Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1890, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, INDIANS GIVE IT UP. A Large Number of Sitting Bull’s Followers Surrender. SFOGIUE BEATS THE RECORD. Probable Friendly Settlement of] pebiicen the B. and O. Dispute. FOREIGN LABOR TROUBLES. WHITES NOT BLAMELESS. Cowboys and Ranchers Have Molested the Indians. Dexven, Cot., Dec. 24.—A Cestor, 8. D., spe- cial by courier to Rapid City says: The situa- tion here remains unchanged. Things have a better look since the disaffected Indians from the north have been captured and returned to Fort Mead. Concerning the situation in the Bad Lands there have been no reports. Two ed the camp yesterday, re- port having seen Two Strike and Kicking Bear leave the cabin of Kicking Bear's brother-in- law, who is a squaw man, who lives ten miles from here, and go toward the Rad Lands. Two troops of cavalry started to head them off, but after pursming them for thirteen miles the In- dians dixwppeared imto the Bad Lands. The | troops returned to camp at midnight. Another | Party of troops left here yesterday to capture | a band of Indians who had the night before at- » couriers and chased them some dis- ng shots at them. They proceeded at nine miles south of here, when they saw @ party of Indians aboat two miles in advance of them. They immediately gave chase, and the Indians saw that th iers were ; m they abandoned the two squaws ing behind them ponies. These were made pri bt back to camp. The the state has issued s large »gfield rifles to ranchers and n to themselves and Its reported th 6 cowboys have the reserv: for Indians and pear shoot at them, thus causing ill-feeling and trouble, which is »vercome. There is no doubt that al- he Indians are the principal aggressors, Fet, since the arrival of the troops, the cowboys and ranchers have become very daring and are elves molesting Indians instead of their homes. The de ent com- r has given orders to watch close settlers anc diarm and make prisoners of any of them caught im the act of invading the In- dian reservation. Preune, S. D., Dee. 24.—Frank Patterson, who arrived from Midland last night, says that 1, at Napoleon's ranch, he met a 1m the south who reported three white killed by the Indians in Pratt county on on the wa cour: me the White river. SUREENDEE OF SITTING BULL'S FOLLOWERS. pr THE PAPAL CONSISTORY. It is Looked Forward to With Great Inter- est—Other Forrign Matters. . Loxpox, Dec. 24.—A Rome dispatch says} Parrs, Dec. that in reply to a remonstrance from the court | anare! of Austria against utterances by church au- | and G: thorities in favor of republican government the pope has replied that he will not withhold | his apostolic good will from any form of gov- ernment which afords due protection to the church in the falfillment of its mission on earth. Father Hyacinthe does not agree witl: vigerie’s langrange in support of re- blican government, on the ground that the rdiaal quoted as a model state the republic of Eequador in South America, where freedom of worship is not permitted.” Pore Hyacinthe would prefer a monarchy to such a republic. Dublin correspondence states that the comin, papal consistory is looked forward to wit it interest in Ireland, as it is believed that e will at length promote Archbisho Walsh fo the dignity of catdinal. ‘Tho Englis opposition to this course is not so strenuous as it was, now that the home rule issue is looked upon by the party in power as dead: but are- port from Rome states that the Vatican is not altogether pleased with clerical activity in the Kilkenny election. IMPORT ENTRIES IX THE CONGO FREE STATE. The decision of the Dutch government to sign the agreement permitting the Congo free state to levy an import duty of 10 per cent was, it appears, arrived at under the influence of France, which country had formerly w Holland not to sign, in order to bring about a crisis in the finances of the Congo state and compel it to sell out to France. One reason for the change of heart is that France is not at resent in a financial condition to buy the Congo state. SOPHIE GUNSRERG TORTURED. Aletter received from a Russian exile at Zarich charges that Sophie Gunsberg, the nibilist who was condemned to death for being concerned in a plot against the life of the czar, had been subjected to torture in prison and that her cries were heard by other prisoners, who managed to make the fact known. The object is supposed to have been to obtain rev- elations regarding other accomplices. ‘YABIOUS FOREIGN TOPICS. The committee of the French chamber of deputies have reported against consideration of the Moreau bill for the abolition or taxation of titles. : ‘The abnormally cold, foggy and wet season has inereased London's annual death rate from 18 to 26 per 1,000. The French government has asked the cham- ber to vote 2,890,000 francs for the encourage- ment of the silk-worm raising industry in France. ‘Mme. Laguerre Laisant and St. Martin, form- erly adherents of Gen. Boulanger, have formed a separate group in the French chamber and | will adopt an opportunist attitude. : At Osterberg. Saxony, last night a citizen named Kresler, his wife and three children were suffocated in their apartments by escaping gas from a coal stove. . itis reported that many persons have per- ished in Russia owing to the extreme cold and that a party of thirty were frozen to death while crossing a bleak steppe. Advices from India state that the British merchants there view with growing concern the great influence exercised by the Germans in Siam, where the consul representing Ger- many has just been raised to the dignity of minister. ‘THE CZAR GRATEFUL TO AMERICANS. Sr. Perersscnc, Dec. 24.—The Official Mes- senger says the czar has sent to the American ‘will | colony of this city, through United States Min- ing up stragglers from Hump's camp, who bave broken through the cord are supposed io have joined the Indians in th dae ‘The majority of the outlying troops are now concentrating aiong the Cheyenne river and the order is daily expected the renegades. ‘The ht set fire to the to a man named ops were immediately sent ¢ at the ranch found nothing ering ashes. The Indians erything of value, burned tons of hay and killed nine beeves. McCormick and bis family had left the ranch some few daysago. & ————— * ALL &ECOKDS BEATEN. Donoghue Wins the World's Skating Cham- pionship in Fast Time. Dec. 24.