Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1895, Page 2

2 THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1895-TEN PAGES, oO LATE NEWS BY WIRE|A POSS'BLE SALE New Victims of the Archfiend Holmes, LAWLESSNESS REPORTED IN VIRGINIA A Schooner Run Down and Three Lives Lost. ANOTHER BRIDGE JUMPER . Ss SS MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 23.—It is be- Heved that H. H. Holmes, the notorious in- surance swindler and murderer, accom- panied by Nellie and Howard Pitzel, was in Milwaukee last October. A man answer- ing the description of Hoimes cailed at the Plankinton House with the two children, rho were from ten to twelve years of age, whe girl being the older of the two, and both were well dressed and very bright. ‘The stranger told Manager King he found the children in the Davidson Theater after the perfognance and the girl had told him their father had gone to Waukesha on busi- ness. The children were kept the hotel for several days. Then they Msappeared. They next turned up at the ticket cifice of the Chicago and Northwesiern road. The same man called with them and asked for Frederick Hall, the city ucket agent. The stranger said the children were found at the theater and the hotel keeper refused to keep them any longer. Together with the children, Hall and the stranger started for the Windsor Hotel. When they got near the hotel the stranger excused hfn.self, saying he would have to catch a train for Chicago. Hall took the children to the hotel and engaged rooms for them. That night a woman called at the hotel and waited on the sidewalk until she could talk to the children. Between 9 and 10 o'clock the children found their opportunity to steal from the hotel unseen, and the last trace that the police could find was that the children had gone with the woman, The Same night another woman, well dressed, made inquiries at the Plankinton House as ‘to where she couid find the children. Hall has been shown pictures of the children, @nd says the girl resembles Nellie Pitzel. Mrs. Connor's Fate. CHICAGO, HL, July 23.—A local paper today prints the following: “That Mrs. E. L. Connor 1s dead is certain. That Holmes either killed her or is directly responsible for her death Is equally sure. Holmes yes- terday admitted the woman was no more, but, as vsual, he tried to shift the blame on some one else. Almost equally certain is it that Mrs. Conner’s daughter Gertrude igs not in the land of the living. Holmes says he does not know what has become of her, and that in itself !s practically an ad- mission she has been made away with. “The fact that Holmes admits Mrs. Con- nor’s death is not known to the authorities in Philadelphia. He made the admission yesterday afternoon to a man, who, with District Attorney Graham, was closeted with him in the Moyaménsing penitentiary. This is h's statement: ‘Mrs. Connor got nto trouble and a Chicago doctor per- rmed an operation. The job was a bun- ing one and the woman died." This Is the ‘st light shed on the case since M Con- sor disappeared from public view in 1893." During the police examination of the house of H. H. Holmes today a portion of a ‘woman's wrapper, torn and stained, was found. The gown was of dark goods, with white trimming, and on the white cloth were found several dark spots resembling either iron rust or bloodstains. The nature of the stains could not be determined, and the dress was sent to police headquarters, where an anaylsis will be made. en” Accomplice. PHILADELPHIA, July 23.—Thomas A. Fahey, counsel for Mrs. B. F: Pietzel, wife or widow of the man who fs thought to have been murdered in this city by H. H. Holmes, today received a letter from his client’s father, who lives in Galva, Ill. It contained nothipg new beyond the asser- tion that Holmes is not the only person who should be held to answer. This, it Is averred, refers to Jeptha D. Howe, the young St. Louis attorney who previously represented Mrs. Pietzel, and whose name has been coupled with that of the arch conspirator In connection with the swin- dling of the insurance company. eS CONTESTED ELECTION. Continuing the Testimony in the Alexundrin County Affair. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23.—The con- tested election case was continued today. At the afternoon session of the court yes- terday Townley E. Sisson, who was a spe- alal constabl:, testified. But few spectators were present at the @ening of court this mcrning. Some time ‘was taken by the attcrneys for the de- fense counting the ballots cast in Jefferson distsict, and comparing the number of votes with official returns of the judges and clerks and the poll book. Sisson was again called to the witness bcx and cross-exam- ination rebegun by M Burke. Witness could not recognize b: , and knew noth- ing of defective marking on certain ones, ferty-one in rrumber, which were cast for Duncan and thrown out. Mr. Armstrong, for the contestants, ob- Jected to this line of examination, but Mr Burke proceeded in the Same line, and upon objection by opposing counsel the bench sustained it. Williams had been a Hume worker, but had gone into the booth with voters only when asked to do so. Had be2n told thet Mr. Hatch had told colored voters to give him (witness) h—. Upon objection this testimony was ruled out. Mr. Hume had never asked witness to scratch a ticket. Mr. Dougins Testifies. W.W.Douglas, the contestant for common- wealth’s attorney, was next sworn, He was at Jeffersen district polls nearly all day, reiterated Sisson's statement, about the at- tack on Sisson by Thos. Peverill. Large Rumber of the crowd drank. Profane language and threats were used toward] Mr. Hyme, and witness saw Johnson give siips to voters and watch them as they went Into booths, Witness had been pres: d with a bill by the trustees of Carlin’s school for damage done to the school building by an unruly crow’, at a meeting before the elec- tion, at which Mr. Hume had been at- tacked. oe COLLISION AT SEA. A Schooner Run Down and Three ‘ Lives Lont. NEW YORK, July 23.