Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1895, Page 2

—————————— LATE NEWS BY WIRE Experience of’ the Revenue Cutter Perry at Callao. TOOK MEASORES 70 PROTECT AMERICANS Our Legation in the Range of Machine Guns. PEACE AGAIN RESTORED SAN DIEGO, Cal., April 22.—The revenue cutter Commodore Perry arrived in port after an eventful voyage of 122 days from New York. Capt. Smith received orders at Acapulco to hurry to San Francisco to outfit for Bering sea as soon as possible, and he will accordingly sail at daybreak Tuesday morning. In an interview Capt. Smith said: “We arrived at Callao March 24. I immediately sent an officer to the American consul gen- eral, Mr. Jastremski, placing a gig at his disposal. He came off in great excitement saying that American interests were in danger and that Americans were liable to jose their lives unless some protection was_ afforded them. He told me of the attempt to burn the American legation at Lima. I immediately detailed officers, twenty-five men and a rapid-firing gun, with thirty rounds of ammunition, to aid Gen. Jastrem- ski, whenever circumstances should require. The force was held in readiness to disem- bark at a moment’s warning. Scenes of Devastation. “I went to Lima and paid a visit to the American minister, Mr. McKenzie. At Lima there were evidences of the fight on every hand. The streets were littered with lime to destroy the stench made by the bodies, and I saw about 1,500 bodies of men slain the day before. Windows were brok- en, houses honeycombed with bullets, many of them burred to the grcund, and devasfa- tion and destruction to be seen everywhere. American Legation in Peril. “The street in front of the legation was closed by a barricade, on either side of which had been placed the rapid firing guns of the Caceristas and Moneteros. The shot flew like hail in the vicinity and the walls of the American legation were pierced. Mrs. McKenzie had been standing near the win- dow looking out, when her husband called her away, and as she turned a shot passed the spot where she had been standing. Hu- man life was cheap, native or foreign, and Mr. McKenzie sent his wife and two other American ladies out of the country on the New Orleans steamer. ~ Great Protection to Americans. “I received a letter from Mr. McKenzie, thanking me for the protection offered the American consul, and notifying me that in his judgment, the provisional government was established formally enough to prevent further breaks. Consul General Jastremski also wrote me a cordial letter of thanks, in which he intimated that the little revenue cutter was an invaluable aid at the junc- ture in preventing harm to American inter- ests at Callao. I accordingly sailed on March 29, and reached Acapulco April 3.” >. THE BIMETALLISTS’ CANDIDATE. That Role Assigned to Ex-President Harrison for Next Year. CHICAGO, April 22.—A special dispatch from Indianapolis, Ind., says: “Benjamin Herrison will be the candidate of the bi- metallists of the United States in 1896." This statement was made today by a re- publican of natlonal prominence, who had just had a talk with the ex-President. “He will be nominated by the republican con- vention as a compromise candidate,” said the speaker. “That is the plan of his friends. I do not know that Gen. Harri- son will actively seek the nomination. He can get it without uttering a word. The silver people of the west know his senti- ments, and they are satistied that he stands for all they can hope to get in is96. “The speech_ which Gen. Harrison made in Colorado February 2S, 1891, while on his way to California, will nominate him. It was the first and only utterance of the ex-President after he had left the White House. It was made in the town of La Junta in the heart of the silver mining dis- trict. Gen. Harrison has entirely recovered from his recent illness and upparently was never in better health. What Mr. Harrison Said. In the La Junta speech Mr. Harrison, speaking of silver, said: Now, I say to you today what I said when I was President and what I have always believed, that a larger use of silver for money and free coinage of silver upon @ basis to be agreed upon that would main- tain its parity with gold was good for the whole world. I do not believe that we could run free coinage ourselves when the European governments were pursuing the policy they have been pursuing with silver. But, my fellow-citizens, there are clear in- dications now in England and in Germany that they are feeling the effects of a scarcity of gold and its prostrating effects upon the industries.” ————_—_ FOR GIVING A PASS. Arrest of C. P. Huntington, the South- ern Pacific President. NEW YORK, -April 22—C. P. Hunting- ton, president of the Southern Pacific rail!- read, was arrested today “on ‘a charge of giving a free pass to one Frank Stone, in violation of the interstate commerce law. President Huntington was arraigned be- fere United States Commissioner Shields, and he was then taken before Judge Brown of the United States district court for a warrant of removal to California. A hear- ing was fixed for next Thursday at 3 o'clock, Mr. Huntington, in the meantime, being allowed to go on his own recogni- zance. Mr. Huntington said to a reporter, after the "proceedings before Commissioner Shields: “I may have given him a pass; I prob- ably did; but I give out so many passes that I don’t remember one-third of them. The passes that are usually given out are indorsed, as a rule, ‘Not good outside the tate,’ and I presume his pass was not so ‘amped and he took advantage of it. “E don’t know anything about the mat- ter beyond that, for I don’t pay any atten- tion to such things. In fact, I don’t care tuppence one way or the other. It don't amount to anything anyhow. “I think the root of the whole matter les m the fact that when I ‘ame president of the Southern Pacific railroad I discharg- ed twenty-three men out in San Francisco, who were, so far as I could see, merely political agents and go-betweens for poli- ticians. They did no work for the railroad that I could discover, so I cut them off. Perhaps they are hungry now and have got to make a strike somewhere.” putes hier FOUGHT FIRE WITH BUCKETS. Ineffectual Opposition to the Flames at Daquesne. PITTSBURG, Pa., April 22.