Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1893, Page 2

2 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY. OCTOBER -21, 1893—TWENTY PAGES. LATE NEWS BY WIRE, Rescued After Facing Death for Forty-two Hours. | DISASTER 10 A CIRCUS TRAIN. —__ + “Blame for the Battle Creek! Collision. ——_+—__—_- KIDNAPED IN A CEMETERY. | BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 21.—Capt. Win- field S. Corson and Mate Henry Lewis of the schooner Charles E. Young, which was abandoned at sea. have arrived in Balti- more and tell a harrowing story of their experience in the storm. The vessel left Savannah on October 4. lumber laden for Philadelphia. She carried & crew of eight men all told. The vessel encountered a northeast hurricane on the 10th instant. It was but the beginning of @ long siege of storm and distress. The gale’s fury increased and high breakers dashed relentlessly over the little boat. carrying away everything portable and | breaking and staving in the cabin door, windows and deck. ‘The tired-out men were constantly at the pump, but floods of water poured down the hatehways through the top faster than it could be removed. At 1 o'clock in the after- Reon of October 12 all hands took to the for their lives. On the next day the violence of the storm was unabated. At 7 o'clock the next morning, October M4, the eyes of the shipwrecked and worn- out men were greeted with the pleasantest sight of their lives—« trim schooner bearing | down on them. Without a mouthful of food or a drop of drinking water, with hands and feet blister- | ed and torn with holding to the ropes and | yards, the eight men had for forty-two hours been clinging to the ship's rigzing. Not a wink of sleep, hardly room to change Position to rest one portion of their body. A moment's relaxation of their grasp on the ropes would have been but to invite a/ watery grave. The schooner proved to be! the Morning Light. | The rescue was in latitude and longitude 76:30 west. Young was valued at $15,000. 74:0 north The Charles E. DISASTER TO A CIRCUS TRAIN. One Person Fatally and a Dozen Ser- sly Hurt. : CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Oct. 21.—A rear end collision took place near here yesterday on the Baltimore and Ohio road between two sections of the Barnum & Bailey circus trains. A dozen persons were hurt, half of them seriously and one fatally. ‘The dead man is Frank Everett of Brook- lyn, N. ¥. Those injured are: George Gil- more, New York city, internally injured, may die. Robert Netlon, N. Y., hip and back badly bruised. J. P. Frederick, Allen- town, Pa., leg smashed. Harry Marshall, Pittsburg, ribs broken, badly hurt. Nathan | Morcill, N. ¥., legs broken. Charles Mills, | jaw broken. E. R. Richers, Honesdale, Pa., | spine hurt. All the injured were sent to Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. | The train was running in five sections. | ‘The first section, going on an up grade, was | running about three miles an hour when the second section, being a light train, around a curve at twenty-five miles an hour and without warning, crashed with | terrible force into the rear end of the for- Ward section, which was made up of cages, with four sleepers in the rear. The last two cars were telescoped and the inmates were awakened from their sleep by | being violently hurled to the front of the | cars or pinioned in their berths. ———>—__ BLAME FOR THE WRECK. Eagineer Wooley Makes Conductor Seott Responsible for the Battle Creek Disaster. BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Oct. 21—When informed late last night that Conductor | Scott would not bear him out in his state- | ment that the conductor had said the west- | bound train had passed, Engineer Wooley said: “It doesn't make any difference to me what Mr. Scott says. I have nothing | further to add to my statement. There | mother NOT SUCH A VICTORY. Later Reports of the Engagements With the Matabeles. LONDON, Oct. 21,—Later details from the front lessen the importance of the success of the British South Africa Company's forces in Mashona’and in thetr engage- ) ments with the Matabeles. it is now known that the first engage- ment, which was credited with being a great victory for the whites, was simply a skirmish with a small Dédy of Matabeles, who were guarding cattle. In the next fight 400 of the company’s native levies, led by whites, attackec a force of Matabeles, who not only maintained their position, but ultimately compel'ed the levies to retreat. The Matabeles pursued them for a con- siderable distance. Instead of a hundred Matabeles being killed, as the first report had it, their loss in killed and wounded was under thirty, —_——_—_ WORLD'S TRAINMEN CONGRESS. It Will Be Held at Parts, w Probably Be Represented. BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 21.—At the conven- tion of the Brotherhood of Ratlway Train- men yesterday afternoon a communica- tion from George L. Hermite, assistant gen- eral secretary of the Federation of Railway Employes of France, came before the body. The communication invited the conven- tion to select a delegate to attend a world’s congress of railway organizations to be held in Paris October 15, 1894. It is expect- ed that the convention will favorably the proposition. ———~——— HIS PROTEST A PISTOL SHOT. A Frenchman Who Was Disgusted With the Expenditure on the Rus- sians. PARIS, Oct. 21—The Russians had just returned to thelr quarters last night from the festivities at the Hotel De Ville and were entering the club house when a hag- gard looking man about fifty years old discharged a revolver over the heads of the cheering crowd. It would have gone hard with the man had not the gendarmes seized him. The prisoner, when locked up, said that he was disgusted with the lavish expendi- ture of money on foreigners when there were thousands of Frenchmen in want of bread and had fired the revolver as a pro- test. —_—— AT THE FATHER’S GRAVE. A Mother Takes Her Child and Drives Away in a Hack. BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 21--An exciting episode has just come to light, which oc- curred in Baltimore cemetery last Satur- day at the burial of Wm. Smith. Olive, the eleven-year-old child of the