Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1896, Page 1

———— THE EVENING STAR. es PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th St, by ing Star Ne Company. The Brexing, Star Newapeper Company New York Office, 49 Potter Building. ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers In the city by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents per week, or 44 cents per month. Copies at the counter 2 cents each. By mail—anywhere in the United States or Canada—postage prepaid—60 cents per month. Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with foreign postage added, (Entered at the Post at Washington, D. C., as second- mail matter. ‘TZ All mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. Retes of advertising made known on application. é Che Loen No 18,600. g Star. WASHINGTON, D. 0., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1896—TWENTY-FOUB PAGES. TWO CENTS. If you want today’s news today you can find it only in The Star. A ROW BREWING Tom Watson Expected to Make aSen- sation in the Campaign. HIS VERY SUSPICIOUS TEMPERAMENT He Has Never Trusted the Populist National Committee. MAY REPUDIATE BRYAN Before the campaign is over Tom Watson is going to figure more prominently than he yet has. A big row is brewing. It has been brewing from the start, but now the brew is hot and about to boil over. In this hour of strange conditions and eccentric individu- ality the Georgian deserves to te put uncer a microscope and studied more carefully than he yet has been. In him is. found the most phenomenal development of the ego known to the human race. That he is a brilliant talker is known. That he is a reckless writer has been proven. He is a great apostle of populism. Through him and Jerry Simpson and Peffer populism first became generally known. He has been sup- posed to represent the concentrated intel- lectuality of populism. Since he first ap- peared in public life the people in the south have changed the familiar reference to the devil and Tom Walker, to the “devil and Tom Watson.” In his own opinion and in that of hils fol- lowers he 1s saving populism from destruc- tion by absorption in the democratic party. In the opinion of fusion populists he ts him- self destroying the party of which he was one of the founders. His performances as a candidate have been interesting to those whom they have not made anxious. The silver coalitionists have been watching his jugglery with Mr. Bryan’s prospects much as the mother watched the monkey the masthead tossing the stolen bane. They do not know his sentiment toward the child, but are quite sure that his attentions are dangerous, whatever their intent riay be. Acting Out His Nature. Many of those who are anxious are also angry. Some are saying hard things about Watson. Some, with a characteristic as- sociation of ideas, do not hesitate to in- sinuate that Hanna has hypnotized him. The more rational and those better at- quainted with Watson know that he Is but acting his nature, and that he is prob- ably but fulfilling a mission which fate has decreed for him. son is one of the most suspicious hat ever lived. His small and frall S a compact and trembling mass of rves. His over-developed brain is gifted with a wonderfuily quick perception, which fs fired by a most sensitive imagination. This renders him poetic, fanciful and flighty. The tremendous velocity with which the rotatory part of his head goes around gives him the impression that there is great activity on the outside around him. His perception, analytical powers and i agination construct conspiracies and all sorts of things out of this activity, and he becomes romantically suspicious, like a small boy who reads detective stories. His mind is like the sensitive plate In photog- raphy; every passing shadow makes an im- pression on it. The habit of suspicion has grown up with him from youth. His father was betrayed by some of his most trusted friends, and suffered great injury at their hands. Tom Watson has always had this before him, g excited by it has not been diminished by his experience in southern politics. Like all men of that character, he is emotional and impressionable, and 1s easlly fooled by a flatterer. He was sus- picious of all parties and of all men in public life. Hence, he became the apostle of a new party which had no one in power. Now he is suspicious of those who have gone into power through that party. Never Trusted the Populist Committee It is an open secret that he has never trusted the populist national committee since its organization at St. Louis, and that he is particularly suspicious of Chairman Butler. He has it well impressed upon his mind that he is being made use of to further the aims of the democratic party, and that the populist committee are parties to the conspiracy. At times the suspicion has grown faint, and he has wavered. At other times it has grown strong, and he has writter and spoken his discontent. The committee have been placating, tem- porizing and talking to him throughout the negotiations for fusion, but the irritation has been increasing on both sides, until now combustion is threatened. There is no doubt that Watson was dealt with in a very positive manner in connection with the Indiana fusion, and that he yielded to it under very heavy pressure. It is equally certain that his efforts afterward to break up the fusion have made the extreme Bryan populists very indignant. He has two or three times been admonished that > was injuring the prospects of Bryan's tion, and that it was his duty to keep , but when he has yielded he has ap- parently immediately regretted it and has broken forth again. Just in the midst of the most determined effort of all to quiet him he has now become more irrepressible than ever. An open rupture between him and his national committee, made plain to the wholg world, ts likely to occur at any min- t he practical fusion of his forces and the republicans in state affairs in Georgia, and his public complaint that he néver ap- proved of fusion in any state on electors, and that the national committee would not do as he wanted, is regarded as the begin- ning of the outbreak. May