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2 THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. LATE NEWS BY WIRE The Reason For Advertising. EDUCATIONAL WORK ee om AFAR Suspected Filibusters on Trial at Wilmington. STATE WANTED A FOSTPONEMENT The Court Denied the Applica- tion. — - + DRAWING OF THE JURY ——— WILMINGTON, Del., September 18.—The twenty Cuban filibusters recently arrested near here were placed on trial today in the United States circuit court before Judge Wales. When court was opened District Attorney Vandegrift asked for a postpone- ment, claiming that the government was awaiting some important evidence which cculd not get here until next Wednesday. Counsel for the prisoners opposed any Ppestponement. saying his clients were held under the charge of crime, and should haye speedy trial. y Judge Wales said: “The general rule in charge of a mis- demeanor of felony :s that the defendant is entitled to a speedy trial. This motion for a postponement is based on unsatisfac- tery grounds. There has been considerable time lost. These Cubans are supposed to be innocent. They are strangers, I under- stard, and, of course, must be under great expense. I do not think the circumstances m the case will warrant a postponement. If such evidence exists in Cuba we have the command of the telegraph. It is In the hands of the Spanish government. I do not feel warranted in granting the motion of the district attorney to continue this case.” When Judge Wales announced his decision a smile of satisfaction passed over the faces of the Cubans. Counsel for the defense filed a demurrer to several counts in the indictment, on the ground that the bill did not state suffi- ciently against what country the alleged exposition was go!ng. Mr. Vandegrift agreed with the counsel for the defense in regard to the fault in section 29 of the indictment. He denied the other alleged faults in the bill, and cited authorities to support his contention, that it was not necessary to place in the indict- Ments the particular country or power against which the supposed expedition was directed. Senator Gray stated that the government objected to throwing out nine of the counts, although there would still be thirty left. ‘The indictments said that these men have committed a crime, and they are entitled to know what is that crime. They are en- titled to know what charge they are to meet. Judge Wales said these counts may be eliminated from tre indictments, and there are others. He thought there was a want of certainty in the indictments. ‘The charge that the prisoners set on foot a military expedition is sufficient to hold them for trial. The other counts are too indefinite, and the demurrer was sus- tained. A trial jury was then drawn, after which court adjourned until 2:39 o'clock this af- ternoon. - —__ TREASURER SHEPARD RETIRES. The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Oda Fellows Surprised. ATLANTIC CITY, N. At this morning's session of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, Independent Order of Odi Fellows, an invitation was vead from the Philadelphia lodges asking the officers and representatives to visit Philadelphia on their way home from the convention and Inspect the new Odd Fellows’ Hall in chat city. The invitation was accepted. A resolution was introduced to revise the ritual of the Patriarchs Militant. This was referred to a committee. A resolution was also introduced to amend the insurance law of the order. This was also referred to the proper committee. The following special committee was ap- peinted to take action in regard to the purchase of property in Baltimore, Md., for the use of the sovereign grand secretary: James Young end John M. Jones, Mary- jand; W. W. Morris, Kentucky; M. Rich- ards Muckle, Philadelphia; Alfred S. Pink- erton, Massachusetts; Gen. A. C. Cable, Ohio, and T. T. Parson, Missouri. After this had been done great surprise was occasioned by receiving the resignation of Sovereign Grand Treasurer Issac A. Shepard of Philadelphia. In his letter of resignation the grand treasurer said that “In consequence of failing health I am con- strained to tender to you my resignation of the office of grand treasurer, to take effect on the quulification of my successor.” The grand sire said it was with great sor- row that the resignation had been received. He appointed Gen. Cable, Wm. Morris and A. S. Pinkerton a special committee to con- sider the resignation and report to the Sovereign Grand Lodge. The committee re- ported that it was with unfeigned reluc- tancé that the valuable services of the grand treasurer must be dispensed with. The report was received and the resigna- tion was accepted by a standing vote. M. Richaris Muckle of Philade!phia was nominated for the vacancy. There was no josition, and he was unanimously He will be installed on Friday. ———— TERRITORY FOR THE POPE. Negotiations Between the Vatican and the Quirinal. LONDON, Septeraber 18.—Discussing the revival of the rumor that Italy may be induced to sell @ small territory to the pope, a Paris correspendent telegraphs t the profect, for the pope's ransom escribed by the Catholic world, which is d as “a noble American ccnceit,” cret in the cal ts of Europe, whi Leen in poss ion of the details of the plan. it embodies in addition to the establish- ment cf the papacy in-a principality with its own seaport certain n privileges and the restoration of confiscated church property. Negotiations are suid to be pro- &ressing between the vatican and the Quirinal. —_—.__ HIS STEAM YACHT READY. The British Minister at Constantino- ple Awalting Dispatches. LONDON, September 18.—A dispatch to the Chronicle frem Constantinople says that the British minister's yacht has been under steam for the last.twenty-four hours awaiting dispatches for the fleet. G @pprehension is felt among the Ti A Prominent Texan Found Dend. FORT WORTH, Tex., September 18.