Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1891, Page 5

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The service was found to be erij pled at 3:15 this morning, when the fire in r of Chariex Beltwood's hardware store, No. 200 Puvonia avenue, where Chiet En- ineer Farrier met bis death, again broke out. No. 2 Hook and Ladder Company responded to an alarm given by Policeman Lowery, who was watching the diemantled store.’ The people living upstairs were aroused and took refuge across the strect. Fortunately a line of hose had been left attached to the fire plug in front of tho store and the truckmen had under control. ANGER IN JERSEY CITY. When day dawned only one of the eight fire alarm circuits in the city was found to be in- tact. This was circuit No. 2, covering the Penn- sylvania railroad depot and a few large manu- | facturing interests down town. ‘The circuit | was rebuilt two yeas ago at private expense. The alarm wires operating the #i bells of the fire department are also broken down, but are being rapidly re- paired. Extra firemen have been detailed and the entire police force of the city is on duty. Incase fire occurs alarms vill be sent | out from any of the various signal towers and fire headquarters by means of telegraphic keys. ‘The fire commissioners and the bourd of finance will hold a conference at 11 o'clock tomorrow to arrange for the immediate rebuilding of the fire department wires. TELZPMONE WIRES DAMAGED. The New York and New Jersey ‘Telephone Company also snffered severely from the storm. None of the three hundred or more wires entering the Jersey City exchange could be worked all day. A line of a hundred copper wires in Newark avenue between Warren aud Henderson streets fell into the street. The tan- gled wires fell upon the lines of the Hudson and the Jersey City electric light companies, mak- ing a mess of them. ‘There was a similar state of affairs on Grand and Henderson streets. 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The f Distvict” Telegraph | Com- are completely disabled. ‘The police d nt telegraph] inesure not in working or- messengersare kept in readiness to com- municate between the various precincts when needed. In Hoboken the telegraph lines on 13th and 14th streets are prostrated and will | have to be rebuilt. The telephone wires are tangled up and it will be several days before business can be generally resumed. The electric light wires were — damaged, but the company succeeded in repairing the and are street lights are unused tonight, T wires on the line of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad are ont of ofder, and the only communication is by means of trains, which are running as usual. Neports from North Hudson state that wires and poles are down in all directions. j ‘THROUGHOUT NEW JERSEY. (| Hackensack, N.J., Jan. 25.—The storm of | last night and this morning destroyed all tele- | graph and telephone connections here and | badiy damaged the electric light plant. A heavy breakage of wires and poles is reported | from every part of the country. Parensox, N. J., Jan. 25.—A heavy guile continued until 10 o'clock this morning. It y erippled telegraph, telephone, electric light and fire alarm ‘wires. The snow, Which fell to the depth of three or four inches, + | callected on the wires and by its weight caused hundreds of them to break from _ their fastenings. In about thirty cases the weight of the snow on the wires broke the poles to which ‘The falling pol badly blocked traftic in the street. ‘The exact amount of damage done ix not krown, bat it will doubtless reach several thousan:: ‘dollars. Telegraphic communication with the outside world is completely shut off. | Boupextows, N. J.. Jan. 25.—A heavy snow storm set im here last night. During the night an extra freight train on its way from ‘Trenton to Camden, on the Amboy division of the Penn- sylvania railroad, jumped the track and was wrecked. A wrecking train has gore to the scene. All telegraph connections between this city and New York and Philadelphia have been | cut off, all the wires being dowa. i —_ CAPT. OVERBY’S | URDERERS. Am Accessory Convicted in Petersburg This Morning. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. Prrenssvne, Va., Jan. 26.