Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1895, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1895-TEN PAGES. A mirror of the market-= VERY movement of the market vi- The rise and fall of prices here are simultaneous with the con- ditions there. Opportunity there is op- Advantage there is ad- brates here. portunity here. vantage here. The electric spark of commercial enter- prise connects us with the fountain-head from which flows all profitable. A Special Sale of Silks. We got « goodly share of the Schwarzen- bach, Huber & Co.'s Silks that were sold perforce last week. If they had not been extraordinary values we wouldn't have touched them. If they were not specially cheap we could not starip them as the biggest bargains of the season— for we have offered alrendy some great advantages. But these crown the effort— cap the climax. Naturally limited im quantity. C. for Swiss Taffetas with SSe. a yard. . for Fancy Polntelle Taf- 79) fetas, with changeable stripes—worth $1 a yard. C. for Blick Satin Brocades —all silk—good patterns— worth $1 a yard. ©. .or 20-inch Black Gros Grain Silk — worth $1 yard. €. for 21-Inch Black Gros Grain Silk, with cache- mire finish—worth $1.25 a yard. for 22-inch Black Faille Francaise Silk—worth $1.50 a yard. Crepes and Gauzes. Seekers for the chotcest effects in Crepes and Gauzes end their hunt when’ they get here. Rightfully. What imagination fw fertile enough to pleture daintier de- signs? What bands are skilled enough to produce better? What handlers are 13 Established 1840. ‘Telephone 995. PERRY’S, “Ninth-and the Avenue.” =-At== PERRY’S that is desirable and enterprising enough to offer lower prices? ‘You meet every advantage here— 21-inch Silk Crepons, in Black, White, Pink, Blue, Rose, Gray, Lilac and Reseda—S0c. a yard. 28-inch Printed Crepons—Pink, Blue, Mais and Nile combinations—85c. @ yard. 25-inch Privted Gauffre Crepes—$1 @ yard. 30-inch Perforated Striped Crepes— White, Cream, Blue, Pink, Lilac, Nile and Black—T5e. a yard. 2t-inch Corded Crepes—White, Cream and colors—$1 a yard. 45-inch Plain Chiffons — in thirty shades—T5e. a yard. 48-Inch_ Plain Monsseline d’Sole — White, Black ond Cream—$1 a yard. 48-inch Plaited Chiffonette — Cream, Colds Coughs and Bronchitis Cured by Taking YER’S Cherry Pectora Awarded Medal and Diploma At World’s Fair. USE AYER'S HAIR VIGOR FOR COLOR. IF THE BABY IS CUTTING TEETH BY SURE and use that old and well-tried semedy, Mrs. Winslow’e Soothing Syrup for It soothes the child, softens the gum, lla; pain, cures wiad colic and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. 25 ties i sei0-1y WiER CREAM. v iE PIMPLES: AND Al ERUPTIONS.. ja28-m,lyr FOR SALE EVERYWHERE. ONLY 8 CENTS A COPY FOR STANDARD AND POPULAR MUSIC AT THOMSON’S MUSIC STORE, 521 11TH ST. SELLING BELOW COST TO CLOSE BUSINESS. ja2-3m DR. SIEGERT’S ANGOSTURA BI" vegeteble tonic, makes health, bright, rosy cheeks and happiness, ERS, A PURE 1 health makes PUNISHING THE REBELS. , Four of the Hawaiian Consptirators Cendemned to Denth. - The following Hawailan advices arrived at Victoria, B. C., yesterday by steamer Warrimoo to February 2: There is a lull in affairs here, and quiet will probably reign untii the military court now sitting will have finished tts work. There are a large number of conspiracy cases yet to be tried, and the probaoili- ties are that the covrt will sit for two or three wecks at least. Great interest is attached to the forth- coming trial of the ex-queen. The gov- ernment claims to have more than suffi- Black, Blue, Mais and Cerise—$1.50 @ yard. 48-inch Gauffre Striped Ganze Floune- ings—White, Black, Mais, Blue, Lilac and Nile—$1.50 a yard. All widths of Chigfon Edges. Velvet. Tooks are the frailest reeds upon in choosing Velvets. Wear to lean fs the certain test—and service will prove the Wrthfulness of our line—from cheapest to best— 82-inch Black Velvet—worth $4—for $3.50 a yard. 32-inch Velour du Nord—$3 a yard. 82-inch Velour du Nord—$4.50 kind— for $4 a yard. 19-inch Black Velvets—85c. a yard. Finer up to $3. 20 to 28-inch Black Silk Velvets—$+ to $7.50. 19-Inch Colored Velvets—all shades— from $1 a yard 20-inch Ali-sillk and $5 a yard. Some $+ and $5 Fancy Velvets for ‘Te. a yard. 24-inch Boulevard Croise Velveteen— Je. a yard. “Colored Velvets—$4 aes SSSSOSISSOSSOOSSSISIOOD Only $1 For a Pair Of good EYEGLASSES er SPEC- TACLES—fitted with our FINEST 8os6% LENSES. (If your eyes trouble you, call and have us make an exainination. We do it by scientifie methods and fit and adjust. the exact glasses without extra charge. McAllister & Co., Opticians, 1911 F STREET n.w. (next to “Sun” bldg. 9-200 OS SSE SISSOPSSOOSIFOOSIIGD SOOSSOO SLOOP F SESS OOO ow ~~ hildren’s Shoes — At onr Great Combination Shoe Sale. 3 Ins than the grown — Artists, Architects, Draughtsmen. We are thoroughly well equipped to sup- ply you with all the needs of your business. We haven't any specialty, but you can al- ways be sure of fir just what you want fn this big st You won't be asked to do with somthin; st as good,” and in these times of low prices we're right among the lowest. GEO. F. MUTH & CO., Successors to Geo. 