Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1893, Page 9

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AN IMMENSE CROWD IN CoURT. As intimated in Saturday's Star would be the case, the Court in General Term this morning rendered its decision in the case of Howard J. Schneider, convicted of the murder of hie wife Inst’ January and sentenced to be hanged on Friday, the 20th instant. In anticipation of the decision the court room was crowded some time before the court was opened by one of the largest throngs ever seen there before. The condemned man Was not present in the court, but his brother William was n deeply interested spectator. Messrs. Jere M. Wilson and A. A. Hoebling, ounsel for the defendant, and District Attorney | le attentively followed the very voluminous opmion of Judge Cox as he impressively read FULL AND DELIBERATE CONSIDERATION. In commencing the opinion Judge Cox stated that the evurt had given the case that full and deliberate consideration which the rights of the defendant .d the community both demanded. Hix honor referred to the great length of the record in the case and the almost innumerable exceptions taken during the trial by the pris- oner's counsel, but stated that only thore coURT 18 OPENED. which raised really material questions would be mentioned. The question as to the legality of the jury's selection was the firet one di cussed, and it was discussed at very great length, the position of the court below in the matter being sustained, the court deciding that the statement of a juror that he had previously formed an opinion did not disqualify him, pro- standing that opinion, render a fair and impar- tial verdict, based soleiy upon the law and evi- dence a« given during the trial. STATEMENTS OF MRS. SCHNEIDER AND HER SISTER. ‘The statements of the deceased wife and ber sister, made immediately after the shooting, were declared to be parts of the rex geste, and that they had been properly admitted by the trial court. ‘The question raised by the defendant as to the legality of the dving declarations of the de- ceased was, said Judge Cox, a most important one, but the objections made to them, said his honor, were not good, and the dying declara- tions were rightly admitted. NO EVIDENCE OF SELF-DEFENSE. ‘The theory of the defendant, that he shot in self-defense, was next referred to by Judge Cox at some length. He said the court could see no warrant for believing that if the de- ceased wife was shot by her husband it was done him while protecting his own evidence sustained such d the ingenuity of the defendant's nxel was responsible for it. The theory of was foreign to the case. of the introduction of testimony tending to show threats made by Frank Ham- link was dismissed with the reflection that no ‘oduction had been sufticientiy laid, and that was no error made by the trial court in ther | his ruling in the matter. AS To TESTIMONY OBJECTED To. ‘The introduction by the government of t mony of which the defense had been pre- vi ly informed was sustained, because the nsecution had the right to submit, in guod faith and honesty, evidence ot which it bad discovered subsequently to the commencement of the trial. In the cross-examination of the witnesses for the def Holbrook, Walker and others, the court decided that ue errer had been made. As to the refusal of the court below to allow the defendant to show the condition of the alley through which he ran after the shooting. the court decided that the defendant had not been contradicted, and therefore there was nothing for the defendant to surrebut. So as to the number of the defendant's pistols. Testimony tending to show the bias of Frank Schneider, the defendant's brother, had been properly ad- mitted, the court thought. JUSTICE COX READING THE DECISION. ‘The prayers offered on behalf of the defend- aut were next discussed, the court deciding that the course of the court below in connec- tion with them had been « proper one. ‘THE JUDGE'S CHARGE SUSTAINED. The exceptions taken to the charge of the trial court by the defendant because it showed, as alleged by defendant's counsel, bias and: as prejudicial to the defendant, and that it was in the nature of an argument against bim. were decided to be unwarranted. The court below, said Judge Cox, had at no time given, the jary to understand that the opinion should be made theirs, but on the contrary had tedly and emphatically impressed upon the minds of the jury that they alone were to render their ver- dict on the facts as they saw and believed QUESTIONS RAISED BY THE EXCEPTIONS. ‘The record of the trial, Judge Cox said, con- tained between 100 and 200 exceptions. The case had been argued exhaustively and consid- ered with much care and time bj Cire would, he said, confine the questions raised by the exceptions. The | jurors had said in effect that they had formed first question arose as to the motion to quash the indictment, as it contained no averment as to the place of ‘the alleged crime. The caption of the document contained the words “County of Washington, District of Columbia.” This, he said. depended