—Some monthsago Capt. P. C. Overby, a very prominent citizen of Mecklenburg county, this state, was brutally murdered by being struck on the head with a wagon tongue in the hands of a negro named Jokn Phillips. Buasx Booxs, MEMOKANDUMS, INVOICE AND SCRAP BOOKS, COPYING BOOKS, PRESSES AND STANDS. PAPER AND ENVELOPES. FINE STATIONERY, ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. EASTON & RUPP, <0 TH ST. §.W., @22m OPPOSITE STAR OFFICE Phillip, who was employed on the Atlantic and Danville railroad, had been in the habit of passing through Capt. Overby’s farin while on his way home. On one occasion Phillips was guilty of using very obscene language on Capt. Overby’s premises in the presence of Capt. Overby’s family. Capt. Overby reproved Phillip’s conduct and this Jed to an angry quarrel, which resulted in the murder. Shortly after his arrest Phillips was brought to Petersburg gpd lodged in jail to prevent lynching. ‘Ihe “feeling against ps was such that when he was taken to Boyd- tom, the county seat of Mecklenberg, for trial he had to be taken under escort of the Fr TWENTY-FIVE CENTS YOU CAN GET ter's Little Liver Pilis—the best liver the world. t forget this. One pill a dose. New Sruxc Aunvars at JOUNSON & LUTTRELL'S. ‘We bave received an invoice of Beautiful Spring- weight S4-inch Brosdcloths, in the new shades New York. $1.50 per yard. D yer sani. Att the new Black Stihs with colored stripes at $1.25 SPECIAL. Tocicee out slot of “Colored Stiks,” we've put the Prapine Anite deep into the. Cut pres, your eboice at Se. per : ‘doubt price of | from their agents in America that the dynamite taser Shs sa conquuation. Sanit Foe ei oot eos | section is eotively propering (0 resume opers- call we'll prove it true, tions, The headquarters are said to be in Philadelphia and Kansaa City. ‘The authorities _ ee mae tn al parte and detectives swarm. in jrerpool A | cae anal pty of twang orders for « 713 Market Space, eee wet fom the cobtnent Ui ‘States, which was stoppeda a 9 Pe ‘THE COURTS. mats eee Reo ‘Todey— beng arg RL Otterbach. Fortune agt. Fortune; rule to show etre ey ee panne cen anna CAR- be mew shades im Silk Valvets at $1, $1.25 and ~All Dark Colored “Gros Grain Silks,” | —"Gres Grain Silks," very fine quality. Ammons this lot are some evening shades in Licht Blue, Lemon. Heliotrope, Cantinal, &., formerly sold from Petersburg Greys. a military company of this 1m | city, to prevent mob violence being done to him. After along and tedious trial Phillips was | convicted of murder in the first degree and was John frving. another negro, yharged with being an accessory to the murder of Capt. Overby, was arrested, and to prevent lynching he was brought to Peters burg and in jail, where he bas beer ever since. Wednesday he was | taken to Boydton by the sheriff of Mecklenburg leounty and the Petersburg Greys for of of murder in the second degree, fixing the pris- oner's punishment at seventesn years in the penitent fe oe Se Prohibiting Church Lotteries. The Catholic chureh is to shut down on in the see of Minnesota and North and South Dakota. Archbishop Ireland yesterday imued the fol- lowing order: “Public sentiment has become so pronuunced, gad rightly so, against lotteries deem it our duty to now do, the Dynamite Scare in London. Itis stated on very high authority that there is a great dynamite scare among the authorities in London, who have received information years. Trains are now being ran_ by means of Trains on the New Jersey Central railroad are running as usual and little delay is, att SCENE OF THE FIGHT Showing position of troops when first shot Cloman, acting engineer officer, division of the Missouri. AT WOUNDED KNEE | Results of a Star Correspondent’s In- vestigation of the Bloody Fight. THRILLING BATTLE SCENES. How Squaws and Children Were Killed— Desperate Bravery of the Indians—Grit Be- Beath Blue Coate—Facts That Throw Light on the Mystery of the Fight. Staff Correspondence of The Evening Star. Wounpep Kyze, 8.D., January 21. A couple of score of dead horses, rotting in the remarkably mild weather which has made this winter memorable, the burned and ash- strewn remnants of an Indian eamp and a long grave are the only featuresthat remain to identify the battle ground on which Big Foot and his hostile band attacked the troops under Gen. Forsythe and were speedily resolved into noth- ing more than a bloody memory. No combat with the white man in recent years resulted so disastronsly to the red man as the one which took place on the field I wandered over today. The result of that struggle proved very conclu- sively tothe Indians of South Dakota that trial. U; ment Irving pleaded “not Saitty.” "ite “tris wan not coucladed. unt | sloned officers this morning when the jury returned a verdict | lotteries at fairs to raise church funds, at least | [1 while the government of the United States may be of avery mild character and a somewhat shiftless power.in times of peace it is prompt and terrible when it sees the necessity ‘for in- stant action. With this example before them the braves of Pine Ridge and Rosebud and Standing Rock will be slow to put on their war paint and will deliberate with much delibera- | tion ere thes reach for the tempting scalp lock of the invading and undoubtedly rapacious white man. ON THE BATTLEFIELD. Standing amids: a blackened mass of debris which was at 9 o'clock on the morning of De- cember 29a postion of the household equip- ment of Cl natical savages could so far lose that shri ness which is a marked feature of the abori nal character as to assault the force of troops that surrounded them on every hand. The odes were any against the Indian and nothing but a firmly