Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1894, Page 2

LATE- NEWS bd be Visisi, Stories. of the Stormin Meny | ¥la..s,.... = ae ne GALE SWEPT OVER “C2°22 ny pack d Lida The British Steamer Jasna ts otul n LOW MERCURY | ae NEW YORK, Decemver 2i.—The cola has been exceptional here ive the iast tweuty- four hours. ‘The* mefdlry* this mornng marked eight degrees avove wero. At Sara- mac lake in the Adirondack mountaiis, thirty-two Gagides** wert zero was re- corded; at Hunungtgy,;qyy, in the same region, the temperature was forty Leiow zero. “At*Gonseo thie mercury fed to ven degrees. below, 4680... BRUSH, Col, December for the past three’ uf fow das has Leen the seyerest experienced for years. Last night the mercury dropped to iweuty-mx belove,zano. 5; PITTSBURG, December 2).—The lowest point ‘reathed by theswrermometer here was four degrees below xeru at 7 o'clock last evening. At 8 a? ™tuaay the service station reporied three dexcees be- low. CorsiderafTé “trois "has been ex- perienced by a shortage in the natural gas supply, caused by the drealcing of a ing main leading .from,,the yas ieids. The re- ports from the mountoirs say at some points =he mercury reached sixteen degrees below zero. ATLANTA, Gd Decetther 29.--The cold wave, reached, ve gf imax here at 2 o'clock this morning, ‘w) ie thermometer regis- tered. foux, ge naye.zero. This morn- ing the weather ls moderating, and indica- tions -aze that--it- will continue to grow warmer during the day. The wave caught Atlanta unawares. Tha.motormen on the trolley cars were the chief sufferers, and extraordinary efforts were mgde to shield them from suffering. Great bonfires were made at~thé-emdseef the street railway lines, and hot bricks were supplied for the men to stand on.** =—* MASSILLON, Ohjp,Desember 29—With the temperature hoveriug around zero to- day many of the idie cag! miners are with- out fuel to beat their houses. Coal is so scarce that there is met-enough to keep the pumps going at the mines, and the opera- tors will’ sborf be Compelled to buy outside fuelin order to keep (heir property from | going to destructton!*'The operators will hold a meeting at Cleveland today, and it is possible that-The"extremely cold weadher may lead them to offer some concessions to the miners. CLEVELAND,~ Ohio, December 29.— holas Backus, keeper of the light tn the water works crib, Wa8 overcome by the cold last ¢ in a row bout on Lake Erie. He was making the trip from the harbor to the crib, with his younger broth- he weather er, a sixteen-year-old Iad. The two lost their bearings and finally the elder was evercome and sank to the bottom of the boat in-a-fainting condition. An hour later the young man managed to pull the boat up to the crib. His brother was frozen to death, and the younger was almost dead with cold and exhaustion. Tremendous Storm Abroad. LONDON, December 29.—A tremendous store “prevailed ever the northwest of Ire- land yesterday evening, and there is a heavy sea off that coast today. The Allan ine *sterm=hip- Laurentian, Capt. McDoug- all, from Liverpool December 24, tor Hall- fax, and Portland, Me., was unaole to proceed on her journey and lay otf Mo- ville all night. Nothing has-been jeard of the British steamer Sarnia, which, 2s exclusively d bythe “Associated Press yester afternoon, lost her rudder, and, aft ing been taken mM tow by the A Steamer jnghoria, was abandoned owing to | the heavy Weather which prevailed wt a| poipt about 15). miles west of Tory Island. ‘The Sarnia was bound from Portland, Me. via, Halifax, for- Liverpool, and has board fifty cabin passengers and a large numberof sheep. | Tugs are waiting at the entrance of Lough Foyle for'ths weather to moderate in order to search for the Sarnia. The gale has been especially severe in the Bristol channel, The British ship Poly- nesian, from Cardiff, collided in Barry Roads with the British ship Balclutha, outward-bound from Barry. The Polyne- sian put into Penarth a comparative wreck. Several! smail wrecks are reported along the coast. A heavy gale is sweeping across the channel, delaying the mail boats. Snow has fallen in many places in England for the first time this season. The brigantine Woodville, to Liverpool, “has foundered. erew were drowned, re- from Dublin Six of her WANT TO CONTINUE. A New Motion in the Fidelity Case. Matters in the case of the Fidetity Building, Loan and Trust Association took another turn today, when Mr. Frank L. Morling of Baltimore, Md., requested Judze Cox's permission te, file a petition, signed by holders of preferred stock, praying that the court permit them to continue the business of the association, Mr. Morling is the receiver of the asso- ciation, appointed by the Maryland courts, and pétitioned the t here last week to turn over to him, as such receiver, the sumicf 36,500, which, he claims, was col- lected from the Marylar therefore should be place the Maryland receiver, not yet bees To Judge Cox Mr, the irties signing continuance of the business of the associa- tion here represented $18,500 of the sum of $28,000 known as preferred.stock. The pe- Utioners set forth that they believed that if the business of the aesociation should be closed up stockholders would not receive more than 10 cents onihe.dollar; wheres if the court permit the business go on they Were cawidentethat they would Feceive dollar for dollar. 1 stockholders and in the hands of That petition has actéa “upon. Morling the stated that petition for a The District recetweus,.iMm Morling stated, would offer no objection, and he believed that nony.of, thestookbolers would object. ‘The petitioners proposed, said Mr. Mor- ling, to..caxry~on the business under an entirely new board of directors, the mem- bers of which would be elected by the stockholders from their own number, and that the ‘business would be conducted un- der the ‘tion and advice of the court. Withoot ‘stating What action he would take upon the petitian, Judge Cox directed Mr. Morling to fully consult the interested which parties before filing. tae petiticn, Mr. Morling promised to do. i _ TWO NEW SUSPECTS. Health Officials. Busy Over Sm: Today. ¥! The heafth officials are still doing all in their power. to prevent the spread of small- pox as far as possible. and with this end in view ,the S//5°TA! Policemen are still wate! ing a number. af hous: ‘The idea is that all who are in are to be kept in, and noth- ing is to come out. This, of course, pre- vents many of the poor people from going out and carning their living, and the Dis- trict is supplying them with food and fuel. There were go new. cases of smallpox reperte? 