Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1895, Page 2

2 LATE NEWS BY WIRE Secretary Carlisle Denies Having Presidential Aspirations. PHILADELPHIA WEAVERS G0 ON STRIKE The Streeter Case at Chicago Postponed. LIBRARIANS IN SESSION DULUTH, Minn., August 15.—The News Tribune today publishes an interview with Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle. Among other things the reporter said to Mr. Car- Usle: “Justice Field has expressed to a re- porter the opinion that you can have the Place left vacant by the death of Justice Jackson, but he adds that it will necess!- tate the abandonment of your presiden- tial aspirations.” “It would be indelicate for me to discuss the vacancy occasioned by the death of Justice Jackson at this time,” remarked Mr. Carlisle, “except insofar as to allude to that portion of Justice Field's remarks which credits me with having Presiden- tial aspirations. It seems to me as if a inan’s word shoutd go for something,” he said somewhat testily, “but it does not seem to with some people. I have denied that I have any Presidential aspirations, and it is scarcely necessary to deny it again.” Many Weavers Go Out. PHILADELPHIA, August 13—The hun- dred and thirty-six weavers on silk up- holstery goods, employed by Hoyle, Har- rison & Kay, 3d street and Lehigh avenue, left their looms today and went out on a strike, owing to an announcement by the firm of a 10 per cent reduction in their wages, to be made at once. The weavers will hold a meeting late this afternoon to decid: on future action. One of the weavers said this afternoon: ‘This strike has been brewing for some time. We have known that it was the intention firm to reduce wages, so we were ed to meet them. Today they sent representatives of the weavers. We went to the office, when they announced to us that they would hereafter only pay 23 cents a yard for brocatelle work. We 1 been getting 25 cents and 2 mills a yard. When informed of the reduction we promptly replied that it would not be ac- cepted. Those Alleged Forgeries. CHICAGO, August 13.—Owing to the wish of the federal authorities to bring witness- es here from Washington, it was agreed to take a continuance for ten days in the Streeter cas the forged letters patent giving Capt. Streeter the title to the new lands off the Lake Shore drive were not on exhibition. he defendants were rearrested and put »r double bends. Streeter’s bond was sed to $1,000 on the first charge of forging the document, and $1.5 was added on the second charge of uttering, passing and publishing it in Chicago. Wm. H. Cox's nd is the same. Charles A. Av- plegate and Jacob Nine are held under $1,000 bonds each on the latter charge. Librarians in Session. DENVER, Col., August 13—About sixty delezates to the convention of the Ameri- ean Library Association arrived from the east today. After addresses of welcome by Mayor McMurray and Platt Rogers of the city library committee, the convention Proper opened with the address of ‘he president, H. Mutley of the Detroit public Library, was followed by the rt of the se y, Frank Phill of the Newark, N. J., public library, and of other officers and committees. the deiegates are Victor Rose- Omaha, He ry J. Carr, recorder Americ s and librarian velt ef New York the Chicago Public Library. SES SMALLYOX AT EAGLE PASS. Deaths Among the Returned Colonists Avernge ura Day. < ANTONIO, Texas, August 13—Of the 340 negroes confined in the government quarantine camp at Eagle Pass 120 are af- flicted with smallpox. The deaths average about four datly. The balance of the 1,500 rations furnished by the United States gov- ernment to Corsul Sparks for the use of the refugees has been turned over to Dr. Evans, state quarantine ollicer of the quar- antine camp, for use there, it being found impracticable to forward them to the starv- ing negroes in Mexico. —_—.____ ATTACKED BY BULGARIANS. Wholesale Murder and Arson Charged Aguinst Them. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 13. — The Vali of Salonica telegraphed that a Bul- garian bend, numbering about 1,000 men, attacked the village of Janakli, in the dis- trict of Kirdjali, and burned 290 houses. The Bulgarians are also said to have kill- ed twenty-five of the inhabitants of Ja- naku. The vali of Adrianople has sent a similar dispatch, but he thinks that the accounts of the affair ar: probably exaggerated. —__ BRITISH TOURISTS DEGRADED. Sentenced to Street Work for Too Fast Bicycling. CHADRON, Neb., August 13.—Edward Clegg, Coleman Nickolds and Henry Cart- stensen, British bicycle tourists, were ar- rested Saturday night for fast riding, and this morning were fined $1 and costs, a total of each. Although abundantly supplied with money, they refused to pay their fines and were committed to hard work on the street. They would not work, however, but instead sat down under a lcad of hay. They will claim the protec- tion of the English government. —— AGAIN THE AGARA WINS. The Crack American Yacht Shows the Others Her Heels. SOUTHAMPTON, August 13.—Niagara, Audrey, Luna and Isolde started this morning over the same course as yesterday from Calshet Castl>, in a race under the auspices of the Castle Yacht Club, this be- ing the second day of the regatta of that organization. The course is twenty-five miles long. Niagara got the lead at the start, and won the race. Audrey and Luna ‘inished second and third, respectively. —-— ALL FOR QUAY. Captures the Delegates From the Nor- ristowa Convention. NORRISTOWN, August 13.