Repudiate the Bryan Ticket. No surprise will be occasioned if at any time before the election Watson openly re- pudiates the Bryan ticket, denounces the Pepulist national committee and calls upon the populist masses to avenge him. Some such course is expected from him hourly, and ft has been felt that every day that has passed has been but a postponement of the evil hour. As a matter of fact, he is reckoned as having already gone over to the opposition to Bryan, and if he acts In time and still possesses the influence he once did, he will strike a very effective bicw at the populistic-democratic coalition. The fusionists contend that if Bryan is de- fe after an open attack upon him by Watson, such as may be expected, it will be apt not only to cure the democratic party of populism to a considerable extent, but wiil be almost certain to put an end to the populist party. The Watsonian idea will be that the populist party, saved by him# from being swallowed by the democ- Ta iil, as the party of the future, move 1 to victory in 1900 under its own distinctive banner with the old and ex- perlenced populist leaders in command. ee Treasury Department Changes. The follcwing changes have been made in the classified service in the Treasury Department: Promotions: Secretary's office—Austin Gray, Minnesota, from $720 to $840; treas- urer’s office—C. G. Clifford, Michigan, from $720 to $000; auditor for Navy Department— Chas. Hurrle, Arizona, from $720 to $840; auditor for State and other departments— Miss F. G. McDowell, Pennsylvania, from $900 to $1,000; auditor for Post Office De- partment—Miss I. Stanley, Iowa, from qvuU to $1,000; Miss E. Hartman, Michigan, from $720 to $840. and the fe TO TRANSPORT VOTERS Reduced Fares Arranged for Republicans Both to Register and Vote. How to Secure a Certificate for Re- duced Transportation—News From Several States. The republican congressional committee is now prepared to assist republican voters to go home to register and vote in the coming elections. Mr. William M. Bass, who has been selected to have charge of the bureau of transportation, assumed his duties this morning, and opened his office at republi- can headquarters. Arrangements have been made with the railroads to furnish tickets at the rate of one fare for the round trip to points in the following states: Alabama, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Michigan, Mississippi, West Vir- ginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Virginia. Negotiations are now in progress for a similar rate to points in New England, the south and the far west, and it is expected will be concluded in a few days. How to Secure a Certificate. In order to avail themselves of these re- duced rates, which also include members of voters’ families, the applicant must ap- pear before Mr. Bass at republican head- quarters, and prove to his satisfaction that he is either a member of one of the repub- lican associations of the city, or is a genu- ine republican voter, vouched for by some responsible person. When this is done, a certificate will be issued the applicant, which, when accompanied by the price, will entitle him to a ticket. Where it is de- sired to obtain tickets for members of the family, a separate certificate must be pre- sented in each case, and the applicant must appear personally before Mr. Bass. in some states it will be necessary for the voters to make two trips, one to regis- ter and one to vote. The tickets for regis- tration are limited to five days from date of issue, while the tickets for points in states where no registration is required are good until November 10. “It is advisable,” said Mr. Bass, today, “that voters contemplating going home should present themselves here at an early date and obtain some information which they will find requisite, and which they should know in time. I desire to add that no one need epply who does not propose to vote for McKinley and Hobart.” Sound Money Sentiment Growing. One of the officers of the Sound Money League of Richmond, Va., in a letter to the republican congressional committee, writes: “From all the information that I can get the sound money sentiment is grcwing in Virginia, and it looks now as thoi gh the result in this state in Novem- ber wili prove a surprise not only to our free silver friends, but even to those of us who have been working for the cause of sound money. Dr. Wm. Horne, a prominent physician of Mt. Ayr, Iowa, who is taking an active part in the campaign in that state, says: “Everything here is all right, and we are going to keep it right.” Corgressman Warner of Illinois writes to Chairman Babcock from Clinton, under date of September 30, that he is making very satisfactory progress in his campaign and that the fusion combine against him will not materially reduce his majority. He was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress by a plurality of 8,000. He says: “Every- thing looks well in this thirteenth congres- sioral district, and I am of the opinion that we are growing stronger every day.” Chairman H. H. Mitchell of the sixth congressional district of Missouri, writes: “A poll of this entire district now coming in shows large republican gains.” Prospects in Alabama. Chairman Grace of the fifth republican ccrgressional district of Alabama writes an enthusjastic letter of the prospects in that part of the south. He says: “Matters politically are moving along smoothly for cur standard bearers, McKinley and Ho- bart, in this state. I am now, as I have been for some time, fully canvassing this part of the state, and meeting with encour- aging success considering that I get no help. As you have doubtless noticed from the papers and dispatches received, the po- litical tidal wave is turning our way with telling effect. Prominent democrats are continvaily joining our ranks. Col. Reese of Montgomery has lately pledged his al- legiarce to the republican party and its naticnal candidates. The eastern elections have proved a disappointment to demo- crats, which will cause many of their weak- kneed followers to vote the republican tick- et, both congressional and national.” —-——___- e--______ ITS RECEIPT