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- ? our unalterable determination to decline, as we have always declined to accept, either an elective or an appointive position under the government of our country. Not that theae positions can be lightly laid aside or declined, but it is our* lirm conviction that we can best serve the interests of our fellow workers and the people generally in the labor movement.1 whether as an officer or one in the ranks." In conclusion lie says: "Pull together, and the future is ours." Statement by John Mitchell. .John Mitchell, former president of the Mine Workers, in a statement issued today says, in parr: " "To reward labor's frienda and rebuke its foes' is a slogan that should api>eal with great force to all wage earners, regardless of political affiliations, in the campaign which is now in progress. I nless one mistakes the signs of the times, the November election will mark the beginning of a new era in the political affairs of our country. "Wherever one travels add whoever one meets, he tinds a state of active political thought and independence unknown in the past. Determined to Seek Redress. "This Is especially true of the organized wage earners, who seem determined to seek redress for wrongs which may be remedied thivugh legislative action by giving support to the best men who are ea&didatos for office Instead of, as heretofore, voting regularly for the candidates of some particular party. ' This political independence is the most hopeful and healthful sign of our times. The election to Cohgress and to other legislative as well as to judicial and administrative offices of men whose highest ambition it Is to see how much protection and helpfulness they ran give to the great mass of the people without doing Injustice to the minority more favored by fortune will prove of incalcu- ; lable benefit to the whole country, and j will have the effect of removing from < influence and domination tihat small < though powerful element which seems to i control the machinery of all political . parties." ; Gomners' Plan to Aid Prnan Union labor's equation in the democratic national campaign and the plans ! that have been formulated by officers of the American Federation of Labor to swing the labor vote to William J. Bryan were subject-matters of a series of con- ' ferences last night between National , Chairman Norman E. Alack and Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor; Secretary Morrison of the Fedoration. and President McConnell of the Machinists' Union. Chairman Mack announced before his departure for New York at midnight that he had approved the plans devised by Gompers and his associates to aid Bryan's ' election, and that within a few days he would announce the chairmen of the various labor bureaus which will be established in several larger cities and conducted under the general direction of the national committee and the American Federation of Labor. During the evening Mack talked over ' the long-distance telephone with National ' Committeeman McGraw at Grafton. W. Va., and Representative Talbott of Mary- | land. The situation in Maryland and : West Virginia. Mack said, was highly ] satisfactory. ! "The democratic national committee . will receive the co-operation of the Amer. . lean Federation of Labor in every way," J said Mack, "and Gompers tonight ^ub- 1 mltted to me the plans which have been ' formulated to effect an active campaign in the labor world in the interest of de- . mocraey. These plans I regard as highly . satisfactory, and they will be adopted. , "The plans provide for the establishment of labor bureaus in several labor . ^enters, with a central labor hureau in Chicago at the democratic headquarters. The national committee will appoint only members of the American Federation of Labor as heads of these bureaus, Gom- ( pers has given me a list of names of those ' who would be regarded as acceptable to ] the federation. s "Plans for sending out labor literature t were talked over and national commit- ? tees will furnish dates for labor speak- j ers." . i Representative Frank Clark of Florida, f secretary of the democratic congression- s al committee, called on Mack and talk ed over the congressional situation. Chairman Mack will organize headquarters In New York today and the middle of next week will return to Chicago. ROT WHO SHE SAID SHE WAS GIRL WHO JUMPED INTO RIVER IDENTIFIED BT BROTHER. Miss Lizzie Brunner of Frederick, Md., and Subject to Spells?Gave Companion the Slip. The young woman who Jumped into the river near the foot of 6th street Monday afternoon, and afterward declared she Intended to kill herself at the first oppor- 1 tunlty. was identified this afternoon as Miss Lizzie Brunner of Frederick, Md.. j by her brother. David C. Brunner. At the hospital the vt-ung woman had said her name was Elizabeth Purner and 1 that she was a widow; her husband having died In Norfolk. Va. She also imagIned she had escaped from an insane asy lum and that she had been employed In i the house of a Presbyterian minister ' named Baker. Her brother, who called upon Inspector ( Board man this afternoon, said his sister was not a widow, that she was never I married and that she had not lived with 1 the family of a minister named Baker, j Her home, he said, was formerly at 332 East 3d street. Frederick, Md. His sister came here on an excursion 1 Sunday with a friend. She disappeared \ from tne t'nion station just before train time. The man who accompanied her re- , turned home and reported her disappear- , a nee. , When tile brother reached here and , said his sister wore a white eostume and a Dunkaid bonnet Inspector Boardman . promptly assured him lie would have to make no further search for Ms sister. > Brunner said his sister was subject to -spells." She would fall unconscious. lit* , slated, and remain so two or vhree days at a time. He was surprised she should have made an effort to take her life. He went to the Government Hospital r .. *1. . 