4 tday, but this afternoon two suspected cases Were reported, one In a court in rear of 7th street southeast, op- posite the Eastern High: Scheol, a colored man, and the other on Sth street northwest between P and Q streets, a white man. 8 2 o'clock when these reports were received, and Health Officer Woodward di- arA ae “THE EVENING 8 TAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. -XTRA SESSION TALK! JOHN BURNS HERE|. x c.t™mce™..... [ALL SORTS OF GOODS|YERY ANGEROUS CRANK] FINANCE AND TRADE . print on Saturday a sworn statement i i evita 5 of its circulatiow day by day for the | Menact ‘ i EEE a of ail oe a1 = Pik Vale He Reached the City Early This Preceding ck would scm ne Sold Today by the Police for Their} Me bee pig oe Sy Speculation Steady and Volume of see Morning From Pittsburg. to this préfectipm. Below will be | Fund. aie ~ Business Greater, These Are the Urgency Deficiency and : res bos ths saeeeat tor peters : Police Are Looking for the Author the Currency Measures—Fo mer Extra Sessions Recall The talk of an early extra session of the Fifty-fourth Congress has been revived at the Capitol by the contingencies which may arise growing out of the fa‘'ure of necessary legisiauon to pass at the pres: ept session. Upon two pending bills, it is generally believed, hangs the question of whether Mr. Cleveland will convoke the new Congress soon after the death of the Fifty-*bhird on March 4. Those two bills are the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, which contains the appropriation for carry- ing the income tax into effect, and which is pending m the Senate, ad the Carlisle currency bill, which is under debate in the House, and the fate of which will be de- cued soon after the House reconyenes, January %. ‘The opponents of the income tax, led, it is beweved, by Senators Hail and Quay, will maxe a desperate fight in the Senate, and wiil exhaust every par- liamentary expedient to defeat it. Many democratic members of the Senate, how- ever, affect to believe that the ultimate defeat of the bill before adjournment is impossible. 1f it should fail an extra ses- sion would be imperative if the admua istration purposes to make the income tax operative. The currency bill, offered by the administration as a means of partially re- lieving the treasury, is regarded as of par- amount importanci ‘Treasury Condition Critical. The condition of the treasury Is critical. The gold reserve is dwindling rapidly, and another berfd issue is regarded as inevit- able if nothing is done to prevent the present drain of gold. Mr. Cleveland, it is understood on high authority, is yery much in earnest in his desire for some fegisiation at this session to relieve the treasury, and if it is not forthcoming there are many who believe he will immediately convoke the Firt rth Congress and ask the needed relief” of. his political adversaries. it must not be. forgotten, however, that there are many of the republican leaders who are opposed to any tactics which wil make an extra session secessary.. They be- lieve from a political standpoint that it would be bad policy, and will not encour- age or even abet any move looking to that end. Should Mr. Cieveland’ cali-an extra session he will be the second President since the war to convent Congress in ex- traordinary session tw'-> during his term of office. Until Mr. Cleveland convoked the extra session in August of last year no extra session had been called since 18\ when Mr. Hayes called an extraordinary session two Weeks afier his inauguration. That session was forced by several riders which the democrats, who had control of the House, had placed on the army appro- priation bill, One of them repecied the law permitting soldiers at the polis, A Notable Extra Session, Although the democrats had elected a narrow majority to the ensuing House on that occasion the brief time allowed by Mr. Hayes for the Representatives-elect to reach Washington (two weeks) made it the almost impossible for them to or; House. The ocratic national ‘commit- tee, it will be remembered, on that oce sion ran a special train across the con- tinent from Oregon to: bring Repr tive Whittaker here in time to vote. was much excitement at the time, follp ing as it did on the heels of the famous s-Tilden controve wut the train ed in season, beating all records of trans-continental travel up to that tin Another episode of that organization was the dramatic and tragic e i House of Representative who was very ill, and who was c: the Capitot on a- stretcher that he complete the vote necessary to make Sam- uel J. Randall Speaker. He voted, but was carried from the chamber never to re-enter it again. Of course, there would be no nm ity for such heroig means of procuring the 4 tendance of members from the remote cor ners of the country if there should be an extra session cf the Fifty-fourth Cong: called immediately after the sine die journment of the Fifty-third, as the reprb- lican majority in the House is ov whelming. But es the Senate close, the or exciting in the organizetion of the up- per house. THE ee earn a ALBUM CASE, Solicitor Reeve Susinins the Seizures His Opinion Net Finn). Solicitor Reeve of the Treasury Depart- ment has given an opinion to Assistant Secretary Hamlin in the matter of the stamp-album seizures. He sustains the le- gality of the action of the secret service officers in seizing such articles under the similitude section of the statutes for the prevention of counterfeiting. He advises that the further printing of these albums be prohibited and that the plates from which the stamps—foreign and domestic— are printed be confiscated and destroyed. He recommends, however, that publishers and dealers be allowed to dispose of stamp books now 11 stock In the regular course of business, with the distinct ungerstanding that no'more are to be issued. He ad that our laws do not prohibit pfinting of similitudes of foreign stamps except % it is done for purposes of counter He urges in the strongest way the seizure and destruction of all plates now in ex- isience in this country that have been or may be heroafter J in the manufacture of fac-similes of foreign or domestic stamps. Pinal. Assistant Secretary Hamlin told a Star reporter this afternoon