deceased, was forcibly taken from her relatives, Placed in a hack and hurriedly riven off. ‘The kidnapping, if such it can be called, was done by the child’s mother, Mrs. Tillie Smith, who keeps @ boarding house on 10th Street in Washington, D.C. It was there the child was taken. Trouble arose be- tween Smith and his wife, which led to a separation about three years ago. The mother took the youngest child, a littie boy, while the father took Olive. Smith died last week without securing a divorce, and it was at the funeral the sensational occurred. A woman iressed in mourning, with a long, heavy crape veil extending from her bonnet to the hem cf | her skirt, led the little girl out of the pro- | cession and hurriedly thrust her into a hack. The door closed with a bang, | smothering the child’s cries, and the hack | was driven rapidly away. Later on when the child's disappearance became known Mrs. Edwards, the grandmother, fainted. | The child was eventually located with its in Washington. Mrs. Edwards says that the child would have been given up if application for it had been made in the proper manner. — DISCRIMINATION 18 ALLEGED. A Break to Be Made From the Sou: ern Railway and Steamship Asso- etation. BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 21—A move- ment is on foot among the officers of southern and eastern railroad and steamship companies to form an association independent of the South: ern Railway and Steamship Association, which was organized several years ago. It is understood that the Merchants’ and | was one other who heard what he told me , Miners’ Transportation Company, the Nor- and that is the freman of my engine and under the circumstances I would not be s0| foolish as to make any misstatements.” He then repeated his statement previously | published. Contmuing, he said: “There can be no| doubt that the conductor told me that No. 9 had passed. When I got on my seat I said: ‘Are you sure that No. 9 has passed?” “He said ‘yes’ and my fireman heard him. I asked him about the board and he re-| pied: ‘All right, go ahead.”” Conductor Scott says he will stand on his | statement before the people and the bar | of justice. He says he had no intention | of trying to avoid arrest and as soon as he | ed that he was wanted he came back. “It was but natural that I take my train} to one end of my trip when I could do no more here,” he said in explanation of his going to Port Huron. Turner, the fireman on Woodley’s en-! gine, absolutely refuses to talk. He says that all he has to say in reference to the | wreck he will say at the inquest. A visit to the injured this morning found all the | patients doing well. J._8. Archbell, Thos. J. Monroe and W. | A. Ryerse have left for home. It is not likely that any others will be permitted to leave befor> Monday. | | | At ll o'clock this morning Engineer Wool- ¢y was released on bonds. ‘The officers are not having an casy time learning what the testimony will be in the | criminal investigation. er called | upon Fireman Turner this morning, and he| was given to understand that Turmer’s tes- | tmony would be in support of his engineer. | It is thought that Rev. Father Clark of | Brantford, Ont. 4s numbered among the| dead. He is known to have been on the! train and has not been heard from since | the accident. George Millard of Brown & Millard, cigar manufacturers, at Hastings, | Mich. who was on the wrecked train, is missing. and his partner believes he has perished. T. R. Springer of Pcrt Dover, Ont, 1s among the dead. He was on the ill-fated car Gnd a friend this morning recognized some distinguishing mark. Conductor Burke of No. 9 1s still in a Precarious condition. He says he was in the third ear from the engine when the crash came. He says there were thirty- five people in that car and thinks most of trem were smothered by the smoke and gas. He does not blame Scott and thinks the blame rests with. Wooley. a THREE BIG FOOT BALL GAMEs. Noted College Teams Playing in New York and Vicinity. NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Four of the most noted college foot ball elevens of the country played in this vicinity this after- moon. Princeton and Cornell met at Man- hattan Field; Yale and Orange Athletic Club at Orange, and University of Penn- sylvania and Crescent Athletic Club at Eastern Park, Brooklyn. Interest centered almost entirely in Princeton-Cornell game. These clubs are mow rivals at the famous college game and the battle ts for blood. ———. —__ END OF A TWO MONTHS’ FIGHT. Striking Shopmen of the L. and N. Decide to Give Up. LOUISVILLE, Oct. 21—The striking Louisville and Nashville shopmen held a @ecret meeting this morning and after dis- cussing the situation fully resolved upon a complete surrender. Five hundred were Present. This afternoon the men will call upon Superintendent Leeds in a body and ask to be reinstated at the company’s terms. The fight has lasted for two months. | ——— General Manager Odell Re: BALTIMORE, Md.. Oct. 2—Mr. J. 7. Odell has resigned as general manag>r o: the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, to take effect November 1. He has been with the Baltimore and Ohio as geaeral Manager for about seven years. He came | to its service from the Northern Pacific | Foad and has done much toward the devel-| opment of Baltimore and Ohio properties. Wl health, due to increase of work in his! office consequent upon the enlargement of the Baltimore and Ohio lines, is given as the reason for Mr. Odell tion. He has | accepted the position of assistant to Pres- ident Mayer of the Baltimore and Oh with headquarters at Chicago. This is post that was created for and first filled ty the late Emmons Blaine, son of James G. Blaine. | telling the juz folk and Western Railroad Company end | other southern corporations will combine at an early date. These *empanies have not signed the agreement of the present association for this year, which is usually done in July. An officer of one of the companies states that discrimination is being made in favor of the western roads, and that as a con-/ sequence freight from Pittsburg and other | points was carried by western roads to the! Mississippi river and floated down to New Orleans and other export shipping cities. —— JUDGE REBUKED THE JURY. A Murderer Who Was Convicted of Only the Second Degree. SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 21.