1 - - ....... *1.1.. a (?,... . .... . 1.1. i?n uh' inwv iimii it ?t?j i iu M*t* mr> sister and confer with or. White, the superintendent, about her. If she is able ' to travel and the asylum authorities will p lease here, he said, he will take her home with him. Brunper was accompanied by the man with whom his sister came on the excursion Sunday. They consulted Acting: Sanitary Otticer By nil at police headquarters after they had seen Inspector Board- j man. Brunner's companion said that Mi-s' Brunner was at the Fnion station with ' him a few minutes before train time. Site j was conversing with a young man when) he last observed her. He thought she was strolling through the concourse. When it was time to start home he realized she had left the station. i The brother said he thought something was probably said to his sister about Norfolk just before she was taken sick and that that was why she imagined she was from the Viriginia city. Found With Four Bullets in Head. NORWICH. X. Y.. August 27.?Eldridge Davis, a farmer of West Bainbridge, went after his cows yesterday afternoon and did not return at midnight. There were four bullet holes in the back of his head when ?his l>ody was found in the pasture this morning. He is believed to have been killed by tramps. Sheriff Beardsley and a posse are scouring the country for the muiderers. ? Servian Lottery Is Barred. The classified state lottery of Servla and David J. Farcliy of Belgrade. Servia. have come respectively under the ban of i the Post Office Department, the Post- ) master rteneral hating issued a fraud > order again*' them feu1 eondtirjirng a I lottery busitie.se mail in tthe t. nnwri j S'a'es. j HEAR POLITICS POP? N. 0. M. Peeks Into Political War Chests of Two Parties. FINDS 'EM NOT VERY FULL i But Norm' Mack Talks Beal Brash | AKnnf PqoVi MVVUlf V(MU. WEST - VIRGnnA WORRISOME r Hitchock Hopes for a Get-Together. But His Voice Has a Plaintive Sound. Spoi-ial I'rinn n Staff Corrcspou<l?'i)t. NEW YORK. August 27.?Swiftly the two great national political organizations are preparing for buttle, lining up their forces, equipping their commissary and tilling their war hags. This is to be no sham battle, no mimic warfare. The democrats are getting ready to give the republicans a fight that means fight and not bluff. The democratic national committee opened headquarters at the Hoffman House today, with Chairman Norman E. Mack in charge. Present also were Senator Culberson of Texas, who is to be Chairman Mack's chief lieutenant in the past; John R. Burton, assistant secretary; Col. Tom Lirison of Alabama, chief organizer, and Col. Johnson of Texas, ill-around adviser. The national committee started with five rooms in the Hoffman House. They had talked ahout nineteen, but somebody says that Landlord Cadogah of the Hoffman insists upon "seeing his'n" before he lets out the rooms. This, however, is probably a vile canard, since Chairman Mack assured a group of us who called on him this morning that the national committee lias plenty of money in its nnffprc Plain People Coughing Up. "I don't say we have money to burn," added Mr. Mack, cautiously, "but we are not suffering. The plain people are contributing. \Ve are not throwing money at the birds and are only taking rooms as we need them. We are organized for business, and from this time on will make the campaign hum. I shall divide my time between New York and Chicago, and Senator Culberson will spend a great deal of time in Xew York." About an hour after this interview, and while we were over republican headquarters, one of the boys blew in from lemocratic headquarters. "The democrats have copped off two more rooms from Landlord Cadogan," he said. "Another bunch of long green from the plain people came in on the jeeond mall delivery." When one of the officials at republican 1eadquart(ers was told of Chairman Mack's boast that the democrats had plenty of money, he turned green with jnvy. "That's more than we can say," he qpiarked, and then he added in a whisper, 'if we had it we would be afraid to ireathe it these hard times for fear our uture appeals would be met with the statement that we claimed to have plenty. But, honestly, we are awfully hard up." They Don't Look It, Anyhow. You would not think so to see the headjuarters of the republican committee, rhey have a score or so of rooms in the Metropolitan Life building, on Madison square, fitted up like the quarters of a lew promotion company selling gold mine itock. This is one of the buildings where :hey rent you rooms by the square foot, inH vnn nov hv pnYPrinp- thp snarP with AIIU J *. V ? V "'"O ?f ? ~ ? - - silver dollars laid flat half way across and stood on edge the rest of the way. It's lots of fun seeing a stranger trying :o get to any officer of the committee. He :omes in past at least six doorkeepers, ?ach doorkeeper at the entrance of a new urn in the hall. Sam Blythe calls it the rystal maze, and it is like playing a game o get in or out. Then, when the stranger las passed the last doorkeeper he runs the gantlet of at least three private secrearies up to an assistant secretary, and by hat time the official the stranger wants o see has probaly gone to dinner. The quarters are cutely and cunningly arranged with more secret entrances, mysterious cabinets and arrases than a Louis of France ever dreamed of in the Jays of Intrigue. But they have to do that to winnow the wheat from the chafT, for one has no idea the way the committee is overrun with all kinds and conditions of men. with all sorts of ideas for the campaign, each man anxious to see the."main squeeze," the same being Mr. Hitchcock. Hitchcock Knows His Business. Chairman Hitchcock is all business. When he is not "conferring" with somebody, or 011 a sleeper en route to a conference. he is making the sparks fly. He Is full of ideas and makes a good impression. The newspaper correspondents i are delighted with him. as he knows news and is not afraid to give it