that the solicitor’s opinion on this subject is not final and that it had beer determined 4o cbtain an opinion from the Attorney General before deciding on the future course of the ‘treasury De- partment in this matter. The albums seized were returned by the secret service people on the 27Lh instant. an INCOME 'TAX INJUNCTION, Gevernment Officin Believe That the Proceedings Will Fail. Late yesterday afternoon Assistant At- torney General Whitney filed a demurrer in the case of John G. Moore against Com- missioner Miller of the internal revenue bureau, filed last Saturday, in which he asks for an injunction restraining the com- missioner from collecting the income tax authorized by the new tariff act. The de- murrer briefly .sets forth that the com- plainant has not made such a case as en- tities him in a court of equity to the relief sought. The matter will probably be heard some day of the second week of next month. It is said that the case is attracting little at- tention among the government officials, many of whorn believe that the complam- ant bas absolutely no case. The otficials of the Department of Justice regard the constitutional question as settled by a ser- ies of Supreme Court decisions, beginning with the Hylton case in 1796, when three members of the constitutional convention were on the bench, and ending with the case of Springer vs. the United States in 1881. They also believe that the plaintiff will find it impossible to raise the consti- tutional questions in the present preceed- ings, because an injunction is not the prop- er remedy in such a case, and is, in fact, expressly prohibited by the Revised Stat- utes, They believe that Mr. Moore will have to wait till the collection of his tax is attempted. A Somewhat similar at- tempt was made by the senate of Missis- sippi in 1867 to enjoin President Johnson from executing the reconstruction acts; but the Supreme Court held that a court could not interfere in this way to prevent the execution of acts claimed to be wicon- rected inspector Walls to visit the houses and diagnose the cases. a This afternoon Dr, Elliott telephoned the health office that all thé patfefits, with the of Green, were doing nicely. Green was very low and appeared to be dying. A suspicious case téported at a house on 8d street southwest yesterday proved to be chicken pox.” ~ ae A slight earthquake was felt at Boise City, idano, Wednesday. It broke windows and rattled deors, * stitutional. ee Se Randolph Churchitl’s Condition. LONDON, December 20.—Lord Randolph Churchill had periods of consciousness yes- terday, and during the night he conversed with the physicians in attendance vpon him and asked to see his sister, Baroness De Ramsey. In spite of this improvement in the patient's condition his medical at- tendants believe that it is really only evanescent. TARES A QUICK VIEW OF THE CITY What He Says of Washington and the Government Printing Office. COL. REND’S ATTACK Mr. John Burns. the English labor leader, reached the city from Pittsburg shortly after 9 o'clock this morning, but took a surveying tour around the city before going to a hotel. Later in the day he registered at Wormley's, and will make that hotel his headquarters while here. Upon his ar- rival he was taken in charge by Mr. Jas. A. Power, organizer of the International Typographical Union, and with his com- panion, J. Williams Been, began an in- specticn of the government printing office. Afterward he called upon Commissioner of Labor Carrol’ D. Wright, and before he had been in the city three hours had collected a box full of statistical works to be ship- ped to England. Concerning his observation Mr. Burns ssid: “I am enamored of the principle of the governmert doing its own work. I came to Washington with deep interest in the government printing office for that .ea- son, and on my return will do everything that I can to induce Great Britain to aban- don the contract system of printing, as I have done in the past. I was particularly pleased with the character and appear- ance of the employes and was agreeably surprised to find the women an girls of as good a class, if not-better, than those em- ployed in the same lire of work in any country. “The government printery is the best in- dustrial and social institution that 1 havi seen in the United States, just as the Capl- tol is structurally your finest building. This is due, undoubtedly, to the fact that the operators get higher wages than others em- ployed in the same class of work. Your printery is a most remarkable standing protest against the sweating system. The conditions under which its work is done, the excellence of éts system and its admin- istration and the effect that these have upon the personality of its staff, the co- operative spirit which seems to infuse the whole establishment, is a standing exem- plar that American industry in all its de- partments will have to follow in the near future; that is, if American industry is to be rationally and peacefully administered, so as to ward off the industrial revolution that In the United States even now assumes the shape of an incipient civil war. “Ry extension of the sphere of its business activity the government can kill the sweat- ing system.” Speaking of Carroll D. Wright, Mr. Burns said: “One could not come to America without seeing the man who so faithfully, minutely and microscopically diagnosed the conditions of its labor, regardless of our estimation of his conclusions upon these matters. We in England consider him one ur foremest men.”" , hear,” interrupted Mr. Been in his parliamentary vernacula The Attack of Col. Rend. When the attack of Col. Rend in Pitts- burg last night was spoken of, Mr. Burns aid: “{ came to America, on the whole, a sympathetic and, I think, an unprejudiced observer 2f its municipal and industrial life. No American, I think, will say that a continent so near the old world that it can | sorb its bad as well as its good | will not show black spots. For- ve on my side the best critic icipal conditions—all of the and every municipal reform. newspaper All of your municipal officers have received me 3 a practical critic, being identified f with municipal government in my country. They urge me to continue my observation ems in the interest of permanent nt. The only critic in Pittsburg one who came to curse John Burns and went away to bless him. He ended his 1 in that meeting by objecting in the city hall