—The repub- lean county convention for the election of seven delegates to the state convention, to be heid in Harrisburg on August 28th, was held in the opera house here today, and the following delezates, all for Quay, e elected: Thomas H. Barker, Addison peheimer, Louis M. Kelly, ‘John K. Licht, William E. Nail, Tho} P. Scott and William Teas. Of the delegates Quay received 150 and Hastings 102. A resolution opposing Cameron to a re- election to the United States Senate was red by F. F. Hobson of Collegeville, but was laid on the table by a vote of to 85. ———— A IN CALLE® OUT. POLICE Italiau Strikers Attnck Those Who ‘Took Their Places. PITTSEURG, Pa., August 13.One hun- I fifty Italians employed on the ex- for the conduit in Allegheny srday for an advance of twenty- day in wages. Other men ured to take their places, and to- atrikers tried to drive the new men clubs and revolvers were two Italians whose names reed had their heads split ee. The mob was dispersed FRUIT VENDERS MUST GO The Market Company Has a Recent Order Revoked. Not Allowed to Stand om Seventh Street—Result of a Heartng Held Today. The fruit vendors will have to vacate the sidewalk of 7th street recently set aside for them by the Commissioners as a place for them to sell their products. The Commissioners, thinking they had found a solution to the problem of keeping the push-cart fruit sellers off of 7th street north of Pennsylvania avenue, decided to locate them on the wide portion of 7th street between Pennsylvania avenue and the market house. As soon as they had accomplished this and the fruit sellers took their places as specified the dealers in the market house set up a cry that they were injuring their business. This morning a special session of the board was called to hear the arguments of Gen. William Birney, attorney for the Washington Market Company, against the use of the sidewalk. He said that in 1802 the market company, anxious to serve its patrons, had applied for a widening of 7th street between Pennsylvania avenue and the market, and the permission was finally gla>ted upon the market company agreeing to assume the cost of the widening. ‘This the company did, the improvements costing $1,319.31. The congested condition of affairs before this improvement was made, he said, was a great inconvenience to the patrons of the market, and :f the fruit venders were allowed to remain there a similar condition would result in a very short time. For these reasons, and, further, because he did not think the Commissioners had the right to allow obstructions to the sidewalk, he urged that the order should be revoked. After some consideration on the part of the Commissioners it was decided to revoke the order, ard the same was done forth- with. — FIRED ON THE PASSENGERS Revenge of a Negro Whipped by a Steambont Captal ST. LOUIS, Mo., August 13.—A deadly as- sault was made on the levee this morning. An enraged negro fired a fusillade of bullets into a crowd of passengers and members of the crew of the steamer City of St. Lohis as they came dcewn the gang plank of the boat, just after she landed at the wharf, between 7 and 8 o'clock. Two white ten and two negroes were wounded, one fatal- ly, but none of the passengers were hurt. The wounded are: Lou Davis, colored, captain of the night watch, shot in region of kidneys, will probably die; Frank Ben- nett, white, roustabout, artery in arm sev- ered, serious; John Lell, steward of steam- er City of Cairo, lives in Vicksburg, shot in leg, not serious; Wm. Thomas, colored, roustabout, shot in left leg, not serious. The wounded were sent to the city dis- pensary. The shooting was the outcome of a fight between the negro, whose name is unknown, and Lou Davis, captain of the watch, while the steamer was lying at Cairo Sunday, and in which the negro was badly worsted and driven from the boat. Exasperated at his defeat and burning with revenge, he boarded a train and ar- rived here last night. Early this morning he concealed himeelf behind a pile of freight on the levee, and when the steamer arrived and her pa: gers and crew were moving down the to the shore he opened fire with the above result. During the terror and excitement among the passengers and crew at the sudden deadly attack the woul-be murderer es- caped and has not been captured at this writing. ——_—_. SPEAKER GULLY CONFIRMED. He Resumes the Full Robes of His Office. LONDON, August 13.—In the house of commons today the speaker, Mr. Wm. C. Gully, took the chair at noon in semi-offi- cial attire. There was a poor attendance of members present. The gentleman usher of the black rod appeared at the bar of the house of commons, coming from tke house of lords, at 12:10 p.m., and sum- moned the members to the house of lors, where the royal commission signifying her majesty’s confirmation of the election: of Mr. Gully as speaker was read. The lat- ter, on returning to the house of commons, went to the robing room, and afterward took the chair in the full robes of his of- fice, and formally announced that her majesty had confirmed his election. ‘The members then proceeded to take the oath, the speaker going through that for- mality first of all. He was followed by + J. Balfour, George J. Goschen, Sir_Michael Hicks-Beach and Henry Fowler. Mr. Bal- four then signed the roll, followed by the others. EX-CONSUL WALLER’S CASE. Ambassador Eustis Hopes to Reach a Satisfactory Result. PARIS, August 13.—There is absolutely nothing in the sensational story circulated by a New York newspaper to the effect that the United States ambassador to France, Mr. James B. Eustis, has dropped the case of Mr. John L. Waller, formerly United States consul at Tamatave, Island of Madagascar, who was recently sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment by court- martial, after having been convicted oi communicating illegally with the Hovas. On the contrary, Mr. Eustis is pursuing the matter most energetically, and is giv- ing the case his closest consideration, with the result that he hopes to soon arrive at @ satisfactory result. THE WHISKY TRUST. Motien to Restrain the Reorganizers Denied. NEW YORK, August 13.—Justice O'Brien im supreme court chambers this morning handed down a decision denying the mo- tion for an injunction to restrain the re- organization committee of the Distilling & Cattle Feeding Company from purchasing or acquiring the property of the trust, which was advertised to be sold tomorrow. The motion for an injunction was brought by Frederick W. Anness and Geo. N. Pyn- chon, who represent $15,000 worth of the stock in the trust. They contended that the purchase by the reorganization committee would perpetuate the trust, which had been declared an illegal monopoly by the su- pre-ae court of the state of Illinois. = Tales of Rich Mines. SAN FRANCISCO, August 13.