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No family should be without it. | It cleans silks, laces and the finest fabries with- | out Injury. Removes grease and paint. Ls unequaled | for the bath and shampoo. Ask your grocer for it. | MOAN EME Mail onlers promptly, called, for. fe AL MENDING CO., Room 4, 1114-1116 F. Made especially to our order. $1.00. s Rimless Eyeglasses, with Fox patent nosepieee, $2.50. jalo-Im AL KSTIN, Agt., 935 F now, Cold? Then Keep Warm. can by using St. Catherine Whisky —pt., at., We. Golden Age, finest made, pt. Toe. Th, A. SELIG: 200 Pu. ave. n.w. “Buchanan Bros., _ SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS, 1115 Fst. Fitring slogesa business. Examination and =. oe azy-tt see Here goes for the “wind up," while bps you need them! : pres Maguigeent Mink Tong Cape, froin . Slectrie, Seal Jacket, full | igh . $50 te ja23-Im* | The Bachelors Are in Love | With our way of mealing. They find our work | first-class and ou “3 marvelously low. WE | | MEND THAT SA PEOPL cient evidence to convict her of treason. What her punishment will be in case of conviction is hard to conjecture. Her case will probably come up on next Monday. She is charged with treason. The counts are: 1. Treason, by engaging in open rebellion against the republic of Hawaii by attempt- ing by force of arms to overthrow and de- stroy the same, and by levying war against the same, and by adhering to the enemies of the republic of Hawaii, giving them aid and comfort within the Hawatiar Islands and elsewhere. 2. Treason, by aiding, abetting, procuring, counseling, inciting. countenancing and en- covraging others to commit treason, and to engage in open rebellion against the re- public: of Hawaii and to attempt by force of arms in the overthrow of the same, end to adhere to the enemies of the republic of Hawaii, in giving them aid and comfort in the Hawaiian Islands and els: ‘There are six specifications in the charg: The military commission has brought in findings in twenty-four c: s. Their names are: R. W. Wilcox, S. Now Ber- telman, Carl Widemann, W. H. Louis Marshall, W. C. Lane. J. C. i T. Gulick, W. H. Ri rd, W. TF. Steward, T. B. Waiker, Solomon |, Pelahua, Lot Lane, Thomas Poole, J. Kalaukoa, Palu, J. W. Kipikane, Kiolana rk, D. Januaha, W. W. Iddifie’ Kiakahi. Of the foregoing D. Januha and J. Kalau- koa were acquitted. The others we found guilty and sentences were fixed the commission subject to review by Presi- dent Dole. The sentences vary much, all the way from sentences of death to imprisonment for five years, with fines. The lowest sen- tence fer treason by the Ha is imprisonment for five years an of not less than $5,000. Four Sentenced to Die. The six leaders were all sentenced to be hung. They are Charles T. Gulick, Wiiliam H. Rickard, William T. Steward, Robert W. Wilcox, Sam Nowlein and Henry Ber- telman. Sentence in the last two cases commuted, as both men have f uable evidence for the government. was born in this country. Ric! Englishm: Wilcox is an Hawalia ‘The only one of the four due the pr of the United States is Willlam Ste i As yet no date has been set for the exe- cution. : The only important case tried before military court since the departure of the Australia wes that of V. V. Ashford. He is charged with treason. A batch of twenty native rebels charged with rebellion is now attracting the at- tention of the court. United States Minister Willis has now changed his attitude since the latest ud- ices. His latest communication to the government is a request that if the death penalty is Imposed on any Americans that the executions be postponed until he can communicate with his governntent. The british commissioner has made a similar request. ‘Thus far two men who will claim Ameri- can protection have been trie® They are Louis Marshall, charged with open rebel- lion, and Thomas Walker, who pleaded guilty to the charge of treason. Three Banis! The government has decided to banish three persons from the islands for com- plicity in the rebellion. They are J. E. Cranston and A. Muller for conspi y to use dynamite, and J. B. Johnstone, special police officer, who turned traitor. The men wili be sent on the Warrimoo, n statute da fine will be shed val- Gulick is an leaving for Victoria today. Cranston and Muller were to blow up the Central Union Church on the night when the rebellion broke out. Of the three exiles Johnstore is a British s@bject, Cranston an American and Muller a German. They say they do not know what they were arrested.for; were given no trial; were kept confined without any chance of com- munication, and did not know they were to leave until the Warrimoo whistled to leave. Johnstone will remain at Vancouver, but the others say they will not leave the ship, but will return on her to Honolulu when she goes back. They claim that they have been victims of gross outrages. To obtain a decision of his exact status under the republic, wrote Minister Willis yesterday to learn just what position he occupied in the United tates; whether he is still subject to the income tax and at the same time cannot look to the American government for protection. coe RSE DEAD. GEN. CO! Passes Away at His Home in Alexan- d@rin. * Gen. Montgomery Corse died this morn- ing at his residence, on North Washington street, Alexandria, at 1 o'clock, from old age and general disability. He was seventy. rine years of age, being born in that city in 1816. He served during the Mexican war as captain of the Alexandria company; was made colonel of the seventeenth Vir- ginia regiment, afterward promoted to brigadier general in connection with the | fifteenth, seventeenth, twenty-ninth, thir- tieth and _thirty-second regiments ef the Army of Northern Virginia, and served gal- lantly all through the iate war; was a Camp of Confederate Veterans. He wen to California during the gold fever in 1 where he remained several years, after ward retucning to his old home in Alex- andria, where he has ved up to the time of his death. He was a member of the te banking firm of Corse Brothers in Last of the Bill Cook Gang. The Post Office Department received a dispatch frcm Post Office Inspector John- stcn, at St. Louis, stating that the last of the Bill Cook gang has been wiped out by the killing of Jim French and Sam M Williams, while attempting a robbery at Catoosa, [. T. Assistant Postmaster Irwin was killed in the fight. Bill Cook and Cherokee Bill were convicted yesterday at Fort Smith, Ark., for the robbery of the Bee Fork train and the McDermott post office. F. C. Jones, a prominent property holder | prominent member of the Robert E. Lee | MR. THURSTON’S STATEMENT & i He Discusses the Problem That Confronts the HawaiianGovernment. eae 1 Leniency Has Béen Tried With Appar- ently No Good Result—The Men to Be Dealt With. aes T Mr. Thurston, the Hawaiian minister, has made a statement:in regard tovecent hap- penings in the Hawaiian Islands, espe- cially with referettce to the probable pun- ishment to be meted‘ out to the leaders in the recent attempt to overthrow the government. “I have received no direct communica- tion concerning the sentences,” he said, “nor do I know precisely what action will be taken; but from my intimate acquaint- ance with all of the Hawalian authorities, and their characters and methods, I can state positively that all trials will be open and fair; that the accused will be allowed the assistance of counsel of their own choosing, who will be allowed the fullest right of cross-examjnation and of defense; that there will be no convictions which are not based upon the clearest evidence, and that the authorities will be as lenient in the infliction of punishment as is consist- ent with their duty to protect the commu- nity from further outbreak, with possibly far more bloodshed than attended the re- cent outbreak. “If there is any particular policy In which the Hawaiian government has erred dur- too lenient in dealing with those who have continuously schemed to overthrow it, first by strategic diplomacy and then by force.” What is the Government to Dot He reviewed the history of the revolu- tionary leaders, and asked, “What is the government of Hawall to do in the mat- ter? “Already during its short existence,” he continued, “there have been two domestic conspiracies to overthrow it by force. Is the government to condone every offense that can be committed against a govern- ment, and upon capturing insurrectionists in the act of shooting down its citizens al- low them to again go free to repeat the operation at the first. conventent opportu- nity? “The problem that has been forced upon President Dole, and which he and his ad- visers are now forced, unaided and in the presence of hostile influences, to solve, is one which would prove a task to greater men. The problem is not how to achteve revenge. It is how to prevent Hawaii from gravitating into the catalogue of chronic revolution; how to eliminate the standing menace to peace which hangs, and will continue to hang, like a black cloud over Hawaii, until the smugglers, the beach combers and the soldiers of fortune who infest Honolulu shall be taught that they cannot with impunity plot murder, arouse the passions of race hatred, and turn death and destruction loose upon the homes of Honolulu; it is how to preserve and per- petuate Hawail as the paradise and pre- vent {t from becoming the hell of the Pacific. The Men to Be Dealt With. “How the government of the republic will sclve the problem I do not know. The gospel of forgiventss dnd forbearance has been practiced with apparently no success- ful result. The men with whom the gov- ernment have now to deal have no compre- hension of Itherality,: of forbearance or generosity. They gorstrue liberty to mean license; mistake patience for cowardice,and mercy for weakness. “Whether in the exécution of the trust confided to President Dole and his advisers they may deem that the future peace and safety of Hawaiitand its people requires the death of one or,.more of those who were willing to sow death broadcast with rifles and dynamite, I do not know. I hope not. But this I do know, that whatever meas- ures are taken, the white men who organ- ized the late Insurrection and furnished the arms therefor, but who had the adroit- ress to keep out of sight when there was fighting to be done, will be held to an equal degree of responsibility with their native companions, who had, at least, the manli- ness and courage to attempt to carry out their ill-concetved plan. “This further I know; that Abraham Lin- | coln did not pessess a more patient, loving, | kindly disposition than does Sanford B. | Dole; and that there does not exist-in the United States today a more generous-spir- ited, peace-loving, forriving and unrevenge- ful community than that residing in Hono- lulu and furnishirg the leaders of the pres- ent gevernment. “Whatever action is taken by President | Dele of the government will be taken with a solemn sense of the duty which they owe to civilization and to the men, women and | children whose lives and interests they are beund to protect, and