implanted belief that the soldiers intended to shoot them down as soon as they were disarmed could have made big Foot's followers fight. Ona long and narrow streteh of flat prairie was the Indian camp on that fateful morning—-thirty-two lodges in all. Lesa than ore hundred and fifty yards to the north was the cavalry camp. Between the two temporary vill e council was held and there the ‘male Indians were gathered together. South of the Indians and not more than thirt yards away was troop K of the seventh caval on the weet was B. To tho cast and across the agency road, but less than a hundred yards distant, was troop G. Further northwest than any other of the force was troop E—on the brow of a gentle eminence and covering the right flank of light battery E of the first artillery—while the castern slope of that sane hill was occupied by one-third of A and I troops. Aeros a dry ravine, on a surface that, sloped upward to the west, were two-thirds of Aand I troops and in their immediate rear were Lieut. Taylor's Indiar scouts, mounted. ‘They, in turn, were supported by troops C and | D of the seventh, about a hundred yards to the south. ‘THE SCENE BEFORE THE FIGHT. There wasno avenue of escape, by no possibil- ity could the hostiles get away alive,and yet they fonght. They had calculated that death and death only was staring them in the face and through all the preceding night (for they were captured the 2th) they had discussed the matter Big Foot was sick, yet he coun- fe and in this he was strongly sup- ported by the medicine man, who insisted that a massacre by the soldiers’ would follow the surrender of the arms: therefore was it that on that morning these Indians were prepared to die like warriors—to depart this life in « man- ner that would comport with the traditions and ‘There was © ‘guns, knives and war clubs. of the younger braves had painted themmelves more yy than was usual and there was an unanimously on every hostile face, but no one gave serious consideration toa little more or less of paint or disputed the right of a prisoner to look ugly. Interpreter Wells had been watching the medicine man, who, in w long buckskin robe, was coe mayaterious genuflexions and uttering poly words Sommand, In few secouds Wells warned Gen. Forsythe that there would be trouble, words were hardly out of his mouth when the handsful of dust in the necromancer threw tw: air. What followed is a matter of record. One boop eapecially careful in cocking the sonar seqeoded sabstants.” 'T feel sepsnded on uoe-ocesbetan Sonfident that the facts have been secured and it was directed at troop K, which was statior directly in front of the Indian camp. To any man sense it would seem ii i ‘ : H ef t i £ f A i f t i i i i i i i it li i fit Hig are fe f i i | k i f Big Foot, I wondered how even | WITH BIG FOOT’S BAND. was fired. From sketches made by Lieut. 8. A. soon be in a Tegretable condition; but when a soldier takes deliberate aim at a non-combat- ant, at a two or three-year-old child, at a baby whose age is measured but by weeks—just to see if he can hit it—then that soldier and the organization to which he belongs must bear the odium which cannot fail in this age to fol- low such conduct. It is not an easy thing to sit down in quietude and seclusion, safe from a Present probability of a bullet, the war club and the sealping knife, and Iny down rules for the guidance of « man’who is under fire for the first time (as most of these seventh cavalrymen were), but that many of them are open to severe criticism I know from their own lips. They were surprised beyond measure when the hostile bullets commenced to whistle around and above them. Then came that chilly some- thing that affects the bravest of men in the opening of a battle, followed by the white heat of passion and the thirst for blood, as comrade after comrade went down before the enemy's fire. WHAT THE SURVIVORS #AY. For more than a week I have been chatting | with the enlisted men who survived that fight | and the information I got was, first, to the ef- | fect that nearly every officer warned and or- | dered his men not to shoot at women and chil- | dren. and, second, that most of the soldiers | disobeyed the order. Of course the plea of ex- | citement or bloodthirstiness will not avail in | this case—it should not—but it is only fair to those whom the nation has endeavored to edu- | cate up to a high standard of Christian intol- ligence that they be p! before the public in an equitable light. I know of one officer who repeatedly reiterated the command not to shoot | women and children and I also know of men in his troop who paid not th humanely proper order. consequent murder is deplorable, but who can hold the disobedient to earthly accountability? God will render them the bill when it becomes ue. | CLEARING AWAY RELICS. | _ The relic hunter has been all over the battle- field and has taken away everything of value and interest that was above the surface. Occa- sionally