Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1893, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1893-TWELVE PAGES. Danger Just Ahead.| & Prominent Professor Speaks About the Threatening Things Abroad at This Time of the Year. “Tt 1s surprising how many people are suffering today from so-called coughs, colds and influenza."* The remark was made by a very prominent pro- femeor. connected with one of the leading New York hospitals. Continuing, be said: “It ts not these things toat are troubling peo- ple, but {t is am advanced form of our old enemy. the grip. Peopie feel out of sorts, sneeze, have pains io the muscles and bones, bave no appetite, lese all interest in the world and wonder what is the matter. It is the grip; nothing else. “Now, all such symptoms need to bare prompt Weatment. The attack must be met and repelled at once, or it is certain to rum into something serious. I know of but one way to certainly avoid these troubles which are now so common. and that is, to immediately counteract them by using a geod, pure, sirong stimulant. 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He is held as a suspicious character, but be- | fore he is through he will probably have to | answer the charge of making illegal use of | the mails. } ‘The Story That He Tells. | ‘The question whether or not Donjan Is a lcrank at once arises. His actions have | been those, undoubtedly, of a man not properly balanced, but he talks like a per- fectly sane man, though with occasional lapses into sidg issues that would seem to Donjan Before Shaving. make it look as though there was a screw loose somewhere. According to his story, | as soon as he ascertained that the police | were on the lookout for him he decided to | return to Washington and surrender here, jas he though his charces of being fairly | treated were better than they would be | anywhere else. The pclice all around this section of the country have been on the lookout for him for some time past. On Saturday night Donjan walked into the first precinct station, and stating that he was hungry and cold, was sent to the municipal lodging house next door, where he gave his name. According to him he spent Sunday and Monday wandering up and down Pennsylvania avenue and Db street, looking for the office of Chief Drum- mond of the secret service. He was una- ble to find Mr. Drummond, and, as he says, did not care to go into a drug store, crowd- ed, as they all were, to ask for a directory. He wanted to go to the first precinct sta- tion, as he had been there before, but was unable to find it, when he had made up his mind to surrender and seeing the sign of a detective agency he walked im there and gave himself up. Detectives Weedon and Boyd of police headquarters came up a few minutes later and identified the man. He was taken then to the first precinct station and put behind the bars. His Appearance and Manner. Donjan is a man of about twenty-six years of age. He talks freely, and accord- ing to his story is an Austrian, born in Silesia, his parents being poor peasants, who came to this country about eleven | me a quarter to get something to eat. 1} bought two sandwiches and had them wrap- | ped up in a newspaper. I walked along | the track until I got to Manassas junction. | There I sat down to eat my lunch. 1! smoothed out the newspaper and read an | account of the letters where it stated that they were written by a crank and that the detectives were looking for the man. The newspaper was a copy of The Evening Star. I see the morning paper says it was that paper, but it wasn’t that paper, it was The Star, ‘and if you are on any other paper 1 suppose you Will say that it was your pa- per that I read the account in and if there are any more papers in Washington I sup- pose each one will claim it’s that paper. That's the way with newspapers, each one tries to boost itself up and get prominent just like people. “After I had finished reading that ac- count I got up and started for this city and got here Saturday evening. I staid at the lodging house next to the station that night and Sunday morning I wrote a postal card to the Vice President, telling him where I was, but somehow or other, nobody seemed to care to arrest me. The stories printed about me escaping out of a back door in Baltimore, when the police came in the front door, are not true, and if you are down at the court when I am tried I wish you would tell the judge that they are not true, because I do not want to have to talk very much, for fear I should say more than I ought to say. If you're going to draw a picture of me to print in your pa- per I wish you would wait until I get shaved, because I would make a better pic- ture then. Not a Socialist or Anarchist. “I want it distinctly to be stated that I am not a socialist nor an anarchist, and that I do not belong to any organization of any sort. I do not want to belong to any thing like a labor organization where there 1s somebody over me like Powderly or Sov- ereign to give me orders what to do. That’s the trouble with those organizations, you've got to