with a view to achieve such protection with the least severity of which the conditions wiil admit. “God forgive those who would impute a sanguinary lust for blood to as brave, gen- erous, disinterested, liberty-loving and true | a band of patriots as ever honored Christian civilization, or add to their already heavy burdens or increase the difficulties of their already difficult task.” —— PLEASANT CITIZENS. MT. Basincss Discussed and Some Original Propositions Advanced. Saturday evening the regular monthly meeting of the Mount Pleasant Citizens’ Association was held in the Congregational Church of the village, the attendance, be- cause of the intense cold weather, being small. The committee cn streets and sidewalks reported that their request that Howard avenue be made instead of 105 feet wide had been granted by the Commissioners. This would be done when the new plan of streets was made out, and it was also de- cided that there should be a new crossing at Howard avenue and lth street. ‘The relief of the poor of Mount Pleasant was generally discussed, and the chair- man was authorized to appoint a commit- tee of five ladies to act as a board of vis- ftors to ascertain and report upon the worthiness of applicants for relief. After a resolution had been adopted ex- tending the territory of the association so as to include Euclid street on the south, a committze of three was authorized to consider the advisability of combining all the suburban sections north of the city in one district, with a single association, un- der one general name. ¢ Mr. T. M. Exley submitted the following resolution in regard to the proposed Dill approprigting $7,500,000 for an extension of streets and sewerage system: “Resolved, That the Senate and House committees be requested to so amend sald bill as to provide for the immediate con- demnation and payment for such propert as may be found within the bounds of e: tension. It is also asked that speedy ac- tion be taken, and that this request be either granted or definitely abandone: Afier the matter had been discussed for some time the resolution was adopted. ‘A resolution was introduced by Mr. A. B. Chatfield favoring a District government of eight Commissioners, one at large and | seven to be chosen from as many sections | of the District. The resolution caused con- | siderable discussion, final action on it being deferred until the next regular meeting of the association. After the secretary had reported that the Soldiers’ Home and Rock Creek railways proposed to afford Mount Pleasant better railroad facilities the meeting adjourned. — Pacific Railrond Debt. Chairman Reilly of the House committee on Pacific railroads visited Secretary Car- isle Saturday in accordance with the re- | quest of the committee to discuss with him the advisability or necessity of new legisla- | tion to protect the government interests in | the roads by carrying out the intent of the act of 1887. The Secretary is of opinion that no new legislation is necessary, believing that the act referred to confers all neces- sary authority upon the executive officers ef the government to employ funds, if necessary, to pay first mortgage bonds which are a lien prior to the government claim, which are soon to become due and which the companies may be unable to meet. Se ee, Portrait of Ex-Seerctary Foster. A full-length oil painting of John W. Foster, ex Secretary of State, executed by Frank M. Pebbles of Chicago, has been hung. in the diplomatic room of the State Department. ing the past two years it is in having been‘ MAGNIFICENT CHINESE SCHEMES. Plzns to Overwhelm the Japancse— Corruption Among Officers. Tien Tsin correspondence of the New York Times gives a graphic, and in some respects, an amusing picture of the state of affairs in China. Magnificent schemes have been prepared by the military mandarins. One is to en- gage two determined men, one cf whom must be a good swiinmer and diver. These heroes, when the Japanese fleet shall an- chor off Shan-Hai-Kuan, are to go off in a junk with a torpedo, and, while one man ergages the enemy in conversation, the diver is to go down, fix the, torpedo to the ship’s propeller, explode it,’and escape by swimming. Another scheme is to fill a junk with dynamite, covering it over with fresh vege- tables. A devoted hero is to take this alongside the flagship, and blow it and himself to smithereens! The rewards for these will be a family pension and the en- nobling of ancestors to three generations. Yet another scheme is that each soldier shall varry a bag of pepper, and at a given signal throw it in the aig, and, while the enemy is blinded and sneezing, the valiant Chinamen will slaughter the helpless Japs. It is assumed, of course, that the Japanese will time their attack so that the wind may be right for this, aud also that the Chinamen will stand within pepper range! Regarding a trip to Port arthur the correspondent says I was at Port Arihur a week after its capture, What a prize it is for the Japa- nese, and just the thing they have been wanting. Now, they have an impregnable depot close to the.shures of Chilhi, and only} seven hours by steam from Wei-Hai-Wei. They can, from it, patrol the Gulf of Liao- tung, and effectually seal up the Chinese fleet. As a base from which to start an expedition, it is admirable; in its basin twenty-four steamers can lie at the same time, and the Chinese troops left