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THE COMPETITORS CREW.

Report That They Had Been Granted
Civil Trial Not Confirmed.
No official confirmation can be obtained
of the report that the Spanish government
has decided to grant new trial before
civil tribunal Of the officers and men Of the
Competitor, who we're recently condemned
to death by military court convened by
Gen. Weyler. and that they will be given
all their rights under the Gushing protocol,
Including counsel, etc. 1t was reported
that Senor De LONE. the Spanish minister.
Informed the Secretary of State to the
above effect before his departure Saturday
night for Lenox. Mass, to spend the sum-
mer- If this Is Sc, 1t is regarded as some
what singular. to say the least, that none
OF the officials OF the department will ad-
nit 1t. especially 1t would reflect so
much credit upon tie efforts Of the ad-
p1nistration, and would be such gratifying
news to tie entire community. 1t is known
that the men Of the Competitor he given
the benefit of a civil trial has been laid be-
fore the Spanish authorities, but it is un-
derStOOd that the report that the applica-
ton has been granted Is premature, to say
the least. although there is a general expec-
tation OF such a result in official circles
AS Is well known, the President declined
to furnish the Senate with q COPY of the
correspondence With Spain in regard to
be compatible with public interests AL
though the negotiations may have reached
point indicating the ultimate concession
of the important legal points raised by the
Secretary of State, the authorities are not
yet prepared to me Ike 1t public.
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Southern, Planters and Lindell hotels were
meetings were held even before breakfast,
but they speedily adjourned IN favor Of
the dining room
Among the Pennsylvania delegates. Mr..
Quay was the first one stirring. He put in
an appearance before o'clock at the
headquarters Of the state, but they were oc-
cuped only by one man, and he was q re-
minder Of last night as he lay quietly on
the table sleeping away the effects Of over
excitement, induced by extensive shout
ing and copious libations in honor, as his
broad badge revealed the name, of Thos
B. Reed Of Maine. Mr.. Quay took look
at the disabled political warrior, and then
retreated, leaving him in possession of the
he had nothing to say regarding the vote
cast by Pennsylvania at her caucus last
night and which the Mckinley men claim
as small victory for the Canton candi-
date. He expressed himself as entirely
satisfied with the financial plank which
was agreed upon yesterday and sent out
by the Associated Press last night
Mark Hanna, brisk, alert and energetic,
as usual, was up early and brimming over
with confidence in the ultimate success Of
Mckinley. This belief in McKinley's NOM
ination is professedly not shared by the
Massachusetts, men, who are very deter
mined in their support Of Reed. Such of
them as were around their state headquar-
ters early this morning were certain that
there would be no nomination at all this
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took Its place In the gallery above the
speakers stand. and at 1920 they struck
up the rousing air, BLACK America"
Soon after the spectators began to stream
through the entrances which opened into
the lower gallery.
Hundreds Of assistant sergeants-at-arms
and ushers were scattered about the hall
and galleries. Just before II o'clock the
thunder of arriving clubs outside the hall
was heard and the Alabama delegation ap-
peared at the main entrance and marched
to their seats in the pit.
The contesting delegations from the state
of Delaware, both in full force, the one
headed by ex-senator Higgins, and the
other by Mr.. Addicks, was among the first
to arrive. They did not come to the hall
in the same carriages, but they arrived al
most simultaneously.
The Addicks people were somewhat in ad-
vance Of their competitors. With Mr.. Ad-
dicks in the lead, and using his elbows
vigorously to get through the, crowd on the
streets outside the main entrance, they
pressed in, and while Mr.. Higgins stood in
a controversy with the doorkeeper as to
where he and his fellow claimants to the
seats should go. the Addicks people found
their way to the Delaware section.
The Higginoites followed promptly, and
there was some dispute as to which crowd
should have the seats. They settled the
matter temporarily by taking the first
chairs at hand.
Senator Higgins stood aloof, and when
one of his followers asked him to have the
sergeant-at-arms put the Addicks crowd
out he declined to interfere, saying it was
a case of sQuatters' rights.
p A few of the delegates and the alter
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Convention IN SESSION
Republicans at St. Louis Called to Order
by Chairman Carter.
Address to the Delegates by Temporary Chair
man Fairbanks.
MANY OF HIS EXPRESSIONS WERE LOUDLY CHEERED
Uncertainty Still Prevails Regarding the Candidate for Vice
President.
GETTING TOGETHER ON THE PLATFORM
MANY OF HIS EXPRESSIONS WERE LOUDLY G.