on account of ences in its precincts, a mation of my criticism. n't make a summer. One the wilderness does not One howling voice in discourage me. “You look to Washington for the lexisla- tive common sense of the nation to display itself. Im your government printery you have your industrial guide. Follow it while there is yet time. The municipal side of Washington we cannot discuss, because, as Lord Dundreary said, ‘for reasons no fel- low can understand,’ you are governed by benevolent paternalism, that however util- itarian it may be in its results, cannot claim to be either representative, republican or democratic.” ‘There will be a meeting tonight at Con- vention Hall, at which Mr. Burns will speak. ee QUESTION OF VERACITY. Gee. Roth, However, Was Held for the Grand Jury. Mrs. Magiie Roth, who came near losing her life Christmas night from the effecis of a dose of ammonia, allegcd to have been administered by George Roth, her hus- bend, was able to appear in the Police Court today and give evidence in a case involving a charge of attempted murder against her husband. The little woman started out by telling of a bullet which she carried in her leg, and this builet, she said, was put there by her husband several years ago. Christmas day, she said, she Was out visiting, but did not drink’ any- thing. She returned home early in the evening and was in her room when her husband came home drunk. He had some ccmplaints to make, she said, and then he attempted to ‘a razor on her throat, but she grabbed it from him, Then she stood looking in his face, and when she attempted to speak he put the neck of the ammonia bottle to her mouth and forced her to drink some of the fluid. She denied that she had been drinking, and said she had stood about as much brutality as she is able to stand. Her husband, she said, had been drinking for several days. Evidence of the police and neighbors was also given. According to their evidence, she was found unconscious on the front step, and Dr. Kirby said he thought che would have died had she been without medical attendance for thirty minutes. The husband was there, and thinking his wife was dead, he was in a hurry to bury her, and wanted to send for Undertaker Geier, saying: “I'll epend $500 for the funeral.” Roth ‘denied the charge. He charged that his wife had been in the habit of getting intoxicated, and said that that was the trouble with’ her Christmas night. When he saw what was the trouble he remarked: “Let the crazy, drunken fool, Sis wife, he sald, had been in the habit of taking’ ammonia to kill the smell of liquor, and so far as the bullet in her leg is concerned, he said, that wes the result of an ‘accident. Judge Miller, after hearing all the proof, said that there was a question of veracity between the husband and wife, and the grand jury will have to investigate it. Bond was fixed at $1,000. ee FOUND HER bopDy. Lizzie Stewart Was Probably Frozen to Death, Lizzie Stewart, a colored woman, thirty- two years old, failed to go home last night and the result was that her dead body was found on the premises of the Second Bap- tist Church (colorel), on 8d street north- west between H and I streets. Her body was found this morning by workmen en- gaged on the new church building. The woman was well known to the police, and it is said she had been sent to the work- house many times. According to the statements of the police the woman was addicted u. the use of in- toxicating drinks to such an extent that she was continually getting arrested, and it is thought she had been drinking last night before she went to the church prem- ises and made her bed between the founda tion walls and a pile of bricks. She was cripple, and is said to have lived in the neighborhood of 3d and O strects. The frozen body was removed to the morgue and the coroner notified. Thé average “ctroulation eihibteg combined circulation of the other Washington! dailies, and fully five” times that of te afternoon contem- porary, = * °* : Circulation of The “Evening $' SATUKDAY, Dec. 22, isu. 38,534 MONDAY, Dec.. 24, isvs. -31,634 TUESDAY, Dec. 25, 184..., s+ +-28,466 WEDNESDAY, Dec. 26, 189. ... 31,197 THURSDAY, Dee. 2%, 134, 31,492 FRIDAY, Dec. 28, tov -31,503 Total 192,826 Daily average. 32,137 J solemnly swear that’ the above statement rep- Tesents only the number of copies of 1'"# oVaN- It bran circulated during tue six secular days end- ing Friday, December 28, 1s¥4—that ts, the num- ber of copies actuaily sold, delivered, furnisned ormailed, for valuabie consideration, to bona fide purchasers or subscribers, and that none of the copies so counted were returned to or remainia the olice unsold J. WHIT, HERRON, Cashier Evening Star Newspaper Co. Subscribed and sworn to tefore me this twenty-ninth day 0 December, A.D 1sv4. HERBERT M. LOCKE, Notary Pubuc, D. C. DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. Width of Howard Avenue. Sarah G. Bloss of, 3308 14th street north- west has written to the Cummissioners protesting against the proposed widening of Howard avenue, Mt. Pieasant, from 43 feet, its present width, to 105 feet, or tu feet, as suggested in a petition received by the Commissioners recently. In her letier today she says that her lots, 218, 219, 220, 221 and 222 on Howard avenue, running west from 14th street, are at present of suilicient depth to make them valuable for building purposes, but their reduction in depth by either 30 or 22 1-2 feet would lessen their value very materially. She states the first three lots are 87 1-2 feet deep, and the other two U7 feet deep. Also she states that there seems to be no public or private necessity for widening Howard e, through these lots, as the street comparatively a short one, originally ning from 4th street to Old Piney nch road (6th street extended), tess than 1,800 feet in length, and not a thor- oughfare between important points or into the city. Concluding, she says: “Fourteenth street, north from Florida avenue to Park avenue, is but 80 feet in width. It is an important thoroughfare into the city, and north from Park street it cannot be widened on the west side, be- caaise of the brick flats on the northwest corner of Park and Mth streets. Why a short and unimportant street like Howard avenue should exeeed in width an imvort- ant thoroughfare is not readily seen.” Grade of an Alley. H. Rozier Dulany and A, Walton Flem- ing have written to the Commissioners complaining of the