—“Joc” Donoghue of New- amateur champion skater of the today won the inter- ateur skating championship race ‘umbridge. He covered the course, one mile and a half, in 4 minutes and 46 seconds, beating the world’s Sarat THE B. AND 0. An Amicable Settlement Probable From ‘Today's Conference. Baxrmone, Dec. 24—The grievance com- mitwe of the employes of the Baltimore and Ohio Company today held a lengthy confer- ence with President Mayer, Vice President King and General Manager Odell in reference to the request for an increase of wages by the me At the conclusion of the conference President Mayer said: “The conference of our men with us isa matter that concerns their private interests and I have no right to make them public.” Vice President King said that the requests submitted by the committee were considered and undoubiedly an amicable agreement would be arrived at. national a: on Lingay Fen. S. A. Ne Allowance Made for Certain Payments— Admissions in the Witness Box. Carcaco, Dec. 4.—There was a further sbate- ment of $4,000 in the assets of the suspended bank of S. A. Kean & Co. this morning when ‘Mr. Kean in the witness box acknowledged that ne allowance bad been made for $2,000 paid to D. H. Holman on the day of the failure or for $2,000 declared for freight by the authorities of Superior, Wis., upon his failure to pur- ebase certain bonds of that town which he bad | contracted to do. D.W. Kean, the banker's brother, testified that it was not true, as represented by bis brother, that he had ever been a special partner in the bank. He had, however, at his brother's request given in his note for $5,000. The wit- ness suid he had not the least idea what it was for. It wa: n without consideration. The witness had never paid either principal or in- | terest, though it was eightcen months past due. —_ MORTGAGE. How the Assistant Cashier of L. A. Kean & Co. Was Deceived. Cacaco, Dee. 24.—Herbert Hammond, as- sistant cashier of 8. A. Kean, telegraphed to Cincinnati this morning for the arrest of W. C. Dinwiddie. According to Hammond's story abont the middie of November Dinwiddie came to Mr. Hammond and obtained money on a mortgage of Milwaukee property by Wm. D. and Clara F. Davis. Mr. Hammond com-! municated with Helzard, notary public, before whom the acknowledgment was » and found the papers correct. Again Dinwiddie came to Mr. Hommond. This time he brought @ mortgage and notes to the order of Mary A. We Bennett of Ci nati. The mo: was for $400. Cashier Hammond | inwiddie $50, taking the mortgage as collateral, which he «ent to his brother-in-law, A. G. Eberhart, to be recorded. “grams from Cincinnati | stated the mortgage was a forgery and no such Piece of property as ascribed in the papers | could be located in that city. Mr. Hammond's is s personal transaction and has no connec- tion with Kean. —— Dr. Tatt Wants His Freedom. New Yous, Dec. 24.—Dr. Henry J. Taft of Washington. D.C., in the supreme court today argued his own case on a writ of habeas corpus to secure his release from jail, to which be was ister Smith, the expression of his thanks for resolutions ‘expressing gratitude for the full liberty enjoyed by the colony for half a cen- tury. The resolutions were adopted upon the occasion of the celebration, on December 18 last, of the fifth anniversary of the esvablish ment of the British and American Congrega- tional Church. PROF. KOCH'S VACATION. Benxrx, Dec. 24.—Prof. Koch has left Berlin for a vacation of ten days. ‘THE AUSTRO-GREMAN TREATY. ‘Vrexxa, Dec. 24.—The suspension for the tive to the Austro-German treaty of commerce finds them so far advanced that a satisfactory issue is foreseen. A CRISIS IMMINENT IX GERMANY. Beurix, Dec. 24.—The Reichsanzeiger (official) announces the inability of the government to accept the amendments offered by the com- mission to which was referred the government's communal bill. The threat made by Herr Herrfurth, minister of the interior, that if the landtag sapported the amendments its disso- lution would immediately follow, is thus con- firmed. The Hamburg Nachrichim, in an ar- i y Prince Bismarck, urges the landtag as a necessi ds that the accomplishment of thi solution will be in line with Biemazck's views the lantag and the | The ex-chancellor also attacks government. proposed concessions to Austria, which, he in- sixts, would be equivalent to the payment of tribute for her alliance. The landtag, he be- Kieves, should appeal to the country on this question. THE SCOTCH RAILWAY STRIKE. Guascow, Dec, 24.—There is no change for the better in the strike situation. On the con- trary it grows hourly more serious. Seventy five hundred men are now out and accessi are steadily being made to their numbers. Business is_ greatly paralyzed. On the North British railway traffic, both passenger and freight, is entirely suspended, and on the other roads the movement of the trainsis of the most irregular and uncertain character. SUBURDAN RESIDENTS FORCED TO WALK. People living in the suburbs of this city, but engaged in business here, are compelled to walk into town, all the ordinary rail facilities being cut off. Coal has advanced seven shil- lings @ ton, and a gas famine is imminent. Already the fupply of fuel in the great ship Yards and public works is so low that, unless relief comex speedily, they must shut down. Strong police guards are placed over the depots and other ra property wherever it is ex- d to danger from interterence by the strikers. Such few trains as are being moved are manned by porters. COMMENT ON JAMESON’S DIARY. Loxpox, Dee. 24.—The Times says no one reading Jameson's diary will believe him capa- ble of the cold-blooded atroci him by Assad, though he cannot be acquitted of grievous blame. Except for the favorable light thrown upon s character marred by one indelible stain, the diary cannot be read with anything but pain. It is a relief to find that Barttelot and Jameson, however misguided, were inspired by an unfaltering contidence un- der the most trying circumstances and by an honest endeavor to do their duty even at the cost of their fortune. reputations and lives. THE DUBLIN CARTERS’ STRANGE STORY, Denix, Dec. 24.—The two carters who tell a story of baving been compelled by masked men to drive to Phenix Park and there de- stroy the copies of the Insuppressible, with which their wagons were loaded, have been arrested and committed for trial. "The story ix disbelieved and the men are cl with having accepted bribes to do the work them- selves. RESTRICTIONS ON CONSUMPTIVE PATIENTS. Beutrx, Dee. 24.