ACKNOWLEDGED. Mr. Logan Carlisle Responds to the Lakeland Cinb’s Challenge. Mr. Logan Carlisle has given out the fol- lowing se!f-explanatory note for publica- tion: “I have received a letter signed by one Mortimer A. Downing, secretary, chal- lenging me, on behalf of the District branch of the Lakeland Club, to show, in joint debate with one L. C. Moore, former- ly a laborer in the Treasury Department, wherein my democracy differs from the faith of this colored man. I am not sure that this is not merely one of the numer- ous popocratic forgeries that are now float- ing about, but assuming {t to be genuine, I must, in view of the peculiar management of the popocratic crusade, take this chal- lenge as a great compliment. The Lake- land Club places upon me a higher estimate than is placed upon my father by the pop- ceratic fusion organization in Kentucky, when the latter challenges him to a joint debate with Joe Blackburn, and as each organization has selected its ablest and foremost champion of popocracy to repre- sent it in debate, the courtesy of the chal- lenge is duly appreciated.” DAMAGE TO THE NAVY YARD. Commodore Norton Reports the Ex- tent to the Secretary of the Navy. Commodore Norton, commanding the Washington navy yard, has made a report to the Secretary of the Navy in regard to the damage done to that yard by the recent storm, from which it appears that a large portion of the tin roof of the joiner shop was blown off, many plates of glass broken in skylight of south gun shop, roofs in- jured on boiler house, coppersmith shop, copper rolling mill, sesmen’s quarters and ship house. The pile driver was blown over and broken, and the east wall was partly knocked down. Doors, sashes and numerous panes of glass were broken in the shops, storehouses and quarters. It is estimated that it will cost $2,500 to restore the ship house to its original condition, and that the repairs to the joiner shop will cost $1,039. It is recommended that six trusses on the ship house be torn down and the ends of the building used as shops, etc., be boarded in, at an estimated cost of $600. —_———__-e-_____ Secretary Carlisle Declines. Secretary Carlisle has sent a telegram to Mr. P. P. Johnson of Louisville, Ky., re- srectfully declining his proposition that he divide his time with Senator Blackburn at all the appointments he may make to speak in Kentucky. No reasons are given. The Secretary simply says he declines the re- quest. DEMOCRAT IC CLUBS Convention of the National Associa- tion at St. Louis. BADGES AND BUTTONS AND BANDS Vice President Stevenson Among the First of the Leaders to Arrive. PRESIDENT BLACK’S ADDRESS ST. LOUIS, Mo., October 8.—It is the opening day of the quadrennial conven- tion of the National Association of Demo- cratic Clubs. The delegates began to ar- rive yesterday, and they have been pour- ing in on every road that comes to the city since that time. All morning they gathered in the lobbies of the hotels, where the curbstone orators shouted and roared with enthusiastic energy, explaining the money question and “true significance of 16 to 1.” There were bands of music of every sort and description, from backwoods and from the metropolitan cities, playing patriotic airs. The Vice President’s Arrival. Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson was the first of the leaders of the organization named to arrive in this city. President Chauncey F. Black of Pennsyivania end other officials of the National Association of Democratic Clubs came in on a special train, accompanied by delegates from eastern clubs, In the party were Chauncey F. Black and Miss Black, Secretary Law- rence Gardner and Mrs. Gardner, M. J. Herron, state organizer of democratic clubs in Maryland, and Maryland dele- gates; Judge Hughes and delegates from Pennsylvania clubs; W. Lambert of New- ark and delegates from New Jersey clubs; Representative W. Z. Sulzer of New Yerk and delegates from New York clubs, and George W. Rae of Texas, who will he ser- geant-at-arms of the convention. Several prominent men who were expect- ed to be present have sent word that they will not be able to attend. Vice Presiden- tial Candidate Arthur Sewall of Maine has notified the executive committee of his inability to attend the convention. In addi- tion, also, he wired from New York to G. vy. Allen of St. Louis as follows: regret exceedingly that I am to be deprived of the pleasure of participating in the great meeting of the democratic clubs, which will contribute so much to the suc- cess of our cause.”” . Senator James K. Jones, chairman of the national democratic executive committee, sent the following telegram from Chicago ‘ible for me to be in St. Louis to- morrow. Important matters keep me here.” When Mr. Bryan is Expected. Mr. Bryan is expected to reach here this evening. As at present arranged he will speak tonight at the mass meeting in East St. Louis. Then he will go to the Audi- torium and speak to the convention, after which he will be taken to the South Park, where the Workingmen’s Bryan Club will give him a hearing. There will be three sessions of the con- vention. The first will be devoted to the preliminary work and permanent organiza- tion. The second session will elect officers and listen to speeches from the guests of national prominence. It is quite likely that all the present officers will be re-elected, as there seems to be no opposition to Chauncey F. Black, the presiaent, nor to Lawrencé Gardner, the secretary. Lagi night all the visiting and local clubs took part in a parade through the busi- ness section of the city Forty-five clubs were in line, divided into six divisions. The line was reviewed by the club officials and other prominent democrats, who are dele- gates to the convention. After disbanding the marchers participated in a reception given the officers and distinguished guests at Jefferson club house. The Convention. It was about 10:30 o'clock in the fore- noon when the delegates and visitors be- gan to assemble at the Auditorium, where the convention was held, and it was al- most an hour later when President C. F. Black called the meeting to order. ‘When the blessing of the deity had been invoked