Evening Star Newspaper, April 25, 1894, Page 7

THE POLICE STANDPOINT. Our City Guardiaas Are On the Outlook For Visiting Bands. ‘What is Expected From the Coxey Army—A Tougher Element May Come From the West. “What will the authorities do when Coxey’s army arrives?” is the question that is befng asked more frequently, perhaps, than any other just now. Police action will depend entirely upon the conduct of the army of the unemployed, and plans will be made to meet the requirements of the occa- sion, is the substance of what the authori- tles say. So far as the police are concerned no stone will be left unturned in the effort to Suard property and maintain the peace. Maj. Moore and his lieutenants discuss the Question every morning, and the major also confers with the Commissioners in regard to the matter. The employment of special policemen will, perhaps, be resorted to, as case of presidential inaugurations or upon the occasions of large gatherings. It is true that Congress has made no appro- Priation for the employment of specials to act as auxiliaries to the regular force, but in case such employment proves necessary the men will be paid from the emergency fund, although it is thought that Congress will maké an appropriation if called upon to do so. Names of men who are willing to wear a badge and carry a baton are being enrolled at the various police stations and headquar- ters, it being the intention of the police to select 200 of the best men who apply and have them go on duty Monday morning, if thought necessary. Some of the shrewdest officers in the precincts will be selected for regular detective duty, to act under In- Spector Hollinberger. The railroad depots are now closely guarded, and the men who “rrive on the trains are looked over. This work will be continued right along, and any known criminals who arrive will be prompt- ly arrested. Increase of Private Watchmen. The coming of the army and the fears en- tertained by some citizens are giving employ- ment to numbers of men as watchmen. The public buildings, including the White House, will be well looked after, and the police now seem to think that there will be no serious trouble in maintaining law and order. There is plenty law here to meet almost any kind of an offense that might result from such a gathering, and with law to back them the police feel confident that the visitors will be kept «ander control. .The Coxey army in Maryland alone gives the police no uneasiness whatever, but the trouble is feared from the bodies in the West, moving in this direction. The east- ern contingent, the police expect, will be small, and most of the men will come from the west. And judging from reports the police think many of them need looking after, as most of them are thought to be of the disturbing element. The armies, detachments and divisions in the west moving this way as given by the Police, are as follows: Gen. Kelly, Neola, Iowa Gen. Frye, Terre Haute, Ind. Gen. Frye’s 2d div., McLean: iM... eoee. Gen. Grayson, Platteville, Col... Gen. Galven, Loveland, Ohio. Monmouth, Il Ottumwa, Iow Capt. Sullivan, Chicago. Anderson, Indiana..... Gen. Aubrey, Indianapolis. Total... ---6,650 men. The movements of these bodies are being closely watched, and information from au- thorities of the western cities is bet re- ceived every day. Then, too, the officers who are marching in the Coxey contingent send in their reports and keep the depart- ment advised of the character and number of the men. Maj. Moore is anxious to know where the army will camp. It was hoped that Glen Echo would be their camping ground, for the Maryland authorities would have after them until — got ready to Yesterday’s mail brought to Maj. Moore @ letter from Pittsburg, which reads as fol- lows: 3 “The people’s party of this county held a meeting last Saturday in this city in the K. of L. Hall. Every seat was taken, showing the interest taken on public questions. I send you herewith a resolution adopted by this meeting. It is self-explanatory. There Was not a single vote against it. I was chief marshal of the local escorts into Al- leghany City and also of the escort out of Pittsburg and I know the facts as stated in the resolution to be true. “I believe the men with Mr. Coxey are honest and earnest in their undertaking. They are law abiding so long as others are law abiding. A true American citizen will resist and resent insults, and our people admire such a nature. These men go to your city on a peaceful mission and, I will add, a very proper one. Bad men may be there also as on other big occasions. “Arrest all such, but treat law-abiding eitizens as they should be treated, whether they are rich or poor. Coxey and his men are on a lawful mission to peacefully as- semble and to present a petition. It might be popular to treat them as criminals (in the estimation of plutocrats), but it would be a short-lived popularity to do so. The great heart of the American people loves justice, admires nobility, respects law, and they are with this great movement of Mr. Coxey. “As directed, I send you the resolution of the convention. Very respectfully, “J. H. STEVENSON, “Chairman of the Convention.” The Army Commended. The resolution mentioned in the letter is as follows: “Resolved, That the resi- Gents of Washington city have no cause to fear the mission of the commonweal. We commend to their consideration the passage of the commonweal through these two cities and neighborhood. Their coming hither was presaged by all manner of fear- ful forebodings, causing neighboring cities’ conservators of the peace to lose their usual good judgment and become the butt of the ridicule. In contrast with which the police authorities of the city of Pittsburg treated the commonweal as fellow citizens, granted it the privilege to assemble in the best locality in the city for out-door meet: ings, which were held afternoon and eve: ing and in numbers outranked any similar gathering in this city. An indoor public meeting was held in the evening of their visit in the largest and most popular hall in this city, filled to overflowing, and yet ft was one of the most orderly political meetings ever held in this city. Permission was also granted the commonweal to march through the city over any of the streets desired; it did so at high noon of the sched- uled day of its departure, and the caval- cade was witnessed by possibly a larger number of people than ever observed a passing procession in this city, and all