—The Norwegian steamer Terrier arrived today from Demer- ara, July 12, Capt. Berg reports that at 8:30 p.m. of the day on which his steamer left Demerara a schooner was sighted close in the starboard bow. Capt. Berg watched the schooner’s movements closely and at the same time hauled his steamer’s wheel to port, expecting that the schooner would keep on her course. The schooner did so for a time, and then she suddenly changed her course, running free directly across the Terrier's bow. Before the steamer could be stopped or her headway checked, she struck the schooner on the port side, abaft the forerigging, sinking her almost instantly. She proved to be the British schooner Eagle of Barbadoes, for Demerara, with passengers and crew numbering twenty- nine. ‘Twenty-four persons were saved, two men, two women and one child being drowned. —_—- —— BRODIE’S IMITATOR. He Jumped From the Brooklyn Bridge for $1,700. NEW YORK, July 23.—Patrick Callahan, Dartend-r, jumped from the Brooklyn bridge today. He was picked ‘up by a row boat and arrested. Callahan was bleeding from the mouth and complained of gg2at pain in the back. The jump was made for @ purse of $1,700. ———— The Day at Alexander Island. A very good card was presented by the Old Dorninion Jockey Club today, and those who made the trip to the track were as- sured a good day’s sport. The track was fast. Weather cloudy and warm. Attend- ance good. Five books were on. Congress Heights Syndicate May Buy Anacostia Railroad. Likelihood of Radical Changes in the Road of Many Strikes—The Gentlemen Interested. Owing to the recent strike of the em- ployes of the Anacostia Railroad Company and the tie-up of the road, public atteation has been more or less directed to that road, and one of the results has been the revival of rumors in regard to its sale. It is be- Meved that Mr. Griswold, the president of the compeny, who also owns the controlling interest in the road, is willing to dispose of it providing that he can get a satisfactory offer. From something that Mr. Randall, who represents the syndicate that owns Congress Heights, has said it is inferred that he looks upon the Anacostia road with the eyes of a possible purchaser. Yesterday Mr. Randall was talking with two acquaintances on the street when Mr. John E. Herrell, the president of the Na- tional Capital Bank, passed along. Mr. Herrell knew the men Mr. Randall was talking with and stopped to speak with them, and in this way for the first time made the personal acquaintance of Mr. Randall. In the course of the conversation that ensued Mr. Randall remarked that he had $250,000 which was available for the pur- chase of the Anacostia road Mr. Herrell told kim that he did not own a dollar's worth of stock in the road, and, as Mr. Griswold owned the road, the latter would be the person +o talk to. In speaking of the matter this morning to a reporter of The Star, Mr. Herrell said that beyond the conversation outlined rbeve he had no knowledge of Mr. Ran- dall’s plans or of those whom he represent- ed; neither did he know whether Mr. Ran- dall had taken his advice and made his offer to Mr. Griswold. He had seen Mr. Griswold since Mr. Randall had made his statement, but the former had said noth- ing to him in regard to an offer being made for the road. Mr. Herrell was of the opinion that if the road were sold the deal would not be con- summated right away. Mr. Herrell believes that by making a few changes and by the introcuction of the trolley on the suburban portion of the road it could be made to do a good business. His idea Is that che trolley portion of the road should begin from the Anacostia side of the bridge, extending through Anacostia to Congress Heights, and then along the ridge of the hill through Garfield, Hillsdale and Stantoatown to the property along Pennsylvania avenue extended where Overlook Inn ‘s located, and so on back to the Anacostia bridge. Then horse cars could be used over the bridge, following the present line of the road up 11th street, along M, west to Sth street, where the Navy Yard line of the Washington and Georgetown cable road begins, then continuing west along M street to 4% street, and to 7th street, where connections could be made with the rapid transit line of the Metropolitan company, end with the 7th street line of the Was! ington and Georgetown road. He is of the opinion that with proper transfer facilities at these points, giving direst communication to the center of the city, the remaindgr of the line of the road within the city” Hmits could, with ad- vantage, be abandoned. He believes that if the changes in the operation of the road are made as indicated it will not only provide ample facilities for the large popu- lation in ard around Anacostia, but also prove of advantage to the owners of the undeveloped property in that locality. In addition to the steck of the road, which amounts to 1,000 shares, with a par value of $50 a share, there have been issued $200,000 In first mortgage bonds and $100,- 00 in second mortgage bonds. The con- trolling interest in the road is, therefore, about 501 shares of stock. —————— ASSAULTED A POLICEMAN. Edward Shea and Arthar Malloy Held for the Grand Jury. Judge Miller this afternoon heard the case of Edward Shea and Annie Shea, a son and daughter of John Shea, well known in police circles, and Arthur Malloy, charged with assaulting Policeman George H, Willlams Saturday night last at 4% and © streets southwest. Campbell Carrington represented the defendants, while Assistant District Attorney Mullowny prosecuted. Policeman Williams testified ¢hat about 9 o’clock Saturday night he went to the corner mentioned In response to a whistle call. On arrival a woman complained that young Shea had assaulted her. Shea, who was standing on the corner, was told to move on by the witness. He refused, and was placed under arrest, the prisoner resisting and using profanity. While passing the corner of 4% and D streets Malloy went to the assistance of Shea, and Annie Shea also appeared on the scene with a brick in her hand. During the melee Williams rectived a severe blow en the right eye. The testimony of the policeman was corroborated by a colored man named John Butcher, who went to his assistance. Edward Shea next took the stand, and declared that Williams beat him tn a Drutal manner for no cause whatsoever. Accord- ing to Shea, the policeman shoved him, struck him, threw him down and fell on him. Witness used no profanity and made no resistance until he could stand the treatment no longer, and then he hit Wil- liams. The latter, so Shea thought, was intoxicated at the time. Mallcy denied that he assailed the police- man, and Annie Snea stated that she did, not reach the scene uatil the conclusion o: the trouble, and at no time had a brick in her hand, as charged. Several other wit- nesses