Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1894, Page 2

2 THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, APRIL 1: ‘) 1894-TWELVE PAGES. be favorably reported to the Senate by the committee during the session. The Taylor Nominati No mention whatever was made in the committee of the Taylor nomination. The committee has not yet completed the vote upon the nomination, Senators Smith and Faulkner having failed so far to record their names. At present the vote stands for confirmation, Senators Harris and Mar- tin; against confirmation, Senators Hunton, Gibson, McMillan, Wolcott, Gallinger, Hans- brough and Proctor. Thus a majority having voted against con- @rmation an unfavorable report is certain to be made to the Senate, where, it is ex- ected, the report of the committee will be sustained by an overwhelming majority. The Babcock Amendment. The committee briefly discussed the liquor bill known as the Babcock amendment to the existing law. This bill was recently re- ported to the Senate with amendments and is now on the calendar. A delegation of Tretail liquor dealers called upon Senator Hansbrough, who is chairman of the sub- fommittee on the bill, yesterday, to ask for @ further hearing, and at hi< sugyzestion they called again today. They vere headed by Mr. Frank Hume and Col. W {liam Dick- mm. In the party were Charles Kraemer, . P. Sullivan, Thomas Waish, } obt. Port- ber and Frank Madigan. Their re quest was that the bill be still further amended so as to permit the continuance of any retail liquor business established prior to March 4, 1803,and located within the 400-fect mit. This exemption has been granted already to hotels and wholesale houses and they [ mee to have it extended to the retail usiness as well. They did not succeed to- Say in securing a hearing before the ccm- mittee, but their case was presented to committee by Senator Hansbrough, and was decided not to amend the bill ary further. This decision was communicated to the delegation by Senator Gibson. The Metropolitan R.R. Bill. Then the committee for a few minutes Miscussed the Metropolitan railroad bill, which was introduced a few days ago by Senator McMillan. No action was taken on the bill, but it was evident that the bill, with perhaps a few amendments, would be Teported to the Senate and will be adopted by the committee as its position on the subject of this intricate and perplexing problem. The meeting today was attended by Sen- ators Harris, Gibson, McMillan, Wolcott, — Martin, Hansbrough and Proc- Enters COMPTON FACING DEATH. Behalt Efforts Being Made in His With the President. Representative Rayner of Maryland has made a personal appeal to the President in eehalf of Compton, the negro murderer, who is sentenced to be hanged at the District Jail on the 27th instant. He asks that the @eath sentence be commuted to imprison- ment for life and bases his appeal on the ground that Compton would not have been convicted of murder in the first degree, en- tailing the death penalty, if the laws of the District comprehended grades of such crimes such as prevail in other places. Mr. Rayner first became interested in this case by reading in The Star a statement made by Compton that he was perfectly willing to die, provided he was assured that his wife and children would be cared for after his death. Compton is not one of his con- stituents and has no claims on him in any way. He was touched, however, by his solicitude for the future welfare of his fam- fy. He made a thorough investigation of the case arm satisfied himself that the man was entitled to merciful consideration. In his opinion Compton deserved to be well punished for his crime, but he believed the ends of justice could be met as well by his imprisonment for life as by his death on the ioe The President’s Probable Action. The President has promised to consider the case, but is not likely -to announce his action until a few days before the date @xed for the execution. Such is the usual practice in such cases. The practice has been severely criticised, inasmuch as it gither inspires groundless hope in the breast of the condemned or else needlessly @gonizes him with the dread of approach- ing death. Although Judge McComas, the judge before whom he was tried, and Dis- trict Attorney Birney, who prosecuted the charge against him, each reported adverse- ly_on Compton's petition for executive clemency, there is reason to believe that the President is disposed to listen to the s@ppeals of Representative Rayner and the counsel and family of the condemned man to the extent of sparing his life at the ex- of his liberty, or, if he concludes the facts of the case do not justify guch action, that he will accord the con- vict an extension of time in which to pre- for death. The fact that the Presi- it has not yet called for the record in the case, now on file with the pardon clerk of the Department of Justice, is ac- cepted by those familiar with his practice in such matters to mean either that he ‘will not imterfere with the execution of the sentence or that he will delay favorable action until a day or two before the date fixed for the execution of the sentence of death. +--+ COXEY AND THE UNEMPLOYED. Some Suggestions Sent to “The Star” on a Matter of Much Interest. There is much interest now in discussing the question as to the manner of receiving Coxey’s army, and the way to deal with such movements. A well-known lawyer,writ- ing to The Star under yesterday’s date, says: “There is pith and point in the editorial im today’s Star indicating the obvious duty of the Congress im reference to the Coxey and kindred movements on the Capitol. It must be borne in mind, however, that while the government of the District of Co- tembia is anomalous, too great reliance must not be placed upon the opportune ac- tion of Congress at this