—All unlicensed scnitariams, hotels, &c., have been notified by the police that consnmptives and other patients suffer- ing from contagious diseases who may be guests of such establishments must bave de- parted therefrom within eight days or the places closed.. Private patients will be se- order. AMERICAN BACON SEIZED. Coxoaxe, Dec. 24.—A quantity of American bacon has been seized in this city, and a Dutch merchant who imported the bacon, which is valued at 60,000 marks, has been arrested. RAISING DUTIES. committed Ly a police magistrate im mont proceedings mstituted by his wife. Dr. Taft said be decided to go to Washington to ractice. Hix wife refused to goand deserted m. When he came on here on a visit he was — Qlosing the Sawtelle Murder Trial. Sawtelle murder trial expect to —oedu ring the otternoon without puttingIenacs ‘on the stand, in which case the government will Febut and the evicience be all in by the close of the afternoon sessio' — Damages For a Monongahela River Lock. Prrranvn, Dec. 24.—In the United States circuit court of this district today Judge Ache son handed down an opinion awarding the Monongahela Navigation Co. $209,000 for lock No. 7 on, the Monongahela river, recently condemned b; eo Unite States govern claimed £500,000 for’ their i H., Dee. 24.—Itis stated that the | the Moxrevipzo, Dec. 24.—A bill has been intro- duced into the chamber of deputies by the gov- ernment raising tbe duties on spirits, tobacco, tinned provisions, sugar, perfume DISTRIBUTING KOCHINE. Bentry, Dec, 24.—Prof. Koch and his assist- ants have completed their arrangements for P ‘and distribution of the curative lympb. © ABOTHER POSSIBLE CARDINAL. Christmas holidays of the negotiations rela- | ¢ Tiously affected by the enforcement of this | & FOR HELPING PADLEWSKY TO ESCAPE. Gregoire Sentenced in Paris to Eight Months’ | Why ‘Imprisonment. ta b urderer wes coneluded today. | mitted he assisted escape, was sentenced to thirteen months’ imprisonment. cealed Pa: ment. Finally Gregoire, surrender himself wl to months. WILL FIGHT The Directors of the Railway Company has meeting adjourned it company bad determined to prosecute the strik- No trouble or expense, it is added, will be spared by the for what is classed as strikers’ demands. them. and its employes. as being fs0 said to be probably pathy for the strikers, lence. of directors has also arrange for « conferen the bope that some concerned. one of the leading dry g ate cause of the failure. closed by the sheriff thi Spreading Rails accommodation on the near Leete's Island last of the rails. John O'Neill had his hi man had his head badly New York St. ‘wire to Corson and ers to the fullest extent of the law. ‘The following are the openin and cl the New Yors Stock Market, as reported: acartney, 1419 ¥ street. Mme. Duquercy, who confessed to having con- \diewski in her “ received # sentence of two months’ imprison- rho yesterday offered to tha ‘French consul af Palermo in order that the consul might send | him back to France to testify to the fact that he [bad aided in Padlewsky's escape, was sen- | tenced by default to imprisonment “for eight | ¢, eee TO THE END. North British Kallway ‘Will Prosecute the Strikers, Guascow, Dec. 24—An important meeting of the board of directors of the North British been held. After the was announced that the company in its efforts to obtain redress an unwarranted inter- ference with its business. The North British directors have also resolved to completely close their railroad lines rather than yield to the ‘The strikers have been considerably enraged by the announcement made today that the rail- road officials refuse to pay tion of the wages whic! This action, according to the railroad officials, is taken upon legal advice, pending a decision from the courts as to the contracts existing between the company This step is generally ‘@ most arbitrary proceeding upon the part of the railroad authorities and is the strikers an; may now be due to validity of an illegal one. Inany case the step taken greatly increases public sym- tis also thought that this action upon the part of the railroad com- pany may excite the strikers to deeds of vio- =The Northeastern Railroad Company's board held a mecting. It is understood that these directors are to between themselves and a committee representing the strikers in understanding may be arrived at between them by which the strike can be terminated so far as the Northeastern road is epee Business Troubles. Evaxsvitie. Ixp., Dec. 24.—F. W. Ruff& Co., joods houses of this city, has made an assignment for the benefit of cred- itora. Liabilities, $20,000; asseta, $30,000. In- ability to meet payments due was the immedi- Cnicaco, Dec. 4.—The store of Charles R. Lynch, an extensive boot and shoe dealer. was is morning on confes- sions of judgment aggregating over $21,000. ath ic ast Cause a Wreck. New Haven, Conx., Dec. 24.—The Guilford Shore line was wrecked night by the spreading No one was killed, but a woman was severely cut about the head; Conductor ip broken and a brake- it. a2 SS FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, lock Market. prices of ‘special ria oe ae 2 G26 eo Sales—Regular call — 1 National Bank, 9 at 155. at gold, 102 bid, — asked. Teney, 103 bid, — asked. 104 bid. 2-year uF 1901, currene: 1 town Railroad, 10-40, 3, 1 ington and Georgetown Ki Did, ed. 6s, 107 bid, 112 asked. ny, imp. 68. — bid, 11° Infantry Ist mortgage,Gs, Light fifantry 2d, 7s, 190d, ington Gas’ Light Com Die asked. Washingt: series Ice Farmers and Mechanics’, zens’, 170 bid, 180 asked. bid, 100 asked.’ Traders’ |, 240 asked. | Metro) Columbia, 70 aaked. Cay 36% bid, 60 asked. bid, 55 asked. Franklin, 80 bid. Metroy Union, 18 bid, 28 aske asked. Corcoran, 58 bid. asked. German-American, 165 bid. bid, 100 asi People’s, 43, insurance Did, 135 asked. Columbia Chesapeake ‘Miscellaneous Stoc! ny, — bid, vompany, 1 Com) 250 bid, Deposit | Com 3 iy, & a jidend. BALTIMORE, dling, 9. Flour Fultz, 9581.03; No. 2 winter’ red, 49639; May, dull. 8; do. do, mixed. Provisions quiet. Butter rm. fresh, 25; ice house, a Washington Stock Exchange, ind, 58, 1599, gold, 108 1 asked. Capital, 120 bid, 125 coin, — bid, 112 aaked. Seco road Stocks—Washington’ and George ked. Riggs, 7 bid, 634 asked. “Lincoin, 4! asked. Commercial, 4% bid, 4 asked. and Potomac, can Graphophone, 11% bid, 12 ask ‘Washington Market Com- My, 16 bid, 20 asked. Washington Brick Company, — bid, 895 asked. Great Falls 330 asked. Bull Run Panoram: ‘vid, 23 asked. National Safe 300, sak asked. bid, Baltimore Markets. Dec. 24.