corroborated the statements made by Shea. Judge Miller fined Shea and Malloy $5 each for disorderly conduct, and on the charge of assaulting the policemen held them in £00 bonds each for the action of the grand jury. The charges against Annie Shea were dismissed. eS THE CLASSIFIED SERVICE Extended to Embrace More Places in the Geological Survey. The President has approved an amend- ment to the clyil service rules withdrawing from the list of places excepted from ex- amination in the geological survey, geolo- gists, assistant geolog'sts, paleontologists, assistant paleontologists, chief photog- rapher, chief chemist, chemists and as- sitant chemists, chief engraver, engravers and assistant engravers, Hthographic en- gravers, map printers, lithographic printers, assistant lithographic printers, map re- viseres and statistical experts temporarily employed. The editor and the photographer, former- ly excepted positions, were placed in the list of places to be filled by non-competitive examination. ‘The only positions now excepted in the geological survey are one confidential clerk to the director, one chief disbursing officer, one chief clerk; and professional experts and special agents employed for short periods at per diem salaries, and paid only when actually employed. About 125 positions are thus transferred from the excepted to the competitive class. See Working for Beam. Mr. Samuel D. Truitt of counsel for Jos. A. Beam, sentenced to be hanged here next Friday, yesterday afternoon mailed a peti- tion to the President, praying for a com- mutation of the sentence to life imprison- or that the mah be granted a short jeve that his mental condition may be j inquired into. ‘The affidavits of three physicians were inclosed, the doctors stating that they be- lieved the man to be of unsound mind, —_— The Tennis Meet. BROOKLINE, Mass., July 23.—The at- tendarce at today’s games in the tourna- ment of the U. S. Tennis Association was small. In the continuation of the first rceund this forencon the results were: Bud- Icng beat Fitz 7-5, 6-4, 6-1. Barrett beat Scudder 6-1, 6-1, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4. Keyes beat 6-2, 6-4. Leo Ware beat Stack- pole 6-0, 6-2, 6-1. F. E. Howard beat Rich- ard Steveus by default. The consolidation games bezin this afternocn. In the second round Hovey will meet De Jones and Wren will play Rabbett. ——— Brentano’s sends to The Star Harper’s Magazine for August. | MISSOURI FOR SILVER Senator Cockrell’s Plain Spoken Discussion of Silver. RAKES THE ENEMY FORE AND AFT Denounces the Demonetization Act of 1873. MR. BLAND WAS THERE SEDALIA, Mo., July 23.—The attendance at the democratic free silver editors’ state convention met the most sanguine expec- tations of those who promoted it. Editors are here today today from every section of the state, stretching from Mississippi county to St. Joseph. At 10 o'clock this morning a business meeting was held at the Elk Club rooms. Col. Wm. F, Switzler of Booneville presided as chairman and H. J. Groves of Lexington was secretary. Committees on permanent organization and addresses were appointed, and the meeting adjourned until 1 o’clock for the election of officers. At 11 o'clock ex-Congressman R. P. Bland delivered an address at Assocla- tion Park. 2 After Mr. Bland had concluded, the edi’ tors adjourned for dinner. At 2 o'clock they reassembled, and Senator Cockrell spoke on the financial question. Senator Cockrell’s Speech. Senator Cockrell spoke in part as follows: beginning by asking the question: “What is the pending financial issue?” “It 1s simply,” he said, “whether the single standard of gold shall be continued, or the true bimetal- Me system shall be restored. Every possible effort will be mada to conceal, complicate and mystify this vital issue. Let us not be mistaken nor decelyed nor mislad. The Forty-second Congress, with a two-thirds majority of republicans In each house, pass- ed the coinage law of February 12, 1873, which was approved by a republican Presi- dent and established the single standard of gold, made the gold dollar the unit of value, denied any coinage to the standard silver Gollar, Mmited the legal tender value of all silver coins to $5, and destroyed the bi- metallic system which had existed by our laws from April 2, 1792, to that date. The law of November 1, 1893, unconditionally re- pealing the purchasing clause of the Sher- man law cf July 14, 1890, left the coinage law of February f2, 1873, In full force and effect. Today our laws authorize the free and unlimited coinage of gold at our mints into ful! legal tender money, and thus en- dow aud clothe the golden metal with the functions of money and make the metal equal in value te the coin, but they do not authorize or permit the coinage of any standard silver dollars, except the bullion in the treasucy, purchased under the Sher- man law, thus denying to the silver metal any functions of money. A True Prophet. “In the Brussels conference of 1892 Mr. “Alfred De Rothschild, a delegate from Eng- land, said: “Gentlemen, I need hardly remind you that the stock of silver in the world is es- timated at some thousands of milliens, and if this conference were to break up with- out arriving at any definite result there would be a depreciation in the value of that commodity which :t would be fright- ful to contemplate, and out of which a monetary panic would ensue, the far- spreading effects of which it would be hard to foretell.” ® “This confererce did adjourn without any definite results, and on June 26, 1893, India closed her mints to the free coinage of silver, and the commercial value of sil- ver measured with gold at once fell about 15 per cent. Our law of November 1, 1893, repealed the purchasing clause of the Sher- man law and silver fell still lower. By the undisputed testimony of the historic record of events, Mr. Carlisle was right in 1878 in his denunciation of the act of 1873 as ‘the most gigantic crime’ of this or any other age.’ Most clearly the laws demonetizing silver, and they alone, have caused the fall in its commercial value and the rise in gold, both in its commercial value and its purchasing power. Had gold been demone- tized instead of silver, it would have fallen in commercial value as silver has, and bi- metallists would not be urging the restora- tion of gold to its old place, and our gold advocates would be silver advccates, call- {ng gold the cheap, dishonest, unsound, fifty-cent money.” No Over-Production. Senator Cockrell then quoted at length statistics as to the ricduction of silver, and showing that there had teen no over- production. He referred to Secretary Car- lisle’s Memphis speech, and te his own sat- isfaction refuted the statements therein as to bimetallism being a failure both in this country and in France. Referring to the attitude of the admin- istration toward silver, he said: “No na- tion on earth, nor all the nations, can maintain the parity, the equal comniercial value of gold and silver coined in money at ary ratio whatavar when they give to gold frea and unlimited coinage end deny such coinage to silver end refuse to recognize and treat the silver money as the gold money or use it equally with gold in pay- ing coinage obligatiors. With equal pro- priety and assurance you might expect Parents having two daughters to maintain them in equal standing, hcnor and virtue, when they re:ognize and treat one only as honest and virtuous and refuse to recog- nize and treat the other as her equal or introduce her into society, and merely give her lodging room and proclaim her to the pore as dishonest, immoral and lasciv- ious.” a A Queer Family Snarl. Speclal Dispatch to The Evening Star, COLUMBIA, S. C., July 23.—A week ago Henry Bernes, a prominent white man of Smoaks, Colleton county, quarreled and separated from his wife, whom he had married in Fekruary last, and on informa- tion given by her was arrested for the mur- der of a former rival, J. Kemlin, who could rot ba found. Clothing, supposed to be Kemlin's, was found in a swamp. A spe- cial this morning states that Kemlin has been found alive and well, and that the clothirg is now believeé to belong to Joe Bernes, a demented brother of Henry, who has lived in the swamp for three years, on- ly coming home at midnight for food,which Lis father set out for him. His father,with the aid o¢ neighbors, has captured Joe, and he was found to be perfectly nude, except for scraps of leather hung from a rope about his waist. —————— Gatwick Races. LONDON, July 23.—The Gatwick sum- mer meeting (two days) opened today. The Emlin handicap, 200 sovereigns, was won by G. E. Paget's Cardonald; F, Luscombe's Izates second, and H. McCalmont’s Lightly third. There were five starters in this event, and Stonenell was among them. Washington Gains a Man. ROCHESTER, N. ¥., July 23.—Lush, the crack centerfielder of the Rochester team, has been secured by Washington through J. E. Wagner. Before letting Washington have him the directors of the Rochester team had Wagner sign an agreement not to call Lush in until the close of the pres- ent season. —— Gov. Hastings a Delegate. BELLEFONTE, Pa., July 23.—Gov. Has- tings was today elected a delegate to the republican state convention from Centre county, receiving 108 votes. Dale and Gray, the Quay candidates, got twelve each. ——— The Star Out of Town. THE EVENING STAR will be sent by mail to any address in the United States or Canada for such perlod as may be desired at the rate of fifty cents per month. {7 But all such orders must be ao- companied by the money, or the paper cannot be sent, as no ac- counts sre kept with mail subscrip- tions. THE BELTS"LINE HORSES Once More the Uitiséns Aro Complaining Abort the Nuisance. 5 Ze This Time thd: Residents of Ninth ae 2 Street North‘ of “P” Are Sign- ing a Protest. : Those Belt ps baaaees are a source of continual prot nm on the part of the citizens who liye In and around the route from the stables of that road to the make- shift quarters at the corner of 7th and P streets. First, the road tried to occupy the open street at the corner of 11th and O streets, and a great row resulted. The res- idents objected to the Commissioners and made sch a strong case that the company “voluntarily” agreed to rent quarters in the stables of the Thyson House, at P and 7th streets. ‘The horses were taken, four at a time, from the stables on 11th street, by way of Florida avenue as far as 9th street, and thence to the ‘Thyson House by way of 8th, Q and 7th streets. But occupants of Florida avenue in turn objected to the clat- ter and dust occasioned by the constant passing and repassing of the droves of horses, and an order was recently issued by the Commissioners abating the nuisance of such a use of an unpaved street. Then the Belt company changed the route for its horses, and they have been traveling by various paths, but usually centering on 9th street above P. Ninth Street Folka Protesting. Now the residents of 9th street are ob- jecting, and so forcibly that the company may again be compelled to change its plans, A petition is today being circulated among the property owners and tenants along 9th street from P street to Florida avenue re qtesting the Commissioners to abate the nuisance occasioned by the clatter of the horses’ hoofs and the filth that the street receives from this use. The petition is in charge of Mr. Ernest Smith, who lives on 9th between P and Q streets, and is headed by Mr. H. B. Moulton. It 1s receiving the signatures of all the residents to whom it is presented, it is said, and it is expected that In two or three days it will be so com: plete that it will be in shape for presenta- tion to the Commissioners. There are two or three hundred residents on this stretch of thoroughfare, some of them influential men in the community. . Mr. Moulton Means to Fight. Said Mr. H. B. Moulton today to a Star reporter: “The nuisance caused by this un- warranted use of the streets is unbearable. It certainly shows that there is gross in- competence of management somewhere that this awkward and complicated plan of changing ,horses is permitted to be used. The horses make an almost constant noise in the streets, and this is very distressing, especially to the sick. There is an old lady living next to me, who is in a dying state, whose poor rest nas heen broken by this clatter so" that her slight strength is going fast. Then the frequent passage of these droves of horses through this important thoroughfare {s dangerous to the pedes- trians. There is no let-up on the Sabbath, but the horses are charged through the street qt full galt, to the great danger of the lives and limbs of the hundreds of little ones who attend the Sunday school at the corner of 9th and P streets. I do rot think this company shoufd be allowed to break the peace and quiet of the Sabbath in this way, especially a3 it ‘s very questionable if there is any right for It to use the streets for the changing of'horses. We propose to fight this matter to the end.” $$ WAGES '6N DISTRICT WORK. Attorney Thomas Asked for an Opin- jon Concerning Contracts. The Commissicners this afternoon official- ly requested Attorney Thomas to advise them of his opinion as to their power to in- sert in contracts for District work a clause that the maxtmum «wages prevailing in the District of Columbia shall be paid to artl- sans and laborers employed in the execution of such contracts, and that only laborers who are bona fide residents of the District may be employed. This is the result of the hearing given the Federation of Labor and the hts of Labor yesterday. —————— EARLY CLOSING. District Government Employes to Be Excused at 3 0’Clock. The Commissioners have fallen in line with the early closing movement. 