somewhat on local practice, which, he said, made that a sufficient averment. In the Guiteau case and the Sickles case the sverment as to locality was made in the cap- tion. THE FIRST EXCEPTION OVERRULED. The court therefore overruled this excep- tion. As to the objection that sufficient time had not been allowed to prepare for the de- fence; the judge said that the indictment was found 15th of February and the trial set for the 7th of March. The record showed, he said, that all the witnesses who hid cognizance of the case were to be found in a very narrow circle and there was no difficulty in finding them. As to the further objection that the state of the public mind was such that the prisoner could not have a fair trial, the judge said that to find a time when public opinion would be changed might require the postponement of a trial indefinitely. : THE RIGHT OF CHALLENGE. As to exceptions raised as to alleged injustice to the prisoner in the exercise of the right of challenge and the ruling of the court disal- lowing challenges the opinion cited a number of cases. In this case the defendant had ex- hausted his peremptory challenge before the jury was sworn and was therefore compelled to Tesort to challenges for cause. The opinion then discussed at some length the question of Jurors and their qualifications and their com- and imcompetence with respect to or impressions they had formed from rs, &e. He referred to tho Illinois law which provided that such an opinion would not disqualify a furor provided he stated on oath that be could impartially consider the testimony. QUALIFICATIONS OF JURORS. Judge Cox read opinions to the effect that the Constitution only required that jurors should be impartial. ‘The trend of judicial thought, he said, was in el JUSTICES HAGNER AND BINGHAM. the same direction of modern legislation on the subject. He read from other opinions sustain- ing generally the position that the opinions of jurors were to be taken only asa circumstance | im judging their competency. The court must! Satisfy itself by an examination of the juror as | to the source of the opinion formed and its general character as affecting the juror's com- petency. + OPINIONS ON THE SUBJECT. He reada Pennsylvania decision in which a fixed opinion from reading of the case, which would take strong evidence to remove it, but that their opinion would yield to evidence. The supreme court ofthe state said in its opinion that whether a juror had such an opinion as to render him incompetent was to be determined by evidence. A juror might say he had a fixed opinion, but an éxamination would show that this was s misdescription of his opinion. An examination of the testimony given satisfied the court that the jurors in question had no dis- qualifying opinion. Another recent 0} referred to the fact that the world moved and that we must keep abreast of the timer, or elso trust the determination of cases only to the ignorant. IN THE ANARCHISTS’ CASE. A most important case referred to by Judge Cox was the decision of the United States Su- preme Court in the case of Spies against the state of Illinois—knownas the anarchist case. Refer- ring to theacceptance of jurors on that case, who-said they would require evidence to re- move their opinion, the court sustained the court below. In this case the court held that if thejuror stated that he could impartially find a verdict according to the Was satisfied that that he had for tying opinion, The United States Supreme Court agreed entirely with the «upreme court of IMinois that the statute of Illinois referred to was not repugnant tothe Constitution of the United States. THE CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE. There was no such statute in the District, but we have the constitutional guarantee of a trial by impartial jurors. The decision of the United States Supreme Court was applicable because it held that that statute was not repugnant to the Constitution and could there- fore be taken as an interpretation of the mean- ing of the Constitution. the case, the opinion from reading was not a disquali- DEFENDANT'S COUNSEL. “We,” said Judge Cox, “prefer to follow the lead of the United States’ Supreme Court and settle this vexed question of the qualifications of jurors.” ANOTHER CASE REFERRED TO. The court referred also to the decision in the case of Reynolds against the United States, in which a liberal construction was given, and the court remarked that in these days of news- paper enterprise, when all affairs were spread fore the world, courts could not hold that opinions formed upon reading were disquali- fying opinions unless the court was satisfied that the juror was thereby rendered a partial juror. ‘The court conceived that there were cases, of course, where a juror’s statements as to opinion should disqualify him. For instance, if a juror said he had a projudice against. the defendant or that be believed his’ opinion such that it could not be removed by evidence. NO FAULT To BE FOUND WITH THE JURORS. Judge Cox then reviewed the record as to jurors in whose examination exceptions had been based. An