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HEBREW CONVENTION.
Meeting and Address of
Welcome.
Felix Adler's Name Creates an
Exciting Scene.
Permanent Organization Effected

New YORK, July S.-Maritz 10th
Of Cincinnati, president of the Union
called the convention to order, and
prayer was offered by Rev. DIR. Gott-
he'll. Coroner Ellinger delivered an
address of welcome to the delegates.
He hoped this union of congregations
would last as long in this country as in
Judaism.
Simon Wolf, of Washington, was
chosen temporary chairman; A. Bis
enger, of st. Louis, temporary secre-
tary. Committees were then appoint
ed on credentials and permanent
organization, and when these retired
DR.. Sonnenscheim, of st. Louis, by
request, made an address. He con-
graduated the delegates on such a
large gathering of representatives of
Judaism from both radical and con-
servatiye branches. He said he was
glad they had met in Sturtevant Hall,
made memorable by the preachings of
Prof Felix Adler.
This sentiment created a good deal
OF excitement and some of the dele
gates called the speaker to order.
Half dozen delegates were on their
feet addressing the chairman, but the
uprOar was so great their voices could
hardly be heard. A motion to take a
recess until the committees were
ready to report was lost,
DR.. Sonpepscheim then concluded
his remarks, which we're of congrat-
platory nature, at the success of the
Union The committee on credentials
reported favorably on over 200 dele
gates, and the report was adopted,
The committee on permanent organ
ization reported the following for Off
GERS President, William II. Hacken
berg, Philadelphia; vice president,
Moritz Ellinger New York; secre-
tary, Lipman Levy, Cincinnati assist
ant secretary, A, Bisenger, 81. Louis,
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Indications.

WASHINGTON, July 8.AFor Ten
nessee and Ohio valleys southwest,
yeering to cooler northwest winds,
clear or clearing weather, followed by
local storms and stationary or rising
barometer.
For upper Mississippi and lower
Missouri valleys and upper lake re-
gion, northwest winds, rising baron
eter, stationary or higher tempera-
ures and clear or partly cloudy
weather. possibly followed in the Mis-
souri, valley by falling barometer and
southeast winds.
For lower lake region and middle
States, warmer southwest, veering to
cooler northwest winds, falling, fol.
lowed by stationary or rising barome-
ter, cloudy and rainy, followed by
clearing weather.
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The bill introduced into the house
Of representatives to prohibit the col
lection Of money from the office. hold
ers for campaign purposes was defeat
cd by Republican flibustering No
action could be had on the measure.
What the party has been doing for
many years it is still doing-the Presi-
dents civil l-service reform to the on
trary Notwithstanding. The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York
Journal of Commerce writes as fol-
lows Agents of the Republicans
campaign committee are exacting un-
usually large contributions from gov
ernment clerks. Last Friday, pay day,
these fellows were on hand, and as Of
ficials and clerks were paid of, they
were asked to turn over a liberal
amount for the Ohio and Maine elec-
tions In the third auditors Office OF
the treasury department alone seven
hundred dollars were thus raised. All
the clerks of the second comptroller's
Office, except one, responded, and that
ones name and political record was
asked for and noted. This sort Of
thing is going on throughout the de-
partments. The bleeding process
is being applied with extraordinary
yigor and success"
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First Edition.
z O'CLOCK. P. N.
BY CABLE.
The Man Who Furnished SOIiviefF
3 with Pistol and Poison.
Enthusiastic Reception Held by
Prince Alexander.
IOhn Bull Discovers Diseased American
Mutton.
UnfavOrabIe Reports from the French
Wheat Harvest.