passed quietly and orderly, not a single misdemeanor in connection with the com- monweal or observers being reported. “We commend the foregoing to the con- sideration of the authorities at the national capital, from the chief executive to the district constable, with the suggestion that the privilege granted to Mr. J. 8. Coxey and Carl Browne to address their fellow citizens from the steps of the east front of the Capitol at noon, May 1, may tend to a more peaceful finale of their visit than an attempt to intercept their purpose.” —_—>—— The Cattle Market. ‘The sales at the cattle market, Washing- ton Union Stock Yards, were as follows: 197 cattle on the market and sold as fol- lows: Best sold from 41-4c. to 41-2c. per Tb.; good sold from 338-4c. to 4c. per Ib.; medium sold from 3c. to 31-2c. per Il common sold from to 23-dc. per Ib. 1,126 sheep and lambs up and sold as fol- lows: 1,126 sheep, from Sc. to 3 1-2c. per Ib., yearlings, from 4c. to 5c. per Ib.; lambs, from 6c. to 7 1-2c. per Ib. Cows with calves sold from $20 to $40 each. State of market fair. eee Wm. A. Toplett has filed a bill in equity against Mary A. T. Cherry to require the payment of a certain note of $1,500, which note has been lost by the complainant. William L. Sears, the druggist, forfeited $250 collateral in the Police Court for sell- physician. Joseph J. Gantz, the religious crank from ony, Pa., who was arrested at the White ouse Sunday, as printed in The Star, has been sent home by the sanitary officer. A new-born ‘ed infant was found on the front door 8 of house 2014 Sth street last evening. he inf: is now being cared for Ann’s Infant Asylum. At an early hour this morning the dead body of an infant was found im an alley Beur 1ith and S s-reets. THE. EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1894—TWELVE PAGES. THE COXEY MOVEMENT. The Question of the Hour—Sugges- tions From “Star” Readers. A correspondent of The Star, reviewing vVaricus suggestions made by correspond- ents in Monday evening’s Star, says: “The idea of not merely limiting, but absolutely denying an American citizen access to the natior al capital or thinking that such right of entrance is on @ par with his right to enter private property, is so utterly pre- Posterous and untenable; and such denial of entrance to either the national capital or the city is so repugnant to every feeling and instinct of American citizenship that I wonder any man of even an ordinary un- derstar ding of the fundamental principles of our Constitution would entertain them for @ moment. “Is it not very evident that the small but numerous bands of unemployed, now pain- fully marching toward Washington, repre- sent but in miniature the millions of Amer- ica’s suffering people today? “Are the dissatisfied limited to the ‘work- ing’ people? Is not discontent visible on the faces and evidenced by the conversa- tion of thousands more unfortunate? If so, must not this discontent gradually in- crease until a mighty political upheaval will haul the incompetents from power? “Your ‘W. C. D.’ coi ondent has evi- dently given but little thought to the sub- ject of constitutional liberty as enunciated and elucidated by the authors of our grand old Constitution, wherein the inalienable rights of every American citizen are sub- stantially and explicitly set forth. His as- sertion that ‘there can be no doubt of the power of both Congress and the executive to exclude both Coxeyites and any other body of American citizens from the capital whenever, in their opinion, it may become necessary’ is so palpably an‘agonistic to both the spirit and letter of the federai Constitution that the merest tyro in con- situtional liberty would readily recognize its sophistry. Your correspondent's refer- ence to fecding and sheltering these im- poverished sons of toll, or such of them as shall survive the hardships inseparable from such long and perilous marches, is also unworthy of consideration and is posi- tively antagonistic to every impulse of either humanity or wise statesmanship. “Any attempt to prevent the entrance or circumscribe the constitutional privileges of any American citizen (who has not for- feited his rights by criminal acts) in com- ing to the capital of this nation will not only involve a breach of the law, and, in the case of an officer, justify impeachment, but will also subject such violator of the law and Constitution in suits for damages as well. “Further,such treatment of American citl- zens will awaken such a general dissatis- faction on the part of voters of this coun- try as will utterly annihilate any and every rty supporting or conniving at such il- 1, arbitrary ant brutal conduct,whether it be the democratic or republican party. “In fact, the ‘signs of the times’ point quite distinctly already to a repudiation of party fealty and the election of men more im accord with the necessities of the hour. “Exclusion from the precincts of the na- ticnal capital, by even so respectable an authority as our honorable Commissioners, whose efficiency and good intentions no one will question, can have no force in law; and ejectment by mere physical force, except under fhe apm of violated and constitu- tional law, will never be tolerated by our highest court of judicial authority. Let Congress act promptly, and make it known that no rights of American citizens will be abridged by either legislative or executive authority, and then proceed to such legisla- tion as will dissipate our present national distress.” Wants Congress to Adjourn. Another writer says: “If this Coxey move- ment is fraught with danger to this coun- try, and particularly to the national capital, and it is intended to force the Congress into unwise legislation by the ‘stench of bodies in our streets,’ Congress should pass or defeat the Wilson bill, make necessary ap- propriations and adjourn at once, or leave the Wilson bill where it is, make the ap- Propriations and go home. We can get along without them; the country will be as well off for all they have accomplished. Coxey will have time to take a rest, regain his wits and march back again. Ask Con- gress to adjourn.” —___ THE CITY’S HEALTH. The Weekly Report of Dr. Hammett States It is Excellent. The review of the health of the city by the health office, for the last week, shows @ continuance of the favorable conditions which prevailed during the week previous. The total mortality was about the same, and consequently the death rate remained without material