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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-03
NOT DELIVERING" VOTES.
President Gompers Again Makes
Strong Denial.

FORT WORTH, Tex, September g.
That there has been or would be any At
tempt on his part to deliver the vote
CT the union workingman or farmer has
been emphatically denied by President
Gompers of the American Federation OF
Labor, who this week addressed the con-
vention of the Farmers Union in session
here This denial was brought forth
through the publication in local paper
Cf a statement which asserted that such
was Mr.. GomperS' intention.
The statement that | am trying TO de-
liver anybodys vote except my own 10
mistake" declared Mr.. Gompers. Il
have no interest in any party further
than to advance the interests of union la
Dor. I am merely trying to persuade
union men in the field, farmers and fac
tor. operatives to vote for Bryan be-
cause | believe il is for their interest and
that of organized labor"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-03
CRUISERS REACH HONOLULU
SUCCESSFUL TEST OF TOWING
TORPEDO BOAT DEsTRoYERs.
Lines Break Occasionally, But Just
Where Expected and Delay
Was Only Slight.

HONOLULU. September 3-The cruis
ers of the Pacific fleet. commanded by
Rear Admiral Swnburne finished the
first stage of the cruise undertaken tc
test the practicability of towing torpedo
boat destroyers, when the flagship West
Virginia. the Maryland. Pennsylvania
and Tennessee docked at l o'clock yes
terday afternoon in the harbor and the
remaining vessels, including the supply
ship Solace. anchored outside. The ar.
rival of the ships was witnessed by many
residents of the islands, and a hearty
welcome was accorded the officers anG
men.
Except upon several occasions wher
the tow lines parted Or became so chafeC
that alterations or stoppaSes We're nee.
essary, the fleet maintained the one point
echelon formation taken outside the har-
Dor Of San Francisco. until 6:3O yester-
day afternoon, when the torpedo boat de.
stroyers We're cast off and proceeded un-
der their own steam to the anchorage
off the harbor.
The destroyers Preble and Perry were
towed the entire distance without break
Or delay of any kind. The Whipple'
line once became chafed and her consor1
was obliged to slacken speed while re-
pairs We're made. Each of the other de.
lines to its credit
Break Near Bow.
In every instance the break was at the
bow of the torpedo boat destroyers
which, as expected, proved the weakest
point in the connecting line. The cruise
was never attended with danger or diff
Guilty. the highest draft indicated by an,
OF the dynamiters being $1,000 pounds
Forty thousand pounds was the highest
average intended.
In the fog and during a storm prevail.
ing the first day and night out the draf
was between 2O,G00 and 10000 pounds
The only incident of the voyage was
when Signalman Anderson fell from the
signal tower of the West Virginia He
swan TO buoy thrown him and wa.
rescued unin1ured by one of the three
boats which We're lowered before the
Preble could slip her tow line as re-
quired 10 do i'll such emergencies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-03
NOT SERIOUSLY ILL.
Reports About Countess Szechenyi's q
Condition Reported Exaggerated.

VIENNA. September 3.-That reports
emanating from Budapest concerning the
condition of Countess SZechenyi have
been exaggerated is shown by the fact
that the count and countess arrived in
that city yesterday and said that they
intended soon to come TO Vienna.
Nelson G. Shaughnessy, third secretary
OF the American embassy here. who is an
intimate friend of the count and countess.
received the following telegram last night
from the former: Cordial thanks for
your telegram. but the report is totally
false. My wifes condition is very good
1t is impossible further than this, to
get authentic information regarding the
illness of the countess, but 1t is generally
believed here that its serious nature has
been greatly Overdrawn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-03
FELL 500 FEET TO DEATH.
Frightful Plungs of Charles oliver
Jones.