ST. PETERSBURG, July 81 DR..
Weimer, who furnished Solivieff with
the pistol and poison at the time he
attempted to shoot the emperor, is a
friend of Joachim Gaslen, the reyolu-
tionary agitator and editor of Der
Glockner, now in exile, and who was
expelled from Geneva several months
ago.
VARNA, July 8.-Prince Alexander,
.of Bulgaria, held here an enthusiastic
reception.
LIVERPOOL, July 8.-Diseased
sheep, slaughtered, arrived in steamer
Bulgaria, from Boston, June 21st.
PARIS, July S.-De Lesseps stated
at the last meeting of the Geographi-
cal Society that he did not think the
total expenses of the construction Of
the Darien canal will exceed $1,000,
900 francs. The difficulties of the work
are not so formidable as those which
had to be overcome in the construction
Of the Suez canal, as a railway already
existed along the course of the pro-
posed Panama canal, with a large
town at each extremity,
LONDON, July S.-The Times says
the frlAness Of French exchange j:
due to the prospect for demand fol
gold for the United States in conse-
quence of deficient harvest. Ac-
counts from the French wheat grow,
ing districts are certainly unfavorable
but looking at the enormous accumu-
lation of gold, both here and on the
continent, it seems rather premature
to speculate on the probable effects o
the drain thereof to America. TIL,
contingency Of the Americans prefer
ring to take their own bonds, as was
the case last year, must be considered
and the probabilities are in favor O.
some Improvement in our genera
business with America. 1t is also too
early to assume that European har
vests will be seriously deficient.
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River TeIegrans.

CAIRO, July S.-No arrivals or de-
partures. Weather fair and hot.
II CINCINNATI, July S.-Arrived Vir-
gie Lee, Florence Meyer. No depart.
ures River 6 feet 5 inches and rising
slowly, Weather sultry
PETrsBURG, July S.-Tho river is /
foot | inch and falling. Weather
cloudy and warm.
LOUISVILLE, July S.-The river is
on a stand, with 3 feet A inches in the
canal, and l6 inches on the falls. Ar
riyals-Ben Franklin, Cincinnati; j.
D. Parker, Memphis. peparted-J,
D, Parker, Cincinnati. Business is
dull. Weather warm aud cloudy.
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behind the scenes.

London Expressl
No respectable manager of theater
would dream of allowing outsiders f"
behind the scenes. The business of
the evening is far too serious to admit
of the Interruptions which would nat
urally be caused by visitors" Man.
ayers and artists are accordingly bv
turns highly diverted or Justly indir,
nant when they hear and read the
monstrous fables told of what goes ON
" behind the scenes" Indeed the
very artists themselves often hardly
see each other except on the stage
itself while at the theater. The stage
lover who is leading off with such an
parent tenderness the young lady who
has just accepted his addresses. parts
with her in the wings with but scant
courtesy, for he has probably to hurry
OF to his dressing room for the change
OF costume necessary for the next act
and she has the same reason for flying
the opposite way which leads to the
dressing rooms assigned to the lady
artists, The green room, except in
cases of long waits" is deserted
place, and even then the momentary
expectation of the call boys summons
keeps the attention ever on the alert.
1t is all hard work and business !"
there is no time or opportunity for the
mischief to which a generous public
always imagines actors to be so readily
incliRed. Ghe so-called players" are
earnest men and women, working for
the support of themselves and their
families, according to the special gifts
God has given them. They NAV be
simply amusing those who sit ON the
other side Of the foot-lights, but
they themselves are working hard
sometimes with aching hearts
through the illness or loss of
those nearest and dearest To
them, sometimes struggling with nhys-
ical pain and suffering, because they
know that their bread depends upon
their taithfUlness to their duty, Thev
are as true to their trust and as dill
gent In their work as the members of
any other profession, and as deserving
Of honor. There are black sheen in
every fold, and every profession Is dis.
graced by them-even the clerical
but we are speaking of the majority,
and we tearlessly assert that the great
bulk of those to be found behind the
foot.lights are artists who pursue their
calling with a conscientious devotion
which entities them to the respect and
consideration of the public,
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ADDITIONAL COMMERCIAL.

MEMPms, JulyS.
Sales of cotton were to-day %
bales to spinners. The New York
market at 3 pm. for spots was quiet
middling, l2lo futures at 2l3O pm.
steadler sales 10000 bales. Liverpool
futures at 8 pm. quiet and steady
August and September, 6 29-9Sd No
vember and December, 6 lS-92d. New
Orleans at 2 pm, dull sales 300 bales;
stock, 2l,694 bales,
Receipts of cotton here to-day II
bales Total since September 1st,
3S5,647 bales; shipments to date,
3SO,42O bales. Stock on hand, 61sl
bales Ofthe receipts 5 bales were by
steamer and the remainder by rail.
NEW York, July s, 1922 pm
Cotton opened this forenoon quiet now
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Mr.. HORACE MAYNARD, the Amer,
lean minister, and Mr.. Heap, the con
sui general of the United States at
ConstantinOpie, gave a reception on
the Fourth in honor of the American
anniversary of Independence All the
American residents and msitors were
preseut,r If Horace Maynard had to
pay for the refreshments Il was thin
nourishment. He is one Of the eco
nomical kind--neyer was known to
spend cent unless absolutely necos-
sary,
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is 1T CONWAY
A Tramp With a Red Flag Stirring
Up the Mississippi Negroes,
What He Has to Say About the Milk and
Honey Land Of Kansas.
Special to the courler.Journnl.l