one will find a memento worth carry- ing away, but not often. Whatever was be tiful or odd in the clothing of dead or woun Indians was taken by the victors and cither | kept for personal gratification or sold for cash. | The principal points of attraction in the hostile village were the tepees of Big Foot and the medicine man, and there the looters congre- | gated most, Every article that was worth the king soon passed into the possession of those to whom, by tradition, the ‘spoils are said to | belong. ‘Unfortunately the demand was far in excess of the supply and as a result the ama- teur merchants, ably assisted by the post | waders, gave a tietitious value to anything-and everything that looked as though it had escaped | the genersl destruction which wiped out the | entire Big Foot village. ‘This condition of | Mffairs was tersely described by Lieut. Water- man when he said: “If it be possible to carry out of Pine Ridge on a train of ten six-inule wagons ull the stuff that was worn by Big Foot and his medicine man when they were killed | that morning then I'm a private in the marine | corps.” Mr. Watermaa in not in the marine | Corps. He is one of the best officers in the sev- enth cavalry—a regiment that is full of good officers. HAIRBREADTH ESCAPES. To tell of all the narrow escapes individuals had in that fight would fill a volume large as an Agricultural Report. Everybody who was wounded had a narrow escape from death and | everybody who was not wounded only missed | injury by an inch or two. Bullets penetrated clothing and yet left the wearers unharmed; | hats were punctured until their ‘ietors were in danger of catching cold; belie and hol- sters averted what might have been serious consequences and a number of men had their carbines knocked out of their hands by hostile missiles. More wonderful than any of the other | clove shaves was that in which two mulos are | most prominent. ‘These animals were hitched | to the wagon in which the captured arms were | being plneed, and when the fighting commenced they were in the thickest part of it. After hile the Hotchkiss battery commenced to tear up dirt all around them and Indians and soldiers exchanged exploaiv? compliments from positions which it would seem eould only bring | about the destruction of the team. it the | mules never moved. Throughout the entire engagement they stood, as calm and uncon- cerned as though they knew nothing but and had evolved from ng famailictey that | Hl HOW TWO WOMEN DIED. One of the results of the fight struck me as | being peculiarly horrible. The battle was | about over—only an occasional shot being fired po | sppoared on the ade of couveslment and bone | They would have been Se me nel een soe were annihilated, but their bravery more conspicuous than that which ostentat tiously HERG; ite ef Hi HA Se . i F FF. i i a H : fal qe E Ey EH F \ i i then ii Be HH i it 5 i t Ls i i 4 L a i i i | i. i i i i t ft Fi E { il if i it il out the fight the Indians aimed 5 the low. Nearly every trooper killed Fire prep tevin the ben, ‘most of the Indians died of abdominal wounds. ‘‘Half the soldiers who were hit have died,” I remarked toa tent- fal of troopers the other evening. “Yis,” responded a Connaught-born son of Erin, “and the other half wing mortally wounded.” But he didn't known the of the word “mortally.” HH. —___ ELECTRIC CARS ON G STREET. ‘The Eckington Company Expect to Start Them Month's Time. In about a month's time cars will be running, it is expected, on G street. The Eckington and Soldiers’ Home Electric Railroad Company, which will operate this line asa continuation of the road from Eckington with the center of the city, has made a contract with the Accumulator Company of New York. Under the terms of the contract this company agrees to equip the road with storage battery cars and to operate them at a reasonable price per car mile for three years. The operating of street cars by storage battery is Prsetically an experiment. There is a road in ibuque, Iowa, where one or two storage cara are run, and occasionally a car of this kind 8 over the 4th avenne road in New York city. But. there is mo road. ‘where the entire motive power is furnished by the storage battery. For this reason the president of the company, Mr. Geo. Trucade and the ofticers of the company considered that the storage car had not demonstrated practically its ability to do the work re- quired. "The officers of the Accuma- Intor Company, however, maintain that with their storage battery the experimental stage has been passed, and that many trials have shown the entire practicability of the system. ‘They have entered into this contract backed by a strong bond to operate the road for a period three years, and if their cars are not what they are represented to be they are to be taken off the road and the rail company will suffer no loss. THE NEW CARS. The new cars, which will run along G street from 15th to 5th and then up 5th street to New York avenue, where