basin, dockyard and machinery in good order, as also were the forts and guns, and none of the ammunition was destroyed. Nearly 20,000 tons ef coal, with fifty or more miles of steel rails, were also captured. Working for the Japanese. When [ was there I saw Chinese soldiers working as coolies for the Japanese and dragging guns up the hills. The captors said’ many of the soldiers who had fied were coming in to be employed; the civil population was bringing in provisions and had reopened the Chinese theater for their amusement. Before bolting, the Chinese troops killed their wounded, and they also tortured te death some of their prisoners. The eaasperation of the Japanese at the fsight of the mangled bodies is quite intel- ligible, and their giving no quarter was justifiable. This accounts for the 2,000 Chinamen killed. “Don't Fight Fair.” Taotai Kung, who was a great man at Port Arthur, and escaped from there dur- ing the fighting—to do him justice, he is not a military official, but a civil one—has a lovely theory to account for the success of the Japanese. He says the latter did “not fight like men at all; the Chinese soldiers were all standing up ready to re- ceive them, but the Japs separated into small bodies, ran on a few yards, then lay down; then got up and advanced, and lay down betore they could be fired at. What could Chinamen do against such idiots as these? Besides, they fought so unfairly; they got into one of the end forts and actually turned the guns on the Chinese soldiers, It is most unfair! The guns were mever meant to do that!” Delicious idea of tactics, is it not? I had almost forgotten to teil you about ‘Taotai Sheng. The steamship Fei-Ching in crossing the bar ran into and damaged a torpedo. Sheng made a complaint against the captain for damaging one of the con- tact torpedoes laid in defense of Taku. Useful torpedoes! This is the same gentle- man who mace a corner in rice, and were it not that the season is unusually open there would not be enough rice for the sol- diers for the southern provinces. The Corruption, The correspondent describes the Chinese government as a mass of corruption. ‘The introduction of modern arms, fortifi- cations and railways has been hailed as a fruitful source of peculation by Chinese officials. All the old rifles and ammunition which foreign firns could induce them, or rather bribe them, to buy, they have taken. You should see some of the ries! Stocks unfinished, barrels roughly filed down, and the screw parts simply screws with the heads nipped off and filed, while the sights are put on anyhow. No Chinese official receives a salary on which he can live, and it is the practice to supplement salaries by embezzlement and “squeezes” up to a certain point fixed by custom. Beyond that point commences ofti- cial dishonesty in a Chinese sense. Take the case of the Taotai here. He is really a coolie; his salary is but 2,000 taels a year, not enough to support the crowd of | yamen runners and secretaries which he is obliged to have, and, to keep up his posi- tion, he must take something out of the public funds passing through his hands. It is the same with the army; the generals have no standing or’ influence among the civil and educated class, their salaries are utterly inadequate, and they are-expected to increase their incomes by false returns and embezzling, and do it. As for respect to their officers, it does not exist. The other morning a troop train was starting for Shang Hai Kuan. A first-class carriage had been put on for the officers, but these, coming late, found it occupied by soldiers, who, on being told to get out, said: “No; we are quite comfortable here, and don’t intend to move.” ‘Thus the officers had to travel in an open coal truck, with the baggage! Tien Tsin is perfectly safe for foreigners, for, between sailors, marines and volun- | teers, there are nearly 1,000 armed men. THE CONSULAR REPORTS. How the New Printing Act Has Cur- tailed Their Distribution. Under the new printing act a difficulty has arisen with reference to the publica- tion of consular reports, which, unless remedied, will have the effect of curtailing their distribution. These reports, cover a wide range of information as to the com- merce and industries of foreign countries, and their distribution to the public has been of great value to the merchants and manufacturers of the United States. Here- tofore the usual edition.has been six thou- sand copies, and, in some cases where the demand promised to be particularly large, this has been increased. These reports are sent to chambers of commerce, manufac- turing and trade organizations, libraries, business firms, newspapers, and to many .individual applicants. Much of the mat- ter published in trade journals is ob- tained from them. “Advance sheets” are also published from time to time, contain- ing the more important reports, and these are forwarded promptly to those desiring them. As soon as the reports fre received from the consular officers they ‘are placed at the disposal of the representatives of PRINTING the newspaptr press, and almost every day extracts from them are published in the teading newspapers of the country. Besides the regular monthly reports, spe- cial numbers, containing reports on par- ticular subjects, are issued as the condi- tions seem to require. Reducing the Editions, Heretofore the matter has been entirely within the control of the Department