WATERFlLLE. Me-, September Sin
full view of 5000 Mortified spectators
assembled at the Central Maine Fair
Grounds here late yesterday, Charles
Oliver Jones. the we'll known aeronaut of
Hammondsport. n. Y, fell n distance of
800 feet to his death. Among the wit
nessess of the frightful plunge We're Mrs.
Jones and child, and they were almost
the first to reach the side of the dying
man. The aeronaut died an hour and a
half after the accident.
Jones had been at the fair grounds with
his dirigible balloon Boomerang"
known Strobel airship, since Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-03

year. | have my preferences. sometimes.
as to who should receive the honors of
the party. and everybody generally finds
out what they are. But l am one of
those old-fashioned republicans who set
tie every such question at the convert
ton. When the Chicago convention nom-
mated Judge Taft to be the republican
candidate for the presidency this year that
instant he became my leader. He has
been my leader ever since, and he will be
my leader until the polls close on the
night of the election.
Foraker Lauds Taft.
Mr.. Foraker followed with an. estimate
of Judge Taft's fitness for the office he
seeks by repeating what Bishop Fallows
had said before him.
Il want to repeat it." he said, that
his experience on the bench in the Philip
pines. as Secretary Of War. in the con-
.struction of the Panama canal. in all the
positions he has filled. has been such as
to qualify Judge Taft almost beyond
every other man for the presidency. CAP
plauseD We are going to elect him and
il he does not make a success OF it it
will be his own fault
Senator Foraker followed this state
ment with a review of his early acquaint-
ance with Judge taft and the favorable
impression he then gained of him.
Senator Foraker before concluding inti-
mated that the campaign was to be a real
fight. but he predicted Taft's success.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-03
Senator Newlands Renominated.

TONoPAH. New. September 3.-The
Nevada democratic state convention yes
terday Nominated Francis c. Newlands
for United States senator and George A.
Bartlett for representative from this
state.
Senator New!ands is member OF the
committee on the District of Columbia
OF the Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-03
Weather:

Fair and continued cool to-
night. Friday fair. with ris-
ing temperature light, variable
winds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-03
No Ill Feeling.
He continued:

Under the circumstances l hope
may be pardoned if I say here in this
presence-the first time | have had op-
portunity TO say it-that there has not.
SO far as | know. been the slightest ill
feeling of any kind between Judge Taft
and myself.
And II there had been you could not
lose me that way. If there is anything l
have a right to claim beyond another. IL
is that l am a republican 365 days in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-03
Denied by Foraker.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, September Sin
an explanatory statement which was a
comprehensive denial. Senator Foraker
today disposed of story published in the
Toledo Times of this morning giving what
purported to be an authorized statement
from him.
AS soon as the senator reached his home
the substance of the story was repeated
to him. He at. once made the following g
statement to The Associated Press:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
V|G|LANT DOG ONLY VICTIM
BARKS WARN FAMILY OF BURN.
ING HOME.
Walls Fall on Him-Three Families
in Night Attire, Res
GUIDED.

PITTSBURG, August 22-Three fami-
lies. aroused early this morning to find
their homes on fire, narrowly escaped Gre
nation and were rescued in their night
clothes without time to dress.
The barking Of pet dog aroused Jo-
seph Schell of 1OS Washington street,
whose family were gotten out just as the
walls fell in, burying the dog which gave
the warning.
While this fire was in progress another
was discovered not far away and the
buildings from 2246 to 1852 Center avenue
were consumed. Living upstairs were the
families Of H. Levine and Meyer Schnoff.
Levine's family found Ill escape cut
off and climbed to the roof where fire.
men found and rescued them. Schnoff
and his family escaped. leaving a servant
girl asleep on the third floor. Firemen
climbed to the top Of the burning building
and brought out the half-suffocated girl.
Two fires on the north side early today
bring the total loss to about $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
EXCITING ON CHANGE.
Largest Saturdays Business Since
August, 1906.

NEW YORK. August 22.-Today's S
stock market was the most exciting for
months and sales of stocks in the two
hours of trading reached 1.O91,3OO. the
largest Saturdays business since the Har-
riman boom Of August, 1905.
Apparently an effort was made to take
the bear party" by surprise and force
them to buy in their large outstanding
contracts on a rising market. At the end
of the first hour this maneuver seemed
to be meeting with success. In the stocks
which were most active during the re-
cent decline purchases of unusually large
blOcks-2.OOO to 1900 shares-in many
cases were made in rapid succession. and.
on these purchases. prices ran up to ;
points in the most active speculative
shares. Amalgamated Copper. Rock Is
land common and preferred. New York
Central. st. Louis and San Francisco and
smelling were leaders in the advance.
At the height of this movement came
sudden selling pressure under which
declines of point or more occurred
within the compass of a few minutes.
Speculation soon became lively and stocks
sold higher in the second hour than in
the first Just before the close heavy
sales to take profits for the day wiped
out the earlier gains and the market
closed feverish and unsettled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
ADVISERS ARE CHOSEN
HITCHCOCK ANNOUNCES SOME
MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE.