—Cotton ‘bash Do. pret |West. Union 2 o'clock mL: Columbia Eckington_ and Soldiers’ Home Railroad, 2 Lineoin Fire Insurance, 309 at 5. Commercial Insurance, 150 at 44. Wash- ington Gas, 25 at 39%. Government Bonds—U. 8. 438, 1891, rea, 103% bid. U.S. 4158, 1991, coupon, 1034 bid. U.S. 4s, registered ivi bid, 124 asked. U. 8. “4s, coupon, 1907 | 4, bid, 1223; ast District of Columbia Bonds—Per imp. 6a, 1591, Per imp. 7s, 189i, car Market stock, 7s, 1492, ana, e, 1802 gold, 145%, id, 'y, LIS bid, 1M) asked. Miscellaneous Honds —Washington and George. hi 08 bid. 107 asked. Wash ‘ailroad Convertible 6a, 107 Masonic Hall Association, 58, 1898, Washington Market C 7 asked.“ Washington Light pany, ist mortgage ashington Market Com- 1904, 93 bid. Washington 91 bid, 100 asked. Wasi pany, series A, 6s, "113 on, Light Company, + By “114 bid 121 asked. American Se- curity and Trust Company, 103 asked. mpany, Ist morgage 6s, 108 asked. National Bank Stocks—Bank of Washington, 425 bid, 450 asked. “Bank of Republic, 970 bid, — asked, Metropolitan, 270 bid, 300 asked. “Central, 300 bid. Hygienic 's 190 Did, — asked. Citi- Columbia, 1544 bid, 165 asked.” West ond, — bid, 200 asked. town, asked. Street, hitan, 120 bid, 135 itol_ and North O- 43% bid, 55 asked. Eckington and Soldiers’ Home, Georgetown and Tenleytown, 47 Insurance Stocks—Firemen's, 42 bid, 50 asked. Hitan, 80 bid.’ National iy Columbine ‘Pomic, 6b 8 asked. bid, bid, 5 teal Estate Title, 128 Title, 574 bid. 6x asked. Gas and Electric Light Stocks—Washi Gas, *50%¢ bid, 40 aaked. Georgetown Gas, 43010. U.S: Electric Light, 136 bid, 145 asked. rFelephone SioexsFennsy!vanis, 26 bid.92% asked. Ad, 72 asked. Ameri- ied, ‘Machin 1 Deposit Washington Safe eanington Loan ‘and 4% asked. American Se- ‘ompany, 62 bid, 63 asked. ced. bid. Mi heat—southern firm; , 98.03; western firm; December, 96; Janu- ‘Corn—gouthern, 7. Yellow, S6a5i54; ; western firm; 6648, ‘soutl Coffee quiet. Sugar guict: Copper steady. Whisky frm.” Freights to vet 1 per steamer quiet. ‘ipts—flour, 6,622 v wheat, ot Duslela; corn, "46,904 oats, 6,000 bushels; Tye, 1,300 bushels. No ments. Sales—w! ‘Dushels; corn, 455 bushels. No market a BALTIMORE, 4] and Onio Btoct 925 A933; and Parst, Dec. &.—The Gauicis announces that | 6. at the next meeting of the consistory the pope et er bog ken Dominican, Father the cardinalate. $ ee Demands of Chattanooga Plumbers. Cuattaxooca, Texx., Dec. 24.—The plumbers of this eity demand an increase of 20 per cent ber, 0; January, i May. Corn—Janu- ary, 43%; Mayy a oaaay, Se Pork Jam '. a 11.00, — January, 5.5; a — January, 4973; May, A Chicago Present. From America. On the street. for Roe—“I don’t know. Doo—“What are you going to give your wife Christmas?” Rect ‘people. you going to give me in wages or $3.» day instead of $2.50, the rul- | gift of knives separates PoPeary Uncae Nashville: and Memphis pey | os—Oh it's ted sure thing.” 7 higher wages, which the men shoul not be At tay thet water no sirounasts they back | for Christan, Eras down. ee Dorn" ool of ule knives, I gaces.” & PUBLIC BUILDING VETO. the President Thinks Bar Harbor Dees space was, in 1848, $300,and the expenditare for fuel and lights $60. One clerk was employed in the post office and no carrier. The part—as by the enumeration was. leso. than 2,000. During one-quarter of the year this population is largely increased by summer ents and visitors, but for the other three-q not much above the census enume: ‘The it_is receipts for 1890 by q ‘show that for more than half the year the receipts of the post office are about $8 Per, day. salary of the janitor for the new building would be more than twice the present cost to the gov- ernment for rent, and lights. I cannot believe that upon reconsideration the will approve the contemplated expenditure. centhslortiaamiar euetches amy Liror. Grant, U.8.N., has been ordered to special duty in connection with the electric lighting of naval vessels, and Ex Seymour has been ordered to the receiving ship Dale. ———— Tar Preswexts Recrrriox.—About one hundred people attended the President's Christmas Eve public reception at the White House this afternoon. The President came down into the east room at 1 o'clock, as nsual, andas the line passed the President and he shook each by the hand many hima Happy Christmas. Dexzoates To Tar Moxerast CoxFEREXCE.— The Department of State is informed by a cablegram from the United States minister at Bogota that Senor Don Climaco Calderon and Senor Don Julio Rengifo will represent the republic of Colombia at the international American monetary conference to be held in this city on the 5th of Hey be The De- | prea is also advised that the delegate from Venezuela isin New York, but his name is not given. The Inoculated Patients Improving. Dr. Brewer of the Garfield Hospital reports that the five patients recently treated with the Koch lymph are doing well and show continued improvement. He says that their coughs have increased and they expectorate more than ever before, but as this is one of the features of the lymph’ treatment he regards it asa favorable sign. ‘The Quorum Resolution Approved. ‘The President has approved the joint resola- tion making two members of the board of Dis- trict Commissioners a quorum. Senator Stanford’s Generosity. Senator Stanford has commenced to celebrate Christmas in his gratifyingly characteristic wa} First among the beneficiaries was Capt. Isaac Bassett, and his Christmas gift was most boau- tiful. it was a solid gold snuff box—heavy, ar- tistically chased, valuable. Highly poli mossagates are on the corners of the hinged lid and in the center isa pretty cameo. ‘The Sena- tor purchased it in Europe and laid it away un- til it became scasonable. ‘were re- The membered according to custom and #0 were numerous other employes. Each of them was presented with a crisp new $5 bill, and as a natural sequence each of them hopes that the California millionaire may always be a healthy member of the Senate. a Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued by the clerk of the court to Caleb Lancaster of Prince George county, Md., and Nellie Snow; Richard Bell_and Cornelia Smith; John Henry Kellan and Bettie Brooks; T. Harrison Elliott and 8. Irene Best; Albert Janifer and Martha White. phiedon nia For Washington Swedenborgians, Crxcrxxati, Onto, Dec. 24.