Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1896, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. _ BE, by The Evening Star New mn] SH RAUPFMANN Pret." Now York Office, 49 Potter Building. ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers in the eity by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents f week, or 44 cents per month. les at the Binley Sect ck Sy metab ts inited States or Caunda—postage pi cents per month. Saturday Quintuple Sheet, Star, $1 per year, with foreign postage a e (Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. 0., as second-class mail matter.) 7 All mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. Rates of advertising made known on application. Che ve a gq Star. No 13,594. WASHINGTON, D. C SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1896-—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES TWO CENTS. If you want today’s news today you can find it only in The Star. NO APPEAL TO CLASS McKinley Deprecates the Stirring Up of Popular Passion. “THE PRIVILEGE OF EVERY MAN 0 RISE a Address to Commercial Travelers From Peoria, Ill. GREETED WITH CHEERS ge . Ohio, September 26.—Leaving Peoria, Ill, at 2 o'clock yesterday after- noon, a special train bearing several hun- @red commercial travelers from that sec- tion reached Canton at 9 o'clock this morn ing. The men were uniformed in light-col- ored linen dusters and black silk hats, and each carried a large bunch of red, white and blue plumes. They went direct to the McKinley residence, where they were pre- sented by J. V. Graff, Congressman of the fourteenth Illinois district. Major McKin- ley responded as follows: “Congressman Graff and my Fellow Citi- zens: 1 am glad to greet at my home the Traveling Men’s Republican Club of the ity of Peoria. I cannot refrain from con- ilating you at this time upon the splendid victory which you achieved two years ago in electing your present Con- gressman, and turning a strong democratic majority into an overwhelmmg republican wajority. (Great plause and cries of “We will do it agai Pleasant Words About NHnois. And I am glad to hear from so many volces about me that it is your purpose to do it again. I congratulate you upon the thriving city and glorious state in which you live. Illinols is now by the census the third state in population in the American Union. It has taken the place of Ohio, but I have always belleved that you took your census while Ohio was visiting your great metropolis getting ready for the world’s fair. (Great laughter and cries of “Hurrah for McKinley.) “I congratulate you most heartily upon the rank Illinois has taken in popuiation in also the rank she has taken in esmanship. It comes to few states to have furnished to this Union the grand men you have furnished—Yates and Ogles- by, and that splendid soldier, patriot and statesman, John A. Logan (great applause), and that noblest of democrats, Stephen A. Douglas, who loved his country far more than he loved his party, and gave the wnele weight of his mighty influence to Mr. Lin- coin in the crucial period in the history of the republic. (Great applause.) And no man can think of your great state without recalling that you furnished to mankind and the ages Abraham Lincoln, the great- est statesman of this country or any other in the world’s history (tremendous ch irg), and Gea. Ulysses S. Grant, the first “captain of the republic. (Renewed cheer- ire.) “When Abraham Lincoln {ssued his im- mortal proclamation of liberty the whole world knew that what Lincoln had decreed Grant would execute with the thunder of his artillery. (Great applause and cries “Good, good.) [I am glad to know that your prospects are so good for a splendid victory in Illinois this year. (Tremendous cheering and cries of ‘We will give Mc- Kinley 150,000.) “What a spectacle, my fellow-citizens, to the world is this government of seventy millions of free people, governed by them- selves and governing themselves, chang- ing their chief executive every four years and thelr law-making power every two years, if it be their will so to do, and the government going on without halt or in- terruption, working out what seventy mii- lions of people from time to time believe will subcerve their highest destiny. More than one hundred and twenty years have ed since the government was founded, and in every trial of our 2 have demonstrated our capacity ment, and shown to all mankind the and ‘advantages of the gi (Great applause and crics ot “Now and then use t republic. That's righ in our popular elections we may have been swayed by pa: or moved by the demagogue from our moor- ings, but the American people are not fooled but once on a subject (great che Ing), for when once deceived they never follow the deceiver the second time. (Re- newed cheering and cries of ‘Right.’) I have known,-so have you, times in our history when the majority of the people were made to believe that certain policies would serve their best interests, and wien it transpired that they did not, they swiftly turned upon the party which deceived them and turned it out of power. (Cries of “Good, good.") Judgment of the People. “And they will do it again. The judg- ment of the people is swift and terrible egainst those who mislead and delude them. The people are never led astray by deceit or misrepresentation when they in- vestigate for themselves. This they are doing this year in a marked degree. It is of no avail thet party leaders appeal to passion when the people are alive to their wn and the public interests. It will not do to say to the men who are poor in th’ gcods, ‘You must get off by your- form a class of your own; your i are opposed to those who employ That is not enough this year. The pocr man inquires: ‘What good will that do me, how will that better my condition, how will that bring bread to my family and cheer to my children? Will I be bene- fited by despoiling my employer? Will 1t give me more