time; and It is, therefore, advisable that the Commissioners of the District and the representative citi- gens should at once formulate some line of action to meet and cope with the emergent situation which is impending. It is of the first importance that the first action of the government and the citizens should be ap- propriate and consistent with the emergen- cy. The situation wiil be delicate, and will Fequire temperate but consistent treatment. In all this Congress and the executive may be relied upon to preserve order and en- force the law. But the Commissioners and citizens must be prepared to act.” The subject has brought up also the gen- @ral subject of the duty of the community teward the unemployed strangers whu are constantly coming to the city in search of work. One writer suggests that this out- of-employment class be helped by means of @ public subscription, and the establishment of a ten-cent lodging house, where such ean be sheltered without suffering the deg- radation of being forced by the Police Court to the workhouse as “dangerous tramps,” or vagrants. “There are,” says this writer, “scores of empty buildings all over the city that could be fixed up with beds, etc., to meet the wants of distressed and strange work seekers, and help them with rest and) {cod for a while, or until they can find work | somewhere. or return home. Let The Star | Pour out blessines and light on this serious | end important matter; and let lodgings be established where plain, clean beds and a plain, clean breakfast may be had for ten} cents; and let tickets for bed and break- fast be issued to needy and worthy appii-} cants, and let the good people of Washing- | ton, and elsewhere, send subscriptions of provisions and clothes for the benefit of | distressed ard r workers who are out | of employment. and who lett their homes foolishiy, or under false delusions, to seek help or comforts at Washington, cr, forced by sinful oppression, or bad laws, to seek ‘better times’ at strange places. It grieves and find men and women— erous tramps or cunning ‘fogues’—in pressing and painfu! need of| Work, food and shelter.” ———— Naval Officers Comp! | Scme dissatisfaction is expressed by naval Officers awaiting commands at the unrea- | sonable delay of the work of lengthening | the Machics and the Castine at the New yard. These vessels were order- ned to increase their sea- | recoramendation of the beard asserted that mpieted in two months, ¢ alterations rs, however, the nec- work is likely to keep for six months at my heart to se who are not essary mater: the ships out least. ————_+ 2+ ____ Pensions to District Men. t Among the pen ‘th > following to © -tgin: Foldiers’ Cornana. u Home. Ri | service, but actually employed at clerical | work of some kind. } —_——-o+____ Twelve Supposed to Have Perished in the Buffalo Fire, SCENES ABODT THE ROINS TODAY Impossible to Begin Excavating Among the Bricks. THE LOSS ABOUT $600,000 BUFFALO, N.Y., April 18.—The dawn of another day shed no light on the terrible mystery surrounding the workmen on the! upper floors of the American glucose works, which were wiped out by fire last night. How many men were working when the fire broke out can be approximated. There were eight injured, but how many escaped and how many lest their lives by suffocation or by jumping to the earth, only to be buried under tumbling walls, or leaping into the! canal, only to be imbedded in mud, never to rise again, cannot be estimated. On Scott street the building rose eight Stories. On the canal side it was three stories higher yet. The firemen reached windows on the sixth floor by their ladders in time to rescue a dozen workingmen. The | flames forced them to retreat, but they know that above the sixth floor were be- tween thirty and forty employes. Escape by stairways or fire ladders being cut off, their doom was sealed. Some, perhaps half, must have perished. These laborers were Polish in the main, thus making it all the more difficult to ob- tain names or prosecute inquiries as to the number missing. Many a Pole employed in the glucose night gang did not come to breakfast this morning, and, as a conse- quence, a handful of weeping Polish wives who early visited the hospitals, looking for their husbands and finding that quest vain, now stand tearful and tremulous about the smoldering embers of the fire, waiting for some news of their loved ones. Although heavy streams were pouring on the ruins all night and a half dozen en- gines are pumping water on the steamirg bricks this morning, it will be night or more likely tomorrow morning before exca- vation can be begun. Hundreds of specta- tors stood about the scene of devastation this morning and thousands passed to and fro in hasty examination on their way to work. The loss, although overestimated in the early reports, is still larger than this city has experienced in five years. It is now judged that the loss to the glucose works proper will not éxceed $600,000, fully covered by insurance. Just two men were seen to leap from windows into the canal. They were res- cued unhurt. Frank Coyle, the mint en- gineer, says that about four minutes after he had discovered the fire and sounded the alarm to the workmen on the upper floors, he stepped to the east end of the main building. He heard a whirring sound in the air above him, and then rome object struck the ground with terrific force. He thinks it was the body of a raan who had leaped from an upper window. “It was all dark from the smoke. I did not look. I couldn’t have told who it was, for he must have been knock :d all to pieces, and I had not the heart.” This body, if it was such, is now buried under fallen walls. Inquiries have been made by relatives for the following twelve workmen, who are missing and supposed to have been burned or crushed to death: John Blume, John Casker, Michael Gin- tig, John Huber, George Jepka, Tony Hoft- man, James Lobaik, Michael Maleski, Jno. Odeska, Stephen Sinski, John Trube, John Zinger. ‘The supposed loss of life appalls the super- intendent of the works. He cannot ac- count for the disappearance of the men in any other way except by death. edo PUNISHED WITH DEATH. The Fate of One Who Was Stealing a Ride. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. BRISTOL, Tenn., April 13.—Walter Trent has been found dead on the Norfolk and Western railroad near the city. An old man by the name of James Green, who claims to have been on the scene at the time, says two brakemen pushed Trent from the mov- ing train with the hopes that he would plunge into the creek below. His head struck a beam in the bridge. Trent was stealing a ride. The coroner’s jury will in- vestigate. —_——.___ MUST BE RESTORED. The Wages of the Union Pacific Em- ployes. OMAHA, Neb., April 13.—Judge Dundy has ordered the wages of Union Pucific employes restored to the old rate. —— DEPARTMENT CHANGES. ‘What Has Been Done in the Treasury and Interior Departments. Senator Gallinger is after some very in- teresting information which he hopes will show what he considers the fallacy of the civil service pretensions of the present ad- ministration. He introduced a resolution today in the Senate calling upon the Sec- retary of the Treasury and the Secretary of the Interior to transmit to the Senate in separate lists the names of all clerks and employes appointed, promoted, reduced and Gismissed since the 4th of March, 1893, and the state to which each such clerk or em- ploye is accredited. He also asked the sec- Tetaries to kindly check off, in some con- venient manner, such names on these lists as those of people who served in the army or navy of the United States during the rebellion. He asked for immediate con- sideration of this resolution, but objection was made ang it was laid over. = a eee WORKING AS CLERKS. Secretary Herbert Asks About Alleged Violations of Civil Service Rul Recently the civil service commission re- Ported to the Navy Department that they have been informed that there are persons in the different departments nominally employed in positions below the classified Secretary Herbert has written a circular letter to the chiefs of bureaus of the Navy Department, calling their attention to this matter, and sayirg: “The civil service rules provide that no Person who may be employed fnerely as a laborer, messenger, workman or watchman shall be considered as within the depart- mental classified service, and no person so employed sha without examination under the civil service rules, be as- signed to clerical duty, and you will direct that any person so employed in the bureau of which you are chief spall cease such work.” MAY GO SOUTH. Seeretary Gresham Looking Forward to an Outing Trip. Secretary Gresham has been suffering from a severe cold for several days past, but has not neglected public business to any noticeable extent. He has spent less time than usual, however, at the State Depart- ment and has been obliged to cancel a number of social engagements. He was at the department yesterday for several hours | and attended the regular meeting of the | cabinet today. It is probable that as soon | as the Bering sca affair and the Bluefields Incident are jn the final stages of settie- ment that he will follow the advice of his{ friends and take a trip in the south as far as Atlanta, and enjoy a short season of rest and recuperation. He has been urged | to make a visit to the Chickamauga battle- field,and wtil do so in case he can get away | from his official duties for a short time. pe Ee (Continued from First Page.) are any corrections of the argument they must be made by counsel.” Mr. Wilson misunderstood Judge Brad- ley’s remark, for he apologized for having made the statement if it was an error. “I was not referring to you, Mr. Wilson,” said Judge Bradley, “I was speaking of the interjection by Mr. Breckinridge.” “Do I understand you as ruling that I may not speak?” asked the defendant. “You are represented by counsel.” “But I also have a constitutional right to be represented person. I simply wanted you to make a ruling on the matter.” Judge Bradley did not angwer this at all, but simply went on writing. After this little incident, Mr. Wilson went on with his speech. He said that if he had made an error he regretted it. The point at issue was not whether they went to the Ebbitt or somewhere else. It sim- ply was that they were together all the time, and that the defendant's actions toward the plaintiff were always those of @ man toward the woman that he expects to marry. ‘The testimony of Mrs. Blackburn, Major Moore and Mr. Francis was more than enough to establish a case for breach of Promise against the defendant. As to Major Mcore’s testimony the defendant had tried to gloss it over, but the varnish wouldn’t stick. Major Moore had taken shorthand notes of the interview and his testimony Was conclusive. The second interview ir. Major Moore's office took place after the recent marriage | ‘This secret marriage was | of the defendant. sprung by the defense as though it invali- dated all the promises made to the plaintiff after that date. If they had only looked into the law they would have known that the secret marriage cut no figure so long as it was not known to the plaintiff, As to Contract of Marriage. If a man makes a contract of -narriage, knowing that he cannot fulfill the contract, the woman accepting him in good faith and believing his promises, the man is not re- leased from the responsibility he has as- sumed, and the court would seal his Nps from testifying as to any secret marriage as a defense. The defendant is as much responsible for the promises he made in the presence of Maj. Moore after his marriage