The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 16, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1898, AGNEWS MANAGEMENT WINKS AT IMMORALITY TAKES NO ACTION TOWARD PURIFYING- THED NSTITUTION There May Not Be Even an In- quiry Unless Governor Budd Demands It. SAN JOSE, July 16. have been tendered, no requests for an investigation have been made by the acc and no definite steps have been by the management of the um to clear the moral at- sed tak 1y since the startling charges # murder and immorality were first 1 publicity the people have been : of these things to As the matter now stands the oceur. in tions are that at least a month will go by before the work of moral fumigation will begin unless the Gov- ernor has the courage to perform his duty by demanding that something be done ediately by the board of man- agers of the establishment to show the public that it is desirous of having the State hospital freed from the terrible incubus of suspicion that now welghs it down. Chairman Curnow, who has the power to call a special meeting of the board, evidently is disinclined to take responsibility of dolng so, while Trustee Hale is of the opinion that a n for a special meeting would come with good taste from him. rman Curnow to-day, after ng that The Call's history of hod by which the appointments gnews was correct: ate with the other the calling of a to Investigate the some of the attaches ylum and see what they are d to do. 't think those charges against illott and Mrs. Madigan are ed. I have been investigat- and the evidence Is very weak. g st des So far as Dr. Sponogle is concerned, I know nothing of his prior history ex- cept by hearsay.” Dr. Curnow did not care to discuss the character of the hearsay history he had heard. When Mr. Hale was asked what he was disposed to do in the matter of having a s 1 meeting called he said “If a special meeting is thought" de- sirable by the chairman of the board hairman of the management iGould), I am ready and to attend it at any time and ,r any purpose whatever.” to what he thought of the of calling a special meet- £ ans ed: I think the chairman of the board nd the chairman of the management mittee ought to matter.” In endeavoring to ex charges of murder and criminal de against him by Detectiv Erwin luced the yellow :0 to publish a An nci ment attacking in a most unmanly unwarranted manner the former on of tk ylum, Miss Ella Royce, who took no part whatever in the pro- t the bx d’'s meeting on 1 Part of the medical explanation was as harges are p ave no urel the result of tion in fact. wult me ry, as r their dis- e late re- , and it week, to be intervie she knows of the a but in view of Dr. Sponogle's action in bringing her name into the matter she made the following statement to-day: Sc far I have had nothing to about this affair, but as Dr. Sponogle attacked me I feel that in justice self I must make an explanation. 1 did not take any pledge before the | board or anywhere else of the charac- | ter the doctor ascribes to me. I don't understand why Dr. Sponogle should say this. “At the time I was before the board on May 26, the day that I resigned, in answer to a flimsy charge made by Miss Bambauer, they questioned me about the nurses under my charge, and 1 told them, as was the case, that their work very satisfactory. There was no occasion for such an inquiry what- and I intimated as much and sug- d that their attentfon might be turned with more profit to Dr. Spon- ogle, who was present at the time. I told the board that he weas unfit for the position he held; that he was an im- moral man; that' he lacked manhood and Integrity, and that no lady could as te with him without losing her t. All the members of the 08 e present except Mr. Upham. And as for Dr. Sponogle’ having oc- casion to correct me I think it would be well for the State to employ a guar- dian for him, as he is irresponsible for any thing he dos Objections have been urged by some membe of the board who have been identified with the Gould combination to going into an investigation without formal written charges being filed. evidently have forgoten that Miss less than two months ago, was d on the carpet to answer to some petty charges brought against her by s Bambauer, Gould’s Merced impor- tation. But the situation was differ- ent then. Gould cracked the whin and his creatures in the board sat ready to “crack through” his programme, re- gardless of legal or other formalities. They also overlook the fact that these charges were directly called to their at- tention in an open : meeting of the board, and that there is at their dis- posal an affidavit which states facts sufficient to warrant and in fact, mor- ally comnel the board io take imme- diate cognizance of them. The docu- ment referred to is that of Mrs. Wil- liams, which was published in The Call of Thursday. But, to paraphrase, the trail of the serpent is over it all. Gould accepted the responsible position of trustee of determine that | N No resignations | the Agnews State