the Jefferson Glee Club of several hundred voices sang the national anthem, “America,” in which the audience joined. When the applause following singing of the anthem died away President Black de- luvered his quadrennial address. Mr. Black declared that the cause which the democratic party was supporting was that of no class or section, but of the people asa whole. It was the cause of all classes frem all parts of the country. He then entered into the discussion of the money question, and concluded by denouncing Mark Hanna and the moneyed power. Mr. Black was frequently interrupted by applause. When he had finished he intro- duced Vice President Stevenson. Vice President Stevenson’s Address. Vice President Stevenson, who took the chair to preside over the convention, made a long argument in favor of the free coin- age of silver. He devoted considerable time to a defense of the democratic pusition, holding that it was in line with democratic platforms of the past. He said, referring to the dissentions in democratic ranks: “J deeply regret that many 9f those with whom I have been associated in former con- tests, how oppose the election of the candi- dates nominated in accordance with the time-honored methods and usages of the democratic party. Without questioning their sincerity, the inquiry is significant: What is there in the attitude of the demo- cratic party upon the monetary question to justify its abandonment by those who have Jeng shared in its counsels, and who have een the recipients of its rewards and its honors? As the ‘parting of the ways’ kas been reached , it is well to inquire: Is their path, or is ours, the true one? Are we recreant to democratic faith and traditions in standing by the historic organization, cr they in aiding directly or indirectly in the triumph of its great antagonist?” ‘The Vice President then quoted from pre- vious democratic platforms, concluding with the one recently adopted at Chicago. then went on: He, have now given you the solemn decla- rations of the democratic party in the four great national conventions immediately preceding that which in July last nomi- nated Mr. Bryan for the presidency. Did time permit, the utterances I have read might be supplemented by those of emi- nent statesmen, Hendricks, Thurman and others, whose loyalty, patriotism and de- votion to democratic principles have never been questioned. Is it too much, then, to claim that in giving our support to the nominees of the Chicago convention we are ‘keeping the faith? The charge of rec- reancy to party does not le at our doors. We believe that the election of a demo- cratic lent and gsecure the restoration of silver to the position of standard money of the country—that de- signed for it by the founders of the gov- ernment. I think I have shown beyond: peradventure that in the present attitude of our party favoring a return to bimet- allism there is no shadow of departure from firmly established democratic faith.” Mr. Stevenson asserted that the republi- cans had changed their position regarding silver, and concluded as follows: “We turn to the great historic party hose life is measured by that of the w public; the party which came in with Jef- crosse, Wit ferson, and which for sixty years controlled the destiny of the nation; the party which in all periods of our hi has been the bulwark of the Constitution and the faith- ful guardian of the rights of all the people; the party which knows no_ privileged classes, but demands equal and exact jus- tice for all; the party wh'ch In the early morning and in the noon of this century gloried in the leadership of Jackson and of Douglas, the champions of the honest money of the Constitution, and the un- daunted foes of special privileges and of all unjust taxation. “I am firmly persuaded that in the pres- ent contest the interests of all the people are bound up in the success of the demo- cratic party, whose creed upon the pending vital issues was the living faith of the founders of our government. Now, as in the struggles of the past. its appeal is to the judgment, the patriotism, the sense of justice of the American péople. Its candi- date for the presidency, the able and elo- quent statesman whose words have cheered the despondent, given h and inspiration to his countrymen, and, whose inauguration ee the earnest of hetter days to the re- public.” BRIGHT DAY AT CANTON. Pennsylvanian Delegations Maj. McKinley. CANTON, Ohio, October 3.—The day dawned bright and in every way auspicious for the big demonstrations scheduled. Two delegations were in before the city was astir. One came from Harrisburg and Dauphin county, Pa., and reached here about 6 o'clock. A special train of five day coaches and two‘ Pullmans brought the party. Captain William J.. George iz spokesman for the party. ‘The second delegation, which arrived at 7:15, came from Athens county, Ohio, and its caption is the “Sunday Creek Valley McKinley Clubs.” One of the features @ glee club with double quartet of ludies. Other trains arrived soon afterward, the railroads having about twenty-five specials scheduled for the day. At about 9 o'clock the first party went to the McKinley home. Addresses were made by Captain W. J. George ot the Har- risburg News for the Pennsylvanians and by J. M. Allen of Gloucester for the Sun- day valley people. Major McKinley addressed the Pennsyl- vania visitors as foliows: “My fellow citizens: It gives me great pleasure to receive at my home my fellow citizens from the commonwealth of Penn- sylvania and the state ef Ohio. Whatever injuriously or beneficially affects the peo- ple of Pennsylvania, alike affects the pe: ple of Ohio, and I could not but be struck by the similarity of the messages which have come from your respective spokes- men as to the condition of the people in these two great states. ' similar they were. It is the cry of ‘dfstress going up from every part of our: common country. What men want is business activity. What laboring nen want Is work. We have dis- covered in the last three years and a half that we can not increase the eutpt of the mines or the wages of the miner by de- creasing manufacturing im the United States. We have