—The schooner Goiden Gate, which has been on a prospecting cruise among the islands of the Alutian archipelago, returned last evenirg with tales of wonderful mines, where rich ore is to be cut out with a cheese knife. The Golden Gate sailed from San Francisco on the 26th of July with a party of young men, who had agreed to share expenses and profits on the Alaskan mining expedition. Three of the party of twelve or more returned with the schooner, but they are full of buoyant hopes, and, after the ore brought down in the hold of the vessel is assayed, will return to the islands with more machinery. The men who came down from the north on the Golden Gate say little about the location of their big strike, but it was learned on beard the schooner that the mine on which they place most reliance is on one of the islands just south of Kodiak Island. —.—__ Object to the Epitaph. SAN FRANCISCO, August 13.—Local members of the A. R. U. are much in- censed over an inscription that has been placed on the monument erected at the pre- sidio over the graves of four soldiers who were killed in a railroad wreck during the great strike a year ago. The inscription is to the effect that the soldiers were mur- dered by strikers near Sacramento, Cal., July 11, 1804. Although one striker has been sentenced to death for complicity in the wrecking of a train bearing govern- ment troops during the strike, the mem- bers of the A. R. U. denounce the inscrip- tion 2s false and unjustifiable. THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1895-TEN PAGES. PURELY SPECULATIVE PROSECUTIONS SUSPENDED AN) Talk About a Bond Issue by the Treasury. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT 10 EXPECT Uncertainty as to the Extent of the Syndicate Centract. THE PRESIDENT’S POSITION All talk about the action of the Treasury Department in the event of further trade being maie upon the gold reserve is pure- ly speculative. It is evident, and confessed by officiais, that the department does not know what to expect. Even the action of the syndicate, which is the chief reliance of the administration, as it has been since the contract for the last bond sale was made, is a matter of doubt. The contract was partly written and partly merely a verbal understanding. The syndicate side of the written contract has been complied with, and, as far as that goes, all obliga- tions are relieved,except that the syndicate has an option on other bond issues until October. Onc Feature of the Verbal Contract. One feature of the verbal contract was that the syndicate was to so manipulate exchange as to prevent withdrawals of gold from the treasury for shipment abroad. One element in this verbal agree- ment, however, was that the gold derived from the sale in Europe was to remain abroad for a certain time and to be used against exchange, saving actual shipments. It was announced some time ago that all this gold had been paid into the treasury, and it is known that the bonds have been delivered abroad. According to the original statement of this verbal contract made by the treasury officials, it would appear that with the payment of this foreign gold into the treasury the obli- gations on the syndicate ceased. There seems, however, to be some doubt on this point in the department, and in a vague sort of way the syndicate appears to be still looked to for assistance. Probably the only thing the syndicate is called upon by the contract, written or verbal, to do now is to “try to place” other bonds if an issue is decided upon before October. Will Be Guided by Circumstances. As far as the treasury officials can judge new, it may not be necessary to make another bond issue before Congr meets, and all that is known is that the Secretary will be guided by circumstances, and any- thing deemed by him necessary to be done will be dono without much regard for oth- er considerations. The idea is held out that Mr. Cleveland is afraid of what Con- gress might do about the matter if he per- mitted another issue of bonds during the rec ‘Fhis is probably based on a mi: apprehension as to the situation. Mr. Resd will ke Speaker of the next House, unless scmething extraordinary happens between row and the first Monday in December. He will have about everything to say as to the policy of the majority in the House. While not indorsing the syndicate idea, Mr. Reed voted for and spoke in favor of the proposition to issue gold bonds, and from the nature of his surroundings he i: opposed to having the republican part take the responsibility for any action ex- citive of financial agitation. Those people who indorse Mr. Cleveland's bond transac- tions are chiefly the bankers and holders of both parties, and in the east most of them are probably republican. No Adverse Action in the Next House. Whereas they may place the responsibility for the condition that makes the bond issues seemingly necessary, they take ground against any qvestioning of author- ity to do that which appears to them tm- proving to the financial conditions under the circumstances. This influence was credited with leading Mr. Reed to take the position he did during the last session, and it is probable that the President feels that he can rely on it to protect him against any action by the next House adverse to him on account of his proceeding along the same line of policy which he has been fol- lowing up to this time. He probably has very little apprehension on that score, cal- culating that the silver men, chielly of his own party, will be the first to attack him, and that the “sound money’ republicans cannot join in the attack without associat- ing themselves with that element, and being classed with the “disturbers of the financial tranquility of the countr; OFFICIAL INFORMATION. A Dispateh Received at the Chinese Legation Today. The following cablegram signed by the Chinese foreign office, the Tsung Li Yamen, was received at the Chinese legation toaay: “No Americans were injured in the recent riots, though several English were. Five of the rioters have been arreste.” This is the first official information which has been received by the legation concern- ing the recent riots, and the fact that noth- ing was sent until information of the arrest of some of the rioters could be reported, is taken at the legation to mean that the Chinese government is anxious to have the outside world understand that China is