out for publication. Just at present Chairman Hitchcock is busying himself with the all-important question of campaign contributions, rreasurer George R. Sheldon, of course. Is the man who takes them in. but some ime has to start the shekels to flowing, :?nd Mr. Hitchcock is doing that. He announced this mornine the names of the chairmen of finance committees in the New England states. Every state is to have one man. designate t?he national committeeman and the chairman of the state committee, who is to appoint a finance committee for that state and solicit contributions. tSmall sums thankfully received; corporations prohibited by .statute will kindly split their amounts and send in by individuals. > Commencing tomorrow there is to lie a meeting once a week of the eastern executive comidittee in full session to consider the good of ttie order. There are meetings ilaily of individuals of the committee, hut hereafter there will be a grand round-up weekly. Haimonizers Get Ready. The special subcommittee to investigate the West Virginia muddle and try to harmonize it will meet tomorrow. They are taking the rest cure today, getting ready for a strenuous time. Both factions of the West Virginians will he on hand to give their views. Chairman Hitchcock said today it was hoped that the conference might result in harmonizing the factions on the slate licket. but lie said it in a way that, to any one conversant with the bitterness of that fight, proved that the wish was father to the thought. But it is certain that the national committee will insist that the West Virginians shall not carry their fight to the extent of endangering the electoral ticket. kiir.i would refini u unt' taction insists on tarrying out its threat t<? enjoin tlie placing of the Taft electors on both tickets. The national committee will do everything in its power to prevent that. If the West Virginians want to cut one another's throats on the state ticket and will insist upon doing it. despite all efforts to bring them together, they will have to go ahead, but they inust not turn a republican state over to the democrats on the presidential vote, it is declared. Big Day Tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a big day all around. The New York republican state committee will hear the report of its advisory committee on the question of Gov. Hughes' nomination. That promises to be a lively meeting. The Hughes men, though disappoin ed, are undismayed over the results of Tuesday's primaries and are not inclined to give up the tight. They claim that tiie primaries were the result of machine manipulation by the bosses In the several sections, and did not represent the true sense of the people. The fact remains, however, that the men who go to state convention from those primaries will do.-fhe voting, snd not the people left at home, whom- opinion may not have been represented in the primaries. There is little dunhl that I he nomination wli have to be fought out lit emn vent P?h. since eei.ii s4des are d??Ter*tiin?-rt and obsUnale to a d<^gTe?* V. j>. il . AUGUSTA ENGULFED IN AN INLAND SEN ??_____ j (Continued from First PagtO ? i which destroyed the Xtxon Wholesale ! Grocery Company's warehouse and i lie Nixon ? Danfortli cotton warehouse. The fire was in the direction of these two concerns. and as neither the fire department nor any one else could net to them It is only hv conjecture that the firm names are given. The fires -were a spectacular addition to the devastation already rife, and the people were compelled to stand idly by and watch the new feature of destruction. Beats Predicted Level. The local weather bureau issued a flood warning Tuesday morning saying that the river would reach a height of between TV and .'17 feet bj* ?? o'clock Wednesday evening, at which time it was predicted the river would have readied its highest point. This prediction was exceeded by several feet, the river having reached bcjween 40 and 45 feet, the danger line being S3 feet. Immediately upon learning the weather bureau's warning those living nearest the river began moving out for higher places, and by the time the water reached their homes they were well on their way to the hills. Poor People Suffer. There Is a great deal of suffering among the poorer classes of whites and the negroes who occupied houses nearest the lowlands. When the river began to ri'se people could be seen going through the streets with what little bedding and other articles they could hurriedly gather up and handily carry on their backs. Women were seen with their children in their arms making their way toward higher places, while the men were driving live stock. Thousands of people went to bed Tuesday night with the thought that they would wake in time to escape from the flood, but greatly to their surprise they awoke to find themselves anrrnunrieri hv water and cut off from escape except by boat. The cabmen and those possessed of boats were quick to see their opportunity, and at once began to charge exorbitant prices for moving those unfortunate enough to be caught in perilous positions. Whirled Away by Waters. Many people in attempting to wade or swim from their homes or from places of business in the flooded districts to points of vantage, lost their footing and only saved themselves from the rushing torrent by catching to tree limbs or anything else they could get hold of. It is reported that a number of people were caught in these positions, and when the boatmen passed near enough to be hailed they would refuse to go to the assistance of the unfortunates unless they were assured of being paid exorbitant fees. One man was seen in a tree who was pouring forth pitiful appeals for assistance and offered ?50 to any one that would rescue him. The police department early established temporary headquarters at the health and drainage department office, on May avenue, out of the high-water district, and patrolmen were placed on beats up to the water line. They made few