St. Paul and Minneapolis—all cities and towns in the west have stead!ly grown. fake up the government blue book and you will see that Kansas is virtually off the map. Two or three lttle scabby con- sular places in yellow fever stricken com- munities that do not aggregate $10,000 a year is all the recognition Kansas has. Nebraska draws about $100,000; little old North Dakota draws $< Oklahoma doubles Kansas; Missouri leaves her a thousand miles behind; Colorado is almost seven times than Kansas — the whole west is ahead of Kansas. Take it by any standard you please, Kan- sas is not in it. Go east, and you hear them laugh at Kan- sas, go west and they sneer at her, go south ard they ‘cuss’ her, go north and they have forgotten her, Go into any crowd of intelligent people gathered any- where on the globe and you will find the Kansas man on the defensive. The news- paper columns and magazine pages, once devoied to praise of the state, to boastful -ts and startling figures concerning her now are filled with cartoons, and Pefferian speeches. Kansas just naturally isn’t in the civilized world. She has traded places with Arkansaw and Tim- buctoo. What's the matter with Kansas? We all know; yet here we are at it again. We have an old moss-back Jacksonian, who snorts and howls because there is a bath tub in the state house; we are run- ning that old jay for governor. We have another shabby, wild-eyed, rattle-brained fanatic who has said openly in a dozen speeches that “the rights of the user are pare mount to the rights of the owner;” we are running him for chief justice, so that capital will come tumbling over itself to get into the state. We have raked the ash heap of human failure in the state and have found an old hoopskirt of a man who has failed as a business man, who has failed as an editor, who has failed as a preacher. and we are going to run him for Congress- man-at-large. He will help the looks of the Kansas delegation in Washington. Then we have discovered a kid without a law practice, and have decided to vote for him as attorney general. Then for fear some hint that the state had become respectable might percolate through the civilized por- tions of the nation, we have decided to send three o~ four harpies out lecturing, telling the people chat Kansas is raising hell and letting corn go to weeds. “Oh, this is a state to be proud of!” We are a people who can hold up our leads. What we reed here is less money, less capital, fewer white shirts and brains, fewer men with business judgment, and more of these fellows who bo: that they are “just ordinary old clodhoppers, but that they kaow more in a ute about finance than John Sherm We need more men who are “poste¢ low abcut th> crime of "73, who hate pos- terity, and who think that because a man believes in national honor that he is a tool of Wall strest. We have had a few of them, some 150,000, but we want more. We reed several thousand gibbering idiots to scream about the “Great Red Dragon” of Lombard street. We don’t need population we don't need wealth, we don't need well. dressed men on the streets, we don't need standing in the nation, we don't need cities on these fertile prairies; you bet we don't. What we are after is the money power. Because we have become poorer and ornier and meaner than a spavined, distemper2d mule, we, the people of Kansas, propose to Kick. We don’t eaxe to build up, we wish to tear down. “There are two ideas of sovernment,” said our noble Bryan at Chicago. “There are those who*believe that if you just leais, late to mgke the well-to-do prosper.us their prosperity will leak through on those below. The democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses pr perous their prosperity will find its way Up and through every and rest upon S. That’s the stuff. Give the S “ man the dickens, Legisiate the Wain into ease; whack the stuffing out of the creditors, and tell the debtor who borrowed money five years ago, when the money in circulation was more general than it te nou, that the contraction of the currency gives him a right to repudiate. pie boop it up for the raggea t he lazy, greasy tizzle, who « debts on an altar and bow down aba tis stip him. Let the state ‘deal be high, What Re need Is not the respect of our fellow rebut @ chance to get something for Oh, yes, Kansas is a great sta are people fleeing from it by the teor cry day, capital going out of the state by the hundreds of dcllars, and every industry except farming paralyzed, and that crip. pled because its products have to go across the ocean before they can find a laboring man at work who can afford to buy them: Let’s don’t stop this year. Let's drive all the decent, self-respecting men out of the state. Let’s keep the old clod-hoppers who know it all, Let's encourage the man who is He can talk, and what we need is not mill hands to eat our meat, nor factory hands to eat our wheat, nor cities to oppress the farmer by consuming i Lutter and eggs and chickens and produ: what Kensas needs is men who can talk, who have large leisure to argue the cur- rency question while their wives wait at Lome for that nickel’s worth of bluing. What's the matter with Kansas? Nothing under the shining sun. She is Icsing wealth, population and standing. She has got her statesmen, and the money pow- er is afraid of her. “Kansas is all right. She has started in to raise hell, as Mrs. Lease advised, and she seems to have an overproduction. But that doesn’t matter, Kansas never did believe in diversified who can bel- rousers; put crops. Kansas is all right. There is abso- lutely nothing wrong with Kansas. “Every prospect pleases and only man is vile.” +4 East Washington Democrats. The Eest Washington Democratic Club will meet. at Washington Hall this even- ing at 8 o’clock to reorganize for the cam- paign. FINANCE AND TRADE Depressing Effect of Fractional Oon- cessions Al RISE IN SUGAR CAUSES SELLING es Politics Loses Its Importance as a Factor for Awhile. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, September 1.—Fractional concessions ‘m the London market resulted in an irregular opening on this side, with similar concessions predominating. ‘The selling of St. Paui for foreign account at- tracted the usual sales by the room, but neither the volume of business nor the extent of the fluctuations was significant. The engagement of $1,000,000 «old for im- port, bringing the total up to $19,700,000, exerted the customary influence for good. A subsequent advance of % per cent im posted rates of exchange was followed by moderate selling and inconsequential de- chines, Nashville and Ballimore and Ohio were conspicuously weak at times on moderate dealings. The failure ef the former to respond to the improvement of the last few days had been previously commented upon by traders who became aggressive to- day, largely as the result of this mysterious action. The latter property declined 2% per cent, and was almost totally lacking in Support, except such as came from the short interest. American Sugar was marked up during the opening hour to 109, u gain of 14 per cent from the low level of August. At this price sales for both accounts were en- countered, resulting in a reaction of 1 per cent. The Interests in charge of the up- ward movement were again noted as buy- «rs at the decline. Manhattan's statement for the year end- ing June 3, submitted today, reflects a deticit, after charges, of $681,903, as com- pared with a deficit of $279,052 one year ago. This showing was not unexpected and had almost no influence on the price of the stock, a gain of 1 per cent being re- corded from opening figures after its pub- lication. A change in the present dividend disbursements would seemingly be war- ranted by such an exhibit of decreasing revenue, but the character of recent buying precludes the probabilities of such a change. Action on this subject is expected about the middle of the month, bul, as frequently happens in such cases, the action of the stock prior to that time may give an ink- ling of the outcome. The reports submit- ted by several of the smaller properties re- flect the general business depression in a lesser degree. Call money rates again the greater part of the day 8 per cent. The loan market is carefully watched at all times, but no indications of unfavorable developments are reported. fluctuated, for . between 6 and The market relapsed into dullness, its normal state for the Ume being, but was well sustained during the final hour. In the absence of new monetary complica- tions, traders are disposed to favor quick operations, for a turn, in the long account Politics has given way to matters of more immediate concern of late, but are expect- +d to become a factor during the balance of the week. Outside interest is not arous- ed by the sentimental improvement now in progress, and the professional interchang- ing of s-curities, which hax passed for a stock market, will continue indefinitely. A decline in money rates well below the legal cate was the most important develop- ment of the final hour. The gold move- ment is ¢ aged in exact proportion to the encour: ¢ a decline. nent of the borrower by such —— 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 reported by Corson & Macariney, mbers New York stock exchange. "Correspondents, Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Broadway. Close. American American $ Bay State Gas Canada Southern. 44! ”* Canada aH 5 a wc . “ ‘hesapeake & On! 18) 131 = & St. Louis . a ed 0. Be Qu... 60 Gly Chicago & Northwestern 5 5K Chicago 5 SK BX CM. & St. Pani, Oy 6B Cc. M, & St. Pani. P1 epaer os Chicago. R. 1. & Pac: Sy BOW Jensolidated M1 Mi 130 160y ~ wy, American Spirits. 5 SS gi J w 2 fal Electric 2g cra TY pis Central eons » ~ sone clide Gas. 19° 19g “Big Lake Shore. “1 i Mi tat L 4040 Bay BER etropolitan Trac a a Mt Manhattan Elevated. Michigan Cen Missouri Pacisic tional Lead € tional Lead © ew Jersey Centr: w York Centra? jorthern Pactti rthern Pa rth America & Western. cite Mail... Phila. & Readin, Pullman P. ©. Co. Pra val ng& 1. 5 Western Union Tel, Sliver Grain and Cotton Markets, Furn:shed by W. B. Hibbs & Co., 1421 F street, members New York stock exchange, correspondents Messrs. Ladenburg, Thal mann & Co., New York. GRAIN, Close Dec BSty se 6 der 21 May ae Oats— Dee. 1 Ma: Pork—Jan. Lard-Jan. 3 Ribs Jan. 3 3.47 COTTON. High Close. SIs Sz 8.05, 8.05, 8.18 8.20 Baltimore Mark: BALTIMORE changed rece barr % month, “61261! amor xports, 000 bushels do. on grads pts. none: "stock, BIS bushels. “May weak Uigothe, $14 ad: freights firm, unchanged ar, butter, cer and cheer, firm, onchanged. Wokdky us: ABDICATE. ie of ltaly. LONDON, September 1.—A special dis- patch received here from Rome says that it us rumored there that King Humbert will announce bh abdication after the mar- riage of the Prince of Naples, the heir ap- parent, to Princess Helene of Montenegro which Is likely to take place early in No vember. Reported Purp: the King of