—The widow of the late Chas. H. Allen of Glendale bas by a will 260,000 in trust to Rev. of Washington, D. C., to be used for founding in Glendale, school in which the tenets of the Swedenborgian faith shall be taugax. egies MAKING AN EXPLANATION. Mr. Sewell, A Cheerful Way of Using a Barber’s Chair. From the Detroit Free Press. T was getting shaved ina one-chair barber shop in a mountain town in Kentucky and there was only one other man in the shop beside the barber. The process was about half through, when some one was heard walking on the ve- randa which surrounded the shop, and pretty soon a wild-looking face peered through the window. “Say, Bill, does he'un want you?” asked the < | barber of the other man. “Who all is it?” “Simmons, I reckon.” — can'twant me. Inever did nothin’ to Sy me does he'un want you?” asked the of me. ho? Simmons as you call him?” “Yes.” “Never heard of him. Whois he, anyhow?” Greathand “Oh, he'un lives back yere a dota’ toshute. Had any trouble with him?” 0. “Well, 'll go out andexplaintohe'un. Might shute through the window if I didn’t.” He put down his razor and went out, and when he returned Simmons was with him. The shooter stepped around and took a at me and then heaved a sigh of ment and said to the barber: “Tain’t he'an, Sam, but so mighty clus to it that I might hev popped through the glass.” “Never does any hurt to explain matters,” said the barber in a reflective way as Simmons went out. “He’un killed two men in this chair and I don't like the muss of it. That's what I went out to explain—if you was he'un’s meat, he'un was to wait and drap you outside. Electro-Piating Human Bodies. From the Jeweller’s Catalogue. A French doctor wants to introduce his pat- ent process of preserving the remains of the dead. It is not embalming them or yet mum- mifying them, though the bodies must be em- balmed before the doctor's new process takes hold of them. The new idea is to electro-plate the whole body and thus preserve to posterity the noble lineaments of those whose estates cut Up sufficiently well to allow the expense. First, the body is embalmed, after which it is dipped into a bath of nitrate of silver. It comes from thisbath the color of polished silver. After that the face is subjected to a r plating dip, and comes out burnished silver, 'y to be preserved to the latest generations. In order to insure perfect success the face is varnished, and this is the tion. The bi ranted to remain the same for cen- turies if treated with reasonably — fair care. This opens up great vistas for old fami- lies. They can preserve to the latest day the burnished copper countenance of the hod-car- rier, saloonkeeper or tailor who was the distin- guished founder of their noble line. Brazen ‘ones. Along with the family spoons, grandmother’ corner cupboard and other relics, the old man’s copper bottomed face can be kept a thing of beauty and joy forever. All the race can copperplated ancestors by and by. ———_ Bar | CSFY & wea) which was probated today given | 4¢f =a" ed copper face ia then war-| and ut him the night of june 18. Ward's most intimate friend had testified that he bad never known Ward to pon. Had he been meditating Ad- ler's murder it would never have taken so much persussion to induce him to carry the pistol away from the Morgan House that after- noon. Finley testified that Ward did not take his ‘away that day, but that he refused to keep it any longer and insisted on Ward's tak- ing it away. WARD WAS XOT HUNTING FOR ADLER that night. He was playing a game of pool in the Marble Saloon when Adler came in. There were no ugly words. Ward asked Neumyer and Adler to drink. There was nothing hostile. No ‘one could say that Adler's remark, “I'll take a lomon seltzer,” was such a8 could have enraged Ward. When Adler ordered his drink Ward said, ‘“You will?” and then did what? Shoot at Adler? No, ‘There is no testimony to sustain that. There was no malice in that act. When did Ward's malicious intent begin? ‘Not when he entered the saloon. Not while standing there. Not in that first shot. ‘Yet it must - been formed some time, or else there is no foundation for the charge of murder. It must have been formed between those two shots, and yet all the evidence is that those two shots were #0 close together as to be almost instantaneous. Ward raised his weapon without changing his aim and then fired again in the same direc- tion except as to the elevation of the muzzle of the pistol. It was physically impossi- ble for Ward to have shot Adler, even if for sake of argu the ment we admit that he wished to do so. Neu- myer, the larger man of the two, was between Adler and Ward and must have been shot had Ward aimed in the direotion of Adler. The lo- cation of the men places the government in a dilemma from which they cannot extricate themselves, 4 Buckingham sword that Adler stood between the two others, said Senator Blackburn. If that is truo it’ was so much the worse for the government, for if Ward was within two feet of Adler and next to him and wanted to shoot him why in the world did he not fires bullet into his heart? Adler ran. Buckingham had as much right to be fright- ened, for the firing was nearer in his direction than it was in the direction of Adler. If Adler started to run at once it fixes the intervalof time that must have elapsed between the two shots, for he did not run as far as ten feet. Five witnesses, said the Senator, told of what they did during the timeSbetween the twoshots. ‘The two policemen had @ conference and ran 20 fect ina time that the eve witnewses say was not greater than one secon POLICEMEN AND RAPID TRANSIT. Senator Blackburn said that the problem of rapid transit was not yet solved, for here were two policemen traveling faster than a telegraph m They ran nearly 100 yards while Adler, who was running, as he thought, for his life, was unable to cover ten feet. He would not impeach: these two witnesses, Dut he simply wished to show to the jury “what was the nature of the evidence on which they were asked to render a verdict. Ward was said to have cherished malice toward Ad- ler, Senator from _Ken- tucky, and yet the two were found to- gether a short time before the shooting in a saloon matching pennies for wine and then drinking it, He wished the jury to remember that the twomen