employment and better wiges to strike down those whose money fs invested in preductive enterprises, which give me work and wages?” “Four years ago it was said that the man- ufacturer was making too much money. You remember it. But !t cannot be said now (cries of “No, no.) And that the rob- ber tariff which was enriching him must be turned up, rovt and branch, to the end that he should be deprived of what some pecple are pleased to call his ‘tll-got- ten profits.” Effect of Tariff Legislation. “The country seemed to share in the sug- gestion, and the trial was entered upon. with what result every manufacturer, com- mercial man, traveling man or working- Iran best knows. It has been discovered to our hurt and sorrow, that you cannot {njure the manufacturer without injuring the laborer. (Applause.) It has been found, too, that you cannot injure the manufacturer without injuring the whole business of the country. (Cries of “That's right.”) You may close the shops by ad- verse tariffs because you imagine the manufacturer is making too much, but with that done you close the door of em- picyment in the face of the laborer, whose only capital is his labor. (Great cheering.) You cannot punish the one without pun- ishing the other, and our policy would not inflict the slightest injury upon either. {Applause and cries of “That's right “In such a case ‘getting off together’ does pot do either any good. Arraying labor against capital is a public calamity and an irreparable injury to both. Class appeals are dishonest and dishonorable. They cal- culate to separate those who should be united, for our economic interests are com- mon and indivisible. ‘The Duty of Every Man. “Rather, my fellow citizens, teach the doctrine that it is the duty and privilege of every man to rise. That with honest in- dustry he can advance himself to the best place in the shop, the store, the counting house or in the learned professions. This is the doctrine of equality and opportunity that is woven in every fiber of our natural being; a doctrine which has enabled the poorest boy with the humblest surround- ings to reach the best place in our great industries and in the highest trusts which can be bestowed by a generous people. “Gentlemen (and I speak to my country- men everywhere), if you have not your- selves been among the most fortunate, I pray you think of your boys and girls, and place no obstacles in their pathway to the realization of every lofty and honorable ambition which they may have. (Great ap- plause.) I pray God that the burdens of class may never be imposed upon American manhood (applause), and American woman- hood. (Renewed applause.) Now, my fel- low citizens, thanking you most heartily for this call and for the gracious message delivered to me in your behalf by your spokesman, it will give me pleasure to meet and greet each one of you personally.” (Great cheering.) ——— MR. WARNER DECLINES. Thinks No Good Would Result From a Debate With Mr. Hutchins. Mr. B. H. Warner today wrote the fol- lowing letter to Mr. Stilson Hutchins declining .he latter's proposition to a joint debate on the subject of free silver: KENSINGTON, Md., September 26, 1806. Hon. Stilson Hutchins, Washington, D. C. My Dear Mr. Hutchins: When I saw you day before yesterday I indicated that 1 would accept your position for the Joint debate on the question of the free and unlimited coinage of gold and sil- ver. Since that time, however, many of my warmest personal friends have advised me not to enter into such an enterprise for reasons which ccmmend themselves to my judgment. The District of Columbia was intended to be non-political ground so far as the contest of political parties ts concerned, and a joint debate of the char- acter suggested would not largely instruot the voters of either party and would, 1 am sure, lead to increasing the agitation now uppermost in the minds of the peo- ple and add to an already excited public feeling. No great good would be accom- plished. I am, therefore, constrained not to accept the proposition made by you. My long acquaintance with you and knowledge of your political preferences and associations would never have led me to suppose for one moment that you could be a tme and faithful bellever of what is denominated as the sound money standard, but rather that you would be a leader of the forces so vehemently bat- tling for the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Your declaration, therefore, a3 to your former position and subsequent change of heart came as a surprise to me, as well as the compliment conveyed in your desire to be placed in possession of my views in so public a manner. I am glad to learn, however, that you are still seeking light on the financial preblem, and although it may not be my privilege to even attempt to reconvert you, yet I take pleasure in commending you to a careful study of the patriotic senti- ments imparted by the leading statesmen of our country, irrespective of party, from its formation down to the present time. You are mistaken in suggesting that 1 am president of the Sound Money Club. I have not the honor to be a member of that body. although I am glad to indorse any organization which has for its object the preservation of what has hither.o been regarded as the best medium of exchange and measure of value. Yours, very truly, B. H. ee A RATIFICATION WITH REED. WARNER. The Speaker Will Probably Come to Washington in October. From present indications the coming rat- {fication meeting to be held here under the auspices of the National Union Republican Club, In which all other republican organ- izations in the city and nearby Maryland and Virginia will participate, will be an event of important consequence. At a meeting of the executive committee of the club yesterday afternoon, which was pre- sided over by Mr. Simon Wolf, the prelimi- nary arrangements for the affair were dis- cussed. The chief address of the occasion will be made by