1 ‘This afternoon they issued an order that hereafter all employes of the District gov- ernment who can be spared shall be ex- cused at 8 o'clock in the afternoon. The order goes into effect at once, and will hold good until September 1 next. It Is needless to say that the order meets with the heart- fest approval from all the employes of the District government. DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. A Car Fender Approved. Dr. H. B, Ewbank, president of the Ew- bank Car Fender Company of Baltimore, was notified today by the Commissioners that if any of the street railways of the District of Columbia desired to use the fenders manufactured by the company, they were at liberty to do so, on making preper application. Building Permits. Building permits were issued today as follows: Andrew Jackson, four two-story frame dwellings, Sumner avenue, Ana- costia, $1,700; James Lowler, two-story brick, 707 2d street, $4,500; R. F. Luker, two three-story brick dwellings, 1801-1803 Cedar street, $12,000; E. T. Tippett, two- ory brick ‘and basement dwelling, 609 South Carolina avenue southeast, $2,500. Stipulations Gevgrning a Wharf. The Commissioners notified Mr. P. Mann of No. 207 7th street northwest today that they had ordered a permit to be granted him giving him the privilege of extending the wharf at the foot of S street south- east fifty feet, as requested by him, stipu- jating that in return for this permission he is to enter into an agreement of lease,speci- fying a term of years, to be fixed by the Commissioners, a yearly rental of $150, and that the wharf shall become the property of the District of Columbia at the expira- tion of the lease. Another Policeman for Anacostia. The Commissioners today appointed George McGill an additional private of the police force, for duty in Anacostia. The Brightwood Railway. Mr. Louis;P. Shoemaker has addressed a letter to the District Commiscioners asking them to require the Brightwcod Railroad Company to yo repair the roadway about its tracks as to’ make crossing possible without danger of/damage to vehicle, life and limb, He asks also tor other improve- ments, and urges attention to “flagrant violations by this,company of the terms of its charter by requiring us to change cars on Brightwood avenue before reaching the District line?” oe Fell Frdm the Roof. Robert Quantrell,: ten years old, who lives at 628 New York avenue, met with a seri- ous and possibly fatal accident this morn- ing about 11:30 o’¢lock while helping him- self to some fruit on a pear tree at 610 New York*dvenué? He was on the house- top and was pulling the limb with the frult on it toward him, when the railing about the top of the house gave way. The little boy did not know just what to do when the railing broke, and so he held on to the limb of the tree, with the result that he was thrown from the house to the ground, a distance of about twenty-five feet, and was severely injured. His right forearm was broken and his head was cut in sev- eral places, besides sustaining painful bruises about the body. The police ambu- lance was sent for and the badly injured boy was removed to the hospital, where his numerous wounds were dressed. —_—__ A New Photographie Stadio. Mr. J. D. Boyce, who was for five years located at 1113 F street, has, after a few years’ retirement, re-entered the field and opened a photographic studio at 1325 F street, with a new and modern outfit. Mr. Boyce has won a reputation for painstaking and artistic work. SWAMP LAND GRANTS Growth of a System That Fatents on the Public Domain. FLAGRANT ABUSES FREQUENT Enormous Acreage Secured by Some of the States. HOW IT IS WORKED Attention has recently been called to the swamp land grants to the various states by the visits paid to the Interior Depart- ment by delegations from the state govern- ments, which came with the desire of ex- pediting the work of patenting the lands to their new owners. Rapidly as the work has been proceeding ever since 1849, the date of the first swamp land grant, it is actually almost as far from being com- pleted as when it was first begun. The terms of the grant have been found to constitute a regular sink hole, into which lands can be poured almost without cessa- tion, without appearing to fill up. The tirst grant was to the state of Lou- isiana alore, and was intended to enable her to drain and improve the numerous swamps within her borders. It was lim- ited in its terms, but was yet very valu- able to the state. Later, in 1850, Louisiana wanted an additional grant, but her oe sentatives in Congress found that fed could not obtain it exclusively for ea state, and introduced a pill eae swamp lands located in any state where the United States possessed public lan‘ 4 a) the state governments, and providing ee indemnity lands to be taken in place 0! any swamp lands that jhad already been disposed of by the sovernrasn The states that benefited by this law were: ‘Arkansas, California, Florida, Indiana, Il- linols, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, souri, Ohio and Wisconsin. Later, when Minnesota and Oregon were admitted, a provision was placed in their admission acts granting to them the swamp lands within their borders on the same lines a8 In the grants to the other states. Enormous Acreage Claimed. Before any other states were admitted the swamp land claims became such @ cry- ing cbuse that Congress refused to make any such grants to any later states, giving each instead 1,000,000 acres, to, be applied for certain specific purposes. The sean for this limitation appears from the fol- lowing table showing the quanuities of land claimed under the act by the more im- portant swamp states. Some of them, it will be secn, have claimed about half of their entire area, and have actually had from one-third to one-fifth of it patented to hem: iNState. Swamp Land Swamp Land Claimed. Patented. Florida . 