Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1895, Page 9

THE HATCHET BURIED What Has Been Done for Indian Education at Carlisle. —__>——_ SOLVING A GREAT PROBLEM The Commencement and Some In- teresting Scenes. DEVELOPING BODY AND MIND SI Correspondence of The Evening Star. CARLISLE, Pa., March 1, 1895. Commencement at Carlisle isn’t like a commencement anywhere else on earth, except it be in one of the other schools like unto that of Carlisle, a dozen or so of which are scattered over the United States; offshoots of the Carlisie plan, and devoted to instructing the remnant of the aborig- inal inhabitants how to trim ideas instead of arrows, and to eat with forks instead of fingers. Carlisle was the ploneer proving ground of this method of solving the “Indian prob- lem,” and Capt. Pratt of the tenth cavalry, the father cf the method, during a long and varied experience among Indians on the plains, and afterward, when in charge of the unruly p1 mers taken in the war of 1874-75, and transferred to Fort Augus- tine, found that Indians have hearts and souls, and he found, too, that they are amenable to kindly influences and eager to learn. Then it was that the educational seed sprouted, out of which Carlisle has grown. Capt. Pratt didn’t do all of the work alone, however, nor all of the think- ing. Mrs. Pratt, his gentle, cultured wife, has been his able Meutenant, and his fair young daughter has been a good staff Officer. “The sixteenth anniversary and seventh graduating exercises of the Indian indus- trial school, Carlisle, Pa.,” is the way the pretty programs were titled. Programs * turned out of the job department of the Carlisle printing office, the home of the 1e monthly paper, the weekly paper, both under the efficient management of Miss M. B. Burgess, whose only and per- fectly competent aids are Indian boys and iris, who are learning the printer’s trade. ‘apt. Pratt must have thought pretty hard about the time those white programs be- gan to flutter over that big audience. His thoughts must have gone back sixteen years, when, after hard labor, the old, abandoned Carlisle barracks, half a mile mm the city of Carlisle, Pa., almost a Yuin, relic of tevolutionary days, was re- luctantly turned over to him by the Inter- for Department, and he was told to get on to the reservation with his small redmen and stay there, as the people in the vicin- ity, stald old Quakers and thrifty Ger- tans, didn’t like the near proximity of the aborigines, and were disposed to spoil his fun if he didn’t keep them well in hand. Capt. Pratt’s idea was at that time an experiment. His idea was to teach the In- dians English, and to give them a primary education and some knowledge of common and practical industry, thus affording them jneans of self-support among civilized peo- ple. When Carlisle opened its doors there entered it less than eighty Indians, got together only by a mighty effort. Now there are nearly 800 Indian pupils in the commodious, comfortable quarters at Car- Usle, and they represent: fifty-five tribes, e fifty-fifth, the Pimas, entering to the umber of fifteen only last Wednesday. Individual Work. Every industry and many arts and eciences are taught at Carlisle. The boys dre trained to be tinners, tallors, cobblers, blacksmiths, harness makers, carpenters, cabinet makers, wagon makers and farm- ers, as their tastes run, each youth being mitted to take up for his trade the one t he likes best. The girls learn, besides books, all the womanly accomplishments, such as sewing, washing, ironing, darning, mending, baking, etc. Boys and girls alike are instructed in music, drawing, painting and the other arts, and alike they serve half of each day in the school room and the other half in one of the industrial Glasses. For their services In these classes a few cents a day Is paid each student, and these and the “outing” earnings mount in the aggregate to nearly $25,000 a@ year, all of which is placed to the credit 6f each individual earning it, and it can be drawn upon at will, under slight re- strictions. There is a regular cashier,whose duty it is to care for this fund, and it is quite amusing to watch the students draw upon their bank account. They have bank books, which are models of neatness. An ndian seems to take naturally to penman- ip and figures. There are some things that the students ft Carlisle could teach the people who talk of “civilizing” them. The young ladies sel- dom or never wear any other head cover- ig than a bright scarf, and in the even- ig their glossy and well-kept black hair fully in evidence, with a bit of bright : Harry Kohpay. bbon or a flower coquettishly adjusted in it. The Indians love everything that. is bright and beautiful, and the flower man that comes out every morning reaps a fich harvest from them. ? Indian children are naturally devout. The belief in a higher power seems to be born fn them and finds expression In the Sab- bath school, Y. M. C. A. and the King’s Daughters. A young Washington girl, who is a teacher at Carlisle, Miss Cummings, is one of the leaders in the King’s Daughters. "The little silver cross that sets them apart from all others is a common ornament. ffhe children are left to choose their own church. Services are held in the chapel every Sunday, but thcse who desire to at- tend services in the town of Carlisle, half a mile away, are chaperoned and cared for. It is the desire that all the students attend gervices somewhere, but it is never made obligatory. Growing in Favor. The love of the beautiful is shown in many ways. In the neat dormitories every- thing is as clean as soapsuds can make it, and pretty rugs, pictures and