Speaker Reed, and among other speakers will be Congressman John K. Cowen, the receiver of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and Senator-elect Wel- lington of Maryland. There will be an- other meeting of the executive committee at room 20, McGill building, next Monday, at which a report will be drawn up to be submitted to the general meeting of the club, which will take place at Willard Hall next Thursday night. The date of the ratification meeting will be decided when it is known exactly when Speaker Reed will be in Washington. As is well known, Mr. Reed was recently chosen the referee of the Life Insurance Association, which is composed of all the great life insurance companies in this country. The convention of the Life Un- derwriters’ Association of the United States will be held in Washington October 7, § and 9 next, and it is almost certain that Speak- er Reed will be in attendance. There will be 300 or 400 delegates to the gathering, who will make their headquarters at the Arlington Hotel, where a bane -t will be held on the night of October ¢. It is high- ly probable, therefore, that in case Mr. Reed comes to the convention that the rati- fication meeting will take place either Oc- tober 8 oc 9. President Simon Wolf has written to Mr. Reed in regard to the matter and a reply is expected by Monday. ——. iH MAJ. MEADE. To Alleged Discourtesy to the Acting Commandant of the Marine Corps. The Navy Department is considering the form of punishment to be Imposed in the case of Major R. L. Meade of the marine corps, commanding the marine barracks at Boston, for alleged official discourtesy to Major George C. Reld, also of the ma- rine corps, while the latter officer was acting commandant of the corns, with station at Waskington, during the tem- porary absence of Col. Charles Heywood, the colonel commandant. According to the story told at the department, the acting commandant ordered Major Meade to dis- charge a marine of his command, and Meade declined to recognize the order, on the ground that Reid, being his junior, had no right to issue it. It is said that the de- partment officials hold that Major Meade has committed a serious infraction of the regulations, and that he will either be reprimanded in general orders or court- martialed. - EDITORIALLY DENIED. The Financial News Again Repu- diates the “Grip of Gold” Article. The latest contribution to the discussion over the authenticity of the alleged article in the London Financial News, concerning the effects of free silver in the United States, is the .following from the edi- terial columns of the London Financial News of September 14 last, a copy of which has come to The Star: “In our issue of August 13 we todk occa- sion to refer to the circulation in the Amer- ican newspapers of an article, entitled ‘The Grip of Gold,’ purporting to be an extract from the Financial News of March 10, 1898, and we stated that no such article had ever appeared in this journal. As certain‘ American newspapers continue to reprint this article, crediting it to the Financial News, we have again to warn our readers and our American contemporaries that it is a forgery, and its whole tenor ts entirely opposed to the view we have always taken of the effect of free silver legislation in the United Staes.” THACHERSTEPSDOWN Will Not Be the Democratic Candidate in New York. HE WANTED TO RUN ON LOCAL ISSUES Unwilling to Stand on a Free Sil- ver Platform. ————EE WILL STICK TO THE PARTY ——— ALBANY, N. Y., September 26.—John Boyd Thacher has declined the democratic nomination for governor of New York. This was the day set for the visit to Mr. Thacher by the committee of five, appoint- ed at the meeting of the state democratic committee on Tuesday, to officially notify him of his nomination; but, in advance of their coming, he gave out a letter announc- ing his declination. At the outset of this statement Mr. Thacher made acknowl- edgment of the honor which the nomination implied, and in the next sentence said that he was constrained to decline it. He said: “I was away from Albany and at my country home during the convention, and I did not learn of my nomination until after 5 o’clock Thursday evening (Septeza- ber 17). It was not until 9 o'clock that night that I had an opportunity to learn the character of the platform adopted by the convention. There had never been sub- mitted to me a press copy, a manuscript copy or any other copy of the proposed platform. If any one had been intrusted with the duty of presenting such a copy— the trust had not been fulfilled. I had no reason to expect, after the convention at Saratoga, and after the attitude of the delegates from New York in the national convention, that the next convention would commit the democratic party unreservedly to all parts of the Chicago platform.” Mr. Thacher then recounted the facts of his now famous letter to the state commit- tee, and summarized the contents of that communication. Eager to Fight Bossism. “While,” Mr. Thacher continued, “I had not sought the nomination or requested a single delegate to give me his support, I was willing and eager to contend against that system of ‘bossism’ which is teday in control of the public affairs of the state of New York. I was prepared to organize the democratic party from one end of the state to the other on a line of battle against that system, and to wage an unremitting and igorous warfare. I believed that municipal and other reforms in which the people are interested could not be obtained until the administration had been wrenched from the hands of the political boss. I be- Heved that the people would be with us on that issue. “It has developed, in the consideration of the resolution by which the state commit- tee appointed your committee, as well as in the public press and other public and private communications, that there is a very decided desire on the part of the dem- ocratie party to contest the election on the