discovered’ that less Americen coal is required “if we do any part of our work in Europe rather than in the Urited States. I faver that -policy which will give the largest development to every American citizen; that gives the most work and best wages f>severy Ameri- can laborer and secures to’our peopie the highest possible prosperity an all. their oc- cupations, I cannot bit claie most highly this visft made at h ap inconve- niece) and from a great @stance to my ome. “The mesgage which you bring me of your regard and good will J wil always remem- ber and cherisa, ft fs Witle pecullar pleas- ure that I welcome this ‘club: from the capital city of the great Commohwealth of Pennsylvania. Céming, as you do, from a city of great-rolling mills and other.manu- factories, having 4 produtt in value of More than $12,000,000 annually when your establishments are all rupming full time, and from ore of the greatest manufac- turing states of the country, I need hardly be told of the deep aoa profound interest which you have in the rightful settlement of the issues presented in this campaign. Both of the leading issues are of sufficient importance to your ‘industrial life and prosperity to command your unremitting labor and effort. Nor need I remind you that the issue which involves the restora- tion of our protective policy, unhappily and unwarrantedly abandoned in the presiden- tial campaign four years ago, is to be set- tled this year, as well as that other issue of continuing a safe monetary system, rest- ing on the best moneyrof the world, and guaranteeing to our people ‘the use of all the forms of money now in circulation to be of equal value and purchasing power. The mistake of 1892 needs no elaboration. It has been felt and realized in every sec- ticn of our common country, and this year, 186, is the first time since it was made that the whole people have had a chance to correct it.” The Buffalo contingent of wheelmen called at the McKinley home. They had with them three homing pigeons, which Mrs. McKinley released. Maj. McKinley said: “Gentlemen: It gives ‘me great pleasure to welcome you here at my home. I am sure you will excuse mé from doing more than making my acknowledgment of this generous call, and the assurance which you bring of regard and good will. Later in the day I am to address the wheelmen generally who pay me a visit, and I hope to have the pleasure pf meeting you at that time. (Applause.) At the request of your committee, I have pfepared a little Message which is to be sént back by the carrier pigeons which you have brought with you from Buffajo, in these words: “CANTON, Ohfo, Actober 3.—The Wheel- men’s McKinley and Hobart Republican Club of Buffalo, N. ¥., arrived this morn- ing and request me to: send greetings to their friends at home, jn which 1 beg to Join.” WILLIAM McKINLEY.” Maj. McKinley shortly after 10 o'clock ad- dressed employes of the Standard Manu- facturing Company of Pittsburg. F. J. Tarrance made the introductory address and presented Maj. McKinley a splendid porcelain bath tub, one of the company’s product. © A delegation from Barberton was next in- troduced by O. C. Barber of the Diamond Metch Company. 2 ‘As soon as the lawn>could be vacuated employes of the Pennsylvania shops at Allegheny were on hand and were :ntro- duced by W. B. Kirker. BYNUM TO GO ON Call on TRE STUMP. Campaign Committee ¢f the Gold Democrats Seleeted. CHICAGO, October 3.—The executive committee of the national demécratic party —gold standard—has created a campaign committee consisting of wine members. John P. Hopkins of 'Chiéago has been elected vice chairman of the committee, Mr. Bynum holding the chairmanship ex- officio. During the remainder ot ine cai paign Mr. Hopkins will ‘be in virtual control of the Palmer and Bucktier. campaign, Chairman Bynum having arfanged to take the stump. ‘The campaign committee is as roe Daniel R. Lawler, Paul, Minn.; B. Haldeman, Louisvilty, Ky.; L. C. Krauthoff, Kansas City, Mo: Col. L. M. Martin, Marshalltown, Iowa; W. D. Shelby, Grand Rapids, Mich; #illis-B. Usher, La- ; John P. ‘Frenzel, Indianapo- ils; C. Vey Holman of Maine. ———__—_ TYNAN RELEASED. —_— of the iroseeution of the Alleged Dynamiter. -NEW YORK, “Gctober #—TDIspatchee have been received .today by. nds of P. J. P. Tynan, stating that he has been re- Jeased from prison ‘at Bologne, France, and ~ now on his way. to this cquntry. -dirs. Gertrude Kearney today received the following cablegram from her husband, John Kearney, at Rotterdam> “Am starting for New Yorlt today. - “JOHN. .It is also expected that Edward J. Ivory. now in jail in London, and Haines, the other Irish “suspect,” ‘under .arresi at Kot- terdam, will be liberated Monday. Collapse HOLDING AN INQUEST Attempting to Fix the Responsibility for Fitzgerald’s Death. MANY WITNESSES ARE SUMMONED Mr. Howlett Reiterates His Charges Against the Abert Building. CRITICISM OF THE CORONER Corcner Hammett is holding an inquest, which began this afternoon at 3 o'clock at Wright’s undertaking establishment, 1337 10th street northwest, into the death of the late James Fitzgerald, who was instantly killed in the Beatty building, 1215 Pennsyl- vania avenue, when that structure was crushed by the falling of the west wall of the newly constructed Abert building,which occi ples the adjoining lot on the east. The inquest is attracting more than ordi- nary attention because it is regarded in the light of a direct inquiry into the terrible accident Tuesday night, and as an en- deavor to fix the responsibility for the catastrophe on Pennsylvania avenue wiere it preperly belonged. In accordance with this intention Coroner Hammett ordered summonses issued for all the parties who were pregent in the Beatty and Kelly build- ings on the nigit of the storm, as well as the contractor of the Abert building, the architect of it and a number of builders and contractcrs. The witnesses who have been summoned include Mr. Charles L. Beatty, the proprietor of the wreckei building where Fitzgerald was killed; Mr. Bruce Beatty, Mr. G. W. McCormick, Ser- geant Joseph Acton, Mr. William Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Finley, Charles Cole- man, George Sutton and Mr. E. W. Blount of the interstate commerce commission, who were in the building at the time of the colle ; Contractor Cissell, buildi the Abert buildin, Mr. Glen Brown, the architect of that building; In- spector Grady and a number of contr tors and builders, including Charles 1. .