change. The most notice- able feature was the disappearance of the influenza as a cause of fatality, there hav- ing been no deaths therefrom reported. In the present week’s report there are signs of @ spring visitation of whooping cough, but not in epidemic form. The repression of diphtheria continues. There were seven new cases of this malady reported, four of which were in one family, and one death therefrom. Of the two deaths from typhoid fever one occurred in hospital and the other fn Hillsdale. There ms to be but little of this malady throughout the city, and the heavy falling off tn the mortality from pneumonia and acute lung diseases this week shows the cessation of the ex- citing causes of these ailments. Generally speaking, the health of the city is in ex- cellent condition. The report for week ending April 21 is as follows: Number of deaths—109; white, 61; colored, 48. Death rate per 1,000 per annum—White, 16.2; colored, 27.7. Total population, 19.9. Twenty-seven were under five years of age; 16 were under one year old, and 34 over sixty years. Thirty-one of the deaths occurred in hospitals and public institutions. The deaths by classes were as follows: Zymotic, 15; constitutional, 26; local, 52; developmental, My eee 7 ‘eer rincipal causes of death were: Croup, 1; Sipntheria, 1; consumption, 12; diarrhoeal, 1; typhoid fever, 2; malarial, 1; scarlet fever, 1; pneumonia, 11; bronchitis, 1; measles, 1; whooping cough, 8; kidney dis- eases, 4; cancers, 3. Births reported—White males, 33; white females, 38; colored males, 30; colored females, 21. Marriages reported —White, 18; colored, 4. Still-births reported —White, 5; colored, 4. ed A CHURCH RECEPTION. The Teachers of the Gunton Temple Church Are the Hosts. Last night in the chapel of the Gunton ‘Temple Memorial Church a grand reception was given to the congregation by the teach- ers of the Sunday school. The chapel was tastefully decorated with palms and lamps and a very pleasant time was enjoyed by the large number present. The success of this reception 1s due to Mr. G. A. Prevost, the superintendent of the Sunday school, | who was assisted by the following teachers: | Mrs. G. H. Brown, Miss May Leet, Miss | E. V. Brown, Mrs. S. M. Marsh, Mr. Or- ville G. Brown, Mrs. G. B. Patch, Mrs. B. Mquor without a prescription from a} | F. Brockett, Mrs. Powers, Miss Zue Brock- j ett, Miss Schneider, Miss Viola Brockett, | Mr. Snow, Miss Bessie Daskam, Mr. W. B. | Turpin, Miss May Dallas, Miss Thompson, Miss Eaton, Dr. Warman, Miss Anna Ham- lin, Mrs. Warman, Miss Vinnie Hodges, Miss | Lizzie Warman, Miss Jones and Miss Grace | Wright. | The music which was rendered consisted | of the following selections: Piano solo, se- | lected, Mr. C. S. Elliot; vocal duet, ‘The | Fisherman,” Gambussi, Mr. Young and Mr. | Prevost; alto solo, selected, Miss Budd Dil- | lon; autoharp solo, selected, Mr. Geo. Pol- | lock; barytone solo, “The Queen,” Roeckel Mr. Young; soprano solo, selected, Miss Ma- mie Lockhart; piano solo, selected, Mrs. ; Baton, after which refreshments were served, ———— THE WESTERN CHURCH'S PASTOR. Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis Formally Installed Last Evening. Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis was installed last night as pastor of the Western Pres- byterian Church. The church was richly decorated and crowded with an audience in honor of the event. Rev. Benjamin F. Bittinger, D.D., presided. Mr. W. F. Sudds sang the anthem, “How Beautiful Upon the Mountains.” Rev. Charies Alvin Smith rendered the invocation and Rev. J. Russell Verbrycke read a selection from the Scrip- tures. The choir sang “Gloria” and the prayer of installation was offered by Rev. William C. Alexander. iiss Harkness sang “Fear Not Ye, Oh, Israel.” The in- | stallation sermon was preached by Rev. Teunts 8. Hamlin, D.D., who chose for his text the sixth chapter and nineteenth verse of First Corinthians: “Ye are not your own.” He dweit on the duty which the new pastor owed to his people, his church and his God. The questions were asked by Rev. Dr. Bittinger and the charge to the pastor was delivered by Rev. Dr. Thomas Chalmers Easton. Miss Harkness and Mr. Sutton sang a duet and Rev. William A. Bartlett, D.D., delivered the charge to the congregation. The newly inducted pastor held a reception at the close of the cere- mony. LATE SPORTING NEWS WARD'S MEN HUMBLED. McGuire’s Double, With the Bases Filled, Won the Game. The Washingtons have always been doughty antagonists of the New Yorks en the base ball field. Ever since the time when little George Keefe out-twirled the big “Tim” of that ilk, and Jim O'Rourke was charged with smuggling an extra ball in his shirt, the Giants have felt that they had to play when they tackled the Sena- tors—the “foxy Senators,” as “June” Ran- kin delighted to call them. The two teams have always played “for blood,” as the say- inj [oy and the game was never won until th it man was out. Knowing this it is not strange that nearly 4,000 persons saw yesterday’s game. The big attendance re- minded one of two years ago, when such big crowds to go out to see Billy Barnie’s team of stars, who di inted the public so much under Arthur Irwin's Management. These New York-Washing- ton games have been decided generally the sudden seizing or neglecting of an op- portunity. Yesterday that o) rtunity was @ straight throw given to McGuire, who was at the bat in the eighth inning, with three men on bases. “Mac” landed on the ball and three runners scored. Well, of course the usual result followed. Thg noise that followed reminded one of New York during the draft rfots. Mac scored a mo- ment later. Those four runs padlocked and riveted the game. » ‘who was in the box, pitched great ball, outpitching the famous Ruste, and the “Joints” could do nothing. “Mi * Murphy, who made a double and stole third, watched with iN- concealed disguest ‘them big duffers,” as they say at Yale, fan the alr and fall to bring him in. The visitors took the lead at the start and scored two. The Senators tied the score in the sixth. The work of Shortstop Murphy, the old Yale player, was the feature of the visitors’ . His throwing hadn’t the slighest “rainbow” in {t and his stops and recovery were remarkable. He fiel as well as “Shorty” Fuller ever did and his batting is much better. Tf he can hold out, New York has gained a prize. John Ward will doubtless ascribe the loss of the game to “condition,” but excuses “don't go” with the base ball