Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1895, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1895-SIXTEEN PAGES. LATE NEWS BY WIRE American Fishermen Captured in Canadian Waters AWAITING ORDERS AT PORT COLBORN ——— Be They Will Probably Soon Liberated. THE EXPLANATION GIVEN PORT COLBORN, Ont., April 20.—The fsting cruiser Dolphin returned at noon with two American fishing boats and four fishermen, two in each boat. One of the beats was caught in Canadian waters, off Windmill point.. The other boat. crew claimed they were fishing off Sturgeon Foint, in American waters, and, the fishing not being good on that shore, they were sailing back to Buffalo. The wind was blowing from the east, and they sailed in too close to Canadian waters, as it hap- pened, and the Dolphin seized it also. The two small boats, with their occupants, were towed into port, where they are awaiting orders from Ottawa as to their release. OTTAWA, Ont., April 30.—Mr. John Cos- tigan, minister of marine and fisheries, has received information from Capt. Peterson of the cruiser Dolphin of the seizure of two American boats, and the arrest of four fishermen in Lake Erie, and has wired the captain to hand a full report to the collec- tor of customs at Point Colburn, who will forward it to Ottawa. The fishermen will probably be liberated after Minister Costigan has consulted with Premier Bowell, as the usual cqurse is to liberate the prisoners and confiscate the boats and tackle. They are Mable to six months’ impris- onment. ee STATE DEPARTMENT APPEALED TO. Francixco Valores Wants Release From a Mexican Prison. NOGALEZ, Ariz., April 30.—Francisco Valores, a citizen of the United States and @ native of New Mexico, was convicted of smugeling into Mexico, in October, 1893, and sentenced to jail in the state of Sonora for one year. His sentence expired October last, yet he is still incarcerated, and has applied to the United States authorities for reli@f. The matter has been reported to the State Department at Washington. ——.—__ NEW DANISH MINISTER. Secretury of the Legation at Paris Comes Here. COPENHAGEN, April 30.—The Official Gazette today announces that Count von Reventlow, the Danish minister at Wash- ington, has been appointed minister for Denmark at Rome. M. C. Brun, the sec- retary of the Danish legation at Paris, succeeds Count von Reventlow as Danish minister at Washington. —_ SPAIN WILL PROTEST, TOO. Will Join the Other Powers Against Japan. PARIS, April 30.—It is reported here that Spain will associate herself with Russia, Germany and France in the protest aguinst the terms of peace arrived at between China and Japan in regard to the cession of territory. and extraordinary privileges ac- ecrded to Japanese traders in China. Eustis Possibly a Candidate. PARIS, April 30.—The Figaro says that Mr. James B. Eustis, the -United States ambassador to France, will possibly be a candidate for the presidency of the United States at the next election. ee This Trilby Shot Herself. DENVER, Col., April 30.—Unable, or be- Heving herself unable, to remove from her mind the hypnotic influence exerted over her by a musjp teacher, Mrs. Seelie Ver- mieren, twenty-four years of age, has fired @ bullet into her left breast, inflicting a fatal wound. In a letter to her husband the writer coolly informs him that she loved Luther T. Hail, the music teacher, and it was for his sake that she intended to take her own life. Another letter was addressed to Hall and another to his wife, both telling of the vain struggle of the writer to control herself and prevent un- happiness to all concerned. British Ships Ordered Elsewhere. NEW YORK, April 30.—A special to the World from Paso de Caballos, Nicaragua, April 29, says: A courier from Corinto re- Ports that the British warships Wild Swan and Satellite have been ordered to Paso de Cabellos and San Juan del Sur to declare a Passive blockade at both points. Neither confirmation nor denial of this report could be obtained from any official on board the British ships. The officers were non-com- mittal. . A special to the World from Managua, Nicaragua, April 29, says: Admiral Stephenson cabled to London, asking Instructions as to what to do next. He informed the British admiralty that Corinto is a useless possession under pres- ent conditions, having no business and no means of communicating with the interior. He asks whether he shall seize San Juan and other ports. The natives in some way became aware of this dispatch, which aroused a rivtous sentiment. —___ OFFICES REMOVED. New District Building is Now Occu- pied. All of the offices of the District govern- ment have been removed to the new Dis- trict building, 464 Louisiana avenue, and the wheels of government are beginning to run smoothly. The water department has not fully made its change, but will be ready for business by tomorrow. Explosions Prohibited. In the case of Mary C. Morris against the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Cempany, Judge Cox, this afternoon, sign- ed an order prohibiting the further use of explosives upon the site of the new union passenger station in Georgetown by the company. “Notwithstanding the interlocu- tory decree passed December 1, 1804," says Judge Cox, “the use of explosives has been continued In the work of excavation at 36th and M streets in such manner as to cause damage to the buildings of the compiain- ant, as prohibited by that interlocutory de- cree.” Therefore, the further use of ex- picstves is prohibited, and the defendants are directed to appear in court May 6, to show cause why they should not be punish- ed for contempt of court for the violation of the decree. —— ‘Tomorrow's St. Asaph Entrics. First race, five furlongs—Prince Otto, Eno, Tolosa, Lady Adams, Mosholu, Bon- nivilic, Minnie S., Ormes, Lady May, 107 race, Rhedodendron, dy Grcenw Seagull, Tyvana, Charmer, G1 Bowser, Lon Jones, White o Fifth ra n, Cu WHIPPING POST. It is Too Good for Wife Beaters, Says the Judge. Judge Kimball made the announcement that the whipping post is the only remedy for wife beaters when he aeard Julius Golding state his complaint against a young man wamed Walter N. Gaines. The parties live at No. 935 N street, Golding occupying the upper floor. : “At an early hour this morning,” said Golding, “I