~Agstina Nolli was this morning found guilty of murde=: in the second degree, for the killing of a fel- low Italian named Prignano at Dunmore, last spring. Judge Gunster sentenced him to fifteen years imprisonment in eastern penitentiary at_ Philadelphia. The judge was displeased with the verdict, 'y the evidence warranted con- viction in the first degree. ———_ IMPROVED INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK. Increase Indicated in the Manufact- ured Outpat at New Bedford. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. *1.-A de- cided improvement is to be observed in the local industrial outivok, and the output of the manufacturing establishments of this city will show a substantial increase the coming week. The Bennett mill, No. 1, which has been idle for a considerable period, will resvme operations, and a portion of Potomska miil, No. 1, which had shut down for some Annual Report of the Surgeon Gen- eral of the Navy. THE WASHINGTON NAVAL HOSPITAL in the Growth of the Museum of Hygiene. Interest ® THE RECEIVING SHIP DALE. Surgeon General J. R. Tryon, U. S. N., has just made his annual report to the Secretary. It was made public this morn- ing. The report contains a number of val- uable suggestions and comments. According to this document the! naval hospitals, located as follo’ Island, Penobscot Bay, Maine; Portsmouth, N. H.; Chelsea, Mass.; Brooklyn, N. Philadelphia, Pa.; Washington, D.C.; Nor- folk, Va.; Pensacola, Fla.; Mare Islaad, California, and Yokohama, Japan. They are all serviceable, well-appointed establishments, meeting the requirements of the respective stations, excepting the hospital at New York, which is specially re- ferred to in the report. The Hospital in This City. The hospital in this city has been entirely renovated. It has been supplied with un eMcient heating apparatus, the sanitary arrangements have been overhauled, all interior woodwork painted, neuchatel floors with new tron bedsteads, comfortable chairs —_ Gurable lnghers, ‘ontinuing, the report says: “Recognizing the importan the several navy yards, e barracks e of” placing naval stations and under the most favorable sanitary conditions, in view of the bossi- bility of cholera or other epidemic dis- eases gaining a foothold in this country, the bureau called the attention of the com- mandants to the necessity and importance of placing and keeping the stations u.der their command in a thoroughly clean and wholesome condition, recommending fre- quent and rigid inspections by the medical officers of the vtations, special attention to be given to the removal and disposal of garbage and offensive matter, cleaning and disinfection of offensive places, stables, cellars, vaults, sewers, drains, water closets, etc., and in all respects initiating and carrying out such practical measures a8 would put the several yards and stations: ‘aaa most satisfactory hygienic con- “The health of the Washingt: = tinues satisfactory.’ lana ones The Receiving Ship Dale. As to the U. 8. receiving ship Dale, sta- tioned at the Washington mavy yard, the report says: “Attention is called to the necessity for fitting up a room for conducting the phy- sical examination of recruits; the quarters | now used for this purpose being also util- ized as a shipping office, and by the ship's yeoman. It is almost impossible, under present conditions, for the medical officer to properly perform his duty. The majority of admissions were for intermittent fever, disease over the preceding year being prob- ably due to the dredging along the river front. 552 recruits were examined during the year, of these 28 were men, 216 were boys, and 61 marines. Of the men 213 were accepted and 72 rejected; of the boys 36 marines 30 were accepted and 21 rejected. There were 6 rejections among the boys examined, for color blindness.” The report makes some valuable recom- mendations as to the improvement of the system of sanitation on board the modern men of war. The Museam of Hygiene. “Great interest has been manifested by the service, and by professional and scientific bodies, in the growth and development of the museum of hygiene, as shown by the steady increase in the number of exhibits. “The museum has reached a stage tn its development when the department should more suitable building than the unsightly and illy arranged one now occupted for the care, preservation and display of the val- uabie exhibits, which in the past few years have Increased beyond the storage capacity of the present building. The constant ad- ditions being made to the museum collec- tion, in connection with its present crowded condition, and the generally admitted fact of the unfitness of the butiding for its pres- ent purpose, renders this step imperative, grouped and classified, and that their value for purposes of study and observation may not be impaired. “The further fact that the building is badly arranged for the prosecution of mi- croscopical and bacteriological investiga- tions, which have heretofore constituted an important feature in the administration of the museum, fs an additional argument in favor of securing more suitable quarters. “The remova' of the museum to the butld- ommended. Pan-American Medical Congress. “The meeting of this congress was held in Washington on the Sth, 6th, 7th and sth of September, 1893, under the auspices of the United States government, act approved July 18, 1892. “In pursuance of the said act invitations were extended by the executive to all of the above mentioned governments to send offi- cial delegates, and representatives were present from the Argentine Republic, Bo- livia, British West Indies, British North America, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Re- public, Ecuador, French West Indies, Guate- mala, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras (Spanish), Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Re- public of Colombia, Salvador, Spanish West Indies, United States of Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela. “The congress met the expectations of all concerned. The Navy Department aided in its success both socially and professionally. The Marine Band was placed at the disposal of the secretary of the congress and the fol- lowing officers were ordered to represent she medical department of the navy: Medi- weeks, will be started up on Monday next. CT Director A. C. Gorgas, Surgeon C. ‘A. ee GROUNDING OF THE MACHIAS, Ne Reason to Believe That S$! fered Injury. CHATHAM, Mass., Oct. 21.