arrests, however, the people seeming to appreciate the situation and keeping within the law limits. Telegraphers Marooned. At the Western Union office, when the water began to rise, many of the operators left the building for their homes. Five remained, however, and they were compelled to abandon the telegraph office and seek safety in the Chamber of Commerce building, where wires were found still intact, and they were in communication with the Atlanta office about midnight. No business was handled, however, as there were no means of handling it properly. At daybreak this morning, the operators in this building reported that the water had fallen four and a half incites since midnight, and that if the fall continued telegraphic communication with the outside world would be re-established by noon. At the Postal Telegraph office the operating force was compelled to desert the office when the water reached the top of the operating tables. No business was transacted by the telegraph companies after sundown Wednesday. The telephone service into Augusta was held up until about 7:.'to p.m., and finally collapsed, perhaps the last communication from that city to Atlanta being between the Associated Press and Its correspondent. Can't Calculate Loss. It is not possible to give an estimate of the financial loss resulting from the flood. When it is taken into consideration that every business house and every bank and store was submerged in from four to nine feet of water, and nearly all the residence portion, including the fashionable residence district of Green street, with all its churches, is in from three to six feet of water, it will be seen that the damage is inestimable. Athens UndeT Water. ATHENS, Ga.. August 27.?The floods along tiie Ocononee river at this nnint :irp Hip hiirhpst in thlrtv vp;ir? Nearly a fourth of the city is under water. The business district, which is on high ground, is apparently safe, and the damage in the manufacturing section will not be large. The city water works hare been put out of commission temporarily. A stretch of two miles of the Central Georgia railroad's tracks just outside the city lias been washed away, and no trains have been able to reach the center of the city since Monday evening. All tlie cotton mills along the river have closed down until the water recedes. Nearly 100 Towns Isolated. COIA'MBIA, S. O., August li".?Throughout western South Carolina, eastern Georgia, and tiie greater part of North Carolina the rains, which have caused tlie most destructive floods since 1K.S7, continued to full, and it is believed that the crest of the floods Is yet to come throughout Die greater part of tlie inundated territory. A local paper today publishes a list of nearly a hundred cities and towns which are completely Isolated, and from which no reports of the damage so far can he'obtained. Telephone and telegraph lines are down, and tlie railroads are operating few trains, while they are making no effort at all to maintain tlie slightest semblance of schedules. Tlie state highway department lias received reports of the sweeping away of nineteen toll and public bridges crossing the larger rivers of the flooded district, while hundreds of the dams and levees erected along the rivers in various districts for the protection of the bottoms, have been uestrojeu. Il is impossible to estimate the damage to the farming interests throughout the state, but it will run into the millions. To the cotton crop alone, the damage is said to be ten times greater than the total loss of property from the great flood of 1W03. Still Raining at Richmond. RICHMOND. Va., August 117.?It was still raining here at intervals this morning. James ^iver was at freshet stage last night and the streets and wharves in the lower part of the city were flooded, but tlie water has been falling steadily since 5 o'< ;ock this morning. No damage lias occurred to life or property. Northeaster Sweeps Norfolk. NORFOLK, Va., August 27.?Increased intensity today marked the stormy weather conditions which hgve prevailed here unabated sinoe Sunday last, with a total rainfall to date of six and one-half Inches. The continued storm has not only paralysed commerce and brought untold troubles to the railroads coming iut? Norfolk from the south, but has r dried Increased Jesses to the already severe damage sustained by farmers to their growing crops. A northeast storm swept tpe Virginia. Carolina and Mart-land coasts today with a wind velocity at the Virginia <ap<vt of * - ??????????? ? thirty-six miles ait hour. AH shipping is held in port. The rivers and streams through eastirn aud central North Carolina are still rising with Hoods bringing much property damage to transportation lines and othersRailway Traffic in Coma. At the general offices of the Seaboard Air Line railway in Portsmouth today it was announced that the storm and floods through North and South Carolina have wrought such damage to tracks and bridge that traffic is paralyzed in those sections. The work of repair, it was stated, i? necessarily slow by reason of the fact that the water, instead of falling. is still rising, and practically nothing can he done until relief comes by a cessation of the storm. The Seaboard reports its worst trouble on the lines be I ween Henderson and Durham. X. <..; Monroe and Charlotte. X. C.. and Catawba and Chester. it. C. in certain of the cuts high water has washed the tracks out of place, and some of the larger trestles are badly damaged. Several small villages have been carried away completely. Hatteras. X. C.. reports today a fall of nAtrly four inches of rain in the past twenty-four hours. Sleep With the Dead. N'BW YORK. August Driven from the city parks and streets by the storm, 200 homeless men and women last uight sought shelter in the city morgue at the foot of East L'lSth street. During the height of the storm such numbers applied for shelter that every bed. chair and bench in the municipal lodging house was occupied