pieces of at- tistic handiwork,made by the owners them- gelves or purchased with their own spend- ais money, adorn the rooms. The great y ining rooms are furnished with white ta- le linen and silver, neat china and glass ware. Everything that appeals tv the gense of the beautiful is furnished. * The “outing system” is one of the great titutions of Carlisle. When the school ras first established it was objected that would be a nuisance to the surrounding ers, who seemed to have an !dea that o THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY,’ MARCH 6, 1895—TWELVE PAGES. the students would go on f expedi- tions whea they got tired of the restric- tions of the school. Now those same farm- ers are tumbling over each other to get Indian boys to work for them in the sum- mer. Progressive Spirit. ‘That the boys are thoroughly imbued with ® progressive spirit is shown in the fact that when Congress positively refused to make appropriations for needed additions to the buildings for the boys, and for an amusement hall, the students went to Capt. Pratt and told him that they would give $1,800 of their earnings for the proposed improvements if he could raise the rest. He accepted the proposition, and the im- provements wre made. It was in this hall that one of the prettiest sights of the commencement week took place. The Carlisle boys are handsomely uni- formed and splendidly drilled in all. evo- lutions and in marching, though they carry no guns. Their perfectly fitting uniforms are made by their own tailor, as- sisted by Indian boys who are learning that Before. trade. Everything the Indian students wear is made by themselves. The girls have a light, airy sewing room, and make all their own clo.hes also. The five com- panies, looking as trim as a lot of band- box dudes in their bright new uniforms, gave a dyill Wednesday afternoon in Gym- nasium Hall. They all wore white gloves, and handsome caps above their dark faces, and the precision with which they ma- neuvered was something remarkable. The drill was followed by a game of basket ball, played by young Indian girls, in uni- forms of blue flannel, made in Turkish di- vided skirt fashio1, fastened at the knee, displaying shapely legs and extremely small feet, in low, soft shoes and black stockings. One team wore bright red sashes under their loose blouse waists, and the others dark blue, to match the suits. _Most enjoyable of all, perhaps, was the closing feature, when one hundred girts, in their divided skirts, and one hundred boys in army blue trousers, belts and white shirts, marched in and took position in perfectly aligned files for Indian club and dumb bell exercises. ‘The great day of the commencement was ‘Thursday. Special trains ran up from Washington on Wednesday, conveying to Carlisle many prominent people. “After. Wednesday evening, after dining at Capt. Pratt's, the guests were invited to the chapel and treated to a melange of enter- tainment, such as one would usually have a traverse several thousand miles to listen 0. Thursday the closing exercises were held, and were remarkable for their literary ex- cellence. Lw. B. —EEE—EE WAR ON THE GAS TRUST. Mayor Hopkins’ Vigorous Words in Signing the Ogden Ordinance. Mayor Hopkins of Chicago on Monday night announced his unconditional official approval of the Ogden gas ordinance,which has arcused warm opposition from the Civic Federation and in other influential quarters, on the ground that it is a “bocdle” measure. The Cosmopolitan Electric ordinance, which has been similarly classed by the opponents of the Ogden ordinance, was also approved by the mayor. In a message to the city council accom- panying his approval Mayor Hopkins says: “There is hardly a state In the Union in which laws prohibiting the formation of trusts and kindred combinations have not been passed, and the courts everywhere seem to be more or less engaged with ju- dictal inquiries into the manifold abuses incident to the establishment and continu- ance of these urlawful and oppressive or- ganizations. So far, however, the people have cnly here and there been successful in this great struggle, and so crafty and law defying have been the villains in breadcloth and kid gloves in manipulating these enormous properties that they have maraged by various subterfuges, as artful and cunring as can possibly be contrived by the shrewdest and most unscrupulous of corporation lawyers, to escape the con- sequences of final judgments and decrees of the courts of last resort. “It is the direct consequence of the or- ganization and continuance of trusts like the great Chicago gas trust, now said to form but a branch of a still greater and therefore still more dangerous trust, of not only national, but international domin- ance, that, notwithstanding the increased consumption, and notwithstanding the con- tinucus new inventions and improved con- trivances, materially cheapening the cost of production, the people of our city have to pay a much higher price for illuminat- ing gas than the people of other less popu- lous American communities. Why should cur people be compelled to pay more for gas than the people ef Detroit, Cleveland and Wheeling? “If the capitalization of the trust repre- nted nothing but the capital actually in- vested in the plant, the dividends derived from $1 gas. stock would be so large that stock could not be had for anything less than an amount equal to many times its par value.” —e-oo—_____ Pine Tree gtate Songsters. Mme. Eames, who hails from Bath, Me.; Madame Nordica, who comes from Farm- ington, and Madame Raymond, all daugh- ters of Maine, were given a reception by enthusiastic natives of the pine