public. Our cast-offs are doing pretty well this year. and McGuire, cast off by Philadelphia, humbled Philadel- phia, and now Petty, cast off by New York, outpitched the New Yorks. Kismet! nore: R.H.F. 1001040€738 0000001-391 Other games resulted as follows: 1 Brook- lyn, At (Brooklyn—Philadelphia, 22; At Baltimore—Baltimore, 15; Boston, 8. At Cincinnatt—Cleveland, 1; Cincinnati, 0. At Louisville—Louisville, 7; Pittsburg, 3. At St. Louls—St. Louis, $; Chicago, 5. Notes of the Game. Petty’s pitching was a pleasant surprise to a great many of the onlookers, as they sized him up as an easy mark for the New Yorks. His headwork was a feature. Catcher McGuire's hit was of the all- wool-and-a-yard-wide kind. It recalled his | rd hit of four seasons ago, when the ‘ashingtons won from Louisville in the morning game of the 4th of July, ‘91. Sullivan at short is all right. His over- anxiety to make a play is his weakness. With Joyce and Ward as side partners to coach him he will rapidly improve. Little Murphy, New York's shortstop, set a pace that had the other players on the team kept up with would have landed them winners. He is certainly a wondcr- ful player. There is no club in the league that Wash- ingtonians would sooner their club defeat than the Baltimores, but the Orioles stand second in their affection. When the big score went up on the blackboard in the ninth inning, showing that they had won out from Boston, a mighty cheer of welcome Went up from thousands of throats. Ward's throwing is his weakness, but his other qualities overcomes this defect. He started the great rally in the eighth inning with his two bagger. Maul will, most likely, Pitch for the home club today, and “Dad” Clarke will try and twirl the New Yorks to victory. The management of the home club can do a graceful thing by putting the home score on the big blackboard in right field. Those that buy score cards wili do so at any rate, and the convenience to those that consider it too much trouble to keep tab on the game will be considerabls. It is a pity that the free hitting of “Wild Bil" Hassamer is lost to the home club. be used until Tebeau gets into pe. The attendance at yesterday's game was remarkable when the raw weather ts taken into consideration. Overcoaz« were in grea: demand, and the ladies were well wrapped up, the keen north wind creating an abund- ance of blue lips and red noses. There is nothing creates so much en- thusiasm in a ball game as successful base stealing. After Murphy had pilfered third base twice on Joyce, the latter thought he would take a hand in the same trick, and did so quite successfully. The New York players took considerable satisfaction out of the fact that Boston was beaten in Baltimore. It came as a sort of vindication for their three defeats at the hands of the same club last week. PLAYING FOR DARKNESS, The Puerile Practices of the Boston ch Fourteen runs were made in one inning by the Baltimore club yesterday. This is how it was done: It was the beginning of the ninth inning. Mighty Boston was Bal- timore’s adversary and the score was 8 to 1, The three runs belonged to the visitors, Pent-up enthusiasm was at fever heat and the 8,400 spectators were on the tip-toe of expectation, for it was the Orioles’ last chance to turn defeat into victory. And they did it. Kelley had al made three safe hits off Pitcher Stivetts when he walked up to the plate to begin that memorable ninth. He went to first on balls. Reitz, who followed, received a similar present from the big Bos- ton twirler. Jennings hit safely to short center and the bases were full. The crowd rose to its feet and cheered. Stivetts began to get nervous. He pitched the sphere to Robinson, and Umpire Hurst called “One ball.” He pitched again. “Two balls!” cried the umpire. Once more the ball cross- ed the plate and the umpire said, “Three balls.” Then came another cheer from the crows Stivetts had taken exception to all of Hurst’s decisions on the balls and strikes while Robinson was at the bat, and when the third ball was called he acted like a wild man. He threw his cap upon the ground, stalked out of the box and called upon Capt. Nash for aid. They gathered around the plate and talked, apparently in order to give Stivetts time to recover his departed nerve. Stivetts was then ordered back to the box and was fined by the um- pire for not obeying. When he again re- fused to take his place Hurst put him out of the game. Nichols succeeded Stivetts and found him- self in an unpleasant predicament. The bases were full, no one was out and the batter had three balls. The first ball he pitched was wide of the plate and Robinson went to his base, forcing Kelley home. By this time the spectators were yelling like maniacs, and the champions were on the verge of a bad case of the rattles. They “quit” in a manner that did little credit to a team supposed to be the best in the league, and tried to turn the Orioles’ well- earned victory into a farce. The felders acted like wooden Indians when the Balti- more players sent the bail into their terri- tery, and Nichols tossed the ball like a school boy. They were playing for dark- 8. ut Hanlon’s men did not let up because their opponents were doing the “baby act.” They kept on pegging away, to the delight of their friends and to the deeper chagrin of the men from the hub. By this time many saw that the Bostons would refuse to retire the side until dark- ness set in and have the game called back to the eighth inning. Then the Baltimore players were loudly admonished by the Spectators to be put out purposely. Brodie ended the run-getting by sending a fiy to Nichols. Fourteen runs had been scored since the beginning of the inning. The Orioles had been seventeen times at the bat in the inning, and the score stood 15 to 3. CALLED TO TIME. Ball Players Cannot Sign Contracts and Ignore Them. When the Altoona club of the Pennsyl- vania State League was on its trip south Manager Donoghue signed two players of the Petersburg club of the Virginia League, BE. W. Brooks and J. H, Myers. As the Virginia League is under the protection of the national agreement, a controversy has arisen over which club these men shall play with. President N. E. Young of the national board has sent the following letter to Man- ager Donoghue: WASHINGTON, April 23, 1894. A. F. Donoghue, Esq., Manager, et Sir: Messrs. Myers and Brooks signed contracts with the Petersburg base ball club for the season of 1894. At the time they repudiated