Hospital, not for the good he could do for the State or for the fnstitution, but for the means !t | afforded {1tal for This fact he made plain when the grab age was at its height. marked to one of n board that he simply wanted the posi- tion as a means whereby he could con- trol influence to inflate his self-inaug- urated boom. of making Gould political cap- for Governer. for patron- He openly re- Another insurmountable reason why Dr. Sponogle should not occupy the po- sition of medical superintendent at Agnews has been discovered. He not legally qualified. At the last ses- on of the Legislature an 't ssed which made it neces: the gentleman appointed to th mentioned must have had five years’ that AT previous experience in an institution of this kind. Dr. Sponogle has not had this experience. from the board as to why they appoint- ed him under these c why he continues to be retained. The public is now asking, “What dozs the board of managers propose to do in this matter, and when?" “AGNEWS ASYLUM IS ROTTEN TO THE CORE.” | Mrs. Chaplin, Once an Attache of the Hospital, Makes Sensa- tional Disclosures. “Agnews Asylum is rotten to core! I know all about that iInstitu- tion and what there.” 5 So said Mrs. M. D. Chaplin last even- ing. she was suspended for two weeks, un- il the board met, by Dr. Sponogle, who |could give no reason for this ac- tion other than that he was carrying out the Instructions of Mr. Gould. Mrs. Chaplin was head attendant of one of suspended with | the wards, and was | several other women. | manded the reason for my suspension,” was cruelty. I thought this was very strange, indeed, as I had been doing very well for six months, and particu- |larly so in the violent wards. I then went to Mr. Hale, who said he had | signed & paper because Gould had sent |1t to him for that purpose. Mr. Up- ham and Mr. White are never consult- ed, and they are entirely out in the cold. They cut no figure whatever, al- | though they are honorable men. “When the board met, Gould came into the board room and asked me why I was trying to slander him and his, meaning his half-brother, Tourtillott. | I replied that T was not slandeping any- | body, but was simply doing my duty. The scandal had been told to Dr. Spon- | ogle and the matron, but had - never | been acted upon. “To go back a little, let me tell you | that Gould's appointees could/do any- | thing they pleased. During Dr. Hatch's | time, Gould sent to Agnews a woman named Miss Bambauer, who at once | began makin~ so much trouble that the doctor was obliged to send her home. Six or seven months ago, after Dr. ponogle was In charge, this woman re- turned. The matron was out that even- ing, and I was attending to her du- ties. I assigned Miss Bambauer to a | room which didn’t suit her. She be- | came indignant and said that Mr. Gould had told her she could have a certain room and she wanted it. N»o other room was good enough for her. | ‘“‘She immediately began domineering over everybody, and would take privi- | leges allowed to no one else, such as taking a bath in the middle of the day and going to sleep. She soon got the matron into trouble. The matron is | gone, ald now Miss Bambauer is the acting matron. Whenever Miss Bam- | bauer wanted a day off she simply said she was going to the city, and away | she went. At all times she ran things | with a_high hand. When Gould was 7 | married the announcement acted like an electric shock bauer. ference. “There are others in the institution who ought to come out and tell what they know about Tourtillott and Mrs. Madigan. Kerns, the night watchman, | could tell enough about that happy | pair to fill a volume of a decidedly racy character. He has often found them | holding a session in the laundry as | late as 12 o’clock at night, as well as | In every out-of-the-way place about | the institution. Mrs. Madigan’s light ‘h.us been seen burning as late as 4 | o’clock In the morning, she not having | returned to her room. Miss Fogarty | has frequently gone into her room and turned out the light, and always | noticed that the bed had not been oc- | cupled. “One night a supernumerary attendant came to see me about being relieved from duty, and together we went to ask Miss Roy the matron, about it. We knocked at Tourtillott’s door for some considerable time, and flnally out w:a]kpd Mrs. Madigan. It was 12 o'cloek. Now, what do you think of that? It was her business to be on the ward at 10 o'clock. If any of the rest of us had done anything like that we wouldn’t have remained there twenty- | four vhnurs. | _“When the board met I exposed all | these things. Gould saild I was slan- | dering everybody, and some of the | trustees asserted that I was simply talking for spite. Dr. Sponogle was asked if he had any charges or any complaint to make against me, and he sald he had not, as I had done my duty in every respect. As to cruelty, he said not one of the charges could be proved. I accordingly took it for granted that I would be reinstated. Gould, however, stormed around and