—Almost the entire business portion of Duquesne bor- ough, oppesite McKeesport, on the Monon- gahela river, was destroyed by fire of sup- posed incendiary origin, which broke out at 4 a.m. The loss is variously estimated at from $80,000 to $150,000. The fire started in Peterson’s grocery store, on Railroad street, and within’ thir- ty minutes had spread over the entire block. The borough is wholly without fire apparatus, and a bucket brigade was the only resistance to the flames. From Railroad stieet the tcwn runs back over a hill of considerable steepness. About the time the flames began to spread a high wind came up and drove the fire up the hiliside, with the result that everything in its path was destroyed. ——.__—. For Free Coinage. NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 22—The leg- fslature reconvened today. The house adopted, by a vote of 43 to 30, the senate resolution declaring in favor of the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. INCOME TAX CASES. No Decision on the Motion for a Re- hearing. Contrary. to general expectations, the United States Supreme Court failed today to hand down a decision on the motion for a rehearing on the income tax cases. The chief justice announced that on Friday, the 3d of May, the court would cease the call of cases on the docket for the term. The two fdcts together are tak- en to mean definitely that, whatever the decision of the court on the motion for a rehearing may be, the court has no ex- pectation of a reargument during the pres- ent term. The most important case in which a decision was announced today was that of Robert and Ellis vs. the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, appealed from the circuit court of the western district of Wisconsin. Judge Shiras announced the decision of the court, affirming the judg- ment of the court below. The case invoives the title to lands which were donated to the railroad company by Douglass courty on condition that the road should pursue a certain route and make certain improvements on Lake Superior, which was done. The land and the im- vements are now estimated as worth The county afterward sold the lan?s to Roberts and Ellis for $385 in view of a decision of the supreme court of Wis- n that the county could not donate its lands to a corporation. The decision in the United States Supreme Court holds that the transfer of lands to the company was a sale and not a donation, and also that the case was not one for the state courts, in view of the fact that the North- ern Pacific road was a national and not a state corporation. FREE SILVER SENTIMENT. Mr. Coombs Advises a Campaign of Education Against It. Ex-Representative. Coombs of New York, who took a prominent part in financial dis- cussions in the last Congress, is in the city. Mr. Coombs says he has been watching the rapid growth of thé free silver sentiment throughout the country with no little con- cern. “It seems almost incredible that any con- siderable number of our people should seriously think of adopting a financial sys- tem at, variance with the systems of the most prominent nations of the earth,” said Mr. Coombs to a Star reporter, “and yet it looks very much that way at present. One thing must be borne in mind, however; ‘President Cleveland has two years of cer- tain tenure of office yet, and it is not likely that any unsound money: legislation can be- come a law while he is there. I think ‘here is reasonable ground for hoping that hefore his term expires the people will pause and tiink for a while, and then the free-silver craze will die out. “Our finances are all right now, and we should continue cur present course. We are virtually upon a gold basis at present, and should stay that way. The foreign com- merce of the country is based on gold pay- ments. All of my fereign invoices, for in- stance, are made payable in gold, and whenever a great financial or commercial deal is made now it stands on a gold foundation. “What is necded most at present is a vigorous campaign of education among the people to show them the folly and fallacy of the free silver arguments. The Ameri- can people are sensible, and they are good business men as a rule. All that is neces- sary to do in crder to break this free silver bubble is to show them plainly the ruin that will come to our business interests by enacting free coinage.” —__—_-o—______ INCOME TAX CONSTRUCTIONS, Conl Miners Must Pay Tax on the Profits of Their Products. The commissioner of internal revenue has made his first important ruling as to the effect of the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the matter of rentals under the income tax law. The coal miners of Pennsylvania and other states, as well as the producers of oil, have claimed that they are exempt from the operations of the income tax, for the reason that their prod- ucts are products of the soil, and that they come within the same definition of the Su- preme Court as rentals. The collector of internal revenue at Scranton, Pa., which is located in the heart of the anthracite coal producing region, has been here conferring with the commissioner of internal revenue as to the claim which was made by some of the largest coal miners there, that they are not required to pay any income upon the profits of the coal business. The com- missioner of internal revenue has decided that the profits from coal mining are tax- able. The commissioner of internal revenue will, also, by the same reason, be compelled to rule adversely upon the claim of the Standard Oil Company that that company is exempt from paying any income on the profits of its operations in oil on the ground that oll is a product of the soil. TheStand- ard Oil Company is understood to have in- dicated that it will refuse to pay an in- come on its oil products, and will contest the payment in the courts. Representatives of large mining indus- tries in iron and silver have made the same claim that they are exempt, as dealing in the products of the soil, which are as much entitled to exemption under the Supreme Court’s decision as are mere rentals from buildings placed upon the soil. This deci- sion of the commissioner of internal rev- enue will, it is thought, result in protracted and extensive litigation. Mr. Choate, who was connected with the case in the Su- preme Court, predicts that the income liti- gation will last for twenty-five years. ————o-—___—_ SAVED BY THE OFFICER. Prompt Work Prevents a Fatal Fire at Baltimore. BALTIMORE, Md., April 22.