Special to the Courier-Journal.l
WASHINGTON, July 6.-Senator
Lamar has returned from Mississippi
and reports that he was surprised al
the extent Of the exodus fever and at
the prospects for the future. In this
regard he says the colored people are
being excited to the highest pitch by
the stories of the land of milk and
honey they will find in Kansas
Recently a white man, carrying a red
flag, narched through one section OF
the State, spreading the report that
the government had taken up the
exodus question, and would from this
time on furnish all who wished to 60
to Kansas with free transportation and
supplied farm on their arrival in
that promised land. The day and
hour when the free train would pass
were announced, and at the time hun
dreds Of colored people swarmed along
the line of the road for miles, only to
be informed by the railroad officials
that there was no free train.
HUBBELL'S BLUNDER.
The Republican campaign commit
tee is in mess of trouble over the
blunder Of its financial member, Hub
bell, Of Michigan, who, by mistake,
called. upon Turner, of Kentucky, for
money to help support the Greenback
organ. the National View, which he
said was a Radical organ in disguise
The committee prepared circular
stating that Mr.. Hubbell did this on
his own responsibility, but HubbelI
objected to being made a scape,
goat, and threatened, if the circular
was issued, he would write a card
denying its truth and make a state.
ment that the committee held Z
meeting on the subject and it was
decided to do what he was caught in
the act Of doing. The committee
want to throw Hubbell overheard, but
he has been their financial manager
for several campaigns, and will no
be snubbed. The Republicans IN
congress are displeased with the com
mittee generally. 1t is said that
nearly all of the money designated tc
be used in printing speeches was spen
to print the speeches of the member,
OF congress who are on the campaign
committee.
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CHICAGO.
Damage to the Crops in the North
west by the Storm.
Movements of the Mysterious lin
Keere.

CHICAGO, July s. Special dis
patches from various points in Wis
cOnsin and Minnesota give reports of
the storm in the northwest on yester-
day and Sunday night. In many
places the growing crops have been
badly damaged.
The Times claims to have discovered
that Jim Keere has been in the city
for the past week quietly directing the
the movements of his brokers on the
board of trade, and that he left for
New York in private car last night.
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New YORK TRIBUNE: No better
sign of improvement in the times is
needed than that afforded by the rise
in desirable New York city real estate.
The recent sales of the Douglas prop,
erty Oh Fifth and Madison avenues,
opposite the Central Park, is the
latest illustration. This property, con-
sisting Of thirty-fOur lots, was offered
two years ago at auction for less than
100000. 1t has just bepn sold for
something less than 100000 by Mes
srs. R. G. Dun & Co., Of the Mercan-
tile Agency, who owned it, and who
make clear profit of nearly $500, ,O0C
by the operation, receiving in single
cash payment 100000.
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9oAoot v'fooN DutSos
GALVESTON, July 6. Cotton is
quiet. Middling, l2c. Receipts, 9s
bales, Stock, 254O bales. Sales, 25C
bales.
NEW ORLEANS, July s, 11:30 a.m.-
Cotton is quiet. Middling, l2c. Re.
ceipts, III bales. Sales, 25 bales.
LIVERPOOL, July 8, 300 p.m.-
Cotton opened this morning a shade
easier. Uplands, I'd Orleans, z 1-l6d,
Sales, 5000 bales; export, 1000 bales.
Receipts, 200 bales; American, 27OO
bales. Futures opened 3-32d lower.
Deliveries for July, 65@6 q -32d :
July and August, 65@6 27-32d; Au-
gust and September, 6 15-16d; Sep
tembor and October, 6 15-16d: Octo-
Der and November, 6 21-32d66sd
December and January shipments,
6 l1-32d.
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THE HORNE RAPE CASE.
Exploits Of the Greenville Miss, Widow
at Cameron, Missouri.