said legal contracts and left the services of said club the Vir- ginia eee Lor 4 tection of e national en: e same as the Pennsylvania League has to- those Y. Unless the signatures are forgeries players have no legal right and cannot play with any club, under the national agreement. If they could, our laws would not be worth the paper on which they are written, and the grand base ball structure, which we have been so many years in erecting, would be soon in ruins. No club, regardless of its location or condition, can afford to encourage a player to violate his agreement, as, I have reason fear, the above players have done. Yours truly, N. EB. YOUNG. O'Rourke as an Umpire. As was generally expected when O’Rourke was appointed a league umpire, his decisions have called out great adverse criticism. While Mr. O’Rourke is thorough- ly honest, and desirous of being impartial, he has not that magnetism that compels obedience. A dispatch from Brooklyn says of his work there yesterday: The overshadowing and distinguishing feature of the game here this afternoon was the artistic roasting to which Um- = James O'Rourke was subjected by he crowd. The orator is said to have iven a very ochreish exhibition yester- lay, and this morning’s New York nailed him to the cross. The took it up this afternoon and kept hammer- ing away at him until the fifth inning, when they came to the conclusion that the ball playing of Father Foutz’s men was a shade worse than the umpiring of the luckless James, and from that on to the finish his life was almost worth living. But per the roastin, Hem it was de- cidedly picturesque an tense, “Who's a thief? O'Rourke. Who's O'Rourke? a thief.” This query and answer was taken up by the occupants of the bleachers, and occasionally varied by suggestions to “trim your lamps,” and sarcastic allusions to certain decisions were kept in play nearly all the afternoon, Baltimore. Philadelpti Boston Cinett Cleveland. St. Base Ball Notes, McGunigle is being suggested as manager for the St. Louis Browns. The Louisville-Cleveland game scheduled for July 20 will be played on Sunday,July 8. Manager Selee of the Bostons has recom- mended Pitcher Gastright, recently re- leased by him, to the Brooklyn club. Capt. Anson has made a bet of $100 that the Colts will beat the Clevelands in the race for the pennant. President Hart is stakeholder. From latest, reports Calliope Miller is still captain of the St. Louis Browns. At this time last season Joe Quinn had ten- dered his resignation for the second time. “Yale” Murphy has caught on in Balti- more, and all the cranks are praising his clever work and are wishing him success in his professional career.—Baltimore News. Same here. Manager Hanlon of the Orioles says that if the Brooklyn club has any more “has beens” like Dan Brouthers they should send them down to Baltimore, and he will make use of them. Westervelt promises to do work for New York. He ts v ly, and at the old pitching distance would be a fine pitcher. He did well Saturday until the seventh inning, when the onslaught of the Orioles slightly rattled him and he let up in his work. While the Cleveland Club was in Louis- ville last week, Buck Ewing, on being asked how his “glass” arm was, replied: “As long as I can keep on throwing, it’s all right, but when I stop and it’s at all chilly I can’t do anything. The warm weather will bring it around all right, but I’m not apt to ever catch again.” Trinity No Match for Georgetown. The ball game between Georgetown Uni- versity and Trinity College yesterday was a very one-sided affair, the home team winning by a score of 83 to 9. — — VIRGINIA RIGHTS Im the Pocomoke Fishing Grou: Sustained by the Supreme Court. Mr. Justice Field, in the Supreme Court Monday afternoon, handed down an opin- ion of the court sustaining in every material issue the contention of the state of Virginia in the controversy between Maryland and Virginia over the arrest of residents of Maryland for taking oysters in Virginia waters. The case came on appeal from the judgment of the circuit court for the east- ern district of Virginia, refusing to dis- charge Robert L. Wharton on a writ of habeas corpus from the custody of John H. Wise, sheriff of Accomac county, Va. Whar- ton is a citizen of Maryland, who was ar- rested by the sheriff of Accomac county for fishing for oysters in the mouth of the Pocomoke river. He was fined $500 by the Virginia state court and was remanded to Jail pending the payment of the fine. He was unable to secure bail while an appeal was being taken, since there was no pre- cedent for permitting a prisoner convicted of crime to go at large on bail. Consequent- ly, an application was made to the United States circuit court for a writ of habeas corpus. It was contended that by the con- pact of 1785, which the plaintiff held to be still In force, citizens of Maryland were al- lowed the same privileges in the oyster fish- eries as were given to those of Virginia. He asserted that the later law, under which he was convicted—that of 1892—was inoper- ath never having been ratified by the legislature of wae hope and, that as a citi- zen of Maryland, he should have been tried in the courts of his own state. The United States circuit court dismissed the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and this decision was sustained Monday by the Supreme Court in_an opinion holding that the com- pact of 1785 remains in force, but that as no er fishing rights in the Pocomoke were ranteed to Marylanders by that treaty, they were amenable to the laws of Virginia for fishing in the Pocomoke contrary to Virginia laws. ——————_+ e+ _____ How Heflin and Dyer Were Lynched. To the Editor of The Evening Star: I wish to correct the statement made by a correspondent of your paper yesterday in regard to the tw2 men who were lynched in the county of Prince William in this state a little more than two years ago. After speaking of the cases of Robinson and White, who are now confined in the jail in this city under sentence of death for criminal assault on Mrs. Elliot and Mrs. Heflin, your correspondent said: “Less than one year ago two negroes, Heflin and Dyer, charged with a similar crime, were lynched in this county a few hours preceding the hour set by law for them to meet their doom. The chafces in favor of a further respite for the condemned men are siim.” Now, the facts are these: The two men, Dyer and Heflin, who were lynched near Gainesville, in the county of Prince Wil- Mam, were