The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-06-12
AND CRANSTON


Conference.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 90 .-Chaplair
McCabe and DR.. Earl Cranston are TIL.
two new Methodist bishops. being
elected on the fifteenth and sixteenth
ballots respectively.
On the. fourteenth ballot 5I4 votes
were cast, making 336 necessary to a
choice. The leaders were Cranston,
.61; McCabe, 25S; Hamilton, 149; Buttz
i23; Nicely, liz; Bowen, 81, and scat.
tering, ~.
The fifteenth ballot was at once
taken and the tellers retired. After
the transaction of a little business the
tellers returned and announced that
5O4 votes We're cast, making sac neces-
sary to a choice. OF these C. c.. Nc
Cabe, of New York, received 344 votes;
electing him by eight votes. The vote
on others was: Cranston, 528; Butts,
IL; Hamilton, 100; Nicely, so; Bowen,
30; scattering, IS.
Then the delegates began to cheer
and wave their handkerchiefs and
calls for "McCabe," Song" and
speech" arose from all parts of the
hall. Delegates rushed back to where
he was sitting and he was surrounded
by an enthusiastic following. In the
flrst hull a motion to invite .'Bishop
McCabe" to the platform was heard.
1t was carried amid cheers, and as he
walked down the aisle cheers were in
cessant. He declined to speak at
present.
The sixteenth ballot was soon an
%nounced, resulting IN the election of
DR.. Cranston as the second bishop. In
all 5Uf votes We're cast, making 1856
necessary for a choice. OF these
Cranston received 800. Cheers again
filled the hall, handkerchiefs were
waved and applause continued for
several minutes while DR.. Cranston
walked forward and bowed.
An attempt by Judge Caples of Ore
gon to make the election unanimous
was cried down.
The conference took UP the election
Of two book agents for New York.
The nominations were DR.. Homer
Eaton of Troy, n. Y, c. r. MCGEE Of
New England, j. n. King Of New
York, R. R. Daugherty of New York,
w. NJ. Swindetts of Philadelphia, G.
B. MANS of New York, East, w. NJ.
Evans Of Central Pa, and John D.
Hammond of California. DR.. Buckley
then obtained the floor and moved
that nominations be made on a call of
conference. This was carried.
Charles c. McCabe was born October
II, 1886, in Athens, Ohio. He entered
the Ohio conference in 1860 and was
stationed at Putnam. In 1862 he be-
came chaplain in the i22d Ohio Volun-
teer infantry. At the battle of Win
chester, Va, in June, 1852, while
looking after the wounded in the
field. he was captured and taken to
Libby prison, where he renamed a
captive for yer four months. After
his release he rejoined his regiment at
Brandy station, but with broken
health was sent back to the hospital
at Washington. He was invited, after
partial recovery, to speak at an ami
versary Of the Christian commission,
and George Fl. Stuart, the presi-
dent OF that organizations, asked
Secretary Stanton to grant him
permission to make the tour of
the great cities of the United States
in the interests of that cause. After
the war he re-entered the regular
work of the ministry and was sta
toned at Portsmouth, Ohio. In 1866
the Ohio conference called him into
the service Of the Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity. In 1858 he first engaged in
church extension work and for six
teen years he travelled through the
length ano breadth of the land and
saw the work advance with unex-
ampled prosperity upon every side.
In 1884 he was elected missionary Sec
rotary. Through his efforts the cry,
"A million for MISSIONS" is nov one
of the brightest facts in the history
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church.
DR.. Cranston was born in Scioto
county, Ohio, about sixty years ago,
and graduated at Ohio university. He
then became a travelling minister Of
the Methodist Episcopal church and
in that capacity until the
breaking out of the war, when he en-
listed and rose to the rank Of captain
Of the Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer In
fantry. In consequence he is now an
honorary member of the military
order Of the Loyal Legion of the
United States. His service IN the
church after the war was in Ohio con
ferences until he was transferred,
a bout 1880, tothe Colorado conference,
where he became a presiding elder.
In 1887, upon the election of Bishop
Walden, he was chosen one Of the
book agents of the Western Methodist
Book concerns in Cincinnati, and has
held that position until now. He has
always held a high rank as a pulpit
orator.
The Presidents Saengerfest Promise.
~PITTsBuRG, Pa, May 90. -President
Cleveland has written to the executive
committee of the twenty-eighth ma
tional saengerfest, which begins in
Pittsburg, June s, that he will be un-
able to attend, but will open the
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