long before the usual hour, and hundreds were turned away. The situation eventually became so serious that the officials opened the morgue to the homeless, and began to give out tickets to all who desired them. Some, when they learned that they would be obliged to sleep In the same building with the dead, turned back into the night and the storm, but others went in and slept soundly. At ft o'clock this morning the homeless were again turned into the streets, and the morgue was once more reserved for the dead. DELEGATES WATER-BOUND. Many Republicans Unable to Get to Charlotte for Convention. Special Dispatch to The Star. RALEIGH, X. C, August 27.?The republican state convention, which formally met at Charlotte yesterday, was still water-bound today with several hundred of the delegates unable to get to the convention city, railway traffic being practically at u standstill over the state. The work of the convention was taken up again today, however, and the nomination of candidates may be entered upon this afternoon or tonight. It is now believed that Dr. Cyrus W. Thompson will be nominated for governor. There was a Taft demonstration last evening that lasted for three-quarters of an hour, and, considering the cheerless weather, the spectators made a creditable lung exhibition. NORTH CAROLINA HIT. Traffic on Railway Lines Hampered by Floods. RALEIGH, X. C., August 27.?Weather conditions in North Carolina were not imnmVPfl milfoil t Ctrl a V \Tn mail at all fivor any railway reached Raleigh this morning from the north. Traffic was practically suspended over a large area of the state and there are big gaps on all the lines that are operating at all. Passengers are being transferred where it is practicable. A new and serious danger is the breaking of the water supply dam at Durham and other cities. A dispatch from Charlotte. N. C., says that reports from outlying districts Indicate that the present flood has wrought great damage, especially to the railroads and to bridges. Seaboard trains from the west are being held, as the trestle across the Catawba, near Mount Holly, is regarded as dangerous. The Seaboard Florida Limbed cam> in over the Southern tracks from Columbia, but could not reach Raleigh, and went on to Greensboro by way of the Southern road. Reports received from Asheville say that the flood damage In that section is greater between here and Spartanburg than at any other place on the mountain division of the Southern. All passengers from Jacksonvillet Columbia and Savannah are detoured via Salisbury. All the crops along the river will be ruined and cotton is beginning to rot on the highlands, and it was still raining today. TOXIO EXPOSITION FOR 1917. Confidently Asserted Government Has Decided to Postpone. TOKIO, August 27.?It is confidentially asserted tihat the government has decided to postpone the International exposition wnjcn was to nave neen neia in ivut: ior a period of five years, or until l'.?17. No official announcement of this decision will lie made until the various governments interested are informed. The reason assigned for holding the hi- j ternational exposition in Tokio in 1017, the date to which the government is said to have decided to postpone it, is that that year will be Mie fiftieth anniversary of Meiji period, and the accession of the emperor. The government will appropriate $13,000,000 toward the expenses of the exposition. SPECIAL JURY FOR HAINS' CASE. Gov. Hughes Will Also Select a Judge to Preside. NEW YORK, August 27.?Gov. Charles E. Hughes, in a letter received today by District Attorney Darrin of Queens county, stated that lie would impanel a special grand jury t<> hear evidence in the case of the Hains brothers, accused of the murder of William E. Annis. The governor also said that lie would select a judge to preside. The district attorney announced that the jury would probably sit about September HI. PLAYING LAST GAME. I Philadelphia Cricketers Closing Series at Canterbury. CANTERBURY, August 27.-The cricket team representing the Gentlemen of Philadelphia this morning began iis last game of the present tour in England, when it met tiie County Kent eleven. By the lunch interval the visitors had knocked up loo runs for live wickets, of which Morris, who batted splendidly, made 4S. He was not out when play was called. At the resumption of pla> 'his afternoon Morris bowled without increasing the seure. Tiie Pliiladelphians went out with PsS ! runs. ? HELEN MALONEY NOT FREE. Indefinite Postponement of Proceed i a . 'ir _ _ . ings to Annul marriage. NEW YORK, August 27.?A hearing which had been set for today on the motion for a linal judgment annulling the j marriage of Helen Maloney. daughter of Martin Maloney of Philadelphia, to Arthur H. Osborne of this city was indefinitely postponed. The case was marked off the calendar of the court without explanation. A referee has recommended that the marriage be annulled. Records for Twenty-Four Hours. The following were the readings of the thermometer and barometer at the weather bureau for the twenty-four hours beginning at 2 p.m. yesterday: Thermometer?August 26. 4 p.m., 60; 8 p.m., flo; 11! midnight, 58; August 27, 4 a.m., 58; .8 a.m., 57; 12 noon. 00; 2 p.m., 62. Maximum. 62. at 2 p.m.. August 27; minimum. 56. at 7 a.m., August 27. Barometer?August 26. 4 p.m., .'tn.lo; 81 p.m., 50.12: 12 midnight. ;su.l2: August 27. 