ex- erting her utmost endeavors to punish tnose who participated in the assaults upon the missionaries. The o,ficials of the legation maintain strenuously that the Chinese government ill exhaust every effort to bring the guilty to justice. ‘They controvert in strong terms the assertion that the matter will be left to a partial commission. While admitting freely that prejudice exists among some of the lower classes of the Chinese against foreigners, they contend that the wealthier and better educated do not share this feeling. ‘The legation officials also refuse to ac- cept the statement that the officials of the provinces in which the rioting occurred were implicated in the disturbances. They admit the possibility of negligence, hut not of culpability on the part of the officials. ‘They also direct attention to the recent decree of the emperor for the protection and liberal treatment of missionaries from foreign countries as preof of the abs2nce of antagonistic feeling to this class of for- eigners. —_+0+_____ MANY NAVAL MATTERS. Cases Thut Have Been Before the President 2 Long Time. Many questions of interest to the per- sonnel of the navy are awaiting settlement by the President, and inasmuch as they were submitted to him nearly two months ago and still remain unsettled the officers directly affected are becoming somewhat concerned as to the cause of the delay. In- cluded in the list are the records of ex- amining boards in the case of twenty-five officers scheduled for promotion and several court-martial cases, the final disposition of which rests with the President. The prin- cipal promotion cases now before the chief executive are those of Capt. Howell, Com- mander Ludlow and Lieut. Commander Coggeswell. There were majority and mi- nority reports in each of these cases, but in each instance the majority report was fa- vorable to the promotion of the officer. Promotions all along the line are barred by reason of the failure to act in these three cases. The case of Medical Director Kersh- ner, convicted by court-martial of unpro- fessional conduct and sentenced to dis- missal, also awaits the action of the Pres- ident. ‘It is understood that the Secretary of the Navy has recommended a mitiga- tion of the sentence in the case of Dr. Kershner on account of his excellent record during and since the war. It is expected that the President will find time to dispose of all these naval cases in a few weeks, and certainly before his return to Washington in October next. ———————— THE MORA CLAIM It Will Be Patd Without Interest in September. MADRID, August 13—At a meeting of the cabinet ministers today it was decided to pay the Mora claim, in a lump sum, in September, without interest. The Commissioners Stop the Cases Against the Eckington Road. 4m Action Rased en Judge Cole's Opinion—Waiting to Hear From President Newbold. All prosecutions in the Police Court against the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home Railroad Company for obstructing the streets, by continuing the overhead trolley, contrary tc law, have been ordered to cease. This was authoritatively stated today. There are some twenty or thirty cases pending, which were continued by the court. These will all be nolle prossed, and nothing more in the shape of prosecution will be permitted for some time to come. This action is believed to be due mainly to some things said by Judge Cole in his opinion given in denying the writ of habeas corpus in the trolley case. Judge Cole's Opinion. In closing his opinion, Judge Cole said: “The ordinance being valid, it follows that the Police Court had jurisdiction of the case. There is no claim that the pen- alty imposed is not in accordance with the ordinance and the law. The question of whether the petitioner was, in the light of the facts stated in the petition, guilty of a violation of the ordinance was one which the law submits exclusively to the judg- ment of that court, and even were I of opinion that that court had erred in find- ing the facts or in construing the ordi- nance, this court could not for that reason discharge the prisoner. The object, of course, of the prosecution in the Police Court, or any other similar prosecution which may follow it, is to enforce the re- moval of the poles and electric wires. As- suming that the poles are illegally there, which questicn I believe is pending in the Court of Appeals, they should, of course, be removed as early as that may reajon- ably be done without unnecessary injury to private property or inconvenience to citizens who use the road as a means of travel. “The immeiiate or hasty removal of them would of necessity result in both, which, of course, ought to be avoided If it properly may be. A change to horse power is the only one that could be made in a brief period, and the legislation of Congress in recent years indicates that that body in- tends to abolish that means of propelling street ears in the District at an early day, as well as overhead wires. A change to horse power would therefore in all probabili- ty be only temporary. Whether the con- tinuance of the poles and wires in their present position until the question pend- ing in the Court of Appeals can be de- termined, or until such time as they can be removed without irreparable injury to pri- vate property and inconvenience of the cit- izens, is such a public grievance as to re- quire or justify the Commissioners in con- tinuing prosecutions like the o: sideration, in order to force their immediate removal, 1s a question in the control of the Sioners, and which adire: itself 1 nt and will undoubtedly exerc with a view to the best inter people of the District. “Over that discretion this court has no control in a hzbeas corpus proceeding. It follows that the writ of habeas corpus a and the petitioner re: iy of the intendant of m."