connection will be made with the line now in operation, will be similar in design and style to those now in use on the Eckington line under the overhead system. ‘The batteries in which the electricity is stored will be placed under the seats, from which, point connection is made with e motor, which is similar to the moter n'tise in the cars now in use. The only difference in the systems is that one takes the current from an overhead wire and the other from a siorage battery. ‘The track is now laid over the cntire line with the exception of the connection at New York avenue. will be completed as soon as practicable and then the Accumulator Company will send on here two cars, which will be used until the other cars can be built. ‘Tho battery cars will be run on the tracks at New York avenue and passengers for Eckington or Glenwood cemetery can step out from one car into another, the transfer be- ing made as easy and rapid as possible. NINE TRIPS WITHOUT REXEWING. The battery cars will make nine trips from New York avenue to 15th and G streets, and on the next trip will run to the power house at Eckington, where the exhausted batteries will be removed and fresh batteries substituted. The car will then be ready for another series of nine trips. It is stated that the storage system is more expensive than the overhead system, but that it Is a good deal cheaper than horses. The re- sult of the trial of this new road will be watched with a good deal of interest, not only in this city but in all parts ‘of the cow try. as just “now there is — consider- le time and study being devoted to proved systems of street-car motors. The speed allowed by the terms of ‘the charter, of e Eckington road is ten miles an hour and it laimed for the new cars that they will able to maintain this rate of apes THE SCENE IN THE HOUSE. Great Excitement at the News of the Sen- ate’s Action, The House had an excitement today also over the defeat or the cloture rule by the Senate. ‘The democrats during th> morning had been keeping up the program of delay and at the time the significant vote was taken in the Sen- te a roll call was being taken on a motion to fos committee of the whole on the naval appropriation bill. Some one brought the news from the other body and it spread over the democratic side. Almost im- mediately Mr. Nogers pushed forward, his face radiant, and said, “Mr. Speaker, I understand the force bill has been defeated in the Senate.” Then followed a tremendous commotion, not confined, as is usual, to hand clapping, but extending to cheers ‘and yells. It is needles to say the applause was on the democratic side. ‘Tho republicanasat still and looked at each other with varying exprossiona. The democrats gathered at rear and hand —— = ¥. gratulatiors were the order of the day roll call was continued, and Mr. Hatch arose and said under the circumstances he did not think it necessary to continue the roll call, The clerk, however, kept on. — es IN NO MAN’S LAND, A Caseof Murder Remanded by the Supreme Court for u Net Justice Harlan in the Supreme Court today rendered an opinion directing that the cases of | (: C. E. Cook and six others, convicted in the circuit court of the United States for the east- ern district of Texas, of murder com- mitted in “No Man's Land,” be re- with argument frankly admitted that a ruling of the judge at the trial was erroneous, and this is the ground on which the action of the court was idiers | based. ‘The court, however, decided against the prisoners on the other points at issue. It held that “No Man’s Land” was included by Since then tremendous efforts have been made to get the one recruit necessary and the | ‘opponents of the force bill have stood in readi- would be reached. TRE TIP GIVEN THIS MORNING. Before the Senate met this morning a few persons were given, in confidence, to under- stand that the time had come and that today would be witnessed the killing of the cloture and the side of the force bill. The friends of these measures were not so in- fe , however, and when the Senate met ‘there was nothing unusual in the appearance of things. Mr. Morgan continued his speech, and the day seemed to settle down to the sort of business which has been the routine in the Senate for some time. ‘THE TOE ARRIVES. At half-past 1 o'clock Mr. Morgan yielded the floor to Mr. Wolcott, who promptly made o motion that the Senate at this time take up for gma consideration the apportionment of surprise and excitement on the republican side and the democrats were almost trembling with anxiety. There was a dramatic pause of an instant and then came confusion. Mr. rag 2 moved to lay the motion of Mr. Wolcott on table. WHAT THE VOTE SHOWED. A vote on the motion resulted: Nays, $5; and yeaa, 4, and Mr. Dolph’s motion to table had failed. ‘There was much confusion and a gen- eral discussion of pairs. Mr. Stanford was not paired and there was discussion about that and # numbers of trans fers of pairs were made. The