sewer trap in the alley in the rear of Jot 3, square 162, being so near the building called the Grafton that when it rains the water flows over tho trap and backs up,pgainst the wall of thi building, Keepiug the wall damp. An ad- ditional objection, they say, to the s0ca- tion of the trap is, that it is very close to the windows of the Grafton, and any gas arising from it would enter the building it the windows were op They have re- quested that the trap be moved away from the wall aud Chat jhe alley be raised so as to slope away from the btilding toward the sewer trap. Tae matter has been referred to the engineer department for investig tion. Time Extended, The Commissioners this afternoon ex- tended the time for the completion of the contract with Peter McCartney to con- struct a new ward at the Washington Asy- jum ten days. An Appointment. Charles Williams was this afternoon zp- pointed by the Commissioners as patrol driver in the police department, vice Lamb, removed. The appointment is to take ef- fect January 1, 180. Smallpox Service. The Commissioners today appointed Wm. Kemp, R. L. Dean, J. T. Hatton, N. H. Coie and L, Hendricks additional privates of the metropolitan police for duty in the smallpox service. x Favorable Action, In a letter to Senator Isham G. Harris, chairman of the Senate District committze, the Commissi ners recommend favorable action on the bill to regulate the sale of miik in this city. In the cpinion of the Commissioners this subject is an import- ant one, and they urge an early enactinent of the law. Ruilding Permit, A building permit was issued today to George L. Thompson to erect three two- story brick houses, to be designated 33, and 37 F street, Bloomingdale, at an esti- mated cost of $0,000. Notes. P. J. Clark of 2256 N street northwest has requested the Commissioners to lay a sewer on 31th street between Q and R streets. NEW TREASURY STATEMENT. After the New Year One Will Be Is- sued Daily. ‘The ‘Treasury Department has prepared a new form of statement, which will show the receipts and expenditures of the gov- ernment and the condition of the treasury at 2 o'clock on each business day. This statement will not take the place of the monthly debt statement, but is intend- ed to simplify and unify the several state- ments which are issued daily by the cev- eral bureaus. The statement will show the receipts from customs, internal revenue and mis cellaneous sources for the day, the month and for the fiscal year; the expenditures on account of pensions, interest, war, navy, Indians and civileappropriations, It will also show the deposits and re- demptions of national bank notes; the old coin and gold bullion, standard silver do!- lars, silver bullion, standard silver dollars and bullion of 159) at cost, the fractional silver coin and United States notes. Also all the other items of cash, includ- ing treasury notes, &c., less agency ac- counts, concluding. with the available cash balance and the redemption for the day of United States and treasury notes. ““he new form will be put into use January o——_ = New Year at the Post Office. The following divisions of the main oflice, city post office, will be closed to the public on Tuesday next, by order of Postmaster Willett: Money order division, registry di- vision. Carriers’ windows. at main office will be open from 6 to 7 p.m. A delivery by carriers will be made at 7:30 a.m. Collec- tions for entire city will be made at 4:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. County collections will be made at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ‘The following stations will be open to the public for the transaction of business as follows: East Capitol station, 6 to 11 a.m.; 5 to 7 p.m. Georgetown station, 6 to 11 a.m.; 5 to 7 p.m. Southwest station, 6 to 11 a.m.; 5 to7 p.m. Station C, 7 to 10 a.m. Admitted to Ba! Julius H, Rhodes and Ellen Caroline Chase, who were committed to jail by the Police Court several days to await the ac- tion of the grand jury on a charge of in- cest, were admitted to bail this afternoon by Judge Cole in the sum of $200 each. Actor Fechter’s Widow Dead. PARIS, Dceember 29.—The widow of Charles Albert Fechter, the celebrated French actor, is dead. Fechter died in New York August 5, 1879. 4% One Man.of a Speculative Turn of Mind. LONG ee THE LIstT That !t is possible to sell enything at all, provided only it is put up at auction, was proved again today, wher. the annual police sale of unclaimed property was held at Sloan’s auction house, 1407 G street. The collection that is put up every year to be knocked down to the highest bidders is comparable only with the dead letter sale, which the Post Office Department offers to the seekers after bargains. For the va- riety of articles exposed for sale it may be said to be unsurpassed. There is ro limit in the matter of size, as there is in the case of the things sent from the dead letter office, and this broadens the possi- bilities in th~ premises. In the catalogue which went with the sale this morning there were abo. : 300 articles set down, ranging from a box con- taining sixteen packages of cigarettes to @ partial outfit of ladies’ underwear. A broken banjo, eyeglasses, some very old clothes and some that were not quite so old, one set of eighty-six pocket hand- kerchiefs, several velocipedes and bicycles, flat irons and umbrellas, a gold bracelet with two “genuine diamond settings,” a pair of ladies’ shoes, a number of pairs of “pants’”—these were but a few of the 300 articles, for there were few or no du- plicates in the list. Time was when a!l the weapons captured by the police were disposed of in this way, but a few years ago it occurred to the authorities that this was simply spreading the evil over again and was but making it necessary to confiscate the weapons once more. As a result, all such articles that now come into the rossession of the police are rendered useless, and are eventually dropped overboard into the Potomac from the police boat. For the Pension Fund. All the goods that were put on sale to- day were described in the catalogue as lcst, stolen and abandoned property, and included pretty much everything that would be likely to come into the hands of the police without ever finding an owner. ‘The proceeds of the sale are turned over to the police pension fund, and are ex- pected this time to net quite a tidy sum. One of the most curious or at least un- usual