tree state now residing in Boston on the occasion of the presence of the prima donnas at the hub in grand opera. The reception was a great success. Miss Carey, the famous contralto, was also a native of Maine. How to Get Rid of the Theater Hat. A lady correspondent of the London Daily ‘Telegraph remarks that the theatrical man- agers can haraly be expected to add to their duties that of deciding whether hats will or will not obstruct the general view; put there is a well-founded story of a Ger- man manager who sympathized strongly enough with his aggrieved patrons in like circumstances to put notices up on all sides to the effect that “ladles over forty are permitted to retain their bonnets in all parts of the house.” It is said that every one cheerfully removed her headgear as a result, and the expedient might answer here. —se+—_____ Was He Killed for Insurance? John Hendershott and Wm. F. Welter have been placed upon trial at St. Thomas, Ont., for the murder of Wm. Hendershott last December. Welter had reported that Hendershott had been killed by a falling tree, but the testimony at the inquest showed that the man had been murdered, and $11,000 insurance had been collected by John Hendershott, his uncle, on the life of the deceased, SOUTHERN BAPTISTS Goldén Jubilee to Bo Held in Wash- ington in May. A GREAT GATHERING EXPECTED How the Church Separated From Its Northern Brethren. : (THE VAST. WORK IT DOES ———-—_— The Southern Baptist convention will meet in Washington in May. The opening is set for Friday, the 10th. The arrange- ments are in charge of a local committee, headed by Rev. Dr. Stakely of the First Chur¢h, corner of 16th and O streets north- west. Most of the sessions will probably be held in the First Church, which is ad- mirably suited to large gatherings, and is central in location. The Southern Baptist convention is one of the largest delegated religious bodies in the land, and perhaps the largest in the number of delegates appointed to the differ- ent affiliating associations. The audiences during these annual conventions are num- erous. The convention met two years ago in Atlanta, and was attended to such an extent that Trinity Church was taxed to its utmost capacity to accommodate just the delegates. It in the Golden Jubilee. The convention this year is called the Golden Jubilee. Although this is the fif- tieth year of the Southern Baptist conven- tion, it is only the thirty-ninth session, as no convention was held from 1863 until 1866. Semi-annual conventions had been held up to 1863. It is proposed, in recogni- ticn of the golden jubilee of the convention, to make a special effort to increase the contributions of the churches to mission work. The first session of the Southern Baptist cenvention was held in Augusta, Ga., on May 10, 1845. The convention met last May in Dallas, Tex. The total number en- titled to seats was 1,175, and there were present 772 delegates. The convention ad- journed to meet at a point to be selected by the southern boards of the convention, and they have since decided that it shall meet in Washington. The Separation. The convention originated in a with- drawal of the southern churches from union and co-operation with the general convention of the Baptist denomination in the United States, which was popularly known as “the triennial convention.” That body had been organized in Philadelphia, May 21, 1814. It had at first the one object of aiding missions, being an aftergrowth of the starting of the first American Baptist foreign mission in India by Adoniram Jud- son, his wife and Luther Rice, who sailed for India in the year 1812. Mr. Rice re- turned to the United States, and through his addresses awakened great interest in the foreign mission work. The separation of the Southern Baptist churches from the northern churches was an aftergrowth of the anti-slavery sentiment in the north. The separation virtually took place by the action of the Home Missionary Society at its meeting in Providence, R. I., in April, 1845. At this meeting resolutions were adopted recognizing that there should be no distinction as. to eligibility to office among the members, but at the same time suggesting that it was better for the north- ern and southern members, amicably, to form separate organizations. Thus was started the Southern Baptist convention, which at once secured the en- thusiastic support of the churches in the south. Rev. J. B. Jeter, D.D., was the first president of the board of foreign missions of the southern convention. General Officers, The general officers of the convention are as follows: President, Jonathan Har- alson, LL. D., Montgomery, Alo vice presidents, Francis Marion Ellis, D. D., Baltimore, .Md.; John William Jones, D. D., University of Virginia; Samuel Howard Ford, D. D., LL. D., St. Louis, Mo.; Wm. Jonathan Northern, LL. D., Atlanta, Ga. Secretaries, Lansing. Burrows, D. D., Au- gusta, Ga.; Oliver Fuller Gregory, D. D., Baltimore, Md.; treasurer, Mr. George W. | Norton, Louisville, Ky.; auditor, William Patrick Harvey, D. D., Louisville, Ky.; secretary foreign mission board, Rev. Dr. R. J. Willingham, Richmond, Va. Statistics of the Church. The convention at the time of its organi- zation took charge of missions in China, Brazil, Japan, Liberia and Africa. The total receipts of the foreign board of the con- vention last year amounted to $437,037. The receipts of the foreign board of the conven- tion last year amounted to $106,332.69, and the contributions from native converts were $5,944.27, The receipts of the ho! board of missions the past year were 36 51. ‘These boards conduct missions in