mind what somebody else tells you. That was the trouble with the Reading strike lately, the labor leaders sold out to the capitalists “and then the working men got left. That’s the way it always is, and I would like to know how it is these labor agitators always get rich on small galaries. “Never mind about those letters any more. I wrote them and when my trial comes off I will show I had a good reason for writing them, and that I am not the only one to blame. I didn’t write any threats to | anybody and didn’t mean to do any vio- lence to anybody. The trouble with me is that I cannot beg." While Donjan was talking his breakfast was brought into him. It was a substantial meal, if not a very dainty one, consisting of beefsteak, fried potatoes, bread and a mug of hot coffee. Donjan remarked to the re-| porter that it was decidedly unpleasant to | | have to eat meat without a knife anr fork, but he managed to clear up his tin plate very effectually, just the same. Donjan was not taken to the police court this morning, but is held for the local de- tective force until Chief Drummond can be heard from, or some other disposition made of his case. ———— A HOSPITAL NIGHT NURSE. The Tender Care Administered Dur- ing the Midnight Watch. From Demorest’s Magazine. No one can become acquainted with the burden-bearing duties of the hospital nurse without feeling that she has undertaken a hard ministry in serving her fellow crea- tures, The night nurse is always twelve hours on duty, usually from 7 p.m. to 7 a. m. When most people are either enjoying | a pleasant social evening or are sleeping | peacefully in their beds, she is alone with | the sick and the dying, in the silent sol-| emnity of the night. "There is a special training for night duty, and the night nurse is taught to remember that the lives | of human betugs are at her mercy. The careless or thoughtiess nurse may jounge | away her time in an easy chair while the pulses of her patients are throbbing feebly in the throes of death; but the good, kina, euicient nurse is alert and pacing to and fro in the ward for twelve long hours, until daylight dawns. | most dangerous to life, and it is the n: nurse who is most frequently called upon | to witness the last hours of the dying. Her | practised fingers detect the feebleness of the pulse, her trained eye the dangerous | height of the temperature. Perhaps sne been already warned by the house surgean that the patient will not live through the night; she is therefore not ala approach of death. ‘Two ser a put around the bed of the dying on a small table a lighted candle is plac there the | ness and silence, | to the last hour 4 upon J, and ‘oung hight nurse sits, in lonell- ne ching and ministe sufferer. He The small hours of the morning seem, * years ago and settled in Newark, N. J. He | poor Pollsh Jew, perhaps; but a king could says that by birth he is an Austrian, by | have no better service. Kind lips speak education a high German and by religion @ | (oid, perspiriten aoe anges wipe the Catholic. To a Star reporter this morning | Close the eves in death and then ee | « he insisted that he was neither a socialist | aj) js over, the night nurse informs the | nor an anarchist, and did not belteve 1" | house surgeon that “Number sixteen in the either nor in labor organizations. Althougi | male ward has ceased breathing.” Tt 16 feu | poorly dressed and with a week's growth | teresting to notice that so strict are the! of beard on his face. he is not at all a bad | rules of professional etiquette which define looking man. He talks with a marked Ger- | the duties of man accent, but he talks rather well and not | se from those of physician | that the hosn' tecededdedeedddesededd at all In a rambling, disconnected fashion. He says that in Newark he worked as a laborer in a rubber factory, was afterward an iron molder in Pittsburg and in Newark studied telegraphy and electricity. He has a clear-cut face, and does not seem to be in any way a dangerous sort of man. He talks freely on every subject excepting the letters that he wrote to prominent men in this city. About Those Threatening Letters. When he comes to speak of these letters Donjan at once becomes more reticent. He denies that they contain any threats of personal violence, and says they were sim- ply letters of a business character, such asa shoemaker might write to a customer, al- though he does not show just how the anal- ogy holds. He makes veiled allusions to other people when he talks, and occastonal- ly drops a remark that makes it look as though he had written the letters at the in- stigation of other people. ; says he will not disciose, uniess it shoul that at this trial he is unable to clear self in any other way. 1 Donjan After Shaving. say why he wrote the letters or able ive expected to gain by them, but says that he knows a lot that he will not tell until he comes up for trial. To this extent he seems to be a crank with an imagined mission, though what that mission is he would not say. the station house this morning, Don- Meteo sitting back in a dark corner of | cell