of State, which has had an annual appropria- tion of $20,000 to expend for this purpose. The public printer has, however, taken the ground that under the provisions of sec- tion 89 of the new printing act, approved January 12, 1805, he is not authorized to print a greater number of these reports than one thousand copies during the pres- ent fiscal year, except by order of Con- gr The department contends that it was hot the intention of Congress to de- part from the established custom of print- ing and distributing these reports, and that the wholc course of legislation on the subject shows that Congress has fully appreciated their importance to the com- merece of the country, and, so far from restricting, has intended to secure the widest circulation of them. a Badly Hart. Conductor C. W. Collins of the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home railroad met with a serious accident Saturday night about ® o’clock. While his car was moving along G street between 4th and Sth streets he slipped from‘the car and the heavy vehicle dragged him through the snow some dis- tance before the driver could bring his horses to a stop. He was taken in a house on G street, where Dr. Ball attended him. Georgetown. Later he was removed to his home in | of the largest at Rockford, Ill, THE FIDELITY TROUBLES Charges Against the Receiver and His Ex- p‘anations in Court. The Order of Judge Cox im the Mat- ter—The Relationship of the Two Associntions. Judge Cox today again considered the questions arising in the settlement of the affairs of the Fidelity Buildirg, Loan and Investment Association and the Fidelity Building and Loan Association. Receiver G. Hatley Norton of the latter association was charged with disobeying the order of the court restraining him from removing from this jurisdiction certain papers, loans and moneys. It was charged that he had been appointed receiver as the result of collusion between him and the officers of the association, it being alleged that the two associations were really one in fact, gcverned by the same officers, and the affairs of each practically the same. It was charged, also, that Mr. Nerton had deposited in’ bank, at Alexandria, Va., moneys belonging to District stockholders of the association, and had removed there certain records of the association and evi- dences of its debts. It was, therefore, prayed by certain stockholders here that Mr. Norton be ordered to deposit money received from them in bank in this jurisdic- tion, subject to the further order of the court, and that he be required to return all records and papers necessary to an administration of the affairs of the asso- ciation by the District court. The Receiver’s Explanation. Mr. Norton denied that there had been any collusion in the matter, and stated that he had removed nothing from this juris- diction which should have been retained here. He explained that he had first been appointed receiver of the Fidelity Building and Loan Association by the United States circuit court of the eastern district of Vir- ginia, and thet as the association was a Virginia corporation, with its office at Alexandria, he had simply conveyed to that jurisdiction such records and funds which, in his opinion, the Virginia court was entitled to have there. Having also been appointed receiver for the association here, he had, he said, endeavored to so act at all times cs to merit the approval of both courts. He was both willing and anxious, he stated, to obey the orders of both courts, and would gladly assist the receivers of the Fidelity Building, Loan and Investment Association in every way possible. The Court's Direction. ‘The matter was discussed at some length, counsel for the Virginia stockholders stat- ing that they were perfectly satisfied with Mr. Norton’s management, and Judge Cox finally directed that Mr. Norton should deposit moneys received from District stockholders in a District bank, subject to the further order.of the court. The ques- tion of the relationship between the two associations was referred to the auditor of the court. — G RAL NEWS NOTES. The Union station, used by all the rail- roads entering St. Joseph, Mo., was laid in ruins by fire Saturday night. ‘The loss will reach $400,000. Two men who clung for forty hours to the rigging of their vessel off Fire Island beach were rescued at midnight by the crew of the Lone Hill life saving station. The vessel proved to be the schooner Louis V. Place, Capt. Squires, coal laden, from Baltimore. Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of gineers says that all chance of any diffi- culty between the Southern Pacific rail- road and the engineers is now at an end. ‘The printing establishment of Clarence M. Busch in Harrisburg, Pa., was burned yesterday morning, causing a loss of $1W0,- 000. Rey. Dr. Francis Z. Rooker, secretary to the Catholic apostolic delegation at Wash- ington, preached yesterday at the Balti- more Cathedral on “The Rights of Labor.” James R. Boise, professor of Greek in Chicago University, died Saturday. He was eighty years of age, and considered one of the foremost Greek scholars in the country. ‘A dispatch from Mexico City says that It is thought that-Mexico’s delay in dealing with Guatemala 1s for the purpose of gaining time in war preparations. Near Newkirk, Oklahoma, a stage coach was robbed on Saturday, but the town au- thorities made such vigorous pursuit that