NEW YORK, August 22-Chairman
Hitchcock of the republican committee
today announced the appointment of the
following members of the advisory COM
mittee: Richard A. Ballinger, state Of
Washington; Cornelius N. Bliss, New
York; Powell Clayton, Arkansas; w.
Murray Crane, Massachusetts; William
Nelson Cromwell, New York; John Hays
Hammond Massachusetts; Franklin Muir
ply, New Jersey; Charles p. Taft, Ohio |;
Arthur 1. Vorys. Ohio. Hitchcock will be
chairman of the committee. Elmer Dover
will be secretary.
The committee will advise as to the con-
duct of the republican national campaign,
financial and otherwise. Its headquarters
will be in New York
1t was the original idea of the republic
an national committee to appoint an ad-
visory committee of its members. AS
the campaign progressed the advisa billty
of larger committee to look after the
work was recognized.
Accordingly the committee announced
today was selected after numerous con-
ferences between republican leaders.
Chairman Hitchcock said today that this
committee would represent every section
of the country, not only in regard to
financing the campaign, but in every line
of work that developed.
William Nelson Cromwell of New York
will act as legal adviser of the commit
tee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
JOSEPH C. H0RNBLOWER DEAD
ARCHITECT OF THIS CITY
PASSES AWAY ABROAD.
Announcement of Demise Causes
Widespread sorrow-veteran
in His Profession.

A cablegram was received here this
morning announcing the death at The
Hague, Holland, of Joseph c. Horn
blower. senior member of the firm of
Hornblower & Marshall. architects. The
news was unexpected and created wide
spread sorrow. Mr.. Hornblower only re-
Gently left this city for Europe, accom-
panied by his wife. He had been ill
previous to sailing. and at one time it
was supposed that he was threatened
with typhoid fever. However, the alb
normal temperature left him, and it was
and so he started to carry out plans
made before his illness.
The death of Mr.. Hornblower removes
one of the veterans of the profession in
this city, as he had been in active prac-
tice here for about thirty years. His
especially in appreciation of his abilit y
and professional skill. In addition to the
cares of large business he was actively
interested in all matters relating to the
adornment and the improvement of the
city, and gave his time freely to ad-
vancing civic interests.
Specimens Of Work.
For a number of years he had been as
sociated with James Rush Marshall in
business. forming the firm which was
known under their joint names and which
is attached to the plans of large number
.of the more important residences and
business buildings in this city, as well as
large public buildings In the latter class
stands notably the custom house in Balti-
more, which is now receiving the finish
ing touches, and the new National Mu-
scum building in this city.
Some of the work done in this city in
cludes the residence at the southwest cor
ner of 10Th and streets, couple on the
east side of Farragut Square. the house
at the northeast corner of 18th. and r
Streets and the business buildin: at the
northwest corner of Pennsylvania avenue
and 9th street, the Office building of
Lewis Johnson & Co. on F street and
other structures in various parts of the
city.
Mr.. Hornblower was born in Paterson
n. j., in 1S4S and was the son of Rev.
William H. HornbloWer. He was graduated
from Yale in 1859 and subsequently stud
led In Paris. .His wife, who survives him,
is the daughter Of Justice Bradley. for
merly Of the Supreme Court Of the United
States The deceased was a member OF
the Cosmos, the Metropolitan, the Chevy
Chase and the University clubs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
NATIONAL ARCHERY MEET.
Kansan Wins Honors in Final Days
Shoot at Chicago.