No. 3. When he was told that the men | were newspaper men, he came over to the | rt i a enter asant rated door, and entered into a plea | ee He says that since he was in Newark be has been for a number of | years in the far west, in Nevada, Utah and Montana, prospecting for precious metals, | and that for a time he was at Creede. Dur- | ing the past few years he claims to have walked in the neighborhood of 100,000 miles. Why He Don't Work. “Why don’t I work?” said Donjan, in Swer to a question of The Star rep. ~ter. “No, it isn’t that I am too strong to work, but | somehow or other, it is not easy to get a | Job nowadays, and when people get a smell | of me they make up their minds they don’t | want anybody, and I don't get the fob. Yes, | I did write these letters, because I wanted seme money. I did not make any threats | in those letters, and there is lots about those | letters and about me that has been printed | m the papers that isn’t true at all. | make any threats, and this fact can easily | be proved when I come up for trial. “I came east from Colorado last January, and a couple of months ago my family went down to Florida, and I was on my way to | meet them there. I walked until I came to Baltimore, and there I wrote the first of the letters to the Vice President. The trouble with me is that I cannot beg. I never have begged and I never will beg. I came to Washington feeling as if these big men | ought to give me some help. Seeing that the money that I asked for in the fifteen letters that I wrote to different people did not | come, I got desperate, and started for Rich- | mond.” A Serap of The “Before I left town, however, @ man gave Their identity he | | When a Star reporter and a Star artist I didn’t} nurse is not allowed to re- | port that “Number sixteen in the male ward is dead.” It is the doctor alone who| can decide that. ——sa+- A SWORD MANIA Poor Woman What to Do With Him, From the Chicago Herald. \ policeman on West Mad! osted yesterday by a pale, | je eves were full of unshed tear: | “I wish,” she safd, “that you would go to} the s floor of that building over ther | And the Poltceman Could Not Tet! the | | \ | here.” ho is he, and what has he been do- te is my husba he been doing 1, I recko! house tha ] 1 d. Doing? What hasn't know that times are e harder in our in the state of the old man mania for collecting swords and other weapons; that was all| right when we had money in the house a no sickness, but now he’s out of work, it’s going to ruin us. The other ¢ $2 to go to th and he c2 old man has feet long that he rrying when the wizard ap- iz the medicine?” I lectured him and more to go on the same errand, three hours he came back carrying a Persian seimetar that you might have sliced off the head of a rhinoceros with. He said it was the same scimetar that Musta- pha used to carry. The next day I let him have the money to go up town to pay | the rent. I didn’t see him again until night, but in the middle of the afternoon a dray backed up to the curb and unloaded a cord of Zulu assegais and a bushel of Italian stilettos.” “You are very unfortunate, madam.” ‘nfortunate? That's not the word. Next time that I had to have medicine I went after it myself, but while I was away my husband took away the cook stove on a | wheelbarrow and traded it for the knife | that Charlotte Corday used to carve Marat. He is now anxious to get hold of the pillow with which the princes were smothered in | the Tower of London, and, if you don't go jover and run him in, he’ will be -carting away the bedelothes and the family Bible.” |“ «rm sorry to say."" said the policeman, shedding a real tear. “that I have not the | authority to arrest him. If you could get | ‘him te attack you with the scimetar or | | shoot potsoned arrows into the furniture T) ould consider it a pleasure to lock him up.” ve nd e+ A Cosmopolitan City. | From the Chicago Globe (Dem.). “Nine-tenths of all the elective offices in | | Cook county are now held by naturalized | ) citizens, ‘The sheriff was born in Canada. The county treasurer was born in Ger- many. |_ The president of the county board was born in Germany. ‘The clerk of the criminal court was born in Germany. The clerk of the superior court was born in_Ireland. The president of the drainage board was bern in Germany. The county clerk was born in Denmark. ‘The county coroner was born in Ireland. The city treasurer was born in Ireland. The city collector was born in Germany. ‘The city clerk was born in Germany. The corporation counsel was born in Bo- hemia. ‘The new postmaster is a German. Two-thirds of the city council and all of the police force were born in Ireland. Then why wouldn't it be fair politics to give the mayorality nomination to a West Side American? en ae During a quarrel over a game of crap at a country church near Hopkinsville, Pa., Sunday night Manuel Taylor fatally shot John Howell. A CHRISTMAS HAUL. Long Lines of liad in the Po- lice Court This Morning. POLICE WERE KEPT VERY BUNT. Many Who Celebrated Not Wisely But Too Well, THE DIFFERENT STORIES One hundred end forty-seven