—Mrs. Annie Lewis is locked up at the Central station, charged with having set fire to the house ef Henry Warthen, 7 Colvin street, at 3 o’clock this morning. Had it not been for the prompt action and heroic efforts of Officer Albin Ryan the entire Warthen family, two adults and six children, would have been suffocated and burned to death. It ts alleged that Mrs. Lewis had a violent quarrel with Mrs. Warthen yesterday. od OSCAR WILDE INDICTED. Death of Sir Robert Hamilton—Other Forcign News. LONDON, April 22.—The grand jury to- day found a true bill against Oscar Wilde, who is charged with serious misdemeanors, and his trial was set down for Friday next at the Old Bailey. —_——_ Admiral Meade’s Squadron. A telegram received at the Navy Depart- ment today anounced the sailing yesterday of Admiral Meade’s squadron from Colon. All of the vessels started, the Minneapolis going'to Kingston, Jamaica, and the New York, Columbia, Cincinnati, Atlanta and Raleigh heading for Key West. The isth- mus will not be left unprotected long, how- ever, for Secretary Herbert says that one of the ships will be detached from the squadron and sent back to Colon soon. ee Personal Mention. Admiral Ramsay, chief of the bureau of ravigation, has returned from a visit of irspection of the Norfolk navy yard. Capt. John R. Brinklee, fifth artillery, and Capt. R. P. Strorg, fourth artillery, are in the city. Secretary Carlisle is expected to return from Covington, Ky., this evening. Assistant Secretary Hamlin has gone to Boston to attend the funeral of a relative. ———-+2+—____ A Female Pickpocket Arrested. This afternoon a clerk in the store of S. Kann of 8th and Market space noticed a colcred woman attempting to take a pocket bcok from the coat pocket of a lady cus- tomer. Officer J. H. Heller of the first pre- cinct was quietly notified and entered the store and arrested the woman. At the station house three pocket books were found in her possession and a hand bag. The latter article and one of the pocket books, containing $20.90, had been stolen shortly before the occurrence at Kann’s from a lady customer in Lansburgh & Brothers’ store, on 7th street. The prisorer, who is abont seventeen or eighteen years old, gave the name of Annie Toney, and was locked up for a hearing in the Police Court tomorrow. Officer Hel- ler told a Star reporter that Annie Toney lived in 72 Snow's row and was well known to the police. THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1895—TWELVE PAGES. GEN. A. M’D. M’COOK The Last of a Fighting Family Re- tired From the Service. THE SECRETARY'S GENERAL ORDER His Long and Honorable Career Fully Set Forth. —— PROBABLE PROMOTIONS After serving continuously in the service of the United States for a period of forty- three years Maj. Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook retired from the army todat, a step made necessary by the law, the lim- it of age—sixty-four years—having been reached. Gen. McCook will leave Denver this week for Dayton, Ohio, where he will remain until May. He will then come to Washington and New York, reaching the latter city June 1, to be present at thd graduation of his daughter. Later in the summer the general will sail for Europe with his family, where he Will visit several months. He has made no plans corfeerning himself after returning to the United States. With the retirement of Gen. Mc- Cook the last of the fighting McCooks goes into private life, and for the first time in nearly half a century the army will be without a McCook on its active rolls. It is a most noteworthy fact that Gen. McCook, father of Gen. McCook who will be retired today, and the sons were all in the field fighting for their country at one time, and that four of them attained the rank of general. The Official Order. The following general order was jssued hy Secretary Lamont today: “By direction of the President, the re- urement from active service this day, by operation of law, of Maj. Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook, under the provisions of the act of June 30, 1882, is announced. “Gen. McCook entered the United States Military Academy from the state of Ohio and was graduated and appointed Neuten- ant in the third infantry in 1852. His frontier service before the late war ws in the territory and the military department of New Mexico, where he was engaged with hostile Indians in the actions of Sau- watchie Pass, of Arkansas river, and the one on the Gila river. On the outbreak of the late war he became the colonel of the first Ohio volunteers, and was engaged with his regiment in the action of Vienna and the first battle of Bull Run. For gal- lant and meritorious services in this bat- tle he was brevetted major. On the 3d of September, 1861, he was appointed brizadier general of volunteers. From the command of a brigade, in the department of the Cumberland, he soon passed to that of a division in the army of the Ohio, and was engaged in the battle of Shiloh, April 7, 1862, and the advance upon e siege cf Corinth, April 9 to May 30, 2. “He was commended by Gen. Sherman to Gen. Grant for the conduct of his ‘splendid division’ as it ‘drove back the enemy along the Corinth road, which was the great cen- tral line of battle. There Beauregard com- manded in person, supported by Bragg’ Johnston’s and Breckinridge’s division For gallant and meritorious services in the capture of as _brevet- ted lieutenant colonel, and colonel for gal- lant and meritorious servi n the battle of Shiloh, Tenn. into command of the first the Ohio, and was engaged in the battle of Perryville and the march to the relief of Nashville. For gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Perryville he was brevetted brigadier general. He became major