—Geo. 8. Burchill, aged fifty-four, was found dead in a buggy this morning. He was prom- nent in the republican party and one of the best-known men in the state. SHED LTEARS AT PARTING. Mt. Pleasant Drum Corps Well Treated at Louisville. The Louisville Post has the following Sant paragraph of the visit of the Mt. ant Drum Corps to the G. A. R. en- ent: rat The many members of the Mount ant Drum Corps of V ton were io find lodging, and t mbers of ‘Truck Company their y to the boys during the encamp- None of the b over seven- jes and drums t to many of the he parade. The ne ilvem way, u's hospital- nd vy ins- y to see them urday m: und the b played a fx : shal frg hands for thelr h rl marched | t f ceptibie effort on the part of so: to t : Advertisers use The Star because they get ble results from their ig in it. They know, also, that each one pays a like price for a like service. Advertising space is not iven to one house in order fhat it may act as a decoy duck for others. No “discount” for one, discount” for an- er and “extra special discount” for still another. Like price for like service is the only fair way. 1T WAS A LIVELY SESSION. 6 Row in the Republican County Com- mittee Meeting at Chicazo. CHICAGO, September 18.—A meeting of the republican county central committee was held at the Great Northern Hotel last evening for the purpose of choosing a chairman. For some time there has been friction between the politicians supporting the administration of Mayor George B. Swift and others who are wgainst him. In- cidental to the work of choosing the chair- man, it was intended that the factions shculd “get together” in harmony. They got together all right, but not after the fashion outlined in the program. There were fights without number, broken heads and bleody noses, ahd the meeting gen- eraliy was characterized by the wildest disorder. The first fight of the evening occurred when Deputy Sheriff William Goodwin of the anti-Swift faction attempted to force his way into the room against the wishes of “Buck” McCarthy, a Swift man. Mc- Carthy landed on Goodwin's nose, broke it in two places, dashed out five of Goodwin's teeth, and knocked him senseless to the ficor. The deputy sheriff was picked up end carried away by his friends. , Detective Sergeant Gard, who was in the recm, made an attempt to control the ac- tions of Ccunty Clerk James R. B. Van Cleve, and the second battle of the even- ing was on. Van Cleve objected to the officer’s interference, and promptly re- ceived a crack over the cranium from the officer's stick. This aroused Van Cleve’s friends and a wild rush was made for Gard, one man seizing him by the neck and others by the arms and legs. He was carried bodily from the room, every anti-Swift man within reach taking a gcod hard whack at him. ‘ As Gard was deposited in the hall Alder- man Lammers maneuvered in his rear and planted a vigorous kick. Another rush was then made for Gard and he was thrown bodily out of the hallway, a free fight being in progress while he made his forced exit. s Commissioner of Public Works Kent was standing in the committee room when this fight came off, and the assertion was at once made by the anti-Swift men that he Lad brought the police there to coerce the action of the committee. Loud cries were made of “Throw Kent out,” “Hang him” and “Throw him out the window.” A rush was made in his direction, and being near a doorway, the commissiorer lost no time in making his escape, leaving behind him a fight between his friends, anxious to protect him, and the crowd of anti-Swift men desirous of getting at him. Several more fights between individuals occurred during the meeting, which finally adjourned without result, save for the ap- pointment of a “harmony” committee, which will endeavor to reconcile the two factions. —_--—_ SENATOR VEST STILL FOR SILVER. Repudiates ‘he Interview Alleging Changed Views. NEW Y¥CRK, September 18.—Senator Vest of Missouri was interviewed this morning in regard to his reported change of views on the silver question. He said: “I know absolutely nothing of the pub- lished report. and the alleged conversation never occurred. “Durirg my stay abroad no one approach- ed me on the subject. I have not left the ranks of free coinage advocates, and my adhesion to the princip!es which I have al- ways edvocated is unchanged, notwith- standing the unauthorized report to the contrary. “I firmly believe in the full and unlimited vee of silver against the single gold stan- lard. “I wish it distirctly understood that I have not in the least departed from my prirciples on the silver question, and, real- ly, Lam at a Iess to know how it was that I came to be misrepresented.” CHICAGO, September 18.—The free sil- ver* forces of the United States will be united and headquarters will be establish- ed in Chicago. General A. J. Warner, pres- ident of the National Bimetallic League, will be the president of the consolidated body, and Secretary Edward B. Light of the American Bimetallic Union will occupy a similar position in the new body. This much was agreed upon at the conclusion of the conference of the silver leaders at the Auditorium Hotel last night. Other details of the central consolidated organization will be worked out at the ses- sion this afternoon CYCLONE IN MICHIGAN. Five Lives Said to Have Been Lost. DETROIT, September 18.—Specials to the Evening News tell of a cyclone that passed over a portion of the state last night. At Charlevoix a house was demolished and fences, trees and outhouses scattered pro- miscuously in the path of the wind, which covered but a small area. No one was hurt. Port Austin reports the heaviest storm ever known there. Considerable damage was done to buildings and three lives are said to have been lost by the collapse of a house in Hume township. : At Sand Beach nearly every building was more or less damaged, two houses and twelve barns being entirely destroyed. Near Kinde two children of Richard Tott were killed by falling timbers and three others injured. ee ASCRIBED TO OVERWORK. Sudden Death of One of the Atchison Receivers. NEW YORK, September 18.—James C. Wilson, one of the receivers of the Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, died of heart @ilure at the Holland House today. He had risen late, and was dressing, when | he suddenly became unconscious, and be- fore the medical aid which was summoned arrived he was dead. Mr. Wilson’s two daughters, who accom- panied him to this city when he came here to look after the Atchison system's inter- were at his bedside when he died. is thought his death was due to over- Mr. Wilson was fifty-fve years old and of robust appearance. After the permit for the removal of the body is granted it will be removed to Mr. Wilson's late home tn Topeka, where the burial will take place. THE INDIANAPOLIS F ret Under Centr- eif-Past Nine—Tremendous Lons. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., mber 18.— The fire in the Western Union building was placed under control about 9:30 a.m. rhe irstruments were destroyed and the floor just above was burned away. ire building was water soaked, and any offices were damaged in various The bulldings are totally wrecked and the Eastman, Schleicher & Lee block 1 Indiana Bank building badly damaged. he law office of A. C. Harris, over the anking rooms, contained a library of val- 2 hooks, worth $15,000, which was to- y destroyed, as was everything else in the hullding. The Postal Telegraph building, » rear of the Blackford block, was y damaged by fire and water, but the Placed That of the Y. M0. A. to Be Resumed This Month. Four Large Rooms in the Lenman Building Secured for the Purpose— Courscs of Instruction. At a me-ting of the board of trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association ield Monday afternoon it was decided that work in the educational department should be resumed at once, notwithstanding the recent fire, which destroyed all the appa- ratus and furniture of that branch of the association work. Accordingly, Secretary Pugh has today arranged with the man- ager of the Lerman building, where the as- seciation is now temporarily quartered, for the rental of four large rooms on the floor first above the street, adjoining the three rooms that are used for the office and re- ligious work of the Y. M. C. A. This cn- terprise will mean an expenditure of up- wards of $2,500 this year alone. Recms Well Suited to the Purpose. The rooms are large and well lighted, and exceptionally well suited to the purpose fcr which they have been secured. One of them in particular is a great Improvement over the quarters assigned to the educa- tional work of the association in the old building. It {s to be used for the class2s in mechanical and architectural drawing, which will be a new feature of the work. Electric lights will be put in the rooms, so that every student will be well provided with illumination, Seats will be provided for nearly one-half more pupils than were accommodated in the old place, so that the fire has really benefited this department. Last year the enrollment was 333, and Sec- retary Pugh expects to start the year with at least 300 students, and believes that he may have to increase the facilities. He says he can take care of about 500. Ten new typewriters will be bought by the association for the business classes. Those formerly used were loaned to the association and were destroyed by the fire. The rooms will be fitted with improved school furniture, double desks and single seats, The rooms are much easier of ven- tiation and illumination than those in the old building, and are exactly as accessible. The Course of Instractio The course of instruction includes com- mercial arithmetic, bookkeeping, penman- ship, stenography, typewriting and English and correspondence in the business depart- ment; algebra and geometry in the scien- tific department, and drawing and vocal music as miscellaneous studies. There will be a corps of seven teachers, practically the same as those who served last year. The classes will be started Monday night, September 30. The Friday evening previous there will be a reunion of the teachers and old pupils. ‘The meeting of business men that was to be held today for the ald of the new building fund has been abandoned, owing to the fact that most of the men interested in the project are still out of town. Such a meeting will be held some time in Oc- tober. —__——.—_—_ THE VIRGINIA HOUSE. Its License Application Still Hangs Fire. There was another hearing this morning before the excise board over the pending application of W. T. Whalen for a bar room license at 310 7th street, the site of the Virginia Hotel. It was thought that the opinion of the attorney for the District settled the matter, and that the excise bowrd would promptly grant the license. It will be recalled that the point at Issue was whether the law relating to the sale ef liquor prevented a hotel within 400 feet of a school or ¢hurch from obtaining a license. Attorney Thomas held, as hereto- fore stated in The Star, that it did not. A new question, however, has been raised, and until the excise board finally settles it there will be no final action in the case. The law, as stated by the attorney, refers to established hotels, and the question raised is whether the Virginia is an estab- lished hotel. The applicant and his attor- ney, Mr. Madigan, claim that it is, and, all requirements having been complied with, the excise board has nothing further to do but grant the license. When the case was called this morning the applicant filed a brief, setting forth the points heretofore made and praying that the license be granted. Mr. Newton Donaldson, who represents the opposition, argued against the granting of the application, and Attorney Shoemaker of the Anti-saloon League asked for a post- penement of one week to allow the Anti- seloon League to file a brief. No action was taken, and the case went over for further consideration. 