men, wo- men and children were given a free ride this morning in the “Black Maria,” and when the last load had been dumped at the entrance to the Police Court the horses were sent to the stable for a day’s rest. There are only four cells in the court build- ing and when the unfortunates had been packed in them there were more left and they had to make themselves as comfort- able as they could along the corridor. The women had the best of the bargain, for there is a cell set apart for those of the fair sex and there were less than two dozen of them to occupy it. Never before in the history of the court has there been this large number of prisoners in court in one day. ‘There was a striking contrast between the appearance of the crowd this morning and their appearance yesterday after they had been through the gay and festive scenes. Most of the bar rooms had eggnog for their customers and the treating of them caused many to get intoxicated and they were unable to navigate. The sidewalks were then used as beds and all the guests of Uncle Sam's lodging house were removed to more comfortable quarters, where the bill was made $5 in- stead of the usual cents. These lodgers, as well as those who were boisterous, were put behind the bars, and in Judge Kim- bali's early morning procession they ap- peared, Many of the victims realized that it was useless to make a defense the day after Christmas, after they had been celebrating and so they plead guilty. It was 9 o'clock when the procession of several divisions started and the first seven prisoners called plead guilty and their cases were disposed of in four minutes. The Procession Starts, Cornelius Martin was the first one to plead not guilty. He is a colored bootblack and does business at 6th street and Penn- sylvania avenue. Jamies Martin, his broth- er, was also charged and he plead guilty. “My brother had been drinking,” said the bootblack to the couri, “and as soon as I overtook him he wanted to fight.” “Why didn’t you take him home?” asked the court. He made a good showing and the judge r ited him, “I'm a butcher,” said Edward Linkins when he had been fined $5, “and if you give me till this afternoon I'll pay the fine.” “Who knows you?” “Policeman Harrover.” “Will you vouch for him?” was asked. “If he does not pay the fine,” answered the officer, can get him.” He was given the time requested. Boys Intoxteated, “This boy was drunk for several hours yesterday before 1 got him,” said Police- an Lightfoot, “and ke caused all sorts of trouble on my heat before I caught him.” William rdan was the prisoner. “I am jourteen years old,” said Jordan, “Where did you get the liquor?” “From a man,” he answered hesitatingly. “What man “I don't know his name. the strect and ae gave m “And do you expect m the officer I met him on the whisky.” to believe that the whisky,’’ said the boy, wave any money.” another fourteen-year- nd boy who Was treated yesterday, anda he acknowleaged his g s the iirst time I was ever drun! the boy said. “And I hope the last time,” added the “Didn't you know what would hap- rank liquor?” “ut ‘twas the eo “And the first | cost you $5." The crowd of © ad ine ed 3 this time ti led the baillffs to kee pers: had no legitimate business in court. Albert Frederick, a little col next appeared. tHe had a jolly yesterday and last night he did not feel ike ieaving the h But that did not eep him out of trouble, little brown jug with him and when it had emptied he shouted for more. In his he indulged. in the use of profane in such a tone of voice that he Williams he answered when arraign- ior he had his ide’ once before.” A 4 Judge Miller rned William L . the proprietor, not nave Intoxicated persons In his house mn oung colored couple, Emanuel Jackson and Sarah 3, also appeared. They were tn the ho < ink," the officer said. unded in Chi ‘I called id sarah, “bec nd he treate While in inere Iv ad int the ude ; broke in Jackson, “T caught stmas gift, and s sneg. 19, Jackson $5 and the a Witiam's aid he ork she ap; go the judge This time rricd sister on 1 created such bance that he got arresied. “He belongs to a good family,” sald the officer, “but he has been discarded because of his conduct.’ “I hed been robbed.” the ‘A man took a pc from ung man said. s and a bottle me und I don't see why he was not ed.” Wanted to Ride. Three stylish!y dressed colored men,whose broad expanse of white linen, kid gloves and silk hats made them more attractive than the others, stood in a row and an- swered one after another “Not guilty.” ed one after another “not guilty.” ‘The driver and conductor of a Belt line car were called as witnesses. “The men appeared like they had been arinkin aid one of the witnesses. “One of them stopped the horse and then wanted to ride the animal instead of getting in the car. “Judge, they were very loud and fane,” another witness said. “When the policeman came up,” said one of the prisoners, “he drew his pistol, and said ‘I am going to kill one of you d—a » gers.” Wm, Charles and Emanuel Jackson were the names they gave. The men made a good appearance in court, denied