- monston, Rovert I. Fleming, Frank L. Hanvey, John H. Howleit and otaers. Funcral Postponed. The dead man was a valuable and popu- lar member of Troop A, D.C.N.G., which or- garization took charge of his remains. It was the desire of Trocp A to send their comrade’s body to his former home in Lewistcn, Me., this afternoon, and Coroner Hammett was requested to hold the inquest at 1.o’clock, or, at least, to have the jury view the body at that time, and then al- low it to be sent away, described. The coroner, however, declined to grant either Teouest, and accordingly the funeral serv- ices had to be postponed until tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, when they will b¢ held at Wright's establishment, after which the ren.ains will be escorted by Troop A io the Pennsylvania depot for transportation to Lewiston. Friends of Fitsgeraid express much indignation at the ccroner’s action, as the body of pocr Fitzgeraid was already decon posing when found and taken to ti morgue, and it is claimed that its inte. ment should not have been delayed further than absoiutely necessary. Builder Howlett Repeats Hix Charge. In conversation this morning with a Star reporter, Mr. John H. Howlett took issue with a recent statement of Inspector of Buildings Brady. “I would like to say a few words in reply to remarks made by Inspector Brady to your reporter in last Thursday's issue,” said Mr. Howlett, ‘wherein he says, ‘There is absolutely no truth in the charge. The building regulations have been complied with in every particular in the construction of that building.’ Again he says, “This morning I made a careful inspection of the building and plumbed the wails. I found everything properly constructed.’ “Now,” said Mr. Howlett, “this seems to settle the matt so far as fixing the re- sponsibility is concerned. But when I stated, over my signature, that the walls were not properly anchored to the ficors, I told the truth. I again say they were not. Had they been properiy built, Mr. Fitzgerald would have been alive today. It is a ques- tion, in my mind, of what public good the inspector's office Is to the public, when in- spections always occur just after a calami- ty and seldom before.” Mr. Lewis Lost Heavily. One of the heaviest losers in the Abert building disaster was E. J. Lewis, who fur- nishes nearly all the dentists of Washing- ton with their dental supplies. He had just refitted his quarters, and had on hand about $15,000 worth of dental instruments and supplies, nearly all of which was lost. False teeth are scattered all through the ruins. —— AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE. Senators Blackburn, Faulkner and Gorman Talk Over the Situation. Senator Blackburn, Senator Gorman and Senator Faulkner had a conference at the democratic headquarters today concerning the campaign. It is understood that Gor- man reported the situation in Maryland as greatly improved from a Bryant point of view. Senator Blackburn will leave for Ken- tucky today. Senator Carlisle, following the usual course of republican spell-bind- ers in the campaign, has declined to have a jeint discussion with the Kentucky Sena- tor, as was the supposition of Mr. Johnson when he made the proposition to the Sec- retary. Senator Blackburn is enthusiastic in his encomiums of Mr. Bryan, whom he regards as the greatest man in modern politics, and just as enthusiastic in_his belief that Mr. Bryan will be the next President of the United States. He says he regards the south «nd west as certain for Bryan, and believes that a majority of the electoral votes of the central states will also be cast for him. In relation to Kentucky, Senator Black- burn said that he would speak there for a week or ten days, and then, at the urgent request of the national committee, would probably speak in the western central states, which he regarded as the winning battle ground. Kentucky, he was assured, was safe. In relation to the Palmer and Buckner ticket, the Senator said it would not cut a serious figure in Kentucky, nor in any other states in the Union® “Why,” said he, “what do you think of a ticket that will not carry one electorai vote—no, not a state, county or election precinct in the country, and for which even the candidates will not cast a vote?” —_—_—__-e—______ The Central American Diet. U. 8. Consul Little at Tegucigalpa, Sal- vador, informs the Secretary of State that the first diet of the republic of Salvador, under the Amapala treaty of union cele- brated June 20. 1895, between Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador, constituting the “Greater. Republic of Central America,” convened in the city of San Salvador on the 15th proximo, and will reside there for one year. The proprietary members of the diet are E. Constantino Fiallos and Caesar Bonilla of Honduras, Juan Mamel Arce and Eugenio Mendoza of Nicaragua and Jacinto Castellanos of Salvador. The pre- liminary work of the diet will be to induce the republics of Guatemala and Costa Rica to join in the union, and the formation of @ new constitution for the new republic. who is | WATSON ON HIS TREATMENT Bitter in His Expressions Against the Popu- list Politicians. ‘Thinks They Have Traded Him Off for Local Offices—Charges Against the Railroads. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. ATLANTA,,Ga., October 3.