2S ONLY ONE POLE. All Dhat Remains of the Eckington ‘Trolley. At the Intersection of Florida avenue and New York avenue one trolley pole stands. All the others within the limits of the city are but a memory. President Newbold is anxious to retain this pole and the switch there, because he thinks it would be of great benefit to the public, in allowing them to transfer from the horse cars to the electric cars direct, without be- ing obliged to cross the street and walk some distance, as they have to do at pres- ent. This morning he appeared before the Commissioners in company with Attorney Ridout, and ed permission to retain role. He also statel that it was the y of the company to make its trunk : run trom Eckington direct to 15th and trects. The Commissioners while reserving their decision intimated that they had no right to allow the company to maintain the pole and it is believed when the written appli- cation is made it will be refused. Ss The Cattle Market. Ninety-five cattle on the market and sold as follows: Best sold from 4 to 4 3-Sc. per pound; good sold from 3 1-2 to 3 3-4c. per pound: medium sold from, 3 to 3 1-ic. per pound; common sold from 2 to 2 3-4c. per pound. Two hundred and twenty-seven sheep and lambs on the market and sold: Old sheep gold from 2 to 2 3-4c. per pound; lambs sold from 3 1-2 to 4 1-2c. per pound; vs, with calves, sold from $25 to $16 Market fair. Sa : For Divorce. Addie L. Kendrick today filed a petition for divorce from Josiah L. Kendrick. The papers in the case were withheld from pub- lication, but it is understood that the par- ties were married in July, 1894, and that the ground of the petition is the alleged cruel- ty of the husband. —<—<—.__ Death of Mrs. Eliznbeth A. Conley. The many friends of Mm Wm. H. Conley will sympathize with him in the loss-of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Conley, who died yesterday at Dangville, N.Y. She will be buried at Woodlawn cemetery, Boston, Mass. Mrs. Conley was well known in this city. co} each. st Took a Bicycle. Detective Horne this afternoon arrested a sixteen-year-old white boy for stealing a bicycle from A. N. Breckinridge, 1407 F street. The boy admitted taking the wheel and was caugnt trying to dispose of it at a G street bicycle sto He is an orphan and in hard luck, and says he took the bicycle because he was hungry and had no other yer of raising enough to buy himself a meal. ee Building Permits. Building permits issued today were as fol- lows: Mary C. Brown, to erect one two- story brick dwelling at 413 R street north- west, to cost $2,500; M. J. Colbert, to erect two two-story brick dwellings at 357 and 259 K street southwest, to cost $3,000; G. F. to erect two two-story brick Williams, dwellings at 911 and 913 9th street south- east, to cost $4,000; John F. Jarvis, to make general repairs to his photograph establish- ment, 135 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, to cost $3,000. A Glimpse at the Temporary Home on : Missouri Avenue. — Yarns Spun by the Veterans— They Come From All Places to Get Their Money. One evening Yast week a Star reporter visited a modest, -old-fashioned house on Missouri avenu¢, 4n front of which, on the carriage steps, and along the tron rail- ing, as well as;ort the porch, were gath- ered groups of men idly talking of the coming day and what it would bring to them. The building was the temporary home for soldiers and sailors, which is conducted by the G. A. R. posts, and the event to which the men looked forward was the quarterly pension day. This had been the cause of their visit to Washing- ton, and some of them had Come several hundred miles. Of course, they could have been paid by mail, but there is a class of rovers who prefer always to be paid in person, and what is more, they want their money as soon after 6 o'clock a.m. as the clerks in the pension agency can hand it out to them. This is the class who meet for a few days ‘every three months at the temporary home. Nearly every section of the country from Florida and Louisiana in the south to Maine and Minnesota in the north was represented. Some had traveled part of the way as bona fide passengers on railway trains, many of them had “freighted it but the majority had used the means of transporta- tion so prudently provided by nature. But now, it mattered not how they came, they were here and quite ready to trans: act the important business which had brought them here. The intervening time they employeg to advantage by relating accounts of their adventures to their com- rades. Up in the room which had served as a parlor when No. 305 Missouri avenue was a private residence, a man from Michigan had the floor and was telling what he thought. would be the outcome of the political conventions next summer. On politics and pensions these men can talk indefinitely, and as one story led to another the interest increased and the audience grew. All Wanted Bigger Pensions. On the pension question, of course, there was great unanimity of belief, and moro than half of those present were at that yery time vigorously prosecuting an appll- cation for an increase. One man had left steady work In Minnesota last January to come here to personally follow up his claim, and he announced that he would stay here until either his pension was in- creased or his claim was rejected beyond appeal. Finally the talk drifted into short sketches of their lives, and for an hour or so the men swapped stories of their tramps over the country, and of the different oc- cupations that had held them for short seasons in various Jocalities. The first speaker was an aged man, who, to all ap- Pearances, was a consumptive. He told hew he had come to Washington last June from Frederick, Md., to collect his pension. He had fallen in with a tough companion, and two days after he had indorsed his check for $5] he was tramping the coun- try without a cent to his name. He had tramped continuously since that time, and seemed et that moment to have a bad case of chills and ‘fever. “Mates” Yarn. His story was similar in many respects to that told by an Irishman from New York. His comrades greeted him as “Matt,” and he seemed to have an ac- quaintance with nearly every one in the m- stitution. For several years he has been a regular inmate of the home for a few days preceding each pension day. Last June he Proposed spending a few days at the capl- tal, after he had fitted himself out with a rew suit of clothes. Accordingly, he had registered atone of the low-rate hotels, and was starting in to have a good time. The first night, however, another guest of the hcuse invited him to his room, and when he left his money was missing. He footed. it back ‘to New York, and in the same manner he traveled to Washington this quarter. The freights, he said, were too fast, and, as he wanted to kill time, he followed the road. The reporter asked him how long $18 usually lasted him, and he replied that, with good luck, it held out for a