said that I had caused all the mischief, that I could not get along with the other girls, and that I had to go, and I went. “The Madigan woman is about 30 years of age, of medium height, with dark halr and dark eyes, and rather attractive both in manners and appear- ance. Miss Bambauer is as lank as a telegraph pole and a good ways from being youthful. She is the terror of Agnews. I took a flve days’ vacation, and while I was gone she bribed the | patients with candy to tell a lot upon Miss Bam- You can draw your own in- | | perfectly s colleagues of the is was e position An explanation is due umstances and the has been going on She was employed at Agnews for the year ending February 1S last, when | “I at once went to Mr. Gould and de- said Mrs. Chavlin, “and he told me it DR. J. R. CURNOW, President of the Board of Trustees of Agnews Asylum. not have come out if they had not dis- cnaiged the girls.” SPONOGLE ACCUSED BY HIS WIFE’S SISTER rull Investigation of Mrs. Spono- gle’s Death Was Demanded, But Never Made. A woman prominent in Oakland social circles, who prefers not to have her Agnews Asylum scandal, in an inter- view yesterday stated that while acting as secretary of the Mutual Companions’ Endowment Soclety of Healdsburg some ten years ago, she received a let- ter from a sister of Dr. F. M. Sponogle’s former wife, now deceased, in which he was charged with having compelled her to join the society so that in the event of death he could reap the in- surance of $3000, and that since joining she had been in fear of her life. She demanded an investigation Sponogle’s sudden demise, but her wish was not granted owing to the pleadings of Charles Weitman, a brother of the dead woman. The lady further stated that the let- ter was suppressed at the earnest and tearful request of the brother and would still be in her possession but for a trick played on her by Dr. Kauffman, a resident of Healdsburg at that time, but now in the East. “Dr. Kauffman,” she sald, “was a bosom friend of Dr. Sponogle until they fell out over a question of compensa- tion. Dr. Kauffmann came to my home soon after Mrs. Sponogle’s death and as a member of our organization. I brought it to him and after he had ex- amined it he smiled in a satisfying manner and said he would return it to me after he had shown it to his brother Masons. That is the last I have seen of the letter. “After Dr. Sponogle recovered from his injuries received In being thrown from his buggy he and his wife went on a visit to Sacramento. While there she was taken suddenly ill and died. It was afterward learned that a pimple made its appearance on her face and the doctor attended her. Whether he used his own instruments in trying to remove the excrescence or another phy siclan did was not definitely learned. At 2ll events she died and the cause was assigned to blood-poisoning. The news of her sudden taking off caused every resident of Healdsburg to suspect foul play and open charges were made agalnst Dr. Sponogle. Mrs. Sponogle’s body was placed in a receiving vault at the Oakland cemetery pending develop- ments. When an inspection was made of the body as it lay in the vault it was so distorted that it was unrecognizable, “The $3000 insurance was paid over to the doctor by the society without a pro- test, the check being signed by Mrs. S. B. Wood, a bosom friend of the dead woman."” SPONOGLE SPEAKS, BUT TO NO PURPOSE Accuses His ex-Brother-in-Law and Is Promptly Branded as a Liar. Dr. F. M. Sponogle has at last been induced to break the silence with which he had shrouded himself after the ter- rible charge of murder was informally made_against him at a meeting of the board of managers of the Agnew Asy- lum for the Insane by Detective Erwin Frost. On that occasion Frost de- mandéd an investigation into charges against Sponogle in connection with his office as medical superintendent and in his remarks to the board said that Sponogle had murdered his first wife for the insurance money on her life. In response to Frost's request for an investigation Sponogle hung his head and maintained a science thatcreated a very unfavorable impression against him. It was expected that in the face of a charge so terrible, so damning, the accused vnerson would indig- nantly deny the charge and denounce its author as a scoundrel and a liar. It would not have appeared unnatural even if the doctor had sprung upon the detective then and there and killed him—that is if the doctor were innocent of the charge. That is what most other men would have done under similar circumstances. But the doctor con- trolled himself. There being no woman in the case but a dead one the task of self control was easy. As before stated the doctor has con- sented to speak. His reply is given to a morning paper in this city. It con- sists first of a general denial of all the charges. “I didn’t do it,” is the key oif note of his sad song. While denying name mentioned in connection with the | asked to see the letter, basing his right | | lies about me. All these