abstract question of the unlimited coinage ot silver at the unalterable ratio of 16 to 1 as compared with gold, and to ignbre or to subordinate every other state issue. It is apparently the purpose of the party at this time to make the acceptance of an extremely political sentiment the sole test of a candidate’s democracy. It does not seem to be enough that men are willing to support the regular candidate of the reg- ular democratic party, but they are re- quired to subscribe to every letter and phrase of the platform. Declares Himself a Bimetallist. “It is impossible for me, with the views I hold, to make a contest on the coinage issue. I believe in the good old democratic doctrine of the joint free and equal use of gold and silver. This doctrine is as far removed from the single use of gold, which enables speculators to juggle with its value, as it is from that other principle which seeks to establish an impossible ratio for its sister metal. Therefore, enter- taining the views I do, and now thorough- ly impressed with the belief that the party will consent to make the contest only or primarily upon the silver issue, I feel that as an honorable man I should make Way for some one who can carry the banner with that device. “There seems no place in the democratic party today for conservatism. Men are divided into two classes, each entertaining views exceedingly intolerable of the other. ‘The history of legislation is that con- servatism in the end prevails. I believe that the democratic party, when it ap- proaches the responsibility’ of legislation, will be true to itself and to the people. No Sympathy With Deserters. “The strength of the democratic party is its weakness. It1s the party of the peo- ple. It stands with sympathetic arms, welcoming the oppressed, the weak, the distressed, and promising them comfort and relief. It is natural that mischievous and destroying elements should clothe themselves in the garments of honest dis- tress, and seek to shelter themselves with- in those arms and to conduct from that refuge their predatory ratds. What the democratic party needs is a wise, fearless and powerful organization, which will re- spond to every beat of the popular heart, but which will regulate the entrance of the wicked and perverse. This organization will not come from outside, but from in- side, the party. I have no sympathy with those who desert the party now, in its hour of need. “Every demccrat who believes that the party is cr can be made an instrument of gcod should stay within its ranks and by ccursel and example endeavor to build it up and make it strong. My party can demand of me no honorable sacrifice I will not make. It can ask of me no duty I will not perform. My best usefulness now will be humbly to remain within its ranks and give such powers as I posscss to strength- ening its pillars and establishing its bul- warks, The probable outcome of Mr. Thacher’s declinaticn will be the indorsement by a branch of the regular democracy of Dan- iel G. Griffin, on state issues, and the in- dorsement of a populistic candidate by the silver men in tHe state. It is belleved that this Is satisfactory to Mr. Hill. Tammany Hall, however, may insist upon its own candidate, and at the state com: mittee mecting on Monday night they ma; fight for promotion of Judge Porter to first place ard Eliiott Danforth to second. It is absolutely denied that Mr. Bryan wrote any letter to Mr. Thacher asking his withdrawal, nor has he intimated to any- body such a desire. The story was made out of whole cloth. Mr. Bryan Alleged Order. From the New York Sun. The popvlists who are running things at the Hotel Bartholdi said last night that they were convinced that today’s events at Albany would demonstrate who was the bigger man in the situation in this state, Cardidate William Jennings Bryan or Sen- ator Devid B. Hill. Chairman Bernard J. York of Brooklyn of the special committee appointed by the state committee to notify. John Boyd Thacher of his nomination for governor will carry out the behests of the commit- tee in the Kenmore Hotel at Albany at noon today. Mr. York’s associates on the special committee, including, Senator Thomas F. Grady, will start for Albany this morning. Chairman York carries with him the com- of a positive character. , Candidate Bryan commands that Mr. Thacher shall retire as the candidate for governor. Candidate Bryan had a long conference with Mr. York in Brocklyn on Wednesday night, and Mr. Bryan then told Mr. York that Mr. Thacher must get off the ticket. Mr. York listened attentively to the commands of Mr. Bryan, and said that he would con- vey the message to Mr, Thacher at Al- bary. Senator Hill was immediately in- formed of the commands of Mr. Bryan, and Senator Hill and Mr. Thacher have been in communication with each other. ee CHAIRMAN BABCOCK He is in New York Oonferring With Na- ; tional Chairman Hanna. News Received From Several States Give Encouragement at Repub- lican Headquarters. Chairman Babcock of the republican con- gressional committee is in New York today in conference with National Chairman Hanna. He will return tonight or to- morrow. One of the callers at republican head- quarters today was Mr. A. E. Holton, chairman of the republican state executive committee of North Carolina. He had a talk with Secretary Mercer of the com- mittee and afterward with a Star reporter. “The republicans will get four Congress- men out of North Carolina as a result of the fusion deal made with thg populists,” said Mr. Holton. “The populists will get the other five. We have also made a fusion upon the state, county and township tick- ets with the populists. “The democrats and the populists have fused upon the electoral ticket, but I do not think ft will be successful. Each side will cut the other. The democrats and populists of North Carolina are too far apart upon political subjects, and there has been too much personal feeling arising out of the abuse