a8 before it. | It was no wonder that Maj. Moore had characterized the scene in his office as one of the most important he had ever witness- ed. The defendant instead of being the de- famer of this woman ought to be her pro- tector and defender through life. If the interview which took place in Maj. Moore’s office had occurred in New York it would have constituted a marriage between the parties as solemn and binding as any ceremony could be. If it took place elghteen days after a secret marriage, as this did it would constitute a violation of the stat- utes of the state sufficient to place the man behind closed doors. It would have been bigamy. Mr. Wilson said that the contract had been proved beyond all doubt. If the jury considered that no promise had been made, then hereafter, District of Columbia want to enter into a contract of the sort, they will have to put it down in writing in the presence of two witnesses and get some sort of seal affixed. The contract has been proved. Has the breach of this contract also been shown? Beyond all doubt. By the proof of the de- fendant's marriage in Louisville and his own admission as to the secret marriage in New York. Mr. Wilson said that Mr. Butterworth had addressed much of his argument more to him than to the jury and had demanded of him in a dramatic way why the plaintify had not summoned witnesses to prove point after point in her case. The reason was very, very simple. The points that could have been proved by these witnesses were such as the defense themselves ought to have proved, as he would show later. Law- yers sometimes talk bad law, he regretted to say, when good law will hurt their case, and the defense had been obliged to resort to thisfexpedient. No Proof of Plaintif’s Bud Character. The defense had put up as their plea that the general character of the plaintiff was bad and that a bright, brilliant, scin- tillating, effervescing man like the defend- ant could not be expected to marry such a person. Yet there was not one word of evidence in this case to impugn her general character. One would think that if her character was such as the lawyers for the defense had attempted to paint it they Would have had no difficulty in proving it. They might have brought witnesses from Lexington, where she lived; Cincinnati, where she went to school, and this cit: where she was well known, to prove but all persons interrogated as to her gen- eral character had spoken only in the highest terms of her as a woman. Failing to sustain their charges as to her general character, they had attempted to show specific acts of misconduct on the part of the plaintiff. Here, too, they had failed, and all their insinuations as to her relations with poor old dead Rodes have been shown to have no more effect than the sighing of the south wind. The de- fendant does not seem tp have considered that the plaintiff was a woman of impure life until after he had made the contract of marriage. The defense had turned the strongest kind of a search light upon the. entire life of the defendant, from the cra- die down to the present day, yet they had not been able to prove anything against the witness. General character does not depend upon the petty foibles and weak- ness of life, and more than these they had not shown. ‘ Mr. Wilson was not behind Mr. Butter- worth in paying an eloquent tribute fo the memory of the country women and country homes. From one of these the plajntiff came, Nowhere is there more conten:ment and happiness than in these same country homes. But country girls and boys the world over have an ambition to get away to what they think is a broader and fuller life This plaintiff, like many another, had writ- ten letters in which she spoke of her iong- ings and unrest. The defense had produced some of these letters written to Owen Rob- inson. They had tried to show that these were full of hidden meaning. They should have got Ignatius Donnelly to work out the mystery of the cipher in these simple school girl letters which they considered so full of suggestion. He believed that the letters were secured from Owen Robinson by trick- ery, for if that man knew the uses the de- fense would put the letters to he must be one of the meanest wheilps alive. At this point the court took the usual recess for luncheon. After Recess. After recess Mr. Wilson took up his argu- ment, referring to the research the defense had instituted into the life of the plataciff. They had read her girlhood with insinua- tions and innuendo, hoping to cast a shadow on the name of the plaintiff. spoken of Owen Robinson, he said, in a way he regretted, and for which he apologized. He had forgotten that Robinson had testi- fied, in a deposition taken for the plaintiff, and if the defense had remembered what Robinson said they would never have made ae comments upon these letters that they Owen Robinson testified that the plaintiff was the sort of a woman to be able to take care of herself and to cope with any one whom she could meet on a plane of intel- lectual equality. When he was asked if she Was the sort of a woman to submit to im- Proper advances he said that he was not of an age when he knew her to be able to! answer. That was all there was of it, a simple boy and girl acquaintance and cor- respondence. “The defense have not hesitated to have recourse to perjury,” said Mr. Wilson, “in trying to blight this woman's character. It is theirs to prove that she was bad, and as they brought forward their evidence we have held it up to the light to see if it was worthy of credence. And I ask you, gen- tlemen, if that evidence was of a sort that would warrant a jury in cutting off the last hair on the end of the tail of a mangy dog that was charged with stealing sheep.” Molly Shindlebauer’s Testimony. Mr. Wilson then went on to take up the testimony of the