* construed by those that nothing further mest be dismis: manded to the This cpinion in authority to mean should be done until matter is finally disposed of, Several a it is u siood, the prosecuting a Court applied to his nst the company ns to proceeding aga for its con ful occupancy of the streets. ‘med of the de- cs no further steps in t s until otherwise ordered. Looking for a Letter. expected that Commis- sive some letter from the ng forth S do. what the company prepc to ¢ are all familiar with the ows < printed in Ti dent Newbold, a the 5 set regard. Up tot r Yesterd he John Ridout, ¢ ers, and it may ing in black and white, tion of the com; nttorney for the rox lied upon the -‘ommi. be that he brought word from the compan. He declined to be in- terviewed by 1 Star reporter, and the Commissioners would say nothing. Protest From the Catholic Universit The vice rector of the Catholic Unt has submitted a letter to the Co ers, protesting against the remo trolley poles and wires of the road, until that company has had an oy portunity to obtain from Congress author- ity to issue bonds, in order to substitute some other means of rapid transit. He claims that the public convenience does not warrant interruption with the street railway system to and from Brookiand, and the university would be especially in- convenienced. Bishop Keane joined the vice rector in the appeal, and says he hopes the Com- missioners will not remove the troiley wires and poles~until the company has had a reasonable time to make the change. LOCAL RACING. Intense Heat on the Island, but Good Attendance. The heat at Alexander Island today was something intense, but a cool northwest wind made the day very pleasant. The card for today was a good one, the feature of which was the sixth race, owners’ handi- cap, which brought out five cracks. The track was dry and fast; attendance, good. Five books were on. First race, one-half mile, maidens, two- year-olds—Dollie (Scanlon), 50 to 1, first; Inheritance (Yetter), 16 to 5, second, Mur- ry (Murphy), 15 to 1, third. Time, 483-4. Tomorrow's St. Asnph Entries. First race, six and a half furlongs,selling— Grey Forest, Little Brana, 110; Lithograph, Keineth, Zamacyaw, Salisbury, Mayor B., Irish Pat, 107; Jimmie James, 97. Second race, four and a half furlongs, selling, two-year-olds—Uallie, Gay, Cadiz, 99; Dutch Girl, Hera, 96; Lady Watson, ‘3. Third race, six and a half furlongs, sell- ing—Lento, Vagibond, Philadelphia, Red Star, Eddie M., 1%; Wyoming, Moderate, Sentinel, Second, Gayety, 102; Son Malheur, Hazel, Belle of Fermoy, 100. Fourth race, one mile and a ixteenth, selling—Juggler, 114; Lotion, 1 Selah, Cadet, 99; Sandstone, r Rae, 98; Joe Mack, Renaissance, g3—Bonnieville, Cy Fifth race, four furl Inter Ocean, Cooper, Tolosa, Noble Duk Eva's Kid, 127; Crown, Dr. Faust, Benefactor, 125; Bob Miller, Jack Barry, Redowac, Sixth race, five furlon; selling—Manola, 105; Herndon Morissey, Marie Lovell, Tennyson, 95; Ambraw, 92; Catechism, 90. —— Capt. Taylor's Family IH. A dispatch from Newport, R. L,, dated yesterday, says: The family of Capt. H. C. Taylor, U. S. president of the War College, are all in bed ill from something they ate for dinner fon Saturday night. They include Mrs. Tay- lor and two daughters. A guest, J. D. Mc- Carty of Baltimore, partook of the same meal and is also iil. All were taken violent- ly sick soon after dinner. They were soon relieved, and today were materially better. Capt. Taylor is a Washingtonian, and he and his family are well known here. —— The Charge Against Editor Boyer. The charge of criminal libel made in a warrant against A. J. Boyer, editor and publisher of the United American, will, it was arranged today, be heard in the Police Court Thursday, when Mr. Boyer will ap- pear in court. Mr. Cornelius D. Kenny, the tea merch- ant, whom, according to the charge, the article was intended to injure, is in Balti- more, as are other witnesses. It is under- stood they will probably come aere Yhurs- day, when the case will be tried. ———— Quiet at Winston. WINSTON, N. C., August 13.—Everything is quiet here today. There was no indica- tion last night of a repetition of Sunday night's riots. A REAL SURPRISE Proposed Sale of a Big Slice of W. and @. BR. R, Stock, THE BARTOL INTEREST AT AUCTION How the Announcement is Regard- ed in This City. THE GOSSIP OF THE DAY The announcement of the sale by auction in New York next Tuesday of the stock, bonds and privileges of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company owned by the estate of the late B. H. Bartol of Phila- deiphia caused a big flurry in local finan- cial circles today. The Bartol interest in the railroad is one of the most important, and comprises the largest individual owner- ship of the stock of the concern. It con- sists of 525 shares, or a little over one- twentieth of the entire capital stock of the corporation. In addition, there are $183,500 of Washington and Geergetown first mort- gage 6 per cent convertible bonds, due 1899-1929; $250 second mortgage script Washingtcn and Georgetown Railroad Com- pany, and the privilege to subscribe to an allotment of $26,250 of the proposed new issue of $500,000 mortgage bonds. The trustees under the will of the late Mr. Bartol are Mr. Harry W. Bartol, Mr. Ellis D. Williams and the Land Title and ‘Trust Company of Philadelphia, and it is BS eee direction that the sale is to be eld. Opposed to the Management. It has been well known for some time that Mr. Harry Bartol and his associates have been oppcsed to the policy of the pres- ent management of the Washington and Georgetown road. It is freely slated in financial circles that they did not approve of the proposition recently detailed in The Star by which the Chevy Chase and the Washington and Georgetown railroad com- panies are to be merged into one under the liu of the Capital Traction Company, with apital of $12,000,000, the stock represent- ing which shali be used to remunerate the present shareholders of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company and to convert the outstanding bonds of that cor- poration into stock. it is believed to be the intention, therefore, of the Bartol in- terest to place their holdings on the market in order to make the adherents of the bond ition show their hands. holdings of Washington and George! nm shares and bonds have een sold in the past day or two in this city at what is understood to be prices tar in advance of their quoted value. The fig- ures obtained for the very large block cf the securities held by the Bartol estate are expected to be significant, and the occasion will be looked for with much