general of volunteers July 17, For a time he commanded at Nashville, later the right wing of the fourt in 1st nth corps, and was engaged in several skir- mishes on the march to Murfreesboro’, De- cember, 1Si2, and the baitle of Stone river, December 31, 1862. In January, 1863, he was transferred to the command of the twentieth corps, Army of the Cumberland, and was engaged in the combat of Liberty Gap, June 24 to 1863; the adv: Tullahoma, June 25 to July 14, 18! crossing of the Cumberland mountains and Tennessee river, August 15 to September 4, 1863. and battle of Chicamauga, September 19 to 20, 1863. “While awaiting orders in 1864 he was engaged in Washington, District of Colum- bia, in defense of the capital, July 11 to 12, 184. In the early part of 1865 he was in command of the district of eastern Arkan- sas. For gallant and meritorious services in the field during the war he was brevet- ted major general. “On the 5th of March, 1867, he was ap- pointed licutenant colonel of the twenty- sixth infantry, and served from that time until 1874 iz the Department of Texas. On { the 15th of March, 1869, he was trans- ferred to the tenth infantry. In 1875 he was appointed aid-de-camp to Gen. Sher- man, with the rank of colonel, and served in that capacity until he was promoted to be colonel of the sixth infantry, December 5, 1880. “After a lengthy tour of service in Utah he was ordered, in May, 1886, to the command of the Infantry and Cavalry School at Fort Leavenworth. There he re- mained until he was appointed brigadier general, on the 10th of July, 1890, and as- signed to the command of the Department of Arizona. Promoted to be major general on the 9th or November, 1804, he continued in this command, now known as the De- partment of the Colorado, until the hour of his retirement. “He is the last survivor but one of a gal- lant family, which gave a father and every son to the military service in defense of the country, and lost four—dead upon the bat- tlefield.” Promotions to Follow. The retirement of Gen. McCook will cause a@ number of important changes in the army, including promotions all along the dine. If Brigadier General Merritt does not succeed to the major generalship there will be general disappointment among army men. He is the senior officer of his grade, and has an excellent’ record. The friends of the other four brigadiers concede that Gen. Merritt stands the best chance of pro- motion. There is reason to believe that a surprise will be sprung in the matter of the rext brigadier general. This appoiut- ment is open to all the officers of the army, although it is practically confined to the colonels. Col. Bliss of the infantry is said to be the tikeliest candidate, but his selec- tion is far from certain. His most formid- able competitors are said to be Col. Wilson of the engineers, Cols. Merriam and Mason o: the infantry, Col. Wade, the senior cav- alry officer; Col. R. B. Frank of the artil- lery school, and Lieut. Col. Guy V. Henry of the cavairy. It is expected that these army appointments will be made tomorrow or soon after. o——_____ Robbing the Mails. Thos. W. Jordan, colored, formerly a letter.carrier in the city post office, was placed on trial before Judge Cole in Crim- inal Court No. 2 today, charged with rob- bing the mails. It is charged that on the morning of the 23d of last October Jordan was detected in secreting letters taken by him from the mail he was handling, and upon being searched by the post office in- spectors a letter was found in his pocket. It was also charged that another letter was found in his letter bag. The letters found were addressed to Mrs. Lucy Ann Quarles, Guinear station, Caroline county, Va., and Mrs. E. E. Vicker, Dunmore, Lackawanna county, Pa., respectively. The trial will probably be concluded to- morrow. ———— Bigamy Charged. Mrs. Margaret A. McCanna gave $1,000 security Saturday night for her appearance in the Police Court on a charge of bigamy. She lives near 12th and H streets northeast, and the warrant was sworn out by Robert M. Frost, who. claims to have married the defendant when she had a husband. There has been a controversy over the defend- ant’s three-year-old child, and this is the result of the trouble. ‘The case will be heard by Judge Miller Wednesday morning. —— A Suit Entered. The Washington and Georgetown Rail- road Company has been sued by Effie Flynn, who claims $5,000 damages because of injuries received October 1, 1894, by the alleged premature starting of a car at 7th street and Pennsylvania avenue. ¥ Fs J€ ig well for advertisers fo eep steadify in mind Be fact hat Che Star mates 4 stporn defaifed statement cach Saturday of its circu: fation for the préceding week and that i€ is (Be onfp Wasb- ington newspaper that rec: ognizes the right of the ad: pertiser fo now te measure of publicity for mbich Be is paying. The amount of ad- vertising appearing daifp in The Star is ampfe evidence hat this poficp is apprect: ated. The average daifp circufation fast meek was 33,768. POTOMAC FLATS CASES. A Long Drawn Ont Trial to Be Com- menced. Because of the. continued illness of Chief Justice Bingham, who, with Judges Hagner and McComas, will consider the case, the case of the United States against Martin F. Morris and others was this morning post- pored until tomorrow morning, when, it is expected, Chief Justice Bingham will be able to sit in the case. As heretofore explained in The Star, this is the case in which the United States seeks to quiet the title of some two score gr moré claimants to the Potomac flats and to the adjacent river front. Some of the de- fendants, particularly, the Kidwell heirs, claim the Potomac flats through patents thereto derived from the government. Others claim certain squares of land run- ning to the water's edge never submerged, and still others claim land fronting on what is known as Water street. The- case has mn pending for several years, and for several months was on the docket of the Court of Appeals. But Congress subse- quently, in order to remove the doubt exist- ing as to whether or not that court had jurisdiction, directed that the case should first be heard by the District Supreme