President.
G letting

ST. LOUIS Mo-, June 16.-The day for
the formal beginning of the national republi-
can convention opened as beautifully as
could be desired. A good breeze from the
north was blowing early in the morning,
and although the sun gave promise OF
being too warm for comfort before the
day was done, the cool winds made things
bearable. The cyclone which demolished
SO many buildings in the city was not an
utterly unmixed evil, for 1t left behind q
succession of cool days such as st. Louis
has never known before at this time Of the
year. Even the most rabid rooter for the
good name of Mound City admits that the
brand of weather which has prevailed since
the cyclone swept through the place Is
far superior to anything that ever came
into this territory in the summer month Of
June.
The republican convention is remarkable
in one respect-the delegates go to bed
comparatively early. There are, of course,
a number Of leather-lunged fellows who
howl like maniacs for the greater part of
the night, and when their mouths are not
open for the emission of campaign yells. they
are stretched wide for the insertion Of
sundry drinks. These chaps never go to
bed early, and they neither rise early, but
at this convention the working politicians
who saw the wood and do their drinking
with solctude as to its strategic value turn
in earlier at night and are on their feet
earlier in the morning than at any similar
convention In many years Last night
there was not headquarters room that
was not closed and deserted by / o'clock,
and the majority of them were shut up
shortly after midnight.
Early this morning the delegates at the
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Model Of the Columbia.

The latest addition to the growing fleet of
models at the Navy Department. and, one
of peculiar interest to the citizens of the
District. is that of the famous triple screw
flyer, the Columbia. which holds the record
of all naval vessels for, the quickest trip
across the Atlantic This model which has
just been completed at the local navy yard,
and is now on exhibition at the Navy De-
partment, is undoubtedly the most at
tractive and perfectely equipped specimen
of marine architecture that the construc-
tion bureau has yet supplied. 1t Is the
largest of the fleet Of models. being nine
feet In length, and, as all of the models are
made to exact scale. the comparison be-
tween the big Columbia. 412 feet long, and
the little Petrol Of 178 feet is very striking.
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til after the public doors were opened.
The quiet within was in marked contrast
with the cheering crowds and clashing
bands without, rending the air in brazen
rivalry.
Fakirs and peddlers were, Of course maxi
ing hay on the outskirts Of the gathering
Canes Of American tin and canes with Nc
kinley's head In tin found fast sale among
the colored delegates. and badges. flags and
fans were going fast. Mckinley emblems
We're more numerous than all the others
and there were some unique Mckinley ad-
vertisements on sale.
One was a tall. gaunt man. unshaven,
dressed In rags like tramp and carrying
a tattered umbrella, and wearing a banner
with this motto:
Look out for hard times and cold days
If Mckinley gets left.'
Another object lesson was two sandwich
men. who tramped a beat around the
square, one attired In the elegance of a
Berry Wall, bearing a placard: The work.
man under the Mckinley BILL"
The other, in disreputable rags gauut
ana starved-looking, and representing The
workman under the Wilson bill"
Early Arrivals.
A full hour and a half before the gayel
was to fall delegates to the convention be-
gan TO straggle into the square reserved
for them forming the pit of the hall. They
were from the southern districts most OF
these irst-comers. some of them swelter,ng
under the broad sombrero OF the south
west, some wrapped in the New England
linen duster. all of them resplendent with
embiazoning Of gilt and scarle; across their
coat breasts. like the tinsel Of a circus band
wagon. All Of them were provided with
palm leaf fans. which they vigorously
waved, scattering themselves through the
aisies In search of their sta:e banners and
their seats having been found. gazing
about, puffed with the sense of portentous.
ness Of their parts in the history about to
be made.
The street cars which come TO the con-
vention hall were loaded like Coney Island
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Spinning at Pouxhkeensfe.

POUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, June 16.-With
the arrival of the Cornell oarsmen here this
evening all the crews that are to contest
in the big intercollegiate races on June "a
and 26 will be in their quarters on the bank
of the Hudson. The river was not disturbed
by so much as ripple this morning. and the
Poughkeepsie course presented a magnifi-
cent appearance. All of the crews were late
in their new Waters shell rowed along the
east bank of the river, practicing starts
and rowing short stretches, to get accus-
toned to the shell. Guy Richards, who Is
men are making great Improvement. The
new shell gives good satisfaction to the
crew.
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BANKER wYCKorF's AssA1LANT.

He Was Seized by an Uncomfortable
Impulse to Kill.
NEW YORK, June 16.The man who shot
President Wyckof Of the Bank of New
Amsterdam and then shot himself yester-
day, has been identified as George H.
Semple, residing in West s2d street. Sem
pie has always borne good reputation.
It is alleged that he has intimated to the
police that his deed was the result Of a
murderous impulse, for which there was no
reasonable origin: that acting in obedience
to the impulse he bought pistol and went
out on the street, and that passing the
bank Of New Amsterdam he felt impelled
to enter that institution and kill some one,
no matter whether it was the president or
an Office boy.
President Wyckoff passed fairly COM
Portable night. There is, however, no prob
ability that either he or Semple will re-
cover.
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EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY.


The President Acts ON Several Par
don Cases, One a District Convict.
The President has issued pardons in the
following cases: VIM. b. Jackling, convict
ed in Oregon Of conspiracy; Monroe JOHN
son, convicted in Arkansas Of Illicit distil-
ling, and Ezekiel Holly, convicted In Ohio
of violating the postal laws. In the case
of William Cash, sentenced in Indian terri
tory to five years Imprisonment for horse
stealing, the President has oommuted the
sentence to three years. He has also sus-
pended the execution of the sentence of
three years in the case Of John Lyons, con-
victed in Arizona of burglary at post Of
flee. The President pronounces this a very
strange case. the district attorney holding
that the man ia innocent, and the post Of
flee inspector giving entirely different
statement. Therefore he las called for
further information. The President has
oommuted to two years and eleven months
actual Imprisonment the sentence of three
years imposed in the case Of Jas. Cromp
ton, convicted In the District of Columbia
of petit larceny. This convict Is reported
to be in edvanced stage of consump-
ton, and is not likely to live long after his
release.
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LOUISIANA D EMOCRATS
Senator Blanchard Tied With Silver
Bonds.
A Free Silver Platform Adopted and
the Whole Delegation Pledged
to Silver.

RATION ROUGE, La, June 16.-Tbe DEM
ocratic state convention at late hour
last night adopted platform declaring
for the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer at 16 to 1 las full legal tender power
and without reference to the action Of the
other nations"
Delegates to the national convention
At-large-John Fitzpatrick, s. D. McEnery
N. c. Blanchard. s. NJ Roberts. District
delegates SO far elected-Third. Edward
McCullom of Terre Bonne, Joseph ST
Amont of Ascension; fourth. w. H. Ogden
of Boss:er, B. sW. Masters of Red River
fifth, st. T. Baird of Morehouse, r. H
Snyder Of Texas: sixth. T. S. Fortenot Of
st. Landry, T. K. Herman of Baton Rouge
All these delegations were ratified after
confession Of faith from each. Electors
Bel Miachael Of Placquemine, R. C. Drew
of Webster
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electric cars on a summer Sunday They
were on the steps and swarming on the
roof, good-natured, but, on the whole, q
quiet lot, having taxed their throat powers
on the night before.
The police, who were thick as flies about
the building, kept the men on the near
Sidewalks moving to prevent jams, and
those who seemed to be mere onlookers
were horded upon the opposite Sidewalks.
where fire lines were established along the
curbs 20 keep the crowd from overflowing
into the streets and blocking the way Of
cars and carriages.
These crowds We're the poorer people Of
the city, with a thick sprinkling of the
black and many who had come in from the
country, judging from their makeup. Win
dows facing the hail were filled with the
faces of women and children, while men
swung their legs across the window sills OF
the unfinished city hall building adjoining
the convention hall.
Several delegations marched down behind
their bands and left the bands outside the
hall, where they stood about.
At 30 Senator Carter, chairman of the
national committee. who was to cali the
conve, tion to order, arrived and gave his
final Instructions to the secretaries and
reading clerks.
The 4S0 seats reserved for the press were
filled with busy newspaper men, and the
click of telegraph instruments already be-
gan to carry the music of the convention
to the world at large.
AS the noon hour approached the crowds
were swelled until they filled a radius OF
two or three blocks from the hall in every
direction.
They were good natured crowds, and
showed a willingness to cheer impartially
for the delegations and all the banners OF
different candidates.
The chair in which the chairman sat
was the one occupied by Senator Quay
when he called the Minneapolis convention
to order four years ago, and the gavel was
made from q piece Of oak in the original
legislative hall of the state of Missouri.
When the public doors were opened the
galleries began to fill rapidly. Sitting one
above the other in the gallery seats. the
people looked as If they were pinned to
the walls. A large proportion Of the ar
rivals were ladies. They added both color
and motion to the scene.
Sergeant-at-arms Byrnes was by long
odds the busiest man about the convention
hall during the early hours, and up TO the
time OF the meeting of the convention. He
had 1,5oO aids, including doorkeepers. but
instead of their being of great assistance
at this stage many OF them appeared to be
rUch in the way, and to depend upon their
chief to not only look after their wants.
hut to answer all questions from delegates,
alternateS, newspaper men and the general
public There were many little details as
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Promotions and Brevets.
A QUEER PRO TEN. MAYOR,