interest by lucal as well as by railroad capitalists sen- erally throughout the country. The Proposcd Consolidation, Since the proposition was made to utilize the amended charter of the Chevy Chase Company as a means of consolidating that company with the Washington and George- town, and primarily obtaining the object long desired of converting the bonds of the Washington and Georgetown Company. into stock of a more stable and permsnent value, considerable objection is said to oped to it among miror stockholders, and some of the most con- servative men-in local fir 2s in- 2 ment al- made between Pres! nlop and ident Newlands of the two companies rned may not be ratified on the li laid out. he argument is made that the equi ef no single share of the original capital stock of the Washington and Georgetown railroad ean be disturbed cr affected with out the full consent of its owr i sal atlemen o e some Wi sk for le: Pre hin 1 in rference ton and » of the Washi pany to the Chevy Chase Cempary is ait emplated These stockholders, both actval and p: the ground that at sents one-ten-thou- pective, it is sald, ta yresent. each share th of the absolute ownership of a property abundanUy able to y its obliga- tions when they ome duc, and whi promises to prosper abundantly gees on. It is claimed that the inci the stock of the new company be in reality the present -V Georgetown corporation, under the of the Capital Traction Company, to § 000,000, will reduce the ratio of an original shares’ ownership in the corporat svch an extent that its value real, tive and prospective, will be materially in- jured The gentlemen who are promoting the proposed consolidation and the resultant conversion of Washington and George- town bonds into stock of the new traction company declare that when the time comes there will be an unanimity of approval on the part of the owners of the road, and tat the present opposition to the declared policy of the corperation will die out be- fore the final steps leading to the actual formation of the Capital Traction Com- pany are taken. ————— DISTRICT GOVER) MENT. Today's Orders. The Commissioners today ordered: That about two hundred and fifty feet of pipe sewer in Sherman avenue, leading from Gartield Hospital, be reconstructed; esti- mated cost, $300, chargeable to appropria- tion for Sherman avenue. That a catch basin be constructed at the northwest corner of h and Seaton streets; estimated cost, $75, chargeable to current appropriation for main and pipe sewers. That the public well at the southwest corner of 4th and I streets northeast be filled and abandoned; estimated cost, $15. That D street between Lith and 15th streets northwest be paved, under appro- priations for improvements and repairs, 1890. That 410 feet of 21-inch sewer and two manholes be constructed in B street south- east between 15th and 10th streets; esti- mated cost, $1, 60, chargeable to current appropriation for main and pipe sewer: That fifty feet of twelve-inch sew be constructed across 13th street northeast from the present fifteen-inch sewer as an outlet for the sewer proposed to be constructed atong the west side of 13th street; estimated cost, includmg the erection of two menholes, $147, chargeaole to cutrent appropriation for main and pipe sewers. ‘That a catch basin be constructed at the northwest corner of Sth street and Penn- syivania avenue northwest; estimated cost $80, chargeable to improvements of streets. That a cement sidewalk be laid in front of lot 3, block 32, Columbia Heights, under the provisions of the permit system, at an estimated cost of $46.54. ‘That 170 feet of twelve-inch and ten-inch sewer and one manhole be constructed in the west side of New Hampshire avenue, and of 17th street northwest between Ore- gon avenue and T street, chargeable to current appropriation for main and pipe sewers. That a cement sidewalk be laid in the east side of Connecticut avenue between R and S streets, under the provisions of the permit system. All on Duty. All of the Commissioners were on duty today and when the afternoon session of the beard was called ail responded. Transferred to the Fire Department. E. B. Hesse, employed as clerk in the police department, has been appointed a clerk in the District fire department in place of Mr. H. F. Ash. —_—~_—_ An Inquest This Afternoon. Coroner Glazebrook will hold an inquest this afternoon upon the body of Sarah Sturdivant, the little child that was kilied by falling from a window at the Children’s Hospital yesterday. The Corcoran Estate. The sixth account of William C. Hill, sur- viving executor of the estate of the late W. W. Corcoran, has been approved and bassed by the Probate Court. WITH The Thermometer Renews Its Reprehen- sible Desire to Climb. There is Not So Much Suffering From the Heat, However, for Various Well-Known Causes, Poets and philosophers and lots of other people who do not aspire to such exalted positions have agreed for a good many gen- erations that woman is the synonym for fickleness. In this neighborhood, however, persons who might have their attention called to the subject would heartily agree that when it came to being fickle the weather could give lovely woman a sub- stantial lead and distance her easily in the race. Yesterday the mercury displayed a charming and applaudable tendency to withhold its ambitious ardor and restrain itself somewhere within the limits of dis- cretion. Of course, it bordered on to the unconventional, but in view of its wild crgies of the day before, this could not be regarded as sufficiently meretricious to be a subject for critical assault. Today, how- ever, it forgot itself again, and there’s no telling what awful antics it will be guilty of in the next forty-eight hours. The maximum reached today at the weather bureau up to 2:15 o'clock was 90 degrees, but the clouds that flitted across the sun with pleasant frequency, and the steady breeze that blew under them, did not cause this high temperature to be as disagreeable as it is usually in this climate. This was because the sensible temperature was not us high as it was yesterday. That's a sort of paradox that ought to be ex- plained. Sensible temperature is that which the human body really experiences. It is