Court. Several thousand pages of testi- mony have been taken by Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Hugh T. Taggart, who will represent the United States, and it is ex- pected that the trial will occupy the atten- tion of the court for at least a month's time. In any event, it is said, the case will be carried to the United States Supreme Cour mg the defendants are Mr. n F. Morris, trustee for the 1 heirs; the Chesapeake and Ohto Company;the Inland Seaboard Coast- ing Company; the Van Riswick heirs; L. A. Littlefield; the estate of the late Geo. L. Sher Johnson Brothers; the Baltimore nd Potcmac Railroad Company and many others. —_——. THE TRSAL BOARD. Police Cases Submitted and Decided, With Sentences. Last Saturday afternoon the Commis- rs took action upon the following es submitted to them by the police trial Private L. J. O'Dea, tried Febru- for condict unbecoming an officer and intoxication. He was adjudged guilty by the trial boerd and his dismissal W: recommended. In view of his previous xocd record, however, and what was said in his behalf by Lieut. McCathran, the findings were overrulec and the patrolman was fined $50. He was warned that a repe- tition of the offense would cause his dis- al from the force. vate G. W. Rickles, tried March 20, on neglect of duty; charges dismissed. Private W. G. Sweet, tried April 13, for conduct unbecoming an officer; charges issed. vate Charles Farquhar, si cas tried March 20, for neglect of duty; warned to be more careful in the future. Private A. J. Kimmel, tried March 13, lect of duty; findings for fine et aside, and, in’ view of various $20 assessed. C. H. Brady, tried March 13, for corduct unbecoming an officer; findings of not guilty overruled, and fine of $10 im: posed. Private Edward Stahl, tried March 13, for neglect of duty and disobedience; fined $20, and warned that a repetition of the Gouge would incur dismissal from the ‘orce. —_.. DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. Commission Revoked. The Commissioners have revoked the commission of John G. Bright as inspector of the new Mount Pleasant school house. This action was taken, it is understood, be- cause Mr. Bright allowed the builder to use an inferior quality of slate in roofing the house. Building Permits. Building permits were issued today as foliows: Johnson Brothers, to erect one two-story frame building on south side of Water street between 13th and 14th streets southwest, to cost $1,500; John S. Garrison, to erect one two-story brick building at 312 Massachusetts avenue, to cost $2,500; S. D. Owens, to erect two two-story frame dwell- ings on lot 2, block 10, Fert street, Brook- land, to cost $3,000; John Mitchell, jr., to erect one two-story and cellar brick dwell- ing on 13th street between Whitney and Lydecker avenues, to cost $4,000; Mrs. L. S. Cromwell, to erect one three-story and basement brick dwelling at New Hampshire avenue northwest, cost $12,500; George Schar1 story brick building, 613 Pennsylvania av nue southeast, to cost $5,000; Susan Mon- roe, to erect one two-story frame dwelling southeast-corner of Stanton and Elvin ave- nues, Hillsdale, to cost $250. Today’s Orders. The Commissioners have ordered that Allie Poore, J. W. Harper and H. G. Pond each be registered and iicensed as a master plumber and gasfitter. That a sewer in A street between 2d and 3d streets be added to the current sched- ule for replacement. The lowest of the several proposals be- ing those of Beck Brothers and Thomas Frazzare, to repair vehicles at the engi- neer department stable, they are heredy ac- cepted; and in the one case where said parties bid the same. work will he award- ed to either of them as may be most con- venient at the time. —— BOARD. OF TRADE. to to erect one three- Arranging for @ Pleasant Trip Down the River. The board of trade will hold its next meeting in the hall of the Builders’ Ex- change Friday evening, the 26th, at half- past 7 o’clock. The topic for considera- tion will be “Public Charities in the Dis- trict of Columbia,” on which the commit- tee on charities of the board will present a carefully prepared report, after which the subject will be open for discussion by the members of the board. The special committee in charge of the arrangements for the excursion and shad bake to be given by the board of trade on Saturday, May 11, consisting of Messrs. S. W. Woodward, Theo. W. Noyes and John B. Wight, has about completed its work. ‘The steamer Macalester, which has been secured for the occasion, will leave her wharf at the foot of 7th street, at 1 o'clock, proceeding directly to Indian Head. Here, through the courtesy of the officials of the Navy Department, the members of the board and their friends will have the opportunity of viewing the naval proving grounds and the facilities for testing guns and armor plate. Returning, Marshall Hall will be reached in good season for one of those celebrated planked shad dinners whose fame has spread far and wide. THE STREET STABLE The Eleventh Street Case Before the Commissioners. POSTPONEMEN? OF POLICE COURP TRIAL An Opinion From the Attorney on Some Interesting Points. ——-—_—_ PROPERTY OWNERS PROTEST ‘The complaining citizens near the corner of 11th and O streets were notified Satur- day evening by a policeman that this morn- ing there would be tried in the Police Court a charge against Mr. Kesley Schoepf, vice president and general manager of the Belt Railway Company, accused by the police of obstructing the public streets. This charge was based upon the action of the company in maintaining for some days past an open-air stable at this corner for the purpose of furnishing relays of horses to the cars that are run onto O street from P, by the way of 11th. Sunday evening the residents who had been notified to appear at the court as witnesses were informed by a note from Lieut. Teeple, who commands the second precinct, that they need not respond to the former summons, as the case had been postponed, and that they might await further information: A Change of Program. This sudden change of program confused and mystific. .he citizens considerably and they were at a loss to understand why the case