month, and, to use his own language, “the rest o’ the quarter I bums it.” Seated together on one side of the room were a couple of chaps who in days gone by had been actively connected with news- paper work. One—a tall, well-formed Can- adian—had edited a nautical sheet on the Pacific coast. With a sailor’s love for travel, he had sold out and invested in Florida orange land. The frosts had killed his fruit and he had then gone to Portland, Me., and from Portland to Boston in search of employment such as he preferred. From the hub he had come to Washington, and as soon as he drew his pension he expected to resume his travels in another section of the country. A Sort of Mark Tapley. His companion was a jolly fellow, who did not seen: to let adverse circumstances affect him in the least. He talked inter- estingly of his experiences in the west as a traveling correspondent for one of the principal Chicago dailies, and held the close attention of his audience as he described an occasion when he was present to report a hanging in Indiana and was suddenly depu- tized to assist a weak-kneed sheriff. Finally he took himself off to bed, and gradually the crowd dispersed. Some went upstairs to the sleeping rooms, where cots had been arranged alorfg the side of each wall and in convenient nooks in the hall- ways. By 10 o'clock all the men who were going to sleep at the home were expected to be in. “Lights out” simply meant the extinguishing of one small jet in each room, and from the time the call was sounded until the very early hours of the morning silence reigned. As early as 3 o'clock the march down stairs would begin, and from that time ‘a steady tramp might be heard as the men started out, sometimes alone, but more frequently in groups of two and three, to join the line which had formed the evening before in front of the pension agency, It was then a matter of but an hour or so before their hands would close on some of Uncle Sam's cash, and the ques- tion whether or not life is worth living would present but one side, and that the af- firmative. a Cockades on Servants’ Hats. Ficm the London Truth. “I should be much obliged,” writes an anonymous “J. P.,” “if you would inform me in your next issue whether a justice of the peace is entitled, in virtue of that office, to mount cockades on his servants’ hats?” It always pleases me to be asked questions like this, because it implies that I possess vast stores of knowledge on mat- ters as to Which I am as ignorant as a babe. My impression is that a J. P. is not in that stat2 of direct dependence upon the crown for his livelihood whick was originally implied by the wearing of a cockade. But I dm quite sure that there is nv law whien prevents his adorning Lis servants’ hats-in this way—or, for the mat- ter of that, .his own either; and in that sense, he is certainly “entitied” to do so. But the truth is that a cockade in a ser- vant’s hat aas long ceased to be anything but an emblem of snobbery, and every job master in Londen now sends his coachman out with it—provided the hirer is willing to pay the prascribed charge for that deco- ration. ———_ +e = An Old Question in New Form. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. e Louis Moarey lives on the Montgomery road near Hunt street. So does Mike Nich- olet. Louis owns several chickens, and so does Mike. Some time ago one of Louis’ chickens hopped over into Mike’s yard and laid an egg. Then one of Mike's chickens hopped onto the egg, and the result was as fine a chick as was ever seen on the hill. When Louis saw it he “shooed” it over in his yard, and then Mike “‘shooed” it back again. Then came the argument. Louis claimed the chick because his hen laid the egg, and Mike said it was his because his chicken hatched it out. They talked and talked, and finally they came to blows. They smashed each other, and while roll- ing around the ground Lovis got his thumb between Mike's teeth, and Mike came down with his molars and nearly bit it off. So Louis had him arrested for assault and battery. FREE BATHING BEACH Superintendent Stevens Submits His An- anal Report. Favors the Pool System and Asks a Change of Site—Larger Appropriations. - Superintendent Stevens of the bathing beach yesterday afternoon submitted his annual report to the Commissioners. Dur- ing the bathing season, which only lasted for three months, the beach accommodated 29,100 bathers. But one death from grown- ing occurred during the season. Improve- ments were made during the year cost- ing about $1,300. He refers to the number of lady bathers and says it is a gratifying fact that the number is increasing all the time. Supt. Stevens calls attention to the boat livery adjoining the. beach and says it has become a nuisance and should be removed. He also thinks the three police- men detailed to look after the beach should be kept cn duty there all the year. He re- news his recommendation of last year that a pool be constructed and says: The Pool System. Every year’s experience adds evidence that the pool system, long ago recom- mended, is the only means of securing reasonable safety, a broad bathing area, and water always at one depth, and al- though all things are not ripe for occu- pancy of the inner basin, certainly plans are maturing that render immediate ac- tion -necessary if we would obtain that ideal spot. “In response to my inquiries, Maj. Da- vis, engineer officer in charge of filling the flats, says it is his intention to fill up this basin this fall. If Maj. Davis could be per- suaded to ‘fill in only about two feet in- stead of sixteen, to evenly grade the banks, to level a roadway around it, lay an eight- foot pipe, and make a gate at its mouth and cover in the pipe, making solid ground all around the inner basin, he could do it for $10,000 or less, saving the government about $15,000 and leaving a beautiful pool surrounded with hundreds of common wil- lows and a few weeping willows, which are already of a year’s growth. This pool is twice as long as the present beach and would furnish ten times as much safe bathing area as there is at present.” Supt. Stevens closes his report with a recommendation that $10,000 be appropri- ated next year for the support of the beach and