possible for a thermometer to show an air temperature of 100 degrees, while the sensible temperature of the person breathing it would not be more than 7 This occurs in a dry atmosphere where the moisture from a hot body is immediately taken up by the process of evaporation. The dryer the air the mere rapid the evap- oration, and the greater the evaporation gets the less becomes the sensible tempera- ture. Everybody perspires. The pores of some people do not exude moisture as copiously as others, and what does come forth is evaporated at once and leaves no sign, but everybody perspires, no matter how smooth and dry their brows may be nor how faithfully their collars keep their native hue and resolution, if those qualities are permissible in stuff that goes to a laundry. Today was dryer and evaporation was more rapid. Tomorrow will be hot—hotter than today, and the next day promises to behave itself no bet- ter, Loose garments, especially for women and children, as little exertion as possible, a careful abstention trom too many ‘iced drinks, but a frequent draught of clear, pure water; no overindulgence at meals,and an even temper—especially that—will be good things to remember by those who would bear the solstice most comfortably. —— JUSTICE JACKSON'S SUCCESSOR. consequently A Belief That He Will Be Ex-Post- master General Bissell. It is said that President Cleveland has already selected the successor to Justice Jackson and that he is a man connected with the cabinet. The belief is that it is ex-Postmaster General Bissell, but no one who will tell knows for certain, Mr. Car- lisle is always regarded as a possibility, and so is Secretary Hoke Smith, who is fresher from actual pfactice of the law than any one eise in the cabinet except Secretary Olney. The belief holds, how- that the President wants to appoint w York man, and that probably means TALKED TO PROCTOR. Commissioner Truesdell Sent for Him After Office Hours. ‘There is every reason to expect a settle- ment of the Proctor case this week. Yes- terday afternoon after the District offices closed, ft is understood, Commissioner Truesdell sent for Detective Proctor. When that officer arrived, it is understood, Com- missioner Truesdell went over -ertain points of the testimony taken before the police trial board when Mr. Proctor was tried, and asked several questions, for the purpose of enlightening himself.’ It said today that Proctor would be reduce although Commissioner Truesdell refused to discuss the case. ere age ac WELL TREATED ABROAD, Mr. Dwyer Discusses His Turf Experi- cnecs. NEW YORK, August 13.—Michael F. Dwyer was among the passengers who ar- rivel on the North German Liloyd steam- ship Fulda this morning. Beyond stating that his return did not signify a complete withdrawal from English racing, the turf- man did not care to discuss his plans at length. It is believed he will leave for Eu- rope again early in the fall. Mr. Dwyer said that he enjoyed his trip abroad exceedingly. He was asked when Mr. Croker woull return. He replied that Mr. Croker would leave the other side in about a month. He had, he said, secured passage on one of the American line steam- skips and would arrive here about the mid- dle of September. Mr. Dwyer said that he and Mr. Croker had been treated with great consideration by every one while in England, and, taking ito account the condition of their jorses, he thought they had done very well. While the stable had not been quite as successful as he had hoped, he did not hesitate to send entries to the English races again, The English system of racing does not differ greatly from ours, he said, and he thought it had many admirable features. He said that the English horse owners and turfmen generally are anxious to have American competitors on the English tracks. —__. Bequests Made by Charles A. Beavans. ‘The late Charles A. Beavans, by his will, made June 22, 1892, and filed for probate today, beaucathed $500 to the Little Sis- ters of the Poor; $900 to St. Joseph’s Male Orphan Asylum; $00 to Rev. S. F. Ryan, pastor of the Immaculate Conception Church, to be applied toward the support of the church or the schools connected with it, as he may elect, and $300 to the pastor of St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church in Libertytown, Frederick county, Md., to be applied tcward keeping a family burial 1ét in proper condition. The greater portion of the remainder of the property of the deceased, including houses 612, 614 and 616 G street’ northwest, is left to his daughter, Mary Corinne Beavans, who is named as executor. A number of others are also remembered by generous bequests. ———— Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, Ma. Flour dull, un- aki shipments, 7,433 steady—Spot ‘and September, 69%269%; December, No. 2 red! 65% a06—Leceipts, 36,- shipments, 104.00) bushels; stock, S60, 25 bushels; sales, 82,000 bushels; sou’ wheat ‘9a71; do on grade, O71 mn unset month, 4414 bid: Septembe asked —Ie- mshels; jet and weak 2 mixed, and st Choice timot ctive and firiner, Butter and Cheese tirm, une! Grain and Cotton Markets. Cotton and grain markets, reported by W. B. Hibbs, stuck, grain and cotton broker, 1421 F st. GRAIN. Open. High. Low. Close. G4 67 thy tka Wheat—Sept. De US AGAINIFINANCE AND TRADE Speculation Quiet, Prices Generally Lower. IMPROVEMENT IN WHISKY TRUS? After | O'Clock Stocks Advanced Somewhat. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star, NEW YORK, August 13.