Shindlebauer woman as to the plaintiff's early life and conduct. She had stated that she knew Miss Pollard at Mrs. Stout's. This, the jury knew now Was not true. From 1876 to 1880 Miss Pol- lard was in Pittsburg. In point of fact, Molly Shindlebauer never saw the plaintiff in her life, and to put it mildly, was gross- ly mistaken. He would characterize it as an outrageous lie were it not for one fact. She never spoke of Madeleine, Madge or Mattie, but always of Mame Pollard. “Now, Miss Pollard has an older sister, Mame, married to a respectable Methodist clergy- man, and ff Molly Shindlebauer ever did see a girl named Pollard at Mrs. Stout's, it might have been that sister. He did not care to comment upon the tes- timony, which may possibly have been given in good faith, but he could not find words too harsh to criticise the parties who, for | the purposes of this trial, had endeavored to impose upon this poor, repentant woman. (Continued on Third Page.) when two parties in the | He had} Startling State of Affairs in the Coke Region. A Thousand Strikers in Line—Attack- ed by Deputy Sheriffs—Rein- forcements Obtained. HARRISBURG, Pa. April 13.—A call has been received at the executive depart- ment from Dunbar for troops. PITTSBURG, Pa., April 13.—The dis- patches from the coke country today are conflicting. Nothing is known here of the call from Dunbar for troops. Chairman Frick and Secretary Lovejoy of the Frick | Coke Company have received no informa- tion that would indicate the necessity of calling out the troops. UNIONTOWN, Pa., April 13.—The south- ern section of the coke fields has been the headquarters of the strikers today, and between 400 and 500 armed men have been marching through the region surrounding the town since daylight. The excitement has been at high-water mark, and the towers and steeples have | been black with people, who, with glasses, have been watching the actions of the mob. At daylight the strikers from Wheeler, Morrell and Oliver, and the works routh of | | here, assembled at Cool Spring. Shortly afterward they started 400 strong and marchej to Lemont, No. 1, where Deputy | Sheriff Richards and a posse of men are in | charge. They did not go near the works, | but went to the company houses and tried to prevent the men going to work. The deputies made a charge on them with drawn guns and chased them away. The men ‘went to work while the deputies kept the mob back with guns. They then marched back to Cool Springs and held another meeting. They marched | o the plants south of town, going to the extreme south end of the region. 1 Delegations joined them all along the line and when the mob passed east of here there | were 1,000 men in line. } ——— COMMODORE ERBEN'S RETIREMENT. Several Changes Are Scheduled to Happen at That Time. | The Chicago, Commodore Erben’s flag- ship, and the only United States ship on} , the European station, will return to th, | United States within the next few months in order to be refitted with an entirely new set of boilers, engines and machinery of modern type, provision for which is contained in the naval appropriation bill. Commodore Erben will reach home before his retirement in September next, and will aiso attain the grade of admiral before that date, provided present plans are not upset. ‘These include the voluntary retirement of Admiral Gherardi in June, the enforced re- tirement of Admiral Fyffe (now commodore) | in July, and the voluntary retirement, be- | fore September, of Admiral Stanton (now | ccmmodore). Admiral Stanton’s retirement before Commodore Erben’s retirement is | contingent on his promotion to the grade of admiral before that date, by reason of | the voluntary retirement of Admiral Gher- | \ardi. The latter holds the key to the situa- tion, and is expected to employ it as above indicated for the special benefit of his inti- mate friend, Commodore Erben. The Chi- | cago will probably be replaced on the Euro- pean station by the New York or the San Francisco, leaving the Columbia as the flagship of the home station. —__—- + 2+ ____ THE KEARSARGE OFFICERS. A Hearing in the Case of Lient. Ly- man by Secretary Herbert. Secretary Herbert has decided to give a hearing on Monday to the counsel of Lieut. Lyman, lately court-martialed for neglect of duty in connection with the loss of the Kearsarge, and to postpone action on the | case of Commander Heyerman, lately in command of that vessel, until after that hearing. Commander Heyerman was sen- tenced ty the court to two years’ suspen- sion from rank and duty. It is understood | that Lieut. Lyman was sentenced to one | years’ suspension and that his counsel will | attempt to show that the sentence was not justified by the evidence adduced. It is | rumored at the Navy Department that Secretary Herbert, in view of the court's recommendation for clemency, will reduce the suspension in the case of Commander | Heyerman to one year. CAPITOL TOPICS, Senator Dixon Not a Candidate. Senator Dixon of Rhode Island, who has | made no campaign and is not a candidate | for re-election io the Senate, has returned to Washington after a short absence. Many of his colleagues have expressed their re- | gret that he was determined on a course | which will sever his connection with the Senate. Mr. Dixon says that he concluded | some time ago not to again be a candidate. | He intends to resume his practice of law, | which has been interrupted during his ser- | vice in the House and Senate, and which,he says, he could not afford to extend for | another six years, To Prevent Contagion. | Senator Blanchard introduced a bill today | requiring fruit vessels trading between | ports of the United States and ports of | South America, Central America, Mexico | and the West Indies to be manned by ac- climatéed seamen. Any vessel violating the | law is to be required to pay a fine