evidence that the trial justice had exercised great care and caution was shown in the fact that he had of his own motion dis- charged twenty jurors who had said they had formed opinions which would not yield to evi- dence. As to the other cases the answers made by the jurors were such as to satisfy the court that they could inteltigently and’ impartially discharge their duties as jurors. They were therefore unable to discover that there was any b manifest error committed by the court in this respect as to justify them in overruling the court below. In this connection the court referred to the motion to discharge the jury after it was formed on the ground that two of the jurors had made remarks hostile to the de- fendant. This, he said, had been met by the unequivocal denial of ‘the jurors referred to under oath. ‘The court then considered the exceptions based on the acceptance in testimony of the declarations made by Mrs. Schneider and her sister immediately after the shooting. The court overruled the exception. MRS. SCHNEIDER'S DYING DECLARATION. An important exception, he said, related to the admission of an alleged dying declaration by Mrs, Schneider. Exactly how immediate must be the expectation of death in such cases, he said: the authorities were not clear. It must be, he said, that the deceased must be aware of the mortal nature of the injury. Opinions held that it was enough if it was sa factorily shown that the declaration was made under @ sense of impending death, even if the declarant did not ly stato a belief to that effect. The sur- rounding ciroumstances could be taken into consideration. The court described the condition of the deceased in this case and quoted her replies to the questions put by the assistant district attorney, all showing her con- ictions that she was to die. There was nothing stated on the day afterward to show that her mind had changed. It was the opinion of the therefore, that the so-called dying This the court believed, on examining the charge, was not the case. ‘THE QUESTION OF SELF-DEFENSE. ‘The court then proceeded to discuss the ex- ceptions which raised the question of self-de- fenve. The self-defense alleged was not against the wife, but against the wife's brother Frank. ‘The court reviewed atsome the testimony describing the shooting, and said that if a man was shown to have fired three shots intoanother person while holding her wrist the presump- tion was that there was _ intention and malice, even if there had not been any previous declarations of malice, To sustain any other theory the burden of proof would be on the defendant. He referred to the assumption that the shooting was acci- dental and also that Mrs, Schneider had been shot by her brother. Ihe jury, the court said, after it reviewed the testimony had no other choice than to find that Mra. Schneider was in- tentionally shot by the defendant, or had been accidentally shot by her brother, so that all exceptions on the ground of self-defense were dixposed of. They could not have found fault with the court if it bad specifically told the jury that there was no evidence on which they could base a judgment that the deceased Was shot in self-defense. As to exclusion of evidence of threats‘made against_the defendant by Frank Hamlink, Judge Cox said that at the time it was offered no foundation had been laid for such testimony. Exceptions were taken to the refusal of the court to allow witnesses to state their opinions asto the number of pistol shots fired. This testimony the court thought was properly ex- cluded. THE MARY HARKIS TESTINONT. It was claimed that an important error had been committed in admitting the testimony of Mary Harris in rebuttal. The testimony was offered after the defense had closed its case in chief and was objected to because it was not proper in rebuttal and the name had not been included, according to the provisions of the statute, in the list of witnesses furnished the defense. The court held that this statute was not intended to preclude the United States to make use of material infor- mation discovered during the trial The court cited opinions tothe ___ effect that it was the duty of the trial justice to admit at any time during a trial material evidence to a case even where the strict rule might exclude it. The court was of the opinion that no error had been committed in admitting this testi- mony. In relation to the exceptions based upon the. cross-examination of Holbrook and of Walker in reference to the jury, the court discovered no error and remarked’ that the time was past when juries should be treated like children and regarded as having been rendered incompetent to perform their sworn duty, because of some remark by a wit ness that might tend to hurt their feelings. OTHER OBJECTIONS OVERRULED. ‘The court then considered the exceptions re- lating to the exclusion of testimony offered by the defense in surrebnttal on various points in the ase and overruled them. There were, he said. allegations in the defendant's brief as to improper cross-examinations. The ourt warteatistied that none of the instances