things would | the accusations he abuses the witnesses axfalnsl him and would have the public | | infer that those witnesses had con- spired together to ruin him without any possible gain to themselves. His state- ment is most part as follows: Frost is, I conslder, purely acting as the agent of 'those who have employed him. His charges, I suppose, were given to him by a brother-in-law 6f mine, Henry S. Weltman, who Is my bitter enemy, be- cause I stopped supplying him with money | with which to carouse and gamble. This man, who is known to be worthless, was in San Jose a short time ago, and I sup- pose told Frost a list of false stories re- garding me. . Frost accused me of pofsoning my first wife in order to secure insurance money, | when, as a matter of fact, my first wife of Mrs. | dled in Sacramento of acute 8 in 1883, She was attended by Drgfcsinztets‘: and Nelson of that city at the time of her {ilness, and no such thing as a sus- picious circumstance in connection with her death was ever dreamed of until this brother-in-law came from the East and tried to make me support him under the threat of accusing me of poisoning his sister. T will never consent to be black- mailed by anybody. The story of a difficulty in Fresno with a young girl whom Frost intimates that I mistreated and paid $4000 as hush money has for its meager foundation the fact that in 1883 a widow German woman in that city, who owed me a large bill for medical services, trled to blackmail me by crying out from my operating room that 1 had insulted her. I demanded an investigation, which was held before Judge Austin, and produced evidence to show that the woman had not been in the operating room for a minute and that the allegations she made were impossible and utterly false. I was completely exoner- ated from the charge and the affair was recognized as a blackmailing scheme by all famillar with the circumstances. The charges of Charles Willlams before the board of managers were a great sur- prise to me. Before Mrs. Willlams, known to us as Miss Barnheisel, was dropped, she took occasion to come to me and express her thanks for the cour- tesy I had shown her while here. I never subjected the young woman to any medi- cal examination whatever and only pre- scribed for her on one occasion here. I am open to investigation at any time. S. H. Weitman, whom Sponogle des- ignates as a “worthless” man, was re- cently in the drug business on Broad- way, Oakland, and is at present a stu- dent in the California Medical College. He brands Sponogle's statements re- ferring to himself as unqualifiedly false. He says that he never saw Sponogle to know him since 1882, when he met him in Battle Mountain, Ne- vada. Since that time he has seen the doctor only once, and that was in Oc- tober or November, 1889, when Weit- man was employed in the California Pottery and Terra Cotta Company at the intersection of Market and Larkin streets in this city. On that occasion T. 8. Chambers, an uncle of Sponogle’s second wife, was with the doctor. “I told Sponogle at that time,” said Weitman, “that he had murdered my sister for the $6000 insurance upon her life. He then asked to see the man- ager and I told him that the manager was out; that he would be in shortly, and that I would be there, too, when Sponogle talked to him. I then or- dered him out of the place and I said: ‘You —, I'll kill you.' I went and got a gun, and he left. That is the only time I ever saw him to know him since 1882. I told him then and there that he murdered my sister and I will tell him the same to-day. My sister died in Sacramento in 1883. The mat- ter was hushed up and there was no public investigation. I was in the East at the time.” The tears stood In Weitman’s eyes when he spoke of his dead sister, ““With reference to his statement that he had refused to supply me with money with which to carouse and gam- ble, I wish to say that I never asked him for a cent and never got a cent from him, and I defy him to prove it,” added Weitman. CORBETT AND MW’COY MATCHED TO FIGHT Articles Signed for a Contest in Buf- falo for $20,000, Winner to Take All NEW YORK, July 15.—Articles of agree- ment for a fight between James G. Cor- bett and “Kid” McCoy, the match to take place at the Hawthorne Athletic Club of Buffalo on September 10, were signed in this city to-day. M. C. Gray signed for the Hawthorne Club, George F. Considyne for Corbett and W. B. Gray for McCoy. The pfima is to be $20,000, the winner to take all. ———— Archibishop Galpoint Dead. TUCSON, Ariz., July 15—The Most Rev. Archbishop Salpoint of the diocese of Santa Fe died here to-day, after an {ll- ness of several weeks, from paralysis. He been in charge of this diocese for more than thirty years. —_———————— Henry W. Chapman writes on How to Succeed as a Salesman, in next Sunday’s Call. BETRAYED BY LEGISLATURE O Bill Rushed Correspondence of The Call. HONOLULU, July 8—The Legisla- ture of Hawali was prorogued at 6 o’clock last evening to the great relief of the members and the greater