China, Africa, Japan, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, among the colored people, the Indians and among the whites of the mountain region of the south and on the frontier. ‘The convention has connected with it 644 associations,9,610 ordained ministers, 17,846 churches, 2,654,397 members, and 93,842 per- sons were baptized last year in the churches. The total white membership is 1,363,351, and the total colored membership is 1,291,046. ——————— To Be Eligible for Divorce. Judge Haney of Mitchell, South Dakota, has just rendered a decision in the case of P. H. Edmison against Madame Margaret De Steuers. Madame De Steuers was in Mitchell for a divorce from Baron De Steuers of Berlin, and in order to make her residence appear bona fide she negotiated for the purchase of the residence of P. H. Edmison for $12,500. She got her divorce before the deal was consummated. She married Count Elliot Zebrowski within three hours after the decree was granted, and found an excuse for breaking her con- tract, and left for England, where she has since resided. The contract was made with the agree- ment that within thirty days the purchaser would pay over the money and take pos- session. Shortly before the expiration cf the thirty days Madame De_ Steuers, through her attorneys, Davis, Lyons & Gates, set up thirty-two objections to the title of the property, and served the same on W. A. Wilkes, Mr. Edmison’s attorney. The latter at once brought suit against Madame De Steuers to compel her to per- form her contract. The decision of the court is that the defendant must within thirty days perform her contract, and de- posit with the court $12,500. Failing to do this, the plaintiff is allowed*to make a deed to the defendant of the property in question, sell the property for what it will bring, and secure a judgment against the defendant for the balance, including the costs of the suit. The costs amount to about $500. —_—__—_—-+ee___-___ A Clerk One Month. Washington Correspondence Philadelphia Times. “J see that the papers have gotten up a story about Mr. Wilson's having been a clerk in the government service for some time,” remarked to a caller Mrs, John L. Wilson, wife of the new Senator from the state of Washington, “but the truth is that he was only in Uncle Sam's employ- ment for a month and left to begin the practice of law in the west. Later on he went to Washington, from which state he has been a Congressman for some years. I am not one of the ‘new women,’ but I do believe in woman's right to vote if she wishes; to have the same pay for her work as that a man would receive, if she does it as well, and I think that in many things women are the superiors of men—that is, in the fineness of her intellect, Yet I also think It is a pity to see so many women foreed to earn their own bread, for it seems to me to be an admission that the men in the’ family are either failures in a business way or that they are too selfish to support their sisters and mothers. “It ought te be a man's highest privilege to take care of the women and it is a sad necessity that forces women into the busi- ness world. And in the business world she will never succeed urless she drops her femininity, that is, is willing to be treated with the rough courtesy that men extend to each other in the struggle of life.” IN HOTEL CORRIDORS “I have been somewhat astonished, oc- casionally, while visitmg Washington, to hear some really sensible people inveighing strongly against civil service reform,” said E. W. Gregg of Newhy Mass., at the Normandie yesterday. “Words have scarcely been found strong enough in which to express their Pisapproval of the system in operation here, and when I have questioned the reason, one and all of the critics have put themselves behind that impregnable barrier of ignorance, “To the victors belong the sppils.’ I cannot con- ceive how people can be so blind. Commu- nity selfishness, if nothing else, should make every Washingtonian a valiant cham- pion of’ the civil service laws, for those statutes are doing and will. continue to do more to give the capital city an absolutely permanent population than any other cause. Men who come to Washington now as gov- ernment clerks are not subject to the changes of politics, or the whims of poli- ticians, so far as their tenure of office is concerned. They are assured of a perma- nent position, and, consequently, they set- tle themselves here to remain the rest of their days, and to rear their families. Clerks like this do not save their money to keep away the wolf when their dismissal comes, as they did under the old plan. They invest their accretions here in Wash- ington and buy homes, and thus add to the substantial and lasting prosperity of the place. Therefore, I cannot imagine how any person here can possibly be anything but an énthusiastic believer in practical civil service reform from a personal stand- point alone, outside of the moral aspects of the case. “There are a number of theatrical compa- nies always traveling through the country and appearing at variety theaters which are heralded under such names as the ‘Daz- zling Blondes’ or the ‘Southern Fairies’ or some other equally gallery and front-row attracting appellations,” said Edward Wa- ters, a theatrical man, at the National last night. “Every.now and then the regular frequenter of the variety shows who is familiar with the attractions that follow each other one season and another will no- tice that such a company as I allude to is full of brand-new youthful faces and figures, surrounding the old-time central burlesquer or male impersonator. When such a change is apparent you can always bet that the company has been making a