—The steamer that grounded last night on Chatham Bars was undoubtedly the United States gunboat Machias from Portsmouth, N. H., for New York. The Machias was reported passing out by Highland light at 3:30 p. m., and would have about reached the point where the steamer stranded at the hour the reported vessel was sighted ashore. This fact, with the ad- ditional one that no other steamer, inward or outward bound, was due or expected in that locality at that time, would leave but small margin for uncertainty as to the iddentity of the vessel. It was bright moonlight, and she was quickly sighted by the patrol men from the Chatham life-saving station. ‘The life-boat was soan launched, as were several others, manned by the wreckers. Distress signals were being constantly dis- Played from the steamer, and there was much excitement on shore. Before the station boat, in charge of Capt. Doane, arrived at the vessel, she was seen to move slightly off shore, and as the surf boat got within about 200 yards of her she slipped off the bank and proceeded. There is no reason to suppose that she sustained any injury. Suf- ——>__— Story Told by a City Tre: rer. HEALDSBURG, Cal, Oct. 21—City Treasurer G. V. Mulligan was found yester- | jai! day gaggen and bound to a tree near town. He declared he had been surprised by two masked men near his house Thursday night and forced at the point of a pistol to ge to the city treasury, open the vault and give them the contents amounting to $3,000. —_-——— Return of the Liberty Bell. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., this city, returning via Cincinnati, Colum- bus, Pittsburg, Altoona and Harrisburg. a Shot by a Baroness’ Daughter. KOKOMO, Ind., Oct. 21.—Mrs. Augusta Schneider, a wealthy lady and adopted daughter of Baroness Yungling, late of this city, shot and killed Oscar Walton, one of her tenants, near Walton yesterday. Oct. 21.—It has | been decided that the cracked Mberty bell | will leave Chicago at 9 p.m. October 31. for | Siegfried, Surgeon H. G. Beyer and Passed Assistant Surgeon D. M. Guiteras. “Dr. Guiteras was detailed as Spanish- ing secretary of the section on mill- tary medicine and surgery and Surgeons Siegfried and Beyer were requested to con- tribute papers for discussion before the sec- and surgery. “Copies of Surgeon Stegfried’s paper on “The Causes and Origin of Continued Fever, With Reference to Naval and Military Ser- vices,’ and Surgeon Beyer’s paper on Systematized Exercise’ have been furnished the bureau and are appended.” —_—_+o+—____—__. PEIXOTO INCREASES HIS VIGOR. Advices Frem Rio Picture the Presi- dent Relentless. NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Advices received from the Herald's correspondent in Rio Ja- neiro indicate that President Peixoto pro- poses to conduct the campaign against the insurgents with more vigor than heretofore. Senator Ruy Barbosa, in an interview, says that on his arrival in Rio he would have been taken by force from the British steamer Magdalena had not Capt. Long of the warship Simis interfered. He sent British sailors aboard the Mag- dal to prevent any violation of the Bri ship in which Barbosa had taken refuge. His friends and relatives visited him on board the steamer before sailing from Rio. As soon as they returned to the shore they were arrested and thrown into I. There are now 500 political prisoners in the Jails in Rio de Janeiro, who have been ar- rested under orders from Peixoto. | scenes of cruelty and tyranny in Rio. Carts arrive at the cemetery almost every day | containing the headless bodies of legislators and other political prisoners who have been executed, often without trial, by the govern- ment. Families of naval en and others ee are in sympathy with Mello are persecut | and are obliged to seek refuge in the houses of foreigners. —————_- Nearly Unanimous for Repeal. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 21.—At one of the largest meetings the Union League has ever held a resolution was last night passed almost unanimously advocating the Prompt repeal of the silver purchasing clause in the Sherman silver act. laid in basement, and the wards furnished | the s\creased number of admissions for this | were accepted and 136 rejected, and of the | take active measures toward securing a | in order that the exhibits may be properly | ings of the old observatory is strongly rec- | tions on physiology and military medicine | | ‘Some Observations on Normal Growth and | Development of the Human Body Under | Barbosa’s friends teil him that there are | Weeks, the New York Defaulter, Will Be Brought Here. Mearagua Waves Technicalities in His Much-Discussed Case—Need for an Extradition Treaty. The United States authorities have at last secured the possession of Francis H. Weeks, the New York defaulter who was appre hended in Nicaragua and whose extradi- tists given rise to so much correspon- dence between the two countries. Weeks is the man who is charged with heavy defalcations in New York. Detec- tives were put on his track and he was finally located in San Jose, Nicaragua, and an effort was made to bring him back to this country. At first this seemed feasible, but as there is no extradition treaty between the two nations that would cover the case in question, Week's lawyer raised the point that it was an attempt on the part of the United States to bully a smaller country and that this government would never re- clprocate the favor. Inquiry on the part of the Nicarag- uan government elicited the informa- tion that in the event of a similar case arising here the United States could not surrender any person who might be desired by Nicaragua without spectal legisla- tion to that effect. This rather cooled the willingness of the other government and they at once applied for