announcement of the vote settled this discussion and a vote was then taken on Mr. Wolcott's motion to take up the apportionment i This was carriod—yens $5, nays 34. This lays aside both the force bill and the cloture and they are not apt to come up again. — ee The District May Have a Show, The chances are that the naval appropriation Dill will be finally passed before adjournment this afternoon and it is probable that some time will yet be obtained by the District today. The refunding bill, if such is the case, will be called up and passé. ‘Taking Possession of Advertising Posters. The police of the first precinct this afterneon took possession of some samples of highly col- ored lithographs and big posters used in adv: tising a variety entertainment which is now in the city. ‘This action was taken on complaint of members of the W. C. T. U., who it is said charge that pictures displa; are im A precah woot gs is said, oh lodged in me Police Court and the agent of the variety com- called on torespond. The: rs secured By the police will be used in evince. pacha ce Washington Stock Exchange. Jar_call—12 o'clock m.: Georgetown ss. 12, gold, 101 anked. at 30. American Gi e, 3 at 10: 50 at 10. ington 8.4358, Too, ¢ Columbia Bonds—Per tmp. 6, 1891, De YW-year faud, 6s, 1302, id, stevear fund, 68, gold, 1902, 116 bid, — asked. nally | fade Sales—Regul and Tenleytown Railroad, 20 at 503; 10 at 5 Pneumatic Gun Carriage, 20 at 75. Washi Loan and Trust Company, 23 at 973. m4 tates 8. 4348, 1891, coupon, 103 U.S 120 bid, 1214 asked. U.S. 4a, 1g asked. 1014 asked. Per imp. 78, 1801, cur id, 108}, usked. Market stock jo2 0 5 bid. — Weyear fund, 58, 1889, gold, 106 bi Water stock, 7, 1901, currency, 129 bid, 155 asked. Water stock, 7, currency, 1908, 182 bid, 140 asked. 3.658, 1944, fund, cur ed. . Washing- ton Light Infantry "ist 68, 1904, 96 bid. Washington Light Intantry 2d ta, 904,94 bh. 100 asked. Washington it Company, series A, 68, 115 bid, 10 asked. Washington Gas Light ‘Company, series B, 68, 116 bid, 121 asked. ‘National Bank Stocks—Bank of Washington, 450 bid, 450 asked. Bank of Republic, 260 bid, — asked. ‘Metropolitan, 270 bid. 800 asked. ‘Central, 500 bid. ‘armel Me Citizens’, 170 bid, 150 151 bid, 160 asked. Capital, West End. 903, bid, 995 incon, ‘chanics’ asked. Columbia, asked. ‘Eckington and Soldiers’ Home, 513 bid, 60 asked. Georgetown and Ten- leytown, 47 bid. 32 aaked. Insurance Stocks — Firemen’s, 48 bid, 60 asked. Franklin, 54 bid. Metropolitan, 81 bid, 90asked. Na- tional Union, 17 bid, 98 asked. “Arlington, 17 asked. German-, Poop! fet, Su bla, 5 le 3% asked. Commercial, 4% bid, 43 ance. Stocks —Real E Pei e and Pot! . can Gi shone, 9% bid, 10 asked. ‘Miscellaneous Stocks— Washington bid, 20 asked. W; eo Ma- Bhi Compaty: "tide Sa aaked eat Falls Ice Company, — Bult Ruw Pano- ‘Pneumatic Gup National pany, 210 asked. Fame Coinpany, is Did, 36 asked. Darriage, % bid, % asked. fi ; No. % winter 136; May, 1.06 bid. improved; white, 553261; yellow, S13a6l; west- an ES Fa ong May, itereliea southern and lvania, 48052; do. HE Hy 3 fh | BUitY of $365: Wm. Francis Min This caused a sensation. ‘There was evidence | In trust for his granddaughter, Su zanne Marie Louise Bancroft, he be- in various all the rest of the bonds and securities be set aside as a trust furfd and advises that they be held until maturity as an undivided fund. and out of this, while the estate is in the hands of the executors and trustees, thereis to be paid to his sister Lucretia an an- to bis danghter-in-law, Sarah wife of George Bancroft, an aunuity ‘of 5,000 tranea, to George Bancroft an annuity of $1,200; Maria Thompson, an an- nuity of 250; Carl Herrman Braatz, au an- f $100, and £150 each to Lydia rat Jokn ‘Thomas $100 to Ellen Fee: grand children of his late wife, the children of Col. Bliss and $5,000 to his niece, Mrs. Clara J. Davia To Harvard College he gives bis por- trai HIS MANUSCRIPTS. His manuscript historical collections are to be offered for sale to the Library of Congress, and in event of its not being purchased to be offered to any public library or body, the money to be added to the undivided fund. ‘The library and printed works are to be sold, preferably to some one institution, and this mo to go to the undivided fund, the income frem his copyrights is to go to this undivided fund. The mcome from bis real estate in Uhis city anc Newport is to go to the fund. At the end of three ‘years this fand is to be handed over to the New York Life Insur- ance and Trust Company to be held in trast il November 1, 1900, as a resi- y trust fund pay. the various annu ities and then to dispose of the remainder. This is to be divided into two equal parts, one-half of one moiety ix to go to his son, J. C. Bancroft, and after his death to his three ahildren now living. The second half of «aid moie the said three children of J. C. One-bilf of the other moiety to his granddaughter Sarah and the remaining half of the other moicty to his granddaughter Suzanne. Provision is made for continuing annuities and regarding the investments. James M. Johnston and C. Glover are appointed trustees and efecutors without bond. In a codicil he gives to his stepson, Alex. Bliss, all the personal property of his late wife. a Prnsoxat.