slow trip through the country villages dur- ing the preceding summer. Nine-tenths of those young women have been stage-struck country maidens, who were only awaiting some opportunity to join a troupe. They may have beer modest, quiet girls, who would have died if such @ thing as eppear- ing in tights had been even suggested to them before the ‘show’ reached town; but the dazzle and the glitter proves too much for them, and the first thing they know they are ranged around the stage in brief habiliments, joining in the chorus of the song which the ‘star’ of the performance carries at the front. Some of ’em get sick of it pretty soon, but most of them stick and go to the bad. The southwest is a great recruiting ground for these female galaxies, and last summer several were down in that section mesmerizing young women and luring them away from their homes.” ; <r, A long, brown bear claw on the watch chain of a man standing in the Metropoli- tan lobby last night attracted several peo- ple’s attention, and samd) asked him why he wore such an outlandish charm. Well,” began the owner, who was George Miller of Cheyenne, and a wealthy member of the Wyoming Live stock Association, “there is a story about. this claw. I cut it off of a live grizzly bear, tvho is living yet for all I know, and I put it on tonight to show a friend who w: htily interested in the proceedings abgut the time the am- putation occurred. I’m going over to Balti- more in a few minutes to see him, and when he spies this claw ®4l bet he hollers. Phil Brent, that’s his name, and we were out prospecting in the spurs that run back from Brown's Park in Colorado in ‘77. I had the quartz fever bad then-und wouldn’t have given a piece of jerked meat for every bunch of cattle in the country. We had knocked up a sort of a shack for our- selves, something of a cross between. a big wicklup and a hillside cave, and were pretty comfortable as far as quarters go. One day Phil got sort of sick and I went out to kill him a grouse, taking a little single- barrel shotgun. I got a couple of moun- tain quail about a quarter of a mile away and came back. When I turned a little gully and came in {ight of the shack there e hindquarters of ott oF the door, eens pe “I knew Phil was inside, and my hair stood up. The popgun I had was worth about as much as a pipestem so far as fighting a bear was concerned. I didn’t know what to do, but every now and then I could hear the bear gurgle. It wasn't a grunt, but a regular gurgle, like it was blowing its wind against the roof of its mouth. All of a sudden I spied our ax near me, and I grabbed it. I sneaked up, thinking I could cut the bear on his hind knee and make him pay attention to him- self until I could get a whack at his head. A bear hurt in the hindquarters will al- ways doctor the wound for a minute or two before it starts to get even with its enemy. Well, I raised the ax and shut my eyes and whizzed away at that hind leg. There was a howl like a hundred hyenas had broke loose, and 4 bear half as big as an elephant, it seemed to me, fell back out of the shack and then started off up the hollow like a race horse. In a second he was out of sight, and in another I was in- side and ahold of an English rifle, with a bore like a cannon, that a hunter from the east had given Phil. And derned if Phil wasn’t sitting up in one corner, with his eyes staring at the door, in a-dead faint. Between looking out for that fool bear-to come back and bringing my partner to T had a busy half hour, but the bear didn’t come back and Phil did. He told me that he was sitting on the floor on some skins, trying to cool his back against the rock— he had a hot fever—when something dark- ened the door, and there was the grizzly. He was petrified, and swore that the bear began making faces at him, when he fainted. We examined the doorway to see if there were any blood marks, and blessed it I didn’t pick up his claw. I reckon I missed his ieg, and such a sudden way of cutting his toenails set him crazy. Next week we got out, and six or seven months afterward we parted. I reckon we will Prospect together considerable tonight.”” “The University of California promises to be heard from athletically as well as in the other higher branches of education,” said Albert M. Dodge, a young studentjof the institution, at the Riggs House yesterday. “We did up Brother Staggs’ foot ball eleven from the Chicago University during Christmas week, and we want to have a shy at the eastern colléges in May at the intercollegiate games at Mott Haven. We have already applied for membership in the Intercollegiate Association, and the funds necessary to make the-trig cast are prac- tically assured. We have; some splendid sprinters, especially Ji cal Scoggins, who did the 100 yards last "yeaf in ten seconds flat, the college record. tine for the dis- tance. Colt is a good nije man, and Henry is fine over hurdles. iddgren is a great hammer thrower, and there are excellent high and broad jumpérs fe select repre- sentatives from. Mez. , im only a rooter, but I can say, without conceit, that I can hold my own at tha€ game with any fellow Yale, Harvard! Princeton or any of the rest of ’em ever ‘matriculated.” i T “It 1s a, good thing that the Grand Duke Nicholas of- Russia ig7 nog a resident of Washington,” said F. KR. Hartwell of Phila- delphia, who spent several years in Russia, at Willard’s yesterday. “It wouldn't take him long to break up the business of every hotel and bcarding house in town if he did. In what way? Why, in satisfying his appetite. He is afflicted with the steadiest hunger, and possesses the most marvelous capacity for stowing away foed of