one of the men was shot and the other quickly captured. A strong display of feeling against Eng- land and the English has characterized the comments of the German newspapers on the sinking of the Elbe. A bobsled, with eight persons, became uncontrollable and ran off an embankment at Knoxville, Tenn., Saturday, killing Arthur Meade and seriously injuring Car— rie Spence. The Atlantic Transport Line steamer Manitoba, from London, and the Red Star Line steamer Rhynland of Antwerp reached New York vesterday. Rev. Dr. D. J. Stafford of St. Patrick’s Church, this city, lectured last night at Harris’ Academy of Music. Baltimore, for the benefit of the poor of St. Peter's parish of that city. The subject of the lec was “Dickens: His Powers and Patho: A dispatch from Shanghai says that the Chine: have a total of 1 ) troops in Man uria opposed to 59.000 Japanese. According to } aw, Captain + brother-i von Goessel of the Elbe, while standing on the bridge after the collision, wrote a few words of farewell and handed the note to Deharde, who was rescued, to be given to his. wife. ‘The Gloucester, Mass., schooner Clara F. Friend has been wrecked at Eastern Head, near Liverpool, on the Nova Scotia coast, and her entire crew of fifteen men lost. A cardinal at Rome confirms the report that the sultan invited the pope to mediate in behalf of Turkey with the powers on the Armenian questton. The pope declined to do so, but advised the sultan to appoint Christian governors. This made the sultan angry. Jockey Madigan, who received a frac- tured skull by a®fall from Free Trade in the fifth race at Madison, Ill, Saturday, died yesterday from the effect of his in- juries. On board the Umbria, which reached New York yesterday, were three survivors of the steamship Eibe—Eugene Schlegel of Furst, Germany: Jan Vevera of Cleveland, Ohio, and Carl Hoffmann of Grand Island, Neb., whose wife and children were among the lost. A dispatch from Pekin says that full powers have becn telegraphed to the Chi- nese peace envoys with a view to the re- newal of negotiations with Japan. A dispatch to the London Times from Cairo, Egypt, says that a mob armed with sticks attacked and severely beat in ‘the streets of Alexandria three men belonging to the cruiser Scout of the British Mediter- ranean squadron. Acts Approved. The President has approved the act au- thorizing the commissioners of the Sol- diers’ Home in the District of Columbia to sell the property known as “Asylum lot, on Pascagoula bay, Mississippi; the jo! resolution for the printing of extra copies of the decisions of the Interior. Depart- ment relating to public lands and pensio the act amending the act to regulate com. merce, as amended Mar ; the act for a railroad bridge across the Souch’ Ca- nadian river near the Wichita Indian reservation; the act providing for an ad- ditional circuit judge in the seventh judi- cial circuit; the act giving the city of | Charlotte, N. C., the United States mint property for use as a public park; the act to regulate navigation on the great lakes and their connecting and tributary waters, and the acts for the relief of Martha A. Geer, Sarah M. Brown. Rosanna Cobb, Finerty, John ‘a Harriet yton, G. O. Greiner, Nancy G. Ander- son, Margaret Smith, Marcus D. Box, Pickens T, Reynolds, Katherine T. Critten- den and Grace Roberts, of the District of Columbia. ———_——_o+ In Contempt. In the divorce suit of Ellis G. against Franzont M. Myers, in which Mrs, Myer: was granted a divorce, the former has been declared in contempt by Judge Cox, be- cause of his refusal to pay $15, allowed and due Mrs. Myers. Judge Cox directed that he purge himself by paying the same, with cests, on or before the Isth instant, and he be committed to jail until thé order of the court is obeyed. pe eee ee: The Syndicate block, 0: h street, cne was tally destroyed by fire yesterday. A GREAT MEDICINE, Cod-liver Oil is useful beyond any praise it has ever won, and yet few are willing or can take it in its natural state. Scott’s Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil is not offensive; it is al- most palatable. : Children like it. It is Cod-liver Oil made more effectual, and combined with the Hypophosphites its strengthening and flesh-forming powers are largely increased. ‘ Don't be persuaded to accept a substitute ! Scott & Bowne, N.Y. AllDruggists, 50c. and $te THE 27TH ENCAMPMENT. Committees of the Department of the Potomac. The twenty-seventh annual encampment of the Department of the Potomac, G.A.R., will be held in Grand Army Hall, Thursday evening, February 21, at 7 o'clock. Com- mander Bickford has appointed Capt. J. M. Edgar officer of the day, and also named committees as foliows: On credentials—Israel W. Stone, James A. Allen and C. B. Rose. On address of the department commander —Newton M. Brooks, William H. Myers, Walter Middleton, W. E. Post and George H. Slabaugh. On report of employment committee—Kd- win J. Sweet, Alva S. Taber, Daniel Wil- —— Daniel Stewart and William H. Got- wald. - On report of relief committee—Charles F. Benjamin, Calvin Farnsworth, James E. Heffner, John Bresnahan and Ambrose Cook. On report of assistant adjutant general— Gilbert M. Husted, J. L. Thornton, N. N. McCullough, Charles L. Patten and I. E. W. Thomps_n. On report of assistant quartermaster gen- eral—Newton Ferree, Amos J. Gunning, James McRae, William H. Hoover and James Wells. On report of medical directors