of not, less than $500 nor more than $1,400. The purpose of the bill is.to prevent the impor- tation of’ contagious and infectious diseases. Leaves of Absence to Custom Em- | ployes. | Representative Barwig of Wisconsin in- troduced in the House a bill providing that the officers and employes in the custom ser- vice shali be entitled to receive the same | leave of absence as clerks and employes in | the executive departments at Washington. | Intoxicants to Indians. i Representative Meiklejohn of Nebraska has introduced a bill prohibiting the selling or giving to Indians of intoxieating bever- ages and prescribing a punishment for so doing. | i nee eee Nominations by the President. The President today sent the following nominations to the Senate: Postmasters—Frank W. Cutsinger, Edin- burg, Ind.; Andrew Hennemann, Saint | Cloud, Minn.; John E, Yates, Gallatin, Mo.; Mulford M. Scudder, Westfield, N. J. { Treasury—James N. Thompson of Ar-/; kansas, to be supervising inspector of steam vessels for the sixth district. Interior—Albert M. Avery of Alabama, to be receiver of public moneys at Hunts- ville, Ala. + 2+ Resigned. Daniel Higgins of Utah, clerk, class 1, |in the record and pension office, War De- partment, has resigned. Baltimore Markets. 1 ALTIMORE, Md., April 13. receipts, 5,912 barrels sales, 525" barrels. | chai ea Blaby; No. 2 152" bushe bushels: ales, 139,000. bushel spot, 454)045%: April, 4 asked; Ma qa as asked: steamer mixed, 42% —recelpts, 23,081 bushels; shipments, | bushels; stock, 187,115 bushels; sales, 22,000 bush- els—southern corn by sample, ‘4Gad7.’ Oats steady | and firm—receipts, 2,000 bushels; stock, 109, | bushels. Rye duil—stock, 23,928 bushels. Hay | steady, choice active—good to choice timo’ | $14-50a815.00. Grain freights steady and tncha ed. Sugar steady and unchanged. Better tirm— fancy creamery, 25: do. imitation, 20; do. Jadle, 1517; good ladle, 14a1 13a | 14. Eggs firm—fresh, ilall}. Cheese dull’ aud | unchanged. | _— — | Chicago Grain and Provision Markets. Reported by Slisby & Co., bankers and brokers, | Metropolitan Bank Duilding | CHICAGO, April 13, 1804. | High. Low. Close. | lm 6 B15, Corn—Aprit ne d 35%4 3s 39% 3914 BO) Oats—April 2 32 aes Eee 1: 1 1 aM i 18.05 12.76 rd — A} 9 oi i s May 7420 7.40 7.42 S.Ru April | 5 f May 655 647 6.50 642 640 6.40 ~ May 7.38 | August. TT | Long Istana a |W LATE NEWS BY WIRE.|FOR MISS POLLARD TROOPS ASKED FOR|FINANCE AND TRADE Industrials Continue to Be Preferred by Speculators. FALL AND ADVANCE IN. TOBACCO Dullness Generally in the Stock Market. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, April 13.—The effects of continued dullness are at last apparent in stock values. Stocks that have stubbornly resisted the depressing influences of gold shipments and bear raids are forced to yield in the absence of purchasers. The ex- tent of the depression, however, is only fractional and due entirely to the recent period of inactivity and not to any set-back in the process of recovery. London prices | were lower this morning, especially for Atchison, earnings. The announcement of the com- mittee chosen to manage tne reorganiza- tion of this property is expected tomorrow. The committee is said to be both large and | powerful and fully equal to the difficult | tesk before it. If it is possible to avert it no stock assessment will be recommend- ed. The grangers, under the leadership of St. Paul were fractionally lower, as a result of short selling. The short interest in this group of stocks is now almost large enough to warrant a sharp advance should an at- tempt be made to cover. The affairs of Del- aware and Hudson are being carefully watched by traders, who hope to profit by the controversy now in progress as to the disposition of the company’s surplus. Both of the contending factions are busy accu- mulating proxies to be used at the next meeting. The price of the stock holds well, and predictions of a sharp advance, grow- ing out of the above condition of affairs, are in circulation, : There were no material changes in the remainder of the railroad list, prices holding firm within 1-2 per cent of opening figures. In the industrial group American Tobacco again attracted attention by its elastic fluc- tuations. On free selling by traders, who consider the recent advance due entirely to the manipulations of the pool, the price de- clined 3 per cent to 885-8 and advanced on covering of the same contracts to 90 1-2. Sugar rose steadily 11-4 per cent on good buying, induced by the belief that its future is assured and that no unwelcome legisla- tion is likely. The feeling on the industrials generally is bullish, and much higher prices are promised purchasers at prevailing prices. The amount of gold to go out by tomor- row’s steamers is now estimated at $3,500,- | 000. Sums aggregating this total have been engaged by the various foreign houses, but it is not certain that the entire amount will actually be shipped. Roston houses will also ship upwards of $1,001,000, Tne sentimental effect of this announce- ; ment was les» pronounced than usual, ow- |ing to the general belicf tu an early dis- continuance of the movement. The mar- ket for all classes of foreign exchange was very firm at yesterday’s top figures. Bank- ers report a falling o% in the volume of interfor currency business for the week. One important factor has been the falling off in the movement of quarterly interest money. New Y¥ork exchange in Chicago is 15 cents cheaper than last week, ai result of a decline in the volume of bu ness between the east and west. Prevail- ing rates in the west are a trifle under the actual express charges ni to move the currency, The gain to the banks is estimated to be a trifle over $3,000,000, Sugar was the only feature of the last hour's trading, and gained an additional 1-8 per cent on continued