St. Louis Timcs-J Journal, 6th.l
Several days ago the Times j ournal
published an account of the arrest of
a young artist named Horne on a
charge preferred by a Mrs. Taylor
who represented that she was a widow
from Greenville, Miss. Mrs. Taylor
impressed the st. Louis police with
the belief that she had been lured
into the artists room and that an
assault had been made upon her virtue.
She showed a torn dress and told a
pitiful story Of her wrongs. Horne
was arrested, a charge of attempted
rape preferred and his case comes up
before Judge Cady Monday.
To add to the complication aud in
terest Of the case the Cameron, Mis-
souri,, Observer publishes the account
from the es-Journal and con
tributes the following.
p" We publish the above simply be-
cause the same lady appeared in
Cameron on Thursday evening last
and at once dispatched messenger to
"a son of one of our most respected
farmers, who lives few miles out OF
town, with the information that she
was stopping at the Combs House
and wished to see him. This infor-
nation seemed to alarm the boy, and
he Immediately made his where
abouts unknown, whereupon sho
employed counsel and visited his
family, but failed to find him
or accomplish anything more
than to charge him with any
amount Of crookedness. Here the
case rests at present, she having left
for st. Joe on Monday evening. We
understand that her charges are that
the young man obtained money from
her under false pretences and it is
whispered that she also charges him
with breach Of promise of marriage.
We withhold bis name from publica-
tion, at present, opt Of Difference to
the feelings of bis family, as he is an
inexperienced boy and it is generally
believed by his friends that whatever
his misdeeds may have been, that he
has been led into them by a scheming
woman, many years bis senior"
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AN OLD FALsEHOOD STILL COON as
NEW

Chalmars Is The man who stole seat in
congress by frightening 10000 Republi-
can majority from the polls.-[New York
Tribune. YIN
The Tribune is either grossly ieuo.
rant Of the facts in regard to Chal.
mers election, or is deliberately ma
licious and mendacious as usual
Chalmers carried the district the first
time by his eloquence, shrewd
alliance with the colored leaders. and
a liberal Investment in a brass band.
with which he paraded the district
from end to end in a four horse wagon.
II was as good a show as circus,
and was free 1t is also said that the
captains Of the colored hosts made
rather a liberal use of cheap whisky
and cheaper watermelOns. The colored
population outnumber the white at
least five to one. There was no dis
turbance during the canvass and none
reported. Chalmers friends were sur
prised at his success. He succeeded
by going among the colored people
and making a thorough canvass at the
head of his brass band. That was the
way he frightened the ten thou
sand Republican voters in 1876.
The way he frightened them in 1875
was by keeping out Of the district al
together. He had the yellow fever, OF
something like it, at Louisville, over
FIVE hundred miles from home, and
was not nearer home than Louisville
Tor some weeks previous to the elec-
ton. Yet these frightened Republi
cans, remembering the brass band, the
banners and the watermelons, marched
up and elected him again. The whites
took very little part in the election, il
for no other reason, because the
yellow fever still prevailed among
them with frightful malignity, whilst
the colored people were rarely liable
TO the plague, The recklessness Of
the Tribune is the more apparent
when we look at the vote cast in
those years. In 1876 the year Chal-
mers made his famous canvass, he re-
ceived 1878 votes against 1886
votes for Lynch. In 1878 he received
6663v against 1870 votes for Cos
tello, Republican, and 2l scattering
votes. This is the time when Chal-
mers, down abed with yellow fever at
Louisville, frightened the ten thous-
and Republicans away from the polls,
The paper founded by Horace Greeley
is reduced to great straits when it has
to resort to wilful misrepresentation
and exert all its influence to keep uE
sectional strife. We have stated the
facts in regard to Chalmers election
and would be glad to see so hopeful .
sign of the times as a correction il
the Tribune.
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CINCINNATI.
Report Of the General Rain Storm
in Ohio and Indiana.

CINCINNATI, JGly photographic
advices indicate that the general rain
storms that have prevailed in the inte-
rior and southern portions of Ohio
and Indiana the past few days have
been of great benefit to the growing
Oorn. Wheat has been damaged to
some extent, though not sufficiently to
materially affect the general result.
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The future king of Italy, Victor
Emmanuel, Prince Of Naples, got into
passion the other day with a play.
mate, daughter Of his mothers maid
of honor, the Marchesa Montreno,
and cried out; IF | were king I'd
have your head cut off,. King Hum.
bert sentenced him to eight days con
hnement to his room and deprivation
of one favorite dish at each meal and
further ordered no military honors 10
be paid to him during another period
of similar duration.
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Sentenced for NIaIDractice.