1 4 a.m.. .'W.11; 8 a.m.. :??.16: noon, ho.is; 2! p.m.. 56.1.8 Maximum temperature p;u-t I went y-tour I hours, 62; a year ago, Sl_ MACK IS CONFIDENT Bryan Next President Shown I 4 by Canvass, He Is Sure. iTO OPEN CAMPAIGN IN EAST I Promises to Carry Indiana. Illinois, Ohio ahd New York, \ HE HAS ALL MONEY HE NEEDS Contributions Come in Small Sums From People?Time of Big Offerings Over. NEW YORK, August -7-?With the democratic campaign west of the Alleglienies in full swing, Norman E. Mack, chairman of the democratic national committee, returned here from the west today to establish headquarters and inaugurate ttic campaign in the east. New York headquarters will be formally opened Saturday. In the meantime Mack will arrange for the eastern organization. He will confer with several national committeemen of the eastern states and with local democratic leaders on the selection of a cnairman of tlie suDcommittee to direct the democratic figlit in the east. Mack believes a New York man will be selected as eastern campaign manager. On his arrival here today Chairman Mack was met by National Committeeman Tomlinson and other members of the national committee who reached here earlier in the week. Mack Is Sure of Result. "The elements of doubt in the coming election are being rapidly swept away by the strong drift of the country toward democracy. I feel absolutely confident of the election of Bryan and Kern." said Mack. "I say this frankly, not because it is an utterance naturally expected to come from a national chairman of a political party, but from the fact that reports received and preliminary canvasses made are indices that the next administration at Washington will be democratic. "The campaign in the west is being vigorously pushed. Within ten days 'the work will be well advanced in the east. Indiana. Illinois, Ohio and New York will undoubtedly go democratic this year. "I have been away nearly a month ana nave noi Kent in touch with the gubernatorial situation in this state. The democrats have several- good men who could be nominated for governor, but that is a matter for the Rochester convention. "As to the Buffalo primary yesterday. I can say I know nothing about it, as the national campaign lias occupied all of my time." Funds Are Plentiful. Speaking of the campaign funds Mack said: "I am not worrying about finances, and there is no distress for money. The finance committee has supplied me with all the money that is necessary, and I have ordered supplies and everything needful to run the campaign. "Our funds come mostly in small contributions from the masses of the people. We are gathering much money in this way. The day for large contributions, so far as the democratic party is concerned, is fairly over. "I am not afraid that the committee will not obtain all the money it needs to conduct a legitimate campaign." Mack held numerous conferences :hroughout the day. Many national committeemen and prominent democrats called at headquarters. MEMORIAL TO FARRA6UT A TNHJT Yf* A Y T\TtTTTTtTr A m TMJ?T\T/1 A nJUiUlXVAU l/?j W?il AX JL/Xl/XvA" TION" OF TABLET TO HEBO. Simple Exercises in Historic House at Portsmouth, N. H.?3,000 Present to Pay Tribute. PORTSMOUTH, X. H.. August 27 ? Some ".000 shipmates, relatives, friends and admirers of Admiral David Glasgow Farragut paid si tribute to the memory of the hero of many battles of the sea in the dedication of a memorial tablet in the Portsmouth navy yard yesterday. The . commandant's house at the navy yard, where the famous tighter died, was the scene of the exercises and Admiral George Dewey, who served with Farragut, lifted the covering from the tablet. The exercises were very simple. The chaplain of the yard, Rev. Frank Thompson, offered prayer, after which Admiral Dewey stepped to the front and, following a few extemporaneous words, unveiled the tablet. The memorial bears this inscription: "Died in this house August 14, 1H70. David Glasgow Farragut. admiral in the I'nited States Navy. Faithful and fearless." In opposite corners of the tablet are displayed the United States seal and the regulation anchor of the United States Navy. The naval band played a hymn and salutes were tired by the navy yard battery. An address was then given by former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Frank \V. Hackett. The reading of a letter from Hear Admiral J. C. Watson, retired, pf Louisville, Ky.. brought the exercises to a close. CAN'T BLUFF THE COLONEL. ' | Exiled Army Officer Tickled to Death Over Test. WILCOX. Ariz.. August 27.?Col. W. F. SfVwart, the artillery officer who is practically an exile at the abandoned Fort Grant, is greatly pleased at the order from the War Department for him to take the horsemanship test of a ninety-mile ride. * "I want to take the horsemanship test." said Col. Stewart. "I can ride n:net\ miles in twenty-one hours, or any distance that horses ran carry me." C6l. Stewart says that lie has no intcnHnn i.f norniitt inir liimsolf to forrpd into retirement. SHERMAN FOR BIG NAVY. Republican Candidate Addresses G. A. R. Veterans of Utica. UTICA, N. Y.. August 117.?Candidate Sherman today addressed the Oneida Veteran Association of Utica. He refrained from discussing politics. "We are in the midst of a campaign for party supremacy." said Mr. Sherman, in part, "in which contending fiarties strive to carry out certain governmental policies and principles, but whether we be republicans or deipocrats, we are first, last and always Americans, proud of our country, proud of our position among nations, proud of our progress, of our exalted standards and splendid accomplishments. Although partisans, we all sincerely desire the greatest good for the greatest number. It is not in opinion of the ultimate goal desired to be reached in which we differ, but rather In the safe and sure way to attain that goal. "We are today in a condition of profound peace with ali the world. Would that that condition might continue withi out end; but the most sanguine can hardly have such expectation. It is appropriate ami natural that in time of | peace we give thought to industrial proi* lems. "We do give thought mainly to commercial progress. and vet a planet- at our annual appropriation bills shows that year after year we are plaeing our army and our navy "hn n Armor foundation, for we are constantly preparing for the *ar which we hope will never come. We beHove that our surest guaranty of peace j is found in perfect preparation for war. "Let the uppermost thought of the day lte of peace rather than of war. Let us glory In the commercial