articles dispcsed of at the sale today was a lung tester. It was a handsomely finished physician's instrument, and seem- ed to be quite new. It was probably stolen from some doctor's office, and must have criginally cost quite a large amount of money. Very few people knew exactly what it was at first, and the auctioneer was a loss to know just what to call it, sc in a moment of piayfulness he dubbed it a telephone, and as such it posed until he had a chance to refer to his catalogue. © one seemed to want it very much even then, and it went slowly up on 5-cent bids until it was finally secured by a young farmer who was in town for market day. He got it for 80 cents, and when it was handed over to him he’ blew into first one end of it and thea the other, and evinced the greatest curiosity and interest in his new-found prize, He admitted that he had bought the lung tester solely for the pur- pose of speculation, and when some one told him that he would be foolish if he ever disposed of it for jess than $10, he was most immensely pleased. Emboldened by his success in trading in a great city, the young min proceeded to invest in a large number of other things, for which he had as little use as he had’ for a lung tester, simply because they were cheap. Miaed Assortment. “Box miscellaneous” was the title of article 1256, It was sold for $1.40, and when the pufchaser examined the box he found it contained about two score of pocketknives of all sorts and descriptions. A new pair of shoes of the style usually known as brogans sold for 25 cents, as aid also a lot of second-hand towels and sheets, A lot of old clothing went off for 15 cents to a second-hand dealer from Al- exandria, who is always on hand at sucn sales on the lookout for a good thing. Another dealer in the same line of goods bought a box of dilapidated straw and feit hats for ¢ dime, and another dime secured a hand bag and contents, though what the contents were no one knows but the owner, and he won't tell. if there had been a plumber in the crowd he would probably have thought seventy cents a smail price for five spigots, for a man in the crowd who prefessed to know said they could never have cost less than a dollar apiece. Two air guns went for fifty-five cents each, while a handsome frame for a chromo was cheap at fifteen. So the prices ran, scme higher and some lower, but the general character of the goods was such that the auctioneer did not make a very determined effort to run up to big figures. On the whole, however, it may be safely said that the things brought about as much as they were worth, and there seemed to be really nothing that nad to go without a purchaser at some price. TS TWO MUCH FIRE. Narrow Escape at Maltby Building and Varnum Hotel. All the Scnatore whe have committee room quarters in the Maltby building were turned out in the cold for today. The trou- tle waa that there was no fire in the building and the reason of this wes that there cam? near being too much fire late yesterday evening. The building had a rarrow escape from a serious fire. The heating apparatus, which has been in the building since its construction, was very poor and entirely inadequate, and new ap- pliances are just about completed now. Ih. order to heat the buikliag yesterday the cld apparatus, which was still in use, was tested beyond its capacity. About half- past 7 yesterday afternoon the custodian of the building in making an inspection dis- covered that the walls about the flues were almost red hot. He quickly had the fires extinguished in the furnaces and water poured on the overheated walis. This pre- vented the bursting out of fiames, and by 9 o'clock all possible aanger had passed with- out there having been a necessity to turn in an alarm, and practically without any damage. But for the timeliness of the dis covery there would have teea a_ serious tire. No fire was made in the old furnaces-| today, so that the building could not’ be used, but tomorrow the new heating ap- paratus will be in shape. and the Senators will have their ccmmittee rooms restored to them in the morning. Varnum Also. An almost precisely similar occurrence took place about 2 o'clock this morning at the Hotel Varnum, corner of New Jer- sey avenue and C street northwest. At that hour a guest who was asleep in a room on the second ficor in the rear of the building was awakened by smoke pour- ing into his room. He at once roused Mr. L. L. Britton, one of the proprietors, who was asleep in a room close by. Mr. Brit- ton secured help from among the employ- es of the hotel, and cutting through the floor found the joists smokin, Water was plentifully thrown on the spot and in a short time the fire seemed to be sub- dued. About 7 o'clock, however, Mr. Britton made another examination and found smoke again issuing from the floor. He then sent in a still alarm, and two fir men from No. 3, corner of Delaware ave- nue and C street, responded. They suc- ceeded in extinguishing the fire after dam- age to the amount of probably $100 had been inflicted. ee Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today: 8 a.m., 7; 2 p.m., 18; maximum, 19; mini mum, 6 —_——._—_ Fire in Waco, ‘'ex., Wednesday caused a loss of $50,000 to three stores. of Some Threatening Missives. “A great spirit has given orders for a murder to be committed in this city,” writes a crank to a government official, and the lengthy letter containing this statement is in the hands of Inspector Hollinberger. Eu- gene L. Swingle is the name signed to the letter, and his address is given as Dillon, Muskingum county, Ohio. This man has a light beard and mustache, is comfortably dressed and wears a brown overcoat. He is described as being about thirty-five or forty years old, and the police will arrest him if he comes their way. The ietter referred to covers six pages of fooiscap paper, and was handed to a gov- ernment oflicial this morning. It was di- rected to this particular official and was de- livered by the writer. Soon after opening the letter tke official discovered it was the work of a crank, and turned to question the man, but he had disappeared. Then the of- ficial went to-police headquarters and made his complaint. “These lines,” the letter begins, “are written lo you in order to prevent a great crime from taking place in this city, and if you will do your duty and read this care- fully and invesugate you will find out that it is all true, aud you can