W. C. T. U. President

Mrs. Stevens, of Maine, Is to Fill Miss Willard's Place.

St. Paul, Nov. 16.- The first event of interest yesterday in the W. C. T. U. convention was the election of Mrs. Stevens, of Maine, president, the place Miss Willard so long and so successfully filled, Mrs. S. M. D. Fry was elected corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Clara C. Hoffman, recording secretary. There was a skirmish fire all day on the Temple matter, Mrs. Carse bringing it up every time she saw a chance, and finally it came to a vote again and the Temple went down again.

The fight was on a resolution pledging co-operation in the retirement of the Temple trust bonds, because the W. C. T. U was morally bound to such action; no one thought it legally bound, and the friends of the Temple argued that hearty indorsement was given the new bonds by the national convention in Boston 1891: that such indorsement decided many to purchase the bonds, and that the moral obligation thus incurred by the national union toward the bondholders has been acknowledged again and again. Even the moral obligation was repudiated by many and the final result was the defeat of the resolution - 75 to 267.