progress of our country and the happiness of our people. Let us encourage strife for good govern- [ ment and good citizenship. la*t tis stimii-j< late the e.Tort. not alone to advance our I < welfare at home, but to give examples of j good government and good citizenship to i the peoples of all the earth. I jet us coptinito in alat'utA tn ot.bin.i iti <r.?noril hi" 1 i iw * ic * mr 11 in i inuiu ail u " j ; 4 raising still higher our own standards." NOTEO INVENTOR IS DEAD !i - # PASSING OF JOHN JAMES GREENOUGH IN BROO KLINE. First to Take Out Patent on a Sew-1 | in? Machine?Government Of- I ficial From 1837 to 1841. ????? BOSTON. August 'M.?The death is announced ,at the home of his daughter. In Brookline, of John James Greenough. inventor and former superintendent of the i patent office at Washington. He was the: first to take out a patent on a sewing machine, invented the first shoe-pegging machine and assisted in the construction of the first electric locomotive. He held the |>osition of superintendent of the patent otflce from 1837 until 1841. He was ninety-six years of age. He leaves several children, one son being Col. George G. Greenough, U.S.A. Mr. Greenough was born in Boston. Mass., January 1?, 1811', and was the son of William and Mary Harrod Green- I ough. His early schooling was obtained ( In the public schools of Boston. When a young man he took up the study of medicine in a doctor's office. He later turned his attention lo the study of law. and after several years passed the bar examination. Later he studied mechanical engineering. and he soon became noted as an Inventor. He was the tirst American to receive a patent on a sewing machine, the Inventing of the shoe-pegging machine, the rights of which he sold for *20.* >00, and the value of which is greater than *5.*?0o,000 today. In 185." Air. Greenough began the publication of the American Polytechnic Journal. He was also the author of a book on superstition, anil was credited with having made $100,000,000 for other people through his inventions. MADAME GOREA FILES SUIT j INSTITUTES FRIENDLY PROCEEDING IN LOCAL COURT. Asks Order for Sale of Fleming Property on 18th Street to the District. 1 India Bell Fleming Corea, wife of Senor Corea. Nlcaraguan minister to the United States, tiled a friendly suit in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia today, through James B. Henderson , asking the court to order the sale of certain property to the District of Columbia to be used for school purposes and to have the funds reinvested. Mrs. Bell Vedder Fleming, widow of Col. Rob- J ert I . Fleming, and Robert Vedder Fleming, her son, a brother of the petitioner, are named defendants. The petition filed by Madame Corea re- ( cites that under the will of her father. Col. Fleming, her mother. Mrs. Bell Ved- 1 der Fleming, has a life estate in the prop- 1 erty 1018 and 1022 12th street, and known ' as lots 21. 22 and 23, square 284: and tliat if ' a sale Is to be made the court will have to order the same. 1 Offer for Property. The sum of $35,400, ste states, has been offered for the property, less 3 per cent commission to Joseph I. Weller, real es- . tate broker, and $500 to the lessee of 1022 12th street to vacate the premises at once. Mme. Corea avers that It is to the best interests of all concerned that the sale of the property be made. She also asks that a guardian ad litem be appointed tor her infant brother, Robert Vedder Fleming. 1 She also states in the petition that she is a citizen of Nicaragua temporarily a resident of the District of Columbia. A copy of the will of Col. Fleming, dated May 25, 1804, is attached to the 1 petition. i Attorney Corry M. Stadden represents Mme. Corea. SONS OF VETERANS ELECT. Edgar Allen Elected Commander-inChief at Niagara Falls Meeting. , NIAGARA FALLS. N. V., August 27.? i The National Society of the Sons of Vete- i rans today elected the following officers: Commander-in-chief?Edgar Allen, jr., 1 Washington, D. C. Senior yice commander-in-chief?J. Vas- j . celine, Paterson, N. J. Junior vice commander-in-chief?L. W. Alexander, Buffalo. Secretary?H. II. Hammer, Reading, Pa. I Treasurer?J. L. Rake. Reading, Pa. ] MINE WORKERS CONFER. Strike in Alabama Discussed by In- ] I ternational Officers. INDIANAPOLIS, August '.'7.?A conference 'was held at the national headquarters of the I'nited Mine Workers of America. which was attended by President Lewis and other international officers and \V. It. Fuirley, national board member from Alabama, at which the strike in Alabama, where 18,000 men are out, was discussed at length. At its conclusion it was announced that nothing toward a termination of the strike had been done and no end to the strike was in sight. President Dunaway of the Tennessee district and National Board Member Smith discussed locjil conditions with the International officers. Mr. Fairle.v returned to Birmingham, Ala., this afternoon. TRAIN SERVICE RESUMED. <!' Trunk Lines to South Running! s Through Trains. { The Southern railway today announced that Its main line, which was temporarily t interfered with by Itigh water in South j Carolina yesterday, necessitating the de- t touring of certain trains, was opened for j the movement of traffic and all trains ' early today. All trains, both local and limited, are now running through between J Atlanta, Spartanburg, Charlotte and i Washington. t A telegram received from headquarters of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad at * Wilmington. X. C., to the company's rep- I resentative here, dated 11:55 a.m.. states i that the line is open for passenger trafflj 1 throughout the entire system, except for : business to Augusta, Ga., which is sub- < ject to delay on a?