heard a voice down stairs, and when I went to see what was the trouble I saw this man’s wife with an infant in her arms about to jump out the window, and when I took part in the affair Gaines threw two cans of corn and a plate at my window.” Continuing, the witness said that Gaines is an habitual drunkard and is continually ill-treating his wife. “His wife is a country girl,” he said, nd has lived on charity all the winter, and he sold clothes that she got for him.” It was at*this juncture that the judge made his remarks about wife beaters. “This man’s wife is afraid of him,” con- tinued Goiding, “and I told him long ago that the next time he ill treated her I would have him arrested.” Gaines, who is a little man, who looks as if he woul. not endeavor to use violence on a full-grown man, started out with the statement that he had many times chas- tised his wife. He explained that he did not mean violence when he said chastise. “What's all this trouble about?” the court asked. “Jealousy on my wife's part,” the pris- oner answered. “Hadn't you been drinking?” “I had taken two drinks with some qui- nine,” he answered, “because I have the chills.” “Ten dollars or thirty days.” —<——__ DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. Commissioners’ Orders. The Conimissioners today ordered that the provisions of the first five sections of “An act for th» removal of snow and ice from the sidewalks, crosswalks, and gut- ters in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and for other purposes,” ap- proved March 2, 1895, are hereby extended over and made applicable to all of the District of Columbia. That Private G. W. Horton of the metro- politan police force, tried January ¥, 1895, for conduct unbecoming an officer, is here- by removed; removal to take effect this day. That Privates M. T. Slater and J. L. Giles, tried April 17, 1895, for neglect of duty, are hereby removed; removal to take effect this day. That the charges against Private P. J. Fingles of the metropolitan police, District of Columbia, tried April 24, 1895, for non- payment of debt, are hereby dismissed. That the charges against Private G. R. F. Small, tried April 17, 1894 for conduct un- becoming an officer, are hereby dismissed. That Private C. W. Marshall, tried April 19, 1895, for non-payment of debt, is here- by required to pay the #40, in accordance to his agreement to pay said sum. Work Planned. The Commissioners today ordered that a catch basin be constructed near the north- east corner of Ist and North Carolina ave- rue; that a sewer In the south side of Mas- sachusetts avenue northwest between 6th and 7th streets be added to the schedule of sewers to be replaced during the next fiscal year; that two catch basins be con- structed in D street northwest between 8th and 9th streets; that catch basins be con- structed in the northeast corner of K and 1ith streets, northwest corner of I and 11th streets and southeast corner of I and llth streets northeast. Building Permits. Building permits were issued today as follows: ‘thomas Ruppert, to erect one three-story brick dwelling at No. 470 C street southwest, $6,500; W. D. Blatzell, to build one frame story, fronting N street between South Capital and Half streets southeast, $100. Bids Opened. Bids were opened by the Commissioners tkis morning for grading Albemarle street. The bidders were A. B. Mullen and M. D. Knight, 21 3-4 cents per yard, to be finished in 120 days; Skinner & Burrows, 241-2 cents per yard, and Andrew Gleason, 22 cents per yard. es SCRATCHES NUMEROUS. Racing Resumed at Alexander Island Today. Racing was resumed at Alexander Island today over a track that was a sea of mud. Scratches were numerous, but did not in- terfere with the sport as the card for to- day was a very large one. Weather rainy and cold. Fifteen books were on. Attend- ance small First race, four and one-half furlongs— Dama (Andrews), 7 to 1, first; Louis Quar- toze (McLaughlin), 4 to 1, second; Juliet (C. Donnelly), 10 to 1, third. Time 56%. ee COLLECTING DEBTS BY FORCE. Opinion Expressed by Secretary of State Blaine in 1581. Although the State Department has sanc- tioned the principle of the right of a Euro- pean nation to collect an indemnity for @ national insult offered to it by an Amer- fean nation, or to secure redress fer the abuse or ill-treatment of its citizens and infringements on their property rights, it can safely be predicted that it will not under any circumstances permit any Euro- pean government to attempt by the dis- play of force to coliect moneys owing by South or Central American states to in- dividuals on account of moneys loaned. In 18St Secretary Blaine wrote to United States Minister Noyes at Paris, at a time when the French government was about to undertake a demonstration against Ven- ezuela to force that country to meet pay- ments to French bondholders on account of the national debt, that the government of the United States would regard with grave anxiety an attempt on the part of France to force by hostile pressure the payment by Venezuela of her debt to French citi- zens, and even before this the doctrine had been well established, notwithstanding the pressure that was brought to bear by the great financial centers of Europe to have their governments undertake the col- lection of debts owing to them. In the case above referred to the warning was quite sufficient to cause the effort to fail. Therefore there is no ground for ep- prehension of a forcible attempt by the Jiritish to collect debts owing by Honduras to British bondholders on account of a gov- ernment loan, and this same doctrine may be at this time of great comfort to many of the small republics of this hemispnere that have been obliged by the stress of hard times and revolutions to default in the payment of the interest and principal of their national debt. The position taken by the State Depart- ment ig that there is no rule of interna- tional law authorizing the exercise of force to collect individual debts, and that persons who take bonds issued on account of the national debt of an American republic must take the chances of their collection in the ordinary way, putting themselves on a footing with the inhabitants of the country borrowing the money. oo. _____ Wants a Divorce. Proceedings for