that suitable rules be formulated and made part of the police regulations for the use of the beach. He also asks that the Commissioners ask Congress to exchange the ground now occupied by the beach for the little basin to the north, which he con- siders a better site. ———__ BACILLI INSTEAD OF DYNAMITE. How Wholesale Murder May Be Done by Scientific Anarchists. From the New York Herald. Dr. Paul Gibier’s address before the med- ico-legal congress has attracted public at- tention to the scierce of bacteriology with more than a perfunctory interest. He di- vided the province of bacteriology into Lwo parts—the civil and the criminal. Concern- ing the criminal phase, he said that he was asked by a certain man as to the resultant traces if bacteria were injected into a per- son. The person was told that certain ef- fects might result from such an injection which could lead to the discovery of the cause. But the doctor afterward found that his questioner was a man of doubtful reputa- tion, and his suspicions were at once direct- ed toward the possibility that would-be murderers might resort to bacteriology with deadly effect. In many instances death’ could be caused by such injection, and the evidence would be hardly discoverable. Already desperate men have shown that they are willing to devote infinite labors to the accomplishment of their purposes. An- archists had pursued elaborate chemical studies. There was no reason for believing that they would not, if they thought It worth their while, devote themselves with all zeal to a study of bacteriology, whereby their designs could be accomplished. Dr. Gibier, taking this line of thought, will write a most carefully prepared paper, which he will publish some time during the winter. When I saw him in relation to the subject he was not anxious to talk. “I am not an alarmist.” said he, “and the remarks made before the medico-legal con- gress were just enough to direct some at- tention toward the possibilities of which I spoke. This is a scientific age, and some men even pursue scientific research as a pastime; some for the mere love of science and humanity, and others with more sin- ister purposes. “Two anarchists were talking together one evening. Both were educated men, and perfectly sound and brilliant on any other subject except the ‘selfishness and degener- acy of the worid.’ “Why use dynamite?’ asked one, ‘when a bacillus or two well placed would serve the purpose just as weil h, but you must first secure your ba- cilli,’ said the other. ‘How are you going to do that?” “‘Study bacteriology,’ was the answer. ‘Bacilli placed in the water supply of a great city would put dynamite to shame.” pee asserted the other, ‘and the doc- tor will tell you that thousands of poor persons must dle.’ “T admitted that in such a case the mor- tality among those whom the anarchists declare they desire to aid most would be something appalling; that the rich whom they sought to reach were better safe- guarded, better prepared to fight and check disease than the abject poor. é “Well,” said the most determined of th anarchists, ‘let the poor die—let them all die. It is better to be dead than in suffer- ing. It will at least cause the onward, heedless world to think, to become serious for a moment, and to know of the misery and anguish it makes while it laughs and assures itself that it is the best place in the universe.” “Granted that all of the anarchists were made up of such men,” said Dr. Gibier, “the possibility of danger in this new field is not at all overdrawn. It was this incl- dent figst and then others that set me to thinking. I do not consider my conclusions overdrawn.” FRESH TROOPS AT HAVANA. They Are Given a Splendid Reception by the Citizens. HAVANA, September 18—The steamer Santa Barbara has arrived here with 1,000 soldiers and thirty-seven officers from Tetu- an, Morocco. The troops were given a splen- did reception by the citizens of Havana. The newspaper proprietors of the city distributed among the newcomers 15,000 cigars and 20,- 000 packages of cigarettes. —_.__ THEY READ THE ADS, But Seemed ty Have Neglected the News Columns. From the Milwaukee Serftinel. The case of the carload of men taken from Chicago that arrived at Negaunee Monday morning to take the places of the striking miners at Ishpeming, contains a feature that newspaper advertisers would do well to heed. _ = As soon as these men discovered that there was a strike at Ishpeming, they re- fused to proceed, and left the train at Ne- gaunee, which is within two or three miles of the fcrmer place. They said they were enticed into setting out for Ishpeming by advertisements in the Chicago papers ask- ing for laborers to work in the mines there. They did not know that a strike was on. Otherwise, apparently, they would have refused to take the train. At Negaunee they began to be suspicio and, on in- quiry, learned that a strike ‘was in prog- ress, whereupon they promptly abandoned | the train. We call the attention of advertisers to the incident because it appears to indicate that the advertisements in a newspaper are read much more diligently and care- fully than the news. The Chicago papers had been publishing from day to day ac- counts of the strike in much larger type and in a more prominent place than the advertisements, yet these men, according to ther statement, read the latter and overlooked the former. The case is one that ought to encourage people to advyer- tise their business. WILL DR. TALMAGE COME? Ne Answer Believed to Have Been Received From Him Yet. There are no developments today in the matter of Dr. Talmage's possible removal to this city to act as co-pastor with Dr. Sunderland of the First Presbyterian Church, which was mentioned in vester- day’s Star. The officers of the church are still very shy of talking about the matter, and it is evident that things have not yet come to a crisis. Mr. James L. Norris of the board of trustees has left the city and will be back tomorrow. A Star reporter was informed this afternoon that there was no change in the situation, but it was expected that matters would develop to- morrow into definite shape. This may mean that a letter will*probably he received by that time from Dr. Talmage in response to a letter which it is said he has received from the officials of the church making him a proposition to become co-pastor with Dr. Sunderland. It is altogether probable that this answer has not yet been received and that the entire matter rests upon Dr. Talmage's attitude toward the proposition. eer eee GARBAGE SITUATION. The Daily Move an Excit! Interesting Game. Contractor Warfield, armed with three Propositions of the Smith, Brown and Dixon crematories, respectively, appeared before the Commissioners this afternoon and ask- ed the latter to designate what system or systems they would approve, in order that he could proceed with the building. .