cited were plainly errors or went to the detri- ment of the defendant. THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE covRT. Coming to the instructions the court said three had been grantedat the instance of the govern- ment, sixteen had been offered by the defense. ‘The second of these instructions related to the matter of reasonuble doubt. ‘The court had not allowed this, but had adopted in ite place the’ instruction approved AN ATTENTIVE CROWD. by the Uflited States Supreme Court. ‘The de- fense held that if the judge made this substitu- tion it should have adopted all the instruction of the Supreme Court. ‘The court. however, after reviewing what had been said by the court below, held that the court had not been in error in its instruction, The instruc- tions granted and refused were taken up by Judge Cox and considered in some detail where there were exceptions. As to the twelfth instruction asked and refused, that each juror should be convinced of the guilt of thé accused beyond a reasonable donbt, the court remarked that there might have been no error in granting it. There was like- wise no error in refusing it, It ax the jurors knew tmaust be unanimous. Its ef- fect if granted might be mischievous. As to the thirteenth rejected prayer—that evidence of the defendant's desire to secure a divorce was not evidence of malice or a hostile pur- pose—the court said that no one would con- tend that such was the case, and that it was not good practice to admit instructions of a special character like that. THE GENERAL CHARGE OF THE JUDGE. There were some exceptions to references made by the judge in ite general charge, but these exceptions were not in the opinion of the court well taken. The most important objections to the charge related to the comments of the judge upon the evideace. ‘These related mainly to the theories of the de- fense as to accidental shooting and sel?-defense. ‘The judge had properly directed the attention of the jury to the question of facts which should engage their attention in view of the mass of testimony offered Justice Cox read a number of authorities as to the comments of a court upon testimony in charging a jury. In this caxe the judge had declared that his suggestions were not intended to take from the jury the consideration of the evidence. The ‘court could find no error in these comments of the judge, such as would require a renewal of the judgment. ‘The court likewise overruled the exceptions to the verdict as not in accord- ance with the testimony. THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION AFFIRMED. In closing Judge Cox said he was free to say that in the strong presentation of the case by the defense he had been led to doubt as to whether or not error had not been committed, but upon careful consideration points that seemed to have been error panned out not to have been error; other apparent errors had been cured in the progress of the case. So the court affirmed the judgment below. > HIS LAST LEGAL HOPE GONE. Decision of the Court in the Case of Fred. Barber. The apparently last legal hope of another condemned murderer was this morning removed when in an opinion delivered by Mr. Justice Hagner the Court in General Term affirmed the decision of the court below in the case of Fred Barber, the colored man convicted last October before Judge Cox of the murder of the colored woman Agnes Watson by throwing her into the canal in Georgetown on the 23d of June, 1888, ‘The opinion of the court was an elaborate one, and Judge Hagner explained that much of the ground covered by Mr. Justice Cox in his opinion delivered in the Schneider case would in the interests of both the de- fendant and the government have to be dis- cussed in the present one. He then discussed at some length the course pursued by the trial court in the selection of the jury, reaftirming the decision of the court in the Schneider case that a previously formed opinion did not dis- quality a jurd® when he swore that he could, notwithstanding that previous opinion, render a fair and impartial verdict. His honor intimated that a man must be either a hermit or must have suddenly dropped down from heaven who in “That part vor the charge of the court to the dying declaretion bad been criticised os fhe ground that the court gave, more weight to it to the testimony of living witnesses. = ANACOSTIA. OFFICERS ELECTED. Officers have been elected by various bodies as follows: Anacostia Methodist Episcopal Sun- day school—Superintendent, H. A. Linger; assistant superintendent, Archibald Etzler; sec- retary, James H. Dony; treasurer, L. J. Smith; librarian, AL. Cator; assistants, ‘Mensts. Geo. Shoemaker, Frank McLean and Mr. Marr; or- ganist, Miss Malinda Pumpbrey: artist, Frank A. Dony; assistant secretary, Arthur Eno. Saint ‘Teresa's Branch, No. 591, Catholic Krights of America: President, Charles Kirby | (re-elected): vice president, Thomas Reardon; | treawurer, Richard Hartigan’ secretary, Patrick | J. Reagan (re-elected): financial secretary, | Thomas Kane (re-elected); Ww! Bartle} ‘The Young People's Society of Christian