and chap- lair—Henry S. Stevens, A. E. Johnson, William Bell, W. B. Pomeroy and J. R. Hays. On report of inspector and chief muster- ing officer—A. F. Sperry, W. H. Peck, W. - Meth James Wood and J. E. Clif- ford. On report of judge, atlvocate—John M. Keogh, W. H. Doolittle, Eugene Wells, Stanton Weaver and J. H. Doney. On report of council of administration—A. F. Dinsmore, L. K. Brown, James Brooks, Charles F. Mansfield and James T. Clem- ents. On resolutions—Charles P. Lincoln, Thos. S. Hopkins, Henry H. Moler, F. L. Camp- bell and L. Vanderhoef. Washington’s birthday will be appropri- ately celebrated by the department in com- pliance with orders from the commander in chief. A committee of arrangements as follows has been selected: Past Depart- ment Commanders A. H. G. Richardson, Jerome B. Burke and J. M. Pipes, Post Commanders George H. Boston,Charies T. Yoder and J. W. Bradbury, Comrades John McElroy, J. W. Kirkley and J. M. Cutts. —— THE HACKMAN EXPLAINED. And Mr. Eckels Thinks He May Have Becn Hasty in His Judgment. There is another side to the story abot the alleged attempt to kidnap Mr. Eckels, the controller of the currency. It is told by the hackman whom Mr. Eckels thought was trying to run away with him. The hackman’s name is John McLaughlin, and he was discovered by Hack Inspector Gyoff, who investigated the case, McLaughlin’s account of the affair is as follows: “Why, it was just this way. I was hard up for a job and dead anxious to get one. When that young fellow took me up I was in a hurry to take him home. But I'd given a nickel to Mike to get me a pack of cigarettes, and I didn’t want to go away without the puffs. He’s a chum of mine, you see, and I tried to hurry him up to go along with me to keep company. “Well, we finally got off, you know, but my hands were so cold I had some trouble fixing the horses’ blankat. We drove along, and IT made up my mind to take the short- est route to Mr. Eckels’ home. That would have been out Massachuse:ts avenue, of course. Maybe Mr. Eckels expected us to go out Pennsylvania avenne, where the lights were, but it was right for me to take the short cut. I guess that’s what alarmed him, and the first thing I knew he had pop- ped’ out the door and was running away. We yelled after him, but ie never came back.” Controller Eckels has accepted the cab- by’s explanation of the affair as satisfac- tory, and he said he had no wish to injure the excellent reputation of the hack line service of Washington. This was the only unpleasant experience he had ever had with them. Although he thought at the time that his suspicions were well founded, he admitted that it now looks as though they were not. At any rate, McLaughlin had told him that the next time he got a customer he would take him direct home and not wait for a companion to join him on the box. =: —_——__. FARM ANIMALS. A Bullctin Showing Their Numbers bi and Prices. ‘The rtatistical bureau of the Department of Agriculture has issued @ bulletin show- ing the numbers and prices of farm ani- mals. The estimates of farm animals for Janu- ary, 1895, show a decrease in the number of horses, a3 compared with January, 18), cf 1 21, or 1.17 per cent; a decrease in mules of 19,123, or 0.81 per cent; an increase in milch cows of 17,129, or 0.10 per cen decrease in oxen and other cattle of 952, or 6.13 per cent; a decrease in ber of sheep of 2,753,953, or 6.11 per cent; a decrease in the number of swine of 1,040,- 7s2, or 2.30 per cent. In value herses have declined 24.1 per cent; mules, 23.5 per cent; milch cows have increased about 1 per cent; oxen and other cattle have lost in value 4,1 per cent; sheep have declined 20.2 per cent, and swine, 1 per cent. The decline in the farm prices of horses is general throughout the country. The exceptions are to be found in the mountain and Pacific states and Massachusetts. The range of horses fs from $16.18 per head in Utah to $74.13 in Massachusetts. The average vaiue of milch cows has ircreased from $2! in 1894 to $21.97 for this year. "The average values per capita of animals, as estimated, are as follows: Horses, $36.2); mules, $47.59; miler cows, $21.97; oxen and other cattle, $14.05; sheep, $1.58, hogs, $4.97. The aggregate numbers and value of ani- mats are as foll: Horses, number, 15,- IS, value, $5 mules, number, value. 4; milch cows, 505,06 other cattle number, 20; sheep, number, swire, number, 44,165, $1,819,446,306; a decrease of $35) from the total value of 1894. —_—_—+-.___—— Wenring of Society Buttons. The War Department has made the fol- lowing decision in regard to the wearing of society badges by army officers: The pro- visions of general orders of November 18, 1890, adjutant general's office, relative to wearing the distinctive badges of-certain military societies, are applicable to the gular Army and Navy Union of the United States, in connection with the joint resolution approved May 11, 1894. The button, as a part of the insigna, aust not be worn on the collar of the louse or coat, nor with the blouse. ‘At the regular meetings of the military sccieties the badge or button may be worn, as prescribe@ by the by-laws of the soci- eties. ° An Assny Commission. Representative Charles Tracey of New York, Representative W. J. Stone of Ken- tucky, Prof. J. W. Langley of Ohio, have been appointed members of the assay com- mission, which will meet at Philadelphia on the 13th instant, to fill vacancies.