were not engaged in a friendly encounter with guns, nor were they carving each other with knives, but were engaged. in the hostile act of drinking wine together. Mamie Carroll's testimony as to malice, he said, had been utterly contradicted by the testi- mony of Hurdle and others of the government's own witnesses. ‘The Senator reminded the jury that it was only necessary for them to bring testimony to rebut the evidence of malice on the part of the ant, and thatthey had gone much further than this without calling upon a single one of their own words. NO ROOM FOR MANSLAUGHTER. There was no room fora verdict of man- slaughter. It was either murder as the result, of malice and forethought or the case must fall tothe ground. It was not an unlawful act to shoot the pistol at the floor of a saloon nor to raise it and fire it without changing the i nor was it a lawful act unlawfally committed. Ward was not endan- gering human life. It was only by an accident, that Adler was hur:, Ward was shooting at the ceiling, not at Adler nor at Buckingham. The ball struck the fluting of the pillar and ricocheted. ‘The ball struck two hard substances and the ball itwelf furnishes indisputable evidence of is fact DISCREPANCIES IN THE GOVERNMENT TESTIMONY. Senator Blackburn called the attention of the jury to the discrepancies existing in the testi- mony of the government's witnesses. He said that no two of them deven in the funda- mental features of their testimony, and he compared the statements of the ’ various witnesses of the shooting, and of _ those who ran into the saloon at the sound of the pis- tol. ‘The senatorial advocate also criticised the testimony of Dr. McBlair relative to the Pretcriptions of ‘morphine to | the Adler. Dr. McBlair testified that at the autopsy the spinal cord was contused and lacerated, while Dre. Schaeffer, Wortman and Hamilton had all stated that the cord was not burt, but was in a perfect normal condi- ion. He would not say that Adler did not die as a result of the shooting, for if he did he knew the prosecution would answer that if the shot had never been fired Adler, im all probability, would be alive today. But he would ask the jury which inflicted the more fierce and dan- gerous wound in the back of that poor man’s neck, the t ball or that wicked pair of surgeons: pincers that looked more dangerous and deadly than any Smith & Wemor's re. volver ever made and was capable of inflicting more jevous and se- vere wound. That bi ir of bone crushers were it into the man’s neck and both ends of the arch of the vertebra were severed, although the wound from that spent ball had entirely up within a few weeks of the ooting. Still, Senator Blackburn said, there was no necessity for him to continue that line of argu- ment, for the jury ‘might forget all that “he had "said and all that Judge Wilson had said on every line but one and yet they would have to acquit the defendant. They could not but find that Ward was notin hisright mind and was irresponsible for his acts and such being the case the fact and the extent of the offense had no being: ‘Two of the ablost experts on the subject of insanity in this broad Ignd had come upon the stand and pronounced the defendant at the bar to have been insane irresponsible at the time the shooting oc- c PLEADS FOR A VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY. Scientists and specialists and men in all | ¥° classes and stations had pronounced Ward insane at D.C,’ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1890-TWELVE PAGES. OYSTER DREDGERS’ BARDSHIPS. Three Men Who Escaped in 2 Boat to This City. ‘Three destitute men who applied to the in- mayor's office in Baltimore yesterday for to Philadelphia had just ar- rived from this city, where they came on boat which picked them up on an island near Virginia. ‘One of the men told this story: “October 15 we shipped from Philadelphia on the schooner Elisha. We were told that we would be treated well and would be left at Baltimore when our time expired. We worked hard from early morning till long after sunset. The captain, we thought, would not cheat us out of our money, as he sppeared to. be 8 ety, Pious man and said is prayers regularly every night and morning. We were treated fairly well for a sbort time. When we got down the bay the trouble bezan. The food was poor, such as no hard-working man could eat. Yet we bore it all, for the cap- tain said if we worked along without ‘kicking’ he would give us a holiday Christmas. We didn’t kick. _ ‘Saturday ht the captain called us into the abla, there were seven in his crew. He owed us different amounts, rang- ing from $12 to $39. Instead of paying what was due us, he gave each man who would accept it €5, and then told us to go ashore. ‘There was nothing left for us t0 0 but to obey. It was 12 o'clock at night. ‘The island to which we rowed had only a few houses on it. At that time of night we could get no shelter, and took to the woods, where we remained until daylight. We then’ hailed & passing boat, which took us to Washington. We came from Washington oma train with the money given us, “We went to Commissioner Rogers, thinking he would be able to do something for us, but as the affair happened in Virginia waters he said he had no jurisdiction in the matter. The cay tain has now gone to spend the Christmas bi days at bis home in Huntingdon Creek, Va., while Weare loftin this city without means to get hor simply because he refused to pay us what he owned us. Wecame to the mayor's office to see if we couldn't get back to Philadelphia, but as noone here can do anything for us, leu pose we will try and get back on @ freight era) ain. One of the men, May, isan old seaman and says he has sailed in all the waters of the world, yet inno place would a captain be permitted to throw his crew off on an almost uninhabited island. ‘The other two men, ‘fone and Lewis, were totally ignorant of what dredging on the Cheeapeake really meant. It was their first experience, and they say they propose to make it their last. Tone is a handsome young man about twenty- five years old, and had on the remnants of a once fine «nit. He say man came to me in Philadelphia and said, ‘Let's go dredging.’ I didn’t know what it meant, but signed a con- tract and had to go.” All the men bore un- mistakable signs of being roughly handled. Only one wore an overcoat. Tone claims that his people are well off in Philadelphia. se taisebisces naan A BURGLAE’S CURIOUS EXPERIENCE. Surprising Outcome of an Attempt at Rob- bery in a Country Village. From the New York Sun. “About the most unpleasant experience I ever had,” said a retired burglar, ‘was ina small village in the western part of the state. I looked around the town in the afternoon and located s house that seemed promising, and about a quarter past 2 the next morning I went in through the back door. ‘The lower part of the house was nicely furnished, but I didn't want any bric-e-brac and I went right up stairs and turned into the first chamber I came to. ‘There wasa very dim light burning in the room, but 1t wasn’t light enough to see by and I turned on my glim. The light just happened to strike the head of the bed and it woke up a man. He sat up and said as cool as could be: ‘Well, what is it?” and I told him I wanted whatever dust he might have there, and I wanted it soon. I had met cool men before and I wasn't going to stand any bluff. “He got out of bed and started for a burean in the corner of the room. I kept the light on him all the time. He was a well-built young fellow, not more than twenty-four. He a manly sort of a look about him and 1 was al- most ashamed to robhim. When he moved up toward the burean I moved up, too, 60 a8 not to give him a chance to open a window and holler or to get any other drop on me where I couldn't reach him. He hud got about ont more step to make to reach the bureauand he was moving along as quiet as a man could, when, quicker ’n lightning, he made a jum} nd Dutted me square off” my feet before knew what he wasdoing. My lamp fell one way and my jimmy the other, and the next sec- ond he fellon me 80 heavy that I thought he would grind me through the floor. “Thad a gun with me, but I didn’t even have a chance to get hold of it. He grabbed both my wrists when we fell, and then somehow he managed to hold both of them with one hand and with the other he grabbed me by the neck, and he just simply dragged me out and threw me down stairs. I could hear myself banging all the way down, and Texpected to be all broke =P when I got there, but I wasn't. I was bruised, but all right. When I got up on my feet IJooked up tothe head of the stairs where the man was. His face had a serious kind of a look on it, but when he saw I wasn't much burt he smiled and said: Plo you kindly close the doo> when you go out?” “will,” I said, for I wasn't Boing done in politeness; ‘but,’ says I, ‘will you kind]; tell me where you got all that business?” «Oh, says he, ‘you mean the muscle busi- ness? Why, I am the haif back of the Wyanoke College foot ball team,” _ “That made me mad, and says I: ‘Then why in thunder don’t you hang out a sign and let people know who you are? “That seemed “to make him mad, and he stopped smiling and started for the stairs, an I just went out and closed the door after me.” to be out- A GERMAN MISER. He Starved Himself to the Last and Left = Chestful of Riches. A typical miser died two weeks ago in Baden near Vienna. His story is told in the New York ‘Sun as follows: His name was Wm. Weberex. He appeared in Baden nine years ago and |“: rented the cheapest vacant house in town. It had but one story and only three rooms. The first evening after his arrival he went to the city park and picked up the acquaintance of Theresia Lasch, a seventy-year-old widow, engaged her to keep house with him, and was never known to speak with any one in the streets of Baden afterward. For nine years he allowed none save her to enter the house. She ought him the barest necessaries of life daily, and left them on histhreshold. He ate fi that a beggar would reject, slept on loose straw and paid his one acquaintance just one cent a day for her services. He never had his cleaned or windows washed, never changed the straw of his bed and never had a new gar- ment while in Baden. ‘A few days before the illness a fire burned down a i shanty. The neighbors hurried to his house tohelp him save what he might value amon; bis apparently valueless ponsssions, He barred e door, however, an ndishing an cavalry sword behind the window, shouted that he would burn with his house before he would allow any one to rob him. A KING'S A Hotel Servant That Had a Remarkable Career in Burope. From the Philadelphia Telezrarh. Old King Williem of Holland, during his long. disgraceful career, indulged in innumer- able love affairs more or less serious, but of all the five females that ho set at the left side of his throne the most remarkable was an American woman, the celebrated Mme. Masard. She was a realization of the well- known line of Byron, “Born in a garret, ina kitchen bred.” Yet notwithstanding the ob- security of her origin and her lack of edu- cation and breeding, she bloomed for.n into one of the most elegant women in Europe. She was a New Englander by birth and began life in some menial capacity in a hotel in Bos- ton. She is said to have been extremely beau- tiful in her youth ina gracefal Spanish styic, her figure being at once slender and shapely and perfect enough in its con- tours to have driven any sculptor to despair who might have tried to reproduce it. Her eyes were large and dark, her head small and finely formed and her features of a piquant delicacy of outline. Her vast fortune came from her royal adorer in a very singular way. He flew into a passion with her on one oceasion and, catching up the nearest object that came handy, he hurled it at her head. ‘The lady cleverly dodged the missile, which was a bulky package of papers, but, taking possession of it, sbe carried it off in triamph. It was made up of shi certain unproductive oil wells in icia. A few years later the company “struck oil” and that quarrel with King William made of Mme. Musard one of the richest women in Europe. Like Mme. Dubarry, who, in her childhood, Petled pins and stayiaces ‘about the streets of aris, and began life as a dressmaker's appren- tice, ‘the ex-hotel drudge of Boston becam noted for the extreme ciegance of her surroun: ingsand the perfect propriety of her demeanor. Her taste in dress was faultless, her hotel, her equipages, her jewels were all’ renowned for their splendor. She eame to reside in Paris and Was a munificent patroness of all artistic or charitable enterprises. A stroke of paralysi which brought about an incurable droop of o of her eyelids, deprived her of her beauty b fore she had attained middle age. She always sat, when at