En- deavor of the First Baptist Church: President, | Miss Florence Bowman; vice presiéent, Miss | Ethel Burr; secretary, Mr. Kolvex Harlan; treasurer, Mins Bessie Milstead. The com- trustee, J. mittees are composed as follows: Prayer C. meeting committee, Campbell, chairman; | Miss Ordelt Milstead W. Me- pbell, Mra, 3 5 out committee, Charles R. Burr, chairman; Mra. Thomas Miles, Mise Ploria Harlan, Miss Efie Burr and I. Wi committee, Rev. Mr. Towne, C. Campbell, William Nalley and Charles R. Burr, ‘The Presbyterian Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor: President, Mr. Paul Simp- son; vice president, Mr. Carlton E. Snell; sec- retary, Miss Carrie Golden; treasurer, | Miss Janié ‘Davidson; chairmen of the committees are: Lookout, Miss Cora L. Snell; praver meet- ing, Mr. Alexander B. Garden; social, Mrs. E. V. Dodge; missionary, Mr. C. 0. Bohre: ‘The Young People's Society of Christian En- deavor of the Second Baptist Churel dent, Rev. Dr. Bray; vice president, M: Lemson; secretary, Mise Annie Bur: sponding secretary, Miss Bessie Lamson; treus- urer, Mr. John Ruark. REAL ESTATE #AL¥S. The following sales of Anacostia realestate have been effected within the past few days by A. M. Green & Co.: To Francis E. Tilling, house and lot at the corner of Harrison and Fendall streets; $4,500. To H. K. Simpson, two lots on Minnesota avenue; $1,500. A. M. Green & Co., trustees to Mary Josephine Owens, lots Nos. 160, 161, 162, 163 and 164, subdivision An $2;200. “To the Ana for the New York syndicate, blocks Nos. 3 East Washington Heights; $20,000. Father Hughes, rector of Saint Teresa's olic Church, yesterday presented a meersc pie, each to Mr. J. W. Bartley and Patrick J. Hartigan. The rector brought the pipes from ome. oT & ROBBERY. A colored woman reported to the police last night that her basket of clothes had been lost from the front dash of Anacostia car No. 19, ‘This morning Mr. Thomas M. W. Green, living on Sumner avenue, Hillsdale, reported that he had picked up the missing property on 11th street east. “Tt had been joited from the car, IMPROVEMENTS. ‘The gas lamps recently erected on Pierce and Jackson streets are in operation. The new water mains are in use and the people are en- couraged in the belief that their claims to complete sewer system, tree postal delivery, a fire company and appropriate police accommo- dations will be admitted by the Commissioners, NOTES, Mrs. Alpheus Davidson has returned from a trip to New Jersey. Miss Maggie Duvall of Frederick, Md., who was the guest of the Misses Etzler of Maple avenue, has returned to her home. Mr. Warren King is on vacation. Mrs. Kerby of Camp Springs, Md., is back from Alexandria and visiting friends here. The valuable trotter belonging to Mr. 0. Pumphrey sustained a severe injury to his hip while being driven to a sleigh yesterday. Mr. Thomas Gray Saturday sent to the police station one barrel of flour in 1-16th sacks and four bushels of meal for distribution among the poor. Mr. H. G. Kenner celebrated his birthda; with a party ou Saturday night at his residence, on Fillmore street. The parlors were prett decorated and) ao gratifying number of gifts were — rece Vocal and | instrumental music was furnished by several of the visitors. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Stangier, Miss Maud Stan- gier, Mrs, Waters, Mr. and Mrs, Charles Ken- ner, Mrs, Hattie Nokes, Miss Cora Kenner, Miss Nellie Lannigan and Miss Leymann, Rey. G. W. McCullough, recently pastor of the Mount Tabor Baptist Church of Tenley- town, has retired from that charge. It is thought the Baptist board will turn Mount | Tabor over to Mr. Connor of the West End Misson. Dr. McCullough will take a mnch- needed rest before accepting a cail on which he he has an option. Rev. Mr. Alden has accepted a three months’ call to Garden Memorial Church. There is no doubt in the minds of the local Presbyterians that at the expiration of his trial term he will receive the pastorate of the chure —_ The €. A. Bowling Tournament. ‘The opening of the bowling tournament of the Columbia Athletic Club baving been post- poned from the 1ith to the 17th instant on ac- count of the annual meeting of the club, as an- nounced in Saturday's Stax, the date of closing entries has also been deferred. Entries will remain open until 11 o'clock p. m. of the 12th instant. After the close of the entries the bowling committee will make up the assign- ments for the first series. There will be mailed to each member who enters in the tournament a printed schedule showing the dates on which each one will bowl, the names of contestants being arranged in ‘groups or detachments of six each. Bowling by the first assignment will begin at 8 o'clock on the evening of the 17th instant. > GET HANDKERCHIEFS? DID you If So Are You Sorry, and Would You Have Preferred Soap? From the New York Times. “Pm always sorry,” commented a woman the y, “to see the crowds wround the hand- kerchief counters at Christmas time. I'm re- minded of adear old aunt of mine whom I once asked as I was saying good-bye before go- ing on a journey what I should bring her. Anything, my dear,’ she replied, with a twinkle of her shrewd blue eyes, ‘anything but handkerchiefs. Ihave all of those I shall ever need.’ And she opened a bureaudrawer to show piles of neatly stacked squares, growing yellow with disuse. “People in a quandary fora small. gift fall back on the handkerchief prop. to the disap- pointment, I am sure, of nine-tenths of the recipients. I'm a staunch believer myself in Mr. Beecher’s Unprinted Words The opening installment of the unpublished material by Opinions on Popular Topics such as courtship, earl Henry Ward col- Beecher, lected by the great preacher’s private stenographer, appears in the January number of Tue Lapies’ Home JournaL. During the year this posthumous material will present Mr. Beecher’s marriages, church work, choir music, women and housekeeping, etc. Ten Cents on all News-stands ALEXANDRIA, | THE PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY'S TURNPIKE. Among the many corporations swallowed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is the Washington and Alexandria Turnpike Com- pany, which, in the early part of this century, constructed one of the best pieces of roadway then known in the country toconnect Alexandria and Washington. Its projectors were more | than careful, for in the sanguine mood of that day they expected that within twenty vears it, would be astreet built up on both sides. In 1508 its officers were leading Alexandrians, Jonah Thompson, Edmond I. Lee and Jacob Hoffman, who ‘had a charter tor con-| structing a road from the town of Alex- | andria to Bridgepoint, on Alexander | Island, opposite the ' city of Wash-| ington. At the same time leading citizens of | Washington, Robert Brent, Daniel Carroll, Frederick M id others, had a charter to build a bridge wer the river Potomac be- tween the city of Washington and Alexander Island” and built the Long bridge. Now the Pennsylvania company is in possession of both the road and the bridge, and when the Al andria and Washington Turnpike Company held itemectingat the little Pennsylvania depot here it was not at all to represent the real company or the work which it was chartered to create, but simply to go through some technica! eiec- tions needed to preserve the title of the Penn- sylvania company to its roadbed between Asaph junction and the Long. bridge. proxies of the Pennsylvania company elected Messrs. Wilkins, Cassell, Hewson, Jamieson, Kerr and Rea directors, Mr. Rea being made president, BAPTIST CHURCH REOPENING. The Washington Street Baptist Church, which has been under the hands of the work- men for renewal and repair, was reopened for service yesterday. Rev. Dr. Flippo, a former | pastor of the church, delivered an appropriate | sermon on the occasion. The Baptist Church here was established in 1796, Mr. W. Wescott and others obtaining permission for its services to be held in the old court house, which stood on the northwest corner of the mar- ket square. Most of the other churches | of the city have on centennial occasions and otherwise had their histories written, but the Alexandria Baptist Church is as yet without a chronicler. ATH OF A COLORED SCHOOL PRINCIPAL. Sarah A. Gray, long the principal of the col- ored female public schools here, who has been sick for some time, died last Saturday night. | She was a native of Alexandria, but was edu- cated by the Oblate sisters in Baltimore, an: since her return here some thirty years ago has been engaged in teaching. at first in a private school, but since 1871 in the public schools of the city. The CORPORATION couRT. The Alexandria corporation court, Judge Norton, opened its January quarterly term this | morning at the market house court room. The | grand jury was seut out and now have in charge a large number of cases of violation of the law by restaurant keepers in the sale of liquors. Nores. A spreading fire was discovered and extin- guished at Curtiss & Butts’ foundry on Satur- day night. A passer by saw some of the planks | on fire and quickly notified Superintendent | Robey, so that the flames were put out before | any serious damage was done. ‘The remains of Peter Harrington, formerly a | conductor on the Washington and Ohio railroad, | were brought here yesterday from Baltimore | and carried to the residence of his brother on | Royal stroet, whence the funeral took place. | Workmen are busy today in clearing ice from the electric railway track on King street. | a i ‘The Woman’s Anthropological Society. | The Woman's Anthropological Soviety held | its one hundredth meeting on Saturday at the | j Columbian University. Besides a full attend- | ance of resident members, there were many guests, the collegiate alumne and other la- | the frivolity of Christmas, “I try tomake my gifts bits of incongruous extravagance to those who receive them. I once senta box of expensive toilet soap ina lovely satin-finished box toa poor, plain old maid who lived alone and made boys’ trousers for a living. “The motion was suggested to me by a chance use at my home of a perfumed cake whose fragrance, clinging to her hands, she commented on ‘in a pleased