22,229,000 16,657,000 Louisiana - 519,000, 9,011,000 Arkansas . 7,674,000 Michigan . 5,670,000 Wisconsin 3,348,000 Towa 1,185,000 Minnesota 3,044,000 Illinois 1,456,000 Mississipp’ 3,603, 3,307,000 Two methods have been followed in the adjustment of the grants. In the first place, the state is asked whether it will send out its own surveyors and ascertain its own swamp lands, or whether it will a€- cept the United States survey. The reply has invariably been in favor of the latter. The swamp land office has then gone over the notes of the United States surveyors, and wherever swamp lands were shown by them has forwarded lists of them to the Secretary of the Interior. On his approval the lands have been patented to the states. ‘Any lands admitted to be swamp, but shown by the record as already sold or rented for any other purpose, have been withheld from these lists. Going Over the Same Ground. After the first big adjustment of the grants the states made no claim Sr a time. Then they began to examine into the subject, and finally, in every case, they have put their own men into the field to revise the United States surveys. For over thirty years this has been going on, and there seems no evidence that it will ever stop. Claims rejected ten or twenty years ago are made afresh today, and as the qvestion of swamp or not swamp is an actual fact to be ascertained hy- observa- tion, the claims must each time be exam- ined into by the government surveyors. ‘When the state surveyors make a claim a government surveyor is sent to go over it, and on his report the land is approved and patented. ‘Within the last year or more the work of going over all the early lists has been taken up, with a view to ascertaining why the sections that were sct aside from them at the time of the original patent were so set aside, and, if possibie, in the hope of finally closing up these open records. The work is progressing rapidly, and it is hoped that it will be closed at last, so far as these early tracts are concerned, although the later lists will probably not be fully ad- justed before the end of the next century. ———_ AN ASSOCIATED PRESS ACCESSION. The Other Association Now Has No Morning Paper in Chicago. Chicago’s new democratic daily, the Chronicle, after an eight weeks’ trial of the United Press news report, has abandoned that organization and entered into a ninety- year contract with the Associated Press. This defection leaves the United Press without a single client among the morning papers of Chicago and throws it back for its Chicago news upon the meager and un- certain resources of the two minor evening papers that now constitute its sole repre- sentation among the newspapers of the metropolis of the northwest. In an extended announcement of its ad- mission to the Associated Press the Chron- icle says today: ‘The Associated Press is the most efficient, the best managed, and the strongest organization of newspapers in the world. Its service comprehends the entire earth. Its aims are legitimate, and its methods are business-like and substan- tial. In the controversy now existing be- tween the Associated Press and the United. Press, the Chronicle is confident that it consults its best interests by accepting the invitation of the former to take the place which of right belongs to it, and which it may, say, without boasting, it has fairly earned, by the side of the other great news- papers of Chicago. —__—_+e+____ Mr. Carlisie’s Vacation. Secretary Carlisle expects to leave Wash- ington on his summer vacation about Au- gust 1. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Carlisle and their son, W. K. Carlisle, and wife of Chicago. The party will go from here by rail to Buffalo, and there take the light house tender Haze for a trip through the Welland canal, Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence river to Ogdensburg, New York. Thence they will go on to Detroit, where they will teke the tender Marigold for a trip through Lake Huron, Mackinaw straits and south through Lake Michigan to Chicago. From there they will probably return by rail to Washington. The Secre- tary expects to be absent about a month. ——_—__ e+_—_ Hearing Postponed. Judge Hugner today postpone the case of Mrs. Mary C. Morris against the Wash- ington and Georgetown Railroad Company and others until next Saturday. This is the case in which Mrs. Morris seeks to have the defendants restrained from using ex- plosives in making the excavations for the union passenger station at 36th and M streets. Several orders have been made by the court in the case, and the defendants now ask that Mrs. Morris show cause why they should not be allowed to proceed, un- der the court's direction. - —_.——_ Wanted His Aunt. Julius Taylor, a Lwelve-year-old boy, came here from Richmond yesterday in search of his augt, whose name he gave as Mary Schaeffer. He was unable to find her, and jest night he was cared for by the officers of the sixth police station. FURTHER COMPLICATIONS Garbage Question Keeps Up Its Tangled Record. Mr. Bayly Says Mr. Stewart is Not Authorized to Spesk for the Contractors. The garbage question, which yesterday seemed so near a solution, tcok a most curious turn today, ard the Ccmmissioners are puzzled, to say the least, at the new complications. As stated in The Star yesterday, Prof. Anderson and Mr. Cranch Mcintyre, repre- senting the Anderscn crematcry system, were given a hearing by the Commissioners with reference to that system. They were accompanied by Mr. Arthur Stewart of Baltimore, wao stated that he represented the Warfield company, which has the gar- bege contract after November 1 next, To- getrer they nade a number of propositions es to the er22tion of an Anderson crema- tory In this city If the system should prove satisfactory to the authorities after a test to be held shortly in Chicago. The propo- sitions seemed to strike the Commissioners most favorably. Among other things, the representation was made that a portion of the city’s refuse could be reduced’ instead of being incinerated, without any objection- able