New YORK, July S.-A short time
ago Madam Berger was sentenced to
twelve years in the State prison for
causing the death, by malpractice, of
Cora Samms, and to o-day her accom-
plice, Frank CosgrOve, was sentenced
to four years in the State prison.
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Anniversary.

BRDaEPoRT, CONN, July 8.-The
hundredth anniversary OF the burn
ing of Fairfield, by the British
troops under General Tryon, was cele-
brated to-day on the court house
green. The exercises consisted of
salutes, speeches, prayers and ban
nuate
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sc-lower on all grades, as follows: Or
dinary, 10 l3l6c; good ordinary, IL
g-l6c; f.; low middling, II 15-l6c; mid
ding, lac; good middling, II 9-l6c
middling fair, 13lc; fair, l4lc. Flu
lures opened weak and z to l3 points
lower now quiet and steady as follows:
Deliveries for
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Long Branch Races.

LONG BRANCH, July 8.-The rain
made heavy the track at Monmouth
Park. The one-mile dash for maid
ems, all ages, was won by Bulwark,
beating Lancewood, the favorite, by
FIVE lengths Avenger third. Time
-l.52.
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The Hebrews.

New York, July 8.-The sixth an
nual convention of the Union of the
American Hebrew Congregations be-
gun this morning, There was large
attendance, and great interest was
taken in the proceedings,
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SHERIFF MCGOWAN will be likely
to so direct the management of the
county work-house on Presidents
Island that fewer complaints will be
made concerning that institution in
future.
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Yicksnthe HrnALb. Tho West

NioKsBURG HERALD. The West
complains of the extremely hot wealth
er. The weather in this latitude is
very temperate. The days are not hot,
and the nights are delightful. There
is a marked difference here in the
temperature now to what it was at
this time last year. If the yellow
fever is produced bylong hot weather,
there seems little danger Of it here
this season.
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More Victims.

ST, PAUL, July S.-A special from
Red Wing says four more victims from
the destruction of the orphan asylum
at Vasa by the storm have died, max
ing 13 in all.
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Washington Items.

WASHINGTON, July S.-The Presi.
dent has signed the commissions Of
the members of the Mississippi river
commission, and. of John A. Hunter
to be chief justice of the Supreme
Court of Utah.
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judgment against him in Judge
Young's Office for unpaid room rent
while he was of Missouri. The
President has truly honored us 'of
Missouri. I"
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The young man from Memphis to
whom was attributed the report at
Montgomery that yellow fever existed
here makes an emphatic denial and
lays the blame elsewhere.
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requiem for the DendI Prince

NEwPoRT,R. l. July 9.-St. Mary
Church was crowded to-day notwith-
standing the rain, the occasion being
mass Of requiem for the Prince In
perial.
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Latest Market Reports.
CINCINNATI.

CINCINNATI, July S.-Flour very
dull. Wheat active and higher :. new
95c@Sl05. Corn and oats unchanged.
Whisky steady at Sl04. Pork un-
changed. Lard frmer, &c bid. Bulk
meats and bacon steady; fair demand
prices UNCHANGED.
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ST. Louis Times-Journal. =" All
that is known about the John A.
Hunter of Missouri, who was re-
Gently appointed chief justice Of the
Utah Supreme Court, is that there Is
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KemmIeF, who killed his children
at Holyoke, Mass, still maintains that
he had moral right to do as he
pleased with their lives, He is an
educated German, and the author in
that language of a devotional book,
containing prayer and hymn for
every day III the year His sanity is
doubted.
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Failure of Spinners.

LOUISVILLE, July 8,-0gle & Pick
ard, cotton spinners of Burnley, have,
failed. The liabilities of the firm is
stated to be e25.0O0
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NEW YORK

New YORK, July 8.-Money 3@
&c. Sterling, Soc for 60 days $50
for sight. Bar silver, 113c. Subsid-
iary silver coin, sole discount.
Governments are generally steady.
Railroad securities are quiet. State
bonds dull. Stocks inactive.