the theater or the opera, 1m a pros cenium box, with the disfigured side of her face turned away from the aw : magnificent jewels, her slender waist encircled with a girdleof gems that matched the rest of her parure, and shieldin her eyes from the light with an antique fan, painted by Watteau or Boucher, and worth in itself @ fortune, her dark hair decked with roses, and her still exquisite figure set off by the best efforts of the Parisian dressmakers joted a it be believed that t her magnificent existence were @ vain craving to be received in rexpectal society? She did everything that tact and 1 telligence and lavish liberality could suggest to bring about that end, but all to no purpose. She subscribed to all fashionable charities, She patronized all the relief funds and be fits, the bazaars and the balls, muking munifi- cent gifts to each of them. She always engaged most expensive box in the house whene anew operatic enterprise was started. Her life from the hour that she quitted Holland was entirely sans reproghe. But none of the fash- ionable ladies she offered to a certain, philanthropic duchess asubscription of $10,000 for that lady's pet charity in return for ‘an invitation to dinner. The offer was declined. Finally, she fell a victim to the insidious ef- fects of the malady that had robbed her of her beauty. She went madand died. The sale of her ¢ffects at her sumptuous hotel near the Arc de Triomphe was one of the most extra- ordinary scenes that I have ever witnessed. Her choice laces filled a huge Saratoga trunk. Her silk stockings were brought out by the clothes basketful. The display of her fans took up half adozen glass cases. Her tiny gloves aud miniature slipper all the beholders. Nobody was sad and nobody was specially interested. ———_—+ee Queer Case of Arsenical Poisoning. The public have become familiar with cases of arsenical poisoning from wall paper, but it is not generally known, perhaps, says the Bos- ton Post, that the coverings of furniture, such as chairs and sofas and the hangings used for portieres, may also be the means of conveying poisonous matter of the same character into the human system. A recent case of this kind has come tomy knowledge which shows the insidious character of the poisoning and the length of time which it may take to produce its deleteriou; effec‘s. A well-known Bostonian was attacked by sciatica, which resisted every remedy employed by physicians to combat it. ‘The persistency with which it held on led to supicione that something in the appurtenances of his city house might be responsible for it. Asthe walls of the house were painted, not pered, there was nothing to be looked for in that direction, but an examination of the coverings of the furniture reveuled the exist- ence of large quantities of arsenic. ‘The upholstery of an arm chair in which the gentleman was in the habit of sitting wasfound to be full of thie poisonous substance; the same was true of the sofas and some Tarcoman hangings which had been made into a portiere. ‘The arsenic did not show iteelf, as is often the cles in which it was found, but, the physicians id, was precipitated in the form of gas into the room. What made the case especially no- ticeable was the fact that the materials coritain- ing the noxious substance had been in use for fourteen years before producing any apparent injurious effect. Sciatica, of course, came as a result of the lowering of the tone of ‘the system and would not naturally excite suspicion of arsenical poisoning, but nausea and indiges- tion, which are the specific effects of such poi- YANKEE FAVORITE. | Parisian society would receive | her or invite her to any entertainments. Once | were the admiration of | | ] | | in the form of powder on shaking the arti- | jt AMERICAN PORK AND WINE. Some Figures Showing the Money Invested From the Milwenkes Even n- Wissonen Minister Reid has gone to Egypt for a vaca ths, and this fact is being ac- that his labor in the interest American hog is to be crowned with It has heretofore been hinted thet sment has about coneluded restriction upon the importation of American pork, but it is now stated that definite action upon the importation question will be tukon in the Jatter part of January next, Tt will by mbered that in long diplo- matic lette French minister of foreign 1 “talked business” én his per style. He defended the against the tramped-up iis diseased and showed that upon line of policy that France has adopted in rela tion pork the United States could eon- ont the product of the The a be little dificulty the wine imported imto the of the ve nited States from France and other countries the er portion is adulterated. And if it pleased the French government to hold that our pork is diseased, and for that reason unfit for food, it might please the United States gov- ernment t0 say that French wines are adul- terated, and for that reason not fit for con- fumption in America. ‘This was bluff and jomacy at the same time, because dij simply official butting and eaje — Minister Reid's play was a winning hand, it seems, mediately after he shown, how consistently the United States could retali- ate upon France there was a disposition in French ntal circles te reeall the an- found mst the American bog as ly as possible, and let our pork, go, to nd the im- if the poor in France, jou that France will in January next re- plics move the restriction upon American ducts ix undoubtedly well founded. “eee: The French people are not blind to the fact that there isan immense wine industry in the country, and thet itis growing at « ble rate. They have heard from the Lake Erie wone district and from California as the demo- crats of the United States have frequently heard from Maine it it pere are figures in reg which if brought to all an hog and keep i . the fact that there is $1 dissipate aickly vineyards a 400,009 acres planted in viv ry, of wh mg this during the and an increase in the capital in- wer =10,000.000 during the same t California alone now has 150,000 neinding 25,000 acres of fornia has nearly £78,- he grape industry, wud will half of the 40,000,000 gal- e which will be made in the United States this yeu hese figures are from statistics gathered by aspecial agentof the census burean. They Ee — eof ey lrg icans, let alome the renchman who 1 short-nighted enough to bar out our pork. bit ies ee Drawixe To A Crose. 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