divorce were today insti- tuted by John B. Clarke against Carrie Clarke. They were married, according to the petition, in 1879, and lived together for fifteen years, during which time-three chil- dren were born to them, aged thirteen, nine and seven years, rspectively. In Au- 93, so states Mr. Clarke, his wife J the children and himself and took ode in a house of prostitution, committed adultery with sev- it Is recited, the hushand fer divorce, but his wife re- turned to him, and for the sake of the «hil- ve her and dismissed the suit. S$ On to say that In Au- nis wife ag: sserted him, at time has d and coha man named McDonald, at ae Alderman Thomas W. Flood of the Ros- ton hoard of aldermen last night presented i chairman to peti- lish the hoard. THE PRICE OF BEEF Information Collected by the Department of Agriculture, A Chicago Statement Causes Surprise —Alleged Losses of the Big Packers. The Agricultural- Department has re- ceived an affidavit from E. J. Martyn of -he firm of Armour & Co. of Chicago in re- gard to tne beef controversy. According to this statement the big packers have long been doing business at a loss. Mr. Martyn avers that the books of his company show that during the year ending November 3 last all the cattle they have handied were slaughtered at an average loss of 17 4-10 cents per head. In the course of his report to the department Mr. Martyn says: “At the first of the year it became appar- ent that cattle were short, and beef slaugh- terers were obliged to put their delivery houses on shorter commons. Cattle and beef began to advante slowly, culminating in April,when live cattle were on an average $1.50 per hundred higher than in January. Retailers became excited and pushed their prices up, fearing that the advance would continue and their next supply cost then more money. This caused consumption to fall off, and immediately dressed beef and cattle broke sharply during the second week in April. One thing people could not understand was why dressed beef should advance more rapidly than live cattle. The reason for this is that the value of the hides, horns and offal from a steer, costing three cents per hundred, is applied to re- duce the price of the dressed beef.” * * © “The talk that the wholesale slaughtezers have or do manipulate or control prices of live cattle or dressed beef is silly, and will not be credited by any person who studies the questicn. Armour & Co. own no cattle on the plains and gain nothing by the ad- vance in cattle. They buy in competition with over one hundred others, who slaugh- ter locally, or in the different cities, or ex- port their purchases, and Armour & Co. sell in competition with other large slaug! terers at Toledo, Cleveland, Pittsburg, De- troit, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Buffalo, etc., and also in competition with nearly a dozen dressed beef shippers.” Stil Collecting Data. At the Agricultural Department today the statement was made that there was nothing new in the situation beyond the report from Chicago. Dr. Salmon, the chief of the bureau of animal industry, was unwilling to discuss the report and its meaning. He said the department is still engaged in the work of collecting data from which valuable conclusions may be drawn in the near future, but in the mean- time he preferred to wait until they were all in before venturing the opinion as to whether or not this statement from Ar- mour & Co. gave a fair and impartial re-_ sume of the situation. In It for Their Health. One of the prominent officials of the de- partment, in discussing the statement with a Star reporter this morning, said: “Well, this is the first time I ever knew the packecs were in the business for their health. I had always entertained the idea that they found it fairly remunerative and were piling up their millions by the #hole- sale. I now find out my mistake and learn that they are simply doing it to keep us hungry people in the east supplied with beef at their expense. Well, well, it is just simply another case of live and learn.” ——_—_$_-e._____ ALMOST A MURDER. ‘Trial of the Assaalt Case on Oliver W. Dorsey. Oliver W. Dorsey, the gripman on the lith street cable road who was struck on the head with a stone thrown by Jobn McCullough about a month ago, was able to appear in the Police Court today as a witness in the case. The gripman, who came near losing his life as the result of the assault, tot what he remembered of the affair. He was in his house, on Steuben street, on the day of the affair, and when he heard his dog make a noise he went out and discovered that the colored man was responsible for the dog’s painful cries. He may have used some bad language toward the defendant before the stone was thrown. Witness had his head turned at the time the stone was actually thrown and could not therefore say who threw the stone. Several witnesses who saw the defendant throw the stone were called and gave evi- dence. , The case went over until tomorrow, when the court will hear the evidence for the defense. ————— REPORT DENIED. No Investigation of the Jail Warden Made by the Distriet Courts A report has again been started that the retirement of Warden Leonard of the Dis- trict jail is under consideration by the Dis- trict Supreme Court, by whom the warden is appeinted. Justices McComas and Cole stated to a Star reporter this afternoon that so far as they knew there is not a word of truth In the report. No charges, it is stated, have been pre- ferred against Mr. Leonard, and while the court, or some of its members, have felt at times that the warden has made mis- takes, it is understood that the question of his retirement has never been discussed by the court as a body. SS CHICAGO'S RAPID GROWTH. Death of Two Women Who Lived When There Were Indians. Last week Mrs. Mary J. Lull, a resident of Chicago since 1835, died at the home of her son-in-law, Charles E. Hyde, No. 601 Jackson boulevard, from heart trouble. Mrs. Lull’s maiden name was Holmes. She was born at Bradford, Eng., April 5, 1827, and came to America with her parents in the spring of 1835. The Holmes family set- tled near Winnetka, where Mr. Holmes was accidentally killed. Mrs. Holmes and the children then came to Chicago and bought a home on Lake street near State, after- ward moving