-Tom Watson is bitter in his expressions concerning his treatment by ‘the populist politicians throughout the west and south. He says that they have traded him off for the local offices, giving the democrats the electors in every instance. The Star’s representative asked him last night what he has secured through fusion, and he replied, “Nothing.” In his speeches this week he has defend- ed his position in opposing fusion. He says that it would amount to an indorsement of the democratic party by the populists, and would seal his party’s lips thereafter on the mistakes of the older party. Mr. Wat- son believes that the masses of his party are with him, and that they are opposed to fusion. He feels that he has been tricked by the populist politicians, who preferred county and state offices for themselves to electoral tickets for him. Charges Against the Railronds. The pepulists are waging a vigorous campaign here in Georgia against the dem- ocratic ticket. They are still agitating the “Duncan circuler,” and are making great capital out of it. They have sprung an- other sensation, charging the railroads with furnishing the democrats with all the passes they need for their speakers. John ‘Temple Graves publishes a letter giving fac similes of requests for passes, and the ses, too. tate Treasurer Hardeman and Chairm: Steve Clay are invclved in the pass mat- ter. Hardeman requested passes for negro speakers, and Clay obtained them from the Southern railroad. The negroes or some one else sold the passes to a broker, from whom the populists obtained them. Now the populists are declaring that the South- ern is aiming to control the legislature, and is buying its favors with transporta- (tion. Graves is working this in his speech- | es, as well as his writings, and he is pro- lific, both as a letter writer and as a speak- er. The populists say that they have to pay their way when they go out to fill appoini- ments, and they complain of discrimina- tion. Claims on the State Ticket. Chairman Cunningham claims 20,000 ma- jority for Wright and Chairman Cl claims 40,000 for Atkinson next Wednesday. Atkinson would have won by a good ma- jority had it not been for Boss Buck's order to the negroes issued yesterday, in- structing them to vote for the populists in the state election. Coner 2 Tate of the ninth says that it kinson neers will obey Buck implici ly they do not pay much attention to these orders, but this year they believe that Mc- Kinley+ will be elected. Buck will be the distributor of patronage, and all the negro leaders who want jobs will not revolt or disobey his instructions. The leaders are already at work on the rank and file ef their race. Some of these leaders are said to have been getting $10 a day, too, from the democrats for making Atkinson speech- es. Now, right on the close of the cam- paign, they are turning around to undo the work which they have been engaged for two months. What Mr. Watson Says. In a speech ycsterday Tom Watson stat- ed that at the populist state convention the republicans had offered to throw their entire vote io the populists if the latter would give them just one place on the state house ticket. Watson declined the offer. Now the republicans are going to vote for the populists without any compensatiun. It is said that the matter was referred to Mark Hanna, and he -lirected Luck to in: struct the republicans in ihis staie to sup- port the populists. Hanna's idea was that it would have a geod effect nationally to cut the demccrati¢ majority down in this state, or better still, defeat them alto- gether if that were possivle. It is certain that the situation is badly muddled today. Creelman, the correspondent, “studying the situation,” he sa‘ Creelman states that he has by in Mr. through the east and west and he everywhere drop the financial issue elected, and he predicts that. silver men here told him that the issue n finds that the silver leaders will if McKinley is Sceme of the would not be dropped by the souih, and that the agitation would be continued uniil the double standird was re-established. —— A PLU DEPUTY. Frustrated a Hvld-tp and Lay in Wait for the Robbers. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., October 3.— Conducior Sam Headey of the passenger train from the west, recently “held up,” tells the following story of the affair: “When the train reached the Rio Puerco water tank Engineer Ross said that a pin in the engine was out of gear, but he thought he could go up the divide. The conductor thought not, and just as the gineer was about to fix the pin three mask- ed men jumped on the engine and the shooting commenced. A laniern was shot out of the hands of the brakeman, after which the engineer was told to uncouple the engine and express car from the train. Deputy United States Marshal Loomis,who has been down in Arizona on the trail of southern New Mexico bandits, was on his return to this city, and he left the smoking car when the first shot was fired. He took deliberate aim at one of the robber: ing him through the head. The for a hundred yards and dropped dead. ‘The other robbers retreated to the Mal- pais, where their voices calling for their comrades could be heard.” Conductor Headey states that Loomis re- mained at Rio Puerco, expecting the rob- bers to return for their dead companion, while Selvy met the posse of officers at Auantic and Pacific junction, and returned with the party to Rio Puerco. The hold up was a failure financially, the robbers securing no money. It is thought the robbers are members of the same gang that robbed the Separ post office a few weeks ago, and that have been terrorizing the southern part of New Mexico, and that the man who was Killed and whose name was Young was thcre. BIG FIRE AT CAMDEN. Loss Estimated at $100,000 Caused by Burned Mill CAMLEN, N.J., October 3.—The worsted mills of Ackroyd & Scull and Sheimer & Boyer, covering nearly half a block at Point and Pearl streets, this city, were de- stroyed by fire today. The flames origina! ed from spontaneous combusion in the weol picker rocm of Ackroyd & ‘Scull's mill. The two mills gave employment to about 300 persons, and the flames spread sc rapidly that there were some narrow escapes. but nobedy was hurt. Ackroyd & Scull’s loss is estimated at $65,000. Sheimer & Boyer lose about $35,000. Covered by in- surance. ee eee Death of Mrs. Dab: News has been received here of the death at Charlottesville, Va., after a short illness, of the wife of Prof. Walter Dabney of the University of Virginia, and late solicitor of the Department of State. SCENES OF DISTRESS Devastation Caused in Florida by the Hurricane. HOMELESS AND STARVATION IN SIGHT Crops Destroyed and Farms Cov- ered With Trees. MANY FAMILIES DESTITUTL —— 6 JACKSONVILLE, Fla., October 3.