of each other, ever to get together in the way proposed. Sewall is intensely obnoxious to the populista, too. I think therefore that we stand a chance of getting the electoral ticket also.” From Other Stat A letter was received at republican head- quarters today from Baltimore, inclosing a letter written by an eastern man, who is traveling in the west on. bustmess, and who writes as follows fram Albuquerque, N. M.: “Everything is moving, especially the free silver question. I do not have much to say on the question (never did), but I think there will be more McKirley votes even in Colorado than’ anyoody looks for.” 3 W._E. Wherter, writing, from Yosem- ite, Ky., for republican campaign ‘iter- ature, says that the town has a McKiniey Club of 300 members. Chairman Babcock recsived informatton yesterday that the, national vommitte> at New York had established a Darsh-Nor- wegian departinent in the foreign bureau, which ts in charge of a number of promi- nent Scandinavian ‘writers gnd managers, who will devote thelr entire attention to the spread of repubiican Aoetrines among their countrymen in all parts of ze United States. Vice Chairman Apsley Coming Back. Vice Chairman Apsiey writes to republi- can headquarters that he will spend sev- eral days in Washington next week and will take up his permanent location here on the 15th of October to remain until the close of the campaign. D. H. Zepp, an attorney at Nokomis, IIl., writes republican headquarters; “This part of Illinois will give an increased republican majority. We are gaining as the weeks go by.”" Rev. B. A. McDonald of Hyattsville, Md., write: I believe everything is working for the good of the party in my state. Mr. Mudd will carry this district by 2 jority and consequently the state will be safe for McKinley and souhd money. Mr. J. I. Barick, writing from Keyser, W. Va., says: “Our county (Mineral) is now well organized, and we find our republicans in line; also find that sound money dem- ocrats are developing considerable strength since the nomination of the sound money ticket. Bryan will cut no ice with this or adjoining county.” A correspondent writes that arrange- ments are under way Yor an excursion from the valley of Virginia, the old south legion of democracy, to Canton, Odio, to visit Maj. McKinley, numbering 1,200 people, the ma- Jerity of whom will be ex-cunfederate: The excursion is gotten up by Charles I. Holtzman, chairman of the Page county r publican committee, and Rev.A.Paul Funk- heuser of Harrisonburg, Va. The execur- sion is from the seventh congressional dis- trict, in which R, J. Walker ts the republi- can candidate. Suppressed Republican Literature. Advices received at republican headquar- ters from many parts of Virginia tell of agsaults and other indignities visited upon prominent members of the party who have been speaking in certain sections of the state. Charges have been made against the postmaster at Jonesville, that he has sup- pressed republican campaign literature Fessing through his official hands. On Monday last the postmaster made an as- séult on the man who had made the co! plaint, and charges have-been filed agains: him with the Postmaster General that he has threatened bodily violence against the amanuensis of the complainant, who had written the letter. A correspondent in Virginia, writing to Chairman Babcock, referring to threats made by leading democrats and intimida- tions used against republicans who will not support their candidate, says: “They never fail to resort to intimidation and violence when {t will serve their purpose. Gen. J. W. Walker addressed a meeting here yes- terday. About 300 republicans assembicd, but about twenty armed democrats, filled with mean whisky, almost broke up the -meeting, threiteaed Gen. Walker with per- sonal violence, cursed him awd one of them struck or punched him witha stick. The postmaster at Jonesville is setting them an example by assaulting citizens who expose the irregularities of his office.” SS ee Personal Mention, ; Lieuts. Alex. Sharp, jr., F. E. Beatty and John O. Nicholson and Assistant Surgeon Frank C. Cook are registered at the Navy Department. Capt. W. W. Gray, medical department, is at the Ebbitt Housé. Rev. Edgerton R. Yoting of Toronto, Canada, is in the city. He is widely known as a missionary and traveler and during the recent Christian Endeavor convention wes one of the speakers in the tents. He in- tends to deliver a lecture during iis stay here, descriptive of his thrilling experi- ences in the land of the Eskimo. Mr. Henry W. Samson hgs returned from Philadelphia. = Commander Joshua Bish§p, Untied States navy, who his been‘ con@ned for several weeks to his home with § serious illness, is slowly convalescing, = Police Officer Lyda of the White House, who has been ill for the past eight weeks, has been taken to Mrs. %yda’s old home in Rhode Island, where it 1s hoped he will regain his health. His wife will join him later. Mr. W. M. Walker, who has filled the position of cashier at the Mountain House, Cresson Springs, Pa. for several seasons past, has returned to the city and resumed his duties as chief clerk of tae Hotel Re- gent. Mr, Edward L. Reckard, chief clerk of the dead letter office, left Washington to- mands of Candidate Bryan, and they are.