an extradition treaty that would apply to all such cases. The surrender of Weeks, they probably think, would be an argu- ment in their favor. .At any rate the State Department has received informatton from Consul Williams that the Nicaraguan gov- ernment has watved technicalities in the matter and the probabilities are now that Weeks will be brought back to New York to stand trial for the charges that are re- corded against him. A telegram was received from Secretary of State Gresham this morning by District Attorney Nicoll, stating that officers von Gerichten and O'Reilly would sail with the prisoner on Wednesday next for the United States. a peg ge es THE BRIG ARMSTRONG. The Case Practically Decided Today by Secretary Gresham. He Has No Authority to Effect a Final Settlement With Samuel Chester Reid. Secretary Gresham today practically de- cided that he had no authority of law to effect a final settlement of the celebrated case of the privateer brig General Arm- strong, on which Wm. H. Crane’s play of “The Senator” ts said to be founded, by paying to Sam Chester Reid, the surviving son of the Armstrong's commander, the residue of the money appropriated by Con- gress as a reward for the service done by the privateer in defeating a British squad- ron in September, 1814. The battle between the weer and the British ships occurred in the bor of Fayal, in the Azores, where the Arm- 8 was lying at anchor. On September 26, 1815, the vessel was attacked by H. M. 8. Plantagenet, 74 guns; the frigate Rota, 4 guns, and the brig Carnation, 18 guns. The British numbered 2,000 men, while the Arm- strong had only 7 guns and 9 men. After @ two days’ battle Reid defeated the three English ships, which were part of an ex- | Pedition concentrating at Jamaica to join | Admiral Cochrane before New Orleans, and | Reld’s stand detained them until too late to be effective in fighting Gen. Jackson. This detention, it is claimed, saved New Orleans and Louisiana from British con- quest. In 1815 the United States made a elaim | against Portugal for indemnity in allowing British vessels to fire on an American ship in one of its harbors, and President Zach- ary Taylor submitted the question to the arbitration of Louis Napoleon, who decided against the United States. Reld had died meanwhile and turned over the prosecution of his claim for indemnity to his son. in 1882 Congress appropriated $70,000 for | the benefit of the owners, officers and crew of the Armstrong, and the present claim- ant, Sam Chester 1d, secured counsel fees and his father’s share, amounting to about $40,000. Some of the claimants did not appear, and Mr. Reid contended that the $16,000 set aside as their share should be given him. Secretary Gresham can find no authority for so disposing of It, and the matter will probably be sent to Congress for action. Since the time of Mr. Freling- huysen, who distributed the congressional reward, other Secretaries of State have | held that Mr. Reld is not entitled to the money. oo REMAINED AT WOODLEY. | The President Did Not Come in Today —A Story About Gray Gables, The President did not come into town today, but remained out at his summer home. Nothing is known in this city of | the story that he has offered for sale a portion of his Buzzard'’s Bay property for villa sites. When the statement was called | to the attention of Private Secretary Thur- the first he had heard of it. The story is that the Tudor Haven tract of Mnd on Monument river, the property of President Cleveland, ts offered for sale. | This does not include the villa of Gray | Gables, which the President occupies in jing it, but the large tract of from sixty to | seventy-five acres of bluff land facing the | river looking north toward Buzzard’s Bay village. The restrictions placed upon it are | that it shall be offered only to persons in every way desirable as neighbors to the Presidential household, and that, unless | residences to cost $2,500 or more are to be erected, there can be no sale made. It is intimated that the President contem- plates erecting a new and most substantial | villa on the bay shore, looking west and south from Gray Gables, as a permanent summer home. ee THE B. AND O. TRACK. The Bil Defining Its Route Approved by the Commissioners, The Commissioners have favorably re ported House bill 3,425, which defines the route of the Baltimore and Ohio railzoud in the District. This bill calls for a union of the branches of the Baltimore and Ohio et | some point in the District north of Florida avenue, and enters the city by means of | four tracks upon viaducts to the proposed site of the company’s depot. ‘The Commissioners made a few verbal changes in section form of the bill. They | provide an amendment to the effect that the company shall deposit with the collector of taxes such money from time to time as the Commissioners may deem necessary to cover engineering expenses and other contingencies in connection with the super- vision of the work required by this act. +2 ANOTHER WEST INDIA CYCLONE. Indicntions of It Seen at Key West Yesterday. NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. 21—A Pics- yune, Key West, Fla., special says: The West Indies’ cyclone reported by the weather bureau to be central off the west coast of Cuba was manifest here all yester- day and indications point to severe weather. All large vessels sought safe anchorage in the upper harbor and smaller boats hauled up on the beach. Weather observer says the barometer fs falling rapidly. —_——_. The President Remains at Woodley. The President remained at his country place, “Woodley,” today, transacting official business there. Even the chief executive of the nation finds he cannot escape the an- | nual infliction of “house cleaning.” The carpets are being put down in his office Tocms at the White House, and so he pre- fers to stay out in the country. ——_—_-~o-____—_. Post Office Expense: The sixth auditor of the treasury today rendered his report to the Postmaster Gen- eral. The expenses of the department for the year have been $81,174,104.90, and the re- ceipts' from all sources, $75,896,983.16. Leav- ing a ‘deficit of $5,178,171.74, against a deficit the year previous of $6,393,286.31. The sales of stamps amounted to $72,359,- 213.59; box rents, $2,492,336.60; money orders, $914,065.29. +--+ —_______ The average height of clouds is a mile or jfather a little more. | ber this afternoon Mr. Thurber said it was | | summer, nor the land immediately surround- | Alleged Intentions Before Appeal- ing to the Country. HOME RULE 70 COME UP NEXT SUMMER, English Reforms Meanwhile to Be Passed by the Commons. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Special Cable Dispatch to The Evening Star. LONDON, Oct. 21.—Active political life has been resumed this week with speeches by Lord Salisbury, Lord Randolph Church- rill, Secretary Asquith and other minor Mghts, and the conservative and liberal unionists electoral organizations are prepar- ing for @ great political campaign to begin soon after parliament reassembles. The conservatives are predicting a government defeat and a dissolution in March, but as they predicted exactly the same year little attention need be paid to their prophesies, which are based on the hope that Jno. Redmond’s attack upon the gov- ernment for its supposed intention to shelve last | « Paving Law. Am Account Held Up Last Year Ap- Droved—The Commissioners Up- held im the Action. Controller Bowler of the Treasury De- partment rendered an important decision in the matter of the paving of New Hamp- shire avenue and Omaha street in the Pet- worth subdivision today. The controller ap- Proves the action of the District Commis- sioners in paying for this improvement, = gee for which was made in June, 2, an payment held up by the former controller, pending further investigation, on the ground that the streets improved did not come under all the requirements of the |provisions of the act making appropria- tons for street improvement. The decision is a very lengthy one, and goes into all the facts and the law in the case. In conclusion he says: “The presnt controlier cannot agree with the intimation of the former controller that the language of the appropriation act re- quired that “the existing pavement should join, abut upon or connect with some city | pavement of like kind and character to the end that when the pavement is completed ther may be @ continuous pavement to ard from the pavement of the city.” “To put such a construction upon the ap- propriation act would seem very much like home rule will force the McCarthyites to go one better by refusing to support Mr. Glad- stone in his proposed English reforms. Mr. Asquith’s first speech was eagerly seized upon by the unionists as a proof that home rule has been shelved. quith’s speeches are certainly somewhat mystifying, but it must be noted that he was careful to say that home rule would | not be introduced into the house of com- mons next session. The explanation of this is believed to be that Mr. Gladstone intends after getting the English reforms passed and everything ready for an appeal to the country, to re- introduce the home rule bill in the house | of lords next July or August. | Whether this is a true explanation or not j Mr. Asquith last night made it quite plain that the government has no intention to Pet eee EE SECRETARY LAMONT’S TRIP. * He Has Gone to McGrawville, N. Y., to Visit His Sick Father. NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Col. Lamont, Sec- retary of War, accompanied by Mrs. La-| mont, arrived in this city this morning | from Washington. When seen by a report-/ er the colonel said: “I am on my way to spend Sunday with my father, who is ill at| McGrawville, N. ¥., and there is nothing in connection with my stay that can be of any possible interest to the public.” ses Done isa A GREAT GAMBLING SCANDAL, The Brother of the Germ: Mixed Up in It. Empress | Mr. As- | | discretion. veurping the province of Congress and creating iegislation rather than construing it. No construction of the tion act other than that which the natural | 8ress has not expressed. The Commiasion- ers wer bound to construe the words “some existing pavement,” and in doing £0 they followed former precedents urd the advice of their attorney, and there is noth- ing in their proceedings to indicate the svg gestion of fraud or abuse of their executive As, therefore, the District Com- missioners construed the act according to the natural meaning of the words, and have acted in good faith in the exercise of their executive discretion, the amount paid for | the paving of New Hampshire Omaha street will be — ane —_— TRIED TO CUT HIS THROAT. 4 Young French Diplomat’s Trouble Over a Love Affair. Word was received in this city last night of an attempted suicide in Atianta yester- day of a young attache of the French lega- tion, by name George Chivot. According to telegrams received here he first tried to cut his throat with a razor, which was, with | 6reat difficulty, taken from him. After he was supposed to have quieted down he made a break for the open window, and got half way out before he was caught. The young Frenchman was in love with Miss Venable of Atlanta, a member of a | Wealthy family, whom he met abroad. Her BERLIN, Oct. 21.—Duke Guenther, brother of the German empress, visited Emperor | | Wittam yesterday for the first time since | | his enforced retirement. It is stated that | | the duke made a clean-breasted confession | of his share in the great Hanover gambling scandal. | The trial of this gambling case comes on |at Hanover on Monday, and the develop- ments, it is said, will open the eyes of so- | clety not only in this city, but elsewhere in | Germany. ———__— TEMPERANCE PARTY SPLIT. Dr. Burns Finds a Large Opposition to His Leadership. ‘Special Dispateh to The Evening Star. LONDON, Oct. 21—A serious crisis | threatens the temperance party. The long | growing resentment against Dr. Dawson Burns for his connection with the scanda- lous Liberator Building Soctety collapse | has culminated in an open revolt. The ex- ecutive committee of the United Kinziom Alliance, whose headquarters are at Man- chester, has addressed a letter to Dr. Burns calling upon him to resign the lead- ership of the London branch. ! Dr. Burns is the virtual leader of the | Sefuses oa Fog start naan alla) many influential supporters, natures Er o pent of confidence or ge e tem: leaders through- out the eee iperance ugh rehdeacon Farrar and Samuel Pope, who | the start eon the Tet 0 ee i m4 | Burns’ friends “that bis Oe: fense in allowing himself to be received | by Jabez Balfour does him from oe efMfictent help to Sroge E Street Baptist Charch Reunion. The members of the E Street Baptist | Chureh held their annual reunion last night. Dr. Muir had just returned and most of the church people were back. Aesuabons were made by Rev. Dr. Muir, e pastor; Mr. A. M. Cla) intendent of the Sunday school Ct Re ards. The choir of the church Supplied a musical program and solos were rendered by Misses Kidwell, Graham and Elliot. A bountiful supply of icecream, cake and other refreshments was served by Mrs. Dr. | Muir, Mrs. Harry Clapp, Mrs. Sholes, Mrs. | Shue, Mrs. Heitenger, Mrs. Roderick, Mrs. Webb and others. ——__ Fined for Larceny. | Frank Desmond forfeited $15 in the Police Court this afternoon on a charge of larceny. It Cighea ite Sy woman named Lelia Hoppe ni and stole her from her. He had been drinking. — _———_ j Held for Grand Jury. i Thomas Coleman, a young colored man, | was arrested last evening on a charge of | stealing a bicycle belonging to Frank Mc-| Neir. The wheel was stolen several days | ago and Coleman attempted to dispose of it. | He left the wheel for trial and when he called for the money he was arrested by Policeman Wheeler. The case was heard in the Police Court this afternoon and the prisoner was held for the action of the grand jury. j —~—__ Third Corps Survivors’ Association. j A meeting of the Third Corps Association | was held at the Ebbitt House Thursday | evening, Maj. Gen. D. E. Sickles presiding over @ full and enthusiastic attendance. After remarks by Dr. Dexter, chairman of | the board of managers, there was a reso- lution adopted to assess every member $5, to be paid in monthly installments from now till the last of April, for the purpose | of entertaining the parent organization, which stands next to the Order of the Cin-| cinnati in the history of the country. The meeting of the original society will be held on May 6, 18%. As they have about names of third corps people tn this city, | they would be glad if they would attend the | next meeting, which will be at the call of | the chairman of the board of managers. Gen. Sickles hopes to bring the two organ- izations completely together and form a permanent society that will be transmitted to the younger generation. ss A Carrier Pigeon, The pension office has a visitor, and as a stranger has given it welcome. It is a carrier pigeon. It entered through a dislo- cated skylight and roosts among the truss- es. Its cage is large enough to admit of considerable exercise, and the squab pro- ducer lives pretty much on the wing, and on the lunches provided by charitable clerks. No way has been found for eject- ing the bird. It promises to build its nest and rear its young at government expense. —_~—_ Counter Charges. This afternoon Sergt. Lombardy arrested @ man who was being pursued by a crowd on 7th street with cries of stop thief. In the crowd was Charles E. Barber, a pat- ent attorney of @1 7th street, who charged him with the larceny of a valuable dia- mond ring and $. He was taken to police headquarters, where he gave the name of Malcomb Washington and stated that he was in the office of Barber playing cards and discovered that Barber and his friend were using a deck of marked cards on him and to get even he hed taken the cards and ring. Mr. Barber alleges that the cheating was on the other side. He was locked up for a hearing. ——__—_ | attaches know no more of the affair |iline. That was for the relatives opposed the suit. Chivot had followed the Venables back to this country, having had himself appointed | an attache to the French legation in Wash- ington, but up to the present time he has not identified himself at al! with diplomatic affairs. He was only at the legation on Massachusetts avenue for a few days, and when he left the city last Monday he said he intended to sail for home today. That was the last heard of him and the other than they have seen in print. ALEXANDRIA. The additional democratic convention so worked out that it did not add anything to the want of party harmony here, and ended by leaving but one candidate in the field. Extra county representatives having been chosen met the Caton delegates in convention, with Mr. John T. Beckham | in the chair, yesterday afternoon, and nomi- nated Mr. J. R. Caton, whereupon Mr. Caton declined the nomina.on, and the convention adjourned. It is understood, vention do not admit tnat the first conven- | Uon made a democratic nomunation,and tuey | contend that there is now no uemocrauc nominee in the field, and that they are at Mberty, without breaking party fealty, to support whosvever they chose as delegate to tne general assembly. Mr. K. W. Fenwick of Washington, who is owner of the old Fowle property on Prirce street dock, is about to buliding and wharves there. In the corporation court judgment has been given for the plainud in tne case of the Northwest Alexanaria Improvement Company agt. Newman. Next Monday Mr. Charles Dearborn, the United States storekeeper at tne distillery on Cameron run near tnis city, will be suc- ceeueu vy air. Vonaid sicLean. Capt. Taylor of tug D. M. Key has libeled the dredge Condor tur towage. ‘To Alexandria Subscribers. Mr. A. 8. Doniphan is now the authorized | agent of The Evening Star in Alexandria. Ail outstanding subscriptions must be paid | to him. Suvscriptions and complaints can meaning of the words import seems possi- | ble without adding something which Con- | THE MEDICAL CORPS 7 8 SURRENDERED. |G) ADSTONE’S PLANS, AN IMPORTANT DECISION FINANCE AND TRADE. By Controller Bowles on Oonstruction of Expectation of Prompt Action by the Senate Held in Wall Street. PROBABLE EFFECT ON THE MARKE?. A Favorable Bank Statement issued, GENERAL MARKET REPORTS. Special} Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, Oct. 2i.