to a frame house’cn Sth ave- rue, between Madison and Washington streets. The Indians were troublesome in those days, especially when they had load- ed up on firewater, and the housewife who so far forgot herself as to light a lamp after dark was pretty sure to see several ugly faces_pressed against the window: panes. So Mrs. Holmes and her children fcllowed the usual custom of going to Fort Dearborn at night and sleeping there under the protection of the garrison. In 1843 Mary Holmes was married to E. H. Sammons. Mr. Sammons died in 1850. Three years later Mrs. Sammons married Albert G. Lull, a pioneer lumber merchant. It was in the yards of the Lull planing mill, on Canal’street, just north of Van Buren, that the blaze which saved the West Side from destruction in the great fire of 1871 occurred. The Lull yards, cov- ering four squares, were burnt Saturday night, October 8, 1871. The next night Mrs, O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lamp in a little barn on De Koven street, and the fire spread northward rapidly until it reached the Lull lumber yards, where it was stopped from further progress in that direction because there was nothing left for it to feed upon. Mrs. Frances Chamberlain,who died Mon- day at the residence of her children, No. 1034 Diversey street, aged seventy, was at one time the only white child in Chi- cago. She came here with her father, Lathrop Johnson, sixty-three years ago, when there were only seven houses beside Fort Dearborn on the present site of Chi- eago. She spent the first night after her arrival in a log hut. Soon afterward she had a narrow escape from the tomahawk of an Iné , Who found her concealed un- der the floor of her father’s cabin. to beginning work on the new Butterfield Museum at Dartmouth College was turned by Presi- dent Tucker at Hanover, N. H., yesterday. The new building will cost $S0),000. The corner stone will be laid i . Augustus Frank of Wa . Y., mem- ber of the state co! tutional convention in 1801 and an ex-Congressman, dicd at ew York yesterday. THE POTOMAC FLATS|°8. TONE Continuing the Argumenta Today in the Kidwell Claims. GOVERNMENT'S “| SIDE © PRESENTED Today _ Mr. i Tfiggart Argues “Hamilton. Against bh THE OLD CASES When the consideration of the case of the United States against Martin F. Morris and others—what is known as the Potomac Flats case—was adjourned by the Court in General Term yesterday afternoon Mr. Geo. E. Hamilton, representing those who claim under the so-called Kidwell patent, had not closed his argument. When he re- sumed this morning he addressed himself to the contention of the government that the patent was invalid; among other rea- sons because it was obtained by fraud. The contention of the government, ex- plained Mr. Hamilton, was that after Dr. Kidwell’s application for the patent had once been rejected, John Wilson, a brother of Joseph S. Wilson, the latter being at the time commissioner of the-general land of- fice, became his attorney to further prose- cute the application. The government also contended, said Mr. Hamilton, that John Wilson filed. affidavits for a rehearing which contained certain false statements, and that.as the result of the relationship between John and Joseph S. Wilson the latter brought undue pressure to bear up- on the examiner of surveys to induce him to change his first report in regard to the character of the land and to induce him to subsequently report in favor of the appli- cation; the consequence being, alleges the government, that because of all that the previous adverse action of the department was reconsidered and the patent issued. All Dead. When the government made this charge, said Mr. Hamilton, all the persons named and implicated were dead, and the attack upon their memory, without the most abundant and conclusive testimony to sus- tain it, ought to have been regarded by the government’s representatives as too indecent to be made. The testimony of but one man, declared Mr. Hamilton, had been adduced to sustain the charge, and that map, ha stated, was one John 8. Williams. That the testimony of Williams, declared Mr, Hamilton, was rank perjury is evident to every one, and“it “would: be an insult to justice to convict three hon- ored men, two of them trusted government officers, of fraud upon such testimony. An After Intere: Referring to the allegation of the govern- ment that Dr. Kidwell’s attorney, John Wilson and Henry Wells had falsely sworn in the affidavits for a rehearing that they had no interest whatever in Dr. Kidwell’s claims, Mr. Hamilton declared that the proof of the falsehood is supposed to be found in the fact that dfter the patent was issued, two months subsequent to the affi- dayits, both Wilson and Wells received conveyances from Dr. Kidwell of undivided interests under.the patent. That, said Mr. Hamilten, was the solé proof of the alleged falsehood, and if, would be, he thought, a strange inference, indeed, that a inan’s statement of absence of interest should be discredited by Kis sifbsequent acquisition of an interest. The Government's Side. Mr. Hamilton eoncluded his argument at 11:35, when he was followed by Assistant District Attorney Hugh T. Taggart on be- half of the government. The claims of those claiming tmder the so-called Kid- well patent, sald Mr. Taggart, were rvether peculiar, but pecullar ir Teasons not touched upon by Mr. Iton. He had failed to state that Dr. Kidwell paid but $43.50 for the 47.71 acres claimed under the patent. Mr. Hamilton, remarked Mr. Tag- gart, stated that the government had per- mitted the tract to be improved, but not a word of testimony, declared Mr. Taggart, had been taken to substantiate that con- tention. Jt was contended also, said Mr. Tag- gart, that the Kidwell patent is binding upon the government and cannot be ques- tioned, but, he said, it is unquestionably time that when the government has been hcodwinked or surprised it can go into the courts to have the wrong corrected. All persons asserting title to not only the Pctomac flats but also to the adjacent river front had wisely been made defend- ants, explained Mr, Taggart, to avoid a multiplicity of su‘ts, and no more import- ant case nor one involving more points of law has ever been instituted here or else- where. Yet, remarked Mr. Taggart, Mr. Hamilton complained that the act author- izing the Institution of the suit made the District and United States Supreme Courts bedics of less dignity than a coroner’s jury, and, said Mr. Taggart, judging from Mr. Hamilton’s argument, he would have ‘‘cor- orer’s inquest law” applied in the present case. —_.