LOufsville's Executive Goes to St.
Louis and Trouble Ensues.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
LOUISVILLE, KY, June 18.-R. E. King,
president of the board Of aldermen, yester-
day afternoon took possession Of the office
Of Mayor Todd to act as mayor pro tenn.
in the latter's absence as delegate to the
republican national convention. King is
leader Of faction bitterly opposed to Todd.
Todd tried to slip off unknown to King,
but the latter is now in charge, and has
passed over hundred contracts and or
dinances which Todd had been holding up.
Every effort is being made by Todd s
friends to get HIM to return. but they are
unavailing. King holds sway, and very
peculiar state Of affairs exists in the city
government.
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A LANGUID INTEREST.
Feeling of the President ms to the
Republican Convention.

Feeling of the Presfdent ms to the
Republican Convention.
So far as surface indications go, the
President and his official family are TAX
ing only languid interest in the proceed
ings of the republican convention at Chi
cago. No arrangements have been made
at the White House to secure news Of the
action of the convention, but as is usual
In all such cases, the President will be
Kept promptly and thoroughly advised Of
all proceedings of Importance through the
bulletins Of the Associated Press. The
President is naturally more interested IN
the action of the democratic convention,
ard 1t is fair inference that the special
wires running into the White House will
be more active during the sessions of that
convention than they are at present con-
cerning the deliberations of the republican
hosts at St. Louis.
The regular semi-weekly meeting Of the
cabinet was held today, as usual, with all
the members in attendance, and 1t Is a rea-
sCnable assumption that the political sit
uation was not wholly neglected In the
consideration of the general state Of the
Union. ----. --'.
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occupants into the streets. All roads led
to the convention hall at Clark avenue and
18th street. From that great oblong box
like structure, which covers a block, fiut-
tered myriad of flags. The great, gilded
American eagle at the main entrance flash
ed brilliantly in the sunlight. A Gordon OF
blue-coated police guarded the entrances
Within the officers and employees were per-
forming the final details.
The stats of the various state delega-
tions In the low, fiat pit, which faced the
speakers stand, were in place, while the
chairs in the double galleries mounted
steeply from the edges Of this pit into the
cavernous depths above. There was In
these galleries seating capacity for twelve
thousand spectators.
A Mass of Color.
The great pillars which uphold them
were swathed in bunting, and the rough
ceiling, seventy-ive feet above the pit, was
q mass Of color. Around the galleries at
intervals blaZed the coats-of-arms Of the
various states. The-speakers' stand, from
which, on either hand stretched the tables
for the press, was ornamented with a
beautiful silk flag. while from the gallery
in the rear. which overhung the seats re-
served for distinguished visitors, looked
out the faces Of many republican heroes
who have gone to the last reward. In the
center was the immortal Lincoln, fanked
by those great warriors-Grant and Sher-
man. Facing each other across the east
ball were the portraits of the gallant Phil
Sheridan and Admiral Farragut the hero
of Mobile
At 10 o'clock the band Of forty pieces
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poLLUTING THE POTOMAC.