that they were intoxicated or disorderly, and said that one of them was joking about riding the horse. “Ten doilers each.” Wm. Jones is known to his numerous colored friends as “bill,” and when under the Influence of liquor he is the leader of colored society on the commons. He attended the usual Christmas ‘cake walk,” and led the dance when the prizes had been distributed. It was nearly 1 a.m. when he left the place where his friends were still doing the light fantastic, and with more liquor than he could comfortably carry he tried to wend his way toward his home in the bottom. But before he reached his resting place he was met by some of his acquaintances, who thought they would have some fun with him. “Bill” was as anxious for the fun as were his companions, who had at- tended a “parlor social” in that section known as “Swampoodi The latter ba a bottle of “red liquor,” and when “Bill” measured a drink with his finger and raised the bottle one of the young sports tried to make him swallow bottle and all. pro- B- . j business. W and the badly-frightened negro made known the extent of his scare by scream- ing “murder.” He suffered enough by being locked up over night and under an assumed name he appeared and secured his release. The prisoners were sv numerous that it became necessary for them to enter the court double file and the procession was moving when this report closed. Before Judge Miller. Judge Miller had his share of the Christ- mas prisoners to deal with, as the number of persons charged with assaults and fights was much larger than usual. As in Judge Kimball's court, there were men, women and children in line. Daniel White, whose name fails to indicate the color of his skin, was in the line and under the charge against him he was given all the law al- luws. Daniel knew that yesterday was Christmas and he went out to do his cele- brating. He did it and then he called at the house of Isaac Williams, where he wanted to be too familiar with one of the female members of the family. Isaac or- dered him to leave, but he would not go, and when an attempt was made to eject him he used a knife on Williams in a vig- orous manner. His thick clothing pre- vented the blade of the knife from pene- trating the flesh, but it was no fault of Daniel’s that his victim was not severely injured. ‘What was all this trouble about?” Judge Miller asked the prisoner. “I dida’t have any trouble,” was his re- sponse. “Do you mean to say that everything in the house was serene as a summer day?” “Yes, sir. “It's time you fighters were learning that you cannot use weapons and then get off without paying dearly ior it,” the judge told him. “And,” added the judge, “you must also learn to tell the truth about your con- duct. You will have to go to jail for 364 days, all the time i can give you.” John Newcombe is a resident of the ter- ritory known as the “mile limit,” but his wealth is not such as will justify his cele- brating even at Christmas, for he was un- able to pay his fine today. it was stated that he threw some stones at Mrs. George Walker yesterday, and when her husband and Fred Eigner went out to protect her he assaulted them. Walker was struck on the head and was so badly in- jured that he ts confined to his bed. Eig- ner was able to appear and in his case Newcombe was fined $25 or sixty days. The other case was continued. Wanted the Jug. Hillsdale negroes celebrated eariy yester- day morning, and now four of them will be absent from their homes for four months. Peter Sorrell and his brother Charles appeared on the street with a jug, which proved so attractive on Christ- mas day, that Thornton Burrell, James Beacham, Bryan Makell and John Pine wanted it. They thought they would get an opportunity to treat their friends with the liquor, and so a general scramble for possesion of the jug followed. Sticks and stones played an important part in the battle, and some blood was spilled in the street. After the fight had lasted some minutes the police reached the scene of the battle and locked up the four men men- toned. James Beacham was the recognized leader of the crowd, and Judge Miller told of his previous escapades. ‘The only way to keep you quiet,” said the judge to him, “is to keep you locked up. Four months each.” Mary Jones, a colored woman, helped her neighbors to make Marble alley lively yes: terday, and Policemen Newkirk and Haynes were called in to arrest her, “I won't go,” shouted Mary, and she did her best to stay. In making the resistance she used her teeth on one cf the officers, and created some excitement among the colored resident! Thirty days,” said the court. ‘Won't your honor impose a fine in the case?” asked counsel. “She has a daughter to look after.” “She should have thought of the daughter earlier than this. George Robinson and George Crawford met on the street yesterday and engaged in an altercation. Crawford was worsted and Robinson was arrested. Judge Miller gave Robinson a warm place to Fest for two months. There were others waiting to be tried when this report closed. —— PATRICIAN BREAD WINNERS, How