had been postponed. A sergeant of police was busy during the afternoon se- curing evidence to be used in the trial. A Star reporter visited Lieut. Teeple this morning and was informed that the case had been postponed at the request of Mr. Schoepf, who had sent word to him that he desired to consult with the Commissioners at 11 o'clock this morning and so would be unable to atténd to any engagement which hjs attorney might make for him at the olice Court. When asked if Mr. Schoepf had been served with the warrant, Lieut. Teeple responded that no warrant had been issued in the case, as Mr. Sckoepf had ex- pressed a willingness to go to the court whenever his presence might be needed. The licutenant added that the case against the railroad company, as far as the police are concerned, must be one of street ob- struction, while the charge of maintaining a nuisance can only come from the health office. He could not say whether investi- gations were being made to cover this end of the case or not. The neighborhood of 11th and O streets was visited yesterday by a great many citizens who are not immediately resident in that vicinity. When the Commissioners met in regular session this morning at 11 o’clock the first business which came before them was the question of further permitting the Felt line railroad to conduct a stable at the corner of lith and O streets northwest against the protest of the residents and property owners in that vicinity. It has been the custom of the Commissioners to have these meetings open. Today, how- ever, the press was excluded from the board room during the discussion of the matter. s Vice President Schoepf and Mr. John Ridout, the legal representative of the Eckington and Belt line system, were early on hand this morning. The property own- ers knew nothing of the special meeting that had been arranged, and none were present when the meeting was called to order. A representative of The Star was present, however, ready to chronicle the facts. Vice President Schoepf smiled be- nignly as he tcok his position before the Commissioners, and safd that he did not care to have the press present at the meet- ing. Whereupon The Star reporter was politely told by the Mystic Three that his absence was preferable to his presence. He protested, but the order of the Com- missioners must be obeyed, and he with- drew. Outside of the door Messrs. Hood and Booraem, who represent the property own- ers, and who are residents and property owners themselves in that locality, were waiting. The Star reporter informed them of the secret meeting that was in progress, and they forthwith made application through the secretary to he present. Some time was lost before they were able to get this message to the Commissioners. The reply came back that they would be seen and heard in a few minutes. Again they applied to the Secretary for permission to be present at the interview. But Secretary Tindall was loath to again interrupt the star chamber proceedings, and it was only after forcible arguments on the part of the properéy holders that he con- sented to write upon an official card their wishes, aud dispatch it by messenger. Ac- cording to official time, it had up to that moment taken exactly fourteen minutes and thirty-four seconds to get this appli- cation to be present before the Mystics. From the time the messenger was handed the message to the time he returned four minutes and fifty-two and a half seconds had slipped by. Meanwhile the attorney for the Eckington and Belt Line railroad was hustling, and the rapid speaking could be heard outside the closed doors. The two property holders were at last ushered in, and the reporter attempted to follow, but found the door barred by the mes- senger, and consequently stayed out. Commissioner Ross anncunced to the gen- tlemen that the hearing was a preliminary one, for the purpose of enabling the Com- missioners to determine, if possible, upon some other place for the road to make the exchange cf horses, because the road itself desired to make the removal, and it was a question with the Commissioners whether the could give a permit to go anywhere e The question was then asked by one of the property owners whether he might have the assurance of the Commissioners that they would remove the horses from the corner of llth and O streets, no mat- ter whether another place was determined upon or not. Comraissioner Truesdell replied that the Commissioners were not prepared to give a definite answer. There were certain charter rights granted the company, al- leged by the superintendent, which might possibly give them the right to terminate the road at this point, and if so, it is pos- sible they might have the right also to exchange their horses at this point. These two questions had been submitted to the attorney for the District, and when his opinion was received it would be promptly acted. upon. One of the gentlemen suggested that the opinion was gendered last Saturday, and he looked inquiringly at the Commissioners, but he said nothing. ‘The reporter was informed that an opin- ion had been rendered, and was in sub- stance against the road, declaring that af- ter a careful examination of the charter of the road, the attorney was convinced that it had not the charter rights to make a terminal at the corner of 1ith and O streets nerthwest, and that further it had no right to obstruct the street against the police regulations. Commissioner Ross asked how the prop- erty holders were affected by the existing condition of affairs at 11th and O streets, and was told that the constant tramping of horses upon the street was detrimental to the peace and comfort of the neighbor- hood, and especially objectionable to the sick. That it was a disgrace to the street to have the horses parked there, and tend- ed to depreciate property values. Parents were in contant fear for the lives of their children, and pedestrians feared to pass along the sidewalk with a herd of hungry- looking horses loosely secured to the curb rencning: their scrawny necks over the side- walk. 3 Attorney Ridout, for the company, sug- gested that the proper way to determine the question was by a suit