—F. 8. Matthews of Cincinnati, Ex-Commissioner of Interual Revenue Miller, Hon. H.C. Payne of Wisconsin, John T. Fish of Chicago, Hon. Robt. M. Yardley of Penn- sylvania, Gen. Wm. Hartsuff of Port Huron, 8. L. Woodard of the army (Fort Apache, Ariz.,) and Ex-Lieut. Gov. Black of Pennsylvania are at the Ebbitt.—The Raymond and Whitcomb sight-seuing excur: Rhode Island, Vea New Hampshire, numbering about e in the city and are at They will re- main here until, next Friday.— a Burrows of Duluth, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Elliott of Milwaukee, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Henry Harris of Chicago and Robert H. Leadley of Cleveland are at Willard’s.—-S. A. Phillips of Framington, Mass, Frank M. Cayton and Washington Hight of St. Louis and L. A. Day of Le Claire, Iowa, U. 8. inspector of steam- boats, and the following Representatives-elect W. J.’ Bryan (dem.), first district of Nebraska: W. A. McKeighan, second Nebraska distri and O. M. Keim, third district of Nebraska, at the Randall.-Mr. and Mra. C. W. Houck of Albany, W. W: Johnston of Wichita, G. IL. Barger of Columbus. Ohio, and Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. 8. P. Andrews and daughter of Salem, Mass., are at Wormley's.——Hon. Jeff Chandler of St. Louis, Col. R. G. Ingersoll and Miss Maad Ingersoll of New York are at the Shoreham Chas. H. Smith of Elgin, IIL, Dr. Jno. Keyes of New York, Robt. Underwood Johnson, secre- to} Bancroft. | Charles T. Bruin of Boston are at the Riggs. — | MONEY CAN ONLY BF USED FOR PENNAYLWANES AvEXOR, Assistant Attorney S. T. Thomas has decided in an opinion submitted to the Commiamoners that the item of $5,000 in the current appro- priation bill cannot be used in any other man- ner than in the improvement of Penneylvante t of | avenue extended, as stated tn the current appro- priation bill, Today at noon the Commissioners opened bids for the hmprovement of suburban streets, nimecticut avenue evtended, Naylor road (south end), , Laurel avenue, Mt, Pleasant; tr road north The bids include grading, huling, curbing, cobble gutters, brick mdo- | walk, gravel roadway and macadam roadway. | The following contractors submitted bids: W. 1. Mohicr, M. F. Talty, Wm. F. Collins, | 2. P. Waggaman, John Dugan, Jobn Frawley, wo. MH. Lyons, H.C. Bouldin and Andrew Gaceson. The awards will be made ae soon as the bids have been scheduled. SOUTIERN IMALORATION ROMER, The Ce Tum testoners Raturday recetved a letter | from John T. Patrick, commissioner of the j Southern interstate immigration bureau, in which he rays that he has been instructes tind ont which ital city in the northerr | border of the southern states will give the ] largest money consideration the general office of the sout burn, provided it be locate | ing the offer. He says that wi eral burewn goes to the city making the largest offer, it will be a permanent display of the pro- ducts of the south in connection with it, and the building for the office must be large one. LIABILITY OF TRORT COMPANIER The Commissioners are in receipt of an elaborate opinion from the attorney for the District, relative to the liability of trast com- panies, incorporated under the act of Congress of October 1, 1890, to pay an annual tax of 50 cents on each $1,000 of their respective capital The attorney holds thatit was not the intention | of Congrows to impose much a donble tax, but | that only the taxation provided in the act of October wat intended to apply. SMOOTH PAVEMENTS |X WASHINGTON. According to a recent report of the com- puting engineer of the District, Washington has 2,052,529 square yards of smooth pave- ment. In this ix included asphalt pavements, coal tar pavements and it block pave” ments. never the geu AGACELLANROTR. A letter from the residents of New York avenue cast of New Jersey avenue to the Com- missioners complaims that the avenue has got | Anew sidewalk, under the compulsory | mit system, has beer ordered on P atrect from Rock Creek bridge to Mill street. — ‘The Suicide’s Sister Coming. | Detective McDevitt today received a telegram from Mrs. Lizzie Thompson of Trussville, Als. the sister of Mrs. Mury Fisher, the young woman abo committed suicide at the Belre- dere Hotel Friday night, stating that she | would leave for Washington tonight. Mrs. | Fishor’s remains will be held subject to Mre. Thompson's directions when ebe arrives. nd Dr. K. Vogelsaug of Germany are at the Normandie.——H. L. Power of Fort Dodge, . TL. Spooner of Madison and F. "L. Fitch of Boston are ai the Hamilton House.——W. F. Stafford of New York, Wm. Macgill, of Maryland and Thomas J. Newsham, who ‘thas returned from a trip throughout’ the Indian territory and Ne: Mexico, are at the Langham.