prevent the crime from doing any damage. The crime I have reference to is the crime of murder.” The letter gues on to show that the writer is a prophet and that he nas the power to perform miracles when asleep or in a vision. When a boy, he says, he had power to get gold quartz from the’ mountains to pay for improvements, and later he got diamonds in the same way. According to the man’s ideas he has worked wonders on the desert of Sahara, and divided the courtry east of the Red sea by a path 100 miles wide. An oasis named Air was increased in size by his method, so he says in his letter, and an- other named KA Hedh was made by canals from the Niger river, the labor being paid for by the gid he got from the mountains. Further on iv the letter he says that he attended church services here one Sunday, and was told by the minister that Christ would appear to him in a vision and place a revolver in his hand and make him point the weapon in the face of a young man whose first name is John and the last one the same as the building in which the con- gregation Was seated. All this is about a patent of a solar en- gine, and he tells of one scheme to carry water through tunnels under Jerusalem to the mountains and the construction of a machine shop in Jerusalem, He ‘speaks of the affair as the Lord’s machine, and quotes the 11th and 12th verses of the 49th chapter of Isaiah. He scems to think that perjury is to be resorted to to prevent his getting the patent. The police in the several precincts have been directed to look out for and arrest the supposed crank. NOTHING TO SAY. Contagious Dixense Hospital and Last Night's Meeting. The remarks of some of the speakers at the meeting held in East Washington last night in regard to the contagious disease hospital, have been the subject of much comment. “I feel highly flattered at the interest taken in me by the members of the East Washington and the Northeast Washing- ton Citizens’ Association,” said Dr. Z. T. Sowers today to a Star reporter, “but I have nothing to say, for I do not ‘consider the rantings of those speakers who re- ferred to me as worthy of answer.” Mr. B. H. Warner, who was also a sub- ject for comment last night, said to the reporter that Saturday is bis busy day, and he did not have time to talk, but would probably say something within the next few days about the remarks last evening in Baum’'s Hall. a COLORED YOUTH EDUCATORS. A Mecting Today of the Commission- ers Appointed at the Last Convention. A meeting was held at Howard Law School today of commissioners of the American Association for the Education of Colored Youth for the purpose of arrang- ing for the annval meeting of the associa- tion in London, England} next August. Prof. J. M. Gregory of Howard Univer- sity, president of the association, presided over the meeting, and there were present Bishop Arnett of Ohio, E. A. Johnson of North Carolina, R. G. Penn of Virginia, Rev. W, P. Rider of Maryland, Miss Ida Gibbs of Ohio, Rev, 8. R. Hughes of Mary. land, Prof. W. 8. Scarborough of Ohio, Rev. Mr. Alexander of New Jersey, E. M. Gregory of Harvard ‘97, and Rev. W. B. Tunnell, Kelly Miller, Prof. J. T. Latham, W. S. Montgomery, Prof. Jesse Lawson of this city. ‘The American Association of Educators of Colored Youth was organized in this city as a result of a conference of educators held here in 1890. In connection with the meeting to be held in London it was de- cided to arrange for a tour of the principal cities of Europe. An Invitation from the cotton states and international exposition management to hold a meeting in Atlanta, Ga., during the progress of the exposition was accepted. The following committee was appointed to make arrangements for the meeting In At- lanta: Kelly Miller, B. W. Arnett, I. Gar- land Penn, W. 8. “Montgomery, Miss Ida R. Gibbs, J. H. Johnston and’ James M. Gregory, ex-officio. —_.—___ MOWBRAY HELD FOR TRIAL, The English Anarchist Charged With Inciting to Riot, PHILADELPHIA, December 29,—Anar- chist Charles Wilfred Mowbray, who was arrested atter he had made a fiery speech to an audience in this city last night, was given a hearing before Magistrate Milli- gan today and held in $1,200 ball for trial. The specitic charge against him Is inciting to riot and using violent, threatening and incendiary language in the presence of a large number of persons, to incite them to deeds of violence and bloodshed. About a dozen detectives and special of- ficers testified to the violence of the pris- oner’s language. Mowbray cross-examined the witnesses, endeavoring to show that his language wes not as incendiary as they represented. His efforts were unavailing, however, and he was held for trial. No one furnished bail and Mowbray was load- ed into the van along with a miscellaneous gssertiment of law-breakers and taken to the county jail, —_—_- Baltimore Markets, 023 barrels; shipments, 640 Rules, 62 Larrels, Wheat meet and ans: January, GYad0%; Feb 160%; May, G26 bid; steamer No. 2 red, 60 receipts, 7,241 bushels; shipments, 180,197 bushels; stock, $91,590 busbels; sales, 13,000. bush- els; southern’ wheat by sample, Stadd: a y sample, Dias; do. on year, 4730174; Steamer ‘mix . Stock, 1,088,031 sates, 40.000 southern white corn, 44948; do. yellow, —. 12,000 busbe! § 7 slow—No. 2, SiubT%4—1e- celpts, 839 bushels; stock, 34,447 Bustle. “Biay steady—good to choice timothy, §13.00a$13.50, Grain freights weak, demand siack—steam to Liv. erpool December, 26.84.n28.4%4.; Jan- uary, 2s.2d.a2s.Cd'; Cork for orders per quarter, Ss.dd. Sugar quict, unchanged. utter, eggs and cheese firm, uncharged, “ Chicago Grain and Provision Markets Reported by Silsby & Co., Bankers and Rrokers. CHICAGO, Deceraber 29, 1504. Qpen. High. Low. Close. My 53 BT 7 Douver and Kio« New York Cotton, No cottou reports; wire in trouble, COAL STOCKS GER. THE MOST ATTENTION Chicago Gas the Feature of the Indusirials..... GENERAL MARKET Special Dispateh”to The Hveitdg Star. NEW YORK, Decomber-:20<-Speculation this morning was generally steady im tone and the Volume of busitess unimproved. ‘The coal, stocks attragted the greatest -at- tention from the trading element, and sold off fractionally” of mbderdte’ transactions, Jersey Central was Abe mow active, as on the two preceding days, selling down 1 5-8 per cent to 87°7-S; ana" ‘tecovering all but 1-2 per cent, ofits loss ip.the, final hour, The professional selling of this stock lacks none of the