in the Equity Court for injurction. The reply on the part of the property holders was that they had applied to the Commissioners through a respectful peti- ion to have this intolerable nuisance abated, and were awaiting patiently for their determination on that point. If they should determine that they had no right or power to abate the nuisance, then it was the determination of the property holders to take the matter into court. The property owners asked if the Com- missioners desired to question them fur- ther, and being answered in the negative, they withdrew. The representatives-of the railroad remained, however, and argued for half an hour longer. Questions for the Attorney. Later in the day the Commissioners gave out the following list of questions which they sent to their attorney, together with the opinion of the assistant attorney upon them: 1. Has the Belt Line R. R. Co. the legal right to discontinue running its cars as a belt line, so as to compel passengers to transfer at 11th and O streets and at lith and E streets northwest?. 2. If not, have the Commissioners the power to enforce compliance on the part of said company with the requirements of its charter as to a belt line? 3. If they have not, have passengers who have paid the legal fare a remedy through the courts to compel the company to com- ply with the requirements of its charter, as to a continuous ride without transfer? 4. Has said company the right to park its horses at the corner of 1ith and O streets northwest? 5. Have the Commissioners of the District of Columbia the power to compel the Eck- ington and Soldiers’ Home R. R. Co. to run its cars over its North Capitol street branch? If so, how is that power to be ex- ercised? 6. If they have not the power, have pas- sengers who have paid the legal fare the power through the courts to compel said company to run its cars over said branch? The Attorney’s Opinion. The opinion of Mr. Duvall, the assistant attorney, referred to, is as follows: In reply to your several questions re- ferred to this office, on the 19th instant (with a communication from Miss Havens), concerning the Belt line railroad, I have the honor to advise you as follows: The Belt Line Railroad Company has no legal right to discontinue running its cars as a belt line so as to compel passengers to transfer at 11th and O streets and at lith and E streets northwest, but the Comnftissioners are without power to en- force compliance on the part of the com- pany with the requirements of its charter as to a belt line; passengers who have paid the legal fare have their remedy through the courts by action for damages for breach of the contract. The Beit Line Railroad Company has no right whatever to park its horses at the corner of 11th and O streets northwest. Its only right to use the streets of the city is under its charter; that right is to propel cars by horse power along and over certain streets of the city. It has no right whatever to use the streets for stabling purposes, or, indeed, to allow its cars, pro- pelled by horce power, to remain standing an unreasonable length of time on any portion of its road in said streets. The company is liable to criminal prosecution for stabling or parking its horses on any of the streets; such use of the streets is clearly a private use of the public streets of the city and on unlawful obstruction of the same. The Commissiorers are without power to compel the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home Railway Company to run its cars over the North Capitol street branch. Passengers who have paid the legal fare would have a right of action against the company for damages for its failure to run cars over the said branch. Proceedings alike to require the company to exercise its franchises, or to forfeit the charter of the ecmpany for failure to ex- ercise those franchises, must be taken by the United States; the Commissioners are without legal authority to inaugurate or prosecute such proceedings. This opinion was unanimously approved by the board, and instructions sent to the attorney to proceed against the railroad company. ———._—_ STILL AT WOODLEY. City Today.” The President is very busy with public matters at his country home and did not come into the city today. It is expected that a number of appointments will be announced tomorrow as a result of the President’s uninterrupted consideration of Such questions for the past three days. Grain and Cotton Markets. Cotton and grain markets, reported + Hibbs, stock, grain oe broker, 1431 F st. High. Wheat—May. oe oe Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, April 22.—Flour —western super, 2.10a2.25; do. extra, 2. ; do. family, 2.85a3.10; winter wheat patent, 3.15a3.40; spring do., 3.60a3.75; ring wheat straight, 3.35a3.50— receipts, 12,118 barrels; shipments, 3,365 barrels; sales, 1,650 barrels. eat unsettled—spot Month, G54a65%: May, Ooa0; July, ti ask steamer No. 2 red, 62! sae Sy EES bushel: stock, 147,106 bushels; sales, 72,000 bushels: south: aes. ern wheat by sample, 65aGT; do. on grade, 7 Gorn firmer—spot and ‘month, '5134a51%; May, 514a. Bite bid; steamer mixed,” 50a%0%4—re- {62 bushels; stock, 253,499 bi ; southern white Oats firm— , 3314033} —recel pts, stock, 141,954 . Rye st . stock, 19,922 bushels. “Hay steady, demand good” to choice timothy, $13.00a§13.50._ ‘G freights duli—steam to Liverpool per bushel, *%d. to 14d. April; Couk for orders per quarter, 25.10tad. April. Sugar firm€granulated, 4.20 per 100 pounds. Butter steady fancy creamery, "21; do. tmaltation, 16al7; do. jadie, 13014; good ladle, 11a12; store a Eggs steady—tfresh, 12%. ‘Cheese fancs New York, G0 size, 11%; do. 35 size, 124; do. 20 to 25 size, 12%, Grain and Cotton Markets. Reported by the Grain Exchange. Spring patent flour, per barrel, 3.70a3.85; straight flour, per barrel, 3.55a3.60; wi flour, per barrel, 3.353.50; winter’ per barrel, 3.0033. 50a2.60; 2, med hay, per, ton, 3.008 18:50; bulk mid The President Did Not Come to the | dings, per 13.00a13.50; wheat straw, above quotations for car ‘Washington. ton, The track, FINANCE: AND TRADE Lower Prices in London Cause a Selling Movement. SPECULATORS TAKING THEIR PROFIIY Operations in Coal Stocks Were the Feature. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS SS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, April 22.—Reactionary ar- guments among the trading element and lower prices in the London market con- tinued in producing a moderate selling movement at the opening of today’s stock market. The movement was con- fined to the room, however, and had little effect on values. The sharp advance in the Grangers at the close of the week natur- ally attracted realizing sales by rpecula- tive holders, and prices in this group were barely steady in consequence. The market is encouragingly firm in tone and does not yield easily to selling for either ac- count. The continuous advance of the last three weeks seems to justify a temporary setback at any moment, and traders are buying cautiously in anticipation of such an event. The sentiment of the street would not be altered by any concession in values based on natural causes, such as profit-taking at the present level of prices. The coal stocks were the features of the day’s trading, as the result of the meeting of the anthracite coal presidents in Phila- delphia. The roads concerned are believed to be willing to settle all outstanding difficulties on any reasonable basis, even though the stronger properties are obliged to make moderate concessions. The street is confi- dent that the whole controversy will be satisfactorily adjusted in the very near future, and looks to the coal stocks to pave the way for the next active advance in the general list. Liberal purchases of the stocks in this group resulted in sharp advances to the best prices recorded at any recent date. Reading was in good demand at an ad- vance of 11-2 per cent, brokers identified with the recent strength in the property being conspicuous in today’s operations. Jersey Central gained 21-2 per cent, Lack- awana 13-4 per cent and Delaware and Hudson 23-4 per cent. Covering in Baltimore and Ohio resulted in advancing that stock 2 per cent to 53, exactly 3 per cent beyond the price pre- vailing prior to the passing of its dividend. The pool in New England, ignoring the hostile attitude of Rhode Island’s legisla- ture, were active in accumulating the stock of that company and in advancing the price well over 40, the point fixed at the commencement of the movement several months ago when the stock was 10 per cent cheaper. Friends of the Chicago Gas properties were instrumental in advancing the price of the stock of the combined companies for a gain of 1%% per cent. The earnings of the company are said to justify slightly higher prices, but no im- portant advance is considered probable. Sugar was strong and weak by turns, but always within fractional limits. Among the reports of earnings made during the day was a decrease by Northwest of $220,000 for the month of March, which is important, as having some bearing on the dividend policy of that road. The market for foreign exchange was steady on a small volume of business. The receipts of bills by “this morning’s mail were small, and last week’s top rates are likely to continue in force. ———._. 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- parted by Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exchange. Correspondents Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Broadway: Stocks. Open. High. Tow. Close, American Sugar. .. 108” 106% 105% 1058 American Sugar Pfd.. 6% 97% 96% 99% American Tonacco. 29° 9K 99 (8D M3 Wig MT BT 6% 6% 6 6 Canada Southern Be BN OU BRS Canada Pacific......... 44% 4% 44% 44% Chesapeake and Ohio.. 19 19 18% 18% 0% 41 4 40% C.. C.. C. ana St. L. Chi Wabash... ... Wabash Pid. 1635 Wheeling and L. Erie. 12% «12% «12; Wheeling and L.E.Pfd. ..... 43% 48% 48 Western Union Tel, EX °3d assessment paid. —_.__ Washington Stock Exchange. call—12 o'clock m.—Firemen’s Ip- pitt Government Bon Did, 112% vu. of vis. S. 4, ‘asked. U. 8. 4s, coupon, Gs, 1155 bid. District of Columbia. fees ies ne fund Se, 108% bid. 30-year fund 6s, id, 1i4 bid. Water stock 7s, 1901, currency, 116 bid.” Water stock 7s, 1903, currency, 118 bit 8.658, funding, currency, 111% bid. 3igs, registered, 2-108, 100 bid. Miscelianeous Bonds.—Washington and George town Railroad conv. 68, st, 126 bid. Washington te 12 rr Chesapeake pany . 6s, ht couv. 08, 139 bid, 137 asked. 105 asked. and Potomac Telephone | 5s, 100 bid, American Security and Trust 5s, F.'and A., 100 American Security and Trust id. Weshii Mark ay ‘Compas 115 asked. Washington Market Company imp. 6s, 110 bid, 115 asked.” Washington Market Company ext. 6s, 107 bid. Masonic Hall Associa- tion Ss, 103" bid. Washington Light Infantry 1st Gs, 101 "bid. Washington Light Infant:y 2d 7s, 100 National Bank Stocks.—Bank of Washington, 280" bid. Bank of the Republic, 250 bid, 275 asked. Metropolitan, 253 bid, 207 asked. Central, 265 bid. Farmers and Mechanics’, 185 bi ond, 136 bid. Citizens’, 135 bi bid, 145 asked. Capital, 118 108. bid, 111 asked. ‘Traders’, 103 bi Tancoln, 100 bid, 101% asked. Oblo, id, 100 Safe Deposit and Trost Compantes.—National Safe Deposit and Trust, 125 bid, 130 asked. Washington Loan and Trost, *121 bid, 123 asked. “American Se- curity ané Trust, 135 bid. R Stocks.—Washington and Georgetown, 200 Did. 925 asked. Metropolitan, G4 iid, 0 asked. Columbia, 64 bid. Belt, 25 asked. Eckington, 25 id. od oe Satta ABreconta cess Co bid, 65% °5 et town Gas, 4 Electric Light, 133 bid. Insurance Stocks.—Firemen's, 40 bid, 401 asked. Franklin, 45 bid, 55 asked. Metropolitan, 71 bid. 5 bid. Potomac, 68 bid. Arlington, Corcoran, 150 bid, 155 rm: 1244 bid, 15 asked. Columbia, 13% Pin, Go¥s ‘eaked. “igs! 716 bid, 7% asked.” Py : ‘asked. Peet if oh a Lincoln, 54 bid, 53 e's, 5 bid, Eaked. ” Com : Title Insurance Stocks Meal Estate Title, 108 End, 1 id, 112 asked. 82 bid, 1 mercial, 4% bi 6 a: jumbia Title, 7 bid, 8 asked. District Title, 11 bid, 15 hone —Pennsylvania, 69 asked. Ches- ask: 53 bid, ea ieee Ameri- phophone, 2% bid, 3 Pneumatic Se eet Great Falls Ice, 130 bid, 145 asked. Bull Run Panorama, 30 asked. Norfolk and Washin; Steamboat, 95 bid, 100 asked. Lincoln Hall, 80 bid, 90 asked. Bee Banding, 90 asked. Mer-