white citizens of Fauquier coun- ty, and the scene of their crime was near Calverton station on the Richmond and Danville railroad in that county; the crime was one of the most brutal ever committed in this part of Virginia, being rape, mur- der and arson. After committing an out- rage on an old white woman, a widow, who lived alone with her two small children, the men murdered them all, and in order to conceal their crime, set fire to the house, Dyer and Heflin were tried in Warrenton, convicted and sentenced to be hanged, and while on the way to the jail in this city for safe-keeping, pending an application for a new trial, they were taken from the officers by a party of citizens from Fauquier coun- ty and lynched. I think it {s due to all the people of Prince William county to make this correction, and especially to the colored people, who have enough bad deeds of their own to an- swer for, without having put upon them all the foul crimes committed by white men. GEORGE WYMAN FREMONT. Alexandria, Va. Electricity for Power Transmission, A striking jlustration of the adaptability of electricity to power transmission is cited by the United States consul to St. Etienne, France, in a report to the State Department. He says that a company operating American electric machines under American patents has established a 9,000 horse power plant at a water fall eight miles from St. Etienne, and is transmitting the power from the dyna- mos that distance over cables driving over sixty looms, and with large increase pro- jected. In large factories there the power is also being distributed to the looms from the steam engines by means of interposed dynamos and motors, doing away with belt- ing and shafting and securing certain other important economics. ——————~—o+____. The severity of the scarlet fever epidemic at Montreal is not diminishing. There are about twenty-nine deaths a weck THINGS HEARD AND SEEN About the most aggravating thing in the Unitel States is the tortuous opening, fitted with a little brass barricade, through which @ passenger in a herdic is compelled to drop his fare into the box. If one has a nickel hanly,and is gifted with any amount ct dexterity, he can pay his fare after two or three attempts, but if he is one of those thrifty people who purchase car tickets he is doomed to annoyance every time he gets aboard of a herdic. Ninety-nine out of every hundred tickets stick in the little narrow chute which leads down into the box, and as the driver cannot see through metal he is almost always unier the im- Pression that somebody has failed to pay fare and rings the bell violently, to follow it with a vocal demand and then eventu- ally to stop the vehicle, get down from his seat, come around inside and punch the suspended ticket down into sight with the small end of his whip stock. Of all rense- less contrivances to be found anywhere, the fare box in a herdic stands pre-eminent, ard why it was ever invented no fellow can find out. 28 © © That bright Washington woman who is always saying such excellent things, was receiving the tearful confidences of a young friend, who in addition to the just acquired burden of matrimony is also guardian for a big hulk of a brother. The young man has not been satisfied with his allowance of late and has been pestering the life out of his devoted sister for an increase, in the shape of advances, to be returned when the estate is divided, which will be when a still younger brother reaches his majority. The reason for the demand of the youth is that he has taken a sudden fancy to eques- trianism, and desires to have what he vaguely alludes to as “a propah gentle- man’s stud, ye knaw.” His sister conse- quently was reciting to her friend what she had to contend with. “He wants to buy every horse he sees,” eaid the poor creature. “I never saw any- thing like him. And then when I argue with him to show him his foolishness, he becomes downright obstinate. Indeed, I don’t know what has occurred to make Dick so awfully hardheaded.” “Why, I do,” ejaculated her companion, with alacrity. ‘The dear boy's noddle has become hossified.” o 8 © @ There is another bright creature in Wash- ington who has for many moons coveted the possession of a coe ring. She never goes down town without returning to tell her doting, but ly impecuni- ous, husband about the lovely creation she saw in this or that jeweler’s window. The poor man has been studying all sorts of schemes in order to gratify the desire of his heart's delight, but none of them have reached an outcome substantial enough for him to do so. The other night both of them were tucked snugly away in bed when the door bell suddenly set up a clanging. Awak- ing, he inquired hazily: : > did some one ring?” She only heard the last word. “Oh, it’s lovely,” she murmured sleepily, Poi @ perfectly exquisite emerald in the center.” He negotiated a note and got it for her the next day to save her mind from going to wreck and ruin. Those who “trufy represent” the ethereal cult in Washington are giving much atten- ton to hypnotism just now, and there are several young men who affect the pursuit of the advanced sciences who have become quite adept in exercis’ the mysterious magnetic power upon each other, Most of them have confined their experiments :o the coterie to which they belong, in order to thoroughly master the art before trying it on persons who might be skeptical and treat them with derision and scorn. At one of the uptown clubs, where a post-graduate diploma must be shown to the waiter be- fore he will bring a man drink, three or four of the hypnotic novices were grouped the other evening, when one of them star- tled his companions by announcing that he was going to exert the uence over a prominent member of the organization who did not believe in fads of any sort and re- garded the claims of the coterie in question as supremely ridiculous. “I am going to hypnotize him,” asserted the youth, “and when he is in the trance I will make him give me $20. This we will expend on a dinner, to which he will be in- vited, and when the coffee ard cheese are reached we will acquaint lilm with the fact that he has paid for the feast as a punish- ment for his skepticism.” There was a murmur of admiration at fer be peg ae pg eae and a sharp lookout was kept for unsuspecting vic- tim that was to be. Pretty soon he came in, and the arch conspirator him in conversation preparatory to bringing him under the spell, while the others waited