any man in Europe, or anywhere else for that matter. Think of a man eating thirty full- size mutton chops for luncheon and four big portions of sausage on the side, and then topping off with two roast ducks! Well, that is a record he is known to have made one day in St. Petersburg, and he had two or three dinner and several sup- per engagements to meet during the after- noon and evening. His fame—or yather notoriety—as a glutton js spread all over Europe, and when he goes traveling to visit some of his distinguished titled cous- ins the royal larders are stocked until the pantry doors stand open, so he may be entertained in the way most pleasant to AN EDITOR BADLY BEATEN. | Result of His Exposure of a Terrible State of Affairs in a Florida Jail. Editor Alfred E. Seddon of the South Florida News, published at Bartow, Fla., was probably fatally assulted late Monday night by Sheriff Ballard. Seddon’s nose is broken and his skull fractured, and the at- tending physician is doubtful if he can live. The assault grew out of an expose in the News of a revolting state of affairs in the Polk county jail, of which Sheriff Ballard is the keeper. The article led to an official investigation by the county commissioner, and the evidence adduced showed that one woman prisoner was confined in the same apartment at the jail with eighteen male prisoners. ‘The woman herself testified that she had been in confiuement three months, and that the men permitted her to have no privacy and repe. tedly assaulted her. She repeatedly begged the sheriff for mercy, but he only laughed at her complaints. The woman is now a physical wreck, and is about to become a mother, it is said. Popular indignation was aroused, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union took up the case of the woman, circulating a petition for the removal of Sheriff Ballard from cffice. Ballard has been arrested for the assault, but is out on bond. oo INSURGENT DEFEATS REPORTED. Advices From Cuba Received at the Spanish Cxpital. Dispatches received at Madrid, Spain, from Cuba last evening said that Yaguey, the chief of a powerful band of brigands which had been operating in the province of Matanzas, had ylelded his submission. ‘This, it is added, puts an end to the rising “that province, which was the most formidable in the whole island. Gen. Lechambre, whose death is now denied, has commenced operations against the town of Baire, which is occupied by the insurgents. In the province of Guan- tanamo only four rebel bands, numbering in all about 180 men, now exist. In the chamter of deputies the minister of war, Gen. Dominguez, said there was no truth in the rumors of insurgent successes in_Cuba, Several corps of volunteers in Cuba have offered to jt the governor general against the rebels. r The American minister to Spain has as- sured that country that the United States will do its best to prevent filibustering ex- peditions beirg sent to Cuba from Florida. THEY WANT NO TROLLEY. Wealthy Residents at Elberon, N. J. Protest Against an Electric Railway. A petition is being circulated at Elberon, N. J., and is being signed by such well known summer residents as Washington Wilson, George M. Pullman, H. C. Fahne- stock, Franklin’ Murphy, W. Campbell Clark, Gen. Horace Porter, Thomas 8. Kin- ney and G. R. Blanchard, protesting against the township committee granting a franchise to-the Sea Shore Electric Rail- way Company to connect Asbury Park with Long Branch by a trolley road. The Sea Shore Company recently pur- chased the West End and Long Branch railroad, a horse car line, running from West End to Pleasure Bay, with the inten- tion of converting it into a trolley road. While the trolley read does not directly affect the Elberon cottagers, they claim the permanency of such a road will depreciate property. The signatures already obtained na petition ‘represent a capital of $200,- oo —_____ Lady Somerset's London Houses. ‘The statement was made in New York re- cently by William E. Hicks, a reformer, that many of Lady Henry Somerset's houses in London were tenanted by dis- reputables, and is creating discussion that may lead to investigation of the charges, The Chicago Daily News says it is prob- able that resolutions asking for an investi- gation will be introduced at the clergy- men’s meeting next Monday, and that the Rev. George R. Mitchell has been asked to preside at an undenominetional meeting to discuss the matter, and, after due in- vestigation, vindicate Lady Henry Somer- set or support Mr. Hicks in his crusade. ———_+e+—___—__ Methodist Conference at Richmond. The Washington conference of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church convened at Rich- mond, Va., this morning. Bishop W. F. Mailalieu, D.D., LL.D., of Buffalo, N. Y., presided. The session was held in the True Reformers’ Hall, which has a large seat- ing capacity. The conference is composed of 144 ministers, with church property val- ued at $829,936; number of parsonages, 66, valued at $57,220; total membership, 31,149; Sunday schools, 368; number of officers and teachers, 3,266; number of scholars, 25,138. The territory of the conference includes Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, District of Columbia and several appointments in Pennsylvania. J5xtensive preparations have been made to entertain the conference at Richmond, beside the religious and business sessions. Receptions and various social events have been arranged to make the meeting enjoyable. —- —ree- Newspaper Laws. Assistant Attorney General Thomas of the Post Office Department has made an important ruling in regard to the so-called “Newspaper Laws.” Mr. Thomas decides