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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 17 Jul 1895, p. 2

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at Chautauqua, N. Y., have been secured by the American Brewing Company of Chicago, Milwaukee. an<3 Toronto, and it is the reported intention of the company to erect a beer garden and brewery there­ on. Mrs, Kate Hunt, of Bnifjilo, who owned the prpp-n-ty, Will receive $30,000. The assembly tried to pucch%se part of the property this spring, offering $15,000 for fifty acres", but Mrs. "Hunt refused; to sell a part. Croat indignation is felt there over the sale. • • CHRISTIAN SOLBIERS : The Rev. A, S. Plumb, D, D., extended the greeting from the city pastes, and the welcome of the Boston '95 committee DRAKE ISTH ihgTf the hymn of welcome George W. Coleman of Boston delivered the welcome of the committee Of '95. The Rev. A. S. Gumba rf made the address of welcome for the city pastors, and Alpheus San- ford, chairman of the Board of Aldermen, J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. was by the chairman, the. Hon. Samuel B. Capen. The greeting extended to Gov. GreenliffJgv which followed was in- FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONV TIONj,OF ENDEAVORERS. IOWA REPUBLICANS ' - FOR COVER MCRENBY, IfcLINO.Fc , A 3UVENiLE BORGIA Nearly dne Hundred Thousand Young People in Attendancer-Great Hall and Two Tents Filled While Thou­ sands .Overflow, Six Ballots Were Necessary^ll^r for Lieutenant Governoi--Ttie;'!1! form--One Thousand Fall with an J lantic City Convention Hall Floor. AN INDIANA GIRL GIVES HER FOSTER PARENTS POISON. BifT Meet in Boston. 0 ^ H HE fourteenth an- C0m'^nt'^n ' a Boston, exceeded in A c s 'ze anJ' uational -oJ\ 5 convention, either k political or r e 1 i g - t . ions, ever witness­ ed in this country. The exact number in attendance cannot be stated, but it is estimated that it.was* near to lQ0,fJ0D. The young Christians poured" into Boston froni all directions by train loads of hundreds and thou­ sands. Every State ^delegation, was given a church as headquarters, and the delegates were,quartered as far as possible in the immediate neighborhood of the church. 'Fifty-seven churched were thus appof- FRAXCIS E. CLARK, D. X). Founder of the Y. V. S. C. E TliS CHRISTIAN" ENDEAVOR CONVENTION IN SESSION tioned, and an each every comfort was provided for visiting Endeavorers, There were places for them to rest, a room where they might check wraps or small 1>aggage, and where writing paper, ink, tables, stamps and numerous conven­ iences might be found. / Every church was the postoffice for the delegates of the State quartered there, while members of the local societies were at- all times at WELCOMING THE DELEGATES. was d( .nvorc (1 P ros i ( ]on t Clark. their respective churches to entertain was frequently interrupted by the a,p- tlieir guests, give directions how to get phiuse, and on concluding the vast audi- to this or that place, or to accompany the ence rose and gave liini an ovation long visitors about the [ to be remembered, closing with the Chan- city, as they might -- -j> tauqua salute. After singing '•IlaMeln- wish. Each' church jah." Evangelist Dwight L. Moody talked I also had its cmer- t o ,h< ' •V()Un« i u : l fatherly way. geney hospital, so W Kreat was the crowd at Mechanics' to speak. Arrange- <«N> Hall that 10.00!) were unable to gain ad- J incuts had been mittance and a big open-air meeting was i made with near-by held in Huntington avenue, addressed by physicians so they ^ " President Clark and Mr. Woollcy. might be called in, I & yy" j Thousands at Tent Endeavor. and in some cases At Tent Endeavor on Boston common two or three train- the sound of fervent prayer was minuled ! ed nurses were en- with the strains of music wafted over gaped. from Tent Williston and the hum of the The main audito- busy city's trade. Not less than 10.000 riuin Wi^s Median- /persons greeted Lieut. Gov. W'oleott ics Hail, with a I \ when he rose to welcome the delegates seating capacity ot I iHMok 1 in behalf of the State of Massachusetts. over 10.000. Here The liev. W. II. Albright of Boston con- the principal meet- ducted the devotional services, and after ings were held. refvrring to the occasion as a day of pen- O t h e r m e e t i n g s , t e c o s t h e c a l l e d f o r t e s t i m o n y f r o m t h o s e were held in two _ present. immense tents on OFFICIAL BADGE . Tho Baptists filled the tent during the Boston common and in different churches, afternoon. The Rev. H. C. Vedder of Three choruses, comprising over :{.000 Chester. Pa., was the chairman, and the voices, selected from various singing so-- speakers were the Rev. L. A. Crandall cieties in Boston and vicinity, led the 0f Chicago, the Rev. Clarence A. Bar- singing. The grandest feature of the hour of Rochester, the Rev. II. C. Ma- week was the mass meeting on Boston bie of Boston, the Rev. Henrv L. More- common Saturdays This was Good Cit- house of New York and the Rev. Way- izenship day, and at this open air pather- 1Mnd Hoyt of Minneapolis. The speeches ing Gov. Greenlialge. Mayor Curtis, and . sSh-ored of patriotism and called forth Rev. Donald McLaurin, I). 1)., of I)e- great applause. The Rev. 1 /. Tyler of troit, were hoard in patriotic discourses. Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, author of » ^ "America," prepared an original poem v j) for this occasion, and through the gener- /jfc jj osity of Miss Helen Gould, of New York, ' >r,Ki | souvenir copies of "America" were given to the delegates. • ' The Endeavorers marched in a body from Mechanics' Xsst * Building to this big gathering, and they * . v made a picturesque sight with their ban- j A feature of the convention were the ^ r/ij "suiirise" pVayer ine^tin^a each ^day it) | j | j §meetings, so the En-deavorers went to MILLSTON cnt itcn, POIITI.AXD, ME. the masses. In oth- The Church Homeof the First Y. 1*. S. c. K. er words, companies ~ : 7 of delegates, repre- Cleveland presided at the evening praise s .en ting different service, and following an address on States, held model "Washington, '9(5,". by W. II. Pennell, prayer meetings in the annual address of President Clark big factories, stores was read by Prof. James I). Ilowe of and car stations Lexington, Va., and John G. Woolley of I William Best, the most notorious resi-during the noon Chicago delivered an interesting temper- dent of the Paint Lick of Kentucky, was hour. The greatest ance address. shot and instantly killed in a quarrel by enthusiasm prevail- The creat. Tent Williston was an in- ' .Speed Nunn. The killing of Best wipes ed everywhere. 111! W. . •••• • • - * = r-r-z--, . ssasswaaaasa •' s= W.I KF.CRKTAUY IJAER . the market places, I j %Z/, along the wharves, in lumber and coal \ yards the young Endoav^ers penetrated, and they were welcomed wherever they ^ went. At the hospitals some pathetic , scenes occurred, which were in striking . ^ contrast with the gaycty and good cheer fW n H at other places. >^iae»fTSJ The street scenes were unique, with ; marching young people singing Sunday ! -school songs,--crowds upon--the-.-electric ! cars ^waving their crimson and white flaps and the throngs of sightseers. ; Three times during the first day ,Me- . chanics' Hall held an audience of 13,000, ; and a more interested audience,, more beautiful decorations and greater unity , of thought and purpose were never known ; on any public occasion. Long before the L , exercises began every foot of room where V persons were allowed to stand was OCCIH MECHANICS' BUILDING, WHERE THE CONVENTION MET. pied. The great chorus sung lustily, the : * : --r---- e .immense audience s\velled the song, the spiring sight all day, the canvas shelter- out the last of a family of outlaws who >. noise of the great" organ "^veiled out ing 10,000 people at each of the three have l<een the terrors of the section for 3 grandly! and led the singers aud above meetings. The services were introduced many years. i, all could be. heard the silvery tones of by a season of song by the chorus, in ,--w the four cornets played by the Park sis- which the congregation joined with splen- Richard\Allerf .was struck on the head i, ters. The Rev. Francis E. Clark pre- did effect. The Rev, \Vayland.. Hoyt, ,D,, by a heavy auger while cleaning out a i; sided at the opening session, and devo- D., of Minneapolis, presided in the morns weu at Portland, Ind., and his skull frac- I, t ional exercises were conducted by the ing, wielding a gavel made from three tnred. ;; Rev. Smith Baker,D. D., of East Boston, historic buildings, of Boston the /old -- £ and 13,000 joined in reciting t,he Lord's South Meeting House, the old State Tammany is ait work reorganising ne$. prayer. House and Fanetlil Hall. After the eing- districts in New York- SEVEN DAYS ENTRANCED. FALL WITH A FLOOR SOUTHERN. WESTERX LEAGUE. In the Western League the clubs the week in the following order: I ndianapolis Kansas ( 'ity. Detroit Grand Rapid •Milwaukee . St. Paul Minneapolis , Terre Haute, MARKET REPORTS WASHINGTON, Telegraphic Brevities. The excise law was rigidly i nforced in New York. Brazil is said to be again on the verge of a rebellion." ' ' ' Dr. Kester, of Hammond, Ind., ^uchp his life with chloroform. Thomas R. Mieksell, the murderer of Phil Metsinger, at Milton, Ivy", has been- caj)t ured, -----T-----•-- Receiver McNulta. of the whisky trust. Jias been authorized to offer the property in St. Paul for sale. The . Diamond plate glass works at Elwood. Ind., have been sold to tlie-glass trust for about $1,000,000. New Orleans' citizens' committee has issued public notice that firebugs will be hanged without process of law, The National Confectioners' Associa­ tion of the United States began its twelfth annual meeting at Saratoga, N. Y. • t «. The grand lodge of Elks opened its ses­ sions at Atlantic City. It is said, fac­ tional differences have been adjusted. In lias been decided that the ucxt con­ gress of the National Scotch-Irish So­ ciety will be held in Pittsburg May A T t and 8,1890. ' mm The furniture of Mrs. Katharine Chase, daughter of tlfe late chief Justice, and former wfte of the late Senator Sprague. of Rhode Island, has been seized for debt and is about to be disposed Of at auction in Washington. Cadet Roberts, a member of the "plebe" class at West Point, is said to have been so badly hazed a few, days ago that he faiutpd. Cadets Robert Jayne Maxey and Wallace Bryan Scales were placed under arrest, charged with being the offenders. One hundred and six acres, adjoining the'grounds of the Chautauqua Assembly, The Cornell crew won its. first heat in the race for the Grand Challenge cup at Henley-on-Thames without, being forced to show What it could do. The Leander crew, the present holders of the cup, were not ready when the umpire «ave the Word and did not start. Their ifuke gave

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