around with well- simulated indifference for the hypnotism to get in its work. The operator proceeded with his subject until he imagined he had prepared him to sympathetically receive the power to be transmitted, when he suddenly made a number of rapid passes before the skeptic’s face with his hands. The latter tumbled in an instant to the other's inten- tions and feigned to become drowsy and a willing creature of the operator’s will. He answered questions as he knew the hyp- notist wanted them answered, to the de- light of the latter and the admiration of his — Then he approached the crucial est “You are going to put your hand in your pocket ani give me twenty dollars and for- get all about it immediately after doing so,” said the operator. “You are mistaken,” responded the sub- ject, briskly. “What I am going to give you is a good licking, If you don’t si it asic set up the supper for the Inevi The hypnotist tried to beg off, but the oth- er was obdurate, and he was forced to en- tertain at a costly spread six of the most dare devil rascals in the shape of practical jokers who can be found outside of a junior class. He is cured of hypnotic experiments now, because the sextet made him the sub- ject of more mesmerism and other occult things that night than the mightiest of modern magicians ever dreamed of. . The car was creeping snail-like up town the other night. Outside rain and cold were cco Foil —— and inside a six months’ bit of humanity was making things more so. There was not much choice, but The Star writer thought he would rather fly to evils that he knew not of out on the back platform in the cold than endure the evils inside which he had been thoroughly introduced to. So he gently slammed the door and stepped outside where the conduc- tor was wrapped In thoughts too deep for utterance and a $7.50 overcoat. The fare- puncher looked sad. His face wore that ex- pression of weariness which overshadow: man when he has lost his best tile on a game of poker, or been bounced from a free lunch. But he was sociable, just the same, and, after ridding himself of a little sur- plus tobacco juice by reaching for the news- boy who was trying to ride half way up town under guise of selling his papers, the conductor opened up the conversation. “I feel d—m bad tonight,” he remarked in_as solemn a voice as if he were quoting a Bible verse; “I feel bad.” The Star writer became sympathetic at this, for he was tn a sympathetic mood him- self just then, and ready to sympathize with almost any one from Boss McKane to a rejected lover. Feeling that he was en- couraged, the conductor continued: “I've lost close onto four dollars today,” he went on. “Don't see how in the name of the Cannibal Islands I did it, but it’s gone, just the same, and I don’t know as it eats much of a hole how it went. I've made about half of it up already, but I guess I can't make it all up today. It's too blamed much. There isn’t time, and then they'd be likely to tumble to one ‘workin’’ that much in a day.” “Do you mean to say that if you Icse n.oney you make it up out of the passen- gers’ fares then?” ‘The conductor's face was a study for a minute. Then it was a smile; then it was a grin, “Do we? Weill, I should smile a smole. What else do you suppose we'd do? Of course the company requires us to make it up out of our own pockets. Maybe the company thinks we do. Maybe some other duffers think we do, too, but they're off, way off. You can't blame us. The company never takes any excuses or believes us if we say we lost it. It's no go, they say. They're onto your caper, and you can plank the stuff down from your own pocket, or take the elevator to the street. Now, a man work- ing on what we do, in the hours we do, who's got a family to support, can’t afford to do that. He can’t stand the loss out of his own pocket. How much do we take in in a day? Well, about $15 on the average. Course, when ‘ellow loses a little small change, it's easy enough. He can just ac- cidentally forget to ring up a few fares and get square all right, but when he loses a pile he’s got to work it mighty scientifically and mighty carefully or he'll get throwed. Got to keep your weather eye open for spotters.”” “I've heard that the company htres men that you fellows don’t know to ride around on the cars and see whether you register all The Secret of Strength. In 8 Acts. ‘To show their strength « Men of muscle—strong and 5 Just the same the whole By the use of Johann Hoff’s Malt Extract. One dozen bottles give as much strength and cating. g00d."* Write for HISNER & MENDELSON ©0., Agents, 152 and 154 the passengers or not. Is that what you mean?” “Well, yes; sometimes. But there isn’t as much of that done as people think. It costs too much. You see we soon get onto | ® man and then the jig is up and he can’t work the racket no more. It’s the railroad | officials and such like that worry us nost. They are all the time watchin’ us and get- tin’ on the cars, so a fellow has to lay mighty low not to get trapped. I expect one old duffer on this trip. He generally gits on and rides up a piece about this time of it. Soon as he comes in you'll see him lookin’ around the car and sizing up the passengers and then up at the register to | see if they hang in with each other. You be sure and ring him up. T've got | to lay off in makin’ up my shorts for a while, though, if I don’t want to get swiped. they should catch a fellow, specially | n his trip, with more passengers had registered up, it would be dead clean agin him, of course, and his name would be Dennis before morning. That's what makes the biz such a wearin’ | one.” “I suppose you fellows stand in pretty close together in these things, don’t you?” ‘The conductor gave a sly wink. ‘Slightly,’ he remarked. “Who wouldn't? It's our only show, and we can help each other out a 00d deal sometimes. Now, on this here blasted line, they’re awful particular about Personal appearance and that sort of rot. One of the directors of the road is a regular rip-roarer for that sort of thing, and is all the time walking down along the car lines to see if we are standing up straight, and are lookin’ neat and tidy, mindin’ our own biz, not flirtin’ with the giris or gettin’ any fwn out of life nohow. But we've fixed him. He's got a regular Peffer style of beard, and the fellows all call him ‘whiskers." When- ever of the boys sees hin comin’ down the si they just nail onto the fact, you can bet. Of course, if they are goin’ the same way he’s