satis- faction of the people. In viciousness of conduct in matters of vital interest to the welfare of the people it has trans- tive assemblies which preceded it in the days of the monarchy, when personal influences occacionally influenced legis- lation but had the honesty to allow the people to have a fair proportion of the profits emanating from the deals. resentatives elected by only 1917 votes out of a population of over 100,000, of whom 26,000 are Hawaiians or part Ha- wallans and 13,000 Americans and Eu- ropeans, represented themselves and the interests they were elected to rep- resent. In their absolute certainty of obtaining annexation they have made themselves ridiculous and obnexious by perversely working against the will of the people in every way and in pander- ing to the pockets of the rich. It is too difficult to select any good or bene- ficlal acts that thev have passed or any good work that they have done, but the following may be registered among the unpardonable faults they have com- mitted. They have increased salaries from the Ministers downward to an undue and tions and circumstances of the country for experimental purposes on the eve of their retirement from office. The in- crease of salaries dates from January 1, so that the officials will have a sub- | | carelessly engrossed. stantial sum with which to pay thelr Permit Unlimited Coolie Immigration. Promises toUncle Sam Also Broken| on the Obnoxious Contract -Labor Law. unnecessary degree, which the condi- | do not justify, and created new offices | F HAWAIL Through to board bills should they be ousted from | office by annexation. | { They have foully murdered the| | bill introduced by Mr. Gear to Te- | peal the obnoxious penal clause of “ | the labor contract law; that bill | | which they so faithfully promised | the people of the United States | they would only vote for annexation. | | When they found that the necessary | | votes had been obtained they turned | | around and tricked the people on the | | last day of the extra session by lay-| The fifteen Senators and fifteen Rep- | ing the bill on the table at the be- | Hawa! hest of their bosses, the planters. But perhaps one of the most re- | markable incidents that has ever oc- | curred in a so-called respectable | ! Legislature took place in the throes | of its suicidal agony yesterday. | That was the railroading through in !a very few minutes of the bill of | Minister Cooper to amend the laws | ‘ relating to Chinese {mmigration. As | | I have already pointed out in this| | correspondence this bill practically | | permits unlimited and unrestricted | | Chinese labor immigration and un-| | less some action is promptly taken | by the United States Chinese labor-| evs will within the next few months | { be flocking in by the thousands. Another bill through on the same afternoon in a | most extraordinary manner was th | rapid transit act, granting a franchi for an opposition street railroad com- pany. This bill had already passed with an amendment, which had been | It might have | which was railroaded | NEW YORK, Jul Buda Pest. The cau i& Michigan ship builder. estate $40,000 a year. coaxing on the part of the mother. ter was won. The betrothal was Interesting to conti ences. nuptials were held on May giving the benediction. witnesses for the groom. ure of the Prince. couple. Princess gave a grand dinner and ball ) vaudeville stage. PRINCESS OF Passing of the American Heiress Who Wedded a| Prince and Eloped With a Gypsy. 15.—The Princess of Chimay (nee Clara Ward) {s dead at of her death is said to have been milk fever. Clara Ward was the only daughter of Captain Eber Ward, the millionaire She was born in Detroit during the panic of 1873, which, though it diminished Captain Ward’'s great wealth, leit him still a multi-mil- lionaire. After his death Mrs. Ward went on extensive travels, marrying Alex- | ander Cameron, a banker-lawyer of Windsor, Canada, on her return. Later the Camerons moved to Toronto, where Clara lived until 14 years old. Bhe went to school in London for three yvears. She spent all that and more. the time had come for a suitable alliance. sunlight, the home where so many romances have been written for centurfes, At Nice Miss Ward met a Belgian nobleman of high degree, who was to make her Princess of the great house of Chimay and Caraman. She pressed the Prince’s suit and the daugh- | in which the Prince moved. His life had been gay and interwoven with experi- The mansion of the family is in the little city of Chimay, south of Belgium. The 30, 1829, in Paris, Monsignor Rotelle, the papal nuncio, The wedding presents were gorgeous. Mr. Whitelaw Reld, the American Minister to France, were witnesses for the bride, and Baron Deyens, the Belgian minister, and the Duc de Frezensac, were It was very romantic for a while, but the Princess’ nature was opposed to so- clal life and the spirit of adverture began to assert itself, much to the displeas- He began to hear rumors of his wife's infidelity and at one time threatened