the Daughter of a Bankrupt Torned Livery Stable Keeper. From Demorest’s Magazine, “Do you know what I would have done if papa had failed last summer?” said a pretty miss to me the other afternoon, as we bowled through the park in a luxurious new Victoria. “Cried your pretty eyes out, I suppose,” I said, amused at her serious tone. ‘0, I wouldn't,” she answered, reproach- |fuily. “I had quite made up my mina, | Should we lose our money, to keep a fash- jonable laundry! Oh, you need not leugh, for i really would have done it. There's lots of money to be made that way; people must have have their clothes washed, you know, and, besides, it's great fun to be in lots of my women friends have gone into b —have dear little shops of their own, where they sell bon- | nets or note pape | and amused, be. nad my Jaundry all planned out, when they did something down in Washinzton in the Senate, you know, that set papa’s busines up again, and now there reaily j doesn't seem any need of my earning mon just what Ia dearly love to do. “What put the idea so firmiy into my head was a clever thing my friend May B— did last summer. sural; You know how ab- rich they were, and how, in the , they went up to their country place a Village on the Hadson, where so y Smart people have their out-of-town houses. Some time in June May's father went all to smash, lost ey: cent. All her two phaeton ponies » teck the family car- n the farm cart horse, and eet up a livery Of course she got lots eed, So much that she k2 a stable here brought down her horses, six cebs, two carriages and a counts as property. ou a enb on call, under but she will rent you . brougham and man, smartest style, to use for so much a month. your crest painted on stable in the village. of patronage: i | found it wor in tow any efreumstance: the use of a h turned out in the e or twice a breeches and U her men, a whole sea- and is. pé ty growing rich. Her art friends spect her tremendously for this clever management, and in her tiny office, near the stable, she conducts her business, so nicel: not only relieving her family of her own support, but making enough to assist in educating her younger sisters.” ‘ses and veh a Vishnn end the Maharajah, From the Mlustrated London News. Very few people know what the Dussara means. It is said to commemorate the resi- dence of the god Vishnu upon earth, which he takes up for six days only (curiously excluding Sunday) in the person of the Maharajah of Mysore. This is not such a high time for the maharajah as one would imagine, since he is not allowed to speak, or shave, or eat anything but plantains and | rice during the period of his divinity. Let us hope that high thinking accompanies this low living. A correspondent of the Globe went to See him the other day when thus deified and seems to Usink that, on the whole, he did not like it. It is, indeed, an extreme case of having greatness thrust upon one, The coming down to be a mere raharajah again must be a terrible drop— worse than Cincinuatus going back to his plough, or a lord mayor to his commercial | business. One ventures to wonder, too, how Vishnu likes it. But none of these con- siderations seem to occur to the inhab- itants of Mysore. Discomftture of a Bogus Santa Claus. Samuel Getholtz, a Slippery Rock town- ship, Pa., farmer, thought to surprise his family Sunday night by sliding down the old-fashioned chimney and impersonating Santa Claus. He made the passage all right until he reached the center of the chimney, where he stuck fast. Getholtz yelled for aid. Members of the family did not recog- nize his smothered voice, and ran from the house terror-stricken. Neighbors were sum- moned, and after much difliculty Getholtz made himself known. The chimney was {torn down level with the roof, a rope was lowered and by the united efforts of three men Getholtz was pulled out. Lamp Shades ‘Made to order of crepe tissue paver, i ‘an Fav per sheet, J. JAY GO! Then they told him he had drank poison | HER HUSBAND ACCUSED. The Coroner's Jury Finds That Mas- ters Killed His Wife. “Elizabeth V. Masters came to her death December 24, 1893, at 2110 Hast Biddle street, from injuries to her head ipflicted with some blunt instrument by Lewis F. Masters.” This was the verdict of the coroner's jury at the northeastern police Station last night. Lewis E. Masters is the husband of Mrs. Masters, who, as reported in The Star yesterday, was found murdere® in bed early Sunday morning at her home. James L. Masters, brother of Lewis, (esti- fied that he knew nothing of the occur- rences leading to the death of Mrs. Mas- ters. He was asleep in the middle room and was awakened by hearing his brother calling his wife. He went into the froat bed room and saw Mrs. Masters dead in bed, and his brother and his six-year-old son crying. He thought it was between 5 and 6 o'clock. “I asked the boy,” said witness, “if be knew who did it. He sa:d he did not. The jast time I saw Mrs. Masters alive was early Saturday evening, wyen she, her hus- band, the boy and myself went out. I ieft them on Gay street. { wen: to bel between 11 aei 12 o'clock. I had no conversation with my brother about the matter except t> tell him not to talc se muca about the murder. I had been drinking freely Sate day night and slept heavily. When I wenc to the room my brother said. ‘My Ged, what do you thing of this? Who could have done it?’ ° Mrs. Annie Stump,, 2/08 East Biddle street, the mext house to the west of the Masters’ home, said she was awakened be- tween 2 and 3 o'clock Su y morning. “I heard noises from Masters’ house as if some one was walking back an@ forth cry- ing. I heard Lewis Masters ask the boy Charlie if he had seen yone in the house. ‘Then I heard him sa: Poor mamma; now papa will have to go to jail.’ A short time afterward I heard voices apparently down- stairs in the house. It seemed to me that a man and woman were talking and the woman was crying. Frank Grafton, a boarder with Mrs. Stump, said he was awaxened by his land- lady some time before daylight to listen to noises in Masters’ house. heard some- one crying, but could not understand what was said. He had frequently heard voices in Masters’ house which indicated that “matters were not going along as smoothly as they ought to.” Neither Mrs. Stump nor Mr. Grafton knew anything of the mur- der until after 7 o'clock. Masters on the east, said that between 1 and 2 o'clock she heard «. woman cry twice tn distress tn the house where tne murder took place. About 4:30 o'clock Lewis E. Masters called twice at the front door for Mrs. Schieigh’s son Henry, but he did not say what occurred until later, when he told her son William from the back yard. Henry W. Schleigh saii that between 11 and 12 o'clock Saturday night he met Mrs. Masters on the street neur her home. She requested him to go after her husband and bring him home as he was drinxing. He did so. Masters sent his wife for whisky to treat the witness. Mra. Schleigh and Mrs. Masters took a dring, but Masters did not. At 11:35 Mr. Schleigh went home, leaving Mrs. Masters sitting on her husband's knee. “Masters was stupidly drunk,” said “His wife was sober as far as my observation went.” Rout it Wellener and Detectives testified that there was no sign that anybody had broken into the house of Masters. Sergeant Wellener exhibited a blooly shirt, which he said he picked up in the room where the murier was cormmitted. Masters had said it was its shirt. He had taken it off and pu* on 4 clean one. The bk Masters told the sergeant, came from his own wounds on the head. These wounds are not serious. The policemen said that Masters toll them ae did not know how lie was wound- ed; that when he awoke from his sleep in the chair in ais dining room he thought he fallen and cut himsef. A pool of blood was found besije t chair. Two blood marks were on the wall over a lounge and a towel saturated with blood was found, which Masters states he used om kis own injuries. Dr. N. G. Kierle testified as to Mrs. Mas- ters’ injuries. He said they could have been made with the hammer part of Mas- ters’ hatchet, -vhich was found in the pcr- lor of his home. It had no spots of blood upon it. soe, TO BE MOVED HERE. General Offices of the K. of L. to Leave Philadelphia. Before many weeks, it is said, the general offices of the Knights of Labor will be re- moved from Philadelphia to Washington. General Master Workman Sovereign said last evening that offices admirably adapted to the requirements of the order have been. inspected in this city and can be pur- chased for $20,000. The building on North Broad street, in Philadelphia, is estimated to be worth $80,000, but no attempt Is to be made to sell it, and Mr. Sovereign also sald that it has not been mor § One reason which Sovereign declared had induced the selection of Washington as the headquarters cent>: was the fact that there could be no interference of state authority, at any time, with the workings of the order. This reason, he said, was a weighty one in guiding the selection. Among the members of the order, however, the big brown-stone palace has long been a source of annoyance. In fact, tt has been regarded as a sort of white elephant, entirely too expensive a drag upon the order, and be generally indorsed. ——__+e-_____ Found a Les. Policeman 8. B. Kelly found the dissected leg of a man near the Howard University end of the Lydecker tunnel this morning, where some medical student had evidently thrown it. —-___ Unclaimed Property. The annual sale of abandoned and un- claimed property in the hands of the police will take place at Ratcliffe & Darr’s auction Tooms, Thursday morning. S Cad CARI. S0T 12TH ST. X.w. Over twenty-five years’ experience. THIRD YEAR AY PRESES ADDRESS. Dr. Carleton treats with the skill born of expe Nervous | Debility Special Diseases. Practice Mmited to the trea! Gentlemen Exclusively. Infammation, Nervous Debility, Eruptions, Bladder, wo j asiver and cleanses the eys- tem effectually, colds, head- pe nag mehr of et tad terrae! duced, pleasing to the taste and ac- ceptable to the stomach, U At Fe B. 5 3 =a TE] ki at *§ Ses H t jul | | =fio ite ati rit : re Merta’s cor. F and 1ith ots * "s Building,