—The realizing move- ment begun at the close of yesterday's business had a good effect on the course of prices in today’s market. Buying orders were plenty and prices were advanced in Proportion to the demand. After a dull and indifferent opening came an undertone of strength which soon de- veloped into a well defined movement in favor of higher prices. London was practically lower and was not a factor in our market, the volume of business from that side being extremely small. There was no special news to influence | Prices, except that received from Washing- | ton, and that, though brief, was encourag- | ing. While it is by no means a certainty, | there would appear to be little doubt of the Senate's action on repeal within the next few days. The street is confident that this is the correct view of the situation, and | te waiting for some demonstration at Wash- | {agton that will justify action on this be- Following strictly in the line of prece- | dent, Wall street will immediately discount the era of prosperity that must follow, no | matter how slowly, any settlement of our financial policy. The interior end the coun- | try at large wi'l reap little or no Immediace g004 from such lecislation, but stock spec- ulation will be conducted on the bresump- ton that what is agreed to be done is done y. The bank statement fully realized expec- tations by showing another handsome in- crease in reserve. The decrease in loans, however, is anything but bs points conclusively to the fact that a glut in the money market is inevitable unless Some outlet is provided for the enormous —, now lying in idleness. It is evi- the statement follows: e incrensed, $8,744.72); loans de- creased, $1,676.90); specie increased, $5,338,100: lewalx increased, $5,713.39: deposits increas- oA. 2277, and circulation decreased, |The clearing house statement today re- Ports exchanges, $89.8%.48); balances, $.- 358,767, end the subtreasury’s debit bal- ance, $6,358. Delaware and Hudson was conspicuousty strong on limited trading and scored the |greatest advence of the day, moving up |3 1-2 per cent to 124 Manhattan fellowe? with a gain of 3 1-4 per cent to 131 14, | Lackawanna was a good third with & per cent to {ts cre@it at 169 1-2 Lake Shore | was strong and gaine? 2 1-2 per cent to 12 ard Consolidated Gas gained 1 to 1%. The industrials were strong, and. as usual, the most active, Sugar leading the van with a gain of 2 per cent to % 5-8 Chicago Gas improved 1 1-8 per cent to @ 14 and | Distillers was active and remarkatiy well held at 3-4 per cent advance to 33 5-8. General Electric. until recently one of the | nest active features of the Industrials, has Awindled into insignificance, and hovers | idly around 4. The remainder of the Het, while attracting no particular attention. of wavering and tp a mafority of cases Het prices were the best. The week closes very ——a and with the as- surance that t! jong delayed remedial process is about to begin. Shorts have | however, that the delegates to the last con-| shown signs of increasing nervousness and will run to cover the moment the issue now pending is determined. Railroad ea be lert at the store of Mr. J. ‘I. Cox, No. gui | Den. King street. _—_— CAPITOL TOPICS, Pension Afairs. Representative Broderick of Kansas has intrvauced a bill in the House raising the pension of widows of soldiers of tne Mex- ican war to 91> per month, placing taem | therevy upon a ievel with male pensioners ot that war, ‘Yo Protect Antmals. Representative Cummings introduced a bill in the House yesterday providing for a | commission to make rules for the proper construction of vessels for carrying ani- mals. The Secretary of State is directed to arrange for an international agreement upon the subject, and is appro- priaied. : 2+ _____ THE LAST OF THE BOBTAILS, Citizens of the Southeast Want Con- ductors on the Anacostia Line. Some of the residents of Southeast Wash- ~~ have started a movement to compel © employment of conductors on the Ana- costia street car line, which extends through that section. A petition to the | Commissioners has been prepared and sig- | Matures are being obtained. This will ask that the road be required to compty with | the law, which has been enforced as to other roads, :equiring the use of two-horse cars and the empioyment on each car of a conductor, who shail not be the driver. Une of those foremost in the agitation stated the situation to a Star reporter as toliows: “ane bob-tail cars are still in use on the Anacostia road. There is a law requiring all street cars to have a conductor, as well as driver or gripman. But it seems that an exception was allowed in favor of the Ana- | 6 costia road on account of its being a new ‘day of smatj things.’ This as is quite evident from the full cars that go by, is now in a condition of prosperity that would seem to Warrant the law as to conductors being ap- plied to it as well as to the other roads. in the southeast section of the city this passes by, or very near, six school houses, which materially add to the number of children along the tracks of the road. ing on and off the cars as they pass. This has become a nuisance, not only to the car company, but to the traveling public. A conductor on each car would, however, materially check it, as well as afford better accommodation to all who travel in these cars. It would seem full time that the Commissioners enforce the law in regard to this road, and require them to place a con- ductor on every car.” unchaaged—recetpts, z jents, 6,651 barrels; sales, 600 Wheat quiet and kwer—No. 2 red, it, petober, 6Oe 66's; r, CaGsry ; * steamer No, 2 red, G3a63'4; milling ‘wheat je, OT—recetpts, 29.014 bushels; shipments. 155,800 bushels; stock, 956,467 bushels: sales, 112, 600’ bushels. Corn dull and easy—mixed, spot, dda ; October, 46a46%; November, 46ai64: year, white ccrn by sample, old, 50a52; 17,526 barrels; shipm barrel Government Receipts Today. The receipts from internal revenue today ‘were $569,179; from customs, $454,282. fancy, 19%; No. 7. 18%. Sagar é BALTIMORE, Oct. 21. console, threes, 64; Baltimore’ and" Oblo stock, 68a70; Northern Central stock, 68; Baltimore and Obto Southwestern frets, 10414: Ao. : Comsolidated Gas : do. firet incomes, 75: bonds, 109810914; do. stocks, These children amuse themselves by jump- }- ovser ry Hat i 3 Fy vEr | Lees, | 108 bid. Hi | Washington avd Georgetown K. BR. conv. a4se. *e Hil d i ? ms if ¢ rt f if ‘ of FREE f h i