—__— A Deserted Town. From the Baltimore News. Jarrelltown, in Chapel district, Talbot county, has disappeared. Fifty years ago this dead village was known as Williams- burg. It was plainly marked on the maps of the eastern shore by that name. At that time, and for years after, it contained five or six dwellings, a mercantile store, blacksmith and wheelwright shops. A few hurdred yards north of it was Carter’s Cerner, a low rum hole, where whisky was dealt out at six cents a pint. In 1877 a ternible murder was committed at Jarrell- town. James Fitzjarrell and wife, a very aged couple, lived together in the village, and owned a large tract of land contiguous thereto. These two were found in the early hours of the mcrning, after a very stormy night, murdered in their bed. Every effort was made by the authorities to ferret out the perpetrators of this double crime, but without success. A heavy reward was of- fered by a relative in California, but no clue has ever been discovered. The house in which this crime occurred was the first one removed. Others have followed in suc- cegsicn, until the ground is now being cleared of the last relic of Williamsburg. — Costly Postage Stamps. From the St. Louls Globe-Democrat. A remarkable auction sale of postage stamps took place recently in the rooms of the Philatelic Society in New York.” The attraction was the collection of Louis Levison of San Francisco, which consisted mostly of stamps of the United States and the British colonies.: fhe prices realized are all record’ breakers. An 1861 British Columbia 2%d., imperforate sold for $125. A Canadian 7%d., unused, brought $53.25. The New Brunswick. 6d., yellow, of 1851, unused, brought $76, and the 1s. stamp of the same date $226.50. Newfoundland stamps sold at the following figures. Six rence, orange, $76; 4di, scarlet, $100; 6d., scarlet, $14; Gigd., scarlet, $058, and the 1s., scarlet, $282, said to be the highest price ever realized for any stamp in this coun- try. Nova Scetia stamps brought the fol- lowing prices: Six pence, yellow green, un- used, $26; 6d.,, dark green, ; and three copies of the: 1s., $102, $80 and $142, re- spectively. A Among the other high value stamps were the following: ‘The State Department $5 for sou Stamps of the confederate states sold as follows: Athens, Ga., $40; the Baton Rouge (La.) 5c., $41, $7 Macon (Ga.), two varieties, 71; Lenoir (N.C.), $82, and O. H. Douney, of Albion, Ind., anacknowledged expert in mat- ters relating toadvertising, pro- nounces The Washington Even- ing Star one of the best six daily papers inthe United States for advertisers’ use, because-= touse his own words--‘‘hecause it comes nearer to covcring its field entirely than any other paper on earth.”’ R’S RECEPTION He Recsives the Birthday Congratulations of His Medical Associates and Friends. His Contemporaries in the Medical Association Handsomely Enter- tained at Breakfast. Dr. J. M. Toner, one of the most eminent members of the medical profession in the District, was born seventy years ago today. Although not a native of Washington, he has lived by far the greater part of his life here, until he has come to be looked upon as a typical Washingtonian. No man in the profession is more esteemed than he, and, although of later years he has given up to a large degree the onerous duties of @ physician's life, he has kept in touch with all that is latest and best in the career of his choice. By his kindly disposition and his interest in his fellow-men he has made of his patients friends and admirers of all with whom he has come in contact. Few men in town have as large a circle of ac- quaintances as he, and for upward of half a century he has taken an active share in all that is best in the city’s development. For years past he has been accustomed to give a luncheon on Washington's birthday to.the Washington Monument Association, of which he is a member, and these have become quite a feature of Washington s0- cial life. He is the president of the Co- lumbia amonen Society, and his addition to the Congressional Library, known as the Toner collection, is regarded as a most im- portant and valuable acquisition. A Pleasant Occasion. Dr. Toner celebrated his seventieth birth- day today by giving a breakfast to the gentlemen who were members of the Medical Association when he became asso- ciated with it. The breakfast was served in the dining room of his handsome home on Highland terrace. The house is fur- nished with fine old mahogany, and ts fill- ed with intertsting relics of Gen. Wash- ington, on the subject of whose life Dr. Toner is a recognized authority. The sur- viving members of the Medical Associa- tion of the days when Dr. Toner joined it are not many, and those who sat down to table with him at noon today were Dr. John I, Dyer, Dr. Lewis Mackall, jr., Dr. J. W. H. Lovejoy, Dr. N. 3. Lincoln and Dr. 8S. J. Radcliffe. Dr. Samuel C. Busey and Dr. M. V. B. Bogan, the other two members, were unfortunately not able to be present. The cccasion was in every way a most delightful one, and was thor- oughly enjoyed by all those who were pr ent. The breakfast was served at 11:30 o'clock, and the guests remained for the general reception which followed. From 1 to 3 o'clock there was a reception, to which all the members of the Medical Association were bidden, and no one else. It was the occasion for a general turnout of the profession, who took advantage of the opportunity to extend cordial greet- ings and congratulations to one who is so well liked by a® A handsome luncheon Was spread with all the delicacies of the season, and in a corner of one of the par- lors was a huge bowl of punch, in the brewing of which the doctor is an expert. The guests stopped in the corner long enough to drink their host’s health and occasionally returned to do it over again. ‘The rooms were beautifully decorated with flowers, for there was scarcely corner which was not filled or a table which was not covered with huge bowls and clusters of roses and other fragrant blossoms, which were sent in by admiring friends. Besides these there were scores of letters and notes of congratulation from this city and elsewhere. A large number of the members of the association called during the afternoon to pay their respects, and the occasion will probably be remembered by Dr. Toner as one of the most gratifying in his long career. —_—__-o+___ KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Supreme Council, Uniformed Rank, in Session. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 30.—Twenty- four states were represented at the first meeting of the Supreme Council, Uniform- ed Rank, Knights of Pythias, of the world, which began in Castle Hall at 9:30 today. Gen. James R. Carnahan welcomed the delegates to the convention, and Supreme Chancellor Richie of Ohio responded. The report of Gen. Carnahan called at- tention to the rapid growth of the Uniform Rank and made recommendations for the future government of the rank. The report was referred to a committee. Committe23 were then appointed as fol- lows: Rules and regulations, finance, revenue, appeals and grievances, mileage and per diem, and law. The convention fixed a basis on mileage and perdiem for the representatives, and accepted and approved the bond of Wm. J. McKee of Indianapolis, adjutant gep- eral of the rank, who will hereafter handle all the funds of the Uniformed Rank. ee WEST VIRGINIA'S STRONG MAN. Remarkable Feats of John Willey, a Young Farmer. From the St. Louls Globe-Democrat. John Willey, a farmer, living a mile from Talcott, W. Va., is the most powerful West Virginian. At first glance there seems nothing remarkable in Willey’s personal appearance except his massive shoulders, which measure fifty-six inches in circum- ference. When stripped of his coat, how- ever, the big muscles on his arms stand out like ropes. John Willey is twenty-eight years old and weighs 216 pounds. He ts the youngest son in a family noted throughout the coun- try for muscle. His mother could easily carry a barre! of flour on her hip, and once, exasperated at her son’s inability to draw with his horse a log of firewood eighteen inches in diameter and about fourteen feet long, she seized one end of It and raised it up until it was nearly perpendicular. Willey seems insensible to pain of any kind, and does not feel the hardest blow that can be given him. In an altercation once his antagonist struck him three times on the arm with a half-inch bar of iron, bending the rod almost double and bruising the flesh black and blue, yet Willey assert- ed that he felt no pain whatever, either at the time or afterward. Willey at the time was held by three men, but he wrenched himself away, and with one slap of his brawny hand took all the fight out of the other fellow. Once he was attacked in the stable by a large and vicious Spanish jack, which made every effort to kill him. Willey seized the enraged animal with his powerful arms and threw the brute down and sat on him. He can easily hold out at arm’s length fifty- pound weights, and has shouldered and car- ried for some distance a square piece of timber weighing more than six hundred pounds. Perhaps the most remarkable test he has given of his strength was when in the pres- ence of a number of persons Wiliey lifted Clear of the ground the enormous weight df 1,700 pounds. Personally Mr. Willey 1s modest and Is disinclined to talk of his wonderful powers, and though urged by his friends to go into regular training, seems content to look af- ter his large stock farm and enjoy the com- forts of a pleasant country home rather than the applause of the public. Why Baedeker Was Bad. From the Family Magazine. Grant Allen relates that he was sitting one day under the shade of the sphinx, turning for some petty point of detail to bis Baedeker’s guide book. A sheik looked at him sadly and shook his head. “Murray good,” he said in a solemn voice of warn- irg; “Baedeker no good. What for you use Baedeker?” “No, no; Baedeker is best,” answered Mr. Aller. ‘Why do you object to Baedeker?” The sheik crossed his hands and looked down on him with the pitying eyes of Islam. “Baedeker bad book,” he repeated; “Murray very good! Murray say, ‘Give the sheik half a crown,’ Baedeker say, ‘Give the sheik a shilling. —_—__+e+—___- The Other Fellow. From Harlem Life, ‘A gentleman went to keep a written ap- pointment in the city with a broker whom he did not know by sight. Seeing a forlorn looking person seated in the office, he sald: “I beg pardon, sir, are you the broker?” To which the other promptly replied: “Ne sir; I'm the fellow that got broke.” WASHINGTON BIBLE ASSOCIATION. The Annual Meeting and Election of Officers. This society held its annual business meeting last evening in the parlors of the ¥. M. C. A., on New York avenue, Rev. Dr. Pitzer, president, presiding. The board of managers presented their annual report, consisting of reports from secretary, treas- urer and depositary, which were read, ac- cepted and approved and ordered to be printed. The committee on nominations presented the names of the following board of managers for the year 1895-3, who were Soy elected, to wit: President, ev. A. W. Pitzer, D. D.; vice president: A. S. Pratt, Charles Lyman, ‘George Ry: neal, jr., R. 8. Jordan, A. S, Caywood, John B. Wight, Z. S. Buckler, Thomas G. Jones, R. W. Fenwick, J. H. Meriwether; secra- tary, J. V. A. Shields; treasurer and de- Positary, Wm. Ballantyne; directors, Na- than’l A. Robbins, C. H. Middleton, Lucius D. Alden, George A. Thomas, Edgar Fris- by, W. H. H. Warman, George C. Samson, M. Porter Snell, Daniel S. Foster, Thomas B. Stahl, H. P, Pillsbury, Henry C. Stier, Anson S. Taylor, M. D. Peck, Benj. F. Ful- ler, John Leech, W. H. H. Smith, Fred E. Tasker, P. B. Pierce, J. Walter Duvall. ‘The treasurer was directed to forward to New York $100 as a donation from this society to the American Bible Society. The anniversary committee reported that the sixty-seventh anniversary would be held next Sunday evening at § o'clock in the First Baptist Church. Address by Rev.Chas. A. Fulton, D. D., pastor of Emanuel Bap- tist Church, Baltimore. The following grants were made: To Cen- tral Union Mission, 25 Bibles; 200 Testa- ments; to Mrs. Brewer, 20 Testaments for use at the jail. Mr. Ballantyne reported re- ceipts in the month as follows: From an nual members, $44; from Luther Memorial Church, $20; from Assembly's Presbyterian Church, $17. Distributed by depository, An- acostia, 12 Bibles; 12 Testaments; Gorsuch M. E. Church, 16 Bibles; to Hope and Help Mission, J2 Testaments; to laundrymen, 20 testaments in Chinese; for railroad men, 6 Bibles; to poor, 3 Bibles, 20 Testaments, and to life members, 2 Bibles. The board reaffirmed its action of closing its fiscal yeoer on the Saturday preceding the meeting in April, which is held on the last Monday, at 6 p. m. Committees on the several an- nual reports, reported, and reports were adopted. —_.