——Matthew Wil- son of Lake George is at the Langham. Mr. Wilson painted the last picture of President Lincoln and several of the secretaries of the navy.—E. D. Fry of Norwich is at the Hotel : | Johnson.—Miss Edith G. Willard of Boston and Mr. F.Irich of New York are at the Fredonia.——Mr. Charles A. Carlisle ot Toledo, Ohio, general purchasing agent of the T. and 0.,C. ‘who was for some days at the Ebbitt, has gone to siphle. — W. B. Grimes of Raleigh, R. 8. Stearns of Sa- lem, Va., and W. M. Bigeton of Richmond, Va, wn.——Frank J. Mead and is, J. H. Channan of . F. Shultas and F. at the National.— . Metealf of Malden, Mass., Henry Lord of Bangor, Maine, Dr. E. BL Smith andJ. H. Davenport of Providence, Chas.Cummings of San Francisco are at the St. James.——Gen, and Mrs, Meserall of Buffalo, Mr. and Mra. J. G. Dettmar of Brooklyn, Dr, Geo. H. F. Nuttall of San Francisco and W. H. Swan and G. H. Gibson of Bostonare are at the Hotel Arno. Convention of » Beneficial Association, The delegates to the sixteenth annual con- vention of the National Marine Engineers’ Bene- ficial Association began their sessionsat Willard Hall at 10 o'clock this morning. There were fifty-four delegates preseut, representing the various local branches of the ancociation. © The officers are A. of | New York, past national L. Boyes ident; John H. Galway of Detroit, president; E. W. Tucker of San Francisco, national vice president; Jus. H. Harrison of St. Louis, national secretary, and Geo. Uhler of New York, national treasurer. All the officers are here except Mir. Boyes. All the business transacted today was the appoint ment of a committee on credentials, composed are to report when the row morning. i Death of Mr. Hosford Brown. Mr. A. Hosford Brown, a well-known resident of this city, died very suddenly at his home, 1745 Rhode Island avenue, about 10 o'closk this delegates meet tomor somewhat unwell yesterday. but his death, which is attributed to heart trouble, was sudden and unexpected. He was sixty-four years of age and had made this city his home for the | past quarter of a century. A number of years | was in the general post office, but of late years he bad been largely interested in western ining property. He was a man of means and at on in the community. He was | married and leaves a wife, but mo children, —————— F rep i 7 tary of the Copyrights’ League of New York | of Messrs. Harrison, Lawrence and Reed, who |“ Mra. Fisher remaius, attired in a suit of | black, are resting in the little front room of | Burgdorfs undertaking establishment. await | ing the arrival of ber mother and sister. | An examination of the body disclamd the |fact that the unfortunate woman fired two | shots from the pistol. One bullet entered ber | chest just over her heart and no doubt pamed through the heart. ‘Tho Lallet passed entirely through her bedy and imbedded iteelf im the Mattress. Thai was probably the second shot she fired, for the other was a glance shot, the bullet an tering and passing beneath the skin to the side of her body. — Range of the Thermometer. ‘The following were the readings at the signal office today: 8 a.m., 27; 2 p.m., 45; maximum, | 36; minimum. 35. DON'T ALLOW YOURSEL? to trife with a cold and 80 encourage the devel: of sume pul which often ends monary oF bronchial fatally. You bad better cure your ‘or cold ly resorting to Dr. D. Jayne's | an old-time remeuy for all congas, lung and trast, affections, Hosprea! Pineral from bis late residence on Richote oy. aug. Wednemiay, January 25, M1. wt 290 pm aud relatives Invited $ BIGGINS. On ™ 5 January 20. IROL. at a.m, JAMES BIGGINS. ln’ the sikty-elghth gear i sare. ‘Notice of funeral herea‘ter. . BOLWAY. On Sunday. Jani 201 BS piu, after a bref Lines, JUSE SLA the forty-sixth year oc Lis age. Funeral Welnesday, January 2K, et 1] am. Bele tives, fmends and oncanizstions Of which he was = aneuiber are invited to attend BROWN. On Monday morning, January 26, IF, at bis re . Teland a) A. HOSPORD Sixty-Afth year of bie 1 Mixteemth street 2 velock p.m. Ne |ARDING, On evens 2, # ay = Rate the Mes. Alte om Mt Pauls Church Tuesday aftermogs thew York papers nieuwe cory LAMBERT. At the residence of her pareute, 827 Finasty 3, GAOL BETH ROLAND. taught ot Charles H.'snd Rachel L Lauitert, aged tweuty-aax ein Boston, 3 on, 1801, am x 23. 180, °E, daughter of the iste Penis LAW HEROD, da Snisister of aime Dr I. 5. Cuatdsoraneky. RUPP aL. At ome. Md. 2 Sher = iinperns tiiwss, SOASSA Hope iat SOUTHEY, On Saturday, Jeuuary 24. ae wm WIETTAM MOETHDS, slneet ton Jobe at ane aes eee ead ~ uate bo. SM P street y, January 27, at 920 om. 3 ute at Hoy Yrtmsty Cha . Gow ees = Sted tositend TERKFLANGER. © AGNES ILENE, ¥. Tertioneer, ae. BUSEY. On 2, INO. at a.m., CATH nist kM, witout Dr Satouel © has: tuber trou ro wedneaday, mesa at 2 o'clock. northwest, ‘neetow', ‘ahd recatives are Renpectty fa On Monday. January 2%, 1801, Shter of coonce ond nacht of Coe ieee pears and meven ia