‘The Propositions were all signed by the repre- sentatives of the several concerns, and stipulate, among other things, that if the system ts not satisfactory after a three- months’ trial they will be removed without cost to the District. Also that they will be erected free of cost to the contractor. It is about settled that two crematories’ will be erected. The first will be the Smith crematory, for it is this system the Com- missioners insist upon. The contractor _wlil erect the Brown crematory and the Com- missioners will approve that system, as they believe, next to the Smith, it answers all requirements. The Commissioners agreed upon the re- quest of Contractor Warfield to hold up their decision until he has had opportunity to secure a site on Rock creek for the erec- tion of the Brown crematory. Mr. Warfield stated to a reporter of The Star that it would take at least ninety days to erect the plants, and that it would be at least some time in January next before they would be in operation. ———— To Decree Title. Charles H. Shamwell today filed a bill in equity against Anna B. and Charles Carter, praying that a contract signed January 31, 1595, by Sophia C. Shamwell, a sister, since deceased, be specifically performed.’ The complainant asserts that his sister agreed to convey to him and his brothers, Joseph and James, equally, some 12,267.35 square feet of ground on Rock Creek Ford road, but that sickness prevented, and he charges that while she was lying IN at the home of the defendants she was unduly influenced to convey the land te Anna B. Carter. The defendants, says the complainant, has served a seven days’ summon on him, in an attempt to dispossess him, and the court is asked to decree title to the land in him, and to restrain the defendants from in any way interfering with his possession of the same. Also, that the defendants may ac- count for $600, amount of loan secured on the property. Judge Bradley directed that the defendants show cause Friday next why the injunction shoud not be granted. ——.—_—_. Ton crrow’s Alexander Island Entries First race, one-half mile, selling—Lady May, 105; Aleppo, 105; Come Home, 105; Salisbury, 105; Pathway, 105; Pat Rabbitt, 105; Imp. Nora, 105; Little Charlie, 105; Tartar, 105; Ronald, 105; Lebanon, 105; Flagrant, 105; Cy Cooper, 105. Second race, six and a half furlongs, eell- ing—Avon, 110; Tedd Gegg, 110; Andrew D., 110; Pottowatomie, 110; Hay ‘Tay, 110; Repetition, 107; Pickaway, 107; Elizabeth, 107; Bella G., 107. Third race, six and a quarter furlongs— Miss Modred, 109; Juliet, 109; Forager, 109; Vent, 109; Dr. Parkhurst, 100; O'Hearn, 109; Mistletoe, 99. Fourth race, one mile, selling—Ponce de Lecn, 107; Brooklyn, 107; Lento, 104; Prince Klamath, 104; Hazel, 101; Samaritan, 101; Bregan, 91. Fifth race, five-eighths of a mile, selling— Sonora, 114; Grampian, 104; Forest, 104; Tim Flynn, 99; Jessie Taral, 03; Vesta, 83. Sixth race, six and a quarter furlongs— Lumberman, 107; His Grace, 107; Traigor, aw Red Star, 107; Johnny, 104; Foundling, SS Fourth-Class Postmasters. Fifteen fourth-class postmasters were ap- pointed today, nine of whom were to fill vacancies caused by resignations. ————-~.____ Im the Country. From Truth. i Iam gradually becoming acquainted with country life. I have been here in Hayville little more than a week, but time works wonders. On my arrival I wanted my trunk carried about a block, to my new home. “Come hither, my good man,” I said, in lightest vein, to a worthy looking fellow, dressed in a pair of worn jeans, rawhide heots end a dirty flannel shirt. “I would a word with thee. Shoulder this trunk sand take it to yonder house, and I'll give’you more money for chewing tobacco and pop- corn than you've had in a year.” The worthy fellow toted-my trunk over all right, and I gave him a quarter. The next day I saw him buying bank stock, at an aucticn sale of the effects, real and per- sonal, of a deceased millionaire. He cleaned out about a dozen other bidders, bw raising it up to 157. I made some inquiries and learned that he was worth over a half a million himself. I concluded to go to the post Cffice via our cow lot and crawl through the barbed-wire fences, except when assured that he was far away. * School. The Farmer's Hoy: From Coleman's Rural World. The school that the farmer should send his boys to, if he desires them to inherit his acres and keep his homestead, is where his boy can be taught agriculture pure and undefiled in all its branches, and the school that gives employment to teachers that have good, practical agricultural sense, in- stead of theoretical agricultural nonsense. The great trouble in many schools where agricultural science is taught is that the teachers are not practical men. Too many of them if given a hundred acres of the best land in the state, fully equipped with live stock and farming utensils, could not rup the business five years without putting a m9‘tgage on the farm. Therein 1s where much of the trouble les at the present day in the education of the farmer boy. Too muvh of it is of the kind that educates him off the farm instead of preparing him for his work. Ee The Ould Woma: From the Chicago Tribune. “I'm not throublin’ meself about the new woman,” hiccoughed O’Murther, making his way deviously homeward at 3 a.m. “It's the ould woman that's worryin’ me.’ Seer ees Grain and Cotton Markets. Cotton and grain mark: ted Hibbs, stock, grain and cotten brokers f GRAIN Open. Wish, Tow. G's 59M og bat iat 28) 287 2 Bie Buse is re 24.85 s COTTON. Open. “High. 957. do. on grade, 6ta62. month, 39% January, 5 wheat by sample, stronz—spot, 39% bid Bunting; year, 34140345; ceipts, 16,709 bushels; shipmenis, stock, 85,083 bushels; sales, 40,000 bushels em white corn, 38240; do. xellow, firm, ood demind Oats ‘0. 2 white western, 26%a27 No. 2 mixed, 2444n243,—receipts. 5,040 bus shipmen: ) bushels; stock, 91,964 bushels. } nactive—No. 2. 44, nearby: 48, western —stock, 65,- 487 bushela. Hay firmer, demand fair—choice tmo- thy, $15.00. Grain freights fairly steady, anchang- ed. unchanged. utter ‘and eggs steady, wacha: Cheese firm, unchanged. | fantry Ist 6s, | Trust, FINANCE AND TRADE Rumors of Gold Shipments Make Speculators Cautious. RAILWAY OFFICIALS ARE ENCOURAGED The Outlook Points to a Profitable Season. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS a Special Dispatch to The Eventing Star. NEW YORK, September 18.—Cpening prices were uniformly higher this morning,” but in a majority of instances the volume of business was not al to sustaining the advance. London's early cables re- fiected a slightly improved tone in the for- eign market, but brought no important business to this side. The foreign ex- change market was dull at yesterday's final rates, with improved offerings of cot- ton drawings among the more tmpor-ant features. The supply of security “drawings has practically been exhausted, and as fcreign houses have no further commis- sions for foreign account, relief from that source is not immediately probable. Rumors of an important engagement of gold, aggregating at least two -nillions, while lacking absolute confirmation, vere considered sufficiently reliable to warrant extremely cautious trading in the present excitable condition of the market. Some smaller engagements were announced dur- ing the day, and while unimportant in themselves, demonstrate the unsatisfactory exchange situation and serve to gare the bewilderment of the speculative public. The sentiment of the street is unm! takably in favor of higher prices, but with the disturbing irfiuences of an undesirable gold movement in the ascendancy, there is little disposition to utilize the argu- ments so easily deduced from the general prosperity now apparent throughout the country. This latter condition, however, will serve to prevent any radical depres- sion in values and when augmented by normal exchange rates in the near future will forea a sharp recovery of recent losses. The reports of earnings submitted during the day were, in the main, substantially improved over the same period one year ago. Railroad officials generally are en- couraged by the outlook for a profitable season's business. The movement of the crops, while a trifle later than usual, will begin to figure in a majority of the reports made publio from now on, and will be the source of important additions to tariff receipts. St. Paul's report, showing an increase of $87,000 for the second week of the month, attracted some good buying to that pro} erty. Burlington and Rock Island sold off 1 per cent on a traders’ movement dur- ing the first hour, but some Improvement in the character of the buying stayed the decline and forced a partial recovery. Pacific Mail and Chicago Gas were sub- jects of special movements in the interest of improvement, the latter property hold- ing its gain better than the former. Sugar was strong on operations said to be for the account of a newly organized bull pool in the property. The market for the re- fined product continues active and further advances in rates are considered probable. The street, however, is still divided on the correctness of the bull position in this stock. ~ The trading of the final hour was re- stricted to the room and was consequently narrow and without significant feature. Rumors relative to the gold situation were plentiful during the period, but were too indefinite to influence trading. The impres- sion prevails that a liberal outflow will be reported at the close of the week and that ro complete reimbursement will be made to the subtreasury. The deposit of $250,000 in coin by a Brceoklyn bank during the morning was ex- pected to encourage similar action by the financial institutions, but up to a late hour this afternoon no such action was re- ported. ‘the disposition to buy stocks on conces- sicns continues, but there is little eager- ness displayed, purchasers being fully ad- vired of the necessity of some radical change in treasury conditions as a condi- tton precedent to sustained improvement. —— FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The following are the opening, the high est and the iowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today, as re- ported by Corson & Macartney, members New Yor’: stock e: ige. Correspondents Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Broadway. Stocks. Open. BI Low. Last. American Sugar... 10635 rid WY 1076 Chicago Gas. C. M. & St. Paul. 2 oe & St. Pan!, Pfd. . RI. & Pacific. Del Lack. & W... Delaware & Hudson... Den. & RK. Grande. Pfd_ Dis, & Cattle Feeding.- General Electric. ‘ Long Island Traction . Metropolitan ‘Traction. Manhattan Flevated... Michigan Central.....! Missouri Pacific. National Lead ¢ . CIs. N. ¥. C. & St. Louis. Northern Pacific. conan Pi Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—regular call—12 o'clock _m.—Washingtoa Market ext. és, $100 at 107. | Washington apd Georgetown Railroad, 5 at 260. ‘Metropolitan Rall- road, 3 at 95. Government Bonds —U. 8. 4s, registered, 111% U. 8. $s, coupon, 112% aS 1244 asked. 5 12'4 bid, 12% asked. U.S. Os, 2 urrency, 115 bid. bid, 3.658, Metropolitan Belt Railroad 5s, road Gs, 101 axke bid. Washington Gas Company Ge, series ‘A, 11 | bid. shington Gas Company 6s, series B, bid. Washington Gas Company U. 8. Electric Eight conv. . 5s, ecurity and Trust and bs, F. Security and Trust 5s, A. bid | Washington Market Company. if Waste Ingian Market Cou) y imp. Cs, . [ington Market Company ext. Ga, 108 bid. | Musoale Hall Association 5s, a ‘id. Washington Light In 2. Thank of the Repubite, 243 0 bid. Central, National Bank Stock Deposit and Trust 21 bid, 12 & bid, 80. asks Stocks. and. Geargetonm, Gas and Hie cd, 5 asked. Acling Rigs: Potomac, 6S Lid. Columbia, 13 bid. on, 140 74 bid, "y ie mn