to bring sult for divorce, but fear of a scandal prevented it. even the birth of two children could bridge the On February 21 18%, the anniversary of her ‘was seeking for rellef from the fashionable world. cafes of Paris incognito, trying to please her whims. It was a hunt for happi- ness. Her nature had not found it in wealth and titles. Bhe fastened her fancy on a Hungarian gypsy, who had nothing she had ex- cept'the keen spirit of adventure and love of song. She heard him play one night in one of the Parisian cates. He was tall and well proportioned. “Rokoczy March” charmed the Princess and after a fow nights’ visits she had falleii a victim to the music and song of the strolling minstrel Janos Rigo. So it did not surprise those who knew the Princess Chimay and Caraman to hear afterward that she deserted her husband and two children and becamse the companion of the Hungarlan Tzigano, The Princess separtated from Rigo in 1897 and commenced sult for divorce. The following month she was granted a divorce with alimony. in April, 1897, that the Princess was to come to New York and appear on the Bhe afterward was engaged to appear on a music hall stage at Berlin, but was prevented by the police. DEAD CHIMAY Clara received from her father's Her mother vegan to think They sought the Italian sky and It only required little nental soclety, particularly to the circle Lord Lytton and Not chasm that separated the twenty-first birthday, the Meanwhile her subtle nature She wandered among the in Paris. The thrilling It was reported | Hawaiian | and Isadore been purely a typewriter’s error, but it contalned the wholesome sized ‘nig- ger,” giving to the company the right of eminent domain over public as well as private property. Another bill slaughtered was the opium licensing bill, or, rather, a biil to regulate the use of opium and abol- ish smuggling. A joint 1 lution, suggesting to the executive the retention of the Hawalian flag as a State or Territorial flag in the event of annexation, was passed by the House, but killed by the coolie- loving Senate. Another measure which was much desired, but which was eventually slaughtered by one vote by the Senate, was the income tax bill—a plan by which the rich would contribute their fair share to the burthen of taxation as well as the poor. A number of excellent bills were also killed, and the voluminous reports on the inefficiency of the condition of the public service were practically pig- eonholed by reference to the Ministers of the several departments. A resolution of suggestion to the ex- ecutive for the pardoning and restora- tion to civil rights of the political pris- oners of 1895 was defeated, and, in fact, all that could be done to prevent the consumm: m of harmony between the and the aliens was done by ature. this Leg: Owing to the anticipation of the ar- rival of annexation with the United States transports there was no Ameri- can or Hawaiian celebration of the Fourth of July, except by a horse race and a baseball game. The American Minister, however, held an officlal re- ception, to which were invited the members of the Government, the dlp- lomatic and consular corps, the officers of the United States warships then in port, the Mohican, Monadnock and Nero, and the editors of the local press. Mr. Sewall was in excellent spirits and freely expressed his opinion that an- nexation was closer than anticipated by its opponents.. He held that he had been selected for this post of honor cended the efforts of the worst legisla- | ghoyld be triumphantly passed if | to promote and obtain annexation, and that it would be obtained during his incumbency. He admitted that in this respect he was a very bitter partisan, but none the less preserved his respect and friendship for those who conscien- tiously differed from him. President Dole s happy and hoped that the an flag would be permitted to wave over us when we should become a Territory. There was not an ab- sentee from the ranks of the diplomatic or consular corps. H ORACE WRIGHT. COLONEL GEORGE STONE IS CHOSEN PRESIDENT National Republican League Selects a San Franciscan for Its Leader. OMAHA, July 15.—Col. George Stone, of San Francisco, the president of the California State League, was elected president of the National Republican League at this morning’s concluding ses- sfon. It was a close vote between him and J. Cookman Boyd of Baltimore on the ot, which stood: Stone 521, Boyd N..Dingley of Sobel of Penr some one in the convention, d delegate or pretending to be t the fifty votes of Virginia, a An effort I a Mary to cz State not rep: nted in the convention it all, for Boyd, along with Stone’s still hunt® er'since he came, he being the te on the ground, and Pen i 13 votes to Stone and Illino gave the election to Stone on the very next ballot. D. H. Stine of D . Ky.. who had been made the secret to_fill out the \expired term ."J. Downing of Minn., was_elected secretary n and M. D. Young of Penn- o m Judge E. P. 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