| day for New York-on his vacation. THREE LIVES LOST Little Children Perished in a Blazing Building. CAUGHT IN AN UPPER STORY Disastrous Morning Fire in the Neighborhood of Brookland. PITIFUL SCENES eg This morning about $ o'clock fire destroy- ed a house a short distance to the north- east of the Catholic University. Three lit- tle children lost their lives in the flames. The dead are: Gussie Dgdson, four years of age. Mary Dodson, aged two years six months. Baby Dodson, a girl, seven months old. It was a few minutes before § o'clock when smoke was first seen pouring out of the house, and the neighbors were startled by the alarm of fire. An hour and a half later there was nothing left of a once cozy and comfortable little homé but a few feet of foundation walls and a brick chimney. The house was located a bundred yards east of the tracks of the Metropolitan branch, and about a third of a mile north of University station. It was in a slight depression, and was partially hidden away under some fine old trees. Near by ran a small stream which had its origin in a spring only a few steps from the house. The house was built many years ago, and was of brick and fra two stories and a half in height, and with a brick chimney on the outside. It was small, and with AM That Was Left. only two rooms on a floor, but for years it has been the home of a hard-working and respected family of colored people. . ‘The head of the family now is Mrs. Car- rie E. Dodson, an intelligent young colored woman, who its employed as a house ser- vant by Professor Robinson, who holds th: chair of law at the Catholic University, and whose house is situated just inside the university grounds. Her mother, Mary Lewis, formerly lived at the house with her ddughter, but recently has been out at ser- vicejin the city. The only other occupants of The house Were Samuel G. Greely, a young colored man, the brother of Mrs. Dodson, and Charles Timbrocke, who boarded with them. Mrs. Dodson had but the three children. She was a widow, her husband having been killed by an electric car about a year ago. She has worked hard to support them, and has earned and kept the good will of all her neighbors. Her brother is employed in a terra cotta factory not far from the house, and he, too, bears an excellent reputation in the neighborhood. At an early hour this morning Mrs. Dod- son and her brother started cut for their respective places of employment. The mother left her three children sound asleep in one of the bed rooms on the second floor. On the floor below Timbrooke was asleep, and they did not waken him when they went out. There were no sounds of life about the little house down in the hollow, and the neighbors supposed that all was as it should be about the place. On the east and distant about 100 yards is the home of L. D. Means, who owns the property on which the Dodson house stood. A little farther away on the other side of the rail- road tracks is the house of Mr. and Mrs. Deale, whose son, Charles, is an athletic young man, a bricklayer by trade. House on Fire. Charles Deale was the first to notice that the Dodson house was on fire. He came out on the porch after breakfast, and chancing to look that way, saw smoke coming from the roof of the little house. He hurried over as fast as he could, but when he reached the spot the house was in flames, and he saw at once that there was no hope of saving it. The front door was wide open and he rushed in. He found Timbrooke asleep on the floor. The colored man was so sound asleep that it was not until he had kicked him a couple of times in the ribs that Deale could arouse him. There were no sounds from the upper por- tion of the house, and Deale was not sure whether or not there was anybody there, and the colored man was too thoroughly frightened to be of any assistance, so to make sure Deale attempted to make his way up the narrow staircase leading to the second story. At the top he was met by a blinding cloud of smoke and flame, and it was with difficulty that he succeeded in making good his own escape. At that time the fire was confined entirely to the upper floor, but owing to the lack of water cr engines it was impossible to combat the flames. Fighting the Flames. Among the first to reach the spot was Policeman Stroman of the eighth precinct. He at once started to work in an effort to fight the fire, and, with the assistance of some of the neighbors and workmen em- ployed in the neighborhood, he organized a bucket brigade, which passed water from hand to hand from the little spring. This was of no avail, however, and in a few mo- ments the building fell inward, leaving only the foundation walls and the big brick chimney standing. A inessage had been telephoned to the city for assistance, and a chemical engine was dispatched to the scene without delay. When it reached the spot, however. the building was in ruins, and all that could be done was to pour water on the smoking embers, so as to make possible a search for the bodies. When the building fell in Po- liceman Stroman saw what he thought were the bodies of three children going down with the wreck. This was at the southweB8t corner of the building, and streams of water were poured especially in that part. A, L. Thompson, who was one of the first to reach the fire. worked like a hero, and was the first to go in among the still burning rafters. 1t was about half- past 9 or a little later when he found the first body. It was nothing but a charred trunk, and bore little resemblance to the human form. The other bodies were found close by. They were sent shortly after- ward to the morgue on New Jersey avenue. In the opinion of those who first reached the scene of the fire the children must have been asleep in bed and were smothered by the smoke. Mr. Deale said to a Star re- porter that when he was making his way up the steps he thought he heard a child cry out, as if in agony, but if so it was the last scream, and no sound was heard after that. He said that he believed that if he had gotten there a few minutes soon- er he might possibly have rescued them, but .when he did reach the spot the upper part of the house was one mass of flame, nd no human being could have stood it up there for a moment. Deale and another young white man started to pulling out furniture from the lower floor, and the amount they succeeded in saving was real- ly remarkable under the circumstance: With the exception of this everything was a complete loss. Origin Unknown. The origin of the fire is unknown. Some of the people in the neighborhvod think that it must have been started by sparks from