-count of high water, and that trains are being operated approximately on schedule. The Vnited States Steel Corporation has just completed the opening and improvements at its coal mines. Gary. W. Ya.. at an expense of si.ouO.??ni for the mines and ovens. This plant will supply the western, mills of the corporation with their fuel, j LIONS NEEDAMOTHER One They Have at Zoo Won't Quite Do. STEP UP, YOU GREAT DANES [f You Have Had Experience, So Much the Better. CATS ARRIVED LAST NIGHT Mamma Lioness Is Not Lacking in Love, But She Is Embarrassed Before People. 1 >r. Frank Baker. the superintendent of the National Zoological Park tthe Zoo. that is>, wants a great Dane to act .is nursemaid for three tiger kittens which were born out there last night. It is not always the fashion f?n a mother tiger to call on the L?anes to furnish the help which all tigers have been able to furnish themselves since before the time that the original keeper of the garden of Kden zoo painted the stripes on the first one of the species. Perhaps they did not have great Danes In the garden of Kden, for Denmark la not mentioned in any account of that delectable place, but it is certain tha< if there had been any great Danes they would have been the best kinds of nursemaids or foster-mot iters, whichever you prefer. v Dr. Baker, who has lived up there among all those wild beasts so long that he knows their habits as well as In; knows his own. says that in the jungles a tigress mother is well able to take care of her yroung, and takes great pains to sec that f ho littln fnllnww i?rnu nrt in !??? crron i nv t i i\. ? v ? ? w c ^ i " ?? ii|r ?'/ i *-< < ?? i strong beasts, the terror of the benighted Hottentots and the delight of liudyard Kipling. Mamma Is Excited. Here in the city, where there is so muoh noise and so many visitors on Sunday, the lady mother is quite apt to have her head turned by the excitement of people calling to sec the little dears, who look just like their father. It is not perhaps a settled fact that she will run away and leave the kiddies to their own devices, hut there is danger of her doing it, as the folks who crowd around the cage get her excited. So for that reason Dr. Baker says he wants a Great Dane, or some other large hound who can act as nurse girl. lie wants one wlrtch has recently held a similar position, not for tigers necessarily, but say, for little Danes. Here's Tour Chance, Doggie! It is an elegant chance for a Great Dane. She will become the most famous of her kind in the city, and may have her picture taken by thousands of people every week. Besides that, she will have the company of one of the world's most startling animals, such as the Tasmanian Devil, who is the quintessence of ugliness, the Sea Island Turtles, who have been roaming about the world for hundreds of years and who look like tne oia scraicn. She will have the best of rare: and In addition to that she will have the comfortable feeling that in helping out with the kittens she has acted tiie part of a useful citizen of the four-legged world. Now, Great Danes, don't all speak at once, but some nice motherly one of you trot up there and have the chance to go without a muzzle for a while. ELOPE IN AUTOMOBILE BALTIMORE COUPLE GOES TO ALEXANDRIA TO WED. ? Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va? August 27.? Mrs. Mora Young and Detective Augustin V. Bouden, both of Baltimore, eloped to this city this afternoon in the big touring car owned by Frank Hall of Washington and were married. Rev. W. W. Van Arsdale, pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, performed the ceremony. The utmost secrecy was observed by Lhe couple. Mr. Boudon said that he did not want the news of the wedding pubished for some time to come. They hoped to slip into Alexandria, get the knot tied quickly and slip out quietly with only the marriage license clerk and the minister knowing the object of the trip. At the clerk's office the groom gave ( his age as thirty-five and -his occupation is the proprietor of a barber shop. The bride's iige was given as thirty-seven years. That the course of true love is not smooth was brought home to the couple when they attempted to find a minister. "They visited the homes of three before they found one at his residence. Accompanying the party were Frank Hall and Detectives Cortiwoll and Armstrong of Washington. A woman whose nanfe was not given was also in the party. Following the ceremony the bridal party left in the automobile for Washington. News Briefs. Amos Houptman. a farmer living along the Hharpsburg turnpike. south of Hagerstown. plowed up the bones of a tiuman leg and foot twelve Inches below the surface. It Is thought the bones were those of a soldier killed during the battle )f An tie tarn. A claim of Robert E. Cadovv. administrator of the estate of his sister. I .aura lr. Cadow. in the amount of has >een taken from the orphans' court of Frederick county. \ld., to the circuit murt to be decided. Two mules In a team belonging to Fisher, Riley and Carrozo, contractors for the section of the Washington-Baltimore ttoulevard between Hyattsville and Hranchville. Md.. were struck by a Ha I lino re and Ohio express at Berwyn crossng and killed. Burglars entered tin1 store of the coal ompany at Austen. W. Va.. a few miles vest of Oakland. Md.. on the Baltimore ind Ohio railroad, and blew open the sate , vith nitroglycerine. The robbers got over SlOrt In cash and stamps belonging to the jost office located in the building and telonging to the coal company. Proscuting Attorney Cramer of Monon ;alia cpunty. W. Va., with six deputies ind the Landis bloodhounds, is on the rail of three masked men who entered he home of John Molliffee. near Cheat Narrows, eighteen miles from Morganown. and s! ?le about $4oo. Rev. Charles A. Raton, pastor of the 2uclid Avenue Baptist Church. Cleveland, "ihio. is seriously ill with typhoid fever. Jr. Taton was taken ill in Boston several veeks ago. Robert J. Frowine, in jail i^t Ironton, >hio. for the murdar of Henry Freeka, ittempted to butt out his brains against i sharp projection in his cell. He will ikely die, as it is thought his skull is ractured. The best help and | situations are obtained . Irom The 5tar "Want Ads.w $ i