Action to Stop q Pulp Mill From Put
ting Acid In the River.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, June 16.-Today
Judge Sloan passed an orde: for the Pied
mont Paper and Pulp Mill Company to
show cause, before June 80 why an injunc-
ton should not be granted at the suit of
the city of Cumberland charging them with
polluting the Potomac river. For some
years past this mill, which Is situated at
Piedmont, w. Va, has been throwing the
acid and refuse from the pulp into the
river. thus affecting the water supply of
Cumberland and all points east of here.
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Mr.. McAdoo'. Chansed Plans.

Assistant Secretary .McAdoo has aban-
doned his proposed trip to the southern
states to inspect the naval reserves and
has postponed his departure from the city
until Saturday next when he will embark
on the Dolphin at the navy yard for an
official visit to the naval stations at Phila-
delphia. New York and New London. Sec
retary Herbert has not yet completed his
plans for the summer, but he will undoubt-
edly make visit to the Naval War Col
lege at Newport before the reassembliag
of Congress.
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HAMMOND PRAISES THE BUTCHERS.

They We're The Best Friends the
Prisoners Had.
LONDON, June 16.-A special dispatch
from Johapnesburg says that, at banquet
given there on Saturday to Barney Barna-
to. Mr.. John Hays Hammond. the American
engineer. toasted the burghers, saying they
we're the best friends of the prisoners after
the latter had been Sentenced, and that
they were the first to sign the petition for
clemency.
Mr.. George Farrar. another of the re-
leased reform committee leaders, said that
the prisoners pleaded guilty because they
were guilty, and believed that there would
be good outcome from the movement.
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mates struggled in. and soon the pit be-
came animated: but the clubs and specta-
tors were restrained on the outside to
await Sergeant-at-Arms Byrnes' order to
open the doors to the public. The outside
of the hall rescmbled a beleaguered fort
ress when the order was given, about ii 80.
A few of the more favored of those holding
tickets managed to gain admission at the
main entrance before that hour. however.
They made their way TO the galleries quiet
ly, but beyond the cries of the sergeant-at-
arms and the subdued buzz of conversation
in the hall there was no demonstration un-
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A Medal of Honor.

A medal Of honor las been awarded to A.
P. Webber, late principal musician. seth
Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers, for
most distinguished gallantry in the battle
of Kenesaw mountain, Ca, June q, 1864
This non-conmissioned officer voluntarily
Joined in a charge against the enemy,
which was repulsed, ard by his rapid firing
In the face Of the enemy enabled many Of
the wounded to return to federal lfnes
With others he held the advance of enemy
while temporary works were being con-
structed. He is resident Of Camp Grove,
III
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SUGAR BOUNTY CLAIMS.
Most of Those for Beet and MauI>
Sugar Are Paid.

The Treasury Department has nearly
completed the payment of beet and maple
sugar claims under the bounty appropria-
tion of sSiS.2s9, and it Is expected that
warrants covering the whole amount will
have been issued by July /, when work will
begin on the s5.OOO.OOO appropriation for
cane sugar. The half dozen claims which
have bee in process of adjustment during
the last several months Will be ready for
transmission to the auditor for final ex-
animation early in July. when the total
amount of the appropriation will be pro-
rated among the claiTa ants and paid as
rapidly as possible. 1t is expected that the
percentage of payments to claimants will
be between e. and 40.
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Secretary Lamont Ha. Returned.

Secretary Lamont has returned from a
short visit to McGrawville, N. z, where he
was summoned by the serious illness Of
Mrs. Lamonts father. The latter Is still
In precarious state Of health and it is
probable that the Secretary will not be able
to remain here more than few days. not
withstanding he has great deal Of work
on hand In connection with the execution Of
the provisions Of the river and harbor ap-
preparation bill and other legislation Of the
last C igress.
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Representative Abbott,. Condition.

The condition Of Representative Abbott.
who was injured at the chute at River
View Sunday. was improved this morning.
He was suffering considerable pain, which,
however. was not as severe as yesterday.
DIR. Carlisle is still in attendance, and
Judge Abbott has the care Of trained
nurse, besides his friends
Representatives Culberson and Cooper
will remain here with their colleague un IL
he Is able to make the journey to Texas.