CHICAGO. August 22.-Honors in the
final days shoot of the National Archers
Association went to c. S. Cosgrove of At
Gibson, Kan, when he took first place in
the second handicap event yesterday with
a grand total of 6l9.
DR.. Carver Williams of Chicago gained
second place with 59S points. Tao Hus-
sey of Des Moines was third with a total
of $685.
Mary williams, the ten-year-old Chicago
archer. won the women's handicap with d
total of $40 points Miss Harriet Case of
Chicago was second.
The annual meeting of the association
was held last night, at which the medals
and various prizes were awarded to the
winners Chicago was again selected as
the meeting place for next year. The
election of officers resulted as follows: H.
8. Taylor. Chicago. president: Harry B.
Richardson. Boston, first vice president;
J. NJ. Challies, Atchison. Kan. second
vice president; Edward H. Weston, Los
Angeles. third vice president: H. W.
Bishop, Chicago, secretary; A. E. Sphinx,
treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
MISSING WOMAN FOUND.
Daughter Of New Yorker Escaped
From Sanitarium Four Days Ago.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, August 22-After a
search of four days. Minnie NJ Haskins.
the cultured daughter Of Albert r. Has
kins, auditor of the American Cigar Com
pany, today was found acting in a ne
culiar manner on a tSaten Island ferry
boat. She was taken to Bellevue Hos
pital. where her mental condition will
be investigated.
When the municipal ferryboat Queens
left st. George soon after midnight Miss
Haskins was seen walking up and down
the deck in an excited manner. AS she
refused to explain to the officers of the
boat. Policeman Meland was called when
the boat reached the Battery, and the
woman taken to the station at Pier A.
AS she was unable to explain her con-
duct Or presence on. the boat and an
peared to be suffering from some mental
trouble, she was sent to Bellevue.
The search for Miss Haskins since she
escaped Tuesday from an attendant of a
sanitarium at Plainfeld, N. j.. where she
was confined. has been incessant. hut
though her father obtained MANY clues
none were successful in locating her
That she was finally found was due TO
chance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
MRS. HAMS NOT TOAD
No ConciIiatory Offer to Hus-
band, Says Counsel.
INNOCENCE is Reiterated
Lawyer Declares She Has Made No
Round Table" Charges.
HER STATEMENT MAY BE MADE
Knows Nothing Of Confession Other
Than Allegations Made by Army
Officers Attorneys.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOSTON. Mass, August 22.-"As far as
I know, Mrs. Hams has not yet offered
to aid her husband in his trial for the
murder of William E. Annis, nor to my
knowledge has she been asked to aid
him. And 1 think 1 should have known
it had any such steps been taken"
This statement was made by Frederick
l.. Norton, Boston attorney of Mrs. Peter
C. Hams, jr., in divorce proceedings
which are pending, in regard to the re-
port from New York to the effect that
Mrs. Hams had offered to aid her hus-
band to the full extent Of her ability.
Defends Parentage Of Children.
Norton also denies the truth OF some
allegations on which, it has been stated.
John F. Mcintyre. attorney for the Hams
brothers, would base their defense. He
specifically denies that any of Mrs. Hams
children are illegitimate, or that any So
called round table" charges had ever
been made by Mrs. Hams against her
husband. He declares further that Mrs.
Hams reiterates her innocence Of any
charges of infidelity to her husband.
Norton refused to discuss the charges
that are made in the answer which Mrs.
Hams makes to her husbands allega-
tions.
II will say. however, that neither Mr..
Libbey nor any one else made the state
ment. Nor is it true that any charges
similar to those in the famous round
table cases or which reflect in any way
on the army post at Fort Hamilton are
made in the papers on our side of the
case"
Confession Not Sought.
Norton was asked about the confession
as to Mrs. Hams alleged misdoings with
Annis, which, according to the attorneys
| for the defense, is typewriter and In the
safe of Mcintyre. ------=-.
Mrs. Hams reiterates that she is not
guilty of any infidelity to her husband
said Norton. 81 am informed that they
have something which they call a con
| fession. But, Of course, I have not seer
| it."
Norton intimates that an extended
statement IN his clients behalf might be
made later. He refuses to give out any
thing further pertaining td their side OF
| the case at the present time.
Gen. P. c. Hams. father of Capt. Peter
IC. Hams and Thornton jenkins Hams
came to Washington last evening and re-
mained in the city all of today. He was
unattended by any other member OF his
family, and while here remained closeted
with friends in his apartment in the
Shoreham. Gen. Hams declined to discuss
for publication the object of his visit here
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
UNDERwooD's OLD HOME.
Erie President Buys Old-Fashioned
Street Car for Lawn.

MILWAUKEE,. August 22-President
Underwood of the Erie railroad has pur-
chased an old-fashioned street car, the
first in which he ever rode, and shipped
1t to Wauwatosa, where it will be set up
as an outdoor reading loom on the
grounds of his ancestral home.
The street car opened his eyes to the
possibilities of traffic on rails when ne
was a boy and turned his attention to
railroading.
Mr.. Underwood has kept the old home
stead, which he visits once a year, in
such condition that if any of his friends
may spend their summers there there
are three tents for overflow visitors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
ORDERED TO ALASKA.
Seattle Court officials to Try Jap
anese Seal Poachers.