____ THE COURTS. Court in General Term—Chief Justice Bing- ham and Justices Hagner and McComas. a United States agt. Morris et al.; on hear- ing. Equity Court No. 1—Judge Cox. Heinekamp agt. Travers; pro confesso agt. certain defendants granted. In re Geo. Brent, lunatic; Washington Loan and Trust Co. substituted as committee. Buyers agt. Jones; auditor’s report confirmed and dis- tribution ordered. Adelman agt. Adelman; J. J. Johnson appointed guardian ad iitem. In re estate of Oliver P. Donn; account cr- dered kept at Central National Bank. Fry agt. Jones; injunction denied. Olcutt agt. Leighton; payment to complainant by de- fendant ordered. lids agt. Pabst; in- junction continued and cause referred to auditor. Clark agt. Clark; D. S, Mackall appointed guardian ad litem. Metropolitan Club agt. United States Electric Lighting Co.; restraining order continued till final hearing. Circuit Court No. 1—Judge Bradley. Goldsborough et al. agt. Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company; motion for new trial filed. Dennis McCarthy agt. Georgette T. Staley et al.; juror with- drawn; leave to amend in ten days, and case continued. Thompson Company agt. Cook & Sutherland; judgment on verdict for defendams against plaintiff, and sure- ty, Chas. D. Collins. Carter & Son agt. Anderson; judgment on verdict for plain- tiffs. Dunn et al. agt. Clancey; do. Sheck- ells agt. Reeves et al.; judgment for defendants. Browning agt Hand agt. Stone; order to ret tiff or attorney money deposit ity for costs. Fields agt. Wilson; on verdict for plaintiff. Mitchell agt. Simpson; judgment by default. Em- mons agt. Maxwell (two cases); judgment by default. Wm. Rousee et al. agt. Wash- ington and Georgetown Ratlroad Company; on hearing. Probate Court—Judge Hagner. Estate of Katherine Hilgard; inventories filed. Estate of Patrick J. Dunnigan; peti- tion for letters of administration filed. Es- tate of Rev. Jno. T. Delaney; will filed. Estate of Roberta Peter; do. Estate of Peter McGill; inventory filed. Estate of Thos. Parker; receipt filed. Estate of Amanda Haywood; two wills filed. In re Chas. P. Johnson, guardian; receipt filed. Estate of Francis Toumey; wi! fully proved. Estate of Ephraim Cowan; receipt and release filed. —— Washington Stock Exchange. Sales— call—12 o'clock m.—Lincoln Na- tional 2 at 100. National Safe Deposit and Recsrs 10 )ay 126; Gat 128; 20) atti inching it Tenet e183; 4 a8 NG; 10 at 1345, “iriremen's * al al + al a jremen’s: Tesurance, 20 at $9. Pneumatic Gua Carriage, 100 at cen! Government j. S. 4a, registered, 111! bid, 111% asked. U.S. 4s, coupon, 112% bid, 11: asked. U.S. ds, 116% bid 110% naked. District of Columbia .—20-yeax fund 5s, 106 bid. 30-year 6s, gold, 114% bid. Water stock 7a, 1901, or oy? as bid. ste! stock 7s, img currency, 65a, funding, currency, Sigs, registered, 210s, 100 bid. Miscellaneous Washington and. George- Ge, ist, 138 did. 185 asked. \d. conv. Belt Railroad bs, 85 Eckington Railroad 103 "bid, 105 asked. Columbia Raflroad 6s, 109% bid. Washing- ton Gas Company @s, series ‘A, 115 bid. Washing- ton Gas Company 6s, series B, 116 bid, 118 asked. Washington Gas Company conv. 63, 135 bid, 140 asked. U. 8. Electric Light conv. 5s, 135’ bid. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone 5s, 100 bid, 104 asked. Aemerican Security and Trust 6s, F. and A., 100 bid. American Security and Trust fs, A. and’ O., 100 bid. Washington Market Company Ist 6s, 110 bid, 115 asked.” Washington Market Company imp. @8, 110 bid, 115 asked. | Washington —v. Market Company’ ext. Masonic Hall Association 5s, 105 bid. Washington Light Infantry Ist 63, 101% ‘bid. Washington Light Infantry 2a 7s, 100 bid. National Bank Stocks.—Bank of Washington, 250 bid, 300 asked. “Bank of, the Republic, 250’ hid, 280 asked. Metropolitan, 283 bid, 207 asked. tral, 200 bid. | Farmers and Mechanics 3 Sitier Secdnd, 13744 bid Columbia, 135 bid, 145 asked. Capt West End, 108% bid, 111% a: bid, asked. 100 bid, Ohio, 84 bid. Lincoln, 101% asked. Safe Deposit and-Trust Compantes.—National Safe Deposit and Trust, *125 bid, 125% asked. Washing ton Loan and Trust, *122 hid, 123% asked. Ameri- can Security and Trust, 135 bid, 137 asked. Railroad" Stocks.—Washington’ and Geo: 200 bid, 295 asked. Tumbla, 63 bid. Belt, & bid. Georgetown and Ténnallytown, 2 35 asked. Gas and Electric Light Stocks.—Washington Gas, 352K bid, 5814 asked. Georgetown Gas, 50 bid, 53 asked.’ U. §. Electric Light, 134 bid, 135 axked: Insurance Stocks.—Ficemen's, 39 bid, 41 asked. Franklin, 45 bid. Metrupolitan, 69 bid. 56 bid. 69 bid, 75 asked. Arlington, 152 bid, German-American, 160° bid, 200 asked, Nationai Union, 12 bid, Co- 7% bid, 735 taked People's, SU Bid. SM asked” Litcola: asked. e's, 5%, asl ncoln, 84 bid, 8% asked. ‘Commercial, "4 bid. = Title Insurance Stocks.—Real Estate Title, 108 d, 116 asked. Columbia Title, 7% Did, 8 asked. reas og Title, 8 asked. District Title, 10 bid, 13% asked. ‘Telephone Stocks.