features resulting, and this would give an added profit. The Commissioners gave Mr. Stewart to understand that if the cre- matory -proved satisfactory here the at- torney for the District might be instructed to draw up an adéitional clause to the con- tract providing for the establishment of a reduction plaat as well, on condition that the District should share in the resulting profits. This was with the understanding that if the reduction system was not satis- factory in any way it should not be used, but all garbage should be cremated. Mr. S. P. Bayly, the Washington ‘repre- sentative of -he Baltimore people who have the contract, was present at the hearing yesterday as a spectator or auditor. Dur- ing tho hearing, he says, he asked Mr. Stewart by what authority he pretended to speak for the contractors, and was as- sured that his credentials were all right. This morning Mr. Bayly called npon the Commissioners and stated that he had just received a telephone message frem Baltt- more from Mr. Turner. who is looking af- ter Mr. Joshua Warfield’s interests while the latter is absent-from Baltimore. Mr. Bayly stated that Mr. Turner absolutely repudiated Mr. Stewart, and denied that he had any official connection with the con- tractors. It is needless to state that this created considerable surprise in the minds of the Commissioners. Mr. Bayly further volunteered the state- ment that at a recent conference in Baltl- more between the contractors and the An- derson company, which he attended, Mr. Stewart represented the crematory com- pany. The contractors then told him tc come to Washington and present his propo- sition to the Commissioners. They said that if the Commissioners were satisfied with his propositions and with the practical test of the system, he should come back, and that they would then talk about terms and see if they could not reach an amicable agreement. The Commissioners were told this morn- ing that they would shortly receive a let. ter from Mr. Turner, repudiating Mr. Ste art’s connection with the whole affair. They at once directed Secretary Tindall to write to Stewart and find out what he meant by his propositions and what right he had to make them. | In the meantime the matter rests as It Is, In considerable confusion, and it is no easy ie to guess what the final outcome w ————— AGAINST THE POLES. The Eckiagton Railway Compan; Fined $25 by Judge Miller. Shortly before 3 o'clock this afternoon Judge Miller began the hearing of the in- formation, charging W. Kelsey Schoepf, vice president and general manager of the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home Railway Company, with occupying public space on New York avenue for private purposes. Immediately after the case was called At- terney Ridout, representing Mr. Schoepf, filed a plea of not gullty of erecting trolley poles and ‘stringing wires as alleged in the information. Mr. Pugh then demurred to the plea on the ground that even though the facts contained therein be true they did not con- stitute a sufficient defense and did not ap- ply to the offense alleged in the informa- tion. The hearing was not concluded when The Star's Feport closed. It 1s understood that Mr. Pugh will this afternoon file twenty-two informations against the company to cover each day since July 2. Should Mr. Schoepf apply for a writ of habeas corpus in order to secure the ruling of the higher court in the mat- ter, it will cost him about $40 for each writ each day. In the Police Court this afternoon Judge Miller sustained the District in the prosecu- tion of Vice President Schoepf of the Eck- ington Railway Company, and imposed a fine of $25. ——— Entries at St. Asaph’s. First race, six and one-half furlongs, sell- ing, twelve entries—Billy Boy, Gonzales, Blue Bird, 105; Fassett, Duke of Gloucester, Lorimer, Geo. Hakes, McKeever, Gaiety, Trump, 102; Hazel, Eva's Kid, 100. Second race, two-year-olds, four furlongs, “selling, seven entries—McHenry, 107; Hig- bie, Dutch Girl, Cadiz, Mural, Hysteria, 91. Third race, five furlongs, selling.—Ma- nola, 109; Marie Lovell, 105; Hollywood, 10° Con Lucy, 103; West Park, 102; Minnie S., 101; Clansman, 99; Heloise, (7; Mrs. Stew- art, 96. Fourth race, one mile, selling.—The Snake, 03; Carpenter, 103; 100; Sandstone, 100; Lithograph, 97; Pirate Chief, 97; Monte Carlo, Tribute, 0; Blizzard, 97; Black Eeauty, 05. Fifth race, four furlongs, all ages—Frank D, Sextus, 119; Flattery, Sonora, 117; Joe Mack, 113; Mac Hunt, 110; Princess Alix, Monitoress, 108; Miss Bowser, 86. Sixth race, mile, selling—Prince Klamath, Sir Rag Lotion, 100; Selah, Jim McLaugh- lin, Irish Pat, 97; Silver Queen, Cate- chism, 95. ee Wrecked the Place. Levy Jones, a young colored man, went in Robert Burkett’s “cook shop” the other day and got the regulation pig’s-foot lunch. He settled his bil! and departed, but a few minutes later he returned and claimed that the proprietor had made a mistake in the change. The proprietor, however, was satisfied that there had been no mis- take, and he refused to give him the meney he claimed was due him. Jones became angered and sald he would either get his money or do some damage. He did not get the money, and so he proceeded to wreck the place and its proprietor with a pee Now he will spend three months in jai —.__ Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, July 23.—Flour di receipts, 7,200 pexcoin wet aD anne. sales, 130 barrels. Wheat firm—spot’ and 3 G36! receipts, "83,605. bushel les, 180,000 bushels do. on grade, 67: 49%; month, 494 bid; 49 bi 26, southern’ wheat by samp) mn firmer—spot, 49! August, 48% bid; Septem year, 41nd — pts, asl stock, 233,910 bushels; wales, 11,000 bushels; sou erm white corn, 52 sales; y Es Oats fairly act! and prices ‘- western, 32 asked; No. 2 mixed, 30a bushels; _stoc 99,703 bushels. Rye quiet— ipts, ushels; stock, 6,795 bushels. H eth i firm—choice $16.00a$16.50. rain freights quiet, rates steady, unchanged. Su- gar firm, unchanged. Butter and’ eggs steady, un- Slanged, Cheese rm, nuchanged. = Grain and Cotton Markets. Cotton and grain markets, reported by W. B. Hibbs, stock, gralp — broker, 1421 F st. Wheat—Sept... . ib Sty eat pee : fo Soe % 14% ig . 33 11.00 a pt 6.35 630 6.32 tibs—Sept 6.20 625. 615 6.17 COTTON. Month. Open. High. September. | . Rober 6.89 6.90 November. 6.5 FINANCE AND TRADE Activity With Some Substantial Motive, RAILROADS IN DEMAND TODAY Exchange Rate Not Likely to Send Out Gold. y GENERAL MARKET NEWS Spectal Dispatch to The Evening Star, -NEW YORK, July 23.