that a publisher who makes a demand for payment of subscrip- tion to his paper through the mails, ac- companying the demand with a threat of enforcing it by the use of these pretended laws, may be prosecuted for attempting to cbtain money under false pretenses, provid- ed he knows that these laws have no ex- istence as laws or as judicial decisions. The so-called laws referred to are those often promulgated by some newspapers to the effect that subscription to a paper can- not be stopped until full payment of ar- rearage has been made, and that a publish- er may prosecute in criminal action a sub- ecriber who refuses to take his paper from the office not having paid full arrearage or a subscriber who takes a paper and refuses to pay for it. These rules, the assistant attorney general says, have no existence under the law. ———— Threatened With 2 Water Famine. The city of Tacoma, Wash., is threatened with a water famine. An injunction has been issued restraining the city from using water from Clover creck, the main source of supply. This supply was recently bought by the city from the Tacoma Water and Light Company, and the city has been engaged in law suits ever since it made the purchase. An attempt is being made to have the city repudiate $1,009,000 worth of bonds issued in part payment. C. R. Wright of Philadelphia is the largest hold- er of the bonds. —sae as Commi joner La Grange Sworn In. Gen. O. H. La Grange was yesterday sworn in as fire commissioner of New York city, to succeed President Scannel. Gen. Grange was formerly superintendent of the mint at San Francisco, and served un- der Gen. Grant during the civil war. —s The Women Defented. The bill to grant full municipal suffrage to women has been defeated in the lower legislative body of Massachugetts by a vote of 127 to 87. The question was one ordering the bili to a third reading. The motion brought out an immense audience of women, and occasiotied lively debate by the legislators. : ——_—_—+e+____ Anti-Cigarette Legislation. ‘The Nebraska house has passed the anti- cigarette bill. Omaha has been especially bitter in this fight, but the various churches have succeeded in influencing their members. The Woman's Club and the Ministerial Association have assaulted the paper smoker, but it was not expect=d the bill would pass. The chief reason for this fight has been that the dealers sold to small boys. ——__ — +e+____ The Idaho Senatorship. The nineteen men who have supported Sweet as Senator from Idaho, voted for him again yesterday, although their caucus organization was dissolved Monday night. The populists transferred their votes to A. J. Crook, the result of the ballot being: Shoup, 20; Sweet, 19; Crook, 15. One of the Sweet men said they wanted to show they could stay together without organization. It is asserted now that the anticipated break-up will begin today. A Cyclopedia. ~ Theone great advantage of The Star Almanac over all others is its complete digest of District affairs—the duties of _the Commissioners and various other officers of the District, and their respective locations, &e. “To give this valuable text book the widest possible cir- - culation we have placed it on sale at all the news stands, depots and hotels, or it can be . obtained at the office. Price, 25c. Evening Star Company, | Cor. 11th and Pa. Ave. ey CUTTING THE COTTON CROP. Southern Planters Likely to Reduce the Acreage. A convention of representative Alabama cotton growers, held at Birmingham, Ala., to take action on the plan recommended by the American Cotton Growers’ Protec- tive Association, at its meeting held re- cently at Jackson, Miss., to reduce the acreage of this year’s crop, as the only remedy to raise the price of the staple, decided to cut down the year’s production 50 per cent. The obligation becomes operative, provided three-fourths of the cotton growers of the south agree to it. The movement has become general throughout the south, associations for the purpose having been formed in every cot- ton state, and there appears to be little doubt that the necessary number will sign. ————-eee. Distinguished Chinese Tourists.’ A body of distinguished Chinamen are on their way from Mexico to the United States. The party consists of Li Yung Yew, the consul general at San Francisco; Yu Shi Yo, ex-consul general at Havana, Cuba; Ko King Owiang, the vice consul at San Francisco, and Fong Yen Shan, an attache of the Chinese legation at Wash- ington, besides a large number of clerks and other attendants. Vice Consul Owiang, who is a graduate of Yale University and is interpreter of the party, said yesterday they had been negotiating with Mexico on the subject of Chinese immigration, but that he could not foreshadow, their reports, which are socn to be made. He and Fong Yen Shen went Jast night to San Francis- co, while the others are coming to Wash- ington. ——___+e+_____ Sir Henry Rawlinson’s Death. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, who died yesterday in England, was born at Chad- lington, Oxfordshire, in 1810. In 1833 he entered the diplomatic career, was sent to Persia, and, later on, to Afghanistan as pelitical agent of Great Britain. He be- came president of the Geographical Society, 1871-76. As early as 1850 he published a commentary on the cuniform Inscriptions of Babylon,in 1853 his “History of Assyria,” in other works, which, in connection with his later cuniform inscriptions. of Western Asia (five volumes, 1561-70) made his name fumous among the savans of Europe in this special line of research, in which he remained unsurpassed, and occupied to the end of an illusirious career. eS SS Increasing Small Pensions. Steps are being taken at the pension bu- reau to put into execution the recent law raising to $6 per month the pensions of those pensioners who are receiving less than this sum, This will involve an annual increase of about $1,500,000, and will affect 40,000 cases. —_——__-e—_____ Kivking the Corpne. The resolution which passed the New York house Monday congratulating the state upon escape from further danger to its industries at the hands of the Fifty- third. Congress was discussed for an hour in the senate yesterday. It went over until" today. ++ Satolli and the Clan-na-Gacl. Mgr. Satolli has received an anonymous printed petition urging him to go to Chi- cago and suppress the operations of a so- ciety said to be terrorizing the Catholic community and threatening bloodshed. The meaning of the inflammatory document was net understood until press reports an- nounced that the friends of the murdered Dr. Cronin were petitioning Mgr. Satolli to go to Chicago and take steps against the Clan-na-Gael. The paper recelvel here made no reference to Dr. Cronin, beyond saying that the secret society had already murdered a man and threatened to murder others. There was no written communica- tion to the delegate, except a line on the margin of the petition saying his presence in Chicago was imperative at once. Mar. Satolli paid no attention to the anonymous appeal, and it is not his intention to take any part in the revival of the Cronin agi- tation, or to investigate the Clan-na-Gael. The subject is said to be entirely outside his jurisdiction. INDORSED BY PUBLISHERS. A Libel Bill in the Interests of the Public and Newspapers. In the lower house of the Pennsylvania legislature a bill has been introduced by Mr, Fow of Philadelphia provtding that “béfore any suit shall be brought for pub- lication of a libel in any newspaper in this state the aggrieved party shall at least three days before filing or serving the com- plaint serve notice on the publisher at their Principal office of publication, specifying the statements which he or they allege to be false and defamatory. If it shall ap- pear on the trial that the article was pub- lished in good faith, that its falsity was due to mistake or misapprehension of the facts, and that a full and fair retraction of any statement therein alleged to be erro- neous was published in the next regular issue of such paper, or in case of daily pa- pers within three days after such mistake or misapprehension was brought to the knowledge of such publisher or publishers in as conspicuous place and type in such newspaper as was the article complained of as libelous, then the plaintiff in such case shall recover only actual damages; provided, however, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to the case of any libel against any candidate for a public of- fice in this state, unless the retraction of the charge 1s made editorlally in a con- spicuous manner at least three days be- fore the election, in case such libelous arti- cle was published in a daily paper, and in case such Hbelous article was published in a weekly paper at least ten days before the election.” The bill is a rescript of the Minnesota act and was indorsed at the recent convention in New York of the Newspaper Publishers’ Association. Mr. Fow also introduced a bill to prohibit = ee. engee 3 bh taste of any circular or poster reflec' m any can- didate for office. ee = This bill is to be introduced in all the legislatures now in session. It was sent to Mr. Fow by Mr. Singerly of Philadelphia, It is the intention to secure special orders + the bill, and it is expected to become a ay. ——_+e-+_____ Their First Smoker. The headquarters of the Jolly Fat Men's Club was crowded last evening with heaty- weights. The occasion was the first an- nual smoker of the organization, and it was fully up to the standard established heretofore by the club. President John H. Buscher formally opened the exercises by introducing Dr. L. L. Friederich as master of ceremonies. The members and guests were supplied with cigars, sandwiches and other edibles and drinkables and then they fixed themselves comfortably to be enter- tained. Music was furnished by the Na- tional League Band, and Mr. Thomas R. Wilkinson, jr., made an interesting and amusing address, in which he set forth many reasons why men should be jolly. The Tuxedo Quartet rendered several se- lections, and Mr. W. M. Hale earned en- thusiastic applause by a banjo solo. Mr. Richard Bond and Mr. M. 8. Wright sang solos, and selections were also given by John Esvuta, Mr. Hugh Saxon and Mr, James Coyle. Among the guests were a delegation from the Jolly Fat Men's Club of Baltimore. The smoker was arranged by a committee, con- sisting of Messi E. 8. Randall, John T. . Scott, A. A. Fri Thomes O’Brien, J. A. McGirr, Ernest W. Emery, Anthony Ko- dier, J. H. Buscher, Dr. L. L. Friederich and Thomas R. Wilkinson, jr. ——_—+oo——_ The Killing Was Justified. In the sessions court at Charleston, 8.0., yesterday Ignatius Hankilewitz was acquit- ted of the murder of John Hankiewitz, his brother, on February 9. The testimony was of a revolting nature, showing that John Hankiewitz betrayed his brother's wife and outraged his daughter. Forced to Dig Gold, Some young men from Cartersville, Ga., who were hunting in the neighborhood of Allatoona Tuesday, report that they across a party of miners digging along the branches and creeks in that seo- tion. These men are not regular but tonants on the farms of the neighbor, hood, who stated that they could find work and were compelled to do some’ to feed their nies b make Sty of geld wiles they ‘bet out by tity of wi and diligent work. ' iH