way. Months afterward she told me nothing had ever done her more good than that box oP soap. “I believed her. She couldn't express it, but its use conserved a certain aroma of dainty living about her that probably helped her through tedious days. “The true spirit and dignity of Christmas to me are the uplifting, for one glad hour of the year, of these groveling souls of ours, in pur- suance of which belief I am going to buy a copy of Tennyson in the daintiest binding I can find for a romantic young woman of m: acquaintance, who, I am sire, necds stockings.” ——_——+o+—_____ + ‘The Proper Hand Shake. From the Boston Beacon. “No, that's no longer the style,” said one girl to another, as her friend raised her arm until the immense puff of her velvet sleeve was onalevel with her head, “we don't shake near the knees ible. The is the same, as is also the e. Wait until we reach P, | home and I'll give you an object lesson in the new way of kissing,” she continued. “T learned it at school, but not from a book, however; our principal taught us, and she for- bade the ‘other except in the to salute eac} dies interested in the work peculiar to the so- | ciety. Miss Alice C. Fletcher, president, | opened the meeting with a short sketch of the work of the society in the sections and subsec- tions, especially its original research in child life and the investigation of woman's piace in the directive forces of society. She was fol- lowed by tho secretary, Mrs. Mendenhall, who gave a statistical account of the society, il- lustrated by a map showing the rise and fall of the attendance, the number of members at dif- ferent periods, culminating in » steady and healthful growth. The paper of the day was by Miss Annie Tolman Smith, “The Genetic Development of the Woman's Movement.” Miss Smith made this dry-sounding subject a matter of deep interest to her audience by her lucid and philosophical style. She traced the origin of the mental and moral growth of women, which has streamed up so splendidly withi the present century. from the itive days when woman was the weaver and the spinner as well as the mother of the race—always the con- servator—down to the present. The subject was then thrown open for discussion, Mra. J. R. Hill leading. She selected as her two points — necessity of concent on and a study and preparation. was follor y others in a brilliant and animated discussion, in which there was a mixture of keen intellec- tual question and answer, clear statement of facts and a parliamentary skill in debate. ‘Two men wrenched the lock off a letter box in Salt Lake, Utah, the other day, and appro- priated an armful of letters, among them su posed to be some containing drafts and pie af i collector saw | Downing, T. M. Ring, | presented them with €273.35, Send One Dollar for One Year to The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia REMEDY, a medi stubborn the attack. It is taken internally DURANG’S RHEUM To the nearcst drag store for a bottle of T e that never f the system with poison oF ruining the coa! 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The object of the club was stated to be “to cherish the memories and keep alive the tradi- tions that cluster ebout the names of those officers of the army, navy and marine corps ok part in the Mexican war of 146- dent, Gen. Fitz John Porter, U. dent, Gen. Stewart Van Viiet, U. Innis N. Palmer, U.S. Mark B. Hatch, Washingto: rer, Col. ham, U.S.A; Admiral Daniel M a St. Louis, Mo.; Gen. James B. Fry, U Col. De Lancey Floyd-Jones U.S. A., and Mark B. Hatch, Washington, D.C The club was founded in the City of Mexico October 13, 18: a Oficers Elected. The Young Men's Catholic Club elected the following board of directors for the ensuing H. Wm. McGramm, jan Morton. Th [. Hilliard, year yesterday: Knedy, J. Mulquin. J J. Trott and H. N. ‘Ata business meeting of the John M. Palmer | Dem: ie Club at Wormley’s Hall, 17th and reets, Friday evening, for the election of era, Dr. J. H. Riley ‘was re-elected presi- jee prosident; J. Harkins, , corresponding secre- treasurer; E. Ambler, sergeant-at-arms; John L, Webster, assistant sergeant-at-arma, The People's Congregational Church, The People’s Congregational Church, now worshiping at Nash's Hall, O street near 7th street northwest, made another appeal yester- duy to raise money to pay on their tite located on Mstreet between 6th and 7th northwest, where they contemplate erecting a beautifal church edifice 51 feet front by 124 feet 7 inches deep. This church was organized March 6, 1691, with about 235 members. Its membership now is between 500 and 600. Yes terday was a grand rally day, when they real- d $614.56. The Marianthus Club, which held fair and bazaar in the month of December, after which the same club presented their pastor, Rev. J. H. Dailey, with a life-size portrait ‘of himself. MissS.’A. Tyler made the presentatign. oe mt Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued by the | clerk of the court to the following: Walter C, Greenwell of Wilmington, Del., and Cussie McGinnis; Oliver D. 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