buying. The railroad st was dull, and no im- portant changes were ‘recorded. The clos- ing was steady around initial —_— FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, The following are the opening, the highest ana the lowest and the closi+g prices of the New York stock market today, a8 Tesorted oy Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exchange Correspondents Messfs. Moore & Schley, No. 5) Open. High. Low. Close Broadway American Sug: American Tobace: American Cotten Oil Atchison ...... Canada Southern - Canada Paeitic Chesapeake and Ohio. c. C. Cand St. R. 1. and Pacific... Del., Lack. and W. Delaware ana Hnason.. Denver and Rio Grande. Dis. and Cattle Feeding. Gene eric Central Lake Shore Erie... Louisvilie and N; ‘ashville. L. N. A. and Chicago. Manhattan Elevated Michigan Centrai. Missouri Pacific. New York Central. N.Y.and New Engiand. . C.and St. Louls.. forthern Pacitic.... orthern Pacific, pfd. North American Ont. and Western. Pacific Mail... Phila. and Reading Pullman P. Car €o. Richmond _Terminai Southern Pacific ‘Texas Pacitic. Tenn. Coal and Iron nion Pacific . aban... Wabash, pfd Wheeling & Lake Erie Wheeling & LE pia. Western Union Tel Wisconsin Central Silver. Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—rezular call—12 o'clock m.—United States 4s, rexistered, $1,000 at 114%; $1,000 at 114%; $1,000" at 114%.” Washington’ and Georgetown Railvoad conv. 6s, $1,000 at 135, West Eud Na+ tional Bank, 10 at 105. United States Elecirie | Light, 10 at’123; 10 at 3 pvernment Bonds.—United States 4s, istered, 1907, 114 bid, 11 United” States 4s, asked. Pyyrom 1907, LL4s bid. “United States Sa, 117% District of Columbia Bonds.—20-yea> Funding 5s, 108 bid. 30-year Funding @s, gold, 11655 "bid. Water stock currency 7s, 1901, 117) pid. “Water if a y stock currency 7s, 1008, ‘I: ._ 3. Funding qurreney. 11% bid, 118 asked. Sie, reg. 2-10s, Di Miscellaneous Bonds.—Washington and George- town afirond. conv. Gs, Ist, 14d. bids 135 asd, Washington and Georgetown Railroad Conv. 6s, 123 bid, 135 asked. Metropolitan Railroad conv. 6s, 101 ‘bid, 105 asked. Belt Railroad 5s, 85 did, 95) asked. ington Ratlroad 6s, 85 bid. Wash: ington Gas Company Gs, series A, 115 bid. Wash- ington Gas Company’ 6s, series B, 116 bid. * Washington Gas Company conv. 6s, 130 bid, 135 asi United States Electric Light conv. asked. Ch and Potomac “phone” 5s, curity and Trust 5s, 1905, F. & A., Amerieau Security and Trust’5s, 1905, A. & 0., 100 bid. Washington Market Company Ist 66," 105 id, 112. asked. Washington Market Company 105. bid, |. Wash Market Masonic Hall imp. Company ext. 6s, tion poked, syashington Light 100. bid. Washington Light in- 100 bid. Anacostia Railroad 6s, gold, 85" bid. ‘ Ad. National Bank Stocks.—Bank of Washingt: bid, 330 asked. Bank of Republic, 235 bid. potitan, | 280 | bid. a Ss ‘armers’ an id. » 140 Columbia. 125 bid. 100 bid. on, 310 Metro- asked. Wid. Citizens’, 130 asked. Capital, 116 bid. West End, 105 bid, 1% asked. ‘Traders’, 104. bid. Lincoln, 90 bid, asked. Obio, $0 pid, 85 asked, Safe Deposit and Trust Compantes.—National Safe Deposit and ‘Trust, 130 Did, 169 asked. “Waske ington Loan and Trust,’ 120 bid,’ 126 asked. can Security and Tras Railroad “Stocks,— on town, 290 bid, 325 asked. Metropolitan, 80 bid, 87 asked. Columbia, 61 bid, 65% asked. Belt, 22’ bid. Eck: ington, 29 bid. Gas and Electric Light Stocks.—Washington Gas, $i did. 40 asked. "Georg 48 bid. e id. Franklin, 45 bid. 50 asked. Metropolitan, 70 bid. 60 vid. Potomac, 75 bid. Arlington, 185. bid, 100 6 bid, ak asked. German “American, 160 bid, red. National Union, 12% bid, 18 asked. Columbia, 154 Did, 13% asked. Rigas, 7 bid, 7 e's, 514 bid, 5% asked. Lincoln, *8 bid, 8% Commercial, 6 bid, 6% asked. Title Insurance Stocks.—Real Estate Title, 112 bid. 120 asked. Columbia Title, 7 bid, 7% asked. Washington Tit! 5% asked. Telephone Stock: Ivanis, 47 asked. Chesa. asked. American peake and Potomac, ag bia. 50 Graphophone, 3% bid, 44 asked. Pneumatic Gua Carriage, .25 bid, .30 asked. 12 ed. which was sold down on bad) | Kolb Pharmacy. Some Special Bargains even lower than our regu- tar list. 34¢- Florida Water | Genuine, large bottles. We guarantee this to be | the finest, most fragrant and lasting of all toilet | waters. White Castile Soap, Full Bars = 49. We sell only Conti's best imported, nearly 4 Ibs. to the bar. Pure white, green or mottled. Phosphate Emulsion, 60c. Made fresh daily. We recowmend’ this as the best Cod Liver Oi) preparation, easily taken and readily assimilated, full pint bottles. Beef, Wine and Iron, 60c. ‘The Tonle of all tonics. No matter under what fancy ame, nothing you can use will fully supply its place. Fall pints only. | $1 Hood's Sarsaparilla is. sz Cuticura Resolvent -50 Fellow’s Hypophosph: Brown’s Iron Bitters SRRRRRREEE Pot ‘© Hair Vigor. Sie. STe. 69. 69. $1.64 Se. Hooper's Female Pills, Now... Be. $1 Beef, Wine and Iron, Now only. 0c. (We recommend this as the best and appetizer you can take.) § - Hof's Malt Extract (genuine Johann Hoff).. #1 8.8. 8. Now only. “i SHASONABLE REMEDIES. $1 Pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil (full pints). .50c. $1 Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. T5e. Boschee’s German Syrup. ABEREEEP Country orders solicited and will receive and careful attention, Rubber Goods Department $2.50 Fouptain Syringe (2 quarts, best rud- ber) sees Sle $4.00 Fountain Syringe (S quarts, perfect)....