a passing engine on the Metropolitan branch. The roof of the house was of shingles, old and dry, and the fact that the fire started at the top gives some shad- ow of possibility to the theory. Others, however, insist that the wind was not in the right direction to haye carried sparks to the house, and they think that the fire must have been started by the children playing with matches or try: to Nght a lamp. Their mother an@ Greely both in- sist that when they left the house there was no fire anywhere. Mrs. Dobson prob- ably expected ‘to get her breakfast at the house where she works, atid Greely’s morn- ing meal was fixed up for him last night before he went to bed. The three bodies were found close to- «ether in a corner of the cellar, where they had fallen when the floors gave wa: They were close together, and between them and around them were burnt pieces of the mat- tress and bedding, which makes it seem as though they must have been in bea and have been overcome by the smoke. Pidiful Scenes. The scene about the place after the fire was one of utter desolation. Word was at once sent to the bereaved mother, but on her way to the house she was overcome by grief and excitement, and had to be taken into the home of a colored family nearby There she went Into hysterics, and spasm followed spasm, so that it was necessary to send for a physician. Not long after that the children’s grandmother came running up the , erying and shrieking at the tor » had heard the rews in the c s heartbroken. Shi ndered ara ot where her hom a been and called piteously fer the pe little children. e could calmed at all was by tel r that were heard from th . and th ability her little grandchildren without suffering in the no slightest. Then she hurried to the hou where her daughter had been taken, and fell prostrate on the bed where her daugh the two bereaved w n lay ‘Ss arms and shricking ful sight, and th cerest. sympathie: two women have the @f all in the neighborhoo. Passengers on the suburban t morning saw the burning ho nothing of any one being inside. < a A CHAIR AND A RUG. A Bill for Them Forms the Basis of an Official Opinion. The disbursing clerk of the Department of Justice recently submitted to the acting controler of the treasury a bill for a wal- put chair and a rug for the judge's desk, ains thi: but knew equity court room, and asked if he wa authorized to pay the same out of the appropriation of §&: i“ “to alter certain rcoms in the second and third stories of the District of Columbia court house building, which rooms are now occupied by the sec- end division of the Equity Court and by the surveyor of the District of Colum! He also transmitted a copy of a 1 signed by the judges of the Supreme ¢ of the District of Columbia and addressed te the District committees of the Senaic and House of Representativ: in whic they ask for an appropriation of $1,200 for changing from certain rooms in the court house, heretcfore occupied by them as an equity court room, to reoms formerly oc- eupied by the surveyor of the District. Ti judges also state that a moderate appropri- ation should be added for furniture for the hew court roem, not exceeding $1), The disbursing officer explained that be- caure of this statement he was in doubt vhether the appropriation “to alter is broad enough to cover also r of furniture for the equity court In his reply, the acting controller does not appear from the appropri tion or any of the proceedings in Con that it was intended by Congress to mak« any appropriation for furniture. The alter- ing of rcoms certainly cannot, witnout do- to language, be held to cover se of furniture. Jf any inference the pu is tot sking for an appropriation for furniture, it seems to me that the proper one would be that Congress, hav! it, had declined to appro ttre, contemplating probably the transfe ence of the furniture in the old court room to the new one; but this is purely specu- lative and we must be guided simply by ihe terms of the act. It is not intended bs this to hold that such permanent improve- ments as the judge’s ben-h and other ar cles in the nature of fixtures may not be paid for out of this appropriation, for these may properly be regarded as alterations to the rou: ir question. I am advised that it is the practice of your department to purchase such furniture as may be neces- sary for the District of Columbia court house building out of the appropr.ati for ‘miscellaneous expenses, United States courts,’ upon the authorization of the At- torney General, and it would appear prop- er that such furniture as may be neces- ry for the use of the new equity court room be paid for out of this appropria- tion.” SSS STRAWS ON NEBRASKA. Two Claims Widely Differing as to the Probable Outcome. Secretary Mercer of the republican con- gressional committee and Secretary Edger- ton of the populist national committee are both from Nebraska, and are supposed to know the politics of that state. Secretary Mercer has recently been claiming that the silver sentiment in Nebraska is decreas- Ing, and points to several things as straws showing that the republicans will carry the state. Secretary Edgerton laughs at these things. He says that Nebraska is a: certain for Bryan as is South Carolina. He hus received the following letier from N. OQ. Alberts of the Nebraska fish commis- sion: “We have Nebraska sure. We will carry her with 25,000 to spare.”’ ——____- s=_—_____ FREIGHT OF DOCUMENTS. ‘Tremendous Use of the Mails by AU Parties. There has probably never been, in any campaign year, such a wholesale use of the mails for the transportation of cam- paign literature as all parties have engaged in the last sixty days. So great 1s the strain on the facilities of the Post Office Department that it was necessary yester- day for Second Assistant Postmaster Gen- eral Neilson to issue an crder to postma ters, asking for the speedy return of mail sacks in which political matter has been forwarded. The demand for such sacks is very great, and can be supplied only by their imrnediate return. Postmasters are instructed to demand the return of sacks which have been taken from the post office by Congressmen and others. ———EEE Engineer Menocal Responsible. According to naval gossip, Civil Engineer A. G. Menocal is held to be mainly respon- sible for the recent accident to the caisson at the Brooklyn dry dock by the court of inquiry investigating the affair, and will probably be ordered before a court-martial for trial cn formal charges. No action will be taken by the department, however, un- tll the court has investigated the additional matters referred to it in connection with the pest and present condition of the cais- son. BRYAN IN THE EAST The Democratic Candidate Resumes His Campaign Tour. ee en Ose CORDIAL RECEPTION -AT LOWELL Made an Early Start From Dedham This Morning. ARRIVAL AT NASHUA, N. 1. ———— BOSTON, Ma September 26.—-Mr. Bryan was up bright and early at Dedham, the home of George Fred. Williams, this morning, and arrived in the city before 8 o'clock. Accompanied by Mr. Williams he went at once to the train which was scheduled to leave for Manchester, N. HL, at 8:30. At the train the reception commit- tee from Manchester was in waiting, and Mr. Bryan as immediately ushered into a parlor car reserved for himself and party. A few moments after 8 Mr. Sewail, with the Maine contingent, rived hundred people gathered about Mr. ar, and there were several calls for a eh, but the candidate was saving his ice for the more important work of the and did not respond. Just before train started he went out on t however, and smilingly acknowled cheers of the crowd, which continued un the train disappeared. NASHUA, N deavor of th amends for the ium J. Brya better i. The en- to make a xiven Wil- mn has been no it was when the train ‘d into Lowell at 9:15 t The depot platform was cr with howling humanity. The train stopp five minutes, and, t Was the i tention of the . the demos stration was that he d time to speak 5 subsic Th bag « the rear of the train was platform here, Mr an a Standing arm’ in There were them being next Presicgent,” but the one which created the grea enthusiasm was shouted out by a big coal Ha Mr. 5 efore , and ny que ; he train pulled away, i: We're glad to see you.” The train sh ined with crowds for a bleck, d and ¢ d the mince as the t sight of him anding in the ba; e car doorw An enthusiastic crowd yelled to the f aggregate voic band played * to the Cniet,” and e ions of him” were heard wh ing on the p) Mr. iform of the i train, an, at the first stop in New Hampshire. Nashua was out to give the threé-time nominee hearty greeting, and Nashua accomp.ished its purpose. SAYS THE Special Dispate’s to The Evenin : AMESBURY, Mass., September 26. United States Senator linger of New Hampshire, in an intefview teddy in rega: to the national currency question and the -t of Candidate Bryan's tour through y England, said: “Bryan and his fol- lowers say that the United States should resume the free coinage of silver without reference to other nations, ar the fact that every other great comme nation has suspended “the free colnage of silver. We have now more nour curreney n any other country on the fac arth, except India and China, doliar of ve over and a ngland, t and $13 id in ther rmany In the coming pass not merely upon fre age, bat upon free trade as well ads for both of thes the champion of prot dvocate of sound against them. He say open the mills of t laborers of America than the mints of the United States to the silver of the worid. dlican doctri . and will be triumphantiy . Russia United States sol Argentine and the ft 00,000 bushe wheat, while in the same countr sold $62,000,009 bush: and that oy = duction and not sil s responsible t Gecline in the p agricultural stapl The statement to do with uk ilver has had anything in the price of these declin procucts ts absurd.” Mr. Gallinger, when asked what effect the coming of Candidate Bryan through New England would have on the the presidential vot speeches will tend to greatly increase Me- Kinley’s otherwise large majority and sol- idify the ranks of the republican party. The voters will now have a chance to he the absurd doctrine advocated by the dem cratic candidate, and will rally to the s: port of the republican standard bearer.” —>-- FOUND BETWE! r De THE TIES. A Man Robbed of 865 and Pia the Railway Track. TOWANDA, F Septemher 26. after the pas: of the Le west-bound passenger train last night be of J. E. Compton of Waver » found wedg i ween the ti oft ilroad bridge at this place. He was cious when discovered, and died wit five He atte ast Towanda minutes, without making a s ded the Bradford count during the day, and wa wn to have in his possession $5 and a watch. These were missing when Comp- ton was found. The coroner held a post-mortem exam- ination today, when the fact was revealed teme fair 2 that Compton had undoubtedly be in the back of the head, robbed and alter- ward placed on the railroad track. A tramp giving the name of Phillips, who he Lves in Chicago, appealed to the avthorities for medical assistance short before the finding of Compton. He had bullet wound in the right leg, but he re- fused to say how he received it. He was held on suspicion of being implicated in th murder of Com 5 was badly mangled by the locomotive. he dead man’s bo the coweatcher cou BY FIR Thirty Studen Whe Were in Bed ncaped. CLINTON, Iowa, September 26.—Fire this morning totally destroyed the Northern Dlincis College at Fulton. Loss, $1000). Much of the apparatus was saved. Thirty students who were in bed escaned, slight injury to one of the number. fireman was hurt by falling walls. meal Many Wrecks Caused. LONDON, September 26.—Advices re- ceived here from Spain, France and the west of England show that numerour wrecks have occurred on the coasis ani that the gale has done much damag everyubera with One