—The improvement in stock values noted yesterday was con- tinued this morning with equally gratify- ing results. The Granger shares were in good demand throughout the day on en- couraging crop assurances. Rock Island was the feature of this group of securities in anticipation of increased revenues from the transportation of the large out crop along its lines. The railroad list attracted a good volume of business, and the char- acter of the buying was such as to indicate the presence of some substanial motive. The market is still largely professional, but the effort to depress values has ap- parently been abandoned for one more practical in its results. The engagement of $100,000 gold for export tomorrow had no effect on prices, the street being fully ad- Nagietionan = intention on the part of 10 week's porting house which figured in last e condition of the exchan, practically unchanged, bankers, So hen disposed to make material concessions. Shipments of coin can be made at only a very small saving, however, and trade balances in the early fall should soon be ow. amen to cause some yield. rates and the conse - ae of the outflow. Ne ee ugar was again active at a 1 per zain from a strong opening, as the result of the further evidences of a growing and profitable business in the refined product. Profit taking on stock bought several days ago was noticeable, but all offerings were quickiy absorbed. Chicago Gas was ad- vanced 2 per cent on purchases credited to a former director of the company. Va- rious reports were circulated during the day relative to charges in both the man- agement and policy of the company, all of which were without foundation. It is generally admitted that legisjation of some sort will be necessary to justify the present combination of compan and all legal proceedings meanwhile will of but temporary advantage. Around present prices the stock looks relatively cheap, but a new management without political in- fluence would probably add to the recent failures in the development of the property. There can be little doubt, however, that some time in the very near future some plausible scheme will be set forth which will insure handsome profits in this stock if advantages are not neglected. ‘The reports of earnings made doring the day were generally encoureging, Atchison, in particular, making a creditable showinz. The increase on the 2nttre system controll- ed end operated by the company for the fast two weeks in July Is a trifle over £60,000. The uniformity with which earn- ings are increasing indleates a general re- vival in busqess, a3 nearly all sections of the covntry represented. Proft taking around delivery hour resulted ir lower prices throughout the active lst, but at the decline a fair buying demand success- fully confined the novement within frac- tional limits. A steadily advancing market is not likely to set in at this time, owing to the sb- sence of many whose active participation in speculation is essential to prolonged ac- tivity. Underlying conditions continue to improve, and should furnish a substantial basis for a higher and broader market at the conclusion of the holiday season. All reactions in the meantime, unless based on circumstances now unforeseen, will be util. ized to good purpose as a purchasing point for the more meritorious securities. a FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The foll»wing are the opening, the high- est end the iowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today, as re- ported by Corson & Macartney, members New Yor’; stock exchange. Correspondents Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Broadway. Open. High. Low. Close, gar. 8% 1143 118% ‘American Sugar, Pid..@ 101 101 ‘American Tobacco..... 110% 1113, American Cotton Oii.-: 2035 26% Chicago. B. & Q. : Chic. & nextmeniern. Del.. "Lack. & W. Delaware & Hudson... Den. & K, Grande. Pid. Dis, & Cattle Feeding. General Electric. Th tral. pC Manhattan Elevated. . Michigan Central. Missouri Pacific. National Lead ast. . Wabash, Wheeling & L. Erie. Wheeling & L. Erie,Ptd. Western Union Tel. Wisconsin Central Silver. —__ Weshington Stock Exchange, Government Bonds. 112% asked. U. . S. 1925, Did, 115% asked. District of Columbia Bonds. bid. 30-year fund 6s, gold, 1 Zs, 1901, currency, 11 currency, 117 bid. . Bigs, registered, Miscellaneous Bopis. and George- town Rallroad conv. 6a, Ist, 130 bid, 140 ‘asked. Washington and Georgetown Railroad conv. 6s, 24, 130 bid, 140 asked, Metropolitan Railroad conv. 106 bid, 110 asked. Belt Ratlroad 5s, 86 bid, asked. "Eekington itallroad Ga, 100 bid, 103. asked, Columbia Railroad Gs, 110 bfd. Washington Gas Company 63, series A, 112 bid. Washington Gas series B, 113 bid. Washington Gas Company conv. 68, 125 bid. U. 8. Electric Light conv, .58, 128 bid.” Chesapeake ‘and Potomac Tele- whone 5s, 100 bid. American Security and Trust Fr and A., 100 bid. American Securky and Tras Bs, A. and 0., 100 bid. Washington Market Com- pony ist Ga, 109 bid. Washington Market Com- pany imp. 68, 109 bid. Washington Market Com- 03 bid. Masonic Hall Association Washington Light Infantry ist 6s, 100 vid. National Rank Stocks.—Bank of Washington, 280 Did, 800 asked, Bank of the Republic, bid. Metropolitan, 285 bid. 315. asked. 0 td, Farmers and Mechanics’, Citizens’, 130 bid. —U. 8. 48, registered, 112 bi Tena 13 asked? 1904, 115% ‘coupon, vid U.S. 5s, |. Centr: ¥ 170 did. Second, 188 bi Columbla, 189 bid, 140 asked, Capital, 116 bid. West End,’ 106% bid. Traders tol pia. Lincoin, 100 bid.’ Ohio, 82 bid, 86% ‘Safe Deposit and ‘Trust Compantes.—Nationa! Sate | " Did, 130-asked. Washingtba *120 bid. American st, 138 bid, 140 aske Washingtoa Safe Deposit, 80 asked. Mailrond Stocks. Washington and Georgeto 266 Wid, 285 asked. Metropolitan, i ed. ‘Belt, 30 asked. Eckington, and Electric Light Stocks. % bid, 52 asked. | Georgetows 8. Electric Light, 1824 bid. Insurance Stocks.—Fin ‘Metropolitan, OS. ha, _-Artington, 160 did, 207 asked asked. " Columbia, bid, 84 asked. Mid age People’s, EET “Tincotn, i Did, SY maked. *4%, bid. ‘Tine Insurance Stocks.—Real Extate Title, 106 bid. 115, asked. Columbia Title, 7 Ma, 8 ask Washington Title, 8 asked. District Title, 8 bi 13, arkihone Stocks. Chesapeake and bid. American Gra Me bid, Poeumat Wiad. 2 Mis ‘ashington : na. nal 130 Did, 140 asked, “Bs Ran Panorama, 25 a *Ex div.