The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09
CHRISTIAN ENDEAYOR.
a Mob Attempts to Break Up Their
Meeting.

A Mob Attempts to Break Up Their
Meeting.
MONTREAL, July S.-Saturday was an
eventful day for the Christian Endeavor
convention because of the incident of last
night in which some Endeavorers were
stoned as the result OF remark attributed
to a Colorado delegate, that the mother
OF Christ was an abandoned woman. The
seeds sown by the Hindoo delegate in
making an attack on Catholicism and the
stoning incident of last night today
brought around a lot of Catholic tract
distributors.
The morning session was consumed
largely with various reports and closed
by an address by George NJ. Ward of
Lowell, Mass. During the session Pres
ident Clark arose and said: s'Some state
ments were made and some sentiments
uttered at an outside meeting last night.
for which this convention is not respon-
sible. l speak for you all when | say
there has been no intention or desire on
the part of this convention to insult any
one or hurt anyone's religious feelings
or decry creeds. Is not that your SEN
timent? If so show it by rising" The
whole audience rose and cheered.
At the evening session the tent meeting
was an address on "Raw Material Of
Great Life' by Rev. j. w. Lee of Atlanta,
Ga. The principal matters of reputation
was the obnoxious utterances last night.
In the assembly hall this morning it
had a good effect, for all papers this
evening declared the utterances of DR..
Clark removed all suspicion that inten-
tional insults had been entered by visi-
tors, but as precautionary measure po-
lice were stationed about the drill hall.
During the evening meeting the winner
of the local committee banner for 1893
was announced. philadelphia won the
handsome trophy, Massachusetts second
and California third. Rev. George A.
| Wells of Minneapolis then delivered an
address on international Fellowship. -
He considered the holding of the present
convention in French and Roman Catho-
lie Quebec, as a great peaceful triumph
| At this juncture events outside the hall
were not bearing out the speakers re-
marks within for 300 French students and
lquarrymen marched up to the door of the
hall bearing a couple of French flags.
The police captured the flags and thump-
ed the bearers heads together, whereupon
their companions raised a great howl
but the police drove the would DE rioters
of. Shortly after 10 o'clock the meeting
dispersed without any collision with a
mob of fully !, 900 people that filed the
street in front of the hall.
| Fifteen hundred English volunteers
later paraded the town with a bugler al
the head. They stopped 10 cheer the
English and American flags. Then g
number of French gathered again ano
many calls were heard for the taking
down of the flags. Finally a row
was precipitated by some hotheads
and the police were once more
called upon and had hard time
dispensing the riotous crowd. They
charged a number of times and had to ust
their batons freely with disastrous re-
suits to the rioters. In the melee a col
ored delegate to the convention from one
of the southern states, name unknown
was seriously hurt. A number of arrests
were made. All was quiet at a. m.