SEATTLE. Wash, August 22.-Judge
Silas H. Reed, Marshal c. G. Perry, Dis
trict Attorney ]. J. Crowsby and other
officials OF the third judicial division Of
Alaska have been directed by the At
torney General to proceed to Valdez at
once to prepare for the trial Of the Jap
anese seal poachers seized in illegal seal
ing on Pribyloff island July %.
The revenue cutter Bear has been order
ed to the island to bring the rest of the
prisoners to Unga and Unalaska for a
preliminary hearing. Until this order
was issued it was thought that the eighty
five Japanese and the schooners seized
by the Bear were all that were implicated
In the raid. but the orders of the Bear
make 1t appear otherwise.
Deputy marshals and deputy district
attorneys have also been ordered to Unga
and Unalaska to appear on behalf Of
the government at the preliminary hear
ings. A court term has been called at
Valdez for September 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
SEEK CABRILLo's GRAVE.
Scientists to Visit Catalina Islands.
Monument in Readiness.

AVALON. Catalina Island, CAL, August
22-A party of scientists. including Prof
Arnteni, a Spanish ethnologist. is coming
here about September 1 in an effort to
locate the grave of Cabrillo. the great
explorer, who discovered Ianta Catalina
Island in 1915. A manuscript-the log of
Cabrillo's ship-is said to have been dis
covered in the Madrid Museum, which
proves by the description and map ac-
companying it that the great captain was
buried in Grand Canyon, above Avalon.
The grave. if found will be marked by
a splendid monument donated by the peo-
pie of southern California.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
STOLEN JEWELS RECOVERED.
Victim of $4,000 Robbery a Year
Ago Finds Some of the Loot.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 22-Mrs.
Bessie Seaman who was robbed of SJO,-
OO0 worth of jewels at Reno. New. about
a year ago by the famous diamond thief,
j. Edward Boeck. now serving sentence
in Sing Sing prison. yesterday recovered
a part of her property from San Francisco
pawnshops and has located others. The
amount recovered Is about $1,000.
Mrs Seaman met Boeck, or Burke, as
he called himself then. I'm this city and
later at Reno. At the latter place he
engaged a safety deposit box for her. as
she had the jewels with her, and on the
plea that he had valuables of his own to
protect asked and received the right to
share the box. Later Mrs. Seaman went
to get her jeewls and found them gone.
Boeck was arrested here, but on being
identified as the thief wanted in New
York was extradited. From pawn tickets
found on his person Mrs. Seaman located
her property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
MET WITH WARM RECEPTION.
Kentucky Farmer Shoots Into
Crowd Of Night Riders.

Twenty night riders, masked and armed
met with a warm reception last night on
the farm of Walter Galloway, five miles
east of Falmouth. They rode up to the
tobacco farm and applied the torch
5000 pounds of tobacco being destroyed
Galloway had not been molested. but was
awakened by the glare of the flames. He
seized a shotgun and fired from a win
dow into a group of the riders. The fire
was returned without damage, and the
raiders gallOped away.
Galloway's charge of shot struck one
of the men. who rode to Falmouth for
surgical attention. The identity of the
wounded man has been disclosed. ana he
was arrested. He is said to reside on a
farm near that of Galloway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
Five-Ton Tank Falls on Workman.

FREEHOLD. n. j., August pa five-
ton iron tank intended for use in the
canning factory of Joseph Bradley fell
this afternoon as it was being hoisted in
place. and two men were caught under
1t. one of them being instantly killed and
man to lose his life was Georgc King of
Belford and the injured man is John
Newman of the contracting firm of New
man Brothers. the firm from whom the
tanks were purchased.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
Merchant Attempts Suicide.

NEW YORK. August 22.-Francis F.
Hill. forty-two years old, of Bloomfield,
N. j.. junior member of the firm of Henry
G. Kelly & Co.. twine and paper dealers
of this city. attempted suicide today by
shooting himself through the head in the
Office of that firm. He was taken to a
hospital and Is not expected to recover.
Members of the firm knew of no reason
for the attempted suicide