§1.49 22.00 Hot Water Bottle (plain or covered) $2.00 Family Bulb Syringe (8 hard rubber ) pipes) $1.00 Throat and Nose Atomizer (continuous spray) e $2.50 Truss (a perfect fit guaranteed). *e. A full line of Elastic Hosiery Supporters aud Shoulder Braces, ®urgical Appliances of every de ecription, at a great bargain. Lady in charge of temile depa-tment. Wade & Butcher Razors, Torry Razor Strops, AT EXTRA LOW PRICES. Wade & Butcher Razor. Was $1.75. Now 90c. ‘This is our leader. Hollow ground and guaranteed best quality. Also full line for 50c. up. ‘Torry Razor Strop. Was 35e. Now 19, Kasor Strop, four sides, only 19¢. And s full line of Shaving Goods. C7 Cut this out for reference. Kolb Pharmacy, LEADERS OF LOWEST PRICES, COR. TTH AND E 8TS. N.W. _— OWN BRANCH,COR.14TM AND I. LANSBURCH & BRO. BoleroJackets We have just purchased | of a leading New York Im- “| porter 165 Silk Bolero Jack- ~, ets with rich designs of | Black Jet. We will sell them as fol- lows: 983g |The $2.50 Grade for 98c. The $3.00 Grade for $1.25. |The $4.00 Grade for $1.45. The $5.00 Grade for $1.89. |The $5.50 Grade for $1.98. The $9.00 Grade for $2.68. |Sizes 82, 34 and 3. THESE WILL BE ON SALE TOMORROW. What 2 | $1.19 Will Buy Se Tomorrow. AN EXCELLENT MUSLIN GOWN, MADE HUBBARD STLYE, SURPLICE NECK, WITH WIDE RUFFLE OF EMBROIDERY OVER THE SHOULDERS. ALSO a RUF- FLE EMBROIDERY AROUND NECK, WITH INSERTING BETWEEN, HIGH FULL SLEEVES, WITH TRIMMING TO MATCH. Regular Price $1.68, Tomorrow $1.19. ANOTHER STYLE, EXTRA LONG BOX- PLAITED BACK TO THE WAIST, ROLL- ING COLLAR OF EMBROIDERY, WITH FULL RUFFLE OF SAME DOWN FRONT TO THE WAIST. | Regular Price $1.98, Tomorrow $1.19. THE THIRD STYLE IS. MADE oF HEAVY MUSLIN, HAVING THE Rus- SIAN BLOUSE EFFECT, WITH EM- BROIDERY AROUND NECK AND DOWN FRONT TO THE WAIST; HIGH FULL SLEEVES, WITH A CUFF OF EMBROID- ERY TO MATCH. Regular Price $1.98, Tomorrow $1.19. DO YOU KNOW OF A BETTER WAY TO SPEND ONE DOLLAR AND NIXE- TEEN CENTS? ANSBURCH & BRO., 420, 422, 424, 426 7TH ST. ia5c. Steel | reer =< |Table Knives, On Hand-== PERRY'S. © are taking rw customers by the bend—for GLOVES—every @ay. You know what makes folks flock here for their band-weer. You have learned thet lesson—and now you are enjoying the satisfaction of perfect Mts—per fect fashiow—perfect quality, Even if we Were not cheapest for these best makes we believe the other inducements would draw you toward us. When you contemplate ® cholce St popular prices—trom such bands @» REYNIGR, TREPOUSSE, CENTEMERL ‘@e.—the hope of doing better is lost in the Knowledge that you are doing best Saturday is growing as a Glove day. Te bring @ little more than the ordivary inter- est to this department tomorrow you shall ‘have what broken lots there are at Special Prices, Such as these LADIBS 4-button GLACE, ww Back ané Colors—KEDUCEV from 8, 91.25 and $1.50 t0 48e. LAVIS -S-betton WHITE and PEARL BUEDES, sizes 3% to 6% —-REDUCED from $1.50 to 400. LADUSS 8-bufton SUEDES, in Rinck un Colors—REDUCED from $1.50 and §2 to $1. LabUas’ FRENCH MEN'S JOUVIN SUEDE GLOVES, sizes 7% to 8%—REDUCED from $1.75 to ". MEN'S BLACK GLACE GLOVES, sizes 7, 7% and 8%—KEDUCED from $1.50 tw $1, ——. ‘Then back of these are tie reguslr lince— Tull of novelty—full of value, MUYNIBR'S friends wil aud their ideal among these: 4-button GLACE, ip Light Tan and Mode, with Black and self brode—gz. 4-button GLACE,in Colors and Bisck—$1.85 4-button GLACE, in Light Ten, Mode and Boz, with Pearl apd Black brode—$2. 4-button SUEDES, in the season's new shades, plain and embroidered—gi org and 4-button Black SUEDES—$1.65 and $1.75. @-button SUEDE MOUSQUETAIRES, im Bluck and Colors—$z. S-button SUEDE MOUSQUETAIRES, Black—$2.55. - 4-button GLACE, in Lavender, Heliotrope, Reseda and eee “a PIQUE WALKING GLOVES— . ——— TREFOUSSE’S admirers will seck these to Mod their satisfaction: 4-button GLACE, tp Mode ana Nile, Rents esl. tslintnpe tees, a #button GLACE, in Tan, Mode, Red and mea with Black, White and self brode— +-nutton GLa@e, in White, Ivory and Pearl, with Black and self brode—$i.50. 4-button GLACE, in Tan, Gras, Brown Sud Black—$1.25, $1.50 and §2. ‘button WALKING GLOVES, SUEDB and GLACE $1.50. 4-button PEARL and WHITE, with self or Black brode—$2. 4-button CULOKED SUEDES, with Black brode—$i.25 and $1.75. 4-vutton GLACE, in ue Pearl, with Biack brode—#1.50. sae ‘button SUEDE, in Tan, Mode, Gray, Brown and Biack—$1.25 and $1.50. S-buttola PRIMROSE SUEDES, with Black brode—sz. S-button SUEDES, in Colors and Black— $1.50 and $2. -button SUEDES, in Pearl and White— $1.50 and $2. S-button GLACE, in Pearl and White, with Black brode—$2. —_——_—_—. Allied good makes: PERRIN'S 4-button GLACE, tn a ‘with Binck brode—$1 50. = ors—$2. 4 MAGGIONI'S 5-button BLACK GLACE- $1.90. 90. ADLER’S 4-button CASTOR GLOVES, te ‘Tan, Gray and Black—$1.75. AUG. CHARLES’ 4-button WALKING GLOVES-$1.50 and $2. AUG. CHARLES’ 4buttos BLUE GLACE $1.75. AUG. CHARLES’ S-button SUEDES—¢2. PUSTEK'S 7-hook PUSTERINA-GLACE, te biack—$2. 4-button GLACE, in Pearl and White, with Black and self brode—$1.50. BALSAN’S button BIARRIT?—g8e. BALSAN button MOUSQUETAIRES, Natural on@ White—sse. +button CHAMOIS GAUN'TLETS, Natural ent White—$1. Evening Gloves: 20-betton SUEDES, im evening ehades— $3.50, 16-button SUEDES—$3. 12-button SUEDES—$2.50, S-button SUMDES—$2. Men’s Gloves. REYNIER'S 2-clasp PIQUE GLACE—$2.2& REYNIER'S 2-clasp OVERSEAM DRESS GLOVES—-$2. PERKIN'S ELK TANS—$2. PERRIN'S CAPE SUEDES—$1.50. FOWNE’S CRAVEN TANS—$2.25. POWNE’S CAPE COACHING GLOVES-$8 as WALKING GLOVES-$1 and $1.50. EVENING GLOVES, White and Pear ‘$1 and $1.50. Children’s Gloves. MISSES’ 4-button GLACE and SUEDES— MISSES’ button MOUSQUETAIRE SUEDES $1 BOYS’ WALKING GLOVES—$1 MISSES’ BIARRITZ GLOVES—98c. Who could tura away empty-handed trom such @b assortment? ‘There will be uo ‘“griefs""—tor every pair is warranted. PERRY’S, Ninth And The Avenue, Mvtadlished 1840. (apis ‘Telepbone 996, Ladies’ Faces and Hands— TUL be .tadly chapped during hie cotg — should use it after shaving. Samuel T. Stott, 505 Pa. av, STORE. apis NATIONAL HOTEL DRUG ae need Process For loring Photographs, ¥ is ‘the process that Qs well as an mat with directions that ms EoLogRAra a prostils Colorgraph Co., 1423 8th.