—Pennsylvania, 37 bid. 50 asked. Chesapeake and Potomac, 51 "bid, 51% asked. American Graphophone, 2% bid. Paeumatte Gun 31 a ishington Market, 14 . bid, 145 asked. "Bull Ran Panorama, 30 Norfolk and Washington Steamboat, 94 bid. Washington Brick Company, 100 bid. incola Hall, 80 bid. Inter-Ocean Bulld- ing. 90 aan Mergenthaler Linotype, 1098 bid, ask *°Ex div. Baltimore Markets, BALTIMORE, Md., April 80—Flour un- changed—receipts, 9,036 barrels; shipments, 24,204 barrels; sales, 2,500 barrels. Wheat fairly active and lower—No. 2 red spot, (8a 68%; the month, 68 asked; May, 67ia67%; June, 67% asked; July, 66%a66%; August, 66% asked; steamer No. 2 red, 65a65%—re- ceipts, 4,798 bushels; stock, 134,604 bushels; sales, 148,000 bushels—southern, by sample, 70; southern, on grade, 65%a0S%. Corn quiet and easy—spot, 52a52%; the month, 52 asked; May, 51 July, 52% 33: steamer mixed, [)%2150%—recelpta, 10,136 bushels; shipments, 102,858 bushels; stock, 178,478 bushels; sales, 16,000 bushels—south- ern white corn, 53253%; southern yellow, 55a57. Oats—receipts large, market steady —No. 2 white western, 4; No. 2 mixed, 3233a34—receipts, 33,449 bushels; stock, 132,- 904 bushels. Rye steady and firm—No. 2, 66—recelpts, 546 bushels; stock, 16,215 bush- els. Hay quiet and firm—good to choice timothy, $13a$13.50. Grain freights dull and steady; unchanged. Sugar active—granu- lated, 4.25 per 100 Ibs. Butter—Fancy creamery, 21; do. imitation, 16217; afncy ladle, 14a15; good ladle, 12a13; store packed, 8a10. Eggs steady—fresh, lic. Cheese steady—fancy New York, 12a12\%. —$—$<____— Over $100,000 were last night subscribed toward the establishment in Philadelphia of a protectory for wayward Catholic boys of that diocese. The subscriptions were re- seen at a meeting called by Archbishop yan. FINANCE AND TRADE Various Causes Contribute to Depress Prices, PROFESSIONAL OPERATORS SELLING Early Resumption of the Upward Movement Expected. . GENERAL MARKET REPORTS —__+___ Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, April 30.—Uncertainty as to the outcome of the negotiations in the anthracite coal trade, doubt as to the rate of the next dividend in Northwest and @ general spreading of the reactilonury senti- ment forced concessions in all departments of speculation this morning. Sgles of tong stock were quite general, and the professional element ventured to put out moderate amounts on the short side for a quick turn. The recent advance in prices has been pretty evenly distrib- uted and has extended beyond the point at which a reaction might have set in with- out prejudicing the movement. The profit- taking this morning will therefore result in establishing a firmer basis for future cperations on the long side, and will not materially delay the process. The large following of professional trad- ers has undoubtedly so hampered the man- ipulative machinery in certain of the spe- clalties that prices were permitted to de- cline for the purpose of forcing the imme- diate exit of this undesirable following. In sugar, for example, surface indica- tions clearly sustained view. Realis- ing sales were noticeable down to 108% a decline of 11-4 per cent from the opening, but buying on the decline, during afternoon, forced the price well ward initial figures. The operators, plural expression be justified, wh: vanced the price of this property, hanged in ie eters tu and prodict. much the property an mt prices after the present profit-taking run its course. Northwest declined 1 per cent sellirg for both accounts, as the result unfavorable dividend forecasts based on recent statements of earnings. There can be little doubt that the present 6 per cent rate will be reduced, perhaps to 4 per cent. fractionally on only a moderate volume of business. The dullness of ihe — Ft af competing lines, The March statement of iy flects an increase of $37,000 in net for that month and a total increase for nine months of $530,000. The new 4 per cent bonds of the Manhattan railway to be issued for the purpose of redeeming the 6 per cent bonds of the New York Elevated railway, due January 1, 1896, were announced to have been taken by Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., and will be disposed of in Europe, where American securities are daily growing in favor with conservative investors. The market for sterlirg and continental bills was steady cn a very limited volume of business. As the present situation in this market w satisfactory to the bond it is not likely that any change ‘will be de in rates. The coal sales agents were said to be willing to accept Lackawanna’s proposition to restrict the May production to 70 per cent of the capacity, but this allotment was cpposed certain quarters, and thought to be Hable to change before the adjcurrment of today’s meeting. This prop2sition involves a question of rates, and its treatment is therefore im- portant to the trade. Final trading was only mcderately active and inclined to be irregular. —— ———— FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, The following are the opening, the high- cst and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today, as re- ported by Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exchange. Correspondents Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Broadway: Open. High. Low. American sence ses 1OOKE 10DKG 1053 1 of oe ot ax . ¥., Co Northern Pacific... Northern Pacitic Pfd. North American, Ont. and Western. Pacific Mail Phila. and Reading. Pullman Pal. Car Co. Southern Railway Phila. ‘Traction. Texas Pacific.. 1. Rrie.: eeling und L. E. Pid. tern Unton Tel Wisconsin Central. Silver...... 4. Grain and Cotton Markets. ‘Cotton and grain markets, reported by W. B. Hibbs, stock, grain and cotton broker, 1421 F st., Low. Close, vd dh = 62 Washington Grain Market. Reported by the Grain Exchange. Spring patent flour, per barrel, 3.90a4.10; spri straight flour, per barrel, 3.75a3.90; winter pat flour, per barrel, 3.60u3.75; winter’ straight flour, r barrel, 3.30a3.50; winter extra flour, per barr .00;" clipped white oats, per bushel, 39a white oats, per bu Bia38; No. 2 nu Habsty 2-ycliow corn, ‘0, 2 white cora, 1, 54; So, timothy hay, per ton, hay, per ton, 11.50a12 1 ‘mixed hay, ton, 11.90a12.50: Y clover ‘hag, per ton. ‘9 10.00; No. 1 cut hay, per ton, 13.00014.00; ty bran,’ per ton, 17.50418.50; bulk ‘mlddilngs, ton, '17.50a18.50; rye straw, per ton, 13.00ai3. wheat straw, per ton, 5.5026.00. The above quot tions for car lots delivered on track, Washing! ———-— A Protest Filed. The Simpson Dry Dock Company of Ne: York has entered with the Secretary the Navy a fcrmal protest against award of the contract for completing construction of the dry dock at the Ney York navy yard to any other bidder thi that company. They say not one of other bidders besides themselves any experience in building dry docks, notice is given that the company contro] the patents embraced in the specificatio!