goin’, they soon pass him, and then they get in their work. Every car they meet goin’ the other way, or toward ‘whiskers,’ they raise their hands up to their chins and stroke them as if they was patting their beard. This puts the other boys on, and they pull themselves together and put on a regular Sunday-go-to-meetin’ air till they gits past him. Great scheme, that. Yes, we have lots of secrets and we stand in together mighty thick, but we get downed sometimes even then. A man's in his steadiest j6b when he's fired. Want a transfer? Well, = jong.” « “I have the designs for a new story, but thirst for inspiration to develop it,” said Col. Jim Struthers, at the market house,this afternoon. “Well, colonel,” said The Star man, “you can have one on me ff you'll tell it.” A cork popped and the nymphs winked. “I was walking through the grounds of a hospital this morning,” continued the colo- nel, and stood on the brow of Prospect Hill, from whence I took a periscope of creation and iisted to the babble of the little foun- tain in Poplar gulch. On a rustic settee near me was a patient, In the last siages of consumption and the final chapter of her life. She was on the descending scale and close to the leading tone. She was fair and | fragile. She was penciling on . As the dinner bell of the institution rang, the girl rose hi iy and 4: one of her A breath of the breeze bore it to me here it is.” Then the colonel handed the a crumpled, crinkled leaf on which was written in small, nervous char- acters, the following: “Welcome, Spring; The Queen of the Year rules the realm of earth. The land is robed in verdure;the hea- vens are flushed in sunshine, and all the universe is a symphony of emerald and azure; the fields are spangled with bouton- feres of bloom and bouquets blossom in syl- van settings. The birds sing the praises of the time; the waters laugh a tuneful wel- come and a merry smile of gladness beams from the blue eyes of the skies. Our river mirrors the sparkling glances of the Day God's cresset, and answers in sunlight to the sun. The somber-barren branches are jeweled with pendant buds and colored with the glowing promises of leaves. Flowing veins nestle in the outstretched arms of the trees, and tender, tangled creepers cling round and covt the boughs. Little rilis gurgle as they rhythmically ripple on way. The parks are rainbowed with the embroidery of hyacinth and tulip. It is that season wooed by poets and wrong- ed by those who would be. Nature has painted the dale and dell, the mount and vale with an Irish gleam, and all the airs hang heavy with the music of soft winds and bridal chimes.” “ At the bottom of the sheet was an incom- plete sentence which ran over to the next / ae ee © @& «© “Ready-made houses are becoming the fashion,” said a builder. “If you want a dwelling .of your own nowadays, you do not need to wait half a year to get it put up; you can have it built in a day. You write to a firm engaged in the business for its advertising book, which contains pic- tures of houses that the concern is prepar- ed to construct at prices all the way from $150 to $5,000, together with plans and specifications. Pick out your residence, and an order addressed to the firm will fetch at short notice all the requisite materials, on your lot. Within twenty-four hours the dwelling is up and complete. You may have a cellar if you like, though most houses built in this way are without cel- lars. All of the parts are ready-made and so matched and numbered that they can be put together tn an astonishingly short space of time. This kind of building has become quite in vogue at summer resorts of late years. Nearly the whole of Cottage City, on the island of Martha's Vineyard, is con- structed in that way. If you want a cheap place to live in summer, buy a little patch of cheap land near the beach in some se- cluded locality, and put up a ready-made house on it. The whole cost ought not to be over $200." . An amusing scene took place the other day. A man was working on G street. Not that it Is either so wonderful nor so amus- ing to see a man working on G ctreet, or to PHYSICIANS SAY S80. ‘The only way to cure salt rheum, eczema, pim- ples. Polis, blotches “and ulcers ie "bythe. ime of Dr. . David’ Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. numbers of so-called blood purifiers,” Belinda Hodsdon of Haverhtll, N.' H., benefit, uutil 1 begam to take Favorite 4 suffering from an ulcerated sore leg, a few bottles cured me.” “I used rites Mre. “without acr. ‘The Samson Bros. now appear Rourishment as a cask of ale, without being intox® = Insist upon the GENUINE, with signature of “‘Jobann Hoff” on meck label. None other ts “as pamphlet. Franklin st., New York. ind Inck of fear. . sound year round see a man working at all, for that matter; but in this particular case it was. The man in question was @ prominent saloon keeper on 10th street, well down town, whose friends say he never does, never has that until the other day. So confident were they, in fact, that he could not be urged to put his hand to the plough that a goodly number of them made individual bets with him of $10 to $25, just as a feeler, that he couldn't be induced to sweep the street. But Bill, for that was his first name, thought otherwise, and so in the presence of an appreciative and applauding audience he swept the dust this way and that, and forth, and every which way out street near the city post offi day. A large throng of people about the spot from 12 o'clock in the afternoon, during which at it undaunted, with frequent ever, during which he would go rigating factory near by with let them name their liquids. came at length he breathed noisy sigh of relief, but his smile of supreme happiness such as adorns the count genus boy when his face is first watermelon of the season No one with whom he must wonder, either, for they say over a hundred and fifty dollars from bets with loving friends. Pretty work, taken all in all. His frien as loving, perhaps, but they discreet in future, and ‘80 much the richer. i & jel iii } { 5 s 5 7 4 i 1 Ped igs fee Hilt itl g E : H i e i i 5 is FE and Theresa McGiN of this city; Bugene Pierce and Lillie Tyler; Jeremiah P. Jewell of thie city and Margaret A. Conly of Phil- adelphia, Pa.; Ernest Watson and Mary El- jen Coursey; Rev. Francis M. Bogardus of Montrose, Y., and Helen M. Traver of this city; Wm. O. Shiplor of this city and Isabei C. 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