—Fur ther advices from the region devastated by the recent storm say no one can conceive of the situation of the people of the west- ern part of Alachua and Levy, and the eastern part of Lafayette counties. Left homeless, with no food, the cotton crop de. stroyed, and no resources at hand, starva tion stares them in the face. So serious. indeed, is their situation, that the people who have visited them are earnestly advo: cating a special session of the legislature tc make some provision for them. In the western part of Alachua county, where thousands of people Mved, most of whom were well-to-do-farmers, all of their homes have been destroyed, together with the pro- visions they had stored for winter, At Yule the storm made a cleaner path than at any other point. Not a tree re- mains standing, every store is down, and all parts of the buildings were carried for three miles. Goods, such as clothing and dress fabrics, were found five miles away tossed around trees or floating in the Su wanee river. The people have gather what lumber they could find, and with 2 have made a camp, in which men, women and children are being sheltered by the hundreds. Their food is nearly gone. They cannot use wagons or horses to get a fresh supply, but have sent men to Brandford and they will make an effort to bring gro- ceries down the Suwanee river in a boat. Nearly every house in Lafayette county has been destroy: Nothing is left at Mayo, the county seat. East of the Su- wanee river the probable loss to the phos- phate plants is estimated at $00,000. In Lafayette county the valuable cedar forests are lost. Stock has been killed by the hundreds. All crops have been destroy. ed and hundreds of people are in distress hey have no homes and nothing to t. To aad to their distress their farms are covered with trees, which will have to be joved before the farms can be cultivated extine men on either side of the lly ruined. AN had in- they pos: din ter- pentine lands and stills, and ev destroyed. Nearly all charged every laborer means that at least 2,5 employment. Most of the laborers, many of whom have famuiies, must live on charity until thes can find something to do. In Suwanee county many houses were unroofed and fences blown down. To clear the roads of ~ trees will cost Alachua county five thou- sand dollars. There are twenty-two turpentine stills, with their equipment camps, hands and teams, between Lake City and Cedar Key and not one of these will ever run an- other charge, all the timber being distro; ed. Yule, a town of 300 people, with fifteen or twenty business houses, is gone. The citizens called a mass meeting and appointed a committee to solicit aid for the sufferers. Similar action has been taken acClenny, Baker county. Every phos- ate plant in the vicinity of Fort White, Columbia county, is a total wreck. The turpentire people are completely ruined. Hardly a tree is left standing, the stills are all biown down and torn up, their houses all wrecked and many mules killed Hundreds of people are out of employment The suffering will be great, and assistance ytbing is of them have dis- they had. This 0 men are out of has already been asked for, and the mayor rnor for vy counties 209 families are reported destitute, and in the town of Hilliard, Nassau county, be- tween Jacksonville and Waycross, the in habitants are homeless and without food The charitable contributions of other states will almost cer ly be required to allevi- ate the suffering. — TAYLOR COMMITT! TO JAIL. Held Without Bail for the Grand Jury's Action. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., October 3.—Henry Taylor, colored, employed as a servant in the family of Dr. C. J. Maddox, at this place, was last evening arrested on charge of committing a felonious assault upon Grace Brannon, a colored girl fourteen years of age, at her home, about one mile from here. 2 The accused had a hearing at 10 o'clock today before Justice Scheirer, the state be ing represented by Alex. Kilgour, state's attorney, and the accused by C. Peter. The evidence given py the victim of the asseult was to the effect that Taylor made his appearance at her home in t M of the family, and despite her struggl complished his purpose. Dr. Edward Anderson testified found evidences of the assault. Mr. Albert W. Lewis, agent for the board of directors of the Asylum for Colored Wo- men and Children of the District of Co- lumbia, testified that the girl had been an inmate of the asylum, and that she had af- that he terward been adopted by the Brannon family. ‘aylor was held without bail for the grand jury and was committed to jail There was a large crowd at the hearing. _ SECRETARY HERBERT RETURNS. A Large Number of Distinguished Arrivals From Europe. NEW YORK, October 3.—Among ‘oday's arrivals from Europe were H. A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy; Winston Churchill, son of the late Lord Randolph Chur-hill; Moreton Frewen of England, ex-Mayor Thomas F. Gilroy of New York, Cla Mackay, son of John W. Thomas P. Ochiltree of Texas, Polk, United States consul genera’ cutta; Ada Rehan, the actress: the Rey. Dr. D. H. Greer of New York, the Rev. J. J. Kane, chaplain U.S.N.; ex-Judge John F. Dillon of New York, the lord bishop of Nassau, N. P.; Ben Ali Haggin and Prof. Carl Lemburg. or « at Cal > Rending Sale Confirmed. PHILADELPHIA, October %.—Judge Acheson, in the United States court, today confirmed the sale of the property of the Reading Railroad, Coal and Iron Companier under the foreclosure proceedings. He overruled all the motions for arrest of judgment and other proceedings instituted in opposition to the sale. — A Thirteen-Year-Old Suicide. NEW YORK, October 3.—Rudoiph Per- cival, eged thirteen years, committed sul- cide today by hangirg himself with a piece of rubber tubing. The act, for which no explanation is given, was performed while the child’s mother was away from home on an errend. —_ The President's Return. BUZZARD’S BAY, Mass., October 3.—It is reported today that President Cleveland and family will take their departure from Gray Gables next week, but the day has not been decided upon.