—The stock mar- Ket opened quiet and generally lower. To- bacco at 10:15 was off 1 per cent, but the recessions in the rest of the lst were mere- ly fractional. Atchison was 151-2, Sugar 1147-8, Gen- eral Electric 37, Burlington 901-8; Rock Island 75 3-4, St. Paul 71, Northwest 101 3-8, Louisville 80 3-4. Money on call easy at 1 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 3 1-4a43-4 per cent. Ster- ling exchange strong, with actual business in bankers’ bills at 490 1-2a4903-4 for de- mand, and at 489 1-2a489 3-4 for sixty days; posted rates, 496a491; commercial bills, 488 3-4, Silver certificates, 67a67 1-4; ro sales. Bar silver, 66 3-4. Mexican dollars, 53 1-4. Gov- ernment bonds steady. New 4's, registered, 121 3-4; coupon, 121 3- 5's, registered, 1 ccupon, 115; 4’s, registered, 112; coupon, 112 1-4; 2's, registered, 96 1-2; Pacific 6's of 1899, 100 bid. Distilling was in request after 10: and showed an improvement of 1 per cent. The general list at 11 a.m. was quiet and steady. The market was irregular after 11 a.m. on a narrow range of prices. Tobacco and New Jersey Central advanced 3-4, and some other shares a smaller fraction, but later reaction set in. Lake Erie and Western preferred sold off 11-4, and Missouri Pacific 1 per cent, the latter recovering 3-4. The market at noon was steady. Sales to noon, 64,700 shares, including 62,700 listed and 6,000 unlisted. At 1 p.m. stocks were ruling higher, with the appreciations slight. At 2 p.m. speculation was dull and unin- teresting, save for a jump to 1051-4 in New Jersey Central. This figure was 2 per cent above the final sale of yesterday and the highest price attained this year. oe FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, The follwing are the opening, the high- est and the :owest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today, as re- ported by Gorson & Macartney, members New Yor stock exchange. Correspondents Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Broadway. Open. Stocks. American sug: American Sugar, Pid. American Tobacco. American Cotton Ou, ‘Atchison. Canada Southern: Canada Pacific. "~ Chesapeake & Ohio. Chicago. 3 Chic. & Northwesiert Chicago Gas. C.M. & St. Pi C. M. & St. Pau', Pfd. Chic, RT. & Pacific Del. & W.. Delaware & Hudson... rande. Pfd. E Feeding.- General Electric Minols_ Central.- Lake Shore. Erie .. Louisville & Long Island ‘Traction Metropolitan ‘iraction.. Manhattan Flevated Michigan Central. sour Pacific. iona! Lead Co. tional Lead Co., S. Leathe ew Jersey Central w York Central... ¥.&N. Eng Cis ¥.C. & St. Louis High. Low. Last. 11433 114 North American! . cnt. & Western. Pacific Mail. Phila. & Reading. Pullman Pal. Car Co... Southern Railway, Pfa Phila. Traction. Texas Pacific. Tenn. Coal & I Union Pacific. Wabash. Wabash, Pfd. Wheeling & L. Wheeling & [. Erie,Pfd. Western Union Tel. Wisconsin Central Silver ....... Washington Stock Exchange. pdtlee—regular call—12 o'clock m.—W. and G. B. cony. 6's Ist.; $2,000 at 160. ernment Bonds.—U. S. 4's, registered, 112 bid, asked. U coupin, 112%, bid, 112% asked. 4's, 121° hid. 5's, 114 bi District of Columiia Bonds.—20-year fund 5s, 108 bid. 30-year fand 6s, gold, 112 bid. Water stock 7s, 1901, currency, 115 bid. Water stock 7s, 1903, currency, 116 bid. 3.658, funding, currency, 110 bid, 3*s, rezistered, 2-105, 100 bid. Miscellaneous Bonds.—Washington and_ George town Rallroad conv. 6a, 1st, 150 bid, 275 asked. corgetown Railroad conv. Gs. 2d, 150 bid. 173 asked. Metropolitan Ratlroad conv. Gs, 108 bid, 110 asked. Belt Railroad Ss, 84 bid, Xt asked. Eckinzton Railroad Gs, 102% bid, 105 asked. Columbia Railrvad Gs, 110% bid, 112%4 asked. W: ingion Gas Company Gs, series A, 113 bid. W: ington Gas Company 6s, serfes B, 114 bid. Wash- ingten Gas my conv. Ga, 125 bid. 135 asked. U.S. Electrie Light Company conv. 5s, 125 bid. Chesapeake’ and Potomac Telephone 5s," 98 bid. American Security and Trus' . F. and A., 100 Lid. American Securliy and Trust 3s, A. and O., 100 bid. Washington Market Company Ist 6s, 110 bid. Washington Market Company Imp. 6s,’ 110 bid. Washington Market Company ext. 63, 106 bid. Ma- sonie Hall Association Ss, 100 bid. Washingtos Light Infantry Ist 63, 100’ bid. National Bank Stocks.—Rank of Washington, 250 bid, 300 asked. Bank of Republic, 250 bid. Metro- politan, 285 bid, 310 asked. Central, 270 bid. ‘armers and Mechanics’, 170 bid. Secouwl, 135 bid. Citixens, 120 bid. Columbia, 130 bid, 139 asked. Capital, 113 bid.” West End, 105 bid. ‘Traders’, 10% bid, 105 asked. Lincols, 100 bid. Ohio, &% Did, 86 asked. Safe Deposit and Trust Compantes.—National Safe Deposit and Trust, 130 bid, i30 asked. Washing- ton Loan and Trust, 122 bid, 125 asked. Americon Security and Trust, 138 bid, 142 asked. 4 Railroad Stocks.—Washington and "Georzetown, 277 bid, 300 asked. Metropolitan, 99 bid, 93 asked. Belt, 30 asked. Eckington, 35, asked. Gas and Electrie Light Stocks. —Washington Gas, 50% bid. Georgetown Gas, 50 bid. U. 8. Electric Light, 132 Md, 134 asked. Tastiranee Stocks.—¥iremen’s, 37 bid. Frark!in, 40 bid. Metropolitan, 70 b1d, ‘90 asked. Corcoran, 50 bid. Potomac, 68d. Arlineton, 140 bid. Ger- man-Ameriean, 165 bid, 300 asked. National Union, 10 bid. Colnmbia, 12 M4. Riggs, 7 bid. People’s, 51g hid, 5% asked. Linculn, $ bid, $14 asked. Com- merrial, 414 bid. Title Insurance Stocks.—Real Estate Title, 107 Did, 155 asked. Coiambia ‘Tithe, 7 bid, 8 osked. Washington Title, 8 asked. District Title, 10 bid. Telephone _S —Pennaytvania, 38 bid. Chesa- ake and Potomac, 53 bid, @) ‘asked. Ainerican Graphophone, 3 hid, 5 asked. Pneumatic Gun Car 27 bid, .28 asker. Miscellaneous Stocks. —Washingon Market, 14 bid. Great Falls Ice, 139 bid, 140 asked. Bull Rum Panorama, 30 asked. Lincoln Hall, 70 bid. Mer ganthaler Linotype, 180 bid, a A New Story Tomorrow. In today’s Star ts printed the last in- stallment of the story “Missing From the 6:54 Express,” which has appeared daily, beginning last Saturday. This story is one in the detective series which has proved so popular to the readers of The Star. To- morrow another story in this series will be begun. It {s called “The Assassin,” and is from the pen of Richard Marsh. The last installment of ‘‘The Assassin" will be pub- lished in The Star Friday. On Saturday the publication of another story wiil be be- gun, to be continued dally, due notice of which will be given. a ee Government Receipts. National bank notes received today for redemption, $224,866. Government receipts— From internal reverue, $253,573; customs, $406,296; miscellaneous, $26,612. - Peter Browning Acquitted. Peter S. Browning, who was arrested on complaint of B. F. Engle on a charge of embezzlement, was acquitted in the Police Court this afternoon. ——— The Animal Extract Cases. Arguments In the sult in equity of the Columbia Chemical Company against Dr. William A. Hammond, involving the manu- facture of certain animal extracts, whic were begun yesterday before Judge Cole, occupied the entire session of the Equity Court today. ri