confidencé’'8é"Prohounced at the commencement. of the movement. The amount of long stock dislodged at every fresh concesston: has ‘serve! ti’ delay the covering moyement, which the. scarcity of borrowable stock was relied upon to make an absolute necessity before’ the decline had reached its present limit, ., Reading was sold for a smali fractional loss, in sympathy <with its higher priced neighbor. Monday is the lest day for de- Dossting: tie ‘Beéurities “Of this company under the rec the Olcott Barle commitice it ie Belteved that some arrangement will be made that will prove perfectly satisfactory to the junior security holders and will .obt . the. mecessity of obtaining Justice ‘through foreclosure pro- ceedings. "Delaware wand. Hudson was marked up'S-4 per cent on the covering of yesterday's. contracts, The Grangers were dull, but st around firstiprieces Northwest and Island were bought by the room element eae of $+ and 5-8 per Cent, respect- vely. In the industrial list Cnteago Gas was the feature, at an advance of 1 per cent. The buying-of this stotk has been of the kind usually prodyctive of, the best. re- sults. The -tegular dividend is practically assured and orders for the stock sre in- creasing a® the date tor the official an- nouncement of the quarterly disbursement. draws near: The steady and unobtrusive purchases for the pool continue without batement, the “price moving up easily in aay with, the character of the de- mand. . A variety of figures are named as the probable limit of the advance, but those nearest present. prices are sufficiently dis- tant to make a profitable showing in the long account, 2 7 Sugar advanced fractionally on moderate buying, and is still the’ subject of much difference of opinion among the traders usually identified with any activity in the property. Inside interests are not willing that-any decided movement elther way should occur for the present. At is stated, However, that recent selling was for the account of certain interests usually well Informed on proposed market activity in this stock.. It is argued in some quarters that Spain's attitude will tem- porarily beuelit.the company, as the price of refined sugar must advance ff the re- ceipts of the raw produet ere restricted. The amount of raw material on hand ts sufficient, It is said, to supply the trade for several months to come. This argument, on fts face, hcwever, is very short sighted and only postpones a climax that must be more seriously dealt ‘with either by leg- islation or a change in the grasping policy of the trust. The balance of the Industrial list was too dull to need analysis, —_——-— . FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, ‘The following are the opening, the high- est and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today, as re+ ported by Corson & Matartney, ‘members New York stock exchange. Correspondents Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Broadway: Stocks, Open. Hien. Low. Close 85 89 SON REPORTS Canada Southern » Canada Pacific, Cheeapeake and Onio. C.C. Gand St. L $ Chicago B. and Q....07) Cine. and Nortawester@, Chicago Gas, RL. and Pacis Del.. Lack. and W Delaware and Huds and iis and Caitle Feeding General Electric. Minois Central ton, Metropolitan Traction Mannattan Elevated... Michigan Central, Miasoun Pacta National Lead U.S. Cordage Co, New Jersey Central New York Central N. Y. and New Engiand, N.Y... and St. Louis.” Northern Pacific Northern Pactné, pfd. North American’ Ont. and Western Pacific Mail, Phila. and Hea’ Pullinan P. Car Co. Southern Rasiway. Phila. ‘traction. Texas Pacit Tenn. Coal a Union Pacitic, Wabash ... Wabash, ptde, Wheeling & Lake Erie Wheeling &L. &. pia western Unton Tet. Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—regular call—12 o'clock m.—Lincoln Nee Gas, 10 at U ode? gistseed 1 S. ds; coupon, iid bid, lorfibia Bonds!-20-yenr fund 1004 Did. 30-year fund Gs, gold, 110 bid. Watee stock 7s, 1901," curfency, 116 bid. Water stock Ta, 1908, currency, 125 bid! 8.658, funding, cw {ida bid, 116 asked. » Sig rogistored, "210s, nid. Miscellaneous Bovds,— Washi and George tren Ration’ omy, 6a, isc 190 ad ~~ ashington-aud Georgetown Railroad conv. 130 bid, a Stee Setrnoitas ee is, fa Wid, 19 4 it Rgliroad ti, SO asked” Bckingtin “ttaisoad "dee 100%” bide Columbia Railroad 4, 106 Wid, 107 asked. Wash- ington Gas Company ts, series A, 112 bid. Wash- ington Gas Company 6, series B, 114 bid. Wasb- ington Gas Comparty comy. 649130 bids U. 8. Eleo- tric Light cour. Ss, 125 bid. Chesapeake and Po- tomae “Telephone bay 102 asked. American Se curity and ‘rust 5s, F. and A., 100 bid. Amerioan Security and-Frust-68, A. and’O., 100 bid. Wasir ington Light Infantry’ Ist @s, 99 ‘bid. Washingtem Light Infantry 2d 7a, 99 bid. Natfonal Bank s. Rank of Washington, 290 bid, 310 asked. Bank the ibtie, 250 bid, 285 asked. Metropolitan, 280 bid, 207 asked. Cea tonal B: aq Y tloual, Bauk, 19 at 300. Washington Pn tic Gun Ca recta iad, ertage, tral, 270 bid, 297 asked.” Farmers and Mechantcs’, 190" bi : 200 asked. 135 Did. Columbia, pital, 115 bid. Vest End, *107ty bid, kod. ‘Traters", 108 bid, <2 asked. Line 97 bid, 100 asked. Ohio, 76% bid. Save Depoxit and Trast Compantes.—National Sate Deposit and ‘Trust, 120 bid, 130 aske oy Loan aod ‘Trust, 18% bid,121 asked. Ame: urity and Trhst, 185 bid, 187 asked, Washing- ton Sate Daposit, 100 a a wide S10 saked. Setreyolitan, 63 bid, 73 nuk cy I. etropolitan, 13 ashes SP tid: Gs trked. Bekington. 35 bak Gecrgetonn and ‘Tennallstowo, 30 naked. Sand Bleetrle Light Stocks.—Washiagton Gu bid, 4814 asked. Georgetown Gas, G0 bid. Us. flectric Laght, *126% Ud, ince Stoc iremen's, 45 asked. Fran bid. Metropolitan, 64 id, Corcoran, Potomac, 70 bid. Arlington, 350 bid. Ger National Vaion, *13 bid, , a Counnercial, 4% Ui Real: Estate “Title, 108 ‘Title, 7 bid, Ts aske District “Title, ton and Georgetowm, fh) bid. man-American, 160 bid, 60 14% asked. Columbia, “13 bi *0% vid, 7% asked, Lincoln, ‘74 bid, 7% ask ‘Title’ Insurance Stock bid, 118 asked. Colum! Washington Title, 7% asked, “Tele Stocks.—Pennsyivania, 35 bid. Chesae ‘Telephon Stocks.--Pennsyivania, ‘ ke and Potormr, 80 bid, 55 arked. ‘Americam jraphophone, 4% bid, 6% usked, Poeumatic Gum Carriage, 25